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Jui Ishida Children Book Illustrator
Jui Ishida, born in Taiwan, was raised in Japan. After graduating from the Art Center College of Design, Jui Ishida has had an illustrious career as an accomplished children book illustrator. Her unique style has been praised for its exquisite color and design. The following images are taken from the book, "Good Night Little One: Bedtime Around the World" by Chris Matsuda.
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The introduction of a biosimilar drug into the Irish market will save the Health Service Executive (HSE) millions of euro this year alone.
In September Biogen's Benepali became the first biosimilar approved for the Irish market since the signing of a new drug pricing agreement in July.
Its arrival in Ireland meant that Pfizer was forced to cut the price of its blockbuster arthritis drug Enbrel by 30 per cent. That price cut is due to kick in from Tuesday.
Industry sources said earlier this week that the price cut meant the two drugs would now cost the same, raising fears that Enbrel, already established in the market, would smother the rival Biogen treatment's chances of competing.
However, the HSE said it was receiving an additional rebate from Biogen for using its Benepali drug, a factor that makes it "more advantageous from a cost-saving perspective".
"Benepali now offers a very significant opportunity for Irish healthcare professionals to assist the HSE in delivering millions of euro of savings which can be used to support service provision," a HSE spokesman said.
Scale of rebates
The HSE does not disclose the precise scale of rebates it receives from drug companies. However, industry sources had said the State had lost between €4 million and €5 million by the delay in reducing Enbrel's price. That indicates that the HSE could expect to make savings of up to €5 million on just this one drug between now and the end of the year.
The HSE spokesman took issue with concern expressed by the Healthcare Enterprise Alliance – which represents manufacturers of generics – that the terms of the new pricing agreement effectively amounted to "biosimilar blocking" as the 30 per cent price cut imposed on high-profile branded drugs facing new generic competition would make it economically non-viable for a new biosimilar to enter the market.
"These statements in the view of the HSE are not consistent with the empirical evidence of biosimilar entry to Etanercept [the active drug in both Enbrel and Benepali] and the resultant net pricing terms that are more cost-advantageous to the State," the HSE said.
Where a generic medicine is a cheaper identical "copy" of a branded traditional small-molecule drug, biosimilars are "me-too" versions of modern, large-molecule complex biologic medicines.
The nature of biologics means biosimilars cannot be identical to them, but to be licensed they must show no meaningful difference in safety, purity or potency from the original drug.

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Preqin's Funds in Market database shows that there are presently 55 fund of funds vehicles seeking capital on the private equity market, that are being raised by 34 Europe-based managers. Collectively, the 55 private equity fund of funds are seeking an aggregate EUR 6.2bn. Preqin's data shows that 45% of the vehicles have reached an interim close already, and have collectively garnered EUR 2.3bn to date.The largest fund in market in terms of target size is Euro Choice V, which is targeting EUR 720mn and is being raised by Switzerland-based manager Akina. Euro Choice is Akina's flagship fund series which specifically targets the European mid-market, and has attracted EUR 1.5bn from clients around the world. In particular, Euro Choice V's strategy encompasses buyout, growth capital and, selectively, special situations fund investments on both the primary and secondary market.Analysis into the geographical focuses of the 55 private equity fund of funds reveal that 58% of the vehicles are Europe-focused, 27% are predominately North America-focused, and the remaining 18% target Asia and Rest of the World region funds. Further data highlights a concentration of managers raising fund of funds in certain countries. A leading 35% of the Europe-based managers that are currently raising at least one fund of funds vehicle is based in Switzerland. The next majority comes from Germany, where 18% of the private equity fund of funds managers are headquartered, followed by the UK which comprises 15%.


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Editors' Choice: Into The Infinity Pool
This is my last article as the head editor of Invisible Oranges. Manning the helm for the last year has been a wild ride, but real life has intervened and I can't devote the right amount of time to the task anymore. I'll be sticking around as an occasional contributor though, so you're not rid of me yet.
David Bowie was half-right. In a 2002 interview with the New York Times, Bowie predicted that "music itself is going to become like running water or electricity," and that copyright law would disappear in a decade. He may have been hasty about the end of copyright, but it is hard to argue against his water analogy. If you have an active Internet connection, listening to music is as easy and banal as turning on a faucet. Music follows past us a rate too fast for us to retain any memory of each droplet. It streams.
That Bowie was able to predict this state of affairs has made me consider what's coming over the horizon next. My last two Editors' Choice essays have focused on how streaming services and music festivals have shaped music's present. I believe with some conviction that our understanding of 2010s music culture will exist through the scope of these factors, just as our understanding of the previous the years requires an awareness of file sharing and mp3 players. But the decade is almost over and things will inevitably change. This month's essay will try to get a head start on what the next phase might be.
Streaming and festivals make up two corners of a triangle whose pinnacle is social media. It almost feels reductive to frame the explosion of social media solely in relation to its effect on the music industry. Social media has become a dominant force in all aspects of modern life. It's this very ubiquity that makes it a useful tool for looking at where music will go next.
Over the last ten years, social media has changed from being text-oriented to image-oriented. Blogs, diaries, and bulletins have given way to pictures, videos, and livestreams. Twitter and Facebook both adjusted their service to more prominently feature images and video in particular over solely text-based posts. Even more pivotal to this shift were the introduction of services like Instagram and Snapchat, which are built on their users ability to create, share, and curate images first and foremost.
The popularity of these apps has in turn influenced the design of spaces that cater to the aesthetics of social media. Infinity pools that look out over cityscapes. Minimalist hotels with colorful cocktails. Walkthrough galleries like the Museum of Ice Cream or Room29. All of these spaces are designed to be experienced vicariously through the lens of a smartphone. In this setup, the spaces themselves become passive participants in the user's self-mythology. They aren't places that we actually visit, but places that we can see other people inhabiting.
Instagram recently added a feature that allows users to include "music stickers" into their videos, in part to compete with the growing popularity of Tik Tok. (Warning: we are now entering some extremely Gen Z territory. This may infuriate you or make you feel old as fuck. If you're still with me, buckle up and grab your Juul.) Tik Tok, which recently merged with Musical.ly, is an app that allows its predominantly teenager user base to upload videos of themselves lip-syncing to music. As silly as this may sound to you, Tik Tok is astoundingly popular, boasting a user base of roughly 500 million people. Although ostensibly a music app, music isn't really the point of Tik Tok. Like the infinity pools of Instagram, music is simply water flowing in the background of the user's self expression. It is the setting, not the content.
