Cyclists pass along a road in Chongjin, Nov. 19, 2017.
Residents of two cities in North Korea's North Hamgyong province are grumbling over a government directive requiring them to provide funds and supplies to aid the construction of the latest historic site to memorialize the country's founder Kim Il Sung, according to local sources.
In January, authorities in North Hamgyong declared a site at Mt. Wangjae in Onsong county one of North Korea's Revolutionary Historic Places, designating it a major provincial construction project, sources told RFA's Korean Service earlier this week, speaking on condition of anonymity.
But rather than provide them with a source of pride, the designation has left residents furious over the latest project they will be expected to shell out for, even as families already face difficulties making ends meet, they said.
Kim Il Sung (1912-94) is the grandfather of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
"The provincial authority named Mt. Wangjae Revolutionary Historic Place a major provincial construction project, but residents are openly questioning how many more Kim Il Sung Revolutionary Historical Places need to be constructed," said one of the sources from North Hamgyong.
According to the source, the site at Mt. Wangjae has been used as an outdoor museum honoring Kim Il Sung's revolutionary history since 1970, and includes statues of Kim and anti-Japanese partisans, a monument, an exhibition center, and a guesthouse for military visitors.
Once the site was confirmed as a Revolutionary Historic Place construction project, however, "residents must cover all necessary funds and supplies" for additional construction and maintenance, he said.
"The offering that Chongjin city's residents need to make is a minimum 10,000 won (U.S. $1.25) per household ... as well as an arbitrary additional amount of money or supplies," the source said, referring to North Hamgyong's capital on the country's northeastern coast.
"The residents are complaining since they were informed about the … construction. They are resentful of the fact that they already have dedicated so much by contributing money to the state's large-scale construction projects upgrading Samjiyon county [in Yanggang province], the capital Pyongyang, and the [tourist beach] project in [Kangwon province's] Wonsan city," he added.
A second source from North Hamgyong told RFA that residents of Hoeryong—a city in North Hamgyong on the Tumen river across the border from China's Jilin province—also received a directive to provide assistance for the construction of Mt. Wangjae Revolutionary Historic Place.
"They are being forced to provide food for construction workers at the site," he said, adding that each household is expected to deliver 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of grain in support of the project.
According to the source, authorities collect funds and supplies from residents "every single day, twelve months a year," for varying reasons.
"The residents believe that the Central Committee's directives for construction projects are just another trick to collect money and food," he said.
While residents had regularly accepted Central Committee directives related to Revolutionary Historic Places in the past, the sources told RFA that open criticism of the practice is a relatively new phenomenon in North Hamgyong.
Last month, sources told RFA that a critical slush fund controlled by North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is nearly depleted following a series of nuclear weapon and missile tests, and that he no longer has enough money to govern the country.
In addition to expenditures on weapons tests, the sources said that Kim has also spent lavishly from the fund on showpiece projects such as the Ryomyong Street neighborhood in the capital Pyongyang and the Masikryong Ski Resort in eastern North Korea's Kangwon province, as well as on his "on-the-spot guidance tours" of different industries that are used as propaganda by state media.
Earlier, sources had indicated that the Kim regime lacked funding for basic schemes such as building nursing homes for senior citizens—ordering North Korea's provinces to build the facilities as part of a New Year's push to complete showcase projects, but passing the cost of labor and construction on to local citizens who are already strapped for cash.
While funding for construction, including materials and labor, is being demanded from area residents, the sources said North Korean citizens are becoming increasingly frustrated with projects that will end up being hailed as among Kim's achievements.


Forgiveness makes room for blessings in your life. Anger, hate, misery, pain and bitterness keep you grounded in the past. These fearful emotions block you from receiving any good in your life. What's done is done. There's no changing the past. And it serves no one to hold all that toxicity in your heart. It depletes your power, giving all of your energy to the other party. Plus, it attracts more of the same onto you. Why welcome any more grief in your life?
Forgiveness is love, in the truest sense of form, for self. Take time to learn and or listen to the other persons story; You'll discover that they didn't 'know' any better. More often, events transpire as a result of different perspectives, based on one's personal development and or culture. Whether there was no malicious intent to harm or behavior was motivated out of malice, for emotional, mental or physical injury, both are cause to pardon transgressions for your highest good.
Forgiveness restores peace of mind, body, and spirit. This, however, doesn't mean you discount the other parties behavior, rather, it means excusing their humanness to restore your sanity. Shrug off your past to recreate a new beginning. The heart healing process opens you to opportunities and experiences presented around you now.


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America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive, Band 1
von James Silk Buckingham
SOCIETIES. MONUMENTS.
Besides these, there are the following excellent institutions, all well supported and well conducted, in different parts of the city. A general Dispensary, for supplying medicine and advice to the poor gratuitously, supported by voluntary contributions amounting to about 1000 dollars an. nually. A Catholic Orphan Asylum, for the education and support of Catholic orphans, under the management of the Sisters of Charity. A Benevolent Society, for educating and supporting destitute female children, whether orphans or otherwise, conducted and maintained by the Episcopalians. A society for the relief of the poor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A Charitable Marine Society. A Fe. male Penitent's Refuge Society. A Humane Impartial Society, for bettering the condition of the large class of fe. males who live by needlework, and whose inadequate wages often leave them in a state of want, and exposed to many temptations. An Indigent Sick Society, composed of Protestant ladies, who undertake to visit personally the indigent sick in the several districts of the town, of which each takes charge of a separate one, and to supply them with food, clothing, and other comforts needed by the sick, while the dispensaries supply them with medicine. A Mary-andMartha Society, of the same description, conducted by Cath- , olic ladies; and a Dorcas Society, who prepare clothing and materials for the necessitous poor, and by bazars or fairs, by subscriptions and donations, as well as by the labours of their own hands, greatly contribute to relieve the sufferings of their fellow-beings.
