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Phone-hacking scandal likely marks end of media baron's control of British politics
Doug Saunders – London
For decades, the tabloid newspapers of Britain have determined the political fates of governments left and right and held politicians hostage by threatening to expose their personal lives. It is an awkward and needy relationship, probably the last of its kind in the Western world, that seemed to come crashing to a halt as the House of Commons turned for the first time against the country's most powerful media mogul.
It was as if a generation of political shame and anxiety exploded in a great catharsis of outrage and vengeance, with MP after MP rising on Wednesday to denounce magnate Rupert Murdoch and his control over their destinies. Tory MP Zac Goldsmith said that the Australian media baron "has systematically corrupted the police and in my view has gelded this Parliament, to our shame."
It began as an emergency debate, called by the opposition Labour Party after it was revealed this week that the News of the World, a Sunday tabloid, had repeatedly broken into the mobile phone voicemail accounts of a teenage murder victim to glean material for front-page headlines about her private life, in the process destroying evidence.
The paper's voicemail eavesdropping on the private messages of hundreds of actors, athletes, politicians, members of the Royal Family and crime victims had been the subject of numerous parliamentary probes since 2006. It resulted in the imprisonment of two journalists, but police and editors had repeatedly said that the scope was limited and the practice had ended.
This time it was different. Perhaps because a dead teen was involved. Perhaps because even grislier claims were made, that News of the World had stolen the final voicemail messages of numerous terror-attack victims and dead soldiers, and had paid huge sums to police for their silence, giving some officers jobs on the paper. Or because Prime Minister David Cameron's ties to the paper's executives had become an embarrassment that threatened to tie his government directly to the actions of the tabloids, this turned into a far larger denunciation of the political power of the press. It ended with Mr. Cameron agreeing to hold an official inquiry (but only after a police inquiry has run its course).
It seemed to expose a raw nerve of political dependency. Mr. Cameron's first spokesman, Andy Coulson, had been the paper's editor through much of the phone-hacking period, and he resigned in January as the revelations mounted (it was revealed this week that he had overseen payments to police officers, which are illegal). The head of Mr. Murdoch's British operation, Rebekah Brooks, is a friend of Mr. Cameron's; she was the paper's editor-in-chief when it tapped the voicemail of teen murder victim Milly Dowler.
And Mr. Cameron owed a good part of his political victory last year to his successful courting of Mr. Murdoch, whose right-wing newspapers the Sun, the News of the World and the Times – with a combined circulation of almost 7 million – had used their front pages for the previous 15 years to support the leaders and policies of the centre-left Labour Party. Many analysts believe the Tories gained their electoral edge when Labour prime minister Gordon Brown lost the backing of the "red top" tabloids in 2009.
That was the culmination of a long tradition. After Mr. Murdoch bought the News of the World in 1969, British elections increasingly became races to court his support – usually in exchange for political favours. Margaret Thatcher's staff credited much of her victory to her winning the Australian's support – in exchange for which he was allowed to buy the Times of London and establish a satellite-TV empire.
The tables turned in 1995, when upstart opposition leader Tony Blair flew to Australia to court Mr. Murdoch, successfully winning the permanent support of the Sun and the Times, in exchange for more favours. Insiders felt, by this point, that politics had become a full-time matter of avoiding the wrath of the Murdoch press.
"No big decision could ever be made inside Number 10 [Downing St.] without taking account of the likely reaction of three men – Gordon Brown, [deputy PM] John Prescott and Rupert Murdoch," Lance Price, who was Tony Blair's media guru in those years, recently wrote. "On all the really big decisions, anybody else could safely be ignored"
Mr. Prescott conceded on Wednesday night that the media baron had become a bigger figure than many cabinet ministers. "I think there's been a lot of cozying up by all the political parties to Murdoch," he told BBC's Newsnight. "I used to complain about it all the time."
The News of the World's excesses – which seemingly included listening to the private mobile phone messages of the police officers responsible for investigating the paper, and paying very large cash sums to other police in exchange for access to phones of the famous – are largely non-political, although they did involve phone-hacking acts that exposed the fine details of the sex lives of a dozen cabinet ministers, including Mr. Prescott.
And the effect will surely be political. In the past, the party in power always took great care to avoid angering the Murdoch papers, and the opposition tended to walk gently, too. Now Labour is outraged, and many Tories – including, reluctantly, Mr. Cameron himself – have joined the chorus. Mr. Murdoch's ongoing application to buy up the remaining 60-per-cent share of his SkyTV empire could be jeopardized. His newspapers are likely to face far tighter monitoring and possibly regulation, and the ties between parties and the tabloids cannot but weaken.
Guardian parliamentary sketch writer Simon Hoggart wrote that Mr. Murdoch "has crossed a line and MPs feel, like political prisoners after a tyrant has been condemned to death by a people's tribunal, that they are at last free." That tribunal hasn't happened yet, and nobody knows how many more victims will be found. But there is a real sense that the era of printing-press politics is rolling to an end.
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/*
 * This file is part of the DoctrineSortableCollections.
 *
 * (c) Lorenzo Marzullo <marzullo.lorenzo@gmail.com>
 */

