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SCARBOROUGH—The Greely Rangers just don't panic.
The state's premier volleyball program has an inherent understanding of the moment and as a result, is very tough to beat.
Make that impossible to beat.
At least so far this season.
Monday evening, in a showdown between the top two squads in our Super Six poll, the Rangers went to talented Scarborough and got taken to the limit, but never buckled.
The Red Storm won the first set with ease, 25-12, after scoring the first seven points. Greely bounced right back to take the second, 25-19, thanks to the superb serving of sophomore standout Kayley Cimino. When the Rangers broke a 16-16 tie and won the third game, 25-17, it appeared to be lights out for the host team, but Scarborough rallied from a 16-10 deficit in the fourth set, riding 10 straight service points from junior Emily Hanson, to prevail, 25-19, and set up a winner-take-all fifth game. There, the Red Storm took the first two points, but Greely wouldn't be denied, getting four kills from unheralded senior Emily Buchanan and pulling away to win, 15-8, and take the match, 3-2.
The Rangers improved to 8-0 and dropped Scarborough to 6-2 in the process.
"We sure found a way tonight," said Greely coach Kelvin Hasch. "We didn't play well, but we found a way to get the job done. I'm excited that we were able to pull it out."
Two of the best
This rivalry was all Greely for nine seasons, as the Rangers won the first 20 meetings (see sidebar, below), but last fall, Scarborough, en route to a perfect regular season and a trip to the state final, vanquished Greely three times: 3-1 at home, 3-0 in Cumberland, then 3-1 in a thrilling state semifinal.
This fall, both teams have exceeded expectations and hinted that they might see each other in the postseason.
The Red Storm, despite a nearly complete roster turnover, won their first four matches. After opening with a 3-0 home victory over Gorham and a 3-0 triumph at Cheverus, Scarborough rallied from two sets down to stun Falmouth in a state match revenge match, 3-2. After a 3-1 triumph at Ellsworth, the Red Storm lost, 3-0, at Mt. Desert Island, then bounced back to blank visiting Windham and Kennebunk by 3-0 margins.
The Rangers weren't viewed as the favorite coming in, but have ascended to that status at the midway point. Greely opened with wins over Yarmouth (3-1), Windham (3-0), Cape Elizabeth (3-0) and Gorham (3-1), then produced an epic 3-2 come-from-behind win over Biddeford. The Rangers then blanked visiting Falmouth (3-0) and won at Thornton Academy (3-0).
Monday, in the teams' lone regularly scheduled meeting, Scarborough was hoping to end Greely's run and continue its ascendance, but the Rangers had what it took to collect another statement victory instead.
The Red Storm roared out of the gate and behind the serving of senior Mina Puig, took a quick 7-0 lead, forcing Hasch to call timeout. A Cimino kill stemmed the tide, but Scarborough got the next three points, highlighted by a kill from senior Kayla Savage, to make it 10-1. After an ace from senior libero Audrey Mann, senior Lauren Weickert delivered a kill to pull Greely within 10-4, but the Red Storm never let the Rangers get closer than 16-12. After Scarborough got the next point, Puig served out the game, giving her 14 service points in all and the Red Storm had the jump.
Not surprisingly, Greely settled down and responded.
The Rangers didn't trail in the second set, going on a 10-1 run to open up a 12-3 lead, as Buchanan first made her presence felt with a pair of kills. The run included six straight service points from Cimino. Scarborough crept back to 19-18 behind two Hanson aces, but after a Hasch timeout, Cimino had a kill and Greely gradually pulled away. A Cimino kill finished it off, 25-19. In the game, Cimino had nine service points.
"I just got in my groove and went for it," Cimino said.
"Kayley's serve helped a lot," Hasch said.
In the pivotal third game, the Red Storm got a kill from Puig to start, then went up 4-0 on an ace from Savage. Scarborough eventually went up by as many as six, 11-5, but the Rangers rallied and went on a 7-0 run behind strong service from junior Hannah Butland, a run which featured kills from junior Alex Tebbs and sophomore Molly Chapin, an ace from Buchanan, a block from Chapin and a kill from Cimino. The game would be tied, 12-12, 14-14, 15-15 and 16-16, but Greely turned it up a notch, closing on a 9-1 run, capped by a Weickert block, to win, 25-17.
For much of the fourth game, it appeared the Rangers were going to close things out, but the Red Storm finished strong.
Greely broke a 7-7 tie with a 7-1 run, capped by a Tebbs ace. After Scarborough got a kill from senior Megan Brooks and won the next point, the Rangers got a point back, then got a kill from Buchanan to make it 16-10. Then, Savage had a kill and that sent Hanson to the service line. Her first serve resulted in an ace and she didn't stop from there, winning 10 straight points in all, getting three kills from Savage and one apiece from Brooks and sophomore Jordyn Cowan in the process, to open up a 21-16 advantage. Greely got as close as 21-18 (on a Cimino ace) and 22-19, but the Red Storm won the next three points, punctuated by a kill from senior Emma Tirrell, to even the match with a 25-19 triumph.
That set up a first-team-to-15-points, winner-take-all fifth set.
Going in, the Rangers weren't fazed.
"I just tell them that we need to turn it on and we can't be toying with them anymore," Hasch said. "We had to not wait for (Scarborough) for make mistakes."
Scarborough got the first point, then Savage had a kill for a quick 2-0 lead, but that would prove to be the Red Storm's highwater mark.
A Weickert kill stemmed the tide and with Tebbs serving, Buchanan soared for a kill to tie it. Out of a Scarborough timeout, Greely got the next point, then Chapin had a kill, Cimino had a block and Buchanan had a kill to make it 6-2.
"Emily was really nervous the first couple sets, but she came out and played a lot better," Hasch said "She got to the ball tonight. We've worked with her on quickly getting to the set. In the fourth and fifth games, she really put it together."
The Red Storm ended the 6-0 run on a kill from senior Lindsey Thurston and Puig had a kill to cut the deficit to 6-4, but the Rangers got a point, then got a kill from Buchanan to make it 8-4.
Scarborough pulled within three points at 8-5, 9-6 and 10-7, but it couldn't get any closer.
