Synopsis, review Film Shaun Of the Dead

Rilis 24 september 2004 (USA)
Genre : Comedy, horror
Pemeran : Simmon Pegg, nick frost and kate ashfield
Production Co : Universal Picture, studio canal, working title films 
 Sinopsis

The film begins in The Winchester, a traditional London pub. Shaun (Simon Pegg), his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) and her two friends David (Dylan Moran) and Dianne (Lucy Davis) are socializing while the overweight and foul-mouthed slacker Ed (Nick Frost) plays away on the slot machine. Liz is trying to encourage Shaun to strengthen their relationship and be more adventurous, rather than just reminiscing in the pub and hanging out with Ed. Liz reminds Shaun how she hasn't even met his mother yet, though they've been together for more than two years. The scene ends with Shaun staring vacantly towards the camera, clearly displaying anxiety.

The movie's intro credits roll, continually panning right through scenes of regular people performing everyday tasks. We see ordinary people moving supermarket trolleys, working behind tills (cash registers), waiting at the bus stop, or mindlessly listening to street music, all staring and acting zombie-like (a reference to the satirical elements of 'Dawn of the Dead').

Inside his house, Shaun wakes up and joins Ed in the living room where he joins in a video game on the PlayStation. Ed reminds Shaun that he has to go to work and Shaun begrudgingly goes to get ready. While Shaun is getting ready, his second flat-mate and college buddy Pete confronts him about Ed's behavior. Pete is fed up with Ed lounging around all day, freeloading off them and not bothering to find a job. Shaun defends Ed by saying he's harmless and fun to have around, to which Pete replies "Why? Because he can impersonate an orangutan? Fuck-a-doodle-do!". Both Pete and Shaun leave for work, with Shaun asking Ed to take down any phone messages (everyone's, not just his own) that come during the day. Just as Shaun leaves, Liz calls to leave an answerphone message for Shaun, asking him to book their restaurant dinner an hour earlier. Shaun doesn't hear the message.

The next sequence of scenes sees Shaun side-tracked by a series of bizarre events, including newspaper headlines describing attacks on members of the public, people collapsing at bus stops, and television news reports of more attacks and military involvement. Shaun arrives at work, an electronics retail shop, where he is manager. Shaun's step-dad, Philip (Bill Nighy), pays him a visit to remind him of his bi-monthly visit to his mum. The pair have a very frosty relationship and Shaun clearly does not like his step-father. Shaun holds a staff meeting for his team of clearly bored and feckless teenage staff. He tries to discipline a colleague for using his mobile phone on shop floor, and while doing this his own phone rings. To save looking hypocritical he is forced to pretend it's a work related call, and ends up ignoring a bemused Liz who's called to remind him about booking dinner earlier that evening.

Later, when Shaun is purchasing flowers for his mum, he notices a homeless man (Patch Connolly) outside staggering and trying to eat the pigeons, before vanishing when a bus cuts across the scene. On his way home, Shaun gets off the bus early as traffic is gridlocked, we see more accidents involving people passing out in their cars. On the walk home Shaun bumps into his old flame Yvonne (Jessica Hynes). She asks how he's getting on with Liz, which triggers his memory about booking the table for that evening. The scene cuts back to Shaun's flat as he desperately tries to call the restaurant to change the times, only to hear that they are fully booked. Liz then phones and Shaun explains that he forgot all about it, then suggests maybe they go to The Winchester...Liz then hangs up.

Shaun grabs the flowers and makes his way down to Liz's flat in an attempt to make amends with her. At first Liz refuses to let him in so Shaun tries and fails to scale the wall outside and enter through a window. Liz eventually relents and lets Shaun in to the flat, where she launches into a tirade. She lists all the promises Shaun's broken, and tells him how she's tired of putting up with a relationship that's clearly going nowhere. In her rage she finishes the relationship and David and Di stand by awkwardly.

That evening, Shaun makes his way alone to The Winchester through the pouring rain, throwing his mother's flowers in a wastebin outside the pub. He meets with Ed and they spend the night joking and drinking heavily. A figure outside the pub batters against the window and moans, to which Ed simply retorts 'Piss head!".

Drunk and still singing, the duo make their way outside... not noticing a zombie teenage girl tearing someone's head off. They mock a moaning zombie as another drunk... and make their way back home. They continue to sing and play loud rock music until Pete storms downstairs in a rage at being woken up by the noise. He throws the record out the window and launches into a barrage of swearing, verbally attacking Ed and telling Shaun to sort his life out. Ed notices that Pete's hand is bandaged and Pete tells him that a 'crackhead' bit him and he has a splitting headache. He shouts at them one last time for leaving the front door open, again, and returns to his room.

