There is a negative in terms of communication and longest-called killer statement. What is the killer statement? She, the statement is the killer of all forms of the statement that we, we, knowingly or not, but the hurt and able to damage the mental spirit and others.
Type-isakather type of statement is, without conscious we hear every day, or perhaps without conscious intention, we joke with, motivate, but in fact damage. Now, the words destroyer soul that generate negative feelings on someone that we often a killer statement.
Interestingly, the history of comics world record was also due to bad from the killer who had received the statement by the two children named Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Story like this. In the depression that the United States in 1933, Jeery Siegel have created the idea of a hero of children who have extraordinary abilities.
Energy stronger than iron, can fly and originally from another planet. So, together with his colleagues, namely Joe Shuster in the paint, were created for the first time picture of the man of steel. But the picture is super-human comic is not so interesting. Critique and criticism received.
During six years in succession komiknya denied any spots. Until the end, the peak mental disintegration of Siegel and Shuster happens when they hear from some editors who need DeTecTiVe Comics comic strips.Lantas they try to sell them.
But, when the open-open and view their comics illustration, the editors also laughed and said, "Wow, I believe there will be a comic with ideas such as this. And bit and behavior may not be sold." Maka, karena sudah terlalu frustrasi dengan penolakan dan kalimat yang menghancurkan itu, Shuster dan Siegel akhirnya sepakat menjual komik serta segala hak ciptanya kepada Detective Comics hanya senilai US$130.
Note well, at only U.S. $ 130! But, the biggest mistake that Siegel and Shuster due to the killer to listen to the receipt of the statement. Because, some time after komiknya purchased, the characters appeared to be komiknya worship. You can guess. That figure Superman, with the ability of human Krypton flying, super vision and physical strength that extraordinary.
Superman comics to become so in demand, until aired, the character of a children's idol. Meanwhile, Siegel and Shuster, the resultant first, can only nibble finger. Superman figures to be popular and profitable meraup billions of U.S. dollars. The resultant figure to get only U.S. $ 130, even living in poverty and debt.
Fortunately, in 1975 after repeatedly pressure from the public
Comics DeTecTiVe that is not humane to leave
Superman creators living in the poor, eventually DeTecTiVe Comics agreed to provide financial guarantees. However, if we look back, it is the price of a killer statement, which have destroyed the careers and lives of two toddlers called Shuster and Siegel.
Readers, this story seems to make us aware of the danger of a killer statement in our interpersonal relationships. Indeed, sometimes the statement this killer does not spoken with the intention that the negative, but its impact, damaging indeed! However, the killer can also uttered this statement with the intention to impose a special mentality of people who heard them.
Tips important
For that, there are some important tips for us. First, be careful with the killer statement that we may well say to our children, our life partner, colleagues and subordinates us. Killer statement indicates that this sentence is spoken without consideration, can kill potential, ability and good character person.
Therefore, if you are stressful, are not in the mood to talk conditions, do not feel satisfied with the results, or do not feel like what you see, try to avoid using words that smack destroy or disapprovingly.
Second, as our own people and that will receive the usual killer statement from the people around us, we better prepare anti-virus for our own. Anti-virus contains other words that we speak to ourselves, although others have said the killer statement to us.
In the workshop, and longest, which we do, one of the training that we provide is to use positive reinforcement that phrase quickly neutralize although other people have said bad things to you.
Interestingly, also in the event one of the singing contest, there is a singer kodang who are old, but invited guests to a jury. When there is a singer who received poor ratings and eventually tersingkir. While before the timer, the old singer is to give advice, "Do not care about the results of this assessment buatmu. What's important is the continued kuatkanlah yourself. I'm never had singing contest, yet with persistence, I can become a singer. Contributing to practice and proved yourself can be successful ". Wow, my eyes glisten hear the motivation of the artist and star of this old singer.
Truly a word of strengthening the extraordinary. Andapun must say the same thing to yourself, when you are given the words killer or a negative statement. Remember readers, not to your ability and potential and was damaged by the words of the people who are not responsible. They actually have a problem with them.
Do not let them destroy you.
Do not let them steal your dreams.
