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I feel like I'd like this a bit more if it wasn't so obviously rigged.
for effort
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Not a fan of this. The studio version has interesting parts, though. But the live performance killed my interest. The staging and the overly dramatic acting....
I ended up around 3 points.
Wow the unforgettable totty from 2006 is back..
The song is not bad at all and neither is she.
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There's not much I can say about this entry. I just couldn't finish it. 2 charity points.
Disappointed with Moldova's choice but well, what did you expected ?
I'm afraid I can't give it more than 2, I'm fond of neither her voice nor the melody. I'm not rejecting it, but I find nothing appealing.
That poll is unfair!
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It is. Many are probably very disappointed that their faves didn't win. Everyone talking about corruption without evidence. Oh well. I still think it is one of the better songs this year.
This happens in all nfs that the fans favorite does not win.
True. So I guess it's the idea of corruption only. But without evidence. No idea where the hate comes from. But maybe I know too less about what happened?
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Yeah, this is a great song. I don't pay too much attention to these polls. Of course, there were more "fun" and ethnic entries, but this could be epic in May. I remember everyone here hating on Aliona Moon in 2013 and then she literally stormed the final.
This man knows what's up which is of course why they won't let him anywhere near a grandfinal. There would be a revolt.
Sasha Bognibov feat. Geta Burlacu, Moldova 2021
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I love "Prison", I love Natalia and I love Moldova, but it's pretty obvious why she won. Of course we can't prove anything/do something to prevent it.
At the end of the day, all that matters is that the song is good. I'm sure she will qualify.
Moldovan entries are known to have a poor like/dislike ratio after they're selected btw so nothing new here..
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Sasha would have been my absolute fave in this section. I hope he tries again and again until everyone will feel mercy and take him. Iconic guy!
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His compositions are usually great, and I think he improved his live vocal game enough this year to be considered for the final.
Sasha's song Wounded Swan is one of my all time faves.
I didn't know this song. Wow, absolutely fantastic, beautiful. I will take that song onto my list! Love the lyrics as well.
@mauve from that year (2015) Sasha competed also with another song as equally beautiful, Emigrantului. They were my two favourite songs from that entire national selection season, and I remember feeling so sad when they didn't make the grandfinal. I love his rock attempts since these but I'm aching for him to go back to this nostalgic indie stuff. I think it suits him so perfectly.
That was atime where I still didn't see the NFs actually. But --- he competed with THAT song and didn't win??? Some things I will never understand, I think ... also a fantastic song. I can feel with you. His rock songs are wonderful, but the era of his Indie songs makes you wanna return to that time. I love these kinds of songs. Thank you for sharing!
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One of his first efforts was called I Love The Girls of 13 Years Old (which... yeah ) and I think that turned people off to him for good, which is a shame because like the aforementioned Wounded Swan and Against Corruption he has actually made some worthy contributions!
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Extremely late to this party, but I'm shocked/happy that Pasha Parfeny did so well! The song absolutely came alive on stage and would have no doubt been a televote favorite in May.
The Moldovan NF used to be amongst the most fun to watch because of how raw the whole thing was. A lot of regular folks just giving it a shot to try and get onto the Eurovision stage.
i am only watching anything non-prison now for the first time because i knew i would be pissed to see them all perish to prison's rigged win and i was right because WOW. the moldovița/touch/do it slow/dale dale/my wine sequence is one of the best in all-time NF history. just straight fire, five times in a row. all of that wasted in moldova's kirkorov-shaped PRISAAAAAAAAN. smh.
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Prime XBT is a brand new cryptocurrency exchange that is giving clients the ability to trade a number of crypto pairs with leverage.
This will provide traders with another interesting alternative to the status quo with crypto margin trading. Prime XBT is trying to take on some of the more established Futures and CFD brokers that operate in the space.
In this Prime XBT review we will take an in-depth look at this exchange. We will cover some of the most important aspects including security, leverage, trading technology and fees.
Prime XBT is a cryptocurrency exchange that is registered in the Seychelles. The holding company name is Prime XBT Trading Services and their Company number is 148707. The exchange opened their books to the market in early 2019.
In this sense, they are perhaps one of the most direct competitors to the likes of the BitMEX exchange which is also registered in the same jurisdiction and Deribit which is based in the Netherlands.
One of the main selling points behind Prime XBT is the fact that they have leveraged trading for 6 cryptocurrency assets up to a maximum of 100x. They also aggregate their liquidity from over 12 different exchanges.
Given that Prime XBT does not have any financial service licenses, there are some countries to which they can not offer their services to traders. These include the likes of the United States and a few other countries.
For those that do not know, trading on leverage is a way for the individual to get more exposure to an asset than they have put down in funds. This gives the trader the advantage of making money on "borrowed funds".
When you trade on leverage can potentially enhance your returns by a certain factor. Of course, this also works on the way down as losses are also magnified. Below is an example of how leverage will work on the Prime XBT platform.
Another advantage of leveraged trading in general is that it allows you to short an asset. This means that you can make money on a fall in the price of the asset. In the case of a short position, you are borrowing the coin in question in order to sell it forward in the future.
As mentioned, the maximum leverage on Prime XBT is 100:1. This means that you only need to put down a 1% of the required capital in order to take out that position. This is available for all of the coins on offer which includes Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple and EOS. Below are some of the leverage and coin limits for the respective coins.
It is important to point out that this is the maximum leverage limit and you can indeed opt for a lower number level. This may in fact be a more prudent move as even the slightest amount of volatility in can lead to an exhaustion of funds with 100x leverage.
If there is a case where you exhaust your equity and the value of your account falls below a certain level then you will get what is termed a "Margin Call". With traditional financial brokers, they will actually call you and ask for the margin. Prime XBT closes out the position instead as they need to manage the risk that they have on their books.
Given the ever increasing news of cryptocurrency exchange hacks, one of the most important considerations for the trader is security. This is also one of our main review criteria when it comes to grading an exchange.
There is an entire section on the information page that details the security protocols that are employed by Prime XBT.
Most of the coins that are held at Prime XBT are kept in cold storage. This means that they are kept in a secure offline environment away from internet connection and the threat of potential hackers.
In order to service their current payments and withdrawals, they will also need to run a "hot wallet" but only a limited number of coins are kept in this state. In order to make any movements from the cold wallet to the hot wallet, they make use of multi-signature access.
This means that in order for any transactions to take place in the Prime XBT wallets, they will need the authorization from a number of different people who hold those keys. This reduces the risk of a single point of failure.
In terms of other security protocols that they have in place, they also make use of Cloudflare's technology in order to mitigate the risks that are posed by Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS).
Like most exchanges and financial sites these days, Prime XBT has full SSL encryption. This means that all communication that you send the exchange will be encrypted and make it hard for any malicious actors to intercept it.
It will also help you identify if you have accidentally landed on a phishing site of some sort. This is because the actual login page should have a secure padlock in the browser. If you do not see this then it means that you could be on a phishing site and should leave immediately.
When it comes to storing your passwords, Prime XBT claims that they use the "bcrypt" algorithm. This means that even if a hacker were to access the servers of the exchange they would not be able to read them.
Of course, even if a hacker is able to get hold of your password, Prime XBT offers two factor authentication. This means that you will have to authorise the login on your phone via the Google authenticator.
It is not mandatory for you to enable 2FA on your phone although it is highly encouraged. You can do this quite easily through your account management options in your "security settings". Prime XBT will present you with a QR code and a backup key.
It is incredibly important to save this backup key as it will be required for you to reset your 2FA in the case that your phone gets stolen or lost. If you do not have this then you may have to wait for up to seven days as the broker manually resets this.
Lastly, when it comes to withdrawals, Prime XBT is one of the few exchanges that require a mandatory white-labeling of Bitcoin addresses. This means that your funds cannot be sent to a rouge address in the instance where your account is breached.
Trading fees are a really important consideration as they can directly impact your profitability in the long run. If you trade a great deal of volume on an exchange then these fees add up on a cumulative basis.
