July 1998

CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS GET BIG ON SMALL BUSINESS 5 BIG EMERGING MARKETS FOCUS OF U.S. EXPORTERS15 THE ART OF ADVOCACY IN MEDIATION 16 GETTING THE MOST OUT OF TRAINING TECHNOLOGY 18 INLAND EMPIRE BENEFITING FROM LATEST NAFTA-DRIVEN EXPANSION 23 LOCAL COMPANY BOOMS IN MEXICO NO THANKS TO NAFTA 23 SAVETEL OFFERS CHEAP CALLING TO MEXICO 24 WHERE ARE ALL THE WORKERS? 26 WILL THERE BE A WORLD SHORTAGE OF PYROTECHNICIANS AT THE START OF 2000? 39 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTRODUCES COMPUTER RECYCLING PROGRAM 49 FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF BOOKS AND MORE FOR DUMMIES 5

May 2013

News and Features How to Spot Business Opportunity in Tomorrow’s Economy To succeed, company leaders must not only be able to innovate, they must recognize opportunity and ensure they’re posed to seize it. G. Michael Maddock gives tips for getting there. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Most Do in 12 Months Brian Moran outlines the path to accomplish the things you desire in life. The barrier standing between you and the life you are capable of living is a lack of consistent execution. Read about his 12 week year. . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Bootstrapper’s Dirty Dozen: Twelve Not-So-Obvious Tips to Help Small Business Owners Prosper Starting a small business is hard work. Joseph Callaway has been there, and he shares 12 unexpected tactics that will help your company to succeed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 The Lean In Alternative: Why Leaning Back Also Works for Women in Business Sheryl Sandberg’s book, “Lean In” has received both high praise and disapproval from women. Vickie Milazzo advises women in their rise to the top to make an effort to lean back to help other women. . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Columns Executive Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Real Estate Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The Lists: Top Law Firms in the Inland Empire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Employment Services/Agencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Banks in the Inland Empire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Investments and Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Future Success in Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Goals and Planning Strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Small Business Success. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Financial Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Inland Empire People and Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Restaurant Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Women in Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Computer/Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 New Business Lists: County of San Bernardino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 County of Riverside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Executive Time Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

January 2003

Law Managing Close-Up Computer/Software Corporate Profile Corner on the Market Getting Organized Banking Supplement: High Yield Bonds offer Real Value According to pay den & Rygel Pace of Bankruptcies Slows During First Nine Months of 2002 There Are No PinkSlips at the World’s Most Productive Companies PricewaterhouseCoopers Forecast In Spite of Budget Cuts, Several County Schools Will Still Enjoy Outdoor Education! Developing a Heart for the Arts Faces in Business Health Service Directory Executive Time Out The Small Business Advocate of the Year Local Company—Cal Spas—Showcased on National TV New Statewide Study Confirms Housing is Key to Economic Recovery Desert Business Journal Model Home Design Firm Now in Desert The Off-Line Advantage Restaurant Review Earl’s Best Bets Wine Review Manager’s Bookshel

The Strength of Internet Ties

Presents findings from a survey that examines how Americans use the Internet and email to support and expand their social networks and access resources for assistance in making major life decisions

Computing Graduate Employability: Sharing Practice

Computing is one of the largest subject areas in Higher Education, and is taught in almost every institution, graduating around 9,000 students each year. However Computing graduates are recorded as having the highest unemployment rates for all subjects (11% for Computing compared with an overall rate of 7% for graduates of all subjects). This new report, jointly published by the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) and Higher Education Academy (HEA) highlights the depth, complexity and richness of employability practices in the sector, and aims to share those practices more widely. The report places practice in a comparative context so that departments may learn what works from each other. It draws on research gathered from over fifty Higher Education institutions in a series of workshops, focus groups and interviews. Throughout, participants’ voices are given priority, with the report structured around the common employability challenges faced by academics. Within that structure, clusters of similar practice (those which appear in several institutions) are presented, together with a series of showcases providing rich detail of specific interventions. Challenges discussed within the report’s three themes of ‘Addressing Employability’, ‘Curriculum Issues’ and ‘Placements’ include ‘the employability agenda’, ‘student engagement’, ‘curriculum design’, ‘reaching “tipping point”’ and ‘finding alternatives to the “sandwich year”’ and are balanced throughout with a ‘View from Employers’. Clusters identify good practice from ‘hackathons’, competitions, mentoring, ‘compulsion’, an employer-led curriculum, industry-focused projects and placement preparation, application, monitoring, return, assessment and alternatives. Showcases highlight practice in ‘auditing employability’, ‘dedicated placement support’, ‘multiplicity of opportunities’, ‘short placement modules’, ‘think future’, ‘summer internships’ and ‘transition week’ from the universities of York, Kent, London South Bank, West of Scotland, Edinburgh Napier, Southampton and Brunel London, amongst other

