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That's a nice little plug at the end of it though, even if you didn't have any input. Posts: 202 | From: Rosemount, MN 55068 | Registered: Feb 2001
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S.Korean woman sings 60 hours for love and hope Thu Feb 15, 2:16 AM ET
A South Korean woman belted out nearly 1,000 songs at a karaoke bar in just under 60 hours to claim a world record before dropping to the floor on Valentine's Day.
Kim Seok-ok, 52, said she performed her feat to cheer up her ailing husband and bring hope to others living with sick family members.
Kim picked up the microphone at a karaoke bar on Monday and -- except for a five-minute break every hour -- did not stop for 59 hours and 48 minutes, 36 minutes beyond the previous record held by a German.
"Life may be painful, but face the challenge," Kim said later. "I want people to live with hope like me."
"I wanted to send the message, for those who are living with patients in the family, that if you live cheerfully without being discouraged, it will give them immense strength."
Kim accomplished the feat standing up despite rules that allowed her to sit and sing, saying it would not be the mark of a true singer.
Her 45-year-old husband is fighting a brain tumour.
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I wonder if she sang through the bar's entire catalog or just sang the same song over and over again?
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By STEVE VISSER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 03/06/07
Lilburn has never wanted to be seen as River City, or as a haven for "American Idol" wannabes.
Earlier, the city outlawed pool — the game that spelled trouble in the musical "The Music Man" — in its watering holes. Now it's also barring karaoke and just about any other party game from places that serve alcohol.
Dave Metcalf, a patron of the Sports Fan Bar & Grill, wonders if the Gwinnett city is banning good times.
"Personally, I'd like to see karaoke end in the bars I attend," joked Metcalf, who said he flees aspiring karaoke stars. "But why would they ban karaoke? ... More fun than the law allows?"
Karaoke can bring more than bad voices, Lilburn Mayor Jack Bolton said. It can bring bars.
"Our intention was always to just have alcohol in restaurants," Bolton said. "We don't want to have dance clubs, party clubs or bars. If it means being made fun of because we don't allow karaoke, that's fine, too."
Lilburn permits liquor licenses only for establishments in which 50 percent of sales comes from food. Bolton suspects the Sports Fan might not meet that standard, but proving that would be difficult. It is much easier to ban activities common to bars: card games, pool, video games, trivia nights and, yes, karaoke.
Last year, the Sports Fan beat back city attempts to close down its Texas hold 'em poker nights. Then police Chief Ron Houck claimed the games were gambling, which put the tavern at risk of losing its liquor license. The state attorney general's office disagreed, saying players played for prizes without risking their own money. The city then dropped the gambling citation it had issued against a Sports Fan manager.
In February, the new police chief visited the Sports Fan and similar establishments and said the liquor law had been tightened up to allow only "passive entertainment," such as television, said Mike Puglise, one of the lawyers representing the Sports Fan.
That means Sports Fan owner Richard Tao will not be able to offer poker, trivia contests or karaoke nights — the backbone of his business.
"Evidently they don't even want to encourage singing and laughter," Puglise said of Lilburn officials. "They want their citizens to be somber when they eat their meals."
Lilburn wants to promote family-friendly happiness, Bolton said.
"I like to sit down and have a beer as much as anybody else," the mayor said. "But we can show studies that show that bars and honky-tonks lead to more crime." Metcalf noted that the Sports Fan is not in a family neighborhood. It sits off U.S. 29 near Beaver Ruin Road, a section that has its share of pawn shops, liquor stores and taverns. And he said karaoke singers typically are not dangerous and take their avocation seriously.
"Most of the people who come in and sing don't drink — somebody has told them they're good," Metcalf said. "If people want to come in and play a little pool or sing a little, let them. For us hard-working Joes, it's fun."
Joe Chao, owner of the Oyster Barn Grill & Bar, said he has gotten the message from the city. He is pulling his pool tables and video games. He said, however, that state-operated lottery games still will be permitted.
"I'm trying to be more like a family business," he said before adding, with a smile, "We're going to start keno next month."
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The legal battle hasn't been won or lost yet, but the fight over copyright payments for music broadcast over the Internet already has moved to Capitol Hill.
Reps. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., and Donald Manzullo, R-Ill., on Thursday introduced the Internet Radio Equality Act. The legislation is designed to undo a ruling by a panel of copyright judges that would require Internet broadcasters to pay an increased royalty for the music they transmit.
