The dragonling will be a level equal to your engineering skill/5 (Gnomes will have level 63 dragonlings). Deals about 70 damage to a level 60 mob, 2.0 attack speed. Also occasionaly breathes fire, which deals 300 damage and makes fire spells on that mob do up to 60 extra damage. This ability stacks with itself, but I've never seen it breathe more then twice in one outing. Debuff lasts about 30 seconds. Very little health.
Fun litte item, adds about 60dps while its up and is a nice buff for fire mages. Rather expencive to produce for the effect though.
ZOMG!!! Wowhead has a shared cooldown table now I am so excited!!!! THIS COMMENT IS NOW COMPLETELY USELESS yay yay yay!
But seriously though. Shared Cooldown Table rocks!!!!!
According to thottbot, this item shares a cooldown with the Mithril Mechanical Dragonling and regular-kind Mechanical Dragonling. Does anyone have verification - disproof of this?
to clarify any confusion about using your mithril dragon as one of the recipes, yes you can make another one and use it as usual. assuming you have a regular mechanical dragon you'll will have a total of 3 dragons. and on another side note, your engineering skill in the BC still affects your dragons lvl, so if you have your skills up to 375 you'll have a lvl 75 dragon or 78 from gnomes racial ability.
Defintely doesn't share a cooldown with the Battle Chicken. Don't think cooldown is sharded with other dragon types.
what kinda damage does this thing do?
Everyone so far has posted that they can make it which is useless to someone like myself who hasn't even decided if its worth it yet.
Can anyone give some stats on it?
Sure. Send materials 350g worth AND an addtional fee to a person and OF COURSE he will return the materials to you. Soon. Maybe tomorrow. I promise. Honestly. Trust me.
3.) Exchange the mats to the person for what they are worth, meaning you get the GOLD from the engineer and give the materials. Now you might have lost the items but you got their golds worth.
Don't be so stupid and TRUST people in an online game. From 50 gold upwards, every deal with someone you don't know directly and for MONTHS should be done like this. Otherwise you'll most likely quit the game over something like this.
Its missleading to say that the dragonlings share cooldown with one another. Yes, using one dragonling causes a 60 second cooldown on the others, so you cant have them out simultaneously, but they don't trigger the hour cooldown. So you can use your arcanite dragonling if you get in a jam, then switch to mithril as backup while the arcanite recharges.
In 1.9, trinket pets (or at least dragonlings, I don't have any others to try) are no longer on "defensive" pet mode. They're now on "aggressive" mode, so if use it to get you out of a jam, they will fly off after the fight and aggro any other mobs that are within range (the mob will promptly smack them down and then come over to get you).
Makes them remarkably less useful.
noone cares if you can make it, or how much you will make it for..
The dragonling does about 82 dmg a hit, and sometimes flames up to 400.
When it flames it stacks on a debuff called Flame Buffet which increases fire dmg done to the mob by 63 per stack. Mine stacked on 3 before it died, debuff lasted maybe about a minute.
When this dies can you loot it like target dummy?
Each dragonling is unique, meaning you can only have one of each on you at one time.
Even if the dragons had seperate timers, I don't think you'd want to have two. The only way to have two soulbound uniques is if you keep at least one of them in vendor limbo. Eventually, you'd have to log off and all that arcanite would be gone for good.
Not sure if anyone else posted about this (long threads), but the Battle Chicken/Mechanical Dragonlings can detect stealth very easily if you take the time to level up your engineering early.
With lvl 300 eng you can get a lvl 60 mechanical pet.
With the expac you can get up to 375 eng. That makes your mechanical pets lvl 75! dd in the gnome racial of +15 eng and you have a lvl 78 pet. 8 lvls higher than you can get as a player. Dose anyone know if there are going to change the pet scaling?
I read the post above about how many pets you could have in theory. They didn't take into account shared cooldowns - you can't have Arcanite Dragonling + Barov Peasant Caller as they both share the same cooldown.
EDIT: Moonkin! 3 treants anyone? That would make the total 17.
forgot to say above, if you didn't already know. Take your engineering skill, and divide by 5, ignoring any remainder. That is your pets level.
I love both this and my battlechicken, mostly for AV.
With arcane crystals being only like 5g on my server, it's mats are cheaper than it's overall value.
In AV, should I be at a node alone or attacking node taggers, which happens a lot, I'll hurredly swap out my stat trinkets and cycle them; the two pets, to prevent being sapped or nuked beyond chance of retaliating or to interrupt players trying to tag. They'll see through stealth preventing anything but a well played shadowstep or stealth sprinting rogue with perfect timing. The chicken is best fopr this with it's fast attack speed. Their attacks slow down casting times, they occupy ice traps of hunters, sneak their pets agg off you, etc.
Pity it's only at best 1 use of each per AV.
The chicken lasts 30 secs longer so can be cycled through the top trinket slot easily, used, and followed by the dragonling, mithril or arcanite to have one summoned, then both out for the maximum dragonling duration, then unsummon together at 90 secs protection, 60 of which with yer stat trinkets in place.
Or if I wanna gank someone bad or have them gank a lowbie.
If you have the chicken coz yer gnomish, you MUST get this, mithril or otherwise.
Plus, for extra leetness, one can hit their http://www.thottbot.com/i31337 and feel special. I enjoyed doing that after a nice gank just yesterday.
Can make on Khaz Modan Alliance server. Very fun toy.
Mail Aldeia and I'll get back to you that night or next morning.
In my opinion, the dragon is way worth the cost. Use it on a rogue, and it sees the rogue in stealth. While squaking and screeching to let you know its on task, it blows 350 fire damage and pecks for 90-150 damage. In the coarse of a fight <<because pvp opponents don't realize the damage it is doing, and don't stop to kill it>> it will do atleast 1500 damage, as well as slow down the movement of mellee, and interrupt your caster foes.
