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@interface MapViewController : UIViewController <MKMapViewDelegate, CLLocationManagerDelegate, UITextFieldDelegate, KPTreeControllerDelegate, iCarouselDataSource, iCarouselDelegate, ESTBeaconManagerDelegate>

@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIView *mapHolder;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIView *sliderHolder;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIView *popupHolder;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIButton *searchBtn;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIButton *myLoc;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UITextField *search;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UITextView *pointDetails;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet MKMapView *mapView;
@property (strong, nonatomic) CLLocationManager *locationManager;
@property (strong, nonatomic) DataSetListElement *clickedDataset;
@property (nonatomic, strong) KPTreeController *treeController;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIImageView *popupBk;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UITextView *popupTitle;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIButton *popupClose;
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIButton *popupDirections;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIView *mapLegendGallery;
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSMutableArray *datasets;
@property BOOL aroundmeclicked;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet iCarousel *mapGallery;
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSArray *busInfoArray;
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSArray *tripInfoArray;
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSArray *routeInfoArray;
@property (nonatomic) BOOL blockAlerts;

@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *mapLegendButton;

@property (nonatomic, strong) ESTBeaconManager *beaconManager;

- (IBAction)showMenu:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)goHome:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)searchclicked:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)dismissPopup:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)goToCurrentLoc:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)goMapLegend:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)addToFav:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)favClicked:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)aroundMeClicked:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)directiontToMe:(id)sender;

@end

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Magazin "Uniprisma Spezial" für den Forschungsschwerpunkt "Kulturelle Orientierung und normative Bindung". Gestaltungskonzept, Redesign, Anleitung des Graphikteams, Knowledge transfer durch freie Fotoarbeit zum Thema und Portraits der Wissenschaftler und Leitung.
Magazine "Uniprisma Spezial" for the research focus "Cultural orientation and normative bonding". Design concept, redesign, guidance of the graphics team, knowledge transfer through free photo work on the topic and portraits of the scientists and management.


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2020-2021 Season Recap: The World's Best Players Trust Titleist
By Zack R., Team Titleist Staff On 8 September 2021 Balls Tour Clubs
When it came to competing on golf's biggest stages, the world's best players overwhelmingly chose Titleist.
There were 50 events played this season on the 2020-21 PGA Tour, the most since 1975. Over those 50, a total of 641 players competed in at least one event, with over 80% of them putting at least one piece of Titleist equipment in play.
Among them was the FedEx Cup Champion, Patrick Cantlay, who trusted a Titleist Pro V1x golf ball and 14 Titleist golf clubs to a TOUR-leading four victories, including the season-ending BMW and TOUR championships. All added up, Cantlay earned $4,401 per shot this season (more than $22 million).
Titleist was the most played golf ball, driver, hybrid, utility iron, iron, wedge and putter this season on the PGA TOUR, where more winners used a Titleist equipment than any other brand.
At five events – The Genesis Invitational, Charles Schwab Challenge, The Memorial Tournament, Rocket Mortgage Classic and John Deere Classic – Titleist swept every major equipment category (golf balls, drivers, fairways, hybrids, utility irons, wedges and putters), a feat that has never been matched by another brand. Since 2019, Titleist has topped every equipment category at 23 events.
Titleist golf balls were played 4,686 times this season on the PGA TOUR, more than eight times the nearest competitor with 557, with nearly three out of every four golf balls in play at each TOUR event (more than 71%) bearing the Titleist script.
Over the season's 50 events, a total of 475 different players trusted their success to a Titleist golf ball, compared to 58 for the nearest competitor.
And those 475 players – including Sungjae Im, who broke the PGA TOUR record with 498 birdies this season – combined for 49,800 total birdies or better. Titleist golf ball players ended the season a combined 5,242 strokes under par.
Thirty-six events were won this season playing either a Titleist Pro V1, Pro V1x, Pro V1x Left Dash or Pro V1 Left Dot golf ball, compared to five wins for the nearest competitor's models. That includes four-time winner Patrick Cantlay (Pro V1x), as well as two-time winners Harris English (Pro V1), Stewart Cink (Pro V1x) and Jason Kokrak.
Cantlay (Pro V1x), Justin Thomas (Pro V1x), Paul Casey (Pro V1), Viktor Hovland (Pro V1x) and Will Zalatoris (Pro V1x) all finished among the TOUR's top 10 in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green.
Thomas, who switched to the 2021 Pro V1x model, became the first PLAYERS champion in 21 years to hit 17 greens in regulation in the final round. "Probably one of the best rounds of my life tee to green, I had total control of the ball," he said.
Said Thomas on his new golf ball: "I feel like (the new Pro V1x) is able to kind of pick up on some of the areas that I was trying to improve in terms of I was trying to get a little bit more height on the ball, trying to be able to hold greens a little bit better when they get firm or with long irons, and I feel like this ball has been able to do that for me."
Cantlay topped led the TOUR in Scrambling (the percent of time a player misses the green in regulation, but still makes par or better) at 67.3 percent, 9.4% better than the TOUR average. In fact, every player in the Top 19 in Scrambling on TOUR played a Titleist golf ball.
Titleist golf balls also led the way in Hole-Outs from off the green or fringe, with Titleist golf ball players occupying all of the Top 14 positions in that category. Troy Merritt (Pro V1) and K.H. Lee (Pro V1x) tied for first with 24 hole-outs apiece, while Jordan Spieth (Pro V1x), Tony Finau (Pro V1 Left Dot) and Kevin Na (Pro V1x) tied for third with 22 each.
Titleist was the most played driver on the 2020-21 PGA TOUR with 1,980 players teeing up a Titleist driver, compared to 1,336 for the nearest competitor.
A total of 229 players teed up a Titleist driver in a TOUR event this season – combining for approximately 18.58 million yards of drives for the the season. That's longer than travelling back-and-forth from Titleist's Manchester Lane Test Facility in Acushnet, Mass., to the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, Calif. – twice!
Titleist was the winningest driver on TOUR this season with 15 victories, while Titleist driver players combined to win a total of $117,599,430, over $30 million more than the nearest competitor.
Titleist TSi3 was overwhelmingly the most played driver model this season on TOUR. TSi3 drivers were put in play 1,254 times this season, more than double the nearest competitive model.
That includes the World's 22nd ranked player, who switched to TSi3 from a competitive model.
"I put a new driver in, and I don't often talk about equipment, but I put a Titleist driver in the bag," he said. "I feel like I'm driving the golf ball like I did when I was playing my best golf, when I was 3 in the world or whatever, and that's — I feel like this rejuvenation."
Titleist TSi drivers were also the #1 choice of players who qualified for the 2020-21 PGA Tour FedEx Cup Playoffs, with 36 players teeing up a TSi2, TSi3 or TSi4 model. That list includes Justin Thomas (TSi2), Jordan Spieth (TSi2), Cam Smith (TSi3), Max Homa (TSi3), Adam Scott (TSi4), Sungjae Im (TSi2) and the World's 22nd, 26th and 28th-ranked players (who all play TSi3).
HYBRIDS & UTILITIES
Titleist continues to be the most played hybrid and utility iron on the PGA TOUR. Titleist hybrids were played a total of 979 times this season, compared to 725 for the nearest competitor. There were more than double the amount of Titleist utility irons (1,197) in play than the nearest competitor (506).
Titleist is the longstanding #1iron on the PGA TOUR, and the 2020-21 season was no different. Players put Titleist irons in play 1,880 times, compared to 1,090 for the nearest competitor. Titleist irons were also in the bags of 12 winners this season, tied for the most wins of any brand.
T100 models – the choice of players like Jordan Spieth, Cam Smith and Will Zalatoris — were the most played iron model on TOUR this season.
"I don't understand why you'd play any other iron to be honest," said Spieth, who switched to the new T100's in his first opportunity. "I joke around, 'I'm not good enough to play the blades,' but in reality, I think we're just being smarter. I think we're just like, 'Oh, we can actually hit every shot that a blade can hit.' But that chance that we mishit them – which we're going to mishit a few shots in a round, even in a great round, the idea that it does carry that bunker and you make birdie on a hole where someone has to get up and down for par – I mean, it could be the difference in a tournament."
Spieth gained seven times more strokes with approach shots (+27.01) than last season, while averaging 1.6 more greens in regulation hit per 72 holes. He was 49-under-par when 125-175 yards away in fairway this season – a 35-shot improvement over 2019-20.
Vokey Design wedges were the most played wedges this season on the PGA TOUR, as they have been since 2004 and counting, with nearly three times as many Vokeys in play (9,424) as the nearest competitor (2,545).
Thirty winners this season had at least one Vokey Design wedge in their bag, including the winner of the Open Championship. The gold medal winner in Tokyo – currently ranked 5th in the World – also plays Vokey wedges.
The leader in Strokes Gained: Around the Green (+.702) played a Vokey wedge and Pro V1x golf ball. Six other Vokey players including Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay, Ian Poulter and Webb Simpson finished in the category's top 10.
The leaders in Scrambling (Cantlay) and Sand Save percentage (The 2017 & 2018 U.S. Open Champion) were Vokey wedge players. The Olympic gold medalist, who ranked second in sand saves, also plays Vokey wedges.
A Vokey wedge was in the bag of the 2021 Open Champion, who also led the TOUR in proximity to hole from 20-30 yards (6 feet, 10 inches).
A trio of Vokey wedge players, including Webb Simpson, led the TOUR in proximity to hole from 10-20 yards (5 feet, 7 inches).
Scotty Cameron putters were used to win 18 TOUR events on the 2020-21 PGA TOUR, six more than the nearest competitor (12).
Patrick Cantlay, the FedEx Cup champion, recorded the TOUR's all-time putting performance at the BMW Championship with his Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype putter. Cantlay gained more strokes putting (+14.6) than any player in a single tournament since they began tracking the statistic in 2004. He made 537 feet of putts over the 72 holes of regulation, the longest of any player on the PGA TOUR this season by a margin of 30 feet. Cantlay added another 33 feet, 6 inches of putts in the playoff, putting him over 570 feet (longer than 1 ½ football fields) for the week.
At the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Cam Smith tied the TOUR record for fewest putts in a round (18) during his second-round 62 using his Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
using System.IO.Compression;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Data;
using ModMyFactory.Helpers;
using ModMyFactory.Lang;
using ModMyFactory.MVVM;
using Ookii.Dialogs.Wpf;
using ModMyFactory.Models;
using ModMyFactory.MVVM.Sorters;
using ModMyFactory.Views;
using ModMyFactory.Web;
using ModMyFactory.Web.ModApi;

