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The Ties That Bind: Chairman Mao, Che Guevara, and Al Qaeda
Mao Tse-tung borrowed the revolutionary vanguard from Vladimir Lenin, Ernesto "Che" Guevara liked Mao's ideas about sanctuaries, and Al Qaeda valued Guevara's focoist approach to global insurgency. At first glance, the revolutionary strategies of Mao, Guevara, and the intellectuals who devised Al Qaeda's doctrine for jihad have much in common. They integrated violence into the greater political struggle, viewed the support of the people as essential to the revolution, and stressed the importance of an intellectual vanguard to lead the revolt and ensure military ways and means aligned with political ends. A closer look, however, reveals differences in how Mao, Guevara, and Al Qaeda tailored their approaches to suit the unique needs of the rebellions they led and the strategic environments in which they fought. A deeper assessment also develops a fuller understanding of revolutions and insurgencies, and inform an approach to fighting the Islamic State, or Daesh.
Mao, Guevara, and Al Qaeda revealed their beliefs about revolutionary warfare in their writings. Mao outlined his thoughts in two seminal documents, On Guerrilla Warfare and On Protracted War, both of which detailed his strategy to unite China and defeat Japan in the 1930s and 1940s. Guevara wrote Guerrilla Warfare: A Method to guide his post-Cuba revolutionary efforts in Bolivia and the Congo in the 1960s. Three authors – Abu 'Ubeid Al-Qurashi, Abu Mu'sab al-Suri, and Abu Bakr Naji – provided the backbone to Al Qaeda's approach to global jihad in essays published in the early to mid-2000s.
Mao, Guevara, and Al Qaeda agreed that violence should support the revolutionary struggle, but they disagreed about whether it should be the most important factor fueling the rebellion. In the initial stage of the revolt, Mao viewed political agitation as being the main effort, with military action in a supporting role.[i] The movement needed to first build the infrastructure by organizing, consolidating, and securing base areas before guerrillas could launch attacks against regime forces as part of a counteroffensive.[ii] Coherent political action needed to be a precondition for the armed struggle, according to Mao. "Without a political goal, guerrilla warfare must fail, as it must if its political objectives do not coincide with the aspirations of the people and their sympathy, cooperation, and assistance cannot be gained," he wrote.[iii] Mao argued that a revolutionary war could not be constrained into military action alone – the rebellion also required complementary economic, social, and psychological elements that allowed the revolutionaries to establish a new state structure.[iv]
Like Mao, Guevara and Al Qaeda viewed violence as essential to the revolution. Unlike Mao, they saw violence as the primary effort in the early part of the revolt, setting the conditions to provoke a wider rebellion.[v] Guevara used military action as a form of "armed propaganda," in the words of Regis Debray, that triggered a reaction from the regime, with the backlash providing a sharp contrast between the regime's repressive, abusive power and the guerrillas fighting for the people's freedom. The foco, the small guerrilla center or base, would spark the revolution.[vi] "Violence is not only for the use of the exploiters; the exploited can use it too, and what is more, ought to use it at the opportune moment," Guevara wrote.[vii] Similarly, Al Qaeda saw military action as a tool to foment its political movement. In The Management of Savagery, Naji devoted a chapter to the primacy and characteristics of violence in the jihad. "If we are not violent in our jihad and if softness seizes us, that will be a major factor in the loss of the element of strength, which is one of the pillars of the Umma of the Message," he wrote.[viii] Naji also justified brutal tactics such as burning to death captured enemy forces, apostates, and infidels because the subsequent shock value deterred opponents and attracted new fighters to the cause.[ix] Through the use of small, dispersed bands of focoist guerrillas, Al Qaeda fought a global insurgency that used violence to control territory and radicalize the people.[x] "Every military battle," Qurashi concluded, "is a speech that aims at increasing revolutionary awareness."[xi]
Mao, Guevara, and Al Qaeda recognized the importance of popular support, but their differing conceptions of what constitutes a people's war are notable. Mao and Guevara customized their revolutionary narratives to the agrarian realities of China and Cuba, respectively, reframing a Marxist-Leninist proletariat revolt into a rural uprising to capitalize on the grievances and additional manpower the latter could provide. Guevara even deemphasized the plight of the urban proletariat. "No matter how hard the living conditions of the urban workers are, the rural population lives under even more horrible conditions of oppression and exploitation," Guevara wrote.[xii] After continuous attacks by rural guerrillas diminished the ranks of regime forces, the working class and urban masses could eventually join the revolution and participate in a decisive battle, according to Guevara. Al Qaeda also subscribed to Mao's conception of a people's war, attempting to leverage social, political, and economic grievances to recruit more fighters to the jihad. Qurashi wrote that the mujahidin could not be defeated "because they are part of the people and they hid among the masses. This strategy is enough to end the superiority of advanced weapons, which are primarily designed for use in open areas with well-defined features." As a result, "stateless nations" have the ability to defeat nation-states, Qurashi concluded.[xiii] Writing about the mujahidin fight against Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, Naji stressed the need to revive "dogma and jihad in the hearts of the Muslim masses," particularly after witnessing "the example and model of these poor, Afghani people – their neighbors – in jihad. They were able to remain steadfast in the face of the strongest military arsenal and the most vicious army (in the world) with respect to the nature of its members at that time."[xiv]
Guevara and Al Qaeda agreed that people living within the foco do not necessarily need to be on the side of the rebellion at the beginning of the struggle, and that it might be necessary to build the revolution externally, using foreign fighters, to spark the revolution and spur neutral locals to the cause. Guerrilla violence – and the oppressive regime's response to the violence – could radicalize neutrals living in rebel sanctuaries. "We should not be afraid of violence, the midwife of new societies; only such violence should be unleashed precisely at the moment when the people's leaders find circumstances most favourable," Guevara wrote.[xv]
Yet both Guevara and Al Qaeda encountered significant problems trying to harness local grievances to their focoist approach. Guevara and his Cuban vanguard failed to inspire a larger revolt in the Congo in 1964 and struggled to gain local support from the local populace in Bolivia in 1965 – the latter campaign ending with Che's capture and execution at the hands of government forces.[xvi] Similarly, Al Qaeda has had difficulty aligning myriad local grievances into a global jihad.[xvii] "Political, economic, social and geographic conditions differ radically across the Muslim world," wrote Mark Stout. "Hence, it is difficult to imagine that a generic blueprint for revolution will work in all countries."[xviii]
Mao, Guevara, and Al Qaeda all stressed the need for an intellectual vanguard to lead the revolution, educate the masses, and ensure military actions aligned with political objectives. Both Mao and Guevara discussed the importance of synchronization of military and political objectives. Without any irony, they prescribed the use of political elites to lead revolts with the ultimate goal of a dictatorship of the proletariat and equality among all people. "The war that we are fighting today for the emancipation of the Chinese is a part of the war for the freedom of all human beings, and the independent, happy, and liberal China that we are fighting to establish fighting today will be a part of that new world order," Mao wrote. "A conception like this is difficult for the simple-minded militarist to grasp and it must therefore be carefully explained to him."[xix] Guevara also defined the relationship between the political elites leading the revolution and the rural guerrillas who provide the bulk of the manpower and support from the foco. "The peasantry is a class which, because of the ignorance in which it has been kept and the isolation in which it lives, requires the revolutionary and political leadership of the working class and the revolutionary intellectuals," Guevara wrote. "Without that it cannot alone launch the struggle and achieve victory." The vanguard bears a special responsibility to ensure the people are aware of the political objectives for which they are fighting, according to Suri. "It is necessary that an elite bears the costs of reviving the jihad in people's reality after it has been completely forgotten," he wrote.[xx] Al Qaeda's vanguard would design a military campaign that exhausted enemy forces and drained regime coffers, as well as a media strategy that recruited new jihadists and marginalized those who refused to join, according to Naji.[xxi] "The people will be patient with us as long as we are in the vanguard of those who are patient," he wrote. "But if we begin to complain, lament, and worry from now on, then the people have the right to be worried (about us)."[xxii]
Mao, Guevara, and Al Qaeda each developed a framework for revolution and guerrilla warfare shaped by their respective experiences in China, Cuba, and parts of the world where totalitarian Islamism thrived. Although Mao himself never tried to export revolution beyond Asia, his ideas found receptive audiences among rebellions around the world. Guevara borrowed the chairman's ideas about political action, violence, popular support, and an intellectual vanguard to fit the conditions of his revolts in Cuba, Latin America, and Africa. Both Mao and Guevara influenced Al Qaeda's leading thinkers, who stressed the primacy of violence in setting the conditions for the revolution and the value of brutal tactics that shocked opponents into obedience and radicalized new members. Although Mao, Guevara, and many of Al Qaeda's leaders and thinkers are dead, their ideas have lived on to shape Daesh the next generation of revolutionaries.
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Mao, Tse-tung. On Guerrilla Warfare, trans. by Samuel B. Griffith. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers (1961).
Mao, Tse-Tung. On The Protracted War (May-June 1938). https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm#bm19
Naji, Abu Bakr. The Management of Savagery: The Most Critical Phase Through Which the Ummah Will Pass, trans. by William McCants. John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University (May 2006).
