The Most 10 Glorious Festivals in The World

Most of countries have unique festival which routine celebrate every year. It's not only about fun for their own people but the festival its self has been an attraction object for tourists or travelers.

Festival is an attraction for travelers. Through festival, travelers could be more recognize the local community or the culture. Moreover, if the festival is enlivined by many residents. It would be so exciting!

From the Matador Network, Friday (4/1/2013), here they are the most 10 glorious festivals in the world!

1.     La Tomatina

From its name, the festival closely related to tomato. Yeah, La Tomatina is a tomato throwing festival in Bunol City, Valencia Province, Spain. This tradition has been carried since 1945 and became a tourist attraction.

Festival takes place on the last Wednesday on August. Approximately 30.000 people will take down to the streets and throwing tomatoes. Tourist can be take the part of it. Prepare for the glasses, because the red color of the blood from tomatoes will be splattered covering all your body!

The Tomatoes's War in Spain

2.     Full Moon Party

For the party lovers, please come to the Ko Pha Ngan Island in Thailand. There are The Full Moon Party, which is party on the full moon. The party began since 1980s, this party always visited by many tourists. Estimated, 10.000-20.000 tourists always come to this party.

Full Moon Party is held every month during the full moon visible. All night, there will be live music and Djs. Don't worry about the dress code. Many tourists who come to the beach with simple beach-style.

3.     Burning Man

Burning man is not a regular festival. Burning man is an arts festival which held in the Black Rock Desert, arid region in northern Nevada, United States. In the last August, for 8 days, the participants held an annual arts festival such as dance, decorative kite, and fashion show.

Uniquely, the participants set up camp here for the night. Remember, money doesn not apply in here. So you can barter to the other fellows to get water. Don't forget to bring comfortable clothes, glasses, and sunblock because you will be in desert. The main event is the burning of a giant statue shaped man. It's so exciting!

4.     Songkran

Want to know how the feel wet using a water pistol? Came to Bangkok or Chang Mai in Thailand on the middle of April. At the time there is Songkran Festival which is Thai New Year Celebration. Well, after praying, all people and tourists here will wet. This is the biggest water fight in the world!

You can bring your own pistol or something else to enliven this festival. This festival is believed to wash aways sins in the past year. Remember,  you still have to be nice and uncomplicated as during festival.


5.     Glastonbury Music Festival
For the travelers who fans of music, Glanstobury Music Festival in Pilton, England, is not to be missed. This festival takes place weekennds in June and enlivined by hundreds of thousands of people from around the world.

Festival lasts for three days. Festival was design to provide an appreciation for art, music and also the earth. In addition, to hundreds of thousands of people, Glastonbury Music Festival is also celebrated by hundreds of musical performances. The things that you need to bring is, the ticket, tent, sleeping bag, foods, and every thing needed to have fun!


6.     Holi
India has a unique festival of Holy on March. The festival has always been waiting for tourist. In this festival, people will throwing colored powder and water flush. The festival is also be a moment of massive for praying to the Gods to invoke the smooth life during the year ahead.

Holi is a celebration to welcome spring in India. The festival lasts for two days. The first day, made a huge bonfire which aims to commemorate the death of the evil named Holika. The bonfire event named Holika Dahan. The next day, hundreds of people will throwing colored powder such as red, orange, yellow, purple, and green. Splashy!

7.     Bay Breakers
Bay Breakers is the annual footrace in San Fransisco, California, during the 3rd week in May. The length of the track is 7 miles or about 11 miles. This race began since 1906. At the time, this trace serve as encouragement to the local community who still alive after the earthquake hit.

Bay Breakers enlivined nearly 70 thousand people annual. Interestingly, you are free to use any costumes in this running race. This is the interest for tourists. There are participants who wear Star Wars's costume, Royal Clothes, Clown, until there are naked!

8.     Australia Day
Australia can't get off from 2 things, there are bear and barbeque. You can find them anywhere in Australia when Autralia Day celebration, 26th January every year. Australia Day is to celebrate the arrival  Europeans on the continent of Australia.

