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Authority awards cardiac stents manufacturing license to NUST
March 21, 2020 March 21, 2020 Hasan Akhter 35 Views 0 Comments Authority, awards, cardiac, license, Manufacturing, NUST, stents 1 min read
The Medical Devices Development Centre at National University of Science & Technology has secured the cardiac stents manufacturing license from Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan
In a phenomenal breakthrough that would have far-reaching positive dividends for the country, the Medical Devices Development Centre (MDDC) at National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) has secured the manufacturing licence from Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) for the mass production of Cardiac Stents and PTCA (Angioplasty) Balloon Catheters.
This licence is a mandatory requirement to manufacture any medical device in Pakistan, which is obtained after critical inspection of facility by the team of inspectors appointed by DRAP.
In his remarks on this meritorious accomplishment, Lt Gen Naweed Zaman, HI (M), (Retd), Rector NUST, said that this is a significant regulatory milestone achieved by NUST, that will save millions of dollars of foreign exchange to the national exchequer.
He termed it an encouraging news for the nation to celebrate amidst a pandemic COVID-19 that has been taking a huge toll on the people across the world.
Rector NUST acknowledged the financial support and patronage provided by the Government of Pakistan through its Ministry of Planning Development & Special Initiatives as well as Ministry of Science & Technology (MoST).
This is indeed a great achievement by the scientists and MDDC team at NUST, after having previously obtained Quality Management System (QMS) ISO 13485:2016 Certification from European accredited/notified body for the manufacturing of medical devices at NUST.
Consequent upon the award of this mandatory licence on March 20, 2020, NUST is now authorised to initiate production of cardiac stents – these would be available at a fraction of the price of imported ones, bringing cardiac stents within the reach of a common man, as opposed to formidably expensive imported ones.
MDDC has already successfully carried out non-clinical, pre-clinical (animal) and clinical (human) trials on the indigenously produced stents at some of the best certified European testing facilities.
MDDC is a state-of-the-art facility for the manufacturing of high-risk medical devices, including cardiac stents and angioplasty balloon catheters.
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For thousands of years, the logical, headstrong masculine energy has ruled the planet, but now people all over the world have started to get in touch with their emotional, feminine side. No single energy must rule the planet alone, and this convergence will restore balance to uncover the beautiful, nurturing, loving inner goddess.
During this special time in your life, you might feel a dramatic shift in energy as we once again recognize and celebrate the Divine Feminine within us all. The analytical and passionate masculine energy does in fact serve a strong purpose, and will be preserved during these times even while people on Earth tap into their divine goddess energy.
1. You feel more sensitive and caring to yourself and others than ever before.
With the arrival of the inner goddess energybeing revealed comes very intense feelings of compassion for yourself and others. You will suddenly want to help everyone you meet, and may even put the feelings of others before your own sometimes. You have realized that only caring about yourself in life will lead to despair and isolation, so you've stripped away your Ego and found true love in yourself and everything around you. The goddess within wants you to nurture and help others remember who they are, too.
2. You wish to make more female friends.
Of course, males serve a very important and sacred purpose on Earth too, but as the Divine Feminine energy returns to the planet, you will have a deep desire to connect with more females. You know that you need to band together with women in order to stay strong during these turbulent times, and as a group, you can count on one another to get through it. Also, you can practice healing techniques with your female friends, such as Reiki, massage, meditation, and other types of energy work.
3. You know that you came here to be a healer of some sort.
As you have awakened to your inner goddess, you recognize your calling to help people somehow. You know that you manifested on Earth during these times in order to help balance the energies on the planet and bring about peace and love. No matter which path you choose, you know that your destiny as a healer will soon be revealed to you.
4. You wish to express yourself in a creative way.
As you tap into your inner goddess, you will start to notice huge spikes of creative energy. You feel more drawn to the arts, and seek solace in quiet expressions of the soul such as drawing or writing.
5. You have a strong desire to be a part of a loving community.
Since you have started your journey to awakening, you wish to seek out others who resonate with your beliefs and goals in life. You know that you can't change this world alone, and wish to make friends with people who have discovered the divine goddess within, also. You just long for others who see the world as you do, and know that becoming part of a community could open more doors for you to help others heal.
6. You have no desire to compete with or judge anyone.
The divine goddess feels strong and able to carry herself without tearing others down or feeling jealous of others' accomplishments. You can stand on your own two feet without having to knock someone else off their own pedestal, and simply want everyone in the world to feel happy and fulfilled. You realize that we all play on the same team here, and know that competition only creates separation, while collaboration unites a divided tribe.
7. You have realized the importance of self-love and self-care.
Perhaps the most significant sign of awakening to the inner goddess is learning how to truly love and take care of yourself. Before, you may have had toxic habits or thoughts about yourself that inhibited your growth as a spiritual being, but now, you realize that loving yourself is paramount in your journey here. Without self-love and care, you will always feel incomplete because you seek them elsewhere. You have realized your own power, and know that you can accomplish anything if you just love yourself first.
8. Your inner goddess energy requires you to clear out old pain.
To advance on your journey, you must clear out heavy energies that no longer serve you. The divine goddess within you will urge you to sit with your pain and let it move through you, while recognizing what those feelings and experiences taught you. Then, as you thank them for the lessons they've showed you, you can move on and welcome love and light back into your life.
9. You start to manifest what you want at rapid speeds.
You have witnessed things you simply cannot explain, as the people and places you need in your life simply show up at exactly the right time. Your dreams are starting to come true right before your eyes, and all you did was start to believe in yourself and your connection with the universe.
10. You have a newfound sense of confidence and purpose.
You have honored your inner goddess and understood that she will carry you through from here on out in life. You no longer need to feel ashamed of yourself or threatened by others; you can walk boldly into any situation and feel assured that you can make it through and come out an even stronger person.
11. You no longer feel afraid of what life will throw at you.
Old energies and thoughts melt away as you continue to develop the divine goddess energy; life suddenly becomes a playground rather than a war zone to you. You have become excited about life instead of scared and unsure of the unknown.


With nearly 100 exhibitions and featuring more than 250 artists, the eighth Glasgow International festival, which continues until 7 May, is a bustlingly busy affair taking place in venues across Scotland's largest city. To help you navigate it, seven writers on the a-n Writer Development Programme 2017-18 offer their recommendations following an intense and varied opening weekend.
From the quietness of two motorised snails moving slowly across a white cube space (Urs Fischer, The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, until 26 May) to the intense noise of one-second blasts of a Nirvana concert (Raydale Dower, CCA, 19-22 April), the opening weekend of the eighth Glasgow International provided a typically diverse collection of activity.
While much of the focus was initially around the Director's Programme featuring artists such as Mark Leckey, Lubaina Himid and Cécile B.Evans, as ever it's by seeking out the works in the many smaller-scale, often artist-run shows that the enjoyably sprawling GI experience really unfolds.
Off the beaten track is invariably a good place to look and Glasgow's post-industrial landscape is a generous provider of spaces for artists to present work in. At the Pearce Institute in Govan, for instance, Chapter 13's 'The Landis Museum' packs work by seven artists into a tiny room to create a smart show brimming with ideas and encounters.
