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Vincent Ceraso is standing in the living room of a posh house in the suburbs of Philly with a group of people he just met a few weeks earlier. The mood is somber as they quietly wait for the doorbell to ring. It's a surprise party of sorts. Ceraso's never met the guest of honor, but after weeks of investigating him, Ceraso feels like he knows him inside-out. "The only thing I don't know at this point, is what [he] looks like," says Ceraso, who's likely been up the night before playing this scene out in his mind. It's Ceraso's job to get the target to surrender. So many things could go wrong. "They get extremely emotional, sometimes violent," says Ceraso about the people he's hired to confront. It's not easy getting between an addict and his or her drug of choice.
The bell rings and Ceraso instructs the guest of honor's wife to answer it. From where Ceraso's standing, he can see the woman at the door, but her husband is still obscured from everybody's view. She takes a deep breath and opens the door.
"He starts yelling at her, 'Back up! Back up!'" remembers Ceraso, whose big blue eyes widen behind boxy dark-framed glasses (with mini skulls emblazoned on the sides) as he recalls the story. "So she's like this, like it's a stick-up," he says, raising his hands up high in the air like in a Western. "All I see is her backing up … she looked like she saw a ghost." In that moment Ceraso, a modern-day mercenary who travels all over the Northeast executing confrontations with addicts, envisioned a worst case scenario: the ghost holding a gun. "That was running through my mind because I didn't know the guy, but … I knew he had some issues," says 44-year-old Ceraso. "He just kept saying back up, back up, and then he walked her in." With hand over heart, he says, "God as my witness, I swore I was going to see a homicide."
It turns out the guy was just flipping out, terrorizing his wife in typical abuser fashion. Thankfully, there wasn't a gun, but there was indeed a showdown: a battle of wills between an addict, an interventionist and a shattered family who just couldn't take it anymore.
The drama unfolds like an episode of Intervention, the popular television show on the A&E channel that follows addicts who supposedly believe they are participating in a documentary about addiction. Cameras tail the subjects as they cop in dubious scenarios, like the episode where a girl desperate for a fix steals morphine from her dying father's stash. Then the addict gets high on camera and blows long streams of smoke up everyone's ass about where he or she was all night. Meanwhile, family and friends of the afflicted have secretly hired an interventionist to help wrangle their loved one into treatment. The show rides on narrative arcs full of quick-hit exposition, montages of addicts freebasing and snorting lines and assorted can-you-believe-that-shit schaudenfraude, happy endings and big blowout fights—basically, all the spectacle that makes for addictive TV.
Ten years ago, most Americans didn't know what an intervention was or that there was a growing demand for the service. Popping pills on the regular has become so commonplace that the first pause brought on by an overdose isn't surprise at drug use, but a question of whether or not the overdose was an accident. Death has become an acceptable casualty of roulette for the growing number of Americans who subscribe to the high life, as reflected in the pageant of accidental overdose celebrity deaths: Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger and most recently, DJ AM, aka Adam Goldstein from Philadelphia.
As the face of junkies continues to shift from unsavory characters scoring in the backrooms of shady countercultural hangouts and clubs to teens nicking OxyContin and Vicodin out of the medicine cabinet and Percocet- popping moms, the role of the interventionist has hit pop culture full force. There's Intervention of course, and now MTV's Gone Too Far , filmed with DJ AM serving as the role of the interventionist before he OD'ed himself, and the inevitable Dr. Drew show. The idea's even parodied on sitcoms like How I Met Your Mother.
Now, thanks to mainstream awareness—not to mention the ever-expanding supply of middle-class and upper middle-class clients—a previously niche corner of the recovery industry has become one of the most rapidly expanding careers in addiction services.
The change in our drug habits has not only increased the demand for interventionists, it's changed the game itself. For one thing, pills are a more expensive habit than alcohol and users have to be stealthier to cop.
"A lot of people don't have $500 a day. You wake up in the hole every day and you have to make that up as you go," says Ceraso. "With that sort of behavior you really need to be able to manipulate these people."
