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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
TARICAYA RESEARCH CENTRE: February 2011
Whilst February is the shortest month of the year it is no surprise to have a headache as to where to begin as we have been working hard on several different fronts over the recent weeks. Our emphasis has been on the exciting new mammal census, the new turtle house and large scale clearing and recovery work on the pilot farm. With the effects of "El Niño" being felt around the world, it has manifested itself in our corner of the Amazon rainforest in the guise of torrential rains and thunderous storms. This year's wet season is undoubtedly the heaviest we have seen for many years and with the turbulent Madre de Dios River coming within inches of bursting its banks it was touch and go for a few days as to whether the lodge would be flooded and emergency measures implemented. Fortunately the rains eased off for a couple of days and water levels dropped to non-critical levels and it was time to head out into the forest and assess the damage!
The worst hit trails were those along the edges of the river as huge chunks of earth were swept away by the raging currents and it was soon apparent that we would have to open new sections of trails further back from the river. The continual erosion is becoming a real problem near the centre as well. The volunteer recreation area is now just a few feet from the river's edge (when built it was over 5m from the river bank!) so when the dry season comes we shall have to try and reinforce the sandy banks with a system of stakes and long stretches of protective covering and hope that this is enough come the next wet season. Elsewhere the reserve weathered the storms surprisingly well. Generally the worst tree-falls happen at the start of the wet season in the first heavy rains but these last few weeks brought unusually strong winds. Fortunately it appears that the weakest trees had already been felled in the earlier storms and the trails were amazingly intact. The biggest inconvenience is huge areas of forest have become flooded by rainwater and the lodge area is almost an island surrounded by temporary swamps, even access to the canopy walkway requires wading through rain-filled depressions. The end result of this freak weather system: a greater sense of adventure heading out into the forest. Work continued as usual.
Every week this month we headed out along the five designated transects in search of the mammals in the reserve. We performed four surveys by day and one at night. The results were very interesting in that as the swamps became fuller our sightings became fewer. This is a logical discovery as the animals will obviously search out drier areas for foraging and sleeping but even the large troops of monkeys seemed to have retreated to the higher terraces at the back of the reserve and in the adjoining national park. We cannot enter the national park and our limiting trail at the back of the reserve provided us with the most sightings. This transect crosses the end of the reserve and is a few hundred metres from higher forest dominated by Brazil nut trees and emergent canopy species. Here we encountered large groups of peccary (white-lipped and collared) and fresh tapir and jaguar tracks. Elsewhere the long stretches of water had forced most of the mammals further back into the forest and we encountered a few smaller species of mammal such as the Southern Amazonian red squirrel (Sciurus spadiceus) and the brown agouti (Dasyprocta variegata) which is a large terrestrial rodent. The night census was less productive as it is hard to concentrate on the tree tops when wading through large swamps especially with the beady eyes of caiman glistening in the distance! The caiman will not attack, unlike the more aggressive crocodile and alligator species, but it is disconcerting, especially if this is your first such adventure!
Whilst it would be amazing to see a huge variety of mammals on these surveys the results are of great importance. The abundance of food available during the wet season means that animals do not need to cover large areas when foraging and so can concentrate in the areas that are not seasonally flooded without suffering competition for resources. As the Taricaya reserve is crossed by seasonally flooded depressions the larger mammals have obviously moved to the higher areas and the unusually high water levels have forced them further back yet. It is also harder to move quietly through the forest when wading through water, often swimming small stretches, and this coupled with the extra concentration needed to stay upright means that we are more likely to miss some animals that will move on quietly before we notice them. When we analyse all the final data we must consider the climatic conditions and its influence on our findings. With two more months of study in the wet season I am certain that these initial conclusions will be justified further.
Ironically, as our mammal census was demonstrating a scarcity of mammals around the reserve we did have a couple of great sightings from our various observation platforms. One sunny afternoon a lucky group of volunteers saw two independent troops of red howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus) from the canopy platform. Then, just a few days later, a different group was treated to a spectacular sighting of a Southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) from the HOB blind. The tamandua is a medium-sized arboreal anteater and it was feeding right in front of the hidden platform...unfortunately no-one had take a camera as a large swamp needed to be crossed to reach the blind!
Back at the pilot farm it was time to tackle the dense undergrowth of quick growing pioneer plants eager to choke our flowers and fruit trees. The heavy rains followed by bright sun meant that it was a tough challenge to clear away all the "weeds" that were flourishing in the perfect growing conditions. As we headed out to the farm in large groups it was a case of tackling the task by sections and over the weeks we regained the advantage leaving the lines of flowers and trees clear. Elsewhere at the farm, in the far corner of the grass plot, we were continuing with the construction of our turtle house. The heavy rains had caused the shade netting to stretch with the weight of the water and so we had to re-tense the guide ropes and provide support for the roof with internal bamboo struts. The next stage is to dig the pools and cover them with cement but we must wait for the ground to dry out a little first.
It was not all work however this month and even though it is a difficult time of year to find caiman in the rivers I gave a talk on these prehistoric reptiles and after dinner we headed out onto the river scanning the river banks for tell-tale orange eye shine. The presence of large flooded areas in the forest interior means that the river-dwelling caiman move back into the forest during the wet season to avoid continually changing river levels and raging currents. Thus, I was not surprised that after over an hour of cruising up and down the river I had yet to spot any caiman. In a final attempt we crossed the river and headed up a branch of the river that is only accessible this time of year with the high water levels. At the very top of this ribbon of water I caught a glimpse of orange eyes in amongst some tall reeds. It was my one and only chance to catch a caiman and as I fished it out from the water in a desperate lunge I was astounded to see it was an incredibly rare dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus trigonatus). The dwarf caiman is the smallest species of Crocodilian in the Americas, maybe the world, and thus it is very elusive. They usually inhabit small streams or swamps too small to support the other three larger species of caiman. Why then, was it in the river? The heavy rains have filled even the smallest swamps to unusually high levels and so this dwarf caiman had obviously been displaced by transient caiman big enough to temporarily take over its territory. Nonetheless it was a fantastic capture and these heavily armoured reptiles make up for their size deficiency with a serious attitude and at no point was the caiman relaxed until I released it back into the water.