As a certified "old" who spends most of my time contemplating my rotting flesh and paying bills, Tik Tok doesn't do much for me. However, I have become enamored with a different trend in modern music: the reaction video. Lost In Vegas, the pan-genre reaction duo that I wrote about in November 2017, have become a regular part of my media diet. While I started watching the channel to see how they felt about music that I was already familiar with, it quickly became a source of music discovery. I now hear new songs through the mediated lens of George and Ryan's reactions. A quick scroll through their comment section or social media feeds shows that I am far from alone in this respect.
Since the last time we covered them, Lost In Vegas have exploded (not implying cause here, just correlation). At the time of this writing, they have over 525,000 subscribers on YouTube, 10,000 likes on Facebook, 32,000 followers on Twitter, and 3,000 patrons on Patreon. By comparison, Invisible Oranges only has 79 patrons and 12,000 followers on Twitter, although we have them beat on Facebook for now with 18,000 likes. I don't bring this up to be competitive, but to offer a point of reference for the reaction video's popularity as a form. This doesn't even take into account the other channels that existed prior to Lost In Vegas or the channels that have imitated their format since they arrived on the scene.
We typically think of the middlemen in the music industry as record labels, radio DJs, or members of the press. As Dan Ozzi argued at Noisey, social media has gradually supplanted these taste makers. Why bother with reading a lengthy album review when you can check Twitter for instant recommendations? Reaction videos and lip-syncing services take this a step further by encouraging us to become each other's middle men. This is what is coming down the bend, a music industry where listeners serve as the intermediaries for each other. In this future we aren't just users of a platform, we are the platform.
The music that flourishes in this paradigm will likely do one of three things:
1. Have a pronounced visual component: If our social media is going to continue to emphasize video over text, music that's paired with striking visuals is more likely to catch on. You can already see this happening in the popularity of the "visual album" format, where artists like Beyonce or Tierra Whack pair each song of their album with a music video.
2. Be eventful: Unlike Spotify, which favors music that can slide easily and unnoticeably into the background in one of its many "chill" playlists, the world of Tik Tok and reaction videos will need to be brash and attention-grabbing. Think back to our Instagram parallel: it's one thing to take a picture of a pool in your backyard, it's another to take a picture of a pool overlooking the New York City skyline.
3. Have the potential to go viral: This is the hardest to quantify, and if you know the secret to making a song go viral you will soon be too rich to care about what I have to say.
As strange and unnerving as this new world may seem, I am optimistic about metal's place in it. Heavy metal, and extreme music in general, has always had a strong visual element. Hell, Neurosis made a visual album for A Sun That Never Sets back in 2003. The only thing stopping a metal band in 2018 from doing the same is imagination and funds. As for being eventful, few genres announce their presence with such force as heavy metal. I don't think it's purely happenstance that Lost In Vegas started to take off once they included heavy metal in their rotation. Metal begs for a reaction. In a world of musical question marks, it is a declarative fucking statement.
So, I'm not worried about the future of heavy metal. Even the metal artists that don't fit into the new paradigm will be fine; there will always be obsessives searching for music off the beaten path. My lack of anxiety about metal's future is part of a broader optimism about the shape of music fandom to come. I don't understand Tik Tok itself, and even as a teen, I would have found the idea of filming myself lip-syncing to music unappealing. But I understand the underlying reason that "kids these days" are into it. At its core, once you strip away the video effects and potential viral fame, Tik Tok appeals to the desire to openly share your appreciation or connection with a piece of music. Just like proudly wearing a band t-shirt or prominently displaying your record collection in your home, it uses music to say "this is who I am" to anyone who will listen.
This urge will not change because music's profound power on human life will not go away. No amount of atomization can diminish the audience's need for music, and no amount of marginalization can lessen music's impact. Music is water: perpetually inside of us and essential to life itself. Stay hydrated.
Jon's Picks
Summer's Wane
"In the Drought"
Fields of Mildew — I
The days grow shorter, the night comes fast. A time for dismal, autumnal music draws near. The anonymous entity behind Fields of Mildew's meditations on the blight of the Teufelsmoor so perfectly embodies the grey days ahead.
Downward — Agony
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In the wake of Jenna's depressive black metal piece, I am reminded of I'm In A Coffin vocalist "Sad-Ist"'s obscure side project. Apparently released in 2009, I didn't find a copy of this cassette until 2015 or 2016, and it is glorious. Completely unlike the over the top attitude of his main band, Downward is subdued, if even angry in its immense sadness.
Andrew's Picks
Autumn's Earwax
"Порожнє село"
svrm — Лихиї вітри стогнуть без упину
From my svrm feature:
Capturing torment, despair, the absence of hope and faith, and the nightmares of reality in its atmospheric grasp is Лихиї вітри стогнуть без упину, one of this year's most solidly grounded but ascendant atmospheric black metal releases. This album represents the largest departure svrm has made from a preceding album and therefore stands as the riskiest to the project's overall appeal. With a smoother, more melodic approach, C has foregone some of the edginess for nuance: guitars, for instance, now seem to lilt across long, tremolo-picked sections instead of attacking them head-on. Where there may have been threads of punk drumming or hardcore cadences on prior releases, the currents of blackgaze flow more wildly and unpredictably here. The resultant atmospherics are still on-brand, but they contain a new dimension beyond hopelessness: absence itself. In that sense, svrm is the opposite of "heavy" despite being acutely aggressive; the project retains its sense of effort-free expression. This is music for floating, not being grounded. This is music for the profound uncertainty which results from the most hauntingly certain thing there is.
"Autumn Eternal"
Panopticon — Autumn Eternal
While Panopticon's latest album achieves many things in its own right, I always find myself coming back to Autumn Eternal's title track. While nature and seasonality are recurring Panopticon themes, it's "Autumn Eternal" which speaks most clearly about Fall's innate and rapturous beauty. It's my favorite season by far (and unfortunately it's too brief here in Chicago), and nothing puts me in the mood like honest-to-truth nature music. It reminds me of something eerily important as well, especially for city-dwellers: always make time to connect with the natural world, and if music helps you do it, then all the better.
"Subtle Change (Including the Forest of Transition and Dissatisfaction Dance)"
Rivers of Nihil — Where Owls Know My Name
By far the biggest out-of-left-field release from the big-budget modern metal scene, Where Owls Know My Name succeeded where others fail miserably: progression. This track in particular is the album's partypiece: an eight-and-a-half-minute, saxophone-infused onslaught with influences across the board. Both the album's weirdest and heaviest track, it goes to show that aggression can live gloriously through eccentricity, and that Rivers of Nihil was the one band who could make it work. Thing is, nobody expected this, and that's what makes it fucking wonderful.
