Monday, May 7, 2012

"The new normal is more like a new abnormal"

Steve Forbes in Memphis: 'The new normal is abnormal'
Memphis Business Journal
The new normal is more like a new abnormal,” Forbes said in response to a question about economic uncertainty in an election year. “We've got to stabilize the dollar and stop binge spending.” Forbes, editor-in-chief and chairman of Forbes Media, ... 

Mitt Romney pans unemployment report, says 'normal recovery' would add 500000 ...
Boston Herald
A Romney spokeswoman said he would not back down on the high unemployment under Obama's watch. "Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney is not willing to accept Obama's new normal of high unemployment," said Andrea Saul.

The new normal?
Waterbury Republican American (blog)
I noted in my post yesterday (May 3) that the outcome of this year's presidential election likely will hinge on the country's economic situation. I pointed out that despite jobs being added in each month of 2012, fewer jobs were gained in February than ...

Waterbury Republican American (blog)

Is the iPad the new normal for data visualization?
ZDNet (blog)
By Andrew Brust | May 6, 2012, 7:44am PDT Summary: Gartner publishes its report on Mobile BI and the winning vendor finds mobile is the driving factor in more and more of its pipeline. Last week, Gartner released its “Critical Capabilities for Mobile ...

Nobel Laureate Economist Doesn't Accept Slow Recovery
The Epoch Times
He thinks we have become far too complacent in accepting a low GDP and high unemployment as the new normal. Krugman, 59, says that if politics can be set aside, we can dramatically accelerate a full recovery. The Nobel-Prize winning economist spoke May ...

The Epoch Times

April 2012 Summary
Wunderground.com (blog)
Given the extreme amount of months above the 1971-1990 mean, above normal seems to be the new normal in this century. I am 100% confident that the new 1981-2010 base period for climate normals will definitely be higher. Indeed, the next project I will ...

Southern Tier districts feeling pressure to consolidate
Ithaca Journal
"We knew that we needed to redesign our school district in search of the new normal. I don't believe we've found the new normal yet. I still think it's evolving," Marino said. "We're going to need to figure out what does it look like now, ...

Kentucky Derby 2012: Betting on Candidates the Way You'd Bet on a Horse
Huffington Post (blog)
This is a whiter, older, more Anglo and more Southern scene than the new normal -- though it was notable that, for the first time, a female jockey won the Oaks race for fillies. Still, the Derby at its upper reaches is a magnet for politicians, ...

New Private Equity Opportunities Are Coming Thanks to the JOBS Act
The Market Oracle
And yet this new normal 'vol to zero' regime is precisely what CNBC is cheering day in and day out." – Tyler Durden, zerohedge.com The use of private equity today to finance start-ups rather than an initial public offering (IPO) offers investors the ...

Re-election: Obama poised for the offence
Asian Tribune
The new normal is that you don't engage in the healthcare business as before. Reform or die. Obama is also relying on the American labor movement, with their proven ability to get voters to the polling booths on election day. When the American economy ...

Tom Humphrey: Gov. Bill Haslam's first veto deftly dodges override possibility
Knoxville News Sentinel
We certainly haven't reached anywhere near the rubber-stamp point yet in the new normal. But if we're going to avoid it in the future, it just might be a good idea for both the executive and the legislative branches to function as the state ...

If You're Going To Talk About Jobs, Get Your Facts Straight
LubbockOnline.com (blog)
As a result, “job hopping” and dual careers will be the new normal with workers forced to retrain and relearn constantly to survive the roller coaster, abandoning the outdated notion that education is something done at the beginning of life, ...

Hope Village at Our Savior Lutheran Church set to open
Minot Daily News
For the people attending the event, Krueger said he hopes they feel a sense of connection to helping their neighbors and friends return to their homes and start toward a path of a new normal. He also hopes they'll enjoy the good food and music.

Women and investing: How to attract a key demographic
InvestmentNews
They're definitely facing a new normal. You have to help them identify their lifestyle, but you have to be very believable. For example, one of our longtime clients, a widow, was reluctant to visit her son or grandchildren because it involved taking a ...

Like last year, the world economy hit a roadblock this April too
Livemint
More and more people agree that 7% growth is the new normal. Of course, it also matters vastly what the central banks and the governments are going to do. The panic last year came about when investors thought that governments in the West had reached ...

COLUMN: At the close of another school year
Walton Tribune
We continue to overcome economic challenges in what has become the “new normal” and know we will be facing those challenges again in the next school year. But make no mistake, we will maintain high quality programs and educate our students – moving ...

Special prom night a bittersweet celebration for Chardon High School students ...
News-Herald.com
... for the students as they celebrated their megaprom. Saporta, whose band's current hit single is "You Make Me Feel," said he has talked to several students about how they're holding up. "One girl told me, `We're going towards a new normal,' " he said.

Perspectives from the Principal's Office: Defending Public Education
Golden Star
Principals and vice-principals have had many conversations about a new normal that is being established in our schools and they have consistently expressed a belief that this is not a positive direction. If schools lose the energy, character and ...

ADB concludes 45th annual meet in Phl
Philippine Information Agency
The eurozone is the collective group of countries which use the Euro as their common currency The region must update its growth model to accommodate a “new normal” of prolonged economic restructuring in advanced economies, and remove obstacles to ...

