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President Barack Obama, in a pithy riposte to Governor Mitt Romney during the October 22 presidential debate, alluded to obvious changes in military technology of the last century. Republican candidate Romney supports a buildup of the nation's military, particularly the Air Force and Navy, as a means of assuring the security of the country as it faces increased challenges from piracy and Chinese regional ambitions.?
When Romney noted that the U.S. Navy now has fewer ships than it did in 1917, Obama responded that the U.S. has "fewer horses and bayonets" than it did nearly one hundred years ago.?
Obama's quip was true enough and certainly would have made points among high school sophmores. But he did not indicate clearly how he will deal with China, aside from talk about "pressure" and engagement. He batted aside concerns that China's ambitions are growing, just as the United States is becoming further indebted to that Asian country.
As a point of fact, bayonets and horses, as well as swords, still form a compliment in the American panoply. Horses draw the caissons bearing the mortal remains of American service personnel to their final rest at Arlington Cemetery. The infantry guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier still wield bayonets along with their rifles. Some soldiers and marines still receive training in the use of the bayonet as part of their martial arts. Bayonets are featured as part of the the 'Warrior's Cross' that plays a part in tributes to fallen soldiers and marines. Swords are still part of the inventory of arms in the Navy, for instance, and are found displayed in the ward rooms of various warships.
Obama's dismissiveness may have won some points with his followers, and he still might pull off this election. But Obama should bear in mind that witty remarks such as his are lost in a world increasingly violent and unpredictable. Unfortunately, his words will not be as persuasive with China - or Iran - as the point of a bayonet.
The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author only, not of Spero News.
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - From the Broadway stage to the run for the White House, the Mormon religion is in the spotlight, and a local ward has seized the opportunity among the public interest.
The Altoona Ward Meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located at 778 Brush Mountain Road held an open house for the public Tuesday evening.
Bishop Jere Cross estimated about 50 people showed up within the first half hour of the open house.
Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
Kevin Brady (right)?of Hollidaysburg, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explains his faith to Anna Marie and Joe Rodkey of Altoona during an open house at the church?s Brush Mountain Road meetinghouse.
Cross said a kind of "Mormon moment" is taking place with the musical, "The Book of Mormon," and Mitt Romney, who is Mormon, running for the presidency.
They wanted to answer questions for people, he said.
Mormons believe in religious freedom and are politically neutral, Cross said. They do not endorse nor oppose Romney, he said.
But that doesn't stop outsiders from associating the religion with the presidential hopeful.
Gary Neuder, who is doing missionary work at the local ward, said someone came up to him and spoke of Romney's honesty. Another person, after noticing a nameplate Neuder was wearing, said, "I want you to know we're praying for him."
Joe and Anna Marie Rodkey of Altoona came to the open house to learn more about the religion of the man they are supporting for president, Joe said.
They had heard, among others, about the cult-like references concerning the religion.
Kendal M. Sheets, who co-wrote the book, "Book of Mormon, Book of Lies," said in an email that the Mormon church has a history of racism, sexism and homophobia. He said Romney needs to address those issues and others.
"It's time for Romney to answer to his faith," he said. "The American people deserve to know where he stands."
Sheets said women cannot join the Mormon priesthood, and that, while President Obama has been clear on where he stands with women, he thinks Romney has not.
Throughout the Hollidaysburg church's hallways hung messages addressing such topics as polygamy, which Cross said hasn't been practiced in 130 years and for which members can be ex-communicated.
The church is not sexist, Cross said. Although they cannot become ordained in priesthood, women serve in leadership roles, as missionaries, teachers and preach from the pulpit.
"We walk side by side with women," Cross said. "We're equal."
Women and men do separate after services and school on Sundays. Women go to the Relief Society, the oldest and largest women's organization worldwide with 5.2 million members in 179 countries today. They learn homemaking skills such as baking bread and canning. Men can go to priesthood training starting at the age of 12. Cross and another woman said it was about self-reliance, and whoever wanted to learn was welcome.
Cross said it would be OK if a man wanted to go to Relief Society and the woman the priesthood training, but no one has ever asked to do so.
Mormons believe marriage is a sacrament between a man and a woman, Cross said. But they also believe everyone "should be treated with respect and dignity," a sign said.
They do not believe in pre-marital sex between any of the sexes, he said.
"We don't look down on people who are homosexuals. We know it's a real challenge for them," Cross said. "We believe it's a tendency that shouldn't be acted on."
Sheets said Mormons have a history of large contributions to campaigns against gay marriage, like Proposition 8 in California.
"For a church that claims to be politically neutral, that's a lot of money in clear support of a political issue," Sheets said. "It's another classic case of the LDS Church claiming one thing while doing the exact opposite."
They also deny the accusation of racism within the church.
Cross said 35 years ago the practice of not ordaining African American men ended, and all men were then able to go into the priesthood. It wasn't clear how such a practice got started, he said.
Sheets said church leaders "have remained largely mum on the issue," and it is only a guess as to whether sections of the Book of Mormon referring to "blackness" and black skin in a negative manner led to the church's earlier ban.
The church is "completely against any type of racism or segregation," Cross said. "Everybody's equal."
Mirror Staff Writer Amanda Gabeletto is at 949-7030.
Source: http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/565375.html
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Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics), will be embarking on more in-depth Research and Development (R&D) activities in Smart Utilities solutions and technologies with the support of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB).? ST Electronics has over the past few years, offered its innovative Smart Utilities products, solutions and services to large cities to help them address urbanisation, sustainability and environmental challenges. This announcement is made in conjunction with the Singapore International Energy Week 2012.
Through this R&D initiative, ST Electronics will enhance its Smart Utilities solutions and applications to benefit the development of large sustainable cities.? ST Electronics will tap EDB?s broad network of related industry knowledge, and extend its existing competencies in Smart Utilities to offer a more comprehensive suite of integrated smart utilities solutions to help build more efficient, clean and safe cities.
The Smart Utilities R&D will focus on enhancing smart resource management, distribution and consumption management of utilities (electricity, water and gas). This includes the provision of robust and converged multi-utility network infrastructure to facilitate integrated electricity, water and gas management.? This solution capitalises on ST Electronics? advanced communications technologies, comprehensive security suite and a highly flexible and scalable network management system to address different deployment scenarios.
Apart from supply and demand management, the ST Electronics? Smart Utilities suite will support timely and reliable information collection and facilitate a higher level of competition in the utility retail market that will eventually lead to increased operational efficiency, utility resource optimisation and cost savings for utilities service providers/retailers.
No stranger in the Smart Utilities arena, ST Electronics participated in Singapore?s Energy Market Authority?s Intelligent Energy System (IES) pilot project. ST Electronics is designing and implementing the critical infrastructure to enable smart grid applications for Phase 1 of the IES pilot project.? The company is also developing and implementing important segments of an Intelligent Water Management System (IWMS) in Singapore. The IWMS will visually display critical information including the location of water incidents such as damaged or leaking pipes. Response teams can quickly be despatched and provided with accurate information and route guidance.
