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Bon week-end!
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Ken's Tropical Green Granule is a new generation starter feed produced with a sophisticated technological process based on low temperature/shear micro extrusion. This technology is a more gentle process allowing maximal nutrient retention and minimizing protein de-naturation. The high quality raw materials are mixed and pulverised before they undergo a micro-extrusion process at a low temperature and pressure. The production process, coupled with the raw material selection results in a feed easier to digest and softer than a traditional crumble or mini pellet. The improved digestive and metabolisable properties create better growth and lower FCR. Meanwhile the micro cutting results in more uniform particles and reduced dust. Special attention has been placed on achieving a slow sinking speed and increasing the diet stability without compromising attractability
Ken's Tropical Green Granule is formulated with a unique proprietary blend of algae giving each pellet a striking green color. The algae work in a matrix to ensure feed stability, aid digestion and act as a natural probiotic for the fry. Boosted with essential oils, designed to improve digestional health and performance, stabilize microbial environment and increases immune response and anti-oxidative capacities.
Ken's Tropical Green Granule has been designed to give juveniles the best start by assuring fast and efficient growth and low feed conversion under pre-growing conditions. Contains an increased level of multi marine proteins and improved attractability, protein/energy ration for fast-track growth and improved pre-growing economics.
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GUARANTEED ANALYSIS: Crude Protein 57.0% MIN., Lipids 15.0%MIN., Fiber .2%, Ash 10.0% MAX.
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I love these fish granules. They are the perfect size for my 1-3 month old Platy fry. Also, I like the fact that they sink so my snails and babies can graze later. I like it that the granules are not made by a huge company and has better ingredients than your regular foods that you buy, let's say at big chain pet store. My fish love these. Also, I love the price. You can buy a lesser quality and a smaller amount of food from a chain pet store or you can purchase this food in a handy zip lock, thick preservative bag with much more food, better ingredients and is better for the fish.
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I am very pleased with this food. My red wag platys, some of which are very young, love it, and they grow well on this food. My cory catfish also like it, I frequently see them grazing for the small granules and eating them. In my outdoor fish tub, this food seems to help support production of plenty of fry in the tub. When I bought this food I thought I would just try it on the fish -- and the results have far exceeded my expectations. Since my fish accept the food so well I definitely plan to try other food products from Ken's.
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Everyone eats them. Great ingrediants! I think the fish actually eat these more agressively than their traditional NLS pellets.
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I first got a sample of this food at the ACA Convention. This food is readily accepted both by cichlids and larger livebearers. I've since ordered a bunch in various sizes (.5mm to 1.5mm). A great food which helps your fish grow fast. No problems with bloat! will buy again.

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Flatley's Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games will be tripping the light fantastic at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall from April 16-18.
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Why Should Miners Opt for Swimming to Unwind?
This goes without saying that working all day at mining site leaves you dog-tired by the end of the day. The only thing you might look for after taking off from work is some activity that relaxes your mind and body. Swimming is an excellent activity that works for your entire body and makes you feel lighter after a stressful day. You would gain a host of other health benefits as well, with swimming. Incorporating swimming into your daily routine would also bring the fun.
There are swimming clubs you can join. However, having a pool in your house would be perfect. People nowadays prefer properties where they can have that privilege to enjoy in water whenever they want. Owning a swimming pool sounds great but its maintenance is quite a job that you need to have done every now and then. Clean and clear pool means you can relax and gather your friends and work colleagues whenever you want. Pools can get dirty in no time when they are exposed to air. It is just impossible to prevent leaves to fall and dust and dirt to get in the water. One convenient and perfect solution to treat your pool is getting swimming pool covers.
With the help of these covers, you can save water and consumption of cleaning chemicals. There are expenses associated with swimming pool facility. They will also be reduced if you have covered in hand. In addition to the regular covers, there are swimming pool solar covers which come with the feature of heating the pool water. This cover heats up the water not only on the surface but also in-depth.
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Swimming is a kind of workout that indulges whole your body. It tones your muscles and builds strength. It keeps your heart rate high with stressing your body. Furthermore, it boosts your endurance and cardiovascular fitness. Swimming is also recommended for weight loss. Swimming for one hour lets you burn as many calories as running does. You can use breaststroke, backstroke, sidestroke, butterfly, and freestyle to add variety to your swimming workout. Whichever stroke you swim, it would work for the different muscle group.
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As mentioned before, your cardiovascular fitness gets a good workout with swimming. Your heart and lungs get stronger and researchers say that it adds years to your life. Controlled blood pressure and blood sugar are also some of the benefits of swimming. When you immerse yourself in water, it proves to be a great stress reducer. Also, swimming releases hormones named endorphins into the bloodstream which are also known as feel-good hormones.
Helpful for people with injuries:
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The Vader Weasley Bomb #5
Once again, we are visited by the ever awesome double photobomb. However, this time around the only human involved is the girl who looks like she just got accepted to Hogwarts. This happy young lady is being photobombed by what appear to be cardboard cutouts of both Ron Weasley of Harry Potter fame as well as the Sith lord himself, Darth Vader. Do we need to further explain why this is one of the most ultimate photobombs ever?


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Ely bear researcher Lynn Rogers and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources have locked horns again.
In late December, the DNR renewed Rogers' research permit to study black bears, but cut back the number of bears he may radio-collar from 15 to 12. The permit is valid only through June rather than December, so that future renewals won't have to be made when bears are denned and Rogers has den cameras deployed, DNR officials said.
"We continue to be concerned about the lack of scientific publications resulting from your research," DNR Commissioner Tom Landwehr said in the letter to Rogers that accompanied his permit.
The agency claims Rogers, who leads the nonprofit Wildlife Research Institute near Ely, has not written recent peer-reviewed papers that demonstrate "hypothesis testing, statistical tests or other protocols."
Rogers says he has published papers recently and that the reduction in collared bears from 15 to 12 is "devastating."
"It requires us to remove them (radio collars) from long-term study bears and not collar new bears," Rogers said.
Currently, Rogers said, his institute has 13 bears collared.
"It's hard to see how these restrictions benefit science, education or research," he said.
The DNR also claims that bears that are radio-collared and fed by the institute have created nuisance issues for people who own homes and cabins in the Eagle's Nest Lakes area between Ely and Tower. In his letter to Rogers, Landwehr said that "the increasing problems that study bears are causing local residents and visitors calls your methods and results into serious question."
Rogers and the DNR have been at odds for years over his research and education practices. Those practices allow researchers and visitors to locate and follow bears in the wild.
Rogers claims that many of the assertions the DNR makes in its recent letter are untrue.
"It's unbelievable," Rogers said. "There are so many errors, so many misinterpretations. And to have it made public, it seems like just an attempt to build a case, discredit us and turn public sentiment against us."
Rogers has been doing bear research since 1967 and started the Wildlife Research Institute near Ely in 1971. Adding to the ongoing controversy over Rogers' research, hunters have legally killed six radio-collared bears in Rogers' study area since 2005. Rogers has sought protection for the collared bears, but the DNR has not put them off-limits to hunters. The agency has said it does not want a hunter who unintentionally shoots a collared bear to suffer legal consequences.
Rogers claims he has done plenty of research.
"I've published four papers, three of them peer-reviewed, and an invited commentary since 2007," he said. "And I have a book coming out this spring, so I haven't been sitting here."
A fifth peer-reviewed paper is due to be published soon, Rogers said.
His research and the North American Bear Center in Ely, of which Rogers is chairman, have become high profile since Rogers began placing cameras in the bear dens in 2010. Internet fans from around the world have followed the birth of bear cubs in those dens. The North American Bear Center website attracts 6 million visitors a year, Rogers said.
Rogers' research has been the subject of BBC documentaries. His work with bears is followed by 500 school classrooms, he said.
DNR officials say that bear education can be done at the North American Bear Center and that Rogers' research should be separate from that.
"We issue research permits to scientists who have the intention of publishing their research. That's been the intent all along," Lou Cornicelli, the DNR's wildlife research manager, said. "The education piece can be done at the Bear Center."
Rogers said he is preparing a detailed response to the DNR's letter, which he hopes to send within a few days.


