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Dougherty: Pursuit of Le'Veon Bell suddenly makes sense for Packers
Pete Dougherty
Three months ago, the idea that the Green Bay Packers might trade for Le'Veon Bell was a non-starter.
Not enough bang for the buck for a team that already had Aaron Rodgers and Aaron Jones.
But now, the possibility of pursuing Bell in free agency has to be on the table for general manager Brian Gutekunst. For a couple of reasons.
First, Jones has sprained an MCL three times in the last 13 months. He's a good running back, but that's a big red flag. The Packers can't count on him to stay healthy.
Second, we've seen this season Rodgers needs the help, and Bell, who turns 27 in February, is one of the three or four best running backs in the league. His extra value is as a receiver. Rodgers has been loath to check the ball down, but Bell is an option he'd be eager to utilize.
Yes, it's still early to talk about free-agent targets because the landscape will change plenty between now and the start of the open market in March. Also, among his other considerations, Gutekunst needs immediate help on defense (pass rushers and safety) and the offensive line (guard, right tackle), and he'll want to do some of that in free agency.
If Gutekunst cuts Nick Perry, Jimmy Graham and Bryan Bulaga, he'll have about $55 million in salary-cap room going into next year, according to Over The Cap. That's a lot, but Bell would take a big bite out of it at the expense of another position or three.
The big question is whether the Packers can find a free agent who can make anywhere near Bell's impact. If they can't, they should make a hard run at him.
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Best case for the Packers would be finding a good pass rusher in free agency. The problem is, there very well might not be anyone available worth the money.
Houston's Jadeveon Clowney (17½ sacks in 2017 and '18 combined) and Dallas' Demarcus Lawrence (24 sacks in '17 and '18) are scheduled to be unrestricted free agents. But does anyone really think they won't either sign extensions or get franchised?
Same for Kansas City's Dee Ford (11½ sacks this season), and probably Seattle's Frank Clark (31 sacks since '16) as well.
Detroit's Ziggy Ansah played this season on the franchise tag but has age (30 next season) and injury red flags. Ankle, back and shoulder injuries have dogged him the last two years, and his sacks dropped from 12 last year to four in seven games this season.
Philadelphia's Brandon Graham already is on the wrong side of 30 (turns 31 in April) and has seen his sacks dip from 9½ last year to four this season.
Trey Flowers is young (26 next season), and it's not a given New England will re-sign him. But his 13 sacks the last two seasons don't leap off the page, and he's more of an inside rusher than outside.
The only safety worth a big-money contract is the New York Giants' Landon Collins. He was just voted to his third straight Pro Bowl. But ESPN has reported that the Giants will franchise him if they don't sign him to an extension.
On the offensive line, I'm betting Gutekunst will bargain shop for help at guard and right tackle, rather than spend big. He also could take a lineman with one of his four picks in the top three rounds of the draft.
In other words, Bell might be the free agent who far and away could make the biggest impact on the Packers. And he will be available, even if the Pittsburgh Steelers put the transition tag on him hoping to make a trade.
The question then is, at what price?
Bell has plenty of miles on him – his 1,229 touches from 2013-17 ranked second in the league over that time, behind LeSean McCoy – but added none this season while sitting out after refusing to sign the Steelers' franchise tender ($14.544 million).
He's a difference maker – he was named first-team All-Pro twice in his five seasons in the league and was the first NFL player to put up 4,000 yards rushing and 2,000 yards receiving in his first 50 games.
But he has a reputation for not being a team guy. It's telling that several Steelers offensive linemen (Ramon Foster, Maurkice Pouncey and David DeCastro) had no qualms going public with their heavy criticisms when Bell chose to sit out the season.
There are also questions about Bell's maturity. He has twice been suspended under the NFL's substance-abuse policy – he was busted for marijuana possession in 2014 (two-game suspension in '15) and missed multiple drug tests in '16 (three games). He might be subject to a longer suspension if he tests positive again, depending on whether he has completed the NFL's drug program.
The good and bad make it tough to project Bell's market. In a column last month, Jason LaCanfora of CBS Sports reported that several NFL general managers and salary-cap analysts questioned whether Bell will get what he's believed to be seeking in free agency: a $16 million to $17 million average and $40 million guaranteed. Several were quoted as saying he's more likely to be in the $12 million to $13 million range in average pay.
But in free agency, it only takes one. As a scout I talked with this week put it, "I think he'll have a good market because it's not a good free-agent class."
For context, Todd Gurley became the NFL's highest-paid running back this year with his four-year extension that averages $14.375 million. Arizona's David Johnson is next with his three-year extension that averages $13.3 million. But that's just new money. Gurley's real average is $11.5 million, and Johnson's is $10.22 million.
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There are a lot of ways to break down these contracts and assess their worth, based on guarantees and the like. To make it simple, we'll put it like this: Gurley's deal will pay him $26.95 million over the first two years and $40 million over the first three. Johnson's is $20.6 million over the first two and $31.8 million over the first three.
Neither of them had the leverage of being on the open market, but they don't have Bell's baggage, either. Gurley also is younger at a position that ages fast (he'll be only 25 next season).
So what to pay Bell if you're the Packers? If he can be had for $30 million over the first two years, the Packers should seriously consider it. Would that get it done, or will someone offer more? We won't know until March.
Of course, that's all assuming there's not a pass rusher Gutekunst thinks is worthy. He doesn't have the money to sign both. There'd be nothing left over to shore up the rest of the roster.
There are always risks in free agency, and there would be here. But the Packers will have the money, and Bell just might be worth a big swing.


