A Brook Runs through It: Fresh Water from the Bach for Today\u27s Thirsty Church

(Excerpt) Not Bach [brook], but Meer [sea] should be his name, Beethoven once said of Johann Sebastian Bach. 1 In this anniversary year marking the two-hundred and fiftieth year of his death on July 28, Bach is receiving extraordinary attention, which includes a significant biography by Christoph Wolff,2 yet another series of recordings of all the cantatas (that makes five3), and soul-searching among various scholars in an attempt to grasp the essence of this person\u27s life and work

Study of effects of injector geometry on fuel-air mixing and combustion

An implicit finite-difference method has been developed for computing the flow in the near field of a fuel injector as part of a broader study of the effects of fuel injector geometry on fuel-air mixing and combustion. Detailed numerical results have been obtained for cases of laminar and turbulent flow without base injection, corresponding to the supersonic base flow problem. These numerical results indicated that the method is stable and convergent, and that significant savings in computer time can be achieved, compared with explicit methods

Arts and the Liturgy: With Countless Gifts of love

(Excerpt) With Countless Gifts of Love: like a mantra these words flow through our lives. At some point we begin to realize that the countless gifts of love are primarily people, and one such person, Herbert Lindemann, we are all privileged to acknowledge these days

Liturgical Traffic in Culture: Gridlock, Beginning Drivers, Detours, and DUI

(Excerpt) In the Sunday New York Times from March 16, 1997 a short piece with accompanying picture offered a report on a weekly liturgy at St. Mark\u27s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, a liturgy which is very popular with young people. Entitled The Faithful Are Casual at This Sunday Service, the article concerns a forty-year tradition of doing sung compline in a space which is almost totally dark except for about fifteen male singers, bedecked in cassock and surplice, who stand dimly lighted at portable choir desks. Young people hurry to the 9:30p.m. service to sit in the pews, lie prone on their backs or in fetal position, some kissing each other, both those straight and those gay. Ushers carry calligraphic signs that urge silence and no whispering. It\u27s a kind of date night, attendees say, and it is well-liked because the service is not preachy but offers both anonymity and community. A former liturgist at the cathedral reflected that in our culture we do things regarding love and spirituality better by candlelight, at night

Some effects of combustion on turbulent mixing

Mixing and combustion of near-sonic central hydrogen jets and coaxial supersonic air or nitrogen streams are discussed. Results of concentration measurements in these flows are presented