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Q: Using password_hash and password_verify In my Login PHP file I have these
$passwordInput = password_hash($passInput, PASSWORD_BCRYPT);
$passwordVerify = password_verify($userInput, $passwordInput);

And in my Register PHP file I have this.
$passwordSign = password_hash($passSign, PASSWORD_BCRYPT);

Now, essentially I make it so it hashes the password and inserts itself into the database on signup. WHICH IT DOES.
However, it cannot verify it. Both results give 2 different hashes and I don't know what I'm possibly doing wrong. I also tried just making it hash the input again and checking the password_hash in the database but that didn't work..
What is the proper way of using these?
( Also, $passSign and $userInput are the input fields and it does get the username/password )

A: On signup you get the password from the user input and generate its has using password_hash():
$hash = password_hash($_POST['password'], PASSWORD_BCRYPT);

You can provide it a custom salt to use, in a third parameter, but the documentation recommends to not do this:

Caution It is strongly recommended that you do not generate your own salt for this function. It will create a secure salt automatically for you if you do not specify one.

You save this hash in the database. Make sure you put it in a CHAR/VARCHAR field of 60 characters or longer.
When the user wants to log in you check the password they input against the hash previously saved using password_verify():
$auth = password_verify($_POST['password'], $hash);

Of course, you get the correct value of $hash from the database, searching by the provided username.
If $auth is TRUE then the provided password matches its hash computed on the registration and the user is authenticated.

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Technical Error Puts A Hold On Food Safety Legislation
The Wall Street Journal this morning reports that just a day after the US Senate passed landmark food safety legislation, a procedural error has put the bill on hold at least temporarily, unable to be reconciled with the version of the bill passed by the House of Representatives.
According to the story, "Democrats are looking at several options to get the bill turned into law, aides said, but the House can't approve it 'as is' because the legislation contains provisions that allow the government to collect fees. Those fees are technically considered tax provisions because they raise revenue for the federal government, an aide said, and House rules say tax provisions must originate in the House version of any bill."
The Journal explains: "The bill was first approved by the House in July 2009. The Senate passed its version with a provision excluding small farms and food processors with annual sales under $500,000 from new Food and Drug Administration regulations, if they sell their products directly to consumers or restaurants no more than 275 miles from the production site."
You'd think that the US Congress - the best legislative body money can buy - would have enough cash to have someone on staff who would know these things. How does a bill years in the making get through the Senate with a provision that simply cannot be there?

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Izzy Whitley started a $750K/year business at 22, all the while facing much adversity along the way, yet positively taking it all in his stride.
Most Uni students dream of working at one of the big four accounting firms – PwC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG. Fraser McConnell is definitely not "most uni students". Having joined Pricewaterhouse Coopers in the management consulting team – arguably one of the more sought-after divisions – he left after a year to see whether he could live in Wanaka all while saving New Zealand's native birds. Over 25 million native NZ birds are killed every year by pests.
Through his social entries, Squawk Squad, Kiwis (the people not the birds) can crowdfund pest-traps – pitching in to save the birds we see every day on the back of our dollar bills. In this episode Fraser talks to podcast host, Ed McKnight about everything from life in PwC, right through to quitting and starting this social venture, and his other venture, Upstream Daily.
It's a cliché to say that the world is changing, and changing at a rapid pace. But, after just 10 minutes with futurist and Mind Lab founder, Frances Valentine you get a sense of how fast the world is now spinning. Windows that act as solar panels, homes that can be built in just a few days, insects becoming standard parts of the Western diet.
These changes aren't coming. They're already here. In this episode with podcast host, Ed McKnight, Frances speaks about how the world is changing, and why NZ's young professionals aren't ready or prepared for what's to come.
Mental health affects both our home and professional lives. Friend of the show, Luke Chivers has struggled with eating disorders for many years and is finally coming out the other side.
By the age 22, most young professionals might be through to the third year of university, have a few more to go and may not have set plans for the future. Not Eliot Jessep. This young Hamilton based entrepreneur has thrown traditional business advice to the wind, and in this episode shared why you don't need to follow your passion, and why starting businesses is overrated. Not only that, he gives us this advice for what we should do instead.
Continuing with the political series in the lead up to the 2017 NZ Election, podcast host, Ed McKnight interviews Andrew Little, former leader of The Labour Party.
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Twitter Announces Bitcoin Tipping: Is More Crypto Adoption on the Way?
Sep 26, 2021, 3:43PM
Bitcoin 3 min, 51 sec READ
Twitter has just announced that it will support Bitcoin tips. How else will it make use of cryptocurrency?
Social media giant Twitter announced at the end of September that it will allow users to send and receive Bitcoin tips. However, this is just one of many crypto-related activities that Twitter is engaged in. Here's what to expect from the company.
Bitcoin Tipping Is Now Available
On September 23, Twitter revealed that users can send Bitcoin tips to one another. There are two ways to do this: through a standard address or through a Strike account.
"People can copy your address and paste it into a Bitcoin wallet of their choice to send you a payment directly," Twitter explained. This applies to most standard Bitcoin wallets as well as exchange wallets that allow users to receive transactions.
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On the other hand, if a user chooses to use a Strike account, they will need to reside in the U.S. or El Salvador. This service runs on Bitcoin's Lightning Network, so it may offer lower transaction fees and faster sending times than standard methods.
Bitcoin tipping has been under development since the beginning of September when beta testers reported gaining access to the feature. Twitter's main tipping service, which allowed cash transactions only, has been available since May.
It is not yet clear whether other cryptocurrencies and tokens such as Ethereum will be added to Twitter's tipping options in the future.
Twitter Is Also Interested In NFTs
Twitter is also reportedly planning to introduce support for non-fungible tokens―blockchain-based tokens that contain art or other digital media.
Statements from company representatives suggest that users will soon be able to connect their cryptocurrency wallet and verify their NFT holdings. Then, they will be able to showcase and track those NFTs directly from their Twitter account.
"NFT authentication will come in the form of a badge, shown on profile pictures, marking the owner's NFT as authentic," one quote from a spokesperson notes.
The company has already engaged with NFTs in a limited manner. In June, it minted 140 cryptocollectibles and distributed them for free. By August, the collection had generated over $5 million in trading volume, according to some reports.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also sold his first-ever tweet as an NFT in March in order to raise funds for charity. However, this was not done in any official capacity.
Bluesky Will Decentralize Twitter
Twitter is also working on Bluesky, a social media decentralization project that aims to create an open standard and reduce Twitter's control over its own platform.
Though the project is in its early stages and will not necessarily make use of blockchain, it has brought on board a developer with blockchain experience. Jay Graber, formerly of Zcash, was appointed to head the project in August of this year.
Graber was also the primary author of an ecosystem review published by the Bluesky team in January. That report made mention of blockchain social networks such as Steemit and Peepeth. It also included contributions from Protocol Labs, the company behind the cryptocurrency and file storage project Filecoin.
It is still unknown whether Bluesky will become a blockchain project, but the effort has enough relevance to that area that it is of interest to the crypto community.
Dorsey's Personal Stance on Crypto
Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has frequently discussed Bitcoin and engaged with the crypto community outside of Twitter's official efforts.
He has repeatedly called Bitcoin the "native currency of the internet" and affirmed its lasting appeal. During a conference in July, he compared cryptocurrency to the early Internet, calling it "deeply principled, weird as hell, and always evolving."
He has also made personal donations. In February, Dorsey donated $1 million to the blockchain advocacy group Coin Center, stating "Thank you for your incredible work!" In the same month, he partnered with rap artist Jay-Z to donate $23 million to Bitcoin development in Africa. Then in March, he donated $4 million to MIT's crypto program along with other crypto figures like Michael Saylor and the Winklevoss brothers.
Dorsey's secondary company, Square, has also taken great interest in Bitcoin. The mobile payments company currently has $350 million invested in Bitcoin, and it also allows users to buy and send Bitcoin through its Cash App. It also runs a Bitcoin development division that funds various projects in the crypto ecosystem.
Given Dorsey's extensive interest in Bitcoin, it seems likely that Twitter will announce more Bitcoin pursuits in the future.
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I had the same issue but I tried again its work, so without Middle name.
How long before it worked? I'll keep trying!!
The same day. Few hours ago.
Just checked mine right now its works, make sure you enter the correct info. Try again, with his passport info.
i keep trying and nothing. So today was the first time you could access the information?
No, since the day of my entry.
I had the same problem and I had to the CBP and they instructed me on what to do.
You need to call to have it fixed, I had the same issue, you need to call homeland and security so they can fix it for you.
Through which airport did you arrive ?
Newark airport but i called them and they told me that i have to call the closest border patrol and it's philadelphia but i can't get ahold of a real person.
I got a call back and got everything squared away!


