The Middletown Ohio Forum - YouTube Video

Hopefully most of our visitors to this blog and our www.MiddletownUSA.com website know that the website is also home to a lively discussion thread simply called the MUSA Blog Forums.

Topics in the Middletown Forum range from local to national in nature, with members of the local community stating their opinions on both humorous and serious matters.

Recent popular national topics have been centered on the upcoming presidential elections while locally popular topics include Section 8 Housing and the city budget.

To make these discussions even more interesting the forum now supports embedded YouTube Videos. All forum members have the ability to post their own YouTube videos directly into their posts by following these simple steps.

Keep in mind to ensure compatibility it is Recommended that the code should first be placed into Notepad before being copied to the message area of the Forum. Notepad will remove all extraneous codes and ensure that what you paste into the Forum is only what you see on your screen. Which is something that cannot be guaranteed when using a traditional word processor.

To start with let’s make sure you know where to find Notepad. Notepad is simple text editor that comes standard with every version of Windows. It’s found under your Start Button at the following location: Start-All Programs-Accessories-Notepad.

Next you simple locate the YouTube video you would like to embed in your Forum post. Once located you will notice that directly to the right of the YouTube video is a small grey box with two lines of “code”. The first line is labeled “URL” while the second line is labeled “Embedded”. It is the First line that we will be using.

Once you locate the first line labeled “URL”, in that grey box to the right of the video on the YouTube webpage, simply use your mouse to highlight and copy that entire line to Notepad.

Once that code has been copied to Notepad simply place that address between these two BB commands: [tube] [/tube]

Now you should have a line in Notepad that looks like this:
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDCjCTp_BCY[/tube]

Once complete simply paste the above line in the body of your Forum message.

The video should instantly appear.

It is recommended but not necessary to use Notepad as your text editing tool to compose the above line. Should you wish to post the link without pasting from Notepad simply make sure the link is not turned into an "active" hyperlink in your forum post. If the link is underlined by Forum software it will not work with the [tube] command.

If you have any questions feel free to e-mail or call anytime.

And thanks again for your participation in the MUSA Blog Forums.

Andy Wendt
Xponex Media
513-422-1907 X226
web@xponex.com

Middies Beat Undefeated Colerain

This past Friday the Middletown Middies faced off against the undefeated football team Colerain. Colerain was ranked number #1 in Ohio and #8 in the nation before facing off wtih the Middies. They came with an astounding 61 GMC Game wining streak. That all changed Friday October 3rd when coach Jason Krause and the Middies came through to beat the Colerain 42-39 at home in their home field Barnitz Stadium.

With this win Jason Krause has now made it clear that he has high hopes for the Middies and they hope to go far this year. Football fans from Middletown were hoping for a winning season out of the new coach and Krause has exceeded those expections so far. With the new win over Colerain, the Middies have moved up to the number 1 spot in the GMC with a record of 5-2, 4-0 GMC. With four games left the win almost guarantees Middletown a spot in the playoffs.

Ohio Starts New Form of Voting

Starting this year in Ohio there is going to be early voting for the 2008 presidential election. The early voting in Ohio was held on September 30th and worked out very well. The people hardly had to wait in line but a couple times to vote which made it easy to go in and get right back out. Richard K. Jones was one of the many local officials who voted early this year. Jones is a Butler County Sheriff.

The Butler County Board of Elections is where the voting has been moved to now. That is located at 1802 Princeton Road, Hamilton. It has become the focal point of political activity. Another issue that has been brought up recently is the new window that allows people to register and vote the same day up until October 6th. By doing this it gives Obama and McCain a chance to bank thousands of first-time voters during that time.

Senator Barack Obama has had presidential campaign vans lined up in Hamilton, Middletown, and Oxford to take voters to the polls. This transportation provided is free and are usually on Wednesday evening and Saturday, when the Board of Elections has extended hours.

Senator John McCain has said to have an aggressive campaign aimed at registration and early voting, but his officials would not give any details away.