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Updated 20 Jun 2010
FDEP dissects MATLAB files and iteratively looks for all user defined functions (modules), which are used during runtime
FDEP retrieves for each module its
- subfunctions
- nested functions
- anonymous functions
- eval class calls
- unresolved calls
and all
- ML stock functions
- ML built-in functions
- ML classes
- ML toolboxes
that it uses
runtime options and returned macros create user-friendly,
intuitively comprehensible, and interactive GUIs, which
- list the results in various panels and listboxes
- plot a full synopsis for each module with
exhaustive information
- plot a full dependency matrix
- plot a runtime and modules tree
in essence, FDEP is a wrapper for DEPFUN and MLINT; however, due to an efficient pruning engine it is considerably (20-100 times!) faster
FDEP is particularly useful if you want to distribute your functions and need so see what else to include as well as the toolboxes they use
FDEP may be useful to debug an erroneous function with correct syntax
> help fdep
and the accompanying published M-file for help and an exhaustive example
us (2020). fdep: a pedestrian function dependencies finder (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/17291-fdep-a-pedestrian-function-dependencies-finder), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
R2019B Error
R2017b ERROR
Could you tell me how to fix the depfun calls in details please?
I tried replacing the depfun call with matlab.codetools.requiredFilesAndProducts.However, it is still not working!
This needs to be updated for R2014b+ by replacing depfun calls with matlab.codetools.requiredFilesAndProducts.
Would be great if someone makes a fix for the latest matlab. Now it throws an error about depfun() usage.
Incredible, had I known of the existence of this tool five years ago and I would have saved many headaches.
Thank you
Clayton Chu,
Yep, but "just replace function name" approach is not working.
R2015a still only shows a warning, but R2015b already throws an error
This needs to be updated for R2014b+ by replacing depfun calls with matlab.codetools.requiredFilesAndProducts.
Great. Many thanks!
Why didn't I find this before? A wonderful time-saving utility.
Good Lord this function is amazing! Bravo!
Very useful tool!
However, in the latest version 20 Jun 2010, the maximum allowed m-file-name for class files (scripts and functions are ok) is 40 characters! For longer file names, fdep will produce an obscure error message:
In an assignment A(:) = B, the number of elements in A and B must be the same.
It took me some time to figure this out... Unfortunately I have no solution other than to use shorter class names at the moment. This does not seem to be related to depfun.
Any suggestions?
much faster than depfun, like 20 times. thanks.
but it does not seem to return .fig files.
(also problematic file)
This is a great tool !
However, I need to also get the position in the file (line & column) of each function call. Is it possible ? If yes, could you advise me how to do it ?
Hi us,
fdep brings an error on schema.m file used in UDD Packages.
Thanks for the great contrib!
Amazing! The fact that it also list the real toolboxes that are used is precious
This is a phenomenal tool! I've been using depfun and this is a much better tool. Thank you...
Fantastic tool! It helped me locate the function that required a unlicensed toolbox.
There is one thing I've noticed I want to share:
fdep() and the underlaying depfun() does not interprete "constant-conditional" branches, i.e. when you have
if 1
it lists both functions. In my case, this led to the case that MATLAB complained about a unlicensed Toolbox - which I did not use. Commenting out Bla() resolved the problem. :)
Very useful tool, and fast!
It worked great for me, except for one issue: if the input function calls subfun.m only from within an anonymous function, then fdep() does not find it.
In other words if myfun.m has the lines
then for p=fdep('myfun'), p.fun does NOT contain subfun.m
This came up because I tend to use anonymous functions as aliases a lot, e.g. Fab=@(c,d)F(a,b,c,d)
WOW! brilliant and fast. Highly recommend! Thank you
exactly what I needed
very helpful and fast.
Great function. Saves lots of time and headache. Much faster than depfun which I had to force quit to stop after 20 minutes.
This is an excellent function that I've used for years. However, the GUIs don't play nicely with multiple monitors. Because of the mix of normalized and absolute units used for various parts of the GUI, simply resizing the whole thing post-render isn't ideal (and I just discovered by accident that there are some buttons in the upper corner that I never knew existed in all my time using it). It would be nice if I could somehow tell it which portion of the screen to use (even if I had to hardcode that in my own version, but right now that seems to require changing several lines throughout the code, and I haven't tracked them all down).
WoW ! which a great tool!
Excellent tool, much faster and more informative than DEPFUN.
An especially useful feature is detection of unresolved function calls, which DEPFUN doesn't seem to do. The synopses of each module have a list of unresolved names, though I couldn't see a way to get a single list of all unresolved names except by browsing.
Also you might want to switch off latex interpretation in the point labels in the dependency matrix (line 1921, I think).
Good work!
Hi, I am having some problems using fdep on a script/function that calls functions which are part of a collection.
e.g. fdep('myfunction', '-m')
function [x] = myFunction(y)
x = mycollection.getX(y);
Is there a switch to capture this?
This is awesome! My job requires using/debugging code written by someone else and this is extremely useful. Thank you for easy to navigate, clean, well written code :)
(Continuation of my previous error report). In case it helps, after tracing the error I reported earlier, I noticed the following:
The error occurs at:
(??? Subscripted assignment dimension mismatch.)
and this is because
K>> par.mfun
ans =
K>> numel(find(ixt(:,1) == 1))
ans =
I'm getting the following error when running fdep on a function that uses IBM's CPLEX
26 7 : | cplexbilp P 1: C:\ILOG\CPLEX_Studio_AcademicResearch122\cplex\matlab\x64_win64\cplexcreateprob.p
27 8 : | cplexcreateprob R P 1: C:\ILOG\CPLEX_Studio_AcademicResearch122\cplex\matlab\x64_win64\cplexoptimset.p
28 9 : | cplexoptimset P 1: C:\ILOG\CPLEX_Studio_AcademicResearch122\cplex\matlab\x64_win64\@Cplex\Cplex.p
??? Subscripted assignment dimension mismatch.
Error in ==> fdep>FARG_get_entries at 3066
Error in ==> fdep>farg at 2585
Error in ==> fdep>FDEP_get_fun at 770
Error in ==> fdep>FDEP_get_dep at 664
Error in ==> fdep>FDEP_get_dep at 740
Any ideas why this happens?
Very Useful. Would it be possible to handle also comments of, e.g.
Splendid! I am really impressed with this tool, especially, as others have commented, the speed up over depfun. Do you know if it will work with the new(ish) user classdefs?
Ok, I have been damn stupid. Sorry. This piece of software is excellent!
Thanks a lot, generally it works great! Unfortunately I have to analyze a gui-based software project and fdep seems only to consider automatically called functions. E.g. submodules which are called due to user input are not analyzed. Is that correct?
