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Jon has a series of columns for InfoWorld, and whenever InfoWorld changes their CMS the old links break and Jon has to manually refind all the new links and update his page. For example, the old URI:
is currently:
The same content had at least one other URI as well, from at least 2009--2012:
The first reaction is to say InfoWorld should use "Cool URIs", mod_rewrite, or even handles. In fairness, Inforworld is still redirecting the second URI to the current URI:
And it looks like they kept redirecting the original URI to the current URI until sometime in 2014 and then quit; currently the original URI returns a 404:
Jon's approach is to just give up on tracking different URIs for his 100s of articles and instead use a combination of metadata (title & author) and the "site:" operator submitted to a search engine to locate the current URI (side note: this approach is really similar to OpenURL). For example, the link for the article above would become:
Herbert had a number of comments, which I'll summarize as:
- This problem is very much related to Martin's PhD research, in which web archives are used to generate lexical signatures to help refind the new URIs on the live web (see "Moved but not gone: an evaluation of real-time methods for discovering replacement web pages").
- Throwing away the original URI is not desirable because that is a useful key for finding the page in web archives. The above examples used the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, but Memento TimeGates and TimeMaps could also be used (see Memento 101 for more information).
- One solution to linking to a SE for discovery while retaining the original URI is to use the data-* attributes from HTML (see the "Missing Link" document for more information).
I posted a comment saying that a search engine's robots.txt page would prevent archives like the Internet Archive from archiving the SERPs and thus not discover (and archive) the new URIs themselves. In an email conversation Martin made the point that rewriting the link to search engine is assuming that the search engine URI structure isn't going to change (anyone want to bet how many links to msn.com or live.com queries are still working?). It is also probably worth pointing out that while metadata like the title is not likely to change for Jon's articles, that's not always true for general web pages, whose titles often change (see "Is This A Good Title?").
In summary, Jon's solution of using SERPs as interstitial pages as a way to combat link rot is an interesting solution to a common problem, at least for those who wish to maintain publication (or similar) lists. While the SE URI is a good tactical solution, disposing of the original URI is a bad strategy for several reasons, including working against web archives instead of with them, and betting on the long-term stability of SEs. The solution we need is a method to include > 1 URI per HTML link, such as proposed in the "Missing Link" document.


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If you thought Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge was crazy (running both Disney's marathon and half marathon), things are about to get Dopey. The 2014 Disney Marathon Weekend, Jan. 8-12, will expand to five days and will include a 10K, along with the Family Fun Run 5K, the Disney Half Marathon, the Disney Marathon and Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge. Add those all together and you have the Dopey Challenge – run all four events in successive days (48.6 miles) to earn six medals.
After the Disney Family Fun Run 5K on Thursday, runDisney's new Walt Disney World 10K, a 6.2-mile timed event, takes place Friday, at Epcot. Runners completing the race will receive a Minnie Mouse inspired medal.
As in past years, the Walt Disney World Half Marathon will be run on Saturday followed by the Walt Disney World Marathon on Sunday. Runners who complete both – Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge – will receive a special Goofy-themed medal. Add on the 5K and the 10K and runners can earn four medals, one for each race completed, plus the Goofy and new Dopey Challenge medals, for a total haul of six medals.
Inaddition to those four races, the Disney Marathon Weekend will feature runDisney Kids Races and the Mickey Mile, which both take place at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. Special ticketed breakfasts with characters will be Thursday and Friday following the Family Fun Run 5K and 10K at Epcot, Pasta in the Park parties at Epcot and runners can celebrate their accomplishments from the weekend at the Cool Down Party at Downtown Disney on Sunday.
The expanded five-day race weekend begins on Wednesday with the start of Disney's Health and Fitness Expo, giving runners extra time to pick up race packets, shop for the latest running apparel and technology, and meet experts such as runDisney official training consultant Jeff Galloway and runDisney nutritionist Tara Gidus. The expo is free and open to the public.
Online registration for all Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend events opens April 9, but runners can enter early by signing up for the Runner's World Challenge starting April 2. This limited opportunity allows runners to register for the Half Marathon, Marathon, Goofy Challenge or Dopey Challenge, receive customized training plans from Runner's World magazine editors and enjoy VIP experiences throughout weekend.
For more information and to register for Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend events and other runDisney races, go to www.runDisney.com.
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Last year, the PlayStation GDC shirt hinted at the in-game XMB. It came out a few months later.
This year, we have a shirt that says we get a trophy for attending the GDC Blog Lounge. Hurray. Does it hint at anything special with the trophies? I've heard that they're just for trophy fans, so don't get too excited.
While I'm here though, I'll play some Fat Princess, Rag Doll Kung Fu and a little Pixel Junk Eden: Encore.


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I will call two graphs $G$ and $H$, $r$-equidecomposable (in analogy with Hilbert's third problem) if they can be written as unions of disjoint subgraphs $$G\cong \bigsqcup_{i=1}^r G_i\quad ,\quad H\cong \bigsqcup_{i=1}^r H_i$$ (disjoint here means they have no common edges), and $G_i\cong H_i $ for $1\le i \le r$. Let $\epsilon(G,H)$ be the smallest $r$ for which $G$ and $H$ are $r$-equidecomposable. Let $$f(n,m)=\max_{G,H\in V(n,m) } \epsilon(G,H) $$ where $V(n,m)$ is the collection of all graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges.
Is the sequence $f(n,m)$ unimodal for fixed $n$? Can one find asymptotics for values such as $f\left(n,\frac{n(n-1)}{4}\right)$ when $n$ is large?


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MARS500 PR — 1 September 2011 — The 'mission' to Mars is now generating unique data – nobody has been isolated as long as these six marsonauts. Soon, the communications delay will end and the crew will feel that much closer to opening the hatch on 4 November.
The first full simulation of a mission to Mars and back is proceeding smoothly in the special facility at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow.
In mid-August the experiment passed the milestone of 438 days that was previously the longest time ever spent apart from the natural world, by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov aboard Russia's Mir space station in 1994–95.
