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Established pursuant to the Basic Agreement between the Office of the Commissioner and the MLBPA, the International Talent Committee is responsible for examining a number of areas related to the procuring of international players including but not limited to the exploration of the possibility of an international draft, improving the education and acculturation programs of Clubs at their international academies and the development of appropriate country-by-country plans for playing and development opportunities for players prior to draft eligibility.
The Committee is led by co-chairs Rob Manfred, MLB's executive vice president for labor relations and human resources, and Michael Weiner, the executive director of the MLBPA. They are joined by New York Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson; MLBPA Director of Player Relations Tony Clark; Tampa Bay Rays Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman; MLBPA Special Assistant Stan Javier; MLB Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations Kim Ng; and MLBPA Senior Advisor Rick Shapiro.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2004 News Releases > October 2004 > Exiting Miss Wayland has juggled duties of title
Exiting Miss Wayland has juggled duties of title
PLAINVIEW – It's a Thursday night, and Ashley Applewhite is whisking through the door with dinner in one hand, wearing a beaded top, a sparkling crown, wind pants and tennis shoes.
The visual irony is amusing, but for those who know Ashley, it's a perfect representation of her reign as Miss Wayland Baptist University for the past year. She's balanced the role of ambassador and princess with that of a young woman blurring the lines between student and teacher in her first job.
As she prepares to hand the crown off to another young lady in the Miss Wayland Pageant on Nov. 5, Applewhite recalls fondly the memories of her year, though she admits it has been exhausting. The wind pants and running shoes reflect a hunger for rest, which Ashley says is not too plentiful these days.
A senior planning to graduate in December, Applewhite was crowned Miss Wayland last November, then set out on a whirlwind schedule that wove various appearances at service organizations, meetings and pageants around her already busy school schedule. Her spring semester was full of opportunities to represent the university, events so enjoyable she had a hard time picking a favorite.
"These were neat experiences because I got to share my points of view on what I stand for and perform my talents at the same time," said Applewhite, a music education major from Olney. "I had a chance to represent Wayland and the music department and enjoyed that."
Ashley spent her summer taking classes in Plainview and at the Wayland campuses in Lubbock and Amarillo, wondering all the while why she had taken on the full load. Then in the fall, she began her student teaching experiences at Lubbock – Roosevelt for seven weeks. Then, just as her second rotation was set to begin, a phone call came.
"I got a call from Spur that they had an emergency opening for a music teacher and wanted me to apply," she said. "I did a lot of praying, and called a lot of the prayer warriors in my life to help. My ideal first job was not K-12 music all by myself. I had hoped to be an assistant band director in a high school."
Applewhite decided to take the job, though, feeling that God had opened a door for her. Suddenly, the summer term became clear.
"I had no idea that it would work out that way," she said. "It's amazing to me that I took 15 hours in the summer and it turned out to be for a reason."
For the past few months, Applewhite's schedule has been rigorous. She's up early for the drive to Spur, about 90 miles from Plainview. Then, after a busy day of teaching music to everyone from kindergarteners to high school band members, she heads back to Plainview.
The fall semester has been void of many Miss Wayland appearances, with her busy schedule and daily commute. And the last month, rehearsals and planning for the next pageant have added to her load.
"Energy is the biggest problem for me right now," she said, enjoying a few moments just to sit before rehearsals. "I'm running on about 4-5 hours of sleep a night, and I'm normally someone who needs my eight hours."
Rest is not far off, though. Applewhite has the week of the pageant off, which she says will be used to get her wardrobe and talent presentation together and catch up a little on sleep before the big night on Friday. And while she's enjoyed her reign, she is excited to see the pageant take the stage.
"The highlight of my year, I think, will be getting to crown the new Miss Wayland, because I know how fun it is to represent the university and give back to Wayland for what it has given us," she said.
The pageant will begin at 7 p.m. in Harral Auditorium, with 18 contestants vying for the crown. The theme for the pageant is "A Knight's Masquerade." Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for Wayland students with an ID.

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The smbclient command line application included in Backtrack Linux is a staple for pentesting. I would imagine anyone that has done a pentest has used it to quickly verify SMB (Server Message Block) or CIFS (Common Internet File System) shares. The smbclient manpage describes it as a FTP-like client to access SMB/CIFS resources on servers. Below we describe varios smbclient commands in details to provide a basic understanding of its capabilities and what output will look like when using this tool in Backtrack Linux.


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Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson can only shake his head over the outcome of the Joel Tenenbaum trial, a case in which his young client was hit with a $675,000 damage award for uploading and downloading 30 songs. "How can a jury of common sense people be brought to a conclusion that is clearly divorced from its common sense base?" he wants to know.
"The law here is off base," he added, the verdict functioning as a reductio ad absurdum that highlights the problem with applying statutory damages to noncommercial copyright infringers.
