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On Saturday, Doherty, Banas and other friends of Entriken's exchanged tight hugs and wept in conversation. Outside 1st Step, a collection of flowers bloomed in a handicapped parking spot, where the founder was shot. ''Richard's dream will be kept alive,'' Doherty said in the office he recently shared with Entriken. ``I'm not going to let these lowlifes win.'' Entriken, who lived in Sunrise, is survived by his wife, three daughters and grandchildren. A military funeral is being planned. Friends will gather at 9 p.m. Sunday at 1st Step to remember him. Anyone with information on the shooting is urged to call BSO homicide detective Frank Illarraza at 954-765-4321 or Broward County Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-8477.
Cruel, degrading scenes `normalized' for generation brought up in dot ...
The hottest place on Earth this month was Las Vegas. That was the site of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo where thousands of, um, exhibitors and fans of pornography came together to look at the latest in media, toys, games, gadgets, paraphernalia and genitalia. Yes, the pornography industrial complex is so huge that it can fill one of the world's biggest convention halls, so mainstream that it need no longer operate in the dirty raincoat section of your local newsstand or video store, so available that it's on basic cable, so accessible that any child could Google her way to Internet sites where women (and men and children) are brutalized for somebody's fun and profit. According to the Internet Filter Review, worldwide porn revenues, including in-room movies at hotels, sex clubs and the ever-expanding E-sex world, topped $97 billion in 2006.
Motorola Leverages Ecosystem Strength to Create Ultimate Mobile ...
BASINGSTOKE, England, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today recognizes its ecosystem allies for their contributions in enriching the MOTO Z8 product experience. A multimedia powerhouse, the MOTO(TM) Z8 features crystal clear video capture and playback at 30 frames per second. The device also offers generous external memory support for media storage -- from the optional 4GB cards available on the market today up to 32GB when larger capacity cards become available. Motorola coupled its own innovative design and technological expertise with industry-leading applications and solutions from Actimagine, CNN Mobile, DataViz, Podcast.com, ShoZu, weComm and Yahoo! to create the MOTO Z8, which recently hit store shelves. MOTO Z8 is the world's first Kick Slider(TM) phone featuring a unique ergonomic 'fit-to-face' profile.
Corporate Moolah
Ek Gav while giving a Marathi touch to the songs in Gayab and Viruddh." The 31-year-old Chandrashekhar Mahamuni, a newcomer in the industry who is releasing his first film, Checkmate (budget: Rs 1crore ), has set up a post-production studio, Nishad Audio Visuals, and is planning to set up a production studio for Marathi films on the lines of art director Nitin Desai's ND Studios (recently acquired by Reliance Entertainment).
The change that these newcomers bring is in marketing. Mahamuni is spending Rs 7 lakh on a special promotional song for Checkmate. "It is a youth centric film, so this song is in English and its music has been composed to attract youth. This is the first time that any Marathi film having a separate promotional song, a common practice in Bollywood. Producers of Marathi films need to promote their films like the south Indian film producers do.
Jones' tough approach to Cup trip
Without doubt it is one of the more enticing clashes of the FA Cup weekend with proximity giving a derby-day atmosphere, a long and chequered history between the clubs made more acute by their former participation in the Welsh Cup and an 11-year gap since the teams last met. Since that 1-1 draw at Edgar Street in the then Division Three, the Bluebirds and Bulls fortunes have diverged somewhat with Cardiff going on to establish themselves in the second tier and Hereford finding themselves dropping out of the Football League all together for a nine years. But both teams square up tomorrow in front of a sell-out crowd in good shape, the Bluebirds unbeaten in six and knocking on the door of the Championship play-off places and Hereford back in League Two and pushing for promotion themselves.
All Eyes on Apple: A Clear-Eyed Analysis
This promises to be a joyous holiday season for Steve Jobs and the incandescent Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Over the past year, the company's numbers have been stunning: Sales are up 24%, earnings up 75%, margins topping 30%, stock price up 146%. The popularity of the iPod and its snazzy young cousin, the iPhone, has lifted other Apple products, helping boost market share in personal computers in the United States from 2% a few years ago to 8% this past quarter, with Apple leapfrogging Gateway to take third place behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard. The latest upgrade to Apple's operating system--Leopard--is getting strong reviews, in contrast to the indifference that greeted Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) new Vista OS. Apple's market cap is now north of $160 billion; 18 months ago, the crew in Cupertino, California, was worth a mere $60 billion.
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