namespace DoctrineSortableCollections\Tests\Unit\Comparer;

use Mockery as m;
use DoctrineSortableCollections\Comparer\Comparer;
use Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyAccessorInterface;

/**
 * Class ComparerTest.
 *
 * @package DoctrineSortableCollections
 * @author  Lorenzo Marzullo <marzullo.lorenzo@gmail.com>
 * @link    www.github.com/lorenzomar/doctrine-sortable-collections
 */
class ComparerTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    protected $comparerFQN = 'DoctrineSortableCollections\Comparer\Comparer';

    protected function tearDown()
    {
        m::close();
    }

    /**
     * @return Comparer
     */
    protected function getComparer()
    {
        return $this->getMockForAbstractClass('DoctrineSortableCollections\Comparer\Comparer');
    }

    public function testConstruct()
    {
        $c = $this->getComparer();

        $this->assertSame(Comparer::ASC, $c->getDirection());
        $this->assertNull($c->getPropertyAccessor());
        $this->assertNull($c->getPropertyPath());
    }

    public function testSetAndGetDirection()
    {
        $c = $this->getComparer();

        $result = $c->setDirection(Comparer::DESC);
        $this->assertInstanceOf($this->comparerFQN, $result);

        $result = $c->getDirection();
        $this->assertSame(Comparer::DESC, $result);

        $this->setExpectedException('InvalidArgumentException');
        $c->setDirection('Invalid Value');
    }

    public function testIsAscAndIsDesc()
    {
        $c = $this->getComparer();

        $result = $c->isAsc();
        $this->assertTrue($result);

        $result = $c->isDesc();
        $this->assertFalse($result);

        $c->setDirection(Comparer::DESC);
        $result = $c->isDesc();
        $this->assertTrue($result);
    }

    public function testSetAndGetPropertyAccessor()
    {
        $c = $this->getComparer();
        $m = m::mock('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyAccessorInterface');

        $result = $c->setPropertyAccessor(null);
        $this->assertInstanceOf($this->comparerFQN, $result);

        $result = $c->getPropertyAccessor();
        $this->assertNull($result);

        $c->setPropertyAccessor($m);
        $this->assertInstanceOf(
            'Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyAccessorInterface',
            $c->getPropertyAccessor()
        );

        $this->setExpectedException('InvalidArgumentException');
        $c->setPropertyAccessor('Invalid Value');
    }

    public function testSetAndGetPropertyPath()
    {
        $c    = $this->getComparer();
        $path = m::mock('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyPathInterface');

        $result = $c->setPropertyPath($path);
        $this->assertInstanceOf($this->comparerFQN, $result);

        $result = $c->getPropertyPath();
        $this->assertInstanceOf('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyPathInterface', $result);

        $result = $c->setPropertyPath(null);
        $this->assertInstanceOf($this->comparerFQN, $result);

        $result = $c->getPropertyPath();
        $this->assertNull($result);

        $this->setExpectedException('InvalidArgumentException');
        $c->setPropertyPath('Invalid Value');
    }

    /**
     * @depends testSetAndGetPropertyPath
     */
    public function testHasPropertyPath()
    {
        $c    = $this->getComparer();
        $path = m::mock('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyPathInterface');

        $result = $c->hasPropertyPath();
        $this->assertFalse($result);

        $c->setPropertyPath($path);
        $result = $c->hasPropertyPath();
        $this->assertTrue($result);
    }

    public function testGetComperarOperandSameAsOriginalElement()
    {
        $c = $this->getComparer();
        $c->setPropertyAccessor(null);
        $c->setPropertyPath(null);

