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THURSDAY-05/24/2007

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Internet Streaming Radio News
There's been a lot of discussion and angst concerning on line broadcasting and streaming costs/issues.

I ran across this news item:

SMALL WEBCASTERS GET A BREAK IN ROYALTIES: SoundExchange has offered a deal to small webcasters to lower the royalty rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board's decision in March. The offer would make the rates for streaming sound recordings roughly the same as those set by the Small Webcaster Settlement Act (SWSA), which expired in 2005. Today's offer is in response to a request from a House Judiciary Subcommittee for SoundExchange to initiate good faith private negotiations with small commercial and noncommercial webcasters with the shared goal of ensuring their continued operations and viability

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IT TAKES ALL KINDS

PREGNANT WOMEN RECORD:
Over 1,000 pregnant women in South Africa set a new world record Saturday for the largest gathering of women due to give birth. The event needed only 100 pregnant women to set the record, but attracted 1,146 which was verified by independent adjudicators to enter the Guinness Book of World Records

THE GOD’S ARE SWEATING:
Nepalese citizens are on a pilgrimage to see a sweating Idol-Hindu God. The sweating is supposedly a a sign of impending turmoil or natural disaster for the devoutly religious nation.

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MAMA’S MEAN
A nine year old German girl was mad at her mom because she had to clean up her room, so she brought in the authorities. She put up a sign in her window urging passers-by to call police for help. Pedestrians in the central city of Braunschweig saw the girl crying in the window, holding up a sign up saying "Help! Please call the police!" Next to her sat a small boy. Police showed up quickly. "The room looked like a battlefield," said a spokesman. "Officers told the girl to tidy her room. When they came back two hours later to check, it was all cleaned up.

PULL OVER BUDDY
Here’s a unique twist on the DUI stop. A wheelchair-bound German stunned police when they pulled him over for using the road and found he was 10 times over the legal alcohol limit for drivers. Because the man was technically traveling as a pedestrian, he could not be charged with a driving offense.

TIME FOR LIFTOFF
The male impotence drug Viagra may be useful for treating jet lag as well, according to Argentine researchers who gave it to hamsters made to feel like rodent globe-trotters.

Impossible Question?
Q: What do they place in urinals in Holland to help keep them clean?
A:  An etching of a housefly (men target the etching as they use the urinal, thus keeping the area outside the urinals cleaner)

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This Day in history: 5/24

1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written
1830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit
1964 18th Tony Awards: Luther & Hello Dolly win
1964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
1969 Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1974 Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington DC)
1980 "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56
1980 Iran rejects a call to the World Court to release US hostages
1985 "View to a Kill" premieres in US
1986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy Mahl
1989 "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres
1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4 million settlement
1994 Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash
1996 "Spy Hard" starring Leslie Nielsen is released
1997 Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Michigan

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ENTERTAINMENT:

AMERICAN IDOL Update:
17 year old Jordin Sparks is the new American Idol. She was voted past Blake Lewis in the season finale, that included performances by Gwen Stefani, Smokey Robinson, Carrie Underwood, Tony Bennett and part American Idol performers.
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DANCING WITH THE STARS:
Apolo Anton Ohno walked away with the trophy. Joey Fatone came in second.


BABY NEWS:
Demi Moore (42) says she may want another child
Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly expecting twins with a surrogate mother
Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) and wife Lirsten brith a daughter Evan Jane.
Keith Urban says he and Nicole Kidman may have a baby next year

ADDAMS FAMILY
Look for the musical to hit Broadway in 2009.

STONE PHILLIPS OUT
NBC  has opted not to renew the news guys contract with Dateline NBC. Money cutting move.

ANNE HECHE UGLY DIVORCE
She’s fighting bak to her soon to be exes assertions that she’s metanlly unstable and unfit as a mother. In court documents she called Coley Laffoon's allegations, "lies and distortions" in an effort to get more money out of her.

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