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Power helps you live the good life by bringing you closer to your true self
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
How does being in a position of power at work, with friends, or in a romantic relationship influence well-being? While we might like to believe the stereotype that power leads to unhappiness or loneliness, new research indicates that this stereotype is largely untrue: Being in a position of power may actually make people happier.
Drawing on personality and power research, Yona Kifer of Tel Aviv University in Israel and colleagues hypothesized that holding a position of authority might enhance subjective well-being through an increased feeling of authenticity. The researchers predicted that because the powerful are able to "navigate their lives in congruence with their internal desires and inclinations," they feel as if they are acting more authentically ? more "themselves" ? and thus are more content.
Their findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
In their first experiment, the researchers surveyed over 350 participants to determine if internal feelings of power are associated with subjective well-being in different contexts: at work, with friends, or in romantic relationships.
The results indicated that people who feel powerful in any context tend to be more content.
The most powerful people surveyed felt 16% more satisfied with their lives than the least powerful people. This effect was most pronounced in the workplace: Powerful employees were 26% more satisfied with their jobs than their powerless colleagues. The power-based discrepancy in happiness was smaller for friendships and romantic relationships. The researchers posit that this may be because friendships are associated with a sense of community rather than hierarchy, and therefore having power in this kind of relationship is less important.
In the second and third experiments, Kifer and colleagues examined the causal relationship between power, feelings of authenticity, and general well-being, by manipulating each of the factors independently. The results revealed that being in a position of power causes people to feel more authentic and "true to themselves" ? that is, it allows their actions to more closely reflect their beliefs and desires. Feelings of authenticity, in turn, enhance subjective feelings of well-being and happiness.
"By leading people to be true to their desires and inclinations ? to be authentic ? power leads individuals to experience greater happiness," the researchers conclude.
Kifer and colleagues propose that future research into power dynamics, happiness, and authenticity should focus on specific kinds of power, both positive (such as charisma) and negative (such as punishment).
Together, these findings suggest that even the perception of having power can lead people to live more authentic lives, thereby increasing their happiness and well-being.
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Michael Clarke Duncan
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Jerry Nelson
"Sesame Street" puppeteer Jerry Nelson, shown here with "Sesame Street" character Count von Count in New York in June 2012, died at age 78 on Aug. 23, 2012, in Massachusetts after battling emphysema.
Phyllis Diller
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Tony Scott
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Scott McKenzie
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William Windom
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Mitchell Guist
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Adam Yauch
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Davy Jones
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Whitney Houston
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Don Cornelius
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Ian Abercrombie
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Etta James
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Andy Williams
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Ravi Shankar
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Maurice Sendak
In this June 16, 1981 file photo, author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, poses in New York. Sendak, author of the popular children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," died, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn. He was 83. (AP Photo/Thomas Victor, file)
Earl Scruggs
FILE - In this July 30, 2011 file photo, Earl Scruggs performs at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I. Scruggs' son Gary said his father passed away Wednesday morning, March 28, 2012 at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital of natural causes. He was 88. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin, File)
Alex Karras
FILE - This 1971 file photo shows Detroit Lions' Alex Karras. The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News reported Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, that the former All-Pro defensive lineman and actor has kidney failure and has been given only a few days to live. Lions president Tom Lewand says the NFL football franchise is deeply saddened to learn of Karras' condition. (AP Photo/File)
Marvin Hamlisch
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Larry Hagman
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Ben Gazzara
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Donald "Duck" Dunn
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Richard Dawson
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Hal David
FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Hal David arrives at the 42nd Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York. David, who along with partner Burt Bacharach penned dozens of top 40 hits for a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, died Saturday Sept. 1, 2012 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
Dave Brubeck
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Ray Bradbury
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Neil Armstrong
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Sally Ride
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Andrew Breitbart
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Mike Wallace
FILE - This April 7, 2003 file photo shows journalist Mike Wallace in South Burlington, Vt., Wallace, famed for his tough interviews on "60 Minutes," has died, Saturday, April 7, 2012. He was 93. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
Jack Hanlon
Jack Hanlon, who had roles in the 1926 silent classic "The General" and in two 1927 "Our Gang" comedies, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/17/jack-hanlon-dead-our-gang-96_n_2314882.html">died Dec., 13, 2012. He was 96.</a>
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THE CONNING TOWER: California Currents
Coaches Newsletter - Fall 2012
Please provide newsworthy information to Pacific Association coaches chair Dave Shrock at coachshrock@gmail.com for inclusion in the next newsletter due out in the late sping. For current information refer to: www.pausatf.org
Annual Pacific Association Coaches Committee Meeting Notice:
Sat, 2 Feb at Sacramento City College from 12:45-1:15pm in Lillard Hall 101. The meeting will be held during lunch at the VS Athletics SuperClinic. Registration to the clinic is not required, though suggested to improve your coaching effectiveness: www.vsathletics.com/clinic.
Upcoming USATF Coaching Schools and Clinics:
Level 1 Schools: Level 1 Certification-New!The USA Track & Field Level 1 Coaching Education course has officially been certified by the National Council for Accreditation of Coaching Education. NCACE promotes and facilitates coaching competence within all levels of amateur sport by overseeing and evaluating the quality of coaching education programs.
Level 1 Schools, the most comprehensive track and field training in the nation, consist of 21 hours of instruction focused on the events of track & field and related sport science. The course consists of classroom instruction as well as hands-on training. The Level 1 program covers all events by emphasizing fundamentals, rules, safety/risk management, and instruction techniques in addition to specific event group training of endurance, sprints/hurdles, throws and jumps. Upon passing the exam, participants will be issued a Level 1 Coaching Certificate and be eligible for this summer's Level 2 at CalState East Bay.
