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Q: How do I process broadcasts that were sent while my activity was stopped? My activity starts a service which runs a CountDownTimer. The timer sends broadcasts back to the activity as it counts down. The activity processes the broadcasts in the onReceive method of a BroadcastReceiver. All of this works fine.
My problem comes when the following events happen in this order:

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*App is stopped (via onPause())

*Timer finishes

*App is resumed (via onResume())

When the app is resumed the service is no longer sending broadcasts, so the activity does not know how much time is left on the timer or if it's finished. This prevents the activity from updating the UI.
I've tried a dozen ways of dealing with this, and read through many Stack Overflow questions and answers, but I've yet to find a solution. I would think that there's a way to pick up a broadcast that was sent while the activity was not active, but I've yet to find a way.
For the record, here is my relevant Activity and Service code:
activity.java
// Start service
timerIntent.putExtra("totalLength", totalLength);
this.startService(timerIntent);

// ...

// BroadcastReceiver
private BroadcastReceiver br = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        if (intent.getExtras() != null && inSession) {
            session.setRemaining(intent.getExtras().getLong("millisUntilFinished"));
            updateProgress();
        }
    }
};

// ...

// onResume
@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    registerReceiver(br, new IntentFilter(TimerService.COUNTDOWN_TS));
}

service.java
@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
    long length = intent.getExtras().getLong("totalLength");

    countDownTimer = new CountDownTimer(length, 1000) {
        @Override
        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
            timerServiceIntent.putExtra("millisUntilFinished", millisUntilFinished);
            sendBroadcast(timerServiceIntent);
        }

        @Override
        public void onFinish() {
        }
    };

    countDownTimer.start();

    return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
}

What's the best way to process the broadcasts that the service sent while the activity was stopped?

A: Use the BroadcastReceiver to store the last request (SharedPreferences perhaps) it received and check it when the Activity starts.
Alternatively, instead of processing a countdown using broadcasts, just store the time that the countdown would end. The Activity can then handle the countdown all by itself as it knows when it should end. Using a service and broadcasts seem to be a little over-engineered for such a simple task.
Update:
From the way you have described your task, I see you needing to handle 2 scenarios. This is how I would likely do it.
Assuming that "XYZ" is the service\intent\whatever starting the countdown and "ABC" is the Activity displaying the progress. (ABC and XYZ could be the same activity if that is what you wanted)
Requirements:
When the countdown starts, I would make XYZ store the time that the countdown should end in SharedPreferences.

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*ABC is already running when the countdown starts. As Commonsware said, the Eventbus model is excellent for handling this scenario so long as XYZ and ABC are running in the same process. Just fire an event to read the preference value and count down to the specified time. If the user closes ABC and reopens it, Scenario 2 will kick in.

*ABC is not running. Check in OnResume whether the countdown time has elapsed. If not, set up ABC to display the countdown again. If there is no countdown active, do something else.
If you also need to do something when the countdown has elapsed regardless of whether you have a UI active, then again Commonsware's suggestion of AlarmManager is perfect.

A: Let's pretend for a moment that using a Service with a CountDownTimer to track some passage of time for the purposes of updating an Activity actually is a good idea. It's not out of the question, assuming that the Service is actually doing something for real and this timing thing is some by-product.
An activity does not receive broadcasts while stopped, mostly for performance/battery reasons. Instead, the activity needs to pull in the current status when it starts, then use events (e.g., your current broadcasts) to be informed of changes in the data while it is started.
This would be simplified by using something like greenrobot's EventBus and their sticky events, as the activity would automatically get the last event when it subscribes to get events. Using greenrobot's EventBus for this purpose would also reduce the security and performance issues that you are introducing by your use of system broadcasts to talk between two Java classes in the same process.
Also, please stick with lifecycle pairs. onResume() is not the counterpart to onStop(). onStart() is the counterpart to onStop(); onResume() is the counterpart to onPause(). Initializing something in one pair (e.g., onResume()) and cleaning it up in the other pair (e.g., onStop()) runs the risk of double-initialization or double-cleanup errors.

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What's the best way to process the broadcasts that the service sent
  while the activity was stopped?

Using sticky broadcast intents from the service and then retrieving them from the activity would be a way to process the broadcasts that the service sent while the activity was stopped. I can only offer that as a possible solution rather than claiming it is the "best way".
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#sendStickyBroadcast(android.content.Intent)
They have however, been deprecated since API level 21 due to security concerns.

A: Instead of using Normal broadcast you can use Ordered broadcast (sent with Context.sendOrderedBroadcast). For this along with defining a BroadcastReceiver in your activity you required to define BroadcastReceiver in your manifest with same intentfilter. Only change is while registering BroadcastReceiver in your activity you need to set priority to high, so that when your activity is running and activity's BroadcastReceiver is registered it gets called first, and inside onReceive of this BroadcastReceiver you can use abortBroadcast for getting the BroadcastReceiver called which is defined in your android manifest. Now when your activity is not running the BroadcastReceiver defined in your android manifest will get called. So this way you can have the status and if you wish you can display updates to user by notification even if your activity is not running.


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Tilsworth had a manor at least as early as 1086 when one is recorded in Domesday Book. It seems reasonable to assume that this was based at Warren Knoll, a medieval motte standing near the church in the grounds of the former Vicarage, now Orchard Lodge care home. A motte was simply a raised earth mound which would often have a building known as a keep on top of it; this was the residence of the lord and his family. The majority of these keeps were wooden. A motte was often associated with a bailey, an enclosed courtyard around the motte in which buildings, such as living accommodation for the serfs, or slaves, and stables would stand. Mottes and baileys were most often built in the century or so following the Norman Conquest of 1066 though earlier Anglo-Saxon examples are know.
Warren Knoll in 1901
The motte known as Warren Knoll measures 3.2m high and 33.0m east-west by 28.0m north-south. A small excavation by Manshead Archaeological Society in 1972 to try to discover whether the mound was a motte or a windmill tump. The conclusion was definitely in favour of the former. The excavation showed that the mound had been surrounded by a ditch, about 6.0m wide, with a flat bottom, though this is not evident today. Slight traces off an encircling mound can be seen in the fields to the east and north and this may be the remains of a bailey.
Plan of 1852 showing the church, the Vicarage and Warren Knoll [X392/1/1d]
The seat of the manor moved at some time in or before the late Middle Ages to the site of the later Manor Farm (now called Tilsworth Manor). The gatehouse to the Manor is 15th century.


