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Denying sentence examples
He.d wanted to continue denying the words of his brothers.
What's the good of denying it, my dear?
Most cases were earlier tips as lately, the authorities were far more cautious with our information; often even denying a tip was involved when an arrest occurred.
There was little point in denying her attraction, but he'd best learn to keep his distance.
There was no denying the contented expression on his face.
On his side, again, the subtenant, by accepting that position, is estopped from denying that his lessor's title (whatever it be) is good.
Their armies thought they were mother and son, and she stopped denying Xander was anything else.
He pulled her close and spoke into her hair, You are denying me nothing.
The reading in public of his two treatises De Potestate ecclesiastica and De Reformatione Ecclesiae revealed, besides ideas very peculiar to himself on the reform and constitution of the church, his design of reducing the power of the English in the council by denying them the right of.
President Jackson responded with a proclamation denying the right of nullification, and asked Congress for authority to collect the revenue in South Carolina by force if necessary.
The mere retention of the same crystal form by homologous substances is not a sufficient reason for denying a morphotropic effect to the substituent group; for, in the case of certain substances crystallizing in the cubic system, although the crystal form remains unaltered, yet the structures vary.
The more cautious Cuvier adopted a view of the relationships of animals which, whilst denying genetic connexion as the explanation, recognized an essential identity of structure throughout whole groups of animals.
Howie always has the option of quitting and denying he's the tipster if someone comes close to revealing him.
An extreme school, the Aktistetae or Gaianists (Gaianus was bishop of Alexandria c. 550) even held that from the moment the Logos assumed the body the latter was untreated, the human being transmuted into the divine nature; and the Adiaphorites went still further; denying, like Stephen Barsudaili, an Edessan abbot, all distinction of essence not even between the manhood and the Godhead in Christ, but between the divine and the human, and asserting that "all creatures are of the same essence with the Creator."
To deny the Linnaean, or later the Cuvierian, classes was very much like denying the Mosaic cosmogony.
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change.
He told Lydia about Fitzgerald buying the vodka on the morning of the Fourth of July, denying it, and saying at the debate that there was liquor in Billy's vehicle when he, Dean, felt there wasn't.
1 During the twelve years that followed Morse was engaged in a painful struggle to perfect his invention and secure for it a proper presentation to the public. In poverty he pursued his new enterprise, making his own models, moulds and castings, denying himself the common necessaries of life.
An act of 1812-1813 excepts from these enactments "persons denying as therein mentioned respecting the Holy Trinity," but otherwise the common and the statute law on the subject remain as stated.
In France, blasphemy (which included, also, speaking against the Holy Virgin and the saints, denying one's faith, or speaking with impiety of holy things) was from very early times punished with great severity.
The statute De haeretico comburendo had just been introduced for the purpose of stamping out heresy, but it had not become law when Sawtrey was summoned to St Paul's and was charged with denying transubstantiation, with refusing to adore the cross except as a symbol, and with six other heresies.
In 1832 he was elected to the state House of Representatives, where, as chairman of a sub-committee, he submitted a report denying the right of Congress to exercise any control over the states.
There was no denying the pleasure in his amber eyes as he boldly surveyed her from head to toe.
Whilst it can hardly be allowed that Xenophanes, so far from denying, actually affirms a plurality of gods, it must be conceded to Freudenthal that Xenophanes's polemic was directed against the anthropomorphic tendencies and the mythological details of the contemporary polytheism rather than against the polytheistic principle, and that, apart from the treatise De Melisso Xenophane et Gorgia, now generally discredited, there is no direct evidence to prove him a consistent monotheist.
Had he not joined the conclave of autocrats at Gaeta, and, above all, had he not summoned Austrian assistance while denying that he had done so, in 1849, he might yet have preserved his throne, and even changed the whole course of Italian history.
It may be said that the author, while denying that wisdom (practical sagacity and level-headedness) can give permanent satisfaction, yet admits its practical value in the conduct of life.
They blasphemed the Virgin, allegorizing her as the upper Jerusalem in which the Lord came in and went out, and denying that he was really made flesh of her.
ix.), the presence of antinomian Gnosticism, denying the doctrine of lordship and " glories " (v.
While he was instantly embarrassed and wore stunned look on his face, he saw no point in denying his activity.
There was little point in denying the fact that she was watching Alex - and enjoying what she was seeing.
neuen Testamente (1841-1844; 2nd ed., 1857-1860); DerSchriftbeweis (1852-1856; 2nd ed., 18 571860); Die heilige Schrift des neuen Testaments zusammenhangend untersucht (1862-1875); Schutzschriften (1856-1859), in which he defends himself against the charge of denying the Atonement; and Theologische Ethik (1878).
Alex did like to be in control, there was no denying that, but he certainly didn't dominate her.
He now obtained a settled home for many years, and, taught by his numerous brushes with the authorities, he began and successfully carried out that system of keeping out of personal harm's way, and of at once denying any awkward responsibility, which made him for nearly half a century at once the chief and the most prosperous of European heretics in regard to all established ideas.
Denying it seemed fruitless yet I couldn't bring myself to confirm what she was saying.
There was no denying that Brandon was a private person - or that he had confided in her more than Rachel or Julia.
He was a powerful preacher and teacher, who broke from Calvinism in denying imputation and teaching perfect freedom of the will, by which perfect holiness might be attained.
All blasphemies against God, as denying His being, or providence, all contumelious reproaches of Jesus Christ, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scriptures, or exposing any part thereof to contempt or ridicule, are punishable by the temporal courts with fine, imprisonment and also infamous corporal punishment.
Until corroboration was found in the Egyptian inscriptions themselves, not only were Manetho's lists in doubt, but scepticism had been carried to the point of denying that Manetho himself had ever existed.
Luther says: " I must begin by denying that there are seven sacraments, and must lay down for the time being that there are only three - baptism, penance and the bread, and that by the court of Rome all these have been brought into miserable bondage, and the Church despoiled of her liberty."
On the 30th of July 1540 three Lutheran clergymen were burned and three Roman Catholics beheaded, the latter for denying the king's spiritual supremacy.
Similarly it only carried the doctrine of relativity to its logical conclusion in denying that there could be any absolute relativity.
After his resignation he was impeached for abuse of power as minister, but the supreme court quashed the impeachment by denying the competence of the ordinary tribunals to judge ministerial acts.
There was no denying the sensation of sweat dripping off her body.
Moreover, there is no denying that the new Nominalism not only represents the love of reality and the spirit of induction, but also contains in itself the germs of that empiricism and:sensualism so frequentlyassociated with the former tendencies.
Dean felt cheated, doubly so because yesterday, a comp day off, it had rained as if St. Swithin was ticked off at the world, denying him the pleasure of biking the Pennsylvania countryside.
Giolitti scarcely improved matters by creating Tanlongo a member of the senate, and by denying in parliament the existence of any mismanagement.
Persons denying the Trinity were deprived of the benefit of the Act of Toleration by an act of 1688.
2 Materialism further brings with it an extreme or " hard " determinism; and, denying the soul's separate existence in any sense, it naturally denies immortality.
With reference to Automathes he is much more reserved in his praise, denying alike its originality, its depth and its elegance; but, he adds, " the book is not devoid of entertainment or instruction."
The answer to dogmatic atheism, that it implies infinite knowledge, has been well stated in John Foster's Essays, and restated by Chalmers in his Natural Theology, and its force is recognized in Holyoake's careful qualification of the sense in which secularism accepts atheism, " always explaining the term atheist to mean `not seeing God' visually or inferentially, never suffering it to be taken for anti-theism, that is, hating God, denying God - as hating implies personal knowledge as the ground of dislike, and denying implies infinite knowledge as the ground of disproof."
Aristippus and his followers seized upon this, and made it the prime factor in existence, denying to virtue any intrinsic value.
Denying the existence of a deity, and refusing to admit as evidence all a priori arguments, Holbach saw in the universe nothing save matter in spontaneous movement.
A court decision denying the legal tender quality of the notes issued by the Bank of the Commonwealth gave rise to a bitter controversy which had considerable influence upon the political history of the state.
Barnes was one of six executed on the same day: two, William Jerome and Thomas Gerrard, were, like himself, burnt for heresy under the Six Articles; three, Thomas Abel, Richard Fetherstone and Edward Powell, were hanged for treason in denying the royal supremacy.
We have seen how anxious Aristotle was to be considered one of the Platonists, how reluctant he was to depart from Plato's hypothesis of forms, and how, in denying the separability, he retained the Platonic belief in the reality and even in the unity of the universal.
8-9), where the Nicomachean Ethics places the speculative and the practical life; but it omits the theological element by denying that good fortune is divine grace, and by submitting gentlemanliness to no standard but that of right reason, when the irrational part of the soul does not hinder the rational part, or intellect (vows), from doing its work.
