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Depression Quest developer Zoe Quinn brought #gamergate to a crashing halt over the weekend when she shared what appears to be documented evidence that the movement was originally manufactured in an effort to harass women. Assuming it's true – and the evidence is pretty damning – it would prove that the movement is inseparable from its misogyny, another demonstration of the terrible way women are treated on the Internet.
The conclusion would be almost comical had it not caused so much damage first. The espoused goal of #gamergate was to root out corruption in the gaming press, a concern stemming from the imagined norm of games journalists showing favoritism to friends based on the flawed premise that games like Depression Quest wouldn't receive mainstream coverage based on merit. In practice it manifested as harassment, much of it directed at Quinn for having the audacity to be an outspoken woman in gaming and for maybe having had a consensual sexual relationship with a writer (I haven't verified that last part because it's not any of my business). But some of the concern was authentic, precipitating a examination of disclosure and integrity in the media.
It's therefore deeply ironic that the #gamergate fiasco produced some of the finest game and culture criticism I've ever read. Writers as varied as Leigh Alexander, Liz Ryerson, Devin Faraci, Stephen Totilo, Laurie Penny, and Jenn Frank (and many more) have weighed in with beautifully articulate responses to the harassment. It's tragic that it came at such great expense, but the gaming intelligentsia has acquitted itself reasonably well under duress.
I've avoided weighing in until now, partly because I couldn't think of anything that hadn't already been said, but also because I wasn't sure how to address people who were so willfully ignorant about how entertainment journalism actually works. Now that #gamergate has been exposed as the manipulative efforts of a group of misogynists, that appears to have been part of the design (and the story is still changing at time of writing). But even according to its own logic, the demands of #gamergate – the calls for an end to journalistic fraternization – never made any damn sense in the first place.
At Dork Shelf, I probably have the closest thing to a local beat that you'll find in online games criticism, which typically has an international focus. We cover Toronto developers and Toronto events and we interact with prominent members of the community in order to do so. I've met many game developers over the course of the past four years, and I am friends (or at least friendly) with most of them.
Does that lead to bias? Probably, though it's unavoidable. I genuinely like most of the people I've worked with (including a few that don't like me), and I don't see much value in being mean just for the sake of being mean. I don't consider that a drawback. If anything, it's an integral aspect of the job because I need to maintain working relationships. I rely on my personal familiarity with the Toronto scene to find angles that haven't been covered elsewhere.
The fact is that it's tough to report on a creative field without earning the trust of people in those fields. The same is true of sports journalism, where Peter King seems to have Tom Brady and Peyton Manning on speed dial if he needs an emergency quote. I have always been aware of those relationships in gaming. If you want to know the story behind a game like The Yawhg or a band like The Blast Processors, you're going to have to accept the fact that I've interacted with the creators in a semi-social setting. I disclosed it by writing the article, working on the assumption that it's still better than nothing.
Then again, nobody had an issue with those networks before, which makes the past month all the more depressing. #gamergate was so unfocused in its goals that it could never accomplish anything other than harm, and the fact that such blatant harassment was temporarily effective is enough to make anyone feel helpless. All I can do here is add my voice to the chorus stating that harassment and abuse is never justified. That's why I wanted to write something, even if other people have already said much of what I want to say. Every show of support helps stem the tide.
So with that, I want to end with something positive.
As bad as the past month has been – and it's been awful – I remain absolutely convinced that those fighting for inclusivity and progressiveness will eventually win out, not just in games but in society more broadly. But the process takes years or even decades, and it often happens without any immediate landmarks, so it can be tough to keep that in mind while it's happening.
That's small solace for those who have been literally driven from their homes and harassed to the smallest corners of the Internet, so I understand the anger. People are suffering now, and noncommittal platitudes like, 'It gets better' can be a way of deferring the responsibility to make it better.
I still think it's a helpful because it offers a small glimmer of hope, serving as a reminder that we are indeed making progress. It's not something you'd notice if you've only been paying attention to Twitter, where things are darker than ever, but the paradigm shift is already taking place.
That's why I found comfort in the sheer volume of published responses. I wish the circumstances that precipitated the output weren't so awful, but there are too many smart people writing about video games to let ignorance and hate govern the conversation for any great length of time. We all lose when someone as talented as Jenn Frank is driven from the industry and we can't keep allowing it to happen. But there is still no shortage of people willing to fight for the cause.
And yeah, that's kind of significant.
Though it was criticized as not enough, the open letter (with 2495 signatures) that circulated amongst game developers condemning the harassment of women is a more optimistic representation of the future. Yes, some industry leaders could be more vocal. But the people making games are listening. They're hearing what Anita Sarkeesian has to say and they'll gradually absorb the critiques and use them in a more positive fashion.
However, they won't make big announcements about changing course. They won't deliberately antagonize the people who currently buy their games. Like Volition – the makers of Saint's Row and one of the few major studios openly discussing issues related to representation – they'll simply publish more inclusive video games and count the receipts the same way they've always done.
The retrogressive vision of adolescent male gaming remains relevant only because of its value to publishers. Once those strings are cut – and adult women are already gaming's single largest consumer demographic – then the market will shift accordingly. There's no reason to kowtow to gaming's most anti-social sect when the industry can survive without it.
That's why #gamergate was always doomed to fail. If there really is a conspiracy in games journalism – if there's a small cabal of insiders orchestrating the shift away from monochrome shooters – then maybe gamers could cut it off at the head. But the growing influences of feminism and inclusivity are grassroots trends that emerge out of society more generally, where university lectures, television programs, gay weddings and so much else regularly expose people to a more tolerant definition of humanity.
