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Ranking This Season's Games, in Order of Difficulty
While watching the first five periods of practice the other day, I chatted with a few writers about which Maryland games will be the most difficult and which will be the least difficult. So here is my attempt to rank the 12 games in order of difficulty. Reasonable people can disagree, of course. I remember doing this during camp last summer, as well, but it wound up being meaningless because the 2008 Terrapins lost to Middle Tennessee, were on the wrong end of a shutout at Virginia and wound up beating Clemson. I'm interested in what others feel will be the most difficult game this season. Here is my take:
1) at California, Sept. 5
One of the nation's youngest teams heads 2,500 miles to play at 10 p.m. (our time) against an improved Cal team that includes the nation's most electrifying player (Jahvid Best). Oh, the Golden Bears are looking for a little revenge, as well. I think the 21-point spread is too much, but this will be a Grade A challenge.
2) at Florida State, Nov. 21
If you assume the Seminoles are back, and if you assume they will have plenty to play for this late in the season, then this could be the toughest game overall. The defense lost some from last season, but the offensive line returns intact. The young Terps will be a little seasoned by this point of the season, though. Maybe.
3) Virginia Tech, Nov. 14
The loss of running back Darren Evans (knee) hurts but does not change the fact that this is Maryland's toughest home game by far. The Hokies are the league's only true national title contender, if the ACC has any at all. The defense, particularly the secondary, promises to be strong. Quarterback Tyrod Taylor needs to stay on the field, and Virginia Tech needs a more potent passing game, obviously.
4) at North Carolina State, Nov. 7
Yes, the Wolfpack has some issues. The loss of top linebacker Nate Irving, who is recovering from injuries suffered during a car crash in June and will miss the season, raises questions about the defense. Some still question whether quarterback Russell Wilson – perhaps the best in the league – can stay healthy for an entire season. Never an easy place to play, but the Terps have won here before, and it would not be outlandish to suggest they could again.
5) Clemson, Oct. 3
The Tigers are one of the conference's toughest team to predict because they underachieve more often than not. They lose a game they should win at least once per season. They suffered a devastating home loss to Maryland last season and should be ready for this one. This will be Maryland's fourth consecutive home game, which comes one week after a tough test against Rutgers.
6) at Wake Forest, Oct. 10
Unlike Clemson, Coach Jim Grobe's team overachieves more times than not, and it will have to do as much this season. The defense lost a ton of talent. I still have questions about the wide receivers. Quarterback Riley Skinner should be improved. More than a tough game, this is a critical contest because both Wake Forest and Maryland could have similar seasons. A virtual toss-up game.
7) Rutgers, Sept. 26
Expectations vary about Rutgers. Some believe this is the year the Scarlet Knights can win the Big East. Others cite a new quarterback and wide receivers and say no. The offensive line and defense are very good. It wouldn't surprise me if Maryland wins or loses this one, but the Terrapins need to beat either Clemson or Rutgers early in the season.
8) at Duke, Oct. 24
Dangerous game. Dangerous game. Dangerous game. I don't think Duke will be as strong as it was last season. QB Thaddeus Lewis may be the second-best quarterback in the league, but there are few threats at the skill positions. That said, Duke looks at its schedule and sees the Maryland game as one it can win. If Maryland looks at the schedule and sees the Duke game as one it is assured to win, then we have a problem.
9) Boston College, Nov. 28
Another game that's difficult to assess because it's hard to know what the Eagles will have to play for this late in what could be a lost season. I repeat: could be a lost season. The program has endured a lot since the end of last season. The Eagles will be well coached but the roster is depleted. This is a game Maryland should win and may need to win to become bowl eligible.
10) Virginia, Oct. 17
The Cavaliers lost a good number of defensive playmakers and wide receivers from a team that wasn't all that great last season. But that team did shut out Maryland. Coach Al Groh could be coaching for his job this season, and it's always a heated rivalry. But this is Maryland's least difficult ACC game.
11) Middle Tennessee, Sept. 19
So the teams I have at No. 10 and No. 11 both beat Maryland last season. Go figure. It's hard to imagine the Blue Raiders beating Maryland in back-to-back seasons, but I do recall Middle Tennessee being one of the nation's youngest teams last season and Maryland being among the most experienced. This year, the teams trade roles. I still say Terps win, but it could be interesting early.
12) James Madison, Sept. 12
And let it be said: This is no lock victory for Maryland either. James Madison is one of the top 10 or so division I-AA teams. This is its first game of the season, so it will have all summer to prepare. The Terrapins get back on Sunday from playing at Cal and who knows where their heads are at that point. Maryland wins, but don't be surprised to see a sluggish first half.
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If history means anything the VT game will be the toughest as they always seem to smoke us. I think they'd beat us with one hand tied behind their backs.
Posted by: cjterps98 | August 18, 2009 9:57 AM | Report abuse
Please, for the love of God, play well against Virginia Tech this year. And Virginia.
Posted by: Kev29 | August 18, 2009 10:07 AM | Report abuse
I would move the Cal game down to #3 on that list but other than that I think it's spot on. I just am not buying the young OLine being such a problem when the OLine being inconsistent wass the problem last year. Can't see the Terps taking a step back. Exciting season form my vantage point.
Posted by: Lee26 | August 18, 2009 10:51 AM | Report abuse
University of Virginia students and alumni sing "The Good Old Song" after each touchdown, followed by the "WAHOO -WA" cheer.
The TERPS will be favored.
I plan to take the points - and be singing and cheering often on October 17.
Posted by: lmiller328 | August 18, 2009 10:54 AM | Report abuse
Agree that the Cal game is the toughest on the schedule. I might feel differently if the game was not at 10 p.m. but given the fact that our players are usually in bed by 10 at this time of year due to practices at the crack of dawn, it's a big advantage for Cal. Similar to the noon start last year which was a big advantage for our players as the Cal team was playing at 9 a.m. their time.
Definitely do not agree that the Boston College and Virginia games are going to be easier than the Duke game. Perhaps you've forgotten about Duke, since we have not played them in FIVE years. The last time we played down in Durham, by far the worst team in the Fridge era smoked the Dookies behind 3 TDs to Vernon Davis. Perhaps you think this game will be tough because it's on the road, but a game at Duke is like playing on a neutral field. Their crowd is tiny and their fans don't make anywhere near the kind of noise they make at bball games.
We beat Duke by at least double digits.
Posted by: Barno1 | August 18, 2009 11:25 AM | Report abuse
The schedule really means everything in college football. We don't play Duke for 5 years and we lose out on several easy wins on our ACC record. What if we had 1 more win on our record going into the finale in 06 and 08?
In 06, the season ending loss to Wake would have been irrelevant since we would have already wrapped up the division title and would have been headed to the ACC Championship game regardless.
In 08, if we had one more win on our record going into the final reg season game at Boston College, maybe we give a better effort in that game--since a win there in such a scenario would have also wrapped up the division title.
People would look at the post-2001-2003 Md football era differently if we have 1 or maybe even 2 division titles in the last 3 years. But thanks to the ACC realignment, we lost out on almost guaranteed-wins when we went 5 years without having Duke on our schedule.
Something to think about when people call for Fridge's head.
Posted by: Barno1 | August 18, 2009 12:04 PM | Report abuse
This is a BRUTAL schedule, and I do not see how the Terps finish better than 7-5, if they are blessed to do so. Sadly, the first game in Berkeley, CA will go a long way to this young team's confidence. The coaching MUST be way better no matter what, or we are gonna need an alternative to James Franklin.
Posted by: ejharrisjr40 | August 18, 2009 2:00 PM | Report abuse
Ejharris, dude this is hands down the best schedule we've had in years. Our first 9 games are very favorable and we should still be in the ACC hunt come mid November.