And if yes, what can I do about it? I really need to find out, which toolboxes are involved in a rather confusing project I recently "inherited".
unfortunately: no...
one of the reasons why the .EVAL. group is collected separately by fdep and a warning flag is displayed if any such construct is found...
which, in turn, is one of the reasons why one should follow these rules
- do NOT use EVAL
- use FEVAL with function handles, only
will correctly find the call to SIND...
Is fdep capable of finding feval calls, where the function name argument in feval is itself a string variable?
thanks for your comment
to achieve what you need, you could do this
% now,
% is an array listing all the modules with their full path
% you could simply create a little utility, which does the copy, eg
function copymod(pp,newfolder)
% error checking etc left out...
for i=1:pp.nfun
This is fantastic. It worked quickly on a matlab program that contains 184 functions. An additional capability that would be useful would be to have an option in fdep to copy all the non-toolbox dependencies to the current working directory, although I think I could write this myself from the information provided in the P structure. Thanks us.
I really find useful this tool.
thanks for your comment
there are two reasons
1) a MODULE is a M-file/-script, and the first (main) function
is simply another (sub-) function within this file
2) the first function should(!) have the same
name as the M-file (otherwise, mlint complains); this is a simple
sanity check for the user
also, note the first char in the panel
M (...) ... % <- the main function
S (...) ... % <- the first (official) subfunction
S (...) ... % <- and so on
The package is great but I don't understand why the main function is listed in the subfunction pane (or in the 'sub.S.fn'):
function foo
function foo2
I'd expect only foo2 to be there. What is the rationale?
Excellent function!
In Windows, the file separators in output.froot point the wrong way, though. Is that on purpose?
hi dirk
great suggestion for an enhancement!...
i built a helper function, which does what you need and will email it to you if you want...
it will become part of FDEP as soon as i can get to it...
Thanks for this fantastic tool. The speed-up compared to depfun is amazing.
Though there is one feature I am missing somewhat:
fdep lets you identify which toolboxes are used from _somewhere_ in you code easiliy. But unfortunately it is not so easy to identify which of my .m files caused this toolbox dependency.
What would be great would be a possibilty to, e.g. select one of the toolboxes in the list-view which in turn could highlights all modules that directly depend on the selected tool box.
yes, this is by design...
while it could easily be changed, it also (potentially) would lead to undesirable results...
thus, to FDEP a file residing in a folder, which is not in ML's path, you must CD into that folder...
however, let me know if this is a real problem for you, as it certainly can be changed...
For being as full-featured as it appears, why will this function not accept full path names?
I get an error saying "file not found". It only seems to work with files in current directory or in the MATLAB path.
I liked the previous version very much! Thanks a lot.
The latest version has a bug. If a sealed class (e.g. with a definition "classdef (Sealed) MyClass") is analyzed, the program crashes in fdep on line 2928. If "(Sealed)" is removed the program works as advertised.
with the latest version (08-Jun-2009 22:24:13/R14-R2009a), per isakson's error messages do not show anymore...
the reason was an old parser engine, which did not handle more recent function constructs...
thanks, per, for alerting me to this problem...
This is a great idea, implemented in a great way!
Full of user-fraindly and usefull features.
Great job.
very nice. thank you for sharing this very useful too
Great function! Very useful. Is it possible to see also other files required in a package, like mat, txt, ini, etc?
I just downloaded it and it looks very nice. However I'd like you to fix the bug where it's locating the wrong module. I have a main module and it calls 8 other modules, 7 of which are in the same folder as the main module. However, module #2 you list as being one of the same name that I happen to have in another folder. I'm not sure why you're seeing that one first - MATLAB doesn't, it sees and runs the proper one which is in the same module as the main module. For example, in folder1, I have m-files myFile and mySubFile1, mySubFile2, etc. But in folder2, there is also a mySubFile1 and this is the one that your program is finding instead of the mySubFile1 in folder1.
A few more suggestions on the list GUI:
1. Replace the [John D'] button with a scroll bar or two small buttons to increase and decrease the font size.
2. I'd also like to see tooltips on your 6 buttons (right off the bat, it's not obvious what some of them do).
3. I'd like it to start with a GUI rather than a 2-steps command line process.
4. The Image Processing Toolbox is incorrectly called "images" in the toolboxes listbox.
5. A longer and more descriptive name than the short and cryptic "fdep" would be nice. And what does "pedestrian" have to do with it? Is that word needed?
Here's what MATLAB reports for my toolboxes:
MATLAB Version 7.7 (R2008b)
Image Processing Toolbox Version 6.2 (R2008b)
MATLAB Builder NE Version 3.0 (R2008b)
MATLAB Compiler Version 4.9 (R2008b)
Signal Processing Toolbox Version 6.10 (R2008b)
ToolBox EXAMPLE_SCRIPTS Version 1.0.0
Just my 2 cents on a well done program.
andrew, can you get in touch with me?unfortunately, you didn't provide an email address.
It falls over when mex files are used.
to accommodate FDEP to JD's eyesight, an upgrade was just uploaded with these changes
1) candy colors were moved towards zero (still hoping that they group the various panels quickly for the eye...)
2) a JOHN D' button was added; its help section says:
utility in honor of John D'errico, a senior and most respected
FEX and CSSM contributor, with very poor eyesight
CLICKING on the button will grow the fontsize by 1 point every time
the version tag is 07-Nov-2007 21:10:00
As always, a fully featured, fully able tool from us. Well done.
I do have one comment - my older eyes had a moderately hard time with the tiny font size and color scheme in the resulting gui. Pastel colored text on a pastel background was hard to read. Time for a new prescription in my glasses?
Extremely helpful, indeed! Also, the author did very quickly add a new feature after a pleasant email exchange.
