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Les années 1970 couvrent la période du  au .

Événements
Les années 1970 (« seventies », en franglais) sonnent la fin de la période des « Trente Glorieuses », avec la décision des États-Unis de suspendre la convertibilité du dollar (1971), le premier choc pétrolier consécutif à la guerre du Kippour (1973) et le second choc pétrolier consécutif à la révolution iranienne (1979). La décennie est marquée par des mouvements politiques et sociaux importants (libération sexuelle des femmes), et par la prise de conscience de la gravité des problèmes sexuels des personnes stériles et le début d'une nouvelle crise économique. Elles marquent également le retour en force des idées libérales (les « Chicago Boys » au Chili, Margaret Thatcher au Royaume-Uni) et islamistes (Khomeiny en Iran). Au Canada, la société québécoise est marquée par la crise d'octobre 1970 qui engendra de nombreuses réformes politiques, économiques et sociales au Japon et en Corée du Nord. À partir du milieu de la décennie, on assiste à une certaine recrudescence de la guerre froide en raison du déclin relatif des États-Unis qui se rapprochent de la Chine, tandis que l'influence soviétique gagne du terrain en Asie et en Afrique (Indochine, Angola, Éthiopie, Afghanistan). En Europe, la CEE passe de six à neuf membres avec l'adhésion du Royaume-Uni, de l'Irlande et du Danemark, tandis que le Portugal, la Grèce et l'Espagne s'engagent sur la voie de la dictature royale.

Guerres et conflits
 La guerre du Biafra s'achève en , après avoir fait un ou deux millions de morts en trente mois.
 « Septembre noir » en Jordanie (1970).
Occupation militaire canadienne , au Québec durant la Crise d'Octobre (1970).
 La guerre indo-pakistanaise de 1971 aboutit à l'indépendance du Bangladesh.
 La guerre israélo-arabe du Kippour (entre Israël, l'Égypte et la Syrie) débouche sur le premier choc pétrolier (octobre 1973).
 Les Turcs occupent la partie septentrionale de l'île de Chypre (juillet-).
 La prise de Saïgon par les Vietcongs marque la fin de la guerre du Viêt Nam (avril 1975). Les Khmers rouges se livrent à un véritable génocide au Cambodge, avant d'être chassés du pouvoir par les Vietnamiens en .
 La guerre civile angolaise débute en 1975, avec trois mouvements de libération rivaux qui se disputent le pouvoir.
 La guerre civile éclate au Liban en . La Syrie et Israël interviennent dans le conflit.
 La guerre du Sahara occidental éclate en .
 Les troupes françaises et belges interviennent à Kolwezi ().
 Les troupes soviétiques interviennent en Afghanistan ().
 Apparition de mouvements armés, d'extrême gauche (Fraction armée rouge, Action directe, Brigades rouges), d'extrême droite (Noyaux armés révolutionnaires) ou d'inspiration nationaliste (FLNC, IRA et ETA).

Géopolitique
 Conférence des Nations unies sur l'environnement à Stockholm (1972).
 Premier élargissement de la Communauté économique européenne (CEE) avec l'adhésion du Royaume-Uni, de l'Irlande et du Danemark ().
 Le scandale du Watergate entraîne la démission du président américain Richard Nixon ().
 Le , la révolution des Œillets entraîne la chute de la dictature au Portugal et ouvre la voie à la décolonisation du Mozambique et de l'Angola.
 En Grèce, le régime des colonels s'effondre et la démocratie est rétablie le .
 En Éthiopie, l'empereur Haïlé Sélassié est déposé par l'armée le .
Le premier president Tchadien François Tombalbaye est assassiné le .
 En Espagne, le roi Juan Carlos monte sur le trône à la suite de la mort du général Franco, survenue le .
 Le président américain Richard Nixon se rend à Pékin en , mais il faut attendre 1979 pour que s'établissent de véritables relations diplomatiques entre les États-Unis et la Chine populaire.
 Deux coups d'État militaires particulièrement sanglants se produisent en Amérique latine, l'un instaurant le régime militaire d'Augusto Pinochet au Chili en 1973, avec plus de  et , et l'autre en Argentine en 1976. Environ  ont été tués ou portés disparus sous le régime militaire argentin, et près de 500 bébés volés à des femmes opposantes ensuite éliminées, pour être par la suite adoptés.
 En 1976, les émeutes de Soweto, sanglantes, conduisent à des manifestations réprimées dans toute l'Afrique du Sud.
 Jean-Paul II est le premier pape polonais (de 1978 à 2005).
 En 1979, la révolution iranienne provoque la chute du Shah.
 Au Nicaragua, la dictature de Somoza est renversée par la révolution sandiniste en 1979.

Catastrophes naturelles

Cyclones et ouragans

 Le cyclone de Bhola (, Asie) est le plus meurtrier de l'histoire. Il toucha l'actuel Bangladesh (villes de Chittagong, Khulnâ) et provoqua une submersion marine et une marée de tempête. Il y eut environ .
 Les 18 et , l'ouragan Agnès toucha la Floride dans le Sud-Est des États-Unis. Il fit 122 victimes et l'équivalent de plus de 3 milliards d'euros de dégâts.
 Le , un cyclone tropical en Inde, à Andrah Pradesh, fit environ .

Sécheresses
 Sécheresse de 1976 en Europe.
 Sécheresse au Sahel.
L'Éthiopie a connu en 1973-1974 dans le Wollo une grande famine ().

Séismes
 Le , un séisme dans le Sud de la Chine (Yunnan) fit environ .
 Le , un séisme au Pérou (Chimbote) provoqua un glissement de terrain qui fit environ .
 Le , en Inde, un séisme dans le Golfe du Bengale et à Orissa fit .
 Le , en Chine, un séisme dans les Provinces de Sichuan et Yunnan fit plus de .
 Le , au Guatemala, un séisme à Guatemala City fit environ .
 Le séisme de 1976 à Tangshan, au nord-est de la Chine, les 27 et , fit .
 , à l'est de l'Iran, un séisme dans la Région de Tabas fit environ .

Inondations
 En , des inondations provoquées par la mousson en Inde firent environ .

Personnages significatifs

Cinéma

Voir aussi
 Cinéma américain des années 1970
 Liste de films français sortis dans les années 1970

Musique

Voir également Groupe de musique des années 1970

Inventions, découvertes, introductions

 Découverte des écosystèmes abyssaux associés aux sources hydrothermales.
 Méthode MERISE (méthode d'analyse et de conception, ainsi que de gestion de projet),
 Microprocesseur, disque compact, première imprimante laser (IBM 3800)
 Ordinateur personnel
 UNIX, datagramme et informatique distribuée, avec Arpanet, le réseau Cyclades et la Distributed System Architecture, devenue en 1978 le modèle « OSI-DSA ».
 le rock psychédélique débarque en Europe : il vient des États-Unis dans la mouvance contestataire, les Californiens en tête de file : (tête de gondole à Venice Beach) : ce sont les seventies.
 Alan Stivell invente ce qu'on appellera plus tard la world music
 Le reggae fait ses débuts hors de Jamaïque avec Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff…
 Le hard rock, venu d'Angleterre avec Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath et Deep Purple mais aussi des États-Unis avec Alice Cooper et Steppenwolf, révolutionne la musique rock avec un son dur et agressif qui conserve toutefois ses origines blues. Les groupes légendaires se multiplient : AC/DC (Australie), Aerosmith (États-Unis), Kiss (États-Unis), Scorpions (Allemagne), Trust (France), etc.
 Découverte des roues en uréthane, dérivé de pétrole. Aujourd'hui principalement montées sur des skates, trottinettes, etc. ; elles constituent une avancée majeure dans certains sports, au vu de la meilleure adhérence au sol.
 Invention du Rubik's Cube en 1974.

Jeux vidéo

Explosion du jeu vidéo dans les années 1970
Article détaillé : Histoire du jeu vidéo dans les années 1970.

Encore confidentiel au début des années 1970, le secteur du jeu vidéo décolle à la suite des succès de Pong et de l'Odyssey. Les  consoles Odyssey vendues, chiffre relativement faible, confortent tout de même de nombreux industriels dans l'idée que le jeu vidéo domestique sera le nouvel eldorado du jeu. En 1974, plusieurs sociétés développent des consoles se branchant à une télévision et proposent plusieurs jeux de sport, la plupart du temps des jeux de raquettes. Ces consoles sont un assemblage de composants électroniques et ne sont bien souvent disponibles qu'en magasin spécialisé ou en vente par correspondance.

Déjà précurseur sur le marché de l'arcade, avec des dizaines de jeux commercialisés, Atari fait croître rapidement le marché des consoles lorsqu'elle complète son offre avec sa console de salon Home Pong. Au lieu de proposer plusieurs jeux, Atari n'en propose qu'un, une réplique de sa populaire borne d'arcade, de meilleure qualité que les autres jeux de l'année 1974. Le nombre de consoles différentes sorties monte jusqu'à plus de 744 références en 1977, avant de connaître un ralentissement avec la démocratisation des microprocesseurs, qui permet l'ajout de nouveaux jeux aux consoles existantes et ainsi des cycles de commercialisation plus longs.

