Visit Larry Harrisons home around this time last year, and youd find a peeling, dripping and water-stained ceiling, a tangle of wires sticking out haphazardly from the electrical box, and a front-porch step crumbled to near nothing.

That step, although bolstered with new wood in the time since, still makes for a steep drop-off, giving Harrison trouble each time he heads out his front door.

Its rough getting down there, Harrison admitted.

Harrison, a Navy veteran, contracted polio as an infant, and, later on, lost his knee cap when he was involved in a bad truck wreck. So walkings not always so easy.

But because his washer and dryer are located in a storage shed outside his house, he has to do an awful lot of it lugging heavy baskets of laundry down off that sloping, decaying porch each time he does his wash.

Yeah, it is tirin, Harrison said. Its limited me on climbing and getting up and walking all the time.

But thanks to a series of grants obtained by the Habitat for Humanity of Smith Countys ReHabitat program which provides seniors, veterans, people with disabilities and low-income individuals with critical home repairs that porch will soon be fixed, and the washer and dryer will be relocated inside the 1623 E. Line St. home.

Since last October, the house has made massive progress, already.

My electrical has been redone, Harrison began. They put a new meter box out there and they put all new windows in and new doors. They insulated the ceiling, theyve done some sheet rock in there that fell down. So far, its goin good.

As with most things, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on the service projects offered up through Habitat for Humanity.

The cost of critical repairs has grown as shifts in supply and demand caused the cost of lumber to skyrocket its increased probably 200 percent, Raimund Gideon, director of construction, estimated and lengthened the time it takes to get the job done.

While Gideon expects Harrisons home repairs will be completed sometime before the years end, Harrison hopes they come sooner rather than later.

We just have to get it finished, he said, chuckling.

Harrison inherited the home built in 1935 from his mother, and has lived in it sporadically since the early 60s.

After living in it for that period of time, it was just goin down hill, Harrison said. Its been kind of rough.

In Smith County and beyond, Harrison is far from alone in those experiences.

There is a substantial need, Gideon said. A lot of times, you drive around the neighborhood and you have no idea what the conditions look like inside. The 10 years that Ive been here, we have averaged about 150 critical repairs a year. Its an eye opener.

Some homes dont have exterior doors. Many times, the roofs are failing and water will pour straight through, Gideon said. And with so many needed repairs, health and safety take first priority.

Basically, what I do is a triage of the house, Gideon said. ... Is there leaking water? Are the gas appliances outdated? Is everything functioning properly to where somebody could live safely in the home?

The answer, he said, is often no.

Gideon then works with funding agencies to acquire the grants necessary to ensure those homes are repaired and made safe and livable once again.

Over the course of the past year, Harrison has seen his house transformed with the installation of a heating and cooling system, much-needed foundation and roof repairs, and fresh coats of paint that have rendered his home an unmistakable baby blue.

I think it was really a big mental transformation, Gideon said of Harrisons reaction to the recent updates. Their attitude about themselves and their environment changes dramatically (when their homes are repaired). If you live in a house thats decrepit and in need of repair it leads to a level of depression. When their homes are fixed, they can take pride in them again.

Harrisons begun that part, already, and added that hes very grateful for the help thats allowed him to feel comfortable at home once again.

Its hard to find people who does things like that, Harrison said. People just, I dont know, they seem to not care. So this is well appreciated.

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What does it mean to hold a biennial exhibition in a year like this one?

Beyond the practical limitations, compounded by the fact that many participating artists cant travel to their own shows, any major art event taking place in 2020 necessarily makes a statement about the world we live in. In the case of the 11th Berlin Biennale, the curatorial vision that guided it came to form over the last two years, largely before the pandemic changed everything. So it is especially poignant that the shows central issuespostcolonial struggle, gender-based and race-based injustice, queer-phobia, and the unequal impacts wrought by climate changehave met a world where these very same problems have reached an unbearable climax.

Postponed from June to September, the show, called The Crack Begins Within, welcomed socially-distanced visitors across its four locations last weekend as one of the few international art events to physically open in Europe this year, despite rising infection rates. Curators Mara Berros, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, and Agustn Prez Rubiowho are all based in South Americainvited artists largely hailing from the Global South. The majority are women, many identify as queer, and few have yet to be widely exhibited in Europe.

