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text: Lab technicians conducting mosquito research at Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania. our goal: a world free of malaria. The Challenge In This Page The Challenge The Opportunity Our Strategy Areas of Focus At A Glance up Malaria occurs in nearly 100 countries worldwide. According to the 2013 World Malaria Report, there were more than 200 million malaria cases in 2012. An estimated 627,000 people died from malaria in 2012, 90 percent of them in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of those who die from malaria are children under age 5. Between 2000 and 2012, major investments in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention contributed to a 25 percent decline in malaria incidence and a 42 percent decline in malaria deaths worldwide. Despite significant progress, current tools and treatments are insufficient to eliminate malaria in many countries because of challenges such as growing insecticide and drug resistance and continued transmission by people who are infected but asymptomatic. The only sustainable approach to addressing malaria is eradication of the parasite. Donor countries cannot maintain funding of several billion dollars a year in perpetuity, and a resurgence of malaria could threaten hard-won progress. Eradication of malaria is biologically and technically feasible, with sufficient global commitment and major investments in transformative new tools and delivery strategies. Our Malaria strategy, updated in 2013, is part of the foundation's Global Health Division. down Malaria occurs in nearly 100 countries worldwide, exacting a huge toll on human health and imposing a heavy social and economic burden in developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. An estimated 207 million people suffered from the disease in 2012, and about 627,000 died. About 90 percent of the deaths were in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 77 percent were among children under age 5. Malaria is caused by parasites transmitted by mosquitoes. Even in relatively mild cases, it can cause high fever, chills, flu-like symptoms, and severe anemia. These symptoms can be especially dangerous for pregnant women and young children who are experiencing the disease for the first time. Severe malaria can cause lifelong intellectual disabilities in children, and malaria's economic impact is estimated to cost billions of dollars in lost productivity every year. In the past dozen years, malaria funding has increased nearly 10-fold and major gains have been made in controlling the disease in developing nations. The number of new cases has declined by 25 percent globally, and deaths from malaria have fallen by 42 percent. These gains have been made through a combination of interventions, including timely diagnosis and treatment using reliable diagnostic tests and effective drugs; indoor spraying with safe, long-lasting insecticides; and the use of bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticide to protect people from mosquito bites at night. Current tools and treatments are insufficient, however, to achieve elimination in many countries. And the cost of maintaining these interventions has reached several billion dollars a year. The malaria parasite has begun to develop resistance to currently available insecticides and drugs, and these resistant strains will spread. Infected individuals who are asymptomatic—the majority of those infected—remain an ongoing source of transmission. Given sufficient global commitment, major investments in research and development, and transformative new tools and delivery strategies, the ambitious goal of malaria eradication can be met. Without an immediate, coordinated worldwide effort to eradicate malaria, this window of opportunity could close indefinitely and the progress already achieved will remain at risk. The Opportunity Share Share up Section down Malaria is preventable and treatable, and history shows that it can be eliminated. Less than a century ago, it was prevalent across the world, including Europe and North America. Malaria was eliminated in most of Western Europe by the mid-1930s; the United States achieved elimination of the disease in 1951. We have the opportunity to accelerate progress toward elimination in all countries by improving the delivery of existing interventions as well as developing new tools and new strategies that target not just malaria-transmitting mosquitoes but also the parasite itself, which can survive in humans for more than 10 years. By mobilizing the required commitment and resources, we can achieve global eradication and save many millions of lives. Our Strategy Share Share up Section down Malaria is a top priority of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Our new multi-year Malaria strategy, Accelerate to Zero, adopted in late 2013, addresses the areas in which we believe the foundation is best positioned, among a broad spectrum of partners, to develop groundbreaking approaches to reducing the burden of malaria and accelerating progress toward eradication of the disease. Our Malaria strategy is based on a core set of foundational principles that support our evolving strategic choices. Malaria eradication is defined as removing the parasites that cause human malaria from the human population. Simply interrupting transmission is not sufficient to achieve eradication. Eradication can be accelerated by new drug regimens and strategies that lead to complete parasitologic cure of the individual. Current artemisinin-based regimens achieve only clinical cure of the individual and do not eliminate the forms of the parasites that are responsible for continued transmission. The majority of malaria infections occur in asymptomatic people, who are a source of continued transmission. A successful and accelerated eradication effort will target asymptomatic infections through community-based efforts. Emerging resistance to current drugs and insecticides is an immediate threat to recent gains and an obstacle to future progress. Use of current tools and development of new tools should be guided by this evolutionary imperative. Malaria is biologically and ecologically different throughout the world. Malaria eradication will depend on strategies developed and implemented on a local or regional level. We concentrate our resources in areas where we can identify significant leverage points, and we assume risks that are more challenging for others to take. An entomologist examines dead mosquitoes extracted from a window trap in a village. Potentially transformative measures that could accelerate malaria eradication include single-dose treatments that are safe and well tolerated, highly sensitive diagnostic tests, and vaccines that prevent infection or block transmission. Because emerging resistance to insecticides and drugs is the most important biologic threat to the goal of eradication, we are investing in the development of new tools and strategies to prevent or delay resistance. To date, we have committed nearly US$2 billion in grants to combat malaria. In addition, we have committed more than US$1.6 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which provides about 50 percent of international funding for malaria control worldwide. We also advocate for sustained and increased funding of malaria-related efforts by donor governments and endemic countries. Areas of Focus Share Share up Section down We concentrate our efforts on three main priorities: Go To>> Demonstrate an Accelerated Path to Elimination Invest in New Interventions Mobilize Support Demonstrate an Accelerated Path to Elimination A nurse dispenses a malaria drug to treat an infected child in Tanzania. We are generating evidence that malaria can be eliminated in diverse geopolitical and transmission zones, including Southern Africa and the Greater Mekong Sub-region. We believe that current tools used more effectively or in novel ways, along with strong partnerships and government commitment, can bring malaria campaigns closer to the "last mile" of elimination. This includes improving the delivery of existing vector-control tools, diagnostics, and drugs; investigating the potential of existing drugs to achieve complete cure at the individual and population levels, including the asymptomatic reservoir; and refining strategies for reaching special populations, such as pregnant women and children under age 5. Invest in New Interventions Because current tools are not sufficient to achieve global eradication, we are investing in a range of new interventions that have greater impact. We are working to develop transmission-blocking vaccines as well as a single, fixed-dose combination drug for complete cure and prevention. We invest in high-sensitivity diagnostic tools and real-time data transfer methods to better understand epidemiological patterns of infection. This can help lead to better surveillance strategies and more efficient and effective elimination campaigns. 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I didn't take a camera when I finally got myself up to Charlie's boatyard today, to find out definitively what had happened to my dear old girl -- the first time I could get there, and Charlie has had his hands full, and for a long time he didn't even know which wreck was which. I wasn't optimistic, though hope dies hard; it was clear from earlier, fragmentary conversations, that the outlook was not good.
Since I didn't have the camera, I can't show you her spar, all that you can now see of her, still bravely bolt-upright above the water, in another marina a few dozen yards up-bay from Charlie's. Her hull is submerged, even at an exceptionally low tide, but she seems to have gone down plump on her bottom into the muck of Eastchester Bay, like a dowager duchess into an armchair. That was a hell of a boat. How I will miss her.
It was the storm surge that did it -- many feet over anything ever seen in Eastchester Bay. Waves -- big, solid, green waves -- were breaking over the asphalt in Charlie's yard, and undermined the pavement beneath the boats he had already hauled. His own sailboat, with all the rest, went toppling off her poppets, and ended up driving her bow through the windows of his house, before finally ending up on the riprap beneath. The yard looks like a demolition outfit has been at work on it with jackhammers -- big gaping voids in the pavement, a tricky shifting surface underfoot that feels more like quarry rubble than anything meant to be walked on.
