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Introducing Wiley's new double-A side single, featuring two of the finest tracks from what has widely been held to be the Godfather of Grime's best album yet.
Title track "Evolve Or Be Extinct" is one for the grimerati – 88 straight bars of unadulterated flow, jokes, boasts, observation and metaphor from one of the most recognisable, rhythmically-sophisticated and straight up fucking marvellous MCs the UK has ever produced. With a simple, beautifully executed video already racking up the views and plaudits on YouTube and beyond, this should keep the brethren happy for a little while.
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The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards will be released on January 10th, one week from today, and will, as history has taught us, provide endless frustration for cinephiles everywhere.
Why? Because the Oscars are silly. In concept and execution, they are a frivolous exercise, a largely substance-free attempt for Hollywood to congratulate itself, defined by industry politics and campaigning. The Academy Awards are not a bad thing, but they are also not worth putting much stock in, especially if one is a rampant film lover who probably sees twice as many films in a given year as most Academy voters. The Oscars are obnoxious because they make claim to definitiveness, but are really nothing more than a simple set of opinions, no different or superior to yours or mine.
With that in mind, I have found that one of the best remedies for alleviating Oscar-related frustrations is to simply imagine a different outcome based on my own tastes, preferences, and experience. These are my Dream Academy Award Nominations – the artists and films I would personally nominate if I put on an awards show, or, putting it another way, the artists and films I would like to see nominated in an alternate universe where the Oscars know what they are doing.
I do like these sorts of Awards in theory, and though the Oscars annoy me, I very much value this exercise for shining a light on the best achievements in individual components of filmmaking. I therefore view these Dream Nominations as my final summary of the year in film, a chance to celebrate the best elements of a highly enjoyable 2012.
These are not – and I cannot stress this enough – predictions for what the nominees will be. There is little value in making such prognostications, as the Oscars are habitually predictable, and habitually boring in their picks. I hope my choices are a little more eclectic, and if you find yourself dissatisfied, please feel free to offer your own Dream nominees in the comments. There are plenty of excellent choices to go around. I should note that these picks are, in part, based on my ballot for the 2012 Denver Film Critics Society awards, which I voted in earlier this week.
Because there are a lot of categories to get through – I am doing everything except the Short Film categories, Documentary, and Foreign Language – we will be presenting this feature in two parts. Today's article will focus on the technical categories – Cinematography, Sound, Visual Effects, Editing, etc. – while the next part, publishing Monday, will dive into the big awards, like acting, writing, and directing.
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Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins, Skyfall
Ron Fricke, Samsara
Mihai Malaimare Jr., The Master
Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight Rises
Masanobu Takayanagi, The Grey
Tons of outstanding work this year, and a tough category to narrow down. Roger Deakins' stunning imagery for Skyfall is an absolute gimee, as is Wally Pfister's work on The Dark Knight Rises, which continued the innovations of its predecessor with a much greater amount of IMAX 70mm photography. Mihai Malaimare Jr. also shot on 70mm for The Master, and the results were breathtaking in every way – not just for the enhanced clarity of the format. Masanobu Takayanagi is quickly becoming one of my favorite Directors of Photography, and his ability to so clearly capture the stark, horrifying chill of the Alaskan tundra in The Grey stands as his greatest achievement to date.
But the winner here, without a shadow of a doubt, is Ron Fricke and Samsara, a beautiful tone-poem of a documentary that features some of the most incredible photography humans have ever captured. Also shot on 70mm, Fricke never ceases to innovate in the way he observes our world, and while Samsara may not, on the whole, be quite as great as Koyaanisqatsi or Baraka, it may be the most visually potent of the lot.
Dream Winner: Ron Fricke, Samsara
Tough Omissions: Robert Richardson, Django Unchained; Tom Stern, The Hunger Games; Masanobu Takayanagi, Silver Linings Playbook; Seamus McGarvey, The Avengers; Robert Yeoman, Moonrise Kingdom; Steve Yedlin, Looper; Franke Griebe and John Toll, Cloud Atlas; Danny Cohen, Les Miserables
Best Editing
Alexander Berner, Cloud Atlas
Jeffrey Ford and Lisa Lassek, The Avengers
Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson, Samsara
William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor, Zero Dark Thirty
Fred Raskin, Django Unchained
Another strong field, albeit one where the winner is absolutely obvious. After all, no other editor this year had such a complex task as Alexander Berner did on Cloud Atlas, linking six stories together into one seamless, flowing experience, and that means Berner's success just naturally shines a little more brightly than anyone else's. But that should not take away from the task Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson had assembling five years worth of footage on Samsara, or the from the monumental task Jeffery Ford and Lisa Lassek faced putting together several historically vast action sequences in The Avengers. This kind of stuff is harder than it looks. Zero Dark Thirty is probably the runner-up here, as William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor's editing reflects the complexities of the story without sacrificing narrative propulsion, and Fred Raskin deserves major praise for doing the late Sally Menke proud on Django Unchained, one of 2012's best examples of classical, invisible editing.
Dream Winner: Alexander Berner, Cloud Atlas
Tough Omissions: Lee Smith, The Dark Knight Rises; Stuart Baird and Kate Baird, Skyfall; Bob Duscay, Looper; Michael Kahn, Lincoln; Melanie Ann Oliver and Chris Dickens, Les Miserables; William Goldenberg, Argo
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Best Production Design
The Cabin in the Woods
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Cloud Atlas would get a lot of below-the-line nominations from me, given just how much the crew had to do to bring six different stories and periods to life. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the Production Design, where enough great work was done to fill six different movies. Similarly, Django Unchained is a technical marvel across the board, but excels most clearly in the inventive and period-accurate sets that impress from start to finish. The Hobbit recreated Middle Earth, one of cinema's greatest fantasy landscapes, in fine form, and The Cabin in the Woods deserves recognition for several great sets, including the cabin itself and the control room, that do a great deal to ground a zany and ambitious story.
But for me, the clear winner is Skyfall, which features one creative, stylish, and unforgettable set after another. Think of MI6's special underground headquarters, or the vacated island where Raoul Silva makes his base, or the Shanghai Casino where Bond first meets Severine. The list goes on and on, and makes Skyfall stand out as the best designed film of 2012.
Dream Winner: Skyfall
Tough Omissions: The Master; Looper; Lincoln; The Dark Knight Rises; The Hunger Games; Prometheus
Best Visual Effects
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
Another strong batch, and one where the dream winner is especially hard to pick. I like the effects work in Life of Pi enough to put it here – I could never once tell when the tiger, for instance, was real or fake – but do not feel it quite stacks up to the other titles, and basically feel the same about Cloud Atlas (which, again, deserves the nod for seamlessly creating so many different settings). The Hobbit arguably features some of the most technically proficient blends of CGI and live-action to date, but I also think the Orc-leader Azog looks rather terrible, and cannot give the film the win for that miscalculation alone. It comes down, for me, to The Dark Knight Rises – with effects so good they are practically invisible – and The Avengers, and I give the edge to The Avengers for the sheer scale of the final act and the visual splendor with which it was achieved.
