TucsonPolyBlog: 12/27/21

Monday, December 27, 2021

2022 EDUCATIONAL CHANGE NEEDED

It is obvious that school reform is needed. Here are some reasons:

Population density

Worldwide travel

Instant transmission of disease

Internet and information revolution

Higher literacy rates

Electronics

Changing vocations

University system reform

Politicization of public schools

Curricular suggestions for Vocational beginning at around 12 years of age with introductory information with voluntary signups for older students in more specialized learning across the spectrum.

· Food Production

· Welding

· Mathematics

· Engineering

· Mechanics

· Carpentry

· Internet

· Personal finances

· Electronics

· Art

· Video Construction

· Gaming

· Critical Thinking

· Writing

· Programming

· Ap construction

· Music

· Strategy

· History

· Sociology

· Health care

· Law

· Government

· Energy Sources

· Military

· Space Science

· Mathematics

· Small business

· Entrepreneurism

· Capitalism

Reorganizing Sports To Eliminate Injustice

Sports are important and as such should be considered but possibly from a different perspective than now, using the schools to perpetuate them. I know from experience that ‘ineligibility’ is always a huge issue with students and teachers and administrators who did not want an academically failing student to have success at sports and thus be a role model. This attitude does not allow the sports talent to shine and the students usually drops out. Taking sports out of the schools’ control could result in the success of a set of talented students now eliminated by the system. Our high schools should not be ‘sports farms’ for the predatory promoters at the university level. It is expensive and the high school events have low community attendance due to the low number of students benefitting.

I will use Tucson as an example of a possible paradigm for sports events in the community without school involvement. Possibly each Ward could field teams and the Wards play each other, with community attendance and banquet for all teams hosted by the city. Tryouts come from the community and attendance is free, a subsidized community benefit. How about adult teams, teen teams and youth teams? The community already has numerous playing fields at the schools, right there to be used by the communities who paid for them. Put the sports in the community and make it for everybody, not just the ‘eligible’.

As for sports in higher education, I suggest the promoters find other sponsors. The stadiums can be used for other purposes and for community games. Possibly the promoters could now pay the players more than currently because they make huge money off students using the university name to do it. And even the Board of Regents is bolstering sports by requiring students to buy sports tickets even when they are not interested. Are they still collecting that, even now? And all the Promoters are paid fat salaries to preside while the players who make the money for them look up at the prestige boxes…

This is an opportunity to change education and how our tax money is being spent. I think if the school boards cannot make changes that adapt to changing conditions, the education money should go to the parents. The parents need a flex scheduling option for home instruction plus online meetings and pre recorded options for attendance purposes. This should be delivered by the school in an easily accessed

format and in person tutoring sessions should be available upon appointment. If this cannot be done, the school should receive no funding, as it is inadequate for current conditions.

Monies spent on sports in the schools should be redirected to the cities/counties for development of a local inclusive sports program that serves the community.

The Contingency Planning Problem Demands Creativity and Flexibility

School personnel and parents have an identical attendance goal: Parents want educational credit for attendance of distance learning and the schools want credit for attendance to receive funding from the state. The encouragement of attendance is paramount and to achieve that goal, the schools must accommodate the needs of the parents and students.

Students need a curriculum and curricular choices that reflect academic standards and employment interests. If the current high school graduation standards are in effect, the curriculum must reflect this reality. The ‘grades’ should go to a mastery learning format that automatically adjusts to the student, thus enabling students to work at their own speed and achieve at their own speed. To force the babysitting format of the public schools on home learning is ludicrous, so let the motivated students forge ahead. This includes ‘high school’ students as well. If a student can finish ‘high school’ academic requirements in less time than the proscribed four years, so be it. If it takes longer, so be it. The point is that schools must offer the curricular requirements necessary for graduation to receive funding, not just log in attendance to a weak program.

As for implementing the curriculum, the distance learning format can be utilized to provide prerecorded lessons and assignments that can be used to guarantee attendance credit for both parties. This is a convenience for parents and administrators and the student receives lessons that must be done to receive attendance credit. Attendance reporting policy probably needs revision to reflect a new reality. Weekly reports should be enough, not daily.

