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The true financial impact of Premier League promotion will depend on how long Brentford FC can stay in England’s top league.

If they get relegated after one season, like 40% of promoted clubs do, they’ll make about $250 to $300 million. But if they can stay up for a second year, they’ll make over $400 million. The longer they stay up, the more money they’ll make.

In the end, Matthew Benham believed analytics provided a unique edge in a low-scoring sport that has historically been skewed by randomness & luck. With promotion to the Premier League, he was proven right.

It will be interesting to see how Brentford’s success potentially shifts the long-believed concept that analytically-based equations can’t determine future success in professional soccer.


Source:
https://huddleup.substack.com/p/the-sports-gambler-who-turned-700k

Along with algorithms, statistics, and data, Matthew Benham has also been a lifelong fan of Brentford FC. He attended his first game as an 11-year-old and even remembers the score. So when the club faced financial trouble in 2007, Benham stepped up.

Brentford supporters banded together to buy the club, making Brentford FC the first professional club in London owned by the fans. But there was a catch: a large portion of the money used to purchase the club was provided via loans from a “mystery investor.” That turned out to be Matthew Benham.

When the fans decided not to repay the loans in 2012, Benham was given the opportunity to purchase the club, becoming the sole owner of his childhood team.

But unlike other wealthy individuals that purchase lower-tier English clubs, invest in players, personnel, and resources, and hope to gain premier league promotion, Matthew Benham had a different idea. He wanted to use analytics — otherwise known as “Moneyball.”

Benham spent almost $10 million on a smaller club in Denmark — FC Midtjylland — to test his analytical concepts. The ideas that worked, he transported to Brentford FC. The ideas that didn't, he threw in the trash.

He fired multiple staff members, bringing in more analytically-minded professionals that lacked traditional experience. The club stopped caring solely about wins and losses. Instead, they developed a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) that determined if they were making progress or not.

For example, Brentford FC started to look more closely at “expected goals” — based on the quality and quantity of chances created during a match — rather than how many goals a player actually scored.

This allowed them to find undervalued players, or market inefficiencies, that could come in, play at a high level, help the club win, and be moved on for record profits.

Here are a few examples:

Brentford invested $3.8 million in Said Benrahma, eventually selling him to West Ham for $40 million.

Brentford paid $2.3 million for striker Ollie Watkins, eventually selling him to Aston Villa for $36 million.

Brentford paid $2.1 million for Neal Maupay, eventually selling him to Brighton & Hove Albion for $26 million.

While the top clubs in the world were investing millions of dollars in their youth academies, Brentford FC decided to eliminate theirs completely. Instead, they relied on a “B team” of 17-to-20-year-olds that had been rendered useless by other clubs.

Why? Because Brentford believed you had to give a young player at least 35 games before determining his value, but the richest teams in the world didn’t have the time, patience, or appropriate infrastructure to do that. As a small club willing to experiment, Brentford did.

The results weren’t immediate, but now a decade later, with Brentford returning to the Premier League for the first time in more than 70 years, the analytical approach has clearly paid off.

As a notoriously private person that has participated in just a few public interviews over the last decade, Matthew Benham has become one of the most interesting stories in sports.

He graduated from the world-renowned University of Oxford in 1989 with a degree in Physics, spending the next 11 years working in various investment banking and insurance roles. But in 2001, Benham accepted a job as a trader for Premier Bet, learning under one of the most successful gamblers in the world — Tony Bloom.

Matthew Benham and Tony Bloom had a falling out, but by the time Benham left Premier Bet, the fire was already lit. He wasn’t going back to investment banking. He was a professional sports gambler now.

It’s unclear how much Benham made gambling on sports, but in 2004, he set up his own betting syndicate, Smartodds. The concept was simple: Benham would consult clients using the same algorithms, statistics, and data research that made him a successful sports gambler.

The business has been a massive success and Benham now also owns Matchbook, a popular sports betting exchange. This is where Brentford FC comes in.

Brentford FC beat Swansea last month in the “World’s Richest Game” — the Championship Play-Off Final — earning the Bees a promotion to the English Premier League and the roughly $300 million in guaranteed money that comes with it.

Even more interesting?

Less than a decade ago, with the club facing financial stress, a professional sports gambler invested about $700,000 into the club — eventually taking over as team owner in 2012.

That man was Matthew Benham, and this is his story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOBiu9zP5jA



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There's a single password separating San Francisco-based programmer Stefan Thomas and 7,002 bitcoins. That's over $240 million worth.

In a story all too familiar in cryptocurrencies short lifespan, another would-be crypto-millionaire has gone and lost the keys to their fortune. Thomas was reportedly paid the significant sum of bitcoin a decade ago, the New York Times reports, which he then stashed away for 'safe' keeping. Ten years on, and the password for his stuffed digital wallet has long been resigned to the depths of his mind, and Bitcoin's value has skyrocketed to $34,000.