The music industry says it's a "fact" that 25-year old Boston University grad student Joel Tenenbaum is a "hard-core, habitual, and unrepentant P2P abuser who has caused harm to the music community." To Nesson, though, Tenenbaum is a great kid fighting for "a lot of people the RIAA has screwed over."
Nesson intends to help Tenenbaum fight on; he tells Ars that he still wants to file a class-action lawsuit against the major labels and he will continue to litigate the Tenenbaum appeal. "This is round one," he says. "We now have the question well defined."
A question of fairness
That question is one of "fairness and justice," words that Nesson uses with obvious conviction. Now that we have three such verdicts (two for Jammie Thomas-Rasset and one for Joel Tenenbaum), it's clear that the verdicts are "produced by the law"—but the end result appears totally disproportionate to the harm caused.
Nesson plans to push the issue of fairness in post-trial motions about the unconstitutionality of such damages. If Judge Nancy Gertner agrees that some amount—any amount—would be too high to pass constitutional muster (such as the maximum $150,000 per song in damages), then "the thread can be pulled and pulled." Once the courts go down that path, "it creates a shakiness in the structure" of the law.
"As soon as you confront such issues," says Nesson, "you see that this statute just doesn't fit" Tenenbaum's noncommercial infringement.
Not everyone is buying what Nesson is selling. The Register's Andrew Orlowski tore into the professor this week, saying that:
Nesson has achieved something I thought was completely impossible in 2009, and that's to allow the US recording industry's lobby group to paint itself in a sympathetic light... The Boston case allowed the four major labels to justify an enforcement policy against opponents who appeared compulsively dishonest, irrational, paranoid, and with an abnormal sense of entitlement.
Nesson failed in his avowed mission "to put the record industry on trial. He failed to show why disproportionate statutory damages are harmful, which could have had a lasting constitutional effect. He failed to paint the defendant as sympathetic, or "one of us." He failed to demonstrate why copyright holders make lousy cops...
Now I've no doubt Nesson is sincere in his beliefs that he's doing everyone a favour, but then again, there's a bloke on my bus who thinks he's Napoleon.
And that's just about the trial; the events leading up to it were even stranger. We covered many of them, but the complete list of questionable decisions can't be summed up any better than it was by Ben Sheffner, a copyright attorney who covered the Tenenbaum trial for Ars.
Posting e-mails where potential experts tell you that your primary defense is baseless is not normal. Noticing a deposition for a law school auditorium (while violating various other procedural rules) is not normal. Filing a 3-page, substance-free appellate brief, whose only citation (incorrect at that) is to a Bible verse, is not normal. Recording telephone conferences with judges and opposing counsel is not normal. Refusing to participate in meet-and-confers if opposing counsel will not consent to recording is not normal. Posting songs to a public web site, a blatant copyright violation, while litigating a copyright case about those very songs, is not normal—indeed, it's the height of recklessness. And having a federal judge tell a Harvard Law School professor that he has committed a "violation of the law"—yes, a law that happens to be a felony—is so extraordinary that I'm shocked that both Harvard and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts appear to be doing precisely nothing about it.
Nesson is "notoriously eccentric," admits Debbie Rosenabaum, one of the Harvard Law students who served longest on the Tenenbaum case. "But we love him for that."
Calling Nesson one of her best law school professors, Rosenbaum tells Ars that Nesson "maintains the naive belief that the law should truly be just" and that he has a strong sense of how law "should be."
A common complaint is that this sounds more like an approach better suited for the legislature than the judiciary, and Rosenbaum concedes the fairness of the point. But "a lot of people say that something out of the norm is crazy until it becomes mainstream," she says, and points to a host of Supreme Court decisions that essentially changed the law in major ways, such as rulings on segregation and abortion.
"The law has changed because the social norms have made it obvious that what was the law is no longer good law," she says.
And Nesson is convinced that his quest for "fairness" is in fact deeply rooted in the law—it is not merely a request to ignore or overturn the statute, but to reinterpret it. "You cannot sensibly read this statute to apply these statutory damages against noncommercial users," he says, pointing to the legislative history behind 1999's Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act.
The heretic
Nesson's arguments so far haven't found much success in court. One famous example was the appellate court brief he submitted which cited no case law and referenced only a Bible verse about Solomon. It's an example that Rosenbaum brings up when we talk about the case, since it appears to reflect so badly on the Harvard Law students doing much of the work. Law students at one of the top schools in the country thought this was an appropriate appellate brief to file? Did they not even know how to cite precedent?
Rosenbaum stresses just how much work the students did on these briefs, and she says the initial drafts of this one in particular were stuffed full of case law and traditional legal reasoning. But Nesson had the final say before submission and apparently preferred the wisdom of I Kings to the past wisdom of the American court system.