namespace ModMyFactory.ViewModels
{
    sealed class MainViewModel : ViewModelBase<MainWindow>
    {
        static MainViewModel instance;

        public static MainViewModel Instance => instance ?? (instance = new MainViewModel());

        FactorioVersion selectedVersion;
        string modsFilter;
        string modpacksFilter;
        GridLength modGridLength;
        GridLength modpackGridLength;
        bool updating;

        public ListCollectionView AvailableCulturesView { get; }

        public List<CultureEntry> AvailableCultures { get; }

        public ListCollectionView FactorioVersionsView { get; }

        public ObservableCollection<FactorioVersion> FactorioVersions { get; }

        public FactorioVersion SelectedVersion
        {
            get { return selectedVersion; }
            set
            {
                if (value != selectedVersion)
                {
                    selectedVersion = value;
                    OnPropertyChanged(new PropertyChangedEventArgs(nameof(SelectedVersion)));

                    App.Instance.Settings.SelectedVersion = selectedVersion.Version;
                    App.Instance.Settings.Save();
                }
            }
        }

        public ListCollectionView ModsView { get; }

        public string ModsFilter
        {
            get { return modsFilter; }
            set
            {
                if (value != modsFilter)
                {
                    modsFilter = value;
                    OnPropertyChanged(new PropertyChangedEventArgs(nameof(ModsFilter)));

                    ModsView.Refresh();
                }
            }
        }

        public ObservableCollection<Mod> Mods { get; }

        public ListCollectionView ModpacksView { get; }

        public string ModpacksFilter
        {
            get { return modpacksFilter; }
            set
            {
                if (value != modpacksFilter)
                {
                    modpacksFilter = value;
                    OnPropertyChanged(new PropertyChangedEventArgs(nameof(ModpacksFilter)));

                    ModpacksView.Refresh();
                }
            }
        }

        public ObservableCollection<Modpack> Modpacks { get; }

        public ModpackTemplateList ModpackTemplateList { get; }

        public GridLength ModGridLength
        {
            get { return modGridLength; }
            set
            {
                if (value != modGridLength)
                {
                    modGridLength = value;
                    OnPropertyChanged(new PropertyChangedEventArgs(nameof(ModGridLength)));

                    App.Instance.Settings.ModGridLength = modGridLength;
                    App.Instance.Settings.Save();
                }
            }

        }

        public GridLength ModpackGridLength
        {
            get { return modpackGridLength; }
            set
            {
                if (value != modpackGridLength)
                {
                    modpackGridLength = value;
                    OnPropertyChanged(new PropertyChangedEventArgs(nameof(ModpackGridLength)));

                    App.Instance.Settings.ModpackGridLength = modpackGridLength;
                    App.Instance.Settings.Save();
                }
            }

        }

        public RelayCommand DownloadModsCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand AddModsFromFilesCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand AddModFromFolderCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand CreateModpackCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand ExportLinkCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand StartGameCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand OpenModFolderCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand OpenSavegameFolderCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand OpenScenarioFolderCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand OpenVersionManagerCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand OpenSettingsCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand BrowseFactorioWebsiteCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand BrowseModWebsiteCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand BrowseForumThreadCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand<bool> UpdateCommand { get; }

        public RelayCommand OpenAboutWindowCommand { get; }

        private bool ModFilter(object item)
        {
            Mod mod = item as Mod;
            if (mod == null) return false;

            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(modsFilter)) return true;
            return Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.CompareInfo.IndexOf(mod.Name, modsFilter, CompareOptions.IgnoreCase) >= 0;
        }

        private bool ModpackFilter(object item)
        {
            Modpack modpack = item as Modpack;
            if (modpack == null) return false;

            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(modpacksFilter)) return true;
            return Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.CompareInfo.IndexOf(modpack.Name, modpacksFilter, CompareOptions.IgnoreCase) >= 0;
        }

        private MainViewModel()
        {
            if (!App.IsInDesignMode) // Make view model designer friendly.
            {
                AvailableCultures = App.Instance.GetAvailableCultures();
                AvailableCulturesView = (ListCollectionView)CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(AvailableCultures);
                AvailableCulturesView.CustomSort = new CultureEntrySorter();
                AvailableCultures.First(
                    entry =>
                        string.Equals(entry.LanguageCode, App.Instance.Settings.SelectedLanguage,
                            StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)).Select();

                FactorioVersions = new ObservableCollection<FactorioVersion>();
                FactorioVersion.GetInstalledVersions().ForEach(item => FactorioVersions.Add(item));
                FactorioVersionsView = (ListCollectionView)CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(FactorioVersions);
                FactorioVersionsView.CustomSort = new FactorioVersionSorter();

