While many entrepreneurs measure the success of their business with profit or revenue, Chris Bingham (BSBA '91, EMBA '09), founder of Riley Life Logistics, prioritizes the well-being of his employees over everything else.
Riley Life specializes in fulfillment services for brand-conscious companies, and Bingham takes pride in differentiating it from other logistics services, such as Amazon.
This dedication to unique companies means Riley Life seeks out customers it can cultivate close relationships with and allows for flexibility in the fulfillment process. This method increases the potential for growth both within the company and geographically, as Riley Life is developing partnerships that would allow the company to expand west.
Riley Life's holistic approach to fulfillment services is evident in the company's status as a certified B Corporation, a for-profit company dedicated to a positive impact on its workers, the community, society and the environment. Currently there are fewer than 2,500 certified B Corporations in the U.S.
While the B Corporation certification process is an assessment of the company, working towards the point where a company can pass that assessment is a difficult task. As a mid-sized benefit corporation, Riley Life is at a unique disadvantage.
Bingham's dedication to providing a stable work environment for his employees has guided him through these difficulties. While many B Corporations focus on environmental impact, Bingham's approach comes from a moral obligation to have a positive societal impact tied to his religious values.
Bingham's passion for helping people has been a constant in his life. In his undergraduate career at Carolina, Bingham was on the founding executive board of Carolina for the Kids. In the past he worked with Nourish International and is a current board member at Marbles Kids Museum.
Using his experiences in the nonprofit sector and youth ministry, Bingham strives to give his employees the best possible work experience.
While at a large nonprofit, Bingham enrolled in the Evening MBA Program at UNC Kenan-Flagler to climb the corporate ladder, but soon discovered that his talents could be used elsewhere.
He went on to create Riley Life while he was still working towards his MBA, and he attributes the success of his company to the confidence and firsthand experience gained at UNC Kenan-Flagler.


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By Neil King
Sun 1 Sep 2013 01:38 PM
Mona's world
Founder of Mumzworld.com, Mona Ataya, explains what it takes to be a success in ecommerce
Mona Ataya is a woman who doesn't do things by halves.
"My mission is to make Mumzworld the undisputed leader in mother and baby shopping," she says of the e-commerce business she founded in 2011 which already stocks 90,000 products and expects to hit 200,000 registered users by the middle of 2014.
Having recorded 23-times growth in sales, six-times growth in registrations and a 40 percent consumer loyalty rate within its first eighteen months, Mumzworld has established itself as the go-to website for mothers, but according to Ataya this is just the beginning.
"I wasn't empowered when I became a mother and I want to empower the women who are mothers now. I felt constantly compromised by prices and quality," she continues. "It's a personal mission to give mothers the best they can get."
Given her track record, perhaps this comes as no surprise. Even a quick glance at her CV shows Ataya to be a continual high achiever with a desire to excel.
After graduating with a dual honours degree in marketing and finance, Ataya worked on leading brands for fast-moving consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble in the USA before joining its rival Johnson and Johnson in both MENA and Europe.
It was during her time with Johnson and Johnson that she first found her feet as an entrepreneur.
Contacted by her brother Rabea, she was invited to help revolutionise the way people found and applied for jobs in the Middle East.
"I was called by Rabea, who is the CEO of Bayt.com. He wanted to reinvent recruitment in the Arab world," she recalls. "In 2000 the information and communication flow between job sector and employers was limited. You had to know people, there were logistical complexities, and so on.
"The whole idea of an online recruitment site was unheard of, and it was also the time of the internet burst. People were losing money online, and it was not the place to be. But the concept was compelling and important for the region, so I was intrigued.
"Also, the team he had put together was the best of the best. Rabea was a seasoned entrepreneur and knew everybody there was to know, so the key persons who came together were amazing. I thought this team and this concept was really quite exciting, so I took a leap of faith and I left a career that was very successful and vertical to start a career as an entrepreneur."
The success of Bayt.com speaks for itself. Having started with "one sofa, a desk, and a shoe-string budget," the company became a force to be reckoned with within months and now, thirteen years later, it is the largest recruitment site in the Arab world.
"There are now 450 employees, and eight million people finding jobs on the site," says Ataya. It's gone from strength to strength over the years and I'm so happy to have been part of that."
Her entrepreneurial zeal grew in 2003 when a life-changing occurrence forced her to look at things differently.
Giving birth to not one, but twin boys, Ataya experienced a gap in the market that she decided to fill.
"The experience was very interesting for me. I thought I was a fairly resourceful person, but I just didn't know where to find everything I needed for the children.
"A few years later a third child came along as well, but the missing needs remained. I wanted to find out who could help me find the items and what the best value was. So many times mothers go to stores and feel they've not got the best value for money in front of them.
"Women are so important to the market here. E-commerce is a $350bn industry globally and is the fastest growing market ever. Women in the region have an online worth of $315m and they are not being catered for properly. Women are on the internet and, most importantly, you have mothers who have maternity requirements. There are certain things they have to buy.
"All of these factors came together to create the concept of Mumzworld."
She recalls that the vision for her new company was very simple: To become the go-to destination for mother and baby shopping, and to become the gold-standard for e-commerce.
High ambition indeed, but as Ataya explains, there is a reason for attaining to perfection.
"Mother customers are risk-averse. They won't tolerate late shipments or poor quality. We had to be perfect in service and products, otherwise we would fail."
Not wanting to lose time, Ataya set up the business in record time, revealing that she drew up the business plan in July 2011, incorporated the company in August, and went beta two months later.
"It usually takes a year to get it all together," she says. "We went live in November and had 15,000 products in month one. Today we're just short of 90,000 products in Mumzworld, and it's the largest mother and baby store in MENA."
The speed at which Ataya was able to launch the company was partly down to the eagerness of suppliers to establish a foothold in the region, which for many of them was a new market. But another motivator was that many of the suppliers were familiar with Ataya's background and experience with Bayt.com.
"Ultimately," she says, "if you have a proposition that's valuable enough then the suppliers will follow you. Of course it helped that I'd been in the online industry for many years by that point, and been successful, but they had to take a leap of faith too."
Regardless of reputation, however, success is never guaranteed. Any business, on or off-line, is only as good as the quality of work put into it. Planning, value, logistics, user-friendliness, and many more aspects have to be constantly kept at their optimum if the company is to thrive. Something Ataya always has at the forefront of her thinking.
"The success of an e-commerce business comes down to the details," she says. "If you can't deliver with speed and excellence then you'll not have customers coming back, which is a disaster, especially when you're competing with other websites. Online customers, especially mothers, have zero tolerance.
"We want to provide mothers with the largest catalogue of products in the region so they can search, compare and buy. We wanted to give transparency in price, and give as much information as possible. Information is vital – a mother won't buy a stroller online unless she has all the information she needs.
"We need to make sure we're giving added value for customers and suppliers, and we have to be fast, easy and reliable when it comes to shipment and delivery. If a mother is ordering diapers, she needs them very quickly and won't wait to receive them any later than she is already doing.
"Another important aspect is logistics. Not a lot of people know how to do it right here. There are lots of great websites, but when it comes to logistics they let themselves down.
"Supply chain, accurate inbound and outbound, and customer service. It's all so important. It's one thing to have a great idea, but the way you execute it makes all the difference."
It's this attention to detail which drives Ataya to constantly evaluate and refresh the brand and the way its mechanics work, ensuring the company not only maintains its existing success, but that it also grows.
True to its own philosophy, in August this year Mumzworld announced a revamp of its website which it expects will lead to a tripling of sales in the next twelve months.