Posted by: Barno1 | August 18, 2009 2:50 PM | Report abuse
As I've said all along, if the Terps beat Cal, we could conceivably go 8-0 to start the season.After Cal, we play the next 4 games at home or the next 5 out of six depending how you look at it. The problems lie in whether or not we get fired up for certain games. Last year we matched up with Cal, Clemson, UNC and others because we were hungry. That same hunger disappeared against MidTenn and UVA.
Hopefully, the Terps will have learned their lesson. Find a reason to win every week. Beat Cal, and you can shut up those critics who picked us last. Put your foot on the necks of JMU and don't let up. MidTenn and UVa are revenge games. We've beaten Clemson, Wake, Rutgers, and NC STate; they don't scare us. No way we lose to Duke; if we do I will personally sign all the "Fire Fridge" petitions out there.
8-0 going against FSU and VaTech.
Posted by: ecglotfelty | August 18, 2009 4:47 PM | Report abuse
Barnyard1, What do ya mean best schedule in years. I predict 6 and 6. losses to calif,Rutgers,Clemson,nc state( with wilson),Virgina tech(large margin as usual)and fsu.
This will be the fridge last hoorah,,,When he leaves recruiting will pickup thus better teams
Sorry for the bad news however Calif loss will hurt bad.
Posted by: carolina1 | August 18, 2009 4:47 PM | Report abuse
Barnyard1, What do ya mean best schedule in years. I predict 6 and 6. losses to calif,Rutgers,Clemson,nc state( with wilson),Virgina tech(large margin as usual)and fsu.
This will be the fridge last hoorah,,,When he leaves recruiting will pickup thus better teams
Sorry for the bad news however Calif loss will hurt bad.
Posted by: carolina1 | August 18, 2009 4:47 PM
Posted by: carolina1 | August 16, 2009 7:13 PM
Further evidence this guy is retarded
Posted by: Barno1 | August 18, 2009 9:12 PM | Report abuse
Ouch!! DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER WORDS IN YOUR VOCAB
Posted by: carolina1 | August 19, 2009 11:03 AM | Report abuse
I'm going to have to go with Barno on this one. You did say that Md would beat Cal; now you're changing your tune. Either you're a fan or you're not. You can't have it both ways.
Fear the truth.
Posted by: ecglotfelty | August 19, 2009 12:45 PM | Report abuse
Had to come out of hibernation to comment on The Terrapin Insider's resident loser Carolina1. First of all, he's not a MD fan in the slightest. The guy has made it his mission on here to trash our coach, our players, and our fans ever since he popped up on here a few weeks back. If others didn't notice, he was kicked off this blog for a while and his commments were even deleted by the Post. Then he came back but forgot to change his Carolina handle on here while still claiming he was some big MD booster, like anyone on here believed him (hah!). He's just not an intelligent guy. Period.
He makes outlandish claims like the point spread for the opener will drop like 10 points, and that the spread has already dropped to 15 (which others pointed out that it hasn't dropped at all), and then finally says the MD loss at Cal "will hurt bad" 2 days after he claimed MD would beat Cal.
Barno is right. The guy is retarded...yes, retarded. He's a loser who should just be ignored from this point forward...eventually he will get the point that no one on here wants him around and will find some other blog to harrass people on.
Posted by: brianxp | August 19, 2009 1:03 PM | Report abuse
Get use to it my friend.I am a terp fan who is not going away and yes i can change my mind on things during the season.
I did not need to change my screen name because i was not guilty of foul language.
if you continue to use the Phrase " retard" which is a form of hate towards Mentally challenged folks then you will be kicked off the board.
Check the law on the illegal use of this word.
For the record... i am a md fan who graduated in 75... Have been a terp club doner since 1980... now a coaches club level donor...will be sitting in the new mezz seats this year
In closing keep using the word...
Posted by: carolina1 | August 19, 2009 2:15 PM | Report abuse
Good article & some good comments--------VT Tech is our nemisis , CAL looks good on paper.I just learned ESPN had Rutgers as #18 pre season------Don't believe all this pre season hype---------TERP'S can do well this year---------8 or 9 win season is in reach.
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Vary the intensity of your workouts, says Dieringer, owner of D&D Sports Med in Denton, Sanger and Aubrey. Take a few days off if you show such signs of overtraining as insomnia, restlessness, continued soreness, burnout or irritability. If you're injured, take time to heal.
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Swearing by only one exercise or routine
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The government has only gone as far as to publish a list of the industries that have been investigated, which includes the steel and aerospace industries. According to the Department for Exiting the European Union (DexEU), "There is a strong public interest in policymaking associated with our exit from the EU being of the highest quality and conducted in a safe space to allow for design and deliberation to be done in private."
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Green Party MEP Molly Scott Cato has threatened legal action against ministers following the decision to keep the information private. Speaking to the Independent, she said: "If the government think that producing a list of sectors will satisfy, they can think again. This will do nothing to reassure businesses, public services or the public or help them prepare for life outside the EU."
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The four-day tournament gets underway at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Embry-Riddle's Crotty Tennis Complex.
DAYTONA BEACH — About the only mystery on the men's side of the ITA Florida NAIA regional tennis championships each year is which Embry-Riddle players will win the singles and doubles titles and advance to nationals.
ERAU has hosted the tournament nine years in a row, and Eagles players have won the men's finals each year. This year, they are expected to do it again. ERAU's Deni Zmak is seeded first in singles, while his teammate, Anthony Grasso, is seeded second, when the four-day tournament gets underway at 8:30 a.m. today at ERAU's Crotty Tennis Complex.
The men's and women's singles and doubles champs will advance to the ITA National Small College Championships on Oct. 10-13 at Three Oaks Tennis Center in Fort Myers. That event features separate national championship tournaments in four divisions — NAIA, junior college, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III — with a Super Bowl of Champions that follows, pitting the title winners of each division.
The "Super Bowl champs'' compete with NCAA Division I regional winners at the National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships on Nov. 7-10 at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.
The unique format makes tennis the only college sport in which players in every division get to compete for overall individual national titles.
ERAU men's players have won the national NAIA singles title three years in a row and five of the last eight years. But last year's winner, Patrick Besch, is injured and unable to defend his title, ERAU tennis coach Dave Paschal said.
Instead, second-semester freshmen Zmak and Grasso, both of whom were members of ERAU's 2013 NAIA national team championship, are favored to battle for the regional singles title this week. Zmak and Simon Felix are the top-seeded men's doubles team. Felix and Besch won the regional doubles title last year and finished second at nationals.
Tetiana Kovalska of St. Thomas, the national runner-up last year, is the top seed in women's singles. ERAU's Kristina Marova and Christina Huang are the top seeds in women's doubles, ahead of Savannah College of Art and Design's Theresa Schmaus and Maja Plavsic, who won the national championship last year.
Matches at the ERAU courts are scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. each day, with the singles and doubles finals scheduled at 8:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday.


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Pacheco is upbeat on accreditation; final assessment is expected in May
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges left Pacheco High School with high remarks after a four-day accreditation assessment, according to school officials.
More than 100 students welcomed association officials earlier this month with a performance by the school band, cheerleading team and thespian group.
This is Pacheco's second assessment since opening in 2010. "They were very pleased with what they saw," said acting principal Grace Taylor.
In 2011, the school received the highest mark during its first accreditation, school officials said.
The purpose of the assessment is to ensure a high quality of learning.
To prepare for the assessment, school officials organized a "Focus on Learning Self Study" that looked at all aspects of the school. This included curriculum, instruction, assessment, leadership and school culture.
"We included all stakeholders involved with the campus," Taylor said, "including teachers, classified staff, parents and students. We met on a regular basis to review the questions presented by the WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) organization and reviewed all test data."
