Is indefinite detention of US citizens the New Normal?

Is indefinite detention of US citizens the 'new normal'
WJBC News
“For U.S. senators and U.S. representatives to stand on the floor of the House and the Senate and proclaim that the only way that our country can be safe is to have indefinite detention is a falsehood that they know to be false,” Yohnka said. President Obama signed the legislation on New Year’s Eve, allowing indefinite detention of American citizens to be codified into law.

Wall Street Employee: 'Compensation Never Really Going To Come Back'
Huffington Post
And adjusting to the new normal could be extremely difficult for some Wall Street workers. Another anonymous former finance industry worker told The Guardian as part of a similar series that they were easily able to alter their life to fit new income ...

E&L TV- “Your Source for Everything San Diego” - Finance Edition
San Diego Entertainer Magazine
Joe discussed what he called the “new normal” in business is and how businesses are being affected by it. He then discussed the issues that people run into with the bank and lending money when they want to buy a business, especially here in San Diego. ...

Sax Macy announces merge to bring firm in new direction
NJBIZ
“We provide a lot of financial advisory services for our clients, and we saw that there was a significant need for consulting services in terms of the new normal of this economy that were in,” said Robert Paz, managing director of Sax Macy. ...

Americans are stressed, but we're getting used to it
USA TODAY
This decline in reported stress, they add, is likely because stress has become thenew normal for life in the USA. People have been under so much stress in the past few years that they've "adapted to it," says physician Paul Rosch, a clinical professor...

USA TODAY

WILLIAMS / Amid the tears, laughter helps to heal
Blackshear Times
By Robert M. Williams, Jr. This week begins a “new normal” in my life, a time marked by tears and laughter. Mama defied death so many times, our family had come to expect her to outlive most of us. Her 93 years weren't always easy but she took great ...

Technology and the Productivity Promise
Governing
Jerry Mechling is a GOVERNING contributor and research vice president at Gartner, Inc. In the "new normal," with governments buried under show-stopping financial and political pressure, we don't want our budget directors to simply hunker down with ...

Survey Finds Americans' Report Less Stress Now Than In 2007
KDRV
While no one knows for sure, experts believe that high stress could have now become the new normal. 75% of respondents cited a lack of money as a stressor. Two-thirds also mentioned work stress.

KDRV

St. Gregory's Students, Faculty Return To Quake-Damaged Building
News On 6
By Darren Brown, News 9 - bio | email Two months after a 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook one of its oldest buildings, St. Gregory's University is finally getting back to a "new" normal. Last November's strong earthquake toppled one of Benedictine Hall's ...

Gulfstream: Salary Drive back from break
Daily Racing Form
There is plenty of pace among the 11 fillies and mares entered in Friday's main event, with Cumulonimble, New Normal, Kiss the Stars, Prize Informant, and Mutually Benefit all capable of racing on the lead. The biggest question marks in the race may be ...

Barbados' Tourism and Hospitality Industry: What to Expect in 2012
Business Barbados
On the other hand earnings, in a pattern of decline that has now existed for the past three years and is now unfortunately becoming the new normal, are projected to remain stagnant. According to the Central Bank of Barbados tourism receipts fell by ...

Business Barbados

Governor recommends $2.66 billion budget
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
"What we had to do will become our new normal going forward," Otter told state legislators during his State of the State address. "Idaho, having been tested by the great recession, is now emerging leaner." Otter submitted his $2.66 billion budget ...

Elsevier to organise two Tetrahedron Symposia for 2012 - 11 Jan 2012
Knowledgespeak
A panel of information industry leaders will provide their perspective on the new normal and the changes that they have made in products, technologies, staff skills and business policies in order to remain relevant. Additionally, the conference will ...

Photos of the Day: Jan. 11
Wall Street Journal (blog)
(Chiang Ying-ying/Associated Press) NEW NORMAL: A boy ran by as a girl sat on the wreckage of a helicopter and wrote Tuesday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at a camp for people who were displaced by a deadly Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake. ...

