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Article I - Name
The name of this organization shall be the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE).
Article II - Purpose
- The NCHE shall serve as the instrument through which higher education members of the National Education Association (NEA) utilize their individual and collective power to accomplish the following objectives:
- Identify and focus the interests and concerns of NEA higher education members and NEA higher education affiliates.
- Speak with a common voice on matters affecting higher education.
- Promote NEA as the representative organization of choice for higher education.
- Develop and increase attention within NEA to the issues of concern to higher education and to NEA higher education members.
- Improve the structure of NEA in order to ensure the full and effective participation of all higher education members of the Association.
- Develop programs within NEA to address the problems faced by higher education members.
- Assure the development and delivery of appropriate training for NEA higher education members and for leaders of NEA higher education affiliates.
- Identify and support candidates for NEA offices who will actively work for the implementation of NCHE programs and positions.
- Provide NEA and State Affiliate Governance with the names of qualified NEA higher education members for appointment to committees and boards both internal and external to the Association and actively to promote their appointment.
- Establish and maintain direct and regular communication on matters of importance to higher education with appropriate governance and special committees within NEA.
Article III - Membership
Section 1 - Categories of Membership
Organizational Membership
Organizational Membership in NCHE shall be open to any higher education organization within the NEA.
Individual Membership
Individual Membership in NCHE shall be open to any NEA member employed at an institution of higher education. Those otherwise eligible for membership who are on leave or who are actively seeking employment in an institution of higher education shall also be eligible. Members of NEA-Retired whose primary employment was in higher education shall also be eligible.
Associate Membership
Associate membership in NCHE shall be open to any NEA member, NEA staff or affiliate staff who is not eligible for Individual Membership who supports the purposes and activities of the Council.
Section 2 - Representation
Organizational Members shall be represented by their duly elected President or by an individual member of that organization designated in writing by the President of the organization. Only persons who are eligible for individual membership may be so designated. The President or designee shall speak for their organization and cast that number of votes to which the organization is entitled.
Individual Members shall represent themselves, may speak before NCHE, and shall cast that number of votes to which they are entitled.
Section 3 - Individual Rights
NCHE shall not deny membership or opportunity for employment to any organization or individual on the basis of race, religion, creed, age, sex, sexual orientation, ethnic or cultural heritage, or category of higher education employment. Individual and organizational membership in NCHE shall indicate individual or organizational subscription to these principles.
Section 4 - Membership Year
The membership (fiscal) year shall be the same as the NEA membership (fiscal) year.
Section 5 - Dues and Assessments
The amount of annual membership dues for each category of membership shall be as set forth in the Bylaws. Dues shall be payable by January 1 of each membership year. Dues shall be considered paid when they are received by the Treasurer of NCHE. Members who have not paid their dues shall be denied the right to speak at meetings and the right to vote on NCHE matters. Members whose dues obligation remains unfulfilled for sixty (60) days shall be considered to have resigned from NCHE.
Special assessments may be levied by the Council at the Regular Annual Meeting in an Organizational Vote by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the ballots cast by delegates present and voting, provided that a termination of the special assessment in either dollar amount or a specific date is established.
Article IV - The Council
Section 1 - Membership
The Council shall consist of the voting delegate from each member organization and individual delegates.
Section 2 - Meetings
The Council shall meet at least twice yearly. The Regular Annual Meeting shall be held immediately prior to the NEA Higher Education Conference. Another meeting shall be held in conjunction with the NEA Representative Assembly.
Section 3 - Powers
The Council shall be the policymaking body of NCHE. Powers not specifically delegated to the officers or the Executive Committee shall be vested in the Council.
Section 4 - Voting
Voting shall normally be on the basis of one vote per representative. Upon the request of any representative, an issue shall be decided by a vote in which the representatives of Organizational Members and Individual Members may cast that number of votes as set forth in the Bylaws. Such a procedure shall be referred to as an Organizational Vote.
Article V - Executive Committee
Section 1 - Membership
Members of the Executive Committee shall be the President, Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer, Membership Chair, and four (4) at-large members elected by the Council.
Section 2 - Ethnic-Minority Representation
If no ethnic minorities are elected as an officer or to the Executive Committee, a special election will be conducted to elect an additional Executive Committee member for a two-year term of office. This person shall be an ethnic minority as defined by the U.S. Bureau of Census.
Section 3 - Educational Support Professional Representation
If no NEA-ESP member is elected as an officer or to the Executive Committee, a special election will be conducted to elect to the Executive Committee an additional Executive Committee member for a two-year term of office. This person shall be a NEA-ESP member.
Section 4 - Part-time or Temporary Faculty Representation
If no part-time or temporary faculty member (as defined by the local organization) is elected as an officer or to the Executive Committee, a special election will be conducted to elect to the Executive Committee an additional Executive Committee member for a two-year term of office. This person shall be a part-time or temporary faculty member as defined by his or her local organization.
Section 5 - Meetings
Meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held at the call of the President or on the request of a majority of Executive Committee members.
Section 6 - Powers and Duties
a. The Executive Committee shall:
- Conduct and manage the affairs and business of the Council between meetings of the Council.
- Carry out all policies and programs adopted by the Council.
- Perform such other duties as may be specified in the Bylaws.
b. The Membership Chair shall:
- Coordinate the recruitment of new members.
- Notify each member during the first month of the membership year that dues are payable and shall issue delinquent notices to those organizations whose dues have not been received.
- Oversee registration at NCHE meetings.
- Maintain an accurate membership/mailing list.
- Reconcile the receivable report
- Perform any other duties or tasks assigned by the President.
Article VI - Officers
Section 1 - Officers
The officers of the Council shall be the President, Vice-President, and the Secretary-Treasurer.
Section 2 - Powers and Duties of Officers
a. The President shall:
- Be the official representative and spokesperson for NCHE.
- Preside at all meetings of the Council and Executive Committee.
- Establish and charge committees and task forces with their duties with the approval of the Executive Committee. All committee members must be Individual Members of NCHE.
- Appoint and discharge all committee members with the approval of the Executive Committee. All committee members shall be Individual Members of NCHE.
- Be an ex officio member of all committees and task forces, except the NCHE Elections Committee.
- Prepare, with the assistance of the Executive Committee, the agenda for each meeting of the Council.
- Prepare and submit an annual report to the Council at its Regular Annual Meeting.
- Serve as the official NCHE representative, or designate an alternate from the Executive Committee, to all NEA governance bodies.
- Perform such other duties as are customarily associated with the office.
b. The Vice-President shall:
- Assume the duties of the president in the absence of the president.
- Attend NEA governance meetings as designated by the President.
- Act as the editor-publisher of the NCHE Newsletter, which shall be published at least twice each year.
- Maintain and update electronic media used to communicate with NCHE members.
- Perform any other duties and tasks assigned by the President.
c. The Secretary-Treasurer shall:
- Keep the official minutes of all meetings and maintain the official files.
- Handle the correspondence for the Council.
- Assure that accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements are kept and prepare periodic reports for both the Executive Committee and the Council.
- Provide regular financial reports to the President and the Executive Committee.
- Assist the Membership Chair in maintaining an accurate membership/mailing list.
- Receive the dues report of the organization and reconcile the receivable report with the Membership Chair.
- Supervise the duplication and distribution of materials for each NCHE meeting, including those sent to registrants prior to the meeting.
- Perform any other duties or tasks assigned by the President.
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Article VII - Elections
Section 1 - Eligibility
Each candidate for office shall hold Individual Membership in NCHE and shall be a member of the local NEA higher education organization, if one exists, which represents or seeks to represent the candidate's category of employees on his or her home campus.
No individual may be a candidate for more than one office, including Executive Committee membership, at the same time.
No member of the NEA Executive Committee shall serve concurrently as an officer or a voting member of the NCHE Executive Committee.
Section 2 - Terms of Office
- All officers and members of the Executive Committee shall be elected to two-year terms. They may be re-elected, but may not serve more than three consecutive terms in the same office.
- At-Large Executive Committee members elected to one-year terms may not serve more than six consecutive years. Election to regular two-year terms shall be counted as part of these consecutive years.
- The officers and at-large Executive Committee members shall be elected at the Regular Annual Meeting of the Council. They shall assume office upon the adjournment of the annual NEA Representative Assembly following their election.
- The President, Vice-President, and two of the at-large Executive Committee members shall be elected in odd-numbered years. The Secretary-Treasurer, Membership Chair, and two of the at-large Executive Committee members shall be elected in even-numbered years.
Section 3 - Succession and Vacancies
- In the event the President is unable to serve his/her full term, the Vice-President shall assume the office of President for the balance of the unexpired term.
- If the Vice-President or the Secretary-Treasurer is unable to serve his/her full term, the Executive Committee shall elect an interim officer from the Executive Committee until a successor can be elected at the next Regular Annual Meeting.
- If a member of the Executive Committee is unable to serve for his/her full term, the remaining Executive Committee members shall elect an interim member from the membership until a successor can be elected at the next Regular Annual Meeting.
- Succession or appointment to an office shall not count against term limitations unless the person serves a full term.
Section 4 - Election Procedures
All elections shall be by secret ballot following open nominations at the Regular Annual Meeting of the Council. If, after nominations for an office are complete, the number of candidates nominated for that office equals the number of positions to be filled, the chair shall declare such candidates elected.