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Just wanted to share a few things about April before it's gone.
I always seem to get a bad picture of the kids on Easter! Autumn can't stand to be outside for pictures. She has this kind of face in all of our other Easter photos as well!
Owen just loved his jellybeans! He didn't really experience Easter last year seeing that we was just barely a month old. What this photo doesn't show is him spitting out all the jellybeans like he was a machine gun. Guess he just wanted to get all the flavors out!
We colored eggs a few days before Easter. The kids didn't seem to interested in making them fancy. They were really trying to see who had the "richest" color. Fine with me; less mess to clean up after wards.
We spent a while just watching the eggs float while absorbing all the colors.
I am trying to get better @ posting more things about our crazy lives. Once a week is a great goal for me! Remind me and encourage me! I need all the help I can get!
More to come!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Just wanted to share a few things about April before it's gone.
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Wednesday, September 5
Michelle Obama's Speech
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OK I have to go and find it to watch now. I did read it in parts off Yahoo and I got a feel for what you are saying. I like her a lot and I admire her more. Even in the written words I could tell she was speaking from her heart and I so want to believe she wrote the speech herself. In fact, I will refuse to believe anything but. Lol!. I shall find a way to watch it without it chopping all my internet credit. Lol!ReplyDelete
Be free some more o!
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2012 at 9:10 PM
Underneath the smooth speech was a firm affirmation of pro choice and gay rights.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2012 at 10:45 PM
This was a good. I like your analysis and i am Lol!ReplyDelete
May the Lord take you to heights unknown, just continue doing what you love to do!
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2012 at 10:47 PM
I watched the speech too. I was so moved. from their journey, the love story btw her and her husband, their time together etc. she was fantastic. she really sold her husband. i too want to vote for Obama. As for her dress and shoes i fell in love with it. she just has this grace. did you see the back of the dress, fantastic.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2012 at 10:49 PM
I missed it o! :-( They've been talking and tweeting about that speech all day!!!ReplyDelete
Your post brought it all back to me. Several people were crying at the venue, my mum was cheering her. It was a great speech for sure, and like you said, passion is very important.ReplyDelete
That speech made me ask myself too many questions. Yeah, they may not hold the same values as us but like you said, can we 'sell' what we believe the way that woman did??ReplyDelete
If I, as I am today, was married to Barack Obama, will i have done him as much justice as she did him?
We should take the learnings and go grow mehn!


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Great Edward G. Robinson Performance
- The third variation of the same story (The Mouthpiece in 1932 and The Man Who Talked Too Much in 1940), the 1955 film Illegal follows District Attorney Victor Scott (Edward G. Robinson) from riches to rags, integrity to corruption, and every other way. Mercilessly yet effortlessly prosecuting his latest case, trying Ed Clary for the murder of a woman, Scott wins the jury over with his great talent for oratory and sends Clary to the electric chair.
All seems well - another scumbag put away courtesy of D.A. Victor Scott - justice has been served; you're welcome - but when the real murderer confesses and the innocent Ed Clary is sent to the death chair (which is ridiculous because no one gets killed via the death penalty within 24 of their trial) Scott has a morality attack, quitting his D.A. position and going into private practice as a defense lawyer. Now, Scott finds himself in a very lucrative new position on the other side of the law where he finds himself torn amongst the authorities, his loved ones and the crooked, powerful, and dangerous men who have him in their pockets.
While the overall story for Illegal (1955) is very good and there are a handful of excellent scenes, the particulars of the story are not especially engaging. Some parts are down-right kooky such as Scott being able to try cases when there is a severe conflict of interest on his part, instances of boring melodrama as well as other less significant aspects of the plot.
However, the Victor Scott character and Edward G. Robinson's fantastic performance of that character is what holds the film together and makes it worthwhile. As usual, Edward G. Robinson lights up the screen with a bulldog-like screen presence and his trenchant way of speaking but he also allows the viewer to read the Victor Scott character like a book and root for him even though he is not always doing things that are likable.
Illegal is good film and definitely worth one's time thanks mostly to Edward G. Robinson.
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If you have suffered a loss from investment in Extreme Networks common stock purchased on or after November 4, 2013 and held through the revelation of negative information during and/or at the end of the Class Period, as described below, and would like to learn more about this lawsuit and your ability to participate as a lead plaintiff, without cost or obligation to you, please visit our website at http://www.browerpiven.com/currentsecuritiescases.html. You may also request more information by contacting Brower Piven either by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by telephone at (410) 415-6616. No class has yet been certified in the above action. Members of the Class will be represented by the lead plaintiff and counsel chosen by the lead plaintiff.
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Cartoon/Flash/Animated Website Reqired To Be Designed
Bütçe $300-1500 USD
I am looking for some one who can do a good flash/animation/cartoon type style website.
I want it to look colourful, interesting and catchy; it is for an exotic bird website, for all parrot species.
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Although this is the style type it needs to be for parrots, take a look at it and see if you can do this type of work?
The site will have an intro page like the link above, then the home page to be same thyme, with a cartoon parrot and the domain name [url removed, login to view], in the middle of the page will be a navigation system of 3 nests of eggs and when mouse moves over them they hatch and raise up from the nest to reveal sections of the site to visit, which visitors can click on and go there.
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"See, in my day, a barber was more than just somebody who sit around in a FUBU shirt with his draws hanging all out. In my day, a barber was a counselor. He was a fashion expert. A style coach. Pimp. Just general all-around hustler. But the problem with y'all cats today, is that you got no skill. No sense of history. And then, with a straight face, got the nerve to want to be somebody. Want somebody to respect you. But it takes respect to get respect."
-Eddie, Barbershop (2005)
I ended up here after an affair. Black Man Code #3491 specifically states, "Thou shalt not cheat on thy barber." I still stepped out anyway. It sounds silly, but in a world where we are all battling with our hairlines and constantly seeking the perfect fade, a man's relationship with his barber is pretty serious. One day I decided to wander over to the other side of the fence. I wanted to see if the grass was actually as green as it looked. I committed barbershop infidelity.
That was 5 months ago so to answer your question, yes, the grass really was that green. I haven't called my old barber back since.
Denny Moe's Superstar Barbershop was opened in 2006 by celebrity barber Dennis Mitchell, known by everyone in Harlem as "Denny Moe." This is a man that's put his clippers on the likes of old school players like Keith Sweat, to the $735 million hairline that is Sean Combs himself. Rooted in this constant idea of community service, Denny Moe is running a tight operation over at his shop, but the environment still feels authentic.
Me choosing to write about black barbershops would never be enough. It's something that you have to feel, to see, and something that you have to experience for yourself. In the middle of an ever-gentrifying Harlem, barbershops are one of the few spaces you can still go to for the culture.
Right on 133rd & Fredrick Douglas Blvd in Harlem sits a sanctuary of clippers. I put my lens on my barbershop for a day. I wanted to capture the community. I wanted to capture the focus and attention to detail. Barbers are quite possibly the most slept on artists of all time. It's time to expose that truth. Click the photos to expand and experience for yourself.
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SHARPSBURG — Dalton Shank provided spark with his bat and doused a rally with his glove.
The Sharpsburg Little League shortstop set the tone by leading off the game with a triple — one of 15 hits on the night for the host team — then turned a slick double play to shut down a potential uprising in the fourth inning of a 12-1 victory over American on Monday in the losers' bracket of the Maryland District 1 9-10 Tournament.
Sharpsburg plays again tonight in another elimination game at South Mountain, which ousted defending District 1 champion Clear Spring 6-3 Monday.
Three Sharpsburg pitchers — Brandon Porter, Aaron Hartle and Ben Burgan — combined to hold American to two hits. More importantly, with games every night for as long as Sharpsburg keeps winning, Hartle and Burgan both stayed under 20 pitches, allowing them to pitch tonight if needed.
"We just play each game as it comes and don't think too far ahead," said Sharpsburg manager Steve Mason. "We try to keep all the kids to 50 pitches, but if someone's on a roll you have to let him go."
Porter threw 50 pitches, walking three and giving up just one hit — a bunt single by John Hardman to lead off the bottom of the first. Hardman came all the way around on three passed balls to score American's only run.
