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Figure 36: Pacific Expansion By Vrata - modified file:Indo-Pacific_biogeographic_region_map-fr.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6602967

Figure 37: Melanesian Children http://montfordpointmarinesandhonor.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-indigenous-people-of-pacific-and.html

Figure 38: Melanesian Boy http://thedailycheck.net/scientists-shocked-find-melanesians-carry-dna-unknown-human-species/

Figure 39: Australian Man https://1tawnystranger.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/more-about-aboriginal-australians/

Figure 40: Older Australian Man http://religionandmediacourse.blogspot.com/2010/11/religious-representation-of-australian.html

Figure 41: Australian Child https://1tawnystranger.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/aborigines-other-native-pacific-oceanic-peoples/

Figure 42: Itelman By Theodore de Pauly - Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie, p.408, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54722526

Figure 43: The Mousterian Face La Roche Cotard http://donsmaps.com/mousterianothers.html

Figure 44: By George Tsiagalakis - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37514360

Figure 45: By Photaro - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30468684

Figure 46: Reclining Lady http://www.researchingaliensandufos.com/2015/07/secrets-of-megalithic-culture-of-malta.html

Figure 47: Reclining Lady Top View https://reydekish.com/2015/12/23/venus-paleoliticas/

Figure 48: Neanderthal? http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=005155

Figure 49: Fat Lady of Malta https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fat_lady_of_malta.jpg

Figure 50: Malta Female 1 http://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/malta/highlights/venus-of-malta/view

Figure 51: Hagar Qim Malta

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g1182441-d265854-i245049850-Hagar_Qim_Temples-Qrendi_Island_of_Malta.html

Figure 52: Malta Megalith https://www.touropia.com/tourist-attractions-in-malta

Figure 53: Modern Australian Art https://www.artranked.com/topic/Australian+Dot

Figure 54: Modern Australian Art http://laurentlazard.com/media/Aboriginal-Art-Australia.html

Figure 55: Aboriginal Cave Art Australia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakadu-Nationalpark

Figure 56: Dentition Evidence for Neanderthal Ancestry https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.10116

Figure 57: Carolina Bays Nationwide https://cosmictusk.com/wp-content/uploads/carolina-bays-nationwide.jpg

Figure 58: Younger Dryas Nanodiamond Pattern: Graphic from Kinzie, Firestone, Kennett et al. “Nanodiamond-Rich Layer across Three Continents Consistent with Major Cosmic Impact at 12,800 Cal BP”, The Journal of Geology, 2014, volume 122, p. 475–506.

https://sacredgeometryinternational.com/magicians_of_the_gods_graham_hancock_preview_fingerprint/

Figure 59: Nabta Playa Circle https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/nabta-playa-and-ancient-astronomers-nubian-desert-002954

Figure 60: Red Deer Cave People https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17370170

Figure 61: Lake Aggasiz http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/dleverin/quaternary_envs/lake_agassiz_leverington_teller_2003.jpg

Figure 62: Ice Age Flooding Eurasia https://www.donsmaps.com/images26/icesheetsnorthernhemisphere.jpg

Figure 63:

By Francis Lima - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49850020

Figure 64: Climate History https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1386a/gallery2-fig35.html

Figure 65: Yangshao Bowl https://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/test-1/deck/5717497

Figure 66: Zuni Belt Buckle https://shumakolowa.com/products/zuni-sun-inlay-belt-buckle

Figure 67: Hongshan Head https://lizleafloor.com/2015/02/10/relics-from-the-niuheliang-goddess-temple-the-most-mysterious-site-of-the-ancient-hongshan/

Figure 68: Hongshan Figures 10 Great Ancient Mysteries of China Mysterious Earth

Figure 69: Hongshan Dragon Asian Art Forums

Figure 70: Honshan Jade Woman http://www.aliexpress.com/item/fast-shipping-chinese-hongshan-culture-jade-beautiful-kneel-woman/293333081.html#

Figure 71; Menhirs in the British Isles http://www.megalithia.com/intro.html

Figure 72: Menhirs Worldwide https://somathread.ning.com/blog/maps-and-superstitions

Figure 73: Stone Circles Worldwide: https://somathread.ning.com/blog/maps-and-superstitions

Figures 74-75: The Starving of Saqqara https://www.sott.net/article/225917-Canadian-university-puts-ancient-mysterious-sculpture-on-display

