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Uh Oh, sounds like you need to buy a lariot on your next trip to town.... Or get your friend the Donkey Peddling Cowboy to rope him up for you.ReplyDelete
Hope that giant log doesn't fall on him!ReplyDelete
How fun to have donkeys!
I love the name Gnat for a donkey. Very cute and very cute donkey. We live in a rural area and there are several donkey's that give birth every so often. This year, an adorable black baby. He was so so so cute. Still is.ReplyDelete
Your babies are sooo cute! My husband I and I came across your blog the other night and love it. How awesome it would be to live on a farm like you have!ReplyDelete
I simply cannot stand it. This is the cutest photo ever!!!ReplyDelete
What aclever guy! So cute and so smart, too! Love, love, love all the farm animals - thank you so much for sharing them with those of us who can't have such cuties! (City ordinances are so pesky :p)ReplyDelete
What a doll!!! Honestly, who could not love a donkey?! Is it true that they have very distinct personalities? I have heard people compare them to dogs. I have been toying with the idea of owning a couple when we start our little farm.ReplyDelete
Oh, and just as a little funny. The word verification for this comment is spanties! I kid you not. Don't worry I have my spanties on today!
I'm so jealous that you have these cute farm animals in your yard! All I get in my yard are squirrels and an occasional raccoon!ReplyDelete
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In his typical duck-'n'-dodge fashion, President Barack Obama spewed his 115th executive order upon the American public on a late Friday afternoon, March 16. Cloaked in one of Obama's candy-coated, grandiloquent titles, the "National Defense Resources Preparedness" executive order set the blogosphere ablaze this past week.
Canada Free Press ran an article titled "Obama Executive Order: Peacetime Martial Law!" An Examiner.com article similarly declared that the order would "nationalize everything" and "allow for a civilian draft." And the Drudge Report ran a story headlined "Martial Law? Obama issues Executive Order: the National Defense Resources Preparedness."
On the other hand, mainstream media minions and others were quick to quell the hysteria as rumor. William A. Jacobson, associate clinical professor at Cornell Law School, warned: "If someone wants to make the argument that this is an expansion of presidential powers, then do so based on actual language. There is enough that Obama actually does wrong without creating claims which do not hold up to scrutiny." (Still, Jacobson offers this disclaimer: "I'm not ruling out the possibility that this is more than it seems, but unless and until someone does more than merely state that martial law is coming, I'll consider this to be routine.")
WorldNetDaily's Drew Zahn defended the president by noting that "Obama's executive order is nearly identical to EO 12919, issued by President Clinton on June 7, 1994, which itself was an amendment to EO 10789, issued in 1958 by President Eisenhower, and which in fact, was later amended by EO 13286, issued in 2003 by George W. Bush."
HotAir even conducted a side-by-side analysis of Obama's order and Clinton's and added that Obama's EO is, in Zahn's words, "essentially just an update to deal with changes in government agency structure."
So, case closed?
Not so fast.
First, I don't care how many presidents have issued EOs; if they are flagrant violations of the Constitution, they are wrong in any number or any form. "My predecessor did it, too" is no excuse for reckless unconstitutional conduct.
As you will read for yourself in a moment, the National Defense Resources Preparedness EO is a blatant desecration of our Constitution. It is a direct attack on the rule of law, our liberties and private property rights.
The astounding audacity in the document itself is that it never limits its execution to a time of war. In fact, it grants the president total command and control of most industries and consumer supplies, even in times of peace. As Alex Jones' Prison Planet explained, "a key addition to the language made by Obama is that all these industries and means of production can be seized 'under both emergency and non-emergency conditions.'"
Even Edwin Black, writing for the liberal Huffington Post, couldn't defend the president in this awry executive course of action, confessing the EO's various constituents:
"Part III of the Executive Order empowers the President and his advisers to effect 'the expansion of productive capacity and supply.' This includes, 'Loan Guarantees to reduce current or projected shortfalls of resources, critical technology items, or materials essential for the national defense.' Any Federal Reserve Bank is directed to 'assist the agency in serving as fiscal agent.'
"Section 303 allows the government to 'enable rapid transition of emerging technologies.' …
"In the event of an emergency, the Order would empower, 'the head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense' to 'procure and install … Government-owned equipment in plants, factories, or other industrial facilities owned by private persons.
"Stockpiling or prioritizing will not require a state of war. In Section 310 entitled, 'Critical Items,' the government is empowered 'to take appropriate action to ensure that critical components, critical technology items, essential materials, and industrial resources are available from reliable sources when needed to meet defense requirements during peacetime, graduated mobilization, and national emergency. Appropriate action may include restricting contract solicitations to reliable sources, restricting contract solicitations to domestic sources (pursuant to statutory authority), stockpiling critical components, and developing substitutes for critical components or critical technology items.' …
"In defining the civil transportation, the Order covers any possible gasoline rationing and vehicle restriction for vehicles that guzzle too much gasoline. The Order specifies 'Civil transportation includes movement of persons and property by all modes of transportation in interstate, intrastate, or foreign commerce within the United States, its territories and possessions, and the District of Columbia, and related public storage and warehousing, ports, services, equipment and facilities. It adds, 'Civil transportation' also shall include direction, control, and coordination of civil transportation capacity regardless of ownership.' …
"To avoid any doubt, the Order covers 'all forms of energy including petroleum, gas (both natural and manufactured), electricity, solid fuels (including all forms of coal, coke, coal chemicals, coal liquification, and coal gasification), solar, wind, other types of renewable energy, atomic energy, and the production, conservation, use, control, and distribution (including pipelines) of all of these forms of energy.'
"Because any oil interruption would have an immediate impact on the distribution of food, the Order also covers 'the production or preparation for market use of food resources.' The Order asserts that 'food resources' means all commodities and products … capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals."
This EO is no simple update of previous presidential orders. Do you think the administration would have slid it under the public and press's radar on a late Friday if it were?
Whether in preparation for war (for example, with Iran) or any other national emergency, the federal government does not have the authority to take over our food and water supply, energy supplies (including oil and natural gas), technology, industry, manufacturing, transportation, health care facilities, etc. And taking the additional preliminary steps for enacting this martial law even during a time of peace is an unprecedented and out-of-control abuse of executive power.
This presidential order is another sweeping power grab in a long and dangerous legacy of government overreaches. Our Founding Fathers never would have allowed it, and we shouldn't, either.
Executive orders become law 30 days after being published in the Federal Register if they go unchallenged by Congress. So write or call your congressmen and the president today to voice your opinion about this assault on your rights and liberties. You can call the White House at 202-456-1111 or contact the president by going to http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments.
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Home Page Chess Life Online 2009 September Bryan Smith is Norm-Hunting in Crete
|Bryan Smith is Norm-Hunting in Crete
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|July 16, 2009
Rethymno, Crete, July 12-19 2009. After five rounds he has 4.5/5 points alongside three GMs. The 100 player field looks very strong this year with 40+ titled players from over twenty different countries. No doubt this is due to the excellent conditions given to even mere mortals with a decent FIDE rating (reduced hotel and entry fee).
International Master Bryan Smith is currently tied for first place at the international tournament in
Bryan also plans to play the 2nd Paleohora International Open Chess Tournament which launches on 21st July and concludes on the 28th. Let's root Bryan on as he hunts down his first GM norm. If he catches fire like he did at last year's King Island and National Chess Congress it will be a snap.
