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MAUD PULLED BLAIR'S high school yearbook from the shelf. She kept Blair's room ready for overnight stays that never happened, even though Blair lived just thirty minutes away in San Francisco. She looked at Blair's senior page, a large candid photo of Blair laughing and dressed in the silly clothes of senior prank day. Blair had chosen this—probably taken by one of her classmates—over the elegant images done by the high-end portrait photographer Maud had hired. Some of his prints were now framed and hanging on walls around the house. Maud knew about teenage rebellion but she had always felt there was something more in Blair's defiance of her, something spiteful. Maud suffered it like a curse.
The yearbook pages were covered with inscriptions rich in secret allusions and innuendo. Then Maud read this: To one of my special students. Best of luck—Mr. Michaels. Blair had had a crush on Mr. Michaels—Maud was sure of it. Blair and her friends used to giggle and refer to him as "Curls" for his dark curly hair. Maud was sure he knew about the crush and had encouraged it. "Special student"—that had to be a code for something. Sometimes when Maud had asked about Blair's day, Blair mentioned lunch with Mr. Michaels.
"Alone?" Maud asked. "I don't like that."
Blair rolled her eyes. "Yes, mother. It was a candlelight lunch with champagne in a love nest just off his classroom."
Maud always felt Blair's eye rolls like a slap. It seemed the more she tried to do for Blair, the less it was appreciated.
Maud copied the yearbook inscription word for word onto an index card and placed the card in a manila folder. She wrote "Mr. Michaels" on the tab and placed it in the file drawer of the cherry desk in the foyer.
Janet Logan had taught sixth grade history for ten years. Her husband was a top executive in venture capital. He had once been featured in a magazine article titled, "Power of the Purse in Silicon Valley." They attended dinner and cocktail parties with the biggest names in tech. Whenever she told people at those parties that she taught sixth grade history, the conversation flagged.
It was a private girls' school and Janet was a strong advocate for women. She believed that women should have parity with men in all professions. It was her cause. Her husband was supportive. When the school needed someone to head a fundraising drive, her husband volunteered. With his contacts, the committee raised an amount well above the goal, and Janet's status rose in the eyes of the head.
When her division head went on sabbatical, Janet talked her way into serving as her replacement for a semester. It was a revelation. It gave her a sense of what it was like to be an executive, to control things, to have power. She realized how unfulfilled she felt in the classroom. She had won this new experience through her own initiative. There was a lesson in that.
The head of school was to retire in another year. The board felt her fundraising efforts had not successfully tapped the potential of the school's constituency. Janet's husband encouraged her again to be proactive, so she proposed that she be made special assistant for a year, a kind of apprenticeship whereby she would learn the job of a head of school. "Learn from the best," was how she pitched it to the head. Her proposal was accepted. The next year, the board appointed Janet to be the next head of school.
Janet believed there were two poles to the continuum of leadership styles. At one end was stewardship, maintaining and caring for a very good school. At the other end was bold leadership for innovation and change. She wanted to be at the second pole. She had been reading the literature on twenty-first century education and she had become a convert.
Innovation had made Silicon Valley, and schools preparing students for a Silicon Valley future had to be innovative too. "Creative disruption" was a mantra. There was too much tradition baked into education. In the schoolroom of the future, teachers should be learning managers, overseeing a room of self-directed students learning on their laptops. Students should learn through projects. They should design and build. By propelling young women toward the leadership positions they deserved, the school would move from good to great. Janet awoke every morning with a vital sense of purpose.
Alex Michaels had worked hard in law school, and he accepted an enviable job offer with a San Francisco law firm. After six soul-numbing months his excitement had worn off. First, he realized he did not want to work for this firm, and then he realized he did not want to be a lawyer at all. He had loved prep school, and there and in college, his literature classes were his favorite. He quit the law firm and took an 80% pay cut to teach English at a girls' prep school in Silicon Valley. He was instantly happy. He enrolled in a program for earning a master's degree in English over five summers.
Soon after Blair was born, Maud had developed lupus. Though the doctors said not, she was sure her pregnancy had triggered it. It was part of the price she paid for her daughter. Her joints ached and she was often tired. Sometimes she had headaches. At the park other mothers noticed that she never hugged or played with Blair. One of them had the gall to say so. It was just that Maud's way of expressing love was to see that every part of Blair's life was good. When she took Blair to birthday parties, she stayed around. If a child ignored or bullied Blair, she told their mother about it. When she took Blair to ballet classes, she stayed and watched. When she attended parents' night at school, she followed up with emails and phone calls to the teachers. Maud knew she was a better mother than the others. Besides, Blair seemed happiest playing by herself, drawing with colored pencils and dressing her dolls. Maud gave her a clothes allowance for her dolls so she could learn about fashion as well as money. She enrolled her in art and ballet classes.
When Blair was eight, Maud decided her ballet school had taken her as far as they could. She had Blair audition for the San Francisco Ballet School and she got in. Maud told her friends that Blair was going to be a ballerina. The school had a policy that a parent could observe class only once a year. When Maud complained to the staff, they were rude.
When the student showcase rolled around every May, Blair's parents attended the fundraising dinner and all three performances. Blair's written evaluations were barely average, and the year she turned twelve, she was in the back row in the showcase performance. The next week she received a letter dropping her from the school. Blair was relieved; she was getting tired of ballet. Maud did not want anyone to know, but Blair joked about it to her friends. "Flunked out of ballet school," she said glibly. Maud was furious with the school and tried to make an appointment to see the director. She was told he had no openings. She spent a week writing up a scathing review of the school that she posted on Yelp.
By the time Mr. Michaels finished his fifth summer and received his master's degree, he felt he had proved himself enough to experiment. He created a feature he called "Think About This," ten-minute segments, once every week or two, at the end of class. He explained that they had no bearing on tests or grades. He made students clear their desks.
One day he said, "It's not easy to describe yourself, living at this time in this world." He paused. "Why not? Because you're in it! It's the same reason a fish can't tell you about water. The fish has no distance."
He sat on the edge of his desk, feet crossed and legs dangling.
"So, what can you do? Move to Mars and then look back on the earth? It's too far. The same for Venus. No, you find a metaphor.
"Turn to the poets. Listen to Rilke. He lived a century ago, but things were going to hell even then. Industry was on the rise. Everyday objects were no longer hand crafted but mass produced. The assembly line had replaced the workbench. Automobiles were replacing horses.
"Rilke's metaphor was the tongue and the teeth. Teeth are hard and sharp, and the jaws are strong. The tongue is soft. It enables us to taste and to speak. To express our feelings. To utter the truth. But think how vulnerable. Remember the times you have bit your tongue, how much it hurt. Do you know that in automobile accidents or serious falls people have severed their tongues?
