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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Mystery & Suspense
Jun 26, 2013 | ISBN 9780307834409
Aug 26, 2003 | ISBN 9780553897449
About Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I
The Complete Novels and Stories
Since his first appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle's classic hero–a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes's adventures in crime!
Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes's famous "seven percent solution" and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.
Also included are Holmes's feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling " The Adventure of the Speckled Band," the baffling riddle of "The Musgrave Ritual," and the ingeniously plotted "The Five Orange Pips," tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
Since his first appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in one eBook, Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle's classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes's adventures in crime!
Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes's famous "seven percent solution" and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes's feats of extraordinary deception in such famous cases as the chilling "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," the baffling riddle of "The Musgrave Ritual," and the ingeniously plotted "The Five Orange Pips."
Volume II begins with The Hound of Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes's feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling "The Adventure of the Red Circle," Holmes's tragic and fortunately premature farewell in "The Final Problem," and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.
Conan Doyle's incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221 B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
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Boy, 12, dies after car hits horse and buggy
The incident happened on Friday evening.
A 12-year-old boy has died after a horse and buggy was struck by a car in southeastern Minnesota.
The incident happened around 7 p.m. Friday on Hwy. 44 near Prosper, Minnesota, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.
On Monday, the State Patrol confirmed that the 12-year-old boy injured in the crash, identified as Joe Mast, has passed away.
There were six people on the horse and buggy, all of them family members, when it was struck by an Oldsmobile Alero around 7:14 p.m. Friday on Hwy. 44 in Fillmore County.
The driver of the buggy, 56-year-old Menno Mast, was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, while Joe Mast suffered critical injuries that would later prove fatal.
There were three other children on the buggy, with ages ranging from 8-12, none of whom were injured.
The State Patrol says that there was no alcohol involved in the incident.
The driver of the Oldsmobile was a 42-year-old man who was unhurt. A 12-year-old passenger in his car was also unhurt.
The State Patrol says the buggy was eastbound on Hwy. 44, with the collision happening as the buggy was making a left turn.
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This blog's main goal is to show what upcycle design is all about. upcycleDZINE wants to be the best resource for finding incredible designers that upcycle objects that normally would have been thrown away. At the beginning of 2018 there are almost 700 designs to be found on this blog.
I've said it several times before, finding new unique upcycle design is to me like getting a present. But finding a design made out of an upcycled object that hasn't been featured yet on upcycleDZINE is like finding a treasure. It always amazes me to see what objects or materials are upcycled into incredible design. And often the design is quite simple, minimalist, which brings me to the expression 'less is more'.
And in that minimalist category we can find today's featured creation called Plate Lamp. The design is by Studio Regev, a creative studio and workshop founded by industrial designer Eyal Regev and based in Givat Brenner | Israel. This upcycle studio also created a stunning minimalist piece called MalKot Lamp made out of upcycled beach racquets.
The studio combines industrial design, design and manufacturing with readymade objects and is specialized in designing very original furniture, lighting, and objects.
Plate Lamp is a cool and minimalist upcycle design lighting piece made out of a car license plate. The original design made use of an old license plate and therefore is pure upcycling.
Eyal Regev also started making a customisable version of this lamp by using new plates which makes Plate Lamp a perfect and original gift. The lamp can be ordered with the number combination of a special date like a birthday, New Year or anniversary.
Regev is a disciple of the 'Ready Made' design art style and practices the restoration and renovation of used objects with a modern vintage twist. The designs are unique, modern and always carry an aesthetic statement. The studio provides custom tailored designs and cooperates with both designers and architects.
Regular visitors of upcycleDZINE or subscribers to the newsletter, may have noticed that there are quite a few upcycle designers living in Israel. I guess some countries are just more into sustainable design and saving the planet than others.
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If you really want to be part of the building of a church community then offer your weakness and limitations freely and openly. A community based on the affirmation of strengths alone produces the falsity of a degraded type of Showbiz at best (the church dominated by gifted celebrities meeting for entertainment), or the evils of Nazi Germany at worst, but not the church of Jesus of Nazareth. Weakness is fundamental to the strength of the community and fellowship the Spirit of God plants and builds. Strengths are a bonus, a gift we can offer, but not as essential to life as the reciprocal gifting of our weakness to one another, a gift we honour with mutual and collective thankfulness.
So then, let your weaknessess shine before the church and the world. Don't despise them or think your witness would be better if only God removed them. Calling the weak!
Have been very grateful to often find people from one church or another visiting my Mum in hospital when I have arrived at the door of her ward. Simple enough but really appreciated and real church. I guess according to the bible if a church is not taking care of widows, orphans the sick, those in prison, the hungry, the poor etc etc., it is not a Church that Jesus recognises as real or one His presence is in. It has no genuine mission in His Name. If it is doing these things, whatever its shape or formation, however lively or dull its reputation, whatever the make up of its membership in terms of age or any other measure, He is there in and through it all.
… one more thing. I hate dog collars with a passion, sorry clerical collars. However, they can be quite useful in hospitals and can lead to interesting conversations, esepcially when you are younger and folk call you over and say, "Aw Son/Missus, can I speak to you?" So, you younger probationer ministers, humble yourself and your perverse pride in the rightness of what others regard as your strange peccadilloes, put on your dog collar and get visiting…and yes I know it doesn't need to be "the Minister" who does the visiting… but don't devalue what a visit from "The Minister' can mean.
The flames of hell became as real as the ground I was standing on in the days leading up to my conversion. Glad to be saved. My wife's background a prior to conversion or knowing each other could not have been more different. However the same grace of God worked in us both by different routes to bring us to the same point : we both, individually, became awware that without Christ, should we die, hell was where we would spend eternity. It was not blood and thunder preaching that brought us to that awarness but the Spirit of God through the black and white reading of the Word of God.
Not sure if it is out yet, but I was blessed to read a manuscript of a book by R T Kendall a few months back called, "Whatever Happened to the Gospel." If you can, get hold of it, or preorder it if it is not yet out. It is a timely call to the Church in a day when it has perhaps lost more than its way in general. It has perhaps, in many of its manfiestations, lost the gospel itself. Nowadays the gospel seems to be more about being saved from my poor self image, from not being recognised, from the hurts of life rather than first and foremost from my own sins which have consequences in time and eternity that only the grace of God can alter. Oh yes, there are more buttons on the garments of salvation than the first one, but let's get the first button in place first and all the others will fall into place too.
Oh that the people of God will be this day the cause of confusion…..
The love of God for lost human beings is something that angels ponder. It is a mystery that they cannot fully understand.
Well, today I woke with this truth living and bursting to be shared: some who read this have caused the devil great confusion. He has thrown everything at you to keep you settled in a place of gloom, and you have indeed been living in a dark place, precious child of God. This morning, like the manager of a hotel, the governor of the prison checked the register of rooms. There was full occupancy last night…but not this morning!
When everything around you seems to be rushing at full pelt….
You may think that everyone, everything, even God's Spirit is whizzing past you, like a train at speed as it goes full pelt through the station where you are standing… waiting. Not so: Wherever the train of life around you, wherever the train of your particular"church" circle is set on going, the Heavenly Father sees His waiting-on-the-platform children and their wondering. Today, you are fully part of His destination. He has no destination in mind that does not involve noticing and responding to your waiting, your longing and the preparation of your heart. The people involved in the rush need you. They need to see what God does for those who wait for Him.
After receiving this soon after waking, I decided to look up the origins of the phrase, "full pelt." No one is completely sure where it comes from it would appear! However, the best bet is that the thought is of moving something by pelting it. It may have a military origin. Moving is good, but not all movement is good. It depends who or what is doing the pelting that is causing the gathering speed. If you are "waiting" at the moment, if that seems to be the persisting tone of your days, one of the most useful things you can do is to pray for those who are doing the moving and the shaking, that they will be discerning as to who or what is driving things forward. The movers need your prayers from a quieter place. They may even find themselves being drawn to you sensing in all their full pelt moving they have lost something they need to find again if the train despite its apparent speed is indeed going to get somewhere other than hitting the buffers.
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Dreamed just as I was waking up this morning that someone was delivering an acceptnace speech for an award, a life time achievement award. It was for their career in "Voiceover." The image lingered. I felt that in it there was a word that would help to sustain the weay, which is part of why I write these blogs.
Voiceover is when someone unseen speaks over what is happening on screen in a film or an advert or speaks off-stage as a narrator in a play or whatever. Or it may be the voice over is the voice of an actual character in a film or play speaking into that role. Voiceover is important. When used properly, it gives sense, interprets, explains what needs to be known but might not be understood without help and guidance.
There is always a Voiceover being spoken into the unfolding events of our lives. The important thing is that we do not allow any old voiceover explanation of the story of our lives. God can help you begin a new voiceover career today, one in which the Holy Spirit in you or You through the Holy Spirit are speaking the interpretative narrative over your own life; a voiceover carrying the truth and tone of the Living God the God of goodness, of redeeming mercy, kind love and purposefulness.
Back to the dream: the acceptance speech. It was a bit like the Oscars, though less emotional and more sincere, with less acting if you know what I mean! Whoever the person was, they were saying a simple "thank you" for all those who had got them started in Voiceover.
Believe me, The Voiceovers are there in every one of us, but they are not necessarily the Voiceovers of the truth of God. Some of us are very fortunate in that the Voiceovers spoken into our lives from earliest days were from loving parents, from encouraging families who may even have deliberatley sought to echo the truth of God into your life. For some there were lots of postive voices like this, but other voices seemed to have a more powerful and detrimental influence. Voiceovers can be sinister. Was that the case for you? Was your dominating Voiceover the ancient career of one who lies and deceives with a forked tongue? That tongue can be terrifying or silky smooth but poison filled either way. The enemy gives false Voiceover narratives to the events of your life, the event of "you", suggesting and reinforcing false outlook and a false understanding of our own identity. Of course, the Voiceover he offers can paradoxically be one of complete silence, that can put a sense of hidden menace into the living of our lives resulting in fearfulness and anxiety.
At some point, whether the Voiceover action of others was good or bad, helpful or a hindrance, we have to begin our own Voiceover career with regard to our life. However, remember that essentially Voiceover does involve a script. What script are you reading and speaking forth this day? May it be true for you and for me that the script we are learning to submit to as Voiceover artists is the one written by the Author of our Salvation and no other.
Woke early, having slept well. Immediate thought was of those of you who are struggling with physical pain, severe physical pain. The mantra that, "Pain is a good thing, it tells you something is wrong; think of the leper etc." does not work. That is more about others finding a cheap answer to the unease in their own faith about your pain.
Please forgive us, the church, for ever minimising your struggle with pain. Praise God for support groups. Often they are fuller of the presence of Christ than a church with impeccable doctrine. There are others near the isolating borders of your pain with nothing to offer but gentle and faithful presence from their own isolating pain.
