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1 1 Hybrid Cloud Computing Platform: The Next Generation IT Backbone for Smart Grid Fengji Luo, Student Member, IEEE, Zhao Yang Dong, Senior Member, IEEE, Yingying Chen, Student Member, IEEE, Yan Xu, Student Member, IEEE, Ke Meng, Member, IEEE, Kit Po Wong, Fellow, IEEE Abstract This paper discusses the prospective of applying cloud computing technologies in the development of smart grid. Firstly, the conceptions of cloud computing are introduced, and then a hybrid cloud computing platform for smart grid is designed. After that, the distinguished characteristics of the proposed platform are explained in detail, following with the introduction of some potential power system applications. Finally, some notable state-of-the-art products that can be used to build the proposed platform are introduced. Index Terms Cloud Computing, Distributed Computing, Smart Grid M I. INTRODUCTION ODERN power system is experiencing the rapid development and reorganization. One of the main trends is that the scale of the systems is becoming larger and larger. Along with the ongoing development of the long distance transmission systems, the super scale systems which can cover one or more countries are emerging; on the other hand, the structure of the system is becoming more complex, due to the transiting from vertically organization to deregulated power market. The rise of Micropower also increases the system complexity. Such large scale and complex environment imposes many challenges on design, analysis and control of the system. Another major move is the smart grid development. With smart grid infrastructure in place in many nations, the information and data involved in the operation and planning of the power system, especially at distribution level, have increased in scale of tens of hundreds of times. For example, for distribution feeder monitoring, under the conventional system, a couple of measurement would be sufficient to estimate the feeder voltage at customer end and would meet the operation s needs. However, with the smart grid in place, there could be tens of measurements for the same feeder. The processing power of the computing facilities will inevitably be facing big challenges with large scale networks. F.J. Luo, Z.Y. Dong, and Y. Xu are with the Center of Intelligent Electricity Networks (CIEN), The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia ( s: Y.Y. Chen, and K. Meng are with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong ( s: K.P. Wong is with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, the University of Western Australia, Australia ( (1) Computing Power. The smart grid needs more powerful computing platforms to handle large scale data analysis tasks and support complicated real-time applications. Currently, all these computing tasks are often independently scattered in each dispatch center with its own computing platforms (server, cluster, etc). Such centralized pattern has two disadvantages. Firstly, due to the limited processing capability, it is very difficult to support online analysis, unless simplifying the model, which will unavoidably affect the accuracy of analysis results. Secondly, the capital investment and maintenance cost of these computing facilities is very high, but the utilization is relatively low. For instance, the idle capability of the computing power of one dispatch center cannot be coordinated to help solving problems of another dispatch center. (2) Data Storage. The smart grid facilitates interactive twoway communications and requires the powerful ability to collect and analyze tremendous data. This leads to the challenge of effectively integrating and seamless accessing the unprecedented data, which come from a variety of sources, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), wide area measurement system (WAMS), and even embedded home compliances. In the past, parallel computing has been widely adopted in power system analysis [1]-[4]. Furthermore, in literatures [5]- [8], the grid computing technology is proposed to solve power system problems. However, those approaches have their own limitations. Parallel computing often has the computing power bottleneck, and thus hard to meet the heavy and various online analysis tasks of the smart grid; grid computing platform can integrate distributed resource, however, it requires coordination among different parties and lots of funding, and it is difficult for end users to seamlessly access the grid resources due to lack of enough abstraction. This paper designed a hybrid cloud computing platform as the next generation IT backbone for the development of smart grid. Cloud computing is a novel computing model that has drawn worldwide concerns in the recent years. However, there is still no standard definition for the cloud computing. Some anticipated features or characteristics of cloud computing by industry and academia can be envisaged and summarized as, (i) pay-per-use;(ii) elastic capacity and the illusion of infinite resources; (iii) self-service interface; (iv) resources that are abstracted or virtualized. In this paper, we will show that using the virtualization technology and serve-on-demand model, cloud computing can meet the IT requirements of smart grid in an economical and effective way. This paper is organized as follows. In Section II, the conception of cloud computing is introduced, followed by the de /12/$ IEEE
