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Today we bring something special for our readers. It is a first at our site and hopefully not the last of its kind. The Staff at Shattered Tranquility had the opportunity to do a Q&A with 殺~KOЯO~. We hope that you will enjoy it, we certainly did.
殺~KOЯO~ is a multi-talented female solo artist on the visual scene. In 2005 her first mini album 『洗脳願望Ⅱ』 (Sennou GanbouⅡ) was released and all the songs and lyrics were created solely by 殺~KOЯO herself. In 2006 she worked as the support guitarist in 葉×隠~ハガクレ (Hagakure) and has traveled with them to both Europe and the United States. Earlier this year (and you may remember us posting about it before) 殺~KOЯO put out her second full album called 『現実逃飛行』 (Henjitsu Tohiko). 殺~KOЯO has taken a few moments out of her busy schedule to share some information about herself, her music and and her thoughts on the visual scene.
So without further adieu we hope that you enjoy the Q & A! We felt that it was especially interesting to hear from one of the few girls on the visual scene and we really enjoyed the opportunity to ask 殺~KOЯO some questions.
What was your chance to start music?
When I was child, I learned classical piano.
You sing, play not only guitar, drums and bass but piano and keyboard as well! Are there any instruments you're interested in for musical composition or just to play in your free time?
Folk instruments and theremin.
But in the end, I'm always extremely into guitar.
The visual scene is made up of predominantly male artists and therefore there aren't very many female artists, how do you feel about that?
I think that visual kei, being very sexy music, is like religion in that it has a great power to allow you to bury your heart in it. Isn't there a big appeal to things that are visual and emotional? There's a lot of female fans in the genre, so isn't it inevitable that many of the artists are male???
Why out of all the genres of music did you decide to go into the visual scene?
There's a strong show-like element to it, it unleashes this passion on you, and also because it allows you to express anger.
So far you've been able to work with many various artists, but if given the chance, are there any artists that you would like to work with?
There are so many artists that I'm interested in working with, but I can't write them all.
If we work together, I want to work with a vocalist and band that have charisma which stirs up the audience.
What's your ideal image for yourself as an artist?
If I were to give you an example, I'd like to be a multiplayer like Prince and Lenny Kravitz, a performer like Freddy Mercury, and a guitar and vocal hero like Max Cavalera and Alexi Laiho!!!! But I'm not them, I'm just me. My image is continuing to expand so I can't really explain it very well, and there are so many things that I want to do that I don't want to express them all in words. I can't even grasp it all myself yet.
You have performed lives not just in Japan, but overseas as well! Is there any place that you want to do a live?
If there are people who feel that they want to listen to my music, anywhere is fine.
You appeared in the May issue of Cure in the BANDMAN SNAP section which shows the private fashion of the artists! What kind of fashion do you like?
In that photo I was wearing a jersey, but there probably aren't many people who would readily appear in a magazine wearing that are there? (Laughs) So just like that, anything works if you have your own distinctive, personal fashion.
This is probably kind of a strange question, but if you were to compare yourself to an animal which animal do you think you resemble? Please explain why!
A wolf. Because there's a lot of things that I do alone…. (Laughs)
Do you have any pets?
I don't have any pets, but I love animals!!!!
What are you currently really into?
Singing jazz!
Please reveal to us one secret that you that you don't tell.
I have a rose tattoo on my stomach.
Please send a message to your fans!
Please listen to my music. I especially want you to hear 「現実逃飛行」 (Henjitsu Tohiko) and 「洗脳願望Ⅱ」 (Sennou Ganbou Ⅱ)!! Please listen carefully with headphones. I've made it so that you savor it the more you listen. And, only if you can, please come to a live and experience it with your whole body!! Together let's unleash our daily emotions and release our energy! Thank you very much!
殺~KOЯO has her song 「鳥物語V」 available for listening on her official MySpace page, however, with her permission the staff at Shattered-Tranquility.net have chosen two different song samples for our readers to take a listen to! Both tracks are from her 『現実逃飛行』 (Henjitsu Tohiko) album which you can find links to purchasing below.
夢☆Dejavu (Yume☆Dejavu)
BUY IT AT HMV Japan
For more information on 殺~KOЯO check out her OHP, Sequence Records OHP, and her Myspace page.
