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10 Vocalists Above & Beyond Should Collaborate With | Trance Hub – Trance Hub (satire) (press release) (blog)

Posted: March 9, 2017 at 3:29 am

We are just 5 days away from another iconic Above & beyond India tour. 4 cities, 4 mad venues, 3 beautiful artists, lots of music & one massive Anjuna Family. The few things that really come across your mind when you hear the combination of Tony, Paavo & Jono are melodious music, breath-taking lyrics & enchanting vocals. Over the years the coveted trio of electronic music have worked with some stellar vocalists such as Zoe Johnston, Gemma Heyes, Alex Vargas & we cannot forget the vocalist of one of their most famous tracks, the one & only Richard Bedford. In addition to this I guess the closest thing one can associate with Love & Uplifting Trance is Oceanlab. Each track with the beautiful voice of Justine Suissa is a timeless classic.

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As music enthusiast would it not be amazing if Above & Beyond continue their musical journey with vocalists from the other side of the music bandwidth? Here are 10 vocalists we feel A&B should collaborate with to spread the message of Love, Magic & Happiness

1. Celine Dion: This Canadian Pop diva perhaps has the best love song to her name. Her music has often been very rich with human emotions & so has been the music of Above & Beyond. One can imagine the amount of tears a human will shed if this collaboration does happen. However one thing will be certain, this combination is sure to create a love song that will be remembered for generations to come.

2. Sade: A solider of love colliding with preachers of love. Such mixtures result into quotes like Love is in air. Sades melancholic voice can really add extra depth to the meaningful lyrics of any Above & Beyond track. This collaboration will really set a modern bench mark to the uplifting trance genre. Also maybe, just maybe we might see Sade getting added to future acoustic shows, which will make the acoustic experience extra precious

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3. Adele: If the most coveted singer of the modern pop era does decide to lend her voice to the electronic side, there are no better artists to join hands with other than her fellow countrymen. What we can expect is really uncertain as we have seen tracks about breakups & romance in relationships from both. But one thing is a certainty; this track will surely break the records & grab several awards that year.

4. Madonna: The legacy of the never aging queen of pop & dance music can be matched by few. Like Above & Beyond, even Madonnas music has evolved with times & most importantly both love to experiment with new musical ideas, which in todays world is a perfect recipe for success. The variety in her sound & the variety in their music are sure to give us foot swaying dance number which will bring us instantly on the floor & spread a million dollar smile across our face.

5. Enrqiue Iglesias: We at Trance Hub are not at all sexists and hence we have to include some male population in this list. This Spanish sensation with his pulsating voice & god like looks can really set the hearts of women on fire if he ever does manage to collaborate with Above & Beyond. Remakes of old tracks or creation of new music, the occurrence of both options is sure to be a hit with everyone.

6. Bryan Adams: If you are a 90s child, Adams will be a household name for you. The common denominator here is the two tracks which always get a massive sing along and despite premiering eons ago are popular with peoples of all ages. Bryan with coarse & raw style can lend his voice to any style of music which Above & Beyond create. If this does happen, then we sure to have a track whose lyrics will stay on our lips forever.

7. Stevie Wonder: The man, the legend. He is one male vocalist who still at the age of 66 can make people feel all the emotions at one time. This is a collaboration which I personally pray happens & if it does manage to be for a purely acoustic track, then we finally have heard of something that sounds like heaven

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8. BT: We cannot ignore the fact that Above & Beyond do currently belong solely to the electronic scene, hence we cannot rule out collaborations with a few artists originating from the same hemisphere & to start, with whom better than Brian Transeau. This track is bound to be a blockbuster considering the production skills both these artists posses. Adding to which the track will comprise of beautiful words & gorgeous vocals of Brian himself. Well to be honest this one is really a possibility and we hope both sets of artists make this possible.

9. Sir Adrian: Known for his massive contribution towards vocal trance, Sir Adrian has worked with several big names such as Armin Van Buuren, Markus Schulz, and SVD etc. But the name of Above & Beyond is missing from that list. It makes fitting sense that it is time both the veterans of the industry combine and give us a tune that compliments their legacy in the trance genre.