2 2 sign and discussions of the designed hybrid cloud computing platform for smart grid in Section III; and then in Section IV some notable cloud computing products are introduced respectively; and conclusions are drawn in Section V. II. CLOUD COMPUTING Entering 21th century, the cloud computing has widespread concerns by various industries. Nowadays, several major IT enterprises have offered cloud services, such as Microsoft [10], Amazon [11], and Google [12]. In this section, we will give a brief introduction of cloud computing, in order to make power industry engineers better understand the cloud computing. This section consists of two parts. Firstly, the basic introduction of the cloud computing is given. Secondly, the service model of cloud computing will be introduced. The more detailed discussions of cloud computing can be found in [9], [13], [14]. A. Introduction of Cloud Computing Currently, there is no strictly standard definition of cloud computing, however it has been widely accepted that it denotes a model on which a computing infrastructure is viewed as a cloud, from which businesses and individuals access applications from anywhere in the world on demand [9]. The main principle behind this model is offering computing, storage, and software as a service. For example, the infrastructures established by Amazon and Google respectively to offer on demand services are called two clouds. Cloud computing is not a new fundamental technology. It is the evolution and integration of several technologies. This can be shown in Fig. 1. Each technology represents an aspect of cloud computing. Although each technology can be written as a whole book, here we just introduce the key features of each technology. 1) Web Service Web service [15] represents a sort of standards which make the web applications interact with each other following a common mechanism. Using web service, each software or application is packaged as a service, which is self-described and self-contained to provide certain business function. A service is independent of the context of other services, and different services can interact with each other. Some standardized machine-interpretable interfaces and protocols are formulated to describe a service, publish a service, and transport messages among services. Relying on these standards, people can glue together several services to create complex applications. Later we will show that in the cloud computing platform, the complex power system applications can be created by composing others services from different service providers. 2) Grid Computing Grid computing [16] provides a way to aggregate geographical distributed computational resources and coordinately use them to accomplish certain tasks. Users submit tasks to the grid portal, and grid broker chooses suitable resources to execute the job, and finally return the result to the users. Cloud computing platform is backed by thousands of distributed resources, thus it often uses the idea of grid computing to aggregate thousands of resources to form the resource pool. 3) Utility Computing Utility computing [17] is based the idea of pay-per-use. In the utility environment, users assign a utility value to their job, where a utility represents a certain measurable requirement (execution time, throughput, etc), and the value is the amount of money they are willing to pay the service providers to their demands. Thus this environment forms a marketplace, where services providers aim to maximize their profit while users compete for resources based on the utility value of their jobs. 4) Hardware Virtualization Virtualization [18] is one of the core idea of cloud computing. In order to allow users easily access and use the distributed, heterogeneous resources in a uniform way, virtualization technology is necessary. The virtualization technology adds a software layer on the physical hardware layer, which is often called Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). Based on the VMM, one or more virtual machines can be established, while each virtual machine runs the operation system and user s applications. Here, the operation system and software stacks no longer bind to particular physical machines, but run on the VMM and the VMM maps the virtual machines to the physical hardware. This structure can be shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 1. Critical technologies of cloud computing [9] Fig. 2. Virtualization technology. 5) Autonomic Computing Simply speaking, autonomic seek to improve systems by decreasing human involvement. Cloud computing requires the operation of the cloud data centers be self-healing and self
3 3 protection, which can be achieved by using intelligent control and management systems. According to the deployment model, a cloud can be classified as public cloud, private cloud, community cloud, and hybrid cloud [9]. The specifications of them are given as follows: (a) Private Cloud. This is the cloud computing model run within a company s own data center for internal and/or partner use; (b) Public Cloud. This is the 3 rd party, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure to serve the public/global users; (c) Community Cloud. Community cloud shares infrastructure between several organizations from a specific community with common concerns, whether managed internally or by a third-party and hosted internally or externally. (d) Hybrid Cloud. Hybrid cloud refers to the cloud computing infrastructure composed by two or more clouds (private, public, or community). By establishing hybrid cloud, enterprises can integrate public clouds to complement the internal resource shortage while keeping the cloud used internally. B. Service Model Using above technologies, cloud computing platform could provide different layers of services, and each layer represents a level of abstraction, as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 3. Service model of cloud computing platform. (a) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The virtualized physical devices can be delivered as the service in an on demand way. Users can access the virtualized devices through the VMM and do the operations on them, such as installing the software package, attaching the virtualized disks on the virtualized computer, etc; (b) Platform as a service (PaaS). A higher level of abstraction is delivering the programming platform as a service. Users can access such development environment and develop cloudenabled applications, and submit the applications to execute in the cloud platform; (c) Software as a service (SaaS). On the top of the service model, mature cloud software can be delivered as the service in the on demand way. Relying on the web service technology, users can directly access and use them through web browsers. III. CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SMART GRID Section II introduced the basic conception of cloud computing, the supported technologies, and the layered service model. In this section, the proposed cloud computing-based architecture for smart grid will be described, and then we will analyze how power system can benefit from this model. A. Working Mechanism of the Platform The hybrid cloud infrastructure for power system is shown as Fig.4. The model is called hybrid cloud because it consists of the conception of community cloud and public cloud. 