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Normally in our sport when one hears the term "Triple Crown" we think of the poise, elegance, and ringmanship of a stand out equitation rider who had just swept the NHS Good Hands Finals, UPHA Senior Challenge Cup Finals and the USEF Medal Finals. While there were plenty of highly qualified equitation stars at this year's American Royal, a Triple Crown winner did not materialize. In fact, three different riders won the separate jewels which make up the crown.
This year the term Triple Crown applied to the performance division. With two different superstars pulling off the historical feat it gave the UPHA/American Royal a triple double to borrow a term from the basketball world if you will. The last open performance Triple Crown winner was the ever popular Wild-Eyed and Wicked in 2000 and before that it would have been in the early 1990s with Five-Gaited World's Grand Champion CH Callaway's New Look and Fine Harness World's Grand Champion CH Roselawn's Secret Rhythm. It takes an exceptional horse and lots of luck for everything to go just right on the championship nights of these three industry icons.
Everything did fall into place for Chris Reiser and An Heir About Her as they paraded down the green shavings of Kemper Arena as the Three-Gaited National Champions. So precise. So four-cornered. So effortless. No horse in history has been able to do what she has done. In addition to her National Championship at the American Royal, the Supreme Heir daughter has seven unanimous world's champion titles at the age of five.
"It has been an incredible run," said owner Steve Hanes. "We are still so new to this it's hard to grasp what she has accomplished. It has been a lot of fun. She amazed us the first time we saw her at Joan Lurie's and she still amazes us every time we see her, which isn't that often."
It has also all fallen into place this year for the Stonecroft Farm bred CH Boucheron. The son of Shamrock Santana and Whata Jewel Whata Jewel gets the award for Most Improved Player, an award most thought would never be necessary.
We all witnessed Boucheron's sensational athleticism as the Junior Five-Gaited World's Grand Champion of 1997 and thought most assuredly he was the next "great one." The following two years he won the Five-Gaited Gelding World's Championships but could never get over the hump to win the big one, more often that not, beating himself.
The faith of the Groub family and trainer Rob Byers never wavered that one day they would find the right key, push the right buttons. Find the right combination. Boucheron and Byers turned the corner before a packed house of screaming well wishers at the Red Mile on July 17, 2004 to win the Lexington Junior League Five-Gaited Championship. Four months later and a Five-Gaited World's Grand Championship and a Five-Gaited National Championship have elevated them to a status that very few have known before.
That last jewel wasn't the easiest, as a healthy stake night crowd in Kansas City breathed a collective sigh of relief for Boucheron and Byers when at the end of the second way trot it looked like the gelding might get rattled again. False alarm. Byers put him right back to the rail for the slow gait and then applied the gas at his trademark rack to drive a deep nail into the proverbial coffin. Other than the six riders in the ring that were also giving it their best to win a national championship, and maybe those riders' owners, the entire house was thrilled for the Byers/Groub team. Besides giving us an incredible display of power and talent, it was a feel good story we all long for...faith and hard work does pay off.
"He was a little tighter here because of the size of the ring. If he gets panicky he could go back to his old ways," said Byers. "The first few times I worked him he had a little trouble coming down this ramp. I think he was feeling a little claustrophobic. He doesn't like to be closed in or confined.
"Not a lot changed between Louisville and here as compared to between Lexington and Louisville. I worked on having a better slow gait and not just getting through my gaits. My biggest challenge was getting him flexible on the right side and that has gotten better and the curb bit is now usable. He's a little more tuned into me."
Boucheron and Byers have been such a success story for the whole industry that sometimes their competition has been forgotten. Boucheron not only behaved, he put on some performances this year that rank right up there with some of the best ever and had to as there have been a host of campaigners trying to knock him off his pedestal. Right at the top of that list is 2003 World's Grand Champion CH Callaway's Forecaster with Nancy Leigh Fisher.
"After the classes are over then I can look back and think about the horses and the great riders I was competing against. It's an honor to be in that company, especially with someone like Nancy Leigh [Fisher]. She's such a strong, yet classy competitor. You know she's going to be riding to beat you." Triples and the numeral (3) seemed to play a major role throughout the week, a week that turned out to be the greatest American Royal in recent history. Manager Fern Bittner and UPHA President Randy Harper and their Royal/UPHA team put on an event that was every bit a National Championship Horse Show. It has gone far beyond just calling its winners National Champions; the physical conditions, the entertainment factor, and the competitiveness continue to escalate to a step above.
"Everyone worked together. Trainers, owners, exhibitors, they were all outstanding," said Harper. "One big group brought this show together. I can't say enough about the teamwork between the Royal and the UPHA. We had a few problems at the first of the week that got ironed out. Grounds manager Bob Wolfe is an incredible asset to this show. He goes above and beyond the call of duty.
"And besides the horse show, the sale [UPHA Classics Incentive Yearling Sale] was fantastic," continued Harper. "We [the UPHA Sale Committee] were very nervous but thought this could work. We were thinking, 'If we could average $5,000 that would be successful.' Then it comes through with an average of over $11,000 with the top colt bringing $100,000. It was great. Fern [Bittner] and the Royal were very considerate to let us do this on a trial basis. We're obviously going to have it here again next year. The committee couldn't be any happier."
As UPHA President, Harper was on the front lines working with Bittner to ensure this was a show of the highest quality. With an illness in the Frickey family, Harper was not showing here this week. The Frickey Farm ponies were sorely missed as that division was the only light spot in a deep show, but Harper didn't have a vacation with the Frickey entries staying home.
"I found out I would have been a lot less busier if I had been here with a large string of ponies," chuckled Harper. "It was a great learning experience from this side of the fence. Jim [Taylor], Chuck [Herbert], Jimmy [Robertson], John [Jones], Larry [Bacon], and the Royal staff, we were all trying hard to make a lot of people happy with what we were doing.
"The exhibitors have responded. Some of those Saddle Horse classes were every bit as good as Louisville. And the Saddle Horse Classics were phenomenal. There were horses that left the ring without ribbons that will be winning good classes next year."
Outside of Stake Night at Louisville and Lexington, Thursday night at Kansas City is probably the most exciting night of the show season in the Saddlebred world. The Dabora/UPHA Classic Grand Championships were featured and Saddlebred exhibitors came in droves while the pony segment suffered for no apparent reason. Outside of the usual small handful of Royal supporters from the Hackney ranks, the majority of that industry does not/has not come to Kansas City.
That numeral three that was mentioned earlier, in relation to the Triple Crown performances of Boucheron and An Heir About Her, was also relevant to the UPHA Classic Championships in reference to John Conatser winning three of the eight big monied championships. The Fine Harness, Three-Gaited, and Harness Pony Classic Grand Championships (see UPHA Classics story in this issue) all returned to Conatser's Carriage Lane Farm after Howie Schatzberg shot the winning victory passes. To make it even better all three were unanimous and all three were for different owners.
"I'm really thrilled and yet humbled by this," said Conatser a week after it had time to sink in. "There are a lot of guys out there working just as hard. I'm not any better nor any worse a trainer than I was a year ago. It just all came together at the right time for this group of three-year-olds. I have some great owners behind me and we thought we had a chance to do well but there are always so many variables."
Another element was added to the already prestigious Classic Grand Championships which were sponsored for the first time by Dabora Inc (Saddle Horse Report/Horse World Magazine/World Champion Horse Equipment). This was the first year added money from the UPHA Classics Incentive Sale was up for grabs. Two former consignments from that first sale split the $20,000 in added money, with Marching Orders and Mystic Pointe going home with an additional $10,000 each on top of the regular payouts. More than $134,000 in prize money, not including the incentive money, was awarded in the eight Classic Championships.
Just as three was a great number for Conatser, it made Andy and Lynda Freseth equally as happy. When their usually successful week was completed they had three different entries that won National Championships for the third consecutive year. Two of the three (CH The Shadow Knows, Callaway's Pretty Penny, Pacifico's Standing Ovation) had unanimous championships and the third collected two of the three first place votes.
