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It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University.

A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets.

A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places.

And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders.

But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace.

After generations of conflict can human and Meduse ever learn to truly live in harmony?

Nnedi Okorafor's Binti: Home is the thrilling sequel to her Hugo and Nebula-winning novella, Binti—available January 31st from Tor.com Publishing.

"Five, five, five, five, five, five," I whispered.

I was already treeing, numbers whipping around me like grains of sand in a sandstorm, and now I felt a deep click as something yielded in my mind.

It hurt sweetly, like a knuckle cracking or a muscle stretching.

I could smell the earthy aroma of the otjize I'd rubbed on my skin and the blood in my veins.

The awed look on my mathematics professor Okpala's face dropped away.

I was clutching my edan, the points of its stellated shape digging into the palm of my hands.

If I had not been deep in mathematical meditation, I'd have dropped it, I'd not have known not to drop it.

My first thought was of a ball of ants I'd once seen tumbling down a sand dune when I was about six years old; this was how desert ants moved downhill.

I'd run to it for a closer look and squealed with disgusted glee at the undulating living mass of ant bodies.

My edan was writhing and churning like that ball of desert ants now, the many triangular plates that it was made of, flipping, twisting, shifting right there between my palms.

The blue current I'd called up was hunting around and between them like a worm.

This was a new technique that Professor Okpala had taught me and I'd gotten quite good at it over the last two months.

She even called it the "wormhole" current because of the shape and the fact that you had to use a metric of wormholes to call it up.

The suppressed part of me wanted to lament that my edan was being shaken apart by the current I was running through it, that I should stop, that it I would never be able to put it back together.

Instead, I let my mouth hang open and I whispered the soothing number again, "Five, five, five, five, five."

I felt a waft of air cross my face, as if something passed by.

Flying, falling, ascending, travelling through a planet's ring of brittle metallic dust.

I opened my mouth a bit to breathe, the dust hitting my lips.

Living breath bloomed in my chest from within me and I felt my lungs expand, filling with it.

It spoke in the dialect of my family and it came from everywhere.

"Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka of Namib, that is my name," I said.

The flash of anger that spurted through me was a surprise.

Back home, the priestesses of the Seven might even have called this level of anger unclean.

Then one of my tentacle-like okuoko twitched.

Its shine blended with the other sun's, flooding the classroom with my favorite color, a vibrant combination of pink and orange that the native people of Oomza Uni called "ntu ntu".

Ntu ntu bugs were an Oomza insect whose eggs were a vibrant orange-pink that softly glowed in the dark.

The sunlight shined on my edan, which floated before me in a network of current, a symmetry of parts.

I'd never seen it disassemble like this and making it do so had not been my intention.

I'd been trying to get the object itself to communicate with me by running current between its demarcations.

Okpala claimed this often worked and I wanted to know what my edan would say.

I had a moment of anxiety, frantically thinking, Can I even put it back together?

Then I watched with great relief as the parts of my edan that had detached slowly, systematically, reattached.

Whole again, the edan set itself down on the floor before me.

Both the blue from the current I still ran around it and the bright ntu ntu shined on Okpala's downturned face.

She had an actual notebook and pencil in hand, so earth basic.

And she was writing frantically, using one of the rough thick pencils she'd made from the branch of the tamarind-like tree that grew outside the mathematics building.

"You fell out of the tree," she said, not looking up.

This was how she referred to that moment when you were treeing and then suddenly were not.

You finally had the edan willing to open itself."

She only chuckled to herself, still writing.

When she looked up, she caught my eye and I had a moment where I wondered whether I was her student or piece of research.

I allowed my current to fade, shut my eyes and rested my mind by thinking the soothing equation of f(x) = f(-x).

"Are you alright?" Professor Okpala asked.

Despite medicating with the soothing equation, my head had started pounding.

Then a hot rage flooded into me like boiled water.

"Ugh, I don't know," I said, rubbing my forehead, my frown deepening.

"I don't think what happened was supposed to happen.

And lately, it was becoming like me, it happened so often.

Still, I'd been working with Professor Okpala for over one Earth year and if there was one thing I should have learned by now it was that working with any type of edan, no matter the planet it had been found on, meant working with the unpredictable.

"Everything comes with a sacrifice," Okpala liked to say.

Every edan did something different for different reasons.

My edan was also poisonous to Meduse; it had been what saved my life when they'd attacked on the ship.

It was why Okwu never came to watch any of my sessions with Okpala.

However, touching it had no such effect on me.

I'd even chanced touching my okuoko with my edan.

It was the one thing that let me know that a part of me may now have been Meduse, but I was still human.

"That was isolated deconstruction," Professor Okpala said.

If she's never seen it happen before, why is she acting like I did something wrong, I wondered.

I flared my nostrils to calm myself down.

My tentacle twitched again and a singular very solid thought settled in my mind: Okwu is about to fight.

An electrifying shiver of rage flew through me and I jumped.

Calmly, I said, "Professor, I have to go.

Professor Okpala was Tamazight, and from what my father said of selling to the Tamazight, they were a people of few but strong words.

This may have been a generalization, but with my professor, it was accurate.

I knew Professor Okpala well, there was a galaxy of activity behind that frown.

However, I had to go and I had to go now.

I got up and nearly crashed into the potted plant behind me as I turned awkwardly toward my backpack.

I gathered my backpack and was off before she could change her mind.

Professor Okpala was not head professor of the mathematics department for nothing.

She'd calculated everything probably the day she met me.

It was only much much later that I realized the weight of that brief warning.

The moment the house-sized elevator rumbled opened I ran out, my sandaled feet slapping the smooth off-white marble floor.

The room was vast and high ceilinged with rounded walls, all cut into the thick tooth-like marble.

Wan, a Meduse-like person, was feet away, engulfed in a great lavender plume of its breathing gas.

It didn't have Okwu's hanging tentacles, but Wan still looked like a giant version of the jellyfish that lived in the lake near my home on Earth.

Wan also spoke Okwu's language of Meduse.

I'd been down here plenty of times to meet Okwu, so it knew me, too.

"Wan, tell me where Okwu is," I demanded in Meduse.

"Presenting to Professor Dema against Jalal today."

But Wan was already heading to the elevator.

I lifted my wrapper above my ankles and sprinted down the hallway.

To my left and right, students from various parts of the galaxy were working on their own final projects of protective weaponry, the assignment this quarter.

Okwu's was body armor, its close classmate Jalal's was electrical current.

Okwu and Jalal were taught together, stayed in the same dorm and worked closely together on their projects.

And today, they were being tested against each other, as was the way of Oomza Weapons Education.

I was fascinated by the competitive push and pull of weapons learning, but I was glad mathematics was more about harmony.

Okwu being Okwu—a Meduse of rigid cold honor, focus, and tradition—loved his program.

The problem was that Okwu hated his professor and Professor Dema hated Okwu.

Okwu was Meduse and Professor Dema, a human woman, was Khoush.

Their people had hated and killed each other for centuries.

And today that hatred, after simmering for a year, was coming to a head.