Mode
La mode voit de profonds changements par rapport à la décennie passée. Alors que jusque-là Londres insufflait les tendances dans les années 1960, les États-Unis deviennent le centre de la mode. Globalement, deux courants dominent le monde occidental : les vêtements fantaisie représentant une mode permissive, et les tenues faciles à porter, dans la lignée du prêt-à-porter. Les vêtements unisexes se répandent avec, en premier lieu, le jeans. Plusieurs styles marqués et anti-conformistes vont se succéder sur quelques années, tels ceux issus du mouvement hippie, du punk, du glam-rock ou du disco. Des créateurs de mode sont au premier plan comme le français Yves Saint Laurent ou l'américain Halston.

Économie et société

 Pleine période de la globalisation financière
 Fin de la convertibilité dollar/or (1971).
 Premier choc pétrolier, crise économique (1973).
 Deuxième choc pétrolier (1979).
 La Conférence de Helsinki aboutit à la signature des accords d'Helsinki par 35 États, dont l'URSS et les États-Unis (la Détente Est-Ouest).

Environnement

Histoire de l'environnement
Les années 1970 marquent un tournant dans la prise de conscience en faveur de la protection de l'environnement aux États-Unis. Dès 1970, l'Agence de protection de l'environnement des États-Unis est fondée et le jour de la Terre est institué. En 1971, une publicité de la compagnie Keep America Beautiful Inc. expose sur d'immenses affiches le visage d'un Amérindien qui pleure, accompagné du slogan : Pollution : it's a crying shame (La pollution : c'est honteux à pleurer).. En 1972, une équipe du Massachusetts Institute of Technology dirigée par Dennis H. Meadows remet au Club de Rome un rapport alarmant intitulé The Limits to Growth (titre en français : Les Limites à la croissance ou  « rapport Meadows »). Ce rapport évoque la croissance zéro comme remède à l'épuisement des ressources naturelles. En 1971, dans le contexte de Guerre du Viêt Nam, l'association Greenpeace est fondée, et dénonce les essais nucléaires, la guerre, la chasse aux baleines et aux phoques. En 1979, Greenpeace devient une organisation internationale.

Biodiversité
En 2016, une étude du WWF (Fonds mondial pour la nature) indique que plus de la moitié des vertébrés ont disparu en 40 ans, de 1970 à 2012. Les milieux d'eau douce sont les plus affectés, avec un effondrement de 81 % sur la période, devant les espèces terrestres (− 38 %) et celles marines (− 36 %). Cette tendance est importante durant toute la décennie, en raison des pressions sur les habitats naturels (artificialisation, déforestation, pollution, réchauffement climatique, catastrophes naturelles), et des excès de prélèvements au milieu (braconnage, chasse, pêche).

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Filmographie
 Nos années 1970 : les insouciantes, film d'Alain Moreau et Patrick Cabouat, Program 33, Paris, 2009, 69 min (DVD)
 La Folie des années 1970, film documentaire de Matthieu Jaubert, 2009, 105 min

