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Skilfully mixing real-world history with the background of the Deus Vult campaign setting, this is the story of Rouen: trading centre and capital of Normandy, visited from Scandinavian lands as well as from Europe... and with strongholds of the Order as well. Based there or just visiting, there's plenty of atmospheric detail to allow the city to come to life for your players.
History, citizens, their amusements, the appearance of the city and the locations within it - they're all here, painted vividly and atmospherically. Naturally the cathedral is described in detail, complete with sufficient material to allow you to describe services even if you are not familiar with the mediaeval Mass. At every turn are notes which can be used to provide incidental events that heighten the role-play and give the feeling of really being there.
Of course, as well as the regular merchants, clerics, nobles and everyday working folk, there are others. An occultist hidden away here, the Order's Preceptory there... and a thriving Jewish community, not to mention a trapped demon. The practice of Medicine - as a science divorced from clerical healing that is - is in its infancy, but there is at least one noted Doctor in town, with some fascinating notes on early medicine and the advice given to doctors in how to conduct themselves.
If you have not already had quite a few ideas, there's a whole chapter of encounters to use when the party is in Rouen. Some will provide but passing diversion, others are good for a side-adventure if not a whole scenario in their own right should you so wish. Several important citizens are provided in full detail, including stat blocks - allies, patrons, enemies, chance encounters: again, whatever suits the needs of your plot or party actions. There is also a Bestiary section with an array of new creatures to introduce into the mix.
Finally, there are a couple of adventures in and around Rouen that you may wish to run. Both provide plenty of interest and excitement, with investigation as well as combat required to resolve them.
The one thing that's lacking is a map of the city, although there's a sketch map of the surrounding area in one of the adventures. That lack and the odd typo a good proof-read ought to have caught are the only flaws in a fine city to add to the alternate history that is Deus Vult.
For a 30USD PDF I'd prefer this be self-contained and not require the Traveller sourcebook, but ...
2300AD is easily my favorite Sci-Fi setting. I still have (and still have fond memories of) the 2300AD Boxed set from 1988. Just as I think Mongoose has done an excellent job with Traveller, they've gone and done it again with 2300AD.
This could be a great product and would rate 5 stars, if only the artist could draw. The deck plans are great, the illustrations are crap. Most of the vessels are classic traveller ships which have been published ages ago, mostly with the then ubiquitious Keith illustrations.
In this case I had trouble to identify the painted vessels until I looked them up in my print collection, to get a notion whatthe ship really looked.
Very slovenly done. Same stats for the 88 of the Tiger (88/L56) and Kingtiger/Jagdpanther (88/L71) and 75 of PzIV (75/L48) and Panther (75/L70). The Jagdpanzer IV shows the picture of a Jagdpanther. I you make a supplement based on historical data, PLEASE be a bit more accurate in your research.
The art work is crap. Sorry but this is what helps set the pace and feel of the game.
It had no connection to the past art of the game, too much FANTASY looking, not very Science Fiction looking.
And the ship floor plans are a nice touch, adding even the fighter. BUT they changed too much and non for the better.
This is first impression once I looked at it. Now I have not read the content, its surface glance. (It looks like the mechanics of the game match up with the old....)
BUT this is often a indicator of if it would get a person to pickup the game and run with it.
The character sheet is TOO busy, I liked the clean simple form from the Classic Traveller. It s like who ever wrote the book and commissioned the art has no idea what Traveller is.
I am happy it is not the crappy Steve Jackson version.... but it has so much wrong:
Regretting I bought this majorly.... Sticking to Classic Traveller now. In the immortal works of Eric Cartman: "Fudge you guys, I am going home!"
I am going to re-edit this crap to a tolerable level on my own.... wow..... I was expecting improvements, better art then even before.... ARGH! Absolute opposite!
So I ask:
What happened? No, I mean it.... what happened???????
(There are players who do not care or seen to notice the art in a book, but I do. What are you trying to do? Make it look like Dragon Ball Z?)
Where is the soap? Need to wash out my eyes....
Really great. Nothing here is necessary; everything here must be what someone is dying for. My favorite things: new design is vivid and clear, especially on my iPad; well-worked out rules for describing large forces and conducting elegant mass battles; chargen additions are tight and evocative; mass list of previously published ironmongery gives as many neato blast toys as you could ask for without having to slog through the tedious descriptions and hideous art of the central supply catalogue, which I now will never feel the need to buy; enough details and examples to make playing a proper mercenary campaign, or indeed a regular old planetside war, easy and desirable; little but important rule fixes like in skill categories; did I say new design? Please keep this new design, which I dig.
I got this one in print from a local store and was psyched to see that I could also get it in PDF! Let's talk about 2300 AD and why the Traveller system is a perfect match for it. Mongoose has done a great job of bringing this gem forward and it's a terrific purchase.
Now, I played 2300 AD back in the late 1980s/early 90s. It was created to be a bridge between Twilight 2000 - a post-limited-nuclear-war military adventure game set in the far future of the year 2000 - and Traveller - a far-future libertarian science fiction game in the Golden Age of SF style. It posits a world where still-recognizable nation-states colonize and vie for control over stars near Earth. No one-world government in 2300 AD, intrigues and politics make these first few steps into the universe fraught with adventure and danger.
The upside to Traveller has always been its flexibility - with its simple system you can be mercenaries, or on a diplomatic mission, or criminals and slimeballs. But it's been fairly rare to see a fully fleshed out campaign model for Traveller. Perhaps this is because it has always attracted the do-it-yourself mindset, just as the characters in the typical Traveller campaign scrimp and scrounge whatever they can to make their way in the universe.
However, 2300 AD gives a much more specific game world, fleshing out its universe in more detail. Instead of a vast galaxy, the characters will be visiting and coping with problems on only a couple of dozen nearby stars. Events on one will propagate and cause consequences throughout the game world. No longer will the most boring Traveller adventure outcome, "we fly away from everything we just did" be a feasible way to avoid the decision-and-consequence chain that makes RPGs and stories good. The universe is not that big in 2300 AD.
