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AIIA launches Ayush Startup Challenge for healthcare innovation
22 February 2022 | News
Winners of 'Ayush Startup challenge' will be provided incubation support and financial incentive
All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) in association with Startup India has launched 'Ayush Startup challenge' to encourage early-stage startups and individuals working on innovations in the Ayurveda sector and alternative healing. The winners of 'Ayush Startup Challenge' will receive both a cash prize and incubation support from AIIA.
The 'Ayush Startup Challenge' is open for participation from both early-stage start-ps as well as individuals as a group. A group of three to five individuals can come together to participate in the programme, however, if selected they would need to register a legal entity before the cash prize is disbursed to them.
There are 3 entry categories for participating startups - Ayush Food Innovations, Ayush Bio-instrumentation (Hardware solutions) and Ayush IT Solutions (Software solutions).
There will be two winners in each of the 3 categories with a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh for the winner and Rs 50,000 for the runner-up. Therefore overall, there would be six winners.
In addition, winners will receive incubation support from AIIA. The incubation support would entitle winners to tap into the vast knowledge and resource pool of AIIA across the three wings of the institute namely research, academics, and Hospital.


Perfection is an extra (couple) kids at our house.
It's running crazy with friends and being silly and fun and me not worrying about hurt feelings or inappropriate talk or bad behavior.
It's more girls who set a great example for our younger ones and who are great friends with the older ones.
Perfection is playing with friends.
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Governing the World
How global government has evolved from utopian concept to failed ideal
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Mark Mazower, the Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies, chairs the Department of History. An Oxford graduate, he concentrates on modern Greece, 20th-century Europe and international history. His books include Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century and Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe, which won the L.A. Times Book Prize for History in 2009. His most recent book is Governing the World: The History of an Idea, from which the following excerpt is taken.
Governing the World is a landmark study of the idea of world governance from idealistic concept to often benighted reality. Nineteenth-century internationalists imagined "a movement of cooperation among nations and their peoples," as Mazower writes, with thinkers as diverse as Jeremy Bentham (who invented the word "international"), Karl Marx and Giuseppe Mazzini contributing sketched-out theories. The 20th century saw real-world attempts at global government in the shape of the League of Nations and its successor, the UN, but the geopolitical version of "cosmi charmony," long dreamed of, never materialized. In the closing section of Governing the World, Mazower studies the outlines and fissures of this failed ideal.
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That international institutions may not be internally democratic in their workings has been known for some time and does not appear particularly surprising. They are, after all, chiefly executive bureaucracies, and mostly their most powerful members like them that way. International legislatures have never lived up to the hope of nineteenth-century internationalists, and as the fate of the European Parliament and the UN General Assembly demonstrate, they are unlikely to make much impact on the twenty-first.
What does seem novel, in historical terms, is the collapsing importance of the public bodies that give national sovereignty meaning and the way that organs of international government and regulation have come to assail the internal legitimacy, capacity, and cohesion of individual states. They are not actually turning democracies into dictatorships — few people believe in dictatorships anymore — although the turn to Putin in Russia suggests such a drift is possible. But they are certainly hollowing out representative institutions and curtailing their capacity to act. Bodies that were once designed to foster sovereignty are now recast to curtail it. And this is not merely the curtailing of autonomy that is always implicit when states decide to join international organizations and respect their rules; it is the consequence of major changes in those rules themselves. "The pattern of influence and decision-making that rules the world has an increasingly marginal connection with sovereignty," notes Koskenniemi in a recent article.
Members of the League of Nations' Disarmament Conference struggle with the difficulties of peace enforcement in GenevaPHOTO: © BETTMANN/CORBIS
This multifaceted erosion of sovereignty is a momentous change that has been based upon a radical alteration in attitudes to the state and bureaucracy over the past thirty years. In its various nineteenth-century incarnations, after all, internationalism was preeminently a movement to restore sovereign power to the peoples of the world, and those who governed in their name. Its approach to the nation-state and its institutions was almost entirely positive. The originary moment of 1919 saw the goal of the League of Nations as a world made "safe for democracy," a goal understood — in an imperial idiom — as a society of sovereign polities. After 1945, the United Nations promoted the creed of sovereignty more widely, more adamantly, and more deeply. Nazism's assault on the sovereignty of small nations was repudiated and in Europe democracy was restored; colonialism's denial of sovereign rights around the world was also castigated. The state was rendered sacrosanct, international boundaries were mutually recognized in Asia, Africa, and Europe, and the meaning of democracy itself was broadened to "promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom" (in the words of the UN Charter). International institutions enabled states to survive and flourish, and as civil services expanded rapidly, states enabled their citizens.
In the construction of this system of sovereign nations, no power played a more important role than the United States. Washington never had complete control of the process, of course, and there were compromises on all sides. After 1945, welfare states grew faster and economic nationalizations went farther across the globe than American policymakers might have wished, for example, and trade liberalization proceeded more slowly. But these points of disagreement and tension were not decisive. The American Century at its apogee coincided with the heyday of national planning in the Third World and the welfare state in Europe. American foundations funded roads, medical services, libraries, and schools, and American social sciences — from midcentury macroeconomics to modernization theory — provided the legitimation for this expansion of state capacity around the world. Countries gradually became reintegrated in a global trade network, but capital movements remained restricted, and in general people made money from producing and exchanging goods rather than from money itself. As late as 1971, it was assumed that conditionality would not work if demanded by the IMF since client states would permit no interference in their internal affairs.
