There are many subtle rules which dictate the way we're supposed to act in specific situations. Of course, these are only suggestions but there is some common sense to it. For example, if you have decided to invite your friends to a party or if you organized a family gathering, you probably won't be using the same set of 'rules.' One of those simple rules is the fine art of choosing the proper drink for the occasion.
If you are planning a barbeque party in your back yard, you'll probably treat your guests with great food like burgers, stakes or tasty seafood. The best drink for this occasion is definitely beer. Imagine spending a hot summer afternoon with your friends, by the barbeque with a burger in one hand and a cold can of beer in the other.
Your family is coming over for a dinner. You can't go wrong with a fine wine on family gatherings. But which one to choose? It depends on what are you cooking. When it comes to meat, white meat roasted on a grill complements the red dry and young wine. If you serve red meat, full and strong, old, robust wines are probably a good choice. With smoked meat, smoked ham or roast you should serve fresh white wine with a fruity aroma or rose. Red wine is not a good choice, because the tannins in the wine with salt from the meat make the whole bit bitter, leaving a metallic taste on the tongue. Seafood, prepared in any way, is the best match with the white wine. Chardonnay, would be a very good choice. Wine is important in cuisine not only as a beverage but also as a food additive which enhances the taste.
Code of Conduct does not suggest any alcohol beverages during the business lunch. In most situations the client will not be thrilled if your choice is alcohol. But there are some exceptions, and that is when you and your business partner are perhaps celebrating a lucrative business arrangement, and if it is celebrated in informal atmosphere. Your choice for this occasion can be a good whiskey or French cognac.
If you just had a big promotion at your job, and you would like to celebrate that with your significant other, surprise her or him with a bottle of champagne. Drink champagne from high and elongated glasses. Champagne is a symbol of wealth and power. Drinking it will not make you richer but it will make you happier and feel a little more special. So save the champagne for a special occasion.
If your work week has been a tough one, you might want to go out with your friends, relax, and have a good time. There is not a specific drink that is actually right for this occasion, you can drink whatever you prefer. But if you want to avoid a painful hangover tomorrow, I would kindly recommend you some cocktails based on vodka or tequila. These cocktails often contain a good amount of fruit juice which can really help you to avoid a hangover.
Choosing the right drink for a particular occasion might not seem as important as to choose the right clothes or behave properly, but it will certainly contribute to a pleasant experience.
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Who to believe?
As the ever-growing list of runners and riders shuffle into line for the race to become our next Prime Minister, I listened to one of the favourites putting his particular spin on the many 'good things' that have been happening while the country has been distracted by Brexit – buoyant economy, more people in jobs than ever before etc. While listening to that, I was reading the findings of the UN's special rapporteur Professor Philip Alston, who has just published his final report into poverty in the UK. One of them is either delusional or telling bare-faced lies.
Anoosh Chakelian, New Statesman
The government has violated its human rights obligations, concludes the UN's special rapporteur on extreme poverty in his final report.
It's official. The UN's special rapporteur Philip Alston who investigated poverty in the UK last November has found the government in breach of its human rights obligations.
Delivering his final report on extreme poverty and human rights in the UK, he concludes: "Given the significant resources available in the country, the sustained and widespread cuts to social support, which have caused so much pain and misery, amount to retrogressive measures in clear violation of the United Kingdom's human rights obligations."
Here are the key conclusions, from the report, and Philip Alston's own comments on his findings:
Government-led misery
The UK Government's policies have led to the systematic immiseration of millions across Great Britain.
Close to 40 per cent of children are predicted to be living in poverty by 2021.
Following drastic changes in government economic policy beginning in 2010, the two preceding decades of progress in tackling child and pensioner poverty have begun to unravel and poverty is again on the rise.
Relative child poverty rates are expected to increase by 7 per cent between 2015 and 2021 and overall child poverty rates to reach close to 40 per cent. For almost one in every two children to be poor in twenty-first century Britain would not just be a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster rolled into one.
Although the United Kingdom is the world's fifth largest economy, one fifth of its population (14 million people) live in poverty, four million of those are more than 50 per cent below the poverty line, and 1.5 million of them experienced destitution in 2017, unable to afford basic essentials. And 2.5 million people survive with incomes no more than 10 per cent above the poverty line – just one crisis away from falling into poverty.
Given the significant resources available in the country, the sustained and widespread cuts to social support, which have caused so much pain and misery, amount to retrogressive measures in clear violation of the United Kingdom's human rights obligations.
The "austerity experiment" continues…
Policies of austerity introduced in 2010 continue largely unabated, despite the tragic social consequences.
For all the talk that austerity is over, massive disinvestment in the social safety net continues unabated.
…it has resulted in:
• 14 million people living in poverty,
• Record levels of hunger and homelessness,
• Falling life expectancy for some groups,
• Ever fewer community services,
• Greatly reduced policing,
• Access to the courts for lower-income groups has been dramatically rolled back by cuts to legal aid.
…and it's ideological…
The imposition of austerity was an ideological project designed to radically reshape the relationship between the Government and the citizenry. UK standards of well-being have descended precipitately in a remarkably short period of time, as a result of deliberate policy choices made when many other options were available.
A booming economy, high employment and a budget surplus have not reversed austerity, a policy pursued more as an ideological than an economic agenda.
…and doesn't even make economic sense
Far-reaching changes to the role of Government in supporting people in distress are almost always "sold" as part of an unavoidable fiscal "austerity" programme needed to save the country from bankruptcy. In fact, the reforms have almost certainly cost far more than their proponents will admit. The many billions extracted from the benefits system since 2010 have been offset by additional resources required, by local government, by doctors and hospital accident and emergency centres, and even by the ever-shrinking, overworked and underfunded police force to fund the increasing need for emergency services.
The welfare state has fallen away
The Government's 'work not welfare' mantra conveys the message that individuals and families can seek charity but that the State will no longer provide the basic social safety net to which all political parties had been committed since 1945.
The bottom line is that much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos.
In fact, we've rewound from 1945 back to Dickens…
It might seem to some observers that the Department of Work and Pensions has been tasked with designing a digital and sanitized version of the nineteenth century workhouse, made infamous by Charles Dickens, rather than seeking to respond creatively and compassionately to the real needs of those facing widespread economic insecurity in an age of deep and rapid transformation brought about by automation, zero-hour contracts and rapidly growing inequality.
…via Thomas Hobbes
As Thomas Hobbes observed long ago, such an approach condemns the least well off to lives that are "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". As the British social contract slowly evaporates, Hobbes' prediction risks becoming the new reality.
The recent changes are not good enough
I welcome the moves to adopt a uniform poverty measure, to systematically survey food insecurity, and to further delay the rollout of Universal Credit. That programme will be improved by plans to provide more time to repay advances, to reduce debt payment limits, and to reduce extreme penalties. But, for all the talk that austerity is over, massive disinvestment in the social safety net continues unabated.
It is difficult to see recent changes as more than window dressing to minimise political fallout. The situation demands a new vision that embodies British compassion and places social rights and economic security front and centre.
Some Universal Credit reforms have been positive – but not enough to turn the tide
The 2018 budget introduced several changes to the Government's flagship benefits programme, Universal Credit (UC), including a welcome increase in work allowances, as a consequence of which an estimated 2.4 million households will be better off in 2019, and some 200,000 people will rise out of poverty. And the introduction of a minimum wage has helped reduce low pay.
But these developments have not stemmed the overall direction of the tide.
Loneliness is worsening
Austerity policies have deliberately gutted local authorities and thereby effectively eliminated many social services, reduced policing services to skeletal proportions, closed libraries in record numbers, shrunk community and youth centres, and sold off public spaces and buildings including parks and recreation centres. It is hardly surprising that civil society has reported unheard-of levels of loneliness and isolation, prompting the Government to appoint a Minister for Suicide Prevention.
Solutions lie in resurrecting public spending and less harsh welfare measures
The Government should restore local government funding to ensure crucial social protection can help people escape poverty, reverse particularly regressive measures such as the benefits cap and two-child limit, and audit the impact of tax and spending decisions on different groups.
The Department for Work & Pensions' response is predictable. The secretary of state Amber Rudd is trying to curry some PR by lodging a formal complaint with the UN about it. And a spokesperson points out that the UN's own data shows that the UK is "one of the happiest places in the world to live" (it came 15th actually), and that Alston's report "paints a completely inaccurate picture of our approach to tackling poverty" and is a "barely believable documentation of Britain, based on a tiny period of time spent here".
True, Alston only conducted his investigation from 5 to 16 November 2018. But as his report says itself, even if you put statistics aside, the extent of poverty in Britain "is obvious to anyone who opens their eyes". And that's why government responses will never ring true until it actually engages with the problem and starts afresh.

