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In Praise of Folly: J. Rodolfo Wilcock's The Temple of Iconoclasts
In the customary and deeply-rooted division of Italian writers into those from the north and those from the south, the iconoclastic writer Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (1919-1978) might best count as one from the west. Wilcock is that rare figure who led two literary careers in two different languages, the first in Buenos Aires as a member of the group that included Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo; then second, after fleeing the Perón dictatorship, in and around Rome where he wrote exclusively in Italian and moved within the eminent circle that included Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, and Pier Paolo Pasolini (the screenshot above shows Wilcock playing Caiaphas in Pasolini's film The Gospel According to St. Matthew). Thus the timely republication of Wilcock's 1977 book, The Temple of Iconoclasts (Sinagoga degli iconoclasti), makes for an ideal bridge between my current explorations of Italian literature and the annual Caravana de Recuerdos "Argentine Literature of Doom" reading event. Though I'd been curious to read the book after learning of it in an interview with translator Lawrence Venuti years ago, it had proven maddeningly impossible to find. I now know why. Venuti, in a new preface, explains that all but some 500 copies of the original edition of his translation were accidentally pulped.
In this new edition, Venuti expands on Wilcock's improbable life. I won't repeat the details (far richer than Wilcock's current Wikipedia entry), but suffice to say that Venuti's choice to title his preface simply "J. Rudolfo Wilcock," thus appearing to slot the writer democratically among the 35 names that follow it in the table of contents, is an apt and clever one. The Temple of Iconoclasts consists of brief fictional and semi-fictional biographies, from 5 lines to 25 pages, of equally improbable inventors, metaphysicians, biologists, artists, sociologists, clerics, anthropologists, engineers, chemists, and others who, despite day jobs ranging from clockmaker to gravedigger, pursued fantastic theories, created unusual inventions, or simply asserted their existence in some idiosyncratic way. In Wilcock's melding of fact, fiction and whimsicality, he subversively lances intellectual pretense and arrogance. His pieces inhabit that murky zone between human intellectual endeavor and madness, a line further muddied by Wilcock's tossing in actual persons whose names pop into these sketches from time to time, including Thomas Edison, Antoine van Leeuwenhoek, Wilhelm Reich, and even Wilcock's own great-grandfather.
Nearly all of Wilcock's brainiacs also write. If only as a source for additions to The Invisible Library, The Temple of Iconoclasts would still provide abundant amusement. There's hack vulcanologist's Klaus Nachtknecht's The Salubrious Magma; philosopher Absalon Amet and his wife Plaisance's Select Thoughts and Words from the Universal Mechanical Philosophy; Antonine Amédée Bélouin's The Bélouin Network: Initial Project for an Underwater Railroad;" Franz Piet Vredjuik's Universal Sin, or A Discourse on the Identity between Sound and Light; and Aaron Rosenblum's beguiling utopian failure, Back to Happiness, or Joyride to Hell, proposing a return to the purportedly rosiest period of human history, identified by Rosenblum as England under the reign of Elizabeth 1. Like César Aira's Dr. Aira, with his proliferating screens aimed at excluding everything in the universe incompatible with his miracle cures, Rosenblum attempts to subtract from the present everything incompatible with life in the year 1580. The narrator's extensive list of the glories and afflictions lost and regained through this mercifully unrealized project is both one of the book's highlights and an almost irremediable skewering of utopian thought.
In another sketch, Jules Flamart, a lexicologist bored with the typical dictionary, creates a dictionary-novel, La Langue en action, which pairs each word with a narrative connection to the next word. Wilcock creates three entire pages of excerpts that had me wishing he'd gone on to complete the entire 850 page work. This is one of several texts Wilcock creates for his "iconoclasts." The longest of these, in a piece on radical theater director Llorenz Riber, includes four theater reviews and an entire three-act screenplay, all of which reveal that a neurotic obsession with rabbits, born in Riber's childhood, has burrowed its way into everything the director has created, including adaptations of Sartre's No Exit and a Georges Feydeau-inspired, everyone-in-the-closet farce in which Riber has replaced the main characters' family names with those of Nazi concentration camps. The cringe-worthy critical assessments of Riber's productions, worth the price of the book by themselves, are so are gloriously over the top that they could scare off anyone from creative or critical effort, yet simultaneously create an almost desperate desire to see Riber's pieces produced on stage (or at the very least, some of Wilcock's own criticism translated into English). Wilcock's prodigious imagination is perhaps most amply revealed in a lengthy list of inventions created by Jesús Pica Planas, which echoes Kenji Kawakami's useless Japanese inventions, and each item of which might well have served as a seed for helping populate an additional volume of Wilcock's eccentrics.
The Temple of Iconoclasts is strikingly reminiscent of the weird, wild stories of Wilcock's fellow Argentinian, Leopoldo Lugones, an evident influence even to the point of some of Wilcock's examples seeming to riff on Lugones' own extravagant conceits (Roger Babson's nutty experiments with gravity, for instance, or John O. Kinnaman's unsuccessful attempt to locate Lot's wife in mounds of salt near ancient Sodom). In some sketches, the patient and detailed elaboration of Wilcock's creations echoes those of Raymond Roussel. Venuti also notes as a precursor to The Temple of Iconoclasts Marcel Schwob's Imaginary Lives, and as a descendent Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas. Bolaño acknowledged Wilcock's book as the key influence on his own, and the handful of references to Nazism in The Temple of Iconoclasts seems even to provide the thematic spark for Bolaño's homage. But Wilcock's language possesses a density and expressiveness (no knock on Venuti, but one can scarcely imagine how delightful this book must sound in the original Italian); an affection for his subjects; and above all a fat streak of hilarity that rivals and even surpasses those of these other writers. This is one funny book, filled with glacial understatement, pointed one-liners, and a wit that ranges from tender to withering. Given Wilcock's great funds of whimsy and waggery, his work also calls to mind Los Angeles artist David Wilson's enchanting and stupefying Museum of Jurassic Technology, where the visitor is seduced by what appears to be a natural science museum until he or she pauses to reflect on the exhibits on display, which, in a moment of epiphany like a quick intake of nitrous oxide, produce a giddy euphoria. To read Wilcock's book is to enter the paradise of both the mad dreamer and the wry skeptic, to marvel at the varieties of the human pursuit of knowledge, to feel chastened and humbled in one's most insignificant mental efforts, and to have an exceedingly good time.
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JacquiWine October 11, 2015 at 12:30 AM
Fascinating stuff, Scott. I love the sound of Flamart's dictionary-novel! Could you quote one or two examples from that section, just to give a feel for it? I agree, there could be a whole book in that idea alone.
seraillon October 12, 2015 at 10:15 AM
Some of the cumulative effect of the whole passage is missing here, but here's an excerpt:
enfouir: TO BURY; TO STASH. When Géraldine opened her eyes again, she protested, not without irony: "But where have you enfoui it?"
enfoucher: TO STICK WITH A PITCHFORK; TO PIERCE. "You should rather say enfourchi," explained the subprefect's secretary between mouthfuls of baba au rhum.
enfouchure: CROTCH. "Alastair, grab him by the enfourchure and try to pull him back," implored Fauban.
enfourner: TO PUT IN THE OVEN; TO SET ABOUT. "Not for nothing do they call him the enfourner," added the phony nun with an air of authority.
enfreindre: TO SHATTER; TO VIOLATE. "Do you like Benjamin Brittan? Asked Ben Saïd, suddenly enfreignant the respectful silence.
enfroquer: TO PUT ON A MONK'S COWL; TO MASQUERADE AS A MONK. Beyond the door a chilling voice could be heard shouting "Enfroquez him!"
enfuir (s'): TO FLEE; TO ESCAPE; TO LEAK OUT. Géraldine parted her knees and let him s'enfuir.
JacquiWine October 14, 2015 at 3:31 AM
Delightful! I can see what you mean about the cumulative effect. The reference to baba au rhum caught my eye - that's a blast from the past.
Brian Joseph October 12, 2015 at 6:03 AM
Wilcock sounds like a writer who I would really like. His works as you describe them sound marvelously creative.
Off the top of my head I cannot think of other writers who wrote works of merit in more then one language.
Nabokov and Beckett are two that immediately come to mind, but I imagine that such bi-lingual writing is relatively rare.
Amateur Reader (Tom) October 12, 2015 at 6:57 AM
If I forget to mention this post when I writer about Lugones later this week, please remind me. What other literary tradition has so many mad scientists?
I'm much looking forward to your observations on Lugones. One does wonder where that mad scientist germ originated in Argentina, and if Aira is any indication, it's still spreading.
LMR October 13, 2015 at 4:18 AM
This sounds like a good book to read in Italian for a bit of practice.
seraillon October 15, 2015 at 9:21 PM
I imagine it would be an absolute hoot in Italian, if one knew Italian [*sigh*]
Belated thanks for a great post on a fun book that has yet to be given its due in the English-speaking world. Wilcock is often hilarious as you so rightly say here, Scott, but please check out this post on "Llorenç Riber" here to see one of the funnier Argentinean/Italian examples of art imitating life or vice versa: http://caravanaderecuerdos.blogspot.com/2011/09/llorenc-riber.html (sorry to shill for my own writing on Wilcock, but that anecdote about him I came across still cracks me up years later). P.S. You and Tom have made this a splendid week for the Argentinean Literature of Doom!
Richard - Thanks so much for referring me to your post. I saw that you'd written a bit about Wilcock in another post, but somehow missed this one, which has more of the enthusiasm I'd expected and is indeed a terrific story of life imitating art imitating life. I can add a further twist: there was really was a Llorenç Riber, an early-mid 20th century poet from Mallorca, though I've no idea why Wilcock may have chosen his name for his maestro of lapine theater. In any case, I could not agree more that this particular piece in Wilcock's collection (especially the four critical reviews) is incredibly funny - really one of the funniest things I can remember reading in a very long time. A line from it has been popping into my head all week and making me cackle, even in the most inappropriate settings.
Rise October 18, 2015 at 7:24 AM
This has been on the radar for a long time now. Loved the spirit behind this book. To sustain the idea and humor for many pages is a feat indeed.
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An order will be put before the House of Assembly for a Commission of Inquiry into "serious allegations of extortion" made against three members of the One Bermuda Alliance who were then sitting government ministers.
The notice was given yesterday morning in Parliament by Opposition MP Wayne Furbert.
Mr Furbert told the House the special commission, which would probe claims against Craig Cannonier, Senator Michael Fahy and Mark Pettingill, would consist of a minimum of three individuals "chosen from outside these aisles".
On Sunday evening, Michael Dunkley accused the Progressive Labour Party leadership of self-serving political motives and a sustained programme of disinformation over the issue.
Responding in a statement yesterday, Mr Furbert said: "The response by Premier Dunkley is proof positive that he was only paying lip service to elevating the level of political discourse in this country.
"The PLP believes that getting to the bottom of serious corruption allegations and protecting the reputation of our island home is more important than political point scoring.
"We offered the One Bermuda Alliance the opportunity to come together with us and unite against corruption for a Bermuda that's reputation is as pristine as her people.
"Instead of coming together, the Premier responded with anger and vitriol.
"The Premier's latest tirade may play well with his political base, but is it in the best interest of the country? We think not.
"We urge the OBA to do the right thing, place the country first and come together with us and let's address these serious corruption allegations."
Wayne Furbert, the PLP MP
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We just love spending a weekend afternoon exploring different markets in search of ingredients for dinner. This weekend our first stop was the San Francisco Herb Company, a small little shop in the Mission that sells all sorts of herbs at wholesale prices. Our basket was stuffed with a variety of 8-16 oz bags plus a small tube of saffron, and the best part was we only spent 30 bucks!
Next, we headed to the mexican markets for veggies, the seafood market for fresh fish, and finally the liquor store for Pernod, all of which was needed for our dish. Pernod is an anise-favored liqueur from France, often sipped mixed with water as an aperitif. With all of our ingredients on hand, we couldn't wait to make this Adam Ried recipe, from our Williams-Sonoma New Flavors for Soups cookbook.
For our fish we used sea bass, and for the aioli, we cut the oil down to a tablespoon, and used approx. 2 tablespoons of nutritional yeast as a thickener, and pureed the ingredients together.
With tender chunks of succulent fish swimming in a wonderful blend of slightly sweet, citrusy and aromatic flavors – this dish was absolutely exquisite, and tasted like it came from a fine dining restaurant. And the aioli-topped croutons were the perfect compliment for sopping up that oh so tasty broth. If you are craving a light and robust seafood stew, you'll love this dish!


