African American Heavyweights Rep. Jim Clyburn, Clyburn Women & Morgan Freeman Embrace Hillary

US Rep Jim Clyburn, the third most powerful Democrat in Washington, acknowledged the influence of his wife and daughters in his decision to endorse presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ahead of the South Carolina's Feb. 27 primary. The females in Clyburn's family are all in for Hillary. 

Previously, Clyburn has remained neutral with endorsements until after the primary, although he tangled with an angry Bill Clinton in 2008 over what the highly-regarded politician perceived as use of racially-tinged comments from the former president in the 2008 battle between now president Obama and Hillary Clinton. 

Clyburn joins his close friend Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who has also endorsed HIllary Clinton and her commitment to the African American community since the days of America's civil rights movement. 

Jim and Emily Clyburn have three daughters, Mignon, Jennifer Reed, and Angela Hannibal; two sons-in-law, Walter Reed and Cecil Hannibal; and three grandchildren, Walter A Clyburn Reed, Sydney Alexis Reed, and Layla Joann Clyburn Hannibal. Speaking yesterday about his decision to support Hillary Clinton, Clyburn explained that the women in his family pressed him very hard to put his heart and head out there in a public embrace for Clinton. 

Clyburn's daughter Mignon is a Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, nominated by President Barack Obama, nominated in June 2009 and sworn in on August 2009. Jennifer Clyburn Reed, Ed.E is a professional educator in Columbia, South Carolina. Angela Clyburn Hannibal is an assistant program coordinator at Benedict College in Columbia. 

Previously this month, Hillary Clinton received the endorsement of the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, and yesterday actor Morgan Freeman endorsed Hillary and released a very special campaign ad. 

Morgan Freeman for Hillary

“Her life’s work has been about breaking barriers and so would her presidency, which is why for every American who’s not being paid what they’re worth, who’s being held back by student debt or a system tilted against them, and there are far too many of you, she understands that our country can’t reach its potential unless we all do," Freeman explains in the ad, which the Clinton campaign confirmed as new. "Together. A stronger country.”

Freeman was candid about his unflinching support for Clinton, telling CNN's Don Lemon that he has absolutely no trust issues with Clinton. 

"Not with me, she doesn't," Freeman said in an interview that aired Friday on "CNN Tonight." "I can't say that she doesn't, because all you need in some cases for people is to say it. Just put it out there and it gets legs. The Clintons have been being beat down ever since way back, so she just was going along with that legacy that she's inherited over the amount of time she's been in politics, which is a long time."

Freeman added, "I think this is just made-up stuff, just, you know, it's political hogwash."

Kate Winslet Challenges Apple Devices As Being Bad For Family Life

Kate Winslet Rules In Alexi Lubomirski Images For Esquire UK November 2015

One of the acclaimed stars of the new movie 'Steve Jobs', British actorKate Winslet just posted a challenging interview with The Sunday Times, arguing that parents are "losing control" of their children to social media. 

Winslet said that social media has a "huge impact on young women's self-esteem", so much so that it made her "blood boil". 

These are tough-talking, fighting words from the mom of three children, proving that beautiful lingerie and posing in sensual, Alexi Lubomirskiimages for Esquire UK in no way invalidate conscientious parenting.

Today's Young Women Design Themselves To Be Liked

Talking about young women in particular, Kate expressed concerns that "all they ever do is design themselves for people to like them. " Arguing that the entire social media world is designed to create -- intentionally or otherwise -- eating disorders, Winslet says there is no social media in our house. 

Kate is troubled by the addictive quality of the devices Apple designed, saying that people "practically kiss them goodnight." These trends all make for difficult family-building experiences, with modern families separating into camps even in cafes. Do they speak to each other, asks Winslet? No. They look past each other, with heads buried down in their mobile devices. 

“They go into a world, and parents let them. I’m going to get slagged off for saying this, but it takes every member of a family to be a family, and there are too many interruptions these days — and devices are a huge interruption,” Winslet added. 

Kate Winslet is a Smart Sensuality woman who knows her own mind.Read more about Kate's keen desire to join the cast of 'Steve Jobs' and interviews about the movie and its core character Steve Jobs. 

Google's Eric Schmidt Funds Critical Startup Providing Techno Prowess To Clinton Campaign

Timely Technology For Hillary

The stealthy, Eric Schmidt-backed startup that's working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House QZ.com

Google executive Eric Schmidt is devoted to electing Democrats. Schmidt was named to a Democratic think tank that analyzed what went wrong after the 2014 elections. But it's his forward-thinking investment in The Groundwork that is making news today.

A fundamental challenge of political campaigns in attracting elite engineering and technology talent is lack of stable job security, stock options and other professional perks used to attract the best minds in and out of Silicon Valley. Eric Schmidt is taking his vast wealth to fund The Groundwork, "one of a series of quiet investments by Schmidt that recognize how modern political campaigns are run, with data analytics and digital outreach as vital ingredients that allow candidates to find, court, and turn out critical voter blocs."

“We’re not trying to obfuscate anything, we’re just trying to keep our heads down and do stuff,” says Michael Slaby, who runs the Groundwork. He was the chief technology officer for president Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, a top digital executive for Obama 2012, and the former chief technology strategist for TomorrowVentures, Schmidt’s angel investment fund.

Why Our Technological Ignorance Is Hurting Hillary Clinton Washington Post

Listening to Mica and Joe on 'Morning Joe', you would think that Hillary Clinton came within a fragile balance in hacking the truths of American diplomacy to the world. Technology experts don't find the reality of the Clinton servers nearly as insecure as the duo portrays them in their incessant Hillary bashing.

Peter Fidler, president of the tech firm WCA Technologies in New York cites the biggest problem for Hillary: People don't really understand how the Internet works, and so the stories might sound more ominous than they otherwise would.

Take the question of whether or not Clinton's server was "wiped." In August, a lawyer for Clinton told a Senate committee by letter that the server "no longer contains data" from Clinton's hdr22@clintonemail.com account. This entered the news cycle as the lawyer saying that the server had been "wiped clean." (When Clinton was asked if her e-mail server was "wiped," it elicited a now-infamous response of apparent bafflement -- which in retrospect seems believable coming from a grandmother.)

According to Fidler, a full "wipe" of the server would be a best practice when decommissioning a server. In fact, the professionals would go further. "Best practices would be to uninstall the software, clean wipe and destroy the hard drives," Fidler said.

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Salma Hayek Helps Launch 'Latinos for Hillary' AOC Hillary Women

'Chime for Change', founded by Gucci and Salma Hayek's husband Francois Henri Pinault, a chief stockholder of Gucci’s parent company Kering, recruited some of the most glamorous, activist leading ladies to work on the empowerment of women and girls around the world. 
Now the activist has turned her attention to electing Hillary Clinton with 'Latinos for Hillary'. 

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