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The Bronze Age Collapse (pt 3/3)
May 12, 2016 May 19, 2016 evolutiontheorist Human Migration, Cultures, and Species of Exitbronze age, Bronze Age Collapse, chariots, collpase, Dark Ages, famine, Greece, iron, Middle East, Tollense, Trojan War, volcano
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Fall of Troy
So what caused the Bronze Age Collapse?
Greek gods threw a party and forgot to invite the goddess of Discord.
Volcanic eruption => famines => migration.
Chariots, iron, and swords that hack.
Famine/Deforestation
Systemic collapse.
I. Love and War
Earliest known depiction of the Trojan Horse (I think)
We are all familiar, of course, with the Homeric (and Vergilian) version of the Greek assault on Troy. Though Homer does not actually detail the war's initial causes, nor its end, these parts of the tale are famous enough in their own right.
[Oh goodness, I just realized that I am assuming that everyone knows the story of the Trojan War. Let me know in the comments how much of the story you're familiar with. :)]
By the time Homer composed his epics, the assault on Troy had fallen into the realm of legend; for the next 3,000 years, myths of the "golden age" of the late Greek Bronze Age dominated European art and culture.
By the 1800s, scholars assumed the war had never happened–and then Heinrich Schliemann managed to actually find Troy. Wikipedia further notes:
In the twentieth century scholars have attempted to draw conclusions based on Hittite and Egyptian texts that date to the time of the Trojan War. … Hittite archives, like the Tawagalawa letter mention of a kingdom of Ahhiyawa (Achaea, or Greece) that lies beyond the sea (that would be the Aegean) and controls Milliwanda, which is identified with Miletus. Also mentioned in this and other letters is the Assuwa confederation made of 22 cities and countries which included the city of Wilusa (Ilios or Ilium). The Milawata letter implies this city lies on the north of the Assuwa confederation, beyond the Seha river. While the identification of Wilusa with Ilium (that is, Troy) is always controversial, in the 1990s it gained majority acceptance. In the Alaksandu treaty (ca. 1280 BC) the king of the city is named Alaksandu, and Paris's name in the Iliad (among other works) is Alexander. The Tawagalawa letter (dated ca. 1250 BC) which is addressed to the king of Ahhiyawa actually says:
Now as we have come to an agreement on Wilusa over which we went to war…
Formerly under the Hittites, the Assuwa confederation defected after the battle of Kadesh between Egypt and the Hittites (ca. 1274 BC). In 1230 BC Hittite king Tudhaliya IV (ca. 1240–1210 BC) campaigned against this federation. Under Arnuwanda III (ca. 1210–1205 BC) the Hittites were forced to abandon the lands they controlled in the coast of the Aegean. It is possible that the Trojan War was a conflict between the king of Ahhiyawa and the Assuwa confederation. This view has been supported in that the entire war includes the landing in Mysia (and Telephus' wounding), Achilles's campaigns in the North Aegean and Telamonian Ajax's campaigns in Thrace and Phrygia. Most of these regions were part of Assuwa.[69][217] It has also been noted that there is great similarity between the names of the Sea Peoples, which at that time were raiding Egypt, as they are listed by Ramesses III and Merneptah, and of the allies of the Trojans.[218]
Now someone needs to find a reference to Helen.
That said, the historical sack of Troy was a much smaller even than Homer recounts, and is certainly inadequate to explain the large-scale collapse that consumed the entire region (and possibly a good chunk of northern Europe, as well.
For that matter, the Greeks themselves were invaded and their own cities were sacked. Historians attribute this to the Dorians, a Greek-speaking tribe that invaded from somewhere up north. As Carl Blegen wrote:[25]
"the telltale track of the Dorians must be recognized in the fire-scarred ruins of all the great palaces and the more important towns which … were blotted out at the end of Mycenaean IIIB."
But archaeology isn't always easy, and it isn't totally clear that the Dorians actually existed:
"It has of late become an acknowledged scandal that the Dorians, archaeologically speaking, do not exist. That is, there is no cultural trait surviving in the material record for the two centuries or so after 1200 which can be regarded as a peculiarly Dorian hallmark. Robbed of their patents for Geometric pottery, cremation burial, iron-working and, the unkindest prick of all, the humble straight pin, the hapless Dorians stand naked before their creator – or, some would say, inventor." — Cartledge
Somebody burned a bunch of Greek cities. We're just not exactly sure who (or why.)
II. Farewell, Atlantis
Santorini / Thera
One of the largest volcanic explosions in the past few thousand years happened round about 1500 BC on the island of Thera (aka Santorini) in the Mediterranean (potentially ejecting 4 times more material than Krakatoa.)
Unfortunately, we're not sure exactly when Thera blew its top:
Archaeologists have traditionally placed it at approximately 1500 BCE.[14][21] Radiocarbon dates, including analysis of an olive branch buried beneath a lava flow from the volcano which gave a date between 1627 BCE and 1600 BCE (95% confidence interval), suggest an eruption date more than a century earlier than suggested by archaeologists.[22][23][24] …
In 2012 one of the proponents of an archaeological date, Felix Höflmayer, argued that archaeological evidence could be consistent with a date as early as 1590 BCE, reducing the discrepancy to around fifty years.[26] …
At Tell el Dab'a in Egypt, pumice found at this location has been dated to 1540 BCE… . Tree-ring data has shown that a large event interfering with normal tree growth in North America occurred during 1629–1628 (+-65 years) BCE.[37] Evidence of a climatic event around 1628 BCE has been found in studies of growth depression of European oaks in Ireland and of Scotch pines in Sweden.[38] …
A volcanic winter from an eruption in the late 17th century BCE has been claimed by some researchers to correlate with entries in Chinese records documenting the collapse of the Xia dynasty in China. According to the Bamboo Annals, the collapse of the dynasty and the rise of the Shang dynasty, approximately dated to 1618 BCE, were accompanied by "yellow fog, a dim sun, then three suns, frost in July, famine, and the withering of all five cereals".[8]
The downside to the Thera Theory is that even if we use the latest dates, it's still too early–by 2 or 300 years–to explain the Bronze Age Collapse. Widespread famines in some far-off place certainly could have triggered migrations that, three hundred years later, ended in the Mediterranean, but it seems more likely that widespread famines would have caused immediate collapse in the area right around the volcano.
Thera might have inspired Atlantis and certainly caused some destruction on Crete, but I think it's a stretch to blame it for events some 2-400 years later. Unless someone comes up with a bunch of evidence for a more recent eruption, I think it's an unlikely cause.
III. Faster, Cheaper, Better: a revolution in military technology
Three new military technologies "diffuse" through Europe right around the time of the Battle of Tollense and the Dorian Invasion: spoked-wheeled chariots, true swords, and cheap iron.
spread of spoke-wheeled chariots
Chariots were invented out on the vast Eurasian plain around 2,000 BC, which sounds like a recipe for invasion if I ever heard one. They arrived in Anatolia and Egypt around 1500 BC, but didn't make it to Greece and Germany until 1300 BC–just in time for an invading army to sweep through the Tollense valley or into Greece, driving a wave of displaced folks into the sea and across to Egypt.
According to Wikipedia, the Battle of Kadesh, fought by the Egyptian Empire under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II in 1274 BC, was "was probably the largest chariot battle ever fought, involving perhaps 5,000–6,000 chariots.[12]" (Warfare on that scale between two of the biggest political entities in the region may have contributed on its own to general collapse.)
Were any chariots found in conjunction with the Tollense battlefield, or in local burials of the time?
Naue II Sword, found in association with the Nebra Sky Disk
Swords, I was amazed to discover, were invented around 1600 BC in the Aegean. Before the Bronze Age, people just didn't have materials suitable for making long blades and had to content themselves with daggers or clubs. (Sometimes clubs studded with daggers.) A new variety of sword, the Naue II, appears around 1200 BC and quickly spreads around the Mediterranean–just in time for the collapse.
Early iron was, ironically, inferior to bronze. Steel will hold an excellent age, but primitive iron working did not, and early iron swords were inferior to bronze ones. But iron had several advantages over bronze: it was cheaper, required less fuel to work, and didn't have to be mixed with tin imported from hundreds or thousands of miles away.
As a result of these technological developments:
Robert Drews argues[26] that the appearance of massed infantry, using newly developed weapons and armor, such as cast rather than forged spearheads and long swords, a revolutionizing cut-and-thrust weapon,[27] and javelins. The appearance of bronze foundries suggests "that mass production of bronze artifacts was suddenly important in the Aegean". For example, Homer uses "spears" as a virtual synonym for "warriors".
