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|Inkwell Pace Setter with Bleach Coral Swiftly Tank. Bleach Coral Pace Setter shown with white Swiftly SL.
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|Shown with a Bleach Coral Swiftly.
|Frond SS Swiftly and Mellow Lemon Swiftly tank
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|Inkwell Pace Setter with Bleach Coral Swiftly Tank. Bleach Coral Pace Setter shown with white Swiftly SL.
|Shown with a Pigment Swiftly (I think)
|Shown with a Bleach Coral Swiftly.
|Frond SS Swiftly and Mellow Lemon Swiftly tank
I absolutely love the green crb and the coral speed shorts! The gingham prints are fun, but definitely not my style.
The Frond SS Swiftly is a MUST. Can't wait!
I really like the look of the bleached coral swiftly tank. I hope it comes in the power y as well.
I love the crops - I wonder what they're made of? Luxtreme, I hope.
What are the blues the woman on the mat is wearing (she is on her back with eyes closed) - looks like an angel color but her headband is pigment blue? I really hope it's a new blue and it's an energy bra! Yes, love the green SS!
Is it too much to ask for skirt that doesn't scream "Tennis!"? I have one pacesetter, but that's probably all I'll ever own of this style. I use Lulu skirts for running much more often than tennis. These colors are soSO fabulous! Please make a cute straight-hemmed skirt in these fun Spring colors. Fingers crossed for something similar to last year's Run:for it all (was that its name?) - I have it in the WAFS fossil/coal print with the dazzling trim- one of my all time favorite lulu pieces.
Also, after months of hating the color choices I am prepared to snatch up everything released in these upcoming non-neon brights! Buy first, and return what doesn't fit and flatter later. I might be back to setting my internal clock for upload night!
I am in SO much trouble when the bleached coral and front hit the US. SO MUCH TROUBLE.
Sorry, credit card.
I want the gros gingham skirt and the frond gingham crb! Can't wait!
OT - I received my inkwell ebb and flows today. They will be going back! I'm petite (5'2") and they are way too long. They are also sheer!
It's hard to tell by the picture but the frond green CRB looks almost menthol-ish. Like it's more of a creamy green than a bright green.
I'm finally feeling very excited and looking forward to the upcoming uploads
I like all these hues way better than what came out for the winter. Loving the Inkwell (have the Daily Yoga)...and might pick up the pacesetter when its out.
@ anon 10:22 am - the crops are power luxtreme
Those crops look awesome. WANT. (Not with the green--but solid coal or maybe inkwell??
Love the coral speed shorts and swiftly tank! Pace setter looks cute but not sure about that print. Also love the frond ss swiftly. Any word on when these items will hit US stores?
Is it just me, or does the Bleached Coral Pace Setter skirt have a back that has 2 different fabrics? The top tier of pleats seems to be in the Bleached Coral Gros Gingham, but the bottom tier seems like it is a solid Bleached Coral (no gingham)? Does anyone else see this in the pics, or is it just the way they were photographed?
Gingham is cute, but reminds me of a bathing suit. Love the colors for a change. The inkwell and flare are just awful. The Bordeaux drama and Alberta lake were so drab.
wow the green swiftly and crb are so pretty. and I am really liking the pattern on the pace setter, don't know if it's the ladies in the pictures that make everything looks amazing. bleached coral and grren speed shorts will be great for sailing in the Caribbean. I am also in much trouble.
OT. Has anyone has tried on the Pirouette Bra? Can you tell me if you would take the same size as in other Lulu bras and what you thought of it. There is only 1 review so far. I am looking for a bra with straight straps to wear under the daily tank on runs. The racer back tanks (No Limits or CRB/Swiftly with a Free to be bra) are my favourites but I need some straight strap options to get rid of racer back tan lines. Do you think it will lie flat under a tight fitting tank with the cinching? How does it look if it isn't cinched?
Eeek, I am just so NOT feeling the gingham. It looks like something you'd buy a toddler from Kohl's children's department. I also do not think those shorts are very flattering. I'm ALL about the "shorty-shorts" but these are just far *too* short for my tastes.
That said, I'd probably buy a headband in the gingham. I'm obsessed with the headbands. Way too obsessed.
Ahhh!! I love those running crops. Seems like a good length and the Run Inspires swooshes on the calves are a little too much sometimes.
My Chicago store got a cute white Devotion tee with a black and white striped elbow and high rise cross stitch WUs that I thought were recalled?
Hoping for a solid frond pacesetter. Don't like the two-way fabric, which it seems all patterned pacesetters and shorts are. Getting super stoked for these colors.
Love love the Frond SS Swiftly but it seems totally sheer in the back close up "Home Grown" picture. I can clearly see the two different fabrics of the power y bra she's wearing. Oh well, not something really new, just in line with the rest of the production these days.
The cross stitch is back. I dropped off a pair to have them hemmed. I purchased them before the holidays. The Lulu employee told me they jsut got them back in stock. The first batch of pants had been pulled due to quality concerns but Lulu deemed them acceptable so they are now back in stores.
Liking the Frond Gingham Cool Racerback and Mellow Yellow, it's all I'm interested in. Do not dig the gingham pattern at all. Agree with someone's past comment regarding the big print on the short not looking good. I also find it very junior. I'm good with the many Speed Shorts I have and I'll just not be buying those patterns.
Just got my black ebb and flows in the mail. im 5'4, 125, size 6- the length is fine but they are SHEER. no matter which way you cut it, how much you mess around with the fabric over your butt...you can easily see right through. so sad...
Ot but wore my inkwell e&f yesterday for hot yoga w full booty undies. They really were awesome. So sad though I took em out of the wash and the crotch seam is coming undone. About an inch 1/2 I cut off.
I'm gonna check out athletas version. And the mat I bought is stained and stinky!! That's going back tomorrow. Any suggestions? The color I bought was surge.
Just received my Pirouette bra. For reference I am 32 A and lean and wear a size 4. It didn't work for me. The cut was too high under the arms in the front. So with the combination of the cut and my slightly rolled shoulders it created armpit rolls that shouldn't be so pronounced. It also flattened the little chest that I do have and the straps were a shade short. I tried CRB over the bra when cinched and could definitely see the wrinkles underneath. Other than the flattening aspect and the enhanced rolls, it looked fine uncinched!! My usual size 4 was the right size.
In comparison to the Daily, which I also have, but rarely wear, the Daily flattens me too but the cut is lower on the sides and much more comfortable. I wear a Free To Be for low impact activities - again, all in size 4. My favorite bras are the Arise and Deep V (November 2011 version).
Love the speed shorts in the solid coral but only if they are 2-way swift! I sure hope so i'll buy them and if not just return them no big thang ;), and that frond green love- hope they'll make some cute new tanks w/ out the 80's baseball hemline- and not too short either! :)
To me the bleached coral looks like a lovely mix of flash and pink shell!
I am very much looking forward to it!
Also hoping that they come out with a new scarf soon! Without the dam stripes!
Also was able to snag a dhbh pullover! But it is a size 12! I'm usually a 10 in jackets! Hope this won't be too big! Otherwise someone is going to get lucky with my return!
I'm not going to hold my breath on any of these items, not even the CRB. They will take forever to show up in NA, if they show up at all. Australia got Black Swan Ebb & Flow ii's, and now that the E&F ii is in NA, did we get BSwan? No, we didn't (and I don't anticipate it's coming). Ugly Flare. Coal and Black which are nearly the same, and Inkwell, which isn't even. It's washed out. Glad I got the prior release of Indigo.
In the meantime, I'm sure LLL will carry on creating a lot more ugly stuff.
So I got my ebb and flows today in the mail- and they are perfect! Size 12 and no sheer really- just wear black underwear?! I LOVE them holy cow!!!!!!! So comfortable!!
@ anon 3:46 pm - that sucks. I don't think Ebb and Flows are the most robust pants but they shouldn't fall apart after one wearing. That sucks about your mat, too.
I got my ebb and flows today in all three dark colors and I didn't think any of them are sheer. I am so happy. I did the bend over test for my husband - he said they were fine. Hooray! These are the best crops.
Hello from the land of oz! Just got my frond check crb and it looks really nice, but for the die hard soft Luon fans this might not be for you. The fabric is thick but textured and a little rough. Not what I was expecting but I love the colour! A true kermit the frog colour!
Tried it on in store the other day in size 2 (I'm 105 lbs and 32b) and didn't find it supportive or flattering...flattened my already flat chest and the straps even on the 2 seemed too long somehow and there was no uplift...and I am someone who runs in FTb and power y's.
