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Senators Prospects
Senators' Prospects at the World Juniors
By Dayton Reimer January 15th, 2020
The 2020 World Junior Championship was filled with upsets and excitement, making it one of the more memorable tournaments in recent years. It began with wild speculation about the 'Group of Death' – the nickname given to Group A that included Canada, Russia, USA, the Czech Republic and newcomer, but certainly no pushover, Germany. Many of the predictions were correct when, after two games, every team was tied with a win and a loss apiece. Adding to the tension was Canada, who arrived as a medal hopeful but suffered their worst defeat in tournament history (6-0) at the hands of the Russians.
The playoffs were no less exciting, with the Finns upsetting the stacked American squad 1-0 in the quarterfinals, sending them home without a medal for the first time in five years. Russia kept the frustrated Swedes, who now boast a record 52-game preliminary win streak, out of the gold medal game, defeating them 5-4 in overtime to book a rematch with Canada for gold. However, the Canadians came out on top this time, coming back from a 3-1 deficit to win 4-3. It was a roller coaster ride from start to finish.
Canadian players and coaching staff pose for a group photograph during the medal ceremony for the 2020 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship final match between Canada and Russia at Ostravar Arena (Photo by Peter KovalevTASS via Getty Images)
With the highs and lows still fresh, here's a look back at some individual performances. The Ottawa Senators watched three of the organization's best junior prospects represent their countries on junior hockey's biggest stage, and they have much to be excited about. All three players took positive steps forward despite not being their team's biggest star. If the World Juniors are any indication of future success, the Senators are in good hands.
Jacob Bernard-Docker – Canada
As one of the Senators' top prospects, all eyes were on Jacob Bernard-Docker when he was selected to Canada's team. He nearly made the roster in 2019, but ended up being the final cut when Canada trimmed their defense to seven players. He was indispensable in 2020, putting up 14 points in 18 games with the University of North Dakota this season and helping his team ascend to the top of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.
Jacob Bernard-Docker at the Ottawa Senators' 2019 development camp (Courtesy Ottawa Senators)
With top prospects like Bowen Byram and Jared McIsaac already slotted in as Canada's top defense pairing, Bernard-Docker was assigned to a depth shutdown role with Kevin Bahl. In his team's first game against the USA, last year's silver medalists, he logged over 19 minutes – the third highest on the team. Only Ty Smith logged more time among defensemen, and both he and Bernard-Docker were instrumental in the opening win against the Americans.
Related: Ottawa Senators' Prospect Pyramid
After that, it didn't take long for Bernard-Docker to move up the depth chart. By the gold medal match-up with Russia, he was playing on the top pairing with Byram and logging big minutes on the penalty kill. He scored a single goal, in Canada's 6-1 win over Slovakia, but was hailed as one of the team's steadiest defensemen, if not one of their best. The tournament proved that Bernard-Docker can play both ends of the ice effectively, which should make the Senators very happy.
Shane Pinto – USA
Many were disappointed when Shane Pinto was selected 32nd overall by the Senators in 2019. With top prospects like Arthur Kaliyev, Bobby Brink and Raphael Lavoie still on the board, who many had projected as first-round selections, the relatively unknown college commit was considered a wasted pick. As the 2019-20 season progressed, the selection didn't look any better, especially as Kaliyev rocketed to nearly two points a game in the OHL.
Shane Pinto, Ottawa Senators, 2019 NHL Draft. (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
Yet, Pinto was the biggest star of the bunch at the 2020 World Juniors. On a stacked American squad, which included Brink and Kaliyev, he was the team's second-highest scorer with seven points, and tied for the lead in goals with four. Although the Americans left the tournament without a medal, thanks to a stellar performance by Finland in the quarterfinals, it was a no-brainer to name Pinto one of the team's three best players.
One of his best performances was in the opening game against Canada. Centering the first line with Nick Robertson and Oliver Wahlstrom, Pinto scored the USA's first goal three minutes into the game, assisted on Robertson's goal that brought them within one, and scored the goal that tied the game at four. A quick retaliation by Canada's Alexis Lafrenière and an empty-net goal put a stop to Team USA's comeback, but Pinto's performance did not go unnoticed, earning him Player of the Game honors.
Lassi Thomson – Finland
Finland had a tough World Juniors. After losing their top center Anton Lundell to an injury before the tournament, they also lost Rasmus Kupari, a Los Angeles Kings' first-round pick playing in the AHL this season, after just one game. Deprived of their two biggest stars, the Finns had their work cut out for them in order to repeat as gold medalists. It was up to the defense and their depth players to step up and transition to a slower, grinding style, rather than the high-flying offense many thought we would see again.
Much of the responsibility rested on Lassi Thomson, the Finnish captain and member of last year's gold medal team. Like Bernard-Docker, Thomson is an offensive defenseman, and has six goals in Finland's Liiga this season. He also wasn't a very popular selection by the Senators in 2019, taken 19th overall despite being ranked as a late-first/early-second round pick. But when tasked with a bigger role on a weakened team, he rose to the challenge, playing tight defense and with a physical edge despite his smaller (6-foot-0) stature.
Lassi Thomson, Ottawa Senators, 2019 NHL Draft. (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
In the end, the team just didn't have enough gas in the tank, falling 5-0 to Canada in the semifinals and losing to Sweden in the bronze medal game. Thomson, despite playing the most minutes of any Finnish player, was unspectacular, finishing with just three assists. Still, Senators general manager Pierre Dorian was happy with what he saw, saying, "He's one of the players that has played the most minutes and he's one of their leaders…we anticipate he'll start his North American pro career next year," (from 'GARRIOCH: GM Pierre Dorion impressed with Senators prospects at world juniors', Ottawa Sun – 1/13/20).
Although the Senators had just three prospects at the 2020 World Juniors, each were key members of their team and showed promise. It's important to remember that this tournament is not a guarantee of success, nor is it a death sentence if it goes poorly – just think of gold-medalist goaltender Justin Pogge or Sean Couturier, who ended his only tournament with three points in seven games. The World Juniors offers a brief snapshot of a player in some of the highest pressure games he'll ever play, and the Senators can take comfort in the fact that when placed in that situation their prospects performed their best.
