Showing posts with label Defend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Defend. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 September 2012

In a competition over Egypt's future, secular activists try to defend graffiti …

Now, 15 years later, life is back to what it once was long before the industrial revolution: families living in quiet cul-de-sacs, and when the sun goes down, the lanterns and candles are lit. Life is slower and sweeter. Or is it?

Most books aren't printed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper so why are these the standard paper dimensions? Paul Stanley offers an answer: …we have ended up with paper sizes that were never designed or adapted for printing with

This guest post is by Alex Guazzelli, VP of Analytics at Zementis Inc. — ed. PMML, the Predictive Model Markup Language, is the de facto standard to represent predictive analytics and data mining models. With PMML, it is

Now, 15 years later, life is back to what it once was long before the industrial revolution: families living in quiet cul-de-sacs, and when the sun goes down, the lanterns and candles are lit. Life is slower and sweeter. Or is it?

CAIRO — Under cover of darkness, a few municipality workers quietly began to paint over an icon of Egypt's revolution: a giant, elaborate public mural on the street that saw some of the most violent clashes between protesters and police over the past


Friday, 27 July 2012

Conservatives Defend Chick fil-A on Twitter

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's announcement that.

“Chick-fil-A's values are not Chicago values. They're not respectful of our residents, our neighbors and our family members. And if you're gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values,” Emanuel said, according to the

Ask them if they would like anything to drink. I only ask they keep off the property. Even angry protesters find it hard to get mad when they realize we are just ordinary people. August 3rd is national gay kiss day at [Chick-fil-A].

Chick-fil-A, home of chicken-loving bigots, is in the middle of a PR nightmare. After Chick-fil-A's COO admitted to being anti-gay, the Jim Henson Company (bless their heart) pulled their toys from Chick-fil-A's kids meals.

The furor over Chick-fil-A's stance on same-sex marriage continued to grow Thursday as thousands of people on both sides of the debate took to Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms to voice their disdain or support for the fast-food chain.