Rabu, 12 Desember 2012

Tulisan 5 - Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 1


2013 HONDA PCX150: FIRST RIDE
Eco-friendly two-wheel transportation.



Faster than a speeding bullet? More powerful than a locomotive? Capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound? Honda’s PCX150 isn’t any of those things, but it can scoot. Faster than a speeding Prius? Check. As for tall buildings and locomotives, I recommend keeping the PCX between the former and away from the latter. But when it comes to acceleration, a simple twist of your right wrist is all it takes.

While the styling of the 2013 PCX150 is virtually identical to that of the ’11 model, which was simply known as the PCX, performance has improved. Basic engine design—a sohc, two-valve, liquid-cooled, fuel-injected Single—is the same, but displacement is now 153cc (up from 125) via a 5.6mm increase in bore. Stroke is unchanged.

Like its slightly lighter predecessor, the claimed 286-pound PCX150 is nimble and fun to ride around town, through congested traffic, around corners and right past the gas pump. I wasn’t able to verify Honda’s claim of 102 mpg, but 10 bucks will fill the 1.6-gallon gas tank and buy a latte.

Top speed is an indicated 70 mph, which the PCX is able to maintain without much trouble. Fourteen-inch wheels and a 51.8-in. wheelbase provide reasonable stability at that velocity, although, like me, you may want to grip the handlebar with both hands if you encounter deep rain grooves such as those commonly found on Los Angeles-area freeways. Stopping power is supplied by a three-piston caliper and a 220mm disc up front and a tried-and-true drum at the rear. The right lever works the front brake only; the left puts the squeeze on both systems.

A thickly padded, 29.9-in.-tall seat makes hopping aboard this user-friendly step-through easy, and flip-out passenger footpegs let you bring along a friend. Hoisting the PCX onto its centerstand at the side of the road or in a crowded parking lot is a piece of cake. Honda has also provided a sidestand.

When I stopped for lunch, the 25-liter underseat storage compartment easily swallowed my open-face helmet, light jacket and gloves; I had to take my backpack with me. If you have more stuff that you must leave on the bike, you can opt for a locking accessory trunk that offers a claimed 35 liters of storage space.

Retailing for $3449, the 2013 PCX150 is available in Metallic Black or Candy Red. It’s not super, but it definitely scoots!



source: http://www.cycleworld.com/2012/08/09/2013-honda-pcx150-first-ride/

Tulisan 4 - Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 1

Team History - Introduction (CHELSEA FC)
Chelsea Football Club has been good at celebrating special anniversaries. The year 2005 saw us reach the major milestone of 100 years-old. What better way was there to mark the centenary than by becoming champions of England for the second time in our existence?

Our golden jubilee had been similarly honoured. The club won silverware in the 1960s, the 70s, the 90s and at the turn of the new millennium, but 1955 was the year we finished above all other teams in the League for the first time.

It was also Chelsea's earliest major trophy. The first five decades had seen the club develop into an integral part of sporting life in England's capital city with famous players and a large, often full stadium.

Chelsea were popular, but achievement fell a long way short of that now enjoyed by the current team, which began the second 100 years of Chelsea history as the best in the land and the biggest football story throughout the world.

Even if trophy success proved elusive in the first 50 years, the club had been set up for the big time from the moment Henry Augustus Mears had a change of heart one Sunday morning in the autumn of 1904.


Of all the decisions that have shaped the history of Chelsea FC, there can be none more crucial than the one this Edwardian businessman made that particular day.

Gus Mears was an enthusiast for a sport that had taken northern Britain by storm but had yet to take off in the capital in quite the same way. London at the turn of the century failed to provide a single team to the Football League First Division.

Mears had spotted the potential for a football club to play at an old athletics ground at Stamford Bridge, an open piece of land in west London. It was a ground he planned to massively redevelop.

But unforeseen problems had followed, as did a lucrative offer for the land. Mears was on the verge of selling up and abandoning his sporting dream.

Colleague Frederick Parker, an enthusiastic supporter of the football stadium project attempted to dissuade him but on the fateful Sunday morning, Parker was told he was wasting his time.

As the two walked on, without warning Mears' dog bit Parker, drawing blood and causing great pain, but only an amused reaction from Parker.

"You took that bite damn well," Mears announced before telling his accomplice he would now trust his judgement over others. "Meet me here at nine tomorrow and we'll get busy," he said. Stamford Bridge was alive once more.

Not that Chelsea FC was in the original plan. The finest sports stadium in London seemed a little out of place on the edge of well-heeled and arty Chelsea but as history shows, Mears had chosen well. The proximity to the vibrant centre of town made it perfect as a new venue for football.

Due to financial disagreement, nearby Fulham Football Club, already in existence declined an offer to abandon the less grand Craven Cottage and move in. So in contrast to the history of so many clubs, Mears decided to build a team for a stadium, rather than the other way round.

On March 10th 1905, a meeting convened opposite the stadium in a pub now called The Butcher's Hook. One item on the agenda was a name for the new club. Stamford Bridge FC, Kensington FC and intriguingly, London FC were all rejected. Chelsea FC was what it was to be - and the story had begun.