During this celebration, people around Australia will be partying. Don't be shy to join the party. If you haven't  friends of Australia, just come to the beach and bring bear. The Australians would love to make friends with new people!


9.     Queen's Day
In Netherlands, there is Queen' Day which is the biggest festival there. The festival is a celebration of their Queen's birthday. Initially to celebrate of Queen of Juliana's birth. but now become the celebration of Queen of Beatrix. This celebration falls on April 30th. The biggest celebration ever exist in Amsterdam.

All of the Dutch people was partying. They were partying in the streets, on above the cruise ships, and also in the canals. With music and bear, everyone dissolve in joy. You can join to the party, but to remember, wearing orange's clothes or something else colored orange!

10.   Calgary Stampede
Do you know about cowboy who style on horseback? Well, you can see the rodeo's cowboy for 10 days in Calgary, Alberta Province, Canada. Not only cowboy, but you can also join to the party in that festival.

This festival also to be the largest festival in Canada. This festival takes place in the second week of June. In here the communities are partying, starting from the elderly to young children. You also can join with them. Be ready to dress cowboy-like while listening country music in there.

Note that 10 festival for your next travel's agenda. Then choice, want to throwing tomatoes, water's battle, run wearing uniques's costume, or styling like cowboy's style?

Sources :
http://travel.detik.com/read/2013/01/04/190627/2133643/1383/1/perang-tomat-dan-9-festival-paling-meriah-di-dunia
Warta Kota, Sunday 26th May 2013

Some Useful Advice For You

The Power of Choice
Dear readers,
Life is about choice, and every choice you made will give you big influence to your own self.
What job will you choose? With whom you will get married? Where will you live? What will you do today?
But, there is more important choice, it is Will become who you are?
Therefore readers.. Choose the words that you will gonna say. 
Words can be influenced your mind and impact on others. 
More positive words that you will gonna say, the more true positive results.
Choose what will you gonna think. Our thoughts create an opportunity that we even don't know will ever exist.
Choose the respond and the reaction on everything that happened to you.
The life journey is not always going easy.
Obstacle, bitterness, and resentment might be ever you taste. But, you have a choice of how to respond to the events that happen in this life.
Dear readers, we may not able to control things that happen to us, but we able to choose and control our thoughts that ultimately shape our attitudes.


Focus on Goals

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct of our focus, we never concentrate our powe. Most pepole dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular." - Quote by Tony Robbins.

Do you still remember the experiment of burning a paper with magnifer when you stil on the school?

The paper was burned after the magnifer successfully focuses the sunlight on a single point.

We were so!

Human was created by God with unlimited potential. But the reality is, only few of people who struggle to achieve it.

We really can do anything, but we are not always able to do everything.

Allowing others people decide your agenda in life, make you not focus on the purpose of life. 

You maybe could be person who do many things, but couldn't mastering at all.
You should avoid be person who is able to do some work, but focus on one your skills.
Grow-up to reach your maximal potential by :
-  Focus on the main target
-  Focus on continuous improvement
-  Focus on the future, not on the past
Focus on your strenghts and develop the strenghts. That's where you devote your time, energy, and your resources.
Keep growing and improve yourself. In leadership, if you stop to growing, then you are finished.

Sources :
Anne Ahira Newsletter : Think & Succeed!

My Research Scientific Design

Yanita Utami
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Title of research : Evaluation of Company Performance use Economic Value Added method (EVA) – subject : Television Companies

Background :

Commonly, evaluation of company performance is calculate based on financial ratio due one specific period which based on financial report that be made by the company. Purpose of financial ratio is for evaluate performance of company for one accounting period, moreover for take the strategy decision which will be determined by the company to the next accounting period.

Evaluating based on financial ratio is very depend on method or accounting treatment which be used in construct the financial company’s report. This situation impact the imperfection or the weakness to the traditional accounting measures. Therefore, performance and achievements of company which be measured based on financial ratios could not be accounted again.