And then, between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s, all of this changed, as the United States ceased to support a version of liberalism embedded in strong domestic institutions. Confronted with an unforeseen challenge to reshape the rules of international order in a way that gave priority to the needs of the developing world — the Third World's New International Economic Order — the United States reacted by moving against the old midcentury conception of the enabling state on several fronts: international human rights activism saw the state as tyrant and mobilized global civil society against it; the World Bank and the IMF exploited the crisis-prone character of the new financialization of the world to redraw the boundaries of public and private sectors in vulnerable debtor countries. As governance replaced government, welfare nets frayed, and income and wealth inequality rose sharply. Formal structures disintegrated and informal economies — black markets, smuggling, and crime networks — flourished, leaving only the ubiquitous concept of the "failed state" itself as implicit acknowledgment that states really were rather important. In turn, the threat of state failure rationalized invasions and occupations that returned swaths of Africa and parts of the Balkans to rule by international executive. This was in no sense a reversion to the emancipatory perspectives of mid-nineteenth-century internationalists but rather the crafting of a "leaner, meaner state" in one country after another across the world, dissolving society in the name of the individual, using international organizations as the handmaidens and new paradigms — the efficient market hypothesis, the Responsibility to Protect — to provide intellectual rationalization.
If the corrosive impact of this process on the idea of sovereigntyitself has not much bothered mainstream American observers, it is partly because it has been moralized and turned into something virtuous, and partly because it has happened less there than anywhere else. The United States remains the exceptional power, able more than any other over the past half century to exempt itself from otherwise universally binding international commitments and obligations, its untrammeled sovereignty jealously guarded by Congress. Combining the language of universalism with the status of the exception has allowed American values and influence to spread at relatively little internal cost in terms of policy constraint. And this freedom has actually increased with the shift from a world of formal treaty obligations — a world that had always made Congress unhappy — to one of informal rules and norms, which the United States itself has been well positioned to craft. Only in the fears on the American right of eroding sovereignty and the implausible specter of world government do we get a glimmering of what the stakes may be when the American era finally ends.
Beyond the borders of the United States, on the other hand, it has been far more self-evident that international institutions and norms have developed into means of curtailing sovereignty rather than enhancing it, trends that could not but affect the standing of international bodies themselves and undercut their ability to command continued support. The real-world challenges mount around us in the shape of climate change, financial instability, poverty, crime, and disease. With the WTO's Doha Round paralyzed and the World Bank chastened, the IMF incapable of helping to rectify the global imbalances that threaten the world economy, and no single agency able to coordinate the response to global warming, the institutions of international governance stand in urgent need of renovation. Yet the fundamental nineteenth-century insight that effective internationalism rests on effective nationalism remains pertinent. Voters around the world still see their primary allegiance to their national state rather than to any large polity, a fact that reflects the continuing role of the state as primary purveyor of public goods but that many international bodies are loath to acknowledge.
Now we are on the verge of a new era, and as Western predominance approaches an end, the prognosticators speculate on what will come next. Some American commentators seem particularly anxious at their country's possible loss of influence. But taking a more detached view and in more formal terms, the mere fact that some states are gaining strength as others lose it says little. And so far as China in particular is concerned, it has much to gain and little of any consequence to lose from participating in a system designed to favor leading nations. Like any great power, it will use these institutions to further its own ends, but like its predecessors it will not always prevail. Thus there is no reason to think that the shift in the global balance need of itself mark the end of the international institutions established in the Anglo-American ascendancy.
In the ongoing atomization of society, citizens and classes have both vanished as forces for change and given way to a world of individuals.
Indeed from the perspective of the question of sovereignty, positive as well as negative consequences may emerge from the decline in American and European financial and political clout. As long ago as 1995, the British political economist Susan Strange argued that "the only way to remove the present, hegemonic, do-nothing veto on better global governance, is to build, bit by bit, a compelling opposition based on European-Japanese cooperation, but embracing Latin Americans, Asians and Africans." The prospective lineup now looks different but the point remains valid. The rising powers, China above all, have little liking for the IMF, at least in its older incarnation, and attach much greater importance to the idea of preserving sovereignty and some space for domestic political discretion. If their influence grows, the institutions the United States created may be brought back under new direction to the principles that originally animated them. A broader array of voices and perspectives will enrich the rather rigid forms of economic thinking that have predominated since the 1970s.
Getting the institutional architecture right is the subject of endless position papers and reform proposals. But there are two kinds of more fundamental change that will need to take place too. In the current crisis, politicians have essentially acted as underwriters, essential but subordinate to the dictates of communities of financial market makers they hesitate to contradict. More generally, the politicians have become policymakers, who listen in the first place to private interests and their lobbyists and try to adjudicate among them. Time will show whether they are any longer capable of governing. If that fails to happen, the responsibility will not be theirs alone. One of the reasons for the midcentury popularity of the state and sovereignty was that both had proved themselves in extreme circumstances. Twentieth-century total wars were fought by states that mobilized entire societies around shared perils and experiences. By creating models ofequity, solidarity, and sacrifice, they transformed public attitudes in ways that endured into peacetime. Without a comparable transformation in our own views about the nature of government, the public good and the role of the state, without our developing a new kind of faith in our own collective capacity to shape the future, there is no real incentive for our politicians to change. They may not be trusted by their electorates — polls show levels of trust plumbing new lows — but they have no reason to care so long as this lack of trust does not translate into mobilization, resistance, and sustained pressure for reform.