One of my own favourite, unexpected encounters over GI's first few days was viewing Erica Eyres' very funny, on the button video in the 'Girlz Club' exhibition at Glasgow Project Room, in which through a mock TV interview I was introduced to Anne 2.0, an AI artist who performs on demand and even "folds down for easy storage".
Everyone, of course, will have their own GI recommendations. The ones that follow have been picked by participants in the current a-n Writer Development Programme, who were tasked with seeing as much as they could of the festival during their visit before selecting three notable shows or works.
With their choices to hand – perhaps printed out, folded and easily stored – maybe, like Fischer's snails, you can enjoy GI at a slightly more leisurely pace.
From the perspective of Algonquin First Nation people, Montreal-based artist Nadia Myre allows the audience to consider what has led to this moment in history by presenting work that explores early colonialism and capitalism. Curated by Mother Tongue, ceramic works are inspired by excavated fragments of pre-packed tobacco pipes, one of the first disposable products. A pair of photographs depicting a pipe and a collection of clay pipe shards take on an ethnographic hue. Myres challenges this static and western way of presenting knowledge through sound pieces, performance and by weaving imitation pipe shards into skeletal nets, baskets and ropes. The history of tobacco is entwined with Glasgow; GoMA is the former residence of ruthless tobacco trader William Cunninghame. Addressing Cunninghame and his ilk, The Beaver's Tobacco is a collaboration with artist Rudi Aker – a cautionary and urgent tale about those who take from the earth and give nothing in return.
Until 7 May, The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow G1 5HZ.
In 1922 Sophie Taeuber-Arp published 'Remarks on Instruction in Ornamental Design', detailing eight instructions for making art. Susanne Nørregård Nielsen has used this archival text to create eight new abstract drawings (below) to bring Taeuber-Arp's intriguing philosophies to a new audience. Nielsen's practice is centered on uncovering (and appropriating) what is left out of histories of 20th century modernism. The painting lecturer at Glasgow School of Art has found these oversights often encompass work by female artists and practices such as embroidery or weaving. Previously this has led Neilsen to recreate Suprematist dresses designed by Kazimir Malevich and to take up weaving to understand the processes of Anni Albers. Weaving is evident in the drawings on display, where a careful selection of colours create an exquisite weft and warp effect. Nielsen's drawings provide encouragement for those seeking to generate new work through artist archives and showcases how artists can retell art history through their own practices.
Until 7 May, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street Glasgow G3 6RQ.
London-based artist Nnena Kalu has been in residence at Project Ability Gallery for the first four days of Glasgow International, creating an exhibition of exuberant sculptures that explode with colour and texture and seem to celebrate the sheer delight of making. Responsive to her materials and the creative process, the enticing shapes of Kalu's sculptures at Project Ability have evolved from apparently endless layers of sumptuous coloured tape and crisp plastic wrap, precariously balanced on wooden supports. Kalu undoubtedly has an essence of Phyllida Barlow about her but Kalu's ingenuity makes Barlow look demure and restrained in comparison – her colour pallette is riotous and the taped shapes crackle with surprising, boundless energy. Unsurprisingly, this is not Kalu's only exhibition this month. She will also be showing in 'Spring Syllabus', curated by Lisa Slominski of Slominski Projects, at J Hammond Projects in London from Thursday 26 April.
Until 26 May, Project Ability Gallery, 1st Floor, Trongate 103, Glasgow G1 5HD.
The shopkeeper at Garnethill Stores watches on as I chuckle and photograph my way around the shop, seeking out interventions and installed artworks among the standard corner-shop fare. In the shop window I noticed a comically ugly rubber facemask but it sat amongst such weird and wonderful products that I only half-expected it to be part of the exhibition. 'Good £uck' sees five artists placing their work in the shopfronts and shelving displays of five independently-owned stores across the city. A quick browse through social media reveals how dear these shops are to their local communities but it's a stretch to imagine any tourist dollars making it this far, and that alone provides justification for the project. Before I left Garnethill Stores I made a point of buying some snacks to get me through the remainder of the day's GI marathon. I'd have chased it with a Diet Coke from the fridge were it not for the gauntleted, yellow hand that grasped onto it like grim death.
On the oldest street in Glasgow, in the back room of a former British Linen Bank building that has long outlived its intended purpose, a rough-hewn white curtain ripples in the breeze. Featured in the group show 'Against Time', this is Sarah Forrest's film Again, it objects, which continues in the same way for another six minutes. In the centre of the screen a text piece places existential uncertainty into the heart of a domestic setting. The narrative – which unfolds in the second person one word at a time – describes the appearance of a black circle in your living room, into which one of your Nike trainers disappears, followed by a table lamp. You, the film says, simply stand there, looking at your sock. The entire story plays out in time with the opening bars of AC/DC's Back in Black, at a volume high enough to shake you off your viewer's high-horse, reinforcing both the theme of the void and the ambiguity of existence.
Marco Giordano, I'm Nobody! Who are you?
A car is heard moving through the streets of central Glasgow long before it is seen. Italian-born Marco Giordano has installed speakers on its roof and is driving around the city performing I'm Nobody! Who are you? for the duration of the festival. The piece comprises a printed handout as well as the audio performance and reflects the recent general societal trend in sharing what once would have been unquestionably private information. The non-narrative form of the text loses nothing in being partially heard, but if you do happen to catch it as you wander the streets of Glasgow this coming fortnight, I recommend you stop and listen to this part-manifesto, part-poetic contemplation on privacy, publicity, and revelation.
Until 7 May, various locations across the city throughout the festival.
Within a typical working charity shop, Simon Buckley and Othmar Farré have curated an installation of paintings by 17 artists which becomes a fun game of spotting un-priced 'fine art' amongst the shop's good-value headboards and bargain-bucket prints. This critique of worth and hierarchy between consumer products and different markets alters the everyday shopping experience, encouraging you to view the goods, their purposes and 'venue' in new critical light – a painting of a frightened-looking raccoon for instance is pitted against a modest brand-new divan. The considered placement of the paintings, changing daily, creates 'conversations' between them, as if they are nattering over a coffee table like old friends. The staff in the shop were busy helping customers find house decor while GI punters hunted weird and haunting paintings such as Olga Cerkasova's yellow-eyed woman, models (untitled), 2012, and the striking grisaille imagery of Michael Fullerton, who also has a solo show at Queen's Park Railway Club.
Until 7 May, British Heart Foundation, 22 Stockwell Street, Glasgow G1 4RT.
On entering the opulent interior of The Savings Bank, a sublime atmosphere of past, present and future time is beautifully and tragically fabricated. This detailed audio-visual installation, with a daily cabaret-style diva performance, is an evocative stage-set scenario, drawing on a multitude of references: Derek Jarman, Enochian language of angels, cosmic pessimism and queer theory. A sense of mystic reverie and lamenting an end-of-world apocalypse is created that is theatrically convincing, using a sleek array of seductive materials. This darkened space mourns the planet we forgot amidst our digital and consumer infatuations, while Calvin Klein advertisement models shimmer to remind us of unreachable perfection, and our navel-gazing. The bank's Victorian grandeur symbolises both prudent saving and lavish excess, and the speculative purgatory feels like walking through Blade Runner 2049, where the virtual and 'real' converge and all we really can do is have a drink, laced with meteorite rocks.
Until 7 May, The Savings Bank, 67 Bridge Street, Glasgow, G5 9JB.