Update: Federal Reserve Expert Speaks From Vancouver on Economic Situation
LoanSafe
“They are getting used to the new normal of heightened uncertainty,” he said, in part by trying to become more agile at adapting to rapid change. For example, many companies are hiring temporary workers they can easily lay off if sales drop, ...

A New You Diet: Pam's Advice on Losing Weight
AARP News
This became the new normal. Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing with you my six little pleasurable eating moments: two breakfasts, lunch, teatime with a sweet treat, a pre-dinner nibble with a glass of wine and a light supper. ...

Shaping the future of higher education
Columbus Dispatch (blog)
Columbus State Community College President David Harrison was one of only five higher-education presidents to lead a panel discussion on embracing the "new normal" -- where schools have to serve more students with more diverse needs with less state and ...

Columbus Dispatch (blog)

Pimco's Kashkari Calls Dividends a Great Strategy
MutualFundWire.com
In another statement issued today, Pimco executives said they will continue pursuing equity strategies in lie with the "new normal" philosophy it adopted in May 2009. Neel Kashkari, Pimco head of new investment initiatives, said in a telephone ...

Google predicts flu, fountain spews germs, boy blows up silo
USA TODAY
But researchers wonder if we've also adapted to challenging times -- and if stress is "the new normal." Elder abuse worries grow: More elder abuse shelters are opening as the population grays and more seniors become potential targets for physical, ...

USA TODAY

Fair Trade USA: Why We Parted Ways with Fair Trade International
Triple Pundit
By showing American consumers that every purchase matters, that they have the power to change the world through something as simple as a cup of coffee, we can help make responsible shopping the new normal. At the end of the day, these innovations will ...

Triple Pundit

County employees get 2 percent pay raises
Journal Press - King George
Supervisors implemented a number of measures to cut spending for the remainder of that year to avoid overexpenditure, many of them becoming the 'new normal.' Because of that, the county's economy is looking relatively stable, for the time being, ...

The War Inside
KFYR-TV
Lieutenant Colonel French says she knows she doesn`t have to like the new normal, she just has to get used to it. And as the years go by, it`s hard to remember what the old normal was even like. French says it gives her peace to keep fallen soldiers` ...

CBS plans big things for Jim Rome
USA TODAY
But the BCS better change before low ratings are its new normal. … Hey, it's the offseason: MLB Network, MLBN's Lorraine Fisher says, today will announce its first game show: Baseball IQ, a trivia show premiering Jan 24. Contestants will be MLB ...

USA TODAY

Bankruptcies down in October, but could rise in 2012
CTV.ca
"High debt levels are the new normal ... We are just used to it now, it's just the way it is and that's kind of eased off some of the pressure." Consumer debt has come to be seen as something like a dull headache, rather than a life-threatening ...

CTV.ca

3 Themes in Former Gov. Sonny Perdue's Talk to Sandy Springs Leaders
Patch.com
“This is the new normal. That's what federal and local governments are wrestling with right now. Most of the revenues was coming from property tax assessments and these assessments are not growing [as they have] in the prior years. ...

Record disasters in '11 could mean insurance hikes in '12
ConsumerReports.org (blog)
"The question is, is this some sort of new normal?" Lori D. Fouché, president and CEO of Firemen's Fund Insurance Co., was less committal about whether or where her company would be seeking premium increases. But, she noted, her company was making use ...

Disinvestment Stirs Fear Over Higher Education's Future
WBUR
So is less funding for higher education the new normal? Or is there a way to reverse what some say is a troubling dis-investment in higher ed? From 2008 to 2010 , Massachusetts cut its appropriations for higher education by 37 percent -

WBUR

Talisman Energy Inc., 2012 Guidance/Update Call, Jan 10, 2012
Seeking Alpha
So overall, we should now consider 65000 to 70000 barrels a day a new normal for the UK It will vary around this level of bit depending on the timing of projects and individual wells, but I consider this a re-based number for our UK business. ...