Emily Shelburne, study coordinator, said the study shows the good areas throughout the school as well as areas of growth.
Taylor said one of the school's strengths is the comprehensive advanced placement program, as well as a plethora of college prep classes.
Shelburne said the study reflects the school and that's what the WASC organization wanted to see. "That's the point of the whole process, is to validate what we're doing," Shelburne said. "I think they were really impressed by what they saw."
Association officials also toured the campus and met with students. "They also went into classrooms to validate what we said," Shelburne said. "If we said we were using technology in our classrooms, then they're going to check to make sure that we did."
Association officials shared highlights of their report but did not reveal the final assessment. The school expects that in May.


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Hypershards are curious things, slivers of hyperspatial matter created long ago that allow their users (also called hosts) to do all sorts of amazing things.
So I thought I'd put this together to show you how to make your own, so that you too can twist spacetime into knots, curling and uncurling its Kaluza-Kleinian eleven dimensions to muck around with physical laws and constants to do your bidding.
This is reality physics at its most insane.
First, you need the right tools if not a hyperdimensional being yourself. This especially applies to humans currently residing mostly in a four-dimensional spacetime manifold! Otherwise, the only way to get around this is to venture into hyperspace using a StarFold translation drive, and once there, start collecting hyper-crystal particulates in a state of forced wakefulness while dosed with mood-flattener pharmaceuticals to avoid going stark raving psychotic from the neurological effects of hyperspace on the waking brain. Remember: you must remain in hyperspace in order to smelt and forge the hyper-crystal into the parts you'll need. Hyper-crystal is nearly ghostlike in the three dimensions of ordinary space, and cannot be manipulated here without a top-of-the-line set of Gamentran Industries™ brand Kurtz-Dunar liminally stroboscopic field manipulator waldoes.
Once you have those, and have access to (and training with) a well-built transparachronic terawatt fabrication engine to smelt, forge, and shape the components to specifications (included in the operating software), complete the manufacturing process as directed, with a good-sized dimetronic plasmafluvian reactor to power it before assembling the parts using the waldoes.
All done with part fabrication? Now the fun begins. Remember, keep the waldoes handy once assembly is complete; you'll need them to place the finished product safely into your skull, where it will exist coterminously with your brain after clicking into place and receiving instructions from it for operation!
First, we assemble the whole: this uses a teledimensional cybertap fracticulator essential for powering the device; it taps into quantum-gravitic brane fields of other regions of the multiverse just bursting with huge, young, incredibly luminous stars that generate the tremendous power needed to twist reality like a pretzel, or maybe a gordian knot, depending on what you want to accomplish. It looks something like this from a three-space perspective, or maybe not, depending on which way it rotates into and out of three-dimensional space:
This has three major components, which absolutely must be put together in the correct sequence or the whole thing catastrophically explodes, vaporizing everything in a 300000 kilometer radius. Make sure you've paid the premiums on your planetary insurance policy!
There is the data core, which uses teledimensional quantum computing pathways defining the functioning parameters of the device. This determines the range, kind, and strength of the abilities granted. The data core is first, using subparachronomic welding equipment to exacting industry standards, generally at or slightly above the Planck-scale in precision.
Second, there is the morphic function transfiguration hardware, which alters its structure and functions according to the parameters of the data core's programming. This requires the same tools and standards as per the data core as does the next item below.
Finally, there is the power tap, the teledimensional cybertap fracticulator. This is added last, as when first in sequence, causes the previously mentioned catastrophic explosion.
There. You now have a fully assembled hypershard, ready to conquer world after world with, and the envy of most interstellar empires with only moderate military budgets.
Go forth, my Wavetouched, and let slip the chihuahuas of inconvenience for those who oppose you!


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I am a wife and mother of three very active girls, plus I'm employed full time. Our lives are very busy. One day in early January, I woke up with a pain in my neck running into my shoulder. I thought it was a knot and it would go away in a few days, but it didn't. After two weeks, numbness started running down my right arm and into my thumb. This completely put me in a panic; I thought I was having a stroke.
After seeing my general doctor, she ordered a CT scan. The results showed I needed to seek additional treatment. This brought me to Dr. Baimeedi's office at Park Nicollet. His staff was extremely supportive from the first phone call. I will never forget that first visit when I learned I had a bulging disc between my 5th and 6th vertebra. It was pinching a nerve and creating the numbness. Surgery was the only option to relieve the numbness; however, I had options on which type of surgery to choose.
Everyone was comforting and walked me through my options – traditional bone fusion surgery or the new technology of artificial disc replacement. Artificial disc required a quarter of the recovery time compared to fusion, and was the clear choice for me. Ten months later I still can't believe how fast I recovered from the surgery. I never had to wear a collar and could turn my head hours after surgery. I was driving in two weeks and back to work in 10 days.
The numbness slowly went away and was completely gone within the first month. My co-workers and friends couldn't believe how well I could turn my head and get around in such a short period of time. Thank goodness for today's advancements in medicine and everyone at Park Nicollet Neurosurgery.
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With 46 self-service bag drops operating in its terminals as of mid-October, Toronto Pearson International (YYZ) is on the fast track to expediting the check-in process for passengers flying out of Canada's biggest and busiest airport.
Kurush Minocher, associate director of Airline Programs and Services for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, explains that self-service bag drops reduce unnecessary touch points for passengers by allowing them to arrange their own check-in experience from a home computer, mobile device or self-service kiosk. After arriving at the airport, passengers can proceed to the baggage drop-off site, rather than standing in a queue to wait for check-in.
Automating the process shortens queues and reduces the end-to-end check-in time for passengers, reports Minocher.
Project: Self-Serve Bag Drop
"Toronto Pearson is experiencing record growth and needed to find innovative ways to add check-in capacity," he explains. "Reconfiguring check-in facilities in both terminals to increase the use of self-service technologies will deliver additional capacity for growth by allowing for increased throughput. Self-service bag drops also provide air carriers with a choice for how they wanted to deliver the check-in experience, either as a full-service or self-serve process."
Since YYZ debuted its first self-service bag drop stations in January 2016, travelers have chosen the automated option more than 3 million times.
Materna Americas supplies the airport's automated systems. Gary McDonald, the company's president, notes that Materna systems reduce the bag drop process to mere seconds.
"One and one-half minutes is what an [airline] attendant spends with an average customer checking one bag," he reports. "In contrast, we have self-service bag drops processing 120 bags per hour. You think of how many people have been helped without having to stand in a line, and it is huge."
The fastest bag drop in the world, a Materna operation at Norway's Oslo Airport, takes an average of 10 seconds, says McDonald.
Return on Investment
When it comes to value for cost, Minocher notes that YYZ's self-service bag drops provide significant benefits for its customers.
"Before investing in new technology like self-service bag drops, we evaluate multiple factors to determine what the best solution is, looking at our current situation and how those patterns would change in the future," he explains. "Are we using our existing facilities to the best of their ability, or could we be more efficient? What is the cost, benefit and impact to the status quo if we don't change? Our evaluation always maps back to our No. 1 goal, which is to push the envelope on improving the passenger experience."
Minocher considers automating the airport's checked bag process to be a sound investment, based on the improvements it provides for the passenger experience.
"Self-service bag drops have made the experience smoother and more enjoyable for passengers by reducing amount of time they need to check in," he summarizes. "We see the [self-service drop stations] as part of the [overall] baggage handling system with live monitoring of the environment. The system provides real-time information on check-in throughput as it happens, which gives us the ability to map processing times to our other metrics in the terminal."
Mutually Beneficial
Minocher reports very positive reactions from both passengers and air carriers.
Automating the bag drop process has shortened queues and reduced passenger check-in time at YYZ.
