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Desi Dance Parties In The '90s And The Underside Of Identity Work - The Aerogram
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Desi Dance Parties In The '90s And The Underside Of Identity Work
by Swathi Sreerangarajan
There is a scene in the film American Desi (2001) where one of the characters, Jagjit, reads aloud the following sentence from a campus newspaper: "The Indian club is dedicated to promoting Indian culture and organizes various events throughout the year, including a Diwali show, Bhangra night, and Navratri Garbha" (39:58). His tone at the start of this sentence is neutral and free of drama — as he reaches the word "Bhangra night," though, there is a sudden, momentary peak in interest and lift to his voice. After this explosion of enthusiasm, his tone relaxes back down as he finishes the sentence. Why the sudden lift in his voice when he perceives the word "bhangra"? What makes it so much more exciting than the other cultural events? How could we theorize the sheer delight in his voice?
For those of us growing up in the 1990s, "bhangra night" may recall a radically popular space enjoyed by second-generation South Asian immigrants. The 'Desi dance party' was a distinctive diasporic youth culture, perhaps most famous for attracting and embodying the cultural multiplicity experienced by children of immigrants. It came alive in the United States in the 1990s as local, mostly city-based, circuits of dance parties, attended by the same group of people in the know and their own informal social networks.
At its peak as a "subculture," it drew almost exclusively a South Asian youth audience, but became mainstream over the 2000s, especially attracting an urban hipster crowd. Drawing heavily from the genres of bhangra pop, desi film music, dancehall, reggae, and hiphop, the form involves DJs creatively "mixing" beats from songs belonging to entirely different musical traditions to the benefit of adoring, dancing audiences. There was clearly some influence here from British Bhangra; at the same time, I would argue, the scene responded to more American-specific cultural values and neoliberal demands on the individual.
The popularity of these parties among second-generation desis has been interesting from a cultural perspective. In her book on this party culture in the New York area — Desis in the House — Sunaina Maira argues that notions of "how to be cool" and those of "how to be authentically" desi in the context of second-generation youth collided and were performatively worked out within these parties. So, for Maira, the youth culture reflected the tensions between being 'cool' vs. 'culturally authentic' these youth grapple with in their everyday lives.
To make these arguments about the subculture, Maira draws upon her interviews with these young party-goers about aspects of their lives — primarily their South Asian affiliations (and tensions within about authenticity), their middle-class family's expectations of them to become professionals, and the way they saw hip hop as a form of cool defiance but also simultaneously disavowed any racial politics or affinity with Black Americans. Maira's claims in this book are complex, intricate, and verifiable, but they all bear the underlying premise that the construction of identity is the central purpose or cultural work performed at the parties.
Maira is right to argue that these tensions predominated larger discourses about these kids' lives, and she has beautifully theorized this vector within these youth's lives that chases authenticity and the need to negotiate multiplicity within these parties. Yet she does not account for the death drive, if you will, for these dramas of the self. What if, I ask, they are going to these parties to escape some of the pressures of creating viable, legible identities? What if the parties were a place where one did not have to care about self-performance?
It is extremely possible that young people went to these parties, as Maira has persuasively presumed, to construct identities and manage their cultural multiplicity just like they do in all avenues of their lives like college, family life, religious organizations, with friends to smoke pot, etc. However, the exceeding popularity of this popular cultural form vs. all of the other collective social spaces in their lives begs its distinctiveness, or even rebelliousness, that a theory about constructions of cultural identity does not address. Even among Maira's interview subjects, the parties are seen as a form of guilty pleasure and, like most nightlife experiences, a source of temporary relief from the pressures of daytime labor.
Guilty pleasures, however temporary, perform important cultural work and are especially valuable for what they tell us about the human experience outside politics of representation. Indeed, Desi dance parties show up as a different form of social outlet in American Desi or Tanuja Desai Hidier's 2002 novel, Born Confused, both texts clearly emerging from and attuned to a 1990s South Asian American youth culture. In a larger project, I closely read these two fictional texts to consider how, instead of collective identity making, the parties could have offered moments of respite and detraction from its pressures. At these parties, the kids are no longer code switching. They finally don't even need to talk about who they are and where they/their parents are from.
Neoliberalism relies on identity politics in so many ways; "cultural traditions" are more often than not marketplace tools. Minorities especially are compelled to consume and purchase expressions and lifestyle models of Americanness or chic Desi-ness in order to display and claim their belonging. This is part of the "self-care" that neoliberal subjects must master and publicly exhibit to be treated as good citizens.