        $result = $c->getComparerOperand('element');
        $this->assertSame('element', $result);
    }

    public function testGetComparerOperandSettingOnlyPropertyAccessor()
    {
        $c = $this->getComparer();
        $a = m::mock('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyAccessorInterface');
        $c->setPropertyAccessor($a);

        $result = $c->getComparerOperand('element');
        $this->assertSame('element', $result);
    }

    public function testGetComparerOperandSettingOnlyPropertyPath()
    {
        $c = $this->getComparer();
        $p = m::mock('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyPathInterface');
        $c->setPropertyPath($p);

        $result = $c->getComparerOperand('element');
        $this->assertSame('element', $result);
    }

    public function testGetComparerOperand()
    {
        $c = $this->getComparer();
        $a = m::mock('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyAccessorInterface');
        $p = m::mock('Symfony\Component\PropertyAccess\PropertyPathInterface');

        $data = array(
            'firstName' => 'A first name',
            'lastName'  => 'A last name'
        );

        $a->shouldReceive('getValue')->once()->andReturn('Your first name');
        $c->setPropertyAccessor($a);
        $c->setPropertyPath($p);

        $result = $c->getComparerOperand($data);
        $this->assertSame('Your first name', $result);
    }
}

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Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.3 from the OpenDocument TC approved as a Committee Specification
By Paul Knight 4 Dec 2020
OpenDocument v1.3 Committee Specification 02 is fully ready for testing and implementation.
OASIS is pleased to announce that Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.3 from the OpenDocument TC [1] has been approved as an OASIS Committee Specification.
The OpenDocument Format is an open XML-based document file format for office applications, to be used for documents containing text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical elements. OpenDocument Format v1.3 is an update to the international standard Version 1.2, which was approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as ISO/IEC 26300 (2015). OpenDocument Format v1.3 includes improvements for document security, clarifies underspecifications and makes other timely improvements.
The OpenDocument Format specifies the characteristics of an open XML-based application-independent and platform-independent digital document file format, as well as the characteristics of software applications which read, write and process such documents. It is applicable to document authoring, editing, viewing, exchange and archiving, including text documents, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, drawings, charts and similar documents commonly used by personal productivity software applications.
This Committee Specification is an OASIS deliverable, completed and approved by the TC and fully ready for testing and implementation.
The prose specifications and related files are available here:
Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Version 1.3
Committee Specification 02
Editable source (Authoritative):
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part1-introduction.odt
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part1-introduction.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part1-introduction/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part1-introduction.pdf
Part 2: Packages
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part2-packages.odt
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part2-packages.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part2-packages/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part2-packages.pdf
Part 3: OpenDocument Schema
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part3-schema.odt
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part3-schema.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part3-schema.pdf
Part 4: Recalculated Formula (OpenFormula) Format
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part4-formula.odt
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part4-formula.html
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/part4-formula/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02-part4-formula.pdf
XML/RNG schemas and OWL ontologies:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/schemas/
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file at:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/cs02/OpenDocument-v1.3-cs02.zip
Members of the OpenDocument TC [1] approved this specification by Special Majority Vote. The specification had been released for public review as required by the TC Process [2]. The vote to approve as a Committee Specification passed [3], and the document is now available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.
Our congratulations to the TC on achieving this milestone and our thanks to the reviewers who provided feedback on the specification drafts to help improve the quality of the work.
[1] OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/
[2] Previous public reviews:
30-day public review – 25 September 2019:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/201909/msg00061.html
Comment resolution log:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/csprd01/OpenDocument-v1.3-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.txt
15-day public review – 27 November 2019:
https://github.com/oasis-tcs/odf-tc/pull/30#issuecomment-715261301
[3] Approval ballot:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=3529
Invitation to comment on Electronic Court Filing v5.01 and ECF Web Services SIP v5.01
By Paul Knight 20 Jan 2023
OSLC Tracked Resource Set v3.0 Project Specification 02 approved by the OSLC Open Project
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Parshat Zachor
Rabbi Charles E. Savenor
Every year as enter the Hebrew month of Adar, we do not just put on a happy face, we prepare for Purim. We bake hamantaschen, choose a costume for the festivities, and plan for the Megillah reading. Another item on this checklist is hearing Parshat Zachor (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) on the Shabbat immediately preceding the holiday.
This special Sabbath reading begins: "Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt." The afterglow of the Exodus is dimmed by Amalek's vicious attack on the Jewish people. Amalek is believed to be the ancestral people of Haman, so highlighting this story connects the former's crude assault with the latter's premeditated genocidal plan.
Since ancient times, the honorable way to fight a war was for soldiers to face each other on the battlefield. Amalek, however, launched a surprise attack from behind and targeted the most vulnerable. We can only imagine that among the innocents caught off guard were those who walked slowly or needed assistance, those who had trouble following the path or those who were anxious altogether about the road ahead.
On Shabbat Zachor, Amalek's unprovoked brutality is not the only thing we remember. These three verses underscore our responsibility to one another, especially the most vulnerable.
This month we celebrate Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month (JDAIM). Inclusion is not a finite sprint; it's a marathon with no end.
Creating a more inclusive community requires as much peer-to-peer relationships as dedicated leadership. At Park Avenue Synagogue, our goal is to change the culture of our community with welcoming and acceptance as our default mode.
To focus our efforts, we created an "inclusion checklist" for planning all synagogue events. This ever-evolving document ensures that gatherings are mapped out with inclusion at the forefront of minds. Questions cover details before, during, and after the program. With the inclusion checklist guiding our planning and implementation, our clergy, lay and professional leadership can focus on welcoming anyone who walks through the door – and into the Zoom room – with the best practices Dr. Ron Wolfson maps out in his Relational Judaism.
While JDAIM raises awareness about welcoming, accepting and celebrating our differences during one month of the year, inclusion manifests itself best as a daily mindset committed to a shared vision of community.
It is important to note that after Matan Torah and the construction of the Mishkan, the Jewish people changed how they moved their camp. From that point forward on the path to the Promised Land, the Israelites marched together making sure that everyone was included and that no one was left behind.
Rabbi Charles E. Savenor serves as the Director of Congregational Education at Park Avenue Synagogue in New York.