"Passengers enjoy having the option of using full-service or self-service check-in, which gives them the ability to manage their own experience," he relates "Those who are using the self-service bag drops are seeing a reduction in check-in time, with a smoother, faster experience."
Minocher has also noted a shift in the orientation of air carriers -from processing passengers to serving them.
Airline agents are able to spend more time helping travelers that require assistance, because other passengers choose to complete the check-in process independently at the self-service bag drops.
As of mid-September, 11 airlines were using YYZ's self-service bag drop system.
Growing Demand
Following the successful rollout of the technology at YYZ, other Canadian airports are taking notice of the self-service option, reports McDonald. Aéroports de Montréal has ordered 16 variants of the Materna systems, and Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport has ordered eight units.
Stateside, Minneapolis-St. Paul International is conducting a two-unit pilot in conjunction with American Airlines.
"The airports have invested in this equipment to streamline the process for the airlines and to attract more airlines into the airport," McDonald remarks. "Because [the self-serve bag drops] can process more bags than an agent at a desk, [airports] need fewer of these injection points. If they have the same number of injection points, they can get more airlines into the same space and cope with the expansion that is happening."
In addition to operating one of the largest self-bag drop operations in Canada at YYZ, Materna also has the largest installation in the world at Gatwick Airport in London.
Most airport layouts were designed when passengers played cards while waiting for a flight because an onboard meal was an expectation and the very idea of a smartphone would have been laughable.
What was once a mess of beam seating everywhere now has a multi-function use: part lounge, part cafe, part office and a wealth of amenities. New uses of spaces as well as new types of furniture are finding their way into the airport because today's passenger is really focused on getting to point B rather than the journey itself. Airport design and furniture elements have a stronger impact on the passenger experience than one may realize. There's the comfort. The durability. The usability.
Matt Dubbe from Mead and Hunt and Joe Agati from Agati Furniture will tackle these questions and others in: Airport Interiors are Experiencing Massive Change: What You Need to Know.
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Dueling Pianos originated in the fabled bars of New Orleans in the 1930s, and spread West across the nation. This exciting, high-energy, all-request entertainment experience has even taken over the Las Vegas strip – and now, Dueling Pianos has found a home in New York City. Imagine the top piano players on the East Coast playing a non-stop, rock-and-roll party where you pick the playlist!
From Billy Joel to Bon Jovi to Britney Spears to Biz Markie, no tune is off-limits. Equal parts concert, comedy and cabaret, you'll laugh along, dance along and sing along! Tickets are just $10!! Purchase tickets at the-wooden-spoon-saloon.ticketleap.com/wsdueling-pianos/


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And after becoming a mom I changed my blog's name to "Elegance and Mommyhood" because it just seemed like the right fit. Of course my now two-year old girl, followed me through the blog and many times we blog her outfits, along-side mine. Vivian always steals the show too, because she is just adorable! And of course there are a million things that can be improved and need to me be improved here. But one I really want to work on improving this year is the quality of the photos. I need to up-grade to a nice, professional camera. Sure, I'd love to take outdoor photos but I don't see it happening soon for several reasons. First and foremost I live in such a busy city, in a very busy, populated neighborhood. In the hustle and bustle of things and with my very busy days, doing mini photo-shoots daily or at least 3-5 days a week isn't a possibility right now or very realistic. Once the weather gets nicer, I will try for some outdoor shots when I am out and about with Vivian, But, in general I am a very busy woman, you guys, I work full time. I also have a part-time job, And my job at home never ends as a wife and mother, also. I shoot my own pictures at home with my little Canon camera with a timer. At the most it takes me 10 minutes, sometimes I am done even within 4-5 minutes. Outdoor photos would take much longer, especially if I had to scoop out a place a little far away and quieter than where I live.
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Monday, December 21, 2015
Do not open until dec 25!
BBTB2. Melanie is our amazing design sister in charge of the challenge for this week. We are to use a Santa in our card or project. That isn't hard, right. I know that everyone is so very busy this time of year. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and may God bless you and your family. tfl.
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Ho Ho Ho - well - several of us used that Santa - isn't he great....Lovely card. Have a wonder Christmas - ho ho ho Merry ChristmasReplyDelete
Fantastic Christmas card Caroline!! Love this Santa and the great papers!ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas to you and your family!!!! :)
I need to make a big sign that says that to put in front of my tree, lol! Super cute-that Santa has been very popular because he is so cute! I hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
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The 4th industrial revolution (4th IR)
The 4th industrial revolution (4thIR) – after steam, electricity and computing – is the term coined by Davos founder Klaus Schwab for the deep digital transformation that Schwab says is now upon us.
As digital innovation starts to transform our physical, digital and biological worlds – as our lives start to become 'technologised' or 'IT-ised', if you'll excuse the terms – we stand on the threshold of vast ranges of IT-driven change, where
- 3D manufacturing
- augmented reality
- autonomous vehicles
- big data
- blockchain and smart contracts
- connected homes
- IoT
- neurotechnologies
- robotics
- smart cities
will all impact our lives. It is hard to foresee the first, let alone subsequent, generation consequences of the change they will bring about.
We understand the dynamics of rapidly developing online and IT-driven market places and the policy, legal and regulatory solutions that businesses need for success. Operating at the apex of IT law, we have a proven track record of innovation, expertise and approachability in delivering effective results.


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Aveng Trident Steel (supported by Britehouse) received a gold award in the SAP Quality Awards for excelling in the planning and execution of SAP software implementations.
Aveng Trident Steel participated in the Business Transformation Category, which requires more than 400 users and a 6 month project duration. They were shortlisted and the team had to present the project to a panel at the SAP offices. Other participants in this category included Kumba Iron Ore, Engen Petroleum and Aspen Pharmacare. Wayne Haw, quality director of SAP Africa, said "The awards do more than demonstrate excellence in SAP projects. They help to create a community of thought leaders, building on the body of SAP knowledge.


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There are several ways a Government contractor can be granted a facility clearance. This webinar will discuss the key steps, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid while navigating the government bureaucracy in order to secure a facility clearance quickly and cost-effectively.
The Give Me 5 Program, named after the 5% federal contracting goal for women-owned businesses, was created by Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) and American Express OPEN to educate women business owners on how to apply for and secure federal procurement opportunities.


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I decided to take up photography to explore, for lack of better phrasing, ways of capturing moments in time. Now, half a year later, some noticeable progress has been made.
Due to a number of reasons, I've found it much easier to take photos which contain human subject matter. Obviously, humans are very dynamic and active, and thus create more original photo opportunities. I've also found it easier to elicit emotional responses with candids and portraits and the like.
In fact, some of my earliest accidental portraits are still among my favorites (perhaps with a little boost from nostalgia):
Around the midway point between then and now, spring arrived, and with that comes many a picnicking and graduating. Since I prefer to shoot without flash (and since I don't even own a decent flash for my camera), the bountiful sunlight available during outdoors shooting was a welcome change. And, as one might expect, I took advantage of the moments which presented themselves with some timely and deft camera wielding:
Nowadays, I try to make my own destiny by either pseudo-posing with other people's pets, or just plain photo stalking:
My efforts with landscape photography have been met with mixed results. I've found that they usually require more attention to composition (and a tripod, which I still don't have), since the subject matter is typically less intrinsically interesting to us humans. Hopefully, I'll find more success in the future. One of the advantages of using flickr is its social networking aspects. It can help you find some truly breathtaking photos.


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Call for contributions: International Conference on Cross-movement Mobilization, April 5-7, 2017, Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
In joint cooperation between the Institute for Social Movements (ISB), Bochum, the Institute for Protest and Social Movement Research (IPB), Berlin, and the ISA's Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements (RC47).
