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WASHINGTON, DC - 21 March 2014‒In times of war, water resources and infrastructure are often destroyed or become inaccessible to large segments of people living in conflict areas. Restoring these critical services can avert humanitarian crises and rebuild state authority, according to a new study launched today by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the University of Tokyo, McGill University, and Duke University.
According to the study, entitled Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, effective water management is vital for mitigating new tensions over water resources, with some 1.8 billion people expected to face absolute water scarcity in the next decade.
Cooperation over water management, the study says, can serve to restore trust among divided communities as well as between neighboring countries. Early intervention in the water sector can also help societies set the foundation for more equitable and sustainable water use and in turn support better economic recovery.
Today, countries are beginning to recognize water management is critical for peace and development: of the 55 countries affected by major conflict between 1990 and 2013, the study shows that 30 of those addressed water management in their post-conflict constitutions.
"The sound governance of water resources is vital for promoting peace and stability and is among the highest priorities during post-conflict recovery and peace building. Water, sanitation, and the related infrastructure are also critical to economic development and the recovery of livelihoods in the aftermath of war." said UNEP Executive Director and UN Under-Secretary-General Achim Steiner.
"The added challenge of how climate change impacts water resources underscores the urgency to promote adaptive water institutions and sound governance approaches throughout all stages of post-conflict peace building," he added.
The study further demonstrates the steps that post-conflict countries can undertake to provide reliable sources of water for the restoration of agricultural livelihoods and food security, including data collection, repairing damaged irrigation networks, and improving governance systems. It emphasizes the need for cross-sectoral coordination in order to manage competing interests and mitigate new conflicts.
"If water resources, which underpin all aspects of society ? energy, health, economic growth, food security? are not addressed during the peacebuilding phase, new conflict may ensue at the local level" stated John Cruden, President of the Environmental Law Institute. Indeed, in many post-conflict countries like Afghanistan, water is the second most contentious issue at the local level after land.
"The study examines how decisions governing water resources in post-conflict settings can promote or undermine peace building. Understanding these lessons ? what went right, what went wrong,and why ? has value for policymakers, students, and anyone involved in humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development efforts," says Erika Weinthal, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.
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Participating in team sports can help kids develop physically, mentally and socially, but the experience also can be negative if the timing is not right for each child, especially young children. �To avoid frustration, disappointment and even injury, parents should wait to enroll kids into sports until they are ready,� says Dr. James Sedlis, a sports medicine physician in Birmingham, Alabama. Today, the average age for joining a team is 6�, compared with 12 a generation ago. Yet age is just one factor to consider. A child should have mastered some basic skills such as running, jumping and throwing, in addition to specific skills needed for the sport�for instance, the ability to ice skate to play ice hockey. Beyond physical abilities are emotional maturity and mental readiness. �You must evaluate the child�s behavioral readiness by considering factors such as maturity level, self-control, attention span, understanding of the sport�s strategies and demonstration of the ability to successfully work in groups,� Sedlis says. If your child isn�t ready for a competitive team, encourage him to play a favorite sport in less structured situations. �Start with practicing with your child at home, giving your child the opportunity to build rudimentary skills in a safe environment,� Sedlis says. Age-appropriate classes, camps and community programs are other options. Youth baseball, soccer and football are popular team sports, but Sedlis suggests swimming, gymnastics or skating may be better starting points to develop agility, balance, endurance and coordination. This article originally appeared as on American Profile


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McDaniel Demands Termination of Payday Lending in Arkansas
- Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced today that he is sending letters to "payday lending" businesses operating under a license in Arkansas, asking them to stop the practice immediately. McDaniel defines "payday" lending as short term loans that charge interest in amounts that vastly exceed the usury limit imposed by the Constitution of the State of Arkansas.
Based on the strength of two recent Arkansas Supreme Court opinions, McDaniel is advising payday lenders that charging exorbitant interest rates on these loans violates both the constitutional limit and the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, a law enforced by the Attorney General. McDaniel demands that the payday lenders cease their lending practices immediately, void any and all current and past-due obligations of their borrowers, and refrain from any collection activities related to these type loans. A failure to do so will likely result in the filing of a lawsuit by the Attorney General.
According to a 2005 study by the Center for Responsible Lending, it is estimated that payday lenders cost Arkansas consumers $25 million in fees and excessive interest each year.
"These businesses have made a lot of money on the backs of Arkansas consumers, mostly the working poor. Charging consumers interest in the range of 300 to 500 percent is unlawful and unconscionable, and it is time that it stops," McDaniel said. "It is my hope that they comply with my demand but, if they do not, I stand ready to take them to court."
A copy of the letter is below.
March 18, 2008
According to the records of the Arkansas State Board of Collection Agencies, [name of business] is currently engaged in the trade commonly known as "payday" lending. For the purposes of this letter, "payday" lending means the practice of extending short-term loans at relatively high annual percentage rates. The definition includes, but is not limited to, the practice described as a "deferred presentment option" as defined in Ark. Code Ann. § 23-53-102.