"It wasn't a bad day was it," smiled Lynda Freseth at the conclusion of the Saturday afternoon session.
You could say the same thing for Jeff and Mary Gaylord McClean and their Golden Creek Farms stock. It was that number (3) again. This time it belonged to the little dynamo, Joan Jett. She marched as the Amateur Harness Pony National Champion for the third consecutive year with this one again being unanimous for driver Mary McClean and trainer Tom Lowry.
The judging panel that crowned the 2004 National Champions also played a big part in the overall success of this year's show. Several had questioned why the Royal would hire three judges that usually bring lots of horses to the show. That question was soundly answered as exhibitors responded with the largest number of entries to date (785).
In the Saddlebred and Road Horse divisions, Nelson Green, Pat McConnell and Melissa Moore kept the well filled and competitive classes moving. In the pony classes Larry Ella joined Green and McConnell on the panel. Nancy McConnell, Green, and Lynn McNamara oversaw the Royal's equitation division, while Cecile Hetzel Dunn, Barbe Smith, Lisa Richardson, Ellen Beard-Arnold, Michael Craghead, Maria Gilman, and McNamara presided over the different Equitation National Finals. The judging panel was assisted by veteran ringmasters Marion VandeWall and Kent Moeller.
While not overshadowed by the performance division the prestigious National Equitation Finals and American Royal Saddle Seat Equitation Championship which usually take most of the spotlight, were rivaled by incredible performance class after incredible performance class. Proving to be the finest from the Horsemanship Class of 2004, Brittany McGinnis, Kyle Gagnon, Brittany Rock, Kelsey Nicole Smith, and Ashley Alden earned their ink in the annals of equitation history.
It's been a while since the regular open/amateur/junior exhibitor classes at the Royal ranked up there with the Equitation Finals and the UPHA Classics. It has been getting steadily better over the past few years but this was at a level far and above.
The Ladies Five-Gaited Championship and ladies gelding qualifier were superb with names like Title Bound, Callaway's Born To Win, Amusing, Summer Sweet, Mahvalous Asset, Time Well Spent, and Jaunty Janette. Led by the legendary CH Blackberry Delight and last year's national champion Heir To A Star, 18 battling for the Junior Exhibitor Three-Gaited Championship were unbelievable. Of the five entries in the Ladies Fine Harness class, any of the five could have won on a given day. Kalarama's New Sensation did so on this day.
Pas de Deux and Callaway's Merry Go Round facing off in the Ladies Three-Gaited Championship. Callaway's Sugarplum and Callaway's Halleys Comet in the amateur championship; Gone Platinum and Kalarama's New Sensation in the Fine Harness Championship; titans collided every time you looked up.
The Amateur Fine Harness Championship had Metro Heirea, Candle Dan, Harlem's Santa Fe, and Callaway's Head Over Heels in the first four ribbons. Swish and Boo! going head to head with a ring full of other amateur gaited contenders made you want to jump in a saddle and experience the sensation Carol Hillenbrand and Barbara Goodman Manilow must have been having.
From the Amateur Road Pony Championship Seamair Strutter, Heartland Sundust, and Dun-Haven Awesome Image were the top three. It would take more than a couple hands to count the world's titles among them.
"Class after class there were two, three and four world's champions competing against several others who have won classes at major shows," said Randy Harper. "You've got horses like that, there's going to be excitement."
Continuing the highlights, John Biggins brought the house down with the now arguably greatest two-year-old of all time, New York's Perfect Gift. Sarah Sessoms became the youngest rider to ever win the large and highly competitive Five-Gaited Show Pleasure National Championship. Judy McNeish broke the gender barrier and won the Roadster To Wagon Championship and the Amateur Roadster To Bike Championship.
"In all of the years of being a part of this show, whether it be as an exhibitor, judge, steward, or manager, I've never seen the quality like it was this year," said Fern Bittner.
Variety is what makes the UPHA/American Royal such a special show. Right there with all of the different national championships/finals is the AHHS Youth Medallion program. Designed to promote the Hackney breed to youth, the National Championships were again held at the Royal with ecstatic junior exhibitors and their ponies crowned in the road pony (two age groups), Hackney/Harness Combo, pleasure driving, road pony under saddle and pleasure under saddle divisions.
While the Royal has grown to attract the top horses and ponies from across the nation there is still a good portion of the show dedicated to the Missouri/Kansas exhibitors. The famous Mo-Kan classes were competitive in all sections highlighted by the Mo-Kan Tom Bass Memorial Five-Gaited Stake which was won by John Wallen and Absolute Starheart.
Some of the best of the Missouri breeding programs were also on display and for a pretty good payout I might add. Jammin Gypsy (by Gypsy Santana) won $11,000 with his performance in the Missouri Breeders Challenge Weanling Stake. Max Ciampoli made the winning presentation for Paul Diekmann.
Over the years the Royal has been known to work outside the box and get away from the traditional horse show routine. Country music concerts and FFA students used to fill the arena. There has also been a Concert of Champions in which the Kansas City Youth Symphony and stars from the show horse world shared the stage to a packed house. Small orchestras have also played for the weekend evening performances.
This year it was nothing as dramatic as the above mentioned, however, Peter Fenton rose to the occasion and moved from a horse show announcer to a Master of Ceremonies. His enthusiasm and his interaction with the audience was a step closer to making a horse show spectator friendly. On Saturday night when the championship classes were lined up head to tail out in the center of the ring and stripped, Fenton walked with the judges and told the audience something about each horse the judges were looking at.
To coin a phrase from a current popular television commercial....Brilliant! Speaking of commercials, corporate sponsors of the UPHA/American Royal had clips playing on the big screen above and they provided entertainment and a break from the down time between classes and while tabulating classes. The talking pet commercial for Bayer was a particularly huge hit.
Yes, the UPHA/American Royal is truly evolving into a National Championship Show which the participating industries can be extremely proud of. None of us might have been here to take part in such a show had it not been for the efforts of Indiana trainer Chuck Herbert. Just a few years ago the Royal was in danger until a group from the UPHA, spearheaded by Herbert, went to the Royal officials with a plan to join with the UPHA and bring this show back to and beyond the prominence it once enjoyed.
For his efforts Herbert was the first non-Missouri/Kansas recipient of the American Royal Horseperson Of The Year. Joined by his family and customers, Herbert was honored in center ring with a proclamation by the governor read by a great friend of the American Royal, Landon Rowland.
"I am extremely honored, but there was a lot of work by a lot of people that got us to this point," said Herbert. "This is a good partnership and what an unbelievable show it was this year."
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Lovin this track. Glad Royce slowed it down a lil bit..something to Vibe out to.
I remember those same type of trips to Boblo Island so that just added something extra for the listeners from home that made that trip across the water as well..Woulda been super dope if they coulda shot some scenes on a ferry. That was a big part of the experience too. But overall the song and video is dope. J. Cole did his thing on the verse and directing as well. Good work fellas. Anticipating this book of Ryan album.
Music video by Royce 5'9″ and J. Cole performing Boblo Boat.
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The Philadelphia 76ers retired Wilt Chamberlain's No. 13 jersey, only the 5th jersey ever retired by the Sixers, along with those of Billy Cunningham, Hal Greer, Bobby Jones and Julius Erving.
Chamberlain ultimately had his jersey retired by the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors, becoming the 1st NBA player to have his number retired by three teams.
