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Just when you thought the economy had begun to rebound from the Great Meltdown of 2008, my assets were totally frozen this week.

Plus, my sure-fire bid to become a millionaire fell through when those jerk-knobs at the lottery stiffed me. Again.

Nothing like a little sub-zero weather to make the economic climate seem frigid and bleak. Igloo foreclosures are up and some financial experts are even saying it's a polar bear market.

You know times are tough when they're talking about cutting the police force in the city of Portsmouth. Trim the thin blue line to reach your municipal bottom line? That's like cutting the military ? some say it means you hate America. But a city's gotta make ends meet.

In a related development, City Manager John Bohenko said he plans to auction both the USS Albacore submarine and the historic John Paul Jones House on eBay. More controversial, however, is the proposal to sell Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to the Chinese.

And, eager to reap new revenue by selling corporate naming rights to local landmarks, the City Council is reportedly close to a deal to rename both the Hewlett-Packard Music Hall and the Exxon/Mobil Old North Church.

To help the plight of local business, the council has agreed to let people tap directly into their 401(k) accounts to feed downtown parking meters. Also under consideration is a plan to convert one section of historic Strawbery Banke into a low-income housing tenement and another into authentic, steeply priced bundles of Colonial American firewood.

Not really.

Meanwhile, it's 2013 now. Are better economic times just around the corner? Or should I consider laying off one or two of my dogs?

No mortal person can answer questions such as these. So today, we've consulted legendary economic/astrological advice columnist The Great Depress-O.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ? Your broker urges you to stock up on Ramen noodles. Consider starting a Ponzi pyramid to pay your overdue electric bill. Red is the new black.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ? You possess very limited intellectual capital. But don't let the ever-present threat of financial annihilation affect your consumer confidence. A financial adviser urges you to seek fiscal therapy.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) ? Getting more money may improve your financial situation. Seek out fun new places to hide from your creditors. An attractive colleague inquires about your debt-equity ratio. Cover your assets.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ? A candid financial discussion could lead to involuntary moaning and blubbering. Domestic animals question your ability to continue feeding them. Utilize scissors to clip coupons.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) ? Ease your stress level by declaring complete financial, emotional and intellectual bankruptcy. A beguiling stranger advises you to stay out of Dumpsters today. Avoid unemployment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) ? A romantic encounter is out of the question for 18 months. Share your deepest emotions with a Mama Celeste pizza. Let your financial limitations guide your heart.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) ? Good fortune is not in the cards today, so reconsider spending more than $50 on lottery scratch tickets. To relieve monthly mortgage stress, live in your car. Poverty looms.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ? Diversify your portfolio at dusk, when the numbers are hardest to see. To save big bucks, simply get rid of your television, phone and Internet service. Shop generic.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ? A cost-benefit analysis reveals no reason to get out of bed this morning. Patching your debt ceiling can wait. Treat yourself to some extra-strength Tylenol this evening.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ? Encouraging news is probably inaccurate. Join an expensive health club and make a religious habit of never going there. Windfall profits are not on the horizon.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ? Don't be disappointed if a loved one rejects your stimulus package. Slamming your hand in a car door could ease your emotional pain. To enhance your liquidity, drink more alcohol.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ? Follow your instincts on matters involving e-mails from Nigeria offering untold riches. A bank statement causes you to reassess your self-worth. You will find a copper coin under a cushion today.

John Breneman, a Herald copy editor and columnist, can be reached at jbreneman@seacoastonline.com (Twitter: @MrBreneman).

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Egypt sends military onto streets amid deadly clashes ... - World News

Mohammed Nouhan / AP

Families and supporters of those accused of soccer violence from the Port Said soccer club react to the announcement of death sentences for 21 fans.

By Yusri Mohamed and Yasmine Saleh, Reuters

PORT SAID/CAIRO - At least 30 people were killed on Saturday when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster, violence that compounds a political crisis facing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Armored vehicles and military police fanned through the streets of Port Said, where gunshots rang out and protesters burned tires in anger that people from their city had been blamed for stadium deaths last year.

The rioting in Port Said, one of the most deadly spasms of violence since Hosni Mubarak's ouster two years ago, followed a day of anti-Morsi demonstrations on Friday, when nine people were killed. The toll over the past two days stands at 39.

The flare-ups make it even tougher for Morsi, who drew fire last year for expanding his powers and pushing through an Islamist-tinged constitution, to fix the creaking economy and to cool tempers enough to ensure a smooth parliamentary election.

That vote is expected in the next few months and is meant to cement a democratic transition that has been blighted from the outset by political rows and street clashes.

Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

Al Ahly fans, also known as "Ultras", celebrate and shout slogans in front of the Al Ahly club after hearing the final verdict of the 2012 Port Said massacre in Cairo Saturday.

The National Defense Council, led by Morsi and which includes the defense minister who commands the army, called for "a broad national dialogue that would be attended by independent national characters" to discuss political differences and ensure a "fair and transparent" parliamentary poll.

The statement was made on state television by Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud, who is also on the council.

The National Salvation Front of liberal-minded groups and other opponents cautiously welcomed the call but demanded any such dialogue have a clear agenda and guarantees that any deal would be implemented, spokesman Khaled Dawoud told Reuters.

The Front spurned previous calls for dialogue, saying Morsi ignored voices beyond his Islamist allies. The Front earlier on Saturday threatened an election boycott and to call for more protests on Friday if demands were not met.

Its demands included picking a national unity government to restore order and holding an early presidential poll.

Threats of violence
The political statements followed clashes in Port Said that erupted after a judge issued a verdict sentencing 21 men to die for involvement in the deaths of 74 people after a local soccer match on February 1, 2012, many of them fans of the visiting team.

Visiting fans had threatened violence if the court had not meted out the death penalty. They cheered outside their Cairo club when the verdict was announced. But in Port Said, residents were furious that people from their city were held responsible.