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As government, State and Labour Party officials come under pressure to condemn and dissociate themselves from Labour hate groups on Facebook exposed by The Shift News on Monday, officials are falsely claiming ignorance of their membership of the hate groups and many remain active members.
Planning Consultant in the Office of the Prime Minister Robert Musumeci reacted to the hate group investigations by tweeting "[t]he holier than thou are making a fuss out of the @facebook groups where users are roped in without prior knowledge. Very rich coming from the same ppl who used to post anonymous online venom for while [sic] 10 years!".
The Shift News showed Musumeci tripled his ODZ success rate since being appointed by the Prime Minister in May 2013.
Musumeci, who is Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera's partner (and she is the sister of Environment Minister Jose Herrera), is tagged repeatedly by various group members, which would send notifications to his personal Facebook account, and also shares his own posts from his personal account directly to the hate groups.
Musumeci's tweet is 'liked' by another consultant in the Prime Minister's Office, Neville Gafa, who was reported to the Malta Police Force for stalking Daphne Caruana Galizia a few hours before her 16 October assassination. Gafa is an intensive user of the hate groups, continuously sharing his own posts from his personal account directly into the hate groups.
Responding to questions from The Times of Malta on Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's membership of the online hate groups, a spokesman repeated Musumeci's defence, saying that Facebook profiles could be added to groups without the user being made aware. The Prime Minister avoided the question by the press of whether he was still a member – a question then answered by The Shift News.
The OPM line of defence is false; particularly with secret or closed groups like the ones in question, the user needs to be invited by someone who is both a member of the group and friends with the user and, in addition, an administrator needs to approve the invitation.
Once accepted, the user would be notified that their invitation has been accepted and added to the group. As many of the people involved actively engage including sharing posts into these groups and are repeatedly tagged in posts this "defence" becomes moot.
The Prime Minister and his chief of staff Keith Schembri were still members of the hate groups on Monday, a week after The Shift News published its six-month investigation that revealed secret and closed groups totalling some 60,000 members that are a breeding ground for hate speech and the targeting of citizens, journalists, political opponents and the family of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The Shift News gained access to the secret groups with the help of whistleblowers.
Message encouraging supporters to comment and like posts on Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, saying he is seeing them.
While the President left the hate groups two days after The Shift News published its investigation, claiming she was "surprised" to discover her membership of these groups, her hate group membership has been publicly known for eight years. Caruana Galizia had written two posts on the President's membership – one in March 2010 and another in May 2017.
Senior government officials, including finance minister Edward Scicluna, are still actively using the hate groups to promote themselves. Scicluna, who reacted to Pilatus Bank Chairman and CEO Ali Sadr Hasheminejad's US arrest by saying "U ejja, come on. You're going to ask these questions so early in the morning?", has a long history of posting self-promotional material across the hate groups in what can be described as spamming.
Labour Party MP and communications coordinator in the Prime Minister's Office Rosianne Cutajar reacted to The Shift News' investigation in parliament last week in a lengthy speech that defended the groups while laying the blame for hate speech in these groups with Caruana Galizia.
Cutajar's speech was shared in the hate group Laburisit sal-Mewt (Labour until Death), receiving comments of praise and of thanks from Cutajar herself.
Hate group administrator Angele Camilleri, who hate-baits group members with photographs of anti-corruption activists and who was just put on the Labour Party ticket for the local council elections, thanked Cutajar "for supporting us.in the name of my group members" and again "for supporting [our groups] in parliament".
The Shift News has also been critical of Facebook posts in PN online groups used to push support for the PN Leader and silence criticism. Yet, the Labour groups are closely linked to the government and are in effect publicly funded, being run by staff at the Justice and Education ministries.
One of the largest groups is also co-administered by the Labour official page, Generazzjoni li jmiss (next generation), providing evidence of Party and State melding into one. The scale and coordination of pro-Labour groups involving government officials poses a real danger to freedom of expression and the rule of law in Malta.


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Worcestershire CCC Academy player Josh Haynes has been selected for the Super Fours which will be held from August 23 to 27 at the National Performance Centre in Loughborough.
It is a second Super Fours call-up for left arm spinner Haynes who has been chosen to represent the Midlands in what is in effect the Under-17s equivalent of the Bunburys.
Last year Josh Haynes was one of six Worcestershire players who helped the Midlands to win the prestigious tournament.
Four of those players in Ben Twohig, Josh Tongue, Zen Malik and Josh Dell were recently selected for the England Under-19s squad against Sri Lanka Under-19s.
The other member, Nick Hammond, this week scored a century and 73 for the Academy in 50 over matches against Ireland Under-17s at Stourbridge.
Two other Worcestershire players in pace bowler Adam Finch and batsman George Newton are on stand-by for the Midlands and the North respectively.
Newton qualifies for the North as opposed to the Midlands after being nominated by his county Cheshire.
Players qualify for the Super-Fours by initially being nominated as potential candidates by their respective academy coaches-directors.
They are watched by national scouts and then scouts and selectors from each region before the eventual squad is chosen at a final trial.


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Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (13 October 1566 – 15 September 1643), also known as the Great Earl of Cork, was an English politician who served as Lord Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland.

Lord Cork was an important figure in the continuing English colonisation of Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he acquired large tracts of land in plantations in Munster in southern Ireland. Moreover, his sons played an important role in fighting against the Irish Catholic rebellion in the 1640s and 1650s, assisting in the victory of the British and Protestant interests in Ireland.

In addition to being the first Earl of Cork, he was the patriarch of the Boyle family through his many prominent descendants, whose titles included Earl of Orrery (1660), Earl of Burlington (1664) and Earl of Shannon (1756).

Background
Boyle was born at Canterbury on 13 October 1566, the second son of Roger Boyle (d. 24 March 1576 at Preston, near Faversham in Kent), a descendant of an ancient landed Herefordshire family, and of Joan (15 October 1529 –20 March 1586), daughter of John Naylor, who were married in Canterbury on 16 October 1564. Both his parents are interred in an alabaster tomb at the upper end of the chancel of the parish church of Preston. His elder brother was John Boyle, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.

Young Boyle went to The King's School, Canterbury, at the same time as Christopher Marlowe. His university education began at Bennet (Corpus Christi) College, Cambridge, England, in 1583. After this he studied law at the Middle Temple in London and became a clerk to Sir Roger Manwood, Kt., who was then the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

Before completing his studies, Boyle decided "to gain learning, knowledge, and experience abroad in the world" and left London for a new start in Ireland. He arrived in Dublin on 23 June 1588 with just over £27 (equivalent to £ in ),as well as a gold bracelet worth £10 (£ in ), and a diamond ring (given to him by his mother at her death and which he wore all his life), besides some fine clothing, and his "rapier and dagger".

In 1590 he obtained the appointment of deputy Escheator to John Crofton, the Escheator-General. On 6 November 1595, he married Joan Apsley, the daughter and co-heiress of William Apsley of Limerick, one of the council to the first President of the province of Munster. This marriage brought Boyle an estate of £500 a year (equivalent to £ in ), which he continued to receive until at least 1632.

Joan died at Mallow, County Cork on 14 December 1599 during childbirth (the son was still-born). Both were buried in Buttevant church, County Cork.

It is said by his detractors that unlike many of his other close relatives whom he took great care to commemorate, he took no trouble to have Joan commemorated after her death, leading to the conviction among some that his (in every sense) monumental commemorative endeavours were entirely practical (in terms of securing his personal objectives) rather than sentimental (her connections being of no direct use to him after her death).

Political career
Boyle by this time had been the object of the attacks of Sir Henry Wallop, Treasurer at War, Sir Robert Gardiner, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Sir Robert Dillon, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, and Sir Richard Bingham, Chief Commissioner of Connaught, a demonstration, said Boyle, of their envy of his success and increasing prosperity.

Boyle was arrested on charges of fraud and collusion with the Spanish (essentially accusations of covert papist infiltration, a treasonable offence for an official in Queen Elizabeth I's Protestant civil service) in his office. He was thrown into prison (at least once by Sir William FitzWilliam in about 1592) several times during this episode. He was about to leave for England to justify himself to Queen Elizabeth I, when there was a rebellion in Munster in October 1598, and "all my lands were wasted" which once again returned him to poverty. The Nine Years War arrived in Munster with Irish rebels from Ulster, who were joined by locals who had lost land to English settlers. Boyle was forced to flee to Cork for safety.