Scapegrace had not been hauled yet, so what seems to have happened to her was that storm surge and wind and wave either tore her away from her float, or indeed may have torn the whole float away from its pilings, and she drifted -- bow to the wind, of course -- up the bay until somehow she grounded in this other marina. I have to assume the hull is holed, or she would have gone farther, with the water so high, and been beached at the head of the bay; wind and swell, I'm told, were driving right in from the south at the height of the evening tide, about 9 PM or so on that dramatic Monday, the 29th of October, 2012.
The map above shows you her resting place, at the arrow -- not, alas, her final resting place.
I would rather she had disappeared without a trace, somewhere in the ships' graveyard of Long Island Sound, among other respectable and long-lived vessels, finally and honorably done in by the insuperable greatness of sea and air. Strength and courage will take you far, whether you're a boat or a person, but there are divinities in the world much mightier than any virtue of ours, and when those divinities hand down their judgement, we can only kiss the rod. Complaint, somehow, seems more feeble and undignified than acquiescence. If you contend with the gods -- as all sailors do, ex officio -- you had better prepare to accept defeat like a man.
But alas, to disappear without a trace -- that noble fate was not Scapegrace's. She is now blocking traffic in a Bronx marina, and though I greatly approve of blocking traffic, in general, this means that her passing will be attended by squalid negotiations with insurers and the folks who will haul her out of her muddy armchair and off to -- what? I don't even want to think about it.
The Boat Dudes at Charlie's yard were very kind. More than kind. Oh, they weren't effusive; there weren't any man hugs, or anything like that. Not their style. They too were men who had had losses, many much greater than mine, and took them in a fine heroic spirit; they even seemed to find a certain pleasure in rehearsing the spectacular horrors of that unprecedented night. Tony took me on a tour of the disasters, and hard-bitten Emil softened his expression momentarily and made a cell-phone call to somebody I needed to talk to. It doesn't sound like much, I know, but for the first time I felt like one of the boys, rather than a merely acceptable, polite, and well-tolerated outsider.
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In celebration of youth art month the Kennebec Valley Art Association (KVAA) announces the 12th annual Higher Forms of Art exhibition of artwork by students from area high schools presented in partnership with the University of Maine at Augusta for the 4th year in a row. Higher Forms of Art gives emerging artists the opportunity to show their art in a professional gallery space, and offers students the experience of organizing and installing a major art exhibition. Higher Forms of Art is on view March 5-30, 2018 at the Danforth Gallery, located at Jewett Hall, 46 University Drive in Augusta. Danforth Gallery hours are Mon-Friday 9am-5pm.
Area Maine high schools participating in Higher Forms of Art this year are:
Cony High School, Augusta
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KVAA's annual Young at Art K-8 Exhibition, highlighting student artwork from area elementary schools will also be on view during March at the Harlow Gallery's new location at 100 Water Street in Hallowell. The KVAA is a membership based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to connecting and celebrating art, artists and community. They have owned and operated the Harlow Gallery in downtown historic Hallowell since 1963.
The University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) transforms the lives of students of every age and background across the State of Maine and beyond through access to high-quality distance and on-site education, excellence in student support, civic engagement, and professional and liberal arts programs.
The UMA Art Program is an interdisciplinary program focused on multiple areas of the visual arts, including traditional and new media. Courses include art history, ceramics, drawing, media arts, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Those studying at UMA will find ways to express ideas visually and learn to problem-solve, collaborate, and think critically. These skills allow a UMA graduate of the Arts Program to be uniquely ready to respond to the needs of the future and, as an artist, contribute to new and evolving economic and social realities.
Higher Forms of Art is sponsored by Capitol Dental Care, Eaton Peabody Attorneys at Law, Kennebec Savings Bank and Scrummy Afters Candy Shoppe.
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maberi wrote:Thanks for all the warm thoughts everyone.! Heidi called me after bringing Earl home this afternoon so I could hear Earl "hound howling" in the crate while Karma and Kayden barked at him because he couldn't play with them. Earl greeted me at the door with a shoe when I got home today (he carries shoes to anyone who walks in the door) and we shared a sandwich for dinner. Earl will be curled up in bed with us tonight and hopefully we will know more once we can narrow down what is bothering him.
hugapitbull wrote:Good thoughts for Earl & you guys! It's very stressful to have a dog in pain. Hopefully you will get in to see the specialist quickly.
maberi wrote:hugapitbull wrote:Good thoughts for Earl & you guys! It's very stressful to have a dog in pain. Hopefully you will get in to see the specialist quickly.
We have an appointment with the specialist next Thursday. Earl spent most of the night up last night grunting and crying but I think some of that might have been from the anesthesia.
Malli wrote:I'd bet almost all of it was from the anesthetic, some dogs are just that way...
Did they give you anything for his pain?
Malli wrote:yeah, what your describing is a narcotized state caused by a pre-anesthetic, anesthetic induction, or anesthetic drug. If he has to have an anesthetic or sedation again and it's at the same place, you may want to mention it to them, they may either change the anesthetic protocol or give him something extra when he wakes up to see if that helps
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Exploratorium App Explores the World of Sound
The folks at the Exploratorium in San Francisco are some of the best in the world at designing participatory exhibits that teach visitors about their own perception and the world around them through direct experience.
The Exploratorium has long had a website — it was the world's 600th (or so) in 1993 — but the tablet is perhaps a more fitting venue for its craft, given that the devices are by their nature social because they can be easily shared, and that touch provides a less abstract method of interaction.
The Exploratorium's first free iPad app, Color Uncovered, has been downloaded one million times since late 2011.
Today, it's launching a second, called Sound Uncovered, with a set of fun and mind-bending audio illusions, manipulations and tests.
Jean Cheng, who led the team that built the app, took me through a series of mini-iPad exhibits on a recent visit to the still-under-construction new Exploratorium building on the water at Pier 15 in San Francisco.
For instance, there's a Mobius strip kind of demo of a chord progression, where it's impossible to find the highest note. There's another one where you move a slider until you can hear a high-pitched sound, and the app estimates your age. There's another that plays your voice backward so you can teach yourself audio palindromes.
They're not necessarily things you'd do over and over again, but they're pretty neat in the moment, with explanations of what phenomena are occurring.
Asked what ages Sound Uncovered is appropriate for, Cheng declined to say. "Anyone's experience is authentic," she said. "This is for curious people of all ages. It's not about answers, it's about a 'what happens' style of thinking."
Sound Uncovered was developed with a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Exploratorium doesn't have any particular ambition of making money from it.


