The video has been viewed nearly 1.5 million times on YouTube, clearly a viral victory for Page's Lifeline Program, though the message arguably gets lost amid the pecs and octogenarian break-dance sequences.
Relatively few people signed up for the Lifeline discount, though, until the FCC opened the door in 2005 to prepaid wireless services.
More than 370 groups, many of which have never been involved with refugee issues, signed up to sponsor families though Lifeline Syria, a group in Toronto working to bring in more than 1,000 Syrians over the next two years.
It becomes a lifeline to her past; though of course she has to be reminded every day that she is writing it, or she would never know it existed.
The annual monsoon season in the region runs from June to the end of September but, though a lifeline for farmers, often causes hundreds of deaths as well as severe damage to homes and food crops.
But Coleman's sputtery, variably-pitched trumpet lines link him startlingly with the bebop shapes he was mainly famous for abandoning (this is predominantly a bop set), and McLean's long suite-like Lifeline takes the pair though both flat-out and meditative dialogues.
Finally, though, someone threw Saldana a lifeline.
This lifeline is likely to disappear, though, when the slews of layoffs -- 5,000 at Ford Motor Company being the most dramatic in recent days -- begin to bite.
