Saturday, June 30, 2012

Navigating the New Normal

Navigating the "New Normal"
Insurance & Technology
In a business environment of changing customer and regulatory demands and challenging economic realities, insurers need to respond, and we have to respond profitably, quickly and flexibly to change with more customer-centric business models.

Credit growth - slow is the new normal
Ninemsn
Credit growth is less than half the pace before the global crisis in 2008, though a return to pre-crisis growth rates is not on the cards.

'New normal' keeps wallets closed
Stuff.co.nz
Christchurch shoppers are doing less wining and dining and are in no rush to ramp up discretionary spending, the latest data shows.

Big NBC slate may hurt new shows' chance to score=2
Yahoo!7 News
While NBC said the two comedies it is airing during the games are anchors for the fall, the network also is likely to give promotional time to other shows, including "The New Normal" from "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy about a gay couple and their ...

Yahoo!7 News

Darien PR guru to industry professionals: Adapt to survive
Norwalk Plus Magazine
The world of corporate communications is changing radically -- often overnight -- to “a new normal,” public relations guru Robert L. Dilenschneider of Darien said in a report to global business communicators at the annual conference of the ...

Torys' Capital Markets 2012 Mid-Year Report
San Francisco Chronicle
If uncertainty in the capital markets is not the new normal, it has at least persisted for several quarters. Many of the themes that clouded the outlook for the markets in mid-2011 remain the same for mid-2012: European stagnation; political debate ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Would You Watch The Real Housewives of Atlanta Without NeNe Leakes?
Wetpaint
Since her career in Hollywood has taken off in recent months, it seems like NeNe Leakes toys with a move to Los Angeles practically every week, which makes sense given her roles on Glee and The New Normal. Between fielding offers in L.A. and a desire ...

New Leadership At Cravath
Above the Law
Who will lead Cravath as it establishes the “new normal,” post-recession? Cravath put out a press release today announcing that C. Allen Parker will become Cravath's 15th presiding partner at the end of the year. From the press release: Mr. Parker ...

How does a school recover from trauma?
The Guardian (blog)
A mother of a Columbine High School pupil at the time of the shootings, Carolyn Lunsford Mears has discovered it is possible to build a new normal in the aftermath of devastating loss in schools – and…

The Guardian (blog)

The weather change in 3 charts
Minnesota Public Radio
I wince as I write the words "new normal." But when it comes to weather, it's hard to ignore the data. Three charts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bear out the changes we're seeing and feeling. weather1.jpg. Here's a look at ...

Day 18: Sherry Turkle's “Goldilocks Effect” and Digital Intimacy…
PsychCentral.com (blog)
This is the new normal of our digital age of texting and emailing and posting and online connecting in all its many forms and endless platforms. It's a factor in digital intimacy, but I'm not going into the Robotics side of this story here. Too much ...

PsychCentral.com (blog)

All-Marine Warrior Games team honored at Pentagon
DVIDS
Your determination to return to a new normal is not just inspiring it is nothing short of a miracle.” The Warrior Games continues to serve as a means to elevate wounded, ill and injured service members' athletic abilities. The games, which were held in ...

Accenture Earnings Call INSIGHTS: Europe, Articulating Strategy
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
... such as magazine, I know personally very well, where you have clearly a new normalenvironment or even communication, when the market is transforming rapidly it's creating an environment where those companies they have to transform their operations ...

Living in the New Normal
By Nancy
With all this change, what we were really there to discuss was: What does it mean to be living in “the new normal?” Thought-leaders pointed out the many problems and challenges we're facing, but they also kept the mood upbeat with the ...
COMPASSblogs

Happy hour QA Whole Foods oysters, Saturday night happy hours ...
By lopsylom
12 Hour Workdays Are The New Normal And Thats A Good Thing, Says Self-Interested Company – Huffington Post Twelve hour work days are the new normal. But maybe theyre not all that bad Thats the spin that one company is putting on a ...
My Blog by lopsylom | English,...

Mizzou Links, 6-29-12 - Rock M Nation
By Bill C.
That's the new normal. And just imagine when Team No. 5 passes Team No. 4 in the last weekend when both teams win? I love the thought of transparency in this process, but I don't need it until the regular season games are over. Playoffs!
Rock M Nation

Ritchie sets new marriage amendment ballot title | Minnesota Public ...
I wince as I write the words "new normal." But when it comes to weather, it's hard to ignore the data. Three charts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bear out the changes we're seeing and feeling. Here's a... 8:44 a.m. ...
News & Features from Minnesota...

From the Ridge, one more Valley and one more Mountain. Visible ...
By Visible
The frequency and consistency of these things has been noticeably increasing of late to where abnormal is now the new normal. Out there in 'the real world', another kind of abnormal is becoming normal. Not that long ago, 'the real world' was ...
Visible Origami

Bob Chappuis (1923-2012) | John U. Bacon
By johnubacon
and sticking to my new normal on Michigan Radio of 8:50. And yes, there will be a quiz, so “stop what you're doing, and listen!” Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnubacon. Closing in on 5000. “Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the ...
John U. Bacon

PR Accounts on the Move
By nospam@example.com (Greg Hazley)
1 hour ago; Big data in communications measurement is tomorrow's new normal(@WaggenerEdstrom) [link] · 18 hours ago; Nevada Prospects for Voter Registration Campaign [link] · 21 hours ago; PB Reps Yemeni Billionaire Who Brought ...
O'Dwyer's Blog: Covering PR,...