ST Electronics has also delivered more than four million automatic meter readers in North America, Europe and India.? It has recently been awarded a major contract by Arad Technologies Ltd, a world leading supplier of smart water meters, to supply Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) radio transceivers to be deployed with Arad?s AMR solutions in China, Europe, India and the US markets.
?We are pleased that ST Electronics is making a strategic move into Smart Utilities as a new growth frontier. This fast-growing sector will help further diversify Singapore?s clean technology industry into smart grids and energy management. Through the close partnership with our government agencies, this R&D centre is aligned with Singapore?s position as a ?Living Laboratory? where companies can develop, test, prove and commercialise innovative green solutions for global and Asian markets.?
~ YEOH Keat Chuan,
Managing Director, Singapore Economic Development Board
?Large cities will be a joy to live in provided they are safe, clean and efficient.? Our Smart Utilities systems will allow city planners to improve operational efficiencies through better management of water, electricity and gas distribution.? We are excited by what technology could offer and we look forward to close partnership with EDB and research institutions to enhance our value proposition.?
~ LEE Fook Sun,
President, ST Electronics
ST Electronics (Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited), the electronics arm of public listed? ST Engineering, delivers innovative system solutions to government, commercial, defence, and industrial customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 20 countries, ST Electronics markets its solutions to more than 100 countries internationally. It specialises in the design, development and integration of advanced electronics and communications systems, such as broadband radio frequency and satellite communication, e-Government solutions, information communications technologies and IT, rail and traffic management, real-time command and control, modelling and simulation, interactive digital media, intelligent building management and information security. Please visit www.stee.stengg.com.
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My little university community service project for this fall is working with a staff member at my university to compile a comprehensive reference document for graduate students preparing to file their taxes. ?The purpose is to help graduate students make sense of the tax-related forms they receive (or don?t receive!) ? with lots of quotes and links to the IRS website ? so they can correctly figure out their school-related taxable incomes and deductions/credits. ?For those of you who have never received fellowship income, you might not realize how confusing this can be!
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The challenge regarding this situation is that the university staff members are strictly prohibited from giving tax advice. ?That means the people who know the most about graduate student compensation have had their hands tied with regard to helping students even when they come to them for with very specific questions ? and professional tax preparers, it seems, are almost universally untrained to deal with the unique tax situation of graduate students.
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Through these conversations, I have noted four?lies that I anecdotally know some graduate students have been told by their classmates and tax preparers. ?Unfortunately, for this document we are creating we cannot make direct statements to counter these lies. ?But as this blog is unconnected with my university (and if you haven?t figured it out, I?m not a professional and you shouldn?t trust me!) so I?m going to make those statements! ?I?m very curious to hear if any of you have directly encountered a situation wherein one of these was not true (and you?re sure the filer was correct).
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1. ?You don?t have to pay income taxes. / Your income isn?t taxable. / If nothing was withheld, you don?t owe any taxes.
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If you?re paid a stipend that you?re free to use for your living expenses and such, it is taxable! ?I?m not talking about fellowship that pay tuition or anything like that, I?m talking about money that you don?t have to use for qualified tuition and fees. ?Your income may be so low that you don?t owe taxes, but you still need to file. ?Not every income type will be reported to the IRS by your university ? just because they don?t report doesn?t mean you don?t have to! ?And you may or may not have any automatically taxes withheld for you during the year, but all that means is that you have to file quarterly estimated taxes, not that you can get out of paying.
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2. ?You received a 1099; that means you are self-employed.
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Your employer is your university ? you are not self-employed! ?(Well, okay, you might be self-employed as well, but that?s aside from your role as a graduate student.) ?Being paid with a 1099-MISC looks like contractor income for self-employed individuals (box 7), but a lesser-known usage of the form is for fellowship and scholarship income (box 3).
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3. ?You can deduct tuition if you receive a statement about it from your university, even if you didn?t actually pay it.
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Even if your 1098-T or some other letter makes it seem that you paid tuition, you can?t ignore the reality that the university paid it on your behalf (if that?s the case). ?If you didn?t actually pay it, you can?t take it as a deduction! ?The goal is to have your 1040 accurately reflect your taxable income, not to lower your tax burden by making it look like you paid your own tuition.
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4. You don?t owe any taxes because you didn?t receive any official tax forms.
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It rather makes sense that if you don?t receive any IRS forms reporting your income ? and particularly if it hasn?t been reported to the IRS ? that you are absolved of your responsibility of paying taxes ? not so! ?I mean, just keep in mind whether you were paid (above tuition and fees) or not, you know? ?I know of two tax situations wherein a student at my university would be paid taxable income yet not receive any official-looking forms by my university. ?1) If a student is paid through her Bursar account and the amount exceeds the qualified tuition and fees, she will not receive a 1098-T documenting this and yet does need to file/pay taxes, so she needs to check the transactions in her Bursar account to calculate her taxable income. ?2) If a student has fellowship income and does not have taxes withheld, he will receive a ?courtesy letter? from our university in January instead of a 1099-MISC and that?s what he has to use to calculate his taxable income. ?Your university may handle these situations differently.
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Can you contradict any of the above ?lies?? ?(Correct me before I get further along in this project!) ?Why do you think there is so much misinformation floating around concerning graduate student taxes? ?What are the names of the tax forms you have received as a graduate student (mine are 1099-MISC and W-2)? ?Have you ever received a courtesy letter and in what situation?
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Source: http://evolvingpf.com/2012/10/tax-lies-told-to-graduate-students/
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The nature of the internal combustion engine is harnessing the power of thousands of small, controlled explosions. Alas, most of the energy created is wasted as heat, but a new rotary engine design can almost double the thermal efficiency of almost any kind of fuel while requiring fewer moving parts for a light, powerful, and simple engine design.
Called the X2 High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle engine, it is being developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy?LiquidPiston as a project aimed at making a more efficient combustion engine. Right now, most combustion engines can only achieve between 30 and 40% efficiency, which a majority of the energy created becoming waste heat. Today?s engines also have more valves, camshafts, and other complicated moving parts that make them heavy and costly to build.
The X2 HEHC engine combines the benefits of the four different kinds of combustion engines. The X2 has a high-compression ratio like diesel engines, the constant volume combustion of Otto cycle engines, the over-expansion to atmospheric pressure ala Atkinson cycle engines (commonly used in hybrids) and the internal cooling system using air or water of Rankine cycle engines.
What researchers have come up with is an engine that is quieter than current motors, delivers up to 58% thermal efficiency, and an extremely lightweight design that makes around 2 horsepower per 1 lb. of engine weight. Combined with fewer moving parts, it makes for a simple-yet-effective engine design that could lead to big fuel economy gains.
Researchers the world over are looking at new engine designs, from opposed-piston to wave disks to super steam engines. But none have tried to combine the benefits of the four different engine cycles into a single working unit. It?s a bold idea to be sure, one that would offer the world a cheap, lightweight engine that can run a multitude of different fuels.
There is currently a working prototype-grade version of the X2 engine, and researchers believe that they could get as much as 74% thermal efficiency from this engine design. This could triple the fuel economy of even the most efficient cars on today?s market. Imagine what that would do to oil prices and the automotive market. Sounds promising, but the X2 is still a long ways out. Will it ever move beyond the lab?
