WWE News: Update on Brock Lesnar's Upcoming Schedule

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2014 has been an incredible year for Brock Lesnar.

After trouncing the Big Show at the Royal Rumble, the former UFC champion marched on to WrestleMania XXX where he scored perhaps the biggest victory in pro wrestling history. Doing what no man before him had been capable of, Lesnar ended the Undertaker’s Streak at the Showcase of the Immortals.

From there, it was clear that the only thing left for the Beast Incarnate was a shot at the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. But few could have foreseen the overwhelming dominance that the challenger displayed as he decimated John Cena in what was arguably the most one-sided title bout of all time.

Those two victories were enough to place Lesnar at the very pinnacle of the entire industry. In just a few months, he achieved more than many will achieve in an entire career.

But despite this dominance, could Lesnar’s year be over already?

He’s wrestled at a mere four pay-per-views, and by my watch has appeared on less than a dozen showings of Monday Night Raw, but it looks like that could be Lesnar’s lot for 2014. As reported by Raj Giri ofWrestlingInc:

Brock Lesnar is not currently advertised for any pay-per-views orRAWs through the end of the year. It should be noted that Lesnar's other appearances this year were advertised months in advance.Lesnar has worked four pay-per-views so far this year, which is the most PPVs he's worked in a calendar year since he returned to the company in 2012. With no real program for him and his hefty price tag, it remains to be seen if Lesnar will defend the title before The Royal Rumble in January.

Given Lesnar’s recent capture of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, this news is perhaps a little disappointing. Sure, 2014 has already been his busiest year in terms of PPVs since his 2012 return, but after details surfaced of his new arrangement with WWE, many—myself included—thought we may be seeing Lesnar slightly more often than we’ve been accustomed to.

The deal in question stated that WWE can use him as often as they like as long as they’re willing to pay his “steep per-date appearance rate.”

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It would have been naive to assume this meant a full-time return for the part-time star, but surely a few more episodes of Raw and at least another PPV—Survivor Series perhaps—would have been a reasonable schedule to expect from Brock?

Apparently not, according to this news—and also the fact that the WWE are clearly trying to divert our attention away from Cena/Lesnar and towards Cena/Rollins.

This was always going to be the risk of putting the title on Lesnar. But I can’t help but feel that the issue of his absence could have been easily solved by simply producing an angle to explain his most recent disappearance. As it stands, we’re left looking back at an inconclusive title bout with no indication as to where the champion goes from here.

Even in the realm of professional wrestling, that seems to push the boundaries of believability a little too far for my liking.

But regardless of how the WWE handles this, news of the company’s continued hesitance in their use of Lesnar raises further questions over their financial health. The news story itself refers to his “hefty price tag,” and given the new arrangement whereby Lesnar can be featured as often as the WWE wants, does this mean that it’s a matter of the company being unable to afford Lesnar rather than unwilling to incorporate him?

At present such theories remain mere speculation, but it’s certainly interesting that the WWE would allegedly renegotiate those terms, only to opt not to take advantage of them.

Either way, this is certainly an interesting situation to keep an eye on. Three successive PPVs without a WWE title match could be seriously detrimental to the overall product—especially if the matter is not mentioned at all.

But with unique gimmicks set to be featured at each of those PPVs in question, perhaps the WWE can get away with their sparing use ofLesnar. For me though, there definitely should be some kind of explanation as to why he has simply disappeared. Something as simple as announcing a no. 1 contendership program to preoccupy us in the meantime would more than suffice in my eyes.

But what do you guys make of this one? Do you really think that Lesnarhas made his final appearance of 2014? And furthermore can the WWEcope if that turns out to be the case?

Please feel free to comment below with your thoughts on this one, as well as any of the other issues that were covered in the article itself
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WWE Superstar Power Rankings for 9/29/2014

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BEGIN SLIDESHOW »In the week after WWE Night of Champions 2014, the WWE Superstar Power Rankings saw quite a bit of movement, especially in the bottom half of the top 10.  We saw Dean Ambrose make his return to Raw, a newly won title lost and much more.  It certainly was a busy week.