Also, because these dragons are so rare, when I use mine, Horde actually stop for a second to examine it, before continueing their assault.
In PVE, its like a reusable targeting dummy, handy for when you need to clear 3 or more mobs to get at a treasure chest.
As far as the one hour cooldown, if you have a bag full of trinkets to rotate through, its not a big deal.
The problem with beeing able to make one is... You are able to make ONE.
If you play on a very full Server, no time of the day is save enough to prevent you from a disconnect. You can try and sell your Drangonling to the NPC, build one for a friend/customer and buy your's back, but your risking to loose your Dragonling (and with this a lot of gold).
I am confused about the statement will fight for "0" seconds. What does that mean?
"Use: Activates your Arcanite Mechanical Dragonling to fight for you for 0 seconds. It requires an hour to cool down before it can be used again"
back to back or does using one mean the other is also on a 1 hour cooldown? I can't seem to find this out. I thank you for any insight into this.
I made one then put it in the AH for 400g-600buyout but had no buyers. I think part of the reason is that this item does not show up if someone is searching for Armor-miscellaneous-Trinkets which is where I would suspect to find it. Perhaps there is a bug not registering it as a trinket.
I then decided just to use this thing, and I can confirm that the dragonling is lvl 65 and the cooldown is one hour. It's a great trinket for PvP or if you want to solo rare mobs that you cannot do without a little extra help.
Anyway, the point of my post is to give people the breakdown of how much this thing costs to make so that they know what they are getting into. Also, people see 400g and think I'm crazy, but hopefully they can look at this post now and see why it costs so much. I highly suggest being able to get some of these items on your own, especially the arcanite if you're a miner, otherwise don't try and make this.
how good is Arcanite Dragling really?
Got one now on Shadowsong, works very nicely. I've got a selection of about 8 trinkets that I rotate through so cooldowns are not a problem. The materials are costly but this is a trinket that you can use for months of play, it's not going to be replaced after 1-2 weeks.
But with a refresh of 1 hr on it. its a toy.. really..
It very much does so have a cooldown, 1 hour just the same as the others... 300g down the drain, whee.
you can stack any engineer pet with your own, but you can only have 2 trinkets, so at best, dragon+chicken+yours.
this is about only reason to go past 250 in engineering, it looks very worth the costly run to 300, what i want to know is if using this one, or mithril dragonling, will use cooldown of any of them?


To complete my previous post on actions against climate change, it is worth recalling another recent achievement, the approval last October of the amendment which modifies the Montréal Protocol and which proposes the progressive elimination of hydrofluorocarbons, known as HFCs. The agreement will represent a worldwide reduction of between 80% and 85% by the middle of the century, developed countries taking on the greatest responsibility and beginning to cut the use of HFCs in 2019, before the rest of the states.
The original Protocol, signed in 1987 to protect the ozone layer, following a serious warning by scientists, banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), proposing their replacement with other refrigerant gases which do not damage the ozone layer, such as HFCs.
A scientific paradox since HFCs, although they are not compounds which deplete the ozone layer, reach values up to 10,000 times that of CO2 in terms of global warming, transforming them into very powerful greenhouse gases, considered very harmful for the climate.
The adoption of this new agreement on the progressive elimination of HFCs could prevent a warming of 0.5 degrees during this century, it being considered that this amendment could be the world's greatest contribution to last year's COP 21 Paris agreements.
The balance of the planet is fragile and significant decisions to protect it are often taken lightly, their consequences and interested parties being unknown, but, in the light of experience, the future repercussions are undoubtedly very serious, threatening the planet's sustainability.
With this new post, now that we are approaching the end of 2016, I would like to recall the importance of the approval of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the conference of the parties (COP21), held just one year ago, in December 2015 in Paris, which renewed the goals of the Kyoto Protocol and established a worldwide action plan to limit global warming well below 2ºC above the levels of the pre-industrial era at the end of this century.


Why Software Layers always create new Software Layers « CONSTABLE RESEARCH B.V.
The IT-Industry has evolved in nearly 50 years. In that timeframe, it became the most influential business in the Industry. Everybody is completely dependent on the computer and its software.
The IT-Industry has gone through various technology waves. The waves generated integration problems that were solved by the construction of abstraction layers. The layers not only solved problems. They also created new problems that were solved by other layers. The effect of all intertwining layers is an almost incomprehensible, not manageable, software-complex.
The main reason behind this development is the architecture of the general-purpose computer. It was developed to control and not to collaborate.
Charles Babbage invented the first computer (the Difference Engine) in 1833. Babbage wanted to automate the calculation of mathematical tables. His engine consisted of four parts called the mill (the Central Processing Unit, the Operating System), the Store (the database), the Reader, and the Printer. The machine was steam-driven and run by one attendant. The Reader used punched cards.
Babbage invented a programming-language and a compiler to translate symbols into numbers. He worked together with the first programmer, Lady Lovelace who invented the term bug (a defect in a program). The project of Babbage stopped because nobody wanted to finance him anymore.
It was not until 1954 that a real (business-) market for computers began to emerge by the creation of the IBM 650. The machines of the early 1950s were not much more capable than Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine of the 1830s.
Around 1964 IBM gave birth to the general-purpose computer, the mainframe, in its 360-architecture (360 means all-round). The 360/370-architecture is one of the most durable artifacts of the computer age. It was so successful that it almost created a monopoly for IBM. Just one company, Microsoft, has succeeded to beat IBM by creating the general-purpose computer for the consumer (the PC). Microsoft copied (parts of ) the OS/2-operating system of IBM.
The current technical infrastructure looks a lot like the old fashioned 360/370-architecture but the processors are now located on many places. This was made possible by the sharp increase in bandwith and the network-architecture of the Internet.
