osenbloom: Looks like John Fox places personality over production - Chicago Tribune John Fox seems to place personality over production. That's a message from the Bears' agreement to trade Martellus Bennett to the Patriots. The deal makes the Bears worse. Fox had better be able to out-coach the roster he just handicapped.
LeGere: Bears look much different, but will they be better? GM Ryan Pace's early wheeling and dealing have made the Bears a better team on paper and key acquisitions, especially on defense, have provided the team with more options looking ahead to next month's draft.
Cox: Ryan Pace continues major roster turnover for Bears - USA Today Bears general manager Ryan Pace moved on from a number of tenured Bears this offseason as he continues to make this roster his own.
Perez: The Bears are just fine with Zach Miller at tight end - USA Today The Chicago Bears will be starting Zach Miller at tight end next season, and they're perfectly fine with that.
Weaver: The Patriots take out the Bears' garbage - Cover32 Case in point: yesterday the New England Patriots did the Chicago Bears a couple of big favors by taking out their garbage for them.
Rothstein: Chicago Bears running back Jeremy Langford ready to take lead role - ESPN Second-year running back Jeremy Langford credits Matt Forte for teaching him how to be successful in Chicago.
Mayer's Chalk Talk: Who's best all-time Bears free agent? Senior writer Larry Mayer discusses the best free agent the Bears have ever signed, last year's Brandon Marshall trade with the Jets and all 19 compensatory picks the Bears have received.
Mayer's Chalk Talk: How have Bears fared in free agency? Senior writer Larry Mayer discusses the Bears' free-agent moves, the progress that tackle Tayo Fabuluje has made and two key storylines that were omitted in the 30-for-30 on the '85 Bears.
Poppen: Bears GM Ryan Pace: What comes next? - Cover32 The Chicago Bears entered the 2016 off season with more holes on its roster than any fan of the team would care to admit, and while...
Weaver: The future for the Bears at tight end - Cover32 Since it's Throwback Thursday, let's take a moment to watch some of the best plays the Bears got from their tight ends last year.
Mayer: Bears battle for NCAA Bragging Rights For the second straight year, current and former Bears players have filled out NCAA Basketball Tournament brackets and will battle for bragging rights on ChicagoBears.com.
Jahns: What we learned about the Bears, free agency & the future - Chicago Sun-Times With more than a week of free agency in the books, here’s what we’ve learned about the Bears and what's left ahead.
ECD's 2016 Bears Mock Draft, Version 2.0: Post Combine and FA Edition Fan Post Of Merit (FPOM): The Bears have put themselves in a situation that Ryan Pace planned for from day one: a position to truly draft the best player available (BPA) on their respective boards.
Haugh: Illinois Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky gets long-awaited answer from NFL - Chicago Tribune On a day the NFL took its most significant step yet toward confronting the realities of a dangerous game, Jan Schakowsky coaxed an admission out of the league.
Metallica To Play U.S. Bank Stadium Opening Weekend - Daily Norseman As part of U.S. Bank Stadium's Opening Weekend, the long-time rockers will be playing the second concert at the new venue.
Cowboys re-signing Lance Dunbar coming off major knee injury - AP The Dallas Cowboys are re-signing running back Lance Dunbar, who might not be ready to start the season after a major knee injury in 2015. The Bears were interested in Dunbar.
What are the Lions going to do at defensive end? - Pride Of Detroit A team is supposed to have more than two defensive ends, right?
How will the Packers address the defensive line after B.J. Raji's departure? - Acme Packing Company With Raji announcing his "hiatus", where do the Packers stand on the defensive line, and what are their options to bolster that position?CCSI’s Managed Email Security solution allows organizations to protect their email from phishing, malware and sensitive data loss. By allowing us to manage the security of your email we can reduce the threats coming into your inboxes and protect against sensitive data being leaked out.
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The threat of attack is continually on the horizon and attackers are consistently using misconfigurations and vulnerabilities found in a victim’s organization with malicious intent. Organizations need to properly identify their weaknesses and create a plan of action on how to remediate these exposures against future attacks.Our favourite absurd task-based competitive comedy show Taskmaster NZ returns for a new season (streaming on TVNZ On Demand and broadcast on TVNZ 2) starting Wednesday July 7. Contestant Guy Montgomery and Taskmaster Assistant Paul Williams joined Steve Newall for a chat.
The studio audience, of which I’m part, laughs approvingly at this low-level negging, having done so throughout this taping of Taskmaster‘s first season two episode. Not just approving laughter at the negging, though that’s all part of it. There’s also been plenty of enjoyment in seeing how the chemistry of this season’s contestants comes together as they jostle each other for Taskmaster Wells’s praise and/or for the benefit of those watching. And, of course, there are lot of laughs to be mined from their relative levels of success, failure, hilarity and humiliation in the show’s pre-recorded task-based segments.

And yes, Wells is correct in that they are also joined by Matt Heath in doing so.
The tasks will rely on everything from lateral thinking to hand-eye coordination, sheer cunning, mental endurance and the ability to correctly read a sentence. As for the outcomes, expect everything from abysmal failures to the highest levels of human achievement ever seen in responding to an absurd, largely pointless task. Essential viewing, in other words.
With season two about to hit screens, Guy Montgomery joined me for an in-depth Taskmaster chat. I started by asking him about perhaps the toughest Taskmaster task of all—keeping quiet about his involvement in the show, and its details, during and after production.
One of the many joys of Taskmaster is watching contestants coming unglued onscreen. As much as we love to celebrate success, there’s the inevitability that everyone taking part is due to have at least one extremely unflattering, wheels-falling-off, disastrous flame-out. So (if indeed he did at all), how did Montgomery prepare?
So, Montgomery repurposed patience and, dare I say, a degree of mindfulness as part of a strategy of being superior over other people?
Over the years we’ve seen looks that were iconic, stylish, unflattering, or eyeball-searingly disturbing. With contestants sporting the same outfit for all their tasks throughout the season, clearly it’s a big decision.
Even though we all should know better, it’s all too easy to sit on the couch watching Taskmaster and scoff “that won’t work” or “they should do this”. Of course, that’s singularly unhelpful, says Montgomery.
Paul Williams finds himself with a sometimes uncomfortably close-up view of the extremes of the human psyche as the Taskmaster’s Assistant. As he explains to us, even as someone involved in preparing the tasks, the results proved unpredictable.
Not only did responses to tasks prove unpredictable, but as Williams puts it, there was also the potential to be unexpectedly therapeutic.
Having watched plenty of people losing the plot on the show over the years, I wondered if Montgomery was aware also aware, when his own brain wasn’t working too well, that this would be the stuff that’s going to make the edit—and for us to find hilarious at home. Were there times when he would think “Oh, fuck, that’s going to be in..”?
As has been well-established in other seasons of Taskmaster both here and in the UK, the in-studio scrap for points can result in some of the contestants’ most craven and competitive moments. But, in Jeremy Wells, these five often-desperate individuals find themselves at the mercy of someone who has the potential to rate their efforts uncharitably, and shows little tolerance for bullshit. 
The mix of “these four award-winning comedians—and Matt Heath” should prove a winning combination for viewers from the opening minutes of Taskmaster‘s first episode. “I think they’re going to fall in love with, basically, all of them,” says Williams. “Yeah, everyone was so different”.
Read on as Guy Montgomery and Paul Williams break down this season’s Taskmaster contestants one by one.
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