To the nineteenth-century internationalists with whom this book began, the future conjured up a new dispensation for mankind, a dispensation they looked forward to with a confidence based upon their control over a universe of facts: hence Bentham's vision of a perfect system of law that depended on the accumulation of all useful knowledge, or Karl Marx's path to a communist future through the history of capitalism's past. To twentieth-century institution builders from [Jan] Smuts to [Franklin D.] Roosevelt, from Robert Jackson to Walt Rostow, the future could be planned and tackled with foresight on behalf of entire communities and nations, perhaps even for the world as a whole. Today, when the primacy of the fact is challenged by the Web — a recent article hails the fact's death — the future, more important than ever, has been privatized, monetized, and turned into a source of profit. An entire corporate sector is dedicated to commodifying and modeling it; our financial markets in general take the future as the determinant of present values in a way that simply was not true a century ago. No one now feels the burden of an essential but unknowable future more acutely than the stockbroker and trader. But this money-driven individualistic future has crowded out an older vision of what the public good might look like.
In the ongoing atomization of society, citizens and classes have both vanished as forces for change and given way to a world of individuals, who come together as consumers of goods or information, and who trust the Internet more than they do their political representatives or the experts they watch on television. Governing institutions today have lost sight of the principle of politics rooted in the collective values of a res publica, even as they continue to defend the "civilization of capital." As for the rituals of international life, these are now well established. The world's heads of state flock annually to the United Nations General Assembly. There are discussions of reform and grandiose declarations of global targets, which mostly go unmet. Politicians, journalists, bankers, and businessmen make their pilgrimage to the heavily guarded Alpine precinct of Davos, seeking to confirm through this triumph of corporate sponsorship that a global ruling elite exists and that they belong to it. Our representatives continue to hand over power to experts and self-interested self-regulators in the name of efficient global governance while a skeptical and alienated public looks on. The idea of governing the world is becoming yesterday's dream.
From GOVERNING THE WORLD: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA by Mark Mazower, copyright (c) 2012 by Mark Mazower. Used by permission of The Penguin Press, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC.

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A Road
Childhood is a time for dreaming. For Daichi too. One of his dreams has now come true: he's studying film. But whatever became of the happiness from back then? Those moments of elation as a little boy when he and his friends used to catch lizards without a care in the world? A documentary exercise at film school forms the starting point of his search for the end of childhood: for Daichi, capturing images with his camera is now just as much about capturing lizards.
Can we retrieve the past? In Aru michi, director Daichi Sugimoto casts himself as a film student of the same name in pursuit of his childhood. Calmly, ingeniously, he blurs reality and fiction as well as the boundary between the past and the present. What he discovers is both painful and beautiful: you can catch a lizard and keep it captive, but you can't do the same with the past – which, unlike our memories of it, is ephemeral. In everyday situations with his mother and his friends, Sugimoto paints an authentic portrait of a generation on its way to adulthood. Aru michi is a sensitive film about taking leave of childhood while preserving what it means to be a child. (Synopsis from Berlin International Film Festival)
『あるみち』
Film Festivals (selected): Berlin International Film Festival, Japan Cuts
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Pelvis-thorax coordination has been recognised to be associated with swing speed.
Increasing angular separation between the pelvis and thorax has been thought to initiate the stretch shortening cycle and lead to a more forceful downswing. The purpose of this study was to determine whether pelvis-thorax coupling played a significant role in scaling single-club swing speed in a group of low-handicap golfers (mean handicap = 4.1). Sixteen participants played shots to target distances determined based on their typical 5- and 6-iron shot distances. Half the inter-club distance was used to create three swing effort conditions: `minus', `norm', and `plus'. Ten shots were played under each swing effort condition using both the 5-iron and 6-iron, resulting in six shot categories and 60 shots per participant. No significant differences were found for X-factor for either club or swing effort. X-factor stretch showed significant differences for both club and swing effort. Continuous relative phase (CRP) results mainly showed evidence of the stretch shortening cycle in the downswing and that it was more pronounced late in the downswing as swing effort increased. Inter-individual variability in CRP curves was substantial, demonstrating the need for individual analyses when investigating complex coordination patterns such as the golf swing.


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Streaming Devices – Alternatives to Cable TV
Guide to the Best Streaming Devices
For many years we've dreamed of becoming cable cutters. We'd become the first in a long generation of consumers who cut the cord from cable or satellite TV and now choose how we will consume content and how we will pay for it. But what are the alternatives to cable TV and what type of device would allow us to pull this off?
Enter the Streaming Video Device
Similar to, there is a growing number of streaming devices on the market and they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Whether you want to watch the latest TV show distributed on Netflix, Hulu, or any other online content provider, a streaming device (and high speed wireless connection) is the only thing you need to transform your life into a portable home entertainment center.
