YouTube starts its own cyber symphony

Like "American Idol," YouTube announced plans on Monday for a YouTube Symphony Orchestra, staring a collection of wannabe musicians with Carnegie Hall, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, composer Tan Dun and others.
Through Jan. 28, musicians can submit entries as they perform two videos: one that shows their musical talents and an interpretation of an original work by Tan, who won an original-score Academy Award for 2000's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
A team of experts from some of the world's leading orchestras will narrow down the competition. YouTube users will then vote for the winners, who will be announced March 2.

I think this is cool and will be funny to watch. I also think that it is a great idea. This will be seen by millions of people with computers and Internet access and I plane to be one among those millions.

Jupiter, Venus, moon getting together for groupe shot

This weekend Venus, Jupiter, and the moon will gather together to make an awesome photo.On Thursday Jupiter and Venus will start to move closer together. By Sunday and Monday, they will look to be two degrees apart. Then on monday night the moon will in crescent form will appear Right next to them creating a perfect shot for a good camera.

I think this is cool. If i remember i will definitely use my dads crazy large camera to try and get a good picture of it. I know Mr.Joiner will be setting up his telescope in his back yard this weekend:)

Victim of 'kick a ginger day' head back to school

This article is about a young boy who on "kick an ginger day" was kicked by dozens of people all through the day. He was so rattled that he skipped the nexed day of school. Aaron Mishki was the boy being kicked says, "There were quite a few people kicking (me)," he said, noting he couldn't believe some of his classmates actually thought the violence was funny.
"I tried to explain to them that this wasn't right thing to do, that it couldn't be a joke because it involved violence. But they didn't listen to me," he said. "My opinion of the people (who participated in the kicking) changed. I didn't think they were capable of that before, but after Thursday I just viewed them in a different light. I didn't want to go back and see them again that day," he said. "Because really, it's like a hate crime directed against a group of people," he said.
"I like my red hair. I never thought it would be a cause for violence."

I agree that it is like a hate crime directed against a group of people, and i think that red hair the like the last thing that should cause violence. If I were him i wouldn't go back to school for like two weeks. Also what does this act of violence accomplish, maybe a few laughs from the bullies at school. People were hurt on this day and they had no reason for it.

Astronauts vow remaining tool bag won't drift away

During the two-week mission's first spacewalk Tuesday, the tool bad floated out of a larger bag as Stefanyshyn-Piper cleaned a leaking grease gun. Tied to the lost briefcase-sized bag were a pair of grease guns used to lubricate a stuck joint that controls the space station's rotating solar wing. The bag is one of the biggest objects ever lost by a spacewalking astronaut, and NASA guessed it cost about $100,000. "We're definitely not going to do it again. You're not going to see us lose another bag," lead spacewalker Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper said in an interview from the international space station

I find it stupid that someone would pay so little attention to a bag containing $100,000 dollars worth of tools. If I where her i would feel kind of embarassed as the bag slowly floated off into the cold darkness of outerspace.

Tampered Smarties found in Burlington

More tampered boxes of Smarties handed out on Halloween have turned up in the GTA.
A Burlington mother opened a sealed box of Smarties from her daughter's Halloween treat bag Wednesday and discovered a Tylenol DM cold tablet inside.

I don't understand why there would be a Tylenol in a sealed smarties Box i makes no sense. What if it had been a peanut or other food people are commonly alergic to and they die from a reaction to it. I think that it is important that nothing exept smarties are found in a smarties box.

Teen wins fight to refuse transplant

Hannah Jones, 13, is not afraid of dying – she is afraid of spending her remaining days in a hospital bed.

Hanna Jones was diagnosed with leukemia at age 4. Doctors later found a heart defect. In eight years, she has had chemotherapy and nearly a dozen operations. She denied a heart transplant that could save her life because she doesn't want to risk spending the rest of her life in the hospital.

If I where her I would accept the heart transplant in hope of living longer. But at the same time I can see where she is coming from in a sense that it would suck if you had to be in the hospital all the time you wouldn't have any freedom.

Voter turnout leads to long lines and some snags

U.S. Election officials are hoping for a record high turnout on Tuesday in the historic election. The total amount of people registered to vote is up 7.3% from the last presidential election. There where such line up to vote in some districts that some people had to wait up to Eight hours just to cast a ballot. In New York people started to line up at 4:00am to try and beat the rush of voters. In New Jersey People had to start using paper ballots due to problems with the electronic voting machines. I Virginia a librarian overslept causing a polling station to not open on time.