The next morning arrives and Shaun decides to go walk down to the corner shop for a drink, and a Cornetto for Ed. Still hungover from the previous nights drinking, Shaun is completely oblivous to the carnage surrounding him: smashed cars, blood-stained floors and windows, corpses lying on sidewalks and front porches, police and ambulance sirens in the distance, and hordes of zombies slowly flooding the streets. Back at the flat, Shaun skips through the TV channels, past entertainment channels and news reports of the incidents. Ed, looking out of the window, tells Shaun there's a girl in their garden.

Out in the garden, they try and get the teenage girl's attention. When she turns around she is a deathly-pale, white-eyed zombie. They think she's drunk, until she attacks them. Thinking that she's just a nuisance, Shaun pushes her back and she trips and impales herself on a metal stump. Shaun and Ed are seen looking very shocked as the zombie girl slowly stands up as if nothing has happened. Panicking, they choose to go back inside only to be confronted by another male zombie. They make it past him and return to the safety of the house.

Back inside, Shaun dials 999, but the line is engaged. The pair sit down on the sofa watching the news, when a blood-covered, tuxedo-clad zombie with a severed arm makes his way inside (Shaun left the front door wide open again) the pair attack it by throwing any object they can. Only for Ed to kill it by smashing a glass ash tray on its head. The pair then decide to take on the two zombies still in the garden, again, by throwing any household object they can, at their heads. When Ed finds the record Pete threw out last night and throws it at the male zombie, it sticks into him like a blade, prompting their second idea...

They go through Shaun's record collection and throw every record they dislike (the Batman soundtrack, Dire Straits) and use them as projectiles. When that plan fails, Shaun bashes down the shed door, and the pair arm themselves with a cricket bat (Shaun) and a shovel (Ed), they then beat the zombies to death.

Back inside, the shaken Shaun and Ed are finally aware at what is going on and they are now watching the TV news reports advising people to contain anyone who has been bitten. At this point Shaun and Ed then remember Pete and the bite he claims to have gotten the previous day. They call upstairs to him, but get no response. Shaun then tries to call Liz but can't get through. His mum, Barbara (Penelope Wilton), then calls him, she tells him that some men were trying to attack her and Philip outside their house, but only Philip was bitten, much to Shaun's relief. Shaun and Ed then go through plans to rescue his mum and Liz, kill zombie Philip, and rendezvous at The Winchester.

Preparing to leave, Shaun goes to the toilet, only to discover a naked zombified Pete in the shower (he had apparently turned while he was preparing to shower). Wasting no more time, Shaun and Ed head outside to Pete's car, only to attract the attention of every zombie outside on the street--they now number in the dozens. They drive at high speed, listening to the radio reports of a coming apocalypse and witnessing zombie attacks on every street corner they drive past. They make it to Philip's and Barbara's house and screech to a halt outside. Philip's Jaguar immediately catches Ed's eye and he convinces Shaun to let him wait in the car 'as a lookout'.

Inside, Barbara greets Shaun warmly and makes him tea. Shaun goes to kill Philip while Barbara is distracted. He finds Philip hasn't become a zombie yet, but is very ill. After some discussion, Shaun convinces them to come with him and Ed. Outside, Ed has intentionally crashed Pete's car so they can ride in Philip's Jaguar. As they get into the Jaguar another zombie attacks and bites Philip in the neck--a wound which will prove mortal. The four quickly get in the car and drive to Liz's apartment building.

At Liz's flat, Shaun tells Ed to stay outside in the car on lookout again. Dozens of zombies are swarming outside, and Shaun dispatches them quickly with his cricket bat and makes his way to the front door. When he gets cornered again, he makes his way into the flat by climbing up to the fourth floor window. Inside, Shaun convinces Liz, David and Di to come with himself, Ed, Barbara and Philip to The Winchester for safety. The four make their way outside clubbing the zombies to get to the car. It's here that Shaun finally introduces Liz to his mum.

On the way down the road, Ed is intentionally mowing down every zombie he can. Philip, bleeding profusely, tells Shaun he took a tough attitude towards him was to help him become better, and hoped Shaun would look up to him. He tells Shaun he loves him before he dies. Shaun, in an emotional state, orders Ed to pull over and tells Barbara that Philip is dead. She looks and says "no he isn't". Shaun then panics as he sees that Philip has instantly become a zombie, and shouts for everyone to get out of the car.