Ian's Picks
Sectioned – Annihilated
Breakbeats and breakdowns: a match made in metalcore heaven. Much like their stateside contemporaries in Vein, Sectioned prove that the innovations of 1998 hardcore still have relevance and power twenty years later. The band achieve heaviness by any means necessary, mixing the choppy rhythms of mathcore with comically heavy breakdowns and a souped up guitar tone that puts most Nails clones to shame. "Portrait" isn't the band's most punishing track, but it best exemplifies their willingness to stretch the boundaries of their sound while staying focused on their only goal: whooping your ass.
Jesus Piece – Only Self
File under: songs to collectively organize to. Laborcore forever.
"All Black"
clipping. – Splendor & Misery
I've never quite been able to get there with clipping. Daveed Diggs is a tremendous talent, but much of his writing seems performatively talented. Instead of letting his skill speak for itself, you can hear him straining to prove his proficiency at every moment. It can be thrilling to watch him tie his band member's industrial influenced production into knots, but for a full album it's all a little exhausting. After seeing Diggs's promising screenwriting debut Blindspotting earlier this month I decided to give clipping's last album Splendor & Misery another shot. Credit where credit is due: this is a great track, one that sublimates the group's technical skills into an atmospheric story of isolation in an inventive science fiction setting.
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Dr. Wrenn's full list of publications is available here.
Wrenn, C. L. 2016. A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Wrenn, C. L. 2018. "Free-Riders in the Nonprofit Industrial Complex: The Problem of Flexitarianism." Society & Animals 26. Online first.
Wrenn, C. L. 2018. "College Student Literacy of Food Animal Slaughter in the United States." International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 24 (2): 215-228.
Wrenn, C. L. and R. Johnson. 2013. "A Critique of Single-Issue Campaigning and the Importance of Comprehensive Abolitionist Vegan Advocacy." Food, Culture & Society 16 (4): 651-668.
Wrenn, C. L. 2013. "Resonance of Moral Shocks in Abolitionist Animal Rights Advocacy: Overcoming Contextual Constraints." Society & Animals 21 (4): 379-394.
Conference Presentations
Wrenn, C. L. 2019. "Resisting Rape Culture in Animal Rights Activism." Kent Vegan Festival. Canterbury, UK. May 4.
Wrenn, C. L. 2012. "Resonance of Moral Shocks in Abolitionist Animal Rights Advocacy: Overcoming Contextual Constraints." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. August 20.
Wrenn, C. L. 2014. "Getting Your Foot In the Door." Chickpea Magazine, Spring.
Wrenn, C. L. 2013. "Positively Engaging Your Non-Vegan Family." VegFund Blog.
Interviews and Mentions
Chernick, K. 2018. "These Vegans Really Believe Animal Crackers are 'Problematic.'" Vice Magazine.
Lashbrook, A. 2018. "A Sociologist Finds Vegans Are Too Open to 'Free Riders'." The Atlantic.
Green, C. 2014. "Too Much Choice is a Bad Thing." Faunalytics.
Video, Radio, and Podcast Interviews
On Human/Nonhuman Relations, March 2020
Kent Vegan Events, February 2020
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By: Brandy Black
I had the pleasure of attending "Cracked Christmas 12" presented by The Trevor Project at the Wiltern Theatre the other night. It was quite the fabulous event with the red carpet welcoming celebs; Neal Patrick Harris, Jesse Ferguson (Modern Family) and Jason Segel, to name a few. I went for an evening of "irreverent comedy, music and awards" and got so much more.
The show kicked off with a song from the Gay Man's Choir Los Angeles and a peppy dance number. I sipped my champagne and tapped my feet as the men sang "What is wrong with being yourself". There were many guest star appearances throughout the show and some very funny comedians. Carol Leifer spoke- remember her? -she wrote for that funny show, way back when, called Seinfeld! A very entertaining woman as always, she kept the handsome crowd laughing while telling her "coming out" story. She explained that she didn't know she was gay until she was 40; now she's been with her partner for 13 years and they recently adopted a little boy from Guatemala.
"He's very lucky" she says, "He's got two Jewish moms. We bought him a toy phone but does he ever call (in a nasal high-pitched voice)?"
The show delivered what it promised and kept everyone laughing until the "true" stories began to unfold throughout the evening. There was a touching moment when a mom explained that her gay son had committed suicide in February of this year. He had come out to her and she was in full support of him but "her love and acceptance was not enough." He was seeking the very same from the rest of the world and ended his life. She went on to explain that 95% of all suicides can be prevented and that we all have the power to save a life. The words of this lovely mom that had the courage to stand on that stage the year her son had taken his own life, shot through my heart. She celebrated almost all of her "firsts" this year. Her first birthday without her son, his first birthday, her first Thanksgiving, and now her first Christmas this month, it was a painful reminder of how vulnerable we all are. Sitting in that audience as a parent, not even being able to comprehend how she must feel, made me realize the absolute necessity of The Trevor Project.
The Trevor Project was founded by James Lecense, Peggy Rajski and Randy Stone, creators of the 1994 Academy Award-winning short film Trevor- a story of a 13 year old gay boy who, when rejected by his friends because of his sexuality, makes an attempt to take his own life. When the movie was scheduled to air on HBO in 1998, the filmmakers realized that some of the program's young viewers might be facing the same crisis as Trevor so they began to search for a helpline to broadcast during the airing. They discovered that no such helpline existed and so they dedicated themselves to forming a much needed resource: an organization to promote acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, and to aid in crisis and suicide prevention among that group.
Children's names and pictures were flashed before our eyes on large screens above the stage as a reminder that these are real people- children- that could have been saved with the knowledge of The Trevor Project. They provide 24/7 phone support through the help of many tireless volunteers -one of whom travels 4 hours from Barstow, CA to the call center in West Hollywood to volunteer twice a month. The people that stand behind this project should be commended and were on this "Cracked Christmas" night.
The evening took unexpected twists and turns between laughter and tears with Vanessa Carlton singing "home" to Marc Shaiman's musical telegram for Neal Patrick Harris, filled with many dirty double entendres.
The final speaker was the Trevor life award recipient Neal Patrick Harris. He was well spoken, humble, and a true inspiration to this audience.
"I came out in 2006 and have enjoyed some of the happiest moments in my life since then" says Harris.
He further went on to honor the real heroes, the volunteers for The Trevor Project. He told stories of these amazing people who spend night after night talking gay youth out of ending their most precious lives. This evening was a true reminder that everyone's voice, everyone's efforts, everyone's involvement is needed. I was inspired to get involved- Surprise! Surprise! This was an event to remember and to remind us all to take care of each other.