So, as you can see, it has been another eventful and exciting month here in the Amazon rainforest and next month will see us welcome back Hugo Zamora for a visit as we search for more individuals of the exciting fruit bat captured at the end of last year in nets hung from the canopy walkway. With more samples of the same species we will be able to confirm whether it is a new species to science and that would be a truly breathtaking discovery. We shall be continuing with the mammal census, rebuilding a new primate enclosure, re-installing our herpetology traps and much more......so until then!
Stuart Timson
Conservation Director
Projects Abroad
1st March, 2011


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Patch 5.4 is here, and that means it's time for a WeakAuras update. The first and perhaps most important piece of news is that WeakAuras has moved. The original author quit updating it two years ago, and Stanzilla has been generously maintaining it for the community. He's decided to move the project to WeakAuras 2 from this point forward. The good news is that you won't need to change anything; WeakAuras 2 uses the same folder structure and files as WeakAuras, so updating to WeakAuras 2 is as simple as downloading and extracting, just like you would for any other new version of WeakAuras.
Special note if you're using Curse Client: You'll want to add WeakAuras 2 to your addon list and uninstall the old WeakAuras, which will no longer be updated. Make sure you uncheck the "Also delete the in-game settings for this addon" box when removing WeakAuras. If you leave that box checked when uninstalling, Curse Client will remove your existing WeakAuras setup and you'll have to start from scratch!
The basic layout of my Paladin setup hasn't changed much at all since 5.3. However, there is one new element I'm toying with. A Youtube user messaged me to ask if there was any way I could construct a WeakAura element they saw elsewhere:
The weakaura in question is something I saw on Riggnaros's stream over at http://www.twitch.tv/riggnarosbl/b/434932264 – you'll find it at the bottom of his UI to the right of his action bars. It appears to be a WeakAura group consisting of 3 progress bars. The top bar displays his current vengeance, the 2nd bar displays the current vengeance of his other tank, and the final bar shows how much vengeance would be gained by the other tank if he was to taunt.
For reference, this is the UI element he's talking about.
And when there's a Vengeance gain to be had by taunting, it looks like this:
It also seems as if he's got it color-coded. In the above screenshot, Rigg would gain Vengeance by taunting off of Absalom. But in this one, Absalom would gain Vengeance by taunting off of Rigg:
The third bar that the Youtube user described is actually just another bar for Absallom, Absalom's alt tank:
In other words, the bars for the off-tanks are probably hard-coded to the player's name, hence why he has one for each tank he frequently plays with. It also seems sort of glitchy, in that it shows up midway through their Council of Elders kill, so the triggering may be a little funky.
Trying to replicate this in WeakAuras is not too difficult, but does require a lot of custom lua code. We need to create a progress bar of "Custom" type and write custom lua functions to handle the triggering and untriggering (i.e. display/hide) as well as to set the length of the bar and the text showing the player's name and the AP gain. The difficulty is compounded slightly by a bug in WeakAuras that I stumbled across and subsequently fixed.
If doing all that yourself sounds like a tall order, you're in luck. Here's my version: WeakAuras Vengeance Bars. I've taken a slightly different approach than Rigg has.
The bar for your own Vengeance is more or less identical to what he has. It shows your name on the left and the numerical value of Vengeance on the right. I've taken the liberty of converting the text to pretty-print format (i.e. converting 10000 to 10k) to make it easier to read at a glance.
However, rather than capping it at a fixed 300k as Rigg has, I've set it up to dynamically adjust in discrete steps based on your current Vengeance. In other words, if your Vengeance is less than 80k, it will set the bar's maximum at 100k. If you exceed 80k, it will reset the maximum to 200k, and so on in 100k increments. Every time you exceed 80% of the maximum, it will reconfigure the maximum. It's also got a 15-second decay timer on that functionality, so that it won't twitch spasmodically when you're near a threshold.
The bar for your co-tank's Vengeance is a little more versatile than Rigg's. First, it's coded to use target-of-target, so that it will automatically adjust to whoever currently has aggro. That way, you don't need to hard-code a name in there. And it will automatically hide if the boss has no target or is targeting you.
The downside, of course, is that you can't see the other tank's Vengeance level when they don't have aggro. But since you can't get any Vengeance by taunting when the boss isn't targeting that tank, that's mostly irrelevant for the majority of players.
Since some players might like to monitor their co-tank's Vengeance, there's also a third bar for that. However, it's hardcoded to the name of my co-tank (Agwyne). To change it, go to the "Off-Tank Vengeance" aura, choose the Display tab, and click on the "Expand Text Editor" button next to "Custom function." In the editor that pops up, you'll need to change the following line:
THECK_VBAR_OTNAME = "Agwyne"
Change "Agwyne" to "YourOffTanksName" and it should automatically display your off-tank's name and Vengeance values for this bar.
I should note that all three of the bars automatically adjust size together, so that you can always make at-a-glance comparisons between them.
On the target-of-target bar, text showing the potential gain you stand to receive by taunting shows up when there is a gain to be had. In other words, if you won't gain any Vengeance by taunting, it will just show the target-of-target's name. If you can gain Vengeance, it'll show "(+X AP from Taunt)" after the name. It won't ever show you when another tank will gain Vengeance by taunting off of you, since that's not something you can control anyway.
Finally, there's another set of green underlay/overlay bars on top of your bar to tell you the Vengeance level at which your current Sacred Shield or Eternal Flame was cast. If you're at higher AP than you were when you last cast SS/EF, the green bar will be shorter than your (red) Vengeance bar, and the text will also tell you the potential AP gain in a similar fashion to the Vengeance gain ("+X AP for SS"). If you're at lower AP than when you last cast SS, the green bar will be in the background so you can see that fact visually. Since all of these bars are fairly complicated, and not everyone will want the SS/EF overlays (most other tanks wouldn't use them), I've split them off into a separate group: SS/EF Vengeance Bar Overlays
Here's a video of it in action with Sacred Shield:
I've also updated the older text auras that display Vengeance and SS information to include Eternal Flame, since there's a good chance we'll be using it in 5.4. There's now indicators that tells you how many HP you spent on your last Eternal Flame and how many Bastion of Glory stacks were consumed in addition to the usual Vengeance and Haste indicators. That group can be found here: Vengeance / SS / EF text indicators.
Here's another video showing the Eternal Flame indicators:
Note that I have them set up to load only for Protection Paladins at the moment (easier for testing), so if you play another class you'll need to change the Load conditions. If you play multiple tanking classes, I suggest using the bottom condition for dungeon role, though this means they won't load when you're soloing.