One interesting note is that Sheamus has, after a seemingly dull summer, climbed back to near the top of the rankings.  And somewhat disappointingly, Randy Orton has again fallen out of the top 10.  It's amazing that a 12-time world champion in the prime of his career isn't making more of an impact on WWE TV.  

Anyways, we'll get into all that and much more in the following slides.  Before we get into all that, though, please read how these rankings work.

Holding a championship, being a No. 1 contender or holding a Money in the Bank briefcase counts for much of a wrestler's ranking, and these honors are therefore the most heavily weighted components in the rankings.  If a wrestler is tied with another wrestler, holding a title will be a tiebreaker.

Wins and losses account for the bulk of the week-to-week movement—wins and losses are, after championships, the most important component of the rankings.  The quality of a wrestler's opponents and whether they are ranked is considered in the week-to-week movement.  

"Getting the better" of someone—like beating someone down—as well as "getting got" also counts, though not as much as wins and losses.  Being "over" with the fans is considered but not heavily weighted in the ranking decisions.  Pay-per-view performances take on added importance.  

Only the top 10 wrestlers are ranked.  Wrestlers on the Watch List were considered for top-10 status but were ultimately nixed.  They are unranked, and their listing is in no particular order.  

Generally speaking, these rankings do not break kayfabe, though any major non-storyline information (serious injury, WWE Wellness Policy violations, legitimate hirings, firings, contract information, "sabbaticals," etc.) may be taken into consideration, especially if WWE confirms them publicly.  Nothing that could be explicitly considered a spoiler is included unless WWE acknowledges it as well.

All WWE shows, televised or digitally distributed, as well as anything from WWE.com, the WWE App, the WWE Network and any WWE or Superstar social media accounts that don't break kayfabe may be taken into consideration for these rankings.  This includes but is not limited to WWE Raw, WWE SmackDown, WWE Main Event, WWE Superstars, NXT and any WWE pay-per-view.

WWE Hell in a Cell 2014: Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins Must Be the Main Event

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Dean Ambrose against Seth Rollins is the hottest feud in today’s WWE landscape. It’s hard to believe it started five months ago.

The Raw after Battleground saw Rollins turn on his Shield teammates, Ambrose and Roman Reigns. Rollins assaulted both men with a steel chair and joined Triple H and The Authority.

Since then, Ambrose has made it his mission to make Rollins’ life a living hell much to the delight of fans who are eating it up.

They both fought in the Money in the Bank ladder match, which Rollins won thanks to Kane delivering a chokeslam to Ambrose. Their war continued in a lumberjack match at SummerSlam, where Rollins escaped victorious once again.

This outcome led to Rollins giving Ambrose a curb stomp on cinder blocks the Raw after, which resulted in missing one month of wrestling action. Rollins’ actions garnered more heat toward the young wrestler.

Last week’s Night of Champions pay-per-view was supposed to have Rollins vs. Reigns. Unfortunately, Reigns needed surgery to repair a pre-existing hernia. Rollins came to the ring and issued an open challenge. The crowd erupted when Ambrose emerged from a taxicab ready for the challenge.

The two brawled all over the arena, with Ambrose gaining the upper hand. It’s clear these two not only provide an entertaining feud but also excite fans to a wild frenzy.

This leads us to the next event, WWE Hell in a Cell. No matches have been made as of yet, and obviously, the WWE needs a main event that can cause excitement for their WWE Universe.

Why not make their best feud into their main event? Isn’t it time to give these two the spotlight they deserve?

Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins must be booked inside the Hell in a Cell, and they must become the main event.

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Ambrose and Rollins inside the cell can provide an intriguing situation. Both wrestlers have never been inside it and could have the opportunity to tell a great story. Rollins has tried to avoid Ambrose. Locking both inside the cell could offer a cat-and-mouse game between the two. It would only be a matter of time until Ambrose got his hands on Rollins, or maybe the other way around.

Frankly, booking the victor doesn’t matter. The WWE has two superstars for the long haul if booked right. As of now, it’s so far, so good.

