One of the biggest ironies of Kuala Lumpur's metropolitan landscape is the impossibly narrow basement car parks of some of its tallest and glitziest skyscrapers. The subterranean parking facility of the Etiqa Twins along Jalan Pinang is among the capital's more forgiving spaces, its walls still unscarred by its patrons, the guys from Bentley Kuala Lumpur included. But to say that we weren't worried about desecrating the Brodgar paintjob of their RM1.9mil Bentayga while manoeuvring out of the car park would make us a bringer of fake news.
Unlike the British-spec Bentayga V8, this kitted-out local tester packs Crewe's flagship six-litre, twin-turbo W12 – a 12-cylinder monster of an engine distantly related to Bugatti's otherworldly W16 powerplant. It's one of the reasons behind the steep asking price to one of the world's fastest SUVs on sale today. Then again, you'd be hard pressed to find something with more than eight cylinders, two seats and 500bhp in a single spec sheet without flying past the RM2mil mark.
The Bentayga-favouring arithmetic took our minds off the fear of scuffing it over the last couple of ramps. And in no time, we were weaving around the city centre's infamous traffic as we would in this writer's 12-year-old Mazda, such is the ease of use from inside a cockpit lavished in Camel and Beluga hide. No humped or humpback-like mammals were actually sacrificed for the Bentley's ostentatious and equally high-tech cabin. But a little controversy might have given us some much needed heat because things were getting more predictable and comfortable with every kilometre travelled.
Apart from the occasional beep and the accompanying tightening of the seatbelt triggered by KL's edgy motorcyclists, our first 10 minutes in the Bentayga were surprisingly serene. At town speeds, the 600bhp W12 engine could pass off as a 300bhp V6, thanks to the Variable Displacement system's ability to deactivate half the engine's cylinders under light loads. The powertrain's intelligence makes the Bentayga as easy to operate as a Honda CR-V, with just marginally more fuel consumed over the combined cycle. Well, you don't splash nearly RM2mil for easy and efficient, do you?
In true SUV fashion, then, the Bentayga is a Bentley that wealthy non-enthusiasts yearning for something with a bit more pizazz than an Audi Q7 can easily enjoy on the daily grind, even if it means hours of driving in school zones and upmarket shopping districts where traffic is often bumper-to-bumper. It's a car to be pampered in and a car to be seen in. But beyond the Tattler-worthy qualities presented by the Bentayga on a silver platter is another dimension of talents laced with the scent of petrol to intoxicate the racers at heart. This is where the TopGear review really begins.
The magic begins with a stab of the throttle. While other high performance cars react to a sudden input by leaping into a manic sprint, the Bentayga simply stops the clock and makes every car in view look like it's travelling in slow motion. With air suspension, a smooth-shifting 8-speed auto and heavy soundproofing at work, there's hardly any discernible inertia under heavy acceleration. This masks the fact that the W12's full dose of 900Nm is loaded onto all four wheels from 1,350rpm. That's twice the twist you'd get from a Porsche 911 Carrera at that stage.
With all 12 cylinders rallied, the engine note fortifies with speed. But in the comfort-oriented Bentayga, the burbling W12 doesn't quite hit the lofty heights of aural bliss as it does in a Bentley Continental Supersports. Hold out for that high at your own peril because the Bentayga pulls off an award-winning impression of a subservient 90kph alarmingly close to 200kph, such is the car's expert sound insulation. If we had to nitpick, the panoramic glass roof amplifies wind noise at higher speeds. But the sense of airiness it adds to the cabin's opulence is a justifiable trade-off.
If wind noise is a pet peeve, you can always turn up the Naim Audio system which transforms the Bentayga's glorious insides into an amphitheatre using 20 speakers backed by a 1,920-watt 21-channel amplifier. Part of an optional 'Audio & Communication' package, this system, with more speakers than your average Ted Talk, is paired to a rear seat entertainment system made up of a pair of removable Android tablets. There's plenty of tech to keep you distracted from the fast-changing outside world if you're a passenger. We just wished it were enough to rewrite the laws of physics.
These laws do not concern potholes, invisible bumps and patchy tarmac. The smooth-sailing Bentayga trivialises road anomalies that would otherwise ruin someone's day, if not his car, even when tempting the authorities in a straight line. You hardly feel any of it even though the Bentley's 2.4-tonne mass is propped up by killer 21-inch footwear (22-inchers are also available, but good luck in telling these two ridiculous sizes apart). Instead, you're more likely to be thrown off when sudden steering input is applied at high speeds given the car's high centre of gravity.
With 1,724mm separating its roof from the ground, the Bentayga is taller than the average Malaysian teenager. And while we're confident in its permanent AWD chassis to keep things planted under hard cornering, even the sportiest of driving modes does little to alleviate the fear of turning turtle when gunning down an uneven highway. The likelihood is obviously slim. So maybe it's just that the Bentayga's stratospheric limits are way above our own, not that it's a reality we're afraid to concede. After all, there are matters such as its 301kph top speed and the ability to conquer a multitude of terrains which were left untested but never doubted.
We're talking about thresholds that even the most brazen of Bentayga owners are unlikely to broach. And that's fine because a RM1.9mil Bentley is supposed to be a car of excess, especially one that's a high-riding SUV fishing for attention everywhere it goes. On the flipside, its value game is unexpectedly on point. Crunch the numbers and you'll find the Bentayga to be the most cost-efficient 12-cylinder luxury ride given its SUV practicality and cheaper road tax versus traditional sportscars (since the Bentayga is an SUV, you only pay RM6,360 annually versus RM15,405 if you had, say, a Continental GT). So there's some sensibility in there as well.
Put simply, Crewe's biggest offering is two-faced in the most likeable way possible. One moment, we're sweeping the fast lane of the Maju Expressway clean and, before we know it, we're beneath the Etiqa Twins again, backing the Bentayga up into a parking lot without breaking a sweat thanks to its crisp, top view camera. Sure, half the gadgetry in it can be found in a sub-RM200k car these days. But to buy a Bentayga is to buy one of the most definitive luxury SUVs in the market today for your daily use, plus an all-terrain supercar on the side for when you're feeling adventurous, all with a single cheque.
The likes of Ferrari and Rolls-Royce, who are in the midst of developing high-end SUVs of their own, will have to bring their absolute A game because the Bentayga's Flying B truly stands for benchmark.


This year, Mother's Day in the UK will fall on Sunday 26th March. If you haven't yet got the date in your diary, or if you'd forgotten altogether don't worry, there's still plenty of time to plan something truly special and show your mum just how much you care.
Treat your mum to a lunch or dinner with all her loved ones.
A great way to celebrate Mother's Day is to take your mum out for a delicious meal. At the King William, we're always busy on Mother's Day allowing all the mums to enjoy their families to the full without doing any of the work. Food is served all day from noon to 9pm, Do reserve your favourite spot to avoid disappointment. If you want to make a weekend of it, you could even book yourself and your mum a twin-room and spend a day or two exploring the stunning countryside that surrounds the Inn.
On Mother's Day, all most mums want is to spend a bit of time with their family. Taking your mum out for a walk in the fresh air is a lovely way to spend the day together. Thanks to the UK's excellent network of footpaths, you're never too far from a country walk. If you're staying at the King William – or stopping in for lunch – we'll be able to give you tips on the most beautiful walks in the area.
Norfolk is home to a number of pretty market towns and seaside settlements. A day out in one of these characterful locations will give you the chance to go antique hunting, sample some of the region's famous cuisine and explore one of the most beautiful corners of the UK. The nearby coastal villages, the world renowned Sandringham and the county city of Norwich are all well worth a day's exploration.
For more ideas on discovering Norfolk and everything it has to offer, take a look around our website or get in touch with a member of our team.
This entry was posted in General News, What to do/Where to go and tagged Coast, Country, Dinner, Eating Out, Family, Food, Inn, Lunch, Menu, Mothers Day, Norfolk, Restaurant, Sandringham, Shortbreak, Walking on March 16, 2017 by Lili Skerritt.
To get you in the mood for a bit of romance, we're taking a look at the history of Valentine's Day and how you can make the most of this romantic occasion in the heart of Norfolk.
The origins of Valentine's Day lie in Ancient Rome. Once upon a time, the 15th February was a pagan fertility festival called Lupercalia. However when Pope Gelasius I came to power he rebranded it as a Christian festival and declared February 14th St Valentine's Day.
The St Valentine he was honouring is thought to have lived around 270 AD. The saint was said to have performed secret marriages against the wishes of the then emperor who preferred his soldiers to remain bachelors. When he was caught, St Valentine was quickly put to death, meeting his end on February 14th.
It wasn't until the 14th century that the feast day was linked with romantic love. English poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a poem in honour of the engagement of England's Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. In it, he associated Valentine's Day with mating birds and the royal engagement, starting an enduring tradition as he went.
The tradition of giving cards on Valentine's Day developed over a number of years. In the UK, Valentine's cards had become popular by the 18th century, however in the US, the tradition didn't become common until the 1850s. Today, according to the Greeting Card Association, around 25% of all cards are now sent on Valentine's Day.
Whether you believe in Valentine's Day or not, it's impossible to deny that putting some dedicated time aside for your loved one is a great way to strengthen a relationship. Putting thought and effort into planning a treat shows your partner you really care, while spending some quality time together can be great for your relationship.
If you're thinking about whisking your other half off for a night away in the countryside this Valentine's Day, Norfolk is the perfect destination. Give us a call today on 01485-571765 to book your room or Click here to go to our Valentines page on our website.
This entry was posted in General News and tagged Love, Luxury Accommodation, Menu, Norfolk, Relaxing break Norfolk, Romance, Shortbreak, Valentines Day on January 30, 2017 by Lili Skerritt.
Start the festive season in style with an evening of fine dining and wine tasting at The King William on Wednesday, 26 November. This special event includes a three course supper for just £25,00 with complimentary wines to sample, and purchase at great prices ready for the Christmas holidays. Master of Wine, Mark Lynton, from Lynton Wines brings his wine selection and expertise to the evening. To book your table call 01485 571765 – and room if you wish – ask for our special accommodation deals for the event.
Cosy log fires and comfy sofas await – not forgetting excellent Real Ales and fine wines – The King Will again features in next year's national Good Beer Guide. Please visit the website for updates on all events at the Inn, accommodation and dining offers – or please call in to discuss your Christmas party or special celebration.
This entry was posted in General News and tagged cosy, Event, Lynton wines, Norfolk, Shortbreak, Wine, Wine tasting, Winter on November 5, 2014 by Lili Skerritt.
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With Easter falling early this year you can still take advantage of our great value Winter short break prices.
we also have excellent 3 nights offers for you from 1 April.
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This entry was posted in General News and tagged Easter, Holiday, Norfolk, Offers, Shortbreak on March 13, 2013 by Lili Skerritt.


