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Sleep on
No full textThree lullabies for cello and piano: 1. Berceuse: 2. Refrain; 3. Lullaby. Duration 15 minutes. This piece was premiered on 31 July 1992 by Alexander Baillie (cello) and Martin Roscoe (piano) at All Saints Church, King's Lynn.
It has been recorded by Alexander Baillie (cello) and Andrew Ball (piano) (NMC, D019), see https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/various-wavesongs; the Nash Ensemble (Black Box, BBM1065) see https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7922408--music-to-hear; and Guy Johnston (cello) and Kathryn Stott (piano), (Orchid Classics, ORC100010) see https://www.orchidclassics.com/releases/milo-guy-johnston-kathryn-stott/.
The Nash Ensemble's recording is also available on YouTube, see the video tab below
Principles and methods in the homiletics of John R.W. Stott
Get PDFProefskrif (ThD (Diakoniologie-Homiletiek))--PU vir CHO, 19971. The purpose of this study. A closer specification of the aim of this study is threefold: * To undertake a closer investigation of and to describe his exegetical, hermeneutic and homiletic principles and methods. * To arrive at a descriptive analysis of his homiletic principles and especially, to examine his views concerning the application in a sermon, i.e., 'Bridge Building'.
* To interpret and evaluate his principles and methods of sermon in the context of the biblical and Reformed theology. 2. The method of this study It is imperative to undertake an intensive analytical study of his published works because all of his principles and methods concerning exegesis, as well as hermeneutic and homiletic questions are contained in his extensive number of sermons and the treatise on preaching (/believe in preaching). The method of this study is threefold: * To investigate John Stott's works in literature by means of analysis and interpretation. * To examine the recorded tapes of his sermons, have a personal interview with him and closely scrutinize of all materials published by him on the overall subject of preaching. * In our presentation it is sometimes inevitable that many quotations and examples have to be used in order to elucidate his principles and methods. 3. Stott's biographical background The influences that his home (parents), the various schools (high school and university) that he attended, and the other primary factors (Nash, Simeon, Ryle,
Morgan) had on John Stott molded the characteristics of the greatest preacher and evangelist of the late twentieth century.
4. Stott's exegesis 4.1. He stresses that without a proper basic understanding of the Bible, both the principles and methods of exegesis cannot help a preacher in attaining his goal: discovering the original meaning of the text. 4.2. His characteristic attitude to the study of the Bible is governed by at least three bases: * The exegete should study the whole Bible using the comprehensive method. * The preacher should face Scripture as far as possible with fairness and an open mind. * The pastor has to be expectant in his Bible study, i.e., God is going to speak to him through the text of the Bible. 4.3. We sum up all biblical exegesis as Stott's characteristic principles in three ways: * 'Scriptura sui ipsius interpres' - The Scripture is its own interpreter. This is not just a formal, technical rule. An obscure and doubtful passage of Scripture must be interpreted by another clear and certain passage. * The expositor must pray for the illumination of the Spirit of God before reading the Bible. Because without prayer we cannot understand the Word of
God. Therefore, the important key to the exegesis of Stott is the confession 'Spiritus Sanctus est Verus Interpres Scripturae' (the Holy Spirit is the true interpreter of Scripture). * The preacher has to discern what the original writers meant by discovering the original sense or the natural sense, which may be either literal or figurative. He must also represent the precise meaning of the text as intended by the biblical authors. These are respectively the principles of history and of simplicity. 4.4. We summarize Stott's characteristic method of all biblical exegesis by stating that he does not use new exegetical procedures, but he reminds one afresh of the time-honoured exegetical practices: * The preacher must derive the text for his sermon from the Holy Scripture. * The expositor has to meditate on the text for as long a time as possible. * The exegete should approach the Bible inductively. Stott calls it the art of discovering the original meaning of the text. 4.5. Ultimately, exegetical aids (e.g., semantic and syntactic analysis) help the
preacher to analyze a word's tense, case, and number so that its specific grammatical features can be identified or researched by a grammatical aid or lexicon. The exegetical tools will guide preachers to the original-language meanings and uses of the biblical words, and then they are available to help grant pastors confidence that they are preaching what the Holy Spirit wants
them to say. 5. Stott's hermeneutics and the process of hermeneusis 5.1. His hermeneutics' prominent elements is described as follows: * His principles and methods of hermeneutics persist in the traditional viewpoint of interpretation of the Reformers. In that regard Stott concentrates on grasping the meaning of the passage of the Bible in which He speaks to us. * His deepest concern is to consider the context as part of any text. The first task of hermeneutics is to interpret precisely what a biblical author's statement means in its context. * The principles of his hermeneutics are dominated by guidelines of three teachers, e.g., the Holy Spirit, the preachers and the Church. It is by receiving the illumination of the Holy Spirit, by using our own reason and by listening to the teaching of others in the Church that we grow in our understanding of Scripture. * Stott emphasizes that the principles can be dominated by the threefold rules of hermeneutics, that is, the natural meaning, the original meaning and the general meaning. Each of his characteristic principles of hermeneutics is not only common but also an immutable rule in biblical interpretation. * Stott does not neglect the basic methods of hermeneutics, but he sticks to them. With regard to the meaning of the text, he emphasizes the pre-eminence of the contextual, the grammatical and the verbal approaches. In the case of the significance of the text, he stresses the theological and cultural