The legislation would annul the March 2 decision by the Copyright Royalty Board that would require webcasters to pay a per-song royalty, arbitrarily setting the rate at 7.5% of revenue and changing the rate-setting standard used by the CRB to determine Internet radio royalties. In effect, the bill would drive down copyright payments for musicians and other copyright holders.
On April 19, the CRB refused a request by webcasters to reconsider the ruling because the offended parties added nothing new to their arguments and that the judges made no error in their decision.
The bill swats away the olive branch that SoundExchange -- the first performing rights organization collecting royalties for digital audio transmissions -- held out to webcasters this month when the organization said that it was willing to cut a deal for a lower rate. Jonathan Potter, executive director of DiMA -- the trade association representing webcasters -- called the bill "Internet radio's last best hope."
"The Internet Radio Equality Act sets a new standard for setting royalty rates that will level the playing field for Internet radio, avoid unfair bankruptcies that eliminate royalties currently being paid to recording artists and record companies and removes the unfair advantage enjoyed by our competitors in the satellite radio community," Potter said.
The parties can still appeal the ruling to the federal courts and ask for an injunction that could keep the new rate from going into effect May 15, but a decision on the legal strategy has yet to be made, sources said.
While DiMA contends that the new rate will cause the most damage to small operators, SoundExchange contends that is a red herring. The real beneficiaries of a lower rate are radio giants like Clear Channel and computer giants like Microsoft.
SoundExchange contends that it also would result in a windfall of more than $50 million to such mega-corporate webcasters as Clear Channel and Microsoft at the expense of recording artists across the country. SoundExchange executive director John Simson argues that the bill is particularly pernicious because it is retroactive. Artists would have to write checks to cover refunds to corporations whose CEOs and top executives are paid millions of dollars per year, he said.
"The idea that this bill would help small webcasters or artists is ludicrous since less than 2% of all royalty payments in 2006 came from small webcasters," Simson said. "The true beneficiaries are the mega-multiplex services like AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Clear Channel, which will benefit from rates substantially lower than those set by the Librarian of Congress in 2002."
According to the March 2 ruling, Web broadcasters must pay each time a listener hears a song, at a rate that began at 0.08 cents in 2006 and rises to 0.19 cents in 2010. Besides increasing the charge for each song, the ruling established a $500 minimum payment for each Web channel.
Internet radio royalties have become a thorny issue in part because conventional over-the-air stations pay nothing to use recordings. Both online and regular stations pay royalties to songwriters, but under a 1995 law, companies transmitting music using the Internet, cable or satellite must pay both the songwriter and for the performance. The money is split between the owner of the recording, usually the label, and the performers.
Until the end of 2005, Internet stations could pay royalties based on either the number of songs they played or the number of hours listeners tuned in, and small companies had the option of giving SoundExchange about 12% of their revenue. That changed with the CRB's ruling.
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DENVER (Billboard) - A new music lyrics service launched by Yahoo illustrates the potential and the challenges of integrating lyrics into digital music products today.
While the demand for searchable music lyrics has always been high, the process of licensing these lyrics from the complicated maze of music publishers and songwriters has limited such sites to unauthorized, and often inaccurate, rogue sites.
Yahoo's partner, Gracenote, began the task of navigating the process in summer 2006, and has succeeded in striking licensing and payment agreements with such publishers as BMG Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and various other entities representing more than 10,000 rights organizations. Gracenote will receive a share of the advertising revenue gained from the lyrics service and pay rights holders directly.
The service at launch supports 400,000 songs. Gracenote says it will add to the database on a regular basis as it clears additional rights.
Yet at Yahoo and elsewhere, lyrics remain a notable omission from digital music files either purchased or acquired through subscription models. Not only do consumers not receive song lyrics with their download, they can't search for songs by lyrics within Yahoo Music Unlimited or any other digital music service including iTunes.
The cost of including the lyrics to these files -- primarily the result of the licensing fee -- would either force digital retailers to increase the cost of their service or accept less of an already-thin margin.
But Yahoo and Gracenote say these issues will be resolved over time once publishers begin realizing the added revenue that lyrics bring them. Gracenote CEO Craig Palmer estimates that lyric license fees could result in as much as $100 million in annual revenue within 10 years.