The next Level 1 School will be: Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa(Orange County): 16-17 February. Refer to: http://www.usatf.org/groups/coaches/education/schools/level1/2013/C13003801/index.asp,
Level 2 Schools: News Flash:
The Event Specific Level 2 School will be held at CalState East Bay this summer form 7-13 July. This is the first time an Event Specific School has been held in Northern California. Information should be posted on the USATF CE site in early February. Refer to:
http://www.usatf.org/groups/coaches/education/level2.aspx.
The Youth Specialization Level 2 School is normally held in conjunction with the national JO's in July. Information will be posted some time in February.
VS Athletics West Coast SuperClinic: Saturday, 2 February - Sacramento City College. Come join us in improving your coaching effectiveness in a one-day clinic devoted solely to maximizing your athlete's success. Twenty nationally recognized clinicians will provide information that you will be able to apply immediately to your program's improvement in the event group areas of sprints/hurdles, endurance, throws, and jumps. Spread the word to all coaches! Last year's clinic was a great success with over 300 coaches gaining practical information to begin their seasons, and this year the clinic features London Olympic athletes' coaches Harry Marra, Bob Larsen, Jeremy Fischer, Mac Wilkins, along with many other top coaches in our sport. For further info. refer to www.vsathletics.com/clinic.
SCAUSATF - Running Summit West
Orange Coast College - Costa Mesa. The nation's premiere endurance clinic is coming to California with the likes of Jack Daniels - Author: Daniels' Running Formula, Dr. Joe Vigil Author: Road to the Top - Coach of Olympic Bronze Medalist, Jay Dicharry -Author: Anatomy for Runners, Peter Thompson - International IAAF Endurance Instructor , and Matt Fitzgerald
Author: Brain Training for Runner and Racing Weight. A USATF Level 3 Credit Course though open to all coaches and athletes. Refer to: www.runningsummit.com, and for a $10.00 registration discount use the word 'pacific'. For further information, contact Andrew Allden at aacoaching@aol.com
New Website replacing DyestatCal: With the demise of the ESPNRise prep websites, Dyestatcal webmaster Rich Gonzalez has started http://www.prepcaltrack.com. The website has a similar feel to the old DyestatCal site, and Rich promises much more California specific coverage and information.
Running Network Publications Available Digitally: Digital editions for American Track & Field, Athletes Only, California Track & Running News, Missouri Runner, Coaching Athletics, and Latinos Corriendo.
Here is the email subscription form at this link, where you can get any or all of the magazines digitally. http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?llr=bocbvycab&p=oi&m=1102486473153. It takes less than two minutes to sign in, subscribe and you are done.
Editor Larry Eder is still doing print copies for Athletes Only, American Track & Field, Cal Track. Coaching Athletics, Latinos and Mo Runner are only digital. If you have needs of any other copies, email Larry at larry@runningnetwork.com
Master T&F Meet Schedule: invitational, league, conference, and regional championship meet information for all age divisions can be found at:
http://www.pausatf.org/data/officials/off2013Calendar.pdf
With the cooperation of the three other associations in California, USATF has created a link detailing all events being held in California: http://www.usatf.org/calendars/searchResults.asp?associationNumber=44,33,46,38
Open-Masters News:
London Olympic competition video clips available for view:Andy Ferrara of USATF has compiled an invaluable video resource of the London Olympic competition videos housed on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zmgj8581dssfvyz/HYnWU5hOov?m.
To view and save, use copy/paste or Dropbox's download feature. These videos will be moved soon to a USATF site and combined with recent World Champs video.
Kirk Freitas, Chico State Men's T&F Coach has retired after 33 years at the helm of the state's most successful NCAA D- II program. Freitas coached 6 NCAA champions in addition to 47 All-Americans while the Men's team was ranked in the top 30 nationally for the past 11 seasons. Women's head coach
Oliver Hanf will take over on an interim basis until a national search is conducted in the spring.
Kathleen Raske, the Head coach at CSU Sacramento was the Head U.S. Women's Coach for the U23 NACAC Competition this past summer in Guanajuato, Mexico.
American River College's (Sacramento) Men's Cross country team won its second California State Community College title this past November with Rick Anderson
as coach.
2012 Legacy Coach Award Recipients: The Legacy Coach Award has been initiated by the PA Coaches Committee in recognition of the many influential coaches who have served in our association, and have selflessly strengthened our sport(s) through teaching, mentoring, and promoting our profession.
Margaret Dixon, Oakland PAL
Coach Dixon is a retired Oakland Police Officer and has dedicated over 33 years volunteering to serve youth in the city of Oakland. It was during her years as a police officer that Margaret founded the Oakland Police Activities League (PAL) Track and Field Team, and since then, the program has grown to be one of the largest youth track clubs in the bay area. The PAL track team has allowed hundreds of Oakland youth to travel beyond the city limits, a first-time experience for many kids in the PAL program. Every year, more than 100 boys and girls, ages 5-18 years old, register to run for PAL, and many of those boys and girls continue running in high school and college.
Walt Lange, Jesuit High School-Carmichael
Walt Lange ranks as one of the nation's most successful cross country coaches guiding the Jesuit Boys teams since 1970. Under Lange's guidance Jesuit has won nine state Div. 2 Boys Championships with eighteen appearances. Through the decades Lange has been a great resource for regional coaches speaking at countless clinics in addition to writing training article for distance runners. As an ultimate tribute, many of Lange's runners have gone on to coach in Lange's footsteps including Scott Abbott, currently the distance and cross country coach at Sacramento State, Micheal Stembler, along with Micheal and Eric Mastalir who work for Nike.
