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International Business StudyBUILDING UP YOUR OWN DREAMSAfter a long time effectively closing the door to foreign investors, VietNam has opened them again in recent years. The government has pursued an economic liberalization policy and introduced market - based reforms. Price controls in many areas have been scrapped, restriction on foreign investment have been loosened and so on. Let’s have a look at the factors of production that effect the decision making of “ Direct foreign investment may take place through either the acquisition of existing facilities or the new one (from the perspective of the host country like Viet Nam)”• Land: The S- shaped country, which has 330.930 square kilometers area of land and more than 3000 km length of the seashore, becomes more and more attractive. With a strategic location in the heart of South east Asia, Viet Nam’s long run prospects are too bright for many foreign investors to ignore. Investors can find a suitable place in hundred of the industrial zones with a reasonable cost. Thinking about building a large new factories or firms, expanding new offices, setting up new huge ware houses… Viet Nam ‘s land is available because of the existing out mode facilities as well as the lacking of new infrastructure investment• Labors: Young active Viet Nam’s labor force which are workaholic, easily trained and adapted quickly to new methods, technology. According to the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM): in 2001, the foreign investment sector alone provided jobs to 354.000 people, showing an increase of 20.000 against the year 2000. In general, Viet Namese workers have a relatively high education – attainment compared to that of other countries in the region; as much as almost 80% economically active people in the country finished their primary education or higher levels.• Capital One of the encouraging signs for FDI in Viet Nam is the large capital increase for business, and production expansion on a large scale. The value of the Viet Nam dong is still lower than the value of money from some home countries. The state bank of Viet Nam continues to use monetary instruments and adjust the credits and exchange rate regimes to make them more flexible and responsive to market signals with an aim Kieu Tram, Ngoc Thuy, Khanh Doan, Phuoc Vinh – ( KD0105) International Business Studyto attaining monetary stability and at the same time, contributing to the acceleration of economic growth.• Technology Forming an agricultural - Build up your stamina Build up your stamina Bởi: Joe Tye “The one common link among all unstoppable people is adversity – they struggled, tripped and stumbled, and had setbacks and failures, but they pulled themselves up and kept on going With each trial, they emerged stronger, surer, and more deserving of the dream itself.” Cynthia Kersey: Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You Some years ago I heard a speech by Bill Kinsella, author of the book Shoeless Joe, which became the movie Field of Dreams (“Is this heaven? No, it’s Iowa”) What I most remember is his telling us that being a successful writer requires four things As I recall, the four things were technique (which he said was five percent of the equation), creativity (another five percent), vocabulary (another five percent) and stamina (the remaining 85 percent) He went on to define stamina as sitting down to write your 50th short story after having received your 49th rejection letter You might have read that eight or nine out of ten new businesses fail Whether or not that statement is technically accurate (and if you count out the people who “start a business” by setting up a website and then sit back and wait for the orders to come in, it’s not), it is not true The truth is that businesses not fail - owners quit For every business that has “failed” there is another somewhere else in the same industry facing the same problems where the owner, instead of throwing in the towel, made one more call, went hat-in-hand to one more bank, made one more personal sacrifice to keep the business from going under And in the end it was that flirtation with failure, and the commitment to push the rock up the hill one more time, that gave the company the stamina and strength of character to endure, to beat the odds, and become one of the survivors Joseph Campbell - author of many books on the power of myth - wrote that we all, one way or another, live out the hero’s journey At one point in the story, the hero falls off his horse and loses his sword The dragon hovers over him, breathing fire, and you want to close your eyes because a horrible end appears inevitable Yet somehow, against all odds, the hero finds his sword, slays the dragon, saves the beautiful princess, and they live happily ever after 1/2 Build up your stamina Businesses don’t fail – owners quit 2/2 L O G O LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT Vocabulary Building Trường Đại Học Ngoại Ngữ - Đại học Quốc Gia Hà Nội Overview 1. New Conceptions about Teaching and Learning Vocabulary 2. Techniques for Building up Your Vocabulary 3. Vocabulary Learning Resources 1. New conceptions about teaching and learning vocabulary  Do you agree, disagree or keep a neutral view on these statements? ANSWER  Actually, they are all MYTHS about vocabulary learning and teaching! Myth1: It is not good to use lists of words when learning vocabulary  Four models of presentation:  1) words presented in isolation  2) words in minimal context  3) words in text context  4) words in elaborated text context. Myth 2: Vocabulary should be presented in semantic sets  Learners had more difficulty learning new words in semantic clusters (Tinkham 1993). Myth 3: The use of translations is a poor way to learn new vocabulary  The value of translations in vocabulary- learning activities (Hulstijin 1992; Knight 1994; Prince 1995; Chun & Plass 1996; Laufer &Shmueli 1997; Grace 1998; Laufer & Hulstijin 1998). • Myth 4: Guessing words from context is as productive for foreign language learners as it is for first language learners  Helpful contexts are rare (Schatz & Baldwin 1986). Myth 5: The best vocabulary learners make use of only one or two effective specific vocabulary learning strategies  Learners’ proficiency level and type of instruction did not impact their vocabulary learning (Sanaoui 1995). • Myth 6: Foreign language learners should use a monolingual dictionary  The use of a bilingual dictionary can increase vocabulary learning (Luppescu & Day 1993). [...]