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Built for all types of creatives, including developers, photographers, filmmakers, 3D artists, music producers, and more, the Apple 14.2″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max Chip is the ultimate pro mobile workstation for the ultimate user.
The system features the Apple M1 Max 10-Core Chip, which provides the power and performance needed to handle your professional workflows. The 14.2″ Liquid Retina XDR display features a 3024 x 1964 resolution, 1,000 nits of sustained brightness, 1,600 nits of peak brightness, P3 color gamut support, and more. With up to 512GB of SSD storage, you'll be able to load massive files and launch apps quickly, enabling you to work with photo and video libraries from almost anywhere.
Designed for All Types of Creatives
Packed with 57 billion transistors, the Apple M1 Max integrates the CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, I/O, and more into a single system on a chip (SoC). Built with 5nm process technology, the Apple M1 Pro delivers the performance you need without sacrificing power efficiency. The 10-Core CPU features eight performance cores and two high-efficiency cores. The 16-Core Neural Engine provides support for on-device machine learning acceleration and improved camera performance. The M1 Pro offers up to 400 GB/s of memory bandwidth as well as support for up to 64GB of unified memory. The efficient architecture of M1 Pro means they deliver the same level of performance whether MacBook Pro is plugged in or using the battery. With up to a 32-Core GPU, the M1 Max can provide up to four times faster GPU performance than the M1. M1 Max also offers an enhanced media engine that features two ProRes accelerators for even higher multi-stream performance. As a result, professionals can edit up to 30 streams of 4K ProRes video or up to seven streams of 8K ProRes video in Final Cut Pro. Video editors can even grade color in HDR on 8K ProRes 4444 video while on battery.
14.2″ Liquid Retina XDR Display
Featuring mini-LED technology, this MacBook Pro houses a 14.2″ Liquid Retina XDR display. Delivering up to 1,000 nits of sustained, full-screen brightness, a high 1,600 nits of peak brightness, a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and a billion colors, the Liquid Retina XDR display can handle the extreme dynamic range of HDR content, providing detailed shadows, brilliant specular highlights, deeper blacks, and vivid colors. The display is less than 4 mm thin, which is achieved by having seven films and diffusers that mix and shape the light efficiently. The oxide thin film transistor (TFT) allows pixels to charge twice as fast as before.
ProMotion – Up to 120 Hz Refresh Rate
With ProMotion technology, the MacBook Pro automatically varies the refresh rate to match the motion of your onscreen content. This helps preserve battery life while also making tasks feel more fluid and responsive. This means that the display can have up to a 120 Hz refresh rate. Video editors will also have the option to lock in a refresh rate that is optimal for their footage.
P3 Wide Color Gamut
The narrow-band LED-powered backlight allows the MacBook Pro to represent the P3 wide color gamut for brilliant, true-to-life color in photos and videos.
Storage – Bring Your Whole Studio with You
The MacBook Pro can be configured with up to 8TB of SSD storage so you can take your photo or video libraries with you no matter where you're headed. And with superfast speeds, massive files load in an instant and pro apps launch in a blink. This particular model comes with a 512GB SSD.
Thunderbolt 4 combines ultra-high bandwidth with the versatility of the USB Type-C industry standard to create one revved-up universal port. It integrates data transfer, charging, and video output in a single connector, delivering up to 40 Gb/s of throughput for twice the bandwidth of Thunderbolt 2. The MacBook Pro is equipped with three ports, so you can do all of that from either side. Existing devices are easily connected with a cable or adapter. And Thunderbolt 4 is reversible, so no matter how you plug in, it's always right side up.
MagSafe 3 makes connecting a power cable quick and easy while also protecting your MacBook Pro. Apple also brings fast charging to the MacBook Pro, allowing you to charge up to 50 percent in just 30 minutes.
Spatial Sound Speakers and Better Mics
The MacBook Pro features a high-fidelity six-speaker sound system, which has two tweeters for a clearer soundstage as well as four force-cancelling woofers, resulting in 80 percent more bass. The sound system also supports spatial audio, providing a three-dimensional audio experience, whether you're listening to music or watching a movie in Dolby Atmos. Apple also has studio microphones that have a lower noise floor, resulting in clear calls as well as voice recordings.
Full HD 1080p FaceTime HD Camera
Now with a Full HD 1080p FaceTime HD camera, the MacBook Pro uses the ISP and Neural Engine in M1 Pro and M1 Max for computational video that enhances video quality.
System Navigation
Physical function keys are back with the Magic Keyboard on the MacBook Pro. Replacing the Touch Bar, the familiar, tactile function keys have made their return. There is even a wider ESC key.
The Touch ID enables fast, easy authentication for secure logins and purchases.
Force Touch Trackpad
Speed your workflow with Force click and multi-touch gestures.
All-Day Battery Life
From pro workflows to everyday tasks, the MacBook Pro delivers power efficiency while still maintaining performance. The MacBook Pro can deliver up to 17 hours of video playback.
Apple 14.2″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max Chip (Late 2021, Silver)
Apple has been part of the ConnectED initiative since 2014, pledging $100 million of teaching and learning solutions to 114 undeserved schools across the country. We've donated an iPad to every student, a Mac and iPad to every teacher, and an Apple TV to every classroom. And we've implemented a process that provides planning, professional learning, and ongoing guidance so every school can experience the transformational power of technology.
Many Apple ConnectED schools do not have a strong network or a dedicated technology department. So before any products are delivered, Apple Project Engineers conduct a full survey of the school's existing wireless infrastructure and help install or upgrade a network. To help every teacher become comfortable with new technology, the Apple Education team provides a series of workshops designed specifically for educators. We start by helping them integrate iPad, Mac, and Apple TV into their curriculum and lessons, then show them how to create original and engaging books, presentations, and other learning materials. Compared to the previous year, open leadership roles filled by women globally increased by 10 percentage points overall, and by 8 percentage points in R&D. And in the U.S., open leadership roles filled by people from underrepresented communities increased by 16 percentage points overall, and by 9 percentage points in R&D.
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A new Automated External Defibrillator (AED) has been released by Martek Medical.
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With its manual override function, Lifeline PRO offers the flexibility for professionals to provide both compression-only or compression with rescue breathing, to suit the situation. Real Time Protocol Selection allows the user to switch over from one to the other quickly and easily, giving the user the comfort and flexibility to deliver emergency care in the most appropriate way.
Lifeline PRO uses sophisticated biphasic technology, a clinically-proven waveform and algorithm to deliver shocks and save lives. This tried and trusted technology has been shown to be the safest and most effective ways of saving lives, particularly when it comes to resuscitating patients in ventricular fibrillation, when often the first shock is all it takes.
For ease of use, the Lifeline PRO provides step-by-step instructions for performing CPR, rescue breathing and external defibrillation, which includes featuring a built-in metronome that counts out the beats.
Designed to be very robust, the Lifeline PRO is a tough unit that has been tested to military shock/drop standards as well as IEC standards for dust and water splash ingress. It is also very lightweight, weighing less than three pounds, so is ideal for those who need to travel light.
Users can be confident that their AED is always in good working order, as the unit has a one-touch status screen, accessible without the need to turn it on. The Lifeline PRO has been designed to be very low maintenance, automatically carrying out daily self checks and notifying of any issues by audible and visual alerts. The only maintenance needed is to replace the pads every two years and the battery every four years. Martek Medical also provides free of charge software upgrades to customers to futureproof their Lifeline PRO if rescue protocols change in the future.


