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Malibu Media LLC v. Does 1-14
Filing 43
OPINION AND ORDER DENYING 12 MOTION to Quash by Defendant John Does 1-14; 13 MOTION to Sever John Doe #6 by Defendant John Does 1-14; 17 MOTION to Sever of John Doe No. 7 by Defendant John Does 1-14. Signed by Magistrate Judge Roger B Cosbey on 12/3/12. (cer)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA FORT WAYNE DIVISION MALIBU MEDIA, LLC, Plaintiff, v. JOHN DOES 1-14, Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) CAUSE NO. 1:12-CV-263 OPINION AND ORDER I. INTRODUCTION This copyright infringement action is before the Court on Defendant John Doe No. 6's Motions to Quash (Docket # 12) and to Sever Does 2-14 (Docket # 13) and Defendant John Doe No. 7's Motion to Sever John Doe Defendants 2-14 (Docket # 17). Plaintiff Malibu Media, LLC, responded to all three motions. (Docket # 34, 35, 37.) Although Doe No. 7 replied in support of his motion to sever (Docket # 40), Doe No. 6 did not submit a reply to either of his motions, and the time to do so has since passed. As such, the motions are now ripe for ruling. For the following reasons, the motion to quash and both motions to sever will be DENIED. II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Plaintiff Malibu Media, LLC, a producer of adult entertainment content, owns the copyright for a motion picture entitled "Romantic Memories." (Compl. ¶ 11; Def. John Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever John Doe Defs. 2-14 ("Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever") 1.) Plaintiff alleges that each of the Doe Defendants unlawfully downloaded and shared this copyrighted work using the BitTorrent file sharing protocol. (See Compl. ¶¶ 10, 33.) According to the Complaint, 1 BitTorrent is one of the most common peer-to-peer file sharing protocols used for distributing large amounts of data. (Compl. ¶ 14.) It is able to distribute a large file without creating a heavy load on the source computer and network by allowing users to join a "swarm" of host computers to download and upload from each other simultaneously. (Compl. ¶ 15.) Plaintiff retained computer investigators to identify the Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses associated with the people using the BitTorrent protocol to reproduce or distribute its copyrighted works, including "Romantic Memories," which was identified by a "Unique Hash Number." (Compl. ¶ 36; see Compl.¶¶ 38-39.) The investigation revealed that the 14 IP addresses attached as Exhibit A to the Complaint had copied a piece of "Romantic Memories," as identified by its Unique Hash Number. (Compl. ¶¶ 38-39; see Compl. Ex. A.) The individuals using these 14 IP addresses engaged in these transactions on different dates or times between May 22, 2012, and June 23, 2012. (See Compl. Ex. A.) But Plaintiff maintains that each Defendant was part of the same series of transactions (Compl. ¶ 39(B)), stating that "each Defendant peer member participated in the same swarm and directly interacted and communicated with other members of that swarm through digital handshakes, the passing along of computer instructions, uploading and downloading, and by other types of transmissions" (Compl. ¶ 33). As such, on July 30, 2012, Plaintiff brought a single copyright infringement suit against all 14 Doe Defendants, alleging that each Defendant was jointly and severally liable for the infringing activities of each of the other Defendants; that the infringement was part of a series of transactions, involving the exact same torrent file of the copyrighted work, and was accomplished by Defendants acting in concert with each other; and that there were common 2 questions of law and fact. (Compl. ¶ 10.) Because the Defendants were only known by their IP addresses, Plaintiff—after receiving leave from this Court to do so (Docket # 5, 6)—served third party subpoenas on the Internet Service Providers ("ISPs") (Comcast and Embarq) that assigned these IP addresses to discover the name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and Media Access Control address of the Defendant associated with each IP address (see Docket # 32, 33). Doe No. 6 subsequently moved both to quash the subpoena directed to Comcast (Docket # 12) and to sever Does 2-14 from the action (Docket # 13). Doe No. 7 also filed a motion to sever Does 2-14. (Docket # 17.) The Court will first address the motion to quash and then will consider both motions to sever. III. THE MOTION TO QUASH Although Plaintiff has issued two subpoenas in this case, one directed to Comcast Corporation (Docket # 32) and a second directed to Embarq Corporation (Docket # 33), Doe No. 6 moves to quash only the subpoena directed to Comcast, which seeks the subscriber information of Does 1-13 (see Docket # 12-1). A. Standard Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45(a) permits the issuance of subpoenas to produce documents and other tangible things in the custody or control of a person. Richter v. Mut. of Omaha Ins. Co., No. 06-Misc.-011, 2006 WL 1277906, at *2 (E.D. Wis. May 5, 2006); see Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(a). Under Rule 45, a court must quash or modify a subpoena if it fails to allow a reasonable time to comply; requires a person who is neither a party nor a party's officer to travel more than 100 miles; requires disclosure of privileged or other protected matter, if no exception or waiver applies; or subjects a person to undue burden. Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(c)(3)(A)(i)-(iv). 3 Furthermore, to protect a person subject to or affected by a subpoena, a court may quash a subpoena if it requires disclosure of a trade secret or other confidential information, disclosure of an unretained expert's opinion, or a person who is neither a party nor a party's officer to incur substantial expenses to travel more than 100 miles to attend trial. Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(c)(3)(B)(i)(iii). The party seeking to quash a subpoena under Rule 45(c)(3)(A) bears the burden of demonstrating that the information sought is privileged or subjects a person to an undue burden. Illiana Surgery & Med. Ctr. LLC v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co., No. 2:07 cv 3, 2012 WL 776694, at *3 (N.D. Ind. Mar. 7, 2012) (citation omitted); see Pettit v. City of Columbus, No. 104CV1464JDTTAB, 2005 WL 2218373, at *1 (S.D. Ind. Sept. 9, 2005); Jones v. Hirschfield, 219 F.R.D. 71, 74-75 (S.D.N.Y. 2003) ("The burden of persuasion in a motion to quash a subpoena . . . is borne by the movant."); Wahuchop v. Domino's Pizza, Inc., 138 F.R.D. 539, 543 (N.D. Ind. 1991). As with other discovery issues, deciding whether to grant a motion to quash lies within the sound discretion of the district court. Sullivan v. Gurtner Plumbing, Inc., No. 11cv-6261, 2012 WL 896159, at *1 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 13, 2012) (citing United States v. Ashman, 979 F.2d 469, 495 (7th Cir. 1992)). B. Standing Although Plaintiff does not raise the issue, the Court will briefly address Doe No. 6's standing to quash a subpoena to Comcast, a third party to this action. As a general rule, "a party lacks standing to quash a subpoena issued to a nonparty unless the party has a claim of privilege attached to the information sought or unless it implicates a party's privacy interests." Hard Drive Prods. v. Does 1-48, No. 11 CV 9062, 2012 WL 2196038, at *3 (N.D. Ill. June 14, 2012); 4 see Brady v. Cent. Ind. Reg'l Blood Ctr. Inc., No. 1:99-MC-19, 1999 WL 33912610, at *1 (N.D. Ind. Oct. 6, 1999) (citations omitted); see also United States v. Raineri, 670 F.2d 702, 712 (7th Cir. 1982) ("A party has standing to move to quash a subpoena addressed to another if the subpoena infringes upon the movant's legitimate interests."). As such, in similar cases, courts have found that a Doe defendant accused of copyright infringement has standing to object to a subpoena issued to ISPs, even where the movant's privacy interest is "minimal at best." Sunlust Pictures, LLC v. Does 1-75, No. 12 C 1546, 2012 WL 3717768, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 27, 2012) (quoting Malibu Media, LLC v. Does 1-25, No. 12-cv-0362-LAB (DHB), 2012 WL 2367555, at *2 (S.D. Cal. June 21, 2012)); see Third Degree Films, Inc. v. Does 1-2010, No. 4:11 MC 2, 2011 WL 4759283, at *5 (N.D. Ind. Oct. 6, 2011) (finding that a Doe defendant had standing to assert his privacy interest in the information requested from the ISP). Here, because Doe No. 6 "has at least a minimal privacy interest in the information requested by the subpoena, he has standing to object." Sunlust Pictures, 2012 WL 3717768, at *2; see Third Degree Films, Inc. v. Does 1-108, No. DKC 11-3007, 2012 WL 669055, at *2 (D. Md. Feb. 28, 2012) ("[H]owever minimal or 'exceedingly small' the Doe Defendants' interests here are, parties need only have 'some personal right or privilege in the information sought' to have standing to challenge a subpoena to a third party."). C. Analysis Having determined that Doe No. 6 has standing to challenge the subpoena directed to Comcast, the Court turns to his arguments in favor of quashing that subpoena. Doe No. 6 first argues that he did not infringe on Plaintiff's copyrighted work and that Plaintiff "has not shown a preponderance of evidence that [he] should even be a named defendant in this case." (Mot. to 5 Quash & Vacate Subpoena to Produc. Docs., Information, or Objects or to Permit Inspection of Premises in a Civil Action ("Mot. to Quash") ¶¶ 1-2.) Doe No. 6 also contends that Plaintiff's method of identifying alleged infringers through their IP addresses is "imprecise" and cannot reveal the identity of the alleged infringer because someone