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Why is the history of Chinese philosophy now the most popular course at Harvard? Top tips on how to become a better person according to Confucius and co
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In coming years, neuroscience will answer questions we don't even yet know to ask. Sometimes, though, focus on the brain is misleading.
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luiy's curator insight, May 31, 2013 5:53 AM
Understanding the brain is of course essential to developing treatments for devastating illnesses like schizophrenia and Parkinson's. More abstract but no less compelling, the functioning of the brain is intimately tied to our sense of self, our identity, our memories and aspirations. But the excitement to explore the brain has spawned a new fixation that my colleague Scott Lilienfeld and I call neurocentrism -- the view that human behavior can be best explained by looking solely or primarily at the brain.
Dorothy R. Cook 's curator insight, September 25, 2017 5:23 PM
The brain health rightly divided and made plain explains a lot.
Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, Rupert Sheldrake - "The Evolutionary Mind" 1998
The Julian Jaynes Collection edited by Marcel Kuijsten
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Discussion of the life of Julian Jaynes.All of Jaynes's relevant articles and lectures for the first time gathered together in one volume.Previously unpublished lectures by Julian Jaynes, including "The Dream of Agamemnon," which extends his theory to dreams and the discovery of time, and "Imagination and the Dance of the Self," discussing the nature of the self, emotions, and the consequences of consciousness.Rare and previously unpublished radio and in-person interviews and in-depth question and answer sessions with Julian Jaynes discussing many aspects of his theory, including: the nature of consciousness, dreams, consciousness in children, cognition in animals, the discovery of time, the nature of the self, the mentality of tribes, emotions, art, music, poetry, prophecy, mental illness, therapy, the consequences and future of consciousness, brain hemisphere differences, vestiges of the bicameral mind, and much more. In these interviews and discussions, Jaynes addresses nearly every question one might have about his theory. This is the closest one could come to having a personal conversation with Julian Jaynes.
FastTFriend's insight:
I'm trying to undo a mistake I made some years ago, and rethink the idea that the way to understand the mind is to take it apart in the simpler minds and then take those apart into still simpler minds until you get down to minds that can be replaced by a machine. This is called homuncular functionalism, because you take the whole person. You break the whole person down into two or three or four or seven sub persons that are basically agents. They're homunculi, and this looks like a regress, but it's only a finite regress, because you take each of those in turn and you break it down into a group of stupider, more specialized homunculi, and you keep going until you arrive at parts that you can replace with a machine, and that's a great way of thinking about cognitive science. It's what good old-fashioned AI tried to do and still trying to do.
The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That's the question that I'm asking myself right now, can science in general, or neuroscience in particular, be used to understand what drives conflict, what prevents reconciliation, why some interventions work for some people some of the time, and how to make and evaluate better ones.
A gorilla-suit experiment reveals our closest animal relatives may possess "theory of mind"
From aeon
New research puts us on the cusp of brain-to-brain communication. Could the next step spell the end of individual minds?
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Consciousness remains mysterious. But there's no reason to regard it as magical, no evidence of spectral bonds that hold a soul in one head and keep it from leaking into another. And one of the things we do know is that consciousness spreads to fill the space available. Smaller selves disappear into larger; two hemispheres integrate into one. The architectural specifics aren't even all that important if Tononi is right, if the Cambridge Declaration is anything to go on. You don't need a neocortex or a hypothalamus. All you need is complexity and a sufficiently fat pipe.
From mindhacks
Several new mind and brain radio series have just started in the last few weeks and all can be listened to online.
American philosopher Daniel Dennett talks to Carole Jahme about faith, science, empathy – and Short Circuit
This week American philosopher Daniel Dennett, a long-time stalwart of Darwin@LSE, shared his wisdom with a lunchtime crowd in the London School of Economics' Old Theatre. Since fellow philosopher Helena Cronin's 1995 launch of the LSE hub (which is devoted to evolution's maxims) Dennett has been a regular guest. His mission this week to persuade the public that cultural evolution exists and is facilitated due to our hierarchical nature, where those at the top tell others what to think and do. Dennett rhetorically asked, "Does culture make us smart enough to have minds?"
From studying the human ability to become good at things without understanding, which then leads to our acquisition of the cognisance to comprehend, via our competence, Dennett favours the theory (first suggested by Richard Dawkins) that our social learning has given us a second information highway (in addition to the genetic highway) where the transmission of variant cultural information (memes) takes place via differential replication. Software viruses, for example, can be understood as memes, and as memes evolve in complexity, so does human cognition: "The mind is the effect, not the cause."
Not all philosophers, including Cronin, agree that natural selection shapes culture. But Dennett goes even further, describing a spectrum where, at one end, memes are authorless and free floating and at the opposite end they are guided by forethought, are less Darwinian and more purposeful, such as statistics, computer software and poetry. "Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes, our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture. Words are memes that can be spoken and words are the best example of memes. Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language."
Because Dennett is an approachable, kind man, once his lecture finished I proposed accompanying him to his lunch appointment and asking a few questions en route. Luckily, he agreed.
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Danijel Drnić's curator insight, March 25, 2013 8:15 AM
..i da li je samo jezik slučajno ili namjerno sredstvo kojime se čitav svemir koristi. Jezik, govor, nije samo specifičan za ljude. Komunikacija se odvija na svim nivoima.
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Dustin Eirdosh Interviews the founder of the Julian Jaynes Society Marcel Kuijsten.
Ray Kurzweil is arguably today's most influential – and often controversial – futurist. In How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization-reverse engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines.
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Australian Art, lecture tour of China, September 2014
A four city lecture tour of Beijing, Hohhot, Suzhou and Shanghai was undertaken under the auspices of Artlink, with support of the Australia-China Council, in September 2014. Lectures on links between Australian and Chinese art were undertaken at Renmin University, Beijing, the University of Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, Soochow University, Suzhou, and East China Normal University, Shanghai. Stephanie Britton, Founding Editor of Artlink, gave an accompanying lecture on New Ideas in Art. Audiences of c150 attended.
Expanding Australia's creative horizon: arts education in the Asian Century
Keynote address: 34th World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA)
Melbourne, 8 July 2014
Ways of Seeing, Leadership Program, Asialink, University of Melbourne
March- April 2014, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane
Ways of Seeing, Leadership Program, Asialink, University of Melbourne
March-April, 2013, Melbourne and Sydney.
This Asian Century International Women's Day Address, Old Grammarians, Melbourne Girls' Grammar School, March 2013.
Preparing Australians for the Asian Century, panellist, with Hon Penny Wong, Carrillo Gantner, Hieu Van Le, Sid Myer, and Martyn Eames, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, 26 September 2012
Arts of Asia Lecture: Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Tuesday 22 March 1-2pm
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Centenary Auditorium
The Triumph of the New: Art in Asia 1960-2000
Alison Carroll, Asialink International Arts Program
The lecture highlights the key periods of art in the region over the forty years 1960-2000, from just after the turbulence of mid-century war and independence, into a new era of prosperity in the 1960s, a lull in the 1970s, and then a re-emergence of individual energy in the 1980s and into the 1990s.
The three key geopolitical areas of North, Southeast and South Asia are covered, starting with the truly revolutionary events focused on conceptual art in Japan in the early 1960s, separate from anything else in Asia, in contrast to the dynamic period of Maoist art being made at the same time in China. Along side these two major movements were the emergence of a new local arts scene in the old Japanese colonies of Korea and Taiwan. The development of major individual figures in the 1980s and 90s in all four countries are set against the context of this earlier period.
In Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Indonesia have parallel stories, as had been the way in the past, seeing a dramatic, politically-based practice of painting and installation in the late 1980s and 1990s developed in response to the build up of political dictatorial constraint. Malaysia and Thailand develop slowly but surely, into a practice of wry insight particularly in Thailand in the 1990s. Vietnam, with doi moi or a freeing of Communist control, retreats to a practice of rural nostalgia.
The split between India and (West) Pakistan becomes very clear in art, with India continuing a tradition of narrative painting for a privileged audience – with remarkably little politically-driven work – and Pakistan developing two important schools: a contemporary response to traditional Mughal miniature painting, and a dynamic celebration of the visual life of the street.
The lecture provides a broad coverage of this vast region over these four decades, highlighting key movements and individuals. The lecture is based on research undertaken over twenty years by Alison Carroll, visiting most countries of the region, discussing key movements with artists and curators and seeing myriad works of art in situ. She has written this up in her recent book The Revolutionary Century; Art in Asia 1900-2000, Macmillan, 2010.
This lecture is part of the course Innovasian: Asian art 1960s to now.
Admission: $28 $20 Art gallery and VisAsia members $5 with fulltime student ID
Lecture: National Gallery of Victoria
"The revolutionary century; art in Asia 1900-2000"
6.30 pm, 25 May 2011-03-03
Part of NGV's 150th birthday celebrations.