1) Power Community Cloud Data Center Just as shown in Fig. 4, in power systems there are a large number of distributed IT resources, such as the storage devices and the computational devices. Those devices are distributed and owned by different organizations, such as different dispatching centers, market pools, GENCOs, etc. In the proposed cloud computing platform, those distributed data or computational resources will be aggregated by the power cloud data center. In the data center, the VMM provides the virtualization and physical accessing of those resources. After virtualization, Physical Computational Resource PC Cluster Server Virtualization System Operator Data Warehouse Virtualization VMM Service Interface database Virtualized Resource Pool VM VM VM IaaS PaaS Service Delivery System Manager SaaS Power Engineer Web Server Application Server File Server Power Scientist publish Information Sharing Develop Cloud Applications Rent IT Resources Outer Cloud Providers Power Cloud Data Center Power Cloud Data Center Google App Engine Amazon EC2 Fig. 4. Cloud computing model for smart grid
4 4 in the data center, the virtualized resources form a virtual resource pool managed by VMM, which can be delivered as the service to the end users. From the point view of users, they just apply for the virtualized resources from VMM, and operate those resources. They do not need to care about the details and the locations of the physical resources. Based on virtualization of power system resources, the power cloud data center provides higher level, power system-oriented services. Firstly, the cloud data center provides the PaaS level of service, which enable users develop cloud-based power system programs and run them in the virtualized resource pool. Those programs could be the off line planning programs, the data processing program, on line analysis applications, or scientific simulation programs. Unlike traditional power system applications development, the cloud-based applications often should be developed using some particular programming models. Once developed, the data center is responsible for applying on demand virtualized resources to execute. The power system analysis is often data-intensive, thus the data collected from various kinds of physical data sources must finally be delivered to end users as the service. In the proposed model, this is implemented in the SaaS level. In the power cloud data center, the data providing service is encapsulated as an individual application and published to the end users. Users acquire the data by accessing this application interface. In the level of SaaS, the cloud data center can publish different kinds of individual applications. These applications are encapsulated in the form of web service. Users can directly use these applications on demand, just through the web browsers. In the SaaS service layer, there could be many kinds of power system applications delivered as services, such as the power flow analysis program, the stability simulation software, the power market simulation tool, etc. 2) Integrating Public Clouds One problem of the proposed power community cloud data center is the resource bottleneck problem. Proposed community cloud model uses the strategy of aggregating distributed computational/data storage devices of different power system organizations to coordinated work together. However, only relying on existing resources could not fully satisfy the computing and data processing requirements of future power system. There are 3 reasons. Firstly, power system applications are becoming more and more data-intensive and computeintensive; secondly, there are wide ranges of power system applications; thirdly, the physical resources of power system were not originally established for constructing cloud data center. On the other hand, one notable feature of cloud computing is providing the infinite resource view to end users. So, how to address this problem? There are 2 approaches. One is upgrading the physical resources, but it needs a lot of funding and requires lots of labor hood and time. Therefore, in the proposed model, we adopt another approach, that is integrating the public clouds to compensate the existing power system resources. The public clouds, such as Amazon EC2, own a huge number of resources and allow users to lease them. By utilizing the public clouds, power cloud data center can lease the resources to coordinated work if necessary, and finally provide infinite resource view to the users. 3) Interaction with Other Power Cloud Data Centers Practically speaking, it is difficult to build a cloud data center covering all resources of the whole system. More practically situation is building data center for a certain area. Since power system is a large inter-connected system, it is unavoidable for different power cloud data centers to share information. In the proposed model, the data centers can exchange each other s data in the SaaS level. One power cloud data center may also access the applications provided by other data centers to construct complex power applications. B. Characteristics of the Platform As discussed above, cloud computing model aggregates distributed resources and provide different levels of service to users. So, comparing with parallel computing and grid computing which have been already successfully applied in power system, what are the distinguish features of the proposed cloud model? Following are 7 unique characteristics which cannot be achieved by other parallel/distributed technologies. 