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Leo Major was a French Canadian man born in 1921.

He probably didn't think he was going to be more of a hero than the average soldier

when he joined up with the Canadian Army at the start of World War II—supposedly he

simply joined up because he wanted to show his father, with whom he had a shaky relationship,

that he could do something to be proud of.

Major started his overseas tour in 1941, serving in Le Regiment de la Chaudiere.

On D-Day, he was wounded by a grenade, resulting in the partial loss of vision in his left

eye.

Major refused to be sent home, arguing that he only needed one good eye to sight a rifle.

He was placed in the scout platoon and became handy with his rifle, earning himself a reputation

as an excellent sniper.

In April 1945, Major's regiment was approaching the city of Zwolle.

His commanding officers asked for two volunteers to do a reconnaissance run and report on the

number of German troops patrolling the city.

If possible, the volunteers were also asked to get in contact with the Dutch resistance

as the Chaudiere regiment was to start firing on the city the next day.

At the time, Zwolle had a population of around 50,000 people and it was likely that innocent

civilians would number among the casualties.

Along with his friend Willy Arseneault, Major started to creep toward the city.

Willy was killed by German soldiers around midnight after the pair ran across a roadblock.

Reportedly, Willy was able to kill his attacker before dying himself.

Understandably angry, Major picked up his friend's machine gun and ran at the enemy,

killing two of the remaining German soldiers; the rest fled in a vehicle.

Major continued on and soon ambushed a staff vehicle and captured the German driver who

he had lead him to an officer drinking in a nearby tavern.

He informed the officer that Canadian forces would begin firing heavy artillery on the

city, resulting in the deaths of many German soldiers and Zwolle civilians alike.

He didn't mention that he was alone.

Afterwards, Major gave the man his gun back and, with that seed of knowledge soon to be

spread throughout the German troops, he immediately began running up and down the streets shooting

a machine gun and tossing grenades.

The grenades made a lot of noise, but he made sure to place them where they wouldn't cause

much damage to the town or its citizens.

In the early hours of the morning, he stumbled upon a group of eight soldiers.

Though they pulled a gun on him, he killed four and caused the rest to flee.

Major himself escaped the confrontation without injury and only one regret: he later stated

he felt he should have killed all of them.

As he continued his campaign of terror throughout the night, the German soldiers began to panic,

thinking a large body of Canadian forces were attacking them.

By 4 a.m., the Germans had vanished.

An entire garrison—estimated to have been made up of several hundred soldiers—had

been made so afraid of nothing more than a single, one-eyed man that they fled the town.

The city of Zwolle had been liberated without the need for the death of civilians or many

of the soldiers on both sides of the lines that would have taken part in the messy battle.

Rather than fall asleep after running around the city in the wee hours of morning avoiding

German gunfire and causing all kinds of mayhem, Major enlisted the help of several Dutch civilians

to retrieve the body of his friend Willy.

Only after his friend's body had been recovered did Major report to his commanding officer

that there was "no enemy" in the city.

The Canadian army marched in to the sound of cheers rather than gun shots.

For his actions at Zwolle, Major received a Distinguished Conduct Medal.

If this wasn't all enough, perhaps I should mention that in 1944, a year before he liberated

Zwolle, at the Battle of Scheldt, Major captured 93 German soldiers by himself and led them

to waiting Canadian troops.

He and Willy were teamed up again on a reconnaissance mission to find out what had happened to a

company of men that had seemingly disappeared.

Willy was sick, so Major went alone.

He soon found that the company he was looking for had all managed to get themselves captured.

Rather than go back and report immediately, Major was cold, so went into a nearby house

to warm up.

At this point, he saw a couple German soldiers through a window and decided to capture them,

which he did.

With them presumably helping him lug his balls of solid steal along the way, he had them

take him to their commanding officer, who was among about 100 other German soldiers

at the time.

His offer was basically- surrender or you die.

Of course, he'd then die too, but this plan miraculously worked.

Why?

Because some nearby SS troops observed the exchange and misinterpreted, thinking the

commanding officer and his men were surrendering.

Thus, the SS opened fire on both Major and the German soldiers around him.

The Germans being fired upon decided surrendering to Major was better than being killed by the

SS, so they went with him, with the SS hot in pursuit, killing some of them along the

way.

All total, 93 Germans soldiers made it back with him and became POWs.

For this amazing feat, Major was offered a Distinguished Conduct Medal, but refused it

because he felt his commanding officer, Field Marshall Montgomery, was "incompetent"

and that, "He had made an awful mistake.