But Sharpsburg never trailed, having scored two runs in the top of the first. Shank scored on a throwing error after his triple and John Grimm drove in a run with a single.
Max Crist hit a two-run inside-the-park home run to the fence in right field and Burgan added an RBI double in the second, while Shank and T.J. Kalagher stroked consecutive RBI doubles in the third as Sharpsburg took a 7-1 lead.
"We won every inning," Mason said. "They never outscored us in an inning. You do that and you win."
American nearly won the fourth inning. After keeping Sharpsburg off the board in the top of the inning, Jasiah Stubbs walked and Damontez Dorsey reached on an error. Naquan Chung drove a hard grounder up the middle that Shank gobbled up before stepping on second and firing to first for the double play.
Shank then snagged a hard liner by Charles Somerville to end the threat.
"He made a couple great plays. The center (of the defense) always has to be tight. Catcher, pitcher, shortstop, second ... you just have to be tight there."
Kalagher and Crist each had three hits for Sharpsburg, while Shank, Burgan and Hartle had two each. Joose Howell had the only other hit for American.


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Darien girls soccer team shoots for ninth straight winning season and more
If there's one team that's been a model of consistency at Darien High School, it may very well be the Blue Wave girls soccer team.
Darien has racked up eight consecutive winning seasons dating back to 2004, and it is looking to take the next step in 2012 after posting a 9-4-3 mark last season.
"Everyone on this team has a lot of skill. A lot are also other sport athletes, and all of us are really athletic. We can use skills from other sports to help us, and I think we have a lot of good endurance," said Kristy Gilbert, captain and left midfielder. "We definitely want to get into FCIACs and states and hopefully win one of them."
In his second year at the helm, coach Leigh Parsons believes that his team has the talent necessary to repeat -- if not improve upon -- last year's triumphs.
"It's always good setting the bar high. The cohesiveness and the team morale are good, and we have good depth this year. If we're all on the same page with the same goals, that's how you can achieve them," Parsons said. "There's no reason we shouldn't be pushing towards where we were last year, and hopefully a bit better. That's always a goal is to beat where you were last year."
Last year, Darien was the No. 5 seed in the FCIAC tourney, but was quickly ousted by No. 4 Greenwich 1-0. As the No. 16 seed in the Class LL state tourney, Darien scored a 1-0 win over No. 17 Fairfield Warde in the opening round before falling 2-1 to eventual state champion and top-seeded Glastonbury in the second round.
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And while sustained success is certainly an impressive feat, particularly in high school where rosters can change dramatically from one season to the next, Darien sounds intent on establishing itself as the cream of the crop in the FCIAC.
"This year I think our team has a lot of chemistry. Everyone knows each other pretty well, and we have a lot of returning players," said Parker Hamill, captain and center-midfielder. "We just need to make sure that we're all there to help each other out, and if we do that I think we'll be good."
Darien's roster consists of only eight seniors, making it a relatively young team in 2012, but captain and right midfielder Vanessa Budd doesn't anticipate the team's youth to be of much concern.
"A lot of the girls we're playing with will be juniors and sophomores, and I think that they're really great players. Some of them are very experienced," Budd said. "I think we have a really great chance this year because we have a lot of returning players and we're going to be really good."
Parsons agreed with his captain, noting that many of the underclassmen have played at the varsity level since they were freshmen.
"We lost a few solid seniors from last year that will be missed, but we've had some girls step up," Parsons said. "We have three strong senior captains returning, we have a very strong junior class, we have a core of experienced players at this level and we're returning six or seven starters. They're comfortable going into games because they know the level of competition."
Darien also brings back starting goalie Phoebe Taylor, who enters her junior year.
Naturally, Darien is looking forward to going toe-to-toe with border rival New Canaan, another preseason FCIAC favorite.
"Definitely New Canaan, definitely Greenwich and also Wilton, our first game. That'll be a big one to win right off the bat," Gilbert said.
"Definitely Greenwich and New Canaan," Budd said. "Those are some of our toughest games this year, and I think we have a great chance of winning them."


text: American President Essays: William Taft ↑ American President Home William Taft: Life in Brief William Howard Taft faced the difficult task as President of living up to the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt. Taft so disappointed his predecessor, former mentor, and friend, that Roosevelt opposed his renomination in 1912 and bolted from the Republican Party to form his own "Bull-Moose" party, creating an opening for Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 presidential election. Taft's lifelong ambition was to serve as Chief Justice of the United States, to which he was appointed after leaving the presidency. He remains the only man in American history to have gained the highest executive and judicial positions. Meeting Expectations Taft, born in 1857, spent his boyhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, trying to live up to the high expectations of his demanding parents, especially his father, Alphonso Taft. Alphonso Taft was a distinguished Cincinnati attorney and a prominent Republican who served as secretary of war and then attorney general under President Ulysses Grant, and was U.S. minister (ambassador) to Austria-Hungary and Russia under President Chester Arthur. The elder Taft had also sought but lost the 1879 Republican gubernatorial nomination in Ohio. From childhood, William Howard Taft had a weight problem, a reaction perhaps to his parents' very high expectations for him. At times during his presidency, he reached 300 pounds. He followed his father's and half-brother's path to Yale University, graduating second in his class. He studied law at the University of Cincinnati and entered private practice while also holding several local appointive positions. At age 29, Taft married an ambitious, intellectual, and independent woman, Helen "Nellie" Herron, who pushed him to strive for more than a judicial career. He held several key legal and judicial posts from 1887 to 1900, including judge of the Cincinnati Superior Court, U.S. solicitor general, and then as a member of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. President William McKinley then asked Taft to serve as president of the commission to oversee the newly won Philippine Islands. Taft was disappointed, but pushed by his associates, including his wife, he took the job, with McKinley's promise of a future position on the Supreme Court upon his return. Governor General of the Philippines Despite his initial hesitancy about it, Taft's service in the Philippines from 1900 to 1903 was fulfilling and largely successful. While there, he twice turned down President Roosevelt's offer of a Supreme Court appointment in order to finish his work. Becoming governor of the islands in 1901, Taft abandoned the brutal and bloody tactics the U.S. military government had used to squash the nationalist rebellion. By the time he left the islands to become Roosevelt's secretary of war in 1903, Taft had constructed a functioning civil regime and pacified the islands. At the same time, Taft fully subscribed to the view that Filipinos were not capable of self-rule. He believed that independence could only come to the undeveloped nation after a long period of U.S. tutelage and protection. As secretary of war, Taft became Roosevelt's chief emissary and confidant, assisting him in the Portsmouth Peace negotiations, and in establishing a protectorate in Cuba. Roosevelt, having sworn upon his victory in 1904 that he would not seek another term, handpicked Taft to succeed him in 1908. The public joked that T.A.F.T. stood for "take advice from Theodore." Thanks in part to Roosevelt's popularity, Taft's victory over Democrat William Jennings Bryan was decisive. Taft promised to continue Roosevelt's reform program. But Roosevelt, and many of his allies, saw Taft's administration as abandoning progressivism. The consequent animosity split the Republican Party in 1912, sweeping Woodrow Wilson into office. A Judicial President Taft's disposition was more prone to judicious administration than presidential activism. Though he came to the White House promising to continue Roosevelt's agenda, he was more comfortable executing the existing law than demanding new legislation from Congress. His first effort as President was to lead Congress to lower tariffs, but traditional high tariff interests dominated Congress, and Taft largely failed in his effort at legislative leadership. He also alienated Roosevelt when he attempted to break up U.S. Steel, a trust that Roosevelt had approved while President. Taft also forced Roosevelt's forestry chief to resign, jeopardizing Roosevelt's gains in the conservation of natural resources. By 1911, Taft was less active in "trust-busting," and generally seemed more conservative. In foreign affairs, Taft continued Roosevelt's goal of expanding U.S. foreign trade in South and Central America, as well as in Asia, and he termed his policy "dollar diplomacy."President Taft's life-long dream of reaching the U.S. Supreme Court was satisfied in 1921 with his appointment as chief justice by President Warren Harding. Taft had been uncomfortable with politics. His tendency to contemplate every side of an issue served him well as chief justice but rendered him indecisive and ineffectual as President. His presidency is generally viewed as a failure, swinging as he did from a progressive program of "trust busting" to reactionary conservatism in the face of withering criticism from Roosevelt and his allies. While Taft's presidency left a mark on the organization and conduct of the executive branch, and developed the administration of anti-trust policy, his public leadership has been widely seen as below average for 20th century Presidents. William Taft: Life Before the Presidency Born in the