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In this made-for-cable thriller, Mimi Rogers portrays a cop who, burned out by her work, transfers to the forensics staff as an evidence photographer. While investigating a string of killings, the trail of evidence leads to the married man with whom she's having an affair.
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According to slum dwellers in Kuruchikuppam, where the Slum Clearance Board (SCB) is reconstructing 168 tenements under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, though they were promised the houses by mid-2010, not even half the construction had been completed so far. Despite several petitions and requests to the board as well as the government, the work is still moving at a snail's pace, they said.
One of the problems contributing to the delay was the number of contractors. Slum dwellers said that rather than awarding the contract to one builder and completing the work on time, the board chose to give contracts to several builders. "There is no coordination among the contractors working in these blocks. Some of them stopped work for weeks together and did not give any reason when we approached them," said Satish, a beneficiary.
According to Kalaimaran, Executive Engineer of SCB, the construction was carried out in two sets. The contracts for the first set of eight blocks were given to two contractors, whereas the second set of six blocks had six different contractors.
"Though we were able to vacate the tenants in the first eight blocks on time, there was some delay in vacating the rest. Thus, to compensate the time lost, we gave the contracts of the other six blocks to different builders," he said.
Slum dwellers also said that in the two years since the construction work started, they had to pay rent at market rates for their current houses which had resulted in debts. "We used to pay Rs. 700 as rent for the houses we had. Now, we are paying up to Rs. 1,000 as rent. With our meagre earnings, this has forced us into debts," said Shanthi, a resident.
Apart from tenements in Kuruchikuppam, those being built by the SCB in Lambert Saravanan Nagar near Reddiarpalayam has also been delayed.
This issue also found mention in a recent review meeting on implementation of flagship programmes in the Union Territory convened by the Chief Secretary.
According to Lakshminarayanan, Member of the Legislative Assembly representing the Cassicade constituency, who inspected the Kuruchikuppam site on Wednesday, the delay was largely owing to the escalation of prices of building materials.

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Beside the Motorway was good for travel to other towns/cities.
Excellent location, near to Pisa and the motorway. The room was clean and big with a lot of TV channels.
Excellent location quick access to the autostrada and a 10 minute drive to Pisa tower. Dining facility was also good.
apparte il bagno che personalmente darei una stella tutto il resto e' decisamente da 4 stelle compreso il personale gentilissimo ripeto peccato per il bagno posto ottimo vicino a tutto e isolato per la totale tranquillita nelle ore notturne
Para viajar en automóvil, parking, zona tranquila, sobre Via Aurelia.
Tutto ok, stanza pulita e comoda. Posizione ottima per pisa e Lucca. Colazione ok
Il personale è gentilissimo e la colazione abbondante
Idea Hotel Pisa Migliarino is a 15 minute drive from Pisa and the same distance from lovely Tuscan beaches.
Idea Hotel Pisa Migliarino enjoys a great location close to the highway and free on-site parking. Pisa and its famous tower, Viareggio with its port and beaches and even the airport are all easily accessible from here.
The staff at the Pisa Migliarino are professional and on hand 24 hours a day. Enjoy beautiful park views from your comfortable room, where you will have access to satellite TV.
The Pisa Migliarino's Bella Italia restaurant serves traditional regional dishes as well as national and international favorites. Try fine Tuscan wines while enjoying your meal.
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In Part 1 of Innovation and Risk in the Clouds, I focused on the alignment between strategy, organizational culture, innovation, and cloud computing.
In part 2 we will discuss some of the risks and challenges cloud computing presents.
Do you remember the last time you took a risk? The first time? Do you remember the first time you saw your company take a meaningful risk?
In business there are some very memorable moments in risk taking. Which ones do you recall? One of my favorites is the Apple, Xerox, Microsoft, and IBM story told in the Pirates of Silicon Valley docudrama.
It's a classic tale of a large enterprise not fully recognizing the value of technology, and a smaller organization being sufficiently bold and nimble to capitalize on that mistake.