Payne, Kenneth. "Building the Base: Al Qaeda's Focoist Strategy." Conflict & Terrorism 34, no. 2 (2011).
Stout, Mark. "The Makers of Jihadist Strategy." War on the Rocks book review of Michael W. S. Ryan's Decoding Al Qaeda's Strategy: The Deep Battle Against America (February 4, 2014). http://warontherocks.com/2014/02/the-makers-of-jihadist-strategy/
[i] Kenneth Payne, "Building the Base: Al Qaeda's Focoist Strategy," Conflict & Terrorism 34, no. 2 (2011), 125.
[ii] Mao Tse-Tung, On The Protracted War (taken from a series of lectures given by Mao Tse-tung in May-June 1938), paragraphs 36-37. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected- works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm
[iii] Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare, trans. by Samuel B. Griffith (New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1961), 43.
[iv] Mao, On Guerrilla Warfare, 7.
[v] Ernesto "Che" Guevara, "Guerrilla Warfare: A Method," Cuba Socialista (September 1963), 9-10.
[vi] Payne, "Building the Base: Al Qaeda's Focoist Strategy," 125.
[vii] Guevara, "Guerrilla Warfare: A Method," 8.
[viii] Abu Bakr Naji, The Management of Savagery: The Most Critical Phase Through Which the Ummah Will Pass, trans. by William McCants (John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, May 2006), 73
[ix] Naji, The Management of Savagery, 74-75.
[x] Payne, 124.
[xi] Ibid, 130.
[xii] Guevara, 7-8.
[xiii] Payne, 129.
[xiv] Naji, The Management of Savagery, 30.
[xv] Guevara, 9.
[xvi] Payne, 127-128.
[xvii] Ibid, 128.
[xviii] Mark Stout, "The Makers of Jihadist Strategy," War on the Rocks book review of Michael W. S. Ryan's Decoding Al Qaeda's Strategy: The Deep Battle Against America, February 4, 2014 (accessed March 20, 2016). http://warontherocks.com/2014/02/the-makers-of-jihadist-strategy/
[xix] Mao, On Guerrilla Warfare, 40.
[xx] Payne, 132.
[xxi] Naji, 50-51.
[xxii] Ibid, 105-106.
Jeff Wong is the president of StratEdge Consulting LLC, a defense consulting firm. As a US Marine infantry officer, he deployed twice to Iraq (2003 and 2008) and Afghanistan (2003-04), and continues to serve in the reserves. He has a master's degree in security policy studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. In his previous career, he was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press.
Re: My argument below -- that it is the U.S./the West today that has taken on the role of the "insurgent;" this, given that it is the U.S./the West today that is the one seeking to undermine, upset, eliminate and replace the "status quo," (to: wit: states and societies organized, ordered and oriented along political, economic and social lines other than those of the West). Re: this such argument, consider the following from the current issue of Foreign Affairs; specifically, the article entitled "The Case for Offshore Balancing," by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt:
... The setbacks are the natural consequence of the misguided grand strategy of liberal hegemony that Democrats and Republicans have pursued for years. This approach holds that the United States must use its power not only to solve global problems but also to promote a world order based on international institutions, representative governments, open markets, and respect for human rights. As "the indispensable nation," the logic goes, the United States has the right, responsibility, and wisdom to manage local politics almost everywhere. At its core, liberal hegemony is a revisionist grand strategy: instead of calling on the United States to merely uphold the balance of power in key regions, it commits American might to promoting democracy everywhere and defending human rights whenever they are threatened.
There is a better way. By pursuing a strategy of "offshore balancing," Washington would forgo ambitious efforts to remake other societies and concentrate on what really matters: preserving U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere and countering potential hegemons in Europe, Northeast Asia, and the Persian Gulf ...
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2016-06-13/case-o…
Thus, as outlined above, essentially what the U.S./the West has done, post-the Old Cold War of yesterday, is to step in to the footsteps of the Soviets/the communists. In our case today, however, the U.S./the West seeking, via our very own "world revolution," to cause all outlying states and societies of the world to be organized, ordered and oriented along OUR political, economic and social lines. (This, rather than along communist political, economic and social lines, as the Soviets/the communists sought to achieve, via their "world revolution" efforts, in the Old Cold War of yesterday.)
Attempting to come full circle now:
Given that it is the U.S./the West, in the New/Reverse Cold War of today, much as it was the Soviets/the communists, in the Old Cold War of yesterday, that appear to be the "insurgents;" to wit: those seeking to upset the "status quo" and, via "world revolution," achieve a "new world order." (As per our such version of this "new world order," see Mearsheimer/Walt's first quoted paragraph above),
Given this such, common it would seem, "insurgent"/"undermine, destroy and replace the 'status quo' mission" (the true understanding of the "ties that bind" -- the U.S./the West to Mao, Che, etc., today?), should we not be looking to such luminaries as Mao, Che, etc..; this, so as to show us how we might better proceed to achieve our "revolutionary" goals of today?
This, rather than looking at these such individuals (Mao, Che, etc.), in some other light?
In reply to by Robert C. Jones
In the 19th and early 20th Century, "colonization" was well-ensconced and, indeed, represented THE "status quo;" one that had been achieved and established often centuries before.
When rebellion against colonization began in the more-recent era; these "rebels" (those local populations seeking political, economic and/or social "change" from the foreign domination represented by "colonization"); these such local folks would indeed seem to be the "insurgents."
And, accordingly, those foreign entities seeking to retain their colonies (the "status quo"); these such folks would, indeed -- in this specific scenario -- seem to be the "counterinsurgents."
Our conflicts today, however, appear to more-closely resemble those that occur during period in history when Western imperialism begins -- not when it ends.
To wit: a time when much more-modern, and much more-powerful states and societies (primarily those of the West) sought to overcome the "cultural backwardness" of other states and societies; this, so as to better accommodate "normal economic intercourse" and "free trade" ambitions of these more-modern/more-powerful nations of the West (Schumpeter).
In these such instances (yesterday and today), is it not the much more-modern and much more-powerful imperialist nations of the West that should be seen as the "insurgents?"
This, given that THEY are the ones that are attempting (via "colonization" then; via "transformation" more along modern western political, economic and social lines today) to undermine, overthrow and replace the "status quo?"
Herein, both yesterday and today, various state and non-state actors -- thus targeted and attacked -- resisting the warm embrace of the West. And, thus, taking on the role of the "counterinsurgent"/the guy seeking to retain the "status quo?"
Robert C. Jones
Mao, Che, and Ho all viewed insurgency through the lens of the insurgent. As did our founding fathers. It is a clearer, purer view than that seen by the counterinsurgent. Current US/Western perspective is that of the counterinsurgent.
Revolutionary insurgency, illegal political conflict within a single system of governance, is a different genus of political conflict from that described by Clausewitz as "war." Over-application of war-theory to revolution is a common, and devastating mistake made by counterinsurgents. So is thinking that one is a counterinsurgent when one is in a foreign land helping another resolve an insurgency of their own.
Revolutionary Insurgency is the rawest form of democracy. It is also the most tragic, disruptive and inefficient form. It is the final argument of the people, and typically occurs when and where powerful grievance exists, and legal forms of democratic change are denied. Dictators are better at suppressing insurgency, but inclusive and effective democratic processes are best at preventing and resolving revolution.
Given my thesis below, which suggests that it is the governments of such great nations as the U.S./the West today, much as it was the governments of the Soviets/the communists in the Old Cold War of yesterday, that one should look to for who is fostering, promoting, projecting and/or generating "revolution" -- on a regional and/or even world-wide scale -- consider the following excerpt from a 1973 paper, by author D.M. Condit, entitled: Modern Revolutionary Warfare: An Analytical Overview:
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE
Interestingly enough, governments have also exploited revolutionary techniques, in a number of situations, including both offensive and defensive postures during general war, localized warfare, and even peacetime. These uses, as well as some possible defensive and offensive uses of revolutionary warfare in conjunction with nuclear, are posited in chapter III. It is certainly feasible for governments, including this one, to consider support of revolutionary warfare as a useful tactic.
At the same time, the United States remains under a number of constraints in the possible support of revolutionary warfare in foreign areas, both in relation to the ideologically-opposed communist powers and the less-committed Third World.
First, the United States generally lacks the useful, committed local proxies that have abetted and shielded communist efforts.
Second, the United States lacks the cohesive motivational force of a communist philosophy, with its built-in incentives to revolution. While identification of the United States with an abundant economy may be attractive, many nations are not ready for industrial modernization. Attempts at modernization create stress and pain, and capitalism as a philosophy is identified with an alien and unattractive colonial and imperialist past. Despite its failure to "deliver," communism continues to attract revolutionary fronts. Despite its successes, capitalism does not "sell."
Third, partly for the first two reasons, the United States lacks a revolutionary clientele, particularly one that would accept direction in return for support.
Fourth, the success of insurgency, despite popular myth, is highly uncertain.