understanding. * His principle of the salient features of hermeneutics is the Christ-centred approach. He consistently attempts to extract redemptive truths from all of Scripture. So his idea of a message from the text highlights the central theme
of the atonement as it relates to all the issues of faith and life. The Bible is indeed the cradle that brings Christ to us. * Stott uses the principle of the 'analogy of faith' to guide his hermeneutics, as the Protestant Reformers did. This standard requires preachers to use Scripture alone as the basis for their exhortation. Stott determines the biblical truths intended for the persons addressed by the text and then identifies similarities in our present condition that require the application of precisely the same truths. 5.2. We sum up Stott 's characteristics in the process of hermeneusis: * The purpose of his hermenuesis does not merely obligate preachers to explain what the Bible says; it requires them to explain what the Bible means in the lives of people today. Therefore, he always tries to apply the original meaning of the text to the modem situation. * According to Stott essential elements in the process of hermeneusis are the
indicative, the imperative and the promise in the text, because hermeneusis deals with the meaning of the text ' then' bridging the gap to 'today'. * The aim of Stott's hermeneusis not only inspires us by its example, but provides the principles and methods for the interpretation of the Bible by which the Church today can do what he has done during his life time, as the
Reformers of old did. * The central elements in the process of hermeneusis are the revelation of the Triune God that the author makes known about God, i.e. His will, His mercy, His wrath, etc. and about His grace in Christ and His Spirit within us.
6. Stott's homilesis 6.1. He stresses that an expository sermon must be established on a sound theological foundation. The principles of the theological foundation are the doctrines of God: the Holy Scripture, the Church, the pastorate, and the
preaching as the ground work. 6.2. The practice of preaching cannot be separated from the person of the preacher because the whole theology of a preacher lies beneath the practice of his
sermon and a whole lifestyle stands behind it. Therefore, the preacher's personality and competence are of such vital importance to the delivery of the sermon. 6.3. His characteristic form of preaching is governed by a few basic homiletic principles: * The sermon must arise out of a text the preacher has chosen. Within his sermon Stott is committed to the idea that the text should dominate. He emphasizes that the text should always furnish the message and the theme of the sermon, regardless of the length of the text. * The sermon needs to have a sound and functional structure, i.e., the
introduction, the body and the conclusion in a sermon. For Stott, formulating the sermon is of vital importance to creating a sound sermon structure. He states firmly that no sermon is really strong which is not strong in structure too. Just as bones without flesh make a skeleton, so flesh without bones makes
a jellyfish. * For Stott, the purpose of the formulation of the sermon is an essential process to convey the message of the text and to lead the audience to face God. For this purpose the preacher has to study and develop his sermon. And then he
has to be sure at all times that he must depend upon the Holy Spirit, and not rely only on his own skill. 6.4. Stott emphasizes that the preacher should interpret the Bible as Christ-centred,
as well as preach the kerygmatic message, because there are some unbelievers among his congregation. Moreover, Stott thinks that preaching not only tells us about Jesus Christ but also stresses the presence of Christ in Christian communities. This has been at the very heart of John Stott's life and message.
6.5. The core of Stott's methods on homilesis is bridge-building as the application in a sermon. He describes the deep rift between the biblical and the modern world. His particular concern of bridge-building can be summarized as follows:
* The preacher must understand the cultural background of the text in order to build a bridge. * The preacher also has to know the listener's contemporary situation (culture, politics, ethics) in order to make bridge-building comprehensible to him. * The model of bridge-building in a sermon is the incarnation of Jesus Christ. * The methods of bridge-building as an application in a sermon are governed by the direct and indirect way of application throughout the content of a sermon. * The final purpose of the bridge-building is to lead the people of God into
maturity. 6.6. The way to improve our expository preaching is not to emulate Stott's homiletical principles and methods directly, but to imitate his passion and tender heart for the people of God. Above all, the real secret of his sermon is not the mastering of certain homiletic principles and methods, but the fact that he is being controlled by a consuming pastoral love for the people to whom he is preaching. 6.7. Finally, we want to conclude this thesis by quoting Stott's prayer that he has been praying for the past number of years before mounting the pulpit (Stott, 1982a:340): Heavenly Father, we bow in your presence.