Out in the open and vulnerable, the six head for a short-cut, making their way through the back-alleys of the local houses. They bump into Yvonne and another group of five people (who all strike similar resemblance to Shaun's team) who are also trying to survive. After some quick talk, Shaun and Yvonne embrace before parting ways.

They start to pass through the back gardens. When they come to a garden where the Winchester is just over the other side, Shaun sees that his mum is missing from the team, and quickly jumps back into the previous garden, where he fends off another zombie. Liza and Di join in to help, passing a tennis pole to use as a weapon, Shaun then impales the zombie against a tree, imobilising although not killing it.

Shaun checks over the fence to see if the coast is clear, only to his horror to discover that there are hundreds of the undead swarming the street in front of the Winchester. Shaun has an idea: Dianne is a actress-in-training, so she gets the other five to mimic the actions and sounds of the zombie impaled behind them so they can sneak through the crowds of zombies unsuspected. At first the plan seems to work, but as they make it to the doorway, the zombies start to become suspicious. The group tries to get into the building only to realize that the pub is closed and locked up; then Ed completely gives them away when he just cannot resist answering his mobile phone and starts chatting. Shaun knocks away the phone and berates the stupid and irresponsible Ed, saying that he has spent his whole life covering for Ed's failures and foul-ups. He ceases when he sees that ALL the zombies have turned their attention to the group. Aware that the game is up, David quickly throws a trash bin through the window, smashing the glass, for everyone to get inside. To make sure the zombies don't follow them, Shaun waves and shouts and gets the zombies to chase him (or simply, stagger after him), causing a distraction while the others scramble inside. Barbara spots the flowers Shaun had bought for her and discarded, and takes them into the pub.

Hours pass and Shaun has not returned, David suggests blocking up the shattered window since the street in front of the pub is still deserted, although Liz is insistant that Shaun will return, leading to David complaining about the entire situation they're in. Shaun eventually makes it back (through the back door) saying that he "gave them the slip". The group manages to board up the front shattered window and secure the locked doors.

Night falls, and the group of six are bored and decide to see there's anything on the TV. As there's no electricity in the pub, Shaun goes into the back room to turn on the main circuit breakers. When he turns the lights on, he's shocked to discover that the zombies have followed him back and are massing outside the back door.

Back in the main pub, both the local and major TV channels are broadcasting only "stay tuned" screens. Shaun whispers that the zombies followed him back, and they agree to keep very quiet. However, Ed being Ed, messes it up again by turning on a noisy video slot machine. Zombies now surround the outside of the pub in the front and back entrances and battering at the doors to get inside. Just then, the zombie pub landlord crawls in to attack. With the electricity on, the juke box turns on and starts to play "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen. Shaun, Ed and Liz all grab pool cues and (in a classic scene) club the zombie to the song's beat. Dianne joins in by throwing darts at the zombie, only for one to land in Shaun's head. Ed tosses the Winchester repeating rifle from the bar to Shaun (who thinks it's deactivated) and kills the zombie by smashing its head through the juke box. Asking why Shaun didn't just shoot him, Shaun tries to explain it's not functional only to be blown back when he pulls the trigger. The Winchester rifle is fully loaded.

Packed together, the group join to defend against the masses of the undead. As they start to charge through the front windows, Shaun fires but misses several times, with the others' directions being much help, except when Ed calls out the same way they do in their video-games. Di notices something's wrong with Barbara, and goes to her aid. She reluctantly reveals that she was bitten by the zombie they impaled with the tennis pole, but has kept it quiet so as not to worry Shaun and the others . Every one of the group comes to her need except for David, who's been left with the rifle. Barbara thanks Shaun for the flowers, then collapses dead in his arms. David cocks the gun and aims for Barbara, coldly saying it has to be done before she zombifies and attacks them. Shaun explodes in a fit of rage, holds a broken bottle to his neck and threatens him to stop aiming at her. Ed does the same, Dianne says this isn't fair, so he gives her the broken bottle (to point at Shaun) and Ed points a corkscrew at David, leading to a Mexican stand-off, which ends just as quickly when Barbara rises as a zombie. Shaun takes the gun, emotionally apologizes to his mum, and shoots her dead.