Curators of the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, f. l. t. r.: Renata Cervetto, Agustin Perez Rubio, Maria Berrios, Lisette Lagnado. Photo: F. Anthea Schaap

It makes us extremely sad that we cannot welcome most of the participants personally at this years biennale because they live in high-risk areas, Berlin Biennales director Gabriela Horn said in a video statement sent to the media in lieu of a press conference on preview day last Friday, September 4.

The artworks on viewand indeed the 76-strong artist listoffers an antidote to the long-dominant white, christian mindset and the patriarchy that enshrines it, by countering what the curators describe in the videotaped statement as patriarchal rampage and colonial capitalism. Set in three main parts against institutions of the church, the museum, and the body politic, the curators find a way of rebelling against each one that is radical overall: through artworks centered on collectivity, solidarity, and compassion.

Zehra Doan, Xzn Diz [The Hidden Drawings] (201820). Installation view (detail), 11th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Courtesy Zehra DoanPhoto: Silke Briel

During their allotted time slots, press streamed through the now extra-spacious halls at two of Berlins major art institutions, the Gropius Bau and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, as well as the daadgalerie. This last chapter of the biennial was preceded by three smaller prelude shows, the first of which opened exactly one year ago at ExRotaprint, a historical former printing press that was occupied by a tenant co-operative in the early 2000s and now functions as a community-driven cultural initiative. Thats a model that sits well with the curators message. During the biennial final chapter, the main exhibition, this location serves as an archive of the entire biennial research and exhibition process.

Meanwhile at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the curators present a chapter themed The Antichurch that offers visceral perspectives on the violence of patriarchy and the subversion of it. Among the most striking works are monumental drawings by Argentinian artist Florencia Rodriguez Giles. Generously installed around the institutions main floor, the detailed canvases in the 2018 series Biodelica depict otherworldly, sometimes nightmarish figures that are part-human, part-animal, and part-vegetable. The figures tout female genitalia and engage in actions driven by the pursuit of pleasure.

Galli, Installation view, 11th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary.Photo: Silke Briel

Similarly alluring in their fleshliness are the paintings of entangled, blood-red limbs and torsos by Galli, installed on KWs second floor. A female member of Berlins Junge Wilden generation of the late 1970s and early 1980sa bohemian, male-dominated group of artists, including Albert Oehlen, who all favored an expressive style of painting over the minimalist visual language of that timeGallis works have rightfully gained latent appreciation in the past five years. Alongside several canvases, her books of collages are also on display in glass cases as well as in a video. The artists hands, filmed leafing through the pages, hint towards her differently abled body.

However, its a common drawback of exhibitions that seek to convey forms of community dissent, resistance, and activism through artistic means that they end up feeling more preachy than subversive, more dryly didactic than revolutionary. Too many artworks in the show, which is heavy on video art, fall into this trap. And the effectiveness of much of it is deeply reliant on wall texts. Whats more, if a feminine sensibility, as the argument here goes, is the favorable alternative to masculine rampage, why not cast it in roles less associated with victimhood?

Andrs Pereira Paz, EGO FVLCIO COLLVMNAS EIVS [I FORTIFY YOUR COLUMNS] (2020). 11th Berlin Biennale, Gropius Bau. Courtesy Andrs Pereira Paz; Crisis Galera, Lima; Galera Isla Flotante, Buenos Aires. Photo: Mathias Vlzke.

The conceptual thread that runs through the chapter installed at Gropius Bau takes the museum as another patriarchal structure in need of critical overhaul. Titled The Inverted Museum, this segment includes generous installations that meld sensuous experiences and intellectual engagement. Of the three shows-within-the-show, it is the most successful.

Take Bolivian artist Andrs Pereira Pazs 2020 installation I Fortify Your Columns, commissioned and co-produced by the biennial, a landscape of minimalist sculptures that occupy the floor, walls, and ceiling of a darkened gallery. A birds call resonates throughout the space. Its the sound of the Amazonian guajoj; when its habitat was ravaged by catastrophic blazes last year, a single specimen managed the extraordinary flight to Bolivia, where its sighting became a local sensation. An asylum seeker rather than a migrating bird, it has no home to return to.