As a former project manager, one of the activities I enjoyed most when managing projects was risk planning. It slowed us down and forced us to think through our activities, identify risks, analyze the risks, and plan appropriately. Some believe the speed of being a first mover, and its advantage, is enough, but it's not simply the fastest car that wins the Indianapolis 500, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Monaco Grand Prix; it's the team that best manages the risks inherent in participating at such events. The risk of a tire blowout is very real, and is a risk that needs to be properly managed.
Similarly, organizations need to be structured with the people, resources, processes, and strategic focus to adopt risk-taking endeavors in an acceptable and measured way.
The discipline of risk management focuses on addressing organizational risk inherent in its people, process, systems, and external environment. Some of those areas of risk include:
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Corporate transformation to a more creative culture leveraging the latest cloud computing model is not without risk. The consequences of the transition, chance of success, and impact on the business needs to be weighed, and planned for appropriately.
The good news is that cloud computing represents a positive risk shared with the cloud service provider, enhanced with key partnerships, and exploited for corporate benefit while leveraging service level agreements (SLAs) to mitigate risks. Risks, such as, hardware and software technological obsolescence, are transferred; although many considerations, including security, interoperability, lock-in, business process governance, and management remain, and need to be properly evaluated.
Security: I have heard it said that up to 70% of security threats are from unauthorized access by internal employees, so perhaps the focus on external attacks in a cloud computing environment should be re-evaluated.
Enterprise security, governance, risk management, and compliance has enabled many large government and financial service organizations to meet their audit requirements while reducing risk and improving operational efficiency. I have no reason to believe that cloud service providers (CSPs) meeting the same audit criteria will fare worse in this regard.
Lock-In: The risk of vendor lock-in given the lack of interoperability standards, while real, should be kept in context. Is the absence of lock-in worth an expensive choice of multiple hardware and software providers? Are you willing to pay a multiple to not be locked-in? Interoperability will eventually come to the cloud, while legacy service providers are moving to their own solution bundles given the acquisitions we have seen – Oracle/Sun, Dell/Perot, HP/EDS.
Business Process Governance: In this area, Salesforce.com announced the Force.com Visual Process Manager, and Makara announced its cloud application deployment and management platform, you can expect many developments here as organizations race to provide a variety of solutions in this area. I have written on this topic before, the original blog entry is found here.
Management: Ultimately, for some, managing Clouds will offer the appearance of control – dashboards, and real-time reporting mechanisms, all provided by Cloud Service Providers with the degree of detailed monitoring determining the costs incurred by the client.
For others, that will build and support their own enterprise cloud environments, the dynamic nature of cloud computing – with servers, networks, and storage dynamically showing up and disappearing from the environment, it will be a difficult and challenging model to manage; particularly if the organization does not adapt its legacy business management culture and approach, for the new environment.
Though by far, the greatest risk that I see is the failure to recognize the potential that lies within cloud computing to transform organizations.
In part 3 we will discuss the organizational challenges of innovation in the cloud.
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Fruitvale Station is the name of a nondescript commuter rail station in a working-class neighborhood of Oakland, Calif., near the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. (In my teen years I lived not far away, in a more suburban neighborhood up the hill.) It will be remembered for years, perhaps decades, as the place where an unarmed 22-year-old man named Oscar Grant III was shot in the back by a police officer just after 2 a.m. on New Year's Day of 2009. Exactly how and why that happened remains a matter of "Rashomon"-like dispute, which has not been cleared up by contradictory eyewitness testimony and a proliferation of cellphone videos shot by other people in the station. What we know for sure is that a young black man died, for no good or obvious reason, at the hands of a white cop, right in the middle of one of the most purportedly progressive and multicultural communities in the nation, and that the episode can't be disconnected from the long, painful and tragic history of race in America.
With the trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin dominating the news channels — and reminding us yet again that even in the age of a black president, Americans' perceptions of such incidents are definitely not "post-racial" – Ryan Coogler's remarkable debut feature "Fruitvale Station" arrives at an opportune moment. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and a first-film prize in the Certain Regard competition at Cannes, "Fruitvale Station" is a potent dramatic chronicle of contemporary American life, crackling with energy and possibility, made with the cooperation of Grant's mother and girlfriend. Built around a subtle and smoldering star performance by Michael B. Jordan and shot on location in Oakland, San Francisco and surrounding communities (including the Fruitvale BART station itself), the film is more concerned with capturing the world Oscar Grant lived in than with delivering a journalistic or documentary analysis of how he died.