                Version version = App.Instance.Settings.SelectedVersion;
                if (version != null)
                {
                    FactorioVersion factorioVersion = FactorioVersions.FirstOrDefault(item => item.Version == version);
                    if (factorioVersion != null)
                    {
                        selectedVersion = factorioVersion;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        App.Instance.Settings.SelectedVersion = default(Version);
                        App.Instance.Settings.Save();
                    }
                }

                Mods = new ObservableCollection<Mod>();
                ModsView = (ListCollectionView)CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(Mods);
                ModsView.CustomSort = new ModSorter();
                ModsView.GroupDescriptions.Add(new PropertyGroupDescription("FactorioVersion"));
                ModsView.Filter = ModFilter;

                Modpacks = new ObservableCollection<Modpack>();
                ModpacksView = (ListCollectionView)CollectionViewSource.GetDefaultView(Modpacks);
                ModpacksView.CustomSort = new ModpackSorter();
                ModpacksView.Filter = ModpackFilter;

                Mod.LoadTemplates();
                Mod.LoadMods(Mods, Modpacks, Application.Current.MainWindow);
                ModpackTemplateList = ModpackTemplateList.Load(Path.Combine(App.Instance.AppDataPath, "modpacks.json"));
                ModpackTemplateList.PopulateModpackList(Mods, Modpacks, ModpacksView, Application.Current.MainWindow);
                Modpacks.CollectionChanged += (sender, e) =>
                {
                    ModpackTemplateList.Update(Modpacks);
                    ModpackTemplateList.Save();
                };

                modGridLength = App.Instance.Settings.ModGridLength;
                modpackGridLength = App.Instance.Settings.ModpackGridLength;

                // 'File' menu
                DownloadModsCommand = new RelayCommand(async () => await DownloadMods());
                AddModsFromFilesCommand = new RelayCommand(async () => await AddModsFromFiles());
                AddModFromFolderCommand = new RelayCommand(async () => await AddModFromFolder());
                CreateModpackCommand = new RelayCommand(CreateNewModpack);
                ExportLinkCommand = new RelayCommand(CreateLink);

                StartGameCommand = new RelayCommand(StartGame, () => SelectedVersion != null);

                // 'Edit' menu
                OpenModFolderCommand = new RelayCommand(() => Process.Start(App.Instance.Settings.GetModDirectory().FullName));
                OpenSavegameFolderCommand = new RelayCommand(() => Process.Start(Path.Combine(App.Instance.AppDataPath, "saves")));
                OpenScenarioFolderCommand = new RelayCommand(() => Process.Start(Path.Combine(App.Instance.AppDataPath, "scenarios")));

                OpenVersionManagerCommand = new RelayCommand(OpenVersionManager);

                OpenSettingsCommand = new RelayCommand(OpenSettings);

                // 'Info' menu
                BrowseFactorioWebsiteCommand = new RelayCommand(() => Process.Start("https://www.factorio.com/"));
                BrowseModWebsiteCommand = new RelayCommand(() => Process.Start("https://mods.factorio.com/"));
                BrowseForumThreadCommand =  new RelayCommand(() => Process.Start("https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=137&t=33370"));

                UpdateCommand = new RelayCommand<bool>(async silent => await Update(silent), () => !updating);
                OpenAboutWindowCommand = new RelayCommand(OpenAboutWindow);
            }
        }

        private async Task DownloadMods()
        {
            var progressWindow = new ProgressWindow() { Owner = Window };
            progressWindow.ViewModel.ActionName = "Fetching mods";
            progressWindow.ViewModel.ProgressDescription = "Parsing page 1.";
            progressWindow.ViewModel.CanCancel = true;

            var progress = new Progress<Tuple<double, string>>(value =>
            {
                progressWindow.ViewModel.Progress = value.Item1;
                progressWindow.ViewModel.ProgressDescription = value.Item2;
            });
            var cancellationSource = new CancellationTokenSource();
            progressWindow.ViewModel.CancelRequested += (sender, e) => cancellationSource.Cancel();

            Task<List<ModInfo>> fetchModsTask = ModWebsite.GetModsAsync(progress, cancellationSource.Token);

            Task closeWindowTask =
                    fetchModsTask.ContinueWith(t => progressWindow.Dispatcher.Invoke(progressWindow.Close));
            progressWindow.ShowDialog();

            List<ModInfo> mods = await fetchModsTask;
            await closeWindowTask;

            if (!cancellationSource.IsCancellationRequested)
            {
                var modsWindow = new OnlineModsWindow() { Owner = Window };
                modsWindow.ViewModel.Mods = mods;

                modsWindow.ShowDialog();
            }
        }

        private Version ParseInfoFile(Stream stream)
        {
            using (var reader = new StreamReader(stream))
            {
                string content = reader.ReadToEnd();
                MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(content, "\"factorio_version\" *: *\"(?<version>[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+(\\.[0-9]+)?)\"",
                    RegexOptions.CultureInvariant | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
                if (matches.Count == 0) return null;

                string versionString = matches[0].Groups["version"].Value;
                var version = Version.Parse(versionString);
                version = new Version(version.Major, version.Minor);
                return version;
            }
        }

        private bool ArchiveFileValid(FileInfo archiveFile, out Version validVersion)
        {
            validVersion = default(Version);

            using (ZipArchive archive = ZipFile.OpenRead(archiveFile.FullName))
            {
                foreach (var entry in archive.Entries)
                {
                    if (entry.Name == "info.json")
                    {
                        using (Stream stream = entry.Open())
                        {
                            validVersion = ParseInfoFile(stream);
                            if (validVersion != null) return true;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            return false;
        }

        private async Task AddModsFromFiles()
        {
            var dialog = new VistaOpenFileDialog();
            dialog.Multiselect = true;
            dialog.Filter = "ZIP-Archives (*.zip)|*.zip";
            bool? result = dialog.ShowDialog(Window);

            if (result.HasValue && result.Value)
            {
                var progressWindow = new ProgressWindow() { Owner = Window };
                progressWindow.ViewModel.ActionName = "Processing mods";

                IProgress<Tuple<double, string>> progress1 = new Progress<Tuple<double, string>>(info =>
                {
                    progressWindow.ViewModel.Progress = info.Item1;
                    progressWindow.ViewModel.ProgressDescription = info.Item2;
                });
                IProgress<Tuple<FileInfo, Version>> progress2 = new Progress<Tuple<FileInfo, Version>>(info =>
                {
                    var mod = new ZippedMod(info.Item1, info.Item2, Mods, Modpacks, Window);
                    Mods.Add(mod);
                });

                Task processModsTask = Task.Run(() =>
                {
                    int fileCount = dialog.FileNames.Length;
                    int counter = 0;
                    foreach (string fileName in dialog.FileNames)
                    {
                        var archiveFile = new FileInfo(fileName);
                        Version version;

                        progress1.Report(new Tuple<double, string>((double)counter / fileCount, archiveFile.Name));

                        if (ArchiveFileValid(archiveFile, out version))
                        {
                            var versionDirectory = App.Instance.Settings.GetModDirectory(version);
                            if (!versionDirectory.Exists) versionDirectory.Create();

                            var modFilePath = Path.Combine(versionDirectory.FullName, archiveFile.Name);
                            if (!File.Exists(modFilePath))
                            {
                                archiveFile.MoveTo(modFilePath);
                                progress2.Report(new Tuple<FileInfo, Version>(archiveFile, version));
                            }
                        }

                        counter++;
                    }

                    progress1.Report(new Tuple<double, string>(1, string.Empty));
                });