Ambrose is this year’s Daniel Bryan, fulfilling that underdog role facing insurmountable odds. However, he plays more of the crazed madman. Ambrose reminds me of what WWE Hall of Famer Roddy Piper would be like if Piper entered his prime now.

Rollins seems more of the complete wrestler. He puts on great matches, speaks clearly in his promos and garners the right amount of heat. Fans despise Rollins for teaming up with Triple H. They want to see him get the beating of his life, which is why they cheer for Ambrose.

The fans want Ambrose to get his revenge on Rollins for what he’s done. Whether he gets it remains to be seen. But one thing must happen for that to occur. Dean Ambrose vs. Seth Rollins must become the main event at Hell in a Cell.

Best Engineering colleges in India

Hey guys i am back again!

I recently viewed the times of India rankings and India today also.Seriously on what basis they rank colleges? maybe the amount of money they get ranking a third tier college above tier 1 or 2 insti,who knows. 

outlook fares better than the former but again is not good ,infact i find dataquest rankings far better than the above three but still it is not upto a level that it can boast of or students should take reference!

so here I am presenting you the most authentic list of India's best engineering colleges/top engineering colleges(hope you find it the best ranking done so far and please share it if you like it so that prospective students future remains safe as he/she is not brain washed and if you have some suggestions comment below please don't mail me as i don't reply back via mails :) )


To all the #VIT and #SRM lovers this list is not for you so you can go back and enjoy toi and india today rankings just to please you!

The reason i have ranked new IIT's in groups is coz they are still new and nobody knows how well they can be five or six years down the line they can emerge as good as iit rkee/bhu/g and can end up lower than top 5 nit's,dtu and bit mesra.

The ranking is done on the basis of academic excellence,performance in various competitions by insti students,placements and research work done.


1. #iit bombay
2. #iit delhi
3. #iit kanpur
4. #iit kgp 
5.#iit madras
6. #iiit hyderabad
7. # iit rorkee
8.#iit bhu
9.#iit g
10.#bits pilani
11.#iit hyderabad,#iit indore, #bit mesra~ #nit t/w/allahabad/karnataka/calicut/#dtu
20.#iit ropar,#iit gandhinagar,#iit jodhpur
23. #iit patna,#iit bhubaneswar,#iit mandi 
26.#nsit
27. #ism dhanbad,#iiit delhi
29 #nit jaipur/#iiit allahabad
31.# nit nagpur/kkr
33. #jadavpur university~ #nit bhopal~#iiit bangalore
36. #daiict(pec can be added here)
37..#nit surat/jalandhar
39.# nit durgapur/hamirpur
41.#nit silchar/jamshedpur/rourkela
44.#iiest shibpur
45.#thapar university/VJTI
47.#Lnmiit jaipur(jamia can be added here)
48.#sgsits,indore
49.#psg college of technology
50.#Manipal

Epic Systems Interview Question for Software Engineer/Developer

1>Given an NxN matrix with unique integers : Find and print positions of all numbers such that it is the biggest in its row and also the smallest in its collumn .

eg : In 3 x 3 with elements

1 2 3Given a Singly Linked List which has data members sorted in ascending order. Construct aBalanced Binary Search Tree which has same data members as the given Linked List.

Examples:

Input:  Linked List 1->2->3
Output: A Balanced BST 
     2   
   /  \  
  1    3 


Input: Linked List 1->2->3->4->5->6->7
Output: A Balanced BST
        4
      /   \
     2     6
   /  \   / \
  1   3  4   7  

Input: Linked List 1->2->3->4
Output: A Balanced BST
      3   
    /  \  
   2    4 
 / 
1

Input:  Linked List 1->2->3->4->5->6
Output: A Balanced BST
      4   
    /   \  
   2     6 
 /  \   / 
1   3  5   

4>

Inorder Tree Traversal without recursion and without stack!

How can I get an Interview Call from IIM Bangalore ?