else may have violated Plaintiff's copyright while using Doe No. 6's IP address. (See Mot. to Quash ¶¶ 2-3.) But all of these arguments essentially amount to a denial of liability, which "is not relevant as to the validity or enforceability of a subpoena, but rather should be presented and contested once parties are brought properly into the suit." Hard Drive Prods., 2012 WL 2196038, at *4; accord First Time Videos, LLC v. Does 1-18, No. 4-11-cv-69-SEB-WGH, 2011 WL 4079177, at *2 (S.D. Ind. Sept. 13, 2011) (quoting First Time Videos v. Does 1-500, 276 F.R.D. 241, 251 (N.D. Ill. 2011)). Furthermore, such objections to the relevancy of the subpoena based on the possibility that Doe No. 6's IP address may have been used by someone else to violate the copyright are likewise "irrelevant and premature because they go to the merits of Plaintiff's claims and do not address the propriety vel non of the subpoenas." Third Degree Films, Inc., 2011 WL 4759283, at *5 (quoting West Coast Prods., Inc. v. Does 1-5829, 275 F.R.D. 9, 13 (D.D.C. 2011)). And it is Doe No. 6, not Plaintiff, who bears the burden of establishing that the subpoena falls within the Rule 45 criteria for quashing a subpoena. Hard Drive. Prods., 2012 WL 2196038, at *5 (citation omitted). A denial of liability is simply not among those criteria. Id. (citing Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(c)(3)(A)). Doe No. 6 further takes issue with the fact that "no DMCA take-down notices were issued," argues that the subpoena is being used as a tool to give Plaintiff "access to unreasonable extended searches and seizure of any and all information they see fit," and invokes the Fourth 6 and Fifth Amendments to the United States Constitution. (Mot. to Quash ¶¶ 4-7), wholly irrelevant arguments that have no bearing on whether the subpoena should be quashed under Rule 45(c). As evidenced above—and as Plaintiff suggests (see Pl.'s Mem. in Opp. to Mot. to Quash & Vacate Subpoena to Produc. Docs., Information, or Objects or to Permit Inspection of Premises in a Civil Action 2)—missing from Doe No. 6's motion to quash is any argument that any of the grounds for quashing a subpoena under Rule 45(c)(3)(A) are met here. The two potentially applicable bases are that the subpoena "requires disclosure of privilege or protected matter" or "subjects a person to an undue burden." Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(c)(3)(A). But this latter argument—that a subpoena directed to an ISP for an anonymous defendant's Internet subscriber information imposes an undue burden on that defendant—has been consistently rejected by courts because such a subpoena does not require the defendant to produce anything. See, e.g., Sunlust Pictures, 2012 WL 3717768, at *2 ("The subpoena does not impose an undue burden on Doe because he is not the party directed to respond to it."); First Time Videos, 2011 WL 4079177, at *1 ("[T]he issuance of a subpoena to the Internet Service Provider of putative defendants does not create an undue burden on the putative defendants because they are not required to produce anything."); see also Third Degree Films, 2011 WL 4759283, at *5 (citing First Time Videos, 276 F.R.D. at 250; Voltage Pictures, LLC v. Does 15,000, 818 F. Supp. 2d 28, 36 (D.D.C. 2011)) (holding that "[a] Doe defendant lacks standing to quash a subpoena on the ground of undue burden when the subpoena is directed to the ISP rather than to him" because the subpoena requires the ISP, and not the Doe Defendant, to produce information). 7 As to the other potential basis for quashing the subpoena, Doe No. 6 argues that fulfilling the subpoena would invade his privacy and jeopardize his identity, which, construed liberally, could amount to an argument that the subpoena requires "disclosure of privilege or protected matter." (See Mot. to Quash ¶¶ 5, 7.) This argument, however, is ultimately unpersuasive as courts have consistently held that "there is no expectation of privacy in Internet subscriber information because it has already been exposed to a third party, the Internet Service Provider." First Time Videos, 2011 WL 4079177, at *1 (citing Courtright v. Madigan, No. 09-cv-208-JPG, 2009 WL 3713654, at *2 (S.D. Ill. Nov. 4, 2009)); accord AF Holdings LLC v. Doe, No. 12 C 4222, 2012 WL 5520861, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 13, 2012); Hard Drive Prods., 2012 WL 2196038, at *4; Third Degree Films, 2011 WL 4759283, at *3. Additionally, when there is an allegation of copyright infringement, an individual has no protected privacy interest in their name, address, phone number, e-mail address, or Media Access Control address. First Time Videos, 2011 WL 4079177, at *1. As such, Doe No. 6's argument that fulfilling the subpoena would invade his privacy and jeopardize his identity is insufficient to quash the subpoena as he has no expectation of privacy in the identifying information the subpoena seeks from the ISP. Therefore, because Doe No. 6 has not met his burden of showing that the subpoena meets the criteria of Rule 45(c)(3)(A), his motion to quash the subpoena directed at Comcast will be DENIED. IV. THE MOTIONS TO SEVER Both Doe No. 6 and Doe No. 7 moved to sever Does 2-14 from this case, arguing that joinder is inappropriate under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20. Doe No. 7 further argues that, even if the Doe Defendants are properly joined, the Court should exercise its discretion to sever 8 them under Rule 21. The Court will address each of these arguments in turn. A. Permissive Joinder Under Rule 20 In their motions (Docket # 13, 17), both Doe No. 6 and Doe No. 7 maintain that Does 214 should be severed because there is no single transaction or series of closely related transactions involved in this case as is required for permissive joinder under Rule 20. (See Doe No. 6's Mot. to Sever Does 2-14 ¶ 1; Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever 6-7.) Doe No. 7 further claims that the temporal gaps between the transactions here—the 14 transactions occurred at different days or times between May 22, 2012, and June 23, 2012—suggest that the Doe Defendants did not act in concert with each other. (Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever 7 (citations omitted).) In support of joinder, Plaintiff responds that the Doe Defendants' infringement was committed through the same series of transactions as its investigator was able to receive a piece of the copyrighted movie from each Defendant and because each Defendant used BitTorrent and the computers of others to download the same file and allowed others to access their computer to receive it. (Pl.'s Mem. in Opp. to Def. John Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever John Doe Defs. 2-14 ("Pl.'s Resp. to Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever") 3-4.) Moreover, Plaintiff maintains that, despite the temporal gap between the transactions, Defendants are properly joined because their actions directly relate back to the same initial seed of the swarm and their alleged infringement further advances the series of infringements that began with that initial seed and continued through other infringers. (Pl.'s Resp. to Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever 6-7.) 1. Standard Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20 states that persons may join in one action as defendants if: "(A) any right to relief is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the 9 alternative with respect to or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences; and (B) any question of law or fact common to all defendants will arise in the action." Fed. R. Civ. P. 20(a)(2). In short, to join persons as defendants in an action under Rule 20, "there must be both a right to relief arising out of the same transaction or occurrence and a question of law or fact common to all the [defendants]." Teklehaimanot v. Park Ctr., Inc., No. 1:08-CV-220, 2009 WL 799505, at *1 (N.D. Ind. Mar. 24, 2009) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted); see also In re Monon Tel. Co., 218 F.R.D. 614, 616 (N.D. Ind. 2003). "Federal policy favors joinder, and the district court has wide discretion when deciding whether joinder of parties is proper." Teklehaimanot, 2009 WL 799505, at *1 (citation omitted); see Monon Tel., 218 F.R.D. at 616 ("When the requirements of Rule 20(a) are satisfied and joinder will not result in undue prejudice to a party, discretion is exercised in favor of joinder." (citing Anderson v. Montgomery Ward & Co., 852 F.2d 1008, 1011 (7th Cir. 1988))). Furthermore, "[p]ermissive joinder under Rule 20 are to be liberally construed to promote convenience and judicial economy." Patrick Collins, Inc. v. John Does 1-9, No. 12-CV-3161, 2012 WL 4321718, at *2 (C.D. Ill. Sept. 18, 2012) (citations omitted). 