Youth-High School news:
New Youth age division titles:
At this year's USATF annual meeting all youth divisions were renamed. The new designations are the following with the old designations in brackets: 8-Under Division (Sub-bantam), 9-10 Division (Bantam),11-12 Division (Midget), 13-14 Division (Youth), 15-16 Division (Intermediate), 17-18 Division (Young Men/Women).
Lee Webb, successful Logan HS and Mission Valley TC coach has been selected as the Head USATF Boys Coach for the Youth Championships team this July in the Ukraine.
The Golden West HS
Invitational will move to UC Berkeley's Edward's Stadium from Folsom, and be held on Sunday 9 June this season.
USA Paralympics needs your help identifying athletes: With the recent success of our Para team in London and increased awareness of Para competition at the high school level, Cathy Sellers of USA Paralympics needs your help identifying potential national team athletes. For more information view the Para webpage at: http://www2.teamusa.org/US-Paralympics/Sports/Track-and-Field.aspx or email: Cathy.Sellers@usoc.org.
For the 2013 Association Youth schedule refer to:
http://www.pausatf.org/data/2013/youth/ytf2013sched.html
Officials Education Clinics for 2013:
Official's education chair Shirley Connors has organized successful half-day officiating clinics for all levels in preparation for the 2013 season. Below are listed the remaining clinic opportunities. For further information, refer to: http://www.pausatf.org/indexofficials.html
Saturday, 2 February: UC Davis, Davis
Sunday, 10 February: Serra HS, San Mateo
Additional Information: Websites for additional information and resources: National: www.usatf.org; Northern California and Nevada Pacific Association: www.pausatf.org; California Central Valley Association, from Merced county south: www.central-california.usatf.org; Southern California: www.scausatf.org; and San Diego-Imperial, refer to: www.sdusatf.org.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Scouts considering retreat from no-gays policy
FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Jennifer Tyrrell, right, arrives for a meeting at the Boys Scouts of America national offices in Irving, Texas, with her son Jude Burns, 5, second from right, partner Alicia Burns, and son Cruz Burns, 7, left. The Ohio woman was ousted as a den mother because she is a lesbian. The Boys Scouts of America announced Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, that it is considering a dramatic retreat from its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Jennifer Tyrrell, right, arrives for a meeting at the Boys Scouts of America national offices in Irving, Texas, with her son Jude Burns, 5, second from right, partner Alicia Burns, and son Cruz Burns, 7, left. The Ohio woman was ousted as a den mother because she is a lesbian. The Boys Scouts of America announced Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, that it is considering a dramatic retreat from its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Jennifer Tyrrell hugs her son Cruz Burns, 7, outside Boy Scouts national offices in Irving, Texas, after a meeting with representatives of the 102-year-old organization. The Ohio woman was ousted as a den mother because she is a lesbian. The Boys Scouts of America announced Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, that it is considering a dramatic retreat from its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Boy Scouts of America may soon give sponsors of troops the authority to decide whether to accept gays as scouts and leaders - a potentially dramatic retreat from a nationwide no-gays policy that has provoked relentless protests.
Under the change now being discussed, the different religious and civic groups that sponsor Scout units would be able to decide for themselves how to address the issue ? either maintaining an exclusion of gays, as is now required of all units, or opening up their membership.
Gay-rights activists were elated at the prospect of change, sensing another milestone to go along with recent advances for same-sex marriage and the end of the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
However, Southern Baptist leaders ? who consider homosexuality a sin ? were furious about the possible change and said its approval might encourage Southern Baptist churches to support other boys' organizations instead of the BSA.
Monday's announcement of the possible change comes after years of protests over the no-gays policy ? including petition campaigns that have prompted some corporations to suspend donations to the Boy Scouts.
Under the proposed change, said BSA spokesman Deron Smith, "the Boy Scouts would not, under any circumstances, dictate a position to units, members, or parents."
Smith said the change could be announced as early as next week, after BSA's national board concludes a regularly scheduled meeting on Feb. 6. The meeting will be closed to the public.
The BSA, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2010, has long excluded both gays and atheists. Smith said a change in the policy toward atheists was not being considered, and that the BSA continued to view "Duty to God" as one of its basic principles.
Protests over the no-gays policy gained momentum in 2000, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the BSA's right to exclude gays. Scout units lost sponsorships by public schools and other entities that adhered to nondiscrimination policies, and several local Scout councils made public their displeasure with the policy.
More recently, pressure surfaced on the Scouts' own national executive board. Two high-powered members ? Ernst & Young CEO James Turley and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson ? indicated they would try to work from within to change the membership policy, which stood in contrast to their own companies' non-discrimination policies.
Amid petition campaigns, shipping giant UPS Inc. and drug-manufacturer Merck announced that they were halting donations from their charitable foundations to the Boy Scouts as long as the no-gays policy was in force.
Also, local Scout officials drew widespread criticism in recent months for ousting Jennifer Tyrrell, a lesbian mom, as a den leader of her son's Cub Scout pack in Ohio and for refusing to approve an Eagle Scout application by Ryan Andresen, a California teen who came out as gay last fall.
Tyrrell said she's thrilled for parents and their children who've been excluded from scouting and "for those who are in Scouts and hiding who they are."
"For me it's not just about the Boy Scouts of America, it's about equality," she told The Associated Press. "This is a step toward equality in all aspects."
Many of the protest campaigns, including one seeking Tyrrell's reinstatement, had been waged with help from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
"The Boy Scouts of America have heard from scouts, corporations and millions of Americans that discriminating against gay scouts and scout leaders is wrong," said Herndon Graddick, GLAAD's president. "Scouting is a valuable institution, and this change will only strengthen its core principles of fairness and respect."
Among those urging the Boy Scouts to keep the no-gays policy was Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council.