The international conference aims to bring together experts and early-career scientists to promote a research area that is highly relevant for social movement studies and for society as a whole, and which has not received sufficient attention in current scholarship: cross-movement mobilization.
This concept describes the joint mobilization and formation of alliances across different social movements and organizations with different constituencies In moving away from single movement approaches literature has begun to progressively shift its interest to the interactions that social movements have between each other and with other actors. Studies have explored examples of this on a wide range and scale, starting from cooperation at the local level, such as urban resistance in cities and communities, to cooperation on issues such as climate change, energy transition, alternative economy, and the relation between the global South and the global North. At the same time, cross-movement alliances cannot be taken for granted, as the different groups and actors are separated by different ideological positions, a diverse history and development, and are also partially subject to competitive relations. How such cleavages and differences are overcome is a key question with which the conference will deal.
The international conference aims to provide a platform to present and discuss research on the conditions under which movement alliances evolve, on the success and failure of cross-movement mobilizations at different levels – from local to global – as well as on various topics such as ecology, labor, economy, and urbanization. The conference will bring together fields of research in sociology, political sciences, and history. Particular prominence will be given to social movement studies, industrial relations, international relations, political economy, and social history, in order to sharpen our understanding of internal modes of cooperation, tensions, synergies, and effects of interaction in cross-movement mobilization.
Key questions which are going to be discussed during the international conference:
Conditions and processes of cross-movement mobilizations and their comparison:
- Which subject areas and environmental conditions make cross-movement mobilization more likely?
- Are there social movements that are particularly resistant to cross-movement mobilization?
- How do progressive cross-movement activities distance themselves from right-wing movements?
- When and under which conditions do cross-movement campaigns or protest activities become stable networks?
Internal cleavages and clashes:
- Which issues, ideological differences, and power struggles can be observed in cross-movement mobilization?
- Is cross-movement mobilization weakening the internal cohesion of movements?
- How do they achieve synergy?
- Are there certain environmental conditions or strategic contradictions that hinder synergetic effects?
Multilevel dynamics:
- Is cross-movement mobilization more likely on the local or global level?
- Is cross-movement action especially effective in mobilizing several levels at the same time?
Historical embeddedness:
- What kind of historical precursors can be found for cross-movement mobilization?
- What are their differences when compared to present forms?
Meta- theoretical reflection:
- Does cross-movement mobilization eventually result in a singular social movement?
- What is the relationship between the concept of cross-movement mobilization and other, potentially related concepts such as movement spill-over, frame bridging, movement alliances, etc.?
- To what extend does the idea of cross-movement mobilization represent a conceptual overstretch?
Specifically, participants can target their interest at the following panels:
I. Joint Actions against the Radical Right: Labor Movement's Contemporary Cross-Movement Mobilization
Session organizers: Jenny Jansson & Katrin Uba, (Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden)
There has been a recent increase in cross-movement mobilization against radical right wing groups in Europe and beyond. One of the movements which have become increasingly active is the labor movement, and this panel is interested in how labor movements in different countries mobilize, cooperate and build alliances with other movements in order to fight the growth of radical right activism. Which kinds of strategies are used in such cross-movement mobilizations? Which kinds of movements are the labor movement cooperating with? What are the political and movement related consequences of these kinds of mobilizations? How does the counter-mobilization of the radical right influence the sustainability of such cross-movement cooperation? The panel welcomes empirical and theoretical contributions, comparative or single country studies and encourages the application of wide set of methodological tools.
II. Engaging Difference – Lessons from Cross-Movement Mobilizations in Latin America
Session organizers: Johanna Leinius (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/ipb), Eva Kalny (University of Hannover) & Marco Antonio Teixeira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
In the last decades, social mobilization in Latin America has been transformed as with the increasing politicization of diversity: from the Zapatista uprising to the Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Encounters and the World Social Forum, building cross-movement alliances has been at the forefront of mobilization strategies and internal reflections for social movements in Latin America. Recognizing the knowledge and valuing the experiences of marginalized communities has been a central concern not only for decolonial approaches in academia, but also for indigenous, afro-Latin, women's, and peasant movements. Popular education approaches and feminist pedagogies have needed to rethink the revolutionary subject their approaches are directed at and are continuously reformed to fit contemporary Latin American realities. This panel focuses on movement experiences with cross-movement mobilization in Latin America. Its particular focus are the experiences, knowledges, and practices of emancipatory social movements striving to challenge Latin American coloniality. The panel asks: How does cross-movement mobilization play out in Latin America? What role do popular education methodologies and feminist approaches play in the alliance-building approaches between heterogeneous social movements? How are actors from the global North implicated in these processes?
III. Panel: Cross-Movement Mobilization in Conflicts over Large-Scale Mining
Session organizers: Bettina Engels & Melanie Müller (Freie Universität Berlin)
Industrial mining is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of the world economy, particularly in the Global South. The current mining boom is, however, accompanied by numerous conflicts: over labour relations, over territorial control and access to water and land resources, over the effects on local livelihoods, on gender relations and ecological systems, and over the distribution of profits and tax revenues. Hence, in many cases, mining projects are highly contested and trigger protests on the local, national, and transnational scale. Mobilization against the expansion of industrial mining occur in all world regions. Increasingly, resistance is also organized in transnational and transregional ways.
IV. Cross-Movement Mobilisation in Conflicts over Migration and Asylum
Session organizers: Priska Daphi (University of Frankfurt), Lorenzo Zamponi, (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence) & Leslie Gauditz (University of Bremen)
In the last few years, an increasing number of migrants sought asylum in Europe. This development triggered a series of events and processes. Among them, various episodes of collective action took place in different countries: grassroots actions and initiatives in solidarity with refugees, self-organised protests led by refugees at the borders or in camps, transnational campaigns demanding changes in European policies, as well as radical right and nationalist protests against the presence of refugees in some communities.
This panel explores the construction of coalitions between different actors involved in such issues and actions. Which alliances are established both inside and outside social movements? Which actors are most likely to participate and to seek cross-movement cooperation? How do such coalitions affect the dynamic of mobilisation as well as the outcome? We intend to contribute in answering these questions through the analyses of cross-movement mobilisation between all sorts of actors including left-wing and right-wing movements and parties, civic actors, volunteers' associations, trade unions, NGOs, and religious organisations.
V. Protest waves or cross-movement mobilizations? How do Movements Influence other Movement' Mobilizations?
Session organizer: Sebastian Haunss (Universität Bremen) & Jochen Roose (Universität Wrocław)
Social movements interact in various ways. They can develop in direct response to other movements, as counter-movements, or as competing movements in the same issue area – the idea of movement sectors and movement industries draws on this notion. Movements in one country can also influence the development of movements in other countries – leading to weak or strong forms of transnationalization of protest. They can also replace earlier movements as successors after an earlier movement has de facto dissolved – as expressed in the concept of separate waves of one movement. And they can also interact more indirectly, building on an increased willingness to protest created by other movements – an idea that lies behind the more general notion of protest waves. In this panel we invite empirical studies and theoretical papers that explicitly address these forms of interaction between different movements. A special focus shall be placed on interactions between movements addressing different issues.
VI. Alliances as Co-Optation. Social Movements between Professionalisation and Depolitizisation
Session organizer: Eva Gerharz (Ruhr-University Bochum) & Shelley Feldman (Cornell University)
The literature suggests that If social movement actors expect to benefit from cooperation with international partners ,they need to present themselves as professional actors and/or enter into alliances with more established and more powerful movement actors. Such co-optations go along with the necessity to make concessions when it comes to the institutionalisation of certain procedures and this entails the danger of de-politization. This panel invites papers which investigate such processes from an empirical perspective, with a focus on social movements and their coalitions across the North/South divide, as well as the wider societal ramifications of this phenomenon.