The moon's bloody glow spreads over the farmers' fields, casting out the brief relief of night. Its slow swell creeps upon the descent of the surrounding hills, infecting all in its red monochrome. Ascending into heaven, the demonic orb usurps the sun's court, ushering in its reign of mutation and death.
And deep within the forest near, the naked Richard steps over the strewed bones littering the cave entrance, walking out into the moonday. Covered by the forest's thick canopy, he exits the utter darkness of the cave only to enter the impenetrable shadows of the forest. The hissing echoes of the distant moon trees spreading their thick pollen weave through the countless forest paths, silencing nature in an unnatural refrain.
A wave of humid heat hits the hunter like a passing wall, the noxious odor burning his nose and bringing tears to his eyes. Blinking and rubbing these away, the hunter finds himself in progress from his late domicile, marching where he knows not. Into his bare feet the forest floor sends its dried pricks, driving the sleep from Richard's mind. He stops in the darkness, and so blinded, finds himself in an expanse of empty space.
With a sudden spring, Richard's leg shoots forward, and he again roves into the forest. The unsure fall of his foot is pregnant, generations following it, themselves evolving from an unsteady stride into a run. The slow change is imperceptible, the gradation of the transformation invisible between succeeding steps all suddenly unveiling itself a full sprint.
The world slowly takes form as a red tint infects the surrounding surfaces. Pillars fade into view; their cracked bark catches and shadows the light of the moon like the shattered faces of a mirror. The dancing pollen billows in the fevered winds of the early moonrise, the howling breeze stirring the infectious mutations throughout the forest.
Like hot pins searing and stabbing into his flesh, the light burns. His unstoppable strides grow longer, and in bounding leaps his uncontrollable legs sprint further into the redness of the moon. His vision blurs, black blotches swelling over his eyes as the unnatural radiation blinds him. Tears anoint his cheeks, and he buries them with his hands.
Between his palms he feels the bulging of a snout, his nose and lips pushing out of his face. The tips of his fingers, as they touch his skin, terminate in wicked claws. And hair, all over, begins sprouting from every facet of his body. Building inside his chest, next to his fevered, racing heart, a rising pressure forces itself up into his throat, and finally escapes, splitting his jaw open in a ravenous howl.
Spittle flies off of his curved, white fangs as the transformation is completed in that terrible shout. Like the ground is taken from under him, Richard falls away into blackness, into his own personal night, floating in the subconscious inner-space of his mind. The wolf consumes his body and will, and towers a giant on the face of the earth.
The sweet perfume of sweat and blood waft into his nose, the odors from the villagers reaching out to him in their helpless state of being prey. He longs for their soft, pink flesh, to have it within his power, and to tear and rip it from their bones. Licking his lips, he drools, his hunger like fire, like the grave, never fulfilled, never satiated, starving always.
He bounds forward, an animal upon all fours, racing through the moon dust settled on the road. Around him, as like soft flakes of snow, the plummeting red pollen thickens in clouds, absorbing him in their impenetrable cover.
Upon the precipice of that oft traversed hill stands Stanley, who drags his sharpening stone across the razor edge of his blade a parting time, peering into that dense fog. Throwing the grey brick to the side, he stands ready.


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Ford Explorer 2021.
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Ford Explorer 2021: A new take on an American off-road classic.
The Russian driver's contingent is particularly interested in powerful full-size off-road vehicles. Perhaps that is why a lot of talk and judgment was caused by the restyling of the American SUV, which will be released under the name Ford Explorer 2021.
The new version of the all-terrain vehicle offers higher parameters of roominess, road comfort, driving and off-road characteristics. An analysis of the reviews showed that the new model line meets the needs of domestic motorists of all age categories.
Chevrolet Blazer 2020.
Chevrolet Blazer 2020: an urban crossover with off-road ambitions.
The general Motors concern compensated for the decline in demand for heavy frame SUVs by re-equipping the Blazar series model of the same name into a more affordable urban medium-format crossover Chevrolet Blazer 2020.
In the third generation, the new model range, which has survived restyling, received the status of a youth car with optimal acceleration characteristics for its class, modern body design and decent interior volume comfort.
In a few spy photos, the new model, modified in accordance with crossover standards, shows dominant elements of aggressive styling in its appearance, complemented by sporty reliefs and exclusive details of the external decor.
Audi e-Tron 2021.
The 2021 Audi e-Tron: a multi-functional, full-size premium electric vehicle.
The new 2021 Audi e-Tron all-wheel drive full-size crossover model is focused on the needs of drivers of different ages who prefer comfortable and safe vehicles with nominal environmental characteristics.
The founder of a model range that is promising in all respects differs from similar analogs in futuristic body design, premium salon interior, dynamic high-speed and economical consumption characteristics of traction electric motors. Already in the first generation, the crossover in relation to similar developments of leading European and world brands received the status of a competitor.
Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 2020.
The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the new 8th generation mid-engined sports car.
In mid-June this year in the United States, many years later, a new Chevrolet Corvette with the C8 index was presented. The full name of this sports car is the Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray. The C8 index means that this car has a completely new eighth generation engine. And this is a kind of breakthrough in the field of engineering of the Chevrolet company.
In addition, the engine of the new Chevrolet Corvette is now installed not in front under the hood, but immediately behind the seats. Cars with this engine arrangement are called central engine. Such a solution is not some kind of innovation in the field of engineering, as it has been practiced for a long time. Many popular companies that produce high-speed cars install the engine in the central part of the body, as this has a positive effect on dynamics.
Mini Cooper Countryman 2021.
The Mini Cooper Countryman 2021 is an updated premium crossover with new options.
The Mini Cooper company is quite popular in European countries, but our automotive community does not seem to pay attention to this brand, and indeed to the rest of the English car industry.
The time has come to fix it, all the more there is a reason — Mini Cooper Countryman has changed a generation and he is so interesting, both in terms of history and technology, that one cannot but tell about him.
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There are lots of ideas which go using your mind while you consider the wedding and brought mental notes about how she would like it to actually be. Planning for a wedding, while exciting, can frequently feel overwhelming without some kind of guidance.
Religion is a vital component of any marriage ceremony.
When planning the wedding, consider which kind of alcohol serving you would like, in addition to exactly what the costs will be. Inquire about the various serving choices are available using your venue offers regarding alcohol.
Chicken and steak happen to be completed to dying, so what about taking a variety? Variety may be the spice of existence and can unquestionably help make your wedding dinner unforgettable!
Don't use a crash diet to slot in the marriage. You will end up dehydrated and hydrated on your wedding event. The final factor you will need would be to faint while saying your vows.
Avoid using a lot of flowers on decorating tables with flowers. Flowers could be obstructive to visitors and obtain within their way.
If you're scared of falling, put on cute flats rather. Getting footwear that is not precisely what you against falling is a straightforward decision to create.
Don't help make your visitors hold out while taking photos. Pictures with individuals being get married as well as their parents ought to be done before too.
Mid-day is the greatest bet for planning for a receptions. Many people will drink less at the moment, which minimizes the quantity your visitors may drink.
When planning table seating plans, make certain that every table comes with an even number of individuals sitting in internet marketing. Also group tables by age, this gives people things they are able to discuss.
You can buy many fabrics, patters, velvet and satin, and you may then go for either patterned fabrics or solid-colored fabrics.
If money is not a problem, it's wise to possess a cruise ship wedding with only your loved ones and shut buddies. This could start your honeymoon follows the ceremony's ending. Some cruises also provide special prices for weddings and honeymoon around the ship.
If both wedding couple have a real love for travelling, try to look for wedding adornments that attract this hobby. Invitations and RSVP cards can be created to appear like aged or vintage postcards and yellowed to mimic antique postcards.
If you choose to provide a speech, make sure to rehearse. If you do not bother to organize, you might make the audience to prevent having to pay attention, and make you feel humiliated while watching other visitors.
Make certain you consider everything, from what meals are offered as to happen in the reception. You need to make certain that the wedding is enjoyable for everybody who're part inside your big day.
If you're planning a marriage outdoors, make certain you've got a plan B just in situation the elements turns against you. Rent a couple of camping tents or look for a venue which has a hall, or select a venue with indoor shelter additionally to the outside setting. You could also install planks lower to avoid visitors don't get dirt brought on by rain.
Be considerate of the items guest might want to do if you have getting a destination wedding. You don't want to provide your visitors lots of time to plan. Send invitations 8 several weeks in advance to permit your visitors probably the most time easy to make formulations.
When the bride's wedding experience does not meet her expectations, you'll certainly be searching for methods to make certain her wedding is everything she's imagined of. She will certainly be unhappy if they must perform the planning or there's a problem. Make sure to permit the bride to create everything to prevent any unhappy moments.
Make certain you seek advice from your bridesmaids about gowns prior to being putting on. Disagreements over bridesmaid's gowns can ruin a friendship. Choose something which is reasonable, it's affordable which your bridesmaids will enjoy. This enables you to obtain a wedding without hurting someone's feelings.
Start the wedding early. The sooner you intend, the greater choices you'll have in every facet of your personal day. What this means is vendors that will meet the requirements and budget.
Before you begin making purchases for the wedding, subscribe to a charge card that provides incentives and rewards. Since weddings can be quite costly, getting miles along with other perks from the whole shebang may be beneficial.
Planning your special day doesn't have to feel overwhelming, by hearing advice and suggestions of individuals who've gone before you decide to, you are able to organize your day you've always dreamt of having a minimum of anxiety and stress. Using the tips previously mentioned, you are able to handle planning the wedding and expect for your special day.