Protesters ran wildly through the streets of Mediterranean port, lighting tires in the street and storming two police stations, witnesses said. Gunshots were reported near the prison where most of the defendants were being held.

A director for Port Said hospitals told state television that 30 people had been killed, many as a result of gunshot wounds. He also said the more than 300 had been wounded.

Inside the court, families of victims danced, applauded and some broke down in tears of joy when they heard Judge Sobhy Abdel Maguid declare that the 21 men would be "referred to the Mufti", a phrase used to denote execution, as all death sentences must be reviewed by Egypt's top religious authority.

There were 73 defendants on trial. Only a handful appeared in court in Cairo. Those not sentenced on Saturday would face a verdict on March 9, the judge said.

At the Port Said soccer stadium a year ago, many spectators were crushed and witnesses saw some thrown off balconies after the match between Cairo's Al Ahly and local team al-Masri. Al Ahly fans accused the police of being complicit in the deaths.

The fans, who call themselves "Ultras Ahlawy", said Saturday's ruling started the process of retribution, and hoped the rest would face the same fate when verdicts are issued on March 9.

Among those killed on Saturday was a former player for al-Masri and a soccer player in another Port Said team, the website of the state broadcaster reported.

Teargas rains down
On Friday, protesters angry at Morsi's rule had taken to the streets for the second anniversary of the uprising that erupted on January 25, 2011 and which brought Mubarak down 18 days later.

Police fired teargas and protesters hurled stones and petrol bombs. Nine people were killed, mainly in the port city of Suez, and hundreds more were injured across the nation.

On Saturday, some protesters again clashed with police. In the capital, youths pelted police lines with rocks near Tahrir Square. In Suez, police fired teargas where protesters angry at Friday's deaths hurled petrol bombs and stormed a police post.

"We want to change the president and the government. We are tired of this regime. Nothing has changed," said Mahmoud Suleiman, 22, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the cauldron of the 2011 anti-Mubarak revolt and near where youths again stoned police.

Port Said, Ismailia and Suez, which have witnessed some of the worst violence in the past two days, lie on the Suez Canal but a canal official said there was no disruption to shipping through the waterway vital to international trade.

Morsi's opponents say he has failed to deliver on economic pledges or to be a president representing the full political and communal diversity of Egyptians, as he promised.

"Egypt will not regain its balance except by a political solution that is transparent and credible, by a government of national salvation to restore order and heal the economy and with a constitution for all Egyptians," prominent opposition politician Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on his Twitter account.

Morsi's supporters say the opposition does not respect the democracy that has given Egypt its first freely elected leader.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which propelled Morsi to office, said in a statement that "corrupt people" and media who were biased against the president had stirred up fury on the streets.

The political schism between Islamists and secular Egyptians and frequent bouts of violence have hurt Morsi's efforts to revive an economy in crisis as investors and tourists have stayed away, taking a heavy toll on Egypt's currency.

Mustapha Kamal Al-Sayyid, a professor of political science at Cairo University, said the latest violence reflected the frustration of many liberal-minded Egyptians and others.

"The state of polarization between Islamists and others is most likely to continue and will have a very negative impact on the state's politics, security and economy," he said.

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Egypt court sentences 21 to death for stadium disaster

Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/26/16705250-egypt-sends-military-onto-streets-amid-deadly-clashes-near-suez-canal

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Recycle plastic waste into 'ink' for 3-D printers

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John Roach , NBC News

As enthusiasm grows for 3-D printers, so does a familiar complaint to just about everyone still living in a 2-D inkjet world: the maddeningly high cost and inefficiency of replacement cartridges. Enter the Filabot, a contraption that turns just about all your household plastic waste into "ink" for 3-D printers.

3-D printers melt strips of plastic filament into a gooey paste that is spewed out one layer at a time to create all sorts of plastic parts, gizmos and architect models. The printers are a sign of the future, when we can print just about anything we?d ever want with the press of a button.

For now, the printers mostly deal in the realm of plastics and are popular among early-adopter techies, designers?and people on a mission to change the world for the better. In addition to the cost of the printers, which have begun to fall, plastic filament starts at around $50 for a 2.2-pound spool.

The Filabot was developed by Tyler McNaney, a college student, and financed with funds raised on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website. It sits on a desktop and is designed to grind and convert everyday plastic waste such as milk jugs, water bottles, and plastic wrap into filament for a future print job.

Early enthusiasts paid $350 for first-run versions of the device, according to Treehugger. A final price for the public version is yet to be announced, but it should pay for itself rather quickly and keep household plastic waste out of landfills and the oceans. What?s more, it means you recycle bad print jobs.

To learn more about it, check out the promotional video below.

- via Earth Techling

John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News. To learn more about him, check out his website. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/recycle-plastic-waste-ink-3-d-printers-1C8119019

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Facebook Clarifies Developer Policies - Business Insider

Under fire for cutting off popular new apps,?Facebook has announced new rules for developers using its social network.

It is now requiring developers to show "reciprocity," which means their apps must let users easily post content to Facebook, in order to use Facebook's friend-finding features.

The change comes as Facebook abruptly cut off access to Twitter's new Vine video-sharing app and Wonder, a social search app from Yandex, a Russia-based search engine.

For years, Facebook has encouraged app developers on the Web and on mobile devices to use Facebook as a default login and a way of finding friends who are also using the service, a key strategy for making it ubiquitous.

But it has repeatedly clashed with players like Google and Twitter, viewing their attempts to connect with Facebook as an attempt to build up competing social networks at Facebook's expense.

Here's the old rule Facebook had for developers:

Competing social networks: (a) You may not use Facebook Platform to export user data into a competing social network without our permission; (b) Apps on Facebook may not integrate, link to, promote, distribute, or redirect to any app on any other competing social network.