After Greely scored for an 11-7 lead, Weickert had an ace, Chapin had a kill and after the Red Storm's final point of the match, the Rangers won the next two points and that did it, 15-8, with Greely winning it in five sets.
"The fifth set is all mental," Cimino said. "It's little games in one. It's point by point. We just needed to keep our momentum going."
"We wanted to win it for last year's seniors," Buchanan said. "It was completely a team effort. Whenever someone was down, we pulled each other up. I'm proud of how we kept our heads when we needed to. I feel like when we're down, we get up just at the right time every time. We learned (from the Biddeford match) that in a (fifth set) you have to get up early. It's completely a mental game."
Cimino finished with nine kills and four aces. Buchanan had seven kills. Tebbs finished with five kills and three aces. Chapin added five aces. Weickert had four kills and an ace. Butland finished with three aces and had 16 assists.
"The passes were on," Buchanan said. "Hannah's sets were great. Hannah's such a strong player. She has great court presence."
A team effort keeps getting the job done.
"I didn't think we'd be 8-0," Hasch said. "Molly is a total surprise. The things she can do were evident tonight. (Senior) Audrey (Mann) is a fairly new player. She's come in and played libero for us. She got back there and did the job when we needed it."
For Scarborough, Savage had eight kills and two aces. Cowan had five kills. Hanson and Puig both had three aces.
"It's a very disappointing result," said Red Storm coach Jon Roberts. "I thought we should beat them. I have one senior who is mentally tough and their whole team is mentally tough. I have good volleyball players, but they're not mentally tough."
One month to go
The state championship match in November 1 and there's a good chance one, if not both of these teams will take part.
Each squad has a lot to take care of first, of course, and both have some daunting tests on the upcoming slate.
Scarborough (third in the Class A Heal Points standings at press time) returns to action Wednesday at Lake Region. After hosting South Portland Friday, the Red Storm play a makeup match at Cape Elizabeth Monday, then host Biddeford the following evening. After playing at Thornton Academy, Scarborough closes the regular season with a home showdown versus Falmouth.
"Our biggest challenge is getting mentally tough," Roberts said. "We still have some big matches to come."
Greely (first in the standings) hosts Cony Wednesday and goes to Cheverus Friday. After welcoming Kennebunk in the home finale Tuesday of next week, the Rangers close with matches at Falmouth, South Portland and Cape Elizabeth.
"This season has been so much fun," Cimino said. "It's so much fun to play with the girls on this team. Everyone has a blast."
"We can always use work," Buchanan said. "Every team can get better. We're a mentally strong team. We're positive on the court. We like each other. We play well together."
"We need to clean up our hitting," Hasch added. "Our passing was horrible tonight. We still have work to do."
Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @foresports.
Greely junior Hannah Butland (left) and senior Lauren Weickert rise to block a shot.
Greely sophomore Molly Chapin goes up high for a kill.
Greely sophomore Kayley Cimino touches the ball over the net.
Scarborough sophomore Jordyn Cowan goes up for a kill.
Scarborough junior Emily Hanson stops a shot. Hanson excelled from the service line Monday.
Greely junior Alex Tebbs stops a shot.
Scarborough senior Lindsey Thurston blocks a shot.
Greely junior Hannah Butland celebrates after a point.
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When choosing a place to stay, everyone wants to not only relax, but also to see the unusual natural scenery or incredibly beautiful cities and sights. Of course, during his life, few would have time to see everything the city and the country firsthand. But to visit many of the most prominent places is quite real.
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Do you know someone who stands out from the crowd? An ordinary person or an organisation doing extraordinary things? Nominate them for a Citizen of The Year award and you could be attending the Civic Reception next year to see them collect an award. Full details are on our website, but to give you an idea – here are the achievements of some of our former winners:
Don -Volunteer with RBL, SSAFA, The Poppy Appeal and a foster parent.
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It was announced at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) annual conference in Seattle that Josh Lucas, lead herpetology caretaker at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden, was among the winners of the organization's AZA Heroes contest. In 2019, a national multi-platform media campaign will share the mission and spirit of AZA through the stories of four heroes who go above and beyond in their work for education and conservation.
From a field of 95 entries crowdsourced from AZA-accredited organizations across North America, the top 10 finalists were announced in August and an online vote commenced. From there, the four AZA Heroes were selected. The OKC Zoo was one of only two organizations with multiple finalists in the grassroots video contest with Amy Mathews, lead elephant caretaker at the OKC Zoo, also among the 10 finalists.
"We are so proud of Josh, not just for his selection as an AZA Hero, but for his commitment to conservation and the work he does here and in the field to fulfill that commitment," said Greg Heanue, chief marketing officer, Oklahoma City Zoo. "I'm beyond confident that the Oklahoma City Zoo and its mission will be well-represented in this campaign by such an outstanding individual."
Originally from Austin, Texas, Lucas has been at the OKC Zoo for six years and cites his childhood love of reptiles as a factor that led to his passion for animal conservation. He met his wife, Sonia, currently a full-time physical therapy doctoral student, when she was a fellow caretaker at the Zoo. Lucas graduated with a zoology degree from the University of Oklahoma in 2012 and is currently pursuing a master's in conservation biology from the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). He turned his backyard and part of his house into a habitat for 16 turtles and tortoises.
Lucas has contributed to "boots on the ground" field conservation efforts in Ecuador (including that nation's renown Galapagos Islands), Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and, most recently, in Madagascar where nearly 11,000 critically endangered tortoises were discovered in a private residence this April. Almost every room in the house was filled with tortoises without access to food or water. The tortoises were likely collected for the illegal pet trade, possibly for shipment to Asia where the species' shell makes them highly prized. The Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) in partnership with more than 20 AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums, including the OKC Zoo, supplied team members, supplies and funds to care for the sick or injured tortoises.
In partnership with the TSA, OKC Zoo and his graduate program at UCO, Lucas will return to Madagascar later this year to begin work on a long-term, three-year, re-settlement project for the tortoises.
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
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Here's Lucy with her pal Allie. I met Allie's mom when I was in Taiwan—she was visiting too! She leaves tomorrow for the long flight from Indiana to Taipei to be reunited with her baby girl... this time FOREVER! You can follow there journey here.