Mount Auburn section of Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 15, 1857, William Howard Taft was a physically active child, playing sports and taking dancing lessons despite his tendency to obesity. He loved baseball, and he was a good second baseman and a power hitter. Taft studied at Woodward High School, a well-regarded private school in Cincinnati, graduating in 1874 second in the class with a four-year grade point average of 91.5 out of 100. At Yale University, Taft followed his father's advice to refrain from athletics lest his participation impede his academic progress. He graduated second in his class of 132 students and then went on to the University of Cincinnati Law School while working part time as a courthouse reporter for the Cincinnati Commercial. Taft passed his bar exams in May 1880. Living Up to High Expectations Taft was raised in a large, close, and stimulating family. He had five siblings, two half brothers by his father's first marriage and two brothers and a sister born to his mother. The family identified with the Unitarian Church, subscribing to a belief in God but not the divinity of Christ. Taft's father, Alphonso Taft, was a lawyer and served as secretary of war and then attorney general in President Ulysses S. Grant's cabinet. President Chester A. Arthur appointed Taft's father to serve as minister (the title of ambassador in those days) to Austria-Hungary and Russia. A significant role model for William, Alphonso Taft was sensible, kind, gentle, and highly "Victorian"—a man who kept his emotions under rigid control. Politically active in the Republican Party, the senior Taft served on Cincinnati's city council and sought unsuccessfully the 1875 Republican nomination in the Ohio gubernatorial race. Alphonso had liberal views on women's rights, however, and encouraged Taft's mother, Louisa Maria Torrey Taft, in her independent ways and numerous outside activities and her intellectual curiosity. The energetic Louisa Taft organized a local and statewide kindergarten movement, an art association, book clubs, German and French clubs, and traveled widely with her husband on his diplomatic missions. Of the two parents, Louisa was the more curious and adventurous, often taking the family down paths none would have ventured on their own. Taft's father died in 1891. William lived in constant fear of not meeting his parents' expectations. No matter how well he performed, he was anxious about their approval. When he graduated from high school in 1874, he chose for his graduation ceremony address the subject of women's suffrage, telling the audience about his progressive parents. Taft's large variations in his body weight, according to some scholars, stemmed from his social and family anxieties. Political Ambitions Taft married Helen "Nellie" Herron at her parents' home in Cincinnati on June 19, 1886. He was twenty-eight and she was twenty-five. Nellie equaled Taft's mother in intellect and energy. She accepted Taft's proposal for marriage in part because she saw him as a partner to fulfill her hope of a life in national politics, and beyond that of parochial Cincinnati. Her father, a one-time law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes, had taken Nellie to the White House for President and Mrs. Hayes's twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Young Nellie was so captivated that she vowed to one day be First Lady. In 1911, she would celebrate her own silver wedding anniversary at the White House, filling the mansion with nearly 4,000 guests. Principally due to his father's political connections, Taft became assistant prosecutor of Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1881. Thereafter, he worked as a lawyer for a few years before being appointed judge of the Cincinnati Superior Court in 1887. From an early point in his career, he aspired to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was appointed U.S. solicitor general in 1890 (the third highest position in the Department of Justice). While living in Washington, D.C., as solicitor general, Taft became close to Theodore Roosevelt, then a civil service commissioner. Taft later petitioned his fellow Ohioan, President William McKinley, to obtain Roosevelt's appointment as assistant secretary of the Navy. Against his wife's preferences, in 1892 Taft accepted appointment as a judge of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with jurisdiction over Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee. While on that court, Taft also served, from 1896 to 1900, as a professor of law and dean of the University of Cincinnati Law School. Governor General of the Philippines Although content with his place on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as a possible stepping stone to the Supreme Court, Taft knew that it was not enough for Nellie Taft. She wanted the White House, and she seldom hid her irritation over Taft's judicial ambitions. When a telegram from President McKinley in January 1900 summoned Taft to Washington, Nellie suspected that something was in the works. She would welcome her husband's appointment to the Supreme Court as a way of moving back to Washington, but she hoped the meeting with McKinley would open other doors. Her hope was fulfilled. Out of the victory in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Islands had become a U.S. protectorate. McKinley wanted Taft to go to the islands to set up a civilian government. This entailed drafting and implementing laws, a constitution, an administration, and a civil service bureaucracy. A civil commission was established toward that end, and McKinley offered to Taft the commission's presidency. Taft was hesitant to take this challenging job, in a distant corner of the world, but Republican leaders maintained that this task would distinguish him for future high office. In going to the Philippines, Taft knew that he was stepping into a political storm. Seventy thousand U.S. soldiers were fighting in the islands to put down a rebellion of Filipino nationalists led by Emilio Aguinaldo. The ferocity of America's attempt to squash the rebellion was especially bloody and often horribly brutal. It left a black mark on the nation's honor, and the "yellow press" had a field day attacking U.S. conduct against the Filipinos. Additionally, political opposition was growing to what critics charged were McKinley's imperialist policies. But Nellie, surprised and overjoyed, urged Taft to take the job. The two traveled with their three children to the islands, where they lived like royalty for the next several years. Upon arriving in the islands, Taft immediately clashed with the military governor, General Arthur MacArthur (the father of General Douglas MacArthur of World War II and Korean War fame). Taft viewed the military control of the islands as too brutal and unsympathetic to the islanders. Obtaining McArthur's removal after the capture of Aguinaldo, Taft quickly set to work drafting the Island's constitution. It included a Bill of Rights that was nearly identical to the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, with the notable absence of the right to trial by jury. Central to the new governance structure was the role of civil governor, a post to which Taft was appointed. He established a civil service system, a judicial system, English-language public schools, a transportation network, and health care facilities. He also negotiated with the Vatican (the Roman Catholic papal headquarters in Rome) to purchase 390,000 acres of church property in the Philippines for $7.5 million. Taft distributed this land by way of low-cost mortgages to tens of thousands of Filipino peasants. While in the Philippines, Taft had twice turned down President Roosevelt's offer of a Supreme Court appointment in order to finish his work in the Islands. Taft was loved and supported by many Filipino residents for his evenhanded governance. In Taft's own view, the Filipinos were not yet capable of governing themselves, and he believed that it would take years before self-rule would work. He foresaw a long period of U.S. instruction and protection of the islands through which the "immature" culture could be raised by American tutelage to capacities for independent governance. The Philippines did not achieve self-rule and independence until 1946. Secretary of War Had it not been for the opportunity to become Roosevelt's secretary of war, Nellie Taft would have urged her husband to stay in the Philippines. Taft accepted Roosevelt's offer because he believed that as secretary of war he would continue to oversee affairs in the Islands. During his four years as secretary of war (1904-1908), Taft became Roosevelt's chief agent, confidant, and troubleshooter in foreign affairs. He supervised the construction of the Panama Canal, made several voyages around the world for the President, supervised affairs in the Philippines, and functioned as the provisional governor of Cuba. He traveled more than any other cabinet minister, with over 255 days of his four years spent abroad on special missions. He was gone so often that the press began questioning his huge travel expenses—partly because he almost always took Nellie and at least one or two of his children along. Concerned about the public's opinion, Roosevelt asked Taft to have the voyages funded by Taft's wealthy brother, Charles, who already was underwriting much of Taft's living expenses in Washington, D.C. (In 1904, Charles—who had married a wealthy Ohio heiress—gave William 1,000 shares of Cleveland Gas Company stock, which added $8,000 a year to his income, a large sum in those days.) Always eager to help his brother, Charles Taft assumed the lion's share of William's travel expenses. William Taft: Campaigns and Elections The Campaign and Election of 1908: After his 1904 electoral victory, Theodore Roosevelt promised publicly not to seek the presidency again in 1908. While he later regretted that decision, he felt bound by it and vigorously promoted William Howard Taft as his successor. Both Nellie Taft and Roosevelt had to persuade Taft to make the race. Even with the presidency in his reach, Taft much preferred the U.S. Supreme Court chief justice appointment. It was generally expected that Taft would be Roosevelt's man in the White House, and Taft himself vowed to continue Roosevelt's progressive policies. Still, up to the last minute before Taft's nomination at the Republican Party convention in Chicago, Nellie Taft feared that Roosevelt might announce his bid for a second elected term. It almost happened on the second day of the convention, when a spontaneous and