Such new weaponry, in the hands of large numbers of "running skirmishers" who could swarm and cut down a chariot army and would destabilize states based upon the use of chariots by the ruling class and precipitate an abrupt social collapse as raiders began to conquer, loot and burn cities.[28][29][30]
I'm putting my money on this theory.
IV. Lean times
According to Herodotus:
In the days of Atys, the son of Manes, there was a great scarcity through the whole land of Lydia … So the king determined to divide the nation in half … the one to stay, the other to leave the land. … the emigrants should have his son Tyrrhenus for their leader … they went down to Smyrna, and built themselves ships … after sailing past many countries they came to Umbria … and called themselves … Tyrrhenians.
Wikipedia continues:
Connections to the Teresh of the Merneptah Stele, which also mentions shipments of grain to the Hittite Empire to relieve famine, are logically unavoidable. Many have made them, generally proposing a coalition of seagoing migrants from Anatolia and the islands seeking relief from scarcity. Tablet RS 18.38 from Ugarit also mentions grain to the Hittites, suggesting a long period of famine, connected further, in the full theory, to drought.[68] Barry Weiss,[69] using the Palmer Drought Index for 35 Greek, Turkish, and Middle Eastern weather stations, showed that a drought of the kinds that persisted from January 1972 would have affected all of the sites associated with the Late Bronze Age collapse.
Anatolia appears to have been fairly hard-hit by the collapse, with many cities completely abandoned and some regions not regaining their former levels of complexity for a thousand years.
Alternatively, (or relatedly,) I've seen it suggested (though I don't remember where) that deforestation caused by burning trees to make charcoal in order to forge bronze weapons had advanced to a point where the locals just ran out of trees. (See: Easter Island.) No trees=no cooking, no building, no ships, no chariots, no forging, pretty much nothing. (This, in turn, could have spurred the adoption of inferior but easier to make iron weapons.)
Famine in Anatolia or deforestation in parts of the Middle East would be unlikely, however, to have much effect on Tollense. (Of course, the Tollense battle may be no more than a coincidence.)
V. Diamondian Theory: General Systems Collapse
Systems collapse is what it sounds like: the theory that the systems just got too big, too unwieldy, and could no longer respond adequately to stresses like broken trade routes, famines, invasions, massive military spending, social unrest, deforestation, migration, etc., and so the system crumbled. I admit that this is a kind of "all of the above" (except for maybe the volcano.)
At any rate, whatever caused the collapse, it happened. The Dark Ages reigned, then the world recovered. The Greeks and then the Romans ruled; then Rome collapsed and the Dark Ages returned.
The Dark Ages will come again.
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The Bronze Age Collapse (pt 3/3) | Reaction Times says:
bob sykes says:
Here's another theory:
http://luwianstudies.org/
EvolutionistX says:
Andrei T says:
I've just read an article which reminded me of your post (especially point IV). An excerpt: He, too, reports of famine deaths. "If it doesn't rain soon, we are all going to leave." But where will they go? "To the next kebele, to the city, across the sea to you in Europe. Someplace where there's water and food."
Full article:http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/drought-threatens-50-million-people-in-africa-a-1091684.html
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myb6 says:
"1177 BC" by Cline is a pretty great exploration of this topic. Been a few years, but IIRC, his thesis was essentially a combination of stressors (drought and earthquakes) and systems theory (the major civilizations' elites were so co-dependent it created the possibility of a downward spiral).
This kind of feedback analysis strikes me as insightful. If an elite's strategy is producing a surplus, they can reinvest that surplus into reinforcing their structures which can create more surplus, etc. If the context changes so that the same strategy yields losses, the elite either has to rapidly adjust their strategy or suddenly lose everything. Plus there's a big "back the winner" psychological effect. Sorta like how it takes a while for the S&P to double but it can halve real quick.
Keep in mind that at Kadesh ~80% of the men were on foot, and chariotry was still an important arm centuries after the collapse (see Battle of Qarqar), so I don't think anti-chariot skirmishers had much to do with it. Iron weapons could've been a big part of the context change just by reducing costs (therefore decentralizing violence) and hurting the tin-trade profits which fed the BA civs' structure (even before the violence cut the networks).
Some questions that brings to mind:
-Do we know how the relative price of tin (in silver or gold, say) moved over this timeframe?
-Was the horse-trade also important?
I like your article. But I think it was the tin that was the catalyst.
Tin from Afghanistan had to be taken over the mountains, probably in carts or on the backs of humans or animals. While tin from Cornwall could be loaded onto ships and sent to countries around the Med, in much larger quantities and with much greater speed.
Tin was to the Bronze Age, as oil is to us today. It was a foundational economic resource that provided work, revenue and the means to enable a government to work and be productive. A sudden collapse of that market would have led to a loss of jobs, which would lead to migration, which would lead to decreased labor to farm, which would lead to hunger and famine, which would very naturally lead to civil unrest.
Add to that a prolonged cold snap (think Santorini's volcano), you have the perfect climate (pun intended) for massive numbers of starving people migrating from Europe – south.
Interesting thoughts! Thanks for the comment. :)
Mikhail says:
Swords do not give much of an advantage over other types of Bronze Age weapons. A spear is cheaper, easier to use and has better reach, which is why it had been the main infantry weapon until they were replaced by muskets (which also doubled as spears with the use of bayonets). Sword is more of a personal defense weapon, like a handgun.
Iron might have been cheaper than bronze, but it was still quite expensive, since it still required mining, purification and other processing. A sword is also one of the most expensive weapons you can make out of any given type of metal. Because it requires a bigger lump of it to begin with, and because swords have always been difficult to make. A good sword must combine 2 conflicting requirements: a hard edge and a flexible structure. Blacksmiths had to use a variety of methods and tricks to resolve these conflicting requirements. The laborious process of making a katana wasn't something Japanese blacksmiths did for fun, their swords wouldn't be any good without it. The western blacksmiths stopped doing these kinds of tricks when they started working with higher quality steel that could only be made by melting iron (the Japanese didn't have iron ore, they only had iron sand, hence lower quality steel). Iron melts at 1600 degrees versus 1000 degrees for bronze, btw.
Swords are also very difficult to use in combat. They require years of training to be effective. Blade alignment is one thing to worry about. A blade will just bounce off if it doesn't hit the target at the right angle. A sword is not good for hacking, it doesn't have enough weight for that. It's only good for slashing and sometimes thrusting. If you don't have the right training, you are at risk of hurting yourself when trying to use a sword.
So it wasn't at all the case that swords "democratized" violence, like kalashnikovs of Antiquity. On the contrary, you had to be a professional warrior to use one, and be of high status to be able to afford one. And I don't think they changed anything in military tech. They were more of a sign of the rise of a new type of ruling elite: the professional military class (plunder-cracy, as I'd like to call it).
Another point. Regarding the "peaceful Bronze Age". The way I got it is that the scientists thought of the Bronze Age as relatively peaceful because there is simply far far fewer historical and archeological signs of any carnage. So if large scale organized violence did happen in the Bronze Age, it still was of significantly lesser intensity and less common than in the Iron Age. Or at least it seems this way. The battle of 1250 BC wasn't necessarily typical of the Bronze Age. It could be more of a taste of things to come.
Interesting points. Thank you. Yes, I agree that the relatively small point on the tip of a wooden stick (spear) is easier and cheaper to make. Good swords were luxury items, like the expensive samurai swords still made in Japan.
gunst01 says:
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Q: Druid storing the 0 or 0.0 as null values versions druid .10.1 from HDP-2.6.5.0
We are using the druid-kafka indexer service ingestion to load the data into druid from kafka topics and during this we have found that druid is storing the metrics values which has 0 or 0.0 are been stored as null and while retrieving through superset or Druid api getting response as null. Need advice if we are missing anything here.
Error from superset:

