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Jen Shah Ordered To Get Medical Attention For Mental Health After Prison
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by Favour Adegoke Posted on January 16, 2023 at 5:00 pm
"Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jen Shah will be required to enroll in a mental health treatment program after serving her six-and-a-half-year sentence.
Shah was hit with a six-and-a-half-year sentence in prison for being involved in a telemarketing scam that preyed on the elderly and defrauded thousands.
The reality star initially asserted her innocence when she was arrested before later admitting guilt. She apologized to her family and the victims for her crimes.
Read on for more details.
Jen Shah Was Sentenced To Six-And-Half Years Behind Bars
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The Bravolebrity will serve a prison sentence of six and a half years for her part in a hoax telemarketing scheme that targeted the elderly and scammed thousands of people out of their money.
Shah's attorney, Priya Chaudry, reiterated that the reality star deeply regrets her errors and also conveyed her apologies to the victims of the scheme.
"Jen has faith in our justice system, understands that anyone who breaks the law will be punished, and accepts this sentence as just," Chaudry said, per Page Six. He went on to add, "Jen will pay her debt to society and when she is a free woman again, she vows to pay her debt to the victims harmed by her mistakes."
According to the Inner City Press, US District Judge Sidney Stein opined that Shah's role on the "RHOSLC" should not be confused with who she truly is, noting that she was a head figure in the conspiracy.
She Must Undergo Mental Health Treatment Program Upon Completing Time
Shah will not be let off the hook even after serving her time in jail because she still has other requirements to fulfill before she can be released.
For the reality TV star to be released from prison, TMZ reports that she must complete a five-year supervised release and undergo a mental health treatment program.
According to reports, Shah apologized for her crimes and became emotional during the sentencing, saying, "With the proper medication, I can now see what happened."
After being released from prison, she must continue taking her medications unless her doctor instructs otherwise. Additionally, she may be subject to drug and alcohol testing to determine whether she has resumed using these substances, and her probation officer must be informed of the mental health program she enrolls in.
Jen Shah Apologized To Family And Victims Ahead Of Sentencing
The mother of two broke down as she apologized to her husband Sharrieff and her sons Omar and Sharrieff Jr. just before she was given her sentence. "I am profoundly and deeply sorry," Shah said, according to ABC reporter Aaron Katersky.
The Inner City Press reported that Shah apologized to her younger son, Omah, for being present when federal authorities came to detain her. "To my baby Omar, Mommy is so sorry you were woken up at gunpoint," she said.
The reality star also expressed her regret to the people who had fallen for her telemarketing scam. "You and the world know me as Jen Shah, but reality TV has nothing to do with reality, even my tagline, Shah-mazing — they wrote it. I want to speak about who I am," Shah noted.
"I am sorry. My actions have hurt innocent people. I want to apologize by saying, I am doing all I can to earn the funds to pay restitution," the reality star stated, according to a Twitter thread by Inner City Press.
Jen Shah To Pay Restitution For Her Crime
In addition to forfeiting several luxury items like bags, pieces of jewelry, rings, and jackets, Shah, 49, will have to pay about $6 million in restitution.
US Judge Stein questioned Shah about how she planned to pay the $6 million in restitution, to which Shah responded, "My manager is here, we're working on things."
She acknowledged that she would be working on making the restitution from behind bars and noted that she had donated the proceeds from the sale of the case-related goods she had sold through a third-party vendor to the victims.
Shah is expected to avail herself on February 17th, 2023, to begin her prison sentence. The judge didn't designate a specific facility but said it would be in the Texas region.
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The Philippine Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship is a standing committee of the Senate of the Philippines.

Jurisdiction
According to the Rules of the Senate, the committee handles all matters relating to:

 Domestic and foreign trade and private corporations
 Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)
 Social enterprises
 Promotion of entrepreneurship and the regulation of entrepreneurial practice
 Patents, copyrights, trade names and trademarks
 Standards, weights, measures and designs
 Quality control, control and stabilization of prices of commodities
 Consumer protection
 Handicrafts and cottage industries
 Marketing of commodities
 The Department of Trade and Industry
 The Optical Media Board
 The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines
 The Securities and Exchange Commission
 The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Investment and Economic Affairs

Members, 18th Congress
Based on the Rules of the Senate, the Senate Committee on Trade, Commerce and Entrepreneurship has 9 members.

The President Pro Tempore, the Majority Floor Leader, and the Minority Floor Leader are ex officio members.

Here are the members of the committee in the 18th Congress as of September 24, 2020:

Committee secretary: Jingle Concon-Allam

See also

 List of Philippine Senate committees

References

Trade

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To Dufu
Dufu, I came to your old home in Chengdu.
But you had left here long ago
Before the bosses sat in Beijing.
Now I wander around these grounds,
Through long halls built for you,
By bamboo growing house high,
As children amuse themselves
In your garden once wild,
And old people try to cool
Within your alcoves of shade.
Dufu, how your home inspired you,
Clear skies look down from above,
Butterflies dance with the flowers
Like paper playing in the wind,
No shrieking from the intruders
To your self-imposed solitude.
If only it were like this today.
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DuanesPoeTree December 2, 2015 at 3:25 PM
Du Fu, though initially not well known to other writers, is now frequently called the greatest Chinese poet, hugely influential in both Chinese and Japanese literary culture. Nearly 1500 poems have been preserved, and their range led H. C. Chang to call him "the Chinese Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Béranger, Hugo or Baudelaire," and Hayashi Shunsai, a notable Japanese Confucian scholar, called him the best poet in history, Matsuo Bashō frequently borrowed Du's language and themes for his own haiku (and a copy of Du's works was among his first possessions when he died). The American poet Kenneth Rexroth described him as "the greatest non-epic, non-dramatic poet who has survived in any language", and commented that, "he has made me a better man, as a moral agent and as a perceiving organism".
Since the Song dynasty, Chinese scholars have called Du the "poet historian" because of his commentaries on military tactics, the successes and failures of the government, and the poems of advice he wrote to the emperor. He also chronicled the lives of soldiers and civilians as well as his own autobiographical concerns, and wrote extensively on subjects such as domestic life, calligraphy, paintings, animals, and other poems. In addition, he devoted many works to topics which had previously been considered unsuitable for poetic treatment, while mastering all the forms of Chinese poetry: But about 2/3 of his extant work were lǜshi, a type of poem with strict constraints on form and content. The form required strict parallelism, but Du was able to use the formal restrictions as a means to add expressive content. For instance, here is Carolyn Kizer's translation of "Reply to a Friend's Advice":
Leaving the Audience by the quiet corridors,
Stately and beautiful, we pass through the Palace gates,
Turning in different directions: you go to the West
With the Ministers of State. I, otherwise.
On my side, the willow-twigs are fragile, greening.
You are struck by scarlet flowers over there.
Our separate ways! You write so well, so kindly,
To caution, in vain, a garrulous old man.