Only Individual Members and organizational representatives present at the meeting shall be eligible to vote. All voting shall be by Organizational Vote. That candidate receiving the majority of votes cast for the position of President, Vice-President, or Secretary-Treasurer shall be declared the winner except that, in the event that no individual receives more than 50% of the votes cast for the office in question, a run-off between the top two candidates shall be conducted.
Those two candidates, or more than two in the case of additional vacancies, receiving the most votes cast for the position of at-large Executive Committee member shall be declared the winners provided that each candidate declared a winner must have received more than 50% of the votes cast for that position. In the event that insufficient candidates have met the 50% requirement, a run-off shall be held among the highest vote-getters with the ballot containing the names of one more candidate than the number of positions which remain vacant. If the run-off fails to produce a winner, then the candidate(s) with the most votes shall be declared the winner(s).
Section 5 - Recall
An officer or Executive Committee member may be recalled or removed at any Regular Annual Meeting of the Council in a secret-ballot Organizational Vote by a two thirds (2/3) vote of the ballots cast by delegates present and voting.
Article VIII - Ethnic-Minority Guarantees
NCHE shall take all reasonable and legally permissible steps to achieve on its elective and appointive bodies ethnic-minority representation that is at least proportional to the ethnic-minority population among National Education Association higher education members.
Article IX - Amendments
Section 1 - Voting
This constitution may be amended at the Regular Annual Meeting of the Council in a secret-ballot Organizational Vote by a two thirds (2/3) vote of the ballots cast by delegates present and voting.
Section 2 - Submittal
The text of proposed amendments must be submitted to the President at least sixty (60) days prior to the Regular Annual Meeting, and copies of the proposed amendment must be sent to all organizational and individual members at least thirty (30) days prior to the Meeting.
Section 3 - Nonsubstantive Changes
The Executive Committee is authorized to make nonsubstantive housekeeping changes in the Constitution.
Article X - Dissolution
Section 1 - Distribution of Assets
In the event of the dissolution of the Council, any assets remaining after the payment of all debts of the Council shall be transferred to a successor organization.
Section 2 - No Successor Organization
In the event there is no successor organization, such remaining assets shall be transferred to the NEA Political Action Fund.
Article XI - Rules of Order
The current revision of Robert's Rules of Order shall be the parliamentary authority of NCHE.
Article XII - Ratification
This constitution shall take effect upon receiving two thirds (2/3) of the votes cast in an Organizational Vote from among those present at a special meeting called for this purpose in conjunction with the 1987 NEA Higher Education Conference.


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The Lincoln Brand
The rest of the world may not know it, but our city has the perfect mix of good people, interesting places and a diverse range of things to do. We've quietly kept Lincoln a hidden gem, an intriguing city in an unexpected place. But now that our city is undergoing its greatest period of growth it's ever seen, the time is now to build a unified vision for the city and to capture this immense momentum.
Target Audience + Brand Support
We want to talk to the groups that represent the future of Lincoln. These leaders, young professionals and university students need to know what those who live here already know about Lincoln:
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What does this mean? When you take it at its essence, life just... feels right in Lincoln. All the factors that lead to a great life can be found right here. You can enjoy an incredible work/life balance that will enable you to make your own success. And you'll feel comfortable doing it and have fun all along the way.
Life is Right in Lincoln isn't a slogan. It's a platform for conversations around the brand. It's the sweet spot that defines the sentiment of those who live here.
The Lincoln Brand
The Lincoln logo mark is intentionally simple, not trendy. It's classic form should last a long time. But what does the mark represent?
- The arrow points upward and to the right to symbolize growth and progress. By pointing to the Lincoln (the "L") the logo creates an intersection, the sweet spot that signifies that life is right in Lincoln.
- The three portions of the arrow represent Lincoln in two ways. From a rational perspective, they stand for the people, places and events that make up our community. From an emotional perspective, they stand for the success, comfort and fun you can have when you live in Lincoln.
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The Lincoln brand was developed with a system that allows local business owners and organizations of all types to customize and integrate it into their business or campaigns. For example, SHOP-LINCOLN could work for a retailer initiative, WORK-LINCOLN for employment/careers, DINE-LINCOLN for restaurants, etc.
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A list of the basics of the Smoke Free Illinois Act and its penalties
Going Smoke Free
The Smoke Free Illinois Act goes into effect today. It prohibits smoking in public places, places of employment and governmental vehicles.
The purpose of the Smoke Free Illinois Act is to protect the health of Illinois residents, workers and visitors from the harmful health effects of secondhand smoke, according to www.smoke-free.illinois.gov.
The basics:
Smokers can't light up inside or within 15 feet of entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes of designated smoke-free buildings.
Public places where smoking is prohibited include (but are not limited to) hospitals, restaurants, retail stores, offices, elevators, indoor theaters, libraries, museums, concert halls, student dormitories, nursing homes, auditoriums, enclosed or partially enclosed sports arenas, meeting rooms, schools, exhibition halls, convention facilities, polling places, nightclubs, bars, bowling alleys, bingo parlors and casinos.
No Smoking" signs must be posted in any place where smoking is prohibited, including public places, places of employment and governmental vehicles.
Ashtrays must be removed from any place where smoking is prohibited.
Exempted places:
Private residences or dwellings, except when used as a child care, adult day care, health care facility or any other home-based business.
Private and semi-private rooms in nursing homes in long-term care facilities.
Hotel and motel sleeping rooms designated as smoking rooms, with no more than 25 percent of rooms designated as smoking rooms.
Retail tobacco stores that have been in operation before today.
Penalties and fines:
Any person, business owner, corporation, partnership, association or other entity violating the no smoking provisions of the act may be fined.
A person who smokes in a prohibited area shall be fined from $100 to $250.
A person who owns, operates, or otherwise controls a public place or place of employment who violates the act shall be fined not less than $250 for the first violation, not less than $500 for the second violation within one year after the first violation and not less than $2,500 for each additional violation.
Call (866) 973-4646 or log on to www.smoke-free.illinois.gov to report a violation.
More information:
For complete text of the Smoke Free Illinois Act, log on to the Illinois General Assembly's Web site, www.ilga.gov, and type "SB0500" in the "By Number" search bar on the left side of the screen. Click "full text" at the top of the page.
To print "no smoking" signs that meet the requirements of the Smoke Free Illinois Act, log on to the Illinois Department of Public Health's Web site, www.idph.state.il.us/smokefree/, and click "signage" on the left side of the screen.


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Aside from Gary Danielson, is Phil Simms the worst color guy?
Simms gets worse every year. I don't even know if he's speaking English anymore. It takes him nine days just to say the word "outside." He doesn't even bother finishing sentences. "What did we sayeee before the gayme, Jeem? RUNNEENG, RUNNEENG, RUNNEENG THE BALL..." He's like a robot someone threw a glass of water on.
I think Simms represents a kind of perfected TV personality, some who has been so ingrained with football announcing cliches that he believes all of it. It's like listening to someone who's been brainwashed but has also been allowed to retain his horrible, horrible Kentucky accent.
So everyone wakes up one day and finds out that the human body is no longer capable of self-healing and that medicine has also become completely ineffective in helping a person recover from a physical injury. Sprain your ankle—deal with it for life. Break your leg in the nastiest way imaginable (e.g., your bone is now on the outside of your skin)—enjoy getting dirty looks at the mall.
Do people stop playing sports recreationally? Do they avoid all fitness activity for fear of injury? Do professional sports cease to exist in any form?
Well, if the body were incapable of self-healing than we'd all probably die within a month due to our inability to fight infectious diseases. But if we're talking strictly about outward physical injury, then I think pro sports would keep going. MARK SCHLERETH SAYS RG3 IS SUCH A WARRIOR AND HAS A WARRIOR'S HEART FOR PLAYING WITH NO LEGS. Or, at least, pro sports would TRY to keep going. You would see leagues desperately changing rules and equipment to keep players healthy and keep the money rolling in: no more tackling in football, face masks for baseball batters (which they probably should be wearing anyway), lower rims in basketball to prevent nasty falls after dunking, etc. Turnover would be constant. Play would be unimaginably sloppy. You wouldn't even know what you were watching. Kind of like the NFL right now!
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Outside of sports, we'd have an even bigger adjustment. The people at BIG BAND AID would become the most powerful people on Earth. The people at the National Knife Association would lobby to keep the government from taking away their precious blades. The national gun conversation would be ten times more annoying, which is amazing because I thought it was already at its most annoying. Everyone's knees and elbows would bleed all the time. Tylenol would become even more useless than it already is. You and I would be in constant pain due to long-standing injuries. Everyone would be in a terrible mood and then we'd all nuke each other just to get it over with. Sounds fun!
My friend's sister died 3 or 4 years ago, but her Facebook is still up and the site keeps telling me to add her because she's someone I may know due to our whopping 9 mutual friends.
I know that Facebook turning into a condolence book is part of the modern death. But this makes me wonder, should it be mandatory to keep your social networking passwords on file so that your loved ones can pull your accounts down after a suitable online grieving period, or should friends forever have to suffer through a permanent online reminder of your passing?
Facebook should pull the account once they know you're dead. And they KNOW. Thanks to their abysmal privacy settings and advanced consumer-tracking algorithms, they know exactly when you died, and that autoerotic asphyxia was the cause. Even if you aren't dead, Facebook knows WHEN you will die. It will be in 2035, and it will be because someone from Facebook had you killed because you tried to delete your profile. But Facebook won't delete any of those dead-person profiles because deleting them means eliminating one more place for people to visit within Facebook, which represents one trillionth of an extra second for you to hang around and click on a political ad that's two years out of date.