I reached the testing space just as Okwu, encased in a metallic skin, brought forth its white and sharp stinger and pointed it at Professor Dema.

Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gun-like weapon with both her hands and a snarl on her lips.

This was not the way final exams were supposed to go.

"Okwu, what are you doing?" Jalal demanded in Meduse.

She stood to the side, clutching a series of what looked like thick fire-tipped sticks with her mantis-like claws.

"Let us finish this once and for all," Okwu growled in Meduse.

"Meduse have no respect," Okwu's professor said in Khoush.

"Why they allowed you into this university is beyond me.

"I've tolerated your insulting remarks all quarter.

Your people should not plague this university," Okwu said.

My lungs were laboring from the gas Okwu was copiously pluming out as it prepared to attack its professor.

If it didn't stop doing this, the entire room would be filled with it.

I could see Professor Dema's eyes watering as she resisted coughing, as well.

It was doing this on purpose, enjoying the strained look on Professor Dema's face.

I threw myself before Okwu, pressing myself to the floor before its okuoko which hung just below its weaponized casing.

I looked up at Okwu, its tentacles were soft and heavy on the side of my face.

Meduse immediately understand prostration.

Since arriving at the university, I'd taught Okwu to speak Khoush and Himba and it hated the sound of both.

My theory is that this was partially due to the fact that for Okwu the sound of any language was inferior to Meduse.

On top of this, Okwu had to produce the words through the tube between its okuoko that blew out the gas it used to breathe in air-filled atmospheres, and doing so was difficult and felt unnatural.

Speaking to Okwu in Khoush was irritating to it and thus the best way to get its attention.

I called up a current, treeing faster than I ever could have back home.

I'd learned much from Professor Okpala in the last year.

My okuoko tickled, the current touching them and then reaching for Okwu's okuoko.

Suddenly, I felt that anger again, and some part of me deep down, firmly accused, "Unclean, Binti, you are unclean!"

I gnashed my teeth as I fought to stay in control.

My voice burst from me in a clear and loud; in Khoush, I shouted, "Stop! Stop it right now!"

I felt my okuoko standing on end, writhing like the clusters of mating snakes I often saw in the desert back home.

I must have looked like a crazed witch; I felt like one, too.

Immediately, Okwu brought down its stinger, stopped pluming gas and moved away from me.

Professor Dema brought down her weapon, as well.

I lay there on the floor, mathematics cartwheeling through my brain, current still touching my only true friend on the planet even after a year.

I felt the tension leave the room, leaving myself, too, finally.

Tears of relief fell down the corners of my eyes as my strange random anger drained away.

There were others in the cavernous workspace, watching.

They would talk, word would spread and this would be another reminder to students, human and non-human, to keep their distance from me, even if they liked me well enough.

Its close classmate Jalal put down her weapons and hopped back.

Professor Dema threw her gun to the floor and pointed at Okwu.

You will leave it here and download your recipe for it to my files.

But if we meet outside this university where I am not your teacher and you are not my student, one of us will die and it will not be me."

I heard Okwu curse at her in Meduse so deep that I couldn't understand exactly what it said.

Before I could admonish Okwu's crudeness, Professor Dema snatched up her weapon and shot at Okwu.

It made a terrible boom that shook the walls and sent students fleeing.

The wall directly to its left now had a hole larger than Okwu's nine-foot tall five-foot wide jellyfish-like body.

Chunks and chips of marble crumbled to the floor and dust filled the air.

Its tentacles shook and its dome vibrated.

Minutes later, Okwu and I left the Weapons City Inverted Tower Five.

Me with ringing ears and a headache and Okwu with a grade of Outstanding for his final project in Protective Gear 101.

Once on the surface, I looked at Okwu, wiped marble dust and otjize from my face and said, "I need to go home.

I felt the air close to my skin; once I got back to my dorm room and wash up, I'd re-

I'd take extra time to palm roll a thick layer onto my okuoko.

I'm unclean because I left home, I thought.

If I go home and go through pilgrimage, I will be cleansed.

The Seven will forgive me and I'll be free of this toxic anger.

Of course, I didn't say any of this to Okwu.

I only shook my head and stepped into the field of soft water-filled maroon plants that grew in the field over the Inverted Tower Five.

Sometimes, I came here and sat on the plants, enjoying the feeling of buoyancy that reminded me of sitting on a raft in the lake back home.

"You'll land in a Khoush airport, if you're even allowed on the ship.

"I'll go as an ambassador for my people.

No Meduse has been on Earth since the war, for war's sake.

It thrummed deep in its dome and then added, "But if they make war, I will stir it with them, like you stir your otjize."

Especially if Oomza Uni endorses the trip.

And I can show you where I grew up and the markets and…yes, this is a good idea."

Professor Okpala would certainly approve.

Bringing Okwu in peace to the land of the people its people had fought would be one of the ten good deeds Okpala had insisted I perform within the academic cycle as part of being a good Math Student.

It would also count as the Great Deed I was to do in preparation for my pilgrimage.

Excerpted from Binti: Home © Nnedi Okorafor, 2017

This excerpt originally appeared on io9.

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One of Bert's last recording sessions was with Eric Clapton for Paul Wassif's 2011 album "Looking Up Feeling Down".

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Paul Wassif's debut album, 'Looking Up Feeling Down' is out now on iTunes..

The album is a collection of self penned songs and reworked traditional classics, distinguished by Paul's inspiring and versatile guitar work, be it finger picking, slide or electric.

The album features guest appearances from Bert Jansch and Eric Clapton, performing together for the first time, and also features Evan Jenkins, The Watson Brothers, Robin Clayton, Steve Counsel, Seamus Beaghen and Lynn Glaser.

Born in Bristol, England, Paul's early career in Punk/Rock band The London Cowboys, followed by various stints in NY bands with New York Dolls members Jerry Nolan and Sylvain Sylvain, could not be more different in style and substance to the melodic country/blues that now identifies Paul's music.

Paul has also collaborated on Bert Jansch's two latest albums; Edge of A Dream, in a sparkling guitar duet on the track 'Black Cat Blues', featured on the soundtrack of 'Calendar Girls' and on the highly acclaimed album The Black Swan, Paul performed on three tracks and co-wrote one track.

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In 2017 the University of Leicester excavated a large fort dating from 54 BC; it was the previous lack of such evidence that had prevented historians from fixing the exact site of Caesar's landing.

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# Caesar's invasion of Britain began from Pegwell Bay in Kent, say archaeologists

Nearby excavations reveal remains of an ancient defensive base, bones and iron weapons, which suggest bay as most likely landing spot for Roman fleet

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Julius Caesar's army landing in Britain.

Archaeologists believe that the wide, shallow Pegwell Bay on Kent's easterly tip, is the most likely landing spot.

Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain was launched from the sandy shores of Pegwell Bay on the most easterly tip of Kent, according to fresh evidence unearthed by archaeologists.

Researchers named the wide, shallow bay the most likely landing spot for the Roman fleet after excavators found the remains of a defensive base dating to the first century BC in the nearby hamlet of Ebbsfleet, near Ramsgate.