Got my e&f ii today. Lovely fit on the waist, no ct but sheer bum. That was a 3 pair order!!! Dunno what to do. These were my fave crops for running in during summer. The coal is identical to black. I ordered 2 black and one coal and I can't tell them apart.
I'd love to see these colors on a Turbo Tank or Scoop Neck. Wishful thinking?
Excited for those beach runner crops, but in all black! Love the low back seam on the butt to visually minimize the area, haha. And as a shorty, I love the length.
The bleached coral speeds will be mine!!!! I wish frond were solid but maybe the CRB wouldn't be that bad with the mini checks. I'm also loving the coral pace setter but I have several already. Like someone else said... Debit card watch out. I'm loving these colors!
Negative much?
Hello from oz! Just got my frond check crb and it is very cute. However for the lulu fans that like there Luon soft this may not be for you. It is thick but texture and slightly rough. The colour is nice though a true kermit the frog green.
The Ebb & Flow i are a very solidly made crop, superior, in fact. Mine have endured many Bikram classes and many washes (hang dry) and zero issues.
Ebb & Flow ii are thinner than the i's. I did buy a black pair of the ii's. Washed once, not worn yet. No complaints thus far.
I found it TTS - I am about 34b-c and I wear 8 in most lulu (but 6 in a number of shirts lately). I got the pirouette in an 8 - the 6 cut into the tops of the girls. It's NOT very supportive - I got bit for yoga/Pilates mainly because I wanted something in the SHS print. Also thought it would be good for hot yoga. Definitely would not run in it and don't think it would lay flat under something tight.
Loving the new spring colors! Will be stocking up on Frond, Bleached Coral, and Mellow Lemon and I LOVE gingham! The Frond Gingham CRB's fabric looks like it has the same texture as my Black and White Gingham Ujjayi tank from a while back. Hard to describe but not smooth like regular luon CRBs. Can someone confirm? Thanks!
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It was the "the mat" the fn $70 one. I feel like sucker is written on my forehead. I really want a great mat. And pants that the seams stay in tact. Happened on my toasty tech pants after one wear. I bring them back the Vegas store says they fixed them but don't. I'm branching out. Quality is really sucking. Yes I know it's been beaten as a dead horse but I just didn't want to believe it. So sad. I will continue to check in with your blog and hopefully you will have the inside scoop as to when quality will if ever return.
Lucky!! What size if you don't mind with the deets??
y sorry about your pants and mat. I love the mat, but always stick to dark colors. I really wanted the surge one. By the way mats are final sale. What I did with mine is deal with the stain.
The chemical smell goes away after a few uses. I did notice that in Bikram class the smell was so strong it was making me feel woozy the first time I used it.
Now it's fine and I like it a lot.
Wonder if they changed the Mat quality- I got the concord grape one about a year ago and love it. I spray it with lemon water and wipe it clean and it stays very nonstick- I don't use a towel for hot yoga. It actually gets more grippy with sweat. It does have some discoloration where my hands are but I don't care because it's functional.
Also- it did smell for a couple weeks when I first got it but just did the lemon thing and let it airdry outside for a while and it was fine.
M!! Hey girl you've never steered me wrong! Love your advice -got those skirts on wmtm (full stride) anyway the ones that you said "mellow out" the butt!! Which they do and look lovely;)
I went this a.m. after working a long night to my Vegas store at the fashion show. The Gec Kim gave me a new mat. Since I read the reviews too late, they had said just like anon 9:41 go with a darker color. I got the black and yes it has a smell but not like freshly layed out highway or tire factory! I mean it was terrible (surge was the color).
I also mentioned my seam coming undone on my e&fs. Kim sd no problem bring em in!!! I ws really happy to have her be so good. Didn't ask for a receipt. Of course I had dealt with her buying the products so she remembered me.
I tried to also get a price adjustment too on my rasp glow crb but that was a no go but the lady next to her sd we don't do price adjustments now but we will be soon!! So happy that they are seeming to realize its necessary business practice:)
Y, regardless of "final sale" take it back. The staining is a quality issue and not acceptable. I think if you read the reviews you'll find people that persisted got a credit or a darker mat at least. Some stores are just more agreeable on returns/credits anyway. Otherwise, LLL is on shaky ground and they know it.
I never bought the mat due to all the negative reviews.
Thanks, good to know price adjustments coming soon. Finally!


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The Price of Fame: Skylar Diggins Exposed With Naked Pic?
I was concerned about this from the moment I found out who Skylar Diggins was.
In 2011 instant fame comes with a price. When you go from a relatively unknown woman's basketball player to a superstar who is now the face of Women's Basketball, in a matter of weeks there are always consequences. It is like winning the lottery, yes you go the money but now comes the problems.
Everything won't be peaches and berries, if there is any skeletons in your closet people will find. Even if there isn't any skeletons in the closet people will put bones in the closet, then open it up and say they found a skeleton.
I doubt this naked pic floating around twitter via @iRoastNi**as is Skylar, we now know that it isn't (click here to see the porn star in question NSFW). Skylar for her part debunked the pic pretty quickly.
She is a 20 year old college student, can she handle all this attention, good, bad and ugly? Will she be able to handle the fact that as quickly as people build you up they will be itching to bring you down.
The example of this happening to athletes are numerous and I hope it doesn't happened to her, but as a wise person told me nothing in life is free and everything comes with a price.
Even popularity.
Good luck Skylar.

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The No. 3 seed Weed Cougar varsity boys basketball team rolled past the No. 14 seed Quincy Trojans 70-38 in the opening round of the NSCIF Division 5 playoffs Wednesday night.
The speed and athleticism of the Cougars proved to be key on both ends of the floor as they ball-hawked their way to steal and score fast-break points all night en route to the easy victory.
The Cougars built a 12 point advantage in the first period and then extended their lead to 20 points after two periods at 39-19.
In the second half, the Quincy offense tried to get on track by working the ball in the paint, but strong defense by Noah Traylor and Aidan Hagarty kept Quincy sophomore standout Brady Rick under control as the Cougar advantage grew to 51-29 after three periods.
In the fourth period the Cougar junior varsity call-ups made their debuts and put the finishing touches on the 70-38 victory.
Eleven different Cougars scored in the game with Edgar Casorla leading the way with 14 points. Trevor Shaffer added 13 points, Noah Traylor 10 points and Matthew Morgan seven points.
The Cougars now prepare themselves for a Friday night battle with the No. 6 seed Hamilton Braves who defeated the Trinity Wolves Wednesday night.
The Braves posted a 16-10 record overall this season and an 8-4 mark in Sacramento Valley League play.
Offensively, the Braves averaged 49.8 points per game with senior Shea Shull leading the season scoring averaging 13.4 points per game.
The Hamilton versus Weed game will be part of a NSCIF D-V doubleheader on Friday night in Weed with tip off scheduled for 8 p.m. In the early game, the No. 2 seed Weed Lady Cougars will tip-off against the No. 10 seed Etna Lady Lions at 6:30 p.m.
Cougars cruise to playoff win
The No. 3 seed Weed Cougar varsity boys basketball team rolled past the No. 14 seed Quincy Trojans 70-38 in the opening round of the NSCIF Division 5 playoffs Wednesday night.


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Kids satisfy need for speed at Riverside Speedway
Ariel Switser, 9, worked on her racing car in the family garage. Following in the footsteps of her brother and father, Ariel will be old enough to race this season in the youth division at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, N.H., and will be hitting speeds approaching 50 miles per hour. Asked what was the best part of her upcoming 10th birthday, she replied, "I'll be double digits and I can race."
Racing family matriarch Rosie Gilcris, 65, played with one of her seven great-grandsons, Payton Pickel, in her home while the boys worked next door on grandson Nick's car. "I don't think there's a day they don't work in that garage," said Rosie, who used to work in the pits, but whose role now in the racing family is to run around buying parts.
Billy Hennequin of Johnson, Vt., watched the 200-lap Enduro race at Riverside Speedway. The quarter-mile race track, which opened in 1964, attracts racers and fans from across northern New England. According to Melinda Kennett, Groveton's town clerk, the track "is probably the only thing in town that's bringing people in."
Jenna Randall, 14, and Dylan Laleme, 12, waited for their race to begin at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, N.H. One night when Jenna was 11, as her father was tucking her into bed, she told him, "I kinda want to try racing."
Sitting in his parent's kitchen, Pete Gilcris and son Nick strategized over a french fry lunch. They were under the gun to finish Nick's Camaro for opening day at Riverside Speedway in two days. Pete broke his neck racing in 2010, and Nick rolled his car over six times during his first year of racing when he was 12.