At first glimpse this is an unassuming exhibition, featuring striped wall-based fabrics nurturing rocks and two large curtains curving through the gallery. But experienced alongside the accompanying audio this installation collapses geological deep time and human temporalities with physical and perceived space, to weave an account in three acts. Set in locations such as a ship's quarterdeck, the story proposes that continental Africa is eventually going to slip over the European landmass, inverting sedimentary laws. The allusions to sailors' voyages, cake baking and fossils 'orphaned' in museums from their kin conjures links between stratigraphy and cake layering to create a fascinating commentary on migrating matter, people and objects. The collision and shifting of tectonic plates and people is also explicitly told through a myth about a Gibraltar cave that channeled directly to North Africa. Kiwanga highlights how continents move geo-physically but also politically, becoming welcoming or self-isolating, friend or foe.
Until 17 June, Tramway, 25 Albert Drive Glasgow G41 2PE.
Tramway's cavernous gallery is occupied by a single illuminated figure seated at its centre. A scaled-up statue of the biblical character Job, the figure is large in size but abject in nature, its flesh pitted with gaping wounds. Inside this pitiful body is a 21st century sound system dispensing bodily rumblings, gurgles, wheezes, mechanical rattles, electronic beeps and deep resonant drones, as well as occasionally humorous, often poignant philosophical musings delivered in a despondent northern accent. Opposite, a CGI projection depicts the figure amid changing scenes of interiors, vegetation and a pseudo-anatomical exploration. Sound and visuals build to a quasi-religious climax, only to quickly fall back to the beginning of the hopeless soliloquy. The combination of humour, pathos and technology creates a unique reminder that in our glossy, high-tech world, the one thing we can't get rid of is the messiness of being human.
Until 1 July, Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE.
'Cellular World' features work by nine artists relating to themes of identity, science fiction and life in the Internet age. Sam Keogh's Kapton Cadaverine seems playful but risky. With a web-like coating of plastic and silicone covering his installation, Keogh explores a familiar trope of a lost astronaut waking from his cryonic sarcophagus and struggling to piece together his identity. Cécile B. Evans' double-sided installation Something tactical is coming highlights the complex relationship between digital and physical reality with a network of small screens and exposed circuit boards, a miniature scale-model office and physical manifestation of a little "oily milky fog". Lynn Hershman Leeson's 1994 film, Seduction of a Cyborg, creates a thought-provoking yet familiar scenario highlighting questions about the pros and cons of physical enhancement and technology addiction. This complex exhibition explores many relevant 21st century issues and benefits from a second viewing away from festival crowds.
Until 7 October 2018, Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, G1 3AH.
This group exhibition of nine artists is curated by curatorial group Home-Platform and artist-led gallery Gossamer Fog. A semi-industrial loft space has been transformed into a fascinatingly uncomfortable environment, prickling and pulsating with electronic sound from screens and speakers. Pools of unnatural pink, green and yellow light illuminate tangles of cables and tubes; straps and scaffolds support unfamiliar organic structures and canisters of unidentified liquids glow alongside luminous neon-coloured Perspex. Amorphous shapes, plastic-like gels and slimy deposits seem to indicate collapsed, degraded or developing organisms; rubbery tentacles grip a wall, medical drip bags and wires add to an overall impression of improvised life-support systems connected by overwhelmed and ageing technology. As with all the best sci-fi, the work in this show begins with a firm research base founded in the reality of contemporary science, reflecting the gradual merging of man-made and natural through bio-medical science, bio-technologies, and perhaps, bio-accident.
Until 7 May 2018, 71 Houldsworth Street, Glasgow, G3 8ED.
In her first show in Scotland since 2014, Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn presents a new installation stemming from her interest in societal structures. A video shows two dancers performing in the space the viewer is stood in, creating an uncomfortable and quietly troubling experience. The dancers perform with arbitrary rules enforced upon them, and the accompanying score uses the same language of control: sampled police sirens, alarms. The gallery has been sealed off with a stud wall, then crudely cut open with a bandsaw or similar tool to create a vertical cut-out stripe and a giant circle. At its most basic level this act forces a similar interaction with the space as the dancers are enacting. In the rear of the space whitewashed calendars, sketchbooks and hospital-santizer dispensers are smaller exercises in control that feel part of something much bigger, with Sworn's clarity of approach highlighting the darkest elements of their systemic possibilities.
Until 2 June, Koppe Astner, Suite 1—2, 6 Dixon Street, Glasgow, G1 4AX.
Richard Wentworth and writer Victoria Miguel have combed words, phrases and sentences from their respective practices to create A Roomful of Lovers (Glasgow) (2018), using a mutual passion for language for an installation dedicated to Michael Samuels and Christian Kay, professors at the University of Glasgow and editors of The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. The large former warehouse is laced with 600 metres of galvanised steel chains on which manuscripts of collated words on A4 translucent paper are attached, as if the industrial chains were no more than a paperclip. Text has been edited from glossaries and personal dictionaries to form a bespoke thesaurus, earnestly given to its readers. There are different levels of complicit and explicit editing in play here, and the feasibility of reading texts, the spotlit areas of focus, and the way the metal chains create a kind of soft choreography all reinforce the impact of this heartfelt focus on language.
Until 7 May, SWG3, 100 Eastvale Place Glasgow G3 8QG.
Curator Richie Moment is tired of what he feels are glaringly obvious and boring site-specific shows. Taking a more socially-oriented approach, 'CHUMMING' (Scottish vernacular for accompanying a friend, and fishing with bait) is a well-rounded exhibition over four floors. Jack Burton's corrugated card framed Yfed Gormod Gorfod Gadael (2018) is robust: a sunset skyline photograph with diaristic spray-painted statements and iconography. Jessy Jetpacks LADiator (2018) is a humorous projection with self-fulfilling stories about ripping a dog's heart apart and other anecdotes. On the same floor, Moment, as curator and therefore the likely author of a statement contesting site-specific shows responding to windows, has indeed responded to the windows, blacking them out and carving throwaway motifs to let the light shine through multiple coloured gels: taxi signs, faces, symbols. The piece, in a nod to his own contradiction, is titled You see right through me (2018). A definite must see, the works in 'CHUMMING' approach the notion of site-specificity with humour, dialogue and joy.
Until 7 May, The Pipe Factory, 42 Bain Street, Glasgow G40 2LA.
South African collective iQhiya present 'Plenary', a site-specific installation at Transmission. The artist-run gallery is an apt location for this response to the historical and contemporary erasure of women and gender queer people of colour in Scottish cultural programming. On the opening night of their show, the collective of black women artists held an invite-only dinner for women and non-binary people of colour working in the arts. The table where they shared food, drink and conversation remains situated in the centre of the gallery, replete with remnants of the meal. A blue wall bears chalk drawings, quotes, photographs, statements, and a reading list, and fragments of text conversations are displayed in the windows. A moving short film by a member of the collective who recently passed away plays on a loop in the basement. With the artists now gone and the 'performance' over, 'Plenary' still stands as a potent testament to thought processes, community and decolonial discourse. A recording made during the opening night dinner forms a backdrop to the space, generating a convivial atmosphere, a further trace of this meeting of minds, and simultaneously evoking a sense of absence.
Until 7 May, Transmission Gallery, 28 King Street, Glasgow G1 5QP.