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Show Me a Hero and I'll Write You a Tragedy: My Ken Griffey Jr. Story
Steve Benko
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The date is April 3rd, 1989, and the Mariners are playing the Oakland Athletics at The Coliseum. After a Harold Reynolds pop-out, a 19-year-old Ken Griffey Jr. steps into the batter's box for his first major league plate appearance. All eyes were on Junior, as they had been for a while. Griffey was a highly touted prospect since high school, and after spending only a year in the minor leagues, he was ready. Griffey watches a Dave Stewart strike go by, his nerves probably through the roof, but he remained calm on the outside. The second pitch, which was the second Griffey had ever seen as a major league baseball player, was a low forkball to the outside. He took it deep into center field for a double.
Exactly one week later, Griffey hit his first home run. The rest is history.
When we think of Ken Griffey Jr. we think of the sweetest swing in MLB history, we think of home runs, sportsmanship, and just about everything that is good and right in baseball. For me, I remember being six years old, as a tee-baller, I had just gotten an Nintendo 64 along with Ken Griffey Jr's Slugfest. That was the first time I had ever heard of him. I would play that game for hours, just sitting there, hitting bombs with Griffey. It was like using him was a cheat-code.
I always aspired to be, yet never was able to be a good baseball, basketball, or football player for that matter. That's why I write about them. Griffey inspired a whole generation of kids to wear 24. He made wearing backwards hats the coolest. Most kids mimicked Junior's batting stance in their mirror in hopes that one day, they'd be able to hit bombs like he did. In terms of impact, very few had a positive cultural impact that Griffey did. Commercials, video games, signature shoes with Nike, and the Swingman logo. Shortly put, Ken Griffey Jr. became a brand. People respected him for the way he played, and the fact that he was as a 13x All-Star and 10 straight Golden Glove award winner, didn't hurt his cause either.
Everything comes at a price.
Things weren't always great for Griffey. Being a 17-year-old baseball prodigy isn't easy when greatness is expected, and sometimes teenagers just want to be teenagers. It led to arguments with his father, as he was quoted as saying
"It seemed like everyone was yelling at me in baseball, then I came home and everyone was yelling at me there, I got depressed. I got angry. I didn't want to live."
In January of 1988, at just 17-years-old, Ken Griffey Jr. tried to kill himself by swallowing 277 aspirin. Sometimes, the people we never expect to have anything going wrong can be the people who are hurting inside the most. It's hard being a teenager, but being on your own, playing minor league ball, dealing with the pressures of being great, being yelled at on the field, being yelled at home, and still being a teenager, Griffey just wanted it all to end. He even spoke about having the thought of killing himself more than once with his father's gun. His girlfriend's mother rushed him to the hospital after he ingested the aspirin, and the young Griffey ended up in intensive care. Even in the hospital, he was being yelled at by his father, until he ripped the IV out of his arm, and the yelling stopped. He's stated that after the suicide attempt, his relationship with his father completely changed, and for the better.
The whole time I was growing up, I never knew about Griffey's suicide attempt. I went through my elementary, and middle school years without knowing, until I got to high school and was reading up on him, and it put things into perspective for me. At the moment I first read it, I felt like I realized why I had been a fan all of these years. It stopped being solely about baseball and sportsmanship, and became about the fact that he had been feeling the same way millions of other teenagers do. People always raise celebrities to levels of immortality and refer to them as "heroes," without actually having done anything deserving of being a hero, but he gave us a real moment, with real advice.
"Don't ever try to commit suicide, I am living proof how stupid it is."
Griffey Jr. is a hero to a generation of baseball fans, and sure, he was my favorite player growing up, but he became my hero the second I realized that I could relate. Sometimes when I'm going through a rough time, all I need is the feeling that there's someone out there battling the same battles that I am.
"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald hit the nail right on the head with this quote. Only can someone become a hero after facing a tragedy, and in Griffey's case, he was able to emerge as a hero only after hitting his lowest. That really can be a testament to all of us.
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musicstew420 Feb 1, 2015
Nicely written. Griffey is my favorite player of all time, but I had no idea he had attempted suicide in his teens. Wow, glad he persevered and now continues to inspire!
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Punitive Damages for Gross Negligence in a Personal Injury Case
Punitive damages are rare in injury cases, and are meant to punish the defendant. Here's how they work.
The general public is probably familiar with the term "punitive damages" due to high-profile jury verdicts. However, where a case proceeds to trial, punitive damages are awarded in a very small percentage of injury cases. In order to be awarded punitive damages, the defendant's behavior must be especially reprehensible and deserving of punishment.
In this article we'll explain what punitive damages are and when they might be awarded in a personal injury case.
Damages in General
Damages are generally awarded to compensate an injured person for the harm caused by the defendant's actions. There are a number of different types of compensation for an injury, including compensation for physical pain and suffering, physical impairment, mental anguish, loss wages, and medical expenses.
(See Alllaw's section on Personal Injury Damages for more information.)
For example, suppose Tom was injured in a car accident where the other driver (Mark) was at fault. Tom can recover damages for permanent lost mobility in his arm, for missing two months of work, and for his medical expenses. Tom's damages would be awarded based on the money he lost as a result of Mark's actions, and based on the negative impact the accident has had on his life.
What are Punitive Damages?
Unlike regular damages, punitive damages are meant to punish and are not directly tied to a tangible injury. They're not technically meant to compensate the plaintiff for a specific loss, although the plaintiff is the one who ends up receiving punitive damages from the defendant.
So, when will punitive damages be possible? In many states, a finding of punitive damages requires intentional misconduct or gross negligence. Other states require a defendant to act with recklessness, malice or deceit. Punitive damages can be awarded in most cases, but are generally not included in a breach of contract case.
Gross Negligence. Gross negligence is defined as conduct that is reckless and constitutes a conscious disregard or indifference to other's safety, life, or rights. While ordinary negligence involves the violation of a general duty to act with reasonable care, with gross negligence there is an added element of recklessness. For example, a business may be liable for negligence for failing to fix an old roof that later collapses and hurts customers. However, let's say that a building inspector informed the business that the roof must be fixed due to its dangerous condition, and the business was ordered not to keep that part of the building open to the public in the meantime. The business ignores this mandate, and the roof collapses three months later, injuring customers. In that case, the business may be liable for gross negligence. The business knew of the roof's condition and consciously disregarded its customer's safety.
It's important to note that, where there is gross negligence, governmental entities and employees may lose their otherwise generally applicable immunity from liability for personal injury claims.
Rationale for Punitive Damages. Punitive damages are meant to punish and to deter similar wrongful or repugnant conduct.