This turn of events left him obliged to return to London and his chambers at The Temple. At this point, he was almost immediately taken into the service of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

Henry Wallop then renewed his prosecution of Boyle. Boyle was summoned to appear at the Court of Star Chamber. In the proceedings, Boyle's adversaries seem to have failed to substantiate their accusations. Boyle had somehow managed to secure the attendance of Queen Elizabeth I herself at the proceedings, and he successfully exposed some misconduct on the part of his adversaries.

Elizabeth famously said: "By God's death, these are but inventions against the young man" and she also said he was "a man fit to be employed by ourselves".

He was immediately appointed Clerk of the Council of Munster by Elizabeth I in 1600. In December 1601, Boyle brought to Elizabeth the news of the victory near Kinsale.

In October 1602, Boyle was again sent over by Sir George Carew, the president of Munster, on Irish affairs. He was knighted at St Mary's Abbey, near Dublin, by Carew on 25 July 1603. the same day that he married his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton, Principal Secretary of State. In 1606 he was appointed as Privy Councillor for Munster and in 1612 as Privy Councillor for Ireland.

Acquisition of property, rank, and titles

In 1602, Richard Boyle bought Sir Walter Raleigh's estates of  for £1,500 (£ in ) in the counties of Cork (including Myrtle Grove), Waterford (including Lismore Castle) and Tipperary. He made these purchases on the insistence of Sir George Carew. Boyle made Lismore Castle his principal seat after purchasing it and turned it into a magnificent residence with impressive gabled ranges on each side of the courtyard. He also built a crenellated outer wall and a gatehouse known as the Riding Gate for the castle. The principal apartments of the castle were decorated with fretwork plaster ceilings, tapestry hangings, embroidered silks, and velvet. Boyle also had a substantial residence at Youghal, besides Myrtle Grove, known today as "The College", close to the Collegiate Church of St Mary Youghal. Order on the Boyle estates was maintained in 13 castles which were garrisoned by retainers. The town of Clonakilty was formally founded in 1613 by him when he received a charter from King James I of England.

Boyle was then returned as a burgh commissioner (Member of Parliament) for Lismore in the Irish Parliament of 1614, (held at Dublin Castle) on 18 May 1614. He ascended to the Irish Peerage as Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghal on 6 September 1616.

Lord Boyle claimed to have built the town of Bandon in County Cork, but in fact, the town was planned and built by Henry Beecher, John Archdeacon, and William Newce. The land on which Bandon was built had been granted by Queen Elizabeth I to Phane Beecher in 1586, and inherited by his eldest son Henry who then sold it to Boyle in November 1618. In Bandon, Boyle founded iron-smelting and linen-weaving industries and brought in English settlers, many from Bristol.

Lord Boyle was created Earl of Cork and Viscount Dungarvan on 26 October 1620. He then occupied the office of Sheriff from 1625 to 1626. On 26 October 1629, he was appointed as a Lord Justice, and on 9 November 1631, he became the Lord Treasurer of Ireland. Although he was not a Peer in the English Parliament, it is nonetheless recorded that he was "by writ called into the Upper House by His Majesty's great grace", and he subsequently took up the honoured position of an "assistant sitting on the inside of the Woolsack."

Oliver Cromwell is reported to have said of Lord Cork 'If there had been an Earl of Cork in every province, it would have been impossible for the Irish to have raised a rebellion.' One of Lord Cork's major political allies during the era was Piers Crosby.

It is a mistake to see Lord Cork's 'empire' as merely being exclusively confined to the development of the 'Raleigh estates': for instance, his acquisition of the entirety of the town of Bandon was not completed until 1625. Other towns which also form part of Lord Cork's municipal development legacy (which records employment of over 4,000 people during his lifetime) include Midleton, Castlemartyr, Charleville and Doneraile.

By 1636, Lord Cork had opted to live in the West Country to see out the rest of his days. He purchased from The 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, for £5,000, the manor of Stalbridge in Dorset which became his English seat, and in 1637, he laid out a further £20,000 for Temple Coombe Manor, close by in Somerset. Lord Cork, at the insistence of the Howards, also bought Annery House near Bideford in 1640 for £5000. The Earl was most delighted with Annery House and the living that came with the estate; he was also delighted that he could easily travel to Youghal from Bideford. Annery House was left to his sixth son Francis Boyle upon his death in 1643. Lord Cork had also been left the manor of Salcombe in Devon by his friend Thomas Stafford, the illegitimate son of George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes. Salcombe, along with Halberton Manor, was also left to his son Francis and his wife Elizabeth Killigrew.

Boyle's adversaries
The Great Earl's most famous enemy was Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Strafford arrived in Ireland in 1633 as Lord Deputy, and at first successfully deprived Boyle of much of his privilege and income. Boyle patiently husbanded forces in opposition to Strafford's Irish program and this successful political manoeuvering by Boyle was an important factor in Strafford's demise. It may be said in defence of Boyle that he would have been quite prepared to work amicably with Strafford, had Strafford not quickly made it clear that he saw Boyle as an "over-mighty subject",whose power must be curbed, if not crushed entirely. Boyle initially made friendly overtures, and tried to establish a family link by marrying his eldest son  Roger to Elizabeth Clifford, a niece of Strafford's first wife, but soon abandoned any hope of an amicable relationship.

An illuminating example of the humiliations to which Wentworth subjected Boyle, was the instance where he forced Boyle to remove his wife's tomb from the choir in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He was also prosecuted in the Court of Castle Chamber, the Irish equivalent of Star Chamber, for alleged misappropriation of the funds of Youghal College.

Archbishop William Laud delighted in Wentworth's attacks on Boyle and wrote: "No physic better than a vomit if it be given in time, and therefore you have taken a very judicious course to administer one so early to my Lord of Cork. I hope it will do him good".

Laud and Wentworth shared, with King Charles I, the same fate as many others, who at some time in their lives, found reasons to conspire against Boyle: an early demise. With Boyle showing his customary astuteness by putting on a convincing show of politically appropriate response at every crucial juncture. His one serious miscalculation was his failure to anticipate the Irish Rebellion of 1641.

Boyle made an entry concerning Wentworth in his diary: "A most cursed man to all Ireland and to me in particular".

At Wentworth's trial, Boyle was a key witness, but he did not take any other direct part in the prosecution itself. Unsurprisingly, he was in full support of the condemnation of Wentworth and wholeheartedly approved of his execution: he made a grim entry in his diary: "Lord Strafford was beheaded on the Tower Hill, as he well deserved".

From his children, Boyle expected obedience, although he was a genuinely affectionate father, and far more forgiving of opposition from them than from his political enemies. Lady Mary, "my unruly daughter" angered her father by refusing to marry Lord Clanbrassil on the rather modern ground that she found him repulsive, and again by marrying the future Earl of Warwick, who was then a penniless younger son, against her father's wishes; but they were soon reconciled and he furnished her with a generous dowry.

Boyle died at Youghal in September 1643, having been chased off his lands in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. His sons, however, recovered the family estates after the suppression of the rebellion.

Boyle's "philosophical" legacy
Lord Cork has been described as the "first colonial millionaire".

