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Fulfords Farm is a Devon Long house believed to be well over 400 years old. Originally it was 2 farm cottages and a dairy combined and over the years it has gradually evolved into the magnificent 5 bed house it now is. It is of cob construction with walls over 2 feet thick. Now we have renovated the cob it is a lovely cosy house Fulfords Farm B&B is about a half mile out of Cullompton town yet it is set on its own surrounded by fields and gives the wonderful feeling of solitude. All its room have spectacular views over Padbrook Park golf course and beyond to the Blackdown Hills down the valley. The views are best appreciated on a sunny day with a glass of wine sitting on the patio. The views are what sold the property to us, it is unrivalled , you just have to stop, sit and appreciate! We have a king room and a twin room available for B&B, both these rooms have a TV and DVD player combined, there are many DVD s & books for guests to use during their stay. Tea & coffee facilities provided in rooms. There is a separate lounge with a large screen TV for rainy days! Breakfast is served in the dining room, we provide a full Devon cooked breakfast using locally produced bacon & sausages and free range eggs, no one will leave hungry! There is a large patio area with chairs & a BBQ which can be provided on request for longer staying guests. . We have many DVD s & books for guests to use during their stay. Fulfords is set in just under 4 acres of land, we have stables & an American style barn. At the moment we have 1 horse, 2 miniature ponies, 5 Hampshire Down ewes, 1 very large pet Dorset Down boy sheep called Brian, a few chickens & a big soft dog called Jed, now we have a new addition - a puppy called Joe who is extra friendly. The ponies are wonderful little people, so friendly & loved to be groomed & fed treats! No sweets please but I will provide carrots or apples for anyone who would like to feed them - they will never say no! They are too small to be ridden and are kept as pets for the farm. Being about 1 mile from J28 on the M5 Fulfords is very centrally placed to access the rest of mid Devon s many attractions. It has the best of both worlds, so close to M5 J28 and yet you are burried in the countryside. There are also several very nice local pubs that serve up fabulous food, only a short drive away. There will be a selection of local attraction leaflets in your bedrooms. So come and visit Mid Devon and stay with me, a very comfortable home from home. See you soon. Booking in between 4pm and 7pm please. Check out by 10.30am. Always leave a mobile number when booking please.
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Commenting on the sudden profit booking seen in our market, SP Tulsian, sptulsian.com told CNBC-TV18 that it could be due to issues of corporate governance, confidence crisis, non reliability of financials, pathetic results posted by infrastructure companies and some other things.
In an interview SP Tulsian, sptulsian.com spoke about his reading of the market and the road ahead. "From Monday onwards I am taking a positive view on the Nifty and that market is likely to trade firm till the Budget," he told the channel.
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However, he believes overall things are not as bad for quality stocks, although the caution for low quality midcap stocks continue.
Talking about stocks, he thinks Tata Motors stock could correct to about Rs 285 and Hindustan Oil Exploration Company (HOE) could correct to about Rs 80.
Below is the verbatim transcript of his interview on CNBC-TV18
Q: What would you attribute this sudden profit booking that we have seen for our market? What do you think is gone wrong for today in particular for us?
A: It is more to do with the confidence crisis and the issues of corporate governance, non reliability of the financials or maybe the act of the promoters and the pathetic results having posted by the infrastructure companies in this last three or four days. That is the reason we are seeing the carnage or maybe profit booking or the exit from the mid-cap stocks.
Obviously, when you have these things people sometimes exit from all the stocks. If they incur huge losses in this mid-cap or maybe the low quality mid-cap stocks, they tend to offset that by booking profits in the larger ones also. So, this effect of the weak outlook on the mid-cap stocks or the low quality stocks may remain for a while, maybe for next two three days but then things will subside because beyond a point even you cannot see them going down further.
Overall things are not as bad for the quality stocks or for the long-term stocks but the caution and pessimism continues for the low quality mid-cap stocks.
Q: For the Nifty, now since earnings are pretty much over, do you think we are pretty much going to be in this consolidatory trend up till the Budget or do you see some amount of movements? What are the triggers that we can expect in the next 15-20 days?
A: I was expecting Nifty to rule firm, largely on the hopes that the results will not be as bad. However, we have seen good amount of pessimism or dull results coming in this quarter which are coming to an end by tomorrow. Tomorrow being the last day of the week also, I hope that things will again start building up on a positive note, largely on the hopes of the pre-Budget rally kind of expectations. Still people are not talking of any kind of expectations either on the negative front or on the positive front from the Budget.
From hereon, I am not expecting much downside. Keeping my positive stance on the Bank Nifty because State Bank of India (SBI) results was the last straw and hereafter you don't have any kind of fear because you have seen the results of all the PSU banks coming in. So, maybe the PSU banking stocks all have bottomed out be it Canara Bank, bank of Baroda (BOB), SBI, Punjab National Bank (PNB). From Monday onwards I am taking a positive view on the Nifty that market is likely to trade firm till the Budget.
Q: Just a quick word on Tata Motors and what are you penciling in, in terms of expectations for today?
A: I have not estimated the profits, but going by the market trend or going by the stock price movement, I have been keeping my cautious stance because the domestic operations are going to see quite a big dip.
If you go by the share price pattern as well, the stock has been struggling to move beyond Rs 310-315. So, may be after the dull Q3 numbers, which are expected from the company the share price may correct to about Rs 285 or so.
Q: Any thoughts on Hindustan Oil Exploration Company (HOEC) and what they have delivered this quarter around?
A: It was a disappointment. The impairment loss, which they have provided, has made the results very scary. For about the last three months, since the news died down that no stake sale is likely to happen, the stock has been witnessing exit maybe on the trading account as well as on the investments account.
I don't think now any kind of positive bias continues to remain on the stock. The stock can correct to about Rs 80 where we may see the renewed interest coming back into the stock.
Q: Did you manage having a look at LIC Housing Finance numbers?
A: If I see the sequential number, I agree the on year-on-year basis you may find it a little difficult, but on a sequential basis the drop is not so much if you see the profit after tax (PAT) number. Definitely there is disappointment but sometimes the kind of correction, which we see into the stock price it is very difficult to correlate. To give an example of State Bank of India (SBI) and Tata Steel, both have posted disappointment but we have not seen the kind of corrections what we are seeing in LIC Housing Finance.
Sometimes you feel that may be these three-four stocks like LIC Housing Finance, REC, PFC, even though power finance companies PFC and REC have posted good numbers but even they are witnessing the correction. So, these three, four stocks move in a typical way that in spite of any negative news the stock gets corrected. So may be the share can settle or get corrected by about 4-5 percent again and then we may see the interest coming back. On a sequential basis, I am not so much disappointed with the numbers of LIC Housing Finance which warrants this kind of correction.
Q: Your thoughts on Suzlon Energy which has seen quite an intraday spike, any thoughts on that one?
A: It is really strange, but I do not think that one can really expect any surprise from the numbers. The loans have all been restructured, so maybe some adjustments, interest reversal or something may have happened because they have got the rebate of about 3 percent on the interest rate also. So maybe the exceptional things will get booked in this quarter by the company but that should not be construed as an improvement in the company's operations or the margins.
Overall, I have been keeping my positive stance but the stock has been witnessing profit booking for last one week. It corrected from Rs 26.50 to as low as Rs 22. So maybe one has to now wait. The sudden spike can only be attributed from the expected results which are due by this evening.
Q: Your thoughts on Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) and what we can expect today?
A: I have not taken a look at the company. Generally, I have been refraining from taking the quarterly call on these oil marketing companies and the upstream companies. However, because the subsidy upstream sharing burden got reduced in case of GAIL and it has increased in case of Oil India. We are going to see the lower burden of the under recovery by GAIL. So, hopefully they should be able to post better numbers.