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is a Japanese-Ghanaian kickboxer, currently competing in the welterweight division of K-1 and Krush, where he is the current Krush Welterweight champion.

As of March 2022 he was the #8 ranked super featherweight kickboxer in the world by Combat Press.

Kickboxing career

K-1

Early career
Ali made his professional debut against Takuma Shimizu at Krush 104 on August 31, 2019. He won the fight by a third-round knockout. The bout was stopped on the advice of the ringside physician at the 1:04 minute mark, due to a cut above Shimizu's left eyelid. Ali made his second Krush appearance at Krush 107 on November 8, 2019, against Mark Bird James. He won the fight by a third-round knockout, flooring James with a right hook.

Ali left Krush for his next bout, as he was booked to face Takeharu Ogawa at Bigbang the future 26 on August 16, 2020. He won the fight by a third-round head kick knockout.

Ali made his K-1 debut against Kaito at K-1 World GP 2021: K'Festa 4 Day.2 on March 28, 2021. He won the fight by a third-round knockout. Ali first dropped Kaito with a head kick at the 2:00 minute mark of the last round, before finishing him with a right cross thirty seconds later.

Ali was next booked to face the former Krush Welterweight champion Kazuki Yamagiawa in the co-main event of Krush 126 on June 25, 2021. He won the fight by unanimous decision. Two of the judges scored the bout 30–28 in his favor, while the third judge awarded him a 30–29 scorecard.

K-1 Welterweight Grand Prix
On August 18, 2021, it was announced that Ali would participate in the 2021 K-1 Welterweight World Grand Prix, which was held at K-1 World GP 2021: Yokohamatsuri on September 20, 2021. He was booked to face Ruku Kojima in the tournament quarterfinals. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with two judges scoring the bout 30–28, and the third 30–29, in his favor.

Ali advanced to the semifinals, where he faced the 2017 K-1 Japan Grand Prix super lightweight champion, and tournament favorite, Masaaki Noiri. Ali was knocked down early in the opening round with body strikes, and although he was able to rise in time to beat the eight count, he was quickly knocked down for the second time with a left hook to the body. THis resulted in an automatic technical knockout loss for Ali, per the rules of the tournament.

Krush welterweight champion
Ayinta was scheduled to challenge the reigning Krush Welterweight titleholder Riki Matsuoka at Krush 134 on February 20, 2022, in what was Matsuoka's first title defense. The fight was ruled a split decision draw following the first three rounds. Ali was awarded the split decision victory after an extra round was contested, with two judges scoring the bout 10–9 for him, while the third judge awarded the same scorecard to Matsuoka.

Ayinta made his first defense against the one-time Krush Super Lightweight title challenger Kota Nakano at Krush 140 on August 27, 2022. He won the fight by a second-round knockout. Ayinta knocked his opponent down twice, both times with a right straight, once in the first round and once in the second round. Although Nakano was able to beat the eight count both times, he was unsteady on his feet following the second knockdown, which forced the referee to wave the fight off.

Ayinta faced Takumi Sanekata at K-1 World GP 2023: K'Festa 6 on March 12, 2023. He won the fight by unanimous decision, with all three judges awarding him a 30–28 scorecard.

Titles and accomplishments
Professional

Krush
 2022 Krush Welterweight Championship (1 defense)AmateurK-1 2018 K-1 Challenge B-Class -70kg Tournament Winner
 2018 K-1 Challenge B-Class -70kg Tournament Winner
 2019 K-1 Challenge A-Class -70kg Tournament Winner

Kickboxing record

|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 2023-03-12 || Win ||align=left| Takumi Sanekata || K-1 World GP 2023: K'Festa 6 || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous)|| 3 ||3:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2022-08-27|| Win || align=left| Kota Nakano || Krush 140 || Tokyo, Japan || KO (punches) || 2 || 0:55
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2022-02-20|| Win || align=left| Riki Matsuoka || Krush 134 || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Split) || 3||3:00
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 2021-09-20 || Loss || align=left| Masaaki Noiri || K-1 2021: Yokohamatsuri Welterweight World Grand Prix, Semi Final || Yokohama, Japan || TKO (2 Knockdowns) ||1  || 1:32
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2021-09-20 || Win || align=left| Ruku Kojima || K-1 2021: Yokohamatsuri Welterweight World Grand Prix, Quarter Final || Yokohama, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) ||3  ||3:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2021-06-25|| Win || align=left| Kazuki Yamagiawa || Krush 126 || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous)|| 3 ||3:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2021-03-28|| Win ||align=left| Kaito || K-1 World GP 2021: K'Festa 4 Day.2 || Tokyo, Japan || KO (Right Cross) || 3 || 2:30
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2020-08-16|| Win || align=left| Takeharu Ogawa || Bigbang the future 26 || Tokyo, Japan || KO (Knee to the head)|| 3 ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2019-11-08|| Win || align=left| Mark Bird James || Krush 107 || Tokyo, Japan || KO (Right Hook) || 3 || 1:35
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2019-08-31|| Win || align=left| Takuma Shimizu || Krush 104 || Tokyo, Japan || TKO (Doctor Stoppage)|| 3 || 1:04
|-
| colspan=9 | Legend:

