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By Martin Michaels @MMichaelsMPN
In this Jan. 8, 2010 file photo, Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistleblower in the tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG, pauses during a press conference outside the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville Pa, before reporting to the federal prison. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File )
(MintPress) — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is increasingly relying upon the whistleblower program to investigate cases of tax evasion and fraud. While estimates vary, wealthy U.S. citizens could be hiding up to $5 trillion in offshore accounts, according to a Senate report published in 2008. By providing rewards for successful indictments, the government could significantly reduce the multi trillion dollar deficit by recovering lost tax revenue.
While the program has netted more than $5 billion, critics believe the U.S. government is promoting an unfair double standard. Despite being financially compensated, those who expose tax fraud are still subject to prosecution despite bringing valuable information to the attention of authorities. This has occurred at a time when the Obama administration has cracked down on a record number of whistleblowers.
Bradley C. Birkenfeld, a former employee at UBS AG bank was awarded a $104 million "whistleblower award" earlier this week for reporting widespread tax fraud committed by his former employer. During his career at the financial services firm, Birkenfeld helped thousands of wealthy Americans move their money to Swiss banks in order to avoid taxation by the U.S. government.
UBS tax evasion
The UBS case is one of the biggest cases of tax fraud in U.S. history. In 2009, UBS was found to have helped 19,000 clients move more than $20 billion to Swiss bank accounts, tax shelters outside the purview of U.S. financial regulation and taxation. Birkenfeld an employee of UBS at the time, played an integral role in helping UBS clients move their money to these tax shelters.
Birkenfeld would later divulge the details of widespread UBS fraud. After his testimony, the bank was forced to pay more than $780 million in fines. UBS closed the division responsible for the tax evasion and also agreed to hand over account information for more than 4,500 clients. An additional 33,000 tax evaders chose to report offshore accounts on their own accord, generating an additional $5 billion.
Birkenfeld, who himself was complicit in the tax fraud as a UBS employee was tried and sentenced to 40 months in prison for his role. Earlier this week the IRS rewarded the 47-year-old for his efforts in the UBS case, a case that many tax experts believe could lead to investigations in other financial institutions.
Stephen Kohn, Birkenfeld's co-counsel in the case commented on his client's actions in a recent interview, saying:
"It's the largest whistleblower award in history. But Birkenfeld turned in the largest financial fraud. He turned in 19,000 felons, and $20 billion in one unit. We also know that 33,000 people are turning themselves in. The total amount of U.S. dollars in illegal offshore accounts is over $5 trillion. That is the estimation by a Senate report."
Although Birkenfeld was rewarded generously for his cooperation, Kohn believes that it was wrong of the Justice Department to prosecute his client, adding, "When the Justice Department prosecuted Bradley Birkenfeld in one of the most absurd and misguided efforts, they took an asset, a person who turned in the keys to the kingdom, the first whistleblower to expose exactly how illegal Swiss banking worked, and instead of using him, they persecuted him."
However, Swiss authorities believe that the U.S. government has displayed "hypocrisy" for prosecuting Birkenfeld, then later rewarding him. Pirmin Bischof a member of the upper house in the Swiss Parliament commented, saying, "It's the height of hypocrisy if the U.S. is one day sentencing the guy to 40 months in prison and the next give him the highest reward."
Regardless of the duplicitous actions by the U.S. government, Kohn's client is by no means the the only whistleblower to be prosecuted for exposing crimes, fraud and misdeeds.
Crackdown on whistleblowers
Other whistleblowers reporting crimes have similarly been prosecuted for their actions. Bradley Manning, a member of the U.S. army has been held in solitary confinement since 2010 on 22 charges, including conspiracy and "aiding the enemy." Manning allegedly released a cache of documents exposing U.S. military corruption and the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A video titled, "Collateral Murder," was released in the vast cache, implicating the U.S. military in the murder of innocent Iraqi civilians and members of the international press. Filmed in 2007, the video has gone viral, viewed more than 12 million times on YouTube. While the video has stirred controversy, there have been no arrests or prosecutions since the video's release.
Similarly, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is currently involved in a diplomatic standoff, unable to leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange's WikiLeaks project has brought to light hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables exposing corruption and war crimes committed by the U.S. armed forces and the U.S. government. U.S. authorities have sought his extradition for releasing classified information despite his being granted asylum in Ecuador last month.
The cases of Assange and Manning are, of course, different than that of Birkenfeld. However, all three are subject to a crackdown that occurs when the U.S. government has been found guilty of committing crimes, or has proven unwilling to prosecute crimes committed by its own citizens.
Unlike other whistleblowers, Birkenfeld received relative leniency for his crimes and was later compensated generously for his cooperation. While the case could lead to more investigations into offshore banking fraud, the unwillingness to properly tax major corporations remains a much larger, unaddressed issue.
Major U.S. corporations are able to move their corporate headquarters outside the U.S. while maintaining production and sales inside U.S. borders. When headquarters are moved offshore, corporations can avoid taxation despite being subject to other government regulations.
Consumer advocacy groups believe that this major loophole has cost the U.S. government more than $100 billion in annual tax revenue. U.S. PIRG, a consumer advocacy group, has advocated for closing corporate tax loopholes, a necessary component of tax reform, saying on its website:
"No company should be able to game the tax system to avoid paying what it legitimately owes. And, yet, establishing shell companies in offshore havens for the purpose of tax avoidance is becoming more the rule than the exception for at least 83 of the nation's top 100 publicly traded companies. GE, Google, Goldman Sachs and dozens of others have created hundreds of phantom entities with nothing more than a clever tax attorney and P.O. box."
According to its website, U.S. PIRG is "a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security, or our right to fully participate in our democratic society."
General Electric, a company that boasted $14.2 billion profit in 2010 adeptly avoided taxation altogether despite earning over $5 billion from U.S. sales. The company moved its address outside the U.S. and continues to avoid the 35 percent corporate tax rate.
Instead of prosecuting GE, Goldman Sachs and others for tax evasion, the U.S. government has consistently raised taxes on the middle class in order to close budget deficits and fund social programs.
This issue has become a cause celebre of Occupy Wall Street and sympathetic tax reform advocates in Washington. However, few voices have emerged calling for comprehensive corporate tax reform. The main issue is because Washington policies are largely dominated by corporations and wealthy donors able to shape policy by financing costly elections.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Va.), one of the few advocates for corporate tax reform, commented on the issue in a statement last year saying, "We have a deficit problem. It has to be addressed, but it cannot be addressed on the backs of the sick, the elderly, the poor, young people, the most vulnerable in this country. The wealthiest people and the largest corporations in this country have got to contribute. We've got to talk about shared sacrifice."
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NEW DEAL: Mulchrone pens fresh terms
London Irish centre Fergus Mulchrone has signed a two-year contract extension, the club is delighted to announce.
Mulchrone, who turns 30 tomorrow, joined the Exiles from Rotherham Titans in 2013 and has since gone on to make 69 appearances.
Scoring two tries this term, the Mancunian is keen to continue Irish's unbeaten start to the campaign which now stands at 15 wins out of 15 in all competitions.
"London Irish is a club that has big ambitions and I'm delighted to have extended my stay here," said Mulchrone.
"We are determined to keep the winning run going during the festive period and there is a confidence and belief within the squad that we can do just that.
"The culture within the club is getting stronger and stronger with each day," he added.
The Exiles take on Richmond at the Athletic Ground on Christmas Eve (kick-off 3pm) followed by Bedford Blues at the Madejski Stadium on New Year's Eve (kick-off 2pm). Mulchrone reveals there is a strong bond in the camp going into 2016, saying: "The whole set-up is superb and there is a real unity with our Academy – many of the younger lads train with us each day and that unity is evident by the way in which they have made the step up to senior rugby."
Irish Director of Rugby Nick Kennedy said: "Fergus has demonstrated excellent leadership qualities this season and this trait will be invaluable for us as we enter the business end of the campaign.
"He's developed into a real leader and he's served us well during his time at the club – I'm very much looking forward to seeing more from him as the season progresses."
The Exiles' next home game is against Bedford Blues in the Greene King IPA Championship on New Year's Eve (kick-off 2pm) with tickets available by calling 0118 968 1016 or click here to purchase online.