A MODERATE avalanche danger remains in the Alpine where triggering an old wind slab or a deeper hard slab 2+' thick is possible on steep wind loaded slopes that haven't avalanched. At Treeline and below there is LOW avalanche danger, where triggering an avalanche is unlikely, but not impossible.
In the periphery zones of Girdwood, Johnson Pass and Summit Lake a shallower snowpack exists and it may be easier to trigger a slab avalanche in these areas. Check out the Summit Lake Summary HERE.
*** If heading to Hatcher this weekend - unstable conditions exist - check the Hatcher Pass advisory HERE! Mark your calendars for the FREE rescue workshop at Hatcher Pass on January 14th. More info HERE.
A big shout out to Alaska Mining and Diving (AMDS) for their generous support to F-CNFAIC with a 2017 Ski Doo Summit SP 850 loaner sled for the season. Its this kind of community support that allows us to access more terrain and provide better information for our advisories. Graham Predeger braving subzero temps and putting some miles in yesterday after the official key hand-off. LUCKY FOR YOU! It's PFD time. You too can support your local avalanche center by becoming a member. Pick Click Give, makes it really easy!
TODAY, January 8th at 5:30 pm, Kenai Peninsula Avalanche Information Workshop at the Flats Bistro. Hope to see you there! More info HERE.
Tuesday January 10th, Discussion on Backcountry RESCUE presented by team members of the U.S. Air Force 212th Rescue Squadron (RQS/PJ's) and Alaska Mountain Rescue Group (AMRG). Details HERE!
Thursday January 12th, 6:30pm, a CNFAIC forecaster will give a basic awareness talk and discussion on the current snowpack in Turnagain Pass at Alaska Avalanche School, Details HERE.
This weekend if choosing to travel in avalanche terrain it is important to remember although the snowpack is wind hardened and tired, it does have a poor structure. There are a variety of weak layers (buried surface hoar and facets) in the middle of the pack as well as near the bottom (facets). The slab on these weak layers is quite variable and hard - and though difficult to trigger, the possibility does exist. Today temperatures in the Alpine will be above freezing due to a strong inversion in our region. Ridgetops may approach 40F today. Luckily radiation from the sun is minimal at this time of year, and surface warming is expected to be subtle. Whenever temperature rise above freezing more uncertainty exists. Should the surface snow show signs of melting today it may be easier to trigger a persistent slab. This structure is most suspect on steep wind loaded slopes (Northern and Eastern) that haven't avalanched yet. Likely trigger spots are in thinner areas near rocks. Luckily many slopes have avalanche and old debris is still very visible and is a good way to know if a slope has avalanched or not. Watch for areas with hard over soft snow and hollow sounding snow. Avoid cornices, wind pillowed snow in start zones and loaded areas farther down slope (from the strong winds). Obvious signs like cracking and 'whumpfing' may not be early warning signs.
Heavier loads, such as multiple snowmachines or people on the slope at one time might tip the balance. Safe travel protocol is your friend. Remember to only expose one person at a time, watch your partners, have an escape route planned, group up in safe zones and pay attention to other groups around you.
In the periphery areas (Girdwood, Johnson/Lynx Creek and Summit Lake) where a thinner snowpack exists, several observers have experienced collapsing/whumpfing recently which indicates the potential for these persistent slab avalanches may be higher. Heighten caution is advised if traveling out of the core Turnagain Pass terrain.
Believe it or not, 3 glide avalanches have occurred last week in the Turnagain Pass zone. The first to release was on the SE aspect of Lynx Creek, followed by the SE aspect of Seattle Creek, and the SW face of Eddies. These released near the end of a 3-day inversion when temperatures in the alpine remained above freezing for multiple days. The problem with glides is that they release without warning and are not associated with human triggers. They have been known to release when temperatures are above freezing, as well as when temperatures suddenly drop. Basically glides are very unpredictable and it is best avoid being direcly below one and limit your time in run-out zones.
A glide avalanche on the SW face of Eddies released sometime between January 3rd and January 4th. Indentify existing cracks, as there are a handful that are opening up in our region.
Yesterday was cold and clear! Below 1000' temperatures averaged around 0F with pockets of -10F in many valley bottoms. An inversion allowed ridgetop temps to slowly rise throughout the day from 5F to 30F by early evening. Skies were clear with light North winds. No precipitation has been recorded since December 29th.
Clear skies and sun is expected again today along with a strong temperatures inversion that will cause valley fog in many areas of Southcentral Alaska. Temperatures could be as low as 5F near valley bottoms and approaching 40F near ridgetops. Northerly winds are forecasted to be light, 5-15mph near ridgetops.
A blocking high pressure is expected to dominate our region into the near and distant future. Expect a similar pattern over the next few days with a strong inversion, light winds, and no precipitation.