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Ex-Punjab CM's Kin to Move SC Against Rajoana's Life Imprisonment
Beant Singh, credited for ending terrorism in Punjab, was assassinated on 31 August, 1995.
Updated: 01 Oct 2019, 6:58 PM IST
The family of slain Punjab chief minister Beant Singh will challenge the commutation of terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana's death sentence in the Supreme Court.
Confirming this, Punjab MLA and the slain leader's grandson Gurkirat Kotli on Tuesday told PTI, "We are taking a legal opinion on that. Most probably, we will challenge the centre's decision on the ground that Rajoana himself had never moved any mercy petition for the commutation of his death sentence."
The Union Home Ministry on Saturday had decided to commute the death sentence of Rajoana as a humanitarian gesture ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev.
The Congress on Monday, 30 September lashed out at the government over the decision to commute the death sentence of terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana in the assassination case of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, saying it has exposed the BJP's "false patriotism," even as Punjab CM Capt Amarinder singh said he was "personally against death penalty."
The Home Ministry has decided to commute the death sentence of Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was convicted for the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, to life imprisonment, officials said on Sunday, 29 September.
"A decision has been taken to commute the death sentence of Balwant Singh Rajoana. The process of issuing a formal notification is underway," a home ministry official said.
On 31 August, 1995, the then chief minister Beant Singh was killed in an explosion outside the Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh. Sixteen others also lost their lives in the terror attack in which Punjab police employee Dilawar Singh had acted as a human bomb.
The Babbar Khalsa terrorist was the second human bomb in case the first one would have failed in killing the Congress leader.
Jagtar Singh Held Guilty in Punjab CM Beant Singh's Assassination
'Development Painful and Shameful': Congress
Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala termed the development as "painful and shameful."
Taking a swipe at the Modi government's slogan "sabka saath, sabka vikas" (together with all, for the development of all), Surjewala said the new slogan is "together with terrorists, for development of terrorists".
He said it was the saddest day for the country in the fight against extremism.
"BJP's false patriotism exposed! It is now with the killers of Sardar Beant Singh," he said in a tweet in Hindi.
At a press conference, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi alleged that the Home Ministry's decision was an example of the BJP playing politics as its ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee had file a mercy petition for Rajoana.
"Remember, here is a heinous offence against a constitutional post holder... here is a party which ignores the loss of 16 other lives. So I ask them through you as to what is this new very cheap definition of pure politics. I ask them what is their commitment to basic values and principles," he said.
They campaigned in the election on Rajoana's mercy petition which was referred by the then President to the Home Ministry as is the rule, he said.
The Home Ministry after all this gap announces that it is commuting Rajoana's death sentence to life imprisonment, Singhvi said.
'Personally Against Death Penalty': Amarinder
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday differed from the party's stand on Rajoana's death sentence, saying he is against capital punishment.
Talking to reporters in Ludhiana on Monday, the CM said he was personally against death penalty, which he had said back in 2012 too. All cases of death penalty should be commuted to life imprisonment, he said, indirectly endorsing the commutation of the death sentence.
He however, said the Congress stand on Beant Singh's killers had always been clear and consistent-that they should serve their full sentence.
The CM said the Centre had demanded a list of 17 prisoners booked under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act from the state government.
"Rajoana's name was in the list of the 17 prisoners submitted to the Centre as he was a TADA prisoner who had completed more than 14 years in jail, like the other prisoners on the list," he said, adding that the state had no role in the Centre's decision. In fact, he said, the state government was yet to receive the names of the nine prisoners who had been given a special exemption by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
'Who are they to commute Death Sentence?': Beant Singh's Grandson
Ludhiana Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, who is the grandson of slain former chief minister Beant Singh, has questioned the Centre's move, saying the dreaded terrorist should not be "spared" at any cost.
On the other hand, Bittu questioned the Union government's move.
"Who are they to commute the death sentence to life term when the Supreme Court has given capital punishment (to Rajoana)," Bittu said in Ludhiana on Monday. "He (Rajoana) is a dreaded terrorist and should not be spared at any cost," the Ludhiana Congress MP said.
Hitting out at the saffron party, Bittu said the BJP indulged in petty politics to woo Sikh voters despite the prime minister vowing to fight terrorism on a global platform.
'Decision Should be Welcomed': Akali Dal
Meanwhile, five-time chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal's patron-in-chief Parkash Singh Badal lauded the decision, terming it "statesmanlike, far-sighted and humane".
Badal said the gesture would go a long way in assuaging sentiments of the Sikh masses.
"Every step that strengthens hands of the forces of peace and communal harmony and cements the Hindu-Sikh unity in Punjab and the country should be welcomed by everyone," said Badal in a statement.
The Akali stalwart said the SAD and the SGPC had always opposed death penalty on a matter of principle.
"We had to wage a long and hard struggle to get Rajoana's death sentence commuted. The party and the religious body approached the Government of India, met and gave memoranda to the President of India on several occasions," he claimed.
The former chief minister said the issue of the execution the death sentence to Rajoana was "one of the most sensitive and toughest moments" that he had to face as the chief minister during the last SAD-BJP tenure.
"But I was clear that both constitutionally and morally, it would not only have been wrong but also disastrous," he said.
What's the Home Ministry Order?
On Saturday, a home ministry spokesperson said eight Sikh prisoners, lodged in different jails in the country for committing crimes during the militancy in Punjab, would be released by the government on the occasion of 550th birth anniversary of Shri Guru Nanak Devji as a humanitarian gesture.
Through a special remission, the death sentence of another Sikh prisoner has been commuted to life imprisonment, the spokesperson had said. It came to light on Sunday that this prisoner is Rajoana.
Rajoana and eight others are lodged in different jails in the country. The eight others were convicted by the various courts in the country for the offences committed by them during the militancy period in the Punjab.
The decision was taken by the central government as a token of goodwill in response to the long pending demands of the release of Sikh prisoners articulated by various sections of the Sikh community, the spokesperson said on Saturday.
The 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Devji will be in November.
A special court had in July 2007 awarded the death sentence to Rajoana, along with another terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara, in the Beant Singh assassination case.
Rajoana was scheduled to be hanged on 31 March, 2012. However, the execution was stayed on 28 March, 2012, by the then UPA government at the centre after Shiromoni Gurudwara Prabhandak Committee, the Sikh religious body, filed a mercy petition.
The Shiromani Akali Dal, which was then in power in Punjab, campaigned against his execution. The President had forwarded the plea to the Home Ministry to take a call on it.
Published: 30 Sep 2019, 1:01 AM IST

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Once again, romaine lettuce isn't safe to eat. The Centers for Disease Control just issued a new warning, according to ABC.
The CDC advises U.S. consumers not to eat any romaine lettuce. This is in response to a new multi-state outbreak of illnesses caused by a dangerous type of E.coli. There is also an outbreak in Canada.
The CDC also says retailers and restaurants should not serve or sell any romaine lettuce until more is learned about the outbreak. The type of E. Coli is the one that produces the dangerous Shiga toxin.
Officials say 32 people in 11 states were infected between October 8 and October 31. Thirteen people were hospitalized, including one person who developed a type of kidney failure. No deaths have been reported.
The CDC advises anyone who has any type of romaine lettuce in his or her home should not eat it. All romaine should be thrown out even if part of it has been eaten and no one has sickened.
"This includes all types or uses of romaine lettuce, such as whole heads of romaine, hearts of romaine, and bags and boxes of precut lettuce and salad mixes that contain romaine, including baby romaine, spring mix, and Caesar salad," wrote ABC.
The CDC also recommends people throw away things that may contain romaine lettuce. Consumers are also advised to wash and sanitize drawers and shelves where romaine has been stored.
People usually get sick from ingesting E. Coli between two and eight days later. Some patients may get kidney failure.
Please share this so no one eats romaine. It's very important that this dangerous bacteria be avoided, especially by babies, elderly, and immune-compromised individuals.


