Google, Microsoft cloud crashes: Is this the new normal?

Google, Microsoft cloud crashes: Is this the new normal? GCN.com By Kevin McCaney Purveyors of cloud computing can promise users a lot of advantages, but one thing they can't brag about is uptime. In recent days, both Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365 suffered outages, adding to a string of incidents in which ...

Our new normal Trinidad & Tobago Express But instead we are discovering that we are caught in that "theatre of the absurd" in which almost every act is fudged into "a new normal"—so extraordinary that it is surreal. In this "new normal," the President, our Commander-in-Chief, aware that the ...

Editorial: The new 'normal' The State Press By Editorial Board September 11, 2011 at 8:42 pm Print This Post This is the most momentous anniversary of our time. A decade has past since our nation came under attack, but it will not be the last time we look toward this day with heavy hearts. ...

International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Conference Focuses ... MarketWatch (press release) 12, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Join hundreds of communications professionals in Detroit, October 9-11 for "Shifting Gears: Adapting to a New Normal," a professional development conference. You'll gain new tools and strategic insight in branding, ...

Emile Elementary heals together Austin News The atmosphere in the building was like a normal school day -- but the difference is, there is a new normal here. "It's been emotional," said second grade teacher Lindsay Kana. "Ups and downs, but I'm so proud of them and they're just so strong and so ...

Rediscovering the Soul of a Mighty City New York Times (blog) 12, 2001, New Yorkers had begun to shake off the initial shock of the terrorist attacks and to adapt to an altered reality — to the “new normal,” as another suddenly popular phrase had it. They awoke to an inescapable smell, the odor of burning ...

Violent market swings may be the new normal msnbc.com A trader watches a computer screen while working on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Markets have become more volatile, nail-bitingly so, for a number of reasons. By LOUISE STORY and GRAHAM BOWLEY The stock market just can't seem to ...

Gary Zuckett: Keep the promise of Social Security Charleston Gazette These reports are grim, but even more so for our elderly, one of the hardest hit groups by what enablers are calling the "new normal." Elderly Americans, most of whom have worked nearly all of their adult lives and invested Social Security payroll ...

Floods? Droughts? Wildfires? Hurricanes? Yes, there is a climate change connection Reuters UK (blog) But there is a “new normal,” detailed by scientists on a new website . Staffed and advised by some of the most well-known climate change experts in the United States and elsewhere, the site says plainly that what the computer models foretold in 2007 is...

Tories have a clear field and must capitalize when House returns Toronto Sun By L. Ian MacDonald ,QMI Agency The Conservative caucus in Ottawa is a reminder there's a new normal in town — majority government. That alone gives Stephen Harper a clear field for setting the agenda when the House returns on Sept. 19. ...

9/11 Lowcountry residents reflect on day of terror, life since attacks Charleston Post Courier We began talking about the "new normal." We took off our shoes to get to airport gates; we sent soldiers to Afghanistan, and then to Iraq. We went from a country united by a shocking moment to one deeply divided. New moments piled on top of the old; ...

Nordenberg urges Senate to reverse funding trend Pittsburgh Post Gazette "I don't think we should accept this year as the new normal," Mr. Nordenberg said. He was among the speakers at the second of four public hearings the Senate Appropriations Committee is holding on the state-related campuses of Pitt, Penn State, ...

Is a 'cyber 9/11′ inevitable? DoD Buzz 11 attacks, which prompted massive federal reorganization, two wars, trillions in new spending and a “new normal” of electronic eavesdropping, heightened security, and all the rest of it. So the question is, will the ongoing cyber-crisis continue as a ...

Fallout 9/11: Military recruitment ramped up after Sept. 11 attacks The Saginaw News - MLive.com BAY CITY -- The military position the United States has taken in the world since 9/11 has become a new normal for new generations joining the armed forces, too, a local military recruiting officer said. US Army Capt. Kyle Wheeler, who recruits ...

Lessons for Obama from the New Deal Salon It was the new normal. Initial reactions were varied and dramatic. Local governments rushed to pass punitive laws against tramping and vagrancy, mandating terms of six months to two years of hard labor in workhouses. Meanwhile, the orthodox thinking of...

Overload: Al Gore spearheads 24-hour global warming campaign Daily Caller Across the globe, cataclysmic weather events are occurring with such regularity that it is being called a 'new normal.' But there is nothing normal about it and there is something else that lies destroyed amid the rubble — the truth about climate ...

Book Review: Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh Blogcritics.org (blog) The narrator, Jasper, and his “tribe,” are underemployed kids with master's degrees struggling to survive in this “new normal.” The scenario sounds all too familiar. But in trying to depict the effects of these calamities, Soft Apocalypse strays into ...

Pacific Oaks College Opens Fall Semester with New Academic Leadership Team PR Newswire (press release) "When you think about what's happening today, everybody is connecting; it's the new normal to create relationships in the online format. For us it's about taking what made Pacific Oaks such a unique institution over the years and extending its model of ...

Who's Building the Do-It-Ourselves Economy? truthout As our economy goes through tectonic shifts, this sort of adaptation is becoming the new normal. Security for our families will increasingly depend on rebuilding our local and regional economies and on our own adaptability and skills at working ...

Are empty cargo containers at US ports stacked with meaning? The Virginian-Pilot "It just helped tell the story about this new normal that we're looking at of 10 percent unemployment," he said. "And the reason why we are is that we've shipped all the manufacturing jobs overseas." The ad's images - walls of empty, truck-size cargo ...

