Did you know There's nothing healthier or better about organic food

Alex Avery, director of research and education for the Hudson Institute‘s Center for Global Food Issues and author of “The Truth About Organics,” said there are several misconceptions about organic food that make people believe it is healthier and better for the environment. ‘’It’s a total con,” said Avery, a plant scientist by training. "There is not a shred of science" to back up claims that organic is safer or more nutritious, he said. more

Did you know who's birthday is today, Oct 4?

Did you know what happened on this date in time?

2001 Barry Bonds hits his 70th home run of the season, tying the single-season record set by Mark McGuire in 1998.

1994 Grammy®-nominated country guitarist Danny Gatton dies at age 49.

1978 The Vatican holds funeral services for Pope John Paul I.

1976 Barbara Walters becomes the first woman to anchor a network TV newscast, teaming up with Harry Reasoner for the ABC Evening News.

1976 US Agriculture secretary Earl Butz resigns over controversy arising from a joke he made about African-Americans. Uncle Woody sez: With a name like his, I wouldn't go looking for trouble!

1970 Rock vocalist Janis Joplin dies from a drug overdose at age 27.

1963 Gambia, the smallest country in Africa, gains its independence from Great Britain.

1958 British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) begins the first scheduled passenger jet service between London and New York.

1957 Leave It to Beaver, starring Jerry Mathers, debuts on ABC-TV.

1957 Russia launches the world's first satellite into orbit. Sputnik I stayed aloft for nearly 3 months.

1933 The men's magazine Esquire debuts.

1905 US president Calvin Coolidge marries Grace Goodhue.

1895 The first US Open golf tournament is held (Newport Country Club - Newport, RI).

1777 Colonial troops suffer heavy casualties after attacking the British at Germantown, PA, during the American Revolution.

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Did you know who's birthday is today, Oct 3?

Did you know what happen on this day in history:

2004 Actress Janet Leigh> dies at her Beverly Hills, California, home at age 77.

2003 Magician Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is critically injured when a large white tiger mauls him during a performance in Las Vegas.

1999 Entrepreneur and Sony co-founder Akio Morita dies in Tokyo at age 78.

1998 Today co-host Matt Lauer marries model Annette Roque.

1995 The world learns that former football great O.J. Simpson has been acquitted of murder charges.

1990 Germany is reunified, with the removal of barriers between the communist East and democratic West sectors.


1968
The Beatles begin recording of Savoy Truffle, a song that will ultimately appear on the White Album, at Trident Studios in London.
(photo credit: Capitol Records)

1962 NASA astronaut Wally Schirra makes a successful 9-hour trip into Earth orbit aboard the Mercury space capsule Sigma Seven.
(photo credit: NASA)


1960 The Andy Griffith Show debuts on CBS-TV.

1955 The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC-TV.

1955 Not to be outdone by rival network ABC, CBS debuts their own children's TV show, Captain Kangaroo, starring Bob Keeshan.

1908 The Australian national flag is adopted.

1863 US president Abraham Lincoln declares the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.

1656 Massachusetts colonist Miles Standish dies.

Did you know that Apple Threatens to Shut Down iTunes

Musicians and their labels want Apple to increase the amount they make per digital music download. Apple says they would rather shut down iTunes music store. They are turning down a request for an increase of six more cents per song for music publishers and songwriters.
Apple has insisted on keeping the price at 99 cents per download arguing that any price increase above that will make them unprofitable. The Copyright Royalty Board is scheduled to decide on the proposal by a three-person board appointed by the Librarian of Congress by Thursday. Music publishers want their cut to go from 9 cents to 15 cents per song - a 66 percent increase.
Digital downloads have been at the same rate for 12 years and at the the same rate as the sale of physical albums. The board will also raise royalties on physical albums and ringtones, “for the next five years.” I don’t know if that means in five years they will raise the rates higher.
Wired quotes Apple’s iTunes vice president Eddy Cue as saying:
“Apple has repeatedly made it clear that it is in this business to make money, and most likely would not continue to operate [the iTunes music store] if it were no longer possible to do so profitably.” more

Did you know who's birthday is today, Oct 2

Did you know who was Born today:

1971 Tiffany - singer

1970 Kelly Ripa - talk show host, actress (Regis and Kelly)

1968 Kelly Willis - country singer

1967 Bud Gaugh - drummer (Sublime)

1955 Philip Oakey - singer (Human League)

1951 Sting - singer, bassist (The Police)

1950 Michael Rutherford - guitarist (Mike & The Mechanics, Genesis)

1949 Richard Hell - bassist (Television)

1948 Donna Karan - fashion designer

1945 Don McLean - singer

1940 Rex Reed - movie critic

1932 Maury Wills - baseball player

1929 Moses Gunn - actor

1928 Spanky McFarland - actor

1904 Graham Greene - author

1895 Bud Abbott - actor, comedian (Abbott and Costello)

1890 Groucho Marx - actor (The Marx Brothers), TV host

1869 Mahatma Gandhi - spiritual leader of India`

1452 Richard III - King of England


Did you know what happened on this day in time?


2001 The date 10-02-2001 is a palindrome. It reads the same forward as it does backward. The last time we had such a date was 08-31-1380!
Submitted by Dale Gombert, Seattle, Washington, USA.

1998 Cowboy actor and singer Gene Autry dies at age 91 at his Studio City, California, home.
Did you know? Autry founded the California Angels baseball team in 1951.

1995 O.J. Simpson is acquitted of murder charges (the verdict would not be read until the following day).

1985 Actor Rock Hudson dies of AIDS at his Beverly Hills home, at age 59.

1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American sworn in as a member of the US Supreme Court.

1959 Rod Serling's imaginative series, The Twilight Zone, debuts on CBS-TV.

1958 Guinea proclaimed its independence from France.

1955 The TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on CBS.

1950 The Charles Schulz comic strip, Peanuts, debuts.


1937
Future US president Ronald Reagan makes his acting debut in the Warner Bros. movie Love is in the Air.
(photo credit: NARA)



1919
US president Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
(photo credit: NARA)



1908 Cleveland pitcher Addie Joss pitches the fourth perfect game in baseball history (at that time).

1902 Women's suffragist Elizabeth Cody Stanton dies.

former teacher had sex with a 13-year-old student

OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) -- A former teacher who fled to Mexico with a 13-year-old student so she could have sex with him was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison.


Kelsey Peterson was sentenced to six years in federal prison for running off to Mexico with a student.

Kelsey Peterson, 26, had pleaded guilty in July to a charge of transporting a minor across state lines to have sex and avoided a similar charge that would have carried a mandatory 10-year minimum sentence.

She will be credited for nearly one year she has served and could get another year off for good behavior, said U.S. Attorney Joe Stecher.

The guilty plea doesn't mean Peterson is off the hook on state charges, which include kidnapping and first-degree sexual assault. more