The opaqueness of Earth's atmosphere rules out any ground-based telescopes.
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It is a selling process that has few peers in opaqueness.
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Health insurance adds a layer of bureaucracy and opaqueness to this process.
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The level of opaqueness, truth deficiency, moral decay & values deficit is baffling.
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The lack of formal rules meant that opaqueness became the industry standard.
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"It's about ready," Flood says, going by the opaqueness of the fish.
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But there is also a level of opaqueness here that is concerning.
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But justified or not, the tendency for opaqueness stings her again and again.
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Introduce abstraction, or deliberate opaqueness, and the player becomes less comfortable, more frightened.
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Until recently Israel maintained a policy of "opaqueness" regarding its strikes against Iranian targets.
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The details remain murky, however, both because of Trump's opaqueness and a federal nepotism law.
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Cryptocurrencies exist within a level of opaqueness that is difficult for financial authorities to penetrate.
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Rosy Bindi, the commission's president, says she aims to cut through the anti-Mafia's "opaqueness and ambiguities".
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Gimmes for me were XANADU, GAS PEDAL, OPAQUENESS, ROE V. WADE, the anagram OLD MASTERS and ALCHEMIST.
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It's a game that got me thinking about hardness and softness, opaqueness and transparency, accessibility and total obtuseness.
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" The mid-century citizen had been primed to accept magical thinking by systems of fascistic "opaqueness and inscrutability.
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The slight opaqueness means it's not quite like looking through glass when it's off, but it's pretty damn close.
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Shielded by North Korea's extreme opaqueness, Kim has posed a special set of profiling problems for U.S. spy agencies.
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Al Franken (D-MN) also drew attention to the opaqueness of how sexual harassment is dealt with in Congress.
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North Korea's opaqueness about everything means Pyongyang will try to close this case, hoping that Washington will move on.
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Of course, a gigantic spreadsheet with 72 worksheets and hundreds of thousands of cells has its own issues of opaqueness.
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This focuses on the company's energy business, or more specifically, the opaqueness around its lobbying efforts in the energy sector.
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The problem is that the complexity and opaqueness of the process make it difficult to put checks and balances in place.
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FSOC has been plagued by criticism about opaqueness nearly since its birth, even as it has taken steps to address complaints.
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China's opaqueness in issuing loans means debt burdens for recipient countries can be misrepresented, causing potential problems for the global economy.
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I'm inspired (or rather disturbed and fixated) by the opaqueness of the manufactured world where methods of production and disposal are obscured.
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"Sometimes a bit of smokescreen, sometimes a bit of quiet, and sometimes a bit of opaqueness might serve us a little bit better."
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Regarded as extreme in her own time, Dickinson remains extreme in ours, because of the opaqueness of her poems—and their complex subject matter.
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Left in December called Express Scripts the "culprit behind pharmaceutical price gouging", and added that the company benefited from the "opaqueness" of drug pricing.
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"It's going to be quite difficult for Zcash in its opaqueness to show that, no, it is not all bad stuff going on," he said.
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In Pennsylvania, the state Senate recently passed Senate bill 560, which would mirror North Carolina's opaqueness, and allow police to record inside civilian homes without restriction.
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Opaqueness around the project means it is unclear which foreign or local companies are involved, or even at what stage the process is at, activists said.
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Some display Brutalist sensibilities, with severe slabs of exposed concrete; others, nearly devoid of opaqueness, call to mind Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Conn.
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But these tend to involve the same issues that drive Western philosophers toward paradox and opaqueness — for example, the relationship of consciousness to the physical body.
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Given the lack of an explanation, and the North Korean government's general opaqueness and unpredictability, there was much speculation in South Korea about what the cancellation meant.
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It's also somewhat notorious for not publishing an award chart (something both United Airlines and American Airlines do), which does little to curtail the impression of opaqueness.
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"Given the huge opaqueness and quality of data issues is a mega problem," Timothy Ash, an emerging market analyst at Nomura, said in a note after the downgrade.
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"The challenges of China's regulatory environment — its opaqueness, unpredictability and basic problems of market access — make it difficult for U.S. companies to realize their full potential," he added.
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The added detail was the result of complaints from four years ago about the opaqueness of Mr. Sanders's narrow loss in the Iowa delegate chase to Mrs. Clinton.
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As consumers, if we've demanded the transparency of what's in our food and how it is grown, why do we accept so easily the opaqueness of investment products?