As it relates to gaming, there are more people then ever before making games that don't fit the traditional profile, and it's not because of some enforced fealty to a social agenda. An artist like Zoe Quinn sincerely believes that weird stuff is awesome, and she's going to keep making it because that's what she wants to make.
The same is true of every developer and media personality accused of being a Social Justice Warrior. No one has ever forced me to write about an independent video game to the exclusion of something more mainstream. I talk to independent developers because I want to hear what creative people have to say. I write about them because I think other people might share my curiosity. That's it. That's the extent of the corruption.
By the same token, I don't write about feminism because someone will drop an axe on my neck if I don't. It's an issue that I care about and that I feel is worth discussing. More to the point, the friendships and social networks that #gamergate is so afraid of go well beyond a shared appreciation of games. Many of us get along because we have a mutual commitment to inclusivity and social progressivism. Games like Depression Quest have garnered praise because many people actually value diversity of creators and diversity of content.
That hasn't changed just because the Internet got angry. There are so many different people playing and producing games that a monoculture will never be able to satisfy demand. The move towards inclusivity is a market reaction rather than a conspiracy, and I, for one, am grateful for those making it happen.


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Now if you read my previous blog post, you know I love for baby to listen to classical, complex melodies. I also think it's important for them to listen to the music you like to listen to (because that's what you will be playing in the car, let's face it) as well as listening to those classic baby songs. You know, The Wheels on the Bus, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Old Macdonald, etc. Now if you don't remember the words, don't panic! Let me introduce you to Cocomelon. It's a Youtube channel with all the classic songs plus some new one and they have the lyrics right there for you! The videos are awesome too, but I'm not letting the baby watch the videos just yet. I just play the music and watch the lyrics. There's a lot of Cocomelon videos and they have songs in different orders and different videos have different songs. They are super catchy and you might find yourself singing them randomly.
2) Narration: I don't always use baby talk. I think everything in moderation. So when I narrate I use my regular voice. I keep the pace slow though. Narration is when you just talk about what it is you are doing. Kind of like you were telling a blind person what you were doing. It goes something like this, "Mommy is picking up the clothes. Now I am folding them. I'm going to put them down right here in this pile. I picked up the red shirt!"
You can also do this as you walk around the house. Sometimes the only way I can calm my baby down is walking, so we walk all around our house. As we walk I tell him what we are passing. It goes something like this, "We're in the kitchen now. I see the sink and here is the refrigerator where we keep our food. Look are the pretty pictures on the wall!"
3) Sign Language: Now I am not fluent in sign language by any means, but anyone can learn a couple of signs! Signing is a fantastic thing to start with baby from a very young age. They won't be able to sign back, but the more you do it, the quicker they will pick it up. According to Lane Rebelo, author of Baby Sign Language Made Easy, some babies can start using signs as early as 5 months, but most will do so in the 8-12 month range. The benefit of starting early is that babies may respond to your signs. What does that mean? If you sign eat when you see them getting fussy, that might mean that they stop fussing because they know you are getting food ready. Are you doing Elimination Communication? The sign for toilet or potty will be very valuable to cue baby that it's time to use the bathroom. That's a topic for another day though.
Now I haven't signed everything I'm doing. I keep it really basic. We do:
* Eat
* Potty
* Music
* All done
That's all I've attempted for now. Be sure when you sign, you are also using the word simultaneously. This helps build vocabulary. Check out the video below to see how I use the 'music' sign with baby.
4) Talk Back: Now you may be saying, babies don't talk, so that's dumb. They may not be talking, but they make sounds, and guess what you need to be able to do to talk? You guessed it! You need to make sounds.
In typical development of speech skills, at one month of age, babies should be able to make some vowel sounds ('a' and 'e'), mostly coming through the nose.
By imitating the sounds they make you are engaging in a kind of 'conversation' with them.
You also want to respond to their sounds. The video below shows dad and baby 'chatting' about sports. While baby is only 7 weeks old and making limited vowel sounds, he is modeling the back and forth of communication.
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Major League Baseball, Budweiser in New Deal
With the addition of a one-game playoff between the two best runners-up in each league, Major League Baseball made an offer that one of its biggest advertisers could not refuse. Anheuser-Busch InBev NV (NYSE: BUD) has agreed to be a major sponsor of the new wild-card games through 2018. The brewer also will be a major sponsor of baseball's opening week and a concert series at the game's recently opened Fan Cave in New York. The company has been an MLB sponsor for 33 years.
The estimated costs of the deal total $40 million, according to report at MarketWatch, though neither the company nor MLB would comment on the value of the deal.
A Budweiser spokesman said:
We asked the people at MLB what else can we do to promote the sport and connect ourselves with the fans. This is our No. 1 platform - baseball is the sport that Budweiser is most heavily invested in.
The answer to the question, apparently, is to add more games to the season's already interminable 162-game schedule. More games, more opportunities to sell advertising. Playoff games in baseball, as in every other sport, attract more attention than regular season games, so adding a few more games that have postseason implications is sure to gin up plenty of interest. From a fan's point of view, the new games give a couple of also-rans a second chance to wipe out the previous 162 games.
That's either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on one's point of view. But from a commercial point of view, it's definitely a bonus.
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I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, after wrapping up #30daysofPaul, that I really enjoyed that study and wanted to head into the rest of the Bible. Well, here is the beginning of that.
Now, I'm not gonna set my sights too high. The Bible as a whole is a big book. So, for now, I'll just commit to the New Testament. That's quite an undertaking, and it will probably take me the better part of the remainder of the year to get through, so let's call that good for now.
I've split the NT into 5 sub-sections that will make this more manageable. They are as follows:
Pseudo-Paul: Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, Titus, 2 Timothy
Epistles: Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, Jude, 1 2 & 3 John
Gospels: Mark, Matthew, Luke, John
That's the order we will go in. I'll lay out the exact reading plan at the beginning of each section, so you can plan ahead with me. I've arbitraily made these divisions and subsections myself, so don't read too much into them, but let me know as we go if you have a problem.