12 Hour Workdays Are The New Normal And That's A Good Thing ...
Twelve hour work days are the new normal. But maybe they're not all that bad?
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../12-hour-work-day_n_1630540.h...

The new Normal | The Star Press | thestarpress.com
It has been 26 years since a group of musicians gathered at little club called the Normal City Cafe to serve up original acoustic tunes.
www.thestarpress.com/article/20120628/.../The-new-Normal

Plug and Play Parenthood » A New Normal
Last weekend was busy. Thursday night, we packed up Baby Boy after calling an audible and decided to take him on a trip with us. We traveled a few hours to ...
plugandplayparenthood.com/2012/a-new-normal/

Thoughts on A New Normal : Wildlife Promise
I attended the Aspen Environmental Forum this past weekend, bringing together a mixture of scientists, policy makers and business leaders who all care deeply ...
blog.nwf.org/2012/06/thoughts-on-a-new-normal/

BLINDED PARKER ADJUSTING TO LIFE'S NEW NORMAL
Dan Parker admits he's gained a good measure of gratification by beating the odds. Parker, on ...
www.competitionplus.com/.../21571-blinded-parker-adjusting...

States Overcome the 'New Normal' | Free Enterprise
“The 2012 Enterprising States study shows that states fostering a strong business environment and embracing innovation are bucking national economic ...
www.freeenterprise.com/.../states-overcome-new-normal

Where Are My Keys?: The "new normal" continues this week..
Weekly IUC stays mostly unchanged, dropping 6000. The four-week average dropped slightly to 386750:
wherearemykeys.typepad.com/.../the-new-normal-continues-th...

The New Normal Have Arrived: Freddy Vaca | Latino Leaders ...
Satisfaction and success have always been relative terms — the white picket fence, the 2.5 children and the 9 to 5 job have become relics of a not-so-long ago ...
latinoleaders.com/.../the-new-normal-have-arrived-freddy-vac...

Friday, June 29, 2012

Welcome the new normal in AIDS care

Welcome the new 'normal' in AIDS care
The News Journal
It's been more than three decades since the “AIDS scare” captured the nation's psyche, seizing most Americans with a paralyzing fear of a supposedly deadly contagion.

The new Normal
Muncie Star Press
It has been 26 years since a group of musicians gathered at little club called the Normal City Cafe to serve up original acoustic tunes.

The New Rules Of Private Equity Success
Forbes
Having guided their portfolio companies through the cyclical upheaval, the PE industry has begun to recognize the need to adapt to the new normal. As we explained in our Global Private Equity Report 2012, the skills of managing a balance sheet and ...

Forecasts - Lebanon's 'new normal'
Executive
This subdued level of profitability for Lebanese banks could represent a 'new normal' in the near term. Management teams are prudently placing their expansion plans on hold in order to preserve balance-sheet quality in the face of slower economic ...

Executive

Innovation is the new normal
The Media Online
Convincing the client in an ever changing environment of the best possible means of getting the message across is getting tougher and clients are demanding innovation on every campaign, says Debbie Ihlenfeldt. And so they should. It is the only way one ...

The Media Online

Poll: West Coast best for great workplaces?
OCRegister
Poll: West Coast best for great workplaces? Did you you miss these recent stories on jobs and the economy: What's the best job at Disneyland? Poll: Is contract work the new normal? Poll: When was your last raise? Tweet · ATS WINDOW CLEANING. $85 for a ...

Prison Rape Prevention: How Much Should It Cost?
Reason Online (blog)
TV VIDEO:Cities Using Feds to Seek "Retribution" in Marijuana Battle… (6.18) ·REASON.TV VIDEO:The Feds Arrested Aaron Sandusky Because He Was Too Successful… (6.18) · REASON.TV VIDEO:Are Drone Strikes and Kill Lists The New Normal? Q&A w ...

Reason Online (blog)

Capitol Hill PTSD awareness event highlights struggles, triumphs
United States Army (press release)
She explained how the term "new normal" is used to describe the reality of living in wartime, and how the normalization of wartime often leads to feelings of inadequacy or inability to cope. "Nothing about ten years of war is normal," Kaufmann said ...

20th Century Fox Television Promotes Two in Development
Hollywood Reporter
... Raising Hope and ABC's freshman laugher Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23 as well as numerous upcoming half-hours including The Goodwin Games, How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), 1600 Penn and Ryan Murphy's The New Normal.

Hollywood Reporter

New IRF Spring 2012 Pulse Survey Shows Recovery, Stability of Incentive Industry
MarketWatch (press release)
Procurement/Purchasing 'gatekeepers' are the new normal. In recent years, many companies have implemented policies where all incentive program costs have to be reviewed and approved by the Procurement/Purchasing department. When asked whether ...