But however vague and uncertain might be the meaning of Hoadly in regard to several of the important bearings of the questions around which he aroused discussion, he was explicit in denying the power of the Church over the conscience, and its right to determine the condition of men in relation to the favour of God.
The author himself says that it is transfigured realism - which is realism in asserting objective existence as separate from subjective existence, but anti-realism in denying that objective existence is to be known.
But, while it differs from both in denying the reality of body, it differs from the former in extending conscious soul not only to plants, as Stahl did, but to all Nature; and it differs from the latter in the different consequences drawn by materialism and idealism from this universal animism.
But the idealists are only too glad to get any excuse for denying bodily substances and causes; and, while Leibnitz supplied them with the fancied analysis of material into immaterial elements, and Hume with the reduction of bodies to assemblages of sensations, Mach adds the additional argument that bodily forces are not causes at all.
its necessary laws, Boutroux by denying the necessity.
Such is the modern " Acatalepsia," which arises from denying the evidence of the senses, and from citing the transfigured realism of Spencer instead of the original realism of Aristotle, about whom Balfour speaks as follows: " It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to sum up our debts to Aristotle.
Yet, in denying the importance of the emotions in moral judgment, he is driven back to the admission that right actions must be " grateful " to us; that, in fact, moral approbation includes both an act of the understanding and an emotion of the heart.
While holding this office he was selected to officiate as preacher when the friar, John Forest, whom he vainly endeavoured to move to submission, was burned at the stake for denying the royal supremacy.
Denying the continuance of the soul, Buddhism affirmed a continuity of moral consequences (Karma), each successive life being determined by the total moral result of the preceding life.
Accordingly the Pensees have always been a favourite exploring ground, not to say a favourite field of battle, to persons who take an interest in their problems. Speaking generally, their tendency is towards the combating of scepticism by a deeper scepticism, or, as Pascal himself calls it, Pyrrhonism, which occasionally goes the length of denying the possibility of any natural theology.
That there are gods Epicurus never dreams of denying.
Many people had been surprised to see a man of his genius and learning stooping to every drudgery, and denying himself almost every comfort, for the purpose of supplying a silly, affected old woman with superfluities, which she accepted with but little gratitude.
While denying all knowledge of the supersensuous, Mansel deviated from Kant in contending that cognition of the ego as it really is is itself a fact of experience.
But a serious blemish was his persistent separation of trees from herbs, a distinction whose falsity had been exposed by Jung and others, but to which Ray tried to give scientific foundation by denying the existence of buds in the latter.
The country was governed by fifty-six members of the Estate and by the dreaded commission of the General Assembly, for now the kirk dominated Scotland, denying even the right of petition to the lieges.
The Anabaptists were accused of denying the Incarnation of Christ: they did, but not in the sense that he was not divine; they rather denied him to be human.
There is no sufficient ground for denying that these sayings were uttered by our Lord, but the fact that they were now first placed upon record harmonizes with what has been said already as to the more settled condition of the Christian society which this Gospel appears to reflect.
On this basis Bradley developed a theory of the Absolute which, while not denying that it must be conceived of spiritually, insisted that its spirituality is of a kind that finds no analogy in our self-conscious experience.
In 1 7931 79 6 he strongly criticized the administration for maintaining a neutral position between Great Britain and France, writing for the public press five papers (signed "Helvidius"), attacking the "monarchical prerogative of the executive" as exercised in the proclamation of neutrality in 1793 and denying the president's right to recognize foreign states.
Some of these divisions are mutually antagonistic, denying to each other the name of Christian and even the hope of salvation.
Denying any form of moral sense or conscience, he regards all the social virtues as evolved from the instinct for self-preservation, the give-and-take arrangements between the partners in a defensive and offensive alliance, and the feelings of pride and vanity artificially fed by politicians, as an antidote to dissension and chaos.
On the other hand, the mere unlikeness of any particular passage to the nine lines of the Hymn is obviously no reason for denying that it may have been by the same author.
This made Jackson Clay's lifelong enemy, and ever after kept Clay busy explaining and denying the allegation.
The question of Ali's right to succeed to the caliphate is an article of faith which divided the Mahommedan world into two great sects, the Sunnites and the Shiites, the former denying, and the latter affirming, his right.
It occasioned a long-drawn controversy between Pierre Bayle and Le Clerc, the former maintaining, the latter denying, that the Plastic Medium is really favourable to atheism.
(July 1679), in which the Massachusetts authorities were sharply rebuked for denying to others the liberty to secure which they themselves had gone into exile, had produced little effect.
The 1 Even Huxley, the most ardent of all opponents of fishery legislation, while denying that oyster-beds had been permanently annihilated by dredging, practically admitted that a bed may be reduced to such a condition that the oyster will only be able to recover its former state by a long struggle with its enemies and competition - in fact that it must re-establish itself much in the same way as they have acquired possession of new grounds in Jutland, a process which, according to his own statement, occupied thirty years (Lecture at the Royal Institution, May 11th, 1883, printed with additions in the English Illustrated Magazine, i.
While denying the possibility of an absolute method and an absolute philosophy, as contended for by Hegel and others, Trendelenburg was emphatically an idealist in the ancient or Platonic sense; his whole work was devoted to the demonstration of the ideal in the real.
The deists, differing widely in important matters of belief, were yet agreed in seeking above all to establish the certainty and sufficiency of natural religion in opposition to the positive religions, and in tacitly or expressly denying the unique significance of the supernatural revelation in the Old and New Testaments.
Rejecting miracles and denying the infallibility of Scripture, protesting against Calvinistic views of sovereign grace and having no interest in evangelical Arminianism, the faith of such inquirers seems fairly to coincide with that of the deists.
While agreeing with the Eleatics as to the eternal sameness of Being (nothing can arise out of nothing; nothing can be reduced to nothing), Democritus followed the physicists in denying its oneness and immobility.
From the point of view of Orthodoxy the English Church is schismatical, since it has seceded from the Roman patriarchate of the West, and doubly heretical, since it retains the obnoxious Filioque clause in the creed while rejecting many of the doctrines and practices held in common by Rome and the East; moreover, the Orthodox Church had never admitted the validity of Anglican orders, while not denying it.
One almost wishes that critical reasons could be found for denying its authenticity.
Denying the possibility of innate ideas, he asserted that morality comes by revelation, and is therefore not only certain, but the only real certainty.
This question of the relations between the English and the Scottish crowns had been raised a dozen times between the days of Edward the Elder and those of Henry IlL There was no denying the fact that the northern.
The ministry asserted, what no competent jurist would now think of denying, that parliament is sovereign; but they went heartily with Pitt in pronouncing the exercise of the right of taxation in the case of the American colonists to be thoroughly impolitic and inexpedient.
Let us grant that there is as much intellectual absurdity in acting unjustly as in denying that two and two make four; still, if a man has to choose between absurdity and unhappiness, he will naturally prefer the former; and Clarke, as we have already seen, is not really prepared to maintain that such preference is irrational.'
Without denying the actuality or importance of that sympathetic pleasure in the perceived or inferred effects of virtues and vices he yet holds that the essential part of common moral sentiment is constituted rather by a more direct sympathy with the impulses that prompt to action or expression.
In 1533, he published his Invicta Veritas (with the fictitious pressmark of Luneberge, to avoid suspicion), which contained an answer to the numerous tracts supporting Henry's ecclesiastical claims. After an imprisonment of more than six years, Abel was sentenced to death for denying the royal supremacy in the church, and was executed at Smithfield on the Both of July 1540.
In philosophy Buridan was a rationalist, and followed Occam in denying all objective reality to universals, which he regarded as mere words.
In (i.) a valid conclusion follows from the affirmation of the antecedent: in (ii.) from denying the consequent, but in neither case conversely.
Agnosticism, Phenomenalism, Rationalism, Materialism all manifest the positivist spirit, denying what may be succinctly described as the metempirical.
Lastly, we may mention a few distinguished men who ran counter to their age in denying stellar influences.
In the one case we are treating the ego as one of the objects of experience and denying of it productive efficacy; in the second case we are dealing with the unity of the ego as a condition of knowledge, of any experience whatsoever.
By supplying arms freely, Russia is denying the West the political leverage of the arms embargo.
begets heresy asserted that Christ was begotten by mortal man; thus denying Christ's Divine birth.
A disability charity has condemned Alnwick's high school for denying a 12-year-old boy a place at the school.
calm public fears by simply denying the feasibility of molecular manufacturing will inevitably fail.
To deny the centrality of the human position is tantamount to denying God, a venture never to be embarked upon without risk.
Amos is a real charmer, there's no denying that, setting up the perfect mood for his fairly straightforward autobiographical story.
It is all part of Labor's leveling agenda of enforcing monolithic conformity, and denying pupils choice by pushing them into tertiary colleges.