"The Boy Scouts of America board would be making a serious mistake to bow to the strong-arm tactics of LGBT activists and open the organization to homosexuality," Perkins said. "The Boy Scouts should stand firm in their timeless values and respect the right of parents to discuss these sexual topics with their children."
The Scouts had reaffirmed the no-gays policy as recently as last year, and appeared to have strong backing from conservative religious denominations ? notably the Mormons, Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists ? which sponsor large numbers of Scout units. Under the proposed change, they could continue excluding gays.
Prior to Monday's announcement, the BSA conferred with some leaders of these religious groups, including the Rev. Frank Page, who leads the Southern Baptist Executive Committee.
According Roger S. Oldham, a spokesman for the executive committee, Page then wrote to the Scouts "expressing his tremendous dismay at the decision."
"They had been working for months on this proposal and just days before they informed us," Oldham said in a telephone interview. "We would anticipate that there would be a very significant backlash to this as churches reevaluate whether scouting comports with."
If the Scouts proceed with the change, Oldham said, SBC leaders were likely to issue a statement "expressing disappointed and encouraging our churches to support alternative boys organizations."
Neither the Catholic Church nor the Mormons' Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued official statements as to how they would respond.
Said Sister Mary Ann Walsh, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, "The bishops hope the Boy Scouts will continue to work under the Judeo-Christians principles upon which they were founded and under which they have served youth well."
Were the change adopted, said Deron Smith, "there would no longer be any national policy regarding sexual orientation, and the chartered organizations that oversee and deliver Scouting would accept membership and select leaders consistent with each organization's mission, principles, or religious beliefs.
"BSA members and parents would be able to choose a local unit that best meets the needs of their families," he said. "Under this proposed policy, the BSA would not require any chartered organization to act in ways inconsistent with that organization's mission, principles, or religious beliefs."
The announcement came shortly after new data showed that membership in the Cub Scouts ? the BSA's biggest division ? dropped sharply last year, and was down nearly 30 percent over the past 14 years.
According to figures provided by the organization, Cub Scout ranks dwindled by 3.4 percent, from 1,583,166 in 2011 to 1,528,673 in 2012. That's down from 2.17 million in 1998.
The Boy Scouts attribute the decline largely to broad social changes, including the allure of video games and the proliferation of youth sports leagues and other options for after-school activities.
However, critics of the Scouts suggest that its recruitment efforts have been hampered by high-profile controversies ? notably the court-ordered release of files dealing with sex abuse allegations and persistent protests over the no-gays policy.
The BSA's overall "traditional youth membership" ? Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers ? totaled 2,658,794 in 2012, compared to more than 4 million in peak years of the past. There were 910,668 Boy Scouts last year, a tiny increase from 2011, while the ranks of Venturers ? a program for youths 14 and older? declined by 5.5 percent.
In addition to flak over the no-gays policy, the Scouts have been buffeted by multiple court cases related to past allegations of sexual abuse by Scout leaders, including those chronicled in long-confidential records that are widely known as the "perversion files."
Through various cases, the Scouts have been forced to reveal files dating from the 1960s to 1991. They detailed numerous cases where abuse claims were made and Boy Scout officials never alerted authorities and sometimes actively sought to protect the accused.
The Scouts are now under a California court order, affirmed this month by the state Supreme Court, to turn over sex-abuse files from 1991 through 2011 to the lawyers for a former Scout who claims a leader molested him in 2007, when he was 13. It's not clear how soon the files might become public.
The BSA has apologized for past lapses and cover-ups, and has stressed the steps taken to improve youth protection policy. Since 2010, for example, it has mandated that any suspected abuse be reported to police.
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Associated Press writers John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, and Rachel Zoll in New York contributed to this report.
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Boy Scouts: http://www.scouting.org/
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David Crary can be reached at http://twitter.com/CraryAP
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App-driven life: When in Rome, you can turn lights on back home
Want to know how to change your smart phone into a light switch? Philips Hue bulbs are controlled by your Android or iPhone, letting you turn them on and off from another room or another country.?
Your phone -- you want it to be a light switch? There's an app for that. The search for new apps spurs demand for creative app designers like Ben Johnson and Michelle Chen, pictured, at Raizlabs in Boston.
EnlargeNow that most phones connect to the Internet, how about your light bulbs? Dutch electronics giant Philips trotted out a new kind of bulb last year ? one of the first to come with its own Internet router.
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These Philips Hue bulbs can be controlled by your Android or iPhone, allowing you to turn them on and off from the couch or ... from another country. The Hue application lets you adjust the brightness and color of each bulb individually and then program different settings for certain situations.
Dinner time? Maybe dim the lights to 70 percent brightness and give them a slightly reddish tint. New painting that you want to show off? Take a photo of the artwork with your phone and then tell the lights to match certain colors from the image.
In tests done by the Monitor, the Hue bulbs seem well designed, even though the app is not that intuitive. Perhaps foreseeing this problem, Philips opened up the software that runs these lights, allowing programmers to craft their own Hue apps. Already, Apple's online store has a 99-cent homemade disco app called Magic Hue that can take control of the Philips bulbs and tell them to pulsate in tempo with music.
Each of the LED bulbs shines with the strength of a 50-watt incandescent, but sips just 8.5 watts of power ? an energy efficiency similar to that of curlicue compact fluorescents.
However, Wi-Fi lights aren't cheap. A starter kit of three bulbs and a router costs $200. Each additional light is $60. Competitor GreenWave Reality offers a four-pack of colorless, app-powered lights and a router for $200, with extra bulbs costing $20 apiece.
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Economists growing more upbeat about year ahead
NEW YORK (AP) ? Economists are increasingly, but still cautiously, optimistic about growth in the year ahead with the hiring expected to pick up in coming months.
A quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Economists released Monday shows half of the economists polled now expect real gross domestic product ? the value of all goods and services produced in the United States ? to grow between 2 and 4 percent in 2013. That's up from 36 percent of respondents who felt the same way three months earlier.
About half expect sluggish or negative performance, down from 65 percent in October.
The latest survey was conducted between Dec. 20 and Jan. 8 and asked 65 economists and others who use economics in the workplace about conditions at their firms or industries. It found that 34 percent of firms now expect to expand their payrolls in the next six months, the highest percentage since April of last year. Meanwhile, 2 percent said they expect their companies to cut payrolls through layoffs, while 14 percent see payrolls trimmed through attrition.
A quarter of respondents also said employment grew at their firms in the fourth quarter, which is comparable to the levels seen in the first half of 2012. The same percentage also reported a rise in wages at their firms in the final three months of the year, up 10 percentage points from the last survey.
Overall sales growth was stable in the fourth quarter with results mixed across industries. For instance, growth slowed in the services, finance, insurance and real estate sectors, but rose in the transportation, utilities, information and communications sectors.
Timothy Gill, chair of NABE's survey committee and director of economics at the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, noted that sales growth was stable despite "widespread uncertainty surrounding the potential impact of the fiscal cliff."
The "fiscal cliff" refers to the steep tax hikes and spending cuts that were to take effect Jan. 1 unless the White House and Congress reached an agreement to avoid them. The survey found that 27 percent of respondents postponed at least some hiring and capital spending during the quarter as a result, while 72 percent said the issue didn't affect hiring.
Despite stable sales growth, survey respondents noted that profit margins deteriorated in the fourth quarter, with 25 percent saying their margins increased, down from 27 percent in October. On the flipside, 18 percent reported declining profit margins, compared with 15 percent a year ago. Over the next three months slightly more than a third said they expect primary non-labor costs to rise. That's down from 43 percent in the previous survey.
Expectations for capital spending over the next year weakened from the last survey. Only 40 percent expect their firms to grow capital spending, down from 52 percent.
For consumers, the survey suggests modest inflation could be in the works, with two-fifths of respondents ? the highest share over the past year ? saying they expect prices to rise in coming months. Most of those expecting hike prices think the increases will be less than 5 percent.
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Many Small Oil Spills Are Larger Than We Thought
The Gulf of Mexico during Deepwater Horizon cleanup. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
While it's the big oil disasters like BP's Deepwater Horizon that get our attention, small and medium-sized spills happen frequently, too. Do we really know who much oil we're losing into the ocean? A new study of the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico, one of the world's most heavily drilled bodies of water, finds that authorities do a good job of tracking the total number of spills. But, the authors say, many of those smaller spills actually leak more oil than is reported.
Samira Daneshgar Asl of Florida State University used the school's database of high resolution satellite images?which are far superior to publicly available sat imagery, Nature News reports?to track the extent of small oil spills in the Gulf. In addition to tracking the spills reported to the U.S. Coast Guard National Response Center, she cooperated with non-profit environmental groups to find any spills that had gone unreported. Finally, she and her colleagues analyzed the images with a program that let them tell the difference in texture between seawater and oil to track the extent of spills.
The Florida State team found that most spills had, in fact, been reported to the Coast Guard. The size of the spills was consistently underreported, however, according to team leader Ian MacDonald, who called it "quite laughable." (This certainly brings to mind the Deepwater Horizon mess; early estimates pegged the leak at 1000 to 5000 barrels of oil per day, when in fact the spill caused an average of more than 50,000 barrels per day to enter the Gulf.)
MacDonald says that while it's quite difficult to get a perfect tally of something like an oil spill, where the amount of petroleum is hard to measure and constantly in flux, perhaps it's not surprising that oil spill totals are underreported. While oil companies can get in big trouble for not reporting spills, he tells Nature News that those companies don't appear to be punished when their estimate of a leak's size is way off.
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Innovation's Foundation - Getting Personal About Business ...
At the core of every business?s strategy is uncovering the best ways to meet and anticipate their customer or shopper jobs or capabilities and integrate their products and services into that future vision.? Of course, to develop the strategy requires being able to look into the future and identify what current requirements will still be necessary in the foreseeable future, and what new requirements will be needed to accommodate future customer jobs.? The process of migrating from current products and services designed to meet today?s customer needs to a future set of requirements is referred to as innovation.
What is a Job?
In order to understand the concept, the first step is to define what is a ?job.?? A job in this context refers to the capability that the customer strives to complete a task through the use of products and services.? Just like people apply for work and are hired on the basis of the fit between their capabilities and the requirement of the position; certain products and services are hired to allow the customer to achieve an outcome.
- Innovation quadrant explains the path products and services take to be hired.
Innovation
Currently, customers may be starting in the lower left quadrant.? They operate in a routinized or mechanized way to repeat past purchases with little thought to improving or changing.? Their decison considerations are based on a ?search? of known products and services with little exploration beyond that which is in their awareness.
Suppliers will often try to influence the decision-making of the customer by providing price incentives, promotions, advertising, etc.? Those efforts are not innovative in that they do not provide additional capabilities to the customer, but may be effective in shifting market share levels between competitors.? This is captured in the upper left quadrant.?
In some situations, the market?s options of products may lag behind the identified ?jobs? that customers need to complate.? In those instances, there is no progress help available and customers seek other options (not always certain what will provide the necessary capabilities, so they test, trial, explore, etc.). In response to their dissatisfaction with the existing options and capabilities, customers will generate their own homemade solutions that they cobble together in response to the job to be completed.
