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China's New Rulers: The Path to Power
As in the past, personal loyalties and competition among political factions were central to the selection of these men. But conflict was muted by a consensus in the upper ranks that the Party organization could not survive another fierce conflict similar to the struggles over ideology that took place during the Mao years, or the kinds of sudden purges that characterized Deng's leadership. The conflict over succession was also constrained by a balance of power among the factions. For all his apparent dominance and self-promotion, Jiang Zemin was relatively weak when compared with Mao and Deng. Both of these men named their successors (several times, in fact). Jiang was not able to dictate unilaterally who would get a single seat on the Politburo.
The decisions on who would be members of the Standing Committee and the Politburo (and other important assignments, such as positions in the CCP Secretariat) were made jointly by a few top leaders, among them not only Jiang but the second-ranking Party leader Li Peng and Jiang's political tactician Zeng Qinghong. They in turn were attentive to what the Party calls "public opinion," a phrase that refers to the views of the two or three hundred high Party officials around the country. No matter how strong a candidate's backing by one faction or another or how favorable his image within the Party, he could not be promoted without a good rating from the Organization Department on such qualities as ideological probity, loyalty to the Party, attitude toward work, and ability to mobilize others. And as Zong's materials show, the Organization Department's research is probing and its assessments are often acute.
Still, personal conflicts became much more intense during the past two years. Up to the end Jiang fought to decisively influence the post-transition leadership, and tried to force his chief rival, Li Ruihuan, into retirement, an effort that will probably continue right up to the eve of the Party congress. There will be more disagreements as the new leadership haggles over the second-level cabinet and parliamentary appointments that are to be made next March. This may have been the first succession battle fought according to agreed-upon rules. But a battle it was, and one that is not over.
All the new leaders are the beneficiaries of a process of meritocratic winnowing that was initiated twenty years ago by Deng Xiaoping, who put into effect China's historic economic reforms. Deng sponsored the "four transformations" program, which aimed to produce Communist leaders who, as he put it, were "revolutionary, younger, more knowledgeable, and more specialized." In the early 1980s this program enhanced the careers of all the men and women who have now been chosen for membership in the new Politburo.
In response to Deng's campaign, senior officials throughout China during the early 1980s conducted a search for people of around forty with college educations, technical backgrounds, Party membership, and good administrative records. Deng tried to instill the principle of meritocracy within a Party system that had put a premium on political loyalty. In the arid northwestern province of Gansu, for example, the provincial Party secretary Song Ping found the young Hu Jintao working on the staff of the provincial construction commission. Impressed by his brightness and efficiency, he promoted Hu by several ranks to the position of deputy head of the commission. Such quick promotions were then, and still are, rare among China's bureaucrats, who are obsessed with seniority. The same kind of speeded-up selection advanced the career of Li Ruihuan, who was transferred from a mid-level job in the Youth League secretariat in Beijing to a vice-mayor's post in Tianjin. A similar story could be told about Wen Jiabao, Wu Bangguo, Luo Gan, Zeng Qinghong, and so on down the list of the new Politburo.
Still, identifying a pattern of promotion does not explain personal success in reaching the highest positions. In each case not only personal competence and ambition but also the luck of finding the right sponsors was crucial. Hu Jintao, for example, after serving briefly in the Communist Youth League in Beijing, accepted successive assignments as Party secretary of two of China's poorest provinces, Guizhou and Tibet. He left no strong record of accomplishment in either place—except that he declared martial law in Lhasa in March 1989, the first time that this had ever been done in the People's Republic of China. This set a precedent for the declaration of martial law in Beijing two months later.
Yet in 1992 Deng wanted to promote one person under fifty to the highest body as a way of showing that China's succession process was now reliable enough, and predictable enough, to include in the Politburo a young man with a long career ahead of him. He chose the forty-nine-year-old Hu. Until now it has not been clear why Hu was chosen from among several candidates, including the current premier designate, Wen Jiabao. Zong Hairen traces Hu's promotion to the influence of his mentor from Gansu, Song Ping, who in 1992 was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and, as head of the Organization Department, had an important voice in the selection of the new group of leaders.
What gave Song the chance to make the case for Hu was a relatively minor dispute over the appointment of a provincial official. One of the many changes planned by the Organization Department was the reassignment of the governor of the huge province of Sichuan, a man named Zhang Haoruo, to a position in Beijing where his rank would be lower than that of a colleague who had been governor of a smaller province. Zhang regarded this as an insult and refused the assignment. The four Party officials, including Song, who were responsible for arranging this and many other senior appointments in preparation for the imminent Party congress were furious at such insubordination, all the more so because it came so soon after the Tiananmen crisis, when many mid-level Party officials had disobeyed the Party leaders by supporting the pro-democracy demonstrators. Moreover, this was only a few months after a battle within the Party over military appointments, which raised questions about the loyalty to Deng Xiaoping of some of his most trusted supporters.
In this atmosphere, Song was able to emphasize Hu Jintao's record of never refusing an assignment from the Party and of willingness to serve in some of China's poorest and most difficult regions. The others agreed, hoping to send a message to the Party ranks about the supreme importance of loyalty. Hu's elevation to the PBSC ahead of his contemporaries made him the presumptive successor to Jiang Zemin.
In the decade since, Hu has not exercised much real authority. What he has done, however—and it is a remarkable achievement in light of the troubled history of the People's Republic—is to survive. For ten years he offended no one: he did not grab prematurely for power; he deferred not only to those above him but to those below; and he allowed no distance to open between himself and Jiang Zemin. When arrangements for the 2002 power succession began to be seriously discussed in 2000, Hu was still there, and nothing has happened to change that position.