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Opposition member tables bill for national sodium strategy
NDP health critic Libby Davies tabled a bill Monday encouraging Ottawa to enact a strategy requiring food manufacturers to lower sodium levels, among other tough-on-salt measures. The bill, formally named An Act Respecting the Implementation of the Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada, will take its cues from a list of recommendations that were published by… [Continue Reading]
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If you can't stomach the thought of making another pumpkin pie, or you get tired just thinking about trying to fit "just one more chair" around the dining room table during the holiday season, maybe it's time to give yourself a break with a holiday cruise. On a holiday cruise, you take the best parts of the holidays: the celebrating, the fun with family, and the delicious meals – while someone else does the work, including all the clean-up. Cruise lines are rolling out more holiday activities with each passing year. For example, most cruise lines serve up bountiful Thanksgiving Day feasts. Imagine slow roasted turkey with all the fixings, and topping it off with traditional pumpkin pie or pumpkin crème brulee, all without lifting a finger. Disney Cruise Line trots out Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and friends dressed in traditional Thanksgiving attire. And what would Thanksgiving be without football? Disney also broadcasts the big games live on the ships' outdoor, jumbo LED screens, and other cruise lines have been known to give football extended airtime on Thanksgiving Day, too. If your family celebrates Hanukkah, celebrating the Festival of Lights onboard a cruise ship can be the start of a new family tradition. Children will delight in Hanukkah arts and crafts, sing-alongs and games while aboard Royal Caribbean International's ships. Cruise lines will often prepare special Hanukkah food – so you won't miss out on the potato latkes – and there may be a rabbi onboard who will help conduct a traditional Hanukkah religious service. Children of all ages can get into the Christmas spirit while onboard many of the major cruise lines. Popular cruise activities include holiday movies and music, carolers, meet and greets with Santa and his elves, Christmas Eve story time, and midnight mass or inter-denominational services. The ships are often decked out with colorful boughs of holly and glitzy Christmas trees. Of course, what would Christmas be without a feast, and the cruise lines stop at nothing to make sure your holiday meal is one you'll never forget. Cruise ships are known for their elegance but they also know how to throw a great party. When New Year's Eve rolls around, there may be no better place to ring in the New Year than a cruise ship. You can typically rely on the cruise lines to provide countdown celebrations and themed parties that last long beyond midnight. Some also provide special countdowns and parties for children and teens. New Year's Day often means college football in the lounges, along with lots of munchies. Don't forget that holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year's Eve are also celebrated around the world. Marking the occasion in a port of call by visiting that country's places of worship or town celebrations can be a unique way to mark the holiday. Because of the wide array of festivities planned aboard cruise ships, holiday cruises often sell out early. It's recommended you plan your holiday cruise a year in advance. Then it's time to sit back, relax and enjoy the true meaning of the holiday! Ask your personal cruise expert at Cruise Holidays for more information about celebrating the holidays aboard a cruise ship.


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I still can't find any "new" TVC (or CW) figures, but I've managed to track down nearly every other new item (and extras) that I need over the past week: K-mart AT-ST, Maul Returns BP, TRU Speeder Bikes & add'l Ewok & Pilot sets, and the MTT at WM. Nice to find some new stuff out there, but with the exception of the Ewok & AT-ST Driver 2-pks coming to K-mart soon, there's not much else on the horizon. It looks like I'll probably be heading back into another 6 month dry spell now.
Bought 2 Yavin Hangar sleds w/Techs in the past 2 days... Kinda cool. Marshalls is still getting these in and they're a great set. I'm gonna custom up one of the myriad of sleds I have I think. Got a bitchin' idea for one tonight while I was out.
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Legs at Letterman but no Vince
Reese Witherspoon outside Letterman studios today for an appearance with David to promote Four Christmases in theatres tomorrow. She's been working hard on the promotional trail, on the carpet, morning chats, magazine covers, and shouldering the responsibility for the movie, the sole face of the film thus far, even though she's supposed to have a co-star. His name is Vince Vaughn who has been completely invisible throughout the entire press tour.
Official word is that he's shooting a new movie overseas.
But Vince Vaughn isn't exactly a D Lister desperate for work. Vince Vaughn can call the shots. And if Vince Vaughn truly wanted to, he could make a phone call and sell it properly. George Clooney does it all the time.
Vince however has chosen to abstain. Even though many of his cronies and contacts benefited from the production of Four Christmases with his alleged insistence, super diva bitch insistence, that those contracts be parceled out to his friends, throwing a huge stink if things did not go his way.
So now that he's made the money, he has no interest in return the favour for the studio.
This of course leaves Reese. And if Four Christmases tanks at the box office, and it very well could judging by the crucifixion it's receiving at the hands of critics, the public blame will fall on her. So fair.
Then again, he dated Jennifer Aniston. This shouldn't be surprising?
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The City of Estacada developed this addendum to the Clackamas County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan in an effort to increase the community's resilience to natural hazards. The addendum focuses on the natural hazards that could affect Estacada, Oregon, which include flood, landslide, wildfire, severe storms, earthquake and volcano. It is impossible to predict exactly when disasters may occur, or the extent to which they will affect the city. However, with careful planning and collaboration among public agencies, private sector organizations, and citizens within the community, it is possible to minimize the losses that can result from natural hazards. The addendum provides a set of actions that aim to reduce the risks posed by natural hazards through education and outreach programs, the development of partnerships, and the implementation of preventative activities such as land use or watershed management programs. The actions described in the addendum are intended to be implemented through existing plans and programs within the city. The addendum is comprised of the following sections: 1) Planning Process; 2) Community Profile; 3) Risk Assessment; and 4) Action Items.


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I remember reading the forum threads on this book when it first came out, and the excitement ended up nearly at a fever pitch. At the time I didn't really give it that much thought since I had fallen out of love with Exalted, but when my interest in the game rekindled, this was one of the first supplements I picked up. And I'm really glad I did, because it's fantastic. From the cover, you can tell what kind of book it'll be. The cover has a picture of the Scarlet Empress, but in multiple guises: as a martial artist, or a starfighter pilot, or a scientist, all of which get play in the setting material. The cover half-sold me on the book already, even without the enthusiasm I've seen for it elsewhere.
Shards of the Exalted Dream is divided into five major parts, which I'll deal with individually.
--Gunstar Autochthonia--
There's a quote I found on the internet from one of the authors that sums up this setting in a nutshell:
The Exalted were created by the gods. They evolved. They rebelled. There are many copies. And they have a plan.
...which failed, and so they all piled into Autochthon and fled into the void. Here, Creation is not a flat disc surrounded by an endless sea of chaos. It's a spiral of star systems, rising to the eternal palace of Theion the Universe Emperor at its height and descending to Black Non, where the Neverborn fitfully sleep and existence ends. It is there that the Exalted scheme to return, once their task of modifiying Autochthon into the perfect weapon--the Gunstar--is complete and their might is unassailable. Here the Solars rule, the Dragon-Blooded serve as voidfighter pilots with Sidereal coordination and oversight, and the Lunars hunt gremlins and Primordial infiltrators in the Reaches of Autochthon's body.
A lot of this setting would be more interesting to me if I had read Compass Autochthonia--I have no idea who the Viator of Nullspace is, for instance--but there's still plenty to love. It has a clear source of conflict, a clear game goal, a reason for the PCs to all work together, and plenty of interesting things to do. If they're Solars, perhaps they're working to find Gaia and Luna, who fled the Spiral by their own means when the war was lost. If they're Sidereals, maybe they're working with the Gunstar pilot Raanei, who thinks the war is suicide and just wants to find a place to settle down, far from the Primordials, where humanity can live in peace. If they're Lunars, maybe they accompany survey teams to worlds that Autochthon happens on and need to "pacify" the local population so the Gunstar can strip-mine the planet for raw materials.
I also like how it's space travel but with Exalted technology. Space combat takes place with voidfighters, but personal combat is still swords and bows. The authors took the magitech emphasis of Wonders of the Lost Age and found a way to make it fit perfectly. A Dragon-Blooded voidfighter chronicle would be a ton of fun, I think.
The chapter ends with Theion Charms, which are probably distinct from Malfeas Charms, but since I haven't read the Infernals book it doesn't mean anything to me.
And I have to admit, I like the idea that when She Who Lives in Her Name launched her counterattack against Creation at the end of the Primordial War, this is what it used to be like and why the end is such a tragedy. She was forced to destroy the very concept of Creation that was as perfect as she could wish it to be--a collection of spheres with fire at their hearts, endlessly revolving in the void.