Of course a special thanks goes out to Marina...again. She has sent me these pics this week and says she has a ton more—some where Lucy's wearing an outfit we sent her! I can't wait to see. Also, she told me she got VIDEO! So I've got something to look forward to while we wait.
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- lorabelle said...
Are those girls adorable or what!?!
I'll try to get a few more while I'm there on Monday!
- July 3, 2008 at 2:57 PM
- William's Family said...
Ha! I see some spunk in those sleepy little eyes of hers.
- July 3, 2008 at 4:05 PM
- Rebecca Lily said...
Oh I just love it that you are getting all these photos of Lucy!! I know it is such a mixture of emotions to get pictures though. I'm praying for you because I know where you are and it's not an easy place!! Keep the faith!
- July 3, 2008 at 5:49 PM
- Andrea said...
Wow! How cool is that? I keep coming over here thinking I am going to see where you are packing your bags. Your baby is beautiful.
I won't be long now. Praying for all you waiting Mama's. Sending love from Way Down South.
- July 3, 2008 at 5:57 PM
- Our Family said...
I love all of the new photos! I can't wait to read that it's your turn to head over and pick up your beautiful baby girl!
- July 3, 2008 at 11:30 PM
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One of the most dangerous approaches to making apps is the field of dreams school of app development. This is the approach whereby you focus solely on delivering the technical solution, i.e. your entire time is spent on:
- Creating a functional and usable design
- Developing an awesome solution
- Creating a fantastic architecture
As a developer (or creator of apps) the there is a definite desire to focus on building a great product, to the detriment of marketing or business model planning…this is a sure fire way for your app to fail. That is not to say that those things aren't important because they most definitely are, but the other aspects of your app is equally important.
If You Build It, They WON'T Come
For the vast majority of apps, building a great product and shipping it is not enough. There are 2 extremely important aspects of making apps that need your atention:
Business Model Development
The early stages of your app making process should clearly identify a business model, and this business model should evolve as you learn more about the market in which your app is in. The business model should identify key factors such as the problem you're solving, your competitors, how you'll make money and how you'll measure success.
The term business model sometimes conjures images of lengthy, stuffy business plans – but this isn't what I'm talking about. A length, written business plan is of little value to an app project, I'm talking about something like a lean canvas for your app. The lean canvas is an excellent way to identify your business model, find the risky elements of it and do it quickly.
Ignoring your business model will likely leave you without a realistic revenue stream, out-played by competitors and without any idea who your customers really are.
When people think of marketing, they often relate it to the parts of marketing they recognise:
- Paid Advertising
- Direct Mail
- Email Spam etc
The world of marketing is far greater and with is generally focused on delivering the right product, to the right people. When making an app marketing should be there from the very beginning, and right the way through to the end:
- During app idea selection you should be researching the market, idnetifying sales channels, finding your customers and looking at the competition.
- During the design phase you should consider customer personas and feature sets of competitors.
- When shipping your app you'll need promotion, influencer realtionships and early adopters
The list goes on of all the aspects of marketing that will carry your app to success.
Ignornoring app marketing will generally result in you app not being found – it does not matter how good your app is if nobody ever finds it.
Wrapping up
I call it the field of dreams approach to app development because when developing an app its tempting to focus on delivering the best app possible, and assuming that becuase its awesome that customers will just appear….'if I build it, they will come'…..believe me, they wont!


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Amy Billimoria's "Earth 21" eco art fashion project celebrates Independence Day as Eco freedom Day. As a part of this special global initiative Amy Billimoria makes a sincere effort to communicate the significance of eco fashion in our daily lives through "Earth 21".
Bringing the modern contemporary approach into combining style with the classic traditional approach, to create a unique and novel blend in couture. As we had the upsurge of Khadijah during the freedom era, the designer is working consciously to create various eco friendly fibres using linen and bamboo shoot blends to recreate a classic yet stylized look for the modern contemporary woman of today!
Also imbibing and promoting the use of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to support the cause of global warming the designer has created her own niche in haute couture drape ensembles as well as Prêt and festive wear pledging to make a difference by doing her bit to curtail fashion waste and Save Planet Earth.


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By: Zara Maqbool
Just a few days back I saw an Eid picture of Ali Zafar and his wife where the latter was wearing a 'bindi' on her forehead. The post was heavily criticized by many, calling her a 'Hindu' amongst other things, till today when I was searching for the picture to send along with my post; I realized the actor had removed the picture. A few days ago, many people for a photograph she had shared with a male actor attacked Hareem Farooq a TV actress, where the male actor was conveniently spared whereas Hareem had to hear all kinds of things.
When did we become so judgmental? Yes all societies have a mix of people, some minding their own business whereas others enjoying meddling in everyone else's business but theirs. But I feel that social media has played a pivotal role in actually encouraging people to become judgmental and hypercritical. People make it their duty to share any controversial picture or video on their social media pages contributing to scandals and rumours.
We all make judgments on each other. Almost everyone does, overtly or covertly but being judgmental is a different ball game altogether. The occasional spurt of self righteousness that we all experience is still acceptable but some of us have self appointed ourselves as moral judges of the world, passing harsh criticism on people while having no capacity for introspection on who we are and what we do.
I was reading up on this topic and I came across a very interesting article on how to be judgmental in a way that is positive and would not harm others.
For that we literally have to learnt to be empathic, to really try being in the other person's world and see where they are coming from. Mostly we pass judgments without seeing the other person's frame of reference and just projecting our own values onto them. We want to impose our own value system on others without giving them the benefit of the doubt that they did not get the values from the same place we did. Does Ayesha Fazli wearing a 'bindi' turn her into less of a Muslim? Maybe for you the outer look is very important to define your value system but for her it isn't? How about giving her the chance to live her life through her lens and not ours?
I sometimes feel that when we pass such strong and harsh judgments on others it is merely because it's our own fear that we might share the same value system too. By projecting "the so called bad" onto others we perhaps disown the very same thing that might be part of our own psyche.
It's very important for us to be responsible for what this judgment will mean for the other person and take complete ownership of hurting another person's sensibilities.
