The Tower store in London's Piccadilly set aside an area with information about Future Forests and, says Lown, there are plans to grow a tree in the rock music department.
A background document issued by Mr. Rock's department said that in the telecommunications industry, capital "is not easy to come by" after the dot-com crash and recent problems in the sector.
Scandals rock the department with disturbing regularity, but even if the commissioner wants to fire an officer, the arbitration system makes it all but impossible.
As frightening as those changes sound, moves that could rock the department into a less abusive and militaristic force clearly aren't on the menu with Bratton or precinct commanders steering the ship.
But unlike other potentially explosive episodes that have rocked this department over the decades, there were no indignant denials or attacks on critics.
Regardless of whether his power was real or perceived, one thing was certain: The Dec. 30 bar mitzvah, with 60 guests, a band and a catered meal in the jail gymnasium amid the controlled environment of a city jail, rocked the department and upset Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
The shooting was the latest in a series of scandals that have rocked the department, prompting a federal probe and public demand for reform.
In April, a second text-messaging scandal rocked the department, revealing that officers referred to minorities as "barbarians," "cockroaches" and other slurs.
But last month, after an article in The New York Times raised questions on whether AltaRock had been forthcoming about earthquakes generated by a similar project in Basel, Switzerland, the Energy Department and the Bureau of Land Management informed the company that it would not be allowed to fracture rock until the department completed a new review of whether the project would be safe.
(If 'Kinect for accountants' can't rock the accounts department, nothing can).