Albert didn't hear the knocking. He was too busy climbing out of his kitchen window, down into the alley behind his apartment complex.The had seen the couple at his door through the video feed and he was certain they were cops. Their clothes, their casual way of walking, their oversized coats. Cops from Central. No doubt.
Why did they always find him? Why did he always had to be running away?
He slipped off when he heard the cops break in through the door. He fell ten feet off the ground heads first. He heard a crack when his nose hit the ground. Voices above were calling his name. He took off running towards the main street. Once there he slowed down to avoid calling any attention to him. He put a hand to his nose. It was bleeding.
An empty police car was parked in the corner of his block. They would be after him soon. He had to get away. He walked towards the closest metro entrance. He waved his hand at the gate. Instead of a green circle, the holo-display in front of him, showed a big red X.
The metro system had revoked his access.
He heard a cough behind him. A woman with an impatient look on her face, was waiting for him to get through the gate.
He had to move on. Albert walked away from the incriminating display. He run into the street to try to catch a cab. He stopped the first empty car that passed. He waved his hand in front of the door but it didn't open. Instead, he watched once again the accusatory red X on the window display.
Albert felt the blood drain from his face. Impossible. He had enough kübar credits in his account.
Only a total freeze of his identity could cause something like that. Not only they had found his apartment. They also had his personal ID code.
Albert felt a panic come over him. Without a valid ID he could no access any building, he could not use any public transportation, he could not contract private services of any kind. He couldn't purchase food or drink. He wouldn't be able to access his own apartment complex. Without his ID he was locked out of every digital and physical service.
Albert kept trying to stop car after car. All of them denying him access. People on the street were now looking at him. A crowd was forming on the sidewalk. A drone camera floated next to a man in a red hoodie.
Albert heard a loud hissing sound. And then the drone exploded in mid air. A gunshot. People on the street ducked down. Some screamed. Everybody scattered around running. The cops had arrived.
Albert crouched behind a car and run as fast as he could in the opposite direction. He raced down the commercial street. Every banner he passed flashed red and displayed his ID card photo. He was wearing a his leather jacket and had a stupid smile. Under his face was his name and ID code.
He took a sharp turn and hid in a dark side street without street lights. He crouched in the dark. A few minutes later he watched the police cops pass by. Once the sound of the sirens was far enough he remembered to breath again.
He pulled out of his pocket the burner phone he used for black/private/unmonitored calls. He had 3 kübars left. Enough for one last call. He dialed and waited for somebody to pickup.
"I told you not to call me," said the voice on the other side of the line.
After his call was over he smashed the phone on the ground. Albert waited in a the alley. There were no bright displays or neon ads this side of the street. A giant video screen on a sports bar window across the street displayed a ticker of news. And endless scroll of crime, disasters, events, legislations, entertainment, gossip, celebrities. And now his face had joined the rest of the celebrities in the lowest level possible of stardom: delinquency. Albert was officially a wanted criminal/fugitive.
A large black car stopped at the entrance to the alley. The side door opened. Albert got up, run towards the car, jumped in, and closed the door after him. As soon as he was inside, the car took off. In the back of the spacious car there were two leather seats facing each other. Lena sat across from him, legs crossed, and a display in her hand. She looked visibly annoyed.
"Is your nose bleeding?" the woman asked.
Albert touched his nose. There was dry but he looked down at his shirt. It was covered in blood. He cleaned the dry blood from his face with his sleeve.
Albert held his head between his hands.
Lena looked out the window with a look of concern in her face. Albert realized then that their car was not moving. All traffic outside had stopped as well. A police block.
Albert grabbed the display. It had a geo-location address on it. He stepped out the car onto the sidewalk.
Albert looked down the street. He could see the flash of police lights getting closer.
"You better get out of here," Lena said.
Albert pulled up the collar of his jacket, and headed out away from the police. He looked at the display in his hand. The address was 30 minutes away walking. As soon as he had left the main street, he took off running.
The robot who welcomed him at the door was 7-feet tall and dressed in white robes. It looked like a she to Albert. She invited him in and lead him through the apartment.
It looked like a psychedelic drug den. The walls were decorated with geometric neon shapes, illuminated with black light. Artificial dragonflies flew around the halls. The light bounced around like water. Arturo couldn't figure out where it came from.
"You have quite the place here," said Albert.
The robot turned her head to look at Albert. "> THANK YOU," she said.
They finally arrived at a bit open space covered in oriental carpets and big cushions. In the middle of the room a man dressed in black clothes with a sleep mask laid back in a large cushion.
The robot stopped at the doorframe and stood waiting. "> HE IS MEDITATING," she said rolling her eyes.
"I can still hear you," said the man behind the mask. He pulled it off and faced Albert. He had a thin black mustache and slicked back hair. The robot sat besides him putting her leg over his. He was dressed like a shaman.
"Yes," said Arturo without blinking.
"Do you traffic with ID cards?" Albert looked around noticing for the first time a total lack of any kind of computer equipment.
"ID cards are not the problem, Albert. We print them all the time." He gave a nod to the robot. She opened a drawer and pulled out a stack of cards. She handed them to the man. He held one up. "Random numbers. As good as blanks. I do more than that." He offered the card to Albert.
Albert picked up the ID card.


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Thankful to Fleming, Dhoni For Keeping Faith in Me: Shane Watson
Watson has remained an integral part of the CSK setup joining them in 2018, scoring an impressive 953 runs from 32 games across two seasons.
| Updated : April 12, 2020 9:35 AM IST
Former Australia allrounder Shane Watson has expressed gratitude towards Chennai Super Kings coach and captain Stephen Fleming and MS Dhoni for backing him despite not being in the best of touches heading into the 2018 edition of the IPL. Watson has remained an integral part of the CSK setup joining them couple of years ago, scoring an impressive 953 runs from 32 games across two seasons.
"You can go for 10 games not scoring runs and still get picked. Last season, thank you to MS Dhoni and Stephen Fleming for keeping the faith. Every other franchise would have been 'You are gone. Thank you for coming, but you are sitting and you are running the drinks'," Watson said in an Instagram live session on CSK's handle.
In 2018, as CSK made their return to the IPL following a two-year suspension, they were termed Dad's Army since the average age of the squad was around 30-32 years. Yet, CSK proved all distractors wrong and went on to win the IPL trophy for the third time and followed it with a runner-up finish in 2019. The 2018 season in particular, Watson has amassed 555 runs with two centuries, including a 57-ball 117 in the final against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
"Through that period, unfortunately, I felt like I was batting well but I was just not scoring runs and that kept going on and on. At some stage, I was feeling after a couple of games that they are going to have to move me on, but they didn't," Watson said
"And then when things turned around, which I knew it would at some stage, I thanked MS and Fleming for keeping the faith, and they said there was never any doubt. And that's phenomenal. That made me feel 10-foot tall. That's the power of amazing leadership. To know when to stick with people you believe in, and that's amazing for me. And I am forever indebted to those guys."
Watson almost pulled off a repeat in the final of the 2019 edition as well, against the Mumbai Indians, as he gave CSK a blazing start in chase 150, scoring 80 off 59, but unfortunately his run out came at a crucial time and MI secured a narrow one-run win. Not many observed but Watson batted with a bloodied knee which his CSK team-mate Harbhajan Singh revealed on social media. Watson injured his leg diving to make his ground in the third over and required six stitches but decided to bat on.
"I had absolutely no idea that it had occurred. Even if I did, it wouldn't have stopped me," the allrounder said.
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Lienen ist eine Gemeinde in der Region Tecklenburger Land (Kreis Steinfurt), zwischen Münster und Osnabrück im Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Geografie

Nördlich von Lienen erstrecken sich der Großteil des Naturpark TERRA.vita sowie das Holperdorper Tal. Der Westerbecker Berg im Teutoburger Wald ist mit 236 m über NN die höchste Erhebung im Tecklenburger Land und die Höchste innerhalb der Münsterlandkreise. Nach Südwesten öffnet sich die Münsterländer Parklandschaft. Die Straße zur Bauerschaft Holperdorp verläuft mit einer Serpentine zwischen dem Aldruper und Lienener Berg in ca. 202 m Höhe über den Gebirgskamm des Teutoburger Waldes. Der 206 Meter hohe Langenberg liegt noch zu einem kleinen Teil in der Bauerschaft Holperdorp, zum größten Teil jedoch im benachbarten Niedersachsen im Gebiet von Bad Iburg.

