Monday, July 16, 2012

New Normal: In the dumps with the American Dream

In the dumps with the American Dream
Boston Globe
Anderson Robbins calls it the “New Normal”: a dramatic resetting of our sense of what, exactly, is the American Dream. The national survey, conducted this spring and commissioned by local communications firm Solomon & McCown, asked what respondents ...

Boston Globe

Temps are rising
New York Post
Call it the new normal for the US jobs market. It used to be that a boost in temporary hiring was considered a good omen for the overall employment outlook — an indication that companies were getting ready to lock in workers to meet rising demand. But ...

Summer mantra: Water, rest, shade
Yuma Sun
But then, there's a new normal as the nights are staying warmer than they did years ago before the city became more urbanized, he noted. Green observed that out of the past 100-some years of weather records, Yuma is experiencing its 26th hottest summer ...

10 Glee Spoilers From Comic-Con: Goodbye Rory! Hello Sue's Baby! And Can ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
That includes Roz Washington, who will be back despite NeNe Leakes' series regular role on NBC's freshman comedy The New Normal. "They've got their eye on Figgins," Brennan said. "It finally occurred to someone, 'My God, this guy is totally inept and a ...

Comic-Con 2012: 'Glee': Damian McGinty Not Returning, Sue Gives Birth and 13 ...
Hollywood Reporter
The series regular on Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy's NBC comedy The New Normal will still be in the mix as swim coach Roz Washington and tormenting Sue. Brennan noted that the two have their eye on Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba). "It finally occurred ...

Love in the end times « Transition Times
By Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
As many people have been saying lately, this is the new normal. Just as we've gotten used to a political climate in which it's normal for a Presidential candidate to hide his tax returns, refuse to comment on moving his millions into off-shore tax ...
Transition Times

TOC News » Handling the Defence of Singapore in the 21st Century
By Cheong Yaoming
It is naive to think that "in this age of moderation" a "new normal" has emerged characterised by all manner of warm and fuzzy sounding buzz words. Rajiv Chaudhry and, to a lesser extent, Bryan Cheang seem to think that everyone else is ...
TOC News

How Will Mountain Climbers Adapt to Climate Change?
By Matthew E. Kahn
How can free markets help mountain climbers to cope with this "new normal"? It would be a horrible shame if more mountain climbers die because they are not bayesian updaters who recognize that the objective probability of death on a climb ...
Environmental and Urban Economics

Michael Gerson | Obama in Denial | Conservatives4Palin
By Doug Brady
And the lowering of expectations seems more like the acceptance of permanent decline — a new normal less ambitious and optimistic than the old. More. Comment Policy: The Editors reserve the right to delete any comments which in their ...
Conservatives4Palin

Politicians Have To Stop Doing What They Have Done Since WWII ...
By SGT
The heuristic bias to accept the spending status quo, as for most young-to-middle-aged people 'it has always been this way' – just like rising home prices (whose 'new normal recovery' Bloomberg's Joe Brusuelas admirably destroys with a ...
SGTreport - The Corporate Propaganda...

AstroSwanny's: Citizen Science - Astronomy 3.0
By Astroswanny
... Laneway" session in a Melbourne Cafe. So Citizen Science, Astronomy 3.0, the new normal, and OSIRIS-REx and Cosmoquest were all covered before the camera filled its memory and conked out. Enjoy! Posted by Astroswanny at 3:48 PM ...
AstroSwanny's

'The New Normal' and '1600 Penn' Get CDs
NBC's upcoming sitcoms "The New Normal" and "1600 Penn" lock down casting directors Susie Farris and Debra Zane.
www.backstage.com/.../the-new-normal-and-1600-penn-get-c...

It's Politics: New normal is unacceptable - Pasadena Star-News
In 1986, late R&B singer Gwen Guthrie scored a Billboard hit with her ode to women s independence: "Ain t Nothin Going On But The Rent."
www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_21023560

Rent not buy - the “new normal” for the housing market - Economics ...
By Rachel Lund, PwC Economist Like much of the rest of the economy, growth in house prices has stalled. The two leading indices of house prices (the ...
pwc.blogs.com/.../rent-not-buy-the-new-normal-for-the-housi...

Teen Wolf: Making Gay the New Normal | World Of Wonder
This video to drum up votes for Teen Wolf at the Teen Choice Awards is absolutely ...
worldofwonder.net/.../teen-wolf-making-gay-the-new-normal/

Is This the New Normal?
Huffington Post
It isn't the incremental changes in temperature associated with global warming that will necessarily have the biggest immediate effects; rather, it's that statistical inevitability -- the even bigger extreme events -- that will cause massive die-offs.

Drew Brees can save Saints again
ESPN (blog)
Yes, there's going to be some sense of “the new normal'' in a season in which coach Sean Payton and linebacker Jonathan Vilma are suspended for the year, interim head coach Joe Vitt must hand off his temporary title for the first six games and general ...

ESPN (blog)

Evertz Technologies Limited Announces TSX Approval of New Normal Course ...
Melodika.net (press release)
arrow Other arrow Evertz Technologies Limited Announces TSX Approval of New Normal Course Issuer Bid. Friday, 13 July 2012. Home of Music · Contacts · Search. Styles. Pop, Disco, Rap... Folk, Country... Jazz, African... Rock, Metal, Punk... Electronic ...