Prime XBT is quite transparent with their fees. They only have two types of fees and these are the trade fee and the overnight fee. The former is a fee that is charged for entering the position and the latter is for financing the position overnight. We have the fee breakdown in the table below.
This places Prime XBT more in line with the fees model of a CFD broker than a Futures exchange. They are not charging settlement fees on the contracts but are charging an overnight rate for holding the position. The latter will not apply if you enter and exit the position within the day.
The trading fee of 0.05% is much lower than comparable CFD brokers such as IQ Option etc. If you are a trader that is trading with considerable volume then Prime XBT will consider volume based discounts on most asset pairs. You can reach them on support@primexbt.com should this apply.
In terms of funding your account, there are no fees that are applied to inward payments. However, if you are to withdraw funds from the exchange then you may have to pay an arbitrary miner fee in order to propagate your transaction.
If you have decided that you would like to try out the Prime XBT platform then you will need to register an account. In order to do this, you will need to provide them with an email and password. You also have the option to insert a referral code if you were given one (more on this later).
They will send out an email to the address that you have provided so that you can verify it. Once this is done you can log back into your account and access the trading platform and the account features.
Something that you may have noticed is that Prime XBT does not require any forms of identification when you sign up. This is because they are one of the few exchanges that do not complete KYC or AML checks on their traders.
They are a fully anonymous exchange which can be advantageous for those traders that value their online privacy and would not like send over personal documentation. Moreover, this makes the exchange less of a target for identity thieves who are looking for juicy targets in databases.
Prime XBT is a crypto only exchange. This means that they do not take any Fiat currency funding and you can only make deposits / withdrawals in Bitcoin. If you need to get your hands on Bitcoin to fund then you will have to use a Fiat gateway such as Bitstamp or Kraken.
Once you have your Bitcoin, funding your account is relatively simple. You will head on over to to your account section and you will hit the "Deposit" button. This will take you to the deposit page where you can access your Prime XBT Bitcoin address.
They have also tried to ease the burden of buying Bitcoin with Fiat as they have integrated a Changelly widget on their deposit section. This is a third party Bitcoin purchasing service where you can quickly buy your coins with the use of a credit / debit card.
Once you have the applicable address, you can send your Bitcoin in. The deposit may take a bit of time to show up in your account due to the fact that they require a total of 6 confirmations on the network before they will credit it.
Withdrawing from your account is just as simple. In this case you will head on over to the "withdraw" page where you will provide them with your personal Bitcoin address. This will be the Bitcoin address that you would like to white-label for all future withdrawals.
Once you have requested the withdrawal, you will have to wait for them to process it. If you are requesting quite a sizable withdrawal then it may take a bit of time to be processed. This is because withdrawals are processed from the hot wallets and if they do not have enough on hand they may have to access some from their offline cold wallets.
As a trader, you will be spending over 90% of your time on the main trading platform. As such, it is quite important that it is well laid out and semi intutive from a user interface perspective.
On the Prime XBT platform, you have three main sections which can be accessed in the header toolbar. These are the account administration section, the information section and the actual trading platform itself.
As you can see from the standard layout of the trading platform, you have your order books on the left, your crypto pairs in the middle and previous orders at the bottom. You also have your trading charts to the right of that.
Something that we really liked about the Prime XBT trading platform was the widget functionality. This will allow you to insert numerous different widgets and set up the interface in a layout that works best for you.
You will select "add widget" and you will be given a list of different ones to choose from. You can spread the platform out across more than one screen or you can have numerous different markets on a single screen.
When it comes to the charting package, Prime XBT seems to have quite comprehensive charting functionality and tools. For example, there are a number of customization options which allow you to alter the appearance of the charts. These include things such as the colors, grids and spacing. This is not something that we have seen on other charting packages developed by an exchange.
Taking a closer look at the actual tools that are at your disposal, you firstly have all the drawing tools that you will need to map your important levels. These include fan lines, Fibonaccis, retracements and other trend lines.
You also have a plethora of technical studies and indicators that you can use. These include all of the momentum indicators as well as relative strength and volume based studies. You can also customize the indicators in terms of the time-frame and other important inputs.
For those traders who are more technical, you will also want to have a range of order types and functionality. This will allow the trader to define specific levels for entries and exits. They are also imperative as a risk management instrument to limit losses especially when it comes to leveraged trading.
Market Order: This is one of the more traditional order types and it will be placed and executed immediately at the prevailing market price. You will use this order if you want to buy / sell immediately.
Limit Order: This is an order that is placed to buy / sell an asset at a pre-specified level away from the market. The moment that the market touches this level, your order will be executed. In terms of the length of time that these orders are in place, they are either "Good-till-cleared" which means they will remain like that forever. Alternatively, these could only be day orders that will be completed the moment that the trading day is closed.
Stop Orders: These are orders that will become market orders the moment that a certain level has been reached. These are used by traders either to limit the losses on their position as a "Stop-loss" order or they are used in order to take a profit on a positive position.
Protection Orders: These are available as additional protection on any position or order that you currently have. These can be placed on new Market, Limit or Stop orders by clicking on the "Protection orders" box on the order form.
Nothing can be quite as frustrating for a trader than an exchange that takes a long time to respond to their questions or customer support queries. This is why it is such an important criteria for us when we complete these reviews.
Given that Prime XBT is still a new exchange, there is no precedent when it comes to how long one is expected to wait for support responses. However, one of the biggest bottlenecks for previous exchanges was their KYC verification procedures. As mentioned, Prime XBT does not do this so it could free up support staff.
They claim to offer customers 24/7 support through a dedicated support email. You can contact their team on support@primexbt.com if you have any questions that related to security, account management or product inquiries.
Unfortunately, they do not have a dedicated phone line which you can dial in the case of an emergency. They also do not appear to have an online chat functionality but perhaps this is something that they could roll out later on.
If you have been using the exchange for a period of time and are comfortable with the service then you may want to consider getting involved with their referral program. This will allow you to earn a commission from referring friends to the platform.
If this is something that you would like to get involved with then you will need to get your referral code. This is something that you can get in your account management page under the "referral" section. You can either elect to use a link with your code embedded or to give your referrals your code when they are signing up.
While there were many things that we liked about the Prime XBT exchange, there are a few things that we think warrant improvement.
Firstly, when it comes to trading technology, they do not offer API functionality. This would allow developers to code their own bots and trading algorithms to trade on the Prime XBT platform.
They also do not offer any PC client program or mobile app to trade on. This could limit the opportunity for those traders who would like to trade away from the browser based platform. Perhaps this is something that they are considering down the line.
However, PrimeXBT officials suggested that native mobile app for both Android and Ios is already fully developed and currently waiting for Appstore and google store approval. According to the team, both apps should appear in a course of one month.
Lastly, they need to increase their online presence and they need to establish a longer track record in the industry. Of course, this is something that can only really come with time as they grow out their service.
It seems from this review that Prime XBT could be an attractive option for you to trade leveraged cryptocurrency instruments. There are numerous traders that are looking for alternatives to the likes of BitMEX et al. and the exchange is launching at an opportune time.
Indeed, the high leverage levels make it a similarly attractive proposal which will allow those users to magnify their returns on borrowed money. Of course, this is a double edged sword and leverage can chop you down on the flip side. Appropriate risk management is a must.
There were of course some things that we thought warranted improvement. However, these are all as a result of the brand new status of the exchange. They may have several improvements to their technology in the pipeline. Similarly, they can only really build up a track record with new traders.
So, is Prime XBT the exchange for you?
If you are looking for a leveraged cryptocurrency exchange with relatively advanced technology, transparent fees and strong security procedures then it should be considered. You will need to make a judgement on whether you are comfortable using a brand new exchange service.
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Сайменская нерпа () — подвид , живущий в озере Сайма. Генетически сайменская нерпа очень близка . В связи с глобальными изменениями климата, сайменская нерпа находится под угрозой полного исчезновения.