I am suprized on the amount of mis hapes there were on such a big occasion. The article that I did this on had tones of difficuties that have happend on the day of election that i couldn;t include all of them.

N.S. should lower voting age to 16: Liberal opposition

This article is about how Nova Scotias liberal party wants to lower the voting age to 16 years of age. They think it will improve the voting participation because there will be more people allowed to vote.

I think this is a good idea because once at the age of 16 these elections effect everyone 16 and over. Also it will improve the voters participation because there are tones of kids 16-17 in Canada.

Snow in Ontario leaves thousands without power

Thos article i about a snow storm that came through eastern Ontario Tuesday night has covered some parts of the region with as much as 15 centimetres of snow andcaused more than 26,000 Hydro One customers without power.

I don't understande wy there i snow before halloween, this morning i slipped like three times on my way to school. I still have to pay soccer in this. I hate snow:(

Gas prices sink below $1 per litre in Ontario

This article is about how gas prices are finally dropping to below $1 per liter for the first time since last February. The current price in Ontario is now 99.3 cents!

I think this is awesome. Now i don't have to hear about other complaining about how high the gas price is and how much it cost for a full tank. I also think that it is great because previously the price of gas was way to high.

Test on bottled water has discovers 38 contaminants in 10 brands of water, each brand containing at least 8 contaminants. some of the contaminants include: coli form bacteria, caffeine, the pain reliever acetaminophen, fertilizer, solvents, plastic-making chemicals and the radioactive element strontium.

I think this is stupid because a lot of people drink bottled water because they think that it is healthier than tap water But with all of these contaminents i cant see how it is.

2.7 million register for do-not-call list in 1st week

This article states that in one week 2.7 million people registerd to be on a do not call list. This list is people who do not want to recive calls from telmarketers. This list was launched by the Canadian Radio-television and telecomunications commission at midnight on September 30 and gained 200,000 people in the first nine hours.

I hope my mom or dad are on this list because i hate it when i recive these stupide calls where I cant even understand what they are saying and they just keep talking even when you say you are like 15. They just brutaly anoying and i no my mom flip on these people. They always call at the wrong time like dinner or on the weekend when yo uare settleing down on the couch to watch a movie or something.

Robot suit for rent in Japan to help people walk

This article is about a robotic suit that that can read brain signals and helps people who have walking problems. This HAL robot or hybrid assistive limb will be out for rent in Japan for $2,200 a month starting on Friday. This battery operated computer system is belted to the waist and the leg brace attached to the thy and knee captured brain signals and help the person wearing them to walk. This HAL system only weighs 22 pounds.

I think that this HAL robot is awesome. It is cool the way it reads a persons brain signals to help them walk if they cant walk by themselves. hope that this system is out in Canada when I am old and cant walk. I think this is a great technological invention.

Harper's plagiarized speech makes worldwide headlines

This article is about an incident that occurred in 2003 when Steven Harper plagiarized a speech first presented by Australian leader at the time, John Howard.

Owen Lippert, Harper's EX speech writer took responsibility for stealing Howard's words, it was then that he quit his position as a Harper campaign aid.

Wow! I cant belive it! If he went to St. Andrews he would be on academic probation.

B.C. has lowest obesity levels in 10 years: minister

B.C.'s Minister of healthy living and sports says according to recent surveys the province has the lowest self- reported obesity rate in 10 years.

According to Mary Polak this shows that B.C is the only province to achieve a large drop in adult obesity rates.

It is the first considerable decrease since reporting started in 1996.

I think this is great the healthier the people of Canada are the larger our life expectancy will grow over other countries. I hope the rest of the Provinces of Canada will aclomplish what B.C. has.

Family abandons nine children at Nebraska hospital

This article is about how a father abandoned nine childeren ranging from the ages of 1-17 in the Emergency Room of a Nebraska hospital. This is because of a safe havens law intended for infants meaning under four or five years old but was required to use the word chils which some people take as any one under the age of nine teen. Since this law has been in effect 14 childeren have been abandoned.

I think that it is stupide to abandone nine kids who are at an age where they know who you are and probablly love you. If you dont want them why have kids in the first place let alone nine of them. This is crul for these kids to be tossed away by their own father. Think about how they must feel. To hope their familly will come for them but they never do. How could a person rais a kid for a couple years and then just leave to live alone.