10. Lata Mangeshkar : The love this holy trinity hold towards India is not a secret. Wouldnt it make sense if they put the cherry on the cake by creating a track with an Indian vocalist? If this does really happen, no one better than the Nightingale of India can do justice to it. Lata ji with her sweet voice can really create a magical, enchanting &romantic experience with Tony, Paavo & Jono. This would be a dream come true for us fans, as the very best of their respective fields are joining hands and giving us life lasting experience.

There were several names that could be have included in this list, but hey even we have some limitations. Do let us know with which vocalist should Above & Beyond collaborate in the future.

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TEA Introduces The TMS-5000 – Yahoo Finance

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --Thermal Engineering Associates announces the TMS-5000, a new thermal measurement system for evaluating and testing Thermal Interface Materials (TIM).

Included in the TMS-5000 are the TTV-410X, the TMM-100, a USB controlled power supply and the software to control the system components. The TTV-410X is a Thermal Test Vehicle (TTV) offered with two different sizes of Thermal Test Chip (TTC) which are mounted on a Thermal Test Board (TTB). The TTB includes a backing plate, heat spreader plate, heat sink and integrated cooling fan with power supply, and an edge connector for I/O.

The TMM-100 is a Thermal Measurement Module with the capability to read 8 temperature sensing diodes, 2 thermistors, and two thermocouples.This module is driven through a USB connection for data collection.

Included with the TMS-5000 is a software program which runs in the Windows environment for control of temperature sensing, diode calibration, automated measurement, and data logging.

The measurement capabilities of the TMS-5000 are nicely integrated and easily learned and displayed in the Windows environment. For more information about this new TIM measurement system, contact TEA at sales@thermengr.net for a TMS-5000 data sheet.

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TEA's president, Bernie Siegal, has been providing thermal test and measurement hardware, software, and consulting services since 1973. Siegal has been chairman of the JEDEC JC15 committee and is the principal author of many MILSTD 750 thermal test methods. All major semiconductor companies, packaging companies, and many system level OEMs have utilized TEA equipment and/or services during its long history. Siegal is a founding member of IEEE SEMI-THERM and has delivered numerous papers and articles on thermal testing, simulation, and evaluation methods and techniques and is frequently sought out as a lecturer and expert in the field. http://www.thermengr.net

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WGS Systems Launches Tactical Management System (TMS) after Inauguration Success – Heliweb Magazine (press release) (registration) (blog)

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MacroPoint Integrates Load Tracking with Oracle TMS – Heavy Duty Trucking

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MacroPoint has announced a partnership with Eminent Global Logistics, an Oracle PartnerNetwork member, to integrate its load tracking platform with Oracle Transportation Management solutions.

MacroPoints core understanding of our market, its base of carriers, reputation for quality and its commitment to customer service and innovation, make it the right choice for us as an integration partner, said Mark Kissell, vice president of logistics solutions North America at Eminent Logistics. The ability of the MacroPoint load tracking solution to provide real time location and status updates fits perfectly with our need to enable OTM to proactively identify problems that impact freight movements.

Eminent Global Logistics is one of the largest integrators of Oracle Supply Chain Cloud applications in North America, according to MacroPoint. It solves transportation related challenges and helps companies save money and improve service in transportation and logistics.

EDI communications with carriers tend to be batched and not real time so shippers cannot use that information to effectively manage exceptions when loads are late or off schedule, said Kissell. Leveraging the power of MacroPoint within Oracle solutions means not using a generic mapping engine that could provide inaccurate location data, but instead having the ability to look at accurate load status for specific carriers and specific routes in real time.

Eminent offers a suite of solutions to help large and small customers manage and maximize their investment in Oracle Transportation Management, and works with shippers to enable capabilities like MacroPoint load tracking with their Oracle solutions.

The need for the MacroPoint load tracking solution in Oracle OTM was driven by shippers that are increasingly requiring that capability, said Dave Halsema, executive vice president of MacroPoint. Under this new partnership, we look forward to working with Eminent Global Logistics to enable a valuable integration for customers using the accuracy and capabilities of our freight tracking solution.