Given that "Fruitvale Station" follows the last 24 hours of a likable, feckless and complicated character who we know is going to die, one of the most striking aspects of the film is that it isn't overwhelmingly dark or even pessimistic. Oscar, at least as we meet him here in the guise of the charismatic Jordan, could almost be the hero of a different kind of African-American indie film, a low-key comedy about a fractious but loving family and a good-natured hustler who is no angel but is making a genuine effort to go straight, at least for today. Based on this film, Coogler – who was himself born in Oakland and grew up in nearby Richmond – belongs on the short list of young black filmmakers who depict African-American life in all kinds of unstereotypical directions, along with Ava DuVernay ("Middle of Nowhere"), Tanya Hamilton ("Night Catches Us"), Sheldon Candis ("LUV") and Barry Jenkins ("Medicine for Melancholy").
In real life, Grant had an apparent history of dealing drugs and had served time in prison. Those issues have no direct relevance to his killing – he was carrying no gun and no drugs when he was shot, and was not intoxicated – but they certainly play into public perceptions, and Coogler doesn't run away from any of that. Jordan gives us a totally convincing portrayal of the 22-year-old human male, in whom baser instincts and superego are in conflict. He hasn't been entirely straight recently with his Latina girlfriend Sophina (the fiery and wonderful Melonie Diaz), who correctly suspects that he's been fooling around, and he realizes barely in time that New Year's Eve is also the birthday of Wanda, his loving but formidable mother (Octavia Spencer, an Oscar winner for "The Help"). On one hand, he's gotten it together to get his GED despite having dropped out of high school; on the other, he hasn't told either Wanda or Sophina that he's been fired by the upscale Oakland market where he works for repeated lateness and general unreliability.
In other words, Oscar comes off in "Fruitvale Station" as a young man with an eye for the ladies, an appetite for fun and a general tendency not to follow through on things, neither better nor worse than millions of other guys around America and the world. One of Coogler's points, as I see the film, is that if race is still a burden for men like Oscar it isn't one they think about all the time. He doesn't hesitate to chat up a pretty white girl in the market, even as he's angling to get his job back, and while she's got a boyfriend she's clearly intrigued. (Played by Ahna O'Reilly, she will see him again on the Fruitvale platform, in the minutes before the shooting.) During the New Year's festivities in downtown San Francisco, Oscar has an almost wistful late-night exchange of manly confidences with a suit-clad white businessman type, who urges him to go ahead and marry Sophina.
It's as if Coogler were suggesting that the America imagined by Martin Luther King, in which people would be judged by the "content of their character" rather than the color of their skin, can be seen in fragmentary glimpses and is not entirely an illusion. But when it comes to collisions between young black men and white police officers (not to mention self-appointed guardians of the law, like George Zimmerman), it's safe to say we've still got a big problem. Michael B. Jordan, the film's 26-year-old star, has said he gave up driving a BMW because the combination of a young African-American driver and a fancy European car proved irresistible to cops. Almost any black man you talk to – rich or poor, urban or suburban, from Henry Louis Gates in Cambridge down to the guy on a street corner in West Baltimore – has had one or more nervous-making encounters with police officers. What happened to Oscar Grant and his friends on that train platform was in most respects a routine event, and only became exceptional when BART officer Johannes Mehserle drew his handgun instead of his Taser.
Coogler's "Fruitvale Station" begins with cellphone footage of the melee on the station platform and reaches its climax with a tense, electrifying depiction of the mounting chaos and the escalating tension between hotheaded officers and the outraged young men they were detaining. There's no question his interpretation is sympathetic to the accounts of Grant's friends and many other witnesses, and it's not the only possible interpretation. But in fact, the film is scrupulous about its ambiguity: While the BART cops are presented as abusive and overly aggressive, ramping up the tension unnecessarily, Coogler does not try to answer the question of intention. Maybe a stressed-out young cop suffered a meltdown and shot an unarmed suspect out of panic, and maybe, as Mehserle would later testify and some witnesses suggest, he got confused and made a fatal mistake. (He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and served less than a year in prison.)
