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July 30, 2019 September 10, 2019 Natalie Cochran Blog, Community Education, News
A Hidden Crime: 30 Million Victims Trapped in Human Trafficking
Today, the globe recognizes World Day Against Trafficking. WDAT is an annual event promoting awareness and prevention of the human trafficking crisis as a massive worldwide problem. On average, 30 million victims of human trafficking are sold globally. Victims are made up of 51 percent women, 28 percent children and 21 percent men. Statistics also show that forced labor and human trafficking is a $150 billion industry worldwide. Thousands of men, women and children are sold to traffickers every year leaving their families behind and their communities in fear.
What is human trafficking?
Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer and storage of people by using forceful threats, abduction, fraud, deception, and abuse of power. Traffickers receive payments or benefits for controlling people for the purpose of exploitation. Human trafficking is a grave violation of human rights and leads as the third largest international crime.
The purpose of exploiting humans is to use them for prostitution, pornography, forced and child labor, and the removal of organs.
A global industry: How does the process work?
Traffickers look for people who are susceptible for many reasons, including psychological or emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lacking a social safety net, natural disasters, or political instability. They use violence, manipulation, false promises, or romantic relationships to lure victims into auction.
In order to maintain control over their victims, traffickers turn to rape, physical abuse, food and sleep deprivation, and drug administration to control and condition them. Similar to slavery, victims are locked up and protected by violent guards.
Not only do traffickers threaten captives, but also threaten their families and friends. Blackmail is a common way to keep victims from acting out by threatening to send compromising photos to the victim's families.
How are victims affected?
Victims who escape are often greatly traumatized about their encounter. Victims are often afraid to report their abuser, making human trafficking a hidden crime. Trafficking can cause psychological damage in which victims struggle with shame, grief, fear, anxiety, inability to trust, and suicidal thoughts.
Recognizing signs of human trafficking is the first step in identifying victims. Below are signs an individual might be a victim of trafficking.
Work and Living Conditions
Is under 18 and providing sex acts
Is unpaid
Works excessively long hours
Is not allowed breaks or suffers restrictions at work
Is living and working on site
Is not paid directly
Poor mental health or abnormal behavior
Fearful
Tense / nervous
Shows signs of substance use or addiction
Poor physical health
Shows signs of poor hygiene, malnourishment or fatigue
Exhibits signs of physical or sexual abuse
Shows signs of confinement
Lack of control
Has few or no personal possessions
Is frequently monitored
Is not in control of their own money, financial records or bank account
Is not in control of their own identification documents
Is not allowed or able to speak for themselves
Claims they are just visiting
Not knowledgeable of where they are staying or living
Shares inconsistent stories
Protects the person who may be hurting them
Globally, the average cost of a slave is $90.
Trafficking primarily involves forcing victims into prostitution, subjecting victims to slavery or involuntary servitude and compelling victims to commit sex acts for the purpose of creating pornography.
According to some estimates, approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation.
80% of victims are female and half are children.
The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the U.S. is 12 to 14-year-old. Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children.
California harbors 3 of the FBI's 13 highest child sex trafficking areas on the nation: Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.
The National Human Trafficking Hotline receives more calls from Texas than any other state in the US. 15% of those calls are from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Houston is the main port of entry and the hub of human sex trafficking in the U.S.
The International Labor Organization estimates that women and girls represent the largest share of forced labor victims with 11.4 million trafficked victims (55%) compared to 9.5 million (45%) men.
The world's response: What is being done?
Even though human trafficking is one of the largest crimes in the world, there are organizations that take a victim-centered approach to helping locate them and assist in the recovery process. During the stages of a human trafficking investigation, the overall goal is to move them from an environment of violence and exploitation.
Nationally, over the past decade, the FBI's human trafficking investigations have been responsible for the arrest of more than 2,000 traffickers and the recovery of numerous victims.
In the Houston area, the Houston Police Department has its own Human Trafficking and Criminal Investigation Unit/ Harris County Sheriff's Department has a Criminal Investigations Bureau which handles undercover investigations of human trafficking crimes.
If you live in Houston and would like to report a crime to Houston's Crime Stoppers, please call 713-222-TIPS.
The City of Houston's Anti-Human Trafficking Strategic Plan lays out the nation's first comprehensive municipal response to human trafficking. To access the strategic plan, please click the link. https://humantraffickinghouston.org/strategic-plan/
If you or a loved one are in need of an attorney or would like to explore other resources, you can utilize if they are being abused, you can visit the Texas Crime Victim Legal Assistance Network.
Lone Star Legal Aid is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit law firm focused on advocacy on behalf of low-income and underserved populations. Lone Star Legal Aid serves the millions of people at 125% of federal poverty guidelines that reside in 72 counties in the eastern and Gulf Coast regions of Texas, and 4 counties of southwest Arkansas. Lone Star Legal Aid focuses its resources on maintaining, enhancing, and protecting income and economic stability; preserving housing; improving outcomes for children; establishing and sustaining family safety and stability, health and well‐being; and assisting populations with special vulnerabilities, like those who have disabilities, or who are elderly, homeless, or have limited English language skills. To learn more about Lone Star Legal Aid, visit our website at www.lonestarlegal.org.
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Port Arthur Community Action Network (PA-CAN)'s Notice of Intent to Sue Leads to State's Suit against Valero's Port Arthur Refinery


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U.S. Representative John Lewis talks to supporters after a sit-in over gun-control laws in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2016.
Photograph by REUTERS / Yuri Gripas / Getty Images
African American Heroes
How this congressman used 'good trouble' to fight for civil rights
ByNicholas St. Fleur
Growing up in the South during a time when Black people did not have the same rights as white people, John Lewis faced racial discrimination—and he did not like it. He fought for equality during the civil rights movement, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against oppression and risking his life for justice. Through grit and determination, he went from sitting on bus seats as an act of civil disobedience during the Freedom Rides to sitting in the halls of Congress as a champion for civil liberties.
Congressman John Lewis in his Washington, D.C., office in 2018
Photograph by Rebecca Hale, National Geographic
Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, in rural Alabama. His parents were sharecroppers who worked on a farm picking cotton for landowners. As a young boy, Lewis also picked cotton and did other farm duties with his family. It was hard work, but he enjoyed being with the chickens. Lewis wanted to be a pastor, so he would preach to his feathered flock in the chicken coop while tending to the hens and counting their eggs. His inspiration was King, whose words Lewis listened to on the radio.
Lewis studied at the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville and helped organize lunch sit-ins against segregated restaurants, where Black and white people could not eat together, Sometimes he'd be arrested for his actions, but Lewis accepted being thrown in jail for fighting for what is right, or "good trouble," as he'd later call it. For instance, he was one of 13 original Freedom Riders, who travelled by bus to test laws that were supposed to protect Black people. But he was beaten and jailed several times on his journey.
Left: Firebombed bus
Lewis was part of the Freedom Riders, a group of people who journeyed by bus to fight for civil rights. On May 14, 1961, one of the two original buses was firebombed by a mob of white people outside Anniston, Alabama.
Right: 'Good trouble' arrest
Lewis is placed in a police van after his 1961 arrest in Jackson, Mississippi, as one of the Freedom Riders.
Photographs by Bettmann / Getty Images
Lewis's most memorable act of "good trouble" occurred on March 7, 1965, when he led a group of 600 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on what would be known as "Bloody Sunday."
Lewis, who was then only 25 years old, marched across the bridge in the fight for equal voting rights for Black people. In his bag he carried just a toothbrush, toothpaste, two books, an orange, and an apple. But he and the other peaceful protesters were met by police officers carrying batons. The police fired tear gas onto the crowd and attacked them, leaving many bloody and wounded. Lewis was knocked unconscious.
Lewis (far right) joins Martin Luther King, Jr. (center), as they march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the lack of voting rights for African Americans.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro / Corbis via Getty Images
The events of Bloody Sunday were caught on camera and televised to the country. They attracted more protests. King joined Lewis and thousands of other protesters to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Their efforts eventually led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed the discriminatory practices that prevented many Black Americans from voting.
Lewis eventually became a congressman from Georgia in 1987, serving until his death from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80 on July 17, 2020. During his time in Congress he continued his work for civil rights and encouraged young people do the hard work necessary to change the country by getting into "good trouble."
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1963 March On Washington
A historic demonstration gained freedoms for Black Americans

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In the women's Regional League South East Tier 1, first and second go head to head.
Table-toppers Oxford University play Cambridge in a Varsity town versus gown match.
Cambridge are unbeaten so far this season, whilst Oxford have won one match, drawn one, and lost three. Oxford are top of the league by virtue of having played five matches. Cambridge are two wins from their two games.
This will be the second league meeting of these two teams this season. When they played in round one, Cambridge won decisively, by 34-7. This time around Cambridge will be the hosts and will be looking to repeat their win in October.
Throw-off is at 12.30 at the Cambridge University Sport Centre, on Sunday 16 December.


