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A Surfer’s Hidden Transcript – Hawaiian Surf Culture, Localism, and Representation

No matter how exciting the surf contest but if you don’t have any app it’s useless. James C. Scott’s formulation, from his book Domination and the Arts of Resistance, of the “infrapolitics of subordinate groups,” is especially interesting in thinking about one of Hawaii’s greatest cultural and social exports, the art of surfing. If you surf, you are undoubtedly aware of the various unspoken codes and rules that govern the tribe. These codes and rules exist, in part, as both a kind of self-policing in the lineups as well as warning to outsiders, or “non-locals.” (“Local,” especially in Hawaii, is quite a loaded term, however we can limit it in our discussion to stand in for surfers who aren’t from the area/surf spot.) If you don’t surf, then what you think you know about these codes or rules is greatly filtered through the public transcript. However, the fact that there are, to varying degrees, different representations of the “surfer’s code” in both the public and hidden transcript, offers us an interesting window into how the hidden and the public collide. As Scott explains, infrapolitics “is a politics of disguise and anonymity that takes place in public view but is designed to have a double meaning or to shield the identity of the actors.” Surfers are notorious for rubbing wax on windshields, slashing tires, removing distributor caps and spark plug lines, siphoning gas, and various others acts surf terrorism to cars that they don’t recognize as “from” where they surf all … Read more

Why Themes For Birthday Parties Are Popular?

Your 21st birthday venues Melbourne is an event to remember and you are the star! It’s one of the most important nights of your life, and you want it be incredible. When it comes to ones birthday it is usually expected to be celebrated on a big scale. A birthday is always a time to celebrate, the event of one being born, is something that is not supposed to be like any other day. That is why it is almost taken for granted that a person will generally celebrate their birthday in someway or another. Whether it is a low-key affair with just a few people or a big event with lots of people invited. A party is something is expected of the person in question, not just because it is their birthday. But also since a party or function is always a good occasion to let people around one take part in one of the biggest events of one’s life. In these days especially, when the stress and fast paced life has made it more and more difficult to find time to spend with family and friends. A birthday has gotten even more important and significant. In that it is a day when people will somehow make time to attend and relax and enjoy the company of people one holds dear. And the truth is that one does not even need to make a big spectacle of it, one can just take their friends to the cinemas in Saket … Read more

Replacement Pool Dehumidifiers for Hotels

Useful life of hotels’ old technology pool dehumidifiers are ending! When it comes to inground pools, there are two main ways a pool removal Sydney can be done: a partial pool removal and a full pool removal. Thousands of hotels with indoor pools built over the last 30+ years have reached the stage of retrofitting or replacing their pool dehumidifiers that have reached the end of their life cycle. Many systems fell short of their operating lifespan due to poor pool chemistry; systems not designed or sized properly, poorly installed, lack of negative pressure, or poorly designed air delivery/duct systems. Many pool systems are no longer energy efficient and operating costs are high. For any hotel manager, it is an extremely challenging process to cut operating and energy costs with indoor pools. However, today’s technology in hotel pool dehumidifiers offers significant energy costs reduction, and many offer a wide range of improvement options over what was available even 5-10 years ago. When retrofitting your hotel, there are several significant areas to review to ensure that your new pool dehumidifier will provide all of the updated “GREEN” technology, energy recovery, and benefits that support a longer life span and a healthy, stable pool room environment. It’s not enough to simply pull out your existing pool dehumidifier and put the same system back into the natatorium. Before your purchasing decisions to ‘simply replace what’s in place’ are made, you will want to start with your pool room data. Do not necessarily rely … Read more