That's not to say that 2300 AD lacks flexibility. There are many pages of campaign structures and ideas, from military units to spies to explorers.
There are two areas that 2300 AD could improve in, one that is general to colonial games and one that is specific to this game. Specifically, 2300 AD could improve its usefulness in PDF form by providing pages specifically for player consumption - the hex maps are a great start here, but why not do what original Traveller did and have information about planets and colonies in a form that can simply be printed out and given to the players to consult just as their characters did? Instead, information that could be accessible to characters is jumbled in with commentary and side notes for the GM. Which is fine as far as it goes, but it limits the usefulness of the text for a Traveler group used to the classic "one paragraph entry in the computer book" style of deeply in-character play.
More generally, there are lots of games that have a colonial setup that pretty solidly fail to acknowledge the moral ambiguity (or even outright evils) of colonization. Even in 2300 AD, where there are a few other alien species in the "near" stars that are the target of Earthly nations' ambitions, there just isn't any mention that in certain circumstances the players are likely to be playing the bad guys. The game does a great job of setting up a situation that evokes the age of colonization and the rivalries that spread and changed during that time frame, but doesn't acknowledge that the modern player (hopefully) has a bit more awareness of the questions and problems raised by colonization over time. Also, do characters in this setting feel that way? Is this a political question at all? 2300 AD more or less skips this whole issue. So do many other games with colonial setups, so I guess it's no worse than them. However, I'd like to see games do better in this regard.
Those are really my only two critiques of the book . The simple Traveller system has been well-examined elsewhere so just trust me when I say 1) it's solid and 2) it's extremely extensible - you can pull in careers, equipment or even new aliens and locations from Traveler supplements if you like and have no systemic problems doing so. 2300 AD presents a remarkably complete game, including things like cybernetics, genetic modification, psionic abilities and a very thorough gazetteer that should keep you going for a long time.
The original GDW 2300 AD did a good job of showing the path between the postwar Twilight 2000 and the freedom-focused Traveller and what it would be like to mesh these two ideas. As a result 2300 AD was a vivid and exciting setting for adventure. Mongoose has preserved that core recipe (though it says that it no longer is related to the Original Traveller Universe in the introduction, the underlying concepts remain the same) and strengthened it with its updated Traveller system. The layout is good and the PDF doesn't have nonsense like background images to keep you from printing what you need. (There's a few odd diagrams and art pieces that suddenly pop into color here and there, but it's not harmful to the layout.)
I loved 2300 AD back when it first came out and I love it now!
I really like this Second Edition Mercenary book. I have not had the chance to read every section such as the mass combat rules but most of what I've seen I like. The Art is much better than some of the other Mongoose books because it looks more realistic rather than like cartoon characters. I like the section on pre-military college or military academy rules. There are also some expanded combat rules that may be useful such as panic fire, blind fire and indirect fire. There is good information on armor piercing and using forward observers. The book has quite a few new vehicles, equipment and weapons of course. I really love the section on constructing fortresses and this is all just the tip of the iceberg. This is more like a Merc book should be than the first edition is.
An excellent introduction to the system. Covers all the basics that you need to know, as well as helps set the mood for what the games are to be like. Not only is it worth getting for the GM as a quick reference, I would even go as far as suggest that you get one for each of the new players the GM has in their game.
I think this is a great little product that greatly enhances the suppliment 5-6 design sequence. Now it is possible to design land dredoughts and behemoths! I like this option as the system up until that puont seemd a bit limited. My main criticism is that this supplement seems to switch across to a system that looks a lot like their High Guard system which is used for large starships. There is no explanation why or how rhis dovetales into the book 5-6 system. This may be confusing to some people as there seems to be a lack of adequate explanation.
Overall, a fairly good effort Mongoose. I look forward to seeing more of your good work. Pleasw keep it up.
I wanted to see this topic covered well, since (as for a Star Wars game, perhaps) it has a considerable influence in defining the nature of serious ground combat in the setting. An expansion was very much needed for the brief, though descriptive, characterisation in the core setting book.
It provides a good spread of classic vehicles in their development over time, with many illustrations, which are very helpful to grasp the style and nature of each one. Actual size and mass figures might have helped with visualisation though they'd only occasionally be required for game use.
I found the division between "hardsuits" and "combat walkers", that is, more and less humanoid-shaped waldoed vehicles, more corrosive to the uniqueness of the setting than useful. A ground-up design system presents a lot of tables to digest before getting to examples and combat usage, considering that combat walkers are standard models and not commonly built from scratch or heavily customised, and could have been placed later, I feel. Design principles and discussions of how combat walkers are employed could have spent a bit of time on concepts before delving into rules terms and references to (much less criticism of) other rulebooks. Generally it could have been more directed to examine how these classes of equipment fit into this setting and assumed less familiarity with what they are and do in other universes.
The reason I picked up this book was to get the weapons chart so I could have fun with High Frontier (the aerospace version of the game). Looking over just the weapons chart I see a key problem. The stats for combat and construction are mixed together. If they had designed the chart so one page was the combat stats, and the other page for construction, that would have helped. I went ahead and made a sheet like that for my personal use (each page had the weapons name, one page had all the construction stats, the other had all the combat stats).
The dark text on the black background also meant that in order to read anything, I had to highlight or zoom in to see the text. When you have to zoom to 300% to read the text, that means there was little editorial review.
This product could be made so much better if the publisher would just change the background to something lighter, with dark text. The light background would at least lower print costs, and the dark text would make it easier to read. As it is, the only way to use the book would be to do a text copy from each page into a separate document.
I picked this up because I was curious about the supplement and it had some positive feedback on the Mongoose forum. And the price was right, just in case it turned out to be a dud.
I liked the detailed career portion (4 pages). The events and mishaps tables are quite detailed and thought out. The career paths are also pretty open as far as the categories go. I do think, however, that those characters who become doctors should have a level of expertise, say Biology -2, Chemistry -2 or some other background to represent their college education. Unless the intent was that in the future people went straight into medicine without an undergraduate degree. I give this section a solid A.