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#NICEK12: Hands-On Resources from the Field
In addition to the five conference tracks at the 2018 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference going on in San Antonio, Texas, attendees were also able to engage in hands-on learning at drop-in sessions during which exhibitors were able to share resources they have used with some success to help advance cybersecurity in the K-12 sector.
In one session, two teachers from North Carolina showcased the progress they have made in educating kids about cybersecurity.
In their presentation, "Bytes for Breakfast – A Small Rural High School's Answer to Getting Students Excited About Coding and Cybersecurity," teachers Renee Himmelspach and Amanda Campbell from South Stokes High School in North Carolina said that the name of their club came from the fact that the group meets before school.
The Bytes for Breakfast club, which is in its first year, meets twice a month before the school day begins for students to explore coding using the two Raspberry Pi's and iPad Pros that were donated to the group. The group also meets once a month after school for an extended period of time.
Credit: South Stokes High School
With as much enthusiasm as Himmelspach and Campbell displayed, Robert Black, CEO and founder of Start Engineering, showcased the Cybersecurity Career Guide, a book designed for classrooms, camps and other outreach programs to introduce students to the myriad career paths available in the field of cybersecurity.
Credit: Start Engineering
In partnering with Palo Alto Networks, Start Engineering was able to produce the 52-page, magazine-style book that includes a description of different job types, as well as the required education and the likely salary candidates would earn for each position.
Designed for middle and high school students, the publication was released in April and will be updated every two years as job descriptions and technology evolves.


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Q: I've got a critical error happening: a variety of deep and persistent graphical freak-outs, with occasional crashes and freezes. Is it Ubuntu or...? It's an intermittent problem of varying intensity- it can work absolutely fine for minutes or hours. It varies from mildly distracting to completely unusable. The problem can appear intractable or persist for half an hour and then work fine again.
The main nature of it is a graphical failure, and seems to come in lots of different flavors: whole screen going suddenly, randomly pixelated; splices of images that were on the screen in the last few minutes being spliced and forming a collage (even drawing from beyond restarts), sometimes being trail-cleared by the movement of the mouse; chunks and lines of colors making some sort of checkers board of parts of the screen; some windows being all black; text being overlayed in multiple phantoms of various colors. Just quite random really.
I don't know what triggers it- working fine and then it turns on a dime. And back again.
Inputs usually still work- to some degree- for example I've been able to play a video with the audio working but the screen looking like a poorly drawn snowstorm.
Very rarely it freezes, sometimes crashes and returns to the login screen, or resets itself. As a rule this doesn't result in an improvement of the graphic issues.
The issues persist into the tty consoles- usually not as bad but yeah the text starts to flicker into random colors and become unresponsive.
I assume it's deeper than Ubuntu as it also appears on startup as often as not. It will get through startup but I might not always be able to navigate login.
I first encountered this problem when using Ubuntu 20.04, and it's stuck around through several installations of 22.04.
Immediately after this first arose I for the first time saw a message on startup about orphaned iodes, "dev/sda3:clean..." and blocks etc. I'm of the understanding such a message is fine but I'm wondering if that offers a clue to what happened.
I've had pieces of hardware swapped in and out and tested, with no faults found... maybe because of how intermittent it can be.
The latest setup has seen me install different NVIDIA drivers (turns out ones too advanced for my actual hardware so they're currently being ignored) so I'm in a pretty basic graphics mode which... might be working better... but still has issues.
Fresh installs seemed to offer some short periods of stability but my last attempt was thwarted seemingly by this same issue, quite close to the installation being finalized.
I've a 'System Profiler and Benchmark' report available if that helps. Let me know what else could assist in diagnosing. I'd love to solve this issue, or move on if it's beyond redemption.

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VOX POPULI! Magiques Creations vinyl at Juno Records.
Following the excellent reissue of Aither last year, Emotional Rescue return to the dreamy, decidedly tripped out sound world of French-Persian outfit Vox Populi! with this enchanting collection of early rarities from the early to mid 80s. There's a range of moods on offer here, sounding very much of the era with dashes of On-U dub colliding with kosmische and the worldly outlook of Byrne, Eno, Hassell et al. It's a varied listen and a wonderful introduction to a band that could have so easily been more widely appreciated if they had managed to break out of the French underground.


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The following tasks fall under the Analysis Acronym (Revision) category.
The ANALYSIS Acronym stands for Account, Number, Abbreviate, Level, Yank, Sample, Integrate, and Sand.
Account: Account for discrepancies. Identify gaps in chronology.
Abbreviate: Remove plot summaries and revise quotes.
Level: Balance viewpoints and square your analysis.
Yank: Delete irrelevant and relevant supporting evidence.
Sample: Sample quotes and examine them in light of your own statements to ensure they are both complementary.
Integrate: Incorporate the thesis throughout the analysis to ensure conformity.
Sand: Revise for grammar, which is the very last part of the revision process.
We use the acronym to create the following revision writing tasks. You may click on any one of the links to access the posts.


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I Walk To My Own Song es la segunda canción del disco Elements, Pt. 2 de la banda Finlandia de Power metal, Stratovarius publicado el 25 de septiembre del 2003 por la compañía Nuclear Blast. La canción entró en el top 20 de Finlandia debutando en el puesto 9. El Ep cuenta con 2 extra más "Forever" que fue grabado el 4 de abril del 2003 en Barcelona y "Black Diamond" grabado el 5 de abril del 2003 en San Sebastián.

Lista de canciones
 I Walk To My Own Song - 5:03
 Forever (Live in Barcelona) - 4:39
 Black Diamond (Live in San Sebastián) - 7:28

Personnel
Timo Kotipelto - Vocalista
Timo Tolkki - Guitarra
Jari Kainulainen - Bajo
Jens Johansson - Teclado
Jörg Michael - Batería

Posiciones

Canciones de 2003
Canciones de Stratovarius

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Tanya is joining three expert attorneys on-stage for "Stop, Drop, and Do Your Due Diligence," a session focused on vetting investors and partners in the industry.
We're pleased to announce that Tanya will be speaking at the New England Cannabis Conference in Boston on March 24, 2018. Her session is a Massachusetts-focused look at preparing your team for the licensing process.