"Think about this: Each of us is like a tongue, and the world in which we live—all of the institutions that have power over us—are the teeth. We are trying to feel and to express and to utter truth without being cut to pieces or ground to a pulp."
When Blair was a senior, she signed up for Mr. Michaels's classes both semesters. He was her favorite teacher. She never got drowsy in his class, and she liked the novels he taught: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Color Purple, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Ragtime. She flirted with the boundaries of the school uniform, and it was obvious that he did not give a crap about the school uniform. He loved literature, though. He was a literature nerd. He loved ideas.
Janet hired a consulting firm to rebrand the school. They impressed upon her that 95% of what was true of this good prep school was true of any good prep school. The same was true of toothpaste. Branding was about finding the unique 5% and convincing consumers of it. She did not hesitate. This was the school that would make girls the corporate leaders of tomorrow. Not the middle managers, but the CEOs. Not the aids, but the senators. Not professors, but deans and university presidents. Women for leadership. That would be the brand—the 5%.
Mr. Michaels had them clear their desks. They waited in silence.
"This one is very short," he said. "Maybe some of you thought about Rilke's metaphor. Maybe you identified some of the teeth in your lives. Your parents in their worst moments. Your teachers." He shrugged. "Me when I grade your essays. The DMV. College admissions committees."
He put his hands in his pockets and looked at them.
"We are all tongues at times."
He walked to the window.
"But think about this. Are we not also the teeth?"
When Blair's father was diagnosed with liver cancer, Blair hated how her mother got on the phone to tell her friends. At school, Blair kept quiet. She did not want to deal with everyone's demonstrations of sympathy and support. She would not know how to respond. The counselor would email all of her teachers and they would ask her if she was okay.
A few days later she saw Mr. Michaels eating lunch alone on the patio.
"Mind if I sit down?" she asked.
He gestured with a welcoming sweep of his hand.
"Thanks for not opening your mouth while you're chewing," she said.
He made the same gesture.
"Is that the only hand signal you know?" she asked.
He gave her the finger. She burst out laughing, and then, just as suddenly, her eyes filled with tears and overflowed. He cocked his head and wrinkled his brow.
She wiped her cheeks and said, "You're going to give yourself wrinkles doing that. More wrinkles, I mean."
"You know," he said, "wrinkle is a funny word. I mean, just say it a bunch of times. Wrinkle. Wrinkle, wrinkle."
She giggled.
"You should use sunscreen," she told him.
"You're right. I should. Ozone layer, right?"
"It's disappearing," she said.
After a pause, he said, "What's up, Blair? Tell me."
"Well, my father has fucking cancer."
In her first three years as head, Janet successfully rebranded the school. The catalogs, website, and brochures had been outsourced to a design firm that created a consistent message of confidence and success. Key phrases were strategically placed like herbs in a gourmet meal. Janet perfected a presentation she gave to parents and donors which began with a black and white photo of a dimly lit schoolroom, old fashioned desks in rows, a teacher with her gray hair in a bun and a faded dress to mid-calf. Her audience always tittered. The explanation that followed played on two parent fears—that their children would be stressed and unhappy now and unprepared for the job market of the future. The last slide was an architectural drawing of a classroom building that looked like a gleaming high-tech company: high ceilings, soaring glass walls, modular furniture, and steel beams painted in bright reds, yellows, and blues. The future school would hum with the dynamism of Silicon Valley and the fun of an after-school club. In the new classroom, energetic and happy students would work collaboratively, make things, solve world problems, and teach themselves. She ended her talk with a dramatic pause, and then she said, "We need to create schools for their future, not our past."
The architectural drawing was her segue into announcing that it was a rendering of the planned new classroom building. After all, a twenty-first century education required a twenty-first century learning space. She announced that the quiet phase of the capital campaign was exceeding her hopes.
Mr. Michaels was eating lunch on the patio alone, and Blair sat down.
"Guess what," she said. "I sent back my postcard to Vassar."
"About whether you want to be on the wait list? What did you say?"
"I told them they could kiss my rosy red ass."
"You didn't really."
He laid down his spoon. It was chili day.
"You plagiarized McMurphy."
"He won't mind."
"Tell me you haven't mailed it."
"I mailed it this morning."
"Is there time to set fire to the mailbox."
"It's metal. It won't burn."
For Janet, the dark spot on the school's future was the faculty. A certain core did not seem to be on board. It was especially disturbing that these were not the deadwood faculty, mediocre teachers hanging on until retirement. They were some of the best, those the students praised mostly highly. Alex Michaels was one of them. Whenever she gave her best presentations of the changes she envisioned, he crossed his arms over his chest and wore a look of bored skepticism. Once, he asked in a meeting if the new classrooms would really be that sterile.
At graduation, Mr. Michaels congratulated Maud on her daughter.
"Her college results were disappointing," Maud responded. "I'm not sure the school did everything for her that it could. It seems to favor certain girls."
As if speaking to a child, Mr. Michaels said gently but firmly, "Blair got into several good colleges. And from that group she chose a good one. She'll do very well there." Then he smiled. "And congratulations also on her winning the art prize."
"If the school gave them out earlier," Maud said, "maybe it would have helped her in college admissions."
Mr. Michaels raised his plastic cup of punch to mimic a toast, smiled, and then walked away.
When Blair graduated from college, she got a job as an assistant women's wear buyer for a department store. She also started a fashion blog that drew a substantial following. Blair knew her mother had done a lot for her. From a sense of duty, she spent holidays with her. She tried to have brunch with her once a month, but it was closer to once every two months. Things came up.
Sometimes, at a certain stage of drunkenness, a person might frown at the air just in front of their face, looking as if they are about to swat something that has hurt or angered them, the corners of their mouth pulled down in sour resentment. Maud did not drink, but that's how she sometimes looked, alone in her home, when she thought of her daughter. Blair, who did not return her mother's texts or pick up the phone when she called. "Pick up, damnit," Maud shouted at Blair's recorded message, but there was no one to hear her.
The day after copying Mr. Michaels's inscription in Blair's yearbook on an index card, Maud searched Blair's antique cedar trunk. She had bought it for sweaters, but Blair used the trunk to store mementoes. Maud rummaged through cards, a pair of ballet slippers, a few paintings from the period where Maud had experimented with acrylic on 4×5 inch canvases.
Near the bottom, she found Blair's journals from high school. There were sketches of ideas for paintings, complaints about going to a boring school where everyone seemed perfect. There was a column labeled "pain in my ass." The first item was "mother" with a five-point star drawn beside it. She found references to the school art teacher, her out-of-school painting teacher. Every reference to herself was like a sharp paper cut. But she also found what she was looking for, references to Mr. Michaels. Whenever she found one, she copied it on an index card.
Mr. Michaels seriously needs fashion help. Wore a cardigan today, looked like Mr. Rogers.
