Reputation Changer

The Internet has given a lot of power to the consumer?buyers of goods and services have many, many ways to sing a business's praises online or destroy its reputation. This has resulted in a new service industry called Online Reputation Management (ORM). Fortune 500 businesses and even celebrities are often clients of such services, but with one service called Reputation Changer, even small-to-mid-sized businesses can keep tabs on their online reputation. It's a very interesting service and, if your business has an online presence, it's worth a look.

How It Works
Reputation Changer is a cloud-based service that monitors any keywords you enter (such as your business name). The company also offers assistance in improving online reputation by manipulating search engines to push negative content about an individual or business further down in search results. The monitoring part is free.

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Reputation Changer is not the biggest name in the ORM business. That is arguably, Reputation.com. However, Reputation.com does not offer a trial account for small to mid size businesses to test?not even the monitoring capabilities. With Reputation.com, you can sign up and cancel anytime, but to test the service out, you do have to sign up for it. The ability to test-drive reputation monitoring with Reputation Changer is a definite plus for small businesses.

You can create a free account at reputationchanger.com (it doesn't even require a credit card).You sign in the first time, and are asked to enter up to three keywords to search against. This creates a campaign.

Seeing as I'm not a business owner, I tested Reputation Changer by entering my first and last name. Once I did a dashboard displayed. This interface contains quite a bit of information and activity and the UI is aptly referred to as the "Command Center." This gives the user quite a bit of insight and information into their or their business's online reputation. The company tells me that the Command Center interface and tools are what set them apart from other ORM services.

Command Center
There are several different panels on the dashboard. In one, you are presented with a listing of any URLs to sites containing your keyword?the top-ranked URLs are displayed first. For example, at the top of the list was my PCMag bio information, likely the most searched or viewed URL containing my name.

There's a drop down list above this panel that allows you to switch the view to find URLs in the three major search engines: Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

The listed URLs are shown by their ranked position. Next to each, you can flag a URL as "negative" meaning it contains content on the site that can hurt a reputation. Now, Reputation Changer also has underlying algorithms that allow it to find and flag negative content for you. The service recognizes more than 100 negative domains and keywords that contain terms such as "fraud."

On the left panel from the URL listings, you can see how many negative listings a keyword tallies up. You can also here view how many times your keyword was searched. Two lower panels display related keywords and reputation alerts?these are notifications of any recent content on the Internet that contains your keywords.

I created another trial account (you can only have one campaign in the free account) and used a keyword containing a restaurant that had recently closed in my neighborhood, Manganaro's. The two abrasive sisters who ran the place were subject to a lot of criticism online. Sure enough, when I looked at the URL listings for this restaurant's name, there were several flagged as negative by Reputation Changer (a few links are to Yelp.)

Reputation alerts can also show postings in social media about your keyword. I asked a friend on Facebook to create a message tagging me and then delete it. Sure enough, I saw that person's post in Reputation Alerts, and I kept seeing it after it was deleted, days later. My concern about this feature is how up-to-date it is. You could be worrying about negative comments or posts online that no longer exist on a live server.

Reputation Monitoring
With a free account, you can also initiate active monitoring. By clicking "Reputation Monitoring" on the tabs at the top of the interface, you are given the option to add your keywords or a URL for monitoring. You can also send alerts to an email address.

One of the cleverest features is Auto Complete. You know when you type in words in Google and it will auto complete a search term? Well, Reputation Changer also monitors any auto-completed search terms associated with your keyword. Example: my keywords are my first and last name. Google auto complete shows my name auto-completing with "pc mag," "email," and "Linkedin." Reputation Changer automatically picked up on this and monitors these search terms.

The High Price of a Good Reputation
There is a lot to this service, more than I covered in this review. But, you may be asking, OK, so if I get negative reviews and see negative content on the Internet about me or my business how do I fix it? Well, monitoring is free. Fixing that negativity is not. For a fee, the company will provide ways to help bury negative content really deep down in searches. They do this in myriad ways: By creating reviews on sites Reputation Changer hosts, by posting favorable comments?essentially bombarding your keyword with positivity, and keeping the negativity down. That type of salvage will cost you, though.