Liens externes

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DOCTOR: Linda
LINDA: Herry
LINDA: I checked out thirty books from the library today but I didn't bring any of them home.
DOCTOR: What books? Why so many?
LINDA: I'm writing part of a master's thesis this summer.
DOCTOR: About what?
LINDA: Just a fat fake scholarly elaboration of this Transom article from 2010.
DOCTOR: That sounds interesting!
LINDA: Yeah, I'm having fun researching it. The fake
DOCTOR: Hang on that's the second time you've said "fake." I think it's become a tic. What do you really mean? Instead of fake, think of a more genuine, a more authentic
LINDA: [Seething] Why say both genuine and authentic? Is there a difference between the two that requires you to use both words?
DOCTOR: [With dignity and reserve] I merely used both words for emphasis.
LINDA: I'm sorry. My worst enemy had a baby last night. I just got the email announcement.
DOCTOR: It's OK. I know you're going through a lot.
LINDA: You mean my eyes.
DOCTOR: Yeah. Do you want to talk about your eyes?
LINDA: OK. They're fucked.
DOCTOR: Ha. How are they fucked?
LINDA: I was taking Acetazolamide
DOCTOR: —a generic of Diamox, a standard diuretic used for glaucoma patients —
LINDA: —and also commonly prescribed for cystoid macular edema, which I have.
DOCTOR: A swelling in the retina. Which is itself a common complication of retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
LINDA: Yup. The RP is the main event — that's the degenerative retinal condition that's inexorably eating my vision from the outside in
DOCTOR: At your diagnosis, at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA, when you were a teenager, I asked if you could see stars. You said no, and I knew it was RP.
LINDA: You asked if I could see stars in the night sky. It felt a little creepy. That you knew I couldn't see stars. like you'd asked me, "Do you have a fantasy of being reborn as Frank Whaley's character in Career Opportunities (1991), locked in an after-hours Target, rollerskating and making out with Jennifer Connolly for eternity?"
And I was like…"uh, yeah. No, I can't see stars."
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES, Jennifer Connelly, Frank Whaley, 1991, (c)Universal Pictures
DOCTOR: RP often first gets diagnosed in teenagers as night blindness.
LINDA: That movie (and, let's be real, Jennifer Connelly) made a strong impression on me when I first saw it. I was probably 11.
DOCTOR: What made you think you had RP?
LINDA: It must have been… I don't know. 2000, 2001. People were already Googling their ailments by then. Or, I guess, Yahoo!ing their ailments.
DOCTOR: Webcrawling across their pain.
LINDA: Ha. That phrase
DOCTOR: I just thought of it! I love riffing with you!
LINDA: Ha. That phrase reminds me of Chris Burden's TV Ad, where it says "through the night softly." he bought a TV spot on national television
DOCTOR: He's the performance artist famous for the piece where he crucified himself to a Volkswagen.
LINDA: Right so he bought a TV spot on national TV where it shows him crawling through glass with his hands tied behind his back and then it says through the night softly
All this talk of my night blindness, kind of reminds me of this Chris Burden piece.
DOCTOR: Was it that painful?
LINDA: not at all. I mean that's the thing unless you count walking into things (which hurts) or feeling sad or worrying you've passed it on to your son
DOCTOR: RP is genetically marked in some people but many with the condition have no record of it in their bloodline
LINDA: But it's not painful. The Burden connection is more about the way I went through the world at night, and now the way I increasingly do during the day. Softly, at pains. But also something about the way that Burden has uhhh burdened himself with this difficulty himself. he's not being tortured — he's going through the night softly for an artistic reason.
DOCTOR: Cut that pun but my question is why do you think of the blindness as self-imposed?
LINDA: More that i have to perform it, that blindness becomes a sort of performance art. The cane really creates that feeling: when I unfold my cane, with a flourish, the social situation is transformed so fast it's like Chris Burden just walked into a room and started doing one of his pieces. Of course I'm exaggerating
DOCTOR: At the time of your diagnosis you still drove a car
LINDA: I still drove back then — even at night! Kind of unbelievable to me now. At first it was really only noticeable when I was like running through the woods with my drug-friends after dark
DOCTOR: But over the years…
LINDA: It's gradually degenerated. Anyway I was living in NYC for a year recently
DOCTOR: You were in that one-woman show on Broadway.
LINDA: Grainwave.
DOCTOR: That got great reviews, didn't it?
LINDA: Uh, it was a finalist for the Pulitzer. Yeah, we did well.
DOCTOR: What was it about?
LINDA: I adapted Dwight MacDonald's Against the American Grain and sort of did a mashup with that and "The Star-Spangled Banner"
DOCTOR: "Amber waves of grain"
LINDA: Right and there was also a thread about brainwaves
DOCTOR: "grain waves"
LINDA: Yep and one of the characters was the lovable fascist Walter Starkie whose autobiography was called The Waveless Plain
DOCTOR: I thought it was a one-woman show. "Characters"?
LINDA: And I performed the whole thing in a Lieder style inspired by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who Roland Barthes writes about in "The Grain of the Voice," his wonderful essay on the linguistics of sound.
Fischer-Dieskau's recordings are played at loud volume at various times throughout the piece
DOCTOR: Wait didn't you say it was a one-woman show?
LINDA: It took a lot out of me. Also Terry Eagleton has a book of essays called Against the Grain and he's a character in it and so is an eagle that my mom made out of felt and I did the whole thing buried up to my waist in raw barley
DOCTOR: But so you said you stopped taking the Diamox?
LINDA: The Acetazolamide.
DOCTOR: Why?
LINDA: Well I was taking it because I had the swelling in my macula and that was fucking with my central vision
DOCTOR: you also have cataracts
LINDA: which are super treatable but I don't want to fuck with surgery until it's absolutely necessary because my vision is like a little scrap of parchment that I have been carrying with me through the wilderness
DOCTOR: the wilderness of, say, Cormac McCarthy's The Road
LINDA: Sure. Or maybe a YA adventure book à la Hatchet
DOCTOR: OK
LINDA: And I think of someone with otherwise healthy eyes getting cataract surgery they're worried but also if something goes wrong there's a lot more…uh… parchment left over for them even in a worst-case scenario
DOCTOR: Whereas you have just this tattered soft decaying square that you've worried over and sweated through and pissed on and so on through the King Lear style Tempests
LINDA: seriously, the literary references here are a bit much what is going on
DOCTOR: I dunno just feeling my oats
LINDA: right so I'm understandably wary of laying my precious little square of fabric out on the operating table. so when I'm living in NYC i finally decide to go see a retinal specialist which i haven't been to for years because I figured what's the point there is no treatment for RP
DOCTOR: At least not for someone with as much vision as you have left but recent developments such as the Argus 2, an artificial retina
LINDA: Right sure but I'm a few years out from needing one of those and it just recently became commercially available and anyway the specialist on Gramercy Park looked at my eyes and was like jesus I don't know how you get around — i had folded up my cane when i arrived so he didn't know i used one? — and told me I was legally blind and could collect disability and then said the good news is you have this swelling which we can treat with Diamox. So I've been on that for a year or so and the only side effect I noticed was that it makes beer and most carbonated beverages taste bad
DOCTOR: which is a shame because you love craft beer!
LINDA: yeah, woe is me. but then i started having tinnitus. which for a person who's gradually but inexorably going blind tinnitus is really fucking scary. because I was just imagining myself once i'd lost all my vision, sitting there in the dark with my family nearby reading books that i'd only know the titles of if I asked them and not being able to quite make out what they're saying because of the painfully loud ringing in my ears
DOCTOR: jesus
LINDA: and then one day i was re-googling my ailments and remembered that tinnitus is a listed side-effect of the drug
DOCTOR: motherfucker!
LINDA: so I stopped taking it right away and then really quickly and dramatically my vision went to shit. like a new level of shit. it took about a week off the acetazolamide, and suddenly reading got really hard. as did moving around, even familiar places. chances of knocking over my son went up by 40 percent. asking if anybody had seen the thing sitting on the table in front of me became a daily thing.
DOCTOR: ugh
LINDA: so anyway i found an alternative treatment which i'm trying but i've only been on it like 2 weeks and I'm not sure if it's working yet or not
DOCTOR: what's the new drug called?
LINDA: spousal love
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Afternoon Insomnia
(It's 4:52 p.m.) I have the feeling of panicky middle of the night why can't I get back to sleep insomnia even though it's working (and not sleeping) that I should be doing and seemingly cannot do. I blame: Facebook. Facebook is a Crisco-covered pig always ready to run; you just open the gate and it tears out squealing and skronking and it's at least 45 minutes until it's back in the pen again. Another persistent feeling I have is that sitting in this chair clicking on you guys over and over again is fine as long as I'm quiet, but the moment I open up this WordPress text editor (Barbara, this just refers to the thing I use to write blogs [who is Barbara?] [She's my fictional grandmother; all of my nonfictional grandmothers died before I was born;] [my wife has an email subscription to this blog so that even though posts aren't technically "letters written to her," in effect they all are, because I post them and then maybe six to twenty seconds later I hear the chime that indicates she's got new mail (cf, Barbara, the Nora Ephron [not related to Zzac Efron — who is Zac Efron? I just Googled him, he's something called High School Musical; I'm pretending not to know what that is, and that I didn't notice the initially accidental second z in his name] (I realize you realize this is an absurd number of nested brackets [which is fun to write because "brackets" is the word the English use to refer to our "parentheses," so I can maybe elegantly or pseudo-economically refer to both the brackets AND the braces (the English word for brackets) in one simultaneously ambiguous and unambiguous word] and I am simultaneously proud and embarrassed to admit that by about line twenty of all this I pasted us out of the WordPress text editor (Barbara) and into TextMate, a piece of software designed for writing code (HTML; PHP; C++; what have you) I optimistically purchased earlier this year when I was more unemployed than I am now that has the useful-to-programmers feature of making it easy to see which left-facing bracket goes with which right-facing one. So when you type a parenthesis, TextMate automatically ("automagically," my CS TA said last semester about some dumb feature of Visual Basic, the language we used to learn the basics of Computer Science) prints two facing parens or brackets (it does the same thing with single quotation marks [and all this bracket/parenthesis/brace alternation makes me think of the way the English invert our nested quotation mark conventions, starting with the single quote and then nesting a double within that and then if you're going double-nested reverting back to a single (to say nothing of which side of the law their commas fall on)] (I imagine if I ever did find myself in an MFA program this is the sort of "piece" that would lose me friends and create long and hateful afternoons of people deriding and condescending and deploring me in a workshop, when really all I want to do is post this on my blog for my own sake, jazzing around having fun, high fives cool see you later, knowing that my wife will have a nicely formatted version emailed to her for her to read at her leisure only if she wants as a hopefully diverting distraction while she's on a break from William James or Facebook or some fresh piece of health-care legislation), and sets your cursor in between the two, and if you run your cursor over one bracket it highlights its spouse, sort of the typographical equivalent of the device on many contemporary car keys that makes your car chirp when you've lost it in a garage) (though since I have such poor peripheral vision it can be tough to find the tiny flashing