Aykan Safolu, Zero Deficit (in Refusal) (2020). Installation view, 11th Berlin Biennale, Gropius Bau. Prints by Lamarts, Istanbul. All works Courtesy Aykan Safolu. Commissioned and produced by Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. In collaboration with Lamarts, Istanbul. With the support of SAHA Association. With thanks to Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, PhD in Practice, doc.funds. Photo: Mathias Vlzke

While the show largely lands on South American soil, several works focus more directly on Europe-centered stories. Turkish artist Aykan Safolu digs into his own childhood and education at a renowned German-Turkish school in Istanbul. In a video work narrated by the artist, he weaves his personal history with 19th-century Prussian-Ottoman relations, which were based on Europes financial and colonial interests in Ottoman-run Anatolia (modern day Turkey), and the debt collected by European companies who leeched a bankrupt Ottoman Empire. Safolu notes that, as a German-speaking man in Istanbul, he is better accepted by German society than his relative who came within a huge Turkish cohort to Germany in the 1960 as guest workers.

Other works addressed even more direct situations of persecution. At KW, formerly jailed Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doan showed The Hidden Drawings, which she made on 103 sheets of paper sent from a friend while Doan was imprisoned in Turkey. The drawings and textsraw and austere, albeit not without hopeare presented on a long table behind glass, the pages form a graphic novel that depicts experiences lived and witnessed during her incarceration, contextualized within the history of the Kurdish struggle in Turkey that has been going on since the 1980s.

In a separate room at KW, German artist Christine Meisner presents her 2020 work Unsharpness In A Possible, Episode 1: Submissions from Berlin, in which she explores the archives of the weekly Der Strmer, a tabloid published between 1923 and 1945 that propagated anti-Semitic and Nazi ideologies (its founder was sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trials). Meisner digs out the immense amounts of anti-Semitic material submitted for publication by readers from all over Germany and Nazi-occupied territories; her installation helps to illustrate the culpability of German society at large. It is an issue that persists: Only a week ago, protesters demonstrating against state measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 stormed the steps of the German federal parliament, several waving flags associated with extreme far-right and Neo-Nazi views.

If the biennial title, The Crack Begins Within, is at first interpreted as a call for change worldwidethat breaking with old ways begins with personal responsibilitythis one work in particular serves as a grim reminder of the dangerous potential this holds. The crack is open, but no one can predict how deep it will get.

The 11th Berlin Biennaleis on view until November 1, 2020 at various locations across Berlin.

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For millions of us, homeworking is here to stay for a while longer at least and some anticipate that they will never return to the office. However, many have struggled to find a satisfactory spot in their home where they can get on with their work undisturbed.

So its not surprising that lots of homeowners have been eyeing up their garden as a potential new working environment.

Research by Direct Lines home insurance arm found that since lockdown began almost 1 million homeworkers have splashed out on a shed or similar outbuilding to use as an office or workspace and a further 1.1 million are planning to do so in the next 12 months.

Companies specialising in shed offices (or shoffices) and garden rooms have reported a surge in inquiries and orders. That applies to the mass-market retailers, where the most basic summerhouses start at only a few hundred pounds, all the way up to the high-end players, whose often architecturally striking creations can cost tens of thousands of pounds.

The boom in demand means that some designs are out of stock or you may have to wait several months for a delivery.

The average shed worker spent just over 3,300 on their garden workspace, according to research from the digital bank Starling, carried out a few weeks before lockdown.

The average size of a garden workspace was 65 sq ft (6 sq metres), according to the survey.

There is a vast array of options depending on your budget and aesthetic taste.

Go online and its not hard to find small wooden summerhouses for under 500 but something that cheap is only really going to be usable in good weather.

Realistically, you will need to spend a few thousand pounds for something you can comfortably use all year.

At the specialist site Sheds.co.uk, insulated garden rooms and buildings start at 5,694 for a 3x3 metre structure, going up to 9,899 for a 6x4 metre one (these prices include delivery and installation). The walls, floor and roof are fully insulated and the windows are double-glazed.

