Then using a smart phone, we documented handwritten responses from people whose paths we crossed, collecting submissions from individuals in both hemispheres. While geographically the contributors could not have been further apart, psychologically, their responses echoed one another in a resonant, prescient way. In this way we were able to physically capture the thoughts of a variety of participants, and share them with our co-editors across the globe in near real time thanks to the marvels of technology.
Simultaneously, the responses we gathered noted some recurring and challenging concerns. We heard concerns about time, presence, and disconnection. Many of these responses have been archived in a photographic collection .
Unanticipated consequences is a sociological concept emphasized by Robert K. Merton . Although later writers have interchanged the notion of unintended consequences with unanticipated consequences, the two phrases are subtly but significantly different, despite being deeply connected . In general, unintended consequences refer to those not intended by a purposeful action. Unanticipated consequences are those with outcomes that were not those that were foreseen. It follows then that an unintended consequence might/might not have been anticipated (Table 1). It is also important to state that unintended consequences can have positive, negative, or even perverse  impacts on individuals, groups of people, or society at large (Figure 1).
Figure 1. The social implications of unintended consequences.
Some sociology of science scholars refer to this phenomenon more generally as the law of unintended consequences, defined as the actions of people, groups, organizations, or governments that may be either anticipated or unanticipated in effect. It is a set of results that was not intended as an outcome, but happened regardless. The vast majority of people consider unintended consequences to be disadvantageous, counterproductive, fraudulent, or at times detrimental and even dangerous.
Table 1. (Un)Anticipated (Un)Intended consequences.
It is a paradox that today we think of disruption as an intentional action intended to trigger market forces and spur adoption of new technologies. Contrarily, unintended consequences do not have a purposeful intentionality about them. Quite often, the creator of an innovation does not attempt to steer the adoption and use of their product in the direction that eventually results. This leaves us only to ponder "after the fact" that the consequences were unintended by the creator.
In fact, there would be nothing stopping the rest of society from speculating as to what some of these unintended consequences might be prior to commercialization.
But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones"  (numbering added).
The idea of unknown unknowns was created by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham with the development of the Johari window in 1955 , which was centered on understanding the self and our relations with others. It was a concept that was widely used in NASA with respect to decision-making and risk.
While Rumsfeld referred to three categories, some philosophers such as Slavoj Žižek have proposed a fourth category of the "known unknowns." Žižek writes that these are: "the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we pretend not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values" . German sociologists Daase and Kessler  point out that while Rumsfeld emphasized the cognitive frame for political practice in what we know, what we do not know, and what we cannot know, he failed to address what we do not like to know .
The known knowns are those things that are anticipated consequences that history has taught us might happen in a given context. For example, some members of society may not be able to afford new technologies and so a digital divide between the haves and have-nots sets in with the increasing number of consumer technologies introduced into the market (i.e. difference between mobile phone, smart phone, smart watch, microchip implants) .
The known unknowns are again things that can be predicted, but often by applying good judgement and common sense principles about the possibilities. For example, the introduction of consumer products like the Hello Barbie, Alexa, DropCam, and Nest devices that have been deployed with significant social, privacy, and security problems that will inevitably create some benefit, but even greater drawbacks in unknown effects. Some would go so far as to say that these types of consumer products may have perverse impacts on particular groups like children or the mentally ill.
The unknown unknowns are completely unexpected, and are for the most part unpredictable because no evidence exists to identify particular risk factors or even attributes linking them to a given phenomenon. As technologies increase in complexity, we should expect a greater number of unknown unknowns, with a greater severity of consequence. So-called "humane robots" that are used in assisted living contexts to aid the elderly (e.g., to get dressed, remember to take their tablets, provide fall-down alert support and more) presently have a lot of unknown unknowns attached to them , though equally they may have benefits that cannot be disputed.
The fourth and final category is the unknown knowns. This category is somewhat of an oxymoron. It cannot be and yet it is. While creators of new technologies are likely in many ways to be in the best position to critique their own creations, most innovators openly say that they have no idea how their creations will be used by society, and that we cannot prejudge ethics. We think of technologies such as gaming apps for the smartphone that are built to encourage return visits with stickiness features. Yet some software developers will never admit to triggering addictions in members of the populace prone to addictive behaviors .
Such as in the fourth category above, some technologists in the areas of artificial intelligence and robotics tend to shrug off plausible anticipatory outcomes, knowing full well what the outcomes could mean for society at large in the contexts of social and behavioral problems, or even privacy and security. Propelled by a yearning to create, develop, and deploy, and to be the first movers, they may a) play down their creations and the impact they will have; b) refuse to acknowledge that anything might go wrong; or c) when they do admit a potential risk, they still ask the rest of us to go down that bleak road with them. At the point of development and potential launch of a new product, the momentum is likely to be such that we consumers do follow after them. We follow by purchasing the new systems or products, or by asking few questions. We might fail then to ask questions, say about how a new technology might further distance us from reality, or about how it might distance us further from our human relationships .
At the moment of writing this editorial (October 21, 2016), nearly half of the Internet in the United States is down. A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeted a company that functions essentially as a switchboard for the U.S. Internet, translating human-facing web addresses to the numerical mode of communication used by computers. This attack is different from DDoS attacks we have seen in the past. It is larger and more powerful. By targeting a company that manages the infrastructure of the Internet the attack has impacted several mainstream websites, as opposed to a single corporation or organization.
These types of attacks are actually known knowns. That is, we can have a constant expectation of such attacks on the Internet. We can predict that these types of attacks will only increase in number exponentially, and that they will have ever greater global economic impact.
But then there are also unknown knowns related to this latest attack. Unknown knowns in this case would be vulnerabilities embedded into a world built on the Internet of Things (IoT). This October 16 attack relied on infected smart devices - networked items such as security cameras, home routers, and baby monitors - to direct traffic towards the target in an effort to overwhelm and compromise its servers. These distributed devices form a botnet, a network of Internet-connected private computers, infected with malicious software and controlled as a group. In this case, these IoT smart devices would have been in people's homes and businesses, and infected without their owner's knowledge.
As the blog KrebsonSecurity notes, these "inexpensive, mass-produced IoT devices are essentially unfixable, and will remain a danger to others unless and until they are completely unplugged from the Internet." Of course, unplugging these devices is an unlikely scenario, given that the owners of these devices presumably do not even know that their cameras or baby monitors are infected . The phenomenon of smart devices, which are actually extremely dumb when it comes to security, is a timely example of unknown knowns. As developers race to get these impressive tools to market, they overlook key security and privacy considerations-and ask that the public turn a blind eye as well.
While we consider that which is known and that which is unknown, it is important to define technological potential within a context of sustainability. Competence, skills, and effectiveness in R&D activities, as well as scientific-industrial relations within the economy must be considered . We want to glean the future and consider what might aid users in the longer term . We should seek new ways to meet challenges in terms of materials, processing capabilities, product functionality and use-value. In this manner the idea of "potential" is steeped in technological forecasting. But realizing technological potential cannot be accomplished in a vacuum. The forecaster must weigh things like public opinion and pricing pressures, "the possibility of changes in institutional resistances, and the probable future marginal preferences of the society" . Understanding target markets with respect to new innovations is critical, and designing technologies with these markets in mind, and how they might exploit a future product is critical. Entrepreneurs who embrace technological potential at the core of their efforts are usually more optimistic than pessimistic about the social impact of their investments.
Advancement of new technologies will be essential to solving many of the most complex challenges of the 21st century—from diseases to climate change. We need only look at research in the field of alternative renewable energy sources, e.g., in various types of fuel cells, to be inspired and to consider the potential possibilities.
But what happens when a given technology is adopted for perverse ends? Or when technology is knowingly deployed to propel unhealthy practices beyond theoretical limits of its use? What if the consequences of a given technology are contrarily subsuming healthy human emotions in adults and children alike? Who then is responsible for that innovation and for the asymmetric impact it will inevitably have on many people's lives?
These issues are front and center, or should be, in the development of artificially intelligent agents, as we are essentially creating a new technological "species," an undertaking ripe with controversy and complexity.
Our original Call for Papers for this topic, for IEEE Potentials magazine, examining the Paradox of Technological Potential (PTP), was answered with so many strong articles on the multifaceted relationship between human and machine, and the complexity of living with AI, that we have additionally chosen to also devote this special section of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine to this important subject.
Assisted living machines, for example, that were built to aid humans, could be rendered killing machines if misused or misapplied to state enemies. What was once the province of science fiction visions is now within the realm of reality. The paradox is in the contradiction of the potential, which can be used for both good and bad, but not for both at the very same time in a given implementation .
Part I of this project was published in IEEE Potentials in September/October 2016 as a Special Issue. Much of that special issue had to do with the relationship between the veil-lances (sur-, sous-. uber-), evidence-based/intelligence-led policing and counter-strategies to mass surveillance, predictive profiling, and finally privacy and security by design.
In this special section of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine , our focus is more on a futurist vision of the technological potential of Al, with a check on unintended consequences, and a specific focus on the complexities of life during the coming of age of artificial intelligences. Our question is, in the development of artificial intelligence, what is driving us? Are visions of science fiction propeling us to a Silicon Valley dreamworld filled with technologies that we well know will be dystopic?
Edward Tenner, who has deeply studied the cultural aspects of technological change, has noted that although our capabilities and technology have been expanding geometrically, our "ability to model their long-term behavior" has not kept pace with the change . Tenner believes that one of the problems of our time is how we will close the gap between capabilities and foresight. In closing his March 2011 TEDtalk, he emphasized that we are living in a time of unexpected possibilities and that the secret to our future may well be to take a "really positive view" of unintended consequences in going forward.
We as guest editors of this Technology and Society Magazine special section prefer to take the approach of "cautious optimism," whereby we can steer technologies toward sustainable causes, and then expect at least some positive return. Unknown unknowns may not be the biggest problem we are facing, but deliberately covering up the so-named unknown knowns.
We would like to thank the authors and reviewers for their contributions. In this section we have incorporated perspectives that explore methodologies that could be used to build a better future, and that investigate the potential of new technologies like wearables. We consider the impacts of artificial intelligence through science fiction, looking at the way that the future field of robotics might apply to everyday people, including the implications for everyday citizenry. We've also included a fiction piece on the possibilities of crossing the human evolutionary gap, and even an original interview with a humanoid robot, a sure sign of the times we live in. Augmenting this material, the editor has included relevant articles on the future relations between humans and artificial intelligence, on help for those subject to Internet externalities like cybersex addiction and online Internet addiction, on how to reclaim conversation, and more.
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Mișcarea Rastafari (cunoscută și ca Rastafari sau mai simplu Rasta) este o mișcare religioasă nouă monoteistică, Abrahamică, ce îl recunoaște pe Haile Selassie I, fostul Împarat al Etiopiei ca fiind încarnarea lui Dumnezeu, denumit și Jah sau Jah Rastafari. Haile Selassie este văzut și ca parte din Sfânta Treime și ca reîntoarcerea promisă în biblie a mesiei.
Alte caracteristici ale mișcării includ consumul spiritual de cannabis, respingerea societății moderne (denumită "Babylon") și diverse aspirații sociale și politice, de exemplu învățăturile lui Marcus Garvey (publicist jamaican, organizator și separatist de culoare), văzut ca profet și ale cărui viziuni politice și culturale l-au ajutat pe Leonard Howell să dezvolte fundația viziunii sale asupra unei noi lumi. Mișcarea Rastafari a apărut în Jamaica în secolul XX și proclamă Africa (denumită "Zion") ca fiind locul real unde s-a găsit corpul primului om.
Denumirea de Rastafari provine de la Ras (traducere liberă "Cap", titlu etiopian echivalent cu Duce) și Tafari Makonnen, numele înainte de încoronare a lui Haile Selassie I.

