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The exterior adornments feature outlines of birds, trees, books, numbers, and buildings made of corrugated plastic, which are overlaid on window screens made of wood and scrim, a lightweight woven fabric.
Johnson and Sunset Park Councilman Carlos Menchaca joined the young Picassos and their mentors to unveil the new screens at the interim branch — which opened in May inside a former courtroom in a now Police Department–owned building at Fourth Avenue and 43rd Street, which also contains offices for the local community board.
Five architects with Leroy Street Studios — the Manhattan-based firm that also designed the interim library space — this summer worked with 15 Center teens for six weeks to design and create the screens, which adorn 10 windows, reading-room rep Fritzi Bodenheimer said.
And the teenagers’ passion for their neighborhood clearly shines through in the finished products, according to a partner at the architectural firm.
The main Sunset Park library at Fourth Avenue and 51st Street in April closed its doors to make way for a massive redevelopment, which will result in a branch roughly half the size of a football field, with a dedicated space for teens, a community room, and outlet-equipped tables when it opens sometime in 2021, Bodenheimer said.
The new library building will also boast 49 permanently affordable apartments — including nine units earmarked for domestic-abuse survivors — above its stacks, she said.
Police Department brass will determine the future of the interim space once the main branch’s renovations are complete, according to Bodenheimer, who said that the students’ screens are intended only for the windows at the temporary location.
The BPL did a nice job setting up that temporary branch, and if you visit you can see a bit of the old courthouse interior.
LIFELONG fan Ben Gibson missed Middlesbrough’s golden era so much, he compensated by appointing himself boss of his hometown club on Football Manager and indulging in some cyber-glory.
The Boro defender enjoyed hours of fun on his computer until the day Uncle Steve fired him!
Reality promises to be even better for the England Under 21 defender if Boro win beat Norwich at Carrow Road tonight to keep their hopes of automatic promotion alive.
There will be no chance of the long-serving Boro chairman getting rid of his nephew if Boro’s Premier League exile ends this season.
It’s been a long, frustrating six years out of the limelight for a club who won its first major trophy - the Capital One Cup - in 2004 and reached the UEFA Cup final two years later under Steve McClaren.
Back then, some of football’s biggest names flocked to the Riverside - Mark Viduka, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Gaizka Mendieta and Yakubu, following hot on the heels of Paul Gascoigne, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Alen Boksic and the man voted Boro’s greatest-ever player Juninho.
Gibson was just a young wannabee in the club’s Academy during this heady period and by the time he broke through, the good times were a fast-fading memory.
Not in Gibson’s fantasy world, however.
“I appointed myself Middlesbrough boss on Football Manager and I was pretty good,” he recalled.
“My uncle always gave me loads to spend.
“I reached the group stage of the Champions League but we got knocked out without making the second round and he gave me the bullet!
When Gibson made his Boro debut, charges of nepotism were thrown at him but his accusers have long been silenced as he’s marshalled the Championship’s meanest defence.
“I never minded people saying that,” he adds. “It motivated me.
Boro must beat Norwich tonight and win their remaining two fixtures and hope either Bournemouth or Watford drop points if they are to avoid the play-offs.
The centre half, who claims tonight’s clash is the biggest in the club’s history, reckons that even though Boro’s fate is out of their own hands, nine points out of nine will be sufficient.
“It’s do or die at Norwich,” he said. “We have to go there and win and then win the next two.
“If you’d offered us the play-offs at the start of the season, we’d have snapped your hand off but now that we’re in this position, we want automatic promotion.
“That’s why this game is the biggest in the club’s history.
“The way the Premier League is and the gap financially makes this our biggest game ever.
“If we go up, it’s different from last time. It has more of an impact financially than what the UEFA Cup final or Carling Cup final did.
“It’s £100mm for going up, that is irreplaceable. It will have a bigger effect on the club and the town than winning the cup.
At Boro’s state-of-the-art training complex in Hurworth, just outside Darlington, the conference room is adorned with pictures of the club’s finest moments.
One shows Uncle Steve being showered with champagne during the pitchside celebrations after Boro’s 2-1 Capital One Cup win over Bolton at the Millennium Stadium 11 years ago.