The process of creating 'Personal Structures' has seen multidisciplinary artist Jessica Ramm – a participant in the a-n Writer Development Programme – engaging with the architecture and social context of Platform with a many-faceted approach to both space and community. Ramm has worked with local people to produce her exhibition which features prints, video and sculpture, foregrounding process and collaboration. The simplification of manufacturing processes and use of materials to hand has resulted in temporary floor-to-ceiling structures that speak of resourcefulness, experimentation and play. Held together with innovative knots, hinges and lashings of twine, this textural environment is a statement against austerity and for the personal agency enabled by freedom of imagination and a DIY ethos. The work is aesthetically compelling in its own right, while also offering itself, akin to iQhiya's 'Plenary', as both the residue of a working method involving people now absent, and as a site of ongoing encounters and dialogues. Worth the journey (off the beaten path) to Easterhouse.
Until 27 May, Platform, The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Glasgow G34 9JW.
This site-specific group exhibition features the work of eight artists and comprises subtle interventions and installations within the Botanic Gardens' glasshouses. Sculptures created from materials such as plastic, ceramic and metal are sensitively situated within the living collections. The art does not compete with or distract from the abundance of flora, and this is its strength – manmade and natural forms exist in harmony in this indoor sculpture garden. While the glasshouse can be understood as a historically and socially resonant site, the show seems to steer clear of the political and is refreshing for its concern with materiality and form. Highlights include concrete and metal sculptures by Carla Scott Fullerton, and a series of installed drawings by Kari Stewart. Encountering artworks in this setting is a multisensory experience – the humidity and fragrance of the glasshouses create a dynamic atmosphere that befits the work.
Until 7 May, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Road, Glasgow G12 OUE.
'Linder's Flag and Film' is the first of a sequence of commissions for the entrance and façade of the Glasgow Women's Library building, which relocated to its current home in 2014 having grown from a small grassroots project into a hub for information by, for and about women. The artist's wide-ranging source material includes feminist and lesbian texts and historical sources associated with the persecution of women as witches. Both flag and film juxtapose colourful foliage with sensuous mouths, a reminder that women's traditional knowledge of herbal lore has often been held in suspicion. The works displayed are a luscious celebration of the achievements and freedom women have already won as well as an invitation to step back and forwards into various lineages, and to reflect on the possibilities of women's lives.
Until 7 May, Glasgow Women's Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP.
Winnie Herbstein's video installation includes interviews in which women working in trades describe the challenges they face and satisfaction they derive from earning a living in male-dominated construction industries. Their stories are of trial and acceptance, physical exertion and camaraderie. Herbstein is a member of a women's welding collective called Slaghammers that meets at Glasgow Autonomous Space, and parts of the video document women learning and teaching each other to weld. According to Herbstein: "We set up the group because we were fed up of feeling that we couldn't quite access these masculine spaces, even though we have skills or ability…" Shots taken inside a partially constructed house provide a moment to reflect upon assumptions about how the workforce that builds the home is gendered, as is the care and maintenance work that proceeds within it once it's built.
Until 7 May, House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, Glasgow G41 5BW.
Until 7 May, Market Gallery, 334 Duke Street, Glasgow G31 1QZ.


What is the cloud? A definition of cloud, the computer definition, how to use cloud computing on linux, the cloud definition for dummies, cloud storage solutions and other cloud computing solutions.
It is a distributed computing model service provided online to everybody to pay as you go your hosting bills. It is also a growing concept where everyday new ideas are being made by start up companies who are providing new access to resources of their making. You might want to host images (jpeg, gif, tiff, moving images) or you might want to take some weight of your conventionally billed server by assigning videos (mov, mp4 or mobile formatted videos) to the cloud.
Marketing and cloud sales aims and attributions of the help clients with software and provide the necessary attributes of cutting costs and suggesting the correct security measures depending on the circumstances of the company.
The cloud services connected between your modem, a firewall, the router to the server on one side and peoples computers on the other. If the private cloud services are in place the computers that this data is accessible to is only through the intranet of that company rather than public which has to travel over an internet connection. This is why only 99% security guarantees can be made. You way they guarantee this is by implementing the correct Encryption and authentication mechanisms'.
The queries can exist when a signal has to be transmitted through zones around the world. As long as the data is correctly encrypted their is less of a chance of a country being able to decher what the data is or means. These factors are considered within the infrastructure of the cloud based company.
On a local private server equal concerns have been noted about internal staff and the way they use their designated facilities within the companies intranet. For example they could during their work get viruses whilst on the net or share information via email to outside bodies. Spying from within is another concern everybody have these days.
When you have public hosting or using shared public hosting its cheaper, though there is a chance of loss or control of data along with the added confusion of being hosted with other companies on the same shared servers. I call this information spaghetti, coders of websites have similar judgements.
On the private cloud hosting or use of private servers there is much less chance other than internal errors (staff etc) of software losing data rather than IT people, therefore less security concerns, the downside of a private side is you pay tooth and nail.
Citrix company provides all sorts of solutions of running an intranet smoothly, reducing the risk of users mistakes, help open software from USB devices without any risks of picking up anything untoward. Along with the software they offer online support through forums and offer trials so users can dip their toes in the water. They give good incites into what more advanced countries are doing in the cloud. For example Citrix has a translatable link to Japanese forums.
Other things you might want to explore yourself after reading this depending on your current understanding could be something like how t use cloud based benefits on linux and find out about the hybrid cloud benefits and usability of using a Linux based server.


28 Year 11 boys completed their 3 day qualifying expedition on Exmoor from Friday 13th to Sunday 15 October. Whilst the terrain was arguably less arduous than their practice in the Brecon Beacons last summer, the shorter hours of daylight presented its own challenges as the boys needed to get up in the dark to ensure they could complete their trek each day. The weather was warm but gusty as we felt the fringes of Hurricane Ophelia but we still benefited from some lovely views of the Moors and Southern Wales. We also cracked a mention on Radio 5 live when we texted in at 6.05am on the last day; shame they pronounced Stroud as Stroode but Marling came out right. We're pleased to hear that a good number of the boys are planning on working towards their Gold award too. Well done boys.


You came back to my thoughts today; although the truth is you never left them. There may be a thousand miles between us now but that space is nothing, erased by the light falling just so, bridged by half a melody.
Whatever happened happened – I see no need for blame, feel no cause for shame. We were imperfect but for a moment at least we wore the raiment of angels. When you kissed me I was king – and when I adored you, what a star you were.
Yet with all this distance, all our closeness turned to silence, all our knowing just guessing … I can still feel what it was that made it shine. It was always more than just the turn of your head or the miracle of your favour. It was a promise momentarily believed. It was a kind of finding.
And if this is a kind of loss – darling, it's still sweet. For in the illogical maze of my thinking you are still dancing in front of me, your eyes are still the brightest lights I've seen.
I might still hold a candle for you – but by its softening light I now walk forward.


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VLF Band antenna offers high sensitivity and narrow bandwidth.
Ideal for long range lightning detection applications at 10 KHz - 30 KHz.
Part Number: 6VLF10K30KBC is a Very Low Frequency antenna for 10 KHz - 30 KHz range, and can be user tuned with external variable capacitor user supplies. .