Evaluation of the computers for pupils initiative: final report

The Computers for Pupils (CfP) initiative aimed to help overcome the digital divide, which can prevent young people from disadvantaged backgrounds from enjoying the benefits of access to information and communications technology. The initiative provided funding for schools in deprived areas to invest in home access to ICT for their neediest pupils in order to: • give eligible learners the same opportunities as their peers • contribute to raising educational achievement • support personalised learning • encourage the development of ICT skills among learners and families. In December 2006, Becta commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to undertake a national evaluation of the CfP initiative. The main aim of the two-year evaluation was to assess the impact of CfP on learners and their families and to explore how schools and teachers had developed their pedagogic practices in order to support and capitalise on the new educational opportunities afforded by the technology. The evaluation involved distinct though interrelated strands of quantitative and qualitative research: • Questionnaire surveys of teachers in CfP schools, learners selected for CfP, and learners’ parents, which were conducted twice (autumn 2007 and 2008) in order to explore changes in general access to and use of computers and ICT, and assess the impact of the CfP initiative • In-depth case-study research across 13 schools within eight local authorities (LAs) in the spring and summer terms 2008 and again in the autumn term 2008 (including the same LAs and schools at all time points), in order to explore through detailed interviews perceptions of the implementation and impact of CfP. Key findings in relation to the aims of CfP

Southeast Rural Outreach Programs and Education Business Survey

The Rural Outreach Programs and Education (ROPE) is designed to strengthen community and small business competitiveness. It is a multi-pronged business development effort to support economic stability and capacity-building in Southeast Alaska. The program will bring together different entities across the state in a collaborative effort, so the program recipients will have increased levels of technical assistance, training, and communication. One component in this process was to conduct a phone survey of businesses in Southeast Alaska. The survey was designed to determine the specific training and assistance needs of participating communities in Southeast Alaska. By focusing on 13 specific communities and gathering extensive information on each one, ROPE will offer targeted training and workshops, one-on-one confidential counseling, need-specific consultants and seminars, and business training. In May and June of 2008, 128 structured interviews were completed in the 13 communities. The majority of these interviews—88—were with businesses in the private sector, and the remaining 40 were with non-profit, tribal, or municipal organizations. Businesses were asked detailed questions about employees, customers, business expenses, and start-up costs and experiences. The questionnaire was designed to gather information about where employees were from, where customers were from, and the percentage of sales that were to local versus non-local customers. Both businesses and organizations were asked about training they felt would be beneficial and to offer advice to organizations trying to help businesses in Southeast.Alaska Small Business Development Cente

Patterns of Participation and Motivation in Folding@home: The Contribution of Hardware Enthusiasts and Overclockers

Folding@home is a distributed computing project in which participants run protein folding simulations on their computers. Participants complete work units and are awarded points for their contribution. An investigation into motivations to participate and patterns of participation revealed the significant contribution of a sub-community composed of individuals who custom-build computers to maximise their processing power. These individuals, known as “overclockers” or “hardware enthusiasts,” use distributed computing projects such as Folding@home to benchmark their modified computers and to compete with one another to see who can process the greatest number of project work units. Many are initially drawn to the project to learn about computer hardware from other overclockers and to compete for points. However, once they learn more about the scientific outputs of Folding@home, some participants become more motivated by the desire to contribute to scientific research. Overclockers form numerous online communities where members collaborate and help each other maximise their computing output. They invest heavily in their computers and process the majority of Folding@home’s simulations, thus providing an invaluable (and free) resource

When Computer Vision Gazes at Cognition

Joint attention is a core, early-developing form of social interaction. It is based on our ability to discriminate the third party objects that other people are looking at. While it has been shown that people can accurately determine whether another person is looking directly at them versus away, little is known about human ability to discriminate a third person gaze directed towards objects that are further away, especially in unconstraint cases where the looker can move her head and eyes freely. In this paper we address this question by jointly exploring human psychophysics and a cognitively motivated computer vision model, which can detect the 3D direction of gaze from 2D face images. The synthesis of behavioral study and computer vision yields several interesting discoveries. (1) Human accuracy of discriminating targets 8{\deg}-10{\deg} of visual angle apart is around 40% in a free looking gaze task; (2) The ability to interpret gaze of different lookers vary dramatically; (3) This variance can be captured by the computational model; (4) Human outperforms the current model significantly. These results collectively show that the acuity of human joint attention is indeed highly impressive, given the computational challenge of the natural looking task. Moreover, the gap between human and model performance, as well as the variability of gaze interpretation across different lookers, require further understanding of the underlying mechanisms utilized by humans for this challenging task.Comment: Tao Gao and Daniel Harari contributed equally to this wor