Pointing me at the retailer is fair but denying any problems smacks of self denial.
However, there's no denying the sector is slowing.
In denying the depravity of the human heart, liberalism also ruled out the need for our spiritual regeneration.
downgrade few weeks ago they were strenuously denying they had any intention of downgrading this service to passenger only status.
Denying self isn't about giving up chocolate for Lent and taking up our cross isn't about enduring backache.
If phrased as a constitutional enormity denying the rights of freeborn English then the answer is also implied in the question.
estopped by convention from denying that the bungalow was a chattel.
A feminist herself, Cronin nonetheless believes that feminism has got itself into a mess by denying the findings of modern science.
Chippy were hit by that, and Taha almost made it three, only a superb fingertip save from Harris denying them.
foetusif she terminated an affected fetus, wouldn't she be denying the value of her own life?
No confirming or denying anything they're saying beyond the occasional grunt.
Irving was formally charged in an Austrian court, November 22, with " denying the holocaust.
Joy is not about smiling all the time or denying what is not joyful.
The queen denying the legitimacy of her own son!
misconstrued so as to imply that he was denying his Deity.
In other words, they're denying the omniscience of God, that He knows everything.
seeking asylum is a basic human right that government policy is denying.
Conversely, focusing exclusively on African voices and denying the existence of the Western epistemology would be similarly skewed.
Perhaps a quick pass would have been best, but I opted for a responsive double, showing values and denying 4 spades.
Perhaps they were denying the sufficiency of salvation for all men.
In the same treaty, she recognized the independence of Korea, thereby denying Chinese suzerainty.
In 1557, a shoemaker in the parish of Syresham in Northamptonshire was sentenced to death at All Saints for denying transubstantiation.
Then something happened, there was an amazing turnabout, and they have been denying it vehemently ever since.
unknowing victims of this game by denying the deeper meaning of our experiences.
The psychological boundaries of the traditional thinker formed a perspective of denying validity to the material world.
By simply denying the historical veracity of these reports, of course!
Or at this time of year by denying the virgin birth?
work colleagues denying they were having a relationship and dating.
Or it may be described as denying (i) that the apostolic office is perpetual and should still exist in the Christian Church; (2) that all church power should be vested in the clergy; (3) that each congregation should be independent of all the rest; and as asserting (r) that the people ought to have a substantial part in the government of the Church; (2) that presbyters, i.e.
Henry Preserved Smith, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis in Lane Seminary, for a pamphlet published in 1891 denying the inerrancy but affirming the inspiration of the Scriptures, was suspended in 1892 by the presbytery of Cincinnati, and was unsuccessful in his appeal to the synod and to the General Assembly.
Spinoza, while consistently with his pantheism denying personal immortality, affirms that "the human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but there remains of it something which is eternal " (Eth.
But against this inference the following considerations may be advanced: (1) Man does distinguish himself from his body; (2) he is conscious of his personal identity through all the changes of his body; (3) in the exercise of his will he knows himself not controlled by but controlling his body; (4) his consciousness warrants his denying the absolute identification of himself and his body.
In his defence, whilst denying that he had received the money and appealing to his past services, he did not attempt to conceal the fact that according to his experience bribery was an acknowledged and universal custom in public business, and that he himself had been instrumental in obtaining money for others.
Of course that was not Mill's special or conscious motive for denying divine omnipotence.
This writer, by his conception of the world as will which objectifies itself in a series of gradations from the lowest manifestations of matter up to conscious man, gives a slightly new shape to the evolutional view of Schelling, though he deprives this view of its optimistic character by denying any co-operation of intelligence in the world-process.
There may also be a surrender, either voluntary or by operation of law, which will determine a tenancy, as, for example, when a tenant is party to some act, the validity of which he is legally estopped from denying and which would not have been valid had the tenancy continued to exist.
His declarations during the campaign were vague regarding the tariff and unfavourable to the United States Bank and to nullification, but he had already somewhat placated the South by denying the right of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia without the consent of the slave states.
There is much in this contention that is sound, but Rieder seems to go unnecessarily far in denying altogether that Merswin wrote any of the mystical books.
In the " seventies " of the 19th century feeling ran somewhat high over the rival doctrines concerning the origin of puscorpuscles, Cohnheim and his school maintaining that they were derived exclusively from the blood, that they were leucocytes which had emigrated through the walls of the vessels and escaped into the surrounding tissue-spaces, while Stricker and his followers, although not denying their origin in part from the blood, traced them, in considerable proportion, to the fixed elements, such as fibrous tissues and endothelia.
In 1787 he was misled by the prince's ambiguous assurances into denying the marriage with Mrs Fitzherbert.
Reinach, therefore, supposes that in the Stone age which succeeded, pictorial art was banned because it had got into the hands of magicians and had come to be regarded as inevitably uncanny and malefic. This is certainly the secret of the ordinary Mahommedan prohibition of pictures and statues, which goes even to the length of denying to poor little Arab girls the enjoyment of having dolls.
Again, he might be inconsistent; now, for example, calling a universal a substance in deference to Plato, and now denying that a universal can be a substance in consequence of his own doctrine that every substance is an individual; and so as to contradict himself in the same treatise, though not in the same breath or at the same moment of thinking.
He examined and analysed the fact of human knowledge, and obtained the following results: (r) that the notion or idea of being or existence in general enters into, and is presupposed by, all our acquired cognitions, so that, without it, they would be impossible; (2) that this idea is essentially objective, inasmuch as what is seen in it is as distinct from and opposed to the mind that sees it as the light is from the eye that looks at it; (3) that it is essentially true, because "being" and "truth" are convertible terms, and because in the vision of it the mind cannot err, since error could only be committed by a judgment, and here there is no judgment, but a pure intuition affirming nothing and denying nothing; (4) that by the application of this essentially objective and true idea the human being intellectually perceives, first, the animal body individually conjoined with him, and then, on occasion of the sensations produced in him not by himself, the causes of those sensations, that is, from the action felt he perceives and affirms an agent, a being, and therefore a true thing, that acts on him, and he thus gets at the external world, - these are the true primitive judgments, containing (a) the subsistence of the particular being (subject), and (b) its essence or species as determined by the quality of the action felt from it (predicate); (5) that reflection, by separating the essence or species from the subsistence, obtains the full specific idea (universalization), and then from this, by leaving aside some of its elements, the abstract specific idea (abstraction); (6) that the mind, having reached this stage of development, can proceed to further and further abstracts, including the first principles of reasoning, the principles of the several sciences, complex ideas, groups of ideas, and so on without end; (7) finally, that the same most universal idea of being, this generator and formal element of all acquired cognitions, cannot itself be acquired, but must be innate in us, implanted by God in our nature.
Helmholtz also wrote on philosophical and aesthetic problems. His position was that of an empiricist, denying the doctrine of innate ideas and holding that all knowledge is founded on experience, hereditarily transmitted or acquired.
At the same time, in his later view, Plato avoids the exaggeration of denying all positive quality of pleasure even to the coarser sensual gratifications; they are undoubtedly cases of that " replenishment " or " restoration " to its " natural state " of a bodily organ, in which he defines pleasure to consist (see Timaeus, pp. 64, 65); he merely maintains that the common estimate of them is to a large extent illusory, or a false appearance of pleasure is produced by contrast with the antecedent or concomitant painful condition of the organ.
But this is far from denying the seismic economic shifts which themselves served to recast the political debate about slavery.
He 's not denying that he 's a sinner in need of forgiveness.
We become unknowing victims of this game by denying the deeper meaning of our experiences.
By simply denying the historical veracity of these reports, of course !
You could see it like two work colleagues denying they were having a relationship and dating.
The adolescent stage of life is an awkward one, there's no denying it.
If you obsess about making the original idea work and rationalize that you're demonstrating stick-to-itiveness, you're just denying yourself access to a better opportunity.
There is no escaping a bad score and no denying the benefits of a good score.
There is no denying that change is occurring on Earth.
Long lasting There's no denying that this is long-lasting eyeliner.
When you sneak a peek at Luminess Airbrush makeup kit, there's certainly no denying that this isn't your grandmother's foundation.
While airbrush makeup kits are definitely a pricey indulgence, there's no denying that the coverage is flawless.
There's no denying it; 12x12 paper is oddly sized.
There's no denying that scrapbooking can be an expensive hobby.
Ignoring the issue or denying that there is a problem essentially gives the person permission to continue.
Their research has shown that when dieters learn to recognize the physical signs of hunger, stop denying forbidden foods, and start separating food from emotional comfort, their weight will eventually stabilize.
Although the crystal meth side effects experienced by each individual user can vary, there is no denying that this particular drug can have serious and dramatic effects that can last long after the drug use has stopped.