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Welcome to the in-season edition of Bucs Briefing! My weekly column will appear each Wednesday morning, typically detailing seven key observations from the team's most recent game. We'll look at tape, scheme and major storylines as we get ready to close the door on one game, and open the door on the next. Enjoy!
First, I'm not sure this question really matters. All three Tampa Bay wide receivers are going to play a lot, and all three wide receivers are different. But it's amazing to think that Brown, at 33 years old, could still be the best wide receiver on a team with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. Despite missing a game, Brown is on pace for 60 catches, 1,105 yards and 10 touchdowns. Did I mention he's only played 43 percent of the team's offensive snaps this season?
Some have credited Tom Brady's amazing chemistry with Brown, but I think that part is overstated. Yes, the two have a great connection, but Brady has that with nearly everyone he's ever played with. And Brown has had it with every quarterback he's ever caught passes from. With a timing and detail-based quarterback like Brady, Brown has thrived due to this technique and cerebral prowess. And when Ben Roethlisberger wanted to create more out of structure, Brown excelled there as well. He might be the best scramble drill wide receiver of all-time.
Heck, even with Blaine Gabbert in the game, Brown impressed. On third-and-2 with the game already in hand, Gabbert threw back shoulder to Brown, who made a ridiculous catch along the sideline.
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If you name it, Brown is capable of doing it at a high level. He can create separation at all levels of the field, get open deep, make contested catches, pick up yardage after the catch and … even block?
Jensen reach block 😍. Marpet and Smith blowing up the frontside. Running out of 11 personnel >>>
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We're seeing vintage AB right now, and it's making the Bucs a terrifying team to defend. Despite the fact that Tampa Bay probably doesn't play Brown enough, he's helped them shred two man coverage-heavy teams in New England and Miami in back-to-back weeks. If Brown doesn't get a 45-yarder taken off the board on a Donovan Smith penalty, or a 30-yarder go off his hands in the end zone, he's looking at another 75 yards on top of the 63 yards he recorded in Week 4.
Against Miami, Brown made up for the missed opportunities the week before. With the Dolphins trying to erase him with cornerback Xavien Howard, Brown piled up seven catches for 124 yards and two touchdowns. He's averaging over 16 yards per catch this season, which leads the team. Right now, Brown is forcing defenses to defend Tampa Bay differently because of his individual dominance. The days of opponents' focusing coverage on Evans are over, and Brown is a big reason why.
With each passing week, Bucs offensive tackles Tristan Wirfs and Donovan Smith look better and better. Both began the season playing good, not great, but have cranked it up over the past two weeks. Wirfs has been utterly dominant since Week 2, not allowing a single pressure. He looked like an All-Pro on Sunday, devouring every Dolphins pass rusher that came his way. They could not escape him.
Wirfs' agility, patience and lightning quick strikes are off the charts. His natural gifts combined with budding technique are a nightmare combination. I'm not sure he even slightly lost a single rep in pass protection against Miami. Rookie Jaelan Phillips flashed several times for Miami, but against Wirfs he was hopelessly lost.
As you can see, Smith was almost as dominant. Where Wirfs is more of a mirroring shield of a blocker, Smith is a sledgehammer. He wants to get his paws on you and rip you around. Sometimes he misses, and it can lead to an ugly rep here and there. But in 2021, Smith is landing his strikes a lot more than he's missing.
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If Smith and Wirfs can continue to play at this level, the Bucs are going to be an elite pass protecting group. Left guard Ali Marpet has been sensational this season, and center Ryan Jensen is having another great year. Even right guard Alex Cappa has been solid for the most part. Tom Brady certainly makes life easier for his offensive line, but that shouldn't subtract from what a premier group has done this season. And on Sunday, the Bucs' bookend tackles were at their absolute best.
In the absence of Jason Pierre-Paul in Weeks 3 and 4, rookie Joe Tryon-Shoyinka notched his first two NFL starts. In those eight quarters, Tryon-Shoyinka looked like the best pass rusher on the team. After a couple near-sacks against the Rams, the first rounder erupted for two sacks of Patriots QB Mac Jones. Tryon-Shoyinka had several other strong rushes that impacted throws as well.
But with Pierre-Paul healthy enough to play in Week 5, Tryon-Shoyinka's role diminished. The rookie played just 17 snaps, his lowest total of the season. If Pierre-Paul had been fully healthy, I still would have taken issue with his personnel usage. But Pierre-Paul was playing with a club on his right hand that severely impacted him. Per Pro Football Focus, the Pro Bowler missed three tackles on Sunday. Despite several opportunities to get Jacoby Brissett on the ground, Pierre-Paul struggled to finish.
"We've got a couple of packages where they are all in there together," Arians said on Monday. "It's a good rotation. Anthony Nelson got in some, especially with that heat yesterday. It was a good mix. J.P.P. (Jason Pierre-Paul) probably would've had a couple more sacks. With the club, he couldn't quite get him on the ground because of the club, but he's played with it before. But man, he brings that energy that we always miss."
Bucs OLBs Jason Pierre-Paul and Joe Tryon-Shoyinka – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
I appreciate Arians' transparency, but if you are benching one of your best pass rushers for a guy who isn't healthy enough to tackle consistently, that's a problem! Tryon-Shoyinka has missed some tackles too, but it's good process to bet that a guy with two functioning mitts can out-tackle the guy with a club around his hand.
In my opinion, the Tampa Bay coaching staff is a little too enamored with this mystical energy that Pierre-Paul seems to bring. I think that leadership and juice is important, but it comes from other guys on the defense, too. Devin White, Ndamukong Suh, Jordan Whitehead, Will Gholston. The list of leaders goes on and on.
The Bucs don't need Pierre-Paul to play almost 80 percent of the team's defensive snaps on a hot day, either – especially when he's not 100 percent. I know he wants to play that much and more, but it's imperative the Bucs coaches make a stand here. Protecting Pierre-Paul from himself, given the fact he is nursing hand and shoulder injuries, is important. But making sure the Bucs are consistently putting the most talent on the field is also important.
Tampa Bay's secondary is hanging in there, but they can't survive without a dominant pass rush. For the Bucs to achieve that, Tryon-Shoyinka needs to play more, and Pierre-Paul needs to be fully healthy for more critical late season games. Defensive coordinator Todd Bowles would be wise to split their snaps more evenly in the coming weeks.
If you watched the Bucs play on Sunday, please stop saying that their secondary is the biggest problem. It might be the biggest worry moving forward, but it has not been the biggest issue so far this season. On Sunday, the Bucs starting trio of cornerbacks – Jamel Dean, Richard Sherman and Ross Cockrell – wasn't close to being the biggest concern.
Dean broke up two passes and grabbed an interception. PFF had him surrendering just two catches on six targets for 34 yards. One of those catches was a 21-yarder where Dean shoved the receiver out of bounds before his feet came down. The officials blew the call and the replay review, but I thought it was a great play by the current Bucs' top corner (for now).
Bucs CB Richard Sherman – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
As for Sherman, he was barely targeted, giving up just five yards in coverage. He did miss several tackles, which we'll get to in a second, and had a pass interference penalty in the end zone. But he was far from a sieve in coverage, even if you wonder what he'll look like in tougher matchups.
The same can be said for Cockrell, who gave up less than 45 yards in coverage, the vast majority of which came on an underneath throw where he overran the tackle. The veteran corner came back with a huge pass breakup on third down late in the game.
Tampa Bay's cornerback trio may be an issue down the road. Philadelphia has a lot of speed at wide receiver, which will be a much greater challenge for the secondary. But the biggest issue right now is tackling. The Bucs missed 13 tackles against the Dolphins – a season high. According to Pro Football Reference, only two teams have missed more tackles than Tampa Bay this season – Houston and Jacksonville. Not exactly the company you want to keep!
About half of those missed tackles were on Dolphins quarterback Jacoby Brissett, who escaped at least five sack opportunities. The Bucs' defensive results would have been far better on Sunday if they could have gotten Brissett on the ground a few more times.