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Little Devil Stairs - Keyser Run Fire Road, July 26, 2014
Vining Tract/Mutton Hollow hike and work trip, June 14, 2014 - reported by Iva Gillet
In a Spring of weekends with incredible weather, this weekend was no different. A stalwart group of 10 met to tackle the rugged terrain at the Vining and Mutton Hollow Tracts to help District Manager of Trails Bill Holman blaze new trails, and check the condition of others which do not have current overseers. We convened in Lydia to consolidate cars and save the undercarriage of those with low ground clearance for the road to the parking lot. Today Marian Styles was free from her house renovation projects and able to return to the trails, as well as Eileen Seaman, Dave Borszich, and GPS aficionado Douglass May. Jesse Barnes returned for this arduous day with his family otherwise entertained and he was a huge help with the heavy lifting. Norman Beil was back in Charlottesville for the summer from his teaching duties at Rowan College. Andy Willgruber, Briana Taylor, and Michael Seth met the group at the trail head to complete the group.
Briana lead quality control on the blazing projects as Andy forged ahead looking for and dispersing blow-downs. All members of the group took turns with the loppers, saws, and limb removal. After surviving the stinging nettles on the Cliff Trail, we enjoyed lunch at the Johnson cabin outdoor "Kitchen" and picnic table where Bill had hung Iva's lunch from the rafters, allegedly to keep from the mice, though it seemed sneaky place to hide (Bill's comment: "It wasn't hidden!") a wrap. After our respite, we aided Bill removing a large limb from the CCC road which required chainsaws and heavy lifting.
Our final work of the day was blazing and removing the downed trees Bill had cut into pieces along two new trails created during an Alternative Spring break group from UVa. Instead of heading for the sun and sand during spring break, this group chose to stay in the Mutton Top cabin for a week and clear new trails. While much of the trail was cleared, it had not been blazed, so it was starting to grow up again. Our group will tell you that this new trail needs some work, as it results from run-off from the mountain above and as we descended the very steep grade, we thought an accurate name for this new trail should be The Poison Ivy Ankle Breaking Trail. Bill didn't approve this name. It was rugged, with lots of rocks, but it is now blazed!
As it was now mid-afternoon, the Orion Trail did not get its blazes, as we had intended. We hiked to Butternut Hut to meet others who were assembling for the evening dinner. Butternut Hut allows trail workers a place to spend the night without renting a cabin. Bill hosted dinner for his trail overseers, most of whom had never met. So the day trail workers headed back to Charlottesville after a day of productive trail work. As they departed, Geoff Manning-Smith and Vivi Rogers, and her dog Charley, began work on other trails. Geoff won the Hawksbill Award last year for his dedicated work on the trails here. Also, driving up in the afternoon to work on their trails were Marit Gay and Mark Trail. Having just completed a cross country bike ride, their next focus was making sure their trails were in good shape! Once they were finished trail work, Marit, Michael, and Iva returned to start work on blazing the Orion trail, which was becoming so overgrown that it was hard to find. With some blazes in place, hikers will help keep it in better shape.
Later, Mark and Ruth Walkup arrived for dinner. The Walkups live close by, are trailseers, and check these trails often. I hope they will hike with us in the future, as they are a fascinating couple, having lived in Africa for many years. Needless to say, Michael Seth and they had some terrific exchanges about international cultures. Finally, CJ Woodburn arrived, after pre-hiking with Kelly O'Rourke for a future hike. Volunteer work in yet another form.
While we had 12 for dinner, 6 stayed for the night. It was the perfect night for camping with nice temperatures. If anyone has potential interest in being a trail overseer, the Vining Tract is a great place to get started. As VP Andy stated it, this is like trail maintenance with training wheels, since many of the trails are short, and tools do not need to be carried as far. Contact Bill Holman if you might want to try your hand at some easy trail maintenance.
Thanks to all for your hard work, good food, and camaraderie during this fun filled weekend!
Reed's Gap to Hanging Rock - July 19, 2014
|Doug, Pete, Marit, Lindsay, Connor, Leon, Emerald, Bev, Mark (not photoed)
A little overcast, but nonetheless a good day for a hike. Nine hikers met at Reed's Gap to hike Three Ridges up to Hanging Rock and back. The group included Douglas May, Pete & Bev Fink, Marit Gay (leader), Lindsay Brown, Connor Anderson (Marit's nephew), Mark Perschel (co-leader), Emerald Young, and Leon Gorman. We made the 7.8 mile entire trek by 2:30 pm hiking up to 3,400 ft where we enjoyed lunch and homemade bars at Hanging Rock. On our return the skies started to spit a bit, but fortunately did not bring too much rain. We met many backpackers going to Maupin Field Shelter and Harper's Creek Shelter. Another fairly cool day in July. Weren't we lucky?
|Turk's Cap lily next to the trail
|Connor and Mark about to head out to backpack the AT after the hike
Three Ridges - Mau Har Circuit
|Dave and Michael at Three Ridges Wilderness border
We met at Reed's Gap and walked the AT south to Maupin Field Shelter intersection, snacked, then proceeded to the Three Ridges Trail. Climbing toward the summit the view from Hanging Rock was spectacular on an ideal day of cool, breezy weather. Everyone indulged in their healthy lunches followed by homemade chubby chews at Hanging Rock.
The hike continued down towards Chimney Rock with many consultations with Michael and Anne about wildflowers and other plants. Columbine, Turk's Cap lily, and jewel weed were just a few of the many species we saw.
|Kelly, Marit, and Anne rest at Chimney Rock
|Campanula, otherwise known as bellflower
Appalachian Trail touchup June 2014
On the last chapter trail maintence trip in June, we noticed a relatively small tree across the trail but lacking a saw and energy, left it. Then Pete and Bev Fink reported it, with good location data, so on June 26, Marit Gay and Mark Trail stopped to remove it before continuing north to keep Marit's section of Appalachian Trail clear.
On June 28, John Shannon returned to McCormick Gap to clean waterbars and remove some invasive plants.
Peaks of Otter: June 21-22
Hike #1: Saturday-Abbott Lake to Flat top to Falling Water Cascades trail, total distance - 11.45 miles
Hike Leader: Kelly O'Rourke
Attendees: Iva Gillet, Dan Ralston, Jeanne Densmore, CJ Woodburn, and Michael Seth (some of us were expertly chauffeured by Bill Holman).
Started at the Peaks of Otter (PoO) lodge and hiked up flat top mountain where we crossed the blue ridge parkway past the flat rock parking lot to the Fallingwater Cascade.
Hike #2-Sunday Sharp Top trail plus, Harkening Hill Trail to Johnson Farm trail -7 miles
Leave the PoO lodge and walk the other way around Abbott Lake past the nature center and around Harkening Hill Trail to Johnson Farm trail loop. We then crossed the road to enter the parking lot to go to the top of Sharp top mtn. (1.5 miles up). It was a beautiful hike, though we would have appreciated it if the weather would have cooperated a bit more as we were not able to see anything except for the faint glimmer thru the clouds for a minute. We need to go back, because this would be a really spectacular view from the top!
es trail loop (loop is 1.6M) and hike back to the lodge. This was a very beautiful hike with many enormous trees. No stream crossings. Not much water in the falls, but a good time was had by all.
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For one thing...modern frameworks are constantly being updated and improved. Another thing is that is what companies want when looking to hire a developer. You should understand the MVC design pattern and how each part works, but then go learn a modern framework.
