Falcon:
Parents had better be aware of what the government has in store for public run government schools in America.
The name of the disaster is Common Core where the states were bribed and/or blackmailed by the government to sign up of loose funding from other so called programs.
The big loss other than the education of our students is the loss of student and family privacy. In order for states to qualify for Stimulus Bill funding, the federal Department of Education required the individual states to build expensive databases to track student data and progress. This database was suggested to include the following information:
Test scores, homework completion, extracurricular activity, health care history, disciplinary record, family income range, family voting status, political affiliations, religious affiliation, housing information, bus information, telephone information, family government assistance information, personality traits, work techniques and effort ets., over 400 data points in all.
People had better go to the: www.limitedgovernment.org and look up the following Institute Brief, volume 20 number 33 titled “The Problems of the Common Core”
The adoption of CCSS in the Iowa Core gives up the local control that school districts have had and gives the power to control curriculum to the state and federal governments. The states have to adopt the CCSS exactly as written, which removes the local school district’s ability to decide what is best for the students in each individual district. In other words it basically gets the states departments of education, local school districts, and parents out of the way; so government has control of their children’s education. There are about five smart states that turned the government down on the quest to control you children’s education and basically their entire lives.
-AM
If you have written emails to Falcon over the past month and wondered why your letters didn’t appear here, it was because our email spam filter went rouge and mistakenly thought your emails were ‘spam’.
Hopefully we have the problem corrected now. Sorry for the error. Keep sending your emails. We’ll watch for ’em!
-Falcon
This video shows what happened on March 17th when an CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) hit Earths magnetic field. Two days earlier, sunspot AR1692 had produced a M1-class solar flare that resulted in the CME that hit Earth.
This time lapse shows what happened during four hours over Östersund here in Sweden, between 19:20 and 23:35 UT.
The time lapse consists of 2464 raw images for a total data amount of 30Gb. The photo of the Sun is a hydrogen alpha mosaic I’ve made from 10 images that was captured on March 16. Total of 10 Gb data. So all in all this movie contains over 40Gb of data that I’ve been processing over the last 5 days. Hope you enjoy it.
