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Congratulations to Manan Agarwal on his graduation from the Center for Management Studies, Jain University with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication this June. Manan volunteers with ArtsKeeper in our Computer department. He is an experienced SEO specialist. He helps generate and grow organic traffic through keyword optimization and targeted content. Manan is passionate about emerging technology, the environment, and cool sci-fi stories.

Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. Cohen pursued a career as a poet and novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s, and did not begin a music career until 1967 at the age of 33. Last night, my phone kept on buzzing to tell me that Leonard Cohen died. I was not a good friend of Leonard’s and I don’t even remember where I met him, but it was either at some event arranged by Louis Dudek or Irving Layton. I was a student at McGill University at the time and writing some of the poetry that was published in my book, At the Foot of Sinai. I think it was Louis who wanted me to meet Leonard, whose poems were published as Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956), the first book in the McGill Poetry Series. My book was published as the first book in the Hillel Poetry Series. Leonard was an excellent poet but was disappointed that he could never meet expenses, living as a poet, even after the success of the Spice-Box of Earth (1961), and his novel, The Favorite Game (1963). He was to move to the United States to become a folk singer-songwriter. That was a much more lucrative career. I followed his career and loved his successes and was even (mistakenly, I believe) introduced to some of his fans in the UK as a friend of Leonard Cohen’s. I loved his songs and imagined myself as another “bird on a wire, a drunk in a midnight choir.” As it was written, “We have lost one of music's most revered and prolific visionaries.” We have also lost a great poet and inspiration. And we wish only good to his family, his friends and fans. May they remember him for good and may his poems and songs live forever. Baruch Dayan Haemet 8-11-2016 by George Farkas

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Trees black against the blue of night Making dim much needed starlight Fumbling to find the well hewn path Leading to our camp Without a lamp of any sort Guided only by earth’s polar pull Me and my pack of scared girls Scramble through briarwood A snarl rises through the gloom Followed by awful hissing So close to our legs, Raccoons Fighting for territory Our pace quickens, nearly to a run Cracking sticks and punctures to skin Ripping open tent flaps Falling into safety

if only she dared at least show her naked heart... dance her words for him ----- slow dancing at dawn neither day nor we are dressed... nor is there music ----- Her sudden stillness Punctuated by one sigh In encircling arms She sinks sated and replete A long awaited release #tanka ------- poet writes on her whispering words to soft skin with tender kisses ----- poetry whispers in rays of sunlight passing breeze every word your name ----- For some, love is not only an internal desire for the happiness of the other. For these people, its physical manifestations and expressions are natural, normal, and, for some, even necessary. Some cannot imagine love without lust, or vice versa. Some people cannot imagine being these people, but they exist. ----- she unraveled as he tenderly took each strand... wove her a poem ----- upon her garden kisses like a sudden rain... storms rose up inside ----- fingers whispering touching messages of love... felt rather than heard ----- came to her garden waking all her butterflies... into thrilling flight ----- what could i write of if i had never found you... surely not of love ----- look upon my words find yourself loved within them... wanted and desired ----- i reach in darkness just to touch you a moment... reassure myself ----- forget the mirror see yourself as i see you... hear how i say your name ----- she feared her darkness until he showed her the path which led to his light ----- delightful dining a moveable feast indeed... she could not stay still ----- By Donovan Baldwin

to please her poet comes prepared to misbehave undressed for success • Donovan Baldwin

Have you ever said that to yourself? After reading a reponse you gave? [no title] If I were a person, you had known for years... someone who had witnessed, the authentic you; the tears? I would offer an embrace, face to face without anything else, expect-ed. The most important thing to me, would be, that your personal sorrow... was eased. When another person, has been stripped bare, from an ultimate, magical love-affair... different feelings, invoke the same despair. Many obstacles still appear, but their names, are dif-fer-rent. You're lonesome for a beginning, when I've been left, at the end... You are ready to jump-right-in, do the work- get back up again... I have dusted off, enough, there's nothing left, but holes. It's enough for me, to chat with someone else- after the, "death-do-us-part" - I don't think "we" could go beyond. But I am willing to walk next to you, share my own, destina-tion... It's all okay to make a friend, without- "falling-in-love" Kerry~

While Disada has produced many films, videos and DVDs in both live-action and animation, there have been specific advantages for many of the companies, governments and organizations we have worked for in using animation instead of live-action. Each project's needs call for one or the other, but there are striking advantages to animation for many clients. Animation is strictly controlled. There are few surprises once production begins since the film is created to exact specifications. The story, script or narration, the look, design and color of the film, the characters and what they do are all laid out ahead of time, and approved by the client. Modifications and changes are done at the preproduction stage. The budget is therefore also carefully controlled, and so just as there are no creative surprises, there is no need for financial surprises either. Animation is ideal for handling abstract concepts. It can take you inside an atom and elsewhere where a camera cannot go. It can also be helpful to illustrate so-called difficult subjects. We once did a film for a New York hospital about problems in human sexuality. The aimed-for audience meant that animation rather than live-action would be best. If a film is successful, more may be wanted, possibly a series afterward. If so, your main actors will be available and won't ask for more money for the sequels. They are animated characters who don't get sick, die or end up in the tabloids. They are drawn, and if the original animators leave or are unavailable new animators can carry on without any changes seen on screen. Animation has another thing going for it, repeatability. We can easily tire of seeing the same television commercial with the loud-mouth car salesman or gold buyer again and again. There is (thankfully) something about the moving drawing or computer image that we like to look at. A punchy or funny animated commercial or employee training film can be seen again and again, like an old favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon that we know well but enjoy seeing many times. Animation does not date. A well styled animated film won't have its clothing or hairstyles or other momentary fashion date it in future. Because you control everything that is seen, your message is not distracted by a flashy car or other element in a scene. A new version can be made later with new narration or added scenes and the previous footage can be reused and blended right in for cost savings. A one-stop shopping studio like ours can also do productions with both live-action and animated sequences to utilize the best of both worlds. We have also done some intricate combinations of live with animation on screen at the same time. For one film we did moving combination shots years before Who Framed Roger Rabbit experimented with it. A new aerial-image setup was created by Wally Gentleman for Disada. He had designed the special effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and later sold the setup to Universal Pictures to use on their Battlestar Galactica TV series. Of course, the best reason to use animation is for qualities of its own. Done correctly and done right, nothing can top animation's humor. A long-time logo or company character can come to life through animation and become a company's best spokesman. An old logo character can now speak, be funny, and soon adorn new product labels and advertising, even become a T-shirt star. Animation has a different feel to it than live-action. We are, I think, more engaged as an audience, more willing to be convinced, persuaded and sold. If a live person is seen and talks to the audience, we are influenced by how he or she looks, by the hair and clothes and this has an impact, positive or negative, on getting the message across. People will look at your live spokesperson in different ways. What is engaging to some may be off-putting to another. Just having a man or a woman onscreen will elicit on some level a different attitude from men and women watching. But an animated character will dispense with preconditioned social attitudes and provide pure message. Animation is daunting to some clients, be they companies or agencies, if they have never had some done before. But once they have, they find the experience a positive one. They might think of how it all comes together is a bit of a mystery, but there's no denying the magic on the screen. 2012-08-21

A friend bought this print at a museum store and thought it was a print of a Bruegel painting? Can anyone identify it? Is it really Bruegel? Where is the original? Thank you.

I've been on this site for a few weeks now, but just discovered how to post. I had no idea this was here... I would really like to make some new friends and connections on here. Thanks for your time and attention.