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Abner Son of Ner: Characterization and Contribution of Saul’s Chief General
No full textThe dissertation represents the first comprehensive, academic examination of the character of Abner in the books of Samuel (1 Sam 14:50-51; 17:55–18:5; 20:25; 26:1-16; 2 Sam 2:8-32; 3:6-39), and it examines Abner’s character as it both resembles a real human being and functions as a literary device in the Masoretic Text (MT) and Septuagint (LXX). Following the examples of Sara Koenig and other biblical scholars (e.g., Robert Alter, Shimon Bar-Efrat, Adele Berlin, and Meir Sternberg), this dissertation gives attention to the ways these texts characterize Abner through direct and indirect characterization, narrative gaps, direct discourse, terminology, and grammar related to Abner, and the dissertation discusses the moral presentation of Abner in the texts and his character development from 1 Samuel into 2 Samuel. Moreover, utilizing Alex Woloch’s The One vs. The Many, the dissertation examines Abner’s character-space — the encounter between a character’s personality traits and its position within the narrative — in MT and LXX. While Abner’s character mimics a real human being in the way he is described, acts, and speaks in the stories, his character also contributes to the plots, structures, and messages of MT and LXX, and he illuminates other characters, especially Joab. The dissertation first devotes significant attention to Abner’s character-space in MT, followed by a discussion of how LXX differs from MT with respect to Abner. The dissertation concludes that Abner is a minor but complex and generally positive character who is integral to the plot of the story. Positively, Abner holds a powerful position within Saul’s court, is persuasive and shrewd, relies heavily upon rhetoric and questions, prefers peace over violence, and is widely respected by other characters. Negatively, he is lustful, presumptuous, and callous, and is an ineffectual military commander. The LXX presents Abner as a more powerful, threatening and yet merciful but less rhetorically shrewd character than does MT. As a literary device, Abner’s character symbolizes Saul and his kingdom, signals negative transitions for Saul’s house, illuminates other characters, and acts as the catalyst for the peaceful transition of power from the house of Saul to the house of David.Biblical studiesLiteratureAbner, Hebrew Bible, Literary Criticism, Minor Characters, Samuel, SeptuagintBiblical StudiesDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Biblical Studies. The Catholic University of Americ
Abner Brenner
No full textABNER BRENNER
NBS:1930 ‑ 1971
Birth: August 5, 1908, Kansas City, Missouri
Death: August 13, 1999, Bethesda, Maryland
Education:
University of Missouri, BA (Chemistry), 1929
University of Wisconsin, MS (Chemistry), 1930
University of Maryland, PhD (chemistry), 1939
Principal field:
Electrodeposition
Positions held at NBS:
Chief, Electrolysis and Metal Deposition Section
Honors:
U.S. Department of Commerce: Silver Medal, 1958; Gold Medal, 1963
American Electroplaters' Society: Proctor Award, 1946/48; Heussner Award, 1958; Scientific Achievement Award, 1961
Electrochemical Society William Blum Award, 1965
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi
Memberships:
American Chemical Society
American Electroplaters' Society
Institute of Metal Finishing
Electrochemical Society
Washington Association of Scientists
Washing Academy of Sciences (Chairman, Committee on Science Talent)
Publications:
Author of many technical publications in the electroplating field and holds patents on 22 inventions, including the magnagage, an instrument used to measure the thickness of plated coatings, and the spiral contractometer
Run-2 Supersymmetry searches in ATLAS
No full textDespite the absence of experimental evidence, weak scale supersymmetry remains one of the best motivated and studied Standard Model extensions. With the large increase in collision energy with the LHC Run-2 (from 8TeV to 13 TeV) the sensitivity to heavy strongly produced SUSY particles (squarks and gluinos) increases tremendously. This talk presents recent ATLAS Run-2 searches for such particles in final states including jets, missing transverse momentum, and possibly light leptons
What's the Matter with Antimatter?
No full textParticle Physics in Plain English!, an outreach project for the Lepton Photon 2003 Conference at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, discusses how particle physicists are studying antimatter with the hopes of contributing to the current understanding of the universe on all scales, "from revealing the origin of matter shortly after the Big Bang, to uncovering the secrets of elementary particles and their interactions." Students and educators can find clear explanations of the difficult concept of CP violation along with discussions of the BaBar and Belle experiments
Dal «Somnium Scipionis» alla «Biblia de Ferrara», da Abner de Burgos a Camões. Fonti e intrecci di fonti dell’«Exame» dacostiano
No full textOmero Proietti, From «Somnium Scipionis» to «Biblia de Ferrara», from Abner de Burgos to Camões. Sources and tangles of sources in Da Costa’s «Exame».
In this essay I analyse three distinguishing features of Da Costa’s prose:
1. Da Costa often alludes to his sources with a single, murky term. This term reveals its ironic and subversive intention only if it is understood within a vertical axis, which connects Da Costa’s text to other texts (cf. § 1. «Somnium Scipionis»).
2. Da Costa’s prose always implies a complex interplay of sources, a borderland between the Jewish-Ladino and the Hispano-Portuguese culture. Perhaps, it would be better to say that in Da Costa’s prose different worlds faces one another so that their own borders are constantly being wiped away (cf. § 2. «La Biblia de Ferrara e il Libro di Giobbe»; § 3. «Letture camoniane»).