The purpose of this letter is to advise you regarding the law in Arkansas as it applies to payday lending. Arkansas has a strong public policy against usury. Article 19, Section 13 of the Arkansas Constitution places a cap on the maximum interest rate that may be charged a borrower in a lending transaction:
(a) General Loans:
(i) The maximum lawful rate of interest on any contract entered into after the effective date hereof shall not exceed five percent (5%) per annum above the Federal Reserve Discount Rate at the time of the contract.
(b) Consumer Loans and Credit Sales: All contracts for consumer loans and credit sales having a greater rate of interest than seventeen percent per annum shall be void as to principal and interest and the General Assembly shall prohibit the same.
To the extent that your organization may have relied upon licensure under the Arkansas Check-Cashers Act of 1999 as a defense against usury, which is prohibited by the Arkansas Constitution, and claims under other applicable Arkansas laws, we believe that such reliance has been misplaced.
Starting with the case of Luebbers v The Money Store, 344 Ark. 232, 40 S.W. 3d 745 (2001), the Arkansas Supreme Court has addressed the conflict between the Arkansas Check-Cashers Act and the Arkansas Constitution. The Court ruled that "section 23-52-104(b) [of the Arkansas Check-Cashers Act] is an invalid attempt to evade the usury provisions of the Arkansas Constitution." Luebbers, 344 Ark. at 232. Subsequently, the General Assembly repealed that portion of the Act which purported to allow a check casher to treat the fees charged in a payday lending transaction as something other than interest.
More recently the Arkansas Supreme Court issued two opinions regarding payday lending, Arkansas Board of Collection Agencies and Old Republic Surety Company v. Mcghee, et al., No. 07-129 (AR S. Ct. Jan. 17, 2008), and Staton v Arkansas Board of Collection Agencies and American Manufactures Mutual Insurance Company, No. 07-53 (AR S. Ct. Feb. 21, 2008). In each case, the Court found that the practice of payday lending is unconscionable and deceptive, in addition to being prohibited by the Arkansas Constitution.
Taken as a whole, these Arkansas Supreme Court rulings make it clear that payday lending transactions, where the effective interest rate is greater than that allowed by the Arkansas Constitution, are prohibited. In the case of a typical payday loan, where the effective interest rate is far in excess of the legal limit, the loan is void as to both principal and interest. As a deceptive and unconscionable trade practice, the business of payday lending is prohibited by the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA), and subject to the broad remedies provided by the DTPA, including the imposition of substantial civil penalties.
It is the position of this office that you must cease and desist your payday lending practices. In addition, I hereby demand that you void any and all current and past-due obligations of your borrowers, and refrain from any collection activities related to these payday loans. Be forewarned that your failure to comply with this demand will likely lead to litigation to enforce the laws of Arkansas.
I will expect a written response no later than Friday, April 4, 2008, informing me of whether you intend to comply with this demand. If, for some reason, you believe that your practices are not subject to the requirements and prohibitions of Arkansas law set out above, please contact my office immediately. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
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At Home with Power Couple Ali Wentworth & George Stephanopoulos
Carrie Bradshaw's bedroom in the Sex and the City movie perfectly reflects the whimsical, quirky, romantic style the TV series was famous for. The bright blue walls, the bold patterned bedding, the mirrored vanity all exude Carrie's confidence. Her art collection is a dramatic extension of her headboard and is a true nod to her personal style.
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The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is providing UMass Lowell Libraries with one-month trial access to its collection of 37 ejournals. The trial runs from November 17 to December 16, 2011.
The ICE Virtual Library hosts all the content from ICE Publishing, the publishing division of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). This is the world's most comprehensive online civil engineering resource. All told, ICE provides online access to over 1,500 books and 37 journals that cover all aspects of civil engineering.
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If you use Google Voice with a Google number, you forward your calls to your home landline phone, work phone, and mobile phone.
Add and verify a forwarding phone
Currently it's not possible to forward your calls to an international number.
- Go to Google Voice.
- At the top right of the Google Voice window, click the gear icon .
- Select Settings.
- Click Add another phone. You can set up to six phones to ring when someone calls your Google number.
- Enter a name for the phone, the phone number, and select the phone type.