Baltimore is often called " The Monumental City," from the fact of its containing a greater number of public monuments—though these are still very few-than the cities of the Union generally, in which the practice of erecting public monuments has hardly begun to receive much popular support.
The most important of these is the "Washington Monument," which was first proposed to be erected in 1809, and for defraying the expenses of which a lottery was permitted by the state, to raise the sum of 100,000 dollars, or about £20,000. This amount being thus secured, the place selected for it was an elevated part of the northern edge of the city, where the requisite area of ground was given for this purpose by Colonel Howard; and on the 4th of July, 1815, the foundation-stone was laid, on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by the United States of America. This monument is a noble Doric column of mar.
ble, rising from a base of ample dimensions, 50 feet square and 20 feet high. The shaft of the column is 160 feet, its diameter about 20 feet, and the statue of Washington, which stands on its summit, is 13 feet in height. The base and pedestal are of pure white marble; the shaft, which is built like the Monument of London, is hollow, with a winding staircase up the inside ; it is of a whitish marble also, here and there slightly veined with blue streaks. The gallery at the termination of the capital, to which visiters ascend, is also of pure white marble; and the colossal figure on the summit, which represents Washington after he had resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the American forces at Annapolis, is of the same material.
Though every part of the successful career of Washing. ton is reverted to by the American people with great satisfaction, there is none on which they dwell with greater ad. miration than on this last great act of his military life, when, having attained to a power as great as that of any of the warriors of other countries, with more of the affection as well as admiration of his adherents and followers than perhaps any hero that ever lived, he did not use this power as an Alexander, a Cromwell, or a Napoleon would have done, but cheerfully and voluntarily resigned it into the hands of those from whom he received it, and for whom he held it but in trust. This act of virtuous self-denial and conscientious discharge of duty has therefore endeared his memory to the wise and good of all countries, but espe. cially of his own.
The workmanship of this column is of the first order, and the monument, as a whole, both from the chasteness and good taste of its design, its size, and its commanding position, is equal in beauty to any similar column in London or Paris. It has a general resemblance to the Duke of York's monument in Waterloo Place, overlooking St. James's Park; but it is greatly superior in size, materials, and execution, and forms a prominent object in all the distant views of Baltimore.
The prospects of the city from this gallery, with the ex. tensive sea-view down the Patapsco to the Chesapeake on the one hand, and the distant land-view over the northern and western boundaries of Baltimore on the other, richly reward the visiter for the trouble of his ascent.
The second of the monuments of Baltimore is that called " The Battle Monument," which stands on what was once the site of the old courthouse of the town, but is now an
open space, called Monument Square, nearly in the centre of the city. It is intended to commemorate the battle of North Point, when the British attacked Baltimore in 1814, at the period of their burning and destroying expedition up the Potomac to Washington. The British were in this instance successfully repulsed, and this monument was erected by the American survivers of the battle, to the memory of their comrades who fell in defending their hearths and their homes. It was designed by the architect Maximilian Godefroy, who built the Unitarian Church, and the Gothic Chapel of St. Mary's for the Catholics of Baltimore. The effect of
the monument is striking, though the design is somewhat incongruous. The base is Egyptian, rising to the height of about twenty feet from the ground, characterized by the lessening breadth of the square mass as it ascends, the outline showing the inclined lines within the perpendicular. On each front is an Egyptian door way of the same form, and the whole is surmounted by a deep overhanging cornice, with the winged globe and other Egyptian symbols. Above this base rises the column, which represents a Roman fasces, on the bands of which are inscribed, in bronze letters, the names of those who fell in the battle which it commemorates.
At the angles of the square base on which this column is erected are four figures called griffins, which seem to unite the body of the lion with the head and wings of the eagle;
and on the summit of the fasces which forms the circular column is a figure meant to be, and called, "the Statue of the City," holding a wreathed garland or crown for the honoured dead in her hand, and having the American eagle at her feet.
The monument is composed of fine white marble, its entire height is 52 feet, and its auxiliary decorations are rich and ornamental. Separate inscriptions on the north and south front record the erection of the monument to commemorate the battle of September 12, 1814; and the recollections it cherishes are such as the inhabitants of Baltimore have no reason to be otherwise than proud of, as their defence of their homes was as gallant and patriotic as the attack upon them was unprovoked and unsuccessful.
The third monument of Baltimore is that called "the Armistead Monument," which is erected in the Gothic niche of a building near the City Spring, and was set apart to the memory of the brave Colonel Armistead, who conducted the defence of Fort M'Henry, at the entrance of the harbour, against the bombardment of the British on the 13th of September, the day following the battle of North Point. He was not killed in the engagement, but died about four years afterward, in April, 1818, at the age of thirty-nine; and his defence of the fort at which he commanded being still fresh in the recollection of his grateful townsmen, they honoured themselves as much as him by erecting this monument to his memory
There are several springs or fountains in different parts of the city, which add to its beauty and convenience. The City Spring is enclosed by an iron railing, and covered by a dome supported by pillars; it is surrounded by trees and foliage, and has a very pleasing effect. The Western Fountain, in another quarter of the town, is also covered with a dome supported by columns, and is used for the supply of ships in the harbour of Baltimore with water. The Eastern Fountain is much larger, and adorned with more of architectural beauty. It has an Ionic colonnade, open all around, supporting a roof over the spring, which is enclosed within iron railings. The Centre Fountain, in front of the market, is also an ornament to the spot. The markets are excellent structures, and well adapted to their several uses.