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Junior ISAs: What are JISA's and which are the best accounts?
The Halifax is offering a best-buy rate of six% for a Junior ISA if a parent invests in a Halifax Cash ISA that pays 2.6%. Combined both could receive 4.3% – well above top ISA rates.
Thinking of starting a nest egg for your child? Just like an adult ISA, or Individual Savings Account, a Junior ISA is a way to save or invest money without paying tax on the interest earned.
Junior ISAs – or JISAs, as they are becoming known – were launched in November 2011 to replace the now defunct Child Trust Fund (CTF).
Children aged below 18 who didn't qualify for a CTF (i.e. those born before September 2002 or after January 3, 2011) are eligible to open an account, so if your child already has a CTF he or she will not be able to open a JISA.
Unlike CTFs, the Government doesn't make any top-up contributions to JISAs, but in addition to parents' or guardians' deposits, grandparents, godparents, relatives and friends can also pay funds in to the account.
From the age of 16 onwards, the child can manage their own JISA, but all savings deposited are still locked away and cannot be accessed until the child reaches the age of 18, when the funds can be withdrawn or converted to an adult ISA.
As with the adult version, the JISA has an upper limit each tax year determining how much can be saved or invested tax free, but the limit is lower – £3,600 compared with the adult £5,340 for cash and £10,680 for investment ISAs.
But there is currently a tax free loophole, because 16 year olds can also open an adult ISA, which means that kids aged 16 to 18 can potentially have a bigger tax free allowance than anyone else.
Again, it's a case of 'use it or lose it' – if savers don't use up the annual tax free allowance before the end of the tax year on April 5, then it is lost forever and cannot be carried over.
There are two types of Junior ISA – cash JISAs and investment (or stocks and shares) JISAs. A child can only hold one cash and one investment JISA at a time.
Cash JISAs tend to have fairly low rates of interest, but offer a safe, tax-free place to grow your savings. Both fixed rate and variable rate accounts are available, with options for parents to pay in a lump sum or make regular deposits. However, deposits don't have to be paid in every year.
Depending on the account provider's terms and conditions, cash JISA savers might also be able to switch to a different provider offering a higher rate of interest, or move some of their child's funds to an investment JISA.
But bear in mind that savers can't just withdraw the cash and close the account if they want to switch to another provider, or they will lose their tax free allowance for that year. Instead, they should arrange a transfer through the current JISA provider.
On the other hand, stocks and shares JISAs can generate bigger returns but may be riskier depending on the investments made. However, parents are likely to have up to 18 years, so may be able to afford to invest in riskier, potentially higher yielding stocks. There is generally a wide range of investment options to choose from.
Savers will pay no capital gains or income tax on any profit made through a stocks and shares JISA, but it's worth checking with the provider how much will be charged in management fees for this type of account.
The main savings goals parents currently have for their children are to provide money for their education, to assist with a deposit for a house, or more generally to give them a good start to their adult life. Maintaining a junior savings account can also help to teach your child about financial responsibilities.
However, there is still a limited range of JISAs to choose from – just 27 junior products compared with around 190 for adults and, together with the fairly low rates offered, this has discouraged parents who have other financial priorities.
Besides, children do not pay tax anyway, unless they are earning more than £143 a week which is unlikely for most, so the attraction of a 'tax free' savings account may be groundless.
If you are looking for a long term investment JISA, the Aberdeen Emerging Markets Fund is worth considering. The minimum investment is £500 in a lump sum, or £50 a month. The term 'emerging markets' refers to newly industrialised or Third World countries which are in the process of transitioning to an open market economy.
For those seeking a shorter term stocks and shares JISA, the Threadneedle UK Equity Income Fund may be worth a look. It currently offers a five year total return of around 19.2 per cent.
Here is a selection of Junior cash ISAs paying around three per cent interest on savings.
Comments: A statement is issued to savers every October and interest is paid October 1 each year. The account pays tax free variable interest rate which increases as the balances rises. Start savings from £1 upwards by phone, in branch or by post. Transfers to another Junior ISA account are allowed after 45 days' notice.
Comments: If the parent opens an 'adult' ISA alongside this product, the tax free interest paid into the JISA will double to 6%. If the parent closes his or her ISA, the interest will revert to 3% for the junior account.
Comments: No short term bonus. The minimum deposit is £1 and account can be opened in branch.
Comments: Minimum opening deposit required is £1. Payments into the account can be by cash, cheque, debit card or transfer.
Comments: Savers get 3.25% interest on all balances from £1. The rate includes a fixed bonus of 0.9% until January 31, 2014. Only for children aged below 16. Open the account online, in branches or by phone with £1 upwards.