Connecting with Minnesota Compass data: a key to effective advocacy
Twin Cities Planet
Tigan was the main presenter at the most recent New Normal 2012: Get Connected! community meeting, held at the Wilder Foundation on June 27. Tigan explained that Minnesota Compass measures progress in Minnesota, its seven regions, 87 counties,...

Twin Cities Planet

The Northwest Ordinance
Marietta Times
The Northwest Ordinance was an attempt to establish a "new normal" going forward as the fledgling United States of America began to expand westward, Zimmer told an audience of more than 70 people Friday during a celebration of the ordinance's 225th ...

'Celebrate Recovery'
Times-Standard
The divorce rate is high, blended families deal with a “new normal,” addictions in many forms are on the rise and overeating, undereating, depression, stress, anger and compulsiveness are widespread issues. Celebrate Recovery starts with dinner at 6 p ...

Why are we shocked that Penn State officials turned their backs to child sex ...
Bangor Daily News
But each event chipped away at what was the normal of our time and set us on the course to ournew normal. Those things exist now but on a much smaller scale and they certainly are far less tolerated. “The Greatest Generation” wasn't that just for its ...

India's huge talent pool gives us a headstart
mydigitalfc.com
There is a sense that given the short time gap between recession like conditions across the world and the upheavals in the US and Europe, this is the new normal that firms will have to adjust to. How do you see Indian IT coping with this chaos? There ...

Cruise industry still in troubled waters six months after Costa Concordia
Palm Beach Post
“My gut is that we won't see the new normal until we get past the year's anniversary,” said Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor-in-chief of the website CruiseCritic.com. Recently, she posted a question on the site's Facebook page asking if travelers were ...

Lost it ?
mydigitalfc.com
This is the “new normal”, he says. IT companies have to get used to what he calls the dynamic situation. T K Kurian, CEO of Wipro (which is yet to come out with its quarterly results) said in a recent interview to this paper that “fierce competition is ...

Our goal is simple. We want to be No.1
mydigitalfc.com
The foundation for “a new normal” is built on a new generation of highly distributed and virtualised business models; cloud and mobile technologies; and born-digital workers and consumers, the so-called millennials. In this virtualised, globalised ...

'Community' Comic-Con Panel: New Showrunners And Cast Make Commitment ...
Huffington Post
The New Normal. Ellen Barkin as Jane, Andrew Rannells as Bryan, Georgia King as Goldie, Bebe Wood as Shania, Justin Bartha as David. The New Normal. Bebe Wood as Shania; Andrew Rannells as Bryan; Justin Bartha as David; Georgia King as Goldie ...

The new normal (part 6) -
By Watching the Deniers
ALMOST a quarter of a million people have been ordered to leave their homes in southwest Japan as heavy rain pounded the area for the third day, with 20 already dead, officials and reports say. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of ...
Watching the Deniers

Pagan Metaphysics: The New Normal
By Paul Reid-Bowen
Global warming driven extreme weather events are, it seems, becoming the new normal (although the speed of the changes may soon render any sense of the terms "normal" and "extreme" provisional at best). I was pawing through James ...
Pagan Metaphysics

The fetishization of the offline, and a new definition of real
By Rian
Every technology is a new normal. The point though is not to try and “fix” it by logging off or downgrading or abandoning technology altogether. The point is to be aware of it. To understand not only what technology makes possible, but also ...
Elezea

The Capital Spectator: Book Bits | 7.14.2012
By jp
Zolli, director of the global innovation network PopTech, and financial and technology journalist Healy ask: since “[v]olatility of all sorts has become the new normal,” is it even possible to isolate causal factors in an ever more complex world?
The Capital Spectator

coldantlerfarm: the bear on the trail
By Jenna
My life is now one where campfire stories are becoming another word for Tuesday - to which I mean adventures are the new normal. Today on my morning ride with Merlin we had quite the experience. It started out normal enough. We rode ...
coldantlerfarm

Finding a Place for Friendship - Dating Sites Reviews
True, things might not be exactly the same anymore as there's someone new occupying a large space in your life, but failing to make the effort to find a “new normal” could mean you drift away from your old friends. Now let's say you've found ...
Dating Sites Reviews

Some Parents Think Segregation Is Wrong. Me Too. « Diane ...
By dianerav
I thought it was humiliating. I'm always happy now to visit the south and see people and children of different races working together. I wish it had always been like that. I don't want us to accept segregation as a new normal. It should not be.
Diane Ravitch's blog

The "New Normal" FX Rip @ Forex Factory
The "New Normal" FX Rip - This is how a completely news-less FX move looks like under the new normal. Did we say no news? Yes. 80 pips move in minutes ...
www.forexfactory.com/news.php?do=news&id=373591

Cash deals are the new normal in real estate | HeraldTribune.com
Cash deals — where individuals or investor groups whip out a checkbook to buy a home — now account for an unprecedented two-thirds of all Southwest ...
www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120706/.../120709780

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