It is to be regretted that the introduction of fountains is not more frequent in the cities of England and America. Whoever has travelled much in Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, cannot fail to have admired the many
PLACES OF AMUSEMENT.
beautiful fountains adorning the open places and public squares of the ancient cities of these countries. The refreshing coolness of the atmosphere, the sparkling brilliance of the waters, the soothing murmur of their falling sounds, and the air of freshness, luxury, and repose, which are all sources of enjoyment, are in themselves sufficient recom. mendation. It seems astonishing that London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, as well as New-York, Philadelphia, and Washington, should be so deficient as they are in these combinations of beauty and utility.
Of places of public amusement there are not many, and these are but little frequented. There is a large theatre, but the taste for dramatic exhibitions is everywhere on the decline in America; for it is only on occasions when some very great attraction, or some new or distinguished performer is presented, that an audience can be collected. There is a smaller theatre, which, however, is entirely abandoned ; and there was recently a large circus for the exhibition of horsemanship, but it was destroyed by fire, and nearly all the valuable stud of horses perished in the flames. There is a good concert-room in the Law-buildings, and another over the Assembly-room, and music appears to be well cultivated and enjoyed. The suite of dancing and refreshment rooms, in which the regular winter balls are held, are not surpassed in beauty by any in Europe. There are many much larger; but for richness, taste, and effective decora. tion, nothing can be more chastely beautiful than these. The Baltimore Museum, which is well furnished with collec. tions of various natural productions, a skeleton of the great mammoth, and other curiosities in nature and art, has also a minor theatre attached to it, in which farces and vaudevilles are performed, but to very thin audiences.
There are some public gardens in Baltimore, the Columbian, Vauxhall, and the Citizen's Retreat; and public baths have been lately introduced on a good scale. The sports of the turf are much patronised here, and in Maryland the horses are considered to be better trained than in any other state of the Union. At a place called Canton, a few miles from Baltimore, down the river, a large training establishment exists, and horses are kept there during the intervals between the racing seasons, at which time persons interested in this amusement come here in great numbers from the North and the South. An excellent rule prevails in the race-club, that no gambling of any kind is allowed; and
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Q: Remove access on report for a user in classic only I want to remove user to access reports form classic. But the same user should access reports from lightning. Do any one have any idea how to handle this?

A: Unfortunately, there is no way to remove classic access to the Reports. If you remove system permissions to access reports and dashboards in classic, users won't be able to access reports and dashboards in LEX too. As suggested in the comments, the only alternative would be to remove the "switch to Classic" experience.
Recommend you to checkout LEX adoption strategies
You can remove the Embedded classic report builder by Hiding the embedded Salesforce Classic report builder in Lightning Experience to have better adoption to LEX Reports. With this, users no longer see the New Report (Salesforce Classic) and Edit (Salesforce Classic) buttons on the Reports tab in Lightning Experience.

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review and update service standards and resource allocation.
The Canadian Expat applauds the fact that Minister Freeland has taken the time to recognize the importance of Canadians Abroad and that the Auditor General's report is a critical document to ensure that services to the Canadian Expat population remain strong.
In particular, the Canadian Expat is encouraged by the second in the list. The recommendation to 'expand its communications and outreach strategy' is, I believe core to the effectiveness of not only our Consular Services, but of our Trade Services as well.
Canadians abroad in general are very interested in being involved with our Embassies and Consulates around the globe. The problem is that the resources do not exist within most of these organizations to fully engage with the community of Canadian Expats and this is where there could be some improvement. I would like to see a dedicated expat engagement officer located at each and every diplomatic office around the world, whose sole role is to engage with Canadians living and working in their jurisdiction. There are many countries such as Switzerland, China and Inda that do this already very successfully with very real and tangible benefits to those that live abroad but also to their respective cultures and economies. The logic is simple, a highly engaged expat population is less likely to get into serious trouble with the law (cost savings). That same population of Canadians living abroad will also be more likely to be involved with promoting Canadian products (economic benefit to Canada). Having a highly engaged community would also assist in collecting valuable intelligence about the economic and political situation in the region that they live (effective diplomacy, economic intelligence).
Allan understands the amazing impact that an engaged Candian Expat community can make on the economy of Japan. Feel free to send an Email to Allan should you have any questions.


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Holi 2021 Date: When is Holi in 2021?
Holi 2021 Date in India: The main celebration of 'rangwali Holi' is preceded by 'Holika Dahan', wherein people perform rituals around a bonfire.
By: Lifestyle Desk | New Delhi | January 6, 2021 7:10:57 pm
Holi 2021 Date: On this day, people come together and smear colours dry and wet on each other. They also play with water-filled balloons and water guns. (Express Photo by Javed Raja)
Holi 2021 Date: One of the most prominent and joyous of all festivals celebrated in the country — and also by Indians living abroad — is the festival of Holi. Also known as the 'festival of colours', Holi is celebrated to mark the arrival of spring. This year, Holi will begin on March 28, which is a Sunday, and end March 29; the dates, however, may vary.
Typically a Hindu festival, Holi sees the participation of people of all faiths, because it is such a happy occasion, one that marks the victory of good over evil.
The main celebration of 'rangwali Holi' is preceded by 'Holika Dahan', wherein people perform rituals around a bonfire. According to Indian mythology, King Hiranyakashyap was blessed with a boon that said he could not be killed by a human or an animal; neither indoors nor outdoors; not in the day, or at night; neither on land nor on water or air. No weapon could harm him either.
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Power-hungry, Hiranyakashyap wanted everyone to revere him. His own son Prahlada, however, remained devoted to Lord Vishnu. This angered the king, who then resorted to cruel means to get his son to worship him. Hiranyakashyap's sister and Prahlada's aunt, Holika, tricked him into sitting on a pyre. But the cloak Holika was wearing to protect herself from the flames flew off and encased Prahlada, who survived.
Lord Vishnu, meanwhile, appeared in the Narasimha avatar — that of half-lion, half-human — at dusk, and grabbed the prideful king near his doorstep, placing him on his lap and killing him with his powerful claws. Thus, marking the victory of truth and devotion.