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hansford replied to Ricky55's topic in PHP Coding HelpThis question is rather specific pertaining to a Wordpress plugin of which there are numerous. You might be better off trying to post your question to the plugin QA site. https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/advanced-custom-fields
I wrote a custom one when I was trying to wrap my head around it. This is what my index.php page looks like. <?php require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/config.php'); require_once(ROOT . '/common.php'); // set the path separator define('PS','/'); require_once(APP . '/common.php'); // load system files require_once(SYS . 'Model.php'); require_once(SYS . 'Load.php'); require_once(SYS . 'View.php'); require_once(SYS . 'Controller.php'); require_once(SYS . 'Router.php'); // load the database require(DB); // load routes configuration require(APP . '/config' . PS . 'routes.php'); // launch application $router = new Router($routes); $router->init();
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hansford posted a topic in PHP Coding HelpHi guys and girls, A recruiter asked me to do this coding challenge and was wondering if you had a more elegant solution or your thoughts on it. EXERCISE FOR DEVELOPER CANDIDATES: Unit Number Sorting Exercise We often deal with unit number / resident name data. These two pieces of information are used by our users to identify a lease. Many of our screens and reports show a list of leases. The task is to sort lease data read from a file and to print the sorted data to STDOUT. The data looks as follows (sample also attached): #50 - Smith #8 - Johnson #100 - Sanders #1B - Adams #1A - Kessenich Each line contains a unit number and a resident name. The data should be sorted by unit number. Develop a solution in PHP and one other language of your choice that reads the data from a file and prints the data (sorted by unit number) to STDOUT. The printed strings should not be modified from how they appear in the input file. Here is my solution: <?php define('br','<br />'); // open the file $fp = fopen('input.txt','rb+'); if (false === $fp) { die ('failed to open file'); } $numbers = array(); $letters = array(); // read the file line by line while (($line = fgets($fp, 1024)) !== false) { // split the string by unit number and name $str = explode(' - ',$line); // separate unit numbers from units with letters if (preg_match('/[a-zA-Z]/', $str[0])) { $letters[$str[0]] = $str[1]; } else { $numbers[$str[0]] = $str[1]; } } if ( ! feof($fp)) { die ('error reading file'); } fclose($fp); // sort each array ksort($numbers,SORT_STRING); ksort($letters,SORT_STRING); // merge arrays with unit letters appearing first $output = array_merge($letters, $numbers); // output data foreach ($output as $key => $value) { echo $key . ' - ' . $value . br; }
You are over-thinking this whole thing. You can call whatever class/function you want in the PHP file that will be accessed by your Ajax call. in the data you pass to your PHP page, you can tell it what class should be called, what function etc. In this following example we have 'action' which tells your PHP page to call the "delItem" method on a known class and pass the method the "item" argument. $.ajax({ url: 'http://www.yourwebsite.com/file_name.php', type: 'POST', data: {action: 'delItem',item: item}, success: function (response) { if (response.status === 'success') { console.log("success"); $("#myModal").modal('hide'); $('#respostas .modal-title').html('Sucesso'); $('#respostas .modal-body').html('Informação: ' + response.message); $('#respostas').modal('show'); $('#respostas').on('hidden.bs.modal', function () { window.location.reload(true); }); } } });
JavaScript and PHP don't know the other even exists. In your Ajax call set the URL to call the PHP file which will create your object and call your class.
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hansford replied to rodb's topic in Javascript HelpPHP and JavaScript don't mix like that. You have PHP tags inside a JavaScript file. JavaScript has no idea what the hell that is and visa-versa. Explain what you are trying to do and we can help.
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hansford replied to shaddf's topic in PHP Coding HelpRequinix, memory lane. Look here at this related post you made back in 2008. http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=113664
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hansford replied to shaddf's topic in PHP Coding HelpIf this mystery application can do that then why can it not change the file which holds links to the source. file_get_contents() can grab all the data from a file - yes. Then you can take that string, in memory, and put it wherever you want.
The rules went out the window long ago when MVC stopped matching up to real world of computer use. "Business Rules" belong in the model. MVC is a pattern, not a rule. All of the frameworks around today break the rules. I know I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. I'm just arguing lol
There is argument on both sides of this debate. Personally, I handle validation from within the controller. No need to clutter up your controller with validation statements though - create a validation class and let it handle all of that.
Where can I find an answer to this very easy question?
hansford replied to Hank's topic in PHP Coding HelpGiven your example: mypage.php <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors',1); if (isset($_GET['number'])) { $number = $_GET['number']; } if (isset($_GET['word'])) { $word = $_GET['word']; }
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edit php form to send email
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need to convert code dynamically
hansford replied to andyellen's topic in PHP Coding HelpYou are going to have to use Ajax calls if you want to dynamically shift the questions up or down based on vote clicks. As far as initially displaying the page. <form action="feed.php" method="post"> <textarea required="" name="question" placeholder="Write Something..." id="text" cols="30" rows="10"></textarea> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="ask"> </form> feed.php if ( ! isset($_POST['question'])) { // give error or send them back to the page etc. exit; } // here is where your database will come in // based on the number of votes you display the page html


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Henry 10 month letter
My funny little guy,
You turned a whopping ten months old 2 days ago. I can't believe how quickly the time is going by. You are doing all sorts of things and I love every minute (almost).
You are so close to walking. You pop up into standing all over the place and take a couple little steps before you bend back down and decide to crawl. You are a speed crawler. You chase your big brother and sister which can be quite a challenge as they tend to run back and forth all over the house. You are just happy to be in the same room as them.
You want to find out what the toilets are all about, so I have to remember to keep bathroom doors shut. I've also found you a couple of times in our walk-in shower, that must have seemed like a cool place to play. Another thing you've discovered is your privates, which are a big hit. :)
You chase my feet everywhere and pull on my legs asking to be held. When the other kids run to Daddy, shouting his name when he gets home from work, you are never far behind waiting for your turn for a hug and kiss. Trent seems to adore and enjoy you more each day.
It is hard to feed you. You do not want to be fed baby food anymore. You are much to mature for that stuff. You still do great with formula, but I still trying to find more finger foods for you to enjoy. You will not eat avocado or fresh banana or canned pears or mandarin oranges. Since you are allergic to milk, wheat, and eggs my task is even more difficult. You will eat small amounts of beans, chicken, vienna sausage, and green beans. I am still trying to find more options for you. You fight whenever I try to place you in your high chair. You have to be strapped in now that you've discovered how to stand up in there, even with the tray on. Sometimes once in the chair, you will repeatedly throw your head back into the seat back to show your displeasure. I will give you a handful of corn Chex to snack on while you are playing on the floor sometimes. You will either pick them up with your cute little fingers or sometimes you will promptly lower your head and eat them right off the floor, puppy style. You crack me up!
You have a new grown up look now that you have 4 top teeth and 2 bottom. You are as beautiful as ever and I love seeing you grow and develop. It is hard to capture many pictures of you, because as soon as you see the camera in my hand you head straight toward it and try to swipe it. Why?
Well, I love you little boy! I am sorry you will have to share the limelight with a little sister so soon, but I know you can handle it. You are used to sharing everything already. I hope you will have a great friend in her and enjoy being an awesome big brother. I love you with all my heart and can't imagine my life without you. I know you are very special and that you have so much to offer this big world. I am so excited to see what an amazing man you will become and hope to always keep you close.
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- Emily said...
That top picture looks so much like Jonah to me. Finger foods to try: Kix cereal, peas, soybeans, blueberries, hot dogs, lunch meat... Go to the health food store and look at the cracker, bread and cereal options that are wheat and/or gluten-free. Good luck. Jonah has never had to be strapped into the highchair, he loves to eat:)
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This common spring ephemeral heralds the end of winter across Ohio's forests and woodlands. The golden blossoms of yellow trout-lily (Erythronium americanum) flourish in early April. Although you'll find thousands of plants carpeting the ground, only a few flower each year. Its leaves range from mottled to occasionally all green. The trout-lily's bulbs are often deep in the ground and produce many off-shoots. This six to 10 inch tall plant is also called dog's-tooth violet, although it is not a true violet. The yellow trout-lily grows at many state nature preserves including Johnson Woods in Wayne County, Lake Katharine in Jackson County and Blackhand Gorge in Licking County.
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Non-alcoholic beverages are considered as the non-alcoholic version of alcoholic beverages. Non-alcoholic beverages include drinks that contains less that 0.5% alcohol. Such beverages are popular in countries that enforce alcohol prohibition laws such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Changing tastes and preferences of consumers and inclination toward consumption of convenience food and beverages have led to the rise in demand for non-alcoholic beverages in the last few years. Manufacturers are focused on developing new products in order to satisfy the changing tastes and preferences of consumers. The ethanol distillation method is used to separate non-alcoholic beverages from alcoholic beverages. The global non-alcoholic beverage market has witnessed rapid changes due to factors such as rising purchasing power, improvement in the living standard of the population, and rapid urbanization.