Saw Mr. Michaels using his phone in the parking lot. Looked like he got it at the tech museum. Has to be two decades old.
My regular lunch date on the patio with Mr. Michaels. He asked about Dad again—never know what to say.
Watched the film Mr. Michaels told me about—TMI on the nudity. Note to self—watch it again! LOL!
Only a B on my English essay—Michaels is a bastard grader!
Mr. Michaels likes to talk about his dog in class—what a nerd!
Found the perfect Christmas gift for Mr. Michaels—a pocket guide to men's fashion!
Mr. Michaels on one of his tangents today. He talked about the tongue and Sarah wrote on my desk with her Sharpie: Curls likes French kissing!!! Typical Sarah.
Maud had him. It had taken the entire Saturday morning, but it was worth it.
Janet had trouble putting it into words, but she did not feel that the faculty gave her the respect due a CEO. One day she asked her secretary to set up a meeting that afternoon with a senior history teacher to discuss the AP program (Janet felt it had outlived its usefulness). The teacher responded that she was too busy with classes that day and would have to meet later in the week. Janet was livid.
Of course, until a few years ago Janet had just been one of the teachers. She had joked, complained about parents and the administration, and shopped online during school hours along with her colleagues. She had gone to a baby shower for a colleague one Friday night, drank too much, and threw up on the sidewalk. But that was then. This was now, and by her own effort she had become head of school. It was her school. Her colleagues needed to adjust. What was it about teachers that they did not know how to act appropriately in an institutional workplace?
The day Maud finished typing the email, her joints hurt, including the joints in her fingers. That made it even more satisfying.
Dear Janet Logan,
I am writing to you out of duty, though I would rather not have to do this. My daughter Blair graduated five years ago, and there is no doubt that Mr. Michaels carried on an inappropriate relationship with her. I found a reference in the journal she kept during her senior year that he had her view a very sexual film, and it was obvious that she was highly distressed by the experience. I also learned that they frequently had lunch together, and Blair referred to them as "dates." He also talked to his class about French kissing. He wrote in Blair's yearbook that she was "special" to him, a clear red flag that indicates the inappropriate nature of their relationship. Blair's father was terminally ill at the time this was happening, and it is clear to me that Mr. Michaels took advantage of her vulnerable emotional state.
I know that you were not head of school when this happened, but I am confident that you will take the necessary action now to make sure that no other students are subject to this sort of inappropriate treatment from Mr. Michaels. I have not talked to Blair about this because I do not want her to be further traumatized.
When Maud hit send she felt like she had used a switch. She couldn't even remember what Mr. Michaels looked like, but she imagined a scarlet welt swelling on his skin.
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Bill Smoot grew up in Maysville, Kentucky. He now lives in Berkeley and teaches with the Prison University Project at San Quentin. His stories and essays have been published in Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Ohio Review, Narrative, and others. His novel, Love: A Story has just been published by Adelaide Books.

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Tag Archives: Hillary Clinton
Could You Pass That Test?
January 13, 2020 Random BloggingHillary Clinton, Investigations, misogyny, witch huntSheila
According to several news outlets, a Justice Department inquiry into Hillary Clinton (launched some two years ago at the insistence of conservatives unsatisfied with the results of multiple previous investigations) has effectively ended. Investigators found no wrongdoing, and (off the record) law enforcement officials said they never expected the effort to produce much of anything.
This inquiry was conducted by a Trump Justice Department headed by Bill Barr, not exactly a friendly group of investigators.
I've lost track of the number of investigations that have been conducted into Hillary Clinton's activities. Whitewater. Bengazi. "But her emails!"
When I saw the headlines confirming that–once again–the investigators had come up empty, all I could think about was a joke my mother used to tell: an elderly woman goes into the butcher shop. She picks up a chicken, lifts each drumstick and sniffs under it; then she smells under each wing. Finally, she smells the cavity, turns to the butcher and says "Mr. Butcher, this bird stinks."
To which the butcher replies, "Lady, could you pass that test?"
Partisans and others are certainly entitled to dislike Hillary Clinton, or to criticize her demeanor or campaign. Disagreement with her policy positions is clearly fair. But the intensity of the animus she arouses, and the persistence with which Republicans have hounded her–and continue to demonize her three years after she lost the election and (from all appearances) retired from political life– are so hysterical and disproportionate that you have to wonder just what is going on.
The obsession isn't new, and it didn't begin with her campaign for the Presidency. Throughout her public life, Clinton has been held to a standard that wildly exceeds expectations applied to male political figures. I can think of any number of male politicians who have exhibited every behavior and characteristic for which Clinton has been excoriated; none of them excited the level of vitriol that has been directed at her.
It is also worth noting that a substantial number of those male politicians have been found guilty of various levels of misbehavior–including crimes–while the incessant investigations into Clinton have uncovered nothing more culpable than occasional carelessness.
It is just impossible to see this relentless campaign as anything other than rank misogyny.
I am hopeful (although not entirely convinced) that Clinton generated that level of sexism simply because she was in many ways the first: the first First Lady to reject the traditional decorative and submissive role, the first to carve out a high-profile political career separate from that of her husband after leaving the White House; and the first woman to be the Presidential nominee of a major political party.
I am hopeful (although unconvinced) that in the wake of Clinton's candidacy, the passage of time, the number of women in the Democratic Presidential primary, and the explosion in the number of women elected to positions at all levels of government have combined to moderate the sexist hostility that prompted the tsunami of vitriol directed at Clinton.
I am fearful that I'm wrong.
Donald Trump's base is composed almost entirely of white Christian men who see Trump as their protector against the uppity blacks and pushy women whose demands for equality threaten their historic dominance. They became unhinged when an African-American was elected President, and it's likely they will be equally threatened if it looks as if a woman is about to be elected.
Meanwhile, Hillary has emerged exonerated from yet another actual witch hunt– conducted by men who most definitely couldn't pass that test.
Nancy, Hillary And The Year Of The Woman
August 22, 2018 Random BloggingHillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Krugman, women in politicsSheila
According to the media, this is "the year of the woman."
More women are running for public office than ever before. The dramatic increase in political activism following the election began with Women's Marches that turned out truly astonishing numbers of people, and political scientists who have studied the ongoing Resistance report that middle-aged suburban women are providing its backbone.
Many of these reports make it seem as if the dearth of female presence in Congress and Statehouses around the country is due to women's previous lack of interest in running for office. Then America elected a male chauvinist pig as President, that election roused the sleeping maiden(s), and the surge in their political participation is the result.
If you accept that explanation, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you…
I'm not a fan of people who whine about victimization, but really, it takes a certain kind of obtuseness not to recognize the differences in the way political men and women are perceived and treated– the extra hurdles women candidates face, and the vicious demonization of those few who rise to positions of power.