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Publish Date October 2, 2020
Lifespace Communities nets Gold in Tech Awards for safety-driven expansion
Kimberly Marselas
Village on the Green near Orlando, FL, won a Gold in the Safety category for incorporating high-tech safety features during a major expansion and renovation.
Editor's Note: The 2020 winners of the McKnight's Excellence in Technology Awards are being announced daily through Oct. 6. Skilled Care track winners are being announced here by McKnight's Long-Term Care News. Senior Living track winners are being announced on the website of sister publication McKnight's Senior Living.
Lifespace Communities' Village on the Green integrated high-tech safety features across campus during a recent $56 million expansion and renovation. Its efforts resulted in a McKnight's Excellence in Technology Awards Gold in the Skilled Care Track's Safety category.
The community near Orlando, FL, includes a skilled nursing area that benefited from upgrades such as a hardwired nurse call system with duty stations and mobile devices equipped to provide immediate responses — often without having to enter a room. Nurse call, intercom and wander management alerts are integrated in the same system.
"We look for technology that enables us to keep residents safe and healthy, as well as systems that potentially prevent issues from occurring," says Tracy Smalley, director of program management for Lifespace. "For example, we are currently evaluating fall prevention technology for our skilled nursing neighborhoods, which could prevent injuries and hospitalizations. In the long run, this leads to better quality of life for our residents and peace of mind for their families. We are also anticipating the needs of the next generation, who are accustomed to, and desire, technology to enhance and protect their everyday lives."
Lifespace worked hand in hand on the project with Direct Supply, which custom-designed around the community's desired technology selections and coordinated infrastructure including cabling, device installation, programming, testing and staff training.
The campus' memory care and assisted living areas also received a new Accutech wander solution. Other campus enhancements included a new video surveillance system, digital signage displays, a pedant-based wireless emergency nurse call system and broader wifi coverage.
The campus is part of the 4% of Florida senior living communities that have received the governor's Gold Seal for demonstrating excellence in quality. Smalley says leveraging technology in a coordinated manner will allow the community to continue its 5-star Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-rated care and improve its services for a growing dementia population.
Other Safety awards in the Skilled Care track:
Silver: Green Valley Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in North Richland, TX, held a COVID-19 "safety sing-along," a viral, infomercial-like production preaching infection control to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It."
Bronze: Life Enriching Communities of Montgomery, OH, improved outcomes and reduced fall risk with the use of artificial intelligence-based VSTBalance to assess mobility and inform interventions.
Competition entries were submitted May through July this year and judged by an independent panel of industry experts, including skilled care and senior living specialists.
Stanley Healthcare is the Platinum sponsor of the 2020 McKnight's Excellence in Technology Awards. MatrixCare is the Gold sponsor for the Senior Living track.
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See the full article about the new Sunnyside neighborhood redevelopment project, Cobbler's Corner, from Denver Infill here by Matt Levesque.
Scroll down to see homes for sale in the Sunnyside neighborhood in Denver.
Rendering of the Cobbler's Corner redevelopment project in the Sunnyside neighborhood. Image courtesy of Generator Development.
Cobbler's Corner is a new neighborhood-scale commercial adaptive reuse and infill project, located at 2436 W. 44th Avenue (44th and Alcott). The project is being developed by place-maker Paul Tamburello's Generator Development, the group behind the restoration of several LoHi buildings. The project includes the restoration of a 5,200 square foot building as well as the addition of two buildings adding approximately 9,000 square feet replacing the parking lot. When finished, the project will include space for two restaurants, five retail bays, and two live-work studios. The original building most recently housed the Germinal Stage Theater; however, this redevelopment will bring it more in line with its original use as a neighborhood retail location in the late 1920s.
New infill building on 44th Avenue. Photo by Matt Levesque.
More information and pictures on the Denver Infill website.
See the full article about the new Sunnyside neighborhood redevelopment project, Cobbler's Corner, from Denver Infill here.
Homes for sale in the Sunnyside neighborhood.
See the full article by Confluence Denver here.
Scroll down to see homes for sale in the Stapleton Neighborhood in Denver.
A hybrid urban-suburban, lawn-free mecca for strollers and minivans, Stapleton can hardly be contained as developers push south — and north, too. And maybe that's a good thing, as the airport-turned-neighborhood has set the bar high in its first 15 years.
"There aren't many projects the size and scope of Stapleton, and what we're doing here is a big deal — even for Forest City, a major developer in Chicago, New York and San Francisco," says Tom Gleason, Vice President for Public Relations at Forest City Stapleton, the subsidiary of Forest City Enterprises, a more than 90-year-old family-owned firm headquartered in Cleveland.
When Forest City acquired the land, there were zero residents; today, Stapleton boasts nearly 20,000. "A number of things came together to really transform the property," Gleason begins.
See the full Confluence Denver article here.
DENVER – Mayor Michael B. Hancock, Industry Denver, Dist. 9 City Councilwoman Judy Montero and Economic Development Executive Director Paul Washington today broke ground on a 120,000-square-foot project that will provide flexible, high-demand shared office space for 350 to 400 tech and creative sector workers.
Paired with over 250 affordable and market rate housing units and three restaurants, the 9-acre development along Brighton Boulevard will become a transformational project that will reconnect the neighborhood with downtown and the South Platte River.
Located at 3001 Brighton Boulevard, Industry is a multiphase development that will capitalize on the community's character, assets and potential. The first phase – the shared space for small and early-stage businesses – is projected to reach completion in early 2014.
Industry Denver is also working with the Greenway Foundation to activate the South Platte River adjacent to the project. Residents of the market and workforce housing as well as employees will be linked to improved biking, trails, parks and riverways. The development will also offer community spaces for business and neighborhood connections.
Mayor Hancock and the Denver Office of Economic Development (OED) have identified Brighton Boulevard and the South Platte as key areas for commercial and residential development within Denver. OED has committed a $1 million loan to spur the project with a 5-year payback period, which fulfills a goal within the 2013 JumpStart plan.
Industry is one of three projects along Brighton Boulevard that indicate positive growth uplifting this historically overlooked area of the city. In the past month, The Source, a European-style artisan market, opened at 3350 Brighton Blvd. Denver City Council has also approved zoning for Great Divide Brewing, a Denver-grown brewery, to triple its operations.


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Pumping Systems was founded in 1978 as a local representative for Ingersoll Rand Centrifugal Pumps for Georgia. Ingersoll Rand and Worthington Pumps later merged to form Ingersoll Dresser Pumps. Today, they are Flowserve Pumps & Mechanical Seals which includes brands such as Durco, Byron Jackson, Durametallic, Five Star and Innomag. With high standards defined from the beginning, we soon began adding more quality product lines such as Wilden Air Operated Diaphragm Pumps, Mouvex Pumps, Neptune Metering Pumps, Ebara Pumps, Tuthill Blowers & Vacuum Pumps.
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The Guardian reports that a man convicted of serious terrorism offences is to launch an appeal against his conviction today on the grounds that the British government was complicit in the torture he suffered before being put on trial. Rangzieb Ahmed, 35, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was convicted two years ago of directing a terrorist organisation and membership of al-Qaida. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
He was convicted largely on the basis of evidence that was collected while he was under surveillance in Dubai and the UK in 2005. He was not arrested at that time, however; instead, he was permitted to travel to Pakistan where he was detained by an intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence, notorious for its use of torture.
The courts have heard that Manchester police and MI5 officers then drew up a list of questions to be put to Ahmed by the Pakistani agents. By the time he was deported to the UK, three fingernails were missing from his left hand. Ahmed also alleges he was beaten, whipped and deprived of sleep.


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House & Garden – January 2003
Interior designer Tony Ingrao, his colleague Randy Kemper, and architects Francis Fleetwood unite two great American design traditions in a house on Long Island Sound
There may be no arguing about taste, but that had never stopped anyone from doing it. Interior design and architecture have many competing aesthetic camps. Some love texture and ornament; others insist on clean lines and surfaces. One party favours warm, intimate rooms; another demands bright, airy spaces. There are those who look abroad for historical influences and those who prefer all-American design references. The various groups usually find little common ground. So it is refreshing, in a day when any sort of comity is scarce, to see several bickering aesthetic viewpoints reconciled subtly and successfully in a house on the north shore of Long Island, New York.
The owners are a professional couple – he's an investment manager, she's a former attorney – who have five young children. When, a few years ago, they began to outgrow the contemporary open-plan house they had lived in for a decade, the two stared searching for a property on which to construct a new house. They found a wonderful site sweeping with frontage on Long Island South that was once part of a Vanderbilt family estate, (It even included the old Vanderbilt garage.) The question then became what sort of place they would build. She was for the antique look. "When you've lived in a modern house for ten years," she explains, "you hunger for something with texture and tradition." But he "loved the openness" of contemporary design and worried that an old-fashioned house would feel dark and confining.
For the exterior, the couple turned to Hamptons-based architect Francis Fleetwood, who weighed their concerns and desires and devised a residence in what might be called Shingle Lite style. Popularized by Charles Follen McKim and Stanford White in the late nineteenth-century, the Shingle style was inspired by the homely, shingle-clad structures of the Colonial era. "It's our first truly American architecture," Fleetwood says, The low-slung rooflines, punctuated by gables, turrets, and porches "give people a sense of place and roots." The sturdy construction materials – in the case of the Long Island house, a Connecticut fieldstone base, red cedar shingles, and a slate roof – "speak of permanence," he says. "The only thing that dates the house is the size and the number of the windows."
While McKim kept his Shingle mansions cool and dim with limited fenestration, Fleetwood's clients wanted an atmosphere as airy and bright as that of their modern house. The architect provided high ceilings and large windows, as well as bays and second-floor porches, that allow sunlight and offer splendid water views. "The Shingle style is very flexible," Fleetwood says. "Because these houses are asymmetrical, you can have fun with the design."
The interior is, if anything, an even more impressive design allot. The owners worked with Tony Ingrao and colleague Randy Kemper, two New York-based decorator-designers known for their innovative take on traditional decos.
"The clients wanted elegance, but a low-key elegance," Kemper says. "Many people buy huge houses and never go in some of the rooms. These clients live in every inch of their house." Almost every space offers an example of tempered grandeur. The lofty entrance hall contains a dramatic stairway (Ingrao modelled it on one in an eighteenth-century house in Charleston) and is highlighted by an enormous brass William IV chandelier with 28 arms. But English Oak flooring softens the monumentality of the space. (Old-world oak has a richer, denser grain, Ingrao explains. Polishers from France were brought in to give the boards a deeply layered finish.) "When you have high ceilings, you want something that pulls them down," one owner says. "Marble doesn't do that." There's a similar effect in the living room, a huge space anchored by a staggering 36-by-18-foot Persian carpet. Taken outdoors, the rug might cover half a tennis court. But in situ, the claret carpet somehow brings the room to a human scale. Light-toned paint and floral upholstery, in colors suggested by the secondary hues in the rug, balance the decor perfectly.
The dining room is the one unabashedly luxe space in the house. Is is furnished in chinoiserie, the eighteenth-century emblem of the worldly and exotic – Chinese Chippendale chairs, export porcelain and Meissen figurines, and, impressively, genuine Georgian wallpaper recovered from a London house. When dinner is served by candlelight glinting off the crystal chandelier, the pink wallpaper with its pheasant and floral print, creates "the most amazing atmosphere," Ingrao says.
Ingrao designed the moldings and surrounds, taking a sheaf of wheat motif, for example, from an eighteenth-century Maryland house. In the entry, a Mannerist glyph that looks like a Lego block was inspired by moldings such places as the White House and Monticello. "There's detail upon detail," Kemper says, "but it's so subtle it reads as simple."
Ingrao, who last October opened his own antiques and fine art gallery in Manhattan, admits to being "a neurotic about detail." But people, he explains, "have a greedy eye. They want to see more and more. You set up a vista, then give them something else to look at."
These clients seem satiated. "Before we moved in, my wife promised we could move back to the old place if we weren't comfortable," the husband says. "But this felt like home right away. There's no place I turn that I'm not happy."
"The interior is about a hundred years earlier – mid to late Georgian – then the exterior. The object was to create a classic environment that hasn't stuffy – a youthful approach to a traditional interior. We didn't use silk, only cottons and wools, to keep to family-friendly."
– Tony Ingrao
Written by Gregory Cerio
Photographed by Michael Mundy
Produced by Cynthia Frank


