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Il Monte Pavione (2.334 ) è la montagna più alta delle Vette Feltrine nelle Dolomiti e fa parte del Parco nazionale delle Dolomiti Bellunesi. Il toponimo è in relazione con il latino papilionis "padiglione" per la sua caratteristica forma.

Caratteristiche
La cima e il versante meridionale sono compresi nel comune di Sovramonte (provincia di Belluno).

Le pendici settentrionali ricadono nei comuni di Imèr e Mezzano (provincia di Trento), dove sono rispettivamente situate la malga Agneròla e la malga Coston de Val de Stua.

La miniera
Una leggenda vuole chi qui sia ubicata la più grande miniera di argento del Primiero, con il cui prodotto sarebbe stato costruito l'importante ostensorio in stile gotico della Pieve di Fiera di Primiero.

Salita alla vetta
La vetta può essere raggiunta per la via normale dal Passo Croce d'Aune (Belluno) (sent. 801 con indicazione per il Rif. Dal Piaz, dal rifugio salire al Passo Vette Grandi, sentiero 817).

In alternativa può essere raggiunto sia dal Veneto (sentiero 817 da casera Monsampian, 1.902 m) sia dal Trentino (sentiero 736 da Imèr).

Attorno al massiccio si estende la Riserva naturale Monte Pavione.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Pavione
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coking
smelting & rolling & forging
Cokerie d´Ougrée, Seraing
Cokerie d´Ougrée
The coke plant in the suburbs of Liege was built in 1957 to supply the neighbouring blast furnaces in Ougrée and Seraing, part of John Cockerill company (former "Société Anonyme d´Ougrée-Marihaye").
In 1967, two Krupp-Koppers batteries were put into operation and in 1983 another pair of Coppée batteries was built.
The production was shutdown for good in 2014, when the plant was part of ArcelorMittal group. Although the American company Oxbow Mining was interested in to keep the production running, all the negotiations failed in the end.
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HKM, D
RCC Karabash, RU
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Železárny Hrádek, CZ
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It is every candidates desire to write the Jamb 2019 examination once and for all. To pass the examination is very easy but yet many candidates failed in the 2018 Jamb examination.
Candidates who looked for what to blame claimed the introduction of CBT is the author of their failure.
I have written this article to assist those sitting for the 2019 examination pass without much fuss. I recommend candidates to read this till the end. Like they say early to bed early to rise, start applying what you read before the exam clock start ticking.
The poor performance in UTME board examination kept me guessing, 'Is the fault is from the candidate or board'. Despite the high level of failure, many students still clear their papers in flying colors.
A cross before a crown, those students who passed their Jamb exams did not get it cheaply. There are processes and rules to apply if you want to pass the examination.
Crossing the Jamb cut-off mark for your University of choice is possible and you can do 100% effectively. For history not to repeat itself you must avoid the mistakes that resulted to your failure the last Jamb.
Scoring over 250 in Jamb 2019 requires diligence. No matter how many times you sat for the examination. All that matters now is to pass the Jamb 2019 examination with a high score.
The tips to pass Jamb covered in this article is simple to understand.
Jamb exam is like any other external examination you wrote back then in secondary school. To pass in one sitting, you need to study based on the set out study points.
Reading the whole topics in Essential Biology does not guarantee you will score up to 50 marks in Jamb. Likewise other subjects, you need to get and cover the recommended resources.
You registered for MBBS in your choice of university and because you find physics difficult to ignore reading the subject. The examination distribute marks equally to the 4 subject.
Say you scored 70 marks in biology, 60 marks in chemistry, 50 marks in English and 10 marks in Physics. That is 190 marks is difficult to gain admission to study MBBS.
Instead of giving up on a subject explain to your friend and other candidates, they may be of great help.
Each time it is study hour you tell yourself, 'Jamb registration has not started yet, the UTME exam is still far'. Thinking there is enough time is the greatest enemy of progress.
Many students did not pass Jamb 2018 and some will still fail this year because of procrastination. A stitch in time saves nine, it is better you start studying now than rushing when there is little or not study time.
The complete past jamb questions and answers on chemistry is 100% uploaded in your brain. Your brain can scan and give you the answers even without the question being complete.
That is a good thing but what happens if you have the same question on the screen on the day of examination twisted in another word? What matters most is to be familiar with the system.
To pass the Jamb 2019 exams, forgetfulness is not an option. Before you blame your village people for your failure, run a quick check on your last year preparation. Probably, you will discover you did not study hard or you were busy cramming.
Candidates who depend on runz can not make it in Jamb 2019. The so called dealers are fraudsters who feed candidates with wrong answers to collect money from them.
It is 100% possible to score over 300 marks in Jamb 2019 without any external help. Study hard and you will pass no shortcut to these rule.
Low self believe has robbed many intelligent students of their admission last year. The power of the mind is immeasurable, what you propose in your mind matters a lot.
Many candidates fail the exam on the day of registration. They only want to take the exam without a goal. Action without passion deserves a sanction.
Set your mind positively and sanction thing that comes between your success and you.


Matthew's mum and dad wanted me to take some photos of him out and about. Unfortunately, the weather decided otherwise. It had been pouring with rain and was extremely damp so we agreed that I would turn up at the house and see what it was like. Still a bit damp to venture out to the local park. However, it did manage to dry up.
It's amazing what you can find in small spaces. As I looked around their back garden, I immediately saw a few places where I could sit Matthew, we even used a bit of the front garden next to a line of trees. It looked like we were in the woods.
Matthew was great to work with. A very happy chap and he really enjoyed having photos taken of him. I don't know many four year olds who would let me do that! Here is a small selection of what I captured.