Paul Krugman recently considered the case of Nancy Pelosi. He began by looking at the issues being raised by Republican Congressional candidates, noting that they weren't running on the unpopular tax bill or even more unpopular trade war.
Instead, Republicans' attack ads have increasingly focused on one of their usual boogeymen — or, rather, a boogeywoman: Nancy Pelosi, the former and possibly future speaker of the House.
So this seems like a good time to remind everyone that Pelosi is by far the greatest speaker of modern times and surely ranks among the most impressive people ever to hold that position. And it's interesting to ask why she gets so little credit with the news media, and hence with the general public, for her accomplishments.
Krugman goes through a list of those accomplishments, which compare favorably to past Speakers we consider great (and which absolutely tower over the performance of Paul Ryan). Krugman notes that, compared with more modern House speakers–Gingrich, Hastert, Boehner, Ryan– Pelosi is a giant among dwarfs. But you'd never know that from her media coverage.
It's quite a record. Oh, and whenever you hear Republicans claim that Pelosi is some kind of wild-eyed leftist, ask yourself, what's so radical about protecting retirement income, expanding health care and reining in runaway bankers?
It's probably also worth noting that Pelosi has been untouched by allegations of personal scandal, which is amazing given the right's ability to manufacture such allegations out of thin air.
So why is Pelosi always portrayed as "divisive." Why is she the preferred target of GOP attacks?
I mean, it's true that she's a political partisan — but no more so than any of the Republicans who preceded and followed her. Her policy stances are far less at odds with public opinion than, say, Ryan's attempts to privatize Medicare and slash its funding. So what makes her "divisive"? The fact that Republicans keep attacking her? That would happen to any Democrat.
Or maybe it's just the fact that she's a woman — a woman who happens to have been far better at her job than any man in recent memory.
Hillary Clinton has been demonized for thirty years. It is certainly fair game to fault her campaign for miscalculations, or to recognize that she isn't as charismatic as her husband. It's fair to disagree with policy stances she's taken. But she has performed admirably in every government position she's held, and despite being constantly investigated, has never been found to have broken any law. Male officeholders routinely exhibit the behaviors for which she is excoriated, and almost never excite the same animosity.
Evidently, "uppity" women like Nancy and Hillary offend a lot of people's notions of "proper womanhood."
America has a lot at stake in November's midterms. If–as I hope–there is a Democratic "wave," a lot of Democratic women will be swept in with it. Along with all the other tasks facing them, they will need to join Elizabeth Warren, and persist— continuing the maddeningly slow process of culture change, normalizing the participation of women in government, and refusing to be stereotyped, demeaned and dismissed.
I hope it will prove to be the year of the woman. But we're not there yet.
The Election Was, Actually, Rigged
November 12, 2016 Constitutionelectoral college, Hillary Clinton, popular vote, urban v. ruralSheila
Among the many ironies of the 2016 election was Trump's insistence that if he were to lose (and evidently only then), it would be evidence that the election was rigged.
The truth, as numerous election officials pointed out, is that tampering with the vote at polling sites–the only sort of "rigging" Trump would understand– is virtually impossible. Vote suppression is far more common.
That said, the actual "rigging" of American elections is quite legal; in fact, it's baked into the system. I've written extensively about some of the more egregious examples, especially gerrymandering. But partisan redistricting isn't the only structural element frustrating expression of the popular will.
Almost lost in the coverage of the election's stunning result was the fact that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. She lost in the Electoral College, a structural throwback to a different time that has increasingly distorted national elections and failed to reflect the will of the voters as expressed at the ballot box. This is the second time in 16 years that a candidate has won the popular vote only to lose the Electoral College and the Presidency.
Many of the problems with the Electoral College are widely recognized: the outsized influence it gives swing states, the lack of an incentive to vote if you favor the minority party in a winner-take-all state dominated by the other party, and the over-representation of rural and less populated states.
Whatever the original merits of the Electoral College, it operates today to disadvantage urban voters in favor of rural ones. Hillary Clinton's voters were women, minorities, and educated Whites, and they were disproportionately urban; Trump supporters were primarily less-educated White Christian males, and they were overwhelmingly rural.
In today's America, cities are growing and rural areas declining. That decline undoubtedly feeds much of the anger and white nationalism displayed by Trump voters. One can be sympathetic to rural concerns without, however, giving the votes of rural inhabitants (already favored by gerrymandering) greater weight than the votes of urban Americans.
In Baker v. Carr, the Supreme Court famously upheld the principle of "one person, one vote." The operation of the Electoral College violates that fundamental democratic tenet.
The cost of living is higher in cities, and most of us who choose urban life are willing to pay a premium in return for the benefits offered by more cosmopolitan environments. But a reduction in the value of our vote shouldn't be one of the added costs we incur.
It is time to get rid of the Electoral College.
Media and Women
October 4, 2016 Random BloggingHillary Clinton, women in mediaSheila
I was recently asked by the local chapter of the American Association of University Women to participate in a panel discussion on women's role in journalism and the 2016 election. Preparing for that panel led me to some gloomy conclusions. (Yes, I know this blog has been getting more and more gloomy as the election season drags on..Sorry about that.)
Obviously, women's roles and participation in media have both improved over the past decades; today, women anchor television news programs, pen op-eds, have bylines and author blogs. That increased media visibility accompanies other notable improvements in our various roles across the economic terrain.
That said, in my view, any discernible "differential" impact on the media landscape has been swallowed up by the far more consequential changes to that landscape generally. Any effect of an increase in female journalists has been more than countered by the massive losses–the hemorrhaging– in what has been called "the journalism of verification."
In today's surfeit of fluff and "click-bait," celebrity has more influence and range than credibility or gravitas. So we have a buffoon (to put it as kindly as possible) running for President and a media environment in which lunatics like Ann Coulter and Shawn Hannity have as much or more influence as respectable reporters and editorial writers, male or female.
My conclusion to the earnest all-female audience at the panel discussion: I don't think we can examine the role of women in journalism when we have lost journalism to "infotainment."
And that reality doesn't even address the unbelievable misogyny that has made Hillary Clinton virtually unrecognizable–a misogyny that has gone largely unchallenged by reporters of both genders who are worried more about generating twitter followers and "clicks" than about accuracy and context.
If Obama's Presidency and the Clinton campaign have taught us anything (and that is a real question), it is that the emergence of leaders from previously marginalized groups (blacks, women) generates increased hostility from those who were previously privileged. Much of the opposition to President Obama has been shameful and nakedly racist; Hillary Clinton has been vilified ever since emerging on the political scene for failing to be "properly" feminine and deferential. Most of the vitriol lobbed at both of them has had little or no relationship to their actual flaws and/or missteps.