In the car accident example above, suppose that Mark intentionally sideswiped Tom's car after he thought that Tom cut him off on the highway. Mark engaged in intentional misconduct and purposely hit Tom's car. Tom should be awarded damages to compensate him for his injuries. Also, Tom would have a good claim for punitive damages. Tom can argue that Mark should be punished for intentionally causing his injuries and should be punished to deter other people from acting in the same dangerous manner.
Limitations on Punitive Damages. Some states like Florida place limitations or "caps" on punitive damages awards. Florida does not allow a punitive damage award to exceed three times the amount of the award of compensatory damages or $500,000, whichever is higher. Check the law in your state or talk to an attorney to find out whether such caps are in place where you live.
Sanctions for Lack of Reasonable Basis. There must be a reasonable basis for an injured person to seek punitive damages in a personal injury lawsuit. Where there is limited or no evidence of intentional misconduct, gross negligence, or deceit, a court can levy monetary sanctions on the injured person and his or her attorney for seeking punitive damages. By requiring a reasonable basis for asking for these kinds of compensation, courts are trying to discourage frivolous claims for punitive damages in personal injury cases.
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Montessori graduates feel they can and do make a difference in their communities and in the world. What more can you want for your child?


Scientists are reporting that Mars appears to have not only frozen water but flowing streams of salty water, at least in the summertime.
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL -- Mars appears to have flowing rivulets of water, at least in the summer, scientists reported Monday in a finding that boosts the odds of life on the red planet.
"Mars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past," said Jim Green, director of planetary science for NASA.
Scientists in 2008 confirmed the existence of frozen water on Mars. Now instruments aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have yielded what researchers said is the strongest evidence yet that water in liquid form trickles down certain Martian slopes.
And because liquid water is essential to life, the finding could have major implications for the possibility of microscopic life forms on Mars.
"It suggests that it would be possible for there to be life today on Mars," NASA's science mission chief, John Grunsfeld, said at a Washington news conference.
The rivulets - if that's what they are, since the evidence for their existence is indirect - are about 12 to 15 feet wide and 300 feet or more long, scientists said. They apparently consist of wet soil, not standing water, scientists said.
The water is believed to contain certain salts - not ordinary table salt, but magnesium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate and sodium perchlorate. Like road salt used to melt ice and snow on Earth, such compounds can prevent water from freezing at extremely low temperatures.
That would explain how water could exist in liquid form on Mars, which has an average temperature of minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit.
In addition to supporting life, the presence of liquid water could make things easier for astronauts visiting or living on Mars. Water could be used for drinking and for creating oxygen and rocket fuel. NASA's goal is to send humans there in the 2030s.
Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars exploration program, said the only definitive way for now to determine whether there's life on Mars is to collect rocks and soil for analysis on Earth - something a U.S. lander set for liftoff in 2020 will do.
"Water is one of the most precious resources necessary for a human mission to the red planet," Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House science, space and technology committee, said in a statement. "The more evidence we find of it, the more encouraged I am for future Mars missions."
Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona at Tucson, a scientist on the project, said he, for one, believes the possibility of life on Mars to be "very high."
The source of the briny water is a mystery. Scientists said it could be melting ice, an underground aquifer, water vapor from the thin Martian atmosphere, or some combination.
The evidence of flowing water consists largely of dark, narrow streaks on the surface that tend to appear and grow during the warmest Martian months and fade the rest of the year. The streaks are in places where the temperature is as low as 10 below zero.
The streaks were spotted by the Mars orbiter's high-resolution, telescopic camera, and another on-board instrument detected the chemical signature of salt compounds combined with water.
The notion of water and life on Mars has been irresistible to earthlings for generations.
In 1877, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli spied what he called "canali" on Mars - Italian for "channels" - but the word was mistranslated as "canals" in English, causing imaginations to run wild. In the early 1900s, amateur astronomer Percival Lowell claimed to have spotted irrigation canals and theorized they were built by Martians.
The latest findings were published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The lead author, Lujendra Ojha, a doctoral candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology, first noticed the streaks on Mars in 2010. Ojha and colleagues speculated at the time that they were seeing flowing water.


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The Kings will conduct their sixth-annual rink tour on Saturday afternoon, at six locations throughout Southern California. Groups of players, coaches and broadcasters will travel to the rinks to conduct on-ice clinics with youth hockey players and take part in autograph sessions.
The event is free and runs from 2:30-4 p.m. at each of the rinks. Here are the rinks (with addresses and phone numbers) and the tentative list of which people will be where. Note, of course, that the five Olympians playing Friday almost certainly won't be able to participate.


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'Uncommon conversation' on sex abuse falls silent
by Brian Roewe
(Dreamstime/Bernd Schmidt/NCR staff)
An "uncommon conversation" is on hold in Minnesota.
After meeting a decade ago at a sex abuse treatment conference, Gil Gustafson and Susan Pavlak each came to see in their pasts a possible way forward for their home archdiocese, St. Paul-Minneapolis, as it struggled to deal with the scandal of clergy sexual abuse.
Pavlak, now 62, was sexually abused as a child by a teacher who was a former nun at a Catholic school. Gustafson, now 66, pleaded guilty in 1983 to sexually abusing a teenage boy, and has since admitted to abuse of three other male minors. By coming to know each other, each had grown personally. They wondered if they could duplicate that experience for other victims and abusers.
In November 2012, the two held their first Uncommon Conversation event, an effort to bring together the local Catholic community — abuse survivors, parishioners, church staff, clergy and also the abusers themselves — to begin a conversation about the abuse crisis, how it has personally affected a multitude of people and how they together might move beyond the scandal.
"This is an opportunity for people to speak and be heard about a traumatic event in their life, in their family life, in their spiritual life, in their community life. And listen to others' experience of that, move forward and through and out of that trauma into recovery, whatever that may look like for them," Pavlak told NCR.
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They believed they had a model to bring healing not just to their local community, but to the wider Catholic community torn apart by this unspeakable tragedy of trust betrayed and lives shattered. They raised profound questions about forgiveness and mercy and the community's responsibility toward both victim and perpetrator. They believed they offered a path of healing, with victim and perpetrator standing together.
The path they took, instead, led them into a thicket of tensions and no clear answers.
Their project has stalled in recent years, overcome to a large extent by troubles over sex abuse in the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese, which has seen the resignation of an archbishop and auxiliary bishop; the leadership of key archdiocesan officers being called into question; and the archdiocese declaring bankruptcy in January 2015.*
Left unanswered are the questions Pavlak and Gustafson set out to ask, about how to heal this community with justice and mercy.
