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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.

"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."

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

New Yorker writer James Wood addresses different theodicies (God punishing or teaching, or self-comforting) in "Between God and a Hard Place," Sunday, 1/24/10

Perils of ignoring Medicare isues at age 65

from St.Louis examiner.com

Most readers favor palliative sedation if its primary intent is to allay intolerable suffering even if it may accelerate dying - as opposed to allowing the suffering because its treatment may lead to an earlier death.

Readers largely support measures to allow death in dignified environment with palliative approach, as opposed to repeated aggressive interventions that are rarely successful when the prognosis is poor.

Harvard econ prof David Cutler says the Obama plan will cut costs-$600 billion over the next decade-and that those in Washington should not walk away from it.

...like SPV: independent living to ALF to SNF care.

The Affordable Care Act's updated versions of HMOs are based on flawed assumptions about doctor and patient behavior.

"Goal-priming experiments" - of the sort cited by Malcolm Gladwell - "are coming under scrutiny...." 'A team led by the Belgian cognitive scientist Axel Cleeremans and another at the University of California, San Diego, led by Hal Pashler, repeated the [NYU] slow-walker study and found no difference in the rates of walking between goal-primed and unprimed subjects. 'Mr. Pashler's team also tried without success to replicate a dozen other goal-priming experiments, including one showing that exposure to money made subjects more likely to endorse a free market, and another reporting that exposure to a picture of an American flag prompted subjects to express nationalist attitudes. 'To be sure, a failure to replicate is not confined to psychology, as the Stanford biostatistician John P. A. Ioannidis documented in his much-discussed 2005 article "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False." The cancer researchers C. Glenn Begley and Lee M. Ellis could replicate the findings of only 6 of 53 seminal publications from reputable oncology labs.'

Frugal Traveler - 10 web aids to travel within budget