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Scale is primarily accomplished vertically. Because of anti-patterns previously discussed, adding new application or database servers may be difficult. If the answer is to scale by adding additional CPUs, memory (RAM), network bandwidth, disk space, or other resources, the application layer itself likely does not scale and more digging is required to surface the anti-patterns. As an example, if the application servers cannot exist in a cluster, then that is an indication of a stateful application server.
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Reliance on central services. Relying on central services, such as a third-party person directory, is a fine way to reuse existing components and speed up time to market. However, if the scale of that service is not possible (e.g. out of the consumer's control), precautions must be taken to ensure the central services are not the cause of the application not scaling appropriately, particularly if many requests are sent. Examples to work around this issue include leveraging other third-party services if responses are not timely, returning default values, and not blocking on service calls.
Ignoring location. Deploy the service where the users are. For example, if there is a large number of users in Asia, ensure a scaled instance of your application is available in that region.
Using physical machines. The use of physical machines for servers happens less and less these days, instead favoring virtualization. Physical machines are much costlier and much higher effort to scale (particularly in the cloud) and should be avoided. Physical servers also increase the effort during product development (affecting scale of the development team) as environment provisioning takes longer and is more complex.
Not load testing. If the builders of an application do not know their application limits, be cautious of their ability to scale. Mature companies load test their applications to (a) validate the application can scale, and (b) know at what point (e.g. number of users) the system starts to struggle. This must be done on data that is representative of production, such as a production database scrubbed of personally-identifiable information (PII).
Many content requests. Content-heavy applications, such as a content management system, can get bogged down if all application servers draw their content from a central source, such as one file server. In the same way that code must scale, content should as well. Using something like a content delivery network (CDN) can help remove load from the central system and support a greater number of users. CDN is a form of network caching of content which reduces the workload of the application servers.
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The Toledo Lucas County Public Library recommends Off Season
"Find your next summer read at the Toledo Library" / The Blade / July 8, 2019
Best Comics of 2019 So Far
Comics are for everybody. No matter who you are, there's a comic for you! And odds are you can find that comic at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. Whether it be on our shelves, in digital collections like hoopla or through our partner libraries on SearchOhio or OhioLink, there's bound to be something you'll find interesting.
Since we're at the midway point of 2019, now is a great time to look back at some of the best comics that have been published over the past six months.
Best Comics and Graphic Novels from the First Half of 2019
Off Season by James Sturm
Almost nobody wants to rehash the 2016 presidential election, but James Sturm takes the topic on by making the political personal.
Mark, a blue-collar builder, and his wife Lisa are both Bernie Sanders supporters. But when Bernie loses the nomination to Hillary Clinton, Mark can't bring himself to vote for Clinton or Trump, while Lisa goes all in and volunteers for Hillary. Their marriage suffers for it, they go through a divorce and what's left is the sparsely plotted Off Season.
But this book isn't just about election politics. It tackles issues of masculinity, the struggle of trying to make a living and all the other things that make adulthood so unnerving.
Colorlines recommends Hot Comb
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 9:12pm
Claire Sommers (the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Barry Spence (University of Massachusetts)
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SMCS 2016: Surface Tension: Flatness in Film
SCMS Atlanta 2016
The illusory depth of moving images and their two-dimensionality on the silver screen is one of cinema's constitutive dialectical relationships. This panel invites papers that focus principally on the latter: flatness in film narrative, materials, methods of projection and modes of spectatorship. How might filmmakers, film protagonists and/or film spectators resist the extension of diegetic space? How might we analyze the experience of cinematic flatness in its many different guises and applications? What political, affectual, psychological or other impacts might this common formal characteristic have? Are films that have successfully insisted on their own flatness narrative or non-narrative? Self-reflexive or meditative?
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Essay proposals are invited for a volume entitled Teaching Modernist Women's Writing in English, to appear in the Options for Teaching series published by the Modern Language Association. The purpose of the volume is to meet the needs of instructors seeking pedagogical strategies for teaching modernist women's writing in English and the ways in which women were vital creators and participants in the works and networks of modernism.
Shakespeare in the Arabian Gulf
Dr. James Lambert, American University of Kuwait; and Dr. Katherine Hennessey, University of Warwick
Call for Contributions to Edited Volume:
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Performing, Teaching, and Studying Shakespeare
in the Arabian Gulf
Contacts: Katherine Hennessey (Research Fellow, Global Shakespeare, University of Warwick/Queen Mary University of London) and James Lambert (Chair of the English Department, American University of Kuwait), k.a.hennessey@warwick.ac.uk and jlambert@auk.edu.kw.
The Digital Nineteenth-Century Narrative, NeMLA 2016, Hartford CT.
Bryn Gravitt, Tufts University
NeMLA 2016: March 17-20, 2016
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Contemporary Literature as Digital Literature - NeMLA 2016, Hartford, CT
Timothy Wilcox / Stony Brook University
