19.11.2010
Alaska military base searching for overdue F-22
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A search was under way Wednesday for an overdue Air Force F-22 fighter jet based at a military facility near Anchorage.
Corinna Jones, a spokeswoman at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, said the jet was on a training mission and lost contact with air traffic control at 7:40 p.m. Tuesday. The plane carries one pilot.
The aircraft is assigned to Elmendorf's 3rd Wing, Jones said. The Air Force has not released the pilot's name.
The twin-engine F-22 Raptor entered service in the mid-2000s and arrived at Elmendorf in August 2007. It's far more maneuverable and stealthy than earlier jets and can cruise at more than 1 1/2 times the speed of sound without using its afterburner. Its top speed is confidential.
Congress last year stopped production of the plane, built by Lockheed Martin Corp., by eliminating $1.75 billion that would have added seven F-22s to the Air Force's fleet.
An F-22 crashed in March 2009 near Edwards Air Force Base in California, killing the pilot.
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18.11.2010
#yn-ytech-gadget-banner img { display:block; } The Beatles on iTunes: a day “you’ll never forget”?
No question about it - snagging the rights torepresents a major coup for Apple, and surely must be a source of personal satisfaction for Steve Jobs, a well-known Beatles fan who's been dropping hints about the Fab Four coming to iTunes for years.
It's a big deal for the music industry as well. The Beatles were among the very last of the digital-music holdouts. A few major acts - like AC/DC, Garth Brooks and Bob Seger (go figure) - are still refusing to go the MP3 way, but the Fab Four was arguably the biggest digital-music domino yet to fall.
But for the rest of us? Frankly, I wasn't losing any sleep over the fact that the Beatles weren't on iTunes yet, and I'm guessing I wasn't alone.
After all, it's safe to say that most big Beatles fans long ago ripped their entire collections of the Fab Four's music to MP3 for use on their iPods, Zunes, or other digital music players.
And for die-hard Beatles fans looking for the best sound quality, it'll be hard to beat the remastered Beatles CDs and box sets that came out last September ^aEUR" all of which, by the way, are available online for less than the digital tunes (or, to be more precise, the 256 Kbps AAC files) on sale through iTunes. The remastered CD of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," for example, is on sale for $8 on Amazon, versus $13 on iTunes.
Now, if Apple had simply posted its "The Beatles, now on iTunes" banner on its home page Tuesday, with no prior warning, the Beatles-on-iTunes news probably wouldn't have been such a letdown.
Instead, Apple decided to , plastering a teaser on Apple.com Monday morning that read: "Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget," adding that we should "check back" Tuesday for "an exciting announcement from iTunes."
So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the tech press () and the Apple faithful jumped to some rather grand conclusions about what unforgettable thing might be on tap today.
Perhaps, we thought, the news would be something about all those rumors of a cloud-based iTunes - you know,for all your music (and maybe even videos), stored and streamed from .
Or, perhaps we'd be talking a music-subscription service, something along the lines of Rhapsody or Pandora. Besides, didn't Apple buy (and subsequently shutter) alate last year? And what about all that talk about Apple , another popular online music site?
Those would've been some pretty big developments for iTunes - granted, perhaps too big to be announced with just a single day's notice.
Still, Apple was promising something we'd "never forget," right?
But dreams of iTunes in the sky or a subscription-based music service began to fade as Monday wore on, withthat if Apple had indeed struck deals to stream tunes from the major music labels to iTunes users, his (well-placed) sources in the music industry certainly hadn't heard about it.
And the whole "Tomorrow is just another day" thing … isn't "Another Day" the title of a solo track from Paul McCartney? , and within hours, the .
While I'm probably not the only one who thinks that Apple way oversold its Beatles announcement Tuesday, there are still a few key benefits to finally having the Fab Four's albums available on iTunes.
1. For the first time ever (well, not counting old-school 45s, which came with "B" sides in any case), you can legitimately buy a single track of Beatles music. If, for example, you want to get "With a Little Help from My Friends" without having to pony up for the entire "Sgt. Pepper's" album, you're now free to do so, sacrilege or no.
2. A younger generation of music fans who've never even heard of (or don't really care about) John, Paul, George, and Ringo can now experience their tunes with a click of a button. (Assuming, of course, they haven't already done so through Pandora, which has been streami Beatles songs for some time now, or using the dark magic of BitTorrent.)
3. You will never, ever, have to read another story speculating about when the Beatles will arrive on iTunes. (And I'll never have to write another post about Beatles-on-iTunes rumors, either.)
So, on a scale from 1 to 10, how big is Apple's news about the Beatles arriving on iTunes? Will you buy any Beatles albums online, or will you stick with the CDs?
- Ben Patterson is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.
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17.11.2010
Wandering Worx Music Adds Grammy Nominated Planet Asia to its Growing hip-Hop Roster
announced today the addition of Grammy nominated hip-hop artistto its growing roster.His first single on the label, titled ‘Classical Music’, is scheduled for release this Friday, November 19th.
Vancouver, BC (Vocus) November 17, 2010
Canadian record labelannounced today the addition of Grammy nominated hip-hop artist Planet Asia to its growing roster.The announcement comes shortly before the release of his first single on the label – ‘Classical Music’, featuring Rass Kass, Torae and label-mate Jasiri X – scheduled to drop on Wandering Worx Bandcamp page this Friday, November 19th.
The California rapper’s first album on the Wandering Worx label, titled ‘Black Belt Theatre’, is set for release in early 2011 and will feature big names in hip hop like Talib Kweli, Raekwon of Wu-Tang, Paul Wall, and Evidence and DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples.
Planet Asia has already built a name for himself in hip-hop, proven by his Grammy nomination in 2002 for the hit single ‘W’.After releasing ‘How the West Was Won’ with Rasco under the group name Cali Agents, Planet Asia was named First Round Draft Pick by The Source, with the record receiving Independent Album of the Year accolades from the magazine.His solo debut ‘The Grand Opening’ released in 2004, garnered the same honor.
“We’re ecstatic to welcome such a hard working artist to the family,” says Rodney Davidson, Wandering Worx co-founder.“Planet Asia has been catching critical attention since the late ‘90s, and we’re confident he’ll continue to make waves with us and help make this label a hip hop force to reckon with.”
Based in Vancouver, BC, Wandering Worx Music launched in October 2010 as the official record label of Wandering Worx Entertainment.The label’s debut release, Rel!g!on’s ‘Revelationz 1’, has already garnered critical acclaim, with the record’s first single ‘Lucid’, featuring Moka Only and E.D.G.E, in rotation on Much Music.The label is also working closely with renowned Vancouver producer Chin Injeti, who has collaborated with Kanye West, Drake and 50 Cent, in addition to producing two tracks on Eminem’s Recovery.
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Tyson GrangerWandering Worx Entertainment Inc.604-721-0966Email Information
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