Whether you decide to go with a fun cartoon print dinosaur or a more realistic dino style for your toddler's bedding, there's no denying the fun feel of this prehistoric pattern.
These stars aren't always on the list of best-dressed celebrities, but there's no denying that each one rocks his or her own sense of style.
While they each have their own unique sense of style, there's no denying that they look great together as well.
There is no denying that Oprah Winfrey is the most influential woman in entertainment, and arguably, she could also be the most influential woman in the world.
While some argued that Lopez possessed more technical skill, there was no denying Smith's charm and grace.
However, he was criticized in October 2006 for making and later denying a homophobic slur made against fellow cast member T.R.
Despite the rumors about the status of her job at Teen Vogue, Conrad is denying that she was fired.
Love or hate Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, there is no denying that she is currently a great role model for young tweens.
There's no denying that the promise of a naked celebrity photo or movie scene encourages fans to pick up a magazine or purchase a theater ticket.
Kidman was on celebrity baby watch denying pregnancy rumors, as it seems that most celebrities do these days, for a short time until finally confirming that she and husband Keith Urban were expecting.
Though the former Culture Club lead vocalist admits that he was angry with Carlsen, he is denying the false imprisonment charge brought against him.
While no one in Marie Osmond's camp is confirming or denying anything, many people have been speculating that Osmond underwent some plastic surgery.
Whether you choose to use a stone for healing purposes or simply wear it because you like it, there's no denying that gems are significant.
There is no denying the comfort a men's short sleeve dress shirt with a button-down collar, and that's the first and foremost argument in their favor.
Ralph Lauren: There is no denying the inimitable luxury and classic appeal of Ralph Lauren, a label with an eye for enduring style.
There's no denying that these shirts are meant for casual wear in most cases.
Whether its guns in school or the selling of drugs, there's no denying it -- teachers are on the frontlines of our waxing and waning crime rates.
Under this law, employers are barred from denying benefits to older workers.
There's no denying the appeal of the Chloe line; stylish, glamorous, chic, it's all there.
There's no denying it, Dita offers exceptional quality of product, a factor that is reflected in both its price and in its celebrity fans.
Red: There's no denying that these will make you stand out in a crowd with a sinister look.
There's no denying who they were targeting with this game!
If you have enjoyed other hockey games from this series, there is no denying that you'll fall in love with NHL 10 as well.
However, Sony is denying those reports, being quoted in Bloomberg Asia as saying that "there is no change in our original plans to release the console in spring 2006."
There's no denying that Nintendo has a lot of fantastic franchises that have entertained us over the years.
There's no denying that the iPhone has been a huge success for Apple.
This stage is usually resolved by denying or hiding homosexual feelings, repressing same-sex attraction, or taking on a homosexual identity.
Denial: The person blames others for provoking his violence while denying or minimizing his own role in the fight or other outburst.
Since patients are adept at disguising and denying the symptoms of trichotillomania, the condition may go on for years without detection or treatment.
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"Three Questions For Ukraine Hawks": There Are Real And Specific Questions We'd Better Ask Ourselves Before We Jump In
Watch an hour of cable—and I'm talking MSNBC; forget Fox—and you might well come away from the hyper-ventilations thinking that we will or should go to war over Vladimir Putin's takeover of Crimea. Listen: Nobody's going to war over Crimea. This isn't 1853. Yes, it matters to us how Crimea may once again become a part of Russia, and we don't like it a bit, but let's face it, it doesn't really matter to us in cold, hard, realpolitik terms, whether Crimea is a part of Russia. It's used as a naval base, and Russia's had that all along.
Now Ukraine, that's different. Or so everyone on TV says. But when everyone starts saying something, I start doubting. After all, a decade ago, nearly "everyone"—every "grown up," that is, every person who took a "properly expansive" view of American security in the post 9/11 age—said we needed to topple a dictator who had nothing to do with 9/11. So: Is Ukraine different? We may decide that yes, it is, but there are some real and specific questions we'd better ask ourselves before we just automatically make that declaration.
One way we decide these things is by looking at the historical record, and the historical record practically screams no, Ukraine is not different, is not a vital American or Western interest. Soviet Russia annexed Ukraine in 1922, after a war that had commenced in 1917, when the Bolsheviks took Moscow. The borders of Ukraine changed many times over the years. Even its capital was moved from Kharkiv in the east to Kiev in the west. At the end of World War II, the USSR expanded Ukraine again, as Stalin unilaterally redrew the Curzon Line to take in Eastern Galicia and Lvov, Poland, which became and still is Lviv, Ukraine.
There were further alterations after the war. In 1954, as we all now know, Crimea became part of Ukraine (staying within the USSR). If the Western countries objected to any of these moves, they objected lightly and only formally. Roosevelt and Churchill pestered Stalin about the Lvov/Lviv situation at Yalta, but Uncle Joe wasn't having it, and they left it alone.
So historically, Ukraine hasn't been something the West regarded as worth fussing over very much. In more recent years, after the USSR's collapse, Russia asserted that Ukraine and, for that matter, all 14 former satellite SSR's were within the Russian sphere of influence. They even coined a term for it: the "near abroad." Not all Americans have accepted the idea that the near abroad falls strictly within the Russian sphere of influence, by any means. When John McCain and Joe Biden and others thunder about bringing Georgia into NATO, they're rejecting the idea explicitly. But like it or not, three presidents have basically accepted the idea—none more so than George W. Bush, who confronted Putin about his 2008 Georgia incursion (both happened to be in Beijing for the Olympics) and whose administration took a few steps but who never imposed sanctions, as Barack Obama has now. Bush's green light to Putin shone far brighter than Obama's has.
Of course, history changes. The fact that we never cared about Ukraine before doesn't by definition mean that we shouldn't care about it today. First, there is the matter of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which the United States, Britain and Russia guaranteed Ukraine's existing borders in exchange for it giving up its nukes. The Obama administration declared Russia in violation of that concord on March 1. More broadly, Putin is a despicable tyrant who wants glory for Mother Russia. If "glory" means swallowing back up those 14 former SSRs, then he does have to be countered. The Obama administration and the European Union should certainly impose tougher sanctions, and in the American case, on more than seven people. Maybe NATO troops should train Ukrainians, too—maybe not on Ukrainian soil, but somewhere in Europe. There are other similar steps that can be taken short of sending in a slew of "advisors" (special ops people) and military materiel just yet, like helping Ukraine get this new National Guard up and running.
But let's just think hard about this. There's nothing easier for pundits or commentators on cable to stomp the table about how Putin is playing us and running rings around Obama and he's a madman who must be stopped. Our former ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul, said yesterday after Putin's duma speech that the post-Cold War era was over. McFaul has been a reliable guide through these rapids, but that's nonsense. We aren't in a new Cold War. Spend five minutes ruminating on what happened during the Cold War and what sparked it, and you should be able to clear your head of such combustible notions. We're a long way from that yet.
I'd like to hear everyone tossing around those kind of rhetorical lightning bolts answer, in a calm voice, three questions: One, why should Ukraine, which never before was a realpolitik first-order concern of the United States, be one now? Two, what exact sacrifices are we willing to make to preserve Ukraine's territorial integrity? And three, what broader risks might those acceptable sacrifices entail, and are they worth it?
There might be very good answers to all three questions. But our political culture has a very bad habit of not wanting to discuss them much. That's a habit we need to change.
By: Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast, March 19, 2014
March 20, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | Foreign Policy, Ukraine	| Budapest Memorandum, Cable News, Crimera, European Union, George W. Bush, NATO, Neo-Cons, Russia, USSR, Vladimir Putin | 1 Comment
"Ryan's Rhetoric Has Consequences": First, One Must Understand His Own Culture And History
Reflections upon the recent holiday: The first time my wife saw tears in my eyes was in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, at the tomb of Jonathan Swift. The brilliant 18th-century Irish satirist was my first and most enduring literary hero, a towering figure who Yeats thought "slept under the greatest epitaph in history" — composed by Swift himself.
I knew the Latin by heart, but seeing it engraved in stone moved me, although Swift had been dead since 1745. "It is almost finer in English," Yeats wrote, "than in Latin: 'He has gone where fierce indignation can lacerate his heart no more.'"
Reading Swift taught me more about Ireland and my Irish-Catholic ancestors than I ever learned at my alcoholic grandfather's knee, I can tell you that. An Anglo-Irish churchman who considered himself exiled from London to the city of his birth, Swift condemned British misrule of Ireland in the most memorable satires written in English or any other language.
His 1729 pamphlet "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents" retains the capacity to shock after almost 300 years. Impersonating the ever-so-reasonable voice of a public-spirited reformer of the sort who might today issue proposals from the Heritage Foundation, the narrator advocated genteel cannibalism.
"I rather recommend buying the children alive and dressing them hot from the knife," he suggested, "as we do roasting pigs."