So while politicians continue to throw endless rhetoric and money at the futile, decades-old war on drugs, there's a growing list of guys like Ceraso who are pulling bodies out of the trenches with almost military conviction: You don't leave one of your own behind.
Ceraso's endearingly South Philly. He'll tell you he's just a married man with kids who now lives in New Jersey. But it's the tough street-smart South Philadelphian that surges to the surface as he passionately recaps intervention war stories over coffee.
"Somebody always holds the key," he says, referring to intervention. "There's always all the people [in the room], but there's always the person that holds something extra that helps you."
Ceraso recalls an old man who held the key to the surrender of a 19-year-old star athlete who turned to drugs after he got benched with an injury.
"He was a tough kid, by all standards a badass," says Ceraso. "We went and did this intervention at the kid's friends house." Ceraso says when he walked in and saw the frail, elderly man, the kid's grandfather, he was hesitant to let him participate. "I mean, he was 80, pulling an oxygen bottle. I told his son, the kid's father, I recommend against it. The guy said, he's a tough old man and he wants to be there." Ceraso allowed it.
The plan was to wake the kid up as he came off a crash on his buddy's couch, but "he came out of his sleep and started to freak," says Ceraso. "He got more and more violent and started taking runs at people. The kid was mostly swinging at his father, but the grandfather is the one who stopped him cold.
"This article is on target and very thorough. I have watched many of the intervention shows on t.v. and if the family is not totally committed the addict will not accept rehab. We need more interventionists like Ceraso."
"Vinny, you are the best. I wish the gov would spend more money on treatment centers and less on jail time. Treatment cures, jail time doesn't"
"Vincent Ceraso is indeed an angel...I wasn't a down and out junkie, but he pulled me up from a very low trench and got me help 4 yrs ago after I developed an addiction to prescription pain meds. and I've been drug free since, this article is right on. My angel and my hero....Vincent Ceraso!"
"I always knew you'd get it done, Vinny! Bless you for being there for those who can't advocate for themselves. xo Jan"
"Great article. Just one problem and that is the 12 step programs are not for everyone and it would be nice to have some alternative treatment methods out there. For a great analysis of the 12 step programs search "orange papers". This guy who goes by Agent Orange has done an extensive analysis that is very thought provoking."
"This is the first responsible approach to Addiction journalism I've seen the media take in quite some time...kudos to you Tara! Vinny and those like him are the only hope for the addicted and the families that love them. As long as the media follows the Philadelphia Weekly's approach and puts the spotlight on the problem solvers (Vinny), and not just harping on the problem, some lives may actually be saved...not just exploited for readers and ratings."
"Vinnie your a great man and very good at what you do!! I am proud to work with you and to call you friend. Your the MAN!!!"
"I knew you were doing God's work, but to see the details here is even more amazing. Thank you Vince for sharing this profound mission with us, and great job putting it together Tara. I look forward to reading more. I will spread the word. This article is sure to help a ton of people who just don't know what to do. Now there will be hope. Love Joy Peace, Cuzin' Bill"
"Vinnie you are truly God's angel for the sick and suffering addict. Thanks for all you are! I am so proud to work with you."
"Vinny, you're definitely an angel in disguise, behind the South Philly & all that piss & vinegar there truly is an individual who cares and it shows through in the passion you display in your work. I'm glad to call you a friend and to be a part of the team at Treatment Solutiosn Network. God Bless."
"What an informative and thought provoking article. So well put together and full of heart. Vinny, you truly are doing God's work for those who can't get through to their loved ones. Your having "been there and done that" is so valuable to those you seek to help. Addiction of any kind is devastating to those who live with it, and what you do helps ease the way to lasting recovery for these people. Keep up the great work!"
"Vinny I am glad you are a part of the Treatment Solutions Network team and beyond that a friend. Tara you did an excellent job and I totally agree with Addiction in print's comments. Also to Aaron I totally understand where you are coming from on the 12 step thing even though they work for me they are not for every one. We have several non traditional 12 step treatment alternatives as well as many centers who offfer optional 12 step involvement. Please contact me and I would love to discuss this more with you. In the meantime I will look up Agent Orange."
