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Discussion about Tea Party movement, & article about it on 2/1/2010

In 2010: $50-75 bucks.day very easily from close to home (to avoid flying - yr-round from New York, seasonally from Boston) - go on older ship, shoulder/off-season,Carib or Eur(hi compet'n) inside cabin (Norwegian has window to hall), Avoid alcohol,spa,boat shore excursion,on-board Internet. No tips in Europe.

Rowland on the Quirinale exhibit in Rome (Feb-June 2010), and on the lonely, violent, ill-starred and powefully innovative painter who so connects with people of the 21st century.

"In 2005, Ms. Brainard-Barnes was a 22-year-old single mother who had difficulty holding down a steady job. She never could afford her own place, staying with her sister for long stretches and occasionally with a boyfriend. As soon as she enrolled on a site called ModelMayhem.com, that, after a few clicks, turned out to mean nude modeling and sometimes working as an escort. Within a few months, Ms. Brainard-Barnes was making up to $2,000 a day on trips to New York City. Online, she could be her own boss and not share what she made with anyone - not a pimp, not an escort service, not a boyfriend. In 2010, Maureen Brainard-Barnes's body was one of four uncovered close by one another in the sand dunes of Gilgo Beach, Long Island, wrapped in burlap.... The Web enables some people to take risks they never would have imagined. In this way, the women of Gilgo Beach still have something to teach us. The Internet might have made pimps less necessary, but today's escorts are as marginalized as ever, and every bit as vulnerable. The police rarely help them when they are at risk, and they rarely take their disappearances seriously. As far as the authorities are concerned, their profession still seals their fate."

"New York's newest basketball sensation spends most nights on a couch in a one-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side. The housing choice is understandable once you get to know Jeremy Lin. He is a Harvard graduate playing in the National Basketball Association. He is an Asian-American in a league devoid of them, which makes him doubly anomalous. No team drafted Lin in 2010. Two teams cut him in December, before the Knicks picked him up. His contract, potentially worth nearly $800,000, was not even guaranteed until Tuesday afternoon. So for the past six weeks, Lin, 23, has been sleeping in his brother Josh's living room, waiting for clarity and career security."

From: Keating N, et al "Physician factors associated with discussions about end-of-life care" Cancer 2010; DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24761.

see esepciallty "get a better deal from your cable provider" & "saving files & photos on cloud"

Do Americans have a moral responsibility to people in poverty in other countries?

South resisted 19th Amendment into 70s & 80s (Miss. - 1984)

Boosting WiFi in the home with "Wi-Fire" ($50) - see http://www.hfield.com/

For networking "newbies" - 1 TB storage = $130. "GoFlex Home Network Storage System" See http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/home-network-storage: "The GoFlex™ Home network storage system supports the external storage needs of every computer in your home, on one device." >Connects to your WiFi router, allowing you to wirelessly store and access files and back up multiple PC and Mac® computers in your home* >Store files in a central location on your network--use one drive for all your storage and backup needs >Wirelessly share a USB printer with every PC and Mac® in your home >Access your files over the Internet from computers and mobile devices when outside of the home

Small, slim with HD videO

iPhone aps to alter photos ($1-3)