For true progress to be made,?the innovation?must cross the Progress Horizon Barrier (seen in red on the vertical axis), and incorporate the ?technology? of innovaton barrier (seen in red on the horizontal axis).? In the upper right-hand quadrant, the merchant or store is now a collaborative partner with the customer in helping them assess, analyze, compare and contrast options available to them to more competently and confidently complete their jobs with the new product/service solution set (whether that be new products, an explanation of how existing products can be applied to a job in a new or different way, the mixing of different product options together into a new capability or offering to meet a job?s requirement(s).
The store or merchant has a significant role to play in accomplishing this through a more refined merchandising approach, selling skill enhancement, improvement in marketing activities, etc.? By looking at the quadrant and identifying what is needed to better align with the customer to suit their new job requirement ? and then providing it, the business strategy of innovation can be better matched to future market needs.
Source: http://blog.ctnews.com/zahn/2013/01/28/innovations-foundation/
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Mitchell optimistic for industry | Local | News | The London Free Press
Hugh Mitchell can still see it ? 7,000 people on their feet, leaning out against the rail, and the wall of sound as they cheered.
?It was almost deafening. I was a kid, and the horses were running to the wire. It was so exciting There was an energy,? said the chief executive of Western Fair Raceway.
?My mom and dad would drag me to Western Fair when I was about 10 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday, the horses grunting down the track. It was the soaring ?60s and sizzling ?70s, the only form of true gaming then. It had a monopoly and it prospered.?
Today, it?s different. Crowds are sparse, and the industry is on the cusp of change that will forever alter the sport, and perhaps the agricultural and rural culture.
Mitchell compares the atmosphere at the track then to Budweiser Gardens today when everyone cheers a London Knights goal ? another thing he knows a little about, as he captained the Windsor Spitfires in the mid-1970s and played college hockey for the Guelph Gryphons.
He finished his university career with a degree in agricultural business. ?You learn the financial management side of the business, you learn about the agricultural sector,? he said.
That comes in handy at Western Fair, which has not just the track and agricultural shows, but also four pads of ice for hockey, combining his passions, he adds.
After graduating from Guelph, Mitchell?s first job was with Purina in Woodstock, selling animal feed in surrounding counties.
He moved on to become agricultural manager of Western Fair, beginning a back-and-forth experience during which he returned to Purina as marketing manager, then back to Western Fair to be raceway manager before becoming assistant general manager.
In 1998, Toronto?s Woodbine Raceway made him vice-president of standardbred racing.
?My love of racing drew me to work at the premiere racetrack in Canada and it was a huge responsibility. I am always looking to take on more responsibilities and workloads,? he said.
Western Fair again called Mitchell and he returned in 2005 as chief operating officer, becoming chief executive in 2009.
But if there?s been one constant in his life, it?s been horses. He grew up in Lambeth, son of a veterinarian who worked at Western Fair Raceway; that?s how, at the tender age of 10, he first experienced screaming racing fans.
The horse influence runs deep in the family ? his brother is a veterinarian in New Jersey.
Mitchell also has two horses, Nash and Mattie, on his eight-?hectare Delaware-area hobby farm.
?I was hooked on horses. I loved them even at a young age.?
Mitchell, who had a front-row seat for the sport?s heyday, has one for what may be its decline.
?It became very competitive and racetracks are very expensive,? he said of the decline that began in the 1980s, when greater competition arose for the gambling dollar. ?It takes a huge piece of land, a lot of bricks and mortar, and it is very labour-intensive.?
In the 1990s, the Slots at Racetrack Program was implemented. Tracks were given money for slot machines the province installed at tracks. Knowing slots would hurt racing?s bottom line, the province doled out part of slot profits to the horse industry as compensation.
At Western Fair, the track has received $10.5 million and the horse industry and purses another $10.5 million, while the province has taken in $75 million and the city about $4 million.
Ontario will announce a new funding plan in which it will give less to tracks and the industry. Many fear it may kill what?s left of horse racing in Ontario, a $2-billion?-a-year industry, with about half the tracks shut down.
But Mitchell, remains optimistic, saying the changes are painful, but necessary.
?Once we get our industry right-sized and refocused on the customer, we may have a chance to prosper,? he said.
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Hugh Mitchell
- 58 years old
- Chief executive, Western Fair Raceway
- Raised in Lambeth
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier secondary school
- University of Guelph, degree in agricultural business
- Married to Irene, three children
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Stocks approaching 2007 record highs
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NEW YORK?- U.S. stocks have been on a tear in January, moving major indexes within striking distance of all-time highs. The bearish case is a difficult one to make right now.
Earnings have exceeded expectations, the housing and labor markets have strengthened, lawmakers in Washington no longer seem to be the roadblock that they were for most of 2012, and money has returned to stock funds again.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index has gained 5 percent this year - climbing to the spot where Wall Street strategists expected it to be by mid-year. The Dow Jones industrial average is less than 3 percent away from all-time highs reached in October 2007.
"Once we break above a resistance level at 1,510, we dramatically increase the probability that we break the highs of 2007," said Walter Zimmermann, technical analyst at United-ICAP, in Jersey City, N.J. "That may be the start of a rise that could take equities near 1,800 within the next few years."
The most recent Reuters poll of Wall Street strategists estimated the benchmark index would rise to 1,550 by year-end, a target that is less than 4 percent away from current levels. That would put the S&P 500 a stone's throw from the index's all-time intraday high of 1,576.09 reached on Oct. 11, 2007.
The new year has brought a sharp increase in flows into U.S. equity mutual funds, and that has helped stocks rack up four straight weeks of gains, with strength in big- and small-caps alike.