Logistics, psychology, health, experiments – now everything is in uncharted territory and providing valuable information for that moment when humans eventually venture out to the planets.
Long two months
At the moment the crew is faced with the most demanding and difficult period of the mission, with strong elements of monotony, sensory deprivation and general weakness.
Apart from being pale, the six men are coping with the situation remarkably well. They are always looking for new ways of staying motivated and relaxed.
They are occupied not only with a multitude of scientific experiments and maintaining their 'spacecraft', but also keep busy with creative activities.
European participants Diego Urbina and Romain Charles are writing diaries, taking photos and making videos, although less often than at the beginning of their mission.
Diego's deep involvement with Twitter (@diegou) is giving the general public an insider's view of daily life in the Mars500 modules.
The first real step towards 'arrival back at Earth' will take place on 15 September, when direct communication with the crew will be re-established.
A varying artificial delay was introduced during the mission into communications with ground control, as would occur naturally on a real Mars mission because of the great distances involved.
The delay has been reducing by about 30 seconds a week during the journey back, dropping to a minute by the end of August. The first planned realtime communication with the crew is a medical check-up.
The realtime link will surely be used for cheering the crew up with visitors at mission control – especially visitors speaking their own language. Video messages have already provided brighter moments in the daily routine.
The end of the mission on 4 November is only two months away. The marsonauts are looking forward to that precious moment when the hatch is opened and they can step out, meet their families and friends, and breathe crisp fresh air.


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This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, "Floyd Bennett Field Historic District," materials in the files of the VRF-1 Association and the Floyd Bennett Field Task Force, as well as published sources related to the history of Naval Air Station New York (Floyd Bennett Field) and the Grumman Corporation's aircraft production in World War II. Richard Reed and James Van Westering of the Floyd Bennett Field Task Force wrote Floyd Bennett Field: Naval Aviation's Home in Brooklyn with assistance from the staff of Gateway National Recreation Area, National Park Service. Education consultant, Jean West, and the Teaching with Historic Places staff edited the lesson.
*Special note to teachers:
Where it fits into the curriculum
1) To understand the importance of the role of the United States as the "Arsenal of Democracy" to the outcome of World War II.
2) To illustrate how the collaboration between private enterprise in war equipment production, and the military's Naval Air Ferry Command in delivery, succeeded in the deployment of approximately 100,000 critically-needed new aircraft to the front lines.
3) To outline the contributions on the home front of women aircraft workers, such as the "Janes who made the planes" for Grumman Corporation, to Allied victory in World War II.
4) Research how WWII has been commemorated in their community or plan a program to commemorate Veterans Day or Memorial Day in their community.
Materials for students
The Floyd Bennett Field Historic District is located on Floyd Bennett Field, which is part of the Jamaica Bay Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. The district is located at the southern base of Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Take the Belt Parkway to exit 11-S (Flatbush Avenue South). Make a left at the last light before the toll plaza for the Marine Parkway Bridge into Floyd Bennett Field. Floyd Bennett Field is open daily from sunrise to sunset. The Ryan Visitor Center is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily, except for Thanksgiving and Christmas. For further information, please write to Gateway National Recreation Area, Public Affairs Office, 210 New York Ave., Staten Island, NY 10305, call the park's Visitor Center staff at (718) 338-3799, or visit the park's website.


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The pre-recess rush began Monday with a plea from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
"Leaving here with Israel being naked as they are, with these wildfires raging and a crisis at the border, it would be a shame if we did nothing," the Nevada Democrat said on the Senate floor.
Those three priority items would get emergency funding under a measure introduced last week by Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md.
The roughly $2.7 billion in emergency money for the crisis of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America is by far the largest chunk of the funds, and it is far more contentious than the $225 million requested by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel for a payment to Israel for the Iron Dome anti-missile system.
But Reid sounded amendable to splitting the package if it would expedite movement on the floor.
"We should approve funding in these three very important measures, and we should do it immediately. We should do them separately, together. We've got to get this done," Reid said. Such a move may well be needed given the disagreements on both the dollar amount and policy substance of the immigration portion of the bill.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., last week called for action on a standalone Iron Dome supplemental.
"Republicans are united in support of our ally Israel. We have legislation that would allow Congress to meet the secretary's request. And we hope our friends on the other side will join us in coming to a sensible, bipartisan solution that can be passed quickly," McConnell said.
"Coming to the defense of Israel is not a partisan issue," Reid said Monday. "It's an American principle. Both Democrats and Republicans should agree on this measure."
Reid cautioned that if hostilities continue, Israel may need more emergency money. In addition, he called for action on the $615 million requested by the White House for fighting wild fires in the West.
"We should pass this immediately also," Reid said. "Over the past month or six weeks, the state of Oregon has been on fire. Hundreds of thousands of acres have been burned."
The immediate business pending before the Senate actually remains a measure sponsored by Democratic Sen. John Walsh of Montana designed to promote "insourcing" of jobs. Absent a unanimous consent agreement, that measure could remain the pending business until at least Wednesday.
The Senate already has other big-ticket items in the queue: legislation to avert a shortfall of the Highway Trust Fund and confirmation of Bob McDonald to be the next Secretary of veterans affairs. In addition, senators are expected to act by week's end on the bipartisan veterans health agreement formally announced Monday by House and Senate negotiators.
"Sufficient sums of money must be provided so that the VA has the resources to immediately end unacceptably long waiting times in many VA facilities throughout the country," Senate Veterans' Affairs Chairman Bernard Sanders said in unveiling that deal. "This bill does that by contracting out with private medical providers, community health centers, Department of Defense facilities and Indian Health Service clinics."


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Victoria Gribaudo didn't have a single costumed trick-or-treater ring her doorbell last week. She hasn't had a kid knock on her door for Halloween in decades, not since her own three grown children were young.
Victoria Gribaudo didn't have a single costumed trick-or-treater ring her doorbell last week. She hasn't had a kid knock on her door for Halloween in decades, not since her own three grown children were young.
Folks will be making their way in earnest to her Peltier Road home today, though.