Secondly, there is a lot of social capital to be had by second-generation youth who deploy their ethnic identity to fit the neoliberal model, and the imperatives of professionalization and partaking in the middle class create stakes for their American/cultural belonging. In this context, the parties may have voiced resentment about the identity labor they need to perform in their everyday lives. If that is even a remote possibility, the '90s desi dance party emerges as a space of remove from the (neoliberal and immigrant-communal) demands upon them to maintain a legible cultural identity at all times or code switch between different ones.
Swathi Sreerangarajan is an English Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh and a predoctoral diversity fellow at South Dakota State University for the year 2014-15, with her main residence in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research focuses on the ways second-generation South Asian immigrants growing up in the 1980s and 1990s have produced and consumed literary and popular American culture. Her dissertation unpacks the ways this rich cultural material interacts with U.S. identity politics and immigrant/diasporic fantasies. She is also completing doctoral certificates in gender, sexuality, and women's studies and Asian Studies offered by respective departments at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Chapter 26. Records Management
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As electronic storage gets larger and enterprise information continues to grow, records management is a key topic that needs to be discussed. A record is evidence of what an enterprise does. An enterprise captures its business activities and transactions—information. Records management maintains information storage of an organization from the time the information is created up to the information disposal, a systematic control of information. This may include classification, storage, preservation, and destruction of information. Records come in many formats, such as physical paper, electronic messages, Web site content, PDAs, flash drives, and databases, to name a few. When there is an issue, such as a lawsuit, all of these may be identified as discoverable, including copies that individuals have retained and any items prematurely destroyed.
All enterprise records are information assets and hold value for the enterprise. The enterprise has a duty to all internal and external stakeholders to manage these records to maximize profits, control costs, and ensure effective and efficient enterprise operations. Effective and efficient records management ensures that the information asset is stored, retrieved, authenticated, and accurate. This all must be done in a timely manner. To ensure that the enterprise has an effective and efficient records management program requires:
Establishing and following enterprise policies, standards, and procedures
Identifying who is responsible and accountable for managing records
Communicating and executing procedures consistently
Integrating enterprise records management standards and process flows with all enterprise departments
Preserving the enterprise history and identity
Identifying vital/critical records and establishing standards and procedures for business continuity
To begin with, all staff use records and information daily to:
Deliver goods and/or services consistently with accuracy and integrity
Perform daily business transactions and duties
Comply with internal policies, standards, and procedures, as well as laws and regulations
Protect internal and external stakeholder interests
Provide documentation for all enterprise projects for products and/or services.
Because the staff use information on a daily basis, it is each staff member's responsibility to manage the records and information. In turn, each staff member has an important role in protecting the future of the enterprise by creating, using, retrieving, and disposing of records in accordance with the enterprise's established policies and procedures, as well as applicable laws and regulations.
An enterprise needs to address well-defined objectives to add value, either directly to the bottom line or toward the achievement of the enterprise's mission, vision, and values (goals and objectives). Records management objectives can fall into one of three categories:
1. Profit/cost-avoidance
2. Moral, ethical, and legal responsibility
3. Effective and efficient service.
Enterprise record management programs need to manage information assets to be timely, accurate, complete, cost-effective, cost-efficient, accessible, and useable.
Within most enterprises, records management programs are not the primary business function and usually do not generate income, and the following are important reasons to establish a records management program within the enterprise. (Adapted from "Ten Business Reasons for Records Management," in Robek, M.F., Brown, G.F., and Stephens, D.O., Information and Records Management: Document‐Based Information Systems, New York: Glencoe, 1995.)
1. To control the creation and growth of records: Despite the growth of portable and electronic media, paper records in enterprises continue to increase. An effective records management program addresses both creation control by limiting records generation and copying not required for business operations and records retention by destroying useless or retiring inactive records. This can stabilize the growth of records in all formats.
2. To reduce operating costs: Any recordkeeping requires administrative dollars for storage and filing equipment and spaces and the staff to maintain this.
3. To improve efficiency and productivity: Time spent searching for missing or misfiled records is nonproductive. Good records management can help an enterprise enhance recordkeeping systems.