Now, I by no means am commiting to blogging every day, or solely in this series. They will come as I have the time, and I will still be interspersing other things, like cultural commentary, book reviews, and such. But I will try to be fairly steady with these.
So, to start: Pseudo-Paul.
We did authentic Paul first, so I thought it only fitting that we jump next into the six letters that have Paul's name on them, but probably weren't written by him. The consensus supports this conclusion, and also posits that these were likely written by contemporaries of Paul, likely his students or members of churches he planted.
The belief in authership other than Paul comes primarily from the fact that they differ in grammer, structure, theology, phrasing, and emphasis from the authentic letters of Paul. Experts in linguistics and theology and Biblical scholarship have studied this for many, many, many years, and frankly, I trust their judgment. They are the experts. The view isn't undisputed, but it's the general consensus among these experts.
In terms of what we discovered about Paul in #30daysofPaul, I think it's pretty clear these letters are Paul's. Although similar to his, the theology is different, and certainly less accepting, universalist, and egalitarian. Views on women and marriage are more conservative. The emphasis has shifted from an imminent coming of Jesus, to a distant, amorphous Second Coming.
Additionally, I can definitely see a difference just in tone and writing style. You knew when you were reading Paul; his personality and tone definitely shone through in his writings. That isn't present here; you can just tell from reading it after being immersed in authentic Paul: it's just not him.
So, our first stop will be Ephesians. Stick along with me, comment, share, criticize, engage. It should be enlightening, challenging and fun.
Pseduo-Paul reading plan
Day 1: Ephesians 1-3
Day 2: Ephesians 4-6
Day 3: Colossians 1-2
Day 4: Colossians 3-4
Day 5: 2 Thessalonians
Day 6: 1 Timothy 1-3
Day 7: 1 Timothy 4-6
Day 8: Titus
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This Fossil May Reshape Our Idea on When Supercontinent Pangaea Split
A 130 million-year-old skull of an ancient animal that likely resembled a squirrel has shaken up the scientists' idea on when the supercontinent Pangaea likely split up, and suggests this break-up occurred about 15 million years later than previously believed.
The near-complete skull, which is described in a new study published online in Nature Wednesday, was discovered this year in Utah. It is of a new mammalian species named Cifelliodon wahkarmoosuch, and lived side by side with the dinosaurs, The Independent reported. The rabbit-sized animal is proving a real enigma for science.
Although a new species, similar fossils of closely related animals with similar dental traits were also found in northern Africa in previous digs. The animals are closely related and lived during the same time period, suggesting that creatures were able to freely roam between what is now North America and Africa for about 15 million years longer than previously suggested.
Related: A Piece Of North America Found In Australia Bolsters Theory Of Two Billion Year old Supercontinent
Today, we recognize that Earth has seven continents, but it was not always this way. Several hundred million years ago, all the continents were joined as one giant supercontinent called Pangaea. This continent was surrounded by a single ocean called Panthalassa, Live Science reported.
This is not the first time that scientists have suspected that Pangaea existed for longer than previously noted, but this tiny piece of evidence helps to strengthen this theory. The skull also shows that early mammals were more widespread and more diverse than previously noted, and it demonstrates how fascinating they really were.
Related: When Earth's Supercontinent Pangea Was Torn Apart 130 Million Years Ago, The Planet Warmed Up
"For a long time, we thought early mammals from the Cretaceous (145 to 66 million years ago) were anatomically similar and not ecologically diverse," Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California, who was involved with the research, told The Independent. "This finding by our team and others reinforce that, even before the rise of modern mammals, ancient relatives of mammals were exploring specialty niches."


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Do you ever struggle to reach your goals?
They could be business goals, fitness goals, financial goals, family goals, etc.
I've found some goals come easily for me while I've struggled with others. And this little secret may explain why.
I recently read Scott Adams' book, "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big."
One of the bold statement he makes is, "Goals are for losers."
He says we should have systems instead of goals.
This is partly semantics because the two subjects are connected.
But I've seen situations where I was so focused on the 'goal' that it felt like I was losing all the time.
If your goal is to add 10,000 new subscribers by August, you might feel like a failure if you only add 5,000.
But you added 5,000 new subscribers!
If you develop a system you can consistently follow to add new subscribers, it's a raging success.
You just need to keep following that system…and possibly even expand on it.
This applies to everything you do.
For example, if someone wants to lose 10 pounds, they can take the weight off…but they're likely gain it back. That's what the odds say.
What if they develop a system of healthy eating and consistent exercise? Does it really matter whether it takes them 30 days or 60 days to reach the 'goal?'
The time it takes to reach a specific result isn't as important as the system that consistently generates the results they're looking for.
What systems are you developing for your online business right now?
Maybe you're putting together a system for developing content.
Or you're using a system to generate qualified buyers to your website.
Or you're following my system for creating passive income streams using information products.
While it's awesome to have immediate results, it's even better to have a system you can follow to consistently achieve the end results you're looking for.
People often ask me how quickly they can get develop a specific income online…or escape from their job.
I always deflect these questions, because I honestly don't know you, your skillset, your past history, or how much effort you'll put in. Nor do I know exactly how your specific market will respond. It's impossible for anyone to give you an accurate prediction of how much you will earn in a specific amount of time.
If you follow a system, and make it a part of you without giving up, then it's simply a matter of time until it starts to produce the results you're looking for.