'I knew it wasn't right'
When the U.S. bishops in 2002 adopted the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, or the Dallas Charter, they enacted a zero tolerance policy toward clergy who committed a single act of sexual abuse. Gustafson was among the "charter priests" who were permanently removed from ministry following its implementation. By then, the Twin Cities archdiocese had known of his sexual abuse of children for two decades.
Ordained a priest in 1977, Gustafson's first parish assignment placed him as an associate priest at St. Mary of the Lake Church in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. A year later, he was made temporary administrator of the parish after its pastor, Fr. Michael Kennedy, had a heart attack.
Read the complete series:
Part 1: The overview: 'Uncommon conversation' on sex abuse falls silent
Part 2: An interview with Susan Pavlak: 'All of us together': Sex abuse survivor seeks healing within the church
Part 3: An interview with Gilbert Gustafson: Convicted soul: A priest-perpetrator of child sexual abuse shares his story
The editor's note: Why are we running these stories.
In 1982, Gustafson was named associate director of continuing education and spiritual growth for priests at the archdiocesan Center for Growth in Priestly Ministry; to prepare, he planned to undertake graduate studies at the Blackfriars college in Oxford, England.
But those plans abruptly changed later that summer, when the parents of Brian Herrity informed the archdiocese that Gustafson had sexually abused their 15-year-old son, according to documents unsealed in 2014 as part of the John Doe 1 settlement.
In a January 2015 interview with Jesuit Fr. Luke Hansen, Gustafson said his sexual abuse of four boys, ages 10-15, began within his first year at St. Mary of the Lake, advancing from fondling over their clothing, to directly touching their genitals, to oral sex. In one instance, before Gustafson was to leave for Europe, he visited the Herrity house, where he had Brian perform oral sex on him on the porch while his family was inside.
"There was a sense of almost hiding it from myself and them — as if they would not have understood that rubbing my hand across their groin area was an invasive, abusive act. It was crazy-thinking. I knew it wasn't right," said Gustafson, who immediately confessed when confronted about his abuse of Herrity.
Instead of Oxford, Gustafson headed to Washington, D.C., where he enrolled in the Catholic University of America, and also entered into psychotherapy at Georgetown University Medical Center. In a September 1982 letter, he thanked Archbishop John Roach for serving as "a 'scapegoat' for my change in educational plans."
According to news reports at the time, the police learned of the allegation in January 1983 — four months after the archdiocese sent Gustafson away for treatment. That May, Gustafson pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual misconduct related to Herrity. He was fined $40 and received an 18-month sentence in a state prison. The sentence was immediately stayed and replaced with 10 years' probation and six months in a county workhouse, of which he served four and a half months.
The first page of the 1983 police report on Gil Gustafson's abuse of Brian Herrity
While on work release, Gustafson served as human resource coordinator for Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Upon his release, he entered continuous outpatient therapy, receiving positive marks from therapists for his progress.
Gustafson has adamantly stated that he has not abused children since his conviction; allegations brought against him have been confined to his time at St. Mary of the Lake. The Herrity family received $150,000 from a civil settlement. Brian Herrity died in 1995 of complications from AIDS at age 28.
Throughout therapy, several explanations emerged as to why Gustafson sexually abused children. One link was to distress he felt from a family crisis stemming from his older sister becoming pregnant out of wedlock. While a 1987 assessment from St. Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland, noted that he said he was never sexually abused or mistreated, Gustafson told Hansen that he later came to understand that he was sexually abused at age 6 by an older neighborhood boy, as the two would remove their pants and spank each other. He first noticed his sexual attraction to young males during his final years in seminary.
Counseling also revealed a "fusion of the two forbiddens" in his life: sex and anger. The priest explained that after he became parish administrator, his work led to persistent feelings of exhaustion. With it developed a sense of entitlement, and acting upon his sexual fantasies with young boys became a type of reward for himself.
"I was one depleted soul — psychologically, spiritually and physically. I was tired and exhausted. This was part of the setup for why I crossed the line. It doesn't excuse it," he told Hansen. (Gustafson discusses this at length in his interview with Hansen.)
St. Luke Institute put Gustafson through a battery of tests, reaching a diagnosis of paraphilia, with ephebophilia in remission. Paraphilia refers to the need for atypical sexual behavior for gratification, and ephebophilia is the desire for sex with older teenagers.
St. Luke recommended he continue therapy and commit himself to a lifelong management plan, noting in their view that "sexual disorders such as his have an element of permanence."
Gustafson never returned to parish ministry, although the archdiocese considered the possibility, including perhaps in another diocese. Instead, he took on more administrative roles, all with explicit instructions to have no contact with children.
Following his release from the workhouse program, Gustafson became a chaplain to a cloistered monastery of Poor Clare Sisters and continued to work with Catholic Charities, first in establishing a personnel office and then later as director of its community outreach program.
In 1988, Roach shot down Gustafson's participation in a statewide workshop on sexual issues in ministry, stating in a letter, "We are sitting on an absolute powderkeg on this issue and to run any more risks than necessary makes no sense to me at all."
Later that year, a chaplaincy at St. Mary's Hospital never materialized after former pastor Kennedy raised concerns that Gustafson also had "some inappropriate sexual acting out" with late-adolescent to 20-year-old women. Gustafson has denied any abuse of girls; the archdiocese settled a lawsuit with one woman in 2005.
Two years later, in 1990, Gustafson began working with vicar general Fr. Kevin McDonough as a special chancery consultant, with McDonough citing his planning and organizational expertise, along with "some good technical and personal sensitivity to issues around the sexual misbehavior of clergy." Gustafson's responsibilities would include tracking policy developments elsewhere in the church and literature on sexual abuse, working with a committee to assist parishes affected by clergy misconduct, organizing details on individual allegations, and serving as McDonough's "conscience" by identifying inadequacies with how the archdiocese was proceeding in any given case.
When McDonough approached Gustafson in 1993 to head a review of the archdiocese's response and assistance to victims of clergy sexual misconduct, Gustafson suggested that his role be limited to a "shadow" researcher, aware of how his involvement as a convicted abuser would likely be perceived.
"It is imperative that I not be identified as the primary architect of any revision in our response. ... My history as a perpetrator could neutralize the worth of any suggestions I might make. I think we should carefully review the advisability of my assisting in this task because of the potential for backlash," he wrote to McDonough.
Gustafson continued his work at the chancery, assisting on the revision of the archdiocesan policy on sexual misconduct, "A Time to Heal." That work, along with his nearly 19-year chaplain role with the Poor Clares, ended in June 2002, when he was permanently removed from ministry under the Dallas Charter.