## We came, we saw, we detected: relics from Caesar era among amateur finds

The ancient base covered more than 20 hectares and would have been ideally placed to protect the 800 ships the Roman army had to haul ashore when they were battered by a storm soon after they arrived from France in 54BC.

"This is the first archaeological evidence we have for Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain," said Andrew Fitzpatrick, a researcher at the University of Leicester.

"It's a large defended site that dates to the first century BC."

Archaeologists got their first glimpse of the Roman base while excavating land ahead of a new road project.

They uncovered a deep defensive ditch that looks similar to Roman defences found at Alesia in France, site of the decisive battle in the 52BC Gallic war.

Further excavations uncovered bones that appear to have been damaged in fights and iron weapons, including a Roman pilum or javelin.

The archaeologists believe the site included a Roman fort and served to protect Caesar's ships from attackers coming from the north.

"The main purpose of the site is to defend the fleet," Fitzpatrick said.

The Roman general's own account of the invasion describes how the fleet set off from France on the night of 4 July but got swept eastwards by currents when the wind failed.

Early the next morning, the crew spotted England and rowed west to reach land at about noon.

The fleet was left at anchor at an even and open shore, Caesar wrote, but a high tide combined with a storm to wreak havoc on the ships, which broke anchor and smashed into one another.

The general had the ships drawn onto the beach and set thousands of craftsmen to repair the damage.

Pegwell Bay had not been considered a viable landing site before because it lies on the Isle of Thanet, which was separated from mainland England until the middle ages by the Wantsum Channel.

But the discovery of the Roman base makes the bay the most likely landing spot, Fitzpatrick said.

"The Wantsum Channel wouldn't have been a barrier to such accomplished engineers as the Roman army," he said.

Pegwell Bay is the only large bay on the east coast of Kent with an open sandy shore that could accommodate the vast fleet, the archaeologists believe.

With at least 20,000 men and two thousand horses to disembark, the ships would have taken up more than a kilometre of beach when they arrived.

The British originally opposed the landing but on seeing the size of the fleet, retreated to higher ground, in positions that are now thought to be on the Isle of Thanet around Ramsgate.

While the Roman general returned to France without leaving an occupying army, the treaties Caesar set up between Rome and British royal families led to rulers of the south east of England becoming client kings of Rome.

Those allegiances may have aided the invasion by the emperor Claudius nearly 100 years later in AD43.

"This was the beginning of the permanent Roman occupation of Britain, which included Wales and some of Scotland, and lasted for almost 400 years, suggesting that Claudius later exploited Caesar's legacy," said Colin Haselgrove at the University of Leicester.

The findings will be explored as part of BBC Four's Digging for Britain on Wednesday 29 November.

Archaeologists suggest that Pegwell Bay was the site of both the Roman invasions of Britain by Julius Caesar.


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The Bengals today placed WR Tyler Boyd, CB Dre Kirkpatrick and LB Jordan Evans on the Reserve/Injured list.

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#### Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.2, March/April 2014

### Skeptics, Humanists Come Together in Tacoma in First Joint ConferenceSkepticism, Humanism, or Both?

It was billed as the CFI Summit—An International Congress in the Pacific Northwest, and it was a kind of experiment.

"The time has come: humanists, skeptics, and other critical thinkers coming together to work together for a more rational world."

That was the meeting's call to action, as the first joint conference of the Center for Inquiry and its affiliate organizations, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI, publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer) and the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH, publisher of Free Inquiry), convened in a stylish, modernist hotel in Tacoma, Washington, October 24–27, 2013.

The conference thus included/subsumed what otherwise CSI would have called CSICon 3, following the first CSICon in New Orleans in 2011 and CSICon 2 in Nashville in 2012.

The weather outside was foggy, though the talk inside was anything but, as skeptic and humanist speakers explored all the areas in which their interests and passions overlap, and a few that some may (and others may not) wish to keep separate.

SI Editor Kendrick Frazier highlights several representative sessions1 that may be of particular interest to SI readers, and skeptic Susan Gerbic offers a more personal, impressionistic account of the conference.

The opening plenary session, "Humanism, Skepticism, and Inquiry," was a theme of much of the conference and the point of continuing discussion throughout.

Is it about time the two major arms of the Center for Inquiry—skeptics with their love of science and evidence-based inquiry and humanists with their naturalistic philosophy and distrust of religious intrusions in public life—come together, at least once a year, in a conference like this?

Or are there still good reasons that the two groups keep their own separate conferences?

If you drew two circles representing the interests and values of members of the two groups, they'd probably overlap by about two-thirds or three-fourths.

Philosopher Paul Kurtz, who founded CSI and CSH, considered both organizations and their missions equally important.

he himself embraced all their values and goals in one over-arching personal philosophy, he, for various practical reasons, including the wishes of many

members, kept the two organizations and their conferences separate, with the later-created Center for Inquiry as mainly a logistical and administrative

Panelists in the opening session on "Humanism, Skepticism, and Inquiry" take questions.

Ronald A. Lindsay, now the CEO and president of all three organizations, opened the plenary session with an explication of what they all have in common: a

commitment to critical thinking and a conviction that beliefs should not outstrip the evidence.

He suggested that there are no irreconcilable differences

"They are compatible. . . .We need to examine all things carefully and go where the evidence takes us.

Ray Hyman and Daniel Loxton took a contrary view.

Hyman, a founding Fellow of CSICOP (now CSI), said, "The real problem is the perception."

a sometimes "uneasy tension" between the skeptics and humanists and an early concern in the organizations' histories in which skeptics became upset at what

they considered "religion bashing" by some humanists and some humanists became upset at what they considered skeptics' bashing of parapsychology.

Hyman's recollection this led to Kurtz's determination to keep the two groups' conferences separate.

Hyman also noted that in the skeptic movement a lot of

people can be at least somewhat religious and still good scientific skeptics.

"Skeptics are more inclusive by nature," he said.

Lindsay quickly emphasized—as did CFI Board Chairman Edward Tabash later in the conference—that CFI doesn't "bash" religion but examines it.

that religion should not have a privileged place in society exempt from critical scrutiny.

Loxton, editor of the Skeptic Society's Junior Skeptic and author of several books (including some on

evolution), has become a kind of informal historian of the skeptic movement.

He says he feels intimately connected to both traditions, skeptic and humanist

Nevertheless, said Loxton, "I am a CSICOP-style skeptic" and noted that the creation of CSICOP filled a large gap in scholarship.

about keeping scientific skepticism unencumbered and independent," he said.

The question is what we can demonstrate to

Barry Kosmin, founding member of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College (and a board member of all three

described what he calls "The Rising Secular-Skeptic Generation," based on his national surveys of college students (the latest this summer

The 2013 survey found that only 32 percent of college students self-describe themselves as religious.

percent refer to themselves as secular (males more prominent in this group) and 32 percent as spiritual (females more prominent).

large constituency of millions of young people is emerging" favorable to the viewpoints of CFI.

Michael De Dora, director of CFI's Office of Public Policy in Washington, D.C.

