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We at the U-T set out to rank the 2013 Chargers' top players, based on their contributions to the 16-game regular season and the two playoff games. With help from Kevin Acee and Michael Gehlken, Tom Krasovic arranged the "All-22" list. Continuing this week, we are counting down the list, several players at a time. For the complete list, go to the Chargers blog at utsandiego.com/sports/chargers-NFL.
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Keenan Allen Age: 21
Position: Wide receiver
What went right: Just about everything. For a Chargers team in desperate need at wide receiver, Allen had one of the better seasons ever had by an NFL rookie pass-catcher. You want comparisons, start with John Jefferson. When the Chargers plugged him into Air Coryell in 1978, he put up 1,001 yards receiving and that stood as the team's rookie record until Allen amassed 1,046. Drafted 14th overall, Jefferson was supposed to light it up. Allen was the 76th pick. Allen was just the fifth rookie since 2000 to crack 1,000 yards receiving. And to think, the coaches nailed him to the bench on Opening Night. He admitted to making several rookie mistakes in training camp and preseason games, but when Malcom Floyd left Game 2, his season over, Allen entered and promptly burned the Eagles' top cover man.
What went wrong: He lost his footing on a few in-breaking routes, leading to either interceptions (at Oakland, Chiefs) or key incompletions (Dolphins), and when he failed to wall off fellow rookie David Amerson (a friend dating to childhood), the Redskins cornerback swiped the pass.
Did you know? Allen enters the second year of a four-year, $2.81 million contract. His 2014 salary is $495,000.
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Ryan Mathews Age: 26
What went right: When his team needed a lift late in the season, Mathews answered with 103, 127, 99 and 144 yards rushing to help bring San Diego's first playoff berth since 2009. Teammates named him the offense's MVP. With Mathews churning for 473 yards and three touchdowns, the Chargers won their final four games. Mathews' 1,255 yards rushing in the season was the most by a Charger since LaDainian Tomlinson's 1,474 in 2007. It wasn't a breakout season, however. As an NFL sophomore in 2011, he topped 1,000 yards rushing while averaging 4.9 yards per carry. Also then, he caught 50 passes. But he was never so dependable as he was this season, his fourth since the Chargers selected him 12th overall. He played all 18 games. He had 285 rushes in the regular season. Not only was the total fourth-most in the NFL, it exceeded his career-high by 63 attempts. His catch rate was 90.3 percent, beating his 2010-12 marks of 84.6, 86.2 and 75.
What went wrong: A fumble near the goal line in the third preseason game may have spooked a new coaching staff that no doubt was aware of his 12 career fumbles from 2010-12. In Game 2, he fumbled and the Eagles recovered in the red zone. In Game 5, a Raiders linebacker concussed him.


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It was kind of disconcerting to hear Alec Baldwin and David Letterman this week discussing their love of old films, with Dave adding they start getting good only from after 1934. Say whaaa? Dude, Acidemic readers know the best cinematic times are the eras Letterman doesn't like, the post-silent/pre-code era of 1929-1934, before the code crushed womankind and made her wear ridiculous aprons and act in a fakely wholesome way the bourgeois woman's groups felt would be better for the 'masses.' Here's some 90 proof:
1931 - ***
Wallace Beery gets top billing in this protean MGM gangster drama set in gritty downtown Chicago (there's some chilling tracking shots of stockyards). Hard to believe Beery was once a huge box office draw, playing burly ruffians opposite Jackie Cooper or Marie Dressler, though, he had a certain gruff charm. Here he plays a ruffian stockyard worker nicknamed "Slaughterhouse" who leaves off hog killing to become a gangster (prohibition made it a sound career move), eventually running for mayor on the "pig-sticker" ticket, with the stockyards howling and mooing away behind his podium.
Andre Bazin would approve of this film since it operates on a loose semi-documentary style: lots of interiors packed with extras and activity and a sense of real time via long uninterrupted takes in medium frame. Everyone speaks slowly and carefully for the early sound equipment. If nothing else it makes for an invaluable record of Chicago in the actual prohibition era: press rooms, stockyards, nightclubs, bottling plants, breweries, money changing hands, receipt tallying, shakedowns, political rallies, checks being written, highjacking, and blackmail. Lewis Stone is his bitter Irish rival, Jean Harlow a 'hired to hook ya' nightclub hatchecker, and Clark Gable a two-timing no good rat finkwhyIoughtta....