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Laurel Creek Campsite to Wapiti Shelter – 33.3 miles
A few milestones today. It's my birthday, I reached 600 miles, and I set a personal record of miles hiked in one day! I don't even care that it rained the second half of the day. I woke up at 5am. 2-Clicks, Grant, and Gramps were already up and moving surprisingly. I set off at 5:45 and got to the Outpost just after 8am when it opened. Walked in to screams of "Happy Birthday", hot food, a public bathroom, and lots of snacks to keep me full until tomorrow. I was hiking on my own pretty much all day. Made it to the shelter right at 7pm to fine that a spot in the shelter was saved for me. This tramily I'm a part of has some incredible people. More birthday shenanigans happening tomorrow at Woods Hole!


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Wheeling, just 26 miles northwest of Chicago with a population under 40,000, and a median income of $70,000, was voted by Family Circle magazine as one of the 10 best places in the country to raise a family. One of the reasons Wheeling was selected is because of its diversity.
Melissa Kolssak said she and her husband love raising their two boys, David and Chase, in the town.
"The park system here is wonderful. The schools are great. The park district is terrific. The open spaces are wonderful, and really, a great place to raise a family," Kolssak said.
"A great community, like different ethnic backgrounds," said Amy Burke.
"I wanted a community that would provide diversity, that's a microcosm of the world, and Wheeling does that from an ethnic and socio-economic standpoint," said Mike Burke.
Wheeling High School has won several championships in wrestling, debate and cross country and was recently recognized by Downbeat magazine as having one of the best jazz programs in the country.
In the selection process, Family Circle looked for towns that embrace the environment. Wheeling officials say since 2002, they have spent more than $2 million on five empty lots, turning them into small parks.
"Not a lot of open space at this point but trying to take whatever we have and turn it into parks and things of that nature," said J. Mark Rooney, village manager.
Wheeling also boasts Chicago Executive Airport, the third busiest airport in Illinois, a thriving business community and Milwaukee Avenue, often referred to as Wheeling's Restaurant Row because of the wide variety of upscale restaurants that line the avenue.
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Hillary Clinton Inches Toward a 'No' on Fast-Track
The Democratic front-runner says she "probably" would not vote for Trade Promotion Authority if she were still in the Senate.
Hillary Clinton gave her most concrete answer yet on trade Thursday night, saying that if she were currently in the Senate she would "probably" not vote for fast-track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal currently being discussed.
"At this point, probably not because it's a process vote and I don't want to say it's the same as TPP," Clinton told Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston in a TV interview for his show, Ralston Reports. Ralston had asked her if she would vote for fast-track authority on the trade deal. "Right now, I'm focused on making sure we get Trade Adjustment Assistance, and I certainly would not vote for it unless I were absolutely confident we would get Trade Adjustment Assistance."
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Commodore 16.
Look! It's a VIC-20 dipped in tar! It's a C64 that's been char-grilled! No... it's a completely different machine from both of those.
The Commodore 16 is a member of Commodore's ill-fated 264 series. It has an updated graphics controller, a new improved version of BASIC, and it's quite incompatible with the Commodore 64. Secret Weapons of Commodore! mentions several machines in this series, and they make interesting reading, but the only two 264s that made it into the mass market in meaningful quantities were the C16 and the Plus/4.
Besides not being compatible with the C64/C128 (at the time, one of the most popular machines on the shelves), Commodore also changed the joystick, cassette and cartridge ports on the 264 series, and eliminated the user port. This seems insane - even beyond the normal Commodore level of bizarre and/or stupid decisions. The user port wasn't a very big deal - it was mostly used for modems and proprietary printer interfaces - but why did they have to change the other ports? The only factor that makes some sense is that the C16's PCB is much smaller than that of its predecessors (thanks to TED). Perhaps Commodore didn't want to waste the materials making the board long enough to stretch across the entire back of the machine, and so they had to use smaller connectors.
My unit is a standard North American market version, bundled with a tutorial cartridge similar in concept to the "Apple Presents Apple" disk bundled with the Apple II series. As you can see from the box photos below, it is billed as "the world's learning machine"; perhaps Commodore aimed it at teaching computer literacy? I have read that the C16 was, like the Plus/4, aimed at business applications, but I find that very hard to believe.
I bought my C16 purely because I wanted one way back in the 1980s when they came out. In Australia, the C16 was sold from its introduction date in a package with a joystick, the Jack Attack cartridge, and a blue Commodore-badged sports bag big enough to hold the computer, for AUD$129.
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From Cold War to Hot Peace
By Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and Obama administration advisor, current director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. The following is an excerpt from his book, From Cold War to Hot Peace, available May 8.
As Air Force One began its initial descent into Prague on a clear, sunny day in April 2010, President Obama asked Gary Samore and me to join him in his office at the front of the plane to run over the final talking points for his meeting with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev later that day. The president was in an ebullient mood. In the same city a year earlier, Obama had given what may have been his most important foreign policy speech to date, calling for a nuclear-free world. Now, just a year later, he was delivering a major piece of business toward his Prague Agenda, as we called it. With his Russian partner, he was about to sign the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), reducing by 30 percent the number of nuclear weapons allowed in the two countries. Samore, our special assistant to the president for weapons of mass destruction at the National Security Council, was our lead at the White House in getting this treaty done; I was his wingman. So this quick trip to Prague was a day of celebration for the two of us as well.
On the tarmac, Obama asked Gary and me to ride with him in his limousine — "the Beast" — to the majestic Prague Castle, where the signing ceremony would take place. For a while, we discussed our game plan for pushing Medvedev to support sanctions on Iran, but mostly the drive was a victory lap. Obama waved to the crowds on the streets, flashing his broad smile through the tinted bulletproof glass. We all felt good about getting something concrete done, always a challenge in government work. We also allowed ourselves that day to imagine even deeper cooperation between the United States and Russia on issues beyond arms control. Maybe we truly had come to a turning point in the bumpy road of U.S.-Russia relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a turn toward genuine strategic cooperation that had eluded previous American and Russian leaders.
