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What brought all this to mind was a discussion that I had been following in our online GM Roundtable. Members were exchanging views on various aspects of running a business and dealing with the myriad issues that arise be they involving people or products or both.
As you might expect, there were a number of comments surrounding how people felt about and made tough decisions, especially when it came to having to fire people. Adding to this discussion was Kevin Cronin who posted the following:
Early in my career, I heard an accomplished turn-around CEO respond to a question about whether or not he ever lost sleep over people that he had to fire. He said that he had not because there was always some justification for the action. He went on to say that the only times he had lost sleep was when he kept someone on tooI thought this was a very telling remark and one with which I supected many would agree.
long who should have been let go earlier because it caused poor performance
and significant stress to the organization. I have found this a helpful
reflection when dealing with these situations.
As I continued to reflect on what Kevin had to say (and I very much appreciate his allowing me to use his real name) it reminded me of what I have always thought made the role of a manager so challenging.
Simply put I think what makes it so hard for so many of us is that all three of the things that a manager (read: leader) is really asked to do are things that are subjective, not objective.
The three magic "joys" of managing - hiring, firing, and evaluating.
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Many considerations go into making a sales call, from knowing buyer value to understanding where they are on the path to purchase. More often than not, what's missing is knowing the best time to reach a prospect over the phone to increase the chances of having a live conversation and, ultimately, nurturing a lead.
Analyzing call answer rates – the probability that a person answers a call – from multiple perspectives, including geographic location, response to known vs. unknown numbers, time of day and day of the week, can reveal ideal times* for businesses to call prospects and generate qualified leads. Knowing and understanding these ideal times can mean success or failure for a business.
To better understand these trends, ThinkingPhones, an innovator in developing mobile-enabled, analytics-driven business communications, recently published a study, "Answer Rates in the US: Knowing When to Call," to help organizations understand the nuances of a phone call as a means to learn when a call can have the greatest engagement and impact. The report examined over 25 million inbound phone calls in the United States.
*The times suggested in this report are in respect to the recipient's time zone.
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As the Phalluses Burn: Lamb of God Vocalist Randy Blythe Details Painful Coffee Incident
Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe is a phenomenal storyteller. Anyone who follows the musician on Instagram knows that when Blythe decides to pen a tale, it's always worth reading. That being said, one of Randy's recent stories involves an unfortunate incident involving hot coffee, his privates and a lot of pain.
In an Instagram post that could have been titled 'As the Phalluses Burn,' Randy Blythe details the most terrifying consequence of needing your caffeine boost. Having made a crucial mistake in keeping his hot coffee between his legs while driving, Blythe suffered a brutal ordeal of pain on his privates.
Randy posted the full story on his Instagram page:
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST IS OF A GRAPHIC PERSONAL NATURE & CONTAINS A TALE OF ABJECT MISERY. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY I'M POSTING THIS. I MUST BE HIGH FROM PAIN STILL. There are moments of extreme physical pain in some of our lives that we will never, ever, forget. Tonight I had one of those moments (this picture I took of my friends Jimmy & Mike of EYEHATEGOD has NOTHING to do with this story, but I needed a photo & they do have a record called "Take As Needed For Pain"). The sun was setting & it was beautiful evening as I road along the coast to the grocery store, still in my surf trunks & sipping on a fresh mug of boiling hot black coffee. I was listening to some mellow piano music & making a right turn when I made the tragic mistake placing the mug between my barely covered legs. As I turned my truck, happily humming along to the mellow piano music on my stereo, suddenly there was a searing white hot explosion of agony in my crotch. The lid of my mug had come loose, and liquid caffeinated FIRE had covered my, well...it had covered my penis. I briefly lost control of my truck, swerving into the lane of oncoming traffic, barely missing another truck, before quickly pulling into a nearby parking lot to try & make some sense of this atrocity I had committed against myself. I felt like I was going to throw up for a good minute or two, then I regained control & started returning home to do what I knew what I had to do. I had to put him on ice. I do not normally talk to my penis, he does not have a nickname or anything like that, but if there ever was a time for encouraging words to my lifelong companion, it was now. The words I said out loud to him as I painfully drove us slowly home went along these lines: OH GOD, DUDE. OH MY GOD, THAT HURT LIKE HOLY F---. HANG IN THERE DUDE. OH GOD, HANG IN THERE. WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT. DON'T GIVE UP HOPE. OH MY GOD, DUDE. OH GOD, HANG IN THERE, BRO. I must have looked like a crazy man. When I hit home, he went in a glass of ice water for a bit. He will recover, I have faith. Go ahead & laugh- everyone else I've told did, including my wife. This day is now a wash. Goodnight.