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The Mercies
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The Sunday Times Bestseller and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick.
For readers of Circe and The Handmaid's Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful.
Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Vardø is now a place of women.
Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . .
'Beautiful and chilling' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe
'Took my breath away' - Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring
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The Mercies is Kiran Millwood Hargraves' first novel for adults. Her experience as a children's writer shines through this thoughtful narrative in the form of lyrical, poignant language, a plot that accelerates towards its inevitable conclusion, and concise, empathetic insight into characters struggling against a hostile environment. On the coast of Norway, in the village of Vardo, a storm wipes out all the men. Left to their own devices, the women band together in a struggle for survival. Maren, who loses her father and brother in the storm, is threatened by grief like nothing before, but when a new commisioner on a mission to save the women of Vardo from witch craft arrives with his beautiful new wife, everything changes. This book is beautiful and harrowing, at times uncomfortable to read, but very worth the emotional investment. A wonderful novel - buy it, read it, and hold your loved ones close.
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Ronaldo can help me break records – Italy's Juventus forward Kean
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Moise Kean and Nicolo Barella's first international goals helped Italy start Euro 2020 qualifying with a dominant win over Finland.
European Championship Qualifying: Moise Kean (74′) Italy 2-0 Finland
Gab Marcotti believes that Cristiano Ronaldo's stellar performance against Atletico Madrid only begins to justify the huge sum Juventus paid for him.
Italy forward Moise Kean has said he is learning from Juventus teammate Cristiano Ronaldo after becoming the country's youngest goal scorer for more than 50 years.
Kean, 19, scored Italy's second goal on his first start for his country as they began their European Championship qualifying campaign with a 2-0 home win over Finland on Saturday.
He became the youngest striker to start for Italy in more than a century and said the chance to work with Ronaldo at Juve had benefited his game.
"I can only learn from him. It happens every day," Kean said. "I'm just trying to stay ready by training to my fullest. There are a lot of records to break, and I'm ready to break them."
Kean only made his first start for Juve on March 8, scoring twice in a 4-1 home win over Udinese as Ronaldo was rested.
It was just his third Serie A appearance of the season after spending most of the campaign as an unused substitute, but the performance elevated him straight into Roberto Mancini's full Italy squad.
And Mancini tipped the forward for stardom, telling reporters: "His prospects are huge, but let's not forget that we're talking about a 19-year-old kid.
"We expect great things from him but we also need to accept the mistakes. He's destined for greatness. He's got a lot of skill and is always improving. But having talent isn't enough. You've also got to play calmly, with joy."


Following a nervous tie-break in the first round of this year's French Open, world number one Novak Djokovic would have been forgiven for feeling a tad nervous at the prospect of a tricky first round draw against Juan Carlos Ferrero on Centre Court.
But then that coveted world number one spot isn't handed out to just anyone, and Djokovic proved his credentials in a comfortable straight-sets victory over the 32-year-old Spaniard, beginning the defence of his Wimbledon title in some style.
Ferrero – an ex world number one himself – did manage to temporarily hold up the classy Serb. An early loss of serve and an embarrassing stumble from Djokovic in the first set handed Ferrero a 2-1 lead and left spectators wondering just how rusty Djokovic had become after a year away from grass court tennis.
Ferrero's plucky display continued and the set was nicely poised at 3-3 with Djokovic next to serve. But while Ferrero tantalised and threatened an upset, Djokovic was planning his escape; two quick service games and a break left the Spaniard reeling and landed Djokovic the first set.
Ferrero's challenge then faded completely in the second set under a flurry of irresistible Djokovic groundstrokes. The Spaniard's undeniable finesse unfortunately no match for the power and placement of the Serb who was really beginning to enjoy himself out there on Centre Court.
Only a late hold in the third prevented Djokovic strolling to a final set whitewash. What had begun nervously enough for the Champ, ended as a leisurely jaunt on the fresh Centre Court turf.
Still, it's difficult not to feel for Juan Carlos Ferrero. The Spaniard showed enough class and technical flair to have defeated the majority of first round opponents, but was instead handed a near impossible draw against one of the masters of this surface. Djokovic's 34 winners – to Ferrero's 15 – are a testament to his dominance on grass.
In essence, Djokovic's first game on grass since his emphatic Wimbledon win over Raphael Nadal on this very court twelve months ago was everything a top seed could want from an opener; a couple of nervey moments and a valiant challenge to blow the cobwebs away, followed by a swift move through the gears to an ultimately comfortable match point.
A meeting with the youthful American Ryan Harrison awaits Novak Djokovic in round two as his bid to retain the Wimbledon title continues.