Source: Green Car Congress
Source: http://gas2.org/2012/10/22/x2-hehc-rotary-engine-can-run-multiple-fuels-requires-no-cooling/
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Pippa Middleton speaks!
The typically tight-lipped party planner, 29, recently chatted with the U.K.'s Mail on Sunday to promote her new book, Celebrate. Pippa also opened up about being thrust into the spotlight after her sister, Kate Middleton, 30, married Prince William, 30, in April 2011.
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"It is a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom," Pippa said. "One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside."
Pippa added, "I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of ? but in most ways I'm a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. I am by nature an optimist so I tend to concentrate on the advantages. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish Celebrate."
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The triathlete hopes her book will give the public an inside look into who she is and what she does for a living. "I know many of you will pick up the book out of nothing more than curiosity," she writes in Celebrate. "I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself."
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"This is my first chance to do that and I've enjoyed every minute of it," she writes. "The book is designed to be a comprehensive guide to home entertaining, based on my experience in my family's business Party Pieces and work for London-based events company Table Talk."
The Mail on Sunday is running 24 pages of excerpts from Celebrate in its You magazine. Further excerpts will appear in next week's issue.
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2012) ? Individual worker behaviour and colony success are both affected when bees are exposed to a combination of pesticides, according to research conducted by Dr Richard Gill and Dr Nigel Raine at Royal Holloway, University of London.
This research, published in Nature, investigated social bumblebee colonies which rely on the collective performance of numerous individual worker bees. It showed that chronic exposure to two commonly-used pesticides (a neonicotinoid and a pyrethroid), at concentrations approximating field-level exposure, impaired natural foraging behaviour and increased worker mortality. This led to significant reductions in colony success, and increased rates of colony failure.
Bees are typically exposed to numerous pesticides when collecting pollen and nectar from crops, and this is the first study to examine the potential effects of exposure to a combination of pesticides under realistic field conditions.
While recent studies have investigated the role of pesticides on either individual bee behaviours, or the impact on whole colonies, how changes to individual behaviour could have knock-on effects for the colony has not previously been shown.
Dr Raine said: "There is an urgent need to understand the reasons behind current bee declines as they are essential pollinators of many agricultural crops and wild flowers. We rely on these insects to produce most of the food we eat and maintain the landscapes we enjoy."
"Previous studies investigating the possible role of pesticides in current bee declines have focused on honeybees, but it is also crucial that we understand how pesticides affect other bee species," added Dr Gill.
This study mimicked realistic scenarios in which 40 early stage bumblebee colonies received four-week exposure to two pesticides that are frequently encountered when foraging on flowering crops: the neonicotinoid 'Imidacloprid' and the pyrethroid '?-cyhalothrin'.
Imidacloprid was provided in a sucrose solution at levels that could be found in nectar and ?-cyhalothrin was administered following label guidance for field spray applications. Bees were able to forage in the field providing a realistic behavioural setting, and the foraging behaviour of individual workers was recorded using radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging technology.
The researchers found that bees exposed to imidacloprid were less able to forage effectively, particularly when it came to collecting pollen. This meant treated colonies had less food available to them, so could not raise as many new workers. On average, the percentage of workers leaving the colony and then getting lost was 55% higher in those receiving imidacloprid than those that were not exposed to pesticides. The results of this study also indicate that combinatorial exposure to pesticides increases the tendency of bee colonies to fail.
Dr Gill commented that: "The novelty of this study is that we show how the sublethal effects of pesticide exposure affects individual bee behaviour with serious knock-on consequences for the performance of the colony as a whole."
Dr Raine added: "Policymakers need to consider the evidence and work together with regulatory bodies to minimize the risk to all bees caused by pesticides, not just honeybees. Currently pesticide usage is approved based on tests looking at single pesticides. However, our evidence shows that the risk of exposure to multiple pesticides needs to be considered, as this can seriously affect colony success."
The Insect Pollinators Initiative is joint-funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Defra, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust. It is managed under the auspices of the Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) partnership.
Professor Douglas Kell, Chief Executive of BBSRC, said: "Bumblebees play an important role in pollination, working earlier in the morning and later into the evening than many bees. Understanding the threats to all insect pollinators is vital if we are to ensure we mitigate the impact of their decline on the production of agricultural and horticultural crops. The results of this study contribute to a wider initiative to help inform strategies for securing the futures of all insect pollinators."
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It?s a weird position to be in. And in India it?s almost like a joke because people instantly quote two names to get their points across ? Khalid Mohamed and Samar Khan. Remember how Subhash Ghai reviewed Fiza? The precedent is bad but who said that we can?t change the future. So what happens when a film reviewer changes track and moves to the opposite side? Over to Pratim D Gupta, who has been reviewing films for The Telegraph for last few years and has now made his directorial debut with a bengali film titled Paanch Adhyay which has just released. The film stars Priyanshu Chatterjee, Dia Mirza and Soumitra Chatterjee.
This is so damn difficult to write. I have been staring at this empty word file on my Macbook screen for the last couple of hours. That?s like the time I usually take to write my film reviews every Friday.
Any more time and that page wouldn?t reach you the next day. But then every Friday I am your man at the movies. For this Friday, I am the man behind your movie. Perhaps the only way I can put this together is if I tell you about Paanch Adhyay in five chapters.
Chapter 1: The write of passage?
It was always all about cinema waala love. From Uttam Kumar?s cigarette smoke swirl in Nayak to Sanjay Dutt?s eyepatch in Khalnayak, from James Bond?s black tuxedo in every film to Govinda?s yellow pants in every film, I chewed and chomped anything that spelt cinema. So the three-figure JEE rank was dunked and I got into film studies. Soon the Rays and Ratnams had company in Kurosawa and Kieslowski, Tarkovsky and Tarantino.
The world was passing by at 24 frames per second. I had to jump cut. I chose to write myself into the script.
Watch movies, write about them, speak to the guys who make them and try and understand the craft a little more. So incredibly I was attending the best customised film school possible; where I could speak to A.R. Rahman about the core of his scores, discuss the finer nuances of acting with Irrfan Khan, debate shot lengths with Ashok Mehta or just discuss life in cinema and cinema in life with Farhan Akhtar.
One of my earliest on-set assignments was Pradeep Sarkar?s Parineeta shoot in Siliguri. And I remember the film?s leading man, who became Mr Bebo a couple of days back, telling me with a chuckle: ?Making a film is like waging a war.? I didn?t fully understand it then. No one knows it better than me now.
Chapter 2: The man who almost made a movie?
I started writing a script in mid-2008 because a filmmaker friend from here liked the idea and promised that he would get me funding for it.
The script happened, the promise wasn?t kept.
I took the script to other producers; everyone shooed me away. Since it was lying ready, I made an English version of it and sent it to international screenwriting competitions. It got selected as one of six scripts at the Locarno International Film Festival and went on to become the first Indian project at the Independent Film Week in New York.
Still no funding came through.
Next a Mumbai-based producer committed to fund the film at Film Bazaar in Goa and even got a French co-producer. I happily got a cast and crew together ? the very best talent from here in Calcutta. The pre-production started and locations were scouted. And then the man from Mumbai stopped taking my calls and replying to my mails. When I bumped into him at a social do, he promptly fled from the party.