John Tait Robertson, a Scottish international was the first player/manager and a squad of respected players was signed, providing a league could be found to compete in.

The Southern League was the natural choice for our location but they were unwelcoming to these upstarts. Undaunted, Chelsea simply set our sights higher and went straight for the northern-dominated Football League.

On May 29th 1905, the Football League AGM dramatically elected us to the Second Division. Parker again proved persuasive as we became the first club ever to make the League without having kicked a ball.

Source: http://www.chelseafc.com/team-history

Tulisan 3 - Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 1

Security expert Eric Geier shows you how to find or capture your network, browser, and email passwords, which is useful if you’ve forgotten them. Plus, he explores password vulnerabilities and teaches you how to protect against them.
If you've lost or forgotten a password, don't worry. Most passwords can be retrieved fairly quickly and easily. This article shows you how to recover most network and Internet related passwords.

On the other hand, there's also a downside of being able to recover passwords: It's a security risk. If someone else gets a hold of your PC or laptop, that person too may be able to retrieve your passwords. So this article also tells you how to keep your computer and passwords secure.

There are many password recovery and cracking tools out there. In this tutorial, we're going to use my favorite set of utilities, all from the developer NirSoft. You can download each utility individually from their pages, using the links in the sections below. Or, you can alternatively download all of them at once, either as a zip file of standalone programs or an installation file that installs them to Windows like typical software.

As NirSoft also warns, their utilities may be detected as infectious by anti-virus software. You can ignore these alerts.


Recover Saved Wi-Fi Encryption Keys

When you connect to a wireless network secured by WEP or WPA/WPA2 encryption, the key or passphrase you enter is stored by Windows. That way, you don't have to enter it each time you connect. However, you might forget the password after a while, which is a problem when you want to connect from a new Wi-Fi computer or gadget.

If you're using Windows Vista or later, you can simply open a wireless network's saved profile/properties to view the password. But this isn't possible in Windows XP. However, you can use the WirelessKeyView utility to recover encryption keys or passphrases stored by the Wireless Zero Configuration service of Windows XP.

Open WirelessKeyView, and you'll see the encryption passwords appear right away, sorted by the Network Name (SSID). You'll probably be most interested in the Key (Hex) values. In Windows XP, WPA keys are automatically converted into a new binary key that contains 64 hexadecimal digits. However, you can use this key just like the original one.

You can right-click an entry to copy the Key value, in case you need it now or want to save it to a file. You can even generate a quick report of the recovered details to an HTML file; click View > HTML Report.

You can also load the wireless keys from an external instance of Windows. This could be, for example, from an old hard drive you've hooked up or other computers shared on the network. Just click File > Advanced Options and select the Windows Directory.

Keep in mind, Windows doesn't ask you—it automatically saves the encryption key or passphrase when connecting to a new wireless network. This unfortunately means you can't prevent this from happening, for security reasons. To delete the stored password, you must open the network settings and remove the profile for the wireless network.


Recover Passwords for Dial-Up or VPN Connections

Windows gives you a choice to save the passwords of dial-up and VPN connections when connecting. However, like most other services, you can't see the cached passwords as they are hidden behind asterisks.

If you forget a dial-up or VPN password, though, you can easily recover it using the Dialupassutility. Simply open the program, and it will scan Windows for you. Then you can save the items to a file, copy them, or create an HTML report.

You can also capture the login credentials from a particular phonebook (.pbk) file or from an external instance of Windows, such as on an old drive or network computer. To get started, click Options > Advanced Options.

To protect your dial-up and VPN passwords, you can simply opt out of having it save your password when logging in.


Find Passwords Saved by Your Web Browser


When you log in to websites or web-based applications, most web browsers ask if you want it to save or remember the login credentials. When you choose to do this, the credentials are saved by the browser so you don't have to enter the username and password each time. However, if the browser doesn't use encryption to save the passwords, they can be recovered. NirSoft provides a recovery utility for the most popular web browsers: 

Simply open the utility for your particular browser. It will scan and display all the saved credentials. Then you can save or copy the details, or generate an HTML report. Most of these browser utilities let you choose another Windows user account from the Advanced options.

Obviously, you can opt out of saving your passwords to protect them from recovery by strangers. But some browsers, like Firefox, let you encrypt your saved passwords, protecting them from recovery.


Capture Passwords from an Active Network
Passwords don't have to be saved to a computer to be recovered. You can run the SniffPass utility to capture login credentials that are transferred over your Internet connection, such as for website, email, and FTP logins if the connection isn't protected with SSL (https) encryption. It listens to your network traffic and displays any usernames and passwords it detects.

Simply start by opening SniffPass and clicking the Start Capture button. Next, select the network adapter (usually the one with an IP address, not 0.0.0.0). Then log in to a site, service, or server, and you should see the usernames and passwords appear. Like most of the other utilities, you can copy details or generate an HTML report.

To help protect your network from these types of attacks, first make sure wireless security (like WPA2-PSK) is enabled to prevent strangers from eavesdropping on your Wi-Fi traffic. And if you want to prevent authorized users from eavesdropping, consider using the Enterprise mode of WPA2 security for your Wi-Fi.


