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Tale: Gabriel's Horn
No full textCollected by Merlin Mitchell
Transcribed by Mary C. Parler
Ben Howell
Austin, Texas
December, 1950
Reel 71, Item 2
During World War I, I worked at the plant that made the
nitric and sulphuric acids—in Little Rock. We all thought
we had consumption, till the fog rose every morning, That
sulphur would get down amongst that fog, and it'd give you the
hiccoughs, don't think it didn't.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Attitudes toward sexuality in the Book of Ben Sira
Full text linkThe fact that Ben Sira seemingly has a negative attitude towards women or femininity can easily lead to the assumption that the work has a negative attitude toward sexuality. However, this thesis will seek to demonstrate that the author's view on sexuality is complex, subtle, and depends on the context of the individual sayings. First of all we have to make a distinction between the attitudes of the writer of the original Hebrew text of the book and that of the Greek translator. The two texts, produced in different social settings, circumstances, times and places, differ substantially at times in regard to sexuality. Therefore it is essential to treat them separately and to compare them. In addition, the Book of Ben Sira, the longest Jewish wisdom book, is a complex combination of carefully composed wisdom poems that structure the whole work, and of teachings on everyday issues including marriage, family life, self-control, desires and passions, and sexual promiscuity. The openness about issues of eroticism that characterizes some of the poems concerning personified female wisdom is unprecedented in the wisdom writings of Second Temple Judaism. Similarly, the sage dedicates a greater number of passages than other wisdom books, to the discussion of social relations especially in regard to family. In so doing his regular point of departure seems to be what benefits or damages these relations mean, and whether they bring disgrace to a person, especially through sexuality. These all have bearings on the author’s and translator’s views of sexuality, including the position a person or situation under discussion might have in the sage’s social value system. Therefore the thesis examines the wisdom poems, and all sayings that concern sexuality found in discussions of passions, relations with parents, daughters and sons, wives and husbands, and warnings against sexual wrongdoing, including prostitution and adultery. All this is done with a special regard to the differences between the Hebrew original text and the Greek translation
Tale: Population of Texas and Arkansas
No full textvoiceCollected by Merlin Mitchell
Transcribed by M. C. Parler
Told by Mr. Ben Howell
Austin, Texas
December, 1950
Reel 71, Item 1
We were discussing the population of Texas and Arkansas.
During the earlier days when people were migrating to Texas down
through the roads and through the hill country, there was a
sign on the Texas line that read "TEXAS" and an arrow pointing
to Texas. The fellows that rode up and looked at that and
couldn't read—they stayed in Arkansas— I suppose that accounts
for the population of Arkansas.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Mechanism of alcohol chemical vapor deposition growth of carbon nanotubes: Catalyst oxidation
No full textAlcohol chemical vapor deposition (ACVD) was established as one of the most promising methods for single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) growth almost two decades ago however the mechanisms behind its success remain elusive. To unveil the mechanism of SWCNT growth via ACVD, we employed density functional tight binding molecular dynamics simulations, supplying ethanol to a Fe nanoparticle. Here we demonstrate the oxidation of the Fe catalyst with varying supply rates of ethanol and how the catalyst composition is controlled by the reaction pathways mediated by the hydroxyl OH radical. Following ethanol dissociation on Fe and subsequent O dissolution, the catalyst becomes oxidized and the mobility and availability of Fe to bond with C are reduced. However, SWCNT growth is promoted via the key reaction pathways of the hydroxyl H; controlling the catalyst composition through the formation and release of H2O and H-2. These reaction pathways also demonstrate how active growth species such as ethylene can be formed preferentially to ethane from ethanol dissociation. This work provides important insight into the mechanism of how the catalyst composition changes during ACVD and can be extended to understand the catalyst nature during other O-assisted SWCNT growth processes such as H2O-assisted supergrowth and CO/CO2-promoted growth. (C) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Book review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid
Full text linkBook review: Contemporary Scottish plays, edited by Trish Reid. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014; ISBN: 9781472574435 (£17.99)Publisher PD
Characterizing Communication Channel Deadlocks in Sequence Diagrams
No full textUML sequence diagrams (SDs) are a mainstay of requirements specifications for communication protocols. Mauw and Reniers' algebraic (MRA) semantics formally specifies a behaviour for these SDs that guarantees deadlock free processes. Practitioners commonly use communication semantics that differ from MRA, which may result in deadlocks. For example FIFO, token ring, etc. We define a process algebra that is an extension of the MRA semantics for regular sequence diagrams. Our algebra can describe several commonly used communication semantics. Regular SDs are constructed from concurrent message flows via iteration, branching, and sequential composition. Their behaviour is defined in terms of a set of partial orders on the events in the SD. Such partial orders are known as causal orders. We define partial order theoretic properties of a causal order that are particular kinds of race condition. We prove any of the common communication semantics we list either guarantees deadlock free SDs or can result in a deadlock if and only if a causal order of an SD contains one of these types of race condition. This describes a complete classification of deadlocks as specific types of race condition
Tale: Second Tale of Champion Hunting Dog
No full textvoiceCollected by Merlin Mitchell Ben Howell
Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Austin, Texas
December, 1950
Reel 71, Item 4
Sometime recently a friend of mine was working for the telephone
company. He called me up and he said, "Uncle Ben," (that's what I'm
commonly called--—-and I like it) said,"I been transferred to Dallas.