If you are interested in more info on how to volunteer with The Trevor Project- here's how to help:
Click here to become a counselor in Los Angeles
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3 x 5 @ (up to) 80% of 2RM
1 x 10 @ 50%, each with full 2/1000 in lock-out
Rest as needed between sets. If sets require interruption at chosen weight, or range of motion fails, make as minor an adjustment as needed and complete the next uninterrupted and at full-range. When scheme is listed as "3 x 5″, it always refers to "Sets" x "Reps". Reminder: Sound position always governs weight.
5 x 5 @ challenging in each set
Each set should be difficult, violent, and positionally sound; Adjust weight by round as needed to achieve desired work.
Today, max jump height is 15″ W, 20″ M. Stay tall and upright, and do not allow chosen weight to break posture/ unwind bracing in take-off or landing; soft equals sketchy.
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No designated rest here. Focus on quality, consistent movement, and make yourself work.
Hollow position complex: Goal is completion of each rep (12 movements) without breaking position. Today, if needed, rest no more than :20 sec. between each rep.
Box jump: Height is scaled to ability, and should pose a challenge for 15 reps.
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Cari Meyers has worked tirelessly for the past five years to help put an end to puppy mill cruelty and the horrifying abuse that puppy mill dogs endure.
Cari had been serving on the board and volunteering for a large no-kill animal shelter in Chicago when she had her "A-ha!" moment. She looked at the shelters and rescues and saw how many dogs in their care were from puppy mills, yet no one in Illinois was talking about this. That propelled her to take action.
In 2009, she founded The Puppy Mill Project (TPMP), a nonprofit grassroots effort in Chicago to educate the public and raise awareness about puppy mills and their direct connection to pet stores, Internet sites and newspaper ads that sell dogs. Under Cari's leadership, TPMP has convinced pet stores in Naperville, Evanston and Chicago to stop selling "puppy-mill" animals and move to an adoption model.
Cari's work has also influenced public law. She supported the Pet Store Disclosure Act passed in Illinois in 2010, and the Pet Lemon Law in 2013. Cari worked with City Clerk Susana Mendoza and Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey to help pass landmark legislation (The Companion Animal & Consumer Protection Ordinance) that banned the retail sale of commercially sourced puppies, kittens and rabbits from pet stores. The ordinance passed in March 2014 in the city of Chicago, and in April 2014 in Cook County.
In addition to her work in the Chicago area, Cari has traveled throughout the country to help rescue puppy mill dogs and to expose and shut down puppy mills. She has worked very hard to help find "forever homes" for puppy mill dogs that have been rescued and given a second chance.
Cari's achievements have been recognized locally and nationally. In 2012, Cari was a winner in the Examiner.com's 'America Inspired' Contest, which celebrated extraordinary people making a difference across the United States. And in 2014, Cari was named one of Today's Chicago Woman magazine's '100 Women of Inspiration', an honor she received for her tireless work to put an end to puppy mill cruelty.
Although Meyers and TPMP were gaining momentum, she realized that this national issue was much larger in scope than her local organization alone could resolve. She knew there were others across the nation also working to end puppy mill cruelty and believed that if somehow they could connect, and work together, more could be done. National Puppy Mill Project (NPMP) arose from Meyers' vision that ending puppy mills and the inhumane treatment of dogs used as breeding stock could be better accomplished as a collaborative effort. Working with fellow Board members Betty Stebbins and Janie Jenkins, NPMP was launched in 2014.
Cari lives in Chicago, IL with her husband and three dogs.
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Dear Friends,
AIL's Health Program continues to treat and educate thousands of people each month. In the first six months of the year 119,280 patients were treated and 78,498 people received health education. Patients often travel great distances to reach an AIL clinic because they know they will get quality care and quality drugs. Patients come for first aid care, vaccinations, nutrition, reproductive health, diseases and illnesses. Every patient and any family members with them receive health education at each visit to give them the knowledge of how to prevent illness or injury and how to treat minor ailments. Some of the most popular health education topics are those related to reproduction including breast feeding, nutrition, vaccines and hygiene. All this information helps pregnant women stay healthy.
AIL emphasizes the importance of vaccinations to patients attending with illness or injury and especially pregnant women. The clinics also have vaccinators going out to villages and vaccines are provided by the 30 Community Health Workers at 15 health posts. AIL participates in vaccination campaigns run by the government such as for polio. These vaccinations save lives especially those who are most vulnerable such as pregnant women and newborns. Afghanistan continues to have one of the world's highest rates of maternal and infant mortality vaccines play a part in reducing these numbers.
"I am Sohaila and I have been working as a vaccinator for three years at Maladan. I do my best to improve my work. One of the important parts of my job is to make the people understand the value of vaccinating. One day I was talking about the value of vaccination and I faced a woman who was from Ghore province bt now was living in Herat Province. She said, "I am 30 years old and it is about one year that I have come to Herat with my family. I know nothing about vaccination and I have not been vaccinated yet because I have not known about vaccination and what it is for. So tell me about it, if I need to be vaccinated ". So I welcomed her and I gave her complete information about vaccination and then I gave her a vaccination card so she could get vaccines. I said it will absolutely decrease the rate of different maternal diseases. I am proud of being a vaccinator and that I am helping my people. When I work for my people I never become tired".
Thank you for your support.
Dear Friends,
TODAY June 15TH -9:00am ET TO 11:59pm! 50% Matching funds available for donations made to AIL projects on GlobalGiving.org! Donations up to $1,000 per individual donor per organization may be matched while funds available. The money runs out fast- so donate now!
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This year AIL's health program has provided 79,048 patients with health treatment and 50,433 patients have participated in some form of health education. Many of the health topics covered are related to reproduction and this gives girls and women vital information.
AIL provides many avenues, other than at health clinics, for women and girls to get the sort of health information they need to stay healthy and look after themselves, especially their reproductive health.The AIL education program is going well and classes are being held at 43 Learning Centers (LCs) in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including 15 rural centers around Herat. So far this year,13,888 students (including 9,044 females) participated in Learning Center education. The students all learn about health, as health information is given regulary and sometimes workshops are held. AIL also conducts in depth reproductive health trainings during the year and these will start soon and focus on reproductive health and there is a specialized Expectant Mother Workshop which aids pregnant women and their caregivers.
TODAY, your donation can go further! Donate between 9:00am and 11:59pm and help AIL continue its valuable work providing education and healthcare to women and girls.
Dear Friends,
Each year, thousands of Afghans attend AIL health education and hundreds benefit from in-depth reproductive health trainings. So far in 2016, over 79,000 patients have received treatment through AIL clinics and over 50,000 people have participated in some form of health education (with over 5,000 of them being reproductive health patients). When people are healthy and can take care of themselves, they are more empowered to learn, work and help their communities.
