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Austin Commuter Rail To Transform The “Live Music Capital”-Those who have lived in Austin long enough have seen some amazing growth. Since 1980 the population of this ultra-cool Texas town has more than doubled. In 2006 the population stood at a respectable 709,000 (TWICE that for “Greater Austin”). Now, being Austin, this abundant growth happened with style and forethought.

The “Keep Austin Weird” slogan helped the city retain a diverse selection of small local shops and services, while minimizing the steam-roller effect of big box stores so often associated with development. Music, art, and culture all flourished, and while the world knows about the plethora of live music venues here, Austin is also home to numerous galleries, museums, theatres, and restaurants. Finally, while Austinites kept their city “weird”, they also kept it clean, and were recognized by MSN as having “The Greenest City in America”. However, one problem, faced by more and more Austin residents, is the traffic, especially in the Northwest corridor. But that too will be dealt with, in fact the solution is scheduled to start in late 2008.

The solution – or at least part of it – is Capital MetroRail, a new light rail service that will run, in the beginning, from Leander (26 miles northwest of Austin), through Cedar Park, McNeil and the community of Abercrombie, past the Highland Mall, across Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and terminating downtown at the Austin Convention Center. This section of Capital MetroRail will cover 32 miles – with approximately nine stations along the route – from the Austin’s northwesterly outskirts to the city center. The benefits of this sort of rapid transit system to a city like Austin are many, from reducing carbon emissions, to cutting down on commuter time, and even making a night out in the “live music capital’ that much more enjoyable. Of course, plans do not stop with just this one line.

For tax-payers, one of the best things about this deal is that, because Capital MetroRail will be using existing rail lines costs will be significantly lower than many other urban rail services. So, although city officials are quick to point out that future commuter rail lines will require a referendum, many Austin residents are hopeful that their neighborhood will be next. Future plans include an Eastern line heading out towards Elgin, and a line heading north through Pflugerville. In addition to the Capital MetroRail lines, Austinites will also be able to take advantage of a Regional Commuter rail service that will run from San Antonio through Austin, to Round Rock and beyond. What a great time to be living in Austin!

Your Choice of Music can Shape Your Beliefs-Music is very powerful. The kind of music you listen to says a lot about who you are. What music you choose to listen to today will help to determine what type of person you are tomorrow. Be careful about what type of music you choose to listen to. Music can either build you up or tear you down.

Garbage in, garbage out

In almost all categories of music, there are artists that deliver positive messages through their music and then there are artists that deliver destructive, hateful messages in their music. The kind of music you choose to listen to will help determine the level of success you achieve in life.

Think negative thoughts and you will attract negative into your life. Think about positive things and you will see the positive in your life. Opportunities come to the optimists in life. When you entertain negativity in your life, opportunities are often lost or ignored to your peril.

Use Positive Music to get what you want out of life

Actively choose music with a positive message to listen to. Making this conscious choice will lead to positive experiences in your daily life. Music has a powerful effect on our beliefs and our actions. Being proactive in choosing the music we listen to will lead to a happier and fulfilling life. If you aren’t happy with the current state of your life, a great place to start changing it for the better is to choose better music to listen to.

Not convinced that you should listen to positive music?

Consider that all action is preceded by a thought. It’s impossible to take an action without having some thought about the action before you do it. Where do your thoughts come from? They come from what you are listening to, what you are seeing and who you are hanging out with. These influences over time, are responsible for our beliefs and ultimately our actions.

How to make positive changes in your life

Choosing music with a positive message is a great way to start making positive changes in your life. Don’t like where your life is headed? Changing the music you’re listening to is an important first step towards creating a different, more positive life for yourself.

Live Concert Applications and Broadband Media Advances-Personal computers are becoming a necessity and an important fixture in more and more homes in the United States and across the globe. As home computer popularity grows, businesses and service providers are extending offers and wares through emails and online advertising. Gone are the days of junk mail, today, junk email and pop-ups are the norm. Along with advertising and sales, the Internet has opened doors for large multimedia events such as sports, concerts, and festivals, to be broadcast live into homes worldwide, reaching millions. New advances in broadband media abilities combined with advances in home computers are allowing interactivity and audience enjoyment and involvement in ways never before imagined by venue owners and concert promoters alike.

Live music shows are becoming more and more extravagant each year. Large fleets of commercial tractor-trailer trucks are now used to transport the millions of dollars of gear necessary to mount a show the size of an act such as the Rolling Stones or the like, and costs of putting on such shows, what with renting a venue, paying a crew, and renting equipment, are definitely on the rise. No matter how large a particular venue might be, there are only so many seats housed within, and only so many tickets available to be sold and bought by fans. What if there was a way to bring the show to fans, fans that would be willing to pay for tickets to view their favorite musicians from their homes?

Enter the world of live broadcasting and broadband media. New advances in broadband media are supplying solutions and new avenues to generate ticket sales and heighten audience experience. No longer do “superfans” of groups need journey thousands of miles to see their heroes prance about and play upon the stage. Broadcast media pioneers like Whiteblox can provide Internet viewers with the ability to not only hear their favorite music in pristine, high fidelity audio across bandwidth, they can provide viewers with high resolution visuals as well. With multi-camera ability, viewers are interactively able to pick the camera angle at will, zooming in on their favorite guitarist’s blistering solo, or perhaps checking out the beautiful girl in the front row.

The possibilities are endless and the forecasted sales are mind-boggling. Imagine what sort of numbers a reunion of an esteemed act like Led Zeppelin could generate if promoters would broadcast it on the Internet for eagerly awaiting fans? Would broadband be up to that sort of viewership challenge? Providers like Whiteblox would try their best to be up to that challenge.