In the long run, nothing will be done about this. The online graveyard will just build up more and more and more until there are more dead people within your social network than live ones. And that will be uplifting.
I was in a hospital today when I had to urinate so I jumped into a public washroom and saw the enclosed pic. What are the possible consequences?
Here's an explanation from a medical website:
The chemotherapy drugs are strong. They can still be toxic and dangerous to others even as they are being removed from your body. For example, they can cause abnormal changes in DNA, they can alter the development of an unborn baby, they may be able to cause other kinds of cancer and some may cause localized skin irritation or damage... No one should come into contact with your urine or your feces (stool). You must flush the toilet twice after each use. If possible use a separate toilet from others in your home.
So if you piss chemo drugs into the toilet, the peepee spray could get onto the rim and infect the next person who brushes against it. This is why, if I get cancer, I'm going to pee into plastic bags and then foil criminals by threatening to coat them in my poisoned discharge. Those bank robbers thought they had it made... but they didn't count on PISSMAN foiling their best-laid plans!
Awhile back my friend and I at work captured a spider in an airtight container to suffocate it. However, two weeks later that eight-legged fuck was still alive and mocking us. I did some research and discovered spiders have a specific type of lungs and can last several weeks without a significant source of oxygen. If this is true, why are we not adapting spider lung technology for humans?
First of all, I did not know that spiders had superlungs. I don't know why they were gifted with superlungs while I need five hours of rest after retrieving something from the bottom of a pool. That's crap. Spiders already have plenty going for them: eight legs, web powers, terrifying eyes. They don't deserve superlungs. They only reason they have them is so that can stay in your basement for longer, waiting to jump on you and eat your face while you change the laundry.
My guess is that scientists are working secretly on superlung power for the US government, only you don't know about it. It makes all the sense in the world to dump billions and billions of dollars into research to give our Navy SEALS spider lungs. We'd save at least $400 a year on SCUBA equipment if we could pull it off. I bet one SEAL already volunteered to be the guinea pig for the technology, died, and then was replaced with a second guinea pig. If I were terrorist, I wouldn't go night swimming any time soon. SPIDER-LUNGED CHRIS PRATT GONNA GITCHA.
I took this at work today. These are the treadmill desks that precisely zero people use. I understand the one on the left, but the one on the right...
I guess that's for people who would like to work and crawl at the same time. Or maybe your office has a dwarf and no one wants to offend him by putting the tread-desk up at normal heights.
I can understand why no one would be caught dead using those at work. I work at home standing up because I have a shitty back and my doctor told me to. It's easy enough to do at home because no one can see me doing it. But in an office? With co-workers watching? God, that would be awful. It would be like working naked. Everyone would stare. And everyone would be uncomfortable because you aren't sitting. Ever watch TV with a person who won't sit down? It's horribly nerve-racking. Are you leaving or not, asshole?
Let's say you take a HUGE shit. Like, world record shit. Like, length of your forearm (I'm dead fucking serious). Is it weird to photograph it?
Just asking for a friend.
I think poop Instagramming is relatively widespread at this point, even though I can't get on board with it. I have a friend who takes pictures of his dumps all the time. And he assumes I like seeing the pictures because I write about shitting a lot. But that's not the case. I don't want to see your poop. I only like MY poop. My poop is strange and mysterious and beautiful. Your poop is a horrifying blight upon the world. I don't like poop instagramming. Take a photo for posterity and keep it to yourself to treasure forever, but don't go showing everyone at ratemypoo.com. NOT FUNNY, BRO!
What would happen if one of two astronauts going aboard the space station for a year killed the other in the first month? Would he be brought back to face justice or would the authorities let him finish his mission?
Given the difficulty in extricating someone from outer space, I bet NASA would do their best to retrieve the murderer from the ISS in a timely manner, but within their annual budget of four dollars. The problem is that the murderer might then refuse to go back, knowing it's better to hang out in space playing gravity pong with his colleague's corpse than going home and being sent to jail. And then NASA would have to consider a bunch of lousy options:
• Work with other countries to cut off power to the station, starving him of oxygen and perhaps killing him.
• Shooting down the station, killing him but in a cooler way.
• Sending a team of armed SPACE SEALS (with spider lungs) to forcibly remove the murderer. I obviously support the SPACE SEALS initiative.
• Cover up the murder. "Your husband died of, like, dysentery, ma'am"
I bet NASA would go with option #4 every time.
What is the success rate of non-pro skateboarders, in terms of tricks landed vs tricks botched? It can't be more than five percent.
I hope it isn't, because I want those kids to hurt themselves badly. By the way, half those fuckers outside your local multiplex don't even TRY to do tricks. They just stare at nearby railings and consider grinding them, only to do circles in the parking lot one more time. SACK UP AND HURT YOURSELVES, you little shits. Mike Shanahan says you're good to go.
How sexy would a two-headed woman have to be for single you to date? I mean, if it's Kate Upton, but with a second head? You gotta do that, right?
Of course. The only problem is if you date her for a long time and then she breaks your heart... How are you gonna go back to dating one-headed women? You're gonna be ruined. You're be dating some other girl months later and you're gonna think to yourself, "Well, she's nice. But she's only got one head." Once you go two heads...
What if the NFL had best-of-three playoff series? It would be incredible. Name five people who don't want this. You can't.
If we kept the current number of playoff contestants, that would extend the playoffs by... (does hard math)... another eight weeks, which is roughly same amount of time it takes the NBA to complete all of its first round playoff series. Players would never support this. Playoff bonuses for NFL players range from $20,000 to $88,000 (not counting individual contract bonus clauses). No team is gonna play potentially twelve extra games for that. I'm sure there are lots of NFL players who are more than happy to NOT make the playoffs and get extra time off work. Even if you cut down the number of playoff teams to eight, that's still a potential nine-game mini-season ruining your team. By the third game of the Super Bowl, both teams would be starting 50% practice squadders and everyone would just want to go home. I mean, you saw last weekend's games. They sucked. This was just bad luck, but all those extra playoff games mean more chances for Mike Shanahan to murder RG3's leg again.
So while I like the idea as a pipe dream, in reality it would be unwatchable. I would really like more football in my life without destroying the quality of play, but it's just about impossible. This is why we need a fifth major team sport, something for me to watch during the spring and summer that's better than watching baseball. DO NOT SUGGEST LACROSSE OR I WILL HURT YOU. I would like to take some of the government's spider-lung money and funnel it into New Violent Sport R&D.
I am told a human and orangutan could mate and have a child. Sort of like a mule or liger. Do you think this has ever happened? Would the child be allowed to play for the NFL?
According to Slate, "Rumored animal-human crosses from the past few hundred years have included a man-pig, a monkey-girl, and a porcupine man." I think we can all agree that Porcupine Man would have a devastating impact on NFL defenses. Who's gonna want to tackle THAT guy? I think that plenty of men have had sex with apes because horny men will do ANYTHING. I also think that the resulting offspring from such unholy alliances would probably be a barely functional animal, not the super-powered Silverback we'd all like it to be. So sure, Monkey Girl can play in the NFL if she's good enough. But she won't be. She'll be too busy eating her own shit.
Instead of arbitrary roughing penalties, what if the NFL put in a rule that said your team loses its starting QB for the rest of the game if you injure the other team's starting QB?
CHAOS. Mass fucking chaos. Remember: RG3 went down late on Sunday night without even being touched. You can't penalize the Seahawks for that. That would be dickish. You'd have to have an arbitrary panel deciding if one team was truly responsible for another team's injury. By now, I think we all know that the NFL handles subjective judgments poorly. Plus, any team with a good QB would be so scared of losing that QB that it would let the other team score 7,000 points.
Plus, the rule could actually incentivize teams that already have shitty QBs. If Mark Sanchez is your starting QB, there's no reason not to give him up for the sake of crippling the fuck out of Tom Brady. Again, this rule should be tried out during the Pro Bowl, if only so I can watch it fail miserably. The Pro Bowl needs to be the NFL's rules lab.
You have the power to go back and time and prevent one musician from ever getting in front of microphone or picking up a guitar or whatever. We're not murders; they'll lead a normal life, but their music will never exist. Who do you choose? I say Elton John, because fuck "Benny and the Jets."
If their music never exists, that also means the culture of their music never exists, which means I have to choose the Grateful Dead, even though I want to pick REM so very, very badly. You could also experiment and take away The Beatles, just to see if music ends up being awesome without them. Then you could be that one asshole at every party who says the Beatles are overrated, only you'd be right.
What if there's a crazed person who's demanding to chop off your dick, but they let you make a substitution? I could see trading one hand for your wang definitely.
You wouldn't want a hand down there. You'd want some reasonable facsimile of a penis: a dildo, a vibrator, a big hose, etc. You'd want it to be as close to you old penis as possible. I know the idea of a pizza cutter down there sounds wild, but trust me: the novelty would wear off and you'd really regret not taking the dildo.
I recently took a dump, a dump that was perfectly shaped like the number 2. Like, look down at your keyboard. It looks just like that, except made of poop.
So meta. Well done.
Girl across the street was an escort until they got evicted. Her REAL name is Fantasia. When your real name is Fantasia, what the hell do you use for a working name? Maude? Ethel?
