PIMCO: 7% growth the new normal for China

PIMCO: 7% growth the new normal for China | | MacroBusiness
By Houses and Holes
Find below a short but quite neat assessment of Asian growth in the quarter ahead from PIMCO. It covers a structural down shift in Chinese growth and the fallout for the region including Australia. Econ Outlook APC September 2012 Global ...
MacroBusiness

'Treme' referenced in two Ryan Murphy shows -- 'The New Normal' and 'Glee ...
NOLA.com
Two series overseen by producer Ryan Murphy – the NBC sitcom “The New Normal” and the Fox musical comedy “Glee” – referenced HBO's “Treme” in the same week. In the first, which aired Tuesday (Sept. 25), two characters were challenged with rounding...

NOLA.com

NBC's 'The New Normal' Is The Season's Boldest New Comedy
MediaPost Communications
Something unexpected happened this week while I was watching NBC's “The New Normal,” which after four episodes has distinguished itself as the best new sitcom of the fall season. As the characters assembled around a table for dinner and began ...

TV Review: THE NEW NORMAL – Season 1 – “Obama Mama”
Assignment X
It's interesting to me that the first episode of THE NEW NORMAL, “Obama Mama”, that Ryan Murphy didn't write and direct is the first episode to really move away from the God awful stereotypes that have been plaguing this show since the pilot. I like ...

Help when faced with 'new normal'
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
ART AS THERAPY: Lois Stewart, from right, Conny Acton, instructor Catherine Held and Susan Gardner create drawings after a period of visualization and meditation during a creativity class at the Women's Cancer Awareness Group in Petaluma.

'The New Normal' is the same old gay normal
The Prospector
ABC's new comedy, “The New Normal”—a seemingly progressive take on gay parenthood created by Glee's Ryan Murphy—unfortunately sticks to the norm. On the pilot episode, which premiered Sept. 10, the two main characters are presented as the very ...

We Are the 'New Normal' -- Not the 'New Age'
Huffington Post (blog)
There is an old folktale that tells of the wise fool who arrives at the door of the king's castle asking for entry. He is immediately told by the guard that the king's decree is for anyone who tells a lie to be hanged. Then, upon asking for his ...

NeNe Leakes: Why The New Normal Is Not Just 'The Gay Show'
Hollywood.com
After a wildly entertaining guest stint on Glee as insult-hurling, Olympian-turned-swim-coach Roz Washington, Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes defied reality expectations and joined The New Normal as a regular, playing the wisecracking, ...

Hollywood.com

Photo Flash: First Look - Jackie Hoffman on THE NEW NORMAL
Broadway World
On the October 2 episode of NBC's new comedy THE NEW NORMAL titled 'THE BIG O.M.G' – while David (Justin Bartha) is planning a family dinner to tell his mother, Francis (Broadway's Jackie Hoffman) about the baby, Bryan (Andrew Rannells) ...

Ellen Barkin on her 'New Normal' role
San Francisco Chronicle
That's also a characteristic of Jane Forrest, her character on the new series "The New Normal," airing Tuesday nights on NBC. A great-grandmother who doesn't appreciate that her granddaughter has chosen to serve as a surrogate for a same-sex couple ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Experts predict Texas Panhandle will see below-average precipitation for 20 or ...
Amarillo.com
“What you're looking at now you might call the 'new normal,' but your grandfather might say it's the old normal,” said Evelyn Browning-Garriss, a historical climatologist. “You're looking at some of the same conditions you had in the 1950s.” The '50s ...

Social workers discuss work with combat vets, refugees
Jamestown Sun
You're a social worker assigned to help a combat veteran reintegrate into life in America and a “new normal” with family, friends and a job. Or your assignment is a family of refugees who fled war or persecution in their homeland, fled across a border ...

Ellen Barkin's Hilarious Story Of What Young Leonardo Di Caprio Wanted Her ...
Huffington Post
"The New Normal" airs Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET on NBC, while Bravo features "Watch What Happens: Live" every Sunday through Thursday at 11 p.m. ET. TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good ...

Andy Cohen celebrates 300th episode of 'WWHL' with NeNe Leakes, Ellen Barkin
Examiner.com
Ellen Barkin and NeNe Leakes, both blondes from NBC's “The New Normal” hugged and congratulated Cohen. Andy pointed out Leakes' new hair color and she responded enthusiastically, “Blondes have more fun!” NeNe from “The Real Housewives of ...

Examiner.com

East Bluff Violence: A New Normal?
CIproud.com
East Bluff Violence: A New Normal? By: Alexandra Sutter WMBD/WYZZ. Updated: September 27, 2012. Tweet. PEORIA -- Some people are worried violence is becoming a new normal in Peoria neighborhoods. Some East Bluff residents think crime is getting ...

How much are you supposed to tip?
Boston.com
Then came the stand 20 percent. Now a New York Post article is suggesting 25 percent is the new normal. According to the article: Michael Lynn, a professor of consumer behavior at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration who studies tipping, ...