Nick Gilcris helped secure 19-year-old Ashleigh Roy's seat in her racing car before opening day at the Gilcris family's garage. Recalling his first race when he was 12. he says, "I came out and put the hammer right down. I thought it was great."
Howie Switser gave some last-minute advice to his daughter Ariel, 10, before her first practice run at the Riverside Speedway on the day before opening day. Ariel had spent some time with her father learning to drive in a field behind their house. "She knows how to drive a little bit," said father Howie.
The checkered flag came out in the final youth division race of the season at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, N.H. According to 13-year-old racer Matt Kopp, "When you first get in that race car your leg gets to shakin' and your first race is pretty scary. But once you get the hang of it you're fine."
For many families in the north country, racing cars is a family tradition that often bonds three generations. Doug Laleme was cheered on by father, Douglas Laleme, and his racing son Dylan Laleme, 12, sitting behind his grandfather.
Keith Kopp of Lancaster, N.H., and his racing family and friends watched a race from the back of his roll-back trailer at Riverside Speedway. His 12-year-old son, Matt, races at the track, and he sometimes wonders if a parent should be putting a 12-year-old in a race car.
Ronald Gilcris took a break from working on grandson Nick's car to visit with his granddaughter Jamie Kay, 19, and his great grandson Payton Pickel when they stopped by the garage for a quick visit. For the Gilcris family, car racing is the common denominator. "It's always been family, always," says Rosie Gilcris. "It's something you can do together."
Nick Gilcris loaded up spare tires before heading to the Riverside Speedway for practice with his father and grandfather. Nick's grandmother Rosie Gilcris said there's nothing for the kids to do in the north country. "If they're not kept occupied they're going to get in trouble. What one can't think of, the other one is going to."
The Gilcris family racing team helped teen racer Ashleigh Roy finish up her car in time for opening day. For the Gilcris family, allowing Nick to race is an incentive for him to finish high school. His grandmother Rosie Gilcris says, "It keeps Nicholas in school, because if he flunks he doesn't drive.
A worried wife Janet Smith and mother, Brenda Mitchell, watched a practice run at the Riverside Speedway the day before opening day. Mitchell whose 11-year-old son, Cody, was on the track, says of him racing, "I get sick to my stomach, but I was out voted."
Jenna Randall, 14, was plowed into during the 200-lap Enduro race at Riverside Speedway. When asked if racing is dangerous, father Tege Randall said, "Yeah, it's dangerous, but so is baseball, so is softball. Life is dangerous." Following the crash Jenna's radiator was damaged and she was forced to drop out of the race.
The yellow flag came out after a spinout during a Saturday night race at the track. Tege Randall insisted that allowing his daughters to race is not an act of parental neglect. With all the safety equipment required at the track, no one has ever suffered life-threatening injuries, according to pit steward and Groveton town clerk Melinda Kennett.
Dave Potter and Ronald Gilcris laughed during the pre-race driver's meeting when the race organizer jokingly asked the racers if they wanted to go right around the track instead of the usual left.
Ariel Switser, 10, put on her game face at the annual car show at the Riverside Speedway the day before opening day. "Ariel's been waiting," said her father, Howie Switser. "She wanted to race a couple of years ago but wasn't old enough."
Three generations of the Gilcris family, from left, Ronald, Pete, and Nick worked on tires for Nick's race car in Ronald's garage. During the season they are in the garage constantly, especially if Nick was in a crash the weekend before. According to Nick, "You take a car, you build it, you beat the hell out of it, and you junk it."
Angel Kenison, Courtney Styles, and Morgan Landry checked out cute racers in the pit at Riverside Speedway. For many in this remote northern community the Saturday night race at Riverside is the place to be, and since the mill shut down in 2008, it's the glue that holds the community together.
Wendy Bennett, left, of Stark, N.H., and family members watched as her husband, Floyd Bennett Jr., accepted the trophy after winning the 200 lap Enduro race at Riverside Speedway. After a late collision in the final laps with Nick Gilcris, Bennett held on for the win.
"Stop! Now!" Nick Gilcris screamed as he restrained his father, Pete , who was furious at another racer for running Nick into the wall in the final laps of the 200-lap Enduro race at Riverside Speedway. Asked if racing means everything to him, Pete replied, "It is to 90 percent of us that live up here. There's nothing else."
Wendy Bennett of Stark, N.H., drove off with the trophy and winning check after her husband, Floyd Bennett Jr., won the 200-lap Enduro race. While there is some money to be made if you are a successful racer, "you never make back what you put into it," says Nick Gilcris.
Paul Ouellette and his racing family from Milan, N.H., posed for a photo after his 15-year-old daughter, Nicole (with checkered flag), won the Angels division (women all ages). Nicole's friend Jenna Randall, right, was asked by the family to join them for the picture. The family watches NASCAR together, and Christmas presents are fire suits and helmets.


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Finally! I knew if I was patient then someone would finally pick up MOTU again. I can't wait to see what they do with the series (though personally I'm hoping for Teela not being a clone). Man, I'm so excited I've practically jittery. Now I have a reason to buy a DC comic. lol
Hey Val, any chance you could see if you can get James Robinson and/or Phillip Tan on Gooble Dinner for an interview? It'd be great to hear them asked questions by actual fans of the characters. Cheers!
Fantastic news that we're getting a new comic series! And I'm even more excited that it's being produced by a major company.
But, boy, is MTV Geek a raging failtrain or what?
MTV Geek: "Why Masters of The Universe? I think most people nowadays know it from a somewhat cheesy cartoon, and a somewhat cheesier movie"
MTV Geek: "Skeletor walks the line between terrifying, and very, very silly."
Yep, MotU's super cheesy. It's very silly as well. That's why DC is teaming with Mattel to launch a series on the line's 30th anniversary.
MTV Geek: "There's also a "mysterious sorceress" who kicks off the proceedings... she's She-Ra, right?
Yep, She-Ra and the Sorceress are the same person. You nailed it.
MTV Geek: "This may be a little too literal, but I've always wondered why they were called "Masters of the UNIVERSE," when they only hung out on Eternia"
Yep, the characters never left Eternia. Etheria? Primus and the rest of the tri-solar system? No? Nothing?
MTV Geek: "...I imagine these comics are somewhat a testing ground for the franchise, to see if it can be reinvented for TV, action figures..."
Yep, Mattel's totally using these new comics to test the waters for a reinvented line of action figures... that's been running continuously since 2008. Good call.
Come on, MTV Geek, do a little research or - equally acceptable - just skip all the too-cool-for-this/only-interested-ironically garbage.
Way super cool news!
And yeah, MTV Geek didn't exactly put forth a shining example of journalistic professionalism. Whatever, at least we're getting new comics. I hope they're good! *crosses fingers*
I'm hoping to get these issues they sound interesting
"Phillip and I are taking great pains to make Skeletor, who is after all a barbarian warrior with a skull face, into a horrifying and worthy foe for He-Man."
Really never thought of Skeletor as a barbarian.
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Great news! I kind of wish Geoff Johns was writing, but he must pretty busy with Green Lantern and Justice League. Anyway, the story concept sounds cool, looking forward to it!
cool news indeed.
and while alex zalben didn't do his homework, i think you guys might want to focus on the answers james robinson instead of the questions. sounds like this is going to be an epic of epic proportions.
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Things that blow my mind
1. The art looks classic, not some new He-Man for a new audience. That's how He-Man is meant to look.
2. Has nothing to do with Scott's MOTUC cannon.
3. It's by DC and coming out relatively soon.
4. They had the faith and budget for this. What else are they working on we don't know about?
On the same note... When does this come out? July?? I hope they have the Subscriptions open and not already closed for all the potential new fans they could be reaching...
I can see where that perception comes from.
It's probably not best to pick over every word just yet. I'll admit that calling a Skeletor a 'barbarian' sounded a bit odd, but I think it would be better if we left judging things until we have something we can actually judge fairly. We don't really have enough to go on to say one way or the other right now. Lets just be happy that we're getting a new comic series.
I'm intrigued! It will be cool to see how it turns out.
This is incredibly awesome news! Finally new media for the first time in a decade!
A list of reasons why this is fantastic for MOTU:
- Love that DC is doing it - that will assure greater exposure than using a smaller company, which could lead to a larger re-launch of the franchise in general (on-going comic series, cartoon, blockbuster movie, new action figures, etc)
- This will probably give MOTUC a boost, ensuring a few more years for us to get every last obscure character in figure form!