With new young presidents in the White House and in the Kremlin, the Cold War felt distant. We were signing the first major arms control treaty in decades, working together to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, joined in efforts to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and increasing trade and investment between our two countries. We seemed to have put contentious issues such as NATO expansion and the Iraq War behind us, and were now digging deeper into areas of mutual interest. That year, for instance, Russian and American paratroopers were jumping out of airplanes together in Colorado, conducting joint counterterrorist-training operations, at the same time that American and Russian entrepreneurs were working together to develop Skolkovo, Russia's aspirational Silicon Valley. We were even discussing the possibilities of cooperating on missile defense. These were breakthroughs unimaginable just two years earlier. Medvedev seemed like a pro-Western modernizer, albeit a cautious one. On that celebratory drive through the cobblestone streets of Prague, the Reset — the bumper sticker for Obama's Russia policy — appeared to be working.
Later that afternoon, Medvedev and Obama signed the New START treaty, drank champagne together, and spoke glowingly about possibilities for further cooperation. At the time, solid majorities in both countries were convinced of such possibilities. Russia was popular in America, and America was popular in Russia. I flew home the next day in a great mood, convinced that we were making history.
He turned away from Tom to stare intensely at me with his steely blue eyes and stern scowl to accuse me of purposely seeking to ruin U.S.-Russia relations. Putin seemed genuinely angry with me.
Only two years later, on a cold, dark day in January 2012, I arrived in Moscow as the new U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, charged with continuing the Reset. I had thought about, written about, and worked toward closer relations with the Soviet Union and then Russia since my high school debating days, so this new mission should have been a crowning achievement of my career: an opportunity of a lifetime to further my ideas about American-Russian relations. It was not. On my first day of work at the embassy, the Russian state-controlled media accused President Obama of sending me to Russia to foment revolution. On his evening commentary show, Odnako, broadcast on the most popular television network in Russia, Mikhail Leontiev warned his viewers that I was neither a Russia expert nor a traditional diplomat, but a professional revolutionary whose assignment was to finance and organize Russia's political opposition as it plotted to overthrow the Russian government; to finish Russia's Unfinished Revolution, the title of one of my books written a decade earlier. This portrayal of my mission to Moscow would haunt me for the rest of my days as ambassador. A few months later, in May 2012, I accompanied my former boss at the White House, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, to his meeting with President-elect Putin. This was the first meeting between a senior Obama official and Putin since Putin's reelection in March 2012. We met at Novo-Ogaryovo, Putin's country estate, the same place where Obama had enjoyed a cordial, constructive, three-hour breakfast with the then prime minister four years earlier. Putin listened politely to Tom's arguments for continued cooperation. At some point in their dialogue, however, he turned away from Tom to stare intensely at me with his steely blue eyes and stern scowl to accuse me of purposely seeking to ruin U.S.-Russia relations. Putin seemed genuinely angry with me; I was genuinely alarmed. The hair on the back of my neck stood on end and sweat covered my brow as I endured this tongue-lashing from one of the most powerful people in the world.
In Prague, I had been the author of the Reset, the driver of closer relations with Russia. In Moscow, I was now a revolutionary, a usurper, and Vladimir Putin's personal foe.
What happened? How did we go from toasting the Reset in Prague in 2010 to lamenting its end in Moscow just two years later? Nothing fundamental had changed in our policy toward Russia. Nor had Russia done anything abroad that might trigger new animosity — that would come later. The one obvious change between these two meetings was Russia's leadership. Medvedev was president when we were in Prague to sign New START; Putin was elected president soon after my arrival in Moscow as U.S. ambassador. But that seemed too simple an explanation. After all, Putin was prime minister during the heyday of the Reset, and most people thought he was calling the shots during that time.
And then things became even worse. Two years into his third term as Russian president, in February 2014, Putin invaded Ukraine, annexing Crimea and supporting separatist militias in the eastern part of the country. Not since World War II had a European country violated the sovereignty of another country in this way. Putin's outrageous and shocking actions reaffirmed the end of the Reset, and with it, three decades of American and Russian leaders' efforts to build a more cooperative relationship after the end of the Cold War. The project of Russian integration into the West — started by Ronald Reagan and sustained to varying degrees by all post–Cold War presidents — was over.
Sometime between the Obama-Medvedev summit in Prague in 2010 and Pu- tin's invasion of Ukraine in 2014, public opinion in both countries also flipped: solid majorities in both Russia and the United States now perceived each other as enemies.
This new era of confrontation did not mark a return to the Cold War, exactly, but most certainly could be described as a hot peace. Unlike during the Cold War, the Kremlin today no longer promotes an ideology with worldwide appeal. Russian economic and military power is growing, but Russia has not obtained superpower status like the Soviet Union. And the entire globe is not divided between red and blue states — the communist bloc versus the free world — reinforced by opposing alliance structures. Russia today has very few allies. And yet, our new era of hot peace has resurrected some features eerily reminiscent of the Cold War, while also adding new dimensions of confrontation. A new ideological struggle has emerged between Russia and the West, not between communism and capitalism but between democracy and autocracy. Putin also has championed a new set of populist, nationalist, conservative ideas antithetical to the liberal, international order anchored by the United States. Putinism now has admirers in Western democracies, just as communism did during the Cold War. Europe is divided again between East and West; the line has just moved farther east. Russia's military, economic, cyber, and informational capabilities to project power and ideas have also grown considerably in the last several years. And sometimes, this hot peace has morphed into hot wars, not directly between the United States and Russia but between proxies in Ukraine and Syria. And then there are some acts of Russian aggression that Soviet leaders during the Cold War never dared to attempt, including annexing territory in Ukraine and intervening in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Khrushchev and Brezhnev confronted the United States around the world, even at times using military force as an instrument to fight the Cold War, but never annexed land or audaciously violated American sovereignty. As Putin's Russia has amassed new capabilities and greater intent to challenge the United States and the West more generally, America's standing as the leader of the free world and anchor of the liberal international order has waned. Compared to the Cold War, that's new too. To- day's hot peace is not as dangerous as the worst moments of the Cold War, but most certainly is tenser than some of the more cooperative periods of the Cold War.