As part of Gustafson's removal, he is restricted from publicly presenting himself as a priest, including use of the title "Father," and engaging in sacramental or priestly ministry. After his removal from ministry, Gustafson moved into a private home he shared with a longtime friend who was a priest. By 2004, he began work with a friend in a consulting business that at times worked with Twin Cities parishes.
In 2006, he entered the archdiocese's monitoring program. He also reached agreement with the archdiocese that classified him as "permanently and totally disabled" because of his pedophilia diagnosis. That allowed him to collect retirement benefits, which also drew more ire from the press and public.
Bold plan, public backlash
As these events unfolded, meanwhile, Pavlak and Gustafson met. Together they dreamed of using their personal experience of a victim and perpetrator working in common cause as a way to help the community heal.
Their first Uncommon Conversation, held at but not sponsored by the University of St. Thomas in 2012, drew roughly 60 people. A second followed in 2014, but then their efforts began to hit snags.
They set their sights on a bold plan. Through a 501(c)(3) nonprofit they established called the Gilead Project, they wanted to buy the former archdiocesan chancery building, up for sale as part of bankruptcy proceedings. They had hoped to transform the building — a symbol of the archdiocesan abuse crisis — into a hub for addressing and ultimately eradicating child sexual abuse. The project draws its name from Jeremiah 8:22: "Is there no balm in Gilead?" referring to a region near the Sea of Galilee known for its healing salve.
"We thought it could be redeemed and be a light on the hill," Pavlak told NCR. Instead, it stalled all their plans.
Reaction was swift in condemning the effort, coming in 2015 near a high point of the abuse scandal: four months after Archbishop John Nienstedt resigned and Ramsey County brought criminal charges against the archdiocese for its handling of former priest Curtis Wehmeyer.
They couldn't raise the money needed amid widespread public backlash against their vision. The primary criticism waged against them: Gustafson's involvement.
Pavlak said that because of Gustafson's background they left him off the board and without a direct role beyond a participant. Still, the Gilead Project website notes that it is "a collaborative endeavor of Susan Pavlak and Gil Gustafson and allies who seek to transform the environment of Church and society regarding sexual abuse and abuse of power." The site makes no mention that Gustafson is still a priest or of his history as a sexual abuser.
"Gil Gustafson doesn't get it," whistleblower Jennifer Haselberger wrote on her blog in September 2015, in response to questions she received about the bid. Haselberger is the former chancellor for canonical affairs who alerted the media and law officials of mishandled allegations in 2013, precipitating the archdiocese's scandal.
A year earlier, she had highlighted the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa as a model for a victim-centered approach to allow the church to heal and reconcile from its own scandal. But for her, the Gustfason-Pavlak model completely missed the mark.
"In my opinion, Gustafson's belief that he can somehow be an instrument of healing for victims of abuse is just one more lie that he, along with others who sexually abuse minors, tell in order to justify their behavior. On a fundamental level, it is this capacity for self-delusion that makes sex offenders so difficult to treat, it is why their risk of re-offending remains so high, and it is why no reputable therapist will ever speak of them as 'cured,' " she wrote.
Ultimately, the bid failed, with the Gilead Project raising well under $100,000. A Catholic banker bought the property in April 2016 for $3.2 million.
'Whose sin is unforgivable?'
Since then, the Gilead Project has been silent, save for annual board meetings. The same goes for the Uncommon Conversation project, of which Gustafson is a primary organizer. The conversations, arranged as invitation-only, attempted to use a restorative justice model aimed at communal healing from the sex abuse scandal. At each event, a panel representing a variety of viewpoints on the sexual abuse issue would take turns answering three questions:
How has the abuse in the church affected you?
What is the way forward for you and for the church?
After each question, attendees broke into small groups and repeated the exercise.
"The goal was to begin to talk about it, and to create empathy for other people, because it's a polarizing experience, any one of those points on the compass," Pavlak said.
After the conversations in 2012 and 2014, the latter held for church workers at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, the project held in 2016 several small screenings of the film "Spotlight." A third Uncommon Conversation remains in the planning stages, but no date or location has been set. (The Gilead Project envisioned hosting monthly Uncommon Conversations.)
The area climate, it turns out, has not been one receptive to their approach.
"When you have the guy that's one of your two major key players is a confessed and convicted sex offender, then I don't think you're going to get people who've been sexually abused to anything they're running. Period," Frank Meuers, head of the Minnesota chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, told NCR.
From the outset of learning about both projects, he said he wouldn't support them or encourage abuse survivors to participate. No matter how admirable the efforts or how reformed Gustafson may be, Meuers said, an abusive priest cannot play a leading role in the process. He compared the situation to allowing an abusive teacher to return to the classroom or an arsonist to work at a fire station.
A common feeling expressed by several area Catholics was that Gustafson's abuse was seen as so awful and well-documented in the press in the decades since its discovery (a 2006 memo from McDonough said Gustafson "has become the public symbol of clergy misconduct in the Twin Cities"), that he was not the best, or right, messenger for the archdiocese. There's a beleaguered sense of "just go away."
But Pavlak and others have insisted that, for real healing to come to the region, the abusers must play a part in the process. Their defense of Gustafson is largely based on long-held friendships with him, empathy for what he has gone through, a sense of the unique role he could play, and a belief in the Christian call to forgiveness.
"He admitted his crime, he went to jail, he has made what amends he can, he has lived a life of obedience to his superiors and the law, and has not reoffended in 30 years. Isn't that what we want?" Pavlak said.
"It's kind of hypocritical for a church that lionizes Paul, a murderer of Jews, to think that the only unforgivable sin is sexual abuse, whether it's clergy or any other kind," she said.
"Who gets cut out of the community? Whose sin is unforgivable? It's a real question to me, and we have made sex abuse the unforgivable sin."
Mary Novak and Ed Walsh were members of a Christian Life Community small group with Gustafson and have known him for years. Walsh and his wife, herself an abuse survivor, knew the priest before learning of the abuse, so he admittedly approaches the situation not with prejudice against him, but "a prejudice for him."
"To me, he's one of the people who's got a thankless job. He's not appreciated either by church officials or by the community for him trying to get in there and trying to contribute," said Walsh, describing Gustafson as "out there leading with his chin."
"It's a terrible, terrible thing that he did," said Novak, who considers Gustafson a friend of two-plus decades. "But if we believe in forgiveness, it seems to me then we have to come to terms with some of the abusers if we're going to have healing."