His games so far include a win over GM Zubarev (2548 ELO) in round 4 and a tactical melee in Bryan's pet Dragon defense in the fifth round against Ukrainian GM Tukhaev.


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Jesus Finally 'Shows up' in the Right Place
Jesus! He's always appearing on the most random of objects, like telephone poles and rocking chairs and Walmart receipts (and delicious Polish foods). Well get this: He's finally decided to show up in an appropriate spot. Yes, a wooden cross. Or so people are saying.
Georgia-based woodworker Clay Perry's been getting all kinds of texts and calls from people who want to see, touch, and/or "have some sort of experience with" a seven-inch cross he carved out of poplar, because the work supposedly has the Lord's face embedded in its bark. Supposedly, because we just don't see Jesus there at all. Maybe it's because of the picture quality, or some sort of vitamin deficiency, or the devil blinding us again, but nope.
Maybe if you keep watching this news clip over and over and over again, an image of Jesus will eventually appear on that cross. Try it. Might be a fun way to spend your Labor Day.


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Luke's Note: I'm handing the reins over tonight to Patrick Wyatt, a games development legend and former Blizzard executive who has played a big role in the success of games like StarCraft, Diablo and Guild Wars.
This is the first part of his insider's story of the making of Warcraft, which he knows a thing or two about, since he was both Producer and Lead Programmer on the game. If you're a fan of Warcraft, its universe, Blizzard or just video game history in general, it's a great read.
Back before the dawn of time, which is to say when PC games were written for the DOS operating system, I got to work on a game called Warcraft.
I get to lead a project!
While I had developed several PC games, a couple of Mac games, and seven console titles for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, I was either in a junior role on those projects, or the projects were game "ports" rather than original development work. A game "port" is the process of moving a game from one platform, like the Amiga, and converting the code, design, artwork and other game assets to make them work on another, like the Nintendo.
My role encompassed two jobs: leading the development team as Producer - a game industry term for project manager, designer, evangelist, and cat herder - and writing the majority of the game code as Lead Programmer. This was perhaps less daunting then, when a game project might employ ten or twenty developers, than it is now, with development teams tipping the scales at two-hundred or more developers.
The source of Warcraft
The developers at the startup company I worked for - then named Silicon & Synapse but later renamed Blizzard in a nod towards our tempestuous development methodology - played a great many games during our free time. And from that game-playing came the spark to create Warcraft.
We were inspired to create Warcraft after playing (and replaying and replaying) a game called Dune 2, by Westwood Studios. Dune 2 was arguably the first modern real-time strategy (RTS) game; with a scrolling world map, real-time unit construction and movement, and individual unit combat. It isn't that much different in design than a modern RTS like Starcraft 2, excepting perhaps a certain scale and graphics quality.
Its predecessor, Dune 1 - a very worthy game itself - shared some of the same elements, but its semi-real-time unit combat was wrapped inside an adventure game. Dune 2 stripped its predecessors' idea of the player representing a character inside the game-world and focused exclusively on the modern RTS mechanics: harvesting resources, building a base, harvesting more resources, building an army, and finally, finding and conquering the enemy.
Along with the other folks at Blizzard I exhaustively played Dune 2 during lunch breaks and after work, playing each of the three competing races to determine their strengths and weaknesses; and afterward comparing play-styles, strategies and tactics with others in the office.
While the game was great fun, it suffered from several obvious defects that called out (nay, screamed) to be fixed. Most notably, the only way that my friends and I could play the game was against the computer. It was obvious that this gaming style would be ideal as a multiplayer game. Unlike turn-based games, where each player must wait for all opponents to issue unit movement orders, a real-time game would enable all players to give orders simultaneously, placing a premium on rapid, decisive tactical movements over long, drawn-out strategic planning.
And with that singular goal in mind, development of the game began without any serious effort to plan the game design, evaluate the technical requirements, build the schedule, or budget for the required staff. Not even on a napkin. Back at Blizzard we called this the "business plan du jour", which was or standard operating methodology.
Initial development
As the sole developer on the project, and lacking an art team during the initial phase, I screen-captured the artwork of Dune 2 to use until such time as my forward progress warranted an artist or two. The artists were tied up working on any number of other pressing deadlines and didn't need distractions at this point - we were always pressed for time.
My early programming efforts developing the game engine included creating a tile-based scrolling map renderer, a sprite renderer to draw game units and other bitmaps, a sprite-sequencing engine to animate game units, an event-dispatcher to post mouse and keyboard events, a game-dispatcher to control unit-behavior, and a great deal of user-interface code to control application behavior. With this subset of the project completed in the first few weeks it became possible to "play" a solo game, though I didn't implement unit-construction until sometime later; early play required using typed commands to spawn units on screen.
Each day I'd build upon the previous efforts in organic fashion. Without schedule milestones or an external driver for the project, I was in the enviable position of choosing which features to build next, which made me incredibly motivated. I already enjoyed game development, and getting to do this green-field programming was like a drug. Even now, some 22 years after getting into the game industry, I still love the creative aspects of programming.
The first unique feature: multi-unit selection
One feature of which I was particularly proud was unit-selection. Unlike Dune 2, which only allowed the user to select a single unit at a time, and which necessitated frenzied mouse-clicking to initiate joint-unit tactical combat, it was obvious that enabling players to select more than one unit would speed task-force deployment and dramatically improve game combat.
Before I started in the game industry I had worked extensively with several low-end "Computer Assisted Design" (CAD) programs like MacDraw and MacDraft to design wine-cellars for my dad's wine cellar business, so it seemed natural to use the "click & drag" rectangle-selection metaphor to round up a group of units to command.
I believe that Warcraft was the first game to use this user-interface metaphor. When I first implemented the feature it was possible to select and control large numbers of units at a time; there was no upper limit on the number of units that could be selected.
While selecting and controlling one hundred units at a time demonstrated terrible weaknesses in the simple path-finding algorithm I had implemented, after I got the basic algorithms working I nevertheless spent hours selecting units and dispatching game units to destinations around the map instead of writing more code; it was the coolest feature I had ever created in my programming career up to that time!
Later in the development process, and after many design arguments between team-members, we decided to allow players to select only four units at a time based on the idea that users would be required to pay attention to their tactical deployments rather than simply gathering a mob and sending them into the fray all at once. We later increased this number to nine in Warcraft II. Command and Conquer, the spiritual successor to Dune 2, didn't have any upper bound on the number of units that could be selected. It's worth another article to talk about the design ramifications, for sure.
Apart from the ability to control multiple units at one time, at this phase Warcraft resembled nothing so much as a stripped-down version of Dune 2, so much so that I defensively joked that, while Warcraft was certainly inspired by Dune 2, the game was radically different - our radar minimap was in the upper-left corner of the screen, whereas theirs was in the lower-right corner.
The formation of the fellowship
By early 1994, I had made enough progress to warrant additional help on the project. I was joined by Ron Millar, Sam Didier, Stu Rose, Bob Fitch, Jesse McReynolds, Mike Morhaime, Mickey Nielsen, and others. Many of these folks started work on the game after our company was acquired by Davidson & Associates in February 1994.
Ron Millar was originally hired on as an artist based on his skill in creating artwork for Gameboy titles at Virgin Games, but his amazing creativity and design sensibilities led to his taking on a design role in many Blizzard projects, and he stepped into a similar role for Warcraft.