|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2019-03-24|| Win || align=left| Genki Amemiya || K-1 Amateur Challenge A-class -70kg Tournament, Final || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Unanimous) || 1 || 2:00
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2019-03-24|| Win || align=left| Ken Noda || K-1 Amateur Challenge A-class -70kg Tournament, Semi Final || Tokyo, Japan || KO || 1 ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2018-10-14|| Win || align=left| Rikoku Som || K-1 Amateur Challenge B-class -70kg Tournament, Final || Tokyo, Japan ||  Decision (Unanimous) || 1 || 2:00
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2018-10-14|| Win || align=left| Daisuke Arakawa || K-1 Amateur Challenge B-class -70kg Tournament, Semi Final || Tokyo, Japan ||  Decision (Unanimous) || 1 || 2:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2018-10-14|| Win || align=left| Naoki Kitabayashi || K-1 Amateur Challenge B-class -70kg Tournament, Quarter Final || Tokyo, Japan ||  Decision (Unanimous) || 1 || 2:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2018-09-09|| Win || align=left| Katsuhiko Motomiya ||  K-1 Amateur Challenge B-class -70kg Tournament, Final|| Tokyo, Japan ||  Decision || 1 || 2:00
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2018-09-09|| Win || align=left| Tomoya Shimamura ||  K-1 Amateur Challenge B-class -70kg Tournament, Semi Final|| Tokyo, Japan ||  Forfeit || ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2018-09-09|| Win || align=left| Hiroto Amagi ||  K-1 Amateur Challenge B-class -70kg Tournament, Quarter Final|| Tokyo, Japan ||  Decision || 1 || 2:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2018-07-29|| Win || align=left| Kuramoto || K-1 Amateur Challenge B-class || Tokyo, Japan ||  KO ||  ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2018-06-10|| Win || align=left| Daisuke Niinuma || K-1 Amateur Challenge C-class || Tokyo, Japan ||  Decision || 2 || 2:00
|-
| colspan=9 | Legend''':

See also
 List of male kickboxers
 List of Krush champions

References

Living people
1999 births
Japanese male kickboxers
Sportspeople from Tokyo

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CRITICALLY IMPERILED DRAGONFLY SPECIES AT FBMP
by Freda van den Broek (Vice President, Wisconsin Dragonfly Society)
The Critically Imperiled Spatterdock Darner Dragonfly (Rhionaeschna mutata) has been observed at Forest Beach Migratory Preserve for the third consecutive year.
While it would require some knowledge of the Odonata (the dragonflies and damselflies) of Wisconsin to know that one was seeing a very rare dragonfly (Legler, 2013), it wouldn't take more than an appreciative eye to know that the dragonfly in question was something special. At three inches in length, the average Spatterdock Darner is roughly equivalent in size to the most commonly seen large dragonfly at the pond, the Common Green Darner (Anax junius). However, its bright blue eyes, its black and blue body, and its breathtaking agility make it easily distinguishable from most other dragonflies -- that is, except for the Blue-eyed Darner (Rhionaescha multicolor), the only other member of the Rhionaeschna genus that has ever been recorded in Wisconsin.
It generally requires hand examination to distinguish the Spatterdock Darner from the Blue-eyed Darner (R. multicolor), as the physical differences (body length and clasper shape) are very subtle. When this dragonfly was first photographed at Forest Beach Migratory Preserve in 2015, Wisconsin's Odonata expert, aquatic ecologist and author Robert DuBois, was able to confirm the identity on the basis of an in-flight photograph. It was the first record of the species for Ozaukee County, one of only a handful of records for all of Wisconsin. In 2016, a specimen was netted and its identity was confirmed by physical examination. At present, the Spatterdock Darner has S1 conservation status in Wisconsin, meaning that it is critically imperiled due to a very restricted range, very few populations or occurrences, very steep declines, severe threats, or other factors."
DuBois and others documented the historic records for the Spatterdock and Blue-eyed Darners in Minnesota and Wisconsin and their overlapping ranges in an article published in ARGIA (the news journal of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas) in 2015. Since the first Wisconsin sighting in Marquette County in June 1989, the Spatterdock Darner has been recorded at only a handful of other sites in Waukesha and Walworth Counties. Owing to habitat changes at the site in Marquette County, Spatterdock Darners have not been recorded there in recent years. For the 2017 flight season, only two Wisconsin Odonata Survey records for the Spatterdock Darner exist: one from Waukesha County and a couple from Forest Beach Migratory Preserve in Ozaukee County.
What could possibly make Forest Beach Migratory Preserve suitable habitat for a critically imperiled dragonfly? This question has yet to be answered. In terms of its historically known habitat, the Spatterdock Darner is said to prefer shallow ponds with an abundance of spatterdock plants (water lilies of the Nuphur genus), the absence of centrarchid fishes, and a mostly forested landscape. The Clubhouse Pond fits only one of these conditions: it is relatively shallow. There are no water lilies, the presence of fish has been confirmed, and the surrounding landscape is predominantly prairie.
It would appear that the Spatterdock Darner's future at Forest Beach Migratory Preserve hangs in a precarious balance. Time will tell whether environmental challenges, including the existence of a successful breeding colony of Purple Martins (predators of flying insects, including rare dragonflies) in the immediate vicinity of the Clubhouse Pond will sufficiently suppress the fragile Spatterdock Darner population so as to relegate it to the status of historical record. A preferred vision of the seasons to come holds many visitors from far and wide, delighting in the glimpse of this beautiful, not-so-rare dragonfly.
DuBois, R; Lawrenz, R; Johnson, D; Smith, W; Chrouser, R and Jackson, D 2015. First records for Rhionaescha multicolor (Blue-eyed Darner) and R. mutata (Spatterdock Darner) in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and Their Overlapping Ranges in These States. ARGIA 27(3): 15. Legler, Karl and Dorothy with Westover, Dave. 2013 (Edition 5.1). Dragonflies of Wisconsin
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Q: A proof using mathematical induction By observing the base cases for $t=2,3$, I conjectured the following general inequality which I don't know is true or false:
$$\frac{(n_{1}+n_{2}+ \cdot \cdot \cdot n_{t})(n_{1}+n_{2}+ \cdot \cdot \cdot n_{t}-1)\cdot \cdot \cdot (n_{1}+n_{2}+ \cdot \cdot \cdot n_{t}-t+1)}{t!}+\frac{(n_{1}+n_{2}+ \cdot \cdot \cdot n_{t-1})(n_{1}+n_{2}+ \cdot \cdot \cdot n_{t-1}-1)\cdot \cdot \cdot (n_{1}+n_{2}+ \cdot \cdot \cdot n_{t-1}-t+2)}{(t-1)!}+\cdot \cdot \cdot+ \frac{(n_{1}+n_{2})(n_{1}+n_{2}-1)}{2!}+n_{1} +2 \leq \frac{(n_{1}+n_{2}+ \cdot \cdot \cdot+n_{t})^{t}}{t^{t-2}} $$
I tried to prove it using mathematical induction and at the last step of mathematical induction, I left with the following inequality to prove:
$$\frac{(n_{1}+n_{2}+\cdot \cdot \cdot+n_{k+1})(n_{1}+n_{2}+\cdot \cdot \cdot+n_{k+1}-1)\cdot \cdot \cdot (n_{1}+n_{2}+\cdot \cdot \cdot+n_{k+1}-k)}{(k+1)!}+\frac{(n_{1}+n_{2}+\cdot \cdot \cdot n_{k})^{k}}{k^{k-2}} \leq \frac{(n_{1}+n_{2}+\cdot \cdot \cdot n_{k+1})^{k+1}}{(k+1)^{(k+1)-2}}$$.
I feel that the second term on the left-hand side will play a big role as its denominator is $k^{k-2}$ which could be helpful to obtain the denominator $(k+1)^{(k+1)-2}$ on the right-hand side of the equation. Further, the following obvious inequality related to first term on the left-hand side could also be useful:
$$\frac{(n_{1}+n_{2}+\cdot \cdot \cdot+n_{k+1})(n_{1}+n_{2}+\cdot \cdot \cdot+n_{k+1}-1)\cdot \cdot \cdot (n_{1}+n_{2}+\cdot \cdot \cdot+n_{k+1}-k)}{(k+1)!} \leq \frac{(n_{1}+n_{2}+\cdot \cdot \cdot+n_{k+1})^{k+1}}{(k+1)!}$$.
Any hint or explicit proof will be a great help.