--Heaven's Reach--
This is Exalted space opera. The "Exalted" began as a supersoldier project and became something more transhumanist as humanity's understanding of technology increased, the Yozi are vast intelligences created through stellar engineering who rebelled against their creators, the Fair Folk are dark matter entities called the Shrieking Hordes who pile out of damaged parts of space-time to attack shipping.
This setting has cars and guns and is pretty much our world in the (far, far) future, with thousands of worlds and easy space travel, aliens, blasters, giant trading conglomerates, and all the other trappings of space opera. The Central Empire is ruled by Heaven's Son, a Lunar who killed his Solar mate centuries ago and has ruled unchallenged since then. Out beyond the empire is the Frontier, and the distinction functions a lot like the Core vs. Rim in Firefly, including the contrast of light repression but safety vs. freedom.
One neat thing that's part of the setting is the Grand Celestial Mountain, which is an extradimensional supercomputer network that all worlds that were part of the ancient empire are connected to. It's a physical place that you can go to, so "hacking" here involves finding a portal to the Grand Celestial Mountain, walking in, physically fighting off the guardian "spirits," picking up the data, and walking out. It handily avoids the decker problem and provides a way for any character type to interact with computer tasks, which is very important in any kind of future game.
On the other hand, the starship stats make no sense because the speeds are still in miles per hour and the weapon ranges are in yards. I'm pretty sure that Mount Mostath-class battlecruiser is going to be worthless because no other ship is going to get within the 100-yard range of its superweapon.
Before I bought the book this setting was the one that stuck out the most to me, but now that I've read through all of them it's actually the least interesting. I think that's because it doesn't do that much that's different or exciting with its premise. "Exalted + Space Opera" sums it up, and physical hacking isn't really enough to save it.
--Burn Legend--
This isn't really an alternate setting at all. It's more like the old Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game, with an Exalted gloss on a setting designed for martial artists to beat each other up using ancient techniques learned from contemplating the wild or from secret masters. It rips out almost all of the Exalted system, replacing it with a simplified version of attributes and with Techniques, where each combatant picks a technique and they are all revealed simultaneously, some Techniques hard-counter others, then damage is rolled. The techniques are mostly what you'd expect, and include Shōryūken ("Burning Corona Strike") and Hadōken ("Heavenly Storm"), plus a bunch of other fighting game standards.
Noncombat functions are all abstracted away and handled by Backgrounds. If someone wants to overawe someone else with their reputation, roll Fame. If they want to acquire a new weapon, roll Resources. I did like the comment in the Fame Background that it could refer to "the special forces soldier who saved the President from terrorists." The Exalted definitely are bad enough dudes.
This seems like a cool idea, but it's not really Exalted except in the "coat of paint" sense, and I'm not sure why it's in here.
This is basically the World of Darkness crossed with Exalted. It takes place in Creation, but one where technology has progressed to the point of cars and computers and aircraft, with the military having day-after-tomorrow level tech like vehicle-mounted railguns and a moon colony in progress. The Dragon-Blooded are elemental supersoldiers created to fight the threat of spirits that still exist on the edges of Creation and at the Pole of Earth, and the three world powers of Meruvia, Union of Eastern States, and An-Teng fight proxy wars among their spheres of influence. Most people think of spirits as inimical to humanity, and follow the teachings of the Immaculate Church and its founder, St. Cecilia. Magic works, but is mostly not used. Why have a thaumaturge chant for hours to send a message 50 miles when you can just text them on your cell phone, and why pay a weather-witch to predict tomorrow's weather when meteorologists do it every day?
But it's all a lie! The world is actually ruled by the Infernal Exalted, traitor Solars who went over to the Yozi when they attacked the gods. Spirits have been a constant danger to humanity because they're the resistance against Infernal rule, and the Dragon-Blooded are actually made by infusing people with part of the Essence of the imprisoned Elemental Dragons. "St. Cecilia" is actually Cecelyne, the Endless Desert. Magic is weak because the Infernals sealed off most other worlds in order to cement their dominion, but now that the Abyssals they set to pacify the Underworld have broken the seal and the Sidereals have released the Solar shards they were guarding as part of a strategy to free the world of its masters, it's coming back.
This was my favorite setting. I think mostly because I love hidden truths and secret masters, but also just that modern technology in a fantasy world is so rarely done that it sticks out a lot, in the same way that Gunstar Autochthonia's starfighters + swords does. I can easily see starting with a team of Dragon-Blooded special forces and fighting spirits before learning that they're basically working for the Illuminati and having to decide what to do with it. Or even playing mortals--this is the only setting in Shards of the Exalted Dream that makes that appealing. Definitely the high point of the book.
This is where all the new Charms and firearms and systems go. They're mostly pretty good, and about what you'd expect. Standouts include the Solar Charm that makes gunshots so loud that enemies run away, or the Lunar Charm that lets them touch a vehicle and imprint another vehicle with its traits, so they can ram their bicycle into a wall and the wall acts like a semi hit it. The Sidereals don't have to worry about carrying weapons because they can just point their finger at someone and yell "BANG!" and they have a Charm that lets them pull up next to someone, yell "There's no time to explain! Get in!" and then have the person comply. Sidereals always get the most interesting Charms.
The chase rules are pretty interesting, being as they are based on abstract "legs" rather than having to compare speeds on a tick-by-tick basis. Then on top of that, drivers have to avoid accumulating Hazard so they don't crash into objects, blow out tires, or otherwise suffer mishaps. It does look like a lot of rolling, but it's pretty good for anything involving an extended roll, and comparing drivers to each other means it doesn't suffer the "roll until something interesting happens" problem that crafting often suffers from.
There's also alternate systems for Sidereal astrology and Abyssal Resonance, but I'm not qualified to judge them.
This book is amazing. Ideas fair leaped off the page at every turn, and it opens up Exalted in a way that no other book in 2e that I know of really has. People have been hacking Exalted into other settings since it first came out--I still have a space opera version in a Word doc from 2002 I found in the internet somewhere--and I'm glad to see that when an official book finally came out, it's of this quality. I'd recommend this to anyone who's starting to fall out of love with Exalted or who wants to try something different. There's a wide enough variety that you'll almost certainly find something you can use.
Despite my unending love for the writers of this game, I had low expectations for this book. I bought it to support the game line, but I did not anticipate using any of this material for my games.
What was I thinking?
This book blew my mind. I spent the entire first day devouring every word of it. It hooked me from the first paragraph and I couldn't put it down. By the end of the day I had 3 new series ideas and it has sparked weeks worth of planning and plotting for a space opera game (my favorite of the proposed settings). Burn Legend is an amazing side-system for the martial artist enthusiast in me, and the Modern setting is just spot on. I loved all the added and refined mechanics in the appendix and it's sparked the creative drive within me for writing all over again.
I highly highly recommend this book for anyone who enjoys GMing in Exalted, as it's a brilliant series of takes on the setting.
Going through loops to prove that this book is probably one of the best, if not the best supplement to Exalted 2ed is quite pointless, because the overwheliming excellence of it has already been proved enough by previous reviewers. While it is certainly not the most groundbreaking supplement, its quality - not only in fluff, but in crunch as well, which is (or was) something very rare in 2ed - shows what the current writing team is capable of - and fills me with hope that upcoming 3ed will finally fulfill all the many promises Exalted has made as a system.
We've been waiting for this for a while. Space Opera Exalted? Modern Setting? COOL!
Of course, that's just half the scenarios we got, and we were left kind of boggling at the other half. But let's go step-by-step.
