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AAS community members are supporting Mr. Valeriy, our longstanding dance teacher, after a devastating fire at his country home.
It is with a heavy heart that we share with our alumni community that longtime AAS Dance teacher Mr. Valeriy Trofimchuk experienced a devastating fire at his country home. Mr. Valeriy lost his wife in the fire and was seriously injured. His young daughter Masha also received burns and went through surgery but is now doing better. Mr. Valeriy was initially in a coma as a result of his injuries but is now awake and undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Our AAS community continues to show tremendous support, helping Mr. Valeriy and his family where needed. Within days, we received donations of many items Valeriy and his family needed to replace the items lost in the fire.
AAS parents and staff donated over 300,000 rubles within weeks of learning about this devastating fire.
AAS students across all divisions organized a fundraiser bake and t-shirt sale, raising over $4000 dollars.
Our thoughts are with Valeriy and his family during this very difficult time.
AAS faculty and staff have set up a PayPal fund to support Mr. Valeriy and his family. You can donate here: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8byUTUp0TH and the fund will be cashed and delivered to Mr. Valeriy in June 2019.
Please note that the PayPal fund is an initiative of a group of AAS employees and is not a registered charity or fund.
Click on the image below for a photo album of the recent student fundraiser.


Red meat that's used to make steaks has its fair share of negatives just like any other food source. And just like everything else, there are ways to minimize and avoid all those negatives. In this league, the first thing that you must know is that as long as you consume steaks made with USDA graded beef – Prime, Choice, and Select – you're not exposing yourself to any danger. Other than this, the area from where the cuts are taken make a lot of difference too.
If you love steaks but are unsure how to stay healthy without giving up on your favorite food, the guide below will have you introduced to the 7 Healthiest steak cuts you can always order without a second thought.
Top Round Steak – It is derived from the insides of hip cheek of the cattle. It has just 240 Calories and supplies 36.9 grams of protein. Served at all high-end Steakhouses like Ribnreef, this one is one of the most popular options amongst health conscious people and bodybuilders.
Bottom Round Steak – This is the beef from the outer surface of the hip area of farm raised and well-fed healthy cattles. The only consideration is that this cut is stiff and requires proper marination so that the steak doesn't go dry upon cooking. It delivers 300 calories and 47.2 grams of protein.
Top Sirloin – This steak cut is one of the most preferred options. However, it can turn out to be dry if not marinated well before cooking. It delivers 316 calories and is loaded with 51.6 grams of protein.
Filet Mignon – Packed with 348 calories and 48 grams of protein, Filet mignon steak is very tender and juicy. Nevertheless, it is extremely flavorsome and needs no margination.
Porterhouse Steak – This is a stiff steak that is cut from the area closest to tenderloin. It is one of the highly rated and expensive steak types that delivers 346 calories and 46.2 grams of protein.
Skirt Steak – Cut from the Chest muscles of the cow, skirt steak is very flavorful and delivers 348 calories and 45.4 grams of protein.
New York Strip Steak – This stiff steak is cut from the area closest to the T-bone. Without margination, this steak goes dry and loses flavor. Additionally, it is punched with 46 grams of protein and delivers 360 calories.
Other than these healthiest options, even T-bone and ribeye steak cuts are popular and healthy.


I did a couple of straightforward alterations (strap shortening, shelf bra removal) on this dress, but the most profound improvement was the simplest. I just twisted the skirt a few inches, and I instantly had a better-fitting, way more interesting garment. Not really a refashion, I suppose, but I was so surprised at how much difference such a small and easy change can make that I just had to share it with you!
The alteration details and the obligatory backstory can be found on my blog, The Unfashionista!
Nicely done! Sometimes quick and easy changes are the best!