"This is really well done. I was particularly fascinated by the risks and reasons for not planning a last-minute intervention. Such a small window, y'know? And yet, I hadn't really considered what happens if the intervention doesn't have the desired impact. Nice job, Tara Murtha.
"Great article. I'm looking forward to reading the next part in this series. I personally passed this well written article to all my friends, some of which are dealing with loved ones that are addicted to drugs. This article, and hopefully the ones that follow, give people information on where to turn. Intervention, in this day and age is a much needed service. It's great to know a guy like Mr. Ceraso is out there doing this work. He is a true hero in our community. In the next article I believe you should post Mr. Ceraso' contact information so people can speak to the expert directly. Thank you so much for putting a spotlight on this epidemic and for singing the praises of this "Modern Day Mercenary" (Vincent Ceraso). I'd love to read more about him."
"I am going to have this gentleman try and help my youngest son. I pray it works. I am at my wits end.I have no more hope, no more answers, no more strength please pray god gives him whatever it takes to help my boy"
"Vinny is almost as reckless as Tara Murtha! I suffered from this disease, and there wasn't a soul on this earth who could save me, certainly not Vinny! I felt I had to read, to see just how we (addicts) are still viewed by society. I just wanted to thank everyone involved in bringing this article to the public for making us being addicts even harder than it already is. Vinny is one of those "good doers" that think that if they shine a light on the destruction that the person suffering from the disease of addiction ( the Center for Disease Control lists Substance Abuse as a disease ) has caused, that they will come to their senses and stop. HORSESHIT.
Speaking for myself, it wasn't until I was ready to surrender to the idea that I had a problem, was I able to receive the help I so desperately needed. It's a real disease, same as cancer! When society begins to treat it the same, maybe then we will stop dying, because that's what addicts who use do, they die."
"Hi vinnie, do you remember who took you to the palm beach institute? Guys with character like you always turn out to be winners."
"Right on, Cowboy. Sounds like Vinny has a lot of friends here, but I'm with you. I have the disease too, and no intervention pulled me out. You got to do it for yourself and there's nobody else in the world that can do that for you. I'm sure his heart's in the right place, but the strategy is all wrong.
Hey Tara, how come none of these guys talks about how many times they went in and out of rehab? You make it seem like this is some one-shot cure and that's BULL. Anyone who's been in the program can tell you: it's a 90% relapse rate and I bet your boy Vinny's batting 100."
I agree that rehab is bound to fail without the person going accepting they need to go. Are you really saying there's only one way for an addict to reach that place? That we all need to just step back, do nothing and wait for each addict to find that place within themselves? Intervention merely increases that chance that an addict will face what his loved ones already know: he's not fooling anyone with his lies, and we all know he's an addict; we just want him to know it too…
Sorry if you feel "good doers" are making an addicts life harder. Addicts make life harder for all those that care for them. Some may be willing to watch their addicted love one spiral down, but most like the idea of trying to prevent it.
Vinny & I have often discussed if addiction is a disease like cancer, (which I know something about). We don't see it quite the same, but I'll say this: darn few cancer victims need interventions to admit they have cancer.
If interventions get only 10% moving towards the help they need, that beats the hell out of zero %.
Keep up the good work Vinny.
"Glad to see Vinnie doing some good. A long way from busting up fellow Union Reps while he was a paid union thug at the airport."
"Now, ask Treatment Solutions how much money they make off of Ceraso's interventions, and whose pockets the profits go into. Better to use one of the many nonprofit agencies available in Jersey and PA that do the same work."
"Vince helped us get our friend to treatment. He is a godsend. We could not have done it without him. He is available day and night and does whatever it takes. I will forever be thankful that we found Vince. He is in the business of saving lives. Thank you so much Vince.
If you have a friend or family member that needs help, please call Vince."
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I remember that in my first year at college, the professor told us that his wife is also a software developer, and a few decades ago when there has been a tough period of 2-3 years in the software field they both had been unemployed and had experienced some hard times.