Ten unveils 'super Sunday' lineup
The West Australian
Glee creator Ryan Murphy's new comedy The New Normal, which looks at contemporary family issues ranging from same sex parenting to single mothers, will air at 8pm. This week's big winner at the Emmys, the gripping psychological thriller Homeland, has ...

The West Australian

“The Mindy Project” among shows cited as potential hits
Pittsburgh Business Times
Also singled out for success were “Vegas” and “Elementary,” both on CBS; “Nashville” on ABC; and “Go On” and “The New Normal,” both on NBC and airing back-to-back. As the fall network television season unfolds, local media buyers are keeping a close ...

Must-See TV: Fall Lineup
W Magazine (blog)
... tries to out-quirk Zooey Deschanel on The Mindy Project, NBC's Revolution makes The Walking Dead's post-apocalyptic world a little more broadcast network-ready, and The New Normal picks up MoFam's progressive-family comedy without even bothering...

W Magazine (blog)

The Ratings for Mindy Kaling's Show Are Good, Not Great — And Not the Whole ...
Jezebel
Still, that was enough to beat The New Normal on NBC. As the LA Times reports: "NBC pulled in more total viewers, 5.1 million versus 4.7 million, but that margin consists mostly of older viewers whom advertisers are less interested in." Huh. Ok. In any ...

An Aging Population Is an Opportunity More Than a Problem
Huffington Post
According to World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan, "Being in the older age group is becoming the 'new normal' for the world's population." At the outset, this rapid growth of an older demographic could be seen as a major problem.

Catch NeNe Leakes on Watch What Happens Live Tonight, September 27, 2012
Wetpaint
NeNe will be a guest on Watch What Happens Live! tonight, alongside her co-star from The New Normal, the always funny Ellen Barkin. Not that we don't love The New Normal, but we can't wait to see what secrets our girl NeNe will spill about Season 5 of ...

Lost desire for 'Lost'-like television fare
Modesto Bee
I tuned in to "The New Normal" mainly for Ellen Barkin's sharp parody as a caustic woman whose granddaughter decides to become a surrogate mom for a gay couple. Mean-spirited meh. While there are a couple of interesting-sounding shows still set to ...

Ryan Murphys Takes You Deep Inside His 'American Horror Story: Asylum'
Best Movies Ever Entertainment News
Glee has made quite a nice comeback in story this season and The New Normal has been doing quite well, but many more fans are really curious as to how the horror show will do. From the sound of the featurrette below, Murphy will be focusing more on ...

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Power of the pink pound
Financial Times
This autumn, NBC will attempt to repeat the magic of its pioneering series Will & Grace with a new sitcom about a gay couple and the surrogate mother of their child. Appropriately, it is called The New Normal. But if gay has indeed become the new ...

'NCIS' wins CBS ratings, 'New Girl' returns low on Tuesday
Digital Spy
Go On also dropped from last week at 9pm to 2.7 (6.9m), as did The New Normal at 9.30pm (2.0/5.09m). Parenthood was level with last week, with 1.8 (4.85m) at 10pm. Fox's season two premiere of New Girl dropped considerably from last year's opener of 4 ...

Emily Owens M.D. Pilot to Be Available Online Beginning October 1st
TVOvermind
Though a majority of the pilots that have been put online this season have been comedies (The Mindy Project, Ben & Kate, The New Normal), dramas like Last Resort and Revolution have also had their series premieres released before their "official ...

Attention to detail, discipline has Oregon headed in right direction
ESPN
... light on the commute to work. You make a boatload of 8-foot putts. You flip the steak off the grill, slice it open, and the meat is just the right shade of pink. It is a moment when the gods smile upon you, and just when you believe it's the new ...

ESPN

NOM Compares Gay Couples Seeking Surrogates To Rapists
Instinct Magazine (blog)
TV shows such as The New Normal promote surrogacy arrangements with dialogue such as “a family is a family, and love is love.” Characters that criticize the use of surrogacy and egg donation are explicitly depicted as unsympathetic, racist, close ...

Tony-anointed 'Book of Mormon' coming to Lexus Broadway Series in the 2013 ...
Dallas Morning News (blog)
No word yet on the cast for the tour that'll be coming through Dallas, but it's extremely unlikely to include Rannells — he's now in the midst of a busy TV career, having appeared on Girls and now starring in the new series The New Normal. Performance ...

There's Only One Way Forward For Europe, And This Isn't It
Business Insider
And they all think that is some sort of new normal. Why the builders and banks think so is obvious. Why the buyers do, not so much. They are simply never told what is real. Not by builders, not by banks, and not by the people they voted into government.