I actually started believing that I would be remembered (laughed at, really) as that guy who came closest to making a movie but could never make one. You know how artistes love romancing the pain. The pleasure of putting your head down on a wet pillow every night.
Chapter 3: Traces of treason?
Of course at that same time there was something equally terrible happening on the personal front. Everything was shutting down around me. I thought to myself the only way out of this is to write a new script. Yes another very romantic way of looking at things ? you got to do what you can do. A batsman has to bat his way back to form; a writer has to write.
That?s how Paanch Adhyay was born. It was called Resh then. Resh as in traces? traces of a relationship. I wanted to narrate what I was going through with a what-could-have-happened twist to the tale. I wanted to tell a love story like a thriller. And because I wanted to go berserk with the structure, I wanted to keep the story simple. Very, very simple.
I slit my veins onto the script. This time I was not writing to get the film made; I was writing to get a move on in life. Writing Resh felt gratifyingly cathartic. I finished the first draft and there it stayed saved in a folder on my lappie. It?s job was done. Or so I thought.
Chapter 4: Moment by moment?
I knew of Kaustuv Roy as a man who threw big parties even though I had never attended one. He called me one fine evening ? I still remember I was in a taxi and passing by Park Street ? and said: ?I have heard about your scripts; why don?t you come and narrate me one?? Honestly, I was tired and I really didn?t want to go through that whole reading-your-heart-out-to-blank-faces ordeal one more time. I told him I would come over one day and forgot about it.
But I kept bumping into him and he kept pestering me about a narration. Just to get him off my back, I took a printout of the 60-odd pages of Resh and went and read it out in his freezing, smoke-filled office. I couldn?t wait to run out of that cold chimney when he said he was producing the film and calling it Paanch Adhyay after the five chapters the film was split into.
Eleven drafts, three Mumbai trips, four months later I embarked upon what has been the bestest year of my life. Composing the songs, shooting the film, editing it, dubbing it, re-editing it, scoring it, re-re-editing it, grading it, mixing it? every moment has been a blessing.
Watching Shantanuda (Moitra) walk out of the room and come back with the most moving piece of melody, watching Dia (Mirza) howl incessantly in the dubbing room to match the mood of the moment, watching Arghyada (Arghyakamal Mitra) slip in a prolonged shot of silence to create the most heartbreaking of effects?. The endless wait up till the Paanch Adhyay experience has all been worth it.
Chapter 5: A new chapter?
?You have not been nice to so many films and filmmakers; get ready to face the music!? Now, that has been the most ?critical? concern from my friends, colleagues and well-wishers. Ironically in our jobs, we are remembered more for the gaali reviews than the glowing reviews.
Well, can I share a secret? From the moment those lights go off at the theatres, nothing else matters. It?s just you and the film. Hype, reputation, personal fondness, fanboyhood? everything?s dug deep into the popcorn tub. You know it when you like a film; you know it when you don?t. And you got to be honest about it. That?s all I have been. Always.
There?s a line Dia?s Ishita tells Priyanshu?s Arindam, who plays a filmmaker in Paanch Adhyay, in the film: ?That you have been able to make the film the way you wanted to make it, isn?t that enough?? It?s enough for me. It?s enough for me that I could make this film the way I wanted to make it. With my friends, with like-minded artistes and technicians, with heart and soul. Nobody can take away that experience from me. Of course, you can take a happy song and make it better. Because by the time you are reading this, my baby has crawled out to a theatre near you.
Hope you enjoy the show. Pam param pam!
- This piece first appeared in The Telegraph.
- To know more about the film, click here for its Facebook page. And click here to watch its trailers and songs.
- The film will also have its screening at the ongoing Mumbai Film Festival on 23rd October. Venue ? INOX, Time ? 6pm.
- The makers of the film are also having an interesting contest called ?Review The Critic?. Deatils in the pic and on its FB page.
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Rhino vs. Michael Elgin?
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??????? Monday is the live Raw in East Rutherford, NJ.? Kane vs. Big Show and Sin Cara & Rey Mysterio vs. Damien Sandow & Cody Rhodes are scheduled for TV, and dark matches are Sheamus vs. Big Show last man standing and Ryback vs. C.M. Punk in a lumberjack match.
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??????? Tuesday is the Smackdown, Main Event and Saturday Morning Slam tapings in Providence, RI.? Ryback vs. Dolph Ziggler has already been announced for this show.
??????? Tonight in Fuel has Ultimate Fighter at 7 p.m., Best of Pride at 8 p.m., Unleashed at 9 p.m. and UFC 135 at 10 p.m., followed by the first Cain Velasquez vs. Junior Dos?Santos fight, all of a one minute, at 1 a.m.? All times are Eastern, three hours earlier on the West Coast.??
??????? A look at the hottest new star in pro wrestling, Ryan "Ryback" Reeves, is the lead story in one of two issues of the Observer out this week.? There are two issues on the web site and a double issue in the mail this week of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.? Both issues?should be up on the site today along with a back issue from 1995.
??????? We look at the rise of Ryback, what the original plan was for Hell in a Cell, how it changed, the updated medical report on John Cena, and how everything went down leading to new Hell in a Cell main event.? We look at how the company is getting the match ready, as well as how the popularity of Ryback flies in the face of what everyone in wrestling tries to brainwash wrestles into believing.? We also look at how WWE's theme PPV concept backfired with this show, and look at a variety of finishes and scenarios.
??????? We look at the Cena vs. Ryback matches so far, business, the background of Reeves, Tough Enough, his years i developmental, days as Skip Sheffield and the Hell in a Cell show.
??????? We also have a look at Hector Garza's battle with lung cancer.? We look at his background and how he was a wrestler who has been a major star for two decades, but in reality, missed out on his potential for a number of reasons.? We look at his run in WCW and TNA, his brief experience in WWF, and his role in Mexico.
??????? Plus, we've got everything on the Hulk Hogan lawsuits, sex tape, police reports, Bubba the Love Sponge, Howard Stern, what is full of shit, why Hogan may not fare well in court even if he's in the right, and what things don't add up at all.
??????? We look at Bubba the Love Sponge's tirade against him, and an interesting note about his divorce.
??????? We also look at the decision to put Jon Jones vs Chael Sonnen as the coaches for Ultimate Fighter and as the next light heavyweight title match.? We look at the dynamics involved that led to the decisions being made.
??????? We also have full coverage of TNA's Bound for Glory, the decision to make Jeff Hardy champion, when they company made the call on Devon, what terrible segment on Impact wasn't in the script, , business notes on the show, booking, poll results and star ratings for all of the matches.
??????? We also have a look at UFC 153, the build of Bonnar vs Silva, highlights from the show and match-by-match coverage with poll results.
??????? We also look at Ring of Honor's changes with Hunter Johnston taking over as booker from Jim Cornette, the problems going into Final Battle, the top matches at Final Battle, business notes from the show and match-by-match coverage with star ratings.