all files now are read by very fast low-level i/o subroutines; version tag 21-Jun-2010 02:16:53
now takes care of a very rare anomaly; version tag 17-Jun-2010 20:28:11
changes in the lint-engine (r2010+); version tag 26-May-2010 11:15:35
clicking on a toolbox in the tbx panel now highlights in the modules list all modules, which use this tbx (user request); a new output field contains a comprehensive listing of tbxs and the modules they use the tbx; version tag 30-Jan-2010 03:30:06
the parser now accepts meta method class descriptors, which takes care of Andreas's problem; version tag 18-Jun-2009 09:41:57
added a runtime/modules tree display, more information in the module synopsis, new macros, version tag 08-Jun-2009 22:24:13
floating button list for main tasks; vastly enhanced module synopsis window contents and functionality; new window manager to easily find a FDEP associated window and bring it to the top; enhanced help module; version tag 11-Jul-2008 18:28:12
now handles MEX/DLL and MDL files as well; version tag 14-Nov-2007 13:16:06
user requests: FDEP now dissects standalone as well as M-file associated P-files; changes in the module's full synopsis display; many more examples in the HTML file; version tag 11-Nov-2007 01:01:25
changes to accomodate john d'errico: 1) moved candy colors towards white, 2) added a JOHN D' button to increase the font size by one point for every click... version tag 07-Nov-2007 21:10:00
again, the latest upload caused a mix-up of newer and older files on the FEX(?) - this has been a real problem as of lately; version tag 05-Nov-2007 17:32:49
user requests: added more functionality to several macros; added a section on how FDEP might help to debug an erroneous function with correct syntax; version tag 05-Nov-2007 03:55:35
upload did not seem to work?! last try... version tag 02-Nov-2007 19:36:43
the wrong zip was submitted! sorry. version tag 02-Nov-2007 17:47:40
added an option to display full contents of a module; removed an annoying typo; version tag is 02-Nov-2007 15:34:23
Inspired by: detab: a pedestrian string detabulator, farg: a pedestrian M-file parser showing all used functions' syntax
Inspired: ftoc (v1.2), GraphViz-like tools for MATLAB, dep (unmaintained), plot_subfun, plot_depfun
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(3) Only III is implicit
(4) I and III are implicit
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7. Statement : 'To err is human. Every man makes mistakes. But to learn from those mistakes is what makes great men. And this is way there are few of great men around us."—A philosopher in his speech.
Assumptions :
I. Mistakes do not make significant issues.
II. There are very few persons who learn from mistakes.
III. If a man learns from mistakes, he is a great man.
(1) Only I is implicit
(2) Only II is implicit
(3) Only Ill is implicit
(4) I and II are implicit.
8. Statement : "You cannot solve such questions without consulting a diagram. Difficult questions need diagrams for solving." — A teacher tells his students.
I. The students are not intelligent.
II. The problem cannot be solved.
III. Such questions are difficult.
(1) I and II are implicit
(2) Only II is implicit
(3) Only III is implicit I
(4) None is implicit
9. Statement : "Why should we not protest? When we ask for drinking water they are giving us Pepsi and Coca—Cola"— A politician in l an interview.
Assumptions :
I. Only drinking water is good for people's health.
II. Providing people drinking water is more important than providing Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
III. Pepsi and Coca-Cola do not contain "healthy drinking water.
(1) Only I is implicit
(2) Only II is implicit
(3) I and II are implicit
(4) Either II or III is implicit
10. Statement : "Hungry stomachs do not understand high values and economic ethics. They will vote a man who gives them rice- " A political analyst on why a particular party won the election.
Assumptions :
I. A lot of people are hungry.
II. Rice was not available previously.
III. Rice was available only in limited quantity.
(1) Only I is implicit
(2) I and II are implicit
(3) I and III are implicit
(4) All are implicit
Directions (11- 15): Read the following information to answer the given questions.
An institution announced that its six different programmes : Talk on Physical Development and Health: Talk on Spiritualism and Moral Development; Talk on Yoga and Capacity to Fight the Diseases; Talk on ,Mental Balance and Well Being; Talk on Environmental and Devotional Songs will be held in the first week of March, 2007 from Monday to Sunday. Only one on each day in accordance with the following :
(i) Talk on Mental Balance and Well Being would be held immediately after talk on Environment.
(ii) Talk on Yoga and Capacity to Fight Diseases would be held on Wednesday and would not be followed by Talk on Devotional Songs.
(iii) Talk on Spiritualism and Moral Development would be held on Friday and there would be a gap of two days between Talks on Physical Development and Health, and Devotional Songs.
(iv) One day there would be no talk (Saturday is not that day), just before that day Devotional Songs would be held.
11. How many talks would be held between Talk on Mental Balance and Well Being, and Talk on Yoga and Capacity to Fight Diseases?
(1) Five
(2) Two
(3) Three
(4) Four
12. On which day no programme would be held?
(1) Friday
(2) Tuesday
(3) Saturday
(4) Sunday
13. What would be organised on First day (Monday)?
(1) Talk on Environment
(2) Talk on Yoga and Capacity to Fight Diseases
(3) Talk on Devotional Songs
(4) Talk on Physical Development and Health.
14. What would be organised on last day (Sunday)?
(1) Talk on Mental Balance and Well Being .
(2) Talk on Spritualism and Moral Development
(3) Talk on Physical Development and Health
(4) Talk on Devotional Songs
15. On which day talk on Physical Development and Health would be orgainsed?
(1) Wednesday
(2) Tuesday
(3) Thursday
(4) Saturday
Directions (16-20): In each of the following series two terms have been put within brackets. Mark in your answer sheet.
(1) if both the bracketed terms are right;
(2) if the first bracketed term is right and second is wrong;
(3) if the first bracketed term is wrong and the second is right; and ,
(4) if both the bracketed terms are wrong.
16. 0, 3, 30, (65), 105, (170), 252
17. 6, (13), 22, (33), 46, 61, 78, 97
18. 2, (5), 14, 23, (34), 47, 62
19. 0, 3, 8, (28), 40, (65), 128
20. 1, (3), 8, 16, 28, 46, (68)


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I have mentioned the organization DiabetesSisters in previous posts on this blog (https://julietalksdiabetes.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/diabetessisters-weekend-for-women-conference/). Recently, the founder of DiabetesSisters, Brandy Barnes, was mentioned in Diabetes Forecast Magazine's People to Know 2014 Issue. The following is the article, written by a fellow DiabetesSister Cherise Shockley, whom I met in April at the Weekend for Women Conference, which I've also previously posted about on my blog (https://julietalksdiabetes.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/weekend-for-women-2014/).
Please enjoy reading this article! I am so glad to be able to share it!
People to Know 2014: Brandy Barnes
By Cherise Shockley
October 2014
Brandy Barnes, Community Builder
When Brandy Barnes was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 15, she had one objective: prove to her peers (and herself) that diabetes would not stop her. Fast forward a decade, and Brandy has done just that.
In January 2008, she founded the nonprofit DiabetesSisters organization to provide education, support, and advocacy for women of all ages with all types of diabetes. Through this valuable resource, members can learn about health risks and prevention, find support from women who really "get" diabetes, and learn how to advocate better for themselves and others with the disease.
When I met Brandy in 2009, DiabetesSisters had a uniquely empowering and diverse online community where women shared triumphs, mistakes, accomplishments, and laughter. Since then, the membership has grown to over 10,000 people, and Brandy and her team have expanded their programs by adding the PODS (Part of DiabetesSisters) Meetup program, a conference series (see "Sisters and Friends"), and Life Class webinars.
Over the past seven years, Brandy and DiabetesSisters have changed the lives of thousands of women with diabetes by welcoming them into the haven of their sisterhood. They have created bonds that reach beyond a diabetes diagnosis, educating and supporting women through some of their most challenging life stages with diabetes: dating, pregnancy, motherhood, menopause, and more.