Dream Winner: The Avengers
Tough Omissions: The Grey; Prometheus; The Amazing Spider-Man; Flight
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Best Costume Design
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Moonrise Kingdom
I am always disappointed with what bland choices the Academy comes up with in this category every year, almost exclusively picking elaborate period pieces while ignoring all the other wonderful things costuming can achieve. Think, for instance, of how downright cool each of the Avengers look. Those costumes may be based on comic-book drawings, but bringing them each to life in such spectacular fashion certainly deserves a nod. And consider how inventive all the costumes are in Moonrise Kingdom, each keeping with Wes Anderson's stylistic, storyboard vision. In The Hobbit, creative costumes are key to bringing the citizens of Middle Earth to life, and the costume designers on Cloud Atlas had to pull sextuple duty crafting costumes for characters across the ages.
But in the end, I find I must declare a period piece the winner here, albeit a ridiculously suave and stylized period piece. The costuming in Django Unchained is marvelous, not just in recreating the antebellum south, but in lending additional personality to all of the characters. Jamie Foxx is a fantastic Django, but he needs a great costume designer to illustrate the character's awesome eye for style. Django Unchained is filled to burst with fantastic costumes, and takes this (imaginary) award with ease.
Dream Winner: Django Unchained
Tough Omissions: The Master; Skyfall; The Dark Knight Rises; Lincoln; The Hunger Games; Les Miserables
Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Holy Motors
The easiest selection of no-brainer nominations any category has had in years, the Academy has inexplicably chosen to exclude both Cloud Atlas and Holy Motors – each of which feature wildly transformative makeup work that is central to the film's story – from the shortlist of possible contenders, meaning neither will get a real nomination. I guess that's why I call this the "dream" nominations. In any case, both films feature some of the best and most integral makeup work I have ever seen, while The Hobbit stands among them for the incredible artistry employed to bring thirteen dwarves, a Hobbit, some elves, and several wizards to life. All three films deserve recognition, but given how much attention makeup is given in Holy Motors – the film is, in many ways, a love letter to the art of this category – I give it the edge it will, sadly, never get.
Dream Winner: Holy Motors
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Best Sound Editing
Django Unchained
The Grey
Wreck-It Ralph
Zero Dark Thirty
The difference between "Sound Editing" and "Sound Mixing" is a subtle but important distinction, and very much worthy of separate categories. In short, "Sound Editing" refers to the way sound functions in the movie; which sounds have been captured and how they are arranged, used, and delivered to create an aural experience. "Sound Mixing" is about properly balancing and orienting a wide variety of sonic elements to create an immersive and effective soundscape.
With that in mind, Zero Dark Thirty defines good sound editing. Just looking at the raid on bin Laden's compound at the end, the number of nuanced sound effects – boots crunching on dirt, ruffling uniforms, shuffling guns, loading ammunition, firing bullets, etc. – is vast, and they are all arranged to sonic perfection. The rest of the movie is equally precise in its sound design, and to my mind easily earns this award. Django Unchained is similarly detailed and nuanced, while Skyfall does all this and more on a much grander scale. It is hard to pinpoint whether the incredibly evocative sound design of The Grey is an exercise in good editing or mixing, but I feel it belongs here, as it is the specific sound effects and elements assembled, and the ways in which they are combined and presented, that seems to give the audio its power. Finally, I always wish animated movies got more attention in this category, as their entire soundscape is built from the ground up. Wreck-It Ralph is a particularly good example of this process, and should be recognized as such.
Dream Winner: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Sound Mixing
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Going back to what I said about sound mixing, The Avengers is a great example of the process. Looking at the final action sequence in New York, there is a wide variety of sonic mayhem going on at any given moment, and yet the cumulative effect is not muddled, but rich, immersive, and powerful. The same goes for any of the major action sequences in The Dark Knight Rises or The Hobbit, and all three films feature quiet moments that exemplify top-notch sound mixing. Django Unchained is an all-around technical knockout, as I have explained before, and deserves a nod in this category too. But I would give my hypothetical award to Les Miserables, which had the tough task of mixing live vocal performances, orchestral backing music, and sound effects into one cohesive, cinematic package. It pulls that off in spades, and sounds a little bit different – and superior – to most movie musicals ever made.
Dream Winner: Les Miserables
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Best Original Score
James Horner, The Amazing Spider-Man
Howard Shore, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Michael Sterns and Lisa Gerrard, Samsara
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold Heil, Cloud Atlas
Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight Rises
I wrote an entire article on the best scores of 2012, so I will not go into great depth here beyond reiterating that the beautiful compositions for Cloud Atlas are central to its success, hat Zimmer and Horner composed two of the all-time great blockbuster scores in The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man, and that Shore easily matched his legendary work on Lord of the Rings with The Hobbit. The one new addition here to my personal list is Michael Sterns and Lisa Gerrard's incredible score to Ron Fricke's Samsara, which is just as gorgeous, evocative, and haunting as the film's masterful cinematography.
Dream Winner: Howard Shore, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Tough Omissions: Thomas Newman, Skyfall; Marc Streitenfeld, The Grey; John Williams, Lincoln; Alexandre Desplat, Zero Dark Thirty; Henry Jackman, Wreck-It Ralph
Best Original Song
Adele Adkins, "Skyfall" from Skyfall
Elayna Boynton, Kelvin Wooten, and Anthony Hamilton, "Freedom" from Django Unchained
Neil Finn, "Song of the Lonely Mountain" from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Ennio Morricone and Elisa Toffoli, "Ancora Qui" from Django Unchained
Katy Perry, "Wide Awake" from Katy Perry: Part of Me
A category that seemed all-but dead and buried a year ago has an unusually strong set of contenders this year, with Adele delivering one of the all-time great Bond themes in "Skyfall" and Django Unchained featuring four outstanding original pieces. Of those, I have limited myself to nominating "Freedom" – a wonderful, stirring song used beautifully in the film – and "Ancora Qui," which marks the first original Morricone piece writing for a Quentin Tarantino film. Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films each featured fantastic original songs in the end credits, and Neil Finn's "Song of the Lonely Mountain" more than lives up to that legacy. Finally, I have included Katy Perry's "Wide Awake," written for her concert documentary Part of Me. You may scoff, but I want to give Ms. Perry props for challenging herself on this one – it is far and away the best song she has ever recorded, and in the ways the lyrics relate to the themes of the surprisingly excellent film, "Wide Awake" more than lives up to the spirit of this category.
Dream Winner: "Freedom" from Django Unchained
Tough Omissions: "Who Did That To You?" from Django Unchained; "100 Black Coffins" from Django Unchained; "Suddenly" from Les Miserables
Who would be YOUR dream Oscar nominees? Sound off in the comments, and come back soon for PART TWO of this feature, focusing on the big awards like Best Screenplay, Actor and Actress, and Picture!Previous


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The windmill is run on a non-profit basis. All profit generated at the windmill goes directly into maintenance of this wonderful building.
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These large timber sails bolted onto the top of the building are designed to catch the wind, so they are exposed to all that the North Sea and North Wind can throw at them.
They are now 25 years old and our millwright says we need to prepare to replace them. Here is our (70 year old!) millwright climbing the sails.