The new version of the website promises to offer a faster and easier service, and comes as the result of listening to Mumzworld customers.
"We are in constant touch with customers," says Ataya. "If a customer is unhappy, we ask why. If a customer is happy, we ask why. We're always talking to them and listening to what they say. There are many metrics that let you have dialogue, throughout the e-commerce experience. There are many touch-points, from the first time you log on to the time you leave the website, and even beyond that."
It's not just customer feedback which drives the direction of the business. Monitoring global trends is a vital part of the Mumzworld machine.
"You need to grow and evolve your catalogue to what's going on globally, not just locally. Our catalogue is hard to replicate because we have exclusive brands. Evaluation, exclusivity and consistency of service is an important part of what we offer."
With so many customers turning to the internet for purchases, it is little wonder MENA is expected to reach $15bn in e-commerce sales in 2015. But according to Ataya, the e-commerce boom does not necessarily mean a reduction in offline shopping across the board – rather it gives brands a chance to cover more ground.
"There is definitely room for offline and online shopping – both have their place and I think both will continue to grow. But e-commerce is booming around the world and brands are moving more online, giving them new opportunities.
"The real benefit to being online is that there are no limitations to how much you stock. If I have a store that's only so big, how many strollers or car seats can I fit in? Not many. In the virtual world there are no limitations."
But while people appear to be flocking to their keyboards, not everything is rosy in the world of online shopping.
According to Ataya there are three areas of e-commerce which need to catch up.
"The first is the delivery service. At the moment this region is not equipped to delivery quickly and easily. We're dealing with thousands of products at high speed, and couriers have to adapt and change their policies in order to keep up and give the best service.
"Secondly, payment gateways need to improve. When you commit to paying online there's an element of safety that has to be considered, and I think that the gateways have to up their game in this respect, helping to make people feel more comfortable.
"Thirdly, there's the matter of regional needs. This region has some similar needs to other people in the world, but some things that are individual to this region. It's like adverts replicating adverts around the world – sometimes it just doesn't translate well. There has to be a cultural element to it."
Rather than be concerned by these issues, Ataya believes they will be tackled swiftly, which backs up her belief that the UAE is a great place to start a new business.
"This is a fantastic country for new opportunities. When starting Bayt.com all those years ago, the facility and assistance we got from the infrastructure was phenomenal. And it's improved over the years, partly because people want to solve issues and make life easier for entrepreneurs.
"The landscape is really evolving, which is so encouraging. We're seeing more and more female entrepreneurs, which I feel is very important. Whether you're a man or a woman, being an entrepreneur is your nature, but it's important to have the right exposure to it and the right support."
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alex 6 years ago
I'm sorry if I am to cynical but really...?
"I wasn't empowered when I became a mother and I want to empower the women who are mothers now. I felt constantly compromised by prices and quality," she continues. "It's a personal mission to give mothers the best they can get."
I wish some of these entrepreneurs were a bit more honest and didn't do this whole reinvention thing: I would have a lot more respect if she said: "I've been working for Bayt.com and thought 'I bet I could make some cash through a website flogging baby stuff a bit cheaper than Mommas and Pappas' "
tania 6 years ago
It's refreshing when entrepreneurs take a huge risk to try and better their communities. Being an entrepreneur is probably the hardest and the riskiest job out there and the least financially rewarding in the short term. i guess its in their blood. Thanks mumzworld - we love what you're doing for mums and for the community. We are also forever changed in favor of online. great stuff
nadia 5 years ago
Love mumzworld. Have been shopping there for over a year now and i must say their customer service is unlike any shopping experience i have had in the region. I really respect what these guys are trying to do. Putting the customer first is refreshing
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Top 10 Fun Drinking Party Games
By Minky Chawla on June 10, 2021
Top 10 Fun Drinking Party Games: Bloody Hell, the dice game is the number 1 fun drinking party game that is played using dice and you can have fun playing it while you drink. Earlier parties were only about drinks and dance but today they have a lot more fun elements. An element that adds up life to a party in the game. No party can be enjoyed to the fullest until some fun drinking games are there. These games can be of any kind, they can be played with cards, board, and a lot more. No matter what all props are being used, the ultimate goal of playing them is to have immense fun.
If you are planning a party soon incorporating the games mentioned below wouldn't be a wrong decision at all. Definitely, these games will make your party unforgettable for your guests. They will help you in knowing the guests at your party better and also will not let anyone enter that boredom zone. Also if you don't have the props required for these games then you can simply DIY them.
No 1. Bloody Hell- The Dice Game
Bloody hell, the dice game is played with the help of a dice. The players need to roll the dice, and then the other player tries to get the exact number by rolling the dice as that of the initial person. Even some people give 2 chances to the second player to roll the dice and get the same number. Both the dice rolls can be added up in that case. A maximum of three rolls can be given to each player. If a player even after 3 rolls fails to get the number then they have to sip their drink.
No 2. Taboo
In the Taboo game, each member at the party is given a card. These cards can have a phrase, word, or line written on them. So when the party starts and if anyone says any word or phrase that is written on anyone's card then that person is supposed to say the word taboo. After the word taboos the person who has used that word, I supposed to finish their drink. For e.g., words written can be beer, party, office, job, interesting, and so on. The actions can be sad, happy, frown, and so on.
No 3. Top Most Card
Top Most Card game is probably the most favourite game at drinking parties. Each player in this game deals with 8 cards. Players can be as many as decks can be increased according to the number of players. The first player flips the card right from the centre. The basic idea behind this game is to match the card numbers and colours. Also for e.g., if a player gets number 9 in their card then the succeeding player can match it by number 4 and 5 cards as they add up to 9 only.
No 4. Drink and Bite The Bag
Drink and Bite the Bag game, is the most hilarious one out of all fun drinking party games. Here the players first get high on drinks. After getting high a brown coloured bag made out of paper is placed. The players are supposed to move around the brown coloured paper bag and pick it up with the help of their teeth. Even they are allowed to bite the bag. If you fail to pick the brown bag then you must finish your drink in one go. This game can be a funny one with your friends as they might look quite funny while playing.
No 5. Go Fish Go
Each player in this game is allotted 5 cards in total. If you have more than 10 players then you can use multiple decks. One player each time goes fishing and selects a card from the deck of cards. When one player chooses a card then the entire group is supposed to take out an equivalent or similar card. If anyone is unable to do so then they have to take a sip from their drink.
No 6. Best Sucker Contest
Take baby drink bottles for each player. The Best Sucker Contest game is perfect when played with 4 players. One person is assigned as the referee and he says go. At go, all the players playing are supposed to suck their drink bottles and finish their drinks in one go. The person who finishes their drink at the last has to take 3 shots of the drink. Many people use nipples as a bottle cover as it makes it even harder for the players to suck the drink. The holes on the nipples can be made according to the level of your game.
No 7. Celebrity Game
Celebrity game is started by taking a celebrity name. The next player is then supposed to say a celebrity name that starts with the first letter of the previous celebrity name. Or even you can do vice versa, you can use the last alphabet as the first one for the new one. This series goes on until any player breaks the chain by taking a long halt. The player who loses has to finish their drink.
No 8. Shots or Truth
In shots or truth, the players are supposed to either speak up the truth or take a shot. Your friends will ask you awkward questions in this game so if the player is shy then he takes up the shot instead of speaking up the truth. You can prepare your truth questions before the start of your party as it is quite difficult to figure them out during an ongoing party.