The next section (6 pages) discusses different types of operations, from ground-based to space based. I have a minor quibble about space-based rescue operators and ships being armed. Security should never be the responsibility of the emergency responder. That's what security teams are for. There's some anecdotal explanations about tech in the future making our "regular" fires and such obsolete, which I think would be totally true. There are rules for both localized issues, like a building on fire or a chemical spill, to disasters on much larger scale that could encompass entire continents. Even zombies make an appearance in a quirks table. I give this section a B+.
The third section (1 page) talks about putting these new careers into your existing adventures and campaigns, or even starting one up with emergencies in mind. I agree with the author that most players probably aren't looking to run a fire company Traveller adventure. He does make a good point that having characters with rescue backgrounds integrated into existing campaigns or adventures makes a lot of sense. After all, if some players like to blow stuff up, somebody has to be around to clean up the mess, right? It would have been nice to see some more depth here, possibly a page in regards to an example of how to create something. I understand that things are always ultimately left up to the players and referee, but I like to think everyone enjoys seeing samples and examples. I give this section a B.
The final section (3 pages) offers new equipment and gear for the new careers to use. On the first page I thought some of the descriptions of the bots could use some more detail. For example, how big is the S&R drone? The EMS drone is assumed to be larger than man-sized since it is supposed to hold a person inside. But it would have been nice to see text in regards to the dimensions. The Rescue Battle Dress is listed as TL13 in the description, but TL14 in the breakdown of the suit. It would have been nice to see more details surrounding the actual rescue gear one should expect on the suit rather than the generic (various).
The vehicle section has a nice array of vehicles - a mobile command center, a "old fashioned" fire truck, a grav ambulance, a rescue sub and a grav fire engine. But the details are pretty lacking. For example the rescue sub (it's 600 Dtons) lists a internal vehicle bay. It would have been nice to see an underwater drone optimized for rescue, along with possible a smaller sub designed to maneuver into tighter areas. Since we are talking nautical, there's no equivalent underwater battle dress or dive suit. The crush depth listed for the rescue battle dress is 250m, and the sub is capable of descending to 6,000m. At some point it's probably not practical to go EVA from the sub, but if they need to go below 250m there's not gear.
I'm disappointed that there's no space gear whatsoever. No emergency rescue shuttles, no space cutters to rescue ships and crew in deep space, not even any space rescue equipment (just how do you cut through bulkheads and ships hulls in an emergency?) Traveller has a space-heavy element and there's nothing whatsoever to address it. There have been other various supplements over the years and game systems that had listed such things. What about a medical transport ship? Or a hospital ship? I give this section a C-. It could (and should) have been a lot more.
I think it's only worth 3 out of 5 stars at the moment. The price point of $4.99 when I purchased it made it a cost-effective purchase. I do hope MGT and/or the author revisits this and adds more source materials to it. It shows a lot of promise.
While I would agree mostly with Megan's thorough review, I have one issue. The sales information includes the statement "This final section features a selection of new equipment, vehicles and ships..." There is one watercraft vehicle included, but I think most readers in the context of Traveller would assume that "ships" refers to space ships, and there are none of those included at the time of writing. (Not even the old standby "modified scout/courier"!) If there's an update with a dedicated 200 ton rescue base starship in the pipeline I'll be happy to make it 5 (or 4.5 for a modified scout courier!)
Not everyone earns their keep in the spacelanes... and even those of you who do may have done something else before venturing into the black. This supplement looks at the 'emergency services' and at the sort of roles needed for disaster recovery and rescue operations - useful skills and talents, and who knows, maybe your crew will be the first on the scene at some accident or incident and need to step in to render aid.
First up, there are two complete careers that may be used during character generation: Healer and Rescuer. The Healer provides a broad overview of the core medical professions of doctor and nurse, although the only distinction between the two is one's EDU stat, if it's 12+ you are a doctor - no requirement to attend medical or nursing school! The various events and mishaps available for use as you roll up your character are drafted with a good eye to the sort of things that someone in the medical trades might encounter.
The Rescuer is a general purpose and practical career that models the life of a member of a 'Fire and Rescue' service of the far future. It includes a specialisation in space rescue that could be a useful precursor to a spacing/adventuring career - indeed, it's easy to imagine a whole campaign being developed around the exploits of a space rescue team! Those specialising in ground rescue are indeed firefighters, more hi-tech perhaps but similar to the brave men and women who perform that service today. Again the events and mishaps are thoughtful and well-matched to the career.
The careers are followed by a discussion of rescue operations in general, and should provide plenty of background and ideas - for the 'war stories' your character might tell about his past or adventure ideas to include in your game. The author is himself a retired firefighter so as you can imagine the commentry on fire fighting is accurate and realistic, yet as a Traveller writer he also makes appropriate remarks about how future technology might make rescue work different from what it is today. Space accidents, natural disasters, contagions - plenty of situations here where rescue workers (and healers) may well be needed.
And that's before we get to the section on rescue adventures and campaigns! For example, how about setting up an emergency management company? Operating in a manner akin to a mercenary company, this outfit could travel around offering advice and training - and of course, showing off their own skills in appropriate situations - to those worlds or settlements who are struggling to organise and provide for themselves. As noted above, either Healer or Rescuer careers could provide a useful precursor to a standard Traveller adventuring career, or with small modification, either career could be treated as part of a military service - the military generally have their own medics and some form of rescue service, just about all you need to do is change the rank names to suit your chosen branch of the armed forces.
Next comes the tools of the trade, including a form of Battle Dress modified for firefighting, assorted drones and more. This finishes with some emergency vehicles suited to various situations.
A useful addition to the game, with interesting concepts that ought to come in useful.


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Life-sized Lara Croft Mannequin [from fark]. Question: how do you make a life-sized object of something completely fictional? Don't try to answer, my brain popped when I saw the 3/4 life-size Seven Dwarfs lawn ornaments at K-Mart years back.