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At Mudra, we are into the long scrunched-up look - influenced by 80's dancewear and you can wear these leggings over your ankles, which makes your legs look longer. The main features of these Organic Bamboo Leggings are that they fit like a second skin and they are so light, while still giving you a firm hold. They won't lose shape and they have a deep waistband that can be folded down or worn up.
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Mr Tabubil trades computer assistance for the use of a lawnmower to trim our little lawn. Yesterday the lawnmower arrived with an armful of cut roses. Our yard runs to frangipani and great big tropical lilly-ish things. I love frangipani- the scent and the spare stark white of the flowers, but there's something special - something splendidly grandiose - about roses!
They turn any room into a party!
Home is home and full of Mr Tabubil and therefore wonderful. And I've been so busy - it's amazing how many tasks and trivialities pile up over six weeks - and turn into monsters while you're away, as if they've spent the time stewing and swelling instead of sitting decently meek and quiescent-like on your desk. And dining table. And kitchen ledges. And sewing machine. And in your bedside drawers and ironing basket and washing pile and stuffed behind paperbacks on your bookshelves and - ugh!
I preferred to go around smelling things.
I hadn't done that before. As far back as I can remember, I never did. I could smell things just fine - as I stood in them, or with my nose stuffed deep inside them. I was fine with cooking - if I took the lid off of the saucepan and inhaled deeply for half an hour or so, and I could certainly smell the eucalyptus blossoms when the trees burst forth and paint the town golden-yellow - if I crossed the road and cut a sprig and pressed my nose to the honey-scented blossoms, but there was a whole four-dimensional olfactory world all around me and I was deaf and blind and dumb.
One week ago - three weeks post-nasal-surgery, I woke up in the morning with an extra sense. The water from the Murray River pipeline that I drank with my breakfast tasted different: earthy, and faintly grassy, and I realized that I was tasting it with my nose, as well as my tongue.
- I could smell the coriander root - soft and blonde, like the taste of fenugreek seeds. The cumin was dry and powdery - even as an odor, it tickled. The ginger was high and sweet and prickly and the cardamom pods floated lower than the rest of the ingredients, deep and brown and humming slightly.
The next morning I smelled the dry cereal as I poured it into a breakfast bowl. Unsurprisingly, it smelled like cardboard. I ate sour Greek yogurt and sweet oranges instead.
The chickens next door - soft and faintly earthy. The pungent, peppery smell of mustard weed, crushed under my feet. Potatoes roasting in the oven - just like they taste, rounded and mealy and late-at-night-in-midwinter. The hot, sharp smell of freshly ironed cotton. A raft of jasmine flowers, pulling me up out of my sandals from the other side of the street. Garlic like I've never known it before - an olfactory wallop that almost drove me clean outside into the garden. And the mint! The gorgeous, heady, HEAVENLY scent of fresh growing mint leaves.
Our next door neighbor (he of the chickens) keeps a vegetable patch. Yesterday he took me into his back yard and loaded me down with a basket of grapes (sugary and sickly-sour) and capsicums (damp and sweet) and spring onions (high and spiky) and mint, ripped by the armful from a border garden.
Growing up in PNG, the rain was so heavy that we had to cut irrigation ditches across our grass lawns. Mint grew wild along the edges of the ditches - thick and tall - we ripped it out and threw it away when it got too high, and when we ran we trampled it under our feet and everywhere the rich smell of it rose so strong and high and sweet and singing that you could get drunk on it.
Last night I dreamed that I was back in high school writing an essay for an exam. The topic was "Happiness is:" and I wrote three pages on"Happiness is the smell of mint leaves."
This morning I woke up and went straight to the refrigerator. I opened the door and buried my face in a cloud of mint and just stood there, breathing.
Mr Tabubil really isn't liking the Australian fauna very much. We have a few screened windows, but insects DO get in at night. The mesh is a rather large weave, and the smaller ones come right through the screens. I found him gibbering a week ago - terrified of the "horrible monster beetle" in the middle of the carpet. It clocked in at one centimeter - including the feelers.
Not long after he arrived in Australia, Mr Tabubil had a Moment.
Looking out of the window, the halo from every streetlight was hazed and dancing with millions on millions of tiny bodies. It was like the footage you see taken three miles down in the abyssal trenches - a rain of glowing, glittering particles. It was a phenomenon.
It was a termite swarm - on the first hot day of summer, the winged ones take flight by the hundreds of million - harmless fliers that drop their wings and wriggle down your shirt and die promptly, and neither eat you nor settle in your house.
This phenomenon of nature left the Canadian unmoved.
"Please let me go home to Canada now" he whimpered, staring out the window at the opaque night.
I have video footage of him vacuuming the poor termites out of the air.
We had some mild excitement my first night home. Around bedtime, when we were yawning on the sofa and stretching our arms and discussing the pleasing prospect of fresh sheets and pillows under our heads, Mr Tabubil let out a hell of a yell - and we saw a gigantic cockroach sauntering merrily across the living room floor. Quite two inches in length, it was. I dropped a book on it and took the remains outside - taking due care and diligence as I cross the threshold. We have hit summer cockroach season, the time where if we step outside we have to do it FAST and watch the door frame to catch 'em scuttling in. Where they will create monster colonies of monstrous cockroaches that will chew holes in our underwear and breed in our socks.
Mr Tabubil bellowed, dancing from toe to toe.
"This enormous!" he said spreading his fingers wider than the width of my own hand.
I was skeptial. Huntsmen just don't get that big up here.
"Fine." He chuckled nervously. He moved his fingers toward each other by two centimeters. "This big, okay? And hairy."
Lovely. First an enormous cockroach, now a full size, out of season huntsman.
"The first thing" I said, "is to move all the other stuff out of here."
"Brilliant!" Mr Tabubil said, from outside in the corridor. From over on the other side of the house in the kitchen, actually.
Gingerly, I began to clear the room, and found that, courtesy of a damp kitchen towel, the laundry basket had turned into a space-habitat for ants. Bravely, Mr Tabubil steeled himself enter the chamber of horrors and run a hot wash in the washing machine, and I carried the rest of the laundry out into the corridor. He yelled again.
"It's coming right up the side of a supermarket bag! Can you see it? Can you see it? It's right there! It's right there!!!"
I came running. Oh. Oh yeah. There it was, all right. The big scary monster. A little quarter-scale South Australia huntsman spider. No fur. Barely two inches across.
"Do I have to kill it?" I sighed.
So I squashed the poor thing between two shoes. And gave Mr Tabubil a very VERY fishy stink-eye.
"Bigger than my hand, huh? The poor baby."
Two night ago we found another two-inch huntsman in the bedroom - scuttling out of my pajama pants as I picked them up to put them on. Mr Tabubil is still smarting from the indignities of last week - this one made it outside alive in a drinking glass.
However. My Aunt and Uncle A came to stay with us over the long weekend, and Auntie A told me that the things live in pairs. And as much as I choose to believe in a live and let live philosophy of life, I draw the line at sharing my pajama bottoms with eight other legs.
The hunt is seriously on.
Today was HOT. Hot enough to keep the house a Scandinavian sauna bath, and the walls of the rooms that don't have aircon to reflect the furnace heat of a thousand suns.
Around 8 in the evening, Mr Tabubil and I decided we decided that the heat MUST have gone down when the sun did and drove down to the beach for a walk. We were partly right - the sun had gone down a little in the sky - which meant we were walking directly toward a ball of pulsing flame that hovered right at eye level.
But the water was cool - and the tide was coming in. Visibly. When we parked on the harbor wall, there was a sand flat half-way out to the end of the jetty. When we'd clambered down to the sand, we decided we'd been caught up in some sort of heat-haze illusion because the kids digging holes to China all over the sand flat were actually playing on islands. We walked out across the sand flat and stopped at the waterline to look out toward the islands and noticed that a few of the holes had gone under and the children were paddling, and we stopped and actually LOOKED at the waterline. It was creeping toward us at walking pace; we turned around - and WE were on an island, and sprinted back to shore before it was knee-deep!
I'm back home! And receiving hugs and cuddles and mmmm.... It's nice to be back.
As a farewell to Brisbane of sorts - here are a few photos of the Newmarket Farmers Market - taken last Saturday on an outing with my sister and a few friends. Five weeks ago this land was underwater. Today it's the best place in Brisbane to buy your fruits and vegetables.
For dinner that night we baked the mushrooms and ate them like steaks. We fried the haloumi with lime juice and ate it with slices of fresh valencia oranges. And we buried our noses into the arm-loads of mint between courses.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. With a sharp knife, score a cross-hatch pattern in the mushroom caps. Score an X in the base of the stem.
Whisk other ingredients together in a bowl.
Lay a sheet of baking paper in a shallow baking dish and lay the mushrooms gill-side down on the paper. Brush the oil-and-vinegar mixture over the mushrooms, covering the entire surface. Bake for 30 minutes or until tender.
Yesterday afternoon, Mum watched the movie Stealth. It's a dreadful waste of celluloid, but she seemed to genuinely enjoy it - enough to rent it after she saw most of it on TV this weekend.
She spent the rest of the weekend saying things like "Those swallows look like stealth fighters!" as they swooped across the park or, "Those seagulls are like stealth fighters" as they hovered overhead, and by Sunday afternoon "Everything is like a stealth fighter! Isn't life great?"
She watched the movie on Tuesday because Tuesday is "One Dollar One Rental - Any movie for a dollar!" day at the local video shop.
We meant to rent only Stealth, but when I went to the counter to pay my dollar, the dude winced and, looking at me warily, said "Are you aware of our rental policy on Tuesdays?"
"Sure am!" I said cheerily, thrusting the video toward him in an "ante up" sort of maneuver.
"Yeah." he said lugubriously. "We've had to change it a little. We advertised one dollar rentals on Tuesday, and people started coming in and renting movies. Lots of movies. Lots of people. We lost MONEY on it. People are just - " He glared at me, representative of the great horde of rapacious Tuesday opportunists.
"Anyway. Now you have to spend at least five dollars on Tuesdays or you can't rent anything."
"How MUCH" Mum asked "would this movie cost on any other day of the week?"
"Four ninety five." He said, somewhat smugly, under the circumstances. "You want four more movies or d'y'wanna buy a few chocolate bars?"
On the other hand, we DID get five movies for the same price it would have cost to rent one under normal circumstances. On the OTHER other hand, all but one (the one no one else would have rented in a fit) of the weekly rentals I was interested in had gone ("Geez, I'm sorry. That one went out the door half an hour ago.... Geez. That one too. Just bad luck, I guess.") and we wound up with a pile of overnighters and three-day rentals that we've been hard-pressed to do justice to. In fact, it would probably have made more sense just to rent that one movie and pay the five dollar charge and - hmmm.... say... d'you think?


