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Yes, this is a birthday fic for the marvellous The-Lady-Smaell, who is one of the most wonderful and supremely awesome people in the world (she's right up there on the list with my Mother and Julie Andrews!)
So dear Smaell, this is for you on your special day, in hopes it makes you smile.
The air filled with grey smoke, curling slowly upward as it cleared. Pakkun glanced around leisurely before reaching his chakra out to the rest of the pack who quickly followed after him. The room filling the faint 'pops' and more smoke as the other seven dogs mineralized behind him.
Pakkun scanned around the small living room, searching for signs of his master as he moved to the kitchen.
The past week Kakashi had been on an undercover mission in Mist and the moronic brat – as usual – had refused to wear the standard water proof gear. He never did, the excuses had ranged from 'it's too big' when he was a kid to the current 'it's too small' 'it inches' 'it rustles and will give me away'.
Pakkun had to admit the last one was pretty good by the brat's standards but still, the lengths the pup went to getting hurt or sick. At least it could be said, despite the lazy bastard act, Kakashi never slacked off when it came to destroying his physical heath on a mission.
The pack had left him a few days ago, able to smell the oncoming fever on their masters body as they returned to their own plane to care for themselves and prepare for the call they knew was coming. It always happened, Kakashi would get sick, or rip himself open (by accident of course) then refuse to go to the hospital. Calling in his pack to care for him instead because everyone knows dogs are wonderful nurses and can totally do things like make soup and pour medicine without the use of opposable thumbs.
Still, despite this 'small' over looked fact (one that was pointedly ignored by the so-called 'genius' whenever it was brought to his attention) the pack had learnt how to cope over the years. In fact they prided themselves in the skills not even an Inuzuka mutt could develop.
(The fact that an Inuzuka mutt didn't have masters stupid enough for these skills to be necessary was, also, ignored)
But it had been three days since the mission and the pack had received no sickly distress call from Kakashi. In fact this had been happening a lot the past four months. Kakashi would get hurt, send them off to their plane then no call for help would be sent. They wouldn't see him again till the next mission and there he would be, perfectly fine and healed.
It was pissing them off.
If the idiot was finally going to the hospital, fine, good even, but he could have had the decency to tell them so they wouldn't be worried out of their minds when no call came. Images of their white haired pup, sprawled on the floor, to sick and hurt to call them was not something they enjoyed.
So they were taking things into their own paws. No call had come? Fine, they would come regardless, find out just what was going on.
Pakkun padded softly through the living room toward the kitchen, calling out his bosses name gently as he did.
The little house was very quiet, too quiet. Kakashi was never quiet when sick; he had nightmares, or was just loud while being an annoyance, not taking medicine or food.
Glancing back the pug gave Guruko a questioning look, one that was returned with uncomfortable shifting.
"The carpet"
Puppy brow raised Pakkun looked down at the soft blue flooring under his paws. It looked fine to him.
"What about it?"
"It's clean"
The whole pack started at that and six noses hit the floor while Guruko and Pakkun watched.
"He's right!"
A deep rumble of agreement came from Bull before Uhei sneezed.
"In fact it – it smells, fresh! Like cleaner!"
The pack was shocked at this information – Kakashi…Kakashi had, had….cleaned?- Pakkun hurried to the kitchen.
Bursting through the half open doorway he stopped dead at the ghastly wrong sight. The kitchen too – was clean. No, clean was an understatement. The place was sterile, it was downright scary.
"Hey Pakkun-"
Once again Pakkun turned to face the pack, tilting his head at Shiba who was sniffing the air.
"What's that scent? The one clinging to the air – it's not food or cleaner…"
Pulling in a deep breath Pakkun instantly noticed what Shiba was talking about. There was a new scent in the house, it was light, clean and warm with faint touches of oil, paper, sandalwood and something that reminded Pakkun of the air after a rain – but, it was still raining outside.
"It- it smells like...like a person" Bisuke's nose crinkled as he breathed in "And they smell nice. Do you think they're the one that cleaned?"
A person?
Pakkun's brow farrowed as he sniffed again. It didn't smell like the loud pup or the pink bitch, nor was it the Hokage or any of Kakashi's ANBU friends. So who had been in Kakashi's house and – more importantly – why?
"Pak, the pups in bed"
Pulling away from his thoughts Pakkun totted over to Uhei and peered into Kakashi's bedroom, relived to see she was right. Kakashi was snuggled up under three layers of blankets, sleeping soundly. Signs of fever were a round the pale face but the Jounin seemed to be over the worst and was well on the way to recovering.
Without their help.
That stung a little. So Kakashi had taken care of himself? No, that wasn't right, the pup could take care of others but not himself. Someone had been here, cleaned, nursed the brat, cooked for him and obviously had been doing so for the past few months.
The freaking brat would have some explaining to do when he woke up.
In fact, he was going to wake up now.
With a low growl Pakken started across the bedroom with every intention toward jumping on the bastard sleeping peacefully in the bed. Fuck the fact he was sick, the moronic pup had made them worried and he must pay.
The jungle of a key fumbling in the lock had the pug freezing and returning to the main room while the whole pack turned toward the door with wide eyes. All eight dogs were held enthrall as they watched the plain gold door knob jiggle slightly before turning. A soft click was heard as the door opened and swung forward.
A dark figure stumbled into the small entry; they were slightly hunched under the burden of two lumpy looking mounds. The person toed their shoes off after kicking the door shut and flicked the light on with their elbow before they looked up and froze. Dark brown eyes mildly surprised as they took in the sight of eight gleaming dog eyes staring right back.