For some 50 years, Gribaudo has volunteered her place as a polling spot for voters in Acampo.
Her wood-paneled garage, absolutely devoid of the usual garage clutter, will be set up with chairs, tables and voting booths today.
For 13 hours, she and six others will spend their time making sure the democratic process is carried out, a process that will be duplicated in thousands of polling places across the country.
In this little rural location, surrounded by vineyards, voters will benefit from the generosity of Gribaudo, a diminutive woman of 89 who giggles easily.
Her devotion to the voting process isn't born of any great sense of patriotism or duty, although it does give her satisfaction to do her part.
It began 54 years ago when a friend asked her to help at the polling station at a local elementary school. When the school closed and a new location was needed, her friend suggested the Gribaudo home. The 60-acre property that was once a dairy run by her late husband, Ernie, and now is home to rows of zinfandel grapes, is ideal as a polling station. A detached two-door garage sits next to a beautiful brick-front home, and a paved, half-circle driveway allows for plenty of parking.
Gribaudo, who for years served as the polling station's inspector, the top position, made the day a social event. She'd organize a potluck among poll workers and provided the main dish. In down time, she and her co-workers would play cards, her favorite pastime.
When computers were brought in for elections, she stopped serving as inspector.
"I took the easy way out," Gribaudo said.
She doesn't have a computer at home, and wasn't about to undergo the training required to learn the voting computers.
"I'm too old to learn," she said, then laughed her easy laugh.
She'll work as a clerk during today's election, just as she did 54 years ago.
She doesn't remember the participants in that election.
"I think it was Hoover," she cracked.
Actually, her first election was in 1958, so it wasn't a presidential event.
The first presidential election for the county's longest-standing poll worker saw John F. Kennedy defeat Richard M. Nixon in 1960.
Although the winner wasn't declared until the following day, Gribaudo doesn't remember the election as being particularly exciting. She doesn't describe any election that way, at least not while watching voters in action.
"It's their duty," Gribaudo said. "I don't think they're excited. I haven't seen one excited, yet."
She anticipates more people voting absentee this year. Her own neighbor, whose home is just across the road, will stop by at some point to turn in her absentee ballot. That's easier than driving the 15 to 20 minutes to Clements, where her assigned voting place is.
"There are three polling places within two miles of here," Gribaudo said.
That her neighbor should have to travel so far to one is just one thing Gribaudo would change about voting.
"The money it costs to run an election, I don't see why they don't do it all absentee," Gribaudo said. "I think they'd save so much money. The inspector, I think, gets $160 and we all get $100, and there are seven of us. Look at the money for just one polling place. To me it would save so much if they go absentee, but I don't know if there's crooks that would take over if they did."
Her polling place has never had an irregularity or commotion caused by voters. Instead, it's been a site where she could visit with old friends and neighbors stopping by to do their civic duty.
One voter always brings the workers cookies. Another brings them apples.
Other than that, folks stop in, cast their ballots and leave.
When 8 p.m. strikes, she and her fellow workers quickly disassemble the booths and head their separate ways.
Gribaudo said she doesn't remember any great conversations or discussions about voting, but then starts talking about her mother, an Italian immigrant who arrived as a young mother. She studied to pass the citizenship test, and it took two tries before she succeeded. Once she did, she couldn't wait to vote. She rightfully took pride in having the opportunity, making her way to the local elementary school to cast her ballot. In doing so, she modeled, without a word, how important the process is.
Feats great and small - from serving in the military to offering one's home as a place to cast a ballot - are done by regular folks so the rest of us can have our say.
That's something to smile - or in Gribaudo's case giggle - about.
Contact columnist Lori Gilbert at (209) 546-8284 or email@example.com.


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|James Wood
2011: Made 15 appearances for the Retrievers as a junior, all of them coming out of the bullpen... Posted a team-best 3.60 ERA over 25.0 innings pitched... Threw four scoreless innings against Georgetown to pick up his first career win against on May 4.
2010: Used as both a relief pitcher and a left-handed bat off the bench, with 11 appearances on the mound and 10 at the plate… Struck out six in 13 innings pitched.
2009: Appeared in eight games in each a pitching and batting capacity… Struck out a season-high two in a scoreless inning in his debut against Wagner on March 7… Hit a pinch-hit double against Navy on April 7.
Background: Earned All-District First Team honors as a pitcher in 2008 and a first baseman in 2007, while earning second team honors as a pitcher also in 2007… Named James Wood High School's Most Valuable Player in 2008… Broke a school record his senior year with 92 strikeouts and 74 innings pitched… Helped lead the Colonels to the Northwestern District Championship in 2007 and to the regional championships in 2008… Also lettered in basketball and was named to the All-Academic team.
Personal: Son of Kathy and Larry Dick… Has one brother, Tyler… Majoring in mechanical engineering in hopes of one day owning a civil engineering firm… Born Jan. 23, 1990.


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By David Postlethwaite
Just spent a day with Allen White, a SQL MVP from Ohio, USA learning about automating and managing SQL Server using PowerShell
PowerShell is ubiquitous in Windows now and can be used to view and manage any part of the Windows systems, it uses the .NET framework which, for me who has written plenty of c#, made it much easier to understand. One of the things I liked about PowerShell was the way that objects like the registry and SQL Server can be browsed just like a disk drive.
The real winner, not just for PowerShell but for .NET as well, is SQL Server Management Objects or SMO, a whole class of functions that can be used to interrogate SQL Server. I hadn't come across this before but I could see so many ways that I could use it for retrieving information and managing SQL Server. An example was "how would you find all varchar fields in all databases in several instances and change them to varchar(max). A nightmare with t-sql but with SMO quite easy.
We also saw example scripts for retrieving performance data into a database.
For support and diagnostics of your own systems its definitely the way to go , much more flexible than t-sql and much better for quick ad-hoc queries than trying to use .NET. And there are loads of example scripts on-line.
Can't wait to give it a go back in the office


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You know this weekend's Classic Ad Watch had to come from a Super Bowl, right? It's probably in the Constitution somewhere, or the Bible. Maybe both.