For Oscar Grant's loved ones, as for Trayvon Martin's, the tragedy of their untimely deaths can't be undone. Those of us who are still here have a responsibility to learn from what happened, and to observe the way that something like the Zimmerman trial opens up fault lines in our society that many of us would prefer to believe no longer exist. "Fruitvale Station" is a document of irreparable grief and paradoxical hopefulness; it launches the careers of two immensely talented young African-American artists and offers the possibility that Oscar Grant's life, while it was much too short and ended so dreadfully, served a higher purpose in the long arc of history.
"Fruitvale Station" opens this week in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, and opens July 19 in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia and Washington, with wider release to follow.
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Knowledge: All in the mind, or all in the phone?
It's hard to be humble in the age of information.
With so much knowledge right at our fingertips, the members of our generation consider themselves the most knowledgeable of all time.
Maybe we are.
If we need to communicate with someone, we can do it instantly via text. If we have a question, we turn to the all-powerful Google, or better yet, we direct our question to Siri, who will feed us all the information she can find in her charmingly robotic voice.
If we log into our email, the day's news is waiting to greet us on the home page.
Taking in such ready information and communication has sparked many discussions and debates.
Haven't we all heard the arguments about Millennials not having the social skills they should because of social media and texting? #heardthatoneazilliontimes
Technology is great. It's convenient, and it's pretty incredible.
But not only have Millennials become fairly dependent on this type of instant information and communication, but we've gotten pretty big-headed about it, too.
As someone who got her first smartphone fairly recently - okay, very recently; I got it three weeks ago - I can admit to the feeling of pride that comes with owning and carrying such a device.
It's really nice to have Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, music, and more right here in the palm of my hand.
This whole Snapchat thing is pretty cool, too.
Yes, I'll confess that I feel a little surge of self-importance at this kind of accessibility. But it is distracting, and it feeds my ego.
We consider ourselves superior now. Maybe it's not intentional, but it seems that we tend to scoff at the innovations of earlier days.
Why? Because we're so much more advanced now; we're so much smarter now and we're so much more informed now.
Or are we?
Just because we can text our acquaintances doesn't necessarily mean that we're more advanced than people were in earlier days.
In fact, the amount of grammatical errors that frequently appear in our texts seem to denote the opposite.
Just because we can web search information doesn't mean we're smarter than previous generations.
Being able to copy and paste a quiz question into Google and gain the correct answer isn't indicative of intellect, just of accessibility.
Because information is more quickly available, we are slower to appreciate it.
Just because the news of the area, nation, and world are easily accessed from our devices doesn't necessarily mean that we're more informed.
While a great deal of that type of information may be accurate, a lot of it isn't.
There are a whole lot of crazy people putting crazy things on the Internet.
And the sad thing is that we're usually crazy enough to believe it.
We shouldn't scorn the inventions and technology of days gone by.
To laugh at previous generations' products in comparison to today's is not only conceited, but meaningless.
The information overload that we receive on a day-by-day basis may be more convenient, but it doesn't make us more intelligent than the people who came before us.
And the technological innovations of our generation are certainly amazing, but only until the next best thing comes along.
After all, someday in the future, a tablet will look just as ridiculous a cassette tape does now.
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This is an impressive and compelling series, very readable and approachable, despite its length.
This is where the series really shines. Martin has created perhaps the largest collection of detailed and three-dimensional characters that I have ever encountered. What is more the characters are believable and their actions make sense to their characters and they grow and develop in believable ways. In the 5th book, however, a number of major characters seem(to me at least) to start 'spinning their wheels' about some thought they have and fail to progress, or grow, or learn from mistakes like they previously had.
The World:
Martin has created a fascinating world which seems both foreign to our own and yet very similar and understandable. In particular he incorporates 'Fantasy' elements very seamlessly into the world. The first three books give tantalizing hints and slowly parcels out information to build on. The 4th and 5th he seems to be focusing more effort on world building and has fleshed a good deal more out.