While you won't see them in either of those videos, I've also added greyed-out SS and EF indicators for when you've cast the buff on other players (for example, if you put SS on your co-tank while you're off-tanking). You'll have to go in and change the name of the player it's checking to your off-tank's name for them to work, but they use standard WeakAuras triggers so there's no coding required. Just find the appropriate aura ("Sacred Shield On Off-Tank" or "Eternal Flame Duration On Off-Tank"), go to the Trigger tab, and change the "Specific Unit" name from "Agwyne" to your off-tank's name.
The other notable change is that I've been playing my Frost mage a lot since 5.3, so I've got a fully-functional Frost Mage aura set now. It shows icons for Frozen Orb, Frostfire Bolt, Ice Lance (along with Fingers of Frost charges and your Water Elemental's Freeze availability), and of course Frostbolt as a GCD monitor. It's also got cooldown icons for Evocation, Invocation, Alter Time, and Time Warp, and icons to warn you of the absence of Arcane Intellect, Water Elemental, and Mana Gems. I've also updated the "Mage – Any" profile to level 90, though the Fire and Arcane setups are still the old level-85 versions.
All Classes
Rather than continually re-posting links to all of my auras in every update, which then requires that I update forwarding links on various sites, I've decided to work smarter and not harder. The links to all of my WeakAuras strings for all of the classes that I play can now be found at this address:
Since the links to pastebin are static, the links on that page will automatically reflect any changes I make to the auras on pastebin. I'll generally update them incrementally as I level or play new classes.


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The concept of the segment is very similar to the proposed Starboppers television series developed by Jim Henson in the 1980s.
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3.5 Campaign Concept: Legend of the SevenEdit
in 1993, Squaresoft developed a game called "Romancing Saga 2", a non-linear JRPG that has you playing not just as a single hero, but rather an entire series of emperors trying to quell the land. It's a game that is generational, basically. This served as the inspiration of this setting.
The backdrop of the setting is that the world was once threatened by a great evil but was defeated by a band of heroes known as the "Seven Heroes". the Seven defeated this great evil, destroying it forever and returned as saviors of the world. However, over time, the people began to resent them and feared the power. Eventually, they turned upon the Seven, and caused the Seven to rebel against the very people they saved.
Another war ensued, resulting in the Seven being sealed away for some time. In this alternate dimension, the Seven's hatred of those they saved festered until they eventually too became something entire sinister and malevolent. Then one day, the Seven returned as demons who would bring war and strife back into the world.
As kingdoms fail before them, the Seven eventually split up and each took up residence in one kingdom they have occupied, becoming the undisputed masters of their domain.
This is where the players story starts. They play the heroes of the once great kingdom Avalon, now but a shadow of it's former self, reduced to ruling a single city in the northern continent. Their goal? to restore peace to the land by destroying the Seven, and restore the glory of the great Avalon.
Central ConceptEdit
The players will play a multitude of characters over the course of the campaign. They will create a first party, with one character playing the emperor of that generation. At each generation skip, the players would create new characters (or age the older ones) to represent the new generation, with another player taking on the role of emperor for this generation. This way, each player will get to be emperor at least once.
To go with this, players could only create characters from a fairly limited list of classes. As the campaign continues and the empire's influence grows along with their access to talent, they will begin to have more and more access to different classes and PrCs.
The same will go for things like arcane spells and such. In the beginning, magic users will only have access to a small number of spells. Players can certainly research more but it will be slow in the beginning. But as the magical infrastructure in your empires grow, you gain more spells at your disposal.
Belief SystemEdit
This game will also utilize a belief system to drive the drama and conflict within this game as well. Veterans to the Burning Wheel system will be familiar with this and should have no problem recognizing it. Belief,_Fate,_and_Destiny_system
Character GenerationEdit
When you create a new generation, you roll up a character whose experience is the same as the previous generation. Keep in mind, you must create the new character based on the parameters of the empire itself. That is, full casters are very much limited by the level of infrastructure available.
There is one problem with this in that at some point we might end up in a situation where the PC caster level just outstrips the parameter limit, making it a hard proposition to retire the old character and probably encourages people to make all the powerful classes with low level infrastructure elves.
This has given me impetus to bar long living races and maybe limiting the way that the mentor / apprentice program works.
main Character Generation article
Empire managementEdit
the empire will have a number of attributes that helps you measure your empires capabilities. These will all start at 1 in the beginning Economic Level: shows the economic strength of the empire. This is an abstract point for now just to keep it a manageable number. You use this buy new infrastructures and new improvements for your empire. As you gain more assets that builds your economic structure, this will go up as well. Magic Tech: This denotes the state of the art magical research in the empire. This number will serve as the highest potential level full arcane caster you can have. So if your current character levels are around 10, but your magic tech is sitting on 4, the highest arcane caster level you can attain is 4, meaning the highest level arcane caster must be an arcane caster 4 / something else 6. Usually, this highest level character will be your party wizard. Magic Infrastructure: this shows the widespread of your magical technology. The highest level means that you'll see magical items all over the place. Improve this and magical infrastructure can be VERY expensive, however. Mundane Tech: this is about mundane technology level. As this rises, you can start creating better weaponry, more masterwork tools, etc. Subterfuge: this shows how powerful your subterfuge / spy network is. When making gather info checks for your empire, you can use this number. Martial Level: This denotes the over all quality of your warriors in the kingdom. Religion: shows the development of religion in your empire. This also serves as a the level cap for your highest level divine caster. Much like magical tech, improving this requires extensive resource commitment. Again, the highest level character will usually be your party divine caster. Culture: shows the level of cultural development in your country. Basically limits your artisan quality.
One of the problems with the current model is that we will come upon a weird situation where a full caster might be of a certain level, only for his next generation replacement to be forced to take a much lower level CL character due infrastructure constraints.
One schema I think might work is to allow the current generation mentor, if they have throughout the game spent the time to nurture an apprentice, to allow the apprentice in question be the exception to the infrastructure rule.
The kingdom has a magic tech level of 7. But the current sorcerer character is level 12. (through adventuring and learning from other characters in the kingdom) This means that if we were to do a generation skip and he makes a new character with no associations, the maximum character level he can be is 12, but with only a maximum full caster level of 7.