Кольчатая нерпа заселила бассейн озера Сайма (являвшийся на тот момент заливом Иольдиевого моря) не ранее  лет назад. Развитие подвида сайменской нерпы началось после изоляции озера от Балтийского бассейна в ходе регрессии Анцилового озера около 10 тысяч лет назад.

Распространение, численность
Этот подвид — единственный эндемик Финляндии среди млекопитающих. Наименьшая численность нерп (180 особей) была зарегистрирована в 1990 году. По оценкам специалистов, в природе сегодня обитает около 400 особей этого подвида (2019) (в 2014 году — 310, в 2016 году — 360, в 2018—380). Сегодня популяция сайменской нерпы благодаря принятым природоохранным мерам (запрет или ограничение рыболовных сетей, создание искусственных сугробов для гнездования) оценивается как стабильная, однако вымирание подвида до сих пор остаётся вероятным, так как количество способных к размножению самок не превышает 90 особей. Лесное управление Финляндии планирует в рамках программы по охране сайменской нерпы увеличить численность популяции до 400 особей к 2025 году.

Биологические особенности

Длина тела нерпы — 130—145 см. Вес взрослой особи — обычно от 50 до 90 кг. Встречаются и более крупные экземпляры: в 2006 году был пойман, взвешен и отпущен обратно в озеро экземпляр длиной 154 см, весом 124 кг и объёмом талии 150 см.

Окрас взрослой нерпы — тёмно-серый с индивидуальным рисунком в виде светлых кругов. Существуют и почти черные особи. Окрас белька (детеныша нерпы) пепельный. Пепельная окраска белька является одной из особых примет подвида. У сайменской нерпы череп шире и морда короче, чем у других подвидов кольчатых нерп. Сайменская нерпа имеет самый большой относительный объём мозга в сравнении с весом тела.

Размножение
Сайменские нерпы достигает половой зрелости в возрасте 4—5 лет. В среднем самка рожает два раза в три года. Белёк рождается в конце февраля в снежной норе, в которой самка кормит его. В момент рождения белёк весит около пяти килограммов. Жизнеспособность потомства нерп резко снижается во время бесснежных зим, в этой связи силами энтузиастов на озёрах, где нерпа устраивает гнезда, делают искусственные сугробы. Также зима 2014/2015 года стала ещё более проблематичной для сохранения потомства нерпы.

В 2019 году начался эксперимент по приучению нерп к искусственным гнёздам, созданным из различных материалов.

Образ жизни и питание
Сайменская нерпа приспособилась к пресной воде, где она проводит 65—85 % своей жизни. Она может проводить под водой 20 минут и даже погружаться в кратковременный сон. Средняя продолжительность жизни нерп — 20 лет. Некоторые экземпляры доживают до 30 лет. Сайменская нерпа питается мелкой рыбой, в связи с чем рыболовные снасти (крупноячеистые сети, катиски и мерёжи с большим входным отверстием) представляют для неё повышенную опасность, а в период с середины апреля до конца июня действует ежегодный запрет на ловлю рыбы сетями в ареале распространения нерпы. В 2019 году, в рамках общественной инициативы, собраны подписи за полный запрет на использование рыбаками сетей для ловли рыбы в местах размножения сайменской нерпы.

Ежедневный рацион состоит из нескольких килограммов рыбы (около 1000 кг в год), в основном плотвы, корюшки, окуня и ряпушки.

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 Сайменская нерпа — один из природных символов Финляндии. Её образ активно используется в культуре и является одной из эмблем природоохранного движения в этой стране. Изображение нерпы было отчеканено на финляндских монетах достоинством 5 финских марок.
 Установленная в мае 2016 года по инициативе Всемирного фонда дикой природы WWF прямая интернет-трансляция с лежбища сайменской нерпы, собрала за месяц более 2 млн просмотров.