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Commodores eliminate CF women for 2nd year in a row – Ocala

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By Richard Burton Correspondent

The College of Central Florida women's basketball team couldn't keep up with defending national champion Gulf Coast State on Wednesday evening.

The Commodores set a single game tournament record with 15 made shots from 3-point range and knocked off the Patriots 90-51 in the FCSAA/NJCAA women's basketball tournament quarterfinals at Patriot Gym.

Gulf Coast passed its own tournament mark for most 3-pointers of 14 set in 2008 against Hillsborough.

For the game, Gulf Coast made 15-of-34 shots from beyond the arc, 12-of-24 in the first half.

It was the second year in a row that the Patriots were eliminated from the tournament in the opening round by Gulf Coast (28-3).

The loss ended a strong season-ending run by CF, who bounced back from a 0-4 start in Mid-Florida Conference play to win nine of its last 11 games to qualify for the postseason for the third consecutive season.

"Our kids battled hard with their backs against the wall to get to the tournament," CF Coach Tommy Jones said. "Obviously, we are disappointed with the result (on Wednesday), but to come from where we were to get here says a lot about how hard our girls worked to come from last place to the postseason."

The Patriots (14-16) ran into a buzzsaw on Wednesday, as the Commodores raced out to a 26-point halftime lead.

"They did what they are supposed to do and that's why they are the third-ranked team in the country," Jones said. "We're going to go back and keep working. We'll get it back to where we had it in the past. CF deserves better and I will make it better."

The Commodores made six shots from beyond the arc in each of the opening two quarters and also had their reserves outscore CF's 28-5 during that span.

In the early going, the Patriots trailed 5-4, but quickly fell down by double digits after an early surge by Taylor Emery, who scored her team's first 13 points, to push the Commodores to an 11-point edge just 4:08 into the game.

From there, Gulf Coast took a 16-point lead after a quarter of play and continued the onslaught.

The defeat was CF's sixth straight in the state tournament against Panhandle Conference schools dating back to 2008.

Fernanda Midaglia scored 10 of her 16 points in the first half to lead CF.

Nicola Mathews and Marcella dos Santos scored nine points each for the Patriots, while Kiarah Mallory dished out eight assists.

Emery led Gulf Coast with 23 points.

Shayla Bennett finished with 21 points for the Commodores, while LaSonja Edwards and Maria Castro scored 14 and 12 points respectively.

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JUCO BASKETBALL

FCSAA State Basketball Championships

At The College of Central Florida

WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT

Wednesday's results

Gulf Coast 90, Central Florida 51

Santa Fe 85, Broward 79

Chipola 66, Florida Southwestern 36

Tallahassee vs. Palm Beach, late

Friday's games

Santa Fe vs. Chipola, 1 p.m.

Gulf Coast vs. Tallahassee/Palm Beach winner, 3 p.m.

Saturdays game

Championship game, 5 p.m.

MEN'S TOURNAMENT

Thursdays games

Broward vs. Daytona St., 1 p.m.

St. Petersburg vs. Tallahassee, 3 p.m.

Northwest Florida vs. Florida Southwestern, 6 p.m.

Eastern Florida vs. Central Florida, 8 p.m.

Fridays games

Semifinals: Broward/Daytona St. winner vs. St. Pete/Tallahassee winner, 6 p.m.

Northwest Florida/Florida Southwestern vs. Eastern Florida/Central Florida, 8 p.m.

Saturdays game

Championship game, 7:30 p.m.

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CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (CF) Bond Prices Fall 1.6% – Chaffey Breeze

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Political correctness sends ACC from Tobacco Road to Brooklyn – Power Line (blog)

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For decades, the ACC basketball tournament has been held almost exclusively in North Carolina, along Tobacco Road. Between 1954, the first year of the tournament, and 1975, it took place in that state every year.

