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The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the public on May 15 for its annual Language Day event.

The event showcased the cultures of the different departmental languages being taught here through dance, skits and fashion shows.

Exhibits were also presented throughout the school grounds with local Monterey ethnic vendors selling their local cuisines to the customers.

Nearly 2,000 high school students and teachers attended Language Day.

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Language Day by Presidio of Monterey

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Photo by Hiro Chang, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs

The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the public on May 15 for its annual Language Day event.

The event showcased the cultures of the different departmental languages being taught here through dance, skits and fashion shows.

Exhibits were also presented throughout the school grounds with local Monterey ethnic vendors selling their local cuisines to the customers.

Nearly 2,000 high school students and teachers attended Language Day.

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This is my language arts classroom, Room 1204, at . I didn't make it through the year. A girl accused me of hitting her, and even though I was found blameless, the administrators forced me to resign.

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Title: United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 21, Nos. 1-6, 1924

Creator: U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

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Sponsor:

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Date: 1924-07

Language: eng

Table of Contents

Number 1

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS

vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

UNITED STATES NAVAL PHARMACIST'S MATES SCHOOL : ITS DOCTRINES AND

POLICIES.

By Capt. G. Pickrell, Medical Corps, United States Navy 1

MOVE TO STANDARDIZE THE QUARTERLY MARKS OF THE HOSPITAL CORPS, UNITED

STATES NAVY,

By Commander 0, J. Mink, and Chief Pharmacist J. A. McCormack, Medical

Corps, United States Navy 35

SUGGESTED PLAN FOR PROGRESSIVE HOSPITAL CORPS INSTRUCTION,

By Lieut. Commander G. W. Calver, Medical Corps, United States

Navy 41

CLINICAL NOTES:

OBSERVATIONS ON DIRECT VISION CYSTOSCOPY,

By Lieut. Commander R. Hayden, Medical Corps, United States Navy 65

GENERAL PARESIS.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) C. J. Stuart, Medical Corps, United States

Navy 68

WASSERMANN REACTION, NOTES ON THE,

By Lieut. C, F. Behrens, Medical Corps, United States Navy 72

COLOR TEST NOT RELIABLE AS A MENTAL TEST.

By Lieut. R. H. Hunt, Medical Corps, United States Navy 74

LUDWIG'S ANGINA FOLLOWING DOUBLE PERITONSILLAR ABCESS.

By Lieut. H. S. Cragin, Medical Corps, United States Navy 76

CHANCROID, SPECIFIC TREATMENT FOR,

By Lieut. A. J, Chenery, Medical Corps, United States Navy 78

NOTES AND COMMENTS: .

Value of War College training for medical officers--Some hints from the

old physicians - A new blank form 81

NAVY NURSE CORPS :

The earthquake in Japan---------------------------------------- 95

BOOK NOTICES ----------------------------------------------- 101

DIVISION OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE:

Food in its epidemiological aspects - Food poisoning

By Lieut. Commander J. R. Phelps, Medical Corps, United States

Navy------------------------- 105

A death attributed to poisoning by lobster (crawfish)--Case reported as

food poisoning-Canned shrimp-Example of lack of knowledge regarding the subject

of food poisoning-Control of venereal diseases in destroyer squadrons, battle

fleet-Epidemiological report of an outbreak of scarlet fever in mild form at

the United States Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I.-Extracts from the

annual sanitary report of the U. S. S. Rappahannock for the year 1923--

Admissions for injuries and poisonings. January to March, inclusive,

1924-Explosion hazards, storage batteries in submarines 127

Number 2

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

NEUROSYPHILIS.

By Lieut. Commander T. W. Raison, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 145

AURICULAR FIBRILLATION

By Lieut. D. Ferguson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 164

COOPERATION BETWEEN THE DENTAL AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONS IN THE SURGICAL

TREATMENT OF SINUSITIS.

By G. B. Trible, M. D-----------------------·------------------- 174

THE EFFECTS OF CASTELA NICHOLSONI IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC AMOEBIC

DYSENTARY.

By Lieut. Commander G. R. W. French, Medical Corps, U. S, Navy, and A.

W. Sellards, M. D. 184

A PRELIMINARY NOTE ON A PROCEDURE FOR CLEARING UP DIPHTHERIA CARRIERS.

By Lieut. Commander R. I. Longabaugh, Medical Corps, U. S. NAVY 190

THE PREPARATION OF COLLOIDAL GOLD.

By Lieut. C. F. Behrens, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 191

CLINICAL NOTES :

REPORT OF A CASE OF OSTEOMYELITIS OF THE DORSAL SPINE.

By Lieut. Commander R. I. Longabaugh, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 193

AN UNUSUAL CAUSE FOR FAILURE OF FRACTURE AND AMPUTATED STUMPS TO HEAL.

By Lieut. L. H. Williams, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 201

REPORT OF A FOREIGN BODYIN THE APPENDIX.

By Lieut. G. A, Eckert, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 202

INTERNAL DERANGEMENT OF THE KNEE

JOINT.

NOTES By Lieut. (j.g.) F.G. Merrill, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 203

Tobacco poisoning.-Percival Pott's contribution on head injuries.- A

new root canal treatment.- Eyesight and aeroplane landing 209

NAVY NURSE CORPS :

HALF WAY ROUND THE WORLD.

By Laura Hartwell, Reserve Nurse; U. S. Navy 221.

BOOK NOTICES 225

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

Outbreak of food poisoning on board the U. S. S. Maryland.-An outbreak

of food poisoning caused by lobsters (crawfish).-Results of investigation of

the dysentery (sic) situation, Province of Leyte, P. I.-A case of asphyxia

incidental to diving.-Two cases of gonococcus infection of conjunctiva

traceable to, indirect contact with a case of gonorrhoea.-Abstract from the

annual sanitary report of the U. S. S. Florida for the year 1923, prophylaxis

of venereal disease.-Note from the annual sanitary report, United States naval

station, Olongapo, P, I., for 1923, epidemiological considerations. The common

wash bucket.-Sanitary measures at the navy yard, Norfolk, Va.-Typhoid fever

report-Admissions for injuries and poisonings, January to April, inclusive,

1924 235

Number 3

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Hematuria, Its Etiology and Clinical Significance.

By Commander W. S. Pugh, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy (retired). 265

Toxic Smokes.

By Lieut Commander D. C. Walton, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 275

Anthelmintic Warfare.

By Dr. Maurice C. Hall, senior zoologist, Department of Agriculture,

Washington, D. C 286

Goiter.

Ulcer of the Stomach.

By Lieut. Commander R. Hayden, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 294

By Lieut. Commander R. Cuthbertson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy_ 811

General Significance of Ketonuria.

By Lieut (junior grade) R. A. Cutting, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 834

CLINICAL NOTES :

Notes on Cases of Surgical Interest.

By Lieut. Commander R. I. Longabaugh, Medical Corps, U. S.

Navy 339

Ainhum.

By Lieut R. S. G. Welch, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 352

Idiopathic Anemia.

By Lieut (Junior grade) H. L. Pugh, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 355

Gastric Neurosis.

By Lieut. (Junior grade) P. C. Supan, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 365

NURSE CORPS :

American Red Cross Nursing in Alaska.