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Brazil constructs climate tower in heart of Amazon to monitor climate change
Researchers in Brazil have finished constructing a 325-metre high tower that will analyse the Amazon rainforest's gas emissions, to help understand climate change.
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The €8.4m Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) is taller than the Eiffel Tower and will start collecting data on heat, water, cloud formation, carbon absorption and weather patterns over the rainforest later this year. It will link up with two smaller towers to collect data for 20 to 30 years.
Scientists are currently on-site installing equipment that will create a better understanding of the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Due to the height of the tower they can investigate the alteration and movement of air over a distance of several hundred kilometres.
The Amazon is a huge store of locked-up carbon. When the forest is cut away or burned, carbon is released. Deforestation is globally responsible for up to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
ATTO is a joint project between the Max Planck Institute, the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) and the University of the State of Amazonas.
Max Planck Society's project coordinator Jürgen Kesselmeier said: "We do not yet adequately understand the role that the rain forest plays in the formation of aerosol particles and therefore in cloud formation. A whole range of secrets is waiting to be discovered using our new measurement tower."
King of the jungle
Built in the Uatuma nature reserve, 217 miles from the sounds and pollutions of Manaus, ATTO can collect data, undisturbed from human influence.
"We chose the location in the Brazilian rain forest as it is largely situated away from human influences and therefore guarantees relatively unperturbed data," explains Meinrat O. Andreae, director of the Biogeochemistry Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.
"ATTO will allow scientists to carry out their measurements in higher layers of the atmosphere and more continuously than before, so that more reliable statements about the development of our atmosphere are to be expected."
Lungs of the world
The tower was inaugurated just two days after Germany chancellor Angela Merkel's state visit to Brazil where Germany donated €23m to help Brazil establish a rural land registry aimed at increasing monitoring of the Amazon.
Brazil has made excellent progress in slowing deforestation and protecting land in the Amazon region. The country has committed to restore 12 million hectares of forests by 2030.
The UK has previously worked with Brazil to create a carbon cycle study in the Amazon.
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L26 is full, every table smiling along with Wilkes and the rest of the Velvet Lounge All-Stars. A few have come in looking for a bite to eat but most everyone is there to honor the legacy of Fred Anderson, tenor saxophonist and owner of the Velvet Lounge, who died last June after a heart attack at the age of 81. "A lot of us here standing on stage right now started our careers at the Velvet in Chicago," says Nicole Mitchell before the show starts.
"We're going to reopen. We should have everything straightened out in a few days or so," said Michael Anderson in a December 13th Chicago Tribune article.
Four blocks south of the Lounge's Cermak and Wabash location, L26 has become the new Velvet Lounge. "Word got out about my venue being available, I had heard what was happening through the newspapers, and I got in touch with Nicole Mitchell," says owner Tony Glenn.
Friday night and the place is full for the ten o'clock show, everyone seated close or standing up by the bar. The crowd's mixed but most everyone is there to support Fred: journalists (jazz critics and freelancers, photographers starting to line up at the front of the room), jazz fans, musicians, diners and hotel guests who just happened by. All of them are waiting for Nicole Mitchell to step to the front of the room and introduce the All-Stars behind her: Corey Wilkes on the trumpet, who recorded with her Black Earth Ensemble on 2003's "Afrika Rising"; Kevin Nabors on the saxophone; Justin Dillard, "Dr. Funky Fingers, Dr. Rev. Pastor Funky Fingers on the keys," as Wilkes calls him at the end of the first set; Christian Dilingham on the bass; and Isaiah Spencer on the drums.
"The Velvet Lounge, it lives in our hearts. It's a spirit Fred gave to us and I know Fred is right here with us tonight," says Mitchell to applause and amens from the audience. It's the most somber moment of the evening–and then Wilkes tells the audience, "We're gonna fly" and the first set begins with Charlie Parker's "Segment." Sax, trumpet, keyboard, and drum solos. Lean-back music. Tap-your-foot music. Most everyone closing their eyes at some point in the set of Parker tunes that included "Groovin' High," "Now's the Time" (reworked and renamed "Now's That Time"), and what Wilkes calls "a jazz kumbaya," a medley of three Charlie Parker ballads. Nabors groans and shouts in between sax riffs and Wilkes calls out adjustments–"Hey, take down the tempo," he says to Isaiah, and the piece flows into a trumpet solo that has Wilkes leaning back and the room growing silent.
The second set of the night features modern pieces composed by members of the group or by Anderson himself, the first piece fittingly titled "Fred's Hungry Brain." Anderson's performances were generally of his own compositions–his book, " Exercises for the Creative Musician" (co-authored with Paul Steinbeck), features three Anderson compositions and a transcription of one of his improv sessions. "[Improvisation is] just like a thought, like telling a story," said Anderson in the book's introduction.