Curricular implementation through ‘class’ meetings online restricts parent and students to a timeframe that may not be convenient considering job responsibilities and other family members. These ‘class’ meetings should also be recorded for reinforcement of curricular goals. Participation in these should be voluntary, with grade credit for watching the session. Exercises should be offered in electronic format or printable, and able to be graded and recorded online.

Distance learning serves the parents and students, not the schools. The schools serve the parents and students and if the school cannot provide parents with a convenient way to educate their children, they will go elsewhere. The law requires teaching the children, but not where. Public schools are a convenience, not a requirement. If parents do get control of the student money, the incompetent schools will fail and the system will revert to charter schools who take the state money and might charge a hefty registration fee. Perhaps they should not be allowed to charge fees if they take state money.

The need for a contingency plan for education is obvious. I do not fault the educational establishment with their initial lack of planning for an epidemic of long lasting proportions. A pandemic was inevitable, given modern circumstances, but yet unforeseen by few.

But now that we know about the pandemic effects given that we had a mild form from an epidemiological point of view. Not like plagues of the past where all who got it died. As of now, the educational edifice must produce a contingency plan designed to last, not just stopgap measures waiting for a return to “normal”. Even if it returns to ‘normal’, we still need contingency plans and some parents may want to continue in the new way. It is finally time for school reform in teaching modes and community participation.

No high school should be bereft of experts in any field, due to e participation. We need lectures by real professionals, backed up by facilitators who interact with the students to reinforce the material or go over it in the shop or lab. These prerecorded lectures augment online textbooks with exercises, procedures and answers. And the teachers tutor the students.

At last, a reason to have small class sizes, something the teachers’ unions must have missed during past negotiations. Classes convene in nice social distancing mode with way fewer students than before. I disliked the masses of asses format that resulted in some teachers having 5 classes per day of at least 30 students each. That’s 150 students per day, 150 papers and exams to grade. 150 students to assist in a 5 hour format. Nobody skates through that. It would be nice to seat the students so they could not touch each other, lacking the social rules that control that conduct. It is known that the lower the student density, the lower the number of disciplinary referrals. Possibly having online students as well as in person students would be a solution to many behavioral and academic considerations, as well as afford employment. One teacher may prefer in person instruction but another might leap at the chance to manage online learning programs.

E learning has advantages in that mastery learning allows students to proceed at their own speed or with a group if desired. Some function best as part of the academic group and others can comprehend more individually. The key here is flexibility on the part of the teachers. I am sure the teachers’ colleges emphasize flexibility in their abilities instead of a chapter a week and a test on Friday. Some students like that predictability and pace but others may not and the teachers must accommodate the students, not themselves. Drumming out students who do not fit the mold is a thing of the past. The punitive attitude sifts while maintaining a system that needs revision.

Monies spent on sports in the schools could be redirected to the cities and counties for development of a local inclusive sports program that serves the community. Persons now employed in the sports programs in the public schools could find comparable employment there.

12 Trade Routes

Who is George Dodwell? George Dodwell was an Australian astronomer who determined through searching historical records and mathematical calculations that the Earth was hit by a bolide in 2345 BC, which disrupted the Precession and knocked the Earth off the cycle for a few thousand years. He meticulously documented ancient astronomical observations and came up with a curve of return to normal after the bolide hit, based on that data. The more recent observations corroborate the curve trajectory lower down and further back in time as a deviation from the predicted precession trajectory.

Was Mr. Dodwell accurate? Mr. Dodwell’s manuscript was published in 1935 and has been argued about ever since. I think he was correct and others have corroborated his findings of a bolide strike through dendrochronology research. Mr. Dodwell’s manuscript is available online at http://www.setterfield.org/Dodwell_manuscript_1.html courtesy of his family. This is a real gem of information and I cannot help but wish such were available to document the Younger Dryas aftermath. If the Earth was slammed and knocked temporarily out of the predicted orbit and that actually changed the climate, then the humans on the Earth now need to attempt to protect ourselves from another strike.