Sam Didier, a strong, stocky and stalwart character who resembled nothing so much as a bear scaled down to human proportions, and whose heroic characters and epic drawings are now the definitive art style for Blizzard games, had honed his computer drawing skills on sixteen-bit console titles, but his penchant for drawing fantasy artwork during meetings and at any other spare moment demonstrated his capability to lead the art direction for this new title.
Stu Rose - whose background as an illustrator led to his design of the Blizzard logo still used today - initially contributed to the background tile-map artwork, but he would later take on a critical role in the ultimate design of Warcraft. Stu is quite memorable as a voice actor in the role of Human Peon, where his rendition of a downtrodden brute-laborer was comedic genius.
Bob Fitch had started work as a programmer and project lead on another title at the same time I started development of Warcraft. Allen Adham, the president of Blizzard, had assigned Bob the task of building a word game called "Games People Play" that would include crossword, scramble, boggle, and other similar diversions. Bob's notable lack of enthusiasm for the project resulted in his making little progress on the title for many months; with Warcraft showing well Bob was released to assist me, and his enthusiasm for the game helped move the project forward more rapidly.
Jesse, a Caltech graduate, started work on building a network driver for the IPX network protocol so the game could be played on a Local Area Network (LAN). Mike Morhaime, one of the two co-founders of Blizzard, later took on the significantly more difficult task of writing a "mixed-mode" modem driver. While Warcraft was a DOS "Protected Mode" game, the modem driver could be called from both Protected Mode and Real Mode due to quirks in the DOS operating system and the 80386 chip-architecture it ran on, so he could regularly be found in his office staring at screens full of diagnostic numbers as he worked through the complicated timing issues related to re-entrant code. At the end of the day, the modem code was rock-solid, quite an achievement given the primitive toolset we had at the time.
Warcraft art
Allen Adham hoped to obtain a license to the Warhammer universe to try to increase sales by brand recognition. Warhammer was a huge inspiration for the art-style of Warcraft, but a combination of factors, including a lack of traction on business terms and a fervent desire on the part of virtually everyone else on the development team (myself included) to control our own universe nixed any potential for a deal. We had already had terrible experiences working with DC Comics on "Death and Return of Superman" and "Justice League Task Force", and wanted no similar issues for our new game.
It's surprising now to think what might have happened had Blizzard not controlled the intellectual property rights for the Warcraft universe - it's highly unlikely Blizzard would be such a dominant player in the game industry today.
Years after the launch of Warcraft my dad, upon returning from a trip to Asia, gave me a present of a set of Warhammer miniatures in the form of a skeleton charioteer and horses with the comment: "I found these cool toys on my trip and they reminded me a lot of your game; you might want to have your legal department contact them because I think they're ripping you off." Hmmm!
Blockers to game development
One interesting facet of the early development process was that, while I was building a game that would be playable using modems or a local area network, the company had no office LAN. Because we developed console titles, which would easily fit on a floppy disk, it wasn't something that was necessary, though it would certainly have simplified making backups.
So when I started collaborating with other artists and programmers, we used the "sneaker network", carrying floppy disks back and forth between offices to integrate source code revisions and artwork.
Bob Fitch was the second programmer on the project, and he and I would regularly copy files and code-changes back and forth. Periodically we'd make integration mistakes and a bug we fixed would re-appear. We'd track it down and discover that - during file-copying while integrating changes - we had accidentally overwritten the bug fix, and we'd have to remember how we had fixed it previously.
This happened more than a few times because of the rapidity with which we developed code and our lack of any processes to handle code-integration other than "remembering" which files we had worked on. I was somewhat luckier in this regard in that my computer was the "master" system upon which we performed all the integrations, so my changes were less likely to get lost. These days we use source-control to avoid such stupidities, but back then we didn't even know what it was!
With more programmers, designers and artists working on the title progress increased substantially, but we also discovered a big blocker to our progress. The game was initially developed in DOS "Real Mode", which meant that only 640K of memory was available, less about 120K for the operating system. Can you believe how crap computers were back then!?!
As the art team started creating game units, backgrounds and user-interface artwork, we rapidly burned through all of the memory and started looking for alternatives. A first attempt at a solution was to use EMS "paged memory" mapping and store art resources "above" the 640K memory barrier.
Stories programmers tell about EMS memory are like those that old folks tell about walking uphill to school, barefoot, in the snow, both ways, except that EMS stories are even more horrible, and actually true.
In any event the EMS solution quite fortunately didn't work; it turned out there was a better solution. A company called Watcom released a C compiler which included a DOS-mode "extender" that allowed programs to be written in "Protected Mode" with access to linear 32-bit memory, something every programmer takes for granted today when they write 32-bit (or even 64-bit applications). While it required a couple of days to update the source code, the DOS-mode extender worked perfectly, and we were back in business, now with access to substantially more memory.
Not the conclusion
In the next article in this series I'll talk about Stu Rose and the design coup, the first multiplayer game of Warcraft, the bug that nearly killed multiplayer, how Bill Roper made Warcraft awesome, fitting the game onto floppy disks, the Westwood Studio reaction to our game, and other gems I can dredge up from a game that I and the other members of the development team worked on eighteen (!) years ago.
As a game developer with more than 22 years in the industry Patrick has helped build small companies into big ones (VP of Blizzard, Founder of ArenaNet, COO of En Masse Entertainment); lead the design and development efforts for best-selling game series (Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft, Guild Wars); written code for virtually every aspect of game development (networking, graphics, AI, pathing, sound, tools, installers, servers, databases, ecommerce, analytics, crypto, dev-ops, etc.); designed many aspects of the games he's shipped; run platform services teams (datacenter operations, customer support, billing/accounts, security, analytics); and developed state-of-the-art technologies required to compete in the AAA+ game publishing business.
He blogs over on Code of Honor, which is where this story originally appeared (republished with permission).
Total Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends. You'll find Total Recall stories every Tue-Fri between 1am -2am Eastern.


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This LA Times editorial says,
|…when many of Santa Barbara's most determined anti-drilling activists teamed up to back a deal that would allow an oil company to drill under state waters off the city's coast, it was a jaw-dropping moment.
|Just as surprising, given the deal's powerful backing, was its collapse Thursday, when the State Lands Commission rejected it on a 2-1 vote. The failure shows that, despite high oil prices that turned "Drill, baby, drill" into a Republican mantra last year, it remains phenomenally difficult to expand drilling in California...
|Under the publicly disclosed terms of the deal, Plains Exploration & Production Co., which owns a platform in federal waters just beyond the three-mile limit controlled by the state, would have drilled several wells from the platform into oil reserves on state property. In return, it would have closed that platform, three others it operates off Santa Barbara and two onshore processing facilities by 2022 and donated 4,000 acres of land for preservation. Over the life of the project, the state would have collected up to $5 billion in tax revenues.
|Bizarrely, the company and the environmental groups that were parties to the bargain kept the rest of its terms confidential. It is not unheard of for environmentalists to sell out the public interest for political or financial reasons, and no elected official should ever approve a secret deal that affects public resources. The company finally announced that it would disclose the full agreement during Thursday's Lands Commission hearing, but that was months too late.
To this Santa Barbarian, who loves views of the sea, the oil platforms have their charms. They protrude from the planar Pacific like little square islands with christmas lights. And, as infrastructural studies, they're rather interesting. It turns out that they're also welcome offshore habitats, as are scuttled or wrecked metal boats.
Which are worse — oil platforms, or the hills of Los Angeles prickling with pump jacks? Pick your poison. Both bargains are Faustian.