The fellowship of those who struggle with physical pain is large, bound together by a gentle, "I know," where no one makes condemning suggestions on how you should be thinking or reacting or what you ought to try. Praise God for friendships free of "oughts" and "shoulds." Pain is not the time or place for Christians to "should" on one another. Don't "should" on yourself or others this day. God bless you somehow.
Believing and declaring God's Word over ourselves must go hand in hand with honesty before God in the secret place about what is happening in our hearts, which at times will be in line with the Word we are believing and declaring and at times will be quite different. To hold these ingredients together is to worship in Spirit and in Truth.
Today as I woke I saw that some who will read this, are in fellowships that without meaning to do so, foster dishonesty, demanding a forced brightness and joy in the name of so called 'faith' which isn't! To gain acceptance and approval you have had to mask the distresses of your heart, to mask even that some of you are on the Autism Spectrum, that you have Aspergers, or that you are on antidepressants or antipsychotic medication etc. It is making 'going to church' an increasing experience of what could truly be called terror, to the point of fearing a panic attack may well happen.
I knew this morning that God had seen your distress and has come down to rescue you. I honestly don't know how that rescue will come, but come it will. It may be that God will touch and heal your distresses in what you will recognise as a miraculous way. It may be your fellowship is going to become a safer place for you and others like you as a spirit of control is uncovered, acknowledged and repented of. It may be that God will help you find a gathering you have not yet found that will be like a rescue centre for mistreated dogs; a place of healing where first steps of trust can be renewed in an atmosphere of consistent kindness; a place where the corporate expression of perfect love will cast out every fear of what would happen to you if what you struggle with were to come out and be discovered.
May the gentle touch of God be upon you. Be still, if that is possible for you and be aware His hand is upon you. Even if you cannot be still this day, may the Lord's kind hand be upon you. Whatever you declare today, may you also cast all your anxieties upon the One who cares for you beyond all our combined faith.
Every so often when I was preaching regularly, the Lord would challenge me to step into approaches to that calling that stretched me beyond my comfot zone and pushed me into a new dependence uopon His Spirit. (When I can do what I do with my eyes shut, it probably means my ears are shut to the Lord. My confidence has come to rest in my gifting rather than in the Lord.) I actually find that He does the same with my blogging. I will not bore you by going through the various stages of blogging ventures thus far, but I will share where I think the Lord has me now in this regard.
My blogging started as a substitute for preaching when illness had made it impossible to continue as a parish minister. However as I blogged from that reality as it were, I soon became aware through responses sent to me that there is a vast underbelly in the Christian world full of people who struggle with weakness beyond the norm in one form or another, for whom Church and what Church demands is often beyond the realms of possibility in terms of their phsycial, emotional or even spiritual resources. God gives resources to do His will not other people's will or even the Church's will, where the Church's leadership and will has taken on an authority that has stopped listening to God and stopped being aware of people. It is easy to feel worthless when you are unable to measure up with what is being asked of you. The feeling can arise that you are not making a very good job of this Chrisitan thing.
I hope that may be a thought, a word, that will sustain some of you in your weariness whenever you may happen to read this.
That familiar thought that disturbed you this morning. You woke up feeling good! Then, like a heavyweight punch in the face it came: "Is it my fault that things are like this?" That punch has come so often to a bleeding cut. It is the enemy seeking to stretch you out on the floor. It is the cruel manipulation of your sorrow and grief about what has or has not happened.
Due to technical illiteracy concerning blogging, coupled with general illiteracy about all things web or internet related, I keep forgetting that not all of you are on Facebook and not all of you are on Word Press. I am told if I put something on Word Press first it will automatically appear on Facebook but not the other way round. So then, below I have copied something that has been with me all day and will not go away which has already been posted to Facebook. It will have a niche "market" probably, namely being of interest to those who live or minister in the North of Scotland or its islands. However, it may just interest some of you in other ways, hence its apperance here. Explanation over! I am not saying it is prophetic, but I hope it may do the work of a prophecy in the curch era: that it may strengthen, encourage and comfort the people of God.
While driving up and down the A9 when we lived in the North of Scotland, I was very aware at points in the journey I was crossing in and out of different spiritual territories. For want of a better phrase, I could feel that reality again and again. It was something unrelated to existing formal boundaries, secular or religious. At times I felt a joy in my spirit. At other times, crossing other unseen boundaries a sense of revulsion and darkness. Not so aware of that since moving to the Central belt in 2005. Maybe it is just I am not travelling the length and breadth of the country so often, but just maybe it is because there is something in the plan of God waiting to be released in the North that is very opposed by something not flesh and blood… felt all day I should share that.
Be blessed, you overlooked Northern places. Pray on in faith. Stand your ground. If possible swallow pride and come back into unity where it has been dented. The way back is not always easy. You may get met by suspicion. Humble yourself all the same and there will be blessing in the awkward journey. Some of you need to humbly become sheep again instead of shepherds.
Seek first The Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Pursue holiness in the reverential fear of God. Be submitted to one another in reverence for Christ, in obedience to Apostolic authority and writings in the bible. Listen to no other self-appointed apostolic ministry, in whatever shape or form it comes to you. It is not needed. There is more happening in Northern Places than can be observed with the eye, more than is happening in places further "South" that have the name of being alive. The death around you is real, but where there is death there can be resurrection. That is your hope, the God of Resurrection. Don't think, "it is happening elsewhere, never here." It is happening with you. May God give you open eyes to see the horses and chariots of the Lord around you. You have not much strength but you have not denied the Lord's name and have kept His word. Some have turned away by deliberate choice. Hearts harden and cannot hear pleadings. For some, it may too late. But not for you. Some of you got off the wave and are observers from the shore. It is as though you have not heard there is a Holy Spirit… but you know it was real…you said it once, "It is real." Get on to the wave again. Encourage others who have been discouraged by you. Encourage one another.
Oh yes, one more thing. Is it him, her, or the Lord. You must choose.
You have been chosen in eternity, come for, sought for, died for. You have been bought with a price and are the object of the continuing delight of an eternal love. You are wanted, valued, appreciate by your Father. He proudly owns you as His, delights over you, dances over you to the confusion of angels and archangels who cannot quite see whatever it is He sees in you, but ponder it all the same.
The world won't necessarily reocognise who you really are today, son or ddaughter of God, any more than it recognised The Son. You might meet no one today who will remind you who you really are. So before you leave the house, or before you settle for another day in the house because of disability or illness, or unemploymen,t or age related struggles, or weakness of mind or body of some sort or another, take one more look in that mirror and smile into your own eyes and receive your smile full of the sparkling ife of God looking back at you: "Good Morning, beloved." Jesus Christ gives you the right to say that.
Someone living a shame filled life needs to hear this: It is not a "thus says the Lord" wordy thing, but it came to me in prayer. It may be for you.
I guess there can be all sorts of answers to that. The one that seemed to present itself to me as I pursued my thinking was "loneliness." Each of us are unique. Somewhere in Henri Nouwen's writings he says that the flip side of this uniqueness is aloneness. That aloneness can only find its covering, or allow itself to be naked in the presence of the God who calls each unique person "Beloved." In that place we can treasure and accept our own uniqueness and belovedness and begin to see the uniqueness and belovedness of others. In other words our aloneness has become transformed into fruitful solitude which leads to healthy relationships, intimacy and communion with others. We accept ourselves and others as is. We are able to receive as a gift what others can give rather than get angry at what they have not given us.
However aloneness can become loneliness, which then has the potential to become violent when others do not seem to give me the affirmation I need in order to feel secure and valued.
Bottom line: no one person can give us the depth of affirmation that only God can give.
Don't let shame about your violence stop you coming into the presence of God. It is where you need to be: to hear the word "Beloved." Be at rest there, or sooner or later the violence will erupt again.
This may help someone who reads it. It may help others to understand someone whose behaviour mystifies us now and then.
Siege: a favourite weapon of the enemy in our battle which is not against flesh and blood. A siege cannot work when within impenetrable walls there is water and bread. A "word thingy" for someone?
I hope this blesses those who need blessed by it! It might help and bless you to turn now to Psalm 46 and read it…or sing it!
In the spaces between the molecules of this present age…..
"The Kingdom of heaven is near." Just thinking over difficult moments in my life with regard to that truth. So often at such times I have experienced that truth as the touch of divine gentleness and kindness, as gentle but as real as the brush of a butterfly's wing upon my hair. It is so real as to be tangible. God comes into our sadnesses in this fallen world with kindness that says, "I know, I know….I am with you, with them, in the shadow lands of the coming brightness." The touch of the butterfly wing of God often goes unnoticed even by believers. Should Almighty God not be more substantial than that? Well, He made the butterfly and the lion.
As a charismatic, I love manifestations of the Spirit when they are the real thing. I regret sometimes that all that people seem to accept as being acceptable in such circles is when God steps in to overturn a situation with raw power, though of coruse it is wonderful when He does that and a cause of high praise. There have been claimed manifestations of the roar of the Lion of Judah in recent years in charismatic meetings and occasionally that has been very genuine and changed the very atmosphere of a gathering releasing the roar of God Himself against the enemies of human wellbeing. There has been manfiestation of the Warrior roar crying "Freedom" and very occasionally that has been real as well and more than a sort nationalisitic fervour or release of emotion. We have had macho preaching that has stung like a bee which is once in a blue moon genuinely the Word of the Lord. I have yet to see someone fluttering around manifesting the Maker of butterflies! No doubt that has happened or it will happen in some meeting somewhere and on occasion it will be genuine, but I have never seen that yet. I am not sure why.
An overemphasis of any truth becomes an error that stops people finding what God is actually doing, including the truth I am seeking to set forth here. However, state the truth I must, in the hope that it might just be the particular truth from Jesus that some of you need to hear this very day, a truth that will set you free. Gentle kindness in the midst of an unaltered situation is a wonderful miracle, very precious indeed: indeed to me it is one of the most treasured treasures of the Mystery of the presence of the coming Kingdom. In a world that is often aggressive and intolerant of weakness, a world that gets angry when things don't go according to our wishes and sense of justice, gentle kindness can be very counter cultural, the sign of another Kingdom, another world making its presence known where the moleclues of this world's thinking have become broken, stretched apart, creating many holes through which truth can shine. There are indeed parallel universes intertwined with one another. Faith sees that.
May you taste of the Kindness of the Lord, whoever you are and whatever you are going through: may you help others to taste of that kindness too.
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The perfect decadent and trendy venue for a unique and distinctly memorable wedding in one of the finest locations on Singapore's picturesque Sentosa Island.
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As a wedding venue, W Singapore obliterates conventional standards, offering an outdoor ceremony with a full view of the gorgeous cove. The wedding specialists will cater to the every whim of the happy couple and can even make it possible for the bride and groom to make a spectacular arrival in a luxury yacht.
Additionally, the spectacular Great Room is the perfect place to enjoy a marvelous reception in style. This 720 sq.m. hall lives up to its name, providing seating for up to 480 people – its walls shimmer with golden roses and sparkling lights as the petals of floral chandeliers, suspended from the pillarless high ceilings, hang down from above. What wedding at W Singapore – Sentosa Cove would be complete without a spirited celebration at the extraordinary WOOBAR? This is the place to see and be seen and is tastefully highlighted by vibrant colored lighting playing on white hanging seats. Award-winning mixologists create drinks as modern and complex as the hotel itself, as a live DJ provides the entertainment – a perfect ending to the most remarkable extravaganza a couple can have.