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This short story is set in mythical Wales which may or may not had existed. Hedydd is a maiden of fifteen, old enough to join all the other maidens in the selection of the chosen one. She will ensure that there will be good harvest in the following season. But Hedydd has no interst in becoming the chosen one, even after the signs point to her. She rebels and in rebelling learns about herself, and her mother whom she believed hask been dead these many years. Through magic and common sense she finds her freedom and a new life.
The impatient cry reached the recess behind the hangings where Hedydd was hidden. She had been there since dawn and intended to stay.
Today was the time of the river choosing. Every spring the snows melted in the mountains and the great river swelled and burst its banks and flooded the fields. When the waters receded it left the fields rich and fertile. To ensure that this miracle happened each spring, a river maiden was chosen to serve the gods of the river.
All the maidens of the village who had reached their fifteenth year assembled before the dwelling of Elystan the chieftain, to await the start of the ceremony of the choosing. Hedydd the chieftain's eldest daughter was fifteen that spring, but she had no desire to be amongst the waiting girls. Suddenly the hanging was twitched aside and the sallow, sour face of Lynwen, her stepmother, peered in.
"So there you are," she cried triumphantly. "Why are you not outside with the others?"
Hedydd glared at her defiantly. "Because I do not wish to be."
"You have no choice. You know the laws. Every maid must attend the choosing. Think of the honour it will bring to your father if you are the one."
"I don't see it as an honour," Hedydd retorted. "I do not wish to spend a year and a day walled up in a dank cave at the river's head, alone, and with no one allowed near me. That poor girl who was chosen last spring was blind when they brought her out into the sunlight."
Lynwen sniffed. "She served her time well, and earned us a fruitful year and an abundant harvest."
"And what if there is drought this year? Will the chosen one be blamed and cast out as my mother was."
"Hush, be silent," Lynwen paled. "You must not speak of your mother. She brought ill fortune to the village."
Lynwen was exasperated with the girl. This stepdaughter of hers had always been difficult, not like her own placid, obedient daughters. Hedydd brooded on things too much, and asked too many questions, She sighed. It was not easy being a second wife, not when the first still lived in the memories of all who had known her.
"You will obey me, girl," she said, irritation getting the better of her. "I am your mother."
"My father's wife you may well be," said Hedydd, " but you are not my mother."
Lynwen struck her, hard enough to leave the mark of her hand on Hedydd`s smooth cheek. The girl sprang back, tears stinging her eyes. But she would not cry, not before Lynwen. Instead she pushed her stepmother, who staggered back over a stool, and fell sprawling on the floor. Lynwen rolled about on the rushes wailing. Then Hedydd recalled that Lynwen was with child.
"Lynwen," she cried. "I am sorry. I meant you no harm," she bent down to assist her stepmother to her feet, but Lynwen only screamed louder.
Elystan heard the commotion and rushed in, sword drawn, ready to do battle against an intruder. He found his wife and eldest daughter squabbling again, and this time it seemed to have gone beyond angry words. He put away his sword and snorted with disgust. "Get up, woman," he growled. "Hedydd help your stepmother." He stood over them glowering. Of middle height and stocky, muscular build, Elystan presented a formidable figure. Both women knew better than to defy him. Lynwen`s wails ceased at once, and she allowed Hedydd to help her to her feet.
"How much longer must I endure conflict beneath my roof?" Elystan demanded. "I have better things to do than be a buffer between two quarrelling women!" Lynwen flinched slightly, and retreated a step or two. Hedydd, however, did not give an inch. She regarded he father steadily. As usual, he was unable to look her full in the face. She grew more like Tangwystle every day.
"Why are you not outside with the others?" he barked at her.
"She refuses to go, Elystan," Lynwen put in.
Suddenly he caught Hedydd by the arm and shook her. "Do you wish to shame me before the village?" he cried. Without further preamble, he marched her outside and Hedydd knew it would do no good to protest further.
Gwyrion the ancient one stood in the centre of the village leaning on his staff, his flowing robes and long beard stirred by a cold wind. The group of girls huddled together eyed him apprehensively. Gwyrion was greatly respected in the village, but he was feared even more. Some whispered that it was he who held real power over them, not Elystan the chieftain.
When Hedydd joined them they set off in single file behind Gwyrion into the woods. The rest of the villagers brought up the rear. They halted in a clearing where one huge tree stood alone. No one knew how old the tree was, not even Gwyrion, and he was older than time. That it had magical properties was without doubt. Unlike the other trees, it showed none of the early signs of spring. It was bare and seemingly dead. But they knew that when the one t destined to be the river maiden, touched it, the tree would burst into white blossom. For generations beyond memory this was how the river maiden was chosen.
Slowly, Gwyrion led each reluctant girl to the tree. A trembling hand was extended to touch the gnarled trunk. When the old tree remained barren, their sighs of relief were audible.
Hedydd had managed to place herself at the very end of the line of girls. But it was of no avail. Gwyrion made his stately way to her. He towered over her, his strange pale eyes blazing in his gaunt face. She threw her father a desperate look, but he glanced away. Gwyrion`s thin, strong hand closed about hers, and she was drawn inexorably to the tree.
She stared blankly ahead of her, seeing the rough texture of the bark, but refusing to touch it. She heard Gwyrion`s furious, "you cannot escape your destiny, Hedydd," whispered in her ear.
She shook her head. Quickly, Gwyrion grasped her hand and forced it hard against the tree`s uneven surface. Hedydd gasped and closed her eyes. She would not look. She would not. Then she heard Gwyrion`s quick intake of breath, and felt his spare frame tremble. "Behold!" he cried shakily, "the tree blooms."
There was a collective moan of awe from the watchers, and the over-powering sweet scent of blossom was all about them. Hedydd opened her eyes and looked up to see the tree in all the glory of its miraculous white flowering. Even as she looked, fat buds appeared along the branches and opened into flowers. Beside her, Gwyrion seemed shaken, and even more insubstantial than usual, if that were possible.
"The river maiden is chosen," he announced softly. The villagers murmured with relief. Hedydd felt as if she had been turned to stone. The crowd melted slowly back through the trees, and she was alone in the clearing with Gwyrion, and the blossoming tree. Suddenly rational thought returned to her numbed brain, and she fell on her knees before the old man, clutching at a handful of his robe.
"Please, Gwyrion. I beg of you, do not ask this of me."