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Based in a process of elimination and manipulation rather than accumulation, this series of drawings are the result of the artist's meticulous interventions in the weave of metal screen fragments, which are coated in ink and pressed onto paper.
Feb 28–Aug 14, 2020
Rich in idiosyncrasies, Arlene Shechet's latest works combine disparate mediums, from ceramics to wood and metalwork, with playfully ambiguous titles that prompt endless associations.
Feb 28 – Aug 14, 2020
Above: Installation view, Arlene Shechet: Skirts, February 28 – April 25, 2020, Pace Gallery, New York © Arlene Shechet
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Installation view, Arlene Shechet: Skirts, February 28 – April 25, 2020, Pace Gallery, New York © Arlene Shechet
Pace Gallery is pleased to present Skirts, its first solo exhibition of works by Arlene Shechet, from February 28 through August 14. Running concurrently with the Whitney Museum's exhibition Making Knowing, which also features works by Shechet, Skirts brings together more than a dozen of the artist's most recent sculptures, including large-scale works and a monumental outdoor piece to be displayed on the second-floor galleries and terrace of Pace's new flagship building at 540 West 25th street.
Utilizing a title that is both a noun and a verb, Skirts is a testament to the artist's fluid and unformulaic process. Though her works appear effortless and forgiving of imperfections, they are the belabored products of an intuitive and technically fastidious approach, involving casting, painting, firing, carving, stacking, undoing and redoing with no predetermined endpoint. Her expansive approach to sculpture and materials is reminiscent of artists Shechet admires, such as Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay, whose work transcends the divisions of painting and sculpture and encompassed innovative multimedia practices, distinguishing their work from that of their male peers. Shechet's title, Skirts, also reclaims misogynist slang. As if to counter this term's reduction of women to passive things, Shechet's unruly, polymorphous sculptures suggest that objects themselves are active and subversive.
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Arlene Shechet is a multidisciplinary sculptor living and working in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Her work is held in many distinguished public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Jewish Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
New York — Arlene Shechet, Skirts, Feb 28–Aug 14, 2020


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Doing clever things with computers has been a business imperative since the post-war years of the first commercial mainframes. Artificial intelligence (AI) signals an important leap forward: computers doing clever things with your business.
Many of the eye-catching stories around AI are either very niche or very consumer-led propositions - rather than directly applicable to a typical business. The 'niche' group tend to be applications developed by organisations, academic research teams and individual enthusiasts to get a specific problem cracked. At their heart is a huge, long-term investment in processing resources, and a painstaking effort to produce and test highly complex algorithms. Examples include Aaron, the AI-artist that collaborates with its human mentor and Lockheed Martin's K-MAX helicopter which can be deployed close enough to fight wildfires in raging temperatures. At night.
This necessity for resources leads to the thinking behind the second group - consumer-led developments - designed to recoup the necessary investment by appealing to the largest possible addressable markets. Apple, Google, Tesla and Uber are just some of the names investing billions in this technology, aspiring to provide products like AI-driven 'personal assistants' that converge the concepts of intelligent internet search and productivity apps for every citizen, and super-safe, AI-driven cars that redefine personal transportation.
Before we explore a few examples of AI that you can actually start taking advantage of today, it's worth considering automation - a slightly earlier step in the IT evolutionary cycle that some organisations might have missed.
Automation falls short of AI, in the same way that Neanderthal man doesn't quite cut as a dinner party guest. But that still makes it a hugely important change agent for organisations seeking to improve the performance of their business processes while reducing costs.
My point is that, for organisations that haven't yet exhausted the opportunities for automation, the power of AI reasoning might be a sledgehammer to crack a nut. There are many tasks that humans perform which don't require them to do much problem solving and reasoning at all. When you muse on the future opportunities around 'AI', are you actually overlooking the clear-and-present ones around automation?
Take the noble profession of accountancy. According to an NPR research study, up to 95% of accountants face losing their jobs in the long-term as AI replaces them. Such claims have been largely debunked, though the industry accepts that automation still has some distance to travel.
The science of selling consistently and repeatedly has led to the emergence of 'marketing automation' platforms; a pre-cursor to even more advanced customer interaction and sales execution systems. Salesforce's recently launched AI module 'Einstein' is being touted as an on-demand 'data scientist' for customers of the SaaS based CRM.
As outlined above, the financial and accountancy processes within organisations appear ripe for not just AI, but more rudimentary automation activities that don't necessitate 'thought'. Start-up SaaS provider SMACC touts its offering as next-generation AI-enabled financial management for SMBs. But isn't it just a clever take on automation?
AI assistants, personal assistants and virtual assistants are all variations on a theme, describing a new paradigm in productivity application that helps you find information, remember important stuff and learn to anticipate the things you want to know, using artificial intelligence. Like Holly from Red Dwarf, but with better hair.
A conspicuously large proportion of IT budget is still spent on keeping-the-lights-on operations, compared to truly enabling and/or revenue-generating innovation. Machine-learning, pattern recognition and other AI principles are increasingly used to improve the performance of complex IT environments, from the dynamic processing of virtual workloads to the rapid isolation and neutralisation of unknown cyber threats.
Automation is what IT is for; it's what you program software and hardware to do when you aren't there to keep an eye on them. The limiting factor is intelligence. Prior to the development of AI, it was impossible to teach software and hardware to actually think and learn autonomously. That's what makes it so exciting.
AI is a chance for businesses to accelerate what technology can do without humans hanging around. However you feel about that future, and whenever it arrives, first don't let today's automation opportunities pass you by.


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The small cap portfolios performed the best over the September quarter, with small cap stocks performing strongly. CTN's portfolio (pre-tax NTA plus dividends) being the best performer over the September quarter with the portfolio increasing 20.7%. WIC, NCC and MIR has the next best performing portfolios, all of which increased in excess of 15%.
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The Banana wallpaper pattern was created by unpeeling hundreds of banana imported to the United States from Costa Rica. A commissioned artwork by The New Children's Museum in San Diego California in 2013. San Diego is the most common port for the importing of bananas to the United States, tens of thousands of pounds of bananas travel through San Diego to local groceries across the United States everyday.


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Biografia
Anatsui è nato a Anyako (Ghana) nel 1944 ed ha studiato presso il College of Art, Università di Scienza e Tecnologia, a Kumasi, in Ghana centrale. Ha iniziato ad insegnare presso la University of Nigeria, Nsukka, nel 1975, ed è diventato un membro del Nsukka group.