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William Shea
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For the actor, see William Shea (actor).
William Alfred Shea (June 21, 1907 – October 2, 1991) was an American lawyer and a name partner of the prominent law firm of Shea & Gould. He is probably better known as the founder of the Continental League, which was instrumental in bringing National League baseball back to New York City with the New York Mets, and for being the namesake of the stadium where that team played for 45 years.
William A. Shea
Shea in a 1959 photo.
(1907-06-21)June 21, 1907
October 2, 1991(1991-10-02) (aged 84)
Lawyer; co-founder of Continental League
Early life and careerEdit
Shea began undergraduate work at New York University, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, and later graduated from Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Law Center. He was a member of the Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team.
After graduating from law school, Shea worked for two state insurance bureaucracies before entering private practice in 1940. He accumulated political contacts through volunteer work on influential boards such as the Brooklyn Democratic Club and the Brooklyn Public Library. As one account put it: "Shea was neither a litigator nor a legal scholar. Rather, he was the sort of lawyer whom powerful men trusted with their secrets and whom they could rely upon as a go-between. ... [H]e earned a reputation as a man who could get things done."[1]
Major League BaseballEdit
William Shea was honored alongside the retired numbers of the New York Mets in 2008.
In 1958, one year after the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants left for Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, Mayor Robert Wagner of the City of New York asked Shea to chair a committee to return the National League to New York. He first tried to bring an existing franchise to New York, but the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and Pittsburgh Pirates all refused his overtures. When requests for expansion were declined, Shea proposed a new league, the Continental League, and travelled to a farm outside Philadelphia to talk Branch Rickey out of retirement to help him. The formation of the Continental League was announced by Rickey in 1959. The Continental League would have been a third major league and would have begun play in 1961.
The threat of a third major league forced Major League Baseball to discuss expansion. Two teams would be added to the American League in 1961: the Washington Senators (1961–71) – (now the Texas Rangers) and the Los Angeles Angels (now in Anaheim), and two more to the National League in 1962 (the New York Mets and the Houston Colt .45s—now the Houston Astros). With New York virtually assured of one of the new teams, Shea abandoned the idea of the Continental League. The New York Mets played their first game on April 11, 1962.
In 1964, the City of New York named the stadium in which the Mets were to play in Shea's honor — Shea Stadium. In 2008, the New York Mets retired the name "Shea" on the outfield wall of Shea Stadium alongside the other elite players and managers whom the Mets have deemed worthy of such an honor over the years (Tom Seaver, Mike Piazza, Gil Hodges, Casey Stengel, and Jackie Robinson, retired by all teams at the request of Major League Baseball). The honor was carried over to Citi Field, the new home of the Mets, with the other players' and managers' numbers. It is doubtful that in the history of organized major league sports that an individual's name, as opposed to team jersey number, who was not a player or manager or owner, but an executive and a pioneer of the game, has ever been retired by any team in any arena or stadium.
Currently, there are approximately 39 individuals who have been admitted to the Executives & Pioneers Division of the Hall of Fame. Of the 15 honored individuals admitted to the Executives & Pioneers Division of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame post-World War II, Shea served as a friend, an advisor, a peer, and as counsel to no less than two-thirds thereof (Happy Chandler; Ford Frick; Warren Giles; Clark Griffith; William Harridge; Bowie Kuhn; Leland MacPhail, Sr.; Leland MacPhail, Jr.; Walter O'Malley; Alejandro Pompez; Branch Rickey; Bill Veeck; George Weiss; J. Leslie "J.L." Wilkinson; Tom Yawkey).
National Football LeagueEdit
Shea was a one time owner of the Boston Yanks, the Long Island Indians, and a partial owner, with lifelong friend Jack Kent Cooke, of the Washington Redskins of the NFL. He further persuaded Harry Wismer to sell the New York Jets, and Sonny Werblin to buy the New York Jets, and was integral to the creation and administration of the initial annual competitions between the AFL and the NFL, now known as the Super Bowl.
National Hockey LeagueEdit
Shea was also hired by Nassau County to persuade the NHL to grant a team to the then new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, resulting in the New York Islanders, who began play in 1972.
National Basketball AssociationEdit
Shea was integral to bringing the New Jersey Americans of the American Basketball Association to Long Island in 1968 and arranging for them to play as the Nets in the Nassau County, as well as the integration of the American Basketball Association into the National Basketball Association.
Shea died from complications of a stroke he suffered two years earlier on October 2, 1991 at the age of 84.[2] In 1992, the Mets wore a memorial patch on the left sleeve to honor Shea.
HomagesEdit
Shea Stadium was the Mets' home from 1964 to 2008.
On April 8, 2008, the New York Mets retired the name "Shea" alongside other retired numbers in honor of William Shea and the closing of Shea Stadium.
On November 21, 2009, the Mets announced that the pedestrian bridge located in the outfield section of Citi Field, Shea Stadium's successor, would be named "Shea Bridge" in honor of William Shea.[3]
To honor Shea's many contributions, commencing in 1987 and continuing today, on an annual basis during the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the William A. "Bill" Shea – Distinguished Little League Graduate Award is presented to a former little leaguer in Major League Baseball who best exemplifies the spirit of Little League Baseball. Consideration for selection includes both the individual's ability and accomplishments and the individual's status as a positive role model.
The Bill Shea Harlem Little League Friendship Field located in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, New York is a flagship Little League baseball field and the home of Little League in Harlem. Shea had initiated efforts to convert a dilapidated lot that was shared with municipal leagues into a new grass field upon which Little League in Harlem could play. Through the dedication of others, the field was built, although not until 1998, seven years after Shea's death. Today, Little League is the largest organized youth sports program in the world.
In the Spring of 2014, Shea was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame.
Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones named his second son Shea after Jones' success in Shea Stadium against the Mets; he hit 19 home runs there, more than any other road park.[4]
Former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin named his eldest daughter Brielle D'Shea, as he enjoyed playing at Shea Stadium.[4]
David Wright named his first child born, July 23, 2016 Olivia Shea Wright after the stadium and thus after Shea himself.[5]
^ Shapiro, Michael (2009). Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself. New York: Times Books. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-8050-8247-0.
^ Margolick, David (October 3, 1991). "William A. Shea, 84, Dies; The Lawyer Behind the Mets". New York Times. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
^ "Mets expand club presence at Citi Field". mets.com. November 21, 2009.
^ a b ESPN news services (August 31, 2004). "Jones has 17 home runs at Shea Stadium". ESPN.com. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
^ http://metsmerizedonline.com/2016/07/david-wright-welcomes-baby-girl.html/
William A. Shea: Father of the Continental League
Kay Collett Goss, MR CHAIRMAN: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF WILBUR D MILLS, Parkhurst Publishers/University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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08.24.2011 Community
Call for artists, design competition for East End Arts' Harvest Gospel Concert Series in November. Submit original artwork that reflects joy and soul of gospel music. Winning design will adorn 25th Anniversary Harvest Gospel Concerts' program book, poster, and commemorative hand fan. Select submitted images showcased at Rejoice & Shout: Celebrating 25 Years of Harvest Gospel Concerts event on Saturday, Sept. 24, in Riverhead, soul food dinner party and screening of newly released gospel music documentary "Rejoice & Shout." Drop off entries Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at EEA gallery, 133 E. Main St., Riverhead, by Friday, Sept. 9. All submissions clearly labeled with artist's name and contact information. 727-0900.
Opening reception for Red Dot Competition for Art Collectors, Friday, Sept. 2, 5-7 p.m. at East End Arts gallery in Riverhead. Winning piece, artist and collector will be announced. Guest juror Dr. Charles Riley II presents "Landscapes with Figures" 6:30 p.m., illustrated inside look at art market and big-game hunters who pursue their passion for collecting locally and on international stage. Free. 727-0900.
Friends of Riverhead Free Library's 46th annual photography contest; application and contest rules at welcome desk. All entries must be brought to library's art gallery Saturday, Sept. 24, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Contest reception Friday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m. at library. 727-3228.