And the new rule:

Reciprocity and Replicating core functionality: (a) Reciprocity: Facebook Platform enables developers to build personalized, social experiences via the Graph API and related APIs. If you use any Facebook APIs to build personalized or social experiences, you must also enable people to easily share their experiences back with people on Facebook. (b) Replicating core functionality: You may not use Facebook Platform to promote, or to export user data to, a product or service that replicates a core Facebook product or service without our permission.

The reciprocity requirement around sharing content and the prohibition on replicating Facebook services are new, but it closely matches a controversial changes Twitter made last year to crack down on apps that mostly acted as clients for reading and posting tweets.

Still, what constitutes "replication," and how easy must sharing be? Facebook, it seems, will decide that.

Vine, Twitter's new video app, allows content to be shared easily, in the form of a link and a preview image. But unlike Facebook-owned Instagram, which injects photos directly into Facebook users' profiles, Vine does not actually post the videos on Facebook.

That mirrors the restricted way with which Instagram interacts with Twitter: Instagram no longer displays photos on Twitter's website or mobile apps, forcing users to click through to the Instagram website to view and interact with them.

Enforcement seems arbitrary. Facebook allows Twitter users to crosspost updates from Twitter to Facebook, but LinkedIn users can no longer crosspost Twitter updates to the professional network. Facebook allows Google's YouTube and Yahoo's Flickr to share photos and videos while using friend-finding features. Twitter likewise allows Flickr users to find Twitter friends, but Instagram users can't.

Consumers pay the price, ultimately, since they must laboriously rebuild their lists of friends on any new service that's innovative enough to threaten dominant players like Twitter or Facebook, or just offered by a company that's not on sufficiently friendly terms with them.

A Facebook spokesperson did not respond to a request to discuss the new policies in greater detail.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-clarifies-developer-policies-2013-1

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Chocolate-Flavored Envelopes Just Solved the Worst Thing About Valentine's Day

The restaurants are crowded, the roses are expensive, but on Valentine's Day you'll do anything for your significant other—except licking the awful envelope seal on the card you bought. Why the greeting card industry opts for the lowest-grade toxic glue it can find is a mystery, but thankfully there's now a vastly superior alternative—chocolate-flavored envelopes. More »

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Reflect and Relate: An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication ...

Steven McCornack, "Reflect and Relate: An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication, Second Edition"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 031248934X | 544 pages | PDF | 64.5 MB

The most successful new interpersonal communication textbook in over a decade, Reflect & Relate broke new ground with its emphasis on critical self-reflection, practical skills, and relationships in context. Reflect & Relate fosters self-awareness by having students examine their own experiences, practice ongoing critical self-reflection, and apply the lessons in the text to their own communication. In the second edition, distinguished teacher and scholar Steven McCornack continues to arm students with the best research in the hottest areas, from the dark side of interpersonal relationships and gender and culture issues to the prevalence of technology in our daily communication.

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McDonald's says January restaurant sales will fall

(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp on Wednesday forecast a decline in global restaurant sales for January, as it and other fast-food chains fight for customers who are spending cautiously during continued economic uncertainty.

The world's biggest restaurant company by revenue also reported an unexpected rise in December sales at established U.S. restaurants, which helped lift its fourth-quarter profit above analysts' estimates.

Wall Street expected the early part of 2013 to be tough for McDonald's as it runs short of quick fixes for its business in the United States and bumps up against strong year-earlier results that were bolstered by unseasonably warm weather.

McDonald's forecast for a decline in this month's global same-restaurant sales suggests a "pretty clear drop off between December (2012) and January (2013)," Morningstar analyst R.J. Hottovy said.

Global same-restaurant sales were flat in December, helped by an unexpected 0.9 percent rise in the United States - its second-largest market for revenue just behind Europe.

The company's push to keep more restaurants open on Christmas Day and its shift of the limited-time offering of its popular McRib sandwich to December from October bolstered the December U.S. results. Analysts polled by Consensus Metrix had expected those sales to drop 1.78 percent.

McDonald's expects near-term top and bottom-line growth to remain pressured in part because the company must top strong results from a year ago, Chief Executive Don Thompson said on a conference call with analysts.

Last year's global sales at McDonald's restaurants open at least 13 months increased 6.7 percent for January and 7.3 percent for the first quarter.

Fast-food chains like Burger King Worldwide Inc and Yum Brands Inc's Taco Bell have introduced new U.S. menus and are doing a better job of competing with McDonald's.

At the same time, U.S. consumers have less money in their pockets since the end of the payroll tax cut.

"We suspect choppy demand trends and the impact of the loss of the payroll tax deduction (in the United States) are in part to blame" for the company's downbeat guidance, Lazard Capital Markets analyst Matthew DiFrisco said in a client note.

Fourth-quarter net income at the world's biggest restaurant chain rose 1.4 percent to $1.40 billion, or $1.38 per share. That topped analysts' average forecast of $1.33 a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Total sales rose 1.9 percent to $6.95 billion.

In a bid to remain competitive, McDonald's doubled down on promoting its value menus - such as the U.S. Dollar Menu. That effort has pressured profitability, raising concern among analysts.

Shares in the company shares were up 0.1 percent to $92.82 in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

(Reporting By Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles and Brad Dorfman in Chicago; Editing by Maureen Bavdek and Andrew Hay)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mcdonalds-fourth-quarter-profit-rises-131054424--sector.html

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What Capitalism Can't Fix - Phil Buchanan - Harvard Business Review

by Phil Buchanan??|?? 9:00 AM January 23, 2013

Increasingly, I see people looking starry-eyed to business and markets to solve social problems. In so doing, they run the risk of dismissing the impact of nonprofits ? and diminishing the value of organizations that seek to make a difference without creating the potential conflicts that come with the profit motive. My view is that pretending companies and markets hold all the answers actually puts at risk our ability to deal with our most pressing societal problems ? and to help our most vulnerable citizens.