Meet the streaming video device. Meet your new alternative to cable TV.
However, deciding what streaming video device is right for you, may feel a bit daunting. You may be new to the TV without cable scene and everybody and their mother now sells streaming devices. Which one is the right one for you?
Have no fear. The FTR crew has all the answers for you in our streaming device guide.
Top Streaming Device Guide – Alternatives to Cable TV
The following is a curated guide to some of the best streaming devices on the market. By the end of this guide, you will:
Learn the difference between set top, mobile and other types of streaming devices
Explore the pros and cons of each device
Review the major brands in the streaming device space
Understand the importance of internet speed on your device
Identify the streaming device that meets your needs
So you're ready to go. You need to buy a streaming device, but don't know what is the best device for you. That's why your here. But before we can figure out the best streaming device for you, we need to understand the content you're interested in watching.
We strongly recommend you start with our Understanding Your New Content strategy, as we'll help you understand the different types of content packages available. This is an important first step, as some content is easier to get on some devices…
…Ok, now that you understand what content you need access to, let's proceed with our streaming device guide.
SET TOP STREAMING DEVICES
Set top Streaming devices are the closest thing to those big ugly cable and satellite TV boxes. Of course, the key difference is they don't have that big nasty coaxial cable that has to plug into a cable or satellite line, because they're wireless (yes, you can also connect via ethernet cord). Most streaming devices area also much smaller in size, though they're normally built for one television and aren't super easy to move from room to room.
Below we've identified three of the more popular set top streaming options on the market today. We've also provided our favorite out of the three that we reviewed.
Enjoying great popularity in the market right now, the Apple TV is on par with all other Apple products in the Apple ecosystem. As a streaming device, it seems to have it all, and its small size makes it easy to accommodate in any home entertainment center setup. Apple TV may be a bit more restrictive in the content they currently offer, but this is an ever-changing dynamic.
Source: freetvreview.com
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Micro HDMI to HDMI Cable, Fosmon (6 FT) High-Speed HDMI to Micro HDMI HDTV Cable [Support 4K, 3D, Ethernet, Audio Return]
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High-speed Micro HDMI to HDMI cable, A to D type; please note, this is not an MHL cable
Works with HDTVs, digital cameras/camcorders, MP3 players, and other HDMI devices
Supports Ethernet, 3D, and Audio Return (no need for separate cables)
Meets HDMI 1.4 specifications (48 bit/px color depth); shielded to defend against interference
Designed to meet all HDMI standards. Supports 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, 1440p resolution
AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable - 6 Feet (Latest Standard)
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HDMI A Male to A Male Cable: Supports Ethernet, 3D, 4K video and Audio Return Channel (ARC)
Connects Blu-ray players, Fire TV, Apple TV, PS4, PS3, XBox one, Xbox 360, computers and other HDMI-enabled devices to TVs, displays, A/V receivers and more
Cable allows you to share an Internet connection among multiple devices without the need for a separate Ethernet cable
Meets the latest HDMI standards (4K Video at 60 Hz, 2160p, 48 bit/px color depth) that supports bandwidth up to 18Gbps and backwards compatible with earlier versions
Cable Length: 6 feet (1.8 meters); Backed by AmazonBasics Lifetime warranty
Cable TV reviews


One of the highlights of the West Marin Little League experience are our postseason games vying for the West Marin Little League AA, AAA and Majors championship. The winners represent West Marin Little League in the Little League District 3 Tournament of Champions.
This section is being updated to include all past champions. Thank for your patience as we gather all of this information!


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Utility to traverse all Translatron entities and show a set of all databases

This is rarely useful and therefore not integrated into the main Translatron CLI
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from collections import Counter

if __name__ == "__main__":
    db = DocumentDB.YakDBDocumentDatabase(mode="REQ")
    databases = Counter()
    for _, entity in db.iterateEntities():
        if b"ref" in entity:
            for db in entity[b"ref"].keys():
                databases[db] += 1
    for database, cnt in databases.items():
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Here is the place to find all my editorial work I have done on various topics in the world of EDM for Relentless Beats:
Hunter Siegel Is All About That #RetroFuture
Hunter Siegel is a diamond in the rough for fans who enjoy house, yet grow tired of the recent mainstream sensibilities the genre has had to offer. With a genre moving at lightning speed, the past is becoming quickly forgotten in the technological age, but Siegel's sound may be the solution to our problem. Although we are no stranger to shining light on niche genres that reflect the old-school production styles a little better, Hunter Siegel ladens his Soundcloud with hashtags depicting #RetroFuture, upon which combines classic thumping basslines mixed with intelligently-produced modern synths. What makes Siegel's approach to house slightly different is his attention to not only "trends" of the old, but combining them in such a way that doesn't make the track sound dated, or lose integrity.
[Deep House] Jack U Ft. Kieza – Take U There (Hunter Siegel Remix)
For the past year, Hunter Siegel has been tirelessly remixing tracks like Take U There (by Jack U), but also making originals like "Still Waiting" which shows his hand at crafting original tracks. Most of Hunter's tracks contain ambient and space-y production values that send some of his more retro sounds into a "sprocket" infused mojo that gives a "Jetsons-like" vibe, as in the past jelling oddly yet fluidly with the more "future" side of his #Retrofuture sound. All throughout his Soundcloud you will find tracks like OTF, a piece he did with AutoErotique that reflects him using darker tones that don't take away the integrity of the house genre, but laces it with trap and dubstep influences.