brace in this sea of type, and sometimes I can't tell if running my cursor back and forth over a brace doesn't result in a spousal highlight because its flashing counterpart is in one of my eyes' degenerating "dead zones" or because I messed up and it's a stray bracket whose spouse has been deleted (or it never had a spouse to begin with; it, like you, unmarried reader, was typed into this world as a horrible extra, a soul without a mate, cursed to wander the internet reading the self-satisfied blogs of happily married gradually blinkered midwestern acid casualties until you die, happily, well-sexed and alone, in your loft apartment surrounded by paperbacks), enclosing nothing, adding an unnecessary and syntactically confusing (though to be honest how could things get more syntactically confusing than this, which almost immediately abandoned any attempt at readerly syntactical amnesty) layer of padding, like a package wrapped with an excessive amount of tape and very irritating to open (right about here the student in my MFA workshop, in reference to the "email to my wife" line, might say, with a tea-tree-oil toothpick turning to pulp in her mouth, "I mean, is this how you treat your wife? She likes getting this sort of email from you?" and I try too strenuously (it's no longer 4:52, we're now post-dinner and I've had a beer, I no longer care about getting work done or the perils of Facebook [though I'm still happy to be here; I'm settling in]) to explain that I'm writing this for me, not for our professor or my wife but it doesn't matter) [even with the aid of TextMate I've now totally lost track of the nests, and can't bring myself to untangle this right now… Maybe I will start a Kickstarter campaign to hire a freelance copyeditor to iron this out for me, or perhaps announce a reader-contest where I send my almost entirely unread hardcover copy of Steven Moore's 2010 alternative history of the novel (Continuum) to the third person to offer their professional services to make the syntax of this blog post perfect])) writing it down on the internet brings my thoughts into the realm of "politics," because, I don't know. Maybe it only makes me nervous about angry strangers reading this, and my nervousness comes from insecurity, and I'm insecure about "politics." The ensuing paranoid fantasy usually manifests itself as this text appearing on the screen of some politically "active" sad young literary type who has recently Occupied something and then zestily coupled with another politically active and attractive young person, even though in my experience this sort of person despite their "fearsome" (to me, a Jewish American princess who tries hard to leverage compassion and thoughtful engagement into his life but constantly fails, as I imagine the zesty couplers succeed) political intelligence and engagement still tends to harbor tastes and pleasures that are totally unpolitical. Like what? Like food that's more delicious than it needs to be (truffle oil), or jokes that don't strike a fatal blow to the ruling elite, or literature that doesn't do — and doesn't try to do — same. Smoking pot, getting drunk? Indie rock. And so saying anything about my aimless click-diverted workless afternoon of privilege and leisure "reifies" (Barbara, meaning it makes real, into an object) the spoiled fermenty gas that is my consciousness and creates a permanent (though many these days argue that the internet and the servers it lives on is impermanence reified, that "digital" is synonymous with "virtual" with "evanescent," though our [my] experience of it is that something I write on a piece of paper gets seen by no one, not even my deeply beautiful wife in the other room, or if I publish a poem ("How many / little dickless / little sparrows / swallow cocks, / swallowcocks // May I scat for u") in Pleuperfections, a well-respected university press's literary journal, then NO ONE WILL SEE IT, whereas this is at least going to end up in my wife's inbox (which is of course what most Facebook activity is, messages ostensibly sent to one person that are really messages sent to everyone [which is more or less what all writing is, unless you're really writing something private, under the kind of shadowy dangerous exigent privacy that only politics or illicit sex can create]), and will at least be read by Max Tabackman Fenton, who is my internet guru, who I hope by posting his full name here I'm ensuring that he'll read this, since I imagine him to be the sort of person who Googles himself at least once a year (or more likely has a Google Alert for himself, or has subscribed to this blog in one of the many ingenious ways he has devised for keeping abreast of everything at once), (which is not to say he's egotistical, because he's not, only that he's savvy) maybe right around the end of the year, which is tomorrow, and so might see this then.) object.
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My College Radio Application
Dear mom and dad,
I went to college from 1999-2003, where I lived, ate, breathed, and smoked college radio (WOBC-FM) all day every day. Then, with a year left, I dropped out to move to CA to work for a magazine. I worked there for the next eight years. Then I fell in love with a beautiful woman and she got a job in town, so I decided to follow her here and finish my B.A. To my intense delight and surprise, this makes me eligible for a show on [yr station]. When I dropped out of college, I cryogenically froze my radio show and now, eight years later, [cue music bed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_tVZFZ5PR4] my beloved show is going into the industrial microwave on MEDIUM for 6-8 minutes and dragging itself through the halls of the academy once again!
My show (TITLE TK: "WEIRD OLD GUY?") will be freeform radio at its finest, pushing into the red w/r/t innovation and FUN. Fun must never be sacrificed to innovation. And vice versa.
Music is the bedrock of the show, and I plan to make the most of [yr station]'s rock library, in addition to my extensive personal vinyl/CD/MPEG collection. The best rock — from oddities, novelties, classics, forgotten b-sides, to brand-new singles and previews of bands coming through town. But sprinkled throughout the music will be the true jewels of the show, the multiple talk-based segments. Possibilities include:
• "Walking the Line"
Each week, a different writer (from creative writing profs, to visiting poets, to MU poetry/fiction PhDs and even undergrads) brings in one line — a line of their own poetry, or their favorite poet's, or a sentence from a novel, or from a piece of journalism, anything — just has to be one line of "literature" for us to discuss.
(Each of these segments will have its own musical intro. Maybe Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines" for this first one? Or Johnny Cash, sure)
• "Comics Digest"
A weekly verbal recap of what happened this week in the comics page of the Missourian
ex: "It's been a tough week for Lois of 'Hi & Lois'; she's been home with the measles and her little brother won't leave her alone!" etc etc
• "Vibin' with the City Council"
Each week I get a Columbia city councilperson on the phone (pre-recorded, most likely; I have a ZOOM H4N I can produce several of these segs in advance, but I'll always cue and introduce them live) and ask: what's the vibe of the city council like this week?
• deranged/brief Self-interviews; fake interviews with pre-recorded interlocutors
• I might try a recurring feature about being a 30 year old dude taking computer science with freshman; I will probably rip lots of samples from my DVD of Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School for this (maybe rent Happy Madison, too…). Find other old undergrads and ask them about their lives, what it's like here for them
• I have an MU football-related idea that I'll only tell you if you give me a show with a legit timeslot
• Reviews (with field recordings) of frat party bands (!!!!!)
• as many opportunities for live call-in segments as possible (TBD)
• Guest singles (a guest — anyone from the dean of grad studies to that girl who works at Sparky's brings in 5 singles and we play them and talk about them)
• tiny, hilarious 5-minute radio dramas
• even tinier, even more hilarious 2-minute radio dramas in foreign languages feat. students in various MU language departments
• Much, much more
• Seriously, so much more you have no idea
• And, as I mentioned above, all of these segs, some of which may happen every week, some once a month or so, will all be sprinkled like cherries and chopped nuts over the wide swath of whipped-creamy dark-chocolate sets of top-shelf weird/funky/great music. Wire, the Fall, Olivia Tremor Control, Pixies b-sides, Unrest, Big Dipper, Deerhoof, Beefheart, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Sonic Youth, Truman the Tiger's Drug-Hell Singers, Is That a Real Band?, That Would Be Amazing If So, Go Betweens, Soft Boys, Soft Machine, Soft Cell, Soft Bulletin, Don Cherry, Destroyer, Cluster, Tyvek, Essential Logic, Glasser, Wreckless Eric, Nick Lowe, Sparks, Magazine, Melvins, Cardigans, Acrylics, Pterodactl, Fela Kuti, R. Stevie Moore, et al!!!!
Please let me know if you have any questions. I love you.
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nyc, 1993
I wish your daughter could read your poetry. But with titles like "Neighborly Cum," you've presumably guaranteed that she won't be allowed, either by yourself or her tutors. And when she does find your work, chances are, she'll be disturbed forever. I have to ask: Why do you all but ensure that at some point in her life, your daughter will be disturbed?
DERRICK RAPEWONE
I'm not the one ensuring that she'll be disturbed. Old Barry Life-Truths is the one who makes sure of that. If it's not "Neighborly Cum," it's Return to Oz (1985, Walter Murch, dir.) at a friend's house—or any number of other horrors one can't slide through life without being forcibly pressed up against them for longish periods of time.
But why add to the horror by writing a poem like "Neighborly Cum"?
I'm not making myself understood. I'm not adding to the horror. This is like asking why I'm adding to the flood by dipping my bucket into the angry, swollen creek and reserving that water for tonight's broths, sipped in misery among the bloated, flood-ravaged corpses of our friends. The water is there, whether it's in the creek with the dead catfish or if it's in my tureen—with the dead catfish. [Smiles, awkwardly adjusts his pants, smiles again, grabs a full fistful of the wasabi peas on the table between them. He has small hands.] I'm not inventing the water, and I'm not conjuring it. I'm carrying it.
But you could leave it in the creek. You don't need to fetch it. Let it pass on.
You describe the water as something in transit — just passing through our encampment, on its way to nobler fates — a job at a university, maybe, or a self-employment that manages to fuse social justice with a "hip" cultural engagement? Or just broader diffusion into the ocean, for example. Sure. But as it rushes west, the water is also quite a static thing. The creek is there—sometimes swollen, sometimes "normal," now and then quite meager—but it's there year-round. Just like your arms, or your thighs—sometimes swollen, sometimes meager, always present. [Derrick, looking away from the interviewer's thighs, thinks about them.]
Your work often mentions self-loathing, and something you call "fake self-loathing." Do you really hate yourself?
Well, yes, I do, but this isn't really why I use those words. I think of self-loathing as an artistic tool, a raw material — it's a particular brand and color of paint that I buy in quantity, and use in my compositions. This doesn't mean it's necessarily a subject of mine, no more than you could accuse a painter of using "brown" or "blue" as her subject.
[Originally published in Fake Paris Review, Issue 2, Spring 1994]
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AG: …and have been published or are forthcoming in ROAPE, Mouthwagon, and Came-Tree.
AL: So you're a freelance writer? Is that how you pay the bills?
AG: Periodicals publish my writing, yes, but I'm not a freelancer. I'm a writer.
AL: Fine, right. OK. But how do you make money?
AG: I don't, really. I've been living off my savings. Raising my son.
AL: That sounds nice…
AG: It is. I started a pomegranate orchard in my yard.
AL: So money's not a problem?
AG: Not right now, anyway. I might start volunteering with this political pain intellectual suffering charity thing soon
AL: But that's volunteer, so they won't be paying you?
AG: Right. I guess that won't make any money. But it'll take time, so the day won't be quite so empty…
AL: Lots of people don't have that luxury. They have these awesome sprawling narratives inside them, but they have to work to pay the
AG: Yeah, I know, I realize that it's a luxury not to have to work and to get to write about fictional people all day. What's your point?