The next figure is a copy from the Dodwell Manuscript of the deviation, which looks jolting and sudden at the inception with an initial recovery towards the predicted normal that might not have been fun on the ground. The Burckle Crater in the Southern Indian Ocean offers a clue: “Burckle Crater is an undersea feature hypothesized to be an impact crater by the Holocene Impact Working Group. They considered that it likely was formed by a very-large-scale and relatively recent (c. 3000–2800 BCE) comet or meteorite impact event. It is estimated to be about 30 km (18 mi) in diameter,^[1] about 25 times wider than Arizona's Meteor Crater.” Citation 16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burckle_Crater

The Burkle Crater estimated age matches Mr. Dodwell’s data and that of at least one Dendrochronologist: “ In 2011 Mike Baillie, the renowned dendrochronologist, had a PowerPoint presentation(d) at the Quantavolution Conference in Athens, which offered tree-ring evidence that clearly demonstrated an 'event' in 2345BC.” Citation 17: https://www.sott.net/article/290534-Dodwells-surprising-study-of-the-obliquity-of-the-ecliptic .

Mr. Dodwell wrote that he thought this event created a flood. I can imagine earthquakes and tsunamis as a result of the impact and a sloshing effect as the effects of the bolide hit petered out. The tsunami roared up and took out the early Tigris Euphrates civilizations. Check out this impressive list of flood myths compiled by Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths

I think the 2345 BC bolide hit did cause floods, the last of a series of documented floods dating from the end of the Pleistocene. I hypothesize that the Greenland Hiawatha Crater was the causative agent for the inundation of Atlantis, as it may have hit melt ice that caused a huge flood and volcanic eruption from the sudden pressure of meltwater south of Greenland in the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantis had almost survived the Younger Dryas when it went under. The Hiawatha Crater was made by a bolide about the same size as the Burckle Crater in the Indian Ocean, and probably caused just as much damage to the planet.

So did the Burckle Bolide cause the Dodwell deviation curve from the predicted path of Newcomb’s Precession? Is Newcomb’s Precession model correct? I wish we had accurate dates.

Mr. Dodwell indicated the aberration returned to a normal trajectory in 1850 AD.

When did the current bout of global warming begin?

Figure 105: Bolide hit recovery trajectory http://www.setterfield.org/Dodwell_manuscript_1.html

I included a few of Mr. Dodwell’s sources in the timeline but the original manuscript contains a complete list of sources used. All are from the Dodwell manuscript.

5000- 4,500 Years Ago Indian Ocean Burckle Crater, tsunami, bolide hit? Taurid?

Before Present

Dodwell Karnak 4,345 25o 09’ 55” precession aberration observed

Dodwell Karnak 3,570 24o 32’ 06”

Dodwell Chinese 3100 24o 13’56”

Dodwell Chou Kung 3100 23o 54’04”

Dodwell Hindu 2,900 24o 11’04”

Dodwell Ben Maimon 1174 23o 31’51” Cordova

Dodwell Nasar-Al-Din 1290 23o 31’40” Maragha Persia

Melankovich Cycle present 23.1 axial tilt and decreasing to 22.1, 11,700 years away

Axial Shift present axial tilt accelerates 2.6 cm a year due Greenland Melt

Was the Earth impacted by a bolide at 2345 BC? I think so. There is evidence that a huge flood wiped out the Ubiad Culture about this time, a culture that flourished where Ur grew up later.

A succession of events are probably related rather than random.

Before Present

6,000 Sahara Verdant but began drying, causal migrations

5,500 Sahara Desertified

4,705 Atland submerged Oera Linda, Jutland/Doggerland flooding

5000- 4,500 Indian Ocean Burckle Crater, tsunami, bolide hit? Taurid?

4345 Dodwell Bolide Hit

4,350 CLIMATE CHANGE End of Neolithic Wet Phase, severe droughts ensued

4,193 Cymbrian Flood: Frisians and Finns dispersed, final Doggerland flooding

4,000 End Greenland warm period End of N. America and Greenland contact

4,000 +Americas End Minoans Mining, ydnaR M 173, mtdna X *

Questions remain. The drying warming trend began before the bolide hit, so was the bolide hit the cause of the end of the Neolithic Wet Phase or would it have happened anyway, as part of the existing trend? Were there any real results of this bolide? Or were the results of it more local, like the tsunami evidence in Australia, the Maldives and Africa? Maybe the bolides that hit near the equator have a different effect than those that hit close to the poles. Maybe the ones that hit near the poles are magnetic iron pulled in plus natural momentum. Blam! The flood from the Indian Ocean caused by the Burckle Bolide probably did travel up to the Ubiad Culture at the head of the Persian Gulf. Was this Noah’s flood? Who knows? There were a succession of floods….

