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WASHINGTON, D.C. - While Congress has debated legislation to reform Wall Street, the financial services industry has showered members of the Senate and House banking committees with about two and a half times as much money, on average, as other members of Congress, according to a new Public Citizen report.
The industry - including banks, investment firms, insurance companies and real estate companies - has given $42 million in campaign contributions to lawmakers and their leadership political action committees since the current election cycle began in November 2008. The industry has concentrated its contributions on members of the House and Senate banking and the congressional leadership, the report showed.
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Weissman added that, "It's outrageous that firms such as Goldman Sachs, with its projected $23 billion in bonuses and compensation, would try to block reform while continuing the extravagant pay practices that helped create this country's financial crisis."
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Regarding the scoring/trophies...this is my experience and opinion...When my boys were younger, they always kept score at their games and they always got a trophy from their coach at the end of a season for a season completed. Win or lose, they got that trophy at the end of the season. However, that stopped at about age 8. Now, there is no trophy unless we play a tournament and place 1st or 2nd that weekend. This was hard for them at first because they were used to getting a trophy at the end of a season no matter what. However, they got used to it and it taught them that they have to work hard to earn that coveted trophy. When they do earn it from all of their hard work, they don't forget how they got it. Or when they win a game, the reward is the win...not a material object. It's the satisfaction in knowing their hard work paid off. I'm rambling but I think in the beginning, it was somewhat good for them to be rewarded for just "showing up" but now as they get older, it has changed and I'm good with that. Does that make any sense? Oh and the scoring...we always kept score at my kids games. It helped them learn the rules to know the score.


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Today, around the office(church), i've had a couple discussions with the student pastor, Hux, and intern, Hugo, as well as the children's pastor, Clint. We were discussing praise and worship in the scope of the youth group and the difficulties surrounding it. I remember when i was in the youth group, you couldn't pay me $1000 to lift my hands up during worship time. The reason being, i was "too cool for school". I had friends there and, well, what would they think of me if i did something that made me look like a nut? The truth is, they would have done nothing but wonder why i had done it. the wondering would have lead to questioning, and then i would have been able to give them somewhat of an answer..that is, of course, if i had known then what i know now.
Holly Furtick, Wife of Elevation Church Pastor Steven Furtick, wrote a blog on lifting of hands that i am going to directly pull from because i couldn't have said it any better myself:
We lift our hands as a symbol of help…
Psalm 28:2 Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
We lift our hands simply in the name of our God…
Psalm 63:4 I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
We lift our hands symbolizing sacrifice…
Psalm 141:2 May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
We lift our hands in praise…
Psalm 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.
We lift our hands in response and agreement…
Nehemiah 8:6 Ezra praised the LORD, the great God; and all the people lifted their hands and responded, "Amen! Amen!" Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
We lift up our hands as we pray…
1Tim 2:8 Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing.
So, Team Church, i want to challenge you to prepare your hearts for Worship. I want to challenge you to lift your hands in surrender of the King. I want you to feel lead to step out of your comfort zone, it's ok, you're among family.
Here's why: if you begin the practice of raising your hands, the more and more you do it, the more and more it will begin to feel like this is what you're (you, yourself) suppose to be doing. Trust me..Trust the Father, He's the one who encourages us in the freedom of worship.
Lifting of hands is only 1 of several different worship postures that scripture talks about. I'm going to, over the next couple of weeks, challenge you, Team Church, in these spiritual/scriptrual disciplines.
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Rep. Erik Paulsen has come out in defense of Medtronic's new Irish address as a simple response to a very "unfair" US tax code. A tax code that "forces" Medtronic to find offshore accounts to hide their profits and extort the country that has given them the economic system and environment to make all those profits.
All this uproar is over a corporate tax rate of 35% - which Paulsen is quick to point out is one of the highest in the world.
Except no corporate entity EVER pays 35%.
These convoluted statements from Paulsen and his cohorts about what the US gets in taxes from corporations is never the actual truth. Lobbyists for all these "maligned" corporations have set up so many deductions, and loopholes, and special privileges into the tax code that corporations pay much less than individual taxpayers.
The "effective" tax rate (or the amount actually paid) for Medtronic is 18% of profits. That's half the rate that Paulsen claims Medtronic is trying to escape from. Of course that is still more than the Irish corporate rate of 12.5% but Medtronic won't get an "effective" rate in Ireland - they will pay in full.
USA Today reported an analysis in February of 2014 of corporate tax....