1931 - ** 1/2
Thanks to the light touch of director Gregory La Cava this soggy farce is pretty light on its feet, even with excessive early sound hiss and TCM's print all but faded to light uniform grey. Mary Astor plays the martyrishly modern wife who comes home from a trip abroad--faithful to her husband Don (Robert Ames) all the while--only to find he's taken up with a blonde gold digger (Noel Francis) with a claw-hooked mother (Gladys Gale). Once again the gender neutral fuddy-duddy-isms of Edward Everett Horton attempt to liven the stiltedness. When Horton comes to pick Mary Astor up from the docks in a huge crowd scene there's a brief, horrifying minute when I thought he was the husband Astor's been boasting of to Sir Guy Harrington (John Halliday) during the voyage. Things get better when Don's gold digger hits it off with Sir Guy during a strangely sexy bicycle ride. Dewy, wild-eyed and seductive, she really wakes up the film in this scene, the exercise perhaps kicking in the bootleg backstage hooch, but the zzz's are never far behind, struggling to catch up like Edward Everett Horton on a girl's bike.
1932 - ***1/2
1931 - ***
A Warner Brothers Cagney film with lots of good-natured slapping, BLONDE CRAZY's got a little something for everyone... to be offended by... sooner or later, like seeing James Cagney--wearing lots of white make-up and eye shadow--getting taken for a sucker by Louis Calhern during a trip to the big city. Wait... what? Louis Calhern? Senior Trentino of Sylvania? Mrs. Teasdale, I'm afraid this has forced our countries into war!
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1932 - ***
Thanks to TCM we've had the chance to discover a lot of pre-code stars that fell by the wayside over the years. Perhaps it's because being in the shadows helped stave off the draining of endless imitation. Warren William is one such fella, here as droll and pleasingly devilish as a no-good embezzler can be in a loosely biographical portrait of Ivar Kreuger, the guy who cornered the market on matches in the 20s via counterfeit bonds and inventing the idea of 'three on a match' to help sell more boxes. There's plenty of vicarious thrills in watching the swift rise and sudden crashing fall of William's smooth talker and his literal house of matchsticks. Incidentally, David Letterman mentioned this movie in that discussion with Alec Baldwin this week, though Baldwin hadn't heard of it. Baldwin, you'd do well to absorb a little Warren in your already scintillating rogue repertoire! He's just your type. It's not after 1934, Dave, it's until.


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Full-body scanners use radio waves to generate a picture of the body that can see through a person's clothing.
The use of body scanners in airports would violate the rights of Religious Jewish women whose modesty would be compromised by the scan, the Rabbinical Center of Europe warned on Wednesday.
The statement by the center - an umbrella for Orthodox communities - was made after the operator of London's Heathrow airport announced that body scanners would be installed there in the near future.
Full-body scanners, unlike standard archway metal detectors used in airports around the world, use radio waves to generate a picture of the body that can see through a person's clothing and spot hidden weapons or packages.
"While appreciating the concern of passenger safety we would recommend that men are scanned by men, and women by women, akin to body frisk," the center's spokesperson, Asher Gold, said.
The Netherlands already uses some scanners, and announced last week that all its airports would use them, after the failed attack by a Nigerian suspect traveling on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit.
Holland's chief Orthodox rabbi, Binyomin Jacobs, told Haaretz that he had been assured that the image generated in the scanners is analyzed first by a computer software. "Human operators are involved only when the scanners indicate a risk," he said. "This is a reasonable and workable solution, in my mind."


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Krishna Bahirwani explores the TITIN Force weighted compression system aimed to make athletes and fitness enthusiasts lighter, faster and stronger.
Athletes and fitness enthusiasts are always looking for something that can make them lighter, faster and stronger, and they seem to have found that in the TITIN Force weighted compression system. The system adds weight to the body to leverage resistance training resulting the athletes and fitness enthusiasts reaching their goals.
"The dynamic loading of weights gives the equivalent feeling of a 35 pound vest," said Patrick Whaley, Founder and CEO of TITIN. "However, that weight is evenly distributed throughout the body, specifically focusing on hamstrings, glutes and thighs, and allows the user a full range of motion."