- Based on that teaser poster, there won't be any mis-guided attempts to re-invent the wheel. It's He-Man looking exactly the way he should, but with modern artwork. 200x mucked around with the character designs too much, so it's great that this looks like it will follow the classic look.
- By the sounds of it, DC will have a lot of creative freedom. In the past, MOTU was at its best when Mattel didn't interfere and try to micro manage everything. The story concept is a fresh, original take that, as someone else here already said, is a brilliant way to bring MOTU back into the mainstream without having to rehash the origin story yet again.
- The tone of the comic sounds like it will be DARK. I can't emphasize enough how important this is for MOTU overall to become viewed as a "cool" property. The interviewer is completely right when he says that it's mainly remembered as a cheesy cartoon in the 80's that was geared to little kids - Filmation is seen as a joke and did a lot of damage to the property in the long run, and a quality new comic series with a dark edge to it is the perfect way to undo that and finally realize the potential MOTU has had since the beginning.
I am excited, but I hope that the art is good. I'm surprised that Val & company were not brought in on this. They should have been consulted, or at least have Val do the inks.
"Everything comes to he who waits."
I'm not so sure this is completely different from the bios/MOTUC story. It says "all-new take" on the story, but if Teela is that Sorceress figure . . .
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
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This is exciting news! Another big positive surprise for the 30th Anniversary year.
While I love the early DC mini-comics (the 2nd series of mini-comics represent my favorite canon) I do have some fears about the way the modern DC will treat our product. I've been a long time (essentially) exclusive DC comic reader but am close to dropping my last few DC titles because the New 52 tanks at all levels. The characters are just not treated with love. I think the greedy, whinging, carping Justice League communicating with Steve Trevor in #7 may have been the final straw for me.
So I may be in the minority but (while I am not a fan of the bio-canon) I fervently hope Mattel does indeed retain some editorial control over DC like they seemed to exert back in 200x. I no longer trust DC writers and editors left to their own devices.
But enough of that ... YAY for a new MOTU Comic!
Grayskull needs its Cardboard Spacesuit MOTUCized
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I'm pumped that this mini-series is going to be twice as long as DC's first MOTU mini-series, LOL! Wow. I can't believe this! And I'm really intrigued by this fresh take on the story... would make a great multi-parter for a new cartoon series!!!
I guess I'm the only one with enough guts to tell the truth-
1. He-Man looks like a bad cosplayer took some crappy Photoshop pictures using a green screen for Grayskull.
2. The anatomy is COMPLETELY all over the place from decent to horrible.
3. The cross hatch technique is done incorrectly like they had a high school comic creator do it who's never learned the proper technique.
4. The colors are dull and muted- the effects are a BIT more impressive but still nothing special.
5. Grayskull's perspective is totally incorrect.
6. The fact that they totally (figuratively speaking) spit in Val and Emiliano's face simultaneously and continue to do so is complete and utter ********.
7. Finally, Tan is nothing to write home about and Robinson is the definition of mediocre.
I wonder if Mattel even stopped to think whether having a comic running that has a completely different canon than the toy line you are running at the same time could possibly lead to confusion for the brand? The one totally positive thing about this is it will be another area of market visibility and Mattel will have no excuse now not to increase the budget for the line unless they want to look like total asses to the fan base. Also before anyone asks- yes I mad, I find it extremely disrespectful that they totally screw E and V over time and time again when they were nothing but professional and could have used this project as an olive branch. I'm assuming Mattel and DC are more content with their mutual admiration and would rather not have amazing inks and color by Emil and Val but whatever.
I'm buying the **** out of these!! bring on the variant covers! GREAT news! I'm so excited!
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WAYNESBORO — Taryn Miller already has a lot to remember from her freshman season.
Not only did the James Buchanan sofball team beat Waynesboro for the first time in 24 seasons in Mercersburg, the Rockets added a win in Waynesboro, and Miller pitched and hit to lead her team to a 3-0 Mid-Penn Colonial Division victory.
James Buchanan defeated Waynesboro, 5-4 earlier in the season in which the Rockets scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning. There was no such ending Friday as Miller tossed a three-hitter and the defense was superb behind her.
"Taryn has develped into a nice pitcher," said JB head coach Eric Miller. "She's never too high or too low. She's composed. She hits her spots and she lets her defense play behind her."
Miller outdueled Maiden starter Haely Beamer, who scattered five hits in a strong performance in her own right. But the Rockets managed to string together enough hits — the biggest being a two-run home run by Miller in the top of the fourth inning — to come away with the win.
"The last couple of games we haven't been hitting well," said Waynesboro head coach Doug Stuart, whose team lost a 3-0 game to Big Spring on Wednesday in Newville. "It had a lot to do with Miller. She definitely throws harder than anyone we've seen.
"There's no excuse not to get on the board."
Suffering its second straight loss after winning four in a row, Waynesboro is playing itself out of contention for a District 3-AAAA playoff bid. The Maidens (9-8, 6-4 MPC) entered the game ranked 19th in the most recent district power rating. They're sure to drop further after yesterday's loss and must win out to have a chance to finish in the top 16, the number of teams that qualify for the postseason.
The opposite is the case for the Rockets, who are in the midst of one of their best seasons ever. The win boosts JB's record to 14-4 overall, 8-3 MPC, right behind Greencastle-Antrim. The Blue Devils (14-4, 9-2 MPC) clinched a tie for the division title after beating Big Spring Friday
But JB's win over Waynesboro will help solidify perhaps a top-five seed in the district playoffs which begin May 20. The Rockets are currently ranked 6th among Class AAA teams.
As important as Miller's homer was to JB, lead-off hitter Shae Foreman set the tone for the Rockets at the plate by reaching base in all three at-bats and scoring two runs. Foreman reached base on an error in the fourth and scored ahead of Miller on a one-out four-bagger. Foreman doubled with two outs in the fifth and scored on a base hit by Shania Fogelsonger.
Meanwhile, the Maidens couldn't rely on their bread and butter, which is power ball. Callie Good did lead off the second with a double but Waynesboro failed to follow with a hit to get her home. Then, in the seventh, Sadie Harshman doubled with one out. Miller induced a grounder back to the pitcher and struck out the next batter to end the game.
Waynesboro hosts Gettysburg on Tuesday to start the final week of the regular season.
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: Waynesboro falls to James Buchanan
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Hurricane of 1938: Homes splintered, neighborhoods gone
EDITOR'S NOTE: The aftermath of the Hurricane of 1938, which struck 75 years ago Saturday, required a long recovery from catastrophic damage, but for some, there was grief as well as property loss. The second in The Day's two-part series, this story is drawn from "The Search" by Paul Johnson Moore as well as recent interviews and reporting from the time.
The news coming out of southern New England on the morning of Sept. 22, 1938, consisted of one thing: silence.
There was no way to place a phone call, no telegraph service, no trains or buses, no word from the police or Coast Guard, and no information from the newspapers.
In Schenectady, N.Y., Paul Moore was aware there had been a big storm the previous day because its western fringe had blown down an apple tree in his yard. His stepmother and sister, Havila, were at the family cottage on Fort Road at Napatree Point in Westerly, where he had left them three days earlier. His father had planned to return there today, close the cottage for the season, and bring the family home to Staten Island.
Moore, 35, an engineer at General Electric, started making long-distance inquiries about how Napatree had fared in the storm. He was mildly unsettled by his inability to get through to anyone. Finally he called the Schenectady papers and asked whether there was any news from the Associated Press. There was. A single, stark line had been transmitted:
Twenty-nine dead in Westerly. Seventy missing.
That was it. No details.
As he repeated the numbers in disbelief, Moore called his father's office in New York and learned that he had left for Rhode Island at 11 a.m. the previous day, before the storm.
With growing fear, he sent a three-word message to his family through the Red Cross: "Are you safe?"
After a day of stomach-turning uncertainty, a telegram arrived at 11:30 p.m.: "Fort Road wiped out. Mother and Havila missing. Fear for the worst. Father."
The next morning, Moore got in his car and started driving.
As the wind picked up Wednesday afternoon, Doris Reynolds' class at Lyme Consolidated School peered out the window as trees swayed and the ground heaved under them. One student asked if they were in a hurricane.
"Don't be silly, Peter," Reynolds told him. Hurricanes don't happen in New England.
But on Thursday morning, people across southeastern Connecticut and southern Rhode Island were emerging from their homes and confronting jaw-dropping evidence to the contrary.