Pratica artistica
Inizialmente Anatsui lavora prevalentemente con l'argilla e il legno, creando oggetti che si ispirano principalmente alle credenze tradizionali del Ghana. Successivamente la sua pratica artistica si concentra sulla realizzazione di installazioni. Partecipa alla 52ª Biennale di Venezia con i suoi arazzi fatti con materiali di recupero (lattine di alluminio, creta, tessuto, legno, multicolori tappi corona, schiacciati, appiattiti, ricuciti e altri materiali) dimostrando come si può riprendere la più genuina tradizione africana, coniugandola alla modernità dei materiali e delle tecniche. Crea suggestivi arazzi di grandi dimensioni, ispirati alla ricchezza dei tessuti Kente e dei preziosi abiti da cerimonia Nyekor. Questa partecipazione lo consacra come uno dei più stimati scultori africani viventi e il principale artista africano della sua generazione.
Quello del riciclo è un tema particolarmente caro agli artisti africani d'oggi. Il rispetto per l'ambiente e il recupero dei rifiuti ha assunto un enorme valore nella ricerca creativa di altri personaggi, quali Pascale Marthine Tayou.
Le sue opere sono presenti nelle maggiori gallerie pubbliche e private in Europa e negli Stati Uniti.

Alcune esposizioni

El Anatsui ha esposto i suoi lavori in tutto il mondo:
2010 - Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlino
2009 - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
2008 - Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York
2007 - Biennale di Venezia
2005 - Hayward Gallery
2002 - Biennale di Liverpool
2001 - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
2001 - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
1995 - 8th Osaka Sculpture Triennale
1990 - Biennale di Venezia

Una retrospettiva del suo lavoro, When I Last Wrote to You About Africa, inaugurata nel 2010 presso il Royal Ontario Museum di Toronto, Canada, sarà visitabile nel Nord America fino al 2013.

Ha ricevuto il Leone d'oro alla carriera in occasione della 56ª Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia (2015).

Bibliografia
 Africa remix: contemporary art of a continent, di Njami Simon, Lucy Durán, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Johannesburg Art Gallery; Jacana Media, 2007 - 260 pagine
 African arts, di JSTOR (Organization); Editore African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles; 2006 - 408 pagine
 Contemporary African artists: changing tradition; Studio Museum in Harlem, 1990, 148 pagine, ISBN 094294903X
 El Anatsui: a sculpted history of Africa, in Volume 2 di African art and society Academic Series; Autori John Picton, El Anatsui; Saffron Books in conjunction with the October Gallery, 1998, 96 pagine, ISBN 187284314X
 El Anatsui: When I last wrote to you about Africa; Autori Lisa M. Binder, Olu Oguibe, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Robert Storr; Editore Museum for African Art, 2010, 170 pagine, ISBN 0945802560

Voci correlate
 Arte contemporanea africana
 Nsukka group

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CPNDS researchers published reports that led to new labelling of prescriptions containing codeine, a common pain reliever that until recently, was considered to be compatible with breastfeeding. Network investigators discovered that in some mothers, codeine can be metabolized into toxic amounts of morphine that are life-threatening for breastfed infants. As a result, Health Canada, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and industry changed labelling to alert consumers of the potential dangers of codeine.
CPNDS has discovered the genetic cause of cisplatin-induced hearing loss in children, which is the first step in the development of predictive diagnostic markers to reduce the incidence of cisplatin ototoxicity, thereby improving treatment outcomes.
CPNDS has identified multiple genetic variants associated with anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity, which when combined with clinical risk factors, may be used to identify high-risk patients who can then be provided with safer treatment options.


Come join Hand & Stone Great Hills on November 3rd to enjoy food, drinks, giveaways, and FREE spa services!
This is an event for the whole family - there will be live music and a bounce house for kids!
Our official ribbion cutting will be at 3:30 pm.
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A time-lapse recorded at Lake Plastiras in Greece. This artificial lake, fed by Tavropos river, is built in 1960 and first flooded in 1962. A dog came happily running towards us and almost caught the GoPro. The sequence is created from 1299 individual photos taken with an interval of 1 second.


She found an impressive roster of pop stars to join in on the vocals: Tom Petty, Billy Idol, Willie Nelson, Don Henley, Peter Gabriel. She orchestrated her songs with the instruments of pop music: synthesizers, drums, bass, electric guitars. But Joni Mitchell was about as likely to turn her 15th album into a typical pop record as she was to go into politics as George Bush's running mate.
CHALK MARK IN A RAIN STORM is yet another of Mitchell's brilliant and difficult albums, full of her strange harmonies and meandering melodies that replicate speech patterns. An accomplished oil painter, she uses the recording studio as a giant palette for blending sounds as if they were colors.
Having first explored electronic music on her 1985 album DOG EAT DOG, Mitchell delves even more deeply into the prismatic tones of that style. Billy Idol's voice seems an intentionally awkward ember-red splotch, Peter Gabriel's becomes a sort of sea green that wraps around Mitchell's tones till the two are indistinguishable.
Meanwhile, chopping away at the conventional song form, Mitchell (who co-produced the album with her husband, bass player Larry Klein) replaces the lush, clever lyrics of her past albums with minimalist phrases that recur like mantras. Nor does she so relentlessly chronicle the self as she has in the past.
Her new songs cover a broad range of topics: the battle scars of a veteran, the false promises of advertisements, the emptiness of a social climber's marriage and the pain of Indians vanquished by industry: "Tell me grandfather/You spoke the fur and feather tongues/Do you hear the whimpering waters/When the tractors come?"
In a few cases, Mitchell seems to have focused too much on production, while allowing her lyrics to become disappointingly mundane. NUMBER ONE takes only a wavering aim at the way people struggle for success, particularly when the song is compared with her 1972 FOR THE ROSES. On the other hand, A BIRD THAT WHISTLES, an adaptation of the traditional CORRINA, CORRINA, may be the sweetest, simplest song that Mitchell has ever recorded.
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Olimpia is a creative female-type person born into an artistic family in Milano. She drives a Vespa and has large round glasses, but the main thing is that she can, and does, draw like an ambidextrous octopus. One with with prodigious skills, and a doppio espresso.
She has been called a "millennial stronza" by a certain green-eyed monster of a certain age. Okay, she's replaced me, but I can't help but like her. She's so good!
Although she will admit to being influenced by Bruno Munari, Paul Rand and the other usual suspects, she creates super fresh shapely shapes, completely new voluptuous forms, in her own clean palette of brights and darks, flat as a pancake, baby.
After graduating from some kind of design school in Italy, OZ burst upon the New York media scene in a colorful cloud of charm, humor, and easy-to-work-withiness (an essential new adjective when describing young people) in 2008. She then proceeded to take The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the New York subway system by talented storm. OZ's bright visions pop up -and sometimes out- in all the best places, including Fendi, Apartamento Magazine, The Guggenheim Museum, and the G train. She thinks fast, draws faster, and eats spaghetti like a lady.
Along with her father she has designed a line of objects, called Clodomiro, including plates, shirts and scarves, some of which are just plain naughty, and all of which are delightful.Clodomiro is her father's real name. Go figure.