The environmental damage risked, much less caused, by offshore drilling, is not a large part of the whole. Lost in most arguments about drilling in Southern California is the fact that up to hundreds of barrels of crude seep into the ocean constantly there, most of it right by UCSB. It stains the water with long streaks of gray-blue oil, much of it spreading from methane — natural gas — bubblings, some of which are trapped and captured by underwater contraptions. Also lost is the fact that offshore drilling on the West Coast contributes a trivial sum to U.S. energy independence.
Civilization is an open laboratory of trade-offs, with a time horizon that is never geological — and human only to the degree that it considers the wants of the living.
I think the best energy bargains are ones involving sun and wind. But there's not enough of either to satisfy the energy appetites of a human population that has swelled to many billions. So we must continue to eat the Earth until its dead stuffings fail to sustain us.
After that? Who cares? We'll all be dead by then too. Maybe some successor species will mine our cemeteries.


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Basic care - Travelling peacefully with your pet
Before leaving
Make sure that your animal will be happy to travel... i.e. will it suffer from travel sickness? Will it be homesick? If it is the case, you may have a much less pleasant vacation. Fortunately, there are some alternatives.
Check with your family and friends. Perhaps a person you know could "baby sit", or you could leave your pet at a reputable facility.
Planning my animal's vacation
Check with airline, railroad or cruise companies to find out if animals are allowed to travel and, if yes, what type of reservations and what arrangements should be made.
Make sure pets are allowed in the hotel, motel or campground.
By plane
First, find out about the airline rules, reservations to be made and procedures that need to be followed when boarding. (Get the information as soon as possible!)
Try to find as direct a flight as possible or with the least amount of stops.
Arrive early at the airport in order to place your animal in the baggage hold and retrieve it quickly when you reach your destination.
By car
Ideally, if your pet is not used to car travel, have it take small rides during the days preceding your departure so it will get accustomed to it.
Plan stops every 2 hours or so for exercise, nature's needs and snacks. To avoid "accidents" in the car, it is preferable to give the main meal at the end of the day.
Don't forget that you should never leave your pet in a parked car for a long period of time, especially on sunny days. The temperature in the car goes up quickly and this could have terrible consequences for your pet (heat strokes can be deadly!).
By bus, train or boat
Obtain information from companies to make sure you can travel with your pet. If possible, note the various procedures and requirements you need to follow.
Note that VIA Rail does not allow pets in passenger cars, but they can travel in a cage as "registered luggage"..
Vaccination and other medical information
Generally speaking, if you are thinking about travelling in the United States, make sure that the rabies vaccine schedule is up to date and that your animal is in good health. As an extra precaution, ask your veterinarian for a health certificate (a medical exam will obviously be necessary).
If you are thinking about travelling abroad (Europe for example), refer to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency site, under "Animals/Exports" www.inspection.gc.ca. You will find all the information you need regarding vaccines, necessary documents, rabies serum antibody titers and the type of identification required for your animal (microchip and/or tattoo).
Memo to help you find what you want on the site. Click on:
- Exports
- Live Animals and Animal Products
- Pet Travel Scheme
- Pets
- European Community - Pet Dogs, Cats and Ferrets
- List of Countries (choose the desired country)
For more information, communicate with the consulate of the country in question.
If your pet seems anxious or if it is agitated in the car for example, your veterinarian can prescribe some medication in order to make your pet's trip and yours more pleasant. (This requires a medical exam.)
General advice
Make sure your pet is wearing a collar with complete information and/or an identification tag.
Have on hand its favorite toy, a leash, some food (preferably kibbles) and fresh water.
In addition, make sure the transport cage (if necessary) is solid, big enough to allow your animal to move (turn around, lie down and stand up). It must have a waterproof floor, a food and water area, and it must lock securely.


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Arboviral Encephalitides Fact Sheet
Agents: Alphaviruses (formerly known as group A arboviruses) are mosquito transmitted and can infect many vertebrate hosts in which infection is usually silent. Birds and rodents are important reservoir hosts. Horses can develop severe disease- a hallmark of new world outbreaks. Alphaviruses include the Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) virus, which could theoretically be produced in either wet or dried form and stabilized for weaponization. Although most experts think that VEE virus is the alphavirus most likely to be used, other new world viruses include Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE). The New World viruses typically cause encephalitis. Old World alphaviruses typically cause fever, rash, arthropathy, and myalgias rather than encephalitis. Disease is usually mild or asymptomatic. Clinical disease is rare, with children more likely to develop the severe syndrome. If delivered by aerosol route, disease in humans and other animals would occur simultaneously. Attack in areas populated with horses, ratites (ostriches, emus, rheas, and cassowaries) and/or appropriate mosquito vectors could initiate an epizootic epidemic. The virus does not persist more than a few hours in the environment.
Reporting Requirements for Disease: Report patients with suspected alphavirus infections within one week to your local health authority; or, call the Texas Department of State Health Services at 1-800-252-8239. Case clusters or multiple cases should be reported immediately.
Infection Control: Standard Precautions should be employed. Soap and water and hospital grade disinfectants can be used for environmental decontamination. Person-to-person spread is not reported.
Incubation Period: 1-6 days (could vary with route of infection, but often short)
Signs/Symptoms: VEE may be characterized by sudden onset with malaise, high fever (101-105°F), severe headache, rigors, photophobia, myalgias (especially in the legs and lumbosacral area), cough, sore throat, and vomiting. These symptoms may be followed by a prolonged period of asthenia and lethargy. Confusion leading to somnolence and coma may occur. The incidence of seizures is inversely related to age. With natural infection children, and rarely adults, may develop encephalitis. Although the overall case fatality rate is less than 1%, in children with encephalitis it may reach 20-35%. The incidence of Central Nervous System disease may be higher after respiratory infection such as in a bioterrorism attack.
Differential Diagnosis: Patients with VEE lacking neurological symptoms may be difficult to distinguish from patients with other illnesses such as influenza, dengue fever, prodromal Legionnaire's disease, or measles. Patients with neurological symptoms should suggest the diagnosis. More common bacterial and viral as well as fungal and parasitic causes of meningitis and encephalitis should be considered in patients with neurological symptoms. Rickettsial, ehrlichial, and leptospiral illnesses should be considered in patients with headache and fever accompanied by neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, or elevated liver function tests. Other potential bioterrorist agents that may be associated with flu-like prodromes (Bacillus anthracis, Yersinia pestis, Coxiella burnetii, Ebola, and smallpox) need to be considered. Other potential bioterrorist agents that cause flu-like illnesses (Bacillus anthracis, Yersinia pestis, Coxiella burnetii) need to be considered. More common causes of meningitis and encephalitis should be considered in patients with neurological symptoms.
Diagnostic Tests: Prior to onset of encephalopathy, VEE may be diagnosed by virus isolation from blood (collected without anticoagulant), CSF, or throat swab (up to 5 days); serology (on either serum or CSF); and PCR. IgM in a single serum sample (taken 5-7 days after onset) provides rapid presumptive diagnosis. However, this is only in persons without prior known exposure to VEE complex viruses. Diagnosis also can be confirmed either by antigen-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) or reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using a single serum sample or CSF taken early in the febrile, viremic phase. Viremia is brief and terminates as soon as antibodies develop.