Body Image is Important
witf.org
Most of the time, I see obese people who view themselves as the new normal, fitting in nicely with their overeating family members and friends. They view average size people ( or what used to be average) as thin. They feel sorry for those who restrict ...

What's in a Name?
Minyanville.com
That 7% return though – I'm not sure it's possible in this era of the New Normal, where negative real rates on Treasuries and its incumbent financial repression dominate bond and asset markets alike. Aside from the 7% return expectation, however ...

32000 evacuated in Colorado Spring fires: welcome to the new normal
By Watching the Deniers
32000 evacuated in Colorado Spring fires: welcome to the new normal. Homes burn (source: Denver Post). Across the US temperature and precipitation records are being smashed. Some of the reports coming out of the US are staggering.
Watching the Deniers

New NBC Show Claims Gay Parents Are 'The New Normal' | Yes ...
By NewsBusters
From the twisted imagination that spawned the pro-gay high school show “Glee” comes another new sitcom that is poised to take the gay agenda even further. Aptly-named “The New Normal,” the show depicts a gay couple's quest to have a ...
Yes, But, However!

Capitol Hill PTSD awareness event highlights struggles, triumphs ...
By VCS
She explained how the term “new normal” is used to describe the reality of living in wartime, and how the normalization of wartime often leads to feelings of inadequacy or inability to cope. “Nothing about ten years of war is normal,” Kaufmann ...
Veterans for Common Sense

Redesigning our lives for the new economy | SunThisweek
By Tad Johnson
As the Apple Valley session proved, Redesigning MN is about so much more than government agencies adapting to the New Normal. It pertains to private businesses, nonprofits, families and, yes, each and every one of us. As a participant in ...
SunThisweek

Endings, Beginnings, and Transience — Sweeney Says...
By Nicole
Unstable has become the new normal in my life. Or maybe that's not so new. How about “seriously unstable” has become the new normal? I finally got into my new apartment yesterday, after being without one for almost a month, bouncing ...
Sweeney Says...

Side Hustles of the Real Housewives of Atlanta | Madame Noire ...
By MN Editor
She has landed a recurring role on “Glee” as well as a spot on the new sitcom, “The New Normal.” Leakes was also shown mixing business with pleasure in season four during meetings with “business partner” and pizza tycoon, John Kolaj, ...
Madame Noire | Black Women's...

So I realized watching your video that we take... — Dan W, Web App ...
“So I realized watching your video that we take this video thing as a new normal. In reality, I'm staring at a flat panel made from superheated sand that is connected via strips of ores and really heavily processed dinosaur remains to a thing that ...
Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer...

The Libertarian Mind: Behold The New Normal | Crooks and Liars
I don't even know how anyone can think like this, but it is a perfect example of the newly normalized 'only me, not thee' thinking of the Libertarian Right.
crooksandliars.com/karoli/libertarian-mind-behold-new-normal

OECD: High U.S. Unemployment Could be New Normal - CNS News
(CNSNews.com) – High unemployment in the U.S. may become the new normal, as a poor recovery and record long-term unemployment combine to ...
cnsnews.com/.../oecd-high-us-unemployment-could-be-new-n...

Aspen Conference Explores "The New Normal" - Planet Change ...
Environmental leaders gather in Aspen, Colorado to explore the new normal of warmer temperatures that are affecting almost everything.
change.nature.org/.../aspen-conference-explores-the-new-nor...

Brave & Harsh New Normal | Cato's Domain
The #1 most read rant on Cato's Domain, to be found in the Most Read Posts link in the headliner above, is “The New Normal”. This is a follow-on to that rant.
catosdomain.com/?p=7610
'IPCC made projections of sea-level rise based solely on the thermal expansion of the oceans. (As water warms, it expands.) That got them up to around a meter ...
www.climatedepot.com/.../The-new-normal-Grists-David-Clim...

A New Normal - Trusting His Promises - BB Bits
A New Normal - Trusting His Promises. Written by Reid on our flight from the US to Ghana: Leaving the United States on a flight to Ghana is not unusual. This is ...
beebebits.blogspot.com/.../new-normal-trusting-his-promises.h...

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Self-Absorbed Is the New Normal

Self-Absorbed Is the New Normal
Jezebel
Three years ago, Ron Mwangaguhunga wrote about the Rise of the Assholes (Bill Maher and Ann Coulter were mentioned.) Today, in a piece for The New ...

Why Are American Kids So Spoiled? : The New Yorker: "contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young people in the history of the world. It’s not just that they’ve been given unprecedented amounts of stuff—clothes, toys, cameras, skis, computers, televisions, cell phones, PlayStations, iPods. (The market for Burberry Baby and other forms of kiddie “couture” has reportedly been growing by ten per cent a year.) They’ve also been granted unprecedented authority. " 

Glum and glummer, reports show, is the new normal for the ...
Examiner.com
For anyone who took the time to read through the full Federal Reserve survey on the economic fortunes of Americans, 2007-2010, which presents a statistical ...