                Task closeWindowTask =
                    processModsTask.ContinueWith(t => progressWindow.Dispatcher.Invoke(progressWindow.Close));
                progressWindow.ShowDialog();

                await processModsTask;
                await closeWindowTask;
            }
        }

        private bool DirectoryValid(DirectoryInfo directory, out Version validVersion)
        {
            validVersion = default(Version);

            var file = directory.EnumerateFiles("info.json").FirstOrDefault();
            if (file != null)
            {
                using (Stream stream = file.OpenRead())
                {
                    validVersion = ParseInfoFile(stream);
                    if (validVersion != null) return true;
                }
            }

            return false;
        }

        private async Task AddModFromFolder()
        {
            var dialog = new VistaFolderBrowserDialog();
            bool? result = dialog.ShowDialog(Window);

            if (result.HasValue && result.Value)
            {
                var directory = new DirectoryInfo(dialog.SelectedPath);

                Task moveDirectoryTask;
                Version version;
                if (DirectoryValid(directory, out version))
                {
                    var versionDirectory = App.Instance.Settings.GetModDirectory(version);
                    if (!versionDirectory.Exists) versionDirectory.Create();

                    var modDirectoryPath = Path.Combine(versionDirectory.FullName, directory.Name);
                    if (Directory.Exists(modDirectoryPath))
                    {
                        MessageBox.Show(Window, $"The mod directory '{modDirectoryPath}' already exists!",
                            "Error adding mod", MessageBoxButton.OK, MessageBoxImage.Error);
                        return;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        moveDirectoryTask = directory.MoveToAsync(modDirectoryPath);
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(Window, "The selected directory does not contain a valid mod.", "Error adding mod",
                        MessageBoxButton.OK, MessageBoxImage.Error);
                    return;
                }

                var progressWindow = new ProgressWindow() { Owner = Window };
                progressWindow.ViewModel.ActionName = "Processing mod";
                progressWindow.ViewModel.ProgressDescription = directory.Name;
                progressWindow.ViewModel.IsIndeterminate = true;

                moveDirectoryTask = moveDirectoryTask.ContinueWith(t => progressWindow.Dispatcher.Invoke(progressWindow.Close));
                progressWindow.ShowDialog();
                await moveDirectoryTask;

                progressWindow.Close();

                Mods.Add(new ExtractedMod(directory, version, Mods, Modpacks, Window));
            }
        }