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SAVANNAH, Georgia — A Georgia couple accused of harboring illegal aliens for commercial advantage and then laundering the proceeds was arrested Friday following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Criminal Investigations Division and the Columbia County Sheriff's Office.
Hugo Diaz, 43, and Blanca Diaz, 42, of Evans, Ga., appeared in federal court Monday after being indicted last week by a federal grand jury. The indictment also charges four of the illegal aliens with unlawful entry into the United States.
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia Edward J. Tarver said, "The federal government's immigration enforcement responsibilities are an important priority for the Department of Justice. The U.S. Attorney's Office is committed to enforcing all federal criminal laws and criminal immigration laws are no exception. This investigation clearly shows the ability of federal and local law enforcement agencies to work together to achieve justice and to thwart those whose goal is to profit from criminal activity."
Brock D. Nicholson, special agent in charge of HSI for Georgia and the Carolinas, said that one of his agency's "top priorities in worksite enforcement investigations is to hold employers accountable for exploiting illegal alien labor. Companies that break our employment laws for financial gain drive illegal immigration into the United States and deprive our nation's lawful workforce of employment opportunities."


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It's rare to see an entrepreneur cheering for a direct rival, but that's exactly what's been happening over the last week or so in New York. It started on October 18, when shares of Boston-based Agenus (NASDAQ: AGEN) jumped 65 percent to $4.43 on news that a GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) malaria vaccine containing an ingredient that Agenus supplies performed well in a clinical trial in African children. That ingredient, called QS-21, is a chemical extracted from the soap bark tree, an evergreen native to Chile.
So who was cheering? That would be Jeffrey Gardner, CEO and co-founder of Adjuvance Technologies, an NYC startup that's developing synthetic versions of QS-21, as alternatives to the sometimes scarce natural version that Agenus markets. The Glaxo/Agenus vaccine, he says, "is a good opportunity to prove QS-21 works. Would I prefer that Glaxo license QS-21 from us? Absolutely. But this is pivotal. It will prove the efficacy of QS-21 not just in humans, but in really young humans."
Agenus' stock has since settled back down to $2.71, but over a sushi lunch in Manhattan yesterday, Gardner's enthusiasm for QS-21 was anything but muted. QS-21 is what's known as an "adjuvant"—a substance that boosts the body's immune response to a vaccine. The only adjuvants that have been approved by the FDA are aluminum salts or gels, and vaccine makers such as Glaxo have long been on the hunt for alternatives. About 15 drugs and vaccines containing Agenus' QS-21 are currently in late-stage clinical trials. "People in pharma love QS-21, but it's rare and not always easy to get," says Gardner (pictured above). "That's where we can add the most value."
Adjuvance Technologies was born out of necessity at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer center in New York. Co-founder Philip Livingston, an attending physician at the hospital, was looking for adjuvants that would work in the cancer vaccines he was developing. "He tested literally everything under the sun," says Gardner, himself a scientist whopreviously worked in Sloan-Kettering's molecular pharmacology and chemistry department. "QS-21 was the optimum adjuvant." Agenus supplied QS-21 for some of Sloan-Kettering's experimental vaccines, but the two entities couldn't reach an agreement for moving forward on one of Livingston's vaccines, Gardner says. So a group of scientists at the hospital synthesized QS-21 and used it in a clinical trial of a melanoma vaccine.
Gardner got involved in 2007, and along with Livingston and two other Sloan-Kettering scientists, decided to form a company to commercialize synthetic QS-21. They licensed the intellectual property from the hospital, hired a contract-research organization to manufacture the synthetic molecule, and began reaching out to Big Pharma companies that they knew were testing vaccines.
It's been a long haul—one that Gardner and his co-founders have bootstrapped out of their own pockets—but Gardner says Adjuvance Technologies is now within a month of signing its first deal to supply synthetic QS-21. His goal is to win enough such contracts for the company to be able to sustain itself on fees and royalties from drug companies, rather than having to raise money from VCs. The company is also pursuing grants from the Department of Defense and the government's Small Business Innovation Research program, Gardner says.
Adjuvance Technologies' version of QS-21 is currently included an experimental melanoma vaccine being tested at Sloan-Kettering. In addition to making synthetic QS-21, the company is working on developing entirely new vaccine adjuvants that they hope will prove to boost the power of vaccines even further. Gardner, who operates the startup as a virtual company, says the adjuvants are designed for both purity and stability, so even if the vaccines are left sitting on shelves in a non-climate-controlled environments they won't spoil.
When Agenus' stock skyrocketed on the malaria news, Gardner watched with interest as Wall Street began to debate the true economic value of providing a vaccine component. TheStreet.com, for example, surmised that Glaxo would sell the vaccine for just $10 a dose, and that Agenus would get a single-digit royalty amounting to about 15 cents per dose, or a "mosquito-sized bite," for QS-21. Gardner thinks those who are focusing on the bottom line are missing the point. "The World Health Organization is probably going to pay very little money for this product," he says. "But the doubters of Agenus on the investor side may need to refocus their negativity and understand that this is a launching point for QS-21. Once you've got that approved vaccine adjuvant, your world opens up in many more ways."
As far as Gardner is concerned, if the Glaxo malaria vaccine is approved, it will provide opportunities for every company that's developing vaccine adjuvants, including his. "Best of luck to Agenus," he says. "But I can guarantee you I'm going to be nipping at their heels. I have skin in the game. That's how much I believe in this technology."
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Paine College will host a media briefing regarding the shooting that occurred on the campus earlier today. The briefing will take place at 10AM in the HEAL Complex located at 1255 Druid Park Avenue on the campus. The College will host a Prayer Vigil at 12 noon in the Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial Chapel. Another media briefing will take place in the afternoon at 4 pm in the HEAL Complex. For more information, please contact the Office of Communications and Marketing at 706.396.7591, 706.396.8163 or email Tonya Williams at firstname.lastname@example.com.
TO: All Media OutletsDATE: Monday, May 5th, 2014FROM: Sgt. Monica R. BelserFor Immediate Media Release:On Monday, May 5th, 2014 at approximately 1300 hours, the Richmond County Sheriff's Office responded to Paine College to Haygood Hall at 1235 15th Street, Augusta Georgia in reference to a shooting. Upon arrival, a male victim was found on the 3rd Floor with a gunshot wound to the head. The victim was transported to Georgia Regents University Hospital Trauma Center for what is reported as a life threatening injury. Paine College was placed on lockdown and Deputies and Investigators interviewed witnesses identifying the shooting suspect. During a search of the dormitories, the suspect was apprehended and taken into custody. He is still pending charges at this time. The suspect is a 21 year old male. The suspect was purportedly involved in an altercation with the other student. The Richmond County Sheriff's Office will be augmenting the Paine College Police to provide additional safety and security at Paine College until further notice. No other students were injured in this incident. The Sheriff's Office is investigating another shooting that occurred the previous evening where a student was injured by debris from a blast through the wall. This matter is being investigated as well. This is a joint release between the Richmond County Sheriff's Office and Paine College Campus Police on an ongoing investigation in regards to this unfortunate incident.
(Augusta, GA)— Classes at Paine College will be paused for Spring Break from Monday, April 7, through Friday, April 11. Classes and activities will resume Monday, April 14th.
Paine College Competes with 64 HBCUs to Win Home Depot Renovation Granthttp://www.retoolyourschool.com/vote-now/ Show your Paine College spirit by voting online today and everyday through April 14th. Share your vote through social media.Paine College is among 64 HBCUs that are competing to win the 2014 Home Depot Retool Your School grant award. Home Depot will award a total of $250,000 to HBCUs for campus and facility improvements.
Help Paine College win $50,000. If awarded, the money will support the beautification of the campus and residence halls.The awards will go to the three top schools with the most votes and social media activity, assessed by Home Depot.
