Locog said it is standard practice to play pre-recorded music at such a large event.
It was also named as best cultural event and won a commendation for best large event.
This is the first large event in New York City on the sports events side since the events in Boston.
One advantage for authorities in an attack on a large event is the number of emergency personnel and others already present at the scene.
Carrieann Bedwell, a USGS seismologist, said a 7.8-magnitude quake was "a large event for any area" and could be expected to cause damage in inhabited places.
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"There's a commonly held perception that because there's such a large event, the roads will be jammed, the town will be filled and it will be a place to stay away from, " Mr Clements says.
Because of the 2012 Summer Olympics, the country will be well-versed and experienced by 2018 in handling a modern-day, large scale event.
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The old model still evidently works in large-event, must-watch scenarios.
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This is true of just about the entire economics profession and all economic reports: except those written by economists to provide an economic justification for the holding of a large sporting event.
The only plausible opportunity this week is probably to do it in New Hampshire on Friday, or over the weekend, but the telltale signs have to start emerging soon if it's a large public event.
The large-scale event will include musical performances, a fire ceremony and torch run.
Despite the enormous emotional impact of such a large-scale event, he helps us reconnect with the individual human element.
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David Antar of New York-based IPVideo Corporation says video surveillance can be set up to trigger warnings if bags are left unattended or suspicious activity takes place before or during a large-scale event.
The device maker was quiet at Mobile World Congress and has no large, public event planned for CTIA. HTC saved its big news (its first tablet and a number of new smartphones) for Mobile World Congress.
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Back in Francis' home city, the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires, the faithful packed the main square to watch the event on large screens set up throughout the Plaza de Mayo.
Such an event already attracts large media attention, and it would have made sense for Citi to announce a succession plan then.
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The season will conclude with the MLG Winter Championship, a large-scale, spectator event in Columbus, Ohio, from March 23-25 at the SMG-managed Greater Columbus Convention Center.
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Sony's large, three-hour event introducing its first full PlayStation update since 2006 neglected to display the device, show any photos of it or announce how much it would cost.
The still lifes are a warm-up for the exhibition's main event: four large galleries of landscapes, the best of which give a splendid impression of Van Gogh's mercurial, impassioned genius.
If we define a systemic risk event as something large enough to affect the entire global financial and economic system, then you would think that the best time for investors to be told about these terrible events is before they occur.
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At a later stage, they'll need to come to terms with Flickr and the other photo-sharing sites, and the way that any event attended by large numbers of people effortlessly generates its own online community, with hundreds of photos linked by common tags.
Now, first, the bill being considered in the Senate would create what we did not have before, and that is a way to protect the financial system and the broader economy and American taxpayers in the event that a large financial firm begins to fail.
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The intellectual scope is just as large as the size of the event.
The event has grown so large that the firm moved it to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View Calif.
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It was part of the customary preparedness that AP and other large news organisations make in the event of a major news story involving a world leader.
They declined to adopt a German plan for immediate recognition of Croatia and neighboring Slovenia on the grounds that it would (inexplicably) "limit" their options in the event Serbia begins a large-scale assault on the breakaway republics.
The event was attended by a large number of teachers, students, vice-chancellors of the universities, government officials and media.
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