| New battle at Queen's Park: punctuation
The hallways of Queen's Park have seen quite a few controversies over the years, but none like this. "Look, it just boggles the mind," Kormos said in trying to describe the issue. The problem is one of punctuation. Last Friday, Kormos was in his office when a worker came to change the sign on his office door. According to Kormos, the title MPP wasn't punctuated properly. The lettering on the door said "M.P.P." while Queen's Park policy calls for the periods to be removed on all MPPs' offices throughout the entire building. "I find out they've scheduled 45-60 person hours to this," said the MPP. "[You have to] shake your head and wonder who is prioritizing these types of issues." Kormos sent a letter to the Speaker demanding to know why Queen's Park was spending money on something that seemed so frivolous.
Apple keeps chipping away at Microsoft
AS I LOOK at a newly arrived MacBook Air laptop, it occurs to me there has never been a better time to switch to a Mac. That's not something I say lightly. With the exception of a couple of years working at a magazine, I have never been a Mac user. After all, I'm a game player and games on the Mac are always light years behind games on Windows. I've not been smitten by Steve Jobs' famous "reality distortion field," and have decades behind me as a Microsoft user. But Apple keeps moving forward, and Microsoft took a step backward with Windows Vista. Both systems crash. I've heard tech-support complaints on both sides and witnessed a few myself. Vista is noticeably slower than its predecessor, while Apple's newest operating system, Leopard, is a big improvement on a lot of fronts.
Black backs Elliot to beat boos
They are the form team in the league right now and they have a bigger squad than us but we want it just as much as them and the boys are working really hard in training and in games for us."All we can do though is take it one game at a time, keep our heads down and working hard and hopefully it will pay off for us come the end of the season."A VITAL COG IN THE DOUBLE ASSAULT ON GLORY IN 1985-86 .
DeSoto Woman Celebrates 100th Birthday In Style
Frances Wilson was a star Saturday when she marked her 100th birthday. A helicopter flight, a ride in a Bentley and even a walk down a red carpet were on tap for the celebration. The DeSoto woman got the ride of her very long life, taking a "first-ever" helicopter ride. A few hundred family members and friends met Frances Wilson at the end of her maiden flight. But, the 100-year-old didn't sweat the helicopter ride. "I loved it, it was wonderful," she gushed. "No, I wasn't afraid wasn't afraid at all." After the flight, she was whisked to a church reception in a 1963 Bentley, complete with authentic British right-hand drive. Wilson has a long history with the Oaks Fellowship Church in Red Oak.
Great day for the Brits at the Oscars
Daniel Day-Lewis and Tilda Swinton swept Britain to Oscar glory in Los Angeles while No Country For Old Men was the biggest film of the ceremony. Day-Lewis, 50, as predicted, won his second best actor Academy Award for his towering performance as a ruthless, malevolent oilman in There Will Be Blood.
Swinton, 47, landed the best supporting actress gong for her role as a ruthless corporate lawyer in the George Clooney movie Michael Clayton.
The 80th Academy Awards named French actress Marion Cotillard as best actress for her role as singer Edith Piaf in the biopic La Vie en Rose.
The 32-year-old beat Julie Christie to the title just weeks after her surprise victory over the British veteran at the Baftas.
The film that dominated the night at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre was No Country For Old Men, the Coen brothers' violent neo-western.
Cruel defeat snuffs out European dream
IN THE end, the emotions were not so much mixed as scrambled to the four corners of Hampden. We had seen Italy score in 70 seconds, we had seen them dominate the early minutes with some chilling football that not only took the fire out of the home support but also shocked Alex McLeish's team to the core. But in the final stages of the game it was the world champions who had the heat coming on them, their lead wiped-out by a scrambled Barry Ferguson goal just after the hour, their assurance of before in danger of being stripped away. With ten minutes remaining, Scotland drove forward once again, the substitute Kenny Miller linking with James McFadden and sending the most delicious ball across the Italian penalty area. The Azzurri were at sixes and sevens, Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluca Zambrotta, two of the game's pre-eminent defenders from two of the world's most glamorous clubs, were over-run.
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