Specimen Submission: All specimens must be triple contained in an approved shipping container and have biohazard labels. Specimens for viral culture must be shipped overnight on ice (+4°C), or frozen on dry ice (–80°C) if delays are anticipated; serology specimens may be shipped at room temperature. Culture is time consuming and must be performed in BSL3 facilities. The receiving laboratory must be alerted prior to transport by calling (800) 252-8239 ("press 1"). Newly available diagnostic tests may be discussed at that time Specimens must be accompanied by a Specimen Submission Form (G-1A) and submitted to the Texas Department of State Health Services Laboratory, 1100 West 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
Additional Tests: Leukopenia and lymphopenia are common. Thrombocytopenia may occur. Elevated serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) levels are common. CSF may be under increased pressure in cases with encephalitis, and contain up to 1000 white cells/mm3 (predominantly mononuclear cells) and exhibit mildly elevated protein concentration.
Treatment: Supportive therapy should be given. Some patients may be treated with analgesics to relieve headaches and myalgias. Patients who develop encephalitis may require anticonvulsant and intensive care to maintain fluid and electrolyte balance, and ventilatory support.
The Texas Department of State Health Services wishes to acknowledge the work of individuals who contributed their expertise to the development of this fact sheet.


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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
We are very excited to announce that Rob has advanced to the quarterfinals of Loudwire's Greatest Metal Frontman tournament!! So we need your votes as he IS the greatest ever metal frontman - so let's prove it by getting your votes.....!!
Rob is up against Rammstein's Till Lindemann:
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LaHood says compromise still possible on sequestration
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who's been frantically sounding the alarm about the sequestration's effect on air travel, said Sunday that he's still optimistic Congress can strike a deal to avert the budget cuts – now just days away from going into effect.
"If Republicans and Democrats get together this week and take a look at the president's plan, which he put on the table to save $85 billion, this does not have to happen," LaHood said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "There is still time to reach a compromise."
As for prospects for a last-minute compromise, LaHood said: "I hope so. I do. It's been done before. It was done at the 11th hour to save us from going under the fiscal cliff. It can be done again. And it can be done by Friday."
The Obama administration has pulled out LaHood as one of its top spokesmen of the detrimental consequences of sequestration as part of a public-relations offensive that has drawn criticism from Republicans.
"Stop sending out your Cabinet secretaries to scare the American people," said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, after LaHood on "Meet the Press."
But LaHood defended the White House's strategy, arguing that the administration was depicting an accurate picture of the sequester's effect.
"We're not making this up in order to put pain on the American people," LaHood said.
And despite the effects on the nation's air travel – such as lengthened security lines and furloughed air traffic controllers – LaHood insisted that the safety of travelers would not be affected.
"One thing we never compromise on is safety," LaHood said. "We will never take a back seat to safety. Safety will not be compromised. But we will have to work with the airlines in slowing planes down. But there'll be enough controllers to make sure planes are guided in and out of airports safely."


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NumisWiki For the New Collector
Ancient Greek Coin Collecting 101
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Ancient Coins of Mylasa, Caria
Mylasa (Milas, Turkey today) was often mentioned by ancient writers. The first mention is from early 7th century B.C., when Arselis, a Carian leader from Mylasa, helped Gyges in his fight for the Lydian throne. Under Persia, Mylasa was the chief city of Caria. Mylasa joined the Delian League c. 455 B.C., but Persian rule was restored by 400. Mylasa was the hometown and first capital of the Hecatomnid dynasty, nominally Persian satraps, but practically kings of Caria and the surrounding region, 377 - 352 B.C. In the Hellenistic era, the city was contested by Alexander's successors, but prospered. Mylasa was severely damaged in the Roman Civil War in 40 B.C., but again regained prosperity under Roman rule.


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Way before Zoo York gravitated into the realm that Eckō Ltd. stepped into in 2000 (i.e. "the mainstream"), they were known for being deeply saturated in Hip-Hop culture. To the Hip-Hop purist, the name summons memories of graffiti splattered over subway cars in New York City. They were also profoundly submerged in core skateboarding culture as well, with greats like Harold Hunter (R.I.P.), Jeff Pang and Vinny Ponte representing the team / brand / culture. In 1998, they released their first video titled Zoo York Mixtape I on VHS, which married Hip-Hop music (and video footage from '93 & '94) with skate footage filmed in 1997.
The video starts off with a vignette of the late, great DJ Roc Raida (of the world famous X-Ecutioners) cutting and juggling like only he knows how, then segues into Jeff Pang's Mix (part) accompanied with footage of a pre-Terror Squad Fat Joe freestyling with the hilarious & shocking Keith Nut. The freestyle footage was recorded by Eli Genser while lurking at the Stretch & Bobbito show (back when Stretch Armstrong was known as DJ Skinny Bones). Eli Gesner is to blame for the loss of lots of classic Hip-Hop video footage that many would die to see these days, including the acclaimed Jay-Z & Big L freestyle and Large Professor writing a rhyme and freestyling it for the first time before it became his verse for Main Source's Live At The BBQ. Shame on him!
Although the full video of this has been on the internets for awhile now, I just recently stumbled on it, so I'm assuming there are other heads who have yet to see it in it's entirety themselves. Props to the original uploader. Enjoy this nostalgic piece of skateboarding and Hip-Hop history, and you can read a behind-the-scenes interview with Jeff Pang & Eli Genser over at T.R.O.Y..
DOWNLOAD: Zoo York Mixtape I (Full Video)


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It's 1983: Tony and I are in Seoul, South Korea. The insurance money from a burglary has given us the excuse to visit Tony's parents in Hong Kong. We've left our kids with them while we visit the largest church in the world–at that time around 350,000 members–where Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho is the pastor. When we get there, the temperature is fifteen degrees below freezing, and with no heating in the church guest facilities (we are the only visitors crazy enough to go at that time of year) we need to go out frequently to warm up.
One of our outings is to the administrative building of the church. We are wandering around the offices, reveling in the central heating, when a man approaches us.
"Would you like to visit with Dr. Cho?"
I have to admit that my first thought is "I'm not dressed appropriately" (jeans and boots and as many layers as I can fit on)!
We have about twenty minutes with this humble man of God. Towards the end of our conversation he says he would like us to communicate three things to our nation. The first two concern prayer and fasting. It's the third I've never forgotten.
"Tell your nation to empower your women. You people in the West will never see a move of God until you use your women."
Dr. Cho attributes the phenomenal growth of his cell church in part to the fact that he empowers women–47,000 of his 50,000 cells are led by women and two thirds of his 600 associate pastors are women.
Could this be true? In those nations where there's currently a massive harvest being reaped, women are a vital part of what is going on, being used by God in extraordinary ways. Is our misunderstanding of the Scriptures and our legalistic following of the letter of the law concerning women actually preventing a move of the Holy Spirit here? When women are relegated to supporting men, the body of Christ is robbed of half its potential.
The group of women I work with spent some months looking at the role of women in revivals. We were investigating whether women in strategic leadership positions have any impact on revivals. One of our conclusion was this: there are classically two types of revival. Some are over very quickly (think Wales, Hebrides, Indonesia etc) while others last for decades (China, Korea, Wesley and Methodism, Zinzendorf and the Moravians). Our conclusion? Those that last for decades empower their women.
What could happen in the West if women were encouraged to step into their full potential without the usual restrictions placed on them? Could this release a move of God?
What do you think?
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These stylish throwback items are great to throw your hair up into the perfect high pony or top knot!
- Made with 100% cotton fabric
- Elastic inside measure to approximately 7.5 inches
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As each scrunchie is handmade and made to order, there may be slight variations from the scrunchie pictured. Made with love in the Annapolis Valley, NS.


