JOURNEY: Performance Footage Of Five New Songs Available - Mar. 4, 2011

American rockers JOURNEY debuted five news songs from their forthcoming album, "Eclipse", on February 23, 2011 at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in las Vegas, Nevada. Fan-filmed video footage of the tracks "Edge Of The Moment", "Resonate", "Chain Of Love", "City Of Hope" and "Human Feel" can be viewed below.

"Eclipse" will be released on May 24. In North America, the album will be available exclusively at Walmart while Frontiers Records will release the CD in the rest of the world. The 12 tracks were written over the past 18 months by the core team of guitarist Neal Schon and keyboard player Jonathan Cain, with collaboration from singer Arnel Pineda.

In a recent interview with Boomerocity.com, Cain stated about "Eclipse", "It's very guitar-driven. This album has very little of me, keyboard-wise. Neal wanted to do a heavier rock album. So, this is kind of his baby. I wrote the lyrics on the thing and lots of the melodies that sit above the guitars. So, then I had to find some place to play in the nooks and crannies."

He continued, "It's a very hard-hitting record that has some conscience to it. It's about lots of things — spirituality, sexuality. There's a song called 'Tantra' on it about tantric circles. I was fascinated with all of that. It's definitely a departure from what we've done before. It's more like a concept record. I think Arnel shines. He sounds great. It's probably one of Neal's best guitar albums. I think he's on a mission on this album — to play, and he did."

New folk music series at Zenith Theatre opens with acclaimed Bushwackers

When:	6 Mar 11
Venue:	Zenith Theatre
Where:	Corner McIntosh and Railway Streets, Chatswood, NSW, 2067
Contact:	Willoughby City Council paunit@willoughby.nsw.gov.au 02 9777 7547
Web:	www.zeniththeatre.com.au

The Zenith Theatre’s brand new folk music series unEARTHED will showcase a fantastic array of headlining artists and emerging new talent performing traditional and enchanting tunes. Programmed regularly throughout the year, unEARTHED will feature the highly acclaimed Australian band, The Bushwackers, to launch the series on Sunday 6 March.
Celebrating an incredible 40th anniversary, The Bushwackers have become a solid foundation of the music industry with a massive fan base at home and overseas. Performing a wide range of songs adapted from the bush poetry of Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson, the band continue to deliver a highly spirited blend of rock and Australian folk music.
Fresh from playing sold out performances in Tamworth, The Bushwackers concert at unEARTHED will be an exclusive opportunity to experience one of Australia’s best-loved bands and truly connect with the songs and stories of our wonderful country.
“We’ll be performing in concert mode without drums, which leaves more room for the stories and songs to be heard,” said lead singer Dobe Newton. “I’ll still be using the lagerphone, the bodhran and the bones so it won’t be that quiet!” he added.
Always entertaining, exhilarating and inspiring, The Bushwackers take the audience on an impressive journey through Australian culture and history with great music and a big dose of good humour
Adult $26, Concession $24, Student Special $19, Child under 16 $5.50 (Additional fees may appl

Digital music services gain new crop of investors

ince it emerged in the 1990s, digital music has been hugely popular with fans, but for online music companies and their investors it has almost never been profitable.

And yet the money has again started pouring in.
Pandora, the popular Internet radio service, filed for an initial public offering in February that would raise $100 million. Spotify, a highly lauded European service, is reportedly raising $100 million from private equity firms to help it come to the U.S.
And those are just the big fish. Since the end of last year, at least $57 million in venture capital has gone to digital music startups, ending a recent financing drought and setting up an array of young companies like Rdio, SoundCloud and RootMusic in an already-crowded marketplace. The heightened interest in a field that has had few winners and a vast graveyard of losers has left some longtime executives and analysts scratching their heads. Faced with thin margins, persistent piracy and expensive licensing deals from record companies, dozens of digital music startups have collapsed over the past decade, taking with them hundreds of millions of dollars in investment money. Even Apple, the largest music retailer, has long maintained that it makes little profit from its iTunes store, which has sold more than 10 billion songs since 2003.
"A number of the investors have not invested in digital music before," said David Pakman, a venture capitalist who is the former