So is Ben planning a similar reception for the man whose patronage has kept Boro going for the past three decades?
“I remember the champagne, “ said Gibson. “And he was chucked up in the air as well.
“I think there would be a lot of people who’d want to do that to him again because everyone knows what he has done for this club.
Justin Adams agrees that his life has been getting a little complicated. "I do have a bit of a policy of saying yes to everything. So there's diary stress, but it's incredibly stimulating." After all, he's a guitarist, a producer who has worked with Tinariwen and Lo'Jo, and a serial collaborator who plays with a whole variety of other musicians. Right now, he's best known for his exhilarating and award-winning collaborations with Juldeh Camara, the virtuoso of the Gambian ritti (west Africa's one-stringed fiddle). But Adams is also a member of Robert Plant's band, and has just released an album with Les Triaboliques, in which he is joined by Lu Edmonds and Ben Mandelson, two other musicians with rock and punk roots, who have also played a key role in the British world music scene. When I meet him, he's in a studio producing an album by the Moroccan rock band Hoba Hoba Spirit, "who are close to me because they love the Clash – and have gnawa influences". But he is already planning his next collaboration, with the great Malian griot and n'goni player, Bassekou Kouyate.
They will get together on Monday at the Barbican Centre in London, at a concert celebrating the 75th anniversary of the British Council. Adams and the Council have their own history of working together. The Council arranged a whole series of earlier Adams collaborations, which involved him travelling to Syria and Tunis to work with a variety of different musicians, and two years ago helped to organise the Music Matbakh project, for which he acted as musical director. This was an ambitious plan to create a new touring band from British musicians along with rappers, electronic artists or classical players from across the Arab world.
Adams's interest in other cultures, and particularly Arab and African cultures, began in Jordan and Egypt, where he grew up, and where his father was British ambassador. In those days, he says, the British Council "was where we went to get our fix of British culture and watch films like The Great Escape. It was the representation of Britain abroad." But his parents had records by the great Lebanese singer Fairuz, and he listened to local music "and bought Egyptian drums and played belly dance rhythms with my brother". Adams went to Eton, but then started "running away from the public school system. I didn't hurl bricks at it, but it was not for me." He hassled his parents for a guitar, went off to study art history, and ended up "squatting with hippies off Ladbroke Grove, who were doing free festivals and organising little gigs". Then he met up with Jah Wobble, who invited him to join his band, Invaders of the Heart. His time with the Invaders, he says, was "perfect because it opened up a world that had been closed to me. But it was quite wild, and eight years was a long time to be in a band."
Today, Adams is interested in "rhythms, tones, sounds, and music that comes out of speakers that really excites me" – and with new ways of keeping going in a changing industry. "The idea of having a record deal that means you have a wage for three or four years has all finished. I'm not selling huge amounts of CDs, so I've got to think how to survive, how to spread out and get the gigs where they are possible. People can see that I do collaborations and I'm up for it. I get bored seeing bands playing a set that they have really rehearsed, and they just do their show. My favourite experiences have been going to Morocco and hearing 60 bendir drummers playing in a town square, or walking from one sound system to the next at Notting Hill carnival, or hearing the Clash play live. I like an event, so maybe unusual collaborations, where you see people acting as musicians, reacting to what other people are doing, and sometimes being caught off guard …"
These days, he says, "I've lost my fear of playing. When I was younger, I was less confident. I would hate to do things where I might fall on my face, but I know I can fall on my face or a little moment and it doesn't really matter. I'll come back again and try to do something good". So the aim is to keep the excitement going while playing with different musicians. With Juldeh Camara,"we don't get any slicker because we never rehearse and it changes every night. I never know when he is going to come in or stop singing, so that keeps it pretty raw."
As for his latest band, Les Triaboliques, this was a chance to play something "spooky and dark, very different to the last record with Juldeh", and to work with two musicians who are "like my big brothers. I've followed their path. They both come from English, slightly punky backgrounds and have gone off to travel slightly weird places and come with different influences." Mandelson, once with Magazine, has just been recording extensively across Africa, while Edmonds "does incredible trips to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan researching music" and is about to rejoin Public Image Ltd for their upcoming tour.