It's the laconic "rather" that chills to the marrow, precisely revealing the pamphleteer's inhumanity.
Swift was certainly no Irish nationalist. A Tory by temperament and conviction, he'd have been appalled by the idea that the island's Roman Catholic majority could govern itself. Even so, Professor Leo Damrosch's terrific new biography makes a compelling case that both his voice and his personal example were instrumental to an evolving Irish national consciousness.
I thought of Swift's "Modest Proposal" the other day, listening to the ever-so-reasonable Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) explain that America's poor have only themselves to blame. "We have this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular," Ryan explained, "of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work."
Any question who he was talking about? As several commentators have noted, this business about "inner city" men not working isn't so much Republican "dogwhistle" as GOP air-raid siren.
Ryan has since alibied that he'd been "inarticulate" and wasn't trying to implicate "the culture of one community." This came soon after a speech in which he'd told a heartfelt tale of a small boy who didn't want a "free lunch from a government program," but a Mommy-made lunch in a brown paper bag that showed somebody cared about him.
Coming from a guy busily trying to cut funding for school lunch programs and food stamps, this was pretty rich. Also apparently, apocryphal. The witness who'd told Ryan the tale in a congressional hearing had not only swiped it from a book called The Invisible Thread, but reversed its meaning. Which wasn't so much that government assistance, as Ryan warned, threatens to leave children with "a full stomach and an empty soul," as that sermons mean very little to hungry children.
Delivered just before St. Patrick's Day, Ryan's disquisition upon the undeserving poor earned him the scorn of the New York Times' Timothy Egan. Taking note of Ryan's great-great grandfather, who emigrated to the United States during the catastrophic Irish famine of the 1840s, Egan pointed out that Ryan's words echoed the rhetoric of Victorian Englishmen content to let his ancestors die lest they become dependent upon charity.
It's not always understood in this country that the mass starvation of Irish peasants — more than a million died, and another million emigrated — resulted not from the failure of the potato crop but English government policy. Ireland remained a net exporter of food throughout, with British soldiers guarding shipments of foodstuffs as they were loaded.
Rhetoric, see, has consequences. From Swift's time onward, the native Irish had been depicted in terms justifying their subjugation. Virtually every negative stereotype applied to our "inner city" brethren today was first applied to Paul Ryan's (and my own) ancestors. Irish peasants were called shiftless, drunken, sexually promiscuous, donkey strong but mentally deficient. They smelled bad.
Understanding that history is exactly what makes Irish-Americans like Timothy Egan, Charles P. Pierce and me — if I may include myself in their company — so impatient with a tinhorn like Ryan. If he wanted to understand his own ancestry, it's authors like Swift, Yeats and James Joyce that Ryan ought to be reading, instead of that dismal ideologue Ayn Rand.
Nobody should let ethnic groupthink determine his politics. But if a politician like Paul Ryan hopes to be respected, it would help if he showed some sign of understanding the past.
By: Gene Lyons, The National Memo, March 19, 2014
March 20, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | Paul Ryan, Poor and Low Income	| Ayn Rand, Heritage Foundation, Ireland, Irish Catholics, Minorities, Poverty, Race and Ethnicity, Republicans | Leave a comment
"Oh Please!": Mitt Romney Pretends To Know Foreign Policy
Last May, Mitt Romney was reportedly "restless" and decided he would "re-emerge in ways that will "help shape national priorities.'" And the failed presidential candidate hasn't stopped talking since.
One can only speculate as to why Romney refuses to quietly, graciously step aside, but it appears he takes a certain satisfaction from bashing the president who defeated him, as often as possible, on as many topics as possible.
Today, the former one-term governor with no foreign policy experience decided to try his hand at condemning President Obama's policy towards Ukraine and Russia, writing a Wall Street Journal op-ed, complaining about "failed leadership."
When protests in Ukraine grew and violence ensued, it was surely evident to people in the intelligence community – and to the White House – that President Putin might try to take advantage of the situation to capture Crimea, or more.
Wrong. U.S. intelligence officials didn't think Putin would try to take Crimea. For that matter, Russian officials didn't think so, either. It wasn't a smart strategic move, which made it that much less predictable.
That was the time to talk with our global allies about punishments and sanctions, to secure their solidarity, and to communicate these to the Russian president. These steps, plus assurances that we would not exclude Russia from its base in Sevastopol or threaten its influence in Kiev, might have dissuaded him from invasion.
That's wrong, too. Daniel Larison's take rings true: "The U.S. was in no position to reassure Moscow that it would not lose influence in Kiev, since the Kremlin assumed that the U.S. and EU were actively seeking to reduce its influence by encouraging Yanukovych's overthrow. Romney thinks that the U.S. could have headed off the crisis by threatening Russia with punishment for things it had not yet done, but that ignores [the fact] that Russia has behaved the way that it has because it already thought that Western interference in Ukraine was too great."
The time for securing the status-of-forces signatures from leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan was before we announced in 2011 our troop-withdrawal timeline, not after it. In negotiations, you get something when the person across the table wants something from you, not after you have already given it away.
That's wrong, too. Romney fails to acknowledge that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan were prepared to negotiate over a long-term U.S. troop presence beyond 2014 back in 2011. (He also fails to acknowledge that he personally endorsed a troop-withdrawal timeline in 2008 – three years before 2011.)
It is hard to name even a single country that has more respect and admiration for America today than when President Obama took office.
That's wrong, too. The Pew Research Global Attitudes Project documents countries that have a more favorable opinion of the United States now than when President Obama was first inaugurated, and more importantly, the same study shows an even larger list of countries that respect the U.S. more than when Bush/Cheney brought our international reputation down to alarming depths.
Taken together, Romney's op-ed doesn't amount to much. But what's especially odd is that the failed candidate is even trying.
Foreign policy has never been a signature issue for the Massachusetts Republican, and when he tried to broach the subject, Romney generally failed. Indeed, looking back at 2012, let's not forget that Romney's own advisers said "they have engaged with him so little on issues of national security that they are uncertain what camp he would fall into, and are uncertain themselves about how he would govern."
On the Middle East peace process, Romney said he intended to "kick the ball down the field and hope" that someone else figures something out. His handling of the crisis in Libya "revealed him as completely craven." On Iran, Romney and his aides couldn't even agree on one policy position. On Afghanistan, Romney occasionally forgot about the war.
Remember the time Romney "fled down a hallway and escaped up an escalator" to avoid a reporter asking his position on the NATO mission in Libya? Or how about the time he said there are "insurgents" in Iran? Or when he flip-flopped on Iraq? Or when he looked ridiculous during the incident involving Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng?
Perhaps my personal favorite was when Romney tried to trash the New START nuclear treaty in an op-ed, but flubbed every relevant detail, prompting Fred Kaplan to respond, "In 35 years of following debates over nuclear arms control, I have never seen anything quite as shabby, misleading and – let's not mince words – thoroughly ignorant as Mitt Romney's attack on the New START treaty."
Thomas Friedman noted shortly before the election, "For the first time in a long, long time, a Democrat is running for president and has the clear advantage on national security policy." Part of this, the columnist argued, is that Mitt Romney acts "as if he learned his foreign policy at the International House of Pancakes."
So why is this guy writing WSJ op-eds as if he's a credible voice on international affairs?
By: Steve Benen, The Maddow Blog, March 19, 2014
March 20, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | Foreign Policy, Mitt Romney	| Bush-Cheney Administration, European Union, Libya, Middle East, National Security, Russia, START Treaty, Ukraine | 3 Comments
"Mistakes And Subterfuge?": Rick Scott's Campaign May Have Violated Campaign Finance Law
On Monday, Florida Democratic Party chairwoman Allison Tant filed a complaint with the Florida Elections Committee, accusing Governor Rick Scott's (R) campaign of committing campaign finance violations.
According to Tant's complaint, Scott's current campaign illegally transferred nearly $27.4 million from the governor's former 2010 electioneering communication organization, "Let's Get to Work," to a new political committee with the same name.
Due in part to lax laws that allow for broad uses of campaign funds, a political committee, such as Let's Get to Work, can legally give money directly to other political committees. However, an electioneering communications organization — which funds and engages in election-related activities through communication means, such as radio commercials and TV ads — cannot directly contribute to a political committee.
In other words: If the allegation that Scott's campaign transferred money from a former electioneering communication organization to a political committee is true, it's a violation of campaign finance law.
Tant now argues the campaign "violated the law," and that "the governor is supposed to uphold the law." If she's right, Scott's re-election campaign could be fined up to $82 million.
John French, the chairman of Let's Get to Work, criticized the accusations, saying that the first incarnation of Let's Get to Work was dismantled before a check for $24.7 million was given to the new committee, which was formed the same day the original organization was discontinued. Hence, according to French, the check received by the political committee could not have come directly from the electioneering communication organization, because it no longer existed at the time the check was written or received.
