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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. The hunt for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in three killings entered a fourth day, as officials from the Mexico border area to Las Vegas take precautions for the armed and dangerous fugitive. The hunt appeared to be focused on the snow-covered mountains near Big Bear, Calif., Sunday, a day after the LAPD chief ordered a review of the disciplinary case that led to the fugitive's dismissal and new details emerge of the evidence he left behind.
SWAT teams with air support and bloodhounds fanned out in snow-covered Southern California mountains, searching for 33-year-old Christopher Dorner, who has vowed revenge against several former LAPD colleagues whom he blames for ending his career. Authorities planned a 1 p.m. news conference Sunday in Los Angeles to announce a reward for information leading to his arrest.
KCBS in Los Angeles reports about 50 law enforcement officers combed the snow-capped terrain this weekend with the assistance of two heat-seeking helicopters.
Earlier, Police Chief Charlie Beck announced officials will re-examine the allegations by Dorner that his law enforcement career was undone by racist colleagues. While he promised to hear out Dorner if he surrenders, Beck stressed that he was ordering a review of his 2007 case because he takes the allegation of racism in his department seriously.
"I do this not to appease a murderer. I do it to reassure the public that their police department is transparent and fair in all the things we do," the chief said in a statement.
Dorner owns a home in Las Vegas, where assistant Las Vegas Sheriff Greg McCurdy told CBS affiliate KLAS Friday afternoon all Metro Police uniformed officers will be traveling in two person units as a precaution in response to the threat Dorner poses to police officers.
"When you have someone who is highly trained, highly capable, having been a police officer in the past, having prior military experience whose made threats, and you've all read about them in the manifesto, we take this very seriously," McCurdy said.
Henderson Police spokesman Keith Paul said all officers who normally patrol on motorcycle have been placed with cars until further notice. He said uniformed officers are working in pairs as staffing allows.
Earlier this week the manhunt was centered in San Diego and officials have again intensified efforts around the border with Mexico, reports CBS affiliate KFMB in San Diego.
Customs and Border Protection said its agents are assisting in the search for Dorner and some lanes at the border have been shut down.
"CBP is also exercising additional vigilance in southbound inspections in Southern California. As a result, travelers heading southbound into Mexico may experience delays," said the CBP in a statement to KFMB.
Heavily armored officers, armed with rifles, could be seen on Saturday surveying vehicles and drivers at the world's busiest border crossing creating a massive bottleneck.
Authorities suspect Dorner in a series of attacks in Southern California over the past week that left three people dead. Authorities say he has vowed revenge against several former LAPD colleagues whom he blames for ending his career. The killings and threats that Dorner allegedly made in an online rant have led police to provide protection to 50 families, Beck said.
A captain who was named a target in the manifesto posted on Facebook told the Orange County Register he has not stepped outside his house since he learned of the threat.
"From what I've seen of (Dorner's) actions, he feels he can make allegations for injustice and justify killing people and that's not reasonable," said Capt. Phil Tingirides, who chaired a board that stripped Dorner of his badge. "The end never justifies the means."
On Saturday, the scaled-back search party took advantage of a break from stormy weather to look for Dorner in the San Bernardino mountains, about 80 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, where his burned-out pickup truck was discovered Thursday.
Authorities say camping gear was found along with weapons inside the burned-out truck belonging to Dorner. Los Angeles police Sgt. Rudy Lopez said Sunday that the truck was so charred that investigators couldn't be more specific about the nature of its contents.
On "CBS This Morning: Saturday," CBS News senior correspondent John Miller reported that Dorner's abandonment of his truck because of a broken axle has prompted authorities to believe that he has shifted "from being the hunter to the hunted."
Inside the truck, CBS News correspondent Carter Evans reports from Los Angeles that, according to police sources, investigators recovered weapons, including two long-range rifles with silencers, cold-weather survival gear, along with night-vision goggles and a gas mask.
It's unknown what supplies Dorner was able to carry into the remote mountains east of Los Angeles, Evans reports.
Investigators have been examining the truck to determine if it broke down or was set ablaze as a diversion. Police say the truck had a broken axle. Investigators are trying to determine whether it was already broken when they found it, or whether it was damaged when it was towed away.
Also, newly released surveillance video showed Dorner tossing several items into a dumpster behind an auto parts store in National City on Monday.