According to TITIN "The weighted gel inserts are worn under a top compression layer and help strengthen both muscles and tendons, enabling athletes to increase their calorie burn, lengthen their vertical leap and push their endurance and speed to the maximum level. The versatile gel inserts can be heated or frozen for post-workout temperature therapy and stay pliable at any temperature."
"TITIN is innovating in the training space at a level that few companies are at this point. In the marketplace for unique workout products to maximize an athlete's opportunity in their chosen field of play, TITIN stands alone." said CelebExperts President and CEO Evan Morgenstein
"Using TITIN's products definitely provides my workouts a competitive advantage against my competition," said Johnathan Cyprien, who plays for the American football team Jacksonville Jaguars and is TITIN's official brand ambassador. "The weighted compression gear results speak for itself."
"Being a swimmer, I am no stranger to repetitive movements and using a lot of muscles in the body. Our body isn't designed to move extremely quickly hence we need to train it to increase speed, endurance and caloric burn. Adding weight to the body, wrist and ankle in particular while training adds resistance. This resistance training adds strength to the body and results in stronger muscles hence faster and more efficient movement. This kind of movement helps a lot in the water finally." said Anshuka Parwani, National Gold Medallist & Celebrity Yoga Trainer
"The placement of our weights ensures that the joints and the muscles are working together," said Whaley. "Because the joints are load-free, muscle fiber is built faster, which means that you see an immediate effect on your body when you remove the weighted system."
"Although this compression gear is new, training with weight is nothing new for athletes. I remember training with ankle weights and 3 costumes and swimming in paper weight costumes at the final event. The advantage for athletes that use this is that they don't have to worry about alignment and unbalanced weight, also they also get everything in one without having to combine layers" Anshuka added
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Hey! I even know who he is! My dad was huge into astronomy. That is very cool :p015:
I never did like Star Wars but I did wait in line over an hour to meet Darth Vader when I was 8 :p
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Brilliant photos. Looks like a superb day!
looks like a great day chris, i wouldnt mind a visit there tbh as ive been into space since i was knee high to a grasshopper....great photos too, thx for sharing :D
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Coldwater Lake's fjord-like beauty can be appreciated from its shore, but gliding across the lake on a kayak leads to more stunning scenery.
To one side, the snow-capped summit of Mount St. Helens looms in the distance. The green cupolas of the Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center sit atop the ridge on the other shore, above a park-like expanse next to the shore.
Snow also decorates the top of jagged Minnie Peak, which towers 3,000 feet above the lake's upper end.
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Though Coldwater Lake has been open to the public since 1993, this is the first year people who don't have a watercraft of their own can behold the scenery.
In March, the Forest Service awarded permits to two companies to provide guided kayak trips on the 750-acre lake.
One of the companies, NorthWest EcoExcursions, is based in Longview, the hometown of co-owner Tracie Driver.
Driver's company started kayak trips in May, and she took family members out on a short trip on the lake last week.
She uses open-topped kayaks that are more water-worthy than they look -- and easier for beginners to use.
Customers "are pretty (eager) to get on the water," she said.
With the sit-on-top kayaks, she does not need to tell customers how to extract themselves if they were to roll over.
Driver does give a short, volcano-specific safety briefing.
"Earthquakes and eruptions and ash plumes are definitely something to consider here," she said.
In case of an eruption, kayakers will get back to the launch ASAP and drive away.
"There's a lot of wind that kicks up," she warned about the 3-mile-long Coldwater Lake. "Don't panic. The (kayak) bottoms are designed to hug the water."
After the safety spiel, the little fleet of bright orange and green kayaks glided across the lake, circling what's known as Hummock Island.
Purple lupine covered the top of the ash-gray island. An eagle swooped overhead; later, an osprey flew by with a trout in its talons.
The EcoExcursion trips on Coldwater Lake last about two hours; how far people paddle depends on their ages and levels of experience. Children as young as 3 can ride in two-person kayaks with an adult. Those 8 and older can paddle on their own.
Driver limits groups to 10 participants.