"Yeah, I was joking with them that he was bigger and stronger than they were," Arians said. "It's like, yeah, you're getting there, you've got to get him down though. We've got him by the shirt pulling him down. Yeah, he was a hard tackle in that game. We were getting there, we were hitting him and disrupting him, but he played a hell of a ballgame under that pressure."
Bucs OLB Shaq Barrett – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
While coverage isn't a huge issue for the Bucs right now, tackling in coverage is. Right now, the Bucs have the NFL's shallowest average depth of target at just over six yards. Teams are living underneath against the Bucs, and Tampa Bay's shoddy tackling is allowing that style of play to thrive.
It can't continue. If teams are going to replace rushing with short throws, Todd Bowles' unit has to make them pay.
Right now, coverage is not this team's main concern. Could it be? Absolutely, as early as Thursday.
But through five weeks, the Bucs' biggest issue is that they aren't getting opposing quarterbacks on the ground enough, and they aren't getting pass catchers on the ground quickly enough post-catch. If Tampa Bay fixes those two things, its defense will at least be league average. With this offense and all the injuries on defense, that will be enough to win a lot of football games – for now.
A year after Tampa Bay's first down offense threatened to derail the season, the Bucs are now the most dominant offense in the NFL on first down. Per data provided by Pro Football Focus' Timo Riske, the Bucs are moving the chains a league-high 30 percent of the time on first down.
Your weekly chart of how often do teams move the sticks after each down? (And the defensive counterpart) pic.twitter.com/Lg1HyXrzcO
— Timo Riske (@PFF_Moo) October 12, 2021
What's the biggest reason for the change? A massive flip in their run:pass ratio on first down. Last year at this time, the Bucs were passing the ball on 49 percent of first downs, which was 21st in the NFL. This year, that number has skyrocketed to 59 percent – good enough for eighth in the NFL. According to Underdog Fantasy's Hayden Winks, the Bucs are sixth in the NFL in early downs neutral pass rate this season.
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— Hayden Winks (@HaydenWinks) October 12, 2021
Because the Bucs are far less predictable than they once were on first down, opposing defenses are struggling to figure out how to play them. Tampa Bay is running it well enough to hurt teams, and still throwing it effectively regardless of the safety shell presented to them pre-snap. It has all the makings of a dominant offense that could lead the league in many categories, but only if they can remain out of their own way. Penalties, drops and poor routes hurt the Bucs through the first four weeks, but were all improved in Week 5.
If Tampa Bay can stay on that trajectory, the coaching and play-calling have the Bucs set up for the most offensive success in franchise history.
The Eagles are an overall average team at best, and the Bucs should absolutely beat them on Thursday night. But they do present a unique challenge for Tampa Bay, one that the team hasn't faced this season. Even with Brandon Graham on injured reserve, the Eagles have a deep defensive line and are very capable of creating pressure with four.
That's not something Tampa Bay has seen this season. The Cowboys had two good edge rushers in Week 1, but nothing on the interior. The Falcons defensive line is weak, and the Rams are Aaron Donald and a bunch of guys. New England has one good individual pass rusher in Matt Judon, which is one more than the Dolphins have. So the Eagles – with Fletcher Cox and Javon Hargrave on the interior – will be the biggest test of the season.
Hargrave especially, is playing out of his mind this year. He's always had the ability, but now it's all coming together. Through five games he has six sacks – half-a-sack away from his career high. Cox has gotten off to a slower start, but is coming off his best game of the season in Week 5. Those are two of the Top 10-12 interior defensive linemen in the NFL, and they'll be on the field together. That's a tall task for center Ryan Jensen and guards Ali Marpet and Alex Cappa.
Javon Hargrave vs Panthers:
– 3 tackles
– 1 tackle for loss
– 1 sack
– 2 QB hits
Him and Aaron Donald are currently on a different planet.#Eaglespic.twitter.com/C237LxQ0M5
— Thomas R. Petersen (@thomasrp93) October 10, 2021
Philly's defensive tackles aren't alone. Josh Sweat, fresh off a new contract, is second on the team in pressures with 13. He looks primed to break out across from Derek Barnett, who is pretty average, but plays hard. Ryan Kerrigan jumps in as the No. 3 rusher. He's clearly lost a step, but he's a better third edge defender than most teams have.
The Eagles' blitz at one of the lowest rates in the entire NFL. Per Pro Football Reference, only the Raiders have blitzed on a lower percentage of snaps, and the Eagles 22 blitzes ranks dead last among all 32 teams. But their pressure rate is tied for 11th best despite just rushing with four most of the time. It'll be a great test of one-on-one ability for the Bucs offensive line, which has dominated the past two weeks.
Guess who is on pace for almost 140 coverage snaps this season? You guessed it – Shaq Barrett. And guess what? Per Pro Football Focus, he's also got the highest coverage grade on the team! Is it just a matter of time until a team really attacks him? Probably.
Does his presence as a zone defender make the Bucs more of a spot-dropping defense and less of a zone-match defense? Yes.
Does that make it easier for opposing quarterbacks to read out coverages more quickly against the Bucs? Yes.
Could Barrett, who does has one interception this year, have a few more sacks if he wasn't dropping into coverage eight times a game? Probably.
Am I going to cry? Yes.
Madness.
Before you all go to sleep, just wanted to let you know that Shaq Barrett is on pace for 139 coverage snaps this season.
About the Author: Jon Ledyard
Jon Ledyard is PewterReport.com's newest Bucs beat writer and has experience covering the Pittsburgh Steelers as a beat writer and analyzing the NFL Draft for several draft websites, including The Draft Network. Follow Ledyard on Twitter at @LedyardNFLDraft
I said it before but teams are attacking this team differently this year. They are not trying to run at all really. They also are using short passing to move chains. Also throwing crazy amount screens. Started week 1 against Dallas. Until we start tackling better and shedding blocks to tackle better teams will continue it. The whole team could tackle better imo but Most of the poor tackling is the CB's. The pass rush isn't the problem and hasn't been the problem. You don't run mostly screens and short passes because a team has poor pass rush. Getting guys… Read more »
Reply to fredster
Couln't agree with you more. You don't incorporate and mainly run a short passing game to take advantage of a teams pass rushers. You use it to avoid them. Tony Romo said on Sunday he thought the Bucs had the best front seven in the NFL.
I am on the same page as far as JPP. I want him in but not at the expense of him not being available later in the season. He certainly wasn't needed as much as he was played against the 'Fins and his clubbed hand proved to be a liability.
Spitfire(@spitfire)
I agree that Tryon should be splitting more reps with JPP, especially while he's got the club, but you can't tell me you think JPPs energy is mystical and you don't understand it. JPP is the leader of that Defensive line, and not just for energy and motivation but for actual game planning. Last year when mic'd up you could plainly here how JPP is the one advising Barrett how to approach the next rush so that they could time it right to plan on getting to him together in a certain manner. He is the director on that Dline.… Read more »
Reply to Spitfire
Spitfire, I didn't see what you saw so we can just disagree on this one. I agree he is a leader, when seriously causing more damage to your body isn't the answer, it's rest.
JSW(@pewtereyes)
Agree. Spitting reps more evenly now makes for a more experienced Tryon-Shoyinka and (hopefully) a healthier JPP come December (barring injuries)…
scohad(@scohad)
If I see jpp and Barrett drop into coverage 1 more time I will blow my head off.
Reply to scohad
LMAO. Make sure you have more than one bullet in the gun and I will join you. I think I saw Vita Vea drop into coverage once this season and it almost made me go off the wagon after 16 years.
97 looked pretty good going through that turnstile of a center. He didn't even have time to put a token in the slot. Fortunately for the Bucs and Brady, I don't think Jensen will be that easy to manuever by. Panthers have had trouble for years with their O line.
Jon, good Article. We see it the same way. It's a long season so I would give JPP a rest no matter what he says. If he doesn't have enough sense to realize he will be in severe pain the rest of his life with this macho attitude, then the GM and Coach should step up and tell him to give it a rest. Seriously, I care about JPP.
Nice thoughts, Horse.
Tackling! I hate watching any of my favorite teams play defense when they're missing tackles all over the place (Gators – I can't even stand to watch them this year – with that stupid RPO offense, and more missed tackles than those made…) But I digress… The Bucs tackling has been very poor this year. I agree that this is our BIGGEST problem on defense – and totally fixable (once they're willing to admit it and address it).


