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Zagrebs Art Park opens this weekend with concerts and events from 19-21 June 2020.

Zagreb, 18 June 2020 After recently reviving hundreds of meters of walls in Zagrebs Opatovina park by turning them into small works of art with the signatures of several local artists, organisers of Art Park are announcing a new summer season.

The fifth edition of the successful art project returns to Ribnjak Park, which will once again become a unique open-air street art gallery.

Visitors will have the chance to check out Cowboys, guns and feminism by Marin Remi, Carpets for chill by Tihomir Krklec Africa and Red Sonja by Boris Bare from all four corners of the park, as well as the installation Planet or Plastic?, which consists of five sculptures made from donated plastic bags.

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For the fifth year of Art Park, we have artistically selected women and cowboys for you. We have chosen the inimitable Marin Remi as the main set designer, who will arrange the central part of the park, and he is also signing this years label for the Art Park beer, which is being brewed for us again by Pivovara Medvedgrad. The pleasant atmosphere will be created by colourful carpets, which will be originally woven by Tihomir Krklec Afrika with colours, while Red Sonja will rest on the side and make sure that everything goes well. This year we want to deal with ecology and recycling as much as possible, and on this track, in collaboration with sculptor Ivo Gapari, the installation Planet or Plastic? was created, which consists of sculptures made from donated plastic bags that the drugstore chain dm withdrew from sale. Also, recycled materials were used for the construction of this years Art Park, and we want to develop this idea in the future, said Boris Bare, one of the organisers of the Art Park and artistic director of the project.

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The opening weekend at Ribnjak will, in addition to celebrating its birthday, will also mark the entry into the summer part of the year and World Music Day.

On Friday, June 19 from 6 pm, visitors will enjoy a selection of music by Jeff Jarunski and Kuna.

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On June 20, starting at 8.30 pm, Ljetno kino will perform at Ribnjak and take everyone present to the sea, and the atmosphere before the concert will be additionally warmed up by Agregat Sun. All those interested, young and old, will be able to attend a free art workshop led by Melita Omeragi OMart.

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Since the number of participants is limited, registration is required via [emailprotected] World Music Day, June 21, is reserved for the young and talented musician, author and street musician Matej Magdi, better known as Matt Shaft. From 7 pm onwards, he will spice up a light Sunday in Art Park on Ribnjak with fine electronic violin sounds.

After the opening weekend, Art Park on Ribnjak will remain open for socialising every day, from noon to 11 pm, until September 6, 2020. Visitors can expect numerous workshops for large and small, music and film evenings and collaborations with Animafest and film Frooom Kids School, Yoga Space morning yoga classes, Green Action activities, table tennis lessons, swing on the Reading Swing, regular and favourite Flea Market and much more for all generations.

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The project is supported by the Tourist Board of the City of Zagreb, the City of Zagreb, and sponsors of the festival such as Pivovara Medvedgrad, Pipi, Badel, Jamnica, JUB boje, Graffitishop.hr, HSM informatika, Acer, dm, Next Bike, Fraktura, Floraart.

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More information is available on the website or the official http://www.artparkzagreb.com FB / IG pages.

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Crookstons Grand Theatre, like many businesses throughout the area, was closed during the COVID-19 pandemic by Executive Order of Governor Tim Walz in March. While Walzs order allowed theaters to begin reopening last week, the Grand Theatre took extra time to order movies and finish some work inside.

Bo Brorby said the staff have been doing a lot of painting, cleaning, and sanitizing the theatre during the closure. Additionally, local artist Trey Everett is creating a new movie-themed mural inside the lobby. Since weve been closed down for the last few months everybody knows weve been selling snacks on the weekend, said Brorby. Inside, weve been doing a lot of remodeling. We basically painted all of side one. We painted all the walls, railings and everything going down and then all the stadium seating walls. We took all the railings off sanded and stained them. Weve got all the carpets and seats shampooed and have been sanitizing them. We got some new light coverings on the sides of the stage. We painted inside side two and the outside of side two painted also. And then weve got a special project going on in the lobby with a mural going up on the wall.