This is how Reputation Changer makes money. To help an individual or business save face costs at least $5,000. Subscribing as a paid client also gives you more tools and features in the Command Center Additionally, without changing the problems that lead to the bad reviews in the first place, it's likely these sorts of review would crop up again.

Some may question the tactics of this type of service, I know I did. However, businesses (and people) are very vulnerable to attack from the open stage that is the Internet. It only takes one disgruntled customer, who is online-savvy, to really demean your business or service, and they may do so unfairly. Reputation Changer and other ORM services, give you a chance to be active in keeping intact a good reputation for your business, or yourself. It's a fascinating market and one of the first services we've reviewed in this space. I do think the free service offers much benefit to SMBs who want to track what the online community is saying about their business and for that, it gets four out of five stars for SMB services.

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EU confronts U.S. over surveillance reports

By Ben Deighton and Annika Breidthardt

BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union has demanded that the United States explain a report in a German magazine that Washington is spying on the group, using strong language to confront its closest trading partner over its alleged surveillance activities.

EU High Representative Catherine Ashton said on Sunday that U.S. authorities were immediately contacted about a report in Der Spiegel magazine that the U.S. spy agency had tapped EU offices in Washington, Brussels and at the United Nations.

"As soon as we saw these reports, the European External Action Service made contact with the U.S. authorities in both Washington D.C. and Brussels to seek urgent clarification of the veracity of, and facts surrounding, these allegations," Ashton said in a statement.

"The U.S. authorities have told us they are checking on the accuracy of the information released yesterday and will come back to us as soon as possible," she said.

France also asked for an explanation.

"These acts, if confirmed, would be completely unacceptable," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.

The U.S. government said it would respond through diplomatic channels.

"We will also discuss these issues bilaterally with EU member states," a spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence said.

"While we are not going to comment publicly on specific alleged intelligence activities, as a matter of policy we have made clear that the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations."

The Guardian newspaper said in an article late on Sunday that the United States had also targeted non-European allies for spying.

Citing a September 2010 NSA document, the British newspaper said that "Along with traditional ideological adversaries and sensitive Middle Eastern countries, the list of targets includes the EU missions and the French, Italian and Greek embassies, as well as a number of other American allies, including Japan, Mexico, South Korea, India and Turkey."

Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that the National Security Agency bugged EU offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, the latest revelation of alleged U.S. spying that has prompted outrage from EU politicians.

The magazine followed up on Sunday with a report that the U.S. agency taps half a billion phone calls, emails and text messages in Germany in a typical month, much more than any other European peer and similar to the data tapped in China or Iraq.

It also uses data from Internet hubs in south and west Germany that organize data traffic to Syria and Mali.

Revelations about the U.S. surveillance program, which was made public by fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, have raised a furor in the United States and abroad over the balance between privacy rights and national security.

The extent to which Washington's EU allies are being monitored emerged is a particular concern in Europe.

"If the media reports are correct, this brings to memory actions among enemies during the Cold War. It goes beyond any imagination that our friends in the United States view the Europeans as enemies," German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said.

"If it is true that EU representations in Brussels and Washington were indeed tapped by the American Secret Service, it can hardly be explained with the argument of fighting terrorism," she said in a statement.

TAPPED GERMANS

Germany's federal prosecutor's office, which has authority in matters of national security, said it was looking into whether or not it should start an investigation. Criminal charges are expected to be filed, spokeswoman Frauke Koehler told Reuters.

Germans are particularly sensitive about government monitoring, having lived through the Stasi secret police in the former communist East Germany and with lingering memories of the Gestapo of Hitler's Nazi regime.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has not commented on the latest report. Before a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama earlier this month, Merkel defended governments' monitoring of Internet communications, however, and said that the U.S. cyber-snooping had helped prevent attacks on German soil.

She stressed during Obama's visit that there were limits to monitoring, but stopped short of pressing the issue hard.

Martin Schulz, president of the EU Parliament and also a German, said if the report was correct, it would have a "severe impact" on relations between the EU and the United States.

He told French radio the United States had crossed a line.

"I was always sure that dictatorships, some authoritarian systems, tried to listen ... but that measures like that are now practiced by an ally, by a friend, that is shocking, in the case that it is true," Schulz said in an interview with France 2.