We also need to maybe start judging the sin and not the sinner. Its like if your child lies once you start calling him a liar. So can we try being less judgmental? For starters let's take a conscious mindful step to stop ourselves before we start having critical thoughts about other person's actions. Simply stop the thought! And maybe try saying, 'we all have our own life script'! Maybe that can turn that negative thought in to a more empathic one for the other person. Another thing that I learned in my work as a counselor was this amazing line, "it's not about you!" and it's so true because like I said it's our own discomfort that makes us pass such harsh statements about others. The Dalai Lama says: "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
At the end of the day it's all about feeling good about you. I watched a Ted Talk by Brene´ Brown where she says: "We're hard on each other because were using each other as a launching pad out of her own perceived deficiency." So let's try focusing all this energy onto us and grow as human beings rather than stunting our own growth in the name of self-righteousness.
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Flora, Fauna and Nature in Aryan Urheimat
by P. Priyadarshi
The Oak Tree
Witzel claims that oak, birch and willow trees grow in the northern colder regions, and presence of the respective cognate words in Sanskrit with meanings of the three specific tropical trees should mean that the Indo-Europeans came to India carrying these words, and after not finding the original trees in India they thrust these names on to the three tropical trees found in India. (2009 fulltext:5, fn 32).
Hence he writes, "the IE word for 'oak' may be contained in parkaṭī > 'ficus infectiora'". Pokorny and others have claimed that the PIE perk u u-s (from which Sanskrit parkaTI, Hindi pakar, pakur have derived) meant 'oak' (Pokorny 822-823). However they never claimed that Ficus was cognate of parkaTI and this correlation is a contribution of Witzel.
In fact it has been held that oak must not have grown in the IE homeland, because it has no common (cognate) word in the languages of Europe. Crystal wrote that there is little evidence of a common word for 'oak' in Europe, which is a common European tree, and is even the national tree of many European countries (p. 296).
Thus we have:
English oak;
German Eiche; Dutch eiken; Middle Dutch ek; Danish eg(-en); We may note here that the words eiken or acorn mean fruit with a 'single seed', and are derived from PIE (and Sanskrit) eka meaning 'one'.
German Viereiche, OHG fereheih (c.f. Sanskrit vRkSa, vulgar Hindi biriccha, tree).
Old Scandinavian fir; But Old English furh meant 'pine'.
Latin quercus (from this have derived 'cork, quercetin' etc.); llex (holme-oak); Spanish= roble; French = chêne; Romanian = stejar;
Proto-Celtic *dari(k)- (Sanskrit daru, tree).
Greek phegos
(but Latin fagus is 'beech');
Greek drys (c.f. Sanskrit daru, taru both meaning tree; OCS drievo, Russian drevo, Serb drvo and drva all mean tree; Lith. dreva pine; Pol. draw wood).
Albanian drusk oak.
Lithuanian azuolas, azoulinis.
On the other hand many cognates of parkat mean 'pine' even:
German fichte, pine; Latin picea, pine.
Thus we see that there is no common root for 'oak' in various European languages. That means when the Indo-European speakers arrived into Europe, they applied different words meaning 'tree' in their homeland (which in our study was India). In Sanskrit, daru, dara, vriksha are words meaning tree. They were applied indiscriminately. Thus the same word daru was applied to mean 'oak' in Greece, but to 'pine' in Lithuanian. Out of these names of oak in Europe, only Scandinavian fir and Latin quercus qualify to be cognates of PIE perkat and Sanskrit parkaTI. Although fir and quercus have no resemblance between them, both of them can be derived from Sanskrit ParkaTI. Thus it is Sanskrit which is the connecting link of the two--the Germanic and the Italic.
We noted that fir does not always mean 'oak'. It often means any tree or wood as in Old English it means pine. (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fir ). Yet thoroughly ignoring these facts, Witzel and the likes claimed that oak is represented in Sanskrit (and India) as parkaTI. Thus we find that the etymology of oak has been bungled up by these authors.
Witzel's other claim in the same footnote that ficus (Latin, fig) is derived from parkaTI is bogus too. Fig is a foreign word in Europe from Hebrew (Valpi:153). It is entirely different matter that it may have entered Hebrew language from India. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fig
While Germanic fir is a generic word meaning variously like wood, pine or oak in different languages, parkaTI or pakur is a specific tree species of India. And it has meant Ficus infectoria since ancient times. There are many Ficus species in India: banyan, pipal and fig, which are never confused with each other in names in India.
In fact the word parkati has widespread cognates in Austronesian languages like pakat, paka, napak and mpaka etc. spreading from Malagasy to Polynesia, and meaning either different species of Ficus like prolixa and obliqua or aerial roots, or in some languages 'root' (Mahdi:203):
Kalimantan Island Languages: pakat (root).
Merina Language (Madagascar): fahani (from *paka, root).
Bismark Archaepelago:
paka (Ficus nodosa, Tolai and Pala languages)
mbaka (Ficus oblique, Mbau language)
Vanuatu (various languages): mbak, paka, nu-mbak, na-pak, na-ban, pan (all meaning Ficus prolixa)
Apart from these other cognates of pakur or parkaTI in Austronesia are uakat, oakat, *uakaR, akar, okor, etc (Mahdi:204-6). This evidence rules out parkaTI from being a northern word. This also means parkati is an Indian word older than Austronesian migration. In Malay-Polynesian (i.e. Austronesian) this word must have entered before the language radiated east from Indonesia. Thus its arrival into India with Indo-Aryan at a later lime is ruled out because of its presence in distant Austronesian languages. Other Indian words for ficus are too found in Austronesian. Hindi bar (Sk. vata) is found in Javanese (Adelaar and Himmelmann:183-4).
Related species of oak are found in Central Asia too. Had Indo-Europeans migrated to Europe from Central Asia, or from Russian steppe to Central Asia, the Altaic languages too must have had a word for oak common with European words.
In fact, it is India where oak is not found and that is why the original Indo-Europeans did not have any word for it. When the IE speakers reached Europe, different batches of immigrants named the same tree 'oak' with different words in different countries.
In the same footnote, Witzel tries to give impression that Sanskrit plAkSa (meaning many trees of Ficus genus) too is a cognate of parkaTI and Ficus.