Paper for 2011 Joint Conference, Association for Asian Studies & International Convention of Asia Scholars, Hawaii Convention Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii
31 March 2011
'Towards the New Asian Century: Memory, Identity and Globalisation in Contemporary Asian Art'
Art and Change in the Asia Pacific: mid century war and dislocation as a paradigm for the future
The greatest period of social, economic and political change in the last century in the Asia Pacific was the time of war and nationalism in the 1940-50s. This paper assesses four responses of artists to this time: first, a response to initiatives of the government of the day to promote the official cause; second, a politically inspired if not officially sanctioned response; third, a personal response; and fourth, no or little response at all. These responses are, by and large, cross regional. Forced, encouraged or allowed by the circumstances of the day, they are some of the most interesting and important art of the century: many now regarded as icons in their own cultures today. Memory, identity and the artists' sense of themselves as players in a wider world are key to the works. Is the current situation of global change, affected by and taking effect in, the Asia Pacific – while not as cross-regionally violent – also a milieu in which similar responses are encouraged to occur?

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We're almost finished with overdubs for the next GRNB record. Geoff just sent me some wav files of some modular synth stuff he recorded. Drones. Really? Yes.
Geoff and I are also playing a duo show on Monday September 20 at Party Expo with Des Ark, The Reveling, Exit She Calls, and Communipaw. Come down to hear a couple new songs and some alternate versions of others. Also, Des Ark is rad.
Attica! Attica! very kindly invited me to join his upstate NY tour as a solo act. Unfortunately, I'm only able to do two dates: September 22 in Ithaca and September 23 in Oswego. More details to come, but I'm psyched to hang and play with Aaron for those couple days. Who knows, maybe we'll do a couple De La Hoya songs if people are interested.
And lastly, the full-band is playing Big Day In on December 4 in Ithaca, NY with Young Widows, Soul Control, Bridge & Tunnel, Like Wolves, Beach Parade, Ailments, Why The Wires, Speak Daggers, and many more. Should be fun.
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January 3, 2014 Madame Janette
Everyone who we know how has been to Aruba RAVES about Madame Janette's. In all the years that we have been coming to Aruba, we have never been (GASP)!
It's a lovely restaurant with covered and outdoor seating. It has a casual atmosphere with a man playing guitar and serenading you while you eat your meal. The couple in the picture on the left got engaged the night we were there.
While it doesn't feel like it is crowded, the restaurant is pretty large and there are still a good amount of people here.
We start off with Madame's Lobster Raviolis ($17) Daily made from scratch. Stuffed with Lobster, Mushrooms, Spinach and Ricotta Cheese sautéed in Sage Butter and sprinkled with Reggiano. There are two per serving and although I'm not in the mood to share, I do. They are delicious – I could have had 6 of these for my meal. They also drop off a bread basket with pickled onions and garlic butter. Nothing says romance like garlic and onions.
We order The original "Almond Grouper" Invented in 1999 at Madame Janette. Often copied, Never reached! A fine Grouper filet in a coat of Almonds served with a Creamed Spinach Sauce. The fish has a really nice crunch to it and the creamed spinach sauce is plate licking worthy, but the sauce is a bit heavy for the 90 degree weather that we are in. That being said, this dish was top notch.
We also order the special pasta with chicken parmesan. Again, the sauce was quite heavy for the tropical climate, and it was topped with a mountain of cheese. Of the two dishes, the almond grouper was the memorable one.
For dessert we had the brownie sundae that was so dense and chocolaty we couldn't make good dent into it. Overall the meal was good, our server Caroline was charming. We left feeling full but wondering what all the fuss was about.
Madame Janette
Cunucu Abao 37, Noord, Aruba
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It's coming on to Fall Semester again and textbooks are expensive…Flatworld Knowledge is one way that instructors can get around that. It provides access to Open Source customizable textbooks. The instructor can assign a text that he or she can adapt to the particular class, the students won't have to pay an arm and a leg for texts that may or may not be used, teaching and learning will become more efficient, and it will help with back problems among the college aged person. Of course, it involved change and adaptation on the part of the instructor, it will annoy conventional textbook publishers
The review Flatworld Knowledge by Jeff Cohen the Textbook Guru is helpful and informative. You can read it here:
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Flatworld Knowledge describes themselves as a "college textbook publishing company on a mission." What mission is that? Simple, to lower the cost of textbooks for students and allow faculty to control the material they teach and the materials their students are required to purchase. How do they do this? First and most importantly by ditching the traditional 'All Rights Reserved' license that most publishers use for a 'Creative Commons license' which is an open-license. For faculty this means "unprecedented control over content" and "permission to create a derivative version of any textbook."
…Flatworld Kowledge has the potential to be a game changer in the textbook publishing and retail world.
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There are total 6 letters in Albino, Starting with A and ending with O.
Albino is a scrabble word? Yes (8 Points) Albino has worth 8 Scrabble points. Each letter point as below.
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Definition of the word Albino, Meaning of Albino word :
n. - A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc., and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.
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Oak Hills Missions
Be "Salt & Light" to the world in 2018 and get involved in Missions! Missions has been a cornerstone of Oak Hills Church since our inception. We're excited to offer many ways to serve both locally and globally in 2018.
You can be Salt & Light by:
- Serve: Take part in local and global missions opportunities
- Pray: Commit to pray regularly for our missionaries
- Give: Make a monthly missions commitment
Oak Hills Missions makes an impact everyday with your support. Your commitment provides for our community partners and missionary efforts throughout the world.
Neighborhood Partnership
The Neighborhood Partnership shows the love of Christ by building relationships with community partners to meet physical, spiritual, and social needs within our neighborhood.
With your help, we serve our community by providing assistance to individuals and families in need. Together we:
- Partner with local non-profits to serve our community
- Serve free sno-cones and water bottles to our community during the Eagan July 4th Funfest Parade
- Equip individuals and families to host local National Night Out events in their neighborhood
- Bless those in need at Christmas through the Christmas Giving Tree
- Cheer local senior living facilities with carols, crafts and treats through the Christmas Family Adventure
If you have a heart for our community, the Neighborhood Partnership would love to have you involved!
Contact Pastor Jen Galley at
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ICCM Life Center is a discipleship and life skills training center in Minneapolis. You can be part of a team that prepares and serves meals quarterly following the Sunday church service. This meal will bless homeless individuals and families who would otherwise miss the lunch served at the local shelter. Apply
Global & Local Missions Experiences
Mission trips provide opportunities for you to serve, gain insight, and support the work being done around the world through the local and global ministries that Oak Hills Church supports.
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Sofia, Bulgaria
June 15-24 $2,200-2,400
LEADER: Pastor Rod Carlson and Melody Carlson
Partner with Tony and Tessa Ripley (Young Life) to serve alongside Bulgarian students for a cultural exchange opportunity. We'll complete a community construction project, assist students with English conversation and connect with teens through sports and games. We will wrap up with an expedition experiencing areas where the Apostle Paul traveled. This team is complete!
Chicago, Ill.
June 23-July 1, 2018 $600
LEADER: Pastor Matt Martinez
This is an amazing opportunity for High School students to experience urban ministry in Downtown Chicago and see lives changed! Oak Hills Church students will be involved in the Life Center's children's program outreach, evening rallies and community service projects. This team is complete!
East Africa
October 5-13, 2018 $3,000–$3,200
LEADER: Lacey Burres
Spend a week with our Global Partners in the Horn of Africa. This is a fantastic opportunity to interact with students at the English Center for classes, conversation, and connection all while experiencing the sights, sounds and flavors of East Africa. This team is complete!


text: Anyway, enough slide scanning. Here is a cool shot I cropped out of a print I took from my Oslo stuff. This was one of my first trips to "Europe" (well, Scandanavia….) and I thought "Wow! A statue of flying frogman!". I suppose it's actually called an "installation", but I'm not that sophisticated.


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Every professional sports team has an unsung hero. That obligatory member may seem to be irrelevant to most, but that same one comes through when you need it. Only the team's fans recognize him or her and how integral that person was to their team.
During the New York Yankees' run in the late 1990s, that unsung player was Bernie Williams.
The Puerto Rican born center fielder became a staple for the Yankees since his debut in 1991. Williams took advantage of various opportunities and came through in the clutch when called upon. He helped the Yankees bring four more rings to the franchise in 1996 and the three peat from 1998 through 2000.
Williams last played as a Yankee in 2006, unable to come to terms to return to the Bronx Bombers. He left to pursue a music career, which led him to success.
Fun fact: Williams didn't retire from the majors. Now, that's what happened nine years later.
Bernie Williams officially retired on Friday, April 24 from Major League Baseball. His No. 51 jersey will be retired at Monument Park on May 24 before the Yankees' game against the Texas Rangers that day.
Despite his storied Yankee career, Williams is not considered among the Core Four.
The Yankees' Core Four consisted of "The Captain" Derek Jeter, "The Hammer" Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada. They're credited for ushering in a new era for the franchise. And yet, Bernie Williams isn't in that discussion.
In fact, it was brought up during his press conference. Any athlete might've taken credit for bringing any organization to new heights. That just isn't Bernie's way, and he stated as such in his statement. He found it to be funny more than anything else. He added how he was honored just to be a part of the team:
the fact that I was part of a team that had a great run in the history of this organization, I think to me that's the most important thing.…I never would have thought a moment like this would happen. So I'm extremely proud and grateful and very humble.
Bernie Williams was no pushover either. He was a four-time gold glove winner and five-time All-Star. Williams also became the 1996 ALCS MVP and the 1998 American League Batting Champion.
Williams also holds the postseason record for the most RBI's by a player in Major League history. He drove in 80 runs while battling as a Yankee.