The rhetoric is everywhere ? from the trade press to the mainstream media to business school faculty to corporate titans to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Former GE CEO Jack Welch, writing in Business Week, characterized the nonprofit sector as a "foreign land" in which performance is not a priority and employees are guaranteed "lifetime employment." Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, wrote last year on the Wired web site, "Let's be real: The nonprofit model is broken. The 20th-century way of "guilting" people into giving to an opaque, inefficient organization with massive overhead is no longer a viable model." In a recent blog post here on HBR.org, Dan Pallotta suggests that nonprofits should use the tools of capitalism such as high pay and providing returns to investors to increase charitable giving.

The rush to disparage nonprofits and the stampede to embrace the idea that for-profits ? or for-profit models ? can more easily combat our toughest social problems deny reality. Many crucial objectives simply cannot be accomplished while generating a financial return. Other objectives can but there is a price to be paid. In health care, for example, research indicates a decline in quality when non-profit hospitals switched to become profit making, as Eduardo Porter explained this month in the New York Times.

The laudable push for companies to commit more energy to dealing with social problems should not obscure the need for strong independent nonprofits that focus on mission not profit. And while nonprofits can learn from companies and companies can learn from nonprofits, it is a mistake to deny differences.

After all, there is a crucial distinction between an institution that reinvests surpluses in its mission and one that faces unrelenting pressure to distribute profit to shareholders. Consider higher education in the United States. Nonprofit universities frequently offer an education that costs more than actual tuition ? the difference made up through charitable gifts and endowment returns ? while for-profit institutions must cover their costs with tuition and create a profit margin. The results ? and the evidence from lawsuits, media reports, and congressional and GAO investigations of for-profit universities ? speak for themselves.

Despite this and many other cautionary tales, an increasing number of people both inside and outside the nonprofit world seem drunk on the Kool-Aid of business superiority. Too often people equate "business thinking" with effectiveness. Even those inside the world of nonprofits and philanthropy have internalized the idea that operating "like a business" means operating effectively (never asking which business: Countrywide Financial? BP? Enron?).

The stereotypes of nonprofits are just that: stereotypes. There are, of course, numerous examples of nonprofit influence and impact ? from work on environmental issues to citizens' rights to reductions in tobacco use to reductions in worldwide child mortality ? but also lesser known examples. Take the work of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a nonprofit whose 18-month campaign to reduce hospital mortality rates has saved an estimated 122,300 lives by inspiring and guiding hospital executives, physicians, and nurses to adopt six basic patient-safety practices. As Peter Fader, a University of Pennsylvania professor and director of the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, has observed: Nonprofits often excel at using "their data to better understand their 'customer base.' In this area, big companies with lots of resources really can learn from their cash-strapped nonprofit cousins."

The point is this: No type of organization ? government, business, or nonprofit ? has a monopoly on effectiveness. And nonprofits are typically tackling the most complex problems of all. If those problems could have easily been solved by government or business, they wouldn't exist at all.

I'm a huge believer in free-market capitalism. I have an M.B.A. and have worked as a corporate consultant. But I think we're better off being sober about what markets can and cannot accomplish.

I'd suggest three practical questions to ask in sorting through how to achieve important social goals.

• Does the pursuit of profit conflict with or facilitate the achievement of your goal? How likely are profit and social impact to be in tension? How will that tension be managed or resolved?
• What kind of choices and information do people have? Markets work best when people have choices and when there is good information, so ask, do those conditions apply? Are you looking at an opportunity ? like creating products or technologies that will help poor people in some aspect of their lives ? that lends itself to a free-market solution? Or are you looking at something, like the management of a prison or nursing home system for a state, where a provider is likely to have a virtual monopoly ? meaning management is free to prioritize profit over the social mission without paying any kind of price?
• Finally, are you addressing an issue that actually results from market failure, such as, environmental degradation? If you don't understand capitalism's role in contributing to a problem, you probably won't be able to rely on capitalism to chart a path to the solution.

Then decide what makes most sense, and don't assume that a pure nonprofit isn't the way to go.

Follow the Scaling Social Impact insight center on Twitter @ScalingSocial and register to stay informed and give us feedback.

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Source: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/what_capitalism_cant_fix.html

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Tax Preparers: Helping Take the Stress Out of Filing Income Tax ...

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Valentine's Day Paper Bag Crafts | Inspired By Family Magazine

Drab to fab paper bags in minutes!? I love how versatile paper bags are and I am going to show you 6 Valentine?s Day crafts below!

Your basic supplies for all of them is a paper bag, scissors and glue.

1. Our cute little owl guy above is simply adorable. You can see the diagram I have over here to get a better idea how to draw his head. Unlike our Owl teacher gift here you are not making the bag. You are just drawing the owl onto the bag then cutting. You will glue eyes, wings and heart to the bag and you?re done!

2. These are simple DIY Valentine Favor Bags from Camilles?Styles. Just purchase Valentines Day lunch bags and hole punch two holes at the top and add ribbon. Voila you?re done! (picture on upper right)

3. I love this Valentine Mug craft- Andrea Currie Crafts show us how to do this simple and cute project. (picture on bottom left)

4. See Thru Heart Treat Bag-?All you need here is to draw a heart on the front side of your bag and cut it out. Use a baggie to hold your kids. (picture bottom right)

5. Sewn with Love- Place your goodies inside and you?re good to go. Stop over at A Mom Not a Professional for the kid version of this.

6. Paper Bag Valentines Book- Rosy Posy shares this great idea her kids made a?Mom I Love You Because? book.

Source: http://inspiredbyfamilymag.com/2013/01/21/valentines-day-paper-bag-crafts/

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Latest inaugural forecast: Bit warmer than in 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Consider it the first fact check of a Barack Obama campaign pledge for his second term: Will he, or Mother Nature, deliver on promised warmer Inauguration Day weather?