Nachbargemeinden
Ladbergen, Lengerich (beide Kreis Steinfurt), Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Bad Iburg, Glandorf (Landkreis Osnabrück in Niedersachsen), Ostbevern (Kreis Warendorf in Nordrhein-Westfalen).

Gemeindegliederung
Die Gemeinde Lienen besteht aus den Ortsteilen Lienen und Kattenvenne sowie den außerhalb liegenden Bauerschaften Holperdorp im Norden des Teutoburger Waldes, Dorfbauer, Aldrup, Westerbeck, Höste, Holzhausen und Meckelwege im Süden.

Geschichte
Die Gemeinde wurde erstmals im Jahre 1088 urkundlich als Lina erwähnt. Lina bedeutet so viel wie Ort am Abhang des Berges oder Hügeldorf am Teutoburger Wald.  Im Jahr 1965 wurde "1000 Jahre Gemarkung Lienen" gefeiert. Grundlage hierfür war eine "urkundliche Erwähnung" der Gemeinde aus dem Jahr 965 in Bezug zur Grafentafel, einem markanten Felsen im Nordwesten des Holperdorper Tals.

Bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein war die Gemeinde durch die Landwirtschaft geprägt. In der Zeit vom 17. bis 19. Jahrhundert ergänzte die bäuerliche Hausleinen-Industrie das landwirtschaftliche Einkommen. Ab 1832 setzte sich, ausgelöst durch den Zusammenbruch des Hausleinen-Gewerbes in der napoleonischen Zeit und die eingetretene Überbevölkerung, eine Auswanderungsbewegung nach Nordamerika in Gang. Diese endete erst mit dem Beginn der industriellen Revolution. In dieser Zeit lösten der Bau des Kalkwerkes in Höste und die verbesserte verkehrstechnische Erschließung durch eine Bahnlinie erste gewerblich-industrielle Impulse aus.

Lienen gehörte seit 1816 zum Kreis Warendorf in der preußischen Provinz Westfalen und bildete seit 1843 ein eigenes Amt. 1857 wurde Lienen aus dem Kreis Warendorf in den Kreis Tecklenburg umgegliedert. Durch das Münster/Hamm-Gesetz kam Lienen 1975 zum neuen Kreis Steinfurt.

Eingemeindungen

Am 1. Januar 1975 wurden Gebietsteile der Stadt Lengerich mit damals mehr als 200 Einwohnern eingegliedert.

Politik

Gemeinderat

Nach den Kommunalwahlen seit 2009 verteilten sich die Sitze des Gemeinderats folgendermaßen auf die einzelnen Gruppierungen:

Zusätzlich gehört der Bürgermeister Arne Erwin Strietelmeier dem Rat an.

Bürgermeister
Gewählter hauptamtlicher Bürgermeister ist seit dem 21. Oktober 2015 Arne Strietelmeier (parteilos). Von 2009 bis 2015 bekleidete Martin Hellwig (SPD) das Amt.

Wappen
Blasonierung: "In Silber über einem roten, mit einem silbernen Seerosenblatt belegten Dreiberg zwei rote, balkenweise gestellte Seerosenblätter."

Das Wappen der Gemeinde Lienen entstand durch einen Vorschlag des preußischen Staatsarchivs, da keine historischen Siegel oder Wappen bekannt waren. Der Dreiberg symbolisieren die hügelige Landschaft um die Ortschaft und ist abgeleitet von Lienen für die Berglehne. Die drei Seerosenblätter weisen auf die historische Verbindung zur Grafschaft Tecklenburg hin, sie stammen aus dem Tecklenburger Grafschaftswappen.

Partnerstädte
 St. Marys im Auglaize County in Ohio, USA
 Kelm (Kelmė) im Distrikt Šiauliai, Litauen

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Parks
In Lienen am Dorfteich ist im Frühjahr 2002 der Barfußpark entstanden. Er besteht aus einem Rundweg von 2,5 km Länge. Die Barfußparksaison in Lienen beginnt am 1. April und endet am 31. Oktober. In Vollmondnächten besteht die Möglichkeit, den Barfußpark bei einer geführten Fackelwanderung zu erkunden.

In den Jahren 2004/2005 wurde der Nordic-Walking-Park Tecklenburger Land installiert, dessen Pfade durch das Tecklenburger Land führen. Je nach persönlicher Fitness können 4 Trails auf Lienener Gebiet erkundet werden. Der Nordic Walking-Park im Tecklenburger Land bietet Routen mit unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeitsgraden auf insgesamt über 300 km Länge.

Naturdenkmäler

 Duvensteine in Holperdorp

Auf der Nordseite des Holperdorper Tals liegt ein Bergrücken, der aus Sandstein besteht. An einigen Stellen tritt dieser Sandstein an die Oberfläche und bildet aufragende Felsengebilde, darunter die Duvensteine. Laut Lienener Heimatforschung soll der Name der wahrscheinlich erst im Spätmittelalter entstandenen Steinformation auf einen früheren Kultplatz zur Götterverehrung hinweisen. Für diese Interpretation gibt es keine Anhaltspunkte, vor allem, weil der Ort bis zur Reformation als Station einer christlichen Flurprozession den Namen "St. Johanns Rasten" getragen hatte und erst danach in Duvensteine umbenannt wurde. Zur Herkunft des Namens gibt es verschiedene Theorien.

Sport
 International bekannt geworden sind die Springreiter Toni und Felix Haßmann.
 Thorsten Grünkemeyer, Bronze-Medaillengewinner im Tischtennis, Sommer-Paralympics 2004

Veranstaltungen

Jährliche findet das traditionelle Lienener Schützenfest unter dem Motto Lienen in Grün im Juli, die Frühjahrskirmes im März und der Weihnachtsmarkt im am 1. Adventswochenende statt.

Am dritten Samstag und Sonntag im September richtet die Vereinigung Mein Lienen e.V. den  Sonnenblumenmarkt aus. Der Veranstaltungsort erstreckt sich im Ortskern zwischen der evangelischen Kirche und dem Dorfteich. Angeboten werden handwerklich gefertigte Gegenstände und Kunstgegenstände, Dekorationen sowie alles für Haus und Garten.

In unregelmäßigen Abständen veranstaltet die Freiwillige Feuerwehr Lienen die Bombeiros Show-Night. Bereits 1950 fand die erste Feuer-Wasser-Revue statt: Wasserspiele mit farbiger Beleuchtung, die sich im Takt bekannter Songs bewegen. Die viertägige Veranstaltung wird von den Kameraden der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr organisiert und durchgeführt. Unter Festival Nights feierte die Freiwillige Feuerwehr Lienen im Jahr 2009 mit einem großen Fest ihr 100-jähriges Bestehen. Der organisatorische und ehrenamtliche Aufwand im Jahr 2009 ebenfalls die Feuer-Wasser-Revue in Form der Bombeiros Show-Night durchzuführen wäre zu groß gewesen, sodass Bombeiros zunächst für 2010 geplant war.

Ausflugsgaststätte
Am südlichen Hang des Teutoburger Waldes auf 225 m ü. NHN befindet sich die Ausflugsgaststätte Malepartus. Bereits gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts war das kleine Plateau mit Blick in die münsterländische Parklandschaft ein Platz zur Ausrichtung des Lienener Schützenfestes. 1910 war eine Blockhütte als Rast für Wanderer vorhanden. In den 1920er Jahren wird der Name Malepartus erwähnt. Malepartus ist der Tierfabel Reineke Fuchs von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe entlehnt, in der Reineke Fuchs sein Schloss Malepartus nennt.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur

Verkehr
Lienen ist an folgende Fernradwege angeschlossen: die 100-Schlösser-Route, die Friedensroute, die Sagenroute, den Radweg Historische Stadtkerne und die Grenzgängerroute Teuto-Ems.

Im Ortsteil Kattenvenne besteht ein Bahnhof an der Strecke Münster–Osnabrück, der von Regionalbahnen bedient wird. Im 120-Minuten-Rhythmus hält hier auch der Rhein-Haard-Express nach Düsseldorf.
Die Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn (TWE) Ibbenbüren–Lengerich–Gütersloh–Hövelhof führt durch Lienen. Die Strecke der TWE wurde von 1901 bis 1968 auch zur Personenbeförderung genutzt. Heute besteht mit dem Teuto-Express ein Museumsbahn- und Tourismusverkehr Richtung Tecklenburg und Bad Iburg.