The organization's mission is one I can get behind, so when Brandy and her team approached me with an opportunity to help bring the diabetes community together for a DiabetesSisters social media meetup featuring my DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy) Live radio show, I could not resist. I was honored and happy to oblige.
Last year, I attended my first DiabetesSisters conference in San Francisco. I was a little nervous walking through the door, but as soon as I saw 100 women going through the same challenges as I was and talking openly about them, I felt at home. The education, information, and stories were life changing and made me realize that I need to be surrounded by "sisters"—sisters, like Brandy Barnes, who understand my diabetes and me.
Author's Note: Cherise Shockley was diagnosed with latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) in 2004. She is the founder and creator of Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) and conducts weekly live Twitter chats and Blog Talk Radio shows for people affected by diabetes. She's a speaker and presenter on the topic of social media and health.
ARTICLE COURTESY OF DIABETES FORECAST MAGAZINE: http://www.diabetesforecast.org/2014/10-oct/people-to-know-2014-brandy.html
(C) Diabetes Forecast, October 2014
For more information, visit: http://www.diabetessisters.org


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Bucharest, Romania. On June 21, 2012, the Romanian Athenaeum is hosting the second edition of NGLR's (National Grand Lodge of Romania) Gala Awards. The event will be opened by the President of the Romanian Academy, in the presence of Grand Master Radu Balanescu, NGLR's officials and guests of honor.
This year, as last year, will be awarded prizes for excellence in seven categories: Exact Science, Applied Science, Medicine, Economics, Diplomacy/Political Science, Education/Environment/Social, Arts/Culture.


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After a summer of deep contemplation, Dwyane Wade has announced his intentions to return to the Miami Heat for one more season. The 12-time All-Star delivered the news in a YouTube video titled "One Last Dance..." that was published Sunday.
"I feel like it's right to ask you guys to join me for one last dance, for one last season," Wade said. "This is it. I've given this game everything that I have, and I'm happy about that. I'm going to give it for one last season, everything else I have left."
During the 10-minute video, Wade went into detail about the factors that played into the decision and how his life's journey built up to what will be his final NBA season. His mentioned his family frequently, and thanked both them and his fans profusely.
"I feel like my family has put me first for so many years, for good reasons," Wade said. "But I feel like there comes a point in time where we all got to think about someone else, especially the ones around you that have supported you, supported your dream, supported your journey like my family has."
Wade was emotionally forthcoming about the toll of losing Chicago native and former agent Henry Thomas to a neuromuscular disease in January.
"With him not being there last year, that was it," Wade admitted. "I lost something in this game. Me getting traded back to Miami, it helped, but it wasn't enough.
The former fifth overall pick, however, cited his love of the game and the journey it has given him.
"This decision is bigger than the game of basketball," Wade said. "This decision don't have nothing to do with the talent in my body."
Last season, Wade averaged 16.3 points on 44.3 percent shooting in the Heat's first-round playoff elimination by the Philadelphia 76ers, scoring 28 points in Game 2 and 25 in Game 4.
Shortly after being traded to the Heat, Wade told ESPN in an interview that he wanted to be with the Heat 'forever' and that he did not want a Kobe Bryant-like farewell season.
It was an encouraging finish individually, after Wade had averaged 12.0 points with 40.9 percent accuracy in the 21 games he played after being dealt from Cleveland at the February trade deadline.
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I've been receiving Happy Birthday notes throughout today via e-mail and Facebook – some short, some lengthy. Just want to say, "Thank you!" to all for helping make this #29 special, even though I'm overseas.
Was blessed to get to spend this birthday in Venice, Italy. Had one full layover day here before heading onwards to Indonesia tomorrow morning.
So today was spent enjoying the sights of Venice… luckily I didn't have to do it alone but joined with some other backpacker travelers I met at my hostel (a Filipino, a Mexican, and an Argentinian!). It was definitely a unique, interesting, and memorable day.
As fun as Venice was, I think just having a cookout back at Mom and Dad's house with family (and perhaps some chocolate birthday cake as well) would have been more fun. But hey, you take what you can, eh?
Here are several pictures from today:


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Changing Lives – Career Mentoring for Girls
Leichhardt Women's Community Health Centre and SOS Women's Services are extremely pleased to be the first winners of a fantastic new philanthropic grant by Impact100 Sydney. Impact100 Sydney is a sub-fund of Sydney Community Foundation and the $100,000 grant will enable us to run a career mentoring program for young women who are receiving support from Sydney's girls refuges – Lillians and The Girls' Refuge.
It was a very competitive process – we're thrilled we were selected out of 52 competitors and are extremely grateful to the organisers and all the members who contributed donations to allow this wonderful program to go ahead.
The program will see 40 girls over two years mentored by local businesswomen, health, youth and childcare workers and others in their area of interest, helping the girls gain valuable on-the-job experience and guidance from experienced women.
Both refuges have a strong focus on education, and the program is an exciting addition to the work we do. A key aim of the program is to provide girls with an inspirational environment and a personal contact in their chosen field which will help them identify the kind of study and work they'd like to do in future.
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Big thanks to the Inner West Courier for its support – here's their front-page story from April 2017. You can also watch a video here:
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My mom moved recently. They downsized. Selling their almost 400 acres of rolling farm land and moving into a beautiful home nestled on 40 wooded acres. We were out there recently, the kids and I, and mom wanted to show me her newest discovery on the property. Two pear trees laden with fruit.
As the kids and I were admiring the trees one of the kids noticed the small pond near the fruit trees. It's pretty nasty, for a pond. The water's completely green. It even smells funky. I tuned out the conversation as Grandma patiently explained to the kids the reason for the ponds yuckiness.
I remember their old pond. It was a glorious pond, as far as ponds go. It was quite big. They had built a dock that we loved fishing off of. There was a small paddle boat that the kids (and grown-ups) loved to jump in and float lazily around the pond in. Then there were the non-human inhabitants of the pond. Fish galore… sunfish, catfish, and, on a good day, some pretty big bass. Geese and ducks were regular visitors to the pond. Year after year as they migrated south they would stop and spend a few weeks at the pond. The dogs loved it, the horses loved it, the deer were crazy about it. Like I said, it was a glorious pond.
But the pond at the new house… yuck. I would never dream of spending a relaxing afternoon along its banks. I'm sure there are animal inhabitants in the new pond. We haven't seen many, but we've heard them. Frogs mostly. Not that there's anything wrong with frogs…
Lately my attitude seems more like the scummy pond, than the big beautiful pond.
This morning I remembered something my mom said that day by the pear trees. She said the pond was yucky because it didn't have a source of fresh water.