It's shaping up as a close call.

In September, while campaigning in Colorado, Obama was talking to a potential voter who mentioned he had been one of the hundreds of thousands of people outdoors at Obama's bone-chilling first inaugural in 2009, when the noontime temperature was 28 degrees. Obama promised: "This one is going to be warmer."

Scientifically, the president can't control the weather of course. Still, it's a promise that for a long time looked close to a sure thing with the average high on Jan. 21 being about 43 degrees.

An Arctic cold front looks to be racing toward the mid-Atlantic, so it will be slightly cooler than normal on Monday ? and with a chance of snow ? but not as cold as it was in 2009. Look for highs around 40 degrees with noon temperatures in the mid- to upper 30s. That would keep Obama's pledge.

There's also a 40 percent chance of scattered snow showers. But the Arctic cold front won't arrive until Monday night into Tuesday.

Extreme cold on Inauguration Day, folklore says, can be a killer.

In 1841, newly elected president William Henry Harrison stood outside without a coat or hat as he spoke for an hour and 40 minutes. He caught a cold that day and it became pneumonia and he died one month after being sworn in.

Twelve years later, outgoing first lady Abigail Fillmore got sick after sitting outside on a cold wet platform as Franklin Pierce was inaugurated and she died of pneumonia at the end of the month. Doctors now know that pneumonia is caused by germs, but prolonged exposure to extreme cold weather may hurt the airways and make someone more susceptible to getting sick.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/latest-inaugural-forecast-bit-warmer-2009-185813141--politics.html

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Pacific Sentinel: News Story: China should increase 'military ...

Maj. Gen. Luo Yuan, deputy secretary general of the China Military Science Society (CMSS) of the Chinese People?s Liberation Army (PLA) recently proposed at the forum on the topic of ?Marine Rights and Interests: The National Interests and Security of China? that China should realize military presence on the Diaoyu Islands in order to highlight China?s territorial sovereignty.

According to Luo Yuan, China should preserve its maritime rights and interests in a comprehensive way. Although China often focuses on the ?presence of sovereignty? on related islands and reefs, the ?presence of sovereignty? should not be a lip-service. Rather, it should be realized in actions to highlight the six kinds of presence, namely the administrative presence, the legal existence, the military presence, the law enforcement presence, the economic presence and the public opinion presence.

Source: http://pacificsentinel.blogspot.com/2013/01/news-story-china-should-increase.html

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CSN: Hard times make it sweeter for 49ers' Gore

ATLANTA -- Life as the San Francisco 49ers featured running back hasn?t always been rosy for Frank Gore. Long before his two-touchdown NFC Championship Game performance, Gore spent six seasons without tasting a winning record.

Sunday after coming from behind to beat the Atlanta Falcons 28-24, Gore was elated yet reflective.

?You?ve got to go through hard times to enjoy [this],? said Gore. ?When you go through hard times things start changing, like my career. Coming out of college after having knee injuries after knee injuries, I kept fighting.?

Gore tore the ACL of his left knee in 2003 when he was at the University of Miami. He tore the same ligament just a year later.

?It?s the same as a team,? said Gore on his first six years with the 49ers. ?We kept fighting from ?05 to now. We were the laughing stock of the league, [now we?re] one of the best. This feels great. I saw and I knew what we went through since I?ve been here.?

From 2005 to 2010 the 49ers never fielded a winning team. After a combined 37-59 team record where Gore rushed for over 1,000 yards four times, San Francisco turned everything around.

The 49ers narrowly missed a Super Bowl bid last season with a three-point loss to the New York Giants. Back again in the NFC Championship, Gore?s 90 yards Sunday and two touchdowns contributed heavily to San Francisco advancing to the big game.

Down 24-14 to the Atlanta Falcons at halftime, Gore said the 49ers took solace in the fact that NFC West foe Seattle was down 20-0 at halftime to Atlanta to week prior.

?We felt like we were a better team than Seattle,? said Gore. ?What they can do, we can do.?

Gore scored on a 5-yard read-option scamper in the third quarter. His second score was a 9-yard run to take the lead, where Gore was never touched. He teased the Georgia Dome crowd with a little version of the ?Dirty Bird? end zone dance.

Gore said he?s heard the Falcons? defensive players talking all week about how much they expected 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to run the football. During the game Gore said he noticed Atlanta?s defensive front cheating toward Kaepernick, allowing Gore to run free frequently.

?I felt it,? said Gore. ?But I didn?t want to tell anybody. I knew it.?
Gore didn?t have to tell anyone, the 49ers showed it on the scoreboard, scoring 14 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to seal a trip to New Orleans to play in Super Bowl XLVII, their first trip back since 1994.

Source: http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/gore-super-bowl-much-sweeter

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Hundreds attend NYC memorial for Internet activist Aaron Swartz

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Jonathan Allen , Reuters

Supporters of Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet activist who committed suicide last week, gathered in New York to remember the computer prodigy on Saturday, with some calling for changes in the criminal justice system they blame for his death.

Swartz, who at 14 helped create an early version of the Web feed system RSS and believed the fruits of academic research and other information should be freely available to all, was found dead a week ago in his Brooklyn apartment.

The city's chief medical examiner ruled the death a suicide by hanging.

He had been facing trial on federal charges he used the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer networks to steal more than 4 million articles from JSTOR, an online archive and journal distribution service.

Swartz, who had also worked on the popular website Reddit, had faced a maximum sentence of 31 years in prison and fines of up to $1 million.

"He told me about the 4.5 million downloads of scholarly articles, and my first thought was why isn't MIT celebrating this?" Edward Tufte, an emeritus professor of computer science at Yale University and a friend of Swartz, said to applause from the crowd gathered in The Cooper Union's Great Hall in Manhattan.