And then, of course, there's his "very different" work with Robert Plant. Adams says he gets on well with the Zeppelin star, because he's got over all the initial shyness one might have of working with a legend: "Plus, we've got passions in common – the blues, and Moroccan music and Egyptian classical music. So we have Little Richard and Bukka White, and then berber and gnawa music as reference points." When they last performed together the line-up consisted of "two Algerian bendir players, Juldeh on his fiddle, drums, bass, me on guitar, and Robert – and we played a spooked-out version of Led Zep's Black Dog that was almost unrecognisable. I hope we record that stuff".
As Adams heads back to continue recording with Hoba Hoba Spirit, their singer and guitarist Reda Allali asks if he could have a quick word. "This is the opposite of globalisation," he says. "Justin really understands our local culture and what we are trying to do".
Figures released this week that showed home sales slowing to a four-year low prompted the treasury to boast about slumping demand and hint it would depress prices.
“Outside its 27 degrees [Centigrade] but for us it’s frozen! September 2017 completed another frozen quarter for the property market,” the Finance Ministry said on its Facebook site Sunday, after its chief economist reported that home sales fell 26% year on year in September to 7,300, excluding those sold through the Mahir LemMishtaken program.
The treasury said in the first nine months of the year home sales were down 13% from the same time in 2016. The figure would have been even lower if not for the boost in supply as a result of property investors exiting the market in greater numbers.
On Monday, the Central Bureau of Statistics confirmed the slowdown, reporting that sales of new homes fell 16% in the 12 months through September from the previous 12 months, to 26,014. It was the slowest pace since 2013, the bureau said.
Among the sharpest declines were in Jerusalem, where sales slumped 25% to 1,240 units. Tel Aviv and central Israel saw sales fall 20%, to 1,280, but in the third-largest market, Kiryat Motzkin, sales nearly tripled, to 1,176.
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has made cooling off Israel’s overheated housing market a top priority, introducing new taxes to discourage property investors and launching Mahir LemMishtaken to sell homes at a discount. The program accounted for 29% of all new homes sold in September.
The developers’ trade group Bonei Haaretz takes issue with the idea that slowing sales will force builders to cut prices. Its president, Roni Brick, said last week that contractors would respond to slackening demand by reducing housing starts and balancing the supply.
In fact, a treasury study of Israel’s 10 largest home builders found that eight suffered sharply lower revenues in the January-September period, compared with the same period in 2016. It also found the more a builder opted to focus on higher-priced homes, the more likely it was to suffer lower revenues.
PRINCESS Eugenie has been praised by her fiance's grandmother for agreeing to marry her "charming" grandson - but joked he is not the "most intelligent".
The lighthearted comment by Jack Brooksbank's grandmother comes as speculation mounts about a date for the couple's wedding.
Joanna Newton, 91, told MailOnline: "I never thought he would get married to a royal. He's a charming boy and all that but not the most intelligent and I would never have thought this would happen."
The pensioner said her wine merchant grandson, 31, and his 27-year-old fiancee - who have said they will marry this autumn - had wanted to exchange vows in September but were now looking at October as their wedding month.
The couple announced their engagement yesterday with a pink sapphire ring in what will be the second of two royal wedding this year following Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May.
With the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh traditionally spending September in Scotland at Balmoral, the month was unlikely to have been a serious contender for the wedding.
The monarch usually returns from her summer break in the second week of October, making dates around the middle of that month the likely period for the royal nuptials.
Another period for Eugenie to avoid is during Prince Harry's Invictus Games, which he and fiancee Meghan Markle are expected to attend from October 18 when they begin in Australia.
Brooksbank's grandmother described him as a "good egg" and told MailOnline: "I think it says a lot about Eugenie that it's him she wants and it's lovely."
STOCKTON, Calif. – Three people, including a 5-year-old girl, were killed in a shooting on 11th Street near Belleview Street late Sunday in the Northern California city of Stockton.
Police say the family was gathering for Mother's Day when someone outside shot into the home. One man was pronounced dead at the scene. His young daughter and the girl's mother later died at the hospital.