Figure 76: Father Crespi Collection http://www.messagetoeagle.com/father-crespis-mysterious-library-of-golden-treasures/

Figure 77: Tayos Cave

http://www.messagetoeagle.com/father-crespis-mysterious-library-of-golden-treasures/

Figure 78: Equador https://www.el-libertario.com/en/reptilian-gods/

Figure 79: Trilingual Inscription https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Trilingual_inscription_of_Xerxes%2C_Van%2C_1973.JPG/1200px-Trilingual_inscription_of_Xerxes%2C_Van%2C_1973.JPG Bjørn Christian Tørrissen

Figure 80: Phaestos Disc By C messier - Own work, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc#/media/File:Δίσκος_της_Φαιστού_πλευρά_Α_6380.JPG

Figure 81: The Sea Peoples http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-tell-abu-al-kharaz-sea-people-01723.html

Figure 82: Phaestos Disc Symbology http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/Images/countries/Greek%20pics/phaistos.gif

Figure 83: Arkalochori Axe http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/Images/countries/Greek%20pics/arkalochori_axe.gif

Figure 84: Early Olmec Script https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/cascajal-tablet-key-understanding-giant-olmec-heads-008104

Figure 85: Rongo Rongo Rapa Nui Script https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barthel_Da.png

Figure 86: New Olmec Script

https://hubpages.com/education/The-Olmec-Precusors-to-Mesoamerican-History

Figure 87: Mayan Text https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Dresden_codex%2C_page_2.jpg/220px-Dresden_codex%2C_page_2.jpg

Figure 88: Figure 88: Shang Script https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-neanderthals-were artists-20180222-htmlstory.html

Figure 89: Neanderthal Dated Art http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/Writing/The_first_ancient_writing.htm

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Figure 90: Aerial View of part of Carnac https://www.truthcontrol.com/forum/myth-and-enduring-mystery-carnac-stones

A Druid? Figure 91: https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g187096-d1788450-i147731910-Megaliths_of_Carnac-Carnac_Morbihan_Brittany.html

Figure 92: Jiroft Script Ancient Iran

http://www.payvand.com/news/11/nov/1049.html

Figure 93: Father Crespi Script https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/cueva_tayos02.htm

Figure 94: Gold Crespi Script https://ilramodoro-katyasanna.blogspot.com/2013/01/cueva-de-los-tayos-la-collezione-di.html

Figure 95: Equador Crespi Closeup of tile and pants and sandals and script https://comicvine.gamespot.com/profile/turoksonofstone/blog/return-to-cueva-de-los-tayos/73500/

Figure 96: Jiroft Outfit http://www.irangazette.com/en/12/1168-kerman-jiroft-cradle-of-the-east-civilization.html

Figure 97: Jiroft Pottery http://www.payvand.com/news/11/nov/1049.html

Figure 98: Jiroft Scorpion Man http://www.payvand.com/news/11/nov/1049.html

Figure 99: Jiroft Large Cat with huge snakes. http://www.payvand.com/news/11/nov/1049.html

Figure 100: Jiroft Pyramids http://www.payvand.com/news/11/nov/1049.html

Figure 101: Jiroft ‘handbag’ http://www.payvand.com/news/11/nov/1049.html

Figure 102: Gobleki Tepe Handbags and Dodo Birds or vultures

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929303-400-worlds-oldest-temple-built-to-worship-the-dog-star/

Figure 103: Handbags : http://www.visioninconsciousness.org/Ancient_Civilizations_11.htm

Figure 104: Interglacials http://railsback.org/FQS/FQS.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Figure 121: Teotihuacan https://fromalaskatobrazil.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/pyramid-of-the-moon.jpg

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

Figure 123: Tools found at Hueyatlaco https://bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/archeohhist/archeohhist05.htm

Figure 124: Olmec Head http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/mexicostoneheads.htm

Figure 125: Father Crespi artifact https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/father-crespi-and-missing-golden-artefacts-001196

Figure 126: Olmec and Maya areas of influence https://www.crystalinks.com/olmec.html

Figure 127: Olmec Head https://www.lazerhorse.org/2014/10/02/olmec-incredible-mesoamerican-art/#

Figure 128: Polynesian Woman http://killpic.pw/Vintage-Topless-HULA-GIRL-Postcard-Polynesian.html

Figure 129: Olmec Head https://www.thoughtco.com/olmec-religion-2136646 Olmec Head at the Xalapa Anthropology Museum. Photo by Christopher Minster