Some people take voting more seriously than others.
Take Galicia Malone for example, she was determined to vote in her first presidential election, no matter the circumstances.
ABC Chicago affiliate WLS-TV reports that Malone walked into Precinct 75 in Dolton, Ill., and asked for a chair because she was in labor.
WLS-TV reports that Malone was in good spirits, "election judges moved Malone through the line and sat her at a booth. A few minutes later, with her civic duty complete, the mother-to-be headed to the hospital."


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Q: cant figure out php contact form verification woes Hi I got a contact from script the internet that I have been messing around with, only problem is that the verification that I am trying to add to it just doesn't work. Basically in the form it has name, email, number, type and comment. My main verification woes are with the number field I would like it so that if it is empty it echos "no number" and when the person type in letters instead of numbers it will echo "you need to type with numbers". Something like lol. but I'm stuck. Can any of you geniuses help me? Thanks in advance here is the full code below. p.s. sorry about previous post i accidently cut off the script:$
<?php

$nowDay=date("d.m.Y");
$nowTime=date("H:i:s");
$subject = "E-mail from my site!";

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

    //contactname
    if (trim($_POST['name'] == '')) {
        $hasError = true;
    } else {
        $name = htmlspecialchars(trim($_POST['name']));
    }
    //emailaddress
    if (trim($_POST['email'] == '')) {
        $hasError = true;
    } else if (!preg_match("/^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_.-]*@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$/i",trim($_POST['name']))) {
        $hasError = true;
    } else {
        $email = htmlspecialchars(trim($_POST['email']));
    }
    //phonenumber
    if (trim($_POST['number'] == ''))
    {
       $fake_num = true;
    }
    else if(!is_numeric($_POST['phonenumber']))
    {
        $fake_num = true;
    }
    else
    {
        $number = htmlspecialchars(trim($_POST['number']));
    }
    //type
    $type = trim($_POST['type']);

    //comment
    if (trim($_POST['comment'] == '')) {
        $hasError = true;
    } else {
        $comment = htmlspecialchars(trim($_POST['comment']));
    }

    if (!isset($hasError) && !isset($fake_num)) {
        $emailTo = 'email@hotmail.com';
        $body = "   Name: $name\n\n
                    Email: $email\n\n
                    Phone number: $number\n\n
                    Type: $type\n\n
                    Comment: $comment\n\n
                    \n This message was sent on: $nowDay at $nowTime";

        $headers = 'From: My Site <'.$emailTo.'>'."\r\n" .'Reply-To: '. $email;
        mail($emailTo, $subject, $body, $headers);
        $emailSent = true;
    }
}
?>

<?php

if(isset($hasError))
{
    echo"
form has error
";
}
?>

<?php
if(isset($fake_num))
{
    echo"
wrong num
";
}
?>

<?php
if(isset($emailSent) && $emailSent == true)
{
    echo "
Email Successfully Sent!
";
    echo "
Thank you  $name  for using my contact form! Your email was successfully sent and I will be in touch with you soon.
";
}
?>

    <form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" name="bookingform" id="bookingform">

Booking form

            Name

        <input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="required"/>

            Your email:

        <input type="text" name="email" id="email" class="required"/>

            Contact Number:

        <input type="text" name="number" id="number" class="required" />

            Car required:

        <select name="type" id="type">
            <option selected="selected">Manual</option>
            <option>Automatic</option>
      </select>

            Comment:

        <textarea cols="" rows="" name="comment" id="comment" class="required"></textarea>
        <button type="submit" name="submit">Submit</button>
    </form>

A: For checking whether a number has been entered you can use:
if (!preg_match('/^?[0-9]{0,10}$/', $_POST['number'])) {
echo "Please enter a valid number"; //Failed to meet criteria
}

Here you can also specify the amount of numbers that would constitute your valid number with the braces {0,10}, in this case, the number can be up to 11 digits long. If you required it to be only 11 digits long, then use {11}.
If you wish to check if a number has been entered at all you can use:
if (empty($_POST['number'])) {
echo "Please enter a valid number"; //Field was left empty
}

PHP does have a built-in email validation function that you can use
filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)
which returns true if the entered email is in the correct format.

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PowerPoint 2010 introduced the very great 'Merge Shape' tools (see this post for details). With this toolset editable, vector, shapes can be can be created direct in PowerPoint – something I refer to as "Illustrator 2.0″. With PowerPoint 2013 it includes the ability to convert text to vector, which is what we will use to create the stylized quote marks for a complete PowerPoint workflow.
4. The text is no longer editable, as it is now shapes. Right click and select EDIT POINTS just like any shape in PPT.
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E.J. Woollard Ltd maintains various irrigation systems from high profile clients who have premier quality pitches to local bowling greens.
We also supply and install irrigation systems to any sports facility who wants irrigation. A football pitch or bowling green are usually a standard size and the watering requirements on any football pitch or bowling green are similar (local conditions do play a part).
A ring main will usually be laid outside the playing surface; along this spray heads with solenoid valves will be installed to irrigate the surface. The system would be fed by a water storage tank and pressure pump. As the controller sent a message for a valve to open the pump would start and water would be distributed to the spray.
To help remove surface water and improve playing conditions many sports facilities also require a dewatering/drainage system as well - please refer to the dewatering.