A surprising number of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500, 57, have found ways to pay effective tax rates of zero, according to a USA TODAY analysis of data from S&P Capital IQ.
Verizon paid ZERO. Metlife paid ZERO. Seagate paid ZERO. And News Corp (owner of Fox) paid ZERO.
And when we get into these tax discussions on the poor overtaxed corporation, we get these faux calls for overhauling the tax code. The fact is these corporations have paid good lobbyist money to get all of these tax loopholes in place. They don't want a simpler tax code - they want it to be as complicated and unreadable as possible.
Because that's the way they wrote it.
Republicans can talk a lot of about the "unfair" tax code, but the only ones it is unfair to is John Q. Public who makes up the difference when Exxon pays ZERO on their profits. And I guarantee you that the Republican talk is just that - TALK! Because they won't change anything about the US tax code unless the corporate lawyers give them the changes in writing.


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This is a very strange piece- I wish that it still had its hilt, as it is a true mystery. It is a US officer's sword blade, sized for a foot officer's sword, but with a pipe back blade. That would not be too unusual, except that it is marked by Shannon, Miller, & Crane, N.Y., a New York outfitter that began dealing under that name in 1867! The blade is unmounted, 34 inches long overall. It is single edged, with a pipe back, and the typical "false edge" of pipe backed blades. It is a little rough, but usable. T are nicks along the cutting edge, and a few patches of staining, with a tiny amount of pitting. However, the etching is all visible, and t is a US, a scroll with E Pluribus Unum, a Union shield, an eagle, a US banner, and another banner with a small US eagle.
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Don't forget Mya Aaten-White, shot in the head by police for peacefully protesting and blogging. Emergency services didn't show up for some time, hoping she'd die of it and they'd never get caught, and when she lived and they were forced to treat her, police confiscated the bullet and it mysteriously disappeared.
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The Bronx, NYC 2013 - Miss 163, aka Sharon de la Cruz, is a street artist from The Bronx. I met Miss 163 one fall afternoon in 2012 while she was painting a wall at 5Pointz in Long Island City. We quickly became friends and a few months later I was following her down to Lima, Peru where she was going to paint murals at an all-women festival called 'Nosotras Estamos en la Calle'. Miss 163's connection with Lima started when she studied abroad there in 2006 and helped found the 'Maripussy' crew, an all girl collective of street artists.
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In an effort to both allocate space for and document the existence of masculine women, photographer Meg Allen created a powerful series of portraits for an exhibit at Cafe Gabriela in Oakland, Calif.
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This is all I have ever wanted to see. My butch friends may sometimes get "Why don't you just become a man?" in the same way folks would tell me "Why don't you just be a butch lesbian?" Because masculinity and gender identity are two totally separate bubbles, that for some become a venn diagram, and for others, coexist peacefully inside of us.
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Welcome back to my interview series! Over the past years I've interviewed inspiring women of African heritage highlighting their work and observations on life.
This time around, I'm especially excited to introduce readers to Iheoma Obibi, an African feminist writer, human rights activist and more recently the creative director and business owner of Intimate Pleasures Desires of the Heart, a one of a kind online shop offering the best selection of sexual health products and erotica sourced from around the world.
Minna: Hi Iheoma! Firstly, thanks so much for taking the time to share your story with my readers. I've been looking forward to our interview since we met up months ago in London.
Let's start with your motivation to set up Intimate Pleasures, Nigeria's first female online intimate shop. Was it a choice you came to gradually or something you always wanted to do and what have the main challenges and joys been?
Iheoma: My motivation came after several years of being told that since I had relocated to Lagos for work and who travelled rather frequently, that since "I had no shame" here is a list of items from friends all wanting something from an adult store in whichever country I found myself visiting. By the time I had attended the African Feminist Forum in 2008 and 2010, I knew that this is what I wanted to do but still had a few stumbling blocks in the how it was going to take shape.
The idea for an online store was therefore organic, because I knew enough to know that no Nigerian would visit a store. In fact, getting staff to man the store would be problematic.
It makes me glad that my business idea has allowed for women – single or coupled up – to begin to address issues around intimacy, sexual fulfilment, lust and love. In fact, I have had to engage a counsellor because some women will call the order line and burst into tears. There's very little opportunity for women to discuss issues of intimacy, sexual fulfilment or even address previous history if they have been survivors of sexual abuse or rape in Nigeria.
I must say that my business has opened the floodgates and so now I am not the only one selling adult novelty toys, but I am the only one doing it this way. Once in a while, I appear on a phone-in radio show as "Madam Butterfly" with Wana Wana on Inspiration FM. I run wellness and intimacy ladies afternoons. It's become a holistic approach to women and sexual fulfilment.