Persönlichkeiten
 Hermann Kriege (1820–1850), Revolutionär aus reichem Elternhaus, unter anderem bekannt mit Karl Marx.
 Heinrich Wilhelm Hunsche (1839–1934), geb. in Lienen, evangelischer Pfarrer, Reiseprediger und Missionar in Südbrasilien
 Rudolf Stapenhorst (1864–1944), Politiker, Bürgermeister von Bielefeld
 Friedrich Ernst Hunsche (1905–1994), geb. in Lienen-Meckelwege, Schriftsteller, Dichter, Heimatforscher, Plattdeutsche Sprache und Geschichten, Archivar, Ahnenforscher, Forschung zur Auswanderung.
 Toni Haßmann (* 1975), Springreiter
 Felix Haßmann (* 1986), Springreiter

Literatur
 Adolf Hagedorn: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Gemeinde Lienen und des Kreises Tecklenburg 1700–1815. In: Heimatjahrbuch des Kreises Tecklenburg, 1925, S. 7–76.
 Friedrich Ernst Hunsche: Lienen am Teutoburger Wald. 1000 Jahre Gemarkung Lienen, hrsg. v. d. Gemeinde Lienen, Lienen 1965.
 Friedrich Ernst Hunsche: Auswanderer-Chronik der Gemeinde Lienen. Hrsg. v. d. Gemeinde Lienen, Lienen 1990.
 Friedrich Schmedt: Lienen in alten Ansichten. Bd. 1, Zaltbommel/NL 1978.
 Hanna Schmedt: Lienen in alten Ansichten. Bd. 2, Zaltbommel/NL 1998.
 Christof Spannhoff (Bearb.): Quellen und Beiträge zur Orts-, Familien- und Hofesgeschichte Lienens, Bd. I, Norderstedt 2007.
 Christof Spannhoff: 1609–2009. 400 Jahre Grenze zwischen Ostenfelde und Lienen. Norderstedt 2008.
 Christof Spannhoff (Bearb.): Quellen und Beiträge zur Orts-, Familien- und Hofesgeschichte Lienens, Bd. 2: Streifzüge durch die Geschichte Lienens. Ein historisches Lesebuch, Norderstedt 2011.
 Wilhelm Wilkens: Lienen. Die Geschichte seiner Häuser. Lienen 1993.
 Wilhelm Wilkens: Lienen. Das Dorf und seine Bauerschaften von der Sachsenzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Norderstedt 2004.

Weblinks

 Internetpräsenz der Gemeinde Lienen

Einzelnachweise

Ort im Tecklenburger Land
Ersterwähnung 1088

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Jesus never claimed to be God! Really?
Of all the Muslim claims about the Bible this one really frustrates me. It frustrates me because words matter. Not only do words matter but actions matter as well. Let me illustrate what I mean: Imagine that I were to say to you, "I have more power than anyone in the entire universe", you would think I was insane; and rightly so. But that is exactly what Jesus said in Matthew 28:18, "All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to Me." Words matter. No one can rightly say Jesus never claimed to be God while ignoring such words. Not dealing with such a statement by Jesus, while making a bold claim that denies one of the central doctrines of Christianity is to not deal honestly with the evidence for Christianity. And these words of Christ found in Matthew 28 are just a small sampling of the sort of things no mere man would say.
But what about actions? If you and I were in a room with several other people, and one of them fell down before me and worshipped me, calling me "God", and I accepted such worship, you would rightly begin to wonder about our sanity (mine and the dude who worshipped me). Yet that is exactly what Jesus did on more than one occasion (Matt. 14:33, 28:9; Luke 19:37-40; John 20:28). Jesus never told people, "Don't worship me" when they did. In the Bible we see angels telling humans, "Don't worship me. Worship God" (Rev. 19:10), but never do we find Jesus saying such things.
It was C. S. Lewis who stated the obvious conclusion that the things Jesus said and did only leave us with 3 options: (1) Consider Him a liar; (2) Consider Him a lunatic; or (3) Worship Him as God.
In John 1:3 we read, "All things were made through Him (Christ who is the Word), and without Him nothing was made that has been made." This means Jesus Christ is our Creator AND He was not created. We see the same thing in Colossians 1:15-17 where we are told that Christ is the Image of the invisible God, the Creator, and the One who holds all things together. How can Jesus Christ be our Creator and not be divine?
Hebrews 1:6 tells us that angels worship Christ.
John 1:18 uses the term "the only God" in reference to Christ.
In the book of revelation Jesus Christ refers to Himself as "the first and the last" (Rev. 1:17), "the Alpha and Omega" (Rev. 22:13), and "the beginning and the end" (Rev. 22:13).
I have just scratched the surface of the content found in the Bible that convinces the thinking person to conclude — Jesus Christ is divine. He is the eternal Son of God. Jesus the man had a beginning through the virgin womb of Mary, but Christ who is God the Son never had a beginning. He took upon Himself human flesh in the incarnation and He is now forevermore truly God and truly man.
So why do Muslims deny this? Others who reject Christianity just simply deny the Bible as the Word of God. If you don't want to submit to Jesus Christ as Lord then just deny that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. But Muslims cannot do that because their book, the Quran, affirms the Bible.
That simply doesn't work. It doesn't work because a missing claim about a fact cannot negate evidence about a fact. Do we see Jesus ever saying "I am God" in the New Testament? No, not in those exact words. But we do see many other statements Christ made and things He did, as well as what His apostles wrote, that can only lead to one conclusion: Jesus Christ believed He was the eternal Son of God; that He was fully divine. So did the men who wrote the New Testament (most of whom were martyred for their faith in Jesus Christ).
Now one can reject that as true. Sure. We all must choose. But it is disingenuous to misrepresent the facts about Christ because of a false assumption about Him that your religion forces you into. That is exactly what Islam does as it relates to the subject of His deity.
Just as the Muslim claim that the Bible has been corrupted is easily defeated. So also the faulty argument that Jesus never claimed to be God is easily defeated.
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A 39-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy were shot in the legs yesterday at about 3:30 p.m. on Frankford Avenue near Foulkrod Street in the Northeast. The man was admitted to Frankford Hospital-Torresdale and the teenager to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. Police did not identify the victims.