The pond at the farm was spring fed. The spring fed not only the pond, but the house and farm as well. It was the only source of fresh water on the nearly 400 acres. And it never once ran dry.
But the new pond had no spring. Nothing fresh was coming in. It just sat there. Collecting algae and scum.
Perhaps that's my problem too. Maybe I need a good spring. Cool refreshing water pouring over my soul, washing away the scum and stink. Living Water found only in Christ Jesus.
Maybe then my attitude will begin to change and life will return to this stagnant soul.


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The review of a cover of Marware MicroShell Folio for iPad 2: as Smart Cover met a prestigious slip from polycarbonate
To protect iPad 2 it is possible differently. Apple Smart Cover practically does not increase device dimensions, very kavayny piece possesses functionality of a support and, in general. But it does not protect the back panel of a tablet. It is possible to use together with «a clever plaid» any slip, like such here cheap Chinese or expensive and prestigious, for example, from SGP or though what other known office. As a whole leaves perfectly, but Smart Cover in itself weighs decently, and besides the slip — a tablet becomes much heavier. There are any noteworthy leather options, like decisions from Teemmeet or Dublon, but to some people they seem bulky. At present I suggest to consider Marware MicroShell Folio cover — a usual hybrid of Smart Cover and a technological slip which protects 97 % of the area of a tablet and the firm accessory of Apple possesses wider functionality, than.
Packing, design and design
With packing of an accessory of Marware did not begin to subtilize and hid it in ordinary cardboard boxing with cut through which it is possible to feel a material of a cover protecting the screen. It, by the way, very pleasant to the touch, but to it we will return later. I will note high quality both the cardboard, and polygraphy. From a reverse side of a box it is possible to esteem about features of MicroShell Folio.
The box quite big and perfectly protects a cover. To me it got in very rumpled view with obvious traces of blows on corners — our mail watches, as they say. Well and the accessory arrived in a soft post cellophane envelope which disposes to safety of contents. After all, the cover appeared is whole — packing демпфировала blows, plus a product quite strong.
The cover is executed in an interesting color palette: a cover black, and a slip grayish — a cool combination for the people preferring a classical coloring. The internal part of a slip silvery also is covered with a protective film which before introduction of an accessory is necessary for removing.
The cover is executed from a material pleasant to the touch with Soft Touch covering. On a design it is similar to Smart Cover, not including that is connected to a plastic slip and consists of the 3rd sections instead of 4. The internal part of a cover is identical external, and in a firm plaid microfiber inside is used. In this case it is more quick plus as the covering practically is not soiled and is simply cleared, while microfiber is quickly enough bedraggled. The cover material a little reminds polyurethane in Smart Cover, but in MicroShell Folio it more smooth and becomes soiled less.
The plastic slip is made of polycarbonate though its invoice absolutely differs from that in white MacBook. It opaque, slightly rough and soft to the touch, practically is not soiled and simply cleared. Pair of acting edges is used for fixing of a cover and for additional protection of a slip against scratches. Besides for them with comfort to detain a tablet when carrying. In a slip there are all necessary cuts for sockets and hardware buttons.
The internal part of a slip smooth also seems, what even prorezinenny. Such the back panel of a tablet precisely will not scratch. Any flaws of punching, sharp sides or corners are not present. Everything is made very accurately.
Acquaintance to Marware MicroShell Folio.
Cover operating experience … should be torn off a vinyl film
On iPad the accessory keeps at the expense of malekhanky ledges on internal sides and to cover placement on a tablet I had an incident. Engineers of Marware so precisely everything calculated, what even the very narrow vinyl sticker of SGP on the back iPad 2 panel appeared a hindrance to its placement in MicroShell Folio.
First I even had thoughts on accessory marriage, simply was not believed that the film can disturb. But tests on another's tablet dispelled all doubts, and it was necessary to get rid of a sticker. Well, it is necessary to test perfectly a cover, and with another's tablet it to make it is unreal. But it is better to behold time, than 100 times to read. Attempt of a tension of a cover on a tablet with a sticker and the subsequent disposal of the last, also the description of functional features of MicroShell Folio are shown on video below.
As the prestigious film with iPad 2 for the sake of use of more prestigious cover, plus the description of its features was torn off.
On a tablet the cover keeps very strong — no free wheeling and a superfluous sheveleniye is present. It is possible to stir strenuously iPad on a cover (as it was made in the course of 1 of tests) and it will not drop out of MicroShell Folio.
Not including that, I wish to note separately the weight of a product making only 175 g that the little more than at Smart Cover (about 140 g). Already there are many models of similar covers from different materials, beginning from silicone and finishing skin, but in the majority they weigh from 300 g and more, and it is already decent increase to mass of a tablet which in that case on this indicator simply comes nearer to 11,6-inch MacBook Air. And when using MicroShell Folio the accessory will weigh slightly more than iPad of the first generation.
Also the accessory is very thin. In the general difficulty it increases thickness of a tablet by only 3,5 mm (1,7 mm — a back slip, 1,8 mm — a cover). The next printsipny moment consists available in a cover of the built-in magnets, in other words he the machine gun sends iPad 2 in a dream and deduces it from this mode too. In everyday operation it is very comfortable function. By the way, the cover even covers loudspeaker punching, but in it there are special openings and I did not see negative impact on a sound.
Pair of edges on the back panel slightly increases dimensions of all design, but it is additional protection against scratches of a slip and as I mentioned above, against them with comfort to rest fingers at tablet deduction on weight and its carrying. In the course of use found the next plus of this feature of design of a product — edges raise a tablet over a surface and to take it from a table one hand becomes much more conveniently.
When using cover as a support, provisions at it on one more than at Apple Smart Cover. There is an ordinary option for the press with an inclination in 120 ° that is slightly higher, than at the Apple accessory, but it does not affect convenience, and to someone, for example, to me, such option even was pleasant more. There is a situation for a mode of a photoframe or video v
iewing with an inclination in 165 ° (slightly less, than at the original, but too special troubles does not cause). Also there is a certain average situation with an inclination in 150 °. For me it appeared comfortable video when viewing during time перекуса when the tablet lies on a table. In 2 last cases of an edge are used for cover fixing in a certain situation.
I will note that in a mode of a photoframe of MicroShell Folio keeps a tablet more reliably, than Smart Cover. As to a press mode then there are features. In Smart Cover the plaid keeps in the combined condition at the expense of magnets, and the tablet can be lifted, transferred to other place and to lower in the same mode of the press, without doing any superfluous actions. In a considered accessory the cover keeps at the expense of tablet weight. Lifted it, and the plaid was developed. In general, it with comfort as it is possible to close one movement a cover but in case it is required to rearrange simply a tablet in other place and to continue to print, it is necessary to turn off a cover in the necessary situation again.