Still, Democrats maintain that the transfer of money was illegal, even if the check was written after the official close of the first version of Let's Get to Work.
According to The Huffington Post, two Democratic state elections experts say the same.
"It's the subterfuge that they went through to transfer the money illegally. It's allowing them to do indirectly which they can't do directly," says Mark Herron, an elections lawyer.
Another expert on state campaign finance laws, Ron Meyer, agreed: "If it's not blatantly illegal, it certainly violates the spirit of the law."
This is not the first campaign controversy for Scott's Let's Get to Work: His campaign recently addressed a "mistake" that resulted in the committee failing to list a $500,000 donation it received from a private business.
By: Elissa Gomez, The National Memo, March 19, 2014
March 20, 2014 Posted by raemd95 | Campaign Financing, Rick Scott	| Allison Tant, Elections, Florida, John French, Lets Get To Work, Republicans | Leave a comment
"The Chris Christie Scandal Just Got Worse": Amid New Gale Force Winds, Will Christie Be 'Stronger Than The Storm'?
When there is still snow on the ground past St. Patrick's Day, thoughts turn longingly to the beach. Say, the Jersey Shore. Which in turn brings to mind the extreme yet comically ham-handed efforts of Governor Chris Christie's administration to keep secret the process that led to the controversial selection exactly one year ago of a firm to run a $25 million ad campaign for last summer's tourist season touting the Shore's comeback from Superstorm Sandy.
As you may recall, Christie came under criticism during his reelection campaign last summer for having inserted himself and his family into the rousing "Stronger than the Storm" ads encouraging tourists to come back to the Jersey Shore. The ads had been funded by federal Sandy recovery aid, and it seemed eyebrow-raising, at the least, for them to feature beaming pictures of a governor in the middle of a reelection campaign, rather than just your average smiling New Jerseyans. The eyebrows shot up quite a bit further when it emerged that the firm that had gotten the job after proposing to feature Christie in its ads, public relations giant MWW, had bid at a much higher price—$4.7 million versus $2.5 million—than a well-regarded New Jersey ad firm that had proposed ads that did not feature the governor. Making matters even more interesting was that the award had been made by a selection committee led by Christie's very close longtime aide, Michele Brown, whom Christie appointed to run the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, a $225,000 post. Also noteworthy was that MWW had hired just a few months earlier the former executive director of the influential Burlington County Republican Party. (It was also hard not to notice that MWW's founder and CEO, Michael Kempner, who is normally a loyal Democratic donor, was not writing any big checks to Barbara Buono, Christie's opponent, last year.) New Jersey congressman Frank Pallone, a Democrat, in January asked the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to audit the awarding of the job to make sure federal contracting rules were followed.
Further raising the intrigue around the "Stronger than the Storm" ads has been the lengths to which the Christie administration has gone to keep secret the relevant documentation. When Shannon Morris, the president of the New Jersey company, Sigma Group, that came in second to MWW, last summer requested the state's evaluations of the proposals to better understand why her firm had lost, she received almost nothing in response. "Typically when you have a state-run bid like that you have…it fully transparent, it's all posted online," Morris told me. "There was nothing like that in this case." When Asbury Park Press reporter Bob Jordan made an open-records request for the scoresheets that the selection committee members filled out to rank the ad proposals, the state returned to him in January the scoresheets—with the names of the committee members redacted.
Knowing this, I was heartened to find that my own request for the scoresheets was returned to me later in January with the names of the committee members fully disclosed. I planned to include details from the scoresheets in a cover story on Christie that I was in the process of writing, but the piece's main thrust veered away from the Sandy ads, and I decided to revisit that issue later. This week, when I went to do just that, I discovered that the Internet link the Economic Development Authority had given me for the reams of documents I had requested was no longer operable. I asked that the documents be resent. They were, and lo, this time the names of the committee members were redacted from the scoresheets. When I asked the authority's legal officer, Shane McDougall, about the discrepancy, he replied that "if the original documents had been disseminated without these redactions, it was done inadvertently." He added that the redaction of names was done "on the basis of the advisory, consultative, and deliberative privilege, the expectation of privacy and the protection of the competitive bidding process."
This retroactive redaction might have been maddening were it not so ineffective: I had seen enough between what had been sent before and what was in the newly redacted documents to piece together the story behind the evaluation process. Put simply, there was no contest whatsoever between MWW on the one hand and Sigma Group and the two other finalists on the other hand. In fact, reading the scoresheets is a bit like looking at the scores of the East Bloc figure skating judges at the Olympics during the height of the Cold War.
The average score the six committee members gave MWW's proposal, out of 1000 possible points, was 953. The average score for Sigma Group's proposal was 718.
And as I had taken note of when I had first seen the unredacted scoresheets, the differential was the largest of all in the evaluation by Michele Brown, who has a very long history with Christie: she is a longtime close neighbor of his in Mendham Township, she traveled extensively with him when she worked alongside him in the U.S. Attorney's Office, she received a $46,000 loan from him in 2007 that he failed to report on his income taxes, and she took the lead in screening open-records requests for his tenure as U.S. Attorney while he was campaigning for governor in 2009. In her new role as head of the Economic Development Authority, she was in charge of the selection committee for the Sandy ad. And she, more than anyone else on the committee, made sure to put MWW far ahead of the competition—she gave MWW a score of 970, above even the high average score it received overall, and she gave Sigma Group only 590, by far its lowest score. (A spokesman at the Economic Development Authority did not respond to a request for comment from Brown.)
Matching the other scoresheets to the committee members was not exactly a forensic challenge. One of the sheets had an evaluator's name accidentally left unredacted—Jackie Kemery, a procurement analyst in the state's Department of the Treasury, who gave MWW a score of 940 and Sigma a score of 750—and it required only rudimentary handwriting analysis to match with a high degree of confidence the other scoresheets with the handwriting on other, unredacted paperwork filled out by the committee members that had been included in records I received. (The other committee members included Maureen Hassett, senior vice president for finance and development at the Economic Development Authority; Sara Maffey-Duncan, deputy director of the authority's Office of Recovery; Melissa Orsen, chief of staff in the Department of State within the Lieutenant Governor's office; and Gabrielle Gallagher, director of legal and regulatory affairs at the Department of Community Affairs, which oversees state aid to towns and cities.)
Which raises the question: why in the world was the Christie administration going to such lengths to obscure such basic facts about the selection process as which committee members awarded which sky-high scores to MWW? Morris, the head of Sigma Group, has a pretty good hunch: that the administration is doing anything it can to cover up the fact that the selection process had been essentially rigged from the get-go, which is the thought that came to her when she got to see the proposal from MWW. MWW and the ad firm it was partnering with, Brushfire, had less experience in this realm than did Sigma and the big national ad firm it partnered with, Weber Shandwick; whereas Weber Shandwick had produced comeback ads for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, MWW's application cited Brushfire's experience making ads for Minwax, Thompson's Water Seal and DeLonghi cappuccino machines. Given that contrast, Morris thought "we had a slam dunk here" to get the job.
But then she saw MWW's proposal, and it was far, far beyond what her firm had managed to put together in the four days they'd been given to submit a proposal. Whereas Sigma had basic storyboards for the ads it was proposing, MWW had "fully conceptualized" apps, video games, and other digital components on top of its conventional ad proposal. "It was like looking at a 10-day term paper versus a 150-page book," she said. "I don't know how you do that unless someone had a head start." (MWW did not respond to a request for comment.)
As it happens, Morris did get one communication back from Michele Brown after her repeated attempts to get an explanation for being passed over: Brown sent Morris a form letter congratulating her for being named one of New Jersey's "Best 50 Women in Business." The letter urged Morris to reach out to Brown if she ever needed any assistance, so Morris wrote her asking again for an explanation of the contract award.
She never heard back.
By: Alec MacGinnis, The New Republic, March 18, 2014
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The HOUSE OF MENDI shop is down for update. Meanwhile, you can email orders at amanda@mendiant.com. WELCOME BACK AGAIN SOON!
I am currently showing paintings. Twenty pieces and almost a year's work. At Piteå KONSTHALL. Storgatan 44. April 23rd-May 15th 2016. You are more than welcome if you happen to be in the neighbourhood… Check at Piteå Konsthall for opening hours.
"The aMUSEd Project" was born during winter 2015.
I decided to let women choose to be portrayed by me instead of me choosing models.
As previous projects, it was also based upon the idea of setting my own physical and material boundaries: One month. Canvases in one only size, 25×25 cm and painting strictly in black & white.
I called out for faces on social medias and received so many photos. Simple mobile pics, no make up, all different. All revealing.
Below Muses #3, #8, #10, #15, #18, #23, #24, #30 and gathered all great ladies who had the curiosity & courage to trust me. Thank you!