By Miss Flora L. Bradford, American Red Cross 371

BOOK NOTICES 377

INSTRUCTIONS TO MEDICAL OFFICERS :

Total patient capacity. —Classified expenditures and per diem costs at

naval hospitals (continental) during November and December, 1923 ; and review

of expenditures for the six months period from July 1 to December 31, 1923.

—Modification of present allotment system. —Poster—Dangers of the common wash

bucket. —Medical periodicals. —Instruction In occupational therapy at United

States naval hospitals. —Civilian employees ; service records in connection

with retirement. —Changes in Supply Table of the Medical Department, United

States Navy, 1922. —Reports by telegraph of admissions to and discharges from

United States naval hospitals, and notices of deaths of ex-members of the

Canadian, Imperial, or other British ex-members of the forces. —Admission to

naval hospitals of officers and enlisted men not of the Regular Navy.

—Discharge of claimants from naval hospitals whose cases have been disallowed

by the United States Veterans' Bureau. —Classified expenditures and per diem

costs at naval hospitals (continental) during January, February, and March,

1924 ; and review of expenditures, for the three months period from January 1

to March 31, 1924. —-Status of civilian employees taken on for temporary work.

—Hospital accounting system. —Fire hazard from X-ray films. —Arsphenamine and

neo-arsphenamine. —Foodstuffs expended during the fiscal year. —Physical

examination In the case of an officer in the Naval Reserve Force. —Changes in

Supply Table, 1922, Part

II.—Error In printing " Quarterly reports of expenditures and

obligations" forms 385

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS :

The Annual Physical Examination.

By W. M. Kerr, lieutenant commander, Medical Corps, United States

Navy 433

Report of smallpox. —Gonococcus Infection of the eye attributed to a

wash bucket used In common with other men. Importance of concurrent

disinfection in gonorrhoea. —Study of the diphtheria carrier as an agent in the

spread of diphtheria in Detroit, Mich.—Epidemiological observations by the

medical

officer of a destroyer attached to the United States Asiatic Fleet.—

Prevention of phlebotomus fever. —Question of keeping in stock sufficient

quantities of medical stores and supplies. —Comment regarding data required on

Form F cards in cases of injury or poisoning. —Admissions for injuries and

poisonings, January to May, inclusive, 1924 433

Number 4

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

Annual Physical Examination.

By Lieut Commander W. A. Bloedorn, Medical Corps, United States Navy 479

Fluoroscopic Study of the Chest With Special Reference to Systematic

Routine Operative Technique.

By Lieut. O. B. Spalding, Medical Corps, United States Navy 484

Acidosis.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) W. S. Sargent, Medical Corps, United States

Navy 507

Graphic Aids in Recording Lesions in the Lower Genito-Urinary Tract.

By Lieut. Commander R. M. Lhamon, Medical Corps, United States Navy 530

CLINICAL NOTES :

Intravenous Treatment of Gonorrheal Epididymitis.

By Lieut. A. J. Chenery, Medical Corps, United States Navy 547

Bacillus Acidophilus Milk, Simple Procedure for Preparing.

By Lieut. H. V. Hughens, Medical Corps, United States Navy 548

Lobar Pneumonia, Clinical Aspects of.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) E. L. Lanman, Medical Corps, United

States Navy , _._ 550

Lung Abscess, A Typical Case of,

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) F. G. Merrill, Medical Corps, United States

Navy 556

Chronic Dacryocystitis.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) P. C. Supan, Medical Corps, United States Navy

559

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

Arsenic and its historical associations 563

BOOK NOTICES 567

NAVY NURSE CORPS :

The nurse as an anesthetist 575

A Consideration of Diets for Patients Receiving Insulin.

By Dr. Franklin Adams, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn 576

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS :

Food poisoning and remarks on the application of logic to the

preparation of epidemiological reports— Prevalence of venereal diseases and

measures undertaken for their prevention and control in ships of the United

States Naval Forces, Europe—Annual sanitary report of the Scouting Fleet,

United States Fleet, for the calendar year 1923, by Commander J. Stepp, Medical

Corps, United States Navy, Fleet Surgeon —Epidemiological observations by the

Senior Medical Officer, United States Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads,

Va. —Venereal disease hazards, extract from the annual sanitary report,

submarine base, Pearl Harbor, T. H.—Mosquito control and use of nitre case as a

larvicide at the naval operating base, Hampton Roads, Va. —Admissions for

injuries and poisonings, January to June, Inclusive, 1924 579

Number 5

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

Mycosis of the Hands and Feet.

By Commander C. S. Butler, Lieut. J. E. Houghton, and Lieut. (Junior

Grade) H. G. Cooper, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 615

Schistosomiasis Japonica in the United States Navy.

By Henry Edmund Meleney, M. D., Peking, China 630

Arterial Hypertension.

By Lieut. Commander W. D. Owens, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 637

Diagnosis of Diseases of the Colon.

By Lieut. H. L Brockmann, Medical Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve Force 644

Influence of Climate in the Treatment of Tuberculosis.

By Lieut. J. D. Blackwood, Jr., Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 652

CLINICAL NOTES :

Pylorospasm on Division of the Pyloric Rinq.

By Lieut. L. H. Williams, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 669

Classification of the Arthritides, with Report of Case of Hypertrophic

Arthritis.

By Lieut. (Junior Grade) C. J. Stuart, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 660

Carcinoma of the Pancreas.

By Lieut (Junior Grade) H. L Pugh, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 664

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

Diabetes, nephritis, jaundice 669

REPORTS :

Medical Activities Ashore in Honduras during Civil Strife of February

and March, 1924.

By Lieut W. T. Minnick, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 679

NAVY NURSE CORPS :

Section of Government Nursing Service of the American Nurses' Association.

By Lucy Minnigerode, superintendent of nurses, U. S. Public Health

Service 683

Convention of the American Nurses' Association held at Detroit, Mich.,

June 16 to 21, 1924, Report of.

By J. Beatrice Bowman, superintendent, Navy Nurse Corps 685

Navy Nurse Corps and its Relation to the Advancement of Nursing

Education.

By J. Beatrice Bowman, superintendent Navy Nurse Corps 686

BOOK NOTICES 693

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS :

Remarks on ventilation with special reference to sanitary reports. —

The United Fruit Co.'s experience with malaria. —Caisson disease resulting from

complete disregard for the mandatory Instructions of the diving manual relating

to management of the diver's ascent in conformity with the decompression tables

published therein. — Epidemiological aspects of a case of gonococcus Infection

of the conjunctiva resulting in loss of one eye. —A case of food poisoning,

lobster (crawfish) suspected. —A case of food poisoning, fried oysters

suspected. —Outbreak of food poisoning on board the U. S. S. New York.—Physical

and mental defects In recruits examined by boards of review at naval training

stations. —Admissions for injuries and poisonings 701

Number 6

PREFACE v

NOTICE TO SERVICE CONTRIBUTORS vi

SPECIAL ARTICLES :

District Medical Officer.

By Commander R. W. Plummer, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 751

Sanitary Report, Fifth Naval District, 1918.

Activities in the United States Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, III.,

under the direction and supervision of Contact Officer.

By Lieut. Commander G. D. Sutton, Lieut. H. L Fougarousse, Medical

Corps, U. S. Navy, and Field Director E. Rosenthal, American Red Cross 764

Diarrhea in Bottle Fed Infants.