Some EU policymakers said talks for a free trade agreement between Washington and the EU should be put on ice until further clarification from the United States.

"Partners do not spy on each other," the European commissioner for justice and fundamental rights, Viviane Reding, said at a public event in Luxembourg on Sunday.

"We cannot negotiate over a big transatlantic market if there is the slightest doubt that our partners are carrying out spying activities on the offices of our negotiators," Reding said in comments passed on to reporters by her spokeswoman.

The European Parliament's foreign affairs committee head Elmar Brok, from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, echoed those views.

"The spying has taken on dimensions that I would never have thought possible from a democratic state," he told Der Spiegel.

"How should we still negotiate if we must fear that our negotiating position is being listened to beforehand?"

(Additional reporting by Sabine Siebold, Claire Davenport in Luxembourg and Laurence Frost in Paris, Tabassum Zakaria and Deborah Charles in Washington; Writing by Annika Breidthardt; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-confronts-u-over-surveillance-reports-013124266.html

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CNN, HLN televising dueling Zimmerman trial shows

NEW YORK (AP) ? HLN network chief executive Scot Safon resisted any impulse to call his boss, Jeff Zucker, to say "What are you doing to me?" when he learned that CNN scheduled a nightly hour on the George Zimmerman murder trial for the same time HLN was airing one.

So far, the call hasn't been necessary.

The CNN sister networks did well the first few nights they competed against each other to recap events in the Florida trial in which neighborhood watch volunteer Zimmerman is accused of murder in the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense.

Focus on the Zimmerman trial fit naturally in the 10 p.m. Eastern timeslot that HLN (formerly CNN Headline News) is using for "HLN After Dark," a show that started this spring to cover the Jodi Arias murder trial. It was such a success that it attracted the attention of CNN, which has been actively searching for something new to put on at 10 p.m.

"If someone else is doing it, I would rather have them doing it," Safon said. "I work for CNN."

Although he didn't initiate any corporate battle over CNN's "Self Defense or Murder?" show, "I looked at it very carefully," Safon said.

During its first four days on the air, CNN's "Self Defense or Murder?" averaged 597,000 viewers, the Nielsen Co. said. That was up 41 percent from what it had been averaging at that time on Mondays through Thursdays during the previous month and instantly made it the network's most popular show in prime time.

HLN's "After Dark" averaged 463,000 viewers on Monday through Thursday, up 55 percent from its average over the past month though below its peak during the Arias trial, Nielsen said.

The CNN networks aren't the only ones noticing the public interest: MSNBC hastily scheduled a one-hour Zimmerman trial special Friday at 10 p.m. to review the week's events, and it plans to do that once a week for the trial's duration.

CNN has been testing different formats for its 10 p.m. hour, which has essentially been filled with either a repeat of Anderson Cooper's 8 p.m. newscast or, on busy nights, a new one. Cooper has been involved in some of the experiments and hosted "Self Defense or Murder?"

Scheduled initially as a one-week test, the Zimmerman-focused hour is expected to continue because the ratings are so strong. CNN declined a request to have an executive talk about their plans.

"At times I wish we were not talking about the exact same stories," Safon said. But he noted that the two programs are different in their approaches and play to the strength of each network. Zucker runs both networks as head of CNN Worldwide, and has paid particularly close attention to beefing up CNN's prime-time lineup.

The Cooper-anchored hour on CNN is a more sober recap of the events while "After Dark" is more stylized. The show's format is to have a dozen members of the public acting as the jury while lawyers familiar with the case argue both sides of a particular issue addressed in that day's testimony.

HLN gave birth to "After Dark" in much the same fashion as ABC's "Nightline" was invented more than three decades ago. Both shows started as a way to provide extra coverage of an ongoing story ? for "Nightline," it was the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-81 ? and continued after the initial story ended.

Until this spring, HLN aired a rerun of Nancy Grace's 8 p.m. ET show at 10. But network executives looked for a way to prolong its coverage of Arias, a woman convicted of stabbing and shooting her on-again, off-again boyfriend in suburban Phoenix, when her trial proved popular and lengthy. Why not give a forum to the experts hired by the network to talk about the Arias case, since they loved to talk about it after hours anyway?