AIL offers in-depth health workshops that will be starting up soon. Hundreds of female patients attended these last year, learning about women's health and reproductive matters. The topics are diverse and include nutrition, breast feeding, family planning, hygiene and environment sanitation, the importance of ante and post natal care and newborn and post partum care.
The women that attend these workshops share what they learn with their husbands,families and friends spreading the benefits of knowledge widely across communities. One young girl who participated in a Reproductive Health Workshop, shared this: "My name is Afsana and I am a student in school. My mother gave birth to many children because she did not have knowledge about women's issues. She gave birth to a child every year and this caused many health problems for her and her children. Some of my brothers and sisters haven't grown that much because of malnutrition. Today, I am going to transfer everything I learned to my mother so she can live more safely. I thank AIL for giving us the chance to live safely and prevent too many births. I am very happy that women can now participate in such programs and take care of themselves and are getting more information about these issues. When I share what I learned with my mother at home, she is very happy that I am aware of these things before I get married."
Thank you for your continued support.
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AIL has started the year 2016 with a full roster of education classes in many subjects as diverse as, literacy, English, carpet weaving, computers and physics. In the month of January, there were 9,682 students (6,132 female) in classes at 42 Learning Centers (LCs) in Afghanistan and 1 LC in Pakistan. The health program has provided 19,226 patients with treatment and given health education to 11,854 people. Here is a story:
"My name is Somayeah and my twin sister is Masomah. We live in a poor family and we are both interested in learning, but we always missed the chance to study because people were laughing at us. Fortunately AIL's teachers promoted self-confidence and self-esteem in us with great advice. Now we are happy and no longer ashamed. Our minds changed since attending AIL's literacy and sewing classes. We also found out about the dignity of women in the community and we are proud to be twins. We also made very good educational decisions about our future."
Your donation will help AIL continue its valuable work providing education and healthcare, emergency relief and legal aid to poor Afghans.
Thank you.
Dear Friends,
2015 was a successful year for the AIL Health Program with healthcare provided to 228,353 patients and health education to 141,813 participants. AIL has always combined its health care treatment with lessons in health education. It is vital to create change in behavior and new habits regarding health and cleanliness to stop the cycle of ill health and repeat infections that strain family life.
In 2015, AIL provided health education on a vast range of health topics including, nutrition, child spacing, immunization, breast feeding, hygiene, medicine usage, specific diseases as well as birth and pregnancy care. Many poor Afghan lack even rudimentary knowledge about sanitation, transmission of infection and what to do to have a safe birth. AIL wants to create a knowledge base which will be passed on to other family members so each visit or return visit by a family always involves reinforcement of health knowledge.
One of the participants at a reproductive health workshop said: "My cousin is pregnant and it is her first child. Till now she didn't contact a doctor. When I learned about vaccines in this workshop I asked her if she had contact with a doctor and does she have any information about vaccines. She said:' I didn't contact any doctor and I didn't do anything about vaccination." Then I shared with her those things which I learned from this workshop and also I added that she must see a doctor once a month during pregnancy."
Thank you for your support.
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of the head of the German Social Democrats (SPD) - Sigmar Gabriel
On the 11th of June Sigmar Gabriel – Head of the German Social Democrats (SPD) and Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany visited Oświęcim.
Together with a group of youths he visited the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Then he came to the International Youth Meeting Centre where, after some welcoming words by Director Leszek Szuster, he took part in a discussion with Poles and Germans. The audience was made up of trainees from Volkswagen, pupils from Bieruń and a group of policemen from Hamburg. The discussion was moderated by Christoph Heubner – Executive Vice-President of the International Auschwitz Committee and Chairman of the Foundation for the IYMC.
The main theme was the motivation of young people coming to Oświęcim, the meaning of the experiences they gathered during their stay, but also the challenges of the current political shift towards the right. Mr. Gabriel also reflected on his first visit to Oświęcim 30 years ago and commented on the work of the IYMC:
What you do here concerns the 1. Article of the German constitution, which is about human rights.
The event was accompanied by short musical performance by Matthias from Salzgtitter on the guitar and Patrycja from Bieruń (vocals).
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Apple rolled back privacy rules Thursday that developers of apps for children had said would hurt their ability to make money and improve their products.
The rules, which were originally announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June, would have prohibited apps marketed to children from using external analytics software that collects detailed information about who is using the app and would have barred the apps from displaying ads.
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said the changes were the result of complaints from parents, but the restrictions set off an outcry among developers who defended their use of analytics as benign and said advertising services already vet ads for appropriateness.
After an inquiry from The Washington Post last month, Apple delayed the rule changes pending discussions with developers.
On Thursday, Apple amended those rules to allow children's app developers to use analytics software "in limited cases," provided the services don't collect or transmit personally identifiable information about children or data that could be combined with data from other sources to identify them later.
Under the revised rules, advertising will be allowed, as long as it has been vetted for appropriateness.
Gerald Youngblood, whose app Tankee offers a kid-safe alternative to YouTube for video game streaming, said he welcomed the changes Apple made Thursday. "We appreciate Apple listening to the kid tech community and developing policies that benefit kids while supporting the growth of responsible developers in this space," he said.
Thursday's developments were first reported by TechCrunch.
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By Adrienne Ross – http://www.motivationtruth.com
I have great respect for Senator John McCain. That respect is two-fold. First and foremost, I respect his service to our nation. He is a true American hero, the proverbial "profile in courage." His strength and heroism in war are undeniable. Second, he was the vehicle through which the nation came to know Governor Palin. Though she had already been making history in Alaska, many had never heard her record, or even her name, until the Senator introduced her on August 29, 2008, in Dayton Ohio. For that, we are most grateful.
However, I have a bone to pick with him. HBO has shamelessly orchestrated the Palin hit piece known as Game Change, which is set to air next month. Its original purpose seems to have been to derail a Palin presidential run, as it was assumed she would be a candidate at this time. That, obviously, is not the case, but HBO's characterization of her is no less demeaning, dishonest, and frankly, disgusting. In fact, former senior adviser and spokesperson, Meghan Stapleton, called it "sick," and other staffers also denounced it as pure "fiction."
My issue with Senator McCain is that he remains silent while those he trusted continue to blame Governor Palin for the horrible campaign they ran. They need a scapegoat, so they've chosen her, and they're willing to sell their souls to the devil in the effort.
Mark Whittington writes:
The movie is based on a poorly researched book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, and it was criticized at the time of its publication by Howard Kurtz, then a media reporter for the Washington Post, and the New York Times for its overreliance on unsourced "deep background" interviews that were difficult to verify.