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Solar water heater sales have reduced from a historically high level in 2009 due to reduced markets support mechanisms from State and Federal governments.
Solar water heating for domestic hot water has been driven by building and plumbing regulations that promote low emission water heaters. This varies from State to State.
Over the past decade market support mechanisms such as green certificates (SRES), Rebates and White certificates in some States have supported the market. Many of the rebates have been phased out since 2009
Low awareness of solar water heating and the tendency to replace 'like for like' in the replace marker remains a key barrier.
Solar pool heating is driven by the high cost of using conventional energy to heat pools.
Australia has a large manufacturing base of solar water heaters and pool heating collectors.
Some solar water heaters installed in Australia are imported. Some Australian products are exported.
Most products are sold through specialist suppliers or conventional plumbing supply chains. Some specialist suppliers are franchisees of manufacturers but this is a small part of the current market.
According to the Clean Energy Council there are approximately 1400 full time equivalent jobs in the solar water heating sector.
Some solar water heaters installed in Australia have had issues with overheating in summer causing water loss due to boiling. AS/NZS 2712 has been revised to include an overheating test to address this issue.
In Australia there are a number of schemes that promote energy efficiency in buildings and also wider sustainability schemes.
Passive solar technologies including daylighting are not specifically recognised however the energy reductions contributed by these technologies help to reach energy consumption targets include in the schemes.
Market size and trends
There a a few industry leaders that are providing high levels of sustainability in buildings, however the mass market is producing regularity minimum buildings.
The main driver for residential dwellings is building regulations that require a minimum level of energy efficiency of the structure for new builds. This is measured at the planning stage using computer simulation programs to calculate heating and cooling energy loads from the plans.
Commercial buildings require disclosure of energy consumption at sale or lease which will influence property values. There is also a Green Building rating scheme, Green Star, which identifies good and best practice in new builds as a means of rewarding leading builds and developers. Many new CBD office buildings are achieving market recognition using Green Star.
There are Green and White certificate trading schemes that are market drivers for existing residential and commercial buildings. These are limited in scope and apart from solar water heating no solar technologies are currently included.
While research on solar thermal and solar buildings is being undertaken by various institutions, there is not a single 'national' R&D program.
Some of the institutions conducting R&D include:
University of New South Wales http://www.unsw.edu.au/
University of South Australia
Australian National University
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisations (CSIRO)
Australian Renewable Energy Agency http://www.arena.gov.au/
University of Sydney
Market support innovations. SRES supports solar water heating by means of using computer simulations to calculate savings using an Australian and New Zealand Standard methodology (AS/NZS4234).
Standards A solar cooling standard will soon be published facilitating performance evaluation of solar cooling system. This will facilitate solar cooling incorpoartionint Green and White certificate schemes.
On 10 July 2011, the Australian Government announced its plan for a clean energy future which will cut pollution and drive investment in new clean energy sources. This plan includes introducing a carbon price, promoting innovation and investment in renewable energy, encouraging energy efficiency, and creating opportunities in the land sector.
The Government's Clean Energy Future Plan commits Australia to an unconditional 2020 emissions reduction target of five per cent below 2000 levels (which could be increased to between 15 and 25 per cent below 2000 levels depending on the scale of global action) and a 2050 target of 80 per cent below 2000 levels.
Carbon Price
The Australian Government introduced a carbon price of $23 per tonne on 1 July 2012. This will rise by 2.5 per cent per year for a three year fixed price period before moving to an emissions trading scheme. The carbon price will apply to around 500 of Australia's largest emitters, including stationary energy, some transport sectors and industrial processes. The carbon price provides an incentive for fossil fuel power stations to invest in lower emission generation technologies.
Renewable Energy Target (RET)
The 20 per cent by 2020 RET will more than double the amount of renewable energy generation in Australia. With a carbon price, the RET is expected to encourage around $20 billion in investment in renewable generation and equates to 45,000 GWh of renewable generation (plus 15,000 GWh of existing large-scale hydroelectricity). It includes two parts: the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES); and the Large-scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET).
The LRET will deliver the vast majority of the 2020 target (approximately 41,000 GWh) and provide investment certainty for large scale renewable energy projects. The SRES is uncapped and provides a fixed subsidy to small scale technologies, such as solar panels and solar water heaters. The SRES, in combination with previous State and Territory Government feed-in tariffs (FiTs), and the global reduction in solar photovoltaic (PV) prices has driven strong growth in the use of small scale solar PV systems in Australian households.
Three significant initiatives have been created specifically to support investment and innovation in clean and renewable energy, including the opportunity to transform existing manufacturing businesses to re-focus on meeting demand for inputs for these sectors.
The $10 billion, commercially-oriented Clean Energy Finance Corporation will invest in renewable energy, low pollution and energy efficiency technologies. A variety of funding tools will support projects, including loans on concessional terms and equity investments.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is an independent statutory body, managing $3.2 billion in funding in existing Australian Government renewable energy grants supporting research and development of renewable energy technologies and initiatives to bring them to market. Around $2.2 billion of this funding is currently uncommitted and is available for ARENA to provide early-stage grants and financing assistance for projects that strengthen and drive down the costs of renewable energy technologies.
The Clean Technology Innovation Program will provide $200 million in grants to support business investment in renewable energy, low emissions technology and energy efficiency.
Energy Efficiency
In July 2009, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to the comprehensive, 10-year National Strategy on Energy Efficiency (NSEE), to accelerate energy efficiency improvements and deliver cost-effective energy efficiency gains across all sectors of the Australian economy. The NSEE aims to streamline roles and responsibilities across government by providing a nationally consistent and coordinated approach to energy efficiency.
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism
Clean Energy Regulator
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
ACT - Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate
Victoria – Sustainability Victoria
Queensland – Department of Energy and Water Supply
New South Wales – Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services
South Australia – Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy
Northern Territory – PowerWaterCorp
Western Australia – Public Utilities Office
Tasmania – Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources
The Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES)
The SRES creates a financial incentive for owners to install eligible small-scale installations such as solar water heaters, heat pumps, solar panel systems, small-scale wind systems, or small-scale hydro systems. It does this by legislating demand for Small-scale Technology Certificates (STCs). STCs are created for these installations according to the amount of electricity they produce or displace. RET-liable entities have a legal requirement to buy STCs and surrender them on a quarterly basis.
Solar water heater or heat pump installations are eligible if the system is new and listed in the Register of Solar Water Heaters managed by the Clean Energy Regulator. Eligible small-scale systems are entitled to create STCs based around how much renewable electricity the systems produce or displace. The number of certificates a system can create is based on the amount of electricity in megawatt hours (MWh):
This number may vary depending on geographic location, what kind of system is installed, Solar Credits eligibility, and/or the size and capacity of the installed system.
There is a legal obligation on RET-liable entities (usually electricity retailers) to purchase and surrender a certain amount of these certificates each year. The trade in these certificates thereby provides financial incentive for investment in renewable energy power stations, and for the installation of solar water heaters, heat pumps, and small-scale solar panel, wind, and hydro systems.