        private void CreateNewModpack()
        {
            string newName = "NewModpack";
            int count = 0;
            bool contains = true;
            while (contains)
            {
                contains = false;
                count++;
                foreach (var item in Modpacks)
                {
                    if (item.Name == (newName + count))
                        contains = true;
                }
            }
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CANNES '08 NOTEBOOK | Divided Reactions: "Headless Woman," "Sonata," "Liverpool," "Robbed" Find Detr
CANNES '08 NOTEBOOK | Divided Reactions: "Headless Woman," "Sonata," "Liverpool," "Robbed" Find Detr
Anthony Kaufman
Cannes' perennial post-screening boos are not to be trusted. Neither, for that matter, are the standing ovations. To each his own cinema, to be sure: one viewer's masterpiece is another's misstep, depending upon your taste and even where you sit. It's been alleged that the Salles Bazin screening room is far less kind to a film than the bigger venues.
Either Steven Soderbergh's "Che" epic is an ambitious historical masterpiece or an unfinished mess (judging from the mix of cheers and jeers reported after its premiere); James Gray's "Two Lovers" is a moving, delicate study of unrequited love or a clumsy, preposterous portrait whose casting and story doesn't congeal (I'd opt for the latter). Similarly, Lucrecia Martel's "The Headless Woman" also screened to a divided response; although in this writer's opinion, Martel's film is one of the competition's most mesmerizing entries.
If Martel's follow-up to "La Cienaga" and "The Holy Girl" drew a few boos after its world premiere, perhaps it was because expectations were too high or audiences weren't patient enough. After all, the Argentine filmmaker's first two movies were more unanimously appreciated, and by day eight in Cannes, critics were desperate for something easy on the eyes (maybe that explains the fawning over Clint Eastwood's "Changeling"). With "The Headless Woman," Martel narrows her focus, both narratively, in its concise examination of a single woman, and literally, with its frequent, evocative use of long lenses that isolate her protagonist from the blurred-out surroundings. Few filmmakers use focus as effectively and incisively as Martel.
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With a curly head of dyed blonde hair, Vero (Maria Onetto) is that typical upper-middle-class Martel protagonist, whose privileged status is put to the test over the course of the story. The plot is set in motion when Vero, driving obliviously in her car, hits an object in the road. In the distance, it appears to be a dog. But Vero's post-traumatic shock suggests the accident is far more severe. In the days after the accident, Vero seems to barely remember who she is or what she does, smiling vacantly at those around her. Just as disturbing, friends and family don't really appear to take much note of her newly spaced-out behavior.
Inspired by Martel's dreams and nightmares, "The Headless Woman" is moody, mysterious and suffused with ominous portents and subtle critiques of the bourgeoisie. When Vero dyes her hair from blonde to a more natural brunette, we might expect this change to signal growing self-awareness or comeuppance. But, in fact, it's just one more cover-up (she admits her real hair color is gray by now) in a film about multiple cover-ups–and the elite's singular ability to block out the harshest realities, pretend they don't exist and live in vacuous ignorance.
Dividing audiences, it seems, is what Cannes does best. Two people talking about a film can often share similar views, but as soon as you get a group of 3-4 critics together, consensus goes out the window. Take Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Un Certain Regard entry, "Tokyo Sonata," a trenchant look at crises of authority in a Japanese family and the culture at large, that engages for the first hour, and then spins out of control. Is the disorienting third act a sign that the film has lost its way or does it point to Kurosawa's uniqueness of approach? A number of critics have gone to bat for the film (from Variety's Derek Elley to Cinematical's James Rocchi), but I'm not entirely convinced. The film's surprising final narrative turn – with its outbreak of violence (however non-threatening) – vaguely recalls the genre work for which Kurosawa is most known ("Cure," "Pulse"). What's more illuminating about the film, however, is the straightforward family dynamics–a downsized salaryman who keeps his unemployment a secret and his young outspoken son, whose creative passions suggest an ultimately hopeful Japanese future, as long as it's not squashed by the insecurities of the older generation.
At least Kurosawa's film comes with obvious conflicts and emotional characters. Talk about critical division: there's nothing like an opaque uber-art film to foment opposing reactions, such as Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo's "Delta" ("almost a parody of an art film," said one critic, while Screen called it a "poetical portrait of nature in the raw") or Lisandro Alonso's "Liverpool," another long-take poetic realist vision from the director of "Los Muertos." This is challenging cinema whose vagaries and ambiguities make "The Headless Woman" look like "My Fair Lady." Far from accessible, as some Alonso devotees have suggested, "Liverpool" chronicles a cargo ship worker who goes ashore to find his estranged mother, but there's little for a viewer to latch on to in the barely registered relationships and minimalist interactions. Of course, the film is exactingly photographed, with its cool images of rural southern Argentina, and mystifying in the way it withholds its story, but ultimately, "Liverpool" is a pain to get through and richer in retrospect.
Even a film as minor as "The Pleasure of Being Robbed," Josh Safdie's no-budget American indie, which closes Directors Fortnight on Friday, has drawn sharply differing reactions; one prominent critic walked out exasperated after 30 minutes; another delighted in the film's unabashed amateurism. Shot in shaky, handheld 16mm, "Pleasure" follows a dim-witted basket-case (Eleonore Hendricks) who steals stuff from strangers on the streets of New York. If some viewers will see her antics as adorably eccentric, others will find an annoying young woman in need of serious medical care. First-time director Safdie loses points with unfunny bits of quirk and forced whimsy (i.e. a guy goes into a bar, proposes to buy everyone drinks, then rescinds his offer when he sees all the people). Most of the film is just too precious in its depiction of this messed-up pixie, particularly an extended scene in which the director appears, himself, as another strange, quirky sort. If it weren't for an unexpected daydream sequence late in the film, I would have written it off entirely. But this singularly surprising moment finally lets us into the screwy girl's weird mind, going to a fresh and unexpected place. The headless woman, indeed.
One wouldn't expect agreement about a James Toback film, but of all the movies in Cannes, the controversial director's documentary portrait "Tyson," about the infamous boxer, is one of the few that has received near unanimous praise. Tyson, of course, is an easy subject, fucked-up in the head, a monster of a man and as vulnerable as a little boy–and he talks and talks and talks. At certain points in the film, Toback splits the screen into multiple frames, showing Tyson repeatedly and overlapping his dialogue–a keen device that accurately evokes Tyson's fragmented self and his "chaos of the brain." What emerges most prominently, however, is Tyson's fear–the most repeated word out of his mouth is "afraid." It's not an amazing piece of filmmaking or incredibly revealing, but it's an engaging diversion all the same, like watching something good on HBO. And that may be just what the critics and journalists need after a week of non-stop movies.
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Watch 100 Years of Cats in Movies, Plus Learn Five Surprising Facts About Famous Felines in Film — VIDEO
If you fall into the camp of discerning citizens of the world who consider themselves to be "cat people," you're going to to love what I'm about to say: you can now spend three-and-a-half minutes of your morning watching 100 years of cats in movies. It may sound too good to be true, but it is in fact a reality — Supercats! A Supercut of Cats in Movies chronicles a century of dazzling cinematic performances by famous felines. Clearly, award shows need reform. I mean, if Church — the terrifying cat from 1989's Pet Sematary — doesn't merit a golden statue of some kind, I don't know who does. Let that give you, ahem, paws (or, better yet, claws) for thought.
So who do we have to thank for this cinematic marvel? Ariel, an independent filmmaker, editor, and animator using Vimeo as a platform. "This is not meant to be a full list," Ariel explains of the cat vid. "It's just some personal selection I made. Feel free to send suggestions for future updates." Doth my ears deceive me, or is Ariel hinting at a sequel here? Perhaps Harry Potter's Crookshanks, Si and Am from Lady and the Tramp, Blofeld's cat, or Puss in Boots — kitties who failed to make the first cut — wind up in future Supercats! compilations. Until then, though, here are few fun, little-known facts about felines in film. Check out the full Supercats! video after the jump.
1. The AristoCats are Real
Well, sort of. While O'Malley, Duchess, Berlioz, Toulouse, and Marie from the 1970 animated classic The AristoCats were inspired by a true story, it seems doubtful their real-life inspirations could speak. Or play piano concertos. Still, they were modeled after a Parisian of family cats in 1910 that inherited a sizable fortune.
2. Thackery Binx was Too Scary for Kids
In the Halloween favorite Hocus Pocus, the black cat version of Thackery Binx wasn't actually a cat at all. Rather, it was a CGI representation created by Rhythm and Hues. The company took painstaking care to ensure Binx's facial features were realistic, but they perhaps did their job a little too well — the studio had them scale back, feeling Binx would be too terrifying for younger audiences. Ultimately, Rhythm and Hues shrank his fangs and made them less pointed.
3. Thomasina Had Three Lives — and Even More "Actors"
I grew up watching a VHS copy of 1964's The Three Lives of Thomasina at my grandparents' house, so this film about the mysterious death and lives of a tabby cat is near and dear to my heart. However, I never realized that several of the cats used to play the part didn't even match. One was a classic tabby, one was a mackerel tabby, and one held up shooting for two days for flatly refusing to perform a stunt "in spite of Walt Disney's frustrated bellowing."
4. Homeward Bound Didn't Originally Have A Sassy
It's hard to imagine Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey without fluffy, spoiled and, well, sassy feline known aptly as Sassy. Yet, in the Sheila Burnford novel of the same name the movie was based on, the cat in this adored trio was originally a male Siamese cat named Tao as opposed to the Himalayan Sassy we've all come to known and love.
5. The Meaning of Pyewacket Will Creep You Out
Following the release of the 1958 movie Bell Book and Candle, the name Pyewacket became popular for cats, thanks to Gillian's feline companion in the film. What most people don't know is the name's origin. As it turns out, Pyewacket was one of the familiar spirits of a witch uncovered by renowned witchfinder Matthew Hopkins in 1644. Said witch, a local woman, was arrested and kept from sleeping for nights on end — after which time she revealed a long list of familiars and their forms, including Pyewacket.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 1
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I've heard surprisingly little about this show from just about anyone. Granted, I think people only discuss TV on Twitter these days, and I have next to no time to follow those conversations. But even my reliable Podcasters (for whom I have all sorts of time) have barely mentioned this thing, despite it being from the creators of the well-loved series 30 Rock. I mean this is Tina Fey, people! Wasn't there like a year and half there where that woman was everywhere? Like in your face funny? And then came out and, splat, nothing. Some of that — and this is total conjecture — I think has to do with Netflix's "drop 'em all at once" methodology. Rather than string out the conversation over the ten to 22-week run, the series lands and then everyone starts at his or her own pace watching it and because they don't want to spoil anything and also don't know if the topic is even relevant three weeks after the get through all the episodes, they just don't write about it. Or mention it, really. Remember Marco Polo, the $10 million an episode show on Netflix that they advertised prior to its release to within an inch of its life? Yeah. neither does anyone else. Because it came out, maybe some people watched it. Maybe they didn't. But, at the end of their viewing, they realized that nobody gave a shit about some dude in the 1200s who was named after a dumb hide-and-seek-ish pool game.