Selling in the New Normal Marketplace | The Customer Collective
By rruff
About Richard Ruff: Co-Founder. Sales Horizons. For more than 30 years Dr. Richard Ruff - a founder of Sales Horizons - has worked with the Fortune 1000 to design and develop sales training programs that make a difference. By working ...
The Customer Collective - The...

Deloitte Urges Boards to Adjust to The New Normal | CFO ...
By melba.bernad
According to Deloitte, for companies sitting on sizeable cash reserves, one of the key challenges is determining the best use for the cash they have in hand.
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More New Homes Going Up In New Jersey This Year [AUDIO]
By Kelly Waldron
But, there is a new normal. “I think home buyers are looking for all the niceties you can put in a house, they want to know that all the bells and whistles are in place, but they aren't looking for the palatial estate homes that we've seen in years ...
New Jersey 101.5

A View From AALS: What Change Looks Like - ABA Journal
To see more concrete suggestions, check out the work of my co-panelist and New Normal contributor Susan Hackett. There are two models of how change happens: 1. Deliberative change, which is our default mode as lawyers, where a formal ...
ABA Journal Daily News

As Bonuses Roll In, Wall St. Workers May Be Forced To Adjust To ...
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And adjusting to the new normal could be extremely difficult for some Wall Street workers. Another anonymous former finance industry worker told The Guardian as part of a similar series that they were easily able to alter their life to fit new ...
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Sustainability AGenda in Retrospect and Prospect
At a time when mega crises in economic activities, social life, and natural environment are becoming “the new normal” for mankind, it is only wise to search for a way out of this new normal by taking an integrated approach, revealing the ...
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From the Archives: The Brave New World of Asset Allocation ...
By Mike Moody
PIMCO believes that we have had a regime change, which they call the “new normal.” If they are correct, strategic asset allocation could have a rough go of it for a while. Tactical asset allocation seems to be the only logical way to respond ...
Systematic Relative Strength

On the State of the State
By vtg0p
Representative Turner has spoken out before about how the quick and efficient road reconstruction processes the State utilized after Tropical Storm Irene should become “the new normal.” Yesterday, the Governor indicated that he, too, thinks ...
Vermont Republican Party

When Road Hazards Go From I.E.D.'s to Sunday Drivers - NYTimes ...
By By JAMES DAO
Living Amid the Violence in Iraq. One Iraqi, returning to Baghdad after five years, finds his country'snew normal--violence, political crises and uncertainty. Archive. Select Month, January 2012, December 2011, November 2011, October 2011 ...
At War

Differentiating “cost savings” from “expenditure reduction” « School ...
By schoolfinance101
In these times of tight local school district budgets and rhetoric about “stretching the school dollar” and the “new normal,” paying close attention to the distinctions above is critically important. The recent Fordham Report on online and blended ...
School Finance 101

First Post-apocalyptic sci-fi for 2012 | The Finch and Pea
By Mike
Its linear propulsion, studded with bravura set pieces, is compulsively readable in the manner of any consumer-friendly epic fantasy novel, overstuffed with unforgettable freakish characters (in the Age of FUS, freakish is the new normal); ...
The Finch and Pea

Life after inpatient... questions. - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug ...
By worried72
Just wondering if anyone has experience with the first weeks, months home from inpatient, getting to a new normal... would love to hear. Not needing advice, per se... just experiences. Thanks in advance, L. (RAH drinking all of our marriage of ...
SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug...

Tolling keeps traffic in flux - Mercer Island Reporter
Planners say next few weeks will tell the story. The Washington State Department of Transportation said last week that drivers are “navigating toward a new normal as they tweak their commute times and routes and get used to tolling on State ...
All Stories - Mercer Island Reporter

Viewpoint: Streamlining ahead in the 'New Normal' | Woodbury ...
A phrase you may hear in 2012 is “The New Normal.”
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