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On Friday, I went to two talks about global warming. The first was over at CU, part of the Conference on World Affairs, by former congressman Tim Wirth. What I found really interesting about it was that he spent a few minutes at the beginning going over the whole (by now very tiresome to me) "global warming is bad" thing. What I found remarkable is that he then stopped talking about it, and spent the rest of his time talking about what we can do about it. Moreover, he really emphasized that we need to not regard it as an insurmountable challenge, but as a situation where necessary change is also an opportunity.
So, that's an impressive and dramatic shift.
"Gingrich praised Kerry's recently released book about environmentalism, acknowledged that global warming is real, and offered what amounted to an unexpected apology for his party's inaction on curtailing greenhouse gas emissions."
Yes, yes, but that's because Gingrich wants to pick up all the people who previously voted for Nadar.
Plus, Western Republicans care about environmental issues.
But go Gingrich, anyway. There's plenty of ways to exploit the environmental movement for profit.
BTW - how to do you feel about compact flourescents? I'm cranky about the quality of light (though I know there are some shopping options there), but am very concerned about the mercury.
I think we'll all start switching to CF bulbs just in time to start using LEDs for lighting instead.
We've almost completely switched to CF bulbs, except in the bedroom.
We're pretty happy with them. The spectrum's not nearly as bad as you'd think, and the flicker is not really noticeable.
Experience suggests that I'm a lot more sensitive to spectrum and flicker than most people are. I know the newer ones have gotten better, but I'm reserving judgment until I have more personal exposure.
Well, you know, you could always, say . . . COME VISIT!!!!
. . . or something.
I'm just sayin' is all.
We're at 50% of the lights in the house right now (waiting on a few of the old ones to die), and I rarely even notice. Honestly, even if there weren't environmental concerns, I dislike changing light bulbs enough that it's worth the cost to not have to change them so often. I know, I'm weird.
I have heard good recommendations about the GE branded CF bulbs, particularly the daylight-mimicking ones. I've heard tepid to mediocre reviews about other brands, and of at least one case where a person got a dud GE. So I think the idea is to get some and test them.
We've got some CFs in our dual lightbulb fixtures (one CF, one oldstyle) because we were worried about the flicker; given how often we've had to replace the regular, I think I'll try some GEs the next time around and see if there are any flicker concerns.
I've been using the CF lights for a few years and have had no problems with them. The only time when i need the old lights or the halogens are when I'm working in front of the montor because the flicker combo of the 2 make my eyes tired really fast!
You know all I hear is restricting our carbon footprint. Isn't there proactive stuff we could do like plant more plants for biomass or something. Or build light rail in our cities and fast rail like europe so we use our cars and planes less?
The hard part is, with even present levels of carbon in the atmosphere warming and changes in sea-level are going to become all too apparent within our lifetimes, even if we stopped burning fossil fuels today. It's all going to be about amelioration. But the scientific community has been warning about this for some time, and no one is a hero for recognizing this just now.
Anything that gets people out of the habit of dumping crap into the environment is good.
To push you on a tangent for a second, what's your opinion about the order of magnitude for the climate change being caused by human activity vs. "unknown"? I ask this because someone had recently pointed out something I found very interesting: The martian polar caps are melting.
I'm not really qualified to throw numbers around, but I'll take a stab at it. What I can say with confidence is that I believe these figures are a pretty accurate representation of reality.
So, okay, there's a lot going on there, but let's look just at CO2 and solar activity. Solar variability for the 20th century is less than 1%, I gather, so that's about 0.03 W/m2, while doubling the CO2 component would bring you from 1.5 to 3. So that looks like about 2 orders of magnitude to me, give or take. And that's just CO2; add in the other greenhouse gases and it's even more imbalanced on the side of human activity.
There is definitely a solar component to climate change, but it's comparatively small. This is a question that's been resolved only in the last few years, so there was a lot of argument about it not too long ago. I remember a presentation at work a couple years ago where they were talking about the famous "hockey-stick" graph, and explaining that even including solar variability, the only way the modelers could get the models to track with the observed data at all was by including anthropogenic effects.
Does that summarize pretty well?
It does, thanks. People were throwing around a lot of opinions - some with data, but not very good about pointing out their sources. This looks like the source for at least 1/3 of the opinion on that particular list.


