You-Tube Creates Anti-Piracy Filters

The website YouTube has created a way to get rid of copyrighted clips. They have made filtering tools so that the owners of copyrighted material can block their material from being shown on YouTube. They also have the option for owners of copyrighted material to sell ads around their material if they want the clips to stay available on YouTube.

Seven months ago, Viacom Inc. sued YouTube for $1 billion dollars for showing thousands of copyrighted clips that the company owned. Over time, movie and TV studios have become upset with piracy through YouTube even though YouTube says it follows copyrighted laws by removing protected videos when requested.

You Tube has been working with Google engineers to make tools that can flag copyrighted video. They have been working at it for the past six months. YouTube also needs copyright holders to provide copies of the video that they want to protect so that they can compare the files provided with the material uploaded on its site. The movie and TV studios will have to provide all of their copyright material if they don’t want it on YouTube. Without doing this, YouTube will have a difficult way of knowing which material is legally or illegally posted on the site.

Social Security Checks Rising

In January, Social Security benefits are rising by 2.3 percent. The average check will receive an extra $24 per month. This is not much considering that food prices, medical prices, and general costs of living are significantly increasing each year. This increase is the smallest since a 2.1 percent rise in 2004. Last year it was 3.3 percent and the year before that it was 4.1 percent. Nearly 50 million Americans get social security checks and another 4 million get Supplemental Security Income payments.

The average check for a retired couple currently is $1,722. Individuals get $623. Disabled workers get $981 currently.

The government says that millions of people will have to pay higher taxes next year because the maximum amount of Social Security earnings subject to the payroll tax will rise from $97,500 to $102,000. Baby boomers, people born between 1946 and 1964, are going to be receiving Social Security payments soon. The first baby boomer will turn 62 next year. They estimate that between 2017 and 2041 Social Security will have completely depleted its reserves by paying out more in payments than it collects in payroll taxes and then each person will have to be completely responsible for their own financial well being without the help of the government for the rest of their life.

50 Cent Gets Into Fight at Movie Set

The rapper 50 Cent got into a fight on the set of his new movie with co-star Frank Hughes. Hughes had confronted 50 Cent on not knowing his lines. It started as an argument and by the end it turned into a fist fight and 50 Cent had Hughes on the ground punching him. Afterwards, the paramedics and looked over Hughes and said that he was okay.

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New Dinosaur Species Found in Argentina

In Argentina a skeleton of a new dinosaur was found. The dinosaur was 105 feet long and a plant eater. It is one of the largest dinosaurs found in Argentina. It was named Futalognkosaurus dukei after the Mapuche Indian words “giant” and “chief” and for the Duke Energy Argentina that helped to financially fund the excavation of the skeleton.

Paleontologists have already dug up the dinosaur’s neck, back region, hips, and the first vertebra of its tail. The neck is estimated to be 56 feet long and the tail was about 49 feet long. The weight of the spinal column was 9 tons. Even though they have found most of its bones they still have to find the bones of its arms and legs. The other two largest dinosaurs were also found in Argentina. The Argentinosaurus was115 feet long and the Puertasaurus reuili was between 115 to 131 feet long.

Evacuation in Indonesia Due to Volcano Eruption Scare

In Indonesia, they ordered the evacuation of 30,000 people that lived with six miles of the volcano Mount Kelud. The volcano has been rumbling for weeks and an eruption is very possible. It is one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes and the last time it erupted in 1990 it killed 5,160 people and destroyed 100 villages.

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Rudy Giuliani Says He is Prepared For An Alien Attack

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By 2050 People Could Marry Robots

I read an article that says that by 2050 Massachusetts might be the first state to legalize marriage between humans and robots. The article says that people may be happier in marriages with a robot rather than another person. The article even says that it would be possible to have an intimate relationship with the robot. The article also says that being able to own a robot could decrease the criminal acts of rape, pedophilia, and sexual assault.