And if knowing there was $240 million in bitcoin locked behind a prison of your own creation wasn't bad enough, Thomas only has two attempts to guess the correct combination before he can wave goodbye to his significant fortune, thanks to stringent and fairly common security protocol that will encrypt the entire drive beyond salvation following 10 incorrect guesses.

“I would just lay in bed and think about it,” Mr. Thomas told The New York Times. “Then I would go to the computer with some new strategy, and it wouldn’t work, and I would be desperate again.”

Thomas' plight is similar to a story close to home. Back in 2013, James Howells, an IT worker from Newport, Wales, accidentally threw away a hard drive with some 7,500 bitcoins stored on it. That's $260 million of bitcoin in a landfill that the local council won't let anyone look for due to safety concerns. It's also hidden under seven years of human waste by this point, so feel free to go ahead and take a look for yourself—I'll leave you to it.

But Thomas isn't quite as doomed to failure. There are two attempts left to get this password cracked, after all.

The situation hitting the papers has also seen Thomas publicly offered help from security experts ready to get to work either cracking the code or bypassing it altogether on the IronKey-made HDD. For a split of the treasure should they crack it open, of course.

Thomas received the significant sum of Bitcoins for making an animated video "What is Bitcoin?" back in 2011. A single bitcoin was worth under $10 at the time.

[Culled from PCgamer: https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/password-trouble-means-dollar240-million-in-bitcoin-is-two-incorrect-attempts-from-destruction/]

Test site for The Iron Dome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_89139WKho

The clashes between Israel and pro-Palestine terrorist groups over territorial-control issues have now ignited a fresh wave of violence and low-scale war in the perennial battleground of the Middle East. The decision of Israel to evict illegal Palestinians from Sheikh Jarah in East Jerusalem have now given rise to fresh escalations of tensions between Israel and Palestine, resulting in large scale violence and attacks.

With the entry of the Islamic terror group Hamas, the clashes between the two sides have now taken an ugly turn. The terror group has resorted to unleashing a massive attack against Israel. The terror outfit Hamas has escalated its attack on Israeli civilians by launching hundreds of rockets.

More than 30 Israelis have been killed in the attack after Hamas launched indiscriminate rockets from the Gaza Strip. In response to the rocket attacks, the Israel Defence Forces have struck some 140 targets in the coastal enclave against Hamas. Israel has also stepped up its attacks on the Palestinian terror group Hamas inside Gaza Strip.

The Israel Defence Forces have carried also out airstrikes on targets in Gaza in response to continued attacks by Hamas against Israel. During the retaliatory strikes on Tuesday, several high-profile Hamas terrorists are said to have been killed. However, Hamas is no mood to stop their rocket attacks on Israel.

To counter the low-cost warfare initiated by Hamas, the Israel Defence Forces has now activated its state-of-art air defence system – ‘Iron Dome’ to protect its civilian population from the rocket attacks. Deploying its Iron Dome, the IDF has been successful in intercepting the continuous barrage of rockets targetting Tel Aviv and central Israel.
How does the system work?
The all-weather Iron Dome relies on a system of radar and analysis to determine whether an incoming rocket is a threat and takes the appropriate response to fire an interceptor to destroy the incoming rocket. The interceptor missiles intercept those rockets that are launched to target the civilian population inside Israel.

It is a three-central component consisting of interceptor batteries that shoot rockets out of the sky, a radar that tracks the rocket as it is fired across the border into Israel, and then advanced software that predicts the rocket’s trajectory.

The information picked by the system is then used to guide Tamir interceptor missiles, which are fired vertically either from mobile units or a static launch site to detonate the incoming rocket in the air, producing explosions in the sky.
How long has Israel been using it?
Iron Dome was first commissioned by the Israel Defence Forces in March 2011 and made its first successful intervention the subsequent month when it intercepted a Grad rocket fired from Gaza. Israel initiated its air-defence program after its war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah in 2006, when 4,000 rockets rained down on northern Israel, killing 44.

Every time Israel launches its Tamir missile to intercept rockets from Gaza, it incurs a cost of around $95,000 (Rs 70 lakhs). Due to the higher costs, Israel usually uses them only against rockets destined for residential areas, rather than those headed for open ground.

In fact, the cost of rebuilding infrastructure damaged by rockets is much cheaper than using the Iron Dome. However, with civilian lives in question, Israel has been continuously using the Iron Dome system to protect its population from rocket attacks. Reportedly, the US has partly-funded the system, pledging $429m (£303m) towards the programme.

Iron Dome – an effective air-defence system
The Iron Dome air defence system is considered one of the world’s most advanced, with a reported success rate of more than 90%.

According to experts, the commissioning of the Iron Dome has changed life for many Israelis during recent conflicts, as it now allows IDF to intercept rockets fired from Gaza with more certainty. Hence a sense of normality has returned in southern parts of the country, the region that receives a maximum number of rocket strikes. A decade later after its commissioning, the Iron Dome has thwarted thousands of rocket attacks launched by the Palestinian terrorists from Gaza.