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Directors from Phillips Murrah present our Blocks for Bucks donation to Thunder Cares.
Just before tip-off at tonight's Oklahoma City Thunder game against the Houston Rockets, Phillips Murrah Directors G. Calvin Sharpe, Nikki Edwards and Marc Edwards will participate in the check presentation ceremony at mid-court. The amount is for $20,600, which reflects the amount our Firm has donated thus far in the 2018-2019 regular season, prior to tonight's action. For the final tally, blocks from tonight's game will be added to the final amount, which will go directly to the Thunder Cares Foundation.
"Our Firm likes being involved in the Oklahoma City community, and The Thunder Cares Foundation is a great way for us to do that," said G. Calvin, whose litigation practice focuses mainly on matters involving medical malpractice, products liability and insurance.
"We are huge Thunder fans and take great pride in partnering with Thunder Cares and all they do in the community," said Marc, who represents both private business and public entities in a broad range of litigation with an emphasis on public utility, public pension, governmental and administrative laws.
This is the second year that Phillips Murrah has partnered with the OKC Thunder with the Blocks for Bucks campaign. The check presentation from the 2017-2018 season can be seen here.
What is Blocks for Bucks?
Russell Westbrook on @okcthunder Instagram with Phillips Murrah logo.
Attorneys and staff at Phillips Murrah are huge Thunder fans, and to recognize our home team's accomplishments in blocking shots, the Firm is donating $100 to Thunder Cares for each blocked shot that the Thunder forces at home games during the regular season.
Blocks for Bucks began in November of 2017, when Phillips Murrah initiated our partnership with the Thunder organization. Helping to improve the community is at the heart of of our Firm's mission, and the prospect of achieving that through the Thunder Cares Foundation with such an exciting and entertaining campaign was irresistible.
As the Thunder team racked up blocks throughout the season, video highlights were posted at the Blocks for Bucks page on the Thunder's website, along with a blocks counter and a running donation amount tally.
Phillips Murrah looks forward to continuing to partner with the Oklahoma City Thunder and The Thunder Cares Foundation in the years to come.
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Adults from left: Campaign Co-chair Todd Lechtenberger; Positive Tomorrows President Susan Agel; lead campaign donor Nissa Richison, campaign Co-Chair Judy Love; current Chair-elect Nikki Jones Edwards; David Barry, program alum/current volunteer, along with two current students.
Director Nikki Jones Edwards and Phillips Murrah law firm are proud supporters of Positive Tomorrows and happily announce work is underway for the school's newest facility.
Positive Tomorrows is Oklahoma's only elementary school and social service agency specifically serving homeless children and their families.
The school broke ground on a new facility on June 12 and announced it met its Building Success Campaign goal of $10.2 million raised from the community. They raised an additional $5 million in new market tax credits, bringing the final project total to $15 million.
The new facility will be over 30,000 sq. ft., more than double the school's capacity, and will have space to serve students ages birth through 8th grade.
It will be located at 901. N. Villa and include a gymnasium, open commons area, library, spaces for art and music, a special education classroom and a storm shelter.
Positive Tomorrows plans to move into the facility and begin school in Fall of 2019.
Edwards currently serves as Chair-elect and will assume her role as Chairman of the Board on July 1. She, with her husband Director Marc Edwards, has been an avid supporter and involved in different capacities with Positive Tomorrows for more than 20 years.
For more information about Positive Tomorrows, visit www.positivetomorrows.org.
Phillips Murrah Director, Nikki Jones Edwards, who heads up the Firm's Family Law Practice Group, was honored Thursday, October 26, at The Journal Record's "Woman of the Year – 50 Making A Difference" awards gala.
The event, and accompanying morning forum and post-event magazine, highlights prominent female business and community leaders in Oklahoma. The honorees, selected among hundreds of nominations from across the state, are recognized for their professional and personal contributions in Oklahoma communities.
This year, which marks the 37th year of the Woman of the Year gala, featured keynote speaker Shannon Miller, Olympian gold medalist and health and fitness entrepreneur. It was Nikki's first time to be honored as a part of the Woman of the Year event.
"The 'Making a Difference' list not only displays the important professional work of Oklahoma women, but also the personal investments they are making to positively impact every sector of our state," she said.
Nikki is involved in numerous Oklahoma community service and philanthropic projects, including Leadership OKC's Signature Program Class 36, which educates civic-minded business people on how to develop greater capacities for local leadership. She is also a board member of both Positive Tomorrows, an educational non-profit developing programs for homeless children and their families to stop the cycles of poverty, and the Oklahoma Single Parent Scholarship program, which awards scholarships to low-income single parents to help them achieve self-sufficiency through post-secondary education.
Nikki also helped pioneer a program to develop the next generation of law and leadership in Oklahoma. A founding advisory board member for the University of Oklahoma, Women and Gender Studies program, Nikki routinely guest lectures on important topics such as women in leadership programs, women in law, gender equality in the legal field and family law. Accordingly, Nikki was honored with the Journal Record's "Leadership in Law" award in both 2008 and 2017.
Nikki endeavors to have a lasting influence on the future leaders of Oklahoma through positive mentorships in her professional and personal life.
Phillips Murrah is proud to sponsor The Woman of the Year endeavors, and we congratulate Nikki, and all of this year's honorees. Thank you for all you do to make Oklahoma the best place to live and work.
Phillips Murrah is proud to announce that 37 of our attorneys have been named to The Best Lawyers in America© 2018 list in Oklahoma City.
Phillips Murrah Directors Marc and Nicholle Jones Edwards.
Phillips Murrah sponsored Positive Tomorrows' annual Cork & Canvas on Thursday, April 2 at the Oklahoma City Farmers' Public Market.
Positive Tomorrows is Oklahoma's only elementary school specifically serving homeless children and their families and prides itself on educating at-risk children by dedicating attention to their unique educational and social service needs.
The event includes an evening of food, drinks, silent and live auctions featuring art by Positive Tomorrows' students, and live entertainment, and typically attracts more than 500 philanthropic leaders from the community.
Learn more about Positive Tomorrows here.
Marc Edwards is a litigation attorney and Chair of the Government Relations and Compliance Practice Group. He represents both private business and public entities in a broad range of litigation with an emphasis on public utility, public pension, governmental and administrative laws.
Marc Edwards, a director at Phillips McFall McCaffrey McVay & Murrah, practices administrative law, governmental relations and civil litigation.
After receiving his law degree from the University of Tulsa in 1983, Edwards began his legal career as an assistant attorney general with the Oklahoma attorney general's office. He entered private practice in 1987 with Watson & McKenzie before joining his current law firm the following year.
Edwards is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, American Bar Association and the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys.
For the past 14 years, he has represented Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System, the pension system for all firefighters in the state.
Edwards' community involvement includes serving on the boards of the Stavros Foundation, Oklahoma Property & Casualty Board and Oklahoma Long Term Care Administration. In addition, he is president of the Lynn Institute and past president of the Dale Rogers Training Center, which provides employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. He considers his involvement with the Dale Rogers Training Center his most significant public service accomplishment. During his service, Dale Rogers has experienced tremendous growth as a nonprofit agency, in terms of budget, capital expansion and services.


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Austroniidae Kozlov, 1975
Heloridae Forster, 1856 (12)
Pelecinidae Haliday, 1840
Peradeniidae Naumann & Masner, 1985
Proctorenyxidae Lelej & Kozlov, 1999
Roproniidae Viereck, 1916
Vanhorniidae Crawford, 1909 (1)

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This post distills recent news and development on the fraud and Ponzi fronts.
CHARGED: Six people — including a disbarred attorney already in prison — have been charged in Massacuusetts in an elaborate mortgage-fraud scheme.
Bruce Namenson, the former lawyer, was charged with 18 counts of of larceny for arranging bogus loan closings, sham notarizations and pocketing fraudulent proceeds from real-estate deals.
Namenson, 47, of Walpole, Mass., already was in prison when arrested on the mortgage-fraud charges. In an earlier case, he was convicted of operating a complex scam in which both clients and insurance companies were bilked.
One of the victims in the insurance-fraud case was a 95-year-old man, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
In the insurance case, which involved victims young and old, Namenson defrauded the 95 year-old client out of a $20,000 bodily injury settlement check.
"The client had been injured in a car accident, and instead of paying the client a portion of the settlement, Namenson forged the client's signature on a settlement release and settlement check, kept the money, and repeatedly told the client that his case had never been settled," Coakley's office said in 2008.
Namenson also fleeced an injured, 15-year-old client out of most of a $100,000 settlement, prosecutors said.
Charged in the new case with Namenson were Joshua Brown, 29, of Brockton, Mass; Brian Frank, 32, of New Hartford, N.Y.; John Sweetland, 28, of Yorba Linda, Calif; Linda Defeo, 28, of Springfield, Mass; and Brian Arrington, 39, of Boston.
Brown, Frank and Sweetland are real-estate investors, Coakley's office said yesterday. Defeo and Arrington are mortgage brokers.
The real-estate scheme fleeced banks and borrowers out of $12.5 million, and involved bogus appraisals, submissions of bogus loan documents and misrepresentations to virtually every party in transactions tied to 26 distressed properties, prosecutors said.
Brown, Frank and Sweetland skimmed $2 million from corrupt transactions, Coakley's office said. Defeo and Arrington arranged for bogus loans, and Namenson presided over corrupt closings and pocketed money that was supposed to pay for title insurance.
INDICTED: If you're a Forrest Gump fan, this case might be one to add to a Bubba Blue list of the various ways to have a Ponzi scheme, instead of the various ways to have shrimp.
John D. Terzakis, 52, of Hinsdale, Ill., and Robert E. Estupinian, 47, of San Jose, Calif., have been indicted in California on 12 felony counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
A company operated by Terzakis and Estupinian — Vesta Strategies of San Jose — was a Ponzi scheme, U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello said. Terzakis was the majority owner of Vesta and controlled its business activities. Estupinian, was the chief executive officer and minority owner of Vesta until December 2007.
The scheme, according to prosecutors, involved the business of being a "qualified intermediary" in tax-deferred, real-estate exchanges under section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Service Code.
Although Vesta promised to hold funds as a qualified intermediary, Terzakis and Estupinian "stole client funds for their own use" and and also "used new client deposits to pay redemptions owed to earlier clients," prosecutors said.
Terzakis was arrested in Illinois. He made an initial appearance before a judge, who placed him on home confinement with electronic monitoring, pending a second appearance Jan. 13. Estupinian was arrested in California. He also made an initial appearance before a judge, and was placed on home confinement with electronic monitoring secured by a $1 million bond. His next appearance is scheduled Jan. 20.
CONVICTED: Oren Eugene Sullivan, 63, of Rock Hill, S.C., has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in a Ponzi scheme.
U.S. Attorney Walt Wilkens said Sullivan admitted that he ran a Ponzi scheme between 1995 and 2008 in which he sold false investments to 35 different individuals or groups of investors.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A 63-year-old man has been sentenced in North Carolina to 10 years in prison for his role in a $70 million Ponzi scheme and for skipping out on for his criminal trial.
U.S. Attorney George Holding announced Wednesday that Michael Young also must pay more than $45 million in restitution after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit mail fraud. Young was in Dubai when his trial was to begin in 2008.
Young was president of Mobile Billboard of America and the last of six defendants to be sentenced.
Prosecutors said the operation promised investors guaranteed monthly checks from advertising revenue on traveling billboards.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued the company in 2004. Investigators found no billboards on sides of trucks.