For anticipate many problems which come in performance financial measures based on accounting’s data, then arose the thought of financial performance measures based on Economic Value Added (EVA). EVA is the measure of economic value added which produced by the company as a result from activity or management strategy with EVA, the owner of company will only give the return of activity which added the value and discard the activity that have possibility to ruin or reduce the entire value of a company.

Method of the research :

The research methods that be used is the Economic Value Added method which determines wether a company has a value creation (value created) or destruction of value (destroying value).

Data/Variable :

The data that be used are the secondary data financial statement balance sheet and income statement that can be taken from the website www.idx.co.id. We have two research variables. Two companies which is engaged in the same field, the television companies. They are Indosiar Karya Media Ltd.co. and Surya Citra Media Ltd.co. period of 2008-2012.

The Analysis is used :

The analysis used the descriptive quantitaif analysis, where the analysis clarify the situation of the state of he company through the calculation of the numbers that have been through.

Methods of data collection :

Secondary data collection methods as well as researching, assessing, and reviewing the literature related to the problem under study.

Describe Myself

I know it's too late to post article about myself. Why I don't post article about myself at the first post? Well, it's better to late than nothing to do at all, right? 

Actually, if you ask me about describe myself, I'm not really good at describe myself either. Because I need someone or other people and need their prespective to describe myself too, it's not about my only own prespective. Yet, I try to describe myself, use my own prespective.

Well first, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Yanita Utami. I was born on January 4th 1993 at Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia. My pre-school was at Raudha Pre-school at Pekanbaru, Riau too. My Elementry School was Public Elementary School 036, Graduation of 2003-2004. I was entered Public Vocational School on 2007 at SMK N 1 Pekanbaru, majoring in Tourism, then in the same year I moved to Jakarta and was entered Public Vacational School at SMK N 33 Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta. I was graduated on 2010 as SMK N 33 Graduation. Then, I got schoolarship from Gunadarma University and decide to entered Gunadarma University in Economic Faculty, Accounting Major. And now, I'm in the middle of mid semester exam, 6th semesters. Well then, that's all the list of my education until now.

Okay, now I will tell you about my nature and try to describe myself. I am a curious person, I have a lot many things that I want to know about. I am a hard worker. I love adventure, but I am lazy enough to nothing to do. Sometimes I impatient and sometimes I patient enough to wait something. Well, If I interested about something, I will dedicate myself to search all about that 'something'. I also could get distracted, but If I focus about something, I could ignore everything around me and just focus about one subject. I love English, and I am about learning that subject to improve my English. Do you know? I have some kind of problem about English  . Maybe I could little understand about what people said in English and could understand if I read text in English, but I have problem in speaking English. I frequently forget the word that I want to speak to. That's problem which I try to overcome :|

Well, if you read my education lists, you will know that I was move my majoring from tourism to accounting. Truthly, I am interested about accounting, but when I entered the public vocational school, I was put on toursim majoring wether I choosed accounting majoring in the first, but eventually the school was put me on that majoring. I was able to following the class, and now I'm not regret that I had entered the tourism majoring. I have a lot experience when I was in this majoring. I learned a alot about tourism. And I was very enjoyed to experience that's all. But now, eventually I can experience study accounting majoring and I able to following the subject in university :) and you can say that I love traveling and math.

About my nature, I interested to following some stuff such as volunteer on charity. I am a stubborn person. If I have choosed a decision, it would be hard to change my decision that I took. Which mean, I am opionated. I am the person that can you trustworthy. I am loyal. Loyalty and faithfulness are always be upheld. My weakness is about socialization. I am weak in socializing and until now I try to overcome my weakness. I am quite enough and love to think about something. I love think, I love reading, I love music, and I loved to philosophize by myself. Despite I love traveling and calculating, I am love and interested about psychology, forensic, and love reading and watching crime's stuff. When I was little kid, I have dream become police, lawyer, nurse, and detective. Well, I love that stuffs :)

Deep in my heart, I always wanting to do something useful for most of people. But I don't know from where I could start. I always wanting to do something different which useful for most of people.