{"status": "failed",  "error_type": "warning", "error": "unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'NoneType'"}

Ingestion spec file below:
{
    "type": "kafka",
    "dataSchema": {
        "dataSource": "data-source",
        "parser": {
            "type": "string",
            "parseSpec": {
                "format": "json",
                "timestampSpec": {
                    "column": "datetime",
                    "format": "YYYYMMdd_HHmmss"
                },
                "columns": [
                    "created_date",
                    "s_type",
                    "datetime",
                    "ds_ser",
                    "ven",
                    "cou_name",
                    "c_name",
                    "d_name",
                    "dv_name",
                    "p_name",
                    "redTime",
                    "wrTime",
                    "tRate",
                    "MTRate"
                ],
                "dimensionsSpec": {
                    "dimensions": [
                        "created_date",
                    "s_type",
                    "datetime",
                    "ds_ser",
                    "ven",
                    "cou_name",
                    "c_name",
                    "d_name",
                    "dv_name",
                    "p_name",
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        "metricsSpec": [{
            "name": "count",
            "type": "count"
        },
            {
                "type": "doubleMax",
                "name": "redTime",
                "fieldName": "redTime"
            },
            {
                "type": "doubleMax",
                "name": "wrTime",
                "fieldName": "wrTime"
            },
            {
                "type": "longMax",
                "name": "tRate",
                "fieldName": "tRate"
            },
            {
                "type": "longMax",
                "name": "MTRate",
                "fieldName": "MTRate"
            }
        ],
        "granularitySpec": {
            "type": "uniform",
            "segmentGranularity": "HOUR",
            "queryGranularity": "NONE"
        }
    },
    "tuningConfig": {
        "type": "kafka",
        "maxRowsPerSegment": 5000000
    },
    "ioConfig": {
        "topic": "ptopic",
        "useEarliestOffset": "true",
        "consumerProperties": {
            "bootstrap.servers": "host:port"
        },
        "taskCount": 1,
        "replicas": 1,
        "taskDuration": "PT5M"
    }
}

Rest api from druid used:
http://host:port/druid/v2?pretty
body:
{
    "queryType": "groupBy",
    "dataSource": "data-source",
    "granularity": "all",
    "dimensions": ["ds_ser"],
    "aggregations": [
        {"type": "doubleMax", "name": "redTime", "redTime": "writeresponsetime"},
        {"type": "doubleMax", "name": "wrTime", "wrTime": "totalResponseTime"},
        {"type": "longMax", "name": "tRate", "fieldName": "tRate"},
        {"type": "longMax", "name": "MTRate", "MTRate": "MaxTransferRate"}

    ],
    "intervals": ["2019-01-02T00:00/2019-01-02T23:59"]
}

Response from Druid:
[
    {
        "version": "v1",
        "timestamp": "2019-01-02T00:00:00.000Z",
        "event": {
            "redTime": null,
            "ds_ser": "240163",
            "wrTime": null,
            "tRate": null,
            "MTRate": null
        }
    },
    {
        "version": "v1",
        "timestamp": "2019-01-02T00:00:00.000Z",
        "event": {
            "redTime": null,
            "ds_ser": "443548",
            "wrTime": null,
            "tRate": 0,
            "MTRate": null
        }
    }
]

Data in Kafka:
> {"created_date":"2019-02-03T18:35:59.514Z","s_type":"BLOCK","datetime":"20181121_070000","ds_ser":"443551","ven":"abc","cou_name":"USA","c_name":"Piscataway","d_name":"Piscataway","dv_name":"USPSCG","p_name":"443551-CK","redTime":0.0,"wrTime":0.0,"tRate":0,"MTRate":0}
> {"created_date":"2019-02-03T18:35:59.514Z","s_type":"BLOCK","datetime":"20181121_070000","ds_ser":"443551","ven":"abc","cou_name":"USA","c_name":"Piscataway","d_name":"Piscataway","dv_name":"USPSCG4","p_name":"443551-CF","redTime":0.0,"wrTime":0.0,"tRate":0,"MTRate":0}

A: Well I have found answer to my own question.

I had done mistake in in preparing the druid kafka inderex json. I was not aware of the fact that the fields are case sensative. The json snippet posted here was a made up one hence the fields names are matching but in my actual production code and json file these weren't matching hence druid is assuming these as new fields and allocating value as null while ingesting them. Example below:

Kafka Json:

{"created_date":"2019-02-03T18:35:59.514Z","s_type":"BLOCK","datetime":"20181121_070000","ds_ser":"443551","ven":"abc","cou_name":"USA","c_name":"Piscataway","d_name":"Piscataway","dv_name":"USPSCG","p_name":"443551-CK","redTime":0.0,"wrTime":0.0,"tRate":0,"MTRate":0}

Druid indexer json columns were like:
"columns": [
                    "created_date",
                    "s_type",
                    "datetime",
                    "ds_ser",
                    "ven",
                    "cou_name",
                    "c_name",
                    "d_name",
                    "dv_name",
                    "p_name",
                    "redTime",
                    "wrtime",
                    "trate",
                    "MTRate"
                ],

If we observe above there is a mismatch in wrTime --> wrtime and tRate --> trate. So for me this was the root cause, once after resolving the names druid started to ingest proper values.

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It's that time again... the sun is shining and what better way to kick off summer in Kamloops with a Cocktail Competition. After our largely successful summer campaign, "Real People, Real Experiences", we are excited to be keeping with that theme for the cocktail competition.
We had 5 lounges confirm their involvement this year and today at the kick off event, they all randomly selected a real person, real experience to fashion their version of the Kamloops Cocktail after.
Below are the participating restaurants and lounges and their theme.
First – the 2012 Kamloops Cocktail grand champion winner … Terra Restaurant. Terra is located in downtown Kamloops on Victoria Street and makes incredibly fresh tasty food for lunch or dinner and has a great patio to sip a Kamloops Cocktail. This year, their cocktail will be fashioned after Tim & Annette McLeod of Tranquille Farm Fresh (Real Foodie Experience).
Next – Prestons. Prestons is located in the Coast Hotel Kamloops where guest's savour unique and well prepared dishes overlooking a beautiful tropical courtyard or on the patio with great vistas of the city. Their cocktail will be fashioned after Bodie Shandro, owner of Paddle Surfit (Real Outdoors Experience).
Next up was Hoodoos at Sun Rivers. The brathtaking views of the Kamloops cityscape offer the perfect contrast to the casual elegance of Hoodoos creating an unforgettable setting. Their cocktail will be fashioned after Ron Betts, an owner of Treetop Flyers Zipline (Real Adrenaline Experience).
Blue Dining + Lounge is Kamloops' newest restaurant located in the Hotel 540. Known as fun, fresh and seasonally inspired, Blue is ideal for lunch or dinner in the heart of the downtown. Their cocktail will be fashioned after Donna Chang, owner of North America's only ginseng spa - Sumore Ginseng (Real Diva Experience).
Last but not least, The Fireside Steakhouse & Bar at The Plaza Hotel proudly offers a full range of locally raised black angus steaks and other selections in relaxed, heritage surroundings perfect for any occasion. Their cocktail will be fashioned after Hugh McLennan, talk show host of the Spirit of the West radio show (Real Cowboy Experience).
Judging of the cocktails will take place on August 15th at a location to be determined. Check back to our website in a few weeks to learn more about the 5 Kamloops Cocktails and see how creative each lounge was in matching up their ingredients to their 'real person, real experience'.


Good evening LCMS Families; this is Mr. Weidow, Principal.
Monday, February 11th is an A Day.
Eighth-grade students will be taking a writing assessment on Tuesday and Thursday.
Our PTA will be selling carnations for Valentine's Day. Order forms have been sent home with students. PTA members will be at lunches on Monday through Wednesday to take orders. Orders are due by Wednesday.
Interim report cards are scheduled to go home on Wednesday.
Our next Parent Advisory Meeting will be on Wednesday at 6PM.
Our next dance is scheduled for Friday from 6-8:30.