At the log cabin specialist Summer House 24, offices start at about 2,400 but installation, insulation and roofing cover typically cost extra. For example, the 3.2x3.2 metre Nora B log cabin is priced at 2,430 but using its installation service costs an extra 850, while a floor and roof insulation kit is 570 and a roof shingle kit is 180. On its large Hansa log cabin offices costing 14,500, installation alone adds an extra 3,500 to the price.

John Lewis sells garden offices and studios made by Norfolk-based Crane Garden Buildings, including a 3x3 metre one costing 8,499, including installation and delivery. It is made in the UK from FSC-certified Scandinavian redwood, features floor-to-ceiling glass panels and is fully insulated, lined and double-glazed.

What is and isnt included when you buy can vary hugely. Sometimes the shed will come without a roof covering or the wood will be untreated. Importantly, you will need a solid, level base for your building. Some shed firms will be able to sort you out with a concrete base but you may be charged 1,000, or much more. You may have a local builder who could do it for a lot less.

If youre handy when it comes to DIY and joinery, you may be able to create a garden workspace for a lot less cash. A lot of DIYers will look at the cheaper options and do it themselves, says William Letterese, a director at Sixty Stores, which owns Sheds.co.uk.

For example, you could buy a cheaper shed and insulate it for perhaps a few hundred pounds. You can buy insulation boards for walls and floors well-known brands include Celotex, EcoTherm and Kingspan. There are lots of websites and blogs offering help and advice.

How about the Escape Pod, a striking structure clad in cedar shingles and made of birch ply and European oak? The Gloucestershire-based firm Podmakers says that with its adaptable interior, heating (woodburner or underfloor), electrics and insulation, the Escape Pod has the potential to be used in lots of ways but at the moment its really offices that people want weve just put one in where theres two people working.

The starting price is 19,800 plus VAT (or 17,900 in kit form). They are delivered and installed using a forklift or crane, though if there are problems with access, the components can be carried through the house and assembled on site (with this option, installation costs 2,000).

Generally, no. Sheds and other outbuildings are considered to be permitted developments, not requiring planning permission, provided certain conditions are met. In England the main ones include: the building must be single storey with a maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and a maximum overall height of 4 metres with a dual-pitched roof, or 3 metres for any other roof; it cannot be used as a separate home to live in; and it cannot include a veranda, balcony or raised platform higher than 300mm.

Some firms offer a service where they will connect your garden building to the houses electricity supply but many dont, so you may need to pay a professional electrician.

Some say you need to dig a trench so you can run an armoured power cable underground. Others say its OK to put the cable under some gravel or run it along the fence. If you know a friendly electrician, ask his or her advice.

There are various options for extending your wifi to your garden office. Probably the simplest and cheapest is a wifi booster, a smallish device you simply plug in and which amplifies your signal, although the shed probably needs to be no more than 30 metres away. You can get fairly decent wifi boosters from companies such as Netgear and TP-Link for 20-40. Then there are so-called powerline adaptor kits, sometimes known as HomePlugs, which typically cost about the same.

Or you could run an ethernet cable from the house to the garden building (you could run it alongside your main power cable).

Many buildings insurance policies extend cover to outbuildings as standard, which means you would be covered against weather damage, Moneysupermarket.com says. The contents will typically be covered by your home insurance but you need a good idea of what the items are worth, and to let your insurer know, it adds. Dig out the paperwork and if in doubt, contact your insurer(s).

You may not have the cash or space for a separate home office, but there are ways to make a spare room or corner, into a work space.

Buy second hand. For example, Recycled Business Furniture, based in High Wycombe, offers a basic package of a desk and a quality adjustable chair for 150 plus VAT, and an executive package of an electric desk and a Herman Miller chair for 475 plus VAT (this option was sold out at the time of writing). Or you can just buy a chair for 40 or 95, both with VAT on top.

If you do end up buying new, websites such as Expert Reviews and TechRadar have detailed guides to the best office chairs for homeworking. Here are a few of their top picks:

45 Ikeas Torkel swivel chair. This month, Expert Reviews called it the best budget office chair.

About 50 Life Carvers mesh middle back office chair. Available on Amazon and elsewhere.