Okay, I think that's all about myself that I can describe to you. However, it still my prespective. I don't know about myself in other people's sight. Well, if all of you that known me, could you please to describe me from your prespective? :)

Cat, Kitten, The Small - furry - cute and mew animal

Cat, Kitten, The Small - Furry - Cute and Mew Animal

Cat, who does not know about this adorable animal? You must know about this furry creature, don't you? Yeah.. This creature can be found anywhere and actually humans keep them as a pet in the house. 

Cat or Felis Silvestris Catus is a small, furry, domesticated and carnivorous mammals. It is often called the house cat when kept as an indoor pet, or simply the cat when there is no need to distinguish it from other felids and felines. Felidae is the biological family of the cats; a member of this family is called a felid. The most familiar felid is the domestic cat, which first became associated with humans about 10.000 years ago. Felinae is a subfamily of the family Felidae, which include the genera and species listed below. Most are small to medium-sized cats, although the group does include some larger animals, such as the cougar and cheetah.

Cats are often valued by humans for comapanionship and their ability to hunt vermin, mouses and household pests. Cats are similiar in anatomy to the other felids, with strong, flexible bodies, quick reflexes, sharp retractable claws, and teeth adapted tokilling small prey. Cats can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small game. They can see in near darkness. Like most other mammals, cats have poorer color vision and a better sense of smell than humans have.

Despite being solitary hunters, cats are a social species, and cat communication includes the use of a variety of vocalizations (meowing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling and grunting) as well as cat pheromones and types of cat-specific body language.

Cat gestation period is abut 63 days. Kittens born in deaf and blind condition. Their eyes really open at the age of 8 - 10 days. Cat gets sexual maturity at the age of 10 - 15 months.

Commonly, cats are afraid of water. But, there are some of cats that not afraid of water, instead they are love swimming. The race of cat that not afraid of water is the purebred cat of Turkish Van.

Turkish Van

Turkish Van swimming

How adorable you are!

In this world, there are so many race of cats. Each of them has special characteristic, but because of the frequent of interbreeding between races, most of cats classified in the type of long hair and short hair, according the fur type that covered its body. There are many race of cats, such as:

1.  Manx, or people called it Rumpy. The fur colour is brown and lavender, they are loyal, friendly and smart. 

Manx cat

2.  Maine

Coon, origin of Marine, United States, Angora and American Shorthair offspring. Their nature commonly friendly, shy and cute. It has thick fur, soft and have variety of colour.

Maine Coon

3.   British Shorthair

    Bred in England. This cat is calm, warm, gentle and smart. The fur coulour is plain, white, black, blue, red, cream, dark black and mottle.

4.  Burmese (Burma), this cat were bred by Dr. Thompson (U.S.A) from The Queen Mau's cat (Burmese). Their character is so adorable and attractive.

Burmese

5.  Chinchilla Longhair. These is the most elegantly persian cat. The ancestor of these cat came from England. These race have two kind of types, there are bright colour chinchilla (pure) and little dark one (silver gradation),

Chinchilla Longhair

I have four cats in my house, and it really need some consideration for pet them properly. Because to pet them properly, it's really need extra care and concern. People can called it "hobby". And do you know? If you really happy to breed some of cats, you can make it as opportunity to get money. You can breed some of race cat such as Turkish Van, Angora etc, and then sell them to the other cat lovers.

Sources : 

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kucing

Google

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN - JAPAN

JAPAN

Japan being called "The Land of The Rising Sun", is a country located in Pacific Ocean in East Asia. Japan is the country which I really want to and I dream of to visit. I often dream about this, go traveling to this country. OH I FORGET! Do you know why Japan being called "The Land of The Rising Sun"? Because in Japanese, Japan being called 日本 Nippon or  Nihon. The character of日本 means "sun-origin", that's why Japan is sometimes reffered to as "The Land of The Rising Sun".