2. Analysis Courts throughout the country are split over whether joining many anonymous defendants alleged to have participated in a single BitTorrent "swarm" in a single suit is appropriate. Sunlust Pictures, 2012 WL 3717768, at *3; compare, e.g., In re BitTorrent Adult Film Copyright Infringement Cases, Nos. 11-3995(DRH)(GRB), 12-1147(JS)(GRB), 121150(LDW)(GRB), 12-1154(ADS)(GRB), 2012 WL 1570765, at *11 (E.D.N.Y. May 1, 2012) (finding joinder inappropriate because, among other reasons, allegations were insufficient to 10 show that defendants actually shared file bits with one another), SBO Pictures, Inc. v. Does 1-57, No. RWT 12cv22, 2012 WL 1415523, at *2 (D. Md. Apr. 20, 2012) (denying joinder and stating that "the better-reasoned decisions have held that where a plaintiff has not plead that any defendant shared file pieces directly with one another, the first prong of the permissive joinder is not satisfied"), and Hard Drive Prods., Inc. v. Does 1-188, 809 F. Supp. 2d 1150, 1164 (N.D. Cal. 2011) (finding no concerted action were "Plaintiff does not plead facts showing that any particular defendant illegally shared plaintiff's work with any other particular defendant"), with Pac. Century Int'l v. Does 1-31, No. 11 C 9064, 2012 WL 2129003, at *2 (N.D. Ill. June 12, 2012) (allowing joinder where the anonymous defendants participated in the same swarm), Digital Sin, Inc. v. Does 1-176, 279 F.R.D. 239, 244 (S.D.N.Y. 2012) (declining to sever where "the Doe Defendants were trading the exact same file as part of the same swarm"), and First Time Videos, 276 F.R.D. at 252 (allowing joinder where putative defendants were alleged to have reproduced copyrighted materials and continued to distribute data to others in the swarm). As to the first joinder requirement—that the claim against each Defendant arose out of the same transaction or series of transactions—courts denying joinder in the BitTorrent context have "generally done so because the plaintiff failed to allege that the defendants simultaneously participated in a single swarm or that the defendants distributed files directly among themselves." Sunlust Pictures, 2012 WL 3717768, at *4. But here, Plaintiff alleges that each Defendant "participated in the same swarm and directly interacted and communicated with other members of that swarm through digital handshakes, the passing along of computer instructions, uploading and downloading, and by others types of transmissions" (Compl. ¶ 33 (emphasis added)) and, using the BitTorrent protocol, "copied a piece of Plaintiff's copyrighted Work 11 identified by the Unique Hash Number" (Compl. ¶ 39(A)). All of these transactions occurred over a period spanning only a month. (See Compl. Ex. A (indicating that the transactions occurred between May 22, 2012, and June 23, 2012).) At this stage of the litigation, Plaintiff's allegations that all the Defendants infringed on its copyright by "uploading and downloading the same unique copy of the Work with the same Unique Hash Number through the same BitTorrent protocol that required each participant to send and receive portions of the Work in order to download and view the entire Work" are sufficient to assert a claim against each Defendant arising from the same series of transactions. Patrick Collins, 2012 WL 4321718, at *2; see also Third Degree Films, 2012 WL 669055, at *5 (finding that, based on allegations that the Doe defendants swapped the same exact file and evidence connecting the IP addresses to the same exact "hash," it was reasonable to conclude that each of the Doe defendants may have directly facilitated the download of the work by another of the Doe defendants and was thus part of the same transaction or series of transactions); MGCIP v. Does 1-316, No. 10 C 6677, 2011 WL 2292958, at *2 (N.D. Ill. June 9, 2011) ("[G]iven the decentralized nature of BitTorrent's file-sharing protocol—where individual users distribute the same work's data directly to one another without going through a central server—the Court finds that sufficient facts have been [pled] to support the joinder of the putative defendants at this time."). Moreover, based on Plaintiff's allegations that Defendants used the 14 IP addresses to upload and download a copy of the copyrighted work that had the same Unique Hash Number, "this means that the copy that each Defendant downloaded ultimately came from a single source. Given the policy in favor of joinder, this is sufficient at this time to deny severance." Patrick 12 Collins, 2012 WL 4321718, at *2; see also Digital Sin, 279 F.R.D. at 244 (declining to sever defendants where the Plaintiff alleged that the Doe defendants were trading the exact same file as part of the same swarm). That these transactions occurred at varying times spanning just a month does not change this outcome. See Pac. Century Int'l, 2012 WL 2129003, at *2 (finding that Plaintiff's allegations that the anonymous defendants participated in the same swarm, at varying times spanning just over one month, sufficiently alleged that they were involved in the same series of transactions to warrant joinder under Rule 20). Furthermore, "unlike many of the cases where courts have found joinder improper, Plaintiff has sued only Doe defendants whose IP addresses appear to be based in [the Northern District of Indiana]." Id. (citing CP Prods., Inc. v. Does 1-300, No. 10 C 6255, 2011 WL 737761, at *1 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 24, 2011) (objecting to the large number of defendants over which the court demonstrably lacked personal jurisdiction)). Moving onto the second requirement for joinder under Rule 20—that Defendants share a "common question of law or fact"—Plaintiff has asserted the same counts of direct and contributory copyright infringement against all Defendants, with no exception (see Compl. ¶¶ 45-61), which suggests that joinder is appropriate. Third Degree Films, 2012 WL 669055, at *5 (noting, in finding the second joinder requirement "easily met," that Plaintiff asserted the same claim of copyright infringement against all the defendants with no exception). And this case also involves questions of law and fact common to all Defendants, including "whether Plaintiff is a proper copyright holder, whether violations of the Copyright Act have occurred, and whether entering a BitTorrent swarm constitutes willful copyright infringement," fully satisfying the second joinder requirement. Pac. Century Int'l, 2012 WL 2129003, at *2 (citation omitted). Therefore, Plaintiff has met both requirements of permissive joinder under Rule 20, and, 13 as such, Defendants will not be severed on the basis of misjoinder. B. Discretionary Severance under Rule 21 Although Defendants are properly joined, Doe No. 7 also asks the Court to exercise its discretion under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 21 to sever Does 2-14 because permissive joinder in this case would not comport with notions of fundamental fairness, would inflict severe and unnecessary prejudice on Defendants, and would require the Court to engage in several mini-trials because the facts and defenses would be unique to each Defendant. (Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever 8-9.) Doe No. 6 advances a similar argument. (See Doe No. 6's Mot. to Sever Does 2-14 ¶ 1 (arguing that not severing Defendants would present "significant problems of fairness and justice to the defendants, each of whom may be subject to substantially different circumstances and as a result may raise wildly diverging defenses").) Doe No. 7 further contends that allowing Plaintiff to continue to proceed against the Defendants in one action would deprive the federal judicial system of the revenue it would have earned if Plaintiff had filed separate suits against each Defendant. (Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever 9.) On the other hand, Plaintiff claims that joinder promotes judicial efficiency, particularly at this stage of the litigation and given the limited number of Defendants. (Pl.'s Resp. to Doe No. 7's Mot. to Sever 8.) 1. Standard Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 21, a court may, on motion or on its own, add or drop a party or sever any claim against any party at any time. Sunlust Pictures, 2012 WL 3717768, at *3 (citing Fed. R. Civ. P. 21). The determination of whether to sever is "committed to the broad discretion of the trial judge." Bennett v. Sch. Dirs. of Dist. 115, No. 96 C 2422, 14 1996 WL 495555, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 28, 1996); Rice v. Sunrise Express, Inc., 209 F.3d 1008, 1016 (7th Cir. 2000) ("It is within the district court's broad discretion whether to sever a claim under Rule 21."). "The practical effect of severance of previously-joined claims is the creation of two or more separate actions." Hohlbein v. Heritage Mut. Ins. Co., 106 F.R.D. 73, 78 (E.D. Wis. 1985). To decide whether severance is appropriate, "a court should consider the convenience and fairness to parties as well as the claim's separability in logic and law. A court's decision should serve the ends of justice and facilitate the prompt and efficient disposition of the litigation." Bennett, 1996 WL 495555, at *2 (internal citations omitted). 2. Analysis First, unlike cases involving hundreds of defendants where joinder has been found too cumbersome, Plaintiff has named only 14 defendants, not hundreds, and only 12 remain in the case,1 all of whom are located in this District, facts which weigh in favor of joinder by promoting judicial efficiency. Patrick Collins, 2012 WL 4321718, at *3 (citing Hard Drive Prods., 809 F. Supp. 2d at 1164 (severing where joinder of the 188 defendants "would result in a logistically unmanageable case" and where the defendants may be separated by many miles)). Here, "[j]oinder at the discovery phase would be more efficient than conducting the same discovery in [twelve] separate cases," id., as it "facilitates jurisdictional discovery and expedites the process of obtaining identifying information, which is prerequisite to reaching the merits of [Plaintiff's] claims," Patrick Collins, Inc. v. John Does 1-15, No. 11-cv-02164-CMA-MJW, 2012 WL 415436, at *4 (D. Colo. Feb. 8, 2012) (quoting Voltage Pictures, 818 F. Supp. 2d at 41-42). 1 Although there were originally 14 Doe Defendants in this case, Does No. 1 and No. 13 have been voluntarily dismissed with prejudice (Docket # 27, 28). 15 Although the judicial system may lose revenue from the filing fees by not severing Defendants into separate cases, the efficiency and facilitation of discovery that joinder brings, at least at this stage, outweigh this concern. See AF Holdings, LLC v. Does 1-1,058, __ F.R.D.