First it was Metallica's integrity for sale...
First it was Metallica's integrity for sale... now the RIAA's Soul and Integrity is for sale. Funny, I didn't think they had a soul. Shamelessly stolen from Fark
I've pointed to fark.com before,
I've pointed to fark.com before, because I find it one of the more amusing weblogs. While I was searching for pointers to MetaFilter today, I noticed they have their referer logs in a public folder. What's great about it is seeing the search terms used on AOL's search engine. There's a few gems like "pokemon porn," "catholic girls playing in the mud," and "how to fake your own death." I see similar AOL searches in MetaFilter's logs. AOL is used by some freaky people.
I can't believe I've never heard of this site.
I can't believe I've never heard of this site. It's a weblog, but it highlights absurd and funny items from popular news sites. It's on my bookmark list now.
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'It's another tool in the tool box': Orcas Island doctors weigh in on San Juan Island's PeaceHealth hospital
By COLLEEN SMITH ARMSTRONG
The Islands' Sounder
When PeaceHealth cuts the ribbon on its San Juan Island hospital in the summer of 2012, county residents will have a new option for health care.
"It's not the same kind of hospital as Skagit, Island or St. Joe's. So, for some patients it will be very appropriate to send them, but some will need hospitalization on the mainland," said Dr. Anthony Giefer of Orcas Medical Center.
"For the services they can provide at that hospital, it opens up tremendous opportunity and choice for people who prefer that to the mainland."
PeaceHealth is a Washington-based not-for-profit health care system serving several rural and urban communities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska for more than a century. In addition to operating St. Joseph's Hospital in Bellingham, it runs three Northwest critical access hospitals in communities considered either small and/or remote.
When the new hospital opens, the current Inter Island Medical Center on Spring Street will close. The publicly elected hospital district commission will be directly responsible for San Juan EMS; an oversight committee appointed by PeaceHealth will be directly responsible for the medical center.
PeaceHealth will be responsible for the financial operations of the medical center, but will receive more than $1 million a year — about $60 million over the life of the contract — in local property tax revenues to subsidize health care.
In July 2009, PeaceHealth signed a purchase agreement on a 22-acre site on which the new medical center will be built. Located in the 100 block of San Juan Valley Road, the property borders Friday Harbor Airport and is just minutes from downtown Friday Harbor. When completed, Peace Island Medical Center will include an expanded primary care and specialty clinic, an expanded diagnostic services center, a 24-hour emergency room and a 10-bed critical access hospital.
PeaceHealth representatives have been keeping island doctors apprised of the project. Last month, Dr. David Shinstrom of Orcas Family Health Center and Dr. David Russell of Orcas Island Family Medicine attended a meeting where they learned more about the hospital and offered feedback.
"I think it has potential to be a great idea, but it sounds like they aren't all that clear about the services they are offering. I think it needs more fleshing out," said Shinstrom, who has been talking with PeaceHealth for five years about the project. "For outpatient procedures, it will be much more beneficial for people to go to Friday Harbor than off-island."
Shinstrom is also hoping specialty doctors will travel to the new hospital periodically.
Russell said he is happy about the facility, but thinks it will require a shift in islanders' perspectives. He said many people make off-island doctor appointments and include shopping and other errands as part of their day.
"It's nice to have that resource for people here," he said. "It will be about people thinking about going to Friday Harbor instead. I think it will take some selling on their part."
Orcas Island Fire Chief Mike Harris is looking forward to sending EMS patients, who need services like an X-ray, to Peace Island Medical Center.
"The more that facility increases its potential to take care of patients, the more patients we can send over there without sending them to the mainland," he said. "I am looking forward to sending patients who need an X-ray or a treatment that can wait. So it's another tool for us to get care for our patients after-hours and on weekends."
He also hopes to make a formal agreement with Island Air to fly patients from Orcas to Friday Harbor.
"If something doesn't justify a flight to a mainland, it might justify a flight to San Juan Island," he said. "No matter how it turns out, it will help us. It's another tool in the tool box."
The San Juan Island Community Foundation's Critical Needs Task Force is looking at transportation options between the islands. Charles Anderson, chairman of the San Juan Community Hospital Committee, said ideas include a high speed passenger-only ferry and a bus system.
"It has no known time frame, it's just a planning concept at this point," Anderson said. "A transportation system like that would be a real boon for medical care – as well as other things – between the islands."
Mahlum Architects is expected to complete the design for Peace Island Medical Center by January. Permitting should be done by April, and construction, overseen by Seattle-based Howard S. Wright Constructors, is expected to be finished by July 2012, with the first patient being admitted that August.
The hospital site will also use on-site wetlands to control the flow of stormwater. It will feature a wetland restoration project, public trails, and healing gardens.
All told, the project will cost $32 million; one-third is covered by philanthropy, the rest by PeaceHealth. Anderson said at a public hearing on July 15 that the project will generate $500,000 in permit fees, $4 million paid to local contractors, $10 million in first-year revenue, and will create 24 new full-time-equivalent jobs and an annual payroll of $4 million.
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The thymus is an organ that produces T lymphocytes - white blood cells that are crucial to the immune system.
Findings from the study, published in Cell Reports, also lend support to the "free-radical theory" of aging, whereby reactive oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide that are produced by normal metabolism cause damage to cells. This damage contributes to both aging and age-related diseases.
The study was conducted by researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) who focused their attention on an organ called the thymus that is responsible for the production of T lymphocytes - also referred to as T cells.
T cells are white blood cells that control the body's immune response. These cells are continuously lost, and it is the job of the thymus - located between the lungs - to replenish them, enabling the body to respond to new infections. However, the thymus is unable to continuously produce high levels of T cells.
"The thymus begins to atrophy rapidly in very early adulthood, simultaneously losing its function," explains study author Dr. Howard Petrie. "This new study shows for the first time a mechanism for the long-suspected connection between normal immune function and antioxidants."