Japan is an archipelago of 6.856 islands. The four largest islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, which comprise about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. The capital city is located at Tokyo in Honshu's island.  Japan has four seasons which being called "shiki", they are Spring /Haru (on March, April, May), Summer/Natsu (on June, July, August) , Autumn/Aki (on September, October, November), Winter/Fuyu (on December, January, February).  On Spring in Japan, we can celebrate "Hanami". Hanami is the Japanese of traditional costum of enjoying see the beauty of flowers, in this case "flowers" always meaning "cherry blossoms" (Sakura) or less often "plum blossoms" (Ume). Oh God, I really want to experience the Hanami so damn.

Hanami Celebrations

There are a lot many things from Japan that really amaze me. Beside Japan still keep their traditional activity, they also has fascinating culture, friendly (and very polite) local, great food, excellent transportation options, lack of crime, and plenty of tourist acttraction outdoors (hot springs, mountains, beaches, forests, and lakes) and in the city (museums, temples, shrines aplenty -- along with quirky shops).

View of Mount Fuji, The Famous Mount in Japan.

Takaragawa Onsen (Hot Spring), Gunma, Central Honshuu.

Do you know? Beside Japan known as the country which still keep their traditional culture, they are also known as the country that has high-technology instead. In Technology, Japan able to competition in the global way with another country in this world.

There are so many things unique's stuffs that you can find in Japan too. Such as, they are have "Akihabara", also known as Akihabara Electric Town in district of Tokyo. Akihabara is amajor shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, games and otaku goods, including new and used items. In this district, you can find unique's people wear unique's stuff.

A Cosplayer pose at Akihabara's Street.

And here it is, the country that I always dream in of to visit. I hope I can visit this country with my family, friends, and people who I loved. Anyway, I always dream  if I can honeymoon to this country >.< *if I get married with the lovely husband, lol , I haven't a boyfriend anyway*

Sources : 
Wikipedia : Japan. 
http://freeandzz.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/iklim-dan-musim-di-jepang/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara
http://www.visitjapan.co.uk/

Economic Value Added

Hallo readers, today I want to give you a material reading about ECONOMIC VALUE ADDED or we can called it “EVA”.  Anyone know about EVA? Let me explain you something about EVA J

According Amin Widjaja Tunggal (2008), Economic Value Added (EVA) is a financial management systeml to measure economic profit in a company, which states that welfare can only be created if the company is capable to fulfill all operating costs and capital costs.

The Economic Value Added concept was first introduced by G. Bennet Steward, III, Managing Partner from Stern Steward & Co in his book “The Quest For Value” (Harper Business, 1991). The EVA concept became financial management system. According to the Economist magazine (2 August 1997) more than 300 companies in the world had adopted this system that based from EVA (Economic Value Added). These companies for example such as Coca cola, Quaker Oats, Boise Cascade, Briggs & Stratton, Lafarge, Siemens, Tate & Lyle, Telecome New Zealand, Telstra, Monsanto, SPX, Herman Miller, JC penney, and US Portal Services (Joel M. Stern, 2001, page 15-16).

Economic Value Added (EVA) is profits that left after reduced by cost of capital which invested to produce that profits. EVA is a benchmark value-based financial performance. EVA is a brenchmark which explain the absolute amount from shareholder value that created in a given period, actually for one year. EVA provide a good brenchmark of the value added by the company to shareholders. Therefore, if manager focus on Economic Value Added, then it will help ensure that they operate in a consistent way to maximize shareholder value.

Economic Value Added is indicator of value created from an investment. Economic Value Added Positive if the result of return higher than rate of return that investor wanted it, which means company have maximize their company’s value or indicate crating value. Whereas Economic Value Added  indicate negative value, signify that company’s value is reduce so that the rate of return resulting lower than rate of return desired by investor, which means the company not success create the value for capital’s owner or indicate destroying value.