Following a trip to Landover, Maryland in 1976 (where Virginia won its first championship), the tourney returned to North Carolina for six of the next eight seasons. After a few visits to Landover and Atlanta, it was held in the Tar Heel State for 11 consecutive years, and 14 out of 15.

During the 51 year period I have described, North Carolina teams usually made up less than half of the ACC. I dont ever recall them comprising more than half, though they might have during the very early years before I was a fan.

Yet, the ACC consistently bestowed a home state advantage on Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Wake Forest, at the expense of Maryland, Virginia, and Clemson and (at various times) South Carolina, Georgia Tech, and Florida State.

Clemson has never won the tournament; it has been the runner-up only twice. Florida State has won it once (Atlanta); Virginia has won it twice (once in Maryland); Georgia Tech has won it three times (twice in Atlanta).

Maryland even though it had a great program in the 1970s, the first half of the 80s, most of the 90s, and the first several years of this century only won the tournament twice during this period (1984 and 2004). During this era it had as many trips to the Final Four as it had ACC championships. (The Terps also won the tournament back in 1958).

Fairly recently, the ACC added teams from all over the place e.g. Louisville, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Miami, Notre Dame, and Boston College (meanwhile, Maryland left the conference). North Carolina schools now make up less than 30 percent of the league. Yet, that state has hosted five of the last seven tournaments.

It would have held this years tournament too. However, political correctness accomplished what sports equity could not it drove the ACC tourney out of North Carolina.

The event is currently taking place in. . .Brooklyn. No ACC team is located in that area. The closest, I think, is Boston College, more than three and a half hours away.

At last, a truly neutral court.

The ACC moved its tournament in response to North Carolinas bathroom law. Its the same spirit of political correctness that caused the NBA to move this years all-star game from Charlotte to New Orleans and the NCAA to move two rounds of its mens basketball tournament out of the state. I expressed my disgust with this practice here.

Today, the Washington Post, without mentioning how the ACC tournament landed in Brooklyn, tried to make that borough look like a natural fit. It noted that Frank McGuire, who was a big deal coach 50 years ago, was a New Yorker who recruited successfully in that city.

No disrespect to McGuire, Charlie Scott, or Kenny Anderson, but I think this is a case of any port in a political storm. If the ACC hadnt been able to find a non-North Carolina venue in the continental U.S., I suspect it was prepared to go to Alaska. Heck, former ACC stars Trajan Langdon and Carlos Boozer came from there.

The ACC tournament isnt a big deal these days, given the inflated, incoherent nature of the conference and the fact that a large number of its teams will make the NCAA tournament regardless of what happens in Brooklyn. Unless youre a fan of one of the semi-finalists, theres not much reason to watch the event this weekend. That the conference pulled the tourney out of North Carolina for political reasons is a good reason not to watch it.

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The liberals who loved eugenics – The Washington Post – Washington Post

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The progressive mob that disrupted Charles Murrays appearance last week at Middlebury College was protesting a 1994 book read by few if any of the protesters. Some of them denounced eugenics, thereby demonstrating an interesting ignorance: Eugenics controlled breeding to improve the heritable traits of human beings was a progressive cause.

In The Bell Curve, Murray, a social scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, and his co-author, Harvard University psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein, found worrisome evidence that American society was becoming cognitively stratified, with an increasingly affluent cognitive elite and a deteriorating quality of life for people at the bottom end of the cognitive ability distribution. They examined the consensus that, controlling for socioeconomic status and possible IQ test bias, cognitive ability is somewhat heritable, the black/white differential had narrowed and millions of blacks have higher IQs than millions of whites. The authors were resolutely agnostic concerning the roles of genes and the social environment. They said that even if there developed unequivocal evidence that genetics are part of the story, there would be no reason to treat individuals differently or to permit government regulation of procreation.

[Why Middleburys violent response to Charles Murray reminded me of the Little Rock Nine]

Middleburys mob was probably as ignorant of this as of the following: Between 1875 and 1925, when eugenics had many advocates, not all advocates were progressives but advocates were disproportionately progressives because eugenics coincided with progressivisms premises and agenda.