Two members of Evanescence have exited the band, leading to speculation about the future of the group.
According to guitarist John LeCompt, he was fired from the band. He also said drummer Rocky Gray had quit.
LeCompt said: "I'm done and I'm pretty upset about it. [Singer] Amy [Lee] called and fired me today. There's absolutely no loyalty in this band."
The guitarist said he was putting all his energy in his new band with Gray called Machina.
A posting on his blog he wrote: "Around 3:30 pm yesterday I recieved a call on my cell from Amy. This call wasn't from a friend who appreciated me but from an enemy who was prepared to hurt me and my family. Without any warning or negotiotiations for my future, I was fired for no good reason. We have not always seen eye to eye on everything, but who does?
"Our common goal was always the same. To make Evanescence the best rock band it could ever be. I have always given blood, sweat and tears to make that happen but apparently that is not enough. I have now become just another of the people fallen by the wayside on the revolving door of her life. It's funny how many of us there are now. I guess it's good for lyrical content, though. Maybe I will be among the blessed to have a song written about me, too. Maybe the song will be 'Call Me When You're Broke.'"
In 2003 guitarist Ben Moody left, and in July 2006 bassist Will Boyd left the group, reports L.A.'s Daily News.
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- Bo Diddley is in intensive care after suffering a stroke in western Iowa, a publicist said Wednesday.
The 78-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was listed in guarded condition at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Neb.,
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Woman: Toy Tells Boy To 'Beat Up Elmo' Manufacturer Says Lyrics May Be Distorted
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- A Florida woman is angry over an Elmo toy she bought her nephew that apparently tells him to "beat up Elmo." The toy also goes on to say "rip your fur out."
Deja Barbosa said she bought the toy in Fort Myers, Fla. The family was surprised by the lyrics.
"I played it again and I just, I really just couldn't believe I was hearing that on an 18-month-old's toy," Barbosa said.
The toy is supposed to sing "Be like Elmo and shout, shake your fur out and shout."
According to manufacturer Fisher Price, the lyrics may have become distorted after the toy was used.
The company asked for the toy back, but the family decided to keep it.
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N. Korea bans karaoke bars, Internet cafes (Reuters)
11 July 2007
SEOUL - North Korea’s security agency has ordered the shutdown of karaoke bars and Internet cafes, saying they are a threat to society, a South Korean newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Refugees from the reclusive state say such outlets are largely located in the northern region that borders China and are frequented by merchants involved in cross-border business rather than ordinary citizens.
The North’s Ministry of People’s Security said in a directive that all karaoke bars, video-screening rooms and Internet cafes operating without state authorisation must shut immediately, the Dong-A Ilbo newspaper said.
The paper did not say how it obtained a copy of the directive.
“It is so promulgated under the mandate of the Republic in order to crush enemy scheming and to squarely confront those who threaten the maintenance of the socialist system,” the daily quoted the ministry directive as saying.
“Most of the people who would go to these places are people who made quite a bit of money, normally not officials or the average person,” said Park Sang-hak, an activist for human rights in the North based in South Korea.
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This would happen in America ONLY if Don Henley were elected President.
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School custodian's rendition of 'Welcome to the Jungle' prompts police call
updated 10:35 a.m. ET, Fri., Dec. 14, 2007
ROXBURY, Conn. - Karaoke can be scary, but threatening? A school custodian's impromptu after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker.
State police say the teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a Guns N' Roses song over the public address system for a threat.
She was working after hours and thought no one else was in the building. Then she heard someone say over the loudspeaker that she was going to die.
Six troopers and three police dogs showed up and found three teenagers, one of them a custodian at the school, who had been playing with the public address system.
Police say one of them sang "Welcome to the Jungle" into the microphone. The song contains the lyrics "You're in the jungle baby; you're gonna die."
The teenagers were cuffed for about 15 minutes while police investigated. They didn't realize anyone else was in the school at the time. No charges will be filed, said state police Sgt. Brian Ness.
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After that scare, maybe the teacher will think twice before keeping a kid after school. Posts: 902 | From: Joliet,IL.USA | Registered: Oct 2001
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And now for the debate - especially from those who believe that the bars are full of adults -
Proposal would ban swearing in bars St. Louis-area town considers proposal that would ban swearing in bars The Associated Press updated 1:19 p.m. PT, Tues., Jan. 8, 2008 ST. CHARLES, Mo. - What the ...? A St. Louis-area town is considering a bill that would ban swearing in bars, along with table-dancing, drinking contests and profane music.