So, they abandoned life on the water for a land-based existence, these families that made up the Myette Point community. The transition came with gains and losses. One of the losses was the convenience of having all your supplies brought to you by the fishboats, so that one of the immediate needs that had to be met was finding a place to purchase provisions such as groceries, staples, fishing equipment, etc. – all of the things the fishboats had previously made available. The nearest source for this that they found was the plantation company stores and one privately owned store of a similar nature. There were two sugar plantations that were somewhat near to Myette Point - Oaklawn and Bellevue. Each of these had a company store that could provide the basic needs of the families, and the other one was a private establishment owned and operated by Medric Martin since 1935 and continuing today. Early on, the Martin store, known to all local people as "Medric's", became the primary location for the needs of the new community at Myette Point. It was about three miles away by dirt and gravel road, while the Bellevue store was about five miles from Myette Point. Interestingly, the Oaklawn plantation store was closer but does not seem to have cultivated business from the new community. They went, instead, to Medric's. Mr. Medric is 95 years old as this is written, and he has many memories of the early days of Myette Point and its people. He speaks favorably of them with respect to their ability to function in a frontier environment, and of their honesty in commercial dealings. In the first few years he would deliver groceries to the levee when the road was dry, and he often hunted ducks with them.
As always in any fishing activity, not all fish were considered prime saleable items. The familiar catfish and buffalo were almost always marketable, but not so garfish and choupique (bowfin). Boys who caught such fish saw opportunity in a public not averse to eating them. This population was primarily the black workers of the plantation population. Whenever a garfish or choupique was caught, the boys would walk the two and a half miles to the plantation and sell their fish to enthusiastic buyers there. However, there was a catch to these sales that provides an opportunity to mention a part of the plantation economy not often discussed today. It is the token system.
On some plantations, such as Oaklawn, there was a double method of payment used. The more familiar one would be the one where cash was paid to employees at an agreed upon rate for work done. This was paid monthly. The other method used tokens. It seems that if an employee ran out of cash between pay periods, they could appeal to the plantation on a day called "order day" for an advance on the next pay day. This advance would be made to them in the form of tokens, metallic coin-like pieces that had monetary value assigned by the plantation. The tokens could only be used at the company store. Enter the Myette Point boys. When they sold their garfish and choupiques to the plantation workers, they often received tokens as payment, which in turn could only be used to buy things at the company store. They did accept this form of payment for their fish, not having much option. Edward Couvilleir and Bootsie Millet talk about this.
EC: I remember…I remember when we used to catch a gar, a choupique or somethin me and Bootsie took [off] and head to the front with that sucker to sell it.
EC: Yeah lord! They had a oak tree about…almost middle ways along the trail [in the fields] goin to the lake, and that's where you stop and rest, under that oak tree.
EC: Big old tree, man! There wasn't no such thing as ridin…walk to the front, over here. And they had them tokens out here, that's what they'd pay us for the fish with, tokens. [. . .] That's what they had at Oaklawn.
EC: Tokens. They had a triangle hole in the middle of em. Yeah. You had to buy from Oaklawn Store with that.
The token image is from the Exonumia website.
The river is at 13.2 feet on the Butte La Rose gauge, rising just a little in the next few days. The Mississippi and Ohio will encourage falling stages on the Atchafalaya after that. The river shrimp are starting their migration 30 miles south of here. They should be here in two or three weeks. Fun to see at night.
Most of us assume that the word "education" means reading, writing and arithmetic, and in the restricted sense that would be true. In this restricted sense, these are learned skills that would be taught by paid teachers in some sort of dedicated building. But, of course, in so many ways the true education received by people in general includes much, much more than that. A definition of education in this more general sense might emphasize the need to learn those skills necessary to provide food, clothing and shelter for oneself. Perhaps the need for social skills might be added to this.
The Myette Point families had ample education in the general sense. They learned to convert energy into food and shelter at an early age. They learned the social skills needed to thrive in close living conditions. They learned how to apply established techniques to the problems of everyday lif e, and to discard those that were not workable – always substituting some variation that might work better. Government agencies have only recently learned this useful process; they call it adaptive management, as though it was a new thing.
If food, clothing and shelter are the primary criteria for life, and skills for achieving those things are available from mentors all around you, then the other skills are simply not essential. During a certain period of time, then, reading, writing and arithmetic were not necessary to living a successful life in the Basin, and the absence of schools for teaching these things was not a serious issue or a disadvantage.
However, even in the Basin some of the Myette Point families had opportunities to learn in the schoolroom. There were two of these schools; the first one in the central Basin on the island known as Hog Island and the other, later one, on the levee after the Myette Point community had been formed. Both of these were the results of efforts by Baptist missionaries to bring religion and learning to Basin inhabitants.
The most memorable religious influence, at least to people who l ived there, began with the building of the Little Brown Church. This floating building was used all up and down the middle Atchafalaya region for Baptist missionary work. There were two of these. The first was dismantled and used to build the Hog Island school. Margaret Couvillier Neal was a student at the school.
The teachers at these Baptist missionary schools were often members of the missionary community. Sometimes they were the wives of the missionary men.
It should be mentioned that, prior to the Baptist activity, there was Catholic missionary work in the Basin also, in the person of a Father R.J. Gobeil. With his own boats, he moved himself around the Basin, ministering to the houseboat communities where he found them. Even though there was education offered, it tended toward progressing in stages through the Catholic religion, and there is no mention of interest in starting schools where secular learning could be had. On the other hand, the Baptist missionaries tended to promote schools within the larger framework of general education.
Incr easing pressure from government policies regarding compulsory education was one of the reasons why the Myette Point families decided to leave the Basin and the houseboats they had lived on for generations. Most people migrated to towns and could take advantage of school facilities existing there. The Myette Point families did their best to comply with the required school experience and still continue to live and function in close harmony with the Atchafalaya. They moved to Myette Point and then started sending their children to Franklin schools. This did not work due to the difficulty of getting the kids to a bus, about three miles over dirt/mud roads. After leaving the water permanently, all of them by 1950 or so, the requirement to send the children to school and the difficulties this still presented, attracted more effort from Ira Marks, the Baptist missionary who had been responsible for setting up the school and missionary church at Hog Island more than a decade earlier. The primary difficulty was in getting the school-age children living on the levee to a place where a school bus could pick them up. In the early years, this meant someone driving them to "the front" over questionably passable dirt/mud roads the distance of about three miles. In rainy/muddy weather, they had to walk. Noting this difficulty, and in collaboration with the Baptists, the community built a school on the skirt of the levee that functioned for three years. The school was finally closed when a road was shelled (the building continued to function as a church), improving it to the point where a school bus could reach the levee and transport the children. The children born after about 1945, then, were all schooled first in Franklin, then at Myette Point until the road was improved, and then most of them finished in Franklin.