Feel better, Randy! And to everyone reading his story while drinking coffee, be safe!


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Enjoy each adventure in this Four Winds class C coach by Thor Motor Coach. Model 22E features a rear bath layout, and all the amenities you need to enjoy spending time on the road.
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After the initial roughing, the video shows material machined out of the corners prior to finishing. This is followed by finish milling at successive layers instead of milling the full wall depth at once. These fast finishing passes are often performed using an end mill with many flutes—such as a 5-, 10- or even 20-flute tool.
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Playstation Gold Wireless Headset Unboxing/Review
It's my birthday this month, so I've decided to treat myself with a new headset, and why not get the official PlayStation headset? Here's my thoughts about it, but I'm no audiophile, so for those expecting something about hertz and gigastuff, you've come to the wrong review… but their are plenty of pictures!
So I'll start off with how easy it is to unpackage, pretty easy, it came in a nice box (and Sony did their signature thing, box-ception (box in a box) but for some reason, they've named it Stereo Headset 2.0 but when they announced it, it was named Gold, and that sounds cooler so I'm sticking with that. The whole package just screams Sony, from the box inside a box to the short cables, if the whole product/packaging was blank, you'd be able to tell it was Sony that made this. First of all, on the picture above is the box it came in, and below is the box inside the box:
This is how the headset was when I opened it, but it came in a thin, long plastic bag, which was a pain to get off.
Underneath here is a small black box.
What's in the box you ask? Well I'll tell you anyway: It came with:
- A Micro-USB Charging Cable (30cm)
- A Jack-Jack adapter so you can plug it into your PS Vita/Phone(1.5m~)
- A Playstation Bag to put your headphones in
- Safety use guide
- Quick start guide
- And most importantly, a connector USB
That's everything that came in the box, let's have a look at the headset, shall we?
The headsets ear cuffs are huge, and definitely go over your ear. As you can see in the photo above, they're tilted inside to help with the surround sound and also make it comfier, the black cushions are pretty nice as well, and are a lot softer than I thought they would be. There's also the same style cushioning just above where the top of your head is:
As you've seen in a couple of the photos there's buttons on the left side of the headset, you can control the volume, mute the microphone, turn on or off the 7.1 VSS, choose to make sound/chat louder and also a selector for 2 profiles, which I'll get into in a bit. That side of the headset also holds the charger and jack input. The headset, as you've probably guessed it can fold up, here's a photo of it folded up, and another of it in the bag:
This is quite nice how it folds up, but it's a bit of a pain as well, if you hold the headset by the ear cuff part, the whole headset will collapse,so it's best to hold it from the top (even so if you hold it sideways, the top end will fall in, here:
This isn't too much of a bother though, being as I'm going to be wearing it more than holding it on it's side or in a strange position. My previous headset was the Tritton Kunai, and the cable set up to get 100% of the sound out of the TV for the PS3 was ridiculous, and wearing them now seems like such a downgrade. Being able to just pause, getting something to eat without taking the headsets off seems like a godsend to me. The range on them are pretty good too, I can walk to the other side of the house without it disconnecting. How long does it take to connect? well once you've plugged the USB in and turned it on, you get the initial 'I'm on' beep, and then after to confirm you're connected, after timing it it's a measly 5 seconds. So let's get into the nitty gritty bits then:
Sound Quality
The sound quality is top notch, with no recognizable input lag whatsoever testing them out on The Last Of Us, Ratchet and Clank: Nexus, Outlast, and a few films and a couple hours of music, I couldn't have asked for a better headset for the price of £80/EUR100/$100. The VSS was amazing on The Last Of Us, and if you've played Ratchet & Clank: Nexus, the sound design is brilliant and sounded even better with the headset on.
