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>> Home / FEATURES / MASSROOTS: THE RELATIVELY SHORT BUT NONETHELESS INSPIRATIONAL HISTORY OF BOSTON FOR BERNIE
July 27, 2016 By PATRICK COCHRAN
Photos via Boston For Bernie unless otherwise noted | Graphic by Kent Buckley
Ed. note: I commissioned this recorded narrative, compiled by a journalist-supporter of Bernie Sanders who peripherally volunteered for Boston For Bernie, not out of political motivation (obviously, since Bernie Sanders is no longer in the ballgame), but rather because the story of the group's early and responsive organizing yields immensely critical lessons for progressives. With the fifth anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and its legions nationwide approaching, it's important to consider that both widespread agitation as well as mass grassroots momentum comes in waves—from the anti-nuclear proliferation front in the 1980s, to the emerging post-Sanders movement today. Here's how it was done this time around, in their own words. -Chris Faraone, News+Features Editor
On a recent windy summer day in East Boston, on the banks of the Atlantic Ocean, about 20 Bay Staters gathered at an artist's loft to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Boston For Bernie, a local group charged with the task of winning votes in Massachusetts for the Vermont Senator's now-failed bid to become President of the United States. It was a happy occasion considering the circumstances, as we were filled with optimism for the future and appreciation for everything our crew of strangers achieved in the past year: namely, battling heart and soul for a gruff old socialist from Burlington and his "fringe" candidacy, as the effort was derided by the media at first.
Over the past year, this ragged batch of activists—from first-timers to weathered social workers, young idealists to longtime politicos who have lost more races than they care to count—rushed around the city and throughout New England and beyond, many of us getting caught up in the whirlwind. We worked tirelessly, often just to stay afloat, and a lot of us for no pay or guarantees. What there was, however, was a mutual faith in a beloved champion, as well as in each other.
While it would be impossible to speak with all the tens of thousands of people who helped bolster Bernie in the Bay State, the story of how grassroots grew around the dark horse here is a memorable one, and so with recollections still relatively fresh, I used the opportunity in Eastie to collect stories from central organizers in hopes that their tales can help inform like-minded efforts in the future.
Boston For Bernie Mission Statement: We are an inclusive grassroots group of engaged citizens working to elect Bernie Sanders and to take action for social, political, economic and environmental justice. We are here to build a broad coalition.
JULIANN RUBIJONO (local artist, environmental activist, founder of Boston For Bernie): I can probably trace [first hearing about Sanders] back to just memes and wise sayings about things that I valued and care very much about. How we live in nature and with nature and the health of the environment …
I've been an environmental activist, kind of in a private way. I've done stuff with Mothers Out Front and Oceana, but it's really been just myself. And I remember going to the Climate March in New York in 2014, which, you know, 'Maybe we'll get 70,000' [became] 'Oh my god maybe we're gonna get 100,000' [became] 'Holy shit we went to 400,000.' …
It's amazing how many people came, and I learned that Bernie had walked in this march. Among the people … And he was the only government official, at least to our knowledge, who was there. That was really impressionable …
I remember last year, when he announced [his candidacy for POTUS] on the Senate lawn. I remember being like, 'Wouldn't that be awesome if he were actually the President?' And then in the next paragraph I'm reading is that he doesn't have a shot in hell …
That really triggered something in me … I found that to be, frankly, offensive.
And then I began to look for any existing Bernie groups or anything like that. I discovered that there were a couple Boston for Bernie pages up that only really had a handful of people—I mean literally like five people in each of them, and one maybe had like 15 people in it. So I wrote to the administrator of the page and said, 'Can I be an editor on the page? Can I contribute views that I'm shuffling around just to help people become aware of Bernie and learn about him because I think he's really awesome? And the news isn't getting it right, so let's find a way to get it right.'
And then it was this constant process of meeting new people virtually, meeting people who I've never met before who had interest in Bernie and saying, 'Hey, you wanna have a cup of coffee and let's talk about this? How we can get the word out about this guy?'
JASON LOWENTHAL (social worker, political activist, organizer): I studied politics at BU in the '90s, so I've been aware of Bernie Sanders for a long time. But in the context of a presidential run, I got a T-shirt for Christmas in 2014. I think it was one of the first [Progressive Democrats of America] T-shirts [for] 'Bernie Sanders for President' …
[The PDA] played a significant role in showing Bernie that there was a path to the White House in this election cycle. And, yeah, it's no surprise that I guess they sort of happened to factor into me learning about Bernie running for President …
That was Christmas of 2014. April of 2015 Bernie made his announcement. In between that time I had a friend who also was plugged in and well aware of the goings on in politics. And they set up a Boston For Bernie domain on Facebook and on Twitter. As it turns out, there was [Juliann Rubijono], I had no idea she existed, and she had set up another Facebook page called Boston 4 Bernie and a Twitter account Boston 4 Bernie. And I believe Jacob Lefton, through Reddit, sent an email message to the admins of Boston For Bernie and Boston 4 Bernie … and I was sent [to combine the two] and, you know, we just kind of immediately hit it off.
NICK BOKRON: (Local 7 ironworker, co-founder of Pass Mass Amendment): A fellow colleague of mine mentioned that Boston For Bernie was having an event. I'd been working to get money out of politics since Occupy Boston, and when Bernie announced, I made my first check in contribution to a political campaign … It was kinda like, 'Here it is, I've been trying so hard to get money out of politics, what am I doing at a political fundraiser?'
MARK KATZ (volunteer, retired veteran of numerous progressive campaigns): Last spring, I was asking around to find out, 'Where is the Bernie campaign?' And the Bernie campaign itself hadn't hit Massachusetts yet. And most people said, 'It just isn't here.' And then eventually I saw some references to Boston For Bernie. My initial reaction was, 'This is just a Facebook page with people posting references to articles.' I didn't really get that there were actually meetings and a conglomerate of people getting involved. And then something caught my eye … I went to an event at Jeff Herman's house. That was the beginning.
JEFFREY HERMAN (volunteer, retired U.N. worker): When Bernie Sanders sounded the bell, I found out about this group, came, and participated in various activities … I've seen him three times, each of the times I was on the staff. And I like the vibrations I feel when I listen to him. He's not perfect, because if he were perfect he probably wouldn't have gotten as far as he has.
MICHELLE STOLWYK (volunteer, young professional, transplant from St. Louis): I knew about Bernie before he was running. I was intrigued and I wanted to know what other groups were doing about it. A quick search and I found Boston For Bernie and a bunch of other ones, but that was one that was more active, actually doing things.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: I went up to New Hampshire, to Keene, and I saw Bernie speak at a town hall, and that just sealed it for me. The main thing he said that hit me was, 'It's not about me, it's not about anybody who becomes President. The only way anything's going to change is if a massive group of people become engaged. Get into a movement. It's up to the people to show up.' …
After that I posted a meeting on Facebook. I just said, 'Come to my art studio. Let's talk about Bernie and just see what happens.' And then it just kinda grew organically from there because I was entering into it from a spirited discovery in camaraderie.
JASON LOWENTHAL: We both recognized immediately that we were doing some things that the other person was doing, and we set out immediately to figure out how we could help [each other].
JULIANN RUBIJONO: It really just started taking off like wildfire. [Originally] 13 folks came and then the next three meetings really created the mission statement. I just opened up the floor to people and said, 'What do we want to be here? Should we be just a fan club of people who get together or do we want to do something? Do we want to be something?' And that was the consensus from this really organic space of people who'd never met each other.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: Because the campaign wasn't in town yet—I think there was something like 14 people on his staff when we started, like, his official campaign staff—people were finding us through Facebook or through whatever means, and holding us accountable for his campaign. [We would say,] 'Well we're not the campaign, we're a grassroots group.' [But people would still ask,] 'We need fliers, we need this.' So from the minute we started we were racing and throwing the bricks down, trying to build the road as we were going …
We would reach out to other folks around Massachusetts and see what they were doing, and try to head out to Western Massachusetts and find out what the progressive Democrats were doing and listen in on conference calls from People For Bernie or other grassroots organizers who were kind of spontaneously putting out how-to information on what to do and how to communicate.
JASON LOWENTHAL: We threw a fundraiser literally, I think, like, a week or two later. On July 3 at the Middle East in Cambridge we had Boston Bands For Bernie 1. I think we were gonna call it 'Bernie Man,' but then I think we got scared that too many people were going to take over the [club]. So we set up Boston Bands For Bernie 1 and we took off from there. [Ed. note: I spoke at this event, speaking on stage as a voter and a citizen, and was met with hostile looks from the crowd when I insulted the Democratic Party and shouted out Green Party nominee Jill Stein. -CF]
JULIANN RUBIJONO: Our very first event happened spontaneously because Jason Trefts at the Middle East said, 'Hey let's do a Bands for Bernie.' … We had no time [but] we said, 'Alright, let's run with this.' And [Trefts] had some beautiful, already-established relationships and had called in some people … That was the first expression of bringing in political [speakers], bringing in Bernie themes, and coupling it with music …
We had probably over 300 people at the concert over the course of the night and that's where we got a lot of our first volunteers from. These were early adopters.
MICHELLE STOLWYK: I came to a meeting [in East Boston] before I phonebanked or canvassed or anything like that. And then the first actual volunteer work I did was canvassing in New Hampshire … But what kept me was the community. The shared sort of varieties of goals.
MARK KATZ: In my experience working on campaigns, I gravitated to being the data person. In a bigger campaign, there's databases, there's voter files, stuff like that. In this organization, at that point in time, we didn't have access to a voter list. We didn't have any money, I guess we still don't. So our primary focus at that point was just spreading the Bernie word and making up our own list of contacts.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: I call Mark our dragon because he sits on our gold. We've been very protective of the list that we've gathered organically to try to keep it secure.
RALLYGOERS
JASON LOWENTHAL: We held this thing on the 15th [July, 2015] and like a thousand people showed up [at Dewey Square]. And not only that, they stayed, and civilly listened to speakers. And then after that—and I completely expected the event to fall apart by that point—everyone wanted to break up into smaller groups and break down into committees.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: We had to act really, really fast and find a venue immediately, with no resources, no money, no organizational structure. Making it up as we go. Which was OK for me on some level because I'm a theater director by training and by practice, but I hadn't done it in a long time.