When David says he did the right thing, Shaun retaliates by punching him. David tries to shoot Shaun, only for the gun to run out of shells. He then decides to leave. Dianne scolds him; he apologizes, but Dianne says he should apologize to Shaun. When he tries, zombies smash through the window and pull David through, completely dismembering him. Dianne irrationally opens the front door and charges for the zombies in a blind effort to save David. Her fate is left unknown but it is implied that she too gets torn apart and eaten alive.

The zombies break into the pub at all corners, including Pete, much to everyone's surprise. Pete and others swarm over Ed and bite into him, and Shaun shoots Pete in the head finishing him off. Shaun and Liz then jump over the bar and hide behind it, dousing the bar with brandy and setting it afire. Ed, severely wounded, makes it over the bar to join them. The box of rifle shells was left in the burning mess, and they begin to explode adding to the fire. With only two shells to spare, the three survivors make their way into the cellar, and find a lift down there that will lead to the outdoors.

With the lift and the trapdoor not working, the remaining three are trapped in the cellar as the building is now on fire. Shaun contemplates the last two shells for Liz and himself. Ed says "I don't mind being eaten". They share a last cigarette between them, only to see the power switch for the lift when they light up. Shaun tries to get Ed to come with him, but Ed knows he's done for anyway as he's bitten, and decides to stay. Liz and Shaun say their farewell to Ed and make it out into the street.

Prepared for more fighting, luck comes their way as the military arrives and opens fire on the zombies. Accompanying them is Yvonne, who says they're evacuating any survivors. Shaun and Liz follow, holding hands.

The next scene opens with several TV shows and reports saying that months have passed since the outbreak, and that captive zombies are now being used in everyday life, for menial jobs such as trolley stacking (table clearing in restaurants, collecting shopping carts, etc.) and used as part of silly game shows.

Shaun wakes up... in the same zombie-like way at the beginning of the film... and he is sharing the flat with Liz, the two of them now a couple again. They plan a peaceful day together. The film ends with Shaun saying he's gonna pop out to the shed, where the zombie Ed is chained up so they can play video-games together. 


Review

Somewhere out there is a movie graveyard for the careers of British comedians — successful in home entertainment — who died a death trying to make an impact on the big screen. For every break-out Peter Sellers or John Cleese there are a dozen disappointments, as national institutions such as Morecambe and Wise, Smith and Jones, and… um, Cannon and Ball land with a thud.

In Shaun Of The Dead, director-writer Edgar Wright and star-writer Simon Pegg — plus many of their mates from the innovative Channel 4 sitcom Spaced — spin off a Resident Evil sketch wrapped-up inside five minutes in one episode into a whole feature.

This is a rare TV-to-film transfer that retains the things you liked on television but still comes on like a proper (if low-budget and shambolic) movie. A difference between American crazy comedy and the British variety is that Hollywood always puts out pretend losers as leads — in Bruce Almighty, for instance, we’re supposed to accept Jim Carrey as a failure, though he has a job on television and is living with Jennifer Aniston; Pegg’ s Shaun watches a lot of television and is living with a friend from college
who hates the friend from primary school who’s on a permanent visit.

The point is not to make you feel good, but to prompt laughs of horrified recognition that we really are like that. The basic joke is that Shaun stumbles zombie-like through his regular life, not paying attention to the Night Of The Living Dead crisis taking place in the background, but shapes up when society falls apart and, though still essentially useless, becomes the best chance his friends have to survive (most of them, it’s fair to say, don’t).

It’s a workable premise and the early scenes, with unnoticed zombies on buses, working checkout tills or snogging in the street, are creepy-funny. But the film gets impatient (especially in two or three awkward ‘serious’ bits) and eventually winds up down the pub, with beer on the table, inappropriate music on an apparently malign jukebox and hordes of zombie flesh-eaters hammering at the doors as idiot Ed (Nick Frost) tries to cheer up his just-dumped mate with, “It’s not the end of the world.” 

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_pl_syn

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Direct     : Charlie’s voice got gruffer. “I let him in the house, don’t I?”
 Indirect   : Charlie asked if he let him in the house. (Hal 6)
sumber    : stephanie meyer - twilight saga eclipse

Direct      : ”Dont get so excited, my good fellow,” said tommy calmly.
Indirect    : Tommy said that I shouldn’t got so excited.
sumber     : novel "the secret adversary - Agatha cristie

direct      : “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot” says holden

indirect   : holden said that he quite illiterate , but he read a lot

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sumber    : from movie anchorman

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indirect    :  mika hasegawa said that they had been so excited and almost crying

sumber    :  http://mangbae.blogspot.com/2013/05/contoh-berita-dalam-bahasa-inggris-dan.html?m=1

Burros as Guard Dogs on the Farm

A burro is a small donkey. Donkeys are related to horses; both are part of the equine family. Another way people say it is BOOR-oh. The name comes from Spanish and, before that, from a Latin term for small horse.