"Oh" the young man shifted two balanced grocery bags in his arm slightly as he smiled down at the pack. "Hello Pakkun-san, what are you all doing here?"
Pakkun stared at the Chuunin with wide eyes, still trying to figure out just what was going on "Iruka-sensei? Why are you here?"
The sensei frowned "Why am I here? Why wouldn't I be here?"
That answer wasn't very helpful. Pakkun blinked again before tilting his head to side, pieces slowly falling into place "You're the one who's been taking care of the pup?"
Iruka smiled softly "Yes"
"Why?" Iruka a small laugh as he headed to the kitchen with his bags "Because I'm dating him"
Half the dogs fell over at that while the others (Bisuke, Bull, Uhei and Guruko) leapt up delighted.
"That means mate? Right?"
"Kakashi found a mate?"
"Kakashi got a mate?"
"Kaka's mate!"
Iruka glanced around that the muttering pack, a bemused look on the scarred face "I'm guess he didn't actually tell you that, did he?"
Eight furry heads waved back and forth in answer. Iruka sighed, muttering 'idiot" to himself before he moved to the kitchen and started unpacking the groceries. The dogs glanced at each other for a moment then scrambled after him, tails wagging as fast as they would go.
They all knew Iruka, not by person but name. Pakkun and Bisuke were the only ones to have ever met the little sensei before but all the dogs knew Naruto and if there was one thing Naruto liked talking about -aside from the usual rants of beating Sasuke or becoming the Hokage – it was his brunet big brother.
From this the pack knew that Iruka was kind, gentle and smart, with enough patience's and temper to deal with a hyper Naruto while still being wild enough to be someone the blond could love. He was also calm, dependable and a hard worker.
Which brought up the question – why the fuck was he with Kakashi.
Pakkun's head tilted to the side, contemplating this as he watched the pack swarm around the young man, showering him with questions and curious licks. All of which Iruka took in stride, then again, he was a teacher, 'puppy' actions were something he could deal with.
Shiba, Uhei and Bisuke had already clawed their way up onto the counter and were now examining the young sensei. Well, Shiba was examining him while Uhei seemed to be trying to read his mind with her eyes while Bisuke, as usual, was being a suck up. Giving embarrassing puppyish whimpers to try and get scratches which Iruka was giving without much need for prompting.
Urushi and Akino were standing off to the side, a silent conversation going on between the two more serious dogs as they quietly judged the worthiness of their master's mate – Pakkun roll his eyes at that one - Iruka wasn't the problem here – while Guruko was still trying in vain to crawl onto the counter top and get to the food.
Bull on the other hand seemed to have already fallen in love. The huge dog's sense of smell was the best in the pack, even though Kakashi still usually summoned Pakkun or Bisuke for a tracking jobs as they were less daunting then the bear-sized bulldog. It seemed though that Bull had decided Iruka was perfect and had plastered himself to Iruka's side, impeding the young man quite a bit as he tried to put away the food before Guruko could get on the counter.
"So-"having finished his task and started on making tea Iruka glanced back at the eight dogs scattered around the small kitchen "Uh, I know I already asked but, why are you here?"
"We came to check on Kaka"
"We could smell the fever and were waiting-"
"But he never called so-"
"We decided to check ourselves, but-"
"The place was too clean for Kakashi and we-"
"Could smell you. You Kakashi's mate now?"
Iruka blinked at Bisuke and Guruko who stared happily back while the rest of the pack facepawed at the duos annoying habit.
"Uh, I – think so?" there was a hint of laughter in the soft voice as Iruka smiled at the two dogs "But what do you mean waiting for a call?"
Pakkun sighed and moved forward before the duo could open their mouths again. "They mean we always patch the brat up after missions"
"He hates hospitals" Shiba supplied helpfully as the rest of the pack nodded.
Iruka chuckled "Well I knew that. The idiot passed out on my porch a few months ago and I decided to stop him from bleeding all over my marigolds"
The pack glanced at each other then burst out laughing. The image was too easy and too real.
Iruka grinned at the reaction before frowning, a pervious line finally clicking "Hang on –"the pack quieted and stared curiously at the brunet "You mean, Kakashi would make you guys take care of him? How is that even possible?"
Pakkun snorted "You'd be surprised"
"But-" Iruka's frown deepened "Cooking, and bandaging and well – not to insult you guys but don't you need-"
"Hands? Yes those would have been helpful"
The pack stared at Akino with shock. The somber, spiky haired dog never spoke to strangers; in fact he hated speaking period and often got annoyed at his louder, coarser family.
Iruka however only looked mildly amused "So, cooking? Medical?"
"We have to use our mouths of course"
"That sounds – difficult…" the tanned nose crinkled slightly in thought and the pack once again burst out laughing.
"Ruka?" All noise stopped however when a hoarse voice called out "Ruka? You home?"
Smiling Iruka hastily finished the tea then headed for the bedroom, Bull still stuck to his side and the other seven dogs trailing close behind.
Kakashi was struggling to sit up, the mask was off and the white hair messier than usual as the grey eye gazed around blurrily, trying in vain to find the younger man. Iruka chuckled softly at the sight and hurried to the Jounin's side, brushing an old tea cup away to replace it with the new steaming one.
"Here, how are you feeling?"
The question was asked quietly as Iruka moved a hand to the pale forehead, quickly taking the Jounin's temperature. "Mmm, well your fever seems to be gone and- GAH! KAKASHI!"