JASON LOWENTHAL: This was before the first 10,000-person rally, this was before the first 5,000-person rally, this was before the first rally … The fact that there was such a thirst for that, spontaneously demonstrating itself, spontaneously crying out, 'Feed us,' that was amazing …
Bernie had been running for about two-and-a-half months at that point, but there was very little indication that it was gonna be like this. At this time a year ago we were looked at like, 'You people are crazy. This guy isn't gonna make it' 'til February 1, he's not gonna make it to the New Hampshire primary' …
The next big event was October 3, when Bernie came to [Boston] … The campaign sort of asked us to try to round up as many volunteers as we could get to come the night before to prepare, and we did … Hundreds of people came to volunteer to help the tens of thousands of people that were expected the next day … The unofficial number was 32,500 through the [Boston Convention and Exhibition Center] door.
Bernie supporters at a rally in New Hampshire two days before the Granite State primary | Photo by Chris Faraone
GRASSIER ROOTS
JASON LOWENTHAL: It was right around Thanksgiving that the campaign started getting ready to come to town. [The official Bernie Sanders campaign set up shop in Massachusetts, in Charlestown, in November 2015.]
JULIANN RUBIJONO: This is where we were at a bit of a crossroads. Here we were representing grassroots, but Bernie's campaign was supposed to be grassroots.
JASON LOWENTHAL: I think the conflict had been going on … but we didn't really know—and I think this has been a central conflict through the whole thing. It was 'grassroots organizing' vs. 'textbook organizing.'
JULIANN RUBIJONO: So I applied to the campaign and said, 'OK, is there a way we can make this an official thing?' Jason and I applied to the position as a team because we had been doing this as a team all along … But they could only hire one person. So they ended up hiring me. Jason and I split stuff up anyway so it worked out. But they ended up hiring me as grassroots liaison, really more of a field organizer …
In a way it became a conflict because my existing relationships couldn't be nurtured [by the official campaign] … That became a challenge …
Boston For Bernie just kind of merged into the campaign … A few [Boston For Bernie] members also represented us at other events that grew out of other national stuff … But Boston For Bernie essentially wasn't, while I was working for the campaign, its own thing … They encouraged me, 'Just hand it off.' But that's when I really realized what my role was. So I hadn't really appreciated that.
MARK KATZ: The campaign came to town in early- to mid-November. I jumped right on that, as did a lot of other people from [Boston For Bernie]. A lot of these other people, it was their first time working on a real campaign. For me it was another campaign, but it was a unique candidate.
ZACHARY HOLLOPETER (East Boston social worker, joined Boston For Bernie in early December 2015): Not long after I came on board we started to get into into campaign mode. When the campaign came into town, essentially most of us who were very active with Boston For Bernie really went all in and volunteered as much time as possible. For four days a week I was running the shift for phonebankers at Bernie's headquarters in Charlestown, and I was teaching people how to phonebank. I also did some canvassing and was the town captain for East Boston.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: Zach held it together.
JASON LOWENTHAL: I think that by March, we realized that it was happening very quickly … I was on the phone 12 hours a day from New Year's through March 1.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: We were so close. It was a virtual tie because Bernie got 45 delegates and Hillary got 46 delegates … But the narrative, obviously, is that we lost Massachusetts. And of course people were very disappointed …
When [Massachusetts State Campaign Director] Paul Feeney first came on board he told us, 'You guys, Massachusetts is ahead of every other state in the country, other than Texas. You have laid the foundation down. You've laid the foundation down to the point where we can go from here. There's enough momentum.' So that felt really good. It felt good to have that acknowledged.
Photo by Chris Faraone
RE-BOOT
JASON LOWENTHAL: It feels like March 1 was just yesterday … [After losing Massachusetts] I think we all jumped back. The stakes might have felt lower, but they were also higher because there were fewer delegates left. Most fighting isn't in your backyard. It was just like, 'We've got to do more.'
JULIANN RUBIJONO: There wasn't really a break because the field team moved right into the out-of-state team and helped with New York, so we had people going down there. Then help with Connecticut and Rhode Island. So there was a lot of exodus-ing going on.
JEFFREY HERMAN: I canvassed in other states, made phone calls.
MARK KATZ: I continued to work with the same people when they transitioned to run the Connecticut campaign. I did some remote work for them during the campaign. And now we're back, figuring out what we do next.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: There was debriefing, that airing out. There was the, 'Do I want to still keep doing this?' I wanted the movement to keep moving. But we're still trying to feel out how that infrastructure can work. We dwindled all the way down to like three people at one meeting. I was like, 'Is this gonna keep going?' And then the next meeting we got back up to 10, and then someone called and said, 'Hey, I've got some gigs lined up at the Midway, let's start it up again.' So it's like, 'Okay, the interest is still out there. People want to keep at it, so I'll keep showing up.'
JASON LOWENTHAL: It was a different kind of urgency. Like, right now I'm spending a bunch of time beginning to organize for the Democratic Convention … Our vacation is just having a chance for the first time to plan ahead as opposed to leaning back on our heels, responding to what's happening.
BERNIE OR BUST
NICK BOKRON: I can't vote for [Hillary Clinton]. To me she's a corporate militarist. I have no problem at all with a female candidate, I think guys screw things up bad enough. We need a female candidate, but it's just not Hillary for me …
MARK KATZ: I'm not Bernie or Bust. My second biggest nightmare would be Hillary as President. My biggest nightmare would be Donald Trump as President. So I'm just not, not going to do anything to help that happen.
JEFFREY HERMAN: I don't trust [Clinton]. Everything she says she colors with a little bit of innuendo. That it's the right thing to be doing, that it's the right position to take. But I don't take her for her word … I don't trust her at all.
ZACHARY HOLLOPETER: I'm fortunate enough that I guess I can dodge the question by saying that I live in Massachusetts, so I don't have to make that choice. But I think if it came down to it and I lived in a swing state, the reality of it is I'd probably drive to the voting booth and hope that all my tires went flat and there was a very good reason that I couldn't end up getting there.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: I know for me, I'm loving that we have privacy, so I don't have to reveal who I'm gonna vote for … But I think what's valuable, as you can see, is the diversity of [responses]. What is it about this guy [Sanders] that brings that many perspectives together?
JASON LOWENTHAL: I would never vote for Donald Trump, but I would vote for Donald Trump before I would vote for Hillary Clinton.
ZACHARY HOLLOPETER: Right now I'm doing different administrative work like working on the newsletter for Boston For Bernie … and trying to keep everyone on the same page …
The overall game plan is to kind of look down-ticket after Bernie. Kind of help prop up other candidates who are running for office … There's a real movement building here that's gotten so much bigger and stronger than Bernie Sanders.
NICK BOKRON: Through Jason I found Make GE Pay. We [filed] an amendment … in the [Massachusetts] Senate to alter the [deal] given to [General Electric to bring their headquarters to Boston].
MICHELLE STOLWYK: [Bernie] is sort of in it for the long haul. It's not just about the [election] … After the election, he's still in it … Educating people. Just keeping people active in all the different elements, and engaged. People have concerns. They are upset, they are angry about things but they don't see anywhere to go or any way to fix it. And so I think organizations like this are gonna keep moving forward.
JASON LOWENTHAL: We have a chance to leverage what we've all accomplished this past year in terms of organizing the left into something lasting and meaningful. I think that is the urgency of what's happening right now …
Are we then gonna be changing our vehicles? We might be. Are we gonna be changing the course that we take to where we're going? We might be. But we're holding true at least 'til Philadelphia. And most likely, in some way or another, through the general election.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: I registered massmovement.org because I think the next step will be creating a digital platform … for all the different regions in Massachusetts to have a mode of communication, what actions they're taking, educating people, and bringing about a reenfranchisement.
JASON LOWENTHAL: I think that what brought us together is we all recognize that the way the American political system is structured needs to be radically reorganized. We all have different ways of doing it, but we see this as a chance for [all] those ways to be heard.
JULIANN RUBIJONO: The group has always been whoever shows up. It isn't anything other than that. Whoever shows up.
This feature was produced in coordination with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.
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Patrick Cochran is an independent journalist covering politics and grassroots activism.
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Q: Service invoked too many times for one day: gmail read I'm running across the various rate limits with gmail, and I'm not sure what I can do to work around them.  What I'm trying to accomplish is to search for any messages in gmail which have certain "expire" labels on them (with various times in minutes).  My intent is to have mail rules apply these labels on messages that become irrelevant after a certain amount of time.  I want these messages to stay in my inbox until they expire, and then automatically get archived.  I based the general technique off of a post I saw at http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-apps-script.html
I have this on a trigger that runs the "expire" function every five minutes.
So, every five minutes, it makes 10 calls to GmailApp.getUserLabelByName, and one to getThreads().  Then depending on how many matching threads it finds, for each one it:
1 x getFirstMessageSubject
1 x getLastMessageDate
1 x addLabel
1 x moveToArchive
1 x removeLabel
Which is 5 calls per thread.
So, I would think, that I'm making 10 call / 5 minutes, or 2880 calls a day just looking for messages.  Then, assuming I find 1,000 messages over the course of the day, an additional 5,000 calls.  Combined that would be 7,880 calls, which is under what I thought were the quota limits, but I'm a little unclear there.  According to https://docs.google.com/a/macros/latinschool.org/dashboard under Quota Limits, it would appear that for a Google Apps for Edu account, like mine, I should be able to do 10,000 GMail Read and 10,000 GMail Write actions per day.  I think all of my calls would fall under one of those two.
I can reduce the number of labels/times I'm using, and not get the subject (which I'm using for debugging), but beyond that, I'm not sure how I can make this script more efficient. And I'm totally unclear as to how I'm hitting the quota (see math above).
Here's my code:
/**
 * Expire mail after set time by archiving based on labels
 * based on http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-apps-script.html
 * For more information on interacting with GMail labels, see
 * https://developers.google.com/apps-script/class_gmaillabel
 */

