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"You Are a Good Question...Your Question Hurt me"...:PWell my friend...1st thing...Yes...It ISN'T same as a Call Center Job.A BIG, FAT, NO!!!Yes, he is an extended version of a Sales Executive but, in a much more refined form.Business Development in broader terms is a mix of Sales+Marketing+Relationship Management+Financial Modelling+Negotiation Skills+Presentation Skills+Market Research AND...you know what, the list doesn't end there...but, these are something I recollect or rather, I'm just sure of what a Business Development person essentially does.Now, defining the role of a Business Development Executive, he/she has to pro-actively think upon building his client base and simultaneously, ensure Relationship management with his/her existing clients.So I would say, the crux of Business Development is Relationship Building/ Management.I need to identify my Target/ Client(s) in terms of his product, his unmet need and what I can offer to my client that would yield him profitability.I need to understand the dynamics of the market and hence, it is very much essential for me to conduct a thorough research upon the market.It is very much important to create an IDENTITY...both about myself and the company I represent.Once, I've done my homework, I need to create an opportunity to meet my client (Either Personally or through a Tele-call) and elaborate upon what I have got to offer. It essentially starts with cold callings, and mailing campaigns. I need to make an IMPRESSION in my clients mind. Personally speaking, the TOUGHEST part of my job.Once, I get an appointment with my client, I have to ensure that the meeting isn't flawed. It has to be perfect. I need to polish my homework. I need to prepare a Presentation that would draw his attention. I need to be ready with facts and figures upon what I'm going to speak. I cannot be beating around the bush. I need to be crisp and clear about what I'm saying and what I've got to offer and how it would help him. Everything boils down to PROFITABILITY.This stage is usually followed by RFI's (Request for Information), RFP's (Request for Proposal) and RFQ's (Request for Quotation).I need to prepare a detailed document understanding the requirements of the client encompassing all the stages/services that would go in the project. A detailed proposal followed by a thorough Budgeting.Again, I need to understand that, My competitors might also be bidding for the project. So I need to provide a Competitive Quotation encompassing my organizational profitability as well.Pheww...Now, I'll be waiting, following up with my clients continuously with regards to getting the project awarded. This typically is the Bargaining period...Negotiation in terms of the budget, additional services, discounts and such activities come into picture and I need to handle them.And and and...finally, my client agrees to Award the Project to my Company...Hurray!!!...but wait, my job doesn't end there...Agreements...I need to get everything documented. Each and every minute aspect of the project has to be documented and agreed upon by both, the service provider and the sponsor.Finally, the project is handed over to the respective Project Management team.So, you think my job ends there...Naaaah...I'll be the mediator between the Sponsor and my Project Management team.So, I need to ensure that everything goes as agreed. I'll have to ensure that the timelines are followed and nothing untoward happens.Anything goes wrong and Bammm!!!My client won't hesitate to catch my collar...at times, my neck as well...:PThe whole game is to GAIN HIS CONFIDENCE. Client satisfaction is my motto.Now, I cannot let go off my client after this one project.I need to constantly keep in touch with him. Understand what are his future projects.Now, my responsibility is doubled.Account Management is entrusted upon me.This client becomes my Key Account...any project of my client goes to our competitors...My organization will F*$# me...literally...:PSo...my friend...Could you find any similarity between my job and that of a Call Center guy???Right from Database generation of a Client until the Execution of his project and further, getting Repeat Business from the client is typically what every Business Development Executive does.In Big Organizations/MNC's, the above mentioned roles are often distributed between the Business Development Executives...but yes, more or less, the responsibilities are the same.Apologies for writing such a long answer.But, I hope, my answer helped.Good Luck!!!

Finally figured it out.People were wracking their brains as to why the Trump team would want to waive privilege on a tape where he’s discussing using a secret shell company to hide hush money payments over an affair, just before the election. To be clear, the affair was years earlier, but the conversation about the secret payments to cover up the affair was just before the election.All sorts of wild guesses were made but none of them made any kind of sense. Now that the tape is out and fails to support Giuliani’s story, it still doesn’t make any sense.That is, until just now, when I finally heard a reasonable explanation proposed. A former federal prosecutor theorized that the Special Master, assigned by the court to decide which recordings were privileged and which were not, told the Trump legal team that the recording was going to be ruled admissible due to the Crime-Fraud Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege.Since this would look really bad for Trump, the Special Master may have given them the opportunity to voluntarily waive it first, almost like a company letting someone officially resign instead of getting fired.The reason the crime fraud exception would be applicable to this recording is that the conversation is a potentially significant piece of evidence in a campaign finance violation, the same type of crime that former U.S. Senator John Edwards was indicted for, and that case wasn’t half as strong as this one would be.In the Trump case, the undisclosed campaign contribution in the form of a secret payoff to cover-up politically damaging information took place not months before primary elections like it did in the Edwards case, but instead only weeks before the general election.Furthermore, unlike the Edwards case, which was trying to hide a recent affair with a single woman, there were at least two women receiving secret payoffs right around election time, even though both affairs took place ten years earlier…quite the coincidence. If we get further into the weeds there are still more reasons why this case might be quite a bit stronger than the Edwards case, and the recording would certainly be a relevant piece of evidence, hence the lack of enforceable privilege under the crime fraud exception.Therefore, the most reasonable explanation seems to be they took the face saving option of “voluntarily waiving privilege” to avoid the adverse ruling strongly implying Trump may have committed a crime.If this is correct, they clearly made the right call as the Trump/Giuliani spin has successfully obscured a highly damaging development in Donald Trump’s legal exposure and completely dodged a tough PR bullet. Since the base swallows whole anything Trump and his people serve up, getting to give the recording their own characterization without an official legal designation strongly implying a crime was committed is hugely beneficial.We may never know the whole story, but the mystery has been bothering me since it happened and this is the only theory I’ve heard that makes sense.