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Why The Crypto World Backs Down When The SEC Calls Coins Securities
by Angela Beverly
Cryptocurrency traders have been told that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission considers a range of widely traded digital assets to be securities, a stance that could impose regulatory requirements that many boosters say could be crippling . But determining what makes a piece a title or not is a complicated matter.
Its chairman, Gary Gensler, and his Trump-era predecessor, Jay Clayton, said many digital assets have the hallmarks of securities. Gensler has spent the last year warning that the agency plans to take a tough line in enforcing its rules on these tokens. Concerns among crypto traders grew when the market regulator took the unusual step in late July to identify nine crypto assets it considered securities in an insider trading case. Seven of them were traded on Coinbase, the largest crypto trading platform in the United States. Separately, Bloomberg News reported that Coinbase is under investigation by the SEC over whether it listed assets for trading that should have been registered with the agency.
2. What does it mean for something to be a security?
In its simplest form, whether or not something is a security under US rules is essentially a matter of how closely it resembles shares issued by a fundraising company. To make this decision, the SEC applies a legal test, which derives from a 1946 Supreme Court decision. In this framework, an asset may fall within the jurisdiction of the SEC when it comes to investors money with the intention of profiting from the efforts of the organization's management. In December 2020, the agency sued Ripple Labs Inc., for allegedly raising funds by selling the XRP digital token, which at the time was the third largest, without registering it as security. The SEC claimed that the company was funding its growth by issuing XRP to investors betting that its value would rise. The case is now a massive legal battle, with Ripple having hired former SEC chairwoman Mary Jo White as its attorney.
3. Why is calling a token a security issue?
For starters, such designations would make running a cryptocurrency exchange more expensive and complex. Under US rules, the label has strict investor protection requirements for platforms and issuers. This burden would put smaller platforms at a disadvantage against larger-pocketed competitors. Additionally, the exchanges would be subject to continuous scrutiny by regulators, which could lead to fines, penalties and, in the worst case scenario, prosecution if ever criminal authorities were involved. It could also mean the loss of future funding from investors who may be reluctant to face these increased compliance burdens and regulatory scrutiny. Proponents of increased regulation believe that security designations would result in more information and transparency for investors due to SEC disclosure requirements that would apply.
4. Who is against this approach?
Crypto enthusiasts say their businesses are decentralized in a way that makes old rules ill-suited, and crypto trading platforms argue the assets they list should be considered commodities, not securities . In the United States, the rules governing the trading of commodities and their derivatives focus more on ensuring that companies, producers and farmers can effectively use derivatives to hedge against the risks of commodity price fluctuations than on the role of small investors.
5. What does the crypto community want?
Efforts have been made on Capitol Hill to give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the US derivatives watchdog, more power to directly regulate crypto assets. Currently, he primarily oversees crypto futures contracts and has the ability to take enforcement action in the event of fraud or manipulation in the underlying market, as he has done in dozens of crypto cases. Crypto executives and traditional markets titans like Citadel Securities have joined an industry push behind a bill from top lawmakers on the Senate Agriculture Committee that would give more ground to the derivatives regulator – to costs of the SEC. Opponents of this approach say the securities-focused SEC rules provide more protections for family investors.
6. How do agencies split crypto?
To some extent, their approaches reflect their origins. The SEC was created following the stock market crash of 1929 and considers its primary mission to be to protect investors by requiring extensive disclosures by financial entities. The CFTC has its roots in the Ministry of Agriculture and helps farmers protect against droughts. The CFTC – and the US rules on commodities and their financial derivatives – are widely seen as a less onerous regulatory regime. So it's no surprise that the crypto crowd desperately wants the CFTC to be their regulator and not the SEC.
7. Which parts are or are not considered a title?
The short answer is that beyond the biggest cryptocurrency, there is a lot of ambiguity. US regulators, including the SEC, agree that Bitcoin, which is by far the largest digital asset, is not a security. It was started by an unknown person or persons under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto and does not exist as a way to raise funds for a specific project. The second largest token, Ether, was deemed not to be a security during the Trump administration by a senior SEC official who flagged that if Ether might have started to qualify as a security – the Foundation Ethereum used it to raise funds – it had become something decentralized enough not to be one anymore. But after Ethereum moved to a system where coins that are "staked" play a role in recording transactions, Gensler said the fact that staked coins can earn interest could cause regulators to start treat them as security. The CFTC considers Ether a commodity, and the CME lists futures on it as well as Bitcoin.
Gensler said the agency could waive some of its rules to better accommodate digital assets, while ensuring investor protection, if exchanges work with the agency to register. However, he did not provide a roadmap for exactly how this could be accomplished. Meanwhile, lawmakers are weighing several proposals that could give the CFTC and U.S. banking regulators more power over parts of the asset class. At the same time, the SEC insider trading case, if successful, could also provide a clearer picture of which types of tokens qualify as securities and which should be considered commodities. In September, the White House released a series of reports that had been submitted by different agencies, saying that together they constituted the first "comprehensive framework for the responsible development of digital assets". But the reports have not resolved what has been a patchwork of overlapping approaches and jurisdictional battles.
9. Is this a problem elsewhere?
Yes. Globally, different regulators have taken a series of positions on whether to treat cryptocurrencies like securities. The UK's Financial Conduct Agency regulates digital assets that it considers investments with redemption rights or profit sharing, while "payment tokens" like Bitcoin or "utility tokens" that give access to a service are not regulated. Singapore regulates both types, but under different laws. It considers coins that are digital representations of other assets, such as unlisted stocks, to be securities. In June, the European Union reached a tentative agreement to impose common cryptocurrency rules across all 27 member states and to develop a new legal framework to regulate public offerings of cryptoassets.
• A Treasury Department report on crypto regulatory issues.
• A look at the efforts of the crypto industry in Washington to avoid securities regulation.
• Gary Gensler's first crypto interview after taking over as SEC chair with Bloomberg Businessweek.
• An OnPoint BGOV of cryptocurrency legislation being considered by Congress.
• A 2018 Bloomberg QuickTake shows how long these fights have been going on.
• The Executive Order on Crypto Regulation signed by Biden.
• An article on the SEC fight with Ripple.
• The UK FCA's breakdown of regulated versus unregulated tokens.
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It's the first party of 2013!
When Emma Kate's mommy contacted me a few months back about doing her 2nd birthday, she told me that EK loved Daisy Duck and she was hoping she would still love Daisy by the time her birthday came around. Well, the answer to that question is a resounding YES!
Miss EK was thrilled with her Daisy Duck party and kept saying "Day-dy duck!" So precious!
EK's mommy and I have known each other since college, when we were just lowly waiters at a neighborhood restaurant.
You may remember her first birthday last year, which was an Ocean theme.
And I love that EK loves Daisy! Daisy is so much more fabulous than Minnie, right?
And purple? Hello? My favorite color!
And, if you read my blog on a regular basis, you know I love a unique theme. And since there are hardly any Daisy Duck themed party supplies out there, I had to stretch myself, which I love!
My first step was finding this Daisy Duck wall decal on Amazon. I simply applied it directly to a large piece of foam core and then cut it out with an xacto knife. It is a super affordable way to have a big impact on your backdrop.
I decided to really focus on Daisy herself, but also purple daisy flowers to bring in a really girly touch.
I found this adorable pink and purple daisy in the spring section of Hobby Lobby. I simply spray painted the wooden letters and attached them with some floral wire.
Who else but Piggy Bank Parties would I enlist for the printables? They were kind enough to modify their polka dot collection for me by adding super cute little pink bows to it!
For the cake pops, I knew I wanted to make a stand that really looked like a birthday cake. So, I crafted this large tiered stand out of styrofoam disks and hat boxes. I added embellishments with tulle trim, feather trim, and different colored ribbon. For the topper, I simply painted a chipboard #2 and then added adhesive rhinestones from the scrapbook department.
For the cake pops, what else but little Daisy Ducks?
The fabulously talented Autumn Lynn's Sins did these adorable pops for me!
The beautiful chocolate covered oreos with fondant toppers were done by Maria at Love and Sugar Kisses.
I mean, could you die?
They were little works of art!
Maria is a dream to work with and these cookies were just perfection.
Suckers by Steph, as always, made me some beautiful chocolate suckers. She is one of my favorite edible vendors to work with and these were just beautiful!
I found these little hinged flower boxes at Michael's and painted them with some Martha Stewart glitter paint to make them extra cute!
I wanted to have "duck" themed food for the party, so for the menu we had "Duckbills and Dip," "Cheese and Quackers" cut with a high heeled cookie cutter, Goodie Goodie Bites (Daisy's Catch Phrase) which were chicken minis from Chic Fil A, and then Purple Bow Pasta Salad.
Did you know you could dye pasta? It's really easy! All you do is cook the pasta to al dente, then add gel color to it. You can get gel color at any craft store in the cake section and they make tons of colors!
Miss EK making a funny face for the camera!
For the favors, I wanted a super cute and very "Daisy" favor box, so I emailed Do at Piggy Bank Parties to see if she could do a high heel favor box with a rounded toe. After some very hard work on her part, she totally delivered these COMPLETELY adorable high heels!
They were the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life!
And the awesome news for you is that she can do them in any color! These would be the perfect favor box for SO many girly party themes!
To display them, I glued some scrapbook paper to a small shoe box that I had lying around my house from Christmas. Then I used the tulle trim for a little extra cutenesss.
The daisy chains are from Hobby Lobby and I found them in the wedding section. They were the perfect garland for the table!
Thanks for checking out EK's Daisy Duck Party!
Love this Brittany!!! Amaze-balls as usual! ;) The cake pops and the display are just so freakin' cute.
Such an awesome party!!! The Daisy theme is so fresh and different and you knocked it out of the park!! So many great DIY ideas here...LOVE that cake pop stand! So thrilled to work with you!!! And the birthday girl is adorable!!!
LOVE! Every detail is amazing - um, duckbills + dip? So freaking clever. And those daisy cake pops are out of this world!
Love every detail as ALWAYS!! You never disappoint Ms. Britt!
I love that you always nail it with the food names as well...every little detail!
LOVED it all I would love to know about what you would charge for a party like this for 8 kids ??
Email me at brittany@greygreydesigns.com for more info.