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chief executive of the download service eMusic. "Usually the ones who have, have learned over the decade that it's an impossibly hard place to make money." Even more challenging for startups, two very big players are expected to introduce cloud-type music services this year: Apple and Google.
But more bullish investors point to technological developments and shifts in consumer behavior as signs that the business is about to turn a corner. These changes include the migration of digital media libraries from personal computers to the remote storage of the "cloud," as well as the explosive success of smart phone applications. Pandora's apps, for example, have been the biggest factor in driving that service to 80 million registered users, up from 46 million a year ago. (A basic, ad-supported service is free; the upgraded version, with no ads and higher-quality audio, is $36 a year.)
"Services like iTunes, Pandora and Spotify have shown that with the right product and the right business model, you can effectively monetize digital music, which is kind of new," said Doug Barry of Selby Ventures, an early Pandora investor. "The last time around it was mostly about file-sharing and limited monetization."
What most new services do not have yet, however, is a critical mass of paying users, usually defined in the millions. Investors look to the 20 million subscribers at both Netflix and Sirius XM Radio as signs that consumers are willing to pay for streaming content.
Yet those kinds of numbers have remained elusive throughout the history of digital music. Rhapsody, a streaming service begun in 2001, has 750,000 subscribers; eMusic, which sells downloads, has 400,000. Spotify, which has free and paid versions, has 10 million users in Europe, but only 750,000 of them pay (the rate is about $15 a month), a ratio that concerns the record labels.

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Stunning New Dark Souls Screenshots Emerges, “Beacon Fire” Detailed

As we patiently wait for Dark Souls to arrive in North America, Namco Bandai and From Software released new screenshots today that shows off some of the bosses we can expect.
The “Beacon Fire” screenshot in the gallery is a new addition to the series as it serves as a safe haven for players. Players can heal, restart checkpoint and share their journeys with other players through the shadow figures.
Dark Souls is scheduled for release this 2011 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Civic body buys new software for employee records

LUDHIANA: Authorities of the city's Municipal Corporation are all set to upload the records of its more-than-6,000 employees on an internet-based site through a special software to bring transparency in the corporation's functioning. Presently the authorities are finding it difficult to get information about any employee as the records are not maintained properly.
The MC has bought a special software which will also help in keeping a check over the movements of the employees. According to the officers there is such lack of transparency in the department that when they issue chargesheets to employees the papers disappear in between and despite several attempts the documents remain untraceable.

Installation of New Control Software at Portland Cement Plant in Germany

The results are improved cement quality and increased mill throughput. The software Sicement IT MCO has been installed for its first operation in one of the mills of a portland cement plant in the Bavarian city of Rohrdorf in south Germany. In the future, it will also control the remaining three mills.

The software Sicement IT MCO has been installed for its first operation in one of the mills of a portland cement plant in the Bavarian city of Rohrdorf in south Germany.

Cement production is one of the most energy intensive production processes. It involves roasting the raw materials and additives to form a clinker, which is then ground into powder in a cement mill. This process requires almost 45 percent of the plant’s total power requirement. The quality of the cement depends on the ground material being as fine and as even as possible. As part of the quality control process, samples are normally taken at regular intervals and analyzed in the laboratory. The operating parameters, i.e. the quantity of fresh material fed in and the sifter rotation speed, are continually controlled in line with the fineness of the grinding stock and the throughput of the returns.
Sicement IT MCO continually controls both the product quality and the fineness of the cement produced. The expert system consists of a neural soft sensor incorporating components of the APC (Advanced Process Control) library from the Simatic PCS 7 and a multivariable controller (model predictive controller) integrated in PCS 7. The soft sensor is a software-based virtual sensor that collates multiple independent measured values and generates new values. It continually acquires current plant data such as the quantity of fresh material or the sifter rotation speed and utilizes this information to reliably predict the fineness of the ground cement. This prediction is regularly compared with current laboratory samples. Sicement IT MCO is replacing the old control system of a ball mill with a capacity of 60 tons per hour at the cement plant in Rohrdorf.
A similar expert system for the processing of copper ores has been developed by Siemens Industry in conjunction with the researchers at Corporate Technology. The system, which has been conceived as an extension of the gearless drive solution Simine Mill GD, also combines a knowledge-based approach with a predictive rule-based system—in this case to optimize water-based grinding processes.