"I think it's fun to test the limits of legal norms," says Rosenbaum, though she admits to being "absolutely petrified" about being disbarred over some of Nesson's actions.
But orthodoxy is not Nesson's way. Nesson "at his very core is not a trial attorney," says Rosenbaum. He's a teacher, a thinker, a philosopher who thinks about "big, theoretical questions."
"There are things we could have done differently along the way," she adds, but is quick to provide a firm "yes" when asked if Tenenbaum had good representation.
Not backing down
Nesson's hope for arguing the "fairness" of Tenenbaum's actions hit a huge speed bump just before the trial, when Judge Gertner ruled that downloading and sharing full songs over P2P networks was not "fair use" under US copyright law. At that point, given the evidence against him, it was clear that Tenenbaum would be on the hook for some serious cash—minimum statutory damages are $750 per song, which means that Tenenbaum faced a damage award of more than $20,000.
Given that the labels had long been trying to settle with Tenenbaum for less than this amount, were there any discussions about just throwing in the towel and taking a settlement?
The defense team says no, this was never a consideration. It's about the principle of the thing; according to Nesson, Tenenbaum's "generation is not to blame for what happened" to the record labels, so why should he settle, admit guilt, and pay anything at all?
We checked in with the RIAA, which says that "of course" it is still open to a settlement. "We're always interesting in settling these cases," said spokeswoman Cara Duckworth.
But Team Tenenbaum intends to fight on. A few Harvard Law students who haven't yet graduated will help out with the case in the fall, but the original team has all moved on now. Looking back over her experience on the team, Rosenbaum says that she "wouldn't trade it for anything in the world, and I don't think Joel would either."
$675,000 is a lot to pay for the privilege of being sued in federal court, but Tenenbaum has a plan for dealing with the damages. If Nesson's work fails to get him off the hook, "I declare bankruptcy."
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LCU promotes Silas McCormick
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director of institutional effectiveness and assistant university
counsel. McCormick has held the director and counsel positions since
2012; his faculty rank became effective Jan. 1.
appointment to the rank of assistant professor was the result of a
recommendation process initiated by a committee of his peers. The
provost and dean of the school also have an opportunity to review
requests of individuals for faculty appointment and endorse the
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As those close to me can attest, it's good to know a knitter, especially (but not necessarily,) around the giftier times of the year.
Just ask Anna whom, among other things, has had mittens named for (and gifted to) her, received a sparkly silver Birch for her birthday last year and now gets to live with these two critters:These delightful slippers are none other than the Hopsalots by Stephanie Dosen (aka. tiny owl knits.) They are adorable -- both as bunnies and as footwear. Clearly, she's outdone herself this time!
Sometimes the perfect touches are lurking right under one's nose. This was the case with both their eyes (vintage mother-of-pearl buttons) and their tufty tails (half-felted bits of natural grey roving.) Once again, my everything stash came to the rescue. An ample stash isn't just nice -- it's vital.After chasing the bunnies around the back garden for some time, I bundled them into a shoebox (with air holes poked in) and gave them a carrot to share while they made the five-minute trip chez Anna.I think I frightened her a little when I handed her the box, told her that I found "them" out back and to open it -- slowly and carefully.
Luckily it was Love at first sight -- how could it not be?
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10 comments:
- JudyG said...
those are absolutely adorable!!
- May 15, 2011 at 1:33 p.m.
- Cambria said...
This week, I have discovered that an ample stash is definitely a must...until one has to move that stash into a new apartment with less closet space, lol.
- May 15, 2011 at 4:55 p.m.
- knitxcore. said...
those are the best!
- May 15, 2011 at 11:46 p.m.
- Voie de Vie said...
Well done - slippers in the wild ... with carrots, even!
- May 16, 2011 at 12:05 a.m.
- Candice said...
Absolutely darling! Thanks for bringing these to my attention. I've brought a number of Stephanie's designs, but haven't been to her site lately because she hasn't posted for awhile.
- May 16, 2011 at 7:52 a.m.
- Cakewalk Yarns said...
I love the carrot in the box with them....they are really cute! What a great gift.
- May 16, 2011 at 11:27 a.m.
- Purls By The Sea said...
These are so cute!
- May 17, 2011 at 6:10 p.m.
- Liberty said...
That is the cutest thing I've seen all day!
- May 18, 2011 at 1:05 a.m.
- Sigrun said...
- May 18, 2011 at 5:55 a.m.
- NMjewel said...
TOO cute!!
- May 20, 2011 at 4:42 p.m.
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An Audio Dialer is an efficient tool in any household, but specifically where the elderly or convalescent reside, who are prone to falling or becoming injured in various other ways. For households without elderly or convalescent residents, an auto dialer is still a remarkable tool to seek help during an emergency situation where a quick or normal phone call is not necessarily possible, ie. an unwelcomed intruder has entered your property.