By Lieut. Commander A. J. Toulon, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 780

The Psychoanalyst and his Work.

By Commander J. C. Thompson, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 787

Anaesthesia—Regional and Spinal.

By Lieut Commander H. M. Stenhouse, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 797

Vaccine and Serum Treatment.

By Lieut. J. E. Miller, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy 803

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

Prevention of Disease.—Intracutaneous vaccination against smallpox.

—Some features of the forthcoming Pharmacopoeia

(tenth revision) 813

NAVY NURSE CORPS : Thirty years of Progress in Nursing.

By Adelaide Nutting .. 851

BOOK NOTICES 883

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, STATISTICS:

Review of Scarlet Fever Literature.

By Surg. R. E. Dyer. U. S. Public Health Service 871

Outbreak of food poisoning on board the U. S. S. New York. —Outbreak of

food poisoning on board the U. S. S. Montcalm. —Three cases of food poisoning

at the United States submarine base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone.—Typhoid fever

report. —Accidents, discussion of and their causes. —Accidental Injuries and

compensation In 1923 among navy yard employees. —Admission for injuries and

poisonings, January to August, inclusive, 1924 891

INDEX I

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Narasimha (Sanskrit: नरसिंह IAST: Narasiṁha, lit. man-lion), Narasingh, Narsingh and Narasingha in derivative languages is an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu and one of Hinduism's most popular deities, as evidenced in early epics, iconography, and temple and festival worship for over a millennium.

Narasiṁha is often visualised as having a human-like torso and lower body, with a lion-like face and claws. This image is widely worshipped in deity form by a significant number of Vaiṣṇava groups. Vishnu assumed this form on top of Himvat mountain (Harivamsa). He is known primarily as the 'Great Protector' who specifically defends and protects his devotees in times of need. Vishnu is believed to have taken the avatar to destroy the demon king Hiranyakashipu.

ETYMOLOGY

The word Narasimha means 'lion-man' which usually means 'half man and half lion'. His other names are:

- Agnilochana (अग्निलोचन) - the one who has fiery eyes

- Bhairavadambara (भैरवडम्बर) - the one who causes terror by roaring

- Karala (कराल) - the one who has a wide mouth and projecting teeth

- Hiranyakashipudvamsa (हिरण्यकशिपुध्वंस) - the one who killed Hiranyakashipu

- Nakhastra (नखास्त्र) - the one for whom nails are his weapons

- Sinhavadana (सिंहवदन) - the whose face is of lion

- Mrigendra (मृगेन्द्र) - king of animals or lion

SCRIPTURAL SOURCES

There are references to Narasiṁha in a variety of Purāṇas, with 17 different versions of the main narrative. The Bhagavata Purāṇa (Canto 7), Agni Purāṇa (4.2-3), Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa(2.5.3-29), Vayu Purāṇa (67.61-66), Harivaṁśa (41 & 3.41-47), Brahma-Purāṇa (213.44-79), Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa(1.54), Kūrma Purāṇa (1.15.18-72), Matsya Purāṇa(161-163), Padma Purāṇa(Uttara-khaṇḍa 5.42), Śiva Purāṇa (2.5.43 & 3.10-12), Liṅga Purāṇa (1.95-96), Skanda Purāṇa 7 (2.18.60-130) and Viṣṇu Purāṇa (1.16-20) all contain depictions of the Narasiṁha Avatāra. There is also a short reference in the Mahābhārata (3.272.56-60) and a Gopāla Tapani Upaniṣad (Narasiṁha tapani Upaniṣad), earliest of Vaiṣṇava Upaniṣads named in reference to him.

REFERENCES FROM VEDAS

The Ṛg Veda contains an epithet that has been attributed to Narasiṁha. The half-man, half-lion avatāra is described as:

- like some wild beast, dread, prowling, mountain-roaming.

Source: (RV.I 154.2a).

There is an allusion to a Namuci story in RV.VIII 14.13:

- With waters' foam you tore off, Indra, the head of Namuci, subduing all contending hosts.

This short reference is believed to have culminated in the full puranic story of Narasiṁha.

LORD NARASIMHA AND PRAHLADA

Bhagavata Purāṇa describes that in his previous avatar as Varāha, Viṣṇu killed the asura Hiraṇayakṣa. The younger brother of Hirṇayakṣa, Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted revenge on Viṣṇu and his followers. He undertook many years of austere penance to take revenge on Viṣṇu: Brahma thus offers the demon a boon and Hiraṇyakaśipu asks for immortality. Brahma tells him this is not possible, but that he could bind the death of Hiraṇyakaśipu with conditions. Hiraṇyakaśipu agreed:

- O my lord, O best of the givers of benediction, if you will kindly grant me the benediction I desire, please let me not meet death from any of the living entities created by you.

- Grant me that I not die within any residence or outside any residence, during the daytime or at night, nor on the ground or in the sky. Grant me that my death not be brought about by any weapon, nor by any human being or animal.

- Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving created by you. Grant me, further, that I not be killed by any demigod or demon or by any great snake from the lower planets. Since no one can kill you in the battlefield, you have no competitor. Therefore, grant me the benediction that I too may have no rival. Give me sole lordship over all the living entities and presiding deities, and give me all the glories obtained by that position. Furthermore, give me all the mystic powers attained by long austerities and the practice of yoga, for these cannot be lost at any time.

Brahma said,

Tathāstu (so be it) and vanished. Hiraṇyakaśipu was happy thinking that he had won over death.

One day while Hiraṇyakaśipu performed austerities at Mandarācala Mountain, his home was attacked by Indra and the other devatās. At this point the Devarṣi (divine sage) Nārada intervenes to protect Kayādu, whom he describes as sinless. Following this event, Nārada takes Kayādu into his care and while under the guidance of Nārada, her unborn child (Hiraṇyakaśipu's son) Prahālada, becomes affected by the transcendental instructions of the sage even at such a young stage of development. Thus, Prahlāda later begins to show symptoms of this earlier training by Nārada, gradually becoming recognised as a devoted follower of Viṣṇu, much to his father's disappointment.

Hiraṇyakaśipu furious at the devotion of his son to Viṣṇu, as the god had killed his brother. Finally, he decides to commit filicide. but each time he attempts to kill the boy, Prahlāda is protected by Viṣṇu's mystical power. When asked, Prahlāda refuses to acknowledge his father as the supreme lord of the universe and claims that Viṣṇu is all-pervading and omnipresent.

Hiraṇyakaśipu points to a nearby pillar and asks if 'his Viṣṇu' is in it and says to his son Prahlāda:

O most unfortunate Prahlāda, you have always described a supreme being other than me, a supreme being who is above everything, who is the controller of everyone, and who is all-pervading. But where is He? If He is everywhere, then why is He not present before me in this pillar?

Prahlāda then answers,

He was, He is and He will be.

In an alternate version of the story, Prahlāda answers,

He is in pillars, and he is in the smallest twig.