Source: Killer Statement by Anthony Martin Dio
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Killer Statement
Friday, October 17, 2008
JOBS-HOUSING BALANCE CONCEPT
Jobs and housing balance refers to the parity between a number of jobs and the amount of housing within a geographic area (Cervero, 1989a, 1989b). Other related terms with similar definitions include smart growth control, urbanism, neotraditional neighborhood design, cluster development (VCTC, 2004). Theoretically, if there is a harmony between jobs and housing that are financially accessible to the employees in a community, then certain environmental impacts such as traffic congestion may be reduced. Harmony occurs when the number of jobs and the amount of housing available to people holding these jobs are in balance. This implies that workers will have the required working skills for the jobs and that the employment compensation allows them to have access to the existing housing in the community. In quantitative terms, the jobs and housing ratio represents the ratio of the number of jobs to the number of housing units in each area. However, this balance measure does not specifically address the issue of matching housing prices with job salaries. The concept of a balanced community has solid roots in the early years of American planning. The theory is explored by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG, 2001). One portion of their transportation demand management (TDM) plan focuses on balancing the numbers of jobs and housing. The plan points out that unbalanced areas lack the positive side of growth.
The value of the balance ratio empirically ranges from 0.75 to 1.5 compared to the theoretical value of 1 (see, for instance, Cervero, 1989a; ARC, 2002). The following two figures (Figure 23 and Figure 24) describe the definition of the balanced concept in relation to the home-based work trips. Figure 23 explains a theoretical case when outgoing trips of the zone (or area) are equal to the incoming trips from other zones (external zones). Those trips cancel out each other resulting in an optimized use of a road network. Figure 24 shows the other case when the majority of the trips are circulated within the zone or internalized. According to the self-contained concept, all the transportation-related activities, such as the commuting, are contained within the zone.
The next section will point out the most mentioned benefits of implementing the concept of jobs and housing balance as well as the challenging issues.
Jobs and Housing Balance’s Benefits
The idea of a jobs and housing balance as a goal to address increased traffic congestion has been promoted for the past three decades (Cervero, 1989b). These
policies also reflect more general concerns about developing and maintaining communities with an adequate variety of employment opportunities, a sustainable tax
base, and housing mix affordable to a wide range of income levels. These concerns
can be understood as a reaction to the high volume of growth many communities are
facing. In general, there are four advantageous aspects possibly obtained from the implementation of jobs and housing balance policies that are as the following:
reducing traffic congestion and commute time, improving air quality, optimizing
economic and fiscal benefits, and improving quality of life. Each of these aspects
will be discussed in more details below.
Reducing Traffic Congestion and Commute Time
Numbers of studies (Downs, 1992, 2004; Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., Cervero, Howard Stein-Hudson Associates, Inc., & Zupan, 1996) find that an opportunity to live close to the workplace afforded by providing housing close to jobs translates to lower congestion and commute times by eliminating the necessity for long-distance commutes. It also provides increased opportunities to use transit, bike, or walk to work instead of driving. Certainly, placing housing in close proximity to employment is no guarantee that those who live in the housing will
work at the nearby jobs, or vice versa. This would be particularly true for two
income households who split the difference between the locations of their two
employment destinations in choosing where to live (Giuliano, 1995; Levine, 1992).
It does, however, eliminate barriers for those who wish to live close to work, and
reduces needs for long-distance commuting and traffic congestion those people contributing to the road systems especially at peak hours. Frank and Pivo (1994) find travel distances and times tend to be shorter for the commuting in balanced
areas.
Florida’s study uses the 1990 census data to compute the proportion of work
trips which remained within more than 500 cities and town in Florida (ARC, 2002).
The study reports that the share of internal or within-community commutes significantly increased when there is a greater balance between the numbers of local
jobs and the numbers of working residents. A study of Chicago suburbs by Cervero
(1989b) demonstrates that the jobs and housing mismatch leads to longer commutes.
Improving Air Quality
As the need for driving long distances is reduced by providing housing in balance with jobs, so are the resultant emissions associated with driving. The literature on the relationship between auto travel and air pollution is extensive. Most relevant is research done for the Southern California Association of Government’s (SCAG) 1989 Regional Growth Management Plan.