Although I applaud the notion of more women journalists–not to mention more female lawmakers, CEOs, and law firm partners– I doubt that such an increase will immediately or in the mid-term usher in a dramatic change from that still-sexist reality. Progress will continue to be incremental and–for some of us–agonizingly slow.
Actually, at this point, I'd happily settle for more real journalists–of any gender.
July 7, 2016 Criminal Justiceemail, FBI, Hillary ClintonSheila
When I was practicing law, I often heard people complain about judges and prosecutors when those officials reached conclusions with which they disagreed. In most instances, the complaints were based on a lack of understanding of the facts of the case, the legal rules involved, or both. That was particularly true of criminal accusations.
Let's say you are texting and driving. You know better; Public Service Announcements tell you how dangerous it is. Your mother tells you how dangerous it is. But your state has no law against it, and you think you're in control. While you are texting, you crash into another car, injuring a passenger and totaling the vehicle.
Or let's say you made the potato salad for the family's picnic. It's a really hot day and the sun is beating down. You know that foods with mayonnaise shouldn't be left in the heat, but you are tending to other things. When everyone finally sits down to eat, several people get violently ill and it's traced to the spoiled mayo.
Or let's take a far more serious situation: you are one of those "good guys" with a gun. You bought it legally and have a permit to carry it. You have it in a holster, and for some reason, when you sit down, it discharges, killing a bystander.
In each of these scenarios, you have been responsible for harm. In none of them have you committed a crime, because criminal acts require something the law calls mens rea–criminal intent. In order for the state to charge you with a crime, it must have evidence that you intentionally committed a criminal act. Negligence and stupidity are not crimes.
That is not to say that your actions cannot be punished. In each of my examples, the persons harmed can bring civil actions against the negligent person who caused the harm, and can recover damages. In addition, your actions can be reported by the media, censured by your neighbors and provide reason for your boss and others to lose confidence in your judgment.
The FBI investigated Hillary Clinton's use of her own email server, and found no evidence of intentional wrongdoing sufficient to charge her with a crime. The investigation found (and severely criticized) carelessness–both in Clinton's handling of her emails and in what the agency characterized as the "culture" of the State Department. The conclusion was not that she hadn't done anything wrong; the conclusion was that the wrong was not criminal in nature. (Click here for a more extensive explanation of the legal standards and relevant statutes.)
Individual voters can–and will–decide for themselves whether they think this particular breach of judgment makes Clinton unfit to be President. If she weren't running against a certifiable psychopath, it might well cost her the election; but even if it doesn't, even if she wins handily, it will cost her significant political capital (indeed, it already has) and will give additional ammunition to those who despise her.
Although it does not excuse her breach, the investigation's discovery that many other State Department officials (including but not limited to Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice) have used and continue to use personal servers because of the ponderous nature of the "official" system should lead to a formal review of the agency's technology systems, and to an effort to improve the State Department's evidently unwieldy system.
Rather than Congressional action that might reduce incentives to bypass the rules, however, we have Paul Ryan's announcement that the GOP will now "investigate" the FBI for reaching a conclusion partisans dislike.
The FBI investigation was conducted by a Republican appointed by George W. Bush, a man with a reputation for independence and unimpeachable ethics. Ryan's willingness to besmirch that reputation and impugn the credibility of the FBI in order to make political points is something we might expect from Donald Trump, but is exceedingly disappointing (albeit not surprising) coming from the Speaker of the House.
At some point, it would be nice if our political actors focused upon making government work better, and left toxic gamesmanship behind. But I'm not holding my breath.
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The answer to our problem is here! Does fake smiling at your co-workers ever wear you down? Well, it turns out you're not alone, after a study found that people who find themselves forcing a smile during work get so worn down by faking it, that they are more likely to drink heavily after hours. Yes, turns out happy hours are our favorite thing to do because we fake smile at people throughout the day. Which explains a lot if you ask me.
The study was conducted at Penn State and the University of Buffalo, where researchers studied the drinking habits of people who work with the public. For example people in the Food service who work with customers, nurses who work with patients, and teachers who work with students. Researchers found a link between those who regularly fake or amplify positive emotions, such as smiling or suppress negative emotions resisting the urge to roll your eyes, for example, and heavier drinking after work. So, we might want to reconsider service with smile policies.
Researchers found that faking and suppressing emotions with customers was related to drinking beyond the stress of a job or feeling negative about one's self. The more employees have to control negative emotions at work, the less they are able to control their alcohol intake after. Faking or suppressing emotions in front of customers is what's leading employees to use a lot of self-control. Those employees may not have a lot of self-control after regulating how much alcohol they drink.
Think about it, smiling as part of your job sounds like a really positive thing, but doing it all day can be draining. Can you imagine a nurse frowning the whole day trying to cheer you up, yeah that doesn't right, so fake smiling it is.
Researchers used data from phone interviews, interviewing a total of 1,592 United States workers. The data came from a service funded by the National Institute of Health called the National Survey of Work Stress. Overall, 3,000 participants were included, gaining information on how often participants fake or suppress motion, which is also called surface acting, as well as how often and how much the participants drink after work. Researchers also measured how impulsive the participants are and how much autonomy they feel they have to be at work.
Honestly, this actually makes sense. Think about it, if you're constantly told how to do your job it's harder to gain control of your emotions all day. So yeah, when you get home you're going to have a beer here and there. Researchers also found a strong association between surface acting and drinking for those employees with highly impulsive working jobs, where employees have one-time service encounters such as a call center or a coffee shop rather relationships like education or Healthcare.
People in these jobs tend to be younger and with an entry-level position which lacks self-control tendencies and the financial and social rewards that can buffer the cost of surface acting. So yeah, moral of the story, employers, maybe take it easy on your employees. Or maybe just reward them with a good happy hour here and there.


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Asaduddin Owaisi Files Petition in Supreme Court Against CAA
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi. — File photo
Owaisi urges Supreme Court to lift veil of unholy nexus between CAA, NRC
NEW DELHI (IANS) — Asaduddin Owaisi, a prominent Muslim leader and chief of All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen who dared to tear the copy of Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in Parliament, has filed a petition before the Supreme Court challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act on Saturday.
More than a dozen pleas have been filed in the Supreme Court so far against new Citizenship Act.
Asaduddin Owaisi who is also member of Lok Sabha from Hyderabad, in his petition challenging the new Act in the Supreme Court said, "the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) appeared to have an unholy nexus with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise."
Owaisi urged the top court to lift the veil on the CAA-NRC nexus that could become a barrier to the right to life and personal liberty available to every person under Article 21 of the Constitution, and not just to citizens.
The NRC is aimed at identifying "illegal migrants" residing in India, said Owaisi.
"Thus, even an illegal migrant has the right not be deprived of his/her personal liberty except according to procedures established by law," he said in the petition filed through advocate Nizam Pasha.