But you'd figure that something like this, with its sit-com pedigree would get tongues wagging. Tina Fey's next big plunge into the half-hour comedy world and all. But I seemed to be the only person I could find who was actually watching it. Of course we're heading into that television season where things like Mad Men have wrapped, there are a couple weeks of Game of Thrones and all the network stuff is mostly on hiatus for the summer. So it was between this and watching a YouTube series about dogs barfing.
The idea behind the show is a pretty simple one. It's essentially set up like any fish-out-of-water plot that you've seen a million times. Everything from Mork & Mindy to 3rd Rock from the Sun to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century to Northern Exposure to Perfect Strangers to Alf and god knows how many other aliens coming to Earth, Earthlings in space, guy from the big city moves to a small town, guy from a small town moves to the big city and dumb alien who thinks cats are food shows that have come and gone over the past 40 years. Kimmy is an Earthling — as far as we know. She's from a small town in Indiana and at some juncture is kidnapped from that town and stuck in a bunker by an end-of-days cultist (eventually played by Jon Hamm) who keeps her there with several other women for years. When they are finally rescued years later, the world has obviously changed around them. To make matters even more hilarious, she up and moves to NYC, which was probably already decades ahead of her podunk town when she was first taken. Kimmy, played by later-day The Office regular, Ellie Kemper, is remarkably innocent after being locked up since childhood and interminably cheery. Which, of course, is in direct contrast to the angry, superficial city to which she's moved. Within a few hours of arriving, all of her money is stolen, she is homeless and has nobody to turn to. But she, like Bruce Willis, from the similarly named M. Night Shyamalan movie, Unbreakable, is, uh, unbreakable. She's gonna turn those lemons into lemonade. So she moves in with a less-than-upstanding wanna-be actor/performer flamboyantly played by Tituss Burgess in a basement apartment landlorded by crazy, former East Village government rampager / husband murderer (?), Carol Kane. So, your typical wacky New Yorkers. She is eventually employed as a nanny of sorts by Jane Krakowski, who is essentially reprising her Jenna Maroney character from 30 Rock, but this time as a newly wealthy, kept Manhattanite instead of a pampered actor.
After watching a bunch of seasons of 30 Rock, the show feels very familiar. The patter and pacing is super similar. As are the jokes — some of which I swear are just straight recycles. And, like those jokes, some are funny, some are complete throw-aways and others are out-and-out duds. Like to the point where the actors are saying them while cringing. That is to say, I liked 30 Rock. Sometimes I loved it. Other times I scratched my head and wondered if they went to the other writer's room down the hall filled with dorks who were busy trying to do fixes to failed SNL sketches. Unfortunately for Kimmy Schmidt, they might have picked up one too many from the old pile. And, honestly, on shows like this that are filled with characters and caricatures more than anything else, it comes down to the who we want to spend a half hour with. Ellie Kemper was great on The Office in small doses. The sunshine and puppies thing (with an underlying anger thing) existed on that show and that show ended. But here is that almost carbon copy personality popping up here. Krakowski's character on 30 Rock was actually one of my least favorite, as they seemed to run out of things for her to do after like season two. But here she is again, spouting lines that I swear were ripped right from those scripts. Vane and out-of-touch with the common people, she came from nothing, but now that she has money and all the free plastic surgery she can garner, she doesn't want to part with it for the life of her. Fueled by insecurity, she just prances around like a show dog and treats people more like furniture than people. It gets old quick. And Tituss is funny as the self-absorbed gay roommate, but feels almost stereotypical in his "me, me, me" attitude and obsession with fame. Again, it feels like a character we've seen a million times before. But occasionally funnier.
I think if Netflix gives this thing a second season, they should go back to their pilot and see what worked there and eventually burned itself out as the episodes wore on. The concept is a decent one and has tons of places it can go, but it feels like it might need a hard reboot. Like boot some of the lamer characters and bring some new ones in. Tada!
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It's not hard to find good Italian in Chicago. Acclaimed restaurants serving refined pasta dishes and rustic Tuscan roasts dot almost every neighborhood. When diving into the city's Italian heritage, you don't need new twists or human-sized portions, you want a plate of chicken parm that will feed you for three days. You want crowded, sauce-covered tables, checkerboard cloth, and waiters who pre-date color TV. You'll find it all at these old-school Italian eateries in Chicago where the food is better than your nonna's (even though you will never tell her that).
While The Rosebud may now be the bedrock of a local restaurant empire, its original location in Little Italy rightfully draws in Chicagoans looking for heaps of pasta, baked clams, and some of the best meatballs in the city. The bustling quality of this wood-paneled throwback space might bother you in another restaurant, but here that brash, energetic liveliness only adds to the character.
It's notoriety as the oldest Italian restaurant in Chicago could have spoiled Italian Village's destination reputation, teetering into tourist trap territory, but this third-generation family owned spot has stubbornly and righteously clung to tradition. It now encompasses three restaurants, but the original dining room still sports the unselfconsciously unhip faux-Italian decor that it has for years. As for food the house specialty is the chicken Vesuvio, supposedly the original, created by founder Alfredo Capitanini from a recipe he brought from northern Italy.
Old enough that the current owners don't even remember when the restaurant was founded (probably 1969), Sabatino's is a high-end Italian fantasy straight out of the '70s in the best possible way. This classic supper club is owned by two brothers who landed the joint after coming over from Italy and spending years in the kitchen at the Italian Village. The plates of meat and sauce are simple, straightforward, and, according to them or the legion of regulars, taste exactly the way they did 35 years ago.
Italian connoisseur will love Bacchanalia as soon as they step in the door. A Pilsen staple that's been drawing pilgrims from all over the city since 1979, Bacchanalia guides its diners through a narrow unpretentious bar area that's coated in old neighborhood charm. Still family owned, it's hearty Italian classics like veal scallopini are based on homestyle recipes that the original founder Belfonte Pieri brought with him when he immigrated from Tuscany in 1958.
A throwback to the era when River North was patrolled by warehouse workers and glad-handing politicians instead of finance bros and social climbers, Club Lago proudly holds on to its working-class roots with big plates of spaghetti and meatballs or overstuffed lasagna at a price that would be reasonable anywhere in the city. Although it was damaged by an explosion a few years back, the current owners, grandchildren of the original founder, made sure the restoration maintained the same red-leather simple charm, and of course the approachable attitude and great Martini's never went away to begin with.
Taylor St may have taken over the Little Italy moniker but it's Oakley Ave in Pilsen that has the oldest Italian hood in the city. While the old residents may have moved on Bruna's absolutely has not, many of the menu items are older than most of the other restaurants in Chicago. Regional northern Italian specialties mix with Italian-American fare and they don't really have a specialty because everything is that damn good. Paintings and leather chairs fill the dimly lit dining room that hits the spot between passé and perfect.
Gene & Georgetti may be a steakhouse first and foremost, but don't let that distract you from it's Italian heart. Generous slabs of steak are served alongside mussels marinara, fried calamari, and chicken Parmesan, a fantastic reminder that the Italian impact on Chicago cuisine goes beyond pizza and pasta. Burgundy carpeted and closed off from the outside world this is as old-school Chicago as it gets.
It's hard for places like Gino's North. While other old Italian spots have survived on their adherence to an experience that most places simply don't offer any more, the city is still full of Deep dish restaurants that sling a solid pie at a decent price. But with so many of them chains it's comforting to see a true neighborhood spot like Gino's still thriving after so long. With its big glass-backed bar complete and greco-roman statue it's a throwback to the gaudy delight of the '60s and '70s, not to mention the pizza's crafter is Peggy Gelsomino, an 80-plus-year-old grandmother who still makes all of the crusts by hand.
When an exterior that looks like a dive bar turns into an elegantly simple interior like at Mart Anthony's you know you're in for a treat. The holy Italian trinity of friendly family-style service, relaxed atmosphere, and overstuffed entrees has been perfectly represented at this cult favorite for over 30 years. Devoted regulars followed animated owner Marty from the old location on Randolph St to it's new West Loop digs, and continue to clamor for their signature black linguine or steak Vesuvio.
A sparse no-frills stalwart of Little Italy -- that is still-cash only despite this being the year of our lord 2016 -- Tufano's wins accolades for not only its wonderfully stubborn old-school vibe but also for the fact that it may be the only place in Chicago where you can get a decent plate of pasta for the same price as a Venti double-whip mocha and a cookie.The service has a brusque proficiency, the dishes are a single shade of red, and the place is worked by up to four members of the same family that once had four generations in the kitchen.
La Villa is the embodiment of the small family-run pizza and pasta neighborhood restaurants that used to dominate the Italian landscape. Started as a small take-out storefront in the early '70s owners Nicoletta and Salvatore Canale gradually built it out into a full-service shop that has been feeding Irving Park classic Italian comforts ever since. The best part? The original owners still work the kitchen, making everything from the sauce to the dough from scratch.
While other classic Italian spots may exude a more homey vibe, Orso's is a throwback to an era when Italian dining was one of the only high-end "ethnic" options in town. Around since before most of the Old Town crowd was even born, Orso's swings for an old-world Italian elegance with its elaborate carved wood and copious chandeliers. The food however is pure Chicago Italian, with bowls of drowned gnocchi and plates of chicken Vesuvio giving diners a welcome respite from the rash of trendier options throughout the neighborhood.
While other long running Italian spots might stand behind their adherence to a dozen recognizable dishes Calo carries the torch for another kind of mostly gone restaurant, a place where the steak and the ribs are as much of a draw as the great pizza or veal saltimbocca. Massive menu aside Calo has stayed alive and thriving by changing very little about what makes them great even while the neighborhood had transformed around them; recipes passed down from father to son, affordable prices, and an ideal location in the heart of Andersonville.