"It was a show that was ruled by the enthusiasm that everyone had for the story that they were covering," Safon said.

In addition to heavily caffeinated lawyers, the "jury" offers a way to bring in members of the public who are following the case closely. Producers had initially considered having a studio audience.

Trials are by nature theatrical, Safon said. He wanted a show that would reflect that, one that was lively and engaging but not descend into silliness.

During the last four weeks of the Arias trial, which ended May 8, the "After Dark" recap averaged 616,000 viewers each weeknight, more than double the 244,000 who watched a Grace rerun during the same period in 2012, Nielsen said.

Until a week before the end of the trial, HLN did not know whether its show was temporary. It was decided the same format could be used for other high-profile trials or, in the absence of any, to debate other public issues, Safon said. "After Dark" subject matter has also taken on Lance Armstrong and his use of performance-enhancing drugs and the troubles involving the late Michael Jackson.

Producers are keeping their eyes open for other trials that might trigger a soap opera-like interest among viewers.

"The conclusion that we came to is that there is always stuff happening in the court of public opinion," Safon said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cnn-hln-televising-dueling-zimmerman-trial-shows-182721905.html

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Chopped Green Salad Recipe | Fitness, Health and Happiness

Just a reminder that Google Reader is gone as of tomorrow. No worries. You keep up with what?s going on at Fitness, Health and Happiness by following me on?Bloglovin!

A few things to share this week:

A Great Resource For Clean Food Faster, a Project, a Menu?and a Recipe

Angela Simpson, Health Coach and Healthy Living Blogger, has written an all-in-one resource for eating fast (clean!) food,?Living the Whole Foods Lifestyle.

In this 48-page e-book, you?ll find:

• A list of?versatile,?timesaving ingredients?to keep on-hand in your clean-living kitchen
• My?favourite kitchen gadgets?that?make meal prep a breeze
• A printable?meal planning template, recipe planner, and grocery shopping list
• 13 squeaky clean, super delicious recipes?that feature those superhero timesaving ingredients

Also included in the book is a 5 step plan for weekly meal preparation with printable resources provided.

For more information and to order go to Clean Food Faster.

On Friday I shared my i am enough PROJECT! This is a project that is about you!

We need to stop NOT feeling?good enough!

At first I was going to tell you what this project is about but then I decided this is about you and where you are right now with your ENOUGHNESS. This project is about what you make of it. This is your chance to shout I AM ENOUGH from the rooftops and share I AM ENOUGH with the world. Even more importantly this is your time to BELIEVE I AM ENOUGH!

I?m talking about an unconditional ENOUGHNESS! BELIEVE you are enough without contingencies.

I would love to have you join me. Click the image above to share your I AM ENOUGH!

On the Menu

This week?s menu is mostly repeats from last week. The recipes were that good! I?m still trying to decide what we will grill on July 4th.

Breakfast
Waffles and Fruit
Homemade Muesli
Breakfast Quinoa

Lunch/Dinner
Veggie Burger
Chopped Green Salad and Bunless Veggie Burger
Vegetarian Times Summer Veggie Kabobs
Vegan Lettuce Wraps
Veggie Fajitas

Snacks
Green Protein Smoothie
Air Popped Popcorn (looking for seasoning suggestions!)
Black Bean Dip and Baked Tortilla Chips (homemade or my favorite, Tostitos Baked Scoops)

Last but not least, the recipe for my latest foodie obsession, chopped salads, adapted from Carrie on Vegan. The first 6 ingredients make up the base for the salad. I use the optional add-ons depending on what type of salad I?m preparing and for a nutritional boost.

So far, my favorites have been a basic green salad with the Dijon dressing (dressing recipe included below) and a chinese chopped salad with sunflower seeds, edamame and the same ginger dressing I use for the Asian Broccoli Slaw recipe. A serving size is 2 cups as an entree or 1 cup as a side. The recipe may make slightly more than 2 cups. The leftovers keep well for one day. Maybe longer but I have yet to wait more than a day.

Final note: using the salad as the entree I add a veggie burger as a side to make a complete meal.

What recipes do you repeat? What optional ingredients would you add to a chopped salad? What do you add to popcorn to spice it up and add flavor? What are your plans for July 4th?