Two of those sources have been revealed, according to the Los Angeles Times, as Steve Schmidt and Nichole [sic] Wallace, John McCain campaign operatives widely regarded as being responsible for McCain's defeat in 2008. The suspicion is Schmidt and Wallace are attempting to shift the blame for the debacle on Palin.
Schmidt and Wallace will obviously do what they do. Their despicable behavior is nothing new, but McCain could certainly stop it in its tracks with just one word–or at least slow it down. Instead, he is saying nothing. Therefore, these two little rascals are making him look even worse than they are attempting to make the Governor look. If she was really as bad as they say she was, what does that say about Senator McCain, since he's the one who picked her? These two miscreants are not only doing a disservice to Governor Palin's name, but they're calling into question Senator McCain's leadership capabilities.
The Senator did say this:
It'll be a cold day in Gila Bend, Arizona, when I watch that movie.
Well, that's fine, but surely he has seen the trailer by now, or read about it, or heard about the decent members of his 2008 election staff who have spoken out against the lies in this movie in which Governor Palin is depicted as mentally unstable, unprepared, and unintelligent.
Back in May, on the day Governor Palin launched her One Nation Bus Tour in Washington, DC, Senator McCain told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that Governor Palin could beat President Obama in an election if she decided to run. He added:
I think that, again, that's what campaigns are all about. I've never seen anyone as mercilessly and relentlessly attacked as I have seen Sarah Palin in the last couple of years, but she also inspires great passion particularly among the Republican faithful.
I agree with Senator McCain: no one has been treated as unfairly and vilely as Governor Palin. Since he knows this to be true, I would have even more respect for him if he'd do his part to put an end to it. I also agree that she inspires the Republican faithful. If Senator McCain considers himself among those faithful, he should be inspired enough to take a stand, shouldn't he? Governor Palin energized his campaign for the presidency, she is the reason he didn't lose by an even greater margin, and she helped secure his congressional reelection in 2010. At the very least, I would like the Senator to speak up on behalf of his former running mate–and himself–by calling out his staffers and their lies. It's simply the right thing to do, and Senator McCain has shown us in the past that he knows how to do the right thing.
(h/t Ray for Whittington article lead)
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To travel from New York to Belgrade and then back again is to pass from the enemy's camp to the beleaguered camp of a small oppressed people and then back again. But it is also to pass from a world of lies and war crimes to a world at war. The United States of America … Continue reading THE WAR AGAINST THE SERBS AND THE NEW AMERICAN FASCISM
by Dragos Kalajic , Duga Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia June 8, 1996. Influential Italian weekly Panorama has been recently honored by the CIA: Panorama was given rights to be the first to publish in European media space and in that manner spread supposedly secret results of the futurologist predictions of the CIA's intellectual task force regarding impending, … Continue reading PARTNERSHIP FOR RACKET
As for September 11th
Today is September 11th The world mourns victims from The World trade centre and Pentagon. And I would like to ask you for a moment of silence for all those who have been harassed, imprisoned, disappeared, tortured, raped, killed in retaliation for those strikes, In Serbian Kosovo, Srpska and Krajina. For them who, by the … Continue reading As for September 11th
BLOODY 1 May, 1999. NATO killed 70 Serbs at Lužani
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How the NYT lied, and how the World believed it
In more than sixteen years now (December 1997), the New York Times was repeating at least 2,236 times that the Krajina Serbs are "occupiers", "conquerrors" or "land grabbers" of one third of Croatia. They repeated, in the same period, the same fabrications about the Bosnian Serbs at least 3,807 times. They claimed that the Bosnian … Continue reading How the NYT lied, and how the World believed it
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Two boys - Serb and Gorani were stabbed in the back in the Albanian neighborhood in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, earlier this day. So far perpetrators are still unknown. Two fifteen year old boys were back stabbed in Albanian neighborhood in Mitrovuca Kosovo Serb FZ (15) and Gorani A.Š. (15) were injured at 12:40 pm. Health … Continue reading Two boys stabbed in Kosovska Mitrovica!
"NATO/U.S. out of Yugoslavia!" – Mumia Abu-Jamal
by Mumia Abu-Jamal* Revolutionary Worker #1003, April 25, 1999 As a deadly rain of high-tech bombs falls on Yugoslavia, a deadening rain of propaganda falls on Americans, media-manipulated lies designed to prime the populace into supporting harsher military measures against a sovereign nation, in the name of protecting human rights. NATO is but a fig … Continue reading "NATO/U.S. out of Yugoslavia!" – Mumia Abu-Jamal


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An insider's tips on maximizing this monster module.
In recent years, sample-playback modules have acquired a reputation for being relatively boring devices, capable of producing little beyond the usual meat-and-potatoes piano, string, and brass sounds. So it hardly seems fair to categorize E-mu's Proteus 2000 as a sample-playback unit. True, its sounds are based on samples stored in ROM, but that's where its similarity to most playback appliances ends.
The synthesis capabilities of the Proteus 2000 easily overshadow those of lesser devices and offer the synthesis aficionado a huge bag of tricks for seriously warping sounds. I'm going to touch on a few of my favorite tips and tricks, but this article is by no means an exhaustive survey of what this powerful machine can do - it's really just a start.
CONSTRUCTION KITApart from the Instrument kit GM Dance, the Proteus 2000 does not provide a standard General MIDI drum kit. This might force you to edit some GM sequences if you wish to play them with anything other than the decidedly electronic textures of the GM Dance Instrument. You can, however, do a pretty good job of creating a variety of GM-compatible kits with the Proteus 2000's extensive layering and linking capabilities. By using all four Layers in each of three linked programs, you can create a preset with 12 separate Layers, each of which can contain a chunk of your customized GM drum kit.
Here's an example: Select preset 079 (Acoustic 2) in CMPSR bank 3. As you play up the keyboard, starting on MIDI note 35 (B0), you'll discover that the kit corresponds to the GM layout for only four notes. I'm not going to worry about assigning the notes below note 35; they aren't used very often. (If you need them, you can extrapolate from the rest of this exercise to determine how to assign them the way you want.)