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Risk Measurement and Hedging
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Date Written: April 1997
It is difficult to judge the intentions and performance of corporate managers when it comes to their risk management programs. To evaluate the effectiveness of a risk management program or to test financial theories of risk management, a firms underlying risk exposure must be known. This paper examinesa setting where the firms derivative strategies are known and asks how well we can measure the effect of their hedging program on the firms fundamental accounting and market value measures. We study two gold mining firms which have diametrically opposed policies toward derivatives. American Barrick aggressively hedges its gold price risk using derivatives; Homestake Mining uses no derivatives. Instead Homestake Mining uses a combination of operating, financial, and accounting decisions to manage its risk. The result is that the exposure of the two firms equity to gold price risk is surprisingly similar. The multitude of risk management alternatives available to firms and thediversity of methods used by firms in the same industry means that tests of risk management theory must account for the different methods, not just the different objectives, which firms use in managing risk.
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Reacting to the protest by Comr. Yahaya Idris, Bello supporters, he said those protesting yesterday were not APC aspirant, insisting that, the protest was carried out by PDP.
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Hi Im new to Unity 5 and scripting in general. I have a scene with a whole lot of point lights. These point lights each have a script changing the intensity of the lights randomly (to create a flickering effect). All these lights running this script at the same time however makes the game really laggy. Is there a way for me to control what lights are on due to their proximity to the character controller. That way not all lights will have to run at the same time. Can any one help with this, or even have other suggestions that could work.
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Hey, depends on the style of game. If it were say a top down shooter I would say just let occlusion culling do its work (pretty sure this effects point lights). If its first or third person perhaps a large collider with an OnTriggerEnter enabling and disabling on each point light? Or triggers when player enters a certain area?
Hope that points you in the right direction :) Good luck
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Day 3 in The Big Easy and the living is indeed easy. Last 2 days spent exploring - riding trolleys, museums, shops, bars, architecture, restaurants (how much seafood can one eat?) and music - in the French Quarter. One highlight was the Drag Walk History Tour (see our tour guide above) during which we leaned all about the history of women, queers, drag, whores, madams, are: in the Storyville / French Quarter neighborhoods of New Orleans.
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Saturday, July 23, 2005
screenshots from the trailer
Ignoring the degree of obsession it takes for someone to go through a trailer frame-by-frame to grab screenshots, I'm happy to present some choice shots from the movie trailer.
I know some of you have been asking for my opinion of it, and if you're that interested in my opinion, you can
read my review of the V for Vendetta trailer here
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I was wondering...could the yellow banner scene be the movie version of Evey short relationship with they guy who later is killed?Or it could be some kind of vision suggested by Valerie letter (the colors..). Also the person Evey kisses seems female to me, by judging from its neck/chest..o_o
posted by
: 12:44 PM, July 23, 2005
And i think that probably the woman on the couch is Evey's mother, who in some fast sequences we see falling(dead?) to the floor by under the bed/couch perspective..
posted by
: 12:46 PM, July 23, 2005
invictus: wow, i hadnt noticed that the person in the hat looked like a girl. I guess it is always a possibility that could be valerie...
And very nice work on the screen caps craig, although I think you missed one very important one:
All in all I think it looks really well done, but it worried me that the scene where the guy is talking over the big screen just looked a little too fake or over the top. Either way it definately reminded me of the 1984 movie from a few years back:
posted by
: 3:05 PM, July 23, 2005
Hey Nordbak,
No, I purposely left that shot out. As I mentioned in my "review", I didn't like that shot; it strikes me as very super-heroy and melodramatic. Lloyd's artwork shows a very subdued and casual V walking through the chaas as if oblivious to it all. It's very striking speaks volumes about V's character and his midnset. This shot in the trailer makes him look like the Human Torch shouting "Flame On!"
posted by
: 2:03 AM, July 24, 2005
Crap, I totally missed that that ISN'T Portman in the "yellow banner" shot . . . now that I'm looking at it more closely, I think it's a shot from "The Salt Flats", which would make it Valerie and Ruth.
But I don't think that's Evey's mother sitting on the couch. In the ealier clip, Evey's mother is fully clothed and compeltely paniced; the woman on the couch is half naked and compeltely stoic. It still looks like two different characters to me.
posted by
: 2:22 AM, July 24, 2005
sorry about that craig, should have read the review before posting ;)
posted by
: 4:51 AM, July 24, 2005
Ahm did you guys noticed the masked person painting V ymbol with red spray paint seems to wear glasses?Also the childish clothes/hand proportion means that she's probably the glasses girl of the book...
posted by
: 5:30 AM, July 24, 2005
I'd hazard a guess that the naked woman on the couch is Valerie.
