Thursday, February 23, 2012

New Normal: "a marginally functioning government"

Welcome to the new normal. - Democratic Underground
It is quickly becoming apparent that this latest economic downturn has brought about a new paradigm, a new reality, a new normal. The economic woes have crystalized trends, not just economic trends, that have been increasing for a long while, and are now hardened into the new normal. . . . 
www.democraticunderground.com/1002337879 

Clairvest Announces New Normal Course Issuer Bid
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Feb 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Clairvest Group Inc. (TOR:CA:CVG) today announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange has accepted a notice filed by Clairvest of its intention to make a new normal course issuer bid.

Scoop: Hangover's Justin Bartha Joins Ryan Murphy's NBC Comedy Pilot The New ...
TVLine
The Glee boss has tapped Hangover actor Justin Bartha to play Rannells' better half in The New Normal, his single-camera sitcom pilot about a blended family made up of a gay couple and the surrogate helping them have a baby of their own.

Christchurch's 'new normal'
Southland Times
OPINION: Just for a moment there, it might have seemed an iffy choice for the students of St Margaret's College to perform May the Road Rise to Meet You during the Christchurch earthquake commemorations. The song's very title invites the wrong sort of ...

Davidi on Jays: McGowan relishes new normal
CityNews
DUNEDIN, Fla. – Simply being one of the guys right now is an achievement for Dustin McGowan. There is no special throwing program for him to follow so far this spring training, no workload limit to keep track of, no restrictions to hold him back.

$4 million deficit is Sutter County's 'new normal'
Appeal-Democrat
By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer Call it progress, or as one supervisor did, the "new normal," but a projected $4 million deficit for fiscal 2012-13 didn't cause Sutter County supervisors to bat much of an eye Tuesday. As both county officials and ...

Hackett Key Issues Study: As Volatility Becomes the Status Quo Understanding ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MIAMI & LONDON, Feb 22, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In 2012, many large companies expect to face significant challenges dealing with the increased volatility and elements of the "New Normal," according to new key issues research from The Hackett Group, ...

'The Hangover' Star Joins NBC's Ryan Murphy Comedy
Hollywood Reporter
Justin Bartha and newcomer Georgia King have boarded "The New Normal" pilot from "Glee" writer Ali Adler. The Hangover's Justin Bartha has been tapped to co-star in Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler's NBC comedy pilot The New Normal. The single-camera project ...

A Comcastic omen for America
MSN Money
By MoneyShow.com 8 minutes ago By Igor Greenwald, MoneyShow.com Remember the New Normal, bracing us for years of austerity, slow growth, and miserly investment returns? Remember the buying sprees for gold, guns, and other apocalypse staples?

MSN Money

Justin Bartha & Georgia King Land Leads In NBC's Ryan Murphy-Ali Adler Comedy...
Deadline.com
NBC, 20th TV and Ryan Murphy & Ali Adler have assembled the unconventional family at the center of their comedy pilot The New Normal. The Hangover and National Treasure co-star Justin Bartha has been tapped to star in the single-camera project, ...

Deadline.com

Dividends, Dividends, Dividends!
AdvisorOne
But Fred Taylor has “a solution to a problem that every baby boomer faces”: quite a boast in this era of “new normal” volatility and one that's attracting attention. Taylor, president and co-founder of Northstar Investment Advisors, wastes no time in ...

AdvisorOne

An agile IT architecture in three easy steps
InfoWorld
By Michael Hugos | Computerworld Business agility isn't just a good idea, it's the new normal. And the role of IT is to enable agility. Business happens in real time these days, driven by global e-commerce, social media networks and consumer IT.

Healing Yourself After Injury, Illness, or Surgery
MSN Health & Fitness
In cancer, there's this saying, "Accept the new normal." And what I always say is, "Don't accept a new normal too soon." You say the first step is to listen to your healing voice. How do you recognize it? Most of us learn not to pay too much attention ...

Bernie Goldberg Uses Out Of Wedlock Birth Epidemic To Attack Obama
News Hounds
Now it is the new normal.” Goldberg added, “Look, I want to make very clear that what I'm saying tonight has nothing to do with the morality of the situation. We can have that discussion some other time.” So instead, he discussed the anti-Obama ...