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Q: I need to have an anchor navigate to the page, and that page ONLY display specific elements I am curious to know if there is a way to specifically display certain elements based off the referring link. I have dropdown nav bar with multiple  links, and I need these links need to go to the linked page, but only display elements with a certain class name.
For example:

Click the 'Entertainment' drop-down selection of the 'Work' nav-link. It navigates to the desired page, BUT, only displays elements with a class of '.entr'. Similar with the 'Film' drop-down selection of the 'Work' nav; navigate but only display elements with a class of '.film'.
I can do it on the 'Work' page with a different set of links devoted solely to this purpose, but I want to know if its possible to do anything like this with the navigation bar links from a different page than the elements are on.

A: So assuming you're using something like this for your Navigation links:
Entertainment
You could set all of the elements on your page to be hidden display:none and then do something like this:
window.onload = function() {
  const hash = document.location.hash;
  let className;
  let elementsToShow;

  switch (hash) {
    case 'Entertainment' :
        className ='.entr';
        break;
    case 'Film' :
        className ='.film';
        break;
    case 'News' :
        className = '.news';
        break;
  }

  if (className) {
    elementsToShow = document.querySelectorAll(className);
  } else {
    elementsToShow = document.querySelectorAll('.class-on-all-elements');
  }

  elementsToShow.forEach( function(element){
    element.style.display = 'block';
  });
}

Walking through the whole process...
Clicking on Entertainment takes you to the page with the url website.com/work#Entertainment
On that page the script runs when that page loads: window.onload = function() {
It gets the "hash" (everything after the #) and saves it to the variable hash:
const hash = document.location.hash;
It then compares the value of hash to a number of different cases: switch (hash) {
If it finds a match it then assigns the correct class name to the variable className:
case 'Film' :
  className ='.film';
If it has a value for className, it selects all the elements with that class (elements = document.querySelectorAll(className)) and adds them to the variable elementsToShow. If there is no value for className it adds all the elements to elementsToShow since we don't want a blank page.
Finally, and loops through all the elements in elementsToShow and sets them to be visible: element.style.display = 'block'


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Civil Discussion: The Voting Mandate
Every Friday in Civil Discussion, Ben Bartlett (who majored in Political Theory) and Richard Clark (a political spectator who is friends with a guy who majored in Political Theory) discuss political events as they happen over email, hashing out the meaning and manipulations behind them. Also just being bros.
Ben: I've got to say, I was surprised by the reaction to Nick's article. I thought it was incredibly gracious and helpful; exactly the sort of thing we want to encourage in terms of tone and thoughtfulness.
Richard: Well, for whatever reason the comments are insane, but the Twitter and Facebook response was much more positive, even from people who disagreed.Though I will say I think a lot of it just has to do with how confused Christians are as a whole about how to live within a democratic system. It's not as if there's any direct analogues in scripture, so you end up with a lot of crazy extremes which don't often communicate or cooperate well with one another.
Ben: One thing I like about CAPC is that we work really hard to separate commands from "helpful habits." In other words, we try to be clear about the difference between things that Scripture definitely DOES say, and things it does not necessarily say.
Evangelical leaders love thinking up ideas and practices and disciplines that help certain kinds of people to obey God better. That's fine. But too often, they aren't careful to emphasize that those helpful habits are not inherently Scriptural and as such are not commanded for all people. Instead, they treat these suggestions as very nearly coming from the mouth of God himself. Some good examples might include courtship, home schooling, not playing videogames, or doing daily "quiet times." More extreme examples include things like only eating organic foods, refusing to allow women to have jobs, or being against all popular media (movies, TV, music, etc.).
Voting is one of those things. There's nothing in Scripture that definitively requires voting. Why do you think it's such an emotional issue for so many people? Or can you think of reasons that it should be?
Richard: People seem to really internalize the stakes. Which, personally, I kind of appreciate. I am a person who feels like there is some sense in which we can have an affect on the rest of the world, and that voting plays a crucial role in that, electoral college be damned.
Still, I think the talk of not-voting being sin is a little much. Personally, I eye-roll at those who don't vote – even our own writers! I think it's much more valuable to kind of do a little bit of praying and thinking through the issues and to actually engage politically rather than back out as if it doesn't have anything to do with you. Because it does! Living in a country means taking an active part in that government, no matter how much we deny it. The more we can influence that government, the better off we'll be, I say.
The balance we face is, we don't want to be legalists, here. We don't want to say it's a sin to vote or a sin to not vote. But it doesn't hurt to lay out clearly what the stakes are, what's to be gained by voting or lost by not voting. But also, we have to be clear about what won't be won or lost either.
I may eye-roll, but I don't blame someone like Nick. Because we haven't exactly been left a tradition of balanced political involvement.
Ben: I think you strike a nice balance, despite that lack of inherited tradition. Wise and prayerful participation is a good goal.
However, let's take a moment to get into the mind of a person who DOES make an idol out of politics. When they read Nick's article, do they see themselves? Or do they simply say, "well, lots of people flat out disagree with this writer, so I'm in that camp too."?
I guess I would just ask people in the, "Yes you should vote" camp to do some very serious evaluation of whether they are making it into an idol. Personally, I would say that as soon as you tell someone it is sin not to vote you are making it an idol. And when you make it your business to try to shame or bully someone else into voting when they don't want to, that's borderline idolatry as well.
One of the few nice things about elections is that they force a lot of introspection: do I as a conservative Christian support the liberal Christian or the conservative Mormon? Do I vote based on positions or on pragmatism? Do I want to take back territory in the culture wars or to encourage peace in the public square? I would even suggest that spending a good amount of time asking and answering those questions of yourself is a more relevant and meaningful activity than the act of voting (especially if you live in one of the forty-some states where your vote cannot sway the electoral college outcomes).
I plan to vote in this election. But I like that Nick has his values in the right place and I wouldn't be afraid for others to follow him. Perhaps if Christians held the importance of voting more lightly, they would also engage more wisely.
Ben Bartlett is a business consultant, living and working in Louisville, Kentucky. He and his wife Samantha have three terrific kids. He loves reading, theology, politics, analysis, Ultimate Frisbee, and hiking. He also loves serving as an elder and teacher in his local church.
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package com.example.tests;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import com.example.utils.SortedListOf;
import static com.example.fw.ContactHelper.CREATION;

import static com.example.tests.ContactDataGenerator.loadContactsFromCsvFile;
import static com.example.tests.ContactDataGenerator.loadContactsFromXmlFile;

public class AddNewContactTests extends TestBase{

	@DataProvider
	public Iterator<Object[]> contactsFromFile() throws IOException {
		return wrapContactsForDataProvider(loadContactsFromXmlFile(new File("contacts.xml"))).iterator();
	}