Programming a computer in machine code is very difficult. To hide the complexity a higher level of abstraction (a programming language) was created that shielded the complexity of the lower layer (the machine code). A compiler translated the program back to the machine code. Three languages (Fortran, Algol and COBOL) were constructed. They covered the major problem-area's (Industry, Science and Banking) of that time.
When the problem-domains interfered, companies were confronted with integration problems. IBM tried to unify all the major programming-languages (COBOL, Algol and Fortran) by introducing a new standard language, PL1. This approach failed. Companies did not want to convert all their existing programs to the new standard and programmers got accustomed to a language. They did not want to lose the experience they had acquired.
Integration by standardizing on one language has been tried many times (Java, C-Sharp). It will always fail for the same reasons. All the efforts to unify produce the opposite effect, an enormous diversity of languages, a Tower of Bable.
To cope with this problem a new abstraction layer was invented. The processes and data-structures of a company were analyzed and stored in a repository (an abstraction of a database). The program-generator made it possible to generate programs in all the major languages.
It was not possible to re-engineer all the legacy-systems to this abstraction-level. To solve this problem a compensating integration-layer, Enterprise Architecture Integration, was designed.
The PC democratized IT. Millions of consumers bought their own PC and started to develop applications using the tools available. They were not capable to connect their PC's to the mainframe and to acquire the data they needed out of the central databases of the company.
New integration layers (Client-Server Computing and Data-Warehouses) were added.
Employees connected their personal PC to the Internet and found out that they could communicate and share software with friends and colleagues all over the world. To prohibit the entrance of unwanted intruders, companies shielded their private environment by the implementation of firewalls. Employees were unable to connect their personal environment with their corporate environment.
A new integration problem, security, became visible and has to be solved.
It looks like every solution of an integration problem creates a new integration problem in the future.
The process of creating bridges to connect disconnect layers of software is going on and on. The big problem is that the bridges were not created out of a long time perspective. They were created bottom up, to solve an urgent problem.
IT-technology shows all the stages of a growing child. At this moment, companies have to manage and to connect many highly intermingled layers related to almost every step in the maturing process of the computer and its software.
Nobody understands the functionality of the whole and can predict the combined behavior of all the different parts. The effort to maintain and change a complex software-infrastructure is increasing exponentially.
The IT Industry has changed his tools and infrastructure so often that the software-developer had to become an inventor.
He is constantly exploring new technical possibilities not able to stabilize his craft. When a developer is used to a tool he does not want to replace it with another. Most developers do not get the time to gain experience in the new tools and technologies. They have to work in high priority projects. Often the skills that are needed to make use of the new developments are hired outside.
The effect is that the internal developers are focused on maintaining the installed base and get further behind. In the end, the only solution that is left is to outsource the IT-department creating communication problems.
After more than 40 years of software-development, the complexity of the current IT-environment has become overwhelming. The related management costs are beginning to consume any productivity gain that they may be achieving from new technologies.
It is almost impossible to use new technology because 70 to 90% of the IT budget is spent on keeping existing systems running. If new functionality is developed, only 30% of the projects are successful.
If the complexity to develop software is not reduced, it will take 200 million highly specialized workers to support the billion people and businesses that will be connected via the Internet.
In the manufacturing industry, the principles of generalization and specialization are visible. Collaboration makes it possible to create flexible standards and a general-purpose infrastructure to support the standards.
When the infrastructure is established, competition and specialization starts. Cars use a standardized essential infrastructure that makes it possible to use standardized components from different vendors.
Car vendors are not competing on the level of the essential infrastructure. The big problem is that IT-Industry is still fighting on the level of the essential infrastructure, blocking specialization.
To keep their market share the software has to stay in the abstraction framework (the general purpose architecture) they are selling and controlling.
A new collaborative IT-infrastructure is arising. The new infrastructure makes it possible to specialize and simplify programs (now called services). Specialized messages (comparable to the components in the car industry), transported over the Internet, connect the services. This approach makes it much easier to change the connections between the services.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), founded in October 1994, is leading the development of this new collaborative infrastructure. W3C has a commitment to look after the interest of the community instead of business. The influence of W3C is remarkable. The big competitive IT-companies in the market were more or less forced to use the standards created by the consortium. They were unable to create their own interpretation because the standards are produced as open source software.
The basis of the new collaborative foundation is XML (eXtensible Markup Language). XML is a flexible way to create "self-describing data" and to share both the format (the syntax) and the data on the World Wide Web. XML describes the syntax of information.
XML has enabled a new general-purpose technology-concept, called Web-Services. The concept is comparable to the use of containers in intermodal shipping. A container enables the transport a diversity of goods (data, programs, content) from one point to another point. At the destination, the container can be opened. The receiver can rearrange the goods and send them to another place. He can also put the goods in his warehouse and add value by assembling a new product. When the product is ready it can be send with a container to other assembly lines or to retailers to sell the product to consumers.
Web-Services facilitate the flow of complex data-structures (services, data, content) through the Internet. Services, can rearrange data-structures, ad value by combining them with other data-structures and can send the result to other services.
All kinds of specialized data-structures are defined that are meant to let specialized services act on them.
An example is taxation (XML TC). XML TC (a part of the Oasis standards organization) focuses on the development of a common vocabulary that will allow participants to unambiguously identify the tax related information exchanged within a particular business context. The benefits envisioned will include dramatic reductions in development of jurisdictionally specific applications, interchange standards for software vendors, and tax agencies alike. In addition, tax-paying constituents will benefit from increased services from tax agencies. Service providers will benefit due to more flexible interchange formats and reduced development efforts. Lastly, CRM, payroll, financial and other system developers will enjoy reduced development costs and schedules when integrating their systems with tax reporting and compliance systems.
Web-Services are the next shockwave that is bringing the IT-community into a state of fear and attraction. Their promise is lower development cost, and a much simpler architecture. Their threat is that the competition will make a better use of all the new possibilities.