Hiraṇyakaśipu, unable to control his anger, smashes the pillar with his mace, and following a tumultuous sound, Viṣṇu in the form of Narasiṁha appears from it and moves to attack Hiraṇyakaśipu. in defence of Prahlāda. In order to kill Hiraṇyakaśipu and not upset the boon given by Brahma, the form of Narasiṁha is chosen. Hiraṇyakaśipu can not be killed by human, deva or animal. Narasiṁha is neither one of these as he is a form of Viṣṇu incarnate as a part-human, part-animal. He comes upon Hiraṇyakaśipu at twilight (when it is neither day nor night) on the threshold of a courtyard (neither indoors nor out), and puts the demon on his thighs (neither earth nor space). Using his sharp fingernails (neither animate nor inanimate) as weapons, he disembowels and kills the demon.

Kūrma Purāṇa describes the preceding battle between the Puruṣa and demonic forces in which he escapes a powerful weapon called Paśupāta and it describes how Prahlāda's brothers headed by Anuhrāda and thousands of other demons were led to the valley of death (yamalayam) by the lion produced from the body of man-lion avatar. The same episode occurs in the Matsya Purāṇa 179, several chapters after its version of the Narasiṁha advent.

It is said that even after killing Hiraṇyakaśipu, none of the present demigods are able to calm Narasiṁha's wrath.So the demigods requested Prahlada to calm down the Lord,and Narasimha,who had assumed the all-powerful form of Gandaberunda returned to more benevolent form after that. In other stories,all the gods and goddesses call his consort, Lakṣmī, who assumes the form of Pratyangira and pacifies the Lord. According to a few scriptures, at the request of Brahma, Shiva took the form of Sharabha and successfully pacified him. Before parting, Narasiṁha rewards the wise Prahlāda by crowning him as the king.

NARASIMHA AND ADI SANKARA

Narasiṁha is also a protector of his devotees in times of danger. Near Śrī Śailaṁ, there is a forest called Hatakeśvanam, that no man enters. Śaṅkarācārya entered this place and did penance for many days. During this time, a Kāpālika, by name Kirakashan appeared before him.

He told Śrī Śaṅkara that he should give his body as a human-sacrifice to Kālī. Śaṅkara happily agreed. His disciples were shocked to hear this and pleaded with Śaṅkara to change his mind, but he refused to do so saying that it was an honor to give up his body as a sacrifice for Kālī and one must not lament such things. The Kāpālika arranged a fire for the sacrifice and Śaṅkara sat beside it. Just as he lifted his axe to severe the head of Śaṅkara, Viṣṇu as Narasiṁha entered the body of the disciple of Śaṅkarācārya and Narasiṁha devotee, Padmapada. He then fought the Kāpālika, slayed him and freed the forest of Kapalikas. Ādi Śaṅkara composed the powerful Lakṣmī-Narasiṁha Karāvalambaṁ Stotram at the very spot in front of Lord Narasiṁha.

MODE OF WORSHIP

Due to the nature of Narasiṁha's form (divine anger), it is essential that worship be given with a very high level of attention compared to other deities. In many temples only lifelong celibates (Brahmācārya) will be able to have the chance to serve as priests to perform the daily puja. Forms where Narasiṁha appears sitting in a yogic posture, or with the goddess Lakṣmī are the exception to this rule, as Narasiṁha is taken as being more relaxed in both of these instances compared to his form when first emerging from the pillar to protect Prahlāda.

PRAYERS

A number of prayers have been written in dedication to Narasiṁha avatāra. These include:

- The Narasiṁha Mahā-Mantra

- Narasiṁha Praṇāma Prayer

- Daśāvatāra Stotra by Jayadeva

- Kāmaśikha Aṣṭakam by Vedānta Deśika

- Divya Prabandham 2954

- Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Karavalamba Stotram by Sri Adi Sankara

THE NARASIMHA MAHA-MANTRA

- oṁ hrīṁ kṣauṁ

- ugraṁ viraṁ mahāviṣṇuṁ

- jvalantaṁ sarvatomukham ।

- nṛsiṁhaṁ bhīṣaṇaṁ bhadraṁ

- mṛtyormṛtyuṁ namāmyaham ॥

O' Angry and brave Mahā-Viṣṇu, your heat and fire permeate everywhere. O Lord Narasiṁha, you are everywhere. You are the death of death and I surrender to You.

NARASIMHA PRANAMA PRAYER

namaste narasiṁhāya,

prahlādahlāda-dāyine,

hiraṇyakaśipor vakṣaḥ,

śilā-ṭaṅka nakhālaye

I offer my obeisances to Lord Narasiṁha, who gives joy to Prahlāda Mahārāja and whose nails are like chisels on the stone like chest of the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu.

ito nṛsiṁhaḥ parato nṛsiṁho,

yato yato yāmi tato nṛsiṁhaḥ,

bahir nṛsiṁho hṛdaye nṛsiṁho,

nṛsiṁhaṁ ādiṁ śaraṇaṁ prapadye

Lord Nṛsiṁha is here and also there. Wherever I go Lord Narasiṁha is there. He is in the heart and is outside as well. I surrender to Lord Narasiṁha, the origin of all things and the supreme refuge.

DASAVATARA STOTRA BY JAYADEVA

tava kara-kamala-vare nakham adbhuta-śrṅgaṁ,

dalita-hiraṇyakaśipu-tanu-bhṛṅgam,

keśava dhṛta-narahari-rūpa jaya jagadiśa hare

O Keśava! O Lord of the universe. O Hari, who have assumed the form of half-man, half-lion! All glories to You! Just as one can easily crush a wasp between one's fingernails, so in the same way the body of the wasp-like demon Hiraṇyakaśipu has been ripped apart by the wonderful pointed nails on your beautiful lotus hands. (from the Daśāvatāra-stotra composed by Jayadeva)

KAMASIKHA ASTAKAM BY VEDANTA DESIKA

tvayi rakṣati rakṣakaiḥ kimanyaiḥ,

tvayi cārakṣāti rakṣākaiḥ kimanyaiḥ ।

iti niścita dhīḥ śrayāmi nityaṁ,

nṛhare vegavatī taṭāśrayaṁ tvam ॥8॥

O Kāmaśikhā Narasiṁha! you are sarva śakthan. When you are resolved to protect some one, where is the need to seek the protection of anyone else? When you are resolved not to protect some one, which other person is capable of protecting us?. There is no one. Knowing this fundamental truth, I have resolved to offer my śaraṇāgatī at your lotus feet alone that rest at the banks of Vegavatī river.

DIVYA PRABANDHAM 2954

āḍi āḍi agam karaindhu isai

pāḍip pāḍik kaṇṇīr malgi engum

nāḍi nāḍi narasingā endru,

vāḍi vāḍum ivvāl nuthale!

I will dance and melt for you, within my heart, to see you, I will sing in praise of you with tears in joy, I will search for Narasiṁha and I am a householder who still searches to reach you (to attain Salvation).

SYMBOLISM

Narasiṁha indicates God's omnipresence and the lesson is that God is everywhere. For more information, see Vaishnav Theology.

Narasiṁha demonstrates God's willingness and ability to come to the aid of His devotees, no matter how difficult or impossible the circumstances may appear to be.

Prahlāda's devotion indicates that pure devotion is not one of birthright but of character. Prahlāda, although born an asura, demonstrated the greatest bhakti to God, and endured much, without losing faith.

Narasiṁha is known by the epithet Mṛga-Śarīra in Sanskrit which translates to Animal-Man. From a philosophical perspective. Narasiṁha is the very icon of Vaiṣṇavism, where jñāna (knowledge) and Bhakti are important as opposed to Advaita, which has no room for Bhakti, as the object to be worshipped and the worshipper do not exist. As according to Advaita or Māyāvāda, the jīva is Paramātma.