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15 Camera Shots Every Movie Fan Should Know
Posted on May 19, 2016 September 17, 2017 by Riccardo Basso
An essential part of making a movie memorable is striking the viewer with unusual camera shots and movements. When the first movies were made moving the camera or placing it in a peculiar way weren't contemplated as options, but directors soon started to experiment with movement and other techniques; as the cameras became easier to handle, the variety of shots grew, and with time inventions like the dolly and the steadycam created a new series of possibilities for filmmakers.
It's safe to say that this experimentation on camera shots is still ongoing, due to new cinematic techniques but also because of the directors' never-ending search for new visual tricks to amaze and surprise the viewer.
Through the years a great number of peculiar camera shots have become staples of cinematic storytelling and have been continuously employed by directors both experienced and beginners. Here are 15 of these shots, which every moviegoer should be able to recognize.
1. Arc shot
An arc shot circularly follows a central subject; in other words, it goes around the subject, often in a semi-circle or a full circle, dramatically putting him or her at the center of the action. It can also be described as a tracking shot combined with a round dolly movement.
EXAMPLE: The Matrix (1999)
The most iconic arc shots of recent movie history are probably the ones from The Matrix trilogy where they are used in many fighting and shooting scenes, often combined with the "bullet time" technique.
2. Aerial shot
An aerial shot is taken from the air (very often from an helicopter), usually with a wide camera movement, and gives a "from-above" prospective on the scene's setting. It is often used as an establishing shot, but it isn't uncommon to see it in action sequences as a way to enhance the spectacularity of an "aerial" moment.
EXAMPLE: The Shining (1980)
The Shining's opening sequence displays a beautiful natural setting but also slowly begins to immerse the viewer into the haunting atmosphere of the rest of the movie. Interestingly, this vast and persistently moving panoramic view is an aerial beginning for a movie which will become increasingly claustrophobic and labirintic.
3. Dolly Zoom
A classic and immediately recognizable shot, the "dolly zoom" has many other names, including "Vertigo effect", "push/pull" and "forward zoom". Its visual effect is to keep the subject of the scene at the center of it without changing his size while the background becomes bigger or smaller, depending if the camera zooms out or in. It is used in moments of great emotional participation, usually of fear or shock.
EXAMPLE: Psycho (1960)
The dolly zoom was first used in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, and aptly so due to the its effect of dizziness. The director employed this shot again in Psycho, when the character Arbogast gets stabbed and falls from the stairs; the dolly zoom had to convey a sudden loss of balance and of course the falling sensation as well. In a film with the most iconic murder scene of movie history, it's easy to forget this rather experimental but notable moment.
4. Low-angle Shot
The low-angle shot shows characters from below the eye-line point of view; the camera looks up to a subject, giving it a more dominant presence, hence the fact that the low-angle shot is very often used for framing menacing or scary characters. Sometimes directors choose to go very low on the axis, enhancing the effect and making the subject even more imposing. It's not unusual to have it employed for locations as well, for example to make a city location look as big as possible.
EXAMPLE: Touch of Evil (1958)
Orson Welles' noir masterpiece is driven by the complex and almost shakespearian figure of Hank Quinlan, an ambiguous and powerful police captain. Played by Welles himself, Quinlan is overweight, has a limp, and his shady intentions give every scene he is in a mysterious and aptly noir tone. Low-angle shots are often used in the film in order to make Quinlan even more imposing and in control.
5. High-angle shot
The opposite of a low-angle shot, this technique looks down on a character, and has the effect of making the subject look smaller, often in order to show his powerlessness in the situation. The point of view of the camera can coincide with the one of the character imposing himself against the character seen in the shot.
EXAMPLE: Oliver Twist (1948)
An iconic moment both in literature and cinema, Oliver Twist's plea for "some more" is shown in this 1948 version directed by David Lean with an high-angle shot, making Oliver as pitiful as possible. It is notable how the famous line is immediately followed by a series of low-angle shots of the grown-up characters.
6. Dutch Tilt
"Tilt" is a term used to describe a simple vertical movement of the camera, while "Dutch tilt" or "Dutch angle" is a peculiar variation on the technique by which the angle is rotated from the normal axis, making the lines of the shot diagonal. The shot is quite literally a diversion form the usual point of view, and that is the reason it is mainly used for scenes where the setting needs to be experienced as strange and unusual.
EXAMPLE: The Third Man (1949)
The Dutch tilt's effect of disorientation was used as soon as the 1920's, when directors like the ones from the Expressionist movement started experimenting with camera angles. By the end of the 1940's it was widely known, and director Carol Reed made an extensive use of it in the masterpiece The Third Man, both in eventful scenes and in other calmer moments.
7. Whip Pan
A normal pan is a simple horizontal movement from side to side. The effect is brought to its extreme consequences with the "whip pan", which makes the horizontal movement as quick as possible, to the point of making the image indiscernible. It has a strong action effect, and serves the purpose of transitioning very quickly from a shot to another, or at least from a point of the scene to another. Often used in television as well.
EXAMPLE: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Wes Anderson is known for a series of cinematic techniques he regularly employs in all of his films, among which there are symmetrical shots, tilts, pans, and often also faster pans that can qualify as whip pans.
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'***********************************************************************************************************************
' File Name            : <GROUP_FORM_ACCESS>
' Location             : In-Solutions Global Pvt. Ltd., Malad
' Author               : UNKNOWN
' PADss Created        : <SUNIL PUNDPAL>, Emp. No: <C967>
' Date of Creation     :
' PADss Date           : <28-01-10>
' Description          : GROUP FORM ACCESS
'***********************************************************************************************************************
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Public Class admin_GROUP_FORM_ACCESS
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
    Dim acs As New HelperClass
#Region "DECLARATIONS"
    Dim conn As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings().Item("ConnectionStringV"))

    ' for grid 1
    Dim cmd1 As New SqlCommand("select GROUP_NAME, GROUP_ID, DESCRIPTION from ADMIN_MAPS_GROUP_MASTER ORDER BY GROUP_NAME", conn)
    ' for grid 2
    Dim S2 As String = " select function_code,function_Desc from ADMIN_MAPS_function_master ORDER BY FUNCTION_CODE"
    Dim cmd2 As New SqlCommand(S2, conn)

    'For Module Grid
    Dim cmd4 As New SqlCommand("SELECT MENU_CODE, MENU_DESC FROM ADMIN_MAPS_MENU_LIST ORDER BY MENU_CODE", conn)

    Dim da1 As New SqlDataAdapter(cmd1)
    Dim da2 As New SqlDataAdapter(cmd2)

    Dim da4 As New SqlDataAdapter(cmd4)
    'for select checks
    Dim S3 As String = "select function_code from ADMIN_MAPS_function_master where function_code in (select form_id from ADMIN_MAPS_GROUP_FORM_DETIALS where GROUP_ID=@pUserId2)"
    Dim cmd3 As New SqlCommand(S3, conn)
    Dim da3 As New SqlDataAdapter(cmd3)

    Dim ds1 As New DataSet
    Dim ds2 As New DataSet
    Dim ds3 As New DataSet
    Dim ds4 As New DataSet
    Dim prmUserId2 As New SqlParameter("@pUserId2", SqlDbType.BigInt, 4)
#End Region
#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "
    'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
    <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
    End Sub
    'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer.
    'Do not delete or move it.
    Private designerPlaceholderDeclaration As System.Object
    Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
        'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
        'Do not modify it using the code editor.
        ViewStateUserKey = Session.SessionID
        InitializeComponent()
    End Sub
#End Region

#Region "page_Load"

    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

        'Session("UserCode") = "ADMIN"

        If Session("UserCode") = "" Then
            Response.Write("<script language=javascript>alert('Your Session Has EXPIRE/NOT LOGGED  IN Please Login Again.')</script>")
            Response.Redirect(acs.mapLink(Request.Path))
        End If

        If Not Page.IsPostBack Then

            'Check this user have access right of this page

            Dim strchk As String = acs.CheckSession(Session("UserCode"), System.IO.Path.GetFileName(Request.PhysicalPath))
            'strchk = "VALID"
            If strchk = "INVALID" Then
                Session("HomeFlag") = "N"
                Session("UserCode") = ""
                Response.Redirect(acs.mapLink(Request.Path))
            End If

            da1.Fill(ds1)
            DataGrid1.DataSource = ds1
            DataGrid1.DataBind()
            da4.Fill(ds4)
            DGModule.DataSource = ds4
            DGModule.DataBind()
        End If

        'To enable back btn
        Response.Write("<script language=javascript>window.history.forward(1)</script>")
    End Sub
#End Region

#Region "GRID_Action"
    'Module_Grid Click
    'Datgrid related functions
    Private Sub DGModule_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DGModule.SelectedIndexChanged
        Session("ModlId") = DGModule.SelectedItem.Cells(1).Text.Trim + ""
        DataGrid2.CurrentPageIndex = 0
        BindGrid2()
        DataGrid2.Visible = True
    End Sub
    'To go to selected page in datagrid DGModule
    Private Sub DGModule_PageIndexChanged(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridPageChangedEventArgs) Handles DGModule.PageIndexChanged
        DGModule.CurrentPageIndex = e.NewPageIndex
        da4.Fill(ds4)
        DGModule.DataSource = ds4
        DGModule.DataBind()
    End Sub
    'Group_Grid Click
    Private Sub DataGrid1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DataGrid1.SelectedIndexChanged
        Session("GrpId") = DataGrid1.SelectedItem.Cells(2).Text.Trim
        DataGrid2.CurrentPageIndex = 0
        BindGrid2()
        DGModule.Visible = True
    End Sub
    'To go to selected page in datgrid1
    Private Sub DataGrid1_PageIndexChanged(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridPageChangedEventArgs) Handles DataGrid1.PageIndexChanged
        DataGrid1.CurrentPageIndex = e.NewPageIndex
        da1.Fill(ds1)
        DataGrid1.DataSource = ds1
        DataGrid1.DataBind()
    End Sub
    'To go to selected page in datagrid2
    Private Sub DataGrid2_PageIndexChanged(ByVal source As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridPageChangedEventArgs) Handles DataGrid2.PageIndexChanged
        DataGrid2.CurrentPageIndex = e.NewPageIndex
        BindGrid2()
    End Sub
    'Go to selected page in datagrid2
    Private Sub DataGrid2_ItemCommand(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridCommandEventArgs) Handles DataGrid2.ItemCommand
        Dim dgItem As DataGridItem
        Dim chkSelected As New CheckBox
        For Each dgItem In DataGrid2.Items
            chkSelected = dgItem.FindControl("checkbox1")
            chkSelected.Checked = True
        Next
    End Sub
#End Region