However, without much exercise we can say that plAkSa is the Sanskrit form of English word 'flax'. It is known that the primitive people wove dress from ficus fibres, as they still do in New Guinea. When they migrated into Central Asia and Europe, the meaning Ficus was lost, because no ficus tree grew there, yet the meaning 'fabric' was retained.
Textile from ficus fibres. Source: MacKenzie:70, plate 41.
Fig. fabric made from ficus fibres. Source: MacKenzie:87, plates 51, 52.
Ficus fibres have been used by more primitive people in New Guinea for making strings and coverings for their baskets (MacKenzie: 68, 69, 83, 87). It differs from woven textile because it requires only one element simply interworked with itself, to form the fabric (Ibid:209). It has been found that 30,000 years old Caucasians did weaving with wild fibres (Kvavadze). Hence it may be quite likely that the Indians too knew weaving before cultivation of cotton or use of wool, and before the Papuan people migrated out of India to reach distant ISA. However, at that time weaving was not with linseed fibres but with ficus fibres.
Fig: Indian migration to New Guinea. Source; Hudjasov,
It is likely that the memory of this relationship of ficus fibres with fabric/ textile has been retained in the Biblical mention of fig-leaves as cloth of Adam and Eve (Genesis:
3.7). Likewise, fig leaves have long been used to cover the genitals of nude figures in painting and sculpture. The use of the fig leaf as a protector of modesty or shield of some kind has entered the language.
Thus plakSa and plAkSa are not cognates of any of the words viz. ficus, parkaTI, fir or quercus, although Witzel sounds to suggest so. Cognates of PlakSa in European in our analysis are: flax (linen, English), fleax (linen, Old English), flachs (German), *flakhsan (Proto-Germanic), ply (E), flay (to strip fibres, E), plexus (L), plectere (to braid, fold,
Latin), plekein (to plait, twine, Greek), plektos (twisted, Greek), *plek- (to weave, to strip
fibres, PIE; Pokorny ple
Cognates of flax are absent from Lithuanian: lina (flax, Lith.).
Elst explains this as follows:
"It should be realized that virtually all IE-speaking areas are familiar with the cold climate and its concomitant flora and fauna. Even in hot countries, the mountainous areas provide islands of cold climate, e.g. the foothills of the Himalaya have pine trees rather than palm trees, apples (though these were imported) rather than mangoes. Indians are therefore quite familiar with a range of flora and fauna usually associated with the north, including bears (Sanskrit Rksha, cfr. Greek arktos), otters (udra, Hindi Ud/UdbilAv) and wolves (vRka). Elks and beavers do not live in India, yet the words exist, albeit with a different but related meaning: Rsha means a male antelope, babhru a mongoose. The shift of meaning may have taken place in either direction: it is perfectly possible that emigrants from India transferred their term for "mongoose" to the first beavers which they encountered in Russia or other mongoose-free territory. While the commonly-assumed northern location of PIE is at least disputable even on linguistic- paleontological grounds, as just shown, the derivation of its western location on the basis of the famous "beech" argument is undisputably flawed. The tree name beech/fagus/bhegos exists only in the Italic, Celtic and Germanic languages with that meaning, while in Greek (spoken in a beechless country) its meaning has shifted to "a type of oak". More easterly languages do not have this word, and their speakers are not naturally familiar with this tree, which only exists in western and central Europe."
Willow argument is that when the IE speakers came to India, did not get the willow tree and hence named the flexible reed 'cane' as vitasa (a cognate of willow). We need to examine it.
Sanskrit for cane= veNu, veta, vetasa, vetasI, vetra, vetra-yaSTi. Hindi bent.
Willow (E): sallow, osier, Old English sealh, Latin salix; German weide, widig, Spanish, sauce, Portugese salgueiro, French saule; Latin salix, Lithuanian gluosnis, karklas, blokstas, atliekos, atlieku, zilvitis, ozkaroze. Thus willow tree has no common word in European.
On the other hand the very words (e.g. vitis) derived from Sanskrit vetasa or PIE *wei-ti have no necessary association with 'willow' in European languages: Latin vitis vine; Russ. vitvina branch. Probably anything flexible could be named after this root in Europe, while in India it had a fixed meaning of a particular cane-reed.
Thus this argument is flawed and the fact is that when the IE speakers reached north Europe, there was no reed tree. Hence the name vetasa was trust on to willow tree and
in the southern route (J2b) the word vitus was thrust on to vine. Had IE originated in northern regions, Latin should not have had salix for willow, and vitus for vine.
Birch and bhurja
Another allegation is that 'birch', a tree found only in snow-fall regions of world, has been represented in Sanskrit as 'bhurja'. That, they claim, is because the Indo-Aryans came to India from colder regions of Asia (Witzel:5n32). He forgets that once upon a time during last glacial, India too had snowfall over most of its territory, when birch must have grown abundantly in most parts of India. And again about 11,000 ybp there was a glacial phase for about 1000 years.
Witzel has unfortunately not verified facts about modern geography of birch tree either. Birch is found in the Himalayas in India-Tibet, and it is found in Europe (except southern Europe), western Siberia, northern East Asia and Americas. There is a huge discontinuity between Himalayas and the other areas of distribution of this glacial age plant. It is not found in the Central Asian desert. Cognates of Sanskrit bhurja have been retained in most the languages of Europe (Crystal:296).
This indicates that this word was used in India when the Indo-European speakers migrated out of India chasing receding snow of Eurasia at about 16,000 ybp (DNA evidence of migration of R1a Y-DNA present). Witzel rejects this possibility without placing any argument. Presence of its likely cognates in north-eastern Asian Tungus- Manchu as baku, pe etc have not been investigated. Thus Witzel's narrow thinking restricting Indo-Aryan languages to only recent periods is not supported by geographical and DNA evidence.
Indian folk memory has retained memory of widespread birch forests in East Vindhyan region during glacial period. This region is still called Bhoja. Existing words are Bhojapur, King Bhoja etc. Mahabharata too mentions this region as Bhoja-kshetra, and its king was called Bhojaraja.