__, 2012 WL 3204917, at *13 (D.D.C. Aug. 6, 2012) ("[J]oinder at this stage in the proceedings is the single, most efficient mechanism available for the plaintiff to obtain information to identify those allegedly illegally downloading and distributing its movie.") As to the Doe Defendants' arguments that not severing them would prejudice or otherwise be unfair to them, "the Court acknowledges that a risk of embarrassment exists for the ISP customers who may become publically associated with the [a]lleged IP addresses," as the copyrighted work contains adult, and potentially pornographic, content. Patrick Collins, 2012 WL 4321718, at *5. This potential for embarrassment, however, does not outweigh Plaintiff's statutory right to protect its property interest in its copyright, id., and, at least at this point in the litigation, to do so in a single suit against the 12 remaining Doe Defendants. Further pointing to potential prejudice that could arise from joinder, Doe No. 7 also argues that not severing Defendants would result in several "mini-trials" because each Defendant would present facts and defenses unique to their case. But that Defendants will present different factual issues and legal defenses at a later stage of the litigation does not make joinder inappropriate at the discovery stage; rather, "the commonality of legal claims at this time supports joinder." Third Degree Films, 2012 WL 669055, at *5 (citation omitted). At the same time, the Court is mindful of these concerns as well as the case law suggesting that the litigation strategy Plaintiff has employed in this case has a history of becoming abusive. See, e.g., Sunlust Pictures, 2012 WL 3717768, at *5-6 (recognizing that 16 "plaintiffs in these types of cases might unfairly threaten to disclose defendants' identities in order to improperly leverage settlement negotiations"); Hard Drive Prods., 2012 WL 2196038, at *5 (discussing cases considering the potentially abusive litigation tactics of adult film producers like Plaintiff here). As such, the Court remains open to reconsidering whether to sever the Doe Defendants at a later date. See Patrick Collins, 2012 WL 4321718, at *3 (stating that "any Defendant can renew the Motion later if he or she later shows that joinder of him or her would not promote judicial economy"); Third Degree Films, 2012 WL 669055, at *5 (noting that the Doe defendants retained their ability to move for severance at a later stage of the litigation and that the court may always sever the case sua sponte); Digital Sin, 279 F.R.D. at 244 (declining to sever the Doe defendants at that time, but leaving open the possibility of reconsidering the issue later on); MGCIP, 2011 WL 2292958, at *2 (finding joinder proper at this stage and noting that the individual defendants could raise the joinder issue again as named parties). Now, however, Doe No. 6's and Doe No. 7's motions to sever will be DENIED. V. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, Doe No. 6's Motions to Quash (Docket # 12) and to Sever (Docket # 13) and Doe No. 7's Motion to Sever (Docket # 17) are DENIED. SO ORDERED. Enter for the 3rd day of December, 2012. S/Roger B. Cosbey Roger B. Cosbey, United States Magistrate Judge 17


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MIAMI -- Crystal Cruises is joining the ranks of cruise lines offering open seating as an option in main dining rooms at dinnertime.
The two-ship luxury line announced today at the Cruise Shipping Miami convention in Miami Beach that it will begin offering what it is calling Open Dining by Reservation in January 2011.
Crystal will continue to offer passengers the choice of traditional fixed early and late seating (which Crystal calls "Classic Main" and "Classic Late" seating).
Passengers will choose one of the three dining arrangements (Classic Main, Classic Late or Open Dining by Reservation) at the time of booking. Taken together, the new program is being called Perfect Choice Dining.
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Crystal also announced that it will be launching a new online Priority Check-in and Planning Center in July that will enable any fully paid customer who has opted for Open Dining by Reservation to make nightly reservations in the main dining room in advance of their cruise. Passengers also will be able to use the system to book tables at Crystal specialty restaurants such as Prego and the Vintage Room.
Crystal President Gregg Michel, who made the announcement at a press conference, said passengers who choose Open Dining by Reservation would be able to reserve tables for dinner any time between 6:15 PM and 9:15 PM. If a specific time is unavailable, the Open Dining by Reservation system will suggest an alternative.
Michel stressed that for passengers who prefer Crystal's traditional fixed dinner seating system in the main dining room, nothing will change. And that's still a significant group, he noted. Many Crystal regulars are fond of the "familiarity of the experience, the same table and same section of the dining room at night, the same senior waiter who knows their preferences," he noted.
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Tim Tebow could set precedent if he never starts another NFL game
Posted By Mike Klis On May 2, 2013 @ 1:39 pm In General Broncos,Tim Tebow | 114 Comments
Since 1970, only one quarterback started and won a playoff game, and then never started again while still active after that season, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
That would be Bob Lee, who was 32 when he started in the Minnesota Vikings' 14-7 win against the Los Angeles Rams in 1977. Lee was 5-of-10 for 57 yards in that victory.
Tim Tebow could be the second. Tebow was 24 when he threw for 316 yards in the Broncos' 29-23 overtime win against Pittsburgh in the 2011 AFC postseason game. After that postseason, the Broncos traded Tebow to the New York Jets, who didn't give him a start in 2012.
Earlier this week, the Jets released Tebow [1].
Lee had just 29 starts in his 12-year career so he had his chances to become a starter. He spent his final three seasons as an NFL backup.
Make no mistake, no NFL quarterback has ever had the kind of early career success Tebow had in 2011 only to be summarily dismissed.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A South Texas woman has been accused of ripping her 6-year-old son's genitals during a rage and trying to repair the wound with glue.
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The boy's father is in the Army. The incident happened Sept. 27 at the family's home at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.
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Trop50 Tries to Keep the Juice Going on New Year's Resolutions
Trop50′s "Resolution Rescue" campaign, produced by the newly merged Agency Republic (and Critical Mass), is sort of like a digital addiction sponsor. Only, the sponsor doesn't try very hard to stop you from your addiction and really only wants you to drink more low-calorie orange juice.
Resolution Rescue offers a semi-personalized response to those who tweet about potentially breaking their New Year's resolutions. The video above gives a good example of the creative work: @MissTrixster wants to stop eating sweets and do more exercise, so Trop50′s response makes a clever joke about training by staring at muffins. Agencies that roll out these response-based campaigns typically have a few options that repeat, but to Agency Republic's credit, there seems to be enough detail and personalization to tailor to the needs of most tweeters.
Of course, the campaign also hinges on a few ridiculous points: people need to tweet thoughts about breaking resolutions without actually breaking them, and the resolutions need to be simple. What if your resolution is to stop tweeting? What if your resolution is to stop drinking sugary drinks? Does Trop50 send you a black screen? Credits after the jump.


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Is This Love I'm Feeling?
"Love is a serious mental disease." At least that's how Plato put it. And while anyone who's ever been 'in love' might see some truth to this statement, there is a critical mistake made here. Love is not a mental disease. Desire is.
If being 'in love' means our lives are in pieces and we are completely broken, miserable, utterly consumed, hardly able to function, and willing to sacrifice everything, chances are it's not love. Despite what we are taught in popular culture, true love is not supposed to make us like drug addicts.
And so, contrary to what we've grown up watching in movies, that type of all-consuming obsession is not love. It goes by a different name. It is hawa—the word used in the Quran to refer to one's lower, vain desires and lusts. Allah describes the people who blindly follow these desires as those who are most astray: "But if they answer you not, then know that they only follow their own lusts (hawa). And who is more astray than the one who follows his own lusts, without guidance from Allah?" (28: 50)
By choosing to submit to our hawa over the guidance of Allah, we are choosing to worship those desires. When our love for what we crave is stronger than our love for Allah, we have taken that which we crave as a lord. Allah says: "Yet there are men who take (for worship) others besides Allah, as equal (with Allah): They love them as they should love Allah. But those of Faith are overflowing in their love for Allah." (2:165)
If our 'love' for something makes us willing to give up our family, our dignity, our self-respect, our bodies, our sanity, our peace of mind, our deen, and even our Lord who created us from nothing, know that we are not 'in love'. We are slaves.