The wind was getting stronger. By now it was a truly wild and squally night. I drew back the curtain and took a look out of the window. On the far side of the glass the darkness itself seemed to be moving. Trees thrashed about in the gale; branches flickered in front of streetlights, throwing fantastic shadows and losing in torrents the last of their remaining leaves, which rattled along the road and blew against the side of the house with the sounds of harsh whispering.
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Greg found the email waiting in his inbox on Monday morning, the subject line shouting at him from the screen in capital letters: LOCKDOWN DRILL ALERT. Greg had seen pictures of lockdown drills. Children curled in fetal positions under their desks, armoured SWAT teams with automatic weapons charging down school hallways. In one photo, the face of one SWAT team member was flushed blood-red, his mouth frozen open in an animal-like howl. Greg could hear those angry shouts ricocheting off the metal lockers, stabbing deep into the ears of the terrified children huddled at the edges of the photograph.
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fore a long time - and with good reason. It's a sub-genre that I recall from old-time pulp magazines in stories by writers like Theodore Sturgeon, C.M, Kornbluth, and Fritz Leiber. Everyday reality masks a starting truth. The approach was revived in the Seventies by, among many others, Alice Sheldon ('James Tiptree Jnr') in stories such as 'Beam Me Home'.
The eponymous janitor/handyman of an apartment building is an undercover alien (not a spoiler, as this is the first thing we learn). 'Mr Saria' is a reptilian creature who has a tendency to overheat the apartments above his basement lair. He uses a kind of holo-scrambler thingy to appear human to all the 'hairy monkeys' who keep pestering him to fix stuff.
At this point you might wonder why any being would want to travel many light years for such a mundane lifestyle. But Saria's true purpose is more elevated than fixing radiators. Without giving too much away, there's a strong element of wish-fulfilment in this one. A pleasant tale of interstellar decency, in fact.
More from this running review shortly.
This tale from Tree Spirit... is an interesting example of the historical genre story - one with what Monty James calls 'the slight haze of distance'. There's also a fine example of the framing narrative that also distances the action and leaves us wondering just how reliable a narrator can ever be.
Michael Eisele begins with three young-ish veterans of the Great War on holiday in Wales. The men have just failed to climb a mountain, and are pestering locals in a pub for ghost stories. Eventually they settle on what they assume to be an elderly local, only to find that he is English and at least as well-educated as they.
The old man, Ambrose, tells the tale of a encounter when he unwisely set off into the mountains unaccompanied, had an accident, and by rights should have died. That he did not he attributes to the intervention of Willow Rawnie, a beautiful young woman of the Roma people. She heals his injured leg by a combination of folk remedy and what seems to be enchantment. Then the two part company, but not before Ambrose offers Willow a token of thanks in the form an ancient gold coin.
The story is one of the 'good' spirit, offering wonder and pathos instead of suspense and terror. It's not easy to pull off this kind of tale, but I think Eisle does it very well. He has an excellent feel for the rich texture of myth and word-of-mouth storytelling. I had never heard of Willow Rawnie before, but here she is, a truly memorable character who epitomises one of the marginal, overlooked aspects of my own people's history.
So, another good one. More from this running review very soon.
The title story of Michael Eisele's new collection from Tartarus is, as one might expect, a substantial tale. The novella concerns Arv, a gifted carver of a tribe that lives near the Great River. Arv's people have no boats, but a neighbouring tribe have mastered the art of canoe-building. Arv is fascinated by the sight of a passing boat, not to mention the beautiful woman he sees in it.
We are back in tribal territory, a world before or possibly after civilisation as we know it. Arv's tribe is a Matriarchy, and he is less than pleased when the female ruler decrees that he will marry her less-than-charming daughter. To sugar the pill Arv is given a high-status task, carving a totemic image on a new longhouse. However, when he goes off into the woods he has very different intentions.
A great tree has been struck by lightning and Arv believes that he can - using stone tools - craft it into a boat. The tree spirit has other ideas, however, and it only thanks to the intervention of a character called Hunter that Arv manages to strike a deal with the dryad-like being. Hunter is, incidentally, one character who seems to resemble a 'modern' American, and his remarks to Arv suggest that we are indeed living in a post-apocalyptic future. But this might just be down to my misinterpretation.
Anyway, Arv makes his boat with Hunter's help, and carves the face of the lovely boatwoman into its stern post. When his betrothed finds out what he's been up to she calls the wrath of the tribe down on him. So, with Hunter's help, Arv launches the boat onto the Great River and sets off downstream. There he encounters the tribe of his muse, and becomes the focus of respectful attention. However, there is a final twist to the tale, as Arv and the tree spirit embark on another journey.
This is, I feel, an artist's story, carved as carefully as Arv's boat. There is enough material here for an entire novel about the various cultures of this tribal world, which is lovingly depicted but never presented as a kind of touchy-feely Utopia.
More from Tree Spirit and Other Strange Tales soon in this running review.
More good listening from Ian Gordon's Horrorbabble channel. Worth a listen if you like old-time weird fiction (pulp and pre-pulp, including several from the golden age of the ghost story).
Over at the BFI Adam Scovell has an interesting roundup of megalithic monuments on screen. Not surprisingly, they tend to be British, with a distinct bias towards 1970s telly. Most of them I'm familiar with. Doctor Who's encounter with The Stones of Blood is great fun. Children of the Stones is rightly revered as a classic of children's TV. And Night of the Demon wedges in a scene at Stonehenge despite M.R. James' baffling omission of the thing in his original story.
There are also a couple of new ones on me. One is John Betjeman on Avebury in the series Discovering Britain. There's also a short Derek Jarman film called Journey to Avebury which is, not surprisingly, a bit weird.
Perhaps the barmiest of all, though, in the biker-folk-horror film Psychomania (1973), which has a great finale. It makes little sense at a rational level, but - as sometimes happens with films that are not exactly big-budget - it looks great. Oh, and Beryl Reed is in it, which will delight a lot of older Brits like me.
Not a ghost story, but an interesting radio adaptation for EFB fans.
We continue with the theme of folklore, but with a very different setting. The professor of the title is a German academic at Frankfurt University. Unfortunately for Herr Professor Hugo, his rise to academic success coincides with the political rise of the Nazis - or the 'marching morons', as he considers them. When Hitler seizes power the professor makes an injudicious remark and is sent on 'sabbatical', back to his family home in rural Bavaria.
After getting off the train the Professor goes for a stroll near a local mill-pond, seeking solitude to read. There he encounters an attractive young woman called Elise, who seems to remember an incident from the older man's childhood. It's clear what she is, though only towards the end of the story do we find out who. Finding his boyhood home unwelcoming, the Professor takes to meeting Elise by the pond, which the locals shun. Eventually he becomes mesmerised by Elise and ends up lying naked and wet in the undergrowth.
The Professor goes back to his university. We next meet him after the war, having lost his position thanks to his decision to join the Party. This time he has no choice but to try and live off the family farm. He only vaguely remembers his encounter with Elise. But when he passes the pond he finds not one but two strange, beautiful beings.
This is a curious tale, given the Nazi fixation with Germanic folklore and their origins in Bavaria. Perhaps Michael Eisele is arguing that the true folklore is apolitical and enduring. The revelations about Elise imply this, as from her own personal tragedy something new and beautiful emerges. And nixies are of course ineligible to vote.
More from this collection soon.
The next story in Michael Eisele's new collection is a bit left-field. It begins with a spaceship landing on a strange planet. We're in the realms of pulp sci-fi. Or are we?
An apparently human being in a fancy space-suit emerges from the shiny ship, arousing the curiosity of the locals. The native life of the planet decide to investigate. It emerges that this world has been 'terraformed' or at least mucked-about with by space-faring humans with almost god-like powers. Without giving too much away, the story raises the interesting possibility that myths may be recreated in the future by science that, to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, comes to resemble magic.
This tale reminded me a little of Gene Wolfe's approach to sf, though I don't think it's so successful as Wolfe's best. It might be termed science-fantasy, or sci-folklore, It's a slightly odd inclusion in Tree Spirit & Other Strange Tales, but not unwelcome.
More from this fine-looking volume soon.
Aha, we are in old-time pulp horror country with this cracking little tale in Tree Spirit... We're in the fairly indeterminate past when a character called Wilhelm could rampage about the Near and Middle East torturing people for the whereabouts of a mysterious tower. What the despicable German magus is after, as per usual, is greater power than mere mortal can imagine. What he finds is somewhat different.
In 'Sacrifice' Michael Eisele evokes authors like Clark Ashton Smith and Robert Bloch, members of the weird fiction circle centred on Lovecraft. And yes, here are some mad Arabs, though to be fair they've got every reason to be bloody furious with Wilhelm. As he's such a nasty person you know he will come a cropper, so the question is How? The finale is satisfying, with its clever twist on a hoary horror convention.
This is quite a jolly tale, with the added twist that the demonic being various scholars are trying to control is a Djinn. This gives a slight Arabian Nights feel to the drama, as yet another European finds out the hard way that mucking about with other folk's culture is very unwise.
Another chunk of my opinions very soon in this running review. Stay tuned for strangeness!
The third story in Michael Eisele's collection Tree Spirit is a novella. It's a tale of Old Europe, complete with a crumbling castle, superstitious peasants, wolves with attitude, and a mysterious presence in the forest.
Young nobleman Gregor returns to his Hungarian estate on the death of his father to find his sister Gizela struggling to hold things together. It is widely believed that their father has brought poverty on the family by ignoring the Leshi, a spirit of the forest. The old man was obsessed with finding a lost treasure that was supposedly deposited somewhere in the area many years ago.
Gregor is an interesting example of the quasi-Gothic protagonist, the aristocrat who served with the imperial cavalry and has the usual duelling scar. He is vain and self-regarding, but is brought back to earth by the feisty Gizela, an attractive variation on the tomboy girl from a posh family. The third character is the Leshi him- or itself.
This is a richly-textured tale, beginning with Gregor's journey back from the city on the newfangled railway. Eisele offers some neatly-detailed description of life in Hapsburg Hungary, and the fine distinctions between the German-speaking elite and the Magyar peasantry. Eventually things come right, after a series of visionary experiences that recall Blackwood, among other nature mystics. And Gizela gets herself a boyfriend.
So, another satisfying read. More from this substantial collection very soon.
I've probably posted this before, but even if I have it's worth another look.
It's here! The new collection of essays by Ro Pardoe has arrived. It's available in paperback from Amazon. The title is slightly misleading, as there are pieces by other authors, too. Most of the essays are culled from Ghosts & Scholars magazine, but there are also some interesting items from The Everlasting Club, a corresponding society to which Ro Pardoe has belonged for many years.
So, what's it all about? It might not entirely surprise you to learn that the ghost stories M.R. James are under scrutiny here. However, there are also musings on authors in the Jamesian tradition, such as Fritz Leiber.
The titles of the essays are great fun in themselves. 'Scrying and the Horse-Demon', 'The Night Raven', and 'The Three Fortunate Concealments' would tempt any bookish person to read on, I'm sure. And the focus varies from apparently minor details to broader discussion of MRJ's work, such as his use of draperies.
Ro Pardoe has also contributed introductions to many books, including MRJ's children's story The Five Jars. You will find that here, along with intros to the early work Occult Sciences, and Tales from Lectoure.
If you are long-term subscriber to G&S you will probably have read a lot of these pieces. However, few if any of us will have read them all which makes this a valuable collection. There's a very useful index of story and novel titles to round it all off, which is typically precise and exhaustive. All in all, this is an excellent book to dip into, offering scholars (and any ghosts who may be interested) arcane knowledge and thoughtful criticism in very digestible form.
The art of the essay is a venerable one, and in Ro Pardoe and her circle use it with aplomb to illuminate a writer who is entertaining, sometimes baffling, and often a bit sly.
The second story in Michael Eisele's Tree Spirit is a short tale of fictionalised myth, or mythical fiction - whatever. It's about a tribe setting forth to find new lands, and encountering supernatural defences that they must overcome. The ingredients are those of a traditional tale, though some aspects of the story recall (for me at least) Gene Wolfe's science-fiction-presented-as-legend. The giant in question is clad in metal, and has a single blazing eye. Perhaps it's a big robot with a laser? This adds a nice ambiguity to events, as they may be taking place in a possible future rather than reconstructed past. What the story does demonstrate is that elements of myth are always around us, and can rise up to subsume other kinds of narrative. Well, maybe. I'm no expert.
More from this running review very soon. There's another novella coming up!
'It is... no particular time or place.' So begins the first story in Michael Eisele's new collection (see post below). 'Mouse' is the story of a street boy with artistic talent who, through a series of lucky accidents, ends up staying with an artist. The boy is called Schalken, which I did find a mite confusing, as this is not a tribute to Le Fanu's classic tale, and is very different in tone and theme. But that's a minor quibble.
Schalken flourishes under the tutelage of the painter Derk, who is typically impoverished and has to labour at the docks to make ends meet. I wondered where the story was going after a dozen pages or so, as it seems to be a fairly realistic tale of struggling artists in Old Europe. Then something interesting occurs - Derk has been leaving out gifts of milk for 'Mouse', which turns out to be a kind of fairy. It emerges that many such creatures still live in the cities that long ago sprawled over their glades and meadows.
When his benefactor dies Schalken becomes more closely involved with the little people, and sets out to re-create their world on canvas. Eventually he achieves what he feels to be an true rendition of the world that once existed, As a variation on the theme of the artist's muse it's interesting, and the final twist is artistically right. So, a good start. Eisele, an American fabulist, follows the examples of Poe, Hawthorne, and many others by using aspects of European history for his own ends here. What, I wonder, will the next story bring?
Time for a marathon canter through a new-ish book by Tartarus that is, by any standard, substantial. Michael Eisele's first collection of stories was well-received here, by and large - you can check back by going here. The Girl With the Peacock Harp was of course a splendid volume, as we expect from Tartarus. We expect it, but perhaps give too little thought to the time and effort that goes into such a splendid volume.
Tree Spirit... is a collection of fifteen stories ranging from relatively short works to novellas. There are some linked tales, a thing I like a lot, and as in his first collection Eisele ranges from relatively 'realistic' settings to more folk/mythical material. So, buckle up, and prepare for my considered opinions.