While regional agencies originally took the lead in many of the jobs and housing programs because their role in regulating air quality, the use of regional governments as the primary agent for affecting jobs and housing balance has been
disappointing. Supporters of balancing jobs and housing agree that balance is a
regional issue. However, imbalance is often a result of local land use policy and therefore requires an action of local governments to make those changes necessary to
bring about balance. In addition, regional governments generally do not have regulatory powers necessary to adequately address the issue.
Optimizing Economic and Fiscal Benefits
Since a successful implementation of jobs-housing balance strategies result in less need for long-distance commuting and its associated congestion, fewer public resources are required for traffic congestion mitigation of the regional ransportation.
Ewing and Cervero (2001) explain reduced hours spent in long-distance travel by
commuters translate to lower fuel costs and other automobile-related expenses, lower
costs to employers in terms of reduced employee tardiness and higher productivity,
and eventually lower business trip costs. Furthermore, because the balance between
jobs and housing often refers to the more compact urban form with less urban sprawl,
costs to local government of providing new facilities and services to new development are less because those facilities and services can be provided more
efficiently.
However, another aspect of an economic-benefit argument rests upon a value of commercial growth to the city, in the form of jobs and tax revenues. Employment
growth is an essential element of a healthy community. The more complicated
questions include types, quantities, and locations of the employment growth. Due to the varying values of different types of development, in the senses of both tax
revenue and municipal costs, communities may benefit from encouraging and/or
discouraging certain uses. For instance, zoning areas for more commercial uses may
be a greater fiscal benefit to cities than more residential uses.
Improving Quality of Life
This occurrence requires the combination of all merits of jobs and housing
balance aforementioned. The balance between jobs and housing benefits the local
residents (who should to live and work in the balanced area) in reducing their stress
from commuting and thereby allowing them to gain more leisure time to spend with
their families (SCAG, 2001; VCTC, 2004). For example, the families are affected
when members are under the stress and strain caused by the long commutes. When
both parents have to go to work, longer commutes take away their time from caring
their children or loved ones. This may result in a higher cost of child care expenses
and so on. When living within the community they work in, the opportunity for
more socialization increases because of the time savings and increased sense of
belonging to the community. Balancing numbers of jobs and housing implies the
diversity, compactness, and travel convenience in a geographic sense, therefore the
urban life can then be effectively promoted.
Challenging Issues
As the benefits are listed above, the challenging issues for the jobs and housing balance implementation can be grouped into three aspects: geographic scale, jobs and housing balance measure, and traffic congestion mitigation. Regarding the spatial scale issue, whether jobs and housing balance control is effective at a local
scale. Second, the more complicated consideration is needed beyond the ratio of jobs
to housing. Lastly, if only balancing numbers of jobs and housing can effectively
reduce traffic congestion. Each of these issues will be elaborated in the following
sub-section.
Geographic Scale
Regions are balanced by its definition, as they are identified as economically
self-contained units (Giuliano, 1995; Levine, 1998). Balancing jobs and housing in
sub-regional areas were a challenge that most communities addressing this issue face.
While regional agencies often take leads in prescribing policies, an act of
implementation generally falls to counties and cities (Song, & Knaap, 2004). Since
traffic mostly moves between jurisdictions, and commute sheds are rarely contained
within one jurisdiction, implementing policies on a strictly local level has been
challenged indeed.
Some critics argue that balancing exercised on an individual community may be useless. For instance, Giuliano (1991) argues that balance normally occurs on its
own through the market force, thus imbalance is more a result of incorrectly defining
the study area both spatially and temporally.
Matching Jobs and Housing within a Community
Balance involves more than matching numbers of housing units and numbers of jobs. The adjustment must be made for local conditions, such as household sizes,
percentage of resident workers, and other demographic factors (Downs, 2004).
Balancing appropriate housing opportunities with appropriate jobs complicates the
issue, necessitating the consideration of more difficult matters such as housing prices and wage rates (Sultana, 2000).
Traffic Congestion
Of particular interest is the effect of balance in reducing traffic volume and congestion when this is a common drive of jobs and housing balance policies (Giuliano & Small, 1993). An imposing question is whether jobs and housing balance will ever be an effective tool for addressing the congestion issue. There are
several reasons for having such a question. First, the residential choice may become difficult when there are two household wage earners working in different locations.