The global non-alcoholic beverages market has been segmented based on product types and distribution channel. Based on product type, the global non-alcoholic beverage market has been segmented into carbonated drinks and non-carbonated drinks. The carbonated drinks segment is further sub-segmented into cola, carbonated water, diet drinks, among others. The non-carbonated drinks segment is further sub-segmented into fruit juices, energy drinks, tea, coffee, and others. The carbonated drinks segment dominated the global non-alcoholic beverage market due to the several strategies adopted by manufacturers such as product innovation. Demand for juices showed the fastest growth rate during the forecast period due to the rise in health awareness among consumers. In terms of distribution channel, the global non-alcoholic beverage market has been further segmented into online distribution channel and offline distribution channel. The offline distribution channel segment of the global non-alcoholic beverage market has been further sub-segmented into supermarkets and hyper markets, department stores, and convenient stores. The online distribution channel segment of the global non-alcoholic beverage market is estimated to expand at a significant growth rate during the forecast period due to easy convenience and wide range of options.
The global non-alcoholic beverage market is primarily driven by factors such as changing lifestyle and rising consumer awareness toward proper health and well-being. Additionally, the rising popularity of convenience food and beverages is resulting in the increasing demand for the global non-alcoholic beverage market. However, consumer awareness regarding health effects such as diabetes that are created by the consumption of non-alcoholic beverages is a factor that is restraining the global non-alcoholic beverage market. Additionally, stringent government rules and regulations toward the usage of ingredients utilized in non-alcoholic beverages is restraining the global non-alcoholic beverage market. Moreover, continuous product innovation among key players such as introduction of zero or low calorie drinks is anticipated to create opportunities for the global non-alcoholic beverage market during the forecast period.
In terms of region, the global nonalcoholic beverage market has been segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, and South America. North America comprises the U.S. Canada dominated the global non-alcoholic beverage market. The U.S. accounted for a major share of the non-alcoholic beverage market in North America due to the rising disposable income among consumers coupled with their changing tastes and preferences. The market in Asia Pacific is anticipated to expand at a considerable growth rate during the forecast period due to the rising product innovation among the manufacturers. Additionally, multiple distribution channels and the rising popularity of soft drinks among consumers are also boosting the non-alcoholic beverage market in Asia Pacific.
The non-alcoholic beverage market is concentrated in nature and it comprises of several key players. Major players operating in the global market include Attitude Drinks Inc. (North Palm Beach, Florida, United States), The Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta, Georgia, United States), Pepsico Inc. (New York, United States), Nestle (Switzerland), Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. (Plano, Texas, United States), Danone (Paris, France), Parle Agro (India), A.G. Barr (Cumbernauld, United Kindom), and Britvic (Hertfordshire, United Kingdom).
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It must be difficult for NBA players to go about their business when they're heavily involved in trade rumors. The constant attention from the media and overall uncertainty must be disconcerting.
Alex Kennedy of HoopsHype spoke with a few players regarding this situation. What these players have to say shed light on one's mindset amidst trade rumors.
Caron Butler told Kennedy:
"I've seen two things. I've seen guys go harder on the court to show their value, and I've seen guys say, 'F*ck it,' and not care at all. It's absolutely a distraction because chemistry is at stake. A player may think, 'Why should I care about these guys or wins or losses if I'm not going to be here?'"
It comes down to the mindset of the player involved. There are some who are dead set on proving the doubters wrong. Others may hear trade rumors and completely check out. But it's a very relatable feeling. When someone sees the writing on the wall and expects to be let go by his employer, it's tough to stay motivated. Even for professional athletes.
But most of all, players want their teams to be upfront with them. This is a sentiment echoed by Garrett Temple, who was recently involved in a trade. Temple told Kennedy:
"It depends on the way the front office staff communicates with that certain player. A lot of times, guys just want to be told the truth – no matter what that is. What upsets guys the most is when the GM or personnel people are saying one thing to their face and doing something totally different behind the scenes."
Most of all, guys don't want to be blindsided. Recently, DeMar DeRozan felt Masai Ujiri and the Toronto Raptors left him high and dry. The All-Star guard felt that he had assurances that he would not be traded, but soon after he was traded to the San Antonio Spurs. He felt blindsided by the move and now there's some bad blood between the two.
Trades are simply part of the NBA. It's not easy on players or organizations. But the one thing players ask for is honesty.


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In addition to making dietary, herbal, and daily routine recommendations, Ayurvedic practitioners also give behavioral rasayanas. These are recommendations that prolong life and increase vitality. Behavioral rasayanas are ideas, habits, and attitudes that promote health.
One of my favorite behavioral rasayanas is to pause, rest, and reset your mind and body in the midst of activity. In the modern world, and particularly in American culture, we're always on the go. Even when we are taking a break, our minds are still plugged into some form of technology (whether it's our phones, laptops, or tablets) and we are actually never giving our minds a chance to stop and relax.
Just like other healthy habits, such as exercising and eating right, it takes a conscious effort to take pauses in your life. It may sound strange that you have to schedule downtime into your life but most of us are living in the momentum of so much activity that slowing down is actually going against the grain. The reality is that resting enhances activity and makes you more productive.
I recently really put this particular behavioral rasayana into practice by taking a month long pause to rest and reset the course of my life. I wanted to take inventory of the past decade and I wanted to intentionally set the theme for the next decade of my life. Taking a month for myself was not easy! Between being a mom, wife, and doctor a month of time to myself seemed like an impossible feat for someone who was always taking care of other people. But there were several changes happening in my life—physically, emotionally, mentally, professionally—and I really needed some time to step back and look to see which habits and ideas were serving me through these transitions and which ones needed to be thrown out. It felt like I needed a spring cleaning for my life.
I decided to go to India for four weeks—no cell phone, very limited Internet access, no television, no distractions. It was just my thoughts and I most of the day. For the first week, I spent time meditating and focused on who I wanted to become over the next decade. For the last three weeks of my trip, I went for a series of Ayurvedic treatments called panchakarma, which are intended to help you to detoxify your mind and body. I only spoke for about 30 minutes a day and focused on meditation, yoga, and the healing effects of my panchakarma therapy.
The results were profound. I was surprised to see how many thoughts and activities that I was involved in were just habits that really no longer fit the path I was on. Once I was out of my usual environment at home and work, it was easy to take a look at myself and choose the thoughts and actions that I wanted to continue verses the ones that were now past their expiration date.
I hadn't spent this much time alone since college and it was enlightening to review who I had become over the course of over two decades. I was also so surprised how much I enjoyed the silence of not talking. There is a constant dialogue going in within our own minds and when we're always talking to people around us it's hard to hear the internal conversation with ourselves. This internal dialogue is actually the most important conversation that you're having all day long.
The one-month experience left me with such a deep appreciation for the benefits of pausing, resting, and resetting my life that I've incorporated it as a top behavioral rasayana into the treatments for my patients. Below are some of the ways that I teach my patients to pause/rest/reset so that they can intentionally direct the course of their lives rather than getting pulled into a riptide of frantic activity.
Daily Pause/Rest/Reset:
Invest at least 20 minutes a day in silence.
Examples: Do 20 minutes of meditation or yoga daily.
Weekly Pause/Rest/Reset:
Invest one hour a week to see how you can reduce the clutter and improve the flow of your home or work.
Examples: Plan a weekly dinner menu at home verses always eating unhealthy meals out at the last minute (when you're already starving and don't know what to cook). Make a list of household chores so everyone in the family understands their responsibilities rather than leaving them to chance, which typically results in arguments and misunderstandings.
Monthly Pause/Rest/Reset:
Invest at least a half-day each month in nature.
Examples: Go on a hike with your family. Visit a local botanical garden.
Yearly Pause/Rest/Reset:
Invest at least one week a year to give your body and mind a tune-up.
