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Threshold by American artist Danny Lane is installed at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carollina. It is created from stacked float glass, pour cast color glass, blown color glass, post-tensioned float glass, stell, mirror, popular burl wood, local stone and LED lights.
Threshold
Danny Lane
2010
Low iron glass, colour poured glass, post tensioned
stacked component, mirror, burr poplar, plastic apple
MDF platform, LED lighting
H2.85 x L8.15 x D1.47m
New Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, USA
Photo Peter Wood
Threshold
Danny Lane
2010
Low iron glass, colour poured glass, post tensioned
stacked component, mirror, burr poplar, plastic apple
MDF platform, LED lighting
H2.85 x L8.15 x D1.47m
New Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, USA
Photo Peter Wood
In a ground-breaking humanitarian action triggered by a forecast of flood risk, the Uganda Red Cross (URCS) distributed just under 5,000 preparedness items to communities in Kapelebyong sub-county, some 300 km north-east of the capital, Kampala, in November 2015. The non-food items (NFI) were procured under ‘forecast-based financing’ with the support of the German government through the German Red Cross. The URCS mobilized the supplies as soon as a predetermined threshold of forecast risk was crossed a day ahead of the operation. “One of the disaster effects we are targeting is waterborne disease,” said Irene Amuron, URCS Disaster Risk Reduction Manager, who led the operation. Local Acting Chief Administration Officer Paul Edotu had indicated that dysentery existed in the area, and the authorities were anxious to prevent it. Amuron added: “The teams have distributed two jerrycans, two bars of soap, and a month’s supply of water purification tablets to 370 households in the villages of Okoboi, Omatai, Apedu and Akulonyo,” all initially trucked from Kampala. “The Uganda Red Cross are immediate responders in times of disaster,” said URCS Secretary General Robert Kwesiga. “By using forecasts in we are now intervening even earlier, before receiving reports of disasters. With such a timely disbursal, we hope to avoid potential catastrophe before it even happens, supporting people to continue working and going to school.” (Photo: Denis Onyodi/URCS-Climate Centre)
There are a lot of these scattered about the "former" business section of Cairo--tiled thresholds that once led the pedestrian into a busines, and now lead to vacant lots.