And the modern isolation of Europe began as the Saragasso Sea burgeoned in the Atlantic and technology was lost in some places and found in others. The ancient megalith civilizations had perished, leaving behind the Masons and other enclaves of the ancient learning to connect with the long gone past. We did not have much to go on but a recent UTube presentation of a kid in Russia who found a drilled pendant of mastodon ivory inscribed with runes dated at least 10,000 BP. The idea of writing, agriculture, husbandry and architecture persisted in legend if not in fact, a thing for the people to strive towards having what they once had as they eked out a hunting gathering existence.

Who emerged from this tumultuous time?

3,800 BP Caral Coastal Regional Center final abandonment (Chaco Canyon?)

3,700 Bronze Age: Ugarit, Israel, Mittani, Hittites, Mycenae, Cyprus, Cilecia

3,786 Sothic Cycle

3,700 China Shang

3,600 Persian Gulf Strait open and navigable

3,600-3,100 Turkey-Troy Hittite Empire IndoEuropean Language Ydna R1b1

3,570 Dodwell Karnak 24o 32’ 06”

3,525-3,504 Sothic Cycle

3,525 3,647 Thera Eruption Destruction of Minoans

3500 Olmec: S. Mexico 1500 BC to 400 BC

3,447 Shekinah A Deluge

3,341 King Tutankamen Egypt R1b1a2 haplotype well established

3,200 Rise of Celts Urnfield Culture central Europe YDNA R1b

3,200 End of Bronze Age Europe Drought Hatti, Wars, migrations, raiding, drop in trade

Who built pyramids out of the emergent cultures? Caral, Ugarit, Olmec, Egypt, SE Asia, Azores, Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Teotihuacan, Chinese, Ethiopia, Bosnia, Moundbuilders…

Who built on the basis of megaliths? Mycenae, Greece, Rome, Troy, Inca, Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Egypt, SE Asia….

Pyramids, handbags, huge snakes, huge cats….in common in many ancient civilizations. Why?

I am obsessed with the ‘handbags’ found in so many ancient depictions and some reading of other ideas produced a realization that sometimes the handbags are associated with opium poppy representations, something I had already read about the Minoans also. Here’s a scientific drawing of the poppy plant:

Figure 106: Poppy https://www.goldenpoppyherbs.com/blog/poppy-materia-medica/

So here is another handbag and I think it may have been a symbol of medicine. I see depictions of the Eagle headed guy in Sumerian art bringing medications and the rosette it wears on his arm looks just like the one on the Phaistos Disc. Maybe the rosette represented medicines seized or paid in tribute to the Sea Peoples.

Figure 106: Poppy https://www.goldenpoppyherbs.com/blog/poppy-materia-medica/

Are those poppies on the Sumerian bag?

Figure 107: Sumerian Doctor? https://taicarmen.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/ancient-aliens-and-the-heavenly-war/

This man appears to be holding poppies. Sumerian

Could this guy fly while holding a Pine cone? Was Pine a trade item? Pine is a medicine and pitch is a waterproofer….

Figure 108: Pine Cone? https://www.ufoinsight.com/anunnaki-real-life-ancient-alien-gods/

Sumerian poppies, bags and pine cones. Were these people healers and traders in medicines? I bet they were and the Minoans and Phoenicians traveled selling and looking for new medicines.

The next figure shows a script across the top that looks like Shang script to me. Does it look like Cuneiform or Egyptian Hieroglyphics?

Figure 109: Poppies and bags and writing http://www.theunexplainedvault.com/the-annunaki/ancient-aliens/

Figure 110: Saffron https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:860808-Saffronfarm-01-IMG_7707-2.jpg

So the Minoans traded in poppies and saffron, both potent medicines. From gazing at Minoan art, I saw a variety of human skin color and I did notice that the various colored humans wore similar clothing, which indicates equality. The Mediterranean area is still multicultural and the word ‘race’ is becoming a gradually blending everywhere twain met. So ‘race’ is actually a fallacy. Nobody talks about dog ‘races’ but they do talk about variation in dogs. Cultural variation is much wider than biological variation and cultural variation is what is causing wars today and yesterday. The eruption of Thera wiped out the cultural center of the Minoans, but their culture lived on in the Mycenae and the Greeks. Ancestral DNA ties to Greece welcomed refugees from the explosion, I believe. And thus the culture survived and merged with the local, producing a new foray into the Mediterranean to compete with the Phoenicians.