The Grand will reopen Friday afternoon with showtimes at 1:30 p.m., 1:45 p.m., 4:00 p.m., 4:15 p.m., 7:00 p.m., and 7:15 p.m. Were going to be bringing in older movies for the first month or so were open, said Brorby. Were picking a bunch of great older movies that everyone seems to enjoy, fun movies to see in the theatre. Were starting with showing the Secret Life of Pets and Shrek during the day. And then, at night for the 7 p.m. shows were showing the original Fast & Furious, and Smokey and the Bandit. Each week were going to be bringing in a variety of movies. Were going to be charging $3 (for tickets) until we start bringing in new movies. Thats hopefully looking like the middle of July new movies will start coming out.

Theatre capacity is currently limited to 25 percent, which Brorby said is about 60 moviegoers for side one and 20 for side two. Coming in were going to make sure our lobby doesnt get too many people in it, so well keep the crowd low in the lobby, said Brorby. Theatres have to run at 25 percent capacity starting off here, so well be closing off every other row so no one will be in front or behind you. Then, youll sit with your group and have 2-3 seats in-between (groups). Side one we can only have about 60 people, side two we can only have about 20 people in. Were hoping well be in high demand and be pretty busy. Everybody seems pretty excited.

Brorby added that the blocked off rows would be rotated between shows as an extra precaution. After the show, well clean off seats and rotate the rows, said Brorby. So, when people sat in those rows, well block those off for the next show. We installed hand sanitizer right where you walk in, weve got a bottle by the counter, and another one in the lobby. So, we have hand sanitizer all over the place, so well be keeping up with all the guidelines the governments issued.

The Grand Theatre is planning to offer a mix of kids movies and cartoons during the day with action movies, dramas or comedies at night until new movies start to become available. The Grand Theatre will also provide private showings for people. To inquire about a private showing reach out to The Grand Theatre on Facebook or call 281-1820.

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(TNS) - When the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Phoenix, it felt like a call to duty for nurse Karen Garcia.

"I've never felt more needed at my job than right now," she said.

She works 12-hour shifts at Valleywise Health Medical Center tending to the gravely ill, dozens of whom she has watched die, all the while knowing that her mask, gown, gloves and face shield are no guarantee that she won't become infected and take the virus home to her family.But her biggest fear hasn't been the virus.It was the U.S. Supreme Court.

Garcia, 30, is among roughly 700,000 so-called Dreamers who came to the United States as children, grew up without legal status and were allowed to stay under the Obama-era policy of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, better known as DACA.

Their fate came to rest with the court, which Thursday rejected the Trump administration's plan to repeal the protections, saying it did not provide adequate justification.

"The uncertainty, the waiting, it's been difficult," Garcia said. "I'm just relieved the waiting is over and I can focus on my work."

In one powerful sense, the coronavirus pandemic had come to illuminate what immigrant rights activists and much of the public have regarded as the injustice of trying to end protections for DACA recipients.At least 27,000 DACA recipients, like Garcia, work in healthcare, and many have spent the past few months attending to patients with COVID-19, which has killed more than 118,000 people nationwide.A majority of those medical workers live in Arizona, California or Texas three states where the rate of new infections is accelerating.

"They are our frontline workers helping aid those who are most ill," said Ricardo Zamudio Guillen, organizing director for LUCHA, an Arizona-based immigrant rights group. "They're protecting us."Blanca Sierra-Reyes, a 27-year-old Dreamer and social worker at a Scottsdale, Ariz., hospital, said the Supreme Court ruling provided some respite during an exhausting time.

For weeks, she has had to call families whose loved ones are alone in the emergency room battling the virus. She has listened to their cries and tried to console them.

She also has spent time thinking about her own future.

"The ruling is a win," she said. "This gives Dreamers relief and the ability to continue living without fear."

For Garcia, the ruling felt like an acknowledgement that Arizona is her truest home.She was 4 when her family moved from Mexico City. Her parents were always upfront with her about her immigration status, but that didn't change the fact that all her memories were formed here."This is home," she said. "Right here in America."

As a little girl, while her father installed carpets and her mother worked as a hotel housekeeper, Garcia became fascinated with medicine and decided she wanted to become a nurse.That dream became more pressing when, during an emergency room visit, she watched a nurse struggle to speak Spanish with her mother. Garcia wanted to better serve her community.

After graduating high school, she worked for several years as a waitress at a small family-owned restaurant and began saving up for college.

She soon met her husband and at 22 the same year they had their first child, Donovan she received DACA protections.