• Prep time: 15 min
• Cook time: 0 min
• Total time: 15 min
• Yield: 1
• Difficulty: easy
• Recipe type: salad, lunch, dinner, entree, side dish, vegan, vegetarian, gluten free

Ingredients:

• 3 kale leaves (my preference is Dino a.k.a. lacinato), torn or roughly chopped
• 3-5 romaine leaves, torn or roughly chopped
• 1/2 cup broccoli slaw (or broccoli)
• 2 radishes, cut in half
• 1 celery stalk, cut into thirds
• 1 carrot, cut into thirds
• 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
• 1/2 cup seasoned rice vinegar
• 4 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 1 clove garlic, chopped or pressed
• black pepper (to taste)
• 1 tbs sunflower seeds (optional)
• 1 tbs nuts (optional)
• 1/2 c black beans, rinsed and drained (optional)
• 1/2 c garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained (optional)
• 1/2 steamed edamame (optional)

Directions:

1. After washing, thoroughly dry the vegetables to avoid excess water in the salad.
2. Add the first 6 ingredients to a food processor and pulse 3-5 times depending on desired chopped-ness.
3. In a small bowl combine the nutritional yeast, vinegar, Dijon, garlic and pepper. Whisk.
4. In a bowl with a lid, combine the vegetables, optional ingredients (if desired) and dressing (to taste).
5. Cover and shake.
6. Enjoy.

Published on June 30, 2013by jillconyers

Tagged: blog hop, clean eating, food and drink, gluten free, I Am Enough Project, menu planning, nutrition, on the menu, plant-based diet, product review, recipes, vegan, vegetarian, What's For DInner

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NBA Free Agency 2013: Utah Jazz Combo Guard Randy Foye: a three year review

NBA Free Agency is upon us. Well, it will be in a few hours. And we have a lot of free agents on the team:

The Jazz also have non-guaranteed contracts with Kevin Murphy and Jerel McNeal to sort out, and we have yet to sign all the players we have draft rights for (Trey Burke, Rudy Gobert, Raul Neto, Ante Tomic, Shan Foster, and Peter Fehse). All that said the team has some money to spend if they want; however, conventional wisdom states that they'll be going lean and hungry this year. Or something to that effect. Here's the great table by Peter again just so you see what we're working with:

So all of our unrestricted free agents have put in their time here and deserve their own posts. Let's take a look at Randy Foye.

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Who is Randy Foye?

Foye was drafted #7 in the 2006 NBA Draft. Out of all the reviews so far he's the first former Lottery pick, and aside from Big Al, he is the only guy picked in the Top 15 of a draft that's an unrestricted free agent for the Jazz right now. He came into the league as a point guard, but progressively was forced onto rosters where he has to play off-the-ball more and more. Going from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Washington Wizards, the D.C. area team was an even bigger mess and played Foye at the small forward at times. Foye found a home as a full time shooting guard off the bench as a three point specialist on a stacked Los Angeles Clippers team. He played with them for two seasons honing his touch and becoming a startlingly effective spot up shooter, and then join the Jazz on a one year good faith contract.

He rarely shows any point guard tendencies anymore, and is almost fully a shooting guard now, which is funny when you played mostly PG in college and your first few years in the NBA. He's 29 going on 30 (will turn 30 before training camp starts), and has 7 years of NBA experience. He has almost exclusively played for bad teams.

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What has he done for the Jazz?

Raaaaaaaandy played one year for the Jazz, and played in all 82 games. This was the first time he has played all 82 games since his rookie year. He finished last season at the starting shooting guard and was a huge part of our three point attack last year. I'm not too short sighted to forget all of our three point shooting woes over the last 2 decades and think we can thrive without Randy. Let's give Randy some props here as his hot shooting was the primary reason why our three point shooting numbers finally started to approach league average last year (in terms of over the last 2 decades of data, not just one seasons worth -- in case you feel my sample sizes are too small : ), ha ha).

He set the record for most three pointers made in a season, in New Orleans / Utah Jazz history at 178 makes. He also had a remarkable upswing in his 3pt% last season, as a career 37.7% shooter shot 41.0%. His three point shooting over the years has gone 36.8% --> 41.2% (less than 150 attempts) --> 36.0% --> 34.6% -->32.7% -->38.6% --> 41.0% (over 400 attempts).