I think IMDB need to revise their cast listing - it's way out!
posted by
: 7:47 AM, July 24, 2005
I say way out - three mistakes so far:
Tim Pigott-Smith - Creedy, not Finch
John Hurt - Susan, not Bishop Lilliman
Stephen Rea - Finch, not Prothero.
posted by
: 8:06 AM, July 24, 2005
i am so ready to see the trailer !!
posted by
: 12:35 PM, July 24, 2005
Hey Bubbleman, thanks for the heads up about the cast-corrections; I
the John Hurt credit was mixed up; glad to know I wasn't going insane.
Invictus: Yeah, I had to watch the trailer twice to realize it definitely wasn't V making the symbol. I had thought the V-wannabe's only showed up in the movie's finale, but it looks like they'll be people imitating V's look even bfore that.
Gina: so did you watch the trailer yet?
posted by
: 9:29 PM, July 24, 2005
Gah. Mmf. So many differences from the book... -curls up-
But, hey, the trailer looked spiffy, you know. ^^ Maybe it'll turn out to be a great movie anyway. We'll just have to wait and see...
posted by
Excalistor's Paradox
: 10:29 AM, July 25, 2005
I think the part that captured the best the way V moves,fights, appears, and surprises other is the one where he rise up fro under something. The closed cloak movement is wonderful portrayed, recalling perfectly how V moves in unnatural way in it, almost gliding.
posted by
: 1:03 PM, July 25, 2005
Definetely. ^^ Since the Wachowski brothers seem very apt at making the action as awesome as possible. -coughmatrixcough-
... Nn. ._. I don't think the whole bullet-time... or would it be knife-time...? Thing works, either.
posted by
Excalistor's Paradox
: 9:50 AM, July 26, 2005
cool shit. i totally dug this comic when it first came out and i was happy to discover a film was being made of it thanks to a link on Shack News. definetly gonna check this out when it hits the theaters. i just hope they don't screw it all up on the big screen...
posted by
: 1:38 AM, August 02, 2005
Just a quick note to say 'thanks' for all the various information you've got up. A Slashdot discussion of the trailer led me to pick up the book, which I read (for the first time) yesterday. This morning, a Google search led me to your Shrine, and various clicks afterwards led me first to your regular blog, and then over to this one.
I've probably spent more time than I should have going through your sites this morning...quite a bit of neat stuff out there. Thanks much, from a new fan to a long-time fan. :)
posted by
Michael Hanscom
: 12:24 PM, August 03, 2005
about the novelization of the movie, is that gonna be a written work or is it gonna be like the comic book with graphics, im so confused, does anyone know,
posted by Anonymous : 4:06 AM, August 10, 2005
hi, i'm Koeran, i saw this movie for twice. and i know that V is a man. even if he could be everyone.
but some freaky guys say, V was a Valeri's girlfriend(Named Ruth).
what do you think? that's why V got rose. but i believe also know that rose has lots of means. and the most meaning is Freedom, To get back what i lost.
Isn't it? i wanna know what you're thinking.
posted by
: 4:46 AM, March 26, 2006
I think the person behind the mask, the person who was 'V' was Ruth, the lesbian girlfriend of Valerie. In the movie, when they were showing the love story between Valerie and Ruth, they showed Ruth and the Roses and how Ruth started using big complicated words, just like how V does throughout the whole movie. This explains why V (Ruth) had a shrine for Valerie. V (Ruth) fell in love with Evey. The big surprise, V was a woman not a man!
posted by Anonymous : 1:05 PM, August 03, 2006
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KABUL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: INCOMING SOLDIERS LIKE to chuckle at Kabul's airport code, KIA — "killed in action." My Safi Airways flight from Dubai descends at dawn, and the light tints the snowcapped mountains that picket Kabul orange, then pink, then a deep rose. Across the aisle, a muscular American in khaki tactical clothes stares straight ahead, deep in thought, face half in shadow, the sunlight reflecting in his eyes as the plane banks over the adobe-brown city with its yellow dome of pollution.
As we approach landing, I have my own reasons for pensiveness. Beyond the standard war trepidation, I'm uneasy about my approvals to embed with US troops. This is my third trip to cover the Afghanistan War, but getting US military approvals has been far more problematic this time, perhaps because my book Funding the Enemy had revealed the US counterinsurgency's systemic dysfunction. Didn't make me any friends in the Pentagon, an intelligence guy told me. So when military PAOs (public affairs officers) repeatedly canceled my approvals for embeds in the volatile eastern and southern battle spaces, l wasn't surprised. One PAO sent a testy e-mail asking if I wrote "The Juice Ain't Worth the Squeeze," a critical Foreign Policy article. Seemed an odd question, given that my name was right under the title. Another canceled embed. It was only after I announced I was flying to Kabul to arrange things from there that the embed approvals seem to come back and firm up — maybe. I didn't know what to expect.