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During the Middle Ages it was believed that beaver tails were of such a fish-like nature that they could be eaten on fast days; Livre des simples médecines, ca. 1480.
Banquet given in Paris in 1378 by Charles V of France (center, blue) for Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (left) and his son Wenceslaus, King of the Romans. Each diner has two knives, a square salt container, napkin, bread and a plate; by Jean Fouquet, 1455–60.
John, Duke of Berry enjoying a grand meal. The Duke is sitting at the high table in front of the fireplace, tended to by several servants including a carver. On the table to the left of the Duke is a golden salt cellar, or nef, in the shape of a ship; Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, ca 1410.
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Iraqi market in Mosul, 1932
Promoting women's education in the 1970s.
U.S. Army soldier searches an Iraqi boy, March 2011.
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"Big Blue", a large turquoise specimen from the copper mine at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico
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Cutting and grinding turquoise in Nishapur, Iran, 1973
Persian turquoise from Iran
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Lille city centre.
The 'Vieille Bourse' on the 'Grand Place'
Entrance to the 'Vauban Citadel' (17th century)
The black dots around the windows (not the decorative cartouches) are Austrian cannonballs lodged in the façade.
Moscow [videos]
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Saint Basil's Cathedral was built in 1561
View of 17th-century Moscow (1922 drawing by Apollinary Vasnetsov)
Moskva riverside in the 19th century.
French invasion of Russia in 1812, Fire of Moscow, painting by A.F. Smirnov 1813
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Banderas in 2014
Banderas in June 2007
Banderas pictured with the cast of The 33, on 1 August 2015
Banderas with Melanie Griffith at the Shrek Forever After premiere in May 2010.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [videos]
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Watkin Building
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Audrey Jones Beck Building
Glassell School of Art
Paris [videos]
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Gold coins minted by the Parisii (1st century BC)
The Palais de la Cité and Sainte-Chapelle, viewed from the Left Bank, from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (month of June) (1410)
The storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, (Musée de la Révolution française)
The Paris Opera was the centrepiece of Napoleon III's new Paris. The architect, Charles Garnier, described the style simply as "Napoleon the Third."
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$5 Series 1899 silver certificate depicting Running Antelope of the Sioux.
The $1 silver certificate from the Hawaii overprint series.
Image: US $1 SC 1928 Fr.1600
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John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort in 1688; originator of the 'revived' Order
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex in the robes of a Knight of the Order of the Thistle
Vestments of a Knight of the Thistle
The St Andrew with the saltire in the badge of the Order of the Thistle
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Imperial Orb, Crown, and Sceptre of Austria
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Emperor Francis I wearing the Imperial Mantle and regalia
Cradle of the King of Rome
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Aniston in February 2012
Aniston at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
Aniston at the He's Just Not That into You premiere in 2009
Aniston at the London premiere of Horrible Bosses in 2011
Battle of Waterloo [videos]
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands at the time. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led allied army under the …
The strategic situation in Western Europe in 1815: 250,000 Frenchmen faced a coalition of about 850,000 soldiers on four fronts. Napoleon was forced to leave 20,000 men in Western France to reduce a royalist insurrection.
The resurgent Napoleon's strategy was to isolate the Anglo-allied and Prussian armies and annihilate each one separately.
The 1st Duke of Wellington, commander of the Anglo-allied army
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, who had led one of the coalition armies defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig, commanded the Prussian army
Ethan Hawke [videos]
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Hawke in 2018
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Hawke at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Hawke at the premiere of Before Midnight in Berlin, Germany, February 2013
Ichiro Suzuki [videos]
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Ichiro with the Miami Marlins in 2016
Ichiro in July 2001
Ichiro Suzuki at the World Baseball Classic 2006
Ichiro rounding the bases on September 22, 2007
Battle of Kursk [videos]
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2nd SS Panzer Division soldiers, Tiger I tank, in June 1943 just before the battle
Guderian being transported to the Eastern Front, 1943
A Raupenschlepper Ost, designed in response to the poor roads of Russia, moves materiel up shortly before the Kursk offensive.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, 1941.
Emma Watson [videos]
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Watson at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
Handprints, shoe-prints and wand prints of (from left to right) Watson, Radcliffe, Grint, at TCL Chinese Theatre in 2007
Watson at the premiere of Goblet of Fire in November 2005
Watson at the premiere of Half-Blood Prince in July 2009
Fabergé egg [videos]
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The Imperial Coronation Egg, one of the most famous and iconic of all the Fabergé eggs.
The Moscow Kremlin egg, 1906.
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Dublin [videos]
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Clockwise, from top: Samuel Beckett Bridge, Trinity College, The Custom House, Dublin Castle, O'Connell Bridge, Convention Centre
Father Mathew Bridge, also known as Dublin Bridge
Dublin Castle, with its 13th century tower, was the fortified seat of British rule in Ireland until 1922
Henrietta Street developed in the 1720s is the earliest Georgian street in Dublin
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Top row left to right: 157 BC Roman Republic, A.D 73 Vespasian, A.D 161 Marcus Aurelius, A.D 194 Septimius Severus; Second row left to right: A.D 199 Caracalla, A.D 200 Julia Domna, A.D 219 Elagabalus, A.D 236 Maximinus Thrax
Helmeted head of Rome
Flavia Domitilla, wife of Vespasian and mother of Titus and Domitian.
Quintus Antonius Balbus (c. 82–83 BC)
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Phoenician archaeological dig in the Lisbon Cathedral cloisters
Section of the Cerca Velha (Old Wall). Originally built by Romans, later rebuilt by the Moors.
Surrender of the Moors to King Afonso at the 1147 Siege of Lisbon.
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Maserati headquarters in Modena, Italy
Ettore, Bindo, Ernesto, and Alfieri Maserati
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Clockwise from top: Helsinki Cathedral, view of central Helsinki, Sanoma building and Kiasma, Helsinki city centre at night, beaches at Aurinkolahti, Parliament House and Suomenlinna.
Central Helsinki in 1820 before rebuilding. Illustration by Carl Ludvig Engel.
Construction of Suomenlinna began in the 18th century.
Parts of Helsinki and Espoo seen from the SPOT satellite
Robert Downey Jr. [videos]
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Lyon [videos]
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Top: Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, Place des Terreaux with Fontaine Bartholdi and Lyon City Hall at night. Centre: Parc de la Tête d'Or, Confluence district and the Vieux Lyon. Bottom: Pont Lafayette, Part-Dieu district with the Place Bellecour in foreground during Festival of Lights.
The Roman-era Theatre on the Fourvière Hill
Lyon under siege in 1793
The lion, symbol of the city, on display at Maison des avocats
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Toledo and the Tagus River
Roman bridge Puente de Alcántara
Roman Cave of Hercules, part of the sight Subterranean Toledo
A depiction of the Visigothic Toledo compiled in the 10th century Codex Vigilanus.
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Royal Square, late 19th century
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The Necklace of the Stars.