I've been charging it while I'm not using it, so battery hasn't been a problem with me, even after about 3 hours of gaming only 1 out of 4 bars were gone, I'm not entirely sure how long it lasts in total, but the US PS Blog says 8 hours, which is good enough for me 🙂
Wait, Does It Have A Microphone?
Yep. The only reason I knew where it was is because I watched the promotional video, otherwise I wouldn't have known. After seeing it I wasn't too sure about how good it was going to be, a 1mm hole, and after testing it out on skype, it's a lot better than I expected it to be:
The microphone is only visible when the earpiece is all the way down, when in normal use you can't see it (unless you have a big head, of course).
Much like what happened with GTA V and the Playstation Pulse headset, you can have personalized sound types for each game, so say you're playing a game where you want the bass to be quite dominant, like a shooter where you want to hear those explosions, then you could set that game to profile #1, and say you're playing another game like Assassins Creed, and you want the Treble/Mid to be dominant, you could set that to profile #2 to hear those awesome shanties! Developers also have the option to customize profiles for their games, and the first PS4 game to have a custom sound profile for it will be inFamous: Second Son, and I can't wait! There isn't currently an app for it on mobiles/Ps Vita, but there is on PS4 and PS3, so if you want to customize the output, download them from the PS Store.
Build Quality
Well, with all the features it has it has to make some sacrifices, and although they are brilliant, I certainly would do any sort of drop test on them, the hinges don't seem to hold up that well, like I mentioned above, and rather than clipping into place, they fold and aren't very strong. Other than that however, they seem to be pretty good, the earpieces itself are built brilliantly, and the opposite side where the PS logo has a rubbery feel to it, which is quite nice.
Sum Up
So to end this article, this headset is the best headset I've purchased, and I'm over the moon that I have. They're comfortable, they sound great, they're easy to set up, with a couple of flaws. What else could you want from a headset that cost £80?


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On March 11, 1999, Infosys became the first Indian company to be listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Mo' data mo problems… (Judy Selby at BakerHostetler) Going green + going global = going great! (King & Spalding) When is an iPad more than an iPad? When it's an FDA regulated medical device, for starters… (Sharon… Read more »


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Glad Ramesh has joined the issue, which I hoped for in choosing for my lede his criticism from among the widely available smackdowns. I don't think the Alan Keyes comparison works very well though, because, let's face it, Keyes never really accomplished much beyond a couple of low level appointments, while Newt's relentless drive to create the conditions for a GOP House majority for more than 15 years counts as a considerable achievement. Maybe it happens without Newt — I know the politico-demographic argument — but surely he shaped its character in important ways.
In his last paragraph, Ramesh picks up, perhaps not as explicitly as I hoped readers would, the question for everyone about whether the current crisis rises to the level of requiring someone as potentially radical and unpredictable as Newt, or whether Romney's steadier characteristics are better calibrated for what needs to be done. I don't see how, as several commenters on Ramesh's thread say, this is an attack on Romney. Rather, to be perfectly transparent here, my entire article is intended as an open letter to Newt for what he needs to do to persuade us that he is indeed the right person for the moment; in other words, he needs to explain the moment, and explain himself, beyond his capacity for notable one-liners and attacks on the media in the debates. Readers who think my article tries to settle that question are reading into it their own preferences or animosities.
If it will make Ramesh or others feel any better, by the way, I could do a piece on how Newt has the Lincoln-Douglas debates all wrong, but that is entirely peripheral to the larger questions of the election cycle.