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package org.apache.olingo.odata2.core.uri.expression;

import org.apache.olingo.odata2.api.edm.EdmEntityType;
import org.apache.olingo.odata2.api.uri.expression.ExpressionKind;
import org.apache.olingo.odata2.api.uri.expression.ExpressionParserException;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 *
 */
public class TestParserExceptions extends TestBase {

  @Test
  public void testOPMparseOrderByString() {
    EdmEntityType edmEtAllTypes = edmInfo.getTypeEtAllTypes();

    // CASE 1
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$orderby=UnitPrice%20ascc
    // -->Syntax error at position 10.
    GetPTO(edmEtAllTypes, "String ascc").aExMsgText(
        "Invalid sort order in OData orderby parser at position 8 in \"String ascc\".");

    // CASE 2
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$orderby=UnitPrice%20asc,
    // -->Expression expected at position 12.
    GetPTO(edmEtAllTypes, "String asc,").aExMsgText("Expression expected after position 11 in \"String asc,\".");

    // CASE 3
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$orderby=UnitPrice%20asc%20d
    // -->Syntax error at position 14.
    GetPTO(edmEtAllTypes, "String asc a").aExMsgText(
        "Comma or end of expression expected at position 12 in \"String asc a\".");

    // CASE 4
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$orderby=UnitPrice b
    // -->Syntax error at position 10.
    GetPTO(edmEtAllTypes, "String b").aExMsgText(
        "Invalid sort order in OData orderby parser at position 8 in \"String b\".");

    // CASE 5
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$orderby=UnitPrice, UnitPrice b
    // -->Syntax error at position 21.
    GetPTO(edmEtAllTypes, "String, String b").aExMsgText(
        "Invalid sort order in OData orderby parser at position 16 in \"String, String b\".");

    // CASE 6
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$orderby=UnitPrice a, UnitPrice desc
    // -->Syntax error at position 10.
    GetPTO(edmEtAllTypes, "String a, String desc").aExMsgText(
        "Invalid sort order in OData orderby parser at position 8 in \"String a, String desc\".");

    // CASE 7
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$orderby=UnitPrice asc, UnitPrice b
    // -->Syntax error at position 25.
    GetPTO(edmEtAllTypes, "String asc, String b").aExMsgText(
        "Invalid sort order in OData orderby parser at position 20 in \"String asc, String b\".");

  }

  @Test
  public void testPMvalidateEdmProperty() {
    EdmEntityType edmEtAllTypes = edmInfo.getTypeEtAllTypes();

    // OK
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "'text' eq String").aKind(ExpressionKind.BINARY).aSerialized("{'text' eq String}");

    // CASE 1
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$filter=NotAProperty
    // -->No property 'NotAProperty' exists in type 'ODataWeb.Northwind.Model.Product' at position 10.
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "NotAProperty").aExMsgText(
        "No property \"NotAProperty\" exists in type \"TecRefScenario.EtAllTypes\" at position 1 in \"NotAProperty\".");

    // CASE 2
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$filter='text'%20eq%20NotAProperty
    // -->No property 'NotAProperty' exists in type 'ODataWeb.Northwind.Model.Product' at position 10.
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "'text' eq NotAProperty")
        .aExMsgText(
            "No property \"NotAProperty\" exists in type \"TecRefScenario.EtAllTypes\" at" +
                " position 11 in \"'text' eq NotAProperty\".");

    // CASE 3
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "Complex/NotAProperty")
        .aExMsgText(
            "No property \"NotAProperty\" exists in type \"TecRefScenario.CtAllTypes\" at" +
                " position 9 in \"Complex/NotAProperty\".");

    // CASE 4
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "'text' eq Complex/NotAProperty")
        .aExMsgText(
            "No property \"NotAProperty\" exists in type \"TecRefScenario.CtAllTypes\" at " +
                "position 19 in \"'text' eq Complex/NotAProperty\".");

    // CASE 5
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "String/NotAProperty").aExMsgText(
        "No property \"NotAProperty\" exists in type \"Edm.String\" at position 8 in \"String/NotAProperty\".");