The general memoirs from Marware MicroShell Folio use only the positive. At the 1st look the cover is executed from ordinary materials. It seems that furnish from skin would look more richly and more interestingly. For someone it, maybe, really so, well and the considered accessory too is not so simple, as it seems at the 1st look. Actually in it are used technological, strong, quite expensive and that the most important, comfortable materials. It how to compare market leather sneakers of basement production to firm footwear. In the first case it seems as the genuine leather, a thick strong sole, but each sneaker weighs on kg, and the foot in it sweats, and some it inconvenient, there presses, here rubs. In the 2nd case the footwear legenky, standing actually is not felt, materials though not natural, but very strong, the product passed a heap of tests and tests that as a result pours out in the greatest convenience of its use.
At all «I roll a barrel» on leather covers of a design similar to Marware MicroShell Folio from known brands. There too everything is thought over, but, besides — the weight in any case is more, dimensions too. Though, to everyone, as they say, the. Feelings from greatly dressed skin under fingers too very pleasant, well and the tablet will look become more respectable.
Marware MicroShell Folio costs expensive — $70 on a site of the producer and from $85 and is more expensive on native open spaces. After all, the product wholly fulfills the means and if you wish to protect greatly the tablet, this accessory is a good choice.
P.S. When only started to use a cover, in minuses longed to enlist pair of edges on the back panel, but in some days thought that this very useful and necessary addition. Respectively, personally I did not find the negative moments in MicroShell Folio.
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For one hour drinks were off at First Nugget Hotel, Bathurst, as the result of an order made by Mr. Le Brun Brown (chairman of the Licenses Reduction Board) for the license of the hotel to be suspended between 6am and 7am. This was a nominal penalty for failure of the licensee and owner to carry out improvements ordered two years ago.
– The Inverell Times Friday 7 October 1932
- The First Nugget Hotel was demolished in 1939 and replaced with the Tourist Hotel in 1940. The Tourist Hotel closed in the 1990s and the licence transferred to the Snow Valley Hotel-Motel, Kosciusko Road, East Jindabyne. More: First Nugget Hotel.
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Early Wake-Ups?
I'm blaming it on her teething and maybe a little hunger because she didn't want dinner last night. And that's the thing. She doesn't seem as hungry when she teethes. So, it's like a catch-22. I think she might wake up due to hunger. But, then her body doesn't/can't (?) get back to sleep and rest until a comfortable 8 am.
Hope your teething babies are doing well.
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Missy, we had this problem for a while too. What we would do is...for a couple of nights, lay Cole back down with his binkie and blanket until he went back to sleep until the time he would normally wake up. (Re-establishing a schedule.) Sometimes we'll give him medicine if he's acting like he's in pain and try to lay him back down.ReplyDelete
If she's hungry though, that makes it tough. I would always makes sure she is not hungry, wet or in pain before I try to put her back down. (But I know you know that)
I don't know. We've had serious napping issues because of teeth. For his afternoon nap today, I stuck to my guns and layed him back down over and over until his normal nap time was over...but he never slept. He did rest though, and we were keeping to our routine because I knew he was OK.
This is one of the hardest things I've experienced with motherhood...Cole not sleeping. It seems to get better, and then go back to chaos. Just remember, teething will throw off your routine. Eventually it will get back to normal. Sorry you're up sooooo early.
I think we have the opposite problem right now. Izzy not wanting to go to sleep. It is so frustrating. Every night has been a struggle since Friday. This weekend her schedule was so thrown off that she was taking late naps and not going to bed until 9.30pm. Last night I just left her in there at 7.30 and she eventually went to sleep. Her bedtime is usually 7pm.ReplyDelete
I think sleeping issues have been a problem for all three us. I blame Iz's problems on teething too. And also maybe jet lag, even though we've been home for a couple weeks.
It's the worst when they are happily up that early, because you know getting back to sleep is impossible. Poor you. 5.30am is way too early for a mom to start the day.
Dr Weissbluth says maybe to make the bedtime earlier? I don't know. I just read what he said. Let us know how it goes. You must be exhausted.
Not sleeping and eating are two of the huge signs that Cole shows when he gets an ear infection. It's pretty common with new teeth. Maybe you want to get that checked??ReplyDelete
I'm wondering if it could be an ear infection now. She has not been wanting to eat (solids) very much and last night she was up at 10:30 and 2:30 and 3:40-4:30. Weird. I can see her tooth bumping, but it hasn't broken the skin yet. Could it be an ear infection?ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tip Lindsey on going to be early. But, her bedtime is 6:30. She usually sleeps 6:30-6 or 6:30. Should I make it earlier? She took two naps yesterday so I thought her 6:30 bedtime was appropriate.
I'm sorry she's taking late naps. That's strange. And doesn't it make your whole evening harder when they go to bed later?


text: The game seems geared towards a younger crowd, but even older enthusiasts are bound to be miffed by its sheer complexity. That said, every new day – yes, you have to rest and sleep as well – seems to reveal a new twist, whether it's more dialogue choices, a surprise event, additional goods to buy at the store or even just a sudden rain shower. But provided you've got the patience to stick out the adventure, and learn through trial-and-error, who are we kidding? Vast and impressive as the sheer array of activities and amusements on offer here is, Pony World Deluxe proves well-worth a roll in the hay.


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If all goes as planned, a Minnesota developer will begin construction in mid-October on the 90-unit Cedar Pond Townhomes development on 11.2 acres south of Williams Boulevard and north of Wilson Avenue SW.
The developer, EverGreen Real Estate Development, Prior Lake, Minn., on Wednesday was awarded $15.3 million in federal affordable-housing tax credits by the Iowa Finance Authority to help fund the project.
Greg McClenahan, president of EverGreen, said the firm's plan was to start construction by Oct. 15 and be complete in a year.
The city's Replacement Housing Task Force and the City Council, on a 6-2 vote in late March, backed the project over some objections from neighbors.
"It's been a long process," McClenahan said Wednesday afternoon. "I feel gratified that the city has been a big supporter of the project."
Cedar Pond will feature 48 two-bedroom units and 42 three-bedroom ones with one of the units for an on-site manager.
The units are targeted to households who earn 60 percent or less of the area's median family incomes.
McClenahan has other rental complexes in Iowa. A University of Iowa graduate, he was at the University of Iowa this week going through freshman orientation with his son.