The Substrate Language of Europe
The Indo-Europeanists have often suppressed the fact that the European languages have been formed over a Semitinic and Vasconial substratum. Quack noted that there is a huge presence of a substratal language in the north European languages. Vennnemann found that substratum for Celtic languages was made by Semitic languages (Baldi and Page:2187, fn4). However he found that for other European languages substratum was made of Basque or Vasconian languages, and Semitic formed the super-stratum or "cultural" layer:
"Through the fact that there are so many words with a Basque or Semitic equation that occur only in West Indo-European languages, a new etymological research strategy is defined by the theory: take those words and try to find lexical correspondences in Basque or Hamito-Semitic, viz. in Basque if the word gives the appearance of a substratum word (plant names, names of ''natural'' animals, herding), and in Hamito- Semitic if the word gives the appearance of a superstratum word (''cultural'' animals, advanced cattle breeding, terms referring to city building, warfare, societal organization, etc.)". (ibid:2187)
However, with the clarification of routes of human migration into Europe emerging from DNA studies, we know that primary waves of human advance into East, Central and Northern Europe took place from the Central Asia, as the Proto-Uralic branch of Proto-Uralic-Altaic linguistic stock. We also know now that the northeast African migration into Europe across Mediterranean took place a couple of thousand years before Neolithic and Indo-European arrival into Europe. Hence Semitic is actually not the superstratum, but substratum for Europe on the basis of this circumstantial evidence. With these newer things in mind, we can say that European linguistic substratum is formed of Semitic, Proto-Basque and Proto-Uralic-Altaic languages.
Thus Semitic (Austro-Asiatic), Altaic-Uralic and Basque dictionaries must be consulted for aetiologies of all those words in the Indo-European languages of Europe which are not represented in the Indo-Iranian branch of IE. Thus good-looking IE words from many semantic domains are found in only a few IE languages (Germanic and Italic, Italic and Celtic, Greek and Armenian, for example), and they have not been examined properly so far. They have been usually passed off as retention of an IE word which is lost elsewhere.
Lachs Theory: The Daylight Bungling
Mehendale (2005:58-59) summarizes Thieme's Lach's Theory in the following words:
"Old HG lachs, Anglo-Saxon leax, Old Norse lax etc. point out to a common origin of IE *laks-/*lakso- for salmon fish'. This kind of fish is to be found only in the rivers which flow into the northern oceans (the North Sea and the Baltic Sea) and their tributaries. There is no salmon in Greece and Italy. Hence we have no correspondence of IE *laks- /*lakso- in Greek and Latin and also in south Slavic. The Celts had their own word which was later borrowed as 'salmo' in Latin."
However this principle is not applied while interpreting the etymology of the Tocharian laksi (fish) and Sanskrit lAkSa (one hundred thousand) and lAkSA (lac, a resin). Thus the same author proceeds to complete the hypothesis in the following manner:
"That the word in Tocharian does not mean 'salmon' is understandable, since there are no salmon in Central Asia. The Tocharian branch has thus preserved the old IE word but given it a more general meaning 'fish'."
The theory further surmises that the word corresponding to Germanic 'laks' in Sanskrit should be lAkSa (one hundred thousand) and lAkSA (the red resin lac). The hypothesis argues that salmons are always found in large numbers, hence "Sanskrit has preserved
IE word *lakso- in the form laksa-, not in the meaning salmon but in the meaning 'one
hundred thousand'."
For lAkSA, the theory argues that the flesh of salmon is red and lac is also red. Thus the Indian lac which is a red resin made by insects living on a particular tree has been thrust the name lAkSA when the Indo-European speakers arrived into India.
[Proto-Germanic : *lakhs; MHG lahs; Yiddish lahs (a HOG language of Ashkenazi Jews); Icelandic lax; Danish laks; Old English *lax (fish);
Russian losos; Polish losos; Estonian lohe, lohi; Czec losos]
Yet we find that even many Germanic languages do not have this word for 'salmon' or 'fish':
[Dutch zalm and Frisian salm 'salmon'. Italic and Celtic languages also have salmo-. Hence 'salm' seems to be a Basque substratal word in west/ southwest Europe.]
Bogusness of Thieme's Argument
Pokorny (la - 653) and other Indo-Europeanists should not have included this word in
the list of Indo-European at all, because this word lachs (meaning salmon) is found only
in the Germanic branch and a few of Balto-Slavic languages. Out of the two families, it is
found in only in Tocharian (Central Asia, extinct) and Ossetic (a south Central Asian Iranian dialect) with the meaning 'fish'. But the word is entirely absent from all the
European IE languages outside Germanic and Balto-Slavic region.
A study of dictionaries of substratal languages of north Europe and the detailed
etymology of Sanskrit word lAkSa in Sanskrit clarifies the arbitrary nature of the above
Study of Uralic-Altaic dictionaries clarifies that this word is not IE in origin, but in fact 'Uralic-Altaic' in origin, being present in all the languages of the Uralic and Altaic language families, reaching up to Japan and Dene-Yeniseian of North America:
Uralic (Salmon):
Finnish lohi, Hungarian lazac, Sami luossa.
Dene-Yeniseian (North Amerindian):
Loo (fish, Navajo) Lika (fish, Dena'ina) l'ook, xáat (salmon, Tlingit) (Source—Swadesh List for Dené-Yeniseian languages at Wictionary on the net).
See item no 45 in the table in the link below:
Proto-Altaic: *lak`a ( ~ -k-) Meaning: a kind of big fish Mongolian: *laka Tungus-Manchu: *laka Japanese: *nakatai; [ru: (salmon)] Comments: Mong. form is also present in Turkmenistanian laGGa balɨq; Uzbek laqqa baliq `sheat-fish'. [Reference: Doerfer G., Mongolo-Tungusica, Wiesbaden, 1985; Source: Altaic Database on the net by Starostin.]
Proto-Mongolian: *laka Altaic etymology:
Meaning: sheat-fish Written Mongolian: laqa (L 515) Khalkha: lax
Proto-Tungus-Manchu: *laka Altaic etymology:
Meaning: name of a fish, goby Evenki: laka Negidal: laxana Literary Manchu: laqačan nisiχa, laqča nimaχa Ulcha: laqa Orok: lāqqa 'herring' Nanai: lāqa Oroch: laka Udighe: la`sā (Корм. 256) [Ref. Tsintsius, V. et al, A Comparative Dictionary of Tungus-Manchu Languages, Leningrad, 1975-1977: 1, 487, 488; Source: Starotsin's Altaic Database on the web]
This survey makes it eminently obvious that the Germanic word laks is actually of Uralic-Altaic extraction. Uralic-Altaic was the linguistic substratum before Indo-
European advance (as R1a1a migration) into the north Caspian area, the Russian- Ukrainian steppe and north Black Sea region.