The certificates are created and traded through the REC Registry, an Internet-based registry managed by the Clean Energy Regulator.
Buildings: Commercial
The Australian Government has a mixture of financial incentives, regulation, strategies and information resources all geared towards improving the sustainability of commercial buildings. As part of the National Strategy on Energy Efficiency, the Australian Government is:
Buildings: Homes
The Australian Government has a mixture of financial incentives, regulation, strategies and information resources all geared towards improving the sustainability of homes. As part of the National Strategy on Energy Efficiency, the Australian Government is:
The Clean Energy Council covers all renewable energy supply and energy efficiency technologies www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au
The Australian Solar Council is the Australian affiliate of ISES. It supports the PV and SHW industry. solar.org.au
The Australian PV Association supports both PV and solar heating and cooling technology research. www.apva.org.au
The Australian Green Building Council supports the green building industry and runs the voluntary GreenStar scheme www.gbca.org.au
The Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council is a peak body supporting implementation of sustainable buildings and precincts www.asbec.asn.au
Solar Progress - Australian Solar Council Journal www.solar.org.au/solarpedia/solar-progress
Climate Spectator www.businessspectator.com.au/climate
RenewEconomy reneweconomy.com.au
The Fifth Estate www.thefifthestate.com.au/about
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There's a slew of good college football games across the Southeast this weekend. Here's where some of the state's top prospects will be:
– By Michael Carvell, AJC Recruiting Blog
Note: Inappropriate BLOG comments and personal attacks will NOT be tolerated. We love the lively discussions but hate-filled, harassing and irresponsible comments are unacceptable.
September 21st, 2012
12:11 am
Look at all the talent flocking to Tech!!!!!!!!!
September 21st, 2012
12:20 am
losing 2 gaining none, not what I would call a big recruiting weekend. UGA just being UGA lol…
September 21st, 2012
12:21 am
A Lotta Stylin & Profilin A Goin On this weekend!!!
GATA Dawgs…
September 21st, 2012
12:25 am
Smitty – Not so fast there… These kids are taking their "officials"… They are checking out the other places, enjoying the once in a lifetime recruiting process. But, eh…. You'd not know about that sortta thang, I am sure..
September 21st, 2012
12:49 am
Bulldawg Rick. I agree, these kids should take their officials. Thing is though, they should have taken them before they committed. I use to get pissed off every time Bama or any other school would pull their offer. I no longer feel that way. The way I see it, is if a commitment is visiting another school, he ain't really committed. Richt should feel no guilt what so ever if a better player offered to commit and he was to rescind his offer to the already so called, committed player. In other word's, if the kid is still visiting, then UGA is no longer obligated to honor their offer to him.
September 21st, 2012
12:50 am
I don't care which one we sign, as long as his name is Kelsey Griffin.
September 21st, 2012
12:55 am
Nothing more important in this article more than TRAY visiting Georgia game!
September 21st, 2012
1:18 am
T – I also agree with your perspective, but some kids do commit early (they seem to commit earlier & earlier every few years, or so it seems) and have a few official visits available to them. They go to other schools with their teammate or friend from another HS & enjoy the process. I hear ya on coaches might pull an offer if a committed recruit visits another school. But CMR is really above the table on that. FYI, these schollies are 1 year deals that are renewed yearly. Saban, Urine Myer, Lane Kitten and a few others will pull or resend a kids ride if he wants. CMR will not do that unless he dismisses the kid from the team. His motto is he signs the kid for a 4-year deal.. This might bite him in the butt, but he's the best at molding Boyz to Men & Tough Love.
Now all the haters or peeps that have no clue will pile on & say, "why does UGA players get into so much trouble? Yatta Yatta Yatta"… The drug use enforcement in the SEC is NOT on a level playing field… At UGA the first offense you lose PT… At like AU or Ole Miss it's the 4th time.. THis has been addressed in the past, I cannot remember all schools policies, but I believe Kentucky is the only other football program that docks a kid for a first offense, all the others are 2 – 4 times.. ANYWAY…..
Mountain – I have seen K Griffin play at Mill Creek.. He's a beast on the field & a good kid off & would be another great DL for the Dawgs
September 21st, 2012
4:12 am
Dang, no one is visiting GT………
September 21st, 2012
5:53 am
Still no ANTHONY JENNINGS visiting UGA? The kid's the best dual threat QB in America, grew up a DAWG fan, is a UGA legacy, and Richt and Booboo stand by and watch him go to LSU. This is soooo typical of those two. Commit the kid from Camden early, and then justify ignoring Jennings by saying "We're only taking one Quarterback." It doesn't matter what Anthony does on the field(And believe me, he's done plenty) Richt and Booboo have already decided. And they don't want to give Jennings the opportunity to compete against Ramsey. They already know what that gets 'em from the Elite 11 competition. This is so typical of UGA. The decision is not based on performance on the field. Y'all conveniently dicount what Anthony has done on the field this year.That doesn't count. It's based on Booboo's personal preference. And of course Richt, being the wimp that he is, goes along with it. And we all know the basis of "South Georgia Mike's" decision. If Jennings played in a Wing T offense and attempted 4 passes in his last game, Boobooo wouldn't come near him. But it's a different story with Ramsey ain't it. Typical disgusting "GEORGIA WAY" that has no place in college football today. 32 years. You deserve it.
September 21st, 2012
6:09 am
Tide roll let it go already, Brice Ramsey is the qb prospect for this class. Not taking anything from Jennings he may be a good player but he won't be a Uga player. The question I have for you is since you claim you are a "Bama" fan why do care so much about who Uga is or isn't recruiting? I know you don't have the balls to answer my question but at least your obsession for 300lb 18yr olds has calmed down. You need a girlfriend asap
September 21st, 2012
6:13 am
Am I mistaken or was CHANCE WARMACK named offensive lineman of the week? The kid attended WESTLAKE HIGH in Atlanta GEORGIA, his positon coach there was former UGA offensive lineman RESTY BEADLES, and Warmack ends up a 4-year starter for………ALABAMA! Do it Richt, do it Bobo, and DO IT DAWGS! He's projected as a top 10 draft pick which, in this day and time, is unheard of for an offensive guard. He'll go higher than the offensive tackle he played beside for 3 years. Seattle's 1st round draft pick JAMES CARPENTER from………Hepzibah GEORGIA! Together, those two GEORGIA athletes formed the left side of Bama's offensive line that led us to TWO NATIONAL TITLES! And Chance will probably get three! Thank you Richt. Thank you Booboo. And thank you DAWG NATION! It would be hilarious if it weren't so pitiful. 32 years. No damn wonder!
September 21st, 2012
6:15 am
Chatfield from Northside is not anywhere close to being a WR. He's a DL.
September 21st, 2012
6:30 am
Do it Dawgs. At least with Ramsey you DAWG fans finally have someone that Theus can beat in the 40. What a joke. The last time y'all won a National Title, Moby Dick was a minnow. and with Richt and Booboo driving the bus, along with your 5′11″ 260 lb. offensive center, don't look for things to change soon. Hell, y'all obviously don't care. It's all about the tailgate. "Mildred. Will Roy done slaughtered a pig for the Vandy game. We gone have ourselves a big time up there in Athens. Might even catch a glimpse of the future homecoming queen, Honeybooboo. You think she's any relation to Mike Booboo?"