Examples: Do an annual cleanse/detox. Go on a health retreat.
Decade Pause/Rest/Reset (highly recommended once you enter your 40s)
Invest at least two weeks every decade to take notice of the direction you're going in life.
Examples: Take a trip alone to allow yourself time to review the past decade and envision your goals for the next decade. Look at your bucket list; update it and finally cross something off.


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To solve this problem, scientists needed to come up with a new form of glass that would stand up to the harsh ultraviolet bombardment of the Martian atmosphere. And by "new," we mean "new to us" -- but in reality, it's several centuries old. They've retrofitted the rovers' cameras with the type of stained glass found in medieval cathedral windows. Glass frescoes from medieval artists have been bombarded by the sun's rays over the ages, yet show little to no evidence of fading. That's because the glass made by artisans back in the day was mixed with gold and silver in such a way as to inadvertently block UV radiation, effectively forming what we would call "nanotechnology" now, but they probably called a "miracle" or "the devil's tinting."
Fact: No real vampires have ever survived medieval stained glass.
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Kerry Katona has admitted she and her husband George Kay have been arguing a lot lately over ''money'' and their ''finances''.
Kerry Katona sometimes feels as though her marriage is ''in trouble''.
The Atomic Kitten singer and her husband George Kay have been spotted rowing in public recently and the 34-year-old star - who has children Molly, 13, Lilly-Sue, 12, Heidi, eight, and Max, seven, from previous relationships, as well as 12-month-old Dylan-Jorge with George - admits things have been strained between them because of rows about cash.
In an interview in OK! magazine, she said: ''Things have been tough lately. Finances, five kids, me going off on tour - it all builds up.
''George has been offered a job that would mean him working away from home. I don't want him to take it as we'll never see each other.
''The rows are mainly about money. It's hard having five kids and we have to exist under a strict control.
''Some days it does feel like our marriage is in trouble, but do you know what? IT's the first year of marriage and they say the first year is the toughest.''
Kerry - whose bankrupt status places restrictions on her finances - admits she is very ''stubborn'' and the couple find it hard to resolve their rows.
She said: ''I'm pretty stubborn. I find it hard to get over things. I will be in a mood for a while and George will do something daft.
''I won't back down. Not that there's anything for me to back down from!''
Though Kerry insists she'd be able to cope if she and George were to part ways, she knows another break-up in her life would upset her kids.
She said ''I had been on my own before I met George. I have coped with four kids [alone] so it's not a problem.
''[George and the kids] absolutely idolise each other. I think they would be totally gutted.
''[But] they're not all his kids. I would never stay with somebody because of the kids. If I'm unhappy, my kids can tell and that makes an unhappy home.''
However, the 'Whole Again' hitmaker admits she would be ''devastated'' if her marriage ends.
She said: ''I would be devastated. I would be absolutely heartbroken if we split up and I would never date again. I think I would become a lesbian!
''If it didn't work out with George I would never get in a serious relationship ever again.''
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Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an architectural approach that strongly focuses on materializing the business domain in enterprise software through disciplined object-oriented analysis. This session demonstrates first-hand how DDD can be elegantly implemented using Java EE via an open source project named Cargo Tracker.
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City bars flout laws, screen FIFA matches
Dozens of Mumbai bars have been screening the FIFA World Cup to fill their venues with customers, but a fifth have been doing so without the necessary rights.entertainment Updated: Jul 07, 2010 15:53 IST
Dozens of Mumbai bars have been screening the FIFA World Cup to fill their venues with customers, but a fifth have been doing so without the necessary rights.
Bars that screen FIFA to the public have to acquire a licence to do so, by paying a subscription fee to ESPN Software India Private Ltd (ESIPL), which owns the channels ESPN, STAR Sports and STAR Cricket.
ESIPL has the exclusive television broadcast rights to the FIFA World Cup in India, currently screened on ESPN and STAR Sports.
A spokesman for Novex Communications, the sole commercial distributors for ESIPL, says, "The big names like Manchester United Café Bar, Olive, The Sports Bar, The Hard Rock Café and Café Mondegar have all got the right licences, but 18 to 20 per cent of Mumbai bars screening FIFA, have not."
An ESIPL spokesman adds: "Most Mumbai bars have acquired licences by paying the subscription fees. We are pursuing the few who haven't done it yet to take the rights as it is copyright material."
According to Novex, many city bars have also been using the word 'FIFA' and 'World Cup' in their promotions, even though this too is not allowed. These words are trademarked, and owned by FIFA, the international football governing body.
So while words like 'South African soccer' is allowed on a bar's promotional material, the phrase '2010 World Cup' is an infringement of FIFA's rights.
The ESIPL spokesman explains: "Title sponsors and ground sponsors of FIFA can use the words 'FIFA' and 'World Cup' to promote events at various public venues so long as they have acquired the necessary licences from FIFA.
Others are not allowed to do so and we are constantly watching and taking necessary action". Prashant Narula, business head of Manchester United Café Bar, confirms they have taken licences from ESPIL, "albeit at an exorbitant cost."
"Plus we haven't used 'FIFA' or 'World Cup' in any of our promotions because we know they are trademarked," he says.
"Other bars have used the 'FIFA' and 'World Cup' logos to attract attention, but we have been very careful not to do this," he adds.


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We proudly announce that our first export order to Israel was shipped in October 2018.
We met the customer at Heimtextil in January 2018 and after samples, testing and marketing they placed a large order for our premium quality Alpaca Gold Quilts in September for immediate shipment to catch the short 2018/19 winter in Israel.
Pictured here is Aleksandar Danovski, Sales Manager and Trevor Beuth, Managing Director of Kelly & Windsor Australia during the container loading. Due to local labelling requirements in Israel the care labels were translated into Hebrew and our insert packaging was also partially translated into Hebrew. The customer is a medium size high end bedding and interior design retailer in Israel and we look forward to growing the business with them in future years.
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Buy Stocks with Bitcoin | Cryptocurrency Stock Market
Bitcoin's popularity has increased tremendously over the last year because of the successes it has recorded during this period. Now lots of individuals are eager to know more about the system and also venture into it too.
Professional traders and big investors who once looked on cryptocurrency are now venturing into bitcoin big time and incorporating it into their system. Bitcoin fast-rising popularity has made quite a lot of people eager to know more about the system.
This is not the only reason why users are venturing into crypto-currency, but the successes and results recorded from bitcoin investment & trading have made lots of people eager to know more. Now, lots of firms and stock exchange companies have realized that lots of customers love transacting, trading & investing using bitcoin.
So most of these firms have incorporated crypto-currency as part of the payment systems for purchasing shares. However, there are still risks attached to doing this, just like it is with various other investments.
Why is Bitcoin Important for Buying Stocks?
Bitcoin has become a standard payment system for purchasing shares from lots of big firms and investment companies. Bitcoin is an awesome payment system; it is considered the fastest online payment systems, and its transaction fees are very low.
The fees are low because it is a direct payment system where you don't have to pay a third party like a bank before you can get to your final destination. Bitcoin has a bright future and is definitely going to play a quite important role in the financial world.
Bitcoin is also a very secure system to use for a transaction, to keep your coins safe you need to keep your private key and password secure.
So, primarily keeping your bitcoin secure is all in your hands. Bitcoin is now a world trend, and if you ignore, it might mean you are ignoring the future of the financial world.
With success, it has recorded over time and the benefits it has, it is quite hard to ignore bitcoin as a financial system. Now, some brokers or exchanges accept bitcoin for exchanges all you have to do is find them and buy shares using bitcoins.
How to Buy Stocks with Bitcoin
Though there are still stock exchange companies or brokers who are against bitcoin, a quite good number of exchange companies are already accepting bitcoin as payments for shares.
- Once you have chosen the broker agency to work with, you can easily purchase shares using bitcoins. One popular broker that accepts bitcoin payment is 1broker, and you can purchase shares from them using bitcoins. Other brokers accept bitcoin payments, and you can check them out.