4. To assimilate new records management technologies: When an enterprise knows what information assets (records) are needed to be maintained, the enterprise can assimilate new technologies and take advantage of their benefits. When an enterprise invests in new systems and equipment without formal goals and objectives, the full potential of the systems and equipment will not be recognized and may not solve the root cause of the problems.
5. To ensure regulatory compliance: Most countries have regulations for recordkeeping. Many times, these regulations can create major compliance problems for the enterprise due to difficulty in locating, interpreting, and applying the regulation. With formal records management policies, standards, and procedures, compliance with regulations is made easier.
6. To minimize litigation risks: Enterprise records management can reduce risks associated with litigation and potential penalties. Consistently applied records management can reduce liabilities associated with information/records disposal with a standard, systematic, and routine disposal during the course of business.
7. To safeguard vital information: All enterprises should require a comprehensive program for protecting critical and vital records and information from a disaster, because every enterprise is vulnerable to loss. Records management program can preserve the integrity and confidentiality of the critical and vital records and information according to the "plan."
8. To support better management decision making: Enterprises that can present the most relevant and complete data first often win the decision or competition or can make better decisions. An enterprise records management program helps managers and executives ensure that the information is in the hands of the staff when they need it for what they need it for.
9. To preserve the corporate memory: Enterprise files contain institutional memory, an irreplaceable asset that is often not addressed. The enterprise records create background data for current and future management decisions and planning. This history needs to be preserved for effective and efficient future enterprise activities.
10. To foster professionalism in running the business: In an enterprise that is messy, files, papers, boxes, and equipment displayed in an unorganized manner create a poor working environment and culture. This unorganized display may change the perception of the customers and the public to something unwanted. This perception can also change the moral of the staff, though hard to quantify in cost–benefit terms, may be among the best reasons to establish a records management program.
How would an enterprise start with developing record management requirements? The enterprise must create and preserve adequate and proper documentation of enterprise activities to support operational needs and allow accountability to ensure complete documentation, records, including those generated electronically with automated applications. At a minimum, the records management system shall include the following capabilities:
Proper identification of originators
Proper identification of recipients
Appropriate dates (creation, storage, update)
Any other information needed by the enterprise to meet business requirements
Information generated by automated applications shall be copied to a recordkeeping system where they are maintained for as long as needed, such as data flows
Complete identification documentation, including originators, recipients, appropriate dates, and other information necessary for enterprise business requirements
A capability to organize and index information to properly preserve, retrieve, use, and dispose of information, including different disposal schedules
Shall be accessible to all appropriate staff using access control mechanisms
Shall have a manual or automated system to collect, organize, and categorize records to facilitate their preservation, retrieval, use, and disposition
Shall provide required instruction for what to do with the records that are no longer needed for business. This set of instructions are sometimes called a records destruction schedule or records retention schedule.
To start a records management program, definitions for information classification need to be established. An enterprise can start with something similar to the following for an easy start to information classification for records management:
Confidential: This classification applies to less sensitive information that is intended for use within the enterprise. Its unauthorized disclosure could adversely impact the enterprise, its partners, its employees, the citizens, and/or its customers. Information that some people would consider to be private is included in this classification. Examples include employee performance evaluations, call and dispatch information, and internal audit reports.
For internal use only: This classification applies to information that should not be distributed to anyone outside the enterprise and can be distributed to others within the enterprise. Although its unauthorized disclosure is against policy, it is not expected to seriously or adversely impact the enterprise, its employees, its stockholders, its business partners, and/or its customers. Examples include the enterprise telephone directory, manufacturing production schedules, training materials, and policy manuals.
Public: This classification applies to information that has been explicitly approved by the enterprise management for release to the public. By definition, there is no such thing as unauthorized disclosure of this information and it may be freely disseminated without potential harm. Examples include advertisements, job opening announcements, and press releases.
Although this chapter cannot tell the enterprise what specific technology to select and implement, what follows is a sample enterprise records retention policy and standard.
In conclusion, the enterprise records management does not have to be elaborate; it needs to cover the business and legal requirements to ensure that business operations continue regardless of the situation.
Sample Records and Information Policy
Policy: It is MyCompany (MYC) policy to maintain a companywide records and information management program to ensure appropriate retention, protection, maintenance, and disposition of all records, regardless of format or media.
Scope: This policy applies to all employees, contractors, consultants, temporaries, and other workers at MYC, including those workers affiliated with third parties who access MYC company network asset devices. Throughout this policy, the word "employee" will be used to collectively refer to all such individuals. The policy also applies to all computer and data communication systems owned by and/or administered by MYC. The company will establish asset management programs and support infrastructure to optimize the company asset values. Employees are aware that effective management of the company assets under their direct control is closely linked to expected performance.