Most of us are aware of the two major personality types: extroverts and introverts. Each have unique ways for interacting with the world around them. And the population of the world seems to be split, with introverts making up about 50 percent of the population. In theory, that means that every other person in a classroom at California College San Diego is likely to have introverted personalities or characteristics while the other half will lean more towards an extroverted personality.
One can see that simply being an introvert is not a detrimental problem, as some professionals of decades past have implied, but rather that more withdrawn or introspective people are more common in society than previously thought. The real detriment to some individuals, and to some students at California College San Diego, is the unrelated characteristic of being shy.
Shyness is not, by its nature, a detrimental quality in any individual, nor is it only found in introverted people. In fact, a common misconception about introverted individuals is that they are all shy.
The reality of the matter is that all personality types have the ability to house the occasional shy individual, and among those individuals there is a lesser portion that are so effected by their shyness as to cause them potential problems in school and in the work place. But there is still the possibility that this is the case; that a shy person can allow their shyness to become detrimental to them.
Examples of a person's shyness interfering with their scholastic studies may include a business student who is too shy to ask their peers for help on a topic they do not understand or an accounting student who is struggling with a concept but is too shy to raise their hand in class to inquire on the matter or approach their professor following class to receive clarification.
When shyness inhibits learning, as is the case for the above examples, it then becomes a determent to the individual and they may wish to begin applying a few strategies for overcoming this disadvantageous shyness.
The first thing that person can do to overcome their shyness is to strive to find out the source of their shyness. Often, things such as a low self-image, a fear that others are always watching every action, or inaccurate labeling of oneself as a shy person can lead to feelings of shyness.
There are other ideas and suggestions for how to control the feelings of shyness that many people feel. Finding the right techniques to calm themselves so that they can perform well socially in school when needed will help these students find the success they desire both in school and beyond.


text:
shared_examples 'estimate quick action' do |issuable_type|
  before do
    project.add_maintainer(maintainer)
    gitlab_sign_in(maintainer)
  end

  context "new #{issuable_type}", :js do
    before do
      case issuable_type
      when :merge_request
        visit public_send('namespace_project_new_merge_request_path', project.namespace, project, new_url_opts)
        wait_for_all_requests
      when :issue
        visit public_send('new_namespace_project_issue_path', project.namespace, project, new_url_opts)
        wait_for_all_requests
      end
    end

    it "creates the #{issuable_type} and interprets estimate quick action accordingly" do
      fill_in "#{issuable_type}_title", with: 'bug 345'
      fill_in "#{issuable_type}_description", with: "bug description\n/estimate 1d 2h 3m"
      click_button "Submit #{issuable_type}".humanize

      issuable = project.public_send(issuable_type.to_s.pluralize).first

      expect(issuable.description).to eq 'bug description'
      expect(page).to have_content 'bug 345'
      expect(page).to have_content 'bug description'
      expect(issuable.time_estimate).to eq 36180
    end
  end

  context "post note to existing #{issuable_type}" do
    before do
      visit public_send("project_#{issuable_type}_path", project, issuable)
      wait_for_all_requests
    end

    it 'creates the note and interprets the estimate quick action accordingly' do
      add_note("/estimate 1d 2h 3m")

      wait_for_requests
      expect(page).not_to have_content '/estimate'
      expect(page).to have_content 'Commands applied'
      expect(issuable.reload.time_estimate).to eq 36180
    end

    context "when current user cannot set estimate to #{issuable_type}" do
      before do
        guest = create(:user)
        project.add_guest(guest)

        gitlab_sign_out
        gitlab_sign_in(guest)
        visit public_send("project_#{issuable_type}_path", project, issuable)
        wait_for_all_requests
      end

      it 'does not set estimate' do
        add_note("/estimate ~bug ~feature")

        wait_for_requests
        expect(page).not_to have_content '/estimate'
        expect(issuable.reload.time_estimate).to eq 0
      end
    end
  end

  context "preview of note on #{issuable_type}", :js do
    it 'explains estimate quick action' do
      visit public_send("project_#{issuable_type}_path", project, issuable)

      preview_note('/estimate 1d 2h 3m')

      expect(page).not_to have_content '/estimate'
      expect(page).to have_content 'Sets time estimate to 1d 2h 3m.'
    end
  end
end

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Thanks to the French Embassy for alerting us to Goût de France. Part of an initiative of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the "Goût de France / Good France" event brings together more than 5000 chefs on five continents on March 21 to pay tribute to French cuisine. In the Canberra region Le Tres Bon, out at Bungendore and Braddon's Les Bistronomes will be hosting special dinners to celebrate the event. At Le Tres Bon, there's three courses and two wines for $95pp. Sample Christophe Gregoire's scallops terrine with sauce barigoule, Provençale-style lamb shank with French beans and for dessert, a lavender vacherin. The team at Les Bistronomes will be paying tribute to Joel Robuchon with a five-course meal ($80pp), with the option of wine matching for an extra $50pp. It's time to find out why the Riverina is called the "food bowl of Australia". Taste Riverina is bringing delicious food, drink and amazing experiences, direct to the people at the Handmade Canberra Markets on March 23-24. Riverina food, wine, destinations and experiences are becoming more and more popular. Wineries, farmers and organic producers are making waves across industries with the authentic, Riverina brand of welcoming hospitality. Find Riverina Alley at Handmade Canberra at EPIC, sample delicious food and wine, buy Riverina produce and chat to growers and producers from across the region. While you don't need an excuse to visit BentSpoke at least now you can say it's to sample two award-winning beers. BentSpoke won two medals at the International Brewing and Cider Awards recently. The Barley Griffin was awarded gold, while the flagship IPA Crankshaft also won silver in the International Smallpack Ale category. It is the second time in a row for Barley Griffin and Crankshaft, who were awarded gold and silver at the last awards, two years ago. The competition – attracting more than 1000 entries from 50 countries – was judged by an international panel of judges, all of whom must be professional brewers. Only three other Australian breweries were recognised in the awards. With a 130-year history, the International Brewing and Cider Awards medal is the oldest brewing competition in the world and is considered among the industry's most coveted awards. More than 200 breweries and cider mills submit entries and medals for judging in nine beer categories. The Canberra Environment Centre will be celebrating Canberra's bounty of local and sustainable food at the annual Canberra Harvest Festival on Saturday, March 23, from 2pm to 6pm. This free, family-friendly event is an opportunity to bask in the delicious food that our region has to offer and participate in free workshops to help you reduce your ecological footprint. While the kids are running around in the supervised play area you can kick back and enjoy a glass of organic wine from the Local's Bar. If your kids are keen gardeners themselves they can enter the best of their produce in our Kids Veggie Competition or peruse our recently installed display garden. Throughout the day we will be providing a free taste of our popular SustainAbility workshops including keeping backyard chickens, growing mushrooms, improving your compost, understanding solar, electric fences and home energy efficiency. With live music from local artists and delicious coffee from Here's The Coffee, the 2019 Harvest Festival will be a great way to spend an Autumn Saturday afternoon. At the Canberra Environment Centre, corner of Lawson Crescent and Lennox Crossing, by the National Museum. Join the two movements sweeping the nation – birding and craft beer. Smack bang in the heart of Canberra, Jerrabomberra Wetlands is an oasis for native birds and a perfect place to get your twitch on. Meet up with your friendly guide at our neighbour's place, Capital Brewing Co, before heading into the wetlands to uncover a world of feathers. We finish back at the brewery to chat all things birds over a beer on the house. Perfect for first time birders, and seasoned twitchers alike. Bookings essential. Participants must be over 18. $40pp. jerrabomberrawetlands.org.au
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March 19 2019 - 12:00AM
Five (foodie) things to do in Canberra, March 19, 2019
Karen Hardy
Les Bistronomes owners Clement Chauvin and Abel Bariller are hosting a special dinner for Goût de France. Photo: Adam McGrath
Thanks to the French Embassy for alerting us to Goût de France. Part of an initiative of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the "Goût de France / Good France" event brings together more than 5000 chefs on five continents on March 21 to pay tribute to French cuisine.
In the Canberra region Le Tres Bon, out at Bungendore and Braddon's Les Bistronomes will be hosting special dinners to celebrate the event.
At Le Tres Bon, there's three courses and two wines for $95pp. Sample Christophe Gregoire's scallops terrine with sauce barigoule, Provençale-style lamb shank with French beans and for dessert, a lavender vacherin.
The team at Les Bistronomes will be paying tribute to Joel Robuchon with a five-course meal ($80pp), with the option of wine matching for an extra $50pp.
Showcasing the Riverina
It's time to find out why the Riverina is called the "food bowl of Australia". Taste Riverina is bringing delicious food, drink and amazing experiences, direct to the people at the Handmade Canberra Markets on March 23-24.
Riverina food, wine, destinations and experiences are becoming more and more popular. Wineries, farmers and organic producers are making waves across industries with the authentic, Riverina brand of welcoming hospitality. Find Riverina Alley at Handmade Canberra at EPIC, sample delicious food and wine, buy Riverina produce and chat to growers and producers from across the region.
Beer awards
BentSpoke came away with two medals from the recent International Brewing and Cider Awards. Photo: Supplied
While you don't need an excuse to visit BentSpoke at least now you can say it's to sample two award-winning beers. BentSpoke won two medals at the International Brewing and Cider Awards recently. The Barley Griffin was awarded gold, while the flagship IPA Crankshaft also won silver in the International Smallpack Ale category.
It is the second time in a row for Barley Griffin and Crankshaft, who were awarded gold and silver at the last awards, two years ago.
The competition – attracting more than 1000 entries from 50 countries – was judged by an international panel of judges, all of whom must be professional brewers. Only three other Australian breweries were recognised in the awards.
With a 130-year history, the International Brewing and Cider Awards medal is the oldest brewing competition in the world and is considered among the industry's most coveted awards. More than 200 breweries and cider mills submit entries and medals for judging in nine beer categories.
The Canberra Environment Centre will be celebrating Canberra's bounty of local and sustainable food at the annual Canberra Harvest Festival on Saturday, March 23, from 2pm to 6pm. This free, family-friendly event is an opportunity to bask in the delicious food that our region has to offer and participate in free workshops to help you reduce your ecological footprint.
While the kids are running around in the supervised play area you can kick back and enjoy a glass of organic wine from the Local's Bar. If your kids are keen gardeners themselves they can enter the best of their produce in our Kids Veggie Competition or peruse our recently installed display garden.
Throughout the day we will be providing a free taste of our popular SustainAbility workshops including keeping backyard chickens, growing mushrooms, improving your compost, understanding solar, electric fences and home energy efficiency. With live music from local artists and delicious coffee from Here's The Coffee, the 2019 Harvest Festival will be a great way to spend an Autumn Saturday afternoon.
At the Canberra Environment Centre, corner of Lawson Crescent and Lennox Crossing, by the National Museum.
Head down to Jerrabomberra Wetlands for a fun beer and birds event, you pelican. Photo: Gary Schafer
Join the two movements sweeping the nation – birding and craft beer. Smack bang in the heart of Canberra, Jerrabomberra Wetlands is an oasis for native birds and a perfect place to get your twitch on. Meet up with your friendly guide at our neighbour's place, Capital Brewing Co, before heading into the wetlands to uncover a world of feathers. We finish back at the brewery to chat all things birds over a beer on the house.
Perfect for first time birders, and seasoned twitchers alike. Bookings essential. Participants must be over 18. $40pp.
jerrabomberrawetlands.org.au