Second, the high job-turnover rate reduces the ability to locate with the reference to one’s workplace. Finally, other factors including the access to other amenities,
housing prices, qualities of schools and neighborhoods impact the relocation decision
as well. Many suggest jobs and housing balance needs to be used in combination with other measures, such as the transportation demand management programs (TDM programs) to be an effective means of traffic congestion mitigation.
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Account Manager, Networking
Reporting to the Vertical Head, Networking, you will be responsible to provide complete sales and marketing services to all customers and prospective customers in Singapore in accordance with sound business principles and specific sales and marketing policies. You will also be accountable to secure sufficient sales volume to meet or exceed established sales budgets as specified in the profit plan, and accomplish other sales and marketing objectives. Other key responsibilities include effectively communicating corporate's policies and programs to the customers; increases the sales volume at select accounts with sales promotions and attendance at trade shows and local shows and by active follow through on referrals; provide product training to the distributors etc.
Requirements:
Bachelor Degree in Engineering or equivalent
Minimum 4 years of experience with good working knowledge of network wiring,
structured cabling systems from major vendors
Knowledge and familiarity with major networking equipment and enterprise wireless
solutions provider will be a strong advantage
Highly motivated self-starters with a proven record in network cabling systems
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Channel Representative, Indonesia
Reporting to the Channel Management Manager, Southeast Asia, you will be responsible to work closely with him / her to implement various channel strategies, and manage a well-defined Channel Policy in Singapore. You will also be accountable to develop Channel partners in all verticals to improve Channel capacity and increase Channel Leverage.
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Minimum 4 years sales experience in a similar environment
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Save time with these Word 2007 edit options
By Mary Ann Richardson, Special to ZDNet Asia
Microsoft Word
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Save time with these Word 2007 edit options
If your Word documents need reformatting every time you paste an item, you can save time by having Word 2007 take over some of those formatting chores. For example, after you delete a single word, does Word leave an extra space behind? Or, when you cut and paste a paragraph, does an extra blank line remain where you cut it, or is all formatting lost after you paste it? To prevent extra spacing or reformatting from occurring, follow these steps:
1. Click the Office button.
2. Click the Word Options button.
3. Click Advanced.
4. Under Editing Options, select the When Selecting, Automatically Select Entire Word check box.
5. Select the Use Smart Paragraph Selection check box.
6. Click OK.
Microsoft Excel
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Illustrate data tables using Excel charts
When you want to show the data represented by your Excel chart, you could add a data table to the chart by selecting the Data Table tab in the Chart Options dialog box. However, you cannot use data tables with XY charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, radar charts, bubble charts, or surface charts. In addition, data tables’ formatting options are limited compared to actual data cells.
To overcome these limitations, you can include a picture of the actual data cells in your chart. Follow these steps to insert a picture:
1. Select the data range you want to include with your chart.
2. Go to Edit | Copy.
3. Click outside the Plot Area in the Chart Area where you want to place the picture.
4. Press [Shift] and click Edit.
5. Click Paste Picture.
Note: The pasted picture is static; that is, it does not update if a change occurs in the original data range.
Microsoft Access
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Use the Access 2007 Ribbon to design professional-looking forms
Access 2007's predefined layout features can eliminate much of the manual work involved in designing forms. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can group, align, and format your controls all from the Forms Design Tools Ribbon.
For example, you want to design a customer contact form from your Customer Records table. Follow these steps:
1. Open the Customer database and click the Customer Records table in the Navigation pane.
2. Click the Create tab.
3. Click the Form Design command in the Forms group.
4. Click the Add Existing Fields button in the Tools group.
5. Click a field in the Field list and drag it to your form. Do this for each field you want on the form.
6. Press [Ctrl]A to select all the fields on the form.
7. Click the Arrange tab.
8. Click the Stacked icon in the Control Layout group.
9. Click the Control Padding command in the Control Layout group and select Medium.
10. Click the AutoFormat button in the AutoFormat group and select the format of your choice.
25 Tips for Better Resumes
Are you suffering from resume-writer's block?
Does everyone else's resume seem more professional and better worded than yours?
The Following are some guidelines to help you create a better electronic resume:
1. Be neat and error free. Catch all typo's and grammar errors. Make sure to have someone proofread your resume, preferably someone attantive to details. Even the smallest error could land your resume in the electronic recycle bin.