What are the salient points

- Work experience – quality and duration both matter: The good news is that you get marks for work-experience. The bad news is that your work-experience marks get updated after the interview based on the quality of your work experience. You get a maximum of 5 marks for 36 or more months of work-experience (marks are scaled proportionately from 0-5 based on 0 to 36 months of work-experience). At the interview stage, the admissions panel will be able to evaluate the quality of your work-ex, and therefore, update this work-ex score with a multiplier. The multiplier will be on a five-point scale (0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2.0). Thus, your maximum work-ex score will be 10. If you have poor quality work ex for three years, your final score will be only 1.25 instead of 5.

In short, work-ex duration may provide a very small boost to your chances of getting a shortlist, but to actually help you in the final selection, that work-ex has to be of very high quality.

(Note: If you have done a professional course like CA, CS and Cost Accounting, your performance there will be given a score out of 10 and the higher score between work ex and professional course will be considered).

-   Acads, acads and Acads: IIM Bangalore is known for its relentless focus on consistent academic performance. This year is no different. The weightages for different items are as follows:

-  20 is the weight for the CAT score

-  15 is the weight for Standard X, 10 for Standard XII and 15 for graduation.

Thus, acads will have a huge bearing in your shortlisting as well as final selection. For IIM Ahmedabad last year, the weightage of acads in the final selection was only 9% last year (30% of 30%). At IIM Bangalore, the weightage for past acads in the final selection is about 40%. The good thing is that normalization would be done for standard X and XII scores according to the 90th percentile score of the candidate’s board (using the CAT aspirants’ standard X and XII scores over the last two years as database). Also, graduation scores will be‘adjusted’ with their category, which we interpret to be some form of normalization. This is fair and will ensure that an arts graduate is not penalized for topping with only 77%.

- Personal Interview and Note Writing stage The candidates culled on the basis of CAT score, work-experience duration, and academic performance will be evaluated by a personal interview and a note-writing task. The weightages are 20 for the personal interview, and 15 for the note writing task (15 is split equally for content and style). Also, at this stage, the quality of work-ex will be discerned and the work-ex score out of five will be scaled to a score out of ten.

To sum it up

Adding up all the weightages for CAT (20), Std X (15), Std XII (10), Graduation (15), Work-experience (10), Note-writing task ( 15) and Personal Interview (20), we get a maximum total of 105. Will this be scaled back to 100? We have asked the admissions office of IIM B to clarify. Watch this space for more. There is no explicit mention of diversity, but the criteria are quite well-rounded and will definitely lead to diversity.

What’s changed from last year

There aren’t too many major changes from last year. The one change is in a reduced minimum cutoff CAT percentile. See the table below. Minimum Verbal Percentile has been reduced from 90 to 85 for general, and 80 to 75 for OBC.

How does this compare with IIM Ahmedabad’s new criteria?

The main difference between the two sets of criteria is the weightage given to the Personal Interview stage.

At IIM Bangalore, the Personal Interview stage (PI plus writing) has a total weight of only 35. In comparison, at IIM Ahmedabad this stage (writing task plus interview) has a total weight of 60 (and 70 last year). Thus, at IIM Ahmedabad, if you some how manage to get yourself an interview call, your past sins can be  washed away by a brilliant performance at the interview stage. On the other hand, IIM Bangalore has a more balanced approach, with weightages pretty much divided among several parameters like past acads, PI performance etc. It is difficult to influence the final outcome with a spike in any of the parameters. What is required is consistency in all parameters. The other important difference is of course, that work-experience is of no help at IIM A, whereas it fetches you some extra marks at IIMB. Plus, IIM Bangalore follows a normalization procedure for evaluating past academics.

In short, there are so many checks and balances in the IIM Bangalore criteria, that luck plays very little role in deciding whether you get in. Getting into IIM Bangalore is like winning in a League Format (like the English Premier League) – it requires consistent performance over a period of time, and at the end, it is hardly a surprise when the winner is announced.

In contrast, the IIM Ahmedabad has a slight element of variability brought in by the 60% weight to the PI and writing stage. This means getting into IIM Ahmedabad is like winning in a Cup Format (like the World Cup), where one bad day / one great day can drastically alter your chances.