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Publisher Random House Inc.
Author Cristina Henríquez
The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez
Named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book, an NPR Great Read, The Daily Beast's Novel of the Year, and a Mother Jones, Oprah.com, School Library Journal, and BookPage Best Book of the Year
When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it's not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America. The Book of Unknown Americans is a stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American.
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– The New York Times Book Review
"There's an aura of benevolence in these pages. . . . Henríquez's feat is to make the reader feel at home amid these good, likable people."
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import Preset from './preset'
import CleanImages from './cleanImages'
import CleanStylesheets from './cleanStylesheets'
import CleanJavascripts from './cleanJavascripts'
import CleanDigest from './cleanDigest'
import parallel from './util/parallel'

const Default = {
  debug: false,
  watch: false,
  presetType: 'macro',
  task: {
    name: 'clean',
    description: 'Cleans images, stylesheets, and javascripts.'
  }
}

const Clean = class extends Aggregate {

  /**
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  constructor(gulp, preset, ...configs) {
    let config = Preset.resolveConfig(preset, Default, ...configs)
    let recipes = parallel(gulp,
      new CleanImages(gulp, preset, ...configs),
      new CleanStylesheets(gulp, preset, ...configs),
      new CleanJavascripts(gulp, preset, ...configs),
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The history of our bones – Staring into the abyss (1996)
Simon Conway Morris
An introduction into fossils and how they can share the secrets of the past with Simon Conway Morris.
Sunday 01 Dec 1996 8:00pm Watch time: 59:19
Lecture 1 – Staring into the abyss
In this CHRISTMAS LECTURE, palaeontologist Conway Morris takes the audience through various skulls of animals from different eras and locations including the Tyrannosaurus rex, the sabre-toothed tiger and the horseshoe crab.
Later he demonstrates how the earth has slowed down, what it means, and how this is reflected in fossils.
Palaeontologist Simon Conway Morris delivers five lectures on the important role fossils and bones play in helping us understand the past.
In this set of engaging lectures and demonstrations from Conway Morris, he explains how fossils' markings have helped humans piece together the history of the planet.
There's an exploration of pre-historic creatures and dinosaurs including what caused their extinction. As well as a look at how life and mammals developed after this time and how we can trace our ancestry back more than 3 billion years.
The history of our bones – Staring into the abyss (1996) Read more
The history of our bones – The fossils come alive (1996)
Fossils are used to show how animals from the past fed and moved.
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The history of our bones – The great dyings: Life after death (1996)
What happened to the dinosaurs and other extinct groups of animals? Why do they no longer exist? Simon Conway Morris presents
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The history of our bones – Innovations and novelty (1996)
Fossils are used to explore the origin of animals and their development afterwards with Simon Conway Morris.
The history of our bones – Innovations and novelty (1996) Read more
The history of our bones – Feet on the ground, head in the stars: The history of man (1996)
Where did we come from? Simon Conway Morris takes us three billion years back to the building blocks of life itself.
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What if you could wake up each morning, grind your favorite coffee beans roasted to just the right level based on what you like, and could brew yourself the freshest cup of coffee possible? Now You can. With this coffee bean grinder, you can grind the coffee for yourself or your families.
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Boodschapper is een sciencefictionverhaal van de Vlamink Bob van Laerhoven. Hij noemde het genre zelf liever social fiction. Het was het vierde verhaal in de verhalenbundel Ganymedes 4, uitgegeven door A.W. Bruna Uitgevers. Die verhalenbundel kwam tot stand door het inzenden van lezers en andere liefhebbers van het genre, die weleens een eigen verhaal op papier wilden zetten.