1) Infinite Resource Parallel computing and grid computing has the resource bottleneck problem. However, the proposed cloud computing platform has the ability to integrate infinite resources. This is achieved by utilizing the public clouds. The public cloud providers are often the leading IT enterprises of IT industry, and declare that they can deliver infinite resources to public [9]. Therefore, by leasing the resources from public cloud providers if necessary, the proposed cloud platform can easily obtain any number of resources as more as needed. 2) Service Oriented Architecture Other distributed technologies can also aggregate various kinds of resources, and provide interfaces to let users access them. But proposed cloud platform use the service oriented architecture (SOA) to deliver everything as web services. The difference lie in that each web service is encapsulated as a selfcontained functional module, which is described and published to public using standard protocols and languages. Other programs can access this service and communicate with this service using standard protocols. This means that based on the standardized service framework, people can glue several services freely to create complex application. For power systems, for example, the power flow analysis can be encapsulated as a web service while a stability analysis can be encapsulated as another web service. The users can write glue program to combine them to create a stability study application. 3) Improve the Power System Resource Utilizing The resources of power system are geographically distributed and owned by different organizations. The IT resources are often established for their expected maximum load [9], this leads to the utility of the resources are often very low if there lacks of an effective mechanism to make them coordinately work together. For example, a power company owns a 20-node Linux PC cluster, but this equipment is only used to handle the large scale analysis 3-5 times each month. Then, in most of the
5 5 time, the cluster is just ether idle or handles some lightweight computing tasks. Obviously, this leads to the low degree utilizing of the cluster and unnecessary cost to that power company. In the proposed model, the resources are abstracted to form a virtualized resource pool. The end users just operate the virtualized resource pool, and VMM is responsible for mapping the virtualized resources to the physical resources. In this process, VMM will use the advanced load balance algorithm to maintain the load balance of the system and maximize the resource utilization. For example, the VMM may close some servers if they do not participant in executing the computing tasks for a long time, in order to save the energy. 4) Distributed Mass Power System Data Management One feature which cannot be achieved by traditional parallel/distributed technologies is that they do not have the ability to store and management of the distributed mass data. In the proposed model, the data is delivered as the service in the SaaS layer, which means users can just access the service to get data. However, in the background, the data center storages the data distributed in the form of blocks, and the data blocks are often duplicated as mirrors in different servers. When a data query demand coming, the data center can firstly check the location of the user and then choose the nearest server which contains the copy of the required data, and transfer data from that server to the user. In this way, cloud computing can reduce the data transferring time a lot to provide efficient data management service. 5) On Demand Elastic Service Delivery The elastic service delivery is one of the notable features of cloud computing. In the traditionally parallel computing and grid computing technologies, for a particular application, the amount of resources used to execute it is determined ahead of execution (this process is called scheduling). Such scheduling process is static. In cloud computing, since all the applications are running in the virtualized resource pool, there is no strong binding between applications and physical resources. Therefore, VMM can assign more/less resources to the applications adaptively according to the runtime requirements of the applications. Such elastic, flexible scheduling mechanism can improve the performance and utilization of the system a lot. 6) Lightweight Accessing Media Traditionally, power engineers often install EMS system in their PC or work stations to solve power problems. Cloud computing changes such computing model fundamentally. In the proposed model, power operators, engineers, and researchers can access the power cloud data center using various kinds of media, as long as those media support web browser. Those media may include PC, work station, mobile phone, PDA, etc. Since everything is delivered as the services and can be accessed through the HTTP/XML protocols, power engineers no longer need to install any client software. They can connect the power cloud data center at anywhere of the world using any media, and use web browser to acquire data, develop applications, use power software to perform power system study. 