I didn't like him at all."

Thus, he didn't want to receive an award from the Field Marshall's hand.

Still not impressed?

How about how he won his second Distinguished Conduct Medal, besides the one earned liberating

Zwolle, which would have been his second, had he accepted the 1944 one.

The second one he chose to accept didn't come in WWII.

Rather, it was achieved during the Korean War where he managed, in a lot of ways, to

top the other two, though this time with the help of just under a couple dozen other people.

But I think you'll soon agree, it was still ridiculously amazing.

Around 40,000 Chinese soldiers had successfully dislodged a large body of U.S. soldiers from

a key hill (Hill 335 to be exact).

Unable to retake the hill, Major and a small group of other snipers were sent in.

There job was to sneak up onto the hill, in the midst of all those Chinese soldiers, and

then open fire.

After doing this and throwing the Chinese soldiers into a panic, rather than retreat,

Major had his men continue firing and managed to do what thousands of U.S. troops had been

unable to do, re-take the hill.

Of course, the Chinese soon regrouped and two divisions, totaling over 14,000 soldiers,

were sent to retake the hill from Major and his tiny band of snipers (20 men total).

Again, rather than retreat as ordered, Major and his band decided to hold the hill.

After three days of repeated attacks from over ten thousand soldiers using every manner

of weaponry, reinforcements arrived and relieved Major and his men, who had successfully held

the hill during that span.

I presume after being relieved and having the relieving commanding officer perhaps tell

him it was madness to try and hold the hill with so few men, Major most likely responded

with "Madness?

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The County Seat One on one with Dr Laura Nelson Energy Advisor for Governor Gary Herbert - Duration: 28:51.

Hello everybody welcome to The County Seat

I'm your host Chad Booth. Last week the

Deseret news had a paper sponsored op ed in

their paper about carbon and Carbon referring

of course to the County and its base line

economic driver coal. In the course of that op

ed they ended up talking about the fact that we

need to wake up to the reality that coal is going

to be changing and they were just basically

saying that energy officials in the state should

be looking at re-training people and we did not

think that was a fair conversation so we have

invited to The County Seat for this half hour Dr.

Laura Nelson who is Governor Herbert's energy

advisor and the Executive Director of the

Governor's office of energy and energy

development. Thank you for taking the time to

join us here.

Thank you Chad and I'm glad to be here.

It's always good to have a chat with you.

So last time you and I talked it was just at the

beginning of the Trump Administration and

there have been no appointments made in fact

the moratorium on coal had not even been

lifted so we are a year later down the track

what has changed?

Well definitely from the federal policy level we

are seeing a more favorable outlook on coal. So

it is not just been the coal moratorium but also

we have seen positive movement when it

comes to resource management plans through

the BLM or removal of BLM's master leasing

program that they had initiated and other

things that really were impediments that I think

to advance in coal leasing in particular. We

have also seen a relook at EPA's regional haze

initiatives specifically I don't know if you recall

that EPA rejected the state's implementation

plan for regional haze and that really pertains to

two of our very large power generations

systems. Hunter and Huntington and under the

federal plan which they then wanted to invoke

we were looking at 700 million plus dollars of

new investment for those plans. The state then

basically challenged that as did Rocky Mountain

Power our large investor on utility here in the

state and said they wait a minute the state

came up with a cost effective plan that achieved

what the federal regulations required under

regional haze. So what we have now with the

new administration is a relook at the states

implementation plan as cost effective solutions

so generally from the federal level its good

news right. But we have to look at when it

comes to coal its really about demand and

supply. It is also about costs in revenues. So

let's talk a little bit about demand and supply

just in the energy space generally. What we see

right now is kind of a levelling out of domestic

energy demand partly driven by the fact that

we have changing weather considerations but

overall demand is lower and we have become

energy efficient and in terms of supply we have

new renewables coming on. At the same time

when we look at what is happening in terms of

costs we have fuel prices for natural gas

declining so that means cheaper electricity for

natural gas maybe compared to coal and on the

revenue side for coal they are really seeing

some challenges in terms of what they are able

to get for energy sales for the reasons that we

have mentioned so fuel costs being a driving

factor more renewables being a driving factor

and policy which certainly impacts costs has

moved in a favorable direction and I think it

remains to be seen whether or not it moves up

favorably enough in light of these other factors.

That does address the issue of the commodity

prices. Natural gas has tended to be a little bit

more volatile in prices than coal. We are seeing

this supply thing handled can that volatility

come back to natural gas that might further

make coal a bit more attractive?