The scene, at the Sierra Vista Homes, is just a few blocks from Van Buren Elementary School.
Stockton Police Officer Joe Silva called the shooting "senseless" while speaking with KTXL.
Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the shooting and did not have any information to release about the suspect.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Stockton Police Department.
Looming in the future is the potential exploitation of new 5G wireless networks not only for espionage purposes, but for compellence of less powerful nation-states.
This is a problem only poised to get worse as Beijing, Moscow and other nations increasingly deploy artificial intelligence to sort through threat data—whether that “threat” is to find a terrorist or to stifle politically sensitive discussion. With fewer and different ethical constraints than the West but with their own healthy supply of human talent and government-backing, autocrats could gain an edge in advanced technologies used to surveil populations, especially in the field of artificial intelligence. Autocratic systems are natural big data aggregators and the West is not going to outcompete them in that measure. And having the data to train algorithms is a key differentiator in artificial intelligence system quality—so much so that this might matter more than the algorithms themselves.
Free societies must protect themselves and attract others to their vision without undermining the principles upon which their own domestic legitimacy rests. In a very real sense, what we need is not just a new Cold War strategy abroad, but a twenty-first-century “counter e-surgency” model at home that takes into account one’s own political legitimacy while countering adversaries in a never-ending, less-than-war state of conflict.
DEMOCRACIES HAVE significant work ahead of them, particularly in making the moral and practical case that their own citizens should primarily identify with their compatriots rather than with a foreign power with which they share historical, cultural or religious ties. Put another way, would someone coming of age today view U.S. activities in cyberspace as being different from those of other countries, either in competence or creed?
Consider the practical implications of how this might play out under urgent circumstances: a debate by NATO members, or an ad hoc coalition of the United States and its allies, on whether to go to war over a cyber-attack. Most likely, such a decision, which could include invoking NATO Article V’s collective defense provisions, would only happen if a cyber-attack resulted in large-scale loss of life or disruption to continuity of government. These could include cyber-attacks on aviation safety, critical energy infrastructure, and so forth, all done in combination with other disruptions and troop movements as a prelude to probable armed conflict. Likewise, direct attacks that cause major societal disruption, such as attacks that harm voting integrity, could be considered grounds for responding with force.
In such circumstances, it would be difficult enough to get any one nation’s citizens to agree that such an attack warrants a military response. Yet even if that hurdle were to be overcome, it will still be incumbent upon those impacted to convince other allied nations that they too must commit lives in response to a cyber-attack. Until Afghanistan, NATO had never invoked this commitment at all, even for straightforward military threats. But for many smaller European nations, the results of an armed conflict would not only be riskier, but their governments are less likely to have the cyber experts on government payroll to even evaluate attribution claims by the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy or other members with more substantial domestic computer security industries. When it matters most, the necessary political will may be hard to summon not only because of natural human apprehension about war, but also due to a lack of capability to evaluate the attack claims of other alliance members: there may be no cyber equivalent to a mushroom cloud that all can see, complicating collective action and hence deterrence.
These concerns muddy the decisions of government cyberdefenders in the West, as they must confront tough decisions not only about how to respond to and defend against a growing array of attack vectors, but must also consider the long-term strategic implications of their conduct and decisions.
Christopher Porter is the chief intelligence strategist of cybersecurity company FireEye and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He previously served nearly nine years in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he received the National Intelligence Analysis Award, coauthored a National Intelligence Estimate and served as cyber threat intelligence briefer to the White House National Security Council in 2015.
Mesa police are looking for a 32-year-old pregnant woman who was last seen more than a week ago.
UPDATE: Mesa police say 32-year-old Kendall Gurley was found safe with assistance from the Phoenix Police Department. No other details on the circumstance of her disappearance have been released.
Kendall Gurley was last seen leaving a home near US-60 and Gilbert Road on the night of November 14th. That’s the last time her family heard from her, according to police.
Officials say Gurley is pregnant and normally in contact with friends and family on a daily basis.
Family members told police they’re concerned for her welfare because she experienced recent domestic violence through an ex-boyfriend.