wild demonstration produced a forty-nine minute stampede for Roosevelt—the longest-lasting demonstration that had ever occurred at a national political convention. Only when Roosevelt sent word via Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that he was not available did the convention nominate Taft on the first ballot. The final count gave Taft 702 votes (491 votes were needed to win) in a field of seven nominees. The Democrats once again nominated William Jennings Bryan, the twice-defeated candidate who still personified the populist politics of the Democratic Party and the moral fervor of its "silverite" wing. At Nellie's urging, Taft announced that he intended to drop thirty pounds off his 300 pound plus weight for the campaign fight ahead. He retreated to the golf course at a resort in Hot Springs, Virginia, where he stayed for much of the next three months. His campaign, once it started, depended heavily upon Roosevelt for speechmaking, advice, and energy. Journalists bombarded the public with jokes about Taft being a substitute for Roosevelt. One columnist explained that T.A.F.T. stood for "Take Advice From Theodore." Nothing could hide Taft's dislike for campaigning and politics. His handlers tried to turn his sluggish style into a positive asset by describing Taft as a new kind of politician—one who refuses to say anything negative about his opponent. For most voters it was enough, however, that Taft had pledged to carry on Roosevelt's policies. His victory was overwhelming. He carried all but three states outside the Democratic Solid South and won 321 electoral votes to Bryan's 162. In the final tally for the popular vote, Taft won 7,675,320 (51.6 percent) to Bryan's 6,412,294 (43.1 percent). Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs won just 2.8 percent of the popular vote, or 420,793. The Campaign and Election of 1912 After four years in the White House, Taft agreed to run for a second term, principally because he felt compelled to defend himself against Roosevelt's attacks on him as a traitor to reform. The former friends and allies had become bitter opponents. Roosevelt saw Taft as betraying his promise to advance Roosevelt's agenda. He was especially bitter over Taft's antitrust policy, which had targeted one of Roosevelt's personally sanctioned "Good Trusts," U.S. Steel. The former President also felt personally betrayed by Taft's firing of Gifford Pinchot, head of the U.S. forest service and Roosevelt's old friend and conservation policy ally. Certain that Taft would take the party down with him in 1912, Roosevelt was determined to replace him as the 1912 Republican candidate. After his return to America in 1910 from a big game hunting safari in Africa and a European tour, Roosevelt began to criticize Taft obliquely in speeches which sketched out his "New Nationalism" policies. He argued for the elimination of special interests from politics, direct primaries, and graduated income and inheritance taxes. Roosevelt's platform also advocated a downward revision of the tariff schedule, open publicity about corporate business practices and decisions, and laws prohibiting the use of corporate funds in politics. Additionally, he supported the initiative and referendum process, as well as the conservation and use of national resources to benefit all the people. In contrast to what would become Woodrow Wilson's 1912 political agenda, New Nationalism promised active government supervision and regulation of giant corporations rather than their dissolution. Monopolies would be made to operate in the public interest rather than solely in the interest of their stockholders. Taft considered Roosevelt's ideas hopelessly radical and listened to his conservative supporters—and especially his wife—who vilified Roosevelt as a man bent on destroying the nation and the President. In the year before the Republican convention, Roosevelt attacked Taft mercilessly and at every opportunity. Several states had established direct primaries, which allowed the people to vote their opinion on a preference ballot for party candidates (though in most of those states, the convention delegates would still be selected by party leaders). By 1912, thirteen states had primary laws: South Dakota, Wisconsin, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Illinois, California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio. Roosevelt's no-holds-barred attack on Taft finally reached a sore point when the former President spoke in favor of the popular recall of judges and judicial decisions on constitutional questions. Taft responded in a speech on April 25, 1912, declaring that a Roosevelt victory would institute a reign of terror similar to that following the French Revolution. Thereafter, the fight became a free-for-all, with Taft hitting back at Roosevelt constantly. The resulting campaign to win the Republican nomination was the first in which a sitting President campaigned in state primaries. The primary elections showed Roosevelt to be the people's clear choice. Senator Robert LaFollette won North Dakota and Wisconsin while Taft carried New York. Roosevelt, however, carried all other primaries. When the convention opened in Chicago on June 7, Roosevelt had 271 delegates pledged to him compared to Taft's 71—just 80 votes short of a majority. Taft's major advantage as President then came into play: his control of federal patronage. Consequently, he was able to hold the delegates from southern states. In addition, he controlled the Republican National Committee, which decided on any challenges of delegates from the primaries. Most of the states sent two sets of delegates to the convention, and the Republican National Committee—dominated by Taft Republicans—seated all but a few of the Taft-pledged delegates. Three days of confusion followed on the convention floor. The party bosses handed the nomination to Taft with 561 votes to Roosevelt's 187. Forty-one delegate votes were cast for Senator LaFollette. Having lost the nomination, Roosevelt led his followers out of the convention and formed the Progressive Party. It was quickly nicknamed the Bull Moose Party, in honor of Roosevelt's comparison of himself to a raging bull moose ready for a fight. The new party nominated Roosevelt as its presidential candidate on August 6 in the Chicago Coliseum. The progressive governor of California, Hiram Johnson, was selected as Roosevelt's running mate. Sensing victory because of the Republican fratricide, the Democrats, nearly delirious with confidence over the mess in the Republican Party, had nominated Woodrow Wilson, the progressive governor of New Jersey, on the forty-third ballot at their convention in Baltimore. They pegged Indiana Governor Thomas Marshall as his running mate. In the campaign that followed, Taft became more conservative as he ran against two challengers, both identified as progressives. In the face of strong criticism from the challengers, Taft tended to retreat to the golf links where he hid away from the public. Understanding that Taft had essentially given up the fight, Roosevelt and Wilson slugged it out in the popular media. Wilson presented his "New Freedom" ideas, which were similar to Roosevelt's "New Nationalism," except that Wilson favored the dismantling of all giant monopolies. Roosevelt visited thirty-four states and won significant public sympathy from a bravura act following an assassin's attack in Milwaukee. After being shot in the chest, the healthy "bull moose" survived to make a scheduled campaign appearance. The bullet had entered his chest but had been deflected from its full force by a fifty page speech in Roosevelt's coat pocket. On election day, Wilson beat the split Republicans decisively in the Electoral College. Taft carried only two minor states, Utah and Vermont. Wilson compiled 435 electoral votes to 88 for Roosevelt and 8 for Taft. Gauging from the election results, had the Republicans united behind Roosevelt, he probably would have won the election in view of the fact that Taft and Roosevelt won a larger combined popular vote than Wilson. Moreover, when the Roosevelt, Wilson, and Debs votes are combined, the election of 1912 represents a stunning victory for progressivism, or reform, at the national level. Taft's policies had been decisively repudiated by the end of his term. William Taft: Domestic Affairs William Howard Taft entered the White House determined to implement and continue Roosevelt's program. His central ambition regarding reform was to create an orderly framework for administering a reform agenda. His conception of executive leadership was primarily focused on administration rather than legislative agenda-setting. He felt most comfortable in executing the law, regardless of his personal feelings for the particular piece of legislation. However, during his presidency, Congress produced significant reform legislation. In one of his first acts in office, Taft called for a special session of Congress to reform tariff law through reduced rates. Among the significant pieces of legislation passed by Congress during Taft's presidency was the Mann-Elkins Act of 1910, empowering the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend railroad rate hikes and to set rates. The act also expanded the ICC's jurisdiction to cover telephones, telegraphs, and radio. Taft also placed 35,000 postmasters and 20,000 skilled workers in the Navy under civil service protection. In addition, the Department of Commerce and Labor was divided into two cabinet departments with Taft's approval. He also vetoed the admissions of Arizona and New Mexico to statehood because of their constitutional provision for the recall of judges. When the recall clauses were removed, Taft supported statehood. And while he pushed the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment (income tax), he only reluctantly advocated the Seventeenth Amendment (direct election of senators). Among his most controversial actions, Taft promoted an administrative innovation whereby the President, rather than the disparate agencies of government, would submit a budget to Congress. Congress prohibited that action, but Taft's effort foreshadowed the creation of the executive budget in the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, which gave the President new capacities for efficiency and control in the executive branch. Trust-Busting Taft's intent to provide more efficient administration for existing reform policies was perfectly suited for the prosecution of antitrust violations. More trust prosecutions (99, in all) occurred under Taft than under Roosevelt, who was known as