Behind the smoking ruins of Bank Street in New London, a 180-foot ship, the lighthouse tender Tulip, had been hurled up onto the train tracks, all 1,057 tons of it. A derrick lighter had torn loose from its mooring on Pequot Avenue and smashed its way through three wharves, sinking many small boats in the process.
In Groton, more than 100 summer cottages at Bluff Point had been wiped out, and damage was heavy elsewhere along the shore. The region's commercial fishing fleet had been destroyed. Dams had burst in Norwich, and the city was under water.
The remains of summer homes at Ocean Beach in New London lay at crazy angles all along the sand, but here at least, there was opportunity. The congested resort had long been seen as a health, sanitation and moral problem, and within a week, the city was forming a plan to replace it with a public park. Whatever property could not be purchased would be taken by eminent domain.
More than a dozen people were dead in southeastern Connecticut, but the toll in Westerly was a frightful 100. Twelve of them, women from Christ Episcopal Church, had perished together on what was supposed to be a day of fun. On a picnic at Misquamicut with their pastor, they tried to take refuge from the storm in a cottage, and died there.
Only the pastor survived. He had left early to attend a funeral.
Havila Moore refused to be a victim of the birth defect that had left her unable to walk. In fact, she refused not to walk. Shunning a wheelchair or crutches, she moved through life from one piece of furniture to the next, bracing her weight on two muscular arms. Her brother often would carry her to the ocean, where she could float, liberated for a while from gravity.
But Paul Moore knew that even such fierce determination was unequal to the hurricane's rage, and he had to face the possibility that she had not survived.
As other victims, living and dead, turned up one by one, there was no trace in Westerly of Havila. Her brother, who had arrived in town after threading a maze of washed-out roads, beached boats and military checkpoints, found his father and learned immediately that his stepmother had not survived. All hope now rested in finding his sister.
Napatree, which had been lined with beach houses, was now an empty stretch of sand. Nothing was left, not even the foundations. And it was no longer accessible from the mainland, cut off by a new breachway that had made an island of it. Another breachway had separated Sandy Point, which previously had jutted north from Napatree's western end.
With nothing to search there, Moore headed for the Stonington shoreline at the far end of Little Narragansett Bay, where his neighbors, the Geoffrey Moore family, had been carried by the storm. Another neighbor also had been swept across the bay, as a roof, then a mattress, then a sailboat delivered her, battered but alive, to Connecticut.
Stonington was carpeted with walls, roofs, shutters, pieces of boats and smashed wood. One of the first things Moore saw when he arrived in town was the cars of the Bostonian train, toppled off the track and covered with rust.
Gradually, over several days of combing the shore, Moore began to pick up things that had belonged to his neighbors, almost 2 miles away. Letters, a suitcase bearing familiar initials, patio furniture in a recognizable color.
Six days after the storm, he spotted something sitting on a piece of flooring. Instantly familiar, it was made of straw, woven through with decorative strands of red and green.
It was Havila's hat.
The Paster family awoke Sept. 22 in the hay of their dairy barn in Preston and ventured out to see what was left of their old brick house, which they had fled the previous day as it had started to shake in the wind.
The walls were mostly gone, and Gussie Paster looked at the windowless foyer where she and her mother had taken refuge, believing it to be the safest place in the house.
Concrete blocks had rained down from above on the spot where they had been standing.
"We would have been gone if we had just stayed there," the now-91-year-old recalled recently.
The two floors were still intact, as was the staircase connecting them. Family members were able to go upstairs briefly to gather clothes and a few possessions. Gussie's mother retrieved some corn flakes and served breakfast in the barn with milk from the cows.
The family was lucky enough to have a two-room summer cottage half a mile away, so all eight of them packed into it until a new house could be built.
Two weeks later, what was left of their old house caught fire and was destroyed.
Guided by a description of where his neighbors had landed after being swept across the bay, Paul Moore continued to wade through the swampy coastline near Barn Island in Stonington.
Recognizable pieces from his family's cottage began to turn up amid the wreckage: a broken toilet seat, a china cupboard freshly painted a month earlier, a cabinet marked with the heights of his children. He was getting warmer and allowed himself to wonder if his sister could still be alive nearby.
By Oct. 2, a week and a half after the storm, 14 people from Napatree had been confirmed dead. Only Havila remained missing. That day, aided by a small band of volunteers, Moore found more furniture from his cottage.
He met a man and boy who also were searching and asked whether they had come across anything. They had found a dead dog in one place and had seen a swarm of flies in another, but hadn't noticed anything else.
Discouraged after another fruitless day, Moore went out for a drink with a friend when they were tracked down by a phone call. It was his neighbor, Geoffrey Moore.
"I think they've found your sister," he said.
At Flynn's funeral home in Pawcatuck, Paul Moore was given another drink to steel himself for the identification. He looked, and was sick for hours. The body had been found under 5 feet of wreckage in the spot where the flies had swarmed.
Moore returned to Schenectady and chronicled his mournful odyssey in a short book called "The Search" that would not be published for decades. But before he left, he drove to Watch Hill for a last look at Napatree, or what was left of it.
"I started home, but left my heart behind," he wrote. "I didn't look back again."
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Ariz. High School Wrestlers Arrested for Sexual Bullying of Fellow Student
Nine high school students from small Arizona town were arrested this week for allegedly bullying and hazing a fellow student, the Tucson, Ariz., ABC affiliate KGNU9 reports.
All nine offenders are members of the Sahuarita High School wrestling team. Sgt. Matt McGlone of the Sahuarita Police Department told the station that the students have each been charged with one count of aggravated assault and one count of kidnapping. Sahuarita, 25,000, lies 23 miles south of Tucson.
According to reports, the incident occurred on Tuesday night when a group of students saw another student on the ground in the school's locker room. The police were notified the following day. McGlone said the the victim is not on the wrestling team.
The police report that the incident involved lewd acts, including digital penetration, but according to McGlone, police do not have probable cause to file sexual assault charges.
"The victim was forced to the ground and forcibly held by four individuals," the police report reads. "The victim's pants and underwear were forcibly removed." The reports noted the incident lasted two to five minutes and the entire group participated in the harassment.
"The locker room apparently was full at the time so there are several people who witnessed the assault, and also were possibly involved in it," McGlone told KGNU9. "We're still trying to identify all the individual students that were involved in it." The officer added the students were charged with kidnapping because the victim was restrained.
Mike Piccarretta, an attorney not involved in this case but who has dealt with similar incidents, told the news station that the initial charges were filed as place holders, which will allow prosecutors to examine the incident thoroughly.
"When you read [the report] you need more information to determine whether the acts although they were sexual in nature, were done with a sexual motivation and that's something that the police, the prosecutors and ultimately a jury will have to struggle with," Piccarretta said.
Three of the nine students charged are adults, Andres Vasquez, Marcus Stitts and Jorge Loya-Lopez; six others, who are 14, 16 and 17, remain unnamed and will be charged as juveniles. AZ Central reported that the three adults were held in Pima County jail while a judge remanded the three minors to remain in custody at the Pima County Juvenile Detention Center. One minor is scheduled to return to court on Jan. 29 and the other two Feb. 1.
"The proper steps will be taken to find out what happened and handle it appropriately," Sahuarita Schools Superintendent Dr. Manuel Valenzuela told the TV station. He added that the authorities must finish their investigation before the district can take discipline the students.
While most outlets report nine students were charged with assault, the Sahuarita Sun reports that only six high school wrestlers were accused of hazing the victim and that police said they did not commit any sexual assault at all. "I've heard from the investigators and it was not a sexual assault in any way," McGlone told the Sahuarita Sun.
The local paper reported that prosecutors are deciding whether the students will face felony or lesser charges. A juvenile court spokeswoman told the newspaper that the juveniles, are in custody on felony kidnapping and aggravated assault charges and will appear in court next week.
Tom Drogan, a wrestling coach for the high school, said that some wrestlers have been suspended from the team after the incident but have since been reinstated.


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The first of LACMA's various film series presented in conjunction with Stanley Kubrick, 2012: A Kubrick Retrospective is a complete survey of the director's oeuvre. Screening in chronological order, this retrospective allows viewers the opportunity to consider how Kubrick's style progressed over forty-five years of filmmaking. Perhaps no other American director since Orson Welles realized a body of work so uncompromising in its artistic ambitions yet so grand in scale within the studio system. Kubrick not only pushed cinematic technologies and conventions into uncharted territories but he also changed the public perspective of the Hollywood auteur.