3. There is no doubt that Da Costa belongs to Sephardic-Averroism. This, however, does not always and necessarily implies that he directly knew and owned the key works of this tradition. Such works are still unpublished and they are often written in Arabic or in Hebrew. It is nevertheless remarkable that this tradition was wholly present in Abner de Burgos (1270c.-1346c.), an author whom Da Costa surely knew. While certainly being the most authoritative expert on Sephardic-Averroism, Abner supported a Talmudic-Christian standpoint, which Da Costa, being well aware of it, firmly rejected (cf. § 4. «Abner de Burgos e il linguaggio iperbolico della Scrittura»)
Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio
No full textIn the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs and musical performances about rural Americans—farmers and small-town residents struggling through the Great Depression. One of the most popular of these shows was Lum and Abner, the brainchild of Chester “Chet” Lauck and Norris “Tuffy” Goff, two young businessmen from Arkansas.
Beginning in 1931 and lasting for more than two decades, the show revolved around the lives of ordinary people in the fictional community of Pine Ridge, based on the hamlet of Waters, Arkansas. The title characters, who are farmers, local officials, and the keepers of the Jot ’Em Down Store, manage to entangle themselves in a variety of hilarious dilemmas. The program’s gentle humor and often complex characters had wide appeal both to rural southerners, who were accustomed to being the butt of jokes in the national media, and to urban listeners who were fascinated by descriptions of life in the American countryside.
Lum and Abner was characterized by the snappy, verbal comedic dueling that became popular on radio programs of the 1930s. Using this format, Lauck and Goff allowed their characters to subvert traditional authority and to poke fun at common misconceptions about rural life. The show also featured hillbilly and other popular music, an innovation that drew a bigger audience. As a result, Arkansas experienced a boom in tourism, and southern listeners began to immerse themselves in a new national popular culture.
In Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio, historian Randal L. Hall explains the history and importance of the program, its creators, and its national audience. He also presents a treasure trove of twenty-nine previously unavailable scripts from the show’s earliest period, scripts that reveal much about the Great Depression, rural life, hillbilly stereotypes, and a seminal period of American radio.
As a longtime fan of the wonderful comedy team of Lum and Abner, I couldn\u27t be more pleased with Randal L. Hall\u27s new book, which captures the true \u27characters\u27 behind the characters. Mr. Hall effectively highlights the social importance and social contributions of the program and its stars, Chester Lauck and Norris Goff, recognizing that the duo did more than simply entertain radio audiences across the nation; they also accurately introduced Southern culture to many areas of the country unfamiliar with it. By including a number of the original scripts as well, Hall provides listeners with their own opportunity to see (and speak) the language of Lum and Abner. —Greg Bell, host of XM Satellite Radio\u27s Old Time Radio channel 164
An original look at mass culture and rural America during the 1930s through the lens of one of the most popular radio programs of all time. —Lu Ann Jones, author of Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
A delightful and engaging study of one of the rare national radio shows that explored rural themes. . . . Instead of portraying the hillbilly as a degenerate and violent drunkard and rube, the southern mountaineer of Lum and Abner was forward-looking, likable, ambitious, and authentically rural. The show may have tapped the audience\u27s attraction to what Hall calls \u27mountain exoticism,\u27 but it did so in a way that celebrated rural values and character. —Melissa Walker, author of Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meanin
Hall shows how Lum and Abner gave dignity to a group of people, the ‘hillbillies,’ that were otherwise maligned and stereotyped by other radio programs of the era. —Cleveland (OH) Star Beacon
Hall offers a rare scholarly discussion of Lauck and Goff’s successful radio duo, as well as ruminations on the show’s symbolic role during an era of sweeping change for rural Americans. —Arkansas Historical Quarterly
The book contains nearly 300 pages of joy for radio history fans. —Radio Recall
Randal Hall is a perceptive interpreter and introducer of the lessons. —Southwest Historical Quarterly
Lum and Abner attains Hall’s goal of recapturing a time when radio entertainment was vital and important to United States culture. [The book] is entertaining, informative, and enjoyable. Just like the radio program. —Material Culturehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_film_and_media_studies/1018/thumbnail.jp
Opacity in Tundra Nenets
No full textThe analysis of opaque relations presents a problem to classic Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince 1993), inherently a surface-oriented theory. Many different proposals have been made to integrate the analysis of opacity into OT. In this paper, we address the problem of opacity in Tundra Nenets (TN), a Uralic (Samoyedic) language spoken in Arctic Russia and Northern Siberia.
TN has a complex system of alternations, many of which interact opaquely, and provides a good test case for the current theories of opacity. In this paper, we are concerned with the categorical metrical vowel deletion that represents a case of self-counterfeeding opacity, and its interaction with vowel deletion in final syllables. We show that among OT approaches to opacity, there are some that cannot handle metrical vowel deletion in TN in principle (Targeted Constraints, OT-CC), some that can but are undesirable on theoretical grounds (Local Constraint Conjunction, in particular, self-conjunction), and the full analysis of the data still requires combining two different theories (Stratal OT and Comparative Markedness).Kavitskaya, D., Staroverov P. (2008). Opacity in Tundra Nenets. In N. Abner & J. Bishop (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, (274-282). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.The definitive version of this paper is published in Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2008) and is available at www.lingref.com.ISBN 978-1-57473-428-7 (published proceedings
CP-violation parameters from decay rates of , multibody final states
No full textWe describe a method for measuring CP-violation parameters from which the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa angle may be extracted. The method makes use of the total decay rates in decays, where the neutral meson decays to multibody final states. We analyze the error of the method using experimental CP-violation analysis variables that enable straightforward sensitivity comparison with other methods for extracting , and discuss the use of -factory and charm-factory data to obtain the relevant charm decay information needed for this measurement. Measurement sensitivities are estimated for the currently available -factory data sample, and decay modes for which use of this method can make a significant contribution toward reducing the total error on are identified
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