Where did the Poppy come from? It was surely spread in the Mediterranean by the Minoans, Sumerians and Phoenicians and others once they realized what it was.

An estimate of when the posited mining by the Phoenicians/ Minoans in the Americas ended due to cold conditions was at 4000 BP and the Thera eruption occurred somewhere between 3525 and 3647 BP, a 500 year cushion of activity in the Mediterranean and adjacent coasts, if the estimate is correct.

Figure 111: Lilies https://minoanatlantis.com/Fine_Art_Gallery.php

I ran across what appears to be lilies on this design and after seeing the poppies and saffron, I looked up the lily plant for medicinal uses and I found that it has many important uses:

Regulating heart rate

Dilate arteries

Treating burns and scar tissue

Weak contractions in childbirth

Laxative and diuretic

Ulcers and inflammations.

Citation 18: https://www.home-remedies-for-you.com/herbs/lily-flower.html

Did the Minoans trade in medicines? It looks like it. Were people glad to see them? I bet they were welcoming traders. No telling who was hurt by the Thera Eruption and the disruption in trade.

Figure 111: Lilies https://minoanatlantis.com/Fine_Art_Gallery.php

A nicely dressed young woman is gathering saffron. Where did they get these fabrics she is wearing?

Figure 112: Woman gathering saffron https://www.minoanatlantis.com/pix/Minoan_Spring_Fresco_Art_Akrotiri.jpg

Figure 113: Was this a treatment room? https://www.minoanatlantis.com/pix/Minoan_Spring_Fresco_Art_Akrotiri.jpg

Saffron treats: Asthma, cough, sore throat, whooping cough, expectorant, insomnia, cancer, atherosclerosis, vomiting, depression, memory, Alzheimer’s, birthpain, heartburn, exercise, psoriasis, dry skin, menstrual cramps, PMS, premature ejaculation, infertility, aphrodisiac, baldness, and as a spice in food.

Citation 19: Saffron https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-844/saffron

So the Minoans were traders in important lucrative goods and they perished in a volcanic eruption. And meanwhile in South America, the ancient city of Caral was rebuilding for the last time before a final abandonment. Caral was ancient, according to Mario Buildreps. So Caral had pyramids the same time the Minoans were trading around the Mediterranean. I think there was a trading network from Caral Supe all the way north from Peru to North America, hugging the waterways.

Caral Supe Pyramids

Figure 114: Caral Supe Peru https://www.goshen.edu/peru/2014/06/02/americas-oldest-civilization/#&gid=1&pid=1

This looks like Teotihuacan in Mexico. And it also looks like the Moundbuilders in middle North America. I think we are seeing the remnants of a civilization that thrived before the Bolling Allerod, a civilization that took in the entire world not glaciated and a civilization that actually survived the cataclysms at the end of the Pleistocene. This civilization then existed in fragmented form and immediately began diverging in behavior from the mother civilization, which had become unsustainable. As in todays’ world, there were probably several variations in existence already, but were in communication, like China and the USA today, different but talking and visiting.

This ancient worldwide communication system among divergent groups existed way back in the sands of time, as exhibited by the proliferation of pyramids across the globe. The Reign of the Gods began about 38,000 years ago in Egyptian history and I think this gives us a timeframe for the proliferation of the pyramid idea. I think the Reign of the Gods was the civilization that survived the Eemian downfall into the Pleistocene and grew to prominence again. There are myths of a northland civilization and the only time since the present that glaciation receded enough for a civilization was during the Eemian and maybe produced the Hyperboreans the Greeks had heard about. The hiding in caves, fleeing the ice and migrating south came during the Pleistocene where only very limited refugios were available in Europe and Asia. In North America, everything moved South to escape the ice and cold. The pyramid cultures were a Pleistocene phenomenon, the remains of the Reign of the Gods who themselves were the remains of a prior high northland culture, and if some speculators are correct, there were other long ago civilizations as well, just like now with hunter gatherers and air travelers existing on the same planet among the same species. Was Caral Supe an outpost of a survival civilization and a colony originating in Eurasia? Did refugees from Caral Supe create Chaco Canyon, New Mexico USA? Caral and Chaco look alike.