Burros reach an average height of over a meter and can weigh more than two hundred twenty-five kilograms. The long-eared animals are often gray with white noses, jaws and undersides. But they can also have coats of red or blue.

Burros are known for their sure footing on mountains while carrying heavy loads. In the United States, they are best known for their history as pack animals in the desert Southwest. In fact, burros in the wild are related to pack animals that ran away or were freed by gold miners and others.

But burros are not only good pack animals. They can also help calm and control nervous horses and guard sheep and goats on farms. Robin Rivello works with the New Jersey chapter of the American Mustang and Burro Association. She says burros have protected farm animals even against bears.

People may have the idea that burros and donkeys do not like being told what to do. But experts say the animals are not being stubborn; they just like to take their time considering what they will do.

In the United States, there are breeders who raise and sell burros. Or Americans can buy a burro taken from the wild by a federal agency, the Bureau of Land Management.

People who get a wild burro need to "gentle" the animal. "Gentling" means training it to accept the human attention needed for care and grooming.

Burros like to clean each other. But these desert animals groom themselves with dust instead of water. So it is normal for a burro to have some dirt in its coat. A brush can remove hardened mud.

Experts like Robin Rivello advise owners not to let their burros eat too much. Being fat can ruin their health. Overweight burros can also develop a condition that threatens their well-known walking ability.

Robin Rivello says a burro's feet should be cleaned and cared for every six to eight weeks. But she warns owners not to raise the feet as high as with a horse. A burro's legs differ from a horse's legs. The pain could make the burro kick.

Present tense :
1. A burro is a small donkey.
2. both are part of the equine family
3. Donkeys are related to horses
Past Tense :
1.burros in the wild are related to pack animals that ran away or were freed by gold miners and others.
2. Robin Rivello says a burro's feet should be cleaned and cared for every six to eight weeks
Future Past :
1.The pain could make the burro kick.
2.But experts say the animals are not being stubborn; they just like to take their time considering what they will do.
sumber :http://www.manythings.org/voa/animals/6085.html

Earthworms

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.
What can you do with earthworms? Some people use the creepy crawlers to catch fish. But others put worms to work making compost. Compost looks and feels like good soil. Gardeners and farmers add it to soil to make plants grow better.
You can make compost from food waste at home with or without the help of worms. How the worms help is by first eating and processing the food. It comes out the other end of the worm as rich compost.

Kim Gabel from the University of Florida Extension service in Key West suggests using red worms known as red wigglers.
KIM GABEL: "The red wigglers are the best varieties for doing it because they are more of a surface feeder. Because different worms live in different strata, or portions of the earth."
You need a container to hold the waste and the worms. The size of the composting bin depends on how much compost you want to make. You need about a kilogram of worms for each half a kilogram of daily food waste that you add.
Kim Gabel says the bin needs holes so the worms can get air.
KIM GABEL: "The worms do breathe. So that is a very important factor, along with they also like to be in the dark."
So cover the bin to keep out the light.
One thing worms do not like is very high temperatures. Kim Gabel lives in the warm climate of southern Florida. She keeps her worm bin indoors. Unpleasant smells can be prevented by controlling the amount of food waste added to the bin and avoiding meat or bones.
For composting with worms, you need bedding that is moist but not too wet. The amount of water you add will depend on the bedding material you use. Kim Gabel uses newspaper cut into strips about two and a half centimeters wide. Add two handfuls of soil for every half square meter of bedding material and mix well.
Spread the worms over the bedding. The worms will start to wiggle their way down. Remove any worms that remain on top of the bedding after two hours.
When you feed the worms, place the food about two and a half centimeters below the surface of the bedding and cover it.
The worm's waste, or castings, should be ready to use as compost within two to six months.
To remove the compost, you can push it all to one side of the bin. Place new bedding and food on the other side. Within a few weeks the worms will move to the new bedding. Now you can remove the compost and fill the empty space with new bedding.
And that’s the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. Have you ever made compost with worms? Tell us your story at voaspecialenglish.com. I’m Jim Tedder.