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Swartz's partner, criticized what she described as MIT's "indifference" to the saga, saying the school could have acted to end his prosecution.

The president of MIT said this week the school was investigating its role in Swartz's case. JSTOR has said in a statement it settled any dispute with Swartz in 2011 and praised his "important contributions to the development of the Internet."

Call?for change
At the memorial, attended by hundreds of friends and supporters, the strongest criticisms were reserved for prosecutors in the office of Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts.

Roy Singham, the chairman of ThoughtWorks, a software consultancy firm where Swartz worked, called the case against Swartz "an abuse of state power" intended to intimidate Swartz. He called for the reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act under which Swartz was prosecuted.

Swartz's partner said it all became too much for him to bear.

"He was so scared and so frustrated and more than anything so weary I just don't think he could take it another day," Stinebrickner-Kauffman said, adding the pair had discussed getting married after the trial.

Ortiz has defended her office's actions, saying prosecutors "took on the difficult task of enforcing a law they had taken an oath to uphold, and did so reasonably."

She said they offered Swartz a deal to plead guilty to multiple counts of wire fraud and computer fraud and spend six months at a low-security facility.

Swartz was remembered as a precocious talent who began addressing technology conferences as a teenager and whose quirks included being loath to wash his dishes and preferring bland foods like crackers and white rice.

Many speakers said he was by far the smartest and most intellectually curious person they had known, and called on those in attendance to continue his work of trying to widen the public's access to information and communication channels.

Stinebrickner-Kauffman said Swartz disliked grand ceremonies and would have been uncomfortable with some aspects of his own memorial.

"But memorial services are for the living," she said, repeating it several times like a mantra, "and last Friday he forfeited his right to decide that."

(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Xavier Briand)

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/hundreds-attend-nyc-memorial-internet-activist-aaron-swartz-1B8039397

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Openframeworks: C++ for Processing Coders - GAFFTA

Logistics:

Dates: Saturday & Sunday, January 19th ? 20th
Times: 11am ? 5pm
Course Length: 12 instructional hours
Cost: $20/instruction hour, $240 total, $216 for GAFFTA Members
Location: GAFFTA, 923 Market Street Ste. 200, San Francisco, CA 94103

Overview:

openFrameworks was developed for folks using computers for creative, artistic expression, and who would like low level access to the data inside of media in order manipulate, analyze or explore.

openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation. The toolkit is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries. The code is written to be massively cross-compatible. Right now we support five operating systems (Windows, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android) and four IDEs (XCode, Code::Blocks, and Visual Studio and Eclipse). The API is designed to be minimal and easy to grasp. Simply put, openFrameworks is a tool that makes it much easier to make things with code.

// Topics of the workshop include:

1 ? Introductions, pretty/shiny pictures, creative uses of programming, and tools/frameworks for creating. How to download/install OF on Mac/Linux/Windows, and getting the bundled examples compiled for the first time. How to start a new project. Differences between C++ and Java, in terms of philosophy, syntax, casting types, atomic variable types (int, float, double, the ?unsigned? keyword), and MAYBE pointers.

2 ? Drawing pixels, lines, polygons, and typography in 2D and 3D

3 ? Animation, playing back video, rendering frames to a PNG sequence, and

4. Reacting to input from mouse, keyboard, microphone, and webcam

6 ? Utils: file system, logging, time, format conversion, threads, network, talking to other languages (inter-process, and embedding scripting engines)

7 ? Mixing and mingling: using other APIs. Addons: introduction to addon system and demonstration of a few popular addons

8 ? More Addons: more demonstrations of more popular addons

9 ? How to write your own Addon for OpenFrameworks

10 ? OpenFrameworks for iOS and Android

11 ? Working with a Kinect and Shaders, and exploring visuals effects and generative art

12 ? Algorithms: Writing your own sort, lists, hash-maps, trees, and advantages of C++ over Java. Researching methods and using the internet to find answers.

// Required equipment:

A portable computer with your IDE of choice installed; we recommend (XCode or Code::Blocks). Download openFrameworks for free at http://www.openframeworks.cc/download/.

// Prerequisites:

A comprehensive understanding of Processing or another coding framework.

Instructors

Josh Nimoy

Instructor

I am a silicon valley unicorn. I make software art. I communicate between engineers and artists. I think a lot about issues of programming for non-programmers. I am best known for my generative computational aesthetics for Disney?s TRON:Legacy. My most contagious meme is BallDroppings. My most visible work is commercial. My art shows in serious galleries and museums. I believe creativity is a serious force of business and humanity, capable of much more than mere entertainment, consumer manipulation, and intellectual invigoration. It is nutritious, healing, and magical.

Reza Ali

Instructor

Reza is a computational designer/creative technologist/multi-faceted hybrid engineer who is interested in everything from design to biology to entrepreneurship. He is interested in human computer interaction (interaction design), architecture/product design, software, mobile technology/hacking, generative visuals, algorithmic art, data visualization, audio-visual interactive immersive environments, new media tools for DJs/VJs/Performers, Trans-Architecture, photography, graphic design, user interfaces, electronics, 3D animation, modeling, rendering and scripting. Some of his goals are to create content and interactive controllers for multimedia performance systems, to create new and fun models of interaction, to create form/visuals/sounds though algorithmic processes, to create real-time computer graphics for virtual worlds, and to explore the realm of science and mathematics to make complex phenomena understandable and intuitive. He hopes to change the world by making a difference in how people use technology, design products and experience new media art and entertainment.

