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package com.spotify.styx.client;

import static com.spotify.styx.client.OkHttpTestUtil.bytesOfRequestBody;
import static com.spotify.styx.client.OkHttpTestUtil.responseBuilder;
import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.instanceOf;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.doNothing;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
import okhttp3.Call;
import okhttp3.Callback;
import okhttp3.HttpUrl;
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.Response;
import okio.ByteString;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.ArgumentCaptor;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.junit.MockitoJUnitRunner;

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class FutureOkHttpClientTest {

  @Mock
  public Call call;
  @Mock
  public OkHttpClient okHttpClient;

  @Rule
  public ExpectedException thrown = ExpectedException.none();

  @SuppressWarnings("FieldMissingNullable")
  private static final HttpUrl URI = Objects.requireNonNull(HttpUrl.parse("http://example.org/"));

  private static final Request REQUEST = FutureOkHttpClient.forUri(URI);

  @Test
  public void testMethod() {
    final Request request = FutureOkHttpClient.forUri(URI, "DELETE");

    assertThat(request.url(), is(URI));
    assertThat(request.method(), is("DELETE"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testSimpleGet() throws IOException {
    final FutureOkHttpClient client = FutureOkHttpClient.create(okHttpClient);
    when(okHttpClient.newCall(any())).thenReturn(call);
    final ArgumentCaptor<Callback> argumentCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(Callback.class);
    doNothing().when(call).enqueue(argumentCaptor.capture());
    final CompletableFuture<Response> future = client.send(REQUEST).toCompletableFuture();

    final Response response = responseBuilder(REQUEST, 200).build();

    argumentCaptor.getValue().onResponse(call, response);

    assertThat(future.isDone(), is(true));
    assertThat(future.join(), is(response));
  }

  @Test
  public void testUnserializablePayload() {
    class EmptyClass {}
    thrown.expectCause(instanceOf(JsonProcessingException.class));
    FutureOkHttpClient.forUri(URI, "POST", new EmptyClass());
  }

  @Test
  public void testSomethingGoesWrong() {
    final FutureOkHttpClient client = FutureOkHttpClient.create(okHttpClient);
    when(okHttpClient.newCall(any())).thenReturn(call);
    final ArgumentCaptor<Callback> argumentCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(Callback.class);
    doNothing().when(call).enqueue(argumentCaptor.capture());
    final CompletableFuture<Response> future = client.send(REQUEST).toCompletableFuture();

    final IOException exception = new IOException("oh noes!");
    argumentCaptor.getValue().onFailure(call, exception);

    assertThat(future.isDone(), is(true));

    thrown.expectCause(is(exception));
    future.join();
  }

  @Test
  public void testRequestWithBody() {
    final Request request = FutureOkHttpClient.forUri(URI, "POST", Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3));

    assertThat(request.url(), is(URI));
    assertThat(request.method(), is("POST"));
    assertThat(bytesOfRequestBody(request), is(ByteString.encodeUtf8("[1,2,3]")));
  }

