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An article originally written for the CUSP quarterly newsletter, by Learning Technologies' Ian Porter
Starting this quarter, students in CUSP Discovery Core III classes will design ePortfolios using Google Sites as the platform. The main purpose of these ePortfolios is to enable students to collect their curricular and extracurricular work from their first year at UW Bothell and, in a 4 to 5 page reflective essay, draw connections between these sometimes disparate activities in order to find coherence in their development as students and citizens.
Okay, but what does this really mean? Brass tacks: what do students need to know about the CUSP ePortfolio to get started?
Why an ePortfolio?
The CUSP ePortfolio is a "process portfolio," which means that it should document the learning process of the student. For example, if a student wrote three drafts for a paper in her Discovery Core I class, she should include all of the drafts in the portfolio. From correcting simple grammatical mistakes to showing increased depth of thought in the paper revision process, these pieces of evidence help the student accomplish the goal of the CUSP ePortfolio, which is to show and reflect on her growth and development as a scholar and citizen.
While collecting the artifacts is important, the key part of the ePortfolio is the reflection process. Students must show proof of growth by linking from their reflective essay to the learning artifacts that show evidence of their development. Since these artifacts will be housed in their Google Sites, the students can draw connections conceptually and technically (using HTML hyperlinks) among their artifacts and reflection.
Supporting Students and Instructors
If this is starting to feel a little overwhelming, don't worry. We are planning workshops for all of the students and instructors, which will take place in the DC III class. In addition, we are continuing to build great Web resources on how to use Google Sites and how to design an ePortfolio. For more information, go to the CUSP ePortfolio Model Site: https://sites.google.com/a/uw.edu/cusp-eportfolio-model-site/?pli=1 and click on "Student Resources" in the navigation bar.
Thinking Critically
In the end, the ePortfolio is simply a technology for critical thinking. Student learning is paramount in this process ‐ that is, learning about oneself, one's own personal and professional goals, and one's world(s). So, students should think as deeply and as broadly as possible. Ask questions like, "How did that paper I wrote last autumn change how I think about my personal goals or my beliefs about some aspect of my world? How did that video I created for a class project help me understand the CUSP Learning Goal "Critical and Creative Inquiry"? How have my academic goals changed during my first year at UW Bothell based on experiences I had as a volunteer?" If students think about and answer questions like these during the course of building their ePortfolio, then they will have accomplished the learning outcomes of the ePortfolio project. What's more, those critical thinking skills remain vitally important throughout the remainder of a student's personal and professional life.
Future Uses of the ePortfolio
And, if all of that doesn't tickle your fancy, then remember the pragmatic considerations: for example, programs like Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, among others, also require ePortfolios. In addition, in the future, you might want to design a presentation portfolio of your work when you enter your profession. Taking the time now to collect your work and make your ePortfolio interesting and compelling will give you a leg up on future portfolio projects.

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Three days home, sick, with the complete understanding and sympathy of my employer. Fully conscious and ambulatory, with some grade-A camaro-drivin', country-music-songwritin', shirtless-guy-on-COPS prescription narcotics on the bathroom sink. Can't go outside and enjoy this nice day, cause I'm sick. Can't work, I'm sick. Can't brush my teeth, put on deodorant or underpants or mow the lawn or call my mom, sick.
So why the hell am I not playing video games? I thought.
Cause I'm sick?
Given a 72-hour hall pass, that's what a regular reader of this site would do with his or her sick time: Play video games. Right? That's what a regular writer of this site should do, too. Regular, however, did not define me last week.
I'm not sure I've ever felt as ridiculous as I did in emailing Totilo, for the third straight day, to tell him I couldn't do my job—a job substantially based on playing video games—because I couldn't crap.
Kidney stones were the cause of all this, to be clear. To manage the pain I was given Percocet, a drug I'd had no experience with before Wednesday. (My last overnight hospital stay was 31 years ago). So the constipating effects of a bigtime narcotic were a complete blindside, sending me into an agonizing spiral where I felt I was managing pain by taking something that prolonged the condition. I just gave up and laid on the couch or the bed.
Eventually my subconscious became so depleted of things to dream about that anything entering it immediately went on air, like Walter Cronkite reading a phone book on the nightly news. A one-line email from a guy at 2K Sports inspired a 30-minute dream about NBA 2K12. I woke up thinking, why the hell don't I just get up and play the damn game, before rolling back over and going to sleep.
The answer, I think, reveals something about video gaming versus other forms of multimedia entertainment, which the general public sort of mishmashes into a single lifestyle based on passive consumption, simply because they all involve screens and speakers.
No one would suggest a guy with kidney stones go play basketball, right? Why would a video game be any more reasonable?
No one would suggest a guy with kidney stones should go down to the gym and run a few games of basketball, right? Well, would they suggest that he play some chess instead? So why should a video game—serious ones, the ones we play—be any more of a reasonable sick-day diversion?
There's a considerable investment of decision-making in most games—in role-playing games, by definition, one has to be a willing participant in advancing the story and developing what is ostensibly its principal character. I have a shelf full of sports video games, with rich career modes that present just as much role-playing depth. Even great, linear single-player experiences present issues of momentum, the kind understood by anyone with a bookshelf full of unread classics (with intimidating page counts, too).
As an entertainment pursuit, the motivation to complete a long novel or watch a thought-provoking film comes primarily from within. Ditto a video game. Then it's a question of consuming the story. Because of its interactive requirements, a video game requires more concentration and will. Those are often sapped by pain and anxiety.
Pain and anxiety are your constant companions during a prolonged illness.
Perhaps I hadn't realized just how serious my condition was. It didn't seem that bad to me when I got home. They let me out of the hospital, after all. But I came to accept that as I had no appetite for food, I had no appetite for games, either. Not when I was laying in a hospital bed with Angry Birds Space and four dozen other iPhone apps on the table beside the nurse's-call button; not sitting at my computer, refreshing the news, when I could have been clicking a mouse in Diablo III.
In their more primitive, less complicated days, maybe video games were more legitimately a guilty pleasure of home-sick days, even bad ones. Today, I don't think so. I'm investing time in these things. Otherwise, I'm not gonna get much out of them. Playing a video game isn't just something to do when you're sitting on your ass.
And trust me, last week, just that was difficult enough.


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Both the Incredible and Supersonic have had their leaky moments, and due to the similarities it's difficult to tell which model is shown here. I'm leaning towards the Incredible, which is meant to be the Verizon version of the Desire.
The video's in pretty poor quality, but you can see it's got the same ridged back as previous photos have shown - and while the back is red, I wouldn't read too much into that, as HTC always does coloured parts for prototypes, favouring pretty basic colours for the launch. It's definitely a US-only device, shown running Verizon Wireless - but also lacks the chin that European Android phones from HTC always have.
When I had a briefing with HTC about the Legend and Desire, they told me every Android phone destined for the European market will have a chin, with US launches lacking one.
Check out the video for a shakycam look at the Incredible (or Supersonic), and let me know what you think. There seems to be a deeper bezel on the bottom half, like the Incredible - is that where the optical trackpad is? It's a bit hard to make out. [Phandroid]


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It's difficult to find a good acupuncturist who has experience in SCI in both the USA and China -- but a bit easier in China. I know for certain that it works for stroke patients. As mentioned, for spinal cord injury, it works better with lower-level injuries than high-level injuries such as my Dad -- much to my sadness, my acupuncturist was not optimistic about my Dad. He told me that the most he could do is to help strengthen my Dad's body and to help with the swelling in my Dad's body (not the spinal cord) -- so, he didn't feel that he could do much help due to the "metal" in his neck and missing bones.
Frankly, to do a good treatment, it requires treatments every 2-3 days apart.
I can recommend a good acupuncturist to you if you're ever in China.
Hi Mr. Coffee,
I read that you visited the acupuncturist -- did you have good results? Just wondering, cuz I wanted to get a good one to see my Dad.
I know of a very good acupuncturist in China - he and other docs have had success with paras -- much to my grief, it's less optimistic with higher level injuries on vents. It's difficult to find experienced acupuncturists in the USA.
Hi Mr. Coffee,
Sorry for the late reply. I'm not very forum-literate.
It is now almost three months -- I will tell my Dad what you did. Did you put your hand on something and try to move it? Gosh, anything else?
Just wondering, did you have any flicker of movement during the three months? When I tell the doctors that others (I spoke to another woman who claimed that it took 3. 5 mos) have moved after three months (prior "nothing"), they don't believe me -- and claim that there was probably a bit of movement.
Were you in a rehab facility?
I've been trying foot massages, range of motion... I recently got a little toy with wheels so that he can roll it back and forth.
Thank you so much for your kind advice.
Dear Mr. Coffee - I am also in San Francisco. I read that you regained function after two months. My Dad had a compressed spinal cord C3-C4, and the Doctors are saying that if he hasn't moved in three weeks, that he will never regain any functionality. Sorry to bother you, but is it possible for me to contact you and ask you about your recovery so that I can tell my Dad.
Happy birthday !!