Of such a person Allah says: "Do you see such a one as takes his own vain desires (hawa) as his lord? Allah has, knowing (him as such), left him astray, and sealed his hearing and his heart, and put a cover on his sight. (45: 23)
Imagine the severity. To have one's sight, hearing and heart all sealed. Hawa is not pleasure. It is a prison. It is a slavery of the mind, body and soul. It is an addiction and a worship. Beautiful examples of this reality can be found throughout literature. In Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Pip exemplifies this point. In describing his obsession with Estella, he says: "I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
Dickens' Miss Havisham describes this further: "I'll tell you…what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter – as I did!"
What Miss Havisham describes here is in fact real. But it is not real love. It is hawa. Real love, as Allah intended it, is not a sickness or an addiction. It is affection and mercy. Allah says in His book: "And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought." (30: 21)
Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: "that you may dwell in tranquility." Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it. And though you submit your whole self to it, it will never bring you happiness.
So while ultimate happiness is everyone's goal, it is often difficult to see past the illusions and discern love from hawa. One fail-safe way, is to ask yourself this question: Does getting closer to this person that I 'love' bring me closer to—or farther from—Allah? In a sense, has this person replaced Allah in my heart?
True or pure love should never contradict or compete with one's love for Allah. It should strengthen it. That is why true love is only possible within the boundaries of what Allah has made permissible. Outside of that, it is nothing more than hawa, to which we either submit or reject. We are either slaves to Allah, or slaves to our hawa. It cannot be both.
Only by struggling against false pleasure, can we attain true pleasure. They are by definition mutually exclusive. For that reason, the struggle against our desires is a prerequisite for the attainment of paradise. Allah says: "But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination, then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge." (Qur'an, 79: 40-41)
Republished from InFocus News.
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Tres interessant huhhhhhh……me love it
Maa shaa Allah… In the same vein you would be very interested to read The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck. In it, he defines love as "The will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth". His lengthy discussion of the difference between "love" and "falling in love" is outstanding.
Excellent article! Well-said, Mashallah.
I love it article so much thank you.
excellent article! love it~
useful for those who haven't yet clarify what is love and what is hawa. do continue writing..many people will love it! jazakallahu khairan katheera.
Quick question…is this Hawa (desire) different from the the name of the wife of Adam??
@ Aysha: Yes , it is different . حواء is the name of Prophet Adam's wife, with a hamza at the end and it starts with the letter 7a2. Hawa (desire) is actually pronounced exactly as it's spelled, with no emphasis on any of the letters and it begins with the letter ha . Hope I didn't confuse you.
Thanks for the great article and for the reminder. May Allah reward you abundantly.
Great article, thank you for posting it.
I'd like to add that the truest and most fulfilling form of love is true love for Allah. Not only is it fulfilling, loving Allah is also important because love is the strongest emotional motivator behind a man or a woman's action. Human beings are better driven and motivated to action by love than by hate or fear (the opposite). The desire to do something and then accomplishing the task is multiplied when the task is being done to please someone you love. You could argue that such an effect may be the same for actions driven by "hate" but the two (love & hate) clearly diverge, and love takes the advantage, when it comes to the sense of fulfilment one gets after he/she finishes the task and sees the happiness on the loved one's face.
Say someone loves someone else like a father, a sister or a spouse; the love translates into a goal to satisfy the loved one and to see that you do whatever it takes to make them happy. When it comes to loving Allah, who gave you everything from who you are, to your body, to the air and water keeping you alive, to the clothes you wear, to the house you sleep in, to the car you ride in (I ride a train), to the family you love, to the luxuries you enjoy to the to the! The list goes on I can't begin to list all of Allah's wonderful bestowments. So how do you even begin to show your appreciation for someone who gave you so much?! How can we, after receiving all that we are and call our own from Him, not love Allah?
Let's not forget, Allah gave you that amazing, calming and serene feeling we call LOVE!
wow Yasmine
You make clear so many complex issues that affect and confuse us all…keep it up, I love your program Serenity x
Something we all needed. Thank you Yasmin!
I wonder, has this writer ever had a crush or been in love ? How did she deal with the heart attacks and feelings when ones infatuation is near.
jazaakiLLAHu khairan katheera for the article..
Honestly, I also wondered this word Hawa meant. It is so important to understand the Arabic language at a deeper level. Previously I understood Hawa to be vain desires, as in lust, or unlawful intimacy of opposite gender but you broaden that understanding. Hawa is more your vain desires that has the ability to further you away from Allah (swt) or even worse completely take you out of your deen. Hawa in so many ways is related to the heart, and attaching yourself to something much more than he/she/it deserves. Hawa bring an uneasiness in the heart and never bring peace and calm. Interesting read. I had to read it twice.
May Allah grant you goodness YASMIN MOGAHED.
I am /was/ i guess still am in love with this women who i see most day and hand on heart if i was to chose between her and the all mighty ( ALLAH) all the way and always .
this articul helped me in some ways
just one other thing a sheikh famous one cant remember his name has said this
" IF U ARE IN LOVE (not hawa lust)and tell no one of her and dont x the boundaries and die in that state u are a marter"
I learned from dis.Thank u so much


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The picture above is an amazingly beautiful amaryllis flower I have that blooms every year. Eventually, it will have 20 to 24 flowers like this in full bloom. If you look closely, you'll see there are flowers at various stages of blooming – some wide open, some just beginning to open, and others not open at all. They all bloom in their own right, divine timing.
Someone once said, "There's man's time and there's God's time." Man's time is typically the forced time of trying to make things happen when WE want them to. God's time is the natural unfolding of events happening when THEY are ready to happen. Understanding there is a natural timing to all things, and then allowing that and working with that, is a great skill and awareness to have, especially for Major Good Mojo.
The tomato plant goes from seed to gorgeous tomato OVER TIME. A baby is created and, over nine months, grows to readiness for birth. The tomato plant and baby are good examples because so much happens behind the scenes – under the earth and in the womb. It would be easy to assume nothing is happening since you can't see it. However, you would be very mistaken (setting ultrasound and the enlarging mother's belly aside, there is still a lot going on that is out of sight).
Then, BOOM!, in a relatively short instant the tomato plant breaks through the surface of the earth, and, BOOM! the baby is born. Both the baby and the tomato plant begin to very visibly grow and our minds are relieved because we can now see the progress and trust that all is OK. But it is still happening one step at a time. The baby grows into a man or woman over years! And the tomato takes months before it is ready to eat. These are natural processes of living organisms growing and transforming in the world, just as we are, and it doesn't happen in a weekend.
Much of what we are exposed to completely dishonors the natural process of transformation, growth, and learning.
Many of us want our happiness, success, and wealth in an instant and are all too ready to believe the promises of someone saying they can give it to us. Many "Fast-Track to Success" seminars do a major disservice to those new on the path by setting them up for disappointment.
Let's take the baby example. Here's the seminar pitch you hear on the radio (be sure to read this in your best "announcer" voice): "Tired of waiting for babies to be born? Want the beauty and brilliance of a baby of your own without having to wait? Come to the "Your Baby Now" Seminar where you will learn how to create a real human baby in only 2 days! Yes, that's right, from conception to delivery in just 2 days! This amazing miracle has been transforming the lives of thousands. Call now!" Of course this is ridiculous, but the example points to the absurdity of ignoring natural law. Your growth and expansion are no different.
Promises for amazing transformation are rampant, especially in key areas of life such as health, wealth, and relationships. The truth is YOU CAN transform yourself and any area of your life, and programs and products CAN and DO help you do this. At the right moment, the right program can bring on a catharsis, a breakthrough, or a significant insight. All of these contribute to your growth. However, the REALIZATION of most breakthroughs, as recognizable change on a day-to-day basis, happens over time, not over night. If change does manifest instantaneously after a breakthrough, you've likely been working on that area or issue prior to the workshop/seminar. If you haven't been working on that breakthrough, then it's likely you'll be working on its manifestation and realization into your life AFTER the breakthrough. Either way, it didn't miraculously fully manifest into your life in an instant.
Like the old saying goes: "It takes a lifetime to create an overnight success." Ask any successful person in any arena. If you can get their true story rather than the nutshell or magical version, you'll discover it took them years. And even if they did produce some amazing result in what appears to be a year or two, if you look closely, you'll find that in the years before the crucial year or two, they were working toward that "magical" success in one way or another. The truth is, in ALL areas, it's a process. It takes time! What we are talking about here is your personal process of evolution and growth as a human being. For Major Good Mojo, you are wise, you respect the natural process of life, and you take it one step at a time.