Digital technology permeates the daily experience of life in the Western world - through shifting social relations owing to social media, the ability to search and store mass amounts of information, ever-increasing recording and broadcasting possibilities, and so on. Even in areas where cell phones and Internet access are absent, lives are still shaped by new forms of globalization building off possibilities - or new needs - opened up by digital technology. This panel seeks papers which examine the relationship between literature and digital technology.
Dealing with the Dead: Mortality and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 11:55am
Thea Tomaini, Explorations in Medieval Culture Series, Brill Publishers
Call for abstracts for chapters to be included in an upcoming volume on Death and culture in Medieval and Early Modern art, history, and culture.
The City in Quarantine--abstract due 9/30/15, conference 3/17-20, 2016
In William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton's problematic play Timon of Athens, the fate of Athens hangs in the balance as the eponymous character threatens the city with literal and figurative diseases from outside its walls. Timon thus embodies a nightmarishly pathogenic force, sending forth plagues and venereal diseases to "thatch your poor thin roofs/With burthens of the dead" (V.iii.143-145), even as the city's gates bar his physical entrance. Although Timon of Athens has traditionally been regarded as an anti-corruption allegory, the play thus presents fruitful opportunities for examination through the lens of quarantine and urban containment.
Byrhtferth of Ramsey - Kalamazoo 2016 ICMS
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It seems too tedious to have to explain this all to lazy clerks in English, though I will write down here so that the lazy priest will not think it too much trouble to open his eyes to it. Now I want the noble clerks to shake all laziness from their mind's understanding so that they can better understand this Call for Papers for the First Ever ALL BYRHTFERTH of RAMSEY session at The International Congress of Medieval Studies (Kzoo 2016)!
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 9:59am
David Rozotto, University of Waterloo
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'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English' 4th Biennial International Conference, 27-30 June 2016, University of Lincol
University of Lincoln, U.K
'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English' 4th Biennial International Conference, 27-30 June 2016, University of Lincoln
Conservative Politics/Radical Poetics
The 21st century gets more and more odd. Thomas Picketty claims we are returning to 19th century economic relations between capital and the masses. In Britain we have re-entered conservative politics despite the most blatant bankruptcy of capitalism since the Thirties, but at the same time the potential break up of the United Kingdom and with the European Union would be political developments as structurally decisive as the end of empire or World War I. Much the same is true in Europe and the world where conservative and radical visions seem to hang in the balance.
CFP: Love and the Word, Melbourne, 7th-9th December 2016
Australasian Universities Languages and Literature Association (AULLA)
Love & the Word - AULLA Conference 2016
DEADLINE: Monday the 29th February 2016
Hosted by Victoria University, the Australasian Universities Languages & Literature Association Conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia from 7th-9th December 2016.
The conference theme draws on AULLA's origins as an association of scholars working in fields of philology. Thus we examine both philos (love) and logos (word). How does affection affect words? What do people mean by 'love' and its counterparts in the world's languages? Or perhaps: how does it 'do' those meanings?
Second-Generation Cognitive Approaches to Literature (NeMLA 2016)
Dan Irving, Stony Brook University
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Evaluación de la eficiencia comparativa: Indicadores y técnicas de análisis
Vergés, Joaquim (2014): Evaluación de la eficiencia comparativa: Indicadores y técnicas de análisis.
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This monograph intends to be a handbook or guide regarding efficiency analysis tools, for those interested in either reading –and properly understanding- specialised papers on the topic, or in carrying out efficiency analysis studies. In points 3 to 6 the more usual efficiency measures in the topic's literature are presented and discussed; and it is highlighted the fact that each of them measure companies' efficiency from a different perspective, at the time that, nevertheless, they are in fact formally interrelated. Then, points 7 and 8 are devoted to explain the more usual techniques for efficiency/productivity analysis we can find in research works; that is those methodologies more usual in academic journals' articles: How the referred efficiency measures or indexes are applied (which means mainly the use of econometric tools) in order to get reliable conclusions on companies' comparative efficiency. The approach covers both longitudinal analysis (comparison over time) and cross-section analysis (comparing the relative efficiency of two or more types of companies; public-owned and private ones, f. e.). The above is preceded (points 1 and 2) by a briefing on the different facets of the efficiency concept (what we talk about when we talk of efficiency), and a discussion on the necessary pre-conditions that should be present for any calculation and comparison of efficiency indexes may actually be interpreted as properly telling us 'company A is more efficient than company B'.
Evaluating comparative efficiency: Measures and analisis' techniques
companies efficiency, productivity analysis, econometrics for efficiency comparison, efficiency measures
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FVBrewerFan Re: 2020 Miscellaneous NFL News
Posted: October 26, 2020, 1:07 PM
nate82 said:
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The only way I see the NFC teams winning is if they can keep the Chiefs or Steelers below 24 pts any higher and they don't have a chance.
I would say just the opposite. The Packers are more likely to beat those teams in a shoot-out than they are keeping them under 24 points. That would be Seattle's best chance also.
I disagree the Packers completely folded and gave up in the Tampa Bay game. If they get in a shootout and they get behind that defense will just crumble and shutdown.
I just don't follow that logic. You believe keeping the Chiefs under 24 points is the best chance they have to win? Sure, but that's not realistic. That's like saying the best chance to beat the Lakers is keep them under 80 points. But the Packers offense IS good enough to beat the Chiefs 37-34 or something like that.