Figure 130: Olmec Baby http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread992421/pg1

Figure 131: Olmec Adult https://www.ancient.eu/Olmec_Civilization/

Figure 132: Kaminalijuyu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminaljuyu#/media/File:Monument_65.jpg By Jonathan Kaplan1938, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50228388

Figure 133: La Venta Pyramid http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/mexicolaventa.htm

Figure 134: Olmec Cantona site https://travelingted.com/2012/11/26/cantona-olmec-ruins-in-mexico-photo-essay/

Figure 135: Saqqara Egypt https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g294202-d469330-i23945835-Step_Pyramid_of_Djoser-Giza_Giza_Governorate.html

Figure 136: Canary Island Pyramids https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/did-celts-create-ibero-guanche-writing-canary-islands-008515

Figure 137: North Africa eroded pyramid http://www.portail-amazigh.com/2013/07/pyramides-berbers-berber-pyramids.html?m=1

Figure 138: Monte Alban Zapotec Site Author Lsalgador82 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piramide_parte_alta_monte_alban.JPG

Figure 139: El Tajin Mexico Ernest Mettendorf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_Tajín_Pyramid_of_the_Niches.jpg

Figure 140: Tula Mexico By Alejandro Linares Garcia - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24484504

Figure 141: Koh Ker Cambodia https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Koh_Ker

Figure 142: Tikal Guatemala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikal_Temple_I

Figure 143: Cambodian Pyramid https://keeperofthehome.org/12-things-my-children-learned-while-worldschooling-this-year/

Figure 144: Olmec Figurine

http://www.antiques.com/classified_items.php?SeArChItEmS=&startrage=&endrange=&catid=380&GoPageNo=56

Figure 145: Bat https://www.paradeantiques.co.uk/china-ceramics-glass/oriental/chinese/c1100-b.c.-chinese-shang-to-zhou-carved-russet-jade-bat-bracelet

Figure 146: Bat https://www.paradeantiques.co.uk/china-ceramics-glass/oriental/chinese/c1100-b.c.-chinese-shang-to-zhou-carved-russet-jade-bat-bracelet

Figure 147: Monte Alto Guatemala http://ajourneythroughguatemala.blogspot.com/2010/07/monte-alto-culture-key-to-understand.html

Figure 148: Zoloizcuintli http://animalia-life.club/other/mexican-hairless-dog.html

Figure 149: Peruvian Xolo http://megamascota.hiperarticulos.com/peruvian-dog/

Figure 150: Chinese Hairless https://animalsbreeds.com/chinese-crested/

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Saturday, April 21, 2018

TEACHER STRIKE

So here I am writing about what I studied in official school again. More on the ‘crisis’ in the public schools, the teacher strike and money allocation….

I am against teachers striking. I participated in a short strike once and it had long term detrimental effects in the school district. The schools stayed open but ‘scab’ substitutes filled in and no educating took place, except that the kids maybe learned something about the adults going at each other. A teacher strike is inappropriate.

In Arizona, the educational edifice already commands a large portion of all the state revenue, while producing mediocre overall results, high administrative salaries and perks, teachers and students shorted in salaries and materials, giant high schools far from the students, expensive busing and a paucity of programs using internet classes below the Community College level.

The ‘traditional’ high school is rigid in structure, time and attendance, but is not rigid in teaching the students to think for themselves instead of expecting them to regurgitate liberal Pablum. These schools are too large, creating crowd control problems and difficulties in defense. Why not have very local small high schools with excellent internet classes, on site classes, tutoring and assistance? Break up those huge schools into manageable units that don’t require a giant bus system, and close enough students could walk or bicycle to school. Charter schools are operating all over the state in private quarters and the public schools should also. Existing huge schools could be turned into community centers, vocational education centers, clinics, apartments…..They have nice grounds and space and are valuable properties. Take those monster schools out of the public domain and privatize, generating tax revenue instead of gobbling it up. Just think of a school budget without a Maintenance and Operation budget, but with a lease instead, a fixed cost free of costly repairs. A predictable, negotiable cost rather than a wild card 50 year old building with corroded plumbing.