I'll go with Kaytlynn. I can't imagine how hard it is to live somewhere knowing there was an escort living next door. Every time you took out the trash, you'd think to yourself, Is she working right now? Then you'd steal a glance at her window and then feel like a pervert for trying to sneak a look. And what if you literally needed a cup of sugar from her? She's not buying that shit. She knows why you showed up at her door. BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A BUNDT CAKE I SWEAR.
90% chance he is a teacher. 100% chance he touches kids. Am I right?
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I'd say you have a 95 percent chance of being right. LEGIT 95 percent.
I would say if you are the scorer of a touchdown, you have to kick the extra point.
Doug Flutie would give anything for this rule to be legitimized. I don't support the idea because quarterbacks would probably excel at kicking the extra point as opposed to backs and wideouts. So you'd have a lot more QB sneaks at the goal line, and there's no bigger letdown than a touchdown scored on a QB sneak. The QB sneak TD ruins fantasy games all the time. And then you'd have announcers bursting into orgasmic praise every time Tom Brady splits the uprights, just like when he throws a block. LOOGIT HIM GO ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY. WHAT A MAN.
NFL players should have to pay fines for dirty hits or extracurricular contact directly to the victim of said hit. This payment should be done in person and with an apology. Imagine Ndamukong Suh forking over $30k to a smirking Matt Schaub and stumbling through an apology that Goodell then makes him repeat more sincerely like your dad always did whenever you gave some mumbled apology you didn't mean. This could be broadcast every Wednesday on the NFL Network and I would not miss an episode.
They would have also present the injured party with an oversized novelty check for the fine amount, signed in ink. This would probably cause defensive players to loathe quarterbacks even more than they already do. Eventually, someone like Suh would snap for real and choke a player to death on the field as retribution for his public shaming. I think I'd be okay with that.
My friend since grade school and his wife (two years married, no kids) were enjoying a few drinks this weekend when the subject turned to sex tapes. The wife kinda let it slip (thinking about it now, it may have been on purpose) that they have made a sex tape. After some pressuring my buddy confirms this but goes on to say that he's embarrassed of the tape because, according to him it's boring. Now, I have experience with cameras and how to use them, so they asked me to help them film a proper sex tape. I have never seen his wife naked, but deep down I really do want to.
Do I take them up on their offer?
Maybe if there were a way to set up the camera for them and then leave the room so that they can take it from there. But otherwise, FUCK AND NO. I can't imagine how awkward it would be to stand in a room with your friend and film him having intercourse with his wife. Are you supposed to direct them during the shoot? What if you get a boner? What if this is all a subtle way of pulling you into a twisted three-way relationship that can only end in wrecked lives? Don't do it. This is the kind of activity that only Tennessee swingers engage in.
Talking about sex with your friends is fun when you're all single. Once people get married, it turns weird and horrible. I'd rather cut myself with a can lid than hear a friend talk about his sex life. Watching it would be that much worse. Every time you see them, from that point forward, you would be thinking I'VE SEEN YOU DO IT. The only way I'd say yes was if the friend in question was AJ McCarron.
Who would be the worst person(s) to win a huge Powerball lottery in regards to public reaction? A Kardashian? A Westboro Baptist? A tourist?
Hard to argue with a Kardashian, although I think John Edwards would also work. If you're someone who has had a remarkable amount of good fortune in life and done virtually nothing to earn it (as Kim Kardashian has), and then you go and win $500 million, that's the kind of thing that makes people want to burn down cities. Why does everything good happen to that ingrown pussy hair and not you? How is that fair, God? YOU DICK.
If you could choose one bodily fluid to not have to worry about anymore, which would it be? Not having snot would save you-according to my calculations-$38.39 in Kleenex per year, or the $26.93 in paper towels per year (I'm a paper towel man myself).
It has to be between snot and piss, right? If you have a weak bladder as I do, pissing causes all sorts of awkward problems: dribbling in your undies, getting up just as the movie is getting good, stopping on road trips, waiting in endless stadium lines, getting up in the middle of the night... It's awful. To be free of that forever... to drink oceans of beer without ever having to break the seal? Fucking awesome. I know it feels good to piss, but I promise you, you wouldn't miss it if never happened again.
Email of the week time:
Last night, I was in class and while the professor was conversing with us about leadership, I noticed a cockroach the length of my middle finger crawling along the top of the wall opposite of where I was sitting. That fucker was huge but I didn't want to interrupt the class with my disgust of what I was seeing. Apparently, I was the only person in the class to notice too, because even when the roach made its way to the white board, and was slipping across the board, NO ONE SAW IT BUT ME. It fell on the dry erase markers and before I could say anything, my prof went to pick up the marker the roach was chilling on and freaked the fuck out. Then the rest of the class freaked out.
I still don't know what the most appropriate way of warning my prof (or the rest of the class) could have been. Am I a bad person?
No. You were under duress. The roach put you in a state of mortal terror so severe that could barely react. That's no crime. At some point, the federal government needs to get our spider-lunged SEALS to round up all the roaches and shoot them into space, where the SPACE SEALS can then neutralize them.


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Advanced imaging techniques may be able to distinguish which patients' tumors will respond to treatment with anti-angiogenic drugs and which will not. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers studied patients newly diagnosed with the dangerous brain tumor glioblastoma and treated with the anti-angiogenic agent cediranib. They report that those patients for whom cediranib rapidly 'normalized' abnormal blood vessels around their tumors and increased blood flow within tumors survived significantly longer than did patients in whom cediranib did not increase blood flow. The report appears in PNAS Early Edition.
"Two recent phase III trials of another anti-angiogenic drug, bevacizumab, showed no improvement in overall survival for glioblastoma patients, but our study suggests that only a subset of such patients will really benefit from these drugs," explains Tracy Batchelor, MD, director of the Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology at the MGH Cancer Center and co-lead and corresponding author of the current study. "Our results also verify that normalization of tumor vasculature appears to be the way that anti-angiogenic drugs enhance the activity of chemotherapy and radiation treatment."
Anti-angiogenic drugs, which block the action of factors that stimulate the growth of blood vessels, were first introduced for cancer treatment under the theory that they would act by 'starving' tumors of their blood supply. Since that time, however, new evidence has suggested that the drugs' benefits come through their ability to 'normalize' the abnormal, leaky vessels that usually surround and penetrate tumors, improving delivery of both chemotherapy drugs and the oxygen that is required for effective radiation therapy. This hypothesis was first proposed and has subsequently been developed by Rakesh K. Jain, PhD, senior author of the current study and director of the Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology in the MGH Department of Radiation Oncology.
A 2007 clinical study led by Batchelor found evidence suggesting that cediranib, which has not yet received FDA approval, could temporarily normalize tumor vasculature in recurrent glioblastoma, but it was not clear what role normalization might have in patients' survival. In the past few years, several research teams with leadership from Batchelor, Jain and other co-authors of the current paper reported evidence that cediranib alone improved blood perfusion within recurrent glioblastoma tumors in a subset of patients and improved their survival. A Nature Medicine study published earlier this year used a technique called vessel architectural imaging (VAI), developed at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH, to reveal that cediranib on its own improved the delivery of oxygen within tumors of some patients with recurrent glioblastoma.
Patients in the current study were participants in a clinical trial of cediranib plus radiation and chemotherapy for postsurgical treatment of newly diagnosed glioblastoma. Among participants in that trial, 40 also had advanced brain imaging with VAI and other MR imaging techniques. While all but one of the participants in the overall trial showed some evidence of vascular normalization and reduced edema – tissue swelling that can be dangerous within the brain – only 20 of 40 patients were found to have persistent improvement in vessel perfusion. VAI also revealed improved oxygen delivery only in the patients with improved perfusion. Those patients survived on average 9 months longer – 26 months, compared with 17 months – than did those whose perfusion levels remained stable or worsened. A comparison group of glioblastoma patients treated with radiation and chemotherapy only survived an average of 14 months.
"It's quite likely that the results we've found with cediranib will apply to other anti-angiogenics," Batchelor says. "In fact a presentation at a recent meeting showed that patients with improved perfusion from bevacizumab were also the ones in that study who lived longer. More research is needed, but these findings suggest that MR imaging techniques should play an essential role in future studies of anti-angiogenic drugs in glioblastoma and possibly other types of solid tumors. We've received National Cancer Institute funding to study this approach with bevacizumab treatment, and we will also be investigating tumor delivery of chemotherapy and oxygen status using combined MR/PET techniques at the Martinos Center's MR/PET facility."
Jain adds, "We originally introduced the normalization hypothesis for anti-angiogenic treatment in 2001, but it's taken more than a decade to confirm that vascular normalization actually increases tumor perfusion and that increased perfusion, rather than tumor starvation, is what improves survival. This study provides compelling evidence that normalization-induced increased vessel perfusion is the mechanism of benefit in glioblastoma patients." Jain is the Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology (Tumor Biology), and Batchelor is the Armenise-Harvard Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Co-lead authors of the PNAS Early Edition report are Elizabeth Gerstner, MD, MGH Neurology; Kyrre Emblem, PhD, Martinos Center; and Dan G. Duda, PhD, DMD, Steele Laboratory. Additional co-authors include Jay Loeffler, MD, MGH Radiation Oncology; Bruce Rosen, MD, PhD, Martinos Center; Gregory Sorensen, MD, formerly of the Martinos Center and now with Siemens Healthcare; Patrick Wen, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Percy Ivy, MD, National Cancer Institute. Support for the study includes National Institutes of Health grants R01CA129371, K24CA125440A, P01CA080124 and R01CA163815, and a grant from the National Foundation for Cancer Research.