I have spent the greater part of my life trying to deepen relations between Russia and the United States.
What went wrong? Why did the end of the Cold War not produce closer relations between our two countries? Could this new, tragic era of confrontation have been avoided?
And what had I gotten wrong? From my days as a high school debater in Bozeman, Montana, in 1979 to my years as ambassador to Russia ending in 2014, I had argued that closer relations with Moscow served American national interests. As a college student, I'd been so eager to deepen engagement with the Russians — or the Soviets, back then — that I enrolled in first-year Russian in the fall quarter of my freshman year at Stanford University and then traveled to what Ronald Reagan called "the evil empire," against the wishes of my mother, on my first trip abroad, to study in Leningrad in the summer of 1983. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, I again packed my bags and moved to Russia to help support market and democratic reforms there, believing that those changes would help bring our two countries closer together. Beginning on January 21, 2009, I worked for President Obama at the National Security Council, and in 2012, I became his ambassador, animated by the belief that a more cooperative relationship served American national interests. I have spent the greater part of my life trying to deepen relations between Russia and the United States. But in 2014 all these efforts seemed for naught. Heightening my sense of frustration, I was banned by Putin from traveling to Russia — the first U.S. ambassador since George Kennan, in 1952, to be barred entry to the country. What had I personally done wrong? Had I pursued the wrong strategies? Or had I embraced the wrong goals in the first place?
This book seeks to answer these big, hard questions about Russian-American relations over the last thirty years, from my perspective as both analyst and participant. The story begins with the first reset in U.S.-Soviet relations, in the Reagan-Gorbachev era, and ends with the last, failed attempt initiated by President Obama. It's a complex story, shaped by Cold War legacies, punctuated by economic depression and civil wars, and interrupted by popular uprisings and foreign interventions. I will address all of these factors as potential causes of cooperation and confrontation. However, in my account, individuals — their ideas and their decisions — drive the narrative of U.S.-Russia relations over the last three decades. Real people made decisions that sometimes produced cooperation and other times led to confrontation. Relations between the United States and Russia were not determined by the balance of power between our two countries, or by innate forces such as economic development, culture, history, or geography. Where others see destiny, determinism, and inevitability, I see choices, contingency, and opportunities, realized and missed. In this book, I evaluate both American and Russian leaders — their ideas, decisions, and behavior — by how well they succeeded in achieving what in my view were desirable and attainable objectives. I try to evaluate my own work through the same critical lens.
U.S. leaders have certainly pursued policies that by turns nurtured and under- mined cooperation with Russia. I will discuss how and why. I personally made some mistakes in both analysis and actions. Those are not glossed over here. But in my account, decisions and actions by Russian leaders — shaped in large part by their domestic politics — drive most of the drama in American-Russian relations, sometimes in a positive direction, other times in a negative direction. This book is one participant's recollections, not a dispassionate history of U.S.-Russian relations over the last thirty years. As I have learned from writing other scholarly books, memories are imperfect sources for the writing of history. It is too soon to draft the definitive account of these events, especially those that occurred in the Obama era, because almost none of the important documents — including ones that I wrote — have been declassified. Few of the central decision makers, in Russia or the United States, have been interviewed. Only a handful of the central policymakers in the United States have written memoirs. The memoir literature from Russian decision makers is even thinner. On some big policy issues during the Obama era, such as Iran and Syria, I also recognize that I participated in only a portion of the policymaking — that which had to do with Russia. Others in our government will have to write their accounts to complete the picture. And as this book goes to press, the role of Russia in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is a story still unfolding. This book is an early, interpretative take — my take — on this era in U.S.-Russia relations. I hope it will stimulate and inform other scholars in the writing of more definitive studies in the future.
By design, this book is a mix of abstract analysis, historical narrative, and personal anecdote. I hope that President Obama, my fellow policy wonks in government, my colleagues at Stanford, and my mother in Montana will all read it. That's a tall order. My mom will tire when reading about telemetry, and my academic colleagues may not be that intrigued by the two-step. Therefore, I give all readers license to skip those passages not of interest to them, which I trust can be done without losing the arc of the story. Scholars will quickly identify the social science theories that shaped both the analysis in this book and my thinking about policy while in government. But I deliberately hid, rather than highlighted, the academic scaffolding and academic references to allow for better storytelling. I also wrote this book from the sometimes competing perspectives of scholar, policymaker, diplomat, and Montanan. Rather than try to maintain one voice, I deliberately deployed these multiple standpoints because I am all of these things, and therefore my understanding of and engagement in Russian-American relations was shaped by these multiple dimensions. These tensions in the book accurately reflect those tensions in my life.
Contents in From Cold War to Hot Peace
1. The First Reset
2. Democrats of the World, Unite!
3. Yeltsin's Partial Revolution
4. Putin's Thermidor
5. Change We Can Believe In
6. Launching the Reset
7. Universal Values
8. The First (and Last) Moscow Summit
9. New START
10. Denying Iran the Bomb
11. Hard Accounts: Russia's Neighborhood and Missile Defense
12. Burgers and Spies
13. The Arab Spring, Libya, and the Beginning of the End of the Reset
14. Becoming "His Excellency"
15. Putin Needs an Enemy — America, Obama, and Me
16. Getting Physical
17. Pushback
18. Twitter and the Two-Step
19. It Takes Two to Tango
20. Chasing Russians, Failing Syrians
21. Dueling on Human Rights
22. Going Home
23. Annexation and War in Ukraine
24. The End of Resets (for Now)
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When is it OK to kill a coyote?
