2011 Sept 05 Preview: Bitterroot Mountains – a Movie
A quick sneak-peek at aa movie that I am working on, that highlights the Bitterroot Mountains and Valley. This is just a short out-take from the many shots taken on Labor Day, 2011, up in the Lost Horse area of the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana (near Hamilton, Montana). Enjoy… – Tomas (NW7US) nw7us.us
corps of discovery: Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark's Missouri River
Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark’s Missouri River
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But the Missouri is also the site of a vast, politically driven drama. It tops a list of emerging big-stakes river wars around the country that pit conservation, development, farm, barge, American Indian, and government interests against one another in clashes made even more complicated by the scarcity of water in many river basin states.
In Big Muddy Blues, veteran journalist Bill Lambrecht uses the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s epic adventure west as a lens to show the other side of the story: what’s been lost over 200 years. And the losses, on top of the 120 miles cut off the river by Army Corps stabilization efforts, aren’t slight. Dependent on every word uttered in courtrooms and legislatures for their futures are more than 80 rare and endangered species, the family farms that require a stabilized river, the barges of shippers that require a heavier flow, and dozens if not hundreds of sacred Native American burial grounds.
Running through it all is the water-more than 2,300 miles of it-that slakes the thirst of people in one-sixth of the nation and has, in the last few hundred years, been home to Native Americans, explorers, and settlers; river pirates, shipwrecks, and steamboats; and farmers, conservationists, and the Army. This is the story of “Big Muddy,” of its influence on the formation and stability of our nation and of its place in the center of an escalating river war that will set the stage for water wars in the decades to come.
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Episode 440 – 15th November 2011
“‘Sajan Re Jhoot Mat Bolo’ is a situational comedy that arises from a small lie that the protagonist, Apoorva, had to tell his employer Dhirubhai Jhaveri to get a job. Dhirubhai is a very successful businessman who hates lies and liars, and believes in family bonding and values. His belief in these values at times cross levels of normalcy & are unbelievably rigid. Apoorva, an orphan was raised in an orphanage and to get the job in Dhirubhai’s company, lies that he as a full-fledged family back in India. Apoorva’s description of his imaginary family makes Dhirubhai fall in love with each and every member. Dhirubhai has a niece Aarti, who is young, beautiful and believes in the same values as her uncle. They both trust Apoorva blindly, and Apoorva has earned this trust and respect on the basis of his hard work. Over time he has become the Man Friday for Dhirubhai as well as Aarti. Apoorva has also developed a liking for Aarti, but has refrained from expressing his feelings to her. Dhirubhai fixes Aarti’s marriage but in a dramatic turn of events, the marriage is called off at the last moment and Dhirubhai decides to marry Aarti with Apoorva. He also announces that the marriage will take place in India, in the presence of Apoorva’s family. Apoorva tries to convey the truth to Aarti but realizes that it will break her heart. He asks his friend Rajesh (Raju) to set up his fake family in India before the marriage, which has to take place in a few days. Rajesh does the needful …
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