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Vice Presidents Mauldin visit recalled
On a March day in 1988, time stood still for Knollwood, one of the largest and oldest communities in Mauldin. Vice-President George H.W. Bush visited that neighborhood for a presidential fund-raiser. Bush would go on to claim the Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States and win a decisive victory over Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee for that office.
RC Jones, Mauldin mayor at the time, recalls the event being held at Dick Greer's home in the Knollwood community. Mr. Greer, who had close connections with Carroll Campbell, S.C. Governor at that time, and the Republican Party, hosted the hotdog supper where over a thousand people attended.
Vice-President Bush arrived in a bus but did not disembark until a host of Secret Service had thoroughly searched through Mr. Greer's home and surrounding areas. Taft Matney, current Mauldin Council member and lifelong resident of this community, was a high school student when Bush came to town. He remembers that the Secret Service commandeered his friend's game room and they had to find another place to hang out. Although he served baked beans at the event, he did not meet Bush personally but does recall satellite dishes and TV cameras everywhere as well as cars lined up as as far as you could see.
Vice-President Bush was accompanied by S.C. Governor Carroll Campbell and Cheryl Ladd, famed at the time for her role in "Charlie's Angels". Bush came outside and mingled in the crowd while Ms. Ladd said a few words. Afterwards, Bush himself gave a speech and returned to the area between the house and the crowd. It was here that Mr. Jones presented Bush a key to the city of Mauldin.
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National and local news satellite dishes set up in adjacent field
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Vice-President Bush, with Governor Campbell and Mayor Jones
During the visit, Mr. Jones spent thirty minutes or so speaking with Bush. He says that the man was "down-to-earth", very humble, and interested in what others had to say. Promising to send a picture of the event, the then Vice-President thanked the mayor for the welcome and the key. Mr. Jones laughed as he recalled doubting that such a busy man would ever remember to do that. However, to his surprise, after President George H.W. Bush's inauguration as President of the United States, Mr. Green received a package from the White House. Inside, he found a letter and a photograph of himself with Governor Carroll Campbell and President George H.W Bush as he presented the key to the city of Mauldin. The photograph remains one of the mayor's most treasured possessions.


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Man shoots himself while trying to rob Lyft driver in Park Manor
By Megan Hickey
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A passenger tried to rob a rideshare driver early Thursday morning on Chicago's South Side. It didn't go so well for the thief.
The 25-year-old suspect pulled a gun on the Lyft driver around 2 a.m. in the 7200-block of South Saint Lawrence Avenue in the city's Park Manor neighborhood.
But the driver, also 25, fought back and tried to disarm the passenger. The weapon went off, striking the would-be robber in his hand.
The driver was not hurt. Video from the scene shows a dark SUV with a Lyft sticker and a Chevy Malibu with what appears to be bullet holes in it.
Investigators arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting. Police said the gun was not recovered.
The suspect was taken into custody and transported to University of Chicago Medical Center, where his condition stabilized. Charges are pending.
Lyft spokesman Scott Coriell said the company had no history of a ride occurring at the time or location of the robbery. He also said the driver of the vehicle "has not been active on the Lyft platform since November 2017."
"We also reached out to that individual, who confirmed to us that this incident had nothing to do with the Lyft platform," Coriell said.
The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
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Kyle Rood didn't join Fort Zumwalt South's cross country team full-time until his junior year, when he was convinced by his coach to quit soccer and basketball to focus year-round on running. It was a great decision, as Kyle went on to help his team win both the 2005 and 2006 Class 4 XC State Meet and individually win the state cross country meet his senior year, running the third fastest time in state history. On the track his senior year, Kyle raced all four distance events, winning the 1600 and 4x800, placing second in the 800, and finishing third in the 3200. He went on to run at the University of Missouri for five years, and eventually was All Big XII in the Distance Medley Relay after years of injury. In his last season, Kyle was able to run a PR in the 1500 (3:45.87) and make it to the regional meet. Kyle studied biomedical engineering in college, and went on to complete a medical device entrepreneurial fellowship. After working on a few medical device startup companies, he's now a co-founder of Start Right Foods, a company looking to bring healthy, delicious, and convenient high-protein breakfast items to the frozen food aisle. Outside of work, Kyle continues to run mainly as a stress reliever. He loves to run when he's working to solve a problem, and often takes his dog Levi who always seems to want to run a bit farther.
I've been blessed with amazing coaches and teammates on my gratifying career as a runner and realize there is no better motivation than a friend and mentor who understands the trials of training. The reason I became a runner is the same reason I continue to train today: running is the most fun part of my day. I'm excited to share my experience and my enjoyment of the sport with the Blazers team!
Frankie Biondo started running in eighth grade when he joined the STL Blazers Track Club. He ran with them for a year until he started running at Lafayette High School. He ran for Lafayette High School all 4 years. After graduating from Lafayette High School, he decided to forego Running in college and to train for a marathon. He ran his debut marathon, the MO Cowbell, in 2017 where he placed first and set a course record of 2:38:30. He continues training for marathons with the end goal of running all of the marathon majors.
Running to me is being able to challenge myself and push myself to my limits to achieve my goals I thought I couldn't. Running to me is being able to experience new places and meet new people along the way that share your passion for running and achieving their own impossible feats. My goal is to share my passion with others so that they feel the same way about running and achieving their goals.
After previously having helped coach the squad in 2016 and 2017, Coach Tyler returns for his second stint as a Blazers' assistant coach in the Spring 2019 track season. In addition to coaching the team, Tyler was a Blazer athlete himself growing up and takes pride in having the unique opportunity to pass along the team traditions to the next generation of Blazers. Coach Tyler ran track at Rockwood Summit High School for Coach Matt Helbig and Coach Rolland Garrison where he was a part of the state qualifying 4x800m relay team in 2009. Coach Tyler competed in the 800m, 1600m, 3200m, 4x400m relay, and 4x800m relay during his track career. During his college years Coach Tyler started running long distance road races and attained a personal best 3:16 in the marathon. When not coaching, Coach Tyler can usually be found training (with running partner Mags alongside!) on the Al Foster or great trails of Castlewood State Park with a personal goal of qualifying for the Boston Marathon.
Running to me is a lifestyle – it's a great way to decompress from stress, it helps me stay healthy and happy, it's great thinking time, and it's an infinite challenge.. there's always more we can do to become faster or run further. I really truly believe running can bring out the best in us. I hope as a coach that I can convey that to my squad, and inspire a love for running that the kids can turn into their own lifestyle.
Coach Gryphon is currently a college student majoring in Business. He's a passionate runner who had a great high School career and went on to run at Webster University. His star event was the 3200 meter, and his High School PR of 9:47 tied Mehlville's school record! In college, he was top man on the team and ran 8k in 27:15, which was Webster Universities Freshman School Record and in the indoor track season he ran mostly the full mile and the 1k race and beat the school record with a time of 2:32 1k. He raced the 3k steeplechase and 5k in Outdoor Season and was undefeated in the 3k steeple and ran a PR 5k time of 15:58. After his freshman year, he left the track and cross country distance to pursue longer races, and has since ran 5 marathons, one of which was a 6 hour ultra endurance race! His most successful marathon was the Little Rock marathon 2018 placing 4th overall of 3500 runners with a time of 2:43:45. With that race, he qualified for the 2019 Boston Marathon.
I live in the Central West End and am passionate about fitness and the outdoors. I love to travel to places I have never been. Hobbies include Bowling, binging Netflix shows, hanging with friends, and of course physical fitness. I have been passionate about running since my freshman year of High School and I love to spread my passion and joy onto others and hope that my story can inspire others someday. I have come from a difficult home life in which both parents are deceased and grew up in a home where many family members were addicts. I am proud that I have separated myself from that negativity. I want to be the best person I can be and I want the best for others.