var expiretimes = [5,15,30,60,120,180,240,480,720];  // times in minutes to expire messages

function getLabelName(i) {
  return "expire/expire " + i;
}

function setup() {
  // Create the labels we'll need for expiring
  GmailApp.createLabel("expire");
  for (var expt = 0; expt < expiretimes.length; expt++) {
    GmailApp.createLabel(getLabelName(expt));
  }
    GmailApp.createLabel("expired");
}

function expiremsgs(expiremin) {
  // get current date
  var nowdate = new Date();
  Logger.log(nowdate);

  // get the label for given name
  var label = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName(getLabelName(expiremin));
  var expiredlabel = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName("expired");
  var threads = label.getThreads();
  Utilities.sleep(1000);
  for (var i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
    Logger.log("i: " + i);
    Logger.log(threads[i].getFirstMessageSubject());
    var lastmsgdate = threads[i].getLastMessageDate();
    Logger.log(lastmsgdate);
    var minold = (nowdate-lastmsgdate)/60000; // convert from ms to minutes
    Logger.log(minold);
    if (minold > expiremin) {
      threads[i].addLabel(expiredlabel);
      threads[i].moveToArchive();
      threads[i].removeLabel(label);
      Logger.log("Archived");
    }
  Utilities.sleep(1500);
  }
};

function expire() {
  for (var expt = 0; expt < expiretimes.length; expt++) {
    expiremsgs(expt);
  }
}

A: I took a good long look at what your were doing, and it does look like your math is correct. However, I know that using batch actions is best practice when working with spreadsheets. So, I did some looking in the reference materials and I found a few key functions:
GmailApp.moveThreadsToArchive(GmailThreads[]);
label.removeFromThreads(GmailThreads[]);
label.addToThreads(GmailThreads[]);