Historian Roy Foster, in his Modern Ireland, calls him an 'epitome of Elizabethan adventurer-colonist in Ireland'.

The Boyle motto is: 'God's Providence is my inheritance'.

Lord Cork's theopolitical philosophy has been described as 'providentialist' when contrasted with its counterpart which prevailed to the north in parts of Ulster at the time, which is more typically characterised as Presbyterian.

Such a comparison of these two standpoints is neither exclusively religious nor secular, a factor which perhaps offers some small insight as to how Lord Cork managed to achieve what seems now the extraordinary feat of gaining strong favour at various times with the leaders on either side of the English Civil War.

Issue

By his second wife, Catherine Fenton, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton and his wife Alice Weston, the 1st Earl of Cork had fifteen children:

Roger Boyle (1 August 1606, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland–10 October 1615, Deptford, Kent, England, where he was buried).
Lady Alice Boyle (1607–1667), married David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, then after his death, married John Barry, of Liscarroll, co Cork, Ireland.
Lady Sarah Boyle (1609–1633), married Sir Thomas Moore, then after his death married Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby.
Lady Lettice Boyle (1610–1657), married Colonel George Goring, Lord Goring.
Lady Joan Boyle (1611–1657), married George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare ("the Fairy Earl").
Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork and 1st Earl of Burlington (1612–1698), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (1660–1695).
Lady Katherine Boyle (1615–1691), married Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh.
Hon. Geoffrey Boyle
Lady Dorothy Boyle, married Sir Arthur Loftus of Rathfarnham and was the mother of Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne.
Lewis Boyle, 1st Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky (1619–1642), succeeded under special remainder by his older brother Richard.
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (1621–1679)
Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon
Lady Mary Boyle, married Charles Rich, 4th Earl of Warwick.
Hon. Robert Boyle (1627–1691), author of The Sceptical Chymist; considered to be the father of modern chemistry.
Lady Margaret Boyle

Boyle erected an elaborate monument to himself, his wives, his mother, and his children in The Collegiate Church of St Mary Youghal, County Cork and there is a similar but much larger Boyle monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. His elder brother John is also buried in the tomb.

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Wedgwood,  C.V. "Thomas  Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford-a Revaluation" Phoenix Press reissue  2000

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Focus on usability and user experience. You want your website to have more than just a great design. You need to make sure that visitors to your site are able to navigate around the website easily, find the information they are seeking, and contact you quickly to ask questions. A well-designed website is more likely to prompt visitors to explore and to potentially reach out to your firm to find out more about the legal services that you can offer.
Don't let another year go by without making your website the best it can be. Resolve to take these concrete steps as part of your New Year's resolutions in 2016.


MIRAMAR (CBSMiami) – There's been a deadly dog attack in Miramar and the victim is a young child.
According to Miramar Fire officials, they received a call regarding an animal bite for a pediatric patient at a home located at 2420 Kingston Drive.
When fire officials arrived, it was determined their services were not needed. The child was not transported.
Miramar Police has confirmed that the child killed was an 8-month-old female.
The girl was in the care of her grandmother, police say.
The girl's mother could be seen crying in front of the home. She spoke about her daughter, Liana.
The dog is a spotted brown pit bull that the family has owned for 3-to-4 years.
It was taken away by animal control.
Investigators say the child's grandmother had been watching her when the attack happened.
"The 8-month-old female baby was in the bedroom at the time of this horrific attack in a bouncy chair, inside a bedroom when this attack occurred," said Yesenia Diaz with the Miramar Police Department.
The girl's mother told CBS4 she was at work when her daughter was attacked.
There were two other dogs in the house. They were also taken by animal control as police investigate what happened.
Vallasin is stunned, finding it hard to believe her little girl is gone.


Happy New Year, Lovelies! I hope you all had a wonderful and restful Christmas and New Years! I took a week or so off from blogging and regularly posting on social media, and it was much needed. Between spending time with family, friends, and hosting a few parties this last week there just wasn't much time to blog. I also wanted to soak up a little down time to rest and recharge my batteries. I thought it would be fun to take a look back at your favorite posts from 2017 (according to the analytics) to kick off this new year.
You guys LOVED my "office" tour and I am so glad you did! This was actually the first post that I shared with you all of our new apartment that we had moved into back in 2016. I love this apartment but it's lack of space poses a challenge so I had to get creative with coming up with an office space. Because the office is actually in our living room, I wanted the decor to coordinate with the rest of the room so that everything flowed design wise. Now I have to be honest, I expected that we would get a lot of use out of this area, but we don't. It's kind of become the catch all area, but so it goes.
Turns out that you all love a festive bar cart as much as I do!!! I think Valentine's Day is one of the best holidays to deck out the bar cart because I don't put up any other Valentines related decor so I really let the bar cart shine. February always feels like such a pick me up after a long dull month of January dreariness.
It's no secret, people go C R A Z Y for Lilly Pulitzer, myself included! My friend Amy Beth Campbell and I teamed up in March to give away one of the Starbucks x Lilly x Swell water bottles that we (and the rest of the country went cray cray for). If you haven't had a chance to read the story you totally should because it's a funny one, you can read it in this Lilly Pulitzer + Starbucks post. Coming in at a close second place was my spring cleaning tips that I shared. I really loved this post because I love sharing tips and tricks that work for me. This post in particular actually sparked my "tips and tricks" section on the blog.
I don't know about you guys, but I don't care for March and April…like at all. My allergies are terrible and the weather is just plain weird that time of year. It feels like this awkward inbetween stage to me. That's why I had to do something that perked me up a little bit more about that time of year by creating a fun Easter tablescape. I loveeeeeee the colors in this table and just how the entire tablescape turned out.
This post has been the most popular through Google search, and that makes me happy because that means so many others love fiddles as much as I do. If you have a fiddle then you know how finicky they can be which is why I knew I had to share my tips after keeping mine alive. I LOVE when readers message me saying their fiddle is thriving after following my tips and tricks.
This is one of my personal favorite posts because it forced me to reflect on the things I've learned and taken to heart in my twenties. If you haven't had a chance to read it yet, then you totally should because I think there are some great lessons in there. Some of the lessons were not easy ones that I learned but I feel like they have made a huge impact on my life once I learned them.
This was actually the only post from July because I was busy working on the back end to relaunch A Married Adventure. July is also one of those months mid-year where it's nice to take a little break, catch your breath, and enjoy the ample amounts of sunshine.
Words cannot even describe how excited and happy I was to relaunch my new website design! I think it's safe to say that you all loved it too because my traffic sky rocketed after launching the new design. It's no secret that I actually don't like the name A Married Adventure as much as I used to, so having a pretty new website was just what I needed to hold me over until I change the blog name entirely.
Hands down, this was the most popular post from September! I can't say I'm surprised, because I'm obsessed with Chip and Jo, just like the rest of the country. Seriously though, who doesn't love themselves a little (or a lot) of this Fixer Upper couple?! Every time I watch Fixer Upper I tell Ryan that I could totally live in Waco to have a house like one of the Fixer Upper reveals. Only to then remind myself that I'm a California girl and don't think I could actually ever leave….unless it was for Charleston.
October was full of a few of my favorite blog posts, so if it were up to me I would pick them all to share. Stats wise, tips for working from home was the most popular. If you work from home then you know how challenging it can be to say focused and on task. This reason alone is why I think this post did so well. I'm happy I was able to help all your productivity levels. My personal favorite post from October was To Do A First Look Or Not. If you're a bride-to-be and on the fence about whether to do a first look or not you should read this post.
To date, my living room home tour has been one of the most popular blog posts. That means y'all love home decor as much as I do. I love seeing peaks into other bloggers lives and homes and I absolutely loved sharing a peak into the Pizante home. Our apartment is small but I still have a few home tour posts up my sleeve. Coming this year is our, bedroom, kitchen, and possible entry way if I can get good enough pictures of the entry space (it's narrow and hard to photograph). So stay tuned for those!
Black Friday with Serena & Lily is another one of my personal favorite posts because it was a dream brand collaboration for me. I have swooned and admired Serena & Lily for years now so for them to reach out to me was another serious "pinch me" moment. This Brahms Mount Herringbone Throw has also become my favorite throw blanket!
I was so excited when I shared my living room home tour with you all, but may have been even more excited when I shared my holiday home tour because Christmastime is my absolute favorite. This year in particular I really loved my tree! I loved the colors that adorned it, how those colors matched the overall look of our living room, and that it didn't give me allergies.
I'm excited to see what 2018 has in store for me blogging, professionally, and personally. I feel like it's going to be full of changes and really embarking on new journeys, whatever those journeys may be. I'm currently working on both my personal and blogging goals that I will be sharing with you all here on A Married Adventure once I have them ready to go. I'm also working on a post about where I want this little blog of mine to go in the new year and what that will look like for all of you. I'm also working on my content calendar ( I use that term roughly). I'm really just figuring out what kind of content I want to post, eliminate, and then figure out what months I want to post it in. I can't wait to share it all with you!