Business Insider

Why 'The New Normal' Has TV's Best Gay Characters | NewNowNext
By Mark Blankenship
Why 'The New Normal' Has TV's Best Gay Characters. September 27, 2012 ○ by Mark Blankenship. Look! We're gay AND we like each other! The last two episodes of The New Normal have convinced me it's the best gay sitcom on television.
NewNowNext

Nene Leakes On The New Normal, Being Very Rich & Branding ...
By Danielle Young, Associate Editor
From “Real Housewives of Atlanta” to “Glee” to “The New Normal,” Nene's transformed from reality show starlet to working actress. This is the type of career progression many reality show cast members hope for, but never reach. So, how does ...
Celebrity News & Style for Black Women

New York Times: Veganism Going Mainstream - MFA Blog
By Nathan Runkle
The New York Times reports that veganism is a "new normal" in restaurants across southern California as more and more establishments are now offering delicious plant-based options in response to increasing demand from clientele.
MFA Blog

Some LGBT People Feel Unsafe At Princeton University | The New ...
By Scott Rose
Samuel's post includes ill-intentioned attacks against The New Normal and Zach Wahls, the straight ally and author of My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family. Samuel could not even get through her first paragraph ...
The New Civil Rights Movement

Still falling off the M&A cliff - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog ...
By Dan Primack
Global deal volume off 17% from last year. FORTUNE --Are we experiencing a new normal for mergers and acquisitions? Six months ago, we heard that low Q1 M&A activity was just a holiday hangover. Three months ago, we heard that low ...
Fortune Finance: Hedge Funds,...

The MPW Summit: The editors' picks - Postcards
By Fortune Editors
... exciting: Prominent PIMCO CEO Mohamed A. El-Erian will take us on a tour of what's around the corner for financial markets, what are the realistic prospects are for global growth, and what he means by living with the "New Normal." October ...
Postcards

National youth report to be launched October 2 by Community ...
By Gail Barclay
Canada's Vital Signs 2012 – Vital Youth shows seismic shifts are shaking our nation's youth as they enter adulthood, a “new normal” communities and policy-makers must address. Ian Bird, President and CEO of Community Foundations of ...
A New Source of Hope For Aboriginal...

The Wealthy On Today's The Economy - Business Insider
By Linette Lopez
The takeaway we came to was this — rich people are really worried about the overall economy, but most are confident they'll be okay through the storm, or "the new normal" depending on what you want to call it. Now for the data. Let's start ...
Business Insider

The New Normal: Man tackles Asperger's diagnosis at 31 - Video on ...
Video on NBCNews.com: David Finch's wife, Kristen, always found his quirkiness cute, but ...
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Reality star Nene Leakes on her 'New Normal' role - Video on - Msn
Video on TODAY.com: Nene Leakes, known for Bravo's hit show “Real Housewives of Atlanta ...
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The New Normal: Agism in the age of tollerance - TV.com
Play The New Normal games and discover trivia, references and allusions.
www.tv.com/.../agism-in-the-age-of-tollerance-180229-33590...

The New Normal - Episode 4 - Recap - Obama Mama | Rickey.org
In the fourth episode of The New Normal, “Obama Mama”: David, Bryan, and Nana bicker over ...
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Vegan becomes the new normal

Vegan becomes the new normal; how favorite foods stack up in nutrition: Table ...
OregonLive.com
Vegan becomes the new normal; how favorite foods stack up in nutrition: Table Talk. Published: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 8:00 AM Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2012, 8:05 AM. Grant Butler, The Oregonian By Grant Butler, The Oregonian The ...

OregonLive.com

From 'Homeland' to 'The New Normal,' The Six Best Kids and Teenagers On ...
ThinkProgress
Even the adorable moppets cast for sitcoms these days have some edge, from Joey King in the tragically-cancelled Bent, to Shania on The New Normal. One note: these roles remain overwhelmingly white—when you slot characters of color in peripherally, we ...

Volatility Is The New Normal
Financial Advisor Magazine
According to the Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights Survey, a poll of 1,000 affluent individuals, investors feel that market volatility is the new normal. Forty-four percent of affluent Americans, defined as those with investable assets of at least $250 ...

'The new normal'
phillyBurbs.com (blog)
“It's so embarrassing. When I first got food stamps, I would take out (the EBT card) and cover it with my hand. I don't care anymore. Welcome to the new economy. Welcome to the new normal. People lose their jobs, lose their houses. How many houses do ...

Gay TV show 'New Normal' gives Republicans a voice
GMA News
The NBC show about the efforts of two gay men to have a baby through a surrogate, takes on racism, health care, abortion, religion, same sex marriage and the Republican and Democratic contenders for the White House in the episode called "Obama Mama." ...

Slatterys break ground on new home
ABC2 News
"The concept for this house is finding a new normal and that was both a new normalfor Matthew. So how could we create a place that is normal for a regular residence but will be normal so it allows Matthew and Ed and Peter and the family to kind of ...

ABC2 News

'The New Normal' Recap: Minority Report
NewNowNext
After last week's preachy musings on bullies, I was hoping The New Normal would get off its soapbox. Surprise, surprise: It didn't. But at least this foray into presidential politics was mostly entertaining. Bryan and David freak out when they catch ...