	@Test(dataProvider = "contactsFromFile")
	public void testContactCreationWithValidData(ContactData contact) throws Exception {
    //save old state
	  SortedListOf<ContactData> oldContactList = app.getContactHelper().getContacts();

    //actions
    app.getContactHelper().createContact(contact);

    //save new state
    SortedListOf<ContactData> newContactList = app.getContactHelper().getContacts();

    //compare states
	assertThat(newContactList, equalTo(oldContactList.withAdded(contact)));
	}

  @Test(dataProvider = "randomInvalidContactGenerator") //invalid input, new contact should not be created
  public void testContactCreationWithInvalidData(ContactData contact) throws Exception {
    app.navigateTo().mainPage();

    SortedListOf<ContactData> oldContactList = app.getContactHelper().getContacts();

    app.navigateTo().gotoAddNewPage();
	app.getContactHelper()
		.fillContactForm(contact, CREATION);
	app.getContactHelper().submitContactCreation()
    	.returnToHomePage();

	SortedListOf<ContactData> newContactList = app.getContactHelper().getContacts();

	assertThat(newContactList, equalTo(oldContactList));
  }
}


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Interview: Nigerian Producer, Tha Beatsmith Details Musical Journey And Dynamic Collab On EP, "Vanity"
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Tha Beatsmith is a Nigerian self-taught music producer whose sound is well-seasoned with a meld of genres and influences. In this interview, he details his music production journey and the dynamic collaboration with Nigerian musician, Ogranya for their joint EP, "Vanity."
"I'm originally from Nigeria, but I live out here in the US. I guess I'm about to become an 'American'," Adedotun Wale-Adeduro joked. The Lagos, Nigeria-born producer is currently living in North America's 'Black Mecca' that is Atlanta, Georgia. Before to entering the world of music production, Adedotun, also known as Tha Beatsmith had rap dreams that soon faded when he "realized that I wasn't going to be no Lil Wayne, T-Pain, or Akon."
Yet Tha Beatsmith still felt this love for music drawing him in. He gave music production a try when he was introduced to Fruity Loops, a popular music production software. With no understanding of where he was headed or what he was doing, Tha Beatsmith took learning into his own hands, experimenting with drums and structure. "You go through your periods of trying to figure out exactly what you're doing. For a while, I was doing rubbish trying to figure out what my sound was," he said. He goes on to explain that "I didn't and still don't really like Dancehall or Reggae, so I didn't make any of that. I pretty much made—I don't know what genre you consider it—but it's a mix of Hip-Hop, R&B, some weird stuff, whatever. I think I knew that early on."
With his polished skills and music production seemingly second nature, Tha Beatsmith joined forces with eclectic Nigerian musician, Ogranya to create Vanity (2019), an EP that was brought to fruition through WhatsApp and emails and whose success is still permeating the sound waves. Read more about Tha Beatsmith's journey as a self-taught music producer and his dynamic collaboration on Vanity.
Photo courtesy of Tha Beatsmith
I didn't know that you were based in the states. What took you to Georgia if you don't mind sharing?
Followed my heart. My wife is from here, but she's Nigerian as well. We made the decision that I was going to move here. That's why I said I followed my heart. I literally did follow love here.
Followed love to the states! Now you have a family. Tell me a little bit about your childhood and some of your interests.
Growing up, my dad was crazy about the arts. I think he used to do theatre and play productions. I think at a certain point he wanted my sibling and me to go learn music. For some reason, I wasn't into music school, so I think I only did that for about a summer or a year. And then when I got into high school I picked that back up. When I became a teen my voice started to change. I wasn't a singer, but I would do vocational stuff with the group and be the baritone person, which was kind of expected because I had the bass voice. Towards the end of high school—we call it secondary school—my classmates and I had a group where we would organize parties, but primarily sing and rap. I did that for a while after high school, but I realized that I wasn't going to be no Lil Wayne, T-Pain, or Akon. I did still have the passion for music and all that good stuff.
Funny story, there used to be this website where you could download these instrumentals and so I used to do a lot of covers, or try—I wasn't that good—but just for the sake of learning how to get a beat and write your own version to it. After that, I had a friend who, like everybody else, used Fruity Loops. He had eventually given me the software to install, so obviously I installed it. It was a cracked version, as expected. For some odd reason, he refused to show me how to work it out or how to go about making things. So I experimented with drums, adding structure and all that good stuff. I think YouTube started to blow up, but I didn't go to YouTube to learn. So that was sort of my introduction to producing. Like everyone else, you go through your periods of trying to figure out exactly what you're doing. For a while, I was doing rubbish trying to figure out what my sound was.
One of the things I realized quickly based on my general interest in music is—I guess being from Nigeria—I had no interest in typical Nigerian Afrobeats stuff, which is probably what you'd expect. I didn't and still don't really like Dancehall or Reggae, so I didn't make any of that. I pretty much made—I don't know what genre you consider it, but it's a mix of Hip-Hop, R&B, some weird stuff, whatever. I think I knew that early on.
Who are some of your influences musically because you said your father was into the arts and music?
I don't know that I had musical influences. Everybody listened to Destiny's Child, Wyclef, Timbaland, or Scott Storch. I don't necessarily think I was like, I want to be like this person. But I liked interesting and mood music. I feel like I probably got more into what you would call my influence when I actually started making music. I think it's when I was like, oh wait this is what's more me. I started listening to more indie bands. I don't make indie music or play the guitar, but I started to connect more to that. I feel like that's probably where more of my inspiration comes from.
Whenever you began your journey into production, were there any individuals where you were like, I really like their work, or I want to figure out how they're doing this.
I feel like everybody always liked Timbaland's switch—the bounce, the groove, but I feel like I was lazy earlier. I like Swizz Beats. His beats are simple. There's not too much going on. It's a drum pattern, some chords, some bass, and the whole song is an eight or sixteen bar loop and then he switches it up, but it sounds really good. It doesn't get boring, right? And so, in some way, shape, or form I was like I really like that. Timbaland, Swizz Beats, what else would I say? I think I did like R&B—this was like Dark Child and the guy who also made Cassie's album, I can't remember his name—those R&B folks! Something about how they sounded cool and R&B, but they had those 808's because 808's weren't really a thing back then, but they had the bounce and the fun.
You liked the simplicity of it all.
Yes, but then there's still something intricate about it. While I can appreciate complex arrangements and people that put a billion instruments or a billion things to find a way to make it cool and find space for it all, I wasn't necessarily drawn to that. I like the simple things where like two months down or one year you're like 'oh my gosh, I can hear this instrument today.'
I just love that you brought up names like Pussycat Dolls and Cassie, listened to indie bands even though you didn't play guitar—you were listening to everybody. You just appreciated everything.
What I did listen to a lot, which might sound weird, is Nigerian music. [laughing] I didn't listen, but I heard it because you go out whether you're on the street or clubs. Wherever you go—parties, birthdays, school things, you hear that kind of stuff every day.
You said that you don't really make any typical Afrobeats—
I do now occasionally because it's interesting. It goes back to what I said earlier about the bounce, right? And so, I feel like African music and Caribbean music—the percussions, the bounce of whatever it all is—gives you that vibe. Now I do mix a little bit of this or that, or it's a regular R&B beat, but it has a little bit of this and that.
It's all seasoned in there.
Pretty much! Some stuff is out, some stuff will probably never make it out, but I go into the alternative weird music or stuff that I like—I feel like what I make is a reflection of my interests. A little bit of everything. I always say it's centered around mood and it puts you in a vibe.
You have all these different things that make your sound what it is. So whenever you're working on a project, what helps you creatively? What's your creative process like?