The same pattern emerges. Their installed base of software slows most of the companies down. They will react by first creating an isolated software-environment and will have big problems in the future to connect the old part with the new part.
Web-Services will generate a worldwide marketplace for services. They are now a threat to all the current vendors of big software-packages. In essence, they have to rewrite all their legacy-software and make a split in generic components (most of them will be available for free) and essential services users really want to pay for.
Big software-vendors will transform themselves into specialized market places (service-portals) where users can find and make use of high quality services. Other vendors will create advanced routing-centers where messages will be translated and send to the appropriate processor.
It will be difficult for small service-providers to get the attention and the trust of companies and consumers to make use of their services. They will join in collaborative networks that are able to promote and secure their business (The Open Source Movement). It is impossible to see if they will survive in the still competitive environment where big giants still have an enormous power to influence and a lot of money to create new services.
If the big giants succeed, history will repeat itself. The new emerging software-ecology will slowly lose its diversity.
Web-services are an example of the principles of mass-customization and customer innovation. All the software-vendors are restructuring their big chunks of software into components that can be assembled to create a system.
Small competitors and even customers will also create components. In due time the number of possible combinations of components that are able to create the same functionality will surpass the complexity a human (or a collective of human beings) can handle.
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Le Roux is een dorp in de Belgische provincie Namen en een deelgemeente van Fosses-la-Ville. Le Roux ligt tegen de grens met de provincie Henegouwen, een vijftal kilometer ten westen van het centrum van Fosses langs de weg naar Charleroi.

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How Much Will Victoria Beckham Make For The Spice Girls Reunion Tour? Spoiler — Potentially A Lot
By Megan C. Hills
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According to the Spice Girls, friendship never ends - and neither do business partnerships. There's no doubt that the girl power group's members going on tour are going to make a pretty penny, however there have been a few reports circulating that Victoria Beckham could still get a slice of the pie even though she isn't hopping onstage. Apparently thanks to some nifty business agreements giving her a share of the profits, the tour will still be a bit of a money-spinner for Posh Spice. So, how much will Victoria Beckham make for the Spice Girls reunion tour?
A source told The Sun that as one of the group's original members, she actually "owns a significant cut of the Spice Girls' image and music rights". So that means that she gets a pay cheque whenever the images and music she owns a cut of are used and you can bet they're going to be all over the place in the tour's marketing campaign alone. According to The Mirror, VB is "set to make millions" and The Sun's source says she "doesn't need to step foot on the stage to reap the benefits of the reunion".
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I've reached out to a rep for Victoria Beckham to see if there's any truth to the matter, but TBH it makes sense. She was a founding member and she's actually still listed as an active director of the group's company, Spice Girls Limited. (Mel B, Geri Halliwell, Mel C and Emma Bunton are also active directors.) She put in a ton of work into the group when she was younger, prior to their break up which happened not long after Geri Halliwell decided to go solo in 1998. The band officially went on hiatus in 2000, but never really got back together till now barring a couple of reunion performances here and there.
TMZ is reporting that the four Spice Girls that are touring, Baby, Ginger, Scary and Sporty Spice, are set to make over £2.2 million each for the entire UK reunion tour. It's worth noting that this is based just on the dates they've already announced and since Mel B's been dropping some major hints there's going to be more gigs, they could make even more. Even if VB's only snagging a tiny fraction of that money, I bet it's still going to be a pretty tidy sum.
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Another source told The Mirror earlier this June, "[Beckham] will make a lot of money even if she doesn't take part in the reunion. It's ruffled feathers as she is still set to benefit hugely without having to do much. At the moment she wants minimal involvement."
Even though we won't see Posh Spice joining the girls, there's no bad blood between the Spices. Between her fashion brand, family and a potential move to Miami, she's got enough on her hands and it makes sense her priorities are elsewhere.
She still wished her band mates well commenting in a statement, "Being in the Spice Girls was a hugely important part of my life and I wish my girls so much love and fun as they go back on tour, I know they will put on an amazing show and the fantastic fans past and present are going to have a wonderful time!"
Tickets for the Spice Girls reunion tour will go live at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, so make sure to set your alarms. You won't want to miss out.

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One-Rank-One-Pension (OROP) was coined by Veterans of the Indian Armed Forces – the army, navy and airforce, collectively called the "Fauj" - to indicate what they have been demanding since the 1980s. "OROP" is used by Veterans to unambiguously state the concept: "uniform pension for military personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of service irrespective of their date of retirement, and any future enhancement in the rates of pension be automatically passed on to past pensioners", the meaning and import of which has been understood by successive parliaments and successive governments.
The reason for use of the word "military" is that over 90% of Faujis are soldiers who are compulsorily retired with a meagre pension (less than Group 'D' government employees) at 35-37 years of age, so that the fighting force remains young, with the vigour, strength and stamina required in battle. Indeed, the generic term for the Indian soldier is "Jawan", which means "youth". This does not apply to any other service in India, armed or unarmed, uniformed or not.
The reason for demanding OROP is to overcome the double disadvantage of soldiers who receive basic pension based upon the Central Pay Commission (CPC) in force at time of retirement – they are compulsorily retired at age 35 years, thus denied earnings upto age 60 available to all non-military pensioners, and their basic pension is not upgraded with increased pensions of subsequent CPCs.
Mr.Modi had no doubt what was meant by OROP because, in his campaign for the 2014 general elections, he had explicitly promised OROP to Veterans. Later as PM, he again promised OROP when addressing serving troops at Siachen glacier, knowing full well that these Jawans would soon be Veterans.
But latterly, Mr.Modi has remained silent on OROP after stating that he had doubts about the definition of OROP. While it is true that, not unlike his predecessor, he is silent on many other important issues, his silence on OROP is strongly demotivating for both serving faujis and Veterans. It is surprising that the gravity of his silence on OROP in its national security implications is not understood by a person of his political acumen.