Normally that wouldn't be a problem. But it was my Bible study morning.
I was in charge of the prayer request notebook, which was sitting in my living room.
As much as I wanted to be at the Bible study, I needed to be home.
I had less than an hour to try to contact the Women's Ministry Director while trying to get our youngest son dropped off at school.
At every red light I pulled out my phone and searched my emails for a phone number.
The only thing I could think of at the time was to send an email and to pray that she would check it before the study started.
Unfortunately she didn't see it.
I should have put her info in my cell phone the very first day of our Bible study meeting.
It was probably on the first day agenda that she had passed out. But I didn't know where that was either.
Admittedly, failing to collect and send out the prayer requests wasn't a "huge" deal, but I would have preferred to let them know I wasn't coming so someone else could have taken over that duty for the day.
Thankfully I wasn't the Bible study leader or a childcare worker.
A sick child may need to be retrieved from school.
A migraine or vertigo could strike suddenly leaving them unable to drive.
A family emergency may require them to bail as your group leader, event coordinate, hostess, or other role.
A garage door may refuse to close (true story!), a car may not start, or their bicycle may have a flat tire (true too!).
Women on your Women's Ministry Team, your event team, and in your Bible studies and small groups need to be able to get ahold of you.
Do they have your cell phone number? If you think they do, that's great! How many times have you given it to them?
The very best way to make sure your women can reach you if an emergency arises is to include your contact information on all communication. Add your cell number right below your name.
I suggest that you always distribute your contact information at your first Women's Ministry Team meeting or first Bible Study meeting. You may even want to give them a moment to add you to their contact list in their phone.
My first and last name.
My cell number, home number, and email address.
Any other pertinent info – web addresses for resources, expectations, etc.
When a new girl is added to your team or group, pull a copy of that initial information sheet out of your binder and give it to them. It's as simple as keeping a few extra copies with you.
Your women have a lot on their plates. Do what you can to make it easy to contact you if they need to.
What a great ministry and support opportunity! Hope this helps you to get the word out!
This is great information. It made me think about our group, which is an adoption support group, and wanting local churches to know that our ministry exists. Do you have any posts about advertising an event beyond our local church and into the community??


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Hagebüchen ist eine Hofschaft in Halver im Märkischen Kreis im Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Deutschland).

Lage und Beschreibung
Hagebüchen liegt südlich des Halveraner Hauptortes auf 410 Meter über Normalnull am Rande des Waldgebiets Bommert. Die Nachbarorte sind Hagebücherhöh, Wilhelmshöh, Wegerhof, Auf der Mark und Schulten Hedfeld.

Der Ort ist über eine Nebenstraße zu erreichen, die bei Hagebücherhöh von der Landesstraße L284 abzweigt und die Ortschaften im südlichen Halver anbindet. In Hagebüchen entspringt der Hagebüchener Siepen, ein Zufluss des Schultenhedfelder Bachs.

Westlich vom Ort befindet sich das ehemalige Grubenfeld Ennepe.

Geschichte
Hagebüchen wurde erstmals 1552 urkundlich erwähnt, die Entstehungszeit der Siedlung wird aber im Zeitraum zwischen 1300 und 1400 in der Folge der zweiten mittelalterlichen Rodungsperiode vermutet. Vermutlich ist Hagebüchen ein Abspliss von Burg.

1818 lebten zehn Einwohner im Ort. 1838 gehörte Hagebüchen der Bommerter Bauerschaft innerhalb der Bürgermeisterei Halver an. Der laut der Ortschafts- und Entfernungs-Tabelle des Regierungs-Bezirks Arnsberg als Hof kategorisierte Ort besaß zu dieser Zeit drei Wohnhäuser, zwei Fabriken bzw. Mühlen und drei landwirtschaftliche Gebäude. Zu dieser Zeit lebten 13 Einwohner im Ort, allesamt evangelischen Glaubens.

Das Gemeindelexikon für die Provinz Westfalen von 1887 gibt eine Zahl von 16 Einwohnern an, die in drei Wohnhäusern lebten.

Nördlich von Hagebüchen verlief auf der Trasse der heutigen Landesstraße L284 eine Altstraße von Köln über Wipperfürth, Halver, Lüdenscheid, Werdohl und Arnsberg nach Soest, ein mittelalterlicher (nach anderen Ansichten frühgeschichtlicher) Handels-, Pilger- und Heerweg. Aus diesem Grund finden sich nordwestlich von Hagebüchen im Waldgebiet Bommert Hohlwegbündel und den Weg sperrende Landwehren.