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Q: Dynamic html partials - Access Entity Framework property when I only have a string So I'm not even certain that I'm approaching this the correct way, so if not, please, by all means suggest another approach.
The situation is that I would like to have a main View, with 1 of multiple child views that will change dynamically. For simplification, let's say my main object/entity is "person", which has typical person fields like first name, last name, etc. it also has optional relationships to other tables which contain profession specific information. So on my pages to create, edit, etc. I'd like to offer a  element with the list of professions, that will dynamically replace some <div id="professionData"> with a strongly typed partial that I've created. This create form would have a single submit which submits the parent and child models.
I've actually got a semi-working solution in place, which on the MVC controller creates a new object based on the type of profession passed in, and hands that off to the partial view as the model.
The problem that I'm having currently is that I'm not sure how to link that child model back to the model used for the main page.
My thought was to just link it on the MVC controller, something like
person.doctorData = emptyDoctorData;

Where person is an instance of the person object(reloaded from EF, from passed in ID)
I've learned how to create my child object dynamically with a passed in string that identifies the type, ie "doctorData"
But I'm not sure how to access the navigation property on person when I only have the string. it'd be nice to be able to do something like.
public PartialView LoadPartial(int personId,string extraDataType){
PersonType person = repository.FirstOrDefault(x.Id == personId);
var extraData = Activator.CreateInstance(extraDataType);
person.Property(extraDataType)=extraData;
string partialURL="Views/Partials/"+extraDataType;
return PartialView(partialURL,person);
}

