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    event that led to the Rampart scandal was in November 6, 1997 when $722,000 was stolen from a Bank of America in Los Angeles. Later the bank manager confessed that her boyfriend, a LAPD officer, played a major role and planned the robbery. The officer was taken to prison for 14 years. In March 1998 the next event occurred when six pounds of cocaine evidence was missing from the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD chief officer, Bernard Parks, started to question the missing evidence and focused

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    animals in the area. An example of this is the El Segundo Blue Butterfly. This species of butterfly inhabited the “coastal Los Angeles” and due to gentrification along the years this area has been destroyed for other uses (Longcore et al. 1). At first The Recovery Plan was issued to help keep track of everything (population size, location, etc.) of the butterfly, but as time has passed, more people would be needed to ensure the well-being of this species (Longcore et al.

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    reports were even seen at the White House. Katrina and her family frequently went on FBI sanctioned trips to China and government events in the U.S. to collect information. During this time Katrina started another affair with Special Agent William Cleveland, however Cleveland did not disclose any information to her at any time nor tasked her to gather any information. During the late 1980s Katrina had only one incident where she made an unauthorized contact with the Chinese Consulate via a pay phone. However

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    In “The Drought”, Leigh Gallagher specifically chose a city as distinguishable as Los Angeles, during an arid period to draw the parallels of emotions and world. The world in which the characters live in, is not Hollywood, but Gallagher shows that Jean’s fear of becoming a widow in Hollywood, is inevitable while living in Los Angeles, “And I remembered suddenly the movie Ghost with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, where Whoopi Goldberg is the medium, although

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    Olympic Games Pros And Cons

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    Hosting the Olympic Games is a massive risk that cities all around the world are willing to take. While many people assume that hosting the Games is a way out a debt, it can also be just the opposite. There are many factors that contribute to the overall success and failure of hosting the Olympics. For one, the results differ between cities. Cities within countries that are more economically stable seem to profit from hosting more than cities in countries that are less developed and economically

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    Neuroscience Department is gaining experience on how to manage daily functions, absorb knowledge from upper level executives, and become involved within my local ACHE chapter in Orange County. If I were to create a projection of where I see myself in the time frame of just under ten years, I would hypothesize that I would at have made my way into an executive administrator role either within my department or if opportunity arouse outside my department or hospital. I’d have several various departments that

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    Necrotizing Fasciitis

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    alone, and often requires extensive surgical procedures. In The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers highlighted MRSA as a root cause of numerous cases of monomicrobial necrotizing fasciitis reported in Los Angeles in 2003 (7). In the research, fourteen patients in Los Angeles contracted the MRSA necrotizing fasciitis strain. Most of the patients reported having some type of a preexisting condition, like hepatitis C or a history of intravenous

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    I live in Arizona because I am in spring training for the major leagues. During spring training I am playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I am the catcher for them and our 2029 season just ended. This is my second year in the major leagues. I was rookie of the year last year and I went to college at the University of Vanderbilt. And now I am in the major leagues playing catcher I am like a brick wall, nothing can get past me. I train every single day in spring training I am either practicing blocking

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    different route to Los Angeles. When Meek Mill realized that the three rappers had deceived him, he took more extreme measures to make sure Jesus would not take his rightful place. He sent his groupies all though out Texas, trying to find the anointed one. He sent his blindly following fan-base out to scour the expansive land searching for any toddlers that could rhyme sufficiently, and he told them to kill all the children that met the requirements. This was not the first time this had happened

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    Derek Fisher History

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    Conference playoff race. "It's time for us to make a change, turn this team around and move forward and get some wins and keep going down the road we had started here at the beginning of the year," Jackson , who currently serving as president of the runner-up team of the 1999 NBA Finals, said at the Knicks’s practice facility. Jackson, who has won 11 NBA titles as a coach, six with the Chicago Bulls and five with Los Angeles Lakers, hired Fisher in June of 2014, after the former Los

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