VII. The Next Polanyian Moment? Mobilization in Times of Global Capitalism
Session organizer: Saskia Freye (Ruhr University Bochum) & Sascha Münnich (University of Göttingen)
This panel aims to explore the analytical power and boundaries of Polanyi's concept of the countermovement in the era of a globalized capitalism. Intensification of economic integration on a global scale and the increasing financialization and marketization of business, politics, and the everyday life has undermined the post-war settlement in many (Western) countries, producing what might be called the next Polanyian moment. These developments advance forcefully and (re-)expose ever more parts of society to the market, thereby undermining its social, environmental, and economic preconditions. By re-integrating economy and society, Polanyi's concept is a powerful tool to analyze social movements and political re-regulation on different levels (from local to cross-national) and in different forms (reactionary, nationalistic, progressive), inventory and analytical boundaries, systematization of counter-movements and historic advancement, successes and reactions.
VIII. Transnational Cross-Movement alliances, Coalitional Power and the New Global Politics of Labor
Session organizer: Sabrina Zajak (Ruhr-University Bochum) & Marissa Brookes (University of California, Riverside)
The intensification of global economic integration, the consolidation of power in multinational enterprises, and the increase in the financialization and marketization of politics and of everyday life put severe pressure on labor worldwide and undermine the social, environmental, and economic preconditions of their societies. One assumption is that when social movements and trade unions join forces they are able to challenge the current practices of production, organization, and consumption. This panel explores the most promising opportunities but also obstacles hindering cross movement alliance building between "old" and new" social movements. It looks for papers exploring attempts to develop new sources of cooperation, mechanisms of group interest alignment, and outcomes of transnational cross-movement alliances. In what ways is coalitional power build built?? Under which conditions does it lead to synergies and new ways to leverage or build transnational institutions to improve working conditions and organize workers?
IX. Cross-Movement Convergences – the Urban as Opportunity or Limitation?
Session organizer: Margit Mayer (FU-Berlin) & David Scheller (FH Potsdam)
The city and the urban life have become a nodal point for various protests in recent years. The right to the city, coined by Henri Lefebvre, and its revival in the late 2000s has become a common framework for critical urban scholars and also for a number of urban protest movements. This supports and increasing collaboration of heterogeneous actors in fragmented protests fields. The theoretical debate concerning urban social movements oscillates between potential access points for transformative critics of capitalistic hegemony and an existing limitations for translocal mobilizations. This panel aims to discuss the possibilities and limitations of the urban nexus as a reference point for social movements. We would like to consider both theoretical and empirical findings in the current discourse about cross-movement convergences between, for example, housing movements, refugee movements and environmental movements.
X. Cross-Movement Mobilisation against TTIP
Session organizer: Giulia Gortanutti (Ruhr-University Bochum), Jan Orbie (Universiteit Ghent) & Aukje van Loon (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Public interest in Free Trade Agreements has traditionally been low, mainly due to the technical difficulties of the subject. This changed in June 2013, with the start of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. This has created a unique point of convergence for different social movements and trade unions. In the context of the unopposed neoliberal theories guiding trade regulation policies, the role of transnational alliances capable of collective action seems one of the only counterforces. This panel explores transnational cooperation between different civil society actors against TTIP. How is the mobilisation coordinated? Which networks, coalitions, and alliances are involved in the protest? How does cross-movement mobilisation include actors which are not traditionally involved in such actions, such as Small and Medium Enterprises? Is the mobilisation against TTIP a (more or less) cohesive European phenomenon, or the sum of different national experiences? How are different strategy aims mediated within the many organisations participating in the mobilisation?
XI. Moving Boundaries – Building Bridges. The Remaking of the Environmental Movement?
Session organizer: Jana Bosse (Freie Universität Berlin), Romina Ranke (Leibniz Universität Hannover) & Sebastian Krätzig (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Since the last years, we witness a new wave of network building within environmental movements. Environmental movements not only establish new and stronger ties on different levels – local, regional, national and transnational – but also across issues. They increasingly build bridges to other movements and emphasize the interrelationship of policy fields like climate change, environmental protection, economy, agriculture and health. Additionally, the environmental frame is, for instance, frequently used in strategic manner by local interests groups. These developments give reason for a number of questions: How and why does cross-movement mobilization and network building occur? For instance, is cross-movement mobilization more likely on the local or global level? What are motivations and strategies of the involved actors and how effective are these strategies in different circumstances? What challenges are involved in these shifting levels and issues? And finally, facing a growing diversification and complexity, how can we define the core characteristics of environmental and climate movements?
XII. The global justice movement today: what lessons learned?
Session organizer: Johanna Lauber (Ruhr-University Bochum) & Geoffrey Pleyers (Université de Louvain, UCL)
The Global Justice Movement has not only gained attention due to the transnational orientation but also due to the cooperation between New Social Movements and trade unions. If we look at the Social Forums, fostering exchange of ideas, bridging national divides, and cooperation has been an explicit aim of the movement. However, it seems like the Global Justice Movement has had its peaks with the Protests against WTO in Seattle 1999 and the first Social Forums in the beginning of 2000. Some evaluate the GJM as great success without which current mobilization e.g. against austerity politics or trade agreements would not have been possible. Others argue that in particular social forums were a waste of time, energy and resources. For this panel we want to ask: What is left of the cooperation established in the forums and protests of the Global Justice Movement? What are long term consequences and continuities? Did it enable new coalitions or did it increase doubts about the actual prospects and possibilities fro cross-movement cooperation? The panel seeks to contribute to the debate on cross-movement-cooperation taking into account the multiplicity of long-term effects on movement building, and individual and organizational development.
XIII. Joint actions against Austerity politics: discourse and strategies in the anti-austerity mobilization
Session organizer: Ana-Maria Nikolas (Ruhr-University Bochum), Maria Kousis (University of Crete) & Rubén Díez García (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
The anti- austerity protests that spread around Europe in the wake of the EU – debts crises and neoliberal austerity politics, was expressed in various way in different countries both directly affected by the measurements or not. Ranging from local initiatives and national strikes up to transnational events like the European week of action against austerity, the struggles against neoliberal crises management reveals many different strategies and became manifested in different movements like the Indignados and Euromarches, or in solidarity initiatives and networks but also institutionalised in the elective success of political parties like Syriza and Podemos. This panel focuses on the different levels, countries and strategies, this struggle is taking place and takes also a look on the struggle over discourse when it comes to austerity. The panel asks: Which barriers, ideological differences, and power struggles have to be overcome in cross-movement mobilization against austerity? How do struggles in different countries and on different levels vary? How do they achieve synergy and collaborations across movements? What does the emergence of anti-austerity movements mean in terms of Civil Society Europeanization and democratic deepening of the EU? How do these protests connect with the current wave of global mobilization?
XIV. Mediated Collaborations
Session organizer: Simon Teune (TU-Berlin) & Armin Scholl (University Münster)
Collaborations of social movements are intrinsically linked to the use of media. First, media can be seen as arenas of public exchange. Media sympathetic to movements as well as activist media help bridging different realities in movements. Second, media are part and parcel of organizing processes. Email-Lists and social media, for instance, are used to connect heterogeneous activists and to uphold contacts despite different priorities and agendas in everyday politics. While it is obvious that social movement collaboration relies on the mediated exchange of information and arguments, mediated discourse in a wider public sphere adds another layer that might also hamper collaboration. When addressing a wider public, activists follow logics different from those in internal debates. Their public statements tend to bring out and overemphasize differences. The panel invites contributions in this understudied field that either look into the role of specific media outlets or media technologies in cross-movement mobilization or present generalizing, comparative or theory-based approaches.