The CreatInstance is a very sortened version,and won't work in this scenario as is. This is not my actual code, but overly simplified.
The person.Property line is the one hanging me up. Not sure how to set the navigation property only having the string that identifies it.  Plus I'm not even sure this is the "correct" way to go about it.  Once I get back to the view, will MVC properly link, this new person model in the partial, with the one that is in the parent view? will they be properly linked on the submit/post?
Also right now, the partial contains it's own form, but I think I need to take that sub-form out and just include it in the parent view (ie. "Person") form.
The person class, which is generated. We're using the EF DB modeler. would look something like.
public class Person{
public Person();

public int Id {get;set;}
public string LastName {get;set;}
public string FirstName {get;set;}
public string Profession {get;set;}

public virtual DoctorData  DoctorData {get;set;}
public virtual TeacherData TeacherData {get;set;}
public virtual LawyerData  LawyerData {get;set;}
public virtual ClerkData  ClerkData {get;set;}
}

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Why You Should Introduce Your Mom to VoiP Before Sunday
May 8, 2013, 9:49 PM UTC / Source: TechNewsDaily
By Leslie Meredith
Mom loves to talk, and she'll likely get her fill of conversation this Sunday. Mother's Day ranks as the busiest day for making phone calls, as kids of all ages reach out to mom.
A survey released today (May 8) from Rebtel, a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider, showed more than 60 percent of mothers are expecting to hear from their sons and daughters on Mother's Day. In fact, when moms were asked what they wanted most, their top answer was a phone call, beating both hugs and flowers. (Nonetheless, 67 percent of moms still expect to receive a tangible gift. If you've got a new phone in mind, you may be interested to know that more than twice as many moms preferred iPhones to Android phones.)
Even though talk is cheap, or even free, 61.6 percent of respondents said price will have "a major effect" on the length of time they plan to talk. Even so, nearly 40 percent of adult children plan to chat for an hour or more with their mothers. Talking over the Internet, rather than using up minutes on a landline or cellphone, will ease those concerns. But what if your mother isn't familiar with VoIP calling ?
VoIP essentials
Like with calls made between people who use the same cellphone carrier, Internet calls between those using the same online service are free — so you'll want to decide on a provider and set your mother up with the same one, such as Skype, Rebtel or Viber.
Most VoIP services can be used on both computers and mobile devices, including tablets. Before the big day, have your mother install the software on her computer, along with the app for her device. When you install the app on a smartphone, it will ask for access to your address book and automatically add those who already use that service. Otherwise, contacts can be added within an app in the same way that contacts are added to a phone.
Facebook free calls
It may not be necessary to add a VoIP provider if your mom has a smartphone and is a Facebook user. Just last month, Facebook added free calling to its apps for both iPhone and Android, following their debut on Facebook Messenger . It's a little tricky to find, but very easy to use. In Facebook, go to your profile page and tap Friends.
Find your mother, and tap to go to her profile page. Near the top, tap the Message button, which will take you to the messaging interface. Look in the top right corner for a box with an "i" in it, and then tap Free Call. Facebook will ring your mother, and she can answer the call as she would do with a regular phone call, as long as the app is installed on her phone. [ See also: 4 Mother's Day Tech Favors She'll Love ]
Facebook calls and other VoIP service calls will not be deduct minutes from your calling plan, but it will count as data usage. For instance, a one-minute Skype call uses about 3MB of data — but she's worth it.
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Q: How to append a special character in Oracle SQL when an exact match is found in the column Table Details - Has 2 columns ID and MSG_INFO
ID - 1; MSG_INFO Party is carrying gold in a car which is made of gold

ID - 2; MSG_INFO Party is carrying whitegold in a car which made of gold

I want to write a query in which if I search for gold in the MSG_INFO column and if there is an exact match then I append ~ to gold and no action to be performed when there is no exact match.
Expected output
ID -1 ; MSG_INFO Party is carrying ~gold in a car which is made of ~gold
ID -2 ; MSG_INFO Party is carrying whitegold in a car which made of ~gold

A: In Oracle REGEXP, there is no \b pattern to match word boundaries. A commonly used solution looks something like this.
SELECT id,
       REGEXP_REPLACE (msg_info, '(^|\s|\W)(gold)($|\s|\W)', '\1~\2\3', 1,0,'i')
FROM   yourtable;

DEMO
This searches for the word gold at the start of the string, surrounded by a space on either side, end of string, or a non-word character (such as ? or -). \1,\2,\3 represent the characters matched within the 1st,2nd and 3rd parentheses.

A: You can use the REPLACE function. Sample query below.
SELECT REPLACE('gold a gold a  agold  ggolg', ' gold ', '~gold')
  FROM dual;

In your case, the query could be,
SELECT id, REPLACE(msg_info, ' gold ', '~gold')
  FROM your_table;

Note: In the second argument, you can put spaces or not, it depends on you. Also, you can look for more details of the REPLACE function in the internet.


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Svazek obcí Třeština, Stavenice a Police je dobrovolný svazek obcí v okresu Šumperk, jeho sídlem je Třeština a jeho cílem je plynofikace obcí. Sdružuje celkem 3 obce a byl založen v roce 2001.

Obce sdružené v mikroregionu
 Třeština
 Police
 Stavenice

Externí odkazy
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Searching Through That Minor Key is a 2015 album by Nicholas Altobelli.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians
 Nicholas Altobelli - vocals, acoustic guitars
 Salim Nourallah - bass, keyboards, backing vocals
 John Dufilho - drums, percussion
 Rahim Quazi - keyboards, piano
 Joe Reyes - electric guitars
 Paul Slavens - accordion, piano, bells, keyboards
 Laura Scarborough - bells, vibraphone
 Chris Holt - acoustic guitar
 Trey Carmichael - drums
 Jonathan Eisenzoph - cello
 Kim Nall - backing vocals

Production
Salim Nourallah – producer, engineer, mixer
Dave Willingham – mastering
Nicholas Altobelli & Marianne Reed – photography
Trey Carmichael – design
Miranda Vinning - artwork