The mural painting "Northern Meetings" is a commissioned work for Nolia/Piteå. Sweden for their workshop and conference facilities.
The theme was "meetings" so I created, based on the rounded wall, the geographic location and the theme, an organic painting of two characters where Hand and Eye contact are in focus. Which is what meetings are about.
The picture's lines and shades of green, grey and blue refer to Piteå's northern landscape and it's archipelago. Painted lines that could be, at first sight a map or roads and paths as well as life lines evolving, growing, tagging along parallel and crossing each other, or not at some point.
Two months of sweat & tears cut down to 4 minutes. Over and Out people!
Music: "ÁHPI. wide as oceans". Courtesy of Sofia Jannok.
"The ICE EMPRESS" for ICEHOTEL / Jukkasjärvi. By Amanda Mendiant. from Amanda Mendiant/HOUSE OF MENDI on Vimeo.
And She's out! THE ICE EMPRESS for ICEHOTEL.
As each ice block that is harvested from Torne River measures two meters long and one meter thick, the paintings were made that precise same size. Two ice blocks of pure, crystal clear water affected by Day & Night LIGHT, theme for 2015.
The Torne River, source of the building material that will melt back to the River once the season is over, is pouring through her hands and through both canvases.
An ice crown reminding of the entrance of the hotel and elements such as the polar bear, the wild goose, the snowballs, as seen in earlier Art Suites. The "studs" from an Icebar, the iceblocks, the collar and the earring, all various elements from previous designs of ICEHOTEL that has been different each time for the past 25 years.
On the Day Light side, painted in shades of intense blue, white and grey you can see the snowflakes, frost, and the particular illuminating, almost blinding, light. On the Night side, the darkness, the nearly black ice blocks and the magical nature phenomenon, Aurora Borealis and it's breathtaking colors.
Two sides, one Face, The ICE, The Snow, the surroundings and the Northern LIGHT's impact on them all.
The painting was created between October 7th and December 3rd. 2014. Material used are acrylics on cotton canvas, mounted on high quality frames of certified timber according to FSC and Rainforest Alliance qualification for responsible wood agriculture. All paintings and frames are assembled inhouse by Amanda Mendiant & Crew.
DLA Play's Per Morin came to visit a day in September. A couple hours talking cut down to 6 minutes… Well done Per.
"ENTANGLED" PopUp Shop & Gallery- STOCKHOLM.
On Friday 26th September, in the company of two lovely ladies, Saga-Mariah Sandberg & Johanna Forsberg, I will be having a spontaneous and one night show!
Friday 26th Sept. 4 pm- 9 pm.
"The Repurpose Project" June 1st-30th 2014.


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Seven Reasons You're Not Losing Weight
Cathryne Keller
By Cathryne Keller, FITBIE.com (TNS)
Your fridge is more colorful than a Lady Gaga performance. Your gym clothes are still sweaty from last night. Your Instagram feed is all sneakers and salads. So why isn't that jerk of a scale budging?
Changing your food and fitness habits is challenging enough as it is, but if your healthy efforts aren't even paying off in the dressing room, we don't blame you for considering ditching your weight-loss plan all together in the name of Netflix and Nutella. But don't do it.
Even if you think you're doing everything right, there are a few minor weight-loss missteps that can majorly sabotage your slim-down success. We hit up star trainer Harley Pasternack, author of the new 5 Pounds, to find out the biggest reasons you're not losing weight (and what to do about it):
1. You sit too much
"People focus too much on exercise and not enough on activity," Pasternak said. Studies show that intense exercise sessions don't offset the effects of too much sitting. Pasternak's recommendation? "Get an activity tracker (he likes Fitbit) and aim for a minimum of 10,000 steps per day.
2. Your workouts are played out
You've heard it before, and Pasternak will say it again: Mix it up at the gym. "If you're bored, so are your muscles," he said. "To keep your body changing, you have to keep the workouts changing." Need some fitspiration? Try a new class or add strength training to your cardio sessions.
3. You're guilty of cardio overkill
Sprinting and spinning until you pass out is not only grueling, but it can actually backfire. "There's no need to always push yourself to exhaustion," Pasternak said. "Too much cardio can increase your stress hormones and create an aversion to exercise." Plus, all those burned calories increase your appetite and can lead to what Pasternak calls the "permissive effect": "If you've killed it at SoulCycle, you're more likely to avoid extra activity — like walking to meet a friend instead of driving — and say yes to the dessert tray because you tell yourself, 'I've already spun today. I don't need to do any more exercise and I deserve a treat.' "
4. You're on a juice cleanse
"First of all, there is no such thing as a cleanse," Pasternak said. "Our body is constantly replacing all of its cells and cleansing itself." What's more: Most juices are closer to dessert than a balanced meal. "Because of its high sugar content and lack of the three nutrients essential to qualify your food as a healthy meal — protein, fiber and healthy fats — a juice cleanse will make you hungry, irritable and can even make you gain weight in the long run."
5. You're never in your kitchen
"We're eating out more than we ever have as a culture," Pasternak said. "As a result, we have less control over what goes in our food, how it's made, and its portion size." Making your own food is key if you're trying to slim down, and one easy way to whip up a healthy meal is to start blending. "Smoothies allow you to make a complete healthy meal in under a minute," he said. Just be sure to include a little fat to fill you up, and some protein to help you build lean, metabolism-boosting muscle. Not sure what to put in your blend? Here are Harley's top tips for building the perfect smoothie. (His new Power Blender can help you get the job done, too.)
6. You have a cheat day
"In the past, I used to agree that people could benefit from a cheat day, but it's really too restrictive the other six days of the week," Pasternak said. We end up gorging so badly on the seventh day that we tend to set ourselves backward and make ourselves feel ill in the process." But that doesn't mean you can't splurge every once in awhile. Pasternak's advice for indulging your cravings without getting off track: "Replace the word 'cheat' with the word 'free' and replace the word 'day' with 'meal,' and allow yourself to have two 'free meals' a week."
7. Your water bottle is empty
Downing a lot of water may be hard for some of us, but it's worth it if you want to drop pounds. "Unchecked dehydration can be mistaken as hunger," Pasternak said. "Stay hydrated with calorie-free beverages throughout the day." His personal favorite? Sparkling water with a wedge of lime.
Photo: Nottingham Trent University via Flickr


Cats with poor vision will usually feel with their feet before attempting to jump or climb down, while cats with normal vision will just jump. Watch your cat's pupils for a response when you shine a light back and forth in front of her eyes.... To the untrained eye, this looks like a sign of distress. Don't be alarmed, as this is normal behavior for a cat in heat (although a nuisance to you, if you value your furniture). Don't be alarmed, as this is normal behavior for a cat in heat (although a nuisance to you, if you value your furniture).
17/11/2018 · How to Tell if Your Cat Is Blind. Cats have extraordinary eyes that allow them to see clearly indoors and out during different times of day. However, injuries to the eyes and many diseases can significantly impair your cat's eyesight or... Cats have extraordinary eyes that allow them to see clearly indoors and out during different times of day. However, injuries to the eyes and many diseases... There are several easily identifiable symptoms of malnutrition in cats that pet owners need to be aware of. Although malnutrition is generally observed in stray cats, cats that are cherished members of a family can also suffer from malnutrition.
How can you tell if your pets have bad eyesight? Taking care of your vision can often seem like a full-time job. You need to wear sunglasses even in overcast weather, you should never mess with your eyeglass prescription without first talking to your doctor, and the litany of daily tasks with contact lenses – cleaning, storing and replacing – can seem like busywork from your days in school.... Note all old dogs will develop night blindness (senile retinal degeneration) from age-related death of rod photoreceptor cells in the retina, resulting in poor vision in dim light. A canine vision supplement like OcuGLO helps support rod photoreceptor cell health.
They have poor depth perception because they have limited vertical vision of about 60 degrees, compared with around 140 degrees for humans. Because of this, they do not like to walk across shadows as they cannot tell if a shadow is a hole or ditch; they will stop moving forward and lower their heads to the ground to check it out.
Concerned about your vision? The video above provides a quick test to determine how good your eyesight is — and then lets you compare your vision with other people around you.
Note all old dogs will develop night blindness (senile retinal degeneration) from age-related death of rod photoreceptor cells in the retina, resulting in poor vision in dim light. A canine vision supplement like OcuGLO helps support rod photoreceptor cell health.
When it comes to cat health, eyes have long been of particular interest to me. Cats can develop cat eye problems not just from a direct problem with their eyes such as cat glaucoma or cat herpes, but also secondary to systemic cat diseases such as feline immunodeficiency virus or cat leukemia.


Should you get a flu shot while pregnant? Always consult your Ob/Gyn before making any medical decision during pregnancy, but be aware that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention hails the flu shot as the safest, best way to protect yourself and your unborn baby from the flu. In fact, they note that the protection the flu shot provides in utero continues for several months after birth.
