Thursday, August 25, 2011

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Climate change: Drought, floods, tornados part of 'new normal'?
Los Angeles Times
In a year in which the continental US has experienced its most extreme weather on record, Oklahomans may well be the symbols of the "new normal" of unpredictable weather extremes caused by shifting climate due to a buildup of greenhouse gases in the ...
Nation's weather extremes may be the new normal
Los Angeles Times
"I think it would be a mistake to not think that this has become the new normal," McManus said. "Until it stops happening, we should expect it to continue." The winter brought ice storms and snow from Mexico to Canada. The "Groundhog Day blizzard,"...
THIRTEEN Demystifies the Stigma of Tourette Syndrome in Different Is the New ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Premiering on Thursday, September 15 at 8 pm (ET) on THIRTEEN and Tuesday, September 27 at 10:30 pm (ET) on WLIW21, Different Is the New Normal tracks trials and triumphs of Ariel Small, a 17-year-old who has struggled with uncontrollable tics caused ...
Reuters Forest Forum-Weak Europe paper demand the new normal -Stora Enso CEO
Reuters
"This is the new normal level ... What is it going to be in 2015, 2020? We're going to have a new normal level ... Now we are at the post-2007 normal level," he said. (Reporting By Jussi Rosendahl; Editing by Will Waterman)
Extreme Weather the New Normal
Big Think (blog)
This year has brought punishing blizzards, epic flooding, devastating drought and heat waves that boiled huge swaths of the country—and climatologists expect these weather patterns to be the new normal. In Oklahoma, so many new weather records have ...
Wealth destruction the new normal
CITY A.M.
WEALTH preservation is now the name of the game in the West. The challenge, for most people, is not to make more money: it is to try and preserve what they have. Declining equity and property prices, ultra-low interest rates, lowish pay rises, ...
Policy Management Modernization: Growth, and Speed, and Agility…Oh My!
Insurance Networking News
This new normal requires a new path forward. A new path forward must have a long-term vision that insulates and “future-proofs” business and IT investments to meet the business demands of today and tomorrow. Replacement of rigid, outdated legacy Policy ...
Crises in US, Europe are only partly economic, says Tony Tan
TODAYonline
Speaking at his lunchtime rally in the heart of the Central Business District, Dr Tan noted "a new normal" in Parliamentary politics after May's landmark General Election. While the election of a strong Government and election of more Opposition ...
Bluestem finds success with four-day school weeks
El Dorado Times
Now in its second year, USD 205 Superintendent Randy Rivers says the four-day week is becoming the new normal. “It seems to have become the accepted practice now,” said Rivers. “As far as I can tell, no one has called and had any problems with it. ...
MAAR: Home Sales Improve 4.6 Pct.
Memphis Daily News
“We're looking for the next couple of months to be more of a normal, whatever the new normal is. And it's not that it's necessarily pretty, but that's why I think we're seeing definitely an increase this July compared to a year ago July. ...
The Old Faithful Peak Oil Debate
The Market Oracle
The IEA graph above shows "all liquids" continuing to rise slowly through 2030 in a "new normal" of very low annual growth, but growth all the same. While Peak Oil predictions, as noted above always say it has just happened or is imminent, ...
Scott Peyron: Tech entrepreneurs drive young companies' success
The Idaho Statesman
Now, years into the “new normal,” an embryonic tech community whose identity had always been disproportionately connected to our big Fortune 500 employers at the northwestern and southeastern corners of Boise, has clearly made a collective decision to ...
A letter for the loss of child
Hattiesburg American
Only, it is a new normal. You now have a new level of happiness. One that comes with survivor's guilt. You feel guilty for smiling, for laughing. For breathing. This is especially noticeable when you attend a function you and your child always did ...
Business Investment Continues To Rise
Seeking Alpha
Double-digit growth in business investment is hardly the stuff one would expect to see if the economy were flirting with recession, or if this were a jobless recovery or a New Normal economy, as so many seem to think. Nevertheless, it continues to be ...