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Hmmm? saw you visited my page...dont know why or when exactly, but just wanted to say hello. You seem like a cool ass cat Stay having fun, and friend me if ya want...
lol Mr. coffee. Cool screen name.
tee hee
fyi: the facebook link in your sig fails.
Can we make love, via my new membership to menz grope?
that made me violent.
i need to get the back and cushion for it, been super busy ...sc2 w/ wise, etc...
Turd Ferguson.
hi, im new, just passin by and your username appeared on my screen, what does this mean?
BTW, got my chair. How are your anti-tippers going?
They see me creepin', they hatin'.........
Appreciate your posts here, you're a good egg.
I am in Fresno......u r in the bay area right???? Looks like u found u a CA beauty....she is lovely!
Hey how you been?? howz CA treatin ya??
ooohhh Imma creepin'!
I'll run you right off the track, kid.
scale of 1-10; how mad?
hey dude..
seems like ur pretty popular on ccc! haha
u seem to be enjoying life... i gotta get my self to do so as well
You're a good egg, man, thanks for your posts especially in the current thread.
U + Donz = one cute couple
ED med fueled sword fight in our future
you caught me. lululululul. pznerd
Hey, I was looking around and noticed your post for a while back about what therapy place to go to. I was just wondering if you ever did go to one and which on you went to? I go to Project Walk now and have for the past 2 years give or take and its right in Carlsbad. I remember you saying that you were somewhere in Cali..I think..my memory is horrible. anyways, let me know,cause if you were to go to PW now they would LOVE you.
Merrrrr.... HARROW. Jupitah says, "Merci pour le poisson."
Thats thank you in french. lolz
you's a trollin
I have not been to Japan, but Japan is the island, it is definitely inconvenient for wheelchair there, and I live in Qingdao, as is the Castle, wheelchair inconvenient! But it can conquer the difficulties, I could not even go to China in Tibet, it was a mountainous area about 5,000 meters above sea level running, so I would like Japan to the road infrastructure should not be too many obstacles, I support you travel!
My pleasure and you become friends
Hello Mr. Coffee, Thx for the tip, I just went to Townsend.com and will look more closely. I updated my profile and have a lot to learn. I noticed you fitness pursuits and applaud them. Since my injury I to have worked on walking, swimming, and cycling (recumbent). I am also on what may be an eternal quest to complete 20 Pullups in a single set, I've been working on it for 3 years now and am at 18.
Hey Corey! You married that girl yet?
Aww @donz pic been wondering where he has been. You have grown up to be quite the cutie..just want to pinch them cheekers of yours!!! Nintendo all the way baby!!
i just got new stickas for mah helmet
Not yet, we are in May.
A shirt for you:
Hunnie DO NOT.
it's a turquoise boarder btw. get 1 nigga
lol Haskell can't be worse than C++ can it? Sad thing is I actually took C++ way back in my first year of university like 10 years ago. Apparently I either have a really bad memory, or I obviously learned nothing the first time around haha. I worked on a stupid electrical bill assignment for a week and it still wouldn't compile. I just said screw it and handed it in full of bugs. Prof won't be happy. But in the battle of the wills, C++ slew me.
How come you aren't on my friend list already? I sent ya a request. Feel free to refuse the request
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Hey Cory, I haven't been on here very much for the past few months but I wanted to say congrats on the big cross country move and starting your job at Cisco. You rock
you guys are swell ha
beautiful couple
you and and julie are really a cuutttee couple.. all the best to the both of you
Mid-Cal, LOL. I just moved out to Santa Cruz. If I am not mistaken, you are in the San-Hoe area. We should hook-up for a bite or a coffee.
Ha!!!!! Oh Man Corey, I had one gal rip me for it and told me she would NOT be friends with that picture and I said "Sorry Mam it stays!!!" I don't know whats worse having it like that or having one you can see and know it is just dead...... kinda like mine!! Lol
Exactly what you think!!!!!!! yeah it's a guy's pecker after he pissed on some live wires. kinda gives a new meaning to taking care of it know what I mean!!! Good conversation piece though! Lol
"So again I will reiterate I'm getting a mac so I can get a sticker and talk about my mac to julie. We can discuss how compatiable we are and how uncool our other friends are for not having a mac."
Your post made me laugh so hard. THAT is why I wuve you.
for my boyfriends work and to say that lived in LAS VEGAS!! Can't complain
how long did it take for you to learn to walk on the crutches.
Hey, I never noticed that you were hurt 8 days after me! Crazy!! And I lived in socal about 10 min from you. I was Oceanside I sure miss Cali, the BEACH, and the kick ass weather..
medical marijuanna is legal in cali........ ur a walkin goldmine for that,,, its proven to totally relieve spasms , plus its an alternative to pain meds, and cheaper,,,, some doc`s dnt approve but alot do.... id call a doc in u closest major city,,,, scedule an appoinment for pain management and say ,, i have pain,bad spasems, and i moved here for herbal treatment... just dnt sound like a young trouble maker and u`ll be good
thats y im planning on moving thee after school
i mean legally..... obv. not legal to sell
i dnt wanna cause trouble,,, but in a hesrtbeat u could smoke weed.. or sell it for some serious money
how waas the move?
<3 You make me smile!
hey.......just checkin in. did u ever make it out to Cali??
thanks for friendin my ass
i didnt know u can get chicks on this site.. i gotta get on more...
but,,,,,, im from pa ,scranton(home of the office)
Just logged-in and saw you thread. Congrats, stud. I'll keep in touch with you when you get up into the YAY Area.
hey mate, im shane how u going. Im a walking quad too. longer distances i still need to use my chair a fair bit. Noticed a few pics of you on one of the forums? what do u do to keep fit. I swim three days a week that helps me but id like to improve my abs more. do u have facebook?
Julie-Bug + MrCoffee= eternal love
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If you want a big city feel you can look at San Jose...most likely you'll be right in Silicon Valley and San Jose is the biggest city around there. If you want small town, the closest you're gonna get is Milpitas. That's still probably bigger than you had in mind. It's all good, though, if you can get by the high real estate prices, everything out here is pretty cool.
Cory Sanchez JR. will be here any day now. So save your hunger!! NOM NOM NOM
San Jose is nice. There's going to be a lot more choices as to what to get based on your budget. Shit man, you can always buy a house if you got a lil nest egg saved up. What's the city like where you live now? Are you going to want something similar to that out here?
Hey fucker, you movin to Cali anytime soon? I'll be moving south to Santa Cruz in July or sometime before...I'll be finishing up my PhD at UC Santa Cruz. Did you say you're looking at the San Jose area or somewhere around there?
So nice of you.
Just sent you a request on 360 sorry I took 4 ever I forgot you sent me your gamertag I should get CoD4 back today and Halo soon my brother-in-law can't get off of it lol
Rooooaaaa! My little fluffy face lover muffin!
DONKAY! I would MOST love to gives you a polar bear outfit! Try this one on for size! Note: Will aid in cushioning when falling from broken crutch.
i IS a muffin of love!
...but YOU are a DOZEN MUFFINS OF LOVE!
I am playing GOW2 now I let my buddy borrow halo 3. I was thinking of getting World at War is it really good?
I got and xbox 360 to dogg so hit me up what games do you play online? I am always down to get down on the box just hit me up. Latez
lover muffin!
I think they yanked it...you might have to watch it in halves on MegaVideo (it's one of the links on there).
Hey bro...if you haven't seen it yet, check out Gran Torino:
Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Cory!
Now get Halo up and running and we shall battle!
mhm we shall! Until our eyes dry up and we fall asleep with the controllers still in hand!
hey man, just wanted to wish u a Happy Holiday season. Look me up when u get to Cali n good luck
oh em gee cory we are bff's now!!!
depends were u movin, i live in lemoore. 7 miles long, and its not. im movin 3 vegas its a lot better in the bigger cities... were u movin?
Thanks Cory. It's from a while back but it always makes me smile so I use it.
Hey Cory, I'm Nat. Got any pets yourself. 1 dog 1 cat here.
its different out there but very accessable. and good public transportation. I cant wait for you to tell us about your new adventures.
no, I dont know where that is. I moved from San Diego to Montgomery county pa in 91. Iv always hated it here and im kinda jealous your moving to cali. I cant wait to hear what its like out there now. when I moved there were no jobs, and the gangs and homeless made it impossible to be safe.
wheres Brockway Mr coffee?
owis the empi focus?? have not looked into that 1 yet
hey did u ever look into the L300 bioness to help with yr walkin, was readin up on it last night and saw some of yr posts on it. thanks
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Just one to share today. It's not "technically" my best shot this week, but I like it for the emotion. Ava is always making Julian smile and this is just one example I happened to catch with my camera. 🙂 (That's Ava's head on the right side of the pic.)
Who else has been taking pics this past week? Visit Tracey over at Picture This to find out!
For the record, I can't believe it's already Monday again! This weekend seemed to fly by. Jody and I both got a lot done around the house and with the car (oil change and new tires) though. I didn't end up participating in "Shutdown Day." I had too much to prepare for my photoshoot and needed to use my computer.