For the first time she felt deeply optimistic about her future in the United States. The couple had a daughter, Natalia, and in 2017, Garcia began pursuing a nursing degree at Arizona State.She left the program a year later after a state Supreme Court ruling ended in-state tuition rates for DACA students.

"That hurt a lot," Garcia recalled of the state ruling. "I saw it as an attempt to derail my dreams."But she bounced back and managed to get her degree at Gateway Community College. Most of the patients at Valleywise Health are Latino.

"Every day is an honor to work and serve my community," Garcia said. "As a nurse, I can help make a difference every day. That's meaningful to me."

This year, she ran for chair of the Phoenix chapter of the National Assn. of Hispanic Nurses and won.In February, coronavirus began to spread throughout the country and before long emergency room beds began to fill up. Her hospital took steps to prepare for a surge, and eventually it came.

"Everyone is working around the clock," she said. "We're trying to save lives. That's my job helping to save lives. I've tried not to think about my immigration status while working, but it's always there in the back of my mind."

Garcia would spend the downtime trying to quiet the nagging fears that her career, her friendships and her whole life could, at a moment, turn upside down. Sometimes, she would look at her sick, coughing patients and wonder if they were in the same stressful situation.

The Supreme Court ruling does not guarantee DACA will be around forever, but it almost certainly means the Trump administration cannot end the policy before the November election.

Garcia said she sees the ruling as an opportunity to help promote more DACA nurses in the city and across Arizona, which is estimated to need an additional 1,200 nurses by 2030."We can help fill that void," she said.

In the hours after ruling was announced, Garcia texted other nurses and members of local immigrant rights groups. It was her day off and a moment to celebrate.

But she also kept an eye on the local news, watching as confirmed cases of the virus ticked up in Arizona faster than in any other state in the nation. Some local area restaurants that had reopened last month were closing again.

Arizona has recorded 41,159 coronavirus cases and 1,252 deaths, with Phoenix and surrounding Maricopa County among the hardest hit.Another wave, she thought, was about to begin.Lee reported from Phoenix and Martnez from Los Angeles.2020 the Los Angeles TimesVisit the Los Angeles Times at http://www.latimes.com

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Museum closures have had one fringe benefit: the plethora of virtual tours, podcasts, and live lectures that have sprung up in art institutions around the world.

In our own backyard for example, Santa Monicas ROSEGALLERY is currently featuring a thought-provoking online exhibition called This Seems A Home.

Where does it come from, this longing for home? were invited to consider.

As we all sit inside our respective spaces, waiting for this plague to pass, the question of home is both as apparent and as vague as ever. Even in our realms of usual comfort, an abundance of stagnant time can summon unease.

The online space is presented as chapters (three as of this writing) in a book. Song lyrics, poems, prose extracts, and artists commentary augment the experience.

Chapter 1 features Window Series, a collection of digital collages from the Mexico City-based young architecture office PALMA. The goal is to explore contrast in materiality in an abstract manner using texture. At first glance, I thought, Right, and the result is Edward Hopper, stripped of humanity and heartbeat.

But wait! Upon closer inspection of one collage, I saw that on the roof of a blocky skyscraper, more or less identical to its neighbor, was a tiny figure, lounging in a round blue blowup pool.

Nearby, a blue towel was laid out for sunbathing. And the seemingly cookie-cutter roof was in fact surrounded by a white chain-link fence: a soulless fence to be sure but still a fence, clearly installed for the purpose of creating a safe, private space for the stray, questing human brave enough to find his or her way to the top of this particular world.

Similarly, lookalike tiers of windows in an apartment complex, when examined individually, were subtly different. Some sported window boxes, others curtains. In one room, a woman in orange pajamas stretched. Behind another, a man in shadow washed dishes before a sink.

Many of the collages featured a woman in bare legs, sandals, and a white shin-length garment that could have been a psych-ward bathrobe, a nuns night tunic, or post-pool wear. Was she a convalescent, or a mystic?

The cultural and aesthetic homogeneity depicted in PALMAS Window Series initially seems claustrophobic. But these young architects show us that life pushes inexorably through concrete, steel, and plastic: interposing itself; needing to eat, wash, ponder, exercise, and sleep; insisting, forever, upon color.

Todd Hido, Chapter 2s artist, is a San Francisco Bay-area photographer whose lens seems to hover between 2020 and oh, say, 1840. His work graces both the lock and home screens on my phone: a vaguely sepia-toned print of a tall waving tree; the shore of a preternaturally blue lake, ringed with blurred pines.