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This is where things get tricky. Originally this was supposed to be a trilogy and especially in the first book one can see a lot of buildup for the threat from the North. However, the bulk of books 2-4, and a large chunk of 5, are dedicated to the political intrigues of Westeros and another character trying to learn how to be a good ruler, mixed in with the occasional hint of the greater danger which threatens the entire world. As far as I can personally tell, the problem is that the characters have taken over the story(Martin has indicated something similar) and though the 5th book seems to have the divergent plot threads coming together at last, 5 books in with 2 more to go and I have absolutely no idea what the point of the story is any longer, nor do I have any clue where it is headed. Twists and mystery are one thing, but I am so completely clueless I have some personal doubts that Martin himself truly knows where this story is going.
I do love the series, especially books 1-3, and I sincerely hope I am wrong but at the moment the Jury is still very much out on whether this will end up as a Fantasy Masterpiece, ala Lord of the Rings, or simply a very well written and fascinating character study that failed in its initial promise to be something more.
I disagree. I loved this series.
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3rd Apr 12
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Well, it is naturally all a matter of personal opinion, but I like the subtle Fantasy Elements. Don't get me wrong, I love 'high' Fantasy as well, but I like the way he weaves those elements so that, to me at least, they seem like seamless aspects of it. I will agree, however, that the world does seem a little bit more flat, and rather less creative, as Martin describes it more in books 4 and 5. Previously, when he kept things vague it was better.
I have to thoroughly disagree with you on the matter of characters. I love his characters on the whole, yes some of them are terrible and grotesque but virtually all of the mare believable. Just like in real life there are few completely bad people and even fewer completely good people. The characters in this series are people that do things, some good and some bad, to further their own ends in ways that fit with their personalities, just like real people do. In particular, the P.O.V. style allows one to see other characters based on how the P.O.V. character sees them, and then when that character gets a P.O.V. we find out new information about them and often that they are more sympathetic.
As for the plot going nowhere very very slowly. . .yeah, pretty much. The first 3 books the action and the characters made up for it, but it became a lot more noticeable in 4 and 5.
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4th Apr 12
@doorofnight: I tend to scoff whenever I read the backs of the books and see "The American Tolkien" proudly printed on the back. But the one thing Martin does better than any author I've ever read is subtly tying in the magical elements while maintaining a mostly realistic world. Magic is treated as extremely rare and alien, and there's just enough of it to make one wonder whether or not some things are magical in nature or not (like Beric Dondarrion's outlaw days before we meet him again. Rumors are flying around that he's been killed here and there constantly, but in the chaos of war it's easy to brush those rumors off. Then we meet him and it turns out that he has been dying all the time but he keeps coming back!).
It's the little surprises, and the big battles, that make me want to stick with the series to the end. Even if I don't think it's as great as some people do.
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22nd Aug 12
@Trickdice, I wouldn't personally call Martin 'the American Tolkien', but I personally thought the first three books had a tremendous amount of potential to them. I like the subtle magic to the series as well and the realism of it all. What I think is holding the series back now is that Martin has now spent WAY too long dangling this mysterious threat in front of the readers and hasn't fleshed out nearly enough about it. Its high time for at least some glimpse behind the curtain and an explanation of just what is going on.
Who knows how the books will end, series evolve all the time, but at the moment I see the potential and brilliance I find in the first three books the series to be a masterpiece of fantasy literature as being largely wasted by a whole lot of pointless meandering about in the 4th and 5th books, in which Martin seems to be spending far more time fleshing out a world he probably should have done a bit more with in the beginning anyway.
It is one of the cardinal sins of any continuing series(regardless of medium), which has an overarching plot that is in anyway important to that series, for the writer not to have planned the story out in advance. While even series that do plan things out ahead of time aren't perfect, series that don't plan things out in advance are prone to some or all of: plot holes, contradiction, meandering around, excess baggage/story, general lack of consistency, and the length Martin is taking in writing has got to exacerbate these issues.
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