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Isuzu Bolt Pattern Guide
The bolt pattern, lug pattern, or bolt circle is the diameter of an imaginary circle formed by the centers of the wheel lugs. Bolt patterns can be 4, 5, 6, or 8 lug holes. A bolt circle of 4x100 would indicate a 4 lug pattern on a circle with a diameter of 100mm. The bolt pattern is comprised of two numbers - the first indicates how many bolt holes are on the wheel, and the other describes how far apart they are. A bolt pattern of 5-115mm would mean the wheel has five bolt holes and they are 115mm apart (measured across the center of the wheel). Dual Bolt Pattern: More and more manufacturers are building their wheels with two bolt patterns. This expands the number of fitments the wheel applies to. For example: a wheel with a 4-100/114.3 bolt pattern has 8 lug holes and will fit both 4-100mm and 4-114.3mm fitments. Measuring a 5-bolt pattern: A 5-bolt pattern is very difficult to measure without using a bolt pattern gauge. Basically, you would measure the diameter of a circle that crosses through the center of the lug holes. This method is not recommended to confirm wheel fitment. Please use the below as a reference only.
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Isuzu Lug Pattern Reference
The offset of a wheel is the distance from the mounting surface of the wheel to the true centerline of the rim. A positive offset means the mounting surface of the wheel is positioned in front of the true centerline of the rim / tire assembly. This in effect brings the tire in to the fender well more. Conversely, a negative offset means the mounting surface of the wheel is behind the true centerline of the rim / tire assembly. This will cause the tire to stick out away from the vehicle.
H = High Positive or FWD (Front Wheel Drive) typically +45,40,35 offsets
M = Medium Offset or RWD (Rear Wheel Drive) Typically +20 offset
L = Low Offset or RWD (Rear Wheel Drive) Typically 0 offset
Plus sizing your wheel & tire combination was designed to enhance vehicle performance and looks by allowing fitment of larger diameter rims and lower profile tires. The theory is that while making these changes, you keep the overall tire diameter within 3% of the original equipment tires. This is important because larger variances can cause problems with transmission shift points which can decrease fuel mileage. It can also confuse braking system computers which can even lead to brake failure.
Here's the rule of thumb for "plus sizing":
Centerbore relates to the center hole in the wheel that centers the wheel on the hub of the car. Since most wheels are mass produced, they have a large center bore to accommodate several different vehicles. If this is the case, it is recommended that you use a hub ring. Hub rings are hard plastic or metal ring that fits between the wheel and the vehicle. This centers the wheel perfectly on the hub ensuring that there is no run out when the wheel is installed on to the vehicle. Without hub rings it is possible to get vibrations even if the wheel / tire assembly is perfectly balanced.
Torque: All alloy wheels should be installed using a torque wrench. This ensures that the wheels are not too tight or too loose. Check your vehicle's manual for correct settings. When you install wheels for the first time, you should re-torque wheels after about 100km to 150km (60 to 90 miles). Always refer to Owner's Manual for proper factory specifications that take precedence over the listed recommendations. 12mm = 70~80, 7/16" = 55~65, 1/2" = 75~85, 14mm = 85~95, 9/16" = 95~115, 5/8" =135~145.


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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 13, 2007
Roundtable Discussion with Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President
Aboard Air Force One En route Waco, Texas
Q Some people have said -- some of the political analysts have already said that this spells the end of -- marks the end of President Bush's political life. What do you think?
MR. ROVE: Absolutely not. Why would it? He's the President of the United States.
Q Because --
MR. ROVE: Well, but look, every President plays a -- even if they're not running again, plays a big role in shaping the nature of the debate, the policy debate, which in turn has a big impact on politics. And you can bet, being as competitive as he is, that he's going to use every lever he's got command over, every power that he controls to continue to drive the policy debate right up to noon on January 20, 2009.
Q Karl, were you considering staying longer, to kind of bring home the '08 elections a little? Maybe help from the White House to pave the ground, while the other candidates are duking it out?
MR. ROVE: No, we just -- we started talking about this over a year ago and we just -- we mutually reinforced bad behavior by constantly finding excuses that we could postpone the discussion. But now is the right time to do it. It gives -- if Josh has thought through, and is thinking through -- I think he's thought through, if the truth be known, about how he wants to handle this, and this gives him enough time to both put responsibilities into some people's hands and recruit people to step in to do other responsibility.
Q Do you have -- in your last conversation with the President about this, can you tell us when that was and was he understanding, or was he asking you to stay at that point still?
MR. ROVE: You know, we've been talking about this for a year. I can't tell you what time this spring, or late this winter where we sort of finally agreed. But constantly it was, like, we'd say, okay, both of us recognize that it's time. And then we'd say, well, let's talk about this again after the State of the Union, or let's talk about it after the surge. But this was just the best logical point to do it, after Congress went out and before the fall.
Q Did he ever ask you to reconsider, stay on until the end of the term?
MR. ROVE: You know, here's the deal, I mean, we talked about it. When you've got a good friend and you talk through it -- look, both of us would have liked to have been in a place where we both could have walked out, where I could have followed him out the door on the 20th. But I've got a family, and I've asked my family to go through a lot and to sacrifice a lot. And this all actually started with things in our family, talking about what the future would hold for us. And as time went on it became clear that it was time for us to think about the next chapter.
Look, I love my job. I have fun. It is a joy to walk in the door. I have the most incredible colleagues in the world. And I know it sounds corny, but it's inspiring to walk into the Oval Office, the tone he sets, you know, the good nature he has, the focus, the vision -- it's inspiring. And I deliberately used that word today because he just -- he makes it a wonderful place to work. And my colleagues make it a magical place to work. And you have such a sense of satisfaction of serving the country and doing important work in combination with some really extraordinary people. And would I like to enjoy that right up until January 20? You bet I would; 526 more days of that would be great. But I wouldn't be doing the right thing by my family, and it really is time for me to do this.
Q When was the first time that you broached the subject with him?
MR. ROVE: Late spring/early summer of last year.
Q Where --
MR. ROVE: It was in the Oval and it was just one day, and I said, you know, I'm beginning to think I need to think about is there a time before January 2009, that we need to depart.
Q -- after-thought, or did you go in there to talk about it?
MR. ROVE: Look, it was at the end of a day and we didn't have much else to talk about. He had a little bit of time on his hands and it just seemed like a good moment.
Q Do you feel like any unfinished business as you leave, particular issue or --
MR. ROVE: I mean, you know, look, that's it -- I mean, the President is an activist President. We face a big set of votes and discussions and debates this fall on Iraq, on the budget -- which is not just about spending. Imbedded in each one of those appropriation bills are serious policy questions. We have initiatives on energy, on education, on No Child Left Behind, which is coming through, on health care. There will be a State of the Union next year, which will also help shape next year, as well.
So, look, there's a robust set of issues that we're dealing with. And, again, I'd love to be around for them. In a way, I'll be kibitzing from the outside -- he knows my phone number and I know his. But, no, there's a lot of unfinished business ahead and we're in the midst of some very important things.
And we're winning some of these battles. The Competitive Initiative, which he laid out in the State of the Union, I believe last year, has just now been signed into law. We have No Child Left Behind, which we can either do by law or regulation -- we want to do it by law. The energy, 20-in-10, which we can do both by legislation and regulation, some of it embodied in various legislative proposals on the Hill.
Look, the President did not come to occupy this office. He came to fulfill his responsibilities to press the agenda every single day he's in office.