}

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Election '07 - 25 Days To Go
And the topic of the week will be...climate change! (I'll resist the enormous temptation to make a joke about politicians and hot air).
We've got a clear pattern for the campaign. One party launches a theme, the other attempts to trump them, and they slug it out until everyone gets bored and they move on to the next excuse for blather. After tax cuts and interest rates, this week we've arrived at climate change.
Labor got the upper hand early on when it was reported that Malcolm Turnbull asked John Howard to ratify the Kyoto Protocol six weeks ago, but Howard refused. I think the real point here isn't that Howard doesn't really understand or care about climate change - we knew that already - but the amusing lack of cabinet solidarity the Liberals are displaying.
Still, the reason Howard gives for refusing to sign Kyoto is that the agreement doesn't include the world's major emmitters, China and the U.S. But hang on, the reason that the U.S. isn't included is that the Americans refused to sign the thing, just like Australia! And even if countries such as China aren't included, why should that stop us? Our involvement is symbolic. I wish the same logic had been applied when it came time for Australia to decide whether to join the Iraq invasion.
Being the wily political operators they are, the Liberals - or at least their henchmen at News Ltd - have come back swinging. According to The Australian, Peter Garrett's "political credentials were in tatters", after he was "forced" to make a "humilliating" backdown over his "blunder", following a "crisis meeting", where Kevin Rudd insisted he "clarify" Labor's position on climate change - after "Mr Howard and other Coalition ministers began to publicly question the policy".
I think I'm beginning to understand why most people don't read newspapers. Trying to make sense of who's saying what, and what they actually mean, has been like snorkelling in porridge. There's still over three weeks in the campaign, and we haven't even gotten to national security, Work Choices, politicians superannuation, States' powers... what will the next issue of the week be? And when will all this be over?
Elecion '07 - 29 Days To Go
As much as those of us who live and/or work in the inner city may like to think we're at the centre of the universe, we actually have little or nothing to do with the practicalities of the election. The seats of the inner cities and suburbs are almost exclusively safe Labor, and the leaders don't come here. It's the outer suburban shopping centres and country towns that become their stomping grounds in the elction campaign; for once, what's happening in the inner cities has no influence over things. For the pollies, campaigning here would be a waste of time, and they know it.
Follies to come later today, all going well.
The Time Has Come To Talk Of Other Things...Food.
Can I just take a break from Election Blogging today? I meant to post about the Debate this morning, but ran out of time, and all the good bloggers beat me to it.
Anyway, recently I've been dining out a lot (thank you...) and have had, frankly, some mixed experiences with the service. These have ranged from the mildly annoying, such as the (ordered) bread arriving with the main courses, to the very annoying, such as being seated for at least twenty minutes before anyone even took our drinks order, through to the debacle on the weekend...
In an almost empty restaurant, we were given a table near the entrance to the kitchen; our entree order was completely forgotten, until the main courses were brought out; and when I tried to order dessert, I was informed that, not merely were they were out of what I wanted, but they hadn't actually served it for months, although it was still on the menu. Home made menus, I might add. Also, not specifically poor service, but amusing: the CD playing in the background began to skip, and wasn't rectified for many minutes.
Although great progress has been made in recent times, Australia still has a way to go to offer levels of American-style customer service. However, it's not like Sydney doesn't have so many restaurants that any can afford to be slack. Because it's always fun to have a whinge, does anyone have other tales of woeful restaurant experiences you'd care to share in the comments? They don't have to be tales from Sydney, as this post proves that when it comes to mediocrity, pub food knows no geographical divide.
Oh, dear Lord, the Coalition have had a poll bounce.
Sure Labor have been a steady 10 points (at least) ahead all year, but there's nothing like dangling a juicy tax cut in front of people to make them roll over and play dead.
Friends have been telling me this would happen, but I wouldn't listen. I couldn't bear the thought of going through all this again. Anyway, I really should have known better - if there's one reason why John Howard would never be turfed out of office, it's because the man never, ever underestimates the stupidity of the general public.
Who are these people, returning their wobbly minds to the Coalition? Don't any of them pause to think about where $34 billion of tax cuts are coming from? Heck, does no one watch Clarke and Dawe? I just hope they are in love, because they're getting screwed.
Well, I've said it before, and I'll say it again: compulsory voting must be abolished!
Election '07: 38 Days To Go
As part of the inevitable scare campaign, a figure that the Liberal Party are adoring throwing out there at the moment is that 70% of the Labor front bench are former Trade Union officials. For all I know it's true but does it really matter? After all, think of the generally-held perceptions of the most despised occupation groups. Journalists, used car sales people...and lawyers.
What percentage of the Coalition front bench are former lawyers?!?
(This isn't a rhetorical question. Does anyone know?)
EDIT: The answers are here. So why aren't Labor asking these questions?!?
Anyway, also high up on the list of most-despised occupations are politicians. And no matter who we vote for, 100% of the front bench are going to be politicians.
Last night, watching Rudd's response to the newly announced Coalition tax policy, I thought, "I may be naive, but I'll admit I was astonished to hear Kevin Rudd say that he will not reveal Labor's tax policy until he's has time to study the Coalition plan. So, he freely admits that Labor has no new policies, just reactions to Coalition policies? Reason number #598 why, for the first time ever (and it's my fourth election where I've been eligible to vote) I'll be voting Green this time around."
And I've since been told, "It's a perfectly sensible response, Nico. The tax cut announcement was accompanied by new mid year fiscal numbers which means that any work Labor has done so far has to be done again on the basis of new assumptions about growth, the size of the surplus, etc."
In case you're wondering why I just make snarky comments instead of exploring the issues, this is why - I'm much better off leaving that to the smart bloggers.
Everyone keeps speaking of how this will be the first Australian election where the internet will have a big imapct on the way people vote. It could be a bigger imapct than anyone even realises. Of course there's You Tube, campaign websites, political blogs, leader's Facebooks, and Lord knows what else out there to inform one on the issues and help decide how to vote. But if that's all too much trouble, just go to one of the helpful tools that will, straight out, tell you how to vote.
If you'd like to take this at least semi-seriously, then at OzPolitics they have a fifty question test that will take you through pretty much all the issues, and give you a matrix on how closely your beliefs are aligned to those of all the major parties.
But if that's slightly too heavy going (and let's face it, if you're deciding your vote as a result of a quiz, then it probably is) then News Limited has the answer for you, literally, with their election decider. It's got a helpful little video of a guy who looks like a reject from a Fat Pizza audition to explain all the issues, and questions with amusingly leading answers. Anyway, it recommended that I vote for the Australian Democrats, and also that I buy a VCR and learn the Macarena. (I know, this is pretty unfair - Lyn Allison seems nice).
Woo-hoo! The Election is called! Yippee!
(Sorry, I've just been breathing into a paper bag).
Anyway, the weeks of uncertainty are over. John Howard has finally succumbed to the inevitable, and called the Federal Election. And if you've been waiting for this, you have me to thank. No, seriously, for weeks I've been planning a trip on the Manly ferry, which goes past Kirribilli; so of course I intended to yell "Call the election!" as we passed. However, various irritating circumstances meant the trip had to be put off until yesterday. As I felt enough time had been wasted, as we passed Kirribilli I hollered my demand with gusto; it caused enormous embarrassment to my company, but I was not to be deterred. I promised them that the election would be called today, and sure enough...(if there's anything else you'd like me to make Howard do, let me know and I'll call it out next time I'm on the Manly ferry).
As excited as I am about this, I'm a procrastinator, and there's over 40 days till the polls open (how Biblical). So I'll let those more dedicated than myself explore the issues for today, and I'm going to lunch.
Hard To Say He's Sorry
Maybe an old dog can learn new tricks. Last night, after admitting he's struggled with Aboriginal reconciliation throughout his Prime Ministership, John Howard announced a plan to hold a referendum on including a statement of reconciliation in the preamble to the Constitution.