Humans hover, if at all, far beyond, above or behind his frames. We enter a realm that is in the world, but not of it.

Hidos photos here are all of homes, many of which seem to have been given a wash of acid, rust or dried blood. These are the places many of us left behind when we moved to LA from New Hampshire, or Kansas, or East Texas: flimsy walls, jerry-built roofs, shag carpet.

In one boxy dwelling, perched uncomfortably close to the adjacent graffitied yellow crosswalk, the light from a lower window is at once a benediction, a silent scream, and a plea. Is the person inside reading? Sleeping? Cleaning his or her gun?

Yet Hidos work is never mean, never quite without hope. Always, a strip of mangy grass or a spindly Home Depot tree speaks of our longing for nature. Always, light filters through a pair of flammable drapes, or glows from a lone streetlight, or beams through a jaunty sliver of window visible from the street.

His photos manage to be beautiful, in that way that comes from the courage to look at the human condition head-on, coupled with love.

Kovi Konowiecki, a young photographer, is based in Long Beach. Two of the strongest images here are from The Hawks Come Up Before the Sun, a series exploring the lives of people of Riverside County, especially in small communities tucked behind the Morongo Reservation.

This harsh, aching landscape gives no quarter. Meadows is not a place youd want to find yourself in after dark. Split Trailer, its backdrop the setting sun, inevitably evokes A house divided against itself cannot stand.

But let the last word go to Boy, Fence, 2019, from Konowieckis Cherry Ave series. Cherry Avenue is an important thoroughfare in the Long Beach neighborhood where the photographer grew up, and the image brings the sorrow and shame of racial injustice home in a way that no mere headline, video feed, and op-ed could.

Its the clear light of day, noon maybe. A young African American boy, blurred shade tree in the background, rests his chin on his hands and leans over a white-slatted fence. Sturdy, shirtless, shining, he gazes somberly into the middle distance as if gauging his chances, weighing his risks, daring to hope for a future for which we seem not to have quite yet mustered the collective imagination.

A child, given into our collective care. A human being, of infinite gravity and infinite worth, to whom we are all answerable.

May the world ever more belong, and seem a home, to such as these.

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Global Dry construction Market was valued US$ 66.80 Bn in 2017 and is expected to reach US$ 101.09 Bn by 2026, at a CAGR of 5.30 % during a forecast period.

Dry construction systems offer various benefits over wet construction practices such as ease of installation, decrease in construction time, better thermal and sound insulation, humidity resistance, and fire safety. Dry construction uses panels or boards fitted on metal structures to build walls includes interior and exterior segment, ceilings, windows, and other systems.

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Governments in many countries are focusing on various initiatives for supporting the dry construction performs. The growing awareness of global warming and rising environmental concerns are booming the growth of the dry construction market. Consumers are opting eco-friendly techniques of construction, which is foremost to the improved use of dry construction materials. The growth of the dry construction market is directly associated with the growth of the construction industry. Furthermore, the high cost of dry construction materials and waste generated by the dry construction is producing disposal problems, which is expected to hinder the growth of the market further.

Supporting framework is expected to lead the global dry construction market. It is divided into two categories in the building construction, one is heavy-frame construction and another light-frame construction. Light-frame construction by standardized dimensional timber has become the dominant construction method in North America and Australia owing to the economy of the method. Nominal structural material permits builders to enfold a large area at marginal cost while reaching a wide variety of architectural styles.

Plasterboard is expected to share significant share in the global dry construction market. The growth can be attributed to the increasing demand of plasterboard in the construction application. Plasterboard segment market size was valued US$ 19.0Bn in 2017 and is expected to reach US$ 30.1Bnn by 2026 at a CAGR of 5.9%. Plasterboards are easily installed and help in speeding up the construction process its popularity is increasing across the end-users.

The residential building construction is the main end-user of the dry construction market owing to the rising demand for thermal insulation in homes and faster house construction duration. Increasing adoption of lightweight material for the purpose of construction is expected to grow demand for this segment. Dry construction offers dry materials such as metals, plastic, and plywood for the purpose of construction moderately than using a mixture of bricks, concrete or plaster in residential applications.