So, education, formal education, has that kind of history in the four generations of people who make up the Myette Point community. Literacy was spread widely in people born around the Basin in the 1850s, it was not prevalent in those born from 1880 to 1940, and then it was again prominent. It is interesting that literacy, when not necessary to day-to-day life, can be so easily discontinued. Having been a factor in the first generation, it was not encouraged within the second and third generations, and then was reestablished as a functional tool by the fourth generation. Today, children born to the fourth generation are themselves teachers, lawyers, accou ntants, religious leaders, and many other professions that take formal education for granted.
The black and white pictures are from the collection of Darlene Soule and from Artie Buck.
The river is at 16.7 feet on the Butte La Rose gauge, falling slowly to 15.0 feet by the 17th. Nothing in the Ohio or Mississippi wants to extend the high water this year. Looks like we have had what we are going to get.
Since this story is about the Atchafalaya Basin and the people who inhabited it, there can be only one levee to speak about – the one that fundamentally changed the Basin and the way the people related to it. It was built in the 1930s as a result of the flood of 1927, the latter having taken place at a time when the Mississippi floods could cause national rather than only local distress, and at a time when the federal government was ready to do something to prevent similar floods in the future, if possible. The new national outcry to "do something" was met with the Flood Protection Act, enabling the federal government to apply planning and funds toward effective flood prevention for the first time. It was this Act that mandated the levees in the Basin, changing it forever. Where there had previously been only a huge natural overflow basin for the Atchafalaya River, there was now a somewhat lesser basin with hundreds of miles of manmade levee totally defining the flowage hydrology in the swamp, and restricting it to the will of man, so far.
There are, of course, two levees around the Basin, the East and West Protection Levees. But using the term "levee" in singular form is desirable here. It is always referred to in singular in the interviews with the Myette Point families because the concept of what the levees meant is an overriding and all-inclusive idea. Consequently, "the levee" means more than a ridge of dirt extended for many miles. It means in aggregate all the adjustment s that had to be made and all the environmental changes that took place. It was at one time a barrier to travel and a provider of a new means of travel. It brought an opportunity for changing lifestyles. It made life on land possible and life on the water harder. It gave life and it took life. "The levee" did these things, and more.
When it was built, did this new thing, this long dike, cause the Basin residents to rise up and create petitions, or march on someplace, or start campaigns citing potential environmental degradation? No, it did not. The people most affected by the levee were not activists in a broad sense; that kind of aggressive response is mostly for those who can view effects from outside a situation. The Basin people were on the inside in the strictest sense. They were the ones who were so intertwined with the environment that they were almost part of it, and so had to adjust to the changes around them, or succumb to them. Most people made the adjustment, for as long as the changes were not lethal to life, they could be absorbed. Old ways disappeared and new ways emerged.
The presence of the levee to the Myette Point families is so significant that their existence in the Basin can really be divided into the before and after levee construction. So, before the levee, what was the Basin like? It was a vast, open, unrestricted piece of semi-aquatic environment mostly unattractive to human beings. It had many characteristics that made it uncomfortable to people. It had mosquitoes, and snakes, and water and mud – all of which civilization tends to eliminate over time, if it can, by spraying the mosquitoes, killing the snakes, draining the w ater and drying up the mud, and so making living easier for some fraction of the human population. But for a long time the Basin defied attempts at those modifications, simply because it was so big. Modification was only possible on a grand scale, but the Basin met its match in that the building of the levee was just such a large-scale modification. In cutting through drainages, the levee restricted one of the Basin's primary inherent features, its watercourses. Subsequent realignment and dredging applied to these watercourses was enough to initiate changes that would redefine the Basin environment forever.
People who lived in the Basin had different responses to the flood of 1927. If they lived on land, the water inundated their houses (to a depth of 12 feet on Hog Island, a previously thought to be safe place). It drowned their chickens, cows and other livestock. Gardens and fruit trees were killed by the flooding that lasted for many weeks. If people lived on houseboats, however, the obvious merits of rising with the water are apparent. Th e older generation (Blaise Sauce) of Myette Point people was already on houseboats and some of the succeeding generation too. These people tied their boats along upper Bayou Lafourche along with other houseboats. When the water receded, many people returned to the land they had relinquished to the high water and rebuilt their lives there. Others moved their houseboats back into the Basin. To these Basin residents, the political response to the 1927 flooding was not very apparent during the next few years, but the big changes had been put in place and the new resolve to prevent future catastrophes was effective in putting the money and people together. The levee was going to be built, and there would be big changes in the flow of water in the Basin.
The higher volumes of water every year, and the restricted flow in the deeper Basin channels, created swifter currents and more dangerous whirlpools. The small boats used by the people were not meant for these hazardous conditions, push skiffs being particularly susceptible to whirlpools, or eddies as they were sometimes called. Putt Couvillier had memories of someone who was still trying to fish in 1941 or 1942 with a push skiff. He notes how dangerous fishing in the strong currents generated subsequent to the building of the levee could be.
Just as was the case in the timber industry, work offered by the levee project was eagerly accepted by the Basin people. They were already good at the things needed to build the levee – the expertise with tools and machinery was highly valued. And truly, by engaging in these actions, the families helped shape the future of their own landscape. They helped build the conditions for the end of the Basin as they had known it for generations, and they built their own bridge to a future on land and all that that entailed.
It was a bridge in that it was the transition to living on land. Because that is so, it is important here to realize that the newly built levee was now functioning as a gathering place for people trying to leave, and in some ways trying to remain close and not to leave, the Basin. Eventually 15 houseboats would congregate in Myon's Canal, live ther e for a few years, gradually getting used to the new conditions, and finally moving over the levee.
So, there was a before and after phase to the placement of the levee in the Atchafalaya Basin, with the construction of the levee as the central defining point. Before the levee there was unfettered access to anywhere in the Basin that there was water to take you. After, there was restricted access, the restrictions dictated by the levee itself. Before the levee there was an open Grand Lake, miles across and miles long. After the levee there were narrow bayous and land where before there had been only water. Before the levee there were people living their whole lives in the Basin. After the levee there were no longer people living in the Basin.
But the levee was a generous home to the Myette Point families for 25 years, beginning in about 1950 and ending abruptly in 1975. During that time, four generations of the families lived there. The last generation was the only one that did not experience houseboats as a way of life.
It was generous, and then, in a way the levee evicted them. The 1972 high water threatened to overtop it, which in turn caused the Corps of Engineers to have to do levee repair at Myette Point. The people were living along the levee such that they were in the way of the repairs, with no legal right to be there, and the Corps required them to move. As a group, most of them moved to a location on Bayou Teche, but that's another story.
The picture of moving is from Edward Couvillier and the two black and white ones are from the Darlene Soule collection.
The River is at 18.6 feet on the Butte La Rose gauge, heading down to 17 feet in the next five days. The Ohio and Mississippi are not sustaining any more high water at this time. Time to think about getting crawfish traps out of shallow swamps. Too bad, but it is June, after all.