You can help Paine to win. Vote early. Vote daily. Vote often. Voting is just a click away! www.retoolyourschool.com/vote-now/ Hurry! Voting ends April 14th. Encourage others to vote through social media. More shares equals more points.
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The Office of Career Services will host Paine College's Spring Career Fair on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the HEAL Complex. Students, alumni, and members of the community will have an opportunity to meet face-to-face with employers & build their network. ADP, Augusta Staffing, Georgia Department of Labor, Goodwill, Georgia Lottery Corporation, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions and the U.S. Coast Guard are some of the employers that will be present. Resumes and professional dress attire are required. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Career services at (706)821-8307 or visit paine.edu/CAREER.
(Augusta, GA) – Dr. George C. Bradley and the Paine College Community mourns the death of human rights activist Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black President. Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg on December 5, 2013, at age 95.Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in Mveso, Transkei, South Africa. Becoming actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942. For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful, non-violent defiance against the South African government and its racist policies. In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to dismantle the country's apartheid system. In 1994, Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. In 2009, July 18th, was declared Mandela Day to promote global peace and celebrate the South African leader's legacy. For more information on Paine College, please visit http://www.paine.edu or contact Leah Suggs in the Office of Communications & Marketing at (706) 821-8322, (803) 524-3195 or email@example.com.
Photo caption: Nelson Mandela, dies at the age of 95.----END----
(Augusta, GA)- Paine College Chapter of NAACP will partner with Senior Class of 2014 and Student Government Association to host a Candlelight Vigil to remember September 11, 2001. The vigil is scheduled for Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 8:00am on the central lawn of campus in front of Haygood Holsey. Candles will be given to those in attendance. The Paine College Community and CSRA are welcomed to attend.
"We as student organizations should continue to remember those who we lost during this tragedy. We want to take time out to remember those families who don't have their love ones with them today", said Kara Shipp, President of the Paine College NAACP Chapter.
On September 11, 2001, militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 people were killed during the attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., including more than 400 police officers and firefighters.
"Student Government Association applauds the work that NAACP does and continues to do on campus. I am a proud member of the Paine College Chapter and I am always willing to support in any way I can." said Jill A. Ballesteros, SGA President 2013-2014.
For more information about the September 11th Vigil, please contact the Paine College NAACP Chapter at (706) 312-4112.
Media are welcomed to attend. Please confirm attendance by contacting Leah Suggs in the Office of Communications & Marketing at (706) 821-8322, (803) 524-3195 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Photo caption ll: Paine College logo.
By Kayla Thomas, Sports Information Director
AUGUSTA, Ga. - After a 51-year hiatus from football, Lions fans and the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) will have the chance to witness Paine College football starting in October. The Paine College Athletics Department has announced that the team will play each of their four club games this season at nearby Lucy C. Laney Memorial Stadium.
"We are very thankful to the Richmond County Board of Education for working with Dr. Bradley and I to secure a home field for our young men to compete this season," said athletics director Tim Duncan. "We are excited that our alumni, students and fans will truly be able to enjoy a first class facility like Laney Stadium and all that it has to offer."
The 9,000-seat stadium opened in 2006 and is no stranger to competitive football as it serves as the home stadium for Lucy C. Laney High School and the Augusta City Classic. The Augusta City Classic annually hosts some of the most exciting - college football games in the area with teams like Morehouse, Savannah State, Benedict and Fort Valley State regularly taking the field for one of the nation's many black college football classics. Laney Stadium also has a 70-locker home locker room, 60-locker visiting team locker room, two scoreboards, two ticket booths and press boxes for each team.
Coach Ruffin and his team have two games scheduled for October and two games scheduled for November. The games will follow an intensive month of training and preparation.
"There are four great games ahead of us this season," stated head football coach Greg Ruffin. "These young men have been working hard and we are looking forward to bringing college football back to the area and once again hearing the Lions roar!"
The inaugural game of Paine's new football era will be a battle of the Lions as the Paine College Lions face the Georgia Prep Academy Lions on Oct. 12. On Oct. 19, Paine will face the Atlanta Sports Academy Spartans. This game will be the culminating event of the College's annual PaineFest as well as a Parents Weekend for the families of new and prospective students.
On Nov. 2, the Lions will take on the Gladiators from Orangeburg Tech. The 2013 season will close with a game against the Jireh Prep Warriors on Nov. 9. Kickoff times for each game have been scheduled for 2 p.m. Tickets will go on sale Sept. 16.
Next season, Lions football will join the rest of Paine's athletics teams as a proud member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and play a full schedule against conference opponents.
For additional information on all aspects of the Paine College Department of Athletics, please visit www.paineathletics.com or contact Kayla Thomas at 706-821-8438.
Paine Athletics is now on Facebook and Twitter. Visit www.facebook.com/PaineAthletics and www.twitter.com/PaineAthletics to get the latest news and notes on the Lions.
*All games will kick off at 2:00 PM and will be held at Lucy C. Laney Stadium.
Photo Caption: Paine College Department of Athletics logo.
(Augusta, GA) – Paine College will host singer, Janelle Monáe on Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 1:3o p.m. at the Peters Campus Center. Monáe will appear to encourage voting among students for the 2012 presidential election in November. Student groups at Paine have rallied together to celebrate "National Student Day, which is a day promoting student volunteerism and social responsibility through a variety of events. The Paine College Student Government Association, Wesley Fellowship, LIONS Activity Board and Greek organizations have hosted voter registration drives since August to ensure all students, faculty and staff exercise their rights in November. "Exercising our right to vote is extremely important," said Keyla Connie, president of Wesley Fellowship. "We appreciate celebrities like Janelle Monáe lending her support towards events like this to uplift the importance of voting." About Janelle Monáe
Four decades of funk and soul explode as hot new singer, Monáe joins forces with Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, pivotal members of James Brown's band in the 1960s and 1970s. Janelle Monáe has been called a super-musical cross between James Brown, Judy Garland, Andre 3000 and Steve Jobs.
Monáe burst on the music scene in 2010 with her recording The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III), a concept album about a messianic figure in an android community. It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary R&B Album with the song "Tightrope" nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. Last year, Monáe performed at the Grammy ceremony and this spring appeared at the White House – First Lady Michelle Obama is a fan and uses her music as part of her workout. A key member of her band is guitarist Kellindo Parker, nephew of legendary saxophonist Maceo Parker.Monáe is set to perform at the Westobou Festival in Augusta on Oct. 4, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.For more information contact, Natasha Carter, Director of Communications and Marketing at (706) 396-7591 or email@example.com. Photo caption: Janelle Monáe---END---


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These concerts capture tenor sax legend Dexter Gordon's performances in Holland (1964), Switzerland (1963) and Belgium (1964). Gordon was living in Europe at a time when many American were seeking steady work across the pond.
The Holland concert was filmed at a club and shows Gordon arriving, and then taking off his jacket from behind the bar. He walks to the stage with a cigarette in his mouth and utters a poetic oration to the audience as a preamble to the forthcoming piece and jazz classic, "A Night in Tunisia." Otherwise, Gordon was a big man who possessed a deep baritone voice which is somewhat analogous to his burly and power-packed tenor sax lines.
During the film, Gordon's signature sound and mode of attack speak volumes alongside band-mates, pianist Kenny Drew and drummer Art Taylor among other jazz luminaries. His soul-drenched bop notes slip and slide into resonating themes via sweet accents that often parallel a vocalist's mode of delivery. In addition, the black and white footage features shots of very attentive and focused attendees. And with his Switzerland performance at a concert hall, Gordon and his band-mates are dressed in suits and ties, to perhaps underscore the band's artistic professionalism, and bluesy, first class treatment of "You've Changed."
