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Two of my older YouTube videos have been found to contain 3rd party copyright audio material. On one of the videos, YouTube has muted the audio. I'm not bothered by that; I was dancing to a CD, and the video ended up with most of 2 or 3 Howard Jones songs in it. It's reasonable the copyright holder might not want to allow that. It's a pity though; without the music, the emotion of the dance is lost. I hope they don't identify the music in any of my other videos.

On the other video, which contains Nirvana's Lake of Fire song, YouTube didn't mute it, but added an ad linking to Amazon where you can buy the MP3 of the song. Now that is neat and useful. I've sometimes watched a video with music in it, and wondered what the music was, and if there was a link right there where I could buy the song from, I might do that on occasion. That leaves me feeling good instead of slightly guilty and/or pitying the situation.

I wonder if some copyright owners choose to just have all their music muted, and some choose to instead have ads shown, or if other criteria is also used in the decisions, such as how much of the music is included, the quality of the audio, and/or how popular the video is.

Apple Fennel Salad recipe

I made this the other day, and it tastes quite good and refreshing.

one head/stalk of fresh fennel, diced
3 or 4 small to medium apples, peeled and diced or julienned
small amount of fresh ginger, finely chopped
vinegar
1 to 2 tbsp rose water

Mix all together; add vinegar and rose water to taste. Add in a bit of water if desired. Refrigerate for a while to let the flavors mix.

telephone static

The phone box's ground wire goes into the basement, and it was connected with a clamp to one of the hot water pipes. I thought that perhaps that was part of the problem; perhaps the water heater was interfering with having a direct path to ground. So I considered moving the ground wire over to the cold water pipe instead. Then I remembered that after I moved in, I had a plumber install a shut-off valve on the main water pipe coming into the basement. When he did that, he replaced a small section of the original metal water pipe by the new valve with a section of plastic pipe. So it is possible that before then, the water pipes were grounded, but afterwards, they no longer were. So I installed a new ground wire going from the clamp on the hot water pipe out to the grounding rod outside. Maybe I should have just removed the original ground wire from the phone box, and connected the new wire directly to the box instead of to the pipe. I'm not sure.

Now I shall monitor my phone line over the next few days to see if the static is gone. Here's hoping!!