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text: THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY BLS 24 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting, to be held February 14-16, 1998. The conference will consist of a General Session and a Parasession on Saturday and Sunday, followed by a Special Session on Monday. General Session: The main session will cover areas of general linguistic interest. Invited speakers: STEPHEN PINKER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology LEN TALMY, University at Buffalo ANNA WIERZBICKA, Australian National University Parasession: Phonological Universals and Phonetics. The parasession will accept papers bearing on all aspects of the relationship between Phonological Universals and Phonetics, where "universals" can be interpreted broadly. To what extent are phonological universals predicted or motivated by phonetic factors including, but not restricted to; articulatory constraints, aerodynamic properties of sound, or storage mechanisms of phonetic information? Conversely, what do phonological universals predict about synchronic and diachronic phonetics? What might the difference be between phonological and phonetic universals? Invited speakers: PATRICE BEDDOR, University of Michigan BJORN LINDBLOM, University of Stockholm and University of Texas, Austin IAN MADDIESON, University of California at Los Angeles JOHN OHALA, University of California, Berkeley MARIA-JOSEP SOLE, University of Barcelona Special Session: Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations. The Special Session will feature research on Indo-European subgrouping and internal relations from any framework, including formal, functional, cognitive, sociolinguistic, and historical approaches. In the last twenty years we have come to understand the internal diachrony of Hittite, which has begun to make clear some of the desiderata Anatolian imposes on any theory of PIE. But new archaeological evidence has also been very prominent both for Italic and Celtic, which has generated a lot of new work on the very early (reconstructed) histories of both branches and on their internal linguistic relations, their relation to each other, and their relation to their neighbors (e.g. Germanic). Additionally, there has been an immense amount of work on the prehistory of Tocharian, which has in turn led to some reconsideration of its position in the family tree. All in all, most especially in the analysis of the IE verbal system, but also in other areas, there is a fair amount of recent work which assumes/implies highly divergent subgroupings of the IE family. Invited speakers: JAY JASANOFF, Cornell University CRAIG MELCHERT, University of North Carolina DON RINGE, University of Pennsylvania We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome papers from related disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide camera-ready copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 1998. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. We ask that you make your abstract as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Send abstracts to: BLS 24 Abstract Committees, 2337 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2650. Abstracts for the general session, special session, and parasession must be received by 4:00 p.m., November 7, 1997. Emailed abstracts will be accepted on the condition that they be included as ACSII text in the message themselves, or be included as a text file, saved in Word, MacWrite, or Clarisworks, and encoded in Binhex. Length restrictions for emailed abstracts are 500 words plus the equivalent of one typed page for references. We may be contacted by e-mail at blssocrates.berkeley.edu. Registration Fees: Before February 7, 1998; $15 for students, $30 for non-students; after February 7, 1998; $20 for students, $35 for non-students. For more specific information about submission procedures, please visit the BLS web site at http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/research/BLS/BLS.html, email us at blssocrates.berkeley.edu, or call us at 510/642-5808. .............................. Berkeley Linguistics Society 2337 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/research/BLS/BLS.html ..............................Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue


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Planning the next step in marriage equality
MARSHALL – About 15 students gathered at Southwest Minnesota State University on Tuesday night to hear plans for the next step in the marriage equality campaign.
"This is a presentation by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) about what's next with the marriage amendment," said student organizer Katie Langel, a sophomore from Remsen, Iowa.
The event was part of a week-long series of events to highlight inclusiveness in the university community.
"We had events all week," said Anjelica Burghardt, a junior from Watertown, S.D. "Tomorrow (Wednesday) it's about gender stereotypes, Thursday about ability-disability."
Tuesday's presentation was about keeping the momentum of the defeat of the proposed marriage amendment to the state constitution in the November election, which would have banned same-sex marriage if passed.
"Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. State Senator Scott Dibble (DFL) and State Representative Karen Clark (DFL) are going to introduce bills for marriage equality at the Capitol," said Sue Morton, president of the PFLAG Marshall-Buffalo Ridge chapter. "Our goal tonight is to talk about the accomplishments of November 6, 2012, how the no vote was accomplished, and how we narrow the gap between straight and gay marriage equality.
Morton outlined strategy and tactics for a campaign to approach and influence state legislators to vote for the proposed bill by the end of the legislative session.
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Morton elicited suggestions from the audience, which included: e-mail campaigns, phone banks, handwritten letters, postcard campaigns, lobbying at the Capitol and approaching legislators at town meetings where legislators go during the break in the session to sound out popular opinion.
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Maybe Guitar Hero can be useful to musicians after all. Customised versions of the controller that comes with the game are nothing new – they're all over the internet, in fact – but as far as we know, Slapyak's is the first to turn said hardware into a full-on MIDI controller with a 5-pin socket.
This new mod is based on the Wii version of the controller and enables the user to play over two octaves of an eight note scale (the octaves being played can be changed should you wish). To use it, you simply need to plug it into the MIDI-compatible instrument of your choosing.
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Cahan, Abraham
Abraham Cahan 1860-1951
(Also wrote under the pseudonyms Sotius and David Bernstein) Lithuanian-born American novelist.
Through his accomplishments as a newspaper editor and journalist, Cahan became a highly influential figure in early twentieth-century Jewish-American letters. His innovative editorship of the Jewish Daily Forward made it a major cultural force in the Yiddish-speaking American community. Writing in both English and Yiddish, Cahan also produced novels and short stories that were among the first to realistically depict the experiences of his fellow Russian Jewish immigrants in the United States.