September 21st, 2012
6:32 am
Saint Simons…….there is a seperate AJC article about players going to the GT game.
September 21st, 2012
6:51 am
TIDE ROLL, what is it to you, if you didn't care, you wouldn't be always in such a rant? Honeybooboo is the liberal media's way of denigrating the great state of Georgia, who by the way has many beautiful women. I sat beside a young "lady" from the great state of Alabama at a Braves game last year and thought she looked decent until she opened her mouth and saw her brown teeth and I accidently stepped on her spit cup.
September 21st, 2012
6:53 am
"Probably are related. Both from the same "neck of the woods" You want to win a National Title? Turn Jennings, hire his coach at Marietta, Scott Burton, as UGA's quarterback coach to allow him to continue to develop the kid ( the sky's the limit) and instruct Richt to fire Bobo (he's killing you).. If Richt won't do it, then fire him too. Move Chris Burnette to center,( before No. 61 gets someone killed!), groom Mike Thornton to play right guard,(he's another Chance Warmack), bench Theus (before he gets someone killed), replace him with the best young tackle in the SEC, Xzavier Ward, and go get your rings. Otherwise, it's more of the same. 9 wins, maybe 10, beat Indiana in a bowl game, and have Claude Felton try to spin it.
September 21st, 2012
7:11 am
Tide Troll.
Do you feel obligated to offer your opinions, to Coach Saban also. I bet they carry about as much weight and make as little sense as they do on here. Perhaps Auburn could you your vast knowledge to help them out.
September 21st, 2012
7:41 am
Alden Bynum from Valwood? What is Valwood?
September 21st, 2012
7:53 am
Why do you guys responded to that Techie Tide Roll? Tech does in fact have several important recruits on hand this weekend. Skolnick, Gilbert, Poindexter and Wormser will all be on the sidelines.
September 21st, 2012
8:07 am
Tide Roll
Richt and Bobo know they can't get Jennings and Ramsey but since they would prefer a pocket passer , Pro style offense Ramsey is more what they want. L.S.U or Georgia Tech uses Quarterback's like Jennings, someone who can run and pass. Jennings doesn't have half the arm Ramsey has.
I am surprised they ever sign Murray because he ran for nearly 1000 yards his senior year but when he got to Georgia they mainly use him to hand to Tailbacks or just pass the ball. You criticize Bobo and Richt for not wanting Jennings over Ramsey but it is just their preference. Ramsey is more like Stafford and if Bobo can develop him into a QB as good as Stafford Georgia will have a great leader as long as he stays at Georgia.
Quarterback's like Jennings are a dime or dozen. Some are great like Newton and Tebow but most can't play or stay healthy at the D1 level. Jennings is not a big man and may not may not be able to take the pounding he will get in the SEC.
September 21st, 2012
8:09 am
BullDawg Rick: good notes – get some sleep!
September 21st, 2012
8:22 am
Guys ignore Tide Roll!!!
This guy spews the same garbage for the past 7 months. It is obvious that his brian can't expand beyond that capacity. Consider the source and move on!
September 21st, 2012
8:29 am
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September 21st, 2012
8:31 am
You know Tide Roll is a Techie because he is obsessed with Georgia instead of Auburn
September 21st, 2012
8:33 am
Tide Roll you just will not listen, will you? I have advised you time and again that until you can develop your logical thinking skills, you should stay off these blogs. Here you are again, getting hammered by posters with more reasoning ability, and you deserve it.
September 21st, 2012
8:33 am
You mutts are going to start a fight aren't you? Who in the hell is that classless in the SEC?
That would be like starting one with Tech. In the history of the NCAA, who has had a feud
with Vanderbilt? You are a white trash classless bunch. The killer is, you will blame Vandy.
Then you will trash the campus.
September 21st, 2012
8:39 am
Tide Roll, keep up the good work you Bama man. Your wisdom has the mutts in a uproar.
You, by yourself have managed to tick off several of these mangy mutts.
September 21st, 2012
8:39 am
Your grades for this blog- F's as usual. Too much fictional writing in your posts, same old same old, and not doing a good job of posing as a Bama fan.
You should at least act disappointed that a talent such as Jennings passed on your "team" and went with their biggest divisional threat.
Your credentials for giving advice to Richt about football are just not there. As your tutor, my advice is to quit opening yourself up to ridicule on this board, and just read posts, not make them. You may eventually down the road make enough progress to venture into the blogging world, but you are far off right now. That is my professional opinion.
September 21st, 2012
8:45 am
Do you think Tide Roll is a Bama fan, and are you okay with him representing the Tide on this board?
Are you aware of the insulting remarks he made about Coach Saban, wherein he claimed that in 2010, Saban was late getting into the recruiting of Cam Newton since he assumed Cam was a lock to UGA, thus implying Nick was lazy and not up to date on a future Heisman winner's recruitment?
If you want to claim Tide Roll, welcome to him. Wonder how many Bama fans agree with that.
September 21st, 2012
8:48 am
Bug Howard? Best receiver in the state.
September 21st, 2012
8:55 am
Not sold on Jennings. Athletic QB with running skills. Thrown TDs against suspect teams.
I could handle Burnette at center…only if he can make the correct reads at the line. More beef!!
Thornton on oline…havent seen him play on offense, so no comment.
But gotta give Theus more time. He's done an okay job. Hopefully USCe doesnt line up Clowney on his side, cause it might spell trouble for the Dawgs.
September 21st, 2012
8:59 am
Thank you again Tide Roll's Tutor for breaking down all the gibberish for us. Your efforts are appreciated.
September 21st, 2012
8:59 am
You should all know by now that Tide Roll is a "closet" Techie. Too embarassed to post as a Tech fan since that would mean his team is even worse at recruiting the "type" of players he espouses. And besides, Tech sux, so there's that too.
September 21st, 2012
9:00 am
Only an idiot really believes that tide roll is actually a Bama fan
September 21st, 2012
9:02 am
Tide Roll and Whiskey Breath are the same GT troll. Jealous envy is not good for the soul.
September 21st, 2012
9:02 am
ignore the trolls people. GATA DAWGS!
September 21st, 2012
9:05 am
While Montravious Adams got all the hype, Bug Howard impressed the college scouts at last week's Dooly-Wilcox game.
September 21st, 2012
9:12 am
big Mike Thornton should be played some this year at NG…. but should be on the O Line next year at center or O Guard.. still has 2 years left .. Mike's a DGD !!
September 21st, 2012
9:15 am
Tide Roll must have a terrible home life.
September 21st, 2012
9:29 am
Somebody tell tide roll James Carpenter was in the NFL last season.
He was, however, a crucial contributor to our '09 Title.
……and, oh yeah, current Falcon Mike Johnson was our LG in '09 not Warmack.
Other than those small things, keep it up TR!!!
September 21st, 2012
9:34 am
What is Valwood? As in, Aulden Bynum from Valwood? Isn't Valwood where that gay guy in Lord of the Rings lived?
