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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Justice Department Reaches Settlement to Remedy Severe Racial Harassment of Black and Asian-American Students in Utah School District | OPA | Department of Justice

The investigation revealed persistent failures to respond to reports of race-based harassment of Black and Asian-American students by district staff and other students. The department’s review, which focused on 2015-2020, found hundreds of documented uses of the N-word, among other racial epithets, derogatory racial comments, and physical assaults targeting district students at dozens of schools. The department concluded that for years, Davis’s ineffective response left students vulnerable to continued harassment and that students believed the district condoned the behavior. The department also found that Davis disciplined Black students more harshly than their white peers for similar behavior and that Davis denied Black students the ability to form student groups while supporting similar requests by other students.  Black and Asian-American students are each roughly 1 percent of the approximately 73,000 students enrolled in the district…

Under the agreement, Davis will retain a consultant to review and revise anti-discrimination policies and procedures and support the district as it undertakes significant institutional reforms.  Among other steps, Davis will:

  • create a new department to handle complaints of race discrimination;
  • train staff on how to identify, investigate, and respond to complaints of racial harassment and discriminatory discipline practices;
  • inform students and parents of how to report harassment and discrimination;
  • create a centralized, electronic reporting system to track and manage complaints and Davis’s response to complaints;
  • implement student, staff, and parent training and education on identifying and preventing race discrimination, including discriminatory harassment;
  • analyze and review discipline data and amend policies to ensure non-discriminatory enforcement of discipline policies; and
  • develop a districtwide procedure to assess requests for student groups and treat such requests fairly.

Source: Justice Department Reaches Settlement to Remedy Severe Racial Harassment of Black and Asian-American Students in Utah School District | OPA | Department of Justice

Autumn Clouds

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

This evening cirrus clouds filled the sky at sunset. View the following photographs to understand how these forms are named from the Latin word for a ringlet, or curl, of hair. Formed above 16,500 feet, on this day the cirrus glow with the light of a sun low in the sky.

Here is a wide view from our driveway that includes a deteriorating con trail and possibly a mixture of other cloud types, I am no expert. I used a Canon “zoom” lens for flexibility in framing. To minimize exposure time for a crisp capture of the moving object, ISO was set to to 1,000 and the f-stop minimized.

Click any image for a larger views. Then, click again to return to post.

Post production I needed to spend time removing dust spots (neglected to clean the image sensor), some of the images still have those annoying spots.

We enjoy…

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House Finds Bannon in Contempt for Defying Jan. 6 Inquiry Subpoena – The New York Times

But what was clear on Thursday in the debate before the vote was that nine months after the deadliest attack on the Capitol in two centuries, most Republicans remained bent on whitewashing, ignoring or even validating the mob violence on Jan. 6 in Mr. Trump’s name, based on his lie of election fraud.

They did so seemingly at the direction of Mr. Trump himself, who in a statement before the vote derided the election he lost as a crime and praised the mob attack — which injured 140 police officers and claimed several lives — as a legitimate response.

But what was clear on Thursday in the debate before the vote was that nine months after the deadliest attack on the Capitol in two centuries, most Republicans remained bent on whitewashing, ignoring or even validating the mob violence on Jan. 6 in Mr. Trump’s name, based on his lie of election fraud. They did so seemingly at the direction of Mr. Trump himself, who in a statement before the vote derided the election he lost as a crime and praised the mob attack — which injured 140 police officers and claimed several lives — as a legitimate response.

Klassiska stora krön Full fart överallt WRC Rally Finland har det mesta

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Finländsk premiär var det för mig när det gäller rally, Jag vaknade upp pigg och utvilad på scandic hotell på flygplatsen i Helsingfors en lagom liten Flygplats så man inte kommer allt för mycket vilse och har någorlunda överkomlig chans på några timmar lära sig hitta åt vilket håll man skulle.

Väntetid hade jag innan jag skulle bli upphämtad av rallybussen som också senare under resan ordagrant var rallybuss och rallybuss chaufför Teemu var minst sagt inte blyg med gas foten.

En utmärkt vistelse på hotellet där jag fick uppgradering av rum och kändes skönt och lyxigt att kunna koppla av och ladda för en hel helgs rallyäventyr, Frukost på hotellet innan utcheckning och några timmars förströelse på flygplatsen som jag lärde mig hitta snabbt på, Skillnad när man kommer till några av världens stora flygplatser som man väldigt enkelt kan mycket vilse! men nu var detta ingen flygplats historia…

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the love we feel on this night

Develop. Inspire. Transform.

the moon
speaks to me,
languages learned
through discorded earth

traveling from afar,
I quest into
the understanding shown,
close to heart, and
yet still from afar,
I’ve learnt…

…through
distances purged,
I indulge in the urge, and
request more at the moons behest,
as seeing, sees fit
to offer more,
closing the distances met

between me,
and the seas,
trees, and flowers
blooming abundantly…

realizing love
is at the center
of all things seen,
and felt in-between
the moons myriad phases,
and my truncated

belief
in this dream…for it is

in the unseen,
where life lives in this moment,
as you and I hold hands,
wish upon a star,
say goodnight to the moon,
and swoon, as delight

lights
up our hearts,
and makes space
for the love
we feel
on this
night

in full bloom…


Photo by Manjunath H P on Unsplash


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