...Myth 7: Vocabulary is sufficiently covered enough in our curricula and courses No overall plan of vocabulary instruction in the curriculum (Folse 2004) Overview 1 New Conceptions about Teaching and Learning Vocabulary 2 Techniques for Building up Your Vocabulary 3 Vocabulary Learning Resources 2 Techniques for Building up Your Vocabulary INPUT - OUTPUT INPUT - Techniques for Building up your Vocabulary. .. Mark Twain VOCABULARY NEWSPAPER OTHERS BOOKS READING BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD  When to read? Everyday What to read? Anything that happens to be in English Some suggestions: + Vietnam news >> + Dual-language/Bilingual stories >> International Business Study BUILDING UP YOUR OWN DREAMS After a long time effectively closing the door to foreign investors, VietNam has opened them again in recent years. The government has pursued an economic liberalization policy and introduced market - based reforms. Price controls in many areas have been scrapped, restriction on foreign investment have been loosened and so on. Let’s have a look at the factors of production that effect the decision making of “ Direct foreign investment may take place through either the acquisition of existing facilities or the new one (from the perspective of the host country like Viet Nam)” • Land: The S- shaped country, which has 330.930 square kilometers area of land and more than 3000 km length of the seashore, becomes more and more attractive. With a strategic location in the heart of South east Asia, Viet Nam’s long run prospects are too bright for many foreign investors to ignore. Investors can find a suitable place in hundred of the industrial zones with a reasonable cost. Thinking about building a large new factories or firms, expanding new offices, setting up new huge ware houses… Viet Nam ‘s land is available because of the existing out mode facilities as well as the lacking of new infrastructure investment • Labors: Young active Viet Nam’s labor force which are workaholic, easily trained and adapted quickly to new methods, technology. According to the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM): in 2001, the foreign investment sector alone provided jobs to 354.000 people, showing an increase of 20.000 against the year 2000. In general, Viet Namese workers have a relatively high education – attainment compared to that of other countries in the region; as much as almost 80% economically active people in the country finished their primary education or higher levels. • Capital One of the encouraging signs for FDI in Viet Nam is the large capital increase for business, and production expansion on a large scale. The value of the Viet Nam dong is still lower than the value of money from some home countries. The state bank of Viet Nam continues to use monetary instruments and adjust the credits and exchange rate regimes to make them more flexible and responsive to market signals with an aim Kieu Tram, Ngoc Thuy, Khanh Doan, Phuoc Vinh – ( KD0105) International Business Study to attaining monetary stability and at the same time, contributing to the acceleration of economic growth. • Technology Forming an agricultural - based country; Viet Nam keep going on the way to development. In general, technology in Viet Nam is too old to reuse. Innovation occurs when Viet Nam takes part in many international organizations. The efforts are expected to help Vietnam score positive achievements in FDI attraction. We still hunger modern techniques, scientific skill, high tech applications and so on. All above those things are our recommendation to the choice “Building new facilities – Building up your own dreams” to any foreign investors whenever they want to set foot on the Vietnam market. Because of: - The fact that the existing out mode facilities as well as the lacking of new infrastructure investment - It’s easily to employ talented Vietnamese workers and to train them for the need of the business activities with the reasonable cost - Receiving the warm welcoming from the Government: reducing tax, lowering the price of rent expense, simplifying the procedures in business, many clearly listed projects for investment… - Be active in building facilities; be active in contributing to efficient operations. You will get more than what you give: insuring security information, an ideal organization, and understand thoroughly the meaning of FREEDOM. Don’t dare to building new facilities in our country. We really need your support and so do you. Choosing Vietnam is your smart choice! 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Reopen Outlook and when it complains about the missing PST, browse for the PST in the new location. There's little reason to back up your HTTP and IMAP PSTs because they contain copies of the messages still on your server. You need to edit the Registry to move them, but because Outlook often re-creates new PSTs in the default location, it's not recommended. The Outlook folder under Local Settings contains Offline address book files (if you use an Exchange Server account) and extend.dat. Neither of these files needs to be backed up. Because extend.dat contains information about installed add-ins, using it on other machines could cause errors if the add-in isn't installed. If the Outlook folder isn't visible, enable Show Hidden Files and Folders using Windows Explorer's Tools, Folder Options, View. When using Windows Search, always use the Advanced option to Search All Hidden Files and Folders. The other Application Data folder in your Windows user profile, C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook, contains the remainder of the Outlook data you might want to back up. In most cases, the customization files in this folder path use the name of your profile. Each profile has its own set of files. The exception is the toolbar customization file: outcmd.dat. The same custom toolbars apply to all profiles used with your Windows user account. Copies of outcmd.dat should be made after creating toolbar customizations. Because it's not profile-specific, you can use this file on any machine with any profile. • XML— Stores your navigation pane settings. This file can be backed up or deleted when you want to remove customizations and Outlook will create a new default XML. • NK2— Stores the AutoComplete addresses seen when you type addresses into the To field. This file does not need to be backed up. Delete it to start with a new AutoComplete list. • SRS— Send and receive settings. This file can be backed up, although it's most useful only when the same accounts are restored. Any of these files can be renamed to match the name of any profile and, in most cases, they work just fine in any profile. Rules are stored in your message store—they aren't included when you use Import and Export. For that reason, Import and Export is not recommended. You can export your rules for safekeeping: Select Tools, Rules and Alerts and choose Options, and then Export Rules or Import Rules. Rules are tied to the name and location of your PST, and you might need to repair the rules by selecting a new folder for each rule that moves or copies .. .Build up your stamina Businesses don’t fail – owners quit 2/2