![]() See Settlement and Mutual Releases, dated J(annexed as Ex. ![]() The parties settled the 2007 Action through written agreement. 2, 2007 (Docket # 1 in Cengage Learning Inc. In October 2007, plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Smyres and others for copyright infringement. ¶¶ 14, 26 Answer to Second Amended Complaint, filed J(Docket # 264), ¶ 14. BDB is a company that buys and sells textbooks, including some textbooks published by plaintiffs. See Second Amended Complaint, filed (Docket # 263) (“SAC”), ¶ 1. Plaintiffs are publishing companies that provide a wide range of educational products for students and professionals. BACKGROUND We provide a limited chronology of the history of the parties’ disputes, with an emphasis on describing instances where Mooney has given testimony or submitted statements to a court. 16, 2015 (Docket # 256) Letter from Tiffany C. Oppenheim in Support of Motion for Disqualification of Neil B. Reply”) Supplemental Declaration of Matthew J. ![]() Mem.”) Plaintiffs’ Reply Memorandum in Support of Motion for Disqualification of Neil B. 20, 2015 (Docket # 248) (“Oppenheim Decl.”) Defendants’ Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Disqualification of Neil B. 20, 2015 (Docket # 246) Plaintiffs’ Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion for Disqualification of Neil B. 1 See Plaintiffs’ Motion for Disqualification of Neil B. Mooney as counsel for defendants.1 For the reasons stated below, plaintiffs’ motion is denied. Plaintiffs have filed a motion to disqualify Neil B. (“Pearson”) brought this suit against Book Dog Books, LLC (“BDB”) and Philip Smyres alleging copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and other claims relating to defendants’ purported distribution of counterfeit textbooks. GORENSTEIN, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Cengage Learning, Inc. 816 (WHP) (GWG) : BOOK DOG BOOKS, LLC et al., : Defendants. et al., : : Plaintiffs, OPINION AND ORDER : -v.- 13 Civ. 298 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -x JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.
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Leadership must take the reins of their distributed teams and lead by example to ensure everyone is on the same page. ![]() In short, having the right people is not enough on its own. On the other hand, in order for a distributed team to work together effectively, executives must also ensure that they are ready and willing to collaborate and communicate when it is time to work. This simple change will discourage the ‘always-on’ mindset in employees - and provide executives with the breaks they need as well. The “always-on” mindset can be a huge barrier to success.Įxecutives should be expected to set boundaries and lead by example - making sure they set consistent hours, and are offline on evenings and weekends (when the rest of the team is). It may seem counter-intuitive, but in a distributed (or remote) team, it can be extremely easy for the lines of personal and professional to blur. This can be accomplished in two ways: by being both more and less accessible than ever. Executives are the leaders, and should be setting examples for the entire team. The solution to these challenges starts at the top. Having that physical disconnect between team members can make it difficult to build rapport, communicate effectively, and set consistent expectations across the team. The advantage of working with distributed teams (geographical flexibility) can also be one of the biggest hurdles. Where some remote workforces may try to recruit within the same general geographical region as the HQ, a truly distributed team is not bound by distance from the office. However, distributed teams have a significant advantage when it comes to people: the ability to go out and find the best fit, regardless of location. It’s true, having the right people in place to ensure an efficient workplace isn’t exactly a ground-breaking concept or business hack. So how can your organization avoid falling victim to these challenges? By ensuring you have the right mix of 3 key components: people, processes, and tools. The same can be said about distributed teams, where the same challenges may be even further magnified by physical distance.Ī lack of in-person interaction (not to mention time zone differences) can breed a work environment short on trust, company culture, and productivity. With remote work on the rise, a larger shift to more distributed teams can also be expected in the coming years, thanks to broader acceptance of work from home models by both employees and business leaders alike.īut despite the recent increase in popularity (and evidence that it is the preferred workplace model) the challenges of remote work are well-documented. Regardless of the locale, colleagues may work together for years without the chance for a face-to-face meeting, whether it is a random run-in at the water cooler on a rare office day, coincidently while out for dinner in the same city, or at the yearly holiday party. For example, a CEO may be based in Toronto, with a VP of Sales in Houston, a Chief Marketing Officer in San Francisco, and CTO in Stockholm. Remote teams are generally thought of as employees working from home (whether temporary, hybrid, or permanent), but usually with some sort of access to an office or shared workspace - often with the executive team working out of a physical Headquarters of some sort.