European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 22, 1994 computers the stars and stripes Page 11 an off key computer concert Small audience for rolling stones on line music event by Richard Leib Washington Post experience live Rock a Roll at 120,000 bits per second Friday night for their millions of fans in cyberspace the rolling stones finally connected tothe Bone confused Don t adjust you terminal. You be just logged on to the latest in techno hype overkill. The rolling stones on Friday hoped to Send 20 minutes of video and Audi signals Over the internet from their concert at the Cotton bowl in Dallas. Promoters heralded this As a culture changing landmark. Except it was t a first and it was t revolutionary. The worldwide audience for the feat also was minuscule numbering in the thousands if not hundreds. Why because next to nobody haste right equipment and besides watching a concert on a computer i idiotic Given the current technological limits. It s As stupid As listening to a album Over the phone. Serious music lovers will find thievery unsatisfying said Peter Cottrell lab director for the computer science department at the University of Maryland one of the few places in the metro area that could receive the rolling stones  for Many viewers the video image for the show would be no larger than 2by3 inches with spotty sound at that it s mostly interesting Cottrell said because it is perhaps the firs event that brings the Power of the internet to the general  most people understand How the a rolling stones concert in person of but on a computer screen internet can be used to transmit word Sand Static images but video and sound Are a rarefied realm. The 20minutc stones clip if downloaded would hold enough digital data to fill More than 100 megabytes on a computer hard drive. -. \-. The show was aimed at the so called Early adapters those who understand the coming convergence of compute Sand television and have Access to the highest Speed internet connections. Another words mainly cutting Edge computer scientists and corporate officials hip to the ways of making Bucks off the information superhighway. For the rest of the world a quaint Cable to show would have to  night s free internet concert was designed to promote the $29.95 stones pay per View broadcast nov. 25. This is truly pushing the envelope of the internet it s highly complicated and experimental said Stephen Fitch a partner in thinking pictures the new York multimedia company that pitched the cube concert idea to the stones. Going through the trouble to receive the Multi cast will reveal the distance that we have to overcome to get to the superhighway we  trouble indeed. So please what exactly do i have to do to see this concert was one of the queries posted to the rolling stones site on the world wide web which is itself limited to those wire Heads with fast direct internet connections. Hooking into the fiber optic Multi cast Backbone Rombone to View the concert requires expensive High end hardware including a to connection that supplies the equivalent Speed of 24 Telephone lines. The connection alone can Cost More than $20,000 to install at a corporate site the Bone technology is not new Nasa has been using it to Multi cast audio and video of space launches for years. The first documented cube cast of live music Over the Bone occurred in june 1993, in Palo Alto calif., at a Xerox corporate function. The internet underground music Archive which promotes music of the net has also helped stage live concerts. Last week the Seattle based Neo psychedelic band sky cries Mary " performed in cyberspace beating the stones to the punch. But that was t enough to deflate the eternal bad boys claims to offering the first Ever live broadcast of a major Rock concert in cyberspace As the. Stones pres release put it. Although it s Good for More people to understand about the technology i think it s unfortunate that people Are getting the impression that the. Rolling stones arc the first to do this said John Luini 26, a founder of the internet underground music Archive and bassist with the band Deth Specula which performed on the net in August but the aging stones know exactly who their audience is College kids willing to go through whatever trouble s necessary to be the first to log on to this concert. According to one publicist for the event Sun Micro systems George Pavlini the target demographic for the viewing parties hyped on the stones web site was 18 to 34 years old 90 percent male not exactly Short on Cash. Its a marketer s dream when you come Down to  dozens injured by fire aboard Canadian train from the associated press Brighton Ontario a fire broke out on a express passenger train travelling from Toronto to Montreal on sunday injuring dozens of people. The via rail train carrying More than 400 people hit an unknown object and fire broke out in the engine and the first two coaches of the train said via rail spokeswoman Dianne Graham. Radio reporters at the scene said up to 60 people were taken to three area hospitals. Sue White a administrator at Trenton memorial Hospital said More than a dozen people were being treated there for cuts and bruises. Firefighters had trouble reaching the Accident because of marshy ground beside the  were 407 passengers and about 10 Crew members on the train. Flesh blood spill on Road Melbourne Australia firefighters wearing protective suits used tongs monday to pick up stray chunks of flesh from a 1,600foot Slick of blood an tissues that fell off a waste truck. Two 50gallon Drums marked infectious waste one of which was leaking were discovered on the freeway. As far As we were concerned it was Hospital waste fire inspector Wayne Garrard.  said the spillage which contained flesh and blood believed to be human was strewn along the emergency Lane. Traffic was rerouted for five hours disrupting the morning Rush hour. Mushroom death toll rises Istanbul Turkey five More people died Ata Hospital sunday after being poisoned from eating wild mushrooms increasing the death toll to 13 since Friday a television station  victims collected the mushrooms from Bushes near the Low income Umran Iye District reports said. Sex Safe chief Oaks hired by us air to oversee safety by the Washington Post retired air Force Gen. Robert c. Oaks the for Mer commander of the . Air forces in Europe has been appointed by us air group inc. To oversee the airline s flight and ground safety procedures it was announced sunday. Us air also ordered an Independent audit of it flight operations As part of an Effort to boost Public Confidence in the airline which has had five crashes since 1989. The most recent us air crash occurred near Pittsburgh on sept. 8, killing 132 people. The cause of the crash has not been determined. In july a us air jetliner crashed in Charlotte n.c., Kuhling 37of 57 people aboard Oaks 58, was named corporate vice president for safety and regulatory compliance with a charter to oversee All flight and ground safety operations of the airline based in Arlington a. Oaks who will join the airline dec. 1, will report directly to Usai chairman Seth Schofield. Us air the nation s sixth largest airline has had a decline in passenger bookings since september but predicted that business would return to Normal by january. Last week the new York times published a lengthy report documenting numerous problems atthe airline including reports that on several Occa Sions us air pilots took off without enough fuel aboard to reach their destinations. In announcing the Independent safety audit the airline said it had hired the consulting company pc aviation of Tucson ariz., to audit All of us air s flight operations and safety policies. The audit will be conducted Over the next month the airline said. The decision to hire Oaks and conduct an Independent audit was made last week after a meeting of us air s Board of directors. Oaks Oaks who retired ear Lier this year As Safe commander formerly headed the air training cd my of the air Force. His commands in Europe Are particularly appropriate in us air s Case because of where we Fly and the  which we often must Fly Scho Field said in a statement. Because of its Small size High population density and occasionally severe weather Europe is especially sensitive to Safe operation of High performance civil and military aircraft and Gen. Oaks has proven he understands and knows How to manage aviation safely in such an  Oaks appointment comes at a time when the air line which lost $180 million in the third Quarter is negotiating to win $500 million in wage and work rules concessions from its three major unions. The cuts Are part of an Overall plan to reduce Cost by $1 billion a year. Company negotiators Are working against a year end deadline to reach agreement with the air line pilots association. The two other unions the International association of machinists and the association of flight attendants have expressed a willingness to negotiate cuts but have put their negotiations on hold until an agreement is reached with the pilots