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Q: Inverted Sum of a Number -- Haskell I have the following function in Haskell:
invertedSum :: Integer -> Integer
invertedSum n = n + (read . reverse . show) n

I need to know the number of sums that must be made in order for the number to be capicua. That is to say,
invertedSum 1999 = 11990   (1999+9991)
invertedSum 11990 = 21901
invertedSum 21901 = 32813
invertedSum 32813 = 64636
invertedSum 64636 = 128282
invertedSum 128282 = 411103
invertedSum 411103 = 712217

isCapicua :: Integer -> Bool
isCapicua n | show n == (reverse . show) n   = True
            | otherwise                      = False

isCapicua 712217 == True

So, I want to generate the following list, but I don't know how.
sumUpToCapicua 1999 = [11990, 21901, 32813, 64636, 128282, 411103, 712217]

genericLength (sumUpToCapicua 1000000079994144385) == 259

A: You already have a function invertedSum with the type Integer -> Integer. If I understand the question correctly, you'd like to apply it multiple times, starting with a particular Integer (e.g. 1999).
You could use iterate for that purpose. It has the type:
Prelude> :t iterate
iterate :: (a -> a) -> a -> [a]

In other words, it'll take any function a -> a, as well as an initial value a, and produce an infinite list of a values.
In your case, invertedSum has the type Integer -> Integer, and the initial value you'd like to use (e.g. 1999) would also be of the type Integer, so it all fits: a would be Integer.
Try using invertedSum and e.g. 1999 with iterate. Be aware that this produces an infinite list, so if you experiment with this in GHCi, you probably want to use e.g. take 10 to cap the number of values generated.

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Do you love brownies? How about chocolate chip cookies? If so, then I bet you'll love these Brookie Cupcakes! It's a brownie base, chocolate chip cookie middle and brownie on the top. Although these are called "cupcakes", they aren't the typical cake-like texture. These are more of a chewy brownie in a cupcake wrapper. You can dress them up for a party by topping them with chocolate frosting, chopped brownies and broken cookie pieces.
The longer you cook these, the crunchier they'll be. For a chewy brownie-cookie texture, start with about 25 minutes of baking time. For the photos here, I baked them for 30 minutes and the top brownie layer was a bit on the crunchy side.
The longer you cook these, the crunchier they'll be. For a chewy brownie-cookie texture, start with about 25 minutes of baking time. For the photos here, I baked them for 30 minutes and the top brownie layer was a bit on the crunchy side. Note that although these are called "cupcakes", they will not be the cake texture like typical cupcakes - these are more like chewy brownies in a cupcake wrapper.
Line 18 muffin tins with paper cupcake wrappers.
Beat melted butter and brown sugar together until smooth.
Add in egg and vanilla then beat just until blended.
Add in flour and baking soda then beat until well mixed.
Set the cookie dough aside for now.
In a small bowl, melt butter with chocolate chips in the microwave. Check and stir at 30 second intervals because you don't want to overheat this. You want this melted but not hot.
Put one tablespoon of brownie batter in the bottom of each cupcake wrapper.
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Top each unbaked cupcake with another tablespoon of brownie batter (so brownie batter on the bottom, cookie dough in the middle, then brownie batter on top).
Bake 25-30 minutes. Keep in mind, 30 minutes will make them crispy so if you want chewy brookies, stick to 25-27 minutes of baking time.
Let brookie cupcakes cool completely before removing them from baking tins.
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gapSlaveSecurityReqEvent_t Struct Reference

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osal_event_hdr_t 	hdr

 	GAP_MSG_EVENT and status.

uint8 	opcode

 	GAP_SLAVE_REQUESTED_SECURITY_EVENT.

uint16 	connectionHandle

 	Connection Handle.

uint8 	deviceAddr [B_ADDR_LEN]

 	address of device requesting security

uint8 	authReq

 	Authentication Requirements: Bit 2: MITM, Bits 0-1: bonding (0 - no bonding, 1 - bonding).

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GAP_SLAVE_REQUESTED_SECURITY_EVENT message format. This message is sent to the app when a Slave Security Request is received.

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This is what Oculus' new wireless prototype Rift is like
By Tuan Nguyen 07 October 2016
The 'Santa Cruz' prototype works and completely frees you from wires.
In his keynote at Oculus Connect on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg told the audience that he had no new hardware to show—but he also said that Oculus was putting its strength toward making a truly mobile Rift experience, and it turned out there was some very early hardware at the show aimed at that very goal. Today I got to try it on. new Santa Cruz Rift prototype.
Oculus calls its new prototype, which aims to offer the wires-free portability of GearVR with the fidelity of the Rift, Santa Cruz. I wasn't allowed to take photos of the prototype, but you can imagine that it looks essentially the same as the current retail Rift. I did some slight modifications.
First, the infrared LED emitters on the the Rift are gone. Up until now, all recent versions of the Rift since the DK2 utilized IR emitters in conjunction with a specialized camera to track your head movement and position. Santa Cruz does away with all that and uses 4 cameras on each corner of the front of the Rift headset.
Four discrete cameras track your room.
Oculus is referring to the new tracking system as inside-out tracking. The new system does away with the separate sensor camera. There are no laser modules a la the HTC Vive or other external tracking assisting devices. Santa Cruz is essentially using the 4 cameras to depth-map your space.
During my demo, I was able to freely walk around the room, and the prototype Rift was able to display a grid when I approached a boundary (again, like SteamVR and the Vive). I asked whether or not the Rift's playable space would scale depending on room size and was told that it would. So if you have a larger room, the boundary would expand, and vice versa. With the HTC Vive, there is a pre-defined limitation on how large a space you're able to use (Valve has said in the past that it could be possible to add more base stations, but SteamVR does not currently support more than two). I asked if using Santa Cruz in a football field would allow me to walk the full distance and was reluctantly told yes.
The entire demo experience was completely self contained within the Rift itself. There were no PCs and no wireless streaming of any kind. Santa Cruz has a small little computer on the rear, which you can get a glimpse of in this image from the Oculus teaser video.
A small computer is mounted on the back of the headband. One USB cable (blue) and one HDMI cable (green) come out of the HMD and plug directly into the side of the tiny computer, and a battery pack (yellow) was attached below the computer.
I asked what the specs were on the computer but was told essentially nothing. However, it's not hard to imagine what they would be. The computer itself was roughly the size of a cookie, and about an inch thick. Considering how many VR games run in real time on a Samsung Gear, it's safe to assume that Santa Cruz was powered by a mobile CPU/GPU combo. I asked if it was some Snapdragon SoC and was answered with grins. Just imagine the guts of a high-end mobile phone strapped onto the back of the Rift, and you essentially get Santa Cruz. Because of the way the computer is attached to the headset, it seems possible that you'll be able to swap it out for a more powerful unit.
During the 3-minute demo, I didn't experience any lag or stuttering. Santa Cruz felt identical to using my CV1, although the graphics in the demo wasn't as good as, say, Eve Valkyrie on CV1. But that could have just been the demo Oculus chose. In my opinion, the demo was chosen specifically to allow smooth performance on the little computer on the rear. I don't expect Santa Cruz will be able to play something like Eve Valkyrie—at least for now.
Even while still in its prototype stage, Santa Cruz is very promising, and is VR the way I'd like it to be, wire free. Having used both the HTC Vive and current Rift, I think it's safe to say that these two units will be phased out in the not-so-distant future. And thank goodness for that. No wires. No sensors. Just freedom to move about.
Tuan is the Editor-in-Chief of Maximum PC, and loves all things tech. He's been building PCs and ruffling feathers in the industry for 20 years, and isn't afraid to call out bad products and services. In fact, it's very common to hear the words "this is shit" escape his lips. If you want to know if something is "Kick-Ass" or not, email or tweet him.