Viziuni universale și doctrine

Jah
Rastafarienii sunt monoteiști ce venerează un singur Dumnezeu, numit Jah. Ei considera ca Dumnezeu traieste in fiecare dintre oameni, de unde vine expresia "I and I". Invataturile lui Iisus sunt urmate de Rastafarieni, dar cu toate acestea ei cred că aceste învățături au fost viciate de către Babylon, unii crezând că acesta nu ar fi putut să facă miracole.

Sfânta Treime
Crezul Rasta în legătură cu Sfânta Treime are, în mare parte, referințe la numele Haile Selassie ce înseamnă Puterea Sfintei Treimi în limba Gî'îz, dar semnificația exactă variază. O parte din ei considera ca Sfânta Treime ar fi de fapt Tatal, Fiul și Mama, considerând ca a crede în celălalt "tip" de Sfântă Treime este un fel de politeism.

Iisus Hristos
Rastafarienii consideră ca învățăturile lui Iisus au fost distorsionate de către lumea modernă Babylon, de aceea ei consideră ca s-a adeverit profeția din Cartea Revelațiilor, prin venirea lui Haile Selassie.
Rasta susțin că Iisus a fost negru și că societatea (Babylon) l-a înfățișat ca fiind alb timp de secole pentru a suprima adevărul și a pune stăpânire asupra omenirii.

Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie (1892-1975) a fost împăratul Etiopiei din 1930 până în 1974. Multi Rasta pretind ca el a fost un fel de manifestare a lui Jah pe Pământ. Tot ei pretind că el îi va conduce pe cei îndreptățiți la crearea lumii perfecte, denumită Zion. Zion ar fi paradisul suprem al rastafarienilor.
Rasta spun că venirea lui Selassie a fost profețită în Cartea Revelațiilor (Biblia finală).
Psalmul 87:4-6 este de asemenea interpretat ca fiind prezicerea încoronării lui Haile Selassie I. În timpul încoronării lui Selassie i s-au atribuit multe din titlurile găsite în Biblie, cum ar fi Regele Regilor, "Leul lui Iuda" sauAlesul Domnului. Acesta este si unul din motivele pentru care se crede ca el are legaturi divine.

Majoritatea Rastafarienilor care cred ca Haile Selassie este Jah rastafari nu acceptă posibilitatea morții sale absolute, de aceea ei insistă ca presupusa moarte a lui Selassie în 1975 este o înșelătorie și că acesta se va întoarce să-și elibereze adepții, sau ca acesta continua sa traiasca prin fiecare om, prin invataturile transmise, la fel cum considera ca fiecare om are o bucata de Dumnezeu. Unii Rasta de azi consideră acest lucru o îndeplinire a profeției găsită în Biblie (2 Esdras - 7:29).
Haile Selassie a fost al 225-lea dintr-o linie neîntreruptă de monarhi etiopieni, descendenți din Regele Solomon și Regina Sheba.
Pentru rastafarieni Selassie rămâne o parte importantă a credinței lor.