Harvest of the Arts, Saturday-Monday, September 3, 4, 5, show and sale, Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., noon-6 p.m. (poetry reading, 2-4 p.m.); Mon. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The First Universalist Church, Main Rd., Southold. 765-8082, 765-5864.
St. Isidore Church hosts Polish Night, Friday, Sept. 9, 6-11 p.m. at St. Isidore School auditorium, 515 Marcy Ave., Riverhead to benefit its food pantry. Music, dinner of various Polish foods, dancing, raffles, and live entertainment by the Kolbe Dancers of Riverhead. Tickets on sale after every Mass, Aug. 20-21, 27-28 and Sept. 3-4. Tickets will not be sold after Sept. 7. Tables set up as requested. Tickets $26 or $50/couple. Call Diane at 727-2114.
Applebee's in Riverhead hosts Flapjack Breakfast fundraiser, Sunday, Sept. 11, 8 a.m.-10 a.m. for Michael Hubbard, who is in Stony Brook hospital recovering from injuries he suffered in May, to help with costs of his mother being at his bedside full-time and anything Michael may need now and in future. Tickets $10, includes flapjacks, sausage, scrambled eggs and beverage. No tickets sold at door. Call his aunt Fran at 369-9076 for ticket.
Marquee Lighting Ceremony at historic Suffolk Theater, 118 East Main Street, Riverhead, Friday, Sept. 2, 8 p.m., as part of "A Night Out in Riverhead." Theater owners Bob and Dianne Castaldi "throw the switch" on new digital marquee, installed as part of current renovation efforts at theater, built in 1933 but closed in 1987. A toast will be presented by the Riverhead Project (new Contemporary/American restaurant located in 350 East Main Street.) East End Arts is assisting in coordinating these promotional efforts.
Call for local artists and craftspeople for Fine Art and Craft show, Friday-Saturday, Sept. 16-17 at Church of the Holy Trinity on Main Street in Greenport. $25 per 10×10 space. Call Laura Wilson at 724-953-3382 or email: [email protected]
Vendors wanted for Old Town Art and Crafts Guild's Art and Crafts Show, Saturday, Sept. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 734-6382 or oldtownguild.com.
Vendors wanted for Southold Indian Museum's annual Craft and Yard Sale, Saturday, Sept. 24, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Space $25; call 765-5777. Rain date Sunday, Sept. 25.
First Friday Open Mic Night, Friday, Sept. 2, 7-10 p.m. at Custer Institute and Observatory, Southold. Aspiring musicians, comics, poets, magicians and storytellers let loose and get experience in front of live audience. Admission free, donations appreciated. 765-2626.
North Fork Reform Synagogue's 5th annual North Fork Foodie Tour, Sunday, Sept. 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., one-day, self-guided tour includes talks and demonstrations at tour headquarters, as well as a peek at inner workings of the sustainable ways local farms, wineries, bakeries, and confectionery shops produce fresh, homegrown foods and delectables. Among tour's key motivations is to get residents to appreciate the origins of their food and to support local food production. Maps and tickets day of tour at Peconic Land Trust Ag Center, 3005 Youngs Ave., Southold or order ticket online from synagogue's website. Tickets $25, children under 12 free. northforkreformsynagogue.org or send check payable to NFRS, PO Box 1625, Southold, NY 11971. Local stores selling tickets: Barth's Pharmacy in Riverhead and Mattituck, Gallery M in Greenport, Complement the Chef in Southold. Phone 722-5712 for information.
The Wine Salon, Saturday, Sept. 3, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at wineries and other locations across the East End. Go behind scenes and learn more about grape-growing and wine-making on L.I., with tours, tastings and talks on variety of topics. Fee $25. Organized by Long Island Merlot Alliance and Long Island Wine Council. Auction proceeds benefit East End Hospice, Group for the East End, Peconic Land Trust. For information and tickets, harvesteastend.com.
Steak Nite, Saturday, Sept. 3, 6-9 p.m. hosted by Southold Fire Dept. at Main Road firehouse. Tickets $25; call 765-3385 or 765-1180.
22nd annual Boy Scout Car Show, Saturday, Sept. 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Peconic Lane School, Peconic. Rain date Sunday, Sept. 4. Antique, steam, classic, collector, street rod, custom cars and trucks. Picnic area, refreshments and food. Trophies awarded. Cutoff date 1990. Pre-registration show car and driver $15; at gate $20. General admission $5; under 12 with parent, free. Benefits Troop 6 of Southold. 298-5757, [email protected]
For Bargain Hunters
World Mission Craft Sale at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Friday-Monday, Sept. 2-5 in Parish Hall. Friday, 1-5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Monday, 10 a.m-2 p.m. Jewelry, games, home furnishings, accessories, clothing and musical instruments. Call 734-6199 for information.
Vendors wanted for yard sale/flea market at American Legion Post 273 in Riverhead, Saturday, Sept. 17, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Rain date Sept. 18. Space $20; call 727-6348.
Vendors wanted for flea market, Saturday, Sept. 3, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at Flanders United Methodist Church. 10×10 space $30. Reserve at 727-2168 or 727-5374.
For History Buffs
Southold Historical Society opens fall exhibition 'The Versatile Reverend–The Photographs of Loren A. Rowley,' Saturday, Sept. 10, 1-4 p.m. featuring several dozen examples of photographs by Rowley, little known photographer who served as minister at East Marion Baptist Church while also working as professional photographer.southoldhistoricalsociety.org.
North Fork Garden Group, Saturday, Sept. 3, 10:30 a.m. at Mattituck-Laurel Library, Mattituck. Explore organic gardening through guest speakers, seed exchange and sharing of information. To register call Elizabeth: 565-7160.
The Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, Shelter Island's original 1652 homestead, presents evening of contemporary bluegrass Blue Highway, Saturday, Sept. 3, 4:30 p.m., rain or shine. Gate opens 3:30 PM. Bring picnic, chairs and blankets. Tickets $20 advance, online at brownpapertickets.com, or at sylvestermanor.org.
Sunnyland Jazz Band concert, Friday, Sept. 2, 7-8 p.m. presented by Townscape on grounds of East End Arts, Riverhead.
Volleyball Tournament, Saturday, Sept. 10, 10 a.m. at Jamesport Town Beach. Fee $20 per player, six players per team. to benefit Heart Health at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. 548-6371,6217, 6219.
'How's Your Heart?' dinner/theater, Friday, Sept. 9, dinner 6-7 p.m., play begins 7:30 p.m. at Unity Baptist Church, Mattituck. Adults $12, children 10 and under $6. Call for tickets: 871-5084, 283-0205.
Southold Mothers' Club book club, Monday, Sept. 12, "A Secret Kept" by Tatiana de Rosnay, 7 p.m. Contact Mara at [email protected] or 940-3609 for location information or with any questions.s
Ongoing Events are listed here as space permits.
Paintings, 'The Creative World of Marilyn Uhl-Utz,' on view through August at Cutchogue New Suffolk Library, Main Road, Cutchogue. 734-6360.
Gyotaku prints by Jack Schwartz at The Southold Indian Museum, 1080 Main Bayview Road, Southold, through mid August. 765-5577.
Work by Mario Tomiatti on view through August on main level at Southold Free Library, Main Road. 765-2077.
Sculpture Garden at Brecknock Hall, One Brecknock Road, Greenport. On view through November. 477-3800.
Exhibit of photographs by Howard Stevens at Riverhead Town Hall, 200 Howell Avenue, Riverhead. On view through Sept. 10. 727-3200.
Duplicate bridge with Kathy Fibkins, Tuesdays, noon at Mattituck-Laurel Library, Main Road, Mattituck. Open to all; 734-8096.
Bingo, Mondays and Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. at Moose Lodge, Riverside Drive, Riverhead. Gaming begins 7:30 p.m. 727-6667, 779-2694.
Mah-jongg, Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon, and Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at Mattituck-Laurel Library, Main Road, Mattituck. 298-4134.
Community supper, free soup kitchen for all in need, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at St. Agnes R.C. Church parish hall, Sixth Street, Greenport. 765-2981.
Free lunch, Almuerzo Gratis for ages 6-18, Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at The Salvation Army, 130 Osborne Avenue, Riverhead. 727-3338.
Playdates with the Southold Mothers' Club: Wednesdays at Cutchogue/New Suffolk Library, Pre-school Playgroup (19 months-5 years), 9:30-11:00 a.m. [email protected] Wee little Ones Playgroup (birth-18 months), 11:00-noon, [email protected] Weekend Toddler Playdate, for times and locations contact [email protected]
Crafts for Kids at Southold Indian Museum, Sundays, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 1080 Main Bayview Road. Fee: $5 per child per craft; must be accompanied by adult. Registration appreciated but not required. 765-5577.
Free beginner's Hatha Yoga classes, Sundays, 3-4:15 p.m. at Mary Smith Recreation Center, Greenport. Bring non-skid, body-length mat. 765-3005.
Southold Historical Society summer exhibition 'A Quarter Century of Embroidery,' featuring several dozen examples of the art, in cooperation with Peconic Bay Chapter of Embroiderers' Guild of America. Location 54325 Main Road; on view 1-4 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and Wednesdays through end of August. 765-5500, southoldhistoricalsociety.org.
Oysterponds Historical Society: Oysterponds Changing Face: The First Millenia, in Old Point Schoolhouse; Orange Webb House Maritime Tour; Thursday, Saturday-Sunday, 2-5 p.m., Village Lane, Orient. Admission free. 323-2480, oysterpondshistoricalsociety.org.
Sail the Seven Seas, new exhibit at East End Seaport Museum, Third Street at Ferry Dock, Greenport. Meticulously hand crafted ship models replicating famous seagoing vessels of the last four centuries. Open daily 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Tuesdays. Group tours available. 477-2100.
Every Saturday, dusk to midnight: Stargazing at Custer Institute and Observatory, 1115 Main Bayview Road, Southold. 765-2626. To arrange group visits, e-mail [email protected]