Massachusetts General Hospital (www.massgeneral.org), founded in 1811, is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $775 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, reproductive biology, systems biology, transplantation biology and photomedicine.
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Depression, stress, and sleep problems are common in people who have fibromyalgia. These problems may make fibromyalgia symptoms worse.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Following Mexican President Felipe Calderon's attack on the second amendment and his lecturing on American immigration policy, Congressman Tom McClintock described Calderon's behavior as an "outrage" during a speech on the House floor yesterday, pointing out that America treats immigrants far better than the brutal way they are dealt with in Mexico.
During a series of speeches, including one in front of Congress, Calderon attacked Arizona's decision to enforce its immigration policy while also calling upon lawmakers to re-enact the assault weapons ban in a bid to disarm the American people as they are integrated into the North American Union system.
President Obama treasonously supported Calderon's message by alarmingly proclaiming, "We are not defined by our borders," during a speech on the White House lawn.
McClintock later reacted by labeling Calderon's rhetoric an "outrage" and slammed the Mexican President for holding American sovereignty in contempt while Democrats in Congress cheered him on.
McClintock said Calderon should, "Abide by the fundamental rules of diplomacy between civilized nations not to meddle in each other's domestic debates."
"Unlike Mexico's immigration law — which is brutally exclusionary — the purpose of America's law is not to keep people out. It is to assure that as people come to the United States, they do so with the intention of becoming Americans and of raising their children as Americans. Unlike Mexico, our nation embraces immigration and what makes that possible is assimilation," said McClintock.
Watch the clip.
The Congressman pointed out that immigration has been used not to assimilate newcomers as American citizens, but to cause division amongst racial and ethnic lines while seeking to "elevate devotion to foreign ideologies and traditions, while at the same time denigrating American culture, American values and American founding principles."
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McClintock quoted the following words from President Teddy Roosevelt, which perfectly illustrate how the original boundaries of immigration policy have been completely violated, with illegal immigrants now seeing themselves as radicalized Mexicans who subscribe to a racist liberation theology, not assimilated Americans who want to integrate with their neighbors.
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
However, the federal government and local authorities have not only allowed illegal immigrants to fly the Mexican flag on public property while spending millions of dollars every year translating official documents into Spanish, but they have also sat back as illegals engage in provocations by claiming that the U.S. is Mexico while tearing down American flags, as was highlighted by the recent case in Morgan Hill California, where students were kicked off campus and disciplined for the crime of wearing T-shirts which featured American flags.
Moreover, in schools such as New Hampshire Estates Elementary School, we see children admitting their parents are illegal aliens while dancing around a Mexican flag with the First Lady, Michelle Obama.
These two examples alone, and there are a myriad of others, clearly show that Teddy Roosevelt's caution to immigrants entering the U.S., that there is only room for one flag and one language, has been completely disregarded as hordes of immigrants pumped up with racist La Raza doctrines of radical liberation theology pour into the U.S. and claim it to be Mexico.
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charge down on (someone or something)
To move quickly, and perhaps aggressively, toward someone or something, The crowd gasped as the bull charged down on the matador. With the way that driver is charging down on the lead car, I think he's going to win this race!
charge down on someone or something
[for an animal or vehicle] to race or move quickly against someone or something. The angry elephant charged down on the hunters. The speeding truck charged down on the small shed.


text: Nominated for numerous awards for visuals, soundtrack and gamplay design, this puzzle game from independent Czech developers Amanita Design challenges players to think their way through a wonderland of cobbled-together industrial remnants as a robot named Josef. Stumbling through scrap and towering structures alike, Josef's journey is presented through an innovative lack of dialogue - written or spoken. Instead, players must discover motivations, story details and goals by way of thought bubbles that provide direction without holding a player's hand.


text: The winter issue of Disney twenty-three, the quarterly magazine of the Disney fan club, will feature a nine-page special on Tron: Legacy. Wired.com has an exclusive first look. The story includes interviews with the film's creators, including personal Tron memories from director Joseph Kosinski and writer Steven Lisberger, among others. "The reason [the sequel's development] took the 25 to 28 years is because we needed the 10-year-olds to grow up and be powerful enough to make this movie so that they could take their 10-year-old sons to see it," says Lisberger in the feature. The $16 magazine will be on store shelves and ship to members of Disney's D23 fan club on Nov. 1. Tron: Legacy flashes into theaters Dec. 17. Above: The cover of the magazine that goes out to subscribers shows Sam Flynn (played by Garrett Hedlund) in a lightcycle duel.The edition of the Disney twenty-three magazine that will be on store shelves Nov. 1 features Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges (who plays Kevin Flynn in both Tron movies) and Olivia Wilde (Quorra in Tron: Legacy).This interior page of Disney twenty-three's Tron: Legacy feature discusses the Comic-Con International booths for the highly anticipated movie, as well as writer Steven Lisberger's experience on the movie set. Lisberger, who directed the original Tron, plays a cameo role as a bartender in the upcoming sequel.Another interior page of the Tron: Legacy feature from the winter issue of Disney twenty-three, discussing the first sneak peek of the movie.Original Tron director Steven Lisberger muses on why it took so long to create a sequel in this excerpt from Disney twenty-three magazine's upcoming feature on Tron: Legacy.Subscribers to Disney twenty-three magazine will receive a gift with their winter issues: an exclusive Tron: Legacy mousepad.See Also:Remote-Control Tron: Legacy Light Cycle Defies GravityTron: Legacy Billboard Spotlights Olivia WildeCast Reveals Details of Tron: Legacy's Skin-Tight CostumesTron: Legacy Director Takes Disney to Oblivion


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News from the world of Maths
October 7, 2015
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for results that shed light on mysterious fundamental particles called neutrinos.
October 6, 2015
A project involving secondary school students has delivered valuable data for epidemiologists.
September 18, 2015
How "forced experimentation" can lead to economic benefits.
August 18, 2015
In this video theoretical physicist Ben Allanach talks about the search for dark matter at the LHC.
August 14, 2015
A brand-new pentagon to tile your wall with.
August 6, 2015
A team of computer scientists has found a weakness in the world's most popular anonymity service.
August 4, 2015
In this excellent talk the mathematician Vicky Neale gives a fascinating and easy-to-follow introduction to the prime numbers.
July 29, 2015
Frustrated by airport queues? Missing the summer weather? Find solace at this year's festival.


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Would anyone be interested in a script for network rendering, that works with Autodesk Backburner.
The script is still in development so thats why I havent included download link, I just wanna know if there are people who would like to use/test it.
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Fiji Shark Conservation Project turns one year old
Projects Abroad Fiji celebrated the one year anniversary of our Shark Conservation Project on the 8th of January 2015.
"This is a great milestone for us, and we're thrilled with what we have managed to achieve in just one year," says Marine Conservation Director Ingrid Sprake. "The work and the research we do here assists global shark scientists in their studies, and ultimately informs government policies that lead to greater shark protection."
Volunteers and staff in Fiji, locally known as Shark Warriors, celebrated the occasion by planting 365 mangrove saplings, one for each day that the project has been running. Cakes, as well as local foods such as lovo and kava were shared as part of the celebrations.
Contributing to global research
Volunteers travel to Fiji to study the sharks endemic to the tropical waters. The volunteers get to work with some leading marine biologists to help understand sharks, which are an increasingly endangered species. Projects Abroad has also partnered with WWF's Global Shark Programme as part of this endeavor. Volunteers spend time diving in the waters of Fiji to conduct shark counts and ecological surveys and are also involved in tagging baby sharks, and the reforestation of the mangrove forests.
As apex predators, sharks play a vital role in maintaining the balance of oceanic ecosystems. As part of a larger conservation drive, Projects Abroad is running a Global Shark Campaign, which aims to promote awareness and action around these valuable creatures, which are often caught as buy-products of fishing trawlers, or hunted for shark fin soup.
"We are at the forefront of shark conservation in Fiji," says Ingrid. "And we're excited about the upcoming year, if this is what we can achieve in such a short space of time."
Read more information on the valuable work being done at the Shark Conservation Project.


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As Vancouver Canuck general manager Mike Gillis admitted before making Tuesday's trade for Derek Roy, there is a price for trying to win the Stanley Cup. The problem is teams often don't know what that price is even as it is being paid.
The second-round draft pick previous Canuck manager Dave Nonis surrendered to Los Angeles in 2007 to re-acquire Brent Sopel at the trade deadline turned out to be power forward Wayne Simmonds.
Most second rounders don't become impact players in the National Hockey League, but you never know what, or who, will become of the pick Gillis sent with second-tier prospect Kevin Connauton to rent Dallas Stars' centre Derek Roy for whatever remains in the Canucks' season.
Another former Vancouver GM, Brian Burke, threw away first-round draft pick R.J. Umberger in 2004 to get Martin Rucinsky from the New York Rangers. The Canucks had Rucinsky for five weeks, right up until Game 7 of the first round of the Stanley Cup tournament. Umberger has been in the league for eight years.
Connauton is no Umberger and as a defenceman plays a position at which the Canucks, barring injury, are fully loaded for at least the next couple of years.