Wow!!

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What was his last contract like?

Foye played on a 1 year contract worth $2,500,000 dollars. The $2.5 million tag was his second lowest value year of his career, only his first year rookie year contract was worth less. He took a paycut to play here, or alternatively, he took a paycut to go here and get lots of minutes with the hopes for a longer term contract the next season. That's why I call it a good faith contract. His last two years (with LAC) had him earning $4.25 m a season. I reckon he'd like to get back up to the $4-5 level again asap. He had an amazing shooting year in a contract year. I hope it works out for him.

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What do the stats say?

Randy is kind of who he is right now, at his peak. He's going to be turning 30 and 59% of all his shots last year were from three. He rarely drives anymore or does any pick and roll stuff -- which when he did do it, it was successful and I couldn't stop tweeting about how great it worked. I'd love to see him return to more of that, but the numbers show him becoming more and more of a specialist.

Over his last three seasons he has played in 210 total regular season games (averaging 70.0 games a season), and playing 26.1 mpg. So that's more than half the game, and he's not really going to budge much lower from that if he stays on our team. He averaged 10.5 ppg (39.5 fg%, 38.4 3pt%, 85.7 ft%), 2.3 apg, 1.8 rpg, and 0.8 spg. His A:TO ratio was 1.85, so he's no longer a PG it seems. He attempted 9.1 shots a game, and 4.7 of them were threes. He gets to the line 1.8 times a game.

But just last year (82 games, started 72, played 27.4 mpg) he got more opportunities to help the team. He did so by further specializing as a shooter. He averaged 10.8 ppg (38.7 fg%, 41.0 3pt%, 81.9 ft%) -- so he shot way better from three, but even his FT shooting went down. He should have taken them from three, I think! He averaged fewer apg, rpg, about the same spg, and his A:TO ratio went down as well.

And he shot fewer times per game, but more of his shots per game were from three. He's tending more and more to being a guy who no longer has a complete game. If this is the gameplan, to reduce every player to just one thing, then it's a bad gameplan. (Earl, your best skill is passing, so you can only pass! Randy, you are our best three point shooter, so we will only go to you for threes!)

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Benefit to the team going forward?

Conventional wisdom states that a guy who shoots an amazing percentage above his career mark in a contract year will have a season that's more akin to his career average the next year. If we bring him back I hope that's not the case. Randy Foye shooting 60% of his shots as threes works out when he's shooting 41% from deep. If he returns to that 36/37% level then his utility on the floor lowers significantly. But I'm not going to argue about what percentage point of something he may or may not regress towards.

I understand he may regress. But I also understand that we really need a three point shooter on the floor at all times, and we shouldn't just give up on Randy because he's not perfect -- unless we find some more perfect person to replace him with. His main benefit is his shooting from downtown and he too over 400 threes last year. I don't see him helping us in terms of ball handling (he made some sloppy passes) or on defense. And as a result, I don't know if the role of starting shooting guard should be something we pencil him in for in 2013-14. If he had a more designated hitter role off the bench to bust zones and help us when we need threes that minimizes his negative effects it would be a great fit.

And I think that's the role we want for him. He has value still, for sure, even if he's going to almost assuredly going to be shooting closer to his career numbers next year.

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Bottom line:

The bottom line is that until we get someone better, we shouldn't get rid of Randy Foye. We need threes -- we have lots of data to prove it. Randy hits threes. He had a career year last year and even had a kid here. He knows he'll get opportunities here as well. He just may not be playing for a contender or getting the money he wants. So this is more about compelling Randy to stay than pointing out his flaws.

He's bad on defense, doesn't rebound, and unsuited to start. We all know that.

But we also need guys who can make threes -- and Gordon Hayward, Alec Burks, Trey Burke, and others help there for sure. Mo Williams may or may not be back, and Randy at least is reliable from outside. He's the best we have right now at something we need. I'm not quite ready to get rid of him, even though I'm not really crazy about him.