The Asia Pacific is expected to dominate the dry construction market globally. A shift in the consumers preference towards eco-friendly infrastructure is expected to boom dry construction market. It is majorly required in the high-quality infrastructure. The increasing chemical processing industrial sectors, construction & building sectors in developing economies such as China, India, and Indonesia is expected to propel the market growth during forecast year. Increasing foreign direct investments in emerging economies is also contributing the market growth. Rapid industrialization & urbanization and growing adoption of supportable & lightweight construction practices by the construction industry is booming dry construction market in this region.

Key profiled and analyzed in the global decorative market includes CSR Ltd ,Panel Rey ,USG Boral, Pabco Gypsum ,USG Boral ,Fletcher Building Limited, Saint Gobain ,Armstrong World Industries , Etex Group ,Fletcher building ,The Xella Group, Beijing New Building Materials ,Armstrong World Industries, Inc. ,Promax Group Inc., Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC, Knauf Gips KG, Masterplast Plc. BaoWu, Arcelor Mittal, USG and Nippon.

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Global Dry Construction Market, By Type

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Global Dry Construction Market, By Material

PlasterboardWoodMetalsPlasticGlassCarpet

Global Dry Construction Market, By System

WallCeilingFlooringWindowsPartitionDoor systems

Global Dry Construction Market, By Application

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Key players Operating in Global Dry Construction Market

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The school district recently gave an update on the progress of a number of bond projects. The bond projects are currently around $1.8 million under budget overall, though that amount could change at any time. Here is a summary of those updates:

Stone Creek Elementary: The Stone Creek Elementary construction project is in its final phase before completion, and is anticipated to be ready for school in August. All windows and other glass have been installed in the learning hubs and classrooms. Carpet is being installed in the classroom wings, and cabinets are being installed throughout the building. The entry area/cafeteria/office area is framed, and drywall will be installed soon. The curb is being installed at the driveways. Parking lots will be constructed in early summer. The Informer will have a detailed story about this project coming soon.

Derby Hills Elementary: Phase 1 of this project, the new gymnasium, is almost complete. The interior of the gym is painted and acoustic panels are on the walls. The ceiling grid is in place on the connecting hallway. Phase 2 started earlier than anticipated due to the lack of people in the building because of COVID-19. All the ceilings in the hallways have been removed for mechanical system improvements. Demolition has also started in the existing cafeteria and kitchen area. The existing cafeteria will be converted to the new kitchen, and the existing gymnasium will become the new lunchroom. The existing playground equipment will be relocated in May to a location north of the new gymnasium, and will also include a new Americans with Disabilities Act playground surrounded by artificial turf. The project is anticipated to be completed in August.

Tanglewood Elementary: Work inside Tanglewood Elementary started early because of COVID-19 closing buildings. Demolition in the office area and kitchen has started. Electrical, HVAC and plumbing rough-in is happening inside the building. Drywall work on the first floor has begun, and the second floor will soon follow. Brick and metal wall panels are being installed on the exterior of the building. The work in Tanglewood will be complete in August, and its administrative center will be completed in November.

Derby Middle School: The Derby Middle School bond project involves mechanical system upgrades, new locker rooms, remodeled concession area, and classroom expansions along the north wing. Construction will begin this summer.

Derby High School: The expanded multipurpose/physical education space named the Panther Activity Center now has its steel frame installed. Brick at the base and the metal wall panels are being installed. The office area and a number of classrooms are also being worked on. The library will receive new paint and carpet over the next couple of months. The project is anticipated to be completed in October.

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Clay Lacy Aviation has been keeping busy with 10-year/120-month inspections of Embraer Phenom 100 and 300 twinjets, even adding $1.8 million in Phenom parts inventory to keep pace with the work and ensure on-time aircraft delivery. The company has completed 10Phenom 100/300 120-monthinspectionsat its California Part 145 repair stations at Van Nuys(VNY) and McClellan-Palomar (CRQ) airports, and it hasfive more such inspectionsunderway.

So far, the inspections have yielded additional work such as seat reupholstery, new carpet installation, baggage-area refurbishment, connectivity upgrades to Gogo Avance L3, and, in the Phenom 100, installation of Garmins G1000 NXi integrated flight deck. The Phenom is a tremendous aircraft, and demand for inspection and upgrade services has been very strong, said Clay Lacy Embraer program manager Ned Zolota.

A Phenom 120-month inspection involves removal of the interior and opening of all inspection panels and generally lasts three weeks without landing-gear overhaul. If the landing gear is overhauled, the project typically extends to four or five weeks.