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George Conway Slams Trump for Apparently Confusing Name of Air Force One with Putin's 'Aircraft One'
By Christina Zhao On 7/4/19 at 6:04 PM EDT
Politics George Conway Donald Trump July 4
Attorney George Conway — husband of high-ranking White House aide Kellyanne Conway and near-constant critic of his wife's boss President Donald Trump — celebrated his 4th of July by poking fun at the latest gaffe from the commander-in-chief.
Ahead of his Independence Day celebration on the National Mall Thursday, President Trump tweeted that "Aircraft One" could make an appearance at the event, a comment that prompted confusion online. Trump later deleted the tweet and replaced it with one that had the correct spelling of "Air Force One."
"People are coming from far and wide to join us today and tonight for what is turning out to be one of the biggest celebrations in the history of our country, SALUTE TO AMERICA, an all day event at the Lincoln Memorial, culminating with large scale flyovers of the most modern and advanced aircraft anywhere in the World," Trump wrote in the since-deleted tweet, adding "perhaps event Aircraft One will do a low & loud sprint over the crowd."
Although the president corrected the mistake a short time later by amending the term to "Air Force One," frequent Trump critic George Conway — whose wife Kellyanne Conway serves as Counselor to the President — and several other Twitter users pointed out that "Aircraft One" is the name of Russian President Vladimir Putin's presidential jet.
"But here's something about a plane that apparently *is* called 'Aircraft One,'" Conway tweeted on Thursday afternoon, alongside a link to the description of a Russian state TV documentary about Putin's plane called Aircraft One.
"Called 'Kremlin-In-the-Air', it carries Russia's most important passenger — the President. Set in the context of real historical events, the film reveals unique facts about life and work aboard the Aircraft One," the description read.
But here's something about a plane that apparently *is* called "Aircraft One":https://t.co/HcwWCQ1upi https://t.co/roQJL9MJ9y
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 4, 2019
In light of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 18-month-long investigation into whether Trump's 2016 campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities, some users in the responses to Conway's tweet accused the president of a "Freudian slip" when he wrote that Aircraft One may fly over the crowd on the National Mall.
"Of course a Freudian Slip.. Trump's probably went aboard also. It figured," one user tweeted.
Of course a Freudian Slip.. Trump's probably went aboard also. It figured
— donna (@dc5150319) July 4, 2019
"Coincidence that 'aircraft one' is Putin's plane. I don't think so," another wrote.
Coincidence that "aircraft one" is Putin's plane. I don't think so.
— Edward Berg (@Peputh2012) July 4, 2019
Twitter user Florence Gyomery added: "Maybe it is code name for the mother ship? and it is coming to take him away...."
Maybe it is code name for the mother ship?🚀and it is coming to take him away....
— Florence Gyomory (@thisage) July 4, 2019
Conway wasn't the only person that pointed out the apparent Kremlin connection in Trump's deleted tweet on Thursday. Breakfast Media White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg tweeted: "'Aircraft One' is what Putin's plane is known as in Russia. For those who are curious, there's a Russian state TV documentary about Putin's plane (available on streaming services) called 'Aircraft One.'"
Volume I of the redacted 448-page Mueller Report, released to the public by the Department of Justice on April 18, concluded that the investigation failed to establish sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign "coordinated or conspired" with the Kremlin "in its election-interference activities."
Mueller, however, also noted that deleted, unsaved and encrypted communications evidence, as well as false or declined testimonies meant that his team were only able to paint an incomplete picture of what had happened. Due to this, investigators declined to pursue charges for others beyond Paul Manafort and Rick Gates under legislation governing foreign agents or conspiracy.
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing a bill for border funding in the Oval Office at the White House on July 1, 2019 in Washington, DC. George Conway on Thursday ridiculed Trump for misspelling Airforce One as "Aircraft One" in a July fourth tweet by pointing out that it's name of Russian President Vladimir Putin's plane. Mark Wilson/Getty
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HomeAway, a vacation rental company similar to AirBnB, wants to make it easier for hosts to enable guests get inside their homes while they're away. By partnering with August Home, a company that specializes in creating smart household appliances, hosts can purchase August's smart lock and keypad to instead provide guests with a virtual key code they can use during their visit.
The August smart lock works by setting up a virtual code for someone to key in. An owner can send someone a code and have that code only operate for a few weeks, hours, minutes, or during a specific date. When a guest has booked a location with HomeAway, the guest receives the virtual code through email or text message. The code expires on the guests' departing date.
Hosts who use HomeAway should expect to spend nearly $400 on August's smart lock, keypad, and the Wi-Fi bridge to connect the system to their home.
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God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.