You guys gave us a great selection when we asked you to name the 10 best Super Bowl car ads of all time. But even though many of you suggested this Audi gem from way back in 2009, it couldn't get through the tough competition, so I thought I'd give it some love here instead.
Audi's "The Chase" features action star and future U.S. Transportation Secretary Jason Statham in four different decades, where he needs a different luxury car to run from some bad guys in each era.
We start with the 1970s where he crashes a very old-school Mercedes-Benz. Then we jump to the pastel-tastic 80s where he borrows an E28 5-Series BMW, which ends up flying through a billboard. Arguably the best part is the leap to the 90s, where our hero doesn't even consider a Lexus ES. Fair enough, man.
But he finds the best result in the supercharged Audi A6, and manages to evade a motorcycle-riding baddie in style. Because you can't just do something — you've gotta look good doing it, too. Great ad, right?


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Chicago Blackhawks sign C Brad Richards to 1-year deal
CHICAGO – The Chicago Blackhawks have signed Brad Richards to a one-year deal, bolstering their group of centers with another proven scorer.
Richards had 20 goals and 31 assists in 82 games for the New York Rangers last season, and then had 12 points in the playoffs to help his team make it to the Stanley Cup finals. The 34-year-old Richards has 276 goals and 591 assists in 982 career games for Tampa Bay, Dallas and New York.
The Blackhawks have been looking for a second-line center behind Jonathan Toews for a couple years, and Richards' resume makes him a favorite to fill that role. The move also allows Chicago to bring prospect Teuvo Teravainen along more slowly.
Chicago also announced a one-year deal with center Peter Regin on Tuesday.


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Man who put cat in tumble dryer jailed
A man who put a cat in a tumble dryer, turned it on three times and put the video on YouTube has been sentenced to 56 days in prison.
Allan Staughton, 23, of Saunders Close, Huntingdon, Cambs, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the cat and was banned from keeping animals.
Staughton put his ex-girlfriend's cat Princess in the machine, saying, "Shall we go and see Mr Tumble?"
The cat injured its tongue and broke a tooth, and has since been rehomed.
Staughton filmed the cat at his former home in Godmanchester.
'Form of torture'
The video was brought to the attention of the RSPCA and removed from YouTube. The RSPCA described it as "a wicked crime".
Staughton told inspectors he thought the incident was funny when first questioned about it.
However, vet Helen Dennis told the court the cat would have been "severely traumatised" by the ordeal.
The presiding magistrate at the Huntingdon court, Celia Chignell, said: "We see this as a form of torture which is reinforced by the vet's report."
Kevin Warboys, mitigating, said his client was obsessed with children's television and had attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), although he added this was not a "rational explanation" for Staughton's actions.
RSPCA inspector Chris Nice welcomed the verdict, and said: "We were hoping he would get a lifetime ban, and that is exactly what has happened."


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Due to his battle with Parkinson's disease, Michael J. Fox hasn't been acting as much as he might want. However, that hasn't stopped Fox from making fantastic, Emmy-nominated, guest turns on series like The Good Wife, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Rescue Me - the latter of which actually won him the coveted TV award. Now it sounds like the actor is ready to get back on the small screen full time.
Vulture has learned that Fox is developing a new comedy series at Sony Pictures Television with Easy A director Will Gluck and writer Sam Laybourne (Cougar Town, Arrested Development) on board to get the show ready to launch in 2013.
Plot details on the series are slim, but it's reportedly inspired by Fox's own life. Word on the street is all the major networks are going crazy in a bidding war to get ahold of this series, and a automatic pilot production deal is very likely. But even more crazy is the buzz that it might be big enough to get a straight to series order, something that is a rarity on network television these days.
The kind of attention surrounding the new comedy isn't all that surprising considering that Fox's career on television is almost as big as his film career. Spin City was a revered comedy in its heyday, and it actually earned Fox an Emmy nomination four years in a row, with a win to wrap up his final season on the series. In addition, Fox was a staple of the classic family sitcom Family Ties, not to mention other phenomenal guest spots on Scrubs and Boston Legal.
Michael J. Fox in his Emmy-winning turn as a paraplegic in Rescue Me
The question is just how much of Fox's real life will be injected into this series. I wouldn't be surprised to see a show about a father struggling with the afflictions of Parkinson's disease, and it might even be a fictionalized version of himself, working in entertainment. This is all speculation, but knowing how much work Fox has been doing with his own foundation to help find a cure for the debilitating disease - including writing several memoirs that deal with his condition - the series could be very personal.
Personally, I can't wait to see what Fox brings to television. Spin City was one of my favorite comedy series in the '90s, and the actor just has so much charisma and great comedic timing combined with solid dramatic chops, so I can't help but love anything he does. Teaming with a director like Will Gluck, who made a teenage comedy reminiscent of John Hughes, and a writer who worked on a cult comedy like Arrested Development (and the sleeper hit comedy series Cougar Town) sounds like a great move for Fox's return to TV. I'm betting his fans of all ages are eager to see him back in the acting game on a more regular basis. Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.
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Paul Gauguin Cruises Offers South Pacificby Paul Motter, CruiseMates Editor | June 1, 2009
Excitement always builds when a new cruise line starts up, especially when it promises to offer some unique itinerary options.
There is a new cruise line starting up in January of 2010. We haven't said much about this cruise line because it is not sailing yet, but cruises are on sale and we are getting close to the time when people start planning their major cruises for next year. So we want to tell you about a new luxury cruise line that many of you may already be familiar with.
Paul Gauguin Cruises is a one ship cruise line, and those of you in the know already recognize the name -- the one ship is the former Paul Gauguin of Regent Cruise Lines. Regent is still one of the top cruise lines in the luxury cruise market, earning accolades for its great service and fantastic cuisine.
The small ship, Paul Gauguin, has always been the line's one ship that remained dedicated to the Tahiti market. The ship repeated almost the same exact cruise, from Tahiti to Bora Bora and islands in between, all year round.