Attacking the NRC, Owaisi contended that the NRC exercise, which is on in Assam and is sought to be launched in the rest of the country, would result in identification of persons as "illegal migrants".
The CAA seeks to simultaneously offer citizenship to illegal migrants — Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian — from the neighbouring three countries taking shelter in India on the presumed ground of persecution.
The petition said after the coming into force of the CAA an illegal migrant, prosecuted under the Passports (Entry into India) Act, 1920 or the Foreigners Order, 1949, would be prosecuted for being an illegal migrant because he/she didn't belong to one of the exempted religions. "Ex facie, such a procedure for taking away a person's liberty will be vitiated by unreasonableness, resulting in a violation of his/her right under Article 21", said the petition.
Owaisi has stated every person present within the territory of India, be they be migrant or citizen, must have the right to self-identify as Muslim without being deprived of their dignity and liberty purely as a consequence of so identifying themselves.
He also questioned why Myanmar had not been included in the list of neighbouring countries.
"It may be noted that Afghanistan never formed a part of India, even during the British rule, whereas Burma (Myanmar) was a part of India even when the Government of India Act, 1935 was enacted. Therefore, there is no basis for selection of the three countries except that all three are Islamic states", he said.
The petitioner urged the apex court to pass appropriate writ, order or direction declaring that Sections 2, 3, 5 and 6 of the CAA 2019 were unconstitutional, null and void and ultra vires of Articles 14, 21 and 25 of the Constitution.
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Sea has received a significant rework. The Ship factory has been redesigned and torpedoes can hit hovercraft. Spiders have a new unit and there are some tweaks to other units. Performance should be improved, especially in the lategame.
Added Redback to act as a conventional riot unit for the Spider Factory.
It's armed with a particle beam. Beefy wheeled raiders will give it trouble so use terrain (and Venoms) to your advantage.
All Ships and Subs are effectively new units.
Now generally cheaper and have better defined roles.
Amphibious unit health regeneration is now based on water depth, not unit height.
This means floating units now heal at their full rate.
Always turns at full speed.
This will significantly reduce time spent accelerating after small turns.
This was the value before the previous version. There was a small nerf to other attributes in the previous version and reload time was reduced accidentally.
Raise terraform snaps to increments of 6 when Alt is held. This is the height required to block vehicles.
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Disarm damage is transferred when you morph.
Capture hierarchy is preserved through morph.
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Minor unit selection shapes fixes.
Minor fixes to aircraft rearming.
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Errol Fraser is second in team scoring playing at point guard, typically a play making position. Hair not pictured.
Errol Fraser had 19 points and an afro on his head when the men's basketball team lost to Western in the preseason. He decided the hairstyle was bad luck, so he went with cornrows the next night and scored 11 in a victory over Wilfrid Laurier.
Still sporting cornrows a week later, he was held to 16 points in the Rams' regular-season opening loss to McMaster. The next night he went back to the afro and scored 27, including the game-winning shot, against Lakehead University.
So what should he do this weekend,, when the Rams face their most important test of the season? A win over the nationally-fourth ranked Carleton Ravens on Saturday would be a huge morale booster for the third-place team. And, with the game being televised locally on Rogers, he wants to look his best. Right?
But you had 16 points without the fro one night and 27 with it the next. You have to go with the fro.
"It's just a coincidence," he says, laughing some more.
Fraser has found out what many players and coaches in the OUA east division already knew. His hair isn't really a good luck charm. The only thing that explains his success on certain nights is his athleticism.
And the only thing unusual about him is the scoring numbers he's put up. In the world of Canadian university basketball, where point guards are usually play makers, Fraser has scored 132 points in eight games, making him second on the team in scoring and ninth in the province.
It's a style he learned while playing for the Algonquin Thunderbirds from 1998 to 2000 in the Ontario College Athletic Association — a league that forced him to be quick and excel at one-on-one matchups.
He did it so well — he was the Thunder's leading scorer in his last year there and an OCAA all-star — that when Fraser came to Ryerson to study arts and play for the Rams, coach Terry Haggerty let him continue playing his natural role, even though it's unusual in university play.
The York Yeomen found that out over the holidays at the Rams bi-annual Christmas tournament. Leading Ryerson 68-66 with under 30 seconds to go in the consolation final, they watched Fraser rush from end to end for a layup that tied the score and forced overtime. The Rams went on to win the game 82-77, clinching third-place in the eight-team tournament.
Fraser played all 45 minutes in the victory. That's not bad for a rookie, but not surprising. He figured he'd have some extra energy this year since he'd be playing while living at his mother's home in Mississauga.


It's been so great getting to know you over the past month. Who knew there were so many of us health nuts out there? If you read my Q&A with Joy from a few weeks back, you might remember that I promised I would share my Sweet Potato Veggie Pad Thai recipe (and I like to keep my promises!).
I'll be honest, I've been graced with my fair share of recipe fails. When I first made this recipe a while back, I was truly shocked that it worked out! Mainly because it usually takes me a couple of rounds of trial and error until I've perfected a recipe. One thing that's super important to me when thinking up recipes is that it's 100% whole foods-based (in true Joyous Detox style!).
When we put whole foods from nature into our body, it thanks us for it.
It shows us its gratitude through boosted energy, mental clarity, decreased bloating, improved digestion, glowing skin and of course, better poops!
So while I might be deeply infatuated with Thai food, it doesn't always love me back – but I'm not surprised. Thai food has many healthy aspects becuase it emphasizes fresh colourful vegetables, a variety of herbs and creamy delicious coconut milk, but it loses its gluten-free brownie points due to its highly refined sugar content and tendencies to contain unfermented soy in abundance (which, as we know, is typically genetically modified). I learnt this first hand when I travelled Thailand and Vietnam for three weeks this past October. My love bug and I did a full day cooking class where we learnt how to make everything from pad thai, papaya salad, fresh rolls, green curry, khao soi, thai iced tea and mango sticky rice. The common ingredient amongst them all? Sugar!
Don't get me wrong – I definitely have a "when in Rome" mentality I carry with me through my travels and I made sure to taste all of the flavours the authentic cuisine had to offer. I also came well prepared with a Greens+ powder and digestive enzymes, fully knowing that my body might experience some unpleasant symptoms otherwise. But when I returned home, I knew I wanted to continue embracing those vibrant flavours, but with a healthy boost!
In comes my Sweet Potato Veggie Pad Thai!
Potassium - It works hand in hand with our dear friend sodium to maintain normal blood pressure and hydration levels.
Manganese - Have you ever heard the saying "manganese for the knees"? If you're a fellow holistic nutritionist, this might have saved you on a few tests during your school. I know it did for me! As the saying suggests, manganese helps to form connective tissue. It also helps to increase the level of superoxide dismutase in the body which has anti-inflammatory properties and helps to prevent sprains.
