| New ASU student-housing complex provides luxury-resort experience
Campus living and the luxury-resort experience collide at Vista Del Sol, a new Arizona State University student-housing complex that has some parents thinking the kids should stay home, and mom and dad should go back to school. "We have parents just shake their heads and laugh at the beauty and amenities," said Denise Giambelluca, American Campus Communities manager. "Vista Del Sol has almost everything - and then some - that a first-class resort has." It has a huge, heated pool with cabanas and cooking facilities, basketball and volleyball courts, amphitheater, a community center with four tanning booths, a theater, billiards, ping pong and foosball tables, an 8,000-square-foot gym, yoga room, lounges and arcade games. Each fully furnished apartment includes cable television and Internet, faux-wood floors, lavishly appointed kitchens, large living rooms and full closets.
Cardinals' Spiezio wanted by police in California
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) -An arrest warrant for St. Louis Cardinals utilityman Scott Spiezio was issued by local police on six charges stemming from a crash in late December. The warrant filed Tuesday alleged driving under influence, driving under the influence with a blood alcohol content of .08 percent or more, hit and run, aggravated assault, assault and battery. The maximum penalty is two years in state prison. Spiezio did not play in Wednesday's exhibition game against St. Louis University at Jupiter, Fla. Cardinals spokesman Brian Bartow said the team was not aware of the warrant. Irvine police believe Spiezio was driving under the influence at the time of the crash Dec. 30, Lt. Rick Handfield said. "We've never been able to talk to him," Handfield said.
Real I-D Becomes a Reality KOLO Blog Listing
The federal government mandated the Real ID Act in 2005, but only now are the states being asked to implement in. The program was a plan to combat terrorism, attached to a war spending bill. There was very little discussion at the time, and Real ID continues to fly below the radar. Of the 7 people we interviewed for this story, NOT ONE had even heard of the multi-billion dollar unfunded federal mandate. Few people would argue against the surface-level intentions of Real ID: crack down on terrorism, reduce illegal immigration, and make it tougher for people who shouldn't have ID's, to get them. But a numbers of problems arise... What are the real intentions of the "Real ID" program? Is it one step closer to the federal government tracking our every move? Inital prototypes of "Real ID" including microchips imbedded in the card. So do the newest passports. Another problem is how the act was passed. In my opinion it's just plain wrong for the federal government to pass a 4 billion dollar government mandate without letting the public know. Finally, by mandating this program, the federal government is forcing the states to not only comply, but pay. It seems to me, like it's blatant abuse of the entire idea of a democracy.
Madeleine is more than a news story, she symbolises the dangers all ...
That trite remark is not intended to illustrate the old myth of dispassionate objectivity. Nor is it an attempt, particularly, to give a human face to a sometimes inhumane trade. It's just a fact, and blindingly obvious. Sorry about that. In this trade we know a little about a lot of things, but there are many things we can never know. How does it really feel to be Tony Blair, or a suicide bomber, or a Saudi princeling? What, if anything, goes on in the mind of a movie star, or a Darfur refugee, or a musical prodigy? We can do youinformation,speculation,andempathy, sometimes. Omniscience is not our game. But parenthood? That's a species marker, more often than not. It's the reason why new fathers and mothers will bore you witless over dinner with the one topic of which they never tire.
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