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It is said that the festival also commemorates Radha and Krishna's love. It is believed that Lord Krishna — another avatar of Lord Vishnu — had complained to his mother Yashoda about him having a dark complexion, and Radha being fair. To placate Krishna, his mother had suggested he paint Radha's face with colours. This playful episode came to be celebrated as Holi.
As such, on this day, people come together and smear colours dry and wet on each other. They also play with water-filled balloons and water guns, besides gorging traditional sweets and delicacies like gujiya and bhaang.
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The Balance is illusive. The Balance is obvious. It is the trees in the forest, it is the reflection in the pond.
Finding the harmony that creates balance is essentially the art of minimalism—the simplest form of simplicity. Finding the clean lines that create our perceptions, and omitting the garbage that lies within them. This proves very difficult at times—all the time for some of us. However, this is not impossible by any stretch.
I'm staring at a stemless wineglass full of Pinot Grigio sitting prettily on a tea saucer. This peculiar arrangement is occurring because I don't want the wine glass to tip and spill over my new mattress (which I'm sitting on as I write). This solution can be seen as a simple way to address the issue. However, it really is cumbersome if you think about it. The minimalist approach would eliminate the issue all together by removing the risk of the wine and saucer; it would involve a far more practical approach. Why would one drink in bed knowing the potential mess hazard? I am simply doing it to fit my odd personal needs. That is what society is—impractical practicality. We create objects, institutions and laws in a manner which satisfies our clumsy and odd needs. These do not end up solving very much. Instead the solutions create a profoundly ugly quilt in which one thing amends another and another and so on.
In design I found that minimalism is the gateway to understanding pure ergonomics and flow. As a fledgling designer in the Landscape Architecture program, I was obsessed about designing for every need possible by inventing individual devices or objects and accompanying mechanisms, which were praised on their own, but criticized in context to the landscape. I was not paying attention to the most vital element…the design of space itself. I was stubborn. I did not understand why my professors kept criticizing my method. However, one particular professor (who happened an incredible mustache–it was in and of itself a masterpiece of balance) made some crucial comments that hurt my feelings. However they opened my mind up to the beauty I'd been discarding almost sacrilegiously. After 2 years of designing with an obsession for the micro, I realized I was missing out on the beautiful simplicity of space, how it in and of itself could be ergonomic. This epiphany made me feel like quite an idiot. My senior design project ended up being completely space-centric. It utilized space as the main element, with delicate supporting structures to delineate space according to the wildlife habitats within it. Of course it had flaws, but it still received great reviews. Ah the liberation!
Some may strongly dislike the minimalist aesthetic, stating that it is too boring, too cold, unnatural–lifeless. The irony is that minimalism is born from quite the opposite connotation. The condensation of a once complex set of issues or ideas that has been re-invented as the utter essence of the concept. The absolute function combined with the finess of an utterly natural form. Place a minimalist object in a forest, and I can predict that you'll find the lines that create the object effortlessly existing in that environment.
I adore minimalism not just for design, but also for life. An object with fewer physical architectural intricacies, with more attention to function, is more relatable and reliable, not to mention much easier to produce. In life, minimalism can play the same role. When I find myself feeling that life is becoming constantly frustrating, unorganized, and full of snags, I realize that my current arsenal of mechanisms for living are too complex. The aesthetic of its exterior is gaudy and full of cracks and nooks that collect dirt and dust. When I re-conceptualize the design of my existence, through a minimalist approach, the layers simplify—finally I can breathe again.
Minimalism isn't just for rich snobs and architectural elitists, it's for those who can pragmatically identify the complexities of life, and streamline all of its best attributes into something magnificently simple to grasp.
What does minimalism mean to you? Feel free to share your favorite examples of minimalism.


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Another Ex-Commando Says He Shot Bin Laden
By Nicholas Kulish, Christopher Drew and Sean D. Naylor
Who killed Osama bin Laden?
A former member of the Navy SEALs has come forward claiming to have shot the Qaeda leader during the daring operation in Pakistan in 2011. Two years ago, another SEALs member said he was among those who shot Bin Laden. Meanwhile, multiple military officials and fellow SEALs have said that it was a third person, the point man on the darkened staircase that night, who fired the first shot that felled the terrorist leader.
Three and a half years after the mission in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the events in that walled compound remain the object of fascination but also controversy. It may never be possible to say exactly who fired the fatal shot or shots, with multiple armed men wearing night-vision goggles moving quickly through the Qaeda leader's hide-out. No autopsy was performed and no video has emerged of the shooting. The military never released a photograph of Bin Laden after he was killed and said that his body had been buried at sea.
The public claims have antagonized senior officials, prompted a criminal investigation over disclosing classified information and alienated fellow SEALs, who object to individuals taking credit or cashing in on team efforts.
Robert O'Neill, 38, a former member of the elite SEAL Team 6, said that he was the assaulter whose two shots killed Bin Laden, according to an account in The Washington Post on Thursday. The website SOFREP, which focuses on special operations, revealed Mr. O'Neill's name as the self-proclaimed shooter on Monday.
The story of Mr. O'Neill, who is scheduled to appear in a Fox News documentary next week, was previously featured in Esquire magazine. He was identified only as "the Shooter."
In interviews with the magazine, Mr. O'Neill had said that the point man, who saw Bin Laden first, shot at the Qaeda leader but missed. Mr. O'Neill said that he fired two shots to the head of Bin Laden, whom he described as still standing at the time.
One former SEAL Team 6 member with knowledge of the raid said in an interview on Thursday that he believed the point man had wounded Bin Laden with a shot in the side. Rather than going in for the kill, the point man grabbed the women who were present and pushed them aside, fearing they were wearing explosive vests. Mr. O'Neill, in his version, did fire the fatal shots.