On Not Using the Phrase 'New Normal' Here
AllAboutAlpha.com (blog)
Most of us who write about finance on a regular basis agree that the phrase “the n** n*****” and its variants has become a horrid cliché in recent years. If the crises of 2007-08 shattered the “old normal” beyond repair, they also inspired a quick ...

AllAboutAlpha.com (blog)

Fall TV ratings: Fox's Mindy Kaling beats NBC in comedy bake-off
Los Angeles Times
NBC had high hopes for its new comedies "Go On" and "The New Normal," but as the first week of the new season got underway, the shows look like they're headed nowhere promising for NBC, despite tons of promotion during the highly rated London ...

Ryan Murphy Bases a New Normal Character on Glee's Lea Michele — What ...
Wetpaint
Ryan's other hilarious show, The New Normal, has a main character named Bryan, who is loosely based on Ryan. (Ryan/Bryan? Get it?) On the show, Bryan is the head honcho of a musical comedy show called Sing!, which is based in Ohio and has a star ...

Mark to Market | Nestle's strategy in a new normal
Livemint
Nestle SA hosted a recent investor meet in Shanghai, with specific presentations dwelling on its operations in Asia, Oceania and Africa (AOA). India contributes about 8% to the sales of this region, and is one of its faster growing markets, and hence ...

Livemint

NeNe Leakes Discusses Whether She'll Remain On RHOA; We Have So Many ...
VH1
When we think about whether NeNe Leakes should leave Real Housewives of Atlanta now that she's on The New Normal, we feel like a parent whose kid wants to go to college 3,000 miles away. On one hand, NeNe has already made “The Leap” that most ...

Are You Tipping Enough?
KOLO
The new normal around the country is tipping up to 30 percent at restaurant and bars according to the New York Post. Where does Reno stand? Most servers and bartenders live off of minimum wage and tips alone. The average tip percentage is 15 percent, ...

'Mindy Project': When does haha get hateful?
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
If you haven't been keeping up with The New Normal, here's a fall TV newsflash: Hater humor is all the rage. But it wasn't Nana Forrest's Republican rhapsodizing that got my proverbial panties in a bunch last night, it was a much more insidious brand ...

Five Must-Watch TV Shows This Fall
Phoenix New Times (blog)
Ben and Kate looks like a mehfest -- same goes for The New Normal, Elementary, and Guys With Kids. We're officially bored with Modern Family. We have to wait a thousand years for the last episodes of Breaking Bad. We're nervous about a post-Dan...

Phoenix New Times (blog)

Can the Democratic Psyops Boost Obama?
American Thinker
We keep being told that Obama is leading, that the race is close at best, that voters have accepted a 'new normal' for unemployment, that the economy is improving, that the price of gas means nothing, that Romney is making fatal gaffes. We were even ...

Continuing to heal after cancer
Fox News
For more than 12 million U.S. cancer survivors, accepting a 'new normal' is easier said than done. Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing health editor of FoxNews.com, recently sat down with cancer survivor Dr. Julie Silver, who started a national ...

Why China's Slowdown May Get Permanently Worse
New America Foundation
But economists are calling the current rate of growth the “new normal“. And there is a betting chance that, for demographic and other reasons, the Asian giant could slow much further and even have a permanent level of far less growth. Even a generous ...

New Episode of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' airs Saturday, September 29 at 10pm (Video)
TVbytheNumbers
... the mom is desperate to re-connect with her two sons and ex-husband. Iyanla will expose the reasons she left and provide the tools to see if this family can figure out if they can live beyond their past mistakes and move forward together with a new ...

TVbytheNumbers

How is wage inflation affected by recessions?
New Statesman (blog)
As Hirst argues, what we need to know now is whether this reversal in trend is a one-off, or if it's the "new normal". Faccini and Hackworth argue that there are a couple of reasons to believe it is so (citing labour market flexibility and cost of ...

AfterElton Briefs: Kylie's "Flower," Halloween With Honey Boo Boo, and Schmidt ...
AfterElton.com
In ratings news, The New Normal was down another 9%, but its lead in Go On was down 21%, so ... I don't know. TLC has ordered more Honey Boo Boo. Look for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas specials. TV Line talks to Cory Monteith about his ...

AfterElton.com

Action Report: Harahan church helps students in St. John Parish
WWL
But it's a new normal, because their campus flooded and remains shut down. St. John school leaders scrambled to re-open Garyville Grammar for these students, and five other sites for the rest. But only 500 of the 700 students have been able to return ...

Here Comes More Honey Boo Boo
Seattle Post Intelligencer
(We're equally excited to see The New Normal's cast dressed up as the beloved rednecks for their own Halloween special). Can't wait for more Alana? Check out the video below to see Alana's best pageant walk, some impromptu singing, plus where she got ...