As to Ramesh's challenge, did Churchill ever take $1.6 million to side with the enemy, well, if I adopt the rather latitudinarian understanding of "enemy" Ramesh deploys here, I believe the answer is actually yes.#more# First, as chancellor of the exchequer in the 1920s, Churchill consistently sought to cut defense spending, and also expressed support for appeasement, saying on many occasions that Germany had been mistreated at Versailles. In other words, when Churchill was attacking appeasement and calling for more defense spending in the 1930s, he was assailing policies that he himself had helped set in motion. Yes, circumstances had changed; in this regard, everyone should read Churchill's essay "Consistency in Politics" and the complete rebuttal to Ramesh's premise.
There's more. As to literally "siding with the enemy," Pat Buchanan likes to quote Churchill's essay on Hitler from Great Contemporaries, where Churchill expresses his "admiration for the courage, the perseverance, and the vital force which enabled [Hitler] to challenge, defy, conciliate, or overcome, all the authorities or resistances which barred his path," and how Hitler would "restore Germany to the height of her power in Europe" and "cure the cruel unemployment that afflicted the people." He even sounded a note of optimism, writing that "[History] is replete with examples of men who have risen to power by employing stern, grim, and even frightful methods but who, nevertheless, when their life is revealed as a whole, have been regarded as great figures whose lives have enriched the story of mankind. So may it be with Hitler. . . We may yet to live to see Hitler a gentler figure in a happier age."
This was written in 1935, and he changed his mind, of course. (Buchanan, naturally, quotes it all out of context, and omits the rest of the story. And if Pat were running again this year, we'd need to point that out.)
Finally, while it isn't the same as Newt's dalliance with Freddie Mac, in 1938 an Austrian-born banker and industrialist, Sir Edward Strakosch, bailed out Churchill's considerable debts when WSC was facing imminent bankruptcy and the possibility of having to leave office entirely. Today this would be an ethical violation of the first order both here and in the U.K.


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Impossible Creatures is an RTS developed by Relic Entertainment. Its story is set in the 1930s on a fictional chain of islands. The player takes control of Rex Chance, a man in search for his long lost father and encounters the mysterious sigma technology. Sigma takes the DNA of 2 animals and lets you combine them into something new. Rex uses these new Creatures to fight the evil tyrant, Upton Julius, who murdered his father. During his missions he can obtain the DNA of up to 51 creatures. Impossible Creatures also allows you to create your own armies of 9 combined creatures outside the campaign. These can be used to fight skirmishes with AI or wreck havoc online. An additional 10 animals which are not in the campaign are available here. In addition, there is also the official, free, Insect Invasion modification, which adds another 15 creatures and many new abilities.
Title says all. While it's technically impossible to create new gamemodes in Impossible Creatures, the same effect can be had with some very clever and...
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Over the next few weeks, I'm going to be spotlighting authors who have been selling a lot of ebooks. By "a lot" I mean near as many as I am, or more.
I can name at least ten authors making a very nice living self-publishing, and most of them don't have the platform, experience, or traditionally published backlist like I do.
There is money to be made, and you don't have to be a midlist writer with years of experience in order to make it.
I Left My Publisher, Gave Up on Bookstores, and Started Making Money by L.J. Sellers, author of the Detective Jackson mysteries
In January of 2010, I had one book on Kindle and sold 31 copies. I had two print books on the market with a small publisher, and they weren't selling much better. In December, I had six books on Kindle and sold over 10,000 copies. To get from point A to point B, I had to make some radical decisions.
Several circumstances came together this year that forced me to rethink everything about my publishing career. First, I have to thank Joe for inspiring me to believe that I too could become a successful e-book author. The other incentive came from a round of layoffs in March for both my husband and myself.
I decided I had to stop wasting time and money on things that weren't working and focus on things that were. What wasn't working for me was my small publisher, which couldn't get my books into bookstores. What was working for a lot of people was the growth of e-book sales.
I set aside the novel I was writing and got busy saving my career.