SIGNIFICANCE

In South Indian art – sculptures, bronzes and paintings – Viṣṇu's incarnation as Narasiṁha is one of the most chosen themes and amongst [[Avatar] |Avatāra]]s perhaps next only to Rāma and Kṛṣṇa in popularity.

Lord Narasiṁha also appears as one of Hanuman's 5 faces, who is a significant character in the Rāmāyaṇa as Lord (Rāma's) devotee.

FORMS OF NARASIMHA

There are several forms of Narasiṁha, but 9 main ones collectively known as Nava-narasiṁha:

Ugra-narasiṁha

Kroddha-narasiṁha

Vīra-narasiṁha

Vilamba-narasiṁha

Kopa-narasiṁha

Yoga-narasiṁha

Aghora-narasiṁha

Sudarśana-narasiṁha

Lakṣmī-narasiṁha

In Ahobilam, Andhra Pradesh, the nine forms are as follows:

Chātra-vata-narasiṁha (seated under a banyan tree)

Yogānanda-narasiṁha (who blessed Lord Brahma)

Karañja-narasiṁha

Uha-narasiṁha

Ugra-narasiṁha

Krodha-narasiṁha

Malola-narasiṁha (With Lakṣmī on His lap)

Jvālā-narasiṁha (an eight armed form rushing out of the pillar)

Pavana-narasiṁha (who blessed the sage Bharadvaja)

Forms from Prahlad story:

Stambha-narasiṁha (coming out of the pillar)

Svayam-narasiṁha (manifesting on His own)

Grahaṇa-narasiṁha (catching hold of the demon)

Vidāraṇa-narasiṁha (ripping open of the belly of the demon)

Saṁhāra-narasiṁha (killing the demon)

The following three refer to His ferocious aspect:

Ghora-narasiṁha

Ugra-narasiṁha

Candā-narasiṁha

OTHERS

Pañcamukha-Hanumān-narasiṁha, (appears as one of Śrī Hanuman's five faces.)

Pṛthvī-narasiṁha, Vayu-narasiṁha, Ākāśa-narasiṁha, Jvalana-narasiṁha, and

Amṛta-narasiṁha, (representing the five elements)

Jvālā-narasiṁha (with a flame-like mane)

Lakṣmī-narasiṁha (where Lakṣmī pacifies Him)

Prasāda/Prahlāda-varadā-narasiṁha (His benign aspect of protecting Prahlad)

Chatrā-narasiṁha (seated under a parasol of a five-hooded serpent)

Yoga-narasiṁha or Yogeśvara-narasiṁha (in meditation)

Āveśa-narasiṁha (a frenzied form)

Aṭṭahasa-narasiṁha (a form that roars horribly and majestically strides across to destroy evil)

Cakra-narasiṁha, (with only a discus in hand)

Viṣṇu-narasiṁha, Brahma-narasiṁha and Rudra-narasiṁha

Puṣṭi narasiṁha, (worshipped for overcoming evil influences)

EARLY IMAGES

In Andhra Pradesh, a panel dating to third-fourth century AD shows a full theriomorphic squatting lion with two extra human arms behind his shoulders holding Vaiṣṇava emblems. This lion, flanked by five heroes (vīra), often has been identified as an early depiction of Narasiṁha. Standing cult images of Narasiṁha from the early Gupta period, survive from temples at Tigowa and Eran. These sculptures are two-armed, long maned, frontal, wearing only a lower garment, and with no demon-figure of Hiraṇyakaśipu. Images representing the narrative of Narasiṁha slaying the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu survive from slightly later Gupta-period temples: one at Madhia and one from a temple-doorway now set into the Kūrma-maṭha at Nachna, both dated to the late fifth or early sixth century A.D.

An image of Narasiṁha supposedly dating to second-third century AD sculpted at Mathura was acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1987. It was described by Stella Kramrisch, the former Philadelphia Museum of Art's Indian curator, as "perhaps the earliest image of Narasiṁha as yet known". This figure depicts a furled brow, fangs, and lolling tongue similar to later images of Narasiṁha, but the idol's robe, simplicity, and stance set it apart. On Narasiṁha's chest under his upper garment appears the suggestion of an amulet, which Stella Kramrisch associated with Visnu's cognizance, the Kauṣtubha jewel. This upper garment flows over both shoulders; but below Hiranyakasipu, the demon-figure placed horizontally across Narasiṁha's body, a twisted waist-band suggests a separate garment covering the legs. The demon's hair streams behind him, cushioning his head against the man-lion's right knee. He wears a simple single strand of beads. His body seems relaxed, even pliant. His face is calm, with a slight suggestion of a smile. His eyes stare adoringly up at the face of Viṣṇu. There is little tension in this figure's legs or feet, even as Narasiṁha gently disembowels him. His innards spill along his right side. As the Matsya purana describes it, Narasiṁha ripped "apart the mighty Daitya chief as a plaiter of straw mats shreds his reeds". Based on the Gandhara-style of robe worn by the idol, Michael Meiste altered the date of the image to fourth century AD.

Deborah Soifer, a scholar who worked on texts in relation to Narasiṁha, believes that "the traits basic to Viṣṇu in the Veda remain central to Viṣṇu in his avataras" and points out, however, that:

we have virtually no precursors in the Vedic material for the figure of a man-lion, and only one phrase that simply does not rule out the possibility of a violent side to the benign Viṣṇu.

Soifer speaks of the enigma of Viṣṇu's Narasiṁha avatāra and comments that how the myth arrived at its rudimentary form [first recorded in the Mahābhārata], and where the figure of the man-lion came from remain unsolved mysteries.

An image of Narasiṁha, dating to the 9th century, was found on the northern slope of Mount Ijo, at Prambanan, Indonesia. Images of Trivikrama and Varāha avatāras were also found at Prambanan, Indonesia. Viṣṇu and His avatāra images follow iconographic peculiarities characteristic of the art of central Java. This includes physiognomy of central Java, an exaggerated volume of garment, and some elaboration of the jewelry. This decorative scheme once formulated became, with very little modification, an accepted norm for sculptures throughout the Central Javanese period (circa 730–930 A.D.). Despite the iconographic peculiarities, the stylistic antecedents of the Java sculptures can be traced back to Indian carvings as the Chalukya and Pallava images of the 6th–7th centuries AD.

CULTURAL TRADITION OF PROCESSION (SRI NRSIMHA YATRA)

In Rājopadhyāya Brahmins of Nepal, there is a tradition of celebrating the procession ceremony of the deity Narasiṁha avatar, in Lalitpur district of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The Lunar fifth day of the waning phase of the moon, in the holy Soli-lunar Śrāvaṇa month i.e. on Śrāvaṇa Kṛṣṇa Pañcamī of the Hindu Lunar Calendar is marked as auspicious day for the religious procession, Nṛsiṁha Yātrā. This tradition of the holy procession has been held for more than a hundred years. This is one of the typical traditions of the Rājopadhyāya Bramhins, the Hindu Bramhans of the locality.