Both B schools are extremely difficult to crack in their own way.

In a nutshell

The last sentences of the detailed admission criteria document on IIM Bangalore’s website sum it up better than we ever possibly could. In short, it is difficult to get into IIM Bangalore without brilliant acads throughout and a strong record in work-experience. We quote it here for your benefit….

“Since IIMB follows a comprehensive multi-criteria process at the pre-PI stage, it is able to identify  many candidates for the PI who have an excellent academic record and work experience but who, while doing well enough in the CAT to be in the first shortlist, may have narrowly missed the high score that would have been required if CAT alone was the basis for the PI short list. Such candidates effectively replace candidates who have only a high CAT score but score poorly in terms of their past academic record and work experience. IIMB emphasizes consistent and high performance in past academics.”

We are not including test cases because it is amply clear from the above criteria  that only a consistent performer in all stages of academic and professional life will get in.

How can I get an Interview Call from IIM Calcutta ?

Salient points

-  We do not see any major changes from last year.

-  Graduation score will not be a factor either in the initial shortlisting stage or the final call stage. (Although your academic performance in graduation may indirectly influence their perception of you during the interview stage, and therefore, find its way to the final evaluation).

-  Gender diversity encouraged  - three marks for being a woman. (This will help only in the initial shortlisting stage and not be a factor in the final selection).

- Weightage for work-experience on a scale of 0-8 where 36 months of work ex gets 8 points, and from there on, up to 42 months, your work-ex score gets reduced to 5 points. (Work-experience in terms of number of months, will be calculated as of January 2015).

Decoding the criteria

The minimum CAT percentiles are same as that required by IIM Ahmedabad (in the general category). The requirements are slightly more stringent than IIM Bangalore.

For the GD-PI Interview call, you have 77 points for CAT score, 3 points for gender diversity, and 10 points each for standard X and standard XII scores. (The points out of 5 from the table below will be scaled to 10)

Verdict

- The three marks benefit for gender diversity is not something that guys can complain about, and frankly, it is not too difficult to get more than 80% in your Std. X and Std XII. It is graduation where the differences in percentages across boards becomes very severe. But graduation scores are not being considered, and getting more than 80% in Std X and Std XII will put you in the top bracket any way, so you need not worry about normalization. In short, the battle to get an interview call from IIM Calcutta for CAT 2014 is an all-out war based mainly on your CAT percentile.

Making the final cut

- At this stage, the selection process at IIM Calcutta has elements of both IIM Bangalore (weightage to work experience) and IIM Ahmedabad (skew towards performance at the interview).

The total score out of 100 is broken up as

- 35 marks for CAT

-  54 marks for Personal Interview (44) and Written Task (10). (The high weightage given to this stage has echoes of IIM Ahmedabad – where it is slightly higher at 60%).

-  8 marks for work experience

-  3 marks for educational diversity (2 for diversity at graduate level, 1 for diversity at post-graduate level)

Comparison with IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore

While IIM Bangalore has several checks and balances to ensure that only people with great overall profiles (past acads, work ex) get through, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Calcutta’s criteria are skewed towards performance at the all-important interview. While IIM Ahmedabad has some additional criteria for shortlisting for interviews (preference for educational diversity, and weightage for graduation score), IIM Calcutta has more lenient criteria, and has special focus on gender diversity.

Conclusion

If you have a less-than-stellar past academic record, IIM Calcutta is your best bet. It is a straight battle between percentiles. Graduation scores are not considered. Even in the scores for Std X and Std XII which are considered, you get full marks for being above 81% (whereas at IIM Ahmedabad, you need more than 90% for full marks in Std X and Std XII). We get several queries in our helpline from people claiming that their poor acads are the only thing standing between them and a place in the top IIMs. Well, the answer to them is loud and clear – at IIM C you have no excuses. It is a straight battle between percentiles, and IIM C represents your best chance to get into the ABC bracket if you have poor acads.