Considering his record on reconciliation issues over the last eleven years, for Howard to announce a move like this with the genuine intention of healing relations between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, seems about as likely as my announcing I'm going to be a grid girl at the Melbourne Grand Prix next March.
So has Howard undergone a volte-face in his attitude? Perhaps we can believe this...until we remember there's an election coming up. The chorus from the left is singing, "Of course it's the right thing to do, but why now?". Meanwhile the general response from Aboriginal leaders has ranged from mixed, to poor. Olga Havnen has said, "Given the period of his term of office, where there has been very little improvement for the well being of Aboriginal people, I think this is too little too late." And, as Warren Mundine has pointed out, "Here we are probably 48 hours from a federal election being called. This should have been done years ago."
We've become a deeply cynical nation. Of course, if you really want the voice of The People, you can't go past reading the comments from the Daily Telegraph website. Ranging from misinformed diatribes through to racism, heartlessness and the whole shebang, there's no better argument in favour of abolishing compulsory voting. The general feeling on this idea according to Terror readers is, We ain't liking it. Some though are more positive, such as one commenter who wrote:"I hate it when people say "he's just trying to get extra votes". Isn't that what politics is about?!?!?! Getting people to vote for you. The only extra votes Mr Howard is going to get from this are from people who believe its a good thing." (He probably believes in the tooth fairy as well).
But the fact is that the only people more likely to vote Liberal as a result of this were never going to vote Liberal in the first place. Yes, that statement doesn't make sense, but neither does John Howard on this. Not the idea itself - who could possibly oppose it? Labor has of course promised to also hold the referendum if elected, but these days Labor's me-too-ism is so entrenched that if Costello announced a plan to replace the 50c coin with a 47c coin, Kevin Rudd would claim that this was Labor policy all along.
By not making sense, why is Howard doing this now? It is, as I said above, not going to win him any votes (not least because Labor has immediately matched the policy). The old Howard would have known this. No one really believes he's undergone a Damascene conversion. So we're left with two pretty unsavoury alternatives:
1. Howard is completely losing it; or
2. There's Something Big about to emerge, and he wants to distract us with this (he could have just waited till Melbourne Cup day).
Either way, it's not a pretty picture.
Tragedy Always Creates Confusion
"Afghanistan? Is that thing still going on?"
- Co-worker on the death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan
Well, John Howard was looking to pull something out of the bag in the lead-up to the Federal election. Who knows if the death of an Australian soldier as a result of a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan yesterday will be the suprise twist he was after? It's hard to tell at this stage - the news was only confirmed early this morning, and the details are still filtering through. It has the potential though to get the people who think about these things enormously worked up - a reminder that The War On Terror is still a threat, and that we need Howard's safe pair of hands!
...and the whole thing is likely to slide right past the conciousness of the average voter. As the comment from my co-worker shows, Afghanistan is truly the forgotten front in the War On Terror - but for most, it barely registered awareness in the first place.
Anyway, I tried to formulate a suitable response to my colleague's query. "By Afghanistan," I replied, "Do you mean that thing, as in the landlocked Central Asian nation of nearly 32 million people, or that thing in the sense of the original front in the War On Terror, which is still being fought there?"
I was just met with a blank look, so simply said, "In either case, the answer is yes, that thing is still going on."
Anyway, it might be at least a mildly interesting distraction if the soldier's death does become an election issue. But you know, even if it does, I really don't think it's going to matter.
Friday Follies - It's All Real!
Congratulations to this year's Ig Nobel Prize Winners (am I the only one who thinks the Gay Bomb is an awesome idea, with hundreds of non-military applications?)
Now that is one ecstatic potato
A chance to cash in on Sydney's current plague of moths.
Crikey's week in one liners (scroll past the ad...)
The Eight Most Awful Minorities (It's not who you might think!)
When the no-carbs fad is a good idea
Thank Follies for The Onion...I'm not sure if this is a joke though...
Well, till I post again, Adultswim your LANs down a sewer in hell.
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Fox News Fires Ed Henry After Sexual Misconduct Probe …
FOX NEWS CHANNEL FINISHES QUARTER WITH RECORD-SETTING VIEWERSHIP.The memo said the company received a complaint on June 25 from the attorney of a former employee that described "willful sexual misconduct in the workplace years ago.© 2020 CBS Television Distribution and CBS Interactive Inc.On Thursday, June 25, we received a complaint about Ed Henry from a former employee's attorney involving willful sexual misconduct in the workplace years ago.Henry's former co ….Associated Press articles: Copyright © 2016 The Associated Press.' Then, it was 'climate change.In 2016, he left Fox News for several months after a tabloid report surfaced regarding an extramarital relationship with a woman in Las Vegas.Once this, this medicine kicks in, we're going to uncuff him, put him on the bed and then we're going to restrain himself point under the bed.
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Fox News anchor Ed Henry has been fired following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.1 day agoCLEVELAND, Ohio — Fox News has fired "America's Newsroom" anchor Ed Henry following an allegation of sexual misconduct."Ed was suspended the same day and removed from his on-air responsibilities pending investigation.1 day agoFox News Channel has terminated veteran anchor Ed Henry after investigating a complaint about "willful sexual misconduct in the workplace.Douglas Wigdor, the attorney who has handled numerous sexual harassment and racial discrimination cases against the network, confirmed that he is representing the woman.Fox News obtained an independent, outside law firm to investigate the claims, and the company then terminated Henry following the investigation.
Fox News Host Ed Henry Fired After Sexual Misconduct …
When he returned to Fox News, he shifted to a new position as chief national correspondent, though he also would appear as a co-host on the channel's morning show Fox & Friends Weekend.He was named co-anchor of America's Newsroom in late 2019.After Ailes was ousted in 2016 after allegations of sexual harassment surfaced, a number of current and former employees claimed they were harassed or discriminated against.Fox's late former chairman, Roger Ailes, was fired in 2016 following harassment allegations made by former anchor Gretchen Carlson.Attorney Douglas Wigdor, who has represented several women who have filed lawsuits against Fox News, said in a statement Wednesday that he is representing Henry's accuser.Henry, a longtime Washington correspondent who was recently made co-anchor of the Fox Corp.
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Selena Gomez's New Album Was Inspired By Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped'
Mike Wass @mikewassmusic | September 2, 2015 1:11 pm
Pop Perspective: Selena Gomez's "Good For You"
Selena Gomez's "Good For You" gets reviewed and rated by all four Idolator editors.
Selena Gomez's new era is shaping up nicely. With minimal promotion, lead single "Good For You" has climbed all the way to number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and been certified platinum. It's particularly impressive given the former Disney diva's radical change in sound. So, what can we expect from the rest of Revival? According to a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, a cohesive body of work that was influenced by pop heavyweights like Janet Jackson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
"I grew up with Britney and NSYNC and Janet and all those people," Selena revealed. "I would buy the copy, read the thank yous, and I felt like I knew them. Christina's Stripped was one of my favorites. What I loved about Revival is that it felt like there was a fluid story." It's interesting that she singled out Xtina's sophomore LP, which is the touchstone for young female artists taking control of their body, image and sound.
"I've lived such a public life that I understand that I'm under a microscope," Selena said. "That has taken me into so many different phases. It's made me depressed and it's made me happy and it's made me grateful and humble — but [I've learned] it's okay to let down my walls with my music, to feel sexy and good." Revival drops October 11. Second single "Same Old Love" should arrive in the next couple of weeks.
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Q: Bluez doesn't re-discover devices when I repeat discovery I am using the Bluez API over DBus on Ubuntu and on Raspian. For this I am using npm's dbus package but I am 99% sure that this is not the issue here. All it does is bridge Linux' DBus API to Node.js via C++. But that is why my code is written in JavaScript.
What I basically do is load the system bus, the bluez adapter and the object manager and start a discovery, like so (simplified semi-pseudocode):
const systembus = DBus.getBus("system");
const adapter = systembus.getInterface("org.bluez", "/org/bluez/hci0", "org.bluez.Adapter1");
const manager = systembus.getInterface("org.bluez", "/", "org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager");