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….. I surrendered to sleep seeking some rest after a strong feeling of nausea that had me teetering on the verge of vomitting induced by the atrocity of what I had witnessed and heard on the screens and radio stations as well as the social media. All over were Lebanese citizens undergoing competitions of insults and accusations of treasons cast recklessly and stupidly at the same time!!….In the love of Lebanon they claimed to do so!!…. Before casting their insults and accusations, they ought to have recalled the Pharaonic, Roman, Greek, Ottoman, French and Israeli colonial armies who carved their existence on the ancient rocks of "Nahr Al-Kalb". Add to them our fraternal Arab custodians, and the Palestinians and Syrians as well as all kinds of lurking agents. ….The morning held no different news. It was the same band of frenzied pens and bribed journalism accompanied by the cracking whizzes of bullets cheering every time an incandescent politician appeared on TV.
When I finally managed to catch my breath, I thought to myself, "Everyone has treaded the cedar land save for the arab prophet "Muhamad". Perhaps he avoided to do so on purpose when his "Burak" landed him in the Al-Aqsa Mosque on his way up to the sky. He must have foreseen that these scattered cedars which have for so long worried the globe need more than the intervention of Muhamad, Issa, Moses, ….Akhnaton, Hammurabi, and Buddha, ….. to meet together. It is, thus, divine intervention that must be pleaded for to bring together "the band of March". Henceforth, president Birri can lay off his shoulders the anxieties and miseries brought about by the aftermath of such idiocy.
…..Ever since the dawn of history, the people of this land have undermined it as their homeland. Just as the Phoenicians, who were masters of trade and slavery, they have always ripped it into warring city-states.
And when Moussa Al-Sadr came and said, "Lebanon is a terminal nation for its offspring" , they abducted him … just as the jews did to Christ in the old days, and the Arabs to Abd Ennassir. This fact is ironically acknowledged and declared by Golda Meir, and not by the Arab princes and sheiks.
Since then, the country has been reduced to illusions and fragmented dreams, and to pieces that have lost identity and patriotism. Nothing remains save for corruption and trash juxtaposed to the souls of martyrs heading to heaven.
Schisms in religion and life have set the Lebanese apart turning them into rabids seeking tenures and personal gains …. Neither the churches managed to foster tolerance, nor did the mosques succeed in reforming souls…. Accordingly, Christ was crucified as much as these differences count, and Shiiites and Sunnis discorded around Muhamad ever since Siffine and Karbala until they were flabbergasted by current nonconformists, and Daash….
Doctor Hussein Yatim, the president of The Educational Arab Institutes in Lebanon, was graduated from Cairo University with a PhD in History, a bachelor degree in Arabic Language and Literature, and a diploma of Education from Beirut Arab University as well.
He speaks English and French languages fluently. He is a prominent writer and a contemporary as well as universal content. Furthermore, he was not only dedicated to publishing a collection of writings and lectures, but also issued a series of intellectual, political and literary researches.
He was credited the Award of Knowledge of the highest rank by a presidential decree, and was chosen as Man of the Year by the US Institute for Public Figures Analysis in 2002.
Moreover, he was a Chairman of Private Schools Syndicate until 1990, a founding member in both the Shiite Supreme Islamic Council and Amal Movement contemporary to Imam Moussa El- Sadr.
Besides, he was a university professor who had lectured on General History, History of Lebanon and History of Civilizations in both the Lebanese and the Islamic Universities. In addition, he was a member of the Education Committee and the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs, and a member of the parliamentary delegation to the Conference of Mediterranean Parliamentarians in Jordan 1998, and the Island of Malta in 1997. In 1984, he was assigned as a member in the Supreme Islamic Council to meet Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations. He was also elected as an MP in the Lebanese Parliament in 1996 representing Beirut. In 1986, he accompanied Amal Movement delegation to the Islamic Conference in Rabat concerning the elucidation of Imam Moussa El-Sadr's disappearance.
By the same token, he became an honorary member of the Administrative Board of Jammal Trust Bank, a founding member of the Federation of Educational Institutions in Lebanon, a member of the Jaafari Cultural Foundation, a member at the Forum Religions and Cultures for Development and Dialogue, and a Chairman of the Trustees Board of the Cultural Movement in Lebanon.