But Regent Seven Seas Cruises was recently acquired by a new operator who decided the line did not need a ship dedicated to one cruising region when they already had four other ships sailing all over the world. So they sold Paul Gauguin to a group of investors located in Seattle.
Paul Gauguin Cruises was born in 2009, but they do not officially take over the ship until the first week of January in 2010. Cruises are on sale, however, and there are actually quite a few great bargains to be had if you book by July 31, 2009.
Even better, After 12 years in service the ship is no longer confined to just the Society Islands of French Polynesia. The new line has created a fantastic array of 38 unique cruises throughout the South Pacific ranging from seven to 15 nights. The new itineraries include the old route of Tahiti and the Society Islands, but add the following new twists.
The Tuamotus This is the largest chain of coral atolls in the world, and they boast some of the most renowned snorkeling and diving in the world. Paul Gauguin will anchor at Rangiroa, where the sheltered lagoon's dolphins, rays and colorful tropical fish will be visible from the deck of the ship in the pristine lagoon waters. Nearby, Fakarava offers gorgeous black sand beaches, a black pearl farm and a plethora of rare birds and plants that can be found nowhere else.
Cruises to the Tuamotus range from 9 to 14 nights and start from just $3,995 per person, featuring overnight calls in Rangiroa, Bora Bora, Moorea and Papeete as well as the private retreat on Motu Mahana and private beach at Bora Bora.
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Imagine what you'd do with more space or updated features in your home — a new master bathroom, a renovated kitchen or a spacious home. Now for the reality check: Figure out how you'll pay for it.
There are many options available to homeowners who want to spruce up or increase the square footage of their home. Understanding the various choices can help you make a decision that's as good for your pocketbook as the renovation is for your house.
Read on for 9 possible sources of extra cash for home improvement, as well as the pros and cons of each.
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Major credit cards
If you have a smaller project — or a great introductory offer, like 0% interest for a year — credit cards can be a good option. With some cards, you may earn rewards or cash back valued at a few percentage points of the total amount that you spend.
The downside of this option is that if you can't pay the cards back in a timely fashion, you'll owe interest that far outweighs the perks. And because rates are variable, you may end up being hit with even higher monthly payments than you planned.
Pros: No paperwork needed for established credit lines; also, there is a possibility of cash back or other rewards.
Cons: There is a possibility of high interest rates; variable rates mean you could pay more over time.
Store credit cards
Cards from home improvement stores like Home Depot and Lowe's can be a good option if you know you can pay off the balance fairly quickly. Many cards provide an introductory offer with no interest for a set period of time, while others provide periodic specials on a range of products.
Like traditional credit cards, you want to make sure you can pay off the balance in a timely manner to avoid high interest payments. Watch out for expiring introductory offers — if you don't pay off the balance in full by the time the offer ends, you'll generally be hit with all of the back interest, as though you never got the offer at all.
Pros: These cards offer the same pros as major cards and occasionally offer specific bargains for home improvement buys.
Cons: Cards can only be used at a single chain of stores.
Personal loans
Personal loans can be had from any number of sources, including a bank or online lender, the contractors who do your improvements or even the stores from which you bought the supplies to do it yourself. These unsecured loans often have higher interest rates and fees, but it's also often fast and simple to get approved.
You won't be able to deduct any of the interest from the loan on your taxes, as you can with a variety of home loans and lines of credit.
Pros: Personal loans boast fast approval times.
Cons: These loans have higher interest rates and fees.
Home equity line of credit
A HELOC, or home equity line of credit, is a bit like a credit card. The main difference is that the line of credit is secured with your home. If you don't pay on time, there's a chance that you may lose your home.
The rates are variable and often will start with a very favorable rate and adjust upward.
A HELOC generally doesn't require as much paperwork as a full refinance or a second mortgage, and in most cases you can take a tax deduction on interest.
Finally, a HELOC may be a good option for remodeling in stages. "You only pay interest on the amounts you borrow on the HELOC," says Matt Coffin, founder of Coffin Capital. "If you don't use the line of credit, you don't have any monthly payments to make." You can also use it again and again, borrowing money, paying it off and borrowing again.
Pros: HELOCs may have lower interest rates than credit cards, and can offer tax benefits.
Cons: Collateral is required in order to sign up; variable rates can climb.
Home equity loan
A home equity loan is a second mortgage — it offers a fixed rate, but it typically has a higher rate than it would be for a first mortgage or refinance.
On the other hand, there usually isn't nearly the amount of paperwork involved as there is for a full refinance.
"There's a lot less documentation for a second mortgage," says Lance Melber, CEO at Valutrust Solutions LLC. Often, homeowners can get approved the same day, and an appraisal can (frequently) be done online." Like a refinance and a HELOC, you may be able to take a tax deduction on the interest.
A home equity loan also may be appropriate if you want a fixed rate but have a great interest rate on the first mortgage. With this type of loan, you can continue to pay off your first mortgage at the low rate and just tack on a second payment.
Pros: A home equity loan is less complicated than a full refinance, less expensive than a line of credit and can offer tax benefits.
Cons: These loans tend to have a higher interest rate than full refinances.
There are a few reasons why you may want to consider a full refinancing of your home to finance your remodeling project — even though it will require some significant paperwork and often quite a few upfront costs. If you've got a major home improvement project to take on and have built up significant equity, refinancing and taking cash out might make sense.
If someone currently has a high interest rate on their home, it may make sense to refinance rather than get a higher-risk, higher-rate second mortgage. As with any mortgage, you may qualify for tax deductions on your mortgage interest.
Pros: Refinancing can likely get you the lowest interest rate available and is good for those looking to do substantial remodeling; also offers tax benefits.
Cons: Refinancing can be complicated and is initially costly.
Title I loan
Title I is a government program that helps make home improvement loans more affordable for consumers by insuring lenders against losses on those loans. The improvement must be light or moderate, and the loan cannot exceed $25,000 on single-family residences. (Other limits apply to different structures.) Title I allows lenders to provide funding to homeowners who have minimal or no equity in their homes. That is, an owner's total loans would exceed the value of the house. Upfront costs usually amount to 1% of the loan. The Department of Housing and Urban Development offers online help in finding a lender for Title I loans.