"Anyone could have been in that position," said the former senior member, who declined to be identified given the classified nature of the team's work. "We have known that this moment with Rob O'Neill coming out was going to happen sooner or later, and here it is."
But other military officials and SEALs took issue with Mr. O'Neill's account. They credited the unidentified point man, who is still a member of the secret unit, with severely wounding or even killing Bin Laden before other SEALs fired. A former commander of SEAL Team 6 said in an interview that he believed Mr. O'Neill fired "insurance" rounds into Bin Laden's body, after he was down.
Robert O'Neill, a former member of SEAL Team 6, has said that he fired two shots that killed Osama bin Laden.Credit...Walter Hinick/The Montana Standard, via Associated Press
Mr. O'Neill's version of events came after that of Matt Bissonnette, another member of the raid team, who published the best seller "No Easy Day" two years ago under the pen name Mark Owen. In the book, Mr. Bissonnette described how the point man shot Bin Laden in the head and then he and another assaulter entered the room.
"In his death throes, he was still twitching and convulsing," he wrote about Bin Laden. "Another assaulter and I trained our lasers on his chest and fired several rounds."
Neither man's story can be independently confirmed. Some SEALs have expressed surprise that Mr. O'Neill would publicize his part in the raid, given the possibility of reprisals by militants aligned with Al Qaeda or interested in a symbolic attack. Mr. Bissonnette's identity was leaked to news outlets before the book was published. He is under criminal investigation for possibly revealing classified information in the book or in paid speeches.
SEALs have long prized the notion of "quiet professionals" who do their jobs without seeking publicity. But in recent years former SEALs have been all over the best-seller list, with snipers and dog handlers. Wounded SEALs and even a transgender SEAL have shared, and sold, their stories.
The public claims by Mr. O'Neill and Mr. Bissonnette have also caused significant consternation in the SEAL command. Last week, in an open letter to current and former Navy SEALs, the top SEAL commander, Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, and Michael L. Magaraci, the senior enlisted member of the SEALs, warned that there could be consequences for revealing military secrets and operational details.
"We will actively seek judicial consequence for members who willfully violate the law, and place our Teammates, our Families, and potential future operations at risk," the letter said.
Even so, Mr. Bissonnette appeared on "60 Minutes" on Sunday to promote a new book — this time vetted in advance by the Pentagon — and Mr. O'Neill has stepped into the public eye. He has also been on the lecture circuit.
According to his biography on the website of Leading Authorities, a speakers' bureau, Mr. O'Neill retired in 2012 after more than 400 combat missions. He received numerous medals, including two Silver Stars and four Bronze Stars with valor.
A native of Butte, Mont., Mr. O'Neill told The Montana Standard in 2013 that he was the lead paratrooper on Seal Team 6's mission to rescue a commercial ship captain, Richard Phillips, who had been taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009, and had earlier helped rescue a fellow SEAL member, Marcus Luttrell, in Afghanistan. Those two missions formed the basis of two Hollywood movies, "Captain Phillips" and "Lone Survivor."
But the former Seal Team 6 commander, who also declined to be identified because of the classified nature of the work, said Mr. O'Neill had not played a "singular role" on either mission.
"O'Neill's specific role on any of these missions is irrelevant because everything we do is as a team," he added, "and we protect the team — its past, present and future."


OKUSHIRI ISLAND, Japan - The seawalls run along nine miles of this small island's 52-mile perimeter, including almost all the inhabited stretches of its eastern coast.
They rise as high as 38 feet, dwarfing the bungalows that lie in their shadows, restricting access to the pebbly shore and blocking the view of the sea's clear waters here in northern Japan. The walls' flat concrete tops are wide enough to stroll on.
Seen from a 19-seat airplane in its descent toward Okushiri, the walls seem to have been intended to turn the island into a fortress. But they are not to protect against invaders from the mainland, some 13 miles east of here, but against tsunamis, like the one that struck the island in 1993, claiming 4 percent of its population and a third of its houses.
In the country that gave the world the word tsunami and is said to have developed the most advanced technology against them and earthquakes, this island of 3,700 people is, at least in theory, one of the places best prepared to handle them. Japan spent $1.3 billion to rebuild this small island of three post offices and one high school. By contrast, the Japanese government donated $500 million to countries ravaged by the recent Southeast Asian tsunami.
In the event of a moderate earthquake, a network of sensors will automatically set off an alarm in each resident's house, and four floodgates will close to prevent waves from surging upriver. Residents will be able to get to higher ground by going up one of 22 escape routes whose entrances are lit by solar-powered signboards. At the port, workers can run to a 50,000-square-foot, 20-foot-high raised platform that, from afar, looks like a spaceship ready to lift off.
"If there had been raised platforms, like the kind we built here, in Indonesia or other islands hit by the tsunami, I think the number of people killed would have been much smaller," said Toru Ganbara, Okushiri's mayor.
Still, the recent tsunami in Southeast Asia has raised doubts anew about the effectiveness of all this high-tech Japanese gadgetry. With reports that entire Southeast Asian villages were saved simply because a sole villager had recently watched a documentary on tsunamis and warned others to flee, some residents here and experts elsewhere question whether the anti-tsunami approach here is even correct.
Misgivings center now, as they did after the tsunami struck, on the seawalls. To skeptics, the walls represent human hubris in the belief that nature can be confronted and controlled. They also reflect the Japan of 1993: supremely confident despite an economic slowdown, with excess cash that Japanese leaders invested in new roads, bridges and other, often unnecessary, public works projects to create jobs and build political support. Public works spending peaked in 1998.
On the evening of July 12, 1993, an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 undersea near here caused the tsunami's first wave to strike Okushiri in five minutes. Waves as high as 95 feet washed over the island, sweeping houses away and igniting infernos. Some people who tried to flee to high ground in their cars were caught in traffic jams and drowned. In the end, 198 people were killed, or their bodies were never recovered.