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The humanities-based projects within iiD couple big data analysis with the interpretive work usually done by humanists.
The data sets for these projects include collections of texts, images, videos, and audio—in other words, they are digital archives broadly understood. From analyzing the numerous editions of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to understanding the narrative created by the thousands of photojournalistic depictions of Syrian refugees to virtually restoring medieval art, these groups ask traditional humanistic questions, but explore them with quantitative as well as qualitative analysis.
Why Data+ for the Humanities?
These humanities projects originate from English, art history, and mathematics faculty and graduate students. The sponsors and mentors direct projects that represent the historical, methodological, and theoretical interests of their own research and teaching areas. But by developing these projects through Data+, they are able to work collaboratively with undergraduate students to meet time consuming technical and computational challenges through skill sets that are often outside the usual humanities repertoire. At the same time, undergraduate students are introduced to humanistic studies outside of the usual classroom setting, learning how to work attentively and closely with archives and conceptual tools for ten weeks over the summer.
Data Expeditions in the Humanities
Visualizing Twitter: Public Discourse and the 2018 Florida Midterm Election Recounts
This two-week teaching module in an introductory-level undergraduate course invites students to explore the power of Twitter in shaping public discourse. The project supplements the close-reading methods that are central to the humanities with large-scale social media analysis. This exercise challenges students to consider how applying visualization techniques to a dataset too vast for manual apprehension might enable them to identify for granular inspection smaller subsets of data and individual tweets—as well as to determine what factors do not lend themselves to close-reading at all. Employing an original dataset of almost one million tweets focused on the contested 2018 Florida midterm elections, students develop skills in using visualization software, generating research questions, and creating novel visualizations to answer those questions. They then evaluate and compare the affordances of large-scale data analytics with investigation of individual tweets, and draw on their findings to debate the role of social media in shaping public conversations surrounding major national events. This project was developed as a collaboration among the English Department (Emma Davenport and Astrid Giugni), Math Department (Hubert Bray), Duke University Library (Eric Monson), and Trinity Technology Services (Brian Norberg).
Queens of Antiquity
Understanding how to generate, analyze, and work with datasets in the humanities is often a difficult task without learning how to code or program. In humanities centered courses, we often privilege close reading or qualitative analysis over other methods of knowing, but by learning some new quantitative techniques we better prepare the students to tackle new forms of reading. This class will work with the data from the HathiTrust to develop ideas for thinking about how large groups and different discourse communities thought of queens of antiquity like Cleopatra and Dido.
Please refer to https://sites.duke.edu/queensofantiquity/ for more information.
Networks, Higher Education, and Social Imaginaries
This Data Expedition introduces students to network tools and approaches and invites students to consider the relationship(s) between social networks and social imaginaries. Using foundation-funding data that was collected from the The Foundation Directory Online, the Data Expedition enables students to visualize and explore the relationship between networks, social imaginaries, and funding for higher education. The Data Expedition is based on two sets of data. The first set list the grants received by Duke University in 2016 from five foundations: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The second set lists the names of board members from Duke University and each of these five foundations along with the degree granting institution for their undergraduate education. For the sake of this exercise, the degree granting institutions data was fabricated from a randomized list of the top twenty-five undergraduate institutions.
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The Impact of Virtualized Museum Collections
A team of students led by faculty of biology and directors of the largest virtual museum in the world (a Duke-base web repository called MorphoSource) will develop tools for assessing the societal and scholarly impact and importance of museum specimens made available as 3D digital resources over the web. They analyze patterns of user data from 12,000 users interacting with 140,000 datasets and communicate directly with museum curators, researchers and the general public to understand use cases before developing a number of new tools to collect and provision new kinds of use data. The ultimate goal is to generate use statistics that (1) show the research and education value of virtual museum objects in novel ways to motivate greater sharing and to increase appreciation of museum collections; (2) show how to strategize data storage based on use in a way that minimizes storage costs and maximizes sustainability. They will learn valuable skills in data science, museum informatics, and web development; the project provides an opportunity to contribute to a professional resource utilized by almost a thousand museums around the world and to set the trajectory of online museum research practices for years to come.
Project Leads: Doug Boyer, Julia Winchester
Constructing Utopias in Restoration London
Who should get to decide what a utopian society looks like? After London was razed to the ground in the Great Fire of 1666, its reconstruction into the "emerald gem of Europe" was heavily influenced by the monarchy and aristocratic elites. In building a utopian epicenter focused on political and economic interests, immense sacrifices had to be made by London's most marginalized citizens. A team of students led by Nicholas Smolenski (PhD Candidate, Musicology) and Dr. Astrid Giugni (Lecturing Fellow, English) will thus explore how London was rebuilt into a utopia; by employing topic modeling and applying the resulting lexicon to seventeenth-century architectural sketches, students will demonstrate how a language of progress became inextricably linked to its own image while also exposing the paradoxes entrenched in utopic representation. This project will additionally show how its framework can apply to current political discourse, as the tearing down of statues and monuments over the past three years has highlighted inescapable tensions between a governing power, a nation's history, and its people.
Ethical Consumption Before Capitalism
Is there a right type and amount of consumption? The idea of ethical consumption has gained prominence in recent discourse, both in terms of what we purchase (from fair trade coffee to carbon off-sets) and how much we consume (from rechargeable batteries to energy efficient homes). Concern with the morality of consumption is not new to capitalist societies; we can find debates on the ethics of consumption in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. A team of students led by Dr. Astrid Giugni (English, Duke) and Dr. Jessica Hines (English, Birmingham Southern College) will analyze approximately 60,000 Medieval and Renaissance digitized texts by performing topic modelling, which will allow them to track associations between the languages of consumer culture and ethical practice.The team will organize their results in a series of visualizations that trace the development of the ethics of 'consumerism' in terms of frequency of use, timeline of relevant events, authorship, location of publication and name of printer/printing press, and genres.
Rubenstein Library's Card Catalog File
Using the digitized cards from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library's old card catalogs, a team of students will explore extracting structured data to develop searchable and sortable descriptions of manuscript and archival collections. They will use textual analysis tools and natural language processing techniques to prepare an indexed digital collection of structured card catalog metadata for publication in Duke's Digital Repository. The team will then develop ways to visualize and search this dataset based on different research topics or terms. Ultimately, the Rubenstein Library is seeking a tool that allows users to search, tag, and export description from the card catalog's dataset. This work is a critical piece of a broader initiative within the Rubenstein Library to find and describe historically marginalized voices in our archival collections, particularly those collections documenting BIPOC history.
Computational Approaches to the History of Cartography
Mapping History has focused on the categorizing, labelling, digitization, and 3D reconstruction of 16th & 17th century maps & atlases of London and Lisbon. Over the course of the summer, the Mapping History team has developed its own unique analytical dataset by painstakingly labelling every element contained within these maps, used python to digitize this dataset, and, now in the projects final stage, has begun the process of reconstructing these historical perspectives in a 3D game engine.
Latinxs and the Right