Definition: A record is defined as any written, recorded, or graphic material generated or received in any form: paper, electronic, drawing, photograph, microfilm, diskette, magnetic tape, optical disk, voice mail, electronic mail, or other data compilation from which information can be obtained, or any printed copy that has sufficient information value to warrant its retention. A record can contain information from which decisions are made, plans are developed, and control is exercised.
Responsibility: Records and information management will:
Develop and maintain companywide records retention standards and business/operating unit supplemental records retention schedules
Retrieve records in an expeditious manner
Make records readily available to employees who are granted access
Assure privacy and security of records
Communicate tax and/or litigation holds on records and subsequent releases, and protect records during the hold period
Identify the records with historical value
Ensure prompt record destruction at the end of the retention period.
Note: If necessary for litigation or other special holds, normal disposition of records will be superseded until written notification of the release of the hold is received from the law or tax departments.
Responsibility: All employees are responsible for proper attention, adherence, and compliance to this policy, including:
Identifying the records for which they are responsible
Confirming the retention time for each type of document
Disposing of records that are beyond the scheduled retention period, unless the retention has been suspended in writing by the law/tax departments.
Responsibility: Management is responsible for the following:
Partner with records and information management to develop, approve, implement, and ensure compliance with companywide records retention standards and business/operating unit supplemental records retention schedules
Ensure that individual employee responsibilities are carried out
Give business units the option to assign/appoint a records coordinator
Ensure communication with records and information management.
Responsibility: The process owner is responsible for the following:
Partner with records and information management to develop, approve, implement, and ensure compliance with companywide records retention standards
Monitor processes to verify and measure compliance the records and information management program
Serve as an advisor to the corporate records manager
Communicate all legal, regulatory, operational, archival, and financial requirements.
Responsibility: The corporate records manager is responsible for the following:
Implement and manage the companywide records and information management program to ensure compliance with legal requirements, state and federal regulations, and business operations
Establish policies, retention standards/schedules and procedures for the best use, and storage, destruction, and safekeeping protection of company records, regardless of media
Assist in matters of litigation holds, tax audits, and regulatory changes
Analyze, recommend, and support records and information management systems technology and implementation.
Violations: Failure to comply with this policy could potentially adversely affect the company in legal matters. Failure to comply could result in disciplinary actions, up to and including dismissal.
Sample Records Retention Standard
Specification: MYC accumulates, generates, and maintains records in the course of all of its operations. This Information Services (IS) Records Retention and Disposal Standard is in support of MYC's corporate Records Retention Policy. For the purpose of this IS Records Retention and Disposal Standard, a "record" is defined as any written, recorded, or graphic material generated or received in any form: paper, electronic, drawing, photograph, microfilm, diskette, magnetic tape, optical disk, voice mail, electronic mail, audio tapes, maps, indices, electronic media, video tapes, reference materials, or other forms of data compilations from which information can be obtained, recorded, or printed. Records contain information from which decisions are made, plans are developed, and control is exercised. An adequate records and information management program encompasses the control of all records, including electronic, from their inception or receipt to their destruction or permanent retention. For the purpose of this IS Standard, "record retention" is the act of retaining records in any form or media for specified, predetermined periods of time commensurate with their value, with subsequent disposal or permanent preservation as a matter of official organizational policy.
This IS Standard, including the attached Retention Schedules, set forth requirements regarding the retention and disposal of MYC IS records, the person(s) responsible for their proper maintenance, retention time periods, and procedures for on- and off-site storage. They are designed to promote sound business practices, safeguard confidential and proprietary information, and comply with applicable laws and contractual obligations. All IS records are subject to this IS Standard.
Separation of duties: All MYC IS employees are responsible for complying with this IS Standard. All IS staff must, periodically and as deemed appropriate by IS management, review files and records in their work area, on local hard drives, and on appropriate network shares, then remove inactive records for disposal, destruction, or off-site storage in accordance with the IS Standard set forth below, and work cooperatively with the persons identified below, who have specific responsibilities in connection with the implementation of this IS Standard:
Chief security officer (CSO): The CSO is the records administrator for the IS department and works with the staff to ensure compliance with this IS Standard, oversees off-site record storage (if required), tracks stored records, coordinates records retrieval, and documents record destruction. The CSO also consults with MYC counsel prior to destruction of records in accordance with the Retention Schedules. The CSO works with MYC counsel upon request to process and respond to all third-party requests for information about and/or production of MYC records, in accordance with this IS Standard.