manager.on("InterfacesAdded", (path, interfaces) => {
  const device = interfaces["org.bluez.Device1"];
  if (device) console.log("Found", device);
});

adapter.StartDiscovery();

When I call this script, I see a list of lots of devices. When I stop the script and start it again, I see none. Or maybe like one or two. If I wait a few minutes I can see my devices again.
It seems to me I am missing a step here, maybe I need to reset the adapter, maybe the discovery is still running in the background and I have to wait before I can start a new one? Or maybe, I know that there are managed objects stored somewhere, maybe they won't be rediscovered? But loading those managed objects returns undefined.

A: You only receive a signal on InterfacesAdded if Bluez is adding a new device to the dbus. If the device is unused it will be removed from the dbus after 180 seconds....and then you will receive InterfacesRemoved signal.
So in your case, you see a device when it is first added, but you don't receive it again because it is already there! If you wait longer than 180 seconds you will start seeing it again, unless the device has been bonded in which case it will stay on the dbus forever.
What you need to do is listen for PropertiesChanged. Every time a property of a device, such as the RSSI, changes you will get a callback. If you do that you will also 'see' devices that are already on the dbus.

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Janet Jackson Gives Birth To Baby Boy With Wissam Al Mana & Finally Gets Some Rest
By Karen Fratti
OK — maybe this whole "new year" thing is going to work out after all, because the world has just been given the best belated holiday gift ever. Brace yourselves: In exciting news on Tuesday, a rep for singer Janet Jackson confirmed to People that Jackson had given birth to a baby boy with husband Wissam Al Mana. His name is Eissa Al Manna, just in case you want to start keeping tabs on him.
This is very exciting news if only because Jackson herself was so stoked to be pregnant in the first place. At 50 years old, Jackson cancelled her "Unbreakable" tour last spring to start "planning" her family with Al Mana. So this has been a long time coming.
When she finally confirmed that that planning had turned into full on baby prep — like shopping in London for nursery gear — you could almost feel the excitement of the mom-to-be, even though she remained super private throughout her pregnancy. Because of her age, her pregnancy was considered high risk and she was placed on bed rest this fall, making rare appearances in public.
Jackson knew her pregnancy was going to be an uncertain and long road way back when she cancelled her tour last year. She told fans, "Please, if you can, try and understand that it's important that I do this now. I have to rest up, doctor's orders! But I have not forgotten about you. I will continue the tour as soon as I possibly can."
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But the news of her son's arrival is even more exciting knowing how much Jackson has wanted to be a mom, since, well, forever. She said in 2010 about getting pregnant, "You have to ask God. And once you ask him, will you let me know what he says? I would love to, I would love to have a family, but it's in God's hands. So if it's meant to be, it'll happen. I hope it does." Now that Eissa is here, how can one not be totally excited for the pop star?
When asked about how she would be as a mother, Jackson seemed to have it all figured it out way before little Eissa was even an idea. She told Entertainment Tonight in 2008 when an anchor told her that she'd be the best mom ever, "Well, I hope so. People say that, but I hope so."
Let's hope she's enjoying her newborn just as much as she planned on doing all the way back then. We still don't have any official Tweet or Instagram picture of the newest member of the Jackson clan, but we're betting he's absolutely adorable. And you know he'll have all the best dance moves.


Mostafa Rajaai, International Students' Officer at the National Union of Students (NUS), will stop at nothing to get the voice of the UK's overseas students heard. In 2009, he left his native Iran to study Photography at University of the Arts, London. Since arriving in the UK, Mostafa has become a key activist in the battle against xenophobia, lobbied MPs to create a crisis fund for international students and campaigned for the reinstatement of the post-study work visa.
We caught up with him to find out how he's trying to work with UK institutions and their Student Unions to make real improvements for international students.
What is one of the biggest concerns that international students face when in the UK?
I think a lot of universities don't look at mental health support properly, they say 'oh it's just a cultural issue, because of the way they're brought up, because of cultural norms in their society, we're not going to touch it'. In my view that's too much of an easy excuse. At the end of the day, you as an institution are going out of your way, going to countries across the world and bringing people from these countries to your institutions, so surely you have a responsibility to make sure that the people you're bringing to your institution have the ability to use all the services that you have on offer. The onus is not on them, the onus is on you as an institution, because you're the one that invited them to come and were indeed very insistent on bringing them here. So to say it's a cultural issue and leave it at that I don't think necessarily is good enough.
What can UK universities do practically to support international students while they're here?
Just think about the stuff that international students need when they are in the UK. The welfare of these international students including housing and mental health support and also the experiences they have dealing with the authorities, dealing with border agencies.
I have come across a lot of students since Brexit that say they feel uncomfortable speaking their language on the street when they're with their friends or when they're on the phone to their family and that's a real problem. These kind of shifts have to happen and universities can take a really important role in trying to move people away from this rhetoric.
In conjunction with each other, it would make the experience of students when they're here much better, which would in the medium and long term lead to a lot more international students wanting to come here. At the end of the day, what a lot of institutions want to achieve is increased market share, but they should go about it in a different way.
How important are events like this to get your voice and the voice of international students heard?
Events like the HCI Forum can be useful, but the marketised ideology that surrounds education is so embedded within every layer of higher education policy at these kind of networking events, that I think it's very difficult to challenge it. It almost seems bizarre to say well universities are not really a business. There's always a business logic, you have this amount, you spend this amount, you make this amount. These are publicly funded institutions so making money or making a surplus should not be a priority, it should be educating people in a way that the world would be a better place tomorrow.
What's next on the agenda for you as International Students' Officer?
What we are doing is trying to get Students Unions on the ground to talk with institutions about Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in particular and put pressure on institutions if they need to so the university doesn't opt into TEF, or at least they come out in opposition to linking TEF to the recruitment of international students. We know it's going to create a multi-tier system for international students, which is going to contribute to taking away the rights to work and other rights of international students.
Since Hotcourses International interviewed Mostafa, the UK government made headlines in the education sector once again for proposing to cut international student visas by nearly half. Speaking to The Independent, Mostafa said: "These potential plans will further damage UK's reputation, to a point of no return. We know many degrees at leading universities would not exist without contributions of international students.
"With the number of international students falling in British universities and colleges, we believe the UK is losing its advantage of being one of the most diverse, progressive and exciting countries to study in."


The Nettuno Tridente Fountain Pen is a STOUT pen, this is one beastly giant of a pen that is just as handsome as it is LARGE.
This is a bold, strong, stout pen. This fountain pen is named after Neptune, the Roman God of the seas who was thought to carry a trident. The pen clip is shaped into a trident at the top with three tines reminiscent of the trident Neptune carried.
The fine details of this fountain pen are reflected in the derby cap on the 1911 Nettuno Tridente fountain pen, which is engraved with a large N and the cap band is engraved with Nettuno on one side and Italy on the other in large capital lettering. The cap itself is bulbous, similar to the Aurora Ipsilon fountain pen in design, but the Ipsilon is much smaller overall.
The resin body of the pen is also stamped with, "1911 Nettuno Made In Italy" on the barrel. My husband just hated that stamp, more on that later, but it's such an insignificant part of the pen that really got to him design-wise.
The nib on the 1911 Nettuno Tridente is quite large, it is longer and wider than most fountain pens, yet it's built to scale on this pen because the pen itself is so large. The nib is made of 14K solid gold and I tested the fine one, it writes like a dream. It's not as smooth as a Sailor, but it has its own unique smoothness with enough feedback to make all but the most staunch purists proud.
The nib itself is 6mm wide and 20mm long, the photo doesn't give you perspective on its size, but get a ruler out and you can see 20mm long is probably much longer than most pens in your collection.
The 1911 Nettuno Tridente writes extremely well. I never experienced any skipping, hard starting, or ink flow issues. This pen is consistent and smooth.
The hardest part to evaluate was its writing performance. This is only because I prefer to post the cap on the back to write and it's absolutely not designed for that. It is cap-heavy, with almost half of the pen's overall weight residing in the cap.
I tried posting at first as usual to write and experienced hand fatigue within a few sentences because the weight of the cap rode on the end of my hand wanting to drop down backwards and out of my hand.
The fine nib is more like a medium to me, you can see a writing sample below. It isn't a flexible nib, but the 14K gold gives it enough movement that you get some character in your writing.
This fountain pen writes well on journal paper, notebook paper and I even test drove it on heavily-fibered paper handmade in Nepal. Like most fountain pens, it struggled to lay down enough ink on the extremely fibrous paper but did a valiant job on standard notebook paper and journal paper.
This is a mid-wet writer. It lays down enough ink to produce a beautiful line, but not so much that it glistens for seconds as it absorbs into the paper. There was no bleed-through to the back of the page, even though it has some definite character and deeper color on horizontal strokes.
I was so impressed with the feel of this pen when writing I loaned it to my husband to test drive it. All he could say was, "wow." He doesn't like the feel of Sailor nibs, he thinks they're too smooth and prefers a touch of feedback in the nib.
I, however, LOVE Sailor nibs and the 1911 Nettuno Tridente writes almost as smoothly but has just a touch of grab when writing so it doesn't glide across the page. He was so impressed, that is until he saw the stamp in the barrel. He REALLY dislikes the branding stamped into the resin barrel. I find this funny because you can barely see the stamp, it's not obnoxious at all.
Both of us had to resort to using it without the cap because the cap was FAR too heavy even for largish man hands. My husband has mid-large hands and prefers a stout pen, this pen fits his hand well.
At 1.35 ounces, it is on the heavier side of the spectrum of fountain pens, as you'd come to expect from such a beefy design.
The challenge, or opportunity, depending on your perspective, is that half of the weight is in the cap. If you write capless, this won't bother you at all. If you prefer to write posted, this will irritate you because you'll continually try a few times to keep it on the back and get frustrated that your hand fatigues quickly.
I balanced the cap itself on my finger to find the midpoint of the weight and it's in the center toward the end of the cap. This means the bulk of the weight is above the end of the pen, making it more challenging to feel balanced when writing for long periods posted.
Capless, this fountain pen SHINES. It is handsome, comes in a fun gift box with its own ink and would be great for someone with larger hands that likes a heavier pen.
Overall Value, Who Is The Nettuno Tridente Best For?
The 1911 Nettuno Tridente would be an excellent gift pen, for someone you want to impress. It's not a cheap gift, and the gift box is luxurious with its own ink with a wax seal on the top of threads around the base of the cap.
This fountain pen would be best for someone that writes without the cap and loves stout fountain pens with large nibs. It's such a handsome finish and comes in blue and black as well, the iridescent finish is easy to get lost in on a sunny day. Everything you need to get started is in the gift box, converter, fountain pen, ink and instructions.
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Wayne Dockery (June 27, 1941 – June 11, 2018) was an American jazz double bassist who worked with George Benson, Sonny Fortune, Eddie Henderson, Hal Galper, Archie Shepp, Michael Brecker, and others. He appears on albums from at least 1971, although never as a bandleader. His brother was pianist Sam Dockery. He moved to Paris in the early 90's and died there after a long illness.