These functions, I assume, will reduce the number of read/write calls you are making with the API. (Google OPs please correct me if I'm wrong.)
Nonetheless, while I was playing with your code, I discovered a that these functions can only handle 100 threads at a time, so if there are more than that, then the operation must be batched. I also checked the speed and scalability of calls to the GmailApp service, and discovered that the delay for most calls is loosely independent of the number of items involved. Batch archiving 6 threads takes about (within a second or two) the same time as 100, at least in my testing. I also made an effort to do as much as possible in the script before going out the Gmail. Finally, I modified the way in which you were interacting with the timeouts. I couldn't figure out for the life of me how you were getting the value in the array, so I modified that as well as the labels. They will now read "expires/in 15min" etc. The script takes about 30 seconds to process 300 or so messages which actually have tags.
Another approach might be to run a single search looking for all of the labels in one go, then checking the labels afterwards. This, however, might still call too many calls back to Gmail as you check each thread's properties.
With all of that out of the way, here is my iteration of your code:
var expiretimes = [5,15,30,60,120,180,240,480,720];

function getLabelName(i) {
  return "expire/in " + expiretimes[i]  + " min";
}

function setup() {
  GmailApp.createLabel("expired");
  GmailApp.createLabel("expire");
  for (var expt = 0; expt < expiretimes.length; expt++) {
    GmailApp.createLabel(getLabelName(expt));
  }
}

function expire() {
  var allExpThreads = [];
  for (var expt = 0; expt < expiretimes.length; expt++) allExpThreads = allExpThreads.concat(expiremsgs(expt));
  if(allExpThreads.length > 100) batchExpire(allExpThreads);
  else GmailApp.moveThreadsToArchive(allExpThreads).getUserLabelByName("expired").addToThreads(allExpThreads);
}

function expiremsgs(expiremin) {
  var label = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName(getLabelName(expiremin));
  var threads = label.getThreads();
  if(threads.length > 0){
    var threadsToExpire = threads.filter(msgExpired, {date: new Date(), min: expiretimes[expiremin]});
    if(threadsToExpire.length > 100) batchRemoveLabel(threadsToExpire,label);
    else if(threadsToExpire.length > 0) label.removeFromThreads(threadsToExpire);
    return threadsToExpire;
  }
  return [];
}

function msgExpired(thread) {
  return this.date - thread.getLastMessageDate() / 6000 > this.min;
}

function batchRemoveLabel(threads,label) {
  var start = 0, end = 100;
  do {
    label.removeFromThreads(threads.slice(start,end));
    start = end;
    end = end > threads.length - 100 ? threads.length : end + 100;
  } while (start < threads.length);
}

function batchExpire(threads) {
  var start = 0, end = 100;
  var expLabel = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName("expired");
  do {
    GmailApp.moveThreadsToArchive(threads.slice(start,end));
    expLabel.addToThreads(threads.slice(start,end));
    start = end;
    end = end > threads.length - 100 ? threads.length : end + 100;
  } while (start < threads.length);
}

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Washington Wizards and Capitals proprietor needs Fugazi to reunite for charity live performance
Ted Leonsis, the billionaire proprietor of the NBA's Washington Wizards and NHL's Washington Capitals, is hoping that he can get seminal post-hardcore heroes Fugazi to reunite for a charity live performance on the Capital One Enviornment in D.C.
Fugazi, after all, are one of many nice bands to return out of Washington, D.C., churning out a legendary profession for greater than 15 years from the late '80s by way of the early 2000s. Nonetheless, the band has been in perpetual hiatus since 2003, with followers clamoring for a reunion ever since.
In calling for Fugazi to reunite, Leonsis was impressed by a artistic work by graphic designer Carni Klirs, whose present gallery exhibit, "Motion. Response. Motion: Visualizing Fugazi", showcases not solely the band's musical achievements however the affect Fugazi have made in native activism and fundraising.
Leonsis shared an article on Klirs' exhibit on Twitter, and wrote, "Allow us to all work to get Fugazi to reunite, play at our Enviornment, we'll compensate the band, and make a significant donation to native charities of their names, it has been too lengthy. They resonate nicely with all generations, we miss them."
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— Ted Leonsis (@TedLeonsis) Might 13, 2019
Fugazi famously charged solely $5 per ticket again of their taking part in days, so it's unclear how that coverage would translate to a significant enviornment charity gig, if Leonsis had been capable of make the proposed live performance occur.
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Again in February, bassist Joe Lally stated, "You by no means wish to say by no means", when requested about the opportunity of Fugazi ending their hiatus. In that very same interview, drummer Brendan Canty added, "If we received again collectively, it must be from the spirit of creativity. You may't put an inherently artistic group again collectively after which not have the artistic component."
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Q: In query with joins and multi-table/field ORDER BY, how to set LIMIT offset to start from a particular row identified by a unique id field? Suppose I have four tables: tbl1 ... tbl4. Each has a unique numerical id field. tbl1, tbl2 and tbl3 each has a foreign key field for the next table in the sequence. E.g. tbl1 has a tbl2_id foreign key field, and so on. Each table also has a field order (and other fields not relevant to the question).
It is straightforward to join all four tables to return all rows of tbl1 together with corresponding fields from the other three fields. It is also easy to order this result set by a specific ORDER BY combination of the order fields. It is also easy to return just the row that corresponds to some particular id in tbl1, e.g. WHERE tbl1.id = 7777.
QUESTION: what query most efficiently returns (e.g.) 100 rows, starting from the row corresponding to id=7777, in the order determined by the specific combination of order fields?
Using ROW_NUMBER or (an emulation of it in MySQL version < 8) to get the position of the id=7777 row, and then using that in a new version of the same query to set the offset in the LIMIT clause would be one approach. (With a read lock in between.) But can it be done in a single query?
# FIRST QUERY: get row number of result row where tbl1.id = 7777

SELECT x.row_number
FROM
   (SELECT @row_number:=@row_number+1 AS row_number, tbl1.id AS id
    FROM (SELECT @row_number:=0) AS t, tbl1
    INNER JOIN tbl2 ON tbl2.id = tbl1.tbl2_id
    INNER JOIN tbl3 ON tbl3.id = tbl2.tbl3_id
    INNER JOIN tbl4 ON tbl4.id = tbl3.tbl4_id
    WHERE <some conditions>
    ORDER BY tbl4.order, tbl3.order, tbl2.order, tbl1.order
   ) AS x
WHERE id=7777;

Store the row number from the above query and use it to bind :offset in the following query.
# SECOND QUERY : Get 100 rows starting from the one with id=7777

SELECT x.field1, x.field2, <etc.>
FROM
  (SELECT @row_number:=@row_number+1 AS row_number, field1, field2
   FROM (SELECT @row_number:=0) AS t, tbl1
   INNER JOIN tbl2 ON tbl2.id = tbl1.tbl2_id
   INNER JOIN tbl3 ON tbl3.id = tbl2.tbl3_id
   INNER JOIN tbl4 ON tbl4.id = tbl3.tbl4_id
   WHERE <same conditions as before>
   ORDER BY tbl4.order, tbl3.order, tbl2.order, tbl1.order
  ) AS x
LIMIT :offset, 100;

A: Clarify question
In the general case, you won't ask for WHERE id1 > 7777.  Instead, you have a tuple of (11,22,33,44) and you want to "continue where you left off".
Two discussions, with
That is messy, but not impossible.  See Iterating through a compound key .  Ig gives an example of doing it with 2 columns; 4 columns coming from 4 tables is an extension of such.
A variation
Here is another discussion of such:  https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/164428/should-i-store-data-pre-ordered-rather-than-ordering-on-the-fly/164755#164755
In actually implementing such, I have found that letting the "100" (LIMIT) be flexible can be easier to think through.  The idea is: reach forward 100 rows (with LIMIT 100,1).  Let's say you get (111,222,333,444).  If you are currently at (111, ...), then deal with id2/3/4.  If it is, say, (113, ...), then do WHERE id1 < 113 and leave off any specification of id2/3/4.  This means fetching less than 100 rows, but it lands you just shy of starting id1=113.
That is, it involves constructing a WHERE clause with between 1 and 4 conditions.
In all cases, your query says ORDER BY id1, id2, id3, id4.  And the only use for LIMIT is in the probe to figure out how far ahead the 100th row is (with LIMIT 100,1).
I think I can dig out some old Perl code for that.