COUTURE: Events key to City Square's success Regina Leader-Post Even then, traffic will have to slow down when going through the area, but at least a new normal can start developing. Of course, with delays come increased costs. Originally forecast to be worth about $6 million, tenders for the project came in much ...

MetroWest remembers the 9/11 terror attacks MetroWest Daily News Despite the "new normal" of vigilance against future attacks, Varley said the post-9/11 atmosphere has created a "silver lining" of recognizing the "preciousness" of family members and loved ones amid the recognition of life's precariousness. ...

Met Council reports slowdown in land consumption MinnPost.com The Regional Council of Mayors has a new program that is helping members "navigate the new normal" in growth patterns, demographic trends, housing choices and commuting. "This is a major emphasis of the work we are doing — helping cities to be more ...

Match individual capability with organisational need HRmagazine.co.uk Shifting business models, increased regulation, M&As, joint ventures, divestitures, expansion - and contraction - are all the part of the 'new normal'. And today's business climate generously rewards operational scalability, elasticity and endurance ...

9/11: The Ultimate Triumph of the Strategy of Tension (II) Voltaire Network What the neo-conservative cabal, through their propaganda outlets like Fox News and The Washington Post, brought forth after their long-awaited “New Pearl Harbor,” was their reference to America's “new normal,” the de facto imposition of a ...

School shoppers flock to outlets Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ... back to normal,” says Michele Rothstein, senior vice president of marketing for the Premium Outlets division of Simon Property Group, which operates 57 outlet centers across the country. “However, it is a new normal – one that focuses more on value.”

Why Stocks are Volatile Wall Street Pit Some financial historians question whether the markets are in a “new normal” of permanently heightened volatility. “The last few years have been the most volatile for all of recorded history,” said Andrew Lo, professor of finance at the MIT Sloan ...

The Nuclear Industry's New Normal | Slog By Goldy One worker has been killed and four injured in an explosion this morning at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in France. The explosion occurred in... The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper

Different Is the New Normal — The Good Men Project By Ariel Small Different Is the New Normal tracks trials and triumphs of Ariel Small, a 17-year-old who has struggled with uncontrollable tics caused by Tourette's syndrome—and others' intolerance throughout his life. The film reveals an acutely personal ... The Good Men Project

The Reactionary Liberal: The New Normal | The Smoking Jacket By B.J. Fields The Reactionary Liberal: The New Normal. Posted 9/12/2011 at 10:00 am by B.J. Fields. wtc. This past weekend was a time most Americans have dreaded for a decade: The tenth anniversary of attacks on the World Trade Center in New York ... The Smoking Jacket

Blog : Mayo Clinic's Transform 2011 - Designing Solutions. Inspiring ... By donotreply@azul7.com (Lisa Helminiak) Design thinking and design practices are techniques that don't simply fix what's wrong, but they allow us to imagine what's next, how can we get to the new normal. The Definition of Health John started it off by asking all of us to think about how ... Azul 7 Blog Posts

Locavesting: Extreme Financial Markets are the New Climate Change By Amy Cortese As wild fires rage in Texas and the northeast recovers from epic flooding, extreme weather has become the norm. Now, it seems, we can add extreme markets to the new normal. Certainly some traders are profiting richly off the volatility, but for ... Locavesting

USAction » Blog Archive » WV op-ed: Keep the promise of Social ... By Ross Wallen These reports are grim, but even more so for our elderly, one of the hardest hit groups by what enablers are calling the “new normal.” Elderly Americans, most of whom have worked nearly all of their adult lives and invested Social Security ... USAction

Variable Pay Plans/Bonuses Popular Among Large U.S. Employers ... By Rachel Kaufman Abosch told Focus that these two factors are “the new normal,” though these strategies behoove managers to hold “performance discussions throughout the year, so employees know what they are doing well and areas for improvement in ... MediaJobsDaily

Floods? Droughts? Wildfires? Hurricanes? Yes, there is a climate ... By Reuters But there is a “new normal,” detailed by scientists on a new website . Staffed and advised by some of the most well-known climate change experts in the United States and elsewhere, the site says plainly that what the computer models foretold ... Ethiopian Review

Bogleheads :: View topic - Examples of media "noise." Bogleheads: Yesterday the New York Times carried this headline: "Market Swings Are Becoming New Standard" Today on CNBC.com is this headline (same article): "Violent market swings may be the new normal" ... bogleheads.org: Bogleheads

New Normal of Intrusion | Patrick Basham | Cato Institute: Commentary Author: Patrick Basham, Published: 2011-09-08, Type: Commentary. www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13646

The Washington Monthly - Ten Miles Square - The New Normal September 11, 2011 9:00 AM The New Normal. By Guest Author ... This is fast becoming “the new normal” in the country's legal landscape. The 2008 FISA ... www.washingtonmonthly.com/.../the_new_normal032124.ph...

Is overweight the new normal weight? - Healthy Living on Shine Getty Images By Julie Upton, RD A new report issued last week warned us that, if trends in the U.S. waistline continue as they are, 50% of our population would ... shine.yahoo.com/.../is-overweight-the-new-normal-weight-25...

msnbc.com business - Violent market swings may be the new normal The stock market just can't seem to make up its mind. business.newsvine.com/_.../7725833-violent-market-swings-m...

Battery Park City Residents Return To "New Normal" - NY1.com Battery Park City Residents Return To "New Normal" | With the approach of the 9/ 11 terror attacks' ten-year anniversary, Bobby Cuza examines the effects of the ... www.ny1.com/.../battery-park-city-residents-return-to--new-n...