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Ortsteil von Halver
Ersterwähnung 1552


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Remember those briefings from Remainer ministers that 40 of them might quit if Theresa May didn't allow her front bench free votes on Tuesday?
Call me old-fashioned, but I must have missed the consequent resignations when this didn't happen. I don't know about you, but I'm getting slightly fed up with self-indulgent ministers who go on the media and whine about resigning if they don't get their own way. (I discussed this in last week's column.)
They should all be called in to see Julian Smith for interviews without coffee, and told that any repetition will lead to their instant dismissal. If a Chief Whip can't control Ministers, then none of us can be blamed for writing about chaos at the heart of government.
"There once was an MP called Cooper
Who for the cause of Remain was a trooper
Yet for their whinge and her wail
She just couldn't derail –
So we leave on the 29th, which is just super"
(h/t @BenStoneham)
On Monday night, I wrote an open letter on my blog to the European Research Group, and emailed it to most Conservative MPs.
The main thrust of it was to urge them to vote for Graham Brady's amendment, and to say that their antics were threatening to derail Brexit by leaving the Prime Minister with little alternative but to apply to extend Article 50 beyond 29 March. My fear is that once it is extended, it could lead to Brexit never happening. I won't rehearse the arguments here, but suffice it to say I didn't pull any punches. I was expecting quite a volcanic response.
Instead, I was assailed by text after text, email after email from Conservative MPs – including members of the ERG – saying that I was bang on, and that they agreed with me. It demonstrated to me that even though Jacob Rees-Mogg and Steve Baker like to present the ERG to the media as a cohesive group, which votes as a slate, this is far from the case.
It's all very well for them to say we should leave with No Deal, but I'm afraid this implies that they can't count. As the passing of the Spelman/Dromey amendment proved, Parliament will do anything to prevent us leaving on 29 March without a deal.
Clearly, the rest of the votes on Tuesday weakened the hands of the second referendum campaigners and those who think they can thwart Brexit. But make no mistake, this week isn't the end of the parliamentary battle. Only at 11pm on 29 March, assuming we leave, will it be over.
I've been given an exclusive insight into Theresa May's meeting with Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday. Here's the transcript of their conversation…
TM: Thank you Jeremy. Glad you could make it at last. By the way, what's that tape measure for?
JC: Oh, Laura asked me to measure the curtains. Anyway, Prime Minister, to the subject at hand: how are you intending to support my good friend Nicolas Maduro?
TM: No, Jeremy, we're to discuss the Withdrawal Agreement…
JC: I totally agree. You must persuade Donald Trump to withdraw his sanctions against Senor Maduro's regime. It's what Hugo would want.
TM: I don't know what Mr Swire has got to do with anything, but we really must find a way through…
JC: I totally agree. I think it would be great if you could divert £1 billion from the aid budget. In fact, Nicolas has given me this bank account number…
TM: Thank you Jeremy, but I really must insist we talk about what you need from me to support our deal. More workers' rights? Guarantees on the environment? What's your price.
JC: I just told you.
TM: You're caracas.
Imagine the outcry if a Conservative or UKIP MEP had been found to have charged constituents 150 Euros to visit them in Brussels. They'd have been metaphorically torn limb from limb by the UK media, including the BBC.
Last week, Politico revealed that's exactly what the CDU MEP Elmar Brok, so beloved by Newsnight and the BBC, had been doing. On Wednesday, the BBC reported his words reacting to Theresa May's intention to reopen the backstop.
Katya Adler, their Europe Editor, tweeted: "Elmar Brok, MEP, bursts into English to appeal to UK MPs "Please talk to each other in London before you come to us. We're united (in EU), you're not (in UK)!"
She then followed up with this tweet: "Elmar Brok, German MEP appeals to UK for rational dialogue and warns a no deal Brexit will be toughest of all on the UK. To which UK MEP shouts "Auf Wiedersehen!"
Does anyone really think if this had been a scandal-hit British Conservative MP, he or she would have been quoted about anything? I've interviewed Brok on my show a few times. It won't be happening again. Schade.
If you're into podcasts, do download Matt Forde's Political Party podcast with Alastair Campbell and Adam Boulton. They talk about their famous incident just after the 2010 election, as well as tell some wonderful anecdotes from their respective careers. A brilliant listen for a car journey or commute!
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Johnny Weaver dead at 72
Posted by Chris Schramm | Feb 15, 2008
Many claim he was the inventor of the sleeperhold made popular to this day in wrestling. He called it the "Weaverlock" and would put away thousands of opponents over the years with the hold. Johnny Weaver, the master of the "Weaverlock" died today in Charlotte, N.C., at the age of 72.
When co-workers of his noticed he was not at work Friday morning, they called his house. After hearing no response they went to his house to find him dead. Although autopsy examination is forthcoming, he is initially believed to have died from natural causes.
After the national expansion of wrestling in the 1980s, many fans came to know Weaver as an announcer for Mid-Atlantic Wrestling, which would become World Championship Wrestling. Few fans knew of his in-ring achievements as a multiple tag team champion in numerous territories in the Southeastern United States.
Johnny Weaver near the end of his in-ring career
Born Kenneth "Johnny" Weaver in Indianapolis on November 17, 1935, he made his professional debut in 1955, around his hometown for promoters Jim Barnett and Johnny Doyle, including work as a referee, and on the road as Johnny Ace. He was initially paired with Sonny Myers as Sonny and Johnny Weaver. In 1960, Weaver was called "the current 'rage' of the teenagers," and the "Rage" nickname stuck with him in his early years.
He won his first title, the NWA Southern Tag Team titles, with partner Cowboy Bob Ellis in December 1963.
George Becker would become Weaver's most familiar partner over the years. Becker was a big name in the San Francisco territory before settling in the Mid-Atlantic area in the mid-1960s. The two would capture the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team titles five times. Their most memorable feud was with Swede Hanson and Rip Hawk, who they first won the titles from on May 1, 1969, in Washington, D.C.
Weaver explained to Steven Johnson how the pairing came about for The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams. "That came from Jim Crockett. He's the one that pushed us together. Of course, when I came down here I was the young guy, George was older with experience," Weaver said.
The veteran George Becker and the young Johnny Weaver.
"He was a good guy, a hard wrestler and produced when he got in the ring," Rip Hawk told SLAM! Wrestling after hearing the news of Weaver's death on Friday evening. "Despite our ill feelings in the ring, we could be friends outside the ring."
The two teams would exchange the title until September 27, 1971, when Weaver and Becker would capture the titles for the fourth time as a time. After dropping the belt a few months later, the team would disband after one of the most successful tag team runs at the time.
When Weaver and Becker held the titles, times were much different. Tag team title matches were often on the main event slot of the card. The titles were not considered second tier and were respected as much as the Heavyweight title was in the territories.
Rene Goulet was a big Johnny Weaver fan. "Every time Johnny Weaver was in the ring, it was a great match," Goulet said in The Tag Teams. "He was over in the territory, sold good, he was a great babyface. He was a hell of a worker in the ring. People liked him. When you used to beat the hell of him, the people used to go crazy."
Weaver would also win the Mid-Atlantic Tag Team titles with partners Art Nielson (on two occasions), Dewey Robertson (who later became The Missing Link) and Jay Youngblood. Weaver's last run with Youngblood would be in December 1981 before losing to Ox Baker and Carl Fergie.