Born in 1928 to a secular Jewish family in the Bronx, Kubrick was a chess prodigy, avid reader, poor student, ardent cinephile, and, at seventeen, a published photographer. He never completed college. His early short documentaries developed as an outgrowth of his work for Look, the magazine that first published his images when he was still a teenager and went on to assign him shoots all over the U.S., leading to some nine-hundred images being printed within their pages in just a few years. These three shorts offer carefully observed, photo-realist portraits of people performing dangerous occupations—a boxer, a priest who administers his rural parish by plane, and unionized mariners—and the somewhat surreal worlds they inhabit.
Kubrick largely disowned his first-feature, the independent film Fear and Desire which he shot in the San Gabriel mountains, about soldiers trapped behind enemy lines, though many of its themes and tropes would recur in future Kubrick films, such as the use of voice-over, the encroachment of madness, the outbreak of senseless violence, the limits of indentured servitude, natural light cinematography and the tension of entrapment within a forbidding landscape. But perhaps most prescient is Kubrick's dominance of key aspects of the film's production: he directed, shot and edited Fear and Desire. Though he wouldn't receive such credits in subsequent motion pictures, Kubrick would continue to command every facet of his major films.
Kubrick subsequently directed a pair of artful film noirs—one shot in New York, the other in Los Angeles—and an equally minimalist and piercing war film—Paths of Glory—before turning his formidable skills to filmmaking with bigger budgets—the epic period picture Spartacus, shot in Super Technirama 70 and color.
The two black comedies that cemented his rank atop the new generation of major motion picture directors—Lolita and Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stop Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb—set into motion a career like few others in film history. Though he only completed six features in the ensuing three decades, each of them can easily stand on its own as exemplifying Kubrick's singular modernist vision, which blends individualism and terror, grand production value and abstract concepts, photorealism and the grotesque, technology and the irrational, fastidious craftsmanship and psychological trauma, and lust and conscription. Each film has been studied, admired, reviled, and copied in equal measure.
A cerebral filmmaker who researched meticulously for his major works, Kubrick maintained control of every detail from preproduction through a film's release. And whether setting his films in the trenches of the Vietnam War, the hinterlands of the American Southwest, or the furthest reaches of space, Kubrick would work from the 1960s onward in England. Not quite an exile but rather an expatriate, he made major studio pictures while never venturing more than a few hours' drive from his home. Though many of his works were met with some confusion or even outright hostility during their initial releases, they have become touchstones for film goers, filmmakers, academics, artists, musicians, writers, and mass culture alike. To many, they define the essence of modern cinema.
Bernardo Rondeau, Assistant Curator, Film
Presented with the generous support of Warner Bros. Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.


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Huskers Sign Top East Coast Recruit
Nebraska bowling Head Coach Bill Straub announced the addition of one of the top east coast recruits Friday with the signing of Gazmine Mason. Mason, a standout bowler from Cranston, R.I., will bring a ton of talent to the NU bowling team next season.
Gazmine Mason | Cranston, R.I.
Gazmine is the No. 1 bowling recruit on the east coach for the class of 2013, as she currently owns a 228 average.
Straub believes Mason will be a great contributer throughout her Husker career.
"Gazmine has the most potential of all current high school seniors in the country," Straub said. "Besides being an excellent player, she is a 'A' student. We fully expect Gazmine to be a major contributor to Husker Bowling throughout her career."
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Self-Publishing Tips (Part 1) – Preparing the Manuscript
In an early post, I provided several tips for taking an active role in preserving local history. One way to preserve local history is to write a book. In 2009, I initiated the Union High History Project to preserve the history of Union High School in Caroline County, Virginia. The end product of the project was a book that preserved the history of the school and the memories of the people who were associated with the school.
I decided to self-publish the book because I wanted creative control. I researched numerous self-publishing companies and narrowed the list down to CreateSpace and LuLu.com. I selected CreateSpace because it was associated with Amazon.
This was the first time I had every written a book and I had no idea what I was doing. I did a lot of research, made it up as I went along, made some mistakes and learned some valuable lessons.
I am happy to say I am pleased with the book. It is titled Memories of Union High: An Oasis in Caroline County, Virginia 1903-1969 and I have received a lot of positive feedback. The book uses remembrances from alumni, faculty, family and friends; excerpts from school newspapers and yearbooks; and over 100 photographs and other memorabilia to preserve the history of the school.
When people learn that I have self-published a book they often ask me for a few tips. Therefore, I decided to create a blog post to share what I learned from my experience with the Union High History Project. I have a lot of information to share, so I decided to divide it among several posts.
Originally, I decided to do all the work for the book myself. As I researched the book design process and began reading about editing, formatting, pagination, fonts etc. I quickly realized I did not have the skills to produce a professional quality document. Therefore, I decided to outsource the editing and design work. The end result of the book design process was two PDF files (one for the cover and another for the manuscript) which I uploaded to Createspace and printed. This process was much simpler and I recommend that you hire an editor and graphic designer. The final result is well worth the cost.
Here are some tips for preparing your manuscript for editing and layout before you hand over your manuscript to a professional to create the final product:
- Using a word processing software. Your manuscript should be created using either Microsoft Office or WordPerfect. Since Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software I would suggest you use that.
- Decide on document layout (but don't layout the book). When I was writing my book I inserted images, captions, text boxes, headers, and footers in the document. After I hired the editor I learned that I should not have done that, so I had to undo all that work. The positive aspect of me laying out the book was I had a clear vision of what I wanted the document to look like and could communicate my vision to the professionals. Even though you should not layout your book, you should have a general idea of what you want the book to look like.
- Format the document. The document should be double spaced with a clean, readable font such 12-point Times Roman. Use the same font throughout the document and do not format the text (e.g. no bold, italics, underline etc.). Use a left justified margin and indent the first line of each paragraph with a single tab. Use only one hard return between paragraphs. Do not use hard returns at the end of a sentence; let the text wrap naturally to the next line. Begin each chapter on a new page and give each chapter a title. Number every page.
- Decide on image placement. Images can be grouped together in one section (usually the center) or dispersed throughout the document. Grouping the photos in one location will help keep the cost down because it makes the graphic designer's work easier. It also can save on printing cost if the images are color because that one section can be printed in color (which is more expensive than black and white) and the remaining sections of the book can be printed in black and white. In some instances it is more appropriate to spread the images throughout the document. In the case of Memories of Union High, photos and text boxes were positioned next to a person's memory; therefore, the images were spread throughout the document.
- Ensure document has the proper sections. A book has three main parts: Front, Body and End. Each of these parts is comprised of various sections (some required and some optional).
- The front portion of the book consists of the following sections. Half-title page contains only the title of the book. Title page contains: book title; subtitle; author; collaborators and contributors; and publisher. Imprint Page contains the copyright notice, publisher contact information, Library of Congress Catalog Number (LCCN) and ISBN. (You will learn more about these items in a future post.) These sections are followed by the Dedication (optional), Table of Contents, Acknowledgements (optional), Author's Notes (optional). The Foreword is optional and is usually written by someone other than the author. It explains why the reader should read the book. The Preface is optional and explains how the book came about.
- The body of the book is the main part and usually consists of the chapters including the introduction and conclusion.
- The back portion of the book consists of End notes, Appendix, Bibliography and Index. These sections are optional; however, if you are writing a local history book, I encourage you to at a minimum have end notes and a bibliography to document the sources for your information. The Appendix can be used to include supplemental information which may be of interest or use to the reader.
Memories of Union High contains three Appendices. The first appendix contains Principal Messages from the yearbooks. These messages added value to the book by providing insight into the principal's thought process, but there was no place to include them in the main portion of the book. Therefore, I thought it was best to put the information in an Appendix.
The second Appendix contains a summary of historical events that took place during the time period covered by the book. Originally, I included explanations for these events in the main portion of the book. This made the flow of the book awkward and difficult to read. Additionally, the information was not necessary for people who were familiar with these historical events. Summarizing the information in the Appendix was the best place for the information because it allowed readers who needed the summary to review the information before reading the book.
The last appendix contained a list of all the Union High History Project Participants. Originally, I included this information in the acknowledgements section; however with over 100 participants the list was entirely to long. Therefore, I moved the information to an appendix.
6. Ensure images are of good quality. It is important to have good quality photos to eliminate the need for the graphic designer to do extra work to correct problem areas which can greatly increase the cost of the graphic design work. Images should be of high quality (300 dpi or higher) and should be free of major flaws or blemishes. Poor quality or damaged images may require some restoration. If you are handy with graphic editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, you can repair the photographs yourself. Otherwise, it may be necessary to use the services of a person who specializes in photo restoration. I used Drew Klausner from pixlfixl.com and was very please with his prices and his work. He often gives discounts to repeat customers.