No 9. Guilty Party
The name of the Guilty Party game suggests it to be quite complicated, however, actually, it is not. Each player is given 4 cards in this game. Out of the 4 cards given they are supposed to write two things on two cards that they have never done. So then other players have to guess which statement is true and which a lie is. This game is perfect to be played with your best friends as you will get to know how much they know you.
No 10. Freeze
If you are planning a fun drinking game then Freeze is something you cannot miss out on. This game is also known as Mr Freeze by many people. Any random person at the party can be frozen any time so here that person is supposed to be frozen until someone unfreezes him. If the frozen person is seen moving then he pays the penalty by drinking a drink.
No 11. Wrapping Up
The above-mentioned games are the most appropriate ones for the house parties as well as other parties. These games are definitely going to make your bond stronger with your friends this party season. As they will help you in figuring out some of the unknown facts about your friends and also will help in building a good conversation.
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68% of likely voters say government spending is too high; only 10% say it is too low….
Nearly two thirds (61%) named government spending among the most important issues to their vote….
Nearly two thirds (65%) say government spending is a factor in their own financial situation….
The perceived impact of government spending reaches across all income levels, from those making less than $30,000 per year (61%) to voters making $100,000 and over (56%)….
Voters are cynical about the nation's fiscal future: less than half (39%) believe they will see another federal budget surplus in their lifetime.
The more the political discussion over the next five weeks remains about government spending and the clear record of fiscal mismanagement in Congress remains front and center, the more vulnerable Democrat incumbents of all stripes become. Even so, Lefty attempts to make wedge issues out of social issues will yield limited value.
Democrats read polls, too: A couple weeks ago even the Denver Post editorial board opined whether Obama's latest stimulus proposal was just a straw man to make vulnerable Democrats in Congress look fiscally responsible by saying no…. Um, Michael Bennet, anyone?
In this kind of generic political environment, in which most voters keenly see the adverse effects of excessive government spending, the opponents of Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101 have their work cut out for them. A lot of work is required to explain and clarify the distinctions between federal and state government spending, responsibility and fiscal constraints — even harder since Governor Ritter and the Democratic majorities in Denver have done their part to make those distinctions that much fuzzier. As a result, it will be more difficult than in previous election cycles to persuade voters that the three statewide initiatives are over-the-top.
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Flow-Tech Industries
Founded in 1986, Flow-Tech Industries has since grown into a leading provider of fluid-handling equipment and control solutions. The company serves a wide array of industries, including the chemical, paper, refinery, marine, and oil and gas industries. Its ability to succeed at serving a diverse client base is due to its ability come up with solutions that meet customer needs.
"Today, we are focused on special applications and projects, such as seawater and large-volume movers," founder and General Manager Bobby Johnston says. "Customers are our strength and future. We serve customers who need solutions."
"We are doing a lot of work in the offshore oil and gas industry, dealing with pumping and water treatment solutions for the offshore market," Project and Systems Manager Kaymichael Johnston adds.
As an industrial supplier of fluid-handling equipment, Flow-Tech's comprehensive product lines include fire pumps, pumps, valves, meters and control products.
Since 2001, Flow-Tech has applied its resources and energy to focus on listed NFPA 20 packaged fire pump systems. The company has relationships of 25 years and more with top brand manufacturers, primarily concentrating on UL listed and FM approved. Flow-Tech's fire pump products include horizontal split case, vertical split case, vertical inline, vertical turbine and packaged systems.
One thing that helps set the company apart in the fire pump niche is the fact that Flow-Tech focuses solely on industrial fire pumps. Most of the fire pump market is focused on the commercial market and building protection, which is customarily handled through a sprinkler contractor. Bobby Johnston notes that the company deals directly with project engineers, rig builders and end users.
That industrial specialization is important to the kinds of customers Flow-Tech serves. Offshore fire pump systems must deal with issues such as the use of seawater, involvement of special metals, Coast Guard standards and the approvals of listing bodies.
"Most of the companies in the general fire pump market don't understand everything that is involved with the offshore fire pump sector," Kaymichael Johnston says. "We have that experience and understanding, and our customers know that."
For customers in the offshore oil and gas industry in need of fire pump solutions, Flow-Tech is committed to finding the right solutions for their needs. The company understands issues involved with listing codes and regulatory standards, as well as metallurgy required for longevity.
"Once a system is listed, that listing stays up," Bobby Johnston says. "It takes time, but we are willing to work with customers that need long-lived systems for harsh conditions to help them get it done."
Willing to Work
Flow Tech has come to be known as the company for challenging projects in the industrial fire pump world. That is illustrated by a recent project the company took on to develop two vertical turbine pumps made of super duplex stainless steel. The pumps are to be used in a terminal facility in Freeport, Texas, that is investing in expansion.
The facility has similar pumps that date from the late 1980s when regulations were different and more lax. Due to the metallurgy required, these pumps are not currently listed. It took a company such as Flow Tech to step in and make it possible for vertical turbine pumps made of super duplex stainless steel to become an option as part of the expansion.
"We were called by a local engineering firm that had been turned down by everyone and told it can't be done," Kaymichael Johnston says. "They had received no quotes from all area suppliers. We were able to find a manufacturing partner willing to work directly with UL to develop a plan to gain listings as the pumps are being built and meet the standards of the governing body, NFPA 20."
One of the things that make Flow Tech unique is the fact that it is one of only a few companies in the pump sector that covers only the industrial offshore and onshore markets. It doesn't do commercial or municipal projects, so it is fully adept at working in environments where seawater and hazardous codes are the norm. The company understands the NFPA 20 regulations and how they correlate to specific customer needs.
"If a customer wants a super duplex stainless steel vertical turbine, we can work with the factory and UL," Kaymichael Johnston says. "The pumps themselves were already listed, so we could take on a long lead-time project like this to get the pumps built with these specific materials and get all of the details together in terms that suited everyone."
The first milestone in a project like this is getting the contract put together. It includes the initial submittal process, pump drawings, material listings, performance calculations, and engineering data. Once that documentation is together and has been reviewed by the customer, it heads to the manufacturer so materials can be ordered. "The pumps will be put together in the Americas, and UL can inspect the foundry and process as it goes," Kaymichael Johnston says.
Throughout the project, Flow Tech will provide regular updates to all involved on scheduling. The company prides itself on customer service. "As a small business, we closely monitor every step," Kaymichael Johnston says. "We're not just an order taker. We make sure everything is facilitated from cradle to grave on each project."
Flow Tech expects delivery of the units toward the end of July 2015, but it is hopeful that can be pushed up. At this stage, testing hasn't been scheduled. UL will send in a listing agent several times throughout the build process, and UL representatives will inspect the project throughout the build and once the pumps are complete.
"Everything has to be inspected along the way to get the UL listing, as they make sure it is built to the design," Kaymichael Johnston says. "The pumps have a capacity of 3,500 gallons per minute, and UL will verify that it is built in accordance with the design and that it does what it is designed to do."
Confident that the project will ultimately succeed, Flow Tech is working to spread the word about its ability to tackle projects that others cannot. It has a strong relationship with companies such as Aurora Fire Pumps, which works closely with Flow Tech on complicated projects.
"Over the last decade, we've made waves in the industrial fire pump market," Kaymichael Johnston says. "Our customer service and willingness to devise solutions for complex projects will continue to drive us forward."
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Q: One extra output after EOF (ctrl + d) in C I have wrote some code to calculate what type and amount of bills to be returned to the customer given their amount owed and amount paid. The implementation of change() is in another file (change.c).
#include <stdio.h>
#include "change.h"

int main() {
    double bill, pay;
    char temp;
    temp = getchar();
    while (temp != EOF){
        ungetc(temp, stdin);
        scanf("%lf%lf", &bill, &pay);
        change(bill, pay);
        temp = getchar();
    }

    return 0;
}

My problem is that when I tried terminate the program with crtl+d, an extra set of output is printed.