Partial Discography
With George Benson
In Concert-Carnegie Hall (CTI, 1975)
With Junior Cook
The Place to Be (SteepleChase, 1988)
With Sonny Fortune
Long Before Our Mothers Cried (Strata-East, 1974)
Awakening (Horizon, 1975)
A Better Understanding (Blue Note, 1995)
With Hal Galper
Reach Out! (SteepleChase, 1976)
Ivory Forest (Enja, 1979)
With Billy Harper
Trying to Make Heaven My Home (MPS, 1979)

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1941 births
2018 deaths
20th-century African-American musicians
American jazz double-bassists
Male double-bassists
Musicians from Camden, New Jersey
African-American jazz musicians
American male jazz musicians

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Return to Play in Amateur Soccer Players Undergoing Hip Arthroscopy: Short- to Mid-Term Follow-Up
Purpose: To describe patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and return to play at any level in amateur soccer players undergoing hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome at short- to mid-term follow-up.
Methods: Data were prospectively collected and retrospectively reviewed for patients who underwent hip arthroscopy between March 2009 and June 2014. Patients who participated in amateur soccer within 1 year prior to surgery and intended to return to their sport after hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome were considered for inclusion in our study. Patients were excluded if they had a preoperative Tönnis osteoarthritis grade of 2 or greater, previous ipsilateral hip conditions or hip surgical procedures, or Workers' Compensation status. The patients from the initial group who had preoperative and minimum 2-year postoperative measures for the modified Harris Hip Score, Non-Arthritic Hip Score, Hip Outcome Score-Sports Specific Subscale, and visual analog scale for pain were included in our final group. In addition to PROs, data regarding the patients' return to soccer, surgical complications, and secondary surgical procedures were collected.
Results: A total of 41 patients were eligible for inclusion in our study, of whom 34 (82.9%) had a mean follow-up period of 47.4 months. Five patients were not eligible because they did not intend to return to soccer. There were 15 male hips (44.1%) and 19 female hips (55.9%). The mean age at surgery was 20.8 ± 7.4 years. All PROs and the visual analog scale score improved significantly from preoperatively to latest follow-up. Of the 34 patients, 27 (79.4%) returned to soccer. Of the patients who returned to soccer, 19 (70.4%) were competing at the same level or a higher level compared with their highest level within 1 year of surgery. Regardless of competitive level, 21 patients (77.8%) reported that their athletic ability was the same as or higher than it was within 1 year of surgery.
Conclusions: Hip arthroscopy was associated with significant improvements in PROs for amateur soccer players. There was a high level of return to soccer and a high proportion of patients whose competitive level was similar or improved. As such, hip arthroscopy is a good option for soccer players, in the absence of underlying osteoarthritis, presenting with hip pathology.


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"I'll be Home for Christmas" has been playing constantly in my head for weeks now.
I know it's obvious I'm excited for the holidays- I've been counting down since 52 days- but now that it's so near the excitement has grown to an ache. there's a chill seeping into my bones and and tinge of loneliness in each day. I think it's my soul getting me ready for my cozy house and wonderful friends.
really, I know I've talked about having no friends before, but it's especially hard around this time. I'm so thankful that I have Brandon, I don't know what I'd do without him. but I've come to realize that I miss my friends more than just having friends. which I think is better. I'm so grateful that I've had such beautiful souls in my life to laugh with and cry with and just have so much fun with. sure, there were hard times, but not being around them at all makes me realize how good I had it.
which brings me to my next point, I suppose. Christmas is definitely my favourite time of year, and I'm tired of pretentious anti-capitalist grinches telling me I'm a slave to consumerism because of it. for me, it's wonderful because I get to see all the people I love and do something nice for them, to show they're appreciated. it's wonderful because the weather is crisp and snowy and decorations are beautiful and Christmas flavoured lattes are the bomb. but whether you dislike the consumerism because of your faith or because you think it's blown out of proportion, I think you're missing the point.
from a Christian perspective, I recognize the meaning behind Christmas. Jesus was born, and that's awesome. and the whole point was that God wanted us to be happy, right? (well, technically He wanted us to be saved, but I think it's safe to say happiness was included in the deal.) so I see Christmas as a time to celebrate that! enjoy the things that make you happy- friends, family, lattes. and make others happy too. THAT'S why I love buying presents. not because I feel like I have to spend tons of money on the best possible gift because it's expected of me. I really love the thought of bringing a smile to the face of someone I love. and yes, we should appreciate one another all year round, but the holidays are a time specifically set aside in our busy Westerner schedules to relax and enjoy it.
yes, RELAX. I don't understand when people get stressed about the holidays; if you don't enjoy doing something, just don't! if you don't like crazy seasonal sales, don't go. if you stress about cooking the perfect Christmas dinner, don't do it. get someone to help. if you are afraid of heights and aren't looking forward to putting lights on the roof, don't do it. I promise you, no one will pitch a fit.
Christmas should be FUN. and I don't think Jesus would mind.
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anywho, here's today's outfit. seems kind of abrupt, but it's 1am. forgive me.
I realized when I put this on that the top is longer than I remember...or maybe the dress is shorter. either way, I ended up liking how the skirt just peeked out. I like the colour combo.
and I got this cute hat at walmart for just three bucks! what a deal.
ps. isn't this necklace gorgeous?! when I saw it was named after Mrs. Dalloway I had to have it.
Wonderful post! I agree whole heartedly!
I adore the skirt! I love to wear dark tights & that combines just perfectly!!