    // CASE 6
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$filter='aText'/NotAProperty
    // -->Exception Stack
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "'aText'/NotAProperty").aExMsgText(
        "Leftside of method operator at position 8 is not a property in \"'aText'/NotAProperty\".");

    // CASE 7
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$filter='Hong Kong' eq ProductName/city
    // --> No property 'city' exists in type 'System.String' at position 27.
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "'Hong Kong' eq DateTime/city").aExMsgText(
        "No property \"city\" exists in type \"Edm.DateTime\" at position 25 in \"'Hong Kong' eq DateTime/city\".");

    // CASE 8
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$filter='Hong Kong' eq ProductName/city
    // --> No property 'city' exists in type 'System.String' at position 27.
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "'Hong Kong' eq String/city").aExMsgText(
        "No property \"city\" exists in type \"Edm.String\" at position 23 in \"'Hong Kong' eq String/city\".");

  }

  @Test
  public void testPMreadParameters() {

    // OK
    GetPTF("concat('A','B')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B')}");

    // CASE 12
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=startswith()
    // -->No applicable function found for 'startswith' at position 0 with the specified arguments. The functions
    // considered are: startswith(System.String, System.String).
    GetPTF("startswith()")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"startswith\" at position 1 in \"startswith()\" with the specified " +
                "arguments. Method \"startswith\" requires exact 2 argument(s).");

    // CASE 13
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=startswith('A')
    // -->No applicable function found for 'startswith' at position 0 with the specified arguments. The functions
    // considered are: startswith(System.String, System.String).
    GetPTF("startswith('A')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"startswith\" at position 1 in \"startswith('A')\" with the specified " +
                "arguments. Method \"startswith\" requires exact 2 argument(s).");

    // CASE 14
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=startswith('A','B')
    // -->Resource not found for the segment 'Supplier'.
    GetPTF("startswith('A','B')").aSerialized("{startswith('A','B')}");

    // CASE 15
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=startswith('A','B','C')
    // -->No applicable function found for 'startswith' at position 0 with the specified arguments. The functions
    // considered are: startswith(System.String, System.String).
    GetPTF("startswith('A','B','C')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"startswith\" at position 1 in \"startswith('A','B','C')\" with the" +
                " specified arguments. Method \"startswith\" requires exact 2 argument(s).");

    // CASE 16
    GetPTF("concat()")
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"concat()\" with the specified arguments." +
                " Method \"concat\" requires 2 or more arguments.");
    // CASE 17
    GetPTF("concat('A')")
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"concat('A')\" with the specified " +
                "arguments. Method \"concat\" requires 2 or more arguments.");
    // CASE 18
    GetPTF("concat('A','B')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B')}");
    // CASE 19
    GetPTF("concat('A','B','C')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B','C')}");

    // CASE 20
    GetPTF("'A' and concat('A')")
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 9 in \"'A' and concat('A')\" with the specified " +
                "arguments. Method \"concat\" requires 2 or more arguments.");

    // CASE 1
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=concat(
    // -->Expression expected at position 7.
    GetPTF("concat(").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExMsgText(
        "Expression expected after position 7 in \"concat(\".");

    // CASE 2
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=concat(123
    // -->')' or ',' expected at position 10.
    GetPTF("concat(123").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExMsgText(
        "\")\" or \",\" expected after position 10 in \"concat(123\".");
    // .aExMsgText("Missing closing parenthesis \")\" for opening parenthesis \"(\" at position 7 in \"concat(\".");

    // CASE 3
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=concat(,
    // Expression expected at position 7.
    GetPTF("concat(,").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExMsgText(
        "Expression expected at position 8 in \"concat(,\".");

    // CASE 4
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=concat(123,
    // -->Expression expected at position 11.
    GetPTF("concat(123,").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExMsgText(
        "Expression expected after position 11 in \"concat(123,\".");

    // CASE 5
    // min = -1, max = -1,
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX1()").aSerialized("{concat()}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX1('A')").aSerialized("{concat('A')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX1('A','B')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX1('A','B','C')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B','C')}");

    // CASE 6
    // min = 0, max = -1,
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX2()").aSerialized("{concat()}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX2('A')").aSerialized("{concat('A')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX2('A','B')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX2('A','B','C')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B','C')}");

    // CASE 7
    // min = 2, max = -1,
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX3()")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX3()\" with the specified " +
                "arguments. Method \"concat\" requires 2 or more arguments.");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX3('A')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX3('A')\" with the specified " +
                "arguments. Method \"concat\" requires 2 or more arguments.");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX3('A','B')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX3('A','B','C')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B','C')}");

    // CASE 8
    // min =-1, max = 0,
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX4()").aSerialized("{concat()}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX4('A')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX4('A')\" with the specified " +
                "arguments. Method \"concat\" requires maximal 0 arguments.");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX4('A','B')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX4('A','B')\" with the " +
                "specified arguments. Method \"concat\" requires maximal 0 arguments.");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX4('A','B','C')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX4('A','B','C')\" with the " +
                "specified arguments. Method \"concat\" requires maximal 0 arguments.");

    // CASE 9
    // min =-1, max = 2,
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX5()").aSerialized("{concat()}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX5('A')").aSerialized("{concat('A')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX5('A','B')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX5('A','B','C')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX5('A','B','C')\" with the " +
                "specified arguments. Method \"concat\" requires maximal 2 arguments.");

    // CASE 10
    // min =1, max = 2,
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX6()")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX6()\" with the specified " +
                "arguments. Method \"concat\" requires between 1 and 2 arguments.");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX6('A')").aSerialized("{concat('A')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX6('A','B')").aSerialized("{concat('A','B')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX6('A','B','C')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX6('A','B','C')\" with the " +
                "specified arguments. Method \"concat\" requires between 1 and 2 arguments.");

    // CASE 11
    // min =1, max = 2,
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX7()")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX7()\" with the specified " +
                "arguments. Method \"concat\" requires exact 1 argument(s).");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX7('A')").aSerialized("{concat('A')}");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX7('A','B')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX7('A','B')\" with the " +
                "specified arguments. Method \"concat\" requires exact 1 argument(s).");
    GetPTF("testingMINMAX7('A','B','C')")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExMsgText(
            "No applicable method found for \"concat\" at position 1 in \"testingMINMAX7('A','B','C')\" with " +
                "the specified arguments. Method \"concat\" requires exact 1 argument(s).");

    // CASE 12
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=concat('a' 'b')
    // -->')' or ',' expected at position 11.
    GetPTF("concat('a' 'b')").aExMsgText("\")\" or \",\" expected after position 10 in \"concat('a' 'b')\".");

  }

  @Test
  public void testPMreadParenthesis() {
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=(123
    // -->')' or operator expected at position 4.
    GetPTF("(123").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExMsgText(
        "Missing closing parenthesis \")\" for opening parenthesis \"(\" at position 1 in \"(123\".");

    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=(123 add (456
    // -->')' or operator expected at position 13.
    GetPTF("(123 add (456").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExMsgText(
        "Missing closing parenthesis \")\" for opening parenthesis \"(\" at position 10 in \"(123 add (456\".");

  }

  @Test
  public void testPMvalidateBinaryOperator() {/* PM = Parsermethod */
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=123 add 'abc'
    // -->Operator 'add' incompatible with operand types 'System.Int32' and 'System.String' at position 4.
    GetPTF("123 add 'abc'")
        .aExType(ExpressionParserException.class)
        .aExKey(ExpressionParserException.INVALID_TYPES_FOR_BINARY_OPERATOR)
        .aExMsgText(
            "Operator \"add\" incompatible with operand types \"System.Uint7\" and \"Edm.String\" at " +
                "position 5 in \"123 add 'abc'\".");
  }

  @Test
  public void testPMvalidateMethodTypes() /* PM = Parsermethod */{
    // CASE 1
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$filter=year(327686)
    // -->No applicable function found for 'year' at position 0 with the specified arguments. The functions considered
    // are: year(System.DateTime).
    String aInt32 = "327686";
    GetPTF("year(" + aInt32 + ")").aExMsgText(
        "No applicable method found for \"year\" at position 1 in \"year(327686)\" for the specified argument types.");
  }