On Friday night, authorities served a search warrant and collected evidence from a Buena Park storage unit as part of their investigation. Irvine police Lt. Julia Engen wouldn't elaborate on the nature of the evidence or say who had rented the unit.
Earlier Friday, another warrant was served at a La Palma house belonging to Dorner's mother. Officers collected 10 bags of evidence, including five electronic items.
In his online manifesto, Dorner vowed to use "every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordnance and survival training I've been given" to bring "warfare" to the LAPD and its families.
Dorner served in the Navy, earning a rifle marksman ribbon and a pistol expert medal. He was assigned to a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records. He took leave from the LAPD for a six-month deployment to Bahrain in 2006 and 2007.
The flight training that he received in the Navy prompted the Transportation Security Administration to issue an alert, warning the general aviation community to be on the lookout for Dorner. The extent of his potential flying skills wasn't known, the bulletin said.
Feb. 1 was his last day with the Navy and also the day CNN's Anderson Cooper received a package that contained a note on it that read, in part, "I never lied." A coin riddled with bullet holes that former Chief William Bratton gave out as a souvenir was also in the package.
Police said it was a sign of planning by Dorner before the killing began.
On "CBS This Morning" Friday, Bratton described Dorner as "an incredibly dangerous individual" and reacted to the damaged coin.
"When you see that that coin that was given in friendship and respect has three bullet holes, it's certainly very chilling," Bratton said.
On Feb. 3, police say Dorner shot and killed a couple in a parking garage at their condominium in Irvine. The woman was the daughter of a retired police captain who had represented Dorner in the disciplinary proceedings that led to his firing.
Dorner wrote in his manifesto that he believed the retired captain had represented the interests of the department over his.
Hours after authorities identified Dorner as a suspect in the double murder, police believe Dorner shot and grazed an LAPD officer in Corona and then used a rifle to ambush two Riverside police officers early Thursday, killing one and seriously wounding the other.
The crime spree spanned across a wide swath of Southern California, prompting several police agencies, including the FBI and US Marshall Service, to form a joint investigative task force.


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It only took a day: Gaza's tunnels are back in business
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Abu Nissim rose from the covered tunnel entrance and triumphantly raised a box of Cheer Up chocolate-covered wafers over his head.
"New from the tunnel," the young Palestinian tunnel digger boasted Thursday as his friends tore open the packages of Egyptian cookies.
One day after the last Israeli soldier left the Gaza Strip after a 26-day military campaign to destabilize the militant Islamist group Hamas and demolish the tunnels used to bring in weapons, Palestinian smugglers — and tunnel diggers — were back in business.
Bulldozers rumbled along the border, clearing away tons of earth for new tunnel entrances. Young boys climbed 90 feet down into the ground to recover supplies from storerooms in partially demolished tunnels. Fuel trucks pulled up to makeshift depots to fill up on diesel fuel and liquid propane, which is used for cooking, that's pumped underground from the Egyptian side of the border.
"We will be like the phoenix rising from the ashes," Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said as he walked through the rubble of buildings destroyed by airstrikes near the border.
His boast coincided with new warnings from Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
"For the tunnels, nothing will be as it was before," Livni said while meeting with European officials in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss efforts to ensure that Hamas isn't allowed to use the tunnels to smuggle in more weapons. "Things must be clear: Israel reserves the right to react militarily against the tunnels once and for all."
Israeli airstrikes repeatedly hit the eight-mile stretch along the border that's filled with as many as 1,300 tunnels, used to smuggle in everything from young brides and lion cubs to rocket-propelled grenades and advanced missiles.
Destroying the tunnels was a central goal of the Israeli military campaign, which Gaza medical officials have said killed around 1,300 Palestinians. Israeli officials estimated that the attacks destroyed 80 percent of the tunnels, and Palestinians agreed that the strikes crippled their smuggling business.
Smugglers along the border said they'd be able to dig out within weeks, if not days, however.
Some tunnels already were back in operation Thursday.
A strong smell of diesel drifted along the border as Mohammed Barhoum stood in front of two makeshift 8,000-gallon fuel tanks slowly filling with diesel and liquid propane as they were pumped through plastic pipes that stretched 450 yards underground across the border into Egypt.
Like other smugglers along the border, Barhoum said that the Israeli economic blockade of Hamas-led Gaza had forced him to become a smuggler so that he could take care of his family.