IS work unit lead: An IS work unit lead oversees their unit's work to ensure compliance with this IS Standard. Specific responsibilities of each IS work unit lead include:
– Maintaining IS records in accordance with MYC's internal requirements, legal requirements including state, federal, or local laws and regulations and any other applicable requirements
– Performing a timely records review each year, resulting in the disposal or retention of work unit records in accordance with their respective Retention Schedule
– Approving the destruction of stored IS records in accordance with their respective Retention Schedule
– Immediately notifying the CSO of any third-party requests for IS records
– Consulting with MYC counsel or the CSO regarding any questions or concerns about the retention or destruction of particular IS records
– Coordinating file review for centralized filing areas, shared network files, and staff work areas
– Working with the CSO to document, track, and retrieve records sent to off-site storage locations
– Coordinating the destruction of IS records, including obtaining appropriate approvals from their work unit leads
– Documenting approvals/exemptions and destruction of IS records.
MYC Counsel: MYC counsel may serve in an advisory capacity for any of the following:
– Reviewing, processing, and responding to all third-party requests for information about IS records, in conjunction with the CSO and in accordance with this IS Standard
– Reviewing and approving the scheduled destruction of records in conjunction with the CSO, when necessary
– Notifying IS work unit leads, other managers, or staff to halt the destruction of particular IS records
– Providing consultation to the IS staff regarding this IS Standard
Standard: The Retention Schedules included as part of this IS Standard identify the timeframes for retaining MYC IS records as well as the work unit(s) responsible for their integrity, maintenance, and retention. Appendix A applies to all IS work units and includes the following features:
Record Series: Identifies records by functional categories, such as Service Request Files, Business Records, Finance Files, HR Files, etc.
Description: Lists the type of documents, files, or other media that are contained within the Records Series.
IS work unit responsible for official copy of records: Identifies the IS work unit responsible for the official copy of each Record Series. The location designated as the official record copy holder is responsible for maintaining those records for the retention period designated for Records Held Off Site.
Official record copy held On Site: IS work units may hold records On Site for the specified period. After this time, records must be either destroyed or moved Off Site. On Site means the primary office filing location. Off Site means a designated central location. The meaning of Current will vary. Depending on the type of record, Current means:
– The end of the calendar year
– The closure of an incident
– The completion of a project or lease
– The sale of property
– The usefulness of the information
Comments: This section holds information about the Records Series, including identification of critical records. Records designated as critical are considered essential to continued business operations and should be protected from loss by the official record copy holder.
Periodic file reviews: Each IS work unit must conduct a file review for the purpose of determining the disposition of records in accordance with this IS Standard. The file review includes all record media (paper, electronic, photos, videos, tapes, etc.) and all IS Staff. Periodically and as deemed appropriate by IS management, IS Staff are responsible for reviewing records and files maintained in their personal work areas and in individual computer and backup folders. At the direction of their work unit leads, IS Staff will conduct a periodic file review for their work units, including the following:
1. Review all records media.
2. Identify Records Series on the schedule in Table 26.1.
3. Follow the schedule's instructions for on-site and off-site retention requirements.
4. Per the schedule, remove the records from active filing locations that have met their on-site retention time.
Table 26.1 Information Services Record Retention Schedule
Electronic records: MYC IS performs incremental backup of application programs and data files Monday through Thursday with full backup at close of business on Friday. The full backup performed on the first Sunday after the 16th of a month is sent to Recall Data Protection Services (RDPS) for permanent (indefinite) off-site storage. All other full backups are sent off site to RDPS as well but rotated back to the designated MYC Network Engineer after 30 days have elapsed. Tapes rotated back on site are overwritten with the next set of backups.
Records disposal: In accordance with Retention Schedules, the following records should be disposed as set forth:
Physical—not confidential
Recycle paper; throw away other media
Physical—confidential
Shred paper (or place in shred bin); physically destroy other media
Delete from the network or hard drive and empty your Recycle Bin
Backed up files
Remove when the backup tape is rotated back on site for the next set of backups
Note: For large amounts of material to be shredded or destroyed, engage a vendor specializing in records destruction. The CSO is available to provide assistance.