References

2015 albums


Dear Readers, Temperature is starting to rise; it's time to brace yourselves pertaining to unnecessary health hazards because of the rise in temperature. One of the popular common health problems that a body of a human is actually prone to is food poisoning. For those who have suffered from food poisoning, you'd probably know how horribly unpleasant it is.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, people are prone to get food poisoning in summer, simply because increased temperature permit bacteria to multiply faster. It might be one common problem, but it can be prevented in several ways. While in gentle cases, you can get away with all-natural treatment or medications; certain cases can be severe and might need the individual to be hospitalized.
Food poisoning is probably the food-borne illnesses. it is the result of eating contaminated, spoiled or perhaps toxic food. Contamination associated with food is most familiar during summer considering the higher growth of bacteria that will wreak havoc on your overall health.
A few of the the signs of food poisoning can include nausea, vomiting, water or bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain and cramps and fever. In case these types of symptoms are prolonged, look at the doctor right away.
To prevent food poisoning in the first place, there are some tips which will come handy to you.
It usually doesn't mean that a food-borne illness is going to be triggered by contaminated food; it may also be triggered by the medium through which you consume food, that happen to be your utensils. Regardless of how clean your kitchen is, there's a higher chance of bacteria creating their way on your own crockery. Always prefer washing them just before using to save yourself from getting sick.
Hot temperature can certainly contaminate the food making it toxic enough to result in food poisoning. One of the primary carriers of bacteria consist of leftovers, even though they are kept in the refrigerator. Always cook and consume fresh and make sure the quantity is not an excessive amount of so you do not have to store the leftovers. In case you have some, be sure you heat them well.
Always cooked meals are safe once it's been heat to a sufficient internal temperature which kills bacteria. Cook food completely, especially non-vegetarian foods such as chicken, eggs as well as red meat. We have a tendency to depend on sight, smell or perhaps taste to inform whether the food is cook or not, but the correct way is by using a food thermometer.
Do not keep fresh cooked food for longer than 2 hours outside. Either eat it or store it well under the correct temperature.
Never thaw the foods around the kitchen counter, because it is only going to increase the risk of growth of dangerous food borne pathogens rapidly. Always prefer thawing all of them in the refrigerator first after which use them for cooking.
Sprouts could be a major cause of food poisoning, because the method of sprouting demands warmer temperatures that happen to be ideal for bacterial growth. Avoid raw sprouts and rather saute them and enjoy.
Keep Changing your dish sponges and dish towels frequently; these could be the biggest carriers of bacteria inside your tummy. According to a study by UK based Global Hygiene Council, 60 % of dishcloths all over the world have deadly bacteria like E.coli.
Prefer avoiding uncooked salads or fruits, particularly from outside because they are more prone to bacterial growth. Always consume a fresh bowlful of fruits and vegetables after washing all of them completely.
Apart from following these basic tips, maintaining hygiene will be the utmost important aspect to save yourself from getting sick. Wash both hands frequently and be sure a healthy and happy summer!
Let me know your views on Temperature in the below comments.
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Generally voted for university tuition fees Show votes 11 votes for, 3 votes against, between 1997–2012
Almost always voted against an equal number of electors per parliamentary constituency Show votes 0 votes for, 9 votes against, 1 absence, between 2010–2013
Generally voted for more EU integration Show votes 46 votes for, 4 votes against, 18 absences, between 2006–2014
Almost always voted against increasing the rate of VAT Show votes 1 vote for, 18 votes against, 3 absences, between 2008–2013
Generally voted against reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax") Show votes 0 votes for, 12 votes against, 5 absences, between 2012–2014
Generally voted against replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system Show votes 0 votes for, 2 votes against, 1 absence, between 2007–2015
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This place has shaped my life for the past 28 years, but before that I remember my late father Ken and my mother Eileen, who instilled in me my values, and my late husband Keith, who introduced me to socialism and was a great support for 30 years. I hope that I have remained true to those values. First and foremost, I have been a woman Member of Parliament who did not want to play the boys'...
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Member, Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee (16 Jul 2001 to 13 Jul 2005)
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Social Security) (Women) (11 Jun 1997 to 28 Jul 1998)
Member, Televising of Proceedings of the House Committee (17 Jun 1987 to 16 Nov 1989)
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Climate Change Bill Committee (10 out of 10)
Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill Committee (2 out of 3)
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Universal Partner Dance: One language for all!!!!
Universal partner dance is my Magnum Opus, my big passion. I firmly believe that before spoken or written language, we used a language that consisted of sound and a language of the body. Dance is the combination of these languages. Those basal or underlying layers of communications were probably the reason why we were able to develop culture and subsequently spoken language. The root of it all was body language to music. When dancing, two people talk through the music and bring their interpretation of that together. In our school it is our goal to learn students to dance like this. To teach them this universal language. As there are many forms of spoken language, there are also many forms of partner dances. But the hypothesis is that there is an underlying layer that enables us to be able to do partner dance, going deeper than all specific dance forms, this is universal partner dance. A few implications is actually that if you have rules for a certain dance, they should be valid in all partner dances. No form of dancing is right or wrong, because dancing is always a form of expression. But I find it really interesting to look for that underlying layer as a truth or archetypal partner dance, because it comes very close to communicating on the most basic level.
Ballroom dancing is an example of a scene that has already made a universal system for their dances. All the dances they teach and dance, follow the same principals which brings a lot of advantages. It makes that all the different steps to different rhythms can be learned quite easily. To me, ballroom dancing is not a universal partner dance, but it is an effort to find a system that finds the essence of universal partner dance. We need many more tries to eventually reach it.
to incorporate dances outside of this continent, like for example Latin dances, their dances drifted away from the original dances. Latin dances in ballroom are quite different in aesthetics, in connection, in musicality and dynamics than the original forms. Ballroom developed a different kind of tango to the Argentinian tango, a different kind of samba to the Brazilian samba and a different kind of bolero to the Brazilian bolero. The bolero even got a different name and was named rumba, which is a different dance originated in Cuba. Thereby showing that the system is not complete enough as it was not able to copy other dance forms from a different culture. They left out some essentials and this is logical, because you go from a system that you are comfortable with, but what I find a bit disappointing is that they did not recognise they made a mistake but say: this is the samba. Ballroom helped samba spread all over the world, but it's not the same samba anymore. And in that sense it is very comparable to a dialect of a language. But if you copy the underlying structure it shouldn't change the dance that much. It won't be easy, but that is the idea.
The thing we are looking for is the universal language of the bodies. How do we communicate with our body? Choreography based, you are free to make any kind of shape that you like. It is like a painting. You can paint what you see in nature, or you can paint what you see in your brain. Or you can do a mix of it, you are not bound by it. But the way we communicate when we have a conversation or any interaction is like a game: one asks, the other answers etc. In partner dance, the medium is (the pattern of) the music. It's an interaction between several aspects. Music, hearing, body, floor and then I can communicate with my partner. A lot of people focus on what happens between yourself and your partner and leave out the other aspects of the confinements. That is the contact layer, that is where the fun is so to say, but the other aspects are a cause of what my words can be to speak to you. If I push, I want the same push back at the same moment, in opposite direction. And to my knowledge this is true in every partner dance. If I move, I want you to move. If we feel, we follow. If we look at each other, we mirror. These are a few aspects that are universal in all partner dances. Then there is the law of attraction: if we are close to each other, closed embrace and our bodies touch, there is a certain projection of our weight forward because of our active posture, hip being is above the ball of our feet and not in the middle. Then we go to half open embrace, where we are kind of neutral and most aware of our own body axis. If we go further, we are in open position and the weight of the arms have the feeling of a pulling motion. We are not really hanging backwards and we are still in active position. The line between the partners, the distance determines what we perceive as pressure, as neutral or as pulling and is true in every partner dance.
What you experience in some dances like American style salsa, is danced almost exclusively in open position and you experience mostly a pull. People associate this with: the basic connection is pulling. But the reason why you are using this pulling connection in salsa is because of the distance between the partners in that dance. If you look at tango or kizomba, where you are constantly in closed embrace, people would say that connection means frame and pushing. But this has more to do with being so close to each other. Things that look specific for one dance, are just an overemphasis of one part of that universal rule. So you can say that there is a wide range of connection tools, and some dances only use a small part of the range.
We can emphasise certain parts of the connection with the floor as we can emphasise certain parts of the connection with our partner as we can emphasise certain aspects of the connection with the music. But basically what we are following as we look to the ground, we are following gravity. If we look to the music we are following the rhythm of the beat and of the melody. If we look to our partner, we are mostly following the rules of engagement.
If in partner dance we would work more from that system, it would have great beneficial effects for the students. What you do, is you take one class of dance and you start understanding your body and music. So what you learn in that dance-class you take into every aspect of your life. You learn to communicate and connect with other people. On a small scale you could say that if you take a class of salsa, you also improving your African dance and you also improve your zouk and vice versa. Because the rules or the things that you learn about how to interpret the music, how to connect with your partner and how to carry your body, are essentially universal. And like the example of ballroom, using that method has shown great effectiveness. With that system, you can teach people how to make a conversation in different languages in a short period of time. Now we are having a very intellectual conversation about it, but everybody has the capacity to do and learn this. People can have dyscalculia for numbers, dyslexia for letters and you have amusia for music. But only a very small part of population has amusia. Evolutionary speaking amusia has a great pressure hence is important for survival, but this is very rare so no excuses to not learn to dance anymore!
Universal partner dance is a subject that this year has become a quite important aspect of the system and classes of DA. I will be teaching a few classes at the Dance Academy at CoDarts and will teach some classes in New York about this subject. The structure of DA Dance Festival in June is largely based on this vision and will be a very special festival because of that! Next month we will elaborate on that!!!