When you hit note 39 (D superscript #1), you'll find a snare sound where handclaps would be in a GM-compatible kit. To correct this, simply add a new Layer beginning at note 39. In Edit mode, set Layer 1 (which is providing the first group of percussion samples) to sound only from note B0 to D1:
Now select Layer 2, and assign it to sound only on D superscript #1:
While Layer 2 is still selected, scroll to the Instrument page and change the assignment to one of the handclap sounds, such as Claps 2:
This Layer has been transposed down 24 semitones, so you'll probably want to change that:
Because the claps are now in a separate Layer, you have the freedom to tune, pan, mix, and process them separately from the other sounds in this kit - things you normally wouldn't be able to do with a drum kit that uses a preset multisample. For example, using Send2 for the claps allows you to splash more reverb on them than you would use for the rest of the kit. You can assign Send2 to Layer 2 on the Mix Output page:
After adding more Layers to this preset, you can adjust the reverb amounts for each Layer (up to four Layers per preset) from the FXA Send Amounts page:
To complete the GM drum kit, continue assigning Instruments to the appropriately split Layers. For example, you can assign Instrument 0630 to Layer 3:
This Instrument corresponds to the GM standard all the way to note 51 (D superscript #2), so we'll split it like this:
For the fourth Layer, we can use the GM Dance Instrument, which provides relatively generic-sounding percussion instruments in a GM-compatible map up to A superscript #3:
This example illustrates the basic approach, but you can certainly take the idea much further. If you need additional Layers, simply link another preset (or two) to this one. Each additional preset provides four more Layers to mess around with. You might want to use the additional Layers to cover areas of the keyboard above and below the ranges I've dealt with here. Also, having specific percussion sounds assigned to individual Layers can provide some flexibility in tailoring the drum kit to a specific situation. For example, if you assign a cymbal to its own Layer, you can adjust its decay time, reverb amount, and panning without affecting other sounds in the kit.
TUNE-UP MASTERI'm also fond of employing the user tuning tables to control the pitch of individual drums in a Layer. This lets you tune the toms, for example, to get additional pitches that aren't preset in the stock drum map. To try this technique, set the Instrument's keyboard tuning to the User 1 tuning table:
Then hit the Master button and scroll to the tuning-table definition page:
Underline the key number and play the low tom (F1) on the keyboard. Underline the Crs value and set it to 038. This tunes the low tom several semitones lower.
You can repeat this procedure for any drum sound you'd like to tune.
BENDY-BOYThe idiomatic "dive-bomb" sound associated with electric guitar can be difficult to reproduce on most synths. That's because most synths let you set only a single value for the Pitch Bend range. In other words, if you want to set the bender to drop a fifth, you end up with the Pitch Bend range going up a fifth as well. That can make it hard to perform the guitar's characteristic half- and whole-step upward bends. Fortunately, you can set the bender in the Proteus 2000 so it bends down by a different amount than it bends up.
The trick is to use a Proteus modulation processor called the Diode, which passes only positive input values. By routing the Pitch Wheel through the Diode and then to the Pitch parameter, you can add a greater modulation amount to the Pitch Bend range, but in one direction only.
The following patch requires two PatchCords (modulation connections). From the Edit menu, route one PatchCord from the Pitch Wheel to the Diode.
Then connect the Diode to the Pitch parameter.
Set the modulation amount according to the effect you want. For example, if you set it to -010, and the Pitchbend Range for the patch is set at ñ2, the bender will bend notes up a second and down a fourth. If you set the modulation amount to -016, the bend down will be a fifth. To use the Diode output to control the upward bend range, set the first PatchCord to +100:
WAVE OPSTo paraphrase a well-known maxim, you can never be too rich or too thin, or have too many waveforms. Even though the Proteus 2000 has nearly 1,200 different waves, there may still be times when you want something that isn't in the instrument's ROM. Luckily, there are a couple of easy ways to produce new instrument sounds for your custom presets.
One of the easiest methods is to experiment with a sound's start time. Setting the start-time number to something greater than 0 starts the playback of the sample at a later point in the waveform. This technique may not make much of a difference when applied to a synth-based waveform, but if you apply it to an acoustic-instrument sample, you can lop off the attack of the sound and leave just the sustaining portion. Because we identify an acoustic sound largely by its attack portion, removing the attack can leave you with a waveform that retains some acoustical characteristics but isn't readily identifiable.
For example, select the str:Solo Quartet patch (089) in CMPSR bank 7. Hit the Edit button, scroll to the Sound Start menu, and set Start to 127:
This setting chops the gritty bowed attack off the front of the sound. Now, to further mangle the waveform, I'll apply the second trick: sample stretching.
The Proteus 2000 provides two ways to change a sample's pitch: transposing and tuning. Transposing the sample works by shifting the keyboard position of the waveform, which preserves the key range assigned for each waveform in a multisampled Instrument. Tuning shifts the pitch of the multisamples, pushing them outside their predetermined key range. By combining the two approaches, you can keep a preset in pitch while forcing its individual samples outside of their range.
For example, set the transposition for Layer 1 up an octave:
And set its tuning down an octave:
Try increasing the release time a bit and dialing up an appropriate filter - perhaps one of the Vow (vowel) filters - and you'll have a fairly sick-sounding vocal group.
UPS AND DOWNSAnother technique is triggering a Layer on key-up. This lets you create a mandolin-style tremolo with a guitar sound.
Start with a straight-ahead guitar sound, such as gtr:Steel (048) in CMPSR bank 7. Use the transposition trick that I just explained to make the steel-string guitar sound a bit more like a mandolin. Transpose the Instrument up 7 semitones, and then tune it down 7 semitones to get that slightly thunky mandolin texture. Now set up the gate to control sample retriggering:
(Note that any number greater than 0 will suffice for the PatchCord amount.)
This setup causes the Layer to retrigger when the key is released. The effect will be pretty subtle, because the envelope cuts off the sound of the Layer when the key is released, but this is easily remedied. Scroll to the Volume envelope page and make sure the Mode is set to time-based (or tempo-based, if you want to time the envelope to a particular tempo). Set the values for Attack1, Attack2, and Decay1 to a rate of 0 and a level of 100 percent. Set Decay2 to a rate of approximately 76 and a level of 0 percent. Set Release1 to a rate of 0 and a level of 100 percent (so the envelope jumps to full volume when the key is released), and set Release2 to a rate of approximately 54 and a level of 0 percent (so the note ultimately decays to silence).
If you want to get fancy, use the PatchCords to scale the decay and release times to keyboard position, so that higher notes produce quicker decays and releases, as with a real mandolin:
To complete the mandolin effect, turn on the Chorus parameter. Choose a setting that's not too heavy - perhaps around 12 percent with the width left at 0 percent.
SAXX GRUZZA saxophone growl can be a handy sound to have in your collection. Although there is more than one approach to creating this kind of sound, an easy way to get a reasonably good result is to use the Auxiliary Envelope to create the characteristic "buzz." You can then use a controller, such as Aftertouch or the mod wheel, to bring in the effect.