  @Test
  public void testPMparseFilterString() { /* PM = Parsermethod */

    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter='123
    // -->Unterminated string literal at position 4 in ''123'.
    GetPTF("'123").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExKey(
        ExpressionParserException.TOKEN_UNDETERMINATED_STRING).aExMsgText(
        "Unterminated string literal at position 1 in \"'123\".");

    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=1%20add%20'123
    // -->Unterminated string literal at position 10 in '1 add '123'.
    GetPTF("1 add '123").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExKey(
        ExpressionParserException.TOKEN_UNDETERMINATED_STRING).aExMsgText(
        "Unterminated string literal at position 7 in \"1 add '123\".");

    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=datetime'123
    // -->Unterminated literal at position 12 in 'datetime'123'.
    GetPTF("datetime'123").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExKey(
        ExpressionParserException.TOKEN_UNDETERMINATED_STRING).aExMsgText(
        "Unterminated string literal at position 9 in \"datetime'123\".");

    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=123%20456
    // -->Expression of type 'System.Boolean' expected at position 0.
    GetPTF("123 456").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExKey(
        ExpressionParserException.INVALID_TRAILING_TOKEN_DETECTED_AFTER_PARSING).aExMsgText(
        "Invalid token \"456\" detected after parsing at position 5 in \"123 456\".");

    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=123%20456
    // -->Expression of type 'System.Boolean' expected at position 0.
    GetPTF("123 456 789").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExKey(
        ExpressionParserException.INVALID_TRAILING_TOKEN_DETECTED_AFTER_PARSING).aExMsgText(
        "Invalid token \"456\" detected after parsing at position 5 in \"123 456 789\".");

    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=abc%20abc
    // -->No property 'abc' exists in type 'ODataWeb.Northwind.Model.Supplier' at position 0.
    GetPTF("abc abc").aExType(ExpressionParserException.class).aExKey(
        ExpressionParserException.INVALID_TRAILING_TOKEN_DETECTED_AFTER_PARSING).aExMsgText(
        "Invalid token \"abc\" detected after parsing at position 5 in \"abc abc\".");
  }

  @Test
  public void testAdditionalStuff() {

    GetPTF("( A mul B )/X eq TEST").aSerialized("{{{A mul B}/X} eq TEST}");

    GetPTF("( 1 mul 2 )/X eq TEST").aSerialized("{{{1 mul 2}/X} eq TEST}");

    // CASE 1
    EdmEntityType edmEtAllTypes = edmInfo.getTypeEtAllTypes();
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "( 1 mul 2 )/X eq TEST").aExMsgText(
        "Leftside of method operator at position 12 is not a property in \"( 1 mul 2 )/X eq TEST\".");

    // CASE 2
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$filter=notsupportedfunction('a')
    // -->Unknown function 'notsupportedfunction' at position 0.
    GetPTF("notsupportedfunction('a')").aExMsgText(
        "Unknown function \"notsupportedfunction\" at position 1 in \"notsupportedfunction('a')\".");

    // CASE 3
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products/?$filter=notsupportedfunction('a')
    // -->Unknown function 'notsupportedfunction' at position 0.
    GetPTF("notsupportedfunction    ('a')").aExMsgText(
        "Unknown function \"notsupportedfunction\" at position 1 in \"notsupportedfunction    ('a')\".");

    // CASE 4
    // Use \ instead of /
    GetPTF("Address\\NotAProperty").aExMsgText(
        "Error while tokenizing a ODATA expression on token \"\\\" at position 8 in \"Address\\NotAProperty\".");

    // CASE 5
    GetPTF("-(-(- 2d)))").aExMsgText("Invalid token \")\" detected after parsing at position 11 in \"-(-(- 2d)))\".");

    // CASE 6
    GetPTF("a b").aExMsgText("Invalid token \"b\" detected after parsing at position 3 in \"a b\".");

    // CASE 7
    GetPTF("a eq b b").aExMsgText("Invalid token \"b\" detected after parsing at position 8 in \"a eq b b\".");

    // CASE 8
    GetPTF(edmEtAllTypes, "year(Complex)").aExMsgText(
        "No applicable method found for \"year\" at position 1 in \"year(Complex)\" for the specified argument types.");

    // CASE 9
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=1%20add%202
    // -->Expression of type 'System.Boolean' expected at position 0.
    GetPTF_onlyBinary("1 add 2").aExMsgText(
        "Expression of type \"Edm.Boolean\" expected at position 1 in \"1 add 2\" (actual type is \"Edm.SByte\").");

    // CASE 10
    // http://services.odata.org/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Products(1)/Supplier?$filter=1%20add
    // -->Expression expected at position 5.
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Guantánamo's kangaroo court convicts Australian David Hicks
The sham trial of Australian detainee David Hicks at the Bush administration's prison camp at Guantánamo Bay is drawing to a close. Yesterday presiding judge Colonel Ralph Kohlman formally convicted Hicks on one charge of "providing material support for terrorism", and released the details of a plea bargain that will return Hicks to Australia to serve his jail term. The deal provides for a maximum of seven years, but all but nine months have been suspended.
The strenuous efforts to dress up proceedings cannot disguise the fact that the entire affair is a legal charade designed to justify the Bush administration's phony "war on terror." The plea bargain itself smacks of a dirty deal between Washington and Canberra. One of its key aims is to bolster the fortunes of the Howard government in upcoming national elections later in the year by wiping the issues of David Hicks and Guantánamo Bay off the political agenda.
Hicks is the first Guantánamo Bay detainee to be charged and tried before the newly constituted US military commission. His case has been fast tracked in order to accommodate Australian Prime Minister John Howard's calls for an early resolution. Howard, who is directly responsible for Hicks's protracted detention, only began calling for a speedier trial when opinion polls began recording overwhelming popular opposition to the flagrant abuse of Hicks's basic democratic and legal rights.
Major elements of the plea deal are specifically designed to muzzle Hicks in the lead up to the Australian election. He cannot speak to the media for a year and, following that period, must hand over to the Australian government any proceeds he earns from telling his story. Referring to the barbaric feudal practice used to silence opponents, Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told the New York Times: "It is a modern cutting out of his tongue."
The sentence has been timed to ensure that Hicks is incarcerated throughout the 2007 election campaign. The plea bargain set a maximum sentence of seven years, not including the five years that Hicks has already spent in Guantánamo Bay. However, after the formalities of sentencing before a jury of US military officers were carried out, the judge suspended all but nine months of the sentence, meaning that Hicks will be in jail for the rest of the year. He will serve two more months in Guantánamo Bay and the remainder, under an arrangement with the Howard government, in an Australian prison. Under the plea deal, Hicks has agreed to cooperate with US investigations and testify in other military commission trials.
Hicks has been held for five years without charge in the Pentagon's barbaric facility, much of it in solitary confinement. The 31-year-old Australian has complained of maltreatment and clearly bears the signs of psychological, if not physical, torture. Nevertheless, as part of the plea deal, he has been compelled to declare that he has "never been illegally treated by any persons in the control or custody of the United States." He has also been required to give an undertaking that he will not sue the US government for any illegal treatment. The very fact that the Pentagon made a point of insisting on these clauses indicates that it has flouted international law and maltreated Hicks and other prisoners.
The systematic abuse of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is so widely known that US Defence Secretary Roberts Gates told a congressional committee yesterday that any trials held there would inevitably be tainted by previous interrogation practices involving physical coercion. He called for future trials to be moved out of Guantánamo, saying: "My own view is ... no matter how transparent, no matter how open the trials, if they took place at Guantánamo, in the international community they would lack credibility."
In fact, from the outset, the entire process has constituted a flagrant abuse of basic democratic rights. The military commissions had to be reconstituted after the US Supreme Court last year ruled them unconstitutional. Chief prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis declared yesterday that the kangaroo court was as fair, if not fairer, than the International Criminal Court or the UN tribunals on Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Lex Lasry of the Law Council of Australia pointed out, however, that the commission's rules block the defence from challenging how evidence is obtained and allow for confessions obtained by coercion and torture.
Lasry, who was in Guantánamo as an observer, described the court proceedings as "pretty dysfunctional". On Tuesday, just prior to Hicks's formal guilty plea, Judge Kohlman effectively excluded two of Hicks's three lawyers. Civilian lawyer Joshua Dratel was prevented from defending his client after refusing to agree in advance to court procedures that have yet to be drawn up. Kohlman overruled a motion by Hicks's remaining lawyer Major Michael Mori challenging the judge's impartiality.
In comments to Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio today, Hicks's father Terry again declared that the only reason his son agreed to the plea deal was to get out of the Guantánamo "hell-hole". Terry Hicks, who has campaigned tirelessly for his son's rights during the past five years, told the ABC: "I believe one of the provisos was that he had to sign a form to say he wasn't badly treated. We know for a fact that he was, and I'm going to push that issue."
David Hicks was forced to demean himself even further by apologizing to the US and Australian governments and by acknowledging as accurate each fact in the charge sheet, point by point. Hicks agreed that he travelled to Afghanistan in January 2001 with the assistance of the Kashmiri Islamic fundamentalist militia Lashkar-e-Taiba. He underwent three separate courses at an Al Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, was in Pakistan at the time of the September 11 attacks on the US and then returned to Afghanistan.
What the "facts" actually demonstrate is the concocted character of the single charge brought against him. "Providing material support for terrorism" is not a war crime. Moreover, the charge was imposed retrospectively. Chief prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis conceded that Hicks was not the "worst of the worst"—as Bush has described the Guantánamo detainees. "I am not going to stand here and tell you David Hicks is on par with Osama bin Laden. That would be ridiculous," Davis said. But that is precisely how Hicks has been portrayed by the US and Australian governments over the past five years, in order to justify his prolonged detention without trial.
In reality, Hicks was never anything more than a minor foot soldier, who was introduced to bin Laden like every other recruit at the Al Qaeda camp. He saw very little action defending the Taliban regime in Kabul against the US-backed Northern Alliance militia, before deciding to flee. It should be noted that Hicks was defending a regime that controlled 90 percent of the country, and which was recognised at the time as the legitimate government of Afghanistan by several US allies—including neighbouring Pakistan.
Hicks has maintained his denial of any prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks. The prosecution also withdrew claims that he had been asked to be a martyr for Al Qaeda and that he had met other foreign Taliban supporters, including the American John Walker Lindh and Britain's Robert Reid.
The flimsy character of the case against David Hicks was tacitly acknowledged by the Pentagon when it signed off on a prison term of just nine months. The maximum sentence for the charge of "providing material support for terrorism" is life imprisonment. In Hicks's case, the prosecution had initially called for 20 years, but then agreed to a deal that set the maximum of seven years, excluding the five years and two months already served.
For five years, the Australian government was the only one in the world not to demand the release of its citizens from Guantánamo Bay, which openly flouts international law and the Geneva Conventions. That is the only reason Hicks was not released years ago, and remains in detention today. Up until a few months ago, Prime Minister Howard was determined to make an example of the young man in order to justify his government's support for the Bush administration's phony "war on terror" and its ongoing criminal occupation of Iraq.
According to the plea bargain deal, Hicks must be repatriated to Australia within 60 days, that is, by May 29, five or six months before the federal election. Howard is hoping that, by then, any memory of the inhuman and illegal treatment of David Hicks will have faded—with the help of the media—into the dim and distant past.