Survivor-focused encounters
Aside from public opinion of Gustafson's efforts, a hovering question has been whether they stand in violation of the terms of his permanent removal from ministry. Since Gustafson was never laicized, he remains under the direction of the archdiocese. According to the Dallas Charter, he, as a priest permanently removed from ministry, is "to lead a life of prayer and penance." In addition, a May 27, 2008, letter from the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith instructed Nienstedt "to monitor Father Gustafson's priestly life so that he does not constitute a risk to minors and does not create scandal among the faithful."
The Twin Cities archdiocese does not see Gustafson's involvement with either Uncommon Conversation or the Gilead Project as an issue with regard to his removal from ministry. In a statement to NCR July 3, Tim O'Malley, director of the Office of Ministerial Standards and Safe Environment, said, "The Office of Ministerial Standards and Safe Environment continues to meet regularly with Gil Gustafson, with his most recent update occurring in the last 30 days. Gil is in compliance with his status as a priest removed from ministry."
The archdiocese refrained from further comment on either the project or Gustafson's role. O'Malley did add that his office "continues to pursue a number of avenues for reaching out to, supporting, partnering with, and learning from victims/survivors."
As part of the amended civil settlement the archdiocese reached a year ago with Ramsey County — one of the concessions by the archdiocese in exchange for County Attorney John Choi dropping the criminal charges — Archbishop Bernard Hebda is required to participate in at least three restorative justice sessions arranged by Choi's office. Details about those sessions have yet to emerge.
Janine Geske, a retired Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who has spent nearly the past two decades working in the realm of restorative justice, told NCR that she has had recent conversations with the archdiocese.
Her work began in prisons with crime survivors, including those involved in sex crimes, but later extended into the Catholic Church. In 2011, she helped organize an international conference at Marquette University Law School on the clergy sex abuse scandal through its Restorative Justice Initiative, which she founded.
Geske, who is Catholic, has conducted training on her "healing circles" approach with the Milwaukee archdiocese, as well as in Belgium and Ireland and last year in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University through a semester-length program for child protection workers from dioceses around the world.
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The "healing circles" seek to bring together stakeholders affected by the abuse crisis: survivors, family, parishioners, practicing priests and church officials, and, at times, priests who abused children. Each takes turns to share their story, a similarity the approach shares with the Uncommon Conversation program.
"The heart of healing restorative justice pieces is to give direct survivors, and indirect survivors frankly, a chance if they want to give voice in a safe environment to exactly what happened," said Geske, who came to the approach after hearing in-the-pew Catholics express frustration with the seemingly never-ending abuse issue. Those comments represented to Geske a lack of understanding of "the deep, deep harm that occurs to a survivor of sexual abuse generally, but particularly clergy sex abuse."
In the few instances where she has brought an abusive priest into a circle discussion or one-on-one encounter with a survivor who wishes to meet with their abuser, the process takes a lot of prep work and is deliberately slow, Geske said. It takes six months or up to a year in some cases, is exclusively survivor-initiated (to avoid chances of re-victimization), and proceeds with their safety at the forefront. Preferably, therapists are involved.
Jesuit Fr. Gerard McGlone, a psychotherapist who since 1992 has worked with trauma victims and perpetrators, echoed the importance of structuring such encounters in a way that are survivor-focused. The process of reconciling victims and perpetrators is a sophisticated and complicated one, he told NCR.
For such a process to play out, McGlone said, it requires survivors and perpetrators to recognize that each holds a different vision of the situation, which presents limitations that prevent either side from leading the process — a view clarified for him this spring when he attended the European Jesuit Safeguarding Conference in Budapest, Hungary.
"You've got to be extremely, extremely objective and therefore provide an atmosphere of utter safety before any initiative like this can take place. And I don't think a former perpetrator nor a survivor can head it," he said.
While both McGlone and Geske supported the idea of an offender priest participating in the process, they insisted it would be detrimental to allow one to take on a leadership role.
"Most victims will never trust that" type of approach, Geske said, partly because abusers often are skilled at manipulation.
But incorporating abusive priests into a program can yield important breakthroughs in some cases, said Fr. Ken Schmidt, a licensed professional counselor who co-founded the Trauma Recovery Program in the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Viewing those priests only through their worst sin is an example of black-and-white thinking common with trauma, he said, but that fails to recognize the complexity of the whole person.
"They can begin to see that their identity as a pedophile is not their whole identity. That they can begin to see that there is a person here," Schmidt said.
He cautioned that such an encounter would be a latter part of the healing process and not for everyone. He added that an abusive priest taking on a central, visible role could pose more potential for harm.
McGlone, who in August will become the first associate director for the protection of minors for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, said that he too rejected the vision of Gustafson-as-pariah, and that it's apparent he wants to be an instrument of healing. "But he also has to accept the limitation that others need to invite, he can participate. Because if he's the one inviting, then unfortunately that's not accepting the limitations of his history."
Instead, McGlone recommended an outside organization or arbiter facilitate the dialogue, as occurred for one German Jesuit school whose experience was described at the Budapest conference.
While the Gilead Project and Uncommon Conversation remain in neutral for now, Pavlak and Gustafson hope to kick-start them at some point, perhaps once the archdiocese exits from bankruptcy. The next bankruptcy hearing is set for Aug. 29, with the proceedings in their third year and legal fees surpassing $15 million. The Gilead board plans to meet in the fall. Until then, they intend to wait it out.
"Until that's done, there isn't really any energy in the community for building something new, because they're still in fight mode," Pavlak said.
[Brian Roewe is an NCR staff writer. His email address is broewe@ncronline.org. Follow him on Twitter: @BrianRoewe.]
Note: Because of the sensitive nature of this story's subject matter, NCR is not allowing comments on this page. For more explanation, see editor Dennis Coday's comments here.
*The date that the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese declared bankruptcy has been corrected.
*Clarification: This story originally reported that Gilead Project representatives approached Frank Meuers of SNAP seeking the group's endorsement and assistance. After the story published, Meuers retracted that statement, saying SNAP's endorsement was not sought, which the Gilead Project confirmed.
This story appeared in the July 28-August 10, 2017 print issue.
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Now, this report is published with the Android platform in mind. This report from App Annie does not take iOS into account. But we still believe that WhatsApp users will trump Facebook users on iOS as well. It is also said that the recent data leaks on Facebook have stopped the growth of Facebook. According to App Annie's report, WhatsApp reported a growth of 30 per cent in September last year.
