Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- For college students, winter break is a time for vegging out and relying on mom and dad to do the laundry.

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The smart appliances also connect to the internet to run diagnostics and to figure out when the best time to do laundry is.

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And those hotels still do their laundry the old-fashioned way.

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Do as Vancouverites do: pack a locally-produced picnic (do not forget the lotuses and Dirty Laundry), negotiate space on a boat, and claim a prime viewing spot on the glassy waters of English Bay to ensure your Vancouver city summer - however languid - goes off with a bang.

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When I was done, the mesh bag functioned as a laundry sack, and all I had to do was leave the items in the room.

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But do the football players need to do more laundry, need more discretionary travel money, and need better accommodations than their volleyball sisters?

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But whatever the outcome, at that moment Tuesday night, the focused energy of this president at this stage of his presidency reverberated through the rafters of the Capitol and suggested that this long speech was not a laundry list but a to-do list, an agenda for change offered up by a confident and empowered advocate.

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Rather than fight this "iTax" with a flash mob version of the Boston Tea Party, Web users should see the proposal for what it is: another sign that the Web is all grown up now and needs to stop coming back to its parents' house to do laundry.

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