??????? We also have an update on C.M. Punk and the incident with the fan in Sacramento, More on Punk vs. Austin after the release of their video shot in August, latest on Mania plans, notes on the upcoming video game, WWE promoting the Rolling Stones and background of it, and latest polls on the Linda McMahon senate race.? We also look at what McMahon said last week that drew heavy criticism and her response to it.
??????? We also look at a new WWE promotional slogan, Jerry Lawler's return in Memphis, WWE reaching a settlement regarding paying millions in state taxes and backgrounds on two new announcing hires.? We also look at a new WWE video release, a former WWE employee says why Linda McMahon shouldn't be senator, Paul Heyman's road schedule, JBL has to apologize to Carlos Colon, and the latest announcing changes.
??????? We also have a ton of developmental notes, NXT tapings, El Hijo del Santo talks why?he never went back to WWE, Christmas WWE television schedule, Raw delayed viewership, Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels event planned for Mania week, what wrestler nearly got into a fist fight with John Laurinaitis, plus business notes from the last week and coverage of the weekend house shows.
??????? We also look at more business notes from this year's WrestleMania, including the tourism effect and notes on how many locals attended the show.
??????? We also look at the death of Alex Karras, the former NFL and television star who was a pro wrestler for a few years.? In particular, we look at the famous feud with Karras vs. Dick the Bruiser and a pro wrestling match and an incident beforehand that got national publicity in the 60s and is a part of Detroit sports folklore.
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Also in this week's issue:
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--The annual tournament in Mexico honoring Blue Demon
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--Japanese title changes hands in Mexico
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--The longest reigning champion in pro wrestling history retains once again with a storyline finish that dates back to a match in 1975
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--Why RVD's X Division title win was a late decision
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--Former WCW wrestler about to return to Mexico
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--Japanese title matches in Mexico last week and this coming week
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--A battle with two father-and-son teams with legendary fathers and newcomer sons going at it
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--Upcoming Dragon Gate USA matches
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--Hall of Fame candidate this year needs major surgery that will put him out for a long time.
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--Feedback from the last New Japan iPPV show
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--How iPPV is so different in Japan than the U.S.
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--A unique concept tournament New Japan is doing next month
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--Main event for Inoki's New Year's Eve show announced
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--A look at Inoki's last show featuring a current Zuffa fighter
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--Taka Michinoku's 20th anniversary show
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--Tajiri's promotion does tournament for the title
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--U.S. indie star wins Japanese world title
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--Update on Bobby Eaton
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--Full details on Tammy Sytch's latest arrests
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--Vader/Harley Race notes
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--Update on Lance Russell
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--What historical stuff Lance Russell recently found
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--Guilty plea involving the murder of a 90s wrestler
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--U.S. Olympic team member makes pro wrestling debut this week
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--Linda Hogan reality show role
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--Jerry Lynn's U.K. retirement
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--Former WCW and WWF wrestler sentenced to probation in steroid case
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--A look at former WCW wrestler who after leaving won 22 straight boxing matches, all by knockout
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--A look at the death of the former Stan Vachon and Stan Pulaski
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--Arrest of a former 90s WWF wrestler whose debut match was against Edge
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--Update on the Extreme Rising promotion
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--A look at the TNA Hall of Fame ceremony
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--Funny notes about Sting's interest in wrestling growing up
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--Update on TNA lawsuit
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--Notes on? Bound for Glory at theaters
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--Sting talks Undertaker match
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--Notes on the latest Strikeforce cancellation and what it means
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--Reaction from fighters
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--Future of Strikeforce
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--FX vs. Spike in 2013
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--Advance ticket sales for upcoming UFC events
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--Update on Jeremy Stephens
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--Rashad Evans talks future
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--Anderson Silva hits milestone
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--Notes on UFC future business changes
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--A look at Roy Nelson's grandstand play to embarrass Shane Carwin
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--Notes on the Jake Shields suspension
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--UFC payoffs for the Minnesota show
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--UFC Fighter career in jeopardy
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--All-time UFC legend hasn't announced retirement, but figures he's retied
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--Notes on cutting DaMarques Johnson
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--New UFC fights
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*November 17, 1997 (full details of everything leading to the most famous wrestling match finish of modern times at the Survivor Series plus a history of in-ring double-crosses)
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*December 21, 1998 (the complete Vince McMahon-Bret Hart conversation right before the Survivor Series match so you'll know exactly what was said--the conversation played in edited form both on the inaugural broadcast of Confidential as well as in Wrestling with Shadows, but everything that was said between the two about the match that was going to take place that same night)
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*August 1, 1994 (the most detailed coverage anywhere of the Vince McMahon steroid trial, an issue praised in numerous newspaper article and Sex, Lies and Headlocks)
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*March 26, 2001 (death of WCW and history of pro wrestling on the Turner networks)
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*October 22, 2001 (why the adult audience has left pro wrestling in such great numbers and what needed to have been done to save them)
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*July 8, 1991 (Ric Flair leaves WCW as world champion/Zahorian steroid trial)
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*February 8, 1993 (the life and times of Andre the Giant)
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*May 13, 2002 (the life story of the most incredible pro wrestling career ever, a look at Lou Thesz, in one of the largest issues of our
history)
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*January 27, 2003 (part one of the two-part series covering the career and life of The Sheik)
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*February 3, 2003 (Part two on The Sheik including thoughts from people who worked with him and where he stands historically)
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*March 24, 2003 (history of the WWWF title, inside behind the Sammartino, Backlund and Backlund era)
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*April 21, 2003 (history of WWF continues with the expansion nationally, the death of the regional territories and the rise of Hulk Hogan)
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*May 12, 2003 (The life and death of Elizabeth and the rise of fall of Lex Luger)
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*June 9, 2003 (Part 1 of history of WWF vs. WCW wars and what many say was the greatest year in U.S. wrestling; plus a look at Fred Blassie)
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*June 16, 2003 (Freddie Blassie through the eyes of his biggest rivals and friends)
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*July 28, 2003 (Part 2 of the history of the WWF vs. WCW war and the plans to make new superstars in the early 90s, what happened, and the night where the three biggest wrestling companies in the world combined for a joint show and what happened)
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*August 25, 2003 (2003 Hall of Fame issue with huge profiles on the controversial career of Shawn Michaels, Chris Benoit as well as historical features on Earl Caddock and Francisco Flores)
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*September 22, 2003 (Part 3 of the history of the WWF vs WCW war with the seeds that caused the collapse of the industry in the 90s, Zahorian trial, Gulf War controversy, Flair leaves WCW while holding world title and much more)
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*October 27, 2003 (The fascinating life of Stu Hart plus the story of Road Warrior Hawk)