But the organization lacks prospects, hence the Canucks' recent ranking by a major publication of 29th among 30 teams in pre-NHL talent.
And in the last seven years, under two managerial regimes, the Canucks have traded away at the deadline four second-round picks, four third-rounders and four fourths.
That represents slightly more than half the franchise's 2006-2012 draft picks in Rounds 2-4. Gillis also traded his 2010 first-round selection in the dubious deal for Keith Ballard.
Gillis, at least, has maximized his deadline transactions by generally re-signing the acquisitions: Andrew Alberts, Max Lapierre and Chris Higgins, whose new four-year, $10-million extension didn't get the praise it deserved Tuesday in the glare of the Derek Roy trade.
The Canucks, who have scored two or fewer goals in 12 of their last 16 games, desperately needed another centre despite the fan base's puppy love for tiny rookie Jordan Schroeder.
The Canucks needed another centre with experience and offensive skill, with some physical heft, a strong playoff resume and the ability to win faceoffs and help the power play.
Roy, a 29-year-old who will hit the jackpot this summer as an unrestricted free agent, checks off only half of those six boxes.
At 5-9, he is hardly the prototypical third-line centre to play behind Henrik Sedin and injured Ryan Kesler.
"But Ryan Kesler isn't your prototypical second-line centre, either," Canuck assistant general manager Laurence Gilman countered late Tuesday. "Our team is not constructed like conventional teams. We can afford to bring in an unconventional third-line centre.
"I don't think we're ever going to have players like Daniel (Sedin) and Henrik again — players who were drafted No. 2 and No. 3. The time to do this is now and I'm all-in. It's not the best team that wins the Stanley Cup every year, it's the team that's playing best. We're trying to get our team playing its best when the playoffs come around."
Even with Roy and Kesler, who could return as early as next week, the Canucks aren't the best team in the NHL.
Tuesday's trade just keeps them in the running, keeps them in the game after some alarming nights this season.
Management made it clear after its productive day that it was not done trying to upgrade the Canucks. The trade deadline is noon today.
"If you keep holding on to guys instead of getting up-and-coming younger guys, you're going to be good for a few years and then things can drop off fast," Henrik Sedin warned after Monday's 3-2 loss in San Jose. "But I still think, getting our guys back from injuries and maybe getting a couple of guys here at the deadline, I think we still have a great shot. That's all I want to look at it because we all know we're not getting any younger. We're going to have a few more years where we have a chance."
Vancouver's "window" may not be as long as he thinks. The Sedins are 32 and under contract for one more year.
The salary cap plunges next season to $64.3 million and the team has nearly that much money already committed to just 15 players.
The Canucks chose to re-sign Higgins now, but not fellow winger Mason Raymond. Raymond and fourth-line centre Lapierre are eligible for unrestricted free agency this summer. Vancouver's core players are under contract, but it will be difficult for the Canucks to retain all their supporting players. And who will replace them?
That's a question they'll worry about later. For now, they're trying to win a Stanley Cup. Maybe Roy will help. Maybe not.
If Vancouver wins the Cup in June, Tuesday's trade was worth it at any price. And if the Canucks go out in the first round again, we'll wait for the bill.


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One-pot Moroccan chicken
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- Freezable
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal293
- fat6g
- saturates1g
- carbs22g
- sugars10g
- fibre4g
- protein36g
- salt0.9g
- 4 skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tsp ground cumin
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- 1 onion, finely sliced
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- 400g can cherry tomato
- 2 tbsp harissa paste (we used Belazu Rose Harissa)
This hot, aromatic paste made from chilli and assorted spices and herbs is spicy and…
- 1 tbsp clear honey
- 2 medium courgettes, thickly sliced
The courgette is a variety of cucurbit, which means it's from the same family as cucumber,…
- 400g can chickpea, drained and rinsed
Season the chicken breasts all over with the cumin and lots of ground black pepper. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan and cook the chicken with the onion for 4 mins. Turn the chicken over and cook for a further 3 mins. Stir the onions around the chicken regularly as they cook.
Tip the tomatoes and 250ml water into the pan and stir in the harissa, honey, courgettes and chickpeas. Bring to a gentle simmer and cook for 15 mins until the chicken is tender and the sauce has thickened slightly.


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Sunday, February 17
Statement? You Tell Me, Says Sorenstam
Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam.
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Annika Sorenstam left it up to the scribblers to decide the significance of her season-opening win at the SBS Open at Turtle Bay in Kahuku, Hawaii. It was Sorenstam's 70th LPGA Tour title.
"What kind of statement do you think this makes?" Annika was asked at the post-tournament press conference. "With Lorena playing so well last year and you were injured last year, what kind of statement do you think this victory sends to them?"
"You tell me," Annika replied. "I don't know how you feel about it. But I feel great. I'm excited to be back. I got a win here. I think that's going to be easier the rest of the year for me.
"Again, knowing that I'm swinging better again and knowing that the desire is there. Those are two key components to play well. Last year the desire wasn't there. And my swing was definitely not there. Now it is. And, like I said, those are two important components you need to play well and to be the top player out here."
Statement? It's just one tournament, but I think Annika is healthy again and very determined. She's back.
Still, Annika faces a tough assignment to reclaim world number one from Lorena Ochoa, who keeps getting better. And there are a handful of other LPGA Tour players ready to challenge at every tournament. It should be an interesting year.
The Armchair Golfer
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It's difficult to root for Annika over Lorena or vice-versa. They both have a terrific game and they both seem to be a credit to their sport. They've made women's golf almost as watchable as the PGA Tour.
It is nice to see her back to form. It would be great to see that rivalry gain some momemtum.
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METRO VANCOUVER -- A Ruger handgun found in the Ontario apartment of Michael Newman in 2007 was used to shoot Vancouver lawyer Marc Rozen in the head three years earlier, Crown prosecutor Geordie Proulx said in his opening statement of Newman's murder trial.
And DNA samples from Rozen's bloody apartment after his Jan. 6, 2004 slaying were later linked to Newman through forensic testing, Proulx told Justice William Ehrcke as the Crown laid out the anticipated evidence at trial.
Proulx said that on the day Rozen died, he had arranged to meet a prospective buyer for an expensive engagement ring he had advertised in the classifieds.
Instead Rozen ended up in a fight for his life from attackers who wanted to steal the $18,000 ring.
"The case for the Crown is that Michael Newman played an essential, substantial and integral part in the killing of Marc Rozen," Proulx said. "Mr. Rozen, very badly injured and bleeding as the result of gunshot and stab wounds, is fighting with Newman in order to flee his own residence. His efforts failed and he was killed when shot in the back of the head."
Neighbours called 911 to report hearing a violent struggle coming from Rozen's 11th-floor West End condo just before 1 p.m. that day, Proulx said.
Police didn't arrive for more than an hour because of a heavy snowfall. When they did get the door opened, "the officers noticed a large quantity of blood on the floor and on the walls of the entrance hall." Proulx said.
"It appeared to the officers that a violent struggle had occurred in the apartment."
Rozen was lying on his back on a rug in the living room.
"His face and clothing were covered in blood. There was a knife lying on his chest. They noted large cuts on the right side of his neck and on his left calf. He appeared to be deceased," the veteran prosecutor said as Rozen's parents covered their ears and bowed their heads in the public gallery.
An autopsy showed Rozen had been stabbed repeatedly in the neck, face, hands, forearms, groin and leg, Proulx said. And Rozen was also shot in the hand, upper back, neck and head with two different calibre firearms.
Proulx said a man matching Newman's description was seen leaving Rozen's apartment building at 1816 Haro through the lobby before police arrived. He had a towel wrapped around his neck and left a trail of blood drops.
Newman, well-known to police for his membership in the notorious United Nations gang, ended up on the suspect list in June 2006 when a composite drawing of a suspect was released and an Abbotsford Police officer recognized it as possibly being Newman.
Police couldn't locate him at the time, but he ended up being arrested in March 2007 in Vaughan, Ont., in a major ecstasy and cocaine bust outside a shopping centre.
Newman later told York Regional Police detectives that they would find some cocaine, as well as two handguns and a silencer, if they searched his Vaughan apartment.
Tests on his DNA and the firearms provided Vancouver Police with enough evidence to charge Newman in the Rozen murder in April 2009 while he was serving a five-year sentence in the drug case, Proulx said.
Newman, now 43, looked thin and pale as he sat in the prisoner's box wearing a dark suit and white shirt. Rozen's parents sat in the first row behind him in the high-security courtroom.
The Crown plans to call 50 witnesses and complete its case in early December. The trial is being held next door to the high-profile case involving six men also linked to the UN gang who are charged with conspiring to murder the Bacon brothers.
Before the Crown's opening Monday, Ehrcke ruled that one of Newman's statements to York Regional Police would be inadmissible at his murder trial because of Charter right violations.
Ehrcke said that an Ontario detective lied to Newman about being a murder suspect during the interview on April 2, 2007.
The judge said the detective made a "deliberate and considered decision to mislead Mr. Newman" when he claimed the gangster was only facing drug and gun charges.
"This was a serious breach of Mr. Newman's rights," Ehrcke said, adding that the statements admission at trial "would bring the administration of justice into disrepute."
In the April 2 statement, Newman "mentioned the Independent Soliders and the Bacon brothers" and told police he was in Ontario because "there are contracts out on all of us," Ehrcke said.
