For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, it derives from an expression that was popular amongst medieval Londoners that referred to an event whose occurrence was believed to be impossible.
And in the event of such an occurrence taking place, that presents a great risk.
Early reports from international seismological organisations calculated a magnitude of 7.8 for the event and timed its occurrence at 10:44 GMT.
The hundreds of cyclists who take part in Critical Mass say that, although the event is a regular occurrence, no one organises it and the route is never the same.
After all, CVRs are only payable upon the occurrence of some milestone event by a future date.
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Third, employee retention may be an issue, at least following the IPO after the big gains are realized (particularly when stock vesting allows employees to cash-out upon the occurrence of a qualifying liquidity event, as in the case of the Zynga IPO).
Thus, by deliberately disrupting all redundant safety systems, saboteurs can cause a severe event that would have had only a very low probability of occurrence if left to chance.
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This led him to calculate that the information content of any event was proportional to the logarithm of its inverse probability of occurrence. (Unlike many popular-science books that eschew equations, Mr Vedral includes a couple and tries his best to explain them to the reader.) What does the equation mean?
Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as an intellectual event horizon, beyond which events cannot be predicted or understood.
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Det Sgt Morrison also agreed with a suggestion by Mr McSporran that the "occurrence of a murder" on Lewis was a "rare event".
"The main issue to assess is whether the Algerian event represents a new ongoing threat and a general associated elevation in the risk environment or a one-off occurrence which may now result actually in tighter security in the region, " says Nick Robson, the head of Jardine Lloyd Thompson's credit, political and security risk business.
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