In this Nṛsiṁha Yātrā, each year one male member of the Rājopadhyāya community gets the chance to be the organizer each year in that particular day. He gets his turn according to the sequence in their record, where the names of Rājopadhyāya bramhins are registered when a brahmāṇa lad is eligible to be called as a Bramhan.

WIKIPEDIA

Penguin by Bill MacDonald

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Language Arts Classroom Poster.

Language Movement 1952 by Muktijuddho e-Archive

একুশঃ ভাষা আন্দোলনের সচিত্র ইতিহাস (১৯৪৭-১৯৫৬) - সি এম তারেক রেজা

Spansh Dictionary by Cerise Bonaccorsi

Case 1: Intro and Quotes by donaldboozer

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(poster) Esperanto, Elvish, and Beyond: The World of Constructed Languages

What are Constructed Languages?

Many people are familiar with languages like English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Swahili, and German. Lesser-known languages include Basque, Georgian, Tibetan, Mohawk, Quechua, and Guguyimidjir. Some languages that are no longer spoken include Etruscan, Gothic, Gaulish, Tocharian, Hittite, Akkadian, and Ancient Egyptian. The one thing that all these languages share is that they all evolved naturally, arising organically within a group of people through various natural forces. No single person defined their vocabularies, designed their syntaxes, or deliberately decided to create them.

Of course, this is a continuum. Some languages (French, for example) are regulated by government bodies like l'Académie Française. Some (like Korean or Cherokee) have had writing systems created for them but otherwise have evolved naturally.

Constructed languages, or conlangs for short, stand at the other end of the spectrum: a single person (or a small group) defines the vocabulary, designs the syntax, and deliberately decides to create a language. Why would someone want to do this when there are so many "real" languages to learn? The reasons are legion: from the simple artistic desire to play with linguistic concepts to the obsession to provide the world with a universal language. Conlangers (those who construct languages) bring a myriad of skills, tastes, and goals to the art and craft of conlanging. Conlanging is a worldwide phenomenon practiced by people of all ages. It is hoped that this exhibit will provide a glimpse into the fascinating world of conlangs and those who take part in this art. As J.R.R. Tolkien may have said in Quenya: Á harya alassë! Enjoy!

(Top left) Invent a new language anyone can understand.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Challenges to Young Poets” (excerpt)

(Top right) My language! heavens!

I am the best of them that speak this speech,

Were I but where 'tis spoken.

~ Shakespeare, The Tempest (Act I, Scene 2)

(middle left, quote only) La plus part des occasions des troubles du monde sont grammairiennes.

The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to disputes about grammar.

~ Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book 2

(Middle, left w/photo) …language is not the frosting, it’s the cake.

~ Tom Robbins, “What is the Function of Metaphor?” Wild Ducks Flying Backward

(Middle, center) But language is wine upon his lips.

~ Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

(Middle right) We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

~ Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

(Middle left, quote only) ...und in irgend einer fernen Zukunft wird es eine neue Sprache, zuerst als Handelssprache, dann als Sprache des geistigen Verkehres überhaupt, für Alle geben, so gewiss, als es einmal Luft-Schifffahrt giebt.

...and in a future as far removed as one may wish, there will be a new language which will first serve as a means of business communication, later as a vehicle for intellectual relations, just as certainly as there will be some day travel by air.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche, “Anzeichen höherer und niederer Cultur,” Menschliches, Allzumenschliches (1876) (Nietzsche’s skeptical late-nineteenth-century prophecy of the possibility of both an international language and air travel.)

(Bottom) Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality

(Dr. Seuss) “In the places I go there are things that I see

“That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.

“I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends.

“My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!

~Dr. Seuss, On Beyond Zebra!

(small rectangular disclaimer; place in one bottom corner of case please):

NOTE: Translations from The Bible (Genesis 11:1-9 (Tower of Babel text) and Genesis 6:6-7) should not be taken as an endorsement of any specific religion. The use of verses from The Bible for illustrative purposes is due to the prevalence of translations of this work across both time and languages.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

~ Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures (Chomsky cites this sentence as one which makes no semantic sense but can make grammatical sense.)

by milena mihaylova

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2013 Presidio Christmas Tree and Menorah Lighting by Presidio of Monterey

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- Designed to celebrate one of the oldest cultural traditions of the United States, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) and Presidio of Monterey (POM) Unit Ministry Team hosted a Christmas Tree and Menorah Lighting Ceremony outside the POM Chapel, Dec. 5. Music was performed by the DLIFLC Joint Service Choir and Brass Band Ensemble. Santa was on hand to greet all the boys and girls, arriving on the back of a POM Fire Department engine.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook

PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

AS71 - 02 by Hans Wendland

THE ANCIENT LANGUAGE OF SOUNDS AND SIGNS

April 27th, 2010

@ Mobius

725 Harrison Avenue, Suite One

Boston MA 02118

Dancers:

Olivier Besson

Ellen Godena www.mobius.org/user/27

Liz Roncka www.myspace.com/realtimeperformance

Musicians:

Haggai Cohen Milo (bass) www.myspace.com/jatul

Amir Milstein (flute)

Jamey Haddad (percussion) www.jameyhaddadmusic.com

A very special evening of improvised music and dance featuring musicians Haggai Cohen Milo (bass) and Amir Milstein (flute) and movement artists Olivier Besson, Ellen Godena and Liz Roncka.

ARTIST BIOS

Olivier Besson - Movement Artist - is an improvisational movement artist who hails from France and is based in Boston. In the period from 1980 until the mid 90's, Olivier studied Contact Improvisation with Robin Feld, Nancy Stark Smith, Lisa Nelson and Andrew Harwood, and Improvisation / Real Time composition with Daniel Lepkoff and Julyen Hamilton. During that time, he also practiced and performed Bugaku (Court dance from Japan) with Arawana Hayashi. Other training includes Butoh with Maureen Feming and Action Theater with Ruth Zaporah.

Most notably, Olivier’s work has been presented: *in the US - at Dance Theatre Workshop (NYC), Judson Church (NYC), New York Improvisation festival, Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis), Boston Dance Umbrella, Florida Dance Festival, Dance Place (Washington DC), The Boston Conservatory, Boston University, Radford University (Virginia), *and internationally - at the National Institute of the Arts (Taipei, Taiwan), Die Pratze (Tokyo), Art of Movement Festival (Yaroslav, Russia), Micadanses (Paris) and with Compagnie Vertige (Nice, France). He has collaborated with many individuals including Chris Aiken, Lisa Schmidt, Debra Bluth, Ming-Shen Ku, Pamela Newell, Toshiko Oiwa and musicians/composers Mike Vargas, Peter Jones, Jane Wang and Grant Smith. Locally, he has guest danced for Dawn Kramer, Micki Taylor-Pinney and Diane Noya. His ongoing performance projects involve collaborations with Liz Roncka in Boston and Emmanuelle Pepin in Nice (France) .

Olivier is currently on faculty at The Boston Conservatory (dance division). He has been on faculty at Canal Danse (Paris), the French National Circus School (CNAC), Bates Dance Festival, Emerson College and the School of Fine Arts at Boston Universtity. He has taught residencies at the National Institute of the Arts (Taipei, Taiwan), Le Centre Choregraphique de Danse / Daniel Larieu (Tours, France), the University of Minnesota, and Radford University (Virginia). He has also taught masterclasses for teen / pre-teen programs at Walnut Hill, Cambridge School of Weston, Jeanette Neil Dance Studios, Brookline High and Cambridge Rindge and Latin.