A Short Historical Essay - Universal Design - Rolling Rains Report
By Scott Rains
The new inclusive environment established points of cultural stability where the life experience of those previously shunted aside could become the new normal. The Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley and Access Living in Chicago are the ...
Rolling Rains Report

Eradicating Ecocide in Canada - Here are 3 energy cost related stories
By Ron Hart
... the crap, break it and toss it on the junk pile. This is what now passes for “economy.” In any case, pack in the insulation, hook up the photovoltaics, and haul out that old down vest. The New Normal is slouching toward Bethlehem to be born.
Eradicating Ecocide in Canada

Breakingviews: Murdoch's great escape; banking's new normal ...
May 2 - The UBS earnings offer a glimpse of a stabler, but duller, future for banks, and the British ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vFbIVgoR2A

Pennsylvania towns get used to the 'new normal' in funding
Newsworks.org (blog)
By Mary Wilson Thousands of local government officials from Pennsylvania are meeting in Dauphin County this weekend to talk about issues their communities are facing. The Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (P-SATS) is holding its ...

Climate Impacts Day: 350.org Campaign Connects The Dots Between Extreme ...
Huffington Post
Indeed, it seems as if extreme weather is now the new normal forecast. Already photos have come in from New Mexico, where firefighters stand over the remains of the Santa Fe Forest, which burned hundreds of acres of land last summer in what some have ...

Beyond GDP: How sustainable development is redefining economic growth
Business Mirror
For Jeffrey Sachs, senior adviser to the United Nations and director of the Earth Institute of the University of Columbia in New York, living with natural disasters brought about by a changing climate is the “new normal” for people, not only in the...

Business Mirror

Cleveland Heights To Welcome Chickens
Ohio News Network
“What we are going to establish here is a new normal,” said Cleveland Heights Mayor Edward Kelley. He said the green zones will set his city apart from other communities. He wants to be kind to the environment. “We want people to have composts bins, ...

Ohio News Network

50 years at Timothy Lutheran: Growing in Christ
Blue Springs Examiner
“There's just a new normal,” he says. “Regular church attendance is no longer every week.” First, there was a planning meeting on a hot, humid Sunday afternoon in August 1961. A year and three months later, the church became official with 83 charter ...

US Hiring Disappoints, but Jobless Rate Ticks Lower
Voice of America
But Nobel prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps said it may be time to consider a new normal. "We're not looking at an economy nearly as healthy as it was in the middle of the 90's. My seat-of-the-pants [intuitive] feeling is that the new normal is in ...

The cheapest and most expensive places to live in Somerset County
Daily American Online
"Once services and projects are reduced, deferred or eliminated, this new 'reduced level of service' can actually become the 'new normal.'" Bergquist noted that for many people, tax rates can be offset by the convenience factor.

Valley teens cut costs on pricey proms
Fresno Bee
Pressure, competition and a sense that elaborate proms are the new normal all contribute. Greg McClain, driver for Limo for You in Fresno, is inside the limo/bus that will fit up to 30 people. There are colored lights, big screen TV, elaborate sound...

Fresno Bee

Mother first
High River Times
I love being a wife and a mother, I have always loved writing, now that I have been given the chance to be a wife, and mother and a reporter, a new normal begins for me. When I told friends and family of my dream opportunity with the Times and my ...

Is the Consumer Returning?
Global Economic Intersection
From my vantage point, I am not a lover of seasonally adjusted data as the New Normal is rife with unexplainable data oscillations that never occurred before the recession of 2007. Seasonal adjustments work well when your data series is consistent ...

Global Economic Intersection

Low Water Levels Concerning
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre
Peach says the last time they had a high water level on Lake Huron was 1997 and it's been lower than average every year since 1999. He says this could become a new normal for the lake and surrounding watersheds.

TRADE FINANCE: Into the void
emergingmarkets.org
This financing gap is unlikely to diminish soon: it's “the new normal”, he says. “This is scary, because it could mean anaemic economic growth and low job creation into the medium term.” Mark Evans, global head of trade and supply chain at ANZ in ...

emergingmarkets.org

PureGear Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Teletouch Subsidiary ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... to all the great quality wireless accessories they manufacture, the simplicity and ease of PureGear's roll-on screen protectors is looking to be a game changer for the wireless industry as a whole, as touch-screen smartphones become the new normal.

No more 'Idol' time: James Durbin knows his future is now
Joplin Globe
He has also appeared in the documentary “Different is the New Normal,” which focused on a teen's effort to overcome Tourette's syndrome. Durbin said he's prepared to meet the challenge of making it as a soloist from a pop-based TV show in a sea of rock ...

Cast Blind: Now if they could just teach us!
ChicagoNow (blog)
I was convinced this was our new normal so I would help him get into a position where he could fall back to sleep. We alternated Tylenol and Motrin most of the night. I was diligent to make sure he was comfortable. As morning came I was still exhausted ...

The White House's Economic Case for Reelection in 13 (More) Charts
The Atlantic
Weak growth out of Europe isn't a quarter-to-quarter phenomenon, it's the new normal for Europe, at least for the next few years. (2) What's Growing? Admin talking point: "Exports have accounted for 40 percent of GDP growth since the bottom of the ...

Jobs grow by only 115000 in April
People's World
They are pushing the idea that an economy where 60 percent or less of the working age population actually works or even tries to get a job is the "new normal." In some areas of the economy last month there were increases in the number of jobs including ...

Snapshots from the 20th Asian Corporate Conference ...
By ChadReznik
With talks for the Doha round of global trade stalled indefinitely, “we have to deal with the new normal, where politicians in the leading countries are running scared of free trade,” Kishore Mahbubani, a veteran Singaporean diplomat and policy ...
theprimagecorp.com

Bozell Column: Comcast Boasts 'Diversity,' On and Off Camera | Yes ...
By NewsBusters
New York magazine reports NBC programming chief Robert Greenblatt has given the go-ahead for a new sitcom called “The New Normal.” NBC's new normal is about two gay men who start a family using a surrogate. Greenblatt is apparently ...
Yes, But, However!

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