Antioxidants are substances that could prevent or delay damage to cells. Examples include beta-carotene, vitamin C and vitamin E. They can often be found in fruits and vegetables and are also available in the form of supplements.
The researchers set out to explore the mechanisms behind the connection by developing a computational approach they could use to assess gene activity in two types of thymus cell in mice - stromal cells and lymphoid cells.
In the stromal cells, they observed that a deficiency in an antioxidant enzyme called catalase led to the production of reactive oxygen species through metabolism, which in turn sped up the rate at which damage occurred.
Common dietary antioxidants found to preserve size of the thymus
The researchers then tested the role of this antioxidant by increasing catalase levels in genetically altered animal models. By doing this, they were able to maintain the size of the thymus for a longer period.
In addition, the researchers were also able to preserve the size of the thymus in animals by giving them two common dietary antioxidants - including vitamin C.
The question of why the thymus decreases in size more rapidly than other body tissues remains unanswered, however. Dr. Petrie says that while other research has demonstrated the thymus is responsive to sex hormones, their new study shows that its aging process is the same as in other tissues.
"However, the process is accelerated in the thymus by a deficiency in the essential protective effects of catalase, which is found at higher levels in almost all other body tissues," he continues.
The researchers also point out that while increasing catalase levels in stromal cells preserved the size of the thymus for a longer period, it did not prevent it from atrophying - as yet, there is no way to completely halt metabolic damage accumulated over time.
Recently, Medical News Today reported on a study suggesting that blood vessels adapt during the aging process to reduce the damage caused by oxidative stress.
Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia discovered that oxidative stress produced abnormally high levels of calcium in the linings of arteries in younger mice compared with older mice.


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If you are around and about Boston in early May, Grub Street is holding its annual writing conference, The Muse and the Marketplace. You'll see a number of WU contributors in the lineup, including Jael McHenry and Sharon Bially.
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We were verklempt when WU contributor, Nina Badzin, decided to focus on her freelance career and her personal blog. She will be missed. Fortunately, she helped pass the Twitter-maven torch to a woman already known to some of us. Watch for Annie Neugebauer's monthly posts beginning March 9th.
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Who's your most longstanding friend? That friend is nice to have around, wouldn't you say? Someone who knows your good and bad, to whom you have to prove nothing, on whom you can count on for an honest answer.
Old friends are mirrors, reminders, anchors, ports in a storm, the wind in the trees to tell you that change is coming. Life is unimaginable without them. The town feels empty when they're away. Holidays aren't right unless celebrated with them. Their expression tells you in a second that something's wrong.
The warm, well-developed world of a protagonist isn't complete without an old friend. This may seem contrary to the directive to isolate your hero or heroine. That's helpful for dramatic purposes but drawing readers into a story isn't only about building plot. It's also about building a world.
Literary agent Donald Maass is the author of Writing the Breakout Novel and Writing 21st Century Fiction.
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Like me, my grandmother Lyle had a professor for a father, and she was surrounded by books. I loved her library and spent hours curled up on the guestroom bed at her house, reading one series after another.
My favorite, though, was Pollyanna, or "The Glad Books." Pollyanna was an orphan, with a loving disposition and a cheerful outlook on life. Her cheerfulness was infectious, inspiring the people around her to be kinder, and more optimistic as well.
As a girl, I loved Pollyanna's struggles, and adventures. I wanted to be positive like her. I wanted to be kind, hopeful, compassionate, forgiving.
As I grew older, literature became more complex, as well as darker. From high school lit classes to my graduate studies, bleak, grim themes abounded. The world appeared a dark place indeed, and I knew from my father's death when I was fifteen, and my mother's remarriage to an unstable individual, that yes, life was full of suffering. Pain was everywhere. Literature had it right. Oppressive, grim, hearts of darkness…
I'd been a reader my entire life and turned to books for solace, truth, answers. Yet literature was now telling me that there wasn't much hope. Life was hard. Life was lonely. Life was essentially futile, with the self isolated…the self against society.
I'll be honest. I didn't like it much. I didn't like reading anymore. I didn't want more suffering or pain. Wasn't interested in more grief or loneliness.
Ten years ago my grandmother gave me her childhood books for my own library, and I reread them all, and once again I was enchanted. I felt young and innocent and hopeful. Pollyanna's sweet spirit touched me, inspired me. Her positive attitude made me more positive and I thought — this is at I want. This is what I need. And this is what I need to do.
Yes, there is poverty and hunger, war and struggle. There is violence and aggression and suffering and desperation. But I don't have to accept it, or embrace it. I can choose to be a light in the darkness. I can choose to answer anger and aggression with kindness. I can choose to be hopeful, and encouraging. Positive.
Pollyanna's 'glad' attitude shaped me. Today as a writer, I write both romance and women's fiction and I write in both genres because the stories of women matter, and love matters, and courage and optimism matter, too. I don't believe women have to be perfect, but I believe we have to care about others, as well as care about ourselves.
Which is why I can't write a book that doesn't have a Happy-Ever-After. I believe in them, and not just in novels and stories, but in real life. Why can't real women grab for happiness and hope, and live with a sense of empowerment and optimism?
Pollyanna reflected what I wanted to feel --- happy, hopeful — and in my stories, I want to give that same warmth and joy back to my readers. I like feeling good. I like being inspired. And my readers do, too.
Bestselling novelist Jane Porter has been a four-time finalist for the prestigious RITA award. Jane's Flirting With Forty, picked by Redbook as its Red Hot Summer Read, went back for seven printings in six weeks before being made into a Lifetime movie starring Heather Locklear. September 2012 brought the release of The Good Woman, the first of her Brennan Sisters trilogy, followed in February 2013 by The Good Daughter. Book three, The Good Wife, is slated for release in September 2013. A mother of three sons, Jane holds an MA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. You can learn more about Jane by visiting www.janeporter.com, or find her on Facebook, Twitter (@authorjanep), and Youtube.