Fifth and further, revolutionary success has often required time-for example, 26 years in China, 27 years thus far (and still no unification) in Vietnam-and even time does not necessarily spell success, as the Greek communists and Angolan nationalists have discovered. Could this country afford to wait so long for a policy of aid to revolution to bear fruit?
Sixth, the passage of time increases the cost of supporting insurgency in terms of price escalation, possible embarrassment, concessions made elsewhere, and opportunities lost in the interim.
Seventh, one of the prices must be the loss of internal stability, as even the U.S.S.R. has discovered. Can it be that encouragement, of external revolution also encourages internal instability?
Eighth, a further price is likely to be a high cost in external relations, as other regimes and governments ponder the security of their relations with the United States. To support a policy of aiding revolution abroad would mean undoing the work of over 25 years in attempting to develop a stable international system-just as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China appear more ready to accept the constraints of the state system.
Feasibility, value, and cost all appear to argue against any new and radical policy of support for external revolution.
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/764648.pdf
Of course, with the winning of the Old Cold War, and the rise of such ideas as "universal (Western) values," "the end of history" (the Western version) and "the overwhelming appeal of our way of life," etc.:
a. These such understandings and cautions, as outlined by Mr. Condit above, were shit-canned/thrown to the wind. And
b. The U.S./the West, instead, embarked upon a "world revolution" project of its very own.
The driving power behind revolution is always the grievance against government as it currently exists, not the promise of governance as it might become.
Governments/Politicians always fixate on the wrong end of the equation. This is why governments tend to suppress insurgents rather than resolve insurgency. This is why governments fixate on ideology as being causal rather than mere accelerant. This is why governments wonder why Libya isn't a stable democracy "already." This is why large segments of the Iraqi and Afghan population continue to revolt against the "legitimate" governments we crafted for them.
Mao, Ho and bin Laden did not invent insurgency, but they all understood it far better than the post-colonial, governmental perspective that corrupts Western doctrine on the topic.
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Bill M,
In my personal experience the difference between how we read historical accounts of military conflict and how our interpretation of these accounts differ from those 'who were there' -but have no desire to propagate the experience - lies at the very core of why so much has gone wrong in our wars since the end of WW2.
When we cite Sun Tzu, CvC, Jomini, Yosemite Sam etc. - regards their first and foremost lessons, know thy self as thine enemy, COG, long-eared vermin blah, blah, blah, we all nod our solemn agreement but dwell very little on the inescapable fact that the advice we proscribe to these sages is based on data that is in fact 2nd, 3rd, 4th hand opinion/gossip/antidote/hearsay. This essayist's supposed intimacy with the doctrine espoused by Mao, Guevara, and Bin Laden is obviously a construct based on personal bias at best or hearsay at worst. It is all a matter of opinion, and as we all know, we've all got one of those.
A case in point is those who were on the Long March with Mao. Despite Mao's 'golden' praise for those comrades who survived the epic retreat, you could not have encountered an individual more of a contrarian to Mao's legacy than the political/philosophical mind-set embodied in the Long March veteran Deng Xiaoping.
Looking back thru a lens granted by the privilege of hindsight you could not have imagined a more counter-revolutionary opposing Mao's political philosophy than that that instigated by Deng. Deng proved to be Mao's nemesis. If you reflect upon the 40 million who died as a consequence of Mao's Great Leap Forwards, the Cultural l Revolution and the Little Red Book and the 500 million people Deng's reforms have lifted out of poverty, the so-called greatness of Mao seems idiotic. You have to wonder at what point during their 9000 km long flight from the Kuomintang did Deng come to realize the Great Chairman had lost the plot.
Winston Churchill is another famous figure who was evidently a complete moron when it came to military strategy. Bizarrely Churchill's dashing and bold Gallipoli campaign of 1915 - which ranks as one of the most poorly conceived campaigns in military history - did not/does not cause pause for those who claim the greatness of Churchill. Churchill's insistence, 25 years later, to open a second front in Norway, another even more disastrous front in Greece and ' Fortress' Singapore in 1940-41 came as no surprise to those who had witnessed his vain-glorious deluded state of mind when it came to military strategy.
Churchill provides an insight into the problem himself 'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it myself!' No one who had served in either world war were surprised when the 'Great Man' lost the British General Election in 1945.
As I have banged on ad nausea the Green Team who were with Ho and Giap in 1945 testified to the reality that the impoverished assumptions by our leadership that condemned us to the Vietnam War, defied the simplest of basic ground-truths that are as irrefutable today as they were in 1945.
Way back then, men who had gone thru the cauldron of WW2 (wherein 200 US KIA every day was the norm) testified to the notion that an alliance with Vietnamese nationalism; as a buffet opposing Chinese expansionism, was a strategic sentiment in sync with ground-truth and their understandings were at complete odds to the fit of fancy epitomized by the Domino Theory. Look at the strategic picture today and you would consider the notion of Vietnamese nationalism countering Chinese expansionism as a no-brainer - much as it was apparent in 1945.
Go down to the Wall in DC and ponder that the depressing implications of that ground-truth and reflect upon the absurdity of our Domino Theory and the implications of our current inability to analyse the strategic dynamic.
When confronted by our decision to support French colonialism, coupled with the absurd notion the Vietnamese nationalists would submit to Chinese domination, the Viet Minh and the Chinese had no choice but believe our position was a clumsy lie and we were in fact attempting to re-establish Franco colonialism and intended to invade China.
15 years after the end of the Vietnam War; whilst rattling along the night train to Kunming, I had a discussion with a group of men who had constructed the Chengdu-Kunming railway on this very subject. The railway with its 800 tunnels cost the lives of 2100 PLA navvies and was built by the PLA to prevent the invasion of China by the US up thru the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam.
When I countered it was they who were hoping to exploit the Vietnamese and expand Chinese Realpolitik down thru SE Asia – they all burst out laughing. It took another whole bottle of whisky to convince them I was serious. The upshot of our drunken agreement was best described by the quote attributed to Ho himself.
"I for one would rather sniff French shit for five years than eat Chinese shit for the rest of my life."
As far as these old men were concerned nobody ever described the Chinese-Vietnamese relationship better.
A more vivid and succinct example of the historical perception parting ways with ground-truth is the nuclear strikes on Japan in August 1945. Everyone at the time (including a Japanese Major who surrendered to my father in September 1945) realized the two attacks saved the lives of millions of Japanese who would have otherwise perished if the Japanese mainland had been invaded.
Perhaps 50 million people who are alive today, owe their existence to 3 generations who were born to those folks who survived the cancellation of the ground invasion. In other words all of that humanity exists thanks to a few square miles at the center of Nagasaki and Hiroshima being wiped off the map.
Move on to Afghanistan and the whole notion that the conflict is based upon a philosophy pertaining to an inspiration determined by a super-natural being suggests to me we have not progressed beyond the folly of those who propagated the validity of the Domino Theory, the Gulf of Tonkin torpedo attacks , Iraq WMDs etc. etc. In fact if one chooses to embrace that laundry list of folly the reality of Santa Claus would not look out of place on the 'Big Board' at the Pentagon.
In Afghanistan we have attempted to shape a strategy that adhered to the notion that Pakistan was in some way an ally in our effort to bring political stability and economic prosperity to Afghanistan. IMO this absurdity ranks with the notion that the Vietnamese would have welcomed a Chinese occupation after the Viet Minh defeated the French.
I mean to ask what possible reason would the Punjabi elite wish to bring about political stability for the ethnic Persian 'other' who occupy the Hindu Kush and its approaches beyond the Indus River. They have fought countless wars and despised the "pig-skin colored" Pathans for 6000 years. Extrapolate the weight of that prejudice onto the Vietnamese attitude shaped by a mere 2000 years of anti-Chinese hatred and go figure the amount of co-operation you should expect from the Pakistanis.
In the wake of 9/11 one could be forgiven for hoping such a heavy blow would have opened such a painful wound in the national psyche that an unadulterated examination of OBL and ALQ would have been absolutely sacred. An examination in the much the way Belleau Wood, Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Buna-Gona, Pelalu, Ch'ongch'on River, Chosin Reservoir, Ia Drang, Hill 937 all provoked a response to cut thru the hubris that had conspired to bring on the disaster. IMHO we have failed so utterly to respect ground-truth in our response to 9/11 that we are now facing nuclear proliferation within rogue states - some of who deny our right to even exist.
The sense our leadership is in denial regards ALQ is overwhelming. Straight off the bat is the notion that ALQ was born out of the war against the Soviets in AF is one that really breaks my balls. Hundreds of US Gov personnel know for a fact that the Wahhabi influence in AF was a post-Soviet entity. OBL's ambition was to replace the HoS with his own political construct and the absurdity of his religious leanings was a consequence of a painfully obvious Savior Complex that was comical to behold. The notion that the 9/11 attacks were acts of religious devotion and not an attempt to unseat the HoS flies in the face of a mountain of evidence.
The Wahhabi support for the Taliban and their PAK UW campaign is considered by many in positions of leadership to be a religiously motivated desire to bring religious enlightenment to the Afghans and not as a down-payment for Saudi access to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. I mean to ask have these folks ever left the Beltway.