Before he launched his fuel-smuggling business last month, Barhoum ran a factory that makes construction blocks, but he said that Israel's refusal to allow concrete and other supplies into the Gaza Strip had forced him to shut it down.
"If they opened the terminals tomorrow, I would go back to my business," Barhoum said as his friends filled a Volvo tanker truck with fuel.
Israeli leaders refuse to allow a normal flow of supplies and aid through the country's borders and into the Gaza Strip as long as its Hamas rulers stand by the group's long-standing pledge to destroy Israel.
Abu Ahmed, a 33-year-old tunnel owner who used a pseudonym out of fear of Israeli retaliation, said that the best way for Israel to shut down the tunnels would be to open the borders.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's next president, Petro Poroshenko, said on Monday he would not negotiate with armed separatists in the Russian-speaking east of his country but was open to dialogue with people there with grievances, provided they rejected violence.
Armed pro-Russian separatists have taken control of some towns and cities in eastern Ukraine, which includes the Donbass coalfield, and prevented people there from voting in Sunday's presidential election from which Poroshenko has emerged as the resounding victor.
"They want to preserve a bandit state which is held in place by force of arms ... These are simply bandits. Nobody in any civilized state will hold negotiations with terrorists," Poroshenko told a news conference.
"Protecting people is one of the functions of the state," said Poroshenko, 48, a confectionary magnate with broad government experience, adding that he supported the continuation of Ukraine's "anti-terrorist operation" in the region.
The separatists have declared autonomous "people's republics" in eastern Ukraine after two makeshift referendums and say Kiev's authority is no longer valid there.
Questioned repeatedly about how he would bring peace to the east, where scores have been killed in clashes involving the Ukrainian army, Ukrainian militias and pro-Russian separatists, Poroshenko said Kiev would address genuine grievances and provide assurances on people's rights there, including the use of the Russian language.
"A dialogue with all residents of the Donbass would be effective," Poroshenko said.
Russia has expressed sympathy for the separatists, who it says are trying to defend the rights and liberties of the region's Russian-speaking majority, but it denies arming or training the rebels.
Poroshenko said he hoped to meet Russian leaders in the first half of June, adding that restoring stability in eastern Ukraine would require Moscow's involvement.
"I hope Russia will support efforts to tackle the situation in the east (of Ukraine)," Poroshenko said.
On the question of Crimea, a Ukrainian region annexed by Moscow in March after a referendum, Poroshenko made clear he would explore all available legal channels to secure the return of the Black Sea peninsula to Kiev's rule.
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Poroshenko, who election officials have indicated will probably be inaugurated in mid-June, said he hoped to visit neighboring Poland, a staunch supporter of Ukraine's hopes of moving closer to the European Union, on June 4.
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In private enterprise, a business fails when it ceases to meet the demands of the consumer. Senior management, out-of-touch and complacent, loses the vision that made the start-up a success in the first place. The sales pitch and cash flow replace innovation and product quality. And when the stale product ceases to create value for its customers, buyers look elsewhere or simply stay home.
This story should sound familiar to the "senior management" of the Grand Old Party, who asked a group of their peers to produce a report --"The Growth and Opportunity Project" -- to explain the underperformance of the GOP product line in 2012.
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Republicans have let the salesmen take control of their company, replacing principles and values with consultants flacking a slicker sales pitch for the wrong ideas. And the jig is up. Too many Americans are no longer buying what the GOP is selling.
The Republican Party needs to revisit their business model, once built on the core values of individual freedom, economic opportunity for all, and constitutionally-limited government. In my lifetime, these quintessential American principles have guided the GOP to its three great electoral successes, in 1980, 1994, and 2010.
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Paradoxically, Republicans claim a long-term economic vision in their political rhetoric, but view their customers through the short-term lens of election cycles. It feels, at best, like a one night stand. You never get the callback after the first Tuesday in November. Real political and policy change comes from a long-term relationship, and that is never going to come out of a campaign consulting shop.
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Rock star fiscal conservatives like Senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Tim Scott were not hand-picked by the GOP establishment in a politically correct attempt to "recruit diversity." Grassroots enthusiasm for the candidates generated organically behind the ideas and the values for which they stood.
Using this authentic and principle-driven process, our movement has begun to repopulate the Republican Party with an upstart generation of leaders who are younger and more diverse than ever before in the Party's history. We will return their call if they stay faithful to the ideas that won their elections.