My challenges are daily! Since we supply all over Nigeria, a constant challenge is working with local courier companies who neglect the importance of time management on deliveries. A further challenge is a recent flood of sub-standard adult toys onto the market with no regulation and no concern about the kinds of materials used. Loving a good deal, many Nigerians are rushing for them, however, some of these toys break on the first day or do not last as long as they should. Also, customers might not trust online businesses because of fraud. So now, on our website, customers can pay using the mypaga.com platform which gives an additional level of security and discretion.
Minna: Since founding Intimate Pleasures have your views on female sexuality within Nigeria changed and in what way? Are women more or less sexually assertive, confident or knowlegeable than you thought?
Iheoma: Yes my views have certainly changed. Our society is complex when it comes to sex. There are a lot of un-spoken and hidden things that take place. Yet the environment is extremely judgemental and the lure of the title "Mrs." is stronger than ever. Due to pressure from family, friends, age, networks and faith institutions, women are entering marriages for the wrong reasons, making many compromises.
However, many women are beginning to appreciate the importance of a caring and loving relationship that encourages sexual fulfilment. Remember though, many women are told to be chaste and pure for their marriage; then once married, many cannot make the transition to sexual experimentation. I cannot make assumptions about women's knowledge but the inability to discuss sex in an informative way as is done through the PSHE programme in schools in the UK means that young women and men really do not have a chance at sexual fulfilment.
Minna: Which product do you sell the most of?
Iheoma: We sell a lot of Jessica Rabbit in all its variations as well as the penis rings. Penis enhancement products are our third best selling product.
Minna: You are active in the Nigerian Feminist Forum and sit on its Steering Committee. What role does feminism play in Nigeria, and Africa at large, and where have we seen progress and where do you think we still need to work harder?
Where do I begin with the role of feminism in Nigeria – we have a long way to go but we are slowly getting there. We face discrimination on all fronts and our biggest challenge is the merging of right wing fundamentalisms with nationalistic ideology from the Christian right. Much focus has been placed on understanding situations of women in northern Nigeria, in the process neglecting that in the south the Christian right has merged with our antiquated cultural norms and sent the discourse back a generation. It has become so embedded in all families that it is a daily challenge to be able to hold a clear headed conversation with anyone on women's choices.
We need to work harder to provide an alternative discourse for women to realise that they can make choices for themselves as mature women; including the choice to get married should they wish to; the choice to fly to the moon should they want to; the choice to leave an abusive relationship alive and not in a casket.
Minna: What are your thoughts on being an African woman in your field? Have you had to tackle stereotypes and in what ways has your background been an advantage? Also, what would you like us to imagine for future generations of African women in terms of their sexual relationships?
Iheoma: It's been tough. I have received death threats, I've been told that my business is "devil business" and I'm regularly told by people that they "pray for the salvation of my soul". According to my tormentors, I do not "look" the part of a depraved individual and I'm tickled that this is how they see me and my business. Being a feminist allows me to create the mental framework to always move on. I place the challenges in a box called obstacles to overcome and I do not take them personally.
Despite the challenges I absolutely love running an adult novelty store online in Nigeria at this present time. It enables me to tackle stereotypes and I would so much want to envisage a future in which we are more concerned with our individual sexual fulfilment rather than whether your neighbour is getting off or not. Seriously, there needs to be more focus on the self and making your relationship work for you rather than on what your great aunt thinks you're up to behind closed doors..
I'm encouraged that we have seen progress in the online platforms – also by creating anonymity women are able to have discussions, initiate campaigns and engage the wider public without feeling that they are letting their family down.
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Marina Sirtis talks about Deanna Troi and the inverse relation between cleavage and brains in TNG
There are certain rules in Hollywood. One of the rules is not written anywhere, but you just know: if you're doing an action-adventure show, you gotta have chicks on the show for the boys to look at when they're not blowing up other spaceships. Second rule: if the chick has a cleavage, she cannot have a brain.
So, [after wearing a uniform in the first episode] I got a cleavage, and all my gray matter departed. Which was sad, because originally (I know this is gonna shock you), Troi was supposed to be the brains of the Enterprise. So when the cleavage came, all that left, and I became decorative, like a potted palm on the bridge.
Then of course came the second season, and I was the only young one left. We had me and we had Diana, and so I had to become all things to all men. And so I got the red outfit, and and then we got the lilac outfit and then we got the green dress. Under the green dress I got to wear a corset, a satin corset, with bones in, like Scarlet O'Hara.