Michael De Dora, director of CFI's Office of Public Policy in Washington, DC, said he thinks skeptics and humanists can work best together.

complementary values on many issues, he said.

He agreed that CFI presents a bit of a challenge because it is a "mish-mash" of many things, but that can be

Some other panelists, like Ophelia Benson (an author and Free Inquiry columnist) and Mark Hatcher (CFO of Black Atheists of America) expressed

Instead of emphasizing this internal issue, Hatcher urged focusing on a far bigger, external problem, endemic to both

groups: "We are terrible at communication."

He said both humanists and skeptics need to take a lesson from the churches.

They have found the rhythm and how the heart works.

If you want people engaged, you've got to get your

If we do, we have the advantage of actually having facts."

Bill Cooke, director of CFI's transnational programs, also spoke out with some impatience.

In Kenya and Uganda, where he has worked on behalf of CFI,

"there are serious issues of life and death" that involve both parts of the organization, including the skeptic side, such as belief in witchcraft that

The discussions continued a while longer in this way, all polite and civil.

If any fireworks were expected, none were set off.

most everyone, skeptic or humanist, had learned a little bit about the other's concerns, and in fact found that their issues tended to blend one in to

### Zack Koplin, Young Education Activist

Zack Koplin is the amazingly dedicated and self-possessed college student from Rice University who as a high school student in Louisiana fought vigorously

against efforts to introduce creationist teachings into the schools

He gave an inspiring lecture about his fight for science in Louisiana, Texas, and

"Louisiana has an addiction to creationism," he said.

The state's Science Education Act "is so open-ended you can bring anything into it.

Even Governor Bobby Jindal has said it's about creationism, Koplin said.

In Texas, official reviewers of science textbooks include fellows of the creationist Discovery Institute and the Institute for Creation Research.

publishers have resisted so far," said Koplin, but he wasn't sure whether their resistance would continue to succeed.

The problem in both states is "backwards, antiscience legislators."

Louisiana passed a voucher system that takes money from the public schools and gives it

He said $4 million of public money was taken away that way the first year.

"I want scientists who have been educated well," Koplin concluded.

As for the sometimes nasty attacks he has encountered from creationists, he has endured

but sometimes you want to just go to sleep for a week."

Bill Nye delivers the summit's keynote talk.

At the evening banquet, conference attendees filled the round dinner tables.

Looming at the back were four empty rows of folding chairs spanning the entire

As dinner ended and the time neared for Bill Nye's keynote talk, suddenly the doors at the back

opened and in rushed an exuberant crowd of mostly local people, including a fair number of youngsters.

The talk had been advertised on the sides of city

buses, and outside the banquet hall CFI sold tickets for just his talk.

(He was still in a leg brace from his Dancing with the Stars appearances,

and it was now just a few days before his November 7 appearance on a typically witty episode of the CBS television comedy The Big Bang Theory

pitting Bill Nye "The Science Guy" against Bob Newhart as "Dr. Proton.")

Nye's was a rousing talk, roaming over how we determined the age of the Earth at 4.6 billion years ("Why then try to pretend the Earth is 10,000 years old?

Amazing!"), the makeup of the universe ("90 percent hydrogen, 8 percent helium, 2 percent 'everything-

elsium'"), the fragility of the atmosphere, our spacecraft now soaring on beyond the edge of the solar system, and some of our external views of Earth from

All this led to a passionate advocacy for interest in science and science education.

And that led in turn to Nye's frequently repeated

By midway through his talk the audience was thoroughly with him.

Their chants "We can change the world" reverberated

Example: "If we can harness the energy of young people and get them passionate about science, it is reasonable to think that we can . . . change the

"It is with great joy and reverence and passion that I talk about the impact of science education."

He ended by showing the Cassini spacecraft's new view

of Earth from beyond Saturn as a tiny dot barely visible in the distance far past Saturn's rings, an outside-in view of the solar system that provides

"We are a speck on a speck, orbiting a speck."

But by our experiencing "the passion and joy and beauty of science . . . we can

There followed an especially lively Q&A period.

Most all the questions came from the newly arrived audience members, and two nearly moved Bill Nye to

tears by their stories of how he has inspired them to pursue a lifetime interest in science

Said one person: "You have been a major influence to me

"I have tried to influence young people," Nye said.

"The scientific method is the best idea humans ever had."

It should be easy to draw people in, he added, because science deals with some of humanity's most profound questions.

"If that doesn't fill you with some sort of joy . . . I don't believe it!"

### Leonard Mlodinow and New Point of Inquiry Hosts

Josh Zepps interviews Leonard Mlodinow on a live edition of Point of Inquiry.

Physicist and writer Leonard Mlodinow (author of The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, winner of CSI's 2008 Balles Prize

gave a lecture presentation on the topic of his new book, Subliminal: How Your Mind Rules Your Behavior.

recent research from cognitive psychology and the new field of social neuroscience about the automatic aspects of our consciousness, which happen without

"Our perceptions, memories, and social judgments are all constructed by our unconscious, from limited data," said Mlodinow.

"Your retina sees things fuzzily and incomplete"—he showed examples from experiments.

unconscious mind does this for you, and it's a great gift."

He played the Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven" backward.

You seem to hear "Satan" three times and also "666"—if

Similar things happen with all our other senses (experiments show how a light touch can create a sense of trust and even lead to

Memory is of course a reconstructive process as well.

"Just like vision, your brain takes the gist of memory and reconstructs

He described how we all do what psychologists call motivated reasoning.

"We look for data that supports what we want to believe."

can come to vastly different judgments even when the factual evidence before them is the same.

"They've generally sincerely judged the evidence

The new Point of Inquiry team: Lindsay Beyerstein, producer Joshua Billingsley, and Josh Zepps.

Laboratory tests show these processes in various ways.

Experiments, for example, show that in elections, seventy percent of the candidates judged to be

At the end of that afternoon, Mlodinow was back on stage.

The occasion this time was the first interview (and before a large live audience) with the new

cohosts of CFI's weekly Point of Inquiry podcast, Josh Zepps and Lindsay Beyerstein.

An Australian, Zepps joins the CFI podcast as a founding host

and producer at online talk network HuffPost Live, after hosting stints with Bloomberg TV, the Discovery Channel, and as anchor for CBS's Peabody

Zepps conducted the interview with Mlodinow, who got the chance to expand some about the fact that most of our thinking

comes from the unconscious and about motivated reasoning ("thinking like a lawyer, not a scientist.")

The other cohost, Lindsay Beyerstein, is an investigative journalist and staff writer for In These Times.

late father, psychologist and CSI Fellow and Executive Council member Barry Beyerstein.

She interviewed conference lunch speaker Katherine Stewart (author

of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children) on religious extremism and how the Christian right has managed

to gain so much influence actually operating in public schools.

These two interviews are online at www.pointofinquiry.org.