Now, if the sorcerer in question has been training an apprentice throughout his generation, and has managed to survive long enough to make it to the generation jump, allow the apprentice to ALSO be a CL 12 caster but ONLY in the class that the mentor has. That is, the mentor may only pass along knowledge that he possesses, and he may only pass it on to his apprentice who he has been training. (Thus, the mentor usually will have to take a cohort or some such)
Crown of InheritanceEdit
When creating a new generation, the new emperor who receives the crown of inheritance can gestalt ONE class from the previous emperor. However, parameter limits must still be observed.


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Kris and Jon " Dating long-distance " « Reply #7 on: October 27, 2004, 11:24:21 AM »Kris and Jon are dating long-distance between Long Beach, California and Scottsdale, Arizona, respectively. They met in Scottsdale on Kris' 30th birthday, when Jon was tending bar at the club where she was celebrating. They've been passionately in love ever since, but his career (he is part owner of the club) and her responsibilities at school have kept them in a long-distance relationship. Kris once worked as a go-go dancer in a nightclub, but now she is a cocktail waitress and studying geography in her senior year at UCLA. She describes herself as "animated and spontaneous." Her hobbies are snowboarding, beach volleyball and golf. Jon is a "working partner" in a nightclub in Scottsdale, Arizona. He believes he is a "passionate and determined" person, and his favorite hobbies are snowboarding, surfing and water polo. He's a member of the Arizona Masters Water Polo team. Kris & Jon are hoping that doing the Race together will show them if their relationship can work on a 24/7 basis, and if they should put an end to the long-distance part of their relationship. « Last Edit: October 27, 2004, 04:17:31 PM by puddin »
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Striking up a conversation with a player like Eric Johnson—a guy who personifies flawless tone—was one of many fantastic moments at the festival. "I don't know if you can ever build the 'right' sound," he explained, "it just has to happen serendipitously. I've spent a lot of time trying to manipulate my tone, but sometimes it's like trying to capture wind in a jar. You just have to experience and enjoy it when it's there."
Johnson is notorious for his gear obsession— for stuff like being able to hear the difference between battery brands in his pedals. But while many guitarists know about his guitar and amp proclivities, he spoke to us about less-obvious elements of his tone. "The way [the gear] sounds is very important, but it's more about how it responds to my picking technique. When the flow and bounce are working together just right, it just facilitates being able to move to different places musically. The amp, for better or for worse, is part of the instrument. It can be a great tool, but also an Achilles' heel. If the amp is matching your picking technique and blooming and interpreting your fingering style well, it just helps you be a better guitarist."
Like Hendrix, Johnson is a noted fan of plugging Fender Stratocasters into non-master-volume Marshall stacks. His rhythm tones are often projected from vintage Fender Deluxe Reverbs, but he decided to change it up a little for this tour. "For rhythm tones, I have two Fender Twins driving a semi-openback Marshall 4x12 cabinet. I'm also using my 50watt Marshalls onstage to keep the volume from getting too out of control."
Asked about being on the tour with so many notable guitarists, Johnson couldn't have sounded happier. "I'm so glad they got a hold of me to do it again, because it was such a blast last time when I got to meet Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell, it was the last tour that he did before he died," he said. "There's a real nice, fraternal vibe to it, where you all get to concentrate together on someone else's music, which happens to be really wonderful music, too. And the fact that everybody is a really good player, but they all have a different take on Hendrix's music, just showcases how diverse his music is. Everybody has his or her own version of his blues style, or his psychedelic style. It's just very powerful." Johnson was particularly fond of a recent jam with Sacred Steel lapsteel guitarist Aubrey Ghent, who performed with Robert Randolph's band. "We just did that a few hours ago, and that was one of the highlights of the tour for me. He's just great, and he taught Robert a lot of stuff. He's a wonderful player."
What struck us most during our time with Johnson was that he is most certainly a tone chaser, but he's not a tone snob. One might have expected him to talk only of his legendary gear and tone, but he was very cordial and personable. He was particularly interested in the vintage Marshall Super Bass head PG associate gear editor Jordan Wagner mentioned owning, and he asked several friendly questions about it during our conversation. It felt like hanging out with a regular Premier Guitar reader.
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How tough do you need your digital camera to be? Tough say Olympus as it wheels out a new update to it's tough range of digital cameras; the TG-610 and TG-310.
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The Wall Street Journal has a blistering editorial that attacks judge Denise Cote, who found Apple guilty of e-book price fixing.
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In July, Judge Cote of the New York federal district court convicted the iPad of being a conspiracy to increase digital book prices, though the tablet's 2010 introduction increased competition and consumer choice and, er, lowered digital book prices. She then appointed her friend Michael Bromwich as an external monitor to review antitrust at Apple, which he has interpreted as carte blanche to act as the inquisitor of all things Cupertino.
Bromwich has become a key figure in the aftermath of Apple's lawsuit. He is billing Apple $US1,100 per hour to keep tabs on the company. He's also calling in a second law firm for help, because he has no experience in this area. In the first two weeks on the job, his bill to Apple was $US138,432.40.
He's asking for meetings with all of Apple's top executives including Tim Cook and Jony Ive. Cote wants Bromwich to meet with her on a monthly basis and detail everything he's finding without an Apple attorney present, which the Journal says is "flatly unconstitutional."
It adds, "Special masters are typically imposed on a company to remedy a pattern of especially egregious conduct using a settlement consent decree in which litigants agree to the terms of the appointment. Judge Cote foisted Mr. Bromwich on Apple over its objections, to punish the company for what she ruled was price-fixing when the late Jobs tried to alter the payment structure of e-books in December 2009 and January 2010."
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There are thousands upon millions of Potty Training Steps articles out there for you to consider when deciding to begin Potty Training your boy. However, none are quite as painful as this one. Enjoy.
1. Buy potty when boy is 18 months old, just to get yourself excited for no real reason.
2. Give potty to boy as Christmas present, because what kid doesn't want his very own shitter to remind him change and growing up too fast is vastly approaching for Christmas?
3. Convince boy to sit on potty while still in Christmas PJs and do an adorable photoshoot.
4. Try to get boy acclimated to potty. Realize he's still in a crib, so what's the use? Put potty aside.
5. Randomly bring out potty over the next year. Sometimes boy sits on it, sometimes not.
6. Crack down when boy is two-and-a-half. Keep potty in view at all times. Buy underwear.
7. When boy still has no interest, let him run around naked all the time. Begin by having him pee outside.
8. Get boy so used to peeing outside that he still won't go near the potty, but asks you to take him outside whenever he has to go. Take him.