the "Great Trust-Buster." The two most famous antitrust cases under the Taft Administration, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the American Tobacco Company, were actually begun during the Roosevelt years. He also won a lawsuit against the American Sugar Refining Company to break up the "sugar trust" that rigged prices. And when Taft moved to break up U.S. Steel, Roosevelt accused him of a lack of insight—unable to distinguish between "good" and "bad" trusts. By 1911, however, Taft began to back away from his antitrust efforts, stung by the criticism of his conservative business supporters and unsure about the long-range effect of trust-busting on the national economy. Most importantly, Taft had surrounded himself with conservative businessmen who shared his love for golf and recreation at fine resorts. His new business cronies isolated Taft from the progressive followers of Roosevelt who had supported his election. Presidential Missteps Taft stumbled dramatically on two important occasions as President. The first misstep occurred with his special congressional session to revise the tariff downward. This move activated a concerted effort by the protectionist majority in the Republican Party to persuade Taft to back off on tariff reform. In the struggle over the tariff, Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island and Representative Sereno E. Payne of New York, representing big business, succeeded in pushing through a tariff (the Payne-Aldrich Tariff) that affected only modest reductions. Although during the course of congressional action Taft had threatened to veto a tariff bill with insufficient reductions, when the Payne-Aldrich bill came to his desk he signed it, later claiming it was the best tariff bill ever passed by Congress. Taft's reversal on tariff reform immediately alienated progressives who saw high tariffs as the "mother of trusts."The second misstep involved his dismissal of Roosevelt's friend, the chief forester of the United States, Gifford Pinchot. The affair stemmed from Taft's appointment of Washington-state businessman Richard Ballinger as head of the Department of the Interior. Ballinger held that Roosevelt had improperly closed large sections of federal public-domain lands to economic development, re-opened some tracts, including rich coal lands in Alaska that Roosevelt had previously designated not for sale. Consequently, Pinchot launched a public attack on Ballinger, and indirectly on Taft, leaving the President with no alternative but to dismiss Pinchot. The resulting explosion tore the Republican Party apart and drove an inseparable wedge between Taft and his once-beloved friend and mentor, Theodore Roosevelt. William Taft: Foreign Affairs President Taft was more committed to the expansion of U.S. foreign trade than was Roosevelt. He pursued a program, known as "dollar diplomacy," designed to encourage U.S. investments in South and Central American, the Caribbean, and the Far East. To implement this foreign policy agenda, Taft used government officials to promote the sale of American products overseas, particularly heavy industrial goods and military hardware. In Taft's conception of foreign policy, the U.S. military was a tool of economic diplomacy. He invited U.S. banks to rescue debt-ridden Honduras with loans and grants, and he sent 2,700 U.S. marines to stabilize Nicaragua's conservative, pro-U.S. regime when rebels threatened to overthrow its government. Taft's effort at designing a new look for U.S. foreign policy was generally unsuccessful. United States trade with China actually declined under Taft. Additionally, his program aimed at seeking commercial advantages in Central America aggravated the existing ill will that had been generated by Roosevelt's military interventions in Panama and Santa Domingo. (See Roosevelt's biography, foreign affairs section, for further details.) The bad relations between the United States and other American nations to the south resulted in the convening of a Pan-American Conference. This conference was intent on finding ways to curtail U.S. commercial penetration, influence, and intervention. When Taft ordered two thousand troops to the Mexican border to stand ready to intervene in revolutionary-torn Mexico to protect U.S. investments, Congress offered stiff opposition. Taft then backed off (earning the nickname "Peaceful Bill"), leaving the situation in Mexico for his successor to handle. William Taft: Life After the Presidency After leaving the White House, William Howard Taft taught at Yale University Law School until President Warren G. Harding (who had nominated Taft in 1912 at the Republican convention) appointed him chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. During the years between his appointment to the court and his presidency, Taft campaigned for Charles Evans Hughes for President in 1916 and served as cochairman of the National Labor Board. He supported Wilson's European foreign policy and U.S. participation in the League of Nations. Taft served as chief justice until his death in 1930. He wrote 253 opinions, or about one-sixth of all decisions handed down during his term. Most of his decisions were cautiously conservative and constraining of government. In Truax v. Corrigan, for example, he struck down the provision of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act which barred injunctions against labor picketing. He reasoned that even peaceful picketing may violate the Fourteenth Amendment in depriving business owners of their property without the due process of law. He also ruled against the right of Congress to discourage child labor by levying an excise tax on goods manufactured by children (Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.) However, in at least one instance Taft had an opportunity to expand the President's power. His majority opinion in Myers v. United States invalidated tenure of office acts which limited the power of the President to remove subordinates, in this case postmasters. President Andrew Johnson's violation of similar law, the Tenure of Office Act of 1867, led to his impeachment by the House of Representatives. On March 8, 1930, Taft died from complications of heart disease, high blood pressure, and inflammation of the bladder. His funeral was the first presidential funeral broadcast on radio. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Taft and John F. Kennedy are the only Presidents buried at Arlington. His wife lived for another thirteen years—the only woman to be both First Lady and wife of a chief justice. William Taft: Family Life As President, William Howard Taft left most family and domestic matters to Nellie Taft. Two of his three children, Robert Alphonso and Helen Herron, were college students during the White House years. Robert graduated from Yale in 1910, and then went on to Harvard Law School, where he graduated first in his class in 1913. He would go on to become one of the most distinguished and powerful senators of the twentieth century, earning the nickname "Mr. Republican." Helen earned her doctorate in history from Yale in 1917. The youngest sibling, Charles Phelps, aged eleven in 1908, spent his adolescence in the White House. Taft loved to play sports. He was the first President to take up golf. Some western voters—those who equated Taft's Unitarianism with atheism—thought his golf playing indecent if not immoral. His love for the sport caused a golf boom in the nation, doubling the number of players on public courses. Taft's affection for golf also caused political problems during his presidency, when critics thought he would do well to spend less time on the links and more time at work in the White House. What most people associated with Taft, however, was his enormous size, and the image of his 300 plus pounds of presidential flesh offended some people and amused many others. When he became stuck in the presidential bath tub, requiring six men to pull him free, the nation's press had a field day. His size made him the subject of countless jokes: "Taft was the most polite man in Washington. One day he gave up his seat on a streetcar to three women." Within the capital's social circle, Taft frequently embarrassed his family and associates by falling asleep at concerts, during presidential briefing sessions, and while presiding over his cabinet. At ease with his uncontrolled appetite and his need for sleep after eating or after exerting himself, Taft simply refused to be embarrassed by his weight or his behavior. He accepted his size and so did most of the American public in time. William Taft: The American Franchise The nation's population had leaped from 76 million people in 1900 to 92 million people in 1910—a 21 percent increase. Nearly 9 million immigrants were included in that population surge, the largest number of newcomers in any decade of the nation's history. Almost 60 percent of these immigrants came from Italy, Russia, and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. They were poorer and less well educated than earlier arrivals from northern and western Europe. Their religious traditions clashed with America's dominant Protestantism. Most of the new immigrants settled in cities, which explains partly the shift in the rural/urban ratio in the nation. By 1920, more Americans lived in urban places than in rural areas. Changes in the Political Scene When William Howard Taft entered the White House in 1909, 65.4 percent of the eligible voters in the nation had voted. In 1912, the ratio of voter participation had dropped to 58.8 percent—a continuation of the downward trend that began in 1904. By comparison, the percentage of eligible voters who participated in the presidential elections from 1840 to 1900 always ranged between 75 to 80 percent. The principal reason behind the drop is related to the weakening of the political party structure with the onset of progressivism in the 1890s. States moved to restrict the influence of political parties by such measures as direct primaries that enabled citizens to support independents in party nominating elections. In addition, states adopted voter registration requirements which made access to the vote more difficult. State initiative and referendum processes allowed citizens to go beyond political parties to move legislation. The electorate was additionally empowered by its ability to recall elected state officials. And starting in 1916, voters—not state legislatures—chose U.S. senators. This latter change forced campaigns to focus on the popular vote rather than on legislatures controlled by party bosses. Moreover, civil service reform greatly