Bernie Williams could have laid claim to the title and made the Core Four a "Fab Five." He just decided not to.
It's his demeanor that makes him a Yankee staple. The man is a perfect example of class and should be emulated because of it.
No, he probably won't be a Hall of Famer or on the Mount Rushmore of Yankees. But for Bernie Williams, playing the game was the highest honor for him.
Enjoy the official retirement and your impending induction into Monument Park, Bernie Williams. You've earned it.
Remember to check out the Facebook page for the Update. You can also check out my professional website for my other works and accomplishments. Don't forget to like me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter and keep on reading. Until then, see you next time sports fans.
Yours Truly,
Sebastian Maldonado
Copyright @ 2007
*stats are from Baseball Reference
*For more on Bernie Williams, click here for his website.


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Principal Mary Croteau
Letters from the Principal
Notes for March 2018
Notes for February 2018
Notes for January 2018
- Final renovations in the gym continue and we are hoping that all work will be completed by early February.
- Planning for next year is underway, however all plans are dependent on firm enrollments (not projected) so get those registrations in.
- Interviewing continues for a part – time preschool teacher. In the meantime, Ms. Longo and her team are doing a great job. The students are engaged and learning.
- We are also looking for additional help in the SOAR program for after school.
- School Volunteers are always needed and welcome, please fill out a volunteer application and follow all Diocesan requirements if you are interested.
- Don't forget to get your Auction/Dinner Dance tickets!


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Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Sad Story: Cursive Worries
14 comments:
We started learning cursive really early and everything we turned in had to be in cursive. Especially if we got in trouble and had to write things like, "I will not talk in class." 500 times as a punishment. lolReplyDelete
Are you left-handed? Cursive is hard for lefties.ReplyDeleteReplies
I write with my rightDelete
All through my school years cursive was the only thing we could turn in.ReplyDelete
Guess I'm dating myself. : )
I liked cursive writing!ReplyDelete
As a left-handed person I was never fond of cursive. I even sign my paintings in block print.ReplyDelete
Looking back at my handwriting when I was in elementary school--it was terrible! But I gradually got better, and I still use cursive frequently whenever I want to write anything very long. I often use regular printing for short notes to myself, and I use my nearly unreadable printing for when I'm in a hurry taking notes on a speech or something!ReplyDelete
I never minded cursive and I use it regularly. I find printing each word takes much longer.ReplyDelete
I learned cursive writing in fourth grade. I was excited to learn it at the time but it was a struggle for me as I was a leftie.ReplyDelete
Haha I'm horrible with penmanship! Thank goodness I could take the bar exam on laptop or I wouldn't have passed. No one can read my writing, much less my cursive.ReplyDelete
Haha, I can't even read my own handwriting, let alone cursive!ReplyDelete
What surprises me is that handwriting/cursive is no longer taught in 1st grade or 3rd according to my daughter.ReplyDelete
I see this as the dumbing of America. Growing up having to write in cursive for everything I encountered several people who did not even know what cursive was. This was a total shock to me for this person has a Masters degree as a Architect. Our children today are not even talk about cursive and can not read it when they encounter it. Sad!ReplyDelete


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Vee's sister Christie came to visit this week. She had to fly out of Charlotte for a business trip and decided to spend the night with us! Christie is super cool and I love hanging out with her. She is also a yoga instructor and has the perfect chillax voice for it.
I cooked dinner that night and our appetizer was Zucchini Muffins with Chocolate Chips!! It really should have been dessert, but who cares! We can do what we want! They were yumsy in my tumsy. We make our own rules!
I made a loaf without chocolate chips as well.
For dinner we had salad, pasta, sprite melon, and oven roasted corn and eggplant. The bell pepper, corn, eggplant, and sprite melon came from Barbee Farms.
Have you ever heard of a sprite melon?
This was my first time eating one. It is a type of Asian melon and is similar to a cantaloupe. It taste like a cantaloupe except it is super sweet and is a little crispier and firmer.
Zucchini Bread
This recipe is adapted from allrecipes.com.
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil or safflower oil
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 cups grated zucchini
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp. nutmeg
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 325.
- In a large bowl, beat eggs until frothy.
- Mix in oil, applesauce, and sugar.
- Stir in zucchini and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, mix flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Stir in the flour mixture with the rest of the ingredients.
- Pour half of the batter in an 8×4 inch loaf pan.
- Mix the chocolate chips into the remaining batter and spoon into a muffin pan.
- Bake muffins for 30 minutes and loaf for 60 minutes at 325.
This recipe will make 2- 8×4 loafs or 24 muffins.


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In a Deep State
The "best propaganda artist [Turkey] has ever had" is going to jail for life—and he is far from alone.[1] Kemal Kerinçsiz was among nineteen other men sentenced on August 5, 2013 for attempting to "overthrow the Turkish government" by using "violence and coercion."[2] In the five years since his arrest, there has been little news of Kerinçsiz—aside from occasional mentions of his courtroom self-defenses—but between 2005 and 2007, he was constantly in the public eye. Recalling his goals, his methods, and the circumstances surrounding his ultimate downfall helps make sense of the Ergenekon investigation and trial, which has, in recent years, altered Turkey's political landscape.
1. Defending "Turkishness": Nationalists Use the Courts
2. Violence in the Courts: Nationalists Attack the Courts
3. Murder on the Streets: Violence Spreads Outside the Courts
4. Ergenekon: The Justice System Turns on Nationalists
5. Defending Themselves: The Courts are Used Against Nationalists
In 2005, Kerinçsiz was a forty-five year old right-wing politician. He was fairly high-ranking in the National Action Party (MHP), having been its candidate for mayor of Küçükçekmece, the second-largest district in Istanbul—and, despite defeat, he remained the party's assistant leader in the district.[3] He also served as president of the National Strength Platform, a nationalist umbrella-group, and the Great Lawyers' Union. But he entered the public consciousness through a series of lawsuits, protests, and rally speeches during the following two years that—though he saw it differently—brought Turkey into international disrepute.
Under Article 301 of the Turkish constitution, individuals can be prosecuted for "insulting Turkishness." As late as 2008, any prosecutor could bring these charges at his own discretion. That year, however, a package of reforms was passed, circumscribing the power of prosecutors by requiring the Minister of Justice to approve any charges involving Article 301. Though the Justice and Development Party (AKP) had been in control of the government for more than five years by 2008, such a step was necessary because the judiciary remained partially outside its control.
For decades, weak and divided governments had divvied up ministries between parties. Each of these parties appointed a slew of new officials at the top, but was only able to effect lower-level officialdom at the margins. The result was a bureaucracy with divided allegiances; networks of patrons and clients bound by ties—political and otherwise—that outlasted any given government.[4] Only after a decade in power has the AKP truly consolidated its control over much of the state apparatus. Throughout these years of consolidation, different parts of the government continued to work at cross-purposes—and, sometimes, in direct opposition.
The most glaring example of the Turkish state's fragmentation in the 2000s was the split between the elected government and the military. Military leaders feared an Islamist takeover and elected leaders feared a military one—something similar to what had occurred in 1997 when military leaders pushed the Islamist government of Necmettin Erbakan out of office. Though AKP leaders advocated a more moderate Islamism than their predecessors, their policies unnerved many nationalists. Rather than an exclusive emphasis on ethnicity, AKP leaders often imagined a political community bound together by Islam.[5] This vision, which AKP leaders hoped would sooth cleavages between Turks, Armenians, and (perhaps) Arab neighbors as well, appeared to many nationalists as a slippery slope toward cultural suicide.
Nationalists, Kerinçsiz leading the way, pushed back in the courts by filing lawsuits against a number of important Turkish cultural figures. Chief among their targets were intellectuals who broached the topic of an "Armenian genocide"[6] In the summer of 2005, he and fellow lawyers began attending the trial of Hrant Dink. Dink, an ethnically Armenian Turkish citizen and the editor of the newspaper Argos, was widely reviled by Turkish nationalists for his attempts to remind the public of the country's Armenian heritage. In 2004, for example, his paper reported that Sabiha Gökçen, Ataturk's adopted daughter and the namesake of Istanbul's second-largest airport, was actually named "Hatun" and born into an Armenian family.[7] The 2005 trial focused on statements Dink had made in 2002, advising his fellow Armenians to purge themselves of their enmity toward "the Turk" and "drain the blood which has been poisoned [by this hatred of the Turk], replacing it with blood based on Armenians and Armenia."[8] The association of "Turk" and "poisoned blood" was characterized as an assault on Turkishness.
In September of 2005, Kerinçsiz and his group, the Great Lawyer's Union, sought an injunction against a conference on Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, organized jointly by some of Istanbul's top universities.[9] Though a judge prohibited two of the universities, Boğaziçi and Sabancı, from holding the conference, a third, Bilgi, volunteered to hold it—albeit under heavy security as Kerinçsiz and his allies showed up to protest.
The following month Kerinçsiz petitioned the Istanbul Prosecutor's Office to open a new case against Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk was already being prosecuted for stating that "thirty thousand Kurds and a million Armenians have been killed on [Turkish] soil and, other than me, no one has the courage to say so," but Kerinçsiz hoped to have him prosecuted for explaining in November 2005 that, "I don't see the AKP as a threat to Turkish democracy. Sadly the greater threat is the army which is blocking democratic developments." This was, Kerinçsiz argued, a show of "public contempt" for the army.[10] Prosecutors declined to pursue the case.