Thanks Sam, it's good to see.
OK, I'll ask Andy about this.
My time is seven minutes quicker than is on these results. Andy Deans has the details (data entry error on results input, easily done). Didn't spoil a good event, I appreciate all the efforts of the volunteers.


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JackGordon.org
. Jack Gordon was very active in creating many of the ideas for Century 21, the Seattle World's Fair held in 1962 for Governor Al Rosellini. During the 6-month long festivities, he ran the "Plaza of the States," which had ceremonies honoring each of the fifty states. Over 40 years after the close of Century 21, the Plaza of the States is still in use and is the location for Seattle's Citizenship Ceremonies. He was later called upon by Governor Dan Evans to create a similar Plaza for Spokane's Expo '74.
Read "The Formula For National Unity," a contemporary article about Jack and the Plaza of the States.
Here's another picture of Jack Gordon on "Jack Gordon Day" at the Century 21 World's Fair. Left to right are Walter Van Camp, mgr. director of Greater Seattle, Edward E Carlson, Chairman of the Seattle World's Fair Commission, Jack Gordon, and Commissioners Ray Olsen and Victor Rosellini.
From the official Century 21 program
The Plaza of the States, in the center of the fair, presents a stirring tribute to the fifty states of the Union. Flying from poles erected around the rim of the Plaza are the state flags, arranged in order of each state's admission to the union. At the base of each pole is a plaque bearing the state's seal, motto, significant dates in its history, principal products and points of interest. On a platform at the closed end of the Plaza is a huge font of flame, symbolizing unity of the states, which glows continuously throughout the fair. The American and Washington State flags flank a gold reproduction of the state seal of Washington. At night the Plaza is brilliantly illuminated.
Each State is saluted on special days at the fair. During the ceremonies, visiting governors are welcomed, the states' flags are raised and their plaques are unveiled.
Expo '74 -- The Spokane World's Fair
Gordon is shown here with others connected with the Expo '74 Plaza.
Left to right, we have Chas. G. Hord (RASW), Chuck Carpenter (Washington State Patrol),
Kristi Lee (RASW), Washington State Governor Daniel J. Evans,
Mary Kathleen Rice (RASW), and Gordon.
You are at JackGordon.org,
a salute to John F "Jack" Gordon, Mr. Seattle


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Horeca è un termine commerciale che si riferisce al settore dell'industria alberghiera. È l'acronimo di hotellerie-restaurant-café (albergo, ristorante e bar), ma la terza parola viene a volte identificata con catering, o altre simili.

È largamente riconosciuta l'associazione di categoria degli albergatori e dei ristoratori dei Paesi Bassi Koninklijk Horeca Nederland.

Si utilizza il termine Horeca per indicare la distribuzione di un prodotto presso hotel, ristoranti, trattorie, pizzerie, bar e simili, catering. In pratica, il canale Horeca è rappresentato da chi, per professione, somministra alimenti e bevande, mentre quello della grande distribuzione organizzata (GDO) o dei negozi è relativo a chi commercia alimenti e bevande. La stragrande maggioranza dei soggetti del mondo Horeca sono piccole o micro imprese.

Le aziende internazionali di surgelati o delle bevande, o anche del tabacco (per esempio British American Tobacco), usano il termine Horeca per definire il canale commerciale della bevanda e della ristorazione, o il canale commerciale alberghiero.

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Commercio internazionale


Beau and I took our relationship to a new level.
I haven't had an uninterrupted night of sleep since Thursday. We're crate training him and it was his first weekend away from mom and his littermates. Friday night he was not a happy little camera. Perfectly, every 2 hours, he would wake up. Saturday night wasn't so bad. About every three hours. His stomach has been upset with adjusting to the puppy food we've been feeding him. He eats like a horse though and he loves to sing the song of his people when he's hungry… or disgruntled about being in the kennel.
The joys of puppy parenthood.
Puppies are very cute when they are small although I don't like dogs 🙂 What kind of dog is he?
He's reached the terrible 2 stage and I think he's been getting growing pains. He's super active though, eats like a horse, and is learning really, really fast.