Simple present tense :
1.   So that is a very important factor, along with they also like to be in the dark."
2.  One thing worms do not like is very high temperatures
3. How the worms help is by first

Simple Past Tense
1.  Unpleasant smells can be prevented
2.  by controlling the amount of food waste added to the bin and avoiding meat or bones.

Simple Future Tense
1.The worms will start to wiggle their way down. Remove any worms that remain on top of the bedding after two hours.
2. Within a few weeks the worms will move to the new bedding
3. The amount of water you add will depend on the bedding material you use

Sumber :http://www.manythings.org/voa/animals/6093.html   

Sejarah J.CO

J.CO dimiliki oleh Johnny Andrean, seorang pemilik jaringan BreadTalk di Indonesia. J.CO diilhami dari donat USA. Johnny yang sering melakukan perjalanan bisnis ke USA, mendapatkan kesempatan menikmati berbagai jenis donat dengan rasa dan keunikan yang berbeda. Pada mulanya, ia ingin membeli waralaba suatu jaringan pemasaran donat USA, tetapi ia mendapatkan beberapa keterbatasan pada produknya. Keterbatasan itu ada pada bahan baku dan kelemahan dalam pengendalian kualitas.

Jadi, dengan demikian Johnny memutuskan untuk mengembangkan produksi donatnya sendiri tanpa harus membeli francise donat dari USA. Ia memilih untuk menghasilkan bentuk dan rasa donat yang sempurna sebagaimana yang pernah ia coba di USA, dengan memfokuskan secara khusus pada mutu bahan baku dan proses produksi.

Sekembali ke Indonesia, ia kemudian mengembangkan sebuah gerai toko donat dengan konsep, bentuk dan rasa yang mirip dengan gerai donat USA. Johnny sejauh ini telah mengamati bahwa tidak ada satu pun gerai donat di Indonesia yang mempunyai konsep dapur terbuka, karenanya ia memulainya di J.CO. Maka, selain mempunyai rasa yang berbeda, konsep toko juga dibuat sebagai dapur terbuka sehingga konsumen-konsumen dapat melihat berbagai atraksi dalam pembuatan donat, dari mencampurkan bahan-bahan sampai menjadi donat siap dijual.

 

Donat J.Co dibuat menggunakan mesin-mesin, baik saat mencampurkan bahan-bahan, memasak dan membuat topping donat. Satu-satunya tenaga manusia yang dilibatkan hanya pada saat pencetakan donat. Yang juga menggunakan alat bantu cetakan.

Semua mesin yang digunakan sepenuhnya diimpor dari USA. Begitu juga dengan bahan-bahan dasar, lebih dari 50% diimpor dari luar negeri. Seperti cokelat yang diimpor dari Belgia dan susu dari Selandia Baru. Juga, untuk minuman, bahan-bahannya kebanyakan diimpor pula. Sebagian kopi bubuk diimpor dari Italia dan Costa Rica. Berdasarkan semua inilah, J.CO diposisikan sebagai produk bermutu premium di pasaran donat Indonesia.

Sebagian pihak mungkin berpendapat bahwa logo J.CO memiliki kemiripan dengan logo Starbucks, tetapi jika diperhatikan dengan teliti, itu berbeda. Bentuk bulatnya boleh jadi sama, tapi itu bukanlah sebuah trademark.

J.CO Donuts & Coffee menggunakan simbol burung merak pada logo mereka. Merak ini menyimbolkan keindahan, kerapian, kelembutan dan keabadian.

Johnny membutuhkan tiga tahun sebelum meluncurkan J.CO Donuts & Coffee ke pasar Indonesia. Tiga tahun digunakannya untuk mempersiapkan standar dan prosedur produksi, pemilihan bahan baku, memperbaiki mutu dan proses produksi produk, serta operasional bisnis.

Bagaimana pun, J.CO telah hadir di pasar Indonesia. Toko yang pertama dibuka di Supermall Karawaci Tangerang (tidak jauh dari Jakarta) pada tanggal 26 Juni 2005. J.CO Donuts & Coffee di Indonesia semuanya dikendalikan dan dimiliki oleh Jhonny sendiri, sedangkan toko-toko di luar negeri diwaralabakan, yang mana kita mengetahui bahwa waralaba J.CO Donuts & Coffee Singapura dimiliki oleh kelompok BreadTalk. 

sumber: http://tau-sejarah.blogspot.com/2013/02/sejarah-jco-donuts-coffe.html

PULAU SEPA

                                                   