The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the oral arguments on the petitions challenging the extension of martial law in Mindanao.
In his opening statement, Solicitor General Jose Calida stressed that the High Court cannot issue a restraining order stopping the martial law extension because the tribunal's power of review is "limited only to the determination of whether there is sufficient factual basis for the extension of the President's martial law proclamation".
The OSG pointed out that the Commander-in-Chief powers of the President over the military can only be balanced by the act of Congress and that the SC cannot cannot override or diminish a power expressly granted to the President by the Constitution.
The top government counsel also pointed out that the extension of martial law was not declared by the president on a whim.
"It is founded on the harsh reality that rebels and terrorists continue to operate openly,planning,plotting,and attacking military and civilians alike in Mindanao. Like pests, to root them out and stop the violence they are inflicting would take maximum effort and resources of the state," Calida noted.
Calida also stressed that the government cannot let its guard down against lawless elements, noting that terrorism and rebellion continues to cast dark shadows on the country, thus the need to brace for a long struggle to defeat it.
"What we have is an opportunity to end rebellion and terrorism and procure for ourselves and generations to come a lasting peace. Our resolve to protect the people must be even greater than the will of those who seek to destroy the peace loving Filipinos' way of life. Let us not be lulled into complacency by thinking that the rebels have finally laid down their arms and realized that only peace can move the country forward and bring lasting benefits for everyone," he stressed.
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"It's not the killing of every single rebel out there, rather it is the attainment of the level of security whereby the groups cannot impose their will on the people or they are no longer effective as far as fulfilling their political goals," Lorenzo added.
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I picked up a 28L tank secondhand, planning to put a goldfish in it. Turns out they actually need really big tanks and this is too small. What would be good in an unheated tank of this size?
The word you're looking for is 'nano tank.' Does your tank have a filter in it? If I were you I'd shell out for a tiny heater (they're not expensive) so I could keep small, colourful, easy care tropical fish like guppies or tetras.
You should be careful to properly cycle your tank before you add ANY critters, though, ESPECIALLY in a small tank. It takes barely anything to disrupt the chemistry in a small volume of water.
Yes, cherry shrimp (Neocaridina) are a good option for a small tank. They're happy at temperatures in the mid-70s (F) and don't get too stressed if the water parameters aren't perfect. Add some natural landscaping - maybe a small piece of bogwood with aquatic moss, and a couple of smaller plants - and they'll have places to hide. They'll eat algae that forms naturally in the tank, topped up with a tiny pinch of crushed fish flakes once in a while. Although normally red, there are yellow, green, black and even blue varieties of cherry shrimp.
If you really want fish, a few guppies will do fine in an unheated tank, as long as your home is a comfortable temperature. Be prepared to do a partial water change every week though.
It's not so much the volume of the tank that's an issue as the fact that it has a small amount of water that (a) gets polluted quickly, and (b) doesn't have the capacity to build up enough beneficial bacteria for bio-filtration. You can solve the problem by using a decent-sized external canister filter with lots of biological filter media, which is basically how aquarium shops can keep large numbers of fish in small tanks. But I'm guessing you don't want to throw a load of money at the problem.
Aquascaping can been fun, but it's time-intensive and probably only for the sort of person who enjoys things like bonsai.
Unheated? The perfect fish for this are White Cloud Mountain Minnows.
They are almost supernaturally tough, water temp can go down to 7 degrees c. They don't make a mess. They are peaceful, and they are (in my opinion) a very pretty fish. Also, they're tiny, so you could get a few for a tank that size.
If you're good with just one fish, you could make a very nice home for a betta fish.
A heater would be necessary.
I've got a tank similar to your size and filled it with plants and have been keeping water snails in there. I think I've got about three different types of snail in there (none of them are the snail eating kind). I've kept them in there for several years now without a heater or filter and have had no problems.
The nanotank subreddit is a pretty good place for informative inspiration for a tank that size!
As smoke writes, White Cloud Mountain Minnows will be perfect. We had some in a similar size unheated tank for years. They're pretty, and undemanding.
Is that "28L" meaning 28 liters, or "28 long" which is a pet-store way of saying "28 gallons but longer than it is tall"? 7 gallons is pretty small but 28 gallons is respectable.
If you find yourself leaning towards fish that need a heater, this is a very suitable one for 7 gallons that I have in my betta's tank.
I'm confused why you would need a much larger tank for goldfish. I kept a goldfish alive in a smaller container (a bowl) without a heater or filter for fifteen years. Pedro (his name) was a common feeder-type goldfish--nothing exotic. But still.
Were you told that your tank was too small by somebody trying to sell you a bigger tank?
To head off the goldfish questions, goldfish suffer in small tanks and bowls. They produce a LOT of waste, but sadly, are hardy enough that many can just linger for ages in conditions that would kill other fish. Goldfish need big tanks.
Coming in to second what Fiercecupcake said. Goldfish are like little cows - if you watch them they're forever sucking algae off gravel, basically grazing - and they poop CONSTANTLY, also like little cows. All this poop dumps a lot of ammonia into the water, and in a small volume of water this can quickly throw off the pH balance. A lot of goldfish die pretty quickly in poor water environments like this; some don't, but it's far from humane to keep them in small spaces. Goldfish do better in large tanks with good, strong filtration and regular cleaning/water changes. Just because you can keep an animal in a tiny tank doesn't mean you should.