With the AD-01-S Dakota Alert Slave Auto Dialer you'll be able to dial UP TO NINE distinct telephone numbers (numbers can be up to 32 digits long) simultaneously through the push of a button while assigning different 10-second-long recorded messages for each of them. Therefore, NINE different people can respond to NINE different messages, and get you the help you need in case of an emergency.
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Inhabited by nine million people, Moscow is a treasure-trove of architecture, history and art. At the heart of the city lies what is perhaps the most famous square in the world, the Red Square, where you can find Saint Basil's Cathedral known for its colourful onion-shaped domes and Lenin's mausoleum. Surrounded by a high wall, Kremlin is like a small city within the city; Russia's administrative centre is full of beautiful cathedrals, museums and palaces, which make it a very interesting place to visit. The legendary GUM luxury shopping mall on the Red Square is worth visiting – for some window-shopping at the least.
Visit the Bolshoi Theatre to see world-famous ballet performances, or the Tretjakov State Gallery or the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts to marvel at fabulous collections of Russian art. If you feel like enjoying a warm summer day outside, take a riverboat to Gorky Park amusement park.
The city is proud of its culinary traditions, too: apart from Russian delicacies, Moscow offers treats such as sushi or true gourmet experiences served by Michelin starred chefs.


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CRESTVIEW � A vote by the city council Monday evening has resolved an issue affecting the city's contract with the local firefighters' union.
CRESTVIEW � A vote by the city council Monday evening has resolved an issue affecting the city's contract with the local firefighters' union.
A fiscal crunch that led to wage freezes for city employees, and the loss of six city employee jobs, also will apply to the city's firefighters.
Officials from both sides of the issue quickly noted that negotiations were always amiable, with both sides working to resolve the matter and acknowledging the fiscal downturn that precipitated the issue.
Crestview Fire Department's 39 International Association of Fire Fighters members were to receive a 3 percent cost-of-living raise, the same amount generally given to all city employees. However, when the city was $2.5 million short, city Finance Director Patti Beebe directed all department heads to cut their budgets by 10 percent.
Cuts included an across-the-board elimination of all employees' 3 percent salary raises and implementation of five unpaid furlough days for each city worker. Negotiations with the union to implement the salary freeze began in May 2012 as city leaders worked to produce the 2012-13 fiscal year budget.
The union's three proposals to find savings in other areas than the wage freeze were deemed unworkable.
To revise the contract, it was necessary to declare an impasse had been reached in the negotiations, which would automatically send the matter before a "special magistrate" for binding resolution. The city declared the impasse in writing on Sept. 27, 2012.
While special magistrate Martin O. Holland considered the matter, firefighters received their contracted raise when the new budget year began Oct. 1, 2012.
"The impasse before the Special Magistrate is the result of the serious economic downturn and its impact on the city's budget, according to both parties, and not a lack of willingness of the parties to make significant attempts to solve the problem causing the impact," Holland's proceedings report of Jan. 30 stated.
The report made particular note of the efforts of the city and union's efforts to resolve the matter amicably, noting the long-standing friendly relationship between the two parties.
Ultimately, however, the city's position prevailed.
"In order to provide the wage increases, the city would be required to take additional cost-saving measures in other areas, including layoffs, position eliminations and furlough days, seriously impacting the service to the public," Holland's report stated. "The union did not effectively refute the testimonies."
After reviewing testimony from union and city attorneys, union President Jody Smallwood and Fire Chief Joe Traylor, City Clerk Betsy Roy and Beebe, Holland wrote, "I recommend adoption of the city's position to treat the union members equally as all other employees during the current (fiscal year) financial crisis. Therefore, I recommend not granting the scheduled 3 percent wage increase."
Councilwoman Robyn Helt � moving to accept the magistrate's recommendation � said, "the magistrate noted the city followed all the appropriate protocols and it was accepted amicably by both sides."
The IAFF proposals
Working with city officials to resolve a contract requirement for 3 percent firefighter raises� while raises for other city workers were eliminated� the International Association of Fire Fighters' local chapter proposed three cost-saving measures:
�Restructure police and fire department dispatch unit to cut jobs: "Analysis of the proposal determined it would present hazards in dispatch to the detriment of the public safety services," the special magistrate's report stated.
�Force retirement of all departmental employees, including management, with more than 20 years' satisfactory service. "During discussions about the ramifications of the proposal ... the president of the union withdrew this proposal," the report stated.
� Fire the firehouse custodial contractor who "is doing a less than satisfactory job." Firefighters would clean their own firehouses under the proposal. "The city responded by pointing out that the contractor has a three-year binding contract with the city," eliminating the proposal from consideration, the report stated.
An impasse followed the proposals' consideration and rejection.
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Brian Hughes at 850-682-6524 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbBrian.


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