Autoerotique & Hunter Siegel – OTF
Although OTF came out two months ago and is still pretty fresh on the scene, Hunter Siegel is fresh off of his August 28th Pool Party (which by the way you shouldn't have missed). Keep an eye on Hunter Siegel for pulsating bass sounds of the past mixed with the cold and expert production techniques of modern times that give it a cutting edge. Hunter Siegel should definitely stay on your DJ Radar.
Connect With Hunter Siegel: Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud
Originally published for Relentless Beats on 09/08/16
Gryffin Ignites Our Hopes To Create A Better Future For The Community
After all the people saying how our favorite musicians can't play a single instrument, aren't we sick and tired of this stereotype? Although we know very well our favorite DJs and producers have a wealth of musical knowledge, both classical and other wise, that makes them major players at any table, our non-dance-loving counterparts have continually bashed us for supporting artists with, in quote, "no talent is required to perform electronic dance music." The shame about that article is, not only was it written in 2012 at the beginning of the massive growth in our musical movement, but it also precedes and succeeds many artists who have arrived and passed us along who in-fact had musical talent simultaneously.
Do we personally have a hero in our midst? No, I am not speaking of the great Harvey Birdman, but something more unifying, I suppose you can say. There is a part of us that, before EDM found mainstream acceptance, people simply stated our musical artists are not legitimate, and bashing us for our donning of other accessories close to our hearts. What has this grown into? Well, all of that bad press eventually culminated the backlash of the culture that gave us homes outside of our own.
All of these events that have left old ravers disenfranchised by the ever-increasing commercialization of the industry, and the new slew of "ravers" that might not understand the narratives I am presenting you with today, all lead up to this. This is our year to finally come together after years of discomfort with the changes that are happening within this industry, and this might be the first article in the state of Arizona that finally recognizes that. In the Arizona rave community, we have many scars, but also many memories that have not been published by outlets to avoid causing further schism between the two bases of "new" and "old." In turn, since we have no written history, the only past that older ravers can look back on are the damages, or the fond rose-colored memories.
This old-new connection to bridge us together goes by one name: Gryffin. "But Logan, aren't you just using this editorial to plug ANOTHER artist into the fold?" Well, actually, no: Gryffin represents something deeper to the Arizona community that many haven't realized yet: as mentioned above, we have had people lambast us for our lack of talent, and many other aspects that have created bad press. Now, where does Gryffin come into play? Gryffin acts as the silencer to our enemies: the artist who can not only produce music, but perform with his professional set of electronic instruments, and create beats as they are coming out, not just on a switchboard. If you have seen the insanity that goes on as soon as he hits the stage, the energy he gives is what we truly need. We have constantly tried to wipe our slate clean by hiding our past as a community, but here comes somebody new; not just your average progressive house DJ, but someone who represents the musicality needed to appease the haters with his own musical talent, but also represent and welcome the new energy that breathes life into it.
So, what does this mean for the little people like us? It means that Gryffin can be added not only to the list of artists that legitimize our genre in the eyes of the angry, but produces a level of music that combines a love for the mainstream, but a love that wishes to innovate instead of stagnate. Simply listen to the playlist below to get a full example of the adjectives we are trying to convey here:
Gryffin – Best Of Megamix 2016
Clearly, Griffin is offering us something that hasn't been offered in quite a long time since we saw our favorite DJs become something as almost as unrecognizable as a pop star to us. Gryffin combines the local notoriety and respect for original tunes that the old school remembers, but provides a taste in music and implementation of live instruments played solo on stage that transcend the current state of the genre, and puts us in a better direction than we are going. You know for a fact that I, and many others will be celebrating these changes on the October 20th, 2016 at Shady Park in Tempe, AZ. This is our time, Arizona; this is our time to once again build a true community out of respect for the past, but embracing the newcomers and accepting culture that we promised to uphold. Take a stand with Gryffin, and more importantly, keep feeding those positive vibes that we all need to continue what our forefathers started.
Connect With Gryffin: Facebook | Official Website | Twitter | Soundcloud
Sources: Straight, NY Times, StereoGum, Only The Beat
Lane 8 Proves A Cellphone-Free Event Wouldn't Actually Be That Painful
In the technologically-based world we live in, it was sincerely difficult to imagine a time when we didn't rely on the invention of the cell-phone so devilishly. The moment I realized that technology had surpassed my expectations and whatever it would become, is when I witnessed the revelation that many children born after the year 2000, like my younger fifteen-year-old brother, never realized what it was like to NOT live in a world governed by the "helper" that is our cell-phone. How can you blame him? If I didn't have my phone on me at all times, I could find everything I have built in my life so far crumble before me: I wouldn't get messages from my lovely editor at RB, I would miss engagements with friends, and I would even miss happy hour if my phone didn't let me know when my local bar would offer discounts on well-liquor.