1. Noteworthy skeptic-related sessions I've not reported on here include Eugenie C. Scott's lecture presentation on science education, "Keeping the Good

Stuff In"; Scott Lilienfeld's lecture presentation on the subject of his book Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience (topic of

our November/December 2013 cover article); the pre-conference Skeptics Mini-Toolbox workshop (Ray Hyman, Harriet Hall, and Loren Pankratz); and a Skeptical

Breakout session I moderated on "Skeptical Investigation and Activism" (Joe Nickell, Benjamin Radford, James Underdown, and Susan Gerbic).

Kendrick Frazier is editor of the Skeptical Inquirer and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He is editor of several anthologies, including Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience.

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#### Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.2, March/April 2014

Back from the CFI Summit, I am completely impressed.

Not only was there no obvious twerking, but there was no drama, and in our tight little community of

scientific skeptics that is a wonderful thing.

I will say very little here about the lectures, as I didn't really attend them.

went to network and recruit people to join my Skeptic Action and GSoW projects (Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia, see SI Interview, March/April 2012).

The Summit was the same week as Halloween.

For years now I have been saying I will dress up "next year," and when that year arrives it doesn't seem to

Now I'm bald from the chemo killing my breast cancer and felt that finally "next year" was "this year."

So I went all out: I changed costumes twice

Cleopatra, Medusa, Che Guevara, and many, many odd hats.

For the costume party I was a phrenology dummy.

Susi Beyerstein, Jeanine DeNorma, and Herb

Masters had the honor of drawing the wonders of the brain all over my head in eyeliner.

I took second prize (best skeptical costume, though).

cleverness from our community to come up with great skeptical costumes was really delightful.

Susan Gerbic gives activism instruction to Jeff and Jon Taylor-Kantz, Suzi Beyerstein, and Ray Hyman.

I wasn't sure what my reception would be; since I was a speaker, should I reflect a more professional attitude?

Well, it isn't every day you get a pass to

blame everything on the chemo, so I just went with it, and no one cared.

CFI was more than helpful—Wi-Fi, food, electricity

The general attendees loved the outfits and hats.

All day, every day people came over to talk about what I was wearing.

great; so many people were attending their first skeptic/humanist conference, and they were excited to be able to see fun like-minded people who wanted to

Not only was this happening in their backyard (the Pacific Northwest), but the quality of the speakers, great food, Wi-Fi, and tables in

The Hotel Murano was a lovely place, glass art everywhere, just like staying in an art museum.

My goal was to hang out with attendees, network, photograph, and recruit.

I was also able to spend quality time with many people teaching them how to use

Web of Trust and Rbutr and to edit Wikipedia for skeptical activism, which is my specialty.

Because of my unique position, I was able to listen, observe,

and talk about the event with lots of people.

Now, after some reflection, I would like to share my opinion on the big question organizations like CFI want

In many quarters there seems to be an attitude that humanism and skepticism should be kept separate.

We are too different and don't understand why "they"

would be interested in what they are doing, when what "we" are doing is so much more important.

The general opinions are that skeptics are naysayers and

All that nonsense has been long ago debunked so why should anyone care anymore?

And humanists (also called atheists) are too focused on

social issues, don't follow the scientific method, and believe all kinds of antiscience things (Bill Maher is an example).

The theme of the CFI Summit this year was to open this debate and hope to come up with some kind of answer.

After all, times are tough, we have to watch

, and if thousands were attending these conferences and all seats were filled, then I'm sure the separate conferences would happen.

even throw conferences focused on specific topics like UFOs, atheism, medical quacks, and so on, but at the moment we don't have that luxury.

Jeanine DeNorma and Suzi Beyerstein turn Susan into a phrenology dummy for the Halloween costume contest.

Clearly, I did hear lots of people (usually first time conference attendees) state that they were attending an atheist conference.

were telling their families that they were attending a science conference, because I suppose they wanted to avoid backlash.

were competing workshops, one on "Atheism and Naturalism" and the other on a "Skeptic's Toolbox."

On Friday I was part of a panel that discussed

investigation and activism, while in a different area the humanists discussed measuring unbelief

The rest of the conference we all met together in one big

room with various topics, scientific as well as humanist.

The initial opinion from the skeptics, that the humanists were not interested in scientific skepticism and that they held

I never once heard a humanist with this opinion.

They seemed just as interested in psychics and medical quackery as

And while the skeptics might have felt a bit hurt that there were more antireligion type lectures at the conference, they were happy to join

in the conversations once they attended, the exception being when the lecture seemed angry or ranting about religion.

Eugenie Scott and Zack Kopplin's lectures about creationism in the classroom and legislature were common ground.

Katherine Stewart's research into the Good News Clubs in America was also gripping for both groups.

There were also lectures discussing legislation as well

as psychology of belief, important topics to understanding what we are up against.

Topics like creationism in the schools and antiscience medical claims

Many good points were made, one of which is that on college campuses today, atheism is hot, and we should be emphasizing this while they are interested.

Another point made was that sometimes more doors will open when we are focused on science and not religion.

Schools are more likely to allow in a skeptic

Debbie Goddard stated the obvious when we were discussing leaving CFI magazines in public places for people to find.

said she suspects that more people are likely to pick up a magazine on ghosts or vampires to browse through, than an issue devoted to humanism.

is just easier to use science and skepticism to start the discussion with people.

And that is what we are trying to do after all: start a discussion.

I've learned that some churches are using cryptozoology as real to disprove evolution.

What happens to that theory when the child looks up Nessie on

Wikipedia and discovers that Mom and Dad have that all wrong, and find that "Evidence of its existence is anecdotal"?

that child can follow to the investigations and evidence our skeptic community has left there for them to find?

This is why people start questioning their

religion, small questions that start a snowball of questions.

But didn't I say earlier that people aren't interested in

Someone should tell the 87,841 people who visited the Loch Ness page last month that no one cares about that stuff anymore.

I totally understand that religion is hot news right now.

It seems like you can almost draw a line from most social problems

back to people's unquestioning belief in something that has no scientific basis to it.

They cling and fight to hold tight those tenets.

lots of ways to have these conversations.

Brian Dunning from the Skeptoid podcast tells us that maybe the best way to have these uncomfortable

discussions is to find a topic you both can agree on and work your way to the hot topic when you are ready.

Talk about what evidence means, how to question

something correctly, just keep talking and listening to each other.

On the thirty-minute van ride back to the airport I think the point was much clearer.

Joe Nickell, Leonard Tramiel, and I totally engaged the four

We had great conversations about Bigfoot and UFOs and what evidence means.

They were thrilled to hear stories about Bill

We were the cool kids in that van, and when the city bus rolled by with Bill Nye and the CFI Summit advertisement on it we

One woman said, "I wanna hang out with you guys."

I suspect we would not have had the same reception if we were talking about

Yet, if we had the time, the conversation might have gone in that direction.

And they would have been more receptive to it if done in that order.

Can we find common ground in our community?

Should we combine conferences at least until the time we have grown so large

we are holding them in mega-church halls?

My opinion is that we have to work together.

We overlap so much and we are such a small community in comparison

We need to find a way to respect each other's passions, and talk to each other, not tweet at each other when we have a complaint.

contact at these conferences is very important.

The networking, training, and bouncing of ideas off each other is what is needed.

But first we need to start thinking of ways to stay together and find the common ground.