3.5 69.1 //input from stdin
Change of:
1 fifty dollar bill
0 twenty dollar bill
7 two dollar coin
15 dime
1 nickel
4 12.4 //input from stdin
Change of:
0 fifty dollar bill
0 twenty dollar bill
4 two dollar coin
4 dime
1 nickel
Change of:
0 fifty dollar bill
0 twenty dollar bill
4 two dollar coin
4 dime
1 nickel

2 inputs but 3 outputs (last output is the same as the second last output). I have spent hours investigating but cannot figure out why. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Scoundrel
How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
by Sarah Weinman
Biographies & Memoirs | Nonfiction (Adult) | True Crime
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From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him—including conservative thinker William F. Buckley—into helping set him free
In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned.
So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman's Scoundrel leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame, and eventually to attempting murder again. In Smith, Weinman has uncovered a psychopath who slipped his way into public acclaim and acceptance before crashing down to earth once again.
From the people Smith deceived—Buckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved him—to Americans who were willing to buy into his lies, Weinman explores who in our world is accorded innocence, and how the public becomes complicit in the stories we tell one another.
Scoundrel shows, with clear eyes and sympathy for all those who entered Smith's orbit, how and why he was able to manipulate, obfuscate, and make a mockery of both well-meaning people and the American criminal justice system. It tells a forgotten part of American history at the nexus of justice, prison reform, and civil rights, and exposes how one man's ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smith's victims.
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Blood Will Tell
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An Open Letter to Donald Trump
Not rapists: just abused*
Mr. President Trump:
Throughout the centuries, long before your mother arrived from Scotland, long before your grandparents arrived from Germany and had a lot of success in the hotel and brothel business in New York, the Mexicans had their families here and they had already named all of the Western states, rivers, valleys, mountains, and cities. The Californian architecture and the Texan cowboy, symbols of the "authentic American" are nothing more than the result of the hybridity—like everything else—of the new Anglo-Saxon culture with the long since established Mexican one. Can you imagine one of the founding fathers coming face-to-face with a cowboy?
When your mother arrived to this country in the 1930s, half a million Mexicans were deported. The majority of them were American citizens but they were very unlucky when the frustration nationwide, because of the Great Depression, got them speaking Chicano. They were blamed for the Depression since their faces looked as foreign as they could be.
Your idea that the Mexicans that come here are rapists, criminals, and invaders it's nothing new and it couldn't be farther from the truth. In this country's prisons, you will find that immigrants—both legal and illegal—are underrepresented. Immigrants in American prisons make up only one-fourth of what would be the total percentage of the immigrant population in the United States. In case you still don't understand: the statistics say that "wetbacks" are four or five times less likely to commit a crime than your own beautiful children are, Mr. Trump. Where immigration dominates, the crime rate drops and prejudice and racism increase.
These people were seen as foreigners and rapists (you aren't the first person to know this) since the United States took possession (it's best to say it this way so we don't offend anyone) of half the Mexican territory in the middle of the 19th century. And as those people that were already there didn't stop speaking such an uncivilized language such as Spanish and refused to change their skin color, were persecuted, deported or simply murdered, accused of being bandits, rapists, and foreign invaders. The real Zorro was dark skinned and didn't fight against any Mexican despotism (as Johnston McCully depicted the story in order to be able to sell it to Hollywood) but instead he fought against the Anglo-Saxon invaders who took his land. Dark skinned and rebellious like Jesus, even though you see this Nazarene man always depicted as blonde haired with blue eyes and rather docile in the holy paintings. The hegemonic powers of that age that crucified him had obvious political reasons for doing so. And they continued crucifying him three centuries later when the Christians stopped being illegal immigrants and were persecuted so much that they hid in the catacombs. Eventually, they became the official persecutors when they took power.
Fortunately, Mr. Donald, the European immigrants, like your parents and wife, didn't look like foreigners. Of course, if your mother had arrived forty years before, then maybe she would have been confused with an Irishwoman. Those people certainly did look like invaders. Besides being Catholics, they had hair just like yours, red and curly, something that offended the local white people, and by white people I mean those that, at one time, had been discriminated against by their Polish, Russian or Italian accents. But fortunately, immigrants learn quickly. As González Prada wrote more than a century ago, when an individual rises above the level of his social group he usually becomes its worst enemy.
This is what you and many other people demand, of course: that the immigrants should assimilate to this culture, instead of just integrate into it. But, which culture is that exactly?
In a truly open and democratic society, no one ought to forget who is to be accepted or, as I understand it, the virtuous thing to do must involve integration and not assimilation. Assimilation is violence. In many societies, it's a requirement, especially in all of the societies where fascism survives in one way or another.
Mr. President, the creativity that you see among the businessmen and women in this country is admirable even though its importance is exaggerated and many negative aspects are forgotten: It wasn't businessmen who promoted democracy in Latin American but rather, they did just the opposite. Various successful American businesses promoted bloody Coups d'état and supported a long list of bloody dictators.
It was businessmen like Henry Ford, who made interesting contributions to the industry, but it's often forgotten that, like many other businessmen, Ford was an Anti-Semitist who collaborated with Hitler. While the US denied refuge to persecuted Jews in Germany—as they now deny it to Muslims today for almost the same reasons—Alcoa and Texaco worked together with the fascist regimes of that time period.
It wasn't businessmen who developed new technology and science but amateur inventors or salaried professors instead; from the foundation of this country to the invention of the Internet, continuing with Einstein and finally, the arrival of the first man on the moon. Not to mention, the basis of the sciences—which were shaped by those horrible and uncivilized Arabs centuries before—from the numbers that we use to Algebra to algorithms and many other sciences and philosophies that are part of Western civilization today, continuing with the Europeans in the 17th century. None of these men were businessmen, of course.
It wasn't businessmen who achieved, through resistance and popular activism, almost all the progress with the civil rights that are now known today in this country, when at the time they were demonized as dangerous revolutionists and anti-Americans.
Mr. President Trump, I know you have been all your life too busy making money, so you don't know this simple evidence: a country is not a business, it's not a company. As an employer, you can hire and fire as many employees as you wish, for the simple reason that there was a State that gave an education to those people before and there will be a State later on that will be responsible for them when they are fired, with social welfare services —or with the police, as a worst case scenario.
An employer doesn't know how to resolve any of these externalities. He's only concerned about his own success that he will later confuse it with the success of the whole country and sell it in that same way because that is what a businessman does best: selling. Call it what you want.
You always boast about being immensely rich. I admire you for your bravery. But, if we consider what you have done starting with what you received from your parents and grandparents—money aside—it could be said that almost any businessman, any worker in this country that has started from nothing—and in many cases incurring enormous amounts of debt from his educational costs—is much more successful than you.
The Turk Hamdi Ulukaya was a poor immigrant when he founded the yogurt company Chobani a few years ago, which is now valued at two billion dollars. That type of story is very common in a country as great as this one, without a doubt. But this creative businessman had the decency to recognize that he didn't do all of this by himself. That it would have been impossible without his employees and having been in as free of a country as this one. And actually, recently, he donated 10 percent of the company's stocks to his employees.
In Mexico, there are similar examples to yours. But better ones. The most well-known example is Carlos Slim, the son of Lebanese immigrants, who took advantage of the economic crisis at the time—as any man with money would—now has eleven times your fortune.