Gunstar Autochthonia: What if the Exalted lost? One of the core assumptions of the setting is overturned, and the fallout makes for a radically different game. The Sun himself has turned on his Chosen, Luna has fled with Gaia into space--yes, outer space--but the original Exalted types (Solar, Lunar, Sidereal, and Terrestrial) have escaped in the world-body of the Great Maker, accompanied by his Alchemical Exalted. One of the writers for the chapter cited Gurren Lagann as an influence, which I can see. Most other people cite Battlestar Galactica (practically given props in the title of the Shard), which I haven't seen and thus can't comment. But if a setting with Terrestrial fighter pilots and Lunar Exalted wearing the skins of interstellar behemoths doing battle with the armies of the Primordials sounds cool? Here you go.
Also, this chapter has a complete Infernal charmset for Theion, the Primordial king. If you wondered what Malfeas was like (or at least COULD have been like; the writers have gone on record that this isn't the definitive Time of Glory version of Malfeas OR Creation) once upon a time, the difference is...drastic.
Heaven's Reach: Our Space Opera. Whereas Gunstar Autochthonia set itself in a single world travelling across star-systems and centuries, the setting of Heaven's Reach is much, much broader. Once again, there is an empire straddling much of the known worlds. But rather than the Terrestrial Exalted ruling, His Divine Lunar Presence instead has taken the throne. A setting full of sufficiently-advanced science (in which the Yozis are planet-sized supercomputers and the Great Celestial Mountain--analogous to the Heavenly city of Yu-Shan--is a sort of intergalactic internet with the capacity for physical entry) makes for an interesting and well-thought-out setting, but out of the three detailed, this was ultimately the one to grab me the least.
Burn Legend: Did I just say three? But aren't there four shards?
Yes there are, but one of them is pretty much an entirely new game with a few trappings thrown in. This isn't to be wholly dismissive of this chapter; I have yet to give Burn Legend a spin, but it looks like a straightforward, simple system to learn. Aside from the most cursory elements, Burn Legend is all mechanics; it's Exalted: the Street Fighter RPG. Character types have trappings and oblique references to the extant Exalt types, but that's about it, and the system is so different from the standard that it has its own character sheet. It's very simple, and it doesn't try to be anything more; barring personal tests I'm inclined to say it succeeds at its goal.
Modern Age: In an alternative timeline, the Incarnae made the world, only to be assaulted by the wicked Yozis. In Creation's defense, the Exalted of the Sun and the Stars took arms against their attackers. Some among the Solar Exalted took on the powers of their enemies, only to turn on their fellows at the last second and claim the world for their own.
Fast forward centuries later. The Lunar Exalted were created, but arrived far too late to do any good, having fallen in servitude to the Infernal Exalted who now rule the world. Said world, despite being a plane floating in the sea of chaos, also has space, stars, planetary bodies, etc. It also has television, cars, planes, and all the accouterments of modern living.
Underneath the surface, though, the world isn't all sunshine and laughter. In some ways the world feels more like the World of Darkness that informed Exalted's development rather than Creation itself. The result is still interesting, though--see Ledaal Kes re-imagined as a suave James Bond-esque super-spy, and Panther's origin not as a pit fighter, but as something straight out of the movie Galaxy Quest--and with the Solar Exalted returning, the Terrestrial Exalted being a new development, and the Alchemical Exalted with a wholly new origin...the world is far from doomed.
Ultimately, this is the setting that grabbed my attention the most. It's fun, interesting, and the shout-outs to the standard Creation are scattered throughout.
Appendix: Let's face it. In space-age and modern settings, your characters may need to know how to drive, how to use a gun, and how to use a computer. And all of the above are here. There's also a couple other things: a way to handle Alchemicals in a world where they don't have vats to swap out charms; an alternative system for Abyssal Resonance which omits the elements of slavery and servitude while playing up the nature of the Abyssal as a killer; there's also a system for Sidereal Astrology which is greatly streamlined. It's no longer as powerful, but it's much less convoluted than the standard system.
All in all, this was a fun book. It explored several different takes on the game, did so well, and was worth every penny. My only real regret is a lack of art inside the cover, but it sounds like this is something endemic to the PoD format.
I'll deal, for things like this.
Wonderful product. Invaluable to those looking for ways to expand the scope of Exalted beyond what has been previously made available. The writing is excellent, and the different Shards lend themselves to wildly different interpretations of Exalted. This book is essential for the Exalted enthusiast looking to inject new life into the game.
Quite possibly one of the best Exalted supplements I've ever read, and an excellent sendoff to the game's second edition. The alternate settings are pretty good, and all of them feel new and fresh. The mechanics hew to the high standard of the recent Scroll of Errata and the Glories of the Most High supplements, and bring at long last official support for "modern" Exalted (my first Exalted Modern campaign was in 2004 or thereabouts).
Shards of the Exalted Dream is more than just the Mirrors book for Exalted. Unlike its sister book, Shards doesn't just give you the keys to do whatever you want to there system. Because they already did that with Mirrors. Shards is like getting 4 new cars that those keys can start. It makes Exalted the best Action Adventure RPG ever again.
PHYSICAL PRODUCT: The book is a little shoddy, but this seems to be the new normal for the POD (softcover, btw). The book is not full bleed, which is annoying. Paper feels cheap and lacks weight.
RATING: 2 stars.
GUNSTAR AUTOCHTHON: Awesome. Pure. Awesome.
Theion is a terrible name for the primordial, however. I am willing to believe this was an accidental naming and not a slam on Christian dogmatics. If it wasn't an accident, we get it White Wolf! We get it, you don't really like Christian dogmatics...
Other than that, very cool. Tyrant Star was awesome. The whole Battlestar Galactica feel was neat.
RATING: 4 stars.
HEAVEN'S REACH: Surprisingly bland. It's... ok, but no great shakes. The vehicles are hilariously slow. The starship guns would require you to be so close that you'd ram the person in the next second at realistic speeds. Basically, it showed its homework and its homework got a C-.
BURN LEGEND: Cool system but... well... out of place. Not useful to general Exalted or even to an Exalted shard. This is a different game that is really cool, but borderline useless here.
RATING: 3 stars (would be 4 if it had a better treatment).
EXALTED MODERN: Very cool reinterpretation of the setting. Interesting takes on the story. Evocative use of the Exalted. Thoughtful, insightful take on things. Easily tied with Gunstar Autochthon for best part of this book.
APPENDIX: Mixture of useful Charms and weapons & vehicles that are horribly statted. Mixed bag of some things useful and others not.
RATING 3 stars.
OVERALL: With Exalted 3rd edition on the way, the only two parts of this book that are worth it are Gunstar Authchton and Exalted Modern. Both of which may be rendered somewhat useless with the release of Exalted.
I would not buy until Exalted 3E, then I'd re-evaluate whether or not it's worth it.
OVERALL RATING: 3 Stars.
Better than Masters of Jade by a lot.
Four detailed alternate settings for Exalted, including one that uses a greatly simplified and completely new martial arts-based combat engine. Support for modern and futuristic technology out of place in Exalted's usual fantasy setting. Rules hacks to simplify Sidereal astrology and moderate the effects of Abyssal Resonance. Charms for the King of the Primordials before his fetich death.
I'll say more, but chances are you can decide whether to buy this book on that paragraph alone. This is something of a niche product, and if you came to Exalted for its unique and detailed setting, you might not be interested. (Although Gunstar Autochthonia, the first of the alternate settings, hews fairly close to the tone of Exalted's standard setting, if high on the magitech action.) If you want to divert from the standard setting, Shards might be what you need.