Q How frequently do you think you'll stay in touch with him in the coming --
Q With you departing and with Bartlett gone, who's going to fill that role of providing counsel to the President?
MR. ROVE: Look, the great thing is the President creates an environment in which people feel very confident. It depends on how quickly they get acclimated, but they tend to get acclimated quickly; where they understand speaking plainly and candidly about what you think is what he expects and what he rewards.
I've seen it. And you talk to people today inside the White House that served in previous administrations -- not to disparage previous administrations -- but the collegiality that they talk about is remarkable. And what's amazing to me is the collegiality takes place in an environment in which people can have deep and serious disagreements about things -- you know, try and litigate it through to a point where they come to an agreement, and if not, carry them into the Oval Office, and at the end of it, feel that the process -- that they were heard and that they were well-served and that the country has been well-served by the decision that was made.
The President is really -- look, he is focused on setting the tone. He understands how vital it is that a President get unvarnished advice. He understands more than a lot of people how powerful that office is in discouraging people. You know, members of Congress -- my office was 15 steps from the door to the Oval Office --
Q Did you count them?
MR. ROVE: Somebody did. (Laughter.) I think they must have been very long steps.
Members of Congress would be sitting there in my office and they'll say, "I need to tell the President X" -- and they'll walk into that Oval and say, "Hey, you're looking pretty today." But he's very good at -- particularly with staff -- teasing out what it is that they want to say and get people to say it.
Now, sometimes, to me the amazing thing is sitting there in the Oval, those two couches are as close as Jim and are to each other, and there will be a member of the Cabinet advocating one position, and there will be the junior G-man from some other Cabinet department or someplace in the bowels of the administration taking the other side. And that's pretty remarkable to be able to create that kind of atmosphere.
Q So are you replaceable then?
MR. ROVE: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
Q Is anyone else on the White House staff replaceable?
MR. ROVE: Everybody is. Except two.
Q Karl, are you going to go to any other campaigns, or even in an informal role? Or are you out?
MR. ROVE: I don't intend to take a formal role. I've got friends in all the campaigns. I do want to see this President succeeded by a Republican. I'll be happy to, if asked my opinion, I'm an opinionated person. But I don't anticipate taking any formal role in any campaign, and if I did I would shortly thereafter die -- check the whereabouts of my wife if I'm found dead. (Laughter.)
Q Karl, can I ask you, I know you mentioned your family as being a big issue here. There's obviously been pressure that's come to bear on you -- the investigations and subpoenas and the like. Has that affected your family? Has that in any way figuring in on your decision to leave?
MR. ROVE: It's not figured in my decision, no. I think they are only vaguely aware of the subpoenas. They obviously were more than vaguely aware of the investigation. And look, I'm realistic enough to understand that the subpoenas are going to keep flying my way. I'm Moby Dick and we've got three or four members of Congress who are trying to cast themselves in the part of Captain Ahab -- so they're going to keep coming.
But anybody who suggests the investigations had something to do with getting me out is sort of putting Congress in the position of being the rooster that believes that by crowing loudly brings the sun to come up.
Q But are you protected now, in terms of legality? I mean, because of executive privilege? How does that work now?
MR. ROVE: After I leave the White House the things that I've -- the advice that I've given the President, my role within the White House remains protected; I do not lose privilege by leaving the White House -- just as former Presidents don't lose the privilege when they leave the White House. You remember that there have been instances where the current President, on behalf of President Clinton, has asserted privilege.
Q So what are you going to do? I mean, you know campaigns, you know the game. What's on the agenda?
MR. ROVE: I have no idea. I'd like to teach eventually, but in the meantime I need to make some money. I have an employment record that I think would be attractive to any employer: I've worked in an industrial kitchen in a hospital; I've waited tables; I've worked in convenience stores and have been robbed at the point of a gun twice; I've pumped gas; I've babysat; I've cut lawns; I've delivered newspapers.
Q -- really going to do?
MR. ROVE: I have no idea.
Q You have no idea?
Q Are you talking to any universities?
Q There's no deal that's in the works, at all?
MR. ROVE: No. The President has encouraged me to write a book. I will do a book.
Q But you've not made any -- there's no deal going, right, that you're going to be announcing soon?
MR. ROVE: Other than I've done what everybody does, and that is talk to Bob Barnett. (Laughter.)
Q A book about -- you have talked to Barnett, by the way?
MR. ROVE: Yes.
Q A book about your experiences? A book about modern campaigning? A book about the historical --
MR. ROVE: It's going to be about the most important and interesting thing that the American people want to know, which is my relationship with you. With you. (Laughter.)
Q What's it going to be? What are the --
MR. ROVE: I don't know.
Q Is it going to be about political theory, running campaigns? Or is it going to be more like your experiences in --
MR. ROVE: I think it's going to -- I'm a student of history, so I'd rather talk about the history of this President and get in there, stay in there and be in there.
Q Not a thriller? (Laughter.)
MR. ROVE: We know the outcome of the true critical moments. (Laughter.)
Q Any titles?
MR. ROVE: Come on, please!
Q Have you kept a diary throughout this time to help you?
MR. ROVE: No.
Q So you're going to be doing this on your prodigious memory?
MR. ROVE: That's your characterization of it, but I appreciate the kind word that you had for me.
Q Do you have your own characterization of any effect you've had on the modern election campaign and electioneering?
MR. ROVE: I think there's the mistaken impression, and then there's the reality. The mistaken impression -- in fact, I talked with a colleague of yours not too long ago about this, the idea that this is all about playing to the base; that supposedly the success of the two campaigns have been that the President played to the base of the Republican Party. Completely inaccurate.
I hope that this idea holds currency in the high councils of the Democratic Party, because it absolutely misses the story of 2000 and 2004, let alone the President's time in office. The base is something that's by its very nature a small part of a greater thing.
Q So what's your advice to the Republican front-runner coming up?
MR. ROVE: Well, I don't have advice -- my advice is for the Republicans, which I think, frankly, has become ingrained in the DNA of the Republican Party, which is that in order to win, the Republican Party needs to mobilize a vast army of volunteers to expand the electorate by emphasizing an agenda that is prospective in nature, that looks to the future and says, this is what we intend to do for America, and is bold and clear, but is focused on saying to people, we know you're not enthusiastic about politics, but if you love your country, if you care about the future, here's a message that hopefully will attract you to coming out and registering and voting.
That's why President Bush in 2004 got 25 percent more votes than he got in 2000 and became the first presidential candidate since 1988 to get a majority of the popular vote. He won 81 percent of the counties in America; he increased his share of the vote in 87 percent of the counties in America. He got a record or historic number numbers among Latinos, Jews, Catholics, women -- erased the gender gap. And it was because -- not because he played to the base but because he played with a broad and bold message that was able to attract -- think about it, one-quarter more people voted for him in 2004 than voted for him in 2000, and he did that in the midst of an unpopular war, with a united Democrat Party, and being outspent by $148 million, which is, if you add up what the DNC, the Democratic 527s who carried Edwards raised and spent, compared to Republican 527s, RNC and Bush-Cheney, we were outspent by $148 million.
Q What accounts for his unpopularity right now?
MR. ROVE: We're in the midst of an unpopular war, and he's been hammered by the Democrats. But I would point out to you, the Democrat Congress is less popular than the President, and they got there a heck of a lot quicker.
As the war in Iraq -- as it's clear to the American people that the surge is working, the President's popularity will rise.