English Business 2 - Exercise 3

1.      The defendant refused to answer the prosecutor’s questions C. because he was afraid that his answers would incriminate him.

2.      Mrs. Walker has returned D. the wallet to its original owner.

3.      The hospital owes D. twenty million of dollars to the government for the construction of the new wing.

4.      Sarah A. told to her professors that she could not attend classes next week.

5.      The artist was asked to show some paintings at the contest because A. he painted very good.

6.      If motorist do not observe the traffic regulations, they will be stopped, ticketed and have to pay fine.

The correct answer must be fined, because have to pay fine is not grammatically parallel with the others.

Then the correct sentence is, If motorist do not observe the traffic regulations, they will be stopped, ticketed, and fined.

7.      Fred, who usually conducts the choir rehearseals, did not show up last night because he had an accident on his way to the practice.

This sentence must be used the past perfect tense, because the action has already happened.

Then the correct answer is “Fred, who usually conducts the choir rehearseals, did not show up last night because he had had an accident on his way to the practice.

8.      A short time before her operation last month, Mrs. Carlyle dreams of her daughter who lives overseas.

Because the action already happened in the past, then the sentence must be past tense. So, the dreams must be change to the dreamed.

Then, there is the correct sentence : “A short time before her operation last month, Mrs. Carlyle dreamed of her daughter who lives overseas.”

9.      The atmosphere in Andalucia is open, warm, and gives a welcome feeling to all who have the good fortune to visit there.

The sentence of gives a welcome feeling must be change to welcome. Because gives a welcome feeling is not grammatically parallel with the others.

Then, the correct sentence would be like this : “The atmosphere in Andalucia is open, warm and welcome to all who have the good fortune to visit there.

10.  Some of the people were standing in the street watched the parade, while others were singing songs.

Watched is the incorrect answer, because this sentence is not parallel with the others. The others use past continous tense, then it should use past continous tense too. Watched must be change to be watching.

Then, the correct sentence would be like this : “Some of the people were standing in the street watching the parade, while others were singing songs.”

Kota Tua or Old Town Jakarta

Hello readers..
In this post I would like to share a story to you about my traveling with my mom..
Yesterday, 5th May 2013 in the morning my mom asked me to accompany with her to walk around Jakarta city.. then, I took her to Old Town Jakarta or we known as Kota Tua..
Kota Tua is a small area in Jakarta, Indonesia. It also known as Old Jakarta and Old Batavia. It spans 1.3 square kilomteres of North Jakarta and West Jakarta. This area is one of many place that will be destination by tourists. Around the area, there are museums such as Museum of Bank Indonesia, Museum Fatahilah/Museum Jakarta, Museum Wayang etc.. you can get information about Old Jakarta in here.

Okay, I will share my traveling with my mom.. start from our house located at Pisangan Lama, East Jakarta Rawamangun, we took Traditional Transportation or we called it "angkot" 02 toward to Jatinegara Station..
from Jatinegara station, we bought two Comuterline tickets destination Jakarta Kota, it prices Rp 7.500/ticket
after we arrived at Jakarta Kota Station, we walked to our first destination, Bank Indonesia Museum.. you can get information about Museum of Bank Indonesia in here. After we visit Museum of Bank Indonesia, we go to the next destination, Museum Fatahilah or it also known as Museum of History Jakarta.
For you information, I have been training guide in this Museum Fatahilah, and on that day, it was my turn to guide my mom to surround Museum Fatahilah.. after we walked around the museum, I felt something strange that there was a missing place.. the place was the underground prison that inundated by water..
I clearly remembered that there were an underground prison inundate by water, but when I came last day, the prison was gone.. I can't found that prison.. okay, forget about that prison, back to the story :p