Photos of the worst-hit areas, the island's southern and northern points, show complete destruction. By 1998, though, officials announced that Okushiri Island had been completely rebuilt.
During the five years of reconstruction, Okushiri was transformed. Today, new houses dot the seashore, built on landfill that has raised them, on average, by 20 feet. On a recent visit, some older women could be seen sweeping their doorways, though most people avoided the windswept, snow-covered outdoors, preferring to hibernate.
After the tsunami, people whose houses were near the shore, mostly fishermen, refused to move to higher ground. The fiercest opposition was to the seawalls. Fishermen, who said they could read the sea by peering at it and the sky, said the walls would sever them from the water. Leaders of the island's other main industry, tourism, said concrete walls would repel tourists.
But political and other leaders supported the building of the seawalls, which, in addition to protecting residents against another tsunami, were a boon to local construction companies and Okushiri's overall economy. What is more, residents who lost their houses received $110,000 to $138,000.
"I think tourists also feel safe with the seawalls," said Mr. Ganbara, the mayor, adding that the number of tourists had almost returned to the pre-tsunami level of 50,000 a year. "People wouldn't want to come here if they didn't feel safe."
On the northern rocky shore, Hisako Tanaka, 57, who was scavenging for seaweed that she would sell for $9 a pound, said it took her time to get used to the seawalls.
"It became dark inside my house," she said. "But my house was flooded during the tsunami and when I hear the sound of the waves now, I feel safe, thanks to the seawall."
But at the Kaji Clock Store, Hidekatsu Kaji, 61, whose old store was swept away during the 1993 tsunami, was skeptical. "If people feel insecure, I guess it's O.K. if the seawalls make them feel safer," he said. "But I myself think it would be better to live without them.
"Tsunamis, typhoons, they are part of nature," Mr. Kaji went on. "They are evidence that the earth is alive. To minimize disasters, the important thing is awareness."
Critics of the seawalls, which range in height from 18 feet to 38 feet, say they are bad for the environment and pointless.
"No matter how high we build the seawalls, there will always be a higher tide," said Takehiko Yamamura, director of the Disaster Prevention System Institute in Tokyo. "Even though seawalls can somehow soften the force of a tsunami, they are not perfect. They weaken with time. And we can't build seawalls surrounding all of Japan."
The seawalls can also instill a false sense of security, critics say. Indeed, many islanders said they did not bother taking part in regular evacuation drills.
One such person, Minoru Otani, 81, the former head of the fishermen's union, lost two relatives in the tsunami. He supported the building of the seawalls, even though they have cut him off from the sea.
"I used to see the sea from my house before the tsunami," he said. "I could see the sea through my window."
Traditional Japanese culture, Mr. Yamamura said, held that one must adapt to the forces of nature, as expressed by the saying that the willow branch does not break from the force of the wind. In the conviction that there is strength in yielding like the willow branch, for instance, Japan's newest buildings are designed to sway during earthquakes.
But the philosophy underlying the seawalls is the opposite, Mr. Yamamura said. Over time, the walls could reduce the islanders' ability to understand the sea by observing the sky's different hues and the waves' changing shapes -- and, more important, reduce their ability to know when to flee.
"It is stupid for people to think that they can control nature," Mr. Yamamura said. "We shouldn't look down on nature, but should look for ways to coexist, holding it in awe."


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More Teen Girls Need HPV Shot, CDC Says
By Rachael Rettner 25 July 2013
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Despite growing evidence that the human papillomavirus vaccine is effective at preventing not only HPV infections but also the cancers they can bring down the line, just one-third of teen girls complete the vaccination series, a new study finds.
In 2012, 53.8 percent of girls ages 13 to 17 received at least one dose of HPV, and 33.4 percent received all three doses needed to complete the series. That's about the same vaccination rate as in 2011, according to the study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Among girls who were not vaccinated, 84 percent visited the doctor and received a vaccine other than HPV after their 11th birthday, meaning these girls missed an opportunity to be vaccinated against HPV, the researchers said. If the HPV vaccine had been administered at these doctor's visits, the percentage of girls who would have received at least one does of HPV would be 92 percent, the researchers said. [See HPV Vaccine: What If You Miss a Dose?]
Each year, HPV causes about 26,200 cancers in the United States, most commonly cervical cancer in women (17,400 cases) and oropharyngeal (throat) cancers in men (8,800 cases), the CDC says. Although the vaccine does not protect against all strains of HPV, it does protect against four strains, including the two strains (HPV16 and HPV18) thought to cause about 70 percent of cervical cancers.
"Today we have disappointing news," Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, said in a news conference about the study. "We're missing opportunities to give HPV vaccine, and that needs to change to protect girls from cervical cancer," Frieden said.
Frieden noted the lack of increase in improving vaccination rates between 2011 and 2012. "We're used to seeing coverage increases of 10 percent per year when a new vaccine hits the market," Frieden said. "HPV vaccine coverage hasn't kept pace with other vaccines recommended for preteens and teens," he said.
Because the virus is spread through sex, the CDC recommends the vaccine be given before teens become sexually active. Girls and boys should be vaccinated at ages 11 or 12, the CDC says. (Those who were not vaccinated as teenagers are recommended to get the vaccine in their 20s, up to age 26.)
A recent study found that after the HPV vaccine was introduced in 2006, there was a 56 percent decrease in the rate of teen girls infected with any of the four HPV strains included in the vaccine. Studies also suggest that the vaccine can reduce the risk of developing early stages of cervical cancer.
If 80 percent of teen girls were vaccinated against HPV, it is estimated that 53,000 cases of cervical cancer would be prevented over their lifetime, the CDC said.