If Hu's rise to power looks like a matter of careful, quiet progress upward, Jiang's retirement from the posts Hu now inherits has aroused more controversy, suggesting how fragile Party norms and institutions can still be. Much has been written in the Western press about Jiang's desire to hold on to power, but it has not been well understood how limited his choices have been. Jiang, who is now seventy-six, has already served two and a half terms as general secretary. In 1997, as part of a successful attempt to get rid of a senior colleague, Qiao Shi, who threatened his power, Jiang arranged for a respected retired official to propose that central leaders should not accept reappointment after the age of seventy—except Jiang himself who, at seventy-one, would be, as he then promised, the only exception. This established an informal norm that Politburo leaders over the age of seventy should not stand again for their posts. According to highly publicized reports, Jiang considered trying to violate this understanding; but we doubt these reports are true. In any case, the consensus for an orderly succession was too strong for his colleagues to support Jiang for another term as Party secretary. And the national constitution limits the state president to two terms, which Jiang has had.
The only ambiguity that might have allowed him to continue in a powerful position concerned the chairmanship of the Central Military Commission, in effect the civilian commander of the military forces, a post for which there are no rules governing succession. Mao held it until he died, and Deng gave it up voluntarily two years after his retirement in 1987 from all his other high posts, after having used it as the base from which he intervened in Party politics during the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. Had Jiang been able to keep the military chairmanship, he might have occupied a position analogous to Deng's, and might have been able to exercise veto power over the Fourth Generation's decisions on extremely sensitive matters such as domestic political reform and policy toward Taiwan.
Some of Jiang's supporters within the military commission and elsewhere in the Party made a pitch for him to stay on, on the grounds that his leadership was indispensable at a time of turbulent change. But others in high places argued that Jiang's promise to retire in 2002 made no sense if he did not retire from all his posts. They pointed out that there was no international or domestic crisis that made him indispensable and that Hu Jintao was well prepared to take over as the top leader. Moreover, if Jiang stayed on in some powerful capacity, the Party would have had to arrange a parallel post at least for Li Peng, whose seniority and prestige within the Party were approximately equal to Jiang's. If Jiang and Li Peng could have this privilege, what would stop other retired leaders who had for years stayed out of politics from reinserting themselves into policy debates? Such a sequence of events would make it look as if the Party was not self-confident or united enough to carry out a normal transition of power, and would make Jiang look ridiculous. The members of the Politburo arrived at a consensus that they would not revert to a less orderly period in CCP politics.
Starting in mid-2002, parts of the press controlled by the army and by the Party published stories celebrating Jiang's "unique" leadership abilities and calling attention to the historic importance of his theories on Party rule. Much was said about his having provided a new social basis for party rule with his theory of the "Three Represents"—advanced productive forces, advanced culture, and the broad masses of the people, each of which, he held, should be a central concern of national policy. This doctrine was said to be new in its evident appeal to the educated, business-minded middle classes. The attention given to Jiang's theory was widely interpreted in the West as a sign that he was going to stay in office.4 The opposite was true. The Propaganda Department was merely giving Jiang a resounding send-off.
Closely linked to the issue of Jiang's "full retirement" was the issue of whether Li Ruihuan could continue to serve in the Standing Committee. As the fourth-ranking member of the outgoing leadership, but eligible to continue in office because he is under seventy, Li was the most vocal advocate of Jiang's leaving all his posts and for the promotion of Hu Jintao to all three top posts. Li even told some associates that he would quit his own position on the PBSC and refuse assignment as parliamentary chairman if Jiang stayed on as chairman of the military commission. This would have put additional pressure on Jiang, because Li's retiring in protest at sixty-eight would have concentrated unfavorable attention on Jiang's attempts to hold on to office at seventy-six.
In speeches within Party circles that were never made public, Li frequently criticized Jiang's showy, egoistic leadership style and lack of practical achievements. He advocated opening the Party to greater scrutiny by the people. The relations between the two men grew so cold that they arranged to time their trips out of town so as to avoid attending the same PBSC meetings.
If Jiang had to leave office, he wanted his rival to go too. This was not just a matter of personalities. If the relatively liberal Li won another term, he would be in a position to undermine Jiang's historical image and to criticize his record. Some in Jiang's camp suggested the importance of a "complete transition," meaning that everyone from the Third Generation, including Li, should retire. But the proposal fell flat. Li is popular and healthy, and he is under seventy, younger than the age limit that, as all the leaders know, was proposed as part of a scheme by Jiang to get rid of one of his rivals. Unless Jiang can find a way to destroy Li's candidacy at the last moment, Li's grip on another term is secure.
While these issues were being decided during the past two years, the rest of the Politburo's Standing Committee gradually took shape. Wen Jiabao, Wu Bangguo, Luo Gan, and Zeng Qinghong were given specific slots in the list of candidates, partly because of their qualifications and partly thanks to the sponsorship of outgoing leaders.
Wen Jiabao's appointment as premier was arranged by the outgoing premier, Zhu Rongji. When he took office as premier in 1998, Zhu gave Wen the most important and also the toughest responsibilities of any of his vice-premiers, including rural affairs, poverty relief, flood control, reforestation, development planning, and financial affairs. This was excellent training for the premiership, in contrast to the frustrating, dead-end responsibilities for running heavy industry and presiding over state enterprise reform that Zhu assigned to Wen's competitor, Wu Bangguo. In fact Wu had been assigned to Zhu Rongji's cabinet with the backing of Jiang Zemin. At a Politburo meeting in autumn 2000, Zhu Rongji announced his view that Wen Jiabao was the most capable official to succeed him. No one was in a position to challenge his assessment. Wu Bangguo received the consolation prize of the fourth place on the Standing Committee and chairmanship of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
The hold of Luo Gan, the specialist in security, on the fifth PBSC seat was firm as early as fall 1997. At that time Li Peng, as the second-ranking Party leader, proposed that Luo become secretary of the Party's Political and Legal Affairs Committee, which coordinates the work of all Party and state security agencies. Since he was already the state official in charge of these agencies, Luo's control over the security forces, courts, and prison systems of China through both state and Party channels thus became complete. From then on he had no competitor for the position on the PBSC that is concerned with security.