NEW ORLEANS – On the track. In the field. And in the classroom.
There were no shortage of incredible efforts during the 2018 indoor and outdoor track & field seasons.
That's why the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) is pleased to honor those individuals and teams who stood out both academically and athletically.
Scroll below to find out those individuals and teams who earned All-Academic accolades in NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and the NAIA.


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Second Sutton Coldfield school targeted by thieves in callous pre-Christmas raid
Burglars struck twice at Holland House Infant School and Nursery, stealing 15 iPads and on the same day as the second raid, broke in to Walmley Junior School nicking a TV
Nick HornerSenior reporter
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A second school in Sutton Coldfield has been targeted by thieves on the same day another site in the town received a repeat visit by burglars.
Walmley Junior School in Walmley Ashley Road was raided on Monday (November 25) night, with thieves forcing open a window to an 'out-of-school-hours hall', stealing a television.
It came on the same night burglars paid a repeat visit to Holland House Infant School and Nursery – breaking in to two classrooms, having swiped 15 iPads from another classroom the night before (Sunday, November 24).
Thieves targeted two primary schools in Sutton Coldfield this week including Walmley Junior School where they stole a TV
Sue Smith, deputy headteacher at Walmley Junior School, said: "We have had break-ins in the past but we have huge, high fencing all the way around, an alarm and a caretaker who is on site.
"But they have stolen a television and this hits us when money is tight."
The two break-ins at Holland House will hit youngsters using the tablet devices at school for 'maths, English and being creative' according to the parent teachers association.
Heartless thieves steal iPads from Sutton Coldfield school then return for second raid
Headteacher, Susan Bradford, wrote to parents after the iPad thefts and said: "Unfortunately, I am writing to you about a break-in that took place at the school at the weekend. A number of class iPads were stolen along with a touch screen monitor.
"If anyone lives adjacent to the school or locally and saw anything unusual over the weekend, please contact the police directly or speak to myself in school.
"We are very frustrated and saddened by this event as you can imagine and obviously we have no means of replacing the stolen items."
Hide-and-seek thief waits for two hours before ransacking shop at Sutton Coldfield retail complex
But the community has rallied in support and raised more than £1,400 to help the school pay for replacements. With the appeal asking parents to contribute rather than spend money on Christmas gifts for the school's 'brilliant teachers' – which they have agreed to.
Holland House Infant's PTA set up the appeal and thanked the community for its support. A statement on the JustGiving page said: "We are so very in awe of the response we have had so far, how lovely. Just goes to show that from this horrible event that our community pulls together."
Thieves struck twice at Holland House Infant School in Sutton Coldfield stealing a number of iPads (Image: Google)
West Midlands Police confirmed they were investigating the break-ins at each school, the first of which was reported to them on Monday morning and the second on Tuesday morning.
A spokesman for the force said: "Anyone with information can contact us via Live Chat or 101 quoting log number 421 of 25/11/19 regarding Holland House and crime number 20BE/279066M/19 regarding Walmley Juniors, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."
Anyone wanting to contribute to the Holland House Infant School's appeal can visit: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/hhschoolipads