Figure 115: Caral Super https://xissufotoday.space/2016/03/the-sacred-city-of-caral-supe/

This is not a coincidence. I looked on a map and the connection was probably by sea up and down the west coast of the Americas, probably traveling up the Sea of Cortez to the Colorado River. The Colorado River is famous for the very large stature of the Mojave and the Seris living on the coast of Tiburon and the mainland. The Piutes have legends of very large red haired giants they had to kill in order to survive because these giants were stealing their children. Did the giants build Chaco? Did the red headed giants build Caral? Who knows? Academia does not know.

So are the Chaco Canyon ruins related to Caral? It looks like it to me. Which was first?

Figure 116: Chaco Canyon https://wark.photoshelter.com/image/I00002GsKgjo9xuc

Next is a photo of Saksayhuaman in Peru. I think later peoples built upon Megalith ruins far older but the building model used resembles Chaco and Caral, indicating a long ago far reaching civilization that flourished after the Megaliths and before the precursors to the Inca.

Figure 117: Saksayhuaman Infill https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MBC0up0Cv1M/maxresdefault.jpg

I think that Caral Supe, Chaco and the newer ruins of Saksayhuaman were related.

The next photo was described as a goddess in the middle and a blond male and a red headed female. The goddess is a freckle faced redhead. These were found at Caral Supe and are an indicator of a look differing from current norms. The Paracas were also shown to be red haired and the early Spanish reported tall red and blond haired aristocrats in Peru. Tall red and blonde haired people were also reported across the South Seas by early European explorers. The Tocharians of central Asia were tall red and blonde haired people. The goddess in the middle looks tall, which is a common descriptor of these ancient red and blonde haired people. They were tall. Check out Brian Forster’s description of the DNA analysis of Paracas for more information.

Figure 118: Caral Supe Figurines https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-caral-civilisation-3800-year-old-statuettes-priestess-politicians-discovered-peru-1505386

Figure 119: Chaco http://keenssandals.blogspot.com/2014/12/chacos-sandals-tulsa.html

Chaco Canyon in the photo above shows ‘kivas’ or round rooms, which have been said to be ceremonial meeting rooms, common rooms or even storage areas. Caral Supe has pyramids but none have been reported at Chaco but I wonder if anyone every looked for them. The pyramids at Caral used to be considered natural formations but archaeologists found they were pyramids.

Mario Buildreps has calculated that the Caral site was occupied by 410,000 years ago, detected again by 330,000 years ago and into the relatively modern era. Huaca del Sol in Peru was also one of the early ones also.

Even conventional academics admit that Caral Supe is one of the older sites in the northern hemisphere. Was it the progenitor of the later Teotihuacan which then rose to prominence by conquering the Mayans? Did the Teotihuacan style pyramid spread from Caral Supe, north to Teotihuacan and on to the Moundbuilders?

Figure 120: Caral in ruins http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/caral/Caral_68.JPG

Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Moon partly reconstructed

Figure 212: Teotihuacan https://fromalaskatobrazil.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/pyramid-of-the-moon.jpg

Teotihuacan is a beautiful structure and the avenue is magnificent.

Moundbuilders Ohio Valley

Figure 122: Ohio Valley Moundbuilders https://sbg-sword-forum.forums.net/thread/40377/most-underrated-unknown-historical-nation

Did the pyramid civilizations spread from South to North, like Mr. Buildreps posits? When did this pyramid form spread overland? Was the Chaco Canyon/Caral Supe pattern in conjunction with the pyramids or was it later or earlier? I think that there was contact between South America and middle North America up the Rio Grande, up the Mississippi River and up the Colorado River through the Sea of Cortez. These routes ran both ways and were of ancient origin. The Spanish wrote of boats laden with trade goods roaming the Caribbean and the coasts before they took over the lucrative trade.