Biographical Information
Cahan was raised in the lower-class Yiddish-speaking Jewish subculture of Vilna, Lithuania. As a young student, he taught himself Russian in order to gain access to the Gentile-dominated public schools and library in Vilna. He attended college, preparing for a career as a teacher, but involvement in a radical socialist group at the time of the unsuccessful 1881 revolution made it dangerous for him to remain in Russia, so he emigrated to the United States in 1882. He took up residence in a poverty-plagued, overcrowded section of New York City's Lower East Side that was populated predominantly by Jewish immigrants. While working in a cigar factory Cahan experienced firsthand the deprivations and exploitation suffered by many immigrant workers. Cahan became a successful union organizer and prolabor orator. He also learned his trade as a journalist, serving as a correspondent for Russian newspapers and contributing to both Yiddish and English-language American publications, notably under editor Lincoln Steffens at the New York Commercial Advertiser. His work as a reporter brought him into daily contact with people of all classes in the Jewish and Gentile communities, and in his articles Cahan demonstrated skill as a canny social observer. Adapting the market-driven editorial strategies of mainstream American newspapers to the needs of America's new Jewish immigrants, Cahan built the Jewish Daily Forward, which he cofounded in 1897, into the most widely read Yiddish-language daily newspaper of its era. The Forward, which he edited until just before his death in 1951, championed socialist and progressive political causes, provided its readers with a forum for expressing their views and learning about American culture, and served as a showcase for fiction in Yiddish by such authors as Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer. While engaged in his groundbreaking work as a journalist and social activist, Cahan also produced a number of novels, short stories, and nonfiction books in Yiddish and English, most of which expanded on themes of the Russian Jewish immigrant experience.
Major Works
Cahan's first published short story, "Motke Arbel un zayn shiddokh" (1892; "A Providential Match"), introduced the topic that would typify his fiction: the struggles of Russian Jews to assimilate into American culture, and the moral, social, and psychological effects of this cultural change. The story's protagonist, a poor peasant who has made his fortune in America, sends for the daughter of his former employer in Russia, intending to marry her; however, his intended bride takes advantage of her newfound American freedom to choose her own mate. With the enthusiastic encouragement of one of his mentors, the novelist and critic William Dean Howells, Cahan expanded on this theme in his novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896), about an ambitious young immigrant who rejects his devoted Orthodox Jewish wife for a flashier, more Americanized young woman. In such stories as "The Imported Bridegroom" and "Rabbi Eliezer's Christmas," Cahan further explored this theme of the clash of cultures experienced by new Americans. The novel The Rise of David Levinsky (1917), Cahan's most highly regarded work of fiction, evolved from a series of magazine articles he was commissioned to write about Jewish-American entrepreneurs. Cahan chose to tell this story as the personal history of one fictional representative of this type of man, an impoverished Russian yeshiva student who becomes a millionaire in America, but in the process loses his religious values, his respect for himself and his fellow human beings, and his ability to love.
Critical Reception
During his lifetime, Cahan's work as a newspaper editor and journalist overshadowed his career as a creative writer. Reviewers, tending to view him primarily as a reporter rather than literary artist, praised his novels and short stories for their accurate depiction of social conditions while downgrading their stylistic merits. With the emergence of interest in ethnic literature in the decades following Cahan's death, scholars have favorably reevaluated his fiction, particularly The Rise of David Levinsky. Critics have compared his experiments in social realism to those of his contemporaries Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, and have observed that his frank, unromanticized treatment of the Jewish- American experience prefigured the work of later writers, including Irving Howe, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow.
Principal Works
Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (novel) 1896
The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto (short stories) 1898
The White Terror and the Red: A Novel of Revolutionary Russia (novel) 1905
Rafael Naarizokh: An Erzaylung Vegin a Stolyer Vos Iz Gekommen Zum Saykhl [Rafael Naarizokh: A Story of a Carpenter Who Came to His Senses] (novel) 1907
Historia fun di Fareingte Shtaaten. 2 vols. [History of the United States] (history) 1910-1912
The Rise of David Levinsky (novel) 1917
Bleter fun Mayn Leben. 5 vols. [Leaves from My Life] (autobiography) 1926-31; Vols. 1 and 2 also published as The Education of Abraham Cahan, 1969
Palestina [Palestine] (nonfiction) 1934
Rashel: A Biografia [Raschell: A Biography] (biography) 1938
Grandma Never Lived in America: The New Journalism of Abraham Cahan (journalism) 1986
Isaac Rosenfeld (essay date 1952)
SOURCE: "The Fall of David Levinsky," in Preserving the Hunger, edited and introduced by Mark Shechner, Wayne State University Press, 1988, pp. 152-89.
[In the following essay, originally published in 1952, Rosenfeld reviews The Rise of David Levinsky, noting the novel's study of "Jewish character" and its examination of American business culture.]