The visibility of hate groups such as the Alt-Right became mainstream into contemporary political culture during the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA in 2017. This project aims to explore methods to quantify the presence of Latinxs within the Alt-Right, particularly in how they racialize themselves in a space that often spews hate towards Mexicans and other marginalized groups from Latin America. Using data from multiple sources (such as Twitter, Stormfront, and Breitbart), we developed a corpus of tweets, subthreads, and articles, and analyzed this data using basic natural language processing (NLP) techniques.
For love of greed: tracing the early history of consumer culture
We apply word embedding models to corpora from the start of the Early Modern period, when the market economy began to dramatically expand in England. Word embedding models use neural networks to map vectors to words so that semantic relationships are preserved within the vectors' geometry. Such models have been successful in understanding cultural trends and stereotypes in large corpora of texts, but these techniques are infrequently used on texts dating much farther back than the 19th century. Using newly developed methods for analyzing word embeddings, we track the development of the meanings of words related to consumerism, including their relationships with gender over time.
When Black Stories Go Global: Analyzing the Translation of African-American Literature and Film
Led by Dr. Eva Wheeler, this project considers how racial language in African American literature and film is rendered for international audiences and traces the spread of these translations. To address the study's primary questions, the team analyzed a preliminary dataset and explored the relationship between translation strategy and different categories of racial language. The team also conducted a macro-level analysis of the linguistic, temporal, and geographic spread of African American stories using the IMDB and WorldCat databases. We have found a large amount of variation in how African American stories are rendered, which can in part be explained through a social scientific lens.
Remembering the Middle Passage
The Middle Passage, the route by which most enslaved persons were brought across the Atlantic to North America, is a critical locus of modern history—yet it has been notoriously difficult to document or memorialize. The ultimate aim of this project is to employ the resources of digital mapping technologies as well as the humanistic methods of history, literature, philosophy, and other disciplines to envision how best to memorialize the enslaved persons who lost their lives between their homelands and North America. To do this, the students combined previously-disparate data and archival sources to discover where on their journeys enslaved persons died. Because of the nature of data itself and the history it represents, the team engaged in on-going conversations about various ways of visualizing its findings, and continuously evaluated the ethics of the data's provenance and their own methodologies and conclusions. A central goal for the students was to discover what contribution digital data analysis methods could make to the project of remembering itself.
Human Rights in the Postwar World
The aim of this project was to explore how U.S. mass media—particularly newspapers—enlists text and imagery to portray human rights, genocide, and crimes against humanity from World War II until the present. From the Holocaust to Cambodia, from Rwanda to Myanmar, such representation has political consequences. Coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer who fled Hitler's antisemitism, the term "genocide" was first introduced to the American public in a Washington Post op-ed in 1944. Since its legal codification by the United Nations Convention for the Prevention of Genocide in 1948, the term has circulated, been debated, used to describes events that pre-date it (such as the displacement and genocide of Native People in the Americas), and been shaped by numerous forces—especially the words and images published in newspapers. Alongside the definition of "genocide," other key concepts, specifically "crimes against humanity," have attempted to label, and thus name the story, of targeted mass violence. Conversely, the concept of "human rights," enshrined in the 1948 UN Declaration, seeks to name a presence of rights instead of their absence.
During the summer, the team focused their work on evaluating the language used in Western media to represent instances of genocide and how such language varied based on the location and time period of the conflict. In particular, the team's efforts centered on Rwanda and Bosnia as important case studies, affording them the chance to compare nearly simultaneous reporting on two well-known genocides. The language used by reporters in these two cases showed distinct polarizations of terminology (for instance, while "slaughter" was much more common than "murder" in discussions of the Rwanda genocide, the inverse was true for Bosnia).
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Faculty Leads: Nora Nunn, Astrid Giugni
U.S. Ambivalence About Making Profits
How Much Profit is Too Much Profit?
Chris Esposito (Economics), Ruoyu Wu (Computer Science), and Sean Yoon (Masters, Decision Sciences) spent ten weeks building tools to investigate the historical trends of price gouging and excess profits taxes in the United States of America from 1900 to the present. The team used a variety of text-mining methods to create a large database of historical documents, analyzed historical patterns of word use, and created an interactive R Shiny app to display their data and analyses.
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Faculty Lead: Sarah Deutsch
Project Manager: Evan Donahue
Invisible Adaptations: From Hamlet to the Avengers
The students in this project worked on a pervasive question in literary, film, and copyright studies: how do we know when a new work of fiction borrows from an older one? Many times, works are appropriated, rather than straightforwardly adapted, which makes it difficult for human readers to trace. As we continue to remake and repurpose previous texts into new forms that combine hundreds of references to other works (such as Ready Player One), it becomes increasingly laborious to track all the intertextual elements of a single text. While some borrowings are easy to spot, as in the case of Marvel films that are straightforward adaptations of comic book storylines and aesthetics, others are more subtle, as when Disney reinterpreted Hamlet and African oral traditions to create The Lion King. Thousands of new stories are created each day, but how do we know if we are borrowing or appropriating a previous text? Are there works that have adapted previous ones that we have yet to identify?
Women's Spaces
Nathan Liang (Psychology, Statistics), Sandra Luksic (Philosophy, Political Science),and Alexis Malone (Statistics) began their 10-week project as an open-ended exploration how women are depicted both physically and figuratively in women's magazines, seeking to consider what role magazines play in the imagined and real lives of women.
Pirating Texts
In tracing the publication history, geographical spread, and content of "pirated" copies of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Gabriel Guedes (Math, Global Cultural Studies), Lucian Li (Computer Science, History), and Orgil Batzaya (Math, Computer Science) explored the complications of looking at a data set that saw drastic changes over the last three centuries in terms of spelling and grammar, which offered new challenges to data cleanup. By asking questions of the effectiveness of "distant reading" techniques for comparing thousands of different editions of Robinson Crusoe, the students learned how to think about the appropriateness of myriad computational methods like doc2vec and topic modeling. Through these methods, the students started to ask, at what point does one start seeing patterns that were invisible at a human scale of reading (reading one book at a time)? While the project did not definitively answer these questions, it did provide paths for further inquiry.
The team published their results at: https://orgilbatzaya.github.io/pirating-texts-site/
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Poverty in Writing & Images
Ashley Murray (Chemistry/Math), Brian Glucksman (Global Cultural Studies), and Michelle Gao (Statistics/Economics) spent 10 weeks analyzing how meaning and use of the work "poverty" changed in presidential documents from the 1930s to the present. The students found that American presidential rhetoric about poverty has shifted in measurable ways over time. Presidential rhetoric, however, doesn't necessarily affect policy change. As Michelle Gao explained, "The statistical methods we used provided another more quantitative way of analyzing the text. The database had around 130,000 documents, which is pretty impossible to read one by one and get all the poverty related documents by brute force. As a result, web-scraping and word filtering provided a more efficient and systematic way of extracting all the valuable information while minimizing human errors." Through techniques such as linear regression, machine learning, and image analysis, the team effectively analyzed large swaths of textual and visual data. This approach allowed them to zero in on significant documents for closer and more in-depth analysis, paying particular attention to documents by presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Lyndon B. Johnson, both leaders in what LBJ famously called "The War on Poverty."
Visualizing Suffering: Tracking Photojournalism and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Robbie Ha (Computer Science, Statistics), Peilin Lai (Computer Science, Mathematics), and Alejandro Ortega (Mathematics) spent ten weeks analyzing the content and dissemination of images of the Syrian refugee crisis, as part of a general data-driven investigation of Western photojournalism and how it has contributed to our understanding of this crisis.