Right now, school boards are controlling the spending in each designated school district and some are abusing the privilege of managing tax money. Some punky little shits called superintendents are raking in huge salaries and benefits, while the students go without equipment and materials and teachers are not paid enough. The school board travels to Washington DC for a conference from little Tucson Arizona while the kids suffer a high dropout rate, discipline is difficult and the infighting on the school boards prove the distress in the system. Free day care for all employees comes out of district money while students fight outside the high school while administrators are nowhere to be seen. The mismanagement of received funds, the boondoggle of ‘bond issues’ to build huge edifices expensive to maintain at taxpayer expense while kickbacks flow and some ‘superintendents’ get huge payouts for being incompetent. These fools on the school boards will sign any goddam contract anybody puts in front of them. And this ‘bonus’ crap! If somebody signs a contract to do a job, a bonus should not be required ever. Budgets need fixed costs, not some jerk deciding whether to give employees a bonus or not based on who bent over the quickest. The system is corrupt and needs mandated spending guidelines passed by the legislature. The waste is enormous and the taxpayers are being asked to give the school districts even more money, at the expense of the rest of the state.

I am in favor of school choice. Charter schools are great and they allow parents to choose a focused program and offer small class sizes and other social benefits for students. The original public schools were built at community government expense because there were no schools. Now there are many schools and buildings but the main stumbling block is the lack of a state curriculum.

The state of Arizona is responsible for high school graduation requirements and a curriculum to match. I say the state is responsible, but that does not mean they fulfill that responsibility. We do not need common core. We need educators in Arizona to write a basic curricular framework for the high school subjects basic to a college education and basic for community college and basic for the high school graduate who will be a functioning citizen. Government and citizenship must be taught and no student should graduate without a basic Constitution test.

This leads to another problem. The validity of the High School Diploma must be maintained. I recommend several types to avoid the attendance versus achievement hassle. Do not give the same diploma to a student who is in special programs and who cannot read very well to a normal student who actually passed the state requirements and graduated with skills. I knew a kid once who could read very little but could take an engine apart and repair it. Why not a vocational diploma?

The teacher walkout will strip the schools of their substitute budget if they stay open and will hugely inconvenience parents who will have an instant babysitting problem. Education will be disrupted. A strike is a bad idea and the parents will suffer. It’s not fair to the parents or the students.

I am amazed that the teachers are taking the side of the existing order when a change would so obviously assist them and their students. The school districts should cut spending in the nonacademic areas and reallocate the funds to the classrooms and teacher salaries. No more free cars, no more administrative travel, no more free memberships, no more free insurance while others pay, just come to work like the rest. Pay for your own expenses. I think no more than 20% should go to administration: after all, that is one fifth of the whole budget to how many people? Maybe that’s too much.

I have heard board members state that good administrative candidates are expensive, while ignoring the local dedicated professionals who would do the job better for less money because they actually care about the job, rather than commanding excessive money in a display of puffery and greed. Whatever happened to dedication? Hire the dedicated, rather than the social climbers and the kickback takers from huge building deals brokered with tax money. The teachers are being manipulated to support a position detrimental to their own stated goals.

Is it the unions? Professional agitators? I think the unions push for the status quo where their reps get free time, a gift of public funds to do union ‘business’ and it has been my experience that the teachers’ unions work closely with administration while maintain their own perks and status. The teachers need to accept new leadership and understand that their position will be augmented by a new spending formula.

If some changes in the spending formula are not implemented, the Charter School Movement will gradually overtake the public schools, siphoning off students until the size of the districts will be diminished.

A few suggestions:

· Divest of the huge schools and form smaller, safer, local schools.

· Use private enterprise buildings for schools

· Cut out busing and use the local bus system, which needs financial support

· Expand course offerings through internet classes

· Institute a State Curriculum without which a school may not receive state student funds

· Phase out the top heavy administration and limit administrative salaries and perks

· Institute a school district spending formula that assures the money gets to students and teachers

The educational scene has changed considerably due to the rise of Charter Schools and school choice. The voucher program should be available to all students, however I know it is a pilot program but the choice should be available to all, even in a pilot program. It smacks of favoritism, otherwise. If it’s not for everyone, it will not pass. The unions are afraid of the voucher idea, because they think it will cause a flight from the public schools.

The public school teachers are going to get a spending formula imposed and they may end up with a voucher program that will cut enrollment in the public schools due to parental dissatisfaction. If they’re looking for a job, then they can apply to the nearest politicized school to continue working…..they may find the parents are actually interested in their children learning to judge for themselves, rather than repeating adult slogans. –Dorothy Prater Niemi