Pros: A Title I loan is a good option for those with little or no equity in their homes.
Cons: Your remodeling must fit certain requirements.
401(k) or IRA loan
If you've got money in a 401(k) or a traditional IRA, it may be tempting to raid the account to help finance those home improvements. But, unless you're old enough to take distributions (59 1/2), try to make sure you've exhausted all of your other options first.
In some ways, borrowing seems like a good deal. Because you're borrowing money from yourself and paying the principal and interest back to yourself, you benefit, right? Not really. First of all, if you don't pay the money back within a specified period of time, you'll be hit with a 10% penalty. And if you leave the job that's providing the 401(k), you'll need to pay back the loan in a short time or face penalties. You're also losing out on the money you'd otherwise be earning if it were in the account.
Pros: Borrowing from a 401(k) or IRA is an option if no other options are available.
Cons: Borrowing from a 401(k) or IRA can have possible tax consequences and result in long-term losses in retirement funds.
Life insurance borrowing
If you've got a cash-value life insurance policy, 1 of its benefits is your ability to borrow up to the policy's cash value (but not the earnings). Not only that, there's no set repayment schedule or even a required monthly payment.
That said, there are drawbacks. You're not actually borrowing from yourself; you're borrowing from the insurer. The cash value serves as collateral (an important technicality). Your loan balance could end up growing faster than the cash value of the policy if you don't pay it back. Even worse, if the amount that you owe exceeds the cash value, you'll get a bill to pay the difference, and you may face tax consequences.
Like borrowing from your retirement, this is an option you should exercise as a last resort, not your first.
Pros: There is no set repayment schedule; you can borrow up to the cash value of the policy.
Cons: There are possible tax consequences, and your payments could eat into the collateral.


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Roughly 30 Lincolnville residents reviewed lists of projects and proposals Tuesday that they might consider if the St. Augustine City Commission decides to turn that historic neighborhood into a Community Redevelopment Area.
Anthony Robbins, a senior planner for the Jacksonville engineering and planning firm Prosser Hallock, was hired by the city to research the infrastructure, land use, amenities and other aspects of Lincolnville's character to see if a CRA could be feasible there.
His firm was paid $71,000 for the study. In other cities, study money has been reimbursed from future CRA funds.
Robbins is asking Lincolnville residents to describe how they'd like their neighborhood to be improved.
The CRA's job is to use taxes levied on new growth in Lincolnville to pay for projects such as road and sidewalk repair, parking creation, even removal of abandoned, derelict buildings or rehabbing existing homes.
No new taxes would be levied and current tax rates would not go up.
The CRA would get only increased taxes collected. Most would still go to the city and county.
"This neighborhood has experienced some hard times," Robbins said. "There are deteriorated structures, and much of the lot layout is nonconforming, so if a home goes down, (the owner) may not be (legally) able to build there."
Robbins said he's already prepared a draft "finding of necessity" containing 14 "blighting influences" in the area that is required before a CRA can be approved by the state.
The recession dropped home values greatly, Robbins said.
"We've seen the worst days behind us. There's no way to go but up," he said.
The city's current tax rates would be a "baseline," and since values are very low now, this would be very advantageous when growth begins again.
Some residents said the University of Florida's study of Lincolnville in 2004 had already reported some of the neighborhood's needs, adding that the city also completed a study called "Lift Up Lincolnville" in July that did about the same thing.
Robbins said he and his team used both studies for this latest one.
Some questioned how much growth could occur in a crowded neighborhood. But Robbins said the entire peninsula, including South Pointe at the end of Riberia Street, would be in the district. Any industry there could mean a great deal of revenue over the years.
Another Lincolnville resident, Rob Lucas, said that the UF study estimated that a Lincolnville CRA would raise only $916,000 over 10 years, not enough to pay for even one of the big ticket projects.
Robbins said that two economists are working on the question of how much money could be raised there, implying the earlier numbers could have been incorrect or that things have changed over time.
The economists will reveal their numbers during the work sessions today and Thursday, he said.
A chronic critic of city spending, B.J. Kalaidy, said the Downtown Parking Structure was another project that arose from a CRA and never brought enough money in to pay for itself.
"They're not giving us accurate figures," she said, though it was uncertain whether she meant Robbins or the city.
Lucas said the CRA will probably be required to buy up land in Lincolnville, something that he didn't favor.
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Mary married George Lemon about 1832. I am speculating that George was born about 1810 in Virginia. George Lemon and Mary had two children: George (1833-1864) and Jane Frances (1834-1927). Later census records indicate that George was born in Ohio and Jane Frances was born in Virginia, but this is not confirmed.
In the 1850 census for Peoria County, Illinois, George and Jane F. are living with his mother Mary King, and children Elizabeth (1842-1918), James (1845-1918), Joseph (1846-1920) and Rufus (1847-1915) King. A marriage index for Illinois shows that Mary Lemon married William King in July 1839 in Peoria County.
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Depending on your perspective, you could argue Brandon Jacques might be alive today if not for an unusual California law that prevented him from receiving medical care where he needed it most.
A college student from Missouri, Jacques died in Orange County two years ago after entering treatment for bulimia and alcoholism at the troubled Morningside Recovery rehab center in Newport Beach, according to a lawsuit filed by the Jacques family. The suits says that Morningside officials knew he was suffering from hypokalemia and other electrolyte imbalances, and promised to keep him safe until he could be moved to a hospital for inpatient treatment of his eating disorder.
But residential detox facilities can't make such promises about clients with very serious health issues. State law ensures that.
You see, unlike many other states, California law specifically prohibits medical care in residential rehab centers. That meant Morningside was legally barred from having medical staff monitor Jacques where he was staying. So was First House, another Orange County rehab clinic where Jacques was transferred. On April 2, 2011, while watching television at a First House facility in Costa Mesa, Jacques went into cardiac arrest and later died at Hoag Hospital. He was 20.
