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  • Vanity: Preparing to move to Phoenix

    08/29/2017 1:35:04 PM PDT · by Dr. Sivana · 118 replies
    self | self
    We are looking to relocate from Columbus, Georgia to Phoenix, Arizona. Two members of my family suffer from the local pollen and humid weather. We also need to be closer to traditional Catholic Latin Mass and Sacraments. Wonderful as Columbus is culturally and politically (in the region, not the city proper), there aren't a lot of local traditional Catholic resources. I have been stymied in my attempts to even get so much as an interview for the jobs I apply for online. Presently, I work in IT (storage/servers/backup) in the financial industry. My skills are not cutting edge and I...
  • Lurid Trump allegations made by Louise Mensch and co-writer came from hoaxer

    08/28/2017 3:17:11 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 5 replies
    The Manchester Guardian ^ | August 28, 2017 | Jon Swaine in New York
    Explosive allegations about Donald Trump made by online writers with large followings among Trump critics were based on bogus information from a hoaxer who falsely claimed to work in law enforcement. Claude Taylor posted tweets reporting fake details of criminal inquiries into Trump that were invented by a source whose claim to work for the New York attorney general was not checked, according to emails seen by the Guardian. The allegations were endorsed as authentic and retweeted by his co-writer Louise Mensch. The source’s false tips included an allegation, which has been aggressively circulated by Mensch and Taylor, that Trump’s...
  • Atlanta firm to create 300 jobs at South Charleston-based regional tech park (West Virginia)

    08/28/2017 2:06:59 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 6 replies
    The Metro News ^ | August 28, 2017 | Staff
    SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — An Atlanta-based sales and marketing firm plans to locate in the West Virginia Regional Technology Park in South Charleston with plans to create as many as 300 new jobs. Officials with N3 were on hand for the announcement in Monday afternoon along with tech park, state officials and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin. “The WV Regional Technology Park is a perfect fit for N3 and our growing business — its proximity to excellent colleges and universities, and being located in the heart of the Kanawha Valley, will help us recruit the talent we need to serve our...
  • Turning the Lights Back On, on the Internet

    08/28/2017 6:18:01 AM PDT · by Sean_Anthony · 6 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 08/28/17 | Judi McLeod
    Stand up to the progressive left-guided mainstream and social media, by keeping on going to the videos and news sites of your choice One by one, they’re turning the lights off on the Internet. Not long ago the promised Information Highway for everyone, the World Wide Web is fast transforming over to the Misinformation Highway. An all-powerful Google is now flat-out dictating which videos you will be able to see. A pious Facebook the judge and jury of which topics will be permitted to trend
  • WATCH VIDEO: Hipster Antifa Loser Makes a Fool of Himself

    08/27/2017 6:53:59 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 25 replies
    YouTube ^ | August 27, 2017 | Guava Cheese Puff
    Look at this video of this hipster loser during a Antifa rally.
  • The far right has its own web, but what use is a site no-one will serve?

    08/26/2017 5:08:26 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 34 replies
    Boing Boing ^ | August 22, 2017 | Rob Beschizza
    After Charlottesville and the murder of Heather Heyer, hitherto Nazi-friendly internet companies have found their boots and their banhammers. The angry right has for some time anticipated this eventuality, and colonized or established replicas of key services and platforms. 8chan, Voat and Gab are the most well-known examples, respectively resembling 4chan, Reddit and Twitter. Adi Robertson writes that the internet's plumbing, the world of domain name registrars and load mitigation, will be harder to replicate. Why the alt-right can’t build an alt-internet. Even if such a registrar could ignore bad PR, activists could still lodge complaints with the registries, which...
  • Communism = Inappropriate For Children. Nazism = Mandatory Learning In School

    08/23/2017 7:47:20 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 6 replies
    Twittter ^ | 08/23/17 | Laura Southern
    Communism = bad Inappropriate for children Nazism = bad Mandatory learning in school
  • Free College Is Now Here … Really

