Youtube Music Rules

Most (if not all) video sharing sites such as MetaCafe and of course YouTube have rules about what you upload in terms of music or movie clips. They are very strict on what they allow and what they don't. I put songs into many of the movies that I upload to Youtube. With those videos, Youtube either inserts advertising on it or they take down my video. I can understand why they do that but it doesn't always make sense to me. Why wouldn't a music artist want their music in someone else's video creation? It would surely get them more fans and possibly boost their popularity. The reason they don't want people using the music would be because the song doesn't belong to them. But how would it hurt them if you gave full credit to the original artist? The credit (that is clearly visible) could be in the annotations or in the description box or anywhere that everyone could see it. Because of that Youtube video, more people now know the original. They might even head over to iTunes and buy it and put it onto their iPod. And the original artist has now made more money than he or she might have made otherwise. I might not know all the reasons for why Youtube and artists don't like it but it seems to me that the artist wants to control their song too much. I think Youtube and the music industry need to ease up on that. Maybe Youtube could have a partnership with record companys so that as long as someone gives clear and accurate credit to both the record company and the artist, then the user could upload the video. Youtube is a great place. Many new artists wouldn't be where they are today without the exposure that Youtube and amateur video makers have given them. Esmee Denters (a current Youtube music artist with a debut album coming out) was discovered by Justin Timberlake when he was cruising through Youtube. Without different people posting videos including her songs, he might not have found her! So all in all, what I'm saying is this: I think the music industry needs to think about the impact that Youtube has on the music-buying public. Even my videos--in which I give full credit to everyone--get taken down every once in a while and it really annoys me—especially when it is one of my best productions.

Video Game Ratings!

After every video game as been written, designed and tested, it goes to the ESRB. They rate the video on many different levels. The ratings range from E (everyone), E10+ (everyone 10+), T (teen), M (Mature 17+). There is also AO (adult only) and you can imagine what is in those games. But there are, at most, 10 of those games ever published. What I am most irritated about is how they rate them. Games such as Call of Duty (the older ones) are rated T, but they still have bloody killing in a realistic way--as if you were really fighting in the war. Then you have Halo which is quite a fun game yet rated M. When you compare the 2 games Call of Duty is defintely worse. In Halo, you might be shooting and killing, but there is hardly any blood. You are killing aliens and there is nothing realistic about it. This really sucks because a lot of parents will NOT let their 6th, 7th, and 8th graders play M games. So Halo is off limits but parents will let their kids play a war game in which you can kill other people and see their blood! The most recent Call of Duty game is rated M and I think the game deserves the M rating. Not that isn't an excellent game, but I just can't imagine it being rated T. Call of Duty is not the only game like this. The new Tom Clancy game is T and I think it's probably as bad as Halo (which isn't all that bad unless you're against shooter games). Halo is still M and Tom Clancy is T. This really is annoying. Now Halo and other games like it have now built up such a bad rep as a really violent terrible game and yet Medal of Honor is still T rated, but has the same level of violence as Halo, Call of Duty, and the Tom Clancy games. But Medal of Honor has a good rep (not perfect but not as bad as Halo or others) so it gets a T rating. I don't think the ESRB can fix this now. But I definitely think that they need to start comparing different games before they rate any new games. And just so you don't think that I'm not singling out only Halo, Dead or Alive 4, Mass Effect, The Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion, The Thief Trilogy, and Devil May Cry 4 just to name a few are also facing the same issue. All got M ratings when Call of Duty 2 and 3, The Bourne Conspiracy, Ghost Recon Advanced War Fighter 1 and 2, and War Hawk all got away with T ratings when they really deserved the same rating as the previously mentioned games!

