Friday, December 23, 2011

New Normal of campaign fundraising

No joke: Stephen Colbert wants naming rights to SC GOP primary
Los Angeles Times
Colbert, host of Comedy Central's "Colbert Report," formed a super PAC earlier this year, apparently to expose the new normal of campaign fundraising after the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission. ...

Display of rare resilience
gulfnews.com
By Scott Peterson -Christian Science Monitor A new exhibit opened at the Iraq Museum on November 17 — one among many signs that Iraq is leaving behind the horrors of war and creating a new normal. "You know what we have been through; ...

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Foreclosures Weighing on Prices May Push Rebound to 2013
BusinessWeek
“The new normal is that, if you can get a mortgage, housing is dirt cheap,” Simon said, using the term popularized by his colleagues at the fund manager to describe the extended period of below-average economic growth they forecasted following the 2008 ...

Nothing Predicted Happened as Men Conspired With Nature in 2011
BusinessWeek
“The implosion of over-stressed established regimes, the demonstrated obsolescence of vested ways of thinking, the emergence of new leaders, new ideas, new institutions, new ways of life -- the 'new normal' in realm after realm around the world. ...

A food writer's top menu trends for 2012
Nation's Restaurant News
American consumers are no longer eating like they're in crisis mode, as they get used to the new normal of economic uncertainty. Although generally cautious about spending money, consumers will splurge if they perceive value in their purchases, ...

Embrace change for financial success.
Sonoma Valley Sun
It soon became clear that change was the new normal. Workers could expect to have multiple jobs in their working lives, and many would have multiple careers. These changes all require new thinking about wealth and preparation for the future. ...

Sonoma Valley Sun

Posted by: Tom Keene on December 22, 2011
BusinessWeek
This morning Professor Clarida reaffirmed PIMCO's New Normal (hear the interview at Bloomberg Radio+ @AppStore) and suggested inflation was a distant and future concern. In the mirror, Italy faces nominal and inflation-adjusted rates that scream ...

The Culture Shift of 2011, and What It Means for Business (Part 1 of 2)
Triple Pundit
And its credibility should be a signal to the business world of a “new normal” on the rise. On the one hand, we are in the infancy of a major technological wave that's dramatically changing information flows and interaction. People are hyper-connected ...

Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies
Business Insider
The past decade (post Internet bubble, post Sarbox) brought a new normal to the late stage venture capital market. Companies are staying private longer. They are doing multiple rounds of growth financing privately. And they are doing multiple rounds of ...

Kathmandu sales slip savages shares
Otago Daily Times
The company's performance was lower than expected because of weaker consumer spending, he said. Mr Halkett had a month ago cautioned that the "new normal" for the market was its volatility, along with unpredictability and increasing competition ...

Merry Christmas from Australian Broker!
Broker News Australia
It's been another eventful year in 2011, marked primarily by the transition to industry regulation and broker market consolidation, as well as the continuation of the post-GFC 'new normal' paradigm. Though this meant continued challenges for individual ...

Squatters say foreclosed homes beat homeless shelters
Los Angeles Times
"I wouldn't say it's the new normal yet, but I think it's coming close to that," activist Ryan Acuff said of people occupying vacant homes, or refusing eviction orders from their own homes. Acuff is a leader in Take Back the Land-Rochester, ...

Los Angeles Times

Staycation trend bolsters outdoor living categories
Home Accents Today
We are living in the 'new normal.'" Still, amidst changes and adaptations, optimism seems to be a common denominator in their survival. "You never know for sure, but one thing we are seeing from reading the papers is that although the unemployment rate ...

'One Out of Two' or 'One for All'?
The Indypendent
But they also risk becoming the new normal—the sense that the financial catastrophe has kicked the struts out from under the economy and therefore we have to settle for scraps as well as for scraping by. We cannot settle for this disparity. ...

The Indypendent

Chinese Hackers Attack Department of Commerce
Forbes
“It's the new normal. I expect this to continue for the foreseeable future. I expect to be surprised again.” Want the scoop on mobile news? Subscribe to our Facebook or Twitter page. This post originally appeared at Mobiledia.

The Family Plan: Managing Life in a Multigenerational Household
DailyFinance
Multigenerational households like the McGloughlins and the Spencers may be becoming the new normal. "America is used to being the No. 1 economy in the world, but we're seeing a re-emergence of global competition," says John Hauserman, ...

Hispanic American Bishops Write Letter to 'Undocumented Immigrants'
National Catholic Register
“The new normal is how you can dehumanize undocumented immigrants by painting them all with a broad brush of criminality,” said Sharry, who added: “This letter has the feel of being one of those documents that we'll be reading in 30 or 40 years and ...

National Catholic Register

A look-back at S'pore politics
Channel News Asia
Observers said politics in Singapore and in particular parliamentary sessions can be expected to be more robust over the next few years under this trend of what's been called the "new normal". Parliamentary sessions in the new year are expected to see ...

In Choppy Waters, Ride This Dividend Wave
Motley Fool
Gross describes this barely buoyant economy as the "new normal" and warns of the effect on corporate profitability. Recovering from the debt binge of the past decade required policymakers to take extreme measures. The government lowered interest rates, ...

Air Force personnel reflect on end of mission in Iraq
Montgomery Advertiser
As involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan concludes, the Air Force will face the operational challenge "as we go back to a garrison stance of adapting to a new normal," Rock said. Military operations such as in Iraq serve to "reinforce old lessons," Rossi ...