However, the report also says that Facebook still showed growth amidst all the data leak and privacy reports. In terms of numbers, Facebook had a growth of 20% last year which is 10% less than WhatsApp. App Annie's report has been named as "State of 2019". Facebook's another popular app, Facebook Messenger also saw a growth of 15%. According to geography, WhatsApp was the most popular app in countries like India, Indonesia, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, Russia, Mexico, Netherlands.
In the same report, it is mentioned that India showed growth in time spent on social media apps. As per the report, Indian users grew 40% last year in terms of spending time on social media apps. These apps include WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger and Instagram. Interestingly, it is seen that half of the time users spent on their smartphones was on social messaging applications.


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A much-heralded report on Internet trends confirmed an ongoing spike in mobile web usage, powered by still-increasing tablet sales, but also said that Internet usage growth, as a whole, had begun to slow in 2013.
The Internet Trends report from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers said that global tablet shipments grew faster than PC sales did at any point in history in 2013, posting a year-over-year increase of 52 per cent. Even with those numbers, tablets made up just 6 per cent of global Internet-connected devices, which could indicate potential for growth.
The world may be approaching smartphone saturation, though, as the report showed "only" 20% annual growth in sales of those devices. KPCB noted that much of this increase was seen in "underpenetrated markets like China, India, Brazil and Indonesia."
Perhaps the most notable number in the comprehensive, 164-page report, however, is the sub-10% rate of Internet user growth seen in 2013. That's a slowdown from previous years, with the lion's share of what growth there was coming from developing markets, which are "difficult to monetize," according to KPCB.
But even if overall Internet growth was slow, the mobile segment's growth was quite the opposite, rising more than 80% largely on the back of skyrocketing demand for mobile video. That plays into the creation of a major opportunity in the mobile advertising sector, according to the report, which said that the proportion of ad dollars going to mobile lagged far behind the proportion of time spent consuming media on mobile devices.


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Q: None as a output to my code. I wanted a calculated output from my code. Is it wrong to use logical statement after if else? I am working on a project and my code is returning none as output
I have tried indenting and unindenting the return line but it din't help. Is it wrong if I put the formula just after the if else statement?
def cost_of_ground_shipping(weight):
  #weight = float(weight)

  if(weight<=2.0):
    cost = (weight * 1.5) + 20.00
    return cost
  elif(weight>2.0) and (weight<=6.0):
    cost = (weight * 3.00) + 20.00
    return cost
  elif(weight>6.0) and (weight>=10.0):
    cost = (weight * 4.00) + 20.00
    return cost
  elif(weight>10.0):
    cost = (weight * 4.75) + 20.00
    return cost
print(cost_of_ground_shipping(8.4))

I expected the result 53.60

A: You have a typo: weight >= 10.0 should be weight <= 10.0. Since the function never reached a return statement, it implicitly returned None.
As well, we can improve the code by factoring out the calculation and return statement (see DRY), removing unnecessary parens, using Python's clearer range check syntax (x < y <= z), and using descriptive variable names:
def cost_of_ground_shipping(weight):
  base = 20.0
  if weight <= 2.0:
    multiplier = 1.5
  elif 2.0 < weight <= 6.0:
    multiplier = 3.0
  elif 6.0 < weight <= 10.0:
    multiplier = 4.0
  elif 10.0 < weight:
    multiplier = 4.75
  return weight * multiplier + base

print(cost_of_ground_shipping(8.4))  # -> 53.6

If you had written the code like this but still had the typo, the return line would have thrown an error: NameError: name 'multiplier' is not defined, which would be your first hint for starting debugging.

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Coming from a jazz and classical music background, having grown up to the sound of 90s hip-hop and R&B, and influenced by the great film music composers of past decades, Kris Bowers creates music deeply rooted in tradition yet open to varied external influences. On the occasion of our interview with him about his score for the Netflix series Dear White People, young composer Kris Bowers shared with us a few of his favourite scores, from the iconic Bernard Herrmann to the electronic explorations of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
'Scene d'Amour' — Bernard Herrmann (from Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, 1958). This is one of my favourite cues by Bernard Herrmann and from one of my favourite scores of all time, Vertigo. I got intense chills when I first heard this piece.
'The Summer Knows' — Michel Legrand (from The Summer of '42 by Robert Mulligan, 1971). It is such a hauntingly beautiful theme and I love Michel Legrand's melodies and approach to harmony. Not to mention, I performed this song at the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, and it was not only one of the things that made me stand out to Ms. Aretha Franklin. She has me play that song for her any time she and I are together and there's a piano in the vicinity.
'Catch Me If You Can' (Main title) — John Williams (from Catch Me If You Can by Steven Spielberg, 2002). I could easily create a lengthy list of pieces by John Williams, but one that had a strong impact on me was his main title cue for Catch Me If You Can. His effortless flow from more traditional orchestration to intricate jazz sections floored me.
'Proven Lands' — Jonny Greenwood (from There Will be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007). Hearing this track in Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood was another moment for me. He was so inventive with his orchestration, and it was amazing to hear a dramatic score through the lens of a contemporary artist.
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Kamala Harris as Auntie: How Art Helped Fashion an Iconic Role
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As part of a collaboration between artist Hanifa Abdul Hameed, Nik Dodani, Vineet Chhibber and Meena Harris' brand Phenomenal. (Courtesy of Hanifa Abdul Hameed)
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is a self-described auntie. Just read the line in her Twitter bio: "Senator, Wife, Momala, Auntie."
During the Joe Biden-Harris political campaign, Harris' auntie status — as an elder female authority figure worthy of respect — was not only acknowledged, but made its way onto a sweatshirt as part of an effort targeting South Asian voters.
"Vote for Aunty" the text of the sweatshirt reads, with an image of Harris looking pensive — almost smirking. It's the kind of face she might make when pausing during questioning someone like Brett Kavanaugh, who now is an associate justice on the Supreme Court. In the instantly iconic image, Harris also wears a bindi, and mehndi can be seen on her hand — both nods to her Indian heritage.
Harris has broken many barriers. And as the first female vice president-elect, she is also the first auntie in this role — a significance that is just beginning to be examined.
In her Aug. 19 speech accepting her vice presidential nomination, Harris gave a nod to her own Tamil aunties when she acknowledged her family, code-switching nonchalantly: "Family is my uncles, my aunts — my chitthis."
"American audiences don't know the meaning of chitthi, they would not even have noticed," Harris' uncle, Gopalan Balachandran, who is based in Delhi, told India's ThePrint outlet.