"You can not escape it, Hedydd. You are chosen."
The spirit of protest drained from her. It was hopeless, she knew. What could a mere girl to against Gwyrion`s all-powerful magic?
The old man sensed her capitulation and, not ungentle, lifted her to her feet. "You must come with me. There is much you have to prepare for." Gwyrion led her out of the clearing and along a narrow path overgrown with tangled brambles and dead ferns. Above them the bare branches of the trees rattled together in the strengthening wind. Hedydd`s head drooped forlornly and her feet dragged. Although she had never been there, she knew this path led to the isolated hut that was Gwyrion`s lair. She had little curiosity about it, as she would have had once. She was no longer Hedydd, proud daughter of Elystan the chieftain. Now she belonged to the elements that ruled their lives and destinies.
Suddenly the old man moaned and staggered. He stopped so abruptly that Hedydd almost stumbled into him. He muttered and stared at the path ahead. Before him blocking his way, stood a woman. At first Hedydd believed she had imagined her. Then the woman came closer, and Hedydd saw that she was very real. Vibrant and sturdy, the woman had dark-red hair hanging straight to her waist, and dark eyes that fixed upon Gwyrion with fierce intensity.
"Greetings, Gwyrion," she murmured, and her voice was like the rattling of the branches above their heads. "Where are you taking my child?"
Gwyrion struggled to regain his composure. He lifted his silver-white head and cried with authority, "Step aside, Tangwystle. You have no business here. You were banished from this village a long time ago. What happens to Hedydd is no concern of yours."
"I have come for my daughter, old man," Tangwystle said holding her ground.
"She is not yours to claim. Hedydd is chosen. She is the river maiden. Go, Tangwystle, before you bring us more ill fortune."
"You old fool, " Tangwystle hissed. "I have come to claim my daughter. You will not do to her what you did to me."
"She is not as you were," Gwyrion spat with contempt. "Hedydd is chaste. You were a false maiden."
"There was no disgrace, she replied calmly. "I was Elystan`s lawful wife."
"Your union was not sanctioned by me."
Hedydd listened to the exchange between Gwyrion and Tangwystle, her mind reeling in disbelief. This stranger was her mother? But she had always believed that her mother had died, abandoned by the villagers to the mercy of the mountains. Then Tangwystle looked at her directly for the first time. "Come with me, my child," she said.
Confused, Hedydd glanced quickly from Tangwystle to the old man and back again.
"Stay," Gwyrion commanded, and barred her way with his staff.
"But I do not wish to be the river maiden," Hedydd protested.
"You do not have to be," Tangwystle whispered. "Not if you come with me."
"Do not head her," Gwyrion warned. "She brought disaster to our land, famine and pestilence and a fever that raged throughout the countryside. Many died."
Tangwystle gave him an almost pitying smile. "Senile old fool. Those things had nothing to do with me. How can a girl, little more than a child have control over such things? Those things you speak of were acts of nature. It had nothing to do with the fact that I was with child when you worked your trickery on that tree."
Gwyrion bristled with rage. "You know nothing of such things. You are but a woman. How can you know more than I? My knowledge is as vast and ancient as the stars."
"Your knowledge, Gwyrion," she responded, " is a sham. Like your magic." She plunged her hand into the pouch hanging from her girdle, and drew out a handful of what looked like dried shriveled leaves. "This is your magic!" Tangwystle cast the contents of her hand into Gwyrion`s face. "I know of the fungus you cultivate about your hovel. I know of its properties. It has the power to make people believe what you want them to believe, see what you want them to see."
Gwyrion made a little choking sound and his face was ashen."For fifteen summers and winters I have lived with the mountain people," Tangwystle continued. "It was they who taught me the truth of things. I know about the potion that can be brewed from the fungus. The potion that you add to the well water the night before the ceremony."
"You lie," Gwyrion gasped swaying unsteadily on his feet.
"No, it is you who are the liar," Tangwystle cried and strode forward to wrench the staff from Gwyrion`s hand and fling it away into the undergrowth. She thrust him aside, and the old man rumpled to the ground with a pathetic cry.
Hedydd grasped Tangwystle`s proffered hand and allowed herself to be led away. "Where are we going?" she asked nervously, half-running to keep pace with Tangwystle`s long strides.
"To the village. To your father's hall. He and I have some old scores to settle."
In Elystan`s hall they were about their mid-day meal. When the door suddenly opened on a gust of cold air, smoke from the hearth blew about, stinging their eyes and making them cough.
Lynwen saw Tangwystle first and jumped from her seat, eyes wide with fear. Elystan glanced up from his meat and gaped. "Tangwystle?" he gasped hoarsely.
"Greetings, Elystan," Tangwystle replied, pleasantly enough. Everyone had stopped eating now and stared at the newcomers in silence.
"How have you come here, you are dead?" Elystan said standing up and pushing his chair back.
"That is no matter," Tangwystle said. "I have come for my daughter,"
"You can not have her. She has been chosen."
Tangwystle shrugged and smiled. "But I do have her." She drew Hedydd gently to her side. "Look at her Elystan, see how fair she is. How could you stand by and see her consigned to such a cruel fate?"
Elystan`s eyes flickered nervously. "I-I have no power over Gwyrion and his magic."
"Gwyrion is an old man, who for generations has held the people in thrall with his trickery."
There was a cry from Lynwen. "Elystan, she speaks blasphemy. We will be cursed and perish."
"So this is the creature you put in my place," Tangwystile said contemptuously. "I pray she has been a good mother to my daughter all these years."
Lynwen flushed and fell back into her chair silently.
"You should have perished in the mountains," Elystan muttered angrily.
"I would have, if it had not been for the mountain people. They came to my aid and sheltered me."
Tangwystle drew closer to Elystan. "Why did you not defend me, Elystan? You did not come to my aid."
Elystan could not meet her glance. "How could I? You were the chosen one, and you were proved false."
"Nonsense!" Tangwystle cried. "I was your lawful wife, which she can never be." She pointed a finger at the cowering Lynwen. "As for Gwyrion`s magic, when you see him next, quiz him about the potions he brews and puts in the well water."
She turned to Hedydd again. "It is your choice, Hedydd. You can stay here and be walled up for a year and a day, or you can come with me to the mountains. I live with a good man, and I have found contentment there. You have brothers and a sister you do not know. It is your decision."
Hedydd glanced slowly from Elystan to Lynwen and then back to Tangwystle. "I will come with you."
Tangwystle smiled. "Come with me then." She faced her husband once more. "You will not perish. Gwyrion`s magic is a sham. No one can control the elements. Nature cannot be contained. You must make your own destiny."