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The primary process – much like the free market- is a discovery process. Competitive primaries allow us to look for qualitative upgrades and hold politicians accountable regardless of political party. While the billions of dollars spent on TV ads in 2012 are swept into the dustbin of history, the future of political campaigning is becoming more transparent, decentralized and democratic.
Thanks to the Internet, our community is fueled by the decentralization of information and the ease of connecting with like-minded individuals through social media. The costs and barriers to entry into political activism are lower than ever before. Disintermediation politics has shifted the balance of power away from Washington insiders, putting citizens back in the driver's seat.
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While Republicans struggle to define a principled agenda, the ethos of the freedom movement is simple: Be authentic and consistent. Treat every American equally under the law. Don't hurt others, and don't take their stuff.
The freedom movement is a coalition of the willing, operating on a voluntary and value-for-value basis. We oppose the government's habit of subsidizing the irresponsible with other people's stuff. We are sick of watching politicians and corporate lobbyists pick winners and losers in the marketplace at the expense of everyday individuals. We use politics as a means to advance our values, not an end.
Lastly, we believe that Washington answers to its citizen shareholders, not the other way around. The RNC's 100-page attempt to rebrand themselves to the American public highlights the fatal conceit of the GOP's senior management. The challenge is not finding a way to "open America's ears" from the top-down. The solution is to open your own.
Matt Kibbe is the president of FreedomWorks and author of Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America.
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|Study location
|Estonia, Tallinn
|Academic field
Humanities and Arts (ISCED 2)
|Undergraduate, full-time
|Nominal duration
|3 years (180 ECTS)
|Study language
|BA (Bachelor of Arts in Humanities)
|Course code
|Tuition fee
|€6,000 per year
|Application fee
|€50 one-time
|Entry qualification
High school / secondary education (or higher)
The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English.
Often you can get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original.
It is required that you send verified copies of the entry qualification documents directly to the university by postal mail, according to the instructions given by the institution. Important! Never send original documents by post!
It is required that you send verified copies of the entry qualification documents directly to the university by postal mail, according to the instructions given by the institution. Important! Never send original documents by post!
Margit Võsa, admission secretary of EAMT.
|Language requirements
|Other requirements
Audition requirements
The examination is graded on a scale of 0−10. Candidates receiving at least 7 points will be admitted to EAMT.
A Bachelor's Degree generally takes 3 years to complete.
A student candidate may apply for studies in up to two main subjects (majors). If a candidate meets the admission criteria in both main subjects, the candidate shall notify the Secretary of Admission of his or her preference by the end of the admission period at the latest. Student candidates shall not be enrolled simultaneously in two main subjects.
Curricula with English as the study language shall be subject to a tuition fee according to the rates established by the EAMT Council.
Specific requirements for Non-EU applicants:
Documents required when applying for bachelor and masters studies
The application deadlines for 2019 auditions are 27 March, 15 April and the final deadline is 3 June (documents certifying completion of the previous educational level may be submitted later).
Entry requirements for for Chinese applicants:
1. Senior Middle School Graduation Certificate (Original in Chinese and translation into English)
2. Senior Middle School 3-years (school classes 10-12) (6-semesters) Academic Record (Report) or Study Results Certificate (Original in Chinese and translation into English)
3. Chinese National University Entrance Examination (Gao Kao) Certificate
4. Credentials Report of Chinese National University Entrance
Notarized copies of documents (except Credentials Report) must be presented in original language and in English.
Contact. firstname.lastname@example.com
|More information
Entrance auditions for bachelor and master's levels are held from April to June. You can choose between 3 audition dates:
17−19 April
6−8 May
27-28 June
The audition/interview (entrance examination) lasts approximately 20−30 minutes. The examination panel will assess your musical skills and potential as well as your English language proficiency. For detailed audition requirements and assessment criteria click on the relevant study programme level in the boxes on the right of this page.
When you travel to Tallinn for your entrance auditions, you can also become acquainted with our facilities, meet staff members, observe open classes etc. If you are in doubt as to whether your musical skills meet the required standards, you may send us a video recording of your performance or portfolio of your compositions. If you do this at least 5 weeks before the audition date you are entitled to receive feedback from us concerning your level of proficency and whether we recommend that you come to Tallinn for the audition in person.