Recover the Passwords Stored by Your Email Client

If you use an email client program, like Outlook, to check and send messages, it's configured with the login credentials of your email server or service. If you forget your login details, though, you can quickly recover them using Mail PassView. Simply open the utility, and you'll see the login details from many popular email clients.

Unfortunately, most email clients don't provide a way to encrypt or secure your email passwords.


Secure Your Saved Passwords

We already discussed if and how you can secure individual passwords. But, you can also secure them by following some basic security practices.

Make sure you password-protect your Windows user account and have a separate account for those you don't trust. When you walk away from your PC or laptop, log off or lock it.

Additionally, consider encrypting your entire hard drive with Windows BitLocker or another utility likeDiskCryptor or TrueCrypt. Encrypting it will prevent advanced recovery and hacking methods, like removing your Windows account password or booting into a live CD to bypass Windows.


Souce: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1960234

Tulisan 2 - Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 1


My Love for You is Real

Sometimes at night,
When I look to the sky,
I start thinking of you,
And then ask myself "why?"

"Why do I love you?"
I think and smile,
Because I know,
The list could run on for mile.

The whisper of your voice,
The warmth of your touch,
So many little things,
Make me love you so much.


The way that your kiss,
Fills me with desire,
And how you hold me,
With the warmth of a fire.

The way your eyes shine,
When you look at me,
Lost with you forever,
Is where I want to be.


The way that I feel,
When you are by my side,
A sense of completion,
And overflowing pride.

The dreams that I dream,
That all involve you,
The possibilities that I see,
The things that we can do.

How you finish the puzzle,
That lies inside my heart,
How deep in my soul,
You are a very important part.


I could go on for days,
Telling of what I feel,
But all you really must know is...
My love for you is real.

Tulisan 1 Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 1


ONE DIRECTION - WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL

[verse 1]
[liam]
you're insecure,
don't know what for,
you're turning heads when you walk through the door,
don't need make-up,
to cover up,
being the way that you are is enough,

[bridge]
[harry]
everyone else in the room can see it,
everyone else but you,

[chorus]
[all]
baby you light up my world like nobody else,
the way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed,
but when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell,
you don't know,
oh oh,
you don't know you're beautiful,
if only you saw what i can see,
you'll understand why i want you so desperately,
right now i'm looking at you and i can't believe,
you don't know,
oh oh,
you don't know you're beautiful,
oh oh,
that's what makes you beautiful

[verse 2]
[zayn]
so c-come on,
you got it wrong,
to prove i'm right,
i put it in a song,
i don't know why,
you're being shy,
and turn away when i look into your eye eye eyes,

[bridge]
[harry]
everyone else in the room can see it,
everyone else but you,

[chorus]
[all]
baby you light up my world like nobody else,
the way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed,
but when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell,
you don't know,
oh oh,
you don't know you're beautiful,
if only you saw what i can see,
you'll understand why i want you so desperately,
right now i'm looking at you and i can't believe,
you don't know,
oh oh,
you don't know you're beautiful,
oh oh,

[harry]
that's what makes you beautiful

na na na na na na na na na na
na na na na na na [x2]

[middle 8]
[harry]
baby you light up my world like nobody else,
the way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed,
but when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell,

[all]
you don't know,
oh oh,
you don't know you're beautiful,

[chorus]
[all]
baby you light up my world like nobody else,
the way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed,
but when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell,
you don't know,
oh oh,
you don't know you're beautiful ([zayn:] oh),
if only you saw what i can see,
you'll understand why i want you so desperately ([harry:] desperately),
right now i'm looking at you and i can't believe,
you don't know,
oh oh,
you don't know you're beautiful,
oh oh,
you don't know you're beautiful,
oh oh,

[harry]
that's what makes you beautiful

Tugas Bahasa Inggris (Business Letter)

Arrange letter based on full block style


Teory of inquiry letter 
Definition :
A document requesting information sent on behalf of an individual or an organisation for their own respective purposes, which can be mutually beneficial to the recipient and the sender. Inquiry Letter is a letter written to request information and/or ascertain its authenticity. A letter of inquiry deals with various matters like job vacancies, funding, grants, scholarships, projects, sales, pre-proposals and others. The term is common in various business setups as it implies fund request or pre-proposal information. Owing to this usage, the term may be considered exclusive to these setups alone. But that is not the case, to this effect the below definition offers a justified meaning.

 Format of inquiry letter :
  1. In the first paragraph, identify yourself and, if appropriate, your position, and your institution or firm. 
  2. In the second paragraph, briefly explain why you are writing and how you will use the requested information. Offer to keep the response confidential if such an offer seems reasonable
  3.  List the specific information you need. You can phrase your requests as questions or as a list of specific items of information. In either case, make each item clear and discrete. 
  4. Conclude your letter by offering your reader some incentive for responding.

 Example inquiry letter :



Example reply inquiry letter :



Source:

http://letters.targetstudy.com/inquiry-letter/
http://www.mit.edu/course/21/21.guide/l-inquir.htm