2. State specific objectives. From a solid, clear objective that will help you carry a focused message throughout the resume. The objective summaritizes your skills and emphasizes your strenghts.
3. Why does the employer need you? Focus on highlighting accomplishments that will arouse the interest of employers who read resumes asking themselves: "What can this candidate do for me ?" Remember that the goal is to get the interview.
4. Make a good first impression. On average, employers spend less that 30 seconds scanning each resume. Most employers are more concerned about career achievements than education. Place the most interesting and compelling facts about yourself at the beginning, such as a list of accomplishments in order of relevance.
5. Emphasize your skill. Use a skill-based resume format that is organized around the main talents you have to offer. Prioritize everything.
6. Use keywords, Include specific key words and phrases that describe your skills and experience, such as Product Launch, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Sales, Account Management, C++, Visual Basic, Word Processing, MS Excel, Adobe Illustrator, Graphic Design, and Advertising.
7. Use buzzword. use industry jargon and acronyms to reflect your familiarity with the employer's business, but no to the point where is makes your resume hard to read or understand. Spell out acronyms in parentheses if they are not obvious, such as TQM (Total Quality Management).
8. Use action verbs. Portray yourself as active, accomplished, intelligent, and capable of making a contribution. Examples: Managed, Launched, Created, Directed, Eshtablished, Organized, and Supervised.
9. Acoid Personal Pronouns. Never use personal pronouns such as 'i' or 'me' in your resume. Instead of complete sentences, use short action-oriented phrases: "Coordinated and published a weekly newsletter concerning local community events."
10. Highlight key points. Althought most formatting such as bold, italics and underlining is lost in as electronic resume, you may use capital letters, quotation marks, even asterisks, to emphasize important words or section titles.
11. Summarize information. White electronic resumes may exceed the traditional one to two page limit of paper resumes, in most cases, it should not excess three pages.
12. List only recent information. The general rule of thumb is to show your work experience only for the last 10 to 15 years.
13. Quality your experience. Numbers are powerful tool. Instead of saying "Responsible for increasing sales in my territory," use "Increased sales in my territory 150% in 6 months. Managed 30 accounts for annual revenues of $2M."
14. Be organized, localical an concise. In addition ot reviewing your experience, employers alse use the resume to get a sense of wether you are organized, logical and concise.
15. Just communicate. Abandon the utilization of exorbitant, exquisite vocabulary. In other words, don't try to impress employers with the depth of your vocabulary. Use words everyone can understand.
16. Omit salary information. Never make reference to salary in your resume.
17. Avoid questionable subjects. Never make references to personal information such as race, religion, martial status, age, political party, or even personal views. In all but a few instances, it would be illegal for the employers to consider such issues. Also, avoid the use of humor and cliches in most resumes.
18. be honest. lying r exaggerating your abillities will always come back to haunt you. Since employers usually check into serious candidates, you will want every detail to check out.
19. Self yourself. Do not under-emphasize your strengths and experience. Portray yourself in the best possible light. Skills that come naturally to you, others may never grasp.
20. Write your own resume. Be personal, yet professional. Create a resume that is personalized to reflect you.
21. Personal traits. If you decide to include personal traits, such as "Dependable, Highly-Organized, Self-Motivated, and Responsible," make sure they are applicable to the position desired. Will the employer consider them valueable ?
22. Show consistency. To de-emphasize glaring gaps in your work history, consider using a Functional resume, which focuses on your skills and accomplishments rather than a Chronological format, which emphasizes the progression of your experience.
23. Be balanced and neat. The effective resume is balanced, neat, visually appealing and flows consistently. Clearly separate sections and emphasize section titles. Leave sufficient blank space between section for easy reading.
24. Stick with common section headings. Use common section headings. Examples: Objective, Experience, Employement, Work History, Skills, Summary, Summary of Qualifications, Accoumplishments, Strengths, Education, Professional Affiliations, Publications, Licenses and Certifications, Honors, Personal, Additional, and References.
25. Be positive. Remove any negative comments or feeling conveyed in your resume, especially when it comes to previous employment experiences. Emphasize a positive, can-do attitude.
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