Students Deprived of Busses

Right now every student in the red clay school district has the option to take the bus to school. Starting next year this will be no more. The district has decided that there will be no busses to students in red clay who don’t have their school as a feeder pattern. Cab Calloway School of the Arts and Conrad will not be affected by this new rule because they are 100% choice. But any other school IN the Red Clay district will be. They say this will cut costs but still have not told us how. I think it is crucial for every student to have bus transportation! Some Parents (including mine) both have to go to work when I need to leave to go to school. There work is on one side of town and school is at the other. There is no plausible way for them to take me to school. So I rely on the bus. I am not affected for I go to Cab. But for high school I really don’t have a choice but to stay at cab if this goes through. My neighborhood is right in the center of the red clay district. But my development doesn’t have a feeder pattern for high school. We have to choice for high school! So even though I’m in the red clay district and I go to a Red clay school but because I have to choice for high school means I don’t get transportation? That’s not right. The District is trying to keep this on the DL (down Low) for they know this will cause a “riot” amongst parents. Not only will tons of kids have no transportation look at all the bus drivers! There must be tons that will now be out of work! It isn’t fair to them either! Plus, all the extra cars on the roads is bad for traffic problems, global warming, gas depletion, and could be a financial hardship for families. I think that even though we are 100% choice I think we should start getting the word out. What about all the kids in the neighborhood? Have you ever wanted your kid to go to the same high school you went to? Well that might not happen if you have to choice next school year! We need to get the word out now. If the district is deciding to do this without telling anyone then they must know it’s not right! So lets give them a riot. There asking for it! There are a lot of meetings and protests and such going on. Try to go to them. Or write a letter to Andrejeski personally. Tell your brothers your sisters your family and friends. If we all band together we can stop this. I don’t know how ANY tax paying parent could be for this!

Crucial Problems-Government Refuses To Tell Truth.

Were almost out of fuel! Global Warming isn’t THAT bad… Battery powered cars are the way to go. That is what the government is telling us. Did you know we really aren’t running out of fuel at all? Actually Were only running out of CHEAP fuel. Coal right now is 10X cheaper than gasoline today. But You have to take the Coal and convert it into Gasoline. For the same amount of power gasoline gives you, once converted, coal can give you the same amount of power. It will just be a little more expensive. When [or if…] we switch to coal It can last us for many century’s to come. The reason we are still importing fuel is because 1. it costs less money [only a little bit less] and 2. because we still haven’t built the plants to convert coal to gas. Germany and South Africa already have these plants and they are using them. From the point of view of physics everytyhing makes a lot more sense. For some reason the government does not want us to know these things. Another thing the government is saying is that global warming isn’t that bad and we don’t really need to worrie. They are WRONG! Global Warming is here now. We must stop it now. Waiting too long then it will become irreversible. Its like a hole in a pair of jeans. It starts out small and if you don’t patch it up as soon as it starts. Over time that hole will be so big that the bottom of your jeans tear off! It’s the same with global warming! One of the ways we can stop Global Warming is to conserve. Conserving fuel and things like that will not only keep costs down. It will also make less pollution which will start stoping global warming. But not only 1 person can make the difference. We all have to. If we all do we can stop global warming now. Has global warming already started to damage the earth? Yes The Earth is getting hotter. Global warming is not something that just started happening a few years ago. Back in Pompeii When the volcano erupted that also was contributing to Global Warming. But only now have we realized that Global Warming is very serious. The government doesn’t want to have to put there money into it. They rather fuel the war. Another dellema is battery powered cars and hybrids. Yes the do help the environment but it costs way more money per mile over gas. It costs so much to replace the batterys and they can only last about to 1000 charges! Also the Disposal and creation is not good either. The batterys are laced with dangerous chemicals and need to be disposed of specially. But Solar cars with only 1 square mile of sunlight it will peak as much power as a nuclear power plant! I really think that we all need to to understand this as the people. So we can make beter decisions in voting and decideing what to do for economy and how to not pollute. Everyone should know and understand this. This is real it is now and it needs to be stopped!

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Example Article for Newspaper. 7-11 Robbery

7-11 Robbery Video Released!

At Roughly 11:45 pm on August the 18th a robbery took place at the 6th Street and Greenhill Avenue 7-11. A man came in with a gun. The clerks ran to the back of the counter, gave him all of the money and a few packs of cigarets and ran out. Police released the surveillance video in hopes of catching the suspect. They say he is roughly 5 foot 4 and 135 pounds. He was wearing a black t-shirt and white jeans. It’s amazing how people insist on robbing the 7-11. They only keep $30 at one time. THEY EVEN HAVE A STICKER ON THE DOOR telling people that there is only $30 in the register! There are much better places to rob than a 7-11. If anyone has any information on the criminal please call Wilmington Police detective John Ciritella at 576-3629 or 911.

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