reduced party patronage. As a result, a new style of campaign emerged in which candidates appealed directly to voters rather than party leaders and convention delegates. Advertising began to replace the armies of party workers who had mobilized voters in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, without party efforts to get out the vote, voter turnout began to decline. Rise of Interest Groups As the influence of political parties weakened, organized interest groups could push their special interests without having to go through party leaders. Groups like the Anti-Saloon League, the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Federation of Labor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People focused their attention on the legislative process and on electing specific individuals to support their causes. They also began to retain the service of lobbyists, paid advocates who pressured elected officials to support their respective group interests. By 1912, some elected officials came to see themselves as mediators among competitive interest groups rather than just loyal members of a political party. Additionally, beginning in the 1890s, parties had become more heavily dependent on campaign contributions by business leaders and corporations. Empowering the Disfranchised Among the disfranchised were women and African Americans. Most blacks still lived in the American South in 1908, and most of them had been disfranchised by the various Jim Crow laws that threw up barriers, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, to their registration for voting. Since the end of Reconstruction, the Republican Party had maintained a shadow organization among southern African Americans, but it was primarily a means for manipulating delegate votes at Republican conventions and gave no real political power to African Americans. Most importantly, the wave of violence that swept the South in the first two decades of the new century (white mobs lynched more than 1,000 blacks between 1900 and 1914) terrorized African Americans. Most of those lynched, although wrongly accused of sexual aggression towards white women, had actually violated the political color line by their political assertiveness or personal independence in the face of white intimidation. Understandably, very few blacks voted in the national elections of 1908 and 1912. In response to the limitations on their civil and political rights, and because economic opportunity in the South was limited for them, African Americans began moving to Northern cities after 1900. Although they found job discrimination, inferior schools, and segregated neighborhoods, they at least felt a sense of empowerment in the Northern ghettos. In Harlem, for instance, they could walk the streets unmolested, and they could organize into political action groups of some power. Also, new leaders and organizations emerged in the new century, which advocated black power and black assertiveness in the face of discrimination. W. E. B. DuBois, a forceful black scholar and writer, broke with white-accommodationist policies advocated by black educator and leader Booker T. Washington when he established the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). DuBois supported black mobilization for political and social rights, and by 1914, the NAACP had 50 branch offices and more than 6,000 members. Demanding the Vote During the Taft years, American women organized effectively to demand suffrage and new roles for women in all walks of life. (The Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote in federal elections, would be ratified in time for the 1920 elections). Their struggle, similar to the struggle for black rights, raised questions about tactics and female identity. Before 1910, those women who organized for women's rights thought of themselves as members of "the women's movement." This label signified their desire to move beyond the domestic sphere of life into social welfare activities and political equality. They believed women's special, even superior, traits as protectors of family and home would lift all of society to a higher moral level as a result of their participation. Around 1910, some of those concerned with women's role in society began using a new word—feminism—to characterize their efforts. They thought less in terms of duty and morality and more about rights and self-realization as women. They believed that all women should unite politically and socially because of their shared disadvantages as women. Their advocacy presented them with a fundamental dilemma that their opponents often highlighted: the formation of a united gender group for the purpose of abolishing gender-based distinctions in politics, the economy, religion, society, and life. Feminists especially focused on economic (equal pay for equal work) and sexual independence, supporting birth control (led by Margaret Sanger) and "sex rights," or a single standard of social behavior for men and women in sexual relations. As chief justice of the United States, Taft presided over the court when it came down with a decision in Adkins vs. Children's Hospital which abolished "protective legislation" regulating the number of hours and the wages paid to women in a federal hospital in the District of Columbia. Although the decision abolished the distinction between men and women, at the time it was considered a reactionary move by the court to strike down a law that had granted women preferential, or "protective," treatment. Taft dissented from the opinion, citing the authority of Congress to set maximum hours, a position that was considered progressive at the time. William Taft: Impact and Legacy Historians acknowledge that William Howard Taft had a challenging task as President: living up to the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt. It did not help that his political experience and skills were limited and that he was naturally critical of his own abilities. His biographers generally agree that his gigantic appetite reflected psychological tensions within himself that he never resolved. Taft was a warmhearted and kind man who wanted to be loved as a person and to be respected for his judicial temperament. It was his temperament, moreover, that caused most of his problems as a political leader. Taft seldom took any initiative in legislative matters, and he had little talent for leadership. He tended to ponder at great length all sides of a question. In essence, he was not decisive. He sat by quietly, for example, as the Republican-dominated Congress added 847 amendments to his tariff reform package, dashing any hope for real reform. Additionally, he was inactive. He typically ate a dozen eggs, a pound of bacon, and mounds of pancakes for breakfast, leaving him sluggish for most of the morning. In the words of Arthur Link, the much-respected biographer of Woodrow Wilson, the Taft presidency was an unmitigated "disaster." Most historians agree to some extent, viewing Taft as a conservative interregnum between activist reformers Roosevelt and Wilson. Although the word "disaster" is perhaps too extreme, there can be no doubt that Taft's hesitancy as a leader and politician produced few accomplishments during his term. Citation Information Consulting Editor Peri E. Arnold Professor Arnold is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His writings include: Making the Managerial Presidency: Comprehensive Reorganization Planning, 1905–1996 (University Press of Kansas, 1986)


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LUKE, AGE FIVE, wants to go to the playground, but mom has another plan, so Luke throws a temper tantrum. He complains. He grumbles. He wallows in self-pity . Mom knows her son should be grateful. She has spent hours lecturing him on the virtue of gratitude, but the results have been meager. She is discouraged. Can you relate?
Teaching children to be grateful is important. It make them winsome to the adults around them. But gratitude also expresses humility, and that is the most important reason to teach them this discipline. The opposite, complaining, whining, and pouting express pride. Above all other virtues, God blesses the humble, and above all other vices he resists the proud. For example, "Humble yourself before the Lord and he will exalt you" (James 4:10), and Isaiah 2:11 counters with "The lofty pride of man shall be humbled." Psalm 138:6 tells us that "[God] regards the lowly, but the proud he knows from afar." You want God to bless your children not resist them.
What is the connection between gratitude and humility? A grateful heart is one in contact with reality. It's gratitude flows from the conviction that it is utterly dependent upon God. It did not make itself. It is not in charge of today or tomorrow. God is in charge of today and tomorrow, and he is good. He alone is the sovereign Creator. But a heart that whines and complains rejects these truths. It does not believe that God is both sovereign and good. It is selfish and self-centered. It demands its own way, not God's.
Most importantly complaining rejects the cross of Christ. Here is the crucial center of the grateful heart's affections. At the cross Jesus took the punishment that we deserve. He did this so that we could enjoy, for all eternity, the reward that he deserves. Faith internalizes this mystery. It confesses that, in light of Jesus' death on the cross, we are never getting what we deserve. No matter how bad our day is going, no matter how disappointed we feel, we are not getting crucifixion, and that is what the gospel says we deserve. The grateful heart confesses this. It confesses that it is always getting better than it deserves.
Paul was intensely convinced of these truths. That is why in his letters he references thanksgiving and gratitude more than any other first century author. For example Colossians 2:6–7 commands us to "Walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."
Because our children are born with original sin, they are proud. Gratitude does not come easy. In her book The Gift of Thanks, Margaret Visser observes that children must be trained to be grateful. One experiment set out to measure children's propensity for gratitude. They were placed in a room with their parents. A person entered and gave the child a gift. The children spontaneously said hello and goodbye 27% of the time, but they only thanked their benefactors 7% of the time, and then often only after great pressure from their parents.There is a reason for this. Our children are naturally proud. They are not naturally humble. They think they deserve good treatment.