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Брач (, , ) — острів в Адріатичному морі, у південній частині Хорватії, біля далматинського узбережжя.

Географія
Площа острова — 395,438030 км², довжина — 40 км, ширина — 12 км. Довжина берегової лінії — 180,613 км. Острів Брач — третій за площею на хорватській Адріатиці після островів Крк та Црес і третій за населенням після Крка і Корчули. На Брачі розташована найвища вершина хорватських островів — Видова гора (висота 778 м).

Населення острова — 14 031 (2001). Найбільші населені пункти — міста Супетар (населення — 3 889), Пучишча (Pučišća), Бол (Bol), Сутіван (Sutivan), Сумартін (Sumartin), Сельца (Selca) та ін. Супетар розташований у північній частині острова навпроти Спліта, Пучішча в північно-східній частині, Бол — на південному узбережжі, Сутіван — на північно-західному, а Сумартін і Сельца — на східному.

Від сусідніх островів Брач відділений морськими протоками: від о. Хвар — Хварським каналом, від о. Шолта — протокою Сплітско врата, а від узбережжя — Брачським каналом. Острів пов'язаний з материком поромними лініями Супетар-Спліт і Сумартін — Макарска. З м. Бол в м. Єлса на о. Хвар ходить пасажирське судно на підводних крилах.

Економіка
Острів Брач відомий своїм м'яким середземноморським кліматом, піщаними і гальковими пляжами, сосновими гаями і красивими краєвидами, що робить його привабливим курортом. Особливу славу острову принесли каменоломні недалеко від м. Пучишча, де добувають білий «брачський камінь», що являє собою особливий вапняк білосніжного кольору. Брачським каменем облицьовані багато знаменитих будівель по всьому світу, серед інших — палац Діоклетіана в Спліті і Білий дім в Вашингтоні. З брачського каменю також виготовляються сувенірні вироби. Основне заняття місцевого населення — туристичний сервіс, рибний промисел, виноградарство, виробництво оливкової олії, видобуток і обробка брачського каменю.

Історія

Як показують розкопки в печерах біля Супетара, острів був заселений з часів неоліту.
Як і на інших островах Адріатики на Брачі в IV ст. до н.е. були засновані грецькі поселення. В III ст. до н.е. Брач разом з усією Іллірією перейшов під контроль Риму.