It's difficult to find the right formula in the right location at the right time of the year.

I doubt we are clever enough to figure it out.

What I do know is that the one-on-one contact recharges our batteries.

Harriet Hall (Skepdoc), Lindsay Beyerstein (cohost of Point of Inquiry), and myself came from CSI's Skeptic's Toolbox.

authors or lecturers, just people with a passion for the skeptical movement who decided it was our turn to step up.

you might have to kick the embers to keep us (and others) out there fighting what seems to be an insurmountable world of woo.

Oh yeah, a couple more things, at the end of every lecture the same question came up.

The main answer we heard was "give money."

Very little happens without money; apparently it is pretty powerful.

Besides that, pay attention to your local elections, especially school boards where

And the most obvious activism advice was to follow Skeptic Action on Facebook,

Twitter, or Google+ and join the GSoW team.

Affectionately called the Wikipediatrician, Susan Gerbic is the cofounder of Monterey County Skeptics and a self-proclaimed skeptical junkie.

Susan is also founder of the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW) project.

This is certainly no exception. You have my sincere gratitude. I suspect, however that a couple of those beards were fake. But I’m in a forgiving mood at the moment. I’m frankly very touched. I’ll see you at the next CSICon. Thank you all."
 In October 2013, CSICon 3 was held as part of a larger CFI conference, including the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH), called the CFI Summit in Tacoma, Washington. This combined congress was an experiment, as some people like Ray Hyman and Daniel Loxton feared or argued the goals and focus of skepticism and humanism differed too much from each other to be discussed at a single conference.


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## Exorbitant Salaries for Consultants and Officials in Afghanistan

Published in Kabul Press (Saturday 21 June 2008)

This article is based on a letter signed by Mohammad Amin Farhang, former Minister of the Economy and current Minister of Commerce to an official of the World Bank in Kabul showing Afghan economic advisor, Adib Farhadi, as director Interim Afghanistan National Development Strategy (I-ANDS) had received an annual salary of $290,500.

This is $100,000 more than the U.S. Senate Majority Leader, and is an example of the huge payments made to certain well-connected, but dubiously qualified officials and consultants installed by NGOS and government organizations in Afghanistan.

Funds come primarily from international financial organizations such as the World Bank and USAID.

In this document, the World Bank is requested to renew the contract of Mr. Farhadi for another year, but at a lower annual salary of $198,000.

The salary of an ordinary clerk in Afghanistan is 2,500 Afghani ($50), per month or $600 annually.

Adib Farhadi's salary is 484 times that amount.

Recently, the government of Afghanistan agreed to increase the salary of government employees (but still not implemented, and many have not received the $50 salary for several months.)

The $290,500 annual salary of Adib Farhadi is excessive not only in Afghanistan but elsewhere.

For instance, an experienced economic expert, substantially more qualified than Adib Farhadi in the US receives one third of Adib Farhadi's annual salary then must pay approximately 30% as tax back to the government.

The $290,500 annual salary that Adib Farhadi received is at least twice what an economic expert in countries like Norway which have the highest income levels.

A Norwegian economic expert must also pay nearly 50% of taxes back to the government, so Adib Farhadi's salary is four times more than an expert in a country with the highest incomes in the world.

It is shameful when the Minister of Economy of a country who should be sensitive and try to balance the salaries, requests an amount for one person that could support hundreds of working families of Afghanistan.

Adib Farhadi is not only paid by the World Bank but it is alleged that he receives additional compensations from other sources too.

### Farhadi's Alleged False Educational Credentials

Concerning the credentials of Mr. Farhadi, that would qualify him for such elevated positions and salaries, there are serious questions regarding the validity and suitability of his claimed degrees from Kabul University, East Carolina University in North Carolina, a PhD from "Virginia Theological University," a non-accredited on-line organization with no advertised phone number, and a suspect "NYU/Columbia University/ Princeton University Consortium Degree."

There is information that he has received or is receiving a PhD from New York University, but records are unclear at this time.

Farhadi has been a close associate of Mr. Barnett Rubin, of New York University, who is accepted by many in the media and U.S. government as one of the world's leading experts on Afghanistan.

It has been reported that the American University in Washington, D.C. rejected Mr. Farhadi's application to it's law school, due to questions concerning the validity of his diploma and transcripts from Kabul University, even though his tuition would have been paid in full by USAID.

### Excessive pay throughout Afghan government sanctioned by global institutions

Appointing people for high economic positions is one of the apparent realities of an increasingly unpopular government in Afghanistan, with the possible collusion of international organizations such as the World Bank, USAID, and certain American institutions of higher education.

Additional cases of people like Minister Farooq Wardak, who occupy four key positions at the same time and receive several types of salary, are suspect.

Apart from these salaries they have informal salaries that are received from the intelligence services of different countries or from the international civil NGOs who tolerate and enable Afghan authorities in this gross misappropriation of public wealth.

The anonymous source who provided this document to Kabul press has emphasized that salaries of people like Farooq Wardak, Dawoodzai, Hamyoon Hamid Zada and other members of Karzai's administration are nearly the same as Adib Farhadi's; not less than $290,000 per year.

Kabuli Children must play in the ruins, while consultants and government administrators are paid first-world level salaries.

Additional articles in Kabulpress.org will follow up on the activities, qualifications, and methodologies of excessive, unwarranted, and possibly illegal payments to individuals of funds meant for the urgent reconstruction and development of Afghanistan.

Taxpayers around the world have been asked to send billions of dollars to Afghanistan.

We will tell you in this continuing series.

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##### Does this poem have the power to leave the palace?

##### Back to the primitive past: Pashtuns stoning, trampling with horses and burning their victims with impunity

##### Censorship in Afghanistan: Death to journalists

##### Afghanistan's Ulama Council wages war against women

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As of 2016, Farhadi is an assistant professor, director of economic development and governance at Global Initiatives and coordinator of executive education program at University of South Florida. In 2012 Farhadi was a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Farhadi has championed targeting aid for Afghans to what the Afghan themselves need rather than the donors' preferences, as he had in 2012 while a researcher with the Australia New Zealand School of Government's Institute for Governance (ANZIG).
Circa 2002, Farhadi served as the executive director of Afghanistan National Development Strategy, director of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Minister of Commerce & Industry, Chief Negotiator for WTO accession and senior advisor to the New Silk Road Initiative for the Afghan government.


Country Party leader John McEwen served as Prime Minister from 19 December 1967 to 10 January 1968, pending the election of a new leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.

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John McEwen was Prime Minister from 19 December 1967 to 10 January 1968 following the death of Harold Holt.

His term as Prime Minister came near the end of his 37 years in parliament.

The moment of office: John McEwen is sworn in by Governor-General Lord Casey at Yarralumla on 19 December 1967.

Though only briefly Prime Minister, McEwen served as deputy Prime Minister for twelve years, in the governments of Robert Menzies, Harold Holt and John Gorton.

He was acting Prime Minister many times in the years from 1958 to 1971.

McEwen held the key ministerial responsibilities of Commerce and Trade for 20 years from 1949 to 1971.