If you chart plot any distant steady beacon in this band you will see a very sudden sharp drop near sunrise, as the sunlight first hits the ionosphere. This band is less sensitive to ionosphere changes, but it can still be used for various types of research.
Signals at 10 KHz to 30 KHz can circle the globe, and super range cloud-to-ground lightning detection is possible in this range.
Tuning Data: 0.01 uF tunes @ 10 KHz, 5000 pF tunes @ 14 KHz, 1400 pF tunes @ 18 KHz, 1000 pF tunes @ 21 KHz, 400 pF tunes @ 30 KHz.
VLF Band antenna offers high sensitivity and very narrow bandwidth.
Ideal for lightning detection applications at 3 KHz - 17 KHz.
Monster-size 6.75 inch long x 1.02 inch inch diameter ferrite rod core for maximum reception.
Part Number: 6VLF3K17KBC is a Very Low Frequency antenna for 3 KHz - 17 KHz range, and can be user tuned with external variable capacitor user supplies.
Signals at 9 KHz to 17 KHz can circle the globe, and super range cloud-to-ground lightning detection is possible in this range.
Directional to help reduce interference.
Part Number: 6VLF2K7KBC is a Very Low Frequency antenna for 2 KHz - 7 KHz range, and can be user tuned with external variable capacitor user supplies.
Lightning Detection: Using the antennas for lightning detection and geophysical research.
The antennas detect the magnetic field part of the radio wave for lightning detection so no other wire antenna is needed. The antennas are directional (bi-directional) so aim antenna for best reception.
Lightning Detection Band A is useful 24 hours a day. Global range possible. Lightning's power output is centered in this band allowing easy detection.
Lightning Detection Band B is useful 24 hours a day. Extreme range possible. High lightning power in this band.
Lightning Detection Band C is useful 24 hours a day. Long range possible. Range increases greatly at night.
Lightning Detection Band D opens at night for very long range detections. Only short range in daytime.
Lightning Detection Band E opens at night for very long range detections. Only short range in daytime. May have power line harmonic hum interference in this band.
Lightning Detection Band F is useful only for detecting local cloud to ground strikes. May have power line hum noise in this band.
Lightning Detection 'A' band properties: The 'A' band at 10 KHz to 15 KHz allows global cloud to ground lightning strikes to be monitored. Propagation is strong day and night for easy very long distance reception. Signals at 10 - 15 KHz can at times circle the globe, coming back to the point of origin as an "echo". No man-made transmissions in this band in the USA. Constant crackling of global lightning static can be heard in this band.
Lightning Detection 'B' band properties: The 'B' band at 7 KHz to 10 KHz allows global cloud to ground lightning strikes to be monitored. The range is greater toward the top end (10 KHz) of the band. Lower range toward the bottom. Slightly better range at night time. No man made signals in this band. Constant crackling of static can be heard in this band. No man made signals in this band.
Lightning Detection 'C' band properties: The 'C' band at 5 KHz to 7 KHz allows hemispheric lightning ground strikes to be monitored. The range is greater at night time than daytime. Static crackling is constantly heard in this band, and it increases greatly at night time as the band opens due to dissipating ionospheric "D" layer for very long range reception. No man made signals in this band.
Lightning Detection 'D' band properties: The 'D' band at 3 KHz to 5 KHz allows hemispheric lightning ground strikes to be monitored at only night time. Range is markedly shorter during the day time, less than 75 miles. Very long range after local midnight when ionosphere "D" layer is faded. The larger strikes are heard here. Natural radio wave emissions and Whistlers (an ionospheric dispersion effect, which causes a very distant lightning strike to sound like a sliding whistle tone instead of the usual static sound) are heard in this band. Whistlers are centered around 3 KHz, but also can be lower or higher in frequency. Geomagnetic storms can cause natural radio wave emissions in this band and in bands lower in frequency. No man made signals in this band.
Lightning Detection 'E' band properties: The 'E' band at 2 KHz to 3 KHz allows long distance lightning ground strikes to be monitored at night time, especially after midnight. Range up to 300 miles night time. Only the larger strikes are detected here. Range is markedly shorter during the daytime, less than 50 miles. No man made signals in this band, except for power line hum harmonics.
Lightning Detection 'F' band properties: The 'F' band at 1 KHz to 2 KHz allows local lightning ground strikes to be monitored as well as signals from geomagnetic storms. Range (for lightning detection) is markedly shorter during the day time, less than 30 miles. The band opens after midnight local time for range up to 300 miles (above 1.7 KHz) for the stronger cloud-to-ground strikes. Whistlers and geomagnetic storm noise (dawn chorus and hiss noise) is heard in the lower half of this band. The Earth - Ionosphere waveguide effect does not support electromagnetic waves of a frequency lower than approximately 1.7 KHz. Range of less than 30 miles will be obtained below this frequency. A sharp contrast (at night) can be heard in the static level at 2 KHz and the static level below 1.5 KHz due to this effect. No man made signals in this band except for powerline harmonic hum. Whistlers extend down to this band. Dawn chorus (a natural radio wave emission that occurs just after dawn, especially during geomagnetic storms) is heard in this band. Dawn chorus range is from 700 Hz to 1.4 KHz.
Lightning Detection 'G' band properties: The 'G' band at 500 Hz to 1 KHz allows local lightning ground strikes to be monitored. Range is less than 30 miles. Whistlers extend down to this band, becoming drawn out and slow sounding. Dawn chorus extends down to 700 Hz and up to 1400 Hz this band. Hiss can be heard in this band. Propagation mode is solely through the ground, water, or along earth's magnetic field lines for non-lightning signals originating more than 30 miles away.
Other bands can be used for lightning detection. These bands may have broadcasts or communications and are not used exclusive for lightning detection. Rotate the antenna to completely null any station.
38 KHz - 56 KHz This band allows good long range detection day or night. Better range at night. Time signal beacons and utility stations may be in this band. Powerful static from storms up to 300 miles away.
59 KHz - 61 KHz This band allows good long range detection day or night. Much better range at night. Time signal beacons and utility stations may be in this band. WWVB at 60 KHz heard in this band, aim end of antenna toward this station (located in Colorado, USA), to null it out completely for reception. Powerful lightning static in this band from storms up to 300 miles away.
90 KHz - 110 KHz This band allows good reception of lightning static, storms emit a very high amount of power in this range. The LORAN-C navigation system has been dismantled leaving this range generally clear. Other stations may exist in this range. Rotate antenna to null out completely. Range better at night than in day.