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*January 19, 2004 (2003 Awards issue)
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*February 2, 2004 (History of Toronto wrestling, Jack Tunney life story, Royal Rumble and Battle Royal history)
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*February 23, 2004 (History of Guerrero family with Eddy's win over Brock Lesnar)
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*March 1, 2004 (History of WWF continues with the period that brought the company down in early 1992, the mistakes, the real stories and how the business changed)
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*March 8, 2004 (History of Wrestlemania, its greatest matches and best and worst shows as voted both by wrestlers and non-wrestlers and Wrestlemania history books)
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*July 5, 2004 (A look behind the scenes and Ric Flair's book and his background with Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan)
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*July 12, 2004 (A look at more on Ric Flair's book and his comments on Bruno Sammartino, Bret Hart and Mick Foley)
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*August 16, 2004 (History of the Olympians in pro wrestling)
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*August 23, 2004 (2004 Hall of Fame issue and biggest issue of the year with huge profiles on Kazushi Sakuraba, Undertaker, Bob Backlund, Masahiro Chono, Ultimo Dragon, Kurt Angle and Tarzan Lopez--this counts as one issue if you are asking for a free issue, but ordered separately, due to size, is $6 in North America and $7 overseas)
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*October 4, 2004 (the life and times of Big Bossman; as well as details of the life and times of one of the most influential men world wide in pro wrestling history, Jim Barnett)
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*November 15, 2004 (the full story of what happened between Kurt Angle and Daniel Puder, plus coverage of the most important week in the history of TNA)
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*January 24, 2005 (2004 Awards issue, Rock and WWE part company)
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*March 14, 2005 (the 50 biggest money players in the history of WWF and a look at their Hall of Fame)
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*May 9, 2005 (the life and times of Chris Candido)
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*June 20, 2005 (The full story behind Paul Heyman and the death of ECW, as well as coverage of One Night Stand, Hardcore Homecoming and behind the scenes of both shows)
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*July 18, 2005 (death of Shinya Hashimoto and his records with a look at the fall of New Japan, the Matt Hardy angle, tons of WWE firings, Cornette firing in detail as well as problems of a WWE developmental territory in our biggest news issue of the year which is a double-sized issue and would be $6 on its own and $7 overseas)
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*August 24, 2005 (2005 Hall of Fame issue with career profiles of Paul Heyman, HHH and Freebirds plus debut of MMA Hall of Fame)
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*September 12, 2005 (History of Mid South Wrestling)
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*October 10, 2005 (Life and Times of the Ultimate Warrior)
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*November 21, 2005 (Life and Times of Eddy Guerrero and Crusher, double issue $6 on its own and $7 overseas)
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*December 5, 2005 (The Eddy Guerrero special issue, double issue $6 on its own, $7 overseas)
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*January 9, 2006 (The life and times of Superstar Billy Graham, plus New Year's Eve 2005 coverage)
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*January 16, 2006 (2005 Awards double issue, $6 or $7 overseas)
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*April 3, 2006 (Story of Ann Calvello and the history of Roller Derby--many called this the best issue of the Observer ever)
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*April 10, 2006 (Behind the scenes at the 2006 Wrestlemania/Hall of Fame week)
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*July 24, 2006 (The History of the Von Erichs and World Class Championship Wrestling--the most unreal story ever in wrestling)
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*September 4, 2006 (The Rise and Fall of Kurt Angle; 2006 Hall of Fame inductions of Eddie Guerrero, Paul Bowser, Masakatsu Funaki, Aja Kong and Hiroshi Hase including tons of wrestling history around the world from the 20s through the 60s, the evolution of working to not working in Japan, and a look at Guerrero in hindsight, double issue $6 or $7 overseas)
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*October 9, 2006 (A look back nine years later at the life and legacy of Brian Pillman with tons of inside information about what made him tick as his real objectives)
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*November 15, 2006 (History of WCW part one, Eric Bischoff's book and how the industry was changed forever)
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*November 20, 2006 (History of WCW part two, Why Jim Ross left WCW, How Bischoff changed the company, signing of Hulk Hogan, Beginning of Nitro, Jesse Ventura, Brian Pillman, Chris Jericho and signing Wrestlemania planned celebrity away)
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*November 27, 2006 (History of WCW part three, When Bischoff challenged McMahon to fight; Truth and fiction around Bret Hart signing with WCW and why it didn't click)
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*December 6, 2006 (details behind Pride's offers to sell promotion and Part four of History of WCW part four, Hogan-Goldberg match and why there was no rematch, WCW loses NBC network deal in 1999 and the real reasons the company fell apart)
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*January 22, 2007 (2006 Awards issue, double issue $7 on its own, $8 overseas)
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*February 14, 2007 (Life and Times of Bam Bam Bigelow)
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*March 5, 2007 (WWE begins plans that will change the business)
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*March 12, 2007 (Life and Times of Mike Awesome)
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*March 19, 2007 (Life and Times of Ernie Ladd)
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*April 4, 2007 (Life and Times of Badnews Allen Coage--which many are calling one of the best issues in history)
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*July 2, 2007 (Part one of the Benoit double murder-suicide)
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*July 5, 2007 (Part two of the Benoit double murder-suicide)
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*July 10, 2007 (Part three of the Benoit double murder-suicide)
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*July 19, 2007 (Part four of the Benoit double murder-suicide)
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*July 23, 2007 (Part five of Benoit double murder-suicide)
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*July 25, 2007 (Part six of Benoit double murder-suicide)
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*August 15, 2007 (The legend of the God of Japanese wrestling and his influence on MMA, Karl Gotch)
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*November 12, 2007 (Life and times of Fabulous Moolah and history of U.S. women's wrestling) .
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*March 17, 2008 (Life and times of Johnny Weaver)
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*August 11, 2008 (Ric Flair leaves WWE; Updated history of pro wrestlers and MMA fighters who went to the Olympics)
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* September 8, 2008 (2008 Hall of Fame double issue, $7 on its own, $8 overseas; part one of Killer Kowalski bio)
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* September 15, 2008 (Life and Times of Evan Tanner)
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Saturday's news update
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--We've got a ton of stuff, discussion of Mike Graham, Strikeforce, Jones vs. Sonnen and more on Observer radio from a few hours ago up on the site.? This is a bonus unscheduled show.? Our regular weekend show will be tomorrow night.?
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--The USA Network will be airing three straight nights of WWE in December.? They will be airing Raw as usual, plus the 12/18 Smackdown show will not only air on Syfy on Friday but air live on USA on Tuesday from Pittsburgh.? Tribute to the Troops, a taped two-hour special, will air on Wednesday.? The network will heavily push it as WWE week.?
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--A Chris Jericho interview regarding his current status is at http://www.dailystar.co/uk/inthering/view/277728/Chris-Jericho-is-facing-the-music/??Jericho's band Fozzy will be touring the U.K. in November.?? They also have a February and March tour set for Australia.? He talks a little about his contract situation with WWE.? He could come back at any time but they are at an impasse because?he wants to work around outside projects and have the ability to take outside projects.??
--Despite stories to the contrary, John Layfield will not be announcing Raw on Monday.? Layfield will be doing Smackdown this coming week and Michael Cole & Jim Ross will be doing Raw.?
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--At the WWE house show in Trenton, NJ, last night, they did another C.M. Punk vs. Ryback main event. Ryback won via DQ for a belt shot in a lumberjack match?which saw Ryback take out several lumberjacks and give Punk the shellshock after the match.? Real depth issues when the next biggest matches are Kane & Daniel Bryan over Primo & Epico and Antonio Cesaro over Sin Cara.?
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--Brian Hoops noted that today is the 48th anniversary of Mad Dog Vachon beating Verne Gagne for the AWA world heavyweight title in Minneapolis at the Auditorium.? So that would be October 20, 1964.? Vachon traded the title with Crusher over the next two years before Gagne regained it on February 26, 1967, in St. Paul (thanks to Brian Hoops)???