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On behalf of Dean Standish Perkins & Associates posted in Fatal Motor Vehicle Accidents on Friday, February 12, 2016.
According to the Washington State Patrol, a car accident that occurred on Feb. 5 near Snoqualmie Pass left two dead and five with injuries. It was believed that up to 10 vehicles were involved, including two semi trucks.
Authorities believed that a 24-year-old man was driving his semi truck in the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 when he lost control of the vehicle. The truck came to a stop and was blocking all of the westbound lanes when other vehicles collided into it. The collision of the first vehicle resulted in the deaths of a 49-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman. The truck driver was taken into police custody. Troopers reportedly indicated that drugs or alcohol could have been a factor in the crash. Five others were being treated at a nearby hospital for injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening.
The driver was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide. He was denied bail while the investigation was still underway and remained at King County Jail.
Whenever a car or truck accident occurs, there is a possibility that those involved could suffer fatal injuries. Because fatal motor vehicle accidents can also cause hardship for the surviving family members, the family may potentially have the ability to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver who caused the accident. If the driver was working when the crash occurred, the family may also be able to name the employer in the lawsuit in addition to the driver. Wrongful death statutes in many states set forth the types of damages that can be sought, and they typically allow funeral and burial expenses to be recovered.


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The Gran Via is a great dividing line that separates the districts of the city: to the north of the avenue is Malasaña – going west – and Chueca – to the east and the south zone of Sol and Opera. The Gran Via starts where it intersects with calle Alcalá, very close to Sol. At the other end, the via finishes at Plaza de España and here begins the districts of Moncloa and Arguelles.
Gran Via is the nerve centre of urban life in Madrid: always crowded with people in a hurry going shopping, to the cinema, musicals, work……With its splendid buildings, the Avenue has a certain New York feel to it.
A few meters away from the metro Callao, about three blocks from the zero kilometre mark of the city and in Puerta del Sol. In the absolute centre of the capital, the most historic along with the most modern, the most visited by tourists and at the same time the most frequented by the people of Madrid.
Walking a few minutes from this apartment you arrive at the most visited sites of the city. Emblematic sites such as the Plaza Mayor, Palacio Real, and Gran via plus Madrid's own Broadway is only a block away. Prominent and globally known museums like the Reina Sofia, Prado, and the Thyssen Bornemizsa. Also the large parks such as the Retiro and Jardines de Oriente.
Everything is at your fingertips without having to take the metro. Many people also say this zone is where to find the restaurants, bars and shops most typical of Madrid. A place to find the real essence of Madrid.
There is little to present of this particular point as here begins ´´Kilometre 0`` of Madrid, where they begin to count the kilometre distance for all the national highways. The absolute centre of the capital.
From the apartment you can see the Puerta del Sol with its representative clock and all the bustle of this big city. The area is full of typical bars, restaurants and shops for tourists to feel the essence of Madrid.
Next to the Plaza Mayor is an area very typical of Madrid and only three minutes to the Palacio Real and the Jardines de Oriente, made accessible to pedestrians only a few years ago where you can walk through its green zones and have a drink in any of the numerous terraces that are in Opera and the surrounding area.
With a metro stop 100m away and numerous buses that can take you to anywhere in the city in a short amount of time.
In the first section of the via, there are monumental buildings: the most prominent is the Metrópolis building, directly in front you find the Circulo de las Bellas Artes, one of the most active cultural centres and at the same time with more character of the city. The beautiful building has a roof terrace where they sometimes hold concerts during the summer.
The Telefonica building is another emblematic construction of the Gran Via. When inaugurated in 1929 it became the first skyscraper of Madrid. With its 81 floors it could be seen from anywhere in the city. In the part closest to the Plaza de Callao, there is also the emblematic Capital building, with a modern American style that is crowned by a semicircular Schweppes sign that has become an icon of the city.
In the Plaza de Callao there are a number of cinemas and theatres that still remain, but little by little house the best-known international fashion stores and boutiques, but in all cases are buildings from the 20`s, a characteristic alike to that of the Palacio de la Prensa.
The Gran Via is known as the Spanish Broadway, not only for its similar, original American architectural style, but also due to its rise in the last few years as a musical capital of the World. It's ranked as third in the World with its number if staring works per year and all of these are shown in this enormous and fantastic Avenue full of multicolour lights, huge painted sign boards and buskers.
From Callao, there are two well known streets only accessible by pedestrians that arrive directly to Puerta del Sol: the calle Preciados where you can find the shopping centres FNAC and Corte Inglés, and the calle del Carmen. At the end of calle Carmen is the famous statue of the ´´Oso and the Madroño`` a very popular site of Madrid and in Puerta del Sol.
The people of Madrid love their shows in masses, whether they are stories of Victor Hugo, Lloyd Weber, Walt Disney or their own stories with versions of 80´s pop with actors and singers….
Le rêve de tout visiteur!


Heather Merrill's An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) was the subject of a provocative, inspiring, and sometimes contentious 'Author Meets Critics' session at the 2007 AAG meeting in San Francisco. This was the second in a series of sessions sponsored by the Qualitative Research Specialty Group that highlighted the first books of authors who advance the field of qualitative research in innovative ways. The panelists in the session—Patricia Ehrkamp, Linda McDowell, Katherine McKittrick, Heidi Nast, and Alison Mountz—acknowledged in quite distinct ways how Heather's research raised difficult questions regarding the agendas, politics and practices of transnational feminisms in (postcolonial) Europe. As there was not enough time to discuss the remarkably diverse set of responses and insights raised by the author, panelists and audience, we decided to continue this conversation through the pages of this review forum.


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*#  chmod 666 /dev/simulator

*#  ls -l /dev/simulator

*crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 60, 0 2012-05-22 19:22 /dev/simulator

I am trying to open this device and write something on it, but getting an error:

application: Simulator opening failed

which is defined by me in condition, but why am I not able to get into the device?
Here is my code:
/*
* Some Other Code *
*/

static int simDev;
simDev = open("/dev/simulator", O_RDWR);
if(simDev<0) {
 printf("application: Simulator opening failed.\n");
 exit (1);
}
else
 printf("Device opened successfully.");

signal(SIGIO, signal_handler);
pid_t pid;
pid = getpid();
write(simDev, &pid, 4);

/*
* Some Other Code *
*/

close(simDev);

Can anyone please help me correct my mistake?

A: You don't have a kernel module that defines the other end of that device.