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- 2 ripe avocados, thinly sliced
- 1 small head iceberg lettuce, shredded
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Place sliced jalapeños in a small bowl. In a small saucepan, combine water, vinegar, salt, and sugar and bring to a boil over high heat. Pour pickling solution over jalapeños and cover bowl with a plate; let cool to room temperature.
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Weiner launched a new account, @anthonyweiner, on Monday. Sitting next to his name is the famous blue checkmark, verifying the account as official.
His inaugural tweet was simply a link to his 20-page booklet that lays out his "64 ideas to keep New York the capital of the middle class," which he released earlier this month.
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Time to let it die. If I was in charge of upstream, I'd just tell them to drop dead if/when submitted. The big distros aren't going to include it either way (bad association), otherwise if there was actually anything particularly useful about it, they would have picked up development on it.
I really don't see what the big deal about this is. Just let it die already. Not every bit of code is destined for the linux kernel. Most code dies, and the only reason anyone even remembers THIS dead code, is because of its CRIMINAL ASSOCIATION.
They won't let him work with file systems in prison. He might use them to escape ...
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1. Truant
William Butler Yeats"You haven't seen me," Estel's voice hissed up in a loud whisper.
Elrohir rolled his eyes. He had not needed to see Estel. He had recognized the soft thuds of running feet coming through the woods behind him. In Rivendell, only Estel had such short strides that landed with mannish force. It would also have been hard to overlook the jolt against the back of the bench as the footsteps came to a sliding halt and the scrabble as the boy rapidly inserted himself under it.
Elrohir felt the quiet morning he had longed for all summer slipping away. It was good to be home at last, but even in Rivendell, every day could not be perfect. This early autumn day promised to be fair enough. The air, heavy with damp as the dew burned off, held puffs of silver-edged, gray-bellied clouds floating high above him. The dappled shade under the tree blocked just enough of the glare of the bright morning sun. The book he held was just engrossing enough to keep him awake to enjoy it. The bench had no cushions, but curved enough to be comfortable.
Elrohir had been sitting alone, a rare enough occurrence to be enjoyable in itself.
"Please?" The thready sound reached him at the same time as a shadow came around the curve of the path.
Even with nearly ten years of practice, he still found it difficult to resist Estel. What were brothers for, if not to assist when appealed to? Elrohir twitched the trailing end of his cloak to better conceal the boy under the bench just before his father's chief counselor, Erestor, appeared on the path before him.
Careful to keep reading until Erestor stood in front of him, Elrohir blandly looked up with brows arched in a question at the interruption.
"Have you seen Estel?" Erestor asked.
Mindful of his instructions and with perfect truth, Elrohir replied, "No, not this morning. Is he playing the truant?"
"It seems so. He is very late," Erestor said, a frown appearing on his features.
Elrohir looked east to where the sun shone above the trees. "The day is fair enough to tempt him away. Will one day of lessons more or less matter?"
"One?" Erestor said, throwing up his hands. "Would that it were one! And when he does attend, he pays little attention. At this rate the boy will learn nothing."
Elrohir knew what it took to upset Erestor's normally unruffled demeanor. There had been a time when he and Elladan had considered it a point of honor to exasperate Erestor at least once a week. It did not surprise him that Estel could do the same. Still, Erestor's time could be put to better use than looking for the boy.
"You worry needlessly." Elrohir gave Erestor a conspiratorial nod and indicated the boy's location with a pointing finger. "I am certain he will be along eventually."
Erestor acknowledged the signal with raised brows, and a long-suffering shake of his head. "If you do see Estel, tell him to come any time. I will be in my study."
So, Erestor thought he would talk Estel into attending his lessons. He gave his mouth a wry twist.
Erestor grinned at his discomfiture. "Have you any idea where he might be?"
"I heard a commotion over near the kitchens. You might try there."
"I will. Enjoy your quiet morning." Erestor walked on.
When he was out of sight, Elrohir said, "It is safe to come out now."