Kakashi simply chuckled as he pulled the Chuunin closer, having taken advantage of Iruka's position to grab him and pin the smaller man to the bed. Iruka huffed.
"Obviously you're feeling perfectly fine, should I tell Tsuande to put you back on active duty?"
"Ruukaaa" The copy nin whined in protest as he nuzzled his nose against the scarred cheek, gaining a small bubble of laughter from the Chuunin.
The dogs watched this scene with wide eyes. Trying to get over the fact Kakashi their socially dysfunctional pup had just whined and openly cuddled another human being.
Of course that sort of thing was normal – for other people. Not Kakashi.
The Pack stared at each other for a long moment, unsure of how to react – when Bull fixed the problem for them.
With a happy bark the huge beast lumbered across the bedroom before throwing himself at the bed. Because of their positions Iruka saw him coming before Kakashi and rolled out of the way while Kakashi only turned over slightly in time to see the flying black mound heading his direction.
A shriek ranted through the air seconds before the dog landed, effectively cutting off all air flow to or from Kakashi's lungs and ending the scream with a sickening thud.
"Oh – Right. Kakashi your pack is here, they want to talk to you"
Iruka grinned over at the dogs who were once again laughing as they moved closer to the bed and jumped onto it. Grins grew wider when a pained moan came from Kakashi.
"Fuckit I'm sick and you're trying to kill me? Freaking mutts" Kakashi groaned as Bull wiggled closer and started licking him, leaving long wet trails across the pale face.
"Us?" Uhei snorted "You do that fine by yourself, thank you very much"
"Ya! And you got a mate! Without telling us!"
Guruko and Bisuke were ganging up again and seemed to have decided they were changing loyalties as they marched straight over to Iruka and cuddled up to him, wet noses pressed into the Chuunin's side and neck in shows of puppy devotion.
Pakkun didn't blame them. Iruka was a better cook anyway.
Iruka simply laughed, petting both dogs as he watched the Jounin pushed his out from under the Black Mound that was Bull.
"They have a point ya know"
Eight furry head turned the sensei's way before the various tails started off on a wag, the pack sharing smug looks over the fact Iruka was siding with them. Kakashi pouted at the obvious betrayal.
"Picking on the sick guy, real nice"
The pout grew more pronounced when it didn't affect the current audience any. Instead the dogs looked bored and Iruka merely raised a brow.
"Ah, yes, that reminds me. They- " he gestured to the pack, who immediately got the queue to look dejected and abused "Told me you made them cook for your sorry ass before it had the grace to pass out on my deck"
Snickers irrupted from different pack members at the sight of Kakashi guilty pout.
"But Ruukaa, they like cooking. Don't you"
The grey eye turned to the pack even as the copy nin's voice dropped menacingly on the last line. Clear warning they would say yes or else.
The dogs looked at each other again before simultaneously shaking their heads in a unanimous no.
Kakashi started sputtering in protest as Iruka burst into laughter beside him. The bright sound filled the room and soon the pack and Kakashi were all grinning as they watched the infectious scene.
When the laughter finally subsided to chuckles Iruka sighed and leant over, giving Kakashi a quick swat and kiss before jumping off the bed, Bisuke still wrapped in his arms – something the small dog seemed very smug about – as he head back to the kitchen.
"Kakashi, drink your tea. Now Bisuke – right? What should we make for lunch?"
Seven doggy eyes perked up at that word before the pack scrambled from the bed, paying no mind to the protesting Kakashi who growled at them as they trampled over him in their haste to follow Iruka.
Their master may be the most powerful idiot in the village but the pack knew a good mate when they smelt one.
I was going to write smut but this came into being. Rather proud of myself for finishing it in such a short time.
Hope you liked it *blows kiss*


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Chinese state media has praised George Osborne for downplaying the country's human rights abuses on his visit there this week.
During his trip to promote investment opportunities in the UK to China the Chancellor downplayed the country's lack of democracy and human rights abuses as a "different political system."
He argued that Britain could still be the one-party dictatorship's "best partner in the West" despite its record of torture, ethnic persecution, and restricting freedom of the press.
An edition of the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper released on Friday said Mr Osborne was right not to question China.
"Keeping a modest manner is the correct attitude for a foreign minister visiting China to seek business opportunities," the Global Times newspaper wrote in an editorial, according to the BBC's foreign-language media monitoring service.
"Some Westerners believe their officials should behave like a master of human rights to show their superiority over China and the East.
"It should be diplomatic etiquette for foreign leaders not to confront China by raising the human rights issue."
The Global Times is the international-focused edition of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.
The People's Daily group's editorial stance tends to reflect the stances of the Chinese government. It is an official organ of the party.
China is regularly criticised for its restrictions on freedom, use of torture, lack of democracy, and imprisonment of critics.
"China remains an authoritarian state, one that systematically curbs fundamental rights, including freedom of expression, association, assembly, and religion, when their exercise is perceived to threaten one-party rule," Human Rights Watch's 2015 annual report on the country says.
The organisation says the current administration has made some limited positive steps certain areas but have also "unleashed an extraordinary assault on basic human rights and their defenders with a ferocity unseen in recent years".
Amnesty International says that in China: "The authorities continued to severely restrict the right to freedom of expression.
"Activists and human rights defenders risked harassment and arbitrary detention. Torture and other ill-treatment remained widespread and access to justice was elusive for many.
"Ethnic minorities including Tibetans, Uighurs and Mongolians faced discrimination and increased security crackdown. Record numbers of workers went on strike demanding better pay and conditions."