9. Finally get him to use the potty by bribing him with candy and presents.
10. Go to the dollar store to stock up on candy and presents.
11. Keep boy naked all the time. Get him pretty used to using the potty for peeing purposes. No poop, yet.
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Clams Posillipo
It's going be an Italian food fest at seasaltwithfood! I have some real easy and yet delicious recipes that I'll be sharing throughout this week. All the recipes are adapted from Patsy's Cookbook. It consists of classic Italian recipes from a New York City landmark restaurant. I will start with Clams Posillipo recipe. It's clam in light tomato sauce and served as an appetizer.
Recipe adapted from Patsy's Cookbook-Classic Italian Recipes
Clams Posillipo
(Printable Recipe)
32 Littleneck Clams
3 Tbsp Olive Oil
6 Garlic Cloves, halved
1 Small Yellow Onion, chopped (about ¼ cup)
1 28 oz Can Whole Plum Tomatoes, with juice
Sea Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper, to taste
1 Tbsp Tomato Paste (optional)
¼ Cup Chopped Fresh Basil
1 Tbsp Chopped Fresh Flat-Leaf Parsley, plus more for garnish
Scrub the clam shells, rinse thoroughly in cold water, and place in a large pot. Add cold water to cover and bring to a boil over high heat. Cook until the shells open, about 5 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the clams to a large bowl. Discard any clams that have not opened.
Strain the cooking liquid through a chinois or a strainer lined with a coffee filter, and reserve ¾ cup of this liquid as clam broth. Return the clams to the pot, add cold water, and stir to remove any remaining sand. Drain and reserve.
Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium flame and sauté the garlic halves until golden, about 2 minutes. With a slotted spoon or tongs, remove and discard the garlic. Add the onions to the saucepan and sauté for 3 to 4 minutes, until soft and translucent. Coarsely chopped the tomatoes and add with their juice to the saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir in the tomato paste (if using) and add the basil and parsley. Simmer uncovered for 5 minutes.
Add the reserved clam broth and clams to the sauce and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce the heat to low, simmer for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the clams are heated through. Spoon the clams and sauce into a large serving bowl, garnish with parsley and serve immediately.
Serves 4
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Absolutely beautiful! The basil finishes it off nicely. :)ReplyDelete
Mmmm...I wouldn't mind an Italian Feast! Yummy, I love clams and having them in tomato sauce, double the deliciousness!ReplyDelete
I luv clams. Too bad I can't afford them lol. YUMMY!ReplyDelete
That's really nice. I love clams. The photos are stunning, as always.ReplyDelete
i love clams..but i have noticed that some recipes leave it dry..its nice when the meat of the clam is juicy!! will try ur recipe for sure :)ReplyDelete
Makes me HUNGRY! Clams for me anytime!ReplyDelete
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Jack M. Lew, President Obama's frum former chief of staff and budget director, and now his nominee to head the U.S. Treasury, will face the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday at the formal vetting stage prior to confirmation. Until several days ago, the nomination seemed to be a slam dunk.
Not anymore.
One of President Obama's pet peeves has long been tax advantages for the wealthy. In 2007, when Obama ran for president the first time, one of his favorite targets for vitriol was "overseas tax havens," in places like the Cayman Islands. And guess who had close to $100,000 in assets socked away right there in the Cayman Islands? Lew.
While he was president, Obama railed against a specific five-story building on Grand Cayman Island called Ugland House, which nearly 12,000 businesses claim as the address of their corporate headquarters. The Cayman Islands is a tax-free jurisdiction in which corporations can be "housed," at least on paper, thereby enabling those companies and wealthy individuals to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
In 2008 the Senate Finance Committee held hearings on Ugland House. The Committee chair, Sen. Max Baucus, explained the committee was "concerned that U.S. taxpayers are creating offshore business entitles solely to evade their U.S. tax obligations, [and] seeking to confound I.R.S. collection efforts by obscuring the true ownership of American assets or income."
In 2009 Obama said, "for years, we've talked about shutting down overseas tax havens that let companies set up operations to avoid paying taxes in America. About Ugland House, he said, "either this is the largest building in the world, or the largest tax scam in the world. And I think the American people know which it is. That's the kind of tax scam that we need to end."
But according to The New York Times, as recently as 2010, Jack Lew had invested money in a CitiGroup venture capital fund whose address was Ugland House, Grand Cayman Island. And based on Lew's tax filings in 2009 and 2011, he had as much as $100,000 in such investments.
Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) is fuming. He called it ironic that Obama's nominee to head the Treasury Dept., someone who has been, according to reports by conservatives, "inflexible" about spending cuts, benefited from the very offshore tax shelters Obama has repeatedly attacked. That, and the fact that the IRS is located within the Treasury Dept. and the long arm of the IRS is what gets blocked by tax shelters such as the one provided by Ugland House.
Others pointed out that many Obama supporters criticized Mitt Romney for holding investments in the Cayman Islands. According to NBC News, an ad during the 2012 campaign asked, "Why would Mitt Romney invest millions in the Cayman Islands?"
A White House statement issued in response to this latest controversy, pointed out that Lew sold off his investments in the Cayman Islands based fund, and "he paid all of his taxes and reported all of the income, gains and losses from the investment on his tax returns."
The Times revealed that although Lew had previously worked for the administration, it was not until 2010, after he was confirmed as director of the Office of Management and Budget, that Lew fully divested from the Ugland House CitiGroup fund. Investments in those funds are not for the short-term, and the sale cost Lew more than $50,000.
Obama and Lew supporters are pooh-poohing the offshore tax shelters issue, especially given that the information was available when Lew went through prior confirmation hearings, albeit for non-Cabinet positions.
And at least one other Treasury Secretary, former CEO of Goldman, Sachs Henry Paulson, who served under President Bush, had extensive financial holdings in the Cayman Islands.
On the other hand, Republicans were not the ones vilifying "the rich" for trying to evade paying U.S. taxes through legitimate ventures, while the Democrats have practically raised that criticism to an art form.
Which brings up a likely ally – if they want to avoid being called hypocrites – for the Republicans who want the Ugland House tax shelter issue to be raised at the hearing: the radical leftist street theater group, Code Pink, and one of their close uber-leftist allies, The Nation.