On 31 March 2014, a 3-Judge Bench of the Apex Court ruled ["One rank one pension for HC judges, rules Supreme Court"; "The Hindu"; New Delhi, April 1, 2014; http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/one-rank-one-pension-for-hc-judges-rules-supreme-court/article5856980.ece that "there should not be any disparity in the pension of High Court judges, irrespective of the source from where they are drawn", and that the disparity was "was highly discriminatory and breach of Article 14". The Court also pointed out that due to such disparity, "... the quality of justice declines". The Bench thus ruled, "One rank, one pension must be the norm in respect of a constitutional office", and directed government to amend the rules so as to implement OROP for the judiciary. The norm of "one-rank-one-pension" applicable to the judiciary to remove pension disparity between judges is unambiguous, even if used in the context of a constitutional office.
Today's ambience is one of unprincipled politicking by political parties, causing crumbling of national institutions, all to the national detriment. The public is disgusted at the wholesale corruption in government organs, and public trust in national institutions is at an all-time low. In this ambience, it is apt to quote from a report titled "Democracy in India: A Citizens' Perspective": "As in 2005, political parties were the least trusted political institutions, and the police the least trusted unelected institution. Trust in Parliament, while low, rose between 2005 and 2013, while the Army continued to be the most trusted institution. The civil service was perceived as the most corrupt, more so than local, State and Central governments". ["Many have faith in unelected bodies, but India values dissent"; "The Hindu", New Delhi, August 8, 2015; http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/many-have-faith-in-unelected-bodies-but-india-values-dissent/article7513414.ece . The term "Army" obviously refers to the Fauj, and the results are arguably correct today even though the survey pertains to 2013.
Politically emasculating his own ministers soon after taking oath of office, PM Modi directed senior bureaucrats to report directly to the PMO. Thus, especially after Mr.Modi's own promises, the entire responsibility for not implementing OROP lies squarely on the PM and his bureaucrat advisers. And, as with previous governments, OROP for the fauj, the most trusted institution in India, is being consistently denied by politicians who are in a nexus with the publicly-named "most corrupt" civil service.
While there is no copyright on the term "OROP", the irony is that in just 18 months, government is amending the law to grant OROP to the judiciary, while even 18 years after coining the phrase, disillusioned Veterans are staging satyagraha with no light at the end of the tunnel of arrogant bureaucratic malfeasance over a supposedly decisive PM.
Major General S.G. Vombatkere, VSM, retired in 1996 as Additional DG Discipline & Vigilance in Army HQ AG's Branch. He holds a PhD degree in Structural Dynamics from I.I.T, Madras. He is Adjunct Associate Professor of the University of Iowa, USA, in international studies. With over 400 published papers in national and international journals and seminars, his current area of interest is strategic and development-related issues.


A protester who shouted an obscenity about King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands could face up to five years in prison and a fine of more than €20,000 (£14,800) under a 19th-century law against insulting the monarch, Dutch prosecutors have said.
Abulkasim al-Jaberi, who describes himself as an anti-racism activist, was detained in December while demonstrating against a centuries-old Dutch Christmas parade at which black-faced helpers called "Zwarte Piet" (Black Pete) assist Santa Claus. Critics of the custom say the use of blackface is racist.
A prosecution spokesman, Franklin Wattimena, said on Thursday that Jaberi, a Dutch-Iraqi journalist, had been summoned to appear in court on 27 May after failing to pay a €500 fine.
He could be thrown behind bars under a law dating back to 1881 against insulting the king, Wattimena said. The law is enforced roughly about once a year.
The best known recent example of its use was against a man who threw a crumpled tinfoil candle holder at the horse-drawn carriage of Queen Beatrix five years ago. He was sentenced to five months in prison.


Let's face it; keeping your closet tidy is easier said than done. More often than not, we're in a hurry to go to work, school, or whatever the day entails and don't really have time to keep the closet in perfect order. Over time, the cumulative effect of this day-to-day negligence leads to a messy closet that just adds more stress to our life. In today's post, the organizational gurus at Handyman Connection of McKinney share tips on how to keep your closet organized.
First, designate a staging area where you can place the contents of your closet as you empty it out. We recommend a cleared-out portion of your room, but you can use your desk, chairs, or even the bed. Then, remove everything in the closet, from clothes to boxes, and place each item neatly in your staging area.
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Trump Team Considers Nationalizing 5G: Axios
Why This Matters: 5G will drive the next generation of IoT technology, and this decision (although considered extremely unlikely) could have vast implications on its progress.
Could America's 5G network be nationalized by the federal government in the next three years, becoming a "21st century equivalent of the Eisenhower National Highway System"?
It's a dramatic possibility being raised by Trump national security officials, according to a story published over the weekend by Axios. But the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission immediately sought to squash the idea in a statement Monday morning.
Axios is a news site founded in 2016 by three former top executives at Politico. Its story says internal administration documents argue that to protect against China, America needs a centralized nationwide 5G network, America needs a centralized nationwide 5G network, and that they outline an option under which the government would pay for and build a single network — essentially a federal takeover of part of the U.S. mobile communications system.
The material was produced by a "senior National Security Council official," according to Axios, and presented recently to leaders at other agencies. According to Axios, one internal presentation states that China "is the dominant malicious actor in the Information Domain," and that the best way to respond would be for the government to build a network and rent access to carriers.
Axios noted that this would be "a marked shift from the current system where those companies each build their own systems with their own equipment, and with airwaves leased from the federal government."
Whether this internal discussion is anywhere near becoming administration policy is unclear. Such internal long-term discussions are common in Washington. One source told Axios that the draft in question is an "old" one and a newer version is neutral about whether the government should build and own it. The documents also outline other possible plans, including a market consortium approach that still would involve more cooperation among competitors than is currently the case. The carrier industry is a powerful one on the Hill. And Axios noted that U.S. deployment of 5G infrastructure is already well underway in the private marketplace. AT&T told the news outlet that 5G launch in the country is "already well down the road."