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--Extreme Rising is pushing their 11/17 show in Philadelphia as the 15th anniversary of the 1997 November to Remember PPV.? The show will include a fan fest and is headlined by Shane Douglas, Sabu, Sandman, Matt Hardy, Homicide, Perry Saturn, New Jack, Devon Storm, FBI, Stevie Richards, C.,W. Anderson, Blue Meanie, Balls Mahoney and more.
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--Metro Pro Wrestling on 11/3 in Kansas City at the Turner Recreation Center?with a TV taping for Metro Sports.
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--Chris Cruise noted that in a WWE.com article on the strongest men in wrestling history, that Bruno Sammartino, on the list, they said was champion for 3,000 days when it was actually 4,040 days.
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--The Chicago Tribune had a mention of Lisa Marie Varon (Tara) opening up a pizza place in Chicago.? She plans to open in January or February at 2418 N. Ashland, which used to be the home of Leon's Ribs.? She previously owned Fat Tony's Pizza in Louisville about five years ago when she was living there.? Varon said that she will be at the restaurant several days per week, with artisanal brick oven pizzas, as well as house-blend burgers. (thanks to Jeremy Diemer)
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--Hulk Hogan on twitter when someone suggested getting out of the Impact Zone as it's killing the product he wrote, "Agreed, tell Dixie."
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WHO IS THE WWE'S MVP OF 2012
C.M. Punk 61.2%
Daniel Bryan 19.4%
The Rock 5.5%
Brock Lesnar 3.9%
John Cena 3.2%???????
Dolph Ziggler 2.3%
Sheamus 2.1%
Alberto Del Rio 1.6%
HHH 0.5%
Big Show 0.2%
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WHO IS TNA'S MVP OF 2012
Austin Aries 38.2%
Bully Ray 26.5%
Bobby Roode 17.4%
James Storm 5.2%
Kurt Angle 3.9%
A.J. Styles 2.9%
Jeff Hardy 2.9%
Hulk Hogan 2.3%
Sting 0.8%
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POLL ON MMA UNCENSORED
Excellent 13.3%
Good 30.0%
Average 30.0%
Fair 3.3%
Poor 23.3%
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POLL ON IMPACT
Excellent 8.8%
Good 22.5%
Average 27.5%
Fair 15.6%
Poor 25.6%
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--Superstar Billy Graham is doing paintings that he is selling on ebay these days.? He plans on putting a new one up every week.
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--After last night's Bellator tournament, the lightweight semifinals will take place on 11/16 in Kingston, RI at the Ryan Center with Rich Clementi vs. Marcin Held and Ricardo Tirloni vs. Dave Jansen.
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--UCSW from Thursday night in Callahan, FL:? Super Destroyer b Mike Reed, Jason the Giant b Gersom Sanchez & Jonathan Diaz & Kidd Hollywood, Jake Slater b Boss Hog Calhoun, Blain Rage?b Chico Adams, Santana Garrett b Josh Hess, Chasyn Rance b Brandon Schrerer (thanks to Al Haft)
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--Matt Hardy and Reby Sky headline for Pro Championship Wrestling tonight in Midlothian, IL (outside of Chicago) tonight at 14500 S. Kostner Ave.? Sonny Rogers, who used to appear on AWA TV in the 80s, will also be on the show.
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--The Glory 3 Rome Final 8 show will be airing on Fight Now TV on 11/3 at 3 p.m. Eastern time.? The show will also be available nationwide if you don't get the channel as a PPV for $19.95.? This is an eight-man one night 154 pound kickboxing tournament with Giogrio Petrosyan, Albert Kraus, Robin van Roosmalen, Shemsi Beqiri, Ky Hollenbeck, Tin Thomas, David Kiria and Sanny Dahlbeck.? The winner gets $300,000.? Petrosyan is some kinds of awesome as he's got a 71-1-2, with 1 no contest record and that's going into several tournaments with the best fighters in the world.
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--IWC?tonight in Elizabeth, PA at the Court Time Sports Center has Logan Shulo vs. Dalton Castle for the IWC title, Sami Callihan vs Rich Swann vs. Facade for the Super Indy title plus Zema Ion, Michael Tarver, John McChesney and Bobby Fish appear.
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--Shine iPPV from last night in Ybor City, FL:? Su Yung b Rhia O'Reilly, Brandi Wine b Kimberly (not Kim Page), Reby Sky b Kellie Skater, Rain b Chrstina Von Eerrie, Taylor Made & Allysin Kay b Davina Rose &? Shazza McKenzie, Mercedes Martinez b Santana Garrett, Jessicka Havok b Leva Bates, Saraya Knight b Jazz to retain the Shimmer title.? Next show is 11/16.?
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--NWA Texoma from last night in Sherman, TX:? Tim Storm b Byron Wilcott, Barbi Hayden b Bree Ann and Kyra Maya, Brent McKenzie b Steven Kirby, Carson b Andy Dalton, Dane Griffin & Armani b Michael Faith & Kahagas.? Next show is 11/2 with Raven.? (thanks to Rob Moore)
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Simmons appears at the BANG show tonight at the BANG Sound Stage in Ocala and will be getting an award for his career from Dory Funk Jr.? Funk Jr. and Wes Brisco will be wrestling tonight.
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--Tommy Rich, Doug Gilbert and Doink the Clown will appear at the HPW 14th anniversary show on 11/3 in Columbus, IN at the 4-H Fairgrounds.? Rich & Gilbert face Diceman Ronnie Vegas & T.J. Powers in the main event.
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--Gary Mehaffy at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is looking for contact details for Barry Horowitz and Bob Holly.
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--USWO from last night in Nashville:? Psycho Medic b Jon Davis-DQ, Josh Crow b Zack Hartnell, Big Time Sexy b TNT Mottley, Nick Iggy & Shawn Hoodrich b Kerry Awful & Chris Norte, Shane Williams b Sigmon, Damien Payne b Michael Steele (thanks to Jimmie Daniel)
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Wow, what a brand platform! First, Republican candidate Romney pronounces 47% of us as not taking responsibility for ourselves, and then his running mate Ryan says 30% of us are ?takers? not ?makers.?
Who is the angry candidate? Who seems foreign to America?
The current Republican brand ? or at least the brand that?s pounding ads in swing states, is targeted to a very narrow slice of their own party. The ads are very anti-social, anti-equality, anti-healthcare, anti-birth control and slashed government services except if a woman gets pregnant and therefore is subject to a vaginal ultrasound. Did you ever think that all that would garner about half of the electorate?
Given all that, and the economics of what appears to be the Republican plan, it seems about 120,000 US families who earn more than $8 million annually should be steadfastly Republican. This fraction of 300 million Americans, fits into a bit more than two NFL stadiums.
It seems that everyone else stands in real danger of having some very critical tax breaks and services go way on inauguration day.
But there?s a huge lesson for branding in this election.