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On the road to a clean combustion engine
(Nanowerk News) Emissions-free combustion engine cars – synthetic fuels like oxymethylene ether are bringing the idea into the realm of the conceivable. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have tested how this kind of fuel behaves in engines and have developed an optimized combustion process.
They generate carbon dioxide, particulate matter and nitrogen oxides: combustion engines are in the cross-hairs of public opinion and many inner cities have already imposed driving bans for certain kinds of diesel-powered vehicles. But synthetic fuels like the group of oxymethylene ethers (OMEs) might hold the answer.
They burn virtually free of undesirable by-products such as soot and hydrocarbons, and thus provide an additional air-quality benefit over other long-standing designer fuels. However, they also have disadvantages: production costs are higher than those of fossil fuels and there are no production facilities available yet.
Dominik Pélerin with the full-engine testbed. (Image: Moritz Ermert / TUM )
The XME Diesel project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics, aims to promote the use of OMEs. Scientists from TUM's Chair of Internal Combustion Engines are also involved in the project. They investigated the behavior of OMEs in engines, the adjustments required to improve combustion efficiency and the degree to which harmful emissions can be reduced in comparison to fossil fuels.
From one cylinder to a full-scale engine
First, the researchers did computer simulations and experiments on a single-cylinder engine testbed. They determined the optimal parameters for efficient combustion. For example, the synthetic fuel has a lower calorific value than diesel, which means more fuel must be injected into the engine to achieve the same performance. The scientists thus adapted the injectors accordingly.
Furthermore, since the synthetic fuel does not produce soot, large amounts of exhaust gas can be recirculated into the engine without contaminating the intake. This approach inhibits the formation of nitrogen oxides because the recirculated exhaust gas prevents very high temperatures during combustion.
Next, the scientists tested the parameters on a full-engine testbed comprising a six-cylinder production engine that was adapted specifically to run on synthetic fuel. The tests on the full engine confirmed the previous results.
Emissions can be reduced to zero
"We determined that using this fuel can significantly reduce pollutant emissions," explains Dr. Martin Härtl, who coordinates the project. "The Euro 6 level, the currently applicable limit, is easily met when using the synthetic fuel. We are also convinced that high-performance exhaust after-treatment can even reduce emissions to almost zero." OME made from waste CO2 – carbon dioxide generated in processes in the steel and cement industries, for example, or in coal and gas-fired plants – and electricity from renewable sources, would even be carbon neutral.
Particularly interesting is the use of OME in vehicles and systems in which internal combustion engines cannot be readily replaced by battery-powered electric drives, explains Härtl. Examples include long haul trucks, energy provision in remote areas and the aviation and shipping sectors.
The tests were carried out as part of the project "XME Diesel – (Bio) Methyl Ethers as Alternative Fuels in Bivalent Diesel Engines," funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy.
Further research in the field of OMEs at the Institute of Internal Combustion Engines is part of the project "OME – Environmentally Friendly Diesel Fuel Additives" (funded by the Agency for Renewable Resources with funds of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture) and the project "Sub-Zero-Emissions Diesel Engine" (funded by the Bavarian Research Foundation).
Source: Technical University of Munich
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Why "Hank" is Short for "Henry," Why "Colonel" is Pronounced "Kernel," and Why We Say "Stat" When We Want Something Done Quickly
March 20, 2014 Daven Hiskey	11 comments
Why "Hank" is Short for "Henry"
This is thought to be thanks to the one time popular suffix "-kin," which is also how "Jack" originally derived from the name "John." Specifically, the suffix "-kin," simply indicated "little," so Robin Hood's "Little John" would have been aptly named "Jockin," which later gave rise to "Jenkin," then "Jakin," and then "Jack," with the former forms literally meaning "Little John."
Similarly, we have "Little Henry" becoming "Henkin," which later gave rise to "Hankin," which was then shortened to just "Hank."
Why "Colonel" is Pronounced "Kernel"
Believe it or not, "colonel" was pronounced more or less the way it originally looked when it was introduced to English. The spelling changed over time to "colonel", while the pronunciation stayed the same as it was before.
"Colonel" ultimately derives from the Latin "columna," meaning "pillar." This gave rise to the Old Italian "compagna colonnella," meaning "little-column company." This, in turn, gave us the rank of "colonnello" -the leader of a column.
Other nations adopted this ranking giving us the Middle French "Coronel." This was pronounced pretty much like it looks at first, then later slurred down to "Kernel" by the English, but using the same spelling.
However, starting with the French around the 1540s, the spelling was changed back closer to the Italian spelling, which gave us "Colonel" in French.
Within a few decades, the English also followed suit and by the mid-seventeenth century, "colonel" was the most common way to spell the word in English. At that time, the common pronunciation was mixed between the older "kernel" and the new "colonel," with the former winning out in the end, despite the way it's spelled.
Why We Say "Stat" When We Want Something Done Quickly
This may seem odd at first glance. After all, common usage of "stat" outside of these instances is referring to statistics. In this case, though, "stat" is not short for "statistics," but rather is from the Latin "statim," meaning "immediately" or "at once."
The first references of the practice of shortening "statim" to "stat" came to us from physicians in the nineteenth century, with the first known documented instance of this appearing in Lessons on Prescriptions by W.H. Griffith (1875).
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Another interesting nickname derivation is how we got "Dick" from "Richard." This is another one of those "knee bone connected to the thigh bone" type progressions. Due to people having to write everything by hand, shortened versions of Richard were common, such as 'Ric' or 'Rich'. This in turn gave rise to nicknames like 'Richie', 'Rick', and 'Ricket', among others. People also used to like to use rhyming names. Thus, someone who was nicknamed Rich might further be nicknamed Hitch. Thus, Richard -> Ric -> Rick gave rise to nicknames like Dick and Hick around the early 13th century.
"Wiki" as used in "Wikipedia," means "quick." Howard G. Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki which was launched in 1995 called "WikiWikiWeb," upon his first visit to Hawaii was informed by an airport employee that he needed to take the "wiki wiki" bus between the airport's terminals. Not understanding what the person was telling him, he inquired further and found out "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian; by repeating the word, it gives additional emphasis and thus means "very quick." He later decided to use this as the name for his new web platform.
It should also be noted that the proper pronunciation of "wiki" is technically "we-key", rather than "wick-ee". However, given the popularity of the mispronunciation of the word, Cunningham and others have long since stopped trying to correct people on the matter.
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Sheogorath
Another diminutive of the name Henry is Harry, and the official name of the UK's Prince Harry is actually Henry, only his name got shortened.
October 30, 2017	12:30 pm
"stat" in medical terms is an acronym for "supersedes tests all types"
Highly dubious. Most acronyms aren't.
Surely the Hank thing is about 'Heinrich'
Nice to hear someone pointing out the wiki pronunciation though. I want to strangle anyone who says wicky.
I don't really believe that John became Jack since the french Jacques, which translates to Jack, comes from Jacob.