Before closing it is desirable that we examine the Sanskrit word lAkSa and its etymology, whether it is related with Germanic laks even remotely or not.
Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary gives meanings of lAkSa as: a mark, sign or token. It also means to aim at target, aim, object or prey. One of the meanings 'prey' might include 'fish' also. One hundred thousand is only one of the many meanings of the word. LakSaNa is a related word meaning 'feature, sign, view, mark'.
LAkSA (lac, the red resin) has been named so because it is used for marking seals, ensignia etc. It has been known in the Atharva Veda, and it has become clear by now that Atharva Veda corresponds with the Indus-Harappa civilization, in which seals were used to mark trade cargos.
A related word is lAJchana (lanchana), which means 'stigma, burn mark of punishment' etc. LakSya means 'target, goal'. This whole set of Sanskrit words has derived from root lakSa-, meaning to see.
After LGM when R1a1a migration took place from northwest India to Central Asia, this word meaning fish in Altaic entered (as substratal word) into Indo-European languages which came to this region of Uralic-Altaic languages. Thus laks- meaning 'fish' entered Tocharian, Ossetic, Russia, Czech, Polish, Germanic and Baltic.
Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum).
Cognates for louse are present in Indian, Western European and Northern European branches only. In others there are entirely different words for louse:
LikSA, likSa, likkA and nikSa (Sanskrit), likh and nikh (Hindi), louse (E), lice (E, pleural), lūs (Old E.), lous (Middle English), luis (Dutch), lūs (Old High German), lús (Icelandic), lus (Swedish, Danish), llau (Welsh), lous (Proto-Celtic) and lū s (PIE, Pokorny:692,335) (American Heritage Dictionary).
However, cognates of likSa are present in many Central Asian (Altaic) languages:
nisa (Mongolian), ni (Korean), nije (Tungus-Manchu).
There are no cognates of 'louse' in southern European languages:
Pedis (Latin), piojo (Spanish), pseira ( ψείρα , Greek). Among the northern languages, not all have cognates for louse. Lithuanian has utele.
It may be further noted that louse is an ecto-parasite of man since the days of first evolution of man. It originated in Africa, and it migrated exclusively with human
migration (Kittler). Hence direction of lice migration informs us about direction of human and hence linguistic migration.
Heavy louse infestation is a problem of colder climate. The R1a1a migration took off just after the Last Glacial maximum, when it was colder. Hence this migration carried with it lice in almost every head, to the Central Asia, and northern Europe. Hence cognates are found in the Germanic languages. The word was borrowed into the Altaic languages most probably from Tocharian. However the word is not found in Lithuanian, meaning that the Balto-Slavic region was actually not the home of the Indo-European, hence some languages have retained the older substratal word for 'insect' to mean 'louse'.
Loss of cognates for lus or louse occurred from Italic languages because the migration took place along a warmer route, where lice infestation would be much less common, and the word lus was lost out from currency during the transit through Iran and West Asia. Absence of lus from the Balkans and Italic languages rules out Anatolia as the home of Proto-Indo-European.
Monkey and Elephant
The AIT claims, the presence in the common vocabulary of words denoting northern animals like the bear, wolf, elk, otter and beaver in India indicates a northern Urheimat; likewise, the absence of common terms for camel or elephant excludes tropical countries from being the Aryan home. However, Gamkrelidze and Ivanov gave list of cognate words of tropical animals in IE which had not been detected till then.
Elst (3.3.4) mentions regarding monkey, "A word for "monkey" is common to Greek (kepos) and Sanskrit (kapi), and Gamkrelidze and Ivanov argue for its connection with the Germanic and Celtic word "ape", which does not have the initial [k], for such k/mute alternation (which they derive from a preexisting laryngeal) is also found in other IE words, e.g. Greek kapros next to Latin aper, Dutch ever, "boar".
About elephant he mentions, "For "elephant", they even found two distinct IE words:
Sanskrit ibha, "male elephant", corresponding to Latin ebur, "ivory, elephant"; and Greek elephant- corresponding to Gothic ulbandus, Tokharic *alpi, "camel". In the second case, the "camel" meaning may be the original one, if we assume a migration through camel- rich Central Asia to Greece, where trade contacts with Egypt made the elephant known; the word may be a derivative from a word meaning "deer", e.g. Greek elaphos. In the case of ibha/ebur, however, we have a linguistic-paleontological argument for an Urheimat with elephants (Gamkrelidze and Ivanov also suggest a connection with Hebrew shen-habbim, "tusk-of-elephant", "ivory")." However 'ivory' too is derived from Sanskrit/ PIE ibha; Anglo-French ivorie from O.N. Fr ivurie; Egyptian ab, Coptic ebu.
Camel and Ostrich
Ostrich and its Cognates and other related words
To understand the process of formation, evolution, modification and dissemination of words, we shall take example of a word 'ostrich' and some of its cognates:
English 'Ostrich', Old English austridge, Old French ostruce, Late Latin struthio, Greek strouthio-kamilos ('ostrich which looks like a camel'), Basque ostruka; Spanish avestruz (ave + struz= bird like a camel), Hungarian struck, Tamil oTTaka-paTci (meaning 'the camel-bird'; oTTai and oTTakam are Tamil words for camel), Farsi shutur murg (shutur= camel, murg= bird; hence bird like a camel), Turkish devekusu (deve= camel, kushu= bird; hence bird like a camel). Thus most of the civilizations like Iranian, Tamil, Greek and Turkish, have termed ostrich 'a bird like a camel'. Thus the word for ostrich in India may have been ushtra mriga (uSTra mRga) meaning 'the bird like a camel', which is surviving today in Farsi as 'shutur murg'. There is ample archaeological evidence in India that ostriches lived in India once upon a time (Bhimbetka Ostrich shells).