7) Robust, Self-healing and Fault-tolerance Comparing traditionally technologies, the cloud computing is more robust and fault-tolerance, and it is self-healing. In parallel computing, applications are divided into several subtasks to paralleled run in the multi-core machines or clusters. Once the physical machine breakdown, the applications cannot be accomplished. In grid computing, the computing tasks are running in the geographical distributed resources. Once some resources breakdown, the tasks on those resources must be migrated. Since those tasks are bind to physical resources, they are very hard to be migrated into other heterogeneous resources. On the contrary, in our proposed model, applications are only bind to the virtualized resource pool. The migrating of the applications thus becomes very easy. Once some breakdowns of the physical resources happen, the VMM encapsulates the state of the applications and migrates them into other virtual machines automatically. The state of the applications is only bind to the virtual machine, rather than physical resources. In this way, power cloud data center could operate in a robust and self-healing way. IV. POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS In above sections, the hybrid cloud computing platform for smart grid is proposed and its working mechanism is explained. This section illustrates some potential power system applications which can be developed based on the cloud computing platform. However, it is notable that this section just gives a brief introduction, while many new kinds of power system applications could be developed on the cloud computing platform rather than just limited to the applications list in this section. A. Generation Scheduling In the operation of the power system, the generation scheduling mainly consists of unit commitment (UC) and economical dispatch (ED). Traditional methods, such as the dynamical programming, Lagrange relaxing method, have the computing time or convergence problems. In order to find the global optimization solution while shorten the computing time, many heuristic methods are proposed [19, 20, 21]. Those algorithms search the global optimal solution in the high dimension space, and often can be easily paralleled implemented in the cloud computing platform, relying on the aggregated virtualized resource pool provided by the cloud computing platform. B. Transient Stability Simulation and Analysis Literature [4] accelerated the PSS/E dynamic simulations by using the EnFuzion-based distributed computing method. The author used EnFuzion software to dispatch the PSS/E timedomain simulations which incorporate different contingency cases to multiple machines, and solve them simultaneously. This approach released the computational burden greatly and improved the simulation speed effectively. Recently, Enfuzion has published the cloud computing version, which is called CloudFuzion [22]. CloudFuzion can lease the resources of Amazon EC2 and dispatch the jobs to the resource pool of Amazon EC2. Therefore, it can be expectable that by employing the CloudFuzion, above transient stability analysis could be easily migrated to cloud computing platform and obtain better performance.
6 6 C. Power Flow, Probabilistic Power Flow and Distributed Power Flow In order to enhance the performance of power flow algorithm, several literatures proposed different parallel power flow algorithm, such as Newton-based parallel power flow algorithm [23] and the Differential Evolution algorithm based optimal power flow algorithm [24]. On the other hand, Monte- Carlo probabilistic power flow algorithm is a useful method to simulate the uncertain of the power system, while due to its high computational cost, Monte-Carlo probabilistic power flow algorithm is often paralleled to run on multiple CPUs. The virtualized resource pool of cloud computing platform is very suitable for running above power flow algorithms, and because of the massive computing resources provided by cloud computing, those algorithms can get more precise result comparing with traditional parallel computing. Literature [25] proposed a kind of Distributed Power Flow method, which incorporates the boundary data of the neighborhood areas to perform power flow calculation. The web service-oriented cloud data center can satisfy the information exchange of such kinds of data-intensive application very well. Through the web service interface of the data center, different areas can easily exchange data with each other and then perform the Distributed Power Flow using the virtualized resource pool. D. System Restoration The power system restoration is a complex, nonlinear optimization problem. The characteristics of the modern power system, such as the deregulation, long distance power transmission, and the large number of distributed power sources, impose new challenges to the system restoration problem. The data center of the proposed cloud computing platform enhances the information sharing among different participants. The participants can transparently access the information through the data center and coordinated work with each other. At the same time, the virtualized resource pool and the participation of the public cloud provides the powerful computing ability to deploy the parallel/distributed system restoration algorithm to find the optimization system restoration solution. V. IMPLEMENTATION TECHNOLOGIES In Section III, the working mechanism and distinguish features of the proposed cloud computing platform for power system is introduced. Section IV illustrates some potential power system applications which can be developed on the cloud computing platform. Another problem is how to build such platform practically? Currently, there are many start-ofthe-art products which can be used to construct cloud computing platform. Some of them are open sourced, and some of them are commercial. In this section, we will give a summary of some notable technologies. A. Aggregating Distributed Resources Globus Toolkit (GT) [26]: The GT is an open source grid computing software that addresses the resource sharing problems in the distributed environment. It is a middleware that let people share computing power, databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographical boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. The toolkit includes software services and libraries for resource monitoring, discovery, and management, plus security and file management. In the proposed community cloud computing platform, GT can be used to aggregate the distributed power system resources. B. Resource Virtualization 1) Apache Virtual Computing Lab The Apache Virtual Lab [27] is an open source software aiming to provide desktop and high performance computing environments anytime, in a flexible cost-effective way and with minimal intervention of IT staff. It has following features: self-service Web portal to reduce administrative burden; advance reservation of capacity to provide resources during classes; and deployment of customized machine images on multiple computers to provide clusters on demand. 2) Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform The Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) [28] is a commercial tool that offers most features a service provider needs to build an IaaS cloud. Most notably, ECP offers a Web -based customer dashboard that allows users to fully control the life cycle of virtual machines. It also allows providers and users to package and exchange applications. In summary, Enomaly ECP has following features: Linux-based controller, Web portal and web services interfaces; interface to the Amazon EC2 public cloud; virtual network; virtual clusters. C. Parallel Programming Framework MapReduce [29] is a framework proposed by Google for processing highly distributable problems across huge datasets using a large number of computers, clusters or a grid. Computational processing can occur on data stored either in a file system or in a database. The working mechanism of MapReduce is divided into map step and reduce step. In map step, the master node takes the input, partitions it up into smaller sub-problems, and distributes them to worker nodes. A worker node may do this again in turn, leading to a multi-level tree structure. The worker node processes the smaller problem, and passes the answer back to its master node. In the reduce step, the mast node collects the answers to all the subproblems and combines them in some way to form the output. MapReduce has been already used in cloud computing by Google. And Apache also provides an open source implementation of MapReduce, which is called Hadoop MapReduce [30]. D. Mass Data Storage and Management 1) BigTable BigTable [31] is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary database system built on Google File Sstem. It is currently not distributed nor is it used outside of Google, although Google offers access to it as part of their Google App Engine. BigTable is designed to scale into the petabyte range across hundreds or thousands of machines, and to make it easy to add more machines to the system and automatically start taking advantage of those resources without any reconfiguration.
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0xC00D1199, this error appears every time I want to shut down a program. Sometimes this error: pnrpnsp(3).dll is missing comes together with that error code. Any connections? what happened?
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Douglas Maicon admits the appointment of Leonardo has turned Inter Milan's season around.
Leonardo so far has a 100 per cent record since his arrival.
"Since Leonardo arrived, things have changed a lot around here. The atmosphere's great," Maicon told FIFA.com.
"He's been able to get his ideas across already, despite not being here long, and everyone has grasped what he's said.
"It's not just me, everyone feels more motivated since he's come in. We're all in it together and we're going to do our best to help him do a good job."
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9 Resources to Help You Find Your Progressive Dream Job
The world is going through a values change right now. Don't believe me? Just look at the rapid growth of B-Corps, companies that facilitate collaborative consumption and start-ups focused on solving social or environmental problems.
Entrepreneurs and consumers alike are tired of the old hierarchies. They're tired of being told that profit is the only goal that matters. And it's about time.
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This site is designed to make it easy to locate jobs in social entrepreneurship and related sectors. When I visited the site, the most recent postings included employers like Action Against Hunger, Educate!, LeaderFit, UNC-Chapel Hill and Food for the Hungry.
The sister site of SocialGoodJobs, this simple search site lists jobs that focus on environmental and social responsibility. Most recent postings included positions with Ecova, Our City Forest, Body and Soul Vegan Bakery and the American Sustainable Business Council.
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Coundown Calendar has disappeared from my Widgets. I can see it operating on Dashboard when I reboot off the external backup drive.
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Chelsea are ready to offer Petr Cech to Atletico Madrid as part of a swap for Diego Costa.El Confidencial says Cech's days at Chelsea are numbered, with Thibaut Courtois to be recalled by Blues boss Jose Mourinho from his Atletico loan and made the immediate No1.
The recommendation has been made by Cech's teammate Hilario, who is also acting as a goalkeeping scout and been watching Courtois closely.
Mourinho will accept Courtois' demands and make the Belgian his first-choice next season.
The move could include Cech going the opposite direction as part of a package for Atletico striker Diego Costa.
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Miss in Want
Not exactly my best friend, but definitely the one that's been around the longest. Not exactly handsome but okay…What can I say? We fight and laugh with each other. Yeah, I think I have a thing for Tony. But there's a slight problem: I have a thing guys in general!