Sagg Main Spec House: $20M Asks Are The New Normal
Curbed Hamptons
In a land where $65 million homes just glide onto the market, one must take the Sagaponack marketplace with a grain of sea salt. And this spec house on...

TV's new normal
backofthebook.ca
The DVD also changed the TV viewing experience — a change that's becoming thenew normal in the Netflix era. The last time I attended the Festival, “The ...

backofthebook.ca

Summer's hot air
Irish Echo
Extremes, certainly if you pay close attention to the news, would appear to be the new normal. Against this uncomfortable backdrop, the future of the planet came ...

How to Optimize Working Capital throughout the Financial Supply ...
Business Finance Magazine
As economies around the world step back from the previous several years of monetary uncertainty and begin adjusting to a new normal, companies face a ...

Business Finance Magazine

New York Giants' Cruz is a hit at W&M football camp
The Virginian-Pilot
... injured-reserve list with such serendipity, through defections and injuries on the Giants' roster, that Cruz wants to prove those '11 stats are his new normal.

The Virginian-Pilot

US Recreational Boating Market
PR Newswire (press release)
Following this collapse, the remaining industry players are attempting to gauge the "new normal." This will include determining not only how far retail boating ...

New Symphony contract comes after decade of struggle, is 'model ...
St. Louis Beacon
Concessions or little-to-no salary increases are the new normal in all arenas, Kurnick said. In the symphony world, both musicians and management are ...

US IPO Pipeline Slows Due to Confidential Filings Under JOBs Act ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"We're working with a 'new normal' regarding the transparency of the pipeline." Sector Highlight: Investors Flock to Oil & Gas. The five effective Oil & Gas IPOs in ...

EM growth doubts hit currencies
Financial Times
As Sébastien Barbé, head of foreign exchange at Crédit Agricole, says: “People are looking at emerging markets and saying there is a new normal coming.

Tom Nelson: The new normal?: David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts ...
By Tom
The new normal?: David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts, evidently frustrated that sea levels are unlikely to rise much by 2100, now wants to talk about wild guesses for the year 2300. Rising sea levels: It's worse than you think | Grist. In its most ...
Tom Nelson

Postgame Shot Of Joe: The Rays' New Normal | Rays Index
By Joe Rays Fan
Joe is back with his post-game thoughts.... Well, at least the big guns in the bullpen are rested. Joe's reaching here for positives after the Rays.
Rays Index

Grazing Management in the New Normal | Cornell Small Farms ...
By rmw95@cornell.edu
By Troy Bishopp As a veteran grazier, I'm concerned about the phrases, “The 300 year flood, Peak Soil, Peal Oil, Climate Change and The New Normal”
Cornell Small Farms Program

mplications of the New Normal for Fundraising
By Reed
Entitled “The New Normal,” the presenting poll firm, Anderson Robbins Research, summarized the findings by stating “We care more about the rainbow than the pot of gold.” Making a lot of money ranked dead last in the most important ...
Nonprofit Studies We've Seen

Chandrasekaran is wrong!!! | Carl Prine
By Carl Prine
New normal and all that bull****. It won't hurt my feelings in the least and I'll correct the copy as soon as I can. And if continuing this experiment fizzles, I'll quit. *****. On Sept. 12, 2009, I wrote an email to a two-star acquaintance of mine bound ...
Carl Prine's Line of Departure

The Freedom Fighter's Journal: THE SECOND U.S. CIVIL WAR
By Ronbo
... “The Great Stagnation,” and a well-known billionaire, assuming the nation has already lost its battle to grow the financial numbers, refers to this situation as “the new normal,” that is, a new phase “normal” economy where more joblessness ...
The Freedom Fighter's Journal

The end of Fredrick W Taylor « Start Up Blog
By Steve Sammartino
Rapid change and fragmentation is the new normal. While we are half way through planning, someone else will arrive and do it different, cheaper, better and in a way we never quite expected. Both in terms of what they build and how they ...
Start Up Blog

StanChart: EM currency warning | beyondbrics
By Stefan Wagstyl
As Sebastien Barbe, head of emerging market research at Credit Agricole, says: “People are looking at emerging markets and saying there is a new normal coming. So markets are trying to price thenew normal.” For China, that could mean ...
beyondbrics

A Billion + Change: Envisioning the Future of Corporate Service ...
By chelseamurphy
In the months ahead, A Billion + Change will focus on its goal of inspiring 500 companies to join A Billion + Change to create a marketplace for skills-based volunteering, and to make SBV the new normal in every workplace. Will you join us?
Points of Light Blog

Rosenberg Opens Pandora's 'Global Economic Shock' Box ...
By SGT
He is back to his new normal of 'frugality' and bearishness on the possibilities of any solution for Europe but, most disconcertingly he advises Keene that “when you model fiscal uncertainty into any sort of economic scenario in the U.S., what it ...
SGTreport - The Corporate Propaganda...