The Yellow Barn at Riverhead Free Library, 330 Court St. open for book purchases Mondays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. 727-3228, ext. 0.
Community Drum Circle, Wednesday nights, 6:30-7:30 p.m. throughout July and August at East End Arts Council's Carriage House located behind the School of the Arts, 144 East Main Street, Riverhead. Led by master drummer Jerome Liggon, participants learn traditional West African hand drumming and chant in drum circle setting. Participants instructed in proper hand use and technique to produce variety of sounds from single skin of Djembe drum. Drums are provided for on-site use. For ages ten and up. Donations accepted. 369-2171.
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Posted February 4th 2010 at 1:01 pm by Danielle Martin
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Action, Research, or Action Research?
Dayna Cunningham starts the Action Research debate
On February 3rd, CoLab hosted a unique experience at DUSP – a dialogue designed to tease out not only the who and why of urban planning practice, but also a balanced how. Under the umbrella of reviewing the history, execution and future of action research, the packed room of faculty, students, alumni, Mel King community fellows and other friends from the community brought both a wealth of experience and opinions to the table. In a lively conversation, participants unpacked the idea of action research as a practice rooted in the grassroots reality of our cities.
Like the curriculum of most of courses, the dialogue started with defining the terms and the context, then considered the most effective and appropriate starting point to act. Larry Susskind described the origins of action research in DUSP as a moment of students coming forward and saying,
"I want to DO something."
Beyond the limited client-centered relationships in studios, fieldwork, and funded faculty research projects, students longed for more complex dives into neighborhood challenges. Susskind and other faculty, including Tunney Lee and Ceasar McDowell, described the early days after the 1960's when the flow of knowledge became multi-directional through visiting community fellows, and the work became more focused through Donald Schon's brand of reflective practice.
The discussion revealed that no single definition of action research is universally accepted or understood. Some of this tension was rooted in the value of expertise or scientific method versus the 'gut' instincts planners need in a constantly evolving communities. Early on, Susskind asserted that despite our history of encouraging action research, the department is "still vague on a theory of how you learn from your own experience, your practice, your engagement. Faculty Alice Amsden later defined effective action research through the "re" of tested replicability, while professor Phil Thompson countered that no community meeting is ever like the last, and insight and analytical skills learned through action are more salient than replication. Both Masters in City Planning student Marianna Leavy-Sperounis and DUSP department head Amy Glasmeier pointed out that action research didn't need to be either action or research, but wondered where we could find balance between both academic and practical value in these pursuits.
CoLab Mel King Fellows Jacquie Kay and Juan Leyton
One point of consensus centered around action research as one valuable tool in a planning student's arsenal, a unique tool rooted in real-time experiences within a long-term relationships between the academy and a community. McDowell advised that this tool should build from lessons learned through collective problem-solving, and be couched in long-term engagement with specific neighborhoods, like Springfield. Dennis Frenchman agreed that staying in one place, like his work in China, creates an efficiency that negates the "enormous amounts of energy to do this work." Bill Traynor, of Lawrence Community Works, cited the ease of bringing Lawrence's first Dominican mayor to MIT to tap MIT@Lawrence's years of collective reflection:
"It's about access to body of knowledge, but also access to a process where that body of knowledge is constantly refreshed."
In the end, several students called for the department to return to MIT's community serving roots as a land grant university by improving its articulation of action research as a methodology. Building on the department's rich history, students could now use action research as a tool to focus on, as Masters in City Planning student Bernadette Virginia Baird-Zars described, 'middle lessons' that help us move beyond doubt to confidence. In fact, student Eric Mackres suggested that we focus more forward than backward:
"We need the ability to anticipate the future, to do 'pre-search'…[we need to learn] how you approach communities with humility and develop confidence to propose solutions."
For more details on this event, complete with suggested readings on several of the themes, check out these notes from PhD student Annis Whitlow Sengupta. Also, check out reflections and the syllabus from CoLab's recent IAP course.
Whether you were able to attend this great event or not, what do you think? We encourage you to keep the lively conversation going here by posting your comments and reflections below.
7 responses to "Action, Research, or Action Research?"
alexa mills says:
As an advocate for action research, I wonder if this discussion really teased out the opposition to action research. I think action research often has to defend itself at a place like MIT. As a student, I always sensed a sentiment that actual work with a community – especially one characterized by mutual respect for the knowledge each party offers – wasn't as valid as traditional research.
I appreciate community engagement, and believe that urban planning students, especially, should be engaged, but I have to question whether the words action and research really go together. Universities are supposed to deliver knowledge. How does engagement deliver knowledge?
I'm still confused about Glasmeier's assertion that "action research didn't need to be either action or research." If your action research project involves neither action nor research, then what exactly does it involve? Spirited conversation? Guessing?
RalfLippold says:
I see the collective knowledge of citizens as the genuine driver for the change we talk about.
Within the body of the citizenship there are all professions, views, experiences of life embedded. In general -due to silo-ism (everybody is more focused on his/her close environment- this is yet not surfaced.
When the collective voice of the citizens is brought together there is tremendous power for moving things for- and upward:-)
As we are always part of this citizenship body in our community, we have the chance to act from within the collective body (even though the direct impact on the whole takes sometimes some time to be seen;-))
Thanks for sharing the ideas and thoughts with the open audience (via the web)!
Best regards, Ralf (Dresden, Germany)
Alexa, if that's true, that's pretty messed up. It's like saying that cooking at a culinary school isn't respected! Or how about a residency for medical students! Yes, a world in which the premier urban planners (MIT's urban planning department is #1 in the country…) have only approached the questions of urban planning from a traditional researcher's perspective is frightening. Top schools should employ the best methods for training students–even if they don't result in published journal articles.
Lorlene Hoyt says:
Do the words 'action' and 'research' go well together? This question was also raised during the round table discussion. Our own (then prof at MIT) Kurt Lewin introduced the idea of 'action research' in a seminal paper published in 1946 where he pointed to the need for research "leading to social action."
I agree that the primary role for institutions of higher learning in our society is to generate and disseminate knowledge. Doing so via engagement challenges the traditional model of research in that it values the production of practical knowledge and includes people outside the university in the discovery process.
During the discussion, it struck me that within the department (of urban studies and planning) there exist many instances of what I call "sustained engagement" whereby faculty, staff, and students have forged long-term learning relationships with people outside the academy (in Lowell, Lawrence, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Beijing, and Cartagena, for example, though there are more). Based on my experience working in collaboration with the people of Lawrence, Massachusetts, I believe that the ability to co-generate and co-disseminate knowledge is enhanced through such relationships because it takes time to build the trust necessary to co-create ideas, plans for action, methods of reflection, and publications.
I like the term action research. It challenges the dominant epistemology of universities. It suggests there are other norms worthy of exploration.
Rob G says:
Alexa, I agree with you the perspective of the social sciences wasn't brought out as much in the discussion as it could have been. However, I don't think it's because they weren't there. I think different ways of thinking and acting overlap in each individual – I'm sure almost everyone at the event has worked on a study or project with several contrasting approaches to research, action, and knowledge.
Before attending this event I did a reading for the Engaging Community class published in JAPA in 1970 featuring the views of many DUSP faculty at the time. It was amazing how many of the issues and debates on how to do teaching and research in the field are the same. I think these debates go back to how the department is structured – a fusion of planning (the art of creating plans and recommendations informed but not dictated by social science) and urban studies (which draws on multiple fields with varied and conflicting epistemologies and research approaches).
In addition to the books that were mentioned at the session another I think is relevant is Making Social Science Matter, by Bent Flyvbjerg, and the corresponding debate it has provoked.