XV. From local to global and back. Energy initiatives and protests
Session organizer: Jana Bosse (Freie Universität Berlin), Romina Ranke (Leibniz Universität Hannover) & Sebastian Krätzig (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Throughout Germany, local initiatives have mushroomed since Angela Merkel announced the Energiewende and a nationwide project of restructuring the German energy system has begun. Some have sought to use the new opportunities by becoming their own renewable energy producers and by investing into community energy projects. Others have established protest campaigns against wind parks, biogas plants and new power lines. Although many of these initiatives are rooted in local contexts, they have established networks to other campaigns to gain leverage. Remarkably, we see those examples of network building happening on very different levels (regional, national and even EU-wide) and towards a variety of actors from grassroots movements, NGOs to political parties and corporations. At the same time, many climate activists have re-oriented their struggles from the international to the national and local level. They repeatedly organize large protests against coal mining and fracking and build diverse coalitions. These new developments of local protests, networking and scale-shifting lead us to raise a number of questions: How and why do local protest initiatives start to build networks? How do they choose their allies? How might network building change local initiatives and grassroots movements? And what triggers scale-shifting processes from the global and transnational level to national and local activism?
XVI. Effects of Cross-Movement Mobilization on Protest Repertoires
Session organizers: Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Dr. Priska Daphi & Felix Anderl (all: University of Frankfurt)
While repertoires are a common concept in social movement studies, little is known about how changes in repertoires occur. Cross-movement mobilization can be expected to have a considerable impact on this as interactions with allies and rivals have been found to crucially affect social movements' repertoires. This panel aims to bring together insights about the effects of cross-movement mobilization on tactical choices and changes. It explores how cooperation between different movements as well as between movements and other political actors influences protest repertoires. In how far do such interactions affect tactical choices? Does this effect differ depending on the kind of group movements cooperate with? What happens when a former opponent becomes an ally – as, for example, in the case of the global feminist movement cooperating with international organizations in the 1990s? And how helpful is the concept of diffusion in analyzing this dynamic? We invite both empirical as well as conceptual contributions that explore the various effects of cross-movement mobilizations on protest repertoires.
XVII. New Social Movements and the Labor Movement: Cross-movement Mobilization since 1968
Session organizers: Ulf Teichmann and Christian Wicke (Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-University Bochum)
The New Social Movements (NSM) of the 1970s and 1980s have been portrayed as primary examples for cross-movement mobilization. Contemporary scholars have perceived the peace-, women's- and environmental movements as one unit. Borne by an alternative 'milieu' and motivated by common norms and values, they have shared organizational and communication structures. While there is a growing research interest in the history of NSM, the focus has hardly been on the specifics of the relations amongst the particular movements. A more detailed perspective on the history of cross-movement mobilization shall provide further understanding of the degree of diversification and cooperation between the particular movements, especially the relations between the 'old' labor movement and the 'new' social movements: how accurate is the picture of a closely connected movement-family that has been drawn by research of the NSM? What are the most effective ways of studying the history of cross-movement mobilization since 1968 at the local, national and transnational levels? And finally, how helpful is 'cross-movement mobilization' and its associated conceptual tools from the social sciences— such as 'movement spill-over', 'frame bridging' and 'movement alliances'—for historical studies of the new and old social movements since 1968?
XVIII. The contrasting cases of gender, work/care work and sexual/reproductive rights
Session organizer: Ilse Lenz (Ruhr-University Bochum)
XIX. Actors or tactics? Dynamics of Broad Coalitions and Reportoires of Contention for political transformation
Session organzier: Nina-Kathrin Wienkoop,Zentrum für Demokratieforschung (ZDEMO), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg & Jan-Philipp Vatthauer, Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
The recent series of uprisings across Northern Africa exemplified the wide range of protest and resistance tactics diverse actors use in times of and for political change. Besides the so called "Arab uprising", movements pushing for democratization occurred across Latin America and Eastern Europe, as well as in Western Africa and Southeast Asia over the last years. Despite conflicting interests, actors form (temporal) strategic coalitions to put pressure on ruling elites. The social movements' set of actions – ranging from signing petitions to civil disobedience – is influenced by external and internal dynamics that occasionally stand in conflict. Depending on the theoretical perspective of the literature strands, social movement scholars judge resources, political opportunities, eventful junctures, well-placed framing as decisive for protests to have an outcome. Particularly cross-movement mobilization seems significant during eventful transitions to affect the political responsiveness. Currently debated is the availability of new forms of communication as another powerful tool to the protester's repertoires. The panel shall evaluate the role and interplay of cross-movement mobilization and their tactics in promoting democratization.
Call for Papers
Selected papers will be published in a special issue on cross-movement mobilization in the journal "moving the social" (http://moving-the-social.ub.rub.de/index.php/Moving_the_social). This special issue has already been confirmed and scheduled. In addition, shorter contributions can be published on the blogs "Protest und Bewegungsforschung" and "openDemocracy".
Please provide an abstract (250 words) including the name of the preferred panel no later than 1st of October 1, 2016 and send it to
indicate if you need travel funding assistance as some travel grants will be available. If you have questions about the individual panels please contact the session organizers directly.
Further information on the workshop groups of the Institute for Protest and Social Movement Research (IPB), and how to become a member visit this website.
Conference organizers:
- Sabrina Zajak
- Giulia Gortanutti
- Johanna Lauber
- Ana-Maria Nikolas
- Research group transnational alliances between social movements and trade unions
Conference Committee:
- Dr. Britta Baumgarten, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL), Portugal (IPB)
- Prof Dr. Stefan Berger, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (ISB)
- Prof Dr. Marissa Brookes, University of California, Riverside, USA
- Dr. Priska Daphi, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany (IPB&ISA47)
- Prof. Dr. Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy (IPB)
- Prof. Dr. Margit Mayer, Freie University Berlin (IPB)
- Prof. Dr. Ilse Lenz, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (ISB)
- Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Pleyers, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (ISA47)
- Prof. Dr. Britta Rehder, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (ISB)
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Rucht, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Germany (IPB)
- Prof. Dr. Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Rutgers' School of Management and Labor Relations, USA
- Prof. Dr. Maria Kousis, University of Crete, Greece
- Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (ISB&IPB)
- Prof. Dr. Jochen Roose, Willy Brandt Zentrum Wrocław (Breslau) , Universität Wrocław (IPB)
Call for Contributions: Konflikte um Abschiebungen, Tagung im September 2016, Osnabrück, Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS), Organisator_innen: Maren Kirchhoff, Helen Schwenken, Helge Schwiertz
Abschiebungen sind neben Grenzkontrollen ein zentrales Instrument der gegenwärtigen Regierung von Migration, wobei in der Europäischen Union insbesondere abgelehnte Asylsuchende betroffen sind. Darüber hinaus ziehen Abschiebungen symbolisch und faktisch die Grenzen von politischen Gemeinschaften und Bürgerschaft, insbesondere in Form des Nationalstaates. Immer wieder stellen sich jedoch Teile der Bevölkerung Abschiebungen entgegen und hinterfragen dadurch auch herrschende Grenzziehungen. Die sich in diesem Zusammenhang potentiell entwickelnde moralische, ethische oder politische Ablehnung von Abschiebungen, als mit staatlichem Zwang durchgesetzte Form der Ausreise, führt zu diversen Protestformen von Petitionen bis zu Aktionen zivilen Ungehorsams. Diese verschiedenen Proteste gegen Abschiebungen werden im Rahmen der internationalen Tagung im September hinsichtlich ihrer Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede analysiert und diskutiert.