Estel scooted out from under the bench, wiping his hands off on his trousers. Gilraen sent him out washed and brushed every morning, but he already looked disheveled. Dirt from under the bench smirched his clothes, and strands of his hair, escaping from their tight plaits, straggled over his shoulders. He sat on the bench with a wide grin and a jaunty toss of his head.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome. But your lessons are also important, so do not think I will add 'any time.'" Duty done, Elrohir smiled to take any sting out of the mild rebuke and fixed his eyes on his book. Perhaps today Estel would take the hint.
Elrohir tried to concentrate, but Estel began whistling and his leg swung, kicking the bench at intervals just off the beat of the nearly tuneless music. Looking up, Elrohir met Estel's wide, grey eyes staring at him with an expectant expression.
"You can go now," Elrohir encouraged the boy. "Time to meet your friends and start whatever adventures you planned for today instead of lessons."
"The only plan I have is to stay away from anyone who would send me back to Erestor." Estel settled back more comfortably on the bench and gave Elrohir a wide, hopeful smile.
"What are your friends doing today?" Elrohir asked.
Estel shrugged and looked away. "Imros and Edracar know Mother always keeps me in to eat breakfast with her on lesson days. They left at dawn so they wouldn't have to take me with them. Morniel doesn't do anything anymore except paint and carve, and she says I'm too clumsy to help her."
"What about Rilde? Or Lossen and Neldor?" A few years ago, those four had been inseparable.
"They are too little. I don't mind playing with them sometimes, but I need to learn warrior skills, and they still want to do baby things," the boy said.
There were only one or two others, and they were older still, nearly grown and already with duties. Elrohir tried, and failed, to envision a solitary childhood. When Elrohir remembered his own childhood, by comparison, it teemed with playmates. Elrohir realized, with a jolt, no one in Rivendell could grow up with Estel. After a year, or two or three, he would be older than any elf-child he befriended, with the different interests and different needs that came with maturity.
It did not help that Estel's only possible friends were Silvan elves under his father's protection. They had no use for, and their parents did not want them to have, the intense, political education being lavished on the last scion of the Númenoreans.
"Why don't you just attend your lessons?" Elrohir asked.
Estel gave a derisive snort. "I learn a lot more just being in the woods, even by myself. Didn't you find Erestor's lessons boring?"
After a thoughtful shake of his head, Elrohir closed his book and placed it on the bench. "No. I cannot say that I did. Of course, they were quite some time ago - perhaps I am misremembering - but I think I was eager for Erestor's lessons."
Estel eyed him with disbelief. "He never tells me anything useful," he huffed. "I already know all kinds of things. I can read – in four languages! - and add and divide and, and, lots of other stuff. Why do I have to keep learning stupid theories, or care about what the old kings did? 'The kingdom of Rhudaur was founded in Third Age 863 and its first king was the second son of Eärendur,'" he droned. "I am never, ever, going to need to know that. I could be doing important things, like sword work or archery practice."
Elrohir wished now he had simply handed the boy over to Erestor. In Elrohir's opinion, this had always been more complicated than it needed to be. Swordsmanship and archery were not all the boy needed to know. It would certainly be easier to say, "A Chieftain of the Dúnedain needs to know this," than to expect Estel to voluntarily forego playing to grapple with abstracts. Though he did not agree with his father's insistence that Estel would be safer if he was unaware of his exalted heritage, he knew - they all knew - the boy still needed to be educated enough to fulfill his destiny when the time came.
Elrohir quirked his brows. "And those are the most important things?"
"They are!" Estel glowed with excitement and he leaned forward. "You promised that as soon as I'm big enough, I could hunt orcs with you and Elladan all the time, and you told me to practice as much as I could. And I do! They almost never find me anymore." A speculative gleam came into his eyes.
He had promised; for some unspecified future date when Estel had grown into a 'great warrior'. "Are you a great warrior already?" Elrohir laughed, leaning over to tousle Estel's hair.