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January 24, 2023 Politics, Republicans
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Gov. Ron DeSantis started out his week with the Florida Sheriff's Association (FSA), where he discussed his desire to allow juries to administer the death penalty via a supermajority vote, rather than requiring unanimity.
"Fine, have a supermajority. But you can't just say one person (can decide against the death penalty). So maybe eight out of 12 have to agree? Or something. But we can't be in a situation where one person can just derail this," DeSantis said.
The pitch comes in the wake of the Parkland killer not getting the death penalty because of what DeSantis called one person's "idiosyncratic" approach to the proceedings, though there ultimately were three votes not to execute the murderer.
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Former sailor leads efforts to help fellow 'atomic veterans'
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FRED SCHAFER holds up a pair of oars on the Marshallese float during a past Albany Veterans Parade. file photo
by Scott Swanson
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Fred Schafer was a young Navy sailor in 1962 when his commanders summoned the ship's crew one day for a briefing while in port in Hawaii.
"They told us that we had been selected for a top-secret group," recalled Schafer, 80, from Lebanon. "We couldn't tell our people, we couldn't tell our families, we couldn't tell our friends. That was what we faced."
Being told that the FBI was looking into the security clearance for the mission gave him more confidence, Schafer said.
"I felt really good that the FBI was doing those checks."
Schafer grew up in Salem, graduating from North Salem High School in 1960. He joined the Navy a month later.
He was on the USS Chipola, "a floating service station: we refuel ships that were at sea", which, before the Hawaii stopover, had passed through the Panama Canal and participated in the recovery operations of the Gemini spacecraft .
This was going to be different.
"As we left Hawaii, the television was showing the first atomic explosion on Christmas Island," Schafer said, referring to British nuclear bomb tests that had taken place several years earlier.
They were headed to Johnston Atoll, where the US Air Force was about to launch a series of eight PGM-17 Thor missiles as part of "Operation Fishbowl," a part of "Operation Fishbowl" nuclear weapons tests. Dominic" in the Pacific. The series of launches included an atmospheric nuclear explosion.
One of them produced a brilliant artificial aurora that could be seen over Hawaii, nearly 900 miles away, and knocked out electrical power and communication systems on the Hawaiian Islands. The blast pumped enough radiation into Earth's atmosphere to destroy or damage seven orbiting satellites.
Schafer and his teammates had ringside seats for that.
"We saw it move through space as it exploded," he said. "At that time we were told that some of the lightning was harmful, some was not."
The boaters watching were wearing T-shirts and overalls, he said.
"They gave us dark glasses and told us to go up to the desk if we wanted to look," Schafer said. "They told us they would tell you when to put your glasses on. The glasses were so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face."
Until the explosion came, he added.
"When the explosion went off, you could see the bones in your hand and a chest X-ray of the guy in front of you."
However, they were not too worried.
"For 18-year-olds, most of us on the ship, the silver bullet that would affect us had not yet been done."
When Schafer was released and returned to Oregon in 1963, "I didn't keep quiet," he said. "I started talking about it with my parents and they said, 'It's just another great story you're telling.'"
They figured he'd gotten into trouble when the FBI showed up to do his clearance check, he said.
Schafer began work on the new Safeway store in Sweet Home in 1964, eventually settling in Lebanon.
He married his wife Barbara and they had two children. Schafer worked as a distributor for Fisher foods, including introducing South Portland's Mug Root Beer. Later, he worked for Frantz bakery products, distributing in Lebanon and Sweet Home.
One day in the early 1980s, he passed by the American Legion post in Lebanon, where he met a member of the National Association of Atomic Veterans, an organization that had been founded in 1979 by Orville and Wanda Kelly of Burlington, Iowa. Orville Kelly, a radiation cancer victim, and his wife established the group to advocate for veterans suffering health problems related to radiation exposure during the Army's underwater and atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962.
"I didn't know anything about it," Schafer said. "I thought, 'This is my niche. This is what I want to do."
He had not personally experienced any obvious health problems related to his time in the South Pacific, other than possibly COPD, he said. But he was very worried about the issue.
Before long, he was the commander of the state of Oregon and began searching for atomic veterans throughout the state.
A local Veterans Administration representative provided him with the names and phone numbers of atomic veterans, but otherwise Schafer's efforts were largely relegated to word of mouth and putting up signs in VA and Legion hallways around the world. condition.
Over the years, state membership grew to 70, but Schafer estimates that was only about 10% of the actual number of atomic veterans in Oregon.
By 2013, Schafer was a national commander. He had established a regular schedule: quarterly state meetings held in Portland, Albany, or Lebanon, and sometimes in Bend.
NAAV has been very active in keeping the interests of atomic veterans in front of government officials, he said, which is one reason he is now deputy commander at the national level. Current Minnesota Major Keith Kiefer is based closer to Washington, DC and is better situated for lobbying and other needs, Schafer said.
"He's very active on the bills."
President Joe Biden recently signed a three-year extension to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, an agreement that allows veterans to file claims with the Department of Justice, and NAAV is working to get Congress to extend it another 15 years, Schafer said, adding that it provides relief for anyone with a suspected cancer related to nuclear exposure: "cleaning men, people on nuclear ships, anyone involved in nuclear power."
MEMBERS OF NAAV tour the Nevada Test Site Nuclear Memorial outside Las Vegas in 2016. Photo courtesy of Fred Schafer
In 2016, the NAAV arranged for members to visit the Nevada Test Site Nuclear Memorial outside Las Vegas and he wants to do it again, Schafer said.
"We went there for one of our conventions and took a group to the test site. They put us in places on the testing ground that normal tourists can't see. There were 81 of us on the bus: wives and soldiers. They said it was the biggest group they'd ever had."
Many of the group's efforts focus on raising awareness.
On January 1, 2018, the portion of Interstate 5 that begins in Albany and ends in Salem was designated the Atomic Veterans Memorial Highway, as a result of the NAAV's efforts.
And, like many states, Oregon has permanently designated July 16 as a day to honor and remember the sacrifices made by atomic veterans.
Not only are many veterans unaware of the NAAV, but Schafer said many are unaware of the medical options available to them, or even the fact that they are no longer bound by secrecy: "In 1996, President Clinton freed us" with the repeal. of Secrecy Agreements and Nuclear Radiation Acts, which allow atomic veterans to speak about their experiences, particularly to establish the validity of a service-connected disability.
In recent years, the Oregon NAAV group has also become heavily involved in helping the Marshallese who live in the state and in whose homeland the US conducted 67 nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958: 23 on the atoll Bikini and 44 near Eniwetok Atoll. whose consequences spread throughout the islands.
One test in particular, "Castle Bravo" on March 1, 1954, produced an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki, spreading traces of radioactive material as far as Australia, India and Japan, and even the United States. and parts of Europe, and prompted international calls to ban atmospheric testing of thermonuclear devices.
It also rapidly produced cancers and other diseases among members of a Japanese fishing boat that was nearby when the detonation occurred, coming into direct contact with the radioactive fallout.
Radioactive fallout from the explosion spread to inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands, which were evacuated 48 hours after the detonation.