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But the biggest barrier for some Chinese buyers has been inexperience and opaqueness, amply illustrated by the Anbang Insurance Group's $14 billion offer for Starwood Hotels and Resorts.
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Dozens of film industry personalities – including "X-Men" actor Omar Sy and Berenice Bejo of the 2011 film "The Artist" - had denounced the academy's "opaqueness" in an open letter.
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As a result, the opaqueness that has characterized the maritime domain for millennia remains, and the oceans, particularly the areas outside of a country's territorial waters, are a wild west.
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They're desperately fighting to hang on to that opaqueness, because it makes it possible to skim money off the top and get money that doesn't get distributed to the artist.
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Future appeals may take issue with the opaqueness of the process by which the I.O.C. is reviewing Russian athletes' eligibility — something a group of antidoping officials criticized forcefully on Thursday.
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In Avanos, Héctor Zamora's sculptural installation "Truth Appears Always As Something Veiled" (2017) oscillates between transparency and opaqueness, a kind of physical metaphor for recent events in Turkey and Mexico.
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The complexity of Facebook's systems and the company's general opaqueness, Mr. Therrien said, make it likely that users are unaware that the company is violating their privacy or breaking Canadian laws.
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Standard and Poor's rating agency cited less predictable policy-making and "increasing opaqueness" around leading institutions like the central bank when it kept Hungary's debt in the "junk" category earlier this month.
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The opaqueness has led some families to think they have a free ride from a college when in reality they have a six-figure combination of expenses and debt, according to Kantrowitz.
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In the wake of increased job instability and industry opaqueness regarding major layoffs in the early months of 2019, the young movement of games industry worker organization stood strong at GDC 2019.
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Given the storms, "I would take some of the numbers that are coming out this month with a grain of salt, knowing that there is some opaqueness in what's going on," said Trang.
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Given the storms, "I would take some of the numbers that are coming out this month with a grain of salt, knowing that there is some opaqueness in whats going on," said Trang.
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The horrifying incident witnessed by dozens of people exposed a systemic problem with the nation's largest law enforcement agency: that Border Patrol agents operate with impunity, without meaningful accountability, and in complete opaqueness.
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Feld, a software engineer working in North Carolina, created Speak Together to share "technical projects that could be used to reduce the opaqueness between government and people," he told Motherboard over the phone.
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Click here to view original GIFTokyo-based designer Duncan Shotton takes advantage of soy sauce's varying opaqueness to create a pair of unique sushi dishes that reveal three-dimensional optical illusions once they're filled.
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The shakeups in the press staff come as Wheeler undertakes an effort to change how the EPA communicates with the media and the public, in contrast to Pruitt's opaqueness and abrasiveness with the press.
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And yet, the opaqueness of maritime activity enables any vessel to easily transport not only arms and people, but also drugs, contraband, and even smuggled oil — all critical links in the terror-supply chain.
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This is the spirit that both reveals and exploits the ambiguity at the heart of these kinds of events, the opaqueness that is the direct result of a lack of real and credible research.
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By using minute brushstrokes that contrast the bright white of the wood pulp with the opaqueness of the dark graphite pencil, the artist creates the illusion of an immersive wood chip shower in his pieces.
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I have shed the serpentine skin of my past life, the scaly opaqueness of my former self left to rot in the winter sun, and I have emerged anew, pink, and screaming, damp but alive.
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There was the late-night bowl of seolleongtang — ox bone soup, slow cooked to snow white opaqueness — over which a colleague and I defrosted our cheeks after shivering through the opening ceremony of the Games.
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The sweeping new guidelines, covering all financial institutions including banks, brokerages, insurers, fund houses and trust companies, are the latest effort to rein in China's rampantly growing shadow banking sector, notorious for excessive leverage, Byzantine structures, and opaqueness.
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"It is very surprising that Wells Fargo has not changed the opaqueness in its disclosure and only disclosed this late on Thursday night when it realized a news story was about to break," JPMorgan analyst Vivek Juneja wrote Monday.
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Coworkers sharing a job title might never discuss their compensation with one another, but the opaqueness surrounding salaries in the workplace only serves to protect the enshrined patriarchy that lies at the foundation of the economic system which keeps women underpaid.
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The destructive combination of tax opaqueness and uncertainty explains why, although it seems irrational to some, there was such turmoil recently over unexpected reductions in the amount of income tax refunds some households received, even if their overall tax bills were lower.