Haggai Cohen Milo - At the young age of 25, bass player and composer Haggai Cohen Milo is already a known name in the international music scene. Mr. Cohen Milo, currently operating from Berkeley, CA, brings exotic flavors to his music from his native middle east country, Israel. In both his compositions and in his playing, there is a contemporary mix of sound between East and West. His group the Secret Music Project, that features his personal musical sound and vision, has performed in some of the most important festivals around the world including the Aspen Music Festival, the Atlantic Jazz Festival (Canada), Boston First Night and many more.

Mr. Cohen-Milo first gained international recognition when he won the First Prize in the International Ensemble Competition in Belgium 2006. In the same year, Cohen Milo was also awarded the DownBeat Magazine Music Awards and the grand prize at the Fish Middleton Jazz Soloist Competition held in Washington, DC.

As a Composer, Cohen Milo has composed the score for two full enough feature films, Intimate Enemies (2008), by the internationally known Mexican director Fernando Sariñana and SPAM (2009) by the director Charlie Gore. Cohen Milo released his debut album in January 2007 under the prestigious record label “Fresh Sound - New Talent”. The album received enthusiastic reviews in the US and in Europe. Cohen Milo also recorded with different artists for Warner Music, Sunnyside Records and more.

With a fast growing touring career, Cohen Milo has already performed on some of the most important stages around the world, including Carnegie Hall and Birdland (New York), Getxo International Jazz Festival (Spain), The Jazz Station (Belgium) and Rome Music Festival (Italy), to name a few.

Cohen Milo graduated in 2009 from the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he studied with such masters as Danilo Perez, Bob Moses, Jamey Hadad and Jerry Bergonzi.

"... Haggai Cohen Milo revealed over a set of ridiculously infectious music that he's in the soul restoration business. Yessiree. He is!" (Graham Pilsworth, "The Coast", Canada)

Amir Milstein - Flutist and composer - is a graduate of the "Rubin Academy of Music" in Jerusalem (B.M. in jazz and classical flute), and the New England Conservatory (Masters degree in music performance, 2010) Amir established his career in the world-music scene founding acknowledged ensembles such as Bustan Abraham and Tucan Trio with which he has recorded and performed worldwide.

His musical background represents a variety of styles and cultures including classical, jazz, Mediterranean and Latin. He has collaborated with artists such as Zakir Hussein, Tito Puente, Ross Daly, Omar Farouk Tekbilek and Armando Macedo, among others and has participated in distinguished concert venues and festivals, both as a player and a composer.

He has collaborated with several choreographers, with whom he has composed for modern and flamenco dance groups and has composed and recorded several film scores. (His recent work on the documentary film "The Case for Israel- Democracy's Outpost" is currently presented at film festivals worldwide). Amir played in musical shows in the Israeli television and has collaborated and recorded numerous albums with Israel's leading artists, such as Matti Caspi, Shlomo Gronich, Gidi Gov, Miki Gavrielov, Leah Shabbat, and many others.

With over twenty years of experience teaching flute, recorders and music theory, Amir developed a unique musical education program and has instructed at the "Karev Music Educational Program" in Israel. He currently teaches at the New England Conservatory, Boston, and has lectured and presented workshops at music schools such as the Berklee College of music, Boston and Berkeley University, CA. Before moving to Boston, in 2004 Amir was also a faculty member at the "Hed College of Contemporary Music" in Tel Aviv, Israel. Amir presents an interactive workshop for schools and colleges called: "A World of Flutes"- Introducing the evolution of woodwinds through live music, stories, and a demonstration of over 80 musical instruments.

Ellen Godena - Movement Artist - is an experimental performer, choreographer, and Mobius Artists Group member. Her recent work has focused on the relationships between human, non-human (organic), and machine (non-organic) movement as a method for studying human development. Recent solo and collaborative works have been quests to define these relationships through the use of primitive, robotic entities in performance.

Ellen’s training, artistic influences and inspiration derive from the study of Japanese avant-garde movement and theater forms that have developed since the early 1960’s, primarily the butoh dances created by Japanese artists Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata, physical theater, and contemporary dance. Since 1998, she has performed solo, group, and ensemble work in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and New York City. She was a former dancer with the Boston-based Kitsune Dance Theater (2003-06) under the direction of Deborah Butler, and the NYC post-modern butoh troupe, the Vangeline Theater (2006-08) under the direction of Vangeline. She has performed with Master butoh artist Katsura Kan (Curious Fish, 2002, 2008), and has studied with internationally recognized artists such as Zack Fuller, Hiroko Tamano, Su-En, Diego Pinon, and Katsura Kan. Her primary, long-term training has been with American artists Deborah Butler, Vangeline, and Jennifer Hicks. Currently, Ellen is presenting solo robotics – movement projects in addition to performing regularly with Liz Roncka's Real-Time Performance Project in Boston, MA. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in Studio Painting (1997), and a Master's degree in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University (2005).

Liz Roncka - Movement Artist - is an avid practitioner of movement improvisation and contemporary dance. She is the director of lizroncka/Real-Time Performance Project,a Mobius Artists Group member and a collaborating artist with Emma Jupe, a Paris-based improvisation collective. Her work has been presented in Boston, NYC, San Francisco, Budapest and Paris.

Liz's early training was in the tradition of classical ballet at the School of the New Bedford Ballet. In college, Liz’s focus shifted toward contemporary dance and improvisation. She was a member of the Dance Collective of Boston from 1998-2005. Liz has had the pleasure of performing modern dance and improvisational work under the direction of: Ramelle Adams, Emily Beattie, Ruth Benson-Levin, Debra Bluth, Alissa Cardone, Sean Curran,Ellen Godena, Andrew Harwood, Michael Jahoda/White Box Project, Dawn Kramer, Light Motion, Karen Murphy-Fitch and Micki Taylor-Pinney.

Much of Liz's work is developed in deep collaboration with sound artists, most notably Jane Wang, Haggai Cohen Milo, Jessyka Luzzi, Sean Frenette and Akili Jamal Haynes. Current projects include an improvisational duo with Forbes Graham (trumpet) and an collaboration with Philippe Lejeune (visual artist) developing a movement piece within a glass installation exploring the intersection of reality and reflected images. For more information please see:

www.dailydanceproject.blogspot.com

www.myspace.com/realtimeperformance

www.mobius.org/user/29

Booker at the Frist by Bob Mendelsohn

Oval-Man saving the day.

Dutch Church, Austin Friars, City of London by Jelltex

Another church I did not have high hopes of seeing inside, and so i wasn't disappointed to find it locked, but I do know the Friends of City Churches has it open at least once every two weeks, so there is a chance.

Hemmed in bot other buildings and down a narrow winding lane, hard to get a clear shot of it without resorting to the distorted end of the wide angle zoom.

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The Dutch Church, Austin Friars (Dutch: Nederlandse Kerk Londen), is a reformed church[1] in the Broad Street Ward, in the City of London.[2] Located on the site of the 13th-century Augustinian friary, the original building granted to Protestant refugees for their church services in 1550 was destroyed during the London Blitz.