- Before you consider buying stocks with bitcoin, you need first to set up your wallet. After your account is set up, you can purchase stocks with ease with your coins. However, you should never give out your private key or password to any of these companies.
- To purchase stock, simply add your trading account, then choose the Stock you want to work with and select how many shares worth of bitcoin you want to purchase.
- Now purchasing shares with bitcoins is similar to buying shares with fiat currencies except that the bitcoin process is quicker and costs less. But you have to bear in mind that considering buying shares with bitcoin has its own risks, the value of your share may be affected depending on how high or low bitcoin value is at the time. This is the risk most investments have, and Bitcoin investment is no different.
- So, you can buy shares from brokers using your bitcoin, using the easy steps we have shown you. This means once you have bitcoins, you can easily own shares in companies that accept this.
- Before going into bitcoin investment, you should try to make your inquiries, do some research, and get financial advice from financial advisors before venturing into bitcoin investment.
How to Buy Bitcoin for Stock Investments
Before you Buy Stocks with Bitcoin, you need first to set up your bitcoin wallet and fund your bitcoin account to enable you to start the purchase of shares with bitcoin.
There are lots of bitcoin exchanges you can open accounts with and set up your wallet. Amongst these exchanges, coinbase is quite popular, and you can create your account with easy steps.
Bitcoin exchanges are like a marketplace where bitcoins can be bought with ease in exchange of fund.
- You can create an account with any bitcoin exchange platform of your choice; to do this, enter personal details during registration such as email address, name, and others.
- You will also need to link your bank account to your wallet account, once they are both linked you can easily fund your bitcoin account using funds from your bank account. You can use bank transfers to fund your bitcoin account, or you can use your debit or credit card to do so.
- Once you have done so, just click the BUY option to enable you to purchase bitcoin with ease. Once you have bitcoin in your wallet, you can access your wallet using your password, and you can perform transactions using your private key.
- Now, you can purchase the value of the stock you use the appropriate amount of bitcoin, so purchasing shares becomes rather easy once you have bitcoin in your wallet. Buy Stocks with Bitcoin is a good way of profiting from your bitcoin and investing your bitcoin than just leaving them lying in your digital wallet.
Some years ago, ideas like purchasing shares with bitcoins were considered odd and were not even accepted by many brokers and exchange companies; in fact, lots of brokers looked down on this digital finance technology.
However, presently, lots of brokers are already going into bitcoin investment; this means they now accept bitcoin in exchange for shares. This is probably because of the success bitcoin has recorded recently and the level of popularity it has gained over time.
Now, these brokers have realized that customers love trading, transacting, and investing with bitcoin because of its low-cost fee of transaction, speediness, and other benefits attached to it.
Bitcoin investment is an interesting and profitable one, however, just like other investments, it has its own risks, so it is left to you to decide if you want to bear such risks. You have to bear in mind that the price of bitcoin affects the value of your shares, but you can seek the advice of a financial advisor before asking for your move.


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Yoenis Cespedes not only hits tremendous three-run homer but shows plenty of hustle
Yoenis Cespedes' bat flip nearly went as high as the ball he had just crushed.
As Cespedes began his home run trot, the bat landed about 20 feet from home plate. The ball, when it finally landed, reached the second deck an estimated 431 feet from home plate.
And yet, the first question that Terry Collins was asked after the Mets' 13-7 win over the Dodgers on Monday night was about the 90 feet that Cespedes ran to first base earlier in the night.
Collins answered by recalling a conversation he had with Cespedes in Los Angeles.
"I walked by just to say something to him, and he said, 'It's time to play,' " Collins said. "And he shows you what he can do. This guy's electrifying on the field. He can do anything he wants. And that kind of hustle shows that he's determined to, again, to get us on, let us ride his back, and he's a dangerous player."
But Cespedes is known more for hitting hard than running hard. While much will be made of just how hard he hit his essential game-sealing home run, what could be overlooked by some is just how hard he ran to first base in the second inning.
With the defense shifted to the left side of the infield, Cespedes hit a grounder to shortstop Jimmy Rollins. Running hard out of the box, Cespedes beat the throw to leg out a single. He came around to score on a single by Travis d'Arnaud for the first run in a four-run inning that gave the Mets a 4-3 lead.
Even when leading off the eighth inning -- with the Mets comfortably in front 13-4 -- Cespedes again charged hard out of the box and nearly beat out a grounder to short.
"I think because this is a short series, its important," Cespedes said through an interpreter. "You can have five at-bats, I think it's important to go with each one with the mentality that you need to run fast, you need to hit hard, you need to just play hard. You need to go in there playing hard because there's not many games."
Cespedes' long three-run homer in the fourth inning, which gave the Mets a 10-3 lead, came on a 91-mph fastball from Alex Wood. The blast, which had a 111-mph exit velocity, evoked memories of Cespedes' win in the 2013 Home Run Derby at Citi Field and sent the crowd into a state of euphoria.
Cespedes admired the shot for a step or two before he held the bat from beneath its knob and flipped it high into the air toward the Mets' dugout.
"It makes me very happy because I think that home run helped me put my team at a little bit more of an advantage," said Cespedes, who came out for a curtain call. "I think today's win was really important. I'm happy with that."
Cespedes -- who hit an opposite-field home run off Zack Greinke in Game 2 for his lone hit in the series entering Monday night -- finished 3-for-5 with three RBIs and three runs scored. He became the first Met to homer in back-to-back postseason games since John Olerud in 1999.
"Our team's built on power, and so when we hit home runs, we think we got a big chance to win," Collins said. "And it's all about trying to get on base and then have somebody up there that can hit something into the seats."
By running and hitting hard, Cespedes did both.
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text: 3 minute read Driving Innovation at Scale has been a key topic at events for the last few years but remains a huge challenge for organisations. How can large enterprises behave more like digital natives, rapidly improving speed to market and the efficacy of their BAU activities whilst creating a culture of innovation to avoid disruption? To try and help provide some answers we hosted a roundtable dinner with 18 senior executives (CIOs, CTOs and CDOs) from a range of FTSE 250 companies as well as a tech start-up attempting to scale rapidly and an ex-Google Executive now launching his own start-up. So, we had a fantastic range of experience and opinions around the table. To kick-off the evening, our guest speaker Jon Davies, Director of Digital at Vodafone shared the successes and challenges of the telecoms giant's digital transformation programme. Jon outlined how they have rolled out a successful Scaled Agile engineering team and an awarding-winning DevOps transformation to enable rapid deployments to their newly architected platforms. But the real challenge, and secret to the success, has been the work on people, culture and onsite collaboration that has been so transformational for them over the last couple of years. The top five takeaways from the discussion that followed were: 1. It's not really about the technology. It's about creating a culture of change, collaboration and innovation. It was a key point from Jon but it was almost universally agreed upon and was a common theme of the evening. Finding the right people is key. Outside of London, it's hard to find them. In London, it's hard to retain them! 2. From a technology point of view, a DevOps culture and a vision for your architecture that enables rapid speed to market is vital. That's something that you need to chip away at. Some companies have managed to move from high-risk bi-annual deployments to weekly or daily ones. That's been transformational but it's taken time. 3. Demonstrating value to the CFO and the C-suite can be challenging. Most companies are not mature enough to have moved away from traditional accounting, project-based mentalities with business cases and KPIs. Moving to a product mentality via value stream mapping and The Lean Startup concept of Innovation Accounting, to place value on learning and to validate progress, is aspirational but an area where people need help. The tech start-ups do this naturally. 4. Google are world class at building a culture of innovation. For their critical business processes they relentlessly break down the stages and figure out how to be more innovative. New hires are often overwhelmed at the culture of innovation. But they are fanatical at it and, importantly, this was focussed across the business and not specific to digital, IT or engineering. 5. Digital natives are not feeling the same pain as traditional businesses. They are able to move fast with their platforms, pivot and scale. They understand the value of their product streams and fund constantly and appropriately with outstanding analytics. The challenge that connects them to the legacy businesses is access to talent. They have to scale fast as they work through challenges of funding rounds and need to attract talent to get through the work required to scale. But the age-old mantra to help companies behave more like digital natives is probably a good way to think. If you are a senior business technology leader and interested in attending one of our future events, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com If you'd like to learn more about how MMT Digital can help your organisation with challenges around innovation at scale, DevOps and agile transformation, please call 020 7242 5698 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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How much blood has been shed over the years in the name of "peace"? People seek peace at any price, yet peace, the genuine article, is freely given by God to anyone who wants to receive it. The problem is, many people do not know about God's offer, or if they have heard of it, they have not heard the truth about it and have a flawed conception of God's peace. Are you a person who would give anything just to have peace? Do you have peace at work, at home, at church? Today's lesson reveals the secret to having peace wherever you are.