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He briefly attended Lincoln University in southeastern Pennsylvania (the alma mater of Langston Hughes) before moving to New York, where he joined the staff of Black Dialogue magazine. In 2010, Earl got the position in the list of 'Best albums of 2010' for his album 'Earl.' In 1971, he helped found the Black Arts Theater in Harlem, and in 1974 he became a founding member of the African Literature Association, which continues today. Keorapetse Kgositsile, a South African poet whose writing and activism helped bridge his country's freedom struggle with the Black Arts Movement … "[13] This work took place while Kgositsile was teaching at Columbia in the earlier 1970s; he left to work briefly at Black Dialogue Magazine. "[17] In the early 1990s he served as vice president of COSAW, fostering the careers of young writers while continuing his steady critique of South African politics. Throughout this period he was banned in South Africa, but in 1990 the Congress of South African Writers (COSAW), with which he was already associated, decided to attempt a publication within the country. He arrived in a country wholly different from the one he had left, transformed by the beginning of the end of apartheid and the release and later the political triumph of Nelson Mandela. In 1974 he was a founder member of the African Literature Association together with Es'kia Mphahlele, Dennis Brutus, Daniel Kunene and Mazisi Kunene, among others. Later in the 1960s they and others would found the Black Arts Movement, which promoted African-American literature, theater and other arts and led to the founding of black-run publishing houses, journals and production companies, as well as Africana studies programs. Apart from this, Earl has got the huge number of likes and views from various social media networks including Instagram, Twitter and also Myspace, which improves his net worth significantly.
When he returned to South Africa after the fall of apartheid in the early '90s, he was welcomed as a national hero. He was a founding member of the ANC Department of Education as well as that of Arts and Culture. The response, including an introduction to the book by Gwendolyn Brooks, established Kgositsile as a leading African-American poet. He is a brilliant performer in the rapping world. Keorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He soon got a job at the newspaper, New Age, where he contributed poetry and news reporting.
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The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
Ivan Krastev Stephen Holmes
The Light that Failed
A Reckoning
Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes
21st century history: from c 2000 -; Politics & government; Political science & theory; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Political structures: democracy; Geopolitics
Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?
In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only in the East but also back in the heartland of the West.
In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized.
Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and Orban's Hungary into models for the United States.
Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light that Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of our Age of Imitation.
By: Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Ivan Krastev is a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times and, most recently, the author of the widely acclaimed After Europe. Stephen Holmes is Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the author of many books on liberalism.
Reviews for The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
Witty, incisive, devastating: an unforgettable analysis of why the light of liberalism failed in Eastern Europe, and why resentment towards imitation of the West has fueled the furies of the populist revolt -- Michael Ignatieff, President of Central European University, Budapest This is a book about imitation by a couple of utterly inimitable authors. It is the most original explanation I've read of the self-destruction of the liberal West as universal utopia. Scathing yet fair -- Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible A bracing analysis of post-Cold War politics, upending cherished assumptions and forcing us to look afresh at the complex dialectic of liberalism and illiberalism -- George Soros An unflinchingly honest explanation of what has gone wrong in the west - and the east - since 1989 * Financial Times * Compelling and witty * Prospect Books of the Year * Sharp, polemical and ideas-packed * Economist * An important book that fizzes with ideas. . . There is a smart insight or elegant paradox on almost every page. . . This book poses in stark terms the dilemma for those who took for granted the ideas that created the postwar western world * Sunday Times * A brilliant explanation of the mess we are in. . . written with wonderfully dry wit * Evening Standard Books of the Year * If you read one book to understand the state of the world today, make it this one. Aphoristic, counter-intuitive and amusing, a single page provides more insight into populism than libraries of books on Brexit or Trump. . . Extraordinary and compelling. . . Its subject matter is bleak but the deep learning, humour and humanity of its authors shines through -- Mark Leonard * Prospect * A brilliant, original book on the crisis of modern liberalism. . . a must read to understand our present discontents -- Lionel Barber * Financial Times Books of the Year *
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El Katowice Open 2015 es un torneo de tenis femenino jugado en canchas duras bajo techo. Será la tercera edición del Katowice Open, en la categoría Internacional de la WTA Tour 2015. Se llevará a cabo en el estadio Spodek de Katowice, Polonia, del 6 de abril al 12 de abril de 2015.

Cabezas de serie

Individual

 Ranking del 23 de marzo de 2015

Dobles

Campeonas

Individuales femeninos

 Anna Schmiedlová venció a  Camila Giorgi por 6-4, 6-3

Dobles femenino

 Ysaline Bonaventure /  Demi Schuurs vencieron a  Gioia Barbieri /  Karin Knapp por 7-5, 4-6, [10-6]

Véase también
 Torneos WTA en 2015
 Torneo WTA de Katowice

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Torneo WTA de Katowice 2015

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Roosevelt and Stalin, Portrait of a Partnership
My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin
East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
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About Susan Butler
Originally a journalist, Susan Butler became an author when she decided to write a biography of her childhood hero, Amelia Earhart. Five years in the making, East to Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart became a successful bestseller and the basis for the film adaptation Amelia. The Washington Post called it "The single best book that we now have on Earhart's life."
Gore Vidal praised Butler's work by saying, "Of the dozen or so books (mostly wild fantasies) that I have read about Amelia Earhart, Susan Butler's is the only one which re-creates accurately that singular woman whom my father was in love with, as indeed was I, aged ten, when the lady vanished."
She has since written two other critically-acclaimed historical books, My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin and Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership. Butler's background in journalism informed her research and her approach to writing these books, and she has become an authority on World War II, giving talks all over the world. Recently she traveled to Yalta for the 75th anniversary of the Yalta Conference, where she was interviewed about Roosevelt and Stalin's history.
A graduate of Bennington College and Columbia University, Butler was named a MacDowell fellow in 2008. She is a Wertheim Scholar at the New York Public Library, and now lives in Lake Wales, Florida.


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The following is a character card gallery for the Metal Guard class.
"Arkoth's history is irrelevant, his memories lost during Liandri conditioning. Now a member of 'The Corrupt,' he serves Xan Kriegor's will without question."
"Orphaned after birth, this heartless killer spent years on the street, learning his trade and losing his emotions. The Corrupt had no difficulty in bending his will towards their ends. Now completely void of human feeling, Damascus is an unstoppable machine."
"Barktooth is a madman. Screaming with berserk rage, he would rather rip an opponent to shreds with his bare hands than fight from afar. When forced to use a gun, he favors the Flak Cannon's close range stopping power."
"Rath is more machine than human. Rebuilt from spare parts and what was left of his brain after the Earthstar One incident, his mental instabilities make him an excellent warrior."
"Barktooth just can't be put down. His brute force tactics and disregard for his own well being have paid off as he moves even higher in the tournament ladder."
"Barktooth would rather rip an opponent to shreds with his bare hands than fight from afar. He also finds close range Flak shots very satisfying."
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In a company/organization in large to get people who are competent in their respective fields submitted to the recruitment section of the civil service. In a small organization, every leader can do alone withdrawal of labor, selection and placement without the help of experts (personnel department). There are several important steps that must be performed prior to recruitment and selection process that determines the type of labor or employee qualities desired for each position, and details regarding the number of employees who will be entrusted with the job respectively. So the first step in the management of personnel is getting which the right people, both the quality and the quantity corresponding to expect an organization/company. The method commonly used to determine the type or quality of manpower required is called job analysis, while the methods commonly used to determine the amount or quantity of labor is called work-load analysis (analysis of workload and study time (study time). Kepegewaian The management has extensive functions, so in this paper is only limited in the job analysis.
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