after we walked around the museum Fatahilah, our next destination is Museum Wayang. Museum Wayang is a museum dedicated to Javanese wayang puppetry. The museum is located in west side of Fatahilah Square, near Jakarta History Museum and Fine Art and Ceramic Museum. Well, you can get information about Wayang Museum in here. In this Museum, I interested to the Jan Pieterszoon Coen's Statue which mark his grave.. yes, there are a grave in the Wayang Museum, and not just that, there are more beautiful statue in this wayang museum.. but it's very sadness to see that many people who don't know about this information :(

yeaah, back to the story, after we visited Wayang Museum, me and my mom walked around the park XD
and we rent an Ontel and ride it to walked around the park, it was much fun! the area was crowded by tourist, the event, and the bazaar.. so excited! after that, we go home :)
I hope I can visit that museums again..

English Bussiness #2 : The Written Expression Questions

TOEFL EXERCISE : Choose the letter of the underlines word or group of words that is not correct.

1. Nobody (A) know when the (B) process of glass-making (C) was (D) inveted.
   The incorrect answer is (A) know., because the subject (nobody) is singular, then we should add s to the “know”.
   It will become like this, nobody knows the procces of glass-making was invented.

2. The languages of the world (A) presents a vast (B) array of structural (C) similarities and (D) differences.
   The incorrect answer is (A) presents, because the subject (the languagws of the world) is plural, then we should get rid of the -s from “presents”.
   The correct sentence will become like this, the languages of the world present a vast array of structural similarities and difference.
   
   
3. The rise of multinatonals (A) have (B) resulted in a great deal of legal ambiguity because multinationals (C) can (D) operate in so many juridictions.
   The incorrect answer is (A) have, because the subject is singular, then the correct answer is "has" not "have".
   the correct sentence should be like this : The rise of multinationals has resulted in a great deal of legal ambiguity because multinationals can operate in so many juridictions. 
   
   
4. All of the east-west interstate highways in the United States (A) has even (B) numbers, while north-south interstate highways (C) are (D) odd-numbered.
   The incorrect answer is (A) has, because the subject (all of the east-west highways in the Unites States) is plural, then we should use “have” not “has”. "has" for singular, not plural.
   The correct version is, all of the east-west interstate highways in the United States have even numbers, while north-south interstate highways are odd-numbered.
   
   
5. (A) When a massive star in the large Magellanic Cloud (B) exploded in 1987, a wave of neutrinos (C) were (D) detected on Earth.
   The incorrect answer is (C) were, it should be "was" because the subject (a wave of neutrinos) is singular.
   The correct version : When a massive star in the large Magellanic Cloud exploded in 1987, a wave of neutrinos was detected on Earth.
   
   
6. Every open space in the (A) targeted area that (B) has grass and few bushes (C) are (D) occupied by the white-crowned sparrow.
   The incorrect answer is (C) are, because the subject is singular, the we should replace "are" with "is".
   The correct sentence is, Every open space in targeted area that has grass and few bushes is occupied by the white-crowned sparrow.
   
   
7. Krakatao (A) is remembered as the volcano that (B) put so much ash into the air that sunsets around the world (C) was affected for two years (D) afterward.
   The Incorrect answer is (B) put, because the subject is singular, then we must add -s/-es to "put" become "puts".
   The correct version : Krakatao is remembered as the volcanoe that puts so much ash into air that sunsets around the world was affected for two years afterward.
   
   
8. The term “Yankee” (A) was originally a nickname for people from New England, but now anyone from the United States (B) are (C) reffered (D) to as a Yankee.
   The incorrect answer is (B) are, because the subject “anyone from the United States” is singular, then we must replace “are” with “is”.
   The correct version should be like this : the term “Yankee” was originally a nickname for people from New England, but now anyone from the United States is reffered to as a Yankee.
   
   
9. A network of small arteries, mostly (A) sandwiched between the skin and the (B) underlying muscles, (C) supply (D) blood to the face and scalp.
   The incorrect answer is (C) supply, because the subject is singular and “supply” must be add by -s/-es become “supplies”.
   The correct version is “a network of small arteries, mostly sandwiched beetween the skin and the underlying musles, supplies blood to the face and scalp”.