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Widespread outrage followed publication in 1906 of [[Upton Sinclair]]'s novel, ''The Jungle,'' which detailed the horrible conditions in Chicago's packinghouses. Roosevelt sent sociologists and social workers to investigate the meat-packing industry in Chicago. Their report to the president was 'revolting,' but since Roosevelt feared the impact on ranchers and European meat importers, he withheld the report from publication. Sinclair was so upset that he provided specific information to newspapers. Roosevelt then had the commissioners put their report in writing and sent it to Congress. This led to a hearing before Congress; witnesses were asked about seeing a dead hog slide partway into a men's privy. Although Sinclair was a Socialist and his main interest was in the stockyard workers, not consumers, the turmoil over tainted meat helped move Congress to enact the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The act itself had been drawn up by experts in the Department of Agriculture and remains in effect in the 21st century.<ref>James Harvey Young, "The Pig That Fell into the Privy: Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' and the Meat Inspection Amendments of 1906." ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine'' 1985 59(4): 467-480</ref>
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Announcement of the 10th WCRR – World Conference on Rail Research (25 – 27 November 2013, Sydney)
The World Congress on Railway Research is the world's foremost international forum for the promotion, development and exchange of the latest innovations in the global rail industry. WCRR 2013 will see the exchange of best practice between researchers, manufacturers and operators from across the global rail industry. In addition it will be an ideal opportunity for networking.
The conference will take place in Sydney, Australia, a world renowned tourist and business destination. By combining the conference with the flagship Australasian rail conference and exhibition AusRAIL PLUS, the joint event will create the biggest ever rail conference- /exhibition hosted in the region.
UIC is – along with a number of UIC members, namely AAR (USA), Deutsche Bahn (Germany), FS / trenitalia (Italy), RSSB (U.K), RTRI (Japan) and SNCF (France) – involved in the organisation of this prestigious event, which in the press has recently also been mentioned as "the Olympic Games of Rail Research". The organisation of this 10th WCRR is led by the three Australian railway organisations RAIL-CRC, RISSB and ARA.
The conference theme chosen by the organisers for this 10th edition of the WCRR is "Keeping ahead of the curve through the sharing of knowledge". During a recent three-day "Marathon meeting", the Executive Committee went through 538 abstracts and their ratings delivered by the sectors' experts, grouping them among the session themes and selecting roughly 200 of the best for further development into full presentations and well over 200 to be presented as full size scientific posters and explained by their authors.
The programme is still under development but there will be an opening and closing session, a limited number of plenary meetings with high-level speakers and a number of scientific sessions covering the following areas of rail research and innovation: Signalling, Communications and Operations, Economics/Policy, Environment, Economics/Policy, Safety, Performance and Capacity, Rolling Stock, System and Information and finally Infrastructure and Electrical (for which the highest number of abstracts was sent in: 133. Performance and Capacity has received 84 abstracts). Again these themes have been divided into many sub-themes, closely describing the content of the actual session.
One of the plenary meetings will be held together with the AusRail event. During this common plenary three of the highest ranking scientific papers will be presented on topics which will be of great relevance to both the AusRail as well as the WCRR audiences.
The actual detailed programme is under development and will be published and available shortly as a brochure. Besides this scientific programme, a very attractive partner programme has been developed and technical visits will also be offered. UIC eNews will inform you about this in due time.
At the initiative of UIC, an exclusive deal has been signed with Emirates Airlines which will give participants of WCRR a considerable reduction on their air tickets from any global destination to and from Sydney. You will find a special code for this reduction in air prices when you register online on the WCRR website.
You will find all information about the exciting WCRR 2013 programme (including a partner programme) as well as the special Emirates rates for your affordable return flights on the official website at http://www.wcrr2013.org which also includes an informative introduction and welcome audiovisual message by Bryan Nye, CEO of the Australian Railway Association.
For further information, please contact Dennis Schut: schut@uic.org
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Are the Mets Squandering a Billion Dollar Opportunity?
December 24, 2015 March 20, 2018 by Derek Reifer, posted in Baseball, MLB Baseball
The New York Mets are coming off of a very pleasantly surprising season in 2015, making a thrilling run to the World Series after not previously making the playoffs since 2006. They also have plenty of cause for optimism in the future, with a young and still improving pitching rotation that could already be considered the best in baseball. However, some of the moves (and non-moves) they've made this offseason have the fanbase scratching their heads and even calling for the owners to sell the team. Why?
It's no secret that much of the Mets faithful wants slugger Yoenis Cespedes back in blue and orange for the long term. In his short stint with the team this past season, his offense (and surprisingly, defense) were invaluable in turning a .500 club to one that swept the NLCS on its way to the National League pennant. Cespedes had a career year with both the bat and glove, hitting .291 with a whopping 35 home runs on his way to contributing 6.1 wins above a replacement player per Fangraphs, by which measure he was the 7th-best player in all of MLB. His excellent range and near-ridiculous arm in the outfield made him a plus defender as well, and he surprised many with his ability to seamlessly fit in as a near-full-time center fielder after playing left previously. Having just turned 30 in October, Cespedes will be looking for a long-term deal that reportedly could be in the 5-7 year range. It's no secret the Mets don't think such a deal would be prudent (even with the money saved by Michael Cuddyer's surprise retirement), and they're probably right to a certain extent, as Cespedes is likely to never repeat the success of 2015, and a player that relies on athleticism like he does will see his skills steadily decline over the years to where he could become a liability on the contract books as soon as 3 or 4 years into his deal. But is that the price worth paying?
Yoenis Cespedes (left) and young pitchers like Noah Syndergaard were both huge contributing factors to the Mets' 2015 run, but one of these two may not be back next season.
The Mets currently have five young stud pitchers under rookie contracts. Between Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, and Zack Wheeler, who is returning from Tommy John surgery, the Mets are paying roughly $8 million next season for a rotation some scouts value at – literally – a billion dollars. Taking their ages and abilities into account, one NL head of baseball operations said that all but the recovering Wheeler would be more attractive on this free agent market than most, if not all, other available pitchers, in a market where David Price just made $217 million at age 30. Joel Sherman of the New York Post projects that Harvey (26 years old), deGrom (27), and Syndergaard (23) would all command deals in the $250 million range, while Matz (24) and Wheeler (25) would see $100 and $150 million respectively. A rotation of this youth and ability is unprecedented, probably in MLB history. The quartet of Harvey, deGrom, Syndergaard, and Matz provided 14.3 WAR in just 89 of the Mets' 162 games last season, as neither Syndergaard nor Matz spent the whole season in the majors, and Harvey and deGrom skipped starts whether for rest or controversial innings limits. Per Steamer projections, with Wheeler coming back in time for 11 starts, the rotation has a projected value of about 16.4 WAR in 2016, which, if it pans out exactly, would give the Mets a near-ridiculous value of under $500k per win. By comparison, their new acquisition Alejandro de Aza is making just under $6 million next season as a projected 0.2 WAR player (effectively no better than a replacement player called up from the minors; in the case of the Mets, prospect Brandon Nimmo or recently-waived Kirk Nieuwenhuis, both lefties like de Aza, could fit the bill for far less money).
Many Mets fans have taken issue with the latest signing of Alejandro de Aza, and their complaints haven't been completely unfounded.
This is a big part of why the Mets fanbase is frustrated despite just coming off a hugely exciting World Series run. An ownership still clearly strapped for cash after their Bernie Madoff disaster is unwilling to shell out money for the likes of Cespedes, but will allot $6 million of payroll to a player like de Aza and just under $10 million a year to Asdrubal Cabrera, who is also a confusing fit any way you tilt your head. According to CBS insider Jon Heyman, de Aza is the Mets' plan to platoon in center field with Juan Lagares, and being a lefty, de Aza figures to be the long end of the platoon unless Lagares gets a share of the starts against righties. This would most likely be a disaster – de Aza only started one game in center field all of last season, and was a below-average fielder in left by both Baseball Reference and Fangraphs defensive metrics. What happens when you start a below average left fielder in center field for a large chunk of games, especially when that player isn't by any vantage point an offensive difference maker? From an opportunity cost perspective, it all looks even worse when considering that could be Yoenis Cespedes instead. Even Denard Span would be a great second option if the Mets were unwilling to pay Cespedes – Steamer projects Span to be over 2 wins more valuable than de Aza next season, by account of his above average defense and .300 average/20 stolen bases potential. He also fits the Mets' perceived plan of a left-handed center fielder to share time with Lagares, and wouldn't command the kind of long deal that Cespedes is seeking.
Denard Span has been on the Mets' radar this offseason, and looks like a great fit on paper, but now seems unlikely to be wearing orange and blue in 2016.
The Cabrera signing is also a head scratcher. Strapped-for-cash "big market" New York is paying him $18.5 million over 2 years, with a third year team option, to presumably start at shortstop. Last season, the majority of the starts went to 24-year-old Wilmer Flores, who might be most famous for crying, but had a more than solid season with 16 home runs and a .263 average from the shortstop position. Flores has the reputation around the league as a terrible defensive player, but the numbers reject that notion – Fangraphs pegs him as an above-average defensive shortstop in each of his three career seasons. Steamer sees the still young and improving Flores as a 1.3 WAR player next season in just 350 plate appearances (85 games), while the 30 year old and declining (yet already a defensive liability) Cabrera figures to provide only 1 win in 530 appearances. Ruben Tejada, another capable shortstop, is also still on the roster, with the Mets' best middle infield prospect, Dilson Herrera, by all indications ready to contribute at the major league level. The Cabrera signing will not only hinder the future progressions of Herrera and Flores, but provide little value to the Mets on the field this year (let alone the following years on his deal), as Flores by many indicators was already the better player last season. One explanation for the signing is depth, as third baseman David Wright is a wild card with his pressing injuries, but Cabrera has never started a game at third base in his entire career, while Flores hasn't started there since 25 games his rookie year.
Wilmer Flores became a Mets hero last season, but management is relegating him to a backup role with Asdrubal Cabrera joining a crowded Mets middle infield.
Of course, with the kind of insane value the Mets are getting from their starting rotation, many of these concerns look a little nitpicky, and they're probably still the favorites in the NL East. Their pitching depth (and the return of cult hero Bartolo Colon) allowed them to trade solid but expendable Jon Niese for a year of Neil Walker, who is most likely an upgrade over playoff darling Daniel Murphy on both sides of the ball – the last time the Mets had a 3-WAR second baseman, it was 2006 and Jose Valentin was manning the position. Additionally, a lot of things broke wrong for the Mets last season that could be better this time around. Injuries to David Wright and emerging star catcher Travis d'Arnaud plagued the team for much of the season. Michael Conforto wasn't up in the majors for the full year, but was excellent in his short time, and at just 22, figures to be a much bigger part of the offense last season. The returns and callups of these players, along with Steven Matz, were as big a part of the team's huge resurgence midseason as was the acquisition of Cespedes. However, in order for New York to compete at a level near what they did last season, the pressure is on these oft-injured and young players to consistently contribute at a high level. 34-year old Curtis Granderson had a career renaissance last season in the leadoff spot, but figures to regress at least slightly, while the downgrade in center field continues to stick out like a sore thumb. The best case scenario there would probably be a bounceback year from Juan Lagares, whose sudden inability to touch right-handed pitching and throwing issues made him a 1 WAR player last year after providing 3 and 4 WAR respectively the previous two seasons. If the 26-year-old former Gold Glover can prove last season an outlier, it would be a solid chaser for the bitter taste of the absence of Cespedes.
One reason for Mets optimism is the health and development of Travis d'Arnaud (left) and Michael Conforto.
When it comes down to it, the reality for the Mets is, though their starters are all young and improving, their best chance to compete is now, while those arms are all not only under contract, but under contract for chump change. Even young position players like Michael Conforto and Travis d'Arnaud figure to be in store for big time raises in due time. In the few years before all of this talent can either leave for free agency or take up a huge chunk of payroll, New York should be devoting resources to complementary players. It's a harsh but true realization that with Wright and Granderson aging and no way to keep all of these high-potential youngsters long-term, the Mets have a window of a few years to have a real shot at their first championship since 1986, which slipped just out of their grasp last year after a promising run to the pennant. They have shown thus far this offseason (though granted, the offseason is not over) that they are unwilling to spend big to make that happen – though a Cespedes contract would assuredly look ugly in a few years, it could be well worth it if he puts this team over the hump and brings a ring to Queens in the span before then. Even if New York wanted to stay low-cost and low-risk with their investments, they could clearly make more optimal allocations of their money toward good fits like Denard Span and away from de Aza and Cabrera, who look like square puzzle pieces being jammed into triangle spaces.
The Mets' biggest struggles against the Royals in this past World Series were in late innings on defense and in the bullpen. Defensively, they've probably gotten worse on aggregate, with Granderson and Wright a year older, and de Aza replacing Cespedes in center field (unless Juan Lagares can turn things around), with the lone upgrade being Walker at second base. In the 'pen, lefty specialist Jerry Blevins is back, but they've yet to re-sign free agent setup men Addison Reed or Tyler Clippard (likely because they're again unwilling to offer multi-year deals), and there is already a lot of pressure on Jeurys Familia to repeat his otherworldly 2015, where he posted a 1.85 ERA that was probably slightly deflated considering his 2.74 FIP. It's hard to see how the Mets have addressed either of these concerns.
This poor throw home by Lucas Duda was one of many defensive gaffes that contributed to the Mets' defeat in the Fall Classic.
Perhaps because of conditioning from the Mets' history, their fans have a tendency to always see the negatives in bold next to many very encouraging positives. If certain pieces stay healthy while young pieces continue to improve, they should very well be in great position to make another deep playoff run, and Sandy Alderson can always make a midseason trade to address any concerns that come to fruition with the roster, as he did last season with Cespedes. But while their newfound rivals in Chicago have made every effort to go for it all this offseason with big fish like Jason Heyward, John Lackey, and Ben Zobrist, it's easy to look at the Mets' combination of unwillingness to spend big and inability to allocate what they do spend to the right spots with a bit of disappointment.
by Derek Reifer, Northwestern University
Tagged Addison Reed, Alejandro de Aza, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Ben Zobrist, Brandon Nimmo, Chicago Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, David Price, David Wright, Denard Span, Dilson Herrera, Jacob deGrom, Jason Heyward, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, John Lackey, Jon Niese, Jose Valentin, Juan Lagares, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Michael Cuddyer, Neil Walker, New York Mets, Noah Syndergaard, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Tyler Clippard, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes, Zack Wheeler
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Amritsar, a city seeped in history, is most famously known as the site of the Golden Temple — but there is much more to explore than just the temple grounds. The golden city offers rich cultural heritage, awe-inspiring temples, scrumptious food, historical and beautiful lanes, local bazaars packed with souvenirs to pick from, and friendly locals.
For an all-in-one-day adventure, our Behind the Golden City tour covers most of these activities below, with a local by your side to lead the way.
The Amritsar Town Hall is a 19th-century mansion toward the north of the Golden Temple, and acts as a venue for art exhibitions. It was built by the British in 1866 — here you can learn about the tumultuos history of Punjab and Amritsar in particular, since the Partition of India.
Gurudwara Saragarhi was built to pay honour to the 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikh battalion who sacrificed their their lives while bravely fighting in the 1897 Battle of Saragarhi against the Pathans (one of the tribes of Afghanistan and Pakistan). The names of the 21 soldiers are displayed on the walls of the memorial.
Witness the military parade ceremony at the Wagah Border, where India borders Pakistan. Here, you will witness a patriotic show of strength in the beating retreat ceremony. There is a choreographed drill and the whole atmosphere is electric.
This street holds a startling slice of history; native Indians had to crawl their way along the 180-metre street on the orders of "the butcher," British General Reginald Dyer. The horrors here and the related 1919 Amritsar Massacre laid the foundation for the freedom movement in Punjab, and the street became a symbol of the fight against repression.
Keen souvenir hunters should explore the local bazaars in Amritsar. Shop for Punjabi jootis (shoes) at Hall Bazaar and Guru Bazaar, both in a close proximity to The Golden Temple. You can find traditional jewellery and ornaments, as well as items related to worship ceremonies. Lahori Gate bazaar is known for its clothing, particularly for Pashmina shawls. Also, don't forget to look for beautiful embroidered phulkari fabrics (traditional embroidery from Punjab).
With plenty of local foods to be tasted, Amritsar's culinary scene is sure to spoil your taste buds forever. Visit Jalebi Wala Chowk for a meal — located in the heart of Amritsar, it is a gastronomic delight. The place is famous for the popular sweet jalebi (orange-coloured, deep-fried flour batter in pretzel shapes, which are then soaked in sugar syrup).
There are plenty of seasonal celebrations worth checking out in Amritsar. If you time your visit right, you could check out sword fighting, bhangra dancing, and guru tributes.
Holla Mohalla: Marked with week-long festivities, Holla Mohalla coincides with Holi, the festival of colours. It was started by Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Sikh guru, to celebrate martial spirit. Sword fighting and weapons performances are common.
Baisakhi: The festival is probably the most-awaited and most-loved festival in the region. It is celebrated with a great deal of feasting, bhangra dancing (a traditional dance of Punjab), folk music and fairs. The area surrounding the Golden Temple becomes carnival-like. The festival is usually celebrated on the 13th or 14th of April every year, and marks the Sikh New Year.
Guru Purab: Guru Purab is a major festival of Punjab and the city of Amritsar celebrates the occasion with much energy and great enthusiasm. The festival is observed at two different times of the year: in the months of November and January. Sikhs gather at gurudwaras to remember and pay homage to their gurus. On this pious event, tribute is paid to the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, and the 10th guru, Guru Gobind Singh. On this day, prasad (food as a religious offering) and free lunch is offered to Sikh devotees.