Mr. President Trump, democracy has its own Achilles tendons. It's not the critics, as any fascist society normally considers them—it's the demagogues. The ones that beat their nationalistic breast in order to abuse the power of their own nations.
Twenty-five centuries ago, the first democratic example, Athens, took pride in welcoming foreigners; this wasn't her weakness—nor political or moral. Athens had slaves just like your country had for a couple of democratic centuries, and in a way it continued this disgrace with undocumented workers. Athens had its demagogues too: for example, Anytus, a successful businessman who convinced the rest of society, very democratically, so that they would put the thinking mind of their age to death. Socrates' downfall was questioning everything too much, for believing too little in the gods of Athens and for ruining its youth with doubts.
Of course, almost no one remembers Anytus today and the same thing will happen to you. At least you can double your bet and turn into one of the figures just like we've seen in European history of the 20th century with your exacerbated nationalism and your hatred for those people who looked like foreigners without even being so. You will always find followers—because that is also part of the political game—and right now, we don't have a better system.
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Nacque a Ostrów Wielkopolski il 30 ottobre 1869 da Władysław e Katarzyna Rutkowska Dalbor.

Papa Benedetto XV lo elevò al rango di cardinale nel concistoro del 15 dicembre 1919.

Morì il 13 febbraio 1926 all'età di 56 anni.

Genealogia episcopale e successione apostolica
La genealogia episcopale è:
 Cardinale Scipione Rebiba
 Cardinale Giulio Antonio Santori
 Cardinale Girolamo Bernerio, O.P.
 Arcivescovo Galeazzo Sanvitale
 Cardinale Ludovico Ludovisi
 Cardinale Luigi Caetani
 Cardinale Ulderico Carpegna
 Cardinale Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
 Papa Benedetto XIII
 Papa Benedetto XIV
 Papa Clemente XIII
 Cardinale Giovanni Carlo Boschi
 Cardinale Bartolomeo Pacca
 Cardinale Francesco Serra Cassano
 Arcivescovo Joseph Maria Johann Nepomuk von Fraunberg
 Cardinale Johannes von Geissel
 Vescovo Eduard Jakob Wedekin
 Cardinale Paul Ludolf Melchers, S.I.
 Cardinale Philipp Krementz
 Cardinale Anton Hubert Fischer
 Cardinale Felix von Hartmann
 Cardinale Edmund Dalbor

La successione apostolica è:
 Vescovo Władysław Paweł Krynicki (1918)
 Vescovo Wojciech Stanisław Owczarek (1918)
 Vescovo Antoni Laubitz (1925)

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Where to Find an Affordable Wedding Ring?
The Overly Expensive diamonds of Tiffany & Co. and the Blue Nile can take a back seat to the power of true love and happiness. Maybe later you can invest in a high level diamond, but for now, you can find an engagement ring for as little as $300 if not less.
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To understand that you don't have to spend three rent paychecks to purchase an inexpensive diamond ring to impress your lady over men who are unhappy due to their spouse's insistence on the finer things in life. Wives that can only be pleased with expensive things are question marks when it comes to true love and devotion.
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Armis labs revealed a new attack vector that exposes millions of devices that use bluetooth. The attack is as close to actual airborne virus in the computer world that you can imagine. This story is so under reported due to other recent news stories (Equifax, Hurricane Irma, etc,.) it may catch a lot of folks off guard. What is scary about this attack is the sheer number of devices affected. Phones, Smart TV's, Smart appliances, unpatched computers systems. Nearly any device that has bluetooth. You can imagine this list is very long.
For an excellent overview and technical details please see the article below.
UPDATE: Samsung has begun pushing out updates on Verizon via OTA. I am sure all the other vendors will quickly follow suit.


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Graffiti artists from a dozen countries took part this week in a festival of street art in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan. The event, the first of its kind in Tatarstan, gave a face-lift to some 40 sites around the city. (Photos by Ildar Gabidullin of RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service)
1 Some 60 artists from across Europe visited Kazan to transform public spaces during the city's first graffiti festival.
2 The artists had access to some 40 locations, including apartment buildings, bridges, and fences, totaling about 10,000 square meters of paintable surfaces.
3 Some of the artists had the help of industrial cranes to reach the upper stories.
5 Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov (left) and Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin (right) tour the works in progress during the festival.
6 Organizer Anastasia Zakirova said that the participants were given no guidelines for their work, and could create anything they wanted.
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In my last post I made what some might consider a rather harsh statement: that certain books that speak of a god and spirituality are not worth the paper they are written on. A kind reader asked why I should think thus. It was a fair question and a good one. I felt a brief answer was not enough, so here, in an extended response, are my thoughts as to why I have such visceral responses to theological pablum.
In a phrase: theology matters. Good theology, healthy theology, sound theology – all of these are critical for a sound, healthy, spiritual life. If you eat healthy food chances are you will remain healthy. Eat garbage every day, all day long, and sooner or later you will get sick or die. My issue with certain books that are huge best sellers but contain only theological junk is that their very popularity masks their emptiness. Everybody loves Twinkies (and so do I!), but Twinkies are not health food. In the United States we have been inundated with such products lately, from Heaven is for Real and God is Not Dead and most recently, The Shack. Bad theology is not a recent invention, however, as Joseph Smith (no relation, as far as I know) duped millions with his work of theological fiction, The Book of Mormon.
Since that latest buzz focuses on The Shack I will make a few comments here specifically related to that book, but the fundamental flaws of that book are common to many, if not all, of the recent attempts at popular theology.
First, The Shack purports to be a parable, that is, a picture to describe an attribute (or attributes) of God that are not otherwise seen. The problem is the author does not know the difference between a parable and a caricature. The Shack is NOT a parable – it is a caricature in which one aspect of God's being is so grossly distorted as to make it a farce. When Jesus told a parable about God's forgiveness or mercy, it was just that – a parable. God remained a God of justice, a God who will make things right through the punishment of sin.
The god of The Shack has done away with punishment of sin. The god of The Shack is all about everyone going to heaven. Like a grandmother who loves all her grandchildren and refuses to punish any, the god of The Shack is basically unable to confront, and is utterly powerless to overcome, evil. Just think of the basic premise – why would any god not punish the killer of a small child (the whole background story of "the shack," the place where the little girl was murdered)?
The character that represents Jesus in The Shack says that he is the best way to get to this god, but the Jesus of the gospels is the ONLY way to the real God. If you live in the universe of The Shack, it matters not if you are a Christian, a Buddhist, a Muslim, or even a basically moral atheist. All roads lead to "papa," although if you are willing to accept the Jesus figure you might get to "her" sooner.
Why does this matter? Why can't I say (as so many have said in so many different venues) "If reading The Shack brings you closer to God, then good for you, and good for The Shack." Very simply, if you think you have come closer to god through The Shack, you have only come closer to a god of your own making – a false god, an idol. It is not the God of Mt. Sinai, nor of the manger in Bethlehem, and absolutely not the God of calvary.
Why did God not say, "Well, if the calves bring you closer to me, good on you and good on the calves"? Why punish Aaron, Jeroboam, and all the people who worshiped the calves, especially since they were ostensibly worshiping God? The reason is the calves were NOT God, and by pointing away from the true God, the calves were objects of spiritual sickness. They were symbols of rebellion – of rejecting the one true God.
Why do I object to theological fictions such as The Shack, God is Not Dead, and Heaven is for Real? Because at their core they are golden calves. The authors (and the millions of people who are mesmerized by them) may have good intentions, but their theology is base, it is corrupt, and it is corrupting.