Call for Applications: SIEF Summer School "Trusting Resistance. New Ethnographies of Social Movements and Alternative Economies", Tübingen, 24-30 July 2016
Venue: Hohentübingen Castle, University of Tübingen, Germany
Convened by: Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer (Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft)
Funded by: the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (ZUK 63), the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), and the CRC 923 on "Threatened Orders"
Deadline for proposal submission: March 20, 2016
This international summer school combines two highly debated topics: trust and resistance. From protest to critical consumption, to the do-it-yourself movement, to radical gardening or alternative health care: when groups are formed in resistance to an 'establishment' or 'mainstream', they often express a lack of trust in the 'powers that be' – therefore, practices of mistrust seem to be constitutive for such movements. On the other hand, within the group it is important to establish trust in the alternative models being tried out. Thus, it would seem that trust and mistrust operate in these cases as a dynamic motor for change. Thinking about the conceptualization of trust and mistrust will necessarily be part of the discussion. Is trust an attitude, an ethic, a virtue, or a feeling, perhaps even an emotion? From the ethnographic perspective, it makes sense to look at trust and mistrust in connection with the practices that mobilize and cultivate them. Thus, the summer school will also encourage the participants to go beyond trust/mistrust to think about the role of other feelings and attitudes important to the groups they are studying as well. We would like to offer a space for exploring this dynamic more deeply with PhD students and early postdocs working on research projects in the above-mentioned areas.
We invite anyone taking an ethnographic approach to the culture of resistance, studying social movements, political and consumer protest, activism in its many forms, to participate in this summer school. European ethnologists, folklorists, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, sociologists, historians, and political scientists are all welcome to apply. The focus is on looking at trust/mistrust at the micro-level of everyday life and social interactions. This includes not only attention to the practical dimensions of doings and sayings, thinking and feelings, but also considering the importance of material artifacts, sensory impressions, sounds, images, performances, rituals, spaces, and places. Participants at any stage of their research – including beginning PhD students – will have an opportunity to present work in progress and to discuss central research issues. To ensure an open and collaborative learning environment, the number of participants will be limited to a maximum of 25.
Call for Papers des Arbeitskreises soziale Bewegungen der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, 26. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der DVPW "Vorsicht Sicherheit! Legitimationsprobleme der Ordnung von Freiheit", 21.-25. September 2015, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Der Arbeitskreis soziale Bewegungen der DVPW organisiert zum diesjährigen Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (hier geht es zur Kongress-Seite) vier Panels, drei davon eigenständig und eins in Kooperation mit dem Arbeitskreis Soziologie der internationalen Beziehungen. Call für alle Panel als pdf-Datei
Wir bitten um die Einsendung von Vorschlägen für Vorträge bis zum 28. Februar 2015 und hoffen auf rege Beteiligung. Mehr Informationen finden sich in den Beschreibungen der einzelnen Panels weiter unten:
Panel der Arbeitskreise soziale Bewegungen und Soziologie der internationalen Beziehungen:
Lokale Protestbewegungen und internationale Politik. Destabilisierung oder Demokratisierung? (pdf)
Panel des Arbeitskreises soziale Bewegungen:
Protest und Polizei in der Überwachungsgesellschaft (pdf)
Bitte verhalten Sie sich ruhig. Die Praxis der Kritik und die Politik der Sicherheit (pdf)
Zwischen Hetze und Hilfe. Politische Mobilisierung in der Flüchtlingspolitik (pdf)
ViCe, the interdisciplinary PhD programme Visual Culture at the University of Graz, encourages ethnographic study of social movements with a focus on, but not restricted to cities in south-eastern Europe. A team of three or four PhD students will be supported in applying for a joint DOCteam grant at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
With this call, we are looking for researchers who are exploring this field, prepared to work in an interdisciplinary team and wish to direct attention to visual aspects of protest.
If you are interested, please send a short outline of your PhD project (1-2 pages), CV and covering letter until April 30th, 2014 to marion.hamm(at)uni-graz.at. The joint grant application to ÖAW will be finalised in August and September, deadline for submission at ÖAW is October 31st, 2014. If accepted, the grant would start in April 2015 and run for 3 years.
For formal requirements of ÖAW, please refer to their website, section DOCteam. Thematic requirements are outlined below. If you have any questions on the PhD programme Visual Culture, on supervision or subject area, please do not hesitate to contact me at marion.hamm(at)uni-graz.at.
Project outline: Performativity and Visibility. Visual Forms of Protest in urban social movements in Southeastern Europe
Visual forms of expression are firmly established in modern protest movements' action repertoire. Red flag, human chain or colourful tent city; poster, banner, digital image or public performance: Such are the visuals used by social movements across time and space, such as the historical labour movement, the new social movements or the present post-identitarian movements. Nevertheless, investigation of the visual dimension of protest and its practices is still at an early stage.
By establishing a DOCteam, the PhD programme Visual Culture seeks to address this desideratum. In interdisciplinary collaboration, the envisaged DOCteam will draw, amongst others, on cultural anthropology, political science, history, southeastern European studies, religious studies and intercultural theology as well as social movement studies. Supported by the expertise available in ViCe, the DOCteam will put these approaches into interaction to develop analyses of protest with a focus on the explanatory power and potency of visual aspects.
Depending on individual PhD projects, the research period stretches roughly from the 1980s up to the present. As research fields, cities in Greece (e.g. Athens, Thessaloniki) and on the territory of former Yugoslavia (e.g. Belgrade, Pristina) are stipulated. Comparative studies of cities in neighbouring regions (e.g. Vienna, Prague) will also be considered. By focusing on south eastern European cities, ViCe aims to contribute to a decentralisation of social movement studies, which to date is still heavily transatlantic in its orientation.
All individual PhD projects will take a qualitative approach to the chosen city/cities, using ethnographic methods to approach their field (field research, participant observation, qualitative interviews) and hermeneutic methods of interpretation. They may also draw on archival sources. A working knowledge of the respective regional languages is indispensable for this approach.
The proposed interpretative and contextualising studies of visual protest repertoires in urban space will tackle research questions concerning adoption and functions of visual forms of protest. They will explore how they take effect in activist methods of mobilisation, in the affective construction of political subjectivities, in interaction with urban space and in the cross-regional circulation of conflict.
DOCteam Profile and Supervision
The individual PhD theses in this DOCteam will be supervised by Johanna Rolshoven (professor of cultural anthropology), Karl Kaser (professor of south-eastern European history/anthropology), Basilius J. Groen (professor of liturgical studies) und Florian Bieber (professor of political science/history/south-eastern European studies), all at the University of Graz.
PhD candidates will be able to draw on the expertise gathered in the PhD programme ViCe first for their grant application and later for their research process. An established space of interdisciplinary debate, ViCe incorporates influences from feminism, gender- and media studies, structuralism and post-structuralism, objective hermeneutics, critical theory and post-operaism. Contacts with relevant institutions abroad are also available.
In correspondence to ViCe's receptiveness for a wide range of theoretical approaches, the academic profile of the future members of the DOCteam is considerably open. Besides excellent academic qualifications, a disposition to engage in interdisciplinary reflections on the visual dimension of protest throughout the research process, experience with ethnographic, interactive and dialogic research methods, and a working knowledge of the relevant languages are essential.
According to the formal requirements for a DOCteam grant at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, applicants must be younger than 30 years at submission date, or they must have completed their MA course later than Jan 1st, 2010. They also must be prepared to spend six months at an institution outside Austria. The PhDs will be situated at the University of Graz. The grant amounts to an annual 35000 Euro per person for 36 months.
We are looking forward to receiving your PhD outlines, CVs and covering letters until April 30th, 2014.
Johanna Rolshoven, Karl Kaser, Florian Bieber, Basilius Groen, Marion Hamm
Prof. Johanna Rolshoven (ViCe spokesperson)
Prof. Karl Kaser (ViCe deputy spokesperson)
Prof. Florian Bieber (ViCe member)
Prof. Basilius Groen (ViCe member)
Dr. des. Marion Hamm (ViCe coordinator)