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Idris Elba is from London. Thus, he's an Arsenal fan. Because his team has been cast over the past decade as The Big Engine That Can't, he's had to endure repeated humiliations and ridicule at the hands of the Gunners' rivals. Now that the shoe's on the other foot with regards to Chelsea's God-forsaken season, he's enjoying every moment:
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Amazon Web Services recently released a white paper describing how to deploy highly available SQL 2012 instance in AWS Cloud. It is quite interesting reading as Amazon AWS Cloud is not usually associated with running traditional enterprise applications that are not designed for fail. This is mainly because AWS does not offer infrastructure level high availability as is common with clouds based on vSphere which offer by default vSphere HA.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups are built on top of Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) but do not require any shared block storage or storage replication and therefore are good candidate for deployment into public clouds which do not offer such highly available infrastructure. While reading the white paper I wondered what would be the experience and difference of deploying such setup into vCloud type public cloud. As i am currently testing VMware vCloud Hybrid Service Cloud (vCHS) I just for fun deployed SQL 2012 cluster into it.
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Before I will describe the exercise let's talk about the reasons why to do this. We want to deploy an application into public cloud that requires SQL database with requirements for availability higher than the cloud provider is offering. vCloud clouds with vSphere High Availability usually provide 99.9% availability but that might be not enough if higher availability is required or if we want geo-protection. vSphere HA also does not help if we want to do rolling patch updates of the underlying Microsoft OS (every patch Tuesday).
We can deploy multiple WSFC cluster nodes with SQL DB running on each one into multiple availability zones or multiple regions of one vCloud provider or even to clouds provided by different vCloud providers.
In short SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups are logical containers of databases and a unit of failover. Each set of availability database is hosted by an availability replica where there is always one read-write primary replica and one or more read-only secondary replicas ready for failover. Primary replica sends transaction logs to the secondary replicas so there is no need for shared storage. AlwaysOn Availability Groups run on top of WSFC cluster who takes care of the resource monitoring, quorum and failover of the resources in case of node failure.
I have closely followed the whitepaper design mentioned above. Using two cloud availability zones connected with VPN connectivity (provided by Org VDC Edge Gateways) I have deployed two node cluster in different subnets. As all the nodes need to be in the same Active Directory domain I have also set up in each cloud replicated domain controller/DNS. As we have even number of cluster nodes it is also necessary to provide a file share witness. For simplicity I have used one provided by one of the domain controllers but this might not be a good strategy for production deployments as failure of the availability zone where the node and the witness file share are running would render the cluster unusable as the surviving node would not be able to establish majority and the fail over would have to be forced manually. In production we would deploy the witness file share or third node into third availability zone (on-premise data center).
i have not include any application logic and all my testing was done from on-premise simple ODBC connected test application.
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Here are high level deployment steps (more detail around the MSFC and SQL configuration is in the Amazon whitepaper).
- Create OrgVDC networks in both clouds
- On Edge Gateways establish Virtual Private Network between clouds
- On Edge Gateways create firewall rules in both clouds to allow communication between all networks.
As can be seen from the screenshot I did not go very granular just for the sake of implicity and lazines.
- Deploy VMs (Windows 2012) for the domain controllers and create the domain. Create also DNAT rule on the Edge Gateways to be able to access domain controllers from the internet (RDP: TCP port 3389) so they can act as jump servers. Optionally create SNAT rule to be able to reach internet (for updates, downloads, etc.)
On the screenshot below you can see also DNAT rule for the SQL AvailabilityGroup Listener (port 5023).
I have used 10.9.2.101 and 10.10.2.101 IP addresses for the Windows Node VMs, 10.9.2.102 and 10.10.2.102 for the WSFC cluster nodes and 10.9.2.103 and 10.10.2.103 for the avaliability group listener.
- Create (witness) file share on the first domain controller
- Deploy cluster nodes, add them to domain and create the cluster with Node and File Share Majority Quorum.
- Install SQL 2012 on both nodes, and enable AlwaysOn Availability in SQL Server Configuration Manager.
- On one of the nodes with SQL Server Management Studio create test SQL database in full recovery mode.
- Still in SQL Server Management Studio create the Availability Group. For initial database synchronization (full backup and restore) we will need another share (Replica) which I also created on the first domain controller. We will also setup listener.
As was mentioned in the step 4 I have created DNAT rules for the listener IP addresses in each cloud and thus published the database to the internet. On the client PC I have installed SQL ODBC 11 driver that supports always on availability and set up the database connection. As my client was not in the same domain I had to create a DNS records for the listener IPs and connect with SQL authentication. As the listener IPs are in different subnets, multi subnet failover must be enabled in the driver which means that it will try to create parallel connections to all listener IP addresses which will result in much faster failover. in my tests (I tried node failures and split brain scenario) it took about 10 seconds.
That is it. I recommend following Microsoft whitepaper for more information about SQL High Availability.
In the Amazon whitepaper the cloud infrastructure creation and configuration steps (networks, NAT instances, security groups, IP assignments) were done with (fairly complex) CloudFormation templates. I am not aware of any similar tool for vCloud that would create with vCloud API Org VDC infrastructure snapshot which could be reused to quickly redeploy to another Org VDC but it did not take me that much time to create it through vCloud GUI.


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Littleton Primary Care Doctor Dr. Andy Fine Reminds People to Sign up for Insurance before It's Too Late
December 19, 2013 (PRLEAP.COM) Health NewsDENVER, CO December 19, 2013 - Health insurance coverage is required under the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, ACA, or, informally "Obamacare"), but not everyone needs to be concerned about this. For more than 80% of Americans, those who were previously covered by either an employer or by Medicare or Medicaid, nothing is visibly changing. For other Americans, including those who purchase private insurance or who had no insurance, the deadline for having adequate healthcare coverage is approaching.
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Some people who have previously purchased their health insurance privately will be able to keep their insurance after 2014, if the plan hasn't seen any major changes since the ACA went into effect in March 2010. However, this only includes full insurance plans, not catastrophic insurance or mini-med plans that Consumer Reports labeled "junk" insurance.
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In order to meet the standard of health insurance for the purposes of the ACA, an insurance plan must cover all the following:
The amount that each plan must cover for your care depends on whether you are purchasing a bronze, silver, or gold plan. But all new qualifying plans must eliminate lifetime spending limits, remove restrictions about pre-existing conditions, and have an out-of-pocket maximum.
Dr. Andy Fine says, "For many people the coverage for preventive care will prove to be not only a good value, but a good incentive to find a primary care doctor that can help them improve their health."
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If you are looking for a plan that meets the requirements of the ACA in Colorado, then you should visit ConnectforHealthCO.com, the state's official healthcare exchange. There you will be able to apply for qualifying health insurance plans, and find out whether you qualify for subsidies under the law.
People who do not sign up for qualifying care or have an appropriate grandfathered plan will have to pay a penalty. The penalty will be equal to 1% of your annual income (up to the average annual premium for a Bronze plan) or $95 per adult and $47.50 per child up to a maximum of $285 per family per year.