May your Word be our rule, our Spirit our teacher, and your greater glory our supreme concern, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.Doctora
State of Utah v. Jonathan Alexander Meza : Brief of Appellee
Get PDFAppeal from a conviction for aggravated robbery, a first degree felony, in the Fourth Judicial District Court of Utah, Utah County, the Honorable Gary D. Stott presidin
Faithful semigroup diagram representations of homeomorphism groups
Get PDFIn this thesis we investigate two different classes of objects. The first is the class of Dénes cycles of a tree; we show a ‘strong’ correspondence between such cycles and certain partial orders on the edges of the tree. This allows us to find a slick new proof of a classical result, as well as give an algorithm for computing the multiplicity of a Dénes cycle. The second class of objects we investigate, and the main focus of this thesis, is groups generated by geometrically fast sets of bumps. We show that the class of such groups on the interval coincides with a certain subclass of diagram groups, and then exploit this connection to answer a question of Matthew Brin. We then go on to consider groups generated by fast bumps in a general setting and, in so doing, find a necessary and sufficient condition for when groups generated by fast sets of bumps on the circle are isomorphic to certain annular diagram groups. To finish, we deduce a couple of properties of fast groups of the interval using their diagram group representations. In aid of this, we define a group structure on infinite tree diagrams."The author has been partially funded by the EPSRC through the University of St Andrews doctoral training program during the creation of this thesis."--Acknowledgement
Evaluating the performance of diverse dairy systems
Get PDFQuantification of technical and environmental measurements from agricultural
systems is of interest for both scientific and social reasons, so that types, sources, and
amounts of undesirable outputs can be understood, managed and reduced. This cross-disciplinary research provides a holistically measured comparison of diverse genetic
lines managed within novel and conventional UK dairy farming systems by employing
a range of indicators and modelling techniques alongside a visual representation of the
milk production regimes. This research focussed on evaluating Holstein Friesian cows
of high and national average genetic merit across four diverse UK dairy production
systems, by measuring environmental, health and financial outcomes. Using a Life
Cycle Assessment approach and internationally agreed methods, performance
indicators were used to assess the efficiency of dairy farming systems.
Obtaining greater yields at the expense of high costs was shown to be financially
unsustainable, especially under fluctuating milk prices. Management decisions have a
clear effect on profitability, as herd replacement and reproduction choices alter the
lifetime production of a cow, and the age profile of a herd. Reducing replacement rate
by 1% could increase profit by 0.3p per litre in housed management and 0.4p per litre
in a grazed system. Long term breeding for milk, fat and protein yield led to an average
profit differences of 4p per litre produced, and 2p per litre produced, in housed and
grazed systems respectively, when compared to animals of average genetic merit.
Carbon accounting showed that average merit footprints across each of the dairy
management regimes were significantly higher (p<0.001), on average by 15%.
Livestock and embedded emissions were significantly higher from control merit cows
(p<0.01). Sources of greenhouse gases varied by dairy management regime
highlighting that farm mitigation may prove more effective if applied by system type.
Pairwise comparison tests showed greenhouse gases to be significantly different in
totals and type across the management systems. The effect of natural variation in the
nutritional quality was investigated, and simulated footprints considering variation in
diet digestibility and crude protein differed significantly from footprints using standard
methods (p<0.001). Mass and economic allocation methods, and land use functional
units, resulted in differences in system performance ranking. Eutrophication and acidification potentials provided impact results relating to water and air pollution and
were shown to follow a similar system performance ranking as GHG emissions.
Dairy system efficiency was found to differ and depend upon model emphasis.
Efficiency scores generated by pollutant focused models were wider ranging and, on
average, higher for genetically improved animals within housed systems, consuming
imported by-product feeds and exporting all manure. However, models which
considered P as a non-renewable resource presented a tighter range of efficiency scores
across all management regimes, and, did not always favour cows of improved genetics
which require higher feed intakes. Divergent results arising from type of model applied
generate questions concerning the importance of model emphasis and offer insight into
the sustainability of P use within varied dairy management regimes.