Progressives rejected the Founders natural-rights doctrine and conception of freedom. Progressives said freedom is not the natural capacity of individuals whose rights preexist government. Rather, freedom is something achieved, at different rates and to different degrees, by different races. Racialism was then seeking scientific validation, and Darwinian science had given rise to social Darwinism belief in the ascendance of the fittest in the ranking of races. The progressive theologian Walter Rauschenbusch argued that with modern science we can intelligently mold and guide the evolution in which we take part.

Progressivisms concept of freedom as something merely latent, and not equally latent, in human beings dictated rethinking the purpose and scope of government. Princeton University scholar Thomas C. Leonard, in his 2016 book Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era, says progressives believed that scientific experts should be in societys saddle, determining the human hierarchy and appropriate social policies, including eugenics.

Economist Richard T. Ely, a founder of the American Economic Association and whose students at Johns Hopkins University included Woodrow Wilson, said God works through the state, which must be stern and not squeamish. Charles Van Hise, president of the University of Wisconsin, epicenter of intellectual progressivism, said: We know enough about eugenics so that if that knowledge were applied, the defective classes would disappear within a generation. Progress, said Ely, then at Wisconsin, depended on recognizing that there are certain human beings who are absolutely unfit, and should be prevented from a continuation of their kind. The mentally and physically disabled were deemed defectives.

In 1902, when Wilson became Princetons president, the final volume of his A History of the American People contrasted the sturdy stocks of the north of Europe with Southern and Eastern Europeans who had neither skill nor energy nor any initiative of quick intelligence. In 1907, Indiana became the first of more than 30 states to enact forcible sterilization laws. In 1911, now-Gov. Wilson signed New Jerseys, which applied to the hopelessly defective and criminal classes. In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Virginias law, with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. writing in a letter that, in affirming the law requiring the sterilization of imbeciles, he was getting near to the first principle of real reform.

At the urging of Robert Yerkes, president of the American Psychological Association, during World War I the Army did intelligence testing of conscripts so that the nation could inventory its human stock as it does livestock. The Armys findings influenced Congresss postwar immigration restrictions and national quotas. Carl Brigham, a Princeton psychologist, said the Armys data demonstrated the intellectual superiority of our Nordic group over the Mediterranean, Alpine and Negro groups.

Progressives derided the Founders as unscientific for deriving natural rights from what progressives considered the fiction of a fixed human nature. But they asserted that races had fixed and importantly different natures calling for different social policies. Progressives resolved this contradiction when, like most Americans, they eschewed racialism the belief that the races are tidily distinct, each created independent of all others, each with fixed traits and capacities. Middleburys turbulent progressives should read Leonards book. After they have read Murrays.

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Dampened immunity during pregnancy promotes evolution of more virulent flu – Science Daily

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Vision Might Have Kickstarted Evolution on Land – Popular Mechanics

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According to some scientists, it was vision, rather than mobility, that let fish evolve to land-dwelling creatures. A team of researchers examined old fossil data and are arguing that vision was the primary reason that fish made the jump to land hundreds of millions of years ago.

Researchers Malcolm A. MacIver of Northwestern University and Lars Schmitz of Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer colleges analyzed fossilized fish before and after they made the transition to land. They found that the size of eyes nearly tripled prior to moving onto land, suggesting that eyesight played a strong role in this stage of evolution.

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Their reasoning is that light can travel much further on land than in the water. Larger eyes would have been almost useless underwater, but the large increase in eye size suggests a significant evolutionary drive. MacIver and Schmitz account for this by suggesting that pre-terrestrial fish used their eyes to spot food on the shore.

Insects and other invertebrates made the jump to land around 50 million years before fish did, so for a prehistoric fish, the shores would have been teeming with food just out of reach. Over millions of years, many fish species evolved better eyes as well as limbs to reach more of it.

This increased vision may have also led to increased brain size. In the water, where vision is minimal, the majority of brainpower is devoted to quick reflexes. But on land, being able to see further lends itself well to planning and strategy, and could have fostered what is known as prospective cognition, the ability to consider multiple outcomes and plan for the future.

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