I had long avoided The Rise of David Levinsky because I imagined it was a badly written account of immigrants and sweatshops in a genre which—though this novel had practically established it—was intolerably stale by now. It is nothing of the kind. To be sure, it is a genre piece, and excellence of diction and sentence structure are not among its strong points; but it is one of the best fictional studies of Jewish character available in English, and at the same time an intimate and sophisticated account of American business culture, and it ought to be celebrated as such.
The story is a simple one and fundamentally Jewish in conception, as it consists of an extended commentary on a single text, somewhat in the manner of Talmud. This text is presented in the opening paragraph:
Sometimes, when I think of my past … the metamorphosis I have gone through strikes me as nothing short of a miracle. I was born and reared in the lowest depths of poverty and I arrived in America—in 1885—with four cents in my pocket. I am now worth more than two million dollars and recognized as one of the two or three leading men in the cloak-and-suit trade in the United States. And yet … my inner identity … impresses me as being precisely the same as it was thirty or forty years ago. My present station, power, the amount of worldly happiness at my command, and the rest of it, seem to be devoid of significance.
I have set in italics what I take to be the key sentences. These express Levinsky's uniquely Jewish character, as they refer to the poor days of his childhood and early youth ("my inner identity") when, supported by his mother, he devoted himself to the study of the Jewish Law. Nothing in a man's life could be more purely Jewish, and his constant longing, through all his later years, for the conditions of his past confirms him in an unchanging spirit. But the remarkable thing about this theme, as the late Abraham Cahan developed it, is that it is, at the same time, an exemplary treatment of one of the dominant myths of American capitalism—that the millionaire finds nothing but emptiness at the top of the heap. It is not by accident that Cahan, for forty years and until his death the editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, and identified all his life with Jewish affairs and the Yiddish language, wrote this novel in English (it has only recently been translated into Yiddish). He was writing an American novel par excellence in the very center of the Jewish genre.
It seems to me that certain conclusions about the relation between Jewish and American character should be implicit in the fact that so singularly Jewish a theme can so readily be assimilated to an American one. I am not suggesting that Jewish and American character are identical, for the Levinsky who arrived in New York with four cents in his pocket was as unlike an American as anyone could possibly be; but there is a complementary relation between the two which, so far as I know, no other novel has brought out so clearly.
David Levinsky was born in the Russian town of Antomir in 1865. His father died when David was three, and he lived with his mother in one corner of a basement room that was occupied by three other families. "The bulk of the population [of Antomir]," writes Cahan, "lived on less than … twenty-five cents … a day, and that was difficult to earn. A hunk of rye bread and a bit of herring or cheese constituted a meal. [With] a quarter of a copeck (an eighth of a cent) … one purchased a few crumbs of pot cheese or some boiled water for tea.… Children had to nag their mothers for a piece of bread." But Levinsky's mother, who "peddled pea mush [and did] odds and ends of jobs," was kind to him and indulgent, "because God has punished you hard enough as it is, poor orphan mine."
At the usual early age, Levinsky was sent to cheder, where he was made to feel very keenly the disadvantages of poverty, as his teachers risked nothing in punishing a poor boy. His mother would intervene for him (this impulse was to prove fatal) and fought with many a melamed for laying hands on her David. In spite of the humiliations and hardships, she maintained him in cheder, and after his Bar Mitzvah sent him to Yeshiva (Talmudic seminary) at an even greater sacrifice, as it meant he would not be in a position to relieve her distress by learning a trade. She was determined that he devote his life to God, and he showed great aptitude for holy study. He soon distinguished himself as a student, but his sexual instincts began to distract his mind. His contacts with women, as was the case with all Yeshiva students, were extremely limited. It was considered "an offense to good Judaism" for a pious man to seek feminine company, attend dances, dress in worldly fashion, or in any other way to behave as a "Gentile." Naturally, these restraints only multiplied Levinsky's temptations. He would do penance, undergo a period of religious exaltation, and again fall into sin (in his mind).
The next great event in his life was the death of his mother. Levinsky, in earlocks and black caftan, was attacked by Gentile boys on his way from Yeshiva. When he came home bruised and bleeding, his mother, against his entreaties and those of their friends and neighbors, ran to the Gentile quarter to avenge him. This was the last time he saw her alive. She was brought back with a broken head.
It is a credit to Cahan's economy as a writer and to his grasp of character that at this point, in the sixty-odd pages which I have summarized, he has already drawn so convincing a picture of Levinsky, including all essential details, that Levinsky's subsequent adventures in the old country and America, his further encounters with poverty and with women, the rest of his intellectual development, and his ultimate transformation into a millionaire, have all been fully prepared. I will therefore cut off the exposition and attempt some generalizations which may serve the understanding of the whole of Levinsky's character and perhaps help explain how the old-world Yeshiva student is essentially an American in ethos.