By contrast, the rise to the top of Jiang's protégé Zeng Qinghong appeared more sudden. But in fact it was as smooth as those of Wen and Luo. The son of a Party elder, Zeng grew up in the inner Party milieu dominated by Mao, and he early developed impressive Machiavellian skills. He came into contact with Jiang by luck, having requested in 1984 a transfer to Shanghai to escape the stultifying politics of Beijing. When Jiang became Party secretary there in 1987 he was impressed by Zeng's skills. Jiang brought Zeng back to Beijing with him after 1989 because of Zeng's connections and talent for political intrigue. In three separate purges in the 1990s, which are recounted in dramatic detail in Disidai, Zeng brought about the fall of rivals to Jiang's authority. Rumors that Jiang kept trying to promote Zeng and failed were not true. Zeng's failure to rise more swiftly in the hierarchy reflected his preference for quiet power over formal position. In late 2000 as arrangements for the sixteenth Party Congress began to be seriously discussed, Zeng's name was immediately considered, and his appointment was virtually certain by late 2001.
By the early summer of 2002, the top six positions were settled. Wen and Zeng even appeared at a major Party meeting alongside Hu in June, without any of the outgoing leadership in attendance. This was as clear a sign of consensus as white smoke from the Vatican.
One implication of the documents on which Zong's book is based is that the authoritarian Chinese political system has proven resilient in the thirteen years since the Tiananmen protests. From the viewpoint of the elite, which is expressed in Zong's book, the Party has been able to bring to power a cadre of dedicated, competent leaders who have authority over the bureaucracy and present an at least outwardly united front. The top Party leaders have been able to resolve the most difficult problem that faces an authoritarian regime, succession. In that sense, the system worked. But the implications for the regime's long-term prospects are less clear. Hu Jintao has so far been no more than a careful, competent careerist. Lacking a dominant figure, the new leadership can function effectively only by consensus, while its members are divided by both their ambitions and their policy leanings.
Li Ruihuan helped bring Hu Jintao to power, and is too old to serve another term after 2007. He will not challenge Hu directly; but he wants to see some changes in the way China is governed, including some relaxation of Party control, that Hu may be reluctant to accept. Zeng Qinghong, for his part, has accumulated great influence over the last five years as Jiang Zemin's chief of political staff, manager of his ideological campaigns, supervisor of the Party's high-level appointments and promotions, director of the all-knowing Party Central Office, and godfather of the clique of "princelings." His ambitions have no self-imposed limit. Disidai only hints at his views on political reform. It never pays for Chinese leaders to put themselves on record in such matters before they start to act. But Zong Hairen believes that if Zeng thought it was necessary, either for China's or for his own interests, he would open the way to a free press and to limited multi-party competition. He would, Zong thinks, be willing to admit that the Party did wrong in suppressing the Tiananmen demonstrations on June 4, 1989. He would combine such measures, however, with a commitment to elite rule and to maintaining social order, and should not be seen as an advocate of Western-style democracy.
Luo Gan, however, is a powerful impediment to any weakening of the authoritarian state. Although an advocate of modern methods of admin- istration, he is politically conservative. His involvement in the Tiananmen repression and his personal loyalty to Li Peng guarantee that he would resist any reversal of the Party's position justifying its violence on June 4.
The new regime also faces economic and social strains—inefficient state enterprises, stagnant rural incomes, demonstrations by workers and pensioners, devastating damage to the environment. The new leaders discussed all these problems in speeches and other statements that the Organization Department excerpted for their investigation reports. We shall consider their views on these and other questions in a second article.
—August 29, 2002; this is the first of two articles.
See, for example, Eric Eckholm, "China's President May Be Reluctant to Cede His Power," The New York Times, July 13, 2002; Charles Hutzler, "A Twist in China's Succession Script," The Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2002; John Pomfret, "Chinese Leader Throws a Curve: Jiang's Reluctance to Retire Could Spark Power Struggle," The Washington Post, July 21, 2002.↩
See, for example, Eric Eckholm, "China's President May Be Reluctant to Cede His Power," The New York Times, July 13, 2002; Charles Hutzler, "A Twist in China's Succession Script," The Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2002; John Pomfret, "Chinese Leader Throws a Curve: Jiang's Reluctance to Retire Could Spark Power Struggle," The Washington Post, July 21, 2002.↩

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A cross between "Rachel Getting Married" and "Downton Abbey," this delectable family drama even stars "Abbey's" Elizabeth McGovern in a similar role as the self-possessed matriarch of an English country manor with marriage-age daughters. Set in the early 1930s, the film zeroes in on a day when the eldest girl (Felicity Jones, prominently featured at last year's Mostly British) is to be married. Her dilemma: She's in love with someone else. To make matters worse that certain someone shows up for the nuptials, and in flashbacks we see the two meeting the previous summer and becoming smitten. Director Donald Rice handles all this with an assurance unusual for a first- time helmer.
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I skimmed the nicely designed PDF about Babyproofing Your Marriage and learned within 30 seconds that the key to that book is "The Five Minute Fix" which means blowing, um, your husband's mind (wink wink) with generosity, so that he will feel appreciated and have a positive attitude toward household responsibilities. Ok, now you don't need to read that one. Next…
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Looking at Martin-Wilbourn Partners Two Years Later
by Kate Knable
Posted 10/8/2012 12:00 am
Updated 2 years ago
It's been more than two years since five ad agency veterans ditched Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods to create agency Martin-Wilbourn Partners LLC.
The group that left in May 2010 to form Martin-Wilbourn included ex-CJRW CEO David Martin and CJRW cohorts Mitch Chandler, Andrew Moreau, Mac Stroud and Leslie Heizman, as well as retired Alltel communications executive Randy Wilbourn and Steve Burnett, founder of the Burnett Group in New York. Linda Beene, former director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education, joined the firm shortly thereafter.