There's boredom, and then there's also speaking to someone who I'm about to work with on a project, potentially about to work with, or someone I find and I'm excited about as well. Whichever way that happens. The boredom is when I'm home or I'm working and it's my lunch hour. I have a whole setup here in my space. Work is half of my desk and music is the other half. I take a break and I look at the music side of my desk, and I'm like let me see if I can make something. Or, somebody says, 'hey, I'm trying to make a couple of songs' and I feel like I just get fired up over the idea of making something. I could make ten ideas and maybe five or three of them I think are nice. That sort of is my process, it starts with conversation or collaborative projects. For beats I start myself, it starts with sometimes an 'oh, I'm bored' and need some sound. You look up plugins. You look up drum loops or something that sounds interesting. A let's see where we can go from here type of thing.
What is it like as a creative balancing your nine-to-five with your creative projects?
I think it depends on the stage and phase. I feel like it's easy. I'm not an engineer so I don't spend hours trying to figure out the mix or the balance. That's not my space. So, I'm primarily interested in the creative aspect of it. Not to say I don't get involved, but my involvement is this is a reference track and what we think we want it to sound like, you send it over to the engineer, you listen, and provide feedback. But from a creative perspective, I think it's kind of easy because during the eight-to-five or nine-to-five you're working on work, and after I can easily transition into music. Sometimes I spend three or four hours trying to make different stuff, one piece of music, or a beat. Some days I take a break during my lunch hour and work on a couple of ideas.
Because you're a creative, you have to remind yourself, 'I still have something to offer. I'm not typing code, right? It's not the same. I have to have something to give.' Some days there's nothing to give for whatever reason. You make stuff, but it sounds—you know. There are days where you think it's trash, but people like it or put it on their project. I think it's part of the creative process. That's sort of the process in general.
What are some digital audio workstations (DAW) that you use, or do you just use one?
I use one. I'm lazy. I primarily use FL [Studio]. I'm a Windows person, so you know—Windows all day. At some point, I did try to use Studio 1 for recording because I liked the workflow. I tried Reaper as well and stopped. I've thought about getting into Ableton, but I have so much going on personally. There's work, there's music. I feel like I don't have six months to go learn a skill.
If you do graphic design or video editing it's like, 'alright I know this program. I can work with it.' Is it like that with DAWs?
Yes. No. I feel like for the basics you can make a beat, but there's a part where the nuances—the tricks, the shortcuts—are where you have to learn the different tools, and ultimately, when you get past that there's creating your workflow. Whenever I start a project this is where I'm going to go, this is the template. The DAW doesn't necessarily make you; sometimes it's about what you have to offer. What can you do with what you have? If you don't like the sound you have, go buy better plugins. Use whatever DAW you have, you still get the same result.
I originally came across you, Tha Beatsmith, because of Ogranya and the EP, Vanity. It was like a two-in-one, so that was amazing! I was already familiar with him as an artist, so I was really paying attention like, who is this other guy? Who helped him create this project? Vanity was really beautiful, so I'm eager to know first off, how did you and Ogranya meet and how did this project come about?
This was a couple of years ago. This was before Spotify and Apple Music became really big. There was SoundCloud and I stumbled on his page and was like this is really dope, who is this person? At that point, he went by the name Jable before he switched to Ogranya. I listened to his music, thought it was interesting, so I was like, alright, cool and that was it. I think I listened again maybe a couple of weeks after and was like, oh, this is really good. I was talking to a friend of mine like, 'I found such and such on SoundCloud. Really like the music. Would like to work with so and so person.' And he goes, 'oh, that's my best mate.' I was trying to collaborate on a project I was working on at the time and I didn't get the feedback I wanted. He was open to it, but he wasn't open to it. But then creative people have their processes, so I wasn't mad or anything. Fast forward maybe a year, I feel like he had that moment I had two or three weeks after and listened again. He listened and was like we should actually do something.
This was maybe 2018, we started to work on stuff. He got a ton of beats I made—fifty, something like that—he picked out the stuff that he liked, and when he started to record, wrote a bunch of songs and made a tracklist. This was late 2019, I think. He was like, this song is going to be called Vanity. He had rough takes that he had recorded with his phone. Fast forward to 2020, we started to put finishing touches around it. Figured out the tracklist, what songs were actually going to make it. Some of the beats were made in 2018 and 2019 and we added a few new tracks. He did his writing thing, figured out structure, how we wanted to move the song. The friend who introduced us is a mix engineer, so he pretty much mixed the whole project. All three of us had a WhatsApp group where we gave feedback on the song, what we needed to do from a creative perspective and an engineering perspective. That's how it started to come together—figured out the tracklist, the album art—from a bunch of beats narrowed down to this.
When you presented all these beats, was there a specific goal for the sound of the project, or was it just based on the ones that you all liked and it's what was created?
I make beats in seasons—I'll explain. In this season I'm in—well, I'm in a dry spell right now—the beats would sort of sound—I don't want to say similar, but there's a line. There's probably a line within everything I make, but in different sections it's "this is this" and then you go to the next couple of batches and it's "this is that." When I sent the beats, I didn't necessarily say, "this is the idea I have." It was just like, "Hey, this is something I made that I think you might connect with." Everything I like to make is mood-based. Some of it is really introspective, some of it might be a little bit more bouncy or alternative. I have a little Afrobeats in there, but everything has a mid-tempo chill vibe. With those beats, he had some songs he had written before and we found based on the twenty or thirty beats he had, I like these ten and then pretty much did his thing. To be honest, most of it was all him. He has a great process, which takes time, but good things take time, right? Figured out how I wanted to structure the songs and some ideas he had before, then he expounded into a song and fit them into the beats he liked.
Were you, Ogranya, and the engineer all in different places while collaborating on this project?
Yeah, one hundred percent. Before I left Nigeria in 2019, we had one or two sessions, but it wasn't necessarily a production—well, it was more of a play beats type of session to see what works. I think that's where "Can You See Her" came from, in that session. That was our last session, but everything else happened through WhatsApp and emails.
That is so amazing. I really love to see producers and artists collaborate on a project. It's cool because you get to see both of their creative styles and differences fused together. The artist gets to shine, but this is also an opportunity for you, the producer to shine, too. So, I love, love projects like that!
If I had a chance, I would probably make like ten a year.
Ten a year?
I mean that's a bit much. Probably like one every three months. I would definitely do one every three months if I could.
You two work really well together. I'm sure y'all will work more together. Have you released or do you plan on releasing any solo tapes? I know some producers may put out a mix, or a beat tape.
I think I was going to do that, eventually. I've got beats for days like everybody else does—nothing special—that don't have a home. I'm torn between going to find a home or do I just—I feel like sometimes you hoard stuff. I think that's what's happening, to be honest.
You're holding on to them! Let us experience them! We want to hear them.
I think I'm going to put out—yeah, definitely a beat tape and I've also got another project coming. It's not a producer project, but it's me and a bunch of different artists.
I was just about to ask you if you have worked or plan to work with other artists.