Your Major Good Mojo Assignment:
Take a moment to look in your life for places where you may be holding tight, resisting the bloom, and/or places where you are forcing the bloom, pushing for results, and trying to open too fast. Where can you trust and open a bit more? And where can you relax, back off a bit, and allow some space for grace? Make a note of your insights and let go and open in those areas you are holding back. Back-off and relax more in those areas you are pushing.
Next, take a moment to look and see what Spirit is calling forth in you, for you, in your life right now? Perhaps a whole new area, or perhaps a familiar area in a whole new way or at a whole new level. What is wanting to bloom in your life right now? Make a list. Then, with your list, ask each item "What is my next step?" Then take it!
Congratulations! You are one step closer to Embracing Your Blooming, Divine Right Timing, AND Major Good Mojo!


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roast curry noodle soup with chow fun noodle
Posted by Adam on 11/24/2010
Solid food in the hood. Always fast delivery and good noodle soups.
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I've been to all 3 mee noodle shops and I have come to the conclusion that this is the best one. I go here almost once a week and have only had 1 disappointing dish in almost 2 years of eating there. Delivery is still quick and you get a lot of bang for your buck. highly recommend this. It's the only chinese place in the neighborhood worth eating at!
Posted by Anonymouse on 08/09/2010
This restaurant is truly amazing. The service is fast and attentive. The shop is a little small, but I find it gives the restaurant a cozy and authentic feel. All of the dishes served by Mee Noodle are truly delicious; there is almost no way to go wrong when placing an order. The only caveat emptor I have to issue is that the food is NOT all authentic chinese food. However, that being said, this restaurant has the best american chinese cuisine. Furthermore, all dishes come at a very reasonable price. I would recommend this restaurant particularly for the lunch time special. It is about 7 dollars for a meal, rice, and soda. But the service is not only good when eating in, but also for delivery. It seems as though the delivery boys are able to teleport from the restaurant to my house. Overall, an A+ restaurant. Bon Appetit!
Posted by Andrew on 07/14/2010
I have been eating regularly at MEE for close to 8 years.. Being a former restaurant owner myself I understand the business fairly well. I used to brag about the food and speed of delivery from MEE. How I felt as soon as I hung up the phone my doorman was ringing to announce I had a delivery.. NOW I have to call back 2-3 times to see where my order is I usally have a wait time of 10 minutes now, it is more like an hour on some days.
Posted by kim on 07/05/2010
when MEE first opened on 9th/53rd it rocked! service was excellent, food was amazing, free wine, fast takeout. NOW, while the food (eat in) is still a good bargain, the service is pathetic, the delivery slow, mistakes constantly made and rude responses when correction needed. the customer stopped being "right" along time ago here! they have never renovated the space and it looks dingy & is. skip the restroom. i used to adore this place...it was a step up in the hood. now its 2 steps down. try empire szechuan on westside and chinatown east on eastside.
Posted by Anonymous000 on 06/29/2010
MEE has an extensive menu and I really appreciate the homestyle options, just like what my dad used to cook for us. It's also difficult to find Cantonese cooking outside of Chinatown, it's my kind of comfort food. Is it the best Chinese restaurant I've ever been to? No. But MEE is a good go-to spot in this neighborhood. And I felt like it wasn't getting a fair shake because of all the bad reviews here, so I thought I'd throw in my two cents.


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The Wall Street Journal Reports On The End Of The Fiscal Year Anomaly
Managers in the Social Security Administration, struggling to handle a skyrocketing number of disability cases, had an unusual request for their workers this week: slow down. ...
Social Security judges and employees in Florida, Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and Arizona were among those instructed to set aside disability cases this week, with the slowdown allowing managers to boost their performance numbers for the coming fiscal year, which starts Monday.
Top officials, in a bid to meet goals to win promotions or thousands of dollars in bonuses, directed many employees to refrain from issuing decisions on cases until next week ..
On Monday, the Social Security Administration's Office of Disability Adjudication and Review closed out 230 cases nationally, compared with the roughly 3,000 it usually averages a day, a government official said. No cases were closed in the SSA's Boston and Denver regions on Monday, that person said, and the Seattle region closed just one case....
On Wednesday, the agency's chief judge, Debra Bice, sent a memo to all judges ordering them to close cases normally.
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100% grape juice
2 cups sugar
1 pack yeast (baking)
She is now burping good and working well got a blanket wrapped around it now
Are you gonna drink that?
No I'm gonna pour it down the toilet.. Of course I know someone who makes it the exact same way
I've fermented worse!
That's very little headroom. In case your yeast gets rambunctious you might want to put that over some tile or something you don't mind getting sticky juice all over.
My dad used to ferment "wine" the same way, but he didn't use an airlock, he just used a balloon. But it was pretty vile stuff even for a 13 year old just wanting to get drunk.
There's a lot of nasty germs in the bathroom. Just put the jug in a large pan, you'll be fine.
And to the person that asked if you are going to drink that.. really? If that's all you've got to contribute, please don't. We'll all be happier.
I make a lot of one gallons juices in one gallon carboys with air locks. No where close to toilet water! I agree the comment was rude. I do use wine yeast though, usually Lavlin 77B.
I use them for topping up other wines when racking or if not needed for top-off we drink them after they are de-gassed with a vacuum pump.
Last time I attempted a wine in this manner was over 10 years ago. It was more of an experiment. Everything was going very good until (3 months in the secondary) I decided to add some gelatin to clear it a little more. The gelatin (bought at a grocery) must have introduced a bug and the stuff turned so sour that it would cross your eyes.
Good luck. Hope it turns out good. If it doesn't, do not give up. Just arm yourself with more knowledge and try it again. The feeling you get when you have a success is priceless.
When it's done fermenting next week, I'm gonna let it sit a few days, rack it, let it sit rack and repeat till its clear and drink my friend who makes it does not even rack it he lets it sit a week or 2 to ferment then he pops the cap off and drinks


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Learning journey in Detroit
By Rich Feldman, Boggs Center
Special to the Michigan Citizen
From Oct. 25-29, I had the honor and pleasure of conducting "A Learning Journey" with visitors from around the country and the world. The journey was initiated and joined by Meg Wheatley, author of the best-selling "Leadership and Modern Science" and the recently released "So Far From Home," a book dedicated to "warriors for the human spirit in today's life-destroying world."
Our journey included meetings with (among others) Church of the Messiah pastor Barry Randolph, New Work and Culture inventor Fritjhof Bergman, Boggs Educational Collective's Julia Putman, Catherine Ferguson Academy's Asenath Andrews, Allied Media Conference's Jenny Lee, Peace Zones' Ron Scott, Feedom Freedom Growers Wayne and Myrtle Curtis. We spent time at the 5 E Gallery and visited Young Nation and the TAP project in Southwest Detroit.
On our final morning we planted a tree in front of the Boggs Center and read a poem. "We are the children of Martin and Malcolm/Our right, our duty to shake the world with a new dream." Mama Sandra Simmons from Hush House shared some words and prayers as we ended this historic learning journey.
Since then, I have received many e-mails, poems, videos, slideshows and expressions from the visitors who now see Detroit differently and are in the process of re-examining their ideas about change and revolution.
Two New Yorkers e-mailed: "We would like to continue conversations and would value a shared electronic discussion rather than individual e-mails that we have to manage. What does it mean to re-imagine work, education, community safety, democracy and revolution?"
From another visitor: "I wanted to meet Mrs. Boggs and tell her how much her work and Mr. Bogg's work has meant to me since I began reading their writings since the 1980s."
And another: "The journey was an amazing experience and inspirational! I was very excited to see the solidarity culture and economy being built by ordinary people. To see this regenerated my own sense of commitment and hope. One thing I struggled with, though, given the multiracial nature of the participants, was wondering the extent to which people (participants) see the beauty of Black people, which motivated me to ask the question I posed to Mrs. Boggs: 'How is the humanism of sustainable activism different than color-blind humanism?' I asked this question because sometimes I thought that some of the participants reduced humanism to abstract individuals. What makes us human is that we are historical, cultural and political beings. Part of anti-Black racism was to deny this — that European and European Americans were the only one's that are historical, cultural and political beings. Sometimes I felt (and having personal conversations with participants who sometimes felt uncomfortable) that some participants approached Black people as a problem and not a people with problems. The former (Black people as a problem) assumes that others need to 'fix' Black people.