Saddam's support for ALQ, Saddam's WMD etc. etc. - the list of logical fallacies and impoverished assumptions in the face of so many voices begging to differ is staggering.
Rather than strategic set-back being the catalyst for positive change (as our forbears managed to instigate) our generation's reaction is to pile misunderstanding upon misunderstanding, failure upon failure, misery upon misery. IMHO we are fast approaching the point wherein speaking truth to power will not redeem the situation. Our circumstance has become so dire that those in power are unable to recognize the truth even when they choose to hear it.
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the road to a nuclear exchange is paved with our current deceit.
Enjoyed this short thought piece, but I also see it as another piece that perpetuates the myth of Mao. We should give Mao his due, but his due needs to be viewed from a wider perspective. He exiled at propaganda, and as most understand now,information in its own way can be decisive in war. Mao effectively leveraged a naïve U.S. journalist, Egar Snow, as a tool to largely create the myth of Mao within the U.S., a myth that even GEN Marshal bought into. To some degree this myth in the U.S. contributed to Mao's ultimate victory (and arguably at great cost to the Chinese people who paid dearly under Mao's leadership), because the U.S. sought a political solution at the end of WWII, and pulled the rug out from Chiang's feet (not without reason, but when you're dealing with two evils, you pick the lesser of the two).
The Chinese communists in the early phases of WWII would have been defeated handily if Chiang Kai-shek was not detained by a warlord and his own generals in order to convince him to ignore the communists until the Japanese invaders were defeated. This was a black swan event that created an opportunity for Mao (who had only recently assumed leadership of the movement) by giving him and the communist movement breathing space that they used wisely.
The myth of Mao defeating the Japanese needs to be challenged, while Chiang was corrupt and inept in many regards it was still his forces that did the heaviest fighting against the Japanese. Mao's forces did little during the early phases of war so it could build up its fighting strength, and then engage the Japanese toward the end when the outcome was more certain. Of course Chiang's forces were increasingly depleted by this time (and never united, they were largely a coalition of the willing warlords).
Mao received a lot of propaganda credit for fighting the Japanese at towards the end of the war, an effort that was supported by the USSR. Yet, it was never Stalin's intent for Mao to win. At the end of the day Stalin was more of a realist than an idealist, he wanted China to remain divided and weak. The USSR was dealing with a significant threat on their western border, so they wanted a weakened China on their Eastern border. At the of the war Chiang's forces were exhausted, and due largely to Snow creating the myth of Mao a legitimate leader in China, the U.S. decreased its support for Chiang's forces.
As for Mao allegedly coming up with the attack when you're strong, and retreat when you're weak, that is nonsense. Sun Tzu wrote the same centuries before, and George Washington, and many others used the same tactic long before it was popularized by modern media as Mao's unique contribution to strategy. Mao certainly used this approach effectively, but it can't be attributed to him. His conventional forces certainly didn't due that when they opposed us during the Korean War.
Giving Mao his due as a strategist, he knew how to leverage violence to achieve political ends. A strategic concept that the U.S. has lost sight of. We also shouldn't forget that despite Mao's writings about the importance of winning over the population, he didn't hesitate to use terror to do so in many cases.
When studying these leaders, Mao, Che, and your assorted Jihadists, you can't study their strategies in isolation, you have to study them within the larger strategic context of their location and time. Strategies are always competitive, so who were they competing with? What were the environmental factors? What were the black swans that unexpectedly created a new situation that they either exploited as an opportunity or failed to adapt to and lost? I think we focus too much on reading their strategic approaches, without seriously looking at the context in which it was applied.
Still a great article, just some additional thoughts.
The appropriate question today would seem to be: Given that we have now, post-the Old Cold War, embarked on a "world revolution" attempt ourselves, what can Che, Mao, etc., teach us; that will help us get our "world revolution" project done?
Today, we continue to ignore the elephant in the room. To wit: the fact that what we are witnessing today is:
a. The effort by the U.S./the West, to achieve "world revolution;" this, via the transformation of outlying states and societies more along modern western political, economic and social lines. Herein, the U.S./the West believing that it can (could) achieve this objective -- largely minus the use of violence -- by appealing to such things as "universal (Western) values" and "universal (Western) aspirations. And
b. The effort by the U.S./the West's various state and non-state actor opponents (example: Russia; the Islamists) acting to prevent the U.S./the West from achieving its such "transformational" objectives. Herein, appealing -- quite logically -- to such things as local values, local traditions, local aspirations, local beliefs, etc.
Thus while:
a. The U.S./the West, re: its "world revolution" effort outlined above, hopes to appeal to those individuals and groups less-entranced by and less-ensconced within their local system and surroundings.
(President Obama, in his introductory letter to his 2015 National Security Strategy:
"Underpinning it all, we are upholding our enduring commitment to the advancement of democracy and human rights and building new coalitions to combat corruption and to support open governments and open societies. In doing so, we are working to support democratic transitions, while also reaching out to the drivers of change in this century: young people and entrepreneurs.")
b. Our state and non-state actor opponents (Russia, ISIS, etc.) hope to stop us in our tracks -- and indeed roll us back -- by appealing to those who hold local ideas, beliefs, aspirations, etc., closer to their chests.
The fact that the U.S./the West has (a) now had to resort to the use of violence to support its world revolution objectives and (b) has learned that, even via the use of violence, we cannot achieve the "win;" this, I suggest, tells us two important things:
1. That the appeal of our soft power (universal [Western] values, universal [Western] aspirations, etc.); this was, and indeed still is, greatly over-rated. (In fact, these such alien and profane concepts [as seen through the eyes of the local populations]; these appear to be as likely, or indeed more likely, to repel, rather than attract, the populations as a whole.) And
2. That our hard power forces, approaches, assets, etc. -- now being tasked to pick up the "soft power" slack -- these have not, as yet, been organized, ordered and oriented as per (a) the "world revolution" objective/job/project which has thus been set before them and as per (b) the challenges and challengers that they will, therein, face.
Thus, the Bottom Line Question: Given the commonality of a "world revolution" project (their's then; our's now), what (if anything) can we learn from Mao, Che, etc. -- this, re: the use of soft and/or hard power -- that will help us get our "world revolution" project done (on time and on budget)?
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This is an excellent essay. I hope the author would consider at some point including the three tactical components of how Mao fought a guerrilla war and how it was applied in Vietnam, "enemy attacks we retreat", etc.,.
I am left with the question considering how brutal guerrilla's treat their enemies the dynamics of dehumanization. I am sensitive to this point because going into Memorial Day my humanity has been questioned simply because I am a veteran of the US Army. A Soldier for Life. So when the Taliban leadership claims it can hide in the people who is a person in their eyes? From what I know they have a select process for defining what a human being is. Whereas counter revolutionaries are considered anti-people in the communist cultures. Who does the Taliban believe is less than human?
I would argue that we need to examine more fully the claim "stateless nations" have the ability to defeat nation-states" and what it means.
A protest on a California campus advocating Fatah turned ugly, protesters chased a young Jewish woman who was forced to hide and call 9-11. To what degree her life was in danger I can not say but that was here in the USA this weekend, who are "the people" and who doesn't get to be part of the herd?


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This blog post was written by Paige O'Grady, Bachelor of Business Administration of Wilfrid Laurier University. Paige is one of five finalists for CAMP's first ever Marketing Student of the Year. When I first entered the Business program at WLU, I had accepted the fact that I would probably end up with a mildly interesting job, perhaps in accounting, or maybe finance. The creative outlets that I enjoyed so much in school – writing, drawing, designing, and painting – would be past times enjoyed outside of the regular nine-to-five. But then I discovered about marketing, and it fundamentally shifted my career path. I love marketing because it allows me to pursue my creative interests professionally. Generally speaking, this profession isn't subject to the strict confines of a code or specific multi-step processes. Marketers have the unique ability to decide what they would like to communicate, how they will communicate it and what channels they will use. Along the way, they have the ability to creatively design every aspect of the process! This creativity and freedom will impact the way the message is interpreted. Another reason why I've found my passion in marketing is that it is one of the few professions which gives you to opportunity to influence how someone feels. As consumers, it's easy to see how marketing impacts our life, and specifically our emotional state. It's fantastic that marketers have the capability to brighten someone's day with a cheery advertisement, inspire someone to purchase a good that will have a positive impact on them, or even scare a consumer into doing something that will better their life, such as breast cancer screening. And of course, although I love the creative aspect of marketing, I must also address the left side of my brain and why it loves this profession so much. Enhanced by the digitalization and marketing technology, the measurability of marketing efforts is something that really excites me. Sorting through data, whether it is from a landing page, email campaign or social strategy, is truly moving. For the first time, marketers just beginning their career have the potential to get near-perfectly accurate data on how their marketing efforts are working. I love this aspect because it allows marketers to get a solid evaluation on their performance and strive for the best outcomes available!


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Born William Ray Guy in the 22nd December 1949, in Swainsboro, Georgia USA, Ray is a retired American Football player who spent his entire career playing for the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders, from 1973 to 1986, and with whom he won three Super Bowl rings. He played in punter position, and was selected for seven Pro Bowl games, while he was named to the First-team All-Pro six times.