Fibre - Helps to slow the release of the natural sugars found in sweet potato so it doesn't cause our blood sugar to spike and later lead to a crash. Fibre is also helpful in filling us up and giving us the sensation of being full so we don't overeat.
... And that's just the sweet potato component of this dish!
I also added an array of colourful vegetables including red pepper, cauliflower and heirloom carrots which are packed with phytonutrients and a super yummy almond butter-based pad thai sauce, free of common allergens such as peanut and soy.
I left out a primary protein source, although you could totally top this with an over easy egg, 2 scrambled eggs, 3 tbsp of hemp seeds or a sliced organic chicken breast.
This recipe is paleo, vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free and refined-sugar free – and yes, it is still DELICIOUS!
Prepare sweet potato, carrots, cauliflower and red pepper as stated. Set ingredients aside.
Pour Pad Thai Sauce ingredients into a medium size bowl or measuring cup and whisk thoroughly. Set aside.
Preheat a large skillet on medium heat and drizzle grapeseed oil in pan. Once hot, begin to sauté the cauliflower and carrots for 5 minutes, followed by the red pepper for 2-3 minutes. Remove from pan and transfer to a large mixing bowl.
Using the same pan, toss in the sweet potato noodles (you might want to drizzle it with a bit more grapeseed oil at this point). Toss it in the pan with tongs for 8 minutes until the sweet potato noodles look a bit glossy (but try to avoid overcooking them).
Once cooked, add the sweet potato noodles to a bowl with the other vegetables and pour Pad Thai Sauce all over it. Mix with tongs to ensure the sauce covers every part of it.
Plate, garnish with cilantro and serve!
*If you don't have a spiralizer you can use a veggie peeler.
I'm so excited to hear what you guys think of this one!
Be sure to let me know if you try it in the comments below and what unique spins you put on it.
It definitely looks AMAZING!!! Trying this tonight :).
It was OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!!!! The best vegan dish I made... EVER!!! I added kale, hemp heart, chick peas, tempeh and sunflower seeds! Yuuummyyy!!!
Made this last night, and it was sooo good! That sauce was amazing. We added pastured turkey, which had been marinated in turmeric and garlic. This will be going into our rotation, and will be making that sauce for lots of uses too!
Can't wait to try this! For a nut free version, could I use Tahini?
Hi Rachel! Thanks for sharing your recipe. I haven't tried it yet, but am looking forward to whipping up something along these lines soon. An odd request: can you please share where you bought that striped top? It's a keeper! I'm always looking for good basics like that to pair with jeans, especially as we head into spring. Overall, actually, I'd love Joyous HQ to dip more into that lifestyle kind of content – Joy is wonderfully well-dressed and I always appreciate when she shares outfit tips/recent purchases on Instagram.
Just made this for dinner and it was delicious! Thanks so much for the recipe. I added cashews for some protein and crunch as well as chopped spinach. Will definitely make again soon.
Hi Rachel, Made this for lunch today and my 22-month old daughter couldn't stop eating it! The sauce is really delicious! Thanks for posting it!
This recipe looks delicious! I've been wanting to buy a spiralizer...which one would you recommend? Thanks.
Hey Rach! This looks amazing! I am going to try it this weekend subbing peanut butter since I have an almond allergy. One question- I don't have a spiralizer but you mention using a veggie peeler instead is ok. Would this just make thicker/wider noodles? Are all of the cooking instructions the same? Thanks!
I made this tonight. So delicious. I added raw cashew nuts when I was stir frying everything. I also used coconut aminos in place of the tamari. The dressing is so delicious I could drink it. Going to try hemp seeds and scrambled egg next time. I am not a vegan so I might try some Chicken or shrimp. Thanks for sharing the deliciousness. I have the new cookbook too in addition to the first one. Love them both!
The sauce is incredible and has become our go to recipe when we are craving these flavors.
You bet I tried this! Last year I gained weight because I got a bit obsessed with making my own spicy penaut butter pad thai, but I hadn't thought to sub the noodles for sweet potato. Rach your recipe is BETTER than the one I was addicted to. ;) So great, eating it now.
Ooooh...I like this! I love sweet potatoes. This looks so good I can probably eat the whole serving to myself! Saving the recipe to make this week. :) The sauce looks so good too.
I'm making this tonight, can't wait!
I have made this Pad Thai and it is delicious! Anyone who has tasted it asks for the recipe. It is quick in preparation and cooking. Delicious.
This Pad Thai is absolutely delicious!!!! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe with us :) I too have passed the recipe on to others who loved it!
This is my favorite veggie meal recipe ever!! So so delicious! Thank you Rachel for sharing! Cant get enough!
Rachel, this is truly the yummiest dish! I make it in my cooking classes, serve it at events, and it gets raving reviews every time!! Thanks so much for sharing it! Oh, I even made a video!
Your post is very nice thanks for sharing this post..
Where have you, and this recipe been all my life? I made it tonight and gobbled it up. The whole family enjoyed it. I will definitely be making it part of my regular rotation. I had a little trouble with the sweet potatoes because I don't have a spiralizer. I used a peeler but then overcooked them and they fell apart quiet a bit because they were too soft to withstand the tongs. Next time I might haul out my mandolin which has an attachment that will julienne. Thanks!!
Julienne with your mandolin would definitely work. Sorry to hear they were a bit overcooked but glad everyone enjoyed it so much!


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The construction took 2 years and almost 100 million US dollars were spent. The track was designed by architect Herman Tilke and built by Turkish construction companies. Istanbul Park track covers a total area of 2,215,000 square meters (547 acres), it's 5333 meters (3.3 miles) long, 14-21.5 meters wide and run counter clockwise. The total number of curves on the track is 14 (6 right and 8 left) and the teoretic maximum speed is 320.58 km/hour (200 mi/hr). The highest inclination in length is 8.145 % on the track which has an uneven surface with ups and downs. The longest level surface of the track is 720 m (2362 ft), and the length of the Start-Finish straight is 655.5 m (2150 ft). There are 33 pits/garages. The total spectator capacity is approximately 130.000 people (Grand Stand 25 thousand, Temprorary Stands 50 thousand, Natural Stands 50-70 thousand). The large number of slopes on the track makes the sport distinctive by causing the track to be tough from the sporting point of view.
Besides Formula 1 (F1), there were also Moto GP race, World Touring Car Championship race (WTCC), Le Mans 24 hours race, World Series by Renault race, etc. Unfortunately most of these international races were suspended some time ago and now only some local races are run in the Istanbul Park Speed Track. It can also be rented for product launches, car tests, product tests, practices, special organizations, and to photo or advertisement.
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It's important to remember that the Middle Ages were highly practical, and that political, social, and cultural institutions were governed not by ideology but by need. This may seem like a nonsensical statement to modern readers, especially those freighted with an understanding of the Medieval Period packed with stereotypes about superstition, the use of magic, the mistreatment of women, courtly love, etc.