Sensitivity and uncertainty surrounding financial and environmental measurements
can be used to communicate the mutable nature of profitability and environmental
outcomes. Performance rankings of the systems differed depending on modelling
method, choice of indicator and functional unit, and also whether or not uncertainty of
nutritional inputs were included. Trade-offs and synergies associated with the
production of milk within current and possible future dairy systems can be
communicated graphically in order to illuminate and communicate potential areas of
focus to reduce emissions or improve efficiency. Irrespective of dairy management
system, genetic selection for production has led to improvement in environmental and
financial performance. Emissions from livestock and manure management can be
reduced in all dairy systems and differences in emission source type should be
considered when assessing mitigation potentials and strategies
Music made visible in time and space : concepts of simultaneity in tone-eurythmy choreography
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 105-113).Eurythmy is an art of movement that expresses music and speech. This dissertation explores eurythmy's musical field, called tone-eurythmy, in its multifaceted appearances, background and within its philosophical context. Tone-eurythmy, carried out by performers moving in space and time, makes music visible. It transforms music into a new movement-art form, that of audible-visible music, by expressing musical components as well as the artistic intentions within a composition and those held by the performing artists. The dissertation examines how musical concepts are seen by eurythmists to integrate ideas of wholeness and to understand music as both audible and inaudible. It draws on studies and findings from music psychology to show distinct effects of musical elements on the human being, and to indicate the similarities between those and the qualitative expressions of music through tone-eurythmy
My Book of Animal Stories
No full textFive stories. One is a reprint in large format of Stott's MSA from The Best of Aesop (1985). The donkey was last seen swimming strongly out to sea, and the illustration does the line justice. Malcolm Livingstone also does the lively illustrations for The Lion and the Peacock
My Book of Animal Stories
No full textIdentical with Cavendish's 1988 book with the same title. See my comments there. The bar code and the price in pounds have been removed from the back cover.This is a hardbound book (hard cover
The impact of enhancer proximity on the shared regulation of Drosophila tandem paralogs mid and H15 genes
No full textThis study investigates the regulatory dynamics of the T-box transcription factors midline (mid) and H15 during Drosophila oogenesis, focusing on the pivotal role of the GMR86G04 (G04) enhancer identified in prior research. Leveraging CRISPR/Cas9 technology, we aim to relocate the G04 enhancer from its original position near mid to be proximal to H15. Through targeted genetic manipulations and subsequent analysis of gene expression patterns, our research seeks to unveil the impact of enhancer proximity on the distinct roles played by mid and H15 in the determination of posterior fate. This exploration contributes to a deeper understanding of enhancer specificity, shedding light on the intricate regulatory mechanisms at play in
Drosophila oogenesis.Presented at the annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity while the author was an undergraduate student at Rutgers University-Camden
The evolution of galaxies in massive clusters
Get PDFWe present a study of the evolution of galaxies in massive X-ray selected clusters across half the age of the Universe. This encompasses galaxies on the red sequence from the Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) to the faint red population. We begin at the tip of the red sequence with an investigation into the near infrared evolution of BCGs since z =1. By comparing the BCG Hubble diagram and near-infrared colour evolution to a set of stellar population and semi-analytic models we constrain the evolution and formation redshift of these massive galaxies. Moving down in luminosity from the BCG, in chapter 3 we study the build up of the red sequence in massive clusters. To achieve this we compare the luminosity functions for red galaxies in a homogeneous sample of ten X-ray luminous clusters at z ~ 0.5 to a similarly selected X-ray cluster sample at z ~ 0.1. We quantify this result by measuring the dwarf to giant ratio to ascertain whether faint galaxies have joined the red sequence over the last 5 Gyr. In chapter 4 we study the evolution of the red sequence slope in massive clusters from z=l to present day. We compare our observed slope evolution to that predicted from semi- analytical models based on the Millennium simulation. We also look for trends between the red sequence slope and other cluster observables, such as X—ray luminosity, to investigate whether this will effect cluster detection methods which search for a colour-magnitude relation. In the final science chapter we present the details of our own cluster detection algorithm. This simple algorithm is based on finding clusters through the near-infrared and optical properties of the red sequence, drawing on our galaxy cluster evolution research. We describe the application of the algorithm to object catalogues from the UKIDSS DXS fields in order to find clusters at z ~ 1. To confirm the presence of the clusters we employ deep multi-object spectroscopy on the photometric members. The clusters found in this study are fed back into the high redshift regime of our galaxy evolution research
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