Partners Martin and Wilbourn headed the young Little Rock company. The others, all with more than 20 years of experience in their areas of expertise, served as senior vice presidents.
The benefits of starting out with such an experienced staff included a smooth beginning. "We really didn't miss a beat at any point of the startup," Martin said.
People Moves
Martin, who is president and CEO, and Wilbourn, who is chairman, still own the company. Beene and Burnett remain senior vice presidents, but much of the marketing and communications agency's high-profile founding group has scattered. In every case, they were hired away by clients of Martin-Wilbourn.
Heizman left just last month to take a job as director of business development at Arkansas Surgical Hospital in North Little Rock.
The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce hired Chandler to replace Gary Newton as its chief operating officer in August.
In January, Stroud joined Goodwill Industries of Arkansas in Little Rock as vice president of human resources. And Moreau began working as senior director of corporate communications in June 2011 for Life & Specialty Ventures of Little Rock.
"They all left for career improvements. When people have opportunities that are better, all you can do is smile," Randy Wilbourn said.
Martin-Wilbourn hasn't exactly replaced the heavyweights it's lost. The company's early leadership staffing approach, described by an observer as "all chiefs and no Indians," has changed some, Wilbourn said. The company is now down to two senior VPs.
But the firm is still going strong, Martin said, with a staff of 20, 20 ongoing client relationships and more than 40 total clients over the past two years.
New employees include Brent Gambill, vice president and director of digital and social media, who came to the company from Sirius XM Radio in Washington, D.C. Another is COO Nathan Joblin, who came from the Social Venture Network in San Francisco. Both are Arkansans.
From Alltel to Today
Martin left CJRW, he said, because his management philosophies, including those in regard to digital marketing, differed from those of other CJRW leaders.
Martin and Wilbourn had worked together previously at former Little Rock telecom Alltel. Their approach to measurable, deeply researched marketing strategies stems from their Alltel days.
Early on in Wilbourn's career, predecessors to the current cellphones cost $2,000 to install in cars, and average phone bills for those car phones were $1,500 a month, Wilbourn said.
Yet Alltel asked him to sell cellphones, and Wilbourn saw the market evolve from one with cellphones unavailable to the masses to the current climate of cellphone ubiquity. "We had both been trained … [to] take advantage of the changes," Wilbourn said.
Advertising has changed drastically in the past 10 years, he said. Applying experience from changes in cellphone marketing, Martin-Wilbourn is making recent innovations, like social media, integral to clients' messaging.
The company focuses less on website design and programming and more on communicating client messages to achieve specific goals, Martin said. While some ad agencies have struggled to determine how well social media and other digital tools for marketing pay financially, Martin said his firm was taking advantage — for clients — of how measurable use of such marketing is.
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Chapter 1
Reliable and affordable energy is a cornerstone of modern life. We use energy, mostly in the form of gasoline derived from crude oil, to power the vehicles that ferry us to work and play. Electricity from coal, natural gas, nuclear or wind power provides us with light, powered appliances, heating and cooling. And some sources of energy are used as chemical feedstocks to make other products, an industry in which Texas is a world leader. Our standard of living, then, depends upon readily available sources of energy.
Energy use historically has been tied to population and economic growth. Texas' population is expected to continue to increase for decades to come, and our economic growth will depend on the availability of energy.
For much of the twentieth century, Texas' economy was tied to the oil and gas industry, which accounted for more than one-quarter of the gross state product at the height of the oil boom in the early 1980s. Tax revenues from energy production and use, particularly oil and gas, have long contributed a significant share of state revenues; at their peak in the early 1980s, tax revenues from oil and gas alone accounted for more than a quarter of all state revenue. Though the state's economy has diversified over the last 25 years, and the share of our economy accounted for by oil and gas has declined, the industry has seen a recent resurgence due to rising oil and gas prices and remains a major component of the Texas economy and contributor to the state's fiscal coffers.
Diversifying Our Energy Portfolio
Texas, like most of the world, still relies on fossil fuels to meet most of its energy needs. Resources such as oil, gas and coal have been relatively abundant and inexpensive. And all of these fossil fuels benefit from an energy infrastructure developed over decades to make use of them. Unfortunately, these fuels are not without drawbacks.
Texas and the U.S. as a whole are increasingly reliant on foreign imports to meet our petroleum needs. While neighboring countries Canada and Mexico are the largest and fourth largest sources, respectively, of U.S. oil imports, much of the world's reserves of oil and gas are found in politically unstable regions of the world, and in some cases are controlled by governments hostile to the U.S.
Furthermore, burning fossil fuels can have an environmental impact. Our government established policies decades ago that have ameliorated some of the air and water quality problems associated with the use of fossil fuels. A growing environmental concern today, however, relates to unregulated "greenhouse gas" emissions. Congress is debating plans that would limit such emissions, especially of carbon dioxide. Indeed, major financiers in the U.S. are working now to set up markets to trade carbon emission permits in the event that new laws are enacted.
The possibility of such policies, combined with rising oil and gas prices, has prompted a wave of investment in alternative energy sources, as well as new technologies to reduce the negative consequences of fossil fuels. Wind and solar power, biofuels and other renewable resources are increasingly important. And recently revised federal regulations have renewed interest in nuclear power.
Fortunately, Texas has the resources, both natural and human, to lead the way in developing new sources of energy. We have an abundance of renewable and clean fuel sources, including the winds of the Panhandle, West Texas and the Gulf Coast; the sunlight of West Texas; the forests of East Texas; uranium in South Texas that is mined and then enriched for use in nuclear reactors; and land that might be used to grow crops for the next generation of ethanol and other biofuels.
Thanks to its history as a leading energy producer, Texas has an abundance of technical, legal, financial and research expertise that can be deployed to meet the challenges of providing energy for its growing population and economy.
Texas is uniquely positioned to lead the way in developing new technologies that will allow us to use fossil fuels in a more efficient, environmentally friendly manner; to make the technological advances necessary to make better use of our abundant renewable resources; and to reduce the demand for energy through efficiency gains.