New on DVD: Modern Family Season 3 – Tightropes, Dude Ranches and ...
Reel Life With Jane (blog)
I can't say that about Ryan Murphy's new show, The New Normal, which revolves around a gay couple who hire a surrogate to have their baby. So far, it's not so much the gay couple that's not family-friendly, it's the fact that in the first 20 seconds of ...

Reel Life With Jane (blog)

Can Humans Heal Scar-Free?
U.S. News & World Report
Rather than forming a scar of collagen I to cover the lost skin like other mammals do, the spiny mouse uses collagen III, which completely replaces the lost cells and creates new, normal tissue. Along with the ability to regenerate skin and regrow hair ...

Celebrities and Politics
The Moral Liberal
That the entertainment industry is predominantly liberal is no secret and, if you don't believe it, the fall season of television shows has its share of homosexual couples with one show called The New Normal. No, it's not normal and it's not new. If ...

“Be Pink! Be Blue! Be Sparkly!” — But Not for the Reasons You Think
Publishers Weekly (blog)
I had written an article, “Who Will Create the New Normal?” for the CBC's diversity blog, joining four other industry members who had also been invited to contribute articles: Coe Booth (author), Joseph Monti (literary agent and former buyer for Barnes ...

Will US benefit from the Arab Spring?
CNN (blog)
Moreover, in a world of overcrowded megacities beset with bad infrastructure, at a time when media travels at virtually the speed of light, the appearance of mobs because of this or that suspected outrage is the new normal. Middle East geography in ...

New scheme will boost credit supply [Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates)]
Equities.com
Fisher said unconventional policies such as the BoE's asset purchases or the new lending scheme were the "new normal", reflecting the seriousness of the economic crisis and constraints on fiscal policy. Previous schemes to spur lending since the ...

Young Money Managers Launch Hedge Fund Focused on Macro Global Events
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
This is the new normal." Carol, Marcus Varsano and Ryan Mahoney formed Lumina Investments in 2011. Carol and Varsano, Lumina's Director of Investor Relations, are students at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Cameron School of Business.

Gov. Bentley touts economic windfall for state 'more significant than Airbus'
al.com (blog)
"Somebody said the other day this may be the new normal. I hope not. But it could be. I don't know how much things are going to turn around or improve in the United States. But all we can do on the state level is to continue to do our best." Bentley ...

al.com (blog)

As fall shows begins on US TV, here are the shows you'll love to hate-watch
The Guardian (blog)
The New Normal (NBC, 9.30pm Tuesdays). Premise: Successful gay couple (Andrew Rannels and Justin Bartha) recruit a flighty waitress (Georgia King) to carry their baby in this single-camera comedy that explores the idea of what makes a family.

'The New Normal' Recap: Episode 4, 'Obama Mama'
In the fourth episode of "The New Normal" politics appear! In a rather surprising turn, it is revealed that Goldie (the soon to be biological mother of David and Bryan's child) is voting for Mitt Romney.
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Warrantless searches – the new 'normal' « Xanthippa's Chamberpot
By xanthippa
In Ontario in particular, but in all of Canada in general. This ought to raise your eyebrows, regardless of your political affiliation because expanded 'State powers' can be used to abuse any citizen, regardless of political affiliation…
Xanthippa's Chamberpot

WATCH: Democrats Vs. Republicans Debate Tete-a-Tete on 'The ...
By Jerry Portwood
WATCH: Democrats Vs. Republicans Debate Tete-a-Tete on 'The New Normal'. 9.26.2012. By Jerry Portwood. Didn't believe a sitcom would get political? 'The New Normal' went there. We love Ellen Barkin, but it's been hard to buy her ...
Out Magazine

New Fall Television Open Thread | Videogum
By Gabe Delahaye
Last night's New Girl was great! Last Thursday NBC was great! Can't wait for Bob's Burgers, it's great! Also The New Normal…I'm still on the fence about. It's usually pretty funny, but also a little preachy, but still funny, know what I mean? Reply ...
Videogum

Experimenting with Normal Mapping « Andor Salga
By Andor Salga
I've heard and seen the use of normal mapping many times, but I have never experimented with it myself, so I decided I should, just to learn something new. Normal mapping is a type of bump mapping. It is a way of simulating bumps on an ...
Andor Salga

Three New Series Bow, But It Takes a Veteran to Knock Off NBC's ...
By Chuck Ross
... equaling the earlier episode's 2.7 average in the 18-49 demo and also equaling its time slot competition from NBC's “Go On.” That led in to the series premiere of Fox's “The Mindy Project,” which beat NBC's “The New Normal,” 2.4 to 2.0.
TVBizwire

Rochas Spring 2013 | Into The Gloss
The new 'normal' hair from Eugene Souleiman, and Lucia Pieroni's velvety, rosebud-meets-beet-root lips for 'California girls that never go in the sun'. Eugene Souleiman (Wella): It's quite an interesting and inspiring collection—inspiring in the ...
Into The Gloss

Thursday Reading: Ski Resort to Use Treated Sewage to Make ...
By By ANN CARRNS
Wednesday Reading: Making Vegan Food the New Normal. Making vegan food the new normal, Google working on maps for iPhone and iPad, some New York schools provide morning-after pills and other consumer-focused news from The ...
Bucks

'The New Normal' house borrows its style from Diane Keaton ...
The Spanish Colonial interiors of the new comedy "The New Normal" evoke romance.
www.latimes.com/.../la-lh-new-normal-set-design-20120921,0...