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Erika Strassburger wins District 8 special election
Erika Strassburger talks to reporters after greeting friends, family and staff at her victory party after winning Tuesday's special election (Photo by Christian Snyder | Multimedia Editor)
By Christian Snyder, Multimedia Editor
Independent candidate Erika Strassburger will succeed Dan Gilman on Pittsburgh City Council after District 8 voters handed her a decisive victory Tuesday.
Strassburger finished with 64 percent of the vote, more than double her closest opponent, Democratic nominee and East Liberty restaurant owner Sonja Finn, who finished with 28 percent.
Poll workers Tuesday said it was a slow day for the election following Gilman's Jan. 3 resignation to serve as Mayor Bill Peduto's chief of staff. Turnout when polls closed at 8 p.m. was at 14.48 percent, with Strassburger winning the election by 1,696 votes overall.
In her victory speech, Strassburger thanked her volunteers and supporters and reaffirmed her belief that working within communities is the way to success.
"Let's continue that spirit of working together [and] working in our neighborhoods," she said. "We're going to do some great things over the next four years."
Strassburger greets the excited crowd at her victory party. (Photo by Christian Snyder | Multimedia Editor)
Strassburger's victory marks the first time a woman will represent District 8 in Pittsburgh's City Council, which encompasses parts of Oakland, Shadyside, Point Breeze and Squirrel Hill, and represents 31,982 registered voters, according to the Allegheny County Elections Division. Most projections had Strassburger or Finn beating Marty Healy and Rennick Remley, independent and GOP candidates, respectively. Strassburger and Healy both ran for the Democratic nomination, but filed as independents after the party picked Finn.
As the first woman serving District 8, she hopes she can encourage other women and young women to pursue political careers.
"All I can do is pay it forward," she said. "[And] continue to pull other women and young women up to feel as if they have someone they can look to who is in [politics] and that they can do the same."
Despite Finn's endorsement from the Democratic party, she couldn't pull ahead of independent Strassburger, who served as Gilman's chief of staff before he resigned and who has since been fulfilling the duties of office. She'll continue those duties with vigor, she said.
"I don't want to lose sight of the big-picture messages and big-picture ideas that I have," Strassburger said, mentioning managing growth effectively in District 8 and implementing solutions for Pittsburgh Water and Sewage Authority's lead problem.
For Strassburger, "managing growth effectively" deals with the question of how the city should respond to gentrification and growing inequity.
"It's challenging. It ranges from everything from traffic and parking, to property values and rising rents and rising costs," she said. "I want to ensure our neighborhoods remain vibrant and diverse, and that long-time residents can afford to live here, and that also new people moving here can afford to move here, and that it's a diverse set of people living in District 8."
Strassburger raised more than $140,000 since January for her campaign, compared to Finn's roughly $30,000 – a difference that did not go unnoticed.
Strassburger told KDKA in February that she was proud of her fundraising, saying it demonstrated a diverse range of supporters. But Finn questioned it, saying the disparity undermined the democratic intentions of elections. She noted major contributions to Strassburger's campaign including property developer Walnut Capital, which owns the Bakery Square development and recently requested city permission to expand Bakery Square three stories higher than current city ordinances permit.
One of Strassburger's most high-profile supporters was Mayor Bill Peduto, who broke with the Pennsylvania Democratic party and officially endorsed her against Finn. Peduto said he has known Strassburger for more than 10 years, and is confident that her background as an environmental activist and community organizer will aid her as a council member.
"She's been somebody that's challenged our administration, somebody that has worked on all the amendments," he said. "I'm sure we're going to find ways to disagree over the course of the next 4 years, but you won't see the disagreements in the papers or on Twitter. They'll be handled in a way that I think Pittsburghers deserve, which is working together and creating mutual compromise."
Strassburger won nearly 65 percent of the vote, with a 14.5 percent turnout. She will be District 8's first female representative. (Photo by Christian Snyder | Multimedia Editor)
Strassburger doesn't plan on slowing down, saying her upcoming responsibilities are just as urgent as Election Day's were.
"I think it's important to run an office like you're running for office," she said. "Making sure that not just the people who came out for this election are [heard] … there is always something that matters to someone on a local level, whether it's just the sign in front of your street or the big issues like gentrification or inequity."
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27th November 2020 at 8:25am
According to data from Transfermarkt, the Leeds United squad has seen the biggest rise in valuation of any side in the top European leagues over the past year.
In an article by Casumo, the Leeds squad was valued at £79.43m on January 1, 2020.
After coming up to the Premier League with Marcelo Bielsa, it's now worth a staggering £163.19m – a rise of 105.5% or £83.77m.
Kalvin Phillips is the player whose value has risen the most, with Transfermarkt currently valuing him at £19.8m.
Victor Orta might have loosened Andrea Radrizzani's purse strings for the Premier League but before that he had steadily built up a squad of players on a relative shoestring.
Sure, there were some misfires along the way but some of the players that Orta has bought in have been real bargains, like Mateusz Klich (£1.5m), Gjanni Alioski (£2.2m) and Tyler Roberts (£2.5m).
Even before Orta turned up, Leeds were doing good business, signing Luke Ayling for less than £1m.
All of these players are worth many times what they were bought for and we think we've got Marcelo Bielsa to thank for their stars rising.
Bielsa has improved every single player he's worked with at Leeds and some players, like Kalvin Phillips, have had a complete transformation.
He's turned Phillips into an England regular.
And Leeds did some fantastic business over the summer, too, buying Illan Meslier for £5m and Joe Gelhardt for less than £1m.
In Bielsa, Leeds have one of the top five managers in the world (FIFA confirmed this today). In Orta, Leeds have a sporting director who is quickly becoming a force in world football.