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I had a bloomin amazing long weekend in Madrid that was made even better by this beauty of a dress from Urban Outfitters that I got for my birthday a few weeks ago. It reminds me of a Calvin Klein kinda dress if you will – it's simple but the cut and material make it feel just lavely. I've also loved this bag from ASOS for a while and after almost 60 days in my 'Saved Basket' I took the plunge and parted with my £28. I've only got about 498 other things in my ASOS basket now. Home-made Christmas gifts for the family this year…?


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Super Meat Boy Developer To EA: DRM Hurts Your Bottom Line More Than Piracy Does
from the EA-is-so-hardcore-it-only-plays-PR-in-'Nightmare-Mode' dept
The wheels have now come completely off EA's DRMobile, thanks to its botched SimCity launch that was marred by server issues, long lines at the refund counter and some amazingly bad coding, all held together by Maxis GM Lucy Bradshaw's irrepressible bullshit-spinning. The backlash has been enormous and EA is likely wishing it was back in the good old days when Spore (remember that backlash?) was nothing more than harmless vaporware.
It's safe to say that EA has almost single-handedly run the
good highly-tarnished name of DRM and internet-only requirements into the ground, finishing the job Diablo 3 began last year. Many gamers have pointed out the futility of these anti-piracy (and anti-cheating/hacking) efforts as well as unleashed their fury at being handed a worthless, broken-on-purpose product in exchange for their money.
And it's not just angry customers making noise. Super Meat Boy developer Tommy Refenes has weighed in with his thoughts on EA's open hostility towards its paying customers. (It's a truly excellent post, and I would encourage you to click through and read the entire article.)
The first problem he sees with EA's actions is its insistence on using intangible losses from piracy to shape its software development.
I think I can safely say that Super Meat Boy has been pirated at least 200,000 times. We are closing in on 2 million sales and assuming a 10% piracy to sales ratio does not seem unreasonable. As a forward thinking developer who exists in the present, I realize and accept that a pirated copy of a digital game does not equate to money being taken out of my pocket. Team Meat shows no loss in our year end totals due to piracy and neither should any other developer.This last sentence goes against the ingrained thinking of many in the content industries. These industries tend to conjure up huge loss numbers year after year to justify DRM, always-online requirements and a general push for more anti-piracy efforts (including legislation.) To them, every illegal download is a lost sale. It has to be, otherwise the entire premise behind their actions falls apart. (Contrast this all-too-common reaction with Edmund McMillen's [Tommy Refenes' partner at Team Meat] disappointment that Super Meat Boy wasn't charting higher on the Pirate Bay's download charts.)
Creative accounting is the norm in these industries and nothing is more creative than showing a loss you can't possibly quantify, as Refenes points out.
Loss due to piracy is an implied loss because it is not a calculable loss. You cannot, with any accuracy, state that because your game was pirated 300 times you lost 300 sales. You cannot prove even one lost sale because there is no evidence to state that any one person who pirated your game would have bought your game if piracy did not exist. From an accounting perspective it's speculative and a company cannot accurately determine loss or gain based on speculative accounting.Accuracy isn't really the aim when it comes to justifying the punishment of your paying customers. In order to get them to accept broken software wrapped in restrictive licenses, they first must be made to believe that millions and millions of dollars are lost each year to piracy. They must be at least somewhat convinced that EA (and Ubisoft, among others) were "forced" to insert crippling coding in order to keep the company afloat in a sea of pirating pirates.
But what have these companies actually lost when something is pirated? Is that "cost" greater than the very real cost of returning a customer's money to them? EA doesn't seem to understand there's more than one way to lose a sale.
After the frustrations with SimCity I asked Origin for a refund and received one. This was money they had and then lost a few days later. Applying our earlier conversation about calculable loss, there is a loss that is quantifiable, that will show up in accounting spreadsheets and does take away from profit. That loss is the return, and it is much more dangerous than someone stealing your game...For some reason, many content companies cannot see the truth in this statement. Even though they can't prove that a pirated copy equals a lost sale, they continue to act as though piracy is a greater threat to their business than an angry customer base. For companies like EA, the customer base is large enough that it can usually be shrugged off. For smaller companies, this sort of thinking can do much more damage. In either case, negative experiences do no favors for content creators, especially in an era where people have thousands of entertainment options at their fingertips, 24 hours a day.
In the retail world, you could potentially put a return back on the shelf, you could find another customer that wants it, sell it to them and there would be virtually no loss. In the digital world, because there is no set amount of goods, you gain nothing back (one plus infinity is still infinity). It's only a negative experience. A negative frustrating experience for a customer should be considered more damaging than a torrent of your game.
Refenes brings the fight to developers (like Maxis) who use "lost sale" figures pulled from the ether to justify the addition of DRM.
I challenge a developer to show evidence that accurately shows implementation of DRM is a return on investment and that losses due to piracy can be calculated. I do not believe this is possible.Any honest developer simply can't do this. Pointing to something like a download total from The Pirate Bay doesn't definitively show anything more than the number of times that title was downloaded. Anything else is merely a theory, and a pretty weak one at that. But Refenes has a suggestion, one all content creators should take to heart.
I do believe people are less likely to pirate your software if the software is easy to buy, easy to run, and does what is advertised.Why this instead of fighting piracy? Because taking away the free option just isn't enough.
People have to WANT to buy your software, people have to WANT to support you. People need to care about your employees and your company's well being. There is no better way to achieve that than making sure what you put out there is the best you can do and you treat your customers with respect.EA clearly has little respect for its customers. The frontmouth of Maxis, whether using her own words or having them supplied from higher up, proved this with a week of complete denialism. There was no respect from launch day forward. Every new hole in EA's story was greeted with re-confirmation of the same story, occasionally mixed with a bit of hedging.
The developers at Team Meat obviously respect their customers and have been rewarded for their efforts. Even with evidence of massive piracy staring them in the face, they never opted to cripple their game with a "piracy speedbump" that would have adversely affected those who chose to give them their hard-earned money.
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I tried to search around for a way to access my windows partition from within Linux. I was unable to mount the same using "mount" command. I read of a tool "ntfs-config" as well, this too didn't work for me.
Please share if anyone out there has an idea on how we can access the windows partition (NTFS) from within Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick.


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A TON of projects have been added to the Friday Inspiration File this week, #234. I think about 17 projects! This photo just show a few from a some new {to the file} faces.
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STAMPtember is in full swing. So many new products have been released and some have special release dates throughout the month. WPlus9 has an exclusive set coming out on September 12th. I was lucky enough to receive a copy of the set and I have been sharing sneak peeks on Instagram. I thought I would share them with you here as well!
Have a great weekend! We finally broke down and replaced our bed. Our old one was 10 years old and we were both waking up in pain. We put off buying a new one because they can be so expensive but finally said, "We've got to do it!" The new bed was delivered this morning and I can't wait to go to sleep tonight. Even better? Waking up tomorrow without back pain!


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