The anti 'Normal' - NYPOST.com
The most controversial new series is NBC's “The New Normal,” designed to offend several special-interest groups at once. Gays, because it skewers the ...
www.nypost.com/.../the_anti_normal_c4W5cD0iyEYTrz6zuZ...

The New Normal > Season 1 > Episode 3 Baby Clothes - SideReel
Watch The New Normal episode 3 - Baby Clothes - Season 1 e3 on SideReel. From Glee creator Ryan Murphy comes t...
www.sidereel.com/the_new_normal/season-1/episode-3

The New Normal: Man tackles Asperger's diagnosis at 31 - Video on ...
He obsessed with daily rituals. The couple eventually discovered that David had Asperger's. Kate Snow's full report, The New Normal, airs Thursday, Sept.
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8 percent unemployment and trillion dollar deficits

Obama Without Romney - NYTimes.com
By By ROSS DOUTHAT
Yes, too, in the sense that the horse race coverage has sometimes helped ratify the sense that 8 percent unemployment and trillion dollar deficits are a new normal for which the current president doesn't actually bear that much responsibility.
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'New Normal' episode 4: Let's talk about how not racist we are!
Entertainment Weekly
'The New Normal' episode 4: Let's talk about how not racist we are! by Jessica Shaw. Tags: About Last Night, Politics, Politics as Entertainment, President Obama, The New Normal, TV. Comments +; Add comment. Tonight Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David ...

Series Like 'The New Normal' and 'New Girl' Set Bad Trends
New York Times
Many of television's worst infestations — newscasters with hairpieces; reality shows with “Extreme” in the title; commercials featuring talking lizards, cats or infants — began quietly. Early attention or government action might have stopped them ...

New York Times

"The New Normal" Recap: Don't Talk Politics At The Dinner Table
AfterElton.com
So, I'm not really sure how to discuss this episode without VOTE OBAMA seeming biased. I can't really talk about what my little dysfunctional family did this week without stumbling into politics, but I will do my best. Bravid find out that Goldie is ...

AfterElton.com

Gay TV show "New Normal" gives Republicans a voice
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gay TV comedy "The New Normal" takes a surprising political turn on Tuesday with an episode touching on hot button election issues - from all points of view. The NBC show about the efforts of two gay men to have a baby through ...

“The New Normal” — trying to prove Rupert Everett right
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
I refer, of course, to Ryan Murphy, creator of “Nip/Tuck,” “Glee” and the shiny new NBC offering “The New Normal.” This series stars Andrew Rannells (who I really am rooting for) and Justin Bartha as a gay couple hoping to have a child, and focuses ...

The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

'New Normal's' Ryan Murphy on Mitt Romney, 'Honey Boo Boo,' Adding Marlo ...
Hollywood Reporter
New Normal revolves around a gay couple (Andrew Rannells, Justin Bartha) who turn to a surrogate (Goldie, played by Georgia King) to help expand their family. Ellen Barkin plays Jane, Goldie's racist and homophobic grandmother who also happens to be a ...

Wednesday Reading: Making Vegan Food the New Normal
New York Times (blog)
Wednesday Reading: Making Vegan Food the New Normal. By ANN CARRNS · Today in Your Money. All the news from The Times that will hit you in the wallet. A variety of consumer-focused articles appears daily in The New York Times and on our blogs.

The New Normal's Ryan Murphy Teases Honey Boo Boo Homage, Marlo ...
TV Guide
First, she took on Grey Gardens, and now The New Normal star Bebe Wood is coming for Honey Boo Boo. The NBC comedy (Tuesdays at 9:30/8:30c) is planning an homage to Here Comes Honey Boo Boo for its Halloween episode. "Shania loves that show ...

Morning Meme: "The New Normal" Tackles "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo ...
AfterElton.com
Rod 2.0 has video from this week's L.A. Complex, which has closeted rapper Kaldrick King coming out after Kaldrick King an emotional scene with his dying father. "And when I finally found someone that I thought I could love and love me back, it made me...

AfterElton.com

As Expected, One Million Moms Goes After The New Normal
Lez Get Real
Apparently, Arby's is the only 'sponsor' of the show to have their ads appear on The New Normal for a second week in a row. Despite stated that they “will continue to monitor and send out updates for the sponsors who have permanently removed themselves ...

The New Normal Plans Glee and Honey Boo Boo Spoofs, Plus Guest Spot from ...
Broadway.com
Marlo Thomas (Relatively Speaking, TV's That Girl) will guest star on the tenth episode of TV's TheNew Normal, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Thomas will play a real estate agent who serves as a mentor to Jane, Ellen Barkin's conservative character.