7. Create an image folder. Each image should be labeled sequentially (ex. image1, image2 etc.) and all the images should be placed in one folder.
8. Insert image and text box place holders. A place holder such as [Image1], should be used to indicate where the image should be placed in the manuscript. The place holder should correspond to the filename for the image in the image folder. The text for the text box should be included in the manuscript. A place holder (ex. [textbox 3] )should be used to indicate the text to be included in a text box
9. Create caption file. The caption file should be a sequentially numbered list and contain the text for the caption for each image or text box. (ex. Homecoming 1968 attendants, Miss Union High and Miss Football Sweetheart. Source: 1969 Union High Yearbook.) The number on the list should correspond to the number of the image or text box. Example, Item 1 on the list in the caption file is the caption for Image1 in the image folder.
10. Proofread the manuscript. You should meticulously proofread the manuscript before submitting it to the editor and graphic designer. This will greatly cut down on the number of revisions that are needed which will help keep the cost down. I suggest enlisting the help of a friend or family member with the task. (Just one person will do. Feedback from too many people will cause confusion.)
If you follow the above tips, your manuscript will be ready for editing and design by the appropriate professionals. The next blog posts will discuss selecting an editor and graphic designer, the editing and design process and how to obtain identifying information for your book.
If you have any questions about the information in this post feel free to submit a comment and I will reply.
Next Post: Self-Publishing Tips (Part 2) – Preparing to Hire an Editor and Designer


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LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Duke baseball team took a 3-2 lead in the top of the eighth, but Liberty responded with two runs in the bottom of the frame to defeat the Blue Devils 4-3 Sunday afternoon at Liberty Baseball Stadium.
Ashton Perritt (3-0) earned the win for Liberty, striking out two while allowing two unearned runs in the final two frames. Sophomore Andrew Istler (3-4) did not give up an earned run but suffered the loss after an inning of work. Istler allowed one hit, walked one and struck out one batter.
Liberty (27-21) totaled 10 hits for the game, led by Perritt, Bryan Aanderud and Dalton Britt with two apiece. Duke (25-23) had five hits in the game with Jeff Kremer, Chris Marconcini, Aaron Cohn, Grant McCabe and Kenny Koplove recording one hit each.
Junior Robert Huber pitched the first three innings for Duke and escaped a bases loaded jam in the first to keep the game scoreless early.
Liberty broke through with a pair of runs in the fifth to stake a 2-0 advantage. Perritt led off with an infield single and Aanderud followed suit with a base hit of his own. The first run of the game crossed the plate on a Trey Wimmer RBI single before Danny Grauer sent a sac fly to left for the Flames' second run.
Liberty's 2-0 advantage held until the eighth when Duke was able to capitalize on a Flame error to take a 3-2 lead. Sophomore Andy Perez drew the leadoff walk and Marconcini reached via a throwing error credited to the Liberty shortstop. After Cohn was hit by a pitch to load the bases, McCabe delivered the two-run single to tie the game at 2-2. McCabe then induced the throw from the mound on a steal, allowing Perkins, who came in to pinch run for Cohn, to score from third on the delayed double steal.
Much like Duke in the top half of the inning, Liberty was able to utilize a Blue Devil error to plate a pair of runs. Nick Lacik started the rally with tough at bat, ultimately drawing the leadoff walk after fouling off several pitches. Ryan Cordell followed with a base hit to place runners at first and second. Nick Paxton sent a groundball to first but the throw to second got away from Koplove, allowing Lacik to score the tying run. An intentional walk to Britt loaded the bases and a well-executed squeeze play brought the go-ahead run home.
Next up, Duke travels to Davidson Tuesday, May 7 for a 6 p.m., contest against the Wildcats.


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The University of Northwestern (MN) snapped Luther's five-game win streak posting a 72-69 overtime victory in the Ericksen Center. In a game that saw 13 ties and 14 lead changes, the Eagles outscored the Norse 9-6 in the extra five minutes of action to secure the win.
The difference in the game was four more three-point buckets by the Eagles, who were 9-of-34 from behind the arch. Both teams made a total of 27 field goals and Luther had a one-point advantage at the charity stripe.
Four Norse tallied double digits led by Tayler Jenks and Taylor Johnson who both scored 12 points. Nellie Nelson and Logan Hjerleid both chipped in 10.
The Eagles were led by Jessica Fife who recorded a double-double with 19 points and 20 rebounds.
The loss gives Luther an overall record of 7-2. Northwestern improved to 6-3.
The Norse will return to action on Monday, Dec. 30 when they will travel to UW-River Falls for a 7:00 p.m. game.
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Huskers Cap Best Season In History at No. 16
Head Coach Scott Jacobson's Thoughts
On the significance of this season
"I believe this season was significant as it brought more exposure to our program both Nationally and internationally. We are hopeful that the success of our program will lead to talented young athletes from all over the world to consider our Husker family."
On the growth of the team and its importance
"Every year is important. The long term success of our program is due to talented young athletes committed to the concept of "team first". 16 of the past 17 years our program has obtained a National ranking, placing it in the top 25 percent of all division 1 programs on a consistent basis. The past 4 years our program has elevated to a level comparable to the top 5 to 10 percent of programs throughout the Nation. We hope to continue the tradition that has been present with a group of very young, but talented individuals entering our program."
On Mary Weatherholt's success and accomplishments
"I don't believe there will ever been any one person that will accomplish more than Mary Weatherholt has accomplished at Nebraska. She is the best tennis player in the history of our program. More important, she was honored for her accomplishments off the court, and her service to the community. Mary also was acknowledged as the Nations winner of the Cissie Leary Sportsmanship award. She is an incredibly well rounded young lady, and I'm sure she will have tremendous success in whatever avenue she pursues."
On what is next for the women's tennis team and thoughts on the growth of the younger players
"We have several new faces joining the program next fall. We believe we have a tremendously talented freshmans class. Replacing our top 4 players in a year that was the Universities best in school history is a tremendously challenging task. We believe next year program will compete at incredibly high level and we as a coaching staff are excited to get started. The leadership of Maggy, Izabella, Maike and Lauren, will be very important to the success of our program."
Huskers Advance To Sweet 16 First Time Ever
The Huskers reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history where they fell to then-No.2 North Carolina 1-4. The team finished the season ranked No. 16 in the nation, the same as last season's final, after achieving a school-high No. 6 midway through the season on March 12.
Weatherholt Achieves NCAA Singles Runner-up
Mary Weatherholt had a historic march in the NCAA Singles tournament to cap her final year as a Huskers. Going 5-1 in the tournament, she stormed her way into the championship match where she fell to the defending champion Nicole Gibbs of Stanford. Weatherholt is the only player for Nebraska to ever reach a national championship.
Huskers Earn Conference Title, First Time since 1978The Huskers earned their first conference title since 1978 when they were still members of the Big Eight conference. Nebraska rounded out the regular season 10-1 in Big Ten play to tie for first with Michigan and share the regular-season Big Ten Conference title. This was the team's first conference title as a member of the Big Ten. The scarlet and cream were unable to produce a tournament title after falling in the semifinals to Northwestern, but still they take home the trophy for the 2013 season as Big Ten regular season co-champions.
Huskers In The ITA National Rankings
Nebraska finished the season ranked 16th in the nation. The ITA Division I women's tennis rankings were released Tuesday, May 28 and Nebraska remained at the No. 16 spot in the nation concluding the NCAA tournament play. The Huskers have remained in the top 25 of the nation the entire 2013 season to date peaking at No. 6, the highest in school history.
Mary Weatherholt jumped to No. 6 in ITA singles holding a record of 30-2 (16-2 against ranked opponents) on the season and becoming the NCAA Singles Runner-up for 2013. This is the highest singles ranking ever achieved by a Husker.
Mary Weatherholt and partner Patricia Veresova remained in the ITA doubles rankings at No. 7 this week. The two went 22-3 on the season, including eight victories against ranked opponents.
Nebraska went 13-5 against teams ranked in the ITA top 75, with six victories against opponents ranked inside the top 25. The highest-ranked opponent they faced was No. 2 North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 round.
The Huskers finished as the third-highest ranked team in the Big Ten behind No. 10 Michigan and No. 12 Northwestern. Eight teams from the Big Ten finished the season in the top 75, with a total of three in the top 25. The remaining ranked Big Ten teams are No. 27 Purdue, No. 42 Indiana, No. 45 Illinois, No. 47 Penn State, and No. 73 Ohio State.