If a person thinks that he or she is coming closer to God by reading any of these books (or seeing the movies), what happens when he or she reads of the true God in Scripture? What happens when the person reads that God hates sin, that God is a just judge, and will punish those who rebel against him, and especially those who kill little girls? What happens when the person discovers that God hates charlatans and those who seek to build wealth and fame from peddling false ideas about Him and his creation? At that point the person will either have to reject the comfortable, impotent, beggarly god of these works of fiction, or he or she will have to reject the God of Scripture. The two are not inches apart – they are light years apart.
There are great works of fictional literature which point to the God of Scripture. C.S. Lewis comes immediately to mind. I am not against fictional works that praise and glorify God. I would not even object to a caricature of God if the work is clearly identified as such (George Burns in O God comes to mind – no one thought THAT was serious theology, but the story did have a good point).
In some ways I hate to be so negative. I would be much more popular if I preached what these books claim to say about God. I just have one problem in doing so.
It's not good theology – and theology matters.
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How television used to be made
ADAPT: Researching the history of television production technology
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U-matic and Betacam
Linear editing with Betacam
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A first look at footage from our 16mm television filming simulation
In May, the ADAPT project filmed its first full-scale simulation: an historical re-enactment experiment designed to reunite television film production veterans with old equipment, in order to better understand how television was made in the past.
We assembled a team of retired television production professionals, all of whom – at one stage in their career – had worked from the BBC's Television Film Studios in Ealing. With the help of equipment collector and camera operator John Adderley, we borrowed hundreds of kilograms of cameras and sound recording equipment, along with all the lighting and cables necessary to recreate the technological conditions of 1960s television film production.
Amanda Murphy, who produced the event, wrote in detail about this experiment on this website a few weeks ago:
I blink in disbelief at having pulled this off…as near 90 year old Ray Sutcliffe (once editor of BBC flagship series, Chronicle) David Whitson cameraman (and DOP) looking boyish still in retirement (made Man Alive and series like The Voyage of Charles Darwin ) John Adderley acting as camera assistant (Tribal Eye, Man Alive) Alex Branson PA, Bill Chesneau on sound, John Hooper as sound assistant and Alan Muhley electrician, all walked into shot carrying the Éclair camera, magazines for loading film, a Nagra 3 sound recorder and an old DK25 boom, a hefty wooden camera tripod and various redheads and blonde lights from the era, it felt a bit like a Fellini film! The combined age of the crew was likely somewhere around 600 yet this seasoned crew from the 60's and 70's worked together like they'd just made a telly programme yesterday!
Now we face a challenge almost as substantial as bringing together this team and providing them with working examples of obsolete equipment. As Amanda noted last month:
Now for one of the biggest challenges of the project- making sense of and editing the footage! […] For ADAPT I've got to wade through 1TB of material… that's around 15 hours of footage with seven people often talking all over each other, sometimes demonstrating sometimes 'presenting' to an imaginary audience, sometimes getting on with filming, sometimes explaining it, often using old familiar jargon, often walking off camera or asking for a chair or standing listening to others.
We have now started to make sense of all that footage, and we have begun to assemble it into sequences which we hope will be of use to historians of film and television. We're pleased to be able to start releasing rush edits of some of the footage we shot back in May. These take two forms. Firstly, we are ready to share three bite-sized portions of the main filming event. These give a flavour of what we asked our veteran crew to do, and how they responded to our challenge.
In the first of these videos, you'll see the crew preparing their equipment: loading film magazines, checking the focus of lenses, and synchronising sound recording equipment.
In the second clip, you'll see what happens in the few minutes before their filming begins and after the "cut" is called. We asked our crew to film a short interview with our principal investigator, Prof. John Ellis. In this clip, we see the crew explain to John how they intend to film him, and make final preparations to roll the film and record sound. After the interview itself – which is not shown in this clip – the crew confer with each other in order to establish whether the various technologies operated correctly, and whether further shots need to be taken.
The third and final clip from the simulation shoot shows our crew filming in a different environment: outdoors, on the grounds of Royal Holloway, University of London. What we didn't tell our crew in advance was just how tricky that would be: we positioned them next to a busy road and underneath Heathrow's departure flightpath. Asking the crew to carry out an interview while motorbikes roared past and jets buzzed overhead was as close as we could get to recreating the conditions of a busy city.
In addition to these clips, we have also uploaded a ten-part playlist of clips from a filming session we carried out with lighting cameraman David Whitson and electrician (i.e. lighting expert) Alan Muhley. Our approach here was different: rather than ask David and Alan to use the old equipment, we simply filmed them handling it, while talking about their memories of using different types of lighting equipment. This is the first of several such 'reunions' between people and technologies: we will soon release similar playlists which document our participants' memories of sound recording equipment and 16mm film cameras.
These clips are not fully contextualised yet. They are the rough, raw, products of our historical research. They are data, not findings. In time, we'll be working on edited packages of material which will explain in detail how technologies and people worked together. Finally, we intend to release – to the fullest practical extent – our rushes, under a minimally restrictive Creative Commons licence, so that anyone can build upon, remix, and contest, the results of our research.
Nick Hall is a research officer in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Assassin For Iran, Businessman, Political Pundit; Anis al-Naqqash Dies Of Covid
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Anis al-Naqqash, a former assassin, a terrorist who once rubbed shoulders with men such as Yasser Arafat and Carlos the Jackal and did "dirty jobs" on behalf of Iran's ayatollahs, died in a hospital in Damascus of COVID-19 on 22 February.
In 1975 he was a terrorist who helped the world-famous Carlos in abducting OPEC oil ministers. In the 1979 Iranian revolution, when he was a member of the Palestinian group Fatah, he linked up with the revolutionaries via insiders such as Mostafa Chamran and Sadeq Qotbzadeh. He converted from Sunni Islam to Shiism and was a big admirer of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Naqqash claimed that the idea of creating the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps was his but he certainly trained them in asymmetrical warfare, which was his trade. He also played a role in training the first Hezbollah cadres in early 1980s, around the time when a devastating attack on US Marines near Beirut airport killed more than 240 American servicemen.
Naqqash, or Naccache by French spelling, was an assassin for Iran who was arrested following an attempt on the life of former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in Paris. Later, he went to Iran after the Islamic Republic did a prisoner swap with France (a pardon by President François Mitterrand in 1990) and brokered the release of 8 French citizens who had been taken hostage in Lebanon by the Tehran-backed Hezbollah.
Since 1990, he had been living in Beirut and Tehran as a "businessman" probably working with Iran's intelligence organizations and the IRGC Qods Force.
He married a beautiful Iranian woman, an Islamic Guidance Ministry operative in the 1990s and often traveled between Tehran, Beirut and Damascus, running his 'insider' business of facilitating Lebanese investments in Iran and Iranian businesses in Beirut and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Many Iranians who have had the good or bad luck of meeting him (depending on their situation) say he was a modest, polite and soft-speaking man. In the course of four decades, his changed from being a ruthless gunman who opened fire at Bakhtiar's neighbors in Paris, to a businessman who could connect anyone to top leaders in the Islamic Republic.
According to an Iran International Television report, Naqqash sympathized with hardliner Islamist groups in Lebanon as a young man who became a member of the Palestinian Fatah organization in 1968, at age 17 and was a rising militant in the 1970s. It was then that he cooperated with Carlos in 1975 to kidnap the OPEC ministers.
Following the Islamic revolution in Iran, he started helping Iran to garner regional support and expand its influence in the region, the report said. He was close to individuals such as Mohammad Montazeri, the unruly son of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri who was the deputy to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at the time. He was also close to Ahmad, Khomeini's son who was reportedly the mastermind of the regime's most violent operations inside and outside Iran in the 1980s.