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Q: searching log files with date time stamp using awk generates syntax error I need to search logfiles with a date time stamp format of 2014-04-01 16:45:22.084
I am piping from grep to awk because the log files have header line with the timestamp and then detail information and I need to just check the header line.
When I run the awk with a string it works.
    grep "2014-04-01" log |awk -F"\t" '{if ($1>"2014-04-01 14:02:41.213") print $1,$5;}'

2014-04-01 16:45:22.084 Generic_Remote_Exception
When I try to use a date variable I get a syntax error.
    grep "2014-04-01" log |awk -F"\t" -vDate= "`date -d 'now-5 minutes' +%Y-%m-%d" "%H:%M:%S.%N`" '{if ($1>Date) print $1,$5;}'

awk: 2014-04-08 09:30:31.061837000
awk:              ^ syntax error
Why is awk generating an error?

A: Change this:
awk -F"\t" -vDate= "`date -d 'now-5 minutes' +%Y-%m-%d" "%H:%M:%S.%N`" '{if ($1>Date) print $1,$5;}'

to
awk -F\t -v Date="$(date -d -5min +%Y-%m-%d" "%H:%M:%S.%N)" '$1>Date {print $1,$5}'

A: awk -v Date="`date`" 'script'

sets the awk variable Date to the output of the shell command date before interpreting script.
awk -v Date= "`date`" 'script'

sets the awk variable Date to the null string and then tries to interpret the output of date as it if were an awk script, hence the syntax error because 2014-04-08 09:30:31.061837000 is not a syntactically correct awk script.