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Seen across a sea of buttercups, the tower house known as Tourin Castle, County Waterford. The building is believed to date from the mid-15th century and was long occupied by members of the Roche family who some 200 years later added a more modern residence at right angles to the older. This e-shaped house with gable-ends and tall chimneys was acquired by Sir Richard Musgrave in 1778 and his descendants continued to live there until c.1840 when they moved to a smart Italianate villa some distance away possibly designed by Waterford architect Abraham Denny. The tower house has remained empty since then.
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Taking advantage of the distillery's altitude and proximity to soft granite filtered water, this light, honeyish malt and grain blend from the Japanese alps has been matured slowly in bourbon casks and is all spiced honey and light. The Iwai Blended Whisky is one of only two whiskies available from the Shinshu Mars Distillery in Nagano and, despite gracing the shelves of the best hipster izakayas in Tokyo, it's only available in Australia as a part of a very limited release.
The winner of the Judy Hirst award for creating Australia's wine list of the year and the 2015 Sydeny Morning Herald's Sommelier of the Year, Master Sommelier Sebastian Crowther is one of only three Australians to hold this prestigious title and has snared the coveted position of Head Sommelier at Sydney's Rockpool to boot. His focus for Sorry Thanks I Love You is on sourcing new and emerging wines and spirits from small artisanal producers around the world. Meet him in our journal.