And I've got a short dog that can't be beat. And I can't
take care of him in Dallas—I'm going to have to live in an
apartment. And I know you'll be kind to my dog. You love animals.
I understand that you've trained four pigs in your life, and taken
them to New York City, to Washington, D. C., and all over the country
with the Shrine and the Legion. And I know you was good to that
hawg and you're bound to be good to my dawg."
I said "Well, I'm living on a very crowded street here—lots
of traffic—and I don't think I could take the dog, as well as I'd
like to have him."
He said, "Well, I'm going to take and bring him out there. There'
a wire in the back and you can put a leash on him."
And I said to John—"I'd rather not have that dog."
And he said—"Now, but I'm gonna give you that dog because you'll
take care of him."
So he insisted, so I taken the dog, and when time permitted I
taken him out on a hunt one night. And I want to tell you he was
doubly good. We'd caught some coon and possums, and a squirrel or
two. I made some stretchin' boards—certain size for a squirrel and a
certain size for a coon and a certain size for the possum—to stretch
those hides on. And the dog set there and watched me.
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Ben Howell
Reel 71, Item 4
Well, sir, that dog got to where I'd take out one of those
stretchin' boards and show it to him, and if it was a board for a
coon, he'd go off and bring me a coon back; if it was a possum board
he'd bring a possum.
Mrs, Howell, one day—she had relined her ironin' board and she
wanted to sun it, and she set it out beside the house. And I was
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standin' there lookin' at it. And the dog^looked up and down at it.
And disappeared for about six weeks. I advertised for him and wrote
my friend about him.
One day he come draggin' an alligator in. His hide just fit that
board.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Tale: The Tobacco-Chewing Hogs of Texas
No full textCollected by Merlin Mitchell Ben Howell
Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Austin, Texas
December, 1950
Reel 71, Item 8
When Buchanan Dam was completed and fish begin to show up in the
lake, the fishermen taken to Buchanan—and I happened to be one of them.
However, the boys told me of times when the hawgs would get in your car
and eat your canned goods. And they'd run your trot-line and steal your
minners—all that stuff—but I didn't put much faith in it.
However, I went up there, and I experienced all this—I found out
it was the truth.
We put up a big fly and was all sleeping under that. And one of
the boys had bought a plug of tobacco—and he put it in his shoe. And
I told him to lay it on top of the fly and don't stick it under your cot.
"These hogs," I said, "They'll chew tobacco just like they'll open
this canned goods."
But he didn't believe me. He got five cheroots and put in one shoe
and a plug of tobacco in the other. Next morning I woke him up and told
him to get ready for breakfast and he got to lookin' fer his shoes and
couldn't find 'em. We made a search out in the sagebrush and the cedars
and found his shoes minus the cigars and the tobacco.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Tale: Story of the Milk-Fed Bass
No full textCollected by Merlin Mitchell Ben Howell
Transcribed by Mary C. Parler Austin, Texas
December, 1950
Reel 71, Item 6
Milk-Fed Bass
I used to go out to Grandfather's during the summer, and there was
a beautiful creek that run through his place. Dairy products begin to
get rather popular. Grandfather decided to buy some more cows—got
the best he could find.
Different ones of these cows begin to come up and had been milked.
Calves was all in the pen; and he said, "I can't understand it,"
So finally he said, "I'm going to delegate you as a committee of
one to follow these cows and find out what's taking place. I think my
neighbors are milkin' 'em, or we got a cow that's suckin' these cows,
Something's goin' wrong."
I follered them for four days—watched 'em graze, go off in this
water hole during the heat of the day and stand half-side deep in that
water, switch flies and pour water over they-selves and cool off.
The fourth day, though, I noticed one of those cows came out, and
had four bass hangin' on her tits, 'Got out up on the bank and the sun
struck 'em and they dropped off. I gathered 'em up and taken 'em to the
house, and Granny cooked 'em.
Now folks, listen! You've never eat any fish until you've eat
some milk-fed bass.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
Tale: Story of the Diet of the Razorback
No full textCollected by Merlin Mitchell
Transcribed by Mary C. Parler
Ben Howell
Austin, Texas
December, 1950
Reel 71, Item 7
I had an occasion one time to visit some friends over here at
Huntsville College—now get me straight, I said college—and I met a
few of those ole piney-woods boys that I enjoyed very much.
One evening they came in all excited and said, "Come go
with us. We're gettin' up a posse. There's some kind of an animal
been found out in there woods and we don't know what it is. We want
to get a pack of dogs up."
Well, they got coon dogs, they got spitz, they got bull dogs, they
got collies. Ever'body that had a dog went. We went heavily armed out
into this sector of the country that this man had d told us about.
We picked up a track out there and tried. And it was a man
with shoes on.
And after he explained hisself—about wearing shoes and ever'thing-we
decided we'd just on a wild hawg hunt.
We went on this hunt—we bayed one of these animals over there in
a thicket, One of the boys shot him and get him out and he said it was
an awful big hawg. Weighed him and it weighed thirty-five pounds.
They butchered him and rendered his fat, and got a quart of turpentine.
He'd been eatin' them pine burrs.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
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