He would find himself successful at times as a singles wrestler too. He would hold the NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Championship on numerous occasions starting in 1967. He would also capture the Mid-Atlantic Television title from Baron von Raschke on March 5, 1978 in Charlotte, N.C. He would drop the title back to von Raschke on March 26.
Johnny Weaver recovers in the early 1980s. Photo by Terry Dart.
His role as a booker for the Mid-Atlantic territory came surprisingly years apart. His first filled the role in the late 1960s and in the early 1980s, he booked Mid-Atlantic house shows in South Carolina and Georgia. Weaver was also the booker for the time in the late 1970s/early 1980s that Jim Crockett owned the Toronto territory, in partnership with George Scott and the Tunneys.
In 1979, he started as announcer for the territory while still active in the ring next to Rich Landrum on World Wide Wrestling Weaver would also partner with David Crockett and Bob Caudle before leaving the company in 1988, before the sale to Ted Turner.
In a lengthy interview with the Mid-Atlantic Gateway website from late 2007, Weaver addressed his aging in front of the fans. "You know how I knew time was passing me by? I was always fan friendly and I would get dressed and go out and talk to the people all the time during all of the matches up until it was time for me to go on. I did that for years and years and years. The girls would all run up and hug me. And then finally, they started running up to me, the girls, and they'd throw their arms around me, about a 100 of them, and they'd whisper in my ear, 'Go get Ricky Steamboat.' (laughter) And then I knew I was over the hill."
A promo from May 1971.
In an infamous angle, while just a commentator, Weaver was placed in a sleeper by Hiro Matsuda on World Wide Wrestling, causing Weaver to bleed from the mouth. The angle helped set-up the Starrcade '87 match between Dusty Rhodes and Lex Luger for the NWA United States title. Weaver accompanied Rhodes while Matsuda was in Luger's corner. Luger would be disqualified for using a chair.
Weaver was married twice, the first time to Betty, with whom he had a son named Bill.
But most people associate Weaver with women's wrestler Penny Banner, whom he married in 1959 in St. Louis, with the reception at the Claridge Hotel, where wrestling promoter Sam Muchnick had his office. They had a daughter together, named Wendi.
The Weaver-Banner marriage was a popular one with the press and fans. "The Weavers have been married for several years and those in the trade say it has been a very happy marriage with a minimum of serious quarrels. A few armlocks, half-Nelsons, backbreakers, with possibly a few of those wrestling wallops to the jaw, but nothing serious, and those bits of physical torture come under the heading of practice," hypothesized Johnny Janes of the San Antonio Express in the April 9, 1963 edition.
But the truth wasn't far from the newspaperman's creative license claimed Banner in her autobiography, Banner Days, which detailed the years of physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of Weaver.
"It didn't take long to realize that marrying Johnny (the wrestler, not the referee) had a real down side," wrote Banner. "The fact was that was he was a young and handsome rising wrestler and was so recently put in the limelight, he now had women known as 'arena rats' throwing themselves at him every night. It made a huge difference in our relationship." They split in 1995.
Weaver was still semi-active in the area as a deputy sheriff for the Charlotte, N.C., police department, where he had put in 19 years of service. He would also make visits to area wrestling reunions and independent shows. CWF Mid-Atlantic, a promotions based out Burlington, N.C., has run the Johnny Weaver Cup annually since 2004. Weaver has been attendance each year to award the winner with a trophy.
"I last saw him in the summer," Hawk said. "We talked about old times, and he seemed to be in good health and spirits."
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Macau recovery slows in August as casinos bring in MOP1.33bn
1st September 2020 | By Daniel O'Boyle
Macau's recovery from the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) remains a slow one, as casinos on the island brought in only MOP1.33bn (£124.4m/€139.5m/$167.0m) in August, down 1.0% from July and down 94.5% from 2019.
July's figures looked strong after the province of Guangdong lifted its mandatory 14-day quarantine for all people entering from Macau from 15 July and the territory started issuing tourist visas for residents in certain cities again in August. However, the Chinese special administrative region then recorded a slight decline in August's revenue.
The MOP 1.33bn taken in was the third-lowest total Macau's casinos have ever recorded, following April and June of this year, and marked the fifth consecutive month in which revenue was down by more than 90% year-on-year.
Looking at the year to date, Macau casinos' cumulative revenue comes to just MOP 36.39bn, down 81.6% year-on-year. Of this total, 22.13bn, or more than 60%, was generated in January alone.
According to the Macau Statistic Bureau, the island's GDP declined by 67.8% in the second quarter of 2020 as exports of gaming services fell by 97.1% year-on-year. This followed a 48.7% year-on-year decline in GDP in the first quarter of the year. At the end of the second quarter, Macau University predicted a GDP decline of between 55.7% and 59.1%.
Visitor numbers to Macau were down 99.0% in the second quarter of the year.
Earlier this month, Sands China, Las Vegas Sands' Macau-based integrated resorts subsidiary, announced that revenue was down 81.0% year-on-year in the six months to 30 June. Nonetheless, the operator reaffirmed its committmet to Macau and predicted the territory would recover eventually.
Elsewhere, integrated casino resort Studio City International Holdings reported a $161.9m net loss for the first half of the year as operating revenue fell 91.8% to to $24.7m. Galaxy Entertainment Group, meanwhile, saw revenue for the six months to 30 June drop 76.3% to to HKD$6.01bn (£591.7m/€654.5m/$774.9m).
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May 06, 2012 12:18 PM PST
Over the course of the last week, ICANN has released several pieces of information that taken together begin to allow us to piece together the overall gTLD landscape. ICANN is releasing partial information, without explanation or context, in dribs and drabs, and rumors are flying that we won't get the "Reveal" (the release of full information on applications and applicants for new gTLDs) until the ICANN meeting in Prague at the end of June.
This partial information and delay from ICANN is creating consternation and confusion among the many applicants and those watching the new gTLD scene. Therefore some analysis, however imperfect, will help. What follows is what we at Minds + Machines consider a likely scenario based on the facts we have, along with some estimates and calculations that we think are reasonable. This is back-of-the-envelope stuff, but it shows how we see the new landscape forming.
First, let's start with what we know for sure:
There are 1,268 total applicant profiles in ICANN's system (the TAS), each of which allows 1-50 applications
There were 2,091 applications in the TAS as of April 12, 2012
There were 214 unpaid applications
Given that the application window was suspended with just twelve hours to go, we believe that anyone who hasn't paid yet isn't going to, and that people who are paying for their applications aren't leaving any unpaid. In other words, we don't think the 214 unpaid applications are ever going to happen, and that there's a rough one-to-one correspondence between unpaid apps and number of applicants with unpaid apps. Therefore there are roughly 200 applicants who are not actually going to submit 214 apps.
This leaves us with about 1,000 bona fide applicants and 2100 applications, or roughly 2 TLDs for every applicant. But we can break down these numbers a little further based on industry information.
Categorizing 2100 new gTLD applications
We can divide up the applicant groups into five buckets:
Geographical applicants, applying for cities, states or regions.
Applicants applying for a specific individual project: one or in some cases two names.
IDN applications, applying for generic names in a non-Latin script.
Portfolio applicants, applying for 20 TLDs or more.
Brand applicants, applying for their trademarked names.