Kate Allen the director of Amnesty UK, told the Independent: "Mr Osborne might have won praise from Chinese state media for his 'modest manner' over his criticism of human rights in the country, but what of the victims of China's human rights crackdown? I am sure they won't be so quick to praise how restrained he has been.
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"Those lawyers were targeted because they dared to challenge the state, the least they can expect is for senior visiting politicians to do the same, on their behalf."
A third of all journalists imprisoned in the world at held in China, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
In one recent high-profile case Chinese journalists were forced to "confess" live on television to causing a stock market crash by reporting market movements.
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Defining the goals of being Employable
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Employability is defined as ability of obtaining and maintaining fulfilling work through the development of skills that are transferable from one employer to another. It also known as getting and fulfilling the work comprehensively, capability to move self-sufficiently within the labor market to realize potential through sustainable employment depending on the knowledge, skills and attitudes they possess, the way they use those assets and present them to employers and the context within which they seek in work (Hillage and Pollard, 1998).
External environment plays an important part in altering shape of employability as it will eventually influence employability to an extent that the whole country or company will suffer retrenchment and such. There are a few external environments, particularly political, economic, social, technology and legal part. These external environments will change accordingly and will influence employment rate. For example, if there are any political changes, it will influence the government policy and eventually alter the employment rate. Economic changes will play the most important role as employment and retrenchment are basically related to the economy performance. Social and technology changes will influence employment rate from time to time meanwhile legal changes will have an impact on the legal policy and at such, forcing companies to either employ more employee or retrench workers. Besides, competition between organizations too will serve as an important influence as it will create jobs instability and influencing employment rates. In addition, labor market information is essential in showing earnings, news, research and information in public and private sector by monitoring changes of level in employment where this is significant to successful organizations.
How political changes will influence employability in Malaysia? Political changes, such as changes in government policy, economy policy, new development plan, particularly Vision 2020 and New Economic Policy (NEP) will influence employment rate. This is where when a development plan is being announced and carried out by the government, it will creates more jobs in all sectors and eventually boost the employment rate. In 1991, former Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir introduced Vision 2020, which is a development plan to transform Malaysia from an agriculture-based country to a developed country like Singapore. Vision 2020 was announced together with several Malaysia Plans, such as the Eighth Malaysia Plan and Nine Malaysia Plan on the consecutive years. These plans are developed in order to shape Malaysia as a developed country by 2020. Besides that, National Development Policies (NDP) which were introduced after NEC were also part of longer- term program of Vision 2020 which aims to turn Malaysia into full industrialized country (Drabble, 2010). Therefore, a lot of jobs are created to boost the economy and more and more youngsters will immigrate into the city in order to look for jobs. As a result, employment rate will grow rapidly.
Economic changes play an important role in influencing employment rate. If there is a consistent growth on the economy, for example, 6%-7% growth per year; employment rate will grow as the companies grow, more workers are needed. However, financial crisis or economic downturn will subsequently cause retrenchment as the economy and companies are not performing well, retrenchment is one of the best ways to save their operating costs. Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 and 2008 Financial Crisis have been causing Malaysia's economy to sub size. According to Khor (2009), there has been a fall in exports in manufacturing, oil and agricultural products. The falls have been surprisingly steep, showing that the Malaysian economy started stalling and then falling in the last three or four months of 2008. All the sectors have been hit, in terms of deceleration of growth between the third and fourth quarter of last year. The real GDP in manufacturing fell 12% from RM40.3 billion to RM35.3 billion, while agriculture fell from RM10.8 billion to RM9.9 billion and construction from RM4 billion to RM3.9 bil. The fall in GDP is due to the fall in productivity of the companies. As productivity falls, retrenchment occurs as employers available are more than jobs available. According to Goh & Lim (2009), the impact of the crisis on unemployment in Malaysia is not quite as alarming as compared to that of the other countries due to the stimulus plan being implemented by the government. However, the unemployment rate increased by 0.9% to 4.0% in the first quarter of 2009 as compared to 3.1% in the fourth quarter of 2008 (Refer to Figure 1). About 40,000 workers retrenched during this crisis, with 60% of the retrenchment coming from the manufacturing sector. Thus, this shown that the recent financial crisis has caused Malaysia to suffer from heavy retrenchment and drastic drop in job vacancies and these proof employment rates depends on the economic performance.
Social or lifestyle changes are an important value in changing job trends. As social trend changes, job trend changes as graduates nowadays have different perspective on jobs. They will not simply pick on a job as they will examine which job is suitable and suits them. Thus, this will create some unemployment in some unpopular sector. Besides, gender cap has been narrowed as more and more women are now working in different sectors in the industry. According to Ng (2004), industrialization in Malaysia has been in the dominion of women. The labor force participation rate of women increased from 37% in 1970 to 43.5% in 1995 and 44.5% in 2000. Today, about 85% of women workers are in the manufacturing and services sector, with the majority located in urban areas. Also, women's share in the direct high-skilled jobs increased from 42 per cent in 1985 to 45 per cent in 1990, reflecting healthy inroads made by women in this professional category (Ng & Sim, 1995). This shown that women have been accepted into the society and their contribution is inevitable. Also, according to Carmel (2007), older employee must continue to work as it is beneficial for everyone else and themselves, too. If elderly employee continues to work, it will benefit the economy as well as social protection system. Thus, the government has been implementing several measures to provide welfare for elderly and policies to further their retirement datelines. Also, providing jobs to the disabled is an important part too as they have the ability to contribute to the society and country.
