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Carlos Tevez Alih Profesi Jadi Caddie Golf

TRIBUNNEWS.COM - Carlos Tevez membantu Manchester City menjuarai Premier League musim lalu. Namun ketika menjadi seorang caddie, Tevez gagal membantu seorang pegolf profesional menjadi juara.

Di tengah masa liburnya, penyerang Manchester City, Carlos Tevez mengisi waktunya dengan menjadi seorang caddie bagi pegolf profesional asal Argentina, Andres Romero pada Open Championship, Minggu (22/7/2012).

Ternyata, baik Carlitos maupun Romero sama-sama menginginkan Tevez untuk menjadi caddie. Carlos Tevez pun mengaku senang bisa mendapatkan kesempatan tersebut. Sayang, pegolf 31 tahun itu gagal menjuarai kompetisi tersebut setelah mencetak 12 over par 82.

"Kami berdua ingin melakukan ini. Senang rasanya bisa menikmati bersama dia (Andres Romero) dan mengikuti dia di turnamen besar. Ini adalah impian bagi orang yang menyukai golf," ujar tevez seperti dilansir Soccerway.

Bagi Carlos Tevez, golf bukanlah olah raga yang asing baginya. Musim lalu, ketika mangkir dari klub, Tevez menghabiskan waktunya dengan bermain golf.

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Know employee's diagnosis? Don't assume FMLA ? Business ...

If all an employee does is tell you about the diagnosis of her medical condition, that?s not enough to trigger her FMLA rights. For example, the employee can?t just state that she?s been diagnosed with depression and then, the next time she misses work, expect the time off to be automatically considered FMLA leave.

Instead, she has to provide you with enough specific information about the absence to make it clear it may be related to the earlier diagnosis.

Recent case: Two years before she stopped coming to work, Kamara told her supervisor that she had recently been diagnosed with depression and anxiety.

She didn?t, however, tell anyone why she stopped coming to work until a month after she began to take leave without permission. That?s when she filled out a form requesting leave from the employer?s leave bank because of depression and anxiety. Her employer fired her for job abandonment.

Kamara sued, alleging that she was eligible for FMLA leave. She reasoned that her supervisors should have realized she wasn?t at work because she was depressed and anxious. She contended it was up to the employer to inform her of her FMLA rights.

The court said it doesn?t work that way.

Even if an employee has previously told her employer about her diagnosis, she still has to provide enough information to put the employer on notice this absence is related to the diagnosis. The court dismissed the case. (Crawford v. City of Tampa, No. 11-11641, 11th Cir., 2012)

Final note: Why the employer waited more than a month to fire Kamara is a mystery. If you have attendance and call-in procedures in place, use them. Terminating an employee for not following call-in procedures is fine unless extenuating circumstances prevent the employee from calling in.

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Is it a phone, a tablet or a fabulous phablet? You can call it whatever you want, but we're going to throw it into a new category for two days: free. Indeed, we have two unlocked Samsung Galaxy Notes (N9000) ready to distribute out to two lucky readers, and we have 1SaleADay to thank for the opportunity. The site offers daily deals on all types of electronics, and chances are you'll happen upon something that really strikes your intrigue. So head below to leave a comment as usual, and best of luck to you!

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New 2012 Weatherwood shingles?by Certainteed installed on this West Melbourne home. The homewners chose Certified Quality Roofing to install their new roof over other roof contractors. They were completly satisfied with the quality, workmanship and professionalism of?Certified Quality Roofing. As a bonus they received a 10% discount offered to all Harris employees by?Certified Quality Roofing.

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The crisis of trust facing the news media

The Hansard Society this week published part two of its annual Audit of Political Engagement, focusing on the media and politics. Three graphs in particular stood out for me?