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Nashville, Tenn. --- Tennessee State University head women's golf coach Chris Seibel has announced that Kelly Merkel has signed a National Letter-of-Intent to play golf for TSU.
Merkel, a native of Columbia, Tenn., considered several golf offers before committing to Tennessee State, according to the Columbia Daily Herald.
"For a long time, I have wanted to play golf at a Division I school," commented Merkel. "I'm really looking forward to playing for him (Coach Seibel) and continuing my education at Tennessee State."
Merkel advanced through the District 8-AAA tournament to the Region 4 tournament four consecutive seasons at Central High School. She qualified for the TSSAA State as a sophomore shooting an 82-83-165 at Old Fort (Murfreesboro) and again as a senior when she placed 10th behind a score of 160 (82-78) at Willowbrook Country Club.
In 2011 she was runner-up to eventual state champ of Lawrence County in the District 8-AAA tournament. She placed third in the Region 4 meet at Bear Trace Tims Ford in Winchester.
Central golf coach Chris Lawson had this to say about Merkel: "Kelly worked extremely hard from a young age to develop her golf swing. She never missed any practices and was always ready to work. She showed gradual improvement in the maturity of her game and how she approached it every year."
Merkel also participated on the Tennessee Golf Association Junior Tour the past two summers in the 15-18 Masters Division and tied for ninth place in the tour's postseason state meet at the Cookeville Country Club.
Merkel was the low medalist in the Tennessean Schooldays Tournament at McCabe in Nashville last June, shooting a 68. She also received the annual Joanne Ramsey award for the Outstanding Female Athlete at Central and made All-District 8-AAA in softball for three consecutive years.
"Kelly will be a great leader for the women's golf program," said head TSU Chris Seibel. "She has proven that she can shoot low rounds and compete with other girls. I am excited to bring her in to start building this program to a competitive level in the OVC. I am glad to keep a good player like her in the Nashville area. She will be a top player in the OVC the next four years."


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Junior DeAndre Hopkins looked like a new man in Clemson's win over Auburn on Saturday. He set a school record with 13 catches, finishing with 119 yards and a score. Then his wide receiver coach posted this photo to Twitter, totally explaining everything—Hopkins had been baptized after Thursday's practice, in front of his teammates and coaches, in what looks like the team's Rubbermaid ice tub.
The baptism doesn't appear to violate SFISD v. Doe, the Supreme Court case that declared pre-high school football game prayers unconstitutional, because this took place at a private practice. So more power to Hopkins! Hopkins got a ton of looks in the Tigers' first game because star sophomore Sammy Watkins was suspended after an offseason arrest for possession. When God closes a door, he opens a bag of weed and pops a couple Adderall.


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Equity and Inclusion
New legal guide helps tribal legislators strengthen LGBT equality
November 14, 2012
A new legal toolkit helps tribal legislative leaders change their sovereign nations' laws to support tribal members who are Two Spirit, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT).
"Two Spirit, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are part of our community, and some tribes have been recognizing them for centuries," said Seahdom Edmo, coordinator of the Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) program at Lewis & Clark, and one of the lead authors of the toolkit.
The term Two Spirit was developed by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Native Americans as a way to reclaim their past. Before the process of colonization, Two Spirit people were often respected for the unique perspectives they provided to their tribes.
As outlined in the toolkit, native Two Spirit/LGBT individuals now face some of the highest disparities in the U.S. The toolkit identifies areas where existing tribal laws may unintentionally discriminate, and offers sample legal language that tribes can adopt.
The toolkit was a collaboration between IWOK, the Native American Program of Legal Aid Services of Oregon, Western States Center, and Basic Rights Oregon. The Pride Foundation provided financial support for the project.
Read more about the guide in Willamette Week, Indian Country Today, and Think Progress.


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Large KDE Presence at LinuxTag 2004
LinuxTag 2004 is the largest Linux and Open Source exhibition in Europe. Last year over 19,500 visitors and 159 exhibitors attended the event. This year's event will be hosted in Karlsruhe, Germany from June 23 through June 26. The KDE Team will have a large presence there, including several presentations and workshops, a large number of KDE developers, and of course the KDE mascot Konqi.
The KDE Project's primary focus this year will cover such topics as "KDE --
Besides staffing a KDE booth where users can see the latest KDE, ask questions
Many of these talks will be held by notable KDE developers, e.g. David Faure,
See the LinuxTag Talk Schedule 2004
At the Office Productivity Booth Franz Schmid will present the latest
We invite everybody to meet more than 40 KDE developers, KDE enthusiasts, the
You find the KDE project on booth D124 and the Office Productivity Booth at
My beloved dot is back again. Where did it go this time? :-)
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Probably to the LinuxTag :)
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you can see kdebluetooth in action there :-))))
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Federal officials are soliciting proposals to create six drone test sites around the country and asking the public to comment on proposed privacy protections.
The Federal Aviation Administration posted the solicitation online Thursday afternoon. The agency is required by a law enacted a year ago to develop sites where military and civilian drones can be tested in preparation for integration into U.S. airspace that's currently limited to manned aircraft.
The law also requires that the FAA allow civilian drones wide access to U.S. airspace by 2015, but the agency is behind schedule and it's doubtful it will meet the deadline.
Privacy advocates worry that widespread drone use will lead to a "surveillance society" in which the public is constantly monitored.


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HONOLULU - The Obama administration is moving to elevate the status of the general who leads soldiers in the Pacific to four stars.
U.S. Army Pacific has been led by a three-star general for years.
The Pentagon said Monday that President Barack Obama is nominating Third Army commander Lt. Gen. Vincent Brooks to become the new Army Pacific commander and for a promotion to four stars.
Putting a four-star general in charge of U.S. soldiers in the Pacific would put the Army on par with the Navy and Air Force in the region. Both services are led by four-star commanders in the Pacific.
Brooks currently leads soldiers in the U.S. Central Command area.
Lt. Gen. Francis Wiercinski, the current U.S. Army Pacific commander, plans to retire after 34 years of service.


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Companies like Swiss payment services firm Aduno anticipate boost from SAS' latest software
SAS, the global leader in analytics (per IDC and Forrester), continues to innovate with new software that makes it easier for data scientists and statisticians to transform big data into value.