On November10, the anniversary of Ataturk's death, Kerinçsiz led a coalition of Turkish nationalist groups in protest against the Greek Orthodox Church. Under the "National Strength Platform" banner, his Lawyers' Union gathered with representatives from nationalist organizations like the Workers' Party, Santa Claus Foundation, Fighting Veterans Foundation, New National Forces, Martyr Families Union, and Independent Turkish Orthodox Church.[11] These groups protested in front of the Fener headquarters of the Church while its bishops were meeting to choose a new Cypriot patriarch. Protesters sang patriotic songs and shouted slogans. Kerinçsiz reminded all to support a "Go Back to Greece" signature campaign and explained that, "There is a government behind this meeting," and "We don't want this patriarchate, which violates the Lausanne [treaty of 1923], here [in Istanbul]."[12]
Finally that year, Kerinçsiz brought suit against a the co-president of the Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission, for suggesting that the military was provoking PKK activity in order to remind the public of the protective role it played.[13]
His pace did not slow with the new year. In early January, he led another protest against the Greek Orthodox Church. This time the target was an annual Epiphany celebration in which Christians leap into the ocean to retrieve crucifixes tossed in by the patriarch.[14] Protestors shouted, "Istanbul is Turkish and will stay Turkish," "Patriarch out!" and similar slogans.[15] Kerinçsiz argued that lower-level orthodox clergy should be prohibited from wearing religious clothing. Given that their Muslim peers did not go around in public wearing religious dress, it "violated fairness" for the priests to do so.[16]
In February, Kerinçsiz and other nationalists[17] began attending the trial of five prominent Turkish columnists. The five had criticized the court which halted the previous summer's Armenian Studies conference.[18] At the trial, a fight erupted when nationalist lawyers demanded that foreigners in the courtroom leave. When the judge directed police to remove the lawyers, a fight broke out with Kerinçsiz punching a policeman.[19] Within three months, the charges against the columnists had been dropped and any further involvement by Kerinçsiz explicitly forbidden by the court.
Other nationalist setbacks followed. In March 2006, a prosecutor in the eastern Turkish province of Şemdinli brought charges against the hardline head of the Turkish Armed Forces, Yaşar Büyükanıt, charging that he had sought to influence an investigation into a series of bombings in the east, allegedly carried out by undercover military officers. Though the charges were dropped and the prosecutor disciplined, it remained significant that such charges had been filed at all. Kerinçsiz and others gathered in Istanbul to protest. They waved posters of Ataturk and shouted, "AKP resign" and "Army and nation hand-in-hand."[20]
Among those attending the protests was retired general Veli Küçük. Prominent in nationalist circles, Küçük had been implicated in the Sursuluk scandal of the late 1990s. The scandal had publicized the close connections between nationalists, the government, and the mafia, but few convictions had ever come of it. Küçük had been in contact with a mafia hit man, but nothing specific had been linked to him. He remained the subject of further conspiracies, however—including one that he had founded JİTEM, a highly-secretive arm of the gendarme involved in fighting the PKK.[21] Recently, he had been vocal in criticizing Hrant Dink. In the coming months he began attending Dink's trial along with Kerinçsiz, occasionally throwing spare change at Dink and his lawyers.[22]
On the morning of May 17th, an Istanbul lawyer named Alparslan Arslan, entered the Council of State offices in Ankara. The building contains the appellate courts dealing with Turkey's administrative laws. Arslan sought out the judges of the Second Circuit, who had oversight of issues such as social services, agriculture, and education.[23] Finding them gathered together in chambers, Arslan declared, "We are the soldier of God, his hand. Because of the headscarf ruling, you will pay the price," and opened fire. Five justices were injured, one died.[24]
Arslan was arrested on the spot. A search of his cell phone records showed that he had been in contact with a number of nationalist figures—the two most notable were Veli Küçük and Muzaffer Tekin, another retired officer tied to nationalist circles, connected to various Mafioso involved in the Susurluk scandal, and vocal in protests against intellectuals like Orhan Pamuk.[25] Nationalists, like Worker's Party leader Doğu Perinçek, denied that Tekin could be "mixed up" in such a crime, while others, like Oktay Yildirim, the head of the Istanbul Branch of the National Forces Association, suggested that this was all a "conspiracy" against those who loved the nation.[26] The media, however, suggested that these men were part of a larger network "nested within the state" called "Ergenekon."[27] Kerinçsiz began to represent Tekin as the investigation progressed.
Meanwhile, Kerinçsiz and his Great Lawyer's Union kept up their pressure on groups and individuals they perceived to be harming Turkey. In June, they gathered in support of the prosecution of Perihan Mağden, a journalist who had defended conscientious objectors. Two weeks later, during a visit by the patriarch of the Armenian Orthodox Church, they attempted protest in front of a (closed) Greek Orthodox Seminary on the island of Heybeliada.[28] Before they could reach the seminary, where the patriarch was meeting with his Greek counterpart, they were intercepted by the police and turned back. Undeterred, Kerinçsiz and his group tried to take a small boat directly to the seminary. They were caught by police and turned away once more.
The following month, Kerinçsiz convinced the Istanbul prosecutor's office to reopen a case against novelist Elif Şafak. In her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, Şafak had included a character—an Armenian-Turk living in California—who accuses Turks of genocide.[29] On this basis, Şafak opened herself up to charges of insulting Turkishness.[30] Yet, within three months, the case had been dropped. Other trials too were resulting in failure and dissatisfaction. Hrant Dink was convicted to a six-month suspended sentence (which both he and Kerinçsiz appealed) and the case of Orhan Pamuk, whom Kerinçsiz had been suing for 38,000 YTL in compensation for his quotes, was also dropped. This latter dismissal—and the Nobel Prize, which came a month later—infuriated nationalists. Kerinçsiz suggested suing the committee. National Forces Association leader (and member of Kerinçsiz's National Strength Platform) Oktay Yildirim explained to reporters outside the courtroom that, "This gentleman [Pamuk]—and its hard to bring myself to say, 'Gentleman'—by saying that 30,000 of our countrymen were murdered by state officials, implicates us all; all of my friends whom I have buried in the earth."[31]
With less support from the courts, Kerinçsiz and other nationalists began turning to more violent tactics. In early July, Kerinçsiz showed up with a group of nationalist allies at TESEV, a well-regarded research institute that receives 20% of its funding from the Soros Foundation and has a prominent Jewish Turk, Ishak Alaton, on its board.[32] The institute was premiering a new report discussing the effects of the massive forced relocations of Kurds during the 1980s and 1990s.[33] As the researchers spoke, the nationalists shouted, "Turkey will stay Turkish," "You are Soros' spokesmen," and "You are Ali Kemal's descendants, we are the descendants of Mustafa Kemal [Ataturk]."[34] Though Kerinçsiz himself remained calm through out, members of his group became more aggressive, ultimately assaulting both the father of the reports' author and another TESEV director before the conference was called off and the protesters were removed by police. Asked about the violence afterwards, Kerinçsiz explained, "Don't pin this violence on us. This isn't an inquisition where you can execute people without due process. The things TESEV said in that conference were the same things the PKK says in their declarations. Naturally, these countrymen's actions were just reactions."[35]
Nationalists also took offence at the assertion by Pope Benedict XVI in September that Islam was inherently irrational in comparison to Christianity.[36] In response to the pope's visit in late November, various nationalist groups gathered in Çağlayan Square. Amid a crowd waving placards reading, "We Don't Want the Pope in Istanbul," and "Ecumenicalism Isn't a Copenhagen Criteria [for EU membership]," Kerinçsiz argued that the pope's visit was but one step in the process of "establishing a Vatican-like religious state in Istanbul."[37] Less than a year after a Catholic priest had been shot dead by a sixteen-year old gunman in the heavily nationalist city of Trabezon, accusations of the Catholic church's devious intent could prove especially inflammatory.
Another burst of nationalist violence followed in January when Argos editor Hrant Dink was murdered outside his offices by another gunman from Trabezon—this one eighteen. The killer, Ogün Samast, was new to the city, but had been helped by several acquaintances from his city's nationalist circles, now living in Istanbul. The murder provoked a tremendous public outcry and massive protests in solidarity with Dink and his causes. Critics of Dink, like Kerinçsiz, were put on the defensive, accused of creating an atmosphere where such killings tacitly encouraged. Many Turks saw the killing as merely another in a series of murders carried out with impunity by the "deep state" and its allies.[38]
Three months later, another set of murders—this time in the southeast city of Malatya—shocked the Turkish public. A group of four young Turkish men and a woman, all students at the local university, attacked a Christian publishing house. They slit the throats of three workers. Two were Turkish nationals, Muslims who had converted to Christianity; one was a German national. All five were quickly captured by the police—another five accomplices were later arrested. The leader, Emre Günaydın, a nineteen-year old taekwondo instructor, had begun planning the attack after one of the missionaries had attempted to convert him on the street, using threats of eternal damnation.[39] The group release a joint statement that, "We were all prepared. Our religion is escaping from us. Let this be a lesson to those who are enemies of our religion."[40]
For his part, Kerinçsiz had been involved in an ongoing prosecution of two Christian missionaries in Istanbul. These Turks, Christian converts, were members of the Turkish Protestant Church in central Istanbul. According to the Istanbul prosecutor's office, these men had been attempting to convert Turks by offering books, CDs, and free courses—and then keeping files on them.[41] At the trial, Kerinçsiz appeared and demanded to cross-examine the defendants. After the trial, he railed against the European Union harmonization process from which missionaries "gained strength."[42] He went further to observe, "Christian missionaries working almost like terrorist groups are able to enter into high schools . . .They deceive our children with beautiful young girls."[43]
2007 was the year that nationalist elements rallied against the ruling AKP and came up short. Since its election five years earlier, the government's power had been tempered by a secularist president. When his term ended in May and the AKP sought to replace him with one of its leading figures, opposition parities resisted. The army issued threats on its website and mass protests, many (though not all) organized by nationalist groups like the Ataturk Thought Association, took to the streets. In response, the AKP called a snap election in July. It increased its support from the previous election and pushed forward its candidate for president in August, leaving the army and nationalists cowed.