В VIII ст. на острів, як і на решту далматинського узбережжя, прийшли слов'янські племена. Досить довго острів знаходився під контролем місцевих князів з Оміша і Спліта, лише в XIV ст. острів визнав над собою владу угорського королівства, з яким Хорватія була з'єднана династичної унією. Втім, незабаром острів знову потрапив під контроль місцевих князів, поки, нарешті, в 1420 р., разом з іншими далматинськими островами остаточно не перейшов під контроль венеціанців.

Після падіння венеціанської республіки в 1797 р. на острів прийшли австрійці. Вони були вибиті з острова наполеонівським військами в 1806 р. В 1807 Брач був зайнятий флотом Ушакова в ході середземноморської експедиції. Після закінчення воєн в 1815 р. острів разом з далматинським узбережжям знову відійшов Австрії.

В 1918–1921 р. острів окупували італійці, після першої світової війни він став частиною Югославії. Після розпаду останньої в 1990 р. острів став частиною незалежної Хорватії.

Пам'ятки

  Супетар  — найбільше місто Брача. Поруч з містом — музейне село Шкріп зі старовинними будинками.
 Бол — популярний курорт, що лежить біля підніжжя Видової гори. Поруч з Болом розташований Золотий мис зі своїми знаменитими пляжами, а також відомий тим, що змінює свою форму в залежності від вітрів і течій.

Примітки

Посилання

 Сайт острова (хорв.)
 Фотогалерея о. Брач (англ.)

Острови Адріатичного моря
Острови Хорватії
Сплітсько-Далматинська жупанія

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Nick and I got married in December so everyone obviously thought we would want to escape the cold and go some place warm on our honeymoon. Everyone was shocked when we told them we were honeymooning in Iceland! Most people had no idea what Iceland looked like so they didn't know why we would want to go there in the first place. I promise you ITS NOT ALL ICE!
The flight was only about 6 hours long so we watched a couple movies and we were there in no time! it was the perfect honeymoon. We went on so many adventures and explored Iceland just the two of us. We saw so many beautiful waterfalls and did some pretty amazing hikes. Going in the beginning of March, the weather was around 35 degrees so we really weren't that cold. We had the most wonderful experience at UMI hotel, and they greeted us with a glass of champagne and some snacks because they knew it was our honeymoon. One of our favorite parts of our entire trip was relaxing in the natural hot springs, Blue Lagoon.
I found this amazing website/app that helps plan vacation to specific locations. Noken helped our plan our entire trip to Iceland with such ease. They booked everything for us, our hotels, our car, and mapped our our adventures. The app was so convenient and easy to use while we were there. It also gave us restaurant recommendations and gave us tips on what to pack and what to expect. All I had to do on my own was book our flights. Easy as that.
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Young Brookfield resident wins national chemistry competition
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Audrey Gallier, of Brookfield, poses with her trophy and John Rice, executive director of the Chemical Educational Foundation.
BROOKFIELD – Students from around the nation in fifth to eighth grades gathered in Philadelphia June 22 through June 23 to test their knowledge in chemistry at the 2014 national You Be the Chemist Challenge Championship.
The competition whittled down nearly 25,000 students at local and state levels, sending the top 30 students on to the national competition. In the end, only one remained: Audrey Gallier. Audrey, a sixth grade home-school student from Brookfield took the competition's top prize – an $8,000 scholarship, graphic calculator, a gift certificate to the Discovery Channel Store and a brand new chemistry set.
Over the three-day event, students competed against each other in a quiz-bowl-style competition, answering questions to test their knowledge of chemical safety, scientific theories and completing chemical equations, as well as attending speeches led by two previous winners and having the opportunity to interact with members of the chemical industry, chemists and educators.
Editor Matthew Hendrickson recently talked with Audrey about homeschooling, her wide ranging interests and how she took the competition by storm.
Matthew Hendrickson: Audrey, you're home-schooled. Can you tell us what a typical day of school is like for you?
Audrey Gallier: I get up, eat breakfast and then start studying. I learn from a variety of resources. I do some things with my mom, some with my mom and brother and some alone.
Hendrickson: Will you be home-schooled through high school? What's it like?
Audrey: I will home-school through junior high. I am not sure about high school. I like how my mom and I can pick what curricula we will use and skip ahead if something is too easy.
Hendrickson: How did you get interested in chemistry?
Audrey: I am not really sure, but a middle school chemistry class I took in fifth grade played a big part.
Hendrickson: What led you to take part in the You Be The Chemist Challenge? How did you prepare?
Audrey: Another home-schooled family let us know about the Challenge. First there was a qualifying exam, then local, state and national competitions. We were given three study booklets, one for each level, averaging about 70 pages each.
Hendrickson: Is a career in science in your future?
Audrey: Yes, because every day at work would be different, interesting and challenging!
Hendrickson: What was it like being at the competition?
Audrey: It was held in a small theater. The questions were multiple choice (A, B, C, D). They were shown on large screens and answered with little electronic transmitters. In the finals, kids answered with dry erase boards. For most questions, we were given ten seconds to answer. All kids answered the same questions. I really had fun with the contest, and I learned a whole lot about chemistry and its applications.
Hendrickson: I read the prizes included an $8,000 scholarship and a chemistry set. What do you plan to do with your new chemistry set?
Audrey: I will have fun doing all the experiments in the booklet and learning about the lab equipment!
Hendrickson: When the judges asked you: If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? You said The Big Bang. Why did you pick that, instead of something like Hawaii?
Audrey: I could get on a plane and see Hawaii any time, so, given the opportunity to go anywhere, I chose a trip that would be impossible in real life.
Hendrickson: Do you wear your new white lab coat around the house?
Audrey: No, but I plan to wear it while using my chemistry set!
Hendrickson: Tell us a little about yourself: What else do you enjoy besides chemistry?
Audrey: I Love all animals – especially horses! – reading fiction and nonfiction, writing and basketball.
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The hit teen noir Riverdale returns for its fourth season on the CW October 9, and, judging by the trailer, it's going to be a doozy. Jughead's dead! Kidding. But maybe not...
Jughead almost died at the end of Season 2 (and arguably many times afterward), and much of the trailer is spent teasing an impending disaster, which could be his death. It's finally senior year for Jughead, Betty, Archie, and Veronica, and once again no one is safe.
Season 3 ended with a cliffhanger—Betty, Veronica, and Archie standing in the woods in their undergarments, burning their bloodied clothing. Betty says something about never speaking about what happened, and never communicating with each other ever again, suggesting that their unbreakable friendship is over. And Jughead is nowhere in sight. Was it his blood? Is he already dead?
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I'd like to believe this is the season where Riverdale finally crosses over with The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Jughead goes to hell. There was a lot of mysticism and cult-like devil iconography in Season 3—it could happen.
Bughead Is Back On
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RIP Bughead: An Ode to Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart's Relationship, Gone Too Soon
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package org.innovateuk.ifs.application.transactional;