Possessing our cell-phone has become so much of a "Smeagol-esque" topic, and when we lose our phone or even feel our pocket and not come in contact with that square, flat brick, panic sets into our senses and we make it our mission to find it, or accept the fateof the loss we experienced. Lane 8 took this theory to the extreme when he not only announced, but conducted an experiment of 21st-century: June 3rd, 2016 marked the first installment of the conceptual set entitled, "This Never Happened." What made this planned show special was that cell phones of any kind were banned from the show, including recording audio or sound. This may seem odd in an increasingly technological world where even artists are having a hard time putting the "no photography, no video" rule on venues because of the versatility of the cell phone and photography.
According to attendee and journalist Luc Hancock, "Throughout the set, phones were non-existent, not even a balloon drop mid-set could entice the crowd to whip out their devices. There was a genuine and engaging energy reverberating throughout the club, and Lane 8 fed off of it." You would think, just like when the large security guard tells you to stop taking photos at a large event, people would disobey this rule and go bananas that ANYONE would dare tell them what to do with that important electronic device other than keep it out.
As you can tell from the quote above, Hancock witnessed a transformation of the crowd: as cell phones were almost not even in place, Lane 8 devoured the crowds energy as if people came there to, this is just me putting the idea out there, but actually watch the show? As condescending as that last quip may come off, we are sometimes trapped through the lense of our cameras and Snapchat stories because we are in constant battle to prove to everyone that we were there. Showing that we attended the event gets us all the likes on Facebook, retweets on twitter, and the biggest factor, "Wows" from our friends. As a concert-going culture that almost forces us to retweet a hashtag or post a picture stating it as proof, concerts and events have sometimes transferred the "proving grounds" of who is the bigger fan, or how close you are to the stage, than actually enjoying the show.
So, from Hancock's short summary, what can we say "happened" at "This Never Happened?" Well, to be quite honest, nothing. Nothing happened at This Never Happened because there is no digital proof that it even happened. What are we to do when all we are left with are the memories of the show? We start to resemble our parents, who, if they attended concerts, will most likely view it with rose-colored glasses and even get setlists wrong because they are thinking of what they wanted it to be instead of what it was. Isn't that what we all want, anyway? Phones keep us tied to that alternate reality of the cyberuniverse that takes away the "magic" of the show. When someone like me says "nothing happened," I am really trying to drill through our heads that everything happened. Yeah, the show was business as usual, but what made Lane 8's set revolutionary was the raw energy of the days when you couldn't bootleg a show off your cell-phone, and Lane 8 went ballistic with that energy, sharing it with the crowd as much as molding it himself.
Take it from me: I am going to get cocky for a few seconds and let you know that I have spent thousands upon thousands of my own income supplementing an addiction to attending gigs, letting people know "I was there," and taking more than 50 albums worth of photos on my old FujiFilm: when you take the camera, cell-phone, or electronic device that binds you to the real world, you feel the release of that energy I spoke of above, and you realize what you have been missing the entire time. Next time you want to get krunk at an event, lay off the snapchat a little bit and come for what you actually paid for: the raw musical experience.
Connect with Lane 8: Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud
Sources: EDM.com, YourEDM
Originally published on 6/14/16 for Relentless Beats
Major Lazer Knows Hustle and So Do I
The Bacardi Legacy Global Cocktail Competition has been a showcase for thirty of the world's best bartenders all centered in San Francisco. While the drinks will always flow heavily at these types of events with only the most ideal drink ideas, Jillionaire and Walshy from Major Lazer decided to sit down with two bartender heavy-weights and one Spotify rep to not only talk shop behind the bar, but also behind the music. Zach Pentel from Spotify managed to direct questions that blur the lines behind the careers of musician and bartender by focusing on the "hustle" and entrepreneurial spirit that is required in these industries. Think you knew everything about Major Lazer? Well, within the first minute, Jillionaire manages to surprise most of us by mentioning the fact that he ran a bar and acted as a bartender in 2006. Citing that communicating with people is sometimes the most important job as a bartender, yet also in his current field of work in Major Lazer. Bringing the conversation to more parallels in their field about the term, "hustle," Ivy Mix, 2015 Bartender of the Year from Brooklyn understands that the concept is not just an adjective, but a spirit of mind that is "overcoming anything that gets in your way." Even Walshy had his own definition of what the hustle truly means: even if he had to sleep on a "cold stone" and drink sugar water before he gave up.
Major Lazer Roundtable at Bacardi House Party
Hustle in these two fields not only reflect knowledge of the craft, but an intense drive to accomplish something regardless of the odds, while communicating to the room no matter if it's a sold out show, abandoned dive bar, or a tiny basement gig. To all in attendance, everyone agreed that the most important trait to succeeding in the hustle is to be a good communicator, and communicate not only who you are as a person, but wake up in the morning and ask yourself, "do I really want to do this," and "can I be the best at this."
So, we all just watched a video with two hot DJs who have brought the house down, two bartenders with unquestionable credentials that clearly have their life together and made a career in a field that is incredibly difficult to become renowned in. I mean, come on, even the moderator from Spotify probably has a cooler job than all of us, and they didn't even list his position! We may clearly make an assumption that their cool-ness level is pretty damned high. I mean, we have heard this rhetoric since high school that if we try hard enough, our dreams will come true. That is all nice and dandy, but how many glimpses of the American dream do we have to take before the hustle becomes complete?