During the same decade, he tried to kill Bakhtiar twice. First he went to see him disguised as reporter. He even did interview Bakhtiar but did not find the opportunity to kill the popular nationalist politician who had started a National Resistance Movement in Paris against the Islamic Republic. In his second attempt in July 1980, he mistakenly opened fire at Bakhtiar's neighbors and was shot and arrested by the French police. Before the attack, the infamous 'hanging judge' in Tehran, Sadeq Khalkhali, hurriedly announced that Bakhtiar was to be executed.
A few years later, France released Nakash after Hezbollah released 8 French hostages in a prisoner swap brokered by the Islamic Republic Government. Nakash went to Iran in 1990 and started a new life.
In Tehran, he was the managing director of a communication company will ill-defined objectives, with trade partners including the IRGC Qods Force. At the same time, he occasionally appeared on the Iranian state TV as a 'political analyst and Middle East Expert.'
In one of his latest appearances, the interviewer asked him whether it is right to say that he tried to assassinate Bakhtiar. "No, no, of course you can," replied a smiling elegantly dressed Naqqash who was allowed to wear a tie, which is against the state TV regulations.
Following his death, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement in which it called the Lebanese terrorist "a tireless freedom fighter, and a link between Iranian revolutionaries and anti-Zionism resistance" and described his death as "a catastrophe." Similar messages were issued by the Lebanese Hezbollah, Yeme's Houthis and the Syrian government.
Many Iranians on social media criticized the Iranian Foreign Ministry and a London-based former Culture Minister who tried to glorify the Lebanese terrorist.
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Foreigners in Assam a blast from the past
August 29, 2019 October 17, 2019 Suhas Chakma	Comment(0)
By – Suhas Chakma, Director, RRAG
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) had provisionally identified over 4.1 million people as alleged foreigners as on 26 June 2019. As the final NRC of Assam is scheduled to be released on 31.08.2019, the most pertinent question is how serious is the influx of the foreigners in Assam, the epicentre for anti-foreigner agitation in the country.
Abnormal growth of the population reflected in the decadal growth rate of population as reported in the census reports of India have been cited as the most important indicator for identifying influx of foreigners into Assam. However, the "Decadal Variation in Population Since 1901 to 2011" of the Census of India shows that there are no indications of any major influx of foreigners into Assam in the post-1971 period, the cut- off date for acceptance of foreigners as citizens of India.
Table 1: Comparative chart of decadal population growth rate in Assam and All India from 1901 to 2011 as per the Census of India[1]
Decade Assam (population growth rate) All India (population growth rate) Difference
1 2 3 (2-4)
1901-1911 16.99 5.75 11.24
1911-1921 20.48 -0.31 20.79
1921-1931 19.91 11.00 8.91
1951-1961 34.98 21.51 13.47
Average from 1901 to 1971 23.95 12.90 11.05
1971-1981 23.36 24.66 -1.30
Average from 1971 to 2011 20.90 21.94 -1.04
The "Decadal Variation in Population Since 1901 to 2011" of the Census of India (Table 1) shows that from 1901 to 1971, Assam's average decadal population growth rate was 23.95% against All India's average decadal population growth rate of 12.90%. More specifically, Assam's decadal population growth rate was 16.99% against All India's 5.75% during 1901-1911; 20.48% against All India's -0.31% during 1911-1921; 19.91% against All India's 11.00% during 1921-1931; 20.40% against All India's 14.22% during 1931-1941; 19.93% against All India's 13.31% during 1941-1951; 34.98% against All India's 21.51% during 1951-1961 and 34.95% against All India's 24.80% during 1961-1971.
For a period of 70 years i.e. 1901 to 1971, the average decadal growth rate of population in Assam (23.95) was almost double of All India (12.90). This is largely because of the influx of migrants who were now legally accepted as citizens of India under the 1985 Assam Accord. Nonetheless, such large and overwhelming migration for over 70 years had changed the demographic character of Assam and created legitimate fear among the Bhumiputras of Assam of being reduced to a minority in their own land. The Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950 and the National Register of Citizens of Assam of 1951 failed to control further influx of migrants/refugees as a direct consequence of partition of India in 1947.
By 1979, anti-foreigner agitation led by the All Assam Students Union (AASU) reached its zenith in Assam. However, the AASU ended up accepting those against whom it launched massive anti-foreigner agitation as citizens of India under the Assam Accord. As per the Assam Accord, immigrants who came after 24th March 1971 were declared illegal while those who came between 1966 and 1971 were not to be allowed to vote for 10 years. Those who came after 24th March 1971 are to be identified and deported.
The "Decadal Variation in Population Since 1901 to 2011" of the Census of India (Table 1) also shows that in the post-1971 period, Assam has consistently registered decadal population growth lower than that of All India's decadal population growth rate upto the last census in 2011. Overall, from 1971 to 2011, Assam's average decadal population growth rate of 20.90% was lower than All India's average national decadal population growth rate of 21.94%.
More specifically, Assam's decadal population growth was 23.36% against All India's 24.66% during 1971-1981; 24.24% against All India's 23.87% during 1981-1991; 18.92% against All India's 21.54% during 1991-2001; and 17.07% against All India's 17.70% during 2001-2011.
If abnormal population growth rate as reflected in census reports is the determinant of identifying influx of foreigners, Assam had not witnessed any noticeable influx of foreigners in the post-1971 period. At least, major influx of foreigners into Assam in the post-1971 period is not supported by statistics of the Census of India.
In fact, the "Decadal Variation in Population since 1901 to 2011" of the Census of India (Table 2 below) further shows that from 1971 to 2011, Assam had the lowest average decadal population growth rate in the North-Eastern region. During 1971 to 2011, in the North-Eastern region, Nagaland had the highest average decadal population growth rate of42.52%, followed by Mizoram with 35.14%, Arunachal Pradesh with 31.25%, Meghalaya with 30.88%, Manipur with 27.78%, Tripura with 24.27% and Assam with 20.90%. Indeed, Assam is the only State in the North-Eastern region which had lower average decadal population growth rate than All India while all other North Eastern States had higher average decadal population growth rate than All India.
Table 2: Comparative chart of decadal population growth rate in Assam, North Eastern States and All India from 1971 to 2011 as per the Census of India[2]
Decade Assam Arunachal Pradesh Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Nagaland Tripura All India
1971-1981 23.36% 35.15 32.46 +32.04 48.55 50.05 +31.92 24.66
2001-2011 17.07% 26.03 24.50 +27.95 23.48 -0.58 +14.84 17.70
Average 20.90 31.25 27.78 30.88 35.14 42.52 24.27 21.94
The pertinent question is therefore whether all the 41,10,169 persons excluded from the Draft NRC as 26 June 2019 are foreigners. An analysis of the increase in absolute number of population from 1971 to 2018 provides the answer.
Table 3: Comparative chart of increase in absolute number of population in Assam and All India from 1971 to 2011 as per the Census of India[3]
Decade Total population at the end of the decade Increase in absolute number of population from previous decade Assam (population growth rate) All India (population growth rate)
1961–1971 1,46,25,152 NA
1971-1981 1,80,41,248 34,16,096 23.36% 24.66
2011-2018 3,50,18,400[4] 38,12,824 17.4% 17.70
Total increase 2,03,93,248 21.5% 22.4%
As per the "Decadal Variation in Population Since 1901 to 2011" of the Census of India and estimated population of Assam and India as on 2018 (Table 3), the total number of increase of population in Assam during 1971 to 2018 was 2,03,93,248 persons. If 41,73,169 persons excluded from the draft NRC are all foreigners, Assam's population of the citizens in 2018 would have increased by 1,62,20,079 persons only from 1971 to 2018 i.e. 2,03,93,248 citizens in 2018 minus 41,73,169 alleged foreigners. If Assam's population of citizens increased by 1,62,20,079 persons only from 1971 to 2018, average decadal population grown rate of Assam would be 17.1%[5] against average All India's decadal population growth rate of 22.4%.