Deep in the woodlands, Gwyrion huddled in his dwelling aware for the first time of the burden of age he carried. Much had happened. Things had changed. It had begun when he had stumbled and spilled the potion the night before. It had been impossible to brew more in time. Yet he had to go through with the ceremony. When Hedydd had touched the tree, for the first time in eons there had been no trickery in it. The tree had blossomed in truth. Hedydd possessed the true magic. Just as her mother had. But she would go into the mountains with Tangwystle, of that he was sure, and perhaps never know the great power she possessed.
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The Bahamas Olympic Committee- (Formerly "The Bahamas Olympic Association")
The Olympic Association of the Bahamas was formed on 8th May 1952. The impetus for its creation grew from the Bahamian excitement of having two local yachtsmen, Durward Knowles and Sloan Farrington, who had proved themselves as leading Star Class yachtsmen of their day by placing third in the Star Class World's Championships in Havana in 1946, winning the Star Class Spring Championships in the Bahamas in 1947 and medaling at the World's Championship in California the same year.
Bahamians Compete Under the British Flag
Knowles and Farrington then tried to register for the 1948 Olympics, only to find that they could only enter through the British Olympic Committee as the Bahamas had neither an affiliation with the International Yacht Racing Association nor the IOC. Moreover, they had to be in England to compete with British and other Commonwealth Sailors to qualify. In a dramatic drive from Miami to New York described in the book about his illustrious Olympic Career: 'Driven By The Stars' by Douglas Hanks Jr., Sir Durward and Sloan managed to catch the last sailing of the 'Queen Mary' which could possibly get them to London in time for the trials . They qualified to represent Great Britain, and just missed a medal in their first Olympic Games by placing fourth overall despite one broken mast and one disqualification.
The Birth of the Bahamas Olympic Association
Their Bahamian supporters were determined to have them sail for the Bahamas in the 1952 Olympics; and so it was, with the Helsinki Olympics only months away, that on 8th May 1952, prominent sports leaders and members of the Bahamas House of Assembly met to form the Bahamas Olympic Association.
The first officers were:
President: The Hon. G.W.K. Roberts
Vice Presidents: The Hon. A.F. Adderley
The Hon. Godfrey W. Higgs
Mr. Roscoe Albury
Mr. Chris M. Brown
Honorary Treasurer: Mr. R. James Robertson
Honorary Secretary: Mr. Gerald C. Cash
Honorary Asst. Sec.: Mr. Eustace Myers
The First Constitution
The first constitution (appendix 1), drafted by Sir Gerald Cash, was a four page document outlining the nine rules of the Association. The three forming member associations were: Athletics, Swimming, and Yachting, and it was stipulated that they and all other prospective members must be amateur bodies with volunteer executives.
Sir Durward Knowles
Sir Durward Knowles and Sloan Farrington went on to win a bronze medal in Melbourne in 1956; and a gold medal, with Cecil Cook as crew, in Tokyo 1964. Sir Durward continued competing in the Olympic Sailing for a record of eight (8) Olympics; the last being Pusan, Korea in 1988 at the age of seventy, making him one of the oldest and most successful Olympians. Sir Durward still serves as a vice president of the Bahamas Olympic Association, and is by far its longest serving executive.
The successive presidents of the BOA have been:
1952 to 1957 Sir George Roberts
1957 to 1972 Mr. Robert (Bobby) Symonette
1972 to 1973 Dr. Norman Gay
1973 to 2008 Sir Arlington Butler
2008 to Present Wellington Miller (BOC)
The Former Executives as of 2008
President: Sir Arlington Butler
Vice Presidents: Sir Durward Knowles
Rev. A. Enoch Backford
Harcourt Rolle
Leonard Archer
Roscow A.L. Davies
Wellington Miller
Treasurer: Vincent Wallace-Whitfield
Asst. Treasurer: Dianne S. Miller
Hon. Secretary: Dr. Lawrence Davis
Hon. Asst. Secretary: B. Livingstone Bostwick
The current member federations are:
Bahamas Amateur Boxing Federation (BABF)
Bahamas Amateur Cycling Federation (BACF)
Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA)
Bahamas Basketball Federation (BBF)
Gymnastics Federation of the Bahamas(GFB)
Bahamas Football Association (BFA)
Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association (BLTA)
Bahamas National Equestrian Federation (BNEF)
Bahamas Sailing Association
Bahamas Swimming Federation (BSF)
Bahamas Taekwondo Fedeartion(BTF)
Bahamas Volleyball Federation (BVF)
Bahamas Wrestling Federation(BWF)
Associate federations benefiting from coaching courses and assistance through the BOA, and taking part in the Pan American and/or the Commonwealth Games are:
Bahamas Softball Fedeartion (BSF)
Bahamas Triathlon Federation (BTF)
Bahamas Federation of Amateur Bowlers (BFAB)
Bahamas Karate Federation (BKF)
Bahamas Racquetball Association (BRA)
Bahamas Rugby Union (BRU)
Bahamas Baseball Association (BBA)
Bahamas Squash Racquets Association (BSRA)
Bahamas Netball Federation (BNF)
Bahamas Golf Fedeartion(BGF)
Relationship between National Federations, Government and the BOA
A challenge is to incorporate these federations more fully into the BOA and to improve the relationships between the BOA, the Government and the National Federations. And to accomplish this we need:
Frequent communications between officials
Clarification of roles and responsibilities of each in the development of sport
Financial support from government
BOA and federations financially and technically responsible and accountable
The needs of government, the federations and BOA must be mutually respected
Success Due to Good Relationships
Mutual respect and cooperation has contributed to the success of the Bahamas Teams and our top athletes over the years. The Bahamas has competed in all of the Olympics, Pan American, Commonwealth and Central American and Caribbean Games and has had glorious victories, the crowning achievement being the winning of the gold medal in the women's 4x100m relay in the Sydney Olympics.
Bahamas Olympic Medals
Following the Bahamas' first medal by Durward Knowles and Sloan Farrington in Star Class Sailing in 1956 and his gold medal with Cecil Cook at the Tokyo Olympics of 1964, we were not to receive a medal until 1992. At the Barcelona Olympics Frank Rutherford won the bronze medal in the Triple Jump; and this was followed by the silver medal in the women's 4x100m Relay in Atlanta 1996, and two more Athletics victories in Sydney 2000. Pauline Davis-Thompson won the silver medal in the 200 meters and the gold medal in the 4x100m went to the Bahamas Golden Girls: Eldice Clarke, Pauline Davis, Debbie Ferguson, Savatheda Fines and Chandra Sturrup.
Bahamas Olympic Participation
One hundred and twenty-five (125) Bahamian Athletes have competed in seven different disciplines in the Olympics during the fifty years of participation: seventy (71) in Athletics, 5 in Boxing, 2 in Cycling, 14 in Swimming, 3 in Tennis, 2 in Wrestling and 28 in Yachting.
The Bahamas is planning to send its best team ever to London 2012, with the hope and determination to again have our athletes on the medal stand. This ' Strategic Plan For The Realignment of the Constitution and GOOD Governance of The Bahamas Olympic Committee' will assist in fostering the success of the Bahamian Athletes in London 2012.