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The first round of government-to-government negotiations for a social security agreement between Japan and the Republic of Finland was held on July 17-21, 2017 in Helsinki.
Employees sent from Japan to Finland as well as those sent from Finland to Japan are currently obliged to affiliate to the social security systems of both countries, thus causing duplicable payments of social security contribution which impose a large economic burden on both individuals and corporations. It is expected that the conclusion of an agreement between Japan and Finland on social security will solve such problem through reducing the burden imposed on the individuals and corporations, and further promote human and economic exchanges between the two countries.
Date for the next round of the negotiations will be decided by mutual consent and it will be held in Japan.


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Great Ape
Published in the Wells Street Journal, Issue 13: "Disruption in the City" (2020)
It was a bright cold day in June and the clocks were striking thirteen. We were two hours in, standing in front of Downing Street when the skies opened up. The rain came first as a sprinkle, then a shower, then receded, cycling through these stages with maddening regularity. Umbrellas sprouted up from the crowd, bristling like legionnaire's shields into a loose phalanx. Above the bustle, the shouts, and the patter of the rain, an MP was speaking.
"These are our streets," she said with confidence, standing atop a stage covered by a simple tent. Raindrops rolled off the black canvas and fell to the concrete below. Police officers ambled around the crowd, puffing their chests out and making furtive small talk.
These are our streets. But are they? The MP was referring to the abstract, not the concrete. The path that the narrative will take, not the road that serves as its setting. Her claim was akin to that of protestors worldwide, though my mind leapt to Ferguson, to Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis's documentary Whose Streets?. The filmmakers interviewed people on the ground, reclaiming the narrative of the protest from a media that had demonised it, had turned it upside-down and ugly.
The man whose narrative we were fighting outside Downing Street is a master of the upside-down and the ugly. His disregard for facts goes well beyond simple spin doctoring and into the realm of the pathological liar. From the stage, Richard Burgin quotes James Baldwin, saying, "ignorance, allied with power is the most ferocious enemy to justice". But this absolves our enemy of too many of his sins. He is not merely ignorant and powerful. His hatred is pointed, maniacal, and intentional.
In the rain, we were waiting for his version of the narrative, which came in the form of a tweet, as per usual. A spurious claim that we were there to support him. I will reply with the only language he seems to understand, a retweet, as selective as the memory and imagination of the man himself: "It was quite the opposite."
Walking among the crowds that had gathered beneath Nelson's Pillar, the evidence of opposition was everywhere, and not just against him. Signs and placards, pamphlets, chants, and costumes, all advertising our discontent. We were against the Tories, against Boris, against privatisation of the NHS. We were against Brexit and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestine. We were anti-antisemitism, anti-misogyny, anti-pollution. We were against Islamophobia, homophobia, xenophobia. We were against it all. Especially the hair.
That ubiquitous hair. Somewhere between orange and gold and recognisable as Mr. Peanut's monocle. Put the hair on a baby, a dog, a chicken, a toilet, and the analogy holds. We hated that hair.
But I wondered, is it enough to hate? Can a group of people be united in such disparate and multitudinous antagonisms? Where was the agenda? What was the solution?
The solution remains to be seen, but the effort is all we have. The standing-in-the-rain, shouting, screaming, kicking, dancing, loving struggle is our only weapon against a mounting danger. It is a danger that goes by many names, as many names as there were signs above the crowd. But the danger is real. It is poisoning our rivers, our mouths, our minds. It is stealing from the poor and filling the vaults of the rich. It is in every bullet fired from a police officer's gun and in the hands of every man who grabs at a woman. And it is in the narratives that protect those bullets, those hands.
Across the barrier, past the reporters and photographers, I saw a sign: "Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard – Harvey Milk". A chant of "Stand up fight back!" tore through the crowd and I joined in. I do not know what will fix the problems of the world. But in order to own the narrative we must sing. We must sing, and sing together, for nothing will be won with a solo. It is going to take a chorus.
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As part of the original fit of the Moody, it had come with an inverter, long since removed by a previous owner, and an HFL generator, which had been scrapped soon after our purchase because it didn't work and was uneconomical to repair. The entire cooling system had corroded on the original 10.5 KVa generator and although it had a little over 700 hours, it had clearly always been problematic. It was also very noisy with ill fitting sound proof panels and we knew that we would have the same level of problems as the previous owners.