Technology is something that we cannot repel and now it exists in every part of our everyday life. Technology advancement in the 21st century has been accelerating the growth of every sector and thus increases the employment opportunities. Technology improvements have been affecting unskilled and semi-skilled workers whereby there was a rapid increase in employment associated with the new technologies. According to Ng and Sim (1995), the number of system analyst grew nearly fifteen-fold, from 172 to 2526 while computer programmers increased thirteen-fold, from 335 to 4353, and automatic data processing and machine operators increased ten-fold, from 1038 to 10709 (Refer to Table 1). Hence, these created more demand for skilled workers rather than unskilled and semi-skilled workers and at the same time decrease their dependency for them. According to Sanders (2004), low-skilled workers are more likely to expect a change within their jobs as they need training to upgrade themselves to catch up with the technologies. Firms or companies will likely to hire skilled workers thus forcing semi-skilled and unskilled workers to look for labor intensive job or to upgrade themselves through training or education. Subsequently, skilled workers will increase in the market and semi-skilled and unskilled workers will decrease.
Any legal changes in Malaysia are controlled or issued under the government. All local employees in Malaysia are protected under the Employment Act 1995, which provide protection and uphold the employees' rights. For examples, any employees which happen to suffer any injuries during work will be protected by their rights in which their employer will need to pay for their medical fee. Working women, in particular were given more rights to protect themselves nowadays, such as from sex discrimination. They also were given maternity leave and sexual harassment protection in works. According to (Swinton, 2001), women who experienced sex discrimination at work will have an increased chance of obtaining more compensation when the new legislation comes into effect. In the future, women will not be less likely to be the victims of discrimination whereby they being missed out on a promotion or received less pay than male colleagues. As a result, women participation in various sectors increased.
From the information above, we can observe that external environments have been influencing and shaping our country employment pattern. As the economy grows, employment will rise as well as when the government announced latest budget or new development plan. Employment rate will also changes due to the lifestyle of the graduate and job seekers. Despite the advantages of technology that will improve the productivity of a firm significantly, it will eventually affect unskilled and semi-skilled workers as their skills are no longer needed. They will either being retrenched or being paid a very low wages. However, legal protection against the employee has provide job seekers from different gender and races and age a brighter future as they are given more protection. Thus, this will lead to a grow in their participation.
Task 2
According to the Human Resource Ministry of Malaysia, 2004, many graduates are good only in theory and many fresh graduates were unable to meet the expectations of the corporate sector. This is not a new issue as it has been voiced out by many individuals, particularly employers and private sectors. Most of their concerns are that fresh graduates unable to meet their criteria, such as being able to speak fluent English, to have soft skills, such as team-working, innovativeness and critical or lateral thinking. They are also need to have some leadership and communication skills. To some, first and last impressions too are crucial in determining their placement in works. Most of the unemployed fresh graduates are lacking of these skills, particularly inability to speak in English fluently. According to the Krishnamoorthy (2007), thousand of teachers in Malaysia will be tested by the Ministry of Education as many parents have voiced out their concerns over the quality of teaching in the media. Their children have said to be unable to follow the lessons properly as the teachers were less than proficient in English. Employers nowadays are looking for fresh graduates with English proficiency and able to communication well. According to most of the private enterprises, they will be likely to hire fresh graduates who are able to communicate well rather than those who excel in exam.
Most of the employers are looking for fresh graduates equipped with language efficiency, soft skills and technical skills. Graduates nowadays are lacking of the crucial skills needed by most employers, such as team-working, leadership and communication skills, as well as verbal and numerical reasoning (Adult Learning, 2007). According to Hartini (2007), more than 65% of female graduates in Malaysia are unemployed because of their low social and communication skills, as well as poor command of English language and low level of confident. Although they had excelled well in their academic result but they were unable to secure employment in the labor market without any soft skills.
Thus, companies need to open up and provide platforms for graduates to develop soft skills through internships (The Star, 2010). Internships will provide them with some experience and skills when they are working. This will in turn open their eyes and give them a glimpse of how the working world is doing. It is important to build and practice these skills in the higher institutions before coming out to work by participating actively in co-curricular activities.
Employers needed their employees to be able to communicate in English well as English is the lingua franca nowadays; every conversation between clients is in English and all the paper works are in English. Without a deep understanding of English Language, most of the graduates would have failed the interview.
Besides, soft skill such as team working is needed as well. Team-working is important to build a company. With an efficiency team, the organization or firm will be able to strive well. With cooperation between each member in the team, one will be able to help each other and make things works. According to Farrington (2008), the principle of working together with the team should underpin how one operates. All members in the team should involve in the process and must be clear of their goals and how to achieve it; they must cooperate with each other and make it clear one contribution is as important as the others. With team working, goal can be achieved faster and firm will grow in a stable and productive way. According to Sugarman (2004), a productive team shares a common goal, a common vision and has some level of interdependence that requires both verbal and physical interaction. They may come together for a number of different reasons, but their goals are the same - to achieve peak performance and experience success. The ends may differ but the means by which one gets there is the same - teamwork. Every member of the team is accountable when it comes to teamwork. For examples, every marketing department of a firm has their own team in order to sell their products or services and to get clients. They will work together and will have the characteristics above in order to strive for the company.