Other than Coleman Hawkins ground-breaking version, few other saxophonists can impart the breadth and deep-rooted emotional aspects, as Gordon does on "Body and Soul." Watching the saxophonist in action is akin to a state of jazz bliss. He swings hard via a commanding presence, but could also bring someone to tears when performing a ballad. It's priceless footage that is worth its weight in gold.


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In olden days when "a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking" there was a morals clause written into an actor's film contract. The purpose was to restrain an actor from engaging in public behavior that might offend the audience and harm ticket sales.
Today, lewd and crude behavior can boost ticket sales and TV ratings, and what passes for a morals clause deals with sexual harassment in the workplace.
Which brings me to late-night TV host David Letterman's recent disclosure that he has had sex with female subordinates who worked on his show. Much of the coverage has mentioned that this was before his marriage to his live-in girlfriend of more than a decade with whom he fathered a child.
Some wish to draw a moral distinction between fornication and adultery. It is something like the line Whoopi Goldberg tried to draw on "The View" between rape and what she called "rape rape" while discussing director Roman Polanski's 1977 sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl. Hey, if Woody Allen (a signer of the petition for going easy on Polanski) can marry his adopted daughter when he was the lover of Mia Farrow, who is to say any line exists between anything?
On his show, Letterman admitted only to "creepy" behavior. Does this make him a "creep"? Not in our modern cultural view of morality. To admit to being a creep would exact a moral judgment and suggest a line exists that divides the creep from the noncreep.
More disturbing than Letterman's behavior and acknowledgment of sex with subordinates (it wasn't a confession in the religious sense of the word because an honest confession usually leads to repentance, and we are a long way from that with these cultural polluters) was the reaction from the studio audience.
When Letterman mentioned that a man - allegedly "48 Hours Mystery" producer Robert Halderman - had tried to extort $2 million from him in return for the man's silence, Letterman transformed himself into a victim and the audience laughed and applauded.
He said he wanted to protect his wife, the women with whom he had had sex, himself and his job.
I can hear my late father now: "If you want to protect yourself, you should not engage in behavior that puts you at risk. That would be the best protection." Dad was so old-fashioned, and so right.
Stephanie Birkitt, who was described by The New York Times as "Letterman's longtime personal assistant," is one of the women alleged to have had a sexual relationship with Letterman. She has appeared in numerous skits on the show. Apparently, the casting couch lives at CBS.
A Washington Times headline revealed the shallowness in our moral water table: "Letterman's TV Affairs Admission Called Adept PR Move." It's all about public relations and survival these days, not contrition and repentance.
The legalities of all this have yet to be worked out, but as Halderman's lawyer said last week, what is known is not all that will be known. That will keep the tabloids busy as they seek to talk to the women involved.
But this should be a reminder to the rest of us that television has become a rude and unwelcome guest in our homes. If my children were young, I would get rid of it. It has little that is worth watching and a lot that is harmful to what remains of the rapidly unraveling moral fiber of America.
In fact, a strong case can be made that so much of what is on TV is aiding and abetting the unraveling.
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Brabingers Solar, one of Dorset's growing solar panel companies, has re-branded for the new year.
January 3, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Local solar panels company in Dorset, Brabingers Solar, will have a rebranded website ready to start the new year.
Brabingers have over ten years experience in electrical services. They have steadily been growing the solar side of their company - designing and installing solar panels in Poole, Dorset.
"We hope our strong local reputation as electricians 'you can trust and rely on' will help us grow in the New Year" said a spokesperson from Brabingers Solar.
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The film is set around 1913, tracing the early victories of Francisco "Pancho" Villa (Brynner) during his alliance with Mexican President Francisco Madero (Alexander Knox) against counter-rebellion leader Pascual Orozco. The story is more or less told through the experiences of American mercenary and biplane pilot Lee Arnold (Robert Mitchum), originally a gun-runner working on Orozco's behalf. When his plane is damaged, he eventually is taken prisoner by Villa and nearly executed by Villa's right-hand man, Rodolfo Fierro (Charles Bronson) but spared at the last minute because Lee's plane can be used for reconnaissance flights ahead of Villa's forces. In the meantime ambitious, power-hungry General Victoriano Huerta (Herbert Lom), technically an ally of Villa but secretly plotting against both Villa and Madero, does all he can to see that the populist hero never leaves the battlefield alive.
According to David Weddle's essential Peckinpah biography, If They Move...Kill 'Em!, originally Peckinpah was hired to direct the film and adapt its screenplay from William Douglas Lansford's novel Pancho Villa. Brynner reportedly hated Peckinpah's script, which "drew Villa not as the cleft-chinned Robin Hood but as a warped idealist who shares disturbing similarities with the brutal regime he's fighting against." Among the scenes Peckinpah wrote that didn't make it into the film were Villa's hanging of a young boy and Villa's mental breakdown when placed before Huerta's firing squad. As far as Brynner was concerned, Peckinpah had turned his hero into a villain.
Weddle dismisses the film ultimately rewritten by Robert Towne and directed by Buzz Kulik, a contemporary of Peckinpah's who similarly rose through the ranks via television. And yet, Brynner's meddling aside, the core themes Peckinpah wanted to bring to the film are still very much present: Villa remains a contradictory character, passionate for Mexico's poor but also a bandit and a murderer intellectualizing his way around his army's moral aberrations. "Do the ends justify the means? Peckinpah asked the question again and again in the screenplay," writes Weddle, "but offered no easy answers."
That question is explored throughout Villa Rides (the exclamation point, Villa Rides! was only on the posters) along with classic Peckinpah blurring of good and bad, right and wrong. The screenplay is fascinatingly manipulative, making Villa and especially Fierro at once charismatic and horrifying, even sadistic. The first act of the violent (R-rated) film shows the raid of a village by Orozco Captain Ramirez (Frank Wolff, very good here). In an agonizing scene, in the town square Ramirez lines up men from the village (after brutally raping Lee's girl), standing them all on little chairs with ropes tied around their necks. Then, quite casually, he sadistically kicks away one chair after the other to the increasing horror of onlookers, including a helpless Lee.
Watching the film, the audience is tempted to join the Villistas then and there, so hateful is Ramirez. But later it's explained Villa deliberately delayed coming to the town's rescue, that he allowed Ramirez to hang the men specifically to generate hatred for Orozco and passionate support for himself. In this sense Brynner's Pancho Villa is closer to Peckinpah's General Mapache (in The Wild Bunch) than earlier screen portrayals of Villa.
There are many outstanding scenes exemplifying this. Initially reviled as a simple mercenary working for Orozco, Mitchum's Lee is placed in a holding pen while Bronson's Fierro announces he going to shoot all the prisoners, their only chance of escape is scaling a nearby stone wall before Fierro can execute them. Armed to the teeth, Fierro then has the men released three-to-five at a time; none has any chance. Those that don't run are just as cruelly killed. Though situated within the confines of a genre film, the casual brutality of this sequence is as disturbing as the indiscriminate killing by Ralph Fiennes' SS officer in Schindler's List.
And yet the script (aided by Kulik's fine direction and subtle performances by all three leads) constantly clouds our reactions to these characters. Villa challenges mercenary Lee, the film's protagonist-by-default, saying "You know you amaze me, gringo. You run guns and you don't care who gets killed so long as you get paid. And you don't have to watch. It must be a terrible thing, to kill men without hating them."
Soon after, the horror of Fierro's mass murder is countered with a funny scene where, afraid to fly, he refuses to board Lee's plane. (After looking the plane over he concludes, matter-of-factly, "No.") Villa, in a wonderful bit of bravado, then suppresses obvious fear in front of Fierro and the men by climbing aboard Lee's plane and with no experience at all flies it several hundred yards (and a few feet off the ground) in a brazen show of courage and leadership.