Yet the political realm was but one area of conflict. Early morning on June 12, 2007, police officers, acting on a tip from the Trabezon gendarme, raided a house in the district of Ümraniye. They found hand grenades and other explosives paraphernalia. The grenades were quickly linked to similar ones, recently tossed at the offices of the newspaper Cumhurriyet. The police immediately arrested the owner and his nephew who had been living there. Based on the statements they gathered from these two, the police proceeded to arrest retired army officers Muzaffer Tekin and Oktay Yildirim. The following week, a businessman and another retired officer were arrested. At the officer's house, the police found semi-automatic rifles and C3 explosives.[44] Now under the oversight of Istanbul Public Prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, the investigation progressed rapidly.[45] Numerous arrests followed, including the head of the National Forces Association (of which Yildirim had only been a branch president).
Over the course of the year, prosecutors developed the case—at one point requesting police provide them with case files relating to the last five years worth of assassinations and racially motivated murders. In the media—especially in outlets controlled by businessmen sympathetic to the AKP[46]—conspiracies were swirling. Today's Zaman suggested that the men detained thus far were linked to drug running[47], journalists[48], the Council of State shooting, coup plots[49], and Hrant Dink's assassination[50]. Attributing disparate events to "Ergenekon"—or "Counterguerrila," "the deep state," "stay behind operations," and so forth—was nothing new. Yeni Şafak connected the weapons in Ümraniye to "Ergenekon" right out of the gate.[51] In most of these articles, evidence of a connection between individuals and/or crimes often boiled down to the timing of phone calls and subjective interpretations of transcripts.
Throughout 2007, as his acquaintances were being rounded up, Kerinçsiz continued with his usual endeavors: blocking Orthodox Church synods and accusing Argos lawyers of slander.[52] He even brought suit against Erdoğan who, discussing the struggle against the PKK in 2000, had told an Australian interviewer that, "Mr. Öcalan will pay for the scalps he has taken." Kerinçsiz successfully argued that referring to a terrorist leader as "mister" and to Turkish citizens' heads as "scalps," was disrespectful to the families of the deceased. The court agreed and fined Erdoğan a symbolic 3 lira.[53]
Kerinçsiz's luck came to an end in late January 2008, when he was arrested for his alleged involvement in Ergenekon. In addition to Kerinçsiz, the head of the Independent Turkish Orthodox Church, another leader of the National Forces Association, a journalist, a mafioso long-suspected on involvement in "deep-state" activities, and two retired officers were also arrested. Of these two, the most notable arrest was Veli Küçük. Two months later, further arrests netted Workers' Party leader Doğu Perinçek, Cumhurriyet editor İlhan Selçuk,[54] and Kemal Alemdaroğlu, the former rector of Istanbul Univeristy. Police raids also targeted a newspaper and television station tied to the Workers' Party. In these raids—as in previous raids—computer files and CDs were discovered full of plans to foment coups and assassinate various public figures.[55] Even more arrests came at the beginning of July, including the leader of the Ataturk Thought Association, several prominent secularist journalists, more army officers, and Erol Mütercimler, the pundit who had first introduced the idea that an "Ergenekon" existed over a decade earlier.[56]
Yet, although Mütercimler and others had spoken of "Ergenekon" for years, and although newspapers spoke of its existence as a given, there was not then—nor now—any evidence that an organization calling itself "Ergenekon" ever actually existed. For all the connections between subjects that did exist, none were predicated upon a shared sense of involvement in anything that could be termed "Ergenekon." Suspects were connected by phone calls—some of which did reference Ergenekon, in the context of the investigation itself—but none spoke of it as a truly existing entity. Much of the evidence that Ergenekon existed came from a witness named Tuncay Güney, a part-time journalist, part-time counterfeiter of automobile registrations, one-time devout Muslim, later convert to Christianity, currently living in Toronto under the name Daniel Güney, serving as a rabbi, not recognized by any mainstream Orthodox community or organization."[57] Many of the documents seized from the house of this very troubled man in a 2001 police raid—organizational charts,[58] plans for future action, lists of names—served as the basis for the Ergenekon indictment.
Beyond these documents, remaining evidence tended to prove connection, though not for any proven purpose. One suspect claimed that the offices of Turkish Left magazine had served as a meeting place for Kerinçsiz, Tekin, and others.[59] At these meetings, he explained, participants voiced their support for a military coup.
In addition to coups, the Ergenekon case became linked with several other cases. In late January 2008, a day-planner was found sitting at the Malatya bus station. On the very first page, police found notes detailing the missionary murders six months earlier. Further pages contained notes about Ergenekon and phone numbers including Kerinçsiz, Tekin, and Veli Küçük's. The book belonged to Varol Bülent Aral. A resident of Malatya, Aral had been involved with various left-wing extremist groups for nearly a decade and also may have been spying for the security services.[60] Then again, he may also have been working for right-wing extremist groups.[61] Whatever the case, Emre Günaydın, the nineteen year old taekwondo teacher-cum-missionary murderer claimed that Aral had convinced him to carry out the attack with promises of "state support." As for Aral, he admitted that the day-planner found in the bus station was his and that the writing was his own, but that the notes about the murder and Ergenekon were merely notes for a fictional book he was planning to write called, "Details."[62] Largely on the basis of the day-planner, the Malatya case was merged into the larger Ergenekon case. [63] Likewise, based on phone-call data, the Council of State case was also merged into Ergenekon.
What specifically was Kerinçsiz charged with? The first Ergenekon indictment was several thousand pages in length; it consisted of transcripts from wiretaps, witness and suspect statements, and the contents of files seized during various raids.[64] Kerinçsiz's own section runs over sixty pages. Despite his claims to know Veli Küçük "primarily from the press," prosecutors presented evidence of repeated contact with Küçük and other suspects; his number came up repeatedly in suspects' phone records; documents discovered during raids envisioned seizures of power and included Kerinçsiz as someone who could take control the bar association; large movements in his bank accounts were questioned; his decision to represent Muzaffer Tekin was characterized as an attempt to ensure Tekin kept his story straight. All this evidence suggested to prosecutors that, "Kemal Kerinçsiz [held] a special duty inside the Ergenekon armed terror organization's hierarchy" and had "acted to achieve its goals."[65] Whether or not anything called "Ergenekon" existed was beside the point.[66]
The trial itself began in late 2008, conducted under Turkey's Anti-Terrorism Law, which allows for secret witnesses. The proceedings were held at Silivri Prison on the outskirts of Istanbul. When the sheer number of family, friends, and interested spectators proved too much for existing buildings to accommodate, a new courtroom was constructed and caps were placed on the number of visitors per day.
Even from the beginning, there were accusations that the trial was violating suspects' human rights. Trials were not to be conducted at prisons; much of the wiretap evidence had been conducted illegally; and those arrested in June of 2007 had waited nearly a year before accusations were fully formulated.[67] One year, however, paled in comparison to the nearly five years over which the trial continued.
There were numerous reasons for the trials' length, including its ever expanding scope. But certain requirements of Turkish law also played a part: Judges have the discretion to schedule hearings at their leisure, breaks lasting upwards of nineteen days. Defendants, meanwhile, have few limits on the length of the speeches they can give in their own defense. Indictments can be read aloud—a process that would have taken around 280 hours in this case. It was only after a dozen sessions of reading the indictment text that suspects and their lawyers agreed to summarize and focus only on main points.