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 Кольчатая нерпа
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 Сайменская нерпа на странице финского филиала Фонда дикой природы (WWF) (на фин. языке)
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i think my friend tommy angelo came up with that one. tommy is one heck of a guy and i havent seen him in a few years since i also havent been going to the bay area. soon enough ill get back down and look up tommy. he is always fun and comes up with real good sayings and writes good columns about things.
along with tommy i try to see the rest of the bay area crew like el diablo and his buds. some years we get a dinner together in and i miss that.
mostly i get to play in the big no limit game down there in san jose which is fun for me and i do fine.
a big plus is going to santa cruz and seeing all the weirdos and doing a bunch of cool day trips. like the elephant seals at ana nueavo park up the coast a bit.
maybe about February this coming year.
Welcome to the House of Blogs sub-forum Ray Zee. I look forward to reading more contributions from you. I hope you find the niche passion and the endurance needed to keep this thread going.
recently in a thread i was in, one of the players eluded to that playing against tight nits was very profitable. possibly more so than against loose players. not so in my opinion and the opinion of many others. as it makes sense.
simply tight nits dont put hardly any money into the pots, so the pots stay small. in small pots the rake takes a huge amount of your edge away. perhaps so much it makes games with smallish pots unbeatable.
plus usually they have extra strong starting hands so your big edge of bluffing them out runs into good hands too often.
loose players put money into the pot all the way through the hand with hands that have little chance of winning so your edge on those hands makes your win rate skyrocket against them. total money lost is so much more from the loose players it cant be possible to win more form the nits.
i am not saying you cannot come out ahead in the pots you play with them, but it isnt easy.
nope, you're not. rake + hands/hr (live) make it unprofitable to sit with nits.
most live players classify old men as tight nits or just tight. a lot of that is true. certainly old players play much tighter than the younger crowd in general. that stands to reason though. younger people are more impetuous and want action. older people want to stay in the game longer.
but in reality i think the older players play closer to what you should play in starting hands than the younger crowd. its just that those old guys tend also to be way too passive in their betting, and way way too passive in their raising requirements. they raise close to the nuts. if they loosened up their betting hands and raising hands it would be very tough to beat them at all. as this is basically what is called tight aggressive. and that is how most good winners play.
ebola is sure scary and i know i dont want to catch it anytime soon. but even if it does spread around our country it certainly will be contained somewhat and the chances of catching it will be slim.
yet so many people are terrified. their chances of dying from ebola are much less than dying from overeating or the fast food they eat. or from a car wreak while driving impaired. i did say impaired and not drunk as pot is now legal in many states and should be included in the driving thing.
so in essence if you are worried about ebola getting you, it should follow that changing your lifestyle would be imminent.
Ray Zee is still alive! And Kicking. Good Lord. I just stumbled on this by pure chance. Glad you are posting in the blog. Now I have reason to come and say hi and see how you are doing.
Glad Tommy Angelo is still about also. Does he post at all on 2+2 like in the old days?
Agree on Ebola - your chance of being killed on the drive to work is about million times more dangerous.
Fall in Montana is beautiful I bet.
still kickin and taking a lickin and coming through fine.
fall is the best time of the year everyplace. oregon too. oregon had two straight summers of little rain and plenty of sunshine. and this year having the best salmon runs in recent history. limits are the norm for them with the coho in force.
oregon has a thriving poker community with many games around. maybe younneed to come home. zeno.
Oregon finally getting some rain just in time for the salmon season. Thinking about moving back sometime soon. Guess what: I purchased my Mom's place near Port Orford. Great fly fishing everywhere and the Rouge is only 1 hr away. Perhaps I should start my own blog - this is your platform.
By the way, since you mentioned it; I should try and meet up with the San Fran crowd in Feb like I did a long time ago. Make sure to mention it in your blog so I can make plans.
Fishing and poker, not too shabby of a way to spend your time.
oregon now has small and some bigger buyin tournaments in most areas of the state. it is social gambling with no rake allowed generally. so most of the tournament money is sent back to the players.
they also have some cash games in many towns and cities. some make the cash games play like a tournament with a specified quitting time and a restart with everyone keeping what chips they have. so its really a regular cash game for all purposes.
the house makes some money off drinks and food. and some places have like a ten dollar a night entry fee to come and play.
overall for a smaller stakes player it is a good place to be. oregon is a friendly state with wonderful people. and did i say has fantastic fishing.
I agree 100% As a strictly Omaha hi-lo player, it's nice to see him not only alive and well, but posting too!
Am very curious about this. As a guy who spent his 20's either locked in a room playing poker, or (In Michael McDonald voice) takin' it to the streets, my girlfriend has converted me into appreciating nature much more, something I never did in Michigan. Now that I'm in Vegas, we go to Zion, and I've been very intrigued in regards to the falls in Montana and Oregon, would love to hear some light shed!
if you are talking about the fall of the year both states have wonderful ones. decent weather although oregon is more temperate and montana have cold mornings and nice afternoons.
trees are turning colors in both states with the high country being more prominent. fish are on the move and biting since the hot weather is gone. and in oregon the salmon are running up the rivers to spawn.
poker is also good in both as the pacific northwest is an outdoors area and people do much more during the summer than in other areas. then when the weather cools poker picks up and seasonal workers are now in action.
i just read that Ray Zee is a pseudonym, making you the coolest poker author, imo.
the stock market took its dip and has come back. being scared of ups and downs just doesnt get it. but being a poker player or gambler you learn to pass off ups and downs as merely nothing to worry or even consider most times.
with the price of oil dropping like the pants on a hot teenager it gives us a chance to get more oil company stocks cheaply. you do know oil will go back up in price. exon is the big one and will be around long after we are gone and a lot higher in price. andarko petroleum gives you bang for the buck with much more fluctuation. occidental petroleum is one ive been in for many decades. and will by more.
also think about stocks in companies that have mid level income and lower income people for customers. gas prices are low so that adds about 50 a month income for them and you know they will spend whatever they have available.
so it has to go somewhere. just figure it out. and you get the cash.
also think about stocks in companies that have mid level income and lower income people for customers. gas prices are low so that adds about 50 a month income for them and you know they will spend whatever they have available. so it has to go somewhere. just figure it out. and you get the cash.
The companies listed are not recommendations but merely suggestions. Do the work yourself or see a financial advisor.
not the first time i had a pack rat in a cabin but this guy got me good. a pack rat is the same as a wood rat. not the same rat like in the cities and sewers. they are cute and like to steal bright shiny things.
this guy chewed his way through the floor of my cabin and decided it would be a nice place to live this winter. i hadnt been there in a while so he had it good till then.
after the hole in the floor he made about three giant three foo square foot nest made of garbage things he brought in from the woods. next he chewed up about ten books and scattered the pages around along with his smelly urine and droppings. got into closets and places and brought out things like bars of soap,tooth brushes and pens, chewed them up and other things that were shiny.
so when i found this terrible mess out came the rat traps. i set them up but had to go away on a trip for a month and hoped when i got back the cabin wasnt ruined as it could easily be.
it turned out he sprung one trap but didnt get by the havaheart live trap. but after a month in it he didnt quite make it. cleaned up a small mess and now have my cabin back although it will be a little smelly for a time.
the last one made his nest in my cars motor area and chewed up a pile of things.
if i can get another ten years before another gets me i am a happy camper.
well as you get older most people get cataracts in theirs eyes. so it was my turn to get them. actually i had them for a few years and finally my vision got bad enough i had to get the surgery. it is an expensive little deal and by little the operation only takes ten minutes an eye. they only do one eye until it heals and then the other. luckily its almost free thanks to the payments i made all my life to medicare.
its the second day and my vision is still clouded but seems to be better as it goes on. after the wait i should have better vision than before. i hope.
so no poker for a few days and of course i missed some really good games.
as ive said many times as it gets colder outside and the golf and such stop the poker gets real good and thats the best time to play. hunting season is here and a few are or will be missing from the games but they are going to be great for awhile.
my friend pavel is in vegas right now but i havent heard as to how he is doing so far. i wish him the best of luck. he got plenty of good advice from me on how to handle his play and what to do. if he listens he will come back better loaded for bear. keeping money in vegas is tough and you have to have a clear cut plan and follow it to a t or you arent going to come home with more than you brought with you.
its going on now for much of the month of november. there are lots of tournaments with cheap buyins of 200 or so. with a couple in the 1600 range.
so plenty of medium and smaller stake players have and are descending on vegas to hang out and play some poker.
these tournys are and should be good as the top players arent interested in them so your opponents are more easily beaten. and thats good.
best of all the cash games run all night and spill over to some other casinos, like belagio and aria. they will be very good and a great time to be in vegas. if you cant make money here then give it up. this should be a duck shoot if you can control yourself.
I am always amazed at the low quality of play through all stakes levels in LV. So many people flying in every day who don't play a lot, want to drink, have fun, et cetera. Nothing like the constant grind back home in Chicago, where our games are populated by intelligent, tight, creative societal rejects that NEED to win.
But alas, so many traps in Vegas, a town designed to break you. From the pit to the machines, the waitresses, the night life, the night "ladies", the race and sport book, the feeling that 100's are just like 10's anywhere else in the world.
Takes a strong guy to pull it off.
it happens all the time. i have seen it over and over and it is such a shame.
the best or good players from some place sooner or later make a vegas trip. we all do it. a certain portion of them lose and go broke and dont come back, or do and go broke again playing poker. thats life. most arent good enough to win in the big city games against real professionals.
however many do win because they play really well and at first try to keep all their ducks in a row. but sooner or later they get ahead decent money and it goes to their head. they play too high for their bankroll and lose it all. or they play too long of sessions or against better players without game selection.
and then those that get bored or get stuck and steam and head for the pit and lose it all soon there. most cannot recover and lose the ability to play tight and grind a giant loss back. and leave town and arent seen again.
then there are select few that are smart enough to make it and those are the ones still in action.
well getting old is no fun. so this month i had two eye operations to have cataracts removed so i can see better. a few times before and after each operation i had to go in for eye tests and whatever.
the operation itself is short and painless. hard to believe but true. no pain at all. they give you a bunch of eye drops for about a half hour and then take you in and blow up the cataract with some probe and then insert a new lens in the eye. sounds scary and it was .but it took only about ten minutes and i was out.
same for the second operation. three days of kinda cloudy vision in the eye and then it was back to 20/20 vision for distance. big change from seeing blurry road signs and muffled colors. you dont notice how your sight degenerates when its so slow a process over some years.
i still will need reading glasses as you only get good distance vision and not both. they have some lenses that do both but problems arise and i didnt want that as there isnt an easy way to redo things once they are done.
playing poker is much better even without them finished healing as i can see the flop much more clearly.
cataracts dont come back so it usually is best to take care of them soon after you find out about it. i waited and wish i hadnt. but eye stuff is scary.
Glad it came out well for you Ray. Must be useful to actually see the flop cards - you don't have to bluff your way out of the tight spots when you mistake a 8 of spades for a 9 of spades when holding that Ten-Nine of spades. Bad way to lose your stack.
And now that you see better it may improve your fly-fishing also!!
As usual you hit the nail on the head in poker savvy. I was/am decent at various poker games but am glad I stuck with a great job that paid me really well for more than 10 years with great benefits and 401k, etc and I piled up a nice nest egg. Think I made the right decision and came out ahead in the long run by not trying to turn pro. May start playing again often but never for a living - just to supplement income and for the fun of it. For us old farts, I think that is the best way.
Also, I took some advance from Ray years ago and invested some in the stock market. That has turned out well for me. Didn't get rich and did not except to but I made some extra bucks that I could then use on Roth IRA's and other retirement investments. Plus I now have over 100k in the market and I'm doing well enough - and the long term/haul is what I'm after. So Thanks Ray - you helped me get on track. I did also do much reading and studying on my own so I think I deserve some credit, but Ray did give good advance and a kick in the pants to smart investing.
Last edited by Zeno; 11-23-2014 at 07:34 PM.
great for you zeno. i knew you would get ahead and do well. letting time compound your money is the key to making it in the long run and staying away from those potshot investments that might make 20 to 1 for your dough only to lose over and over.
ive always thought of poker as a stepping stone to a better future rather than it being my future. although i do admit ive played more poker than i should have in my lifetime.
lucked out again this year with an early freeze. we had a week of very low temps so my pond that ice skating is great on froze to a perfect glass surface.
for a week it was some of the best ice skating you could ever imagine. about a quarter of a mile of it is fantastic.
usually then comes some snow and warmer temps and the ice is trashed for the season. some times it rains hard then freezes again after the snow is gone and we get a second chance at it. but in town there is a pond the city maintains so that is a good option.
it takes awhile to get decent at skating but not too long if you work at it. so far its been about ten years since i have fallen down. a few times close but not yet. i dont do any tricks or i would be on my but every day.
i look forward to this sport each winter for a time.
Last edited by Ray Zee; 11-25-2014 at 06:21 PM.
i hope all the poker players had a good thanksgiving. and dinner of course. the dinner is what its all about as the original reasons for the holiday are basically lost.
and a good chance you may lose your money as well. mostly because during the holidays the action players arent out as much and more regs. are playing each other. so if you arent in the top tier of players you easily can turn into a loser for the period. although some places the games are fine or better so there it doesnt apply.
so if your games are slow take a trip or vacation. or if you must still play every day then take a trip to a poker area you have been thinking about to check it out. it helps your mind as well.