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By relievedbutashamed
Today, I left a coffee shop abruptly to go to my car to let out some really bad and loud gas. My window was partly open because it's broken. A stranger was walking on the sidewalk in front of me. He looked terrified. FML
Late term
And today, on Dr Phil…
By youonlyneed2squares
Today, as I was lying in my bed eating my dinner, my roommate says to me: "I don't know how to say this, but we need more towels. The room is flooding." FML
By drive thru madness - United States - Amherst
Today, I was working the drive-thru. Everything was going fine until I handed a customer her order and said, "Happy Holidays". Before she drove off, she yelled, "it's Merry Christmas, bitch" and threw her coffee at the window. I'm Jewish and was trying to be polite. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Iowa City
Today, in the middle of sex with my boyfriend, my visiting brother knocked on the door saying he'd want to hear the details later. My boyfriend said, "Sure", and kept going. FML
By Anonymous - Australia - Picton
Today, my boyfriend and I were play-fighting. I managed to pin him down and win. He saw my grin, snorted, and bitterly said I'd only won because "let's face it, you're a bit of a porker, eh babe?" FML
By Anonymous - Reserved
Today, I was in an elevator with my girlfriend when it suddenly stopped. Thinking of being spontaneous like in all the movies, I propped her up on the railings and started getting passionate. That's when the emergency phone rang. And I discovered there was a security camera. FML
By whoreticulturalist - United Kingdom - Plymouth
Today, I decided to watch some porn to cheer myself up after having recently been dumped. Halfway through wanking the gibbon, I got a horrifyingly painful cramp in my foot, and cried out in pain. Ten seconds later, with my pants still down, my dad rushed in to see if I was okay. FML
Today, my dad has discovered selfies and my mom has discovered taking pictures of food. Now I'm at a restaurant, suffering through it all and not being able to eat anything until my mom has taken pictures of it. FML
Sex Ed has failed a lot of people
Today, a senior girl in my college-level biology course asked our professor what periods are like when you're pregnant. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Macomb
Today, I had to quickly back out of a Skype call between me and three coworkers because my fiancée came home from work in tears. When things had calmed down, I re-entered the call to find them unaware I had returned, saying how glad they were I had left because they all secretly despise me. FML
Mystery message service
Today, my two year-old opened one of my boyfriend's Snapchat messages. It was from a girl I've never heard of with, whom he has a 700+ day streak and is one of his top friends. The message said, "I wish?" FML
Today, I was on Craigslist looking for a new guitar. I found the diamond earrings and necklace set I gave to my girlfriend last year. She wants 50 bucks for them. FML
By Bro
Today, I found out that my wife of five years is also my half-sister. She has no idea, I don't know how to tell her, and I've never been more turned on. FML
By Jasmine - United States - Sacramento
Today, while talking to my boyfriend, I noticed he looked uncomfortable. When I asked what was wrong, he asked when the last time I shaved was. I answered, "I shaved my legs this morning." He shook his head and said, "No, I meant your face." FML
Today, my girlfriend and I enjoyed a lovely shower together. It was indeed lovely until her father came into the washroom to say "Welcome to the family!" whilst taking a giant shit. FML
By Ca13b - United States
Today, my brother put pepper spray on my toilet paper. FML
By Chessmomma3
Today, my 18-month-old found our "naughty drawer." I found her carrying a "toy" all over the house. FML
By psychedout - United States
Today, a patient was late for a psychiatry appointment, after having missed his previous two. I am the medical student on the team that was supposed to do his assessment. I said, "You snooze, you lose." Everyone stopped and looked at me. Apparently, he missed them because he has narcolepsy. FML
By Kohsukeff - 7/12/2020 08:02 - United States - Gig Harbor
My life is average
Today, as a single, 24-year old college graduate working temp jobs outside his field, the only thing I look forward to in my day is what I get to eat for dinner. FML
By duckthehack - Poland
Today, my 14 year old son got suspended and I had to pay for the damage after he sprayed "FUCK THE POLICE" on the back wall of his school. I'm a policeman. FML
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Today, I was really upset after work, and tearily asked my boyfriend to bring something over to cheer me up when he visited later. An hour or so later he arrived, having bought me a brand new large purple dildo to "brighten my mood". FML
By jrad - United States
Today, I went to move my dog that had been napping in the middle of my bed for the last few hours, only to discover that he wasn't napping. He died. FML
By Workplace woes - United States - San Francisco
Today, my coworker showed me photos of her anal fissures. I'm not a doctor. FML
By SadMom
Today, I was told by a family member that if we come over on Christmas and my small children get upset or throw a fit, we will be asked to leave. I can't guarantee that my 2-year-old and 3-year-old won't have any meltdowns, so I guess we won't be spending Christmas with the rest of the family. FML
By SadManKillMeNow
Today, after deactivating my Facebook page 4 days ago for stalking reasons - as in me stalking my ex - I reactivated it for approximately 3 minutes to see what his status update was, then deactivated it again. I'm just THAT pathetic. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Oakland
Today, I had my driver's test in rural Maine. I hit a cow. FML
By AdriBAMF - United States
Today, I got asked to Homecoming by the person I really like. I said yes and I was really excited. But my best friend who has liked me since the 6th grade wasn't. He went and broke my date's jaw. FML
By Anonymous - United Kingdom
Today, while using a portable restroom at the park, I discovered all too late that some very hostile and territorial hornets had made it their home. FML
By hellnooo - United States
Today, I found out that I puke and then pass out at the sight of blood. I am a 16 year old girl expecting hundreds of periods to come. FML
By Dom
Today, I proposed to the girl I have known for a while, since our Dads have worked together for 40 years. After I rang my Dad to tell him the good news, he told me that there was a position open at work, which had belonged to her Dad. My Dad had to fire him. FML
By babs - United States
Today, I was in the doctor's office waiting for my husband to arrive, when a little old lady sat beside me. She seemed nice, until she started farting and blaming it on me. They weren't silent; they sounded like trucker farts and smelled like death. I was there for over an hour. FML
By Annie - United Kingdom - London
Today, I was lying on a couch, reading, when I noticed a spindly leg poking round the corner of my book. Upon realising it was a spider, I calmly and rationally threw my book across the room, breaking the TV. FML
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Today, at my job, I was so tired and aggravated that I accidentally mumbled, "I need a drink." One of the patients I was taking care of heard me and said, "Me too." I work at an addiction rehab facility. FML
Today, one of my idiot co-workers thought it'd be hilarious to "fix" my car while I was working. Now every time I step on the brake pedal, the horn goes off. FML
By anon - Australia - Salisbury
Today, my daughter asked me if we could adopt a child. I said no, since we can't afford to support another child. She then asked me if she could just adopt another dad instead. FML
Today, my sister gave me a early Christmas present. It's lice. FML
By smellay - 14/4/2020 23:00
Close quarters
Today, I had to shit really bad while I was in bed with my girlfriend. Luckily she was sleeping. I didn't want to be obvious, so I closed all the doors, crept into the bathroom and sat on the toilet. I accidentally let out the loudest fart. I got a text saying, "Walls are thin, you good?" FML
By hated - United States
Today, I realized that my dad is more comfortable talking to the dog than sitting in the same room as me. FML
By bowhuntpa - United States
Today, I finished my project two weeks early. Now I am being laid off because there is no work to do. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Warren
Today, while having a bad dream, I went to punch a bully in the face. Mid-swing I wake up and punch the solid concrete wall to my basement bedroom FML
By Anonymous - United States - Boaz
Today, my dad met my boyfriend. It took less than 10 seconds for him to accuse my boyfriend of being a "queer" because his handshake was "too limp". FML
By bloopaloop | 27
#7772618 - Friday 22 February 2019 21:58
That's way too much effort for a fart. We all fart and we all know it. Just step outside, rip it, and go back in. Making the effort to not do it in the room suffices
Most people fear car bombs!
By jbuckets_404 | 38
Oh, you have one of those organically-sourced car alarms, too?
By GamerChickxoxo | 16
Why would you go to your car to fart ? why not just fart outside,insted of gas chambering yourself in your car.My coworkers like to walk past busy parts of the building snickering as they fart and yell "drive buy" as everyone else suffers.i work with a bunch of old ladies tho.