Marlo Thomas, Leisha Hailey, Constance Zimmer To Guest Star On 'New Normal'
On Top Magazine
Marlo Thomas, Leisha Hailey and Constance Zimmer are among the actors waiting in the wings to guest star on The New Normal, the new NBC comedy from Glee creator Ryan Murphy. In the show, David (played by Justin Bartha, The Hangover) and Bryan ...

On Top Magazine

Stage stars head to small screen
Detroit Free Press
Series: The New Normal (NBC), new sitcom about a successful gay couple who decide that they want a child, and hire a single mom as surrogate. Role: Bryan, a bright-eyed young TV producer who dreams only of being a father. Related stage experience: In ...

The New Normal for GOM Offshore Vessels?
MarineLink
The New Normal for GOM Offshore Vessels? By Susan Buchanan. Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 2:38 PM. File The RiverHawk AMP. The RiverHawk AMP. Offshore vessels in the Gulf of Mexico have become more energy efficient in recent years and are ...

Tonight on 'The New Normal': The GOP Perspective?
Big Hollywood
Tonight, "The New Normal" will be told through a "Republican" filter, according to Murphy. “You have two gay clearly liberal guys at the heart of the show. We all collectively thought it would be great to an episode where you presented Ellen's point of...

Big Hollywood

Ryan Murphy's The New Normal to Pay Homage to Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Vulture
On a Tuesday morning conference call with reporters, executive producer of The New Normal Ryan Murphy teased an upcoming Halloween episode in which Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and Shania (Bebe Wood) convince everyone to dress up like the Here ...

Obama Fan Ryan Murphy Taking 'The New Normal' Into GOP Territory, 'Honey ...
Deadline.com
That's what The New Normal creator Ryan Murphy said 20th Century Fox TV and NBC execs told him about doing an episode of the NBC sitcom from a Republican perspective. The episode, “Obama's Mama”, airs tonight. “You have two gay clearly liberal ...

Ratings roundup: New comedies will have what NCIS isn't having
A.V. Club
In particular, the 9 p.m. hour—where Fox's New Girl and The Mindy Project would tangle with Happy Endings and Don't Trust The B---- In Apartment 23 on ABC and Go On and The New Normal on NBC—seemed like it could be anyone's game, provided...

A.V. Club

NeNe Leakes poses for Vogue magazine with her cast mates from 'The New ...
The Grio
If you thought her showing up on “Glee” was interesting, homegirl is a regular cast member on the successful new NBC comedy, “The New Normal.” She plays Rocky, the assistant to Bryan, one half of the gay couple hoping to adopt. Coincidentally, “TheNew ...

The Grio

TV Time: Fall Television Show Preview
The Connecticut College Voice
Also new and exciting on NBC this season is Glee-creator Ryan Murphy's comedy The New Normal(Tuesdays, 9:30 PM). The New Normal features Justin Bartha and Andrew Rannells as David and Bryan, a gay couple looking to become parents.

Homosexuality on TV: Not There Yet
Harvard Independent
It seemed as if this problem would be resolved when NBC announced The New Normal, a show about a gay couple and the problems they face on their road to parenthood. Naturally, being the perennial optimist, I loved the show. I loved that the homosexual ...

Harvard Independent

Letter: It's his fault
Naples Daily News
It's called "The New Normal." It was on four nights in a row. Also, they could adopt a child. Well, this is the kind of trash you get when your president gets on TV and says it's OK to be gay. Be gay if you want, but keep it off my TV set. What will ...

'Mindy Project' premiere ratings soft; 'New Girl' fights 'Go On'
Entertainment Weekly
Still, Mindy Project fended off its 9:30 p.m. comedy rival, NBC's The New Normal (5.2 million, 2.0). Mindy also performed better than Fox's other new sitcom. At 8:30 p.m., Ben & Kate (4.2 million, 2.0) opened weak, with a special New Girl (5.3 million ...

"Modern Family": The Old Normal
NBC New York
... “The Neighbors” (a family unwittingly moves to a suburban community filled with aliens) and NBC's "The New Normal" (a gay couple hires a surrogate mother, embracing her “Little Miss Sunshine”-like daughter and battling her homophobic grandmother).

'Dancing With the Stars,' 'NCIS' top Tuesday ratings
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
The next three finishers were NBC's “Go On” with 111,500 viewers, ABC's “Private Practice” with 98,300 and NBC's “The New Normal” with nearly 79,000. Nationally, however, “NCIS” was the top show with 20.2 million viewers. Then came the other CBS...

Orlando Sentinel (blog)

Sarah Jessica Parker's Glee Episode Previewed on Vogue
Racked National
Murphy currently has a six-page profile in the October issue of Vogue, promoting the launch of his latest TV project, The New Normal. He also scored a Vogue tie-in on his other pet TV project, Glee, where Sarah Jessica Parker will guest star as the ...