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package com.octo.rnd.perf.diokles.resources;

import com.octo.rnd.perf.diokles.Configuration;
import com.octo.rnd.perf.diokles.jdbi.DAOImpl;
import com.octo.rnd.perf.diokles.jdbi.JDBIException;
import org.h2.tools.Server;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.skife.jdbi.v2.DBI;
import org.skife.jdbi.v2.Handle;
import org.skife.jdbi.v2.exceptions.UnableToExecuteStatementException;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Optional;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

public class ComputeResourceIntegrationTest {

    final static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ComputeResourceIntegrationTest.class);

    static Server server;
    static Configuration conf;
    static DAOImpl dao;
    static {
        conf = new Configuration();
        conf.setDbHost("localhost");
        conf.setDbPort((short) 9193);
        //Be sure to have only one DAO for all the application
        //In the contrary there will be several DB per thread as ThreadLocal is specific to a pair (instance, thread)
        dao = new DAOImpl(conf);
    }

    @BeforeClass
    public static void doSetupH2Server() throws SQLException {
        server = Server.createTcpServer("-tcpPort", Short.toString(conf.getDbPort())).start();
    }

    public static void doTearDownH2Server() {
        if (server != null) server.stop();
    }

    public static void doTearDown(final DBI dbi) {
        Handle h = dbi.open();
        try {
            h.execute("drop alias sleep");
        } catch (UnableToExecuteStatementException e) {
            if (e.getMessage() != null && e.getMessage().contains("Function alias \"SLEEP\" not found")) {
                logger.trace("Alias sleep has not been created");
            } else {
                throw e;
            }
        }

        if (h != null) h.close();
    }
    //@Test : Can be run in local but not in travis
    public void testIntegrationForCallDatabase() throws InterruptedException {

        DbCaller dbc1 = new DbCaller();
        DbCaller dbc2 = new DbCaller();
        DbCaller dbc3 = new DbCaller();
        DbCaller dbc4 = new DbCaller();

        Thread t1 = new Thread(() -> dbc1.doDbCall(200));
        Thread t2 = new Thread(() -> dbc2.doDbCall(500));
        Thread t3 = new Thread(() -> dbc3.doDbCall(750));
        Thread t4 = new Thread(() -> dbc4.doDbCall(1000));

        t1.start();
        t2.start();
        t3.start();
        t4.start();

        logger.debug("Wait for tread1 to finish");
        t1.join();
        assertThat(dbc1.error).isLessThan(0.3);

        logger.debug("Wait for thread2 to finish");
        t2.join();
        assertThat(dbc2.error).isLessThan(0.3);

        logger.debug("Wait for thread3 to finish");
        t3.join();
        assertThat(dbc3.error).isLessThan(0.3);

        logger.debug("Wait for thread4 to finish");
        t4.join();
        assertThat(dbc4.error).isLessThan(0.3);

        //@AfterClass seems to not function correctly in a multi-threaded environment
        doTearDownH2Server();
    }

    private class DbCaller {
        private double error;

        private void doDbCall(long inputTime) {

            //Force building the DB before measuring
            try {
                dao.callStoredProcedure(1);
            } catch (JDBIException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

            ComputeResource cr = new ComputeResource(dao, null, null);

            logger.debug("Start Calling a stored procedure of {} ms", inputTime);
            final int nbOfCalls = 1;
            try {
                Helper.MeasuredTime mt = Helper.measureTime(
                        l -> {
                            try {
                                cr.callDatabase(nbOfCalls, inputTime);
                            } catch (JDBIException e) {
                                e.printStackTrace();
                            }
                            return Optional.empty();
                        },
                        inputTime,
                        1);
                this.error = mt.PercentError;
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                this.error = Double.MAX_VALUE; //Be sure that the test fail
                throw ex;
            }