Levinsky's character was formed by hunger. The individual experiences of his life—poverty, squalor, orphanage, years of religious study and sexual restraint, the self-sacrificing love of his mother and her violent death—all these experiences contain, as their common element, a core of permanent dissatisfaction. This dissatisfaction expresses itself in two ways: first, as a yearning for fulfillment, where it operates to win for him all the goods and values he has been deprived of—wealth, dignity, a "father principle" as well as a substitute for his father (as shown in his passionate attachment to Red Sender, with whom he studied at the Yeshiva), the pleasures of intellectual liberty that attend his break with Orthodoxy, the pleasures of sex, and unrestrained access to the society of women, though he goes among them mainly to find a substitute for his mother. (These are the positive "Americanizing" tendencies of his discontent.) At the same time, dissatisfaction has become an organic habit, a...
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David Singer (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: "David Levinsky's Fall: A Note on the Liebman Thesis," in American Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter, 1967, pp. 696-706.
[In the following essay, Singer examines The Rise of David Levinsky in light of Charles Liebman's thesis that most Jews who emigrated to the United States were shaped more by cultural and social mores than by religious orthodoxy.]
The notion that the overwhelming majority of East European Jews who came to the United States between 1880 and 1915 were Orthodox has assumed a central position in the popular mythology of American-Jewish life. On a more scholarly level, this same idea has established itself in the canon of American-Jewish...
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Sanford E. Marovitz (essay date 1968)
SOURCE: "The Lonely New Americans of Abraham Cahan," in American Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2, Part 1, Summer, 1968, pp. 196-210.
[In the following essay, Marovitz argues that Cahan's characters fail to achieve healthy personal relationships because they abandon their faith for materialism.]
William Dean Howells, impressed with a short story which his wife had pointed out to him, called on its author in the bustling ghetto district of New York's Lower East Side. Abraham Cahan was not home, but Howells left his card, and not long afterward his call was returned. The result of this interview in 1895 was Cahan's first novel, Yekl; A Tale of the New York Ghetto,...
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Dan Vogel (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "Cahan's Rise of David Levinsky: Archetype of American Jewish Fiction," in Judaism: A Quarterly Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, Summer, 1973, pp. 278-87.
[In the following essay, Vogel contends that The Rise of David Levinsky became the archetype for later fiction in the same genre.]
Some years ago, in a reconsideration of Abraham Cahan's 1917 novel, The Rise of David Levinsky, Isaac Rosenfeld declared, "Levinsky [is] the essential Jewish type of the Dispersion." The truth of this assertion is underlined, it seems to me, by the rehearsal of some essential elements of theme, characterization, and method in later American Jewish fiction. My...
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Louis Harap (essay date 1974)
SOURCE: "Fiction in English by Abraham Cahan," in The Image of the Jew in American Literature, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1974, pp. 485-524.
[In the following essay, Harap surveys Cahan's influence on American literature.]
Abraham Cahan began to publish short stories, novellas, and novels in the 1890s. The themes and character types adumbrated through Cahan's fiction reached their mature development in 1917 in The Rise of David Levinsky, the most important fictional work about American Jewry up to that time by any American writer, Jewish or non-Jewish.
The depth of Cahan's fiction, both as social drama and as a personal...
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Jules Chametzky (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: "The Yiddish Fiction of Abraham Cahan," in Yiddish, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall, 1975, pp. 7-22.
[In the following essay, Chametzky provides an overview of Cahan's writings in Yiddish.]
Cahan began to write fiction cautiously—that is, in Yiddish, in the pages of the Arbeiter Zeitung, where critical tastes in literature were as yet largely unformed. Nevertheless, his first story, "Motke Arbel and His Romance" (1892), was a more than respectable performance, embodying a new literary voice and sensibility. The story tells of a low-bred fellow whose modest business success in America enables him to contract to marry the daughter of his former employer and social...
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Bonnie Lyons (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "David Levinsky: Modern Man as Orphan," in TSE: Tulane Studies in English, Vol. 23, 1978, pp. 85-93.
[In the following essay, Lyons examines The Rise of David Levinsky 's broader impact as a novel of modern alienation.]
Those who have acclaimed Abraham Cahan's last novel, The Rise of David Levinsky, as a great immigrant novel, as an exemplary business novel, or as the novel of the Diaspora Jew have all stressed single, usually parochial aspects of the novel and thus pigeon-holed it within a limited genre. Indeed, the novel is deeply grounded in realistic specifics about typical greenhorn experiences, coat manufacturing, and Jewish...
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Sanford E. Marovitz (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "The Secular Trinity of a Lonely Millionaire: Language, Sex, and Power in 'The Rise of David Levinsky,'" in Studies in American Jewish Literature, edited by Daniel Walden, Vol. 2, 1982, pp. 20-35.
[In the following essay, Marovitz examines what he considers Cahan's major themes in The Rise of David Levinsky.]