Every fresh graduate should be innovative and creative when applying for job or while working. They should have an innovative thinking and their minds should be thinking of all possible outcomes for everything. According to Harrison, Jaumandreu & Mairesse (2008), innovations process will influence the additional incremental improvements in efficiency, attributable to factors such learning and spillovers, which in turn will reduce input requirements over time. Therefore, productivity will increase and causing a reduction in unit costs. This cost reduction will result in a lower price, which will stimulate demand, output and employment in the end. Moreover, having an innovative thinking will help fresh graduates secure job in the industry. Most of the interviewers will ask questions that require creative and innovative thinking. Without these, they are most likely to be unable to perform well. For examples, one of the largest tobacco companies, Phillips Morrison, conduct several test and interview based on their thinking and skills before employing them. Fresh graduates need to pass a series of test that need their critical and creative thinking, as well as language efficiency and leadership skills.
Talking about critical and lateral thinking; fresh graduate should have critical and lateral thinking as it will help to be able to make decision precisely and act independently. They must be able to analyze every aspect of a particular issue and think of the consequences of every move. With lateral thinking, they will be able to solve problems other than using conventional logic. For example, in the banking sectors, you will need critical thinking in order to solve the clients' needs. A particular client may want to borrow money from the bank, thus you need your critical thinking to analyze every aspects of his financial situation. According to Woods (2010), Navjot Singh, the global marketing manager, recruitment and global communications manager at Shell uses lateral thinking in recruiting new staff. He scaled away from the traditional marketing plan and applying his new marketing techniques which is by reassessing its recruitment plan, asking applicants to give their own feedback on the recruitment process. He found out the highest number of potential engineering recruits travelled via Aberdeen Airport so he focused advertising there and the prospective flights they would take. As a result, the company has seen an 80% cut in recruitment costs and a 20% reduction in the time to hire new staff. With lateral and critical thinking, the organization will likely to hire this particular fresh graduate.
Lastly, all employers in the market are always hunting for fresh graduates with soft skills, language proficiency and critical and lateral thinking. For examples, according to Pauline Ho, a partner of Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC), one of the largest accounting firms in the world, the organization is always on the hunt for fresh graduates that posses soft skills, active while in their university and could manage their projects well during their university life. Besides, they also look for fresh graduate with leadership skills and team work. According to Jain (2005), jobseekers must identify the skills for the kind of jobs that they are searching for and master those skills; include soft skills and language proficiency.
Fresh graduates should work on their communication skills, work ethic, teamwork skills, initiative and interpersonal skills. To brush up their skills, one could attend small courses that prepare the fresh graduates on interview and presentation skills.
To conclude, experts suggest that graduates should not take a vacation after college if they want to get a good job after they graduate. One should always on the search for good job and brush up their skills; some may obtain jobs through college placements and some may through their seniors or networking. If these failed, they should not lose hope and must continue on their search. One of the main reasons the unemployment was so high is that fresh graduates tend to give up after being rejected. Patience and effort in the right direction are important in securing a place in any job; Improve all the soft skills and language proficiency and with patient, you will land a good job in the future.
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You're right. Some notes on the TH600:
- I'm getting used to it already although the mids sound thinner than all my other cans.
- The treble seem to extend further than all my other cans.
- It sounds clearer than all my other cans.
- The bass extends futher than all my other cans.
- They sound like they are made for EDM music which is 80% of what I listen to so I'm liking it.
- I thought they'd be more comfortable, the pads don't hold my head the way I expected similar feeling to my HE500s but they aren't unconfortable.
- Looks like I might sell off my Mad Dogs after all.
- They sound like the an un-dark version of the Mad Dogs with the treble and bass extending further.
- The cable is not really flimsy like others have described and is quite thick and not really prone to kinking
- They are quite light (I'm used to my orthos)
- Wow, the bass. I've never heard bass like this before. Bass that is deep, extended and does not eat up into the mids at all. It'll take some getting used to.
I'm glad you are starting to warm up to them! They are really good headphones for the price IMO. Couple things:
-Mids will stay "thinner" in comparison to what you have mentioned (HD600, Mad Dog, HE-500)
-They do well with faster pace music like EDM, Electronic, Synth, some say even metal (don't listen to too much so I wouldn't know). I would say they are pretty well-rounded especially for modern genres of music.
-The pads will start to contour to your head as they become more plush with your body oil. I will say that they don't clamp very hard, especially compared to the HE-500 and Mad Dog. For most, this is a positive, hence all the positive feedback regarding comfort.
-The cable seems to be a hit or miss depending on the person. The cable won't kink below the y-splitter, but above it is prone too because the braid inside the cotton jacket is quite tight. Plus the y-splitter is not well done (IMO).
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Russo is a common Sicilian surname, historically denoting nobility.[2] The first recorded entry of the name Russo was discovered in the documents of Sperlinga Castle in Enna, Sicily, dated 1132.[1][3] Under the Norman rule of Sicily, King Roger II had granted the land title of Sperlinga Castle to one of his descendants, Riccardo, whom the King had made a baron.[3] Riccardo then presumably took the surname Russo Rosso and bestowed to the castle a coat of arms featuring a comet against a red backdrop.[1] Prior to the Norman invasion of England, there was no recognizable system for hereditary coats of arms, but it was following that conquest that the Middle Ages saw the dawn of heraldry.[4] The features of the banner are significant in that they provide an explanation and give historical context to the devising of the title, Russo Rosso: red is an archetypal color symbolizing The Warrior, or in general, War, and the image of Halley's comet has been characterized as an icon for the Viking Invaders, e.g. in the Bayeux Tapestry, denoting a portent of doom for the opposing forces.