Cover story: No shortage of 9/11 anniversary programs on TV
CNN International
... and BIO will offer "When Pop Culture Saved America," a two-hour documentary examining how "Comedians, singers, actors, entertainers all did their part with concerts, telethons and specials to help bring the nation back to the new normal...
News bites: Watching Libyan oil, climate scientist cleared, and more
The Hill (blog)
The Los Angeles Times reports that extreme weather in the US this year – heat waves, blizzards, floods and more – could be the new normal thanks to climate change. “Climate scientists point to the predictable and cumulative effects of climate change ...
Book at Your Own Risk
Portfolio.com
My New Year's travel plans are a perfect example of the newest "new normal" in the shriveled, post-summer airline world. When my wife and I decided on a Roman holiday, we knew the reality. One competitor on the New York-Rome route, American Airlines,...
Austin tormented by heat wave
Wired (blog)
Rose says the hot summers won't be the new normal, but the string of La Niñas — a weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean that induces drought conditions in Texas — will be more common for a while…. (((It's not about “hot summers” — it's about HOTTER ...
'I just love it here' - Q&A with Michael Wood, Scarborough town councilor
KeepMEcurrent.com
Q: In today's economy, are spending cuts the new normal for Scarborough? A: Make no mistake about it, for a long time, whether it be the school or the municipal side, Scarborough was, for the most part, printing money, because of the growth from the ...
Anticipating an Empty Nest
Patch.com
Then they come back, maybe to visit or live for a while, and you realize your empty nest had become the new 'normal.'” My friend was absolutely right. One daughter is launched and one is home again, living down in our basement with her fiancé. ...
Tension arises between school district admin, union leaders
Elk Grove Citizen
“Welcome to the 'New Normal,' the phrase I hate,” she said. Maggie Ellis, the president of the Elk Grove Education Association, criticized the district administration's “worst case scenario” planning that expected severe state funding cuts and prompted ...
The Odd Disconnect Between The US Economic Performance, U. S Government Policy ...
dBusinessNews Triangle (press release)
The current economic state can continue in this status quo (the new normal) of no growth for as long as voters and citizens do not rebel. And, as long as the US greenback commands a modicum of global respect. The US stock market can continue to be ...
Ed Schultz Condemns Glenn Beck for Warning of Social Unrest in US - Followed ...
NewsBusters (blog)
Here's what Schultz warned yesterday of possible consequences if the government doesn't offer tax breaks to corporations to return jobs they've outsourced (audio) -- It's either that or keep going down the road of the new normal which we're traveling ...
Editorial: A moment to savor in Libya
Newsday (subscription)
The Libyan people will need help from the United States, other nations and nongovernmental organizations as they seek to establish a new normal after four decades of oppression and six months of fighting. One key question is when, and to whom, ...
Medindia Blogs» Blog Archive » Despite a Decade Of War, Suicide ...
By Medindia Health News
Suicides by veterans like these once would have left people reeling in this military community. But troops and their families here these days call it the “new normal” for a US Army that's spent a decade at war. ...
Medindia Blogs
Medicare rate change worries nursing homes – MarylandReporter.com
By Len Lazarick
The new normal? The Medicare reimbursement rate is adjusted every year for all kinds of payments. However, the nursing home industry is concerned that this cut is more permanent. Crist said, “You could argue that this is compensation ...
MarylandReporter.com
Japan's New Normal | Slog
Meanwhile in Fukushima, a half-year post-meltdown, the Japanese government announced that it is tightening radiation exposure limits for children at the ...
slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/.../japans-new-normal
OUR VIEW — Single parenthood is the new normal - Holland, MI - The ...
The Holland Sentinel - The numbers from the Kids Count Michigan report seem to get gloomier every year. The report issued last week by the Annie E. Casey ...
www.hollandsentinel.com/.../OUR-VIEW-Single-parenthood-i...

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