The courtroom in the Ergenekon case also slipped into a state of soap-opera-level drama and chaos as defendants shouted at witnesses. Other times the court became bogged down in procedural issues as lawyers and suspects objected to various points of order. In one instance, Workers' Party leader Doğu Perinçek stood up and demanded that a prosecutor reading his indictment refer to him by his full name or his last name.[68] In another, a lawyer and a judge argued over observing a moment of silence for Ataturk on his birthday, when, according to the judge, it had already been done earlier in the day.[69] That same day, Kerinçsiz declared in court that, "I can't call these [prosecutors] 'jurists.' I don't believe that secret witness testimonies before cameras were transcribed correctly. I demand that all footage be given to the court and that the secret witnesses testify before the court. I think there is a nauseating and despicable relationship between the secret witnesses and the prosecution." In response prosecutors argued that Kerinçsiz was "exceeding his bounds as a defendant" and requested that other prosecutors file a complaint against him.[70] For their part, defendants filed lawsuits asking for 480,000 TL in compensation for their long stays in prison.[71]
In this manner, the case sprawled. Old cases, like one against the gendarme's intelligence unit JİTEM, were added to the mix. More arrests came too. To take a tangential example: Zihni Çakır, a journalist focused on conspiracies, was prosecuted for his book, Erkegenekon's Downfall, in which he had discussed the development of Ergenekon as well as discussing how an important War of Independence general had shipped Armenian children off to military schools. At the request of Ergenekon prosecutors, Çakır was charged and convicted of publicizing secret information connected to an ongoing case. He was sentenced to eighteen-months in prison.[72] Despite convicting him, Judge Hakkı Yalçınkaya spent time in his ruling arguing that Ergenekon was "a national legend," nothing more. Within days, phone taps of Kerinçsiz revealed that he and Yalçınkaya were in contact—or, as pro-government Today's Zaman phrased it, "Judge suspected of Ergenekon membership."[73] In a conversation from December 2007, Kerinçsiz had greeted him as "my judge," to which Yalçınkaya had replied, "Brother . . .do you have an order [for me]?" Questions about the judge's connections and ruling did not secure Çakır an early release.
In April of 2009, Kerinçsiz testified in his own defense.[74] His statements spread across twelve hearings, over the course of two weeks. They leapt in focus from the evidence:
"It is natural for these people to know each other, to come together at panel discussions, press conferences and television programs because they show sensitivity toward a cause. However, their ties have been handled to portray them as being involved in an illegal organization."[75]
To denunciations of the prosecutors:
Prosecutors should not trust themselves so much. They shouldn't say that they are backed by the Justice Ministry, the government or other powers. They shouldn't think that no one will be able to 'touch' them. The power behind them will fade away one day. The only power that lasts forever is the power of the Turkish nation. A signature you put on a document today will be in front of your children."[76]
He even commented on current events.[77] By the end, he had spoken for sixty hours. During the following four years, he doubled that number, bring his total speaking time to 136 hours. But, despite arguments that the laws were being interpreted vaguely and that evidence (such as his name on the Council of State gunman's SIM card) should not be admitted, Kerinçsiz was unable to sway the judges.
A year into the trial, Kerinçsiz complained to the court about photos from 2008 showing the Ergenekon judges, prosecutors, and several police officers breaking their Ramazan fast together:
The revelation of pictures showing scheming security officials, investigating lawyers, and trial judges all together cannot be squared with independent and unbiased judicial thought, nor with social conscience. From my perspective as a suspect, my belief in both of these had been destroyed, and my sense of trust in justice has been irreparably shaken.[78]
Three and a half years—and many more arrests—lay between this speech and the trial's end. When it came, Doğu Perinçek, and the president of the National Forces Association were given aggravated life sentences. Veli Küçük, Muzaffer Tekin, and Council of State gunman Alparslan Arslan were given twice that. The head of the Independent Turkish Orthodox Church was given life. Erol Mütercimler, the man who had coined the term "Ergenekon" on a talk show was given nearly nine years.[79]
Kerinçsiz was sentenced to life.
[1] Mehmet Ali Birand, "Çiçek may have been right," Hürriyet Daily News, 9/23/06. Accessed 8/12/13.
[2] For a list of all the sentences see Serpil Kırkeser and Cem Tursun, "İşte 503 sayfalık Ergenekon kararından notlar," Hürriyet, 8/6/13. Accessed 8/12/13. For a wonderful site to view local election results, see Ihlas Haber Ajans.
[3] "Konferansı yasaklatan avukattan tartışılacak sözler," Hürriyet, 9/23/05. Accessed 8/12/13. For good over views of the MHP, see M Hakan Yavuz, "The Politics of Fear: The Rise of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) in Turkey," Middle East Journal, 56 (2), Spring 2002, pp. 200-221 and Jacob Landau, "The Nationalist Action Party in Turkey," The Jounral of Contemporary History, 17 (4), October 1982, pp. 587-606.
[4] See Gareth Jenkins, Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey's Ergenekon Investigation, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, August 2009, pp. 27-29. Accessed 8/12/13.
[5] Jenny White, Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks, Princeton Univerisy Press, 2013, p. 12.
[6] Interestingly, earlier this year [2013], MHP-affiliated groups held a demonstration in front of Galatasaray Lycée to draw attention to the "Silent Genocide" which, they argue, was carried out by Armenians against Azeris in the Nagorno-Karabahk region in 1992. The awareness campaign is part of a larger anti-genocide counter argument that avoids arguing the reality (or unreality) of an Armenian genocide and instead asserts that Armenians are equally capable of crimes against humanity.
[7] Ersin Kalkan, "Sabiha Gökçen mi Hatun Sebilciyan mı," Hürriyet, 2/21/04. Accessed 8/13/13.
[8] Mutlu Koser, "Suç mu, değil mi?," Hürriyet, 7/09/05. Accessed 8/13/13.
[9] "Turkish lawyers blast Armenian conference organizers, warn universities," Hürriyet Daily News, 9/23/05. Accessed 8/12/13.
[10] "Kerinçsizden Orhan Pamuka da Suç Duyurusu," Bianet, 11/25/05. Accessed 8/12/13.
[11] The Santa Claus Foundation (Noel Baba Vakfı). Fighting Veterans Union (Muharip Gaziler Derneği). The name of the New National Forces (Yeniden Kuvayı Milliye) is a reference to the irregular local militias that resisted the Greek invasion after WWI. Martyr Families Union (Şehit Aileleri Derneği). The Workers' Pary (İşçi Partisi), led by Doğu Perinçek, combines Maosim with hardline Kemalism; its official newspaper, Aydinlik, should be familiar to anyone who gets the Metro from Taksim Square, where there is always an old man hawking it. The Independent Turkish Orthodox Church (Bağımsız Türk Ortodoks Kilisesi) was started in 1923 by Orthodox Christians who sided with Ataturk's forces against the Greeks in the 1920s; it grew more nationalist overtime and, by the 2000s, consisted solely of the descendants of the man Ataturk had named patriarch in the 1920s (Jenkins fn. 39).
[12] "Fener Rum Patrikhanesi önünde protesto," Haber10, 11/10/05, Accessed 8/14/13.
[13] "Investigation launched against Lagendijk," Hürriyet Daily News, 12/28/05. Accessed 8/12/13. And "Lagendijk'e de 301'den soruşturma," Hürriyet, 12/28/05. Accessed 8/12/13.
[14] For pictures (from the 2012 celebration) see Billy Hallowell, "Orthodox Christians Plunge . . ." The Blaze, 1/6/12. Accessed 8/14/13.
[15] "Patrikhane'den denizden haç çıkarma töreni," Hürriyet, 1/6/06. Accessed 8/14/13.
[16] "Turkish Press Yesterday," Hürriyet Daily News, 1/7/06. Accessed 8/14/13.
[17] The friends included his own lawyer, Ahmet Ülger, who had gained some renown in the late 1990s for helping represent police officers charged with beating a left-wing journalist, Metin Göktepe, to death. Ülger would later represent Ergenekon suspects until his death from a heart attack in 2009.
[18] These academics were Radikal's İsmet Berkan, Murat Belge, Haluk Şahin and Erol Katırcıoğlu, and Milliyet's Hasan Cemal.
[19] Esma Çakır, "Ermeni konferansı davasında arbede," Hürriyet, 2/7/06. Accessed 8/16/13.
[20] "Demonstration to support Turkish army," Hürriyet Daily News, 3/10/06. Accessed 8/16/13. Kerinçsiz would later request criminal charges be filed against the lawyer, Ferhat Sarıkaya.
[21] Moreover, Murat Belge, one of the columnists being prosecuted for criticizing the courts Armenian conference decision, claims that he was tortured by Küçük in 1972. (Cemil Süphan, "Veli Küçük bana Ziverbey`de işkence yaptı," Rizgari, 9/8/08. Accessed 8/24/13)
[22] Mehmet Altan, "Portrait of a brigadier general," Today's Zaman, 12/16/08. Accessed 8/24/13. And "Dink: Türklüğü aşağılamak ırkçılıktır," Hürriyet, 5/16/06. Accessed 8/24/13.
[25] Toygun Atilla, "Susurluk izi," Hürriyet, 5/23/06. Accessed 8/24/13. Moreover, like many former military officers who have recently been prosecuted in Turkey, Tekin has his own website available HERE.
[26] Orhan Saat, "Tekin'in ofisi Kıbrıs hatıralarıyla dolu," Hürriyet, 5/25/06. Accessed 8/24/13. It is worth noting that Yildirim was the head of the National Forces Association (Kuvayı Milliye Derneği), obviously not to be confused with the New National Forces (Yeniden Kuvayı Milliye). For a decent list sampling the hodge-podge of nationalist organization c.2007, see HERE.
[27] "Perinçek: Muzaffer Tekin'i tanırım, böyle bir saldırıya karışmış olamaz," Hürriyet, 5/25/06. Accessed 8/24/13. And Toygun Atilla, "'Ergenekon' yapılanması," Hürriyet, 5/24/06. Accessed 8/24/13.