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For the final 3 years of Sherman's tenure at Texas A&M, he had Ryan Tannehill on the roster, but chose to play him at wide receiver. Kevin Sumlin replaced Sherman in 2012 and went 11-2 with Tannehill at quarterback.
This is the man that Ron Wolf gave the full reigns of the Green Bay Packers to. Wow, just wow. Wolf was an amazing GM, but his worst mistake was entrusting this organization to Sherman, who was far and away the worst GM in franchise history.
As far as Sherman the HC, him and MM are having me start to believe that NFL head coaches don't matter that much, and as long as you have an elite QB and a somewhat competent coaching staff that you can delegate to, you can win a lot of games no matter who you are.
I wouldn't go as far as saying he was far and away the worst. I don't even think he is. Bart Starr was pretty bad, and a couple of his predecessors were also. I don't even think they were football guys. Trading away a handful of high draft picks for an over the hill Hadl that set the franchise back five years. Starr passing on Montana and Lott among other bad decisions. At least we were winning under Sherman's watch.
OldSchoolSnapper Re: 2020 Miscellaneous NFL News
Not only were they winning under Sherman, they were not winning before he arrived. They went 8-8 under Rhodes and 9-7 in Sherman's first year. I remember very clearly at the time that they appeared to be a franchise in an obvious decline that was not going to be real competitive in the near future. The aforementioned demise of his career also isn't exactly accurate.
-The Texans offense improved a lot with him as the OC
-The Aggies won a division title and Tannehill was a pretty decent WR before making the switch
-He went back to the NFL in Miami before going to coach a bad HS team, so his reputation hadn't really spiraled downward.
-This all occurred over a very long period of time.
I don't think Mike Sherman is a great NFL coach, but I have always felt and still feel that he got an extremely bad shake from the fans and continues to get one, solely because Brett Favre was blameless for most of his entire career and it reached a peak at right about that time. Their mistake was letting him be a GM. But he was not even close to their worst HC.
adambr2 Re: 2020 Miscellaneous NFL News
I never said in my post that he was the worst HC in franchise history and I don't believe he was. I said worst GM, but it's a fair point that Starr and other guys around that era were pretty bad.
But I think Sherman was on that level. He just fortunately didn't have enough time to do a ton of damage. I still remember him sacrificing a 4th and 5th to move up in the 3rd to take a punter who was a disaster here. He just didn't seem to have a clue what he was doing.
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OldSchoolSnapper said:
I don't think Mike Sherman is a great NFL coach, but I have always felt and still feel that he got an extremely bad shake from the fans and continues to get one, solely because Brett Favre was blameless for most of his entire career and it reached a peak at right about that time.
I think the fact that a league that gives even the most modestly successful head coaches multiple opportunities to lead a team didn't give Sherman another chance is more telling than anything, honestly.
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Ole Sugar Bear drafting a punter in the third round in 2004 was incredible. Although he hit on Walker and Kampman in 2003 and Barnett in 04. The rest was pretty dismal.
Walker too. His drafting wasn't all that bad. He was a sentimental guy though and signed players long-term based on them being good people and his relationships with them.
Fear The Chorizo Re: 2020 Miscellaneous NFL News
I recall Sherman started with the Packers as the HC only for at least 1-2 years, and quickly got back to winning after the last talent infusion from some Ron Wolf drafts and a Favre resurgence....then he was handed the reigns to being GM and promptly started drafting corners that fought each other better than they could cover and thinned out what looked like a deep and talented roster in a very short time. Basically he GM'd himself out of a coaching job in 3 years' time because he was awful at GM during that 3-4 year stretch and gave himself a poor roster around Favre. Him and Bill Obrien actually have a ton in common in that regard...it wasn't even the drafting, it was mainly poor personnel decisions with contracts IIRC
I still feel like that Packers team that got knocked out of the playoffs with that 4th and 26 at Philly debacle was headed to the Super Bowl - Ahman Green was a stud that year and they had a fantastic offensive line with a pretty solid defense to go along with it.
Walker was meh. He was kind of a head case. He had one great season and one good one, with Brett Favre throwing him the ball. He certainly wasn't Jordy Nelson or Davante Adams or even Greg Jennings. Certainly nothing that would constitute a feather in a cap for a first round pick.
Kampman was a great pick. Scott Wells too. So there was a couple gems, but not much to show for the early rounds.
Yrah, Sherman drafting B.J. Sander was just terrible. I agree with Chorizo that what made him a bad GM was signing players to bad contracts that put the organization in cap hell, then TT came in and cleaned it up. One of the few things I'll say good about Ted. Sherman the GM basically got Sherman the head coach fired.
yourout Re: 2020 Miscellaneous NFL News
PinaMadness said:
While Mandrich is widely rated as the worst Packer draft pick ever because of where he was picked i would argue Sanders was worse.
Drafting a punter that early would be bad no matter what. The fact that he was terrible is the cherry on the sundae.
yourout said:
The Raiders drafted Ray Guy in the first round and he's the greatest punter in NFL history, but he is definitely the exception to the rule.
homer Re: 2020 Miscellaneous NFL News
The Packers actually traded UP to get Sander making it even worse.
The Packers made Sander the first punter selected in the draft by trading fourth- (102nd overall) and fifth-round (153rd overall) picks to Miami in order to move up 15 spots and select him with the 87th overall pick
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I don't agree. He was a WR that was good right away and had a very steady trajectory, became a really good player, and then tore his ACL, which was a much more devastating injury even that recently than it is now. Then there was the incident where someone got shot and died in his lap, which sent him to therapy and had a devastating effect mentally, and he continued getting hurt too. I think that anyone who clearly remembers 2003 and 2004 (fair if someone doesn't, it WAS 16 years ago) would hesitate to say Walker wasn't a special player before he got hurt.
As far as him not being Jennings, Nelson or Adams, that is a pretty lofty standard. Those are 3 of like the top 8 WRs they've ever had.