    08/21/2017 7:19:43 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 42 replies
    Real Clear Life ^ | August 21, 2017 | Richard Klinsky
    Something important happened in the field of education this month. For the first time ever, any student anywhere can take top-quality courses online in every major freshman college subject, taught by professors from the most prestigious universities, that lead to full academic credit at 2,900 traditional colleges, such as Purdue, Penn State, Colorado State and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, all absolutely free. There is no tuition cost. No text book cost. No administrative or connection fees. No taxpayer subsidy or federal Title IV funding required. And this is not a plan for the future, but a working reality available to...
  • Markforged announces two 3D printers that produce items as strong as steel

    08/21/2017 4:41:09 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 6 replies
    Tech Crunch ^ | August 21, 2017 | John Biggs
    Markforged, a 3D printer manufacturer based in Boston, has just announced two new models — the X3 and the X5. Both of these printers are designed to create carbon fiber-infused objects using a standard filament printing system and both can produce items that can replace or are stronger than steel objects. Both printers have auto-leveling and scanning systems to ensure each printed object is exactly like every other. Further, the printers use Markforged’s special thermoplastic fiber filament, while the X5 can add a “strand of continuous fiberglass” to create objects “19X stronger and 10X stiffer than traditional plastics.” This means...
  • 5 Brand Strategies Your Small Business Can Learn from Luxury Brands

    08/21/2017 4:07:10 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 27 replies
    The Huffington Post ^ | August 21, 2017 | Hanna Fitz
    For years luxury brands have mesmerized us with highly desirable products and services. They inspire us to dream bigger and leave us desiring more. You can learn so much about attracting ideal clients from these dream building brands. I had a client (let’s call the brand was called “Arnanda”) this client had on their list On the outside, it seemed that this client was a success but this client was struggling financially to reach more high-end clients and make a profit. On the other hand, another one of my clients from Italy, who had worked as a consultant for Salvatore...
  • Teleperformance to Host National Hiring Day Across Their USA Locations (1,000 jobs)

    08/21/2017 3:08:44 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 19 replies
    PR ^ | August 21, 2017
    Murray, UT, August 21, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Teleperformance, the global leader in outsourced omnichannel customer experience management, announced that it will host a National Hiring Day in the US on Wednesday, August 23, with a goal to hire more than 1,000 people across the US on this day. Teleperformance will host a Career Event on Wednesday, August 23, in 28 of their US locations, where the company encourages anyone interested in the opportunity to grow and advance their careers to apply at their local Teleperformance site between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. “Our company has always seen our US locations as...
  • Girls Who Code founder: Men build technologies to 'replace their mothers'

    08/21/2017 11:55:55 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 31 replies
    KITV-TV ^ | August 21, 2017 | Haley Draznin, CNN Money
    Reshma Saujani is not a coder but she's empowering "an army of young women" to take on tech's gender gap through her nonprofit Girls Who Code. "I think that this is an opportunity we have to give every single one of our children," Saujani says in a new episode of CNN's Boss Files with Poppy Harlow. "I think the problem is right now, culturally, images that we see are very male. We have to be thoughtful and think about how can we open the door." Through Girls Who Code, Saujani is helping to bridge the opportunity gap for young girls...
  • Android update ruined Free Republic Page on my Samsung

    08/20/2017 7:40:58 PM PDT · by goodnesswins · 46 replies
    www.freerepublic.com ^ | 8/20/17 | me
    Help.....I just updated my Android Samsung 4....been putting it off....ALWAYS worry what that might bring. Well, now I can't read the FR page and other pages like Duck Duck Go.....any ideas....suggestions?
  • Trump predicts Bannon will be a ‘tough and smart new voice’ outside White House

    08/20/2017 12:58:27 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 63 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 19, 2017
    “Steve Bannon will be a tough and smart new voice at @BreitbartNews... maybe even better than ever before,” Trump tweeted. “Fake News needs the competition!”(TWEET-AT-LINK) Bannon returned to work late Friday as executive chairman at Breitbart News and chaired its evening editorial meeting Friday, the site said. The former adviser, who had a rocky 12-month tenure with Trump, said he plans to go “to war” for the president in his outside role. “If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents -- on Capitol...
  • Chelsea Manning, Mike Masnick, and Annie Game Named EFF Pioneer Award Winners