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Bahrain: Vital Reform Commitments Unmet
Hundreds Still in Prison for Speaking Out; Senior Officers Unpunished
(Beirut) – Bahrain's government has not carried out critical recommendations by the independent commission that looked into extensive human rights violations during the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), established by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and headed by the Egyptian-American jurist Cherif Bassiouni, issued its findings in November 2011. The king promised at the time to carry out all of its recommendations and established a National Commission to monitor the process. That body reported on March 20, 2012, that the implementation of the BICI's recommendations had been "comprehensive and far reaching" and "touched all aspects of Bahraini life." But some of the BICI's most serious concerns, like accountability for crimes such as torture and relief for people wrongly imprisoned, were not adequately addressed, Human Rights Watch said.
"Bahrain has taken some positive steps, but the Bahraini authorities can hardly claim that the BICI's recommendations have been implemented as long as hundreds of people remain behind bars solely for speaking out and demanding a change of government," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "And it seems that no high-ranking officials have been investigated for their roles in rampant torture or unlawful killings."
In one positive step recommended by the BICI, the government stripped the National Security Agency (NSA) of authority to arrest and detain people. The king replaced Shaikh Khalifa bin Abdullah Al Khalifa as head of the agency, but then in a disturbing move promoted him to secretary general of the Supreme Defense Council and a national security adviser to the king with ministerial rank.
The BICI report found that the NSA played a major role in the arrests of 2,929 people during the 10-week state of emergency, from mid-March until early June last year, typically in nighttime raids on homes.Its report said that NSA and other security forces "intentionally broke down doors, forcibly entered and sometimes ransacked the houses," used "sectarian insults and verbal abuses," and humiliated relatives and terrified children of those targeted. It said that the pattern of the arrests showed the "existence of an operational plan" that was "designed to inspire terror" among those targeted for arrest.
The BICI concluded that the arrests and detentions carried out during the state of emergency "could not have happened without the knowledge of higher echelons of the command structure" of the security forces. It also reported that "a large number" of the 179 detainees held by the NSA alleged that they had been subjected to torture.
"The appropriate government response would have been to suspend Al Khalifa pending investigation of his role as head of the NSA during the crackdown," Stork said. "Rewarding him with a ministerial position illustrates the ruling family's failure to take seriously the need for accountability at all levels for human rights crimes."
The BICI called on the government to address allegations of torture by security forces "including those in the chain of command, military and civilian." The government has initiated prosecutions of several security officers in connection with deaths in custody from torture and possible unlawful killings. But Human Rights Watch knows of no efforts to hold accountable high-ranking officials who presided over what the BICI report termed a "culture of impunity."
On a related matter, the National Commission's report said that the government has developed a code of conduct for police in line with international standards, instituted training programs "across the security services to embed respect for human rights and due process," transferred investigations into torture allegations from the Interior Ministry to the Public Prosecution Office, and set up a "special investigations unit" in the Public Prosecution Office to investigate "unlawful or negligent acts that resulted in deaths, torture and mistreatment of civilians." This followed on a recommendation by five international lawyers the government had engaged to advise it on implementing the BICI recommendations.
Human Rights Watch questioned whether the decision to place the investigations assignment in the hands of the Public Prosecution Office would in fact meet "the requirements of independence, impartiality and effectiveness" specified by the international advisors unless that office is fundamentally reformed to make it, in practice, independent of the government and committed to comprehensive and impartial accountability. In several reports Human Rights Watch has documented the persistent failure of that office to investigate serious allegations of torture and ill-treatment and to order independent medical examinations of detainees making such allegations. The Public Prosecution Office readily based prosecutions on confessions that were proven to be coerced. The BICI report, for its part, said that it "received evidence indicating that, in some cases, judicial and prosecutorial personnel may have implicitly condoned" the lack of accountability.
Bahrain's attorney general announced that the investigations unit would be led by "an individual holding the rank of Head Prosecutor" and staffed by "7 prosecutors drawn from the Public Prosecution," but none of these people have yet been identified by name. In a separate letter to Human Rights Watch, the attorney general wrote that "nothing precludes taking measures against any official proven to have been involved in these events, regardless of his occupation or rank."
According to the attorney general, in the wake of the BICI report the public prosecutor is investigating complaints against 50 officers for their alleged involvement in 107 cases involving torture and mistreatment of civilians, including several deaths in custody and wrongful killings. A police lieutenant is the highest-ranking official among those being prosecuted, according to news reports, with most of the remainder being non-Bahraini low-ranking Interior Ministry employees.
The authorities' failure so far to prosecute those responsible for serious human rights violations regardless of rank undermines Bahrain's commitment to a meaningful reform, Human Rights Watch said.
Other key BICI recommendations not yet implemented are to carry out a comprehensive review of court sentences imposed for speech crimes and to void convictions imposed after grossly unfair trials.
Beginning in early April 2011, special military courts convicted hundreds of people, in most cases on charges that appeared to violate basic rights such as freedom of expression or assembly, for criticizing the king and prime minister, attending "illegal gatherings," and "inciting hatred against the regime." The king lifted the state of emergency in early June, but special military courts continued to convict and sentence people until early October.
According to the Supreme Judicial Council, a body chaired by King Hamad, the military courts convicted a total of 502 defendants. Based on a review of available court documents and media reports, Human Rights Watch found that at least 204 defendants were convicted of transparently political charges related to the exercise of freedom of expression and assembly, and that 116 of these were convicted solely on such charges.
Most defendants were held incommunicado for weeks, in some cases months, unable to contact lawyers or family members. In many cases military prosecutors and judges relied on confessions alone to convict people. Many defendants alleged that their confessions had been coerced. The BICI report said that "the lack of accountability of officials within the security system [regarding allegations of torture] has led to a culture of impunity." The recurrence of torture allegations, the report said, "indicates a systemic problem, which can only be addressed on a systemic level."
The BICI called for a review of all sentences handed down by the special military courts – whose proceedings violated numerous international fair trial standards – and urged authorities to "commute the sentences of all persons charged with offenses involving political expression, not consisting of advocacy of violence" and drop any pending charges of this sort.
Attorney General Ali bin Fadhl Al Buainain said on December 12 that the government would drop charges relating to "speech protected by the right to freedom of expression" in 43 cases affecting 334 people. In a March 26 response to a letter from Human Rights Watch, Attorney General Buainain said that all 334 people had benefited from this review but that only 19 had been convicted solely for "crimes relating to the practice of freedom of expression" and these 19 had been freed.
Human Rights Watch examined in detail court records relating to the prosecution of 21 leading activists, including Ibrahim Sharif, Abd al-Wahab Hussain, Abd al-Hadi al-Khawaja, Hassan Mushaima, Abd al-Jalil Singace, and others, who appeared to have been convicted solely for offenses relating to the exercise of freedom of expression, assembly, and association. Their convictions and sentences to long prison terms, in some cases for life, were evidently not among those reviewed.
"Bahrain should not ignore those recommendations that are absolutely central to addressing its ongoing human rights crisis," Stork said. "Authorities should free without delay all those wrongfully imprisoned, including the leaders of the protests, and ensure that criminal investigations into torture and unlawful killings go as far up the chain of command as necessary."
Report of the National Commission
The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) recommended establishment of "an independent and impartial national commission consisting of personalities of high standing representing the Government of Bahrain, opposition parties, and civil society to follow up and implement the recommendations of this Commission."
King Hamad established the National Commission on November 26, 2011, to report on implementation of the BICI recommendations. The National Commission's 19 appointed members included a government minister who is a member of the ruling family, five members of the Royal Court-appointed Shura Council, a director of a pro-government newspaper, and the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The commission also included five members of the elected Council of Deputies, of whom only one might be considered to represent the opposition.