Het verhaal

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Usdaw welcomes Parliamentary support for union recognition at Boohoo
SHOPWORKERS' trade union Usdaw has welcomed the cross party MPs' report into fashion industry sustainability, which has recommended that online clothes retailer Boohoo recognises Usdaw as the union for their staff. The report from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee concluded:- "We recommend that Boohoo engage with Usdaw as a priority and recognise unions for its workers." Usdaw has run a sustained campaign for recognition at Boohoo, so that the union can fully represent members, but the company has so far declined to engage. Usdaw activists recently held a successful action day outside the company's Burnley warehouse, which has over 3,000 staff and is the area's largest employer.
Mike Aylward - Usdaw Divisional Officer says:- "We are pleased that MPs listened to our evidence that countered Boohoo's assertion that there was no demand for union recognition and we welcome their recommendation for the company to engage with us as a priority. It is shameful that large companies like Boohoo won't recognise Usdaw, even when their employees welcome it. Our members at Boohoo are unhappy with the company's position and want Usdaw's support in raising and resolving workplace issues. Boohoo staff want the peace of mind that trade union membership offers, alongside a recognition agreement. We hope that the company will now listen to this cross party committee, as well as their staff, and we look forward to opening talks with Boohoo in the very near future."
House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee; Interim Report on the Sustainability of the Fashion Industry; Para 28:- "At our evidence session with retailers, we questioned the joint Chief Executive, Carol Kane, about union recognition within Boohoo. She told us that Boohoo would recognise a union 'if the workers would like it' but that 'there does not currently appear to be a demand for our workers in our Burnley warehouse to require a union'. Following this session, the union, Usdaw, provided a written submission contesting Boohoo's evidence. This included a timeline dating back to January 2017 outlining 23 recruitment and awareness activities for Boohoo's Burnley staff and written communications to Carol Kane and Boohoo's HR Director to secure union recognition for Boohoo workers. Overall, it is clear that despite Carol Kane's assertion to the committee that Boohoo is open to recognising a trade union to represent their workers, the company has, over a prolonged period of time refused even the most basic level of engagement with Usdaw and appears hostile to the very idea of recognising a trade union. We recommend that Boohoo engage with Usdaw as a priority and recognise unions for its workers."
½ of young drivers admit to being in a car with someone not belted up
½ of drivers aged 18 to 24 admit to being in a car with someone not belted up in the past year, according to new research by Brake, the road safety charity. Young drivers are nearly 3 times more likely to be in a car with someone who isn't belted up compared to all drivers and more than 8 times more likely than drivers over 65. These findings come from a survey of 2,000 drivers, commissioned by Brake and launched on the anniversary of seat belt wearing 1st being made mandatory in the UK, 36 years ago 31 January 1983.
These findings follow on from statistics released by the Department for Transport in 2018, which showed that 27% of the 787 car occupants who died in 2017 were not wearing seat belts. That equals 212 lives which potentially could have been saved if a seat belt was being used, more than 4 every week. Most concurringly of all, these statistics showed a 7% rise on 2016 (20%), indicating that non-seat belt use is increasing.
Brake volunteer, Jeremy Williamson, from the Wirral, has 1st hand experience of the devastation that can be caused by not wearing a seat belt. 20 years ago, 4 of his friends were involved in a car crash. Tragically, 3 of his friends were not wearing seat belts and were all killed, whilst the 1 car occupant who did wear a seat belt survived. Tragedy struck Jeremy once again recently, when his brother was killed in a car crash after crashing into a tree on a rural road; he too, was not wearing a seat belt. Following these devastating losses, Jeremy has put his energies into running his own business, educating young drivers on key road safety messages.
Brake believes that the answer to the growing problem of non seat belt use lies in the safe system approach to our roads, where vehicles are designed to eliminate risk through technology. European legislation is currently being passed which will make seat belt reminder systems for all seats in new cars mandatory from later this year. This move was backed by 8 in 10 drivers in the survey, who stated that seat belt reminders should be required to be fitted for all seats in a car. Notably, younger drivers were less likely to support seat belt reminders in all seats, compared to older drivers, further indicating a potential lack of understanding of the importance of the seat belt in the younger generations.
Commenting, Josh Harris, director of campaigns for Brake said:- "Seat belt wearing became compulsory almost 40 years ago and so it comes as a real shock to hear ½ of young drivers admit they've been in a car with someone not belted up in the past year. We know seat belts save lives and yet there are still 4 people a week who needlessly die on our roads when not belted up. Soon we will see seat belt reminders made mandatory on all seats in new cars; a great step forward. Unfortunately, we've found that young people are most exposed to this issue and they are far less likely to be purchasing new vehicles. We need the government to target safety campaigns at the younger generations to make sure they hear loud and clear that seat belts save lives. Ultimately every death on the road is preventable but a death of someone not wearing a seat belt could so easily be avoided."
Commenting, Brake Volunteer Jeremy Williamson said:- "I would not want anyone to go through the terrible experiences that I have; words can't describe what it was like to attend my best friends' funerals, on consecutive days, nor the complete devastation of losing your brother in a road crash. No 1 should die on our roads, certainly not because they weren't wearing a seat belt, and that is why I work so hard now to educate young drivers. My friends and my brother would likely still be here if they had been wearing their seat belts, so I can't stress enough how important it is to buckle up before you set off"
More North West firms are planning to create new jobs this year as confidence held steady despite economic uncertainty
MORE North West firms are planning to create new jobs this year as confidence held steady despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty, according to January's Business Barometer from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. Companies' confidence in their business prospects rose by 2 points to 29% in the 1st month of 2019, while firms' optimism in the wider economy dropped by 1 point to 11%. Together this gives a robust overall confidence reading of 19 per cent, which is unchanged from the end of in 2018. Businesses' hiring intentions showed that a net balance of 15% of businesses in the Region expect to hire more staff during 2019, up 2 points on last month. This uptick comes despite a net balance of 13% of companies in the North West saying they felt that the UK's exit from the European Union was having a negative impact on their expectations for business activity. This compares with a net balance of 8% that thought it was having a positive impact a month ago. Across the UK, overall confidence rose 2 points to 19% as firms' optimism about the economy climbed 3 points to 10%. Companies' confidence in their own prospects edged up 1 point to 27%. The Business Barometer questions 1,200 businesses monthly and provides early signals about UK economic trends both Regionally and nationwide.
Martyn Kendrick, Regional director for Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said:- "It's great to see that, at the start of 2019, North West companies are increasingly optimistic about their own prospects for the year ahead and are putting that confidence into action by planning to create new jobs. This is particularly encouraging given the backdrop of continued uncertainty domestically and falling global demand. The swing from 8% feeling the UK's exit from the European Union was having a positive impact on their expectations for business activity in December, to 13% saying it's having a negative impact this month, just goes to show what a changeable business environment local firms are operating in. Whatever the year brings, we will be by the side of businesses. As well as offering practical support and advice we have committed to lending ₤1.3 billion to North West firms in 2019 to help them deal with any opportunities or challenges that lie ahead."
Regional picture:-
► Businesses in London showed the most confidence, at 36%, ahead of the West Midlands (31%) and the South East (23%).
► Those in Scotland and the North East were the lEast confident, with an overall confidence of just 1%, 18 points below the national average.
Sectors:-
► The construction and manufacturing sectors had both the highest confidence (30% and 28% respectively) and the strongest hiring intentions (26% and 30% respectively).
► Meanwhile, the retail (14%) and services sectors (19%) had both the loWest confidence as well as the weakest hiring intentions (9% and 8% respectively).
► These pictures were also reflected in the sectors' views about the impact of Brexit. Net balances of 15% (services) and 13% (retail) expected the UK's exit from the EU to have a negative impact, compared with just 3% in manufacturing. A net balance of 9% of construction firms expect it to have a positive impact.
Hann-Ju Ho, senior economist, Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking commented:- "Despite businesses ending 2018 on a low, it's good to see that, across the UK as a whole, they've started the year on a slightly more positive footing. The results for the manufacturing and construction sectors are particularly encouraging and we hope the picture will improve further as we move into February and beyond, if geopolitical uncertainties subside."