It's amazing how much we rely on computers these days – from email to checking the forecast to looking up phone numbers, etc. It's nice to have so much information right at your fingertips. However, I'm all for a self-imposed shutdown day every now and then. I think it's good to take a break. 🙂
As for the photoshoot, it went pretty well, despite my initial concerns over the super bright sun. It eventually set enough to get some good shots, but then it seemed it was setting too fast and I had to snap pictures like a mad woman so that I didn't run out of light. Nothing like a setting sun to keep ya on your toes. I love the look and feel of natural light, but it's times like those that I really wish I had a studio set up. Someday…
I almost forgot – a big CONGRATULATIONS to fellow blogger Liesl on the homebirth of her second son Kieran on March 23! Enjoy your babymoon, Liesl. 🙂


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Designers van over de hele wereld zenden creatieve ontwerpen in voor izwar in logo ontwerpen - custom.
Will need a very fashionable and modern looking web 2.0 logo for ClubRealm.com with the slogan "Get on the list". Would like 2 samples one with the slogan and one without the slogan. Please read description for more info.
Get on the list
Desired Color Scheme:
Desired Style:
Web 2.0, nightlife style, high gloss, drop shadow on little image, http://www.kajeet.com style and colors.
Accepted File Formats:
PSD or illustrator file, JPG, etc etc
We need a very modern looking logo that reflects nightlife and clubbing while maintaining a very web 2.0 look with a high gloss and drop shadow on the small image picture next to the word.
Would like Clubrealm with a small brandable image next to it consistent with the web 2.0 style. What the image can be will be left up to you, it can be made up but preferably would be something very cool that relates to nightlife or clubbing with a high gloss or drop shadow. I will want 2 samples of the logo one with the slogan "Get On The List" somehwere and one with out the slogan.
Check out http://wwww.Kajeet.com for the style of colors i like with the dark background and very vibrant pastel colors. Put your mouse over each side of that site to see all the different colors they use. Also click go or "forgot your password" to see the inside of their site and their logo. Im not saying to copy their logo at all as i think it is TO simple and im not a big fan of it, but atleast you can get a feel for the colors and style i need. Perhaps you can put a spin on the word Realm which means kingdom or domain but ill leave everything up to you. Take care and have fun.
Bekijk hoe een ontwerpwedstrijd werkt of leer meer over logo ontwerpdiensten.


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aero280 wrote:I like the idea of one photo a day.
uschi wrote:I don't like painting my fingernails, since I do too much with them and they look messy after about five minutes. Feet are different.
earthmaiden wrote:Wow, what lovely feet! I hope you are not suggesting that we all publish pictures of ours
I love painted nails.
Herbidacious wrote:Patsy, it is indeed the colour of your hair (in your photo)
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The University of California enrolls over 1,600 military veterans (approximately 1,300 undergraduates and 300 graduate students) and roughly 100 active duty military personnel. With the growing number of veterans returning home to California, and the 2008 signing of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act — the largest expansion to veterans' education benefits since the establishment of the original GI Bill in 1944 — UC campuses are committed to providing access and support to veterans and active-duty military personnel. Campus services include, but are not limited to:
- Veteran specific admissions and financial aid (including veterans' education benefits) information to assist veterans through the admissions process
- Transition support (e.g., housing and financial aid advisement) prior to the first day of classes
- Veteran specific campus resources (e.g., Veteran Services Coordinator, Veterans Education Benefit Certifying Official, identified contacts for veterans in key student services)
- Priority registration (i.e., be among the first to register for classes)
- Veteran specific campus events and programs
To learn more about financial aid options for veterans, visit the undergraduate admissions website.
For questions or updates on systemwide efforts to provide access and support to veterans and active-duty military personnel, please contact Belinda Vea.


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Let's continue our look at the top players in the history of this year's NCAA Final Four teams. Today, Wichita State is up.
In recent years, the Shockers, who play their home games in Charles Koch Arena, have been a high-quality mid-major team. But back in the day, they were, at times, indisputably a national power house.
During the 1964-65 season, for example, Wichita State was briefly ranked number 1 in the country. That team was the Shockers' only Final Four entrant until this year.
There is no shortage of great Wichita State players, but there is a bit of shortfall at the point guard position (current player Malcolm Armstead may be their best point guard ever) and among true centers. In addition, I needed to include a few players I never saw in action. Their numbers speak louder than my observation could have.
First Team
Warren Armstrong (1965-68)
At 6-2, Armstrong could play just about any position. He's second on the Shockers' all-time assist list and seventh on the all-time rebounding list. Armstrong was a three-time all-conference selection. As Warren Jabali, he had a successful career in the ABA.
Cleo Littleton (1951-55)
Almost 60 years after graduating, Littleton is still the Shockers' all-time leading scorer. He was one of college basketball's first Black stars, and the first player west of the Mississippi to score 2,000 points in a season. Littleton is also one of the program's two two-time All Americans.
Dave Stallworth (1962-65)
"Dave the Rave" is the other two-time All American. The star of the 1964 Final Four team, Stallworth ranks third all-time at Wichita State in points, fifth in assists, and eighth in rebounds. Stallworth excelled for the New York Knicks early in his NBA career. A heart attack suffered on the basketball court caused him to miss two season, but he returned to become a key reserve on the Knicks 1970 championship team.
Antoine Carr (1979-83)
He's fourth on the schools' all-time point list, ninth in rebounds, and first in blocked shots. Carr was conference player and an All-American his senior year. He averaged 17 points per game on 55 percent shooting during his four-year career at Wichita State
Xavier McDaniel (1981-85)
Can you say stud? The X-Man has 300-plus more rebounds than any other player in Shocker history, and he ranks second in all time points, just 12 behind Littleton. As a senior, McDaniel became the first Division One player ever to lead the nation in scoring (27.4) and rebounding (15.0).
Second Team
Aubrey Sherrod (1981-85)
Sherrod was considered at least the equal of Michael Jordan as a shooting guard coming out of high school. He never quite lived up to his billing, but stands seventh on the Shockers' all-time scoring list. He is also sixth in assists and fourth in steals.
"Cheese" Johnson
This New York City playground legend could play any position. He led the Shockers in scoring for three years and in rebounding twice. His senior year, Johnson averaged 22.2 points per game. For his career, he averaged 17.3 points and 9.3 rebounds.
Paul Miller (2002-06)
Miller was Missouri Valley Conference player of the year in 2006. That season, he led Mark Turgeon's outfit to the regular-season MVC championship and an at large berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Cliff Levingston (1979-82)
Along with Antoine Carr, Levingston made up the "bookend" forward pair that led Wichita State to the Elite Eight in 1981, beating Kansas in the Round of 16 to get there. ALthough the Shockers missed the Final Four, Carr and Levingston combined for 41 points in a loss to LSU. An All-American in 1982, Levingston ranks fourth all-time in rebounding. By leaving a year early, Levingston missed out on his chance to put up the numbers that might get him on my first team.
Robert Elmore (1973-77)
The Shockers' second leading all-time rebounder behind McDaniel. He's also second all-time in blocked shots behind Carr.
With our remaining scholarships, we had better add a point guard. Who better than Toure' Murray, who finished his career last season? He's the school's all-time leader in assists and second in steals. Randy Smithson of the 1981 Elite Eight team, who later coached the Shockers, would also be a good choice. So would Tony Martin from the same era.
Let's also add Terry Benton, a fierce rebounder from the late 60s/early 70s (his fifth on the all-time list and twice had 24 in a single game), and Greg Carney, an outstanding guard from the same era who averaged 20 points per game and is tenth on the all-time scoring list.


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• March 19, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Living space for outer space: Aerospace engineer/entrepreneur Susmita Mohanty has been living a simulated dream come true this week: She's making her home in a Mars habitat.
No matter that the habitat is actually in a desert in Utah rather than on Mars. Figuring out how to make life more livable for space exploration is her passion, and her place among the crew at the Mars Desert Research Station is as close as she can come to the real thing, at least for now.
"That will be a fantastic experience, to understand what it took the Mars Society to actually construct the habitat in the middle of nowhere," she said in an interview before her two-week desert stint began.
Mohanty's top priority is to conduct an experiment in habitat design.
"My premise for the experiment is that fixed layouts within a space habitat, especially for long-duration missions, is not a good idea," she said. "Within a habitat, there are certain elements, especially mechanical elements, life support elements, which have to be fixed. But I think there are many other elements within a habitat which can be moved around and should be flexible.
"If I'm going to Mars, if I've got to live out there for like 500 days and take six months going back and forth, I definitely as a crew member would want to change something."
Mohanty theorizes that letting the crew members redesign their living space will keep them interested in their surroundings — and keep them from going stir-crazy. That doesn't mean she's planning to move the furniture around at the Utah desert station. Instead, she'll work with small-scale models of the habitat, and gather feedback from her crewmates on textures, colors and layouts — kind of like playing house on Mars.
"Those little things go a long way in ensuring that a mission doesn't go awry," she said.
She now runs two consulting firms — MoonFront in San Francisco and Liquifer in Vienna. In 2002, she helped organize a lunar base design workshop for the European Space Agency, and she's looking forward to a day when some of the designs might actually become reality.