Have you ever wondered how rich Ray Guy is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Guy's net worth is as high as $3 million, an amount earned largely through his successful career as a professional American Football player.
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Ray was born in Swainsboro and went to Thomson High School in Thomson, Georgia. After matriculation he enrolled at Southern Mississippi where he started playing football. During his college career, he was rather successful, earning a unanimous All-American selection in 1972, and setting several records including the 61-yard field goal in a snowstorm during a game in Utah.
After his senior year, Ray declared for the 1973 NFL Draft and became the first punter to be drafted in the first round, as he was selected by the Oakland Riders as the 23rd pick. He remained a Raider his whole career, playing in 207 games, making 1,049 punts for 44,493 yards with the longest punt being 77 yards. Thanks to his great plays Ray signed several lucrative contracts over the course of his career, which increased his wealth to a large degree. He posted several records, including making 619 consecutive punts between blocks, and a 111 career punts in post season games, another record. He won three Super Bowls with the Raiders, in 1976, 1980, and 1983, when the Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles. He was also selected for the Pro-Bowl game seven times, consecutively from 1973 to 1978 and then again in 1980. Also, he was named into the First-team All-Pro six times, also consecutively from 1973 to 1978, while in 1975 he won the Golden Toe Award.
After his career ended, he was included in the NFL 1970s All-Decade Team and NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team. Moreover, Ray was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, both in 2014, making it the hallmark of his successful career.
Regarding his personal life, Ray has two children with his ex-wife Beverly.
Back in 2011, Ray had severe financial problems as he filed for bankruptcy, and even put his Super Bowl rings for sale, fetching almost $100,000. However, he has managed to recover financial stability.
Full Name Ray Guy
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Who is looking for perfection?
Today, just after the holiest and most awe-inspiring days of the new year, I was so happy to discover this… it's something I wrote way back, when I was a new mom, and it rings just as true today.
God is not looking for perfection, and though I always knew this, in my mind, I think that it only began to sink into my heart not so long ago. It cost me a great many tears until I reached this realization, but the reward was infinitely wonderful, because it gives a sense of security and confidence each one of us, as His precious child, deserves.
He is not, and cannot be, looking for perfection, because He did not make me perfect. He left room for improvement, and He delights in, and appreciates the efforts I undertake to improve.
Yes, there is the standard (vast and challenging) set of commandments each practicing Jew sees him or herself committed to. But other than that, He watches and appreciates me according to my own abilities and limitations – not those of other people.
For example, even though I am dedicated to – and know my place is in – my home, with my family, caring for my children, even though I have never been happy and content anywhere the way I am in my home throughout each day, the practical truth is that I'm challenged when it comes to everyday domestic tasks. And I mean, really challenged, which is why, when I say "if I can do it, anyone can", I mean it most sincerely. I think the reason for this is a combination of natural clumsiness and forgetfulness (I'm prone to knocking things over, and I'd be lost without my notes and lists), and not being required to lend a hand around the house when I was a child, which could have formed helpful lifelong habits (but which undoubtedly would have been frustrating for whoever tried to engage me in helping).
So, if someone stops by one day and examines my house with a critical eye, perhaps some lingering undusted spots may be noticed, and some lack of order. But God doesn't see this. He knows what my house had been like before, and knows the effort I put in to achieve a certain measure of tidiness. He knows the long hours I spend working in my home every day, long after the baby goes to sleep, scrubbing floors, ironing and working in my kitchen. He knows I do it all with a happy heart, thinking about how to make life more comfortable and orderly for my family. And he appreciates it, even though I might be forever and always lagging behind someone else's standards.
He doesn't want or expect us to be perfect. He wants our dedication, our faithfulness to the important tasks handed to us, our willingness to improve, our best efforts, our cheerfulness, our joy in being with Him, our appreciation of the blessings that adorn our lives. And He wants, appreciates and loves us, just the way we are, with our weaknesses, our misconceptions and our failings.
He sees us through eyes of compassion and love, which is how we are to be with our own children: to value and cherish them for what they are, never compare them with others, but celebrate their achievements as they make progress at their own pace. Who knows how many children's souls have been terribly wounded, not by lack of care or provision, but by constant remarks about some other child, who speaks three languages and plays the violin. Thankfully, God is beyond human failings. Yes, He will never fail us.
We should know that each and every little thing is rewarded, even when it is seemingly noticed and appreciated by no one. He sees, He knows, and that is why pleasing people or measuring up to other people's standards is not supposed to be our primary goal. He looks at our heart, and may we ever and always be strengthened and comforted by this knowledge.
I love writing fiction, and feel so incredibly lucky to have several books out in the world now, with more planned to come under my fiction pen name, Hannah Ross. Wild Children, the first part of a post-apocalyptic saga, was released close to a year and a half ago, and I've been working on the sequels ever since.
This project has been a long time in the making, because my publisher and I made the decision to release not one, but two sequels simultaneously.
The Hourglass is told from the perspective of Priscilla Dahl, a 16-year-old girl who forfeits her privileged position in society to seek justice. Freeborn is the story of the backlash that occurs when the government decides to rein in the outlaws it has shunned for many years. The beloved characters from the first book – the children from the orphanage, Benjamin Grey, his parents Rebecca and Daniel, and the new friends he makes in the world of freedom and precarious life on the edge – are all there in the sequels, too.
A few months ago, just as we were finalizing some details of the impending release, a dear and beloved friend of mine, Julie Ryan, unexpectedly passed away. As I was reeling from the shock of these horrible news, my publisher asked about the book dedications, and I thought that it would be a fitting tribute to dedicate The Hourglass to Julie. The theme of this book is time – the running out of it, and doing things that will make every hour and day of our allotted time count. This is something Julie understood well, and taught me – in her life, and ultimately in her sudden death. She made every day count. She lived her life to the fullest. So, dear one up above, this book is for you.
In celebration of this double new release, Wild Children will be free on September 15th and 16th, so go ahead and download your copy. Your support in the form of shares, reviews and social media mentions is always appreciated. Thank you.
Because of the house move, we didn't plant anything this spring and summer, but we did have a nice surprise: a volunteer tomato plant that sprang up in the garden and wrapped itself around a bush, turning into a mighty tomato tree. On our last visit, we discovered it to be full of red, ripe, beautiful (and delicious!) tomatoes.
We were surprised that the people who are currently renting our house didn't pick them. Apparently, they thought tomatoes that don't come from the store aren't safe to consume.
We collected literally a bucketful of produce from this one plant, which just goes to show you don't necessarily need a large garden to grow a lot of food. And there wasn't a single worm or a sign of blight or rot! I have never seen such lovely tomatoes.
Also wanted to take this opportunity to wish a Shana Tova (happy new year) to all the Jewish people out there. In our family, Rosh haShana is always a double celebration, as it's also our sweet Tehilla's birthday. It's unbelievable that 8 years have gone by already!
In between all the rush of unpacking and preparing for the High Holy Days, we are getting to know our new neighborhood.
There are lots of beautiful green nooks and trees that are great for climbing.
Now that I have actually made a dent in the boxes and have all the essentials on hand, I look forward to making progress on this weedy patch of land and seeing what we can grow and do there.
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Catch a movie with friends at the Oculus Cinema
All new social features are coming when the Rift launches in 2016
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The Oculus Cinema app places your virtual-self inside a plush movie theatre where you can watch films until your heart's content, but so far you're the only bugger in there. Not for long, though. Oculus has a new update in store that will let your friends come to the same screening.
Speaking to Road to VR, Oculus creator Palmer Luckey explained that the point of the app isn't to be in a movie theatre alone, instead, "you want to replicate the experience of being in a movie theater or home theater with all of your friends."
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Luckey went on to talk about a number of social features, albeit there was no word of a popcorn-throwing app. Maybe we're reaching on that one.
"We already have a lot of internal social functions in Cinema that are going to be rolling out in the next few months," he said.
"Things like avatar systems, being able to communicate with people over long distances… rather than just local multiplayer, but having actual long distant multiplayer as well."
The Oculus Cinema app has been available on the Samsung Gear VR from day one, but it's been a lonely place thus far. It won't be too long though before your pals join in. The new social features will be rolled out with the release of the Oculus Rift in early 2016.
We're all for it. The idea of a virtual cinema is exciting, a place where you can kick back with mates from different corners of the globe and enjoy the latest movies. It certainly paves the way for a number of Matrix-style hangouts, but which would you like to see? Let us know in the comments or hit us up on Facebook.
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Moonlight Shadow News 2022
On 02/01/2022 02/01/2022 By Nill NewtIn CinemaLeave a comment
Interesting news about Moonlight Shadow, Edmund Yeo's adaptation of Banana Yoshimoto's famous novella: the film is set for a theatrical release in Taiwan on January 21, it will also be screened in different theaters in Malaysia as part of the Japanese Film Festival (January 6-January 23).
Currently broadcast by Wowow TV (Japan), the movie should be available soon on Viki (Europe) and Netflix (regions not set as of today). DVD/Bluray editions will be available at some point in Spring, late March or beginning of April.