For some latter half of 2010 and early 2/3 of 2011 he lived in LA and worked for various companies, including Motion Theory under Mathew Cullen, Kaan Atilla, and Chris Riehl and at Nokia Research Center under Rebecca Allen (Founding Chair of Design Media Arts @ UCLA). All the while he freelanced for POSSIBLE (created an audio-visual VJ app for Deadmau5), and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (created an iPad app, iCubist, that augmented the museum?s Analytic Cubist Exhibit featuring works from Picasso and Braque). Reza gave presentations and talks at Nokia Design, Google Data Arts Center, NIME 2010, and NIME 2011. His work was featured in two books, Visual Complexity by Manuel Lima and Generative Art by Matt Pearson and numerous times online at www.creativeapplications.net. On his spare time he worked on a gallery installation, and various other personal new media art projects.

In 2010 Reza earned a Master of Science in Multimedia Engineering (with a focus in Visual and Spatial Arts) from the Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His advisors were George Legrady (Data Visualization Artist), Casey Reas (Co-Creator of Processing, MIT Media Lab), and Matthew Turk (MIT Media Lab). Before his move to Santa Barbara, California in 2008, he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with two B.S. (One in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and minors in Electronic Art and Product Design) studying under Curtis Bahn, Shawn Lawson and Kenneth Conner.

Source: http://www.gaffta.org/2013/01/18/openframeworks-c-for-processing-coders/

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Mobile Rewards Startup Kiip Gets A Strategic Investment From Ad Giant Interpublic

Kiip just announced that it has received funding from ad holding company Interpublic. Brian Wong, the startup's co-founder and CEO, said the investment was actually included in the $11 million round that he announced last year, and it's part of a partnership between the two companies. Kiip and IPG were still working out the details of the partnership, so they couldn't announce it until now.

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Lost phones keep being tracked to house in Vegas - to owner's frustration

By Devin Coldewey, TODAY.com

A sign adorns Wayne Dobson's front door at his North Las Vegas home: "NO LOST CELL PHONES!!"

It may seem somewhat quaint, but Dobson deemed it necessary after so many people started showing up at his doorstep demanding their phones. It turns out that people who have lost their phones (or perhaps had them stolen) are being directed to Dobson's place due to an error in their carrier's phone-tracking system.

In a report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the 59-year-old retiree explains how things got out of hand. At first, a person or two looking for a phone in his area might have been considered a random mistake. But after the third or fourth person showed how tracking software had led them directly to Dobson's address, he decided it was more than a coincidence.

There's a cell phone tower close by his house, and it seems that Sprint customers in particular are being drawn to it like moths. Apps like "Find my iPhone" and others use GPS and cell tower triangulation to locate lost phones, but in this case they seem to be failing ? and then defaulting to Dobson's home as the location of the goods.

Such systems are usually fairly reliable. Apple has made it a standard service on iPhones, and third-party versions are competing for market space on other platforms. They've even been used to thwart criminals: Recently, a man tracking down his stolen iPad accidentally unraveled an established burglary and meth ring in Seattle.

That's no comfort to Dobson, who has little sympathy for what he called people's "technology pets." He's been awakened at all hours, pestered during the day, and had the police show up several times. "It's a hell of a problem," he told the Review-Journal. "It would be nice to be able to get a good night's sleep."

He's tried calling Sprint, which told him it would look into the problem, but for now the error is still in effect. He put the sign out front, but still fears that one night he may encounter a less-than-rational cell phone owner. So if you lose your phone in Las Vegas and your finder app points you to an ordinary-looking house with a sign by the door, give the man a break.

More from Digital Life:

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC?News Digital and TODAY.com. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

Source: http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2013/01/16/16547118-lost-phones-keep-being-tracked-to-house-in-vegas-to-owners-frustration?lite

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WALNUT YOUTH SOFTBALL SIGN UPS - in Diamond Bar-Walnut ...

New York Pizzeria is a family friendly pizza place that is a popular hang out with locals in the Walnut area. It's located in a shopping plaza near the intersection of Lemon Avenue and La Puente Road. It offers quality thin-crust pizza, pitchers of cold beer and submarine sandwiches. It also offers dinner plates, like ?Manicotti with meat sauce, and a small kids menu. There are pizza specials for large groups and teams.

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Investigation Discovers "Deleted" Data Still Recoverable From Hard ...

IT Security firm Secarma is issuing a warning to businesses after recovering personal data including passwords and login information from erased and formatted hard drives bought online.

The security firm, an arm of cloud and colocation specialist UKFast, was invited by BBC Radio show Naked Scientists to conduct an investigation, as part of their ?Science Night? show on BBC Radio 5 Live, into the security of recycling hard drives ? a common practice for environmentally-conscious businesses.

The investigation discovered that despite users password-protecting and deleting entire data archives from hard drives they sold on, sensitive data was still recoverable.

Stuart Coulson, head of sales and cyber security expert at Secarma commented on the findings: ?To prove how easy data recovery is, we searched one of the most recognised online marketplaces: eBay ? where used hard drives are abundant. Looking for descriptions containing key words such as ?formatted? and ?password-locked?, we found a drive entitled: ?preformatted ready to use?.

?The label ?formatted? gets used so loosely in technology that people don?t fully understand its true definition, misinterpreting it to mean ?deleted? and gone forever. Unfortunately this isn?t entirely true, as a quick recovery uncovered hundreds of student and dissertation data from a humanities college.

?It took less than five minutes, using off the shelf recovery software, to extract data including student user login details and links to coursework from the preformatted hard drive. Had we used our specialist recovery software, we would have been able to recover further data.

?Businesses should heed the warning that ?formatted does not mean erased forever?, as they could be inadvertently sharing confidential corporate data, or worse, client data which it is their duty to protect.?

Coulson advised the best route to properly erasing external drives and ensuring the appropriate disposal of confidential information. He said: ?As we generate more and more data, old drives are becoming too small for purpose and being upgraded for larger, more efficient storage devices. Firms looking to remain environmentally-friendly by recycling or reselling old drives must properly wipe data from them.