In what presumably was Towne's reworking of Peckinpah's script, Villa is also fashioned as a tragic El Cid-type character, the populist hero serving masters unworthy of his loyalty of love of country. Whatever Peckinpah had originally conceived in that breakdown scene is still fascinating in its reworked version: taken before a firing squad Villa is like a confused and hurt dog, unable to grasp why his cruel master would beat him for no good reason.
Mitchum is like an impartial, sometimes incredulous observer, and somebody made the wise decision to make him an omnipresent character with few actual lines of dialogue. His reactions are wonderful, and it's an underrated performance, as are Brynner's and Bronson's.
Filmed in Spain, the fine cast includes Fernando Rey, busy Spaniard Julio Peńa, Diana Lorys (The Awful Dr. Orloff), an unbilled John Ireland and, six minutes from the end, Bronson's future wife Jill Ireland (no relation to John, of course*) in their first of myriad films together. Maurice Jarre wrote the lushly romantic score.
Video & Audio
Villa Rides is presented in a 16:9 enhanced transfer that retains the original 2.35:1 Panavision screen shape. The image is pretty soft and colors run a bit hot (Fotofilm Madrid did the original processing; theatrical prints in the U.S. were by Technicolor), though overall it's acceptable. The mono audio is fairly hissy at times. There are no alternate audio or subtitle options, and no Extra Features.
Parting Thoughts
Villa Rides is a real find, an underrated exceptional Western one hopes Paramount will revisit at a future date (it'd sure look great on Blu-ray!), and for now one of Legend Films' most welcome releases. Highly Recommended.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
This song had so many astounding sequences! This song is definitely a download, 5/5 and 10/10! Keep it up!
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Moar plz
Like one of the reviews had said earlier, it lacked some memorable quality, but that's okay, cause I'm pretty impressed for this being quickly thrown together for a competition XD
One can certainly feel the trance from this and lose themself in the song. My personal preference calls for a climax with high energy, but that's a totally different thing. I can most certainly agree to this whole song. :o
Most def would like to hear more.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
I could listen to this all day and I don't care if people disagree. I love the buildup effects at around 1:27 as well. Good work!
Rated 5 / 5 stars
This song's amazing.
A pro style track on NG, who would have thought.
I don't care what the people down below say about it, this song's definitely good, it's got the progression that nicely suits the genre. Not everything is Basshunter/Euro-Trance. 'Bout time NG actually understood this.
Anyway, awesome job on the song, definitely nice. You definitely know what you're doing with this.
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Flow, Drift, Repetition and Soul
Hey mmmburgers,
Great production, lots of nice trance flow. You have nice build ups and space out the song nicely to keep interest. Most of the time there's not much going on except the drum beat, then it ascends into something else. Good.
Now, in all honesty, I didn't feel the music too much until about the 4:30 mark. But still you kept my interest for that long with slight changes in tone and a nice flow. When it popped at 4:30 I thought it was worth the wait.
It's evident you put a lot of thought and effort into this. It definitely has the trance feel of being lulled into a trance by repetitive rhythms. I felt like I was drifting along with the song, but sometimes I failed to connect soulfully with the song. It was as if the song was rushing by me.
The vocal samples and cutouts at about 4:30 give this song its character, but in all truth, I went away without a feeling of what I had heard. All I can say is that this song lacked a motif that I could identify it by; it was very "safe". I hope you don't mind me being critical.
This is nice music to listen to. But in my mind it lacks the catchiness that some other trance brings. Bottom line: beautiful production, lacks memorable quality.
Thanks for letting me listen.
--Production-- = 10/10
--Listenability-- = 8/10
--Genius-- = 8/10
--Flair-- = 6/10
--Tilt-- = 7/10
Overall Score: 7.8/10
Rounded Score: 8/10
Verdict: Quite Excellent!


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Kansas Democrats say GOP legislators not focused on economy
"Leave the country, and come under tax AND sales regulation?).... And their other option is closing the doors when regulation makes it to expensive to sell at any profit. Now where did your tax base go>>>>>>>>> Now EVERYONE at that company is out of a job, even the order desk. Yep, that's so much better. Back off, and maybe they will come back. They go for a reason. Leashing them here wont help save them,(and jobs) only hurt. Fix the reason. That's logical.
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Kansas Democrats say GOP legislators not focused on economy
Yes,... and NO.... You assume the company has enough people to keep up with the work load now... That's a big NO... nearly every company is undermanned. It's common for middle and upper management to be doing the work of a subordinate who was let go. They are doing 80+ hours a week. A little help would be welcome.... If they could afford it. Your logic is strong, but not fully thought trough.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - The president of Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby says a Bible museum to hold his family's collection in Washington, D.C. is expected to open in 2017.
The Times Record reports (http://bit.ly/1n1Yd9J) Steve Green spoke to some 600 attendants of the Fort Smith Mayor's Prayer Breakfast on Friday. The Christian Business Men's Committee invited him to speak at the event more than a year ago.
Green says the museum will display his family's extensive collection of biblical artifacts. The collection is one of the world's largest private collections of biblical antiquities.
More than 100 items from the collection were on display at the Vatican during Lent two years ago.
The Bible museum will be located two blocks from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
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Blast from the Past: Sony Data Discman DD-S35
These weren't the ebook readers you'd expect today and in fact they have very little in common with most ereaders on the market. The Data Discman were conceived in a pre-PDA, pre-smartphone gadget ecosystem. This was so long ago that it even predates modestly priced laptops. They didn't have many fiction titles available, and they were also rather expensive (prices started around $400 and went up from there).
The DD-S35 was one of the last Data Discman, and it was priced around 44 thousand yen when it was launched 10 years ago. Depending on the conversion rate and inflation, that would be about $600 to $750 today.
The prices limited the market to those who really needed the compact format, and that probably affected the title selection. Most of the ones I'd seen were reference guides, encyclopedias, and other dense information sources.
The Data Discman used a proprietary cartridge that Sony sold but inside the cartridge was a standard 3.5" CD. (No, seriously, you can still buy this CD size if you want.) The file format was also proprietary, and while the format has supposedly been hacked, I never had much success in burning my own CDs for the Data Discman.
BTW, there were actually 3 (or possibly 4) file formats for the Data Discman, not one. The base format only supported text, and the more sophisticated formats had images and audio.
The multiple formats made things a little interesting for end user, because the several dozen Data Discman models didn't all support images and audio. The various models also came in a variety of shapes, including slabs and clamshell.
I just got a DD-S35 off of Ebay. It's not the sturdiest of the models, but it's also one of the few I have that is completely functional. It has a keyboard, a 5" LCD screen (320x240), speaker, headphone jack, and it runs off 2 AA batteries. My unit was originally released in Japan, so I'm at something of a loss to figure out what the symbols on the keyboard mean. On the upside, the DD-S35 does support the enhanced formats. At least it should; I haven't found any images or audio to test.
The software is rather limited, but the hardware is quite well done. That's no surprise; according to one source I have one of the last Data Discman model that Sony ever released. It hit the market in 2000.
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What a terrible experience for you and especially your wife. Words don't describe.
I wish I had an easy answer like "write your Congresscritter," "Speak out and become a public face and force them to look you in the eye," etc. but I am not so sanguine that this advice is particularly good or useful. I think it is given to make the person giving the advice feel better, not because it would help you or your wife.
The problem I see here is that there are, literally, millions of survivors who have terrible stories and who may react to seemingly minor triggers. I don't think we can seriously ask the TSA or any other gov't agency to say, "Well, use your common sense, and excuse everyone from touching, secondary screening, etc who has a sad story." Most people with serious mental illness are of no harm to anyone but themselves. Still, we must use our common sense and defend against the tiny percentage who are both suicidal and willing to take out a lot of other people when they go. If someone has an extreme reaction of nerves and a terrible story, then I don't see how the TSA can do other than look at that person more closely.