I also agree with whoever made the comment about the 03 team going to the Super Bowl. It certainly had that feel and by the playoffs was as good as anyone. Ahman Green was one of Wolf's last strokes of genius for the Packers. One of my favorite players they've ever had.
HiAndTight Re: 2020 Miscellaneous NFL News
Tannehill was the starter the entire season Sherman's last year there. He took over halfway through the season the year before from a pretty good College QB Jerrod Johnson who had 30 TD's and 8 INT's going into that season.
So his last 3 years under Sherman he played QB for all but a few games and it's not like they were throwing some scrub out there.
Sherman's the reason Tanehill ended up in Miami.
Walker was talented. I don't dispute that. It's hard to find a receiver picked in the top 20 of a draft that isn't. I'm just going by straight production. He had one season in Green Bay where he caught more than 41 balls. It's not that he wasn't talented, but he was a one season wonder. Eventually went to Denver and was just okay. I'm glad we weren't the team to give him 40M. He seemed to have some character issues, and that matters too in these evaluations.
I'm still not sold on the Bears. No offense to speak of. Foles is wildly inaccurate.
I think this game is kind of showing that the Bears are who we thought they were. I guess having a good year, but they're going to be limited by QB play.
Good analysis, Dennis.
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Deb Lunsford's rent party at Bird and Beckett — What goes 'round, comes 'round
September 4, 2019 by Murray Schneider
Deb Lunsford talking with Eric Shifrin.
"Dollars for Deb" Eric Whittington billed the fund-raiser.
Whittington, proprietor of Bird & Beckett, has thrown rent parties with live jazz before, to help keep his independent bookstore open for another month. But over the summer, he threw a rent party for Destination Bakery's Deb Lunsford, a neighborhood favorite who's recovering from surgery.
Bakery regulars know Deb as the doler-out of coffee and baked goodies for the human customers, and dog treats for the four-legged ones.
"Deb hosted awesome pancake breakfasts for me back in 2002 when the bookstore was located where Manzoni's now is," Whittington told the Glen Park News. "Those benefits paid the rent and much more."
"We haven't missed a Friday night of jazz in all that time," continued Whittington, "and this was an opportunity to pay a little back to Deb."
Kind of karmic—it's that kind of bookstore.
Joe Schuver, the owner of Destination Bakery who prepared the Diamond Street pancake batter 17 years ago, like Deb, has been MIA for some time. Deb underwent a knee replacement, while Joe is recuperating from recent heart surgery. Both plan to come back to work when they're healthy enough, but in the meantime the bakery is closed on Sundays and Mondays, and has temporarily dropped some specialties.
While she recuperates, Deb needed a little financial help from her fans. So the neighborhood pitched in, both on-line and on July 26, when the 230 Jones Street Band and special guest pianist Eric Shifrin kicked off the first set with a rendition of "Travelin' Light."
Whittington's efforts paid dollar dividends. "Like $4,500," Deb told the Glen Park News.
"It was crowded early, crazy crowded," a jazz lover and a Deb supporter said about the crush of Deb fans. Meanwhile, the guest of honor reigned from a seat that Whittington had reserved for her.
Eric introducing the band.
At a break, between numbers, Deb called out over the crowd's buzz: "Hello Eric. You haven't aged a bit….have I?"
The shout-out was directed not at Whittington, but at Shifrin, who provided the vocals for "Travelin' Light."
He and Deb go back to the early 1990s, when the Malibu-born Shifrin performed at clubs throughout North Beach, including fabled Enrique's on Broadway. Deb was the manager there.
At the set break, Shifrin wasn't shy about singing the praises of the other Eric.
"I love Eric and Bird & Beckett," said Shrifin, who minutes later fittingly sang "Please Send Me Someone To Love," the Percy Mayfield standard. "It's the best place in town to listen to jazz. Never noisy. Other places—people just won't shut up!"
Florence Hitchcock, 88, sat a couple of rows in front of Deb, close to the stage. A retired elementary teacher who taught at Commodore Sloat, Brett Harte and San Francisco Community School, Hitchcock lives in Noe Valley, but is no stranger to Bird & Beckett or Destination Bakery.
"I sit at Joe's over a cup of coffee and work on the New York Times crossword puzzle," she said, waiting for saxophonist Jerry Logas to begin another tune from the American songbook, "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To."
"And the bookstore?" she mused. "San Francisco is changing so much. I cherish the kind of people who come here to browse and to listen to music."
Pausing, she added, "They're not faceless."
Deb, who since her summer surgery has been recuperating in her Bernal Heights digs, found herself surrounded by a legion of friends, including Marilee Hearn, a long-time bakery customer. Hearn assisted Whittington in pulling off the fund-raiser.
230 Jones Street Band with special guest Eric Shifrin.
"Marilee is a dear friend," volunteered Deb. "She made this happen."
Heather World, who lives on Chenery Street, sat only seats from Deb.
"Deb's a wonderful, friendly person, really one of a kind," World emailed the Glen Park News a month after the rent party. "I really miss seeing her at the bakery. I was so happy to see the neighborhood rally around her."
She added. "It's these local shops and local people that make Glen Park the neighborhood it is. I'm so grateful to live here where we all know and help one another. And, of course, the fund-raiser was at Bird & Beckett. Eric is one of the most generous people I know, and his bookstore is an anchor for good will and good happenings."
"I'm getting stronger every day, everything is getting back to normal, and I'm in great spirits back at home." Deb told the Glen Park News by phone on Aug. 13. "I'm doing my PT, take 'knee' classes at Kaiser and walk my bicycle around the neighborhood."
She said she planned to be back behind the counter by late September. "And Joe," she added, "he's doing great, getting stronger every day."
In fact, on Aug. 27 Joe paid a social call to the bakery, thanking the employees for keeping the ovens on.
"It's such a great neighborhood," said Deb. "Can you believe it? All that generosity, I'm still writing thank-you notes to the beautiful people in Glen Park. I owe everyone so much."
Kathrine Kain, Deb Lunsford, Heather World and Angelia Bennett
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging;
using DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Spreadsheet;