Kind of.In most circumstances, a Roman slave-owner could set his slaves free.However, note that I wrote 'his' there. A Roman woman could own slaves, but she was not allowed to free them. Under Roman law women had the legal status of minors; they were almost always under the guardianship (in tutela) of a male protector (tutor). A woman who wished to free one of her slaves needed to get the permission of her guardian first.In addition, various laws were passed to restrict the rights of owners to free their slaves. Augustus, for example, passed a law which restricted how many slaves an owner could free in his will; this was on a sliding scale from 20% to 50% of the slaves.There were also restrictions (though not an outright prohibition) on freeing slaves who were younger than the age of 30. Furthermore. someone who was in debt was not allowed to free his slaves as a way of evading his obligations to his creditors.The Roman state also levied a tax on manumission, equal to 5% of the value of the slave being set free. This was called the vicesima (Latin for 'one twentieth'). Clearly, someone who did not have the ready money to pay the tax would be limited in how many slaves he could free.So there were limits on freeing slaves. Furthermore, slaves who became free did not quite acquire all the rights of a free person, although they were still considered citizens after their manumission.Roman law included the concept of ingenuitas, or being 'free-born'. To count as ingenuus, it was necessary that you had never been a slave, and that your mother was not a slave at the moment she gave birth to you. This was primarily a social distinction: free-born Romans looked down on those who had once been slaves. Indeed, it was considered a serious insult, justifying legal action for slander, to accuse someone of not being ingenuus without proof.However, as well as the primary social effects there were also a few legal consequences to not being ingenuus.A freed slave was known as a libertinus or libertus, translated into English as 'freedman' (as opposed to freeman - the 'd' is crucial!). As a freedman, he still owed some obligations to his former master, who became his patron (patronus).Under the Roman Republic, slaves were freed by a ceremony known as vindicta or manumissio per vindictam. The master brought his slave before a magistrate and announced that he wished to set him free. While the master held onto the slave, a lictor laid a rod (called a 'vindicta') on the slave's head and pronounced that in the name of Roman law (ius Quiritium) he was 'set free by the rod'. The master then confirmed that 'I wish this man to be free', spun him around and let go of him. As the possibly dizzy ex-slave staggered away, the magistrate pronounced him a free man.It was also possible to set a slave free simply by registering him in the census as a free man. The Roman Republic held a census every few years, and the head of each household was expected to provide an account of all the people living in that household, including slaves. If he listed the ex-slave as a free man instead, that was considered a valid form of manumission.Finally, it was also possible for a slaveowner to set some of his slaves free in his will, or to instruct his heir to free the slaves as a condition of receiving the legacy.A slave who became free usually took the first name (praenomen) and clan name (nomen) of his former master, plus a surname (cognomen) which was often the name he had used as a slave, or some other, new name he chose for the occasion. For example, the famous orator Marcus Tullius Cicero owned a slave named Tiro. When Cicero set his slave free, Tibo adopted the name Marcus Tullius Tiro.After being freed, a male ex-slave was entitled to wear the toga, the distinctive dress of a free Roman citizen. It was also traditional for him to shave his hair and wear a brimless pointed felt cap known as a pileus as a way of demonstrating his newly-freed status. Many centuries later this design of cap, renamed the 'cap of liberty', would become a popular symbol for both the American and French revolutions.A freedman who practiced a craft or trade, or ran a business, could be obliged to pay a share of the takings to his former master. This was often justified by saying that the freedman learned his trade while still a slave, at his master’s expense, and thus owed him for the opportunity. The master may also have allowed the slave to save up money — which legally speaking belonged to the master, not the slave — to use as starting capital for his business. Again, he expected a return on this investment.The freed slave became the client (cliens) of his former master, who was now his patron (patronus). A client owed 'respect and gratitude' to his patron, and was required to support him in various ways. This might involve performing jobs and errands for the patron, or campaigning on his behalf in elections. It was a mutual relationship, however, and the patron was also expected to look after his client's interests — for example finding legal representation for them if someone sued them, or offering them a loan or a job if they fell into poverty.Not all clients were freedmen; it was common for poor but freeborn Roman citizens to enter into a patron-client relationship with a wealthy patrician as a way of supporting themselves. However, for the freeborn this was a voluntary arrangement. A freedman had no choice; he automatically became the client of his former master.A familiar scene in the streets of Rome was a crowd of clients gathering outside the mansion of their wealthy patron very early in the morning. Once they were let inside, the patron would receive them, and accept their formal greetings. If they had any special favour to ask, this was the time; alternatively, the patron might offer them a job for the day. One of the main ways for powerful and influential Romans to demonstrate their high status was for them to parade through the Forum or other public places accompanied by a large entourage of supporters. These followers also acted as security, and could intimidate rivals; Roman politics could get rough at times.The salutatio, or morning greeting ceremony between patron and clients.In return for a morning's work escorting their patron through the streets, the clients would be rewarded with lunch at their patron's expense and perhaps a small financial payment. Even if he had no work for them that day, the patron would often donate a food basket (sponsula) to his clients.There were also some legal restrictions on a client. He could not sue his patron (and vice-versa), and was even limited in how he could bring criminal charges against him. Furthermore, if a client died without making a will, his patron inherited his property. At some stages in Roman history, even if the client did make a will he was obliged to give half his property to his former master.While the freedman was legally obliged to remain in this client relationship to his former master, he normally otherwise had the rights of a Roman citizen — to vote, to enter into contracts and inherit property, to form a legal marriage, to serve in the legions or run for political office. in addition, his (legitimate) children would be fully free ingenui.