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CACI Premier Technology, Inc. v. Suhail Najim Abdulla Al Shimari, et al.
from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
See other cases from the Fourth Circuit.
Supplemental brief of petitioner CACI Premier Technology, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
Supplemental brief of respondents Suhail Najim Abdullah Al Shimari, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Brief amicus curiae of United States of America filed.
The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.
Reply of petitioner CACI Premier Technology, Inc. filed.
Brief of respondents Suhail Najim Abdullah Al Shimari, et al. in opposition filed.
Brief amicus curiae of Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. filed.
Brief amicus curiae of DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar filed.
Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, CACI Premier Technology, Inc.
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 19, 2019)
CACI Premier Technology, Inc., Petitioner, represented by Theodore B. Olson
Suhail Najim Abdullah Al Shimari, et al., Respondent, represented by Baher Azmy
DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar, Amicus Curiae, represented by Lawrence S. Ebner
Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc., Amicus Curiae, represented by Daniel L Russell Jr.
United States of America, Amicus Curiae, represented by Elizabeth B. Prelogar


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The Department of State has designated Ahmad Iman Ali and Abdifatah Abubakar Abdi as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under Section 1(b) of Executive Order (E.O.) 13224. E.O. 13224 imposes strict sanctions on foreign persons determined to have committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.
These designations seek to deny Ahmad Iman Ali and Abdifatah Abubakar Abdi the resources they need to plan and carry out terrorist attacks. Among other consequences, all of their property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with them.
Ahmad Iman Ali is a prominent al-Shabaab commander who has served as the group's leader in Kenya since 2012. He is director of the group's Kenyan operations, which has targeted Kenyan African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops in Somalia, such as the January 2016, attack in El Adde, Somalia. Ali is also responsible for al-Shabaab propaganda targeting the Kenyan government and civilians, such as a July 2017, video in which he issues threats to Muslims serving in Kenya's security forces. Ali has also served as an al-Shabaab recruiter, focusing on poor youth in Nairobi slums, and has fundraised at mosques to support al-Shabaab activities.
In 2015, Abdifatah Abubakar Abdi was placed on the Kenyan government's wanted list of terrorists known or suspected to be members of al-Shabaab. Abdi is wanted in connection with the June 2014, attack in Mpeketoni, Kenya that claimed more than 50 lives.
Terrorism designations expose and isolate organizations and individuals, and deny them access to the U.S. financial system. Moreover, designations can assist the law enforcement actions of other U.S. agencies and other governments. In addition to being designated today by the Secretary of State, Ahmad Iman Ali and Abdifatah Abubakar Abdi have also been listed at the United Nation's Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 751 (1992) and 1907 (2009) concerning Somalia and Eritrea.