Well that is one thing that we always talk about

when it comes to natural gas is really the

volatility in pricing. Long term contracts for

natural gas are still pretty limited because it is a

hard commodity to predict in terms of pricing.

You and I have talked before about the fact that

it's always a risk to put all of our eggs in one

basket when it comes to resources. Today

natural gas makes up about 34% of our energy

portfolio domestically or our electric generation

portfolio coal is about 30% still domestically

renewables about 13% maybe a little less and

nuclear about 20%. We are seeing a changing

mix favorable natural gas profile but I think we

certainly need to be mindful of keeping a

balanced portfolio nationally.

We have consume our first 5 minutes we are

going to take a quick break here on the County

Seat and we will come back and continue our

conversation with Dr. Nelson its always

fascinating to talk to you. We will be right back.

Welcome back to The County Seat we are

talking with Dr. Laura Nelson today and we

have covered the federal and regulatory

environment and I do want to ask one other

question on that we have this reprieve from this

pressure on coal and administrative level but

that could change in 8 years could it not?

Sure.

Does that affect the decision by some to say

let's look at our future power generation by

coal because of that uncertainty.

question. What I was talking about earlier

because when we look at a generation resource

we have to compare the revenues to the costs.

The policy piece is just one part of the costs you

have maintenance and you have the fuel costs

and we have said natural gas is cheap relative to

coal and the emissions profile associated with

natural gas is pretty favorable too compared to

coal. This does not mean that coal is bad just

different. What we need to be doing right now

is an opportunity to take that message about

coal and the environment being incompatible and

continue on this path of talking about coal as

part of the all of the above energy mix can

actually drive environmental enhancements. In

fact there were some reports that came out

recently that were paired by the National

Energy Technology Lab in 2015 that had not

previously been released and one of the things

it talked about was the importance of

innovation in the coal space continuing to drive

the efficiencies in coal and the environmental

improvements in coal because we are going to

need that as part of an overall robust energy

mix. Back to our don't put your eggs in one

basket.

Exactly. So do you feel from your perspective

that there is in that spectrum some

improvement that can still be made as far as

coal and its environmental impact?

Absolutely. Utah and I shared this with you

before has very efficient power plants top 3 in

the country I think ways we can continue to

learn better use coal generation are already

taking place one has to do with ramping how

we can move coal fired generation up and down

to move with new resources like renewable

resources come on so that is one thing that we

can do and one thing we are seeing occur and

they act more like a natural gas plant makes

them more completive perhaps for the long

term with natural gas. Also I do not think we

are given our best effort nationally to carbon

capture and ultimately sequestration

technologies we have just spent probably close

to a decade not investing in coal innovation as a

nation so I think there is bandwidth that we

have not realized yet so I think it's time to focus

on that compatibility between coal and the

environment.

comes to my mind is coal burning and spewing

old black smoke from the movies from the 30's

well there is one application for carbon and the

other I see carbon fiber and I see all these

technologies coming out that carbon capture

does it have an afterlife?

Maybe I will address this in a couple of different

parts. One is we have seen a lot of coal

retirements in the last few years with most of

them occurring in 2015 and 2016 but we have

to remember that our coal fleet is pretty much

the oldest fleet in the country so these were

those older smaller less efficient maybe not as

environmentally sound facilities. Most of those

are retired in 2015-16.

Like the Price plant in Castledale, Carbon

County.

Sure you know there are still some retirements

on the books through about 2020. It remains to

be seen whether all of those retirements occur

or not but remember we are already dealing

with an older fleet. It is natural for innovation to

come in and replace that older fleet. That's

okay so the black smoke is definitely a thing of

the past and absolutely want to highlight that

what you see can bring out of coal plants today

really is steam. So I think it's important to say

that. Back to the innovation piece if we look at

carbon capture and sequestration carbon

capture there is already a use for that captured

CO2 in commercial operations so there is

already a market and we can continue to look at

infrastructure and build up for enhanced oil

recovery or for other uses in manufacturing for

that CO2 that is in fact captured. If we are

looking at longer term if we have a sequester

the carbon that is something we have to

continue to evaluate what does that look like

over time and what are the best places for that

long term sequestration to occur. So I hope the

three general parts of your question. Let me

know if I missed anything.

We have done well we are going to take a break

because the half hour just evaporates and we

will be right back in just a minute.