September 21st, 2012
9:37 am
Guys you are so right on here. Wiskey and Tide Roll are not Bama fans. Let's face it, for me if UGA has won 2 of the past 3 NC's I would not even be wasting my time being so enthrolled over another team by being on THEIR blogs each and every day ALL day.
A real Bama fan would not be bothered about other schools recruits and would only talk about the up coming games.
I'm telling you guys, JUST IGNORE THESE TWO TROLLS!
September 21st, 2012
9:38 am
For example – Big Crimson 75 you can tell is a Bama fan! I respect him.
September 21st, 2012
9:44 am
Tide Roll,
You are as stupid as you are ugly. It's private school in South Ga. I promise the 3rd graders in that school are smarter than you.
Talk about gay…. Isn't your real name Brian Dowling who sexually assaulted another man at Krystal's?
Typical Upkyke.
September 21st, 2012
9:48 am
Hey tide roll you heard of Jarvis Jones? Yesterday I read where he as the #1 player on the draft board!
September 21st, 2012
9:50 am
I am always worried what Tech fans like Tide Roll are going to do to themselves and others considering they know more about the UGA roster and who UGA recruits and doesn't recruit than most Dawg fans do!!! lol
September 21st, 2012
9:51 am
Everyone says TR is a techie, however upon further review…
The only techie he could be is the a$$ clown himself, WnE/Thomas Brown.
No tech blogger ever says a word about Anthony Jennings.
I think he's either a very disgruntled dog or an Aubie fan.
No Bama fan would ever flip the Rally Chant.
September 21st, 2012
9:54 am
"Not sold on Jennings" "Dogs prefer a pocket passer" "Jennings is not that big" This proves it. The whole Bulldog Nation is certfiable. Google "Anthony Jennings Marietta Quarterback", and watch his Jr. tape. Newnan's coach said after Jennings had over 350 yards offense against them two weeks ago, "IF THERE'S A BETTER QUARTERBACK THAN THIS KID IN THE STATE, WE DON'T WANT TO FACE HIM." He's 6′2″ 215lbs with a size 15 shoe.And he stayed in the pocket enough last week to complete 18 STRAIGHT passes. Despite all of this, I'm willing to bet that when Les Miles reads y'all's comments, he'll come off the kid. What a joke of a football program. What a joke of a fan base. 32 years and counting. What was it, 1980!? Moby Dick was a Minnow. Reagan defeats Carter. Jesse Owens wins the 100. Hitler was there watching. Damn people. You have every resource you need right here in the State of Georgia, yet, like Anthony Jennings and Cam Newton, you fools export it to your competition. Every one but UGA gets it. We're all praying Richt doesn't figure it out. Bobo has figured it out but fortunately for the rest of us, he wants no part of the players you have to have to get there, and the TAN MAN listens to the fool. So keep 'em coming our way UGA! We appreciate it.
September 21st, 2012
9:54 am
Hope Kelsey Griffin joins the Bulldog Nation this weekend…


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Many readers will be familiar with the following post. It appears from time to time. It appears first – so that I may remember it. It appears second that others may not forget it. Some days it weighs more heavily on me than others. I should learn to wear it more easily since it is the suit of clothes I wear without fail (even when I think otherwise). May God have mercy on us all.
I am an ignorant man, despite posting writings on all kinds of things. But make no mistake – I am an ignorant man. Thus, I would always counsel any reader to remember, these are the writings of an ignorant man.
Why would I say this? Because it is true. How am I ignorant? I am as most of us are – I do not see the world clearly for what it is. I do not see other people clearly for what they are. I do not see myself clearly for what I am. And most importantly, I do not see God for Who He Is.
Ignorance cannot be an excuse. It should be an impetus to seek, to ask, to knock. If we do not know God we will perish – this is absolutely true. And ignorance in other matters brings its own perishing as well.
I don't think I have always thought I was ignorant – indeed, I know I did not always think this. But as years have gone on, either I've become more ignorant, or I've become more aware of how ignorant I truly am. What do any of us actually know of another human being? The Scriptures tell us that our true life is hid with Christ in God (Colossians), thus the truth of any person is a mystery. And I know almost nothing of this mystery – not only towards myself but also and especially towards those around me. How do I know what another man needs? I do not know. God knows.
What do any of us actually know of God? I believe we only know of God what has been revealed to us in Christ. And just reading the revelation is a world away from actually knowing and "having" the revelation. That comes very slowly indeed.
The Elder Sophrony wrote that such revelations come in something like a "flash of lightning, when the heart is burning with love." These relatively rare experiences accumulate over a lifetime:
The accumulation in the experience of the Church of such 'moments' of enlightenment has led organically to their reduction into one whole. This is how the first attempt at the systemization of a live theology came about, the work of St. John of Damascus, a man rich, too, in personal experience. The disruption of this wondrous ascent to God in the unfathomable wealth of higher intellection is brought about, where there is a decline of personal experience, by a tendency to submit the gifts of Revelation to the critical faculty of our reason – by a leaning towards 'philosophy of religion.' The consequences are scholastic accounts of theology in which, again, there is more philosophy than Spirit of life. (From his work On Prayer).
I ask those of you who read this blog to remember that I am an ignorant man and to pray for me, if you remember to. I pray for you all.
A Romanian version of this article can be found here.
A French translation can be found here.
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Thank you for this blog and the reminder that we are the darkness that the Light has come to illumine
I have not seen this post before and thank you for posting it. How little we all truly know! Just when I begin to think I understand, I get confused again. I take instruction and illumination where I can find it, but in general I find that I spend my life in far greater trust than in knowledge.
Of course, I will remember to pray for you — and for all priests, who give us parishioners so much, regardless of the state of their ignorance.
Along with the blind man Bartimeus I cry out "Lord, open my eyes that I might see!"
I was thinking of BarTimeus as well as I read this post. I am new to your blog, so I thank you for posting this again and for the reminder that I too am more ignorant than I am often willing to admit.
Thanks again and God bless!
Fr Stephen bless,
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I had a real dream once a few years ago. I saw a little boy, perhaps aged 3 years, asleep in his bed. His father came in to the room late at night and knelt down beside the bed, touched the little boys head, and whispered something.
I was given to understand that the little boy never actually got to see his father. The father worked during the day and only came home after the boy went to bed and left to work again early in the morning. He learned about his father from his loving mother, of course, and from pictures and from stories told him by his older sister. But the little boy didn't get to see his father for himself. Not yet. He had met him only in his dreams.
I know that I am not only an ignorant man, but, also a little boy asleep in his bed. I mostly know my Father as in a dream.
father, i am new to your sight also. thank you for doing this blog. with all the "junk" on the internet, it is uplifting to read your thoughts! my father use to say with a laugh that children started up "fools hill" when they were around 13. he said they knew everything until sometime in their 20's when they finally started down "fools hill" and realized how much their parents knew. i am now ,in middle age, feeling the same way about myself and how little i really know!! i use to think i was really SOMETHING!!
Fr., bless,
The more I read of your writing, the less I know. Perhaps if you keep writing, and I keep reading, by God's grace, we will both someday know nothing!