"There was some fear that the abuse from her ex-boyfriend who is the father of her four-year-old child might in some way be involved," said Carrie Cozzie, Gurley's mother.
Jennifer Feely, Gurley's aunt, said Kendall dropped off her son last Tuesday to her at a Circle K near the US-60 and Gilbert. She told her aunt she would drop off clothes the next day, but she never showed up.
The last message family received was Wednesday around 4:30 a.m. saying she was away from Wi-Fi but would try to get in touch as soon as she can.
Gurley may be on foot in the East Valley and police say she may not have a full-time residence.
"I have my suspicions, a lot of us do actually, and it has a lot to do with the ex-boyfriend," Feely said. "Kendall if you're out there and you see this, just come home."
She is described as a white woman around 5 feet, 4 inches tall and 115 pounds. She has several tattoos on her arm, blue eyes and blonde hair.
If you have any information on her whereabouts, contact Mesa Police at 480-644-2211.
Doha: The Nigerians in Diaspora Organization, Qatar Chapter (NIDO-Qatar) organised on Friday an ‘Economic Enhancement Program' forum to explore investment opportunities in Qatar and in Nigeria in the presence of over 200 people from Nigerian community.
Speaking at the event, Victor Ikoli, NIDO- Qatar president, said: 'We are organising this event to encourage Nigerian businessmen to invest in Qatar and also to think of investing back home in Nigeria because there exist many opportunities in agriculture, real estate and other sectors in Nigeria.
'Qatar Nigerian Business Council (QNBC) must do more about this, he emphasized, adding QNBC must guide Nigerian companies and to become a bridge for them in Qatar on how to invest in Qatar. 'They have to bring people from Nigeria to Qatar and to take people from Qatar to Nigeria because there are many investment opportunities in Nigeria and there are many people interested to invest in Nigeria.NIDO can play this role but the Council is more qualified to perform this job.
The event was held at La Cigale Hotel, and was also attended by a number of guests from the Ministry of Interior, Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), Qatar Chamber and NIDO Europe. Also Nigerian Charge d'Affaires attended the event.
The event aimed at encouraging Nigerians for two things: first the opportunity of doing business and making investment in Qatar, and the second thing was to think of investing back in Nigeria.
Laila Khalil Al Jefaira, Business Development Manager at QFC spoke about the work of QFC and facilities which the Center provides saying, 'QFC is one of the world's leading and fastest growing business and financial centres, offering our own legal, regulatory tax and business environment.
For his part, representative of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) spoke of the services provided by the MoI saying that today there are about 88 countries can visit Qatar on on-arrival visas, adding that the most of transactions can be done through Ministry of Interior website and Metrash2 and in very few cases it was required to visit the Ministry's headquarters.
Lance Cpl. Edward Flores walks point sweeping the Tangye bridge with a Combat Mine Detector as Marines from 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon, Alpha Co., 1/8 Marines go a a joint patrol with members of Afghan National Army (ANA). The bridge, a primary Helmand River crossing has deteriorated to the point that vehicle crossings are limited. FOB Zeebrugge in Kajaki, Afghanistan on April 11, 2012.
NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) –Police have been told keep a close watch for perps peeking under skirts.
The Union Square subway station is a huge target for opportunistic predators because it is so busy. Their activity is as sick and simple as following a woman from behind with a smartphone.
On Monday, police arrested Karl Sholder, 33, for placing his iPhone under a woman’s skirt and videotaping her as she walked up the stairs at the Union Square station, CBS 2’s Jessica Schneider reported.
“I wear skirts every day when the weather is nice, or a dress, so I’m definitely going to be more cautious about what I’m wearing and who is around me,” Rea Mankikar said.
Sholder wasn’t home when CBS 2’s cameras arrived at his Long Island residence, but police say he isn’t the only high-tech perv that has targeted female subway riders, and the problem is expected to get worse when the summer months arrive.
Last July, the NYPD arrested Manhattan doctor Adam Levinson, 39, for filming up a woman’s skirt with a pen sized spy cam at Union Station.
More than a dozen images were found on Levinson’s small camera, police said.