Twitter / LegalRebels: The New Normal: Our Curiou
The New Normal: Our Curious Attitude Toward 'Selling'http://ow.ly/bAcDL (via @ PaulLippe). Reply; RetweetedRetweet; Delete; FavoritedFavorite. 10:15 AM - 14 ...
twitter.com/LegalRebels/status/213318654157266945

The New Normal Premiere Date!
The New Normal will premiere Tuesday September 11th at 9:30/8:30c! Save the date and make sure to tune in!!
www.thenewnormaltv.net/2012/.../the-new-normal-premiere-d...

Sternberg: Analyzing the “new normal”
We talk with Sternberg about markets, economic policy and the “new normal” market environment that has existed since the 2008 economic meltdown.
www.futuresmag.com/.../sternberg-analyzing-the-new-normal

The New Normal
I thought my experience of losing a parent was in a special subset because my mother died at age 61, when I was 27. With normal life expectancy in the 70s, my ...
www.theresponsibleone.com/the-new-normal/

New normal analysis
However, we are now in "the new normal" where new instruments have been created to allow traders/investors to speculate/invest on gold, for instance gold ...
newnormalanalysis.blogspot.com/

Accepting the “New Normal” - Rochester-Rochester Hills, MI Patch
The “New Normal” is a big change from where we were as a community, state, country and global environment 4 years ago.
rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/accepting-the-new-normal

Rapidly Rising Tuition: The New Normal? It Doesn't Have To Be ...
Rapidly Rising Tuition: The New Normal? It Doesn't Have To Be. by Emily Apple. Monday, June 18, 2012. Between 2008 and 2010 average tuition at four-year ...
www.rooseveltcampusnetwork.org/.../rapidly-rising-tuition-ne...

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Is economic despair the new normal?

Sir Mervyn King is pessimistic. Is economic despair the new normal?
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
An increasingly “pessimistic” outlook and an economic picture that has worsened strikingly even in the last few weeks. Fears about the Asian econom.

Telegraph.co.uk (blog)

Living with chronic illness requires a 'new normal'
The Southern
Montel Williams, a 55-year-old veteran broadcaster of 3000 television shows, lives with the chronic illness of multiple sclerosis. Jack Osborne, 26, was just ...

New normal requires new thinking
ITWeb
This is the “new normal” – the transformation in IT and business that is being driven by the confluence of key trends, technologies and a rising set of expectations ...

Diners adjust to 'new normal' economics
Nation's Restaurant News
Senior food editor Bret Thorn on consumers' seeming willingness to splurge in a slow-recovering economy.

Top Ten Issues Affecting Direction of Maryland's Construction Industry
Citybizlist Real Estate
Many firms have adjusted to the "new normal" by re-tooling their workforce, diversifying and broadening specialty areas and lowering the price threshold of the ...

Rising new home sales point to a strengthening housing market
Los Angeles Times
Existing-home prices rise but sales fall · Building permits at 4-year high, single-family housing starts up · Housing experts offer ideas on the new normal in wake...

Los Angeles Times

Prosecutors allege landlord put tenants' lives at risk
Los Angeles Times
... property schemes · Housing experts offer ideas on the new normal in wake of downturn · Ex-L.A. housing authority official brought to U.S. to face charges ...

Cooperation Along the Colorado River
National Geographic
That may be the new normal we have to prepare for,” said Overpeck, echoing the theme of this year's Aspen Environment Forum, “Living in the new normal.” ...

National Geographic

EDITORIAL: Pension suit shows unions out of touch
The Westerly Sun
There is the reality that in the new economy — in the new normal — there simply isn't ... Trouble is, no one can seem to figure out how to reverse the new normal ...

“Eat With Joy” Says Barton Seaver in Aspen
National Geographic
Learn How to “Live in the New Normal” at This Month's Aspen Forum · A veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) at the Rolling Hills Zoo for Joel Sartore's ...

National Geographic

Merrick Library Reader's Advisory Blog: More New Audiobooks...
By Diane
As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues. Heartbroken, by Lisa Unger Heartbroken is a tense, mesmerizing novel about the limits of dysfunctional families, of an island haunted by dark memories and restless ghosts, ...
Merrick Library Reader's Advisory Blog

New This Week | Friday Reads
By BrittneyBosher
As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues. What happens when happily ever after…isn't? Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular.
Friday Reads

Tom Nelson: Whatever just happened was caused by CO2 and is ...
By Tom
Whatever just happened was caused by CO2 and is now "the new normal", am I correct?: "New paper finds storm damage in the Netherlands is the lowest in 101 years". THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds storm damage in the ...
Tom Nelson

Goodbye to Mountain Forests? - NYTimes.com
By By HILLARY ROSNER
A decade later, a national policy of forest fire suppression formalized this new normal. Over the next century, forest density went from 80 trees per acre to more than 1000. Then in 1996, the climate emerged from a wet cycle into a dry one ...
Green

Sheriff's deputies to patrol 18 hours per day | Local & Regional - KVAL
The new normal for sheriff's patrols in the county will be a minimum 2 deputies per shift plus a supervisor, leaving deputies like Ware with less back up. "You always think about that stuff," he said, "and your family always thinks about that stuff." ...
KVAL 13 - Local & Regional News...