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By Joe Haggerty October 07, 2018 2:57 PM
BRIGHTON, Mass – Almost a week into the regular season, the Bruins are still scrambling to figure out what's going to work for them in the middle of their third line.
Youngsters Jack Studnicka. Trent Frederic and Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson showed in training camp that they weren't quite ready for prime time right now, but could very well be in the near future. Sean Kuraly won the third line center job of out of training camp seemingly by default after being injured for most of the preseason, and had just a single shot on goal in each of the first two games without much in the way of offense from the third line.
The Bruins freely admitted heading into the season that they weren't quite sure what they'd get out of Kuraly offensively in a higher spot in the lineup, but the only way of knowing was to play it out during the regular season.
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"I don't know," said Cassidy. "That's part of the experiment. He'll give you effort and he'll possess pucks. Being on the third line won't affect his defensive game. [Riley Nash], we weren't sure on either. There's a little bit of growing pains there and we understand that. What we need to make sure is that our two two lines are up to speed and our power play is producing. Then the bottom two lines give us good puck possession and hard-to-play-against minutes and then let their offensive game grow."
At the end of the day, it might just be that Kuraly is a solid fourth line center and that's going to be his station in life at the NHL level. That's certainly still a pretty good place to be if you're Kuraly.
So now Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy is tinkering with 34-year-old David Backes in the middle between Danton Heinen and Anders Bjork on his wings. It could be an interesting mix with the big, strong and veteran Backes in the middle calling the shots and setting the tone for the line, and Heinen and Bjork freed to use their speed and skill while being protected a bit by their big center in the middle.
Backes, for one, was all for it when asked about it after Sunday's practice, and has made no secret that he looks forward to the days when gets to play the center position he was at for so long during his tenure with the St. Louis Blues.
"Playing center, for me maybe there will be a little more in the legs with the crowd making a ruckus," said Backes, referencing his anticipation for the TD Garden crowd in Monday's home opener. "I'd say it was more of a one-way street with me communicating with them and letting them know how much it means to me when they're talking to me as well. It's maybe a little more imperative with a winger that's facing the wall or getting rimmed puck, that he really can't see anything behind him and really needs that communication rather than a guy in the middle of the ice.
"I think [my role is] exiting our D-zone as quickly as possible and being able to separate guys from pucks and get it into [the winger's] hands, joining the rush and then being a responsible F3 so those guys can get creative down low. I don't want to be just a passive third line checking line, I want to be an offensive threat. I think that's a good way to play a third line role is to keep the other team on their heels. We need to get to that. I don't if I have the Bergeron chemistry from the slot like he and Marchand do, but we can certainly get pucks to the net, find a few rebounds and get a few home. I want to celebrate a few goals with my linemates."
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Cassidy said on Sunday that the Bruins are toggling through their options on the third line at this early point in the season, and clearly are still looking for the right combination to provide support behind the top two lines.
"We took a look at [Backes at center] today because it's something we've discussed," said Cassidy. "It's a plan C type of thing. Going into the year we were going to look at the three younger guys and then take a look at Sean. I think the fact that Sean missed some time [in camp] means we may have to wait on that.
"We kind of toggle him and Backes back and forth. We talked to [Backes] about it and he's got some speed and skill on the wing. That was part of the thinking. So we'll probably look at it tomorrow [vs. Ottawa] and it's an easy switch back if we have to do it and go back to the lines the other night."
It doesn't feel like Kuraly or Backes are going to be the final answer in the middle of the third line this season, however. This humble hockey writer's hunch is that either Frederic or JFK will end up filling that spot a couple of months down the line after a little more seasoning at the AHL level. Frederic, in particular, had an impressive camp after only playing a handful of games for the P-Bruins last season, and could be the kind of player that would plug in nicely with the big-bodied Backes and a young skilled left winger.
But for now the Bruins are trying out different pieces and looking for a little stability while working toward a more permanent solution on a third line that's very clearly still in flux after the free agency departure of Riley Nash.
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Jack Studnicka the next great hope for the Bruins at center position
By Joe Haggerty July 12, 2019 2:31 PM
Jack Studnicka didn't participate in any of the on-ice activities during Bruins development camp a couple of weeks ago, but the 20-year-old clearly remains Boston's best hope as a top-6 center of the future as he approaches his first full pro season.
The 6-foot-2, 175-pound center skated with the Black Aces and served as a reserve for the Bruins during their Stanley Cup playoff run, so he had been skating up until the Final ended in early June. That was the reason for his absence from the ice, but he still participated in the week, served as a leader among the Bruins prospects and continued to sound a determined, confident tone when it comes to helping the NHL team.
It won't happen, of course, but Studnicka is so intent on getting to the NHL as fast as possible that he volunteered to play wing this coming season while knowing that the Bruins will have openings on the wing in NHL training camp.
"Anything to help the team, in my eyes. I'll play any position. Obviously, my goal is to play with the big club, whether that's right wing or center, I'm just going to work as hard as I can and compete," said Studnicka, talking to the Bruins media with a pair of missing front teeth after an incident in the OHL last season. "I think going into any camp, you're in the wrong place if you're goal isn't to make the team. That's my goal going into this year, that was my goal last year and the year before. It should be everybody's goal to come here and try and compete and play at a high level."
That's the sound of a kid that's hungry to get to The Show.
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That's excellent news for the Bruins with a pair of top-6 centers in Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci that are on the wrong side of 30 years old. They could really use some young blood down the middle when it comes to their top-6, even if it's a player that's NHL-ready a year or two down the road, as both Bergeron and Krejci hit their mid-30's.
The numbers were excellent in his final season at the junior level with 36 goals and 83 points for Oshawa and Niagara in 60 games played for them, and another 11 points (5 goals, 6 assists) in 11 playoff games before going pro. During that time he showed off the playmaking, the goal-scoring, the two-way play and the leadership that's been part of the package since he was drafted in the second round back (53rdoverall) in 2017.
"I think I can contribute offensively and that's what I'm going to be looking to do," said Studnicka. "And just compete. Doing all the little things right. That's something the Bruins always talk about along with winning battles. I just want to show them that I can compete at the NHL level."
It's a game the Bruins are looking forward to developing up close at the AHL level in 2019-20 and then deciding how quickly his ascension will be to the NHL level. One of his potential competitors for an NHL spot has gone back to Sweden in Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson, and another in Trent Frederic doesn't have quite the same high-end offensive ability that Studnicka should have when he gains full maturity as a hockey player.
"He was very good," said Bruins player development coordinator Jamie Langenbrunner. "I think a testament to who that kid is, he gets traded to Niagara and he's wearing a letter to the team he was traded to within a month. That's impressive. That means you're stepping right in and doing the things coaches see from leaders. [He had a] good season."
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"He continues to do the little things in the game that translate to being a good pro, When he came to us in Providence at the end, he had some good playoff games, stepped right into the lineup. (Niagara) lost on a Sunday or Monday and he was in our lineup three days later. He's just continuing to grow, adding strength. He's still skinny. He's working at it and he's doing everything he can. It's just taking a little time with him."
Studnicka had a goal and two points in four playoff games for the Providence Bruins at the end of the AHL season, and then practiced all spring with the Bruins while traveling with the NHL team and getting an up-close look at their run to the Stanley Cup Final.
That experience made him equal parts adept learner and anxious reserve awaiting for his own chance to experience the Stanley Cup playoffs.
But there's no substitute for getting to watch Krejci and Bergeron prepare every day, even if it was from the outside watching inward.
"That was awesome," said Studnicka. "One of the best times of my life. You get to watch the Stanley Cup Finals live. You get to travel with the team and see what it's all about and you can just soak things in. Obviously, it was the stage for them and they deserved to be there.
"[It was] an unfortunate ending, but to be there to see it all unfold right in front of my eyes was really cool. [Bergeron and Krejci] are two high-end players in the National Hockey League, they have been for a long time and they will continue to do that. So you see what they do on the ice that's given them success over all those years."
Hopefully Studnicka was paying close to attention to No. 37 and No. 46 during the playoffs because he might just be called upon to help them as soon as next season if he shows that is game is NHL-ready at his next development phase in Providence.
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Danton Heinen "wanted to be an offensive guy," now Bruins need him to be more of that guy
Danton Heinen knows that his numbers dipped from his rookie season to this past year's sophomore campaign where he posted 11 goals and 34 points in 77 games. Still, the 24-year-old earned a big pay raise with his two-year, $5.6 million contract signed earlier in the week to avoid salary arbitration, so he knows he'll be sticking around in Boston for the next couple of season.
Heinen will also be looking to regain some of the offensive mojo that he lost from the first half of his first NHL season when he scored 11 goals and 33 points in his first 43 games. Since then Heinen has just 16 goals and 48 points in his last 111 games, and he finished with a very quiet two goals in 24 games during Boston's Stanley Cup playoff run.
So the young winger knows he's going to need to start gaining a little ground back offensively headed into his third NHL campaign and regain some of that hungry swagger that he seemed to have coming right out of the game in his rookie campaign. The Bruins will need it after watching Marcus Johansson leave in unrestricted free agency with some pretty big job openings on the right wing side on two of Boston's top three lines.