One of her main themes is to make spaceships and robotic habitats more intelligent. "Can future architecture be programmable in ways that a spaceship could morph into different modes, based on what the crew is doing?" she asked. For example, a moon base could be built so that it configures itself one way when a crew is living within it, and another way when it's running on autopilot.
Living on MarsPresident Bush's space initiative , which would send robots and then humans back to the moon, came as music to her ears. "The world has completely changed since the announcement that Bush made," she said. "I've been working in the area of moon bases for almost four years now, and suddenly everything falls into place. It's been a great opportunity for us, and I'm happy that such a direction has been chosen, because I think it gives NASA some focus."
But will she be working for NASA?
"My plan is to head back to India, possibly in a couple years, because the moon mania is catching on in India as well," she said.
India is planning to send an orbiter to the moon in 2007, and Mohanty is hoping that humans won't be far behind.
"I would like to set up the human space exploration side, when it comes to going to the moon, in India," Mohanty said. "There will be opposition, there will be support. It won't be easy, but it'll be worth it."
• March 19, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Grander Challenges ahead: Even though no robot could drive the entire course last week during the DARPA Grand Challenge , the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is undeterred: Director Anthony Tether says he wants to have the next robotic road race in about a year to 18 months, with the $1 million prize boosted to $2 million. During last weekend's wind-up, Tether also hinted that the course might be shorter than this year's 142-mile marathon. He made clear, however, that the next Grand Challenge would still be conducted in the Mojave Desert — which would try any robot's patience.
For an insider's postmortem on this year's race, check out today's Washington Post's chat with Gary Carr, leader of Team ENSCO. And keep your eye on the International Robot Racing Federation, which is trying to organize its own commercially funded "Open Challenge" with a $1 million prize.
• March 19, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Weekend field trips on the World Wide Web:
• "Nova" on PBS: "Mysterious Mummies of China"
• The Economist: The gentle rise of the machines
• Archaeology Magazine: Hollywood Holy Land
• Wired.com: E-voting snafu in California county
• Seattle Weekly: Black box backlash
• March 18, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Space vision gets sharper: This week brought two examples of how much our view of the cosmos is improved by better telescopes and cameras: the discovery of the planetoid Sedna , the most distant object seen in our solar system; and the detection of a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) asteroid named 2004 FH as it flashed past Earth during the closest recorded cosmic encounter.
In each case, the observed object is almost certainly just one of many like it. But such objects are either too small or too distant to be seen — until now.
In Sedna's case, the detection came about during a full-sky planetoid survey that is only 15 percent complete, using a sophisticated 170-megapixel camera array. And even though space rocks like 2004 FH are thought to pass as close every couple of years or so, it's only been in the past few years that projects like LINEAR have been methodically scanning the sky for near-Earth objects.
So what's next? Keep your eye on the Spitzer Space Telescope, project scientist Michael Werner advises. The latest of NASA's "Great Observatories," which was launched into an Earth-trailing orbit last August, already has sent back some pictures and played a supporting role in the Sedna observations, but Werner says the best is yet to come.
Slideshow: Infrared wonders "We're still getting up and running here," he said during an interview at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Werner said the Spitzer team was working on a "quite sensational" batch of images to be unveiled in June at the American Astronomical Society's summer meeting in Denver. "June will be the grand opening," Werner joked.
Spitzer is designed to "see" in infrared wavelengths rather than the visible-light spectrum, and that means it's particularly well-suited to study the old, cold and dusty corners of the cosmos.
Among the highlights will be images of nebulae and supernovae in our own galaxy, as well as the signature of organic molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Spitzer's Multiband Imaging Photometer can take pictures of the dusty disks that surround other stars, such as nearby Fomalhaut.
"The dust is not so much indicative of potential planets as it is indicative of planets that have formed around other stars," Werner said.
Spitzer's resolution for deep-sky imagery may not be as good as that of the Hubble Space Telescope, but it can still provide fresh infrared perspectives on big-picture projects ranging from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to the DEEP Survey.
Referring to the debate over Hubble's fate, Werner said, "We hope to be able to absorb some of the shock which would be a consequence of Hubble's early demise."
Of course, most astronomers are hoping Hubble will hang around much longer. Now the Space Frontier Foundation has taken up the cause as well, backing the idea of a robotic mission that could facilitate a later upgrade.
"One of the crazy ironies of this entire situation is that since they decided not to use the shuttle to save it, NASA is planning to spend millions on an automated spacecraft to dock with Hubble and bring it down in a 'controlled' manner," said the group's founder, Rick Tumlinson. "If they can do that, why can't they use a similar commercial spacecraft to push it up to an orbit accessible by shuttle or space station crews, or to a high 'storage' orbit where it can wait until a long-term solution is found? It defies logic."
If Hubble can be serviced, it won't be merely to keep the telescope running at its current capability. Scientists and engineers have been preparing two new imaging devices for installation: the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. Check the Hubblesite to refresh your memory about the intended servicing mission and how it could extend our space vision even farther.
Here are some of your comments on Hubble, Sedna and the definition of planethood:
Phil Pennington, Houston: "Why can't NASA purchase a standby rescue mission from the Russians to make the Hubble Space Telescope repair safe? If the mission is needed, it can be launched immediately, and if not it can be scrubbed. Surely the Hubble is worth the investment."
Edna, Anderson, S.C., on the planetoid Sedna: "I think they should drop the 'S' and name it Edna."
Greg Curti Sr., Mechanicsville, Va.: "I think if this discovery (Sedna) is in fact a new planet, then that would be really cool. I hope that NASA will have one of its deep-space probes check out Sedna and send back some pictures."
Everette Short: "This planet's existence was predicted over 30 years ago. I believe they called it 'Chiron.' Anyone else remeber this?"
James: "The term 'planet' is an archaic term needing either an updated definition or complete replacement. ... 'Stellar satellites' of varying classes would be more appropriate, or redefining planet to be any body of matter orbiting around a stellar mass, further subdivided by classes describing diameter, orbit, mean temperature, mass, atmosphere, and composition (DOTMAC Classification)."
Wade Whitlock, Aberdeen, Md.: "An idea for the astronomers who want to make their classifications neater. How about we eliminate the 'planet' classification altogether? In fact, how about we ignore size as well? Substitute 'Silicon Belt Object' for the inner three major and the swarm of minor Sol-orbiting objects, 'Gas Belt Objects' for the big guys, and 'Ice Belt Objects' for the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud stuff. Toss Pluto into the Ice Belt and the problem goes away! No more undefined wanderers! And moons remain moons regardless of composition or position. Might we say that this is a more 'object-ive' scheme?"
• March 18, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Scientific questions on the World Wide Web:
• Discovery.com: Can earthly telescopes replace Hubble?
• BBC: Have old teeth unraveled Anglo-Saxon legacy?
• Scientific American: Will physicists get their dream machine?
• Nat. Geographic: Do birds and monkeys understand each other?
• March 17, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
Blueberry bonanza on Mars: The mysterious Martian blueberries that were first seen by NASA's Opportunity rover are giving off a "whopping big hematite signal," the mission's top scientist is quoted as saying. That's great news for the science team, because Opportunity's primary mission is to study hematite, an iron-bearing mineral that can be formed through interaction with liquid water.
The Planetary Society quotes Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres as saying the strong signature of hematite was picked up by Opportunity's Mössbauer spectrometer while it was sniffing around the "Berry Bowl," a concentration of the BB-sized spherules lying within a shallow bowl of bedrock. Squyres and other Mars mission scientists discussed their work Tuesday during the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston.
Opportunity already has sent back evidence that its landing site was once "drenched" with water , based on the presence of sulfate deposits. Geologically speaking, the hematite could serve as the second half of a one-two punch — strengthening the case that liquid water persisted long enough to allow for the development of Red Planet life.
The Opportunity rover will soon emerge from the crater where it landed almost two months ago, onto the plains of Meridiani Planum. Once it gets onto the plains, the rover could well be rolling over "billions of blueberries," the Planetary Society quotes deputy principal investigator Ray Arvidson of the Washington University at St. Louis as saying.
Arvidson and many other members of the science team left their home bases to work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. — which can be a hardship for family life. Once the team takes a good close look at Martian hematite, that may well signal a changing of the guard, said Arizona State University's Philip Christensen, a member of the science team.
In addition to keeping up with the developments on Mars, the Planetary Society is planning a special push for its EarthDial project, timed to coincide with this weekend's equinox. The equinox (at 1:49 a.m. ET Saturday) marks the official start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
It's a special time for sundials as well as for season-watchers, according to Bill Nye the Science Guy, a guiding light for the EarthDials as well as the MarsDials mounted on the rovers.
"Most days, the shadows of flagpoles, trees and posts track graceful hyperbolic curves, here on Earth and on Mars," Nye says. "But on the day of an equinox, they become straight lines. On the 19th and 20th, we'll all be able to watch those straight shadow paths on EarthDials around the world."
The Planetary Society says the EarthDial project will keep going at least as long as the Mars rovers do — and that could be another three or four months.