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Back in 2012, 16-year-old Nana Komatsu was a young model and still at school. She used to travel to Tokyo on week-ends for her photoshoots and did not consider an acting career then. In 2014, much to her surprise, she was asked to audition for The World of Kanako, the next opus from famous director Tetsuya Nakashima.
She was reluctant but encouraged by relatives and friends she went to the audition. She was hired right away after a brief interview and the rest is history now. She has starred in many films since then and worked with very different directors: Takahiro Miki, Bernard Rose, Akihiko Shiota, Martin Scorsese, Hideyuki Hirayama or Akira Nagai to name just a few.
A much sought after actress and known for being extremely versatile Nana Komatsu is most certainly one of the best representatives of the 'Old School' approach to acting in the Japanese film industry (and beyond). When nuance and subtle body language prevail over wordiness, when emotion is conveyed through the eyes, you're 'old school' but there's more to it, Nana Komatsu does have a few add-ons: a surprising ability to suddenly embrace rage and also a playful side which comes close to eccentricity.
Some films are available on NetFlix, Amazon Prime Video, U-Next, Mubi, Outbuster and other online services on a regular basis, you can get a few DVDs with English subs from Amazon USA and all the original Japanese DVDs and Blurays can be purchased from CD Japan.
The following 'guide' is not based on movie genres, alphabetical order or date of release but rather on her performance in each and every film. Going to the movies is like going to the restaurant somehow, also the actress has a solid reputation as a food loving person, so this presentation makes sense in many ways. Here's the Menu right below: you'll get appetizers only, i.e. trailers and short scenes.
The blogmaster's choice (subject to change): ⭐ recommended ⭐ ⭐ personal faves
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Sayonara Kuchibiru aka Farewell Song is the one and only Japanese film at the 16th edition of the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival in South Korea (August 13-17), hence the opportunity to post and display some Korean Posters and promo cards for the films Komatsu Nana starred in.
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Yokohama Film Festival Awards
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The Award Ceremony for the 41rst Yokohama Film Festival was held on Sunday February 2, at the Kannai Hall in the Naka district, a few hundred meters from the Marine Walk in Yokohama. A cheerful Nana Komatsu attended to receive her 'Best Actress' prize for her role as Leo in Sayonara Kuchibiru/Farewell Song. Director Akihiko Shiota and co-star Ryo Narita -who won 'Best actor in a supporting role'- attended. For some unstated reason, Mugi Kadowaki could not come, she was also chosen as Best Actress, as Haru in the same movie.
Nana Komatsu told the audience she was utterly pleased as she had dreamed of being awarded as a leading actress. She also recalled how difficult it was for her to play the guitar and perform songs and how hard she tried to do her best to make things work, adding words of gratitude for her co-star Mugi Kadowaki who offered guidance and support throughout.
On 30/12/2019 15/02/2020 By Nill NewtIn Cinema, Fashion, MagazinesLeave a comment
Three movies (Samurai Marathon, Farewell Song aka Sayonara Kuchibiru and Closed Ward aka Family of strangers) with a decent harvest of awards and nominations, plus interviews, photoshoots and featured articles in more than sixty different magazines in Japan but also in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mainland China and the USA, 2019 has been a good year for actress and model Komatsu Nana.
Here's two galleries with selected moments, totally non exhaustive of course and absolutely subjective, to share and celebrate. Enjoy !
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Let's tell a story about the Canadian Open in three parts, shall we? The past, the present and the future.
The past. Ah, the glorious past. At least the long-ago past. First contested in 1904, the Canadian Open is the third oldest open golf tournament in the world, and the only national championship that is a PGA Tour event. (No, its elder Open siblings, the U.S. Open and Open Championship, are not PGA or even European tour events; they are conducted by the USGA and R&A respectively, and they are on the schedule of every sanctioned golf tour in the world.) Canadian Open past champions include a host of legendary names: Tommy Armour, Walter Hagen, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Greg Norman and Tiger Woods. Jack Nicklaus was second seven times and to this day he'll tell you not winning at least one is the failure he rues the most. In Nicklaus's day, and even through the Norman era, the tournament was often referred to as golf's "fifth major" because if one of the game's four major champions couldn't make the original World Series of Golf (or someone captured multiple majors) the Canadian Open victor filled out the field. All of the game's stars convened at Glen Abbey GC annually and other winners of the time included Tom Weiskopf, Curtis Strange and Nick Price.
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame Lee Trevino and the late Arnold Palmer are past Canadian Open champions.
The present and recent past. Not so splendid. To be blunt, the tournament has been stuck in schedule hell, between the broad shoulders of the Open Championship and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (a tournament that is expiring after this year). It's occupied that date since 2007, the lone year of the last 25 it did not have a title sponsor (Bell took its name off the marquee after 2006 but still footed the bill in '07; RBC came on board in 2008), and the year the PGA Tour shuffled the deck to accommodate the newly minted FedEx Cup. Ironically, Golf Canada (then the RCGA) had been looking forward to returning to a summer date and escaping the September slot it received in 1990. That was the year former PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman negotiated a new network television deal mandating tournament sponsors underwrite the cost of commercials. Relegated to cable TV in September, the tournament battled players not wanting to miss their kids first week of school or their college alma mater's first football game. A move to the week after the Open Championship, however, was not exactly greener grass.
And the future? Well now, that's what this article is about. Because there is a myriad of reasons to suggest it is bright. That the stars are aligning for the RBC Canadian Open to finally escape the shadows of the British Open and once again become a top tournament attracting the game's biggest names.
At some point this summer — in late June or early July — the PGA Tour is going to announce a significantly revamped schedule. Some dominoes are already in place, both officially and unofficially, but the key moves are these: The Players Championship, the tour's crown jewel property, will return to March from May. The PGA Championship, long the season's fourth major, is taking its spot, a dramatic shift that opens up August for the FedEx Cup playoffs, which means they will finish before Labour Day and avoid a television ratings battle with the NFL and college football. Also known is the Memphis stop, traditionally played the week prior to the U.S. Open, and titled by the tour's biggest spender, FedEx, is receiving the World Golf Championship designation previously assigned to Bridgestone. It will therefore move farther back in the calendar. Additionally, there are reports of new events in Detroit and Minneapolis — with Quicken Loans and 3M cited as respective backers — and the uncertain futures of stops in the Washington, D.C. area — Tiger Woods's event —and Houston, both of which are without title sponsors.
Now, every tournament title sponsor has requests, and the tour would never finalize a schedule if it acquiesced to them all. But not every sponsor titles multiple events. In fact, there are only two. One is Dell, which doesn't have much to fuss about with its name on the WGC-Match Play Championship in its home of Austin, Texas as well as the second FedEx Cup playoff event in Boston. The other is RBC, which has not only gone to great lengths to restore the Canadian Open, but also rescued the endangered and extremely popular Heritage event in Hilton Head Island, S.C., in 2012.
"Rare company," is how Pazder described RBC's PGA Tour investment.
Which is music to Mary DePaoli's ears, for it is she who has been leading the behind-the-scenes push for the Canadian Open to escape its ugly date since taking over as the bank's executive vice-president and chief marketing officer in 2015. As much as Canadian golf fans — and even some Canadian PGA Tour players — have griped about RBC and Golf Canada's apparent satisfaction with the tournament's lot, rest assured that hasn't been the case.
What is that date? Likely one of three: The week before the U.S. Open, left vacant by Memphis' move to August; the last weekend of June/first weekend of July date that Woods's sponsorless event currently holds; and the week after that, currently occupied by The Greenbrier Classic. The week before the U.S. Open is an interesting target because it is still encumbered. That is to say, a date that leads into or directly out of a major championship. There is a school of thought, however, that top Europeans coming over to play the U.S. Open might find it an attractive warm-up, especially if the golf course setup somewhat mimics the ensuing major — U.S. Open lite, if you will. The pre-British Scottish Open certainly benefits from American players wanting a links-golf tune-up and time-zone acclimatization, while the Houston stop has long employed a similar strategy, implementing loads of short grass and fast greens on the Golf Club of Houston as a lead-in to the Masters. The first weekend of July obviously coincides with Canada Day (this year, July 1 falls on a Sunday, next year on a Monday), however it sometimes conflicts with American Independence Day, too. Despite Woods hosting the D.C. tournament and that event's ties to the military, it has not drawn a strong field of late. The tournament even dangled the carrot of fireworks on the White House lawn with former president George W. Bush one year. Both of those dates, it should be noted, are ones the Canadian Open held in the past, before its 1990 move to September. The Greenbrier Classic date is currently three weeks removed from the U.S. Open and two weeks prior to the Open Championship. It's a date that Golf Canada thought it had several years ago until Greenbrier Resort owner Jim Justice paid the tour big bucks to have his Old White course designated as a TPC facility in 2011. The next year, the tournament moved away from being directly prior to the WGC-Bridgestone, doubling up the Canadian Open's trouble. Rumours have circulated that The Greenbrier is destined for the wraparound fall portion of the schedule as part of the overhaul.