Trying to pray, and asking for your prayers,
Perhaps we should create the Saint Sergeant Schultz club: "I know nothing!"
LOL, Fr. Stephen. I'm already an honorary member of that club!
I think the beloved Apostle Paul encouraged us "in humility count others better than yourself" because it is our tendency to think more highly of ourselves. "We are but dust" the Scriptures say, which is a humbling thought.
Father, although you think of yourself as an ignorant man, there is much I have learned from you as regards Orthodoxy. Father Nicholas, the priest at the parish I attend, considers your blog one of the few reliable places to on the Internet to learn about Orthodoxy. Keep posting.
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Melany A. Pearl, originally from Kansas City, Missouri, began her service at Liberty University in 1996 as office coordinator for the Center for Multicultural Enrichment. In 1998, she was promoted to her current position, director.
Pearl is an alumnus of Liberty where she received a Bachelor of Science in Business and Master of Arts in Human Relations. She has served the university in several volunteer capacities including; administrative advisor of national honor society Alpha Lambda Delta, sub-committee chair on the NCAA self-study, SACS committee member, mentor with the Campus Pastors' Office, and member of the Multicultural Advisory Board.
The director is actively involved with various civic organizations. She currently serves as on the board of directors for both the Martin Luther King/Lynchburg Community Council and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Virginia and was on the inaugural steering committee members for the Lynchburg's Community Dialogue on Race & Racism.
Pearl's professional memberships include; National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Virginia Association of Student Personnel Administrators, American Association of Christian Counselors, and Association for Christians in Student Development.
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Anthony F. Lopez is originally from Queens and Long Island, NY. He is a first generation Latino-American of Guatemalan descent. Throughout his life, Anthony recalls witnessing and hearing about his parents' struggles as immigrants, and how those experiences helped him to develop his character and a grand appreciation of foreigners, different ethnicities and cultures. At Liberty University, this concept was only reinforced.
The first in his family to attend college, he holds a Master's degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a Master's degree in Religion with a concentration in Apologetics and Theology from Liberty University's Seminary. The first undergraduate college he attended was an HBCU, later a community college, and a State University.
Anthony has worked as a Mental Health Counselor for four years and volunteers as Junior High School minister at a local church. As Associate Director of LEAD Fellowship, Anthony believes in unity within diversity. Here he points to Revelations 7:9 and Jesus' prayer to the Father for unity in John 11.
David Grayson Shinkle was born and raised in Winchester, Virginia. He is of German, Jewish and Native American decent. Having been born with a cleft lip and palate facial deformity and twenty-four subsequent corrective surgeries, David has had the precious opportunity to face many trials and overcome these trials through God's strength.
David is a Liberty University Alumni, having received his bachelors in Visual Communication Arts. He is the former Executive Chief of staff of TrueLife.org ministries and works as both a marketing specialist and Office Manager for the Center for Multicultural Enrichment.
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She graduated from Clearwater Christian College located in Florida in December 2012 with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Bible. Desiring to pursue higher education, Cassandra moved to Lynchburg and is currently working on her Master's degree in Professional Counseling while working as the event coordinator for the Center4ME. She wants to get her license in Professional Counseling to counsel children and adolescents who need guidance and help in life.
Grace Yasa Guo was born in China as a fourth generation Christian. She is thankful that God sent Hudson Taylor's team to inland China and spread the gospel light to her great grandfather. Grace grew up in the cosmopolitan and coastal city of Guangzhou in China, where her mother taught English at the international school she attended. After high school, the Lord led her to Eucon International College on Saipan, an American island in the middle of the Pacific, for her B.S. degree in Education. Overseas, she served as a bilingual reporter. She also competed in diverse oratory and piano competitions both at home and abroad. In her spare time, Grace enjoys being a concert pianist. She is grateful that God has providentially led her to Liberty University for her M.A. degree in Strategic Communications. She is zealous for God and prays to live a God-glorifying life while serving at the Center for Multicultural Enrichment.


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Two prolific bloggers have weighed in on our discussion of interpreter training didactics sharing their own experience as interpreting students and teachers. In Elisabet we have found another champion of a more modular approach in order to practice specific sub-skills or certain interpreting situations such as exams. In her post she points out, however, that most interpreting courses lack the funding to provide a more diverse curriculum with enough teaching time, a lower student-staff ratio and good connections to outside experts. Jana, on the other hand, cautions against giving students too much time in the comfort zone as the freelance interpreting market will not cut them any slack either. On that note, I would like to get closer to the core of this fuzzy term 'comfort zone' by introducing the distinction between educational discomfort and personal discomfort.
By educational discomfort I simply mean the frustration when struggling to master a new skill. It cannot be helped and is part of any learning process. I am sure many will agree that this particularly applies to learning simultaneous interpreting. As much as you might practice shadowing and sight translation beforehand, you will never quite be ready to tackle your first few weeks of actually practicing in the booth without feeling some measure of frustration.
However, after a while our neurons will ideally have aligned to the demands of their new task(s) and we will gradually become more comfortable while interpreting. I think it is this easing of educational discomfort that Brian Fox warned us about in his speech at the DG Interpretation – Universities Conference back in March. He described his experience of teaching students as a very comfortable routine. He would always read the speeches the same way, the students would always sit in the same booths, they would always discuss their performances following the same pattern and so on. It is this comfort zone, this protective bubble he asked us to leave constantly stimulating our neurons with new challenges in order to prepare ourselves better for EU accreditation exams and, as Jana has pointed out, indeed for the demands of our professional practice in general. As a case in point, Andreas' recent post about his first assignment perfectly illustrates the fact that interpreting in the real world is fundamentally different from interpreting in your final exams.
I completely agree that we should embrace educational discomfort as a sign of our gradually improving interpreting skills. We should leave the comfort of our cosy classroom routine more often. However, this should not come at the cost of the underlying positive and reinforcing atmosphere in class. Educational discomfort should not be confused with personal discomfort. Nor should the need for the former serve as an excuse for creating the latter.
I was rather taken aback by one particular comment during the Q&A after the second day of the DG Interpretation – Universities Conference. One head of department mentioned Brian Fox' call to chase students out of their comfort zone as vindication of the austere classroom regime their department was traditionally notorious for. Judging by the amusement this comment caused in the other participants I am sure it must have been an ironic jibe. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to make sure we all agree that interpreting class need not be living hell.
As Elisabet has pointed out, interpreter training is traditionally tough. The question is to what extent this image has emerged because of the inevitable educational discomfort and to what extent because of an excess of personal discomfort: The fear of failure, feelings of inferiority, humiliation.
I think we can all agree and might even have experience ourselves that if not properly managed educational discomfort can lead to personal discomfort. Equally undisputed, I think, is the fact that personal discomfort is a huge obstacle to progress in any interpreter's training. In my view, the resources to manage educational discomfort and to avoid excessive personal discomfort can be found in the people involved in interpreting class themselves, students and teachers alike, and in their relationships to each other. Students can be brought to explicitly reflect on their educational discomfort learning to appreciate it as a sign of a healthy learning process. Together, teachers and students can create a reinforcing classroom culture that values mutual support over competitiveness. In the psychology of the interpreting classroom trust is not an abstract concept but can be systematically built and put to use in order to boost progress in learning.