EAMT always prefers you to audition in person, but international applicants are allowed to submit an original video recording of their performance as a substitute for a live audition. You can only pass the entrance audition by video recording if the examination panel has no doubts about the authenticity of the recording, the quality of the recording is sufficient for the evaluation and your performance meets the highest standards.
Please note that you should agree upon your specific audition date and time with our admission secretary (firstname.lastname@example.com, +372 6675 709) no later than 3 weeks before the audition. In other words, if you have decided to participate in the auditions 17−19 April, you should contact the admission secretary no later 27 March; for May auditions the registration deadline is the 15 April and for June auditions by 3 June. If you are not able to come to Tallinn for the audition in person and wish to audition by recording, the same deadlines apply for sending your recording to the admission secretary. The admission secretary will also assist you if you wish to make an appointment with our staff members, receive a subject-specific consultation or have any questions about the admission procedures.
Before travelling to Tallinn for the entrance auditions, you need to submit a formal application together with relevant documents. The electronic application form and the list of required documents can be found here. The application deadlines for the auditions are 27 March, 15 April and the final deadline 3 June 2019 (documents certifying completion of the previous educational level may be submitted later).
In most cases you will receive the examination result on the day of your audition. In other words, you will be informed whether you have been accepted into the programme you applied for or not. If the answer is positive, you need to confirm your decision to study at EAMT as soon as possible, but not later than 21 August. The 2019/2020 academic year starts on August 26. Please note that to formally enrol you need to have submitted all the required documents, including proof of previous qualifications and received diplomas.
The application fee is EUR 50 and normally needs to be paid by bank transfer. Tuition fees apply to all international students whose language of tuition is English. The fees range from EUR 600 to EUR 6000 per year depending on the study programme and your country of origin (EU or non-EU). Detailed information about the fees can be found here. A limited number of scholarships are available for international students. Auditions for the scholarships usually take place at the end of September. There is no tuition fee for doctoral studies. Students studying full time at doctoral level have the right to receive a monthly stipend.
Additional information concerning admissions:
Phone +372 6675 709;
E-mail: email@example.com
Programme structure
Program goals
Goals of the curriculum
- providing students, who already have a musical background, with an education of a high international standard, responding to the requirements of contemporary musical life, in the field of instrument/voice performance, composition or jazz music. Completing the curriculum is a pre-requisite for employment in the profession or entering Master's degree studies;
- supporting an open social and cultural learning environment that assists in mastering and applying the knowledge and skills both related to the field of specialisation and to other subjects described in the curriculum;
- creating conditions for developing human self-reflection and a holistic understanding of the world;
- developing communicative competence, sense of responsibility, leadership and collaboration skills of the students.
The content of study program
The curriculum consists of the following components and modules:
A Specialty field, 50 credits
B Practical courses related to the specialty field, 60-70 credits
- Chamber Music (for instrumentalists)
- Orchestra/Choir/Opera Studio/Accompaniment class (according to ones specialty)
- Additional practical courses
C Courses related to music theory, music history, pedagogy and humanities, 45-50 credits
D Bachelors examination, 10 credits
E Free elective courses 5-10 credits
Career opportunities
The right to work in the position requiring Bachelor´s Degree or corresponding qualification
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What causes Firefox to slow down
Discussion of Firefox browser and its add-ons.
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What causes Firefox to slow down
What causes Firefox to slow down or not respond sometimes? I don't get it. My computer is not using excess disk space, I've cleaned up all unnecessary files, and I don't have too many applications running at once. So why is it that sometimes when I browse the internet, Firefox sometimes doesn't respond or runs too slow- EVEN when I have absolutely no other applications running? I used to see this problem with the Explorer in the past, which is why I switched to Firefox. And, after a period of time once again it's the same problem.
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Just some of my thoughts and some ideas to try. I hope it helps.
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Hi!!!!!!!!!IceDogg wrote:I find that Flash is a performance killer with Firefox.
YEAH!!!!! that's very true!!!!!!!!!!!!
Flash is a resources killer it's a cpu-cycles waster and memory hog application and its version made for linux is even unable to use the hardware acceleration of GPUs, so it relies only on the CPU(s) Adobe and formerly Macromedia never cared to make an optimized version of it, for neither windows nor linux, but the version for linux is pure garbage!!!!!! well, it's true
Whenever it's possible, you've to avoid to install Flash!!!!!!!!! And to suggest everybody to drop it!!!! It's a very useless, centralized, closed and evil technology It would be much better to write fast websites using only HTML!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and bittorrent (P2P) to share videos in HQ!!!!!! yeah, i find very funny, but sad at the same time, when people talk about "Youtube's High Quality videos" the source of my mixed feelings is the definition of "High Quality videos" is it supposed to be "High Quality" a small video like those used for online streming?!!!!!!!!!!