And he admitted to carrying a ".45" most of the time he lived in B.C.
Ehrcke allowed into evidence another statement Newman gave police on March 30, 2007, claiming he had the drugs and guns in his apartment.
Ehrcke's rulings on the statements came after a three-week "voir dire" or trial within a trial.
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New Fall Simulcasts: Strike the Blood, Nagi no Asukara, Phi-Brain Season 3, Little Busters! Refrain, Teekyu 3 and WhitePost Reply
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It's been a CRAZY day so far here at Crunchyroll, but we're not quite done yet! Strike the Blood will also be joining the Fall 2013 lineup here starting TOMORROW, October 4 at 11:00am Pacific Time.
Strike the Blood will be available to Crunchyroll audiences in the following territories: North America, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Scandinavia, South Africa, Central America, South America, Caribbean, Turkey, Italy, Austria, Germany, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania.
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Hey Guys,
lugiamania back here to bring you another announcement for today! Well, technically you guys already know it, but Nagi no Asukara will be coming to Crunchyroll! While the series will usually air on Thursdays at 8:00am Pacific Time, episode 1 will be on a 24-hour delay, meaning it will be available Friday at 8:00am!
Nagi no Asukara will be available to Crunchyroll audiences in the following territories: North America, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Scandinavia, South Africa, Central America, South America, Caribbean, Turkey, Italy, Austria, Germany, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, France, French DOM-TOM, Andorra, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco.
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Also, we are now expanding the territories list for Hunter x Hunter and Chihayafuru! Both series are now available in: U.S.A, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Turkey, the Caribbean, Central and South America.
And speaking of Hunter x Hunter, it will now have a new time slot! Starting October 8, it will now air Tuesdays at 11:00am Pacific Time.
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keikawa here, to bring you the third announcement for today: Phi-Brain Season 3!!!!
Phi-Brain Season 3 is set to broadcast on Wednesday October 9 at 12:00 pm Pacific Time for North American audiences only.
"After the Orpheus Order battle and Jin losing his memory, Kaito moves on to becoming a sophomore and heads off to England. Upon visiting a church from his childhood, Jin and Kaito bump into Reisheru – a girl whom he recognizes only by name. But their first encounter lands them immediately into a Puzzle Battle.
Meanwhile at school, the mysterious wave of influence from Gammon and Enigma starts involving Kaito and every one of his friends, but somehow ends up circling back to Raetsel. What's her involvement in this? Will the mystery of Phi-Brain be fully revealed? Will the answers lie inside Jin's head? Find out on the thrilling conclusion of PHI-BRAIN!"
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Aaand our second announcement of the day is none other than the sequel to the hit series Little Busters!, Little Busters! Refrain!
Little Busters! Refrain will start airing on Saturday, October 5 at 7:00am Pacific Time, for Crunchyroll members in the following territories: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, Central America,South America,Caribbean,Turkey, Italy, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, France, French DOM-TOM, Andorra, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco.
The sequel to the hit series Little Busters!, Little Busters! Refrain returns to Riki Naoe and his group of childhood friends, who form a baseball team called "Little Busters." J.C. Staff is once again doing the animation production on this series, and director Yoshiki Yamakawa returns as well to helm the series as director once more.
The cast features Yui Horie as Riki Naoe, best known for her roles in Fruits Basket as Toru Honda and Love Hina as Naru Narusegawa, with Hikaru Midorikawa of Gundam Wing's Heero Yuy fame, as the leader of gang, Kyousuke Natsume and Tomoe Tamiyasu, who also voiced Futami Moriyama in Recorder and Randsell, as his sister, Rin Natsume.
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Good morning and welcome to the on-going announcements for Fall 2013 here at Crunchyroll! Starting off this morning, we have TWO titles that will be coming soon, along with some updates to territories for previously announced series!
First off, to clear up confusion for Galilei Donna, it will be available in ALL of Europe! Also, Australia and New Zealand have been added to Beyond the Boundary territories.
Teekyu 3 will be airing Sunday, October 6 at 7:30am Pacific Time for Crunchyroll members in North America, South America, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
Teekyu 3 is based on the tennis comedy manga that appeared in Comic Earth Star magazine, written by Roots and illustrated by Piyo. The anime adaptation debuted in 2012 and featured animation by studio MAPPA (Kids on the Slope).
The everyday lives of four unusual girls of the Kameido High School tennis club will have you convulsing with laughter. Thrown about by her idiot seniors, junior member Oshimoto Yuri finds herself constantly correcting them. Incompetent at tennis despite being a member of the tennis club, second year student Shinjo Kanae is a joke machine. Kansai second year student Bando Marimo is unimaginably perverted. Solving all problems with money is the mysterious and wealthy second year student Takamiya Nasuno.
And that's not all! White Album 2 will also be airing this fall on Crunchyroll, starting Saturday, October 5 at 11:00am Pacific Time for members in U.S.A, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Turkey, Germany, Latin America (Central and South America including Caribbean), Spain, Portugal, France.
Originally based off of a visual novel, White Album 2 centers on Haruki Kitahara, a junior in college, and his relationships with two girls in the light music club, Setsuna Ogiso and Kazusa Touma. Animation production is by Satelight, whose other works include AKB0048 and Arata the Legend, and is being directed by Masaomi Ando, who previously also worked on Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse and Fairy Tail.
Haruki is voiced by Takahiro Mizushima, who also played Satoshi Nagino in Love Lab and Rollo Lamperouge in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2, with Hitomi Nabatame, Saori Bajina in Oreimo and Margery Daw in Shakugan no Shana, as Kazusa, and Madoka Yonezawa, whose other roles include Izumi Akazawa in Another and Kumiko Yabusaki in Genshiken Second Season, is cast as Setsuna.
Don't forget to keep checking back to Crunchyroll as we continue our Fall 2013 announcements!
9/16 - Diabolik Lovers
9/18 - Kill la Kill
9/18 - Magi: The Kingdom of Magic
9/18 - Valvrave the Liberator Season 2
9/25 - Ace of the Diamond
9/25 - Gingitsune: Messenger Fox of the Gods
9/26 - Yowapeda
9/27 - Samurai Flamenco
9/28 - Galilei Donna
9/28 - Bottom Bitting Bug 2
9/28 - Walkure Romanze
9/30 - Golden Time
10/1 - Miss Monochrome
10/1 - Beyond the Boundary
10/2 - Outbreak Company
10/2 - Infinite Stratos 2
10/2 - Hakuba no Ojisama
10/3 - Teekyu 3
10/3 - White Album 2
10/3 - Little Busters! Refrain
10/3 - Phi-Brain Season 3
10/3 - Nagi no Asukara
10/3 - Strike the Blood
10/4 - ??
10/4 - ??
thank you CR
Can't wait for the next 2 shows for today to be announced. I hope to get more of the anime I'm watching!! *crosses fingers*
And there is still 2 more announcements today? Wowzers
Thank you CR :D
(And Nagi regions? :p)
Cool, White Album 2 was one of the shows I said I'd watch only if CR picked it up.
Teekyu 3 isn't that much of a surprise but White Album sound a good, I'll check it out for sure
And 2 more announcements today
What even
Thanks a lot, CR .
Looking forward for the next 2 announcements of today
Much appreciated CR
Can't wait for the next two announcements.
This is great thanks CR and two more still to come
I know White Album 2 has nothing to do with the first White Album, or so I am told, but I still feel like I should finish the first before going to the second...
The Closet became boring.
OMG!!!! IS 2 Thanks a lot CR!!!! I had to comment to let you guys know how happy I am and my wife that we are able to watch IS 2 Eps. from your site. Keep em coming!!!
And the three mins of pure crazy returns I look forward to it!
I love you Miichan, Takamina, Sasshi & Nako! (^_^)/
way to go, guys! YOU'RE SIMPLY DA BEST *Imperial March*
mad at the world that chooses morality over reason and logic
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Also, Australia and New Zealand have been added to Beyond the Boundary territories.
Please tell me there'll be more territories added...*cough*UK*cough*
But besides that some nice announcements.


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Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has fined insurance companies nearly $1 million this year for violating Washington insurance laws. Violations included charging unapproved rates, improper advertising, and failing to offer health coverage to children.
The fines collected do not go to the agency. They are deposited in the state's general fund to pay for other state services.
Any Washingtonian with a complaint against an insurer, agent or broker can contact the office at 1-800-562-6900 or file a complaint online at http://www.insurance.wa.gov/.
Fines and other disciplinary actions against insurers from June to September include:
■UNUM Life Insurance Co., Portland, Me.: Fined $75,000 for selling long term care coverage using unapproved policies.
■Allstate Insurance Co., Northbrook, Ill: Fined $50,000 for issuing policies using unfiled and unapproved rates.
■UnitedHealthCare, Hartford, Conn.: Fined $26,000 for sending people wishing to appeal the insurer's decisions to the wrong entity.
■Arch Insurance Co., Kansas City, Mo.: Fined $20,000 for violations including failing to keep adequate accounts and records.
■Chicago Title Insurance Co., Omaha, Neb.: Fined $10,000 for improperly advertising with producers of title insurance business.
■Lifewise Health Plan of Washington, Mountlake Terrace, Wash.: Fined $10,000 for failing to offer coverage to children in certain cases.
■Metropolitan Life Insurance, New York, NY: Fined $10,000 for failing to calculate benefit amounts in accordance with Washington law.