The Normans, or Norsemen, who ruled Sicily were descendants of the House Hauteville (in Sicilian, d'Autavilla), and were thus direct descendants of the Viking conquerors who had landed on the island two centuries prior, during the Arab-Byzantine era of Sicily. Both the Arabs and the Byzantines at that time referred to the Viking Norsemen as Rus', meaning, "the men who row," and as the term proliferated through the centuries, the etymology likely evolved from Rus' to a Latinized form, Russo. It is perhaps owing to the original tandem identity of "Russo Rosso" that the same heraldry is cross-referenced for both the families Rosso and Russo Camoli,[5][6] and it is likely resulting from this coupling that both Russo and Rosso carry connotations of the word, "red." It is useful to note that while Rosso does indeed directly translate from the Italian as, "red," the word Rus' does not.
The origins of Russo and all of its cultural variants, such as the Greek, Rhoussos (from Rhos[7]), the French Rousseau,[8] or the English, Russell (from Anglo-Norman) are all explicitly derived from the word Rus', and yet, unjustifiably, the connotation of the color red remains part of the elementary explanations of their origins.[9]
Notable people named Russo[edit]
- Aaron Russo, libertarian entertainment businessman
- Alecu Russo
- Alexander Russo (writer), education writer
- Alexander Russo (athlete), Brazilian track and field sprinter
- Ana Bedran-Russo
- Andrew Russo, American pianist
- Angelo Russo (born 1961), Italian actor
- Anthony Russo, including:
- Anthony Russo (American football), American football wide receiver
- Anthony Russo (director), Emmy Award-winning film and television director
- Anthony Russo (mobster) (1916–1979), Genovese crime family figure
- Anthony Russo (mayor), the 35th mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
- Anthony Russo (whistleblower) (1936–2008), involved in the Pentagon Papers leak
- Carmen Russo
- Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo, American sports radio host
- Clemente Russo, Italian Boxer
- David C. Russo
- Deanna Russo
- Eddie Russo
- Erminia Russo, Canadian volleyball player
- Ferdinando Russo
- Francois Russo
- Gianni Russo
- Gina Russo
- Giuseppe Genco Russo
- Jack Russo
- James Russo
- Jason Russo
- Joe Russo, including:
- Joe Russo (director), an Emmy Award-winning film and television director
- Joe Russo (driver) (1901–1934), an American racecar driver active in the 1930s
- Joe Russo (musician) (b. 1976), a jazz/rock and roll drummer
- John Russo, including:
- John F. Russo (c. 1934), politician from New Jersey
- John A. Russo (born 1939), American screenwriter and film director
- John Russo (baseball) (born 1973), baseball coach
- Justin Russo (born 1976), American musician
- Kevin Russo
- Lucio F. Russo, American politician
- Lucio Russo, Italian historian of science
- Margaret Russo (1931–2006), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Marisabina Russo
- Marcella Russo
- Marius Russo
- Michael Dello-Russo
- Miguel Ángel Russo
- Monette Russo
- Nicholas Russo (1845–1902), Italian-American priest, professor, Boston College president, and church founder
- Pat Russo
- Patricia Russo
- Patti Russo
- Paul Russo
- Peter Russo
- Renato Russo
- Rene Russo, actress
- Richard Russo, American novelist
- Richard Paul Russo, science fiction writer
- Rosa Russo Iervolino, Italian politician and former Mayor of Naples
- Tal Russo, Israeli general
- Vince Russo
- Vito Russo
- William Russo (musician)
Fictional characters[edit]
- Blossom Russo, main character on the TV series Blossom
- Alex Russo, main character in Wizards of Waverly Place, and other family members:
- Jerry Russo, her father
- Theresa Russo, her mother
- Justin Russo, her older brother
- Max Russo, her younger brother
- Dominic Russo, main character on the TV series Chasing Life
- Ladd Russo, one of the main characters in the anime series Baccano!
Peter Russo- House of Cards
See also[edit]
- Russo, Switzerland – place name
- Rossi (surname)
- Rosso (surname)
- ^ a b c "Castello di Sperlinga - Storia Castello di Sperlinga - Dominazione Normanna". www.castellodisperlinga.it. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ "Nobiliario di Sicilia". www.regione.sicilia.it. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ a b "Rosso Famiglia". Wikipedia (in Italian).
- ^ "Heraldry". Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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EESPA annual general meeting well attended and achieved new goals for 2017
Late November 2016 EESPA held its annual general meeting. 70 people attended from members, associate members and as guests. EESPA now has 59 full members and 11 associate members and continues to grow.
September 2016
The EESPA annual survey results are in: >1 billion B2B, B2G and B2C e-invoices processed!
European e-invoicing service providers report a significant growth of 27% and over 1 ¼ billion processed e-invoices in 2015.
1 252 million electronic invoices were processed and delivered in 2015 by members of the European E-Invoicing Service Providers Association (EESPA), based on a set of survey results completed in July 2016. This represented a significant growth of 27 per cent over 2014 volumes of 985 million.
July 2016
EESPA + OpenPEPPOL Position Paper: reduce the amount of syntaxes
EESPA and OpenPEPPOL are very concerned by the provision in the Directive 2014/55/EU that all 300.000+ EU public sector contracting authorities will need to be able to receive electronic invoices expressed in any of a list of up to four syntaxes to be recommended by CEN TC 434 for a European core invoice standard. They propose 2 syntaxes.
June 2016
EESPA and OpenPEPPOl cooperate to support the adoption of EU E-invoicing
The cooperation aims at developing common positions on EU public policy support for e-invoicing, promoting interoperability and rolling out easy-to-use services.