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Q: Structure From Motion: Implementing Triangulation Use-case:

Given a known ( simulated ) 3D scene, and:

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*2 vectors of corresponding 2D points V, V' where V' present the projection of the 3D points including relative transformation ( extracted using the 5 points algorithm ).

*Camera Intrinsic matrix 'K'

*Relative Camera rotation matrix 'R'

*Relative Camera translation 't' ( Up to a scale )

Compute the triangulated 3D Points positions ( up to a scale )
Implementation:

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*For each camera extract the ray projected out of the camera and through the 3D point using
[RayV] = [Vx, Vy, 0] * K.inv()
[RayV'] = [V'x, V'y, 0] * K.inv()

*Add relative Rotation to [RayV'] ( affects the Ray direction )
[RayV'] = [RayV'] * [R]

*Form the 3D line equations for the two Rays
L = [0, 0, 0] + [RayV] ( first ray intersects the origin 0, 0, 0 )
L'=[t] + [RayV'] ( adding relative camera translation )

*Find the point in space minimizing the distance between the two rays in accordance to:
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The Problem:

The derived camera rays deviate much in the Z coordinate while X,Y deviation is minimal, the resulting triangulated points doesn't correspond with the scene it was generated from.

What am I doing wrong here?Is the above Math correct?Is the Ray computation and Ray formula derivation correct?

A: To create a homogeneous coordinate from the 2D point, you have to replace the 0 in the ray calculation by a 1.

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macro dprint(s)
    :(verbose && println($s))
end

function parsefromargs()
  s = ArgParseSettings("Process DCE-MRI data. "*
                       "Optional arguments can be used to override any "*
                       "values found in input files. "*
                       "For questions, contact David Smith <david.smith@gmail.com>. "*
                       "For bug reports and feature requests, file an issue at "*
                       "http://github.com/davidssmith/DCEMRI.jl"
                       )
  @add_arg_table s begin
    "datafile"
    help = "path to MAT file containing DCE and T1 data"
    arg_type = ByteString
    #required = true
    default = "input.mat"
    "--outfile", "-O"
    help = "path to MAT file to contain the ouput"
    arg_type = ByteString
    default = "results.mat"
    "--relaxivity", "-R"
    help = "contrast agent relaxivity (1/s)"
    arg_type = Float64
    "--TR", "-r"
    help = "repetition time (ms)"
    arg_type = Float64
    "--DCEflip", "-d"
    help = "flip angle of DCE data"
    arg_type = Float64
    "--SERcutoff", "-c"
    help = "minimum SER to include in processing mask"
    arg_type = Float64
    "--T1flip", "-t"
    help = "list of flip angle(s) of T1 data"
    arg_type = Float64
    nargs = '+'
    "--models", "-m"
    help = "list of models: 1=plasma only, 2=Standard, 3=Extended"
    arg_type = Int64
    nargs = '+'
    "--plotting", "-p"
    help = "plot intermediate results"
    action = :store_true
    "--workers", "-w"
    help = "number of parallel workers to use (one per CPU core is good)"
    arg_type = Int64
    default = 4
    "--verbose", "-v"
    help = "show verbose output"
    action = :store_true
  end

  parsed_args = parse_args(ARGS, s)

  if parsed_args["verbose"]
    println("Parsed args:")
    for (key,val) in parsed_args
      println("  $key  =>  $(repr(val))")
    end
  end
  parsed_args
end

function defaults()
  # defaults to use if not specified
  opts = Dict()
  opts["datafile"]   = "input.mat"
  opts["outfile"]    = "output.mat"
  opts["relaxivity"] = 4.5
  opts["SERcutoff"]  = 2.0
  opts["models"]     = [2]
  opts["plotting"]   = false
  opts["verbose"]    = true
  opts["workers"]    = 4
  opts
end

function startworkers(n)
  nadd = nworkers() == 1 ? n : n - nworkers()
  if nadd > 0
     println("adding $nadd workers")
     addprocs(nadd)
  end
end

function validate(d::Dict)
  for k in ["Cp", "DCEdata", "DCEflip", "TR", "t"]
    @assert haskey(d, k) "Input must contain $k"
  end
  @assert (haskey(d,"R10") && haskey(d,"S0")) || (haskey(d,"T1data") && haskey(d,"T1flip")) "Input must contain either R10+S0 or T1data+T1flip."
end

function ccc{T,N}(x::Array{T,N}, y::Array{T,N})
  # concordance correlation coefficient
  m1 = mean(x)
  m2 = mean(y)
  s1 = var(x)*(length(x) - 1.0) / length(x)
  s2 = var(y)*(length(y) - 1.0) / length(y)
  s12 = sum((x - m1).*(y - m2)) / length(x)
  2s12 / (s1 + s2 + (m1 - m2).^2)
end