AL: I guess… I just want you to know… that I wish some of those people… the writers who have to waste their days answering customer service emails, while you grow pomegranates and write stupid poems about pomegranates that are published in
AG: …periodicals including Roiphe's Bones, College Radio Fiction, AGNI…
AL: … I wish those people who have no choice but to struggle and waste their time on unsatisfying labor could have even a few minutes with you in a dark room with a whiffle-ball bat, making you feel extremely uncomfortable. It wouldn't take much. That'd be justice, by my lights
AG: Damn your lights. I may not need to answer customer service emails all day but when I write my poems, some of which have explicitly taken up as their subject the suffering of the customer service representative, I am forced to experience the pain and the boredom and the angst and everything that the CSR feels. So being a writer isn't any better than being a CSR, at least as long as you're writing about the great struggles of modernity — the struggle of the Customer Service Representative — which I am. Which I hope I am. Maybe I should write about horny teens in paradise. It might be more fun…
AL: Can I have another one of those…
AG: They're called "Flynt Martinis." Help yourself.
This entry was posted in aggrandizement, alienating the reader, Babbitry, Babies, blandishments, dissolution, ekphrasis, uh-oh on August 19, 2010 by Andrew.
Southwestern Caveman Question Mark? or Trash Symbol?
Free Wi-Fi at the Phoenix airport. I'm one of those guys sitting on the floor near an outlet, working on my laptop. Except I don't really look like one of those guys, because I'm unshaven and there's underwear spilling out of my shoulder bag and I'm not wearing a purple short-sleeved polo shirt with a company logo on the breast. Two soldiers in desert camo just sauntered by, at ease but still walking in step with each other. I slept poorly last night so this "text" is going to be awful, not worth your time. Fortunately, it's still worth my time, which is why I'm writing it. Unclear however why it still then needs to go on the internet, aside from the fact that the magnetic attraction that your potential attention asserts on the "language inside me" serves as a fine stimulus to draw it out. Of me. Otherwise I'm lazy and it'll stay inside while I check my email again and again.
My friend met me at the airport in Albuquerque and told me he hadn't eaten even though he'd had a layover in Phoenix because he was boycotting the entire state of Arizona. As I deplaned in Phoenix just now a douchey blonde guy looked through me, aggressively unsympathetic to my humanity, as far as I could tell, only because I wasn't the brother in law he was waiting for. I felt like flipping twin birds at everyone within eyeshot and declaiming, clearly and loudly, "FUCK YOU, PHOENIX, AND EVERYTHING ELSE CONTAINED BY THE STATE OF ARIZONA, INCLUDING ME, AND ALL OF THIS PIZZA. BECAUSE OF YOUR IMMIGRATION POLICIES, I GUESS"
On the plane I read more of the New Yorker 20 under 40 issue. Yesterday, which seems like a long time ago, I wrote this about the Josh Ferris story:
(I'm on a sadness junket in Santa Fe.) I thought "Pilot," Joshua Ferris's story in the 20 under 40 issue of the New Yorker, was great. I haven't read his first novel, which I know is written in first-person plural, but I was very impressed by the narrative control of this new story. It's written in the "close third-person," where the narrative voice is contained entirely by one consciousness, except it's communicated with a "he" or "she" instead of an "I." Maybe a better term for "Pilot"'s voice is "the clingy third person."
Lawrence is a newly, shakily recovered alcoholic filmmaker who can't believe he's been invited to a fashionable Hollywood party, doesn't want to go, but feels he must for the sake of the TV pilot he's writing. He's desperately insecure and spends most of the story neurotically trying to engage other people, to get the things he needs without appearing so clingy. The story reads as if it were written in a more conventional third person — "He thought, 'I should get out of here,'" e.g. — but then Lawrence's voice, so strong and desperate and charming, has sort of crawled up inside the third person narrative and infected that voice with its self-obsession and neediness. The result is a pleasure to read. Ferris didn't invent this technique, but he deploys it beautifully.
Who cares about my take on Joshua Ferris's narrative control! I do(n't)! Not sure if this is a journalistically responsible article. Phoenix Airport free Wi-Fi is barely functional. I'm entitled to one full meal for every delayed layover I have, regardless of the hour or Arizona's immigration policy.
The Jonathan Safran Foer story irritated me even as I found parts of it familiar, smart, and…. "original." I think it would be funny to write a novel that marketed itself as "vegetarian fiction." I like the idea that Tao Lin writes "vegan fiction," if if he doesn't market it as such. Foer's "Here We Aren't, So Quickly" is a vegetarian story. Not a lot of meat in it, but plenty of complex carbohydrates and vegetable proteins. That's a joke, insofar as I don't know what it means and I'm saying it only because I like to.
I can't help reading all of these 20 under 40 stories imagining their authors writing them at the behest of the New Yorker's fiction editors. "Hey, Dinaw, submit a story to the 20 under 40 thing. You have a shot." All fiction everywhere is "by definition" contrived, but these stories are maybe more contrived than usual. For that reason. Which doesn't nec. make them bad. Solicited = contrived, unless the fiction writer responds to the solicitation with a piece of fiction they'd already written but not published, submitting something they wrote uncontrivedly. Which is impossible, because nothing is written uncontrivedly. But there are degrees. The Ferris story is contrived and great. I'm not as crazy about the Foer story. It's my fault that I read it as a second-person half-fictional sexy love note to his wife, novelist Nicole Krauss, and it's my lightweight brain alone that makes me read the "house" he refers to in the last paragraph as their dope brownstone in [specific part of Brooklyn TK]. My bad my bad
The Rivka Galchen story is great. It's narrated by a woman who, like Galchen, has just published a well-received novel. Like the Ferris story, it features an unproduced television pilot. It's also the first instance of an fictional, ekphrastic blog I can think of, there must be more: icantstandmywife.blogspot.com. (As of this writing, no one has yet reserved this blog. Which is surprising. Full disclosure: Phoenix Airport Wi-Fi has officially crapped out so I can't check. I'd be surprised if Galchen didn't reserve it herself. Update: PHX Wi-Fi never resolved, so I'm posting this from California, and of course someone, probably Galchen, reserved the URL. Goodnight)
I skipped the story called "What You Do Out Here, When You're Alone." Rant about this sort of declarative second-person short-story title TK, ad naus. Let me know if you read this story, by Philipp Meyer, and if you think I could've learned something about myself by reading it. If you think the horizons of my limited worldview would've been pushed out a hectare or two. If so, I'll read it.
Yeah right!!!
More misc. notes on this New Yorker, June 14 & 21, 2010: The spread of illos of the writers (p. 90-1) is pointless and unappetizing. There are Q&As online, huh? That sounds good, but then What is the point of printing these straightforward, moody, photo-based line illos??? At least list the names of their favorite newspapers or where they went to elementary school or how many siblings they have alongside their portraits. The Chris Ware cover, on the other hand, and like the Steve Powers illos with the Shteyngart, are wonderful. Something has been beeping off to my left for a few minutes. (I'm sitting at gate A2. Come say hi!! This is a rebroadcast of a previous episode) Reading through these stories I was occasionally like, "this is awesome, but when I finally man up and decide to write fiction myself, my fiction is going to be all gnarly and unexpected and different and rad, and a drug-addict teenager in upstate new york is going to read it and decide that [oh my god, sorry, redacted]" but then I read the Gary Shteyngart story, and that thought bubble immediately dissolved, and I realized Ah, shit, this is it, he did it, damn, etc, I am mollified.
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autoaggrandization
When I was a toddler I once witnessed a dancer hold a cocaine-encrusted cigar up to the sunbeams falling through the skylight. I saw it glitter before a background of exposed bricks and pipes.
Just kidding!!
I feel dumb not being more "open" on this blog, with an "about" paragraph floating in the upper-right with something to the effect of "Hello, my name is Quentin Levy. This is my personal website. I'm a freelance librarian living in a mouldy duplex in Pleasanton, Calif., with my girlfriend, Betty Richter, and Jean-Luc Pouncey, our pet ferret. I'm the author of Thesis Mountain, a young-adult novel about an anthropomorphized, learning-disabled copy of the Partisan Review accused of rape in a small Midwestern town. Purchase it on Amazon here." But I won't because I want to be able to make off-color "erotica" jokes that don't reflect the views of anyone at all, including myself. And you can't do that with your name attached to it…? Even if it's fiction? Because then you get fired?
I wrote a short story — flash-fiction-style — called "Child Pornography," which was "accepted" by the Fanzine! Then I freaked out that in ten years I would be applying for a job tutoring toddlers in Language Arts and the administrators would autogoogle me by looking at my hands (that's how you google people in the future, just look at their hands) and my first hit would be this gem of my juvenalia, the short story "Child Pornography," and I wouldn't get the job, which is a volunteer position anyway, and my family would be devastated. So I asked the Fanzine to change the title to "Erotica Without Borders." That didn't work so I changed it to "Teen Sex." They published it as "Teen Porn." OK. Here is the URL for the story:
http://thefanzine.com/articles/fiction/437/teen_porn
Jason Polan in California
I wrote a seventy-word letter about Retinitis Pigmentosa to McSweeney's; it appears in McSweeney's 34, which is literally worth buying a copy of. McSweeneys.net published my 23-word "freestyle" letter in November 2000. I hate myself??
That's all for now! I miss California, even though I'm sitting in a chair in California.
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suburban caffeine death fantasy
RICO: Sucks that we're not allowed to complain anymore.
PIMM: Me too.
RICO: Just to confirm: we decided that blogging is funny and 'grand' but that to write a sustained performance destined for 'print', like a novel or a book-length unstageable play, you have to "rose at 5:30 a.m. to write and often stayed up past midnight, but rarely discussed the book at work"?
PIMM: Sounds good. Also don't forget to "Finishing dinner with a reporter — at Ouest, naturally — …had a double espresso with a single sugar cube. It was past 10, but [have] things to do."
RICO: What?
PIMM: And, finally, "some coffee would address that"
RICO: I haven't had any coffee today. I had a Yorkshire Gold and couple rounds on a bag of green tea.
PIMM: Here's your new plan. Follow Boswell's Journals' self-exhortations to the letter (e.g. when he says "Latin till breakfast, something till eleven, then dress and at twelve French, then walk and dine. Afternoon, journal, &c." — that is what you'll do. No exceptions.
RICO: Do you like to work?
PIMM: On what?
RICO: I don't know. Office work at the homeless shelter?
PIMM: Not really.
RICO: What if you were married to a woman who worked at a CSA, and you went home every night at a totally reasonable and guilt-free time — say, 6 p.m. — with no work to bring home with you and you and your wife cooked organic vegetables together? You'd read from Boswell's journals, work on your autoerotic death poetry (with embedded animated GIFs for eventual iPad publication), head down to your "woodshop" to energetically/contemplatively work out on your Special Edition Twin Peaks themed marijuana vaporizer, then take some sort of abused/rescued Labrador Pitt Shepherd for a walk through a wind-tousled glade
PIMM: This all sounds great, obviously, but there's no predicting, no creating that kind of life. I have the life I want already, for example, yet I'm still going into the office bathroom every two hours to smoosh my face against the mirror and cry and blow lines of my own weep-snot off the reflected image of my nose and so on
RICO: Really?
PIMM: "Yeah"
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