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Thanks to the opaqueness of the settlement agreements between the Justice Department and the big Wall Street banks, we are unlikely to know the full extent of the wrongdoing on Wall Street that helped to cause the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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But at an even more fundamental level, the design of our digital economy is steadily eroding the temperamental qualities that we need in order to treasure privacy at all: our tolerance for opaqueness, uncertainty and disconnectedness — and our faith in the decency of others.
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Given the storms, "I would take some of the numbers that are coming out this month with a grain of salt, knowing that there is some opaqueness in what's going on," said Minh Trang, senior currency trader at Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, California.
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Often, as in one of the weaker drawings at Galerie Natalie Seroussi, "Dessin automatique" (63), Masson left traces of the rapidly drawn ink mostly visible so that they extend to the mind a hypothetical flexing, allowing the viewer to probe the opaqueness of the world and discern concealed forces.
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"Because of the complexity and opaqueness of today's branded pharmaceutical supply chain and the increased shifting of costs to patients as a result of high-deductible health plans, we determined that bypassing the brand system in this case and offering an additional alternative was the best option," Heather Bresch, chief executive of Mylan, said in a statement.
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"Deals that have uncertainty over the base rate that don't have ARRC (language) will suffer from some liquidity issues as investors need to understand the nuances of what a manager may or may not do because of the opaqueness of not having ARRC language," said Edwin Wilches, a portfolio manager at PGIM where he invests in the debt of CLOs.
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An increasing number of computer scientists see this kind of opaqueness as a potential danger as we rush headlong into a future full of black boxes working in the background of our digital lives, and the solution—as they see it—is to democratize access to AI. To this end, a team of computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania led by Jason Moore are working on an open source interface called PennAI.
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The opaqueness of the eye is caused by the deposit of lipids onto the cornea.
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The resignation thus makes it unclear whether the resignation was forced or voluntary, and this opaqueness may benefit both parties.
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Plasma is normally relatively transparent, but sometimes it can be opaque. Opaqueness is typically due to elevated content of lipids like cholesterol and triglycerides (see hyperlipidemia).
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Creative accounting may follow the letter of the rules of standard accounting practice, yet deviate by excessive complication creating opaqueness, whereas plugging the numbers deviates from accounting rules for a relatively "immaterial amount".
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The Dragon Awards have been criticized because of the appearance that the awards were created in conjunction with campaigns by the Rabid and Sad Puppies to attack the Hugo Award. Another concern raised is regarding the opaqueness of the nomination and voting process.
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X-rays can be passed through the body and used in medical radiography and fluoroscopy to differentiate interior structures that have varying degrees of opaqueness. Magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, and ultrasound imaging have all enabled examination of internal structures in unprecedented detail to a degree far beyond the imagination of earlier generations.
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The opaqueness present in the system might cause unintended side-effects. There might be non-linear relationships between components of a system and feedback delays between actions taken and their outcomes. The dynamic complexity of a system might eventually make it hard for the decision makers to understand and control the system.
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In the case of transmission electron microscopy, opaqueness to electrons is related to the atomic number, i.e., the number of protons. Some suitable negative stains include ammonium molybdate, uranyl acetate, uranyl formate, phosphotungstic acid, osmium tetroxide, osmium ferricyanide and auroglucothionate. These have been chosen because they scatter electrons strongly and also adsorb to biological matter well.
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This "black" sea glass was collected in Jamaica 24 Dec. 2009. Under good light the green shade of the original glass before weathering is revealed. Old black glass that had iron slag added during production to increase strength and opaqueness were at times broken in shipment. These broken bottles were jettisoned at the beachside wharf upon landfall.
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It is particularly valuable for artistic painting of skies because of its hue, its permanence, and its opaqueness. Berthe Morisot painted the blue coat of the woman in her Summer's Day, 1879 in cerulean blue in conjunction with artificial ultramarine and cobalt blue.Bomford D, Kirby J., Leighton, J., Roy A. Art in the Making: Impressionism. National Gallery Publications, London, 1990, pp.
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Dutton then ended the contest. The Bad Writing Contest emerged in an intellectual climate dominated by fallout from the Sokal affair, in which the alleged opaqueness and obscurity of postmodern writing came in for criticism: Edward Said, for instance, deplored "diminishment and incoherence" in the writings of some of his colleagues and Martha Nussbaum condemned academic writing that was "ponderous and obscure".
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See Cohen, M., "The Transparency of Saul", European Judaism, volume 39, no. 1, 2006, for a comparison of the transparent presentation of Saul and the opaqueness of David's character in 1 Samuel. After his success in battle against the Philistine giant Goliath, Merab was given in marriage to Adriel. Later, after Merab had married Adriel the Meholathite, Saul invited David to marry Michal.
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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (abbreviated IOCCC) is a computer programming contest for the most creatively obfuscated C code. Held annually, it is described as "celebrating [C's] syntactical opaqueness". The winning code for the 27th contest, held in 2020, was released in July 2020. Previous contests were held in the years 1984–1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004–2006, 2011–2015 and 2018–2020.
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There was also an absolute majority against legalization. The low cost of a ticket leads many to consider the gambling relatively harmless, with no-one clearly suffering due to the practice. It is even often seen as a community activity. Due to the illegality of the game and the subsequent opaqueness and lack of a formal structure, a high degree of trust by the bettor in their kubrador is required.
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To give the illusion of being freaks, the appearance of several actors was modified by make-up elements. John Fleck (Gecko) spent over ten hours in makeup each day to transform into and out of his character. The skin, which needed to look like alligator hide, consisted of seven or eight separate pieces and needed to be glued to Fleck's face. Patrick Bauchau (Lodz) had several contact lens pairs of different opaqueness.
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Accidental light can only exist if there is a source of primary light. Both primary and secondary light travel in straight lines. Transparency is a characteristic of a body that can transmit light through them, such as air and water, although no body can completely transmit light or be entirely transparent. Opaque objects are those through which light cannot pass through directly, although there are degrees of opaqueness which determine how much light can actually pass through.
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Some say that its mission is rather opaque. This opaqueness might be perceived from a strictly disciplinary, or sub- disciplinary perspective. WMSCI is intended to be a forum for both inter- disciplinary scholars, researchers, and professionals, as well as disciplinary researchers who are interested in presenting their disciplinary research and share information and knowledge with researchers from other disciplinary researchers aiming for potential cross-fertilization and analogical thinking, which provide input to logical thinking and empirical hypothesis formulation.
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CSIRO ScienceImage 1831 Borer damaged wood Proper examination of the object is an initial step in the conservation process. Commonly used technologies include radiography and reflectography. Radiography provides the effective technique in terms of analyzing the condition and preservation work done on the structure of panel paintings. Other uses of radiography can be seen by the opaqueness of specific colors used in the painting, condition of the wood, thickness or density of the wood, and various damage done by pests.
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Elephant trunks form on the outer wall of the H II region cloud. At visible light wavelengths, astronomers can only study the structure of the surface of the trunks because the opaqueness of the gas obscures the internal core. The length of the columns are measured in light years, which is the distance that it takes light to travel in one year. Astronomers can calculate the densities and temperatures of the EGGs and the trunks by using infrared, millimeter, and radio observations.
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The board is made up of 50 members, with an additional 13 selected for their contributions to cinema. They handle admissions, criteria and overall management. Protests over the structure of the board came to a head in February 2020. An open letter signed by over 400 French directors and actors decried the "opaqueness" of the Board's structure and the lack of democratic governance; members of the Academy do not vote on leadership, unlike similar organizations such as the Motion Picture Academy or the BAFTA.
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In 1839, he received criticism from the House of Representatives for the opaqueness of his policy on loans between the government and the Netherlands Trading Society. Van den Bosch voluntarily stepped down from office on 1 January 1840, upon which he was granted the title Count van den Bosch by royal decree, as well as the honourable title of Minister of State. He entered the House of Representatives for South Holland in 1842 and would remain there until his death. Count van den Bosch died on 28 January 1844 at his estate in The Hague, as a result of a short disease.
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Critical opinion on "I Am... I Said" has generally been good, with Rolling Stone calling its lyric excellent in a 1972 review, while The New Yorker used it to exemplify Diamond's songwriting opaqueness in a 2006 retrospective. A 2008 Diamond profile in The Daily Telegraph simply referred to the song's "raging existential angst," and Allmusic calls it "an impassioned statement of emotional turmoil... very much in tune with the confessional singer/songwriter movement of the time." The song was not without its detractors, however. Humorist Dave Barry said: The song garnered Diamond his first Grammy Awards nomination, for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.
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The primary characteristics of dynamic decision environments are dynamics, complexity, opaqueness, and dynamic complexity. The dynamics of the environments refers to the dependence of the system's state on its state at an earlier time. Dynamics in the system could be driven by positive feedback (self-amplifying loops) or negative feedback (self- correcting loops), examples of which could be the accrual of interest in a saving bank account or the assuage of hunger due to eating respectively. Complexity largely refers to the number of interacting or interconnected elements within a system that can make it difficult to predict the behavior of the system.
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But the definition of complexity could still have problems as system components can vary in terms of how many components there are in the system, number of relationships between them, and the nature of those relationships. Complexity may also be a function of the decision maker's ability. Opaqueness refers to the physical invisibility of some aspects of a dynamic system and it might also be dependent upon a decision maker's ability to acquire knowledge of the components of the system. Dynamic complexity refers to the decision maker's ability to control the system using the feedback the decision maker receives from the system.
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LTCM was open about its overall strategy, but very secretive about its specific operations, including scattering trades among banks. And in perhaps a disconcerting note, "since Long-Term was flourishing, no one needed to know exactly what they were doing. All they knew was that the profits were coming in as promised," or at least perhaps what should have been a disconcerting note when looked at in hindsight. Opaqueness may have made even more of a difference and investors may have had even a harder time judging the risk involved when LTCM moved from bond arbitrage into arbitrage involving common stocks and corporate mergers.
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The 45th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, took place on 28 February 2020, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris to honour the best French films of 2019. Sandrine Kiberlain presided, and Florence Foresti as the host. Controversy and protests dogged the Academy in the months running up to the ceremony. The entire board of directors of the César Academy resigned on 13 February 2020, in response to complaints over the opaqueness of the process and the powerlessness of normal Academy members, who do not vote for nor otherwise exercise any control over the leadership of the Academy.
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In November 2019, Google fired and suspended workers for media leaks and misuse of internal data, which some internal sources described as retaliation against activist staff. A publicized, 200-worker demonstration in San Francisco protested the suspension of Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland as unjust and demanded their reinstatement. Rivers had protested the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) business with a Google cloud product and Berland had protested YouTube's use of hate speech policy in relation to gay rights. Both Rivers and Berland spoke about their personal experiences at the rally, emphasizing the opaqueness behind being put on leave, particularly that they had not been told what they did wrong.
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The exact monetary values processed by these skin gambling sites are difficult to measure because of the opaqueness of the ownership. Eilers and Narus estimated that $2.3 billion in skins was used to bet on esports in 2015, $5 billion in 2016, and projected that over $20 billion in skins would be gambled by 2020 if the market was left unchecked. Of the $5 billion in skins during 2016, Eilers and Narus estimated that only $2 billion were used for esport betting, while the rest was used on traditional games of chance. Some individuals are estimated to have a cumulative worth of tens of millions of dollars of skins in their inventories.
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This generates an environment where political and business interests can influence media agendas. According to a 2015 WAN IFRA report, a variety of soft censorship mechanisms are used to silence or pressure journalists in North Macedonia. Soft censorship, or indirect censorship, is defined as “an array of official actions intended to influence media output, short of legal or extra-legal bans, direct censorship of specific content, or physical attacks on media outlets or media practitioners.” Soft censorship is made possible by the opaqueness and poor regulation of the mechanisms for the allocation of state advertising, self- censorship, repressive legislation, lack of transparency of media ownership and of ownership connected to political parties.
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The whiteness of the scales is caused by a thin disordered photonic structure (≈7 μm) which scatters light of all wavelengths with the same efficiency, thus resulting in a white colouration. This is particularly interesting as the beetle's exoskeleton underneath the scales is black, meaning that the scattering events must be very efficient in order to achieve such high opaqueness. The white scales are composed of sclerotin, a modified form of the polymer chitin, and are whiter than paper or any artificial material produced so far. That is they have a scattering mean free path shorter than any natural material thanks to the anisotropy in the spatial architecture of the fibres, which ensures a high packing efficiency whilst preventing optical crowding.
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Elemental iron, combined with non- metallic carbon or silicon, produces alloys called steel or silicon steel. The resulting mixture forms a substance with properties that often differ from those of the pure metals, such as increased strength or hardness. Unlike other substances that may contain metallic bases but do not behave as metals, such as aluminium oxide (sapphire), beryllium aluminium silicate (emerald) or sodium chloride (salt), an alloy will retain all the properties of a metal in the resulting material, such as electrical conductivity, ductility, opaqueness, and luster. Alloys are used in a wide variety of applications, from the steel alloys, used in everything from buildings to automobiles to surgical tools, to exotic titanium-alloys used in the aerospace industry, to beryllium-copper alloys for non-sparking tools.
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In another, a sighted man enters the parable and describes the entire elephant from various perspectives, the blind men then learn that they were all partially correct and partially wrong. While one's subjective experience is true, it may not be the totality of truth. The parable has been used to illustrate a range of truths and fallacies; broadly, the parable implies that one's subjective experience can be true, but that such experience is inherently limited by its failure to account for other truths or a totality of truth. At various times the parable has provided insight into the relativism, opaqueness or inexpressible nature of truth, the behavior of experts in fields of contradicting theories, the need for deeper understanding, and respect for different perspectives on the same object of observation.
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Compounded with the relative opaqueness of data storage by governments, critics argue that individual privacy can be curtailed massively through residence in a smart city with little recourse for individuals. Government surveillance is arguably driven by paternalistic desires to protect citizens, however the individualistic and tailor-made benefits delivered by smart city technology may reduce autonomy. This holds particularly true in light of the shift towards predictive policing that occurs within the smart city environment. Whilst nobly intended, such unilateral actions by a Government may be seen as oppressive – with the omnipotent role assumed by the Government seen as giving rise to that of a panoptic institution. Modern cities are increasingly valuing privacy and digital security, as evidenced by the latest “The Economist Safest Cities Index 2015”, where a Digital Security metric was incorporated alongside traditional measures of safety such as Personal Security and Health.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 323, adopted on December 6, 1972, after recalling previous resolutions and reaffirming the United Naition's responsibility for Namibia, the Council observed with satisfaction that Namibians had an opportunity of expressing their aspirations to representatives of the UN and noted that the overwhelming majority of the opinions of those consulted were in favor of the abolition of the "homelands policy" and accession to national independence. The Council expressed regret for South Africa's opaqueness regarding self-determination for Namibia and invited the Secretary-General to continue his valuable efforts to ensure that the people of Namibia exercise their right to self-determination and independence. The Resolution also determined that immediately following the partial renewal of membership on the Council, new representatives to fill the vacancies that would occur in the group established in accordance with resolution 309 would be appointed. The resolution passed with 13 votes to none, while the Soviet Union abstained and the People's Republic of China did not participate in voting.
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Unconfirmed reports surfaced on the U.K.-based Sunday Times, citing Hong Kong magazine Frontline (), that the paramilitary forces under Zhou's disposal had narrowly avoided direct conflict with the 38th Army in the center of Beijing.Due to the opaqueness of machinations of China's political elites, numerous conspiracy theories emerged on what really happened in Beijing on the night of March 19 in what became known as the "March 19 Beijing coup". A widely circulated theory from Chinese- language news portal Boxun alleged that Zhou dispatched paramilitary troops in an attempt to free former Dalian Shide executive chairman Xu Ming, and ally of Bo Xilai, from custody, so as to prevent Xu from testifying at Bo's trial. Another more elaborate theory by New York-based Mingjing News stated that Zhou Yongkang planned to launch a coup on the night of March 19, and that Hu Jintao dispatched the 38th Army into Beijing in order to protect the Zhongnanhai compound from incursions by Zhou's "coup militia".
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A convoluted plot is seen that acts as a history lesson in the years of the Popular Front and World War II. Fiodor Voronin (Serge Renko), a former general in the White Russian army, acts as a double agent between the Soviets and the Nazi secret police. The entire movie is shaped through a common theme of “the opaqueness of human motivations,” ultimately creating a “flawed interpretation of evidence” in creating a love triangle (the quote from Rohmer himself). The secrecy of Fiodor presents an interesting theme that runs its course throughout the entire film. This very secrecy is meant to allow the audience to think and ponder on what exactly is happening. Rohmer claims, ”It’s good for there to be no clear solutions to the questions being posed. It’s much more interesting.” Furthermore, Rohmer uses ”cruel moral dilemmas, sophisticated settings and the use of language as the main constituent in the drama.” Renko plays Fiodor as someone who had a triple life between various spy organizations.
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