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On 17 December 1967, Holt disappeared in heavy surf while swimming off Cheviot Beach, near Melbourne, becoming the third Australian Prime Minister to die in office. He was not formally declared missing until 19 December.


"Panzer Dragoon Zwei" was released in March 1996 in Japan.

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The team received no help from Sega's technical division on "Panzer Dragoon II Zwei", and did not use any Sega-developed tools such as the Sega Graphics Library operating system; instead, Team Andromeda's programmers created all the development tools used to create the game. The team also refined the design elements created for the first game, pushing for a higher and more stable frame rate. A notable element was the water effects, which were created using a combination of parallax scrolling and layers, allowing a look impossible on the 3D-focused PlayStation without exceeding the hardware limits of the Saturn. The Pandora's Box mode was created by a single programmer and it was included later in development after getting the team's approval. Music composition was led by Yayoi Wachi. Additional tracks were composed by Tomonori Sawada, Junko Shiratsu and Teruhiko Nakagawa. In contrast to the purely orchestral and electronic score of the first game, "Zwei" added ethnic elements. "Panzer Dragoon Saga" composer Saori Kobayashi attributed Wachi's shift away from the first game's musical style with shaping her future compositions for the series.


Throughout the state, rainfall totals ranged from light to moderate, with precipitation from the storm peaked at 13.98 inches (355 mm) in the Everglades portions of Miami-Dade County.

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quickly westward, steered by a warm core high to its north.

to develop around a center of rotation on the 16th.

, and the system continued to develop into a tropical storm.

An upper low east of Bermuda steered Andrew more to the north and

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upper low to Andrew's southwest, creating a much more favorable upper

coast of the United States, turned Andrew more to the west and rapid

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northeast of the Caribbean to a major hurricane as it continued to

It moved across the Bahamas and into south Florida as a category 5

Saffir-Simpson scale, weakening as it went over the Everglades during

the hurricane never regained its former intensity.

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The building suffered more than $24 million in damage and forced the company to abandon corporate offices during one of its more significant product promotions. Nearby at the Charles Deering Estate, 16 ft (4.9 m) waves ravaged the property. The natural areas were devastated, while only the farthest inland section of the Richmond Cottage remained standing. Damage to repair the estate cost approximately $7.2 million. A large boat was littered ashore in a canal south of Deering Bay, where water levels were 14 ft (4.3 m) above normal. Many boats in southeast Florida were damaged from high tides produced by the storm, most notably, the Belzona Barge was damaged, which was a 215 ft (66 m), 350-ton barge. At the Boca Chita Key Historic District, a bridge and stone wall were destroyed. In addition, the powerful seas also extensively damaged coral reef systems offshore of southeast Florida. It is estimated that the storm caused at least $500 million in losses to boats. At Homestead Air Reserve Base (then known as Homestead Air Force Base), a barometric pressure of 922 mbar (27.2 inHg) was measured, making Andrew the most intense hurricane to strike Florida since the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 and the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Camille in 1969.


Computers were also in short supply, and the few that were in use were outdated and obsolete.

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Vacancies squeeze county Sheriff's Department

The Prince George's County Sheriff's Department has not hired deputies and civilian personnel since Dec. 12, 1994, leaving the agency with inadequate manpower created by 92 vacant positions, The Bowie Star has learned.

Due to a lack of funds to replace former personnel, sheriff deputies in the department have for years been subjected to heavy workloads and mandatory overtime, prompting many to quit and take up jobs in other counties, according to information obtained from agency records.

Sixty-six sheriff deputies have quit within the last six years, including three who left in the first week of this month -- Byron Simms, Mark Roccaporiore and Howard Ferguson.

Twenty-four civilians also left -- including Anitra Jenkens, a public safety staff who also left in the first week of this month, according to the agency's data.

While some of the personnel routinely retired, majority of the deputies left to other agencies due to the additional workload imposed on them in an administrative effort to make up for the vacancies.

"Some of them may have been overworked," County Sheriff Alonzo Black II admitted Jan. 10.

"In other words, there have been times during the last year that I had to implement mandatory overtime.

I've had people working 16 hours a day."

Most of the deputies work the eight hours in court and another eight serving warrants, according to The Star's findings, which were confirmed by Black.

"Some of the people may be tired of doing that [working 16 hours] because they don't spend time with their families.

Some have problems at home because they don't spend time with their kids and spouses, therefore they become discouraged because this [mandatory overtime] doesn't give them much time to do anything."

At least 20 deputies have left since Black was elected to head the county agency in November 1998, according to department statistics obtained by The Star.

The agency had 284 sworn deputies and civilian personnel in December 1994.

As of Wednesday, 192 personnel -- 138 deputies and 54 civilians -- were left, according to the department's data.

Thousands of warrant orders are issued annually by judges in the county courts.

For instance, the department received 29,064 criminal orders in 1999, including 6,200 restraining orders on domestic violence cases.

Besides inadequate staffing, the county's sheriff department has repeatedly failed to meet national accreditation standards, a situation that has deprived the agency of several state and federal grants.

Other county public safety agencies -- the county police department, fire department and the department of corrections -- are nationally accredited.

Black said last week that national accreditation for the department is one of his goals.

"Let's just say that before I came on board there was no interest in raising the standard, but I want to raise the standard so that we will be seen as a premier law enforcement agency in Prince George's County, in the state and in the country," said Black, a former prosecuting attorney in the county's Circuit and District courts.

"In order to be accredited we must raise the standards of the office, and in order to do that we must have adequate manpower and adequate funding."

Lack of funds has also denied the agency of adequate computers needed for effective recording and execution of warrants and other personnel details.

Out of an estimated 200 computers needed in the department, 56 were recently installed.

A year ago, there were only a few old ones, according to agency statistics.

The funding problem of the sheriff department can be traced to pending litigation in Charles County that started in the Prince George's County Circuit Court with four separate parties.

After the county executive decided to slash the department's budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, 1996, then County Sheriff James Aluisi reassigned sheriff deputies from serving "take-up" warrants to landlords and tenants to focus on domestic violence cases.

"I chose to have my deputies focus on areas where safety and lives of people were involved, rather than serve eviction notices," Aluisi said Wednesday.

"It's not true that the county was having financial problem because other agencies kept their budget while I had a 40 percent reduction of my budget, and the county's financial officer testified in court that there were funds."

Months before the 1996 fiscal year started, Southern Management -- owners of a county apartment complex -- sued the sheriff department and the office of the county executive for failure to serve warrants for eviction notices promptly, making it difficult for them and other landlords to remove defaulting tenants.

They argued that they were losing money because the affected tenants lived in the apartment without paying their rents.

Aluisi responded by suing the office of the county executive for not providing him with adequate funds needed to hire enough personnel for the department.

The apartment owners later withdrew the suit against the county when the office of the county executive explained to them that the sheriff department had enough funds to serve the warrants since the budget cut would not be effective until July, according to county attorney Sean Wallace.

The office of the county executive then counter

sued the sheriff department and the state separately.

In one suit, it alleged that Aluisi was mismanaging the department.