I. God is ready to offer physical peace to those who will receive it
The nation of Israel and its history is a living example of why people lack physical peace and where they need to go and what they need to do to experience physical peace. If we will pay attention to their history then we can learn a lot from their example. In the book of Judges, after the people of Israel came out of slavery in Egypt and into the Promised Land, they entered into a dark period in their history. They had no official leader (like Moses was or Joshua) so there is a phrase that is often repeated in Judges, a period of over 350 years. "There was no king in Israel and each man did what was right in his own eyes.". When there is no standard (right and wrong), when everything is "relative" then the morality of the people falls into chaos. Each man does what he feels is right and the entire society suffers because of it. Look at the world today, post-modernism is the buzz word and "truth" is relative. Nothing is absolute (according to modern philosophy). Modern society is falling apart and people have no peace. If we will learn from Israel's mistake then history will not repeat itself. Here is what happened to Israel.
And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah. And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. And the hand of Midian was strong against Israel. Before the faces of Midian, the sons of Israel made themselves dens in the mountains, and caves and strongholds. And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the sons of the east, even they came up against them. And they camped against them and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza. And they left no food for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts for multitude, both they and their camels were without number. And they entered into the land to destroy it. And Israel was made very poor because of the Midianites. And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah. (Jdg 6:1-6)
When the people did what was evil in the sight of the Lord (there is such a thing as absolute truth, relativism is a scam conjured up by Satan, himself, see Gen 3) then they paid the price. There was no physical peace in the land. Obedience to God and physical peace go hand in hand. When the people of Israel came to their senses, they cried out to God for physical peace and He delivered.
And when Gideon saw that He was the Angel of Jehovah, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! Because I have seen the Angel of Jehovah face to face. And Jehovah said to him, Peace to you. Do not fear. You shall not die. Then Gideon built an altar there to Jehovah, and called it Jehovah-shalom. It is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites to this day. (Jdg 6:22-24)
So the key to experiencing physical peace is turn to God, allowing Him to give it to you and then walking in obedience to Him. Physical peace is important, but, it is not the most important form of peace. The most important form of peace is spiritual peace. Many people live in a peaceful nation yet they do not have inner peace. They try all kinds of techniques to experience inner peace, pagan practices such as hypnotism and yoga, yet they cannot put their finger on what is missing. Knowing God is the key to knowing peace. Someone has said, "no God, no peace; know God, know peace". It is a good play on words but yet at the same time, it is very true.
II. All people need to experience spiritual peace because of the fact that we are sinners and judgment awaits us
If we do not accept God's forgiveness and peace, then judgment awaits us and that robs us of any chance of experiencing true inner peace. The author of the epistle to the Hebrews tells us the following (this is something we know even if we have never read the Bible, because we all fear death).
And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment, (Heb 9:27)
We are all going to experience death and judgment awaits us. Because of this, we fear death because we know we will not measure up to God's standard of judgment. This is the bad news. The good news (Gospel) is that we can have God's judgment removed from over our heads. Jesus went to the cross in our place, to pay the price for our sins and take on our judgment. Look at what the prophet Jeremiah says.
But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed. (Isa 53:5)
Because He volunteered to take our place, we may now have spiritual peace because we will not be judged for our sins. After your sins have been paid for, you must remember that you will still stand before Christ and give an account for what you did with the rest of your life after you accepted His gift of salvation and peace. Obedience to God helps maintain your spiritual peace. Living in disobedience will cause you to lose your peace (not your salvation) because your conscious will remind you that you will stand before Christ one day and give an account of what you did with His gift of salvation and peace.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to that which he has done, whether good or bad. (2Co 5:10)
So, which category are you in? Do you fear death and have no peace because you know that you will be judged for your sins? Have you exchanged judgment for peace? How are you living in the light of the gift that Christ has given you? Are you obedient to Him or do you think that you can live as you please, not realizing that you will give an account for your actions?


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SAN FRANCISCO — David Wright rejoined the New York Mets on Friday, though he remains on the disabled list, and said he met with team officials to discuss what he needs to prove physically in order to get back in a major league game for the first time since 2016.
The seven-time All-Star third baseman took grounders before the Mets faced the San Francisco Giants and said he's "cautiously optimistic" he'll get into a game in September. The Mets have not announced a timetable for his return.
Wright is trying to come back from back, neck and shoulder injuries that have required three surgeries and kept the 35-year-old off the field since May 27, 2016. He said team management discussed what he needs to show to rejoin the lineup.
"I've been told I need to do certain things to be activated. There are some plays I'm still having a hard time with," he said, without being specific. "They truly want me to get to the point that I can play, now it's up to me to do it."
Wright hit .171 in 12 minor-league rehab games over the past few weeks, but said Friday he feels comfortable defensively and needs to focus on his timing at the plate.
"The goal for me for the last two years is to play in the big leagues. When that time comes, I want to be able to hold my own out there," he said. "I truly believe it's going to happen, it's just a matter of when.
"I've got two young daughters that have never seen me play," Wright added. "It's up to me to show I can go out there and play at this level. I don't want to be a liability out there."
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- 150g flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp dried yeast
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 100 ml hand-hot water
- The classic chapati can be made from just plain flour and water. Here's a variation using pizza, or bread, dough. Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl which is large enough for you to move stuff around in. Hold the bowl with one hand and mix with the other. It's sensible to keep one hand clean: if the phone rings half-way through kneading, for instance. Add the water, a little at a time (you can't take water out if you add too much!), mixing with your hand, until you have a firm ball of dough. Make the mixture a little too wet rather than too dry, as the flour will soak up water while it is rising.
- Punch your fist down into the dough, still in the bowl, then fold half over towards you. Punch again, then fold left to right. After two or three minutes, you will have a glistening ball. Put the bowl in a carrier bag and leave somewhere warm.
- When the dough has doubled in size, or about an hour later, knock it back with a bit more therapeutic punching. You should hear the air being forced out.
- Break the dough into lumps about the size of a snooker ball. Roll one into a circle about 200 cm in diameter. If you have guests and want to serve them all at once, you can roll all the balls out, stacking them on a plate with a dusting of flour in between.
- Take your heaviest frying pan and put it on a fierce flame. Don't put oil in it. The pan must be smoking hot, otherwise you will make something hard and unpleasant. What you want is fluffy. Slap the first pizzapatti on to the pan and watch carefully as white spots appear, after about a minute, then turn it over. They are easier to toss than a pancake, but you could always use a spatula. Your pizzapatti should puff up, due to the hot air inside trying to escape. When this happens, it is ready.
- You can add chilli, or oregano or ground ginger to the mix, but I have found that too many additions, even roasted cumin seeds, tends to weigh the bread down and it won't come out as fluffy. You could spread one surface with pesto or curry paste, with grated cheeses and put it under a very hot grill for a mini-pizza which is much lighter.If you are feeling very adventurous, take two pizzapattis, spread one with tomato paste and olives, cheese, whatever, then put the two together and seal the edges, then follow the steps above. Caution: filling may be hot.