If you asked me 3 years ago to watch this video, I would have laughed in your face. When you tend to have a sarcastic sense of humor and a penchant for books and movies, you start to see the same trend that America loves to hang onto: the underdog rising to the top, and at a point, it almost becomes cheesy and comical. Today, I viewed the video with an almost stone cold expression, grasping each word they felt on the meaning of the hustle.
From the day I learned to properly structure my papers in junior high, I knew I wouldn't be doing anything else. Of course I became distracted in high school when I rediscovered the same sex, and even in college when I had a short stint in the Biotechnology field, failing horribly I might add. Writing was the only outlet I couldn't shake off, and it haunted me until I learned to love it for the fire it gave inside of me, and I couldn't avoid it. If you are going into the field because of the high paycheck and nothing else, avoid it. We can all inherit our daddy's business, we can always push ourselves to succeed in a field we hate, but hustle is a noun that cannot be bought. Hustle is a house constructed as hope acting as the foundation, action providing our walls of safety, and the roof being the end goal.
Sometimes we never see that house in full-completion because we begin other projects, and sometimes we have that lack of hope to support the walls of our efforts to lead it to our finished project. I would really love to quote some high-and-mighty intellectual right now, but you know who speaks to me most? Meg Griffin from Family Guy; if you haven't watched the show, get out of your cave and learn something:
"Meg Griffin on Hope"
"Hope is what gets you out of bed in the morning when it's the day of prom and you haven't been asked. Hope pushes the caterpillar through the cocoon and drives the salmon upstream. Your breasts may be small and your glasses may be thick, but hope doesn't hold up a mirror. Hope is a horizon we head for, leaving nothing behind us but fear. And though we may never reach our goals, it's hope that will save us from who we once were."
I remember distinctly the very first time I heard Mila Kunis's voice coming through the screen, I realized that sometimes it's okay if the house is never finished. Of course I have dreams to write for Playboy, the New York Times, and any credible publication, but it's not about that anymore: Hustle is learning to love what you do, and make yourself better at it through time, dedication, and improving your craft. Every time I see an article of mine on the Relentless Beats website, it reminds me how much went into that article, and what can I do to make it better. Hustle is feeling you're not the best, fighting in the trenches for some kind of success in that effort, but still soldiering on.
In retrospect, I've become less concerned about placing that roof on the top of my house and calling it finished, but instead focusing my efforts on just being the best writer I can be and feel good about myself. I can tell you all day about what hustle is, but I think only a Meg Griffin-esque Seth McFarland format sequence will show you the true meaning:
The Hustle is what made me work out after I gained weight; The Hustle is what made me dive into the very risky field of Journalism even when people told me no; The Hustle taught me that when a publication rejects your article, to bring it somewhere else; The Hustle is what woke me up from the dream of "party life" and becoming a bit more sober; Finally, The Hustle is knowing that even if I don't get paid for my ideas today, you still took the time to read it, and I appreciate you for appreciating a work of mine.
You ever wonder why a bunch of bartenders and DJs like Major Lazer can sit down and talk about their fields without encountering differences? The hustle does not discriminate against any sort of indicator or person, but can bring people together in the thought that fine-tuning your craft can bring you places;
Even if that place isn't where you'd thought you would end up, Jillionaire didn't think he would be a world famous DJ in 2006, and even I didn't think I'd be getting any of my work published at this point. Sometimes when you get dealt a bad hand in life, that foundation of hope and the true love of your craft reminds you why you need to be alive to share that message, keep calm, and carry on.
Connect With Major Lazer: Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud
Sources: Digital News Agency
Originally published on 5/13/2016 for Relentless Beats


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We Join Dozens of Organizations and Businesses to Protest TPP Copyright Proposals
By Jeremy Malcolm and Maira Sutton
Today, EFF and its partners in the global Our Fair Deal coalition join together with an even more diverse international network of creators, innovators, start-ups, educators, libraries, archives and users to release two new open letters to negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The TPP, although characterized as a free trade agreement, is actually far broader in its intended scope. Amongst many changes to which it could require the twelve negotiating countries to agree are a slate of increased rights and privileges for copyright rights holders.
With no official means of participating in the negotiations, the global community of users and innovators who will be affected by these proposed changes have been limited to expressing their concerns through open letters to their political representatives and to the officials negotiating the agreement.
Each of the two open letters released today focuses on a separate element of the heightened copyright regime that the TPP threatens to introduce, and is endorsed by a separate groups of signatories representing those most deeply impacted by the proposed changes in each case.
Intermediary Copyright Enforcement
As the document below describes, countries around the Pacific rim are being pressured to agree to proposed text for the TPP that would require them to adopt a facsimile of the DMCA to regulate the take-down of material hosted online, upon the mere allegation of copyright infringement by a claimed rights-holder. Indeed, industry lobbyists are pushing for an even stricter regime, dubbed "notice and staydown", that would make it harder than ever before for users and innovators to safely publish creative, transformational content online.
Read the full letter here
Amongst the 65 high-profile signatories who have endorsed this open letter as of today are Reddit, the Internet Archive, Stack Exchange and Namecheap.