After weeks of searching for the best Toyota New Jersey dealers, you've finally found the car of your dreams. You're ready to drive off of the lot and show off your latest big purchase, but first you have to be insured. New Jersey is one of the few states that require some form of insurance. When you've been selling Toyotas and other high quality cars in a state that requires car insurance, you're bound to hear a few interesting "facts" on the subject from your customers. Car insurance can get a little complicated, and myths about it are surprisingly common. The next time you hear somebody spouting any of these common car insurance myths as fact, do them a favor and enlighten them.
"____ colored cars are targeted by thieves, so insurance companies will charge people more to cover the vehicles."
"_____ colored cars are linked to aggressive driving, so most insurance companies will increase their rates for those colored cars."
We've heard so many variations of those past two sentences, but repeating them doesn't make them any truer. A lot of factors go into determining the cost of your auto insurance coverage. Your driving record will affect your rates, the make and model of your vehicle will affect those rates, even the area you live in will affect your rates. Your car color, however, will affect your insurance rates about as much as your hair color would.
Most people choose a combination of comprehensive and collision insurance to ensure that their car will be covered in case of an accident. But believing that these policies will cover all damage is just setting yourself up for disappointment. For instance, a comprehensive insurance policy may protect your car from weather damage like hail or strong winds, but may not help if your car is damaged by debris. Make sure to read the fine print on every policy you consider, since it should very specifically outline the instances in which your vehicle will be covered, and the ones in which it won't.
In the vast majority of states, the auto insurance policy that protects the vehicle is considered the primary insurance. That means that in the event of an accident, the car owner's insurance company will have to pay for any damages that occur because of an accident. This is a good reason to only let people you trust borrow your car. If they cause an accident, it's most likely going to be your rates and coverage that suffer.
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Dan Bylsma has directed a team to a Stanley Cup championship and has a connection with general manager Chuck Fletcher, making him a candidate for the Flyers' coaching job.
How strong of a candidate?
It would be ironic if he was hired because Bylsma was despised by Flyers fans when he coached the hated Penguins.
Remember when Flyers coach Peter Laviolette called Bylsma "gutless" after he put his tough guys on the ice and a melee ensued in the waning minutes of a 6-4 Flyers' win in 2012? In that same game, Laviolette got into a shouting match with Bylsma and Pittsburgh assistant Tony Granato – the incensed Flyers' coach waved a stick at them and tried to cross the partition between the benches after Danny Briere was taken down by a Penguin — and was subsequently fined $10,000 by the NHL.
BULLETIN: GMTM and Bylsma fired.
Buffalo Sabres head coach Dany Bylsma thought this hit by Dion Phaneuf was worth a major.
It's time to have a chat about Dan Bylsma.
The Sabres don't have enough talent and Tim Murray knows that. They have too many injuries, and everybody knows that too. But it's still hard to fathom they entered Thursday 26th in the NHL and look flat-out terrible at times, especially at home.
At some point, you have to start discussing how much of this responsibility lies with the coach. No matter who he has at his disposal to dress.
Bylsma hit town with the biggest cachet of any bench boss the Sabres have hired since Scott Bowman arrived 36 years ago. He's won a Stanley Cup. He's been mostly terrific with the media. He's fully bought in to the challenge of this rebuild. Young players are developing.
Still, you feel underwhelmed even after Thursday's 6-3 triumph over a mostly awful Calgary team with a veteran sieve in goal in Jonas Hiller.
No one is asking Bylsma to drive around town in a souped-up pickup in team colors or wear his jersey to the games of the other team owned by Pegula Sports Enterprises like someone else does.
A lot of this gnawing feeling grows from Bylsma's stubbornness, a trait you heard plenty about from folks in Pittsburgh. A bad home record is often a product of not getting the right matchups on the ice when you should be able to.
The buildup began at practice Wednesday. Bylsma gave extra greetings to some Pittsburgh reporters and had a welcome-back chat with Jennifer Bullano, the Penguins' senior director of communications. Bullano was one of Bylsma's closest front-office confidantes when he was here and he even appeared with her in March, 2014 on the TLC reality show "Say Yes to the Dress," to do shopping in New York during a road trip for her impending wedding.
But what's it going to be like to coach a game in front of a full house against the likes of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin?
Obviously, Dan Bylsma was Buffalo's first choice to succeed Ted Nolan as coach of the Sabres….er, well, second choice…..so the matter of draft pick compensation owed to Pittsburgh wasn't about to get in the way.
But what if Bylsma and another candidate had similar credentials, Bylsma was favoured narrowly and the other prospective coach came with no strings attached? And what if the Sabres decided to take a pass on Bylsma as a result? After all, a third-round draft pick is something of value in every other sense. Teams don't give them away with a shrug of the shoulders.
If the issue of compensation meant that Bylsma did not get the Buffalo job, he'd be justifiably upset. The Penguins would still be paying him, and the Sabres, while having to live with their decision, would wonder why they couldn't sign the best coach available free of charge. In that case, I'm guessing Bylsma and every other coach would push for a rule change, and so would the Sabres. That ought to happen, anyway. Thumbs down to draft pick compensation for fired coaches.
The Sabres insist they are better already because of Bylsma. They conducted on-and-off chats with him for a month before finalizing a reported five-year, $15 million contract.
Bylsma arrived in Buffalo as the most accomplished coach since Scotty Bowman brought his five Cups to town in 1979. Bylsma went 252-117-32 during six seasons with the Penguins, accumulating a points percentage (.668) that is the best in NHL history among coaches with at least three years of experience.
It takes outstanding players for a team to be that good, and Bylsma had them with the Penguins. Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are in the argument for best player in the world, and Pittsburgh's lineup had other All-Stars while Bylsma was on the bench.
The Sabres believe their young prospects will be just as good. Having someone who knows how to coach and handle elite talent is a plus for the organization.
Which teams or players have surprised you in the Western Conference?
"I'll start in Nashville with David Poile and Peter Laviolette. Injuries have been a theme of the year and they had the injury to [Mike] Fisher, and it's almost not even talked about at this point in time with their team. They kind of take a flier on [Mike] Ribeiro and [Derek] Roy, and Ribeiro has obviously made good on it at this point in time on the top line with [Filip] Forsberg and [James] Neal. I think Pittsburgh and Nashville feel good about that trade right now, but it's brought a legitimized goal scorer to Nashville. That top line has been really good for them. I think there has always been talk about the way Nashville played defense, and I think they play defense differently now than they did with Barry Trotz. It's helped them be a better offensive team, a quicker transition team. You see that not only with the top line, but in waves. You thought they would be better and more offensive, but to do it in the Western Conference, where it's tougher, and to see them at the top is good.
"I think you expected to see Anaheim, San Jose and L.A. at the top of the Pacific. Anaheim is certainly there, but Vancouver, with Willie Desjardins coming in there, has changed the focus of its team to a four-line team and are winning games with contributions throughout the lineup. It has energized their top line. With [Radim] Vrbata going on there with the twins, they've been very good. And their power play has been rejuvenated. They've rode the play from their 12 forwards and their power play.
How about in the Eastern Conference, has any team jumped out at you and either impressed you, surprised you or both?
Dan Bylsma hasn't gone anywhere. He has no plans to anytime soon. Pittsburgh is home and will be through hockey season, unless an NHL job opens.
Better be the right job, though.
Running the Penguins' bench for 478 games imparted the importance of stability upon Bylsma.
"I think we were a model," Bylsma said over a wide-ranging conversation that lasted more than four hours. "We had stability, great stability. From ownership, from within the organization, with our players. I was fortunate to coach in a stable situation, and I shared that vision with my general manager — and I coached for a great general manager.
Penguins ownership stopped believing in Shero long before CEO David Morehouse fired him May 16. Different sides have different details about what happened and where it went wrong. The only consensus to emerge after the confounding crash is that nobody was happy with where things were.
Shero and Bylsma always figured last season was one of transition. They had a plan for this offseason. It was an intriguing one, but that job belongs to others now.
That the Canucks management team of President Trevor Linden and GM Jim Benning are talking to Bylsma, the former Stanley Cup winner (2009) and NHL coach of the year (2011) with Pittsburgh, should be no surprise. The surprise may be that Bylsma, recently fired by the Penguins, appears not to be the frontrunner in what is shaping up as a comprehensive search that will include as many as eight candidates.