import org.innovateuk.ifs.application.domain.ApplicationStatistics;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.application.mapper.ApplicationCountSummaryPageMapper;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.application.repository.ApplicationStatisticsRepository;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.application.resource.ApplicationCountSummaryPageResource;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.application.resource.ApplicationCountSummaryResource;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.exception.IFSRuntimeException;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.service.ServiceResult;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.transactional.BaseTransactionalService;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Page;
import org.springframework.data.domain.PageRequest;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable;
import org.springframework.data.domain.Sort;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.domain.JpaSort;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import java.util.*;

import static org.innovateuk.ifs.application.transactional.ApplicationSummaryServiceImpl.SUBMITTED_STATES;
import static org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.error.CommonErrors.notFoundError;
import static org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.service.ServiceResult.serviceSuccess;
import static org.innovateuk.ifs.util.EntityLookupCallbacks.find;
import static org.springframework.data.domain.Sort.Direction.ASC;

@Service
public class ApplicationCountSummaryServiceImpl extends BaseTransactionalService implements ApplicationCountSummaryService {

    @Autowired
    private ApplicationCountSummaryPageMapper applicationCountSummaryPageMapper;

    @Autowired
    private ApplicationStatisticsRepository applicationStatisticsRepository;

    private static final Map<String, Sort> SORT_FIELD_TO_DB_SORT_FIELDS;

    static {
        Map<String, Sort> sortFieldToDbSortFields = new HashMap<>();
        sortFieldToDbSortFields.put("id", Sort.by(ASC, "id"));
        sortFieldToDbSortFields.put("appTitle", Sort.by(ASC, "name", "id"));
        sortFieldToDbSortFields.put("leadOrg", Sort.by(ASC, "leadOrganisation", "id"));
        sortFieldToDbSortFields.put("assignedApps", Sort.by(ASC, "assessors", "id"));
        sortFieldToDbSortFields.put("completedApps", Sort.by(ASC, "submitted", "id"));

