john's newfoundland.ar hitches a ride to town on an arctic ice floe and decides to camp out on a cliff just steps away from a fishing village. >> we can't allow a polar bear to walk through an area, especially a populated area like st. johns because it will encounter people. >> when the people of newfoundland need help with wild animals, they turn to 30-year wildlife enforcement veteran bill collins. >> i received a call at my office that there was a polar bear in the village. grabbed my drugs and my darting equipment and head down here to see if i can capture the bear or find some way to deter it from coming into the residential area. >> when bill arrives he sees a 3-year-old female polar bear perched 75 feet up a slippery slope. he immediately realizes his options are limited. >> when i got here, it was just obvious that the bear wasn't in a place where we were just going to be able to dart it and load it aboard a truck and take it away. what we tried to do, initially, deter it with some devices that we

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just australians and new zealand zealanders, also the canadians british, french indian you have newfoundlandfighting as a sovereign nation. it was a very complicated group of allies that were involved in that invasion and they obviously expected to do a lot better than they did. >> now, you've been directed as an actor many times. this is your first time directing. i can imagine -- i don't know you very well -- you're a rather strong willed director. did you learn anything about the perspective of directors from your previous decades as an actor? >> of course. i started working in front of a cam what when i was 6 years old in 1970. i've done 25 lead roles in feature film. i have a massive education in being on a film set and involved in problem solving. i have no problem stealing from anybody. if i have worked with a great director that shows me a solution for a particular thing that's in the back of my mind. on the way to doing this, though, i didn't suddenly decided to do this. i've directed 30-something video clips for rock bands, three full-length documentaries. i've been prepare migself

i feel like i'm in newfoundland fishing and hurricane is coming. i feel like i am on the battlefield in the american revolution. i'm so engrossed in the book. i feel like i'm there. of course, i was appreciative and said thank you. her husband elbowed me in the ribs and said, she likes it so much he reads four pages a day. it is right next to the reader's digest in the bathroom in that little basket i was chuckling. he elbowed me again and said some day she likes me -- likes it so much, she reads eight pages. i guess sometimes as an author, you have to get the praise you can get. it was such a great story to research. it almost told itself. i think it is a great story. i'm really glad to be here to share with you. if you'll indulge me, i will start by doing just a little reading from the beginning of the book. the killer escaped notice because it was microscopic, a virus. it did not yet have a human host but that did not matter. , the virus could survive for weeks outside of the human body such as in a blanket or an article of clothing. because of

over 60 years producing oil and natural gas through states and several projects off the coast of newfoundland and alberta. wal-mart has had a strong presence in canada for over 20 years. today they employ over 90,000 canadians. tyson and skip parliamentaryp -- and skippy peanut butter are two more. given these long-standing and warm ties to canada, my team and i have worked closely with the canadian embassy during my time in congress to promote and strengthen our relationship. unfortunately the obama administration at times has impeded it. the keystone pipeline is not just good for american jobs but also a critical project for canada's economy. yet president obama dismissed it as mere canadian oil from canadian companies cavalier comments that minimized the pipeline's benefits for american workers while manifesting a casual disregard for our close allies interests. now we're seeing this neglect again with country of origin labeling process for meat products which threaten to disrupt trade between our countries. these cool regulations needlessly require different labeling for products born, ra

about building a specialized facility to test oil spill response off the east coast of canada in newfoundland. those are a couple of thoughts about what can be done in that very important area. >> just quickly, d.o.e. has focused our research to a great extent on prevention of loss of control. we do a lot of work on integrity, understanding how your cement performs at pressure and depth. understanding the ocean currents and the stresses that puts on risers and translating that to our work on basic material science to understand what the risers are made of, for example. there's also, i think in the study, some recommendations that we'll be considering next. so we've been focused on the front end of the bow tie, if you will. but there's also opportunities on the right side as carol set out for us to with the department of interior to demonstrate the effectiveness of some of the technologies that are available to prevent or deal with loss of control of oil. so while to date we've been focused on preventing that. your best way to prevent an oil spill is to design your well really well and never l