Bernard Brault/Golf Canada Mary DePaoli, executive VP and chief marketing officer for RBC, has worked hard behind the scenes to get the RBC Canadian Open a better date.
All three are better than what the RBC Canadian Open has now, but DePaoli acknowledged that a new date is "not a panacea." In other words, a different, even unencumbered, date does not guarantee the star-studded field for which Canadian golf fans pine. That said, any potential upward momentum for the tournament unquestionably starts with a more desirable slot in the schedule.
So what else does Golf Canada and RBC do? If the PGA Tour does give the Canadian Open a new date — and the vibe given off by DePaoli and Laurence Applebaum, the executive director of Golf Canada, on that front is one of extreme confidence and positivity — how does the tournament ensure it is a desirable play for more than those stars who have an obligation to do so? Newly signed RBC ambassador Dustin Johnson is a great get and players such as Matt Kuchar and Graeme McDowell have name recognition, but the guys Canadian golf fans would dearly love to see are no doubt Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson and, of course, Woods.
That's an obvious question mark given Glen Abbey's uncertain future and the ugly on-going dispute between its owner, ClubLink Corp., and the City of Oakville. Here, though, is what we know. The membership of Hamilton G&CC in Ancaster, Ont., has approved hosting the RBC Canadian Open next year, which will mark the 100th anniversary of it first playing host in 1919. It has also green-lit 2023. St. George's G&CC in Toronto, where DePaoli and Dave McKay, RBC's president and CEO, are members, is discussing hosting anywhere from one to three Canadian Opens in the near future, at least at the board level. Two St. George's members (not DePaoli) confirmed those talks to SCOREGolf, but warned that the club would want some assurance that its Stanley Thompson layout would not be eased up like it was for the 2010 tournament, when eventual winner Carl Pettersson fired a 10-under-par 60 in the third round. (It should be noted that Pettersson's course record was abetted by overnight rain and morning humidity and that his winning total was a very respectable 14 under. Also, St. George's has since smartly replaced its once-wild putting surfaces, negating the need to soften them in search of more pin locations.) Shaughnessy G&CC would love to host again — and both that course and Vancouver were tremendously popular with players in 2005 and '11 — but RBC is not budging from its stated desire to remain in the Greater Toronto Area. In fact, Toronto's diversity, affluence and position as a top North American business hub have been included in RBC's persistent pitches to the tour for a new date. To that end, other Toronto-area private clubs have been examined, including Mississaugua G&CC and Lambton G&CC. Players will tell you they love playing old-style country club courses, but also that the familiarity of a single venue removes the barrier of a learning curve. From an operational standpoint, permanency removes execution risk and the need for reinvention. Discovering a best-of-both-worlds balance is likely the ultimate scenario and Golf Canada, with RBC, has left no stone unturned in examining existing facilities or vacant land in the GTA with appropriate acreage.
Getty Images Five-time Canadian Open host Hamilton G&CC in Ancaster, Ont., is set to welcome the PGA Tour back twice more in the next five years.
The plan, then, is for Golf Canada to reveal its short-term venue strategy either in concert with or on the heels of the PGA Tour's early summer schedule announcement. A better date would very likely help seal the deal with rumoured courses. But what's really important to note here is that the PGA Tour has been involved with Golf Canada and RBC every step of the way when it comes to future venues, and that it has provided its stamp of approval.
"Everything that's in the plan right now we are excited about and comfortable with," said Pazder.
The work doesn't end with a better date and a sound venue strategy. If and when those two components do indeed come to fruition, it will still be up to Golf Canada and RBC to elevate the Canadian Open to new heights. That's a difficult task given how much PGA Tour players are spoiled in every city they visit. Already, said DeLaet, the RBC Canadian Open does a fantastic job when it comes to family outings, food and other niceties, including a charter plane back from the British Open. The tournament's Canadiana, enhanced a few years back, was amplified further last year with the introduction of The Rink on Glen Abbey's par-3 seventh hole. It was well received by both players and fans and the concept will be extended this year. More, however, can be done, especially if Golf Canada and RBC lean on their partnerships. Steam Whistle recently became the official beer of the RBC Canadian Open and CP Women's Open and surely the Toronto-based brewery will be encouraged to throw parties on site. RBC signed a deal with Live Nation last May and dropping a concert in on Saturday evening featuring a big-name artist certainly could attract some star golfers. Might RBC also freshen its roster of players? It would seem likely, especially as existing members age. Purse size? That will grow too. The RBC Canadian Open is awarding $6.2 million (all figures US) in prize money this year. By comparison, The Greenbrier Classic's purse is $7.3 million. Commercial buys for tournaments in unencumbered dates — if that's what the Canadian Open gets — are also more expensive. Queried about cash, DePaoli essentially answered that RBC is in for a penny, in for a pound. The bank is armed (obviously) and ready to do what it takes. There are so many security around, check wikipedia reference – SecurityInfo to see full details.
There is also the PGA Tour's strength-of-field policy, commonly referred to as the one-in-four rule. Beginning in 2016-17, the tour mandated that those who play fewer than 25 events per season and who are not life members (20 wins, 15 years, which means Woods and Mickelson, to name two) must add an event to their schedule each year that they have not played in the previous four. The tour cannot direct players into certain events, but it does lay out options and point out which sponsors and cities would love to see them. Eventually, then, the likes of Spieth, Thomas and Fowler might very well come to Canada, upon which it will be incumbent on Golf Canada and RBC to show them why the Canadian Open is a tournament they should want to play, not have to play. To impart upon them the prestige of vying for a national open, which many of the game's younger players don't fully appreciate, outside of the U.S. and British, that is. Nonetheless, no star sustainability can happen without a better date.
"I just know that we are top of mind for the PGA Tour, together with RBC, and all you can do is be ready when opportunities come your way," said Applebaum.
Claus Andersen Past champion Brandt Snedeker believes the RBC Canadian Open deserves better as a national championship.
All of which begs the big question: What happens if the RBC Canadian Open does not get a different date? What happens if the music stops and the tournament still has a chair, but one that remains wobbly, one leg shorter than the other three? Does RBC take its money and invest elsewhere? The bank did sign that six-year renewal of both the Canadian Open and Heritage, an extension that kicks in this year, but such deals come with opt-out clauses, reported to the public or not, and you can be sure RBC built in some insurance. The question was put to DePaoli, who chose her words carefully.
When pushed, the second part of DePaoli's answer left wider lines to read between.
That is no idle threat. In a stunning move, RBC recently terminated a 20-plus-year deal with Hockey Canada because it felt it could no longer separate itself from the pack in the hockey space, especially with Scotiabank having spent mega bucks to assume the naming rights of Toronto's downtown arena. RBC saw diminished value in hockey and walked away.
So would the tour really be willing to pull the rug out from under RBC when it comes to the Canadian Open's date in this new schedule? Would it risk losing the title sponsor of two events? A behemoth bank that has spent massive amounts of money in golf, some of which has gone directly into the pockets of tour players? One thinks not. There is much more camaraderie and kinship among DePaoli, Applebaum and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan than there ever was among their respective predecessors, and better days for the tournament are surely ahead.
This story appears in the 2018 May-June Issue of SCOREGolf Magazine.


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Survey says! SNA Meeting on Lincoln Yards September 26th at 6pm @ DePaul's Student Center The board of the Sheffield Neighborhood Association has finished our community survey on the Lincoln Yards development proposal in the North Branch Corridor. The meeting which will review and discuss the community input collected in our survey will be held at DePaul University Lincoln Park Student Center at 2250 N Sheffield Rm 314AB. The entrance is at Belden & Sheffield. Please mark your calendars and be sure to join us to review the latest details on the development and to review the SNA survey. Doors will open at 5:30pm.
Meeting starts at 6pm sharp.
We hope to have a chance to hear from more residents and guest speakers as we review the developer development proposal and recent SNA survey.


"Former convent with romantic views just steps from the Forum and the Colosseum"
Situated literally on top of the ancient Roman Forum and 200 metres from the Colosseum one can only marvel at the antiquity of the Hotel Forum's surroundings? How many lavish banquets, triumphial processions and martyrs were made here? The Hotel Forum is a unique luxury hotel in Rome, Official 4 star rating the Hotel is equipped with air conditioning, garage, roof garden restaurant, meeting room, internet access etc? Impeccable service combined with unsurpassed luxury accommodation have enticed some of the world's most famous V.I.P's to stay at the Hotel Forum Rome. Famous former guests include Brigitte Bardot, Rock Hudson and the Dalai Lama who despite being surrounded by luxury insisted on sleeping on the floor!!! We hope you will use the bed if you choose to stay here!


The Book Fair Team Thanks You!
We would like to extend our sincerest thanks for your participation in the Sacajawea Book Fair. With your help, we were able to surpass our goal and raise $1500 for our school. This will go a long way towards promoting literacy and making reading materials more easily accessible in our community.
Many thanks to all the volunteers at the book fair. We received many compliments and expressions of gratitude on your behalf. Your time and effort were critical to the success of this event. Thank you so much!