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Georgina Fürstenberg
Georgina Fürstenberg (née Melville) made her debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin in November 2021 singing Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail – and returned for Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Verdi's Don Carlo. In the 2023/24 season, the coloratura soprano will make her first appearance in a new production at Opernhaus Zürich. In 2021 she returned to Bayerische Staatsoper, where she first appeared in 2020, and has sung Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice at the International Gluck Festival in 2021. In 2022, she made her debut at KlangVokal Musikfestival Dortmund and was covering Morgana in a new production of Handel's Alcina at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
At Komische Oper Berlin, Georgina Fürstenberg performed Iris in Handel's Semele and La Princesse, Le Feu and Le Rossignol in Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges and created the role of Jim Knopf in the world premiere of Kats-Chernin's Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer. The coloratura soprano made her debut at Semperoper Dresden in Korngold's Die tote Stadt under the baton of Dmitri Jurowski in 2019. She was a member of Staatstheater Cottbus during the 2020/21 season. Her operatic repertoire also includes Asteria in Handel's Tamerlano, Flaminia in Haydn's Il mondo della luna, La Fée in Massenet's Cendrillon, Mme Silberklang in Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor. The Barbadian soprano worked with directors including Robert Carsen, Christian von Götz, Stefan Herheim, Barrie Kosky and Leonard Prinsloo.
As a concert soloist, Georgina Fürstenberg has performed Bach's St John Passion, Barber's Four Songs, Delibes' Les Filles de Cadix, Fauré's Requiem, Graun's Weihnachtsoratorium, Handel's The Messiah, Haydn's The Battle of the Nile, Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate and Laudate Dominum, Orff's Carmina Burana, Rimsky-Korskov's The Rose and the Nightingale, Strauß' Frühlingsstimmen-Walzer and Zimmlinsky's Walzer-Gesänge.
Georgina Fürstenberg, holder of a British passport, has worked with conductors including Bertrand de Billy, Daniel Carter, Jonathan Cohen, Michael Hofstetter, Konrad Junghänel, Dmitri Jurowski, Ivan Repušić, Ainārs Rubiķis, Jordan de Souza, and Mario Venzago – and with orchestras such as Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Händelfestspielorchester Halle, and Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
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How do you lose 82% of your customers? Bad customer service.
No one really wants to lose 82% of your customers, right? They do if they have bad customer service.
A recent survey published in the Customer Experience Impact report found that 82% of consumers said that they stopped doing business with a company because of a bad customer service experience.
No business wants to lose customers right? So why do so many lose business because of bad customers service? You don't ever set out to treat customers bad, right?
Bad customer service happens because we lack vision.
Bad customer service happens when we lose sight of what's important for great customer service and awesome customer experiences. It just happens. We don't set out to do it, but for one reason or another it just does.
The problem lies in the rampant bad customer service in any organization. Rare bad service moments, though not ok, can be dealt with through good service recovery. Frequent bad customer service demonstrates that effective customer service management is absent in the organization.
I think the 12 reasons are all real reasons people in customer service often give for poor service, but the real blame falls on customer service managers for not properly creating a proper customer service vision and training and motivating team members to see the vision and perform the actions required to put that vision into effect.
It isn't part of your job description.
You had a terrible day and just need to be alone.
You don't have the right tools to deliver great service.
Your customers just want a good deal, they don't care about the experience.
The customer is unreasonable and rude.
Another department is responsible for what the customer wanted.
Your company hasn't made customer service a priority.
Your bonus isn't based on customer service, so why spend any time on it.
The customer didn't complain, so they must have been happy.
You had too much to do and other people were waiting. You couldn't spend all that time with just one customer.
Are these reasons false? Not necessarily. But even if the excuse is true, it's never valid for providing bad customer service.
One of the most effective things customer service managers and leaders can do is to re-structure customer service and customer-facing team member responsibilities and priorities to focus around the customer experience. Tie individual customer service team performance to the items in 12 customer service excuses to eliminate the reasons for bad service.
Make the opposite of the excuse the priority for customer service and the customer experience and team members will encourage team members to take the time, effort, and energy to provide the best customer service experience possible. Each and every time. Who wouldn't want that?
82% of consumers said that they stopped doing business with a company because of a bad customer service experience.
You're better off sending the person having a bad day home and keep them away from your customers. Or at least, pull them away from working for customers for a while and help them regroup mentally before jumping back in the customer service mix. It's better lose one customer service person for a day, then to lose a customer for a lifetime.


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Childrens > AnimatedCG Animation has grown up a lot since I was playing with Lightwave and learning to use Maya. While I'm very out of practice these days watching great animation still gets me as excited as when I was 13 years old, watching the T1000 morph and ooze for the first time. Kung Fu Panda gave me all that buzz and more, I loved almost everything about it.The film opens with a 2D dream sequence which on its own was enough for me to justify the ticket price. It oozes quality from the outset: the character design is striking, and the landscapes, scenery, and buildings were beautifully realised. The animation is excellent: the lead performances filled with such personality and presence you can't help but be empathise with the characters. This is by far my favourite Dreamworks Animation title to date.Kung Fu Panda is often genuinely funny thanks to both slapstick elements that would be at home in early Warner Brothers cartoons and great one-liners. While it's story about an unlikely hero is a film staple, it's delivered with such a deft touch and obvious care by the production team that you can forgive the story elements and character development being a little light. The action sequences were really entertaining to watch and Po's post-training dumpling fight (it's better than it sounds) was the very definition of great comedy timing. If anything the film felt too short, but with a running time of 92 minutes that may have just been me wanting to see more. The kids in the cinema loved it, and the adults who brought them (or who just brought themselves) were wrapped as well.This is my favourite film so far this year, the credit sequence was really nicely done and if you feel like it there's a cute little something at the end of them. Now where did I put my copy of Maya Personal Learning Edition?4.5/5 Stars
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Many children and young people have trouble sitting still and staying focused.
In the majority of cases it's a temporary blip and nothing to worry about, after all they have a lot of energy that they need to burn off, and so focusing on a task, such as homework or reading, may not be their biggest priority.
On the other hand, learning to concentrate and sticking with something is a skill everyone needs as an adult.
If your child is slapdash it means they are not paying enough attention to detail. Sometimes the most creative ideas-driven people start out this way, but while generating ideas is wonderful, they eventually do need the ability to look at the nitty-gritty, so that they can execute their ideas in the long term.
Childhood is a time for learning and experimentation, but if your child makes many errors, particularly repetitive mistakes even after further instruction from you or a teacher, then there may be an issue. If you know that your child understands the instructions being given, but then is flippant or ignores what you say, pay attention. Your child is struggling to stay focused.
You may agree an activity with your child and then find that their attention is rapidly drawn elsewhere. They may be colouring one minute but suddenly want to play outside, or watch the TV instead. Their focus has disappeared.
Your child has probably learned to appease you and stay quiet when you talk to him or her. However, you can probably tell whether s/he is listening to what you are saying, and whether that information is being processed. If you ask, "Did you hear what I said?" they will answer in the affirmative. If you test them, you'll find they didn't actually hear what you said and can't act on it.
The reverse of number 4 above, is that your child may listen and hear what is said, but cannot then remember or follow instructions. They may not keep what you said in their short term memory long enough to act on it. A similar symptom of trouble focusing, is where your child loses or misplaces things. Often this is not intentional, but can be frustrating for all concerned.
Another sign that your child is having trouble staying focused is if s/he cannot seem to organise themselves ahead of time. They may not be able to pack their school bag the evening before for example, or they may be unable to complete projects that they've started. Their room may be a complete mess, or they may struggle with writing etc.
Children who have trouble focussing tend to be easily bored. This links in with the need to constantly change activities, and their slapdash approach to life. It's something for you to look out for.
If your child is struggling to focus, there are a few things you can try to do that might help them. While this time in their development is frustrating for you, your patience will pay dividends. Remember that your child has far too much energy and they need to burn it off. Get them out and about, doing something physical. Try and wear them out a little before you get them to sit down and concentrate on the task in hand. Team sports are great, but a trip to the park or the beach will work just as well.
Block out all distractions as far as possible. This means dealing with your child alone, with no other stimuli around: no people, no TV, no phone, no radio etc. Don't talk to your child when they are thinking. Provide clear instruction, and make to-do lists with your child, and always encourage them. Have a series of rewards to offer them when they complete their tasks in order. Make sure your child has enough breaks so that they can recharge their batteries, and allow them to expend more energy if they need to.


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