When Abraham Cahan sailed from Liverpool in late May 1882, his knowledge of English was yet to be acquired, but by the time he had docked in Philadelphia less than two weeks later, he was already acting as translator, dictionary in hand, for other European immigrants like himself. Cahan quickly learned the value of linguistic facility, not in one language...
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David Engel (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "The 'Discrepancies' of the Modern: Towards a Revaluation of Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky," in Studies in American Jewish Literature, edited by Daniel Walden, Vol. 2, 1982, pp. 36-60.
[In the following essay, Engel interprets Levinsky's inability to integrate the dichotomies in his life—including the differing cultures of Europe and America—as his greatest flaw.]
The life of Abraham Cahan bears witness to a significant chapter in modern history, the massive immigration of the east European Jews to the United States in the years between the Russian pogroms (1882) and the start of World War I. Born in a Lithuanian...
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Susan Kress (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Women and Marriage in Abraham Cahan's Fiction," in Studies in American Jewish Literature, edited by Daniel Walden, Vol. 3, 1983, pp. 26-39.
[In the following essay, Kress discusses Cahan's portrayal of women and marriage, arguing that his characters' ambivalence about marriage parallels their ambivalence about assimilation in America.]
Much of Abraham Cahan's fiction reflects upon the institution of marriage in the lives of his Jewish immigrant characters at the turn of the century. Unlike writers of sentimental fiction, Cahan does not focus exclusively on the vicissitudes of courtship prior to a happily-ever-after marriage presumably to be enjoyed by the...
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Sam B. Girgus (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "A Convert to America: Sex, Self, and Ideology in Abraham Cahan," in The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea, The University of North Carolina Press, 1984, pp. 64-91.
[In the following essay, Girgus examines Cahan's portrayal of the perversion of the American ideal in The Rise of David Levinsky.]
The world of European Jewry that sent forth waves of mass immigration to America has been described and dramatized in many tales and stories. This is the world of Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. It is a world of the ghetto and the schlemiel and of emancipation movements that had to look to the New World for examples of how to...
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L. S. Dembo (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Levinsky and the Language of Acquisition," in The Monological Jew: A Literary Study, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, pp. 84-92.
[In the following essay, Dembo discusses Cahan's use of language and dialogue in The Rise of David Levinsky.]
What does the rise in The Rise of David Levinsky actually mean? We know what it means in The Rise of Silas Lapham by that author whom Abraham Cahan admired as a realist, William Dean Howells, but the question of Cahan's attitude toward his hero is more complex and more fraught with ambiguity. Even though Levinsky is in many ways a projection of his creator and often serves as his spokesman, the...
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Daniel Walden (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "Abraham Cahan: Realism and the Early Stories," in MJS: Annual VII, edited by Joseph C. Landis, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1990, pp. 5-18.
[In the following essay, Walden discusses Cahan's influence on Jewish-American culture in the early twentieth century and its reflection in his early stories.]
Almost from his first days in America, Abraham Cahan was determined to be a man of letters. He had been influenced by pre-Marxian socialists, by Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? and by Nekrassov's Who Lives Well in Russia?, so it's not surprising that he was concerned at first solely with the social component of literature. Literature had to be didactic, it had...
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Further Reading
Marovitz, Sanford E., and Lewis Fried. "Abraham Cahan (1860-1951): An Annotated Bibliography." American Literary Realism 3, No. 3 (Summer 1970): 197-224.
Works by and about Cahan in English, with author index.
Richards, Bernard G. "Introduction: Abraham Cahan Cast in a New Role." In Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto, by Abraham Cahan, pp. iii-viii. New York: Dover Publications, 1970.
Short survey of Cahan's literary career.
Sanders, Ronald. The Downtown Jews: Portraits of an Immigrant Generation. New York: Harper...
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Most pet owners believe puppies tend to nip and chew on things when they are teething - losing their puppy teeth and getting adult teeth. However, this behavior is most often a form of social play.
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VCA reports that puppy parents should teach their canine the degree of mouth pressure that is acceptable when playing without hurting, or breaking the skin. When pups are still with their litter mates, they will often play with a sibling and they learn quickly about "bite inhibition". In other words, if at any point a puppy's playmate feels that the game is too rough, it will bark or yelp and then stop playing with the biting puppy. Puppies learn very quickly in this situation how much biting or mouth pressure is acceptable. Owners tend to let their puppies bite or nibble excessively on their arms and hands without giving the appropriate bite inhibition signals.
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I've gotten into the mindset where I like to try and custom build or DIY as much as possible when building a car. While more and more small niche companies are making specialized parts to "bolt-on" your project, it's easier than ever to build a "custom" vehicle. Nothing beats being able to show off your ride at a show and have people notice all of the one-off modifications and parts. In the end I spend less money, and I don't need to wait for "custom" parts to show up in the mail. It's one of my secrets to completing project cars so quickly.