Of the expedient policies practiced in Europe, the most infamous and the most practical was the institution of feudalism, in which kings or nobles and fighting men formed mutually advantageous bonds involving and exchange of land for weapons and military service. We tend to think of this as a supremely blighted practice, but in reality it was probably the best way to manage an inherently warlike region like Western and Middle Europe.
Medieval feudalism arose out of a much older practice of the Franks and the Danes. This practice, known as comitatus, was a kind of treaty between a ruler and his warriors which ensured they wouldn't turn on him and that he would act in their best interest. It was not connected to the idea of land, but rather to ideals of honor and nobility.
When it became clear, however, that the warrior class would need sustenance, and that they weren't willing (or, given the amount of attention they devoted to their military instruction, able) to engage in agricultural work, the practice of landing vassals came into vogue. Kings or nobles needed knights to keep the peace and fight other kings and nobles; the knights needed to be kept in weapons, food, and horses; and the peasants needed to be kept safe from raids and wars in order to supply those needs.
While it sounds like a circular political structure, the Medieval Europeans didn't see it that way. They saw the feudal structure rather as a "great chain of being," a ladder on which everyone and everything was arranged just so in order to fulfill its God-given destiny and role. Take away a single rung, and the entire delicately balanced system would fall.
As indeed it did once Renaissance rationalism began to pervade society and trickle down to the middle and lower classes. But that was a long process, and for hundreds of years the peasants served the landed vassals who in turn served the nobility, all of them working together in a society predicated on military dominance, combat prowess, and rigid formal structures.
Feudal knighthood contrasted sharply with the army of the Roman Empire (which fell in 410 to Germanic raiders, unofficially kicking off the Middle Ages), in which troops were levied and paid but bore no direct relationship to their general or the Emperor. In feudal society, the knight was almost a son to the noble he served, and they coexisted on a nearly equal plane; the idea that feudalism rose from the Roman military tradition is misguided, and betrays a misunderstanding of the sober nature of vassalage (the knight being the vassal, and his lord-given perks his vassalage).
We can see the beginnings of citizen involvement in government here, especially if we remember that initially in Europe and its colonies voters were required to be landed men of age. There was a lot of give-and-take in the noble-knight relationship, and the knight counted on the lord's friendship and trust as much as the noble depended on the knight's fealty.
Things weren't all roses and sunshine, however, and the romantic images of knights-errant in pursuit of honor and a lady's love are largely apocryphal, certainly later additions to an already fading tradition in the form of songs and literature. The Middle Ages were bloody, everyone was prone to disease, and Death rode with his head held high, reaping wherever he went.
Yet to assume the Middle Ages were the barbaric, benighted times many modern scholars present is equally wrong. True, religion was reduced to a mere political expedient, poverty and ignorance were widespread, and there was war at every turn. But learning was on the rise, politics were gradually bending in favor of the people, and science was ever-so-slightly edging out superstition.
Not that any of these advances or conditions were in view at the outset. At the beginning of the 5th century, and for several hundred years after, things were pretty bleak. Feudalism, for its handful of virtues, did lead to the exploitation of massive amounts of the population of Europe, and serfs were no more than slaves bound to the land to be used at their lord's or knight's good pleasure (and quite often it wasn't good at all).
It is tempting to look on such unfamiliar times as "Dark Ages," to feel our own times much advanced and to smirk at the attitudes of our distant ancestors who could be so petty and so foolish. But every age is dark, including our own, obscured by the sin that separates men from God, and the Middle Ages were not substantially darker or lighter than any other era since the beginning of time.
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Kitty Hawk lives in a small fishing village in Canada. As summer approaches Kitty lobbies her favorite clothing company for a grant to spend her vacation studying whales in Alaska with her De Haviland Beaver seaplane. The summer starts well enough and Kitty is amazed at the sights and up-close encounters she has with the wildlife. She even manages to make a friend when she catches the eyes of a local fisherman who is right around her age. But when a suspicious boat piques her interest over several appearances Kitty starts formulating wild theories of lost Yukon treasure and murdering gold thieves. With just a few weeks left and most of her research complete, Kitty refuses to listen to her inner voice and sets out to investigate what may very well be nothing but could also possibly turn into the biggest adventure thus far in her young life. For a girl with aspirations of circling the globe like her idol Amelia Earhart, this is saying a lot.
Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold is the first in the Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series books by author Iain Reading. Kitty is a strong-willed, clever teenager who gets herself into a fair amount of trouble in this book. From up-close encounters with humpback whales to a run in with gold thieves and even a brush with Indiana Jones himself, Kitty has a summer vacation that will not soon be forgotten.
Written for more of a younger audience, the story is very easy to follow and not too bogged down in details. I loved Kitty's seemingly endless arguments with her "inner voice" as well as the bond she forms with the unlikely band of brothers after their adventures up and down the Chilkoot Pass. Reading does a really good job crafting a story that is not only enjoyable but also educational. With the main back-story being centered around the Klondike gold rush of the late 1800s there is quite a bit of history to be incorporated and Reading clearly knows his stuff. I'm pretty sure that after reading Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold I now know more about that period of history than I ever have, and it's piqued my interest in taking a trip out to Alaska in search of some of the locales depicted in the story.
If you are looking for a story that not only is an easy read but also a very enjoyable stealth history lesson, I would recommend Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold. For me, the best part is that this is the first in a series of going on five novels to date and if this introductory offering is any indication, I 'm sure they will also be jam-packed with action, adventure, peril, and more stealth history lessons.


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require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe Spree::PermissionSets::UserManagement do
  let(:ability) { DummyAbility.new }

  subject { ability }

  context "when activated" do
    before do
      described_class.new(ability).activate!
    end

    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:admin, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:display, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:create, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:update, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:save_in_address_book, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:remove_from_address_book, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:addresses, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:orders, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:items, Spree.user_class) }

    context 'when the user does not have a role' do
      let(:user) { create(:user) }
      it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:update_email, user) }
      it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:update_password, user) }
    end

    context 'when the user has a role' do
      let(:user) { create(:user, spree_roles: [create(:role)]) }
      it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:update_email, user) }
      it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:update_password, user) }
    end

    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:delete, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:destroy, Spree.user_class) }

    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:manage, Spree::StoreCredit) }
    it { is_expected.to be_able_to(:display, Spree::Role) }
  end

  context "when not activated" do
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:manage, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:delete, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:destroy, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:update, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:save_in_address_book, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:remove_from_address_book, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:addresses, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:orders, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:items, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:destroy, Spree.user_class) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:manage, Spree::StoreCredit) }
    it { is_expected.not_to be_able_to(:display, Spree::Role) }
  end
end

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