In fact, Texas is already making progress in the transition from traditional fossil fuels. Texas, for example, is the nation's leader in installed wind capacity, though wind still generates less than three percent of the state's electricity. We also are the nation's leading producer of biodiesel. And two of the first new commercial nuclear applications in decades are for projects to be built in Texas.
About This Report
Comptroller staff conducted exhaustive research on the existing and potential resources Texas can employ to meet its energy demands. We talked to scores of individuals in the energy sector; visited mines, power plants, research centers and control rooms; and studied thousands of research reports.
One thing we heard repeatedly is that there is no single solution to meeting our energy needs. And almost everyone seems to agree that Texas – and the rest of the world, for that matter – will have to rely on an array of resources to meet those needs. This new energy portfolio will include renewable resources, nuclear power, and traditional fossil fuels linked with new technologies to reduce their environmental impact.
It is important to remember, however, that there are always tradeoffs to be considered in energy policy. The fuels we have relied on for decades, despite recent increases in the cost of oil and gas, will continue to be the dominant means to meet specific energy needs. Our current energy infrastructure is designed to take advantage of them. Any policies that discourage their use, directly or indirectly, will likely entail costs to taxpayers and consumers.
This report is intended to be a resource for policymakers as they consider such tradeoffs. It provides an overview of a variety of energy sources that Texas can use to meet its future energy demands, with a fact-based assessment of each. Our report frames the critical issues and presents the objective information Texans will need to make informed choices about one of the most important issues facing the state.
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James Woods plays the charismatic, supremely self-confident attorney Sebastian Stark, who brings his cutthroat style to the Los Angeles DA's high-profile crime unit after years spent cutting a wide swath as a defense attorney. Leading a team of new young lawyers, this shark now preys on the notorious among the city's rich and powerful.See the premiere September 21. watch
Having weathered a challenging but successful first year as the head of the Los Angeles District Attorney's High Profile Crime Unit, Sebastian has had the added good fortune of persuading the ambitious, accomplished and recently displaced former D.A., Jessica Devlin, to revisit her glory days as a trial attorney by becoming a senior member of his team. watch
Some crime shows pull you in with gunplay and explosions, others with snappy dialogue between bantering buddies. On The Killing, AMC's compelling new mystery, it's the faces that hook you. Whether they're despairing, full of rage, menacing or intensely haunting as in the case of Sarah Linden, played by the superb Mireille Enos — just try to turn away.
With a quiet authority and obsessive dedication to the job, Detective Linden is perhaps the most multilayered and intriguing female cop since Helen Mirren's Jane Tennison on Prime Suspect. The demanding role was exceedingly difficult to cast. "A mild panic had set in about ever finding the right actress," recalls exec producer Veena Sud...
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Pros: All. This has everything you need for six devices. I have my TV, Panasonic Audio, Panasoic Blu-Ray, Tivo, Roku, and I plan on putting my LIRC for my PC on this in the future. Light up is easy with one switch to illuminate. My son and gf are having no issue after the initial shallow dive to use it.
Cons: Hmmm... maybe more devices? It might be cool to have 8 or more.
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Cons: The edges are a little sharp and my buddy is going to sand them down. The buttons are all about the same shape and size so it's a little more difficult to use without looking at it.
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Cons: Not many cons.
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May 1, 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY – During a press conference on May 1 at the FFA Convention, the Oklahoma Farm Bureau and Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma recognized members of the Hobart FFA and 4-H for donating livestock and money to the Beef for Backpacks project. The Oklahoma Youth Expo, in partnership with the Diamond Hats, donated livestock and money to the Beef for Backpacks project.
The Hobart youth received a $500 cash award from the Diamond Hats, a group of women leaders dedicated to improving the lives of Oklahoma's rural youth through the livestock industry. Each year, they provide valuable scholarships for Oklahoma's youth and this year sponsored a contest for FFA and 4-H groups that donated the most money to the Beef for Backpacks project.
"We are proud of the leadership exhibited by the Hobart youth and their strong desire to help others," said Monica Wilke, executive director of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau and Oklahoma's Farming and Ranching Foundation. Wilke is also a member of the Diamond Hats.
"I especially want to applaud the Diamond Hats for their creative idea of sponsoring a contest promoting the Beef for Backpacks project," Wilke said.
The Beef for Backpacks project provides protein sticks for the Regional Food Bank's Food for Kids Program. Every weekend, the protein sticks are distributed into backpacks to help meet the dietary needs of chronically hungry children. The project is a joint effort with the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, Oklahoma's Farming and Ranching Foundation, Oklahoma Beef Council, OSU's Food and Agricultural Products Center, Oklahoma Pork Council, Ralph's Meat Co. in Perkins and Chickasha Meats.
The project has been expanded to include pork and to date, more than 55 head of livestock have been donated to the project.
In Oklahoma, one in four children struggles with hunger every day. Through the Food for Kids Backpack Program, children receive kid-friendly, nutritious food over the weekend and school holidays. Last year, more than 13,500 chronically-hungry elementary school children benefited from the program.
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Climate change hysteria gets another drubbing
The loud mouthed certainties of the crude global warmists are now apparent for all to see. Even when you look at the writing of top scientists, you see there is far less certainty than is often claimed- 18 May 2014
Time to leave: British Labour grandee informs countryfolk
It is increasingly likely that by 2015 Britain will have a left-wing government with an undiminished appetite for people-harming experiments that are imposed in an arbitrary way. The flooding of Somerset is just the beginning- 3 February 2014
Climate alarmist and Hockeystick inventor gets in hot water after more hot air
Michael Mann called a fellow scientist, but climate sceptic, "anti-Science" after her Congressional Testimony, but the tables have been turned on him in spectacular fashion- 21 January 2014
Cold comfort on global warming
Even in the unlikely event that global warming turns out to be a problem, a UN treaty cannot possibly be the way to solve it- 19 January 2014
Debating "global warming". What a concept...