But it's a subject with vast implications, raising the possibility of a federal process for installing wireless equipment, regulating wireless sales and in the longer term influencing development of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, autonomous cars and the Internet of Things.
Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC named to that position by President Trump, immediately reacted: "I oppose any proposal for the federal government to build and operate a nationwide 5G network," he said in a statement.
"The main lesson to draw from the wireless sector's development over the past three decades—including American leadership in 4G—is that the market, not government, is best positioned to drive innovation and investment," Pai continued. "What government can and should do is to push spectrum into the commercial marketplace and set rules that encourage the private sector to develop and deploy next-generation infrastructure. Any federal effort to construct a nationalized 5G network would be a costly and counterproductive distraction from the policies we need to help the United States win the 5G future."
The wireless industry agrees.
"The wireless industry agrees that winning the race to 5G is a national priority," said CTIA president Meredith Attwell Baker, but she signaled industry should be the one driving that train: "The government should pursue the free market policies that enabled the U.S. wireless industry to win the race to 4G."
The president is expected to talk about infrastructure needs in his State of the Union speech January 30.
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How Kirstie Alley's Donald Trump support made her a 'blackball' in Hollywood
Kirstie Alley claimed to have been "blackballed" by Hollywood for supporting Donald Trump before she died.
former cheers The actress died on Monday at the age of 71. Her children announced her death in a statement saying she was being treated for cancer.
Several celebrities paid tribute to Alley in messages online, but before she died, the star openly spoke about how she felt Hollywood had turned its back on her for cheering for Donald Trump. .
Featuring Kirsty Alley and Donald Trump. The actress believed she was slammed by Hollywood for endorsing the former president in the 2016 and 2020 elections.
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Alley's support for Republican politicians has been yo-yoed for years, but even in 2021, she said she's still feeling the effects.
During the 2016 presidential election, Alley initially said she would not vote for Hillary Clinton. Later that year, she tweeted that she would endorse presidential candidate Trump and one of his supporters. to) Hello!this is my official endorsement [Donald Trump] & I'm a woman! (checked last) and Rudy [Giuliani], ur amazing! " wrote Alley.
By early October 2016, Alley withdrew his support for either candidate, stating that he disliked the election. Nonetheless, she later confirmed she voted for Trump and would vote again in the 2020 election because he is "not a politician."
"He will get things done quickly and turn the economy around quickly," she wrote on Twitter in October 2020.
i am voting for @realDonald Trump Because he is not a politician. I voted for him four years ago for this reason and I will vote for him again for this reason. He gets things done quickly and turns the economy around quickly. There is 🙄
— Kirsty Alley (@kirstiealley) October 17, 2020
While her outspoken support for Trump was liked by many on social media, Alley later revealed that she felt backlash for her actions.
"People say, 'You're so brave.' I say, 'No, I think I'm stupid.' Because honestly, it's a real blackball situation," Alley said during an appearance on Fox Nation. tucker carlson today May 2021.
"You can make meth and sleep with prostitutes, but apparently, unless you're voting for Trump… twilight zone A little bit on the whole concept of it," she added.
Many celebrities have expressed their admiration and sadness for Alley online after her death, but she felt that was not the case in 2021.
"A lot of celebrities used to follow me on Twitter, but now I think three people follow me." I was like, 'Oh, you liked me when I voted for Obama, and now you're like this? no longer. "
after her appearance tucker carlson tonightTrump expressed his admiration for her and thanked Alley for her support in a statement.
"She is a great actress, loved by so many people and a real originality. She is also strong and smart. I am so grateful for her support.Thank you Kirsty.You really appreciate it."
"Very kind approval," Alley wrote on Twitter in response to Trump's endorsement.
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INSIDE FINLAND'S SMART PRISON
A man serving a life sentence for murder takes a dip in an ice pool, then goes to his dormitory to shower before driving off to college in his own car.
It sure doesn't sound like a prison sentence to us, but in Finland it is. Well, if you're lucky enough to be in one of the country's newest prisons.
The Scandinavian country is trying out what they call smart prisons. Instead of locking up offenders, they are rehabilitated by letting them live a somewhat normal life within society. To be honest, to us it sounds more like free boarding and food at a dodgy address you probably won't reveal on your first date.
Business Insider took us on a tour of what it's like to live in one of these smart prisons and, to us, it seems not bad at all.
With Finland recently being voted the happiest and safest country in the world, there might be some truth to this system.
Research done by the Business Insider guys shows that only one in three Finish inmates return to prison. The other two are able to ease back into society thanks to the system allowing them to do so.
New stats have shown that there are less than 3,000 inmates currently in the prison system in Finland. Not bad for a country with almost six million people.
Of course, not all Finish prisons are as easy-going as smart prisons. In one prison, where inmates are held in cells, they can at least make use of VR to escape the boring everyday life behind bars. Again, it doesn't seem bad at all.
Watch the Business Insider below to see what it's like at one of Finland's smart prisons.
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QGD Janowski Variation: Complete Guide
WGM Raluca Sgîrcea, IM Renier Castellanos
Category: Openings
Tags: Janowski Variation, QGD, queens gambit declined,
The Queen's Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4) is one of the most popular openings in chess. It is appreciated both by amateurs and strong players and we see it at every top-level tournament. Black can choose between many set-ups, with the main decision being made as early as move two – accept the gambit or not? Both options are fine, with the Queen's Gambit Accepted making a comeback at the top-level lately. Black's position is solid and there are a few tricky lines if white doesn't know exactly what they're doing.
In this article we're going to take a look at one particular line in the Queen's Gambit Declined variation, where black replies with 2…e6. This is also known as the Orthodox Variation and for a while, it had the reputation of being a passive choice against the Queen's Gambit. Black is locking the light-squared bishop in and has to deal with the temporary lack of space.