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The Suzuki RL250 Owner's Manual recommends changing the transmission oil every three months using a 30W motor oil. You can certainly use the 30W motor oil as Suzuki recommended 40 years ago or you can use a modern motorcycle transmission oil. The new oils are available at your local motorcycle shop. They are designed to be use with wet clutches and are excellent lubricants. I use the Bel-Ray 80W Transmission Oil which is about equivalent to a 30W motor oil and change it once a season. This is not the thick hypoid oil or grease that is used in a final gear drive system.
To change the oil, first start and warm the engine. Support the bike on a stand ensuring that it is as level as possible. Remove the black rubber oil filler plug just above the kick crank. Remove the drain plug from beneath the engine with a 21mm wrench or socket. Allow the oil to drain into a suitable container. Dispose of the used oil properly.
There are actually two plugs on the bottom of the engine with the same size hex head. The bash plate was designed to allow access only to the drain plug. The plug that is not the oil drain plug contains a spring and plunger that is part of the shifter mechanism. Removing this plug should be avoided. It is, however, easy to tell them apart. The drain plug hex head is parallel to the ground and the plunger plug head is at angle to the ground. Again, with the original bash plate hole there should not be a problem but, if the bash plate has been 'modified', you might have access to both plugs.
After the oil has drained, replace the drain plug and tighten. About here the technical writer will say something like, "Reinstall the drain plug using a new gasket". In the real world we don't always use a new gasket, though. Fortunately, the gasket on the drain plug (and the plunger plug) are of an aluminum crush design and will last through a few oil changes. Do yourself a favor and look it over before reinstalling. If it is cracked, it will leak.
While you are inspecting the gasket for condition you might wonder why it looks so much like a spark plug gasket. That's because it is a spark plug gasket. So, you might plan ahead and save a couple of the gaskets from your old spark plugs to use when the drain plug gasket needs to be replaced.
With the drain plug in and tightened you are ready to fill with new oil.
The 1974 R L250 Owner's Manual gave 700cc (1.5 US pint) as the transmission oil quantity. The 1975 manual gave 850cc (1.8 US pint) as the correct quantity. This is an interesting issue as the volume within the engine that contains the oil did not change from year to year.
The recommended quantity of oil to service the transmission is cast into the clutch cover just above the kick starter crank. A true 1974 RL250L clutch cover will have 700cc cast in to it. The 1975 RL250M will have 850cc. Both versions of the clutch cover will fit the 1972-75 TS250 and the 1973 TM250 (later TM cases were black) in addition to the 1974/75 RL250. Since the 850cc version is a direct replacement, it is up to the owner to decide what to do.
A tip to use in the field, or one that can work all the time, is to remove the 6mm hex head bolt just forward of the kick crank before filling the transmission with oil. Add oil until it runs out of the hole, reinstall the bolt, and you are good to go with the correct quantity. Oh yeah...."Reinstall the bolt using a new gasket". Interestingly, the location of this bolt appears to be in the same location of both the 700cc and the 850cc covers.
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Students can work out in Smith Center for Recreational Sports, swim at Rockne Memorial, play tennis at the Eck Tennis Center, play golf at the Notre Dame Golf Course, or rent boats at St. Joseph Beach. RecSports also organizes intramural sports. Click RecSports for programs, facilities, events, and more detailed information.