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Diddy Gets Into Fight at Nightclub

The Rapper P Diddy, Sean Combs, allegedly punched a man in the face at a New York nightclub after they got into an altercation over a woman. Diddy punched the man, Steven Acevedo, in the face twice until his bodyguards broke up the fight. Diddy was not arrested or charged for the situation but police plan to talk to him about the fight.

Owners of Pets Thrown Off Bridge in Puerto Rico Receive Help

The animal welfare groups plan to help the Puerto Rico housing project residents to pursue legal action against the animal control workers that seized their pets and killed most of them by throwing them from a bridge. Friends of the Animal, a Puerto Rican company that rescues and rehabilitates abandoned pets and farm animals, and many other groups will help the pet owners with claims of animal cruelty and civil rights violations.

Former American Idol Corey Clark Pleads Guilty

Corey Clark, a former American Idol contestant, pleaded guilty to a felony harassment charge that came from phone calls that he made to his father-in-law. Back in 2006 his wife, Monica Rodriguez Gonzalez, filed a domestic violence protective order and Clark wasn't suppose to have contact with her and eight other people, including their child.

The prosecutes got him a deal to be placed on probation. The crime that he admitted to could have cost him 2 years in prison and a $150,000 fine.

Drunken Man Arrested After He Attacks Inflatable Ghosts and Pumpkin

In Lloyd, NY a drunken man, named John Odee, attacked his neighbor’s inflatable display of three ghosts and a giant pumpkin and then smashed his head through her window.

Dawn Garcia says she heard the man yelling and swearing and when she looked outside she saw him struggling with the giant pumpkin angrily. She yelled at him to go away but he then charged at the house and busted his head through the window. Garcia grabbed her three kids and ran out the back door and called 911 from another neighbor’s house. The police found Odee inside of her house and arrested him. He was charged with burglary and is being held on a $25,000 bond.

Pets Thrown Off Bridge In Puerto Rico

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Animal Control Workers seized and collected dozens of dogs and cats from housing projects and killed them by throwing them from a bridge. The animals were suppose to have been taken to a shelter.

The city hired Animal Control Solution to raid three housing projects after they warned the residents about the no-pet policy. People saw the animal control workers inject the animals with something that they said was a sedative before they took the animals away. The animals were supposed to be taken to a shelter but instead they were thrown 50 feet from a bridge in a neighboring town before dawn on Tuesday. Some of the animals were already dead buy the rest were alive when they were thrown. Some of the animals were able to survive and climbed to the highway badly injured. About 50 animals stayed there dead.

The mayor of the city says that he would cancel the city’s contract with Animal Control Solution and city lawyers are considering a lawsuit.

Coke and Pepsi Rivalry Gets Physical

The rivalry between Coke and Pepsi Cola turned physical on Friday when a Pepsi deliveryman punched a Coke deliveryman in the face at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania.

The two deliverymen were arguing back and forth while they were unloading their products and when the Coke deliveryman left the store, the Pepsi deliveryman punched him in the face. He broke his nose and gave him a black eye. No charges were filed but the incident is considered a simple misdemeanor assault.

Scientist Explain Reasons for Chocolate Cravings

A study has found there is a type of bacteria in the digestive system that craves chocolate. Everyone has microbes in their stomach but people who have chocolate cravings have different colonies of bacteria.

The study was done by finding 11 men who never ate chocolate and 11 men who ate chocolate everyday. All of the men wee healthy, not obese, and were fed the same foods for five days. The researchers examined the byproducts of their metabolism in their blood and urine and found that a dozen substances were different between the two groups. The amino acid glycine levels were higher in the men that ate chocolate. People who ate chocolate also had lower levels of bad cholesterol.

It is known that bacteria interact with what you eat and studies have shown that intestinal bacteria changes when people lose weight. Someday, some types of obesity will be able to be treated by changing the bacteria in the intestines and stomach.