One way to increase vaccination rates is to educate parents about why the vaccine is recommended, the CDC said. In the new study, about one-quarter of teen parents surveyed said they did not intend to have their child vaccinated within the next year, often because they thought the vaccine wasn't needed. About 10 percent cited the fact that their child was not sexually active as a reason not to vaccinate, even though the vaccine is recommended for teens before they become sexually active.
Doctors need to step up their efforts to recommend the vaccine and discuss it with parents, so that missed opportunities for vaccination can be reduced, Frieden said.
Studies show the HPV vaccine is safe, and side effects can include pain, redness, and swelling at the injection site as well as fainting. (Doctors recommend that those who are vaccinated be monitored for 15 minutes in case of fainting.)
The new study is published this week, in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Iwájú: Disney Is Collaborating With Africa's Kugali Media For New Series
The show will combine Disney's magic and animation expertise with Kugali's fire and storytelling authenticity.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios has announced a collaborative project with Pan-African comic book entertainment company Kugali Media. The companies are teaming up to create Iwájú, a brand new original series which will debut on Disney+ in 2022.
The announcement was made by WDAS Chief Creative Officer, Jennifer Lee who cited Kugali founders Tolu Olowofoyeku, Ziki Nelson and Hamid Ibrahim's dream to bring African storiesv, created by African artists to the world through comics and animation.
"Developing Iwájú with Tolu, Ziki and Hamid is not only a first-of-its-kind collaboration for Walt Disney Animation Studios, but a personal pleasure for all of us who have the opportunity to work with them. The story Kugali is telling is powerful and dynamic, and we can't wait to help realize their series through the talents of our Disney Animation artists."
In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Disney Animation and Pan-African entertainment company Kugali will team up to create an all-new, science fiction series coming to #DisneyPlus in 2022: Iwájú. Check out a first look at visual development art from the series. pic.twitter.com/9iuWFDr61T
— Disney Animation (@DisneyAnimation) December 11, 2020
Iwájú, which roughly translates to "The Future" in the Yoruba language, is billed as a long-form futuristic science fiction series set in Lagos, Nigeria. While details about the plot and the characters featured in the first-look images are still under wraps, the story is said to explore deep themes like class, innocence and challenging the status quo.
Speaking about the landmark project, series director Ziki Nelson said…
"This show will combine Disney's magic and animation expertise with Kugali's fire and storytelling authenticity. Iwájú' represents a personal childhood dream of mine to tell my story and that of my people."
By partnering with Kugali Media, Disney will give viewers a new and exciting take on sci-fi animated shows and bring some diversity to their current offerings.
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Non-academic staff of Nigerian universities will on Monday begin a three-day nationwide protest as a notice of their intention to go on an indefinite strike over the failure of the federal government to implement its agreement with them. The agitation by the non-teaching staff is coming four months after their colleagues in the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) suspended their two-month strike.
The non-academic unions, comprising the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), said the agreement now in contention had made them suspend their own industrial action in March last year. According to the chairman of the Joint Action Committee of the unions, Samson Ugwoke, the protest will precede the resumption of the strike.
"We are directing our members to mobilise for a protest on 15th July to send a notice of strike to the federal government, " he said. The unions had embarked on a nationwide strike on December 4, 2017, following the failure of the government to address their grievances. That strike was suspended in March 2018.
The former Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, had said then that the government would source for N8 billion within five weeks to pay the striking workers. The minister announced this as a resolution reached at a meeting on March 13, 2018. But the unions during their protest in 2018 said the delay in the payment of Earned Allowances had become a source of discomfort and agitation by their members and a source of embarrassment for their leaders. Premium Times
JAMB registers 1.8m candidates for UTME
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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has registered over 1.8 million candidates for this year's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. We are prepared for 2019 UTME – JAMB Head, Media and Information of the board, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, yesterday. Registration of candidates for all […]
ASUU strike: Afe Babalola decries poor funding of varsity education
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The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti(ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola(SAN), has decried the poor funding of public universities, saying this accounts for the despicable condition of university education in the country. Babalola said the Federal Government has consistently underfunded the education sector, with government allocating only seven percent of the national budget to education. […]
IPPIS: ASUU branches meet, vow not to register members
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The enrolment for the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System did not start in universities on Monday as officials from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation had yet to arrive at institutions. The PUNCH, however, gathered that the exercise would start fully on Tuesday (today) as officials arrived in the universities on Monday […]
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Alumni Tale: Kim Wall '01
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After graduating, I went to work at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Manchester where I had interned. I helped create a new site-based mentoring program that brought volunteers into Manchester elementary schools to meet 1:1 with their "Little" weekly.
What were you doing 5 years out of college?
I worked at an experiential marketing firm in Manchester, NH working with a team to develop marketing strategies and mobile marketing tours for national corporations.
What were you doing 10 years out of college?
After earning a Master's degree in business, I found myself back at UNH Manchester working as a public relation and events coordinator.
I am the Director of Marketing & Communication at UNH's campus in downtown Manchester.
How do you feel your time at UNH has had an impact on where you are today?
My time at UNH's campus in Manchester provided me with an affordable option to earn a highly respected UNH degree. I didn't graduate with a significant amount of debt because I was able to live at home and work while taking classes. This had a really positive impact on my financial future.
Why do you believe in UNH?
I believe in UNH because it provides options and flexibility for people at all stages of their lives to pursue an education.