ĭistributed teams on the other hand, are distributed in the literal sense of the word. The difference here is all about workplace structure. In many ways, the concept of a distributed team is the same as a remote team - essentially, employees are not in an office. On the surface, it appears to be synonymous with remote work, but there are a few key differences that separate the two. One such example is the Distributed Team, or Distributed Teamwork. One thing we may not have mentioned though, are some of the nuances that come with these new workplace models. ![]() This recent shift in where we work has also had a huge impact on how we work.Īlong the way, the Stormboard blog has taken a deep dive into the ongoing evolution of the workplace, examining newly in vogue concepts such as the Hybrid Workplace Model and Asynchronous Collaboration, and their impact on how we work. What was once considered a luxury reserved for cutting-edge businesses and Silicon Valley tech start-ups has become a daily reality for millions around the world. ![]() Since then - thanks in large part to public health orders around the world stemming from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic - the business landscape has shifted dramatically. A few years back, the idea of working remotely was entirely foreign to many of us. ![]() iPhone X can also scan QR codes, a task that in the past required a dedicated smartphone app. Make the camera see more.ĭual 12-megapixel sensors on the rear and a TrueDepth front-facing camera make iPhone X a versatile snapper, but there’s more to the technology than meets the eye. Apple Insider found that switching to this “dark” mode in testing “saved a whopping 58 percent of battery.” 3. Everything that once appeared white will now appear black. Save even more energy by choosing Smart Invert Colors from the Accessibility menu. Leave some pixels dark by choosing a black screensaver or background color, and there’s less power needed. Unlike previous iPhones that featured fully backlit LCD screens, iPhone X uses OLED technology to light pixels individually for the sharpest presentation possible. The editors at Mashable are “consistently impressed with how long the iPhone X lasts,” observing up to a day and a half’s worth of battery life in tests-but under the right conditions that power can be stretched even farther. This trick doesn’t recreate the actual fingerprint sensor, but as notes, it’s a welcome feature “for those iPhone traditionalists who want the latest Apple smartphone but can’t quite let go of the home button.” 2. But if old habits die hard and you miss the old home button, Apple won’t give you a thumbs down.Īs Apple Insider points out, iPhone X users can create a virtual home button that “can be customized to function just as the physical home button did before.” Simply enable AssistiveTouch in Settings and then use the resulting on-screen circle the way you used to: single tap for the main screen, double tap for multitasking or hold to access Siri. To stretch iPhone X’s display to the maximum, Apple got rid of the physical home button, updating instead to a swipe-based navigation system and facial recognition for unlocking. Here are just three surprising superpowers of Apple iPhone X. You might not use these features every day, but they can be hugely helpful in the right moment. There’s the Super Retina display, offering the highest pixel density ever on an iPhone the 5.8-inch, edge-to-edge OLED screen, with its incredible detail Face ID, which uses 3D mapping for secure unlocking and Portrait Mode, for professional-quality photo effects when using either the front- or rear-facing cameras.īut like many Apple products, iPhone X can do a number of things that may not meet the eye-and some are downright amazing. IPhone X is the most technologically advanced, feature-rich smartphone Apple has ever produced. ![]() Learn the not-so-obvious super powers of Apple’s flagship smartphone. Russia wanted this control over their former Soviet republic, like they are trying with all former satellites and now they have it. The real reason Russia wanted this deal was to give Rosatom’s subsidiary the Uranium One’s very profitable uranium mines in Kazakhstan - the single largest producer of commercial uranium in the world. production has increased to about 5% of our total (see Campbell et al., 2017). They have been buying up mines and companies as fast as they can, especially outside the U.S., and their U.S. That is not to say Uranium One has been idle since that time. Any export would have to be approved on a case-by-case basis by the U.S. They do not possess a Nuclear Regulatory Commission export license. Theoretically, they could process 20% of our ore, but that has never happened.