Gunstar Autochthonia is the standout surprise from the book, an alternate history where the Exalted Host lost the Primordial War. A militarized microcosm of the First Age now plays out within the fleeing body of Autochthon, while enduring sabotage attacks from Infernal forces and mysterious intervention from an Abyssal third party. This is easily the setting that feels the most Exalted out of the four, though it won't appeal to those looking for lower-scale swords and sorcery tales.
Heaven's Reach is a space opera where humanity's advanced technology is the origin of both the Exalted cores and the Stellar Intelligences who were defeated and rendered into Tomb-Stars and Yozis, where Solar Exalted rise in frontier worlds on the edge of the hegemonic Central Empire ruled by His Divine Lunar Presence. It left me cold; it felt like an exercise in transferring, renaming and reskinning the various elements of Exalted into a science-fiction milieu in the most prosaic ways. Others' mileage may vary.
Burn Legend is the freshest material in the book, a setting that diverges massively from standard Exalted. For one, it happens on Earth. For a second, the various "Exalted" aren't the chosen of the gods, but martial artists who've honed ki power from spiritual lineages, dark pacts, lifelong training in secret arts, or sheer determination. That might sound like a turn-off, but I greatly enjoyed the very different feel of the Exalted in this setting, who feel much more flexible and versatile narratively. Burn Legend uses a completely different system from standard Exalted, a David Sirlin-esque mindgame of emergent complexity where numbers come into play, but the most essential element of battle is predicting your opponent's technique and choosing a counter move to shut it down. I found Burn Legend's system to be a fun diversion appropriate for one-shots and short arcs, but while the system is easy to learn, the mindgame is taxing enough that longer campaigns might prove exhausting. That may not be too much of a problem, as Burn Legend is also the least detailed setting of the four, with fewer grand setting mysteries or wide-spanning hooks to hang an entire campaign on.
The Modern Age took time for me to warm to, but I follow it enough. It's essentially a spy thriller where Solars and Alchemicals new to the world are on the run from a world-spanning conspiracy of the Exalted Host. The setting resembles Earth more than it does Creation, despite using names like Meruvia and An-Teng, but there are some nice touches, like a less immediate and more transcendent view of the nature of the Yozis. It could have done a better job of conveying the thriller atmosphere it means to present, but it's a solid enough setting to run in. I expect that most people looking for a Modern Exalted will swipe the Drive and Firearms rules from the appendix and mostly run things in Earth instead, though.
Players of regular Exalted games looking for rules hacks alone probably shouldn't look to this book, as hacks that could be implemented in the standard Exalted setting are few. What is there is good; simplified Sidereal astrology is not only easier to run but more thematically appropriate, and the Doom of the Black Exaltation, while hewing a bit too close to being a Limit Break painted black, is a more playable level of curse for Abyssal players. The Charms of the King of the Primordials could also fit into a standard Exalted game if some appropriate plot device were employed, for Infernal fans. The chase rules presented aren't setting-specific, though I found them more complicated than they needed to be. Unless you want guns in your game, that's about it. But I know people like their guns.
Overall, more of this book is good than not, and some of it is excellent. The question is whether the reader is looking for it.
I won't go into too much detail, since the excellence of this product has been explained many times already in these reviews.
But there's one thing I want to say, and that's that I found Burn Legend truly inspiring. It's a beautiful piece of game design, and after reading it I want to write my own versions of it for social and economic battles.
Exalted is very much outside of the mould for many games, and was something of a breath of fresh air after DnD and WoD. Its got its problems, as every game has, but ultimately its a lot of fun.
However, this release is a shoddy attempt to twist a unique setting into Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, Street Fighter and Shadowrun and is essentially a waste of money - GMs can do this on their own without a book to help them out.
Perhaps focus on something the fans have actually been asking for - a Shogunate book, something to actually explain the Immaculate Philosophy, a real fix to Sidereal charms...I can think of many other things fans would rather have access to and spend their money on.
Four brilliant visions of the themes of Exalted, written with the keen eye for mechanics and cleverly-used established concepts that we've come to expect from the current writers for the line. The most engrossed in a roleplaying book I've been in a long time.
This is fantastic. As an Exalted player from the earliest days of the first edition, I can honestly say I love this supplement, and it brings all sorts of the best things that made up its roots into a new context. From the very first listing of inspirations (which included Final Fantasy 7, obviously) it was clear Exalted is a fresh, creative and unique take on the genres it borrows from, completely unique into itself even as it bows deference to its source dreams.
I am barely into the second scenario, and already I have story after story burgeoning out of my imagination. Reinventions of my old characters, new ideas for the unique updated shards; even some of the subtler elements of the setting giving me thoughts on campaign elements I'd like to run and play.
But honestly one of the things I like best is savouring the subtle aromas of pop culture that flow through what I am reading. Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Warhammer 40k, 2001, and more, all sorts of incredibly cool concepts built around the turn of a coin and the angles of possibility that come with rooting origins in myth and legend. Beautiful work and I tip my hat to the creators.
Looking foward to using this, and the arrival of my actual hardcover book; if you like exalted, and even if you don't, this book is an awesome buy.
YOU THERE. You. Reading this review.
Yes, you.
Yes, exactly you, personally, no one else.
You're presumably an Exalted fan, or at least want to learn some of what all the fuss is about.
Here's the thing. Remember how, in the core book, and the descriptions, Exalted promised high-wire fantasy, wuxia, and anime combat?
Remember how the execution and mechanics were... Kinda... Flawed, in that regard?
They got it right.
And it's in here.
It's called Burn Legend, and when you can all sit around chompin' popcorn while you teach fools the art of the combination attack, everyone does something every round (less chaotic than it sounds), which, combined with an emergent complexity rather than an emergent simplicity means that, in the end:
-- Combat takes less time overall (or, if it doesn't (23+'rounds' on one occasion), it sure FEELS like it takes less time.)
-- Unexpected upsets happen, and happen fairly often ("AND IT'S THE WALNUT-CRACKING FINGER HOLD! THIS COULD BE THE END!")
-- It's just generally a lot more fun to tool around in and get into a scrap.
Add in setting information, actual gun statblocks that make a certain degree of sense, and some of the most optimistic writing I've ever seen out of White Wolf (See also: Heaven's Reach), and I think it is well worth the cost of admission.
With a wealth of new, alternative settings for Exalted, as well as simplified Astrology rules, chase rules, firearms, cars, new Charms, new Primordials... it's an excellent product, truly on par with the high quality of work I've come to expect from this team. While certainly not a must-have, it has elements that can easily be added to any existing campaign, and would enrich any setting, whether or not it utilizes the new settings presented. A+, as usual.


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Roger Reynolds, composer
Age: 76
Education: University of Michigan, bachelor's degrees in engineering physics and music; master's degree in music
Professional: University of California San Diego faculty since 1969 (University Professor since 2010, at which time he was asked to inaugurate a new Arts Program for the University of California's Washington Center)
Achievements: More than 100 compositions, including commissions from Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Diego Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the BBC Proms Festival (London), the British Arts Council, the French Ministry of Culture, Ircam (Paris), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), among many others. Residencies at the University of Illinois, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Yale University, the Sibelius Academy, Amherst College, Arisotle University (Thessaloniki), and the Beijing National Conservatory. Numerous recordings, including "Whispers Out of Time," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Three books, including "Mind Models" and "Form and Method," as well as numerous journal articles. The Library of Congress established the Roger Reynolds Special Collection of his work in 1998.
Personal: Lives in Del Mar with his wife, flutist Karen Reynolds. They have one grown daughter, Erika, a psychiatrist living in Carlsbad.