120 Argoss Home Orion swivel chair. It has a faux leather finish and a high back.

179 Ikeas Markus swivel chair. It comes with a 10-year guarantee.

TechRadar says the Furinno computer desk is, according to TechRadar, the best budget (and space-saving) office desk around, highlighting model 12095GYW, at about 107 and measuring 100cm wide by 86cm high by 40cm deep. If space is really at a premium, Argos sells a compact folding office desk for 40 that gets very good reviews. It is 86cm wide by 84cm high by 62cm deep, and folds flat.

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Nobody was injured and the ceiling was quickly repaired, say officials

The repaired section of ceiling on the first floor at Dubai Mall. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office

The repaired section of ceiling on the first floor at Dubai Mall. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office

The repaired section of ceiling on the first floor at Dubai Mall. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office

Nobody was hurt when a section of ceiling collapsed at Dubai Mall. Courtesy: Dubai Media Office

A section of the ceiling at Dubai's largest mall has been repaired after it fell on Monday night.

The section fell near Laduree on the first floor of Dubai Mall but no one was injured, authorities said.

An image of the collapsed section of ceiling was shared on social media. It showed part of the ceiling facade hanging by wires as small groups of people looked on from a safe distance.

Dubai Mall has taken immediate measures to restore the damage caused to a small section of the ceiling yesterday evening. There were no injuries and all precautionary measure are in place to ensure the highest safety for Dubai Mall's visitors. pic.twitter.com/ctarQtaP9u

On Tuesday, Dubai Media Office said the mall took "immediate" measures to fix the broken ceiling and that "all precautionary measure are in place to ensure the highest safety for Dubai Mall's visitors."

The emirate's malls reopened at full capacity in June, after months of restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Visitors are still required to undergo temperature screening on entry to the mall, wear protective face masks and maintain a physical distance of at least two metres from others.

Other key safety measures include the provision of an isolation room for suspected cases of the virus and the installation of hand sanitiser dispensers.

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Work to restore the Oriental Theatre on Milwaukees East Side will continue this summer while the theater remains closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Milwaukee Film, the nonprofit owner and operator of the 93-year-old theater, said Tuesday that it plans to complete renovations to the main and east theaters over the next few months.

Restoration work includes replacing seats and carpeting, improving sightlines and sound quality, restoring plaster on the ceiling and walls, and beginning the process for installation of a 1925 Wurlitzer theater organ.

Milwaukee Film expects the work will be completed in the fall.

Our operations have been highly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, which has created significant uncertainty over when well be able to safely open our doors again to large crowds, said Jonathan Jackson, chief executive officer and artistic director for Milwaukee Film. We are, however, able to safely embark on several long-planned restoration projects that, if not done now, would require future shutdown of the cinema.

The organization met its $10 million fundraising campaign goal for the project in spring 2019, and completed the restoration of the Orientals west theater later that year.

Going forward with this work now is an important decision, and as weve reached out to our major donors, theyve been extremely supportive that this is the perfect time for restoration to ensure were ready when its safe to bring film back to a packed house, said Patti Keating Kahn, board chair for Milwaukee Film.

Due to the pandemic and restoration work, Milwaukee Film has canceled its screenings of Cats, which were originally scheduled for March and moved to August.

While Milwaukee Film continues planning for a 2020 film festival, Jackson has said the likelihood of a 15-day, in-person event on the scale of the 2019 festival is exceedingly low.

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(A rustic iron horse sculpture is one of the art pieces recently added to the LTS Library.)

Editors Note:

TheLouisville Thoroughbred Societyis now entering the home stretch. And, it is beginning to feel a lot like home, too.

The final touches of paint are being added each day.

The trim work is being fitted.

The name plates are being attached to the restroom doors.

The barn doors that separate the LTS Library and Diner rooms have now been hung.

The betting stands which will host the stand-alone, self-service terminals have now been relocated to the LTS Main Floor. On Monday, the tote equipment will start to be installed.

The chandeliers are being adorned with crystal spirals.

And, the hand-made, Spanish Cedar Humidor has now been completely trimmed out and the moisturizing system has been installed.

Over the next three weeks, construction work on the LTS Cigar Pavilion, the Diner and the Outdoor Terrace will be completed and the facility will be ready for its opening the first of August.

It has been an amazing project over the past 4 years. There have been good days and tough ones, to be sure. ButThe LouisvilleThoroughbred Societyis entering the home stretch. We are kicking for home and the wire. We are gaing on the finish line each and every day.