"I was very impressed with the urban agriculture projects and the efforts to create a local food system — one questions I asked during one of the sessions: Is there efforts to foster different 'food cultures.' My thinking is that food is important to the development of healthy human social relations (within and between different groups of people) — in other words, the eating of food is essential for creating solidarity cultures, for creating and maintaining human relationships of solidarity. So, it is both in the producing and consuming of food that relationships are made and continued."
A young Turkish film maker and poet, Filiz, wrote a poem. It begins:
My heart is broken-open
because there's nowhere to hide.
The city surrounds me,
whispers softly
I look in the face of brutality
and broken wings of human spirit.
I have no questions left,
why and how fled my vocabulary.
I hear children singing:
justice, they say,
"we want justice, it is time."
I listen, I look
at windows and doors
that once were there.
In this house,
Aiyana Mo'nay Stanley-Jones
was shot in her sleep.
She was eight."
someone corrects,
"no, she was s e v e n"
when the police shattered
her dreams.
She was seven,
sleeping next to her grandmother."
what happened.
to us,
brothers, sisters.
I surrender my eyes, my ears
I want to cry —
I want to cry a million tears.
we are harvesting peace
from our pain"
I look, I listen.
My heart cracks wide open."
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Enterprise social is taking over, but there is often a lack of understanding about what VALUE can it bring. Ruven will start with a brief explanation about what enterprise social is NOT, and then provide two examples, based on his own experience, of the REAL VALUE that social can bring to your organization.
This session discusses the various ways Lync, Exchange, Sharepoint and Office Web Apps can become better with regard to communication and collaboration by being joined together. We will do a non-technical overview of features such as Skill Search, Site Mailbox, Task Synchronization and more that are only made possible by them working together as well as see how they can boost productivity in a real life scenario.
Have you been working like a network? Well there's a wealth of information that's being captured and now you have the opportunity to dive into that data and build applications on top of it. During this session, we'll get an introduction to the yammer platform, different integration options and then we'll dive into the yammer api. You'll walk away with some clear examples of leveraging social out of the box features, use Power BI to dissect the data as well as what you customizations you can further do via yammer api.
Searching for colleagues is the most common task that employees do on intranets. Nothing is more important than talking to the right person when you need help on a specific subject. You can bonify your SharePoint experience by leveraging the user profile service to build a rich staff directory! In this session, you will learn about : - MySites - Skydrive - People search - User Profile Synchronization All of this, using 3 real-life exemples of implementation of a staff directory in SharePoint.
In a recent survey of our associates, 88% felt that internal communications has improved or significantly improved over the course of the last 12 months. Just over two years ago, we rolled out SharePoint as the communication and collaboration platform for OfficeMax Grand & Toy. The initial implementation focused on using the technology to deliver a dynamic corporate intranet. As the implementation has evolved we are now leveraging the flexibility and power of the SharePoint environment to develop "solutions" to address business efficiencies, share best practice, drive engagement and empower our associates to perform at their best. During this session, I will share how we have used features in SharePoint to achieve significant improvements in internal communications. In addition, participants will gain valuable insight into how we've leveraged the features of the SharePoint platform to create "no code" based, powerful business solutions quickly. Level Introductory to Intermediate.
The key to creating a compliant records management system is to focus on building a great collaboration solution. In this session, you will learn how and why to leverage SharePoint and various add-ons to develop seamless and frictionless records management solutions that drive both compliance and business value through user adoption. By using Habanero's experience, case studies and examples, we'll share how focusing on collaboration can increase compliance by way of user adoption of your SharePoint ECM solution.
This session will cover step-by-step instructions on how upgrade to SharePoint 2013. Learn how to plan & prepare for Upgrade & Migration. What's new in SharePoint 2013 for upgrade and what is the upgrade process and best practices. How to clean up an environment before an upgrade, Strategy on Claims Migration and how to prepare for known Issues, Customization Upgrade tips and tricks and a demo of end to end upgrade and migration during the session. Level Introductory to Intermediate.
Consider what your SharePoint environment will look like in 3 to 5 years. Current information growth rates in the 30% to 60% range are causing IT storage budgets to balloon and adding to the energy footprint of an already taxed electricity grid. It's never too late to take an Information Governance approach to your SharePoint management and site allocation. Let's work together with a focus on defensible destruction of content and get a handle on out of control content growth and site sprawl. Without a records and governance model, you are facilitating corporate hoarding of content and increasing the amount of duplicate, out of date, and redundant information your organisation is paying to maintain. This session will explore a three stage method to successfully gain corporate control of your information assets and dispose of the rest.
In this session learn about the social features in SharePoint 2013, why you will absolutely love them, and how they will make you more productive. My Sites and user profiles have huge improvements, follow sites, people and documents, micro-blogging with mentions and hash tags, ratings and likes, People search, and other professional social network capabilities.
many people and moving parts. Many organizations choose to pilot their implementation in order to test the waters and get feedback on their content. Unfortunately, these same companies fail to successfully build a journey which incorporates prototyping and piloting successfully. The question is, how do you ensure that your pilot is successfully implemented? This session will provide the strategy and tips to do just that. We will lay out a defined strategy for choosing which departments in your organization to target for your pilot, and how to define the content and build the functionality they need to succeed. Discussion topics will include how to define your success measurements for the rollout, leverage a shortened cycle of design, development and delivery, documentation and training as well as gathering feedback from your participants. This is an action-packed session that is guaranteed to get your project and pilot started successfully! Level Introductory to Intermediate.
Join Miller Systems and public broadcasting powerhouse WGBH for a practical discussion of how the team transformed "InnerTube," the primary WGBH corporate intranet, from an aging, static content repository into an experience that connects people together, fueling engagement and raising "organizational IQ." InnerTube was completely re-designed and re-developed from the ground up with SharePoint, using all new tools and a massive amount of new content. This presentation will focus on how Miller Systems successfully shepherded WGBH through this daunting task.
Attendees of this session will take away real-world strategies to:- Manage a multi-quarter SharePoint intranet development project so that: a) it's goal-driven; b) collaboratively completed by an invested team on a predictable timetable, and; c) it'll have legs after the launch- Enable visibility into the project and content across roles (content - writers, content production assistants, PMs, IAs, designers, developers, IT, Sr. management) - Develop and leverage key tools you need to run a substantial intranet overhaul project
Adding a DoD 5015.2-certified records management back-end for SharePoint is a concern for many organizations. An out-of the-box integration between SharePoint and enterprise content management (ECM) can strengthen information governance while maintaining ease of collaboration. In this session, you will learn how the City of Saint John, NB, which has implemented the 2011 Municipal Reference Authority (MRA) file plan and retention schedule, has significantly streamlined records management through integrating Laserfiche ECM with their existing SharePoint installation. We'll also walk through the benefits of this composite content application-based approach, so you leave with great new ideas to build other SharePoint and Laserfiche-based composite applications.
My IT organizations are struggling with how to effectively take advantage of "the cloud." If SharePoint is in the mix, perhaps Office365 has been evaluated. Unfortunately, not all firms are ready for some of the compromises that SharePoint Online imposes. Fortunately, there's another way; you can run SharePoint in Azure's IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offering, getting all of the benefits of an on-premise implementation, while being able to take advantage of the scale and favorable economics of cloud hosting. Shawn Shell, Vice President of Consulting at Hitachi Consulting, will show how SharePoint can be effectively hosted on Azure, demonstrate real-world implementations and discuss the flexibility afforded by this model, including making the implementation on-premises (with little effort) if desired.
Historically, deployment of SharePoint solutions was a simple process of uploading a solution file into a solution gallery or relying on a SharePoint administrator to install the solution into the farm gallery. Microsoft did not provide any guidance on how to manage this process on an enterprise level, and therefore organizations were forced to implement a disjunction and manual deployment process. Today, Microsoft promotes Apps as the way to develop solutions, but the deployment process is very different from the previous experience and guidance on how to manage this process is non-existent. A major improvement with Apps application development is the ability to leverage the common patterns, practices, and frameworks that standard .Net development utilizes, however there is no official guidance on how to incorporate the same ALM practices with this new App packaging method. From a SharePoint developer's standpoint, the Apps packaging and code-hosted-somewhere-else is foreign and presents some serious challenges. This discussion will present strategies from a service provider's perspective how implement continuous deployment of SharePoint Apps and the benefits of investing in this effort. Level Intermediate to Advanced.
You simply cannot afford to ignore the importance of this topic. Successful organizational change enablement is a critical component to ensuring the success of any SharePoint initiative. In this session we will discuss field proven tactics to help your users make sense of the change that your SharePoint solution will inevitably bring into their daily work lives. I will share a user adoption framework and some factors you should consider when planning your next SharePoint initiative. We will challenge the mindset that adoption can be driven and embrace the concept of designing change for long term sustainable cultural acceptance.