When the islanders returned three years later, they found that their previous staple foods, including arrowroot, makmok, and fish, had either disappeared or caused various illnesses in the residents, and were taken away again.
Ultimately, 15 islands and atolls were contaminated, and in 1963, natives of the Marshall Islands began to suffer from thyroid tumors and many birth defects were reported.
Later, the US also dumped 130 tons of soil from an irradiated Nevada test site on Enewetak Atoll in the island chain.
Since they have been forced to live elsewhere, Schafer said, many of the Marshallese have resided in Oregon and other states.
Schafer said the "7,000+" Marshallese in Oregon have "become my new family." He also frequently visits Arkansas, where the island's 16,000 former residents live.
"I met the president, the king, many of the officials. I have met several of his dignitaries.
FRED SCHAFER shows some tissues introduced to him by Marshallese residents of the US, whom he has tried to help through NAAV. Above left, Schafer is shown during his Navy days. Photo by Scott Swanson
Schafer said Oregon was the first state in the union to reinstate medical benefits for islanders, in 2016, and credited then-state Rep. Sherrie Sprenger with helping in that effort. In 2020, the federal government followed suit, reinstating Medicaid for Marshallese and other Pacific Islanders living in the US.
"They were very mistreated," he said of the islanders' plight as a result of treaties with the US government that prevented them from getting government health care for decades.
Schafer said those treaties, "the deal (the US government) gave them to destroy the land," also prohibited islanders, some of whom have lived on the mainland for generations, from employment beyond the "ordinary workers", and could not have a driver. licenses
Since 2014, Schafer and others have arranged for the Marshallese to appear, with a 30-foot-long traditional canoe, in the Albany Veterans Parade.
"All I have to do is tell them, 'Veterans Day is coming up.'"
Although COVID shut down MAAV's activities for the most part, Schafer said he's looking to get everything back up and running in 2023, though, he noted, the numbers are declining.
"One of our board members is 98 years old. We are dying pretty fast. I would imagine there are still 20-30 members (in Oregon), but there are probably 2,000-3,000 atomic veterans in the state," he said. "There were 250,000 military personnel and 250,000 civilians involved in these tests."
Among the members of the national board is another resident of Lebanon, Treasurer Frank Farmer.
Many veterans are simply unaware of the group's existence, Schafer said. He plans to continue working on awareness.
"I just enjoyed taking this and running with it," he said. "I'm very active. My VA doctor tells me, 'You're in the top 10%, Fred.'
"I'm busy."
Anyone interested in learning more about NAAV can contact Schafer at (541) 258-7453 or via email at derf@trcschafer.com.
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One day, Sri Krsna and Baladeva Prabhu went out for cow-herding with their friends. Their mothers had sent foodstuffs to Bandiravana, but by mistake the boys went to the border of Mathura and Vrndavana. In that area there were only asoka trees there – no other plants – and nearby there were brahmanas performing a yajna (a sacrifice).
All the cowherd boys told Krsna and Baladeva Prabhu, "Today, we are very hungry. Please tell us how to satisfy our hunger." Krsna replied, "Nearby, there are brahmanas performing a yajna, and in this yajna they will be giving alms of foodstuffs. Go and tell them that Krsna and Balarama have come here by mistake, and we are very hungry. They will certainly give something to you."
The cowherd boys went to the yajna and requested, "O godly brahmanas, please give us foodstuffs. In this yajna, foodstuffs can be given." The brahmanas heard the boys' request, but at the same time they did not hear. They became silent, and said neither "Yes" nor "No." The cowherd boys requested so many times. However, absorbed in their yajna, the brahmanas ignored them.
At last, the boys returned to Krsna and Baladeva and told Them, "The brahmanas will not give us any foodstuffs as alms. We told them that in this yajna something can be given to needy persons, and that we are very hungry, but they didn't pay any attention to us."
Krsna told His friends, "Why are you so sad? If a beggar goes anywhere and asks for foodstuffs and those persons don't give, other people in other places will give with honor. Now you can go to the yajna-patnis, the wives of the brahmanas doing "Svaha, svaha." (grains or other items are offered into a sacrificial fire by this mantra, svaha.) These wives have much honor for Me and for Baladeva Prabhu. Go to them and tell them about Us. They will surely give alms.
The cowherd boys returned to the village of the yajna-patnis and told them, "Krsna and Baladeva Prabhu have come nearby here, and They are hungry." The yajna-patnis at once took large vessels full of foodstuffs they had already prepared, and brought them to Krsna.
When they reached the garden decorated by Asoka trees where Krsna was strolling in the company of his cowherd friends, they told Krsna, "We have left our atheistic husbands and come to You. Please accept us. We will be satisfied only if you accept us as the servants of Your servants."
Krsna is a gopa. When so many gopis came to Krsna at the time of rasa-lila, Krsna told them, "Return to your husbands." A big discussion took place, and finally Krsna had to do rasa and dance with them. * How many days did He dance with them? He danced for one full night of Brahma , and He was satisfied. With the brahmanis however, He considered, "They are brahmanis. How can I accept them?"
Krsna told the Yajna-patnis, "Please return to your husbands. They will repent for having not given alms, and they will praise you." Krsna then took all the vessels full of varieties of foods, and the yajna-patnis returned to their homes.
Their husbands had heard about what happened and repented for their offense to Krsna and Baladeva. They began to condemn themselves thus: "Oh, fie on our yajna, on our "Svaha, svaha." Of what use is it?! Our wives cannot read the Vedas and they have no sacred thread, yet their lives are successful. We utter, 'Svaha, svaha', but that 'svaha' cannot take us to Goloka Vrndavana."
Why did Krsna accept the gopis and not the yajna-patni brahmanis? It is for the very reason that they were brahmanis. A gopa, a member of the vaisya or cowherd dynasty, has so much regard for brahmanas.
Krsna was thinking, "The hands of our forefather, the moon, are smeared with kumkum. Those hands, his rays, are decorating the face of his beloved Purva-disa without any difficulty, and she is shyly accepting that reddish ornamentation. Why should I not do the same?"
In other words, the reddish rays of the moon radiated through-out the forest, bathing the trees and the rivers and everything else in it in a red light.
In that ambrosial atmosphere, thoughts of the gopis came to Krsna's mind, and He remembered His promise to fulfill their innermost desires. He pondered, "By diffusing the reddish hue of his gentle rays and by glowing with the effulgence of newly applied vermilion, Candra (the moon) has reminded Me of My promise and has placed within My heart the inspiration to fulfill it. This is the perfect moment for Me to do so."
Then, on that full moon night of the autumn season, He played a beautiful melody on His flute and the gopis came running to Him. But when they arrived, He told them to return to Vraja. "A lady should serve her husband," He said, "regardless of his qualities. Her husband may be poor or plagued with diseases, but she should serve him under all circumstances."
At first the gopis did not say anything in reply, but within their minds and hearts they questioned, "Does He really mean it or is He joking with us?" They observed Him closely as He tried to cleverly hide His real intention. It seemed that He was honestly expressing Himself in a straightforward manner, but in fact, He was not.
Finally, the gopis said, "You are our guru and, as such, You are giving us so many instructions. We know that even in the presence of God, a person should serve his gurudeva first, so let us first serve You, our gurudeva, before we return to serve our husbands."
Sri Krsna was instructing the gopis and also telling them, "I am God, so you should obey Me".
The gopis replied, "We agree that if You are God we should certainly obey You, but our first duty is to serve our gurudeva. When we have executed that order, we will obey Your instructions to serve our husbands.
"Our second consideration is this. We know that God is our father, God is our real husband, and God is everything; so if You are God, then You are both our husband and our guru. In every way, if You do not accept our service You will be guilty of acting against the principles of religion. You are giving us instructions on religious principles, but You should practice this Yourself."