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Certainly, there are young players that will get cracks at top-6 winger positions headed into next season, but Heinen is a guy that has the potential to clinch one of those gigs if he can find his offensive confidence. The responsible two-way play is definitely there and he'll play no lower than third line wing on next season's Bruins team, but the feeling is that there is certainly a higher ceiling for a player that left college hockey after two dominant seasons at the University of Denver.
"I'm going to continue to work on [the little details] because I think if you're good at the little details good things happen, and you're put in better spots on the ice. I'm going to continue to work on those details and then when you get chances, grade-A looks or [chances to] be an offensive guy that's kind of… do your follow up there. That's the kind of player I see myself being," said the 6-foot-1, 188-pound Heinen. "Coming into the league, I wanted to be an offensive guy. I wanted to, you know, create more, and I'm going to keep on working at doing that, trying to produce more for the team.
"I think I also need to, you know, kind of get in a mindset where I'm shooting more and am more confident in my shot because, you know, different opportunities I might pass up or whatever. I believe in my shot, and I believe I can score. I think it's just continuing believing in that and working on it."
To Heinen's point, his shots on goal dropped from 135 in his rookie season to 114 shots in the very same 77 games played last season. Some of it is about firing more pucks on the net and seizing the good scoring chances when the puck is on his stick. Some of it is about getting stronger in the battles areas of the ice and simply going there more often than he does right now.
The Bruins have certainly placed the investment in Heinen that they believe he's going to take the next step offensively after carving out a nice, little third line winger niche for himself over the last couple of seasons. Now it's up to the 24-year-old nice kid from British Columbia to seize the opportunity he's been given and unlock some of the hidden parts of his two-way game that never fully emerged in a sophomore season where he was invisible on the ice a little too often.
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Patrick Dempsey, Brad Pitt And Keanu Reeves In Star-Packed Le Mans 24 Hours
By Anne Sewell
The Le Mans 24 Hours is happening Saturday and besides the racing cars, star-gazers will get a tantalizing glimpse of Brad Pitt, Patrick Dempsey, Keanu Reeves, and Jackie Chan.
Officially Pitt is the main Hollywood representative at the race, as he will be the one who will be waving the start flag, but according to People Magazine, there is an unusually high quotient of celebs involved this year.
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Back in May, the Inquisitr noted that Brad had turned down a guest feature in the U.K. auto show, Top Gear, in a vintage segment titled, "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car," so they had to bring on Jesse Eisenberg and British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay in his place.
However, it was reported that Pitt would definitely be involved in starting the prestigious and exciting Le Mans 24 Hours and this will be the first time a movie actor has been the honorary starter in the last 20 years. Reportedly the last film star to have the flag-waving honor was the French film idol, Alain Delon.
You can watch the beginning of the race in the video below including brief glimpses of Brad and Keanu Reeves:
It turns out, however, he is not the only famous Hollywood character starring at the Le Mans race track on Saturday.
Brad Pitt and Patrick Dempsey set to accelerate the star power at the Le Mans 24 race https://t.co/3umowbo7m1 pic.twitter.com/bQMU9znGCn
— People Magazine (@people) June 17, 2016
Reportedly, the last time there was such a celebrity vibe at the race was back in the 1970s, when both Paul Newman and Steve McQueen drove the challenging, 24-hour race, an elite event that has been going for 110 years.
According to People Magazine, we can blame the former Grey's Anatomy character, "McDreamy" for this.
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Patrick Dempsey is well-known as a lover of motor racing and last year his team had a strong second-place finish, adding an unexpected burst of interest to the event. While he isn't competing this year, he is involved as co-owner of the Dempsey Proton Racing team. It was for this reason that the track organizers decided to capitalize on the fact by naming Dempsey the Le Mans 24 Hours 2016 Ambassador.
In an interview with Motorsport.com, Patrick explained his excitement for motor racing and how it is a dream come true for him.
"It's great to be involved in motorsports from a new perspective. Last year I made the decision to mainly focus on motorsports as a driver. I raced in the FIA World Endurance Championship – one of the biggest and most rewarding challenges in my life."
"This year I am excited to support the team in my new role as a co-owner. Currently we are preparing for Silverstone and the team is doing a world class job. I will be present there for the first round of the season, as well as in Le Mans."
However, Brad Pitt and Patrick Dempsey are not alone in the celebrity status at this year's grueling race. Reportedly on Wednesday, Matrix star, Keanu Reeves flew from Switzerland to Paris and then headed over to Le Mans for the action. Reeves was reportedly invited by the French tire company Michelin and is hoping to use the weekend to introduce his Arch Motorcycle brand to French motorcyclists.
Hoy en Le Mans, Tom Kristensen, embajador-anfitrión de Aud, recibe al actor Keanu Reeves… pic.twitter.com/Bn5ClxBxwl
— Ricardo Delgado (@v8delgado) June 17, 2016
Tweet Translation: Today in Le Mans, Tom Kristensen, Ambassador Aud-host receives the actor Keanu Reeves.
Not to be outdone, another celebrity addition to the Le Mans 24 Hours is action hero and martial arts expert, Jackie Chan. He reportedly arrived on Friday and is participating as the part owner of a racing team.
It seems the martial arts movie actor has had his own, onscreen at least, racing credentials dating back to the 1984 film Cannonball Run 2. Chan was welcomed by Pierre Fillon, president of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, organizers of the race with several photos posted on Facebook, captioned, "Welcome to the 24 hours of Le Mans Jackie Chan."
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It will be interesting to note how many audience members will be paying more attention to the celebrities at the Le Mans 24 Hours than the actual race itself.
[Photo Keanu Reeves by Frazer Harrison, Patrick Dempsey by David Livingston, Brad Pitt by Jason Merritt/Getty Images Entertainment]
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Three arrested in Childress home break-in case
By Kelly Crandall January 2, 2018 5:50 PM
By Kelly Crandall | January 2, 2018 5:50 PM ET
Three men suspected of an attempted break-in at Richard Childress' home last month have been arrested, according to the Davidson County (NC) Sherriff's Office.
Niquan Victorin, 20, Chantz Hines, 18, of Winston-Salem and Armeka Spinks, 18, of Salisbury, North Carolina, are due in Lexington District Court on January 29 on charges of first-degree burglary and first-degree trespassing. All three men are being held in the Davidson County Detention Center under $250,000 secured bond.
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According to a statement released by the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, the investigation involved the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, the Winston-Salem Police Department and the State Bureau of Investigations. During the investigation, it was found that the firearms seen on Childress' security cameras matched firearms that had been reported stolen to WSPD after a Dec. 15 break-in, the statement says.
Search warrants for the men who were identified as the suspects were executed and produced evidence connecting the suspects to both crimes, the sheriff's office says.
On Dec. 17, Childress armed himself and fired at the three men after they had broken a window next to a doorknob to gain access to his home around 10:30 p.m. There were no injuries.
Richard Childress Racing has not commented on the matter.
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Mexico launches a new round of meddling in US elections
For all the talk about Russia meddling in our elections, the real meddler, Mexico, is at it again.
The Mexicans have launched a series of retaliatory tariffs not on products from their country that have been subject to tariffs, such as steel and aluminum, or any import they perceive to be under-tariffed in its own right, but on American goods produced in regions that supported President Trump. The Mexican government is specifically striking out at Trump voters.
Vox, which seems to like this sort of news, has the report:
Five days after President Trump imposed a new set of heavy tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports, Mexico hit back, announcing its own set of sweeping tariffs on US pork, steel, cheese, bourbon, apples, and other goods.
According to Mexican officials, they specifically chose to target goods from Republican strongholds, to hit Trump's party where it hurts ahead of the midterm elections.
Overall, the new penalties will affect about $3 billion worth of US goods. The tax rates vary depending on the product, but most of them are high: There's a 20 percent tariff on US pork shoulder and legs, and some bourbons and cheeses will be hit with 20 to 25 percent taxes.
So they're using trade to change our politics and force us vote differently.
While I am no fan of the tariffs, and certainly don't think the leftist, anti-American steelworkers union deserves any succor from Trump, I am even less of a fan of Mexico's politicized tariff moves, targeted at specific voters, punishing those it disagrees with to make them pay – and, by extension, boosting leftists, the same leftist Democrats its own illegals are known to vote for.
Can't you just see them? Slinking around, poring over trade statistics, looking for the actual addresses of U.S. manufacturers of goods bought in their country, maybe even sending their spies or "diplomats" to these counties to gather intelligence, and then matching these places of manufacture to a database of U.S. counties that voted for President Trump? That's what they did.
Mexico has done amazing amounts of meddling in our elections, particularly the last one. It was the only nation that openly advertised to its nationals to come over to its diplomatic consulates (not places U.S. nationals are allowed to go to) and register to vote in U.S. elections, something that in California undoubtedly led to a lot of Mexican nationals voting and the resulting cancelation of Americans' votes, meaning the disenfranchisement of American voters. That's a foreign policy objective for them.
California, understand, does not check if voters are illegal and on its voter signature form and has slyly changed its "I certify I am a U.S. citizen" to "I certify I am a U.S. resident" to avoid prosecuting illegals for voting. Mexico knows this well. With Mexico registering the voters of what is not its own country, but a foreign country, you can bet a lot of illegal voting has come courtesy of the Mexican government.
The Mexicans also had a government-linked entity run ads in their own country urging their nationals to encourage their American relatives (not distinguishing citizen from non-citizen) to vote here in the U.S. – for Democrats, of course.
This is unacceptable behavior. President Trump should tell Mexico's leaders that if they don't cut it out, they can expect plenty of retaliation on that front from the CIA's finest in their upcoming elections, and maybe they aren't going to like it. Retaliation for meddling, just as for tariffs, can go both ways.


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