Huskers in the Record Books
Weatherholt, with her 30-2 singles mark on the season, set the record for Career Singles wins at 123, previously held by Sandra Noetzel from 1996-2000. She set the record on Friday, Feb. 22 with a victory agaisnt UALR.
Weatherholt's 30 singles wins ties her at No. 2 on the Season Singles wins list, matching her 30 of the 2011-12 season. Her singles record also reached No. 1 on the Season Singles Winning percentage list at .938 over her previous record for the 2008-09 season (.9)
Weatherholt's 123-23 career singles record extends lead at No. 1 on the Career Singles Winning percentage list with a percentage of .842.
Weatherholt, with an impressive record this season at a 52-6 combined record, has reached 208 combined victories to become the winningest women's tennis player in Huskers history, formerly held by former teammate Madeleine Geibert with 181 total career combined wins. Weatherholt notched her 200th career win with her singles victory over Rebecca Pedrazzi of Wichita State on Friday, May 10 in the NCAA First Round. Weatherholt has become the first and only women's tennis player to reach 200 combined victories as a Husker and the only All-American in singles for Nebraska.
Stefanie Weinstein has notched 51 combined victories this season which places her at No. 2 on the Career Combined wins record board (with 186). She passed Madeleine Geibert on Friday, April 26 with her two victories against Minnesota.
Weinstein had 28 individual doubles wins this season which puts her at the No. 1 spot on the school's Career Doubles Individual Wins list at 97. She passed former teammate Madeleine Geibert at 91 with her victory against Michigan State on Sunday, April 14 to take the top spot. The 28 victories also puts Weinstein tied for No. 2 on the Season Doubles individual wins list.
Weatherholt has accumulated 22 doubles individual wins this season putting her at No. 3 on the Career Doubles Individual wins with 85.
Janine Weinreich amassed 29 doubles individual victories in the 2012-13 season notching her at No. 4 on the Career Doubles Individuals wins list with 77 total. Weinreich toppled Reimers (74) with her victory on Friday, April 26 against Wisconsin.
Weinreich's 29 doubles wins put her tied for No. 1 spot on the Season Doubles Individuals wins list. The record matched teammate Stefanie Weinstein's 29 wins in 2011-12.
Weinstein and Weinreich, as a doubles team, climbed to the top of the Season Doubles Team wins to be tied at No. 1 with their 28 victories for the 2012-13 season.
Weatherholt and Veresova reached No. 5 on the Season Doubles Team Wins list with 22.
The Huskers 24-6 record ties for No. 3 on the Fewest Team Losses board and No. 1 on the Most Team wins board. The team's season record also places them at No. 3 for Season Team Winning Percentage (.8) behind the 2012 (.828) and 2005 (.818) seasons, No. 1 and No. 2 respectively.
Huskers Win the Herman, Weatherholt Grabs Top Honors
The women's tennis team earned Nebraska's Herman Award, which goes to the team with the highest team GPA of all the Huskers sports, with a GPA of 3.793. The team won the award last season in 2012 as well.
Weatherholt also earned Nebraska's Student Athlete of the Year award. The award only goes to one male and one female student athlete from all Huskers sports every year and Weatherholt's hard work and success both on and off the court was able to see the senior attain the honor in her final season as a Husker student athlete.
Weatherholt also was the recipient of Nebraska's Student-Athlete HERO Leadership Award for the 2012-13 school year and season making it her third consecutive.
Weatherholt Wins Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award
Mary Weatherholt received the National ITA Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award this season. She qualified for the award based on her outstanding capabilities both on and off the court. The ITA/Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship goes to a Division I women's player who displays inspiring dedication and commitment to her team, which has enhanced her team's performance and exemplified the spirit of college tennis. It dates back to 1997 and is memory of the late and widely admired Penn women's tennis coach Cissie Leary.
Weatherholt and Veresova Earn All-America Honors
Mary Weatherholt and Patricia Veresova grab All-America honors for their performance this season. Weatherholt became the first-ever singles All-American for Nebraska while also pairing with Veresova to become only the second-ever doubles team to secure All-America accolades as a duo.
Huskers Grab Academic All-Conference Honors
The Huskers showed that they can get the job done both on and off the court. Six of the eight players on the Nebraska women's tennis team earned Academic All-Big Ten accolades for the 2013 season. The players who received the honors are seniors Patricia Veresova, Mary Weatherholt, Janine Weinreich, and Stefanie Weinstein, along with junior Maike Zeppernicka and sophomore Izabella Zgierska.
All of these players received Academic All-Big Ten in 2012 except Izabella Zgierska who was a freshman at the time. This isn't the only award the Huskers have grabbed due to their performance in the lecture halls as they received the Nebraska Herman Award earlier in the spring. The Herman goes to one men's and one women's team with the highest average GPA among all sports of both genders. This marks the third year straight that the women's tennis squad has won the Herman and had the majority of their team qualify for Academic All-Conference.
To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selection, student-athletes must be letterwinners who are in at least their second academic year at their institution and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
Weatherholt Earns Big Ten Medal of Honor
Mary Weatherholt was honored by the Big Ten Conference named the 2013 Medal of Honor winner for Nebraska women's sports. The conference's most prestigious award, the Big Ten Medal of Honor was first awarded in 1915 to one student-athlete from the graduating class of each university who had "attained the greatest proficiency in athletics and scholastic work."
The Big Ten Medal of Honor was the first award in intercollegiate athletics to demonstrate support for the educational emphasis placed on athletics. It was acclaimed throughout the nation, and in particular by the NCAA "as one of the significant gestures yet made in college sports." The Big Ten Medal of Honor was expanded in 1982 to include one female student-athlete from each institution. In 2014, the conference will celebrate the 100th anniversary of this prestigious award.
Mary Weatherholt Earns Athlete of the Week Three Times
The senior from Prairie Village, Kan. won the Big Ten Women's Tennis Athlete-of-the-Week honors on March 13 following her impressive undefeated record, including several victories over ranked opponents in both singles and doubles. This marks the third time that Weatherholt has earned the award this season thus far, after claiming the honors the week of Jan. 30 and Feb. 13.


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LOWELL -- A 47-year-old Lowell man was sentenced Monday to more than six years in prison after he pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a charge of transporting child pornography.
William Noble was sentenced by US. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton to 81 months in prison followed by five years of supervised released after he pleaded guilty in May to transporting child pornography, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston.
Prosecutors allege that Noble, under the user name "notmeatall," communicated online through a peer-to-peer network with an undercover agent.
Noble made nearly 2,000 child-pornography image and video files available for trading and sharing, the release states. From Noble, the agent downloaded 49 files depicting children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including several with adult men and boys who appeared to be as young as 4.
After his release from prison, Noble must register as a sex offender.
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in February 2006 to protect children from exploitation and abuse.


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TRAINING: Working hard every day in all aspects of MMA
When and why did you start training for fighting? I've been fighting all my life.... fighting for the right.... to Paaaaarty! LOL. No, but seriously, I first found out about MMA fighting from a UFC DVD from Blockbuster. I fell in love with the sport and had my first amateur fight six months after watching that DVD.
What ranks and titles have you held? I have held 4 amateur belts in two different weight classes - 145lbs and 155lbs; I also have held one professional belt at 135lbs.
Do you have any heroes? I have many heroes in my life. My number one hero is my Lord and savior Jesus Christ; God has given me an incredible life, filled with amazing family and friends. I have so much to be thankful for and I am very grateful for everything He has blessed me with. Another hero in my life is my father-in-law, who has been like a second father to me. I look up to him for the morals he lives by and the love he has for his family and I enjoy all the laughs we share together.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It means the world to me!!! Six years ago I set a very specific goal with my best friend Chris Merritt. That goal was to one day fight in the UFC, so not only am I accomplishing a goal, but I am fulfilling a dream!
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I actually went to a few colleges and wasted a lot of money on credits that never transferred. But I do have an associates degree of occupational study for personal training.
What was your job before you started fighting? I had many jobs throughout my MMA career and never kept any of them for more than a year. What can I say...I'm not cut out to be a 9 to 5er.
Specific accomplishments in amateur competition? As an amateur I have won the WKA Northeastern regional 145lbs and 155lbs titles, I have won the Total Cage Combat Featherweight Championship and the Vahalla Featherweight Championship.
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? I recently won the Ring of Combat Bantamweight Championship
Favorite grappling technique: I love the triangle choke!
Favorite striking technique: Any strike that finishes with a knockout
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