[28] The Seminary was closed in 1971 on the grounds that religious education cannot be conducted outside the supervision of the state. According to Patriarch Bartolomeos, however, the closure is part of a larger attempt by the Turkish government to strangle the Church. Turkish law requires religious leaders in the country to be Turkish nationals—yet without facilities to train its leaders, the Church will experience a decline in personnel. ("Patriarch Bartolomeos publishes his childhood memoirs in Turkish," Hürriyet Daily News, 7/2/06)
[29]> Susanne Fowler, "Turkey, a Touchy Critic, Plans to Put a Novel on Trial," The New York Times, 9/15/06. Accessed 8/24/13 and "Author Faces Trial for 'Insulting Turkishness,'" NPR, 7/22/06. Accessed 8/24/13.
[30] In addition, Şafak herself had attended the Armenian conference almost a year earlier.
[31] "Orhan Pamuk aleyhine açılan tazminat davasına ret," Hürriyet, 7/28/06. Accessed 8/24/13.
[32] Nuriye Akman, "Son kavga, Dogan Grubu'nun atanmısların yanında yer almasına reaksiyondur,", Zaman, 9/21/08. Accessed 8/25/13.
[34] İsmail Saymaz, "Bu zorbalara kim dur diyecek?" Radikal, 7/7/06. Accessed 8/25/13. Ali Kemal (1867-1922) was a liberal intellectual during the late Ottoman Empire. In the late 1890s, he joined the Young Turk movement, helping found its Paris cells. When not exiled (a fairly often occurrence for him) he wrote and published various newspapers. In 1919, after the Ottoman defeat in WWI, he served the pro-sultan (anti-Ataturk) government, he served again in 1922. After the Greek defeat, however, he was arrested by the new republican government and executed.
[35] Emine Özcan, "Kerinçsizler Bu Kez Göç Toplantısındaydı," Bianet, 7/6/06. Accessed 8/25/13.
[36] Speaking at a university in Regensburg, Germany, the pope had read portions of a dialogue between a 14th century Byzantine emperor and an Islamic scholar wherein the emperor castigated Islam as a violent religion and pointed to the inconsistency between its calls for peace and calls for forcible conversion, saying the Christian god abhors physical violence because relgion is not physical, but spiritual. The pope then quoted a modern theologian who, also considering this dialogue, had observed that Islam treats god as "transcendent" and unbound by his own contradictions—in short, not bound by reason.
[37] "BTP'nin mitingine, Papa protestosu damgasını vurdu," Zaman, 11/19/06. Accessed 8/28/13.
[39] "Court charges suspects over Malatya murders," Hürriyet Daily News, 4/24/07. Accessed 8/28/13.
[40] "Murder in Malatya; missionary activities targeted," Hürriyet Daily News, 4/19/07. Accessed 8/28/13.
[41] Ender Onderoğlu, "Misyonerlik Davası'nda Tanıklar Dinleniyor; Kerinçsiz Yoktu," Bianet. 3/14/08. Accessed 8/28/13.
[42] "Misyonerlere 'Türklüğü aşağılama' davası," HaberTurk. 11/23/06. Accessed 8/28/13.
[43] Barbara G. Baker, "Trial of 2 Turkish Christian converts makes news prior to pope's visit," Baptist Press. 11/28/06. Accessed 8/28/13. This quote bothers me a bit since I cannot find the Turkish version. That only a religious, English language website would have caught it surprises me a bit.
[45] Zekeriya Öz quicly became a controversial figure as the Ergenekon investigation grew in scope (at least to those not working at Today's Zaman!). Yet, at the time, he would have seemed to be a good choice. Among his previous major cases were the prosecution of Islamists who had carried out the 2003 bombings of the British Consulate, HSBC, and two synagogues. Though, for a nice take down of Öz from Aydınlık, see HERE.
[46] In 2007 Sabah was owned by the Çalık Group, which had recently bought the paper with assistance from the prime minister; Zaman and Today's Zaman were (and are) owned by Ali Akbulut, who is allegedly close to the pro-government Gülen Movement.
[47] "Ex-army officer involved in international drug trafficking," Today's Zaman, 8/16/07. Accessed 8/28/13.
[48] "SMS links journalist Özkan to Tekin one day before he was arrested," Today's Zaman, 7/13/07. Accessed 8/29/13.
[49] Lale Kemal, "Turkey should urgently tackle crime gangs," Today's Zaman, 7/31/07. Accessed 8/29/13.
[50] "Probe links former army officers to political murders," Today's Zaman, 7/6/07. Accessed 8/29/13.
[51] Ertan Kiliç, "Bilgisayarlardan Ergenekon çikti," Yeni Şafak, 6/20/07. Accessed 8/29/13.
[52] The lawyer referred to Kerinçsiz and other nationalists in the courtroom as "scoundrels" (alçak herifler).
[53] In the actual quote—"Sayın Öcalan şu anda, almış olduğu kellelerin hesabını veriyor"—"kelleler" more precisely means "heads." It is the word used for heads of animals—for example, sheep's head soup. Perhaps, "skulls" might be a better translation—though lacking the right idiomatic sense . . .
[54] Since Cumhürriyet had been both attacked by the grenades and been (allegedly) part of the conspiracty, it was represented as both a victim and a perpetrator in the trial.
[55] According to Today's Zaman, "A copy of an indictment file against the AK Party for its closure, prepared by none other than [Chief Public Prosecutor Abdurrahman] Yalçınkaya, was also found on a computer inside the [Workers' Party offices], supporting claims in the media that the closure case against the AK Party was in retaliation to the crackdown on Ergenekon. The indictment had been saved on the computer two days before the case was filed." ("Neo-nationalist party leader Perinçek arrested ," Today's Zaman, 3/25/08)
[58] "İşte o belge!" Radikal, 5/4/2008. Accessed 8/29/13.
[59] Büşra Erdal, "'Leftist magazine served as network's rendezvous point,'" Today's Zaman, 7/29/2008. Accessed 8/29/13.
[60] "Zirve sanığı MİT ajanı çıktı," Hürriyet, 6/11/12. Accessed 8/29/13.
[61] Yakup Cetin, "Zirve suspect worked for left-wing publication after fight with nationalists," Today's Zaman, 1/16/13. Accessed 8/29/13.
[62] "Katliamın ipucu tuvalet duvarında," Radikal, 10/16/08. Accessed 8/29/13.
[63] A lawyer for the victims suggested additional connections with Ergenekon: an alleged friendship between Workers' Party leader Doğu Perinçek and the Malatya gendarme commander, as well as speeches given in the area by the leader of the Independent Turkish Orthodox Church. ("Malatya murder case lawyer says prosecutor Öz's removal 'scandalous,'" Today's Zaman, 4/4/11)
[66] Harvard economist Dani Rodrik is a chief exponent of the notion that the evidence—especially the CD evidence—is forged. Though open to some charge of bias (his father-in-law was a highly-placed Turkish general jailed in a similar case), his evidence is convincing. (Seth Daniel, "Key Evidence in Major Turkish Trial Blown to Pieces by Chelsea Company," Chelsea Record, 4/26/12. Accessed 8/30/13. He and his wife kept a blog HERE during his faher-in-law's trial. . A good summation of his argument can be read HERE. For a strong defense of Ergenekon's basis in reality and the legality of its wiretaps and detentions, see "Ergenekon is Our Reality," July 2010, a document put together by the organizations Young Civilians and Human Rights Agenda. Based on the conclusions of a conference attended (largely) by members of media outlets that had been pushing Ergenekon since day-one, the document gives a good sense of how defenders of the trial perceive it.
[67] H. Akin Ünver, "Turkey's 'Deep-State' and the Ergenekon Conundrum," The Middle East Institute Policy Brief, April 2009. Accessed 8/29/13.
[68] "Ergenekon suspect angry over first name address," Today's Zaman, 11/7/08. Accessed 8/29/13.
[69] "As indictment reading ends, defense begins in Ergenekon trial," Today's Zaman, 11/11/08. Accessed 8/29/13. On the aniversary of Ataturk's death, at the precise minute, Turks observe a moment of silence/horn-honking. This observance would have occured earlier in the day. NB. The dozens of suspects were represented by dozens of different lawyers. This particular lawyer, Bozkurt Nuhoğlu, had been a famous left-wing radical in the 1960s and 70s.
[71] Metin Arslan, "Coup suspects demand TL 468,000 from 18 judges as compensation," Today's Zaman, 11/19/08. Accessed 8/30/13.
[72] Nevzat Çiçek, "Hindistan Türk'tür," Taraf, 11/19/08. Accessed 8/30/13.
[73] Büşra Erdal, "Şişli judge suspected of Ergenekon membership," Today's Zaman, 11/24/08. Accessed 8/30/13.
[75] "Kerinçsiz: 1982 Constitution keeps nation together," Today's Zaman, 4/14/09. Accessed 8/30/13.
[76] "Ergenekon suspect threatens prosecutors during defense testimony," Today's Zaman, 4/1/09. Accessed 8/30/13.
[77] "Ergenekon suspect hails Çiçek's remark about DTP," Today's Zaman, 4/4/09. Accessed 8/30/13.
[78]> "Ergenekon savcısı, Öcalan dosyasını istedi," Zaman, 11/8/09. Accessed 8/30/13.


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I love the Kid Icarus series. I am a huge mythology nut, so games like Kid Icarus and Okami are ones I love if I am good at them or not. With characters based around Greek Mythology, I wish Kid Icarus had more games. I was really excited when Uprising was announced, and I pray Nintendo will bless us with more titles.