Quantified Feminism and the Bechdel Test
Selen Berkman (ECE, CompSci), Sammy Garland (Math), and Aaron VanSteinberg (CompSci, English) spent ten weeks undertaking a data-driven analysis of the representation of women in film and in the film industry, with special attention to a metric called the Bechdel Test. They worked with data from a number of sources, including fivethirtyeight.com and the-numbers.com.
Smart-phone-assisted digital rejuvenation of medieval paintings
Liuyi Zhu (Computer Science, Math), Gilad Amitai (Masters, Statistics), Raphael Kim (Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering), and Andreas Badea (East Chapel Hill High School) spent ten weeks streamlining and automating the process of electronically rejuvenating medieval artwork. They used a 14th-century altarpiece by Francescussio Ghissi as a working example.
Quantifying the Science-Humanities Gap
Spenser Easterbrook, a Philosophy and Math double major, joined Biology majors Aharon Walker and Nicholas Branson in a ten-week exploration of the connections between journal publications from the humanities and the sciences. They were guided by Rick Gawne and Jameson Clarke, graduate students from Philosophy and Biology.
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The company serves the oil, agriculture, construction and trucking industries and more recently has been successful in winning federal contracts with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the United States Forest Service. When they initially purchased the company, both were well versed in the commercial side of the business but were not aware of all the steps necessary to do business with the federal government. The company had existing contracts with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) but unfortunately, not all those contracts were automatically transferable to them as new owners. As a result, they found themselves looking for other opportunities in the government sector.
They called the Montana Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) at Big Sky Economic Development and were excited to learn there were advisors on staff that specialize in government contracting and could assist them with finding and bidding on contracts with other federal agencies. PTAC assisted the company with market research and identified the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) as a potential customer. USFS contracts for mechanic services and also rents heavy equipment to be used on fire incidents. PTAC assisted the company with getting set up on the necessary federal systems and submitting a bid for "Service Truck with Mechanic." The company was awarded a 3-year Blanket Purchase Agreement worth up to $150,000 per year. USFS will issue task orders against the BPA as needed until 2020.
The timing of the contract was fortuitist because in 2017, Montana experienced a devastating fire season that burned over 1 million acres across the state. Jennifer and Dustin were called out on fire incidents all over the state and worked a total of 54 days. Life in fire camp can be a bit rough, but the couple adapted and enjoyed the experience. Both felt good about the expertise they brought to the table for this important work. They have established new relationships with the BIA and have contracted to repair the agency's fleet of heavy equipment in Wyoming.
PTAC also provided guidance to Jennifer and Dustin on the requirements to become certified as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) through the Small Business Administration. Next steps are to work with PTAC to learn how to further leverage the company's WOSB certification, research opportunities with other agencies such as the National Park Service and the General Service Administration and set up a bidmatch profile.
Jennifer and Dustin are very pleased with the company's progress and have invested in a second mobile repair truck and are planning more investment in heavy equipment and water tenders. The company currently employs two people and the owners plan to hire another mechanic and a service technician sometime this year. Since first coming to the PTAC in 2017, the company has been successful in winning over $327,514 in federal contracts. Between commercial and government business, Jennifer and Dustin are optimistic about the future growth potential for their company.
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Maharashtra finish top with 228 medals in Khelo India Youth Games
Mon 21 Jan 2019, 10:57:57
The Khelo India Youth Games concluded in Pune yesterday with the hosts Maharashtra walking away with the overall trophy.
They amassed 228 medals, comprising 85 gold, 62 silver and 81 bronze. Haryana, were second with 62 gold, 56 silver and 60 bronze for a total of 178 medals, while Delhi were third with 48 gold, 37 silver and 51 bronze for a total of 136 medals.
The glittering Trophy was presented to the Maharashtra sportspersons and officials by Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar, and Maharashtra's Minister of Sports and Youth Welfare, Vinod Tawde, at a closing ceremony held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex.
Speaking at the ceremony, Javadekar said the performances of the athletes at the Games had underlined the Prime Minister's idea of "5 minute aur" for sports.
He added that the government was determined to bring in a compulsory one-hour daily period for sports in every school across the country.
The idea was greeted with huge cheers and applause. Encouraging all sportspersons, Tawde said that he wanted not just five minutes, but 50 minutes.
Earlier, Director General of Sports Authority of India, Neelam Kapur welcomed the dignitaries present on the occasion.
In her vote of thanks, Kapur pointed out that it was the tremendous efforts of the Maharashtra Government and the hundreds of volunteers that had made the Games so successful.
She said the Khelo India Youth Games 2019 had an approximate participation of 10,000 persons, including more than 5,925 athletes. She said this was almost double in comparison to the approximate 5,500 at the Games last year.
On the final day, 15 gold medals were at stake and of them eight were in archery, where hosts Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Haryana picked two each while Delhi and Punjab got one each.
Haryana asserted themselves in hockey, winning the girls Under-21 final to take their third gold in hockey from four finals, while Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala won gold each in volleyball.
Manush Shah of Gujarat emerged the singles champion in Under-21 table tennis, while Saubhi Patwari of West Bengal won the Girls Under-21 singles.
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Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you classic songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Marilyn Monroe lights up the silver screen with her iconic 1953 performance of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from the hit movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Playing the gold-digging Lorelei Lee, Monroe sings, "The French are glad to die for love / They delight in fighting duels / But I prefer a man who lives / And gives expensive jewels / A kiss on the hand may be quite continental / But diamonds are a girl's best friend."
Later in the the song, Monroe acknowledges that physical beauty won't last forever, but diamonds will always stand the test of time: "But square-cut or pear-shaped / These rocks don't lose their shape / Diamonds are a girl's best friend."
Written by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" was sung by Carol Channing in the original 1949 Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
It was Monroe's version, however, that has stood the test of time. Her performance has inspired contemporary interpretations by Beyonce, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Gerri Halliwell, Nicole Kidman, Christina Aguilera, Anna Nicole Smith and many more. The American Film Institute voted Monroe's performance the 12th most important film song of all time.
It's been reported that the elaborate showstopper took four days to shoot on the Fox lot, with Monroe providing nearly all of the vocals. The operatic "No, no, no's" at the beginning of the song were dubbed by soprano Marni Nixon.
Please check out the video of Monroe's amazing rendition of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
Written by Leo Robin and Jule Styne. Performed by Marilyn Monroe.
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat, or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear-shaped
These rocks don't lose their shape
...Tiffany's... Cartier... Black Star, Frost, Gorham
Talk to me, Harry, Winston, tell me all about it!
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
There may come a time when a hard-boiled employer
Thinks you're awful nice
But get that ice or else no dice
He's your guy when stocks are high
But beware when they start to descend
It's then that those louses go back to their spouses
I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic
And I think affairs that you must keep liaisonic
Are better bets if little pets get big baguettes
Time rolls on and youth is gone
And you can't straighten up when you bend
But stiff back or stiff knees
You stand straight at Tiffany's
Diamonds... diamonds...
- I don't mean rhinestones -
But diamonds, are a girl's best friend
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Juba Oukaci (en tifinagh : ⵢⵓⴱⴰ ⵓⵇⴰⵙⵉ), né le , à Freha, (daïra d'Azazga, wilaya de Tizi Ouzou, Algérie), est un footballeur algérien évoluant au poste de milieu défensif à la JS Kabylie.

