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New and improved FireSky Resort a solid Scottsdale golf trip ...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Bad hotels don't tend to last in this trendy desert town that only seems to grow in popularity every year. Especially bad high-end hotels with room rates that would make a grandmother from Iowa faint. There is just too much competition for luxury travelers. With the Phoenix-Scottsdale resort corridor seeing a virtual arms race of resort renovations, a hotel with something lacking to begin with holds little chance of survival. It's probably no surprise then that the Caleo Resort & Spa found itself bought out by Kimpton Hotels and renamed and revamped as the FireSky Resort almost two years ago. If you had bad experiences at Caleo, it's time to put those to rest. For a visit to the FireSky Resort offers up a dramatically different vibe.
Iveco LMV: Dangerous World
"You will be entering a world we seldom show to anybody," said the Fiat Group PR. How secret? Well, Iveco's British and Italian PR bosses admitted that they had never set foot in the headquarters of their shadowy military vehicles division. And the degree of security became even more evident when, after a slight wrong turn, our car was stopped by the very formal Carabinieri, who demanded to see our credentials, which they cross-checked with the ex-police factory security. When we did arrive, our passports were taken and the security police banned photographer Andrew Crowley from taking pictures of anything at all - strangers aren't warmly welcomed round here. .
Where Does TJX Lie on the Naughty-Nice Line?
If we move away from the question, "Did TJX do everything possible to try and protect consumer data?" (which merits a "What planet are you on? Of course it didn't,") and focus on, "Did TJX do what was reasonable and appropriate at the time it did it?" things look a lot different. The latest news was utterly predictable. TJX's deal with Visa, in which TJX would give money to certain banks in exchange for promises to not sue, was approved overwhelmingly on Dec. 20. Two days earlier, TJX also worked out similar settlements with most of the banks suing it. In short, only one bank is left suing TJX and that litigation will happen in Alabama state court. The consumer class action lawsuit is essentially settled as well. (The final approval will come from a federal judge who has already said he will approve it.) The core problem with the TJX cases is that the lawsuits wanted to accuse TJX of something that is not illegal in any state.
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