An authorized Embraer service center, Clay Lacy Aviation supports more than 100 Phenom 100s and 300s with more than 20 Phenom-trained technicians between its VNY and CRQ facilities.

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Kelley Engelhart, Director of Nursing, appeared before the Carroll County commissioners at the May 21 meeting to provide an update on the COVID-19 health crisis.

There are 26 confirmed or probable cases in the county. Of those, 22 have recovered and two deaths are associated with the COVID-19 virus. The health department has monitored 138 residents that have been connected to the 26 confirmed or probable cases. The outbreaks in the long-term care facilities have been contained and there has been no new outbreaks.

The health department is getting two to three deliveries of personal protective equipment (PPE) per week from the National Stockpile, and distributing masks to government employees. T

The health department will resume immunizations starting on June 1. Immunizations will be by appointment only and only for children who are five years old or younger with one parent present. Immunizations for children older than five and adolescents will be through a drive through.

In other business:

Approved a special hauling permit to Carroll County Logging for hauling over Avon Road (CR21) and Clover Road (CR70) in Fox Township; a $50,000 bond has been provided.

Approved Resolution No. 2020-27 amending the Carroll County CHIP Program Policy and Procedure Manual effective for the PY 2018 CHIP Program and all further CHIP programs.

Approved a letter stating the Commissioners will utilize the balance of $13,315.00 in HOME Housing Program Income to complete the PY 2020 Community Housing Impact and Preservation (CHIP) Program.

Approved the Ethernet Local Area Network (E-LAN) Schedule Number S-0000239766 to the Frontier Services Agreement between Carroll County Board of Commissioners and Frontier Communications of America.

Approved the Primary Rate Interface (PRI) Schedule Number S-0000239926 to the Frontier Services Agreement between Carroll County Board of Commissioners and Frontier Communications of America.

Approved the 2020 Water Pollution Control Loan Fund Assistance Agreement with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency in the amount of $150,000 for septic repairs, replacements or connections to a centralized sewer system with a project completion date of Nov. 30, 2021.

Accepted the bid from Eick Electric & Lighting from Malvern in the amount of $38,500 and issue a Notice of Award for the PY19 CDBG Friendship Center Generator Installation project as recommended by Susan Moore of Ohio Regional Development Corporation.

Accepted the bid from Country Carpets & Flooring from Minerva in the amount of $26,091.96 and issue a Notice of Award for the PY19 CDBG Friendship Center Flooring Replacement project as recommended by Susan Moore of Ohio Regional Development Corporation.

Accepted the bid from Kienzle Repair Solutions Inc. from Minerva in the amount of $18,650 and issue a Notice of Award for the PY19 CDBG Friendship Center Freezer Installation project as recommended by Susan Moore of Ohio Regional Development Corporation.

Authorized the Board President to sign change order for the PY19 CDBG Friendship Center Convection Oven project to increase the contract price by $182.70.

Hired Hilary White, Jessica Flowers, and Noel Bertini-Baker as Social Services Worker II at a rate of pay of $18.73 beginning June 8, 2020 or later depending on notice requirements.

Accepted the recommendation made by the 9-1-1 Technical Services Advisory Committee and 9-1-1 Planning Committee that the $10,777.76 match for the Text to 9-1-1 Grant be paid from 9-1-1 wireless funds.

Tabled bids for the 2019 Water Pollution Control Loan Fund Project B for further review until Thursday, May 28, 2020.

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Hello, from Week 3,742 of the quarantine! Oh, its been only two months, you say? Well, whats a few thousand weeks when you live in a timeless void. Im Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with the weeks essential culture news and viral Grease lip-syncing.

An installation view of Rachel Hayes Land Lines at Lowell Ryan Projects in Los Angeles.

(Ruben Diaz / Rachel Hayes / Lowell Ryan Projects)

Before we get into the nitty-gritty, how bout a little color and light, courtesy of Rachel Hayes, who recently had an appointment-only installation go on view at Lowell Ryan Projects in West Adams? The artist, who is based in Tulsa, Okla., creates large-scale fabric pieces (these are 13 feet tall) that feature bright geometric patterns. She often uses these in outdoor installations that offer plays on motion and light. In the gallery, the shifts are more subtle, with the movement of a visitor triggering gentle flutterings.