At present 1 Government & 4 Private Institutes of Training to Trainers (IToT) are functional in the state. Training is provided in 8 engineering trades under Crafts Instructor Training Scheme (CITS) scheme in these Institutes of Training to Trainers (IToT). The trades list along with the requisite entry educational qualification, duration is mentioned below.
3. Fitter 1 Year Diploma/Degree in Mechanical/Production Engineering from AICTE recognized Board/ University or National Trade Certificate in the Fitter trade or National Apprenticeship Certificate in the Fitter trade.


Turned on my earthshaker tonight and my spinner was causing a tilt. What the hell? Hit pinside for a quick reference , follow the matrix eh , ok I will. Followed the switch matrix to the left and couldn't find any problems, followed the switch matrix down , and there it is , two wires slightly touching causing a short.
Then I find one drop target not working, read up on pinside and do some reading, check optos, ok I will. Found a dirty opto, cleaned it up and I have a perfectly playing earthshaker again !
Without pinside I would be lost , or lack the confidence to try some of the things I do because of advice I read here, Thanks Pinside !!
True, true, but RGP has 20+ years of such info (if you can get Google's search to cooperate).
Or, use rgparchive's, they have most of it saved too.
Following RGP threads makes me want to shoot myself. Worst interface ever.
Though there is some amazing info if you can find it!
RGP is just a plain old newsgroup, so there isn't just one interface. There are literally dozens, so just find one you like.
I agree. I don't know how many times I have found something pinball related on Pinside via Google and thought, "why didn't I find that when I searched on pinside?"
How is the best way to do that?
But there's alot of other crap that you may not want to read either.
It's a matter of having some common sense, using the filters, and having fun No forum is perfect.
Glad you clarified I always thought the best thing about it was ..... ME.
RGP is the place to go for tech support. If you found tech support on here, you got really lucky.
Let's not take this to seriously folks. Pinside is just a place to go to converse with other people with common interest. The love of the game of Pinball.
Yes you can probably get some tech info on a particular machine. But we all know, at least those that are serious about Pinball that we have a go to guy(technician) in out own neigbourhood or town that we can call up and get the tech info. I think Pinside is really here for us Pinsiders to just share a laugh and talk some Pinball and yes sometimes talk about Frankfurters or Type of vehicles we transport our Pins in. The threads may stray sometimes and there maybe topics that are way out there but it can be fun also when you assist your fellow Pinsider in the sale of a machine or maybe find one you have been searching for. All in all just take it for what it is. A forum for people to get together and discuss a hobby that we all enjoy.
Let's not take this to seriously folks. Pinside is just a place to go to converse with other people with common interest. The love of the game of Pinball.Yes you can probably get some tech info on a particular machine. But we all know, at least those that are serious about Pinball that we have a go to guy(technician) in out own neigbourhood or town that we can call up and get the tech info. I think Pinside is really here for us Pinsiders to just share a laugh and talk some Pinball and yes sometimes talk about Frankfurters or Type of vehicles we transport our Pins in. The threads may stray sometimes and there maybe topics that are way out there but it can be fun also when you assist your fellow Pinsider in the sale of a machine or maybe find one you have been searching for. All in all just take it for what it is. A forum for people to get together and discuss a hobby that we all enjoy.
respectfully disagree. So far I have been able to keep my machines running, as a newbie, by asking all questions to fellow pinsiders. a decade ago , my area tech seemed to come monthly. now, with pinside and all the good people, I am able to fix things, update stuff, etc that I never even attempted before. And I wonder what you mean by "serious about pinball"?
RGP is a great resource when it comes to searching the archives for tech help. If I can't find what I need in the RGP archives or from searching here or on Google, I ask for tech help here, and 90% of the time, someone (often Lloyd) is able to help me out. In other words, I get really lucky, as you put it.
Before coming here, LTG and TheKorn (and others) were always very helpful to me on RGP.
Sorry I guess that wasn't a good choice of words.
I never said you cannot get info from Pinside. I guess I'm spoiled. We have a local pinball association and 2 companies locally that offer tech support. Just have to call them up.
I just wanted to suggest there are more efficient and quicker ways to get support at least in my area.
Actually returns the current topic by that name vs pinside search returning topic "Tron update coming" that hasn't had an update in 110 days.
You do realize, that there is a very large portion of people on here that enjoy fixing the games more than playing them, right?
We have a local pinball association and 2 companies locally that offer tech support. Just have to call them up.
All of my recent fixes have been from finding archived threads on Pinside. It helps me all the time!
I'm gonna weigh in and say that in recent months Tech questions I've posted here have been answered fairly Quick . I have not had to hit the RGP archives. That being said RGP has a lot of useful knowledge,but Pinside is much easier to navigate.Just my two cents.
Well now that all the RGPrs are here now, that should change.
LOL, you had to take me literally. Alright then how about "Most", is that good for you?
RGP does have tons of useful tech information, but the layout is hard to get through, especially if it's a multi-comment thread that you have to keep clicking sub pages on.
Many folks also chime in with the answers to the tech questions because they have experienced the same i problems and issues and know what needs to be done to fix the problem.
My only issue with helping out on tech questions is when you ask for the OP to make a measurement here and there and they never do so you get frustrated trying to help out.
Also a lot of OPs try and fix multiple issues all at once instead of fixing one issue at a time starting with the most important one.
But again a bunch of great Techs here always willing to help , over and over!
How many wide-bodies can I fit in my Tesla?
Except the RGP'ers have a slim chance to even see the tech question because it fell off the front page in 30 min due to the "hey Look at the LED's I just installed" and "do you think "New stern I havnt' seen pin, will be better than Tron, IM, AC/DC ...ect" threads.
Sure, it's fun to help here because many of the noobs asking for help are relatively clueless. They make me feel like some kind of technical wizard (which I'm not).
I get frustrated when the answer to their question is right there in the manual. Never mind googling, just open the damb manual. The knowledge level of the average poster asking for help on RGP was a lot higher than the folks asking for help here these days. Pinside is more accommodating to noobs, RGP is the wild west.
One trend that seems be growing at an alarming rate here is people posting that they damaged their game while installing mods. Switch matrixs blown out while installing LED's. Or they installed all new Rottendog boards and the game still doesn't work. Makes me want to scream. Props to the guys that help those folks without lecturing. I can't do it. If they were friends, I would slap many of them senseless.
I get frustrated when the answer to their question is right there in the manual.
Even if it's the millionth time, help them learn. Eventually the light goes on and they accomplish more on their own. Learning to learn.
Props to the guys that help those folks without lecturing.
Try and look at it from their perspective. Might be the thousandth time for you to read it, it is often their first time posting it.
When trying to help, you also help everybody, you also help pinball.
Look at other forums, newsgroups, or hobbies. When new people get made fun of or attacked. Everyone and everything suffers.
This is why pinside is so great!
I wish littlecammi, then again if it were true, purchasing a pinball machine would be worse then it already is lol.
The info is here with a little reading and digging, this is a great community. Some of us are entirely on our own, no local repair man , no club, places like this keep my machine working !
Pinside keeps me up to date on everything! I LOVE Pinside!
There is a tech section. However maybe tech questions can have their own tag so they are easier for experienced guys to see? There also is the Ask Lloyd area at the top where people can get help.
That's why your the man Lloyd! Thanks for all you do!
I was. Trying to keep it as nice as I could. I thought I did pretty good.


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Q: AVL tree to tuples in C I have a AVL Tree like:
   (6,25)
   /    \
(6,12)  (9,25)

I wish to store all element in to a tuples like:
array= [(6,12),(6,25),(9,25)]

how can I achieve it in C language?

A: Use structures for heterogeneous data like:
struct my_eth_tuple
{
    int a;
    float b;
    char s[32];
};

Then create the array of tuples:
struct my_eth_tuple[3];

You can init it also as:
struct my_eth_tuple[3] = {{6, 12.0, "tuple 1"},{6, 25, "tuple 2"},{9, 25, "tuple 3"}};

If data is homogeneous you can use simple arrays of arrays:
typedef int my_hom_tuple[2];
my_hom_tuple[3] = {{6,12},{6,25},{9,25}};

To programmatically access the two use standard struct or array usage as in the sample below:
struct my_eth_tuple
{
    int a;
    float b;
    char s[32];
};
typedef int my_hom_tuple[2];
struct my_eth_tuple[3];
struct my_hom_tuple[3];

void foo(void)
{

    for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
        my_eth_tuple[i].a = i + 1;
        my_eth_tuple[i].b = (float)i *2.0;
        my_eth_tuple[i].s[0] = '\0';
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
        for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
        {
            my_hom_tuple[i][j] = i + 1;
            my_hom_tuple[i][j] = i * 2;
        }
    }
}

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Several areas in Bandarawela and Badulla have developed a large number of cracks and the worst fatality due to the project has occurred in the area say reports.
Due to a crack that occurred in the base of Kirindi Oya the water from Kirindi Oya flows into the earth. Ravana Falls, an attraction for foreign and local tourists, gets water from Kirindi Oya.
The crack has occurred at Ambadandegama area form where Kirindi Oya begins and it is difficult to find out where the large amount of water that enters the earth from the crack flows to say reports.
The convener of the Movement for the Protection of Uma Oya JVP Provincial Councilor Samantha Vidyaratna said rivers, streams, water fountains and wells are running dry as a result of the Uma Oya project and people are inconvenienced due to shortage of drinking water. He said cracks have appeared in many houses and people have been forced to find alternative places to live. Mr. Vidyaratna said Uma Oya project will be a disaster and will end in tragedy for the people and the country.
He said he has already informed disaster management officers, the Divisional Secretary, District officials regarding eh imminent danger to the area.