So what can you do to help your children internalize the discipline of gratitude? Obviously, for small children corporeal punishment is sometimes appropriate. However, it should never be divorced from a clear explanation of the love of God displayed in the gospel as mentioned above. For older children careful instruction and clear reasoning is crucial. This is why gospel-centered parents produce grateful children. (See my book, Gospel Centered Parenting). Whether your children are young or old perseverance is crucial. They will not learn gratitude after one explanation of the gospel. In most cases it will take years of repetition and sweaty perseverance.
For more details on the subject of gratitude, read my new book, The Secret Of Spiritual Joy. I wrote this short book to encourage parents and Christians in every life situation to grow in the discipline of gratitude.
A thankful heart is the secret to Spiritual Joy.


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CyanogenMod10 beta 2 for Htc Explorer/pico
Well, these really are exciting times for HTC Explorer, popularly known as pico.First a fully functional and stable ICS and now this, a beta version of Jellybean.This is absolutely stunning in looks and also in performance.So, what are you waiting for?Flash this on your pico and show off to your friends that you have Jellybean which even S2 users do not have.So, here are the flashing instructions and the changelog as well.
– Boots(duh)
– Bluetooth
– Camera(stills/camcorder/panaroma)
– GPS (untested)
– Audio
– Wifi
– Project butter
– Video Recording
– Hardware Acceleration
– SD Card
– Video Decoding
Changelogs-beta 2
* Fix freq_lock @600 Mhz
* Partially fix Video Decoding
* More Stable Mobile data,fix some audio issues
* Upstream CyanogenMod 10 changes
* More stable camera(less fc's)
* HWUI Deny support
Installation Process
Disclaimer : Do It At Your Own Risk!
- Download required files and updates from below :
- Cyangenmod 10 beta 2
- Latest Google apps for JB.
- Copy the downloaded files to the (Root directory of) your sd-card.
- Reboot your device to Custom Revovery (VolumeDown + Power Button) and then volume down to go to recovery.
- [Optional but, Recommended] Do a Nandroid Backup of your current ROM.
- Now from recovery main menu and select Wipe Data option.
- Confirm data wipe by selecting Yes.
- Now flash this the rom you have downloaded (it is a zip file) using clockwork mod recovery. Follow these steps :
- Choose Install Zip From Sd Card option.
- Select Choose Zip From SD Card option.
- Now select the rom you downloaded earlier.
- Confirm the installation and wait till the rom is installed on you handset.
- Flash Latest Google apps for JB you downloaded earlier in CWM recovery.This one has working Google Now and voice search!
- Choose Install Zip From Sd Card option.
- Select Choose Zip From SD Card and the rom is installed on you handset.
- Reboot and enjoy!
Posted on November 26, 2012, in HTC EXPLORER, JellyBean and tagged cm10, Jellybean, Pico. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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Arctech Solar's debut Mideast project kicks off
SHANGHAI, January 14, 2018
Arctech Solar, a leading manufacturer of solar tracking and racking systems, said work has started on its 10 MW solar power plant project in Khafji, Saudi Arabia.
The project is expected to be commissioned by the end of March, said a statement from the company.
Once completed, this project will not only produce enough electricity to households, but also power seawater desalting plants nearby with clean, renewable solar power, it noted.
This is a new regional breakthrough for Arctech Solar's trackers after its successful entry into the African market last October, said the company.
Arctech Solar will be bringing its new product 'SkySmart', one of the world's first trackers designed for bifacial modules, to this year's World Future Energy Summit (WFES) which opens tomorrow (January 15) in Abu Dhabi.
With the reliability of its redundancy design and excellent tracking performance, Arctracker Pro was the first tracker product in China that obtained the UL2703 and UL3703 certificates by UL last year and has been widely recognized and accepted by customers, it added.
Guy Rong, the president of Arctech Solar's international business, said: "We are delighted to make an effort to the development of Saudi Arabia's seawater desalination."
"This project in Saudi Arabia lays the groundwork for us to enter the Middle East market. We look forward to playing a positive role in 'Saudi Vison 2030' and continuing our involvement in the Middle East area," he added.-TradeArabia News Service


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Every time a new Pokemon game releases there has to be some sort of adventure involved. Pokemon X & Y released today, and that meant turning our normal Saturday into something special. Graev informed me yesterday that Toys R Us is having a special and as a result there would probably be huge lines. After all… it's Pokemon. "You need to be there by 8:30am — no later!" he said. This just happened to be grocery week, so I woke up at 6am to be at the grocery store when it opened. I raced through shopping, came home and unloaded all the groceries, and had just enough time to get back in the car and race over to Toys R Us.
The special Graev mentioned is Toys R Us has a deal on 3DS games where you buy one get one 40% off. If you haven't picked up your copies yet, or you want other 3DS games, I think the deal ends today so get out there!
So I roll up to Toys R Us at 8:15. You can never be too early, and Graev was counting on me! The parking lot was empty save for a few employee vehicles for the early cleaning crew. I pulled into a tactical position where I could monitor cars entering the vicinity yet remain close enough to the doors that I could sprint up and be first. Who knows how many copies they have, and how many greedy people will buy them all up. 8:30 rolls around and I see a car pull up. I spring into action by grabbing my wallet, turning of the car, and giving myself a quick look in the mirror when I notice the man getting out of his van carrying a rather large plastic bag. Curses! It's just the guy who fills the stuffed animals in the claw machine.
I'm starting to get nervous. No one is here but a few employees. Did I have the time wrong? Does Pokemon not come out today? When suddenly another car pulls up. It's 8:45 and I'm not risking it. The first copy is going to be mine. I casually, slowly, open my door and walk in a brisk, nonchalant cool guy 'in my shorts and flip flops on a Saturday' style. I'm an expert at giving off the 'just doin' m'thang' vibe. I've had a lot of practice over the years waiting on these games, systems, etc., to release. You can't spook the others into thinking you're a runner. If they catch wind that you're here to be a player that just psychs them up. I gave the guy who walked up one of those chin thrust 'sup's' and casually waited for the punk kid to finally unlock the door.
SPRINT! Like a bolt of Pikachu's lightening I was in the store and weaving in and out of displays. The store was eerily empty and 30 seconds later when the other guy finally makes it the 40 feet to the games department he asks, "Here for Pokemon too?" "Yup," I reply while thinking to myself of-freaking-course I'm here for Pokemon; Who wouldn't be here for Pokemon 45 minutes before the store opens?
Finally the employee (who knows me by name thanks to Disney Infinity) takes his sweet time walking over. "Here for Pokemon? Both versions, right?" I walk through the mental "of-freaking-course, who buys just one?" again and hear the guy behind me say "Yeah, yeah me too both X & Y!" Maybe this guy isn't so bad after all.
The employee finally surfaces from the back where he most certainly had copies of the game under lock and key with armed security standing watch. I blurt out, "You guys have a special right now. 40% off. I get 40% off. GIVE IT TO MEEEE!" Something like that spews out of my lips and he just nods, having already entered my Rewards number (again, Disney Infinity). Clutching my bag to my chest I exit the store, look around for anyone talking into their cuffs wearing ear pieces (you can never be too cautious), get into my car, lock the doors, and drive off — the parking lot still empty.
You're going next time, Graev.


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Greyhound Pets of America is holding its first Charity Dinner & Auction on Saturday, August 10th, at the Ramada Inn Plaza hotel on Bluegrass Parkway. I hope some of you will join us. We've got a greyt night planned with dinner, live entertainment, live auction and door prizes.
More info at http://www.gpalouisville.org or drop us a line at firstname.lastname@example.com
Saturday, August 10, 2013
6 to 10 P.M.
Louisville's Ramada Inn Plaza
9700 Bluegrass Parkway (Hurstbourne and I-64)
Tickets are $30 per person
Available from any GPA/Louisville member, at one of our Meet & Greets or may be purchased on-line from GPA via PayPal:
Deadline for ticket sales is Friday, July 26, 2013.
No ticket sales at the door.


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