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One Piece Manga, Anime Inspire Stage Production With Music, Dance
posted on 2018-02-04 22:30 EST by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Anime's composer Kōhei Tanaka directs music for production adapting East Blue arc
Shueisha, Toei Animation, and Fuji TV opened a website on Monday to reveal that a stage adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga and anime franchise has been green-lit. The production, titled One Piece Otoutage - East Blue Arc (One Piece Sound Banquet: East Blue Arc), will run at the Tokyo International Forum Hall C from August 12 to September 2.
The stage performance will portray the manga's East Blue story arc, and will have both musicians performing the music, as well as actors dancing and performing action scenes to portray the story. The performance will feature 35 cast members from both Japan and America.
Kōhei Tanaka, the composer for the anime, will handle the musical direction and arrangement for the stage production. Kahori Kanaya is directing the production, and is also in charge of organization and choreography.
Oda's One Piece manga has previously inspired a kabuki play. The play first ran from October-November 2015 at the Shinbashi Enbujō theater. 100,000 tickets for the Tokyo run all sold out. The play then ran in Osaka in March 2016, and then in Fukuoka in April 2016. Theatrical screenings of the play across Japan premiered in October 2016. A second play, Super Kabuki II One Piece , ran in Tokyo from October to November last year, though Ichikawa Ennosuke IV, who plays Luffy and Hancock in the play, stepped down from the roles after he broke his arm in an on-stage accident. The new kabuki play will run in Osaka from April 1-25.
Other stage performances of One Piece include performances at the One Piece theme park in Tokyo Tower, and the yearly summer performances at Universal Studio Japan using the theme park's Waterworld set. One Piece also has a "holographic" stage event at the DMM VR Theater in Yokohama that premiered on January 20 and runs through February 25.
Source: Comic Natalie
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Дмитро́ Іва́нович Щербако́в (, Катеринослав, нині Дніпро - , Дніпропетровськ) — український архітектор.

Біографічні дані
1934—1937 навчався в Харківському художньому інституті.

1937—1940 навчався в Київському художньому інституті (нині Національна академія образотворчого мистецтва і архітектури) і закінчив його.

Основні споруди (у співавторстві)
 Селище коксохімічного заводу в Кривому Розі (1947—1949)
 Житлові будинки на вулиці Леніна в Дніпропетровську (1947—1948)
 Житлові будинки на проспекті Карла Маркса в Дніпропетровську (1949—1952, 1956—1957)
 Житловий будинок із широкоформатним кінотеатром у Дніпропетровську (1957—1958)
 Планування й забудова Вузівського масиву в Дніпропетровську (1959—1961)
 Автовокзал у Дніпропетровську (1966)
 Будинок обкому Компартії України в Дніпропетровську (1970)

Звання
 1972 — заслужений архітектор УРСР.

Література
  — С. 459.
  — С. 666.