New Fund to Assist Gay Men Become Parents is Launched by Men Having ...
PR Web (press release)
“While gay parenting may be increasingly perceived as 'the new normal', it is still financially out of reach to many prospective parents,” said Poole-Dayan. He points out that Heterosexual couples, single women and lesbian couples can become biological...

PR Web (press release)

Wednesday Morning Links
Lone Star Ball
Well, if you've been worrying about the Rangers' offense, last night would have been a great time to watch The New Normal and then have a gab session with the girls over ice cream. Anthony Andro has a post mortem focusing on the Rangers' sickly offense ...

Ben and Kate: Why the Sibling Show Won't Last
Television Without Pity
If last year's bad new sitcom premise was reclaiming manhood, this year's is navigating untraditional family structures -- just look at Guys With Kids, The New Normal and ABC's upcoming How to Live with Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life). A ...

Television Without Pity

David Limbaugh Column: 10 Reasons Mitt Will Win
NewsBusters (blog)
Today he tells us we must accept an America in decline both internationally and domestically. He insists that 8 percent unemployment is the new normal and that we must adjust to the malaise because it is going to take a long time to make a dent in it.

Find fall TV favorites
UTA The Shorthorn
Shows such as NBC's “The New Normal,” a sitcom featuring a gay couple trying to have a baby through a surrogate, was causing uproar long before it began. Since airing, it began to find high praise among television critics, but despite the nuance of ...

Charging towards innovation at CA Expo' 12
Express Computer
The keynote addressed how this new normal is a transformative moment for IT that is shifting the CIO's focus from managing infrastructure, maintenance and operations, to optimizing the delivery of business services for innovation and growth. The ...

'Gaycism': It Gets Worse! Same-Sexer Showrunners Bring Scourge to New Series
New York Observer
Take the new NBC comedy The New Normal, whose title refers to gay male parenting but could also be taken as an allusion to the increasingly racy and race-conscious television landscape. The show's creator, Ryan Murphy, whose other current network ...

'Modern Family' among a bumper crop of comedies shooting in LA
Los Angeles Times
In fact, 16 new network comedies will roll out in Los Angeles this fall and midseason, including NBC's “The New Normal,” “Ben and Kate” on Fox and ABC's “The Neighbors,” according to FilmL.A. “For Los Angeles, comedies are the last piece of the ...

ABC's 'The Neighbors' not receiving warm welcome from critics
Examiner.com
What's your take New York? Will you give the series a chance? Hit the comments and let us know! For more previews of the 2012 Fall TV season you can click on the below: New Series: "Go On" · "Animal Practice" · "The New Normal" · "The Mob Doctor" ...

Science Joins NY Comic Con with Firefly, Oddities and Stuff You Should Know
Examiner.com
Join the purveyors of peculiarities Evan, Mike and Ryan, where weird is the new normal. [ODD FOLKS?] Saturday, October 13. FIREFLY TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EVENT: FIRST LOOK! Time: 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM Location: IGN Theater Capacity: 3000 ...

The New Normal - Episode 4 - Recap - Obama Mama | Rickey.org
By Amy Hyun
In the fourth episode of The New Normal, “Obama Mama”: David, Bryan, and Nana bicker over their differing political viewpoints; Rocky's younger brother—Clinton—is interested in Goldie; and David & Bryan make some new friends at ...
Rickey.org

Ben and Kate Premiere Recap - TVLine
By Megan Masters
loved it. unexpectedly. maybe my favorite new sitcom (based on pilots only). hope like the other newbies i have enjoyed so far, like the new normal, this one gets better and better. Comment by murley – September 25, 2012 06:09 PM PDT ...
TVLine

Employee Shopping: 'Acqui-Hire' Is The New Normal In Silicon ...
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But many times ...
www.npr.org/.../employee-shopping-acqui-hire-is-the-new-no...

Critic' s Corner Tuesday: Civil War film, ' New Normal' - USA Today
Almost exactly 150 years ago, more than 20,000 Americans were killed or wounded at the Civil War battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day in U.S. history.
www.usatoday.com/life/tv/story/2012/09/18/critics.../1

'New Normal' Looks to Give Republicans a Voice on Controversial ...
(Reuters) – Gay TV comedy “The New Normal” takes a surprising political turn on Tuesday with an episode touching on hot button election issues – from all ...
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The New Normal - Season 1 Episode 3 - Recap - Baby Clothes ...
Ryan Murphy's newest comedy series The New Normal continued tonight with “ Baby Clothes ...
www.rickey.org/the-new-normal-season-1-episode-3-recap-ba...

Obama Fan Ryan Murphy Taking 'The New Normal' Into ... - Yahoo! TV
That's what The New Normal creator Ryan Murphy said 20th Century Fox TV and NBC execs told him about doing an episode of the NBC sitcom from a ...
tv.yahoo.com/.../obama-fan-ryan-murphy-taking-normal-gop-...

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