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(EDITORIAL from Korea Herald on April 5)
All News 07:12 April 05, 2016
Prosecutor's jackpot
Resolve public suspicions via scrutiny on stocks
A high-profile prosecutor reaped stock gains worth 3.7 billion won ($3.23 million) last year, then offered to resign amid growing public suspicion over the weekend. He posted the highest in 2015 wealth growth among the nation's 2,300 ranking officials, who were subject to private property disclosure.
Jin Kyung-jun, a senior prosecutor of the Korea Immigration Service at the Ministry of Justice, had bought some unlisted shares of local mobile game developer Nexon. He took gains by selling about 800,000 shares after Nexon was listed on a Japanese bourse.
Aside from last year's gains of 3.7 billion won, Jin reportedly enjoyed collective gains of more than 10 billion won by trading Nexon stocks over the past decade.
Jin has rejected any negative allegation in a statement. He argued that the investment opportunity had been initially offered to a friend of his, who sought shared the opportunity with many of his own friends including Jin.
The Justice Ministry also appears to have downplayed suspicions among the public. Its official was quoted by a news provider as saying that Jin "has internally verified how he came to buy and sell the stocks."
There is a possibility that his equities trading was not relevant to his status as a high-ranking civil servant or prosecutor. Nevertheless, there is a need for Jin and the ministry to resolve the allegations.
Jin had served for the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit, an investigative arm of the Financial Services Commission, as a division leader. He had also been in charge of the department for finance and taxation probe at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.
The FSC, to which the prosecutor had been dispatched, is the nation's top financial regulator, and its KFIU could easily access a variety of low-key information. FSC investigators should look into whether Jin had exploited corporate insider information on Nexon. The same sort of reviews are necessary for the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.
Stock traders engaged in any irregular use of insider information could be subject to criminal punishment.
The Justice Ministry official reportedly clarified that it seems that Jin "decided to quit as he feels the ongoing controversy may undermine the reputation of the Justice Ministry and the prosecution."
Like the ministry official's remarks, it is a matter of credibility of the criminal investigative agency and code of conduct as a ranking civil servant. So the ministry has an obligation to launch an official probe on him in close coordination with financial regulators.
Jin has also told reporters that he would sincerely cooperate with any investigation, if necessary, by submitting all related documents as of an ordinary citizen. It is welcome to see his confident position at the present stage.
The prosecutor tendering his resignation is not a solution. He should settle the problems he created in the civil service and the capital market.
Fire at battery plant
Leaders of U.S.,Japan reaffirm commitment to complete denuclearization of Korea
Lee proposes meeting with other candidates to discuss increasing extra budget to 35 tln won
U.S. continues to see diplomacy as best way forward with N. Korea: Pentagon


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U n b r o k e n
Happy Days by Jim Burke
I see bare-assed trees against the skyline, spooky as hell. They are waiting, knowing, something's coming, rising, and I'm listening to the American actor, Jon Hamm, reciting Frank O'Hara's poem, "Mayakovsky." All across the sky there is light. I was five years old in nineteen fifty nine. I had beaten pneumonia. My younger brother Doug, would be born in a year and in another five, my grandfather would be dead. Frank O'Hara died when he was forty years old. I've beaten pneumonia once, and I've been lucky to beat it twice. Me and Doug, we're strong as rocks. I'm sitting at the kitchen table staring into the light. Frank O'Hara wrote breaths of fresh air and in the freshness, asked twice: What does he think of that? What do I think of that? And all the time I am thinking Doug and me, we're strong as rocks.
Jim Burke lives in Limerick, Ireland, recently completed an MFA in Creative Writing at MMU, UK. Poems published in Shamrock Haiku Journal, The Crannog Magazine, The Stony Thursday Book, The Shot Glass Journal, Live Encounters Online Magazine.
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Treo, a maker of Palm OS-based smartphones, entered a licensing agreement with Microsoft to allow the next generation of its phones to link up with the ActiveSync technology in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, the companies said Tuesday.
The deal marks the first time Microsoft has licensed its ActiveSync technology, which was formerly part of Mobile Information Server, to an outside vendor. Other companies are in discussions with Microsoft about licensing the technology, said Chuck Sabin, senior technical product manager for the Exchange Server product group.
ActiveSynch is designed to allow a smartphone to synchronize e-mail directly with an Exchange server. Using the technology, a smartphone user can keep a synchronized copy of the entire mailbox on the mobile device.
In the Exchange-Treo combination, users will not need to load any additional software onto the phone or the Exchange Server 2003 system to take advantage of the integration, Sabin said.


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War of the Rebellion: Serial 012 Page 0473 Chapter XXIII. BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG,VA.
At about 8 o'clock a.m. I received information that the enemy were about to attempt to turn our left flank, and also that he had two light batteries and heavy forces of infantry in front of our left. The remaining portion of the First Massachusetts was then extended as skirmishers from our advanced position on our left in a line parallel with the road, the left resting in the heavy timber, and advanced slowly over the fallen timber forward the left and forwarded. The Eleventh Massachusetts (Colonel Blaisdell) and subsequently the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania (Colonel Small) were deployed in the same manner upon the right, with a view, by direction of the general commanding the division, of making a connection with General Sumner' forces, who were supposed to be within supporting distance to the right. In these positions, with my whole forces closely engaged and pressing forward, the fight was severe and unceasing, and our position without support until about 11 o'clock, when General Patterson's brigade made a timely arrival to meet a heavy force which was moving upon us through the timber on our left, evidently with a view to turn our flank and cut off communication with the rear.
Soon after the arrival of this re-enforcement I received a report from the First Massachusetts Regiment that the most of the regiment was out of ammunition, and by direction of the general commanding the division I ordered a man to the rear to procure more, and receiving a fresh regiment (the Seventy-second New York, Lieutenant-Colonel Moses) as a relief, I withdrew the First Massachusetts from the extreme left and placed it along the front as a connection between the Seventy-second New York, which now took the advance position, supporting the right of General Patterson's position and the road, a position which was not at this time heavily pressed. For some hours now our whole position had been under a hot fire a field battery placed behind a front of timber far to the left, and much of our loss had been caused by this fire, and soon after the arrival of the Seventy-second New York I received information that General Hooker desired me either to silence or take the battery above referred to, whereupon I went forward and communicated with Lieutenant-Colonel Moses, who pushed his command from the front and flank, and was unable to advance farther without being entirely cut off from support or retreat unless General Patterson's brigade should dislodge the heavy force in his front.
As there was an open plain in the rear of the battery and its position was covered by a point of timber occupied by the rebels I considered any effective action at this time against it as impossible, and therefore returned to the position of my own brigade. I had hardly returned when I perceived that the rebels were gradually bearing down our forces on the left, and soon afterward, notwithstanding the gallant support of the Seventieth New York (Colonel Dwight), were overpowered and forced to retire. In so doing they were closely followed up by the enemy until he had obtained in rear of the left of that regiment. I then withdrew that regiment entirely from that position to support our retreating forces at the point of the woods, and just in time to unmask the position of the enemy and expose him to a most severe fire of canister from a part of a field battery thrown forward for the purpose of checking the rebel advance; and I think, from my own observation, this battery contributed more toward sustaining our position than anything else that could have been brought to bear in that part of the field.
It was now about 5 o'clock p.m., and we were, notwithstanding
re-enforcements
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Article posted: September 26, 2017
SALFORD CITY will begin their Manchester Premier Cup 2017-18 campaign with a home game against Irlam FC.
The Mitchells were Salford's opponents at this stage of the competition last year also, when The Ammies won 4-0 thanks to braces from Richie Allen and Matt Warburton.
We went on to reach the semi-finals where we lost 2-1 at Stalybridge Celtic, who were beaten in the final by FC United of Manchester.
With an odd number of teams in the draw, FC United have been given a bye to the next round as last year's winners.
Date: Tuesday, 10th October
Time: KO 19:45
Season tickets cannot be used for this FA Competition tie; all spectators must pay on the gate.
Adults: £5
Concessions (60+, Under-16, Students with ID): £2
Spectators should use Turnstile C (Moor Lane West), and please be aware that the Park & Ride scheme will not be in operation for this match.
If the scores are level after 90 minutes, the tie will be decided via a penalty shoot-out.
full draw
Glossop North End vs Trafford FC (24/10/17)
Chadderton vs Abbey Hey (24/10/17)
Hyde United vs Radcliffe Borough (10/10/17)
Mossley AFC vs Ashton United (03/10/17)
Curzon Ashton vs Droylsden (02/10/17)
Maine Road vs West Didsbury & Chorlton AFC (23/10/17)
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Season 2017-2018 Fixtures Announced
Manchester Premier Cup Quarter-Finals Draw
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Three Must Watch edits in a week already, today we have a fresh eat from the creative master that is Tim Knoll! Tim incredible style of flat/street riding has turned heads since he hit the consciousness of the online BMX community at the start of this decade. Hailing from the state of Milwaukee, Tim has since gone on to develop his riding to new levels and has evolved a style that mixes up BMX street and Flatland skills with acrobatics and gymnastics moves.
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