In the other suit, it insisted that the state was responsible for paying the services of sheriff deputies in the courthouse.

"I found out that the state of Maryland was legislatively responsible to pay the cost of security in the District Court since 1971, but the people of Prince George's County have been paying the cost of District Court security," County Executive Wayne Curry said Jan. 10.

"We are the only jurisdiction treated that way, so I went [to Annapolis] and asked for help, for the state to pay its fair share of the cost of District Court cost."

In 1997, Judge Steven Chappelle, a judge in Charles County, was brought in to handle the case since he was not from the county.

Chappelle ruled at the Prince George's County Circuit Court that the county was liable for the court costs for sheriff deputies.

The county appealed, and in June the Appeals Court ruled that while the county was responsible for paying sheriff deputies for serving warrants, the state was responsible for paying for the courthouse security provided by sheriff deputies.

The order required the state to pay the county more than $100,000 annually in payment dating back to 1971, and to pay for future security provided by the deputies from July 1999.

The state filed a motion challenging that ruling by the Appeals Court.

Chappelle will hear the state's motion on Feb. 23 in Charles County Circuit Court.

Meanwhile, the case against Sheriff Aluisi automatically ended when Black succeeded Aluisi 14 months ago.

"It's very distressing because we cannot move the Sheriff's Department forward in dealing with a lot of the warrants and a lot of the vital things that must be taken care of by the department," said Del. Joanne C. Benson (D-Dist. 24) of Landover, chair of the county's law enforcement committee, which oversees the salaries of the sheriff department.

"It's very difficult to do it when you don't have adequate staffing but because of the litigation and the way its been handled in court right now they cannot hire the people to do the job."

Black said that despite a problem he described as "very challenging" because of the suit that has left him with inadequate personnel, he has accomplished a lot in the area of serving warrants.

Out of 29,064 criminal warrant orders issued in 1999, 27,501 were served, according to the sheriff department's statistics dated January 5.

Also, 71 percent of the 6,200 warrant orders issued for domestic violence cases last year were served, while six of the warrants were recalled by the court, according to Sgt. Bill Ament, public information officer at the sheriff department.

The court recalled six warrants and the Warrants Review Board disposed of 96 warrants, Ament said of the board set up by Sheriff Black to examine the validity of outstanding warrants.

"The reality is that we started this initiative with close to 40,000 warrants in January 1999, now we have about 38,000," Ament said.

"That doesn't sound significant until you consider how much work and personnel are needed to execute one warrant."

When Aliusi sued the county five years ago, his relationship with County Executive Curry went sour.

On Jan. 10, Curry and Aluisi's successor [Black] hugged publicly and announced that they have formed a new partnership that would resolve the problem.

"The new sheriff and I hopefully will be the beneficiary of this unified approach to fairness, to equity and to justice."

Black said he has formed an alliance with Curry and the county council to resolve staffing problems in his department, adding that more computers are being installed at the department to upgrade its technology.

"I anticipate that between now and June we'll be hiring more deputies and administrative personnel to enhance the manpower we need," Black said.

History.:1994–2000: Funding cuts and vacancies.

From December 12, 1994, to January 2000, the PGSO did not hire any new deputies or civilian employees, leaving the agency with 92 vacant positions that needed to be filled. Over that period, 66 deputies left the agency, some retiring routinely, others leaving due to increased workloads caused by vacant positions. In some cases, deputies worked sixteen hours in one day, eight in courtrooms, and eight serving warrants. In December 1994, the agency had 248 deputies, whereas on January 20, 2000, it only had 192 deputies, with 20 leaving from November 1998 to January 2000. In July 1996, the county government decreased the amount of funding the PGSO was receiving. Unlike the PGPD at the time, the PGSO was not nationally accredited and still is not, as of January 2015.


He competed in the 20 km individual event at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

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Born: February 23, 1952 in Tegernsee, Bayern, Germany

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Heinrich Mehringer was on the West German biathlon relay team that won a bronze medal at the 1978 World Championships.

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Heinrich Mehringer (born 23 February 1952) is a German biathlete.


In March 2011, Mushe Semu became party president, succeeding Lidetu.

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Lidetu Ayelew, president of the Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP), handed over his role to secretary general of the party, Mushe Semu on the fifth general assembly of the party held Sunday, March 20.

The decision was made according to the bylaws of the party, which place a four-year, two-term limit to the presidential position, as Mushe disclosed.

Lidetu came to the position after former party president Dr. Admassu Gebeyehu completed his two terms as party leader four years ago.

A vote by members of the party had instated Lidetu to the position.

In his farewell speech, Lidetu claimed that EDP was the only party with term limits on the leadership position.

"Opposition parties should exercise leadership transition while still an opposition," he proclaimed.

"Otherwise, it's foolish to think they will do so once in Arat Kilo [Grand Menelik Palace]."

In what seemed to be a summary of the ups and downs Lidetu faced during his tenure in the political limelight – from being labeled the Ethiopian "Mandella" to a "power seeker" – his farewell was an emotional one.

He maintained that he was glad with the roles he played in various positions, especially in what he claimed as spearheading the promotion of dialog between the ruling party and opposition camps.

He also claimed stake in raising the public awareness about matters of the state and rights of citizens, particularly in the run-up to the elections in 2005.

"For any [party] envisioning beyond the attainment of political power, that is a great achievement," he said.

He further told gathered party members, well-wishers and the media that his 18 years in politics constituted three quarters of his life so far, and this succession of position does not mean the end of his involvement in Ethiopian politics.

"I ravel in it," he asserted, "and I can't just throw it away.

The farewell speech concluded with apologies on the part of Lidetu for party members, and of the incumbent, the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), whom he might have offended during his stretch.

"You can't please everybody in politics," he said in a final note.

Lidetu had served as the general secretary under Admassu's presidency before taking up the role of the presidency.

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የኢዴፓ ኦዲትና ኢንስፔክሽን አባላት በኢዴፓ ብሄራዊ ምክር ቤት ላይ የተጣለው እገዳ እንዲነሳ ጠይቁ

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የወቅቱን የኢህአዴግ የስራ አስፈፃሚ ኮሚቴ ግምገማ አስመልክቶ ከኢዴፓ የተሰጠ መግለጫ!

ENN – ከአቶ ልደቱ አያሌው ጋር የተደረገ ቃለ መጠይቅ (ክፍል 2)

It was one of the few to take their seats in parliament, splitting with the remainder of the coalition.
 There were soon inner power struggles within the CUD, however. Former Chairman Hailu Araya had backed the leadership of Berhanu Nega, but was defeated in the Party Congress in August. Lidetu and Mushe were suspended from the CUD Central Council in October, and the party central committee voted to leave the coalition.
 Lidetu was a victim of character assassination and defamation following the 2005 elections by the former CUD leaders. However, the election campaign in 2010 revealed that Lidetu and his party were not behind the unsuccessful unity. Despite this vindication, the party did not win any seats in the election, with the opposition overall winning only one seat.
 UEDP-Medhin at present uses its original name EDP - Ethiopian Democratic Party.