Since then, the state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs has revoked the licenses of both Morningside and First House, but Assemblyman Allan Mansoor has spent the last year looking for a more system-wide solution. In 2012, the Costa Mesa Republican introduced legislation that would have required more oversight of sober living homes where clients like Jacques stay, but it went nowhere. This year, he's introducing legislation that would eliminate the ban on medical services – a change recommended by an investigator with the state Senate.
"Brandon's death establishes how facilities like Morningside operate in the loopholes of the system and gives authenticity to Assemblyman Allan Mansoor's efforts behind the bill. I really hope it passes," said J. Paul Sizemore, the Jacques family attorney, in an email.
Mansoor describes his bill as "an important proposal to address the quality of care in residential rehabilitation homes. It will enable facilities to provide the appropriate level of care to safely treat individuals who choose to enter rehab while ensuring it is done safely through state licensure."
Morningside CEO Mary Helen Beatificato said she's never understood the medical ban on residential detox facilities and would support a change, although she noted that Morningside now only operates sober living homes and an outpatient clinic. Beatificato declined to discuss the details of Jacques death but said a removal of the medical ban would have had no impact on the Jacques case because Morningside staff has no problem taking clients to other providers for care if they know the clients need it.
A September report by the California Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes said that the medical ban appears to "reflect a bygone era when addicts and alcoholics were expected to tough it out through detox without the aid of medications that can ease withdrawal symptoms."
The report's author, former Sacramento Bee investigative reporter John Hill, found that eight large states – Illinois, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington – allow doctors and other medical personnel to work in residential care settings.
"Several not only allow doctors to oversee detox, but require it," he wrote.
The report, which specifically highlights Jacques' case, recommends that the Legislature approve "a bill allowing medical care in residential facilities." It notes, however, that three bills in the past three years have sought to change the law, but all died in the process.
"That leaves lawmakers, the administration, the industry and its clients facing a situation that many have described as untenable," Hill wrote.
The Senate report suggests that drug rehab clinics are open to the change, but Mansoor will have to navigate a number of unresolved issues if he wants his bill to get approved. Among the issues that could block his legislation is the pending closure of the state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs and the uncertainty surrounding which agency will pick up its functions after it's eliminated on July 1.
Mansoor intends to introduce his proposal into Assembly Bill 40 in the coming days. The Jacques family suit is still pending. And residential rehab clinics across California continue touting the safety of their facilities.
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Hearn's client Kell Brook was set to fight Alexander on February 23 in Detroit but the American pulled out of the fight with a bicep injury on Tuesday - and the next day Mayweather claimed the Missouri man would be his next opponent.
After pledging to "fight tooth and nail" to keep Brook's shot at the IBF welterweight title alive, Hearn has now branded Mayweather's antics of naming Alexander a stunt.
Money's aim, suggested Hearn, is to encourage Robert Guerrero to sign a contract to fight him on May 4 in Las Vegas, because negotiations are stalling.
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WASHINGTON — Despite lingering anxiety over the Great Recession, Americans by a large margin want their federal government to focus more on cutting debt than on increasing spending even temporarily to boost the economy, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
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McClatchy-Marist poll on the economy
DeMint book reveals widening GOP divide
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NSA Spied on Journalists? Whistleblower Reveals Surveillance Target In an exclusive interview tonight on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," former NSA analyst Russell Tice says that the agency under the Bush administration secretly collected communications data on civilians, including journalists. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Following is a transcript of tonight's interview: OLBERMANN: It has taken less than 24 hours after the Bush presidency ended for a former analyst at the National Security Agency to come forward to reveal new allegations about how this nation was spied on by its own government, exclusively here on COUNTDOWN. Our third story tonight, Russell Tice has already stood up for truth before this evening as one source for the revelation in 2005 by the "New York Times" that President Bush was eavesdropping on American citizens without warrants. Tonight, the next chapter for Mr. Tice, a chapter he feared to reveal while George Bush occupied the Oval Office, that under the collar of fighting terrorism, the Bush administration was also targeting specific groups of Americans for surveillance, non-terrorist Americans if you will. Mr. Tice prepared to name one of those groups tonight. The NSA was already estimated to have collected millions of transmissions, e-mails and phone calls of average Americans simply by patching into the networks of cooperative telecommunications companies. You will recall the infamous room 641A at the AT&T Folsom Street facility in San Francisco, in which the whole of AT&T's portion of the Internet was duplicated inside a room accessible only to the NSA. Mr. Tice, however, was also involved in another program and told us that he was first directed to focus on these specific groups in order to weed them out from legitimate surveillance targets, but ultimately concluded that the weeding out was actually an internal NSA cover story for a real goal, which was simply spying on those Americans. Initially, Mr. Bush told the nation all his surveillance was legal. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Anytime you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires a -- a wiretap requires a court order. (END VIDEO CLIP) OLBERMANN: After the "New York Times" revealed that to be a lie, Mr. Bush claimed his surveillance circumvented the constitutionally required process of obtaining a court-ordered warrant only in cases of clear links to terrorism. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BUSH: In the weeks following the terrorist attacks on our nation, I authorized the National Security Agency, consistent with U.S. law and the Constitution, to intercept the international communications of people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations. Before we intercept these communications, the government must have information that establishes a clear link to these terrorist networks. (END VIDEO CLIP) OLBERMANN: Joining me now in his first public revelation of these charges is Russell Tice, former analyst with the National Security Agency. Thank you for your time, sir. RUSSELL TICE, FORMER ANALYST, NSA: Thanks for having me. OLBERMANN: Let's start with the review. We heard the remarks from Mr. Bush in 2005, that only Americans who would have been eavesdropped on without a warrant were those who were talking to terrorists overseas. Based on what you know, what you have seen firsthand and what you have encountered in your experience, how much of that statement was true? TICE: Well, I don't know what our former president knew or didn't know. I'm sort of down in the weeds. But the