February 2012

What’s Best for Your Estate? A Will, a Trust, or Listing Your Beneficiary’s Name on Your Deeds and Accounts? Attorney William K. Hayes outlines “probate” and gives us examples of estate planning. If you don’t plan, the government has a plan for you Do the Right Thing—Lessons From the New York Insider Trading Cases What does “doing the right thing” mean to you? Every leader and manager in business and government and for every single person should do “the right thing.” Success Without Sacrifice: Change Your Way of Thinking Do you believe in having it all? This article will cover two kinds of thinking—one that’s limiting and one that’s empowering. When you learn to embrace a more powerful perspective, you are going to feel like you truly have it all Jobless Execs: It’s Time to Dump the Old School An estimated 32,000 job seekers found work in October, but that still leaves 13.9 million reported unemployed, which means a lot of people are competing for the same job. To find work, you must go digital, recruiting expert says Avoiding Death by To-Do List: 15 Ways to Overcome Overload and Work Smarter in 2012 Jason Womack explains how to get a handle on your to-do lists and in-box full of e-mails. Too many of us are overwhelmed, but you can change that reality. The Lists: Architectural/Engineering Firms Residential Real Estate Builders Serving the Inland Empire Top Commercial/Industrial Contractors Banks in the Inland Empire Investments and Finance Diversity in the Workplace Success and Management Human Resources and Recruitment Real Estate Notes Computer Column Communication Organizational Skills Sales and Customer Service Mark Your Calendar Inland Empire People and Events Restaurant Review Manager’s Bookshelf New Business Lists: County of San Bernardino County of Riverside Executive Time Out

Signs to Stop

Take this as a Sign- At night it is so much easier to believe a story. There is a forgiveness at night, an expanding of what might be possible. I first learned how to tell stories in the dark, from listening to my dad\u27s voice as I drifted off to sleep, from the whispered voices of my friends around a fire, from the car tape player on a long drive home. It is easy to imagine that something terrible stands just beyond the headlight\u27s reach, looks back at you from your dark bathroom mirror, or lurks just behind your bedroom door. Fear makes what is impossible in the day real. We inherited these stories, this fear, from generations before us. There has always been someone sitting in the dark, painting the walls with what goes bump in the night while a candle flame makes them leap and peel from the wall. Touch the wall and it will mark you, tune the radio and the station will follow you home. Do you feel it? How easy it is to believe? The signs loom large and bright from the darkness, warning you of sharp turns and sudden stops. These signs are a gift, a story for us to tell together, for you to take with you and tell again. You trust them don\u27t you? If you could, if you wanted to, would you trust me to

Lottery Action, Vol. 15, No. 22

Iowa Lottery newsletter for lottery retailers

Citizens of Character - The Values and Character Dispositions of 14-16 Year Olds in the Hodge Hill Constituency

Citizens of Character explores the attitudes, dispositions, and values of 14-16 year old students in a particular urban environment - the six schools of the Hodge Hill constituency in Birmingham - and the extent to which the education system and the local environment advance or inhibit their sense of self, their values and their character development. These students constituted a heterogeneous group of religious and non-religious individuals. This project goes beyond the normal exploration and measurement of strengths of character in individuals and looks at the factors that build character in families and schools. This research has wider implications for the relationship between character and aspirations, social change, school cultures, citizenship, identity and religion. The study discusses what students understand by character. It set out to ascertain the moral values held by a group of students living in an inner-city area. The study sought to question who or what has influenced their moral values and examined which individuals, institutions and situations might have hindered or promoted their development. Some of the issues and concerns which arose - for example, relations with neighbours, the matter of local and national pride and questions of trust - may seem not to impinge upon character education as such but are relevant in a wider context

Trust and Privacy Permissions for an Ambient World

Ambient intelligence (AmI) and ubiquitous computing allow us to consider a future where computation is embedded into our daily social lives. This vision raises its own important questions and augments the need to understand how people will trust such systems and at the same time achieve and maintain privacy. As a result, we have recently conducted a wide reaching study of people’s attitudes to potential AmI scenarios with a view to eliciting their privacy concerns. This chapter describes recent research related to privacy and trust with regard to ambient technology. The method used in the study is described and findings discussed

Information Outlook, May 2004

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Ubiquitous systems and the family: Thoughts about the networked home

Developments in ubiquitous and pervasive computing herald a future in which computation is embedded into our daily lives. Such a vision raises important questions about how people, especially families, will be able to engage with and trust such systems whilst maintaining privacy and individual boundaries. To begin to address such issues, we have recently conducted a wide reaching study eliciting trust, privacy and identity concerns about pervasive computing. Over three hundred UK citizens participated in 38 focus groups. The groups were shown Videotaped Activity Scenarios [11] depicting pervasive or ubiquitous computing applications in a number of contexts including shopping. The data raises a number of important issues from a family perspective in terms of access, control, responsibility, benefit and complexity. Also findings highlight the conflict between increased functionality and the subtle social interactions that sustain family bonds. We present a Pre-Concept Evaluation Tool (PRECET) for use in design and implementation of ubicomp systems

Eavesdropping Whilst You're Shopping: Balancing Personalisation and Privacy in Connected Retail Spaces

Physical retailers, who once led the way in tracking with loyalty cards and `reverse appends', now lag behind online competitors. Yet we might be seeing these tables turn, as many increasingly deploy technologies ranging from simple sensors to advanced emotion detection systems, even enabling them to tailor prices and shopping experiences on a per-customer basis. Here, we examine these in-store tracking technologies in the retail context, and evaluate them from both technical and regulatory standpoints. We first introduce the relevant technologies in context, before considering privacy impacts, the current remedies individuals might seek through technology and the law, and those remedies' limitations. To illustrate challenging tensions in this space we consider the feasibility of technical and legal approaches to both a) the recent `Go' store concept from Amazon which requires fine-grained, multi-modal tracking to function as a shop, and b) current challenges in opting in or out of increasingly pervasive passive Wi-Fi tracking. The `Go' store presents significant challenges with its legality in Europe significantly unclear and unilateral, technical measures to avoid biometric tracking likely ineffective. In the case of MAC addresses, we see a difficult-to-reconcile clash between privacy-as-confidentiality and privacy-as-control, and suggest a technical framework which might help balance the two. Significant challenges exist when seeking to balance personalisation with privacy, and researchers must work together, including across the boundaries of preferred privacy definitions, to come up with solutions that draw on both technology and the legal frameworks to provide effective and proportionate protection. Retailers, simultaneously, must ensure that their tracking is not just legal, but worthy of the trust of concerned data subjects.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of the PETRAS/IoTUK/IET Living in the Internet of Things Conference, London, United Kingdom, 28-29 March 201

Consumption of Organic Foods from a Life History Perspective: An Exploratory Study of British Consumers

This report provides an account of the analysis of in-depth qualitative interviews which explored the concepts, stories and theories mentioned by respondents in their discourses about organic food. It employs a biographical narrative approach in order to understand behaviour (using observation of shopping trips) and derives some conclusions regarding future development of the organic market in the UK