Ah, yeah, i also like QuickJava!!!!!!! It's very simple, small and it works without causing headaches!!!!!!!
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Somewhere out there, there's definitely a good movie about Steve Jobs that exists. And while it might be the untitled biopic written by Aaron Sorkin, it isn't Joshua Michael Stern's Jobs, which opened this weekend, at least if our own Mack's review is to be believed. But if you don't trust Mack, how about Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak? You know, the guy played by Josh Gad in the movie? As stated in his public review of the film on Gizmodo (in the comment section, no less), he wouldn't recommend it. Has anyone been standing near Jobs' grave to hear if he's been rolling around in it?
Specifically, he said, "I thought the acting throughout was good. I was attentive and entertained but not greatly enough to recommend the movie. I suspect a lot of what was wrong with the film came from Ashton's own image of Jobs." It's a compliment and an insult wrapped into one, telling someone they did a great job on getting their character wrong.
It has to be strange to go to a movie and watch your life, or someone's interpretation of it, and there are a lot of people involved with this story that are very much still alive and probably don't want to see their reputations get shat on. "I felt bad for many people I know well who were portrayed wrongly in their interactions with Jobs and the company," Wozniak said.
Also mentioned were Kutcher's recent disparaging remarks about Wozniak. "Ashton made some disingenuous and wrong statements about me recently (including my supposedly having said that the 'movie' was bad, which was probably Ashton believing pop press headlines) and that I didn't like the movie because I'm paid to consult on the other one," he wrote. "These are examples of Ashton still being in character. Either film would have paid me to consult, but the Jobs one already had a script written. I can't take creative leadership from someone else. And I was turned off by the Jobs script. But I still hoped for a great movie."
Damn! He put the word movie in quotes, people! I'm not even sure who that was a slam against, even. And then he takes a slight swing at Jobs, saying that Kutcher's petty behavior was him still playing the part. I mean, maybe that's not how he meant it, but it sounds like it.
He of course goes on, saying that the movie made Jobs out to be a genius far earlier in his career than he should have been given credit for. He also mentions at least one fact left out of the film: that whenever Apple as a company decided to bail on the friends who helped make it possible, Wozniak gave away chunks of his own stock, "because it was right."
Something tells me Wozniak is just itching to record a commentary for the film's DVD. Even though it looked like the film would be delayed indefinitely, here it is in theaters, for better or worse-niak.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Freshman Taylor Roeck (Cumming, Ga.) of the Georgia College women's cross country team has been named Bobcat Athlete of the Week for the week ending Oct. 21.
This is Roeck's second time being named Bobcat Athlete of the Week during the 2012 season, and the third overall award for women's cross country.
The freshman ran the 6K Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Championship race in 23:34 Saturday, Oct. 20. The finish was the second fastest time in GC history. Roeck finished 15th of 91 runners at the University of Montevallo hosted event and helped the team to a fifth place finish out of 11 teams.
Roeck and the rest of the women's cross country team will next be in action Nov. 3 as they travel to Charlotte, N.C. to compete in the NCAA Southeast Regional Championship.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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To say that Nick Automatic is killing would probably be an understatement. Nick Automatic founder, Nicolo Nimor, has been hustling like crazy in his native Philippines and has built up quite a following in his homeland (and beyond). Not content with the occasional pop up shop, Nick Automatic will now have it's own dedicated shop in Cebu City, Philippines.
Nimor plans to open the doors to his newest venture this Thursday, September 24. He even posted a sneak peak of his shop on the official Nick Automatic Facebook page. Though still a work in progress, I have to say that things are looking pretty tight. Hopefully I can nudge Nicolo into sending me a few more photos of his shop and of the grand opening?! Nicolo, you there? While we wait for those photos, check out some of the upcoming Nick Automatic tees below.
If you live in the Cebu City area or will be visiting the Philippines sometime in the near future then be sure to stop by the Nick Automatic Doodle Shop:
Door 12, Borromeo arcade blg.
F. Ramos st. CEB