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Copyright Issues When Using Music in Videos

  Welcome to the digital age! Do you remember many years ago when trying to produce a video for your school took several thousand dollars worth of elaborate and bulky video equipment to make it happen?  Now here we are in 2018, and with a very inexpensive digital video camera and some free software, you, yes even you can produce, publish and broadcast your video around the world – how exciting!  And yet, how scary. I’ve attended many conferences and workshops where attendees learn to use the latest and greatest technology and are encouraged to incorporate their favorite songs in videos to make their production more captivating.  After all, every great video needs music, and any that do not use audio for enhancement lack in professional quality. And this is the scary part – when a teacher or student uses a chosen piece of popular music in his or her video.  In some cases based on hear-say, we as educators instruct them to use only 30 seconds or less of copyrighted music material so as n

10 books about the Ancient Astronaut Theory that everyone should read

  From Von Däniken groundbreaking “Chariots of the Gods” to Sitchin’s “The 12th Planet” we review 10 books essential to better understand the Ancient Astronaut Theory. 1 “Chariots of the Gods” Erich Von Däniken  1968 The first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author’s own popular sequel, The Eyes of the Sphinx. 2 “The 12th Planet” Zecharia Sitchin  1976 The first book of the revolutionary Earth Chronicles series offers indisputable documentary evidence of the existence of the mysterious planet of Nibiru and tells why its astronauts came to Earth eons ago to fashion mankind in their image. The product of more than thirty years of meticulous research, The 12th Planet treats as fact, not myth, the tales of Creation, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, and the Nephilim who married the daughters of man. 3 “Fingerprints of the Gods: T

Saudi Arabia: 400 Mysterious Ancient Stone Structures Discovered

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  Almost 400 mysterious stone structures dating back thousands of years have been discovered in Saudi Arabia. The archaeologists involved aren’t sure of their purpose or exact age. Discovered mainly through satellite images, the stone walls which archaeologists call “gates” because they resemble field gates from above, were found in clusters in a region in west-central Saudi Arabia called Harrat Khaybar. A few of the gates are actually located on the side of a volcanic dome that once spewed basaltic lava. The gates “are stone-built, the walls roughly made and low,” David Kennedy, a professor at the University of Western Australia, wrote in a paper set to be published in the November issue of the journal Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy. The gates “appear to be the oldest man-made structures in the landscape,” Kennedy noted, adding that “ no obvious explanation of their purpose can be discerned .” Thousands of years ago, he noted, the landscape was more hospitable to human life. Other

Was Noah’s Ark a DNA bank?

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  From a strange birth to his Ark, Noah’s story has many details that … well, are out of this world! Was Noah’s Ark a DNA Bank? Before the Ark, one must start with the archaeological discoveries about the great flood. Scholars speculated that rising ocean levels could have caused the Mediterranean Sea to burst through a natural dam, creating a flood so great it drowned an estimated 58,000 square miles under 500 feet of water. And in fact, mainstream archaeologists know that in the Mediterranean there are over 200 known sunken cities. Those cities, too, were somehow flooded the same time that the Black Sea was flooded. Written in the book of Genesis, the story of Noah tells how God “saw that the wickedness of man was great ,” and decided to destroy all of creation. Only Noah, his family, and the animals aboard the ark were allowed to survive and repopulate the planet.  But is this the whole story? NOAH’S BIRTH Among the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls are various stories not found in the tradi