Amazing as it may sound, Britain may just be about to start a proper debate on climate change. This shouldn't be news, but given the fanaticism of the warmist lobby, it is...- 12 September 2013
Westminster's climate change clash of heads...
GWPF's Lord Lawson is to meet with the Royal Society after the two exchanged e-mails over their respective positions on climate change- 25 March 2013
Ten good reasons not to worry about polar bears
Some activists are calling 2013 the Year of the Polar Bear. Here are 10 good reasons not to worry so much- 14 March 2013
Climategate 3.0?
The anonymous leaker responsible for 'Climategate' and 'Climategate 2.0' has released an email which many believe will spark 'Climategate 3.0'- 13 March 2013
Green agenda in meltdown
For the green agenda it seems a political tipping point has been reached – and it's the mass media's credibility, not the Arctic, that's in meltdown- 6 March 2013
Climate consensus in free-fall
The trenches of anthropogenic global warming are now mostly left populated by green ideologues, a left-dominated media, and bureaucrats who are usually the last to grasp reality- 20 February 2013
Global warming just isn't happening: Official
We ought to start expecting our governments to abandon doomsday scenarios in the guise of popular science in favour of old-fashioned, 'under-the-microscope', empirical science- 17 January 2013
Greenpeace anti-coal stance will "slash jobs"
Does Greenpeace's war on coal have some nasty unintended consequences?- 15 January 2013
Inconvenient truths: Met Office buried global warming data
The Met Office has been criticised for releasing information on Christmas Eve, without a press release, that shows that global warming has all but ceased- 9 January 2013
Thatcherite thumps Cameroon (figuratively, of course)
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They had discovered the remains of a toddler who authorities believed to be 18-month-old Lana Bailey, the fourth victim of a grisly homicide discovered May 6 at 3197 Georgia Road, west of Ottawa.
"Death is always tough. And as much as you think you're prepared for it, the death of an 18-month-old takes a toll on you," Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards said Monday afternoon. "Everyone was very quiet [when the remains were discovered]. It was a solemn moment."
Richards said the discovery was the culmination of an exhausting week for officers in his department, as well as those from the numerous law enforcement agencies that had been involved in a massive search for the missing toddler after three adult bodies were discovered May 6 and May 7 on the Georgia Road property.
"Everyone was working extra shifts," Richards said of the 64 men and women in his department. "Even on their days off, they were coming in to man the phones, investigate leads and help with the search."
"So, this was hard on everyone," Richards said, who added that many of the people involved in the massive search were parents themselves.
The intense investigation and exhaustive search also took a toll on the sheriff. Richards said he worked 38 hours over a two-day span when the bodies were first discovered, and then pulled another 30-hour shift after a brief rest. The sheriff looked tired but more relaxed Monday afternoon than he had in several days.
Everyone is "holding up well," Richards said of himself and his staff.
The bodies discovered Monday and Tuesday were those of Lana's mother, Kaylie Bailey, 21, Andrew Stout, 30, and Steven White, 31, Richards told reporters Wednesday during a press conference. Kaylie Bailey and her daughter were reported missing May 3. Stout and White reportedly hadn't been seen since April 25.
Kyle Flack, the 27-year-old man who stands accused of the killings, made his first court appearance with his Topeka defense attorney Ronald Evans at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Franklin County District Court, 301 S. Main St., Ottawa. He is charged with two counts of capital murder, four counts of murder in the first degree, one count of rape and one count of criminal possession of a firearm. Stephen Hunting, Franklin County attorney, filed the charges against Flack Friday afternoon. The capital murder charges are eligible for the death penalty. Hunting said Friday he has not yet made a determination if he would seek the death penalty if Flack was convicted of the capital murder crimes.
Flack had been living in a modular home on the property with Stout and White. Kaylie Bailey and Stout were said to be in a relationship.
On Monday, District Judge Thomas Sachse set Flack's next court appearance — a status conference — for 1:15 p.m. July 8 in the west courtroom in the Franklin County District Court building. The judge said the date for Flack's preliminary examination would be set at the status conference.
Deputy's initiative
On the last scheduled day of the massive search — with more than 150 law enforcement officers scouring the countryside — an Osage County deputy was conducting a search in rural Osage County about 6 p.m. Saturday when he discovered some items that he thought were related to the homicide investigation, Richards told reporters at a press conference Sunday afternoon in front of his office at 305 S. Main St., Ottawa.
"We were contacted, and we sent a team of investigators out to that location, and we confirmed that the items that were located there were believed to be connected to a the homicide case," Richards said. "A follow-up search was done in that area and about 10 p.m. we discovered and recovered a body that we believe to be that of Lana Leigh Bailey."
The deputy was searching an area in Osage County where he is responsible for paroling, because he thought that should be a targeted area, Richards said.
"We didn't have any tips or anything that led us there," Richards said. "This was an initiative of a deputy and is good police work. And he recovered some items."
Richards declined to identify the deputy, the items he collected or the location where the remains were found.
"Anything that we find out there is going to be considered evidence and it is an ongoing investigation," the sheriff said Sunday. "Those things will come up in court, and right now I can't discuss what [items the deputy found]. This was just good police work by a sheriff's deputy."
Laurie Dunn, Osage County sheriff, also declined to identify the deputy Monday, nor would she give the location where the remains were discovered. The Franklin County and Osage County sheriffs were identifying the site simply as "rural Osage County."
Though she wouldn't identify the deputy, Dunn said he would be receiving a commendation.
Seeking closure
Richards said Monday afternoon he had not yet received a positive identification for the remains.
"We're still waiting for the definitive results from forensics," he said.
Richards said Sunday the discovery of what is presumed to be Lana's remains has brought some closure for the family and the men and women who were on the search teams.
"It means a lot to the family," Richards said. "They need to have this so they can move on. They can't deal with something as long as they don't have any type of closure. This helps to bring some closure to them.