I have actually. There are two artists I did a decent amount of work with before. There's a girl called Deena Ade I worked with a couple of songs on her last two projects. You should check it out! And then there's a project by someone I collaborate with a lot—who I'm also working on a project with, her name is Paula B. I produced her whole tape, it's called Huma. If you haven't listened to it, please go listen. I think Huma is great music. I think it's my second project end-to-end and it happened all virtually as well. I was in Nigeria and she was in the US. Strangely enough, there's a lot of additional productions from people in Nigeria—never met them. Everything happened virtually as well.
I like the power of 2021—this whole era that we're in. Everything is virtual. You don't have to be in the same room anymore, same country, city—none of that.
Everybody in their personal space. Do what you like on your own time, but let's get the end result. I do have some projects that never made it out as well, for whatever reason. I do intend to work with a couple more people this year.
What are some successes that you've experienced thus far and on the flip side, what are some moments of adversity that you've faced?
As far as the Vanity project goes, I think having about 100K listeners for the first project is a success. And I haven't done anything about it. There's no PR, I don't have a great Instagram, I haven't run any ads. I guess right project at the right time. The artist—also piggybacking off of the work that he's done. I think that all works.
I guess frustrations is music that never makes it out for whatever reason. Especially stuff that people might have paid for. Sometimes you get to work with people and there's good content, but it's the label, it's the management. That's one part of my frustrations. Another part is sometimes you don't get feedback from artists how you want it. Feedback in terms of response, I guess. When collaborating with other artists, sometimes you have to let them find—the right producer and the right artist at the wrong time doesn't work, right? It's getting to that point where you're both on the same page. I also understand that to be timing. With Ogranya we struck up a conversation, but it didn't happen immediately.
The songs that didn't make it out. That sounds like a whole concept for a project or something. That's funny.
A couple of years ago, this is why I liked the idea of mixtapes. This was before streaming services came into the picture. Think about it, Lil Wayne, for example. The albums that never made Carter II, Carter III, Carter IV, Carter V—you've got Da Drought. The same goes for most artists, but I feel like we don't get that anymore. You just get albums. You get six or ten songs for some artists. Some artists like Jhene Aiko might still give you eighteen or twenty songs and that's it. Also, as a creative person, I understand sometimes you don't want to put your—not everything needs to make it out, but I feel like sometimes there are good songs that—not necessarily about the producers, but about the fans—about good music. Ultimately, there's something for everybody. I think mixtapes are an opportunity to get to listen to that.
What advice do you have for aspiring producers? I want to be a producer, but I just don't know what to do! Whoever is green. There may be people who are still trying to figure it out.
I say for myself because I'm still learning and I'm not where I want to get to. But, I think one of the important things is being skilled and competent. For some people, it might take six months. For others, it might take a year or two—whatever the timeline is, understand when you're ready. And then there's being open to collaboration. I'll use myself as an example. If you have someone who is passionate about the music and is creative, be open to working with anyone for whatever terms, especially when you're up-and-coming. Every opportunity you get means you get to improve—you get to learn something else. Unless you're working with people who want the same trap beats, then yeah, you're going to be in a box. But, if you work with different artists—today you're making trap beats, for example. Tomorrow you're making some type of R&B, or tomorrow you're making some sort of Jazz or ballad. Collaborating in the early stages is like basketball practice for an athlete. Every game you get to play, or every beat you get to make is an opportunity to learn and grow so embrace that as much as you can. Eventually, things will fall in place and it will make sense to you. Something important in today's time is also knowing even when you're collaborating with people for free, or whatever terms you decide, you also want to make sure that you protect yourself legally. Whatever you have to do for publishing or splits, just make sure you do that as best you can. To be honest, any music can make it onto Spotify today. Doesn't necessarily mean it'll get all the plays, but it might be good and a year from now your music is in an ad or it starts to pick up. Far from all that, the creative part is learning as much as you can and collaborating as much as you can.
Now I want to go produce! [laughing]
Open up your computer. You can get a free trial for anything. Fruity Loops, Reason—everything. Everybody's got a free trial. And I think one thing I like about today—doesn't necessarily mean it's affordable for everybody, but I like the fact that a couple of years ago you needed $200-$300 to buy the software there and then. Everybody's got this—I kind of hate it, but I kind of understand it—you can pay $10 a month forever and get the software and all the new features. It's easier for people to start to produce and get good software and get good plugins. You can definitely do that!
What does it mean to be Black and Gifted to you?
I think everybody's gifted in some way, shape, or form. Not to sound like I'm giving away trophies for participation. I'd say to be Black and Gifted means you've understood exactly what is that's your gift. It could be furniture-making, it could be music, it could be a nine-to-five solving complex business problems. Whatever it is, I think it's understanding that and coming into your own, and excelling at it, and making a way for other people. You don't just make a way for yourself, but you also have to pull somebody up. Ultimately, being Black and Gifted is when your knowledge and skills come into it. Being super good at what you are good at.
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Salman Khan Sentenced to 5 Years in Jail in Blackbuck Poaching Case
The Race 3 actor will be spending the night in the jail as his bail application is likely to be taken up by the court on Friday, April 6.
Updated: April 5, 2018 4:14 PM IST
Jodhpur, Apr 5: Salman Khan has been sentenced to a total of five years in jail by a Jodhpur court in the 1998 Blackbuck poaching case. A penalty for Rs 10,000 has also been levied on him. The 52-year-old actor was sent to Jodhpur jail directly from the courtroom. The Race 3 actor will be spending the night in the jail as his bail application is likely to be taken up by the court on Friday, April 6. Salman Khan was convicted on Thursday in the 1998 Blackbuck poaching case by a Jodhpur court. The other actors, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu and Neelam who accompanied the actor during the hunting session in Jodhpur were acquitted.
The court found Salman Khan guilty of all the charges under Section 51 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act and Arms Act. Soon after the quantum of punishment was announced, members of the Bishnoi community, which had registered against Salman and the others in 1998, reportedly celebrated outside the court. Click here to catch live updates on Blackbuck poaching case hearing.
Salman Khan is accused of killing two Blackbucks in Bhagoda ki Dhani in Kankani village near Jodhpur on the intervening night of October 1-2 when he was shooting for Sooraj Barjatya's movie Hum Saath Saath Hain. Other actors of the film were accompanying Khan on the hunting session.
Public Prosecutor Bhawani Singh Bhati had then alleged that all the actors were Gypsy car that night, with Salman Khan in the driving seat; they all fled on being spotted and chased leaving the dead animals behind. "All of them were in a Gypsy car that night, with Salman Khan in the driving seat. He, on spotting a herd of black bucks, shot at and killed two of them. But on being spotted and chased, they fled from the spot leaving the dead animals there," he had said.
To which, counsel HM Saraswat had argued that the prosecution failed to prove any charge.
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Q: How do I mirror every inserts or updates from a table to another in MySQL? Is there a way to mirror every inserts or updates from a table to another?
I have a database where entries are create and if they are no longer required, they will be delete. But I want to intercept every entry in this specific table before it is deleted.
Is there a MySQL in-built function to do that?

A: Based on @Kulfy's comment, I can solve my problem with a MySQL trigger.
More information I've found here:

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*What are MySQL triggers and how to use them?

*MySQL :: MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual :: 23.3.1 Trigger Syntax and Examples