Now, as you know, with a corset everything gets pushed up or down. What was pushed down was kind of enclosed in the skirt and what was pushed up was enclosed in what I named "the Industrial Strength Starfleet Brassiere", which was a wonder of modern engineering. I mean, I used to take it off at night and go "oh blimey, where did they go?". In fact, we had guest stars - and I'm no Twiggy - who would come and see me in the morning as Marina and then they would see me two hours later as Troi, and they'd go to costume and go "I want that bra!"
So then we got to season six, and there was the episode "Chain of Command" where we were trying out the new captain, Captain Jellico (just in case Patrick wanted too much money for next season, we were auditioning other captains), and he said to Troi "Go put on a uniform". And lo and behold, there was one in her closet. So I put it on, and by then I was skinny, and the director and all the producers were like "she looks good in that, why wasn't she been wearing that for the last six years?"
So I started to wear my spacesuit. I was thrilled to finally be in a spacesuit. First of all, my pips - cause I had a rank, you know. And then, it was very flattering actually, it looked really good.
Suddenly, I was smart again. My cleavage had gone. My gray matter came flooding back. I was on away teams! I was the leader of one away team! I had a medical tricorder! And unlike Beverly, I seemed to know what was wrong with people.
And, in this one particular episode, where we were on the Romulan ship - because suddenly I am the expert in Romulan technology - I had this line: "That's impossible. The Romulans use an artificial quantum singularity as their power source". Who did I say it to? Geordi and Data! They didn't know this. To be honest, when we were shooting the scene and I was saying the line, I was sneaking looks to my right and left to make sure they hadn't developed a cleavage while I wasn't looking.
~ The brilliant and hilarious Marina Sirtis at DragonCon 2010: Star Trek TNG Panel (Abridged from this video. The panel begins here, go check it out, it's totally worth it).
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1975 stays marked in Mozambican national history as the year the people gained independence from the Portuguese colonial regime. But the lesser-known story of the 're-education' of Mozambican sex workers immediately after independence forms the subject of the film Virgin Margarida. In the film, a young woman gets caught up in the post-independence "cleansing movement" and the civil war. Once the detained women discover the sixteen year old is a virgin they come together to protect her, and treat Margarida like a living saint.
Directed by Brazilian Licínio Azevedo with a small team of 200 people who converged on the small city of Manica, Mozambique from all over the continent.
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Edward Alsworth Ross
|Edward Alsworth Ross
American sociologist and educator
|Edward Alsworth Ross
12 December 1866
Virden, Illinois
|22 July 1951
(aged 84)
Madison, Wisconsin
|Known for
|Social Control, The Principles of Sociology
Edward Alsworth Ross (December 12, 1866 – July 22, 1951) was a progressive[1] American sociologist,[2] eugenicist,[3] and major figure of early criminology.[4]
Edward A. Ross was born in Virden, Illinois. His father was a farmer. He attended Coe College and graduated in 1887. After two years as an instructor at a business school, the Fort Dodge Commercial Institute, he went to Germany for graduate study at the University of Berlin. He returned to the U.S., and in 1891 he received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in political economy, with minors in philosophy and ethics.[5]
Ross was a professor at Indiana University (1891–1892), secretary of the American Economic Association (1892), professor at Cornell University (1892–1893), and professor at Stanford University (1893–1900).[6]
In "one of the most celebrated academic freedom cases in United States history",[7] Ross was fired from Stanford because of his political views.[8][9] He objected to Chinese immigrant labor (on both economic and racial grounds - he was an early supporter of the "Race Suicide" doctrine, and expressed his hatred of other races in strong and crude language in public speeches). This position was at odds with the university's founding family, the Stanfords, who had made their fortune in Western rail construction - a major employer of Chinese laborers. Ross had also made critical remarks about the railroad industry in his classes, saying "A railroad deal is a railroad steal." This was too much for Leland Stanford's widow, who was on the board of trustees of the university. Numerous professors at Stanford resigned after protests of his dismissal, sparking "a national debate ... concerning the freedom of expression and control of universities by private interests."[6] The American Association of University Professors was founded largely in response to this incident.[10]
Ross left for the University of Nebraska, where he taught until 1905.[11] In 1906, he moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he became Professor of Sociology, and eventually chairman of the department. He retired in 1937.[5]
Ross' understanding of Americanization and assimilation bore a striking resemblance to that of another Wisconsin professor, Frederick Jackson Turner. Like Turner, Ross believed that American identity was forged in the crucible of the wilderness. The 1890 census' proclamation that the frontier had disappeared, then, posed a significant threat to America's ability to assimilate the mass of immigrants who were arriving from southern and eastern Europe. In 1897, just four years after Turner had presented his frontier thesis to the American Historical Association, Ross, then at Stanford, argued that the loss of the frontier destroyed the machinery of the melting pot process.[12]
Ross visited Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. He endorsed the revolution, even as he acknowledged its bloody origins. He was subsequently a leading advocate of U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union. However, he served on the Dewey Commission, which cleared Trotsky of the charges made against him by the Soviet government during the Moscow Trials.[13]
From 1900 to the 1920s, Ross supported the alcohol Prohibition movement as well as eugenics and immigration restriction.[14] By 1930, he had moved away from these views, however. In the 1930s, he was a supporter of the New Deal programs of President Franklin Roosevelt. In 1940, he became national chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union, serving until 1950.[5]
He died in 1951.