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Question: To prologue or not to prologue? (First book and subsequent books.) — @CourtneyReese86
Because the purpose of a prologue is to either set the scene, create mood, or give the reader essential backstory. Once upon a time, writers experimented heavily with the first two and were still working out where to put the third. Nowadays, all that stuff has appropriate places within the body of the novel.
Set scene and create mood in your first chapter. Not only that, but do it on your first page. Not only that, but do it — if at all humanly possible — in your first sentence.
Readers have much shorter attention spans these days. There are more demands upon our time, more shiny, flashing lights competing for our eyeballs, more media crying out for our precious, limited attention. If you can't show us where we are and with whom, while giving us a sense of how you're approaching the situation, quick-quick chop-chop, we'll turn to someone who can.
Feed us backstory in your second or third chapter.
Fortunately, backstory's been wedged in there for so long that readers are accustomed to it. Not only that, but our appetite for shiny, flashing yanks on our nose-rings is so intense that the repeated shocks of first being thrown into your story, then into backstory, then into story again feel terrific! And terrific is how you want your reader to feel.
Some publishers will let you use prologues in sequels. However, they are insisting now that you write each novel, even in a series, as a stand-alone. You can do it. And if your readers think, Geez, I wish I had a more in-depth window into backstory, hey, there's new sales of your earlier novels!
3 Secrets of the Greats: Structure Your Story for Ultimate Reader Addiction: On Thursday, April 11, at 1:00 pm EDT, join Victoria for the Writer's Digest webinar, in which she'll teach the three secrets of structure that make or break all stories. Even in today's advice-saturated writing world---these really are secrets!
Independent editor Victoria Mixon is the author of The Art & Craft of Fiction and The Art & Craft of Story. Have a question for Victoria? E-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com or tweet her @VictoriaMixon using the hashtag #WU.
Q: When you're writing a nonfiction book proposal, how many pages should it be?
A: The reason that you hear so many different answers to this question comes down to how many sample chapters/pages you submit. One writer's sample chapters as part of the proposal may total 50 additional pages, while another may just have a few. That can make a big difference in the total size of the document.
The real number of pages we're discussing here is everything in the proposal that's not the sample chapters. This includes the overview, layout ideas, marketing plan, platform specifics, sequel possibilities, comparative titles, audience identification and table of contents. And to spell all that out properly, it usually takes 13-25 pages. Anything longer seems like you haven't done enough research. Anything longer is probably unnecessary.
Chuck Sambuchino is the editor of Guide to Literary Agents , and the author of How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack , Red Dog / Blue Dog and Create Your Writer Platform.
A few years ago, I started pitching my manuscript to agents at writing conferences. During one pitch session, an agent (let's call her Agent X) noticed I had the first chapter of my manuscript with me. She asked if she could read it, and when she did, she asked me to send the whole manuscript ASAP.
Of course I obliged. After all, this was a popular agent from a highly respected agency. I also sent it to the other agents who had asked to see it. Agent X responded quickly, saying she loved the book but thought some parts needed an overhaul. Would I be interested in hearing her ideas via a phone call?
Um, YES!
On the phone, Agent X expressed considerable excitement about the manuscript. With the proper revisions, she was sure this was Newbery material. She explained her proposed changes, then asked if I would be willing to commit to her suggested revisions. Thrilled and flattered (but also overwhelmed by the potential overhaul), I explained that several other agents also had the manuscript; I wasn't ready to commit to her revisions without hearing from them first.
Agent X seemed fine with this; and why not? Multiple submissions are common, and she had not made me an offer of representation.
Over the next few days, Agent X sent me comparable book titles and little reminders of why she loved my book. Her passion and excitement was flattering, but (I reminded her) the manuscript was out with other agents. Plus (I reminded myself) she had not even offered representation.
Later that week, I was thrilled to receive an offer from another fabulous agent. So I emailed Agent X and explained that while I was excited about this other agent's offer, I was equally excited about her; I would hate to say "yes" to this other agent without first following up with her.
Agent X responded with a very cold, very angry email. She stated that she rarely spends so much time with an unsigned writer, and when she does, the writer always goes on to work with her. She concluded her email by stating that my manuscript had massive issues that were unsolvable.
I felt truly terrible. Had I led her on? Had I done or said something inappropriate? The agenting world was small; would she spread the word that I was a tease? Was I a tease?
I scoured my emails and replayed my phone calls; No. I had been honest with her. But her reaction still made me feel awful. Her reaction also made me realize that agents are human. They can get angry when they feel jilted. They can lash out when they realize they are competing with another agent.
I learned a good but difficult lesson: Agents are not immune to rejection. They don't have a super-human ability to stifle their emotion, pride and fear as they carry out their professional duties.
They are, surprisingly, just as human as we writers.
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Writers know the power of having their drafts read out loud to help with editing. But what if your draft is at its most horrific stage and you cringe at letting another living soul see it, let alone read it? Microsoft Word users can use Speak, which is a free text-to-speech feature (TTS) that will play back written words as spoken.
The TTS feature needs to be enabled in order to appear on your Toolbar. Luckily, Microsoft has created an easy-to-follow guide that will walk you through installing it in less than 30 seconds HERE. The default language is English, but there are ways to customize with the Multilingual TTS feature.
The TTS feature isn't perfect. The English language is tricky, therefore, the robot doesn't recognize some tense changes. And the voice sounds far less human than, say, the Garmin robot. It won't capture the rhythmic cadence of a human reading your work out loud. But it's a quick solution, and best of all, it won't hold your crummy writing against you.
Therese Walsh is the author of the novel The Last Will of Moira Leahy (Random House), and a professional freelance health writer.
Kathleen Bolton is the author of young adult novels Confessions of a First Daughter and Secrets of a First Daughter, under the pen name Cassidy Calloway (Harper Teen).
Both co-founded Writer Unboxed as an online community for writers to discuss the craft and business of fiction writing.
"To reach port we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Writing a novel is a complicated undertaking. It can be difficult enough to find your way to "The End," but it doesn't necessarily get easier from there. The way forward can be unclear. Through revision and submission, editorial review and starting anew, it's easy to stray off course.