Уродженці Дніпра
Радянські архітектори
Українські архітектори
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Don't Put iOS 8 on Your iPhone 4S
Apple assures us that iOS 8, which goes out to the public today, will work on iPhones reaching all the way back to the venerable 4S. Technically, that's true. But as Ars Technica found out the hard way, subjecting your elderly iPhone to new software is just downright cruel.
The 4S, which first hit the streets nearly three years ago, does its damnedest to keep up with the software designed for its bigger (and even biggerer) younger siblings. But it just doesn't have the hardware to support some of iOS 8's biggest features, like Touch ID, AirDrop, and the Metal graphics API.
And even with the stuff it can handle, the poor 4S gets winded pretty quickly. Ars points out that the phone's guts offer about a quarter of the performance of the iPhone 5S, and an even smaller fraction compared to the newest iPhone 6. Apps launch more slowly, sometimes taking 50 per cent longer to load — with herky-jerky transitions that hang and hesitate.
All of which is kind of secondary to the main problem: the 4S was the last of Apple's phones with a 3.5-inch screen. That size was once considered the golden rectangle of smartphones. But everything is bigger in the future, including iPhones, and the added rows of buttons and bars that appear in iOS 8 eat up valuable screen real-estate on the great-granddaddy iPhone.
So yes, it's entirely possible for you to download the brand new iOS on your brand-old iPhone. Kudos to Apple for continuing to support the phone that most major carriers offer for free with a new contract. But cramming that shiny new software into the 4S's cozy yet slightly musty house is a tight fit that will leave phone and user alike groaning. Have some pity on the old warhorse, and let it stay pleasantly outdated, for its sanity and your own. [Ars Technica]
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For the next few weeks, we're going to be working on Subtraction with Regrouping - eek!
I have made this pack In Black and White for ease of printing. I copied off each center onto different brightly colored cardstock.
In this pack, there are four games, or centers, to reinforce subtraction with regrouping. Each center has a recording sheet for the group to do, which can also be used as "informal assessment." I have also included posters for you to use to teach whole group or to put at the centers for the students to be able to refer to while working at that center.
"Subtraction Sleuth" decide if they need to regroup or not and sort them. There are two different activities that can be used for students to complete as independent work.
"True or False" - sort the subtraction sentences under the header cards and correct the false problems on the recording sheet. For the independent work, the students will make a foldable book and sort the math problems.
"Flip It!" Use a deck of cards or the supplied page of numbers that you can copy off a few times to use for the activity.
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Also, I am going to be doing my Reindeer Freebie activities this week!
Last year I called out for help on this lil ole blog - we needed a pen pal class, and I had all kinds of offers, but the most exciting offer I got was from Suzy over in Japan!
To get the freebie planning and writing template, download the lesson plans and click the pictures of them!
Everyday, for 30 minutes, we do Steps to Success, which is when we switch our lowest kids into a Tier 2 remediation group. Each teacher gets a group, all at different levels.
Well, this week, I'm going to be starting with my new group of kids - and they are on Skill 2, which is short vowel sounds.
Yes, in 2nd grade, we have kids that STILL have troubles with their short vowel sounds.
and these are the kids that are slipping through the cracks because the system isn't working for them, especially since it takes FOREVER to go through RTI...ugh!
And I'm also going to be using Gladys' pack for short vowels. This one is a freebie!
She has some short vowel units in her store too...she has the short u to finish, then I'm snatching up the whole bundle! woo!!
Ok...I'm off to start decorating the house for Christmas - yay!!!
I have so many of your items on my wish list! Thanks for sharing your visual plans! I am also starting to do reindeer activities next week!!! So fun! I love your subtraction sleuths pack! I wish we talked about regrouping so I could buy it! Precious!
Pen pals from Japan?! Too cool!! I loved seeing your visual plans...it's so fun to see what everyone is working on.
I got your message about Tpt...I will do that for you if you give me a shout out in a post once I have it up and running! ;) I will let you know when it is all ready!
Thanks for the shout out...woo hoo! I am famous! Sent my mom the link and she wondered how you have time to do everything you wrote about! Thanks for making me look like a slacker!