- Honest Dollars. Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Co., 1896.
- Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order, The Macmillan Company, 1901 [Last reprint 2009 by Transaction Publishers; with a new introduction by Matthias Gross].
- Foundations of Sociology, The Macmillan Company, 1905.
- Sin and Society: An Analysis of Latter-Day Iniquity (with a letter from President Roosevelt), Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1907.
- Social Psychology: An Outline and Source Book, The Macmillan Company, 1908.
- Latter Day Sinners and Saints, B. W. Huebsch, 1910.
- The Changing Chinese: The Conflict of Oriental and Western Cultures in China, The Century Co., 1911.
- Changing America: Studies in Contemporary Society, The Century Co., 1912.
- The Old World in the New: The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People, The Century Co., 1914.
- South of Panama, The Century Co., 1915.
- Russia in Upheaval, The Century Co., 1918.
- What is America?, The Century Co., 1919.
- The Principles of Sociology, The Century Co., 1920.
- The Russian Bolshevik Revolution, The Century Co., 1921.
- The Social Trend, The Century Co., 1922.
- The Outlines of Sociology, The Century Co., 1923.
- The Russian Soviet Republic, The Century Co., 1923.
- The Social Revolution in Mexico, The Century Co., 1923.
- Changes in the Size of American Families in One Generation, University of Wisconsin Studies, 1924 [with R. E. Baber].
- Roads to Social Peace, The University of North Carolina Press, 1924.
- Civic Sociology: A Textbook in Social and Civic Problems for Young Americans, World Book Company, 1926 [1st Pub. 1925].
- Report on the Employment of Native Labor in Portuguese Africa, Abbott Press, 1925.
- Standing Room Only?, The Century Co., 1927.
- World Drift, The Century Co., 1928.
- Tests and Challenges in Sociology, The Century Co., 1931.
- Seventy Years of It: An Autobiography, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936.
- New-Age Sociology, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1940.
Selected articles[edit]
- Schweinitz Brunner, Edmund de (1923). Churches of Distinction in Town and Country, with a Foreword by Edward Alsworth Ross, George H. Doran Company.
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Gillin, John Lewis (1937). "The Personality of Edward Alsworth Ross," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 4, Jan., pp. 534–542.
- Gross, Matthias (2002). "When Ecology and Sociology Meet: The Contributions of Edward A. Ross," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 38 (1), pp. 27–42.
- Gross, Matthias (2003). "Sociologists of the Unexpected: Edward A. Ross and Georg Simmel on the Unintended Consequences of Modernity," The American Sociologist, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 40–58.
- Kolb, William L. (1948). "The Sociological Theories of Edward Alsworth Ross," in Harry Elmer Barnes, ed., An Introduction to the History of Sociology, University of Chicago Press.
- McMahon, Sean H. (1998). "Professional Purpose and Academic Legitimacy: Ross's Social Control and the Founding of American Sociology," The American Sociologist, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 9–25.
- Odum, Howard W. (1951). "Edward Alsworth Ross: 1866–1951", Social Forces, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 126–127.
- Page, Charles Hunt (1940). Class and American Sociology: from Ward to Ross, The Dial Press.
- Spellman, William E. (1979). "The Economics of Edward Alsworth Ross," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 38, No. 2, Apr., pp. 129–140 .
- ^ Weinberg, Julius (1972). Edward Alsworth Ross and the Sociology of Progressivism, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
- ^ Hertzler, J. O. (1951). "Edward Alsworth Ross: Sociological Pioneer and Interpreter," American Sociological Review, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 597-613.