National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications, faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications. And that doesn't -- it didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, you know, in the middle of the country, and you never made a communication -- foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications. OLBERMANN: To what degree is that likely to mean actual eavesdropping and actual inspection? In other words, if not actually read or monitored by the NSA, everything was collected by the NSA, recorded, archived? Do you have any idea to what degree the information was ever looked at, per se? TICE: Well, it's actually, even for the NSA, it's impossible to literally collect all communications. Americans tend to be a chatty group. We have the best computers at the agency, but certainly not that good. But what was done was a sort of an ability to look at the meta data, the signaling data for communications, and ferret that information to determine what communications would ultimately be collected. Basically, filtering out sort of like sweeping everything with that meta data, and then cutting down ultimately what you are going to look at and what is going to be collected, and in the long run have an analyst look at, you know, needles in a haystack for what might be of interest. OLBERMANN: I mention that you say specific groups were targeted. What group or groups can you tell us about? TICE: Well, there's sort of two avenues to look at this. What I just mentioned was sort of the low-tech dragnet look at this. The things that I specifically were involved with were more on the high-tech side. And try to envision, you know, the dragnets are out there, collecting all the fish and then ferreting out what they may. And my technical angle was to try to harpoon fish from an airplane kind of thing. So it's two separate worlds. But in the world that I was in, as to not harpoon the wrong people in some -- in one of the operations that I was in, we looked at organizations just supposedly so that we would not target them. So that we knew where they were, so as not to have a problem with them. Now, what I was finding out, though, is that the collection on those organizations was 24/7, and you know, 365 days a year, and it made no sense. And that's -- I started to investigate that. That's about the time when they came after me, to fire me. But an organization that was collected on were U.S. news organizations and reporters and journalists. OLBERMANN: To what purpose? I mean, is there a file somewhere full of every e-mail sent by all the reporters at the "New York Times?" Is there a recording somewhere of every conversation I had with my little nephew in upstate New York? Is it like that? TICE: If it was involved in this specific avenue of collection, it would be everything. Yes. It would be everything. OLBERMANN: Do you have a sense of why, as you discovered this? I mean, do you have a sense of what this was, if it was used, to what end? TICE: I do not know. I do not know what was done with the collection. I'm sure the information -- the collection was digitized and put on databases somewhere. I don't know what was done with it from that point. OLBERMANN: And this bait-and-switch sort of idea, that this -- this is the discard pile, we are not going to look at the media, and then it becomes apparent to you that the discard pile is in fact the save pile. How did that become apparent to you? TICE: Well, as I was going for support for this particular organization, it sort of was dropped to me that, you know, this is 24/7. Because I was saying, you know, I need collection at this time, at this point for, you know, for a window of time. And I would say, will we have the capability at this particular point? And positioning assets, and I was ultimately told we don't have to worry about that, because we've got it covered all the time. And that's when it clicked in my head, this is not something that's being done on a onesy basis, onesy-twosie. This is something that's happening all the time. OLBERMANN: In a broad sense, and I imagine this question could be asked a hundred times with much more specificity, but what other kinds of information are you aware of that was collected by the NSA on ordinary Americans? TICE: On ordinary Americans? I don't know. The parameters that were set for how to filter that -- now we are back to the low-tech side -- were things like looking for parameters like if a terrorist normally would only make a phone call for one or two minutes, then you look for communications that are only one or two minutes long. Now, that also could be someone ordering a pizza and asking their significant other what sort of toppings that they wanted on their pizza. That is about a one- to two-minute phone call. OLBERMANN: We mentioned this idea of bait-and-switch, of this is the discard, no, it's not; this is actually the target. Can you explain the maneuver, another sort of bait-and-switch that was worked with the congressional committees that would have had to be asking questions about stuff exactly like this? TICE: Well, the agency would tailor some of their briefings to try to be deceptive for -- whether it be, you know, a congressional committee or someone they really didn't want to know exactly what was going on. So there would be a lot of bells and whistles in a briefing, and quite often, you know, the meat of the briefing was deceptive. One of the things that could be done was you could take something that was part of the Department of Defense, make it part of the intelligence community, and put a caveat to that, and make that whatever the intelligence community is doing for support will ultimately be given a different caveat. So when the defense committees on the Hill come calling, you say, you can't look at that because that's an intelligence program. OLBERMANN: Right. TICE: But when the intelligence program comes calling, you say you can't look at that because it is a Department of Defense program. OLBERMANN: Right. TICE: So you basically have a little shell game that you are playing back and forth. OLBERMANN: It's brilliant in its simplicity. It's wonderful in its simplicity in a different context. Last question here, what happens now? Can the Obama administration stop this? That is the first part. And, secondly, has anybody from the Obama administration been in touch with you about this? TICE: No. Well, I've been in touch with -- basically, I volunteered for the Obama administration to act as a, you know, if they needed a consultant for intelligence. And this was last February. And they said they knew who I was, you know, my background with the agency, but they never really utilized me. I helped out as a volunteer yesterday in the inauguration, but certainly not in that capacity. OLBERMANN: Right. TICE: So, you know, I even said I would go on camera for them if they wanted a commercial, but they really didn't utilize that. But I did send a letter to -- I think it's Mr. Brennan -- a handwritten letter, because I knew all my communications were tapped -- my phones, my computer, and I have had the FBI on me sort of like flies on you know what. And so I made sure it was handwritten. And I'm assuming that he gave the note to our current president, that I intended to say a little bit more than I had in the past. OLBERMANN: And you have done that. I think, if it's all right with you, I think we are going to have to do another interview tomorrow. TICE: Certainly. OLBERMANN: There is much -- there are only about twice as many questions left. Russell Tice, former NSA intelligence analyst. It sounds corny, thank you for doing this for the country. TICE: Well, you know, I raised my hand, just like the president, and my oath was to support and defend the Constitution, not a director of an agency, not a classification on a piece of paper, but ultimately the Constitution. And these things were against the law that were happening. So I was just doing my job, really. OLBERMANN: Well, yes, but doing your job sometimes earns you the lapel pin, the flag pin. Thank you, sir. TICE: Thank you.
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