Welcome back to The County Seat we are

talking with Dr. Laura Nelson from the

Governor's office of energy development. We

left on the note of innovation and uses for coal

and part of that obviously is rare earth minerals

that are in high demand particularly for some of

the other sources of electricity generation that

also can come from coal. You brought a show

and tell today.

I did I want to give you this gift advancing Utah

coal. This is a report that the office of energy

development prepared and released last year

and I have to say we did not do it in isolation we

always do it with our partners we also worked

with Carbon County to establish the advanced

coal research group that were involved in the

development of this report one of the key

things that Utah is doing to drive continued

utilization of coal as I mentioned is part of the

overall all of the above energy mix that is

important for energy and the environment is

looking at how we can continue to be

innovative. We have carbon capturing,

sequestration technologies that have been

developed right here in Utah that are

continuing to progress and looking at pilot

scenarios we have opportunity for coal to

liquids technologies and we have also have a

couple that you may not think of if you are only

focused on the energy side of coal one is

converting coal into carbon so carbon fiber and

one is extracting rare earth minerals from coal

so coal to carbon is important as we look at our

overall energy mix because carbon creates

lighter materials so a car built out of carbon is

going to be a lot lighter than a car built out of

steel and it is going to be more energy efficient

so it's a win win.

That's true it is a win win.

Wind and solar definitely use a lot of rare earth

minerals and those rare earth metals are

typically found in Asia most of them in China

and the extraction process around the mining of

these rare earth minerals is not environmentally

neutral there are definitely some impacts. So

just like with anything we need to look at how

we can diversify our access to those rare earth

minerals in Utah we are looking at how maybe

coal can serve as a source of rare earth minerals

which would one help diversify impacts and two

help to increase the security of access to those

materials.

Right.

I do want to talk about the reliability coal factor.

I had this thought come to my head how many

power supply sources could easily be disrupted

in creating electricity for the grid and to me coal

plants are the only place where I see fuel on

ground ready to go in the hopper. Can you

address for us.

I think that the concern over fuel disruptions or

fuel volatilities not misplaced. We do need to

look at how are we going to insure reliability or

reliance over time especially as we see them

more of these intermittent resources come on

so let me talk about reliability and the context

of how we move electrons around. We need

transmission lines to do that and we have found

it takes a long long time to build transmission.

So as we continue to see those transmission

projects delayed there is a chance we will see

more congestion in what I will call the pipeline.

Because if you are relying more on the natural

gas to back up those intermittent resources

locally you could start to see some real

congestion in pipelines that is just my opinion. I

think real term real time that is an issue that we

are going to have to address I think your bigger

question is really around emergency scenarios.

How do we plan when it comes to reliability

resiliency in the face of an emergency and that

goes back to the need for the all of the above

resource mix and I think Utah demonstrated

that that mix can be affective in providing

resiliency and also reducing greenhouse gases.

In fact we have reduced our greenhouse gases

by 14% since 2008 and we have done it with

coal as part of the mix and we have also done it

without mandates.

Wow, that is impressive that leads me to

another thing while we have this reprieve we

have an opportunity to promote some of these

voluntary things that usually tend to get better

outcomes than required things that causes to

cut back. How does that fit into this mix?

We think that market based incentives really

work and I think that is demonstrated by the

Utah approach we are continuing to see

significant economic growth and so that

greenhouse gas reduction number in terms of

our electric generation mix we have realized

even as our economies continue to grow.

Growth may slow a bit but we are still a growing

economy and so we are going to want to

achieve our environmental goals our energy

goals while keeping energy affordable and that

is one thing that we have done here in Utah and

you can compare Utah to let's say California

where they have had very aggressive

greenhouse gas goals and I think you put our

accomplishments next to theirs and we have

been very successful. I think their reductions

would be in the neighborhood of about 20%

and they are debatable numbers since 2000 and

we are 14% since 2008 both very robust

economies growing economies but their

electricity rates are double give maybe just a

little bit compared to Utah rate so Utah is doing

it at the same time we are keeping energy

affordable.

So basically saying if I have a $70 electric bill at

my house and my house in California it would

be $140 a month.

Yes, pretty much.

Wow.

Depending on the time of year it might be

more.

break right here and going to add a bit to our

last I have a couple of question I want to save

and it will take some time to answer them so

we break early here and be back in just a

minute.

Welcome back to the County Seat we have

been talking about coal and its future in Utah.

