Terry Richardson still shooting mainstream mag photos

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Why is an alleged predator still shooting mag covers for Rolling Stone and Bazaar? In this piece that Vogue distanced itself when Richardson’s predatory behavior was being talked about last year.

So…they have quietly decided that Richardson “wasn’t so bad, after all?”

Or perhaps they hoped that once the brouhaha died down, that no one would notice they were once again working with this creep?

By all accounts, he’s not even that good of a photographer, using overexposure as a way to….look sophisticated…?

My other posts on Richardson:

Sleazebag Terry Richardson.

Brainless Model Stands up to Terry Richardson.

Another model comes forward on Terry Richardson

Terry Richardson Assistant who cajoled his alleged victims, identified.

Indiana: Legislature Likely to Act to Hobble Ritz, Unions, Push Their Own Agenda

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dianeravitch's avatarDiane Ravitch's blog

Indiana may be a textbook example of legislative meddling in education. Every legislator went to school (presumably), so they all know how to solve education problems. Certainly, they would not allow educators to be involved in such weighty matters!

At the top of their agenda is their determination to eliminate State Superintendent Glenda Ritz’s job, even though she still has the title. They seem sure to pass bills that removes all authority from her elected position and transfers it to the state board of education, which was appointed by Governor Mike Pence. They are also intent on passing legislation to cripple teachers’ unions. Although they repealed the Common Core adoption in the last session, they have not yet decided what to do about new standards and assessments. This would normally be an issue that would be resolved by the State Superintendent and the Department of Education, but the Indiana legislature…

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Corn: The downfall of societies?

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Gene Logsdon, the Contrary Farmer, has an interesting post up on the correlation between the downfall of societies and corn.

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In Mayan culture and in the Late Prehistoric Age of the mound-building American Indians, corn was the major crop. It’s what they mostly ate. Archeologists are finding evidence that this diet led to deteriorating health and maybe was the main reason the mound-building Indians seemed to mysteriously disappear about a thousand years ago. The collapse of the mound-building culture and the collapse of the Mayan civilization earlier coincided with an agriculture and diet dominated by corn. In both cases, rising population and diminishing soil fertility encouraged war and instability because the only way the people knew to maintain high corn yields was to find new land to grow it on.

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Perhaps celiac disease developed in the corn-centered diet and the continual eating of corn further inflamed their guts to the point of death?  Or to the point of inability of the gut to digest food properly, and they died of malnutrition and disease due to their gut being unable to mount an attack when a pathogen appeared?

The more I read of farming, the more convinced I am that diverse farms are the answer to soil depletion of nutrients and beneficial organisms; to fight off harmful insects (or at least keep them in check).  I was just reading about planting beets yesterday, and they recommended not planting them in the same spot year after year.  The mistake that most beginner gardeners make is thinking that since a plant did so well in one spot, that they should plant the same plant there again the next year.  Nope.  They were saying that beets are “heavy eaters” in that they take up a lot of nutrients, therefore one needs to plant something else the next year to put nutrients back into the soil.  This also goes along with composting food scraps, leaves, twigs, and dirt, because they also put nutrients back into the soil.

Jeb Bush: Pothead, Bully

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Bob Sikes's avatarScathing Purple Musings

David Martosko, the US Political Editor for the DailyMail has gone where Jeb Bush’s handlers wishes he hadn’t:

Jeb Bush, the newest front-runner among Republicans seeking their party’s 2016 presidential nomination, smoked marijuana in high school – an activity he describes as ‘pretty common’ at the tony Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

He told The Boston Globe in an interview published ahead of Sunday’s edition that ‘I drank alcohol and I smoked marijuana when I was at Andover.’

Both activities were strictly forbidden at the time – and still are – and could have gotten him expelled.

But ‘it was pretty common,’ he insisted.

Bush, once a 6-foot, 4-inch high school senior, Bush was also seen as a bully by some of his classmates, notably one who weighed less than 100 pounds. Another said he was ‘a cigarette smoker and “toker”.’

I guess they knew all this was going to come…

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Ohio Groups Call on Sponsor to Withdraw Support for Gulen Schools; Sponsor Refuses

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dianeravitch's avatarDiane Ravitch's blog

A coalition of liberal groups called on the sponsor of 11 charter schools to drop them because of allegations of racism, sexism, and test cheating, as well as FBI raids on some of them.

The sponsor, Buckeye Community Hope, refused.

“All of the schools belong to the Concept charter school network that operates in the Midwest. Concept, in turn, is one of several charter systems affiliated with the Gulen movement that has attracted scrutiny nationwide.”

The spokesperson for Buckeye said they will renew all. 9–not 11–Gulen schools. She called the allegations unfounded and accused the groups of “nitpicking.”

“Like all of Ohio’s sponsors, it receives a fee from each school, based on the number of students, for its sponsorship work. A recent report by Bellwether Education Partners, a non-profit research and advocacy group based in Boston, called these sponsorship fees a conflict of interest.”

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