There will be exceptions to these generalizations, but overall these categories are clear. But how many of each? The breakdown is important, because it will determine how the competition for high-value generic names will play out. We assume that geos, IDNs and brands are going to face little or no competition because of the favorable ICANN rules in (for geos and brands) or language specificity (IDNs). Therefore the contention is most like to occur among and between the smaller applicants and portfolio applicants who are applying for English-language generic-word TLDs. Looking at each category, we can identify some further characteristics:
Geo Domains
We estimate 50 geographic domains. Some of these have been in the news, but many others have not. This category includes US cities such as Las Vegas and NYC to European cities such as London, Paris, Berlin and Madrid, states such as Bavaria and NRW, and Japanese cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, and of course the entire continent of Africa. Altogether we do not predict more than 50 geo domains. We are estimating one application per applicant (for these purposes, we consider the geographic entity to be the applicant, even if the official "applicant" is another entity with a letter of support).
Niche Applicants
These are individual non-IDN applicants, applying for just one or two generic-word names such as .KIWI, .MUSIC, .HIV and .RADIO. We estimate that these probably represent another 100 applicants and 150 total applications. This is a very rough estimate based on who has been present at ICANN, or .NXT, or other industry meetings. These applicants will compete with one another and often, but not always with portfolio investors for generic terms — as the projects, such as .HIV, may serve a very specific purpose.
IDN applicants, in our calculation, represent another 100+ applicants. We know already of applicants for Russian, Chinese and Arabic strings. While we don't have very good knowledge about these applicants, our cloudy crystal ball says that the number of IDN applications will be around 10% of the total, or 200, and that on average IDN applicants will have 2 applications each. We foresee limited competition between IDNs, and by definition little competition with Latin-characters gTLDs. Note that IDNs could represent brands as well as generic terms and niche products, this is factored into our estimate of 100 applicants, 200 apps.
Portfolio Applicants
Portfolio applicants will be few. With the high cost of applications, there are probably no more than 20 portfolio applicants (such as ourselves) applying for more than 10 TLDs. We will know better when ICANN provides definitive information, but that is our estimate. By estimating 25 apps (on average) per portfolio, we predict a total of 500 applications from portfolio applicants. TLDH is applying for significantly more than the average for its own account; we don't think that ours is the highest number, but we believe it is in the top five.
Brands will, with some exceptions, apply just for their trademarks. Based on our previous analysis, anything that isn't a geo, niche project, IDN or portfolio app is an english language brand app. This gives us a total of 1,200 brand apps, and 730 brands. This implies about 1.65 applications per brand — which is in the general ballpark of the earlier estimate by Fairwinds of 2.2 applications per brand. Verisign has announced 220 applications, the vast majority of which we assume to be brands, many of them from Melbourne IT. We assume that other major registry service providers, particularly Neustar with their loss-leader $10,000 application consulting fee, but also non-U.S. providers like GMO, will have the rest of the brands.
Note that the biggest variable in our analysis is the number of portfolio applications. The number is not likely to be significantly larger than 500, however, as it would reduce the number of applications per brand below credible levels. For example, if there were 1,000 portfolio apps done by the small number of portfolio players, then it would imply 700 brands with 700 apps — not a likely ratio in our opinion. It seems more likely to us that the number of portfolio apps are in the 300-600 range.
The foregoing gives us the following view:
Geos: 50 applicants – 50 apps (3%)
Niche applicants: 100 applicants – 150 apps (7%)
IDNs: 100 applicants – 200 apps (10%)
Portfolio: 20 applicants: 500 apps (25%)
Brands: 730 applicants: 1,200 apps (60%)
Total: 1000 applicants, 2100 apps
We therefore see about 700 applications being likely candidates for contention (niche plus portfolio apps). Some strings (.WEB, .MUSIC) are known to have multiple applicants. Others, such as .KIWI, are likely to face no competition. Overall we think that about two thirds (466) of our 700 of these will end up in contention, and of those 466 about half (233) will have more than two contenders.
So, our very rough back-of-the-envelope calculation says that of the 2100 applications, about 233 will have exactly two parties in contention, and these have a much higher likelihood of being settled without an auction. Another 233 will have more than two contenders, which makes a deal more difficult, but by no means impossible. At the end of the day, then, we estimate that ICANN is going to have about 100-125 auctions.
A word about batching. This is a very difficult area because ICANN hasn't released much information about how it's going to happen (which by the way makes any "digital archery" service somewhat suspect). ICANN has said they will pay attention to geographic diversity as well as to "skill" in the digital archery game, but they have also said that applications in contention sets will go in the first batch, which would mean that brands, geos, and IDNs would be sparsely represented in the first batch.
But it is also not at all clear to us that the batches cannot be staggered instead of back-to-back; work on a subsequent batch can begin even before the previous one is finished. Concluding that 2000 apps will take until 2014 is by no means a given if ICANN uses their new-found $350 million windfall wisely. The evaluations should go quickly, particularly since the estimate of how long it will take is based on the fiction that evaluators will be looking at 500 unique applications per batch. They won't: there are perhaps 15 qualified registry service providers in the world, and therefore ICANN will not be faced with more than that number of unique tech sections — the great majority of the application — in the submissions they receive. Even though ICANN is headquartered at what has become known as "Marina Delay," it is difficult to imagine that with resources at its disposal, ICANN will not be able evaluate 2000 applications in 12 months.
Even though information is spotty, there's enough to start understanding what the post-application landscape will look like. The analysis above is our broad prediction.
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Antony: I like your balls! Alexander Schubert – May 07, 2012 4:50 AM PST
"Balls" in plural? Well, such a deep look required probably more than one glass ball!
Good analysis. I see slightly more GEO's and slightly less generic term based applications.
Batching:
You said: "....but they have also said that applications in contention sets will go in the first batch..." and derive from it that: ".....brands, geos, and IDNs would be sparsely represented in the first batch.".
You may have different information, but in case your analysis is based on the "batching basics" (http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/tas/batching-basics) then I am interpreting it entirely differently:
"...all applications for those contending strings will be placed into the earliest batch designated". You are reading it "...into the first batch". I am reading it as "...into the earliest batch designated for any of applicants of the contention set.".
So if .example has one applicant in the 4th and one in the 3rd batch, both will be in the 3rd batch. Right?
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Right, but... Volker Greimann – May 08, 2012 12:40 AM PST
I interpret the language the same way, however I do believe there will be no difference in fact from the result Anthony is suggesting. Contending strings will be preferred and more likely to end up in the first batch, as they can "fire more arrows" per string in the digital archery game. Each applicant has a shot, i.e. if there are five applications for .popular, chances are that one of them will have a good result in the archery game.
OTOH, geos, brands and IDNs have no such advantage, their one shot is the only shot they will get. Sure, a few of these may also slip into the first batches, but chances are that the contending strings will be favored. The individual applicants' skill on the digital archery game does not matter as much for contending strings due to the drag-along.
So much for equal chances for all applications…
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