I am not only hypothesising here. During my own training I have seen these resources tapped into, though more often instinctively than strategically, and yet it made all the difference. However, I have so far not found any research to back my ideas. My guess is that the concepts I have touched upon are well established in educational psychology and didactics but have never been specifically discussed in how they apply to interpreter training. For the time being, I would submit that properly harnessing the dynamics of interpreting classroom psychology considerably reduces personal discomfort in interpreting students thus helping them develop their skills faster and more thoroughly.
by J. Mermod
The time has finally come. The time of my graduation exams.
After two and a half years of study and 8 weeks of intense preparation I am ready to get past the last hurdle and leave uni behind me. I guess most of our readers passed their exams quite some time ago and may not recall the horror and nervous break-downs one goes through. Lucky you!
There is just one thing I want to ask you, dear readers: there is vast literature on how to test one's aptitude for conference interpreting, from entry exams to interviews to psychological exams (remember the #IntJC on MBTI?) - how come there is hardly any literature and/or research on how to test a students' abilities in their graduation exams? Do we just assume, that all universities and exam jurors apply the same standards (I daresay the don't)?
There is research on the evaluation criteria of an interpreting performance, yes. But there is still no consensus yet. In the aiic Workload Study the performance of several interpreters gets evaluated as follows: Each interpretation was evaluated by two jurors, professional interpreters having the same languages as the interpreter. The parameters evaluated were: error rate, omission rate, addition rate, grammatical mistakes, word choice, phrasing and delivery. (source). I can actually see the two jurors before my inner eye trying to listen to the original and the interpreted output, while following the printed manuscript with a red marker, wildly crossing out omissions, circling errors and noting odd word choices. I find listening to two speeches in different languages, reading, writing simultaneously and keeping track of the actual meaning a piece of cake. Especially judging the quality of the delivery in terms of intonation, breathing and prosody is extremely easy.
So, in order to harmonize the evaluation criteria in graduation exams in the academic landscape in Europe the AIIC promoted in cooperation with the EU the installation of the EMCI, European Masters in Conference Interpreting. Since, compared to other professions, "conference interpreter" as occupational title does not enjoy legal protection (at least not in Germany) I really appreciate all efforts aiming at a harmonization. But even the EMCI website states as evaluation criteria "[…] the mastery of their target language(s), comprehension of their source language(s) and on their interpreting skills […]. They must demonstrate sufficient competence to be able to join a team of professional conference interpreters." It could hardly get any more vague.
(Addition: there is of course a catalogue of more precise criteria)
The AIIC has some further proposals on what is important in graduation exams assembled in its "Best Practices" overview. We learn: it is also important who is assessing the student. It should (of course) be someone experienced in the profession itself. And: "Candidates should understand the assessment criteria.".
If the assessment criteria is "sufficient competence", then yes, I understand the criteria. And I understand that they lack transparency.
A couple of months ago the German TRANSFORUM society held a meeting in Heidelberg, where Sylvia Kalina explained her new research results on the evaluation of interpreting performances. Her main argument is that the quality of a performance can't just be assessed on the basis of the amount of errors and omissions the interpreter made (the so-called Bühler parameters from 1986). One should also take other factors into consideration. Kalina describes them in her highly recommended article in trans-kom (unfortunately in German). Have a look at the last few pages for a checklist! Kalina's criteria (or what she calls parameters) are subsumed under the "process model", which distinguishes pre-, peri-, in- and post-process criteria. They all need to be considered when evaluating someone's performance.
All I can say is that I am a big fan of this model. Particularly, because it is the only model that goes beyond the actual performance on site, but takes into account the preparation time, how accustomed one is to the topic, the public speaking skills of the speaker and so on.
If graduation exam assessors were to use the process model for their judgement, it would 1) be far more transparent and 2) could lead to a true harmonization of interpreting courses worldwide.
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by J. Mermod
Have you ever heard of Poetry Slam? Matt and I are huge fans of so-called Slam Poetry, a form of art where several poets enter the stage and recite a self-written piece of literature, a poem or a short story. This may sound boring at first, but the clue is that this is a competition (a slam). The poets have to stick to certain rules (e.g. no singing) and are given a time limit. Their performance is then judged by the audience (by the means of applause) and the best poets get to the final, where they again battle each other. Their performances, as diverse and different in mood and format they may be, all have something in common: they are built on the mastery of language, on the witty and smart usage of words, homophones and metaphers, on - the pure joy of words and language.
The poetry slam craze kicked in in 2007 in the German-speaking area of Europe, according to Google Trends, even though it has been practiced since the 90ies. A German Championship is carried out since 2003, and you can see the latest finalists on ARTE tv.
And here comes the connection to interpreting: there are not just monolingual, but also bi- and even trilingual slamming events! Have a look a this German-French bilingual Poetry Slam event organized by ARTE tv. The two artists seemingly have to communicate in English! Now this is Europe… languages intermezzo.
If you were asked to interpret at such an event - would you do it? Which leads to the question: is poetry interpretable?
Chernov says no. Quote:
(…) simultaneous interpretation of poetry is impossible because of the very low level of objective redundancy in poetic language. Even SI of prose is barely possible if the stlye is literary. (Chernov 1994:95)
I think we all agree that this also applies to consecutive interpreting, especially given the speed of the presentation and the inevitable loss of the mood.
So all we can do is to sit back and enjoy. ;-)
16th DG Interpretation - Universities Conference
"Tradition & Innovation"
15. - 16. March 2012, Brussels
Day 1 twitter transcript @ chirpstory
Day 2 twitter transcript @ chirpstory
(big thanks to Glendon Translation, Barry S. Olsen, MIC-ULL, Clara Guelbenzu, Esther Navarro-Hall for the coverage!)
Webcast available in English, German and French
DAY 1 : Thursday 15 March 2012
13.30 Registration of participants
14.30 Welcome :
- Claude Durand, Head of Multilingualism and Interpreter Training
Support Unit
14.45 Opening address :
- Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner responsible for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
15.00 Statement :
- Marco Benedetti, Director General, DG Interpretation
15.15 Contributions :
- Olga Cosmidou, Director General Interpretation, European Parliament
- Patrick Twidle, Director Interpretation, Court of Justice
15.45 The impact of technological advances on teaching conference
- Andrew Gillies, ISIT Paris
16.15 Coffee break
16.45 ORCIT project with Lithuania
- Sophie Llewellyn Smith, University of Leeds;
- Dalia Mankauskiene, University of Vilnius
17.15 Discussion and Q & A
DAY 2 : Friday 16 March 2012
09.30 Remote Interpreting – The Council experience
- Hilde Vereycken, Deputy Head of Programming of Interpretation Unit
- Marc Berthiaume, DG Interpretation
10.15 Trends in interpreting
- Brian Fox, Director Provision of Interpretation
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 The Leopoldo Costa Prize 2012
11.45 SCIC and Social Media – Status report
- Ian Andersen, External Communications Adviser
12.15 Final discussion and close of proceedings
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