ManpowerGroup's Jeff Joerres on the Skills Gap
Forbes
Do you buy the idea that 8% unemployment is the “new normal” in the US? It would be easy to conclude that. But I'll say no. I think it can be lower than that, but getting below 6% will be very difficult. Because of the skills mismatch.

Cali Williams Yost
Fast Company
Uncertainty breaks down the steps that help you not only survive but thrive, personally and professionally, in a world where the unknown is the new normal. Updated Thu Sep 29, 2011 How To Create A "Big Enough" Company That Fits Your Unique Work And ...

Fast Company

A radical vision for NHS reform
New Statesman
Austerity is the new normal. It is not a temporary phenomenon. It will become permanent. Fiscal conservatism is the order of the day. New rules on spending, debt and borrowing are emerging in Europe. And we will almost certainly see some countries ...

New Statesman

NAACP sponsors 'Black Love Experience,' a conference on dating and ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
The New York Times recently called out-of-wedlock parenting "the new normal." As Mondesire pointed out, "I can't march this problem away." But he can encourage local singles to become more mindful about how and when they become parents.

SHE ANIMAL – THE NEW FEMALE SEXUAL PREDATOR
NewsWithViews.com
Date movies or “chick-flicks” contain powerful messages defining aberrant sexual behaviors as the new normal. The result is the acceptance of sexual activities were once considered as sexual perversion. Sexual activities involving multiple partners, ...

Without stability in Iran, oil costs will skyrocket
Chicago Tribune
Paying more than 31/2 bucks a gallon might once have been unthinkable, but for now it's the new normal. "There is a threshold kind of effect," Hamilton said. "People have seen $4-a-gallon gasoline before. It's not going to shock them out of their plans ...

Chicago Tribune

THOMSON REUTERS CORP : Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance Summit ...
4-traders
... financial crisis was a common thread across the event, with Errol Kruger, Managing Director, Supervision & Authorisation, Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority, noting that the high-risk nature of the post-crisis era was "the new normal".

The VAR at Whitney Houston's Funeral
Channelnomics (blog)
Following the Houston services, traffic began to subside to a new normal. Traffic loads remain higher due to the number of link backs. As traffic tapers off, PowerSolution is going through the process of throttling back capacity.

Superintendent of the Year on Education Reform
Governing (blog)
We're in this time of the new normal where your fiscal resources are not going to be what they've been, and that's certainly been the case. We've had to cut $123 million out of our budget in the last five years, and $90 million of that in the three ...

The Arbitrageur: The Decline and Fall of Silver Backwardation (SLV, GLD, AGQ ...
ETF Daily News
Gold during this entire time has not been backwardated (except for the brief flickers as each contract heads into expiration, which is now part of the “new normal”). My hypothesis is that there was a big duration mismatch problem in silver lending.

ETF Daily News

Dow hits 13000, runs out of gas
Memphis Commercial Appeal
"I do think there's a new normal with customers," Charles Holley, Wal-Mart chief financial officer, told retail industry analysts Tuesday. "The markets are more volatile. Gas prices are more volatile. Customers are looking for new ways to save money ...

Dow 13000 Media Hysteria
BusinessWeek
Then overlay a possible new-normal total return that is say 8% gross return and not 12% from another time and place. A 2% NOMINAL return. With inflation in the vicinity of 3%, you enjoy a Tom Brown adjusted -1% return. (See present Congress for future ...

Obama sings the blues but it is Republicans who feel down
Financial Times
The topsy-turvy nature of the Republican race, though, is a reminder that instability is the new normal in politics. Mr Obama's approval ratings have risen but they remain low. The economy may be healing but it is still weak. Oil prices are rising and ...

General aviation deliveries down, billings up in 2011
Kansas.com
People are beginning to be a little more optimistic — or maybe they're more accepting that today's economy is now the new normal and they have to grow their business, he said. And if buying an airplane is needed to grow it, they have to figure out how ...

Waterbury makes pitch to bring back state workers, continue long partnership
vtdigger.org
Others talked of the impact of losing business rentals and sales and having to cope with the “new normal,” in the words of Jeffrey Larkin, owner of Arvad's Grill and Pub. Ames Robb, a state worker in the Agency of Human Services, reminded lawmakers of ...