It?s not just ?be?s? that matter to a brand. The ?wannabes? create much of the buzz around a luxury brand. And, apparently a lot of people who are being dissed by the luxury oriented Republican ticket, ?wannabe? be in those stadiums. Stripped of most higher education Pell grants, healthcare or family planning ? it would be quite a feat to be that upwardly mobile.
Who watched those debates and got some of the details ? the few that were disclosed? Just 50-60 million people, a fraction of the citizens who will be impacted by this election, or perhaps as happened in the Bush-Gore contest, the selection of the executive branch of government.
Is it the lack of attention to detail or something else ? maybe something more unflattering like how many Americans really feel about ?diversity??
Really, how do you reconcile reality?
Maybe no one is taking these threats to our way of life very seriously.
Romney-Ryan are evocative of the old comedian Don Rickles or the less old Andrew Dice Clay. As sarcastic, mean-spirited funny man brands: these men ridiculed, stereotyped, hated; and people laughed. People paid money to be in the audience and get insulted! It?s like if Jeff Foxworthy were really dissing the rednecks, not just laughing with them ? but laughing at them.
In about a month, we?ll see who?s laughing.
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Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen ( freepressreleases ) October 19, 2012 ? http://www.grprainer.com/en/Law-of-Succession.html The verdict of the German Federal Finance Court (BFH) of the 04.07.2012 (AZ: II R 15/11) strongly portrayed the point in which the income tax debt for the death year of the departed is actually tax deductible.
GRP Rainer Lawyers Tax Advisors, Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, Dsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt www.grprainer.com explain: Consequently, going forward, the debts belonging to the deceased, consisting of church taxes, as well as, the solidarity surcharges, can be subtracted before computation of the inheritance tax by the taxation office.
It is apparent how the heir, determined by 1967 para. 1 of the German Civil Code, is generally accountable and thus responsible for the debts that the deceased left behind, not to mention that any sort of unpaid income tax is recognized as part of this particular debt. These types of debts can, in keeping with 10 para. 5 nr. 1 of the Inheritance tax law, be deducted from the net worth of the inheritance ? ahead of determining the inheritance tax.
The German Federal Court of finance takes the stance that the abatement of taxes does not need to just encompass taxes at the time of passing of life, but also the tax requirements that the passed on person, as a tax payer, had expressed by way of realizing lawful tax discount claims that build up after the calendar year of passing of life. Thus, in line with the BFH, it all depends whether the passed had expressed valid tax write offs in the past year in question. On the flip side, it matters not that the actual taxes build up at the end of the year, fundamentally right after the death of departed. This does not stand against the deadline concept ( 9, 11 of the inheritance tax law) in connection with the inheritance tax.
In this specific case, it was vital to the heir for the reason that, following the deduction of the income tax debts for the passing year of the loved one, the heir was required to pay for significantly less inheritance tax. It is definitely advisable for beneficiaries, who were refused the deduction of tax debts in figuring out the inheritance tax, to have a skilled lawyer at your side to find out if his or her situation provides similarities and when it is necessary to utilize judicial procedures.
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BESASLAN, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's army fired on Syria on Friday after two shells launched from Syria landed in Turkish territory, Turkish state broadcaster TRT reported, underlining how tension between the two neighbors remains dangerously high.
TRT did not specify where the incident occurred and no further details were available. There were no reports of any casualties resulting from the exchange of fire.
Turkey has carried out a series of retaliatory strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's forces fighting rebels along the border since Syrian shelling killed five Turkish civilians in a Turkish frontier town at the start of October.
Syrian rebels clashed with Assad's troops in a town near the Turkish border province of Hatay on Friday ahead of moves to broker a brief ceasefire, a Reuters witness said.
A large plume of smoke could be seen rising from the Syrian town of Haram after an explosion around midday (0900 GMT). The morning was punctuated by sounds of small blasts and gunfire, said witnesses in the nearby Turkish village of Besaslan.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called on Friday for all sides involved in the Syrian conflict to observe a ceasefire during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival next week.
U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is expected in Damascus later in the day to try to broker that ceasefire.
(Reporting by Osman Orsal; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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If you?re looking forward to making money online, the real estate sector is what you should be focusing on. This sector has come up as a great money-making option. This is mainly because of the growth that the real estate sector has been experiencing for over the past few years. There has been an appreciable increase in the value of real estate properties, which has enhanced the potential for wealth generation as well as opportunities to make money online.
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Like any other online business, the real estate business involves a certain amount of risk. It is important that you know the tricks well so as to achieve success in your online endeavor. The following are some tricks that will make sure you don?t regret your decision to make money through online real estate business.
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Create a good website ? The very first step is all about creating a well-designed website. You can?t expect buyers and sellers to rush in to your website just like that. There is a lot more that needs to be done than just blogging if you want an impressive flow of traffic to your website. Making money online will require you to design your website as well as add a sea of information and quality content. That?s how you?ll let the prospective buyers and sellers know about your potential and credibility. Website designing is possible without external help if you?re knowledgeable enough. Otherwise, seek professional help.
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Provide quality information ? Work as much as you can on making your website rich in quality and reliable information. For example, try to include maps and information on hospitals, schools, shopping malls, libraries and places of interest in your website. This will increase your website?s potential to attract a sea of potential customers. It is very important that you put in property information as well. For example, information such as number and size of the rooms as well as the age of the property is of great significance to the client. You can also add information on how people can save money on taxes and home inspections.
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Generate a mailing list ? It is important that you generate a mailing list. This is an important part of your online real estate business. You can provide people a sea of information on the properties through email. This also brings in a sense of personal attention to the table.
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Focus on SEO ? An online business owner must use SEO in his/her business website. Textual and visual information alone can?t improve the inflow of traffic to your website unless it is well-optimized for search engines. Proper application of SEO techniques will improve your website?s ranking incredibly. This greatly improves your website?s visibility and causes an eventual increase in the number of visitors.
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The aforesaid tips will help you use real estate in a better way to make money online. It is important that you enhance your knowledge and stay updated on the latest developments in the real estate sector. Your website must reflect the latest and reliable information on real estate to be a successful one.
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This is not about a CFO turning a business around quickly.
This blog is about the Quick Hiring & Unhiring of a CFO.
As someone that tracks CFO Moves every week across the country, I see this too often. Every time I see it, it bothers me, especially when I know that it could have been avoided in many cases. Here is one recently reported example of one Quick CFO Turnaround ? Ulta Beauty CFO out after 6 weeks on the job.
An outsider will never really know the reason a person leaves their position. Like a divorce, there is the official story, the company?s story, the employee?s story and the real story.
That being said, here are some things that can be done to ensure CFO hires are done well, and can be successful over the long term.
Hiring for any executive level position needs to be treated seriously. Unfortunately, in too many cases, companies that do not treat their executive level hiring needs with the proper attention and resources necessary. This can end up doing serious damage to their company.
Many executives that are approached for career opportunities rely on their own business acumen to assess and accept career positions. When executives, CFOs included, are looking at career opportunities for themselves, they should know that they are minimizing their own career risk when the company they are being considering by is working with a reputable Executive Search firm.
CFOs: Has being hired by a company that worked with an Executive Search firm make a difference to your career?
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Source: http://blog.dergelcfo.com/2012/10/19/the-quick-cfo-turnaround/
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