City officials contend the bill is needed to keep rowdy crowds under control because the historic downtown area gets a little too lively on some nights.
City Councilman Richard Veit said he was prompted to propose the bill after complaints about bad bar behavior. He says it will give police some rules to enforce when things get too rowdy.
But some bar owners worry the bill is too vague and restrictive, saying it may be a violation of their civil rights.
Marc Rousseau, who owns the bar R.T. Weilers, said he thinks the bill needs revision.
"We're dealing with adults here once again and I don't think it's the city's job or the government's job to determine what we can and cannot play in our restaurant," Rousseau said.
The proposal would ban indecent, profane or obscene language, songs, entertainment and literature at bars.
A meeting to discuss the proposal is set for Jan. 14.
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We'd fit right in, our club banned any profane language over the mic years ago & dropped 99% of the rowdy crowd since - we'd have a fight almost every night & what were the singing? Anything with the F bomb, we dropped anything with language content, lost the vast majority of that crowd & gained a better class of singer/spenders. Seems the more lax places get more possibility for fights &/o0r worse.
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You're missing the big point, Lonnie - it's not about karaoke and profanity on the mic, the proposed bill is about profanity period in any public establishment. As well as legislating the music people will listen to in public places.
Sounds like a conservative legislator running for re-election and wooing the evangelical vote.
I wish they would get on the fans at baseball, football, basketball,etc. Since my kids aren't in bars, I don't have to worry about that. But I've NEVER taken them to a sporting event without some alcohol fueled fools cutting loose with 12-letter bombs. They don't appreciate it when asked if they speak to their mothers' with those mouths. (Unfortunately, that usually only escalates the problem.)
BTW: I believe in most towns/counties/states, you can get arrested for using profanity in any confrontation with the police.
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BC I know what you mean when adults use foul language around kids and when you ask them if they speak to their mothers with those mouths, you sometimes get, "Yes, and I kiss her with them too."
As for using profanity with the police, not sure if you can get arrested for that, but you are asking for trouble and/or getting arrested on whatever they can find.
Another small point, it states in bars. Is this the same as smoking? So if you want to swear, do you have to step outside to do it? And will you offend the smokers...
...Or it could work out if you like to smoke and swear.
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its ll BS to me!!! the government has better things to worry about than people smoking in bars or even how to talk in bars.
Love live freedom of speech or choice
America no longer the land of the free!
I still think it should be up to the Bar owners on what kind of place they wanna run wether its smoking or non or even what kind of music or language people can talk in a bar.
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quote:Originally posted by Showtimecalls: its ll BS to me!!! the government has better things to worry about than people smoking in bars or even how to talk in bars.
Love live freedom of speech or choice
America no longer the land of the free!
I still think it should be up to the Bar owners on what kind of place they wanna run wether its smoking or non or even what kind of music or language people can talk in a bar.
Which brings up another thing - what about people who curse in a foreign language? How can one tell?
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I say temporaty fix cause back in 2001 we were all mailed these checks, now its repeating itself again.
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quote:Originally posted by DavidE: And now for the debate - especially from those who believe that the bars are full of adults -
Proposal would ban swearing in bars St. Louis-area town considers proposal that would ban swearing in bars The Associated Press updated 1:19 p.m. PT, Tues., Jan. 8, 2008 ST. CHARLES, Mo. - What the ...? A St. Louis-area town is considering a bill that would ban swearing in bars, along with table-dancing, drinking contests and profane music.
City officials contend the bill is needed to keep rowdy crowds under control because the historic downtown area gets a little too lively on some nights.
City Councilman Richard Veit said he was prompted to propose the bill after complaints about bad bar behavior. He says it will give police some rules to enforce when things get too rowdy.
But some bar owners worry the bill is too vague and restrictive, saying it may be a violation of their civil rights.
Marc Rousseau, who owns the bar R.T. Weilers, said he thinks the bill needs revision.
"We're dealing with adults here once again and I don't think it's the city's job or the government's job to determine what we can and cannot play in our restaurant," Rousseau said.
The proposal would ban indecent, profane or obscene language, songs, entertainment and literature at bars.