■Victoria Fire & Casualty Co., Cleveland, Ohio: Fined $5,000 for failing to adequately respond to inquiries.
■Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) Chicago Title Insurance Co. and Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. (both of Omaha, Neb.): Ordered to stop offering discounts to producers of title insurance business.
Orders and details about each of these cases are posted online at http://www.insurance.wa.gov/orders/enforcement.asp.
Note: In some cases, the fines were larger, but a portion was suspended on the condition that the companies follow compliance plans to remedy the problems. The fines listed above are what's actually being paid.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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Columbus Dispatch Unveils Sub-Tabloid Format
By: John K. Hartman
Some newspapers are abandoning daily home delivery, but The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch — circulation: 142,000 daily, 265,000 Sunday — shows no signs of following suit and believes its future lies in a new sub-tabloid format.
I, and more than a hundred other readers of Ohio's award-winning capital city newspaper, responded to an offer in editor Benjamin J. Marrison's July 1 column to get a first look at the new format on July 9 at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Grand Atrium in Columbus.
We got to sample finger food and cocktails while Marrison and other Dispatch executives showed what they describe as the "formatted for life" paper will look like beginning Sept. 10 and why it will look that way.
In a nutshell, the Dispatch is giving up its broadsheet size (22 inches high by 11.5 inches wide) and reformatting to 14.6 inches by 10.5 inches — called three-around — in two months.
Typically, newspapers significantly smaller than broadsheet are called tabloids, though tabloids generally are 17 by 11 inches, slightly larger than the three-around. Dispatch executives avoided using the term tabloid, likely because the name is associated with lurid and exaggerated journalism — not what the steady but occasionally flashy Dispatch dispenses. (The paper was selected as the state's top newspaper by the Associated Press of Ohio in three of the past four years, and its journalists have won many individual awards.)
The paper's presses will be retrofitted to enable them to increase productivity by 50 percent by printing three pages in the former space of two pages. The three-around format will allow a 50 percent increase in color production and use 33 percent less newsprint.
The Dispatch has also signed an agreement to publish The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Kentucky Enquirer in the three-around format beginning this fall.
The preview session lasted nearly two hours and was a combination of seeking reader feedback and selling loyal readers on accepting the forthcoming changes.
Newspaper readers are creatures of habit, and any disturbance of that habit can result in them going elsewhere. Changes in Michigan — where 10 large and medium-sized newspapers have abandoned daily home delivery, thus breaking the habit — have caused upward of half the readers to take their eyeballs elsewhere (and not to the papers' websites), and much advertising has been lost.
Editor Marrison told us that though the size of the pages would shrink, a number of pages would be added so that no significant space for content would be lost.
The new Dispatch will be more like a "daily news magazine," he said.
We were given a prototype that offered many more freestanding sections than the current paper, which regularly offers four sections Monday through Wednesday, sometimes expanding Thursday through Saturday, until the multi-section paper on Sunday.
In addition to the front page, the prototype we were given contained the following sections, for what appeared to be a Sunday issue, in this order:
- Front page
- Nation & World
- Metro & State
- Sports
- College Football (this would be fall only for Ohio State University football and central Ohio)
- Business
- Food & Life
- Weekender
Real Estate, Automobile, Classified, Entertainment/Television, Gardening, Travel, Health, Home Improvement, and other specialty sections were not included as freestanding but could be separate sections on Sundays and on other days when the paper is bulkier.
Marrison promised more compelling visual elements, including more color pages, with more action photographs on section fronts. He said jumps or continuations of stories from page one to inside pages would be severely limited, because readers do not like them.
Reader disdain for jumps was discovered three decades ago through the original research that led to the founding of USA Today Sept. 15, 1982, and is why the national newspaper still limits jumps from section fronts to inside pages.
Marrison said section fronts will contain one to three articles and one-paragraph summaries of one to three articles with references to inside pages where the entire article can be read. Indices will replace the Speed Read feature of summary paragraphs that currently appears on page 2 of the first section.
L-shaped advertising blocks will be seen on inside pages that benefit both news layout and ad visibility. More pictures of key reporters will accompany their articles, Marrison said, presumably to put a human face on the paper's staff.
Marrison and other Dispatch executives, one of whom was at every table, were hoping for the audience's approval. He said 80 percent of an earlier group liked the new format, and 70 percent liked it better than broadsheet.
When asked for a show of hands, most of the attendees indicated their approval, but I discerned a lack of enthusiasm and a desire to be thankful for the hospitality influencing our response. We were then asked to submit questions on note cards and were given the following answers by Marrison and his colleagues:
- The paper will still be wide enough for a birdcage liner, and the ink will still transfer to silly putty for temporary tattoos.
- There will be no immediate increase in subscription cost caused by the new format. Any future increases will be modest.
- The dispatch.com website will soon be behind a paywall, and non-subscribers will be allowed 10 free articles a month. Dispatch.com went behind a paywall once before several years ago, but the loss of Web audience was so great that it returned to its current free model. (The paywall plan is similar to The New York Times metered model, which began more than a year ago.)
- Seven-day subscribers to the print Dispatch may be asked to pay a small amount extra for full Web access. (As a seven-day subscriber, I object to this. I believe I am paying enough at $250+ a year.)
- Sections will range from four to 20 pages.
- Sunday advertising inserts will be larger than the folded newspaper and will stick out.
- Body type size and body type spacing between lines will remain the same as will headline style and size. Additional headline decks and subheads will be added to make up for the smaller pages, as needed. (Nonetheless, I expect headline point sizes to trend smaller as pages shrink.)
- Promotion of the new format began with television ads during the Olympics and increased a month before the launch.
- A special website touting the changes (formattedforlife.com) was established to help readers grow accustomed to the switch.
- Reporters will be asked to make their articles 10 percent "tighter." (This is a clue that when all is said and done, there will be a bit less content in the three-around Dispatch, but most readers like shorter articles and do not read entire articles anyway.)
- The reporting and editing staff will not be expanded in the near future.
While Marrison and his colleagues went to great lengths to describe the move to three-around as "historic" and assiduously avoided the term "tabloid," I would describe the move to a sub-tabloid size as "adaptive." It will conserve newsprint, and it may increase readership of each copy by offering more sections to pass around in the home, office, coffee shop, and other social settings. If it reaches more eyeballs for advertisers and buttresses the paper's finances in a time of newspaper industry financial stress, that would be "historic" in my opinion.
We loyal readers in attendance July 9 were a microcosm of what is ailing the newspaper industry. We were nearly all middle-aged or older, mostly white, mostly male, and mostly affluent. We are still a good audience for many advertisers, but our replacements — young, multicultural, female, lower and middle class — are not having the morning friendly deposited on their doorstep every day, and they increasingly are turning to online and mobile devices for their news.
I know from previous research I conducted (presented in 2011) that the Dispatch, its sister publications, and broadcast properties in Columbus have amassed, by far, the largest online and mobile audience of young adults in the metropolitan area. But now the Dispatch intends to charge for its online and mobile content in an era when people are used to free access. Dispatch.com will not exactly be "formatted" for young adult lives if it follows through with its plan to charge for access, but, as other newspapers are finding, it may be necessary for survival.
John K. Hartman is a professor of journalism at Central Michigan University and the author of two books about USA Today. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
UPDATE: The Dispatch has since announced that launch of the new format will be delayed past Sept. 10 due to delays in the pressroom. A new expected launch date was not given.


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5485 avenue Victoria
Montréal, Québec
Since our father couldn't make it to my sister's wedding in Cape Cod, we met up with him for dinner at Hoài Hương. My dad is of Chinese origin but was born and raised in Vietnam, so he loves his Vietnamese food. I asked my mom what hoài hương means - my understanding is that it's "remembering your homeland" in Vietnamese; for my Vietnamese readers, please forgive my loose translation! Hoài Hương is a popular joint in the Côte-des-Neiges area, especially on beautiful days when you can enjoy Vietnamese food outside.
I decided to get Bún Thịt Nướng Chả Giò ($9.25), vermicelli noodles with grilled meat and spring roll. My dad got the same dish, but instead of vermicelli noodles, he ordered the thinner bánh hỏi noodles. This is a dish that you find at most Vietnamese restaurants and I enjoy it every time. I always like spring rolls rolled with chewy rice paper.
Bún Thịt Nướng Chả Giò.
My sister's then fiancé D (now husband) ordered the Mì Xào Dòn, crispy noodles with beef. He said it was pretty good.
My sister L ordered the nem nướng (pork meatballs) which came with its own dipping sauce. The meatballs were good but they were not as flavourful as I like them. I like the B&T's better and my sister said somehow that's what she was expecting, even though the B&T is in Hamilton!
Nem nướng.
My sister's and dad's dish came with rice paper to roll. I've been meaning to take a picture of these plastic gadgets meant to wet rice papers in bulk. You place rice paper on the individual plastic disks, dunk it in water and take out one disk at a time to roll your food. My mom brought some Vietnam where they were very inexpensive.
Rice paper instrument.
Hoài Hương delivers good food. Service was good and food was served quickly. They also serve
phở but it was to hot to enjoy soup on the day we went.
For other Vietnamese restaurant posts:
* Bánh Cuốn Đào Viên Restaurant Vietnamien (Montréal, QC)
* Sing Sing (Montréal, QC)
* B&T Restaurant (Hamilton, ON)
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