namespace DAG.Files.Import.Importers
{
    public class ExcelImporter<T> : Importer<T> where T: new()
    {
        SharedStringItem[] _sharedStringItems;
        Regex _columnNameRegex = new Regex("[A-Za-z]+");
        Regex _columnNameToIndexRegex = new Regex("^[A-Z]+$");

        public override ImportResult<T> Process(Stream source, Encoding encoding = null)
        {
            using (SpreadsheetDocument document = SpreadsheetDocument.Open(source, false))
            {
                WorkbookPart workbookPart = document.WorkbookPart;
                WorksheetPart worksheetPart = workbookPart.WorksheetParts.First();
                SheetData sheetData = worksheetPart.Worksheet.Elements<SheetData>().First();

                _sharedStringItems = workbookPart.SharedStringTablePart.SharedStringTable.Elements<SharedStringItem>().ToArray();

                ImportResult<T> result = new ImportResult<T>();
                bool headerDone = !Config.HasHeader;
                foreach (Row r in sheetData.Elements<Row>())
                {
                    //var values = r.Elements<Cell>().Select(GetCellValue).ToArray();
                    string[] values = GetCells(r).Select(GetCellValue).ToArray();

                    if (headerDone == false && Config.HasHeader)
                    {
                        InitializeMapping(values);
                        headerDone = true;
                        continue;
                    }

                    T item = new T();
                    var errors = CreateItem(values, Convert.ToInt32(r.RowIndex.Value-1), ref item);
                    if (errors.Count == 0)
                    {
                        result.Data.Add(item);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        foreach (ImportError error in errors)
                        {
                            result.Errors.Add(error);
                        }
                    }
                }
                return result;
            }
        }

        private string GetCellValue(Cell cell)
        {
            var cellValue = cell.CellValue;
            var text = (cellValue == null) ? cell.InnerText : cellValue.Text;
            if ((cell.DataType != null) && (cell.DataType == CellValues.SharedString))
            {
                text = _sharedStringItems[Convert.ToInt32(cell.CellValue.Text)].InnerText;
            }

            return (text ?? string.Empty).Trim();
        }

        private IEnumerable<Cell> GetCells(Row row)
        {
            int currentCount = 0;

            // row is a class level variable representing the current
            // DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Spreadsheet.Row
            foreach (Cell cell in row.Elements<Cell>())
            {
                string columnName = GetColumnName(cell.CellReference);

                int currentColumnIndex = ConvertColumnNameToNumber(columnName);

                for (; currentCount < currentColumnIndex; currentCount++)
                {
                    yield return new Cell();
                }

                yield return cell;
                currentCount++;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Given a cell name, parses the specified cell to get the column name.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="cellReference">Address of the cell (ie. B2)</param>
        /// <returns>Column Name (ie. B)</returns>
        private string GetColumnName(string cellReference)
        {
            return _columnNameRegex.Match(cellReference).Value;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Given just the column name (no row index),
        /// it will return the zero based column index.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="columnName">Column Name (ie. A or AB)</param>
        /// <returns>Zero based index if the conversion was successful</returns>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentException">thrown if the given string
        /// contains characters other than uppercase letters</exception>
        private  int ConvertColumnNameToNumber(string columnName)
        {
            if (_columnNameToIndexRegex.IsMatch(columnName) == false)
                throw new ArgumentException();

            char[] colLetters = columnName.ToCharArray();
            Array.Reverse(colLetters);

            return colLetters
                .Select((letter, i) => i == 0 ? letter - 65 : letter - 64)
                .Select((current, i) => current*(int) Math.Pow(26, i))
                .Sum();
        }
    }
}

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Q: Find and rename all pictures with incorrect file extension I'm looking for a way to automate renaming all images with a wrong filename extension. So far I at least found out how to get the list of all these files:
find /media/folder/ -name *.jpg -exec file {} \; | grep  'PNG\|GIF' > foobar.txt
find /media/folder/ -name *.png -exec file {} \; | grep 'JPEG\|GIF' >> foobar.txt
find /media/folder/ -name *.gif -exec file {} \; | grep 'JPEG\|PNG' >> foobar.txt

However, I would also like to automate the renaming. I tried things like
find /media/folder/ -name *.jpg -exec file {} \; | grep -l PNG | rename s/.jpg/.png/

but in this case grep -l or grep -lH don't list only filenames like I thought they would.

A: The -l and -H flags of grep are not useful in your example. These flags have no effect when used with the standard input, like in your example coming from the pipe. These flags only work if you specify files (or directories and the -r flag for recursion), for example:
grep -rl PNG path/to/dir1 file2 file3

In your example the -l has no effect, so the output is the complete lines that matched PNG, which in your example probably look something like this:

icon.png: PNG image, 512 x 512, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced

To get only the filename, maybe you can cut off everything after the colon like this:
find /media/folder/ -name *.jpg -exec file {} \; | grep PNG | sed -e s/:.*// | rename s/.jpg/.png/

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Long, thin mirror plates placed side by side produce a dynamic collage of surrounding scenery in Tokujin Yoshioka's 'Mirage' mirror for Italian design brand LEMA.
Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler, who form Studio mischer'traxler were inspired by the idea that faces and personalities are not flat but multilayered.
For 'Layered me' mirror, several sheets of mirrors are introduced into one object. Due to the distance and scale of the single mirroring layers the reflections become disfigured and form an assemblage of various images.
'Layered -me' consists of four two-way mirrors and one sandblasted or coloured sheet of glass placed in an oak base. Since the two-way mirrors always let some light through, the reflections are lighter and seem to fade out, where less layers are on top of each other.