We have a few counties that heavily rely on

coal it's been a part of their traditional

economies and these are the ones that the

Deseret news said wake up guys and figure out

something else to do being Carbon, Emery and

Sevier. Those are our coal economies in the

state is there any chance that we can clean up

coal technology and find some way of

proving its value in the next decade while we

have a favorable administration that there

could be new coal power plants that come on

line.

Well that is a tough question. It takes a long

time to plan a permit a coal plant. And you

need the investors there to do it. I would say

one of the biggest challenges right now is we do

not see dollars attracted to investing in new

coal plants. I think one goal that we can

achieve is retention of our current existing

efficient coal fleet and that is going to be

important for resiliency within our electric grid

system. There are ancillary service I will call

them that are provided by coal plants there are

also provided by hydro facilities that are

difficult to realize as these plants go away and if

we do not retain them we are going to see

higher prices period. In fact the reports I

mentioned by the national energy technology

lab already indicated that that is one I think

focus on retention of our very efficient cost

effective plants today. As far as economies go

we are coal has been a main stay of

development and growth I think that we need

to continue to look for the opportunities for

those coal resources and including exports you

and I have discussed that exports are up from

the US 60% in Q 1 of 2017 compared to the

same period in 2016 so global demand for coal

is still there so let's also work on figuring out

these export opportunities and we have seen

resistance at some of our ports I think there are

opportunities there and we have met recently

even with folks from Sichuan province in China

they came here and toured and met with

industry to talk about advance coal those

opportunities are real and those are the things

we can sort through.

Is there a possibility that we can export our

technology alongside of our coal?

Absolutely.

Perhaps improve the overall picture of coal as I

know that other places are not generating the

way we do.

Absolutely it's a combination of great

technology and really good coal that is going to

lead to the win win win for our energy our

economy and the global environment.

Okay very good do you think people are

generally misinformed about coal in Utah? The

general public the folks that may watch this

show?

I think it's a mix bag. Some people have a good

understanding of the value of coal and some

people do not have a full set of facts.

How do we fix that?

We continue the conversation and keep talking

about it.

Does this report have some of that conversation

in it?

I think so folks can go on line and take a look at

it energy.utah.gov/publications.

Excellent thank you so much for taking the time

with us today it's always a pleasure to talk to

you and find your conversations very

enlightening. Coal is still part of the picture and

give a shout out to Carbon county we still think

you have a good future in coal and obviously

the state seems to be taking it seriously and

trying to help you accomplish that. Thank you

for watching they County Seat and joining us

catch us on social media like us on Facebook

and we will see you next week on the County

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Single Girl's talk with my Japanese girlfriends~ Vlogmas #2 - Duration: 10:04.

We will have hot pot now!

I'm losing my voice

I bought this, it's called 'shungiku'

I like shungiku

I'm glad to hear that

It has such a good frangrance

like for example beansprouts

there's like no taste

no taste, yes

ah, it fell

but there's a lot of taste in this vegetable

I'm gonna go cut it up

There's still a bit of sand left on it

I'll come and help you in a sec

don't worry about it!

tsumire meatballs

Meat balls

lots of meat!

Hirina bought similar things too

yeah.. meat

cheers!!

let's drink this!!

cassis oolong is the best!

our hot pot is ready!!

well it is but it isn't cos we're gonna put the meat in there now

the flavour of the soup hasn't really set yet

what she said..

when you think of Osaka, you think of asahi ponzu

I feel like I've heard this before

didn't you tell me that too last year?

I probably did

I'm feeling so nostalgic!

I want someone whom you can have fights properly with

I get it, a well balanced person

a balance of love, respect, and proper-ness

a well-balanced male

gurls, don't feel down

I'm sure we'll find someone one day..

If not, we can have hot pot like this every year

Mr. Karasuuri, heyyyyy

Do you guys remember him?

Big Karasuuri is here

I heard you've started working at the gym

how is it? which gym do you work at?

Konami?

not Konami

just a friend's place

Oasis?

Nah, nothing big like that. Just a local place.

Did you lose weight?

Nope

For a while I lost some weight, then I gained it back again

and is probably heavier than when you last saw me..

no way!!

what's your weight now?

102

102?

you're a big boy

Mr. Karasuuri went home..

and we're gonna have desserts now

Daifuku ice cream

daifuku ice cream

Okay daifuku ice cream

yummm

♫ I don't need pity from you..

♫ There's definitely someone out there who's better for me than you

♫ I'm not scared

♫ I'm going to become stronger from now on

♫ Yes, I'm going to be happy

♫ Yes, I'm already stronger now

♫ Yes, everything is going to be just fine