That's not to say there aren't concerns. Economic growth has been steady, but not as strong as many had hoped. The household unemployment rate remains high at 7.8 percent. And more than 75 percent of the stocks in the S&P 500 are above their 26-week highs, suggesting the buying has come too far, too fast.
All 10 S&P 500 industry sectors are higher in 2013, in part because of new money flowing into equity funds. Investors in U.S.-based funds committed $3.66 billion to stock mutual funds in the latest week, the third straight week of big gains for the funds, data from Thomson Reuters' Lipper service showed on Thursday.
Energy shares led the way with a gain of 6.6 percent, followed by industrials, up 6.3 percent. Telecom, a defensive play that underperforms in periods of growth, is the weakest sector - up 0.1 percent for the year.
More than 250 stocks hit new highs on Friday alone on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones Transportation Average recently climbed to an all-time high, with stocks in this sector and other economic bellwethers posting strong gains almost daily.
"If you peel back the onion a little bit, you start to look at companies like Precision Castparts, Honeywell , 3M Co and Illinois Tool Works - these are big, broad-based industrial companies in the U.S. and they are all hitting new highs, and doing very well. That is the real story," said Mike Binger, portfolio manager at Gradient Investments, in Shoreview, Minn.
The gains have run across asset sizes as well. The S&P small-cap index has jumped 6.1 percent and the S&P mid-cap index has shot up 6.8 percent so far this year.
Exchange-traded funds have seen year-to-date inflows of $15.6 billion, with fairly even flows across the small-, mid- and large-cap categories, according to Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at the ConvergEx Group, in New York.
"Investors aren't really differentiating among asset sizes. They just want broad equity exposure," Colas said.
The market has shown resilience to weak news. On Thursday, the S&P 500 held steady despite a 12 percent slide in shares of Apple after the iPhone and iPad maker's results. The tech giant is heavily weighted in both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 and in the past, its drop has suffocated stocks' broader gains.
In the last few days, the ratio of stocks hitting new highs versus those hitting new lows on a daily basis has started to diminish - a potential sign that the rally is narrowing to fewer names - and could be running out of gas.
Investors have also cited sentiment surveys that indicate high levels of bullishness among newsletter writers, a contrarian indicator, and momentum indicators are starting to also suggest the rally has perhaps come too far.
The market's resilience could be tested next week with the release of the January non-farm payrolls report. About 155,000 jobs are seen being added in the month and the unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 7.8 percent.
"Staying over 1,500 sends up a flag of profit taking," said Jerry Harris, president of asset management at Sterne Agee, in Birmingham, Ala. "Since recent jobless claims have made us optimistic on payrolls, if that doesn't come through, it will be a real risk to the rally."
A number of marquee names will report earnings next week, including bellwether companies such as Caterpillar Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Ford Motor Co and Pfizer Inc .
On a historic basis, valuations remain relatively low - the S&P 500's current price-to-earnings ratio sits at 15.66, which is just a tad above the historic level of 15.
Worries about the U.S. stock market's recent strength do not mean the market is in a bubble. Investors clearly don't feel that way at the moment.
"We're seeing more interest in equities overall, and a lot of flows from bonds into stocks," said Paul Zemsky, who helps oversee $445 billion as the New York-based head of asset allocation at ING Investment Management. "We've been increasing our exposure to risky assets."
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/bears-hibernation-u-s-stocks-near-record-highs-1C8133666
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This Is What a Gun Control March on Washington Looks Like
It was cold in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, but that didn't stop thousands of people from participating in a gun control march?on the nation's Capitol.?
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The march was organized by Molly Smith and?Shannon Watts. The two used social media for the most part to spread the word of the march. All things considered, the relatively inexperienced Smith was pleased with the result. "It's been a remarkable learning experience," Smith told CNN, "the realization that we're citizens and this is an active citizenship, and being a citizen isn't just sitting around and gassing about it."
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Watts has a little more advocacy experience, though she is relatively green. After the Aurora mass shooting, Watts created the group?One Million Moms for Gun Control. She's been profiled in The New York Times, and?planned a few gatherings, though nothing on a scale like this.
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There were signs handed out that were simple, with things like "Stop NRA," or "Another _______ Against [Assault Rifles]" Some were a little more creative, like "What Would Jesus Pack?" or the long, pink, assault-rifle shaped signs that said "Ban Assault Rifles"
About 100 Newtown residents who made the trip for the march, organizers said.?
Education Secretary Arne Duncan was the featured speaker, urging the march was not about repealing the Second Amendment, but about getting more gun safety regulations. "This is about trying to create a climate in which our children can grow up free of fear," Duncan said. "This march is a starting point; it is not an ending point... We must act, we must act, we must act."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gun-control-march-washington-looks-231248040.html
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Ten More Awesome Projects for Your Raspberry Pi
We've shown you how to get started with the Raspberry Pi, the pocket-sized DIY dream computer. Here are ten awesome projects you can put together in a weekend with this $35 board.
This past week, we walked you through some of the common projects people tackle with their Raspberry Pi, like:
However, our guides are just the tip of the iceberg. There are a lot of people out there doing awesome stuff with the Pi, so we've rounded up ten of the best projects you might want to consider:
Build a Combination Pandora Jukebox and Airplay Receiver
We showed you how to build a Raspberry Pi Airplay Receiver, now take it up a notch and add a Pandora Jukebox to the mix so you can stream tunes to your speakers when you're not listening to your own music. It's a simple project, and Shaun Gehring even shares the code and steps required to get it up and running.