So the generator was removed and we considered our options. The generator had been sized to allow for all three air conditioning units to be on at the same time without causing an issue. We don't expect to be running these very often at all and certainly not all three! We suspect what had happened to the generator apart from inadequate maintenance was that it had always been run at a low load hence causing problems with the engine that forms the core of the generator. Now despite the fact that we still have all three aircon units, a large microwave, watermaker and several other potentially high energy use items, we didn't think this justified over-specifying the generator. But of course, we would need to cope with higher loads at times…..
A quality inverter charger was a good solution since it would seamlessly top up the power output from the batteries. This works fine when the high load is for a short period but needs to be watched if this lasts a long time. No-one wants to drain the entire battery bank in an hour! This allows the generator to be specified as a little lower power output which means it will more often be used at a reasonable load for the generator. I also means that you need to have good battery monitoring in place and more on that on another post.
Looking at a ten year timescale, we knew we needed to buy a quality product and two in particular stuck out for us: the studer, which had been bought by some good friends of ours ( Clare and Vic on Njord) and the Victron. The victron had some good features but the Studer seemed to have a better reputation for quality. The clincher for us was the global support network. They are both good but there are several times more dealers and repair centres for Victron, so in the unlikely eventuality that we had a problem, it would be easier to repair.
Then we started looking at the generator. We did a lot of research on line and came down to a short list of Northern Lights, Kohler and Onan. There was little to choose between these but the supplier of our electrical systems were also Onan dealers and this helped to sway our minds. The fact that the generator was a difficult install which required it to be taken apart and taken in pieces to the engine room before being rebuilt was an added complication. By choosing Lindsay at Seapower who works closely with Ollie, meant that this could be done without invalidating the warranty on the generator.
The install is incredibly neat with a remote digital panel on the flight deck that Maria considers our new electrical panel to resemble. Having spent some time with Lindsay, I have to say we are happy both with our choice of generator and supplier. Lindsay has taken care making sure that our install will be trouble free for as long as we have the boat. One additional feature we added was to have the hot water from the cooling system feed the hot water boiler. The generator creates a lot of heat and it seems a shame to throw that away into the sea when it could be used o provide a useful source of hot water for us. It also means that we have redundancy in the hot water if the heating element breaks.
Sorry the pictures are all a bit boring, the key here is that everything is done under the surface so that the boat is powered well at anchor, at sea or in a marina with limited power.
Actually, an advantage we have found straight away in the Marina is that we no longer need to worry about switching off the electric fire when we want to boil the kettle. Previously this always tripped the switches but now the boat can support this for a short time from the batteries and then recharges the batteries later. We think this will be quite useful when we are away for small intense loads like the kettle or microwave although we need to be careful about the rate that we deplete the batteries as well as the amount of power we take out.


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Q: App rejected by Apple based on design guideline Apple rejected our app with the following response:
We noticed an issue in your app that contributes to a lower quality user experience than Apple users expect:
- Upon launching the app, a web page in mobile Safari opens first, then returns to the app. The user should be able to use the app immediately upon launch.
Next Steps
To resolve this issue, please revise your app to address all instances of this type of issue.

The app we're developing is a keyboard extension. The use-cases do not require a user to actually open the app and use it. As a result, in the app itself (should you launch it from home/springboard), we redirect the user to our website, which informs the user how to use the product (there's no registration or immediate tutorial required, but we certainly cant have the app do absolutely nothing). From Apple's response, this clearly isn't the right way. My questions:

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*If a user were to be redirected to Messages, could this solve the problem?  The reason I ask this instead of just trying it is so that I dont waste time and end up getting rejected again.

*Part of the problem seems that opening the app through springboard is misleading since it doesnt do anything. But my understanding is that we cannot have apps without icons (Create iOS app without menu icon). Do keyboard apps need to be published differently so that we dont have an icon in springboard? If so, please direct me to some documentation/Xcode configuration/resources to achieve this.
This is my first attempt at mobile development

A: The answer provided by @particleman was the right one. Just loading a WebView within the app was enough for Apple to accept the app.

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Olivia Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn, she changed her last name to Wilde to give tribute to one of her favorite authors 'Oscar Wilde'. Olivia is an American actress and filmmaker.