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Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,911richard Meyer, As Custodian for Pamela Meyer, Plaintiff-appellant, v. Oppenheimer Management Corporation, Oppenheimer Assetmanagement Corporation, Oppenheimer & Co., Oppenheimerholdings, Inc., A.g. Edwards & Sons, Inc., Thomson Mckinnonsecurities, Inc., Bateman Eichler, Hill, Richards, Inc.,j.c. Bradford & Co., Centennial Capital Corp., and Dailycash Accumulation Fund, Inc., Defendants-appellees, 895 F.2d 861 (2d Cir. 1990)
US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - 895 F.2d 861 (2d Cir. 1990)
Argued Dec. 4, 1989. Decided Feb. 1, 1990
Mordecai Rosenfeld, New York City, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Daniel A. Pollack, Pollack & Kaminsky, New York City (Nancy E. Barton, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, New York, of counsel for Oppenheimer & Co.; Rendle Myer and Allan B. Adams, Hamilton, Myer, Swanson & Faatz, Denver, Colo.; David M. Butowsky, Gordon Hurwitz Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein, New York City, of counsel for Daily Cash Accumulation Fund, Inc.), for Defendants-Appellees.
Before NEWMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and TENNEY,* District Judge.
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
This case involves a challenge to a money market mutual fund distribution plan on the grounds, inter alia, that it violates several provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-1 et seq. (1988) ("the 1940 Act" or "the Act"). The plan was adopted under Rule 12b-1, 17 C.F.R. Sec. 270.12b-1 (1989), promulgated in 1980 by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Plaintiff-appellant Richard Meyer contends that the directors and shareholders should have been informed of preliminary negotiations concerning the sale by one of the owners of its interest in the investment adviser to the fund. Meyer also claims that the distribution plan constituted an unfair burden imposed by the sale of the investment adviser under Section 15(f) of the 1940 Act, that the advisory and distribution fees are unfair under Section 36(b) of the Act, and that the plan violates the stipulation of settlement in a previous lawsuit. We disagree and affirm.
Defendant Daily Cash Accumulation Fund, Inc. ("the Fund"), is a money market mutual fund regulated by the 1940 Act, and Pamela Meyer, for whom Richard Meyer brought suit as custodian (collectively "Meyer"), is a shareholder in the Fund. At all pertinent times, the Fund's investment adviser was defendant Centennial Capital Corporation ("Centennial"). The defendants Oppenheimer & Co. and its subsidiaries (collectively "Oppenheimer")1 owned over half of the voting shares and about 30 percent of the total equity of Centennial. The other 70 percent of Centennial's equity was owned by four stockbroker entities, A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., Thomson McKinnon Securities, Inc., Bateman Eichler, Hill, Richards, Inc., and J.C. Bradford & Co. (collectively "the Brokers").
Since beginning operations in 1978, the Fund has served primarily as a vehicle for the Brokers to offer safe, liquid investments to their customers. The Brokers and their customers thus own over 90 percent of the outstanding shares of the Fund. Centennial, in exchange for a fee based on the Fund's total net assets, has provided investment advisory services to the Fund, including general management and supervision of the Fund's investment portfolio. The Brokers have promoted the sale of Fund shares and have served as the distribution link between their customers and the Fund.
Promulgated in 1980, Rule 12b-1 permits an open-end investment company to use fund assets to cover sale and distribution expenses pursuant to a written plan approved by a majority of the fund's board of directors, including a majority of the disinterested directors, and a majority of the fund's outstanding voting shares. See 17 C.F.R. Sec. 270.12b-1(b). Prior to this Rule, brokers had to bear these expenses themselves.
In the fall of 1981, two of the Brokers, A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. ("Edwards") and Thomson McKinnon Securities, Inc. ("McKinnon"), informed Centennial that several other funds had offered them payments under the new Rule 12b-1 to reimburse the distribution costs resulting from ownership of money market fund shares by their customers. Edwards and McKinnon also indicated that they were considering withdrawing their customers from the Fund unless it adopted a similar Rule 12b-1 distribution plan. Shortly thereafter, Centennial recommended to the directors of the Fund that they consider adopting a 12b-1 plan.
In February 1982, the directors of the Fund decided to propose to the shareholders a 12b-1 plan providing for payments to the Brokers and others of distribution expenses up to 0.20 percent of the net assets of the Fund. On March 25, the directors of the Fund issued a proxy statement concerning the 12b-1 plan, and the shareholders approved the plan at the annual meeting on April 27. After issuance of the proxy statement but before the shareholders' meeting, Meyer instituted the present action.
Meanwhile, without the knowledge of either the Centennial directors or the Fund directors, Oppenheimer & Co. decided to sell several of Oppenheimer's interests, including its share in Centennial. On February 26, 1982, Oppenheimer & Co. retained Lazard Freres to assist in such a sale, and, shortly thereafter, Oppenheimer began negotiations with the British firm Mercantile House Holdings and its subsidiary Mercantile House (collectively "Mercantile"). On May 31, 1982, Oppenheimer and Mercantile entered into an agreement by which Mercantile paid $162 million in exchange for the Oppenheimer holdings, including its interest in Centennial. The agreement was publicly announced on June 1. The directors of the Fund first learned of the proposed sale of Oppenheimer's interest in Centennial to Mercantile around the time of the June 1 public announcement. None of the Fund's independent directors had knowledge of the proposed Oppenheimer sale, therefore, when they approved the 12b-1 plan in February 1982.
On June 7, 1982, pursuant to Section 15(f) of the 1940 Act, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-15(f), the Fund's board of directors approved a new investment advisory agreement between the Fund and Centennial to reflect the change in ownership of Centennial. As required by Section 15(f), the board found that the sale to Mercantile would not impose an unfair burden on the Fund. On June 21, the board issued a proxy statement describing Oppenheimer's sale of its interest in Centennial and the new advisory agreement, and on July 2 Meyer amended his complaint to seek to enjoin the sale or to require in the alternative that the profits of the sale accrue to the Fund and not to Oppenheimer. On July 27, the board of the Fund considered Meyer's claims and concluded that they were baseless. The shareholders approved the new agreement on July 29, 1982.
The parties to the present appeal have been involved in litigation for many years. Meyer filed a shareholder derivative suit against most of the defendants in 1980, charging that the management fee was excessive and therefore violative of Section 36(b) of the 1940 Act. See Meyer v. Oppenheimer Management Corp., 609 F. Supp. 380 (D.C.N.Y.1984) ("Meyer I "). Meyer I was settled in 1981, and the parties agreed in a settlement stipulation to a reduction in the advisory fee with a promise not to raise it without court approval for five years.
The instant action is a shareholder derivative suit by Meyer alleging that the distribution plan proposed in the 12b-1 proxy statement violated the Meyer I stipulation of settlement and that the advisory and distribution fees were excessive. The district court dismissed the complaint but we reversed and remanded. See Meyer v. Oppenheimer Management Corp., 609 F. Supp. 380 (S.D.N.Y. 1984) (Sofaer, J.), rev'd, 764 F.2d 76 (2d Cir. 1985) ("Meyer II ").
After a trial on remand, the district court held that the proxy statements regarding the 12b-1 plan and the sale were not materially misleading, see Meyer v. Oppenheimer Management Corp., 707 F. Supp. 1394, 1406-09 (S.D.N.Y. 1988) (corrected version; originally published at 691 F. Supp. 669), and that Oppenheimer had no affirmative obligation to inform the Fund's directors of their plans to sell its interest in Centennial, see 707 F. Supp. at 1408-09. The court further held that the sale did not impose an unfair burden on the Fund in violation of Section 15(f) of the Act, see id. at 1406, and that the 12b-1 plan did not violate the stipulation of settlement in Meyer I because that settlement dealt only with advisory fees and not with distribution or administrative fees, which were provided without charge by Centennial for the stipulated five years, see id. at 1402-05.
The district court also held that the fees did not violate Section 36(b) of the Act. See id. at 1405-06. Shortly thereafter, however, it was discovered that the parties had previously stipulated that the Section 36(b) issue would be reserved for later resolution. Consequently, the district court filed an amendment and memorandum opinion dated July 15, 1988, in which it stated that, "in light of the parties' stipulation that the issue of fairness under section 36(b) of the Investment Company Act be reserved for later resolution, the portion of the opinion relating to Sec. 36(b) is dicta." Id. at 1405 n. 1. An amended judgment, dated July 20, 1988, was entered on July 22, 1988. Then, in an opinion dated June 13, 1989, the district court held that the 12b-1 and advisory fee payments were not excessive in violation of Section 36(b) of the Act, Meyer v. Oppenheimer Management Corp., 715 F. Supp. 574 (S.D.N.Y. 1989), and final judgment dismissing the complaint was entered on June 23, 1989. Meyer now appeals from both judgments. We affirm in an opinion that, if ever cited, is probably fated to be known as "Meyer III."
We turn first to Meyer's argument that the Fund directors and the shareholders should have been informed of the potential Oppenheimer sale of its interest in Centennial before they approved the 12b-1 plan. In particular, Meyer claims that failure of Oppenheimer to inform the Fund's directors of the sale and the omission of information about that sale from the proxy statement are material non-disclosures that invalidate the 12b-1 plan.
Rule 20a-1, promulgated under the 1940 Act, 17 C.F.R. Sec. 270.20a-1, makes Section 14(a) and related provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78a-78ll (1988), applicable to proxy statements issued under the 1940 Act. Moreover, Rule 12b-1(d), also promulgated under the 1940 Act, states that
[T]he directors of [an investment advisory] company shall have a duty to request and evaluate, and any person who is a party to any agreement with such company relating to [a 12b-1 distribution plan] shall have a duty to furnish, such information as may reasonably be necessary to an informed determination of whether such plan should be implemented or continued; ... the directors should consider and give appropriate weight to all pertinent factors....
17 C.F.R. Sec. 270.12b-1(d) (emphasis added).
If the potential sale was material to consideration of the adoption of a 12b-1 plan, then Oppenheimer should have informed the Fund's directors about the sale, and the proxy statement should have included pertinent information. Cf. Basic Inc. v. Levinson, 485 U.S. 224, 108 S. Ct. 978, 99 L. Ed. 2d 194 (1988); Kronfeld v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., 832 F.2d 726 (2d Cir. 1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 1007, 108 S. Ct. 1470, 99 L. Ed. 2d 700 (1988). However, the sale of Oppenheimer's interest in Centennial was irrelevant so far as approval of the 12b-1 plan was concerned. The district court found that the plan was "proposed to meet the competition and to counter the intention of the Brokers who accounted for 90% of the Fund's assets to leave the Fund." 707 F. Supp. at 1407. The record amply supports this finding. Approval of such a plan had become a matter of sheer economic necessity as a result of the promulgation of Rule 12b-1. A drastic and rapid reduction of the Fund's asset value by withdrawals would have forced the investment adviser to make financially damaging decisions and would have raised costs to the individual shareholders. Meyer may or may not be correct in his assertion that shareholders in a money market mutual fund are indifferent to asset size, but it cannot be denied that an enormous and rapid shrinkage in asset size is potentially very damaging. The Fund might, for example, be forced to dispose of assets prematurely or to make other decisions reducing the financial return in order to meet redemption calls. Lower total assets would also result in a higher effective advisory charge to remaining shareholders because of the economies of scale of fund management. In short, adoption of the 12b-1 plan was essential to the financial well-being of the Fund.