A meeting to discuss the proposal is set for Jan. 14.
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If such a law were to pass, I'd lose all faith in the Land of the Free..., Free to do what? These right wing extremists need to get a smack across the face. What's next, jailed because you carry your wallet in the wrong pocket? The smoking ban just hit Illinois, although it is better for your health, I noticed 95% of the customers were smokers in the bar we work at, and the 5% that did not smoke were complaining that the bar was cold from everyone going outside to smoke, they just gotta bi*ch about something, anything, everything
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Mister Wonderful, it's not the right wing extremists, it's the left wing, tree hugging, we know what's best for everyone LEFT WINGERS. The left wing is much more dictatorial than the right will ever be.
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I had the same conclusion as Matt as I seen all the people on our local news channel enforcing this smoking ban I've never once seen these people in the bar and many bar owners said the same thing. They are just people that need something to do. I know smoking isn't healthy but people are aware of it when they walk in the bar and if they don't like it they should stay out. Simple as that.
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Obviously, you can make the opposite argument and be just as 'right' and pigheaded with that viewpoint.
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Pig headed or not, I still feel that the person who pays the mortgage, rent or lease should be making that decision.
I also feel that there should be an alternative solutuion non smoking bars/smoking bars-where we have a choice. Not where the choice has been made for us.
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I agree with you Stacy, although I personally have WAY benifited from this law. I have many friends that smoke. I do not and now I can sing all night and not come home smelling like cigs. I like it. Even though, I agree with the freedom issue you bring up.
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I by no mesns view myself as left wing, but I support the smoking bans both for selfish reason (I don't like the smoke on my clothes) and health issues. I believe that second hand smoke is a health issue, both for the patrons and the people working at the bars. I'm not adverse to a separate sealed smoking room where the music can be piped in and people can bring in drinks but without waitresses and bartenders. I also do not oppose smoking in open public places, nor do I support the St. Charles bill or Boston's restrictions on happy hour drink discounts. I am also generally pro-free speach but believe there can be reasonable restictions on conduct.
By contrast to the above, I support the right of karaoke hosts to run their shows as they feel they need to in order to be profitable. I simply reserve my right as a consumer not to go shows that operate in ways I dislike.
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Muse shares story behind ‘Hey There Delilah’ Woman who inspired hit song clears up truth about Plain White T’s tune By Mike Celizic TODAYShow.com contributor updated 7:02 a.m. PT, Wed., Jan. 23, 2008 As a nationally ranked runner and an Olympic hopeful, Delilah DiCrescenzo is used to being chased — but by other athletes, not by pop singers from Chicago. But, she said on Wednesday, she doesn’t mind the attention the chase has brought her.
“What I really hope through all of this is that it spotlights track and field, and it gives the sport a face, which is really important to us athletes in an Olympic year,” the woman who inspired Song of the Year nominee “Hey There Delilah” told TODAY co-hosts Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer on Wednesday.
It’s been a long chase both for her and for Tom Higgenson, lead singer for the Plain White T’s, who wrote the song five years ago after being introduced to DiCrescenzo by a friend. Higgenson was smitten and even though she had a boyfriend, he told her he was going to write a song about her.
“I thought he was just being flirtatious and leading me along,” the 24-year-old athlete told Lauer and Vieira. “I had a boyfriend at the time, so I really didn’t believe him.”
Higgenson and his band played the song for years at club dates and concerts, and it became a favorite with their fans. But it wasn’t until last summer that it broke out into the mainstream and began climbing the charts until it was the nation’s top single. That was when Higgenson performed the song on TODAY and told Ann Curry the story of unrequited love that had inspired it.
DiCrescenzo, meanwhile, remained all but anonymous. A graduate of Columbia University, she had returned to her native Chicago to work. A good but not great runner in high school and college, she gave the 3,000-meter steeplechase a try in 2006 and found that she was good enough in the grueling race to think about trying to make the Olympic team this year. To pursue that dream, she moved to Conshohocken, Pa., where she trains full-time while working as an assistant track and cross-country coach at Bryn Mawr.
She kept casually in touch with Higgenson, mostly through e-mails and instant messages. When the song was nominated for a Grammy as Song of the Year, he called and invited her to come to the Feb. 11 ceremony with him. With her boyfriend’s blessing, she accepted and found herself in the spotlight.