# converts keyword argument to a dictionary
function kwargs2dict(kwargs)
    d = Dict{ASCIIString,Any}()
    for (k, v) in kwargs
        d[string(k)] = v
    end
    d
end

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Use images on your website to de-clutter, increase SEO and tell a better story.
One of the biggest pitfalls in manufacturers' websites (and trade shows, and product literature and more) is the overriding desire to SAY TOO MUCH.
And it's easy to see why. Most manufacturing companies are led by Engineering or Sales. Both of these disciplines are highly verbal. You want to talk about how great a new process or product is in order to show the leap you've made in innovation. You want to make sure the customer has all the information in order to close the deal.
The problem becomes that marketing, and effective electronic communications, are becoming increasingly visual. Part of it is screen size. More than half of all internet use is by devices other than computers, the vast majority of which have screens smaller than a laptop. And some of it is just the pace and speed at which web browsers now expect information to be presented to them in the instant search era we live in.
So, it's imperative to get your value proposition across in less time than it will take someone to hit the back button and open the next search result.
The solution? Replace the page of text with a picture, animated GIF or infographic.
Use A Professional – Don't skimp here. Your neighbor's cousin isn't the way to go. A pro in the studio or in the field will get you a better image, and make sure you communicate everything you want. Additionally, a good designer or retoucher can make sure that logos are legible, and that photos can still be used even if there's a design change.
Use Alt-Text – The tag that's placed on your photo in the web page layout is also utilized by search engines for natural search results. So 3 or 4 pictures on a page can do more to increase your search results than a page of text ever will.
Make it Move – Make a video of the product in use. Now use the video to make a step-by-step GIF of that process. With one short video, you've now made content that can be easily shared on your website, social media and in a nurturing campaign.
Boil It All Down – The best part of this process is that it will get your entire team thinking about and prioritizing the parts of the process or product that are of the most importance to the customer. Forget the 30 second "elevator pitch," if you only had one image to sell it, what would it say?
Make it Cool – Just because it's a widget doesn't mean it can't look great. What's the coolest application it gets used in? That's where you want to show it off.
Of course, a picture still can't replace all you need to say about a product, and all that text still has important things to say. But for the initial contact, less is definitely more. Just make sure that part of that less is a defined call to action, so you can serve them the more.


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Haqqislam: Bashi Bazouks (Boarding Sh...
Haqqislam: Bashi Bazouks (Boarding Shotgun)
This model is OOP.
Mercenary adventurers contracted to be part of privateer crews on the Sultan's service. These parachutists are equipped with Holoprojector and they will be an elusive target and a serious trouble to the enemy.
Bashi Bazouk is a term which comes from the Turkish word Basibozuk, which means literally 'damaged head' but is usually translated as 'without leader'. That word served to designate some irregular troops of the ancient Ottoman army.
[Extract from Babelicom, encyclopaedic web of on line information and resources, available in Maya and Arachne].
Currently, the Bashi Bazouks are mercenary adventurers contracted to be part of the corsair crews in service to the Sultan and great lords of the Silk trade. Integrated into Search and Sweep Teams, their mission is to go through a boarded ship, eliminating resistance points and searching for interesting stuff. These are the kind of labors in which none can deny their effectiveness. Although most of them possess a military past, the Bashi Bazouks have forgotten everything about discipline and respect for authority. As boarding groups they form a turbulent, obdurate and colorful gang that devastates target ships with chaotic wildness. Rogues and crooks without any conscience or respect for law, these undisciplined troops live only for their own profit and are sometimes hard to control. Their raids, and the damage they cause, are widely infamous, but the greatest scandal was the Al-Umara Station Massacre during the Silk Revolts, in which hundreds of civilians were slaughtered. Since that event, the name Bashi Bazouk has become a pejorative term. However, the utility of the Bashi Bazouks has permitted them to survive their bad reputation, and while greed still governs inter-stellar commerce, there will always be a mission for these unruly opportunists.


I have a couple of bears still waiting for their new home - Emma is on Bear Pile already and Lipton will be joining her as soon as I have five spare minutes.
About ten days ago, I went to a pincushion class at Craft Haven. We sewed a mushroom and then made little faces/bums to go inside gumnuts and fur and then hot glue gunned everything all together. We all had a ball and here is my pin cushion - the stem has garnet inside to sharpen your needles and the top is a pincushion.
We have a cute little ferret called Nog. As Crash (our big dog with a bad leg) couldn't go outside, we had to confine Nog to running in the one room. As Crash isn't with us anymore, we put the other dogs outside and let Nog have the run of the whole house. Both Nog and Angus enjoyed it !!!
Last but not least, I have been accepted into the Friends of Teddy On Line Show to be held between the 13th and 15th of July. This show will feature the Teddy Bears "Friends " ie: dogs,cats, rabbits, dragons and lions :) and also some bears as well.
Back again soon ....... no really !!


This is our project's common presentation of Superfoods in painting.We would like to state that we do not own, claim or have rights to any of these wonderful works of art. We uploaded them for educational purposes only. Enjoy!


Hidden Chimpanzee - 645Z, 150mm, f/2.8, 1/250s, ISO 5000.
Switching back to Chimps, this is one we followed for some time on our second day of trekking. The second day wasn't as photographically fruitful, catching up with this one not until the early afternoon. It was still challenging because they were on the move stopping at times only in bushes. Regardless, I like this image because of the covering foliage as it conveys the natural environment these animals inhabit.


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Q: Associating a Part to a different table I want to attach a Part to a content item, let's say Priority. The part is PriorityPart. I want the PriorityPart to take a string field Priority from a different table. Let's say PropertyPartRecord.
I was able to get the data from the propertyPartRecord table but I can't sent the data into it.
Here's my classes.
PriorityPartDriver:
protected override DriverResult Editor(PriorityPart part, IUpdateModel updater, dynamic shapeHelper)
{
    var model = new EditPriorityViewModel();
    updater.TryUpdateModel(model, Prefix, null, null);
    return ContentShape("Parts_Priority_Edit",
           () => shapeHelper.EditorTemplate(TemplateName: TemplateName, Model: model, Prefix: Prefix));
}

EditPriorityViewModel:
public class EditPriorityViewModel
{
    public string Priority { get; set; }
}

PriorityPart:
public class PriorityPart : ContentPart<PropertyPartRecord>
{
    public string CurrentPriority { get { return Record.Priority; } }
}

PropertyPartRecord:
public class PropertyPartRecord:ContentPartRecord
{
    public PropertyPartRecord()
    {
        Priority = "1";
    }

    public virtual String Priority { get; set; }
}

Editor View Priority:
@model ePageo.TUI.MediaManager.ViewModels.EditPriorityViewModel
<fieldset>
    @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Priority, T("Priority"))
    @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Priority, new { @class = "text large" })
    @*@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.Priorities.SelectedValue,@Model.Priorities)*@
    @*@Html.DropDownListFor(n => n.OrderTemplates, new SelectList(Model.OrderTemplates, "OrderTemplateId", "OrderTemplateName", 1), "Please select an order template")*@
    @T("Please provide a numeric priority for the media item. 1 being highest priority and 100 being the lowest. Default is 1.")
</fieldset>

I just couldn't add data into the PropertyPartRecord table. It does add the default value of 1 but then it never updates.
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I'm doing it this way because I'd later add more fields to the PropertyPartRecord table which may or may not have its own parts.