It didn't happen often, but occasionally Roger Reynolds' father, an architect, would take him to the job site, where something he had designed was being built. "And he would say, 'You've got to get it right,' " Reynolds recalled. " 'Because if you don't get it right, the building falls down.' "
That lesson, and the necessity of having a plan, stuck with Reynolds, first as an engineering student, then as an engineer, and finally as a groundbreaking composer whose music has earned recognition from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Library of Congress, Columbia University (which awarded him the Pulitzer Prize in 1989) and the University of California (whose regents named him a University Professor in 2010, the first time an artist has been recognized with the highest rank in the UC system).
More important, his numerous and astonishingly diverse compositions are regularly performed throughout the world, from London's Royal Albert Hall to Los Angeles' Disney Hall. Earlier this month, cellist Anssi Kartunen premiered his "Mystery Variations" at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and in March, guitarist Pablo Gomez Cano and computer musician Jaime Oliver will perform his "Dream Mirror" at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Cano and Oliver joined Reynolds at UCSD last weekend to record it for eventual CD release.
As someone who came to music relatively late, Reynolds has more than made up for lost time.
"I was 25 before I wrote my first piece," Reynolds said. "And it was not a very successful piece. But what I realize now is that I was using the advantages that I had from my father and from my engineering training: the idea of planning ahead, of creating in a certain sense an opportunity that was already satisfying in its shape, and then filling that opportunity with musical material."
As to the precise composition of that material, Reynolds has written numerous articles and several books. One theorist discussing his adventuresome work talks about " 'constellations' or aggregates (of pitches) that evolve in their textural density and are modulated and projected through a foreground of kaleidoscopically shifting sonorities." But in the most basic terms, Reynolds refers to it as exercising his sensibility.
"I don't know whether psychologically and developmentally that's an appropriate word, but by sensibility I mean the things which attract you. There are things that if you say: Do you prefer this or that? Usually you know, I prefer that. Actually, to me, composing is very much an almost unending series of such choices: Would you rather do this or that? I'd rather do that."
First steps in a new land
His choice to pursue music was an unexpected one. He grew up in Detroit in a household devoid of music and he was already a teenager by the time a recording of pianist Vladimir Horowitz turned his attention toward the piano and classical music. Still, he majored in engineering physics when he attended the University of Michigan and upon graduation took an engineering job in Van Nuys.
"I went to California to work in the missile industry, and after a very short time I realized that I simply was spending more time practicing the piano in a local Unitarian church than I was spending on my engineering," he said. "So I thought, this doesn't make any sense. I quit and went back to school with the aspiration of probably being a small, liberal arts college piano teacher, which I thought was within reach."
He returned to the University of Michigan, this time to its highly regarded School of Music, where a class in music composition for non-composition majors taught by Ross Lee Finney caught his attention. He learned the fundamentals of composition, mostly from Finney's graduate assistants, and at the end of the semester a string trio he composed was performed in front of the 12-member class.
"Finney just decimated it," Reynolds said. "I felt like a fool. I mean, everything about it, he destroyed. The sounds, the time, the pitches, the form, everything was wrong. I was chastened."
Unexpectedly, however, at the end of the class Finney pulled Reynolds aside and suggested he study composition with him during the summer. Reynolds agreed, but the result was much the same. Everything he wrote was received negatively.
"So along about the middle of August I had sort of decided if he didn't like what I brought in that week, that was just it," Reynolds said. "It was just too uncomfortable, too miserable. And almost as though he had sort of understood that, when I showed him what I had done, he said: 'Well now, here we have something.'
"This all happened in one lesson. And after the lesson, we were walking away from the music building and he leaned down, looked up at my face, and he said: 'You're hooked, aren't you?' And I was."
Reynolds turned his full attention to composition, soon creating "The Emperor of Ice Cream," a cutting-edge music-theater work that contained many of the trademarks of his later music: unconventional notation, nontraditional use of the text and the voice proclaiming it, and directions dictating the positions of the performers (who moved around) on stage.
In Ann Arbor he also co-founded the ONCE Festival before moving with flutist Karen Reynolds — his soon-to-be wife, collaborator and frequent interpreter of his works — to Europe and then Japan, where he curated a series of new-music concerts and lectures, including one by Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose revolutionary experiments with electronics and sound were then in a relatively rudimentary stage.
"During those lectures, he played what was then a fairly recent piece (the electronic portion of "Kontakte"), and the sounds to my ear were coarse and grating," Reynolds said. "So I asked him in a question period, 'How can you, who write these other works for instruments that are so exquisite, how can you bear those sounds?' And he paused for a long time, and then he said: 'The first steps in a new land …'
"He wasn't denying that the sounds left something to be desired; he was saying, 'I'm on the way somewhere.' And I thought that made a lot of sense. Everything that I do arises out of a similar, what I would call, creative path.
"If I'm writing music to accompany a dance by Bill T. Jones, if I'm working with Tina Packer of Shakespeare & Company on 'The Tempest,' if I am writing a solo piece for real-time computer, if I'm writing a string orchestra piece, whatever it is, I essentially do the same thing."
On the frontier
Reynolds' exploratory nature and organizational impulses proved ideal for UCSD's fledging music department. He joined the department in 1969, and two years later he founded UCSD's Center for Music Experiment (now the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts), which provided an arts parallel to the university's emphasis on scientific research. Much of its work involved developing improvisatory techniques and technologies that would extend conventional sonic possibilities, allow real-time computer interaction and explore the relationship between music and the other arts.
After the state invested $100 million in creating the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (better known as Calit2), a cutting-edge, experimental, high-tech facility where scientists and researchers from different disciplines work together, Reynolds was named its first composer-in-residence in 2007 (followed by Rand Steiger in 2010). The residency enabled him to complete his "Sanctuary" project, an evening-long, four-movement work for multiple percussionists first performed in 2007 in the atrium of I.M. Pei's National Gallery of Art's East Building and repeated a year later in the courtyard of Louis I. Kahn's Salk Institute. Using Calit2 advanced audio and digital recording facilities, Reynolds made a DVD of the work that he believes could have a transformative effect on the way contemporary music is perceived.
"A lot of our experience with music is empathic — that is, we, our bodies, our sensibilities, identify with and respond to, even literally move with the physicality of the sounds that are generating the musical experience," Reynolds said. "Most 'performances' of contemporary music are actually readings. That is to say, they are not deeply learned, they haven't been lived with, and I think we all feel that. We feel the difference between someone performing music that he or she and maybe centuries of other musicians have been immersed in and something someone has seen for maybe a month."
With "Sanctuary," the performers, including Steven Schick and members of the ensemble red fish blue fish have been working on it for six years now. And on the DVD, which was previewed at Calit2 in December and set for June release, you can see their commitment to and engagement with the music.
"That's part of what allows our empathy as listeners to flow out and extend and commit," Reynolds said. "We see that the performers are really engaged and we get engaged; we trust them."
And we trust the composer. Reynolds is taking us on a journey of discovery. He has a plan.