However, the plan is to strike in the center by means of either …c5 or …e5, depending on white's set-up. One set-up that has become very popular lately is the QGD Janowski Variation, which appears on the board after the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 a6:
This variation used to be considered harmless and quite passive. However, recent games have shown that black has some very interesting ideas. Its popularity suddenly rose recently, when World Champion Magnus Carlsen started using it in his games. Far from harmless, this line can turn sharp pretty fast. So, let's dive in!
QGD Janowski Variation: Background – Part 1
The line is named after the very strong master Dawid Janowski, who was one of the world's best players at the beginning of the 20th century. He was a very dangerous attacking player and produced a few flashes of brilliance throughout his career. In 1910 he challenged World Champion Emmanuel Lasker for the supreme title but lost the match.
However, when in good shape, he could be merciless and is one of the only players (together with Tarrasch) to have defeated all four World Champions – Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine. Apart from this line in the Queen's Gambit Declined, he has another opening named after him – The Janowski Indian, which is still used nowadays as a surprise weapon.
He played 4…a6 against the Queen's Gambit a few times with mixed results. One of his most memorable games in this line has to be his win against Steinitz, a game that he won in style, true to his aggressive style:
Steinitz, W – Janowski, D, London 1899
Black to play
Here he continued with move 23…Bxg2, a sacrifice that can be refuted with correct play, but Steinitz couldn't find the only defensive resource available. The game continued with 24.Kxg2 Rac8 25.Qd5? Re5 26.Qd7 Qxf5 27.Rac1 Qe4+, after which white's king is wide open and eventually got mated on g3 some moves later.
Background – Part 2
Another game that shows one of the black's plans and how to achieve domination on the queenside is his game against Francis Lee played in the same tournament in 1899:
Lee, F – Janowski, D, London 1899
White has just played the move 20.Qe2, probably underestimating black's chances on the queenside. The game continued with 20…c4! grabbing the space and eventually outplaying his opponent:
After this tournament, many other strong players tried his idea. Alekhine, Euwe, Rubinstein, and Polugaevsky are just some of the names who have employed the QGD Janowski Variation in the Queen's Gambit Declined. The line still didn't quite have a big success until recent years, when Magnus Carlsen started using it, but this time with great success.
QGD Janowski Variation: The idea – Part 1
Now that we've seen more or less the kind of position that black wants to achieve, let's understand what move 3…a6 wants; what is black's plan? First of all, this move asks white a direct question – what are you going to do about the pawn on c4?
In the Queen's Gambit white sacrifices a pawn on move two with c4. But, as the Queen's Gambit Accepted shows us, this pawn on c4 is not something black can hang on to for too long. Usually, white gets it back very fast and has very little to worry about. However, once …a6 is on the board, the threat of …dxc4 becomes real.
Now black can actually win the pawn and defend it with …b5. If white plays the natural-looking 4.Nc3, black will reply with 4…dxc4 and support it with the b pawn. White's most natural reply here is 5.a4, stopping black's idea, but now, after 5…Nc6 black will defend it by means of …Na5:
White can eventually get the pawn back with correct play, but black will keep a comfortable position.
However, it is easy to go wrong with white, and black has some interesting ways to play at their disposal. The following game by Romanian Grandmaster Constantin Lupulescu shows one of the resources black has in these positions – sacrificing the exchange on a8:
Ozkan, E – Lupulescu, C, Konya 2017
The idea – Part 2
Here black can take the knight on b5! You can often see this idea in some lines of the Queen's Gambit Accepted (2…dxc4), but it works even better in this position. The fact that the dark-squared bishop is cut off from d2 gives black great play. As you will see, there are a few tactical ideas available and white's king can't easily get into safety.
Of course, white doesn't have to play 4.Nc4 and can easily avoid this small trap. In fact, the most common move after 3…a6 is 4.cxd5. But white has now shown their cards and black knows exactly how to react. And here we get to perhaps the main reason behind black's third move – black wants to make a useful move while waiting for white to decide how they'll deal with the threat of taking on c4. Once that is clarified, it is generally easier for black to know how to place their pieces.
In addition, the fact that black has a pawn on a6 can be useful for a number of reasons, but the number one reason is that it will help support the advance of the pawns on the queenside. Players usually achieve this expansion playing …c5, which black now plays in only one move, without wasting a tempo on …c6, and eventually …b5 and …c4 (similar to Janowski's game above).
QGD Janowski Variation: Theory
As this line is relatively little-known, the theory you would need to learn is little and still developing. White's main answer is 4.cxd5, going for an Exchange Variation set-up, but it is also possible to play with 4.e3 and b3 or go for a Catalan set-up with 4.g3.
If this variation has caught your eye and you'd like to give it a go, you can start by studying some model games and trying to understand the ideas black plays for. As I've already mentioned, one of the specialists in this line is Magnus Carlsen, who has obtained some instructive wins in it. Other players who have used it frequently are Francisco Vallejo Pons, Dmitry Andreikin (most recently in the Belgrade Grand Prix), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Nils Grandelius, and Alexander Rakhmanov.
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Saeed Naqvi29 Oct 2017 3:50 PM GMT
The final shootout in the old Wild West movies has the camera dwelling on the blaze engulfing the Sheriff's office. The Sheriff leads the charge into the saloon where the bad men lounge around.
If this analogy is to be applied to the final blow up taking place in West Asia, particularly since the Russians entered Syria in 2015 to help fight "terrorist outfits" like Jabhat al Nusra, Al Qaeda, ISIS and so on, the script will have to be expanded on an epic scale, focusing not only on one saloon but on a series of them, serving clusters of homesteads. Kobane, Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, Homs, Palmyra, Mosul, Raqqa, Kirkuk.