Carrière

Jeune talent de la JS Kabylie
Né à Azazga, Juba Oukaci rejoint très tôt le club de la JS Kabylie où il joue dans toutes les catégories de jeunes. Il est sélectionné dans l'équipe qui représente l'Algérie en Danone Nations Cup, un tournoi international disputé à Paris en France par des enfants de . Il est remarqué lors de cette compétition où la sélection algérienne termine à la septième place.

Promotion en équipe première de la JSK en 2014-2015
Après trois saisons promu en équipe sénior, Juba Oukaci obtient sa première apparition en équipe première le  lors de la  où la JS Kabylie, dirigée par un duo d'entraîneur composé de Mourad Rahmouni et Fawzi Moussouni, il affronte le MC Alger au stade du 5-Juillet. Il rentre en jeu à la , le match se terminant sur un score de 1-1. Il est titularisé lors des deux derniers matchs du championnat, face à l'USM Bel Abbès (victoire de 1-0) au stade du -Novembre de Tizi Ouzou, et face au CR Belouizdad (score de 1-1) au stade du 20-Août, la JS Kabylie termine le championnat en . Avec ces performances, Oukaci est considéré comme étant l'avenir du club.

Premier contrat professionnel en senior lors de la saison 2017-2018
Après sa bonne fin de saison précédente, Juba Oukaci est contacté lors du mercato estival par plusieurs clubs algériens, mais il signe finalement un premier contrat professionnel de cinq saisons en faveur de son club formateur en . Au début de cette saison, le duo d'entraîneurs Mourad Rahmouni et Fawzi Moussouni utilisent Oukaci en tant que titulaire indiscutable sur le flanc gauche d'un trio d'attaque également composé de Mehdi Benaldjia, sur l'aile droite, et Adil Djabout, en pointe. Oukaci inscrit son premier but lors de la  face à l'USM Blida, match disputé à l'extérieur et remporté 2-3 par la JSK.

Après le changement de staff technique et l'arrivée du Français Jean-Yves Chay lors de la  en , il se voit préféré au camerounais Steve Ekedi (recruté en début de saison, en provenance du club de deuxième division portugaise Desportivo Aves. Il est toutefois toujours le premier joueur à entrer en jeu. Le départ de Jean-Yves Chay et l'arrivée d'un nouvel entraîneur, Azzedine Aït Djoudi, qui déplace Mehdi Benaldjia sur le côté gauche de l'attaque, ne change pas son statut de joker. C'est l'arrivée de Noureddine Saâdi à la tête du staff technique de la JSK en , qui permet à Oukaci de retrouver une place de titulaire lors du match face au DRB Tadjenanet lors de la . Un nouveau changement d'entraîneur, Youcef Bouzidi à la place de Saâdi, contraint Oukaci à occuper de nouveau un rôle de joker. Mais il termine la saison en tant que titulaire lors du dernier match à l'extérieur, face au MC Oran, où il offre une passe décisive à son coéquipier Ahmed Mesbahi, la JSK s'inclinant 2-1.

Lors de cette saison, il cumule un total de  dont  en tant que titulaire ; au cours de ces matchs, il inscrit un seul but et délivre une passe décisive.

Le premier choix du flanc gauche avec Franck Dumas en 2018-2019
Lors de la saison 2018-2019, le français Franck Dumas prend en charge la direction technique de la JS Kabylie. Il instaure une philosophie basée sur la compétitivité, la rigueur et le travail moral. Il construit son équipe autour du potentiel des jeunes joueurs de l'équipe à l'instar de Benkhelifa, Benyoucef, Tizi Bouali et Oukaci (la moyenne d'age de l'équipe ne dépasse pas les ). Ce dernier devient titulaire à part entière. Au , il est présent dans la totalité des matchs du championnat ( dont  sur les  de son club).

Prolongation de contrat
En fin de contrat, à la fin de la saison 2021-2022, il prolonge son contrat, pour deux saisons supplémentaires, avec la JS Kabylie, en juin 2022.

Palmarès

En Club

JS Kabylie
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de la Ligue en 2020-2021.
 Finaliste de la Coupe d'Algérie en 2017-2018.
 Finaliste de la Coupe de la confédération en 2020-2021.
 Vice-Champion d'Algérie en 2018-2019 et 2021-2022.