Zion și Babylon
Rasta susțin că Muntele Zion (Africa, în special Etiopia) este pământul ce Jah le-a promis. Pentru a atinge acest scop ei resping societatea modernă Babylon și o consideră total coruptă. "Babilonul" este văzut ca o rebeliune împotriva "Conducătorului de drept al Pământului" Jah, încă din perioada regelui biblic Nimrod.
Muzica Raggae este plină de referiri către Zion; printre cele mai bune exemple este melodia lui Bob Marley numită "Zion Train" sau "Iron Lion Zion",sau Alborosie "Holy Mount Zion", precum și melodia "Road to Zion" a lui Damian Marley. În ultimii ani referiri către Zion s-au făcut și în alte genuri de muzică (pop) de artiști ca Ben Harper, Soldiers of Jah Army SOJA, Jah Roots,  Sinéad O'Connor, Lauryn Hill sau Boney M.

Paradisul
Rastafarienii cred în imortalitate, de aceea susțin că unii dintre ei vor continua să trăiască pentru totdeauna în corpurile lor actuale. Probabil cel mai bun exemplu este refuzul lui Bob Marley de a-și scrie testamentul, în ciuda cancerului în stare avansată de care suferea (și a controverselor ce au urmat după moartea sa în împărțirea bunurilor).
În poezia rastafari și în lirica muzicii raggae se găsesc unele descrieri a așa-numitului Paradis pe Pământ.

Ceremonii
În religia Rasta sunt două tipuri de ceremonii:

Discuția rațională
Este un eveniment simplu prin care rastafarienii se adună, fumează cannabis ("ganja") și dezbat fapte etice, sociale și religioase. Persoana ce are onoarea de a aprinde țigara de canabis rostește o scurtă rugăciune înainte, iar ganja este dată mai departe în sensul acelor de ceasornic, excepție făcând perioadele de război când se oferă în sensul opus.

Grounarea
Binghi sau grounarea este o zi sfântă (21 aprile). Se sărbătorește în onorea vizitei lui Haile Selassie în Jamaica din anul 1966.
Numele de Binghi derivă din Nyabinghi, un ordin (acum extins) al militanților de culoare neagră din Africa de est. Se sărbătorește prin mult dans, cântec, ospăț și fumat canabis. Ceremonia poate dura câteva zile.

Alte dăți în care o ceremonie binghi poate avea loc:
 7 ianuarie - Crăciunul ortodox etiopian;
 6 februarie - Ziua de naștere a lui Bob Marley;
 20 aprilie - ziua dinaintea venirii lui Selassie în Jamaica și ziua internațională a canabisului;
 21 aprile - aniversarea vizitei împăratului Haile Selassie I în Jamaica. Zi cunoscută și ca Ziua Grounării;
 23 iulie - Ziua de naștere a lui Haile Selassie;
 17 august - Ziua de naștere a lui Marcus Garvey;
 11 septembrie - Anul nou în  Etiopia;
 2 noiembrie - Încoronarea lui Haile Selassie I.

Biserica

În general rastafarienii consideră că propriul corp este adevărata biserică sau templu lui Dumnezeu, de aceea nu văd necesară construirea fizică a unor clădiri.

Dieta
Mulți rastafarieni consumă un număr limitat de cărnuri în concordanță cu legile Vechiului Testament; nu mănâncă fructe de mare sau porc. Majoritatea se abțin de la a mânca orice fel de carne, spunând că mâncând carne transforma corpul într-un cimitir, acest lucru întâmplându-se și in perioada jurământului Nazirite. Mâncarea aprobată de rastafarieni se numește ital (pronunțat "Aital").
Consumul de alcool este în general considerat ca fiind nesănătos pentru modul de viață a unui rastafarian, în mare parte din cauză că este văzut ca o unealtă a Babylonului de a aduce confuzie lumii.

Cannabisul

Pentru rastafarieni consumul cannabisului, denumit și vindecarea națiunii, este un act de spiritualism deseori însoțit de studiu de biblie.

Aceștia consideră fumatul ca fiind un act religios ce curăță corpul și mintea, vindecă sufletul, facilitează pacifismul, aduce plăcere și îi aduce mai aproape de Jah. În secolul VIII canabisul a fost introdus în Africa centrală și de sud de către negustori arabi, unde este cunoscut sub numele de dagga. Fumatul cannabisului a a devenit un stereotip pentru lumea modernă, cu toate că - deși considerată benefică - nu este obligatoriu consumarea ei de către un rastafarian.
După spusele multora, ilegalitatea canabisului în majoritatea țărilor este dovada ca persecuția rastafarienilor este o realitate. Ei nu sunt surprinși ca este ilegală, considerând cannabisul o substanță puternică pentru a deschide mințile oamenilor către adevăr, un lucru nedorit de Babylon.
Versete din Biblie ce sunt considerate de rastafarieni că justifică folosirea canabisului: Geneza 1:11; Geneza 1:29; Geneza 3:18; Psalmii 104:34.

Probleme legale
 În 1998, avocatul poporului din SUA, Janet Reno a enunțat o opinie legală cum că aceștia nu au dreptul religios de a consuma cannabis, deoarece intră sub incidența legilor drogurilor. O poziție similară o are și Regatul Unit unde Curtea de apel a stabilit că libertatea de exprimare religioasă nu este îngrădită de legile împotriva drogurilor.
 Pe 2 ianuarie 1991, pe aeroportul internațional din Guam (teritoriu SUA), Ras Iyah Ben Makahna (Benny Guerrero) a fost arestat pentru posesia și importul de marijuana și semințe de marijuana. Curtea a decis că consumul este acceptat când este folosit în obiective religioase, dar importul acesteia nu este. Graham Boyd, avocatul lui Guerrero a precizat că decizia curții este echivalentă cu a spune că "vinul are valoare spirituală pentru creștini, dar trebuie să-ți crești singur strugurii".
 Cu toate acestea, în iunie 2008, Curtea de Casație din Italia a decis că rastafarienii trebuie lăsați să dețină în mod legal o anumită cantitate de canabis numai pentru folosirea în scopuri religioase.

Simboluri

Leul
Leul este simbolul lui Haile Selassie. Iisus Cristos este descris ca "leul lui Iuda"" în biblie și din acest motiv Selassie este văzut ca reîncarnarea lui Iisus.

Dreadlock

Purtarea de dreadlock este strâns asociat cu mișcarea, dar nu obligatorie sau exclusivă pentru adepții săi. Rastafarienii susțin că coafura dreadlock este susținută de religie prin diverse versete din biblie și Cartea Numerelor, de asemenea fiind o metodă de a arăta că trăiesc natural, acest tip de păr formându-se daca părul nu este pieptănat o perioada mare de timp. Adesea s-a sugerat că dreadlock-urile rasta sunt copiate din Kenya în anul 1953, pe când imaginile cu insurgenți kenieni purtând dreadlock au ajuns în Jamaica prin ziare sau reviste. Cu toate acestea, un studiu recent a lui Barry Chevannes a sugerat că primele coafuri dreadlock a rastafanienilor provin de la un sub-grup cunoscuți ca Credința tineretului de culoare neagră în anul 1949.
Rasta asociază procesul de creștere a părului în acest mod (dreadlock) ca fiind o călătorie spirituală a minții și sufletului în care doar răbdarea este cheia. Modul natural de creștere a dreadlock-urilor este de a lăsa părul să crească în mod liber, fără a-l tunde sau a-l pieptăna, ci doar spălat cu apă pură.

Pentru rastafarieni foarfecele, lama de ras și pieptănul sunt cele trei obiecte inventate de Babylon.