• March 17, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
Log o' the Irish: St. Patrick isn't exactly the patron saint of scientists (that honor belongs to Albertus Magnus), but you can always find a couple of egghead angles to go along with today's Wearin' o' the Green: For example, there's the new study into why bubbles in a freshly poured pint of Guinness sink rather than rise. Then there's the perennial concern over the potato fungus that caused the Great Famine of 1847. My favorite subject is the search for Irish family roots, which spawned our special report on "Genetic Genealogy." And for something completely different, check out my wholly unscientific guide to this year's Bloomsday centennial in Dublin.
• March 17, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
Serious and silly science on the World Wide Web:
• Nature: Robolympics contestants go for the gold
• New Scientist: 'Nanniebot' targets online pedophiles
•NASA partners with Energy Department for space exploration
•The Onion: Raving lunatic obviously took some advanced physics
• March 16, 2004 | 6:30 p.m. ET
Handicapping the private space race: Privately funded efforts to give everyday people a taste of the final frontier are advancing on several fronts: HobbySpace's Reusable Launch Vehicle News passes along a report that New Mexico's legislature is dangling a $9 million carrot in front of the X Prize Foundation, if the foundation selects a New Mexico site for its X Prize Cup competition.
New Mexico's Office for Space Commercialization is already hinting that one of the X Prize front-runners, Armadillo Aerospace, will be using the White Sands Missile Range for suborbital test launches.
Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne program, another front-runner for the $10 million X Prize, conducted a glide test last week — representing the craft's first publicized flight since a precedent-setting supersonic test on Dec. 17. RLV News notes that SpaceShipOne will fire up its hybrid rocket engine again during the next test flight.
Meanwhile, Space Adventures, the travel firm that helped send two millionaires to the international space station in 2001 and 2002, is expected to reveal later this month who could be the next paying passenger to take a trip to the station on a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft.
Today, Space Adventures announced that it's looking for a place to build its own spaceport. We previously reported that one of the potential locations was Australia. Other locales on today's list are Florida, Nevada, New Mexico and Oklahoma in the United States, as well as the Bahamas, Florida, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Space Adventures would use the spaceport for suborbital takeoffs, spaceflight training and other flight operations. Executives of the Virginia-based company have surveyed sites in all the listed countries. Although today's announcement did not provide a timetable for selecting the location, Eric Anderson, the company's president and chief executive officer, told me in January that the decision would come "definitely this year."
"Securing the location of a spaceport will be a progressive step for Space Adventures in its evolution from a space experiences provider to an actual spaceflight academy," Anderson was quoted as saying in today's announcement. "We are aggressively seeking a location and enthusiastically look forward to the launch of the first Space Adventures suborbital flight from our spaceport in the coming years."
• March 15, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Grand and not-so-grand challenges: In the wake of the DARPA Grand Challenge — a robotic road race aimed at sparking innovations for future autonomous military vehicles — some Cosmic Log readers came up with suggestions for future technological challenges to be posed by NASA or other governmental agencies. Others wondered whether the Grand Challenge was all that grand after all.
Here's a sampling of the feedback:
Gary Bradski, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, Calif: "Next grand challenge: a robot that can build a copy of itself which can build a copy of itself."
Michael Huang: "How about a challenge involving life support for bases and colonies? Contestants would design and build a closed-loop life support system. The system that supports a person (or group of people) for the longest time wins. The contest shares a similarity with the 'Survivor' series: More and more contestants get knocked out until the winner emerges."
Jim: "We all know that finding terrorists like Osama bin Laden is hard to do. How about having a contest where contestants enter systems and devices to help provide real-time intelligence on a specified area. The contest would identify various scenarios that you would want the systems to work in. For example, a mountainous region is the home of some terrorists. Have a detachment of soldiers or volunteers that will run around the mountains as stealthily as possible while contestants try to discover them and identify if they are friend or foe, etc. Another scenario could be a fake city where you stage regular people with some 'terrorists' that are making bombs, etc., that contestants will have to identify."
Doug Fingles, Warner Robins, Ga.: "I would like to see a challenge that can come up with a way to rid low-Earth orbit of space debris. My wife and kids, on the other hand, would like to see a challenge for a robotic driver that can drive from New York City to Los Angeles and find every rest stop along the way, without prompting, crossed legs or begging."
Scott, Los Angeles: "I would like to see a contest ... to produce an 'automated freeway.' By this I mean a networked highway on which cars would be driven by computer alongside each other. The highway would control the flow of vehicular traffic from the time vehicles entered its on-ramps until they exited on its off-ramps."
Patrick Bishop: "The robots' mission was too unrealistic and the contestants' methods too complicated. Giving the robots a highly detailed map of the terrain, including a route between A and B, doesn't accomplish anything. Instead, give it the two coordinates and enough buglike intelligence to avoid obstacles and dangerous terrain en route. But no military mission is going to be simply 'Get from point A to point B.' Much more realistic is something like 'For 14 days, wander around in the area defined by these geographic coordinates and shoot anything that moves.'"
Wade Whitlock, Aberdeen, Md.: "Did I see a justification for the 'Grand Challenge' that 'by 2015 one-third of the Army's vehicles will be autonomous'? Does this mean that a third of the Army will be monitoring vehicles?
"Assuming reliability of unmanned vehicles is increased by an order of magnitude, I guess that means that two-thirds of the Army's vehicles will be tripled in cost and have three troops to monitor them (eight-hour shifts) per day. How about a simple remote control instead of autonomous?
"Because there won't be anyone near with a wrench, if the thing breaks down do we just combat-loss it and e-mail back to ConUS [Continental United States] for a replacement? What keeps the enemy from trucking it off, or just stripping it?
"This begins to sound as though DARPA has been in the ivory tower too long. Harks back to the Hiller flying platform and the Bell rocket belt! I have noted a new rifle design that has an exploding shell set by a computer using a laser range-finder. Wonderful room-clearing from 200 meters, but the thing would be useless hand-to-hand!
"How about a wonder weapon that shoots 750 rounds per minute, is effective fom 10 to 600 or more meters, can fire a range of devices from fragmentation to smoke to anti-armor and is very useful in a bayonet fight? Especially if it works in any climate on Earth and tolerates dust, sand or mud! Sound too good to be true? It is the old M-14 rifle that was supposedly replaced by the superior M-16 in 1967 by Robert the Strange McNamara.
"Sorry, but technology for the sake of technology just don't cut it on the battlefield! KISS!"
• March 15, 2004 | 10 p.m. ET
Return of the links (on the scientific Web):
• Astrobiology Web: Clues to life in the mines of Murgul
• Independent Online: Graves of Egyptian king's courtiers found
•The New Yorker: Bring on the nanobubble
•Science News: Brain size surprise
• March 15, 2004 | Updated 10 p.m. ET
It's a mini-planet! Far out! NASA is revealing information about the most distant object ever detected in orbit around the sun on Monday — and it doesn't take a lot of guessing to figure out what it is. Some reports have characterized the mysterious object as a "10th planet," but it would be more accurate to call it a Kuiper Belt object, one of thousands of iceballs orbiting on the edge of the solar system.
The object was discovered by astronomer Michael Brown and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology. The researchers apparently used data from the Spitzer Space Telescope , which looks at objects in infrared wavelengths.
The Australian quotes Brown as saying the object is "very big, and much further out than previous discoveries." It has provisionally been named Sedna, after the Inuit goddess of the sea, the newspaper reports. The paper says the mini-world is more than 3 billion kilometers (2 billion miles) beyond Pluto's orbit, with a diameter of almost 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles).
Those figures would beat the statistics quoted for 2004 DW , a large Kuiper Belt object that Brown and other researchers found just last month. In fact, one could imagine a scenario in which the Spitzer data led researchers to believe that 2004 DW was bigger and farther out than they originally thought.
Even at a diameter of 1,250 miles, Sedna still falls just short of Pluto's size — but there may come a time when a far-out Kuiper Belt object is judged to be larger than the solar system's ninth planet. That would fuel the simmering controversy over how astronomers define "planethood." For more about the planet debate, check out this Cosmic Log guide from last August, and stay tuned for the full story on Monday.
Update for 10 p.m. ET March 15: OK, here's the full story ... it turned out to be somewhat different from what I was expecting.
• March 14, 2004 | 8 p.m. ET
Still challenged: I'm still recovering from this weekend's DARPA Grand Challenge and catching up on your e-mail. There are plenty of suggestions for future grand challenges that NASA could offer, and plenty of sideline sidelights to be recounted in a follow-up. So even though the race is over, you can look forward to a postmortem in the Log later this week.
The fine print: Looking for older items? Check the Cosmic Log archive. Share your perspective on cosmic subjects with Alan Boyle. If you link to this page, you can use http://cosmiclog.msnbc.com or http://www.cosmiclog.com as the address. MSNBC is not responsible for the content of Internet links.


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Pokémon movie
- This article is about the movies that are part of the Pokémon anime. For movies that exist in the Pokémon world, see Movies in the Pokémon world.
A Pokémon movie is released in Japanese theaters in July, centering on Pokémon and following, as the main anime, Ash Ketchum and his friends. Typically, the movies' animation is done by Team Koitabashi of OLM (Mewtwo Returns being the only one taken by another, Team Wasaki), and each has at least one hour of footage. The first six movies also have a Pikachu short that was shown before the movie.