When Indo-Europeans came out of India, they lost the meaning 'camel' after Iran. Yet the word 'ushtra-mriga' was retained as 'ostrich' and its other cognates, often meaning any large bird. Thus cognates of ushtra or ushtraka (Sk., camel, buffalo) are: ostrich (E.), stork (E., a large north European bird) 1 , Hungarian struck (ostrich), Basque ostruka (ostrich), Farsi shutur (camel), Spanish struz (ostrich).
Archeology and geology tell us that central and western India became a desert ecosystem for quite a long period, between 35,000 ybp and 20,000 ybp (Petraglia, 2009). Desert is the home of both, a camel and an ostrich. Ostrich beads and eggshells have been found from Batadombalena (Sri Lanka) and Patne (Maharashtra, India) dating back to 28,500 and 25,000 ybp respectively (Deraniyagala; Sali). A late Upper Paleolithic burial at Bhimbetka contains two ostrich-eggshell beads found near the neck of the man (Bednarik). The discovery of ostrich egg shells at over 40 sites in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, several of them dated by 14C, shows that ostrich, a bird adapted to arid climate, was widely distributed in India in prehistoric periods (Kumar). Hence Indians of those days must have had words for both ostrich and camel.
In Latin word stru-thio, stru is from Sanskrit uSTra and thio may be from Hungarian teve meaning camel. Thus stru-thio is camel-camel, and Greek stru-thio-kamilos is camel- camel-camel (Sk. + proto-Uralic + Semitic). In this case, as the word traveled, it went on gathering up words having same meaning.
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It has been noted that many of the geographical terms of Europe have PIE meanings that could have best originated in hotter countries. From PIE *ters- "dry" derived "land" in
1 A large bird of Europe, might have been thrust this name because of its gross resemblance with ostrich, in a country where ostrich is not found.
Italic (Lat. terra) and Celtic (OIr. tir) (Baldi and Richard:2187). 2 A dry land is a common feature of northwest India.
Arena (Latin harena, sand, desert, beach), areia (Portugese, sand) are cognates of Sanskrit araNya (rann in Hindi, like the Rann of Kutch). This word must have been retained by southern route migrants (J2b) who migrated through Iran and West Asia to reach Europe. However this word was lost by the northern route emigrants (R1a1a) to Europe, because there was no sandy regions in continuity in that route.
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Black Faces
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Kitty and Kent form a desperate plan to stay afloat. Susan Daniels is the plan.
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Eleven-year old Casey and her mother live alone in a quiet house. Casey's mother ensures her daughter receives the education, protection, and loving care little girls need. But an altercation with some local schoolgirls reveals that Casey's life is based on a lie.
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Elephants in the Coffee
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Country United States
Pubic Enemy/Number Two
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The short film Sophia, is a modern fairy tale of sorts. Presented as intriguing puppet animation with a sweeping sound scape, it conveys the universal story of how easy it is to become a prisoner of one's own illusion.
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Country Canada
The Sunrise Storyteller
The Sunrise Storyteller follows the hero's journey of teenage filmmaker & social justice advocate, Kasha Sequoia Slavner, as she sets out for six months on her 16th birthday across the world in search of stories of hope and resilience that shine a light on what it means to be a global citizen and how we can all make a difference.
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Tales From Shaolin reinterprets the works of the Wu Tang Clan as a Shakespeare-meets-Tarantino, crime-filled action dark comedy! Using the lyrics from the song "Shakey Dog" by Ghostface Killah, Part One: "Shakey Dog" stars Stephen Hill as our narrator "Ghost" and Dominique Spencer as the quiet yet eager Frank in this tale of a stick up gone wrong.
Featuring an original score by indie Hip Hop producers Jake Summers, Eno Noziroh, and Wino Willy, Shakey Dog also stars Ninja N. Devoe, Angel Sanchez, Nasser Metcalfe, and Clinton Lowe - with special appearance by elusive Hip Hop super-producer Megahertz. Produced by Jeremy Sample, Stephen Hill, Marquette Jones, and Janie McFadden along with director Louis A. Moore and screenwriter J. Michael Neal.
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Based on the Russian classic Mikhail Lermontov novel "The Hero of Our Time".
All events shown as they are reflected in the mind of the dying hero, as a series of irrevocable mistakes and interpreted anew: it is either reconsideration or repentance. Recollections make main hero torment himself over his own past pretenses that seem ridicules now agonize and despair over his perfect indifference to everything except himself, see the horrible aspect of killing his friend, a greenhorn and a show-off. The final action of an intelligent and outstanding man is judging oneself without mercy.
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Perfect People
A young couple on the verge of divorce meets an older man who saves them from a storm.
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Country United States
The Last Well
The year is 2037. Europe is in a state of complete breakdown. The owner of the last well of natural pure water lives in Croatia. After the sale of the water to the nice family goes wrong and ends up in bloodshed, he becomes substitute father and husband. But when the well runs dry, he is forced to do the one last "trade"…
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Storkow Kalifornia
Storkow. Sunny (30) and his mother Nena (60) live as social outlaws in the east-german countryside, doing drugs in the car and on the "Beach". But when Nena hooks up with Pfeffi-Werner, and Sunny meets the cop Liv, their life can't go on like before. Sunny falls in love with Liv. But Liv wants to leave Storkow and move to Berlin. He needs to make a harsh decision. What he doesn't expect is, that Nena won't surrender. Not before having tried everything to make him stay.
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Dubbed a Dysfunctional Family Thriller at its 70th Festival de Cannes 2017 Short Film Corner Worldwide Release plus screening on its sixth (6) continent with Australia's Adelaide International Youth, in "Darkroom" an overbearing father finds his teenage son has transformed the basement of their New York townhouse into an amateur darkroom. There the boy develops gruesome and voyeuristic images from his late-night crime scene photography.
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Director's name: Rituparna Dasdatta
Award Name: Best United States Short
Shocking true story of loneliness and isolation, in a world - inundated with social media - never lonely, never isolated.
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Dance into the Party
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Country United States
The Butterfly
Following the death of her Father whom she has not seen since she was a teenager, Vanessa, coming from a humble social background, goes to Marseilles.
Master Leclerc, the solicitor in charge of the succession, offers her an unexpected choice which is going to plunge Vanessa back into her past.
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