Why am I so intent on going back? I'm afflicted with the writer's delirium: I want to know how the story ends. After all the scandals, the whistleblowers, the critical media and books, the revelations by an array of inspectors general, the scathing congressional investigations, I want to see if the system has reformed. As America's endgame in Afghanistan plays out, have there been any lessons learned, or are the same malign networks that connected ambitious American careerists, greedy US corporations, corrupt Afghan kleptocrats, and the Taliban still pulsing with wasted American tax dollars? As I descend into Kabul a dozen years after the war started, the US government is still pouring $1.5 billion a week into Afghanistan. Sixty-eight thousand American soldiers and probably twice that many contractors are ostensibly (and futilely) trying to bind Afghans to the predatory Karzai government. The Taliban controls major parts of the country. Given these bleak facts, what is the mood of the troops, the contractors, the aid workers, the diplomats, the Afghans? What's going to happen to Afghanistan? I want to know.
But as the plane dips toward the runway, I am more concerned with the fifty-kilometer taxi ride from KIA to BAF (Bagram Air Field), where I am to report for embeds. Just going through Kabul is considered a risky proposition, and the road between KIA and BAF stretches across the dangerous Shomali Plain. Because of the security problem, virtually all Westerners — military, diplomats, contractors, and journalists — now fly the short distance to BAF on small military planes from the military side of the Kabul airport. In my previous embed, the military had arranged for me to fly into BAF almost as a matter of course. But not this time. "Take a taxi," the PAO e-mailed. I'd done it in 2009, using a trusted Afghan taxi service, so that's my plan.
Back in the glitzy Dubai International Airport, the Kabul-bound passengers had buddied up in an almost reflexive way. A group of expat Afghan women returning for family reunions bonded over how to wear their unfamiliar headscarves in Kabul. "Maybe it is our last chance to go, with the Americans ... leaving," a Tajik woman from Fremont said quietly. A fleshy Skol-spitting contractor sauntered over and sat down beside me. He monitored rocket attacks at fob (forward operating base) Sharana, a bleak logistic base that I'd been to. He said security wasn't too bad at Sharana, but was deteriorating as US troops increasingly stayed in their compounds. "Small fobs getting hit all the time — no patrols," he said. "Getting closer all the time." When he heard about my plan to taxi to Bagram, his eyes widened. "No way," he said. A bulky black man with a baby face joined us. Kind eyes, a quick, solid grace. Said he'd been a special forces sergeant, but now was a shooter for one of those Blackwater-cloned private security contractors that thronged Afghanistan. Worked out of a fortified company compound in Kabul. "Triple the money and half the oversight," he said. When the attendants called our flight, a solitary young Afghan woman with frightened eyes lined up beside us. In a lilting British accent she said she hadn't been back to Afghanistan for sixteen years. "I feel safer being with Western people," she said nervously as she tucked a wisp of hair into her headscarf. I asked if someone was meeting her in Kabul. "Oh yes," she said with a broad smile of relief. "My uncle."
After our plane lands at Kabul International Airport, we file down the aluminum stairway to the waiting buses. The KIA terminal is a Brutalist concrete expression of international solidarity that looks downright Stalinist, which makes sense given that the Soviets built the airfield and terminal during the Cold War. We are a glum, sober group. The informal partners reunite. I see the Tajik women have adopted the young returnee. She helps them adjust their headscarves as we head for the terminal. We abruptly arrive in scarcely ordered Afghanistan. Milling and grabbing porters, officious factotums, sullen security guards with automatic weapons. I scramble for my bags, that awful hundred pounds of body armor, Kevlar, computer, cameras, clothes, recorders, files, notebooks, and survival gadgets: penlight with red lens for blacked-out combat bases, Swiss Army knife, an odd little solar charger, duct tape, safety pins, first aid kit, and a plastic ziplock bag with about a pound of lucky charms given to me by loved ones.
The porters descend on the travelers waiting for their luggage. The Sharana contractor's porter quickly wheels off his large, hard-shelled tool case, which is the preferred luggage for war-zone commuters. The contractor nods to me as he follows his porter down the hall. The black shooter comes over while a small, wizened Afghan is wrestling my bags onto a rickety cart. "My peeps are coming to pick me up," he says. "I'm right in Kabul. That fifteen minutes is the most dangerous part of this job. Ooow, you're an hour out there ..." He walks away shaking his head.