In other Leeds United news, 'Push the envelope' – Jim White & Simon Jordan react to exciting new Leeds off-pitch deal
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Tomkins' Law: Only 40% of Transfers Succeed
June 3, 2014 Paul Tomkins
By Paul Tomkins.
The title 'Tomkins' Law' was recently assigned to my transfer theory by Dan Kennett, referring to my observation that only 40% of transfers succeed. (Naming a website after myself may seem vain enough as it is – although it was originally intended to be a solo blog – so I must make it clear that this term was coined by Dan.)
Years ago I'd guessed that only 50% succeeded, but my subsequent analysis of thousands of deals in the Premier League era showed that not even half the deals proved worth the money.
The figure of 40% came from 'TPIC', the Transfer Price Index Coefficient I devised a couple of years ago. The Transfer Price Index's conversion of all Premier League transfer fees to a current value (CTPP) enables comparison across the decades; after all, £7m was a record-breaking transfer fee in the mid'-90s, whereas now it's seen as fairly average; using TPI brings it into line with current big-money deals. (For more on TPI, which I created with Graeme Riley, see here.)
For TPIC (which excluded free transfers) I took all the current transfer prices – for instance, Jaap Stam cost United £38.9m in today's money, Fabrizio Ravenelli set back Boro £35.8m – and assigned values to the number of games started, the percentage of games started, the CTPP paid, the CTPP sold for, as well as the percentage mark-up or loss; the result suggesting that the best-ever Premier League purchase was Arsenal securing Kolo Toure, who cost peanuts, played loads of games and was sold for a staggering 821 times what he cost.
I must at this point explain that if I altered the weightings, for example making pure profit more important than percentage mark-up, then Cristiano Ronaldo would be top; as it was, he ranks 2nd, but not as a player – only as a "deal". As a player we can all agree that he was better than Toure, even though we're comparing apples and oranges. After various tweaks, the final weightings seemed fair – to me at least.
With the latest set of inflation figures, Ronaldo's sale fee surges to an incredible £124m. And since 2012, even though I haven't updated the whole TPI database to TPIC, one signing definitely has leapt from flop to über-success: Gareth Bale's increased starting rate, and his super-high fee meaning that he virtually matches Ronaldo and the elder Toure in the TPIC rankings.
(Out of curiosity I looked at Luis Suarez, and what a hypothetical £100m sale to Real Madrid would do for his TPIC ranking. The result is that he'd surge into the top five, meaning that three of the five best signings would either have been scouted or signed by Damien Comolli. That said, hopefully Suarez is going nowhere. And of course, Comolli also has the stain of Andy Carroll to his name.)
The point I made back in 2012 was that only around 40% of deals were in the black on the TPIC scale, out of a whopping 3,019 Premier League transfers between 1994 and 2012. Now, as I made clear at the time, this wasn't a perfect reflection of whether or not a deal succeeded; all models are wrong, after all, but hopefully this still has some value in giving people an idea of the probability of success and failure.
The problem with TPIC can be seen in a signing like Dwight Yorke, who cost United £46.7m in today's money, yet was sold for a measly £4.9m in the same money, on account of then being in his thirties. That's almost 90% of his fee "lost".
As part of Alex Ferguson's late-'90s four-man rotating strike force, before fading from the picture in his final two seasons, Yorke only started just over half of all possible league games. But was he flop? Certainly not. He scored the goals that won big trophies. (And as TPIC covers all playing positions, it can't really reward goalscoring, because then, for example, Claude Makelele, whose job was never to get beyond the halfway line, ends up unfairly punished. Perhaps a rating system like that used by Who Scored? would work, but then such ideas don't date back very far, so wouldn't work on older deals.)
Despite being a success in the late '90s, in today's money Yorke also represents a loss of over £40m, and while that's something United could afford (not least through trophies and prize-money garnered), other clubs wouldn't have been as able to take a risk on a player who was almost 27 for what, with TPI inflation, ranks as the 19th-biggest transfer of the past 22 years.
However, despite some anomalies, most of the signings at the bottom of the TPIC rankings can be understood as poor buys, just as most at the top worked wonders for their clubs, whether world-class talents like Ronaldo and Thierry Henry, or superb clubmen like Claus Lundekvam and Jussi Jaaskelainen; men who cost little and played hundreds of games, rarely missing out through injury, suspension and loss of form. Jaaskelainen was arguably as important for Bolton as Ronaldo was for United, and that is reflected in the rankings.
Many deals ended up as fairly neutral in TPIC: low purchase price, low percentage of games played, low sale fee. These ghost players clog up the mid-section of the list, joining and leaving clubs while barely being noticed. It has to be remembered that in the age of 25-man squads almost 60% of players will be sitting idle when any given match kicks off; and some of those will have been bought for emergencies that never arise. Players will rotate in and out, but often not 'in' enough to be seen as outright successes. Also, some regular starters will be homegrown, further narrowing the scope for signings to impress. The modern way means that a certain number of signings will inevitably make little impact.
The signings that do succeed spend more time in the XI, with the failures drifting to the fringes. But this isn't a new phenomenon; I first mooted a "50%" rule when writing Dynasty, noticing that Bill Shankly, like Rafa Benítez, signed a roughly equal mix of duds and gems (whilst some other managers signed mostly duds). The only Liverpool manager to sign an exceptionally high number of successes was Bob Paisley, which perhaps partly explains why he won three European Cups.
Overall, approximately just 40% of all signings were in credit once put through the TPIC mincer. This is, to quote Dan Kennett, Tomkins' Law. (Note: players who were still at their clubs were excluded from TPIC as none of their figures are set in stone, and they have no sale fee to include.)