Linden said this week that the coaching search may not conclude until after the NHL Entry Draft, June 27-28 in Philadelphia. That likely means Bylsma won't be their man, as he reportedly had an excellent interview with Florida GM Dale Tallon last week and is believed to be the frontrunner there.
The Florida Sun-Sentinel's Harvey Filakov reports two important items regarding the Florida Panthers' coaching and draft plans.
The Panthers coaching search will pick up steam this week as six front-runners for the vacancy, including fired Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma, will meet with the team's brain-trust in New York City, according to a team source.
Other than Bylsma, the other five leading candidates have all met or spoke to General Manager Dale Tallon, but now will also sit down with the team's co-owners, Vinnie Viola and Doug Cifu, as well as CEO/President Rory Babich.
Those repeaters are believed to be Ron Wilson, Canadiens' assistant Gerard Gallant, former Stanley Cup — winning coach Marc Crawford, and Red Wings' assistants Tom Renney and Bill Peters.
Dan Bylsma A Fit In Vancouver?
If Canucks general manager Jim Benning likes the core of this team as much as he claims to, it would appear there should now be a clear frontrunner for the club's vacant head coaching job.
That would be Dan Bylsma, the recently deposed coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, who won a Stanley Cup in 2009 after he took over from Michel Therrien in the middle of the season; a man who is said to be a clone of Alain Vigneault. He's also a man who was none too thrilled to be kept hanging around as long as he was by the Pens, only to be dumped on Friday, but there was nothing he could do about it.
But we digress. Who better to follow AV here in Vancouver than the same guy who had great success following his body double, Therrien, in Pittsburgh — the one thorny year of John Tortorella perhaps the only thorny issue spoiling what could be the perfect succession plan.
Since that wonderful first year in Pittsburgh, obviously things haven't gone as well for Bylsma, but there is a pretty good explanation for just about every failing the team had under his watch.
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The stoic man behind the Team USA bench -- dark-framed glasses, arms folded across his chest, tight expression -- used to run naked around NHL dressing rooms banging on a Gatorade tub with a hockey stick to get his teammates pumped for the game.
He has co-authored four books, more than some hockey coaches have read.
He buried the Red Wings in the 2009 Stanley Cup finals months after landing his first -- and five years later -- only NHL head coaching job.
Eleven years earlier, he had buried a daughter he would never know.
These seemingly disparate threads weave into a rich tapestry of a man who deked coming out of college -- he interviewed with top-six accounting firms out of college and ended up a bottom-six forward -- and went top shelf in life. Dan Bylsma is not a Renaissance Man.
-Dan Bylsma, head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins. More on the Pens from John Kekis of the Globe and Mail.
#Pens GM Ray Shero announces team has signed head coach Dan Bylsma to a 2-year contract extension through the 2015-16 season.
Dan Bylsma talked Sunday as if he knows he will be coaching the Penguins next season. He flat said of Marc-Andre Fleury, "He's our No. 1 goalie. He will be going forward. ... He's going to play great. There's no question about that. He's going to win a lot of hockey games for this team." Bylsma went on to say that Tomas Vokoun will return to his backup role next season. It's hard to believe he went public with that information without approval from general manager Ray Shero. Actually, it's hard to believe Shero didn't tell him to say it considering Bylsma had no confidence in Fleury in these playoffs and played him in relief in just one of 11 games after benching him for Vokoun after Game 4 of the first-round series against the New York Islanders.
Bylsma, whose job security has been the No. 1 topic around town since the Penguins were eliminated Friday night by the Boston Bruins in the Eastern Conference final, said he had not talked to Shero about his future. That's also hard to believe. Shero was unavailable for comment because of a personal situation and won't address the media until Wednesday. It won't be surprising if he announces a contract extension for Bylsma, who's believed to have one year left on his current deal. No one wants a coach in that situation.
Extending -- not firing -- Bylsma will be the right thing for Shero to do.
The mere suggestion Bylsma's job may be in jeopardy has teams in the market for a head coach paying attention. Cant see it happening.
No, I vaguely heard what he said. I figured he was just blowing up. I'm sure he'll apologize today about it and everything will be forgotten.
I don't know what he's talking about. I mean, if you want you can put a camera on us all game, put a camera on (Ryan Callahan) all game. You'll see who's over there more. He should worry about his own players.
Yeah, a lot of it. I don't know when this all started, if this is part of the new tactics in the playoffs, but it's garbage. The games played on the ice. You get all this stuff going on. It really is garbage. It's nonsense and if they want to do it great, but I'm not going to waste my time answering questions about it all the time. It's getting pretty old.
"Especially in the summertime, I try not to get involved in this type of, 'How are you feeling' conversation.
Though I try to avoid posting a lot of the same things that you might have already seen on the Penguins official site, I did receive the embed codes to the videos from today's pressers from my predecessor, Tony Ferrante, so I figured that I would post them for you all. He was good enough to send them… I will post them!
Hypothetically, you're talking about a guy in his last year in the National Hockey League had 75 points. That's leading our team last year. That's an intriguing thing to think about. He's a power-play guy. What you saw him do in the World Championship against NHL-caliber players was nothing short of outstanding on a bigger ice surface. Those are intriguing things to think about hypothetically. It's tough not to think about adding 75 points to your roster if it's something you're capable of doing.
-Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma. More from Bylsma on numerous topics at Penguins.com.
Dan Bylsma is as measured and supportive as a coach gets in the NHL. For him to say, "I don't think you can talk about eliminating headshots as an organization and not expect that to be examined," well, it shows why Campbell doesn't have to worry about Shero and Lemieux defending Cooke now.
No way Shero could ever go to another GM meeting arguing a no-tolerance head shot rule if he fought against a heavy suspension this time. He wouldn't be taken seriously. And Lemieux loses all moral ground about safety if he fights for this player at this time.
The Penguins simply can't trust Cooke, can't depend on him. So they'll accept Campbell's challenge, stand back and await the decision.
Campbell's been thrown a belt-high fastball. Now he's got to crush it.
Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma has agreed to a three-year contract extension through the 2013-14 season, it was announced today by Executive Vice President and General Manager Ray Shero.
Bylsma, 40, led the Penguins to a Stanley Cup in 2009 and has his team in the hunt for the top spot in the Eastern Conference this year despite an injury-depleted lineup.
"Dan has very quickly established himself as one of the best coaches in the National Hockey League," Shero said. "He has been a perfect fit for our organization since day one, and we look forward to having him leading our team for the next three seasons.
You see, everything changes when you win a Cup. The expectations of the fans and media change. The expectations of the players in the dressing room change. Everyone wants more, everyone expects more. But here's the thing about Bylsma: he may be the one constant in that complicated equation.
He's talking as much about life as he is the situation that now confronts his team, because for Bylsma, these are the very basics tenets of things like character and work ethic, qualities that transcend a sport.
Sitting up in the stands at the Bell Centre this week, GM Ray Shero was watching the man he plucked out of Wilkes-Barre last February to lead his team after the players had seemed to tune out former coach Michel Therrien. One of the things—and there are many—Shero likes about Bylsma is how he responds to a tough loss. He moves on.
-Bliues Coach Andy Murray speaking about player Dan Bylsma who he coached when Dan was with the Kings. More from Andy Murray by Seth Rorabaugh of Empty Netters.
Dan Bylsma had quite a debut in his first season as an NHL coach. And as Dave Molinari points out today, it'll be a challenge to follow up the team's Stanley Cup run in his second season.
Were Bylsma able to win the Stanley Cup next (this) season, he'd be only the third coach in NHL history to start off his career with two championships.
The Grand Haven native brought the Stanley Cup, the prize for winning the NHL championship, to the city's Municipal Marina.
Bylsma is head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, who won the Cup by beating the Detroit Red Wings in seven games in June.
He took it fishing on Lake Michigan this morning aboard the Tammy Too III, then hoisted it from the back of the boat down the Grand Haven channel to the marina. The NHL Eastern Conference trophy followed in another charter boat.
The line to view the trophy up close began forming around 11 a.m. — and, by the time Bylsma carried the trophy from the charter boat docks to the marina lawn at noon, it wound east of the Chinook Pier buildings.
Q. Win or lose tonight, does it feel weird for you to know that this is all going to be done? Some of the players talk about win or lose, day off tomorrow. Is it weird for you after your whole season the way it's gone and coming here?
COACH BYLSMA: How do they know I'm going to give them a day off (laughing).
COACH BYLSMA: It does seem weird. You know, you battle and you win to go further and further and further. You know, you go to Game 7 in round two to get to the next round. You seem like you're playing for your team's life. Now it will be over after tonight. It's going to be a good thing for one team. The other team's going to wish it was a nine?game series.