10. Mesquite (A) is a (B) small tree in the Southwest (C) who can (D) withstand the severest drought.
    The incorrect answer is © who, because the subject is clearly a thing, not human, then we should replace “who” with “that” or “which”.
    The correct version will be like this, mesquite is a small tree in Southwest which/that can with stand the severest drought.

What is TOEFL?

Hallo guys.. In order to fulfill my soft skill's task – English Bussiness's task. This time, I will post an article and give you some explanations about TOEFL.

What is TOEFL? TOEFL is abreviation from Test of English as a Foreign Language. It's a test of English Language proficiency which very needed by speaker whom their native language is not English. TOEFL organized by ETS (Educational Testing Service) in United States of America (USA) for all the test takers from around the world.

The TOEFL test is the most widely respected English-language test in the world. In generally, this test required for college entrance requirements at most universities in the United States of America and Canada. TOEFL recognized by more than 8.500 colleges, universities, intituions, government agencies, scolarship programs and bussiness in more than 130 countries, including Australia, Canada, the U.K. and the United States.

For you information, TOEFL is more oriented to the American English. The TOEFL iBT format has progressively replaced both the computer-based tests (CBT) and paper-based tests (PBT). Although paper-based testing is still used in select areas. The minimum score of TOEFL is about 310, and the maximum score of TOEFL is about 677 for the PBT version (Paper-Based Tests). The best chance for you success with the TOEFL is prepare and practice.

This test consists of four sections, the sections are :

1. Listening, it takes 30-40 minutes. The Listening section consists of 3 parts. The first one contains 30 questions about short conversations. The second part has 8 questions about longer conversations. The last part asks 12 questions about lectures or talks.
2. Structure and Written Expression, it takes 25 minutes. The Structure and Written Expression section has 15 exercises of completing sentences correctly and 25 exercises of identifying errors.
3. Reading Comprehension, it's take 55 minutes. The Reading Comprehension section has 50 questions about reading passages.
4. Writing, it takes 30 minutes. The Writing section is one essay with 250-300 words in average.

References :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOEFL

http://www.toeflgoanywhere.org/content/all-about-toefl-test-what-you-need-know

Softskill English Bussiness #2 : Structure and Written Expression

Name : Yanita Utami
Npm   : 28210595
Class  :  3EB15


EXERCISE A
No.5. In a box on the top shelf of the cabinet in the hallway of the house.
The answer is wrong (incorrect sentence). There's no verb and no subject in this sentence. "a box" in this sentence can we called as the object of preposition, and the object of the preposition is not the subject.
So, to get the correct sentence, we can change this sentence with additionally the subject and the verb.
Subject : Anny
Verb : Find
It would be like this : Anny finds a box on the top shelf of the cabinet in the hallway of the house. ( I change it to the present tense)


EXERCISE B
No. 9. The plane from New York circling the airport.
The answer is Wrong (incorrect sentence).
There's a subject and a verb in this sentence, but there's no the prepositional phrase that come before the verb.
The subject is "the plane" (with the underline) and the verb is "circling" (with the underline and italic). But the sentence is incorrect. We should notice the "circling". The "circling" can not stand alone in this sentence, then we should add the auxiliary verbs to complete the sentence. The auxiliary verbs that match in this sentence is auxiliary 'is'. With additionally the auxiliary verbs 'is', this sentence become present continuous tense.
And this is the complete/the correct sentence.
The plane from New York is circling the airport. (Present Continuous Tense)

TOEFL EXERCISE
No. 5. Between 1725 and 1750, New England witnessed an increase in the specialization of _____.
The answer is (A) occupations.
Because this sentence is the past tense, and have the verb 2 (witnessed), it'll not suitable with the answer of (B), (C) and (D). The other answer is not match with the sentence.