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Source: http://www.slcdunk.com/2013/6/30/4479912/nba-free-agency-2013-utah-jazz-combo-guard-randy-foye-a-three-year

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Book Review? An author's portrayal of an empty, tragic society ...

Book: Ordinary people in a Normal?Society by Dr Jerome Teelucksingh
Critic: Dr Glenville Ashby

Dr Jerome Teelucksinghs?s latest offering is a mac?doine of interfacing dialogue and disjointed scenes clothed in a bipolar literary style, if ever it existed. The many themes of Ordinary People in a?Normal Society?see-saws at a bewildering and confounding pace. And it traverses multiple scenes ? from contemporary New York to the Caribbean. Throughout the author shows a keen insight of?life in?the Diaspora.?But no doubt, the mission (hopefully) of the author is bent on skewing the title to create raw irony, almost at a tragic and painful level.
This is?Dr Teelucksingh at his sardonic best. At times, ?Ordinary??sways from over arching silliness to intellectual vacuity. Its opening salvo is nothing short of incredulity with a biting jocularity that borders on slapstick humour. Here, the author presents obesity and obsessive compulsive disorders ? still two mental dysfunctions lacking social empathy ? to showcase a veritable problem deserving attention. Deriding the obese or the compulsive is not the objective. Rather, the aim is to address paralytic disorders that bedevil advanced societies. Regrettably, these grave problems are so prevalent that they come ordinary and part of?our social psychosis.
Nevertheless, the jibes and levity are side-splitting. Overly frugal and obsessed with saving coupons, Sumintra forces her condescending husband to eat dog and cat food, that, over time he relishes; and when she complains ?that the water rate is too high,? and ?we need to cut down on flushing the toilet and washing wares, and the children will have to pee outside and also will have to bury their s**t in the yard,? her daughter responds, ?No mummy I don?t want to poop outside like an animal.?
Readers will beg for more and Teelucksingh delivers?pure hyperbole with the overly obese and immobile Ali whose insatiable appetite for food will?rattle readers. After consuming enough Chinese food to feed a platoon, Ali, spiking close to one thousand pounds and who capriciously wants to vie for the US presidency, shouts to his wife Indeera?two hours later, ?I am hungry, order some damn pizza.? And five minutes later, he demands, ?Don?t forget to order the damn side orders and dessert.? And what about Melba, the therapist who is hired to psychoanalyze the root cause of Ali?s problems? Funny as it gets!
But Dr Teelucksingh halts the barrage of comedic lunacy, launching into Caribbean politics, gay rights, gender concerns and the role of the media through the prism of a series of characters ? each one obdurate and opinionated. And the effetely consumed undertaking of Francine, garnering signatures to end poverty and racism also assumes prevalence. The media comes in for a withering tongue-lashing as it is deemed calculating, nefarious and culpable for social ills.
Presentations at a convention do not offer solutions, just finger-pointing tirades and calumnies. That the Caribbean and Latin America should increase trade and establish a more viable political and economic bloc could be the most refreshing idea from a spate of rehashed ideas on American jingoism.
Views on?organized religion, though pedestrian, are still provocative and worth quoting: ?It is unfortunate that in the name of religion many are oppressed, deceived, exploited and condemned. Does God want or expect these antisocial actions?
Dr Teelucksingh gives his characters too much stage time ? an error that comes perilously close to tainting his work. For sure, he stumbles devoting over half of an overtly satirical masterpiece into a tapestry of intellectual dribble. Did the renowned historian lose himself in his own social concerns? Debatable, that is.
But for the sake of readers who are disinterested in paradoxical expos??and double entendre, Dr Teelucksingh for a worthy encore fortuitously resurrects Ali, Indeerah and Melba. Yet, it is but a spurt that leaves readers salivating for more of their vintage antics. ?What is evident, though, is the encroaching ennui that seeps into ?Ordinary??like morphine served ? drip, drip ? from an IV.
For Teelucksingh?s apologists, his characters? social and political exchanges ? nothing more than?familiar canards are intentional ? an admission of?his resignation and admission that for all?our political theories and purported analyses, today?s society is doomed to repeat history with the domination of the haves and the perpetual blight of the have nots. Yes, this is our society ? as ordinary and?normal as it gets.