Can San Diego residents dealing with aggressive coyotes take matters in their own hands and kill the problem animal?
Yes, but there's a catch.
Although state law allows individuals to trap or shoot nuisance coyotes, the reality of that option is complicated in urban areas, where coyotes have made themselves at home.
The adaptable animals, which slink through fences or hedgerows, have also slipped through cracks in the rules governing how people can deal with them.
State and federal officials will step in when an animal attacks a human. If it is harming pets, damaging property or lurking uncomfortably close to people, state law allows people to kill the coyote themselves.
But local firearms ordinances may restrict residents from shooting coyotes in their neighborhoods, and trapping requires specialized skill. Professional trappers are available for hire, but their services can cost thousands of dollars.
As aggressive coyotes become a safety hazard in Southern California neighborhoods, residents are seeking a clear map of how to prevent the problem, and what to do when the predators get out of hand.
Most wildlife officials agree that the best strategy is to avoid letting coyotes become comfortable around humans. They urge residents to keep pets in at night, remove pet food and trash from their yards, and haze coyotes with noise, rocks or water guns.
When the coyotes become too familiar with humans, experts say, those measures won't work anymore. Some San Diegans are noticing the same thing.
Steps to deter coyote aggression
Remove pet food and bird seed from outdoor areas at night
Keep pets inside at night
Pick up fallen fruit.
Secure garbage
Trim hedges to limit shelter.
Install motion detector lights
Avoid walking dogs in areas frequented by coyotes
Carry a walking stick and air horn while walking a dog.
Throw rocks or tennis balls at approaching coyotes
Fill a supersoaker with a capful of ammonia as a hazing method. The allows people to stay far from an aggressive coyote while delivering a spray that uncomfortably stings the animal.
Avoid feeding coyotes under any circumstances.
"I've lived in San Diego in my whole life, 50 years, but I've never seen coyotes being this brazen," said Matthew Tinney, who lives in the Fletcher Hills community of El Cajon, where coyotes venture onto his driveway and jump the backyard fence.
Recently he spotted one of them staring through a window at the family Chihuahua.
"I remember back in the days when you'd yell at them and they'd take off scared," he said. "These guys are not scared. They're not afraid of anything."
As the animals become bolder, solutions become trickier.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife becomes involved when a coyote attacks a person. That's what happened last month when a San Diego woman was bitten on the leg during an early morning run.
Kensington resident Janet Snook was running before dawn, when she felt a coyote nip her leg. She eventually outran the animal and received medical care including a series of rabies shots.
In that case, state game wardens worked with federal trappers to try to catch the offending coyote, but pulled the trap after several days.
"(California Department of Fish and Wildlife) only responds when it's a public safety threat," spokeswoman Janice Mackey stated in an e-mail.
Other law enforcement and animal service agencies won't get involved in coyote nuisance issues either.
San Diego Police doesn't respond to coyote complaints, but defers to state wildlife officials, said office Humberto Hernandez, a spokesman for the department. San Diego County Animal Services doesn't handle wild animals, said deputy director
Lauren Joniaux.
"We deal mostly in domestic animals and the only time we're going to deal with wildlife is if they're sick or injured," she said. "As part of our environment, we have to learn to coexist with them."
If a coyote is approaching people or eating pets, however, residents can act on their own.
That's what Clairemont resident David Kennedy has been pondering. Kennedy often sees coyotes stare him down during hikes in nearby Tecolote Canyon. He and his wife lost two cats in five years, and reluctantly adopted a new feline, knowing the risks she would face.
"Honestly, if I lose this cat, I will do something," Kennedy said. "If I have to get a bow and arrow, I know where they den."
Unlike game animals and endangered or protected species, coyotes have no special protection. Anyone can kill them without tags or permits.
How you do so is a different matter. And the rules aren't always clear.
Although state law allows shooting of nuisance coyotes, it requires anyone who does so to comply with local ordinances. And most cities have restrictions on discharge of firearms within city limits, where an errant shot could endanger people nearby. Hernandez, with the San Diego Police Department, however, could not say how San Diego firearms laws apply to coyote control.
Kennedy said he assumes that shooting the animals is not an option.
"I have legal firearms registered to me, but I know I can't fire them legally in the city," he said. "I don't want people running around shooting guns."
That leaves trapping, which is also legal to residents. Trapping commercially requires a state license, but catching a pest on your own property doesn't.
Knowing how and where to trap is more complicated.
"Coyotes are not easy to catch," said Vince Piyamanothamkul, owner of the San Diego-based company, A All Animal Control. "You have to really monitor these guys and follow their trail to place the trap in the right location."
Although the price tag for trapping can range from a few hundred to several thousand dollars, demand for such services has increased steadily, said Dan Fox, president and principal biologist for Animal Pest Management, an animal control firm that operates throughout Southern California.
"Twenty years ago we used to get a call a month," Fox said. "Now we get four or five a week."
The process doesn't require wiping out an entire pack, experts said. Removing a few of the bullying coyotes can often keep the others in check, by sending a warning signal to the rest of the pack and preventing the bold ones from training juveniles, said Rex Baker, a professor emeritus of agricultural biology at Cal Poly Pomona, who is one of California's leading experts on the animals.
"When all of a sudden there's a danger flag thrown up, that affects their behavioral imprint," he said. "That makes them a little bit wary and cautious."