The potential sale of Oppenheimer's interest in Centennial was thus irrelevant to the shareholders' and directors' decisions to adopt the 12b-1 plan. It is true, as Meyer argues, that Oppenheimer's interest in Centennial would have been worth less if the 12b-1 plan were not adopted because the loss of virtually all of the Fund's assets would necessarily reduce the advisory fees. The fact that Oppenheimer might also have suffered from the Fund's loss of assets, however, would in no way affect the consideration of the merits of such a plan by the shareholders and directors because that plan was independently essential to the Fund's well-being whether or not the sale of Centennial facilitated its adoption.2
For similar reasons, we reject the contention that the sale of Centennial imposed an unfair burden on the Fund in violation of Section 15(f) of the 1940 Act. Congress enacted Section 15(f) in 1975 to limit the impact of our decision in Rosenfeld v. Black, 445 F.2d 1337 (2d Cir. 1971), cert. dismissed, 409 U.S. 802, 93 S. Ct. 24, 34 L. Ed. 2d 62 (1972), which held that a fund could recover the profits realized by a former investment adviser from the transfer of its business to its successor. See S.Rep. No. 75, 94th Cong., 1st Sess. 71, reprinted in 1975 U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News 179, 249. In Section 15(f), Congress provided a means by which investment advisers might earn a profit upon the sale of the fund to another adviser, subject to two safeguards.
The first safeguard, which is not pertinent to this appeal, is a requirement that 75 percent of the adviser's directors be independent for three years after the transaction. See 15 U.S.C. § 80a-15(f) (1) (A). The second safeguard, which is very much at issue, requires that
there is not imposed an unfair burden on such company as a result of such transaction or any express or implied terms, conditions, or understandings applicable thereto.
15 U.S.C. § 80a-15(f) (1) (B). Section 15(f) also provides that
an unfair burden ... includes any arrangement, during the two-year period after the date on which any such transaction occurs, whereby the investment adviser ... receives or is entitled to receive any compensation directly or indirectly ... for other than bona fide investment advisory or other services.
15 U.S.C. § 80a-15(f) (2) (B). Meyer argues that the 12b-1 plan in this case constitutes just such an "arrangement" under Section 15(f).
Section 15(f) states that the alleged unfair burden must be "a result of" the sale. To succeed, therefore, Meyer must demonstrate that the 12b-1 plan was adopted "as a result of" the Oppenheimer-Mercantile transaction. As discussed above, that showing cannot be made in the instant case. Adoption of the 12b-1 plan by the Fund's directors and shareholders was a matter of economic necessity. The Fund directors approved the 12b-1 plan in February 1982 in ignorance of Oppenheimer's plans to sell its interest in Centennial and were reacting solely to the risk that the Brokers would withdraw from the Fund. This risk was, as stated, completely independent of the proposed sale of Oppenheimer's interest in Centennial. The plan was thus in no way "a result of" that sale.
We now turn to the question whether the advisory fees and the 12b-1 fees were excessive under Section 36(b) of the Act. We reiterate that the relevant judgment on appeal is the judgment entered on June 23, 1989, entered pursuant to the opinion dated June 13. In that opinion, the district court held that aggregation of the fees was not necessary and that the individual fees were not excessive. 715 F. Supp. at 577. We agree.
Section 36(b) of the Act imposes a fiduciary duty on investment advisers and "affiliated persons" regarding "the receipt of compensation for services, or of payments of a material nature." 15 U.S.C. § 80a-35(b). An advisory fee violates Section 36(b) if it "is so disproportionately large that it bears no reasonable relationship to the services rendered and could not have been the product of arm's-length bargaining." Gartenberg v. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc., 694 F.2d 923, 928 (2d Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 906, 103 S. Ct. 1877, 76 L. Ed. 2d 808 (1983).
In Meyer II, we stated that " [a] claim that payments made under Rule 12b-1 are excessive when combined with advisory fees, where both payments are made to 'affiliated persons' of an investment adviser, is cognizable under section 36(b)." 764 F.2d at 83. This statement stands only for the proposition that the costs of 12b-1 plans involving such affiliates as well as advisory fees are subject to review under Section 36(b). Were such review not available, investment advisers might be able to extract additional compensation for advisory services by excessive distributions under a 12b-1 plan. The statement does not, however, stand for the additional proposition that 12b-1 payments to an adviser's affiliates are to be aggregated with advisory fees to determine the merits of a Section 36(b) claim. The two kinds of payments are for entirely different services, namely advice on the one hand and sales and distribution on the other. If the fee for each service viewed separately is not excessive in relation to the service rendered, then the sum of the two is also permissible.
In the instant case, the district court found that neither payment was excessive. In its June 15, 1989, opinion, it incorporated the factual findings of its earlier opinion that no evidence existed to show that the amounts paid to Centennial were "atypical or excessive," 707 F. Supp. at 1405. See 715 F. Supp. at 575 (adopting prior factual findings). It further found that the 12b-1 payments were "a matter of economic survival and fair in light of the objectives of the settlement." 707 F. Supp. at 1404. In its June 15, 1989, opinion, the district court amplified its findings with profit and cost figures drawn from testimony credited by the court. See 715 F. Supp. at 575-76. Although Meyer challenges the figures, the district court found them reliable, a finding that was not clearly erroneous.
Finally, we reject Meyer's claim that the 12b-1 plan violates the stipulation of settlement in Meyer I. Meyer argues that the settlement stipulation was contingent on Centennial's continued absorption of all administrative costs in connection with the Fund. The 12b-1 plan, his argument continues, shifted such costs from Centennial to the Fund and thereby impermissibly altered the terms of the stipulation. Although we noted in Meyer II that the 12b-1 plan would violate the settlement if "either (a) the Fund must now pay for services that Centennial had agreed to perform under the settlement, or (b) the settlement fee is no longer fair because it was predicated on the Fund's not having to pay for certain administrative services," 764 F.2d at 81, the findings of the district court on remand demonstrate that neither condition exists. The settlement stipulation involved only investment advisory fees, not administrative costs. Because the 12b-1 plan involves only distribution costs, it does not encompass payments for services Centennial had agreed to perform under the stipulation. It is true that the parties did refer to certain administrative expenses during the settlement negotiations. These were home-office administrative costs, however, and there is thus no overlap between the administrative costs on which the stipulation was arguably based and those reimbursed under the 12b-1 plan. Finally, the costs mentioned were in fact borne by Centennial during the five-year period stipulated by the settlement. See 707 F. Supp. at 1404. Consequently, the 12b-1 plan is consistent with the settlement in Meyer I.
The Honorable Charles H. Tenney, District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation
Oppenheimer & Co. (now named Odyssey Partners) owned almost all the outstanding shares of Oppenheimer Holdings, Inc., which owned almost all the shares of Oppenheimer Management Corporation, which in turn owned almost all of Oppenheimer Asset Management Corporation. All four entities, among others, were named as defendants and now appeal
In fact, although it is not pertinent given our disposition of this case, the record would support a finding that, given the size of the entire Oppenheimer/Mercantile transaction, Centennial's role in the transaction was inconsequential. An Oppenheimer partner testified that the sale by Oppenheimer of its 30 percent share of Centennial was of "minuscule" importance to the transaction. Moreover, Mercantile never sought, and Oppenheimer never gave, a guarantee of the Fund's asset level. Mercantile thus appears to have been indifferent to the risk of a sudden reduction of Fund assets
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Redskins cornerback Shawn Springs intercepted a pass by quarterback Drew Brees and returned it to the Chargers 31 with about a minute remaining in the fourth quarter and the score tied 17-17. But Rabach was called for holding two plays later, sending the Redskins back to the 35-yard line.
"Still, we were sitting there at the 35, and it's something that we work on all the time — getting back into good field goal position," coach Joe Gibbs said. "We wound up losing an opportunity."
Clinton Portis was stopped for no gain on second-and-14, and Mark Brunell threw incomplete on third down. That forced John Hall to attempt and miss what would have been a game-winning 52-yard field goal with 30 seconds remaining.
"Casey made a ton of plays for us, and you hate that the focus is on something like the penalty," said Gibbs, who didn't object to the call.
Before watching the play on video yesterday, Rabach said, "I didn't think it was [a penalty]. We were both hustling — I was hustling to cut him off, and he was hustling to make a play. We got kind of tangled up, and I fell onto the back of him. I don't know if I grabbed him or not."
Rabach said his heart "dropped" when he saw the flag thrown in his direction.
"We've practiced that play 100 times," he said. "We were in field goal range, and it kills you when something like that happens. … It was a basic play. But a bad thing obviously happened."
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Receiver James Thrash (hamstring), who did not play against San Diego, has been ruled out for Sunday.
Running back Ladell Betts (knee) is likely to miss a third straight game.
"It's definitely getting stronger because I can walk fine now," he said. "But it's the [same] story until I try to plant and cut on it."
H-back Mike Sellers (rib) intends to return against St. Louis after missing the Chargers game.
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Taylor Jacobs got his first start of the season against San Diego and had four catches for 44 yards. His two biggest catches were a 17-yard play on third-and-8 and a 13-yard reception on third-and-12 that kept drives alive and set up two Redskins touchdowns.
"For me, [Oakland] was like my first preseason game because I saw consistent action down after down," Jacobs said. "Every week I feel I'm going to get better.
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Santana Moss' 65 receiving yards against San Diego put him over 1,000 yards (1,053) for the second time in his five-year career. He had 1,105 yards in 2003 for the New York Jets.
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