Steady as she goes, Packers fans
Newsradio 620 (blog)
I don't think that's going to become the new normal the rest of the way. The running game will be bolstered by the return of two more healthy bodies. Ryan Grant showed signs of life, too. The offensive line is a legitimate concern but McCarthy can ...

Looking forward to a couple days off
Janesville Gazette (blog)
One of the changes to the new normal are benefits - specifically paid time off. Being the new guy meant taking a hit on my paid time off. Honestly, my former employer had a great vacation plan. I had banked several weeks above what they offered before ...

Is Squatting The New Normal? | bubbleinfo.com
By Jim the Realtor
Is Squatting The New Normal? Hat tip to daytrip for sending this along, from the latimes.com: Reporting from New York—Slips of paper are pasted to the broken door of the corner row house, violations for the garbage piled near the front steps. ...

The New Normal : Completely Fraudulent Adjustments | Real Science
By Steven Goddard
1. The Rahmstorf adjustment is 100% bogus. Temperature is temperature - you don't adjust the readings because you don't like what you believe are the underlying.
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DAMMIT JANET!: The New Normal
By fern hill
The New Normal. What do you call something that one in three women experiences? Oh look, my thesaurus is handy. Let's see: 'common, prevalent, ordinary, average. . .' How about normal? A group in Cleveland, Ohio, has a started a ...
DAMMIT JANET!

The NC Jobs Picture: Face it Folks, This is the New Normal | The ...
By Tara Servatius
The NC Jobs Picture: Face it Folks, This is the New Normal. Posted December 21st, 2011 at 6:21 PM by Tara Servatius. Contrary to how the media portrays our economic situation, for the last two years, the jobs picture in North Carolina has ...
The Meck Deck

A VC: Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies
By Fred
The past decade (post Internet bubble, post Sarbox) brought a new normal to the late stage venture capital market. Companies are ... This "new normal" is allowing these companies to stay private and develop into real businesses. With a lot of ...
A VC

Quick Hits: Boston's Super-Angels, Nordan's Smart Thoughts, and ...
By Walter Frick
This tells me that for cleantech entrepreneurs in this region (and I suspect it's the same elsewhere), angel funding is now the new-normal way to get started. A few cleantech startups here will take in VC dollars as their first dollars, but many ...
New England Clean Energy Council...

The Goodson Blogson: Foreign Country "Cheat Sheets"
By J. Michael Goodson Law Library
As globalization has made transnational business the new normal, lawyers must be aware of cultural differences which can impact scheduling and travel plans; these details aren't always readily apparent from travel guidebooks or simple web ...
The Goodson Blogson

'One out of two' or 'one for all'? / Waging Nonviolence - People ...
By Ken Butigan
But they also risk becoming the new normal—the sense that the financial catastrophe has kicked the struts out from under the economy and therefore we have to settle for scraps as well as for scraping by. We cannot settle for this disparity. ...
Waging Nonviolence

Business Insider: This Is What's Changing The Landscape Of Digital ...
By Jeff Greenfield
The new normal is a client needing an answer in hours instead of weeks, and systems need to deliver on real-world demands. Now that the blue chips are in, the biggest mistake would to invite the white elephant back. He's still around. ...
C3 Metrics

Economic Disconnect: A Rally Some Stocks Forgot
By getyourselfconnected
The low volume I have come to terms with because so much money left stocks over the past 3 years maybe it is the new normal. In any case today started off weak, but after lunch another ramp up came in. I have been long AMZN (as discussed ...
Economic Disconnect

IS THE LABOR MARKET GAINING SOME TRACTION ...
By Cullen Roche
I think people got used to the “new normal” and are starting to spend again. But I would wait until after hoilidays to count the chickens. Stores hired a lot of people for the holiday season and promotions are very agressive. The tide will go out ...
PRAGMATIC CAPITALISM

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate U.S. Chamber of Commerce | theTrumpet ...
By theTrumpet.com
“It's the new normal. I expect this to continue for the foreseeable future. I expect to be surprised again.” This is just another example of how vulnerable the U.S. is to hacking. In war, it is not just military targets that get bombed—factories and ...
theTrumpet.com: Front Page

The 'New Normal' for Ga. Public Education in 2012 | District ...
The 'New Normal' for Ga. Public Education in 2012. Monday, December 19, 2011 . As we prepare to enter 2012, what are the issues to resolve in educating all ...
www.districtadministration.com/.../new-normal-ga-public-edu...
When sanity becomes your new normal. Posted by Autumn on Tuesday, December 13, 2011. When was the last time you noticed that you are sane? It's a state ...
www.autumnstringam.com/.../when-sanity-becomes-your-new...

swissmiss | Valerie Casey: The New Normal
Wonderful AIGA talk by Valery Casey, founder of the Designers Accord, the global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders working together to ...
www.swiss-miss.com/2011/.../valerie-casey-the-new-normal.ht...

a new normal….who am I kidding ? « Rosie and the Butcher
a new normal….who am I kidding ? The word normal is never really going to fit our clan. Oh well….a new ABnormal. Sidney has moved back in, and that is good . ...
rosieandthebutcher.com/.../a-new-normal-who-am-i-kidding/

13 Observations On The New Holiday Spending Normal | ZeroHedge
While the rest of the world enjoys the New Normal, which lately has primarily and mostly negative connotations, when it comes to such "legacy" aspects of life as ...
www.zerohedge.com/.../13-observations-new-holiday-spendin...

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