"It also helps to bring closure to all this investigative team. This is something that has been mentioned before," Richards said. "This is personal for all of us as well. Any type of crime such as this takes an emotional toll — especially when it's a child."
The sheriff said the investigative team needed to find Lana to achieve closure and move on to the next aspect of the investigation.
Richards said Monday afternoon the law enforcement probe of the case would continue.
"We need to continue to follow up on all the tips we have received," Richards said, adding that as of Saturday the department had received more than 400 tips. "Just because we have charged someone with the crime, that doesn't mean the investigation ends. We need to make sure we are looking into every lead."
Authorities have not mentioned any other suspects in the case, and Richards said Monday he would not discuss the cause of death, a possible motive or any of the evidence collected in the case. He declined to discuss if Flack was being held in solitary confinement or was on suicide watch at the Franklin County Jail.
"All I will say is that he is in our jail," Richards said.
While Richards declined to discuss Flack, he did offer one more comment Monday afternoon about the investigators who recovered the child's remains Saturday night.
"When we were finished, everyone wanted to hurry home and hug their kids," he said.


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Last month, Tom Snyder took viewers of his show, Tom Snyder, on a two-bit tour of NBC studios in Burbank. He led us into the NBC gift shop; he spoke with his always-thrilling bitterness about how shabbily NBC treated him when they dumped his Tomorrow show for Late Night With David Letterman in 1982; he barged in on Jay Leno shortly before a taping of The Tonight Show, and it really looked as if one of Leno's producers was going to sock poor Snyder in the jaw. In short, great television. Snyder eventually ended up on the rehearsal set of the new Later With Greg Kinnear, and when he and Kinnear met, you could just feel the...well, not exactly electricity. What's the word-loathing? Instant, mutual contempt? Here was Snyder, 57, silver-haired and jowly, braying about Kinnear's expensive-looking desk and chair, as if the guy should feel guilty about landing a job on a big network. And there was Kinnear, 30 '' the smirkmeister,'' as his predecessor, Bob Costas, kiddingly dubbed him edging away from the now-confined-to-cable Snyder, as if this aging loser was going to put a hoodoo curse on him.
Kinnear should show more respect for his elders, because Snyder is using the medium with an ease that's just about perfect. There are those among us who find great, giggly solace after a hard day when we tune in and hear Tom say ultra-Tom stuff like, ''Good evening, folks, T.S. here with the colorcast watch the pictures as they fly through the air.'' Snyder operates in a broadcast world of his own, some limbo combination of '70s earnestness and '90s weariness; it's a blessed relief to see a middle-aged man on television who isn't trying to pass for a 20-year-old hipster. Snyder does simple, corny, human things: He shows us snapshots of a train trip he took to visit his granddaughter; he gets steamed at a rude Tom Arnold (''Watch his new show or not, I don't care,'' says Snyder in closing); he shamelessly sings the praises of the Burbank eatery the Smoke House, ''the official restaurant of the colorcast.'' Tom Snyder is a private club that anyone with an itchy remote- control finger can join.
Most nights, Snyder has to settle for small-name celebrity guests and incoherent phone-in callers. When he's bored, he can begin aiming his chatter just off stage, talking to a stagehand or producer about the martini he's looking forward to after the show. But even Snyder's blather exerts a fascinating pull: He recently spent about five minutes at the top of a show telling us of a nightmare he'd had about hosting a morning talk show ''with a woman named Rachel. I'm hatin' it because all we do is makeovers. '' No talker on TV is as unbuttoned as Snyder; I'd give him an Emmy just for the way he'll go to a commercial lip-synching to Frank Sinatra's recording of ''Come Fly With Me.''
One big reason Snyder is enjoyable is that everything he does is free of the debilitating irony and self-consciousness that cripples so much pop culture these days. By contrast, Kinnear is constantly on the verge of allowing his raised-eyebrow knowingness to get the best of him. He came to prominence making clever fun of daytime gabfests on the E! channel's Talk Soup. Now in the soup himself, Kinnear knows just how goofy a talk show can be, and this awareness serves him well. Although his version of Later includes a hee-hawing studio audience, it has retained a certain efficient intimacy: brief opening remarks; some funny, Talk Soup-style clips called ''Media Bites''; one guest; a half hour and he's outta there.
It's a good formula that Kinnear uses to his advantage. His biggest liability is his ridiculously small desk, a surfboard-shaped wedge of wood that barely separates him from his guest. So far, Kinnear's conversational skills are hobbled by banal archness: ''Tell me,'' he said to Martin Short, ''how complicated a person is Ed Grimley?''
Still, Kinnear certainly deserves his shot at the big time. Snyder's CNBC exile, however, is troublesome. It's shameful that a broadcaster as consistently entertaining and professional as ol' Tom be relegated to the same low-rated network as the gravely self-absorbed Dick Cavett, the deeply tongue-tied Daisy Fuentes, and that Real Personal sexual-behavior-show guy, Bob Berkowitz, who basically does a Tom Snyder impersonation every night of his life. (Snyder has referred to him on the air as ''Robert 'How Do You Feel About Your Penis' Berkowitz.'') One can only hope that the rumors about Snyder taking over the post-Letterman slot on CBS are true, and that Tom, his martinis, and his colorcast will show these whippersnappers a thing or two. Tom Snyder: A


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|4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication;
|4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.
|5 and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations."
|5 This title was written on her forehead: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
|6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her I marveled greatly.
|6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.
|7 But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
|7 Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns.
|8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition; and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
|8 The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.
|9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;
|9 "This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits.
|10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes he must remain only a little while.
|10 They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for a little while.
|11 As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to perdition.
|11 The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.
|12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.
|12 "The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast.
|13 These are of one mind and give over their power and authority to the beast;
|13 They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast.
|14 they will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful."
|14 They will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings--and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers."
|Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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The Dragon Theatre
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Redwood City, CA 94063
Telephone: 650.493.2006
Fax: 815.550.1241
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Press 1 Directions to the theatre
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Press 3 Executive Artistic Director Meredith Hagedorn
Press 4 Rentals coordinator
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Press 6 For information about Dragon's classes and workshops
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Meredith is the founder and Executive Producer of Dragon Productions Theatre Company has been a professional actor and director in regional theatres across the country for over twenty years and an acting teacher for all ages in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and now in the Bay Area. She began producing theatre in college and has been an acting & directing member of multiple theatre troupes across the country. Along with the many hats worn at Dragon, she also teaches teens and adults professional acting, marketing, and producing with her private coaching work.
