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

A teacher is out of a job after ...

KISSIMMEE, Florida - An Osceola County teacher is out of a job after parents started complaining. They said she asked third grade students to give her massages. One mother told Eyewitness News the touching going in the Kissimmee Charter Academy classroom was highly inappropriate. In Donna Coulter's third grade class, each student had a job. It could be cleaning the room, organizing books or taking out the trash, but one task really upset parents. "One of the jobs she was giving was to give her massages," said parent Stacey Vazquez.more

Did you know that Florida state attorney is investigating...

A Florida state attorney is investigating thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registrations associated with the leading organizer of Florida's Amendment 5 ballot initiative. But this is just the tip of an iceberg of illegalities, fraud and contradictions connected to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) ... Former ACORN Miami-Dade field director Mac Stuart has declared an intent to sue ACORN and has made charges of rampant voter fraud operations. Stuart was employed and specifically tasked by ACORN to generate 103,000 new voter registrations from Dade County. He reports that ACORN threw out Republican registrations while paying for Democratic ones. Stuart also charges that ACORN targeted ex-cons and that he personally set up registration tables outside the Miami police department and Dade County jail.

Did you know that 28% Doctors not washing after seeing patients?

Canada - Just 28 per cent of doctors at 10 hospitals washed their hands between patients, Ontario's auditor general says in a special report into deadly outbreaks of hospital superbugs like C. difficile. And that was an improvement from a starting rate of 18 per cent because it came at the end of a recent pilot project to encourage handwashing in efforts to cut infection and death rates. "The doctors were the lowest," Auditor General James McCarter said yesterday, noting the handwashing rate for nurses rose to 60 per cent from 44. more

Did you know who's birthday is today

Look who was Born today:

1974 Keith Duffy - singer (Boyzone)
1968 Kevin Griffin - singer (Better Than Ezra)
1950 Randy Quaid - actor
1947 Stephen Collins - actor
1945 Donny Hathaway - singer
1945 Rod Carew - baseball player
1944 Scott McKenzie - singer
1943 Herb Fame - singer (Peaches & Herb)
1936 Stella Stevens - actress
1935 Julie Andrews - actress, singer (Oscar® winner, 1964)
1933 Richard Harris - actor
1932 Albert Collins - blues guitarist
1928 George Peppard - actor
1927 Tom Bosley - actor
1926 Roger Williams - pianist
1924 William Rehnquist - US Supreme Court Chief Justice
1924 Jimmy Carter - 39th US president (1977-81)
1921 James Whitmore - actor
1920 Walter Matthau - actor (Oscar® winner, 1966)
1904 Vladimir Horowitz - pianist
1881 William Boeing - airplane manufacturer

On this day in time these were the headlines:


2004Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki sets a new major league baseball hitting record of 259 hits in a single season. Suzuki tied, then broke, the 84-year-old former record of 257 hits during the game against the Texas Rangers at Safeco Field in Seattle.

2004The full-length animated feature Shark Tale opens in theaters.

2003The National Do-Not-Call list goes into effect, despite a US Circuit Court ruling that the FTC had no authority to manage the program.

2002Billionaire TV Guide publisher Walter Annenberg dies at age 94 in Philadelphia.

1971The Walt Disney World resort opens in Orlando, Florida.

1962Johnny Carson takes over as host of The Tonight Show on NBC-TV.

1961New York Yankees slugger Roger Maris hits his 61st home run of the season, setting a major league baseball record.

1952This is Your Life, hosted by Ralph Edwards, debuts on NBC-TV.

1949Mao Tse-Tung proclaims his country the People's Republic of China.

1908Automaker Henry Ford debuts his Model T automobile to the buying public. 1903Boston hosts the first World Series baseball game.

1890Yosemite National Park is established.

1880Composer John Philip Sousa is named director of the US Marine Corps Band.

1800 A secret treaty with Spain gives Louisiana to France.