Man found dead after 34-hour wait in Winnipeg ER

This article is about how a man was found dead in an emergency room while waiting for 34 hours to be treated. The 45 year old man was found dead in the waiting area. It seems that he was never assessed by a triage nurse and was not registered as a patient seeking medical care. The man was never processed by the triage desk and therefore was not determined weather or not he needed immediate help or if he could wait.

I cant believe that a man could sit in the emergency waiting room for 34 hours and not get assessed by a nurse of doctor and end up dieing. This makes the hospital look terrible. Hopefully nothing like this ever happens again because this is just unacceptable.

Calls for more resources on Calgary gang violence

This article is about how the federal politicians aren't doing enough to put a stop to gang and gun violence. There is a complaint stating that tougher legislation is needed and that judges are going to soft of violent criminals. People are angry that people who are involved in heavy duty guns thievery and drugs are let out on bail immediately, to just get back into doing other crimes. Another person says that the catch and release way of doing things right now has to stop.

I agree with the complaints being made. People who are arrested for something like gang violence where guns and knives are use shouldn't just be released they need to reform in jail and be punished. People lose their lives to gangs and if they are just bailing out every time then people arn't safe.

Survey finds that nearly every kid is a video gamer

This article states that due to resent over the phone surveys, that 97% of young respondents play video games. This includes 99% of boys and 94% of girls. 7% of the people surveyed said that they didn;t have a computer of a game console at home. Joseph Kahne, a study co-author and dean of the education school at Mills College in California. Said that violent games like Halo provided more that average opporatunities for players to help eachother. Also that those who play games the most arn't any less involed in the communities aroiund them. Most games dont just play by them selves either, they ussually play with one onther or on line and this shows that gamers are social people. They comunicate and spend time face to face with others just like any other kids.



I agree that most of the kids that I know play video game, and non of them are any less social than anyone else. In fact most of them are the smart kids in the class who have alot of freinds.
I am proud to be one those gamers. Maby if my dad read this article he would finally let me get Xbox live :)

U.S. court strikes down state's anti-spam law

This article is about how a man name Jeremy Jayne's was convicted in 2004 for sending unsolicited e-mail bulk. He sent up to 10 million e-mails a day and was sentenced to nine years in jail. Jayne's claimed that the anti-spam law violates free speech protections under the first amendment, the Supreme Court agrees with Jayne's.

I think that he shouldn't have been sent to jail in the first place but that he should never be able to sent spam again because it is so annoying. It is just a wast of space in you mail box and is really useless.

Wary of Protests, Russia Puts Few Limits on Smoking

This article states that in Russia the average lifespane of a male is sixty years old because of the lack of restrictions on smokin. The population is droping and the government seem to ignore the high smoking rate. Even though they heavily promote family life and higher birth rate they have lacked in anti tobaco ads and education. In Russia a pack of cigarettes cost only 25 cents because they are hardly taxed.

I think this wronge beacuse if so many people smoke then it effects the people around them who don't smoke aswell as the enviloment. The amount of people smoking must creat a lot of polution and seconde hand smoke. Over all this is bad for the country and the earth.

Air Canada to offer inflight internet next spring.

This article is about how Air Canada will start offering Internet during flights next spring. They will charge $12.95 to allow you to access the Internet with you computer, phone or any other personal devise. This means you can check your email surf the web and anything else while in flight. So fare this this air to ground technology is only available in the U.S but is being provided to Canada by Aircell.

I think this is a great idea because I remember last year there was an English assignment to be done in partners over the march break but my partner who whent on vacation couldn't do any reasarch because there was no internet access on his plane or at his hotel. But if plane now have internet then that is one problem solved, So I think this is great.

American jobless rate jumps to five year High

This article is about how the U.S unemployment rate flew to a five year high of 6.1% in August when employers cut 84,000 jobs and cut payrolles for the eighth month in a row.

The economy lost 100,000 jobs in June and another 60,000 in July. Private employers slashed 101,000 jobs. So far this year job losses are totaled to 605,000.

I think that with all of these jobs being cut and people therefor loseing there jobs is obviosly bad for the people but is is also weakening the economy. I don't understand why employers are slashing somany jobs and not creating new one's for people to fill in.

I don't think that ther should be so many people without jobs because for all those unemployed people with families its not just on person suffering per job loss it is three or four. So if there are 605,000 without jobs then there are really 181,500,00 people suffering.