Starting next week, we will be hosting a series of Sneak Peaks. Contact our Director of Membership, Hayley Amoss, and set up your time to come and get a first-hand look.

We know one thing. We will pass the eye test.

The building is remarkable.

The interior design is amazing.

The look and feel are home.

We are about ready for you.

(The LTS Library is nearly completed, and the book shelves will soon be stuffed with a private collection of historic sales catalogues that have been donated to the club and for members to utilize.)

(Furnishings have been moved in. Some of the art work and wall mountings have started to be erected, too)

(Members and guests will be able to use the Library for a more private setting to enjoy lunch, as well)

(Some of the accessories have now been added to the LTS Library, too)

(Rustic artwork will make the Library both horse-themed and inviting)

(There is still more to come, but the room is ready for visitors and tours now)

(Room got a quick cleaning and the floor a thorough mopping this week)

(The betting stands have now been delivered to the LTS, and installation will begin on Monday)

(The hand-built LTS Humidor carved entirely from Spanish Cedar has now been fully installed. Only the cigars are missing)

(Final brick work is being completed on the LTS Diner)

(New concrete has now been poured in the basement and is ready for final office space to be erected)

(The entrance foyer to the Hughes Lofts building and the home of the LTS is getting completely refurbished. The old, historic tin ceiling has been reapplied and painted. A new class enclosure dresses up the common area to the building and gives direction to the South Elevator off of Main Street)

(The final concrete trim work is being added to the front of the Hughes Lofts. We have now entered the final phase of construction era)

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Major fire broke out in three different places in the city on Thursday a godown in Marol, a bank in Nariman Point and a commercial complex in Lower Parel giving a tough time to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB). No casualties were reported in any of incidents.

However, a fire brigade personnel who took part in the fire-fighting operation at Marol was found to be Covid-19 positive after he was taken to a hospital as he fainted.

In the first incident, a level-two fire (medium intensity) was reported at Nand-Dham Industrial estate in Marol, Andheri around 12.50am.

According to MFB, the fire was confined to the ground floor godown which was equipped with electric wiring, electric installation and contained wooden furniture, office window AC, office records, office files, hydraulic compressor machine and hydraulic cylinder. Five fire engines and seven jumbo tankers were pressed into service here. The fire was brought under control at around 4am.

A fire personnel was taken to Nanavati Hospital after he fainted during fire-fighting operation and he tested positive for Covid-19. A senior fire official said, He has developed pneumatic patches in his lungs as it was observed in CT scan. His condition is stable and he is under observation.

In the second incident, a level-two fire was reported at around 5.21am inside a bank at Jolly Make Chamber located in Nariman Point, according to MFB. Prabhat Rahangdale, chief fire officer of MFB, said, The fire is confined to electric wiring, electric installation, office furniture, computers, office records, important documents and false ceiling in an area about 4,000 square foot of Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait along with the server room on the ground floor of the commercial complex. Five fire engines and four jumbo tankers were sent to control the fire.

Rahangdale said, No one was trapped inside as learnt from the public, and nobody is reported to be injured. The fire was brought under control at 7am, however cooling operations are ongoing. The fire at both the places were extinguished by noon.

Just two hours after this, a major fire broke out at the ground floor of a ground-plus-two-storey commercial structure at Raghuvanshi Mills in Lower Parel around 9.28am.

Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar after reaching the spot told media, The offices in the building where the fire broke out was shut for a long time and fortunately, no injuries have been reported. Fire officials are suspecting short-circuit since the building was vacant. Fire-fighters are now trying to find the place where the fire broke out as heavy smoke has logged all three floors.

The intensity of this fire was the highest at level four. Fourteen fire engines and nine jumbo tankers were brought in to douse the fire and it was brought under control by 4pm.

Rahangdale said they used thermal imaging camera to spot the exact area of the fire.

Worli MLA Aaditya Thackeray said a strict audit would be carried out at Raghuvanshi Mills. He tweeted, The fire in Raghuvanshi Mills has been doused. Theres been no casualty as it was shut, but strict audit implementation will be carried out in all the buildings inside the compound.

