#500's

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A Young Chieftain, c. 300-600, in Remojadas style (Mexico's Veracruz Gulf Coast, part of the Classic Veracruz culture)

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a french, a lebanese, a moroccan and a rape-related law.

very interesting intersection of gender and colonialism!

i just read this (french) legal research post by ibnkafka 

here's the context and a small summary of the legal jargon: today morocco removed their law that said that a rapist can not be prosecuted if he agrees to marry his victim. a similar law exists in lebanon. but did you know that this law does not come from the Arabic culture? nor from Islam? it actually comes from the old french laws! in fact it aimed at protecting the family's ownership over their daughter and punishing someone who would seduce her. it changed over time to become (similarly as in morocco or lebanon) a law that would punish the "seducer" unless he marries the girl.  France only removed this law in 1992, taking effect in 1994. it's really funny in so many ways:  we tend to think it's some law that has always been there and sometimes unconsciously attribute it to our culture. it's not. it's actually one of the darkest gifts of colonialism. the FRENCH! they are so funny when they write about it as some archaic law that proves the perceived backwardness in arab culture, when all i want to tell them is "kel shi bet2oulo byerja3lkon. nanannananaaaa". kudos morocco! and 3a2bel ma we remove all remnants of colonialism, in practice, in law and in minds.

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Practice was good today, nothing to crazy.  We did our usual warm-ups but since we were low on coaches today I couldn't cycle through the groups and had to stay and coach one station.  After the warm-up drills we went outside to run on the track.  Still has a bit of snow here and there on it but it beats running sprints in the halls any day.  Our workout wasn't too crazy just 2 500's with 10 minute break in between (kind of long if you ask me).  We didn't really have a target time, we were just supposed to get to the 300 in 55 sec or less which isn't that fast at all.  My first 500 I ran it in 1:38 (55ish 300) and it felt pretty good.  I can always tell that the other people running are not going as hard as they should because I'll be in a group or two behind them and will finish ahead of a majority of them.  So for the second 500 I went out a bit faster for the first 300 (51 sec).  I ended up getting a 1:31 and it felt really good.  Its gotten me excited to see how I do in a 400 when everyone gets to run it.