She was born on 10 March 1984 in New York City, U.S. In 2017, Olivia made her Broadway debut. As a director, Wilde made her debut with the film 'Booksmart', and she received Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
8. Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus was born Destiny Hope Cyrus, she legally changed her name rendering her childhood nickname Smiley. Miley is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
She was born on 23 November 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, U.S. Miley is the daughter of country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus. She has launched many single albums and also has appeared in films.


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BUDLEIGH SALTERTON FC, who next season will field teams in both the Carlsberg Peninsular Eastern Division and The Devon and Exeter Premier Division, have announced the date of their return to pre-season training.
BUDLEIGH SALTERTON FC, who next season will field teams in both the Carlsberg Peninsular Eastern Division and The Devon and Exeter Premier Division, have announced the date of their return to pre-season training.The club will begin their build up to the 2009/10 campaign on Thursday, July 2, at their Greenway Lane headquarters with a 6.30pm start.New and old players are welcome with the 1st team being managed next term by Kevin Smith and Andy Bennett, whilst the Reserves will, once again, be led by Alex Freer who will be assisted by Noel Pond and Peter White.


If you're looking for the Easter Bunny this year, Pets at Home won't be able to help you.
The pet store giant is prohibiting the sale of bunnies between Good Friday and Easter Monday. But there's no need to get hopping mad, the store will instead be educating children how best to look after their fluffy friends.
In the same way a dog is not just for Christmas, the lesson is a bunny is not just for Easter.
The cuddly companions see a surge in popularity around the holidays, but instead of selling them, the store - at Cambridge's Beehive Centre - will run free rabbit workshops to help families best care for their beloved pets.
The sessions are designed to help children understand the welfare needs of rabbits - shelter, food, water, good health and appropriate company and living envoronment.
They are also set up to keep owners and potential owners well informed about the long term commitment and responsibilities that come with owning a pet.
Peter Pritchard, CEO (Retail) at Pets at Home said: " We pride ourselves on putting pets before profit so we've taken the decision not to sell rabbits during the upcoming Easter weekend. Nor will customers be able to adopt rabbits in need of re-homing from our in-store adoption centres.
"Our informative workshops help families understand what's involved in being a responsible rabbit owner. What's more they're also a fun and free way for children to get up close and personal with some furry friends during the holidays."
The bunny embargo will be in place from 9am on Good Friday (April 14) to close of business on Easter Monday (April 17).
Find where your nearest workshop is here.


Be careful when using an AMD Carrizo DDR4 platform, because according to MS the installation and download of future Windows updates will be blocked when either Security-Only (KB4015546) or Monthly Rollup (KB4015549) is installed. They say they are working on a resolution.
The Security-Only update is, as opposed to the Monthly Rollup, NOT cumulative, meaning that it contains only the security updates for the current month, not those of previous months. So you must install the Security-Only updates of previous months, too, if you have decided to go this way (security updates only). The previous month is linked at the top of the page.
IMPORTANT: This is the last Patch Tuesday for Windows Vista! Microsoft will not provide any more support or security updates! Therefore I will remove any information regarding Vista from the current page starting next month (the old pages will remain unchanged).
If none of them helps to speed up the search, you might find some "speedup" update somewhere in the more recent posts of this very long VistaX64 forum thread or in the Security Bulletin Summaries/Security Update Guide for the current month; so far it's often been an update for the Windows Kernel (win32k.sys).
Important: You should verify the update's KB numbers before installing them, since the download links in the Security Bulletins might link to different or non-existent updates!
Just for reference, here's a complete final update list for Windows Vista.


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Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks (Paperback)
Stories from the New South
By Greg Bottoms
Counterpoint LLC, 9781593761301, 220pp.
Provocatively blurring the lines between autobiography, short fiction, and essay, Greg Bottoms presents a series of fifteen honest and beautifully spare tales of class, poverty, violence, and racism set in the margins of the urban and suburban New South.
An ode to Pulitzer-nominee Breece D'J Pancake's life and untimely death, the title story deftly interweaves Bottoms's personal history to insightful result. In the transformative "The Metaphor," the narrator proclaims, "when the world looks like every little promise has been lanced and bled out, you need a story to tell yourself." So we move seamlessly between the lives of people both real and imagined and the life of the author, and what emerges is not only a composite of sharply drawn and revealing moments, but also a book-length meditation on the nature of, and necessity for, storytelling itself. Including three new stories -- "Sam at the Gun Show," "Strangers and Dreams," and "Heroism #2" -- this revised edition announces an understated, arresting new voice in literature.


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