The present church was built between 1950 and 1954[1] and is a familiar landmark in the Broad Street Ward.[3] With the founding of the church dating to 1550, it is the oldest Dutch-language Protestant church in the world,[4] and as such is known in The Netherlands as the mother church of all Dutch reformed churches.

The original church was a monastic priory known as the Austin Friars, London, a contraction of "Augustinian Friars", founded circa 1253 by Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford (d. 1275).[5] The pretender Perkin Warbeck, executed on 23 November 1499 for claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, the younger of the Princes in the Tower, is buried in the church.[6] The priory was dissolved in November 1538.[7] The City of London attempted to buy the church of the friary from the Crown in 1539 and again in 1546 but was rebuffed. In 1550, London's community of "Germans and other strangers" was granted the use of the friary church's nave;[8] the rest of the church was used as a storehouse, with the monuments sold for £100 and the lead stripped from the roof. The choir, tower and transepts were demolished in 1600.

The nave became the first official nonconformist chapel in England under its Polish-born superintendent John a Lasco (known in Poland as Jan Łaski) who had founded a preaching house for a group of Protestant refugees mainly from the Low Countries. The mostly Dutch and French speaking "strangers" were granted a royal charter on 24 July 1550 that allowed them to establish a Stranger Church and this was incorporated by letters patent from King Edward VI.[9] Upon incorporation, the church was named the "Temple of the Lord Jesus" and had four pastors: two for Dutch and two for the French-Walloon who by the 1580s began using St Anthony's Chapel in Threadneedle Street.

By 1570, the Dutch community was the largest group of expatriates in London, numbering 5,000 out of the 100,000 total population of the time. About half of the Dutch in London were Protestants who fled the Flemish Low Countries due to religious persecution. Others were skilled craftsman, including brewers, tile makers, weavers, artists, printers and engravers, who came to England for economic opportunities. Engraver Martin Droeshout, famous for his 1623 portrait of William Shakespeare, was among the Flemish Protestant emigrants who arrived in London.[1]

A century later, the arrival of William of Orange brought a second wave of Dutch emigrants to London. This second group included noblemen, bankers, courtiers, merchants, architects and artists.

In the night of 15–16 October 1940, just a decade before the Dutch Church celebrated its 400th anniversary, the medieval building was completely destroyed by German bombs. The church's collection of rare books including Dutch Bibles, atlases and encyclopedias had been moved out of London for safe-keeping one day before the bombing raid that destroyed the building. Today the collection is housed in the church library and includes a multilingual Bible published by the Plantin Press of Antwerp in 1569-1571, and a 1649 atlas of all the cities in the Low Countries by Willem Blaeu. The church's manuscript collection and original charter are kept in the London Metropolitan Archives. The church's library collection is currently being digitalised and a launch date for the online catalogue of September 2015 has been announced.

The foundation stone of the new church was laid on 23 July 1950 by the 10-year-old Princess Irene of the Netherlands. The new church, built to the design of Arthur Bailey, was completed in 1954. The new building is a concrete box frame, externally clad in Portland stone.[10] The church possesses detailed archives,[11] and is a popular tourist attraction.[12]

The church was designated a Grade-II listed building on 25 September 1998.[10] In 2000, the church celebrated its 450th anniversary; Prof. Keetie E Sluyterman at the University of Utrecht published a book about the church and its history, De Kerk in de City.

The church remains active today, with weekly Dutch-language church services, confirmation classes, and meetings for various groups. The church also does outreach to the Dutch community in London, including ministering to the elderly. The church is home to two other UK registered charities: The Netherlands Benevolent Society (NBS) and The Dutch Centre. On 24 April 2015, Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands was honorary guest in the Dutch Church for a jubilee celebration to mark 150 years since the founding of the NBS. On the same day the Dutch Centre was officially opened by Laetitia van den Assum, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United Kingdom, Liesbeth Knook, Chairman of the Church Council and Paul Beiboer, General Manager of London branch of Rabobank.

In April 2014, the current minister of the Dutch Church, Rev. Joost Röselaers, confirmed that the Dutch Church is able to perform weddings for same-sex couples.

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The best 20th Century church in the City, and one of the best in the whole of London, but at what a price! For here was the priory church of the Austin Friars, rebuilt in spectacular Decorated style by the Augustinians in the 1350s, a mark of piety in that decade after the Black Death. At the Reformation it was all sold off or demolished apart from the vast nave, which was given as the Temple of Jesus to the Dutch Protestants by the crown to help them put down error among the Flemish community, which had developed a taste for anabaptism. The advisers to the young Edward VI were keen to encourage Bible-based teaching and a rejection of Popish practices like the consecration of Bishops and sacramental worship. Thanks to their uncompromising Reformation, the Dutch were felt to be the best defenders of the fundamental protestant faith, although in fact the church was used by protestant sects from a number of European countries, including Scandinavian ones - Wayland Young notes that the Swedish ambassador had his own pew beside that of the Dutch ambassador. In the 19th Century, one of the Dutch Reformed congregations here was of South African Boers.

Young goes on to describe the Temple of Jesus as throughout a place of the highest seriousness. The pulpit was attached to one of the nave piers and the pews were grouped around it, leaving the rest of the great nave bare. Offenders, however trivial, stood on a raised place while their offences and their penance were read out from the pulpit. The congregation debated moral questions such as might a Christian attend a Catholic marriage service? The church was gutted by fire in 1870 and stood roofless for a few years before being repaired, but the interior 16th Century furnishings were all lost of course. Eventually restored, it remained one of the most stunning 14th Century buildings in the whole of London.

On the night of 15th October 1940, in an early raid on the City, the church received a direct hit from a half-ton high explosive bomb, and was vaporised. The Dutch, being a practical people, built a completely new church in its place. The architect was Arthur Bailey. He was clever enough to maximise the use of space on the site by raising the floor of the new church and building offices and meeting rooms beneath. This split level interior is complemented by other offices to the west of the church. The whole thing was complete by 1957.

No City church is so full of light as this one - it is breathtaking. The simplicity of Dutch Reformed worship coupled with an opulent scheme of 1950s stained glass by the likes of Max Nauta, Hugh Easton and William Wilson creates a sense of being inside a hollow jewel. Floors, furnishings, glass - everything is of the highest quality. The acoustic is designed for robust scriptural worship, which is the kind of thing the Reformed Dutch like best. This acoustic creates a sense of gravitas - not seriousness exactly, more a feeling of the importance of this place. All in all, a stunning achievement despite the loss.

Simon Knott, December 2015

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LiveABC Demo 061 by ArdieBeaPhotography

We've recently adopted this English Language programme for school children, and are running demo lessons for local kids. This was the first.

Multicultural Mashup Melds Languages, Cultures at COD 58 by COD Newsroom

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Representatives from the College of DuPage Spanish, German, Korean, French, Japanese and Italian clubs and the Alpha Mu Gamm Language Honor Society recently held a celebration of their diverse cultures at the Multicultural Mashup at the Glen Ellyn campus, 425 Fawell Blvd. The groups presented music, food and other cultural treats to highlight their respective corners of the world and educate guests on the various groups represented on the COD campus.

LanguageScienceDay_10282022_HH_2314 by Maryland Language Science Center

Language Science Day on Friday, October 28, 2022 at 2130 H.J. Patterson Hall. Event took place from 9 AM to 5 PM. These photos were taken in the afternoon.