Note that face masks and appointments are required at Lowell Ryan. Hayes Land Lines is on view until June 27.

What will the theater of the future look like? Times theater critic Charles McNulty brought together 25 top minds to ponder that question, including playwrights Lynn Nottage and Luis Alfaro, artistic directors Kristy Edmunds of CAP UCLA and Yuval Sharon of the Industry.

Performers weigh in, too. Patti LuPone says a good start might be taking a hose to the perpetually filthy environments backstage.

I crave theater made out of the rough-hewn stuff of our lives, says Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegra Hudes. A theater of junk and reclaimed nooks. A theater of secrecy and sacredness and participatory respect. A theater where we earn our experience by shedding complacency. A theater that no one in their right mind could label content.

Quiara Alegra Hudes at the Mark Taper Forum in 2018.

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Visiting art galleries in a pandemic is a complicated proposition, so the downtown artist-run space Durden and Ray put art in public places, including a chain-link fence, for a show titled We Are Here / Here We Are. All 97 works around Los Angeles County are viewable from the street or the sidewalk. Its a show, writes Times art critic Christopher Knight, that embraces L.A. sprawl. One of the most appealing features, says Knight, is that the serendipity of art encounters in public places is embedded in ordinary experience ... these works thrive beyond institutions or the marketplace.

Rebecca Niederlanders Central Sensitization in Eagle Rock is part of We Are Here / Here We Are.

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Plus, The Times Jessica Gelt reports that Hector Guimares The Present, produced for small audiences on Zoom by the Geffen Playhouse, has not only turned into a phenomenon it proves that virtual performances featuring socially distant audiences can, in fact, feel communal. As Guimares tells her: If this social distance vanishes for a short time, I will have done my job.

ICYMI, check out Charles McNultys review of the show. The Present, he writes, makes the strange affectionately familiar.

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Since the pandemic began, commercial director AJ Bleyer has been shooting footage of L.A.'s empty streets. Now he has compiled the footage into a short video that serves as an archive of the early days of the pandemic, writes Makeda Easter. It was this really special period of time, he tells her. Traffic really halted and everyone was just kind of staying inside.

At Keck Hospital of USC, doctors, nurses and patients have taken to wearing bright green stickers to note that they have been screened for coronavirus and that they have sanitized their hands. The stickers became the site of an informal art project featuring drawings of ice cream cones and smiley faces. Then, reports The Times Deborah Vankin, some of the stickers got political and what began as an informal art project went haywire.

The nursing staff at Keck Medical Center of USC got creative about the coronavirus screening process, customizing the stickers visitors must wear with original art.

(Ricardo Carrasco III / Keck Medicine of USC)

Vankin also reports on a COVID-19 relief effort by the L.A.-based nonprofit group Red Carpet Advocacy and celebrity photographer Mark Seliger. Seliger has selected 25 limited-edition prints of figures such as Barack Obama, Billie Eilish and Lin-Manuel Miranda that will be auctioned at Christies. Each celebrity has chosen a charity that will receive funds from the sale of each work.

The Segerstrom Center for the Arts remains closed, but its website is a repository of classes for students and the public, including lessons on ballet, storytelling and even how to make your own marionette.

The L.A. City Council has approved a plan to turn arts fees paid by developers into small-dollar grants for artists and arts organizations devastated by the pandemic.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Hisham Matar on works of art a painting by Thomas Gainsborough and photographs by Willi Ruge that capture a moment in which consequences are in question; a moment, in other words, not too dissimilar from where we find ourselves today.

Things that we can only dream about in the U.S.: The United Kingdom has appointed a special Commissioner for Cultural Recovery and Renewal to get the culture sectors back up and running.

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U.S. museums are beginning to reopen. Among the first: the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, where you will have to submit to a temperature check and wear a mask in order to enter the galleries. New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art, however, will not reopen until mid-August or later.

Related: Museums in Italy have also begun to reopen.

The Art Dealers Assn. of America issued a new report projecting a 73% loss in revenue as a result of the pandemic.

For nonprofit arts organizations, coronavirus-related losses could hit $6.8 billion, according to a report issued by SMU DataArts and TRG Arts.

Plus, New Yorks missing sounds.