Cultura

Politica
Cultura Rastafari nu încurajează implicarea în politică. Ba mai mult, în stadiile primare ale mișcării, rastafarienii nu votau din principiu.
La alegerile din 1962 din Jamaica Sam Brown a format Partidul Poporului în Suferință. Deși a primit doar 100 de voturi, s-a considerat ca fiind un act puternic pentru Rasta prin participarea la scrutin.

Limba
Rasta susține că limba lor originală, limba africană, a fost furată când au fost reținuți și folosiți în negoț ca sclavi și că limba engleză a fost o limbă impusă de colonialiști. Aceștia au modificat vocabularul și dialectul, în dorința de confruntare cu Babylonul.
"-ism"
Rastafarienii resping sufixul "-ism". Ei văd în cultura modernă Babylon o varietate de cuvinte ce se termină în "-ism", cum ar fi capitalism, comunism și nu doresc a lua parte la acestea. Aceștia resping și termenul de Rastafarianism și de aceea au existat conflicte între rasta și membrii ai comunității academice care doreau să denumească oficial această religie cu terminația -ism. Cu toate acestea s-au efectuat și cursuri despre Rastafari folosind vocabularul propriu.

Muzica
Muzica a avut un rol important în mișcarea Rastafari. Conexiunea dintre rasta și unele tipuri de muzică ca reggae a fost făcută cunoscută și de faima internațională a unor muzicieni precum Bob Marley sau Peter Tosh.

Cântecele Niyabinghi sunt auzite la ceremoniile numite grounări și include bătutul la tobe, dansatul și fumatul ritualic de ganja. Toba este un simbol al rastafarienilor africani, iar unii adepți susțin că sufletul lui Jah se află în interiorul său.

Reggae

Reggae a apărut printre negrii săraci din Trenchtown. Muzicienii din Jamaica au combinat stiluri auzite la radio din SUA ca R&B și Jazz cu muzica tradițională, ca mai apoi să devină reggae sub influența muzicii soul.
Muzica reggae a început să fie ascultată pe plan internațional în anii 1970, mulțumită artiștilor ca Bob Marley ce a și popularizat mișcarea Rastafari în lume.
Alți cântareți de muzică reggae sunt Peter Tosh, Freddie McGregor, Toots & the Maytals, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Prince Lincoln Thompson, Bunny Wailer, Prince Far I, Israel Vibration, The Congos, Mikey Dread, Don Carlos, The Viceroys, The Itals, Cornell Campbell, The Meditations, Wailing Souls, Norris Reid, Michael Phrophet, The Heptones, Barrington Levy, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Twinkle Brothers, Eek-a-Mouse, Damian Marley, Julian Marley, Max Romeo, Alborosie , Mr. Levy și mulți alții.

Burru
Un alt stil de muzică rasta se numește burru ce se centralizează pe folositea a trei tipuri de tobe, stil ce a fost copiat mai apoi de unii D.J. hip hop.

Există câteva filme jamaicane ce sunt esențiale istoriei Rasta, cum ar fi Rockers, The Harder They Come, Land of Look Behind și Countryman.

Oameni influenți

Marcus Garvey

Rastafarienii îl văd pe Marcus Garvey ca pe un profet ce a modelat semnificativ mișcarea. Adesea el este văzut și ca fiind un al doilea Ioan Botezătorul.
Garvey a promovat Naționalismul de culoare, Separatismul de culoare și Pan-Africanismul.

Leonard Howell
Leonard Howell a fost descris ca fiind primul Rasta, și primul persecutat deoarece refuza loialitatea față de Regele Angliei George V.

Walter Rodney
În 1968 Walter Rodney, un naționalist Guyanez, autor și profesor universitar publică un pamflet intitulat "Grounarea cu frații mei" (en: The Groundings with My Brothers). Acest pamflet devine rapid un punct de plecare pentru mișcarea Black Power. Combinată cu învățături Rasta, această filozofie de viață cuprinde rapid statele vecine ca Guyana, Trinidad și Tobago, Dominica, și Grenada.

Bob Marley
Bob Marley este considerat omul care a popularizat mișcarea Rastafari pe plan mondial, prin intermediul muzicii Reggae.

Rastafari în ziua de azi
Astăzi, mișcarea rastafari este răspândită pe întreg Pământul, în mare parte contribuind muzica reggae a lui Bob Marley. În anul 1997 existau în jur de un milion de adepți Rastafari.

Prin pretinderea că Haile Selassie I este mesia reîncarnat, Rastafari este vazută ca o mișcare religioasă nouă, ce provine din Iudaism și Crestinism.
Mulți adepți susțin că Rasta nu este deloc o "religie", ci doar un "stil de viață".
În 1996, Societatea Internațională pentru Dezvoltare Rastafari a primit statutul de consulativ de către Națiunile Unite.

Astăzi printre rastafarieni se includ și grupuri etnice diferite precum americanii nativi, albii, Māori, indonezienii sau tailandezii.

Note

Legături externe
  Rastafarianism(Universitatea din Virginia)
  Scurtă istorie a Rastafarienilor de Norman Reddington
  Congresul Internațional din Etiopia Africa Black
  Rastafari
  Video - Rastafari
  Ba Beta Kristyan Haile Selassie I - Biserica lui Haile Selasse I
  Articole ce documentează istoria Rastafari în Jamaica
 MISTERELE CUVINTELOR / Rasta, de la credinta la frizura, 16 septembrie 2009, Alexandru Ciolan, Ziarul de Duminică

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Eileen and I met when she ran a hair dressing salon at Ghim Moh; she did a roaring trade in very reasonable, beautifully executed blow dries. Cost Centre #1 (aka my oldest child) has just started at a new school in the wilds of Bukit Batok…and guess who's relocated a stone's throw from the Dulwich College school gates?* Eileen and her Creative Beauty Salon.
The scoop: blow dries are the cheapest I think I have ever come across. Today I paid $10 for a wash and blow that included a proper, five+ minute in-chair head massage. In fact, I am typing this while she's doing it.
I quite a fan of bringing my own bottles of shampoo and conditioner along whenever I go for a neighbourhood blowout but, more often then not, forget to and leave home without them. Dulwich mummies, this one's for you: if you are keen on becoming a regular – otherwise there's not much point – Eileen will hang on to any bottles for you. Just remember to write your name on them in marker pen before handing them over. What's even more exciting is that I have persuaded her – if there is enough demand – to open up at 830am to wash and blow post-drop off mothers.
Her salon is quite deep within the HDB complex which means that she hardly gets any walk-in trade. Her pricing is excellent because she's only really dealing with regulars.
There is a kway lapis shop directly opposite. Pop in and snap some up on your way home. It will keep for months in the freezer – pre-slice it first – and you can then whip it out for any playdates/coffee drop-ins.
The reason for my blow dry? Not that I need one at this price, but I am off to Eden Hall this evening for an art exhibition in celebration of Grand Prix Season Singapore, organised and co-hosted by Icon gallery. I think I can pretty much guarantee that no one there with half decent hair will have paid as little as I have for mine…but then again, hopefully, no one will be able to tell either (although His Excellency Antony Phillipson is a Changmoh reader…).
Opening Times: Officially 11am-8pm however, subject to demand, she may open up an 830am post-drop off slot. Closed Monday.
* Eileen is just a 4 minute from Dulwich College Singapore, according to today's traffic.