Movies, with little exception, center around and feature legendary Pokémon which are either not at all or very rarely seen in the main anime, often with the legendary Pokémon causing some sort of disaster with its powers or being pursued by someone with less than noble tendencies. Ash and his friends will often befriend a Pokémon during the movie and must, at the end, say goodbye to their new friend.
The locations in which the movies take place have been, since Pokémon Heroes, based on a real-world location outside of Japan. Topics explored are typically deeper than those explored in the episodes aired on TV, with the battle between greedy people who would use Pokémon for evil and those like Ash who are friends and partners to their Pokémon being a central issue in several movies.
When they open in Japan, they usually gross a large amount of money, typically ranking first for their premiere weekend. A few years ago, one movie drew in a significant crowd despite the fact that it was released in the same weekend as a Studio Ghibli film. In the United States, only the first five movies, those associated with the original series, were released in theaters, however, the movies continue to be dubbed, being released directly to home video and, since Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, airing on Cartoon Network early in the year. Recently the thirteenth movie saw a limited theatrical release as part of the "Pokémon Black Version and White Version Mall Tour". On December 3rd and 4th, 2011, White—Victini and Zekrom received a limited commercial release in US theaters, making it the first movie since Pokémon Heroes to receive a commercial theatrical release.
To date there have been fifteen theatrical Pokémon movies and three movie-length special episodes.
Original series
|English poster
|English title
|English release
|American distributor
|Japanese title
|Japanese release
|Japanese distributor
|Pokémon - The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back
|November 12, 1999
|Warner Bros.
| ミュウツーの逆襲
Mewtwo's Counterattack
Mewtwo Strikes Back!
|July 18, 1998
|Ash Ketchum and his friends are tricked into visiting New Island, an island ruled by a mutant Pokémon, Mewtwo. There, they find out about Mewtwo's plans to clone their Pokémon and destroy the world, and a massive battle follows between the clones and the originals—including the "original" counterpart to Mewtwo: Mew.
|Pokémon the Movie 2000 - The Power of One
|July 21, 2000
|Warner Bros.
| 幻のポケモン ルギア爆誕
Mirage Pokémon: Lugia's Explosive Birth
|July 17, 1999
|Ash Ketchum and his friends visit Shamouti Island, the centerpoint of culture in the Orange Islands, just in time for their annual festival in honor of the Chosen One spoken of in legends who would save the world when Lugia's song was not enough to quell the fighting Legendary birds. But when the meddling of a self-named "Pokémon Collector" causes the legendary birds to begin fighting, will the Chosen One appear in time to help Lugia?
|Spell of the Unown
|Pokémon 3: The Movie - Spell of the Unown
|April 6, 2001
|Warner Bros.
Emperor of the Crystal Tower: Entei
Lord of the "Unknown" Tower
|July 8, 2000
|When Spencer Hale, a researcher exploring the mystery of the Unown, disappears on an expedition, his daughter Molly is left alone in their mansion in Greenfield. Using tiles of the Unown sent to her by her father, she brings Unown into the Pokémon world, where their power can make real her dreams. When she wishes for her parents to return, however, she wishes her father as an Entei, and then for him to bring her a mother. When Ash's own mother is kidnapped by Entei to serve as Molly's, Ash and his friends must journey into the mansion that has been warped by the Unown's power and Molly's wishes... but can they get to Molly in time to stop the Unown's power from warping the whole Johto region... or even the world?
|Pokémon 4Ever - Celebi: Voice of the Forest
|October 11, 2002
|Miramax Films / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
| セレビィ時を超えた遭遇
Celebi: Encounter Beyond Time
Celebi: a Timeless Encounter
|July 7, 2001
|Forty years in the past, a young Trainer finds a Celebi on the run from a Pokémon poacher. Trying to calm it, the boy is accidentally transported to the present day by Celebi, and thought by all in the past to have vanished. He meets Ash and his friends, but before they can get Celebi to take him back to the past, it is captured by a far more dangerous man, Team Rocket operative Iron-Masked Marauder, whose Dark Balls brainwash Celebi into following his every command.
|Pokémon - Heroes: Latios & Latias
|May 16, 2003
|Miramax Films / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
| 水の都の護神 ラティアスとラティオス
Guardian Gods of the City of Water: Latias and Latios
The Guardians of Altomare
|July 13, 2002
|In Alto Mare, a legend is told of its guardians, Latios and Latias, who have protected the city for a long time. The Soul Dew, their essence, is kept in Alto Mare to keep the city safe. But when Team Rocket agents Annie and Oakley arrive to attempt to steal the Soul Dew, Ash and his friends must recover it to keep Alto Mare safe at all costs.
Advanced Generation series
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|Jirachi: Wish Maker
|June 1, 2004 (DVD)
|Miramax Films / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
| 七夜の願い星 ジラーチ
Wishing Star of the Seven Nights: Jirachi
Wishing Star of the Seven Nights
|July 19, 2003
|A mysterious comet that passes by every millennium awakens Jirachi, a legendary Pokémon. Using its power, a magician, Butler, who was formerly a member of Team Magma, attempts to create a Groudon to further the group's goals. Can Ash and his friends protect Jirachi during the week that it is awake?
|Destiny Deoxys
|January 22, 2005 (Kids' WB!)
|Miramax Films / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
| 裂空の訪問者 デオキシス
Sky-Splitting Visitor: Deoxys
Deoxys the Visitor
|July 17, 2004
|When a meteor crashes into Earth, a battle begins between Rayquaza and the Deoxys contained inside. With Rayquaza the victor, researchers pick up a portion of the meteor with the intention of studying it. When the Deoxys has finally recovered four years later, it attacks the city where the researchers call home, just in time for Ash and friends to visit. But why is it attacking? What connection does the meteor have with it?
|Lucario and the Mystery of Mew
|September 19, 2006 (Kids' WB!)
|VIZ Media / Warner Bros.
| ミュウと波導の勇者 ルカリオ
Mew and the Wave-Guiding Hero: Lucario
Mew and the Wave Hero
|July 16, 2005
|Ash's Pikachu is taken to the Tree of World's Beginning by a wild Mew. To get Pikachu back, Ash must now team up with a legendary Lucario from many years past, but with Lucario still bitter about the hero who sealed him away, Ash and friends must discover the hero's true intentions.
|Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
|March 23, 2007 (Cartoon Network)
|VIZ Media / Warner Bros.
| ポケモンレンジャーと蒼海の王子 マナフィ
Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea: Manaphy
The Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea
|July 15, 2006
|When the egg of a legendary Pokémon, Manaphy, with ties to an ancient water-based civilization, falls into the hands of a pirate, a Pokémon Ranger entrusts the egg to Ash and his friends—specifically May. May must keep the egg safe until it hatches, and afterward, make sure Manaphy does not fall into the hands of the Phantom, lest Samiya be lost to the seafloor and Manaphy lose its home.
Diamond & Pearl series
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|The Rise of Darkrai
|February 24, 2008 (Cartoon Network)
|VIZ Media / Warner Bros.
Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai
|July 14, 2007
|In Alamos Town, a large shrine to Dialga and Palkia, the Space-Time Tower, sits. But when Dialga and Palkia begin to battle in their dimension, the fight spills over into the Pokémon world, trapping Alamos Town away from the rest of the world. A Darkrai that lives in town tries to help, but is ultimately blamed by the town as the cause of the problem. Can Ash and his friends save Alamos Town before it is destroyed, and prove Darkrai's intentions?
|Giratina and the Sky Warrior
|February 13, 2009 (Cartoon Network)
|Universal Studios Home Entertainment
| ギラティナと氷空の花束 シェイミ
Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin
|July 19, 2008
|When dark, poisonous clouds begin to appear in the Reverse World, home to Giratina, it takes matters into its own hands and pursues the cause of the clouds: Dialga and Palkia. Finding Dialga, it lures it for revenge, and assumes Shaymin to also be responsible. But this is not the only trouble: a researcher who wishes to make Giratina's power his own is also in pursuit of the Renegade Pokémon. With the balance of the Pokémon world and Reverse World altering due to Dialga and Giratina's own fight, Ash and friends must stop the fighting and get Shaymin to Gracidea to participate in the flower bearing ceremony.
|Arceus and the Jewel of Life
|November 20, 2009 (Cartoon Network)
|VIZ Media / Warner Bros.
| アルセウス 超克の時空へ
Arceus: To a Conquering Spacetime
|July 18, 2009
|Ash and friends have traveled to Michina Town, an ancient area surrounded by many legends—and unsurprisingly, many legendary Pokémon as well. Arceus, however, is angry, as in the past it was betrayed by the people of Michina Town, and begins to destroy the area. Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina arrive to protect Ash and friends from the legendary Pokémon, but how can Ash stop the most powerful Pokémon of them all, especially in its rage?
|Zoroark: Master of Illusions
|February 5, 2011 (Cartoon Network)
|VIZ Media / Warner Bros.
| 幻影の覇者ゾロアーク
Ruler of Illusions: Zoroark
|July 10, 2010
|Ash and friends arrive in Crown City, where the "Pokémon Baccer World Cup" will be held. However, the city is being destroyed by Raikou, Entei and Suicune, who are all forms of a new and mysterious Pokémon, Zoroark. Zoroark's child, Zorua, asks Ash and his friends for help in saving its mother from the villain who has enslaved it. This draws them into a race against businessman Grings Kodai, who has come to the city in pursuit of Celebi's "Time Ripple" for his own sinister ends, to save Crown City before Kodai's actions lead to its destruction.