Proper hand-washing aside, flu season is an excellent time of year to take a few extra steps toward careful hygiene. If you are away from the sink and out in public, it might be a good idea to keep a small container of hand sanitizer in your bag. At work, consider a package of disinfectant wipes for your desk, and offer to share, especially with your sniffling, sneezing co-workers. Keeping common areas free of germs helps everyone stay well!
One of the most significant benefits of self-care is that it helps us effectively deal with stress. Stress, in turn, has been proven to weaken our immune systems, making us more susceptible to seasonal flu and other illnesses. Follow your doctor-recommended plan for nutrition, exercise and rest, and ask for help when you need it. Finally, to help you feel prepared and empowered as a parent, and because babies don't come with a manual, contact NewbornCourse.com for help with all aspects of parenting your little one.
Being concerned about the flu is natural. Hopefully, by proactively caring for yourself and your baby, you can prevent being sidelined this flu season.


The LM bench reacts during the closing seconds of Wednesday's game.
The Aces came up just short on Wednesday night, losing 68-65 to Emmaus in the final of the Lower Merion Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at Bryant Gymnasium. The game was certainly worth the $5 price of admission, as two quality teams battled toe-to-toe for 32 minutes in an entertaining game of contrasting styles. Emmaus, a talented, senior-laden bunch, showed why they are the class of District 11 and a serious state contender. The Hornets kept the Aces off balance with a crisp, controlled passing game and an impressive transition attack. LM countered with relentless dribble penetration and effective work off the offensive glass. Ultimately, Emmaus made more clutch plays down the stretch, overcoming a late six point deficit to pull out the victory.
Greg Bobal led the Hornets with 24 points, knocking down four threes and displaying a complete floor game en route to tournament MVP honors. For the Aces, BJ Johnson '13 scored 23 points, including nine in the fourth quarter. Raheem Hall '13 added 16 points. Mike Robbins '12 (12 points), Darryl Reynolds '12 (7 points) and Jaquan Johnson '14 (7 points) rounded out the scoring for LM.
The game was tied 21-21 after the first quarter and was knotted at 37-37 in a high-scoring first half. Both teams struggled to score in the third frame, with LM taking a slim 48-46 lead into the fourth quarter. Until that point, no team had led by more than four points in a game that saw 19 lead changes. The Aces led by as many as six in the fourth quarter after Jaquan Johnson found BJ Johnson for consecutive threes. But Emmaus stormed back to take a 62-60 lead at the 1:49 mark and extended the lead to four points (66-62) with less than 20 seconds to play. Johnson was fouled on a three point attempt and knocked down all three free throws to draw the Aces within one, but Emmaus hit big free throws down the stretch to seal the final margin.
The outcome was a tough one to swallow for the Aces, who were hosting their first holiday tournament in more than a decade, but it was not for lack of effort. Emmaus played very well and deserved the victory. If LM hopes to make any noise in this year's post-season, the Hornets are exactly the kind of team they'll need to play -- and beat -- down the road.
LM continues its difficult non-league campaign on Friday night, with a match-up against the area's #3 ranked team, St. Joseph's Prep -- another squad with a boatload of talent and state title aspirations. Tip-off is 5:00 PM at Widener University.


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Porsche Expands into the World of Golf with its Global Golf Network
Porsche is Driving into Digital Worlds
Exclusively created for Porsche customers who are also golf enthusiasts, the Porsche Golf Circle is designed to connect and deliver experiences across both realms.
The Porsche Golf Circle is an app-based community app that allows members to contact other community members directly and find playing partners around the world. More services are planned for the app, such as training tips in the form of digital golf tutorials, as well as help with rules and reports. One of the highlights of the app will be access and information for exclusive events around the world. Anyone who owns a Porsche can join the Porsche Golf Circle.
"Porsche and golf have dynamics, technology and precision in common. In turn, members of the Porsche Golf Circle share a great passion for both Porsche and golf," says Oliver Hoffmann, Director Experiential Marketing at Porsche AG.
This digital golf network was launched at the "Founding Member Event" at the Penha Longa Resort, near Lisbon, Portugal. Over 180 participants from 16 countries were treated to a very special golfing experience, including two rounds on the Oitavos Dunes and Atlântico courses. The guests also viewed the latest Porsche models on the roads around the Portuguese capital.
All participants of the Porsche Golf World Finals dating back to 2014 were invited as founding members, provided they were still Porsche owners. Following a meeting with legendary American golf course architect, Robert Trent Jones Jr., the Porsche Golf Circle was officially launched at the closing gala dinner.
Porsche has been involved in the world of golf since 1988, through the Porsche Golf Cup – a global amateur series for Porsche customers. In 2015, this commitment was expanded with the title sponsorship of the Porsche European Open, one of the most prestigious tournaments on the European Tour. In the last two years, the Porsche Generations Open was launched, which is a nine-hole tournament series for amateur golfers.
Porsche customers can download the Porsche Golf Circle app free of charge for tablets and smartphones via the App Store (iOS) or the Google Play Store (Android).
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Felipa Hernandez Barragan (1914–2011) is a Mexican potter known for the making of a set of figures used in the curing of ailments caused by "bad air".

Biography
Hernandez Barragan was born and raised in Tlayacapan, a small town in the state of Morelos, Mexico, south of Mexico City. This town is located in a box canyon, surrounded by the Chichinautzin mountains. This affects wind and rain patterns, which in turn have affected local beliefs.
Felipa began working in clay in 1931, working under her mother, Virginia Cervantes, who was a healer. Although records do not exist, family lore indicates that this vocations was in the family for generations prior along the female line. Although Hernandez Barragan did not become a healer, she showed skill in pottery, making not only the sets for which she is noted, but also traditional glazed utilitarian wares as well. These sets are called "juegos del aire" (lit. air sets) used to cures "males de aire" (lit. air sicknesses). Hernandez Barragan continues to make the pieces to order until the mid-2000s leaving only her daughter, María del Refugio Reyes Hernández, left who makes them. Some of Hernandez Barragan's pieces can be found on permanent display at the Tlayacapan community museum, along with a complete description of the ritual.

Juegos del aire
The sets consists of twelve small figures, between five and eight centimeters high, small enough to be fired on a comal, with a pot covering it to make a kind of small oven. There are two kinds of sets, one for children and one for adults. In both, the pieces are painted white, with pink faces, with red lines on the sets for children and black lines on the sets for adults. Both are painted in enamels and the stripes have diamond points. The use of red and black for age is of Mesoamerican origin, relating to the position of the sun. The sets include two human figures, one on a mattress or petate with represents the sick person and another which represents the healer, which has a dove in his/her hands. Another piece is that of a dove, which also serves as a whistle. The other nine pieces are those of animals considered harmful such as a snake, a millipede, a lizard, a tarantula, a spider, a frog, a  coyote, a scorpion and a bull. The bull is a later addition, since it was introduced by the Spanish, who in stories often related it to the devil.

The pieces are not simply an offering, but rather each piece has a specific function a healing ceremony. The basic idea behind the healing is that certain afflictions come from "mal aire" or "bad air" that causes imbalance in the patient. This has its origins in Mesoamerican belief, as then wind was considered to have both positive and negative properties. The various animals represents kind of "bad air", a concepts reinforced by tying small cigarettes to each with a red wire. The goal is to take the air from the patient and have it absorbed into the earth. For this reason, the animal figures are made of clay.

After the cigarettes are tied to the animal figures, each one is passed over the patient as a kind of cleansing, while prayers are said. Then each animal is placed in a basket made of red crepe paper. This part of the ceremony is to remove the bad air from the patient. Then the basket is taken outside to an ants' nets, with offerings of food such as mole and tamales and candles. The dove whistle is sounded to the four cardinal directions. The goal here is to ground the bad air into the earth, using the ants as agents.

References

Mexican potters
1914 births
2011 deaths
Women potters
20th-century Mexican ceramists
Mexican women ceramists

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On Friday 22nd March, the Year 13 Biology students spent the day at the Oroua river in Feilding, for an ecology field trip which forms part of their NCEA Level 3 assessment programme. The students worked hard all day collecting data on the macro-invertebrate (insect larvae, water boatmen, leaches, snails) life in the micro-habitats of the river bed.
It's always good to get out of the lab and do real data collecting activities, and what could be better on a beautiful summer's day than to explore NZ's natural environment? We all really enjoyed the day and finished off with ice cream from Feilding's ice cream parlour!


In October 2018, we're introducing Sunday Funday! This special promotion gets you a private room every Sunday at a great price for one month only. Grim Stacks: $100 Rescue: $100 The Path: $100 Pipe Works: $150 Don't forget to check the "Private Event" box for this special pricing!