Niamh Quinn, vertebrate pest management advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension, is drawing up a regional strategic plan for coyote management that would spell out the actions needed at each stage of the problem.
"It's the responsibility of people to deal with coyotes, and keep them wild," Quinn said. "In the management plan there should be levels where hazing should be increased, and levels where hazing is not effective and coyotes should be suppressed."
Kennedy is hopeful that neighborhoods and local governments can find a way to keep aggressive coyotes in check.
"It's unnatural and you can't just fix it without a concerted effort, without a community effort to make these animals understand that they need to live out there as wild animals," he said.
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Project description and objectives
The EBRD is considering providing a loan of up to EUR 4 million to finance an Oshelectro investment program for the period 2015-2017. The program is aimed at the rehabilitation and modernization of low and medium voltage networks, including installation of number of smart meters in Osh and Batken regions in the south of Kyrgyzstan. The project will improve the reliability of the power supply and will significantly reduce technical and commercial losses.
Transition impact
With this investment the Bank will initiate a restructuring process of a public utility in order to improve operating efficiency and restore financial health. On top of the expected improvement in the operating performance, the Project will entail commercialisation of the Company's operations and increased transparency. This will be achieved via a TC support to review current billing and collection practices, as well as help with implementation of the restructuring process. In addition, the Bank will request an annual IFRS audit by a reputable audit firm and compliance with the ESAP. The Project will increase revenue collections and introduce more commercial business practices. It will also address energy efficiency improvements, reduction of commercial losses and increasing reliability of power supply.
The expected transition impact rating is 'good'.
The client
The loan is made to the Kyrgyz Republic, to be on-lent to state-owned Oshelectro electricity Distribution Company.
EBRD finance
A sovereign loan of up to EUR 4 million to the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic. It is expected that the project will be co-financed by international donor's funds.
Total project cost
The total project cost is EUR 6 million including technical cooperation fund.
Environmental and social categorisation, impact, and mitigation
Category B Environmental and social issues associated with the upgrade of existing distribution networks and smart metering can be readily assessed and mitigated as part of an Environmental and Social Due Diligence ("ESDD"). The ESDD will focus on social issues (quality of service, increase of tariffs), work conditions and occupational health and safety. The Bank will work with the Company in developing effective stakeholder engagement procedures. An ESAP will be prepared and agreed with the Company before signing of Loan Agreement.
Technical cooperation
The following technical cooperation is envisaged to go along with the project:
- TC technical and EE audit and project preparation will be provided using the existing framework programme for the sustainable development of the power sector
- TC to conduct legal and environmental due diligence
- TC to hire a consultant to help implement the project
- TC to hire a consultant to develop a Corporate Development Program to improve billing and collection and other management practices.
Business opportunities
For business opportunities or procurement, contact the client company.
For state-sector projects, visit EBRD Procurement: Tel: +44 20 7338 6794
Email: email@example.com
General enquiries
EBRD project enquiries not related to procurement:
Tel: +44 20 7338 7168
Email: email@example.com
Public Information Policy (PIP)
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Jenna ( Abi Casson Thompson) , Kelly( Barbara Dabson ) and Ness ( Stephanie Lodge ) have all found themselves isolated around the pandemic lockdown and with very little to do around the homes, and with a lot of time on their hands, the girls plot and plan and chat with one another discussing their new sexual desires becoming unleashed with their partners via the world of the internet. Diving into the world of BDSM, group and infidelity, will the ladies want to go further with these experimental sexual acts when they leave lockdown?
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Skype users were up in arms following an update that pushed unwanted software onto users of the PC version of the VoIP software.
Complaints arose following the Skype application installing a gaming add-on called EasyBits Games Go, part of the Skype Extras market of software add-ons.
The software apparently failed to install correctly and couldn't be uninstalled easily, furthermore it ignored users denying permission to install the add-on raising fears of malware infection.
Skype moved describe the EasyBits update as a "error", adding that the update had been disabled while " we work with them to correct the problems and user experience," they said.
"Skype works closely with its partners to ensure that our users receive the best possible Skype experience and is working with EasyBits to ensure this issue does not happen again," they added.
Earlier this month Microsoft moved to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion dollars, the largest acquisition in the firm's history.


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A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration's crackdown on "sanctuary cities" declaring that federal authorities acted unconstitutionally by withholding government grant money to local jurisdictions that offer protections to undocumented people.
District judge Edgardo Ramos said Trump's justice department had a "lack of authority" to deny the grants used by local law enforcement. His ruling cited the tenth amendment to the US constitution, which enshrines the state's powers outside of federal government.
"The separation of powers acts as a check on tyranny and the concentration of power," Judge Ramos said in his ruling.
The order blocks the federal government from withholding any further grant money and instructs the justice department to reissue the funds from last year.
The lawsuit was brought by seven states and the city of New York and follows a similar ruling upheld by the ninth circuit of appeals earlier in the year that blocked the administration from denying federal funds to the city of Chicago, another sanctuary jurisdiction.
"Today's decision is a major win for New Yorkers' public safety," said New York attorney general Barbara Underwood.
The Trump administration simply does not have the right to require state and local police to act as federal immigration agents. The Trump administration's attempt to withhold these vital funds was nothing more than a political attack at the expense of our public safety."
Trump had issued an order in January 2017 that instructed his attorney general to withhold federal grants to sanctuary cities. The order cited a federal statute which mandates that local authorities cannot, barring local laws, prevent federal agencies from requesting information about an individual's immigration status.
The ruling marks the latest judicial setback for the Trump administration's hardline crackdown on migrants. Earlier in the month a federal judge in San Francisco blocked a recently issued presidential order that sought to end the right to claim asylum to those who crossed the southern border illegally.
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