The Book of Revelation in Music and Liturgy

This chapter discusses Revelation’s soundscape and meaning as a huge hymn festival around the marriage feast of the Lamb. It is about God’s goodness, mercy, and power over evil in a cosmic view, not a secret code for our calendars. Relationships between the book of Revelation and the church’s liturgy and music are explained, along with influences from the liturgy to Revelation and from Revelation to the liturgy. The Sanctus and Agnus Dei of the Ordinary, hymns, and other music for the worship of the church are included. Oratorios and Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time move to music, which, though outside the liturgy, also relate to Revelation and express its themes. Some implications about Revelation’s relevance for worship, music, and life together conclude the article. In Messiaen’s words, “It is all love.”

Organic global cryptocurrency: towards a stable international monetary system that is closer to Maqāṣid Sharīʿah

PurposeThe most prominent and persistent problems of our global monetary system are instability and imbalances. We propose an international monetary model to solve these problems while at the same time move the model closer to Maqāṣid Sharīʿah (objectives of Sharīʿah). We name this an organic global monetary model or abbreviated as OGM. OGM is an international monetary model directly built on the national monetary system of each member country so that the two can co-exist.Design/methodology/approachModel design, theory and literature.FindingsThe model can eliminate interest rates at the central bank level, create non-tradable international money, and make a more stable international monetary system.Originality/valueOriginal.

Cause Analysis and Processing of Propylene Gas Compressor Bearing Vibration

In certain company, propylene gas centrifugal compressor is one of the core units of ethylene cracker. The machine has been running smoothly since put into operation, its bearing system never appeared abnormal. In October 2011, the low pressure side of bearing started to show abnormal vibration, as time move on, the vibration values showed an upward trend, which reached 45um by the end of November. This abnormal vibration brings significant hazards to the safe operation of the device, and could affect the normal production of the cracker and its downstream units and lead to huge loss. Therefore, to eliminate hidden dangers and ensure safe production, the device was disassembled and checked. After analysis, it was found that, the fundamental reason for bearing vibration was static corrosion. Measures like process operation adjustment were adopted, which solved the vibration problem completely and provided guarantee for the long period safe operation of the device.

New departures, new worlds: World Englishes literature

This article focuses on Anglophone writing of a British postcolonial legacy as opposed to writing of a Lusophone, Francophone, Belgian, Dutch, or German legacy. Moreover, this specific phrase of ‘Anglophone writing of a British postcolonial legacy’ is employed in recognition of a move away from the label ‘postcolonial writing’. The article will suggest that recently published texts are engaged in new departures which seemingly appear to be taking us away from the classic ‘postcolonial’ text. Thus, in recognition of these new departures, the terminology used in this article will attempt to better encapsulate the sense of the provenance of the writing and yet at the same time move the terminology ‘forward’, away from the label of the ‘postcolonial’.

Architectures of Motility

This chapter engages with contemporary approaches to urban planning by introducing an analytic strategy rooted in the sociological approach of Science and Technology Studies. By demarcating a ‘social frame’ and comparing this to the established ‘engineering frame’ through different ‘architectures’, the paper reveals hitherto unrecognised features of the implementation of an intelligent transportation system called BLISS (the Bus Location and Information SubSystem). Through the ‘mobilities’ conceptual approach, the relationships between various aspects, including the urban space, the experience of passengers, drivers and managers, and component technologies, are revealed as forming an ‘assemblage’ of conflicting features, that at the same time move toward a form of ‘stabilization’. The underlying point, is that we need to engage not only with the technical difficulties of technology implementation in the city, but also with the contingent and experiential processes of those who use, and are affected by such implementations.

Análisis del diálogo en "Le Prince Corsaire" de Scarron

<p>El presente artículo, como su título indica, tiene como objeto primordial el análisis del diálogo en Le Prince Corsaire, tragicomedia del siglo XVII, perteneciente a P. Scarron. Dicho análisis está basado no sólo en la descripción de la forma y el tema de las estructuras dialogadas, sino también en la relación que existe entre éstas y la estructura actancial dentro del marco de la comunicación, así como de las condiciones de producción de dicho diálogo. Las conclusiones a las que hemos llegado demuestran que la obra de Scarron, considerada desde el punto de vista del diálogo, presenta a unos actores perfectamente tipificados, que, sometidos a unas leyes sociales determinadas dentro de una época, se mueven en un contexto en el que las relaciones aparecen como algo sistematizado tanto en su modo de concepción como en el de la expresión. Uno y otro modo están íntimamente ligados a la forma y al contenido del diálogo, considerado como mensaje dentro del acto de comunicación en el que participan los mencionados actores.</p><p>This article, as its title suggests, a primarily concerned with the analysis of the dialogue in Le Prince Corsaire, a seventeenth century tragicomedy by P. Scarron. The analysis does not simply deal with a description of the form and subject matter of the dialogue, but also how these fit finto the structure of «actants», within the overall framework of communication, that is to say, the conditions which make up the dialogue.</p><p>First we have dealt with the relationship between characters and dialogues, the form content of these dialogues, while at the same time examining the part playcd by the structure of the acts, in the ultimate aim of communication. Then, using the results which we have obtaincd from this method of analysis, we have tried to put into perspective the effect which can be achieved by the use of a certain type of dialogue in order to examine more clearly the significance of the communicative structure. The conclusions wc have reached demonstrate that Scarron's play, at least from the angle of dialogue, presents severa! perfectly sterio-typical characters, who, subject to certain set social rules of the time, move within a context in which relationships appear rather systematic, both in the perception and the expression of the relationships by the characters. This is apparent in the form and content of the dialogue, rather like a message within the action of communicating, in which the characters participate.</p>

Letter to the Editor: Delta-T Formula for Obtaining Average Seismic Velocity to a Dipping Reflecting Bed

It is common practice in seismic prospecting to employ the reflection time move-out with increasing shot-to-seismometer distance as a basis for computing velocity. This reflection time difference we shall call ΔT.