"We like to keep our groups small and informal because we provide a lot of education on the trips," she said. "If people want an adrenaline rush, we're not the people to call on. The environmental education part is more important to us."
Experience in education
Driver brings years of experience as an environmental teacher to the enterprise. Her savvy showed after the kayaks had returned to the dock. When someone spotted a snake swimming near the shore, Driver waded right in and grabbed the reptile, which hissed at the gathered onlookers.
She knows the outdoors, having worked as a ranger for Washington and Oregon state parks.
Driver has also worked as a wildlife rehabilitator, and spent six months in Mississippi cleaning up birds after the 2010 BP oil spill. Her career as a park ranger ended when she suffered a broken neck after a drunken driver hit her car (the accident did not sever her spinal cord), but she soon regained her energy and love for outdoor trips.
In 2008, she and Linda Osborne started NorthWest EcoExcursions in Depoe Bay, Ore. Last year, they moved the business to Longview to be closer to friends and family.
"I was very connected to the mountain," Driver said. "My family has always been. I'm pretty passionate about sharing it with visitors."
Driver said she and Osborne hope to move their home-based office to a storefront for better visibility.
In addition to Coldwater Lake paddles, NorthWest EcoExcursions offers kayak trips on Lake Merwin, the East Fork of the Lewis and on Coal Creek Slough, and hiking trips on the north and south sides of Mount St. Helens.
Patience to get permit
Driver is as passionate about expanding Mount St. Helens tourism through ventures like hers as she is about teaching clients about nature.
She said the future of volcano tourism is increasing the number of concessionaires like hers.
Already, her trips have generated media buzz. Driver has appeared on Portland television and has gotten calls from journalists in other countries, she said.
Even so, she said, getting a permit from the Forest Service was like paddling upstream against a formidable current.
After Driver was initially denied a permit, Cowlitz County Commissioner Jim Misner became involved. Misner said getting the permit required "a little bit of pestering on my side. Tracie is ambitious and she's smart. She's not going to take no for an answer."
Misner said he called the Forest Service and was told that the federal agency had decided a decade ago to stop issuing concessionaire permits at the volcano because it lacked the staff to process them.
He called U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler's office and continued discussions. Eventually Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument manager Tom Mulder "pulled some strings and he cut through a myriad of federal red tape and he made it happen," Misner said.
The Forest Service found a way around the impasse by issuing NorthWest EcoExcurions and Cascadia Adventure Education School one-year permits for kayak trips.
Lisa Romano, the national volcanic monument's community engagement specialist, said the agency will evaluate the program at the end of the season.


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The effect of volatile fatty acids on the inactivation of Clostridium perfringens in anaerobic digestion
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The application of sludge digestion systems to remove pathogens has been employed to generate biosolids suitable for reuse in agriculture. Traditionally, temperature is considered the principal agent responsible for pathogen reduction in anaerobic digestion. However, other substances such as volatile fatty acids may also have an antimicrobial effect. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of fatty acid mixtures on the inactivation of C. perfringens over a range of digestion temperatures. An equimolar mixture of acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid was applied to digester effluent for a period of 24 h at temperatures of 35 °C, 42 °C, 49 °C and 55 °C. C. perfringens inactivation in digester effluents, when dosed with volatile organic acids, was found to depend on pH, acid concentration and temperature. Temperatures above 55 °C appeared to increase the inhibitory effects of the organic acids at higher concentrations. An interaction between temperature and pH on survival of C. perfringens was observed. The results suggest that high concentrations of organic acids at a pH value of 4.5–5.5 during thermophilic digestion substantially reduce concentrations of C. perfringens in municipal sludge.
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- Title
- The effect of volatile fatty acids on the inactivation of Clostridium perfringens in anaerobic digestion
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World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Volume 24, Issue 5 , pp 659-665
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- 2008-05-01
- 10.1007/s11274-007-9514-4
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- 0959-3993
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- 1573-0972
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Anaerobic digestion
- C. perfringens
- Mesophilic
- Thermophilic
- Volatile organic acids
- Industry Sectors
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- Hamidreza Salsali (1) (2)
- Wayne J. Parker (3)
- Syed A. Sattar (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- 2. Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, 651 Colby Drive, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2V 1C2
- 3. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 4. Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology (CREM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


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We keep buying these beans because they are sweet, soft and tasty with no stringy bits. Possibly the nicest beans we've ever bought. A family favourite.
