Convergence theory holds that crowd behavior is not a product of the crowd itself, but is carried into the crowd by particular individuals.

Convergence theory claims that crowd behavior as such is not irrational ; rather, people in crowds express existing beliefs and values so that the mob reaction is the rational product of widespread popular feeling.

# Convergence Theory-whereas the Contagion Theory states that crowds cause people to act in a certain way, Convergence theory states that people who want to act in a certain way come together to form crowds.

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Convergence is the sharing and cross-promoting of content from a variety of media, which in theory might all converge and become one medium eventually.

Associated with the Circumpolar Current is the Antarctic Convergence where the cold Antarctic waters meet the warmer waters of the subantarctic, creating a zone of upwelling nutrients.

Thunderstorms: Activity is generally noticed during the afternoon and evenings during the summer months ( December through March ) and when the Intertropical Convergence Zone is in the vicinity of the island.

European Regional Development Fund 2007-2013: Southern Italy is almost all classified under the Regional policy of the European Union | Convergence objective ( GDP per capita less than 75 % of the EU average ).

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Seasonal rainfall is driven mainly by the migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

Near the equator, increased cloudiness is due to the presence of the low pressure Intertropical Convergence Zone or monsoon trough.

Convergence is difficult to quantify, so progress on this issue may require exploitation of engineering specifications ( e. g., of wing aerodynamics ) and comparably rigorous measures of " very different course " in terms of phylogenetic ( molecular ) distances.

Upwelling at the equator is associated with the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) which actually moves, and consequently, is often located north or south of the equator.

The Hoop Convergence, started in 2008, is also held annually in Carrboro and the surrounding area.

Convergence in this instance is defined as the interlinking of computing and other information technologies, media content, and communication networks that has arisen as the result of the evolution and popularization of the Internet as well as the activities, products and services that have emerged in the digital media space.

Convergence, simply put, is how individual consumers interact with others on a social level and use various media platforms to create new experiences, new forms of media and content that connect us socially, and not just to other consumers, but to the corporate producers of media in ways that have not been as readily accessible in the past.

It is usually found at latitudes within five degrees of the equator – which are dominated by the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

It is usually found at latitudes within five degrees of the equator – which are dominated by the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

In the United States, there is an annual national event, Convergence, as well as several annual regional gatherings.

There is also an annual event in Europe called European Big Men's Convergence.

Convergence is effective for distances less than 10 meters.

It is usually found at latitudes within five degrees of the equator – which are dominated by the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

The Strap-toothed whale is distributed in cool temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere between 30 ° S and the Antarctic Convergence.

* The Transformational Convergence Technology Office ( TCTO ) mission was to advance new crosscutting capabilities derived from a broad range of emerging technological and social trends, particularly in areas related to computing and computing-reliant subareas of the life sciences, social sciences, manufacturing, and commerce.

In September 2009, the NFR participated in the formation of a broad oppositional coalition called Plan Progress for Bolivia – National Convergence ( PPB-CN ).

" As a result of the large-scale activities surrounding the Harmonic Convergence in 1987, the American mass-media further popularised the term as a label for the alternative spiritual subculture, including practices such as meditation, channeling, crystal healing, astral projection, psychic experience, holistic health, simple living, and environmentalism ; or belief in phenomena such as Earth mysteries, ancient astronauts, extraterrestrial life, unidentified flying objects, crop circles, and reincarnation.

The term is less frequently used to describe the belt of maximum temperatures encircling the globe which migrates roughly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, the region known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone, as the Earth orbits the Sun.

Convergence Medicine, a term recently coined by Dr. Herskowitz, is intended to extend the discussion about truly individualized medicine and enable collaboration across all the global medical traditions into a unified standard for personalized medicine.

With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.

The Sahara receives very little rain in the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone which moves up from the south.

Other films which he has starred or co-starred are Dance to Win ( also known as War Dancing ) ( 1989 ), Love Potion No. 9 ( 1992 ) as Enrico Pazzoli, Dead Men Can't Dance ( 1997 ), Susan's Plan ( also known as Dying to Get Rich ) ( 1998 ), Merlin: The Return ( 1999 ) as Lancelot, Convergence ( also called Premonition ) ( 1999 ), The Void ( 2001 ), The Breed ( 2001 ), Code Hunter ( 2002 ), Nemesis Game ( 2003 ) Throttle ( 2005 ), and Phantom Below ( also known as Tides of War ) ( 2005 ).

In 1993, Caldera split from COPEI, the party he had founded, to form a new political party, Convergence, which, supported by a coalition of many small leftist parties: ( MAS, MEP, PCV ) as well as some centre-right parties ( URD, MIN ), raised Caldera to the presidency in December 1993.

" This partnership produced the releases Corrosion and Disorder in 1988 which were released together later that year with three more unreleased tracks in the compilations Convergence and Corroded Disorder.

Her millennial book, Waging Peace, collects the poetry, art, and texts from Convergence: Poems for Peace, which presented art-wrapped poems from across Canada to all MPs and Senators in 2001.

Serials for the student body include The Blazer, the college humour newspaper ; Quiddity, the school's annual arts and literature publication, which showcases students ' creative work ; The Blue Page, a one-page weekly publication of letters to the editor expressing opinions on any relevant issue ; and Convergence, the school's award winning student newspaper.

* Anti-Capitalist Convergence, organizations which coordinated activities by the social justice, anarchist and environmentalist anti-capitalists

In 1974, he passed definitively to the political sphere on founding the political party called Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya ( CDC ) ( Democratic Convergence of Catalonia in English ), of which he was the first Secretary.

A sector, from among the so-called " renewed socialist ", founded the Convergencia Socialista ( the Socialist Convergence ), which contributed to the Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria-MAPU ( Unified Movement of Popular Action ), the peasant worker MAPU, and the Christian Leftists.

Thunderstorms along the Intertropical Convergence Zone played a role in the loss of Air France Flight 447, which left Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport on Sunday, May 31, 2009, at 7 p. m. ( 4: 00 p. m. EDT ) and had been expected to land at Paris's Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport on Monday June 1, 2009, at 11: 15 a. m.

It is a closed circulation loop, which begins at the equator with warm, moist air lifted aloft in equatorial low pressure areas ( the Intertropical Convergence Zone, ITCZ ) to the tropopause and carried poleward.

Barbara “ Boo ” Price became Lisa Vogel ’ s business partner after the 1985 festival and was increasingly involved with production until the two parted ways in 1994, during a decade which saw many unique challenges to the festival — including the production of a 10th anniversary double album in 1985 ; the growth of the festival to five days ( with new intensive workshops ) by 1986 ; the extraordinary thunderstorms of the “ Harmonic Convergence ” year in 1987 ; an outbreak of shigella in 1988 ( the swift handling of which was praised by both local and national health inspectors ); charges of racism in 1989, resulting in festival-style town meetings ; debates over visible S / M sexuality, which led to an activist flying a small plane over the land and scattering flyers.

The Harmonic Convergence is the name given to the world's first globally synchronized meditation, announced by José Argüelles, and which occurred on August 16 – 17, 1987, which also closely correlated to an exceptional alignment of planets in our solar system, see below ( Astrological alignment ).

According to Argüelles, the Harmonic Convergence also began the final 25-year countdown to the end of the Mayan Long Count in 2012, which would be the so-called end of history and the beginning of a new 5, 125-year cycle.