Encyclopedia Grid (Acropolis), 2014, by Sara Cwynar. Courtesy Foxy Production, New York.
… Digital memory objects and digital reminiscence systems have left us in a catch–22: They are poor but convenient substitutes for the physical objects and mementos we have previously relied on as containers of memory. If we destroy the evocative electronic madeleine, we are left more and more floating in a self-replenishing sea of presentness and recency.
But if we don't, if we leave the madeleine in safe stasis in memory storage, we may be accepting a different type of tyranny, of memories that refuse to be altered, of constant confrontation with all of you at once, everything algorithmically legible you've ever done, existing simultaneously, clamoring for influence and attention.
As we say thanks for the memories, we might recall that one hundred years ago today, on this date in 1917, after a long, complicated battle, women won the right to vote in New York State. While a major victory, this fight amplified rifts among equal rights constituents and advocates, primarily between African American women and white women. Three years later the 19th Amendment was ratified, granting U.S. women suffrage nationwide.


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Happy Birthday Guido!!! We enjoyed your Birthday post and love all of the great work you do!
Happy Purrday, Guido! Its been a furry long time but maybe your remember us from the old Catster Days, me, Meep and Bibi. We have since become angels--Bibi last year and me only a couple of months ago. We are furry furry excited to find your bloggie and will catch up reading your news.
Hope you had treats and noms galore and tons of pets!
A very big happy birthday, Guido!
Amore and Kitty Hugs too!
Happy Birthday and you look wonderful. Grappa is growing into a real beauty!
TWO long buddy, we iz flashin bak ta catster dayz in R mindz eye rite now!


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I don't really like super-sweet desserts. But I love pretty things.
I saw this recipe from Cookies & Cups months ago for rich, chocolatey whoopie pies filled with a buttercream frosting hopped up on Funfetti cake mix. And, like so many things on my Pinterest boards, I meant to make them. For all those months.
Yes it's been a very long blog hiatus. In fact, January had ZERO posts! Sometimes, it turns out, life is too busy for blogging.


This will be the 13th consecutive year this prestigious event has been held at Winthrop. Spectator Day will be held on Sunday, Oct. 9.
On this day, USDGC friends and family are invited to come out and play the Winthrop Gold Course in actual championship conditions.
Winthrop University, "U.S. Disc Golf Championship Starts This Week at Winthrop's Course" (2011). Winthrop News 2011. 165.


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Communications, media and entertainment
Roger Watkiss practises corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on technology and intellectual property matters. He advises on acquisitions and divestitures of businesses with a significant technology component, including those in the energy, ICT and mining industries. He also advises buyers and sellers of services and technology on licensing, outsourcing, construction and strategic alliance matters.
Mr. Watkiss has a long and distinguished career as both in-house counsel and as a corporate development executive in the telecom and real estate development industries. Immediately prior to joining our Toronto office, Mr. Watkiss spent 15 years with TELUS Corporation (Western Canada's largest telecom company, and the second largest in Canada, with over C$7 billion in annual revenues) in a variety of progressively senior roles, including vice-president, strategy & business development. He served as part of the core team that "privatized" Alberta Government Telephones to form TELUS in 1990 (first tranche of C$875 million) and also the team that successfully merged TELUS and BC Telecom in 2000.
Before working at TELUS, Mr. Watkiss served as vice-president and general counsel of Hambledon Estates Limited, whose varied interests included ownership of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League, and as senior vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Bowlen Holdings Ltd., a commercial real estate development company operating in Alberta, British Columbia, Arizona and California.
LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, 1979
Finance for Senior Executives, Harvard Business School, 1997
Strategic Alliances Program and Developing Ventures for Competitive Effectiveness, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1994
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"The Increasing Importance of IT in Corporate Governance," Technology Enterprise Practice Group Report, Macleod Dixon LLP, September 2004.
"Privilege and In-House Counsel – Don't Lose It!" In-House Counsel Bulletin, Macleod Dixon LLP, June 2004.
"Software as a Medical Device," 15th Annual IT.CAN Conference, Toronto, October 27, 2011.
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The three Gewandhauses
It has been known for visitors to Leipzig to stand in front of the concert hall on Augustusplatz in some confusion, asking themselves: "That's meant to be the centuries old Leipzig Gewandhaus?" How can Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Arthur Nikisch and Wilhelm Furtwängler have conducted in this "house with a hat", as the formerGewandhauskapellmeister, Václav Neumann, scoffed?
They did not, of course. Two other Gewandhäuser in Leipzig bore witness to the concerts directed by this illustrious trio: Mendelssohn in the Gewandhaus in Universitätsstraße, Nikisch and Furtwängler in the "New Gewandhaus" in Beethovenstraße. The hall on Augustusplatz is, therefore, the third Leipzig Gewandhaus and the second not to have anything to do with the original purpose from which the halls took their name - Gewand being the somewhat antiquated word for garment; a Gewandhaus was the building catering for a city's textile trade.
The first Gewandhaus - a three-winged building located between Gewandgäßchen and Kupfergasse - was both the trading hall and the guildhall of Leipzig's cloth merchants. The name does, however, tell only half the story. The ground floor of the wing bordered by the Universitätsstraße was the civic arsenal (Zeughaus)until 1828, containing the city's armaments and ammunition.
The civic authorities approved the construction of Leipzig's first dedicated concert hall within this building, the completion of which requiring but eighteen months. Having been held at the "Zu den drei Schwanen" inn from 1743 until 1778, the Große Concerte("Grand Concerts") were continued in the newly-built concert hall from November 1781.
The far-sightedness of the concert society directorate - at that time a voluntary committee composed of a number ofLeipzig music-lovers - can only be admired today. They hired the new hall in the arsenal, but named their concert series "Concerts in the Hall of the Gewandhaus". This certainly proved to be a marketing coup of some magnitude: who knows whether a "Leipzig Arsenal" concert hall would have fostered such artistic excellence within its walls, or whether a "Leipzig Arsenal Orchestra" would have engendered the respect and adoration of the music world so willingly?
The hall itself contributed significantly to the burgeoning renown of the Orchestra. Constructed entirely out of wood, the hall "hung" in the upper floor of the building, not dissimilarly to a violin nestling in its case. The hall acted not only as a resonance chamber, but reverberated itself - very palpably an additional musical instrument complementing the orchestra on stage.
The audience of up to 500 witnessed Mozart's only appearance in Leipzig, Clara Wieck's first public piano recital and two of history's most celebrated piano virtuosi, Carl Maria von Weber and Franz Liszt. Leipzig's music-lovers were treated to Berlioz, Brahms and Wagner conducting the Gewandhausorchester and were privileged to experience the first performances of an astonishing canon of masterpieces which have since established themselves amongst the most beloved in all music, including Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto "Emperor", Schubert's C major Symphony "The Great", Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Schumann's First Symphony "Spring".
It is little wonder that the popularity of the Gewandhaus concerts rapidly increased beyond all expectation. In order to cater for the demand for tickets, the auditorium was subjected to several modifications over the years - each alteration, however, at the expense of the hall's acoustic.
Around 1860, deliberations concerning the construction of a new concert hall began in earnest. The Gewandhaus management hoped to find a suitable site direct in the city centre, whereas the City Council favoured locating the hall towards the outskirts of Leipzig, in the hope of stimulating the inception of a whole new neighbourhood. And so, indeed, it turned out: after two-and-a-half years building, the inauguration of theNeues Gewandhaus (New Gewandhaus) in December 1884 sparked the evolution of the Musikviertel (Music Quarter).
In contrast to the original Gewandhaus, the new hall was not owned by the City of Leipzig, but by the Gewandhaus Concert Board itself. The Great Hall - "an acoustic vessel of, evidently due to both luck and genius, best possible dimensions" - accommodated 1,500 listeners, the Chamber Hall 500. Many of the musical greats of the age appeared at the New Gewandhaus: Bruckner at the organ, Hindemith on the viola, Stravinsky at the piano. Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Richard Strauss were all to grace the podium at the helm of the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
In 1892, a memorial to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was unveiled in front of the New Gewandhaus. 44 years later, in 1936, the Nazi regime decreed that a monument in honour of a "full-blooded Jew" would cause public offence and ordered its removal. In 1933, the Jewish Gewandhauskapellmeister Bruno Walter had already been issued with an occupational ban. Walter was never to return to Leipzig.
The Neues Gewandhaus suffered a direct hit during bombing in February 1944. The destruction of its home resulted in the Orchestra leading a somewhat nomadic existence, resorting to performing in a number of halls around the city until, in 1947, a home of at least provisional permanence was found in the Congress Hall of the zoo.
Over thirty years were to pass until Leipzig was able to proudly call a new concert hall its own: the (second) New Gewandhaus on the south side of Karl-Marx-Platz, the present-day Augustusplatz.
The third Gewandhaus was the only concert hall to be built in the GDR (former communist East Germany). Gewandhauskapellmeister Kurt Masur initiated the campaign for its erection and collaborated closely with the team of architects and acousticians throughout the 57 month construction period.
"Gesang vom Leben" ("Song of Life"), Sighard Gille's striking mural encompassing a vast area of the main foyer's sloping ceiling and the largest contemporary painting of its kind in Europe, forms the Gewandhaus's figurehead. Illuminated at night, it radiates through the glass façade onto Augustusplatz.
The amphitheatrical Great Hall accommodates an audience of over 1,900, the Mendelssohn Hall approximately 500. The Great Hall is crowned by its imposing organ, built by Schuke of Potsdam, with its four manuals, 92 stops and 6638 pipes. The organ's frontispiece proclaims the motto "Res severa verum gaudium" - "True pleasure is a serious affair". This tenet, attributed to the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, has accompanied the Gewandhaus since its establishment in 1781. In the first Gewandhaus the motto was emblazoned high up across the front wall of the concert hall; in the second Gewandhaus it adorned the facade above the main entrance.
The Gewandhaus plays host to an extremely eclectic range of concerts and events, numbering approximately 800 per year. The artistic backbone of the Gewandhaus programme is formed by the concert series given by the Gewandhausorchester and the organ recitals in the Great hall. The Mendelssohn Hall provides an ideal ambience for the various chamber music series, as well as conferences, symposia, lectures and an enormous diversity of other events.
For those visitors to Leipzig posing the question why the Gewandhaus in front of which they are standing does not appear to be quite as old as its venerable tradition had led them to believe, regular guided tours of the building are on offer. In addition, models of the three Gewandhauses of 1781, 1884 and 1981, along with explanatory texts and pictures, are on display in the main foyer (open weekdays 10am-6pm; Saturdays 10am-2pm).
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Gasthaus "Drey Schwanen" am Brühl - Spielstätte von 1744-1778
Altes Gewandhaus - Erster Konzertsaal von 1781-1885 (1. Gewandhaus)
Neues Gewandhaus - Großer Saal im Jahr 1886 (2. Gewandhaus)
Eingang des Gewandhauses - Der namengebende Konzertsaal befand sich im Dachboden (1. Gewandhaus)
Neues Gewandhaus - Konzerthaus von 1884-1944 (2. Gewandhaus)
Das Gewandhaus heute (3. Gewandhaus)
Der Große Saal - Das Gewandhaus heute (3. Gewandhaus)
Die Orgel im Großen Saal des heutigen Gewandhauses (3. Gewandhaus)