Managing Director: Kimberly Wadycki firstname.lastname@example.com
Kimberly Wadycki graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree in political science. While pursuing her degree she was very active at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts - she was the founding producer of "On the Rocks," a series of student written, directed, and produced one-acts, sat on the Administrative Board of the Krannert Center Association for three years, and was the sole student campus representative on the search committee to hire the new Executive Director of the Krannert Center. After moving back to St. Louis, she was heavily involved with St. Louis Shakespeare and Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre where she worked as a Stage Manager, Board Member, and Production Manager. After a 6 year hiatus Kim has "un-retired" to become active with Dragon Productions Theatre.
Associate Director, 2nd Stages Program: Karen Altree Piemme email@example.com
Karen Altree Piemme is an accomplished director, actor, dramaturg, workshop facilitator and acting instructor, specializing in community access to the arts. Ms. Piemme spent 21 years with San Jose Repertory Theatre, where she was the Director of Outreach and Resident Dramaturg. She also served as the Director of the Red Ladder Theatre Company, the nationally-acclaimed, award-winning resident outreach company, which empowers disenfranchised populations in our community by helping them develop positive life-skills through the art form of theatre. Ms. Piemme is proud of the positive impact Red Ladder has had on the community as it works to meet the needs of the diverse populations the program serves. Through her expertise in the field, Ms. Piemme has been asked to mentor other artists through the process of creating their own programs based on Red Ladder's philosophy and methodology, and has successfully launched two other companies on this model. Ms. Piemme's facility for innovative program design has led her to develop a wide range of interactive arts programs which have been lauded by others in the field of arts education and have been replicated by theatres nationwide.
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Katherine Goldman, a Bay Area native and University of Southern California graduate, joined the Dragon family in August 2013. When not busy at the Dragon she works heartily as a teaching artist. She has taught drama, dance, music, tumbling, origami, and other arts-based classes to children, from toddlers to teens. Years of directing, choreographing, and music directing children has solidified her passion for arts education. She has worked, as a teacher or administratively, for many companies including TheatreWorks, California Shakespeare Theatre, Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, California Theatre Center, and others.
She is also a busy actor, having performed in a wide variety of musicals and plays. She's toured internationally with new works and throughout the West Coast performing Theatre for Youth tours. A recent tour of "Miss Nelson is Missing!" brought her from Washington state down to Las Vegas, bringing theater to thousands of school children in a two-month span. Other performance highlights include Cosette in "Les Miserables," Natalie in "All Shook Up," Fern in "Charlotte's Web," and working with Jason Robert Brown while studying at USC.
Company Manager: Linda Olbourne email@example.com
An accomplished stage manager, Linda enjoys being the administrative part of a creative team. Having worked in Bay Area theatre for over 13 years, she currently works for Dragon Productions to provide support to the staff, cast and crew each season.
Linda continues to work with several other theaters as an actor, assistant director and dresser while maintaining a day job in book publishing.
Rentals Coordinator: Sharnel Ross email@example.com
Inquiries about classes at the Dragon Theatre: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Building Goodness in April (BGiA) was founded as Christmas in April-Charlottesville in 1991. In 2007, a name and organization affiliation change was made to ensure that the Charlottesville community benefited as much as possible from the efforts of this organization. BGiA is managed independently by Darden students who have complete responsibility for all fundraising needs, community partnerships and home rehabilitation efforts. Meet our executive committee and steering committee.
Every year in April, BGiA volunteers rehabilitate homes in the Charlottesville community. Our mission is to rehabilitate the homes of low-income, elderly and disabled families. We keep people living in warmth, safety and independence to prevent homelessness and to revitalize our neighborhoods. We achieve this sustainable impact by partnering with individuals and businesses in the local community. Building Goodness in April is a committee within the Building Goodness Foundation, an organization powered by skilled volunteers from the construction trades and our community.
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The EMU Wraparound Project served clients from March 2009 to December 2010. The project was a community-based, collaborative program that used a strengths-based "wraparound" approach to support high-risk teen parents and their families in Washtenaw and Oakland Counties. Click on the items above to learn more about the project, learn about our partners, find links to related resources, or contact project staff. We hope that you find the information you are looking for.
October, 2010
This month, we were happy to invite our mentors and clients, and their families, to a Fall Outing! Read More.
August, 2010
Our clients have voiced their need to learn more about budgeting and financial management. To meetthis need, we partnered with the University of Michigan Credit Union to provide a budget workshop for our clients in both Washtenaw and Oakland counties.
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February, 2010
The EMU Wraparound Project is happy to welcome two new staff members! Due to prudent use of funds, we were able to reallocate monies to hire a much needed part-time wraparound facilitator for each county. Read More.


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text: 4.5 Desperate LovingA7x | 07/10/2012 | See all LovingA7x's reviews (4) The only positive thing that I have to say about this is that I received the earphones very quickly, the actual earphones themselves are a different story. When I received the earphones I used them to listen to my iPod on my way to work, by the end of a 20 minute bus journey the plastic had come away from the wires at the end of the earphones where you plug them into your iPod. And on my way home from work (I hadn't used them all day) the left earphone stopped working! And the quality of the sound was desperate to begin with! I would not advise anyone to buy these! Mine will be returned! Don't let the low price fool you!