One of twelve children, Richard Wayne Penniman's earliest musical memories were singing as part of the family group in churches; like his father before him he became a preacher. In his early days he sang and healed people; it was great schooling for his future as a rock 'n' roll showman par excellence. When he was 13 years old he sang with gospel legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe (a woman who knew a thing or two about mixing secular and gospel music). There were other gospel artists that influenced him but it was a blues 'shouter' named Billy Wright from whom Richard took his style in clothes, hair and make-up.
Little Richards first release was in 1951 on RCA; 'Taxi Blues' is closer to R & B than rock 'n' roll, but there is the undercurrent of something more outrageous on this record. His third RCA single was the joyous, 'Ain't Nothing Happenin'. This and his other singles did very little in sales, after which he signed to Peacock Records where his releases met a similar fate. At Lloyd Price's suggestion Richard recorded a demo and sent it to Specialty Records in Los Angeles.
Art Rupe who owned Specialty bought out Richard's contract and Bumps Blackwell set about recording him in New Orleans, but to begin with they could not get the right sound. "So I called a lunch break and we went to the Dew Drop Inn. Richard saw a piano and a crowd of people: he was one of those people who's always on stage, and he hit the piano and hollered, 'A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-good-God-damn!' – and those were the cleanest words of it." Back in the studio Blackwell brought in a writer named Dorothy LaBostrie and she came up with the rest of the lyrics for 'Tutti Fruitti'; they got it down in three takes. By early 1956 it was at No.2 on the R&B chart and No.17 on the billboard chart; Little Richard was on his way. Ironically Pat Boone's cover sold more than Little Richard's version. It was typical of the time with labels targeting separate records at the black and white market.
To compound the insult, Boone covered Little Richard's next record too. 'Long Tall Sally', recorded on 10 February at J&M Studio in New Orleans, came out in April 1956 and from that moment on Little Richard really was on his way; it was also the first of Richard's classic singles on which either side was capable of being a massive hit.
'Long Tall Sally' spent 8 weeks at the top of the R&B charts, while the b-side, 'Slippin and Slidin'. was at No,2 On the Billboard chart 'Sally' got to No.6 and 'Slip' to No.33. It attests to the power of the record. 'Sally's' driving piano and honking sax is archetypal New Orleans, but it is at the same time unique. Both Blackwell and Richard thought it was going to be to fast for Boone to cover, but cover it he did. Elvis covered it, so too did The Beatles on their 1964 EP, Long Tall Sally; before they found fame The Beatles worked with Richard in Hamburg and Paul's "oohs" in 'She Loves You' are taken straight out of 'Long Tall Sally'; 'Sally' was also the last song the Beatles performed at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, which marked the end of their touring career.
With Richard's records cutting through, he was soon playing live outside of New Orleans, but initially in venues that were black only. By the time of his third single becoming a hit, he was touring further afield, even getting as far as Klamath Falls, Oregon (pop 15,875). There was also a change in that, mixed audiences were more commonplace; inadvertently Pat Boone covering Richard's records had made people aware of the originator. Specialty was in no doubt, they had someone special on their hands with Little Richard and soon had him back in the studio again.
Richard was a natural for the movies and Specialty were not slow in pushing him in that direction in order to expand upon his appeal. The first was The Girl Can't Help It starring Jayne Mansfield in December 1956. Filmed around the same time was Don't Knock The Rock, which starred a whole string of rock 'n' roll stars including Bill Haley with Richard contributing 'Long Tall Sally'. In the spring of 1957 out came Mister Rock and Roll starring Alan Freed in which Richard played, 'Lucille'.
Richard's title song for the film, 'The Girl Can't Help It' is another classic New Orleans rock 'n' roll record, but has enough that is different about it to mark it out from other records from the genre. Written by Bobby Troup (who also wrote 'Route 66') it got to No.7 on the R & B chart and No.49 on the Billboard chart. Despite its relatively poor chart showing it is still in Rolling Stone's 'Greatest 500 Songs of All Time'. Chart wise it was back on track with his next release, helped by its use in the Alan Freed film.
A lot of people are unaware that Lucille was co-written by Richard and blues guitar great, Albert Collins. It had its release in February 1957 and within weeks it was at No.1 on the R & B chart where it stayed for 2 weeks. Inexplicably it could only make No.21 on the Billboard chart, but did stay on the chart for 5 months. It's been covered by such diverse artists as, Queen, Waylon Jennings, The Beatles and The Flying Burrito Brothers. The b-side, 'Send Me Some Lovin' is indicative of both Richard's gospel roots and where his heart was heading; it is also further proof of what a brilliant vocalist he was.
In October 1957, during the fifth date of a two-week sold-out tour of Australia, twenty five year old Little Richard found God. He was there with Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent, and after a scare on a flight from Melbourne to Sydney, where Richard was to play to 40,000 fans, Richard quit the tour to become a preacher in the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Stories about the plane on which Richard was supposed to be returning to the USA crashing in the Pacific Ocean are an embellishment as no such crash occurred.
Specialty Records insisted on one last session to fulfill his contract which took place on 18 October 1957. After this he performed one more show at New York City's Apollo Theatre and then he formed the Little Richard Evangelistic Team to travel throughout America as well as working with down and outs on skid row in Los Angeles. His first hit after quitting rock 'n' roll was the tremendous, 'Good Golly Miss Molly' that had a piano intro based on Ike Turner's playing on Jackie Brenston's 'Rocket 88' (it all added to Rocket 88's collateral as the first rock 'n' roll record). 'Miss Molly' got to No.4 on the R & B charts and No.10 on the Billboard chart. A couple of other minor hits recorded at the Specialty session in October was all that was heard from Little Richard as far as most of the public was concerned for the next 6 years. Specialty's A & R man Sonny Bono (later Cher's other half) discovered Larry Williams, Lloyd Price's former valet, and he sounded a lot like Little Richard and had hits with ' Short Fat Fannie,' and "Bony Moronie'; but there ain't nothing like the real thing.
"He was singing gospel songs the way they should be sung; he had that primitive beat and sound that came so naturally." – Mahalia Jackson on hearing Richard sing in Church in the early 1960s.