A: I had to add this piece of code in the Driver:
part.CurrentPriority = model.Priority;

Since the part was not associated to the viewModel.
updater.TryUpdateModel(model, Prefix, null, null);
part.CurrentPriority = model.Priority;
return ContentShape("Parts_Priority_Edit",
       () => shapeHelper.EditorTemplate(TemplateName: TemplateName, Model: model, Prefix: Prefix));

Now its working.


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My forty-ninth stadium of 2011 was on Friday 19th August 2011 at Ascot Racecourse Ground in Ascot, Berkshire. The match was Ascot United vs. Wembley in the F.A. Cup Extra Preliminary Round.
Ascot Racecourse Ground is just over a mile from Ascot railway station and sits directly next to part of the horse racing track. It has been home to the club since the late 1960s and has had a series of recent upgrades.
Three sides of the ground are general standing areas with just a metal barrier all the way round separating fans from the pitch. As the ground sits within the confines of the horse racing venue, space is at a premium with these spectating areas being fairly narrow, keeping the venue capacity down. All the ground's facilities are located on the west side of the pitch. On this side is the one all-seater stand which capable of holding around 115 fans and also an excellent new clubhouse which was finished in 2010. This was one of the smartest looking clubhouses I've seen at non-league level and I imagine the club will be the envy of many in their league.
The tie received great publicity in the media for the fact it was the first football match to be shown exclusively live on Facebook, and this combined with the fact Ascot United were making their debut in the F.A. Cup meant the attendance was more than 10 times the usual attendance for the club. A lot of credit must go to Ascot United, the F.A. and Budweiser for putting in place everything required to cope with the greatly increased demand and the evening was a great advert for lower league football.
The game was between Hellenic League Premier Division side Ascot United and Combined Counties League Premier Division side Wembley. The visitors had the better opportunities in the first half, hitting the woodwork on two occasions. Ascot United though also had their chances, the closest they came was when a shot was blazed over the bar from close range. The second half started goalless and it wasn't until the 70th minute when Wembley made the break-through, poking home a corner. Ascot then went on the attack and equalised from the penalty spot 10 minutes later. The home side looked in the ascendancy at this point and pushed forward for the winner but left themselves exposed at the back and it was the visitors grabbed the vital goal with two minutes remaining to win the tie 2-1.
2nd photo down is a great shot.


