Category: News

  • Full Visual Tree Structure in Microsoft Windows

    Full Visual Tree Structure in Microsoft Windows

    Hundreds of folks always ask about an alternative to the TREE command in Windows using the CMD function. Clunky and visually out-of-date.

    Directory Tree in Microsoft

    Try using Jam Software’s TreeSize. They have a free version which creates stunning graphical representations of your tree structures. You may find the interface a bit daunting at first, but once you see through the various options, you’ll find a great FILE->EXPORT command which creates wonderful PDF output.

    Our software recommendation this week is:

    Jam Software’s TreeSize Free

  • The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness

    The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness

    by Rhonda V. Magee

    The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
    Amazon Available from Amazon.com

    In a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healing is an ongoing process. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of those like us, and to blame others. This book profoundly shows that in order to have the difficult conversations required for working toward racial justice, inner work is essential. Through the practice of embodied mindfulness–paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way–we increase our emotional resilience, recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered.

    As Sharon Salzberg, New York Times-bestselling author of Real Happiness writes, “Rhonda Magee is a significant new voice I’ve wanted to hear for a long time—a voice both unabashedly powerful and deeply loving in looking at race and racism.” Magee shows that embodied mindfulness calms our fears and helps us to exercise self-compassion. These practices help us to slow down and reflect on microaggressions–to hold them with some objectivity and distance–rather than bury unpleasant experiences so they have a cumulative effect over time. Magee helps us develop the capacity to address the fears and anxieties that would otherwise lead us to re-create patterns of separation and division.

    It is only by healing from injustices and dissolving our personal barriers to connection that we develop the ability to view others with compassion and to live in community with people of vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints. Incorporating mindfulness exercises, research, and Magee’s hard-won insights, The Inner Work of Racial Justice offers a road map to a more peaceful world.

  • The Rise of Antisemitism in the United States

    The Rise of Antisemitism in the United States

    Star of David

    “McMinn County Board of Education members claim they banned “Maus” due to “rough, objectionable language” and a depiction of nudity. But when officials start making it harder for students to learn about injustices like antisemitism, objections about language and sex are almost always just an authoritarian excuse to sanitize history, further marginalize already oppressed populations, and ultimately seize power at any cost.”

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  • Stanton, Greg

    Stanton, Greg

    U.S. House Arizona District 9

    Greg Stanton
    Greg Stanton

    We recommend Greg Stanton for his support of the Equality Act, a bill that would expand the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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  • Republicans Sponsor Hate Bill

    Gay Globe

    Former school teacher Chasten Buttigieg is slamming Florida legislation dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would ban discussion of LGBTQ issues in public schools under the guise of “parental rights,” saying it will “kill kids.” 1

    A Republican-led committee in the Florida state house has advanced a bill that would ban all discussion of sexuality and gender identity in schools, a move advocates say will “erase” LGTBQ+ students and history. 2

    January 20, 2022 — The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people, condemned the Florida House Education & Employment Committee for passing HB 1557/SB 1834, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would ban classroom discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, erasing LGBTQ identity, history, and culture — as well as LGBTQ students themselves. The bill also has provisions that appear to undermine LGBTQ support in schools and include vague parental notification requirements which could effectively “out” LGBTQ-identifying students to their parents without their consent. 3