Richard did carry on recording, but it was purely gospel music. Records that included 'Ride On King Jesus' and 'It's No Secret (What God Can Do)' did not sell enough to chart. In 1962 when Little Richard was still firmly on the gospel trail, he was booked on a tour of Britain (he went by ship, still scared to fly). Richard thought he was there to sing gospel songs and on his first night, with Billy Preston playing organ he entertained the bewildered fans with 'Peace in the Valley and 'I Believe'; the promoter could smell disaster. By the time of the second performance, after having watched Sam Cooke who had missed the first show, knock 'em dead, the self proclaimed, 'Architect of rock 'n' roll' decided it really was here to stay. He sang 'Long Tall Sally as his opening number and never looked back. By the time the tour got to Liverpool the act was back, honed to perfection; it was all witnessed by the second act on the bill – The Beatles. It was a meeting of the old and the new – not that Little Richard would ever acknowledge such a thing.
The following year he was back in Britain, this time on a bill that included Bo Diddley, with the Everly Brothers headlining. Way down near the bottom of the bill were the Rolling Stones. Little Richard closed the first half, singing, 'Long Tall Sally', 'Rip It Up', 'Tutti Frutti', and 'Lucille'. During 1964 Richard went back to recording for Speciality. 'Bama Lama Bama Loo' was his first hit on the Billboard chart in 6 years, although it only got to a lowly No.82. Soon a young guitarist calling himself Maurice James joined Richard's band and played on a number of recording sessions; this was Jimi Hendrix. Richard switched to the Vee Jay label, but none of his releases did very well, the modest exception being, "I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me' that reached No.12 on the R & B chart. Hendrix played on many of the re-recordings that Richard made for Vee Jay of his biggest hits.
Little Richard had been making records for four years before he rolled into Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio in New Orleans and cut the epochal "Tutti Frutti" in the fall of 1955, but everything else he'd done -- and much of what others had recorded -- faded into insignificance when Richard wailed "A wop bop a loo mop a lomp bomp bomp" and kicked off one of the first great wailers in rock history. In retrospect, Little Richard's style doesn't seem so strikingly innovative as captured in 1956's Here's Little Richard -- his boogie-woogie piano stylings weren't all that different from what Fats Domino had been laying down since 1949, and his band pumped out the New Orleans backbeat that would define the Crescent City's R&B for the next two decades, albeit with precision and plenty of groove. But what set Richard apart was his willingness to ramp up the tempos and turn the outrage meter up to ten; "Tutti Frutti," "Rip It Up," and "Jenny Jenny" still sound outrageous a half-century after they were waxed, and it's difficult but intriguing to imagine how people must have reacted to Little Richard at a time when African-American performers were expected to be polite, and the notion of a gay man venturing out of the closet simply didn't exist (Richard's songs were thoroughly heterosexual on the surface, but the nudge and wink of "Tutti Frutti" and "Baby" is faint but visible, and his bop threads, mile-high process, and eye makeup clearly categorized him as someone "different"). These 12 tunes may not represent the alpha and omega of Little Richard's best music, but every song is a classic and unlike many of his peers, time has refused to render this first album quaint -- Richard's grainy scream remains one of the great sounds in rock & roll history, and the thunder of his piano and the frantic wail of the band is still the glorious call of a Friday night with pay in the pocket and trouble in mind. Brilliant stuff.
The Very Best of Little Richard is the first high-profile, high-quality Little Richard compilation to be released in the U.S. since 1991's The Georgia Peach, a disc that held the title of best available Little Richard hits collection for roughly 17 years. The Very Best is designed as a replacement to that collection, partially because The Georgia Peach was a little old but also because Concord Music Group -- the label that formed in 2004 when Concord and Fantasy Records merged -- now owned the Specialty Records vault and could use their own new Little Richard collection. So, Concord Music Group revived the Specialty imprint and released this excellent hits collection, which at 25 tracks is just as long as The Georgia Peach. Fully 20 of those 25 tracks are shared between the two compilations, which should come as no surprise as these 20 tracks are the big hits and standards, ranging from "Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," and "Good Golly Miss Molly" to "Ooh! My Soul," "Bama Lama Bama Loo," and the medley of "Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey" that the Beatles later covered. As The Very Best of Little Richard ends a little anticlimactically with a perfunctory rehearsal take of "Hound Dog" from Richard's last session, a pedestrian demo of the blues "Baby" from his pre-Specialty days, and a surprisingly tame live medley from 1964, this pales slightly in comparison to The Georgia Peach, but that's nitpicking: apart from these three OK cuts, this is as good a Little Richard compilation as you can get, which means this is as good as rock & roll gets.
Absolutely flawless ten-song budget collection of Richard's best. All the original Specialty recordings of "Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," "Slippin' and Slidin'," "Lucille," "Keep A Knockin'," "Rip It Up," "Ready Teddy," "Jenny Jenny," "The Girl Can't Help It," and "Good Golly Miss Molly." If you need a quick fix of Richard's absolute best, grab this one, you can't possibly go wrong here.
Speciality's The Essential Little Richard lives up to its billing, featuring 20 of Little Richard's finest recordings for the label. Not only are all the hits here, but there's some terrific lesser-known tunes and cult favorites slipped on at the end of the record, making this yet another great compilation of Richard's Specialty material. It proves that it would be nearly impossible to release a bad compilation of these recordings.
Perhaps the greatest of Little Richard's greatest hits compilations, the 25-track Georgia Peach features all of his biggest hits in chronological order, as well as terrific singles that never were as big as "Tutti Frutti" and "Good Golly Miss Molly." On top of the sublime song selection and sound, the liner notes by compiler Billy Vera are splendid and insightful.
Little Richard's ultra-flamboyant style and over the top stage presence prefigured later figures like Elton John, and if Richard used the piano as much as a prop as he used it as an instrument, the fact remains that he had a big hand in casting the template for rock & roll piano. His songwriting, too, a delightful mix of lust and nonsense, helped shape rock's self-image as music of pure kinetic fun and freewheeling, rebellious abandon. This set has classic performances of some of his biggest and most enduring hits like "Long Tall Sally," "Lucille," "Jenny, Jenny," and "Good Golly Miss Molly" in the original single versions. Richard is in full vocal flight here, and if he has been viewed more as a character than as a musician in recent years, the proof that he knew how to burn down the house at the piano is on full display here.


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