7 Reasons Americans Are So Complacent About Our Country's ...
By John Hawkins
Trillion dollar deficits are the new normal. The Fed is buying 61% of our own debt. Barack Obama's 10 year budget will leave Americans with “more debt than has been accumulated by all previous Presidents in American history combined.
Right Wing News

Dr. Ed's Blog: S&P 500 Forward Earnings
By Dr. Ed Yardeni
(4) Demography driving the new normal in China. (5) Mr. Li's favorite indicators. (6) No train wrecks or meltdowns in China. (7) Analysts expecting weakest S&P 500 earnings growth since the recession. (8) Forward earnings still bullish.
Dr. Ed's Blog

The 21st Century Supply Chain » Blog Archive » Dynamic supply ...
By Miles Trevor
3: The 'new normal' operating environment 4: Innovation in all its forms 5: Influential women driving global supply chains 6: Alignment 7: New business models and organization designs for enterprise supply chains 8: Leaders' Forum – CEO ...
The 21st Century Supply Chain

Womanist Musings: This Shouldn't Be Normal.
By Renee
I don't have the answers, I don't think there are easy ones – or just one answer at that. But we need a new normal. We need a new definition of normality that includes us rather than our abuse. Posted by Renee at Tuesday, June 26, 2012 ...
Womanist Musings
The boy, the Greek fire and me.: A new normal.
A new normal. It has come to me this week that whilst life becomes different whilst dealing with topical steroid withdrawal, in a way you adapt to a new kind of ...
theboythegreekfireandme.blogspot.com/.../new-normal.html

A New Normal record by Justin Wright — Kickstarter
Justin Wright is raising funds for A New Normal record on Kickstarter! I hope that you can experience life more fully after listening to this music.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/.../a-new-normal-record

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Government in the New Normal

The New Normal - Public Service for the Future - Accenture: " . . . Governing in the new normal demands that agencies rethink, reinvent and reinvigorate. This means continually and proactively challenging the status quo in everything they do—from administration and operations to collections and service delivery:  Cost reduction. How do governments prioritize cost-cutting initiatives while meeting service expectations? Revenue growth. What are the latest opportunities to improve revenue collection and optimize spending? Service delivery. What private sector service practices can governments tailor to exceed stakeholder expectations? . . " 

What's the new normal for housing?
Omaha World-Herald
What's the new normal for housing? THE LOS ANGELES TIMES. Share. DENVER — What's considered normal in light of the housing downturn? Home price ...

The new normal: Signs things may be getting overheated in the Bay ...
San Francisco Business Times
We at the Business Times have noticed and will be pointing out signs of perhaps overheated enthusiasm in the economy in occasional "new normal" blog posts.

New normal quite good at Y&R
MarkLives.com
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Just over a year ago Y&R, let's be honest, looked like a mess, at least from the outside. No they won't say it, but after the exit of ...

MarkLives.com

Va. Beach woman helped others deal with cancer
The Virginian-Pilot
She too had been diagnosed with this scary form of cancer, one of the deadliest of the bunch, but had developed over time what she called "a new normal." ...

The Virginian-Pilot

Experts Talk Unique Benefits of the Patients' Access to Treatments ...
Newswise (press release)
If the Patients' Access to Treatments Act of 2012 passes, lower copays for patients could be thenew normal. The bill limits expensive cost-sharing requirements ...

Guest Post: 4 Ways to Help Loved Ones Cope With Your Illness ...
By Peter Waite
You start living your "new normal". You acknowledge your illness and start dealing with it head on. Unfortunately you may be the only one on this train. Ideally we would like all those important to us to help us through what is happening. This is ...
HealingWell Blog

NEC Advantage Brought Clouds to Florida | TalkingPointz
By Dave Michels
NEC invited me to speak at a general session on the New Normal. I opted to define the old normal as circa Y2K – and presented how much things changed in 12 years. it's amazing – and the scarey thing is that the rate of change is getting ...
TalkingPointz

Debut Mondays: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
By Jennifer
... hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.
Southlake Public Library Blog

Quiet acceptance as FASTRACK returns to 7th Ave. :: Second Ave ...
By Benjamin Kabak
FASTRACK is the new normal, and it's not going away any time soon. That said, we've reached this point because of a lack of political and economic support from Albany and a clear sense of construction oversight from the MTA. After an initial ...
Second Ave. Sagas

The Banality of Evil: What Americans now seem to accept | After the ...
By David E. Nye
These practices have become the new normal. In 2012 Americans seem to accept as ordinary practices, in certain circumstances, murder, imprisonment without trial, denial of medical care, loss of educational opportunity, the increasing rigidity ...
After the American Century

Fuel Fix » Oil patch health providers in ND trying new ideas
By Associated Press
... to meet, they'll begin talking more about proposals to bring to the Legislature in areas the state may be able to help, Kelly said. In the meantime, they're looking for new and creative ways to meet what they consider the “new normal,” he said.
Fuel Fix