Best Wishes series
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|White—Victini and Zekrom
|December 3, 2011
|VIZ Media / Warner Bros.
| ビクティニと黒き英雄ゼクロム
Victini and the Black Hero: Zekrom
|July 16, 2011
|Ash, Iris and Cilan arrive in Eindoak Town, a village where the descendants of a race known as the People of the Vale live, to participate in a battle tournament. They meet the Victory Pokémon, Victini, and learn of its deep connection to the history of the People of the Vale and their land. However, when Damon, a man aiming to use the castle known as the Sword of the Vale to restore his people's kingdom to its former glory, captures Victini to move his plan forward, he sets in motion a chain of events that threaten to destroy not only Eindoak Town but the entire world.
|Black—Victini and Reshiram
|December 10, 2011
| ビクティニと白き英雄レシラム
Victini and the White Hero: Reshiram
Kyurem VS the Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo
|July 14, 2012
|Keldeo is training to become one of the Sacred Swordsmen, like Cobalion, Terrakion and Virizion. But when it decides to challenge Kyurem to prove its strength, it ends up badly injured. Later encountering Ash and his friends aboard a train to the city of Roushan, Keldeo drags them into its desperate attempt to escape from the enraged Kyurem and its gang of Cryogonal. As Kyurem's relentless pursuit drives the group from the train into the big city and finally deep into the abandoned mine Kyurem calls home, can they help Keldeo find its inner strength and defeat Kyurem to prove itself a true Sacred Swordsman?
Relation to the main anime
Generally, Pokémon movies have little to no impact on the overall plotline of the anime and fans will argue as to whether or not they are considered true canon. Evidence going either way is sparse, with many details, such as the fact that Ash, Dawn, and Brock having met Dialga and Palkia in The Rise of Darkrai, Giratina and the Sky Warrior, and Arceus and the Jewel of Life going unmentioned when the legendary Pokémon are seen again in The Battle Finale of Legend!. Other details introduced in movies, such as Ash's aura abilities, have in fact been referenced by the main anime. As details of earlier episodes are sometimes contradicted by later ones, such as May claiming to have used Skitty in the Fallarbor Contest in A Fan with a Plan when she actually used Beautifly in Come What May!, this is generally presumed to carry over into the movies as well.
It is possible that early on, the movies were intended to be generally ambiguous in regard to their canon status, as Mewtwo's erasure of everyone's memories at the conclusion of Mewtwo Strikes Back makes there no difference as to whether or not the movie is canon. As the series has progressed, however, more references to past movies have been made, with Ash recognizing a Latios immediately in The Semi-Final Frontier!, despite having never seen another aside from the one which appeared in Pokémon Heroes.
Due to this inconsistency, it will be noted in the movies' individual articles when a reference has been made to them in the main anime. The placement of the movies in the anime timeline will generally be between the episodes aired before and after the date of the movie's Japanese premiere, though often with earlier movies, this placement can vary with regard to events in the main anime.
Long specials
These special episodes, which run longer than the normal half hour and are not usually separated into more than one episode in either the original or the dub, are often considered TV Pokémon movies, not counting towards the running total. They never appear in theaters, but are instead broadcast on the same networks that the regular anime is broadcast for their premieres. Though they may air around the same time as other episodes of the anime, usually in the anime's normal timeslot, they are not assigned episode numbers.
- Main article: Mewtwo Returns
Mewtwo, who has been hiding out in the Johto region since last he was seen, has been located by Giovanni. Now the Rocket Boss wants to recapture the powerful Pokémon to again use him for his own purposes. It was released directly to video in the United States and elsewhere.
- Main article: The Legend of Thunder!
In the first anime break from Ash and his friends, three Trainers, Jimmy, Marina, and Vincent must stop the evil Team Rocket duo Attila and Hun from capturing Raikou. It was divided up into three parts to become the first three episodes of Pokémon Chronicles when dubbed.
- Main article: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Ash, May, Max, and Brock meet up with Misty and Professor Oak to investigate Dr. Yung's new Mirage Pokémon system. But when the mysterious Mirage Master appears with a Mirage Mewtwo, Ash is forced to fight him to stop his plans to dominate the world with his Mirage Pokémon.
- In the list of locations where a Pokémon can be obtained in Generation IV games, unused data exists for every movie between the ninth and the present, with space reserved for movies up to 2016 (what would be, assuming they continue to be released annually, the nineteenth movie). As events for the 14th movie and onward have been exclusive to Generation V, it is unlikely these will be used.
See also
|This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.


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Casting director and spring?
Monday, 23 February 2004 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
The UK casting newsletter PCR (Professional Casting Review) today contains the following information: the casting director on the new Doctor Who series is Andy Pryor, whose casting credits include "Long Time Dead," "Beautiful Thing," "Trainspotting TV: The Long Firm," "Cutting It," "Linda Green" and "In a Land of Plenty," among others. The PCR article also mentions that shooting for the series "is anticipated for late spring" meaning that the production is a bit further along than previously believed. OG speculates that, because of this, an announcement of a new Doctor is probably due within the next month or two.


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pitbullmamaliz wrote:Fingers crossed for Galaxie!
Hopefully she acts like described.... They were impressed with her skill-set (sitting for dinner, door, etc.), sitting for petting, staying off the furniture, walking on a loose leash with a buckle collar, housetrained and cratetrained, etc. I certainally hope she doesn't meet them and turn into a wild child.


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Thwarting the First Civil Rights Revolution
The following essay for our Race and the Supreme Court program was written by Robert J. Cottrol, the Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology at the George Washington University. He is the co-author of Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture and the Constitution (University Press of Kansas, 2003). He is currently working on a comparative legal history contrasting the role of law in constructing systems of slavery and racial hierarchy in the Americas.
Chances are if you went to law school sometime in the last half-century you absorbed a certain narrative about race and the Supreme Court. The Court was the hero of that narrative. Its 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education cut through the Gordian knot that had long stifled racial progress in the nation. The decision, the first act of the new Warren Court, gave strength and heart to the postwar Civil Rights movement and ultimately courage to the political branches. It helped precipitate a civil rights revolution, one in which the law went from being an active abetter of American-style apartheid, Jim Crow, to being the chief vehicle for attacking racial discrimination. The Court's school desegregation decision would become exhibit A in the argument for a robust view of the judicial power. The decision would also give the Supreme Court a moral authority that has increased in the ensuing decades with greater national acceptance of the 1954 decision.
That narrative is true as far as it goes. And yet Brown and the undoubted boost that it gave to the cause of racial justice in postwar America have served to obscure an unpleasant truth. If the Supreme Court played an important role in energizing the civil rights movement that has wonderfully transformed modern America, it also did much to thwart and ultimately doom an earlier civil rights revolution that came in the wake of the Civil War. Two cases, United States v. Cruikshank (1876) and the Civil Rights Cases (1883) would largely curtail Congressional efforts to protect the newly emancipated black population through civil rights legislation. The consequences would be severe. The federal government would largely abandon civil rights protection for black people and other minorities for the better part of the twentieth century in no small part due to the Court's decisions in both cases. The system of Jim Crow that defined much of American race relations in the twentieth century can be traced, in no small measure, to these two nineteenth-century Supreme Court decisions.
Cruikshank, the earlier case, probably had the more far-reaching consequences. It began with the massacre of over 100 black men by an armed white mob in Louisiana. The black men were going to the polls. They were armed in anticipation of an attack. Three members of the white mob were convicted of violating the civil rights of the black men under the Enforcement Act of 1870. The members of the white mob had been charged, among other counts, with violating the First Amendment rights of the black men to peaceable assembly and with violating their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The Court's opinion, authored by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, cut the legs out from under Congress's ability to protect the newly freed black population from the rising tide of white violence designed to intimidate black voters and drive them from the polls. Cruikshank and the other defendants, the Waite opinion explained, were private citizens. Under the federal system citizens were obliged to look to state government for protection from private parties, including private parties seeking to deprive them of constitutional rights. The Waite opinion was a harkening back to the federalism of the antebellum era, one in which the federal government had little role in protecting the citizen. The opinion largely overlooked the revolution in federalism that the Civil War Amendments were meant to bring about. It also ignored considerable evidence, found in the text of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, that Congress was meant to have strong, perhaps primary powers in enforcing the new amendments in fulfilling their purpose of eradicating the system of slavery and racial domination that had brought the nation close to ruin.