The first step was to rewrite and self-publish on Kindle a standalone thriller I had completed but never sold. I'd once had a big-name agent for it, so I knew it was solid. I also had a second standalone thriller that my publisher had offered a contract for, but I hadn't signed it yet—because the book wasn't scheduled to be released until late 2012. That seemed like an eternal and foolish wait. I had a mortgage to pay immediately. What made sense was to get the two thrillers into the digital world where readers were buying. I took the second major step and let my publisher know I was withdrawing my standalone.
I spent a couple months rewriting and updating the stories, then I paid for editing and cover design. I withdrew the money from my miniscule retirement account and considered it an investment in my future.
In August, I published the two thrillers (The Baby Thief and The Suicide Effect) on Amazon's DTP. At that point, I had one foot in each world. I was self-published, but I still had a traditional press for my series.
Next, I rerouted my promotional efforts toward e-book readers. I quit sending marketing material to bookstores and instead joined several Kindle forums, where I participated in discussions. I got more active on Goodreads and did five back-to-back book giveaways just for the exposure. I wrote a dozen guest blogs and sent them all over the Internet.
My sales jumped significantly. By then my publisher had uploaded the second Detective Jackson story (Secrets to Die For) to Kindle, and I started thinking about how much money I could make if my publisher wasn't keeping most of my digital profits.
After the third Jackson book (Thrilled to Death) faced the same difficulty getting into bookstores, I decided withdraw from my press. It took a few weeks to finally make the call. Who willingly gives up a second publishing contract? Taking back my series meant foregoing the industry's stamp of approval. I hated to let it go, but I felt I had no choice if I wanted to make a living.
So I called my publisher and asked for my Kindle rights back. I also asked to be released from the contract for the fourth Jackson story (Passions of the Dead). I knew the manuscript had not been edited, so no time or money had been invested. My publisher was not happy, but graciously granted my requests.
Letting go of that contract was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Not only did it mean taking on the "self-published" stigma, it also meant giving up book signings, which I love. But I had looked into the future and determined that bookstores were not where most people would buy their novels in 2012. For once, I wanted to be ahead of the curve.
I sent my Jackson files to be converted to e-books, then uploaded my versions to Amazon, as my publisher took hers down. At that point, I had five books selling on Kindle, and my numbers were getting better every month. While the last manuscript was out for editing and cover design, I bought an inexpensive ad on the Kindle Nation newsletter and increased my online promotional efforts. Sales took another huge leap.
When I released the fourth Jackson story on Kindle, I dropped the price of the first book in the series (The Sex Club), to $.99. Sales for the first book skyrocketed, and a week later, sales for the follow-up stories nearly doubled.
I'm also fortunate that Mystery Scene magazine has been supportive, giving me great reviews and featuring me as an author. I received another terrific review in its Holiday issue and that pushed both e-book and print sales.
Yes, I've made all my books available in print through CreateSpace, and I've contracted with INgrooves to target all the non-Kindle devices and libraries too.
Interesting side note: For the fourth Jackson book, I made more money from Kindle sales in the first two weeks than I had made from my publisher in two years. If I had stayed with the contract, that book would not have been released for another nine months. Life is too short to wait for someone else's publishing schedule.
Now in December, I have six e-books on the market, with all the royalties coming to me. The Sex Club consistently ranks in one of the top three spots on Kindle's police procedural list, and the three other Jackson books are almost always in the top 20 or 30 on the same list. I'm happily writing a fifth Jackson story and calling myself a full-time novelist.
Joe sez: L.J. is a perfect example of all the things I'm constantly harping about:
1. Good books.
2. Good covers.
3. Good book descriptions.
4. Low prices.
She was smart enough to leave her publisher, and savvy enough to do a lot of marketing, including giving away freebies and working the social networks. By treating this as a business, and acting like a pro, she's managed to hit a lot of Kindle bestseller lists. She also has a backlist of several books; which is akin to shelf space in a brick and mortar store. The more books available, the more customers who will see them.
10,000 ebooks in a month is damn impressive. If she keeps this up, she's going to make a nice chunk of change in 2011, and beyond.
Here are some other successful self-pubbing writers whom I've interviewed, or who have guest posted on my blog:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
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