Inside the Law School Scam: No help wanted
By noreply@blogger.com (LawProf)
"The state of the current market…is the new normal," said Arturo Thompson, dean of career services at the University of Kansas School of Law. But in parts of the rural Midwest, communities are itching for lawyers. "The job market is good for ...
Inside the Law School Scam

The Surge Continues | The New Normal Project
Home » New Normal Project » The Surge Continues. Posted by Web Team in New NormalProject, Summer Surge on June 25, 2012 | No Comments » ...
www.thenewnormalproject.com/2012/06/the-surge-continues/

Why 'Chicago-Style Politics' is America's New Normal - In These Times
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich holds a news conference outside his Chicago home on March 14, 2012, the day before he reported to federal prison.
www.inthesetimes.com/.../why_chicago_style_politics_is_amer...

What is the new normal for unified storage? | TechRepublic
Unified storage is one of the most versatile platforms for IT environments today. In this post, Rickatron discusses what features need to be in unifie.
www.techrepublic.com/blog/networking/what-is.../5671

Getting Used To The New Normal - Hot Corner - Baseball Nation
Getting Used To The New Normal. by Jason Brannon • Jun 25, 2012 9:00 AM EDT. Three players whose solid performances may have escaped your attention ...
mlb.sbnation.com/2012/6/25/.../getting-used-to-the-new-norm...

Monday, June 25, 2012

New Normal: Implications of Sovereign Debt and the Competition for Capital (slides)

The new 'Normal': Implications of sovereign debt and the competition for capital
The new 'Normal': Implications of sovereign debt and the competitio...
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Hasenstab's new normal: You must take risks just to preserve wealth
InvestmentNews
Too much focus on the European debt crisis, and a potential economic slowdown in China, could lead to missed investment opportunities elsewhere, ones that ...

Aspen Environment Forum: Living in the new abnormal
Aspen Times
The annual conference, presented by the Aspen Institute and National Geographic, is titled “Living in the New Normal” this year. The opening discussion carried ...

'Real Housewives' NeNe Leakes Warns About Trusting People
Gather.com
... Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes is busy filming all types of new shows, including her reoccurring role on Glee and her new sitcom, The New Normal.

Bears tipped to snore through a decade
Sydney Morning Herald
In other words, there is no bubble in bonds but simply the ''New Normal'', according to the world's largest bond manager, Pimco. It is an easy task to construct a ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Aspen Environmental Forum 2012: EO Wilson, Stewart Brand ...
PolicyMic
This year's theme, Living in the New Normal, reflects the recognition that certain global environmental changes are now all but inevitable, and the conversation ...

PolicyMic

Kati Nescher in "The New Normal" - Image Amplified
By TROY WISE
Ma: Vogue Mo: Kati Nescher St: Grace Coddington Ph: David Sims.
Image Amplified. The Flash and...

Tom Nelson: Warmist William Chameides sees CO2-induced "bad ...
By Tom
The annual conference, presented by the Aspen Institute and National Geographic, is titled “Living in the New Normal” this year. The opening discussion carried the same name, but it soon became evident that there is no new normal.
Tom Nelson

Sunday Open Thread: The Little House - Seattle Transit Blog
By Bruce Nourish
Is the widespread abandonment of walkable urban life a historical aberration, or is it the new normal(at least until we are forced by external constraints to abandon it)? What will be the strange zeitgeist artefact, the Little House, of 2072?
Seattle Transit Blog

Gretchen Rossi, Tamra Barney Inspire Housewives Endeavors Post ...
By lalate
And finally, NeNe Leaks is dominating Hollywood news for her ensemble role on the “New Normal”, coming to NBC this fall. The show from Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler (Glee, Chuck, No Ordinary Family) also stars Ellin Barkin, Andrew Rannells ...
lalate news - America's Fastest...

Praying For Henry: My New Normal
My New Normal. I met with some friends over the weekend, from high school. We are planning our 30th high school reunion. What is it about 30 yrs that seems ...
praying4henry.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-new-normal.html

Steve Cerocke: Innovation takes many forms in the 'new normal'
Reno Gazette Journal
Are you prepared for the new normal? Even with an expanding economy, improved job growth and business recovery, things are not like they were a few years ...

Housing experts offer ideas on the new normal in wake of downturn
Sacramento Bee
What's considered normal in light of the housing downturn? Home price appreciation of 3 percent to 5 percent, 1.6 million household formations a year, and a 65 ...

Learn about climate, energy, and "the new normal" this weekend
Boing Boing
Learn about climate, energy, and "the new normal" this weekend. By Maggie Koerth-Baker at 8:10 am Saturday, Jun 23. I'm at the Aspen Environmental Forums, ...

Fall TV Pilot Preview: NBC's 'The New Normal'
Hollywood Reporter
NBC is looking for a Modern Family of its own with The New Normal, a half-hour comedy from Glee co-creator Ryan Muphy and Glee scribe Ali Adler that ...