#Region "Buttons_Action"
    Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnsave.Click
        If conn.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then conn.Open()
        Dim dr As DataRow
        Dim flag As Boolean = False
        Dim chkSelected As New CheckBox
        Dim dgItem As DataGridItem
        Dim varFormId As Integer
        Dim cmd3 As New SqlCommand("select function_code  from ADMIN_MAPS_function_master where function_code in (select form_id from ADMIN_MAPS_GROUP_FORM_DETIALS where group_id=@pUserId2)", conn)
        Dim prmUserid2 As New SqlParameter("pUserId2", SqlDbType.BigInt, 4)
        prmUserid2.Value = CType(DataGrid1.SelectedItem.Cells(2).Text, Integer)
        da3 = New SqlDataAdapter(cmd3)
        cmd3.Parameters.Add(prmUserid2)
        prmUserid2.Value = CType(DataGrid1.SelectedItem.Cells(2).Text, Integer)
        da3.Fill(ds3)
        For Each dgItem In DataGrid2.Items
            chkSelected = dgItem.FindControl("checkbox1")
            varFormId = CType(dgItem.Cells(1).Text, Integer)
            For Each dr In ds3.Tables(0).Rows
                If varFormId = dr("function_code") Then
                    flag = True
                    Exit For
                End If
            Next
            Dim prmUserId As New SqlParameter("pUserId", SqlDbType.BigInt, 4, "userid")
            Dim prmFormId As New SqlParameter("pFormId", SqlDbType.BigInt, 4, "formid")
            Dim cmd4 As SqlCommand

            If flag = False Then
                If chkSelected.Checked = True Then
                    'insert selected fn
                    cmd4 = New SqlCommand("insert into ADMIN_MAPS_GROUP_FORM_DETIALS( GROUP_ID,FORM_ID) values (@pUserId,@pFormId)", conn)
                    cmd4.Parameters.Add(prmFormId)
                    cmd4.Parameters.Add(prmUserId)
                    If conn.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then conn.Open()
                    prmUserId.Value = CType(DataGrid1.SelectedItem.Cells(2).Text, Integer)
                    prmFormId.Value = varFormId
                    cmd4.ExecuteNonQuery()
                End If
            Else
                If chkSelected.Checked = False Then
                    'delete unselected fn
                    cmd4 = New SqlCommand("delete from ADMIN_MAPS_GROUP_FORM_DETIALS where group_id=@pUserId and form_id=@pFormId", conn)
                    cmd4.Parameters.Add(prmFormId)
                    cmd4.Parameters.Add(prmUserId)
                    If conn.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then conn.Open()
                    prmUserId.Value = CType(DataGrid1.SelectedItem.Cells(2).Text, Integer)
                    prmFormId.Value = varFormId
                    cmd4.ExecuteNonQuery()
                End If
            End If

            'THIS WILL REBUILD ALL FORMS ACCESS TO ALL USERS  FOR ALL GROUPS
            Dim SDEL As String = " DELETE FROM ADMIN_USER_FORM_DETAIL "
            Dim SINS As String = " INSERT INTO ADMIN_USER_FORM_DETAIL (USERID, FORMID) SELECT A.USER_ID, B.FORM_ID FROM  ADMIN_MAPS_GROUP_USER_MASTER A,ADMIN_MAPS_GROUP_FORM_DETIALS B  WHERE 	 A.GROUP_ID=B.GROUP_ID "
            Dim SCMD As New SqlCommand(SDEL, conn)
            SCMD.ExecuteNonQuery()
            SCMD.CommandText = SINS
            SCMD.ExecuteNonQuery()
            flag = False
        Next
        If conn.State = ConnectionState.Open Then conn.Close()

        Tell.text("Changes Sucessfully saved ", Me)

    End Sub

#End Region
    'Function to bind data to datagrid
    Private Function BindGrid2()
        Dim Sqr As String = ""
        Dim cmd As New SqlCommand
        Dim flag As Boolean = False
        Dim iModId As New SqlParameter("MODID", SqlDbType.BigInt, 4)

        If Session("ModlId") <> 0 Then
            Sqr = "SELECT FUNCTION_CODE,FUNCTION_DESC FROM ADMIN_MAPS_FUNCTION_MASTER WHERE MODULE_CODE =@MODID"
            cmd.Parameters.Add(iModId)
            iModId.Value = Session("ModlId")
        Else
            Sqr = "SELECT FUNCTION_CODE,FUNCTION_DESC FROM ADMIN_MAPS_FUNCTION_MASTER"
        End If

        Dim ds As New DataSet
        cmd.CommandText = Sqr
        cmd.Connection = conn
        Dim da As New SqlDataAdapter(cmd)
        da.SelectCommand = cmd
        da.Fill(ds)
        DataGrid2.DataSource = ds
        DataGrid2.DataBind()
        cmd.Parameters.Clear()
        Dim dgItem As DataGridItem
        Dim chkSelected As New CheckBox
        Dim daa As New SqlDataAdapter
        Dim cmda As New SqlCommand
        Dim dsa As New DataSet
        Dim dra As DataRow
        Dim sGroupId As New SqlParameter("GROUPID", SqlDbType.VarChar, 30)
        sGroupId.Value = Session("GrpId")
        iModId.Value = Session("ModlId")

        If Session("ModlId") <> Nothing And Session("GrpId") <> Nothing Then
            Sqr = " select function_code from ADMIN_MAPS_function_master" & _
                  " where MODULE_CODE= @MODID AND" & _
                  " function_code in (select form_id from ADMIN_MAPS_GROUP_FORM_DETIALS WHERE GROUP_ID= @GROUPID)"
            cmda.Connection = conn
            cmda.CommandText = Sqr
            cmda.Parameters.Add(iModId)
            cmda.Parameters.Add(sGroupId)
            daa.SelectCommand = (cmda)
            daa.Fill(dsa)
            For Each dgItem In DataGrid2.Items
                chkSelected = dgItem.FindControl("checkbox1")
                For Each dra In dsa.Tables(0).Rows
                    If dgItem.Cells(1).Text = dra("function_code") Then
                        flag = True
                    End If
                Next
                If flag = True Then
                    chkSelected.Checked = True
                    flag = False
                Else
                    chkSelected.Checked = False
                    flag = False
                End If
            Next
        End If
        Return ds
    End Function
    'PROCEDURE FOR DISPLAYING ERROR PAGE IF ERROR OCCURS IDURING APPLICATION EXCUTION
    Private Sub Page_Error(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Error
        Dim PhyFilePath As String = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory
        Dim sUser As String = Session("UserCode")
        Dim sLastError As String = Server.GetLastError.Message.ToString
        Dim sStackTrace As String = Server.GetLastError.StackTrace.ToString
        acs.WriteError(sLastError, sStackTrace, sUser, PhyFilePath, "NPCI_Loyalty Group Form Access")
    End Sub
End Class

'***********************************************************************************************************************
'End of <GROUP_FORM_ACCESS>
'***********************************************************************************************************************


We've just come back from a couple of days at the Sports and Outdoor Trade Fair. This is held twice a year, in summer and winter, and is the premier exhibition for manufacturers of gear for the sports world and for a wide range of outdoor activities.
We were looking for ideas for the next collection of Genus garden clothing.
In the winter, the outdoor section shows clothes for skiing, trekking, hill walking, mountain climbing, hunting, and in the summer this is extended to water sports of all kinds.
Well-known outdoor clothing brands such as Jack Wolfskin, Rab, Sprayway, Craghoppers Berghaus and Regatta are regular exhibitors.
It's a very exciting, very busy and very large event. The Genus team came away exhausted, but with lots of ideas and inspiration for new fabrics, new technologies and new aspects of functionality that we can use to create amazing new gardening clothes.


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Q: How to get date time based on Timezone I'm trying to get the date time based on user's timezone.I have tried with
echo date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

It is displaying correct date but the time is incorrect.May be it is taking server's timezone by default.Can anyone suggest me the better way to do it.

A: PHP is a server side language, so basically yo dont have any function that do it. you have to make the user send his time or timezone to you. for example, you can do it with ajax like here, javascript is a client side language that runs on the user computer and gets his time, then sends it to the server.
another way is to get the location of the user by his IP, there are many libraries that do it, for example this one, and create the date from his location

A: you can set default timezone and get time also what you want. suppose you want riyadh timezone then you can get by this code. you can put other timezone also what you want .here is the code
   date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Riyadh');

here is list of timezome
http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

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