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very disappointed
Theses beans were I day from expired date, they were pale and limp will not order again
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Human neuropsychology; emotion, consciousness, cognition, memory; neuropsychological testing and diagnosis; concussion; closed head injury; genetics; epigenetics; schizophrenia, autism, ADD/ADHD.
Major Interests: Emotion, TBI/CHI, Consciousness, Theory of Mind UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO LACK OF RESEARCH SPACE AND STUDENT FUNDING, DR. FANTIE IS NOT ACCEPTING DOCTORAL STUDENTS
DegreesPh.D., Psychology, Dalhousie University, MA, Psychology, Dalhousie University, BA (Honours in Psychology), Concordia University, Diplome Études Collegial (Sciences Humain), Dawson College
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- Mirsky, A.F., Fantie, B.D. & Tatman, J.E. (1995). Assessment of attention across the lifespan. In R.L. Mapou & J. Spector (Eds.) Clinical Neuropsychological Assessment: A Cognitive Approach. New York: Plenum, pp. 17-48.
- Kolb, B. & Fantie, B.D. (1994). Cortical graft function in adult and neonatal rats. In S.B. Dunnett & A. Bjorklund (Eds.) Functional Neural Transplantation, New York: Raven, pp. 415-436.
- Fantie, B.D. & Kolb, B. (1991). The problems of prognosis. In J. Dywan, R.D. Kaplan, & F.J. Pirozzolo (Eds.) Neuropsychology and the Law, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 186-238.
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I was so stoked to meet Mel & Rob, such a happy and humble couple. Once I realised I would be sharing my birthday with them I was excited to see their wedding hang out tucked away down a dirt track 30 minutes out of Mansfield. Mel was very creative and had a 'book' theme for their reception. From the moment we drove down the bush tracks to discovering 'The Hideout' huts beside the river, I was inspired at ever corner of this area. Mel & Rob had the most amazing bridal party – 14 of their closest friends and family, who made their day full of laughter and fun.
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Austin Hollins scored 11 in the first half and his third 3-pointer pushed the Gophers to a 33-19 lead. UCLA pulled to 35-25 by halftime.
Muhammad got more involved in the second with seven quick points and UCLA pulled within five when Norman Powell made a 3-pointer. The Gophers responded with consecutive 3-pointers from Andre Hollins from opposite corners to push the lead back to 11.
Every time UCLA made a move, the Gophers found a way to push the Bruins back and were never really in danger of losing the lead. UCLA's last threat came when Muhammad scored four consecutive points, including a fast-break dunk that cut the lead to eight with about nine minutes to play.
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"These results suggest that denosumab offers a new approach to prevention of fractures in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis," said Steven Cummings M.D., lead investigator, study author, and director of the San Francisco Coordinating Center of the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute. "It reduces the risk of all major types of fractures and, because it is given as an injection twice a year, it also has the potential to help compliance to treatment."
Fracture is one of the most common health events suffered by postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.(3) Globally, one woman in three over 50 years of age will experience a fracture in her lifetime.(3) A woman who has broken a bone as a result of osteoporosis has more than an eight- out-of-ten chance of breaking another bone.(4) Half of women who break a hip, a life changing event, will permanently need assistance to walk.(5)
The overall incidence and type of side effects with denosumab were similar to placebo in the FREEDOM study. Rates of adverse events (AEs) were similar in both groups (93 percent). Rates of serious AEs were 25.8 percent for denosumab and 25.1 percent for placebo. The most common AEs across both treatment arms were arthralgia, back pain, hypertension and nasopharyngitis. There were no reported cases of osteonecrosis of the jaw among patients taking denosumab. Serious adverse events of skin infections,
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Remember, the cloud is not yet a failsafe fortress for all your data
On December 10 and 11 when Google and Facebook went offline, users must have felt like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, abandoned alone on an island. Although the outage lasted only 20 minutes in the case of Google, and a few hours in the case of Facebook, panic and frustration were palpable on Twitter, with #googledown gaining traction within minutes of the outages. These were not part of any orchestrated 'anonymous' attacks, or, as a few witty tweeters put it, symptoms of the apocalypse, or of the 'world going down' action due later this December.