Residents Still Recovering From Irene Get Used To 'New Normal'
Vermont Public Radio
Many repairs made immediately after Tropical Storm Irene were temporary fixes, to get roads and bridges ready for winter. Now, as longer term plans emerge, ...

Vermont Public Radio

Climate shifts may spur big rise in wildfires
Payson Roundup
This year's frightening fire season in Rim Country may become the new normal, according to several recent attempts to predict how the ongoing warming trend ...

Shaken by Sandusky Scandal, a Changed Penn State Is Moving On
New York Times
What has emerged in the post-Paterno Penn State is a new normal, as the university will continue to be scrutinized even after Sandusky was found guilty Friday ...

'EW' Says Celebs Have Easier Time Coming Out These Days
LAist
The EW story goes on to note that the new normal for coming out appears to be just what Parsons did: a simple statement of fact, implying (correctly) that being ...

LAist

Green Space: Planting choices for the future: Sippers vs. gulpers
Canton Repository
Anyway, if this year's growing season is a hint of the “new normal,” water consumption will be a big consideration when we choose plants. Some require gallons ...

Lodge to serve wounded warriors and their spouses
TheNewsTribune.com
... in the post-9/11 era who have had to adapt to the new normal of repeat combat ... the post-9/11 era who have had to adapt to the new normal of repeat combat ...

New Lawyers, Seeking Jobs, Are Advised to Think Small
Wall Street Journal
"The state of the current market…is the new normal," said Arturo Thompson, dean of career services at the University of Kansas School of Law. But in parts of the ...

Wall Street Journal

GM adds third shift at Texas plant, 800 jobs
CNNMoney
"That kind of restructuring was entirely necessary in the crisis -- they were looking realign the cost structure and adjust to a new normal going forward," said ...

Stocks bounce back; big banks creep higher
Los Angeles Times
Housing experts offer ideas on the new normal in wake of downturnWal-Mart to open Neighborhood Market grocery store in Altadena. Associated Press ...

'Through the Blue'
Ludington Daily News
They thought they were experiencing a “new normal” that comes along with parenthood, but they were wrong. There was something bigger working behind it all.

Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson: New 'Breaking Dawn' Stills!
Just Jared
'Smash' Enlists Oscar Winner Jennifer Hudson for Season 2; Fall TV Pilot Preview: NBC's 'The New Normal'. PopSugar. Tim Burton Talks Abe Lincoln, Loving ...

Just Jared

Toronto's Africentric high-school program finds a home | The New ...
By Monika Warzecha
The New Normal · Comments. Toronto's Africentric high-school program finds a home. The Toronto District School Board has opened enrollment for the city's first Africentric high-school program, which will kick off this fall at Scarborough's ...
torontolife.com

Sorry, Cryokids, This is The New Normal. “Get Over It.”
By Chelsea
Surrogacy and egg and sperm donation are certainly the new normal in Hollywood and they're quickly becoming much more mainstream throughout the West. Maybe that's why the children of anonymous sperm donors who speak out about ...
Reflections of a Paralytic

The Age of Miracles (Book Acquired, 6.08.2012) | biblioklept
By Biblioklept
As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues. Walker's book has been compared to The Lovely Bones by the publishers (Kakutani compares it favorably as well in her gushy review) as well as Margaret Atwood. I dunno.
biblioklept

Preliminary report shows positive trends for the Episcopal Church
Gifts and assessments to dioceses by congregations suggest an increase of .04% in 2011. “The last three years should not be considered the 'new normal',” Hadaway states. “This is not to minimize the declines in membership and attendance ...
Episcopal News Service

Sandusky guilty: Restoring faith in the system | ChicagoNow
By Jimmy Greenfield
However, the one thing that I'm hoping comes out of this is that this verdict is the new normal. O.J. was a fluke. If you are a victim, hopefully this gives you the strength to come forward. If you are a witness to a crime, hopefully this gives you the ...
ChicagoNow Recent Posts

The Italians Need to Grow Younger | weareallmukmuks.com
By MrMukMuk
Somehow, in six short years this has become the new normal for the Italians, an older, more homogenous squad than the younger or more diverse teams from Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands that have risen to the top of the sport.
weareallmukmuks.com

LAFF 2012 Review: 'Gayby' Delivers Heart and Hilarity Through a ...
By Allison Loring
Televisions shows like Modern Family and next season's The New Normal have embraced this idea and show audiences on a weekly basis that no matter who makes up a family, at the end of the day, love is love. Gayby tells the story of a ...
Film School Rejects

Two Views of Europe — The Monkey Cage
By Henry Farrell
With both breakup and immediate solutions off the table, then, the eurozone is settling into a new normal. As the union slowly digs itself out of the economic pit, it is important to recognize that its system of economic governance has already ...
The Monkey Cage

Punching above our weight - Peace, order and good government, eh?
By pogge
I noticed a comment from a journalist on Twitter yesterday evening who noted that he'd filed a request with DFAIT for three days worth of records and been informed that it would take 420 days to comply with his request. This is the new normal.
Peace, order and good government, eh?

New Normal - Google News

nothinnormal.com