Now remember to comment and tell me what changes you would make to this list. Since I sucked at the classic games, you readers might have better opinions than I do. Don't waste those opinions by keeping them to yourselves.


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Started: #23. Read my unread books: Anna Karenina
I tried to read Anna Karenina over 5 years ago, when I lived in St. Louis. I probably got 50 pages into it before I was distracted by something else (likely Harry Potter). I started over tonight. This time I will prevail.


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Training/Future Technicians Series
RR 250: Dave Hobbs – Lead Technical Trainer- Delphi
Renowned Industry Trainer Says Our Technology is The Carrot at The End of The Stick To Entice Recruitment Into the Industry and to Keep Our A Techs.
Dave Hobbs, Lead Technical Trainer and Program Developer at Delphi Product & Service Solutions, has been in the aftermarket for over 30 years living his passion teaching technicians about repairing new technology.
He is on the cutting edge with ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and discussed the challenges with calibrating repaired systems. This interview covers his start in the industry, what it takes to create a training seminar and that he sees great opportunities for A techs even if they want to move to a new city, to find the right situation, and work for a top shop.Listen and view episode notes
RR 241: Jorge Menchu – AES Wave and Instructor
Are You Learning Up To Your Maximum Potential?
Industry trainer and entrepreneur Jorge Menchu, President of AES Wave is enthusiastic about teaching our industries technicians. He is more passionate on how technicians learn. He says that the basic problem of learning is to understand the mechanics of learning.
Jorge shares his Four Levels of Learning and says if you are in control of your learning process you will learn more. He says everyone knows how to learn. If you are not struggling to learn; then you are in control of the process of learning.Listen and view episode notes
RR 232: Dennis McCarron – On Sales
Do You Have the Technique to Close More Sales?
If you sell service or tires Dennis McCarron says, "The person who controls the sales process is the listener." Dennis brings his passion for behavior analysis to this episode that can be titled the 'Psychology of a Sale'. You will learn a formula to improve your selling technique.
Our customer doesn't come in wanting to buy something. It is not about your ability to sell but how skilled you are to present the solutions. If you present a product to a customer that solves three of their needs the probability is high to close.
All aftermarket organizations are sales organizations. Dennis brings a great perspective to appreciate the sales technique. This is Dennis's second appearance on the podcast.Listen and view episode notes
RR 226: Connected CARS Detroit May 2017 – An Overview
The Future is Now. Are You Preparing for the Future of Automotive Repair?
Held in Detroit on May 18th & 19th, 2017 and presented by ASA, Automotive Service Association, Connected CARS (Congress of Automotive Repair & Service) and organized by Donny Seyfer. This training conference brought industry trainers, automotive engineers and service professionals from all parts of North America to learn about rapidly advancing vehicle technology. Participants got an important glimpse into the world of the connected car with in-depth and detailed looks at ADAS, Next Gen Vehicle Networks and the future of diagnostics.
Listen to a compilation of seventeen of your industry peers as they discuss their reaction to this top industry event. There is no time like now to best understand the speed and gravity of technology. This conference helped serve up the enormous opportunities that lie ahead for the 'connected' service professional.Listen and view episode notes
RR 225: Jose Gonzalez – Educator
When you have big goals, and are determined to make a difference you can do just about anything!
Jose Gonzales was a working technician for 16 years for a dealership and an independent. He always admired automotive trainers and that motivated him to become an instructor in post-secondary. While he was was teaching, Jose completed his AAS degree in automotive technology then switched to become an instructor in secondary education (high school).
As if that wasn't enough, Jose then completed his bachelors in business administration. When you hear Jose tell the story, you'll realize he has a master plan and his moves were calculated and resolute. He loves teaching and is preparing for even more opportunities in the future.
Jose Gonzales is an educator who is shaping our future technicians, yet he says there are challenges to get some students to move to post-secondary or college level; he explains in the interview. Jose counts Jim Morton as an important mentor to him.Listen and view episode notes
RR 218: Rick Escalambre, Educator – Trainer
We call aftermarket professionals independent and that mislabeling has a negative impact on the industry.
Rick Escalambre the 2015 Vision Educator of the Year, retired two years ago from Skyline College and is busier than ever as an adjunct professor and contract trainer.
He is an author and member of NASTF Education Committee and involved in the educators think tank at Vision KC among others.
Rick is very outspoken on licensing and having a standardized training model in post-secondary education. Among the talking points: getting involved in education, shops recruiting at the college level, and creating strong apprentice programs. This career educator will have you thinking hard about his perspectives.Listen and view episode notes
RR 213: Wayne Colonna from ATSG
Did your first car hold the fate of your future career?
Wayne Colonna, President of ATSG tells an outstanding story of his first Ford 269 with a C4 Transmission. It was fate that this car and his determination to fix it would lead him to become a highly sought after trainer in the aftermarket.
He put his time in the industry and found himself working for the Automatic Transmission Service Group in 1991. By 1992 he began conducting seminars across the United States and Canada.
Wayne has published many articles and manuals, and has traveled to over 10 different countries to conduct specialized seminars in addition to a heavy travel schedule in the US. He talks about the biggest problems in the transmission industry and the trend to do more automotive repair. Wayne also has a theology degree and is a minister.Listen and view episode notes
RR 209: Pierre Respaut – Former BMW Shop Owner, Trainer, TST Vice-President
Since being in the aftermarket for fifty years, Pierre Respaut has a steep history as an automotive shop owner, dealership mechanic/technician and trainer. Pierre worked at BMW and Ferrari dealerships and owned "Ultimate Cars", a BMW specialty repair shop for 30 years. After he closed the shop he was recruited to help improve a VW…Listen and view episode notes
RR 192: Eric Ziegler – E-Z Diagnostic Solutions and Trainer
Mobile Diagnostic Entrepreneur and Industry Trainer Shares the Power of Networking.
Eric Ziegler owner of E-Z Diagnostic Solutions a Mobile Diagnostics and Programing company specializing in collision centers and auto repair facilities. Eric is also an instructor for Automotive Seminars and The Driveability Guys.
Eric shares sage advice on diagnostic challenges, training, networking, labor rates. He also imparts his passion on the need for bigger labor rates, specialization, silver bullets, and his role in the industry as a trainer.Listen and view episode notes
RR 188: Marlo Miranda – 2016 ASE Instructor of the Year
2016 Byrl Shoemaker ASE Industry Education Alliance: Instructor of the Year, survived many challenges.
Marlo Miranda automotive technology teacher at Forsyth Central High School, Cumming, GA, was honored at the ASE Fall Board of Governors meeting in November 2016.
Marlo Miranda has a very formidable story. It wasn't an easy go growing up in New York City. He shares his story of survivor-ship through the mentoring of his automotive technology shop teacher. This molded Marlo to this day as he brings to his students the value of having someone believe in you.Listen and view episode notes
RR 184: Tim Dwyer Automotive Education Specialist at Consulab
Tim Dwyer was a shop owner for 25 years and was an instructor at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology, for 12 years, where he helped start and instructed the Pro-Tech Automotive Internship program. He has found a perfect evolution of his storied carrer as an automotive education specialist at ConsuLab Educatech.
Tim is pays it forward with a very in-depth interview that covers many bases from his own shop, to being an educator and discovering a powerful way to educate his students with a Team Based Learning approach to his work in helping instructors utilize the power of their teaching aids.Listen and view episode notes
RR 182: Bobby Bassett on Cooling System Comebacks
Simple Solution to Minimize Cooling System Comebacks
Bobby Bassett, the Manager of Training North America for Gates Corporation shares important facts about cooling system repairs.
Bobby explains the do-right-rule when it comes to cooling system repairs. He says 40% of radiator failure and 95% of water pump failure is due to coolant contamination. Listen to Bobby Bassett's frank discussion on minimizing customer comebacks. It's very simple.Listen and view episode notes
RR 180: Jorge Menchu from AES Wave and Industry Instructor
How Do We Make Ourselves SMARTER?
Jorge Menchu was hooked at an early age. He grew up in Kansas City, MO. It was his go-cart that brought upon his passion for loving cars and mechanics. This developed into a passion about learning.
His goal is to help young folks to realize their own success and failure by engaging his students to be better learners.
The episode highlights Jorge's three pathways to learning. These fundamentals can change your ability to learn and understand. They are Self-Awareness, Learning Awareness and Building a Structure of Knowledge.Listen and view episode notes
RR 176: Jennifer Maher from TechForce Discussing a Solution to the Technician Shortage
There's a tech shortage in the transportation industry. It doesn't matter if you're talking automotive, trucking, diesel, aftermarket, motorcycle, marine, collision repair…you name it…they're all struggling to find trained, professional technicians. Meet Jennifer Maher, the CEO/Executive Director of TechForce Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) with the mission to champion students to and through their education and…Listen and view episode notes
RR 164: Scott Norman – Skills USA & Worldskills USA
Where are the industries top young technician's going to come from?
Skills USA and Worldskills brings to our industry an opportunity to showcase young talent in a competitive environment. Scott Norman, Chairman of the National Automotive Service Technology (AST) committee for SkillsUSA and the USA Technical Delegate for Worldskills gives you an insider's overview of these two important competitions.Listen and view episode notes