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Well Pack we could take all the money ,every cent, the Feds got from some source other than the states to begin with and buy a piece of penny candy.
badgerbob
It just occurred to me that there are a lot of different groups with an interest in public lands. And from the anti-hunting groups to the houndsmen associations they are butting heads over what should be allowed and what should not be allowed on these lands. All the while our government is undermining everyone with plans to sell these very lands. What kind of numbers could we come up with if we could figure out a way to all join forces. Could the environmentalist and the loggers work together? I know this is kind of out there but my guess if it could be pulled off we just might turn some heads. There are environmental groups and some kind of special interest association for about anything you could think of. Combine these with the hunting, fishing and anything outdoors groups and just simply say no. This country is on a path to become the very thing the first settlers came here to get away from. No public lands and the only ones hunting are the extremely rich. The King will own the game. We already have taxation without representation or anyway that's the way it seems. It doesn't seem like the issues important to me are being addressed in a manner that represents me, my family or any of my friends. I think it can be fixed but we may have to fire everyone from the President to the Dog Catcher to get it done. OUR public lands! I think we need to fight to retain every acre, they are not the governments to sell. I guess enough said for now......good night everyone.
micropterus79
badgerbob said:
This is exactly what needs to be done...none of these groups as individuals will be large/strong enough. This is not impossible and has been done in the passed. An example that comes to my mind is Pinedale Wyoming; you had sportsmen/women, enviros, ranchers, birders, campers, etc... all agree that something was wrong and needed to be done. The habitat and water really were being wrecked and it wasn't just a figment of some ideologues imagination. Another example is how target shooter and mountain bikers got together to help diminish illegal dumping just north of Grand Junction, CO (mind you these two groups still butt heads but were able to manage a temporary truce to solve a larger problem).
It can be done everybody! Be respectful of other user groups when you're out in the woods and it will go a long ways someday when we really do need to band together! They will need us (hunters) too, however
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My point exactly. Do you think we could generate numbers great enough to dominate the issue? Not just rally against the land sales proposal, but enough to simply say no and be upheld.
Maybe not in all cases but for the most part, yes, I do think we can generate the numbers. The only reason I feel this way is because the issue crosses the political spectrum. No one can say that it is just a fringe group from either end of the spectrum.
We can temporarily set aside arguments on which areas should be open for hunting vs. mountain biking vs. horseback riding and on on because the progressive outdoor enthusiast is losing just as much of their rights and heritage as a hard core conservative outdoor enthusiast and I think this is obvious to all public land users. Think of it this way, the Dems already have a corner on this issue and if just a few influential Repubs could cease the scorched earth anti-federal government pandering, at least for a while, it would be a done deal (before anyone gets offended, I am well aware of the scorched earth pandering the Dems do too; I am pretty much sick of all R's and D's to be honest and this public land issue is one of the reasons).
However, for it to really take off, just like in all political campaigns, the folks we really need to convince are those that are unaware or undecided on the issue (e.g. people that live in heavily urbanized areas that think public lands are "green spaces" or parks). How to reach these folks, I don't know. It's tough to convince someone to jump into a battle when they have nothing to lose or gain.
I know there are ton of conservation and hunting organizations out there but do they do any outreach to inner cities areas? I would guess that could be a huge step toward convincing a new audience that this not about politics, its about being an American and even if they don't deer hunt in WY or go birding in AZ, its about losing the option and it is about losing an important part of what we consider real freedom.
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Oregon planning to sell state owned forest, costs too much to manage... http://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-announces-details-of-elliott-state-forest-sale/
I just read on another forum that Wisconsin is selling off State land w/o public input. Sad state of affairs. The Republicans want to sell your hunting lands and the Democrats want our guns. Where the hell is this country heading?
Joe Schmo
Towards bow hunting only on the land that you lease from Trump's son for $5,000 a year.


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Nearly two years after it acquired Aircel from C. Sivasankaran, Malaysia's Maxis Group wants to become a pan-India player, with $4 billion in investment over the next two years.
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Haryana sets investment benchmarks for rapid growth
Shalini S. Dagar and Saumya Bhattacharya
State Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda wants to turn the $30-billion local economy into a $130-billion behemoth in 10 years. Investors are eager, but Haryana has several challenges to overcome. Shalini S. Dagar and Saumya Bhattacharya tell us why the state is by far the best destination in India.
The leader seals its spot
HDFC Bank has emerged as #1 for the 5th year running. What is the secret formula that keeps it ahead, year after year?
Metro secrets
The world is, indeed, your oyster. Travelling to the farthest corners of the globe is just a click of the mouse and a drive to the airport away. But sometimes, in venturing out to see the wide unknown, we ignore our backyards.
BT More sent its team of reporters to the five corners of the country to talk to experts as well as travel the length and breadth of the cities and beyond, to find out things that a visitor to these cities may not really know about.
The mixed sentiment of the last quarter continues into the New Year, reveals the sixth quarterly BT-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey.
A leader for an equitable India � N.R. Narayana Murthy
We live in extraordinary times. Never before in the last three centuries has India received the kind of attention that she is getting today. Whichever conference I attend in the world, India's growth is always talked about.
How the 20 companies to watch in 2007 have performed
Performance of 20 companies to watch in 2007 in alphabetical order.
Charting a corrective course
Expect the unexpected. While the economy continues with its upward march quarter after quarter, the latest BT-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey reveals that the business confidence and employment prospects are at an all-time low in the last one year.BT-TeamLease Survey in graphics
The millionaire's secrets
By Shalini S. Dagar
Unprecedented wealth creation in the last few years has not just pushed up the number of wealthy individuals in India, but it has managed to change some of the consuming and investing behaviour of this privileged and distinguished lot.
Hitting the mark
The 4th quarterly Business Today-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey shows that the bullishness of the previous three quarters has remained constant.
IT companies target SMEs in smaller centres
By Pallavi Srivastava
According to a report, marketing spends in tier-II and tier-III cities by infotech companies have risen 100 per cent over the last two years.
A battle of two
Kushan Mitra
As elsewhere in the world, Airbus and Boeing remain the two big aircraft vendors in India, but a few smaller players are also angling for a share of the market.
First movers in the second tier
Few marketers can afford to ignore the non-metros, but there are those who are seeing the virtues of starting with the small towns. The big cities can wait.