We all have an inner compass. It's what led us to put pen to paper, and guided us to our characters, stories, and themes. Whether I am befogged by discordant feedback or adrift in ambivalence, I gain course correction though the example and encouragement of my tribe mates.
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After twenty years battling trolls and warding off the curses of evil witches, Vaughn Roycroft left the business world to write epic fantasy.
Alice Hoffman is a prolific New York Times bestselling author whose books have been made into movies and translated into over 20 languages. Her most recent novel, The Dovekeepers, is set in ancient Israel and based on the siege of the Masada. Over five years in the writing, it's the story of four fierce and complicated women whose lives merge during the final days of the siege. Everyone from Wally Lamb to Toni Morrison has given it high praise. Pick it up, and you won't be able to put it down.
Alice Hoffman is one of my literary idols -- I've learned so much about character development, plot, and story from her novels. I'm beyond thrilled to be able to interview her here. (And if you like this snippet, please check out the Writer Unboxed website on April 7th for a longer interview with her.)
Liz: You are such a prolific writer -- by my count, you have written about 30 books -- and yet each of your stories is so unique and deep. How do you keep from getting burned out? What is your writing schedule like?
AH: I don't really have a schedule anymore. When I started, and I had a job and school, and later, small children, I woke at five so I could get two or three hours of writing in before facing the real world. Now I'm less disciplined, yet always in the book I'm writing.
You've written just about every type of book there is -- linked short stories (Blackbird House), YA fiction (Green Heart), more mainstream work (Practical Magic), and books loosely based around historical events (The Dovekeepers). Do you have a preference? And when you start a story, do you already know which genre it will fall under, or does it evolve during your writing process?
AH: I don't have a preference. I always feel I know if a story is YA, Adult, novel or short story, but sometimes that changes. The Red Garden began as a novel and became short stories. And often I wish I'd made a novel out of a short story. But they are what they are.
What are some books that inspire you, either in terms of story or structure?
AH: Wuthering Heights always inspires me, in terms of structure and psychological brilliance. Everything by Toni Morrison -- the voice, the pace, the depth of emotion and language. Faulkner inspired me when I was starting out, and the wonderful Grace Paley's short stories. Ray Bradbury inspired me hugely when I was young, and I still love his work. Fairytales still. I always begin by thinking, Once upon a time.
For more on Alice Hoffman, visit her website at www.alicehoffman.com. You can also find her on Facebook.
Liz Michalski has been a reporter, an editor, and a freelance writer. Learn more about her and read the first chapter of her debut novel, Evenfall (Berkley/Penguin) at www.lizmichaski.com.
Never an industry to rest on its laurels, digital publishing continues to push the limits with new technologies and ways of doing business. Here's the latest...
Apple introduces the Breakout Books section of its iBookstore to elevate indie works.
"After pondering how to increase the profile of the more talented (though largely unknown) authors of self-published work, Apple has launched a prominent stand-alone section on its iBookstore called Breakout Books." Read all about it at Digital Trends.
A new augmented reality app is turning books and magazines into interactive storefronts.
"Layar's technology can be used to 'extend a publication's narrative online or link to videos, slides, or downloads' and more." Get the details at Publisher's Weekly.
Amazon's new patent could make selling used e-books the way of the future.
"The patent, which Amazon filed in 2009 and won on Jan. 29, imagines a digital resale marketplace where users can trade "digital objects" like e-books, songs, videos and apps." Learn more at The Washington Post.
Erika Liodice is the author of Empty Arms: A Novel and founder of the award-winning blog, Beyond the Gray.
Book Description: (from Amazon.com) They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle with alcohol to their relationships with men. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion, and courage in this gorgeous memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife.
I share three things with the Gail and Caroline: being a dog lover, a writer, and having experienced a struggle with alcohol. I was also drawn to this memoir of a friendship between adult women since my move to Colorado three years ago meant losing touch with a very dear friend from Florida.
Gail Caldwell has created a beautiful tribute to her friend Caroline who died of lung cancer in mid-life. But that part of the book only makes up the last quarter of this memoir. The other three quarters are devoted to the love these women shared for their dogs, for writing, and the care of their friendship.
Alcohol abuse is not a new disease among writers, and Gail does a commendable job of describing her own battle with the bottle and her decision to accept sobriety. Her honest portrayal resonated with me, especially her description of writing while drinking…and the delusional results. Like Gail, I recently made the decision that my evenings are better spent with a good book, than a stiff drink.
Surprisingly, the issue of professional jealousy or competition is not explored. I don't know if this is because their writing territories did not overlap, or because they were accomplished in their respective fields of literature and non-fiction.
The strongest bond between these two women comes through their adoration of their dogs. They met daily for long dog walks through Cambridge, and took summer "dog-friendly" vacations. In fact, the most harrowing scene in the book involves a dog.
This moving memoir is highly recommended for its exploration of friendship, writing, alcoholism, and the special place pets have in our hearts.
Suzanne Anderson is the author of Mrs. Tuesday's Departure. Her novel, God Loves You - Chester Blue, released in June 2012. Learn more about Suzanne on her blog, and by following her on Facebook and Twitter.


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Based on Paco Roca's comic of the same title, WRINKLES is an astonishing cocktail of friendship, resistance and life set among the unexpected landscape of an elderly care facility.
Martin Sheen, Matthew Modine & George Coe lead a cast of eccentric characters who rebel against authority in this wonderfully animated and poignant comedy for adults. The story opens with former bank manager Emilio being dispatched to a retirement home by his family. His new roommate is a wily wheeler-dealer named Miguel, who cheerfully swindles small amounts of cash from the more befuddled residents but is also full of handy insider tips that are crucial to survival. Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in an old folks home, we are introduced to daily pill regimens, electric gates, and nighttime joyrides, as the reality of Emilio's future life begins to sink in. Using hand-drawn animation, Wrinkles moves freely between the inmates' daily routines and their more colorful, dementia-induced fantasies, leaving plenty of room for both tears and laughter as it pokes pointed fun at society's attitude towards the elderly.