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2018 Vulture Festival: Hilary Duff, 'Drag Race' Queens + More to Bring Pop Culture Punch to NYC
Matthew Scott Donnelly
Matthew Scott Donnelly Published: April 16, 2018
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New York City is about to get a pop culture punch — New York magazine has announced its guests and panelists slated to appear at the 2018 Vulture Festival, and between Hilary Duff, the minds behind true crime podcast S-Town and some fan-favorite Drag Race queens, there's a little bit for everyone.
The annual festival, which welcomes the best in TV, film, music, radio and additional, less-specific forms of media, shared the official lineup Monday (April 16), and it's a mix of old, new and hilarious. Between May 19 and 20, the event will host discussions, screenings, performances and even live podcast recordings, and a press release says additional guests will be named in coming weeks.
From conversations with the cast and writers behind shows like Younger (Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor, Nico Tortorella, Molly Bernard and Charles Michael Davis), Full Frontal With Samantha Bee (Melinda Taub, Ashley Nicole Black, Allana Harkin, Mike Rubens and Amy Hoggart) and Glow (Alison Brie, Sydelle Noel, Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch) to a live-recording of Crimetown, audiences will have plenty to look forward to, and you can see a full lineup of who's headed to The Big Apple here.
Tickets, which will go on sale to the public on April 18 on the festival's website, range from $25 to $30 and will also include access to complimentary drinks in the Vulture Lounge. Some all-access passes will be up for grabs for $400, and interested festival-goers can follow @VultureFestival and @Vulture for updates.
The Vulture Festival weekend will kick off on Friday, May 18 with an opening party at the Top of the Standard in New York City.
20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Hilary Duff:
Source: 2018 Vulture Festival: Hilary Duff, 'Drag Race' Queens + More to Bring Pop Culture Punch to NYC
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Liam Payne Announces J Balvin Single 'Familiar'
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Former Binghamton Man Arrested After Crime Spree
Cara Delevingne Denounces Coachella in Light of 'Anti-LGBT' Owner
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20 Things You Didn't Know About Ally Bank
Dana Hanson 1 year ago
Ally Bank is also known as Ally Financial. It's a bank with a very interesting history that we've recently reviewed. We discovered some interesting facts about the company when looking through its past and present. If you're looking for a car loan, it's an option that is well worth checking out. Before you do, here are 20 things that you probably didn't know about Ally Bank that may help you decide if it's a financial institution that you would want to do business with.
1. Ally Financial was previously known as GMAC
If you've ever had an auto loan through GMAC, then you've already had experience with Ally Bank. GMAC is the acronym for General Motors Acceptance Corporation. The company is an American holding company that specializes in auto financing and much more. This is a fun fact about Ally Bank that a lot of people are not aware of, but if you had any type of loan through the previous GMAC, then you were probably informed about the name change in the company that serviced your loan.
2. The company will celebrate its 100th year in 2019
Ally Bank started out as a financial institution that was founded by General Motors in 1919. It was established under the name of General Motors Acceptance Corporation a century ago. It's been in business for a very long time and the bank has been able to withstand the ups and downs in the auto industry as well as the roller coaster of economic surges and dips throughout the past century. When other financial institutions were closing their doors and folding up, GMAC stayed the course and managed to keep their services in operation. It's an old and trusted financial institution.
3. They founded a motor vehicle insurance company
The Motors Insurance Corporation was founded by GMAC in 1939. The company offered vehicle insurance for its customers. This service was perfectly aligned with the auto financing component of the parent company which offered auto loans as well as home mortgages and more. Customers who secured their auto loans with GMAC and who insured their vehicles through Motors Insurance were less of a risk when it came to repayment of their auto loan through the parent company.
4. GMAC diversified in 1985
While still under the direction of Roger Smith, GM took the initiative to strengthen the company through diversification. Previously committed to providing auto loans, the company acquired another financial institution as a subsidiary. GM acquired the Norwest Mortgage company Colonial Mortgage. At the time of the acquisition, the company was estimated to bring with it an $11 billion mortgage portfolio. This brought a new aspect of loan servicing into the financial products that GM was ale to offer for its customers. Home mortgages were added to the offerings for auto loans and auto insurance. GM was developing at a healthy pace and the diversification made them more attractive to a larger segment of the population in need of financial services.
5. The company was rocked by a costly scandal in 1991
GM ran into a sticky situation in 1991. One of their executives was involved in an illegal operation that cost the company dearly in terms of its reputation and well as financially. John McNamara had committed fraud and was convicted of running a Ponzi scheme. It generated a bad debt for the GM company in the amount of a $436 million loss. GM was forced to write off a total o $275 million of this debt. It made national headlines and shook the company to its core.
6. GM expanded into real estate in the late 1990s
While still operating under the name of GMAC, the bank formed yet another company in the vein of diversification. in 1998, GMAC Real Estate was developed and launched. They had branched out in several directions and were not only providing home and auto loans as well as car insurance, they were not getting into real estate. It made sense to follow this direction because GM was already servicing home loans.
7. GM branched out further in home mortgage services
In 1999, GM acquired the Ditech company. The following year they established a direct bank which was named GMAC Bank. Just five years later, in 2005, they developed the GMAC ResCap to serve as the holding company that would preside over its mortgage operations. What had started as a financial service for the auto industry had now made a full launch into the dual services of home and auto and they became a major force in home mortgage loans as well as in real estate. The American public was in need of car and auto services and GM filled the gap nicely with diversified services.
8. A new company took over GMAC in 2006
While the customers who held loans through GMAC probably didn't notice any changes, in 2006, a private equity firm named Cerberus Capital Management purchased a 51% interest in GMAC. General Motors had a agreed to the proposition that gave the firm a controlling interest in GMAC. In the same year, GMAC sold a portion of GMAC Commercial Holdings, which was its real estate division to Five Mile Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Goldman Sachs. It was enough to give them controlling interest and the real estate portion was renamed Capmark.
9. Capmark filed for bankruptcy in 2009
Tough times hit the financial industry in the early 2000s era. The real estate portion of GM was sold to Brookfild Asset Management and in 2009, Capmark was forced to file for bankruptcy.At this time in its history, its loan origination and servicing operations were acquired by Berkadia which was a venture of Berkshire Hathaway and Leucadia National. A lot of major financial institutions were trading hands during this turbulent time in North American economics.
10. GMAC Rescap received US treasury funds in 2008
Hard times brought about catastrophic losses for GMAC ResCap in 2008. The United States Treasury made an investment of $17.2 billion to keep them from losing their solvency. At the beginning of 2009, they shut down their Nuvell Financial Services division which was in charge of its subprime lending activities. Subprime loans were one of the components that had gotten many of the major lending institutions in trouble to begin with. By 2014, the US Treasury had sold the remainder of its stake in the company and they had actually made a profit. After making an initial investment of $17.2 billion, they were able to recover $19.6 billion which netted them a $2.4 billion return on their investment.
11. GMAC became Ally Financial in May of 2010
GMAC re-branded itself as Ally Financial in 2010. They had acquired a resort finance business when involved in real estate and in the same year, they sold the business to Centerbridge partners. Just two years later, Ally Financial brought another $3.8 billion into its coffers through the sale of its Canadian banking operations to the Royal Bank of Canada.
12. Ally Bank went public in 2014
Ally Bank made an initial public offering which was approved in April of 2014. They became a publicly traded company at this time. Big changes were coming and they relocated their headquarters to the One Detroit Center in 2015. The following year, a brokerage firm named TradeKing acquired them for the sum of $275 million and TradeKing re-branded to the name of Ally Invest in 2016.
13. Ally made a major move in 2016
A mass migration of employees took place in 2016. The company relocated over 1,500 employees to their large and newly renovated building at its Detroit Centre location which occupied 13 floors of space. They maintained a workforce of over 1,200 employees at its Charlotte, North Carolina location, formerly located at 440 S. Church Street. This location was moved with all of its employees to their new Ally Charlotte Center. All of the movement was actually a sign that the company was in good financial condition and well-able to improve the work space environment.
14. By 2018, Ally Financial was ranked among the top 20 in America
Ally Financial made it to the position of the 19th largest banks in the United States as determined by assets in 2018. They had weathered many financial crises that put other financial institutions out of business. They also reached the status of becoming the largest auto finance company n the United States by volume. They were the leader in the auto loan industry.
15. Ally Bank provides a diverse group of financial services
Throughout the decades, Ally Bank, formerly GMAC has evolved and diversified its offerings to include a wide variety of financial services. They've come a long way since their initial launch in 1919, when they just offered auto loans. They sequentially added new services to their portfolio to include auto insurance, mortgage loans, and now offer corporate lending services, online banking, brokerage firm services and credit card services.
16. Ally Bank serves millions of customers
Ally Bank proudly serves an estimated 4.3 million retail customers. They are a financial service provider for more than 18,500 automotive dealerships. They're a major financial institution who serves many larger businesses and corporations as well as individual customers not affiliated with any type of business. They're a bank that assists a diverse group of customers and they do it very well.
17. Ally Bank got into the auto auction business
Ally Bank continues to evolve and add to its diverse portfolio of services within the finance sector. They added an online marketplace for auto auctions in 2000, called SmartAuction. As of current estimates of their statistics, their SmartAuction company has sold over 5 million vehicles and 356,000 of these were sold in 2017 alone. It's a division of the company that is thriving. It was an intelligent move on behalf of executive management because online auctions are becoming more popular with the public. It's a service that adds convenience to both individuals and professionals within the automotive industry.
18. Ally Bank participates in giveaways
As a major financial institution, Ally Bank understands the value of giving out rewards to their loyal customers. They celebrated attaining their 1 million customer mark by distributing 2,300 gift cards to their customers. This was a major milestone for the company but the significance of the 2,300 is because this was how long it took them to reach the one million mark. The marketing department of the bank also participated in a 2018 giveaway that they called Banksgiving. They asked customers what they needed and then selected customers to received monetary gifts in amount from $25 to $55,000 as a charity donation.
19. Ally Bank's employees volunteer to raise money for charity
Ally Bank set aside the month of November as their "Giving Back Month." Employees are allowed to volunteer to given 8 hours of personal time off to volunteer for fundraising activities. It's been a successful program that has resulted in a total of 17,000 hours of volunteer time donated in 2017 and Ally Bank paid $25 per hour for every employee hour donated. They raised a total of $800,000 in bank sponsored funds which were donated to charity.
20. Ally Bank engages in Sponsorship
Here is a fun and interesting fact about Ally Bank that many people are not aware of. Since they are heavily involved in financial aspects of the automotive industry, it just makes sense that they would serve as sponsor in related events. They sponsor the South Florida Auto Show for starters. They also sponsor the Time Magazine Quality Dealer Award within the automotive industry. Ally Bank began a new sponsorship which is set to kick off in 2019. They will be the main sponsor for Jimmie Johnson at Hendrick Motorsports. He is the 7 time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series champion. When the bank was known as GMAC, they had sponsored several Henrick Motorsports events from 1998 all the way through 2007, including the 2003 NASCAR Busch Series championship. The company remains loyal to the industry that they originally based their business upon.
Dana Hanson
Dana has extensive professional writing experience including technical and report writing, informational articles, persuasive articles, contrast and comparison, grant applications, and advertisement. She also enjoys creative writing, content writing on nearly any topic, because as a lifelong learner, she loves to do research and possess a high skill level in this area. Her academic degrees include AA social Sci/BA English/MEd Adult Ed & Community & Human Resource Development and ABD in PhD studies in Indust & Org Psychology.