Q Karl, your legacy, in terms of the Latino vote, you raised the percentages from 2000, 2004. Are you worried about that legacy for the party that you built in the current climate, and do you have a message for your fellow Republicans on immigration?
MR. ROVE: I am worried about it, and you cannot ignore the aspirations of the fastest-growing minority in America. We did that once before, and that's why we were able to increase our vote among African Americans by 40 percent between 2000 and 2004, going from an incredibly anemic 9 percent to a virtually anemic 13 percent. And we better not put ourselves in the place with a vital part of the electorate that fundamentally shares our values and views.
Q What do you think of this misconception there is about you among the American public?
MR. ROVE: I'm not good at answering that, because I don't -- I really don't naval-gaze, and I really --
Q You don't what?
MR. ROVE: I don't naval gaze.
Q Do you think the public has a misconception of you?
MR. ROVE: I'm not certain I understand what's -- other than that I'm the evil genius, yes.
Q "Bush's brain."
MR. ROVE: Well, that is -- that's not me. That's an attack on the President. That is the critics of the President trying to be cute. This guy is a Yale undergraduate and history major, a Harvard MBA, and one of the best-read, most thoughtful people I know. Now, I know he likes to play sort of the Midland/West Texas -- but he is smart. And the "Bush's brain" was, interestingly enough, a construct of two journalists as a way to diminish him by suggesting that he wasn't capable of developing his philosophy or his approach or his ability to win elections; somebody had to do it for him, which is incredibly demeaning and really stupid. And I don't mind saying that the two guys that coined it are stupid in their characterization.
Q Who's winning your book-reading contest?
MR. ROVE: I am crushing him this year, second year in a row. He keeps using this pathetic excuse that he's got the free world to run and that he's leader of the free world, but I mean, that's cheesy, I think.
Q There was a perception in the political world that you wanted to stay on, to maybe get the House back, and that that would kind of put the White House on a better footing if it's a Republican. Is there any truth to that? Were you tempted at all to --
MR. ROVE: Look, I'm a competitive guy. I'm tempted to stick around when somebody sends a subpoena my way. I'm tempted to stick around for the next fight. I'm tempted to stay around for the battle over the budget. I'm tempted to stick around to see if we can get a standard health care insurance deduction through. I'm a competitive person.
But really --
Q So she said, "I'm going to leave you if you stay"?
MR. ROVE: No. But she did say, isn't it time -- do we really have to wait until January 2009 to begin -- let me say this off the record, I mean, really say this off the record.
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MS. PERINO: Let's go back on the record.
Q Is there an empty nest factor?
MR. ROVE: We want to be -- we want to be back in Texas, closer to our family.
Q Who do you see winning the Democratic nomination, and what advice do you have for that individual?
MR. ROVE: I have no advice for that individual.
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MS. PERINO: Back on the record.
MR. ROVE: I think any rational observer would have to say that Hillary Clinton is a prohibitive favorite to win the nomination.
Q And you'd include yourself as a rational observer on this particular --
MS. PERINO: Let's do one each, and then we'll finish.
Q Any few accomplishments that you single out as some of the ones you're most proud of?
MR. ROVE: I'll think about that in September. This morning, though, at the senior staff meeting, I was very candid with my colleagues. I said that the true story was that I was resigning in protest over our failure to establish equidistance as the principle in the germination of seaward lateral boundaries in the latest version of the act overseeing offshore drilling. I am the leading expert within the administration on this. This actually goes back to Grotios, who was born in 1598, and he wrote this in one of his earliest works. You're all familiar, of course, with Hugo Grotios?
Q Do you like his position on international law? Because that surprises me, because he's kind of pro-international law, and I don't see that coming from your administration.
MR. ROVE: He was concerned about maritime international law and that's where the principle of equidistance comes out in the determination of seaward lateral boundaries between nation states. (Laughter.)
Q Don't encourage him.
MR. ROVE: And it has been upheld in two U.S. Supreme Court decisions and two treaties which the United States signed in 1958 and in 1952.
MS. PERINO: Ben, your question.
MR. ROVE: George v. Florida and Louisiana v. Texas, if you wanted to check it out.
Q By February we're going to know pretty much the Republican -- by next August we'll know the Republican nominee. Are you ruling out that you'll be working as an official advisor?
MR. ROVE: I won't fill an official role, formal role in any campaign.
Q Is a Republican majority still within the sites of -- a permanent Republican majority?
MR. ROVE: Permanent? Nothing in politics is permanent. Things tend to be durable. And do I think? Yes. Look, between 1896 and 1932, there were Democrat Congresses and eight years of a Democrat President. You know, the Democrat domination between 1952 and 1994, Democrat control of the U.S. House of Representatives, there were Republican Senates and Republican Presidents. In fact, during the period of Democrat dominance from 1932 until you pick the ending date of the New Deal, you have Dwight Eisenhower and probably Richard Nixon to account for in the middle of that, if you count the New Deal is largely dissipating by 1980. I think frankly the New Deal coalition lasted until the '90s; I think we're seeing the break up of the New Deal coalition in the attempt by both parties to form a new coalition in the aftermath of it.
Q But will yours be lasting -- do you still see 2006 as a temporary setback?
MR. ROVE: I do. But, look, I'm also realistic enough to know that it all depends on -- the election in 2008 is important because the contest is -- the electorate is so narrowly divided, albeit I think the Republicans have structural advantages, but I understand that it's so closely divided that the outcome in 2008, 2010 and 2012 are going to have big impacts on the future.
MS. PERINO: Deb, last one.
Q How did you get the math wrong in '06?
MR. ROVE: They were very close elections. There are 15 contests settled -- the closest 15 contests for the U.S. House are settled by a grand total of 85,000 votes, out of 82 million cast. That's just over 1/100th of 1 percent difference in the 15 closest contests. One of them settled by 71 votes.
The races for the U.S. Senate control, the U.S. Senate is determined by a difference of 3,562 votes, out of 60 million cast. So, yes -- first of all, look, my role is to be an advocate. My job is not to be the paid prognosticator for the Associated Press or CBS News. It's to go out there and truthfully put as strong a case as possible. And looking at the data, we had -- we came this close to doing something which would have been really incredible, and that's keeping the House and the Senate. Eighty-five thousand votes out of 85 million? And if you take a look at the 15 contests that we lost, many of them -- I mean, look, the closest contest, Rob Simmons, who ran in a district where the President got 38 percent of the vote. And yet he comes within 70-some-odd votes of winning.
And if you look at a lot of the other contests, they were contests like, you know, Foley's district in Florida, in which in order to vote for the Republican nominee, who was a wonderful state representative, you had to punch the lever for Mark Foley. And we came within a matter of a couple of thousand votes of winning. And there were other contests there where the incumbent did not take the advice of his or her colleagues at the National Republican Congressional Committee or the Congressional Committee or the White House, and that was to get prepared for a tough race. You know, Hostettler in -- well, he's not one of the closest ones, but he took a seat that was -- and Bush got two-thirds of the vote there, and he gets just over a third of the vote by raising no money, conducting no campaign and running one television ad that says, "I was proud to be one of the four or five Republicans to vote against the Iraq war resolution."
So my point is, yes, I got the math wrong because it was a close call. And it was -- maybe there were other smart people out there who were looking at the same data saying, you know what, all those races are going to tilt against Republicans -- good for them.
MS. PERINO: Parting thoughts? Anymore parting thoughts?
MR. ROVE: Oh, no. No. I've had a fun time. I've had a real fun -- and I'm going to miss my colleagues a lot.
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