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I'd been warned countless times that kidnapping is a cottage industry in Afghanistan. Don't get into unfamiliar taxis. So my trusted taxi driver needs to be there. I worry as I leave the security cordon surrounding the main terminal and shoulder my way through the crowds of Afghans waiting near the parking lot. I nervously call the cell number the taxi company has given me. A crisp voice answers: "This is Nawab." He tells me where to find him in the parking lot. He'll be looking for me. And as I come out the door, there he is.
Nawab is a slender, smiling Tajik in a gray polyester double-breasted jacket and a plaid shirt. He waves as I walk toward him and opens the trunk to help with my bags. The final security checkpoints and we are in the thrum of war-fueled Kabul.
It's cold and murky. The smell of petrol, maybe brimstone. Herds of fat-tailed sheep and donkeys pulling tiny carts share the road with racing Corollas, pickups, motorcycles, and armored SUVs. It's wild, anarchic traffic — vehicular Russian roulette. Laborers stomp down the road. Women in faded blue burqas squat at the verge. There are Afghan police and soldiers everywhere, along with evidence of the failed counterinsurgency. Faded anti-Taliban posters that just seem sad and futile. CCD (Community Center for the Disabled) trucks with red "Danger!" signs graphically advertising Afghanistan's land-mine peril and the tens of thousands of victims. A USAID (United States Agency for International Development) billboard proclaiming women's rights in English and Dari that few Afghan females can read, because almost 90 percent of them are still illiterate after more than a decade and $100 billion spent on grotesquely mismanaged US aid programs. The quagmire, we are in it. "Pouring money in the sand pit," soldiers repeatedly told me. The great, dollar-sucking sand pile of Afghanistan. The Taliban dictum has long been "The Americans have the watches, but we have the time." And time is running out for the Americans.
As we drive through the city, I can see both boomtown Kabul and Kabul in bust. There's the Kabubble, with its sleek office towers and garish multistory wedding halls — City Star, Qasre Uranus, Afghan Kyber. Nawab points to French-themed Sham e Paris with its light-bedecked mock Eiffel Tower. "It is Las Vegas — yes?" Then there is the bust: the paved roads that suddenly give way to rubble; half-finished construction projects shrouded in plastic tarps like rectangular corpses; cur dogs scrapping in the mountainous garbage piles. Looming over a ramshackle stall with a tarp roof, a hand-painted sign proclaims, "New Ci-tee Dairy Superstore." The Kabul New City development — another of the megalomaniac wet dreams that captured the US and Afghan insiders' imagination in the postinvasion boom days of unlimited international development money. Officially it was Dehsabz City, but flacks called it Skyscraper City. Envisioned as an immense megadevelopment stretching out into the Shomali Plain with half a million housing units, industrial parks, agribusinesses, nature parks, and so on, it was to be mostly financed with billions of dollars of international development aid. Lots of money to be made with landgrabs and graft and bloated consultant contracts. Hard-ons galore in board rooms and government offices.
But like the Dairy Superstore shack, the New City is turning out to be a fantasy. The New City is, of course, another wholly inappropriate development for Afghanistan, a basket case of a country with a per capita GDP of about $400. The country sits at the bottom of virtually every development index, from life expectancy to electricity. About 97 percent of Afghanistan's licit gross domestic product comes from international military and development aid. The real economy's main exports are opium and heroin. It is a violent warrior culture riven with centuries-old tribal enmities. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, giroa in the military parlance, is thoroughly and systemically corrupt. This is a failed state, not the Las Vegas of central Asia.
As we motor toward the Shomali Plain, I ask Nawab about how things look to him. "Day by day, it's better," he says, almost by rote. "But the foreigners are going," and he shrugs.CHAPTER 2
LONG AFTER AMERICA INVADED AFGHANISTAN, THE SHOMALI Plain is still a treacherous place, one of the world's most active land-mine areas. But at least the way to Bagram is easier than my journey in 2009, when my taxi driver had to slowly weave across the bomb-cratered plain, following braided dirt tracks to the air base. Back then soldiers regaled me with tales of wild, high-speed rides to Kabul, dodging snipers, decades-old mines, and fresh IEDs (improvised explosive devices). The new Kabul-Bagram highway opened in 2010, courtesy of the Army Corps of Engineers and US taxpayers. Albeit another absurdