Blacking out

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The problem goes beyond deliberate obfuscation.

What are the blinds down for?

The date of the blackout was April 22, 2013.

You know those headaches and blackout spells?

The Sumgait events were organized with a view to hushing up and concealing the Nagorno Karabagh problem.

In China there is some indication for a renewed dimming, after the stabilization in the 1990s.

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The magnitude of the illusion depends on the properties of the obscuring pattern and the nature of its borders.

The plant suddenly overloads and explodes, blacking out a large portion of the city.

She had no more blackout spells at least, none that she was aware of.

Despite this news blackout, China s blogosphere and microblogs exploded after Liu was announced as the winner.

In general, however, opacity is a defining feature of most SWFs, exacerbating the risks that they pose.

International support is overwhelming, as well as a clear defiance to back Egyptian protesters and make their voices heard despite the total information blackout.

Despite attempts at a total news blackout, against both citizen and mainstream media, news from Egypt continues to dominate the scene.

They stopped the hearse carrying Simeon and dragged his body on the road as a way to draw attention to the case and prevent a cover up of the murder.

The blackout imposed on Chechnya prevents any precise assessment of the devastating effects of a ruthless conflict.

China s government has apparently begun to appreciate the limitations of cover ups and stonewalling, and perhaps also the merits of allowing some room for free speech.

The Bush team not only misled the world about the war s possible costs, but has also sought to obscure the costs as the war has gone on.

Mubarak's ill health, widely rumored for years, was never officially acknowledged until November 2003, when it could no longer be covered up.

Despite a news blackout during the riots in Lhasa, for example, Chinese Internet users managed to dodge the country s censorship.

Meanwhile, Israel s genuine, if arguably exaggerated, existential anxiety helps to explain its strategy of nuclear opacity.

GV Everybody knows that the blackout in Libya and the banning of foreign channels to enter the country, made the bloggers the most important source of news during the Libyan revolution.

Much has been said and written about the need for a thorough review of the United Nations system, and much of the debate has been focused on the Security Council, overshadowing all other issues, including the much needed reform of the General Assembly itself.

محاولات التعتيم على اكتشاف جاليليو لم تنجح مطلقا في غضون جيل واحد جميع المدارس في أوربا قبلت حقيقة أن الشمس وليست الأرض هي مركز نظامنا الشمسي

The aim of the hashtag is to draw attention to Syria's blackout after the Internet and communications with the outside world has been cut off for the third day in a row.

The information vacuum was reminiscent of the secrecy surrounding the deaths of Stalin and Mao, and the practice in the Ottoman empire of keeping the sultan s death a secret for weeks until the succession was settled.

Then the process is repeated but this time, the copy film is masked by the reverse matte, which excludes light from the foreground area already exposed (fig.

In any event, if its staff s criticism ever becomes too candid, these countries can always use their leverage to water down the public communiqués issued by the IMF s board.

Israel s policy of nuclear ambiguity has remained practically unchallenged for almost 50 years, not least within Israel itself, where the issue has been a sacred taboo.

Despite this news blackout, China s blogosphere and microblogs exploded after Liu was announced as the winner. For example, on Sina s microblog site, bloggers used pictures, euphemisms, and English or traditional Chinese characters to avoid censorship.

The news blackout imposed by Burma s military junta on its decision to forego its turn as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year shows that it has received a severe blow to its prestige.

A United Nations peacekeeping force deployed in eastern Congo was supposed to have protected the region s civilians the peacekeeping force s failure to safeguard the women has gone unremarked, in part, because a veil of silence surrounds what is occurring.

Given that the UN formally accepted the 2 C limit as the starting point for the top down approach in 2010, the well practiced strategy of obscuring current failures by announcing more ambitious future efforts would become unsustainable.

The generalized official verdict, and the use of Lin Piao (once Mao Zedong s Vice President and designated heir, who rebelled against him) and the Gang of Four as scapegoats, obscures the crimes of Mao and the Party, as well as the entrenched flaws in the system.

How do we find planets even habitable planets around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems. With new techniques, they may even find ones with the right conditions for life.

Using the Arria formula, which has been referred to recently in this Hall, is only another way to hide or obscure the lack of transparency through a supposed consultation with representatives of civil society, where no one really knows who they are nor what interests they really represent.

Such transparency was further justified by the general and legitimate interest in the future of Antarctica the quot centre of the universe quot , a point of conversion for three major oceans and depositary for 70 per cent of the world apos s known freshwater reserves and 90 per cent of its ice sheets.