The boy's chin rose and he sounded aggrieved at Elrohir's skepticism. "I'm a good tracker. And I can use a bow and a sword and a knife. I can always find something to eat in the woods and I can start a fire and cook. I can find my way and tell time by the stars. I'm big enough." He sat back, relaxed and poised. "Take me along next time and you'll see how useful I will be."
Elrohir sat up straighter and a clutch of cold gripped his heart. So many of his friends and family – he quickly suppressed a memory of his mother's wan and wasted face - had been lost in the Wild. Estel's confident air and the paean of self-praise for his skills gave Elrohir an unwelcome suspicion. Unless he did something to discourage it, the next time they ventured into the Wild, he and Elladan would spend most of their time looking behind them expecting to see Estel. The boy would have to face the Wild some day, but, surely, he was still too young.
"I think you need to grow up a bit more first." Elrohir reached out to lay his hand on the boy's shoulder but Estel twitched away.
"No one ever understands." Estel stood up, shoved his thumbs in his belt and sullenly kicked a stray pebble off the path. He planted himself stiff-backed in front of Elrohir and stared a challenge into his eyes. "It's not fair."
Standing, the boy was eye-to-eye with Elrohir still seated on the bench. "What is not fair? You are growing up as fast as you can. I cannot stretch you, nor change the rate at which you grow," he said in his best imitation of their father's 'be reasonable' tone. "Soon, I promise, you will be old enough and bigger."
"I know that," Estel said in a voice dripping scorn. "I will grow as tall as you are, maybe taller. But my mother is Edain, not Eldar. I'm in my eleventh year! Mother says that is about half way to being grown up. Imros and Edracar are, too. They can go outside the valley, but not me! Everyone still treats me like one of the babies!"
Estel's eyes fixed on Elrohir with a plea for understanding hovering in their depths. Apparently not finding it, he rushed on, his voice becoming singsong. "Stay close to the house, Estel. Don't go into the woods without a grown-up, Estel. You're too young to do that, Estel. Do this, Estel. Don't do that, Estel." He sneered. " Go to your lessons, Estel. And I have more lessons and studying than anybody! It. Is. Just. Not. Fair!" He punctuated the last words with resentful kicks at the path and ended up at rigid attention, arms akimbo and jaw thrust out towards Elrohir.
Elrohir was momentarily taken aback. Did Estel have a valid grievance? Were they too conscious that the boy carried the last bloodline of the Dúnedain kings and putting too many restraints on him? The boy was rushing to adulthood more than twice as fast as an elf-child would. He inspected Estel carefully, noting the skinny arms and legs barely beginning their stretch to adolescence. In the boyishly rounded face, there were hints of the man to be in the determined eyes and the jut of the firm jaw.
Elrohir realized that Estel was beginning to recognize he was different. For no reason that he knew, his education was more structured and much more was demanded of him than of his playmates. No wonder he felt resentful. Unfortunately, the surest cure was the explanation of his heritage that Elrohir was forbidden to give him.
The other Dúnedain fosterlings had been several years older and had already had a season or two of Ranger training when they arrived. Had his father fostered a boy as young as Estel since Valandil? Perhaps they had misjudged and Estel was ready for more experience. Elrohir gave his head a shake.
Estel wilted at the apparent lack of support and slumped down onto the bench. "Are you going to send me to Erestor?"
"If I sent you now, would you actually go to your lessons?" Elrohir's brow lifted with the skeptical question.
"Maybe. Eventually." Estel heaved a noisy sigh and capitulated. "If I have to."
They were both quiet for a minute. When Elrohir looked over at the boy, Estel was glumly contemplating the path at his feet. How to convince him it would be far better if he stayed safely in Rivendell and went willingly to his lessons? Estel was so sure he knew enough already… Elrohir had an idea; a way to show him how much he had yet to learn.
"Hmmm. There is no doubt you are growing up quickly. You look quite the warrior compared to how you looked last summer." At the change in tone, Estel shot him a surprised and wary glance. Elrohir leaned towards the boy and gave him a nudge with his elbow. "Would you like to hunt orcs today?"