            doTearDown(dao.getDbi());
        }
    }

}

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Christian "X-ti" Bystron (guitar), Lex (vocals), Wenz (bass guitar), Jorgen 'Bam Bam' Wiehler (drums)
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After the great waves of success in 2001 and 2002, thousands of European music publications described Megaherz as one of the most important representatives of German modern rock music, and after selling over 100,000 CDs, Megaherz is now back with a vengeance. After two years of preparation and intensive song writing, MEGAHERZ are ready to unleash their new album entitled '5′ upon the United States through Eclipse Records, and with their new single "Gott Sein '04" the band has redefined their sound and musical vision as more dynamic, more vivid, and better than ever before.
Mathias Elsholz is the name of the new front man with whom MEGAHERZ are beginning their new musical era. With him the band itself has gone through a heart transplant and now it beats more emotional and alive than ever before. In order to realize their new and ambitious goals, they had none other than Ralph Quick (Die Happy, H-BlockX, etc.) on board as producer. The album "5" was recorded in the Lundgaard-Studios in Denmark. The outcome is an outstanding album that spans all genres of the category "Hard and German" – somewhere between industrial, dark rock, electronica, and "fat grooves". An album that rocks and speeds along, but also one that doesn't ignore the sensitive, down-tempo ballads.
The thirteen tracks on the album depict Megaherz as a self-confident and vigorous metal band that truly differs from the much cited 'new German tough metal'. Instead, the band considers their music to be of international texture. "The new material is hip, more American rather than Prussian" says Bystron. "There is no particular musical style. If it had to be categorized, the term 'cross over' in its true sense would come closest."
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Oral history interview with Milo Despot
Milo Despot, born in 1924 in a the village of Jemema near Belgrade, Serbia, discusses his involvement with partisan resistance fighters; his imprisonment in "3 C" of the Jasenovac concentration camp in September 1942; his memories of working on the river near the camp with a Jewish man named Minc and how Minc was killed with other Jewish camp chiefs (Grupnici) on April 21, 1945; his memory of the mass murder of 100 Serbian girls on a barge on the river near Jasenovac and how the Ustasha cut the girls' throats and threw the bodies in the river; and how the Ustasha preferred methods of killing prisoners were by mallets, hammers, and knives, not by shooting
Milo Despot
Jasa Almuli
interview: 1997 July 26
Guerrillas--Yugoslavia.
Holocaust survivors--Yugoslavia--Interviews.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Serbia--Personal narratives.
Jews--Croatia--Jasenovac.
Mass murder--Croatia--Jasenovac.
Serbs--Croatia--Jasenovac.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Serbia.
Belgrade (Serbia)
Jasenovac (Croatia)
Sava River.
Serbia.
Yugoslavia--History--1918-1945.
Despot, Milo.
Jasenovac (Concentration camp)
Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organizacija.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum conducted the interview with Milos Despot on July 26, 1997, in Belgrade, Serbia (former Yugoslavia). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interviews in August 1997.
Also in Jasenovac oral history project
Oral history interviews with ten Jasenovac concentration camp survivors recorded as part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jasenovac oral history project.
Oral history interview with Bozo Svarc
Bozo Svarc, born in 1920 in Zagreb, Croatia, discusses his arrest by the Ustasha in May 1941; his time in Jadovno concentration camp in the Lika region; his escape from an execution with the help of a Croat classmate from Zagreb, who was a member of the Ustasha unit carrying out the executions; his deportation to Jasenovac concentration camp in August 1941; his escape from Jasenovac in the fall of 1942 with his friend, Pavel Lev; his affiliation with Josip Tito's partisans in the mountains of Slovenia; how he learned of mass murders of Serbs and Jews in Krapje camp and a "death run" from the Krapje camp to Jasenovac; how he found a friend and fellow Macabee (Maccabi World Union) sports club member, Pavel Lev, from Zagreb, and how Pavel told him of the atrocities in Krapje camp; and his witness to gruesome atrocities by the Ustasha. Bozo Svarc also discusses and refutes allegations that Jasenovac was a working camp and not a "liquidation camp." He goes on to say that most new deportees never entered the camp itself, but were taken across the Sava River on the Bosnian side and massacred near the Serbian village of Bosanska Gradiska.
Oral history interview with Josip Erlih
Josip Erlih, born in 1927 in Yugoslavia (present day Croatia), in discusses his deportation to Stara Gradiska concentration camp, a former prison and part of the Jasenovac concentration camp complex; how he was beaten by Jewish members of the camp administration in Stara Gradiska; his time working in the tailor shop making uniforms for the Ustasha guards; his transfer to the main camp in Jasenovac in 1943 where he worked in the brickmill; how he found out that his mother and other relatives and friends were killed on the banks of the Sava River near Jasenovac before his arrival there; his experiences with a Kapo named Ilija Paripovic; how he and a friend, a Bosnian Jew, had their work detail changed from the brick mill to the tinsmith shop to avoid death; his memories of the "apelos" (Appel) in Jasenovac and how the Ustasha used the Appels as a time for public executions; the execution of members of the illegal communist organization in Jasenovac; and his memories of the prisoner revolt in Jasenovac on April 22, 1945.
Oral history interview with Eduard Sajer
Eduard Sajer, born in 1922 in Avtovac, Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Hercegovina), describes being an Ashkenazi Jew raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina; his involvement with a union sports club and the Communist Youth before World War II; his imprisonment by the Ustasha in August 1941; his deportation by train to Jasenovac concentration camp in November 1941; the separate barracks for Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews and Serbs in Jasenovac; his work as an electrician in the camp; his participation in digging graves for prisoners who had been executed by a blow to the head with mallets by the Ustasha guards and his witness to the execution of his younger brother, Albert, by the same means; his memories of Danon, the "head Jew" in the grave diggers group, who managed to escape from Jasenovac, but was captured and executed by partisans for his alledged mistreatment of prisoners in Jasenovac; the relationships among inmates in Jasenovac; the illegal communist network in Jasenovac and his own involvement with a small solidarity group with other electricians in the camp; the scarcity of food and water in Jasenovac; the prisoner revolt in Jasenovac on April 22, 1945; and how he joined Josip Tito's partisans and fought in the resistance after his escape.
Oral history interview with Cedomil Huber
Cedomil Huber, born in Bosanska Gradiška, Bosnia and Hercegovina and president of the Belgrade chapter of survivors from Jasenovac concentration camp, discusses how he was imprisoned as a young communist and supporter of the Liberation Front in May 1943; his deportation to Stara Gradiška, a fortress prison within the Jasenovac camp complex; his activities with the illegal communist organization in Jasenovac and his position as Chief Quartermaster in the camp's internal administration (Logornik) where it was his responsibility to steal food for inmates; his relationship with fellow Jasenovac prisoners, Vlah Romeo, Dijamanstajn, and Viner, all of whom were a part of the internal administration of Jasenovac; his memories of the mass murders in Jasenovac by the Ustasha guards; and his participation in the prisoner revolt at Jasenovac on April 22, 1945. Huber continues the interview by discussing a book by Franjo Tudjman entitled, "The Wilderness of Historical Realities." In this book, Tudjman accuses the Jewish prisoners of wrongdoings, especially the mistreatment of Serbian prisoners in Jasenovac and seizure of strict control of the internal administration. Huber refutes Tudjman's allegations that Jews created "self-management of inmates" in Jasenovac and states that the negative generalizations made in Tudjman's book are a "blatant antisemitic declaration."
Oral history interview with Mihajlo Maric
Mihajlo Maric, a Serb from a village near Bjelovar, Croatia and born in 1918, discusses his imprisonment by the Ustasha in April 1941; his time in the Krapje concentration camp, a part of the Jasenovac concentration camp complex; his transfer to the brick mill at the main Jasenovac camp in August 1941; his time working in the chain and metal shop (Lancara) and hospital for Ustasha guards; his memories of "apelo" or Appels convoked by the Ustasha for executions or public punishment of Jasenovac prisoners; his memories of Jasenovac prisoners being taken across the Sava River for execution near the village of Gradina; the scarcity of food and how he received food packages from his mother; his memories of the actions of Jews in the internal administration of the Jasenovac camp; and the involvment of Jews and Roma in the executions of other prisoners.
Oral history interview with Ado Kabiljo
Ado Kabiljo, born in the Bosnian town of Visoko in 1915, discusses his imprisonment in Jasenovac concentration camp in October 1941; his work on an earthen dam in the "Lonjsko Polje" area of Jasenovac; his transfer to the main camp, Jasenovac III at the brick mill, in November 1941; how the Ustasha guards in the camp used the furnace of the brick mill as a make shift crematoria; how Ustasha executed members of his immediate family and burned them in the make shift crematoria; his memories of seeing his mother in the Stara Gradiska part of the Jasenovac camp complex on the day before her execution; his escape from Jasenovac in September 1944; how he found his way to join partisan fighters through the aid of Serbian villagers; his days as a soldier in the Yugoslav army; and his life after World War II. Kabiljo continues by refuting the antisemitic generalizations about the treacherous behavior of Jewish prisoners in Jasenovac.
Oral history interview with Sava Petrovic
Sava Petrovic, a Serb from the village of Veliko Nabrdje in Slavonia, discusses a roundup on August 11, 1942, and his deportation to Jasenovac concentration camp; how a Jew named Polgar kept Sava hidden in a barracks during his bout with typhus so that the Ustasha would not take him to the hospital and kill him; his memories of mass murders of forestry workers from Jasenovac and how the Ustasha executed them by cutting the prisoners' throats and throwing them in the Sava River; his memories of the different types of jobs held by Jasenovac prisoners; his escape during the prisoner revolt in April 1945; and his involvement with Tito's partisan fighters. Petrovic also discusses and refutes claims from Franjo Tudjman's book, "The Wilderness of Historical Realities," that Jews monopolized power in the internal administration of the camp and committed atrocities against Gentiles, Serbs, and others imprisoned in Jasenovac
Oral history interview with Mara Vejnovis
Mara Vejnovis, a Serbian born in Novska, Croatia in 1923, discusses her deportation to Stara Gradiška, a camp within the Jasenovac concentration camp complex, where she was put in an area reserved for Croat leftist women; her involvement with the clandestine communist organization in the camp; her work assignment to children deported from Serbia in Summer 1942; her witness to the murder of children by "four Catholic nuns" who wiped the mouths of the children with a poison and to the murder of a group of children by Ustasa (Ustasha) with poisonous gas in a barrack; her witness to the murder of the Jews from her home town of Novska, who were forced to ingest caustic soda (Sodium hydroxide); her memories of mass murders on the banks of the Sava River near Stara Gradiška; her release from Stara Gradiška in an exchange of leftist inmates for German and Ustasa officers captured by partisan resistance fighters; how after liberation she became a teacher and worked for the communist Central Committee in Croatia; and her relationship and work with Croatian president Franjo Tudjman. Vejnovis continues by discussing and rejecting allegations against the Jews in Jasenovac concentration camp.
Oral history interview with Ljiljana Ibvanisevic
Ljiljana Ibvanisevic, born December 22, 1937 in Novi Sad, Serbia, discusses living with an aunt in Veliko Nabrdje; her deportation to Jasenovac concentration camp at the age of five; her time in Stara Gradiska camp, part of the Jasenovac camp complex; how her parents joined a partisan group before deportation and left her and her siblings in the care of an aunt; how her eight-month-old sibling disappeared in Stara Gradiska camp; her means of survival by eating grass; the poor sanitary conditions under which she lived; her witness to children being separated from their mothers and sent to various fates by the Ustasa (Ustasha) guards in the camp; the care she received from a Jewish woman named "Bendl;" how she was rescued from Jasenovac by a Croatian man named Grga Zlatar; and how Zlatar and his wife healed her and cared for her after her time in the camp. Ibvanisevic continues by discussing and refuting the allegations made by Franjo Tudjman and Jovan Prnjatovic, a Serb and prisoner from Jasenovac concentration camp, that Jewish prisoners in Jasenovac committed atrocities against Serbian and other prisoners.
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Q: WHERE запрос с IN в Mysqli — как? Привет всем.
В общем проблема следующая:
Есть запрос:
$query = $mysqli->prepare('SELECT id FROM Publication WHERE id in (?)');
    $query->bind_param('s', $field_cat);
    $query->execute();