Works by Roger Reynolds
In progress
• Set of 12 piano Études (Fromm Foundation commission)
• Cello Concerto (French Ministry of Culture commission)
• "SEASONS Cycle II" and culminating ensemble work (commissioned by The National Endowment for the Arts, and Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, music director)
• "MARKed MUSIC" (for contrabassist Mark Dresser and computer musician Jaime Oliver)
• Major intermedia work using George Washington's words (commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra, the Mount Vernon Association and UCSD on the occasion of the opening of the George Washington Presidential Library)
Recent premieres
• "Colombi Daydream" (on the occasion of cellist Anssi Kartunen's 50th birthday, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, 2011)
• "Dream Mirror" (guitarist Pablo Gomez Cano and computer musician Jaime Oliver, A Tempo Festival, Caracas, Venezuela, 2010)
• "AngelSpace" (Jacob Sudol, computer musician, International Computer Music Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, 2010)
• "not forgotten — in six movements: Giverny, Toru, Elliott, Ryoanji, Iannis, Now" (Arditti Quartet, Wittener Tage; Witten, Germany, 2010)
• "SEASONS: Cycle I" (violinist Lina Bahn, bass clarinetist Bill Kalinkos, percussionist Ross Karre, computer musician Jaime Oliver, National Gallery of Art, D.C., 2010
Upcoming performances
March 3: Guitarist Pablo Gomez Cano at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. ("imAge/guitar & imagE/guitar" and "Dream Mirror," with computer musician Jaime Oliver)
May 15: Cellist Anssi Kartunen at San Francisco Performances ("Colombi Daydream")
The series
During 2010-11, the Union-Tribune is profiling UCSD's composition faculty, the heart of the university's highly regarded music department. Previous stories can be found online. Visit classical-music.u... or the links listed below.
Dec. 5: Rand Steiger
The former department head and a faculty member since 1987, Steiger is a former composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and has a just-released CD, "Ecosphere: Music for Instruments and Electronics."
Jan. 9: Katharina Rosenberger
A member of the composition faculty since 2008, Rosenberger is intrigued by sound in all of its manifestations and has assembled a remarkable body of work, ranging from sound installations to video opera, pieces for solo instruments to large symphonic compositions.
Today: Roger Reynolds
April: Lei Liang
A Havard graduate, Liang has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Aaron Copland Award and commissions from the New York Philharmonic, among numerous other ensembles.
May: Chinary Ung
Winner of the Grawemeyer Award (considered the Nobel Prize for composition), Ung's music is widely performed and frequently recorded. He has also received honors from The Kennedy Center (Friedheim Award) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
October: Philippe Manoury
The French-born composer has an international reputation, based in part on his work at Ircam (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique), a branch of the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, and his operas (one commissioned by the Paris Opera), among other works.
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700 Club website scrubbed Robertson's controversial comments calling Muslims "satanic"
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The Christian Broadcasting Network has scrubbed from its website Pat Robertson's comments on The 700 Club that Muslims who protested controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were "satanic" and "crazed fanatics" who were "motivated by demonic power." Robertson added that "the goal of Islam ... is world domination."
After 700 Club host Pat Robertson declared that Muslims who protested controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad were "satanic" and "crazed fanatics" who were "motivated by demonic power," adding that "the goal of Islam ... is world domination," the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) program removed Robertson's comments from its website "out of concerns they could be misinterpreted if taken out of context," according to a Robertson spokeswoman who was cited in a March 14 Associated Press report.
From the AP report, which cited Robertson spokeswoman Angell Watts:
Robertson's Virginia Beach-based network did not include his remarks when it posted the program on its Web site, however. That decision was made out of concern Robertson's remarks could be misinterpreted if viewed out of context, Watts said.
The AP also cited Watts's claim that it was "very clear" from the 700 Club news segment on the protesters that preceded Robertson's comments that he was "talking about radical Islam."
Robertson has frequently asserted that "Islam is not a religion of peace," as he did during the March 13 broadcast. For instance, as Media Matters for America previously noted, on the July 14, 2005, broadcast of The 700 Club, Robertson blurred the distinction between radical Islamists and the Muslim community at large, claiming that Islam instructs its followers to commit acts of terrorism. Robertson stated: "Islam, at least at its core, teaches violence. It's there in the Quran in clear, bold statements." The AP report noted that during a 2002 broadcast of the program, Robertson reportedly declared that Islam "is not a peaceful religion that wants to coexist. They want to coexist until they can control, dominate and then, if need be, destroy."
Robertson has also made other controversial remarks, such as at least twice calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez; proclaiming that then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recent stroke was the result of Sharon's policy of withdrawal from the Gaza Strip; and suggesting that God would punish Disney World's annual Gay Days festivities by bringing "destruction of your nation" through "earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor."
From the March 13 broadcast of CBN's The 700 Club:
ROBERTSON: Imagine one cartoon, one cartoon showing Mohammad with a turban with a missile out of it. I mean, we have stuff like that, that is vastly worse against our politicians all the time. It's part of free expression. The fact that this elicited this incredible outpouring of rage just shows the kind of people we're dealing with. These people are crazed fanatics, and I want to say it now: I believe it's motivated by demonic power; it is satanic; and it's time we recognize what we are dealing with. But, political correctness will not face one religious ideology with the strength of another because they don't have the strength of another. And, so, they're caving in before this vicious assault, and the goal of Islam, ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not, is world domination. These people are saying it over there in Europe -- world domination. "We're going to take over Europe. We're going to take over England. We're going to take over Denmark. We're going to take over France." That's their goal! And, why don't we wake up to the fact of who we're dealing with? And, by the way, Islam is not a religion of peace.
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Danny Sprinkle returned to the Cal State Northridge staff prior to the 2008-09 season and continues this year (2010-11) as an assistant coach.
For six seasons (2000-01 through 2005-06), Sprinkle successfully served on the Cal State Northridge coaching staff as an assistant coach. His duties included coaching the Matador guards, assisting head coach Bobby Braswell with the team's offense in addition to coordinating the recruiting.
In Sprinkle's first season (2000-01) at Cal State Northridge, the Matadors captured the Big Sky regular and tournament titles, and advanced to the school's first appearance ever in the NCAA Tournament. That season, the Matadors scored a school record 2,650 points (22-10 record).
After his initial tenure at Cal State Northridge, Sprinkle moved on to become an assistant coach at Montana State (2006-07, 2007-08) where he gained undergraduate stardom as a player for the Bobcats (1995-99).
Sprinkle is now back on the Cal State Northridge coaching staff for his second tour of duty as an assistant basketball coach.
As an undergraduate at Montana State, Sprinkle not only started all four seasons, but also helped lead the Bobcats to the Big Sky Tournament four times and twice led his team to the Big Sky Championship game in 1996 (scored 30 points) and 1998.
Sprinkle was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player as a freshman (1995-96) after helping Montana State claim the regular season and tournament title. A three-time all-conference player, Sprinkle earned first team All-Big Sky honors as a sophomore after finishing the 1996-97 season sixth in the conference in scoring and third in three-pointers made per game and in three-point field goal percentage.
Sprinkle is the Montana State school record holder with 263 three-pointers. His career three-pointers made still ranks fourth all-time in Big Sky Conference history. In a 1999 game at Sacramento State, Sprinkle made a school record nine 3-pointers.
During his playing days at Montana State, Sprinkle shot .418 (263-for-628) from three-point range (#6 all-time in MSU history), and .473 (529-for-1,118) overall from the floor. Sprinkle averaged 13.4 points per game (1,497 points, #6 all-time in school history), and collected 233 assists and 74 steals during his four seasons.
In 2006, Sprinkle was named to the Montana State Athletic Hall of Fame, the first year of eligibility.
Sprinkle, who was born in Pullman, Washington on Oct. 12, 1976, enjoyed an outstanding career at Helena High School in Montana. His basketball career included being named all-state twice. Sprinkle also competed in football (all-state as a wide receiver) and track (all-state in the hurdles) at Helena High School where he graduated in 1995.
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"Dave Anderson and Paul Moakley
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On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Dave Anderson's book and exhibition One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds provides a powerful portrait of post-Katrina as seen through the prism of a single block whose residents are attempting to rebuild their homes. Join photographer Dave Anderson andTime Magazine Deputy Photo Editor Paul Moakley in conversation on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition and release of the monograph.
Dave Anderson + Paul Moakley in Conversation
Tuesday, July 13th, 6:30 pm
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Dave Anderson: One Block
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