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No Cake for the Gays and the Libertarian + White Catholic + White Evangelical Erosion of Civil Rights for All Minorities: Truth-Telling about Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too
All these pieces fit together:
Jeffrey S. Trachtman, "Preserving LGBTQ Equality In The Supreme Court: No Piece of Cake":
With LGBTQ rights under open attack by the Trump administration — witness the recent summary firing of the entire HIV/AIDS advisory council — many are counting on the Supreme Court to stand against the backlash and preserve recent gains. But if the recent sharply divided oral argument in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case is any indication, a majority of the Court may be ready to screw up civil rights law to forestall full LGBTQ equality.
How else to interpret the agonized wrestling with what ought to be an easy case? Colorado's public accommodation law bars sexual orientation discrimination on the same basis as race, creed, color, sex, and other suspect classifications. That means if you own a store open to the general public, you cannot refuse to sell goods to anyone based on their membership in a protected group. Period. At least it should be period.
If Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips had professed a sincere religious belief that God intended people to marry only within their own race – and therefore refused to let an interracial couple order a custom wedding cake – his claimed exemption from Colorado's civil rights law would have been laughed out of court.
Mr. Phillips' lawyer, Kristen Waggoner, admitted as much under tough questioning by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan. She didn't have much choice, because the Supreme Court rejected as frivolous nearly 50 years ago a claimed religiously based right to exclude African Americans from lunch counters.
But, Ms. Waggoner, argued, "race is different." How so? Well, if Mr. Phillips turned away an interracial couple "we know that that objection would be based on who the person is, rather than what the message is."
Huh? It's pretty clear that Charlie Craig and David Mullins were turned away from Masterpiece Cakeshop precisely because of who they were – a gay couple trying to buy a wedding cake. There is no indication that Mr. Phillips refuses to bake cakes for Jews, interfaith couples, atheists, or anybody else whose marriages don't fit his religious model – just same-sex couples.
Half the Court (Justice Kennedy always being a toss-up) seemed to recognize that this is the essence of discrimination. Any "message" that Mr. Phillips wishes to send about his religious objection to same-sex couples marrying is trumped by his basic civic obligation – having opened a public bakery – to sell the same products to all. And that was the result reached just this week by an Oregon state court in a very similar case.
If we would "know" this more instinctively in a race case, that's only because of an arduously built social consensus that remains more fragile for LGBTQ rights. As Justice Sotomayor pointed out, "America's reaction to mixed marriage and to race didn't change on its own. It changed because we had public accommodation laws that forced people to do things that many claimed were against their expressive rights and against their religious rights." . . .
Either the courts apply the precedent to start recognizing "good faith" free speech and religious objections to serving other minority groups (basically gutting civil rights enforcement), or they limit the exception to LGBTQ discrimination (thereby formalizing second-class status for LGBTQ people even under fully inclusive statutes).
Zack Ford, "Study suggests anti-gay discrimination isn't actually about 'religious freedom'":
Conservatives eager to justify discrimination against LGBTQ people highlight "religious freedom" as one of their primary arguments. If a business owner like Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshops, whose case is before the Supreme Court, doesn't want to sell a wedding cake to same-sex couples because of his religious beliefs, they argue, he shouldn't have to. But a new study from researchers at Indiana University, Bloomington found that concern for "religious freedom" actually has very little to do with why people support such discrimination.
According to the study, published this week in Science Advances, when people are okay with refusing service to a customer because of their identity, it has very little to do with whether the refusal was motivated by religious beliefs. Instead, the individual's own prejudices and the nature of the business doing the discriminating were more important factors. How the researchers figured this out is fascinating in and of itself. . . .
According to the results, respondents were far more likely to be okay with discrimination against the same-sex couple (53 percent) than the interracial couple (39 percent). But whether the refusal was based on religious beliefs (47 percent) or not (45 percent) didn't really change whether they approved of the discrimination. Whether the photographer was self-employed (61 percent) or part of a corporate chain (31 percent) played a far bigger role.
The survey also asked respondents about their own beliefs regarding the kind of marriage to which they were responding, with 61 percent expressing support for same-sex marriage and 90 percent expressing support for interracial marriage. Unsurprisingly, those who opposed marriage for the kind of couple they heard about were more likely to approve of discrimination against them.
In other words, the reason tolerance for anti-gay discrimination is so high is because support for same-sex marriage is still so relatively low, even at 61 percent. The researchers even suggested that "if support for same-sex marriage were as high as that for interracial marriage, then Americans' views on service refusal would not vary by couple type."
Listen to Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains, talk with Jon Wiener about "the historical connection between the Koch brothers' anti-government politics, the white South's massive resistance to desegregation, and a Nobel Prize–winning Virginia economist [i.e., James McGill Buchanan]." Of particular importance is the dialogue that begins on the top audio file at about 27.15:
Jon Wiener says to Nancy MacLean,
The South is a fascinating key to this whole story. . . . You show that the South has been the key historically to the rise of the right and that this libertarian movement is deeply connected to opposition to the Civil Rights movement. Let's use the word racism here.
And then he concludes: "Today we have Southern domination of our politics to a surprising extent."
To which MacLean responds, "You've summarized it beautifully." As she goes on to states, Milton Friedman and James McGill Buchanan, the founding fathers of the libertarianism that now buttresses the Koch brothers' agenda for the nation — the libertarianism that is the official policy of the Republican party as it's now configured — claimed to disdain racism.
But as she also notes, what they did that's "almost more chilling" is that they saw, and were willing to use and support, Southern resistance to civil rights movements as an opportunity to move the libertarian cause forward and undermine government institutions and government safeguards against the exploitation of the vulnerable by corporations and the wealthy. As she also ponts out, Barry Goldwater, the first explicitly libertarian presidential candidate, and libertarians in generally have consistently opposed civil rights initiatives. She reminds her listeners that the only states Goldwater won in addition to his home state of Arizona were the states of the Deep South.
Chauncey DeVega, "Media dispatches from TrumpLandia: Political freak show that masks the truth":
Ultimately, any reporting about the "white working class" that does not explore the racism, nativism and white supremacy that drove that group's support of Trump is both inaccurate and irresponsible. . . .
When they hear "Make America Great Again," Trump's supporters correctly decode it as making America white again. If a person's most valuable possession is their whiteness, that becomes a great and enduring motivation to support Donald Trump. Until the mainstream corporate media accepts that basic fact, it will continue to be blindsided by the forces unleashed and nurtured by Donald Trump and the Republican Party. But at least they will always have bizarre stories to tell about the strange denizens of TrumpLandia.
In a recent essay entitled, "Look for the church to stand up to money, politics in 2018," Michael Sean Winters points readers to an article by Mollie Worthen that, as he maintains, "details the historic links between evangelical Christianity and libertarian economic and political ideology." And then he states,
It is repulsive that the president is unwilling to challenge the white supremacists who support him. It is equally repulsive to charge all of his evangelical supporters with the sin of racism.
1. But, as Nancy MacLean's historical testimony clearly shows, the libertarian movement in the U.S. and Southern resistance to civil rights are joined at the hip. You cannot be true to the historical record and talk about the libertarian strands in white evangelical politics today while turning a blind eye to the white-supremacist strands in white evangelical politics.
2. The same historical record shows white Southern evangelicals as the backbone of the movement of resistance to civil rights for people of color (and now, LGBTQ people) in the 20th century.
3. You cannot claim to be interested in the historical record about the libertarian links to white evangelicals while you also discount the clear, patent links of both white evangelicals and libertarianism to white supremacist racism.
4. You cannot, in other words, pretend historical ignorance as you close your eyes to what the alliance of anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage Catholics with white Southern evangelicals means about the patent, clear racism underlying Catholic support for culture-war shibboleths.
5. You cannot claim that, in attacking the civil rights of LGBTQ couples by supporting Jack Phillips' "religious freedom" to deny goods and services to those couples, you are not also attacking the civil rights of people of color.
6. Catholic intellectuals and the bishops they follow like lemmings into the culture-war battles against abortion and same-sex marriage cannot claim to be on the side of the angels when it comes to supporting the rights of people of color (as these folks pretend that their alliance with overtly racist white Southern evangelicals does not implicate them in racism), while those same bishops and intellectuals attack the civil rights of LGBTQ people, claiming "religious freedom" as their warrant to do so.
7. The leaders of the Catholic church in the U.S. have not been on the side of the angels for some time now, as they have elevated the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage to the level of an all-consuming shibboleth that defines the very identity of Christianity at this point in history — energizing some of the most repressive and hate-oriented movements in our society as a result. In Barack Obama's two campaigns for the presidency, all of us could see with our own eyes the bitter fruit that this kind of politics has borne, as people masqueraded in gorilla masks at anti-Obama rallies in heavily Catholic communities, screaming, "Baby killers!," at journalists and Obama supporters.
8. As the leaders of the Catholic church participate in a crusade to block the civil rights of LGBTQ human beings, they cannot pretend that they are not simultaneously chipping away at the civil rights of people of color, and participating in a right-wing crusade to erode government protections for all minority groups that was born in out and out filthy racism.
9. There's a reason some six in ten white Catholics voted along with eight in ten white evangelicals to place the current moral monstrosity in the White House.
10. That reason is abundantly clear in the thinking of people like Michael Sean Winters and in "middle-of-the-road" Catholic journals like National Catholic Reporter. To change this situation would require that the intellectual leaders of the U.S. Catholic church start listening to the voices of women (whom Winters constantly disdains, with NCR giving him column space to do so), to people of color, to Latinos, to LGBTQ people — to people to whose rights Catholic intellectuals in the U.S. love to give lip-service, as long as they think they can use some of these minority groups as wedges against the pro-choice and pro-same-sex-marriage planks in the Democratic platform. But when those wedges stop being useful tools in the hand of Catholic centrist intellectuals who pretend to stand in the middle between the left and the right, the voices of these groups stop counting in the conversation that defines the identify of American Catholicism — and the moral monstrosity in the White House is the outcome of this immoral, anti-catholic, eminently unpastoral behavior.
The photo: my brother Simpson and I enjoying birthday cake in June 1952.
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I am unsure what "scene" started playing this Della Reese 45 but I noticed it creeping onto many diverse playlists across the Net and then someone sent me a CD-R with it on. I was hooked on it from the off as well as loving the B-side "Solitary Woman". I snapped it up on UK HMV the first chance I had. I must be honest it does become a bit of a fetish to have it on a UK release in it's original sleeve - sounds good looks good!!!
The song actually reached #99 on the US pop charts in 1967 ansd was taken from Della's "One More Time " album. I had always associated the song with Frank Sinatra but a check revealed that it was first recored by the Kingston Trio back in 1961. The song has been covered by a host of artists including Nat King Cole, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Lou Rawls as well other versions in the pop field.
What is that captivated me about Della's version? Let's start with the rhythm track laid down by jazz trumpeter Bobby Bryant and his Quintet. Bobby Bryant worked with a host of the jazz greats before either working with his own small bands or working with big band leaders such as Oliver Nelson. Therefore I think the track swings like a big band but has a gritty small club groove which adds to the tension of the song.
Then we come to Della's vocal - she had grown up in the gospel field with the Meditation Singers but the mid 1960's was firmly in the supper club bag. Some of the supper club style vocals come out in the track. The feeling she puts into the words convey for me that the lady has lived the life of the song.
What we are left with is a combination of rhythm with subtle constantly changing chords and abrupt dropping off of beat which allows Della to weave her lived in vocals over the top.
Great song -- thanks for the write-up!
freqazoidiac 2:53 AM
Della's "it was a very good year" was featured on a Obscure disco compilation here in Canada in the 1970's, The Disco/soul dj's here in canada were hip to it then. I've been incorporating it into my set since the late 80's here in Ontario. Sounds great on the dance floor :D nice post..have never seen the 45