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It's Pack vs. Pac-12 for fifth-ranked Nevada basketball team
The Nevada basketball team continues its series of road challenges with a Saturday game at USC and a Dec. 7 game against Arizona State.
It's Pack vs. Pac-12 for fifth-ranked Nevada basketball team The Nevada basketball team continues its series of road challenges with a Saturday game at USC and a Dec. 7 game against Arizona State. Check out this story on rgj.com: https://www.rgj.com/story/sports/college/nevada/2018/11/30/its-pack-vs-pac-12-fifth-ranked-nevada-basketball-team/2166811002/
Duke Ritenhouse, Reno Gazette Journal Published 2:17 p.m. PT Nov. 30, 2018
Nevada head coach Eric Musselman directs his team during the first half against Loyola Chicago on Tuesday.(Photo: The Associated Press)
It'll be the Pack versus the Pac-12 for the next week or so.
The Nevada basketball team, 7-0 and ranked No. 5 in the nation, continues its series of road challenges with a Saturday game at USC and a Dec. 7 game against Arizona State. Both will be played in Los Angeles.
The Wolf Pack is coming off a convincing 79-65 win at Loyola Chicago in its first true road game of the season.
"I thought we played phenomenal in Vegas (the Las Vegas Holiday Invitational)," Nevada head coach Eric Musselman said Thursday. "And then to go to an environment at Loyola with a packed house and a team that was in the Final Four last year, with a lot of returning players … I thought our UMass game and our Loyola game was good as we've played since I've been here, from an offensive standpoint."
First up for the Pack is USC (5-2), winners of three straight games since a 15-point loss to No. 20 Texas Tech. The Trojans feature guard Kevin Porter Jr. — who's near the top of many NBA draft lists — and forward Bennie Boatwright, who leads the team in scoring (16.8 points per game). Six-foot-11 forward Nick Rakocevic is hauling down more than 11 rebounds per game.
Overall, five USC players are averaging 11 points or better per game.
"Without question, USC is the most talented team we've played this year," Musselman said. "They're long, they're at home — it's not a neutral-site game — it's going to be a hard place to play."
The game gets an afternoon start — Nevada's first of the season — and a national telecast on FOX.
One big question mark for both teams is whether Porter will play, and, if so, how effective he will be (and, for the Pack, who will guard him?). He's missed two straight games with a quadriceps injury.
Nevada is off to its second straight 7-0 start. The Wolf Pack has won all seven of its games by double-digit margins, has an average scoring margin of 21.1 points, and has one of the nation's most dangerous offenses. Through Thursday's games, the Wolf Pack had the most effective offense in all of Division I (an adjusted 122.1 points per 100 possessions), according to metrics site KenPom.com.
Probable starters
Shaqquan Aaron (11.4 ppg, 47% 3s)
Bennie Boatwright (16.8 ppg, 6.4 rpg)
Kevin Porter Jr. (14.0 ppg, 53% field)
Jonah Mathews (12.9 ppg, 2.7 apg)
Nick Rakocevic (14.6 ppg, 11.7 rpg)
Wolf Pack basketball
Who: Nevada (7-0) at USC (5-2)
Where: Galen Center (10,258)
TV: FOX
Radio: 94.5 FM/630 AM (John Ramey)
Series: USC leads, 2-0
Last time: USC 88, Nevada 87 (OT) (1976)
ACC golf: Romo in the lead after first round
Wolf Pack football: 2023 season opens at USC