Где $field_cat = "1,2,4";
Как я понял, благодаря bind_param, в запрос вставляется только (1). И запрос выполняется не так, как хотелось.
Нашел несколько решений с Safemysql.
Я бы не хотел использовать эту библиотеку, так как уже поздно переписывать запросы. Не уже ли в mysqli нету нормального решения?
Возможно ли сделать запрос без Prepared Statements?

A:
Не уже ли в mysqli нету нормального решения?

Нет.
Если делать канонически, то есть байндить все переменные через плейсхолдеры, то у нас наберется аккурат на экран кода!
Варианты  сделать запрос без Prepared Statements и вместо них слепить из жувачки какие-то костыли, разумеется, АБСОЛЮТНО не годятся. Какой смысл было переходить на mysqli, если продолжать говнокодить в стиле mysql_* из прошлого века?
Поэтому я бы рекомендовал все же использовать Safemysql. Тем более, что количество кода сократится минимум в 5 раз - там, где mysqli нужно 5 строчек, на Safemysql нужна будет только одна. Ради одного этого стоило бы переписать.
Чтобы не быть голословным. Возьмём простейший пример получения одной переменной из запроса. Без циклов, с единственным фетчем.
raw mysqli:
$query = $mysqli->prepare('SELECT id FROM Publication WHERE cat=?');
$query->bind_param('s', $field_cat);
$query->execute();
$query->bind_result($id);
$query->fetch();

safemysql:
$id = $db->getCol('SELECT id FROM Publication WHERE cat=?s');

Как я и говорил - 5 к 1.
Если же нам нужно получить массив, то соотношение еще больше увеличивается, поскольку у mysqli код прибавляется, а у safemysql остается все так же одна строчка, только меняется вызываемый метод.
Update.
Кстати, есть вариант не переписывать весь код.
Safemysql можно подключить, используя существующее соединение mysqi, вот так:
$db = new SafeMySQL(['mysqli' => $mysqli]);

Таким образом, после соединения с mysql можно приинклюдить Safemysql, создать инстанс, и использовать его наряду с mysqli без каких бы то ни было лишних накладных расходов.
Таким образом искомый код сведется к
$ids = $db->getCol('SELECT id FROM Publication WHERE id IN (?a)', $field_cat);

(следует помнить, что для плейсхолдера ?a нужно передавать массив, а не строку "1,2,4")
А в дальнейшем можно будет постепенно переписать и остальные запросы более оптимальным образом.

A: Действительно, подготовленные запросы в mysqli сделаны настолько неудобно, что пользоваться ими не хочется.
Я предпочитаю использовать класс-обертку, который прячет от меня особенности конкретного расширения + добавляет вкусняшки вроде подстановки массива в IN().
Варианты работы с массивом для mysqli и PDO:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/907806/php-mysql-using-an-array-in-where-clause/29653461#29653461

A: Как вариант можно решить сию проблему с помощью sprintf.
$formated = "SELECT
                id
            FROM
                Publication
            WHERE 1=1
                AND id in ('%1\$s')";
$query = sprintf( $formated, $field_cat );
$result = $mysqli->query( $query );

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