Matt Cooper has been rounding up the best watches, listens and looks, including a staging of A Streetcar Named Desire featuring Gillian Anderson as Blanche DuBois, a celebration of African dance presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a new website that serves as a chronicle of MOCAs 2011 graffiti and street art show Art in the Streets.

The Cannes Film Festival has been canceled. Thankfully, Times film critic Justin Chang rounds up 28 of the festivals best films to stream right now. Plus, Vulture asks almost two dozen figures from the film world what theyve been watching during the pandemic, and it includes everything from Ingmar Bergman to Notting Hill.

Are you in need of a film that feels like a feverish quarantine dream? I heartily recommend David Lynchs 16-minute short What Did Jack Do? from 2017. The plot: A detective, played by Lynch, questions a capuchin monkey named Jack Cruz about a murder. Its hallucinatory and absurd, with some hilarious plays on the hard-boiled nature of cop-movie dialogue. Also, did I mention that the monkey is in love with a chicken? Its streaming on Netflix.

Jack Cruz is a capuchin monkey in David Lynchs What Did Jack Do?

(Netflix)

Since were talking about movies: Here are 25 very short essays about 25 significant objects featured in film. For the series, Jonathan Lethem writes on the hammer carried by Burt Lancaster in Earth Abides, and Kio Stark considers the candle in the porn classic Debbie Does Dallas. As part of the series, I write about a haunted accordion.

Also, I very much enjoyed this 2019 performance of Stravinskys The Rite of Spring that the L.A. Phil recently put online.

Emma Amos, an artist whose work tackled issues of racism and privilege, and who regarded the use of color as a political statement, has died at 83 in Bedford, N.H.

Susan Rothenberg, a painter whose great 1970s canvases of horses trembled with the presence of the human hand, helping to reintroduce figuration back into the mainstream art world at a time in which it was leaning abstract, has died at 75 in Galisteo, N.M. In a tribute, New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl says her work seethed with motion the isotope that had gone missing from the mandarin styles of the day.

A 1970 Philip Glass score was lost, then found. Now it has been recorded. Long Beach Opera announced its 2021 season, curated by interim artistic advisor Yuval Sharon, who will be directing Comet / Poppea, a new work that brings together aspects of a Monteverdi opera with a sci-fi story by W.E.B. Du Bois. Smash, NBCs show about musicals, has inspired a real-deal Broadway musical. The Jean-Franois Millet painting that miraculously survived San Franciscos great fire in 1906. A video game inspired by Renaissance paintings, in which the aim is to kill a leader named Heavenly Peter. A story about Ray Eames looks at what it meant to be the female half of a famous design duo in the 20th century. Mies van der Rohes Farnsworth House is threatened by Chicago-area floods. How is L.A.'s very limited Slow Streets program which is intended to provide more outdoor area to pedestrians and bike riders going? Alissa Walker and Steve Chiotakis hit ... the streets. Architectural renderings were released of the new Taix restaurant and development in Echo Park, and the internet did its internet thing. Curbeds Jenna Chandler helpfully rounds up the reactions.

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Safety Protocols for Shifting from Office to Home

Although staff no longer must make the commute into the office, safety hazards can and do still exist in the home. Here's your WFH safety checklist.

A substantial share of the US workforce is currently working from home to respect social distancing and to stop the spread of COVID-19. For some organizations, the transition from corporate office to home office has not been overly difficult. For other industries, remote work is accompanied with a large number of challenges, and the transition from office to home has not been as smooth.

As companies continue to navigate and overcome their own individual obstacles, its important that safety is not brushed aside. Although staff no longer must make the commute into the office, safety hazards can and do still exist in the home.

As some states and provinces in North America ease restrictions and begin to re-open, some offices will continue to work from home. Companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google are in no rush to bring their employees back to the physical office. Thus, this article will identify safety protocols to take for employers and employees who employ a remote workforce.

Set Up a Safe and Comfortable Work Environment

Its important to dedicate adequate time and resources to set up a suitable at-home office due to the large amount of time that you will be spending here. Some important aspects to consider are chair and desk design, lighting, privacy and air flow. Investing in an ergonomic chair is a very good idea, specifically one with adjustable backrest, armrest and seat depth.

Conduct Regular At-Home Hazard Assessments

Before settling into your home office, its important to carry out an at-home hazard assessment to identify the safety risks that may be present. There is a broad range of hazards that can exist in the home, including ergonomic, physical, chemical, biological, environmental and electrical hazards.

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