"Don't fly" seems to me in your wife's case a more practical piece of advice. The family member who has passed wouldn't know she isn't at the funeral, and the family members who want to gossip or misunderstand because she's protective of her own mental health...I would say eff em. Protect your wife. Clearly it was too soon for her to ask her to return to Florida, and it may always be too soon. Blaming the TSA is just a bright shiny distraction. If she ends up in the ER over a patdown of her bra, then she can't fly, not really. It is asking too much to subject her to a known trigger of her illness.
The backscatter devices are worthless junk, I think we can all agree on that. They find the rubber band in my ponytail on virtually every trip -- something anyone with eyes in their head could have found without a million dollar machine. I think they should be removed, and the money wasted on them returned to the taxpayer for better funding/better training of live TSA agents. But I don't think this (which won't happen anyway) would help your wife. She was not assaulted by equipment, she was assaulted by people, and that I suspect is the real trigger.
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He had been away for 12 years this time, but Father Lawrence O'Keefe has returned for a third time to serve as priest of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Holbrook. He arrived in July with a plan for improvements for the church and the family center, and to offer more to the community in general.
One of the things O'Keefe would like to see is the restoration of a very good and vibrant ecumenical relationship between all of the clergy in the area.
"The first two times I was here, all of us would get together and go to lunch every Friday. We had a very good relationship and would help out each other in times of need," he recalled.
"As a matter of fact, when we were first beginning to build the family center, the LDS church helped us out and worked on two different events. It was a good time with close cooperation. It was also the first time that a new building was put up in Holbrook in something like 30 years," he said.
O'Keefe would also like to begin an outreach to help take care of the needs of the elderly and infirm. "Perhaps some Tai Chi lessons, or just different things especially for older people that can be done during the daytime," he suggested. "There was also really not much effort in maintaining the convent here while I was gone these past 12 years. Upkeep on the place fell down. I want to develop plans along these lines," said O'Keefe, adding that these were just a few of the things he has in mind to get started.
In his 12-year absence O'Keefe has missed a lot of the people, as they have either passed or moved away. His first stay in Holbrook began January 1986. Then after just one year, the debt on the church was paid off and discussion of building a parish hall began. By 1990 when O'Keefe left for the first time, there was already $32,000 in the building fund.
When he returned a second time to Holbrook in 1992, the building fund had grown to $35,000. He encouraged the congregation, saying, "You did it before, you can do it again," and they did.
The building was completely paid for by 2002. When all was said and done, the cost of the building was $767,000, but it was empty.
Including furnishings to make the building functional, the total cost of the project rose to $1.2 million.
"The families came together and provided landscaping and various other projects to help get the family center completed. It just fascinated me to see the people coming together to get things done," said O'Keefe.
Speaking about the family center, he said, "All the rooms in the family center are multi-purpose, except my office, the bathrooms and the kitchen. Coffee can be made in any room if there are meetings for either small or large groups without people having to run all the way to the kitchen."
O'Keefe also began the Martha's Helpers program around 1996 through which the ladies of the church provide food for funerals, taking the burden off the families. He said, "It's been a nice thing to see people like Mary Duran heading up this program.
"It is also wonderful to see Dora Estrada, a 96 year young lady come to open the parish every morning at 6:30 a.m.," said O'Keefe.
He was kept pretty busy while he was away during the last 12 years. In 2001, he became the rector of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Gallup, N.M. His duties were to head the day-to-day operations of that facility. "My term there coincided with three popes and three bishops," he noted.
O'Keefe enjoyed his experiences in Gallup, but is happy to be back in Holbrook with the Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish.
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Discusses Fate of Convicted Jews in US
The speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mehdi Karubi, said Thursday that he had discussed the fate of 10 Jews convicted in Iran of spying with members of the US Congress in New York.
The meeting is believed to be the first for 20 years between Iranian and US parliamentarians.
Karubi told reporters he had an unscheduled meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Wednesday evening with Senator Arlen Specter and two members of the House of Representatives, Gary Ackerman and Bob Neigh.
Karubi is in New York for a three-day conference at UN headquarters of presiding officers of 141 national parliaments, organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). The conference began on Wednesday.
"We were invited to visit the Metropolitan Museum and in the course of our visit we were approached by some members of the Congress," Karubi said.
"They asked us about the Jews who had been charged with espionage and we suggested that they talk to the member of parliament who represents the Jewish community in Iran," he said
The MP, Mouris Motamed, one of five members of the Iranian delegation to the IPU conference, said he spoke for about 40 minutes to the US lawmakers.
A revolutionary court in Shiraz, southern Iran, sentenced 10 Jews on July 1 to prison terms ranging from four to 13 years on charges of spying for Israel.
Two Muslims were jailed for two years, while three other Jews and two Muslims were acquitted.
Motamed said he was "in direct and constant contact" with court authorities in Iran and that "my understanding is that the Jews will receive a lighter sentence on appeal."
Motamed, who was elected to parliament four months ago to represent between 25,000 and 30,000 Jews still living in Iran, said he was grateful for "the sympathy and solidarity" of parliamentarians from other countries.
Karubi said he had already met the speakers of the Dutch, Russian, South African and Syrian parliaments here and that he had scheduled meetings with parliamentarians from Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Italy.
The encounter with the US lawmakers was arranged by Hooshang Amirahmadi, president of the American-Iranian Council, who told reporters that Karubi did not know in advance precisely who he was to meet.
Amirahmadi, who described himself as a non-political academic who travels frequently to Iran and is "on good terms with all the factions there," said it was not easy to set up the meeting.
"The Iranian side was very cautious," he told reporters after Karubi's news conference.
"The Metropolitan Museum was very helpful, but it had to be careful not to be political," he added.
Karubi said he took the opportunity to complain to the US lawmakers about their government's policy of imposing bilateral sanctions on Iran, and about the treatment of Iranians seeking to visit the United States.
An Iranian MP and another official who were supposed to join his delegation had been refused visas by the US authorities, he said.
Iranians who had been invited to take part in cultural events had been finger-printed and had been sent back, he said -- UNITED NATIONS (AFP)
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Orcas of the Northwest Atlantic
The orcas in the western Atlantic have received little study. We know they were common enough to serve as a prominent subject for the art and rituals of the people who lived in Newfoundland and Labrador 3,000 years ago. The most famous artifacts taken from Port aux Choix National Historic Site on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland are orca effigies carved in bone. These people lived off the whales, seals, salmon, and cod of the rich north Atlantic as did the orcas they undoubtedly shared the coastline with. Today orcas are considered to be a rare sight in the west Atlantic from Nova Scotia south.
There are no known studies of northwest Atlantic orcas until after World War II. Early European art works tell us they were observed in the 1500s when the first whalers came to Newfoundland and Labrador, but since orcas were too fast, too small, and maybe too smart to catch, they were probably ignored.
With the more modern whaling practices in the 19th century, orcas became the hunting partners of human whalers. They sometimes waited outside North American ports such as Gloucester, Provincetown and Bedford joining whaling boats as they left port on their hunts. Once at sea, the orcas chased larger whales towards the waiting harpoons of the whalers and attacked the panicked whales from below while the harpoons rained down from above. After World War I, the iron boats of the whalers turned their harpoons on the orcas, now viewed as competitors, and soon the orcas learned to avoid humans.
The orcas continued to be ignored — or just occasionally hunted — until after World War II when commercial fishermen and whalers began to consider them a competitor for the ever dwindling number of large whales. In Iceland, the government encouraged the American Navy to use orcas as living targets for anti-submarine warfare exercises. In April 1954, Time magazine reported, "… killer whales… savage sea cannibals with teeth like bayonets… one was caught with 14 seals and 13 porpoises in its belly… have destroyed thousands of dollars worth of fishing tackle… Icelandic Government appealed to the U.S., which has thousands of men stationed at a lonely NATO airbase. The bored G.I.s responded with enthusiasm… one posse of Americans… in one morning wiped out a pack of 100 killers… ".