This weekend I started tackling a project that is a perfect example of this topic. Currently I'm fitting one of my project vehicles with air ride suspension. A few sites offer high-priced, "bolt-on" kits, but they still aren't a true bolt-on affair. These kits also are way out of budget for this particular build. The first big piece of the puzzle are the rear air shocks. Since this is a small vehicle, I'm tight on space and opted to go with Air Lift Chapman style air struts. These are close to the same dimensions of the original rear suspension, but they need a mount solution where they meet the rear axle beam. Niche companies do sell accessories that allow you to bolt the struts on with out breaking out the welder. But the cost to buy them, and wait for them to be made, and arrive to me; I could've saved time and $150-$200.
I decided to take a pair of worn out, original rear shocks and cut the bottoms off with the end links and use my Eastwood TIG 200 to mate them together. Luckily the Air Lift rear air struts came beveled at the bottoms to make a nice valley to lay the filler rod in. I also ground a small bevel on the original shock bottoms.
I then set my TIG 200 up on a 110V outlet and set the output at the pedal to be a max of 120 Amps. I decided to use an .030 filler rod to produce a small, tight puddle that wouldn't protrude from the joint too much. I found myself hovering the pedal around 75% which was about 100-110 Amps. The results were pretty good given that I am definitely still a beginner to TIG welding.
In the end I spent about an hour total modifying these air struts, and saved myself a significant amount of money and wait time. If you do this a few times even on one project, you can see how you've quickly paid for your welder, and have the satisfaction of having parts you made yourself!


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CZM Humane Society
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Cozumel Volunteer Connection
Turtle Salvation Program
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S.A.I.L. Group VolunTOURism Benefits School Children
This past Winter
Cozumel Volunteer Connection
helped to coordinate an entire day of VolunTOURism activities for the Sherman Texas based SAIL Cruise group which docked in Cozumel January 25th.
SAIL dedicated its entire day to philanthropic efforts geared to benefit the people of Cozumel and impact the community. S.A.I.L. participants raised enough funding and contributions of goods to benefit 50 families in Las Fincas (the most impoverished area in Cozumel), NUAFA (non-profit Christian based organization that supports families in crisis, provides day care and job training), Cruz Roja (Red Cross), the Cozumel Chrysalis Group (supports education for children from families with limited resources), and Jesus is Rey church.
S.A.I.L. & NUAFA . . . An Exciting Mission Partnership
S.A.I.L. Group (Solid Assurance In the Lord) had five goals for their Cozumel visit with NUAFA:
. Benefit children and families in needfood & clothing
(immediate and emergency help)
Emergency food packets were assembled for NUAFA to provide to families in crisis as needed
Donate new set of clothing for each child in day care
Donate used childrens clothing to create a lending closet (3 mo. ~ 5 yrs.; rompers, shorts, t-shirts, socks, shoes)
. Enhance quality of childcare with facility upgrades, nutritious food & educational materials
(intermediate impact)
US$1,000 donation for facilities (ceiling fan, water tank), equipment (computer/printer, plates/utensils for children), food staples for nutritious meals for children, or other necessary operating expenses
Donate educational resourcesdry erase markers; educational toys like Legos or blocks to develop coordination & imagination (large pieces young children cant swallow); art supplies (color foam, paper); simple learning activities to teach various themes (colors, shapes, numbers, animals, health topics for preschool/kindergarten/elementary with pictures--volunteers speak Spanish); childrens books in Spanish.
Donate new/used items from wish list (towels, cooking pots/skillets/utensils, bowls/lids, blender, hand mixer)
. Support job skill development so women can support their families
(long-term impact for women & community)
$3,000 donation for matching grant for job skills training; purchase of equipment & supplies
Donate sewing machine(s) and supplies (metric measuring tapes, scissors, thread, etc.)
. Develop relationship with NUAFA for potential ongoing mission partnership
(long-term community benefit)
. Gain cross-cultural understanding of Mexican family life & values while sharing love of Jesus Christ
More about NUAFA & S.A.I.L
NUAFA hosted S.A.I.L. small group visits throughout the day for a 45-60 minute facility and program review and brief informal Q & A discussion (culture, education, family/spiritual life) with Eloisa Buenfil Rivero, NUAFA President, and other volunteers. Translators were provided to help bridge the communication gap although everyone's enormous smiles said it all that day.
What is S.A.I.L. Cruise Group?
.A.I.L. (Solid Assurance In the Lord)
is an annual bible study/fellowship cruise that grew from friends desire to have fun cruising together four years ago to a mission focus, helping others less fortunate in Cozumel, Mexico.
.A.I.L. Group
includes 32 Christian women representing various religious affiliations from 15 cities in three states (Texas, Okalahoma, Missouri) and Argentina.
Checks for tax deductible cash donations must be made out to:
Texoma Chapel Ministry
Mail to: 1434 S. Travis Street
Sherman, Texas 75090
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I'll admit to liking a few cheap bagged teas that seem to never leave my rotation (Red Rose) and I figure I can't be the only one here.
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