However, some rockets fired from Gaza have made it through and resulted in deaths in Israel due to the sustained rocket launches by Hamas.

In addition to their land-based deployment, Israel Defence Forces are looking forward to deploying the Iron Dome batteries on its naval systems. The IDF has deployed the air-defence systems on its Sa’ar 6-class corvettes to protect off-shore gas platforms in conjunction with Israel’s Barak 8 missile system.

In addition, the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries are working on a multi-tiered missile defence system and long-range air defence systems with the integration of Arrow 2, Arrow 3, Iron Beam, Barak 8 and David’s Sling anti-missile systems.

While the Iron Dome protects civilian populations against short-range rockets fired by Hamas, usually Qassams and Katyushas, The Arrow system works to take out long-range missiles targeted against Israel. It is being developed especially to counter the Scud missiles from Syria and the Shihab missiles from Iran.

David’s Sling, currently under development, is designed to intercept medium range ballistic weapons and highly accurate missiles.

[Culled from OpIndia ]
https://www.opindia.com/2021/05/israels-iron-dome-air-defence-system-hamas-rockets-gaza-palestine-terrorists/amp/

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Please, if someone has a B.sc in Environmental Resources Management, Environmental Sciences (or Technology) or Environmental Management, which M.sc is he or she qualified to apply for (without resorting to a PG.D)?

The requirements online doesn't cater for any of these disciplines.

Please treat as urgent.

Thank you.

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Masters in public health. MPH

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I’ve got one I bought August 2019. Packet and receipt intact.

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Women resort to using re usable fabrics or cloths. They simply use, wash and reuse again.

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Probably an evolutionary succession (algaes are the prime suspects).

Biostatisticians, esthoecologists and computational biologists can come in here.

Please, let me get a much clearer picture;

Does your offer include the final designs or is it only for the content?
Some folks here do not seem to understand the scope of work required for the project.

If we can get to discuss this in detail....

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The Gentlemen 2019


Very intriguing movie, was a little Drab at the beginning with the annoying story telling, but as time went by it started making loads of sense.. Great Cast

The issue here is NOT about the price. It's about authenticity.

She should have gotten an authentic rubber watch than an imitation of an expensive brand. There are decently priced brands out there (albiet unpopular). When in doubt get another gift item at same price. I'm sure it will be very much appreciated.

Time piece gifts are a grey area these days.

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THIS IS NOT TRUE as it conveys a fallacious details

FUL is my great Citadel of learning
Things of such has no place in FUL
It took me of a great delusion even to abscond to the fact that the event throbs mostly in my own department

Miss me with that b*llsh*t. FOH

Obviously I'm late to the party.
I'd like to comment on a traditional (not typical) Igbo man's perspective on marriage. This would throw more light around the dark edges of your submission.

The (traditional) Igbo man abhors divorce. Why? Because in his eyes, he's not the only 'husband' to his wife. All his male relatives are her 'husband'. In turn, his Umunna (male kindred) takes it up as a duty to rightly project the woman as 'our wife'. He wouldn't wanted to be taunted as the fellow who couldn't keep his home. The shame of 'disgracing' the Umunna is the Igbo man's ultimate fear.

This creates a healthy rivalry between extended families. The wives and kids are the battle grounds. The Igbo man projects his successes in the light of his wife and young kids. You might look down on his simple modest appearance on the streets of Ikeja until you hear statements like "You don't know that man, wait until you see his wife's car". You might hear him retort by saying "I've got a woman I'm taking care of at home!"..... healthy ego and pride. It's construed as a mark of achievement and 'arrival' to 'keep a woman at home'. Thankfully, the modern Igbo men are sidestepping the practice.
It isn't surprising that the pseudo-Igbo 'August Meetings' are sometimes an avenue for Igbo men to 'show' their rivals who has more wealth via their wives' cars, attires and multi-million naira donations.

With all due respect, the Igbo hardly has any fear of going back to his father's house 'without a pin' because her society's 'composition' (to a very significant extent) guarantees it won't happen.

bukatyne:


I am serious.

I grew up in an all Igbo community (we were just two Yoruba on a very long street) so I have first hand experience on some of their way of life.

We've had a similar discussion where I told you that housewifery or a man fully responsible for home financially is not a Yoruba thing.

In fact, an housewife or financially non-contributing wife is called alabodo (someone you feed to fvck). To not say that there are no outliners.

Igbos however pride themselves in fully financing the home (I see this even in my colleagues with working wives). Growing up, most of the Igbo wives literally did not leave the house except to market or parties while you saw the husbands hustling (legit and non). The downside was that the men's words were law and upon the breakdown of the marriage, the wives did not leave with a pin so the marriage must not break.

Comparing this to pre-colonial times when everyone farmed, where was the cultural shift for them?

Igbos can also pitch in.

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