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'As it turns out, I write about place.' - Norwood's 'Eagle & Phenix' Book to Debut This Month
A new collection of poetry written by Columbus resident Nick Norwood is set to release this month. Norwood is an author, poet, professor, and the director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians. Eagle & Phenix is Norwood's fourth full volume of poems, and explores the lives of millworkers in the historic Eagle & Phenix Mill - the same place that Norwood now calls his home.
In fact, Norwood's love of our community's rich history has been the subject of another project in the past. His poem "powerhouse" is included in a commissioned sculpture by Mike McFalls. The poem is mounted in Corten steel beside the powerhouses of the old mill where Norwood lives today. It is that same mill that became the subject for his new collection of poems.
Norwood's "powerhouse" poem included in a sculpture by Mike McFalls along the RiverWalk. Photos by Rylan Steele
Eagle & Phenix will be published by Snake Nation Press, and released on March 25 at a reception at the Bo Bartlett Center. Snake Nation Press, is based out of Valdosta and is the only independent literary press in South Georgia.
Norwood's previous work has been well-received and featured on a number of national and international platforms such as The Paris Review, Southwestern American Literature, Southern Poetry Review, The Oxford American, storySouth, Atlanta Review, the PBS NewsHour site Art Beat, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's syndicated column American Life in Poetry, and on NPR's Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor.
We recently corresponded with Norwood to better understand his motivation for writing Eagle & Phenix. Read our interview for a look inside the creative process and personal background of one of the South's leading poets of our generation.
Nick Norwood. Photo by Tamma Smith
Q: What inspired you to write these poems?
A: One of the main inspirations was moving into the Eagle & Phenix. My family were tenant cotton farmers who stayed on the farm. Studying mill culture after moving into this historic converted cotton mill made me realize that the millworkers were largely tenant farmers and sharecroppers who had left the farm to work in the mill. Writing about the mill and other working-class folk from, mostly, Columbus seemed like an extension of my previous book, Gravel and Hawk, which focused on my cotton-farming family back in East Texas.
Q: What is your largest challenge as a poet?
A: The biggest challenge is not having enough time. I'm pretty disciplined about my writing routine, but I've learned that what makes me most productive is having unlimited time to write on a given day. I can really only be productive for two to four hours at a stretch, but just knowing I don't have anything else to do for the rest of the day makes those hours more productive. I won a Pushcart Prize in 2017, which led to me winning a residency fellowship at the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. For a month, I did nothing but read, write, and take long walks in the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains. After working on the book for over five years, suddenly I was able to complete it, including writing a half dozen new poems that went into the manuscript.
Q: This is your fourth collection of poems. What challenges have you faced as you've gone through the publishing process?
A: Overall, I've been very lucky. My first book was recommended to the editor of a series, and when I sent him the manuscript he took it. While it was going through the press, I received notice that my second book, which I had entered in a national contest, had won second prize and was going to be published as well. Then, after working on my third book for about five years, I submitted the ms. to a few national contests and started writing proposals to publishers. One monring I spent my entire writing time for the day working on a single proposal, clicked "save," then opened my email to discover I had won the Hollis Summers Prize in Poetry and my book, Gravel and Hawk, was going to be published by Ohio University Press. With this new book, I was in the process of sending the ms. around to a few publishers and contests when I saw the job Snake Nation Press had done on Rupert Fike's new book and was impressed. So I queried them about whether they'd be willing to take a look at mine. They responded in two days, then met with me the next week. They were clearly enthusiastic and supportive and, most important to me, they agreed to give me complete creative control—cover art, layout, paper, fonts; everything. They even let me choose my own designer—Justin Briley, a recent graduate of our program in creative writing at CSU. Justin's design work on CSU's literary-arts magazine Arden had already won awards in regional competition, so I wanted him to do my book, knowing he'd do a great job and would be great to work with, which turned out to be true.
The book cover of 'Eagle & Phenix' by Nick Norwood.
Q: How do you feel your work is relevant to southerners in particular?
A: I'm a child of the South (East Texas) and the language of the South is in my mouth! In this book and in my last one I write almost exclusively about the South—growing up here, my family, the landscape, flora and fauna, culture and people of the place. As it turns out, I write about place. That's what several of my poet friends have told me. I never realized it before, but I guess they're right. Also, my poems tell stories, and I think that's the basic MO of a lot of southern poets.
Q: What else would you like for our audience to know?
A: I would say that to have my poem "powerhouse" on the seawall of the RiverWalk is like a dream come true, except I never even dreamed it. My friend the sculptor Mike McFalls was commissioned to create a public art piece there at the falls, something that reflected the history, culture, wildlife, and beauty of the place. Because he'd been working with text in other pieces, he asked me if I wanted to collaborate, and it just so happens I was in the middle of writing this collection of poems centered on that very spot. As most Columbusites will know, the poem is mounted in Corten steel right beside the powerhouses of the old mill. What they'll see if they read my book is that that poem has become the third section of a long poem called "Eagle & Phenix Dam," and what I would want them to also appreciate is how much luck and timing play in things: I was working on that very project before it was even a project, and when the opportunity came along, my work was already all but done. Thank you, Columbus, Georgia, for first providing the inspiration, then embracing the finished work. Thank you, Mike McFalls, for asking me to participate and for being such a talented and effective collaborator. Thank you, Marc and Marleen De Bode Olivié for having the foresight, determination, and generosity to make it happen. Thank you to the guys at Brasfield and Gorrie for doing such good work from a lift bucket in the August heat! ◼
What: 'Eagle & Phenix' Takes Flight
When: Monday, March 25, 7 p.m.
Where: Ruth Brooks Yancey Terrace of the Bo Bartlett Center.
More to Know: Books will be available for sale. Refreshements will be served. The event is free and open to the public.


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FRIDAY MUSIC: The Highwaymen, by JD
The Highwaymen were a country music 'supergroup' comprising four of the best singer/songwriters of the genre: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Highwaymen_(country_supergroup)
Cash and Nelson have featured on this blog previously so a few words about the other two. Waylon Jennings is probably best known for being the Balladeer of the TV series 'Dukes OF Hazzard' Before then he was one of the artists in the (in)famous package tour of 1959 during which Buddy Holly died in a plane crash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died Jennings gave up his seat on the light aircraft in favour of J P Richardson (the Big Bopper) as J P had flu and the tour bus was freezing cold. For a long time afterwards Jennings, by his own admission, felt a sense of guilt about what had happened.
Kris Kristofferson is something of a 'renaissance man' He was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College where he earned a Blue for boxing. and played rugby for his college. He later joined the US Army and became a helicopter pilot and then flew helicopters servicing the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico but all the while he wanted to be a songwriter. There is a famous story that he landed a helicopter on Johnny Cash's lawn in order to deliver some demo cassettes of his songs. Cash eventually recorded "Sunday Morning Coming Down" the first of many Kristofferson songs and the rest, as they say, is history!
FRIDAY MUSIC: Alice Coltrane, by JD
Epilepsy and cannabis, by JD
"You wanted it...", by Wiggia
FRIDAY MUSIC: Cécile Corbel, by JD
FRIDAY MUSIC: My Back Pages, by JD
FRIDAY MUSIC: Nitin Sawhney, by JD
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