Q. What is the mood of the team today?
COACH BYLSMA: Yeah, you know, loose is an indication that they have to refocus. You know, they're enjoying it. They enjoy what this team is about, has been about three, four months of coming to the rink, working, focused on how we need to play and enjoying that process. You know, you don't ?? there are bumps and there are difficulties, and it's a struggle. You know, there's sacrifice, but it's also there is enjoyment in that room. There was enjoyment in the guys today, for sure.
Q. You mentioned last night after the game about telling the guys for Game 7 to go out, concentrate on trying to win, not to lose. When you got here in mid February, was that something overall you had to convince these guys? Because I know talking to a lot of them, they were saying how they felt like they were just trying to stay afloat, the difference between staying afloat and trying to win?
COACH BYLSMA: It wasn't hard convincing them, I don't think. The game by nature is aggressive, and in?your?face and confrontational. And if you're not playing it that way, you know it. You know when another team's taking it to you. You know when you're waiting or letting the play come to you.
As players, every player in that room has had success at some point in time due to their skill level or the teams they've played on of being aggressive and taking the play to the other team. That's the way the game should be played and needs to be played to tip the scales in your favor.
So it wasn't a hard thing to do to say let's get on our toes and let's go after this thing and play the right way and get to the offensive zone, and play at a pace that makes it tough for other teams to play with us.
I think the biggest thing about what happened since February is how quickly the guys said that's the way we need to play.
Q. You've been bugging me about asking a question all week. So here it is. Is Sykora in, and please give me the right answer?
COACH BYLSMA: The right answer, and it always is, is game time decision. He'll be out there for warm-ups.
Q. You've used Crosby and Malkin together sometimes. Is it reasonable to expect we'll see more of both of them either together or in different line combination?
COACH BYLSMA: I don't think it will be any different than what you've seen. There are certain times when the match-up favors that situation where they get out there together. But again, there have been times where they've played very well together. And there are times when it's better keeping them apart.
So sometimes in the game dictates where it's a good time to get them out together for a particular situation. And that will continue to be how I look at it for tonight's game.
Q. Can you address just the advantage that the home team has had winning every game in this series? Are the match-ups that critical in this series? Does that have anything to do with it? Or what is your estimation of why the home team's got everything?
COACH BYLSMA: I don't believe it's the match-ups. You know, that does help out, does maybe - easier to get into your rhythm with your team and what your players are expecting because you get to make the final change.
But I think you're talking about two teams that are playing pretty hard with skilled players, and it's even enough that the home ice is an advantage for you.
I mean, playoffs it's not always the case that home ice is a strict advantage or much easier to play at, but we played two pretty good games in Game 1 and Game 2, they were better. They were better in and around their net. They got those wins. We came home and played two pretty good games. And we got the advantage with two victories. And Game 5, they obviously were much better than us, and it's that close.
Now we have the task of having to come back here and use the home ice advantage, use the energy of our fans, and use our surroundings to draw even in the series and prove that we're that close.
Q. I was curious, were you in the building last year in Game 6 when the Wings won the Cup?
COACH BYLSMA: I was not. We were in our own playoff battle with Wilkes?Barre in Chicago.
Q. Do you have a sense of what that was like for the players on this team who were here to watch the Wings win a championship in this building? And does that have any bearing on what you do between now and Tuesday night?
COACH BYLSMA: I don't have a sense, other than it happening in '03, when we were in Game 7. We were on the road. It wasn't our home building. But I can remember vividly, too vividly, what it's like to have the clock ticking down and the other team. We were down 3?0 in the game in New Jersey.
So then to have the pomp and circumstance afterwards. So I do know what that is like personally. But that's playoff hockey. You're faced with elimination games and you're faced with them on the road and at home sometimes. How you deal with them, and the focus you can have on playing your game largely dictates how those games unfold. And some teams rise to the occasion, some teams relish in that pressure and come out with big performances. But they are tough situations to be in, and we're faced with one in Game 6.
Q. Seemed like you guys got out of the gate really fast. The first two or three minutes, looked as though you were off and running, what happened after that?
COACH BYLSMA: Well, I think we did start off well. I think we didn't shoot the puck well enough or often enough when we had those chances. We were looking for the extra pass, when we had opportunities to get pucks on them early. Didn't quite connect, and didn't quite create the opportunities because we were looking to pass.
But, again, we came out skating well, and getting in the offensive zone and creating some scoring chances. You know, the game, they got that first goal, and then they got the goal on the power play right after the quick change. Quick up, and got that goal after the kill. That would have gotten us momentum, and they got that goal. I thought that was a big goal.
Q. Can you compare what you sensed from your team in terms of what it's thinking about right now, and the one you played for in Anaheim going into that Game 5?
COACH BYLSMA: I wasn't ready for that one (laughing). You know, I think you know you have to win one on the road as the road team. In both the situations, you feel like you miss those opportunities in Game 1, you had to really fight back to get back to even. And this is a game where we think we're going to have to play our best.
We think they're going to come out really hard, and we think they're going to play a very good game after having regrouped and coming home with their fans here. And this is going to be, in my estimation, probably the hardest fought game will be here tonight. To this point.
Q. Can you talk about the energy or level of freshness that your team has right now after playing four games in six nights?
COACH BYLSMA: If Geno could have scored that goal at the end of the second, I would have liked to see them keep the roof on this place, because it was hopping in the second period, and that was a big part of our energy.
Q. Jordan was playing well versus Carolina, was everywhere on the ice. Now we don't see him as much. Not as successful. What's going on with his game?
COACH BYLSMA: I thought Game 3 was much improved over Game 1 and Game 2 from Jordan. Again, each team poses a different kind of obstacle down low in the offensive zone, which is where Jordan is really good. And some teams are physical, some teams are a little more passive?zone type of defensive zone coverage. For a guy like Jordan, who needs physical contact to be good down low, to protect the puck, it's not there. And it's just been a bit of an adjustment from the last series to this series.
Another area where the game is tough against Detroit is the neutral zone. They have guys back, four guys back a lot. So the speed through the neutral zone that he did get in other series, it's tougher to come by right now. So those are areas that we all have to fight through.
He was better in Game 3, and he assured me he'd be better in Game 4 today in morning skate.
Q. Talk about players, as Playoffs go on, having to do more and the competition becomes more key. Is that true for coaching? Do you have to do different things at this stage that maybe you didn't have to do in the first round?
COACH BYLSMA: I think it often depends on your opponent. And there are coaches that like to make a lot of adjustments. There are coaches who, last night Zetterberg was definitely, obviously coming on the ice and off the ice at key moments trying to get different match?ups. That poses a different situation than some of the other things early on. I don't think it would be ?? I don't think it's just because it's the Finals. I think it's because it's Mike Babcock and the Red Wings.
So each series is a little bit different. And this one is presenting different situations.
Q. Discounting the final 19 seconds of the second game, there had only been five minor penalties called in the first two games of this series. Do you think the officiating started has changed from the regular season, and does this favor one team or the other in this series?
COACH BYLSMA: I think the Red Wings power play numbers stand for themselves in terms of whether we want them to get more power plays or less. Our power play has been good in the last second half of the playoffs here. They're talented players.
But I think the standard that's been called in the game has been fair. I mean, is there penalties on each side ?? as a coach, you can go through the game and say that was a penalty, that wasn't a penalty. But if you're honest, you can usually say that about both sides.
You know, as a coach, you typically want to point out the ones that their team does against yours and you rarely want to point out the ones that your team does against theirs. So I think the standard on the ice has been pretty consistent for both teams.
From today's press conference with Penguins' coach Dan Bylsma. Transcript provided courtesy of the NHL.
Q. Can you give your impression of where Malkin and Crosby are at in terms of potential level of frustration? We saw some at the end of both games maybe from both of them. Where do you think they're at? And do you say anything to them going into tomorrow night?
COACH BYLSMA: You worry as a coach about frustration, and frustration is when you can't let go of previous events.