    08/18/2017 9:17:41 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 7 replies
    Electronic Frontier Foundation ^ | August 16, 2017 | Press Release
    SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced today that whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning, Techdirt editor and open internet advocate Mike Masnick, and IFEX executive director and global freedom of expression defender Annie Game are the distinguished winners of the 2017 Pioneer Awards, which recognize leaders who are extending freedom and innovation on the electronic frontier. This year’s honorees—a whistleblower, an editor, and an international freedom of expression activist—all have worked tirelessly to protect the public’s right to know. The award ceremony will be held the evening of September 14 at Delancey Street’s Town Hall Room in San Francisco....
  • Offensive African American Blogger Tommy Sotomayor Attacked In Harlem New York

    08/18/2017 2:27:14 PM PDT · by Morgana · 27 replies
    hollywood street king ^ | August 14, 2017 | staff
    Jump to around the 55:00 mark to see the defense of Nubian Queen! The setup starts earlier at the 48:00 mark. Tommy called 911 after the confrontation… also caught on tape (below)! **video on link*
  • Trump approves plan to create independent cyber command

    08/18/2017 11:32:12 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 8 replies
    ABC News ^ | August 18, 2017 | Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
    President Donald Trump has approved a long-delayed Pentagon plan to create an independent and more aggressive cyber command in order to beef up cyberwar operations against the Islamic State group and other foes. The White House announcement Friday means U.S. Cyber Command may eventually be split off from the intelligence-focused National Security Agency. For now, Trump has agreed to raise the stature of Cyber Command within the military and give it more autonomy. "This new Unified Combatant Command will strengthen our cyberspace operations and create more opportunities to improve our nation's defense," Trump said in a written statement. "The elevation...
  • Some Are Troubled By Online Shaming Of Charlottesville Rally Participants

    08/17/2017 3:07:13 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 18 replies
    National Public Radio ^ | August 15, 2017 | Laura Sydell
    The names and faces of individuals who were part of last weekend's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., are being plastered all over the Internet by civil rights advocates. It's part of an effort to shame the people who participated. But it's a tactic that can also snare some innocent people in its net. "Yes, You're Racist" is the name of a Twitter account that has been very active in posting pictures of white supremacists at the Charlottesville march and rally. Logan Smith, who runs the account, thinks other people should see the faces of white supremacists. "They're not wearing...
  • Harper’s Bazaar urges women to divorce husbands if they support Trump

    08/13/2017 8:20:20 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 45 replies
    Gears of Biz ^ | August 14, 2017
    According to an August 11 article published by #Harper’s Bazaar, anyone who is married to a supporter of President Trump needs to file for divorce immediately. That’s the advice given by the article’s author, #Jennifer Wright, who cites two recent high-profile divorce cases in which a wife filed for divorce on grounds of irreconcilable political differences. In July, a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader by the name of Lynn Aronberg split from her husband, Florida state attorney Dave Aronberg. The wife, who identified herself as a staunch Republican, claimed that she felt “increasingly isolated” in her marriage to a Democrat. More...
  • Digital media/tech campus would create thousands of jobs in Parker (4,000 jobs in Colorado)

    08/12/2017 3:50:46 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet
    The Arvada Press ^ | August 11, 2017 | Tom Skelley
    A big player in the world of entertainment and digital media plans to bring 4,000 jobs and a 70-acre campus to Parker by 2020. At an Aug. 11 press conference at the state Capitol in Denver, Gov. John Hickenlooper, Parker officials and Redbarre executives announced plans to create the Redbarre Digital Media & Technology Campus in the Compark area just north of E-470. The 1.9 million-square-foot, mixed-use development will focus on feature film, television and digital media production. "Something like that can be transformational," said Dennis Houston, CEO of the Parker Area Chamber of Commerce. "It's life changing, what it...