March 2016
EESPA re-elects Basware CEO as Chair, elects Marcus Laube as Co-Chair and appoints Charles Bryant as Secretary General
With its current over 60 full and associate members, EESPA focuses on public policy issues, the creation of an interoperable eco-system and championing the widespread adoption of e-invoicing for the benefit of economic efficiency and growth.
February 2016
Benefits of e-invoicing go way beyond savings
There are some areas in which digitisation has the capacity to transform the way a company conducts its business while also saving it significant amounts of money. Invoicing certainly falls within this category. But e-invoicing also battles fraud.
August 2015
The EESPA annual survey results are in: almost 1 billion e-invoices processed!
986 million electronic invoices were processed and delivered to invoice receivers in 2014 by EESPA members. This represented a significant growth of 17 per cent over 2013 volumes of 840 million.
In summary: the 2014 figures reveal a rather less buoyant growth in B2B and B2G transactions processed than in the previous year. The B2C sector on the other hand showed very substantial growth and a growth of over 50% is very striking.
November 2014
2014: A stellar and eventful year for electronic invoicing?
In the field of electronic invoicing Charles Bryant is one of the thoughtful leaders. After his well read post on the arguments of implementing Latin American e-invoicing in Europe, he wrote a blog that catalogues in brief a number of significant developments and patterns as to why 2014 has been a stellar and eventful year for electronic invoicing in Europe.
June 2014
EESPA members processed 840 million 'non PDF' EU e-invoices in 2013
EESPA commissioned its first annual survey among its members as part of a continuing commitment to supporting the rapid market growth of e-invoicing and to play its part in monitoring take-up. The survey was carried out through a trusted third party on the basis of actual transaction volumes, collected on a confidential basis from individual EESPA members for the calendar years 2012 and 2013. In 2013 the total volume of non PDF e-invoices rose to over 840 million in 2014.
March 2014
How the EU directive on electronic invoicing in public procurement was born
EESPA was featured in the latest edition of the prominent 'Parliament Magazine' on the model interoperability agreement. Alongside an interesting two-pager on how the the EU directive on electronic invoicing in public procurement come in to existence. The article unveils that the most difficult part of the negotiations with the council was agreeing on the time period available to contracting authorities and entities before the standard is made mandatory. Definitely worth reading.


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Cadillac presented the new 2015 Escalade, a refined extravagance SUV intended to build up new references for craftsmanship and innovation to hand.
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Signal, Cadillac's propelled framework for availability and control, is standard with the most recent era voice acknowledgment normal touch orders with the world's most well-known tablets and cell phones. A 12.3 inch standard advanced bunch gage can be reconfigured with four topics and accessible head screen data anticipated onto the windshield.
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The outside of the Cadillac Escalade 2015 in front of 15 years' configuration recognizes a legacy with cutting edge highlights intended to include modernity. The total LED lighting makes an intense new translation of Cadillac's mark vertical light.
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"The new Escalade is refined surface and the body area radiates more energy to fashion another notable nearness for the Cadillac SUV," said Bob Boniface, outline chief for Cadillac Exteriors.
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2016 Cadillac Escalade Execution and Driving Experience
The execution limit for the Escalade 2015 line increments with another 6.2-liter, more proficient V-8 motor with a SAE 420 pull (313 kW) and 460 lb-ft of torque (623 Nm) motor, nearly 5-per penny increment in strength and 10 percent more torque. The higher torque offers a more prominent feeling of vitality request, particularly from a stop and at low speed.
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The execution of the Escalade is diverted to an advanced body and suspension framework intended for a more grounded feel and calmer, smoother ride. A completely boxed edge – made out of more than 75 percent of high quality steel – is the premise of driving quality.
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Surely it makes sense to look again at the audit requirement? Surely we should ask whether government should oblige small firms to pay every year for one particular form of financial health check? Raising the threshold would not mean small firms would have no financial checks by independent outsiders. B ut it would mean they could choose the form most appropriate.
The audit is only one set form of health check, and there are limits to its utility. In practice, how many creditors rely solely on an audit for their security? How many people buying a small firm confine their due diligence investigations to scrutinising the audit? It makes sense to give small firms the opportunity to pay for only one financial health check that meets many of their needs. The form of the audit remains the same year in, year out, but the needs of individual small firms vary.
Some accountants may be alarmed by the potential disappearance of a large slice of statutorily mandated business. If the threshold was raised to pounds 2m, 150,000 small businesses would no longer have to be audited. But I believe raising the threshold could be a springboard to new value-added business for accountants.
I asked a lunch group of small businesses in the West Country what they thought. The one accountant was the most vigorous supporter. He wanted the threshold raised straight to pounds 4.2m, saying: "It gets in the way of a good relationship with clients. Small firms resent being forced to pay and many see no value in it at all."
That is the key point. With an audit on average costing pounds 5,000,a pounds 2m threshold would mean small businesses saving pounds 750m a year. In practice, the saving is likely to be significantly less. All small firms need good financial controls. Raising the threshold will allow them and their accountants to invest in the services they really need.
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My best friends house caught on fire this past week. They lost just about everything. Everyone made it out safe, even the kitty. They will be OK.
This is my same friend, if you remember that I knitted and crocheted all those little critters for their up coming baby over a year ago. Last time she was over she had told me how much he loved them. Now they are all gone. I've started remaking them and thankfully have all the patterns. I was very worried I'd lost them when the laptop died, but I had backed them up :) So you will be seeing a lot of woodland creatures around her for a while. I wish I could do more for them.
Be thankful for what you have and who you have around you because you never know when it will be gone.