There is no plausible basis to consider that the average decadal population growth rate in Assam would be 5.3% less than that of All India's average decadal population growth rate from 1971 to 2018. In fact, Assam's average decadal population growth rate of 21.5% during 1971 to 2018 appears normal and is lower than both All India's decadal population growth rate and the North East State's decadal population growth rate. If Assam's average decadal population growth rate of 21.5% from 1971 to 2018 was normal, it implies that there had not been any noticeable influx of foreigners.
The "Decadal Variation in Population since 1901 to 2011" of the Census of India therefore unequivocally suggests that majority of those excluded from the NRC are actually Indian citizens but suffering the brunt of the anti-foreigner sentiments in the State as a consequence of influx of migrants from 1901 to 1971 and due to the absence of documents, which must be dated before 24th March 1971 i.e. at least 47 years before the NRC effectively commenced, to prove one's citizenship.
The process of identification of foreigners is part of the administration of criminal justice and illegal entry of foreigners is a penal offence carrying maximum punishment up to five years under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act, 1946.
The Blackstone's ratio in criminal law provides that "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer".[6] As per the data of the Census of India, the NRC of Assam in 2019 has ended up punishing an overwhelming majority of Indians as foreigners while identifying a negligible number of foreigners.
[1]. Census of India 2011, A-2 Decadal Variation in Population since 1901, p.5, available at http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/A-2_Data_Tables/00%20A%202-India.pdf
[4].Population of Assam 2018, https://indiapopulation2018.in/population-of-assam-2018.html
[5]. The formula used to arrive at 17.1% is given below:
20393248= 21.5%
2039248÷21.5%= 94852316
16220079÷ 94852316= 17.10%
[6].Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, vol. 2 [1753] available at https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/blackstone-commentaries-on-the-laws-of-england-in-four-books-vol-2/simple
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1. Introduction There is no escape from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam and every resident of Assam must mandatorily participate if they seek to be identified as citizens of India. The State Coordinator of the NRC, Assam under the supervision of the Supreme Court of India has been preparing the controversial NRC […]
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Beautiful pair of Józef Chierowski's 366 armchairs, made in Poland. Featuring the new Atomic Age aesthetics, this items are iconic for the Polish Modernism. The armchairs have been recently restored and are in great condition.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain Welcomes the Impending Release of the "Egypt 3"
London, UK, February 27 – Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, the Islamic political party, welcomes the impending release of three of its members from captivity in Egypt. The three – Reza Pankhurst, Ian Nisbet and Maajid Nawaz ? have been detained for almost four years for expressing their political views peacefully.
Commenting on the impending release, Dr Imran Waheed, a media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said, "We are very happy for the families of these men who have throughout campaigned tirelessly to raise the plight of prisoners of conscience in the Muslim world. Our thoughts remain with the tens of thousands of other prisoners incarcerated as political dissidents throughout the Muslim world, including dozens of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir imprisoned with these three in Egypt."
"Reza, Ian and Maajid will rightfully return to Britain as heroes amongst the Muslim community in whose eyes they are not guilty of any crime. We are certain that a large contingent from the community will be eager to greet them when they return."
Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain will be organising a reception meeting for the released prisoners in due course and details of this will be made available at a later date.
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> Launch Control, how usefully is it in real life?
Launch Control, how usefully is it in real life?
Using a BMW M4, a Mercedes-AMG C63 S, a Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS and a very humble little Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion (which does not have any launch control system) as the candidates to prove their point, we have a video from them showing how laborious it is to go through the steps in each car to engage Launch Control.
So who will win the drag race? Watch to find out!
Unfair test,all the cars should not count the activation time..should all in ready mode.
Is it that difficult to make a dedicated launch control button?
Yup, I think this is the point of this video.


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Legislature provides excellent opportunity for Mayville State supporters
MSU President's column for Traill County Tribune
The 63rd North Dakota Legislative Assembly created an amazing new program to spur philanthropic giving to North Dakota State universities and enhance academic excellence. The new program and funding, called "The Matching Fund for Enhanced Academics," will provide a 50% match for each and every dollar donated to the Mayville State University Foundation for approved projects between July 1, 2013 and December 31, 2014.
We are grateful to the North Dakota legislators for this fund that will approve up to $1,000,000 in matching fund potential for Mayville State University. MSU Director of Development John Klocke and I presented three projects to the grants committee on August 5, and all were approved for our immediate fundraising. The three parts of the fundraising will coincide with the 125th anniversary of Mayville State University, and together will be called the Mayville State University 125th Anniversary Foundation for Educational Excellence Campaign. The campaign will allow donors to contribute to one of three fund areas:
The 125th Anniversary Endowment for Excellence Fund. Individuals, businesses, and foundations can create a named endowment or contribute any amount from a dollar or more to an existing endowment through this program. Every dollar given, up to $1,333,333, will be given a 50% match, creating a potential for $2,000,000 in new endowment funding. This could allow for 60 or more new academic scholarships per year. Contributors can also make a pledge of up to seven years and have the entire pledge amount matched. Combine this program with the North Dakota Endowment Tax Credit, which allows donors to receive a 50% state tax credit on endowment gifts of $5,000 or more, and donors can leverage philanthropy tremendously. Endowments can be academic endowments to fund specific educational programs. (Non-athletic.)
The 125th Anniversary Academic Excellence Scholarship Fund. Individuals businesses, and foundations can help this drive to create a higher number of annual academic scholarships to attract more students and fuel MSU's continued new levels of high enrollment. Every dollar given, up to $133,500, will receive a 50% match, creating a potential of $200,000 to be awarded in 2014 or 2015, depending upon gift date. (Non-athletic.)
The 125th Anniversary Rural Nursing Excellence RN to BSN Fund. Individuals, businesses, and foundations can help fund this newly approved RN to BSN degree program. Every dollar given, up to $444,000, will be given a 50% match, creating a potential for $500,000 to develop, plan, staff, and accept nursing students by 2015 or sooner. This fund will carry the program to a level of self-sustainment. When fully functional and at capacity, the program will graduate 24-48 new nurses with BSN degrees each year to help alleviate the rural nursing shortage, especially in Traill County and throughout North Dakota.
This new program has the potential to take Mayville State's academic excellence to an entirely new level through the increased support this matching grant offers.
In order for a gift to qualify for the matching program, a special gift form is required so that a proper totaling of gifts can be done. Optionally, a donor can write the name of the campaign fund area as indicated above on the memo line of their gift, in lieu of the gift form. To qualify, gifts must be given after July 1 of 2013 through December 31, 2014. Gift pledges to the three funds of up to seven years are also acceptable.
This opportunity is especially exciting for donors who may wish to create a named endowment. The MSU Foundation's minimum is $15,000 for a named endowment. With this program, a gift of $10,000 pledged over a period of up to seven years will receive a 50% match, thus bringing the endowment to a fully funded level.
The Matching Fund for Enhanced Academics provides a golden opportunity for Mayville State supporters to double their impact at the university. For more information about the 125th Anniversary Academic Excellence, contact John Klocke at 701-788-4787 or john.j.klocke@mayvillestate.edu.