Home » Liberal Ideology » Are we born Liberal?
1. "Need for Change uniquely predicted political liberalism such that greater desire for new experiences and rebellion predicted greater endorsement of political liberalism." The Obama campaign may have been MUCH smarter than most of us imagined.
The study refers to similiar work on political conservatism. Such ideas set a high bar. If so, we need to not only think our way through the issues, we need to think our way out of our predispositions.
Pretty clear who the Professors regards as "narrow-minded".
judgmental exclusion leads towards intolerance and worse.
with a utopian tinge and therefore forever receding over the horizon.
Of course I have'nt yet read the article. If these comments don't apply, please cancel.
The piece is an argument for liberals to advance their cause by better understanding conservative psychology.
With enough effort the thinking liberal can penetrate the simple conservative minds and offer the shiny beads and warm blankets most likely to draw them from their caves.
In fairness, I think the Professors point is liberals need to understand and adopt to society's need for morality, undoubtably a good thing. The arguments irony lies in the need of the complex and dexterous liberal mind for a mosaic and labyrinth route to a simple moral point. Did I make that sufficiently obtuse?


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Im Free - The Who - Greatest Hits & More (CD)
Label: Polydor - 0600753252024 • Format: 2x, CD Compilation • Country: Europe • Genre: Rock • Style: Classic Rock
Niki & Les/Love In The Woods - Stu Phillips - Three Scores (CD), Tee-Etüde - Various - Budapester Nächte (Vinyl, LP), Andante - Franz Schubert, Dresden State Orchestra*, Wolfgang Sawallisch - The Complete Symphonies (V, Accordion Soul (Anđeo Bez Krila Instr.), WoWa - Namie Amuro - Queen Of Hip-Pop (CD, Album), North Atlantic Drift - Various - Now Hear This! 93 - November 2010 (CD), Solange Ich Noch Träumen Kann - Hendrik Bruch - Solange Ich Noch Träumen Kann (CD), Just A Little Step - Das Fröhliche Wohnzimmer - The Best Of... (Cassette), Secrets - Ananda Project* - Morning Light (Vinyl, LP), Weve Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals - Greatest Hits (Vinyl, LP), Quiero Quiero - Laura Esquivel - Patty Η Πιο Όμορφη Ιστορία (CD), Me Or You - Ulita Knaus - The Moon On My Doorstep (CD, Album), End Title, To Hit You!! - Northern Deejays* - Taking Off (File, MP3)
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A greatest hits album is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band.. Albums entitled Greatest Hits, or similar titles, listed alphabetically by band name or artist's last name, include.
Greatest Hits was released on 21 December on Geffen Records in the US and Polydor in the UK as a single CD of 19 greatest Who hits. A few weeks later it was released as a 2-CD set called Greatest Hits & More with the second disc culling tracks off Greatest Hits Live.(See LIVE ALBUMS) TRACK LIST. DISC ONE. I Can't Explain; My Generation; The Kids Are Alright.
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It was called "The 9 Most Unnecessary Greatest Hits Albums of All Time," and it was fantastic. To honor the day when I made Cracked the luckiest site on the Internet, here's an update to the very first article I was ever paid money to write. These are five more of the most unnecessary greatest hits albums of .
Japanese Doll (Instrumental)
MYM230 - Recloose - Early Works (CD)
Quantum Mechanics - Inward Content - Inward Content (Vinyl, Album)
Pino Calvi - Tonight - West Side Story (Vinyl)
Get A Groove In Order To Move - C.J. & Co - Devils Gun (Cassette, Album)
Disida on Im Free - The Who - Greatest Hits & More (CD)


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Breeding bucks make easier targets
By Chris Phillips;
News Journal correspondent;
The part of deer hunting season Florida and Alabama hunters have been anxiously anticipating finally has arrived.
The phenomenon known as the "rut" is the period when deer breed, and its arrival is good news for hunters. Anything that encourages bucks to move enhances the chance of seeing one. Buck deer, like most male mammals, seem to lose a lot of their natural caution when the scent of a receptive female is in the air.
Many hunters believe that when it comes to hunting mature bucks in Florida and Alabama, there are two times a year when those wall-hangers are vulnerable — opening weekend of hunting season and during the rut.
The rut can be described as a time when otherwise wily bucks succumb to the urge to mate. Survival instincts become secondary during this short period each year.
Even though rutting bucks sometimes become a little lax, they quickly will change travel patterns if disturbed by hunters haphazardly traipsing through the woods. Hunters can dramatically improve their chances of taking a mature buck by simply minimizing disturbance.
The majority of hunters' scouting should be done prior to the rut, but a few hunters still like to look around very quietly trying to find hot scrapes. Others believe the more time spent walking in the woods during the rut means the likelihood of harvesting a big buck decreases.
Though very few hunters do it,a great time to scout can be after the season closes because, in a lot of situations, an area doesn't change much from one year to the next, and they're not risking spooking a deer.
Deer hunters who hunt the southwest zone of Alabama will get 10 days to hunt beyond the traditional Jan. 31 closing date that's still in effect for the rest of the state. This is an area where many hunters who travel from Pensacola and other nearby cities choose to hunt when looking for a place to hunt out of state.
Florida hunters in Zone D, which is all of northwest Florida, will have until Feb. 23 to take advantage of those deer on the move.
For a complete list of regulations visit www.myfwc.com (Florida) or outdooralabama.com (Alabama).


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Events in Glasgow on 30 July 2018
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The Clydeside Distillery, Glasgow West End
Come to The Clydeside Distillery, immerse yourself in Glasgow history and watch the craftsmen distil pure new make spirit by hand, the time-honoured way on the tour followed by a whisky tasting! Read more
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Quarriers Glasgow Group Activities provides group activities for adults with learning disabilities in the north west and south areas of Glasgow. Read more
Tennents Visitor Centre and Brewery Tour, Glasgow East End
Find out how Wellpark Brewery make Tennent's so special on one of their daily Brewery Tours! Read more
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Summer Nights at the Bandstand
The Summer Nights at the Bandstand festival returns to Kelvingrove Park for a seventh year in July and August 2020!
Glasgow Canal Festival
The Glasgow Canal Festival returns to Glasgow's iconic Forth & Clyde Canal between Spiers Wharf and Applecross Basin on Saturday 25th July!
Glasgow Central Tours offer you the chance to explore behind the scenes of Glasgow's most iconic and busiest landmarks, Central Station!
Oor Wullie
Jings, crivvens! Help ma boab! Don't miss the the awfy braw brand new musical, Oor Wullie, when it comes to the Theatre Royal Glasgow in January 2020!
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King And I is embarking on a World Tour, catch it at the King's Theatre Glasgow in January and February 2020!
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