The whalers of Newfoundland also contributed to what must have been a major decline in northwest Atlantic orca numbers. Captain Henry Mahle of Dildo, Conception Bay was the province's last whaling captain and reports occasionally shooting orcas off Newfoundland waters until 1972, when Canada banned commercial whaling. And during the 1940s and 1950s Norwegian whalers took small numbers of orcas all around the Newfoundland and Labrador coast. The largest group, consisting of six orcas, was killed about 90 kilometres due east of Battle Harbour, Labrador.
In 1979 Memorial University 's Whale Research Group under the leadership of Dr. Jon Lien began to systematically catalogue the whales around Newfoundland. About the same time, other academic organizations along the Atlantic coast began looking at the various types of whales and the size of their various populations. Orcas were occasionally seen around Newfoundland and Labrador by lighthouse keepers, Wildland Tours holiday groups, and other interested observers, but they never stayed in a given area for more than a day or two.
For example, our own anecdotal records and more detailed trip lists show orcas made brief appearances around the Newfoundland coast throughout the summers of 1994 to 2007. Every summer observers would report orcas from places such as the Bay of Islands, Twillingate, Bay Bulls, Ferryland and Quidi Vidi. The sighting would typically last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, but the next day the whales would be gone.
A St. John's harbour tour boat reported one of the best 1997 sightings — a pod of six adults with a very small calf. One of the whales had a seal in its mouth for several hours. The orcas appeared on August 1 off Cape Spear and appear to have frightened off the area's humpbacks and minkes. No other whales were seen on that day; however, high numbers of both humpback and minke were consistently seen — every trip, seven days a week — for several weeks before and after the orca sighting. It seems that orcas do not always frighten away other whales; our holiday groups have observed orcas near humpbacks, minkes, and/or white beaked dolphins on at least a dozen occasions.
The year 2002 provided some of our company's most dramatic orca watching adventures. On July 19, Mary Hughes of Connecticut watched a group of orcas from the Labrador ferry as she participated in our Viking Trail Experience tour. On July 25 she was in St. John's participating in our Whale Study Week program when the thirty humpbacks in the area all started making loud flippering, lobtailing and breaching displays. The horizon filled with humpbacks doing acrobatics. Minutes later Mary's group spotted six orcas. The photographic target switched from individual humpback tails and markings to individual orca dorsal fins and Mary's group was able to get useful identification shots of all six animals, including one large male. We now refer to this group as A-pod.
Mary and the rest of our party spent over two hours with this group of six, and added some wonderful new images to our small but growing provincial orca catalogue. This catalogue is the first attempt at systematically studying this region's orcas. This particular group was photographed several times off our portion of eastern Newfoundland between June to October 2002. After 25-plus years of field work and regular, intense summer-time whale observation efforts in this region, 2002 marked the first time a pod of orcas appeared to stay near shore in the Avalon (southern Newfoundland ) area for longer than a few days.
As our knowledge of local orca behaviour and distribution grows we have been able to identify several family groups which have been seen in Newfoundland and Labrador waters — some over a number of years. These families are recognized by the dorsal fin photos of the males plus some of the females. Individual markings are also allowing us to identify individual orcas.
On July 19, 2002 we received reports of orca pods from Twillingate, St. Anthony, St. John's, and between St. Barbe and Blanc Sablon. The distances between these places confirms there is a minimum of four groups that sometimes occupy Newfoundland and Labrador coastal waters.
From our years of observation, it seems apparent that orcas around the Atlantic followed the "transient" lifestyle reported from British Columbia and Alaska. Researchers such as British Columbia 's John Ford found that some orcas, referred to as "resident", remained in an area feeding off salmon and other marine resources. These whales tend to be quite vocal and predictable in their movements within a home range. Other orcas, termed "transients", follow a nomadic lifestyle, quietly swimming hundreds or thousands of miles in pursuit of fish, seals, small whales and larger whales. The BC and Alaska residents are the world's most studied and best known wild whales. The transients appear to feed exclusively on marine mammals (seals and whales) while the residents appear to be exclusively fish eaters. Fish in the salmon family are especially prominent in the diet of resident Pacific orcas. In the Atlantic, salmon are most abundant off Greenland and Newfoundland/Labrador. Participants in past Wildland Tours expeditions have seen orcas spend time engaged in what appears to be fishing activity near well known commercial salmon fishing locations; and a link between orca distribution and salmon distribution does seem reasonable for Atlantic waters.
The orcas of Norway (eastern North Atlantic) also follow a transient life history as they move from the fjords of Norway to the coast of Iceland. Despite having a "transient" life history there are times — such as when the fjords are filled with herring or salmon — when transients can be reliably sighted. No "resident" whales have ever been reported from the Atlantic. Before our own orca research work started, the coast off northern Newfoundland and Labrador had never been scientifically surveyed for orcas. This report tells the on-going story of our research expeditions.
Throughout the 1990s the holiday leaders of Wildland Tours received occasional reports from government officials and travelers about orca sightings off southern Labrador. Passengers on the Labrador coastal supply boats seemed particularly likely to give anecdotal reports of orcas along the southern Labrador coast. A check with Memorial University researchers revealed that a dead orca had been found in the Battle Harbour area around 1995. Reports of orcas from other southern Labrador coastal communities were also relatively frequent. And despite low numbers of knowledgeable whale watchers visiting the more remote portions of southern Labrador, many travelers reported seeing orcas. Over the years orca reports have been far more common off southern Labrador, which receives very few visitors, than off St. John 's or Bay Bulls, where there are numerous, daily whale watching trips.
With this in mind, in September of 1997, Wildland Tours accepted an invitation to explore the restoration of Battle Harbour on the Labrador coast. Battle Harbour, which has been a fishing port since 1759, is one of Labrador 's oldest European settlements. It was the major centre for generations of Newfoundland fishing families until the 1960s, when it was abandoned. Many of Labrador's coastal (European-settled) communities have been abandoned, but the amazing architecture and awesome beauty of the area have inspired Labrador enthusiasts to restore many of the town's larger buildings. Our general manager was exploring the site to assess its suitability for future holidays and especially to look for orcas when she spotted a male and female orca accompanied by a calf. The whales passed close to the local ferry that was returning her to the airstrip. Other than this ferry trip the site-inspection didn't allow for any time on the water looking for whales. Nevertheless, she did find three orcas!
There is no mistaking an orca sighting. The males have the largest dorsal fins in the ocean — as tall as six feet — while the females have the world's second largest dorsal fins — typically a meter or three feet high. Two days prior to our manager's arrival in Battle Harbour a cruise ship reported sighting a large pod of orcas. And during her visit the local hosts stated that "this variety of whale is here all the time".
We also conducted interviews with people from southern Labrador. Many of the people in the area are of aboriginal ancestry and have a long tradition of closely watching the ocean. Some people reported that the whales with the large dorsal fins were seen daily — from late June to late September. We heard amusing stories of children in row boats attempting to cross a narrow strait between two islands but being forced back to shore by the apparently playful rushes of the orcas. We also heard how the orcas can be seen every day from some of the hills near the community and how some have occasionally put on breaching displays for the community's citizens.