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Metaldyne Performance Group Inc. reported in III. Quarter net earnings per share of $0.28 a decrease by -56.25 % year on year from $0.64 and decline of -45.1 % from $0.51 earned in II. Quarter (Jul 03 2016).
Metaldyne Performance Group's Revenue fell by -15.5 % in III. Quarter (Oct 02 2016) year on year, to $676 million and declined by -7.17 % sequentially.
Metaldyne Performance Group is Expected to report next financial results on May 06, 2019.
Metaldyne Performance Group's net income of $19 million in III. Quarter decreased by -56.1 % from net earnings of $44 million achieved in II. Quarter a year ago.
Sequentially net earnings fell by -45.66 % from net income of $35.70 million realized in previous quarter.
Inventories declined by -9 % to $173.80 million from II. Quarter a year ago, sequentially inventories fell by -3.28 %.	In III. Quarter company's net cash and cash equivalents decreased by $-17 million, capital expenditures grew by -5.51%, to $-51 millions compare to same quarter a year ago and fell by 21.28% from II. Quarter (Jul 03 2016).
Metaldyne Performance Group Inc. payed out dividend of $0.37 per share in last 52 weeks representing 23.72 % of net earning per share in trailing twelve-month period.
During the same period Metaldyne Performance Group Inc. earned $ 2.10 cash per share, on a free-cash flow basis 134.81 % of net earning per share.
Book value grew by 1.79 % sequentially to $9.93 per share, 71.29% of net income per share in trailing twelve-month period were contributed to shareholder value.
Tangible Book value grew to $ -12.68 per share from $ -12.91.
Company repurchased 0.60 million shares or 0.86 % in III. Quarter.
Interest Coverage Ratio was 2.39. Debt Coverage Ratio was 0.13.


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Brendan O'Brien reported on Northern Ireland as RTÉ's senior current affairs reporter beginning in 1974, and he made three major documentaries about the IRA. He won many awards for investigative journalism, including European Journalist of the Year 1998 and the Amnesty International Award 2001. Since retiring from RTÉ he has lectured extensively on the Northern Irish conflict and peace process.
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Giuseppe Marotta Targets Coppa Italia & Seventh Place For Sampdoria
The Blucerchiati have picked up the pace as of late, and the club's GM has made it clear what they are hoping to get out of this campaign...
Sampdoria general manager Giusepe Marotta has set two objectives for his team to achieve this season as Serie A draws to a close.
The Blucerchiati are still in the running for the Coppa Italia, a win in which would save what otherwise would go down as a fairly unimpressive season.
"We have two objectives for this season: seventh place in the league and the [Coppa] final in Rome," declared the Doriani's director to Cittadigenova.com.
"We are going through a good moment, but we still have time to improve and all the will to do so. Obviously these are not the years of [former president Paolo] Mantovani, where winning the Coppa Italia was something frequent.
"It would be a reason of great pride to succeed in winning it."
Sampdoria are currently in 11th place with 40 points from 31 games, six points away from seventh place.
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Production and commercialization of bacanora: An economic opportunity for Sonora, Mexico?
This dissertation examines the opportunities and constraints surrounding the production and commercialization of bacanora, which is analyzed as an economic alternative for Sonora, in the context of a new legal and economic environment that forces farmers to become competitive and efficient. It integrates many topics related to the knowledge of Agave angustifolia and other Agavaceae and the study of several distillates from agaves, contributing to the emergence and development of the bacanora industry in Sonora, Mexico. The economy of small-scale bacanora producers in the sierras is analyzed. Cost and return estimates for the activity show the relative profitability of bacanora making. Subsequent analyses of marketing strategies indicate that serrana producers have potential in bacanora production by adopting or adapting different technologies and marketing schemes. The new institutional frame will increase competition among producers, which in turn will put greater pressures on agave populations. Therefore, more research on domestication of agave is required to find sustainable solutions to avoid overexplcitation of the resource. The major outlet for increased bacanora production is the international market, especially the United States. However, regional and national markets might provide an important group of consumers, as derived from the study of the tequila and mescal industries.


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Designed to replace bathyscaphes and cumbersome underwater oceanographic vehicles, the manned deep-ocean research submersible, Alvin (DSV-2), was placed into service by the U.S. Navy on June 5, 1964. Some items recovered following activation were a hydrogen bomb lost by the U.S. Air Force in March 1966 off Palomares, Spain, and a F6F "Hellcat" in September 1968 that was lost whilst training during World War II. In October 1968, the submersible itself was lost in the Atlantic Ocean while being transported when the transportation cables snapped. The submersible was eventually found by equipment utilized by USS Mizar (AGOR-11). In 1973, Alvin received an improved titanium pressure hull. In 1977, Dr. Robert Ballard utilized the submersible to study black smokers around Galapagos Islands. Ballard's team again used Alvin in 1986 to survey the wreck of RMS Titanic, which sank in April 1912. Following this journey, the submersible surveyed the remains of USS Scorpion (SSN-589), which was tragically lost in May 1968. The most recent overhaul was completed in 2013, and Alvin is only the same vessel in name as each part has been replaced overtime due to age and use. Though owned by the U.S. Navy, the submersible is used by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
A model of Alvin can be found in the Undersea Exploration section at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy.
Image: NUR 07550: Alvin (DSV-2), exploring hydrothermal vents, August 1978. Courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.


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In our continued efforts to maintain a safe and secure learning environment for our students and staff, we'd like to announce Shaler Area's participation in the Safe2Say Something, youth violence prevention program and anonymous reporting system run by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.
As outlined in Pennsylvania Act 44 of 2018, Shaler Area School District is participating in the Safe2Say Something Anonymous Reporting System, which began on Monday, January 14, 2019. Safe2Say Something is a school safety tool for students, staff, and communities to anonymously report unsafe, potentially harmful, dangerous, violent or criminal activities in a school environment or the threat of activities in a school environment. Reports can be made via a mobile app, website, or 24/7 phone line.
A mobile app, which is available for download on Apple and Android devices.
A tip is submitted via mobile app, website, or by calling the state-based 24/7 Crisis Center.
The tip is then triaged by the Crisis Center to gather enough information to act on it.
The tip is delivered to the impacted school and, as needed, local law enforcement via 911 County Dispatch.
Please note, this system is NOT an emergency hotline. If you need immediate assistance and/or are reporting an event that could immediately affect the school community, please call 911 to be connected to our local police departments (Shaler, Etna, Millvale or Reserve).
Safe2Say is a national program that was developed by the Sandy Hook Promise. It is designed to teach youth and adults how to recognize warning signs and signals, especially within social media, from individuals who may be a threat to themselves and to others and to "say something" before it is too late. In the coming months, all Shaler Area Middle School and High School students and staff members will be trained on the program to recognize warning signs/signals and to submit tips.


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I've seen this pet everywhere and I've been so curious where to get it, because I want to train them and put them in my Halloween house (everything is about glitching :) and here they are in the Harrowing Pack!
One of my favorite parts: the mystery! We will see how good and cool these housing items and gear are, and especially how spooky!
The original Nightmare is here too with its epic gear, pets, and mounts! We are ready for a scary season!