"Real orcs? Really?" Estel drew himself up from his slump and turned open, incredulous eyes on Elrohir.
Elrohir was quick to damp his excitement. "Not exactly. Not yet. The Wild is different from Rivendell and orcs are very dangerous. You are my brother, and for some reason I seem to be fond of you. I would not want to lose you untimely. I need to see for myself if you are ready to hunt real orcs." Elrohir put his hands on Estel's shoulders and tried to impress upon him the seriousness of his offer. "If you prove it to me today, I will speak to Father about changing your lessons and giving you more experience."
Estel quivered like a leashed hound on a scent. "You will? I mean, Yes, sir!" Estel snapped. He leapt to his feet. "What do I need to do?"
Elrohir stood and pointed Estel towards the house. "Go get your weapons, and whatever else you think you will need for a day of orc hunting. Do not burden yourself overmuch. Elladan and I usually cache most of the supplies. This will be a scouting mission, and we will only fight if we are forced to. Meet me back here as soon as you can."
"I will." Estel whirled away, and then ran back to Elrohir. He threw his arms around Elrohir's hips and hugged him, burying his face in his chest. "You are the best brother ever. I will not let you down."
Elrohir's arms went around the boy and he gave him a squeeze. "I love you, too, little brother. I know you will make me proud. Now go! We have an orc den to spy out."
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Santa Photo Picture Frame Christmas Ornaments
Personalized Christmas Ornament or Personalized Picture Frame
An ornament for the tree or use the magnetic back to hang on the fridge!
Ho ho ho! Wishing you a hearty Merry Christmas is this jolly Santa Claus wearing his traditional red suit, black boots and oversized stocking cap with a white pom pom on the end. Instead of a bowl full of jelly, when this Kris Kringle laughs you see your sweet child's face smiling back at you. This photo frame ornament can be both an ornament with a ribbon hanger or a magnet which is attached to the back for sticking on a computer or refrigerator.
Material: Resin
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Book your room at Viceroy Miami
In Miami near The Adrienne Arsht Center
In the city center
Centrally located on Biscayne Bay and Brickell, this urban chic design hotel is located near the port of Miami, the Design District and Miami's main cultural venues such as the Grand Opera and the AA Arena.
Spa and fitness
Recreational amenities at Viceroy Miami include Florida's largest outdoor infinity pool, restaurant (al fresco) and full service spa. Other amenities include a rooftop nightclub and a pool.
Balconies with views
Guestrooms open to balconies with city or river views and feature amenities including kitchenettes, refrigerators, and double sinks.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Viceroy Miami offers a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and a coffee shop/café. The property provides 24-hour room service. The full-service spa at this 4.5-star property features massage and treatment rooms. In addition to an outdoor pool, Viceroy Miami provides a health club, a spa tub, a sauna, and a steam room. Business-related amenities at this 4.5-star property include complimentary wireless Internet access, wired Internet access (surcharge), and a technology helpdesk. Meeting facilities include a ballroom and meeting rooms for small groups. Viceroy Miami also offers a nightclub, a fitness facility, and a concierge desk. The property may provide extended parking privileges to guests after check-out (surcharge). Viceroy Miami is a smoke-free property (fines may apply for violations).
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Number of floors - 15
- Bar/lounge
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Health club
- Computer station
- Free WiFi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Express check-in
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- 24-hour front desk
- Garden
- Total number of rooms - 148
- ATM/banking
- Concierge services
- Snack bar/deli
- One meeting room
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Multilingual staff
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Self parking (surcharge)
- 24-hour business center
- Sauna
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Outdoor pool
- Coffee shop or café
- Wedding services
- Nightclub
- Year Built 2008
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Kitchenette
- Snack bar/deli
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( 9.95 USD per day )
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Designer toiletries
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Climate control
- Kitchenette
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Satellite TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Room service
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Stovetop
- Espresso maker
Spa Services
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 12
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is noon
Pets allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 2, Pet maximum weight in lb is 25
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 9.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 36 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 250 per accommodation, per stay
- Deposit: USD 150.00 per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 35 per night