Pulau ini menjadi salah satu yang tersisa di Taman Nasional Laut Kepulauan Seribu masih memiliki pesisir pasir pantai terbaik dan belum tergerus abrasi laut. Berlokasi di salah satu gugusan pulau, Pulau Sepa nyatanya memang memiliki pasir putih yang landai dan jernih untuk aktivitas snorkling dan diving.
Cottage di pulau ini sangat bersih dan rapi meliputi 38 unit berupa rumah panggung dengan tangga dan berdinding anyaman bambu beratap sirap. Fasilitasnya dilengkapi AC, TV, teras pribadi, dan bathroom dengan shower. Ada beberapa tipe cottage, yaitu: Gurita, Flipper, Kakap, Penyu 1-10, dan Penyu AB. Per malamnya, tipe Gurita bertarif Rp1.348.000,- dan Penyu adalah Rp1.688.000,-
Pulau kecil nan indah ini memiliki pantai alami dan bibir pantai langsung menjorok ke Laut Jawa yang belum di blok oleh bebatuan untuk menangkal abrasi. Di Pulau Sepa Anda dapat melihat pantai berpasir putih dikelilingi jernihnya air laut berwarna hijau tosca, menikmati tiupan angin laut dan deburan ombak dengan beralaskan pasir putih yang begitu landai.
Tersedia masakan olahan laut (seafood) disediakan di restorannya. erupa masakan khas Indonesia, Eropa, hingga masakan China. Anda dapat memesan udang dan cumi-cumi atau mengadakan pesta berbeque.
 Anda membutuhkan waktu sekira 90 menit menggunakan perahu cepat dari Dermaga Marina Ancol Jakarta atau berjarak sekira 65 km. Jadwal keberangkatannya pukul 08.00 pagi dan hanya ada satu kali sehari. Sementara itu, jadwal kembali dari Pulau Sepa menuju Marina pukul 14.00.
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Sejarah KFC

           Kentucky Fried Chicken ® ini didirikan oleh Colonel Harland Sanders (lahir pada 9 September 1890) pada usia enam puluh lima. KFC ® merupakan salah satu bisnis terbesar global industri pelayanan makanan dan secara luas dikenal di seluruh dunia sebagai wajah Colonel Sanders.

Kisah Colonel Sanders

        Pada umur 6 tahun, ayahnya meninggal dunia. Ibunya sudah tidak bisa bekerja lagi, dan Harland muda sudah harus menjaga adik laki-lakinya yang baru berumur 3 tahun. Dengan kondisi ini ia harus memasak untuk keluarganya. Pada umur 7 tahun ia sudah pandai memasak di beberapa tempat memasak. Pada usia 10 tahun ia mendapatkan pekerjaan pertamanya didekat pertanian dengan gaji 2 dolar sebulan. Ketika berumur 12 tahun ibunya kembali menikah dan ia meninggal di rumah tempat tinggalnya dekat Henryville, Ind. Harland berganti-ganti pekerjaan selama beberapa tahun, pertama sebagai tukang parkir pada usia 15 tahun di New Albany, Ind., dan kemudian sebagai pada usia 16 tahun menjadi tentara yang dikirim selama 6 bulan di Kuba. Setelah itu ia menjadi petugas pemadam kebakaran, belajar ilmu hukum melalui korespondensi, praktik dalam pengadilan, asuransi, operator kapal feri, penjual ban, dan operator bengkel.

Pada usia empat puluh tahun, Colonel Sanders mulai memasak untuk turis di bengkelnya yg terletak di Corbin, KY. Namun, bukan datang untuk layanan mobil mereka, ratusan orang mulai datang ke stasiun Kolonel khusus untuk makanan. Jadi ia memperluas baru-dan-bisnis datang dengan bergerak di seberang jalan ke hotel dan restoran yang kapasitasnya 142 orang. Saat memasak di sini, Colonel Sanders menyempurnakan rahasia sebelas campuran bumbu dan rempah-rempah untuk resep khusus yang masih digunakan sekarang.

Dengan teknik memasak khusus, Sanders station menjadi terkenal dan ia diakui untuk masakan yang luar biasa oleh Gubernur pada waktu itu, Ruby Laffoon pada tahun 1935 ketika ia membuat Kentucky Kolonel; maka nama Colonel Sanders. Pada tahun 1939, Colonel Sanders 'restoran memenangkan teratas di Duncan Hines "Adventures in Good Eating."