We speculated that we had found the western Atlantic's best area for reliably encountering orcas; and during 1998 we offered a special trip to southern Labrador for the historical sights and especially to begin a preliminary attempt to document orca numbers and distribution in the area. If there were orcas frequenting the area then detailed observations would provide useful scientific insights together with one of eastern North America 's premier whale watching experiences. (Newfoundland currently boasts the world's largest gathering of humpback whales. If Labrador can be proven to host a reliably sighted pod of orcas, then it would be scientifically important and could form the basis for an incredibly exciting holiday!) The orcas cannot physically maintain a year-round residency off southern Labrador since the pack ice moves along the Labrador coast every springtime and forms a solid mass hundreds of square miles in size. During the rest of the year our surveying of travelers and fishing industry professionals suggested that there do seem to be reliably sighted orcas in the southern Labrador area. They might not be "resident" however even British Columbia 's "resident" whales move offshore in the winter so the term resident does not necessarily mean "year-round".
Our 1998 expedition found two separate family groups (one group of four orcas and one of five orcas) south of Battle Harbour. Poor weather or poor viewing locations prevented our attempts at scientifically useful photography. Our 1998 expedition leader, Dr. Sean Todd (now senior researcher with Allied Whale at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbour, Maine), observed that the orcas appeared to be feeding on capelin — a small 6-inch fish that is very abundant along the coast. The orcas were in the company of at least 4 other species of whale (humpback, fin, sei and white-beaked dolphins). Eating capelin represents a unique feeding behaviour for orcas, although it is not surprising given the ecology of the region. In 1999 we started a formal registry of provincial orca sightings so we could more systematically study the animals, and we sent a group of adventurous Canadian businessmen to southern Labrador by helicopter. Three orcas were seen off the Gray Islands of northern Newfoundland and a small group (at least three) was seen just south of Battle Harbour.
The year 2000 brought more orca sightings around Newfoundland and Labrador than ever before. In addition to occasional sightings around the province's coast, we continued to receive regular reports of sightings from southern Labrador and also from a portion of northern Newfoundland in an area almost within view of the Labrador coast. A local biologist (Paul Alcock of Northland Discovery Boat Tours in St. Anthony) reported 120 orca sightings over the summer. By July 2001, Wildland Tours groups were again viewing orcas off the Labrador coast, including one large male that pursued a minke whale around Red Bay harbour for over an hour. During that same year Dr. Jon Lien reported a minke and orca cooperatively feeding on herring off the community of Nain, Labrador.
Given the strong anecdotal evidence for reliable orca viewing and the success of our past three in-house orca expeditions, we offered eastern North America 's first commercial orca watching holiday in mid-August 2002. That expedition searched the coastline off Labrador and northern Newfoundland encountering six species of whale together with caribou, moose, several seal species, and a black bear. Orcas were reported in the region, but we never found them. Later that year a group of 30 orcas were reported off Battle Harbour. The staff at this site had reported sighting large groups of orcas during the early fall for many years so we adjusted our timing for our next orca-oriented expedition.
Our strategy of formally documenting sightings from around the province also began to lend insights as we concluded that the Grand Banks (offshore Newfoundland) and the northern Newfoundland/southern Labrador area are the western Atlantic 's prime places for orca sightings. Late August and early September appeared to be ideal times for near shore orca encounters off the southern Labrador coast.
In 2004 we continued working with southern Labrador residents, including the Battle Harbour Historic Trust (the people who turned the area's restored buildings into basic accommodations), as part of our ongoing research into Newfoundland and Labrador 's whale biology and distribution. Our September 2004 Southern Labrador Adventure expedition went to Battle Harbour and featured two families of orcas plus over 10,000 white-sided and white-beaked dolphins. We were able to catalogue some orca dorsal fins photographically. Our September 2005 expedition followed the same itinerary and featured a group of seven orcas — all females and juveniles. We watched them closely circle and agitate a group of three humpbacks that grouped closely together to defend themselves. We were fortunate enough to record the underwater squeals of these orcas and the humpback trumpets — which were also very audible above the surface. (This can be heard at Atlantic Whales). Our September 2006 expedition featured another dramatic encounter with a family of orcas and our photographic census research allowed us to establish that we were observing the same extended family of orcas. Our 2007 expedition featured orcas preying on white beaked dolphins. Other orca observers photographed predation events on a white sided dolphin and a small minke whale. We collected two dolphin dorsal fins (apparently orcas don't find them particularly appetizing) and passed them along to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for research purposes.
For September 2008 we will once again be travelling in the Battle Harbour and Northern Newfoundland regions in order to continue our humpback census work and also to collect more orca photographs. This year we hope to once again use our hydrophone to capture more underwater vocalizations to see how they compare with the orcas of Iceland, western Canada and Norway. Results from B.C. show that orcas following a resident lifestyle are far more vocal than the silent-hunting transient lifestyle orcas. Our Newfoundland and Labrador orcas could certainly not be considered silent but other than our 2005 recording, there is no data on their underwater communications. Thus the vocalizations of the study region orcas should provide interesting and important scientific insights.
There are no guarantees of orca sightings since, other than our expeditions, we still have no systematic, scientific data about whale residency. There is, however, strong aboriginal knowledge suggesting a high probability of orca sightings; and all but one of our preliminary surveys and previous expeditions have proven to be successful with respect to finding orcas. The worst-case scenario is that Southern Labrador Adventure participants will have a wonderful whale-filled holiday without orcas, but all the evidence suggests we will find orcas over the course of the expedition. The area is typically rich with humpbacks, and we will be working to photograph as many humpback tail flukes as possible. According to the researchers working with Dr. Sean Todd at Allied Whale in Maine, these humpbacks are the least known feeding population in the world; and scientists continue to be especially interested in our tail photographs from this area.
The southern Labrador area boasts other whales, icebergs, great walking, beautiful scenery, subarctic wildflowers, abundant black bears, eider duck colonies, varied seabirds, and a rich, historic atmosphere. This is where Peary used the eastern arctic's most northerly wireless set to tell the world about his 1909 journey to the Pole ("the Pole is ours"). And this is where beautifully restored fishing homes and merchant warehouses at Battle Harbour offer a glimpse back into 19th century commercial life. At Battle Harbour we provide basic accommodations in restored and refurbished historical buildings together with great food. The second half of our expedition focuses on the coast of northern Newfoundland where we venture out into the areas that have provided dozens of orca sightings a year since 2000. Here we have more modern local accommodations and food in place — so we can enjoy wild, whale-filled days and comfortable nights.
We believe this trip is one of the greatest adventures available on Earth. The western and northern Newfoundland travel routes include two UNESCO world heritage sites, the northern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, and the New World 's only Viking site. Our southern Labrador route features the 1550 world whaling capital at Red Bay and the New World 's oldest burial mound. The dramatic coastal settings and the wildlife populations hold the promise of transforming our itinerary into the learning and research vacation of a lifetime. If you are interested in exploring these little-known parts of the world as part of our quest to document the whales along the east coast of North America, we invite you to review the itinerary and join the expedition.
Dave Snow has written numerous articles and special publications on seabirds, whales, and marine ecology. Wildland Tours promotes and coordinates the Newfoundland and Labrador portion of the world-wide humpback whale census. This population has been found to be the planet's largest feeding gathering of humpbacks. The study of whale numbers provides important insights into oceanic health. In 2007, Dave co-authored the first draft of the Canadian government's pending status report document on the orcas of Atlantic Canada for the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).
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[photogallerylink id=46225 align=left]To celebrate the release of their latest album, [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Coldplay[/lastfm] will be taking over Star 100.7 this Sunday, October 23 for a special edition of Acoustic Sunrise. Coldplay's Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland will host Acoustic Sunrise and throughout the 3-hour show, they'll play some of their favorite [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Coldplay[/lastfm] tracks, as well as songs from their favorite bands.
Coldplay's forthcoming album Mylo Xyloto, debuts worldwide on Monday, October 24th. And because I've practiced all week I'd like to show off my ability to pronounce the new album title. Repeat after me, "MY-low ZYE-lah-toe". I do believe we are prepared for a very special edition of Acoustic Sunrise Sunday from 7-10a.m. on Star 100.7.