Oh it's all my mother's fault! I swear she is trying to live vicariously through me but how interesting the life of a sixteen year old bookworm and all-around good girl?
I know how Tony would answer that. Let's not even go there. See, he's wrong, Mother's wrong. They have totally underestimated me. Please don't kid yourself; I stay within the bounds of all things legal.
Well, it's a little embarrassing to admit, but if you don't tell anybody (especially Tony) I'll you in on my little secret.
I write romance novels! And they're not your run-of-the-mill harlequins or teenage dramas…they're the stuff that makes you tingle from head to toe! Now I would never write a romance based on my life. Reason being...it has none! No romance whatsoever, at least not the kind people want to read about.
Don't you dare give me that look, I am not that crazy. Crazy a little but not much. Like I said, it's all my mother's fault! She tries to inject it into my life (kinda like they did to the black dudes at Tuskegee-hahah…Lord I apologize)
Okay, here is one devastating example: Sean Lorry. He's a total and utter idiot, okay? Seriously, the man is meaner than a hair lipped dog and an arrogant white boy! But he's rich…and when Momma and I ran into him the other day at Starbucks Sean waved and I didn't.
For the love of…everything, it was six o'clock in the morning! SIX! How am I supposed to know why a horse-faced boy is waving at me?
That leads me to another question? Why do all the sick freaks approach me? Take this dude Frank, he is the hairiest, stupidest 'tard I have ever met in my life and he asked me to the school dance! What, I ask you, did I do to deserve this?
Sometimes I wonder why I can't be more like my brother, Liam. According to Destiny he's on his last reincarnation. She won't tell me which one I'm on, something that makes me think I have a lot more to go…
Destiny, the poor dear. She's practically Christmas cake and has endometriosis--which isn't all that fun I hear. My mother has been friends with Dez since they sunk a prairie schooner in the Pecos River. That is a long story that involves some tequila, girl power and the sheriff of Sutton County.
But there aren't any hot guys, cheerleaders or high school moments in it, so you won't hear about it from me!
So I have this account with this online fiction archive that's tots def great for my career as a writer. Okay, so nobody with a lick of sense will read my original masterpieces but I'm fine with that. They'll be sorry, I'll be the Martin Scorsese of internet romance novellas.
Oh I'm sorry, I don't have the attention span for a full length novel but I work just as hard to construct my stories as any stick-up-their-butt novelist.
Don't get me started on teen novelists, they're these geeky girls that wear glasses and thrift store shoes (gee-ross!) that talk about dragons and manga. Now where do these white girls get off calling each other "san" "chan" or "kun"? Get really, ladies, you are not going to snare an Asian boyfriend with hair that blonde.
Trust me, I know.
That just gave me the greatest idea! I could tots write about the unrequited love of an angsty white girl who was madly in love with her Asian best friend. No it's not one of those icky shonen-ai situations. They started out in the eighth grade as friends and her feelings for him grew to the size of…something large. Of course he had to fall for this likewise Asian who can't speak clearly for the life of her. That poor white girl would be better off with the similarly white but boorish captain of the debate team, who isn't as powerful as he sounds, but a mule in horse's trappings.
Maybe it still needs some works, but it could go somewhere.


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A squirrel-hunting neighbor put a Bibb County school on lockdown Wednesday morning.
It happened just before 9:30 a.m. at the Heard Elementary School on Houston Road.
School spokeswoman Stephanie Hartley said someone reported hearing shots nearby and the school went on precautionary lockdown.
But campus police quickly found out the shooter was a neighbor trying to shoot a squirrel. She wasn't sure how long the lockdown lasted.
Georgia's squirrel season runs from August 15 through the end of February.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Apr 2010 16:59 UTC
Holier-than-thou, an adjective, meaning "marked by an air of superior piety or morality". Everybody has moments in their life where they get into a "holier-than-thou" attitude, and I think Steve Jobs' open letter regarding Adobe, and Flash in particular, really fits the bill. There are three specific points I want to address to illustrate just how holier-than-thou, hypocritical, and misleading this letter really is.
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RE: Thom seems to be the real hypocrite
by wargum on Fri 30th Apr 2010 16:48 UTC in reply to "Thom seems to be the real hypocrite"
The delay of CS5 to Cocoa was a result of Adobe favoring Windows users and it left Mac users with an inferior Adobe product for Mac.