The new offering enables multiple users to simultaneously and interactively manage, explore and analyze data, build and compare models, and score massive amounts of data in Hadoop. Its interactive analytics programming environment for Hadoop is based on SAS in-memory technology.
By enabling enterprises to draw deep insights from big data assets faster and with greater precision, SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop boosts the bottom line, reduces risk, improves customer understanding and increases opportunities for success.
"We look forward to working with SAS on SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop serving as the recommendation engine in our surprize customer loyalty program," said Herbert Bucheli, Head of Business Analytics Services at the Aduno Group, a Swiss cashless payment service provider.
"Customers in our loyalty program accrue credits for using our services and may use those towards other purchases. The new SAS software's recommendation engine will quickly build personalized offers for each customer based on history within our big data repository. SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop is expected to be a good fit for this project," added Bucheli.
The SAS in-memory architecture offers unprecedented speed – an absolute requirement for finding value in massive amounts of data. The same in-memory analytics technology that powers the popular SAS Visual Analytics data visualization software also supports SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop.
SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop supports numerous statistical and machine learning modeling techniques, including: clustering, regression, generalized linear models, analysis of variance, decision trees, random decision forests, text analytics and recommendation systems.
"Many of our customers are turning to Hadoop as their big data architecture. With innovative products like SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop, SAS is becoming the choice for data management and analytics to draw value from Hadoop and the volumes of big data organizations are accumulating," said Wayne Thompson, SAS Chief Data Scientist.
"SAS In-Memory Statistics for Hadoop supports a wide range of analytical activities, while taking advantage of our in-memory technology to get blazing fast results," said Thompson.
Why Hadoop?
Industry analyst firm IDC expects Hadoop to reach $812.8 million in sales in 2016 – a compound annual growth of 60.2 percent. SAS anticipates customers will similarly continue deploying big data architecture to glean big insights.
SAS' strategic relationships with partners like Cloudera and Hortonworks provide customers with industry-leading analytics within their favorite Hadoop distributions.
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assyst necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 45 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
We're a company selling sculpture supplies for artists. Currently we're a wholesales company, with this new online shop we're targeting directly to end users and art academics. Our current website for our wholesales department is at http://www.assyst.org/
Our customers will be professional sculpturers, art foundries, schools, and people who like to create art as a hobby.
We're looking for a simple and straight forward design. It may be quite basic, with a little playful touch.
A clear navigation is very imported as also a prominent place for our contact details on each page.
At this point we don't have any colors or logo. These can be freely chosen. Our brand name "Art Supplies on Web" in a nice font would suffice as logo.
As a final result we need 3 designs, one for our homepage, our product overview page and product detail page.
To join this contest please provide first your homepage design. We will provide feedback and if we like your design, we will ask you to create the additional pages.
Attached to this contest you will find a PDF-document with the wire-frames of each of these pages. (The homepage is on page 3 of this document.)


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"We've been taught Shakespeare in school and many of us have been hurt by those school experiences, so we go 'Oh my God, it's Shakespeare; really boring, really dull, words I don't understand, with people I can't identify with,'" said John Henry Davis, a drama and video professor at LaGuardia Community College.
But for the last six months Davis, a director of theater and film productions that have been shown at Lincoln Center and on HBO, has worked tirelessly with students and faculty in the hopes of changing people's minds about the classic play.
"I feel just the opposite they do, that the poetry can communicate to us in a different kind of way, in a different level than the normal sitcom and that it can actually be exciting and inspiring and real," he said. "These people are going through real emotions and important things are happening to them, and I think that this is part of what people in the theater should be experiencing."
He pointed out that the whole beauty of "Hamlet" is that there is more to the story than what meets the eye. The ghost of Hamlet's father appears and tells his son to avenge his death by killing the king, turning Hamlet's life upside down. Davis said Hamlet has been traditionally portrayed as purely a thinker when in reality he is a man of action who gets stymied by his circumstances.
"It's a family drama, like an intimate kitchen drama between a stepfather, a son, a mother, a dead father and Hamlet's girlfriend Ophelia," said Davis. "It's like a little kitchen drama, but it's also a big epic piece about war and death and so forth."
This is Davis' first time directing "Hamlet," but it's been on his to-do list for a long time because the issues in the play are compelling and personal to him. Throughout the play, Hamlet grapples with relatable questions like, What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? What are we doing here? What should we be doing here?
"Don't we all have moments in our lives where we feel like we're communing with our dead parents, or don't we have moments when we see that evil is being done and we want to do something about it? And don't we have moments where we're trying to decide what to do and we can't figure out what to do because it's so hard to figure it out? These are the issues that Hamlet is about. That's why I chose Hamlet," said Davis.
The characters are played by LaGuardia students and faculty. Hamlet is portrayed by professional New York actor David Nash, who Davis hired as a guest artist after directing him in a production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull."
"Hamlet" will be performed in a space meant for no more than 70 audience members, but Davis believes there's an upside to that kind of cramped intimacy. He likened it to a time he visited The Other Place, a space the Royal Shakespeare Company uses for small productions in England. Ian McKellan, cast as Iago in "Othello," was literally standing two feet away.
"The immediacy of having the actors so close, I think, is very special and you don't see this very often, especially with the classics. I think this is an exciting opportunity for the community to see a really great production very close so they can feel the energy of the actors," said Davis. "There's a sword fight at the end, right close to the audience, very visceral, very exciting, and I think that it's going to be a real exciting, powerful experience in the theater, and everybody should see it."
"Hamlet," directed by John Henry Davis, will be performed in room M 122 (Black Box Theater) on the following dates and times:
Sat, March 6 at 7:30pm
Tues, March 9 at 2:30pm
Wed, March 10 at 2:30pm
Thurs, March 11 at 7:30pm
Fri, March 12 at 7:30pm
Sat, March 13th at 7:30pm Admission is FREE of charge but reservations are required. For tickets call the box office at 718-482-5151. LaGuardia Community College is located at 31-10 Thomson Avenue in Long Island City.


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"It went from left to right into Michael Mineo's butt crack."
An NYPD officer took the stand Monday in Brooklyn Supreme Court to testify against one of his own in a case where Police Officer Richard Kern has been accused of using unnecessary force and sodomizing on a suspect during an arrest back in October 2008.