A representative of the leading opposition party, Al Wifaq, told Human Rights Watch that the government initially set aside 4 of the 19 seats for the opposition, two of them for Al Wifaq. He said the parties declined to join because in their view the opposition and civil society were not adequately represented and the commission had no authority to implement the BICI recommendations, but only to report on steps the government had taken.
On March 20 the commission handed its report to Hamad. The official Bahrain News Agency said that the report addressed security sector reform, judicial reform and due process, social policy, education and media, accountability, and reconciliation.
The government severely restricts Human Rights Watch's ability to visit Bahrain and monitor developments, so the organization is not in a position to assess all aspects of the commission's report. But the government has clearly failed to take action in two essential areas: voiding the convictions of people sentenced to long prison terms on political charges and setting them free, and establishing accountability at all levels for serious human rights violations such as torture.
Voiding Unfair Convictions
Following the declaration of a state of emergency in mid-March 2011, security forces rounded up nearly 3,000 protesters and bystanders, and brought hundreds before special military courts.
Military and civilian courts acquitted some defendants while prosecutors dropped some charges against other defendants that were based on peaceful political speech. However, the courts convicted many of these defendants on other charges that violated human rights, such as engaging in peaceful demonstrations. Many of the sentences for the 502 people convicted by the special military courts were lengthy, including several death sentences that were later commuted. The BICI concluded that the special military courts convicted some 300 people under Penal Code articles that violated provisions of the International Convention of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) protecting freedom of expression and assembly.
Human Rights Watch found that authorities held many detainees incommunicado for weeks and refused them access to lawyers and family members, in violation of Bahraini as well as international law. Confessions, many allegedly extracted under duress, were the only evidence cited by judges against many of the defendants. The BICI similarly concluded that many detainees were physically mistreated and coerced into signing confessions, which were used in criminal proceedings against them.
Human Rights Watch documentednumerousserious due process violations in the special military courts. Prosecutors did not make evidence available to defendants or their lawyers, and the courts failed to exclude confessions obtained under duress or to order independent investigations into allegations of torture and ill-treatment. As one defense lawyer told Human Rights Watch, "We were not practicing our jobs as defense lawyers. We were just witnesses to human rights violations."
The BICI called on authorities to review all special military court convictions "where fundamental principles of a fair trial, including prompt and full access to legal counsel an inadmissibility of coerced testimony, were not respected." The BICI also recommended that authorities "commute sentences of all persons charged with offenses involving political expression, not consisting of advocacy of violence, or, as the case may be, to drop outstanding charges against them."
Following publication of the BICI report, Human Rights Watch called on Bahrain to release everyone convicted solely of speech-related offenses, and to void their convictions, including opposition leaders and the activists Ibrahim Sharif, Abd al-Hadi al-Khawaja, Abd al-Wahab Hussein, Abd al-Jalil al-Singace, and Shaikh Mohammad Ali al-Mahfoodh.
The National Commission said that all sentences handed down by the special military courts were being "reviewed in the ordinary courts to ensure [respect for] fair trial rights" and that "all charges relating to free speech will be dropped." In early January, the Supreme Judicial Council set up a judicial committee tasked with reviewing sentences of people charged with offenses involving political expression.
In February, though, the Supreme Judicial Council, the body chaired by the king, announced that because civilian courts were reviewing appeals in 135 of the 165 rulings of the military courts, it would only review 30 cases (involving 31 convictions) that had not been appealed before ordinary courts. According to the attorney general in his March 26 letter to Human Rights Watch, the judges' committee recommended reducing the sentences of six defendants and the release of four others as a result of voiding speech-related convictions.
Sir Nigel Rodley, one of the five BICI commissioners and a former UN special rapporteur on torture, confirmed to Human Rights Watch that in calling for convictions to be reviewed, the commissioners intended thatthe government should free those convicted for exercising basic rights.
Attorney General Al Buainain said on December 12 that the government would drop charges relating to "speech protected by the right to freedom of expression" in 43 cases affecting 334 people. In his March 26 response to the letter from Human Rights Watch, Attorney General Al Buainain said that all 334 people had benefited from this review but that only 19 had been convicted solely for "crimes relating to the practice of freedom of expression" and these 19 had been freed.
Accountability for Security Force Abuses
The BICI report called for the formation of a "national independent and impartial mechanism" to address torture and mistreatment of civilians committed by security forces, "including those in the chain of command, military and civilian." The report also called for "an independent and impartial body" to investigate the allegations that security forces were responsible for civilian deaths. Finally, the commission urged the government to establish a "standing independent body" to examine complaints of torture or ill-treatment, excessive use of force, or other abuses committed by authorities.
According to the Bahraini government, following what it says was the recommendation of the five international legal experts it had engaged, the public prosecutor rather than "an independent and impartial body" is investigating 48 officers for their alleged involvement in 107 cases of torture and mistreatment of civilians, cases that included four deaths.
Authorities say they have so far prosecuted 10 security officers in connection with the deaths of six people – four of whom died as a result of torture in government custody and two during the police crackdown on protesters. Seven of the accused face manslaughter charges and a maximum of seven years imprisonment, according to article 336 of the Penal Code. The other three have been charged with failing to report the crime to their superiors and face imprisonment or a fine.
The 10 included five Pakistanis employed in Bahrain's security forces whom the public prosecutor charged with the April 2011 torture and deaths in custody of Ali Isa Ibrahim Saqer and Zakaria al-Asherri. Two have been charged with manslaughter and the other three with failing to report the torture to their superior.
In addition, authorities are reportedly prosecuting two Bahraini officers from the National Security Agency in connection with the death of a prominent businessman, Abd al-Karim Fakhrawi, on March 5, 2011. The BICI said that NSA had "failed to conduct an effective investigation into Mr. Fakhrawi's death, which would satisfy the relevant obligations under international law."
The public prosecutor also brought charges against a Bahraini police lieutenant – the most senior security official known to have been charged thus far – for the shotgun shooting death of Hani Abd al-Aziz Jumaa in March 2011. Human Rights Watch's investigation into the death of Jumaa at the time found that his attacker or attackers shot him several times at close range. During a court session in late February 2012, the lawyer of the accused officer told the court that he was "acting in self-defense."
The BICI recommended establishment of "an independent and impartial body" to investigate torture and unlawful death allegations against Bahraini security forces and a "standing independent body" to examine future torture complaints. In both cases the National Commission report said that the government had transferred investigations into torture allegations from the Interior Ministry to the Public Prosecution Office, and set up a "special investigations unit" in the Public Prosecution Office to investigate "unlawful or negligent acts that resulted in deaths, torture and mistreatment of civilians." This followed on a recommendation by five international lawyers the government had engaged.
Human Rights Watch questioned whether the decision to place the investigations assignment in the hands of the Public Prosecution Office would in fact meet "the requirements of independence, impartiality and effectiveness" specified by the international advisors unless that office is fundamentally reformed to make it in practice independent of the government and committed to comprehensive and impartial accountability.
In several reports Human Rights Watch has documented the persistent failure of that office to investigate serious allegations of torture and ill-treatment and to order independent medical examinations of detainees making such allegations. The BICI report, for its part, said that it "received evidence indicating that, in some cases, judicial and prosecutorial personnel may have implicitly condoned" the lack of accountability.
The National Commission said the attorney general has established a Special Investigations Unit headed by a person with the rank of head prosecutor and staffed by seven prosecutors. Authorities have not made public the names of any of the people who will staff this unit.
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