Copyright Term Extension
The rash 20 year extension of the term of copyright protection in the United States in 1998 confounded economists, and frustrated librarians, archivists and consumers, who were consequently starved of new public domain works until 2019. Now the USA intends to compound its error by extending it to all of the other TPP negotiating countries—or at least, those that haven't already yielded to bilateral pressure to extend their copyright terms. As the letter below explains, this would be a senseless assault on the public domain and on those libraries, authors, educators, users and others who depend upon it.
The letter on copyright term extension has been endorsed by 35 organizations so far, including Creative Commons, the Wikimedia Foundation, Public Knowledge and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
Express your support
Although the letters have been presented to TPP negotiators today, they will remain open for further signatories to express their support, and may be presented again in future rounds. Interested organizations can express their interest in endorsing the open letters on copyright term extension and intermediary liability using the links given here.
For individuals who are not affiliated with a company or organization, we encourage them instead to take action through the Our Fair Deal coalition's petition (can we take it to 20,000 signatories by this weekend?), and for those who are American citizens, through EFF's action to oppose fast-track authority.
Deeplinks Blog by Alex Moss | May 21, 2019
Reddit Commenter's Fight for Anonymity Is a Win for Free Speech and Fair Use
A fight over unmasking an anonymous Reddit commenter has turned into a significant win for online speech and fair use. A federal court has affirmed the right to share copyrighted material for criticism and commentary, and shot down arguments that Internet users from outside the United States can't...
Press Release | May 14, 2019
YouTube User Fights Unfair Takedown Campaign from UFC
San Francisco – The creator of popular post-fight commentary videos on YouTube is demanding an end to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)'s unfair practice of sending takedown notices based on bogus copyright claims. The creator, John MacKay, is represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). MacKay operates the "Boxing...
Press Release | May 2, 2019
Media Alert: Court Hearing Monday for Redditor Fighting to Stay Anonymous
San Francisco – On Monday, May 6 at 11am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue that a San Francisco court should quash a subpoena from the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society aimed at getting the identity of an anonymous Reddit commenter. Watch Tower is the supervising body...
Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | April 14, 2019
EFF's Tweet About an Overzealous DMCA Takedown Is Now Subject to an Overzealous Takedown
Get ready for a tale as good as anything you'd see on television. Here's the sequence of events: the website TorrentFreak publishes an article about a leak of TV episodes, including shows from the network Starz. TorrentFreak tweets its article, Starz sends a copyright takedown notice. TorrentFreak writes about the...
Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | March 26, 2019
EU's Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next?
In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technologists, and UN human rights experts, and approved the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive in its entirety...
Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | March 22, 2019
This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we're told the debate will be at 0900h CET on Tuesday, 26 March, and the vote will happen at 1200h CET), things could not be more urgent and fraught. That's why...
Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | March 13, 2019
If It Really Wants To Restore Debate, Facebook Should Update Its Ad Policy
Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new "privacy-focused" direction for the company that, while sounding great in theory, also set off several alarm bells—including concerns about competition as the company moves to make its messaging properties indistinguishable from one another. As usual for Zuckerberg, it's all...
Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | March 1, 2019
Don't Sacrifice Fair Use to the Bots
Three years ago, we warned of a string of dangerous new policy proposals on the horizon. Under these proposals, platforms would be forced to implement copyright bots that sniffed all of the media that users uploaded to them, deleting your uploads with no human review. It's happening. The European...
Deeplinks Blog by Michael Barclay | February 25, 2019
EFF Asks the Supreme Court to Clean Up the Oracle v. Google Mess
EFF has just filed an amicus brief in support of Google's petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the long-running case of Oracle v. Google. The case asks whether functional aspects of computer programs are copyrightable, and...


For lots of people, a good start is going to be to call a house insurer, collect policies from them without having good information regarding the insurance. The single time a homeowners insurance policy ought to be involved with damage to somebody else's property is if there's liability involved. Homeowner's insurance quotes are offered by the many insurance firms. Surely, the total amount of coverage you like, in addition to how high of the deductible you are inclined to pay, go into determining your house owner insurance policy quote.
Homeowner insurance policies got two strategies to settle a claim. A typical homeowner insurance plan should cover the repair and replacement of the house within the event it's destroyed.


A new edit of "Let It Be" directed by Peter Jackson has been announced today.
The Beatles today announced a new collaboration between The Beatles and the acclaimed Academy Award winning director Sir Peter Jackson. The new film will be based around 55 hours of never-released footage of The Beatles in the studio, shot between January 2nd and January 31st, 1969. The film will be accompanied by a restored version of the original "Let It Be" film, as directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
2019: On January 30th, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the rooftop concert, The Beatles announced that a new film will be made, culled from the 55 hours of Get Back film footage available. The new film will be directed by Sir Peter Jackson. A release date is not announced, but a restored original "Let It Be" film will also be made available in conjunction with the new film. Let's hope it's not just a theatrical release, like Shea Stadium was.


SEOUL -- The Vietnam unit of LS Cable & System Asia, an electric cable manufacturer in South Korea, won a $50 million deal to provide cables for solar power plants to be built by the Hoanh Son Group which specializes in transport, construction and infrastructure.
In October last year, LS Cable clinched a $125 million contract to install high voltage cables for Bahrain's power transmission network. A month later, the company was selected as a business partner to establish a fiber broadband network in Oman in a project sponsored by the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).


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