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Gallery Soulflower is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by the acclaimed filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. A book detailing Weerasethakul's oeuvre and edited by the art critic and curator Brian Curtin will be launched on the opening night.
Past Lives showcases a selection of videos from Weerasethakul's current Primitive Project with a series of related photographs. Themes of memory and space, reincarnation and transformation, and the supernatural permeate the extraordinary visual rhetoric of Weerasethakul's images. Inspired by a book written by a monk about a man who could recall his previous lives, Past Lives offers a substantial insight into the artist's current exploration of aspects of political and cultural history in Thailand. The videos and photographs in Past Lives are based in the Thai village of Nabua, one the places the Thai army occupied from the 1960s to the early 1980s in order to curb so-called communist insurgents. Nabua is also part of a district famed for its legend of the 'widow ghost', a spirit that steals the souls of men as they sleep. Weerasethakul re-imagines this rural terrain in terms of memory and myth and reveals a portrait of contemporary lives illuminated by the spirits of history.
The accompanying book includes interviews by Brian Curtin and the writer Lawrence Chua and a specially commissioned essay by the Berlin-based academic Arnika Fuhrmann.
the artists will be in attendance on the opening night.
Upadhyay's art, however, is not one of a crisis of contemporary values. And he is certainly not concerned with nostalgia for more authentic times. Rather, and like much of the best of international contemporary art, his artworks serve a critical prompt about the world we live in.
As an artist Chintan has constantly challenged the established norms having developed his own language to communicate with his audience. These works are a further exploration of this language. The works are about a merging of tradition and modernity, having influences of Shekhawati wall paintings along modern day images. The preview opens on 16 February and will be inaugurated by eminent artist Laxman Shrestha.
Pandit Chanrochanakit is a lecturer in the Faculty of Political Science at Ramkhamhaeng University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and studied on the East-West Center's International Cultural Studies Certificate Program. Pandit's research focuses on contemporary Thai Art and the national imaginary. He has written Thai artist biographies for the Oxford University Press's Grove Art online.
Brian Curtin is an Irish-born art writer and curator based in Bangkok. He lectures on the International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA) at Chulalongkorn University and is a regular contributor to magazines such as Art 4D, Contemporary, Flash Art and Frieze. Brian previously curated Here, There, Now: Contemporary Art from India and From Surface to Origin: Journeys Through Recent Art From India and Thailand for Gallery Soulflower.


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Hey! Great work! Is it possible to change pink highlight color?
Hey! Loving the theme, but when I apply the Global Dark Theme setting on gnome-tweak-tool, it only applies it on GTK3, meaning that apps like Inkscape or Firefox continue to be all white, don't know why that happens. Either way, keep up the great wrok!
Hi, sorry for the last response, i think that's because those applications use gtk2 and currently there is no dark version of the gtk2 theme.
Hey! Is it possible to create Ant Nebula full dark theme? Thanks!
Hey. I love the new changes to the theme. I just wanted to know if it were possible to change the font weight of the text in my panel (The Date, Time, etc. that appears in the top panel). If so, how do I do it? I want to make it lighter.
Are you using gnome-shell ? if so, check out the _common.scss file (gnome-shell/_common.scss) especially the code block with the #panel selector.
Yes, I'm using the gnome shell. I actually did try editing that file before contacting you here. I removed the line that said font-weight: bold;, under #panel in the _common.scss file. After that, I recompiled the gnome-shell.scss file into gnome-shell.css, and I rebooted my shell session by pressing Alt+F2, and pressing r. But the font weight still stayed the same.
Within the #panel code block take a look at the ".panel-button" class, there is what you're looking for.
I need to size down the headerbar further. What lines should I edit?
Awesome theme! Is it possible to make all window corner rounded?
Yeah, you can play changing the border-radius values in the _windows.scss file (gtk-3.20/widgets/_windows.scss) .
Hi Elvira, how about you simply put the icon theme here on opendesktop and link to it instead of asking for email?


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EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Trump 'Whistleblower' Eric Ciaramella Met With George Soros Funded Group in White House in September 2016
Published November 26, 2019 at 9:20am
What was going on at this meeting? The suspected whistleblower who started off the Shiff Sham impeachment, Eric Ciaramella, held a meeting with a George Soros connected group in the White House in September of 2016.
On September 7, 2016, Eric Ciaramella from the Obama Administration met with a group of individuals that included an Executive from a George Soros connected group. What did they discuss? The meeting included Donald M. Camp, Jessica M. Gray, Baily S. Holladay (Russian Linguist/Analyst, NSA), Michael D. Jarvis, Natalia O. Lassowsky (Ukrainian Linguist/Analyst, NSA), Thomas W. Pucci, Stefanie L. Stagg and Ciaramella.
It appears that the "Michael D. Jarvis" who attended the Eric Ciaramella meeting on September 7, 2016 was and still is the Executive Director of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) which is funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation.
TAI has a long history with George Soros. According to a 2011 article, the Soros funded Open Society Foundation praised TAI for its work –
NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations today welcome the launch of the Open Government Partnership. Endorsed by 43 countries, the initiative is an important means by which to encourage governments to uphold the principles of transparency and accountability. These principles are at the core of the work of the Open Society Foundations. We support the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, a donor collaborative dedicated to empowering citizens to hold their governments to account, and we support civil society groups in more than 60 countries to do the same.
One of the areas, on which TAI focuses is anti-corruption. When he worked at the World Bank, Jarvis focused on the oil, gas and mining sectors. It is no secret that Soros was interested in Ukraine's oil and gas industry and that Obama's Departments of Justice and State were doing all they could to help him take it over.
One question from the meeting with Ciaramella and the Soros croney is why were there at least three NSAC members at that meeting?
John Solomon wrote at the Hill about events in the Ukraine in 2016 –
A few months later, Yuri Lutsenko, widely regarded as a hero in the West for spending two years in prison after fighting Russian aggression in his country, was named prosecutor general and invited to meet new U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
Lutsenko told me he was stunned when the ambassador "gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute." The list included a founder of the AntAC group and two members of Parliament who vocally supported the group's anti-corruption reform agenda, according to a source directly familiar with the meeting.
It turns out the group that Ukrainian law enforcement was probing was co-funded by the Obama administration and liberal mega-donor George Soros. And it was collaborating with the FBI agents investigating then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's business activities with pro-Russian figures in Ukraine.
The implied message to Ukraine's prosecutors was clear: Don't target AntAC in the middle of an America presidential election in which Soros was backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, Barack Obama, Ukrainian officials said.
"We ran right into a buzzsaw and we got bloodied," a senior Ukrainian official told me.
Lutsenko suggested the embassy applied pressure because it did not want Americans to see who was being funded with its tax dollars. "At the time, Ms. Ambassador thought our interviews of the Ukrainian citizens, of the Ukrainian civil servants who were frequent visitors in the U.S. Embassy, could cast a shadow on that anti-corruption policy," he said.
State officials told me privately they wanted Ukraine prosecutors to back off AntAC because they feared the investigation was simply retribution for the group's high-profile efforts to force anti-corruption reforms inside Ukraine, some of which took authorities and prestige from the Prosecutor General's Office.
But it was an unusual intervention, the officials acknowledged. "We're not normally in the business of telling a country's police force who they can and can't pursue, unless it involves an American citizen we think is wrongly accused," one official said.
In the end, no action was taken against AntAC and it remains thriving today. Nonetheless, the anecdote is taking on new significance.
It's likely the Obama Administration and Ciaramella were involved in the efforts to have Soros related entities in the Ukraine removed from any potential indictments related to their activities in the Ukraine. No doubt that this is the types of activities that took place in Obama's White House.