63% of public say tabloids ?look for any excuse? to tarnish politicians

? tabloid newspapers are consistently identified by two-thirds of the public as displaying negative traits in their coverage of politics and politicians. ? Tabloids are three times more likely to be perceived to be negative in their approach to the coverage of politics than are the other forms of media. ? Perhaps the most notable finding, however, is that tabloid readers themselves strongly agree with the negative statements about their own newspapers of choice; indeed they are more likely than the national average for all three statements to agree that the tabloids are negative in their approach. Almost three-quarters (74%) of tabloid readers agree that their newspapers ?are more interested in getting a story than telling the truth?, 71% that they ?focus on negative stories about politics and politicians?, and 70% that they ?look for any excuse to tarnish the name of politicians?.

Just 29% of public say tabloids ?do a good job? of holding politicians to account

Broadsheet newspapers are viewed much less negatively than tabloids, but not as positively as television in respect of their coverage of politics. ? Just 15% agree that tabloid newspapers are ?generally fair in their representation of politicians?, and only one-quarter (25%) that they ?help the public to learn about what is
happening in politics?.

Yet majority of public says media influences public and politicians

42% of the public claimed that the media was one of the two or three institutions they believed had most impact on people?s everyday lives, surpassing the influence of local councils (40%), the UK Parliament (30%), business (28%), the European Union (16%), the civil service (15%) and the Prime Minister (13%). Indeed, throughout the Audit lifecycle, the media is the institution that the British public consistently believes has the most impact on their life. ? Only 3% think that the media has no influence at all on the public?s electoral decisions.

What does this all mean?

The findings are clear enough. And pretty unsurprising. The public view of the media, and in particular the tabloid/mid-market press, is deeply critical: newspapers are regarded as overwhelmingly negative in their political coverage and yet at the same time also incompetent at holding politicians to account. Yet they have real and significant influence. That?s a pretty toxic combination, both for the media and democracy. Television news and broadsheet newspapers score better, though not by much. As the report argues:

Overall, these results would therefore suggest that the media ? particularly the print press and specifically tabloids ? do not greatly benefit our democracy from the perspective of nourishing political engagement. The link between a vibrant and effective media and the dynamism of our democracy is compromised. Indeed, in this respect, the press, particularly the tabloids, appear not to be living up to the importance of their role in our democracy.

Yes, they certainly entertain and it is this that surely helps explain the sales of the red-top and mid-market titles. Understandably, looking for their own unique selling point, many of them are also effective promoters of campaigns: for example, the ?Help for Heroes? campaign to support military veterans, or the Sarah?s Law campaign to name and shame paedophiles. Whilst this is perceived as a form of public service by the media, nonetheless, at times, some of these campaigns could be said to actively undermine the democratic process for, unlike politicians, they have no need to mediate between different, often competing interests and demands, and they rarely grapple with nuance or complexity.

In the opinion of most members of the public, the press are simply not effective at conveying information and knowledge to their readers, nor at performing their crucial watchdog role of holding politicians and government to account. Indeed, it is not always clear exactly how some sections of the press perceive their watchdog role: denigrating politicians and undermining the political system and citizens? faith in it, is not the same as holding the political class accountable.

Should the press (and indeed TV news) care? After all, most of the popular press continues to make money for their owners. In the short-term, perhaps not. But as Mark Pack has argued many times before, newspapers that value their brand reputations as newspapers (rather than simply Heat-style gossip-mongers) should worry that the public has such a cynical view of their trade:

Isn?t a major reason that people increasingly turn elsewhere for news that they don?t trust the quality of what comes from traditional and paid-for sources enough above those other sources? ?Pay for news from us because it?ll be accurate? could be a good sell. If people trust you.

Politicians have worried for years that their negative trust reputation will impact on their ability to function. The media, until the hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry, has regarded itself above such considerations. Not any more.

* Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, a Research Associate for the liberal think-tank CentreForum, and also writes at his own site, The Collected Stephen Tall.

Source: http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-crisis-of-trust-facing-the-news-media-hansard-society-29527.html

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Health insurance rebates in Ohio to total $11.3M - FOX19.com ...

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