By davidfong | 14
#7772657 - Saturday 23 February 2019 1:36
I guess he's never herd or smelled a women fart before
By alycion | 38
#7772746 - Saturday 23 February 2019 10:11
I had a neighbor rip one so loud when I was walking my dog that they scared him and he started barking at them. Perhaps you are related.
By protoskore | 26
why not do it in the open air?
By chris_lillo | 15
#7773448 - Monday 25 February 2019 1:08
This is an FML for that guy, not you
By zuckerburg | 21
#7773643 - Monday 25 February 2019 12:03
yea, who need a bathroom, right. car-farting is where it's at! and who knows, maybe OP follows up with another FML about how the people she was with needed a ride back.... lol....

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A great core stability exercise. A great shoulder stability exercise. Another way to use the TRX. Play around with your foot position to increase or decrease the difficulty of the exercise. Feet being back and narrower will increase the difficulty. Feet being further out and wider will decrease the difficulty. In the following video, you'll see me adjusting my position to find the right level of difficulty.


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Justin Johnson: An American Master
A true master's musicianship holds true to influences, yet follows spirit and heart first, setting aside rules and forging new and inspired art. Maybelle Carter did this, as did Django Reinhardt, Hank Williams, and Jimmie Rodgers. But in our modern world, profound musical originality is rare, and fewer still hold strong to tradition, while moving on to create distinctive new music. If, in this marketed world of overstimulation and oversaturation, you are seeking an artist with distinguishing musicianship and artistry, I recommend you listen to: Justin Johnson.
When I first heard Justin, I was amazed. His technique is studied and focused, but still achieves previously unaccomplished inimitable ingenuity. He does this through a lately unstudied and somewhat forgotten method: honesty. Even though it may seem a familiar pathway, listen carefully…the music of Justin Johnson sets new destinations. You may hear the guitar style here of the old masters, the sounds of a wailing blues guitar, the tones of an ancient arch-top Gibson, the perfect sounds coming from a rare mandolin made in the early 1920's, but there is more: and Justin will take you there.
I am blessed to have discovered Justin Johnson and ask that you join me, take in the music, take in the very soul of America… It is all here, and it comes from the only honest place it could: the heart.
-John Carter Cash, Producer
Justin Johnson brings to life old favorites as well as new material, with a twist all his own. Paying homage to the old, with the flair of the stars!!
His music is timeless, yet fresh, with tastes of blues, folk, country, and rock. There is absolutely something for everyone on If Walls Could Talk.
-Chuck Turner, Producer
Tennessee Turkey (and a Carolina Chick)
Wayfaring Stranger
Snowy Morning Coming Down
Wood & Weed
Thistletop Dirge
Cutting The Body Loose
When That Full Moon Rises


A state health policy that made getting a delayed birth certificate easier for American Indians now is law. Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill Monday sought by Arizona tribes to reduce the number of documents needed to obtain a birth certificate later in life.
State Rep. Albert Hale has been charged with having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of four months in jail if convicted.
Navajo County Attorney Brad Carlyon said Monday that he will not file a driving under the influence charge against a state representative after a blood test turned up negative for alcohol.
It could be months before a decision is made on whether formal charges are filed against an Arizona lawmaker suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol.
State Rep. Albert Hale was arrested Sunday on one count of driving under the influence. Navajo County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jim Molesa confirmed that Hale, D-St. Michaels, was arrested by the state Department of Public Safety on Sunday. Authorities said Hale was picked up on State Route 277 near Heber.


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Gov. Pritzker says Illinois moving rapidly towards Bridge Phase of reopening, possibly within days
by Sam Borcia March 22, 2021 September 13, 2021
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at a press conference Monday in Cook County regarding COVID-19 vaccinations. | Provided Photo.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said on Monday that Illinois is rapidly moving towards moving to the "Bridge Phase" of reopening, which will allow for expanded capacity at businesses and venues.
Pritzker appeared in Cook County Monday morning to discuss the opening of a new mass vaccination site in Forest Park.
During the press conference, he said that one in three adult residents in Illinois have already been vaccinated and 65% of seniors who are 65 years old and over have been vaccinated.
"That's amazing progress. And we'll be making even greater strides once we're able to open up vaccine appointments to all adults on April 12," Pritzker said.
On Monday, higher education staff, government workers and members of the news media are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccine in Illinois.
Pritzker announced last Thursday that all Illinois residents will be eligible for the vaccine beginning on April 12 and that the state will fully reopen to Phase 5, which comes after the "Bridge Phase," once 50% of residents are vaccinated.
The governor said that the vaccine eligibility expansion is due to the increasing national vaccine supply and due to the state averaging 100,000 vaccinations a day.
Every health region of the state is in Phase 4 of the five-phase Restore Illinois mitigation plan, with Phase 5 comprising a post-pandemic return to normalcy with 100% capacity limits.
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The "Bridge Phase," which is between Phase 4 and Phase 5, will serve as a transition period with higher capacity limits and increased business operations.
The Bridge Phase consists of the following limits: standing areas for dining capped at 30% indoor and 50% outdoor; health and fitness at 60% capacity and group classes of 50 or fewer indoors; festivals and outdoor spectator events at 30 people per 1,000 square feet; flea and farmers markets capped at 15 people per 1,000 square feet indoor and 30 people per 1,000 square feet outdoor; conferences and conventions capped at the lesser of 1,000 people or 60% capacity; recreation businesses capped at the lesser of 100 people or 50% capacity indoor; social events capped at 250 people indoor and 500 people outdoor.
Offices, personal care businesses, retail and service counter businesses, amusement parks, film production, museums, ticketed and seated spectator events, theaters and performing arts, and zoos will be capped at 60% in the Bridge Phase.
Pritzker said that this will help from a "reckless reopening" happening before the majority of residents have been vaccinated.
All regions of the state will move through the Bridge Phase and ultimately to Phase 5 together. The state's mask mandate will continue in accordance with current CDC guidance, the governor said.
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"COVID-19 has not gone away, but the light we can see at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter and brighter as more people get vaccinated," Pritzker said on Thursday.
"It's time to begin to cautiously move toward normalcy, and it's imperative that we do so in a way that maintains all the progress we've made to date. With projections from the Biden Administration indicating that weekly vaccine deliveries to Illinois will surpass one million doses in April, it is fully in our power to turn the page on this dark and devastating chapter even as we race a tough clock: the new variants," he said.
"We want and need to move forward, but we must be measured and cautious in the approach," Illinois Department of Public Health Director Ngozi Ezike said.
"Rather than flipping a switch and saying we're now in Phase 5, we're looking at it more like a dial – dialing back some of the capacity restrictions that helped reduce transmission, and ultimately the number of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. We don't want to move too quickly and risk a significant reversal of our progress," she added.
The bridge to Phase 5 allows for higher capacity limits at places like museums, zoos and spectator events as well as increased business operations.
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To advance into the Bridge Phase, the entire state must reach a 70% first dose vaccination rate for residents 65 and over, maintain a 20% or lower ICU bed availability rate and hold steady on COVID-19 hospital admissions, mortality rate and case rate over a 28-day monitoring period.