Références

Liens externes

Footballeur algérien
Joueur de la JS Kabylie
Naissance en juillet 1996
Naissance à Freha

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Q: How to select all data with query LIKE in Codeigniter Why can not I use '%' or '' in LIKE query builder to select all data?
I try in SQL shell can, but in query builder can not
My Model
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                    ->FROM("akademik_ms_mahasiswa")
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                    ->LIKE('periodemasuk',$where2);
        $query = $this->db3->get();
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            return $query->result();
        } else {
            return array();
        }
    }

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public function getTargetMhs($where,$where2) {
        $json =$this->Survey_Model->ajax_getTargetMhs($where,$where2);
        $arr = array();
            foreach ($json as $results) {
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                   $results->nim,
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            }
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    }

I can't access like this
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A: The method like() accepts a third parameter that describes which "side" of the "matching" string to put wildcard characters on. Acceptable values are 'none', 'left', 'right', 'both'.
If you don't pass a "side" value then 'both' is used. Not sure which is the correct choice for you. If you want to construct the whole matching argument yourself then 'none' should work.
Documentation on like() HERE


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THE weekend of the "Pasha Bulker" storm is one Jamie Vernon will never forget. The retiring Assistant Commissioner of NSW Ambulance Service was in charge of the Control Centre in Charlestown, which was co-ordinating all of the triple-zero calls that weekend. "We were stretched beyond imagination, particularly on that Friday night when the floods came through," Assistant Commissioner Vernon said. "We had 60 or 70 outstanding jobs on the board that we were struggling to cover, and we had to work with our other emergency service colleagues and other rescue services to go back to some of those addresses to see if they were still there or if they managed to wade out." Related reading: farewell to first responder There was flooding at Dungog and Gloucester, and on the Central Coast. "I only went home for a few hours in those four days," he said. "We were evacuating nursing homes on the Central Coast too, moving people who were on dialysis, and we were involved in all of that. "It really was a massive weekend." To add another layer of complexity, the Charlestown Control Centre was struck by lightning during the storm, and their power went out. But there was no room for panic. "When the lightning hit, we reverted back to our standing orders and worked through the plan. We just did what we had to do in a calm and concise manner," he said. "I couldn't have done it without the people around me. It wouldn't have happened as smoothly as it did without them." On Sunday, Assistant Commissioner Vernon retires from NSW Ambulance after 39 years. He said the "significant changes" within the service since he joined, aged 19, were "many and varied" – particularly in regards to patient care. "We didn't even have drop down legs on the stretchers, they were a carried stretcher that we'd man-handle into the hospital," he said. "We used to mix up our own medicine – Dettol came in bulk. We used to make our own bandages by cutting them from a big roll. "We had no pain relief to offer, except for what was basically dry cleaning fluid. "The basic skills of an ambulance officer had to be quite extensive, because you had nothing to work with." He said the support services for paramedics had also significantly improved. "As a paramedic working by myself in the snow fields, I did some horrific jobs back then, and a lot of that is filed away in the back of my mind, never to be brought out. "There was no one to really talk to. You'd talk to the local publican, you'd talk to the local bloke at the cake shop – but they didn't really get what we had seen or done. "You'd talk to your partner, and your family. "There is lots more to be done, but it is getting better and better in that we try to identify those people who are doing it tough, and we have a range of support mechanisms in place at present, and I think that has been a fantastic improvement." Assistant Commissioner Vernon was stationed at Hamilton when he moved to Newcastle in 1995. One of his proudest achievements was his role in establishing the Charlestown Control Centre, which looks after an area from the Hawkesbury River right through to Tweed Heads, and takes between 600 and 700 calls a day. Related: When the Pasha Bulker ran aground "I was the commander of the Pacific Highway for 10 years, so I knew about all the accidents and tragedies," he said. "And I have watched, over the years, those numbers come down due to the significant improvements in road works and freeways." He would miss being in a position to influence improvements to patient care. He would miss the people he worked with. But Assistant Commissioner Vernon was also looking forward to moving back to Valentine, spending time with his family, and doing some traveling during his retirement.
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NSW Ambulance Assistant Commissioner Jamie Vernon retires after almost 40 years with the service
Anita Beaumont
The calm during the storm: Paramedic reflects on 39 years of service
Change: NSW Ambulance Assistant Commissioner Jamie Vernon is retiring after almost 40 years with the service. Alongside colleagues at the Charlestown Control Centre, he was honoured with a Premier's Award for his actions during the "Pasha Bulker" storm. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
Back in the day: Jamie Vernon before he rose through the ranks to become Assistant Commissioner.
THE weekend of the "Pasha Bulker" storm is one Jamie Vernon will never forget.
The retiring Assistant Commissioner of NSW Ambulance Service was in charge of the Control Centre in Charlestown, which was co-ordinating all of the triple-zero calls that weekend.
"We were stretched beyond imagination, particularly on that Friday night when the floods came through," Assistant Commissioner Vernon said.
"We had 60 or 70 outstanding jobs on the board that we were struggling to cover, and we had to work with our other emergency service colleagues and other rescue services to go back to some of those addresses to see if they were still there or if they managed to wade out."
Related reading: farewell to first responder
There was flooding at Dungog and Gloucester, and on the Central Coast.
"I only went home for a few hours in those four days," he said. "We were evacuating nursing homes on the Central Coast too, moving people who were on dialysis, and we were involved in all of that.
"It really was a massive weekend."
To add another layer of complexity, the Charlestown Control Centre was struck by lightning during the storm, and their power went out.
But there was no room for panic.
"When the lightning hit, we reverted back to our standing orders and worked through the plan. We just did what we had to do in a calm and concise manner," he said. "I couldn't have done it without the people around me. It wouldn't have happened as smoothly as it did without them."
On Sunday, Assistant Commissioner Vernon retires from NSW Ambulance after 39 years.
He said the "significant changes" within the service since he joined, aged 19, were "many and varied" – particularly in regards to patient care.
"We didn't even have drop down legs on the stretchers, they were a carried stretcher that we'd man-handle into the hospital," he said.
"We used to mix up our own medicine – Dettol came in bulk. We used to make our own bandages by cutting them from a big roll.
"We had no pain relief to offer, except for what was basically dry cleaning fluid.
"The basic skills of an ambulance officer had to be quite extensive, because you had nothing to work with."
He said the support services for paramedics had also significantly improved.
"As a paramedic working by myself in the snow fields, I did some horrific jobs back then, and a lot of that is filed away in the back of my mind, never to be brought out.
"There was no one to really talk to. You'd talk to the local publican, you'd talk to the local bloke at the cake shop – but they didn't really get what we had seen or done.
"You'd talk to your partner, and your family.
"There is lots more to be done, but it is getting better and better in that we try to identify those people who are doing it tough, and we have a range of support mechanisms in place at present, and I think that has been a fantastic improvement."
Assistant Commissioner Vernon was stationed at Hamilton when he moved to Newcastle in 1995. One of his proudest achievements was his role in establishing the Charlestown Control Centre, which looks after an area from the Hawkesbury River right through to Tweed Heads, and takes between 600 and 700 calls a day.
Related: When the Pasha Bulker ran aground
"I was the commander of the Pacific Highway for 10 years, so I knew about all the accidents and tragedies," he said. "And I have watched, over the years, those numbers come down due to the significant improvements in road works and freeways."
He would miss being in a position to influence improvements to patient care.
He would miss the people he worked with.
But Assistant Commissioner Vernon was also looking forward to moving back to Valentine, spending time with his family, and doing some traveling during his retirement.
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