- ^ "The findings of the eugenicists quite naturally gave support to the opponents of further immigration. One of the most widely read books on this controversial issue was The Old World in the New, by Edward A. Ross [...] he believed in the conventional myth of Nordic supremacy and the need for a program of positive eugenics in order to preserve our Anglo-Saxon Americanism against pollution through immigration [...] [ending] with a chapter showing how 'Immigrant Blood' was slowly polluting the purer 'American Blood', as 'beaten members of the beaten breeds' swarmed over the beloved land of his own pioneer ancestors. Somewhat obsessed with race, Ross was of course convinced that 'the blood being injected into the veins of our people was sub-human'; the newer immigrants were 'morally below the races of northern Europe'; and that it all would end in 'Race Suicide'." — Baltzell, E. Digby (1964). The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America. Random House, p. 105.
- ^ Rafter, Nicole H. (2009). "Edward Alsworth Ross: The System of Social Control, 1901," in The Origins of Criminology: A Reader, Routledge, p. 320.
- ^ a b c Encyclopedia of World Biography on Edward Alsworth Ross
- ^ a b "Edward A. Ross, President 1914-1915".
- ^ Casper, Gerhard (1995). Die Luft der Freiheit weht - On and Off. Stanford University, Office of the President.
- ^ Mohr, James C. (1970). "Academic Turmoil and Public Opinion: The Ross Case at Stanford," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 39-61.
- ^ Riley, Naomi Schaefer (2011). The Faculty Lounges and Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Paid For, Lanham, Maryland: Ivan R. Dee, p. 34.
- ^ Samuels, Warren J. (1991). "The Firing of E. A. Ross from Stanford University: Injustice Compounded by Deception?," The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 183-190.
- ^ Keith, Bruce (1988). "The Foundations of an American Discipline: Edward A. Ross at the University of Nebraska, 1901-1906," Mid-American Review of Sociology, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 43-56.
- ^ Weinberg, Julius (1967). "E. A. Ross: The Progressive as Nativist," The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 242-253.
- ^ Dewey Commission Report
- ^ McMahon, Sean H. (1999). Social Control and Public Intellect: The Legacy of Edward A. Ross, Transaction Publishers.
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Anterior cruciate ligament tear – benefits and specific exercises
Anterior cruciate ligament tear is far more serious than a regular ligament tear or a slight muscle pull. This is mainly so because an anterior cruciate ligament tear can actually render your knee useless leaving you without any movement of the knee joint. The same also lands you in a situation where you cannot stand on your own and cannot put any weight on the leg with the anterior cruciate ligament tear. It is normally said that the pain that arises from an ACL tear is not so severe and those who do not necessarily need to get back to serious physical activity can opt for non surgical physical therapy treatments that allow normalcy. ACL therapy is more then just massages for the area. It is a whole host of protocols and guidelines and exercises that need to be followed regularly for almost three months before you can expect to return to normal conditions. Some people take longer and the recovery time depends on the severity of the injury and the age of the patient. Physical therapy treatment options for an anterior cruciate ligament tear involves various exercises, each aimed at decreasing the pain, reducing the swelling, strengthening the joint and the muscle and reducing muscle spasms. The process also promotes healing and prevents a deformity of the muscles that can occur if adequate precautions are not taken while movement. Some of the techniques that are used for physical therapy are soft tissue release, trigger point release, joint mobilizations, stretching aqua therapy and a home exercises program.
Lying straight on the bed with the injured leg straight and tensing the quadriceps for a period of 10 to 15 seconds is one exercise that helps anterior cruciate ligament tear. This helps in the initial stages of the recovery for an anterior cruciate ligament tear since the exercises that you can do need to be light.
Leg raises
This is another simple exercise that helps anterior cruciate ligament tear. All that you need to do is to lie on the bed with the injured leg straight and the uninjured leg folded. Tighten the quads and then lift your injured leg slightly. Hold it for about a second and then slowly place it back on the bed.
Heel slides
This exercise for anterior cruciate ligament tear helps regain the range of motion of the knee. Still lying on the bed with the injured leg straight, slide the heel of the leg towards your bottom. Make sure that you stop the movement if it becomes uncomfortable. Hold the leg in the folded position and slide back
Side leg lifts
While lying on one side with the injured leg on top, raise the injured leg slowly. Don't try and overdo it and lift it only till you reach a height of about 6 inches. Lower the leg and start again after 5 seconds. This anterior cruciate ligament tear exercise can help in improving overall movement.


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