Setelah start-up luar biasa pada tahun 1952, Kolonel meyakinkan dirinya selama sisa hidupnya kepada usaha waralaba ayam. Untuk menyebarkan resepnya yang terkenal, ia membentang negara di mobilnya dari usaha kecil di Kentucky untuk memasak dengan ayam untuk pemilik restoran dan karyawannya. Jika mencintai rakyatnya seperti pelanggan yang lain itu, Kolonel membuat kesepakatan dengan pembentukan, mengatakan bahwa mereka akan membayar satu sen untuk setiap ayam mereka dijual di restoran mereka. Begitu banyak restoran setuju bahwa dengan tahun 1964, Kolonel telah lebih dari enam ratus outlet waralaba di Amerika Serikat dan Kanada untuk ayam. Juga pada tahun 1964, Colonel Sanders memutuskan untuk menjual bunga di Amerika Serikat perusahaan untuk perubahan kecil (hanya US $ 2 juta) untuk faksi kecil investor, seperti John Y. Brown Jr, Gubernur Kentucky dari tahun 1980 sampai 1984. Namun, Colonel Sanders terus menjadi juru bicara publik KFC ® dan pada tahun 1976, ia diangkat menjadi kedua di dunia selebriti paling diidentifikasi oleh survei independen.

Dengan kelompok baru ini investor melaksanakan Corporation, KFC ® diperluas dan matang dengan cepat. Corporation terdaftar pada New York Stock Exchange pada 16 Januari 1969, hanya tiga tahun setelah itu pergi publik pada 17 Maret 1966. Kemudian, setelah perusahaan KFC ® diakuisisi oleh Heublein Inc pada 8 Juli 1971 untuk $ 285 million, perusahaan berkembang menjadi memiliki 3.500 waralaba dan restoran di seluruh dunia.

Selanjutnya, Heublein Inc. yang berikutnya diakuisisi oleh RJ Reynolds Industries, Inc (sekarang RJR Nabisco, Inc) pada tahun 1982, membuat Kentucky Fried Chicken ® sebuah anak perusahaan dari Reynolds. Setelah itu, pada bulan Oktober tahun 1986, PepsiCo, Inc melakukan pembelian sebesar $ 840 juta dari RJR Nabisco, Inc

Namun, pada Januari 1997, PepsiCo, Inc mengungkapkan bahwa itu akan membuat KFC ® dan kecil lainnya restoran cepat - Taco Bell dan Pizza Hut - menjadi perusahaan restoran independen yang dikenal sebagai Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc Perusahaan ini juga menyatakan bahwa hal itu akan mengubah nama korporasi Yum! Brands, Inc dalam bulan Mei 2002. Perusahaan ini, yang sekarang ini memiliki A & W All-American Food Restoran, KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut dan Taco Bell restoran, adalah restoran utama dunia perusahaan dalam hal sistem unit, memiliki menyesakkan 32.500 unit di lebih dari seratus negara dan wilayah.

Sayangnya, setelah melakukan perjalanan 250 ribu mil setiap tahun mengunjungi restoran di seluruh dunia, Colonel Sanders meninggal karena leukemia pada 16 Desember 1980 pada usia sembilan puluh tahun.

Yang cukup menarik, perusahaan global yg sangat besar ini, semua dimulai dengan hanya pria berumur enam puluh lima tahun dan seekor ayam.

THE SECRET RECIPE

             

              Selama bertahun-tahun, Kolonel Harland Sanders membawa formula rahasia untuk Kentucky Fried Chicken di kepalanya dan campuran rempah-rempah di mobilnya. Hari ini, resep terkunci jauh di tempat yang aman di Louisville, Kentucky. Hanya segelintir orang yang tahu, dan masing-masing berkewajiban untuk kerahasiaan ketat oleh kontrak.

Kolonel mengembangkan rumus kembali di tahun 1930-an ketika ia mengoperasikan Pengadilan Sanders & Cafe restoran dan motel di Corbin, Kentucky. Sana, perpaduan dari 11 bumbu dan rempah-rempah yang pertama kali dikembangkan pelanggan setia.

"           Pada masa itu, aku mencampur dengan tangan rempah-rempah seperti pencampuran semen pada lantai beton yg dibersihkan khusus di beranda belakang di Corbin," kenang Kolonel. "Aku menggunakan sendok untuk membuat terowongan dalam tepung dan kemudian dicampur dengan hati-hati dalam bumbu dan rempah-rempah."

sumber: http://badiklat.kemhan.go.id/index.php/component/content/article/178-berita-opini/680-sejarah-dan-asal-usul-kfc