The Other Side is a zombie film that really breaks the mold and stands out from the shambling horde. I had the pleasure of previewing it months ago (scope the review HERE) and was amazed at the quality of this low budget genre film that outdoes many other zombie flicks that have 10x the budget. Now you too can see this awesome film on a good chunk of the OnDemand market.
– Orchard Place Productions, an independent film production company based in Pittsburgh PA has released, in collaboration with Gravitas Ventures (GravitasVentures.com) its first feature film titled "THE OTHER SIDE".
THE OTHER SIDE is a "thinking person's zombie flick", filmed in the birthplace of zombies and inspired by character-driven horror such as The Walking Dead and Supernatural. The film is set in the fictional small town of Elkwood, PA at the dawn of the zombie apocalypse. The story unfolds in layers as the characters deal with both past and present adversity as the danger slowly escalates, culminating in an explosive climax.
The movie is available 9/1/2015 on all major Internet Video on Demand (IVod) platforms, including Vudu, Amazon Instant Video, iTunes, YouTube, Xbox Video, and Hoopla.
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Diner en Blanc, New York 2012
Filed under: Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking
Thousands gather for NYC secret outdoor dinner
by Verena Dobnik
New York (AP) – Guess who came to dinner?
On Monday night in Manhattan, the answer was 3,000 people – all dressed in white, descending on the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
The venue was a surprise until just before the flash-mob feast started at 7 p.m. Registered guests got emails telling them where to go.
They brought chairs, tables, food and drink, plus candles and snow white balloons sailing high above the main plaza at sunset. Row after white row filled the space around a high-shooting fountain – free of charge, with legal permits.
Matthew Karl Gale wore a sailor hat as he sat at a small white-covered table he bought on Craigslist.
"I looked for 'small white folding table,'" the 33-year-old eyewear designer from Brooklyn said with a grin.
His tattooed dinner partner, biotech industry employee Cassandra McCall, also 33, came all the way from San Francisco to join the revelry, explaining, "I love the group dynamic of all these people together, in white – it's enchanting."
Gale said he enjoyed "the difficulty of getting everything together – the food, the table – and bringing it here on the subway."
Their table was filled with cheese, a couscous dish, prosciutto, grapes and more – eaten with real home cutlery and linen napkins that came from their wicker basket. There were white roses for the table.
And then, Gale added, "you have this unique, quirky experience, and it's over."
Pop-up picnics will also be staged in Philadelphia on Thursday, Chicago on Friday, and next week in Vancouver, Singapore and Brisbane, Australia, followed by about a dozen other cities months from now.
Rob Robinson and Gai Spann, both 43, brought their own strobe light, plus some pearls and diamonds that represent his college fraternity and her sorority.
"We're both into food and wine, and dressing up," said Spann, who owns a travel agency and wore a lacy white head ornament. He runs his own e-commerce company.
Next year, they plan to fly to Paris, where Diner en Blanc – French for dinner in white – was started in 1988 by a group of friends and is repeated each year. The volunteer event grew by word of mouth and social media to dozens of cities worldwide.
This year was the second New York repast; the first was held last August on a plaza near the World Trade Center.
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for an Author's Evening with Eva Stachniak at the Kosciuszko Foundation on Sept. 12, 2017.
September 4, 2017 – This week, our time machine travels back to early 20th Century Eastern Europe, where we'll meet ballerina Bronislava Nijinsky. Bronia was a remarkable dancer and woman, who charted a course for greatness despite the upheavals outside and inside her family. The Chosen Maiden blends fiction and fact seamlessly, while including cameos by giants of the period such as prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, Coco Chanel, and Pablo Picasso.
Bronislava Nijinsky was born in the last decade of the Victorian Era, and the inspiration for her brother Valaslav's play which gives the novel its title: The Chosen Maiden .
Our guide on this journey of historical fiction is Eva Stachniak. The Nijinskys inspired her with their lives as Polish dancers in a Tsarist Russia, that gave way to war and revolution. Born in a Poland still behind the Iron Curtain, Eva emigrated to Canada in 1981, and is the bestselling author of The Winter Palace , Empress of the Night , Necessary Lies , and Garden of Venus .
Visit her online at EvaStachniak.com, @EvaStachniak on Twitter, or Facebook.com/EvaStachniakAuthor.