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Ordinary People in a Normal Society by Dr Jerome Teelucksingh
Publisher: Xlibris, 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4797-96173
Available: Amazon.com
Recommendation: Good

Source: http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/06/30/book-review-an-authors-portrayal-of-an-empty-tragic-society/

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San Jose Earthquakes score twice in stoppage time to beat Los Angeles Galaxy

STANF0RD -- The Earthquakes' magic at Stanford Stadium continues.

In a spellbinding finish before a delirious sold-out crowd of 50,028, Shea Salinas and Alan Gordon scored in second-half stoppage time to deliver a 3-2 victory over the stunned Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday night.

This one had to be seen to be believed.

"I don't think those things are supposed to happen. It was a pretty special night," Quakes interim coach Mark Watson said.

Playing a man down for the final 13 minutes after Victor Bernardez was ejected for a second yellow card, the Quakes appeared in deep trouble against the classy Galaxy attack, led by Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan, who had two assists apiece.

But the Quakes rallied, as they did a year ago in a wild 4-3 win over the Galaxy at Stanford Stadium, also in front of a sold-out crowd.

"This is the loudest game I've ever been in," Salinas said. "Every fan was on their feet at the end."

Now the Quakes (5-7-6), who entered the night in eighth place in the Western Conference, are eager to go on the run.

In the 87th minute, the Galaxy, leading 2-1, had a chance to put the game away, but Hector Jimenez was foiled as Quakes goalkeeper Jon Busch turned back his point-blank attempt.

The Quakes tied it 2-2 in the 92nd minute on a Salinas follow shot after former Stanford star Adam Jahn redirected the ball with a header off a Salinas cross. Gordon then brought the house down in the 93rd

minute, nodding the ball into the goal off a brilliant chipped pass from Sam Cronin. It was his second goal of the match and the season.

Quakes players began celebrating, and the crowd, which had little to cheer for the game's first 50 minutes, erupted. Postgame fireworks followed on Military Appreciation Night.

Gordon replaced target forward Steven Lenhart in the 64th minute, one minute before Jimenez scored to increase the Galaxy's lead to 2-0.

"Lenny deserved those goals," Gordon said. "He's always doing the dirty work. I feel bad coming in and stealing the glory. It was a team effort, and when I score, Lenny scores, and when he scores, I score."

The Quakes probably considered the game a must-win after a series of poor performances. San Jose had been shut out in five of its previous seven matches overall.

Keane had two world-class assists before a Quakes rally. Gordon scored his first goal of the match to trim the deficit to 2-1 off a Salinas cross in the 68th minute.

Galaxy coach Bruce Arena, whose team fell to 7-7-3, blamed himself for his team's implosion. Well, sort of.

"To have a team of players and coaches that are that poor and stupid in the last five minutes of a game, that's my responsibility," he said.

The Quakes came out strongly in the second half as Marvin Chavez and Rafael Baca both had cracks on goal during a nice sequence started by Steven Beitashour's cross. During the chaotic sequence, Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez had the ball graze off his head, denying Lenhart a possible header goal.

The Quakes were fortunate to trail only 1-0 at halftime as the Galaxy's dynamic attackers had San Jose's back line under steady duress.

Los Angeles capitalized on the class gap in the 20th minute on a dazzling sequence capped by Marcelo Sarvas' one-touch delivery into the near corner off the goal, off a one-time pass from Keane, who had been fed by Donovan.

Salinas spurred the team all night with aggressive attacks. He said the team "still" has a lot of heart.

"Our defense stepped up and played great. They stopped counterattack after counterattack," Salinas said.

The show was spectacular, just like last year. About 10 minutes before kickoff, four parachutists swooped down onto the field, the last one waving an American flag. Acknowledged at halftime were members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard.

San Jose entered the match in a world of hurt, with most of its key attacking players nursing injuries and struggling through down years.

The club this week signed defender Clarence Goodson, who played the past three years with IK Start of Norway and Brondby of Denmark. But he won't join the Quakes until after the Gold Cup concludes at the end of July.

The Quakes, who had a 1-3 road stretch before Saturday's win, next play at Chicago and New England.

Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/earthquakes/ci_23569952/san-jose-earthquakes-score-twice-stoppage-time-beat?source=rss_viewed

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