An alternative to ranking players based on fees and appearance data is to subjectively decide if a player did well following a transfer. This is also fraught with perils, as fans will always argue about such conclusions. That said, I wondered how such a method would compare with the 40% success rate seen in TPIC. Hopefully my judgements are valid enough to make it an interesting exercise, although I obviously know some players better than others and expect to have got at least one or two calls wrong.
To make it more manageable I decided to focus only on the top 100 most expensive players signed and sold since 1993 (after applying inflation), plus the 42 most expensive players still at the club at the time of writing (i.e. Wayne Rooney, Fernando Torres, Edin Dzeko, et al. The cheapest of the 42 ranked at £20m; all figures exclude players signed initially on loan. Also, there were 42 players out of the overall top 200 still at their clubs.)
I went through and declared each deal either a success, a failure or merely neutral.
It was easy to label Shevchenko – still the league's most expensive signing (£80.5m in 2014 money) – a flop, just as it was easy to label Rio Ferdinand's move to United a success, even though he cost "£73.3m" and left this summer on a free transfer. I tried not to take the fee into account, but of course it colours perceptions; if Shevchenko cost mere pennies then people would have been less scathing, and yet we can't totally ignore what anyone cost when making a judgement call. Maybe the once-great Shevchenko wasn't that bad, but it's hard to argue a case for him.
Other players were more hit-and-miss, and difficult to label good or bad during their time at that particular club; perhaps they started brilliant and faded, or were slow-burners, or were simply hot and cold from one week to the next.
If I couldn't decide, such as with Mesut Özil, I marked them down as neutral (in that he had bright moments in the season and anonymous periods too; he's a top player, but as yet, not a top signing. Remember, this doesn't take into account anything other than his football for Arsenal to date).
Out of the 142, I rated 40 as flops, 40 as neutral and 62 as successes. Based on my subjective judgements, then even at the expensive end of this transfer spectrum (remember, every player cost £20m or more in 2014 money) it seems that only 44% of deals can be said to be clearly worthwhile.
However, excluding players still at their clubs (such as Özil), it dropped to a precise 40% success rate (which was spooky, given the eponymous law). Of the 42 players still at their clubs I found I'd been more generous, ranking 52.4% as successes; but of course it's far easier to conclusively judge a signing once they've been sold, and there's time to reflect. While I was neutral on Özil, for instance, if he left this summer, especially for a cut-price fee, I think he'd be widely remembered as a flop. By contrast, Juan Mata, playing in a struggling side, did pretty well during half a season at United, and I labelled him a success on that limited sample size. None of this means that they won't get better, or indeed worse, next season.
More Expensive?
What about players who cost more than £30m in today's money? Coincidentally this more-or-less halved the list, from 142 to 69, and there was indeed a difference in the split.
Having paid over £30m (in today's money), the success rate rises from 44% to 53.6%. But even spending such a fortune only bought success just over half the time; little better than a toss of a coin as to whether someone will succeed or fail when looking at the fee alone.
So, what about taking it a step further, and focusing on the deals that cost £40m+?
Again, the success rate rises, but only to 57.7%. Of the 26 players bought for such a fee, there's no escaping Shevchenko, Mutu, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Fernando Torres moving to Chelsea, nor Michael Owen's £47m holiday at Newcastle's physio room. Then there's the painful £44.5m that Liverpool buying Andy Carroll now equates to; a big lump if ever there was one.
Add Juan Sebastian Veron's to United and Jose Antonio Reyes to Arsenal (although Reyes' fee may be lower due to clauses not being met), and it makes for eight serious wastes of money out of 26 "£40m+" deals; or a 'car-crash ranking' of almost a third. (Of course, plenty of the aforementioned players won trophies, but that doesn't mean they were key to those successes, or that it leaves them in credit over the course of the time at their club.)
Half of these 26 mega-deals were signed by Chelsea; 13 players costing over £40m TPI each. Four were fairly disastrous, seven (53.8%) were clear successes, and two were in between.
What's interesting is that only one of these 26 was bought by Man City: Kun Aguero. (Carlos Tevez could perhaps be another, but there's a lot of controversy surrounding his fee, reportedly ranged from £25m at the time to a whopping £47m subsequently; we took it as the first fee but are aware it could be the latter.) City do have a total of thirteen players out of the 69 to cost £30m or more in today's money; Man United have fifteen, while Chelsea again lead the way, with twenty-two.
Liverpool, meanwhile, have just six: Carroll, Cissé, Heskey, Torres, Collymore and Aquilani. Only one of those – Torres – was an undeniable success. Also, bear in mind that the signings of Dean Saunders and Paul Stewart narrowly predate the TPIC years, and they too would be in that price bracket.
If these prices, with inflation added, seem unrealistically high, it's worth noting what now constitutes a really expensive signing, with Gareth Bale almost touching £90m. If Bale is worth £90m, then Ronaldo has to be worth £124m. And with a much bigger TV deal in the Premier League, prices will probably rise again; they always have in the past. So it could be that £4m is the new £2m.
Lambert, No Butler
A couple of years ago I wrote about the value for money of a range of players using TPIC, splitting them down into 16 different age groups. The chart below highlights the results, which shows that 29 is the worst age to purchase a player; they're not yet 30, so they can still command the fee of a twenty-something, yet as with buying a new car, they instantly depreciate the minute the contract is signed.
It's not until the age of 32 – the age of Rickie Lambert – that it becomes more economical. By this stage the fee is negligible, but as seen with Gary McAllister in 2000, some older pros still have a couple of years left in them. Obviously quite a few of these 32+ deals are goalkeepers, who peak much later, but as long as the player remains hungry, and isn't carrying various chronic injuries, then it's worth a punt.
If there's one thing TPIC cannot tell you it's precisely who to sign. Every individual is different, as is every situation they are transferred into. What it will do is show you that mistakes are unavoidable, even if the bank is broken. Of the thirteen transfers that cost over £50m in today's money, less than half – just 46% – worked out well.
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