        SORT_FIELD_TO_DB_SORT_FIELDS = Collections.unmodifiableMap(sortFieldToDbSortFields);
    }

    @Override
    public ServiceResult<ApplicationCountSummaryPageResource> getApplicationCountSummariesByCompetitionId(long competitionId,
                                                                                int pageIndex,
                                                                                int pageSize,
                                                                                Optional<String> filter) {

        String filterStr = filter.map(String::trim).orElse("");
        Pageable pageable = PageRequest.of(pageIndex, pageSize);
        Page<ApplicationStatistics> applicationStatistics = applicationStatisticsRepository.findByCompetitionAndApplicationProcessActivityStateIn(competitionId, SUBMITTED_STATES, filterStr, pageable);

        return find(applicationStatistics, notFoundError(Page.class)).andOnSuccessReturn(stats -> applicationCountSummaryPageMapper.mapToResource(stats));
    }

    @Override
    public ServiceResult<ApplicationCountSummaryPageResource> getApplicationCountSummariesByCompetitionIdAndAssessmentPeriodId(long competitionId,
                                                                                long assessmentPeriodId,
                                                                                int pageIndex,
                                                                                int pageSize,
                                                                                Optional<String> filter) {

        String filterStr = filter.map(String::trim).orElse("");
        Pageable pageable = PageRequest.of(pageIndex, pageSize);
        Page<ApplicationStatistics> applicationStatistics = applicationStatisticsRepository.findByCompetitionAndApplicationProcessActivityStateInAndAssessmentPeriodIn(competitionId, assessmentPeriodId, SUBMITTED_STATES, filterStr, pageable);

        return find(applicationStatistics, notFoundError(Page.class)).andOnSuccessReturn(stats -> applicationCountSummaryPageMapper.mapToResource(stats));
    }

    @Override
    public ServiceResult<ApplicationCountSummaryPageResource> getApplicationCountSummariesByCompetitionIdAndAssessorId(
            long competitionId,
            long assessorId,
            long assessmentPeriodId,
            int page,
            int size,
            ApplicationCountSummaryResource.Sort sort,
            String filter) {
        Pageable pageable = PageRequest.of(page, size, getApplicationSummarySortField(sort));

        Page<ApplicationCountSummaryResource> result =
                applicationStatisticsRepository.findStatisticsForApplicationsNotAssignedTo(competitionId, assessorId, assessmentPeriodId, filter, pageable);

        return serviceSuccess(new ApplicationCountSummaryPageResource(result.getTotalElements(), result.getTotalPages(), result.getContent(), result.getNumber(), result.getSize()));
    }

    @Override
    public ServiceResult<List<Long>> getApplicationIdsByCompetitionIdAndAssessorId(long competitionId, long assessorId,  long assessmentPeriodId,String filter) {
       return serviceSuccess(applicationStatisticsRepository.findApplicationIdsNotAssignedTo(competitionId, assessorId, assessmentPeriodId, filter));
    }

    private Sort getApplicationSummarySortField(ApplicationCountSummaryResource.Sort sort) {
        switch(sort) {
            case APPLICATION_NUMBER:
                return Sort.by(ASC, "id");
            case TITLE:
                return Sort.by(ASC, "name");
            case LEAD_ORGANISATION:
                return Sort.by(ASC, "lead.name");
            case ASSESSORS:
                return JpaSort.unsafe(ASC, ApplicationStatisticsRepository.SUM_ASSESSORS);
            case ACCEPTED:
                return JpaSort.unsafe(ASC, ApplicationStatisticsRepository.SUM_ACCEPTED);
            case SUBMITTED:
                return JpaSort.unsafe(ASC, ApplicationStatisticsRepository.SUM_SUBMITTED);
        }
        throw new IFSRuntimeException("Unknown sort option: " + sort.name());
    }

    private Sort getApplicationSummarySortField(String sortBy) {
        Sort result = SORT_FIELD_TO_DB_SORT_FIELDS.get(sortBy);
        return result != null ? result : SORT_FIELD_TO_DB_SORT_FIELDS.get("id");
    }
}