Google's outage led to some of its widely used non-search applications such as mail, chat and other cloud-based services going offline. Facebook's followed, going down for a few hours. Separate infrastructure glitches caused these outages — a buggy software update in case of Google, and Web address translation problem associated with the DNS (Domain Name System) for Facebook.
Although these glitches were not catastrophic in terms of loss of data, they served Internet users another warning against blindly succumbing to the pious platitudes and wholesale endorsements of cloud computing as the next big wave on the Internet.
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Soon after the outage, Google promptly reported on the cause of the problem and the actions that it took, in a report published on the Google Apps dashboard. A bug in a "load balancing" software update caused the temporary outage of Google services, it said.
When more than one server is catering to user requests, which is certainly the case when Google is serving content via thousands of servers from hundreds of locations, there is a necessity to balance the load (user requests) on each of the servers. To expose a single server to bombardments of requests, leaving others lazing would deem to be poor network design. The arbitration mechanism used to balance the load between servers and server farms, using intelligent programmes running on powerful switching computers, is "server load balancing".
Software updates need to run regularly in order to accommodate modifications in the server infrastructure. Google engineers located the 18-minute service outage to a bug in the software that ran on some Google applications. This glitch had affected Google Mail, Chat, Google Drive and the Chrome browsers. But Google's kingpin, its search engine, was immune to this problem.
Facebook, however, ran into a more mundane problem that websites often face. Facebook spokesperson cited Domain Name System infrastructure changes that were carried out, to be the reason for the temporary unavailability of the social networking site.
DNS is the telephone directory look-up equivalent for translating textual Web address to numeric server addresses (IP address). It is the first, and the most important, step to allow clients to reach the servers. When this look-up fails, the website remains inaccessible. The DNS server reconfiguration seemed to have affected Facebook on the desktop version; the mobile version escaped the problem.
When users put all their apples on the cloud, as they increasingly do, these infrastructural "inconsistencies" can have a dramatic cascading effect. Although Google, Facebook and most cloud service providers claim that they have built in multiple levels of redundancies into their infrastructure, the latest outage is yet another example of how millions of users' data remains vulnerable to the vicissitudes of global networks.
Of course, it would be wrong to attribute the outages at Google or Facebook to technical incompetence. But surely they are pointers to the risks in putting everything on the cloud, and not anywhere else.
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Reliability is an additional concern to widespread implementation of the cloud. There is already a raging debate on issues such as security and privacy on the cloud. Critics of the wholesale movement to the cloud argue that the world has not yet reached a stage where cloud computing has become inevitable.
Regular incidents of user accounts being wiped off, or hijacked due to weaknesses in the authentication mechanisms of major cloud service providers are certainly discouraging users to bet solely on the cloud.
Security threats in cloud-based services do not just imply lacunae in the cloud infrastructure, but also the hesitation of service providers in admitting that the security is not foolproof. Without this emphasis, users tend to set easy-to-guess passwords, or common passwords between multiple accounts, aggravating the already-existing security flaws.
In conventional websites, that are not cloud-based, if unauthorised access is gained to a user's account, the 'cracker' in most cases would reach a dead end and be unable to invade other accounts of the user; it would also be virtually impossible for him to reach the user's local drives. The daisy chaining of accounts on the cloud, however, results in a lower-level of protection.
The cloud's USP is built on the promise: "Take your data wherever you go." But the downside risk is that like the domino effect, it can bring down much more when compared to its terra firma counterpart. Most cloud-based storage applications, for instance, allow applications to directly access user data on their hard drive, between multiple devices such as smartphones, tablet computers and desktop computers. Breaking into one of these devices implies access to all other 'connected' devices.
By signing on to user agreements, they agree that they will remain continuously tracked, and on logs maintained by the cloud-service providers. Privacy is simply absent on the cloud.
The hype about the "revolutionary" potential of the cloud has been tempered by the realisation that its reliability is still not iron-clad. If anything, the recent outages highlight the need for users to spread their risks across multiple service providers instead of putting everything on a single cloud.
Keywords: cloud computing, DNS server, software, hardware, Facebook, Google, cloud-based storage, smart phones, Google Chrome browsers


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