Build Your Own Raspberry Pi-Powered Computer
It's not for everyone, and it's definitely more expensive than just buying a similar device, but this previously mentioned hand-held Raspberry Pi-powered computer is an excellent DIY project that'll put your skills to the test. It's packed with a 3.5" LCD display and a 64GB SSD, a full physical keyboard and trackpad, and serious processing power. It's not for the quick-and-easy crowd, but if you're a serious hacker or maker, this is a project to try. Don't want to roll your own everything? Try this Raspberry Pi PC in a keyboard (German link) project they we've featured before instead. Alternatively, try this all-in-one Raspberry Pi PC mod that just straps the Pi and all of its gear to the back of a display, perfect for that iMac-like feel.
Build a Robot that Reads Audiobooks or Speaks Your Tweets Aloud
If your vision is impaired, or you just like doing other things while having a book?or your Twitter stream?read aloud to you, the Raspberry Pi is the perfect device to dedicate to the task. For example, this one-button audiobook player was an ideal gift for a 90-year old grandmother who loves listening to audio books. Just pop in an SD card loaded with a book, and press the button to hear it read aloud. Prefer Twitter to literature? Okay, this adorable wood bowl looks cute and reads your stream aloud in real time. Plus, all of the tools required to build both are available. If an adorable wood bowl isn't your style, there's always Manuel, the Scottish Moose. He'll read your tweets, and look creepy while he does it.
Set Up a Personal Web Server
The Raspberry Pi is essentially a tiny, headless computer, that you can manage remotely. Servers also happen to be headless computers that you can manage remotely, so it makes sense that someone would turn a Raspberry Pi into a tiny personal web server you can run just about anywhere. We covered it not too long ago, but the full guide walks you through the setup, installing the right packages, installing PHP, and getting it all ready for your automated torrenting/streaming box, your hand-crafted online resume or your own personal landing page.
Use a Raspberry Pi to Automate Time-Lapse Photos
Time-lapse videos of cityscapes or stars streaming across the sky can make for beautiful video, but to get the same effect, you'll need a dolly that can move, pan, and tilt the shot ever-so-slowly over the course of many hours. Instead of spending a ton of money on a professional rig, Rick Adam's DIY Raspberry Pi-powered dolly does the same for far far cheaper, and can be remotely controlled and managed by an Android phone. This one will take some work if you want to do it yourself, but the proof is in the results.
Embed a Raspberry Pi into your DSLR for Wireless Tethering, USB Backups, and More
If photography is your hobby, this previously mentioned Raspberry Pi hack essentially embeds the tiny computer into a DSLR to extend its functionality. With their powers combined, you get a DSLR that can wirelessly (or wired, via USB) transmit photos to a PC while you shoot them, as they're saved, control the camera remotely with a PC, tablet, or smartphone, convert images on the fly as you take them, and much much more. Photographer David Hunt managed to fit the Pi and all of the electronics needed into a tiny battery pack that attaches to the bottom of his DSLR's grip.
Use Your Raspberry Pi as a Hacking Tool
We showed you how to do a little packet sniffing with your Raspberry Pi during the last Evil Week, but you don't have to go that far if you want to use your Raspberry Pi as a computer security and forensics tool. The folks at Pwnie Express have a Debian (not Raspbian, mind you) based penetration-testing and security auditing distro for the Raspberry Pi called Raspberry Pwn. With it comes a myriad of security and networking tools, all rolled into a tiny OS on a tiny portable computer that you can hook up anywhere. Use these powers for good, folks.
Roll a Raspberry Pi-Powered Personal Dropbox Clone
Dropbox is great, but sometimes you want to be in control of your own files. If you have a Raspberry Pi, you can build your own personal cloud storage service. We discussed the project not too long ago, but the full project uses OwnCloud to create a personally managed and hosted cloud storage service across systems that you own and only you have access to. You'll need some storage to get this one up and running, not to mention the Raspberry Pi and a good case for it, but that's about all. When you're done, you'll have a personal Dropbox that you can use to store anything you want, with as much storage as you're willing to add to it.
Build an Automatic DeviantArt Picture Frame
Electronic picture frames are cool, but this Raspberry Pi-powered DeviantArt picture frame lets you hook up your Pi to the web and to do an LCD screen (presumably one you have framed on the wall or on your desk) and a DeviantArt account. From there, just use the source code that Cameron Wiebe provides in his walkthough to pull popular photos down for display as a slideshow. You can even tweak the code so you only get images from your favorite artist, or of your favorite subject or topic. You can check out what the frame looks like in the image here, with an illustration by ArtGerm at DeviantArt that Cameron took of the final product (via Wired).
Build a Raspberry Pi-Powered MAME Arcade Table
The other beautiful thing about the Raspberry Pi being such a tiny computer is that you can task it with things that don't take too much processing power but that you'd like built into other devices, like this Raspberry Pi arcade system that we absolutely love. It's embedded into a coffee table, along with the joystick, buttons, and a 24" display for all of the games you'll play on it. Best of all, the full walkthrough is right there, and if you have the equipment to make it work, it's easy to build. Alternatively, you can consider a different form factor and follow the same guide. Maybe a stand-up cabinet, perhaps?
Want some more Raspberry Pi projects? We've covered quite a few already. Check out our Raspberry Pi tagpage for more projects to tackle.
Additional Resources
Looking to get even more deeply involved in the Raspberry Pi community? Here are a few places to look for more useful information.
These projects and resources are just the beginning. Remember, if there's a job that a mini computer can automate, or a task that you wish you could use a computer for but need one small enough to attach to something else or fit into a tiny space, the Raspberry Pi is probably a good option, and it's easy to configure and set up. Use the tools we've given you so far this week and you'll be ready to tackle almost anything.
Photo by Denise Kappa (Shutterstock), maymak (Shutterstock), Pakhnyushcha (Shutterstock), Anan Kaewkhammul (Shutterstock), and jorisvo (Shutterstock).
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