By attending this session you will be able to:- Design your own organizational change enablement strategy- Understand how to foster user adoption- Understand how to engage and build solution champions- Build a communication plan- Apply field tested strategies in your organization
This session will bust the myth that SharePoint is not a good platform and robust enough to build out your SharePoint 2013 Records Management System. Noorez Khamis [Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP] will delve into demos and real world examples of how to start the build out of your SharePoint 2013 Records Management system from scratch. It will talk to many of the built in and add-on features that will help ease your deployment while showing you how your system can scale to an Enterprise Records Management system.
SharePoint 2013 introduced the concept of Apps, but it is really Office 365 that is driving this phenomenon. With good reason Microsoft doesn't want our full trust code solutions running on their shared services, and Apps are the answer to that. However building Apps for your enterprise is different than creating simple Apps for sale in the Office Store. Whether you're ready to move to the cloud, or you want to make sure you leave the door open, this session is for you.We'll start with an overview of the different types of Apps, and what you can do with them. We'll discuss why SharePoint hosted and Auto Hosted Apps take a back seat to Provider Hosted for most enterprise apps, and what that means. Authentication is the biggest challenge for new App developers, and we'll go over options such as Windows Azure AD, OAuth, or JWT. Don't worry if you're not a developer and don't know all the acronyms. We'll also make the session real and go over some actual enterprise Apps we've been building for our clients. One is a case management system supporting external users, document and records management, payment gateway, collaboration, and legacy systems. A second we'll cover is an employee self-service portal for a global medical products and services company.
This presentation is oriented towards organizations thinking about upgrading SharePoint in the near future. The objective is to provide decision makers and Shar0ePoint administrators with a simple yet detailed analysis framework that covers all technical and business angles, so that they can make an informed decision when deploying a new SharePoint version. High-level IT continuum (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) concepts will be covered, along with the major characteristics of the most popular cloud offerings for SharePoint such as O365, Azure, AWS and others. Whether you are pro- or anti-cloud, or fall somewhere in between, dismissing the cloud outright is no longer an option. Understanding all the available hosting options will impact any decision to continue operating SharePoint internally. Many factors need to be considered, such as legal, provider due diligence, migration, support, integration, location and licensing, as well as current and future requirements. This presentation will cover the most important aspects that must be considered during decision making. Since cost is usually the main focus, it will be examined in detail throughout the presentation. Attendees will leave this session with a crystal-clear big picture, which they can use to support their recommendations to upper management.
The Cloud conversation is spilling out of the corporate offices and making its way into your organization's everyday conversations. You've heard the benefits. You've heard the warnings. So what is leading your team one way or the other? With headlines like Snowden, the NSA, Target's data breach, etc. where can your business find its comfort zone in the cloud? Join CEO, Rob LaMear as he shares both sides of the argument and helps you find your organization's tipping point.
In this session, you will learn how to re-purpose the SharePoint 2013 WCM features, such as term store driven navigation and refinement, faceted navigation, Query Builder and the Content Search and Core Results Web Parts to create a dynamic search driven intranet experience. You will also learn how to extend these features and concepts to enable dynamic search driven applications similar to those you currently use all the time such as Amazon, Yelp, and Trip Advisor. If you are having a challenge with search on your intranet as well site data freshness challenges, this session is for you. A general understanding of SharePoint 2013 search functionality and components is required.
Creating an Intranet on SharePoint involves a unique combination of people, identifying business needs and leveraging the platform effectively. Organisations that fail to understand the business and how to leverage SharePoint to surface key business information and enable processes ultimately does not deliver the potential value that an intranet can provide. In this session, learn from the mistakes of other organisations as well as the practices that can deliver real results within a minimal investment. Join Michal as we delve into why SharePoint has been so successful but has yet under delivered its promises to many organizations though a combination of case studies, stories and personal experience.
This session will cover:- Why the majority of SharePoint projects fail (Tip: It's not the technology)- Functional areas that SharePoint excels at and some of its weaknesses- Why alignment between IT and the business is a huge factor for success- How to properly structure change management efforts- Who you need on your intranet team for a successful journey- A range of SharePoint specific examples that can improve your SharePoint Intranet with a minimal investment.
In this fast paced session we'll look at a spectrum of approaches to driving business value. We will begin with internal wins for overhead reduction and knowledge worker productivity to innovative opportunities of deriving value from external data and delivering actionable insights. Looking at a wide variety of industries and stages of SharePoint maturity, Naomi will highlight strategies and real-life stories to ensure your organization can capture OPEX benefits from your adoption of the SharePoint platform.
Working with clients to develop a taxonomy is always a challenge. Although new to the consulting arena, here's what I've learned so far – the more you involve the client, the slower the process can become. (In other words, if you give a mouse a cookie, it's going to want a glass of milk.) Too many "cooks" in the Information Architecture 'kitchen' can be disastrous, but so can too few of the wrong ones. Both situations can mean weeks of feedback and design revisions, often at the cost of the implementation's overall timeline. Is there a way to involve the client, economize the process, and still get a great result? In this session I will present a case study wherein I tried a workshop approach to taxonomy development, borrowing ideas from the field of Library Science. The client was an organization of about 2000 users, divided into about 7 main departments. The 3-hour workshop brought together a cross section of the organization. You will learn how getting the right people in the room can foster a positive attitude toward SharePoint implementation, and the importance of getting users to focus on their daily information consumption (and not on their org chart).
Most of companies already have an Intranet or a collaboration solution. Their main issue is not to build it but to take benefits and enhance the use and the contribution. My maturity model and step by step approach will offer you a methodology to onboard the different stakeholders and generate a long-term business value.
SharePoint 2013 improves many of the existing features over its predecessors and add new ones. This case study illustrates the Pro's and con's for available design options for Infrastructure architects and IT managers such as Host-Named Site collections, multiple Farm, Host standby Disaster recovery farms implementation and upgrade decisions that are encountered in almost every upgrade.
In this demo-driven presentation we will show how we can extend information and processes stored and running on SharePoint 2013 through Windows Phone 8. In this presentation we will create some mobile views for list and libraries and introduce the concept of Device Channels which will be used for setting up a User Interface (UI) specifically for windows Phone. After that we will introduce CSOM (Client-Side Object Model) for Windows Phone and create some apps for illustrating some of the CSOM principles and guidelines. As a major demo we will create a SharePoint-workflow or event receiver that reaches out to a Windows Phone app (using Azure Mobile Services), which will interact further with SharePoint through CSOM. The SharePoint REST-services will also be introduced briefly as an alternative to CSOM. The presentation will conclude with some general information on how to deploy the windows phone app within a company.
Managing web content on both public and internal sites has become one of the greatest challenges facing most organizations today. Trying to find the right balance of supporting internal processes producing both internal and external facing content can often require different technology to meet different needs. In this session, Join Virgil Carroll, Principal Architect at High Monkey Consulting, as he looks at the potential of SharePoint 2013 to provide an answer to these questions and more. Being a long time skeptic of SharePoint as a web content management system, Virgil will share his true 'confessions' around his experience in using 2013 and how this version has the technical chops as a world class WCM system. Along the way, Virgil will share with you real life practical approaches to enabling your organization to support a solid web management strategy in the future. As far as Virgil's street cred, he has been developing websites for clients both large and small (many you have heard of) since 1998 and working with SharePoint since the word was invented!
This session is intended for organizations that have made a significant investment in SharePoint and a requirement to provide enterprise records management. It will consider the capabilities of SharePoint as a records management system, and strategies for extending SharePoint-based collaboration to also include the management of corporate records, both with and without the integration of existing Enterprise Content Management ( 'ECM' ) systems. Level Intermediate to Advanced.
Moving from SharePoint 2010 on premises to SharePoint Online in Office 365 is of interests to many SharePoint customers. However, the roadmap of how to get there is not very well understood or documented. In this case study, I will Share our experience in this journey in the following areas: - Business drivers to start this journey - Deep dive through pilot to understand the roadmap - Areas of concerns initially and better understanding now * what about our customized business logic in workflow * my company intranet URL naming convention * migration process and tools * workflows * customized templates and intranet sites - Remaining SharePoint Online limitations (up to now) * mycompany.sharepoint.com domain * email enabled list * SharePoint administrator did not separate from Office 365 administrator - Lessons learned
Social is the new direction, there's not stopping it. But if you're like most of us, you have concerns and worries. "Can it really work in my environment?", "How do we reduce the risk of bad things happening on the social network?", "Do we need to change our organizational culture? How do we do that?"
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