To advance to Phase 5, the state must reach a 50% vaccination rate for residents ages 16 and over and meet the same metrics and rates required to enter the transition phase over an additional 28-day period.
Illinois will revert back to an earlier phase if the state experiences an increasing trend in COVID-19 hospital admissions, a decrease in ICU bed availability, an increase in the mortality rate, and an increasing case rate, over the course of a 10-day period.
Individuals with proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test (PCR) one to three days prior to an event or outing do not count against capacity limits in the current and upcoming phases, Pritzker said in an update.
The state has administered over 4.7 million doses since December and is now averaging 100,000 vaccinations a day.
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June 17, 2010 | Artists, Collection & Exhibitions
The Imaginative Universe of Lee Bontecou's Sculpture
Posted by Veronica Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting of Sculpture
Installation view of the exhibition Lee Bontecou: All Freedom in Every Sense, on view at The Museum of Modern Art through August 30, 2010. Photo: Thomas Griesel.
Slowly whirling in space at the center of Lee Bontecou: All Freedom In Every Space, now on view on the fourth floor of the Museum, is a suspended sculpture that the artist created over an eighteen-year period from 1980 to 1998. In this remarkable galaxy of forms, the catalyst for the current exhibition, many of Bontecou's greatest interests converge—in particular, her longstanding fascinations with outer space, flight, and the natural world.
Sputnik 1.
At the center of this work is a dark blue porcelain orb that resembles a blowfish, octopus, or other primitive sea creature, but also an artificial satellite. On October 4, 1957, while Bontecou was a Fulbright fellow in Rome, the Russians launched Sputnik into outer space. The first artificial satellite to successfully orbit the earth, Sputnik ushered in the Space Age and captivated Bontecou (and millions of others) in the process. But while allusions to outer space abound in this airy, galactic sculpture, it seems to suggest the ocean as much as it does the sky and the diminutive forms of insects as much as the unfathomable vastness of the cosmos. Translucent wire mesh throughout the work shimmers like the wings of a dragonfly, and the piano wire that holds the network of shapes in place is as delicate as insect appendages, or even a spider web.
Lee Bontecou. Untitled (detail). 1980–98. Welded steel, porcelain, wire mesh, canvas, wire, and grommets. The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of Philip Johnson (by exchange) and the Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest Fund. © 2010 Lee Bontecou. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar.
I recently chatted about this work with Alyson Shotz, a contemporary sculptor who has long admired Bontecou's work. Shotz discovered Bontecou's work one night in college while stalking the shelves at the Rhode Island School of Design library, where she happened upon a small catalogue of Bontecou's work. Here's what she had to say about the suspended sculpture at MoMA: "An ancient and futuristic spaceship, sailing through space on canvas and mesh sails, it seems to offer a shell to live in, to look out from…an eye onto space itself. This sculpture reminds me of a past that might have happened a long time ago and a future I hope to have."
When this work was installed in Bontecou's 2004 retrospective at MoMA in our former outpost in Queens, the sculpture was hung high. For this show, I wanted to hang it so that the center of the work would be roughly at eye level, to give visitors the opportunity to appreciate its incredible intricacy up close. One of the fortuitous results of hanging the sculpture lower is that this required a platform on the floor to keep people at a safe distance from the work. Usually platforms are things we reluctantly include in shows and mentally try to imagine away, but in this case, it's been something to marvel at—the shadows cast by the sculpture dance on the platform almost as if it were a stage, and this effect is just one more layer to the wonderfully imaginative universe Bontecou creates with her art. Thankfully when I took Lee through the installation she immediately commented on how much she liked them.
Watching and hearing people react to this sculpture has been one of the great pleasures of organizing this show. People can't seem to resist taking pictures of it, and when I give gallery talks on the exhibition, invariably someone asks if it will be put on view at the Museum permanently. What a compliment to Bontecou and this stunning work that I keep getting asked this question!
Tags: Alyson Shotz, Lee Bontecou, Modern Women, Sputnik
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Apparently party affiliation, race and self-perception play a greater role than one's actual economic condition. The Pew Research Center, the organization conducting the poll, writes that one arrives at this belief, " . . . whether grounded in objective facts or not. . . . Analysis of polling data over the years," writes Pew, "also strongly suggests that the growing perception of societal divide is driven as much by political factors as by economic ones."
Take a look at the lot of the "have-nots." By virtually any criterion, Americans, even poor ones, live considerably better lives than they did even a decade or two ago. In 1995, 66 percent of poor households had air conditioning. Just 10 years later, in 2005, 80 percent of the poor had air conditioning at home. In 1995, 70 percent of poor households owned a car, and 27 percent owned two or more cars. By 2005, almost 75 percent owned cars, and 31 percent owned two or more. About 25 percent of the poor owned an automatic dishwasher in 1995. In 2005, more than 33 percent have a dishwasher. Microwave ownership jumped from 64 percent in 1995 to 89 percent by 2005.
The lowest-income one-fifth of households spend, per person, as much today as the median American household in the early 1970s, after adjusting for inflation. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation writes, "Most of America's 'poor' live in material conditions that would be judged as comfortable or well-off just a few generations ago."
What about the rest of America? According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), from 1991 to 2005, earnings for families with children increased for the poorest 20 percent by 78 percent, after adjusting for inflation. The second 20 percent saw a 23 percent increase. The middle 20 percent had an 18 percent increase, and the 20 percent above them saw a 22 percent increase. The richest 20 percent enjoyed a 54 percent increase, still less than the very poorest 20 percent. The CBO's stats do not include government benefits, pensions and investment income. It focuses solely on wages and salaries, as opposed to total compensation, which also includes things like health care.
Economics professor Steven Landsburg writes, "By the 20th century, per capita real incomes, that is, incomes adjusted for inflation, were growing at 1.5 percent per year, on average, and for the past half century they've been growing at about 2.3 percent. If you're earning a modest middle-class income of $50,000 a year, and if you expect your children, 25 years from now, to occupy that same modest rung on the economic ladder, then with a 2.3 percent growth rate, they'll be earning the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $89,000 a year. Their children, another 25 years down the line, will earn $158,000 a year."
Yet despite this long-term, across-the-board upward economic mobility, the number of Americans who describe themselves as belonging to the "have-nots" has doubled in two decades. What does all this mean? It says that the offensive and divisive claims of an economic "societal divide" work. When Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards speaks of "two Americas," people buy into it.
The drumbeat that "race plays a part of everything in America" doubtlessly affects the vision of blacks. A 1995 poll found blacks earning $50,000 or more were less likely to say "everyone has the power to succeed" in America than low-income whites.
Edwards and his ilk yap about the gap between the rich and the poor. Yes, the rich do get richer. But so do the poor. This is really about envy. A professor who taught business students once told a story something like this. He asked his class which scenario they preferred. In the first option a country, say, Japan, grows at approximately 7 percent a year, with the United States growing at 4 percent. Option two: Japan growing at 3 percent, and the United States growing at 3 percent. Most students preferred option two, even though it meant America grew less rapidly! Students happily accepted being less well off, so long as nobody else out-gained them.
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Government policies like food stamps, AFDC, day care vouchers and health-care programs reward poor behavior. This hurts, not helps, the poor. But as economic demagogues like Edwards demonstrate, terms like "economic divide" and "two Americas" make great sound bites.