?To do this, firms can visit computer recycling and disposal services that will provide a Certificate of Destruction. As a reputable organisation your primary responsibility is to look after your customers? data and failure to do so could result in a criminal record, losing you both your customers and your business.?

Coulson added: ?If companies could take away one critical piece of advice, then it?s simply not to put used hard drives on eBay. To clarify, we spoke with the ICO who helpfully advised us that as a data controller (the owner of the data), that data is yours and therefore you must ensure the appropriate protocol is put in place when deleting data as part of Principle 7 (Information Security) of the Data Protection Act.

?If you?re looking to sell other computer parts then by all means do so ? but if it?s your hard drive, unless you can be 100% certain the data on it is deleted or unimportant, hold on to it or find a new use for it as it could end up on the wrong side of the law.?

Due to the sensitive nature of their findings, Coulson refrained from undertaking a full recovery on the drives.

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Christian Harris is editor and publisher of BCW. Christian has over 17 years' industry experience and in that time has contributed to most major IT magazines and Web sites in the UK. Christian has a BA (Hons) in Publishing from the London College of Communication. In his spare time Christian can be found in a gym or on a golf course.

Christian Harris is editor and publisher of BCW. Christian has over 17 years' industry experience and in that time has contributed to most major IT magazines and Web sites in the UK. Christian has a BA (Hons) in Publishing from the London College of Communication. In his spare time Christian can be found in a gym or on a golf course. ...less info

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House GOP sharply divided on $51B Sandy aid bill

Originally published: January 13, 2013 7:16 PM
Updated: January 13, 2013 10:20 PM
By TOM BRUNE ?tom.brune@newsday.com

Photo credit: Steven Sunshine | From left, Rep. Nita Lowey, Rep. Peter King, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy joined other elected officials, labor leaders and investment bankers at a news conference in Manhattan to discuss the push for federal dollars for the state and region in the wake of superstorm Sandy. (Dec. 14, 2012)

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are sharply divided on the $51 billion superstorm Sandy emergency funding package as it nears a vote in the House on Tuesday.

New York and New Jersey Republicans insist the House must pass the entire package this week, but fiscal conservatives have balked, saying only the most immediate needs should be passed in an emergency funding bill.

"This bill is about $50 billion. That averages out to be about $450 from every household in the country," said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), a longtime budget hawk. "So I think they have a right to know that money is actually going for emergency repairs."

McClintock has proposed amendments that would limit funding to only the amount that could be spent in the next nine months -- an estimated $4 billion. The rest would have to go through regular congressional budget procedures.

Whether the package passes the House depends largely on Northeast lawmakers winning enough Republican votes to overcome such opposition, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) said. He expressed frustration with McClintock and others seeking to clamp down on disaster recovery funding -- saying it is a break from the past and a changing of the rules.

"You need to have money upfront" for rebuilding subways that Sandy destroyed, roads it damaged and beaches it washed out, King said. "That is part of the emergency."

McClintock's amendments "would be a total rewriting of the rules," King said.

But in a climate in which Republicans are seeking to reduce the government's $16 trillion debt with deep spending cuts, McClintock has plenty of company among the House GOP. More than a quarter of Republican House members voted two weeks ago against a $9.7 billion measure needed to allow federal flood insurance claims to be paid. The bill was not considered controversial.

Many more Republicans are expected to vote against the rest of the package.

GOP House members last week filed 45 amendments to the underlying $18 billion aid bill and an accompanying $33 billion amendment seeking to reduce the size, scope and cost of the aid.

"We'll have to fight," King said. "But it's also up to the Rules Committee and the House leadership."

The House Rules Committee Monday afternoon will meet to determine which of the 77 amendments that were submitted by Friday will be allowed. It is expected to knock out many of them.

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the committee chairman, has not indicated what he plans to do. Nor has House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) or House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).

If the committee allows only one or two pertinent amendments, King said, "I'm confident we can beat them."

After the Rules Committee determines which amendments go forward, the package will go to the House floor for debate and votes on the amendments and the final bill.

With Democratic support assured, the Sandy recovery package will rise or fall on whether King and other backers can find at least 20 Republicans to vote for it. Approval will require at least 217 votes in a House made up of 200 Democrats and 233 Republicans.

King said he thinks he has the 20 or so votes he will need.

New York and New Jersey GOP lawmakers account for 11 or 12 ayes, he said, leaving eight or nine votes he hopes to pick up from sympathetic colleagues in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

"I'm not taking anything for granted," he said.

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555TES Minute S is Best Thing at Tokyo's - Gas 2.0

This little bit of automotive nirvana is the 555TES Minute S. Powered by one of Yamaha?s high-revving 250 cc motorcycle/ATV engines coupled to Toyota?s Aqua hybrid drive system, the tiny commuter promises some seriously fun urban commuting.

Despite looking for all the world like one of those dynamically flawed 3-wheeled, motorcycle-tired fail-machines (I?m looking at you, Can-Am), the 555TES actually has 4 fat, square-section automotive tires to equalize contact patches front and rear and ensure maximum grip. Like a go-kart, the low-weight/high-grip formula is one that?s sure to thrill ? and, with an EV-only mode and tiny footprint, it might be eligible for a SUICA card.

Translation: you can take it on the subway. Can I get a ?F@#$ yeah!??

There is almost no chance that this super-awesome little runabout will make its way to the US, despite the continued presence of awful 3 wheelers sucking up tax credits and pathetic suckers? investors? dollars. It?s too bad, and a genuine loss for America?s car culture.

Here is the 555TES, on video, in motion, NOT vaporware. Try to enjoy the video, below, without shedding manly tears.

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Source: 555TES, via the Truth About Cars.

Source: http://gas2.org/2013/01/12/555tes-minute-s-is-best-thing-at-tokyos-2013-auto-salon-w-video/

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