How Exercise Fuels the Brain
New York Times (blog)
In those rats that ran for four weeks, the “supercompensation” became the new normal, with their baseline levels of glycogen showing substantial increases compared with the sedentary animals. The increases were especially notable in, again, ...

New York Times (blog)

Highland Park to hold open meeting
WDIV Detroit
But Superintendent Edith Hightower also tells Local 4 that she's frustrated and the uncertainty is “the new normal for public education.” Stay tuned to Local 4 and clickondetroit.com for updates with this changing story.

Why Anonymous is Winning Its War on Internet Infrastructure
Forbes
Experts describe DDoS attacks of 10 Gigabits per second and larger as “the new normal.” IT analyst groups like Forrester and Gartner regularly advise their clients to invest in DDoS protection. But the ongoing rout of large government and corporate ...

Forbes

Interview: Ford's Sheryl Connelly Talks “New Normal” - Guys Gab
By CJ
We had a very interesting conversation about “The New Normal”, and how Ford is using this insight to develop the cars of tomorrow. There's been a complete shift in Ford's approach, brought on in response to ever-rising gas prices and our ...
Guys Gab

Afraid of Your Child's Math Textbook? You Should Be | Education ...
By EducationViews.org
Because the “new normal” among too many publishers is a severe lack of oversight in the quality of curriculum being produced, and a frightening prevalence of apathy to do anything about it. The root of problem begins with this key fact: There ...
Education News

Most births to women under 30 are outside marriage ...
By mafamily
Now it is the new normal.” More than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage. The fastest growth in the last 20 years has occurred among white women in their 20s who have some college education but no four-year ...
Massachusetts Family Institute

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OTCPicks.com Daily Market Movers Digest Midday Report f ...
The Hackett Group`s Research Insight, "2012 Key Issues Agenda: The `New Normal` Has Become the `Now Normal`" finds that CEOs and others are acknowledging that the "New Normal" has been largely accepted as the status quo.
Stock Newsletters

RSA Conference | Connect | RSAC2012 Podcast: KEY-206: Lock it ...
By rsa365@hosted.jivesoftware.com
With companies moving rapidly toward the cloud, BYOD as the new normal, and stricter policy enforcement demands, every CIO and administrator needs more transparent and efficient networks. The answer is intelligent networks that integrate ...
Connect

Winter's Lease Hath All Too Short a Date by Julia Spencer-Fleming ...
By MCWriTers
If this kind of warm winter gradually becomes the new normal – if we can only guarantee one white Christmas out of four, instead of three – Mainers have some hard adjustments ahead of them. Floating ice-fishing houses? Slush-shoeing?
Maine Crime Writers

Dr. Sanity: THE DEMISE OF OF SOCIAL LIBERALISM?
By Dr. Sanity
The New York Times even trumpets that it is now the "new normal" for children in the US is to be born out of wedlock, though they have the grace to add: What's most troubling about these figures is that marriage is good for children.
Dr. Sanity

The Money Really Goes to Their Heads - GraphJam: Music and Pop ...
By Cheezburger Network
So if none of the classes give their kid a “normal” name, then wouldn't that mean that the definition of normal would be redefined to something else, making that the new normal? XD Thusly no idea of normal would truly be normal O_o. Reply ...
GraphJam: Music and Pop Culture...

msnbc.com U.S. & World News - The new normal: A child out of ...
'Marriage has become a luxury good,' sociologist says.
world-news.newsvine.com/_.../10441041-the-new-normal-a-c...

THE NEW NORMAL, PART 2 « The Burning Platform
THE NEW NORMAL, PART 2 · 1 comment. Posted on 22nd February 2012 by AWD in Economy. I lived in Detroit for three years. Well, not really IN Detroit, out in ...
www.theburningplatform.com/?p=30085

Is Single Motherhood the New Normal? | workingmother.com
Is Single Motherhood the New Normal? workmom blogs. RSS feed icon Browse the topics @home and @work. Engage with leading bloggers who offer advice ...
www.workingmother.com/.../single-motherhood-new-normal

Managing Partner Shares Perspective on the New Normal - ABA ...
K&L Gates Chairman and Global Managing Partner Peter J. Kalis spoke with ABA Journal reporter Rachel M. Zahorsky on the future course of the legal ...
www.abajournal.com/.../peter_kalis_an_alternate_perspective_...

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