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Mumbai, June 25 (IANS) A fire broke out in the IT server room of Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait (BBK) branch located in the Jolly Maker II building at Nariman Point, here on Thursday, officials said.

According to the BMC Disaster Control, the blaze was reported at around 5.30 am from the foreign bank branch premises on the ground floor of the 14-floor building.

It was confined to the electric wiring, electric installation, office furniture, computers, UPS battery, office records, important documents, false ceiling, etc. in an area about 4000-sq.ft within the BBK branch.

There were no reports of any casualties or anybody trapped inside as informed by local eyewitnesses.

The conflagration was brought under control within a clue of hours and cooling operations are underway now, said the officials.

Jolly Maker II is located in the heart of Nariman Point, the country's most prestigious business address in south Mumbai.

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A statement rug has the power of transformation. It can make or break a room, said

Samuel Pye, creative manager of Echlin Design Studio in London. Its like a piece of artwork; it will either bring everything in your room together, or completely change it.

For more advice on making a statement underfoot, follow these tips from the design pros.

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Take a Cue From Your Dcor

Think about what you want the room to feel like. If you're looking for a calming sanctuary, go for something more in keeping with the rest of your decor. If you're looking for something really daring, dont be afraid to introduce new colors and textures.

Think about the language you've set in the rest of your decor and try to reflect that. For example, have you got colors you can contrast with or complement? Metallics you want to highlight or add to? Is all the furniture very rectilinear or curvaceous?

For a recent project, the design was all about creating a space that looked built up over time with fine art. A lot of jewel tones and contrasting metallics created a luxury feel and we carried this through to a large metallic rug in a starburst pattern.

Samuel Pye, creative manager, London-based design studio Echlin

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Set the Scale

If youre going with a bold pattern, keep complementary angles in mind. For example, if you have a rug with a sharp angular pattern, soften the room with rounded furniture. Also think about using varying scales of patterns to integrate your rug more cohesively. This goes for color as well. Use some of the standout colors in your rug in other places in the room, such as the fabrics of upholstered furniture.

Go toward a bigger size than smaller size when choosing rug dimensions. A secret that works to give the illusion of a larger rug is to layer your smaller statement rug on top of a larger solid rug. This creates a layered effect that dresses up the space by creating a border around your rug and defining it more.

Los Angeles-based designer Breegan Jane

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Let it be the Focus

Statement rugs can immediately focus your attention and then allow you to methodically take in all other design aspects of the room by expanding your sight line from the center out. We like to mix weave, yarn type and color together, not just surface design, to give each rug its own personality.

The shape of rugs can be determined by any factor in the space: furniture layout, room configuration or ceiling profile (tray, coffered, framed). Rug size should reflect room scale, amount and placement of furniture, and act as natural room breaks in larger spaces without disrupting traffic flow and sight lines.

Bob Margies, director of installation services at Merida, a rug company based in Fall River, Massachusetts

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Think About Layering

I love using them in dining rooms because they create a fabulous base for a large table that may have beautiful wood, but not many other details going on when they arent set, so the rug can really stand on its own.

I love a wool rug for the durability, but blending in layers of silk creates visual interest and texture. 100% wool rugs fall much flatter.

LeeAnn Baker of Seattle-based LeeAnn Baker Interiors

Curate Your Vision

I often start with the rug design to inspire the rest of the color and fabric selections. Rugs can be the singular art piece in a room. A contrasting black and taupe abstract pattern would be magnificent under Liaigre furnishings, for example.

One tip for designing a high-contrast rug is to use shadowing or gradient poms off each main color to give it that ultra-custom touch.

Genevieve Trousdale of Circa Genevieve design studio in West Hollywood

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Let Your Style Lead the Way

For a look that is timeless but still makes a statement, Persian, Turkish and Moroccan rugs are the perfect way to bring in a mix of color, pattern and texture. If youre shying away from having a lot of color in your rug but still want it to make a statement, consider using bold patternsthey can be smaller patterns that look a little busy or larger scale patterns such as geometric shapes.

Shape can definitely play a huge role. For example, if you dont want to use a super colorful rug with tons of patterns, you can use a fun shape like a cow hide to grab the eye and make the space look more interesting.

Sara Barney, owner and principal designer of Austin, Texas-based BANDD DESIGN

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