Officer Kevin Maloney, 27, informed the jury that Kern had shoved a retractable baton into the backside of the suspect, Micheal Mineo. The action then proceeded further and made a grim turn as the weapon was probed into his rectum.
According to Maloney, about a ½ inch to an inch of the baton was out of sight after being jammed into Mineo's underwear.
The incident in question began when Mineo was chased and tackled for smoking marijuana in the Prospect Park subway station.
Maloney described, to the court, the events that occurred after the suspect was stopped and being placed into custody.
"I saw Officer Richard Kern have it placed on Michael Mineo's buttocks.
It was pressed on Michael Mineo's left buttock … there was pressure being applied."
While serving a major blow to the defense for Kern, Maloney stated that his testimony was only a reaction after hearing that Kern's co-defendents, Officers Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales, after hearing that there was investigation being done on Cruz under suspicion of the sodomy and realized that the wrong officer was the target.
Cruz and Morales have been charged with covering up the assault.
Mineo, 25, is currently suing the city for $440 million for the incident, but has been accused of lying to receive a lump payback. According to the plaintiff's story, close to seven inches of the baton went into his rectum and was hit three to four times by the object. He added that he hadn't resisted arrest and the actions of the officer left him hobbling.
Maloney stated that he was witness to none of Mineo's account,
While the other two officers may have dodged a potential knockout to their cases, Kern is facing five to 25 years for aggravated sexual abuse.


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The concepts of « asymmetrical » and « irregular » wars tend to be blurred and used as if they depicted the same reality. Of course, I do not believe that reality can be encapsulated in mere concepts, and thus I propose both to draw a conceptual line between those two notions and to examine what we can learn from them about contemporary war and warfare.
Let's begin by the notion of « asymmetrical war ». It is often use to depict a conflict in terms of different means. That is, asymmetry here suggests a huge imbalance between belligerents, one being the « strong » and the other the « weak ». Much has been written about that notion and its explanatory power in order to predict outcomes in such conflicts. But, in order this notion to be analytically useful, one has to take into account a broader and deeper view of what « asymmetry » means.
- rather than speaking of means, one should instead insist on asymmetrical tactics: in such conflict, one side uses terrorism or guerrilla, instrumentalize the media and information in order to subvert the rules tying the « Strong » and to get around the latter's « strenght ». Furthermore, the « Weak »'s organization and structure seems better adapted to the battlefield than the « Strong »s ones.
- the asymmetry is much deeper when looking at military objectives. One side may only achieve not to lose while the other has to win in order to complete his goals. That point is highlighted in David Galula's work: the counter-insurgent must build while the insurgent may only destroy. Of course, in case of civil wars -where both parties seek to gain power- there is much of a zero-sum game, meaning that asymmetry being not the core of the concept's essence.
- finally, there exists a third level in which asymmetry can be observed: that of the issues at stake, and the subsequent strategies that follow from them. In many instances, the « Weak » is engaged in « total war » (with absolute issues) through an attrition strategy while the « Strong » (especially in the case of foreign interventions) has less important issues at stake (because of the theater's peripheral characteristic).
That notion seems relatively objective but is difficult to apply to any situation in which there is one « Weak » and one « Strong ». The most important insight gains from this analysis relates to what it teaches us about the ontological difference between the two belligerents.
And that's how it also relates to the concept of « irregularity » in war. Of course, the significance and the meaning of that concept cannot be separated from their historical context. By « irregular » war, I would mean a conflict in which the two following criteria are met:
- one actor uses tactics and technics deemed « non-conventional » with regards to the « Law of Armed Conflict » or the broader customs of warfare.
- one actor is not represented by a legitimate entity (meaning here a State).
Whereas these two criteria appear as objectives at a first glance, in reality they are not. « Irregularity » indeed implies a normative aspect, by which an actor (usually the Western/Modern one) sees the other as « illegitimate ». It is thus deeply rooted in the Modern conception of the State as the sole actor who has the legitimacy to use force and the monopoly on its means.
As normative, that category has many implications in the conduct of war. First, because not seeing the adversary as a legitimate actor (as it in the case of the classic Jus Gentium) tends to forget that he pursues political objectives. Rather, the adversary is considered as a criminal which uses political violence but is not waging war.. Remember: we don't negotiate with terrorists (but what for political organization that seek to achieve their political goals using terrorism as a tactic?)
Second, because if the adversary is seen as a criminal, there's sufficient reason to use every means at disposal in order to maintain order. In this case, it is even possible not to speak of « war », but rather of « events », « intervention », « stabilization », « peace enforcement » and so on.. If war is a dialectical interaction between two actors seeking to achieve their political goals, then facing an « irregular » opponent is not war.
Third because relying on the use of force while dismissing the opponent's political goals creates a risk to rise to extremes. Whereas it is important to remember that negotiation and peace is the ultimate step in a war, it would not be the case if the opponent's legitimacy to resort on coercion is not properly recognized. Furthermore, relying on brute force in order to suppress the irregular enemy means that it is seen as an « Enemy » in a Schmittian sense. This « depoliticization » process put at high risk the society on which that war is waged in that that does not allow to recognize proper goals and motives for the population when it sides with the insurgent. Of course, if the « Enemy » is a criminal against which every means is necessary, that would also lead to a strategy of annihilation.
To sum up, « irregular » seems much more tailored as a sociological framework to study today's conflict while « asymmetrical » is more about the strategic dynamics between two belligerents. However, it seems to me that those two concepts do not fit well with several case studies, and do not include « civil wars » for instance.
In short, those two concepts are not highly relevant analytic tools. Those are mere ideal-types that tell us more about the way we define what is war in a normative way. Nevertheless, they are inscribed in the power relation that characterizes today's international relations. Dario Battistella's « hierarchical wars » concept show us how the distribution of power among actors (and mainly States) functions in a dual dimension: a material dimension (in which the US has a huge comparative advantage) but also a normative dimension (that allows democratic states not only to avoid war with each others but also to legitimate « intervention » against smaller or non-legitimate actors). As such, « irregular » and « asymmetrical » characterize the mainstream way of defining what is a legitimate actor and what is not (while this move is not unchallenged both a the domestic and the international levels) and reveals us the normative dominance of western countries and especially the United States. But, as they have strategic and ethical implications, their analysis should not be dismissed and should lead to a careful examination of our perceptions of both « war » (as a social and political activity) and « enemy » (as a social actor's will using force to pursue its political goals).