She said it’s something of a relief to go public with her identity and to clear up any confusion about her role in a love song whose lyrics seem unequivocal:
Hey there Delilah, I’ve got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away, I’d write it all
Even more in love with me you’d fall, we’d have it all.
“I knew it was fictionalized, and I’m glad that I finally get the opportunity to say I do have a boyfriend and it is romanticized,” she said. “The song means so much to so many different people. I’m just happy that it’s had so much success, and I don’t mind playing along with it.”
Her boyfriend, who did have bouts of jealousy when the song came out, is also relieved. “He’s a lot happier now that I get a chance to clear up the confusion,” she said. “He’s been a good sport through the whole thing.”
She hasn’t gotten a dress for the occasion yet. “I’ve been concentrating on my training for the Olympics,” she admitted. Her event, the steeplechase, is contested over hurdles and a water hazard. For the first time at this year’s Olympics, it will be run by women as well as by men, and DiCrescenzo will compete in the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in June. The top three finishers at the trials will go to Beijing in August.
Asked by Lauer which would be more exciting, seeing Higgenson win the Grammy or making the Olympic team, DiCrescenzo chose to be diplomatic.
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This is not music related but I am so appalled by this. I just had to put it on here. I don't know what kind of low-life scum would sit and watch and do NOTHING while somebody is getting the sh*t kicked out of them but then you have even lower life scum videotaping it. I certainly hope the judge gives them all life to send the right kind of message out to the rest of the world. If I was the judge they wouldn't of had the chance to get out on bond. Don't ya love how sorry everybody is after they get caught. I especially love the part where the mom's say the girls is a good girl. Ya the whole F'N world seen how good your girl was. Didn't we?
8 Fla. Teens Busted For Taped Beating CBS News Interactive: Children In Danger LAKELAND, Fla. (CBS) ― Eight teenagers have been arrested after filming the beating of another teen and threatening to post the video on the Internet, sheriff's officials said.
Victoria Lindsay was attacked on March 30 by six teenage girls when she arrived at a friend's home, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.
Two girls confronted Lindsay when she walked in, yelling and threatening her, an arrest report showed. Another girl struck her in the head several times and then slammed her head into the bedroom wall, knocking her unconscious.
When she woke up, she was on the couch in the living room surrounded by the six girls. The teens blocked the door, held Lindsay down and began beating her, the report said. Two teenage boys waited outside the home as lookouts.
"That is animalistic behavior. It's pack mentality. They lured her there to beat her," Sheriff Grady Judd said.
Portions of the video were released by the sheriff's office and posted on CBS affiliate WTSP-TV.
"There was talk about apparently after the fact, apparently there's other students that knew that they were going to post this just for the thrill of everyone to see it," Lindsay's mother, Talisa, told CBS News' The Early Show. "Which is just outrageous."
All eight were charged last week with battery and false imprisonment, which are third-degree felonies, the report said.
"When we had them in custody at the station, they were laughing about it, saying, 'Well, I guess this spring break we won't go to the beach," Judd told The Early Show. "One of the suspects asked the detective, 'Am I going to get to go to cheerleading practice tomorrow?"
"They showed absolutely no remorse at all," Judd said.
Lindsay was taken to the hospital by ambulance and treated for a concussion, damage to her left eye and left ear, and numerous bruises, the report said.
Lindsay's father, Patrick, said the teens' motivation for the attack was to produce a video that would become popular on YouTube, a video-sharing Web site.
He told The Early Show that he has not been able to watch the video, that he is too distraught, although his wife has.
"I want stiffer punishments for these shock Web sites that entice kids to make these videos so they can be famous on the Internet," Patrick told The Ledger of Lakeland, Fla. "That is the motive, I am sure of it. It's crazy and it's terrible and they're gonna pay."
But the mother of one of the girls said that Lindsay had provoked the other teens by threatening and insulting them on MySpace, a social networking Web site.
After the girls were arrested, Christina Garcia told the newspaper she looked at Lindsay's MySpace page and saw the message: "hahaha all in jail."
"A lot of people think, 'I can say whatever I want on here and nobody's gonna say anything,'" Garcia said. "A fight is a fight, but this was a beatdown. She did not deserve what she got, but I don't know how she's that messed up and able to get on the computer and talk about that."
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