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Does The basic version create Leads automatically?
Query from report: data i hard coded.
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HI, do you allow your Regular users to mass update or is that restricted? it appears to be an issue with that functionality. this is fixable though.
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September 26 is the most common day of the year to be born on
Official figures show that more babies have been born on this date than any other day during the past two decades
Simon Meechan
Cathy OwenBreaking News Editor
If it is your birthday today, then you are not alone.
Official figures show that September 26 is the most common birth date in England and Wales over the past two decades, according to the Office of National Statistics.
In fact, the top 10 most popular birthdays over the past 20 years lie towards the end of September or early on in October.
According to Office for National Statistics figures published in 2015, an average of 1,800 babies are born every day in England and Wales.
But today, that figure is usually around 2,000.
Here are the most popular girls and boys names of 2017 so far
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Journalist Abby Bolter, from Bridgend , who celebrates her birthday on September 26, said: "I always knew September was a busy birthday month but never knew September 26 was the most common birthday until now.
"I think the theory about Christmas and mums and dads enjoying a drink is the most likely reason, rather than people planning births in September. My mum has always called me a Silver Jubilee surprise as I was born in 1977 shortly after the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
"She always said that everyone else got a mug of sweets to celebrate but she got a baby. And history repeated itself with my son as he was born on September 24, 2011.
"Midwives have long known about this phenomenon though. When I was pregnant and shown around the maternity unit with the other expectant mums the midwife warned us that as September is their 'busy month' we would have to be prepared for there not to be any room and to be asked to go down the road to another hospital."
Most popular baby names in Wales during 2016 are revealed
Here are some famous people born on September 26:
TS Eliot...poet
Ricky Tomlinson...actor
Bryan Ferry.....singer
Kenny Sansom....former Newcastle United footballer
Serena Williams....tennis champion
Olivia Newton-John...actress
Megan McKenna...reality star
Linda Hamilton...Terminator actress
Emma Rigby...Hollyoaks actress
Jon Richardson...comedian
Experts say there could be two reasons for the increase in September births.
1. Late December and early January comes nine months before the dates - covering the festive season and long nights.
2. The other theory is that there is a lot of planning from parents who want to make sure their child's birthday fell early in the school year, so they would be as old as possible before they had to wave goodbye at the reception class door.
Earlier this month a London midwife took to Twitter to tell parents just how busy it is over the late summer and early autumn.
Mhairi Maharry lightheartedly wrote : "How is it only the 5th of September? I can't take 25 more days of this. If you know or love a midwife, PLEASE STOP S******* AT CHRISTMAS."


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Visit Africa Through Bella Lucce!
You have to appreciate a brand that goes the extra mile to source ingredients from other nations, especially when it's an independent brand like this next one, BELLA LUCCE. In addition to quite a few products, the line has four collections inspired by different parts of the world – Asian Indulgences, Rainforest Restorations, Arabian Odyssey and the latest addition, the African Adventures Collection. The creator of the line traveled to Africa six times over two years studying the natural botany and talking to the native women in a few of the continent's countries like Ghana, Egypt and Uganda. The 8 products in the collection are the result. I tried the Moringa & Shea Cleansing Bar ($10/4oz @ bellalucce.com) from this collection and it's made up of Palm Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Shea Fruit Butter and Avocado Oil, among others. There are no hard-to-pronounce or foreign-to-the-ear ingredients inside this one and each comes from the wilds of Africa!
And what this soap comes in is worth noting. Each is wrapped in a piece of bogolan cloth hand painted by the local women Mali, Africa in the nations traditional black designs with fermented mud from their Niger River. The tag attached to it suggests one find a special use for it and I will be sure to.
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I'll admit it. I get burnt out every so often, as in, nothing is exciting me and then BAM, along comes something that wakes me up. And that's exactly what happened with BELLA LUCCE's new Arabian Odyssey Collection. The Founder of the line has actually traveled to different parts of Arabia six times in the past two years and we're glad she did as all eight products in the collection have been hanging stateside since I got a few weeks ago. I just can't get enough! Using ingredients only found in that area like, Turkish coffee, Dead Sea mud, red sandalwood, Moroccan lava clay and date sugar, to name a few, each product is made in small batches to ensure freshness. And like the rest of the line, each is free of parabens, silicones, dyes, formaldehyde donors and phthalates and sulfats.


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Biography of Matthew Charteris
Matthew Charteris (1840-1897) was Regius Professor of Materia Medica at the University from 1880 until 1897.
Born in Dumfries, Charteris graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1863. He entered private practice and was a visiting physician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1874 to 1883, and Professor of Medicine at Anderson's College, 1876 to 1880.
Charteris wrote Practice of Medicine, a text book which appeared in seven editions.
Born 1840, Wamphray, Scotland.
Died 11 July 1897.
University Link: Professor
Occupation categories: physicians
Professorships:
Materia Medica (Regius Chair)


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Puberty and Precocious Puberty: Research Activities and Scientific Advances
Through its intramural and extramural organizational units, the NICHD supports and conducts a broad range of research on precocious and delayed puberty. Short descriptions of some of this research are included below.
Institute Activities and Advances
Other Activities and Advances
The Unit on Genetics of Puberty and Reproduction, in the NICHD's Division of Intramural Research (DIR), conducts research on the genetic basis of sexual maturation. In particular, researchers are examining the ways in which mutations in genes linked to pubertal development can lead to disorders of puberty and reproduction. For example, in a condition known as hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, the gonads—testes in males or ovaries in the female—do not release enough hormones and can fail to mature. The NICHD conducts clinical research to understand this rare disorder and devise better care for those it affects. Learn more about the Unit's research.
Research supported through the Fertility and Infertility (FI) Branch was crucial for the discovery of the GPR54 gene's role in puberty. This gene controls the complex signaling between the brain and the reproductive organs that spur development in puberty. With the FI Branch's support, researchers continue to investigate genetic and hormonal signals that drive puberty and underlie human fertility using imaging data, blood tests, genetic screens, and animal models.
Neuroendocrine Chemistry
Funds provided by the NICHD are supporting a wide array of studies on the complex biochemical pathways linking the endocrine and nervous systems in order to shed light on human reproductive disorders.
The Pediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch (PGNB) supports research into the regulation of hormones during pivotal times of development, including the postnatal "critical period" and puberty. Investigators are exploring the biology of puberty onset to determine what signals in the brain and throughout the rest of the body trigger the start of this process.
The Division of Intramural Population Health Research (DIPHR) conducts research on the hormonal indicators of puberty and how they are linked to physical changes during adolescence. These investigations aim to answer such questions as whether children go through puberty earlier now than they did generations ago. Studies also explore the effect of exposure to certain environmental conditions, such as the presence of lead, on the timing of puberty. Researchers have found that a delay in the onset of puberty is more common among girls with high blood levels of lead and cadmium.
Funding from the FI Branch supports investigations into normal and disordered function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis using mouse models of precocious puberty.
In addition, DIR researchers have tested several drug treatments for precocious puberty in boys.
Sexual Differentiation in the Brain
The FI Branch supports research exploring brain function and how the brain helps control sexual maturation, including how sex steroids released by the gonads impact the pivotal neural circuits in the brain to help differentiate them into their male and female versions.
In addition, the NICHD supports training of researchers in the biomedical research of reproductive disorders, including precocious puberty and delayed puberty. Programs include:
NICHD/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Inter-Institute Endocrine Training Program
NICHD Medical Genetics Training Fellowship Program
Pediatric Endocrinology Inter-Institute Training Program
Exploring Factors That Influence Child Development
Picture This: NICHD Support for Neuroscience Research


Warning: if it fits in a film canister it is not suitable for a child under 3 years of age.
Ensure nightclothes are close fitting and simple. Avoid ribbons and cords.
This checklist has been kindly provided by the New Zealand Child Safety Foundation , one of New Zealand's least known but most valuable charitable foundations. Established in 1985 as the New Zealand Safe Playing Trust to teach safety to pre-school and early primary school pupils, the Child Safety Foundation NZ was renamed in 1993. The Foundation is not funded by the Government and derives it's funding from donations and fundraising. The foundation, through the generosity of its sponsors and other limited funding provides worthwhile services to support young families.


text:
var assert = require('assert');

describe('hello', function() {
    it('should return \'hello, world\' when the value is not present', function() {
        assert('hello, world');
    });
});

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