īesides, Russia can’t export any uranium they produce in the U.S. But they do have good milling capacity to process ore, if anyone gives it to them, which hadn’t happened in years. Uranium One couldn’t give these facilities away. facilities obtained by Russia produced almost nothing for years before this sale. The State Department and several government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States first unanimously approved the 2010 partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, supposedly giving Moscow control of more than 20% of America’s uranium supply. The concern was that the FBI knew that Russian nuclear industry officials had engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to help Russian President, and world’s richest man, Vladimir Putin, increase his commercial nuclear ambitions inside the United States, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. ![]() To recap, in 2015, Breitbart News editor Peter Schweizer claimed that donations to the Clinton Foundation were behind the Obama Administration’s controversial 2010 deal that gave Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium interests.Īnd by large, we mean really, really small.īut any money going to the Clinton Foundation occurred years before this deal surfaced, and came from a fellow philanthropist, Canadian Frank Guistra, who had divested himself from uranium years before this Uranium One deal. ![]() If we had known then what we know now, we might not have approved the deal. The level of Russian interference in America, and globally, has only recently been appreciated and their attempts seem to be everywhere and to target everyone. But intervals sound extremely different depending on the musical context they are included in. with no harmonic context given.Īll you will be able to do after memorizing all these intervals is reproduce them in isolation, or in the particular way that you memorized them. For example, in a typical interval-based approach, you may be asked to sing (or recognize) a major fifth, a minor third, or a major third, etc. The problem with this approach is that they only teach you how to memorize intervals (the distances between notes) in isolation. Most of the ear training exercises you can find online (also those included in ear trainer apps) follow interval-based ear training methods. Perfect pitch, on the other hand, can only be developed in early childhood, according to scientific findings. Relative pitch is the basis of a strong, well-trained inner ear and can be developed at any age, no matter your current level. By this, we mean they can hear a piece of music and understand the tonality, chords, and melodies, and reproduce pitches within that tonality because they have internalized how the pitches feel and move within the scale. Relative pitch, on the other hand, is the ability of a musician to recognize notes and chords within a musical context. ![]() While it is an impressive skill, it is not necessary for musical development. Perfect pitch is the rare ability, developed in very early childhood, to reproduce and recognize pitches outside of a musical context (or ‘out of thin air.’) A person with perfect pitch can be told to sing middle C, or A (440Hz), or the F# above C2, and can do it without thinking. Many beginner musicians confuse the terms ‘relative pitch’ and ‘perfect pitch.’ They think that in order to develop your inner ear and become proficient at recognizing pitch and harmony, they must have perfect pitch. Difference Between Perfect Pitch and Relative Pitch This is another dangerous and widely prevalent practice among the internet generation. Can I Use One Strong Password Everywhere? These have sophisticated brute force algorithms backed by enormous computational power, which can keep on continuously trying for days, if not months, to rip apart any weak credentials. While a human can have difficulty guessing the passwords set by another human, it's the powerful machines the fight is really against. In contrast, self-generated passwords can have predictable patterns making them susceptible to hacks. Passwords created by these generators not only consist of different characters but are truly random. Studies point to a lack of randomness in human-generated random numbers. While it looks possible, it's not advised to set strong passwords on your own. In addition, one should avoid using common names, anything related to one's own life, or any dictionary word. Still, the least you should aim for is 12 characters having uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Long passwords are generally more robust. Good Passwords are a complex mix of characters that are difficult to guess. ![]() However, it's prescribed to use a mix of all available variables for the most secure and practically unhackable output. It will help you to create passwords as per the unique signup requirements. You have the choice to use the uppercase & lowercase alphabets, numbers, and special characters while generating passwords for new online registrations or updating old ones. 