| Well-connected or lucky, fans put it all on the line in Arizona
They piled into their rented Crown Victoria and drove across town, only to be told by a Phoenix police officer outside the Patriots hotel that they needed credentials to get inside and that, in fact, they were not even allowed in the parking lot. Panic ensued. Jerry Shanahan, a 53-year-old auto body shop owner, showed the officer a cloudy, faxed ticket confirmation. The officer was unimpressed. Shanahan then stated his case and even begged a little. And finally, the officer caved. He agreed to escort the Shanahans inside to the will call window. But he ordered them to stay with him. And when Derek Shanahan attempted to take a picture, the officer snapped. "No! No! No!" he said. It was cocktail hour inside the hotel. Friends and family members of the Patriots mingled over drinks.
D.M. airport plans good show amid post-caucus surge
Des Moines International Airport officials plan no circus acts Friday, but a roving magician will entertain journalists and political organizers as they leave Iowa and its 2008 caucuses in a vapor trail.
Airport and Transportation Security Administration officials say it will be all hands on deck on Friday and Saturday to handle a probably 50 percent surge in passengers leaving the state's largest airport. They're keen to put on a good show because 2004's departures were marred by long lines at the security-screening area, frayed nerves all around and rental cars that went missing for days. .
Mac 'on fire' as Apple reports huge growth
Apple reported $170m in revenue from its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard update, released in October. CFO Peter Oppenheimer described that figure as a "significant increase" from the $100m in sales OS X 10.4 saw during the first quarter of its release. The company estimates that 19 percent of its installed base is already using the 10.5 update. Apple also sold 22,121,000 iPods during the quarter, also a record. Those iPod sales represented the first full quarter of sales since Apple overhauled its iPod line in September, introducing a video-capable iPod nano, the high-capacity iPod classic, and the brand-new iPod touch. Apple says the iPod's market share remained consistent from a year ago. Quarterly iPhone sales were 2,315,000 units. Steve Jobs said during last week's Macworld Expo keynote that the company has sold 4 million iPhones since the device launched on June 29.
The scandal of Scotland's battered women
But why the divisive propoganda? because the elites need families breaking-up, getting the cops involved, going through the courts, and getting divorced. The elites are like sharks, they are soul-less. They don't care what happens to the poor of Scotland just as long as they get their elite positions and salaries. The fact is men/fathers are being forced out of their families by these elites that live off our famlies. Seems pointless to assauge morality in a totlaitarian nightmare! .
Watchdog drops action against MSP Gordon over donations
Every time that someone gets off with it, be it here or in London, the whole nasty business just gets more depressing, and more people lose interest in the sleazy lot. Even Mick Martin, who was trying to keep the whole thing pretty low key in England, is now alleged to have some nasty secrets regarding air fares. Whatever next.? .
Las Vegas gambles on next cool gadgets
A very hot topic in the supply side of consumer electronics is the idea of being able to bring the internet into the living room on the TV by integrating YouTube-type content with mainstream TV and people's home videos," he says. With internet service providers scrambling to offer TV services such as BT's Vision and Orange's delayed video-on-demand offering, there is huge demand for smarter set-top boxes, and analysts expect to see a slew of innovations from box manufacturers such as Toshiba, Samsung and Cisco. ''The electronic programme guide we are used to for digital TV could start to include options for internet services too, such as your favourite YouTube pages or your friends' profiles from Facebook," says Delaney. Elroy Jopling, a research director at Gartner, the consultancy firm, agrees.
MPs fear Terror Bill switches power from Scots to English courts
A constitutional row was brewing last night over the UK Government's planned Counter-Terrorism Bill, which, it is claimed, will drive a "coach and horses" through 300 years of Scotland's independent legal system if passed unchanged. The bill, which among other things includes the controversial plan to increase pre-detention without charge and toughen up sentencing, states that proceedings for an alleged offence "may be taken at any place in the United Kingdom", raising worries that cases, which should be heard in Scotland, will be heard in England under a different legal system. Concerned parties, including the Law Society of Scotland, fear, if unamended, the proposal will undermine the position of the Lord Advocate, whose prosecutorial independence is guaranteed by the 1998 Scotland Act, and the position of the High Court, which is protected by the 1707 Act of Union.
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