Cruikshank's consequences would be far reaching. Emboldened by the Court's dictate that the federal government could play only a limited role at best in curbing private violence against black citizens, white supremacists led by the Ku Klux Klan would use extra-legal violence to eliminate black voters as a significant force in southern politics. That pattern would not begin to be reversed until after the Second World War. And the Cruikshank decision would have far-reaching consequences beyond the ballot box. The American South would become a place of open and notorious lawlessness. Lynching was widespread in the region in the early part of the twentieth century. The federal government provided little protection. Chief Justice Waite's notions of the limits of federal power would be followed to an extreme.
The Waite Court's limited view of Congressional power was also reflected in Justice Joseph P. Bradley's majority opinion in the Civil Rights Cases. The cases pronounced provisions in the Civil Rights Act of 1875 that prohibited discrimination in public accommodations unconstitutional. Like Waite, Bradley saw the antebellum federalism which gave the national government little role in the citizen's life as essentially unaltered despite the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. The new amendments gave Congress no enhanced powers. The mission of eradicating slavery and its incidents provided no special warrant for this legislation. The former slaves, Bradley proclaimed, must cease "to be the special favorite of the laws."
But if Bradley saw no constitutional warrant for the 1875 statute, one dissenting justice did. John M. Harlan, the former Kentucky slave owner who would later be immortalized as the great dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson, argued for a broader view of the meaning of the recent emancipation.
I do not contend that the Thirteenth Amendment invests Congress with the authority, by legislation, to define and regulate the entire body of civil rights which citizens enjoy…[S]ince slavery…was the moving or principal cause of the adoption of that amendment, and since that institution rested wholly upon the inferiority, as a race, of those held in bondage, their freedom necessarily involved immunity from, and protection against all discrimination against them, because of their race, as in respect of such civil rights as belong to freeman of other races.
Harlan's broader view of what freedom entailed was rejected. In both Cruikshank and the Civil Rights Cases, the Supreme Court thwarted far-reaching civil rights initiatives enacted by Congress. The Court dealt a severe blow to the idea of national protection for civil rights in the nineteenth century. The idea would have to be slowly and painfully reconstructed in the twentieth.


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If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Lew, 57, would be Mr. Obama's second Treasury secretary, replacing Timothy F. Geithner, the last remaining principal on Mr. Obama's original economic team, at the head of that team.
While Mr. Lew has much less experience than Mr. Geithner in international economics and financial markets, he would come to the job with far more expertise in fiscal policy and in dealing with Congress than Mr. Geithner did when he became secretary at the start of Mr. Obama's term. That shift in skills reflects the changed demands of the times, as emphasis has shifted from the global recession and financial crisis of the president's first years to the continuing budget fights with Republicans in Congress to stabilize the growth of federal debt.
The partisan tension over the budget between Mr. Obama and Republicans suggests that Mr. Lew will face a grilling by Senate Republicans in confirmation hearings. But despite weeks of speculation that Mr. Lew would be named Treasury secretary, Republicans have not signaled that they plan to mount the kind of opposition they raised to Mr. Obama's potential nomination of Susan E. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, for secretary of state, and Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense; the president named Mr. Hagel on Monday, and eventually settled on Senator John F. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, for secretary of state.
Mr. Lew's departure would create an important vacancy for what would be Mr. Obama's fifth White House chief of staff, a turnover rate that is in contrast with the stability at Mr. Geithner's Treasury. Leading candidates are said to include Denis McDonough, currently the deputy national security adviser in the White House; and Ron Klain, a former chief of staff to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Mr. Lew had a brief turn in the financial industry before joining the Obama administration four years ago, working at the financial giant Citicorp, first as managing director of Citi Global Wealth Management and then as chief operating officer of Citigroup Alternative Investments.
His first job with Mr. Obama was at the State Department, where Mr. Lew was the deputy secretary responsible for managing day-to-day operations of the department and its international economic policy. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton protested to Mr. Obama when the president in 2010 tapped Mr. Lew to replace Peter R. Orszag as budget director.
It was Mr. Lew's second stint heading the Office of Management and Budget. He previously served in President Bill Clinton's second term, helping to negotiate a bipartisan budget deal with Congressional Republicans that led to four years of budget surpluses. In the 1980s, Mr. Lew was a senior aide to House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, a Democrat, also advising in budget negotiations with President Ronald Reagan.
He has been deeply involved in the deficit negotiations over the last two years. And, if he were quickly confirmed, as Treasury secretary his first test could come as soon as next month, when analysts expect a fight over raising the debt ceiling, which is the legal limit on the amount that the government can borrow.
Republican leaders have said they would refuse to raise the ceiling unless Mr. Obama agrees to equal spending cuts, particularly in entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security. Mr. Obama has said that he will not negotiate over the ceiling, with the country's full faith and credit at stake.
With battle lines already drawn, the country is expected to run out of room under the ceiling sometime between mid-February and March. At that point, Congress would need to raise the borrowing limit, or the country would start defaulting on obligated payments, like those promised to seniors, doctors, contractors and bondholders.
Mr. Lew's role as an Obama negotiator in 2011 did not endear him to Republicans, in particular House Speaker John A. Boehner, and he took a lower-profile role in the most recent negotiations at year-end. The White House was eager to avoid controversy given the likelihood of Mr. Lew's nomination to Treasury. Instead Mr. Geithner and Rob Nabors, the director of legislative affairs, were lead negotiators.
Mr. Lew, a native of New York, is known for his low-key, professorial style and organizational skills. While he was a favorite of Mr. Obama and other staff members as chief of staff, Mr. Lew made it known that he did not want to continue in that post for a second term.
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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare will spread to PC June 24
PopCap's silly online shooter Garden Warfare, currently out on Xbox platforms, will debut on the PC via Origin on June 24, EA announced today via press release. The post-release Xbox DLC Garden Variety and Zomboss Down will be in the PC version of the game at launch, and a Digital Deluxe Edition with some booster […]
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Photo of: Hayley Levitt, a sophomore on the women's sabre
squad that earned 16 points at the Sollee Invitational.
Photo courtesy of David Silverman Photography.
WALTHAM, Mass.- The No. 7 Harvard men's
fencing team defeated Air Force, 17-10, and Haverford, 23-4,
Saturday at the Eric Sollee Invitational. The third-ranked Crimson
women's fencing team handed the Falcons a 24-3 loss and the
Fords a 21-6 loss.
In the victory over Air Force, the Crimson captured wins in all three weapons. Harvard won the sabre and foil by the score of 6-3 and edged the Falcons 5-4 in the epee. Against Haverford, the Crimson swept all nine bouts in the epee, took eight bouts in the sabre and earned six points in the foil.
On the women's side, Harvard earned all nine points in the foil, eight in the sabre and seven in the epee to down Air Force, 24-3. The Crimson picked up eight points in the sabre and foil competitions and scooped up the crucial fifth point to win all three weapon competitions.
Harvard returns to action Feb. 21 as it takes on Cornell, Penn and Yale at the first half Ivy League Championships in Ithaca, N.Y.


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"Today, there is nobody left. In the old days all the children grew up together, Armenian and Turks. They played together on the streets and used to visit each other."
When Fatih Sultan Mehmet brought Armenian stone adepts to Rumeli Hisari on the shores of the Bosporus to build a fortress between 1451 and 1452, prior to his conquest of Constantinople, some Armenians settled in what later became the village of Rumeli Hisari. They also built a church, and until today some of their descendants are living here. In the 1950s there were about 500 Armenians still living in Rumeli Hisari. This was when Berc Abrahamoglu also came to Rumeli Hisari.
Berc Abrahamoglu administers the small Armenian Church, which was built on the original spot in Rumeli Hisari. It is hidden in a beautiful garden with olive trees overlooking the Bosporus. In recent decades Berc has seen the number of Armenians living here decrease continuously. Today, he tells us, there are only 25 Armenians left:
"People still leave because their wooden houses wear out and rot, and they cannot afford to repair them. Apart from that, people get old and do not want to live alone in the big wooden houses. […] Migration abroad became very common. Many Armenians migrated to America, France and other places as well."
Until the 1940s there was an Armenian primary school in the building next to the church. Today, Armenian families settle closer to the centre of Istanbul, where they can send their children to Armenian schools.
Berc Abrahamoglu
"We speak Turkish in our home because we do not speak Armenian very well. In order to learn the language one has to go to school, otherwise you forget it. I attended the elementary school until the 4th grade. After that I had to work, so I could not finish the school. The circumstances we were in forced us to work."
The Armenian cemetery belonging to the Armenian church is today surrounded by a former gecekondu above Rumeli Hisari and kept by a Muslim farmer, Mehmet Eryigit. Anatolian migrants started to settle in that area in the 1960s.
"They have come here and settled, built their shatter houses and lived there. We have nothing to do with it. We just watched them. Here there were strawberry gardens, fields and a dairy. All these have become informal settlements."
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This web-site is an extension of that book and providing current news and links to useful information.
As with any large undertaking of this kind details will change over time and so the updates section will keep you informed of changes to what is given in the book. Also given the extensive research that went into its making and the volume of facts and figures it is inevitable that some mistakes will have been made. These will be posted in the corrections section as we become aware of them.
In the near future we hope to setup a discussion forum where you can raise topics and questions of your own.