Behind the scenes at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s tech extravaganza – SFChronicle.com

  hearst/templates/premium/article/content/gallery.tpl e hearst/templates/premium/article/content/gallery.tpl It was the week before Dreamforce, the conference extravaganza organized by Salesforce, and the tech company’s design team was listening to a recording of animals chirping and cooing in the woods. “I’m wondering if we could tone down the woodpecker a little,” said Brigitte Donner, chairwoman of Dreamforce, which will fill…

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Teens kept at Virginia center say they were cuffed, beaten

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal…

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Tiki torch company: We have nothing to do with white nationalism – Aug. 14, 2017

Tiki Brand said it’s “not associated” with torch-bearing protestors who chanted “white lives matter” at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11. Tiki Brand is distancing itself from white nationalists who used tiki torches in a protest march in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Tiki Brand is not associated in any way with the events that took…

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Hurt and Angry, Charlottesville Tries to Regroup From Violence – NYTimes.com

close story-meta Photo Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia spoke on the steps of the First Baptist Church on Sunday, a day after violent protests that stemmed from a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Credit Matt Eich for The New York Times CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister in training at Sojourners United Church of…

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Doxxed White Supremacist Caught Red-Handed With Torch at Charlottesville Wants to Put That Genie Back in the Bottle

Photo: Getty Images A 20-year-old University of Nevada, Reno student who was caught on camera carrying torches alongside other white supremacists at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia is backpedaling furiously now that his identity has been exposed. Channel 2 News reports that after the photo of Peter Cvjetanovic screaming while holding the torch went viral,…

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