But many did notice. And her auntie status sparked a sweatshirt design as well as a push to register and get out the AAPI vote.
Auntie as Icon — and Apparel
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are a fast-growing voter group, but also one that has had historically low voter turnout.
"That has changed dramatically in this election cycle," wrote Tom Bonier, an adjunct lecturer at Howard University and CEO of TargetSmart, a targeted voter data organization, citing "an unprecedented surge in participation" among AAPI voters this year.
Perhaps having an iconic auntie on the ballot helped?
Hanifa Abdul Hameed is the East Coast visual artist behind that "Vote for Aunty" sweatshirt — and knows the power of the auntie figure. "Growing up in South Asian communities, I always called anyone older than me 'auntie' — as a form of respect," Hameed told KQED.
"I remember growing up I would call my babysitters, who were Caucasian, 'auntie,' " said Hameed (Colors of Honey on Instagram), adding that she feels uncomfortable calling someone older by their first name to this day.
Hameed worked directly with the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign to create the sweatshirt design. The product is a collaboration between Meena Harris — Kamala Harris' niece and founder of the Phenomenal — and South Asian actors Nik Dodani and Vineet Chhibber.
"It was their idea to create something for the campaign that is catering to the South Asian community — and would get South Asians hyped up," Hameed said.
Hameed created a version of the design with Harris in a sari, but in the final design Harris wears a blue suit. The collaborative process took a few weeks, and Hameed — who also works full time as a UI/UX designer at IBM — said she was grateful to see her art out in the world "making a difference."
"I started just putting more digital art out during the pandemic, and seeing all these well-known people wearing my art is surreal," Hameed said. "I am surprised at how much good feedback I am getting, and it makes me happy that people feel connected to it."
Defining an Auntie
While "auntie" is generally a term of respect, being called out by aunties for walking too far outside society's unwritten norms is another characteristic of the auntie in the popular imagination. But there's far from one definition.
Thus, the auntie can be the one who scolds you for not coming to visit often enough, tells you that you've gained weight and also cooks all your favorite food (and forces you to eat more than seems humanly possible.) She may or may not be directly related to you.
The narrator in "Never Have I Ever," the Netflix show from executive producer Mindy Kaling, describes aunties as "older Indian women who have no blood relationship to you, but are allowed to have opinions about your life and all your shortcomings and you have to be nice to them because you're Indian."
A recent episode of NPR's podcast Code Switch took a deeper look at what Harris' prominence helps illuminate (and obscure) when it comes to South Asian political identity — and explored how Harris might find herself the focus of a scolding auntie. As someone of Indian origin, Harris is both an auntie and the subject of auntie critique.
"She might face anti-Black racism from aunties and uncles who might tell her to stay out of the sun," said Nitasha Sharma, an associate professor of African American Studies and Asian American studies at Northwestern University.
On the Shoulders of Iconic Aunties
Harris walks in the footsteps of many women before her, as she has acknowledged in her speeches — with U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, perhaps the most iconic figure in recent California "political auntie" history. Waters is best known for her no-nonsense interactions with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, resulting in her much-memed "reclaiming my time" moment.
Calling Waters "Auntie Maxine," as many did on social media, also stirred debate around whether the term could be construed as disrespectful, rather than an honorific. Black celebrities like Oprah and Ava DuVernay said they did not want to be called auntie.
Meena Harris has been cheering on her aunt since long before the campaign began, and others like Hameed are eager to see if having an auntie in the White House creates change.
"Seeing someone that looks like me, and has a similar background as me is pretty inspiring. Coming from her backgrounds, I think she'll better understand the people in this country and represent them better," Hameed said.
Exactly how the United State's VP-elect will wield her auntie power? That remains to be seen.
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Stone Arch Railroad Bridge To Freedom
The Stone Arch Railroad Bridge in Vernon, Indiana, was one of the many tunnels slaves would use to escape during the early 1800s to gain freedom. Vernon and Madison, Indiana's underground railroad's systems were one of the many places slaves would use to evade capture on their route to the free land. Built of stone and brick in the year of 1837, the stone arch is one of the oldest railroad overpasses built in the state of Indiana. Known as "the culvert", many locals of Vernon would assist slaves to help them flee north through this underpass. The town of Vernon fought against injustice slavery by sheltering them and aiding them from the Confederates.
Stone Arch Railroad Bridge in Vernon, Indiana was one of the many escape tunnels slaves used to flee from being taken captive.
Built in 1837 the stone overpass one was of the first bridges every built in the state of Indiana and is still standing today.
Made of Stone and Brick the bridge still stands well constructed. It is not known who built the site.
From 1837 to 1847, the underground railroad in Madison, Indiana was created and active on into the civil war, through a series of tunnels built under the city. The railroad system spanned from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Iowa. This allowed a perfect getaway for slaves who were fleeing from their owners. When slaves escaped, not only were they hiding from slave owners but oftentimes, bounty hunters were hired to return them. At the time, even some federal marshals attempted to shut down the railroad. The "conductors", like the people of Vernon, who helped aid in hiding slaves, would also infiltrate plantations disguised as slaves in order to inform others of the railroad, as well as lead escape missions. This was one of the many ways people stepped up to combat the injustice of slavery.
The Stone Arch Railroad Bridge in Vernon, Indiana was part of the entrance to the underground system, and the underpass below it served as one of the many tunnels slaves would use to hide or pass through while on the run.
The Stone Arch Railroad Bridge was built in 1837, making it one of the oldest bridges ever built in the state of Indiana. The bridge was constructed of stone and brick. The builders of the site remain unknown, but the arch architecture was common in Indiana.
The locals of Vernon call the stone arch "the culvert". The citizen's of Vernon played a big role in history in their role in the underground railroad, that's tunnels and underpasses were key factors on slaves gaining freedom.
The perilous journey to freedom: First pictures inside the 'Underground Railroad' where heroic volunteers risked their lives to smuggle 100,000 slaves out of the South before the Civil War, Daily Mail. April 8th 2017. Accessed September 29th 2020. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4391734/The-journey-freedom.html.
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress). Historic Map Works. Accessed September 29th 2020. http://www.historicmapworks.com/Buildings/index.php?state=IN&city=Vernon&id=13075.
McIntire, Kerri. A brief History of Vernon, Indiana, Town of Vernon Indiana . Accessed September 29th 2020. http://vernonindiana.org/history.php.
Pike Tree Ranch Indiana, Historic Bridges. Accessed September 29th 2020. . . https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=indiana/pikestreetrrarch/..
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