I can set the scene for the script having travelled to Homs, Hama, Daraa at the outset when US Ambassador Stephen Ford was promoting democracy and meeting insurgents. It was an open road show. Americans had said at the very outset of their involvement in Syria that they would not have their boots on the ground. The Russians had indicated no such squeamishness. In other words, the Russians would have a ringside seat on Americans' messy involvement with Nusra here or Al Qaeda there.
These gangs were instantly transformed into freedom fighters whenever the need arose. Simply put, terrorists fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were freedom fighters, worthy of support in training with lethal weapons. But Assad fighting terrorists was foul: he was a thug, thwarting democracy. Heads I win; tails you lose. Of course, there must be excesses committed by Assad, like us in Kashmir, but the larger context dwarves these.
If you find my tone at a variance from what you have seen and read on Syria, do please watch Congressional hearings with Army Commanders managing the Syrian show. Not to be missed is the hapless Defence Secretary, Ashton Carter, admitting before a full press corps how a $500 million programme to train Syrians had to be abandoned because the trainees handed their weapons to Jabhat al Nusra and found safe passage to few know where. The mad pursuit for a New Middle East, repeatedly thwarted, keeps resurfacing, hydra-like. The driving force behind the neocon dream has metastasized into all sorts of outlandish and frightful scenarios.
Has the strategic community forgotten founder of the Blackwater, Eric Prince's idea of "governing" Afghanistan exactly as the British governed India in the early 20th century - under a "Viceroy"? Yes, the written proposal was under active consideration of the President of the US last summer, with his adviser Steve Bannon grinning from ear to ear at the prospect of Afghan raw materials funnelled suitably into Trump's "America first" receptacle. Read the Atlantic magazine on that theme. The deal was almost done.
Never mind if they were not allowed to reinvent the British empire in Afghanistan. The world's biggest provider of mercenary fighting units controls other fiefdoms. They are a part of the core group advising the Abu Dhabi ruler. Thanks to Blackwater, Latin American soldiers are fighting for the Saudis in Yemen. How will countries like Colombia utilise their citizens trained and tested in combat when they return home? Bogota may not have the money to afford Blackwater, but surely Trump may find battle-ready Colombians useful against a country on his hit-list: Venezuela.
The most sinister part of the post 9/11 wars inaugurated by the US in West Asia is their endlessness. This has become so, particularly after the Afghan and Iraqi experience. The US learnt at a great cost that troops in both theatres were inextricably bogged down in the quicksand. Wisdom dawned. Air power, missiles, drones would provide cover, if needed, to "indigenous" foot soldiers, armed to the teeth with fierce Jihadism and financed, well, by Saudi Arabia. Qatar, Turkey, the Emirates; who have all had their hand in this till.
In its first, experimental stage this Jihadism was able to push back Soviet power from Afghanistan in 1989. The carelessness with which the US turned its back on this high voltage takfirism was stunning. US strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski's terse comment was typical: "We were focused on bringing down the Soviet Union; we were not worried about some stirred up Muslims."
These "stirred up" Muslims boomeranged in Kashmir, Cairo, Algiers. The post 9/11 wars with Jihadist foot soldiers, has left a rich crop of Jihadists in platoon and company strength.
Robert Fisk, the authoritative journalist on West Asia, has a telling piece in The Independent: "ISIS has lost Raqqa - so where will its fighters head to next?" The Syrian Democratic Forces, mostly Kurdish, backed by the Americans, were supposed to be fighting the IS.
What has actually happened is mind-boggling. US air power has flattened Raqqa on the scale of Dresden in World War II. But by Fisk's testimony, 275 IS fighters have been freed to go where they like. Deir ez-Zzor is one destination. But they can be relocated far afield to unsettle any targeted society with a Muslim minority. The Moscow initiative on Afghanistan had anticipated some of this. When China, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and eventually even India and several Central Asian countries met in Moscow last April, the main item on the agenda was that Taliban, being an Afghan National entity, should be incorporated in Kabul's power structure. The move would isolate the IS, Al Qaeda and their affiliates and thus prevent them from unsettling countries in the region.
The Moscow initiative came after Trump's announcement: He would drastically scale down the man force in Afghanistan. But, true to form, Trump changed his mind. He has now embarked on an open-ended involvement in Afghanistan - with all accompanying dangers. In the name of fighting the IS, Afghanistan may end up becoming a hatchery for multiples of IS and Al Qaedas. The Mujahideen will have come full circle. Has Islamic militancy increased since the global war on terror was launched? An honest answer will place this piece in perspective.
(The author is a senior commentator on political and diplomatic affairs. Views expressed are strictly personal.)
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31 August 2015 - 12:39pm | posted by Tony Connelly
Bayern Munich FC to increase global brand awareness with Goal.com partnership
Bayern Munich football club will attempt to grow its brand awareness in on North American and Asian markets through a new partnership with leading football website Goal.com.
The deal will include the mutual exchange of content across all digital platforms with a particular focus in promoting the content in North America and Asia where the German club wants to increase its 400 million strong fan base.
Both parties are expected to benefit from the partnership, with FC Bayern receiving editorial and video content surrounding the Bundesliga from Goal.com which is designed to offer fans comprehensive coverage on the club's media platforms.
Goal.com's website operates 37 localized editions in 18 languages which gives it a huge global reach and millions of monthly visitors. It will benefit from receiving behind-the-scenes content from club which will in turn help grow its viewership and brand awareness.
Executive Board Member of Internationalization and Strategy of FC Bayern Munich, Joerg Wacker, described the partnership as "an important step in our internationalization strategy" and said that the agreement would increase the club's "visibility in our target markets in the U.S. and China."
Martyn Jones, Global GM of Goal.com was "delighted" to formalize the collaboration with FC Bayern and added that the website's influence and scale in emerging football markets "supports Bayern's global development."
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