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Fear Grows Inside
Fear Grows Inside: Scoring MADRES:
An Interview with Composers Isabelle Engman and Gerardo Garcia Jr.
Interview by Randall D. Larson
Beto (Tenoch Huerta) and Diana (Ariana Guerra), a young Mexican-American couple expecting their first child, move to a small town in 1970's California where Beto has been offered a job managing a farm. Isolated from the community and plagued by confusing nightmares, Diana explores the rundown company ranch where they reside, finding a grisly talisman and a box containing the belongings of the previous residents. Her discoveries will lead her to a truth much stranger and more terrifying than she could have possibly imagined.
Isabelle Engman and Gerardo Garcia Jr. are the composers behind Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Productions' new folk-horror release, MADRES. Isabelle isa Swedish composer established in Los Angeles. She has a long experience in composing and producing music for multiple projects – films, video games, TV, commercials and trailers, and works with any music genre (orchestral to electronic). She often blends her minimalistic Scandinavian sound with orchestral and modern scoring. She experiments and creates her own sounds whenever she gets the opportunity and works a lot in the area of sound-music design as well. Gerardo is a Texas native with a Bachelor's degree in Music Composition from The University of Texas at San Antonio. After graduating, Gerardo has been working as a freelance composer for film and other media. His music has been showcased in numerous short films making the festival rounds, as well as TV commercials and radio ads.
The film, directed by Ryan Zaragoza (known for the shorts BEBÉ and STERLING) in his feature film debut. Engman & Garcia have utilized indigenous Aztec instruments to create a haunting, lyrical composition that acts as its own character in the film. The eerie score is driven by the melody of the music box, which is an in-world prop and was specially made for the film – it features an original tune by the pair. The majority of the project's cast and crew is Mexican-American, including Garcia, who's deeply honored to be a part of a project that supports his cultural roots. MADRES, developed and produced by Blumhouse Productions, was released on Amazon Prime on October 8th.
Watch the trailer for MADRES:
Q: How you get started in writing music for film?
Isabelle Engman: I started to play piano when I was very little. I was born without my left hand so I was kind of limited when I played. I started to rearrange my piano and that's how I came into composing and arranging. Then the film interest came a bit later.
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: We both got a nice boost when we got accepted for the screen scoring program at USC. We did that back in 2014, and graduated in 2015. We both had a love for film music before that, and so after getting our degrees in composition and music studies, we both independently set our sites for film music. We ended up in L.A. at the same time, so we began working together.
Isabelle Engman: It's such a good combination. We met at USC – I came here to study and we were in the same class in the scoring program. We just started to collaborate at USC on some student films and we noticed that we really complemented each other. He comes from a completely other kind of background than me, so we've enjoyed working together and continued to do so after school.
Gerardo Garcia Jr.
Q: What advantages has that given you over numerous projects you've worked on together?
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: So much! I will start with saying that the nice thing about having a composing partner is, because it's such a solitary job, that we're constantly communicating and talking to each other, sending each other work and giving each other feedback. That makes the whole process much livelier and happier! One of the benefits of composition is you have two heads – we each have our strengths. I can hear something she can't, she can that I can't. Additionally, I've learned from her in production – she's very good with producing high quality music, in terms of the sound and the specs of software and all that, and so I learn a lot from her in that sense.
Q: How would you describe your technique of collaborating together?
Isabelle Engman
Isabelle Engman: It all depends on which genre it is. We know where our strong sides are, so we always start to work out the theme. We create the theme together and once we have that, we know what to do, composition-wise, and then I always lean into the creation of the soundscape. I come from a more experimental background; I like to sample sounds and create my own sounds, and Gerardo is more of a classic, Hollywood composer, if I can say it like that. So we meet in the middle, so to speak. It's a very natural flow.
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: We both talk about the sound. We do spotting sessions with the filmmakers, and then we decide that a certain scene draws me in and I'll start to work on it. We both start independently – we'll think of an approach and we'll start coming up with content individually, and then we start sending that to each other and asking "what do you think about this?" From there we both determine the scenes that we're going to assign to each other. We're very mindful of revealing things and making sure that it's cohesive and it all sounds like it's from one composition world. Sometimes it's just very simple, as 'Hey, I wrote these lines with a simple MIDI,' I send it to Isabelle and she'll implement that into a scene, and vice versa. Or some times we'll trade sounds and together make a pool of instruments and sounds that we'll use for a film.
Q: So you generally work in your own studios as opposed to collaborating together at the same location?
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: Yes, we work in our own studios. Every once in a while we'll get together in a studio or when we meet with musicians. Generally we're just constantly sending each other files.
Image © Amazon Studios
Q: How did you become involved with MADRES for Blumhouse Prods?
Isabelle Engman: We've worked with Ryan Zaragoza, the director, before, on STERLING, which was an HBO Access pilot, and also a short film called BEBÉ that was also on HBO. So we already had established a creative process and collaboration with him. We're very synchronized and we understand what he wants. We'll find creative angles, we're exploring together – like for MADRES we were actually involved very early in the process. He asked us to write the lullaby theme early on. It's very prominent throughout the film and the score, and is used both diegetically and non-diegetically. He needed us to create that first so he could bring it to the set. They actually made a custom-made music box that played the lullaby while they were filming, and it's used in the film. So our collaboration is very creative and we're usually involved early in the process. He always pushes us to expand our creative boundaries.
The music box, custom made for the film to play the composers' melody..
Q: What were your initial ideas for scoring the film and its spookier subtexts?
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: We're both fans of the films PAN'S LABYRINTH and THE ORPHANAGE and their scores. Even though they're haunting and scary, they're also very beautiful and very melodic. We wanted to take that kind of approach for this film. Even in the tense and scary moments we were always led toward some kind of melodic sound. The initial lullaby theme was a big base for a lot of the music, and then, because of the subject matter of Mexican folklore, we hired Ralph Torres, so we would have a foundation from his instruments and his playing, and we used that along with lyrical lullaby-led themes.
Multi-Instrumentalist Ralph Torres
Isabelle Engman: Most of the cast and crew of the film is Mexican-American, and we knew that we wanted to try to find Mexican musicians. We found Ralph Torres, who is a multi-instrumentalist musician and he had some indigenous Mexican instruments that we used in the score. He recorded things like Mexican flutes, a death whistle, and Mexican drums. We didn't want it to sound conventional, so we had him record a lot of flutes playing long notes and very eerie sounds, which we then processed a lot – like warping the sounds so you could barely hear that they were flutes; sometimes they were more like breathy atmospheric soundscapes. We wanted to use them in a more unconventional way.
Q: How is the music box melody used to create a haunting motif for the film?
Isabelle and the MADRES music box
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: It's very prominent in the film, and we thought about making it a very central character in the music. That made the music box become even more central in the film. We gave the lullaby a bit of a Mexican folk feeling to it – low and haunting; it sounds like a tragic woman's song. It's historical – there are generations of women in the story and that guided the feel of the melody, and then from there when scenes had to do with the music box, that was the melodic source for those scenes.
Q: How did you go about creating a sense of horror or fear in this particular storyline?
Isabelle Engman: We took a more unconventional approach, because the score is very thematic and melodic. It's not a typical kind of scary score. So we were very influenced, like Gerardo mentioned, by THE ORPHANAGE and PAN'S LABYRINTH, which are both very thematic throughout. They're more like ghost stories, and even in the more dissonant cues we actually interweaved the themes into that. For example, I hummed the lullaby and then slowed it down so much that it became like long, dissonant notes. So we even have thematic references even in the most dissonant sounding cues.
Death Whistle
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: We used two primary musical elements. There's the lullaby, which comes in when the scenes are tied to the music box or the character who's associated with the music box, and then there's the story theme, which is first used in the title credits and then becomes associated with the town and the mysteries that are being revealed there. There's also a secondary theme for the main character, the pregnant mother.
Q: What other elements were part of your musical palette for the film?
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: We had a couple of sound designs… we took samples from string players, a lot of scratching, creepy sounds, and then software from Native Instruments that became a foundation for sounds. A lot of airy, atmospheric sounds.
Isabelle Engman: It's string-based and vocal-based. We also have vocals for the lullaby. The palette is orchestral but string- and vocal-based.
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: I will easily say that Isabelle is better with the more intense, scary music. I took a lot of the character and melodic things, and then she did the more intense scenes.
Q: The film is horror but it's given more of a softer touch except where maybe you needed to bring in a scare or something like that. How would you describe scoring a horror film in that manner?
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: We didn't want to over indulge with too many jump scares. They lose their effect if you do that. There are only a few in the film, which is styled around longer shots versus quick scares. That allowed us to have more flowing, continuous music that led to being more melodic. Horror films are often less on melody and many times on atmosphere and the scares. With MADRES, they gave us the space for our music to be a little more lyrical.
Photo: Alfonso Bresciani © Amazon Studios
Q: What have been your significant influences when it comes to writing film music?
Isabelle Engman: I've been very influenced by Bernard Herrmann from the start. He just had these very distinct, original film scores and was kind of ahead of his time. I've always been drawn to these more innovative composers like Stravinsky, those who push the limits and create something new. That's always been my biggest influence. Gerard and I have a lot of mutual inspirations, too, like, for example, James Newton Howard is a big influence.
Aztec Flutes
Q: How did you divide up this score, as far as working together, and how you brought your own individuality into this project?
Isabelle Engman: We both had a chance to work with our strongest assets. I think the score is a more classic film music score. Gerardo is extremely good at melody, and I come from the more aleatoric sound experimenting direction. So we felt that we could combine that. But of course he works with soundscapes too and I work with the more traditional scoring too, so we do cross ways, but we meet in the middle. Our different backgrounds allow us to use very wide pallets.
Aztec Drums
Q: What's been most unique for you about scoring this film?
Isabelle Engman: The story is based on a true story, I just love the fact that the cast is Mexican-American, and Gerardo is Mexican-American too. He found this project very personal, to bring these voices together to create this film, and also the collaboration with Ryan is very dear to us. I feel like we were very synchronized in our creative vision for the project. It was a very special project for both me and Gerardo.
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: I think it was the combination of working with Ralph and creating the soundscape from his instruments and from string instruments, and putting it all together with this music box lullaby theme. Just having a physical visual prop like that music box being such a central musical "character."
Q: I understand you're now scoring a documentary ONLY IN THEATRES – are you able to say anything about this project?
Isabelle Engman: It's about the Laemmle theaters in L.A., which are family run. You get to know the family and kind of what happened through the pandemic, and you get to follow Greg Laemmle, he's the one who's running the theater now. It feels great to be part of this. Our music is like a classic, minimalistic type of score.
Gerardo Garcia Jr.: A lot of people in L.A. are very familiar with the Laemmle Theaters chain so there's a fondness for and a connection with this family. So it's an intimate instrumental setting, just string quartet, piano, and clarinet. Very small and more minimalistic with a little bit of old Hollywood flavor, with the legacy of the Laemmle family.
Before that, we did a historical TV miniseries called STOCKHOLM BLOODBATH*, that needed a lot of music. It came out last winter. It was a Swedish production, a two-hour documentary, but they filmed it very cinematically, almost like a fantasy medieval epic, that had a full orchestration. They wanted GAME OF THRONES type music, which we loved to do. It was an interesting change to move from that to a string quartet!
[*The Stockholm Bloodbath was a trial that led to a series of executions in Stockholm between November 7-9, 1520. The event is also known as the Stockholm massacre.]
Thanks to Isabelle and Gerardo for taking the time to chat with me about their work and scoring process. We interviewed separately and then I combined their responses, with slight edits for clarity. Thanks also to Kyrie Hood of White Bear PR for facilitating the interview. – rdl