Cocoa doesn't necessarily make an application better, it's the possible 64 bitness that matters here. Apple announced 64 bit Carbon for Leopard and included it in their preview developer builds. Companies were already at making theit apps 64 bit compatible. Then, all the sudden, just some months before the release of Leopard, Apple did a 180° move and killed Carbon 64. That's why it took almost everybody so long to release a 64 bit version of their application. Some are still not done.
The facts that the Intel switch was still underway didn't help to speed things up, either. You can't omit this fact if you want to paint an honest picture of the circumstances.
Final Cut Pro is best of breed already and will make it to Cocoa eventually but the fact that it is still 32-bit doesn't put Mac users at a disadvantage.
OK. But still. This is like your seat neighbour in an airplane accusing you with strong language of unnecessary pollution of the atmosphere as a consequence of flying. You would just give him a facepalm and think WTF, and rightly so.
Jobs' point about Adobe's delaying the Cocoa transition was not only about the length of the delay but also about how it put Mac users at a disadvantage.
Apple does the same to their windows customers. All. The. Time.
You need to either re-read Job's letter or stop being misleading. NOWHERE in Jobs' letter does he say H.264 is open.
You need to either re-read Job's letter or stop being misleading. NOWHERE in Jobs' letter does he say H.264 is open.
Here is what Jobs says:
"we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open"
So what is says that they strongly believe that H.264 is the wrong codec, because it's just an industry standard, not an open standard.
Your attacks on iTunes are totally subjective, exaggerated, wrong, and irrelevant.
Oh really? Had you ever to use it on Windows?
Do you even know that iTunes for Windows is available as 64-bit or were you just lying?
That's wrong and has already been discussed earlier.
Jobs' letter was about Adobe, not iTunes on Windows.
It was about Adobe AND Apple. Apple rages about how Adobe cares about some of their products. Thom only mentioned that Apple is in no way any better. Isn't that fair? Remember, it's the extended version of a facepalm
Or maybe you are being deliberately misleading.
Look in the mirror, all those facts that you left out just to make your arguments seem right...
Frankly it doesn't matter and you don't matter.
You don't matter, I don't matter and Thom knows that he doesn't matter. SO WHAT? I'd rather die with a smile on my face knowing I've always tried my best to be an honest man. Plus: This is the Internet, he just took his right to express how he feels about this. Expressing thoughts matters to people.
Like it or not, Jobs is right about Adobe and Flash.
Thom didn't say Steve Jobs is wrong in every aspect, OK?


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Despite the stronger than expected start for F1 2010 by Codemasters, the title has had many users up in arms over a corrupted save file bug that seemed to elude the developers. Apparently Codemasters has figured out the issue and addressed a number of other bugs reported by users in a number of forums.
According to what we are hearing the patch has already been submitted to both Microsoft and Sony for approval and they expect approval to come quickly. The patch does include a number of other enhancements and fixes to address the complains by the user community, but right now we don't have a complete list of what all it will fix beyond the resolution of the save file issue.
Codemasters does seem to admit that there were a number of bugs that needed attention. There is no word yet on when a patch might be released for the PC version, but it is suspected that the PC version will get another patch as well once the console versions are released.
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F1 2010 to get patched
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Some Scriptures that Proclaim the Deity of Christ
Hebrews 1:8
8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
John 1:1-14
1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Col 1:15-17
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
John 10:30-33
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
John 12:45
45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
John 14:7-9
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Romans 9:5
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Colossians 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
1 Tim 3:16
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Titus 2:13
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
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Did anyone actually think we would get a Duke Nukem Forever game? Sure they hyped it up recently and said it was for sure happening, but really… the game has been in development for over a decade. So it comes as no surprise that Gearbox announced yet another delay in the game.
At least they are having fun with it…
I wonder what the Vegas odds are on this game arriving on the new release date? 10,000:1? That may be too low.
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*In a very monotone voice * I am so shocked, never saw this coming…
I bought atomic edition in high school and it had a "Coming soon: Duke Nukem Forever", this was 1996. First time I play this game it will likely be on an honest to God 3d screen and versus my grandchildren's kids.
This is about 3 years past the point that I stopped caring whether this game ever comes out. It's guaranteed not to be the best game to ever come out, and that's about what it has to be to warrant such delays. It might be alright, but I've let "fantastic" games go past without so much as a blink of an eye so I'm not too worried here.


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