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Nordstrom's Web site has emerged as the chain's "biggest door" and largest growth initiative, while the main merchandise opportunity is in women's.
Those observations, along with a host of financial goals, were outlined by Michael G. Koppel, Nordstrom's executive vice president and chief financial officer, at a Bank of America consumer conference Tuesday in New York.
Koppel disclosed that Nordstrom's Web site generated $530 million in sales last year and is seen cracking $1 billion in sales in three to five years.
"We're making big investments to support the channel," he said, noting that $80 million to $100 million will be spent to support the channel's growth over the next three to four years, including doubling the size of the fulfillment center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to 905,000 square feet and adding features such as enabling shoppers to coordinate looks and create outfits. The company also is updating its direct inventory system so it's the same as that in the stores and upgrading the online checkout procedure. Last year, the Web site unveiled a "boulevard" of designer shops including Armani Collezione, Blumarine, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana and other top labels.
"Multichannel customers shop four times more than the customer who shops just one channel," Koppel said. "We're going to do things to give them more information on the Web site and make it more flexible for them to shop online and in stores….Our biggest initiative is the investment we're making in the direct channel."
Heady growth on the Web reflects Nordstrom's overall success recently. The $8.6 billion Seattle-based chain reported that 2006 net earnings increased 23 percent and same-store sales rose 7.5 percent.
Koppel cited other key objectives, including:
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Another major initiative is enhancing women's, where executives see huge opportunities. "Women's does half the market share of what we do in shoes and cosmetics," Koppel said.
"The women's initiative is our single-largest merchandise opportunity. It's underperforming the company," Koppel added, though he emphasized that much work has been done to beef up the organization and the strategy. Store presentations have been sharpened so it's easier to see how assortments are differentiated by lifestyle. Also, designer offerings continue to get built up. Nordstrom targets 25- to 54-year-old women with annual incomes of $100,000 and more.
In terms of the progress in women's, Koppel said: "We don't know what inning or quarter we are in. I do know we have a lot to learn. It will take a number of years to really get it where we would like it to be."


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Chet is out there. Lost or found? Who knows? Clark Hodgin and Matt Miller made this snapshot of Chet.
Vote for Nick Michel
Nick Michel and Daniel Dent (The mastermind behind Snot Job) filmed a banging part for a Transworld video contest recently. Watch it and then vote for Nick!!
Nick Michel Snot Job part
Snot Job, the independent production that came out of Vegas last year was fantastic, it had two of our guys in there and a whole bunch of other people that we really like. Great video, you should pick up hard copy if you can. Here's Nick Michels part, this was definitely one of my favorite parts that came out last year. Enjoy.
Frank Shaw Bath Salts part
We just put up Franks Shaws Bath Salts part on Vimeo. Frank got on the team just a few weeks before our editing deadline and I figured he was going to have a couple of tricks in the end credits announcing him as our new rider, but he went out and filmed a whole bunch of good stuff for it. Thought it was time to share this with everyone, not just the privileged few who own the Bath Salts DVD (or iTunes download)
Proud to announce...
We're stoked to announce that Craig Questions Scott is the newest Pro for Heroin Skateboards. If you'd have told me that the annoying kid who kept asking me loads of questions at our Live From Antarctica Premier in 2005 would be Pro for Heroin one day, I'd have laughed in your face. Over the years I've gotten to know Craig, and his enthusiasm for skateboarding is overwhelming and infectious, he reminds me why I started, and that most important of all ideas, that skating is fun. One of my favorite people in the world to skate with, I miss skating Stockwell with the little bastard. I could go on and on and tell you one of the million stories that I love about Craig, but there's no room here, I spoke to him earlier today and he said "It'll be well good when my board comes out, cos all those industry pricks will be pissed off and say "Why is He Pro?" and a load of kids who actually skate will be stoked" ha ha. Thats sums it up for me, sure, he's pissed people off along the way, but thats just the way it goes, Craig isn't afraid to speak his mind, there's no lucrative shoe deals on the line for him, we didn't fly everyone out for a party, we're just stoked to have this dirtbag skating for us, if we sella few of his boards, maybe he won't have to eat things he finds in the street anymore.
Magic Sticky Hand
Watch our 2007 video Magic Sticky Hand here. Edited by Alan Glass, featuring Colin Fiske, Rogie, Deer Man of Dark Woods and Chris Ault.
Jenkem mag posted the fantastic new video "Seven" by our own Fat Jim. Y'all should own this on DVD already by now, hit up Note or one of the other great UK shops and support Jims Greggs habit. Tom Day and Joe O'Donnell have full parts in this one!
Zack Krull Bath Salts Relapse
Zack Krull gets the first in our Bath Salts Relapse edits. When you have ten minutes of good stuff left over from his banging part then it'd be rude not to share it with the world. Hope this brightens your Thursday up a bit.
Rough Mike new part????
Well this is surprising. Rough Mike out of the blue has just filmed a new part. One of our first riders, Mike had a part in our first video "Good Shit" from 1999. He hurt his shoulder shortly after and wasn't able to skate for a while. I hadn't spoken to him for ages, I heard rumors from mutual friends that he was still alive and well, but the was all I knew, then we started talking a bit on these social media things a few years ago. Last year I thew out the idea of him doing a board graphic, as he's an incredible talented artist, and well, a Heroin Alumni. I'm stoked that the board just came out in our Spring line (Voodoo Girl) and then from out of nowhere he mentions that he just filmed a part. Exactly what you'd expect from Mike, shouting, weird spots, bizarre tricks. Don't call it a comeback. Its great to see Mike skating though.


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I've been so excited for this day to come. Definitely meant to post this a little earlier today, but my family came in for a weekend visit so I was hustling to get ready for their arrival. Now that they're here, I told them I have to take a few minutes to write my post…because […]
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