To create this sound, first locate wnd:Grouch (042) in CMPSR bank 0. This provides an aggressive saxophone sound as a starting point. For the basic growl, you can set the Auxiliary Envelope to repeat, and set each segment to travel a small distance at a fast rate. Begin with all the attack and decay segments set to a rate of 1, and alternate between a level of +1 percent and -1 percent:
Note that I've used positive and negative levels in equal increments. That way, the pitch modulates around 0 and doesn't get pushed sharp or flat as the depth of the effect increases. Also, the release times won't matter unless the sound you're working with continues to decay after key-up. If it does, be sure to set the level for Release1 and Release2 to +0 percent, or your note may drift off pitch when released.
Once the Auxiliary Envelope has been set, use the PatchCords to route it to a likely destination. I've found that routing it to the Pitch parameter works well, but routing it to the filter or amplifier can also produce useful results. Whatever the destination, though, you'll probably want to hook up a controller to fade the effect in and out. To accomplish this, use another PatchCord to route the controller (I'll use the mod wheel for this example) to control another PatchCord amount. Let's hook up the Aux Envelope to control Pitch, but with a depth of 0:
Then hook up another PatchCord routing mod wheel to the Amount control:
Finally, if you want to get tricky, use at least two Layers for this patch, with a crossfade controlled by the Mod wheel, breath controller, or some other controller. This allows you to set up fades between mellow, smooth sax sounds and the grittier, buzzy sound you just created.
RANDOM RAMBLINGSWithout going into too much detail, I've set down a few ideas that might get you started in some new directions:
1. Route one of the squared-up LFO shapes - one of the Pat: shapes, for example - to control SRetrig on a percussion Instrument. You will have hours of fun as you experiment with new drum grooves based on the LFO rate.
2. Use the Sub outs for the dry sounds, and the Main outs for the wet (effects) signal. This lets you control the overall effects mix from a couple of faders on your mixer - handy for live performances.
3. Several of the Proteus 2000 filters can be made to distort, but the BassOMatic filter produces a warm, tubelike distortion. Adjust the Q parameter to control the amount of distortion, or use Velocity or another controller to crossfade between distorted and clean Layers. This is a nice effect for electric pianos and organs, among other things.
4. For sweeping pads, try using one of the vocal filters on a Layer, modulated by a slow LFO for some extra animation.
5. You can achieve some of the most interesting effects by modulating modulators. In other words, try modulating an LFO's rate and/or depth from another LFO, which might itself be modulated by an envelope or even the first LFO. Some very interesting cascading patterns can be created by routing the results of these "monster mods" to several destinations, such as Pitch, Filter, Pan, and so on. You can keep everything in time by basing LFO rates and envelope times on bpms, or you can let things run free to produce sounds that constantly change and shift.
6. Finally, don't forget to read your Proteus 2000 owner's manual, especially the programming tutorial. It's an excellent source of small exercises that can turn into big ideas. Also check out back issues of EM; the Proteus 2000 was reviewed in the September 1999 issue.
A number of helpful Proteus 2000 links are online, including E-mu's own Web site (www.emu.com). An active Proteus 2000 user group is at www.egroups.com/group/p2k, and Jeff Donnici runs an excellent Web site at www.donnici.com/p2k/p2k_main.asp, where you can find tons of information and links.
I've often wished that I could have my own custom sound bank available in ROM, providing instant access to the sounds I use the most. With the Proteus 2000's support for sounds burned into nonvolatile Flash ROM, that wish is now a reality. That's great news for gigging musicians who want to use custom samples in their act but prefer the convenience of a sample-playback module. You can also do things with the Proteus 2000 that you can't with other modules, such as apply the amazing z-plane filters to your custom drum loops, or create your own custom drum kits with samples, mapping, panning, and tuning designed to your own specs.
The process of creating custom ROMs is relatively simple (although you'll have to get your hands on an Ultra-series EOS sampler if you don't already have one). Simply pop a Flash-ROM SIMM into the EOS Ultra, put together the bank of sounds that you want to author, save the bank to the Flash-ROM SIMM, transfer the SIMM from the EOS Ultra to the Proteus 2000, create presets based on the new ROM, and save the presets (as a bank) to the Flash ROM.
The procedure will go smoothly if you take a little time to plan your project before starting. The main thing to keep in mind is that you have a limited amount of memory. Flash-ROM SIMMs currently come in only one size: 16 MB, although 32 MB SIMMs may be available in the future. The Proteus 2000 has a total of four slots that can accept Flash SIMMs, but one slot is already used for the Proteus 2000's factory ROM banks. (You can, however, remove the factory ROM and fill all four slots with your own ROMs.)
With 16 MB SIMMs in three slots, you have a maximum of 48 MB to play around with. Remember, however, that an Instrument must be contained in a single bank. In other words, if you want to store a 20 MB multisampled piano patch in Flash ROM, you must do something a bit tricky, such as creating the lower half of the piano in one 16 MB bank and the upper half in another 16 MB bank. (you can always fill any leftover Flash memory with other sounds.) Then, when you've installed your newly authored Flash SIMMs in the Proteus 2000, you can re-create the original piano patch by layering or linking the instruments from the two different ROM banks.
Cramming a wealth of sounds into a relatively small space is truly an art, and attempting to put 16 MB to their most efficient use makes you admire the E-mu sound designers who stuffed hundreds of samples into the 32 MB of sample ROM that ships with the Proteus 2000. None-theless, anyone familiar with sampling shouldn't have too much trouble understanding the basics of efficient memory usage: never use two samples when one will suffice, do not use higher sampling rates than necessary, and keep the samples as short as possible.
The Proteus 2000's synthesis resources are quite extensive, so you might not need to sample a completed sound. You may be able to get away with sampling a component of the sound and processing it later in the Proteus 2000.
Consider, for example, the re-creation of some of your favorite synthesizer pad and sweep sounds. If the sound you want to capture is characterized by a long filter sweep, try opening the filters on the synth all the way and sampling the resulting unfiltered sound. Then see if you can re-create the sound using the extensive filtering available in the Proteus 2000. You might find that once you've turned off the filters, you're left with a relatively straightforward layer of synth waveforms - some of which may already be available in Proteus 2000 ROM. You might even be able to re-create the sound you want without making any custom samples at all, which is a great way to get to a deeper level - not just with the Proteus 2000, but with your other synths, too.
Finally, as you're putting together your banks in the EOS Ultra, keep in mind that nothing is forever. You may wish to revisit those banks to make changes at some later date, so it's a good idea to back up your original EOS banks. That way you can easily retrieve them if you need to.


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