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SEGGER Microcontroller has announced that, through close collaboration with ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA, it has been able to make SEGGER's professional cross platform integrated development environment (IDE) Embedded Studio available for free to all Nordic Semiconductor customers. ![]() ![]() Washing it with water and gentle facial soap will do. Here’s what you need for this Day of the Dead makeup tutorial:īefore you begin to apply any makeup, make sure your face is clean. Just follow the steps and I bet you’ll get the look you want after: This Day of the Dead tutorial is quite long, but trust me when I say it’s easy. Not only that, you’ll get more inspiration! Why am I telling you this? I believe when you know the history or the story behind it, you’ll learn to appreciate sugar skulls and Day of the Dead makeup. Eventually, it became mainstream and is now part of everyone’s Halloween. The sugar skull, which I’m going to share with you, is part of this Mexican tradition and is usually placed on graves to serve as decor. No, this isn’t All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. And here it is! Easy Day of the Dead Makeup Tutorial Perfect For Halloween How To Look Like Carmen Sanchez With These Simple Stepsīefore I proceed to the actual Day of the Dead makeup tutorial, let’s hav a short history lesson, shall we? Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, is a huge celebration in Mexico from October 31 to November 2. Well, it drew a lot of attention I vowed to share a nice Day of the Dad makeup tutorial. ![]() It’s been a three-year tradition among my friends to sit down for an intimate dinner while playing Clues! (How’s that for fun?) Last year, I decided to be Carmen Sanchez from the Book of Life, wearing this beautiful sugar skull on my face. Over the years, I’ve learned to mellow from all the parties, but that doesn’t mean I don’t put on a great costume. More people are not only dressing up, but they’re working to get the look right. It’s the Halloween season once again! A lot of people don’t know it’s actually one of the busiest times of the year for makeup artists like me. Follow this easy and fun Day of the Dead makeup tutorial and look beautifully undead! Learn how to glam up and be the center of attention this Halloween. ![]() ![]() You might be tempted to use the even briefer change of ly to hly with that approach, however, if some of the files were correctly named to begin with, they would wind up with an extra h-monthhly. Or, use shorter text replacement, such as substituting tly for thly as long as it wouldn’t interfere with other text in the filenames. In the Find field, type montly in Replace With, type monthly.Choose Replace Text from the pop-up menu.Select the target files and choose File > Rename Items.Have you ever wound up with a bunch of montly reports scattered among your monthly ones, or some similarly repeated typo? To replace montly with monthly: If the example in the lower left of the dialog looks right, click Rename.(Alternatively, set only IMG to be replaced, leaving the underscore.) Be sure to include a trailing space or some other separator after the text. For Replace With, enter a description: Pool Party, Graduation, Disney World, or whatever.Choose Replace Text from the dialog’s pop-up menu.In the Finder window with the photo files, choose Edit > Select All, and then File > Rename Items.Replace those leading characters with a descriptor so that you’ll know what’s what: How many files do you have whose names start with IMG_? Every time you dump images from your camera to your Mac, they’re named with that prefix, followed by a 4-digit number. We’ll take a look at each of these options in action. You can place the number before or after the filename, replace the filename with different text, or obliterate the original name completely. Format: Append an index or counter number (the latter uses leading zeros for a fixed number of digits) or the current date and time to the filename.Add Text: Add text before or after the filename.This option also lets you delete characters from filenames by replacing the existing text with nothing. Replace Text: Change any part of the existing filename to some other text.(If you’re working in a window, it slides out from the title bar if you’ve selected items on the desktop, you get a free-floating version.) When you choose Rename Items for a selection, a dialog appears. (For the rest of this article, I’ll refer to the command as simply Rename Items.) The Batch-Rename Triad But how would you know that since you aren’t likely to peruse menus after you’ve selected a bunch of files or folders?Īnd that’s how you start: select multiple items in any window view (including, if you need to, a mix of files and folders) and choose File > Rename Items. Then, it changes to Rename Items (identifying the number of selected items). So, the Rename command has no reason to exist-until you’ve selected multiple items. After all, you can rename a file by clicking and typing. You didn’t know the Finder has a batch-rename capability? That’s because the option is disguised as a seemingly useless Rename command in the File menu. A brief mental facepalm moment was followed by the relieved realization that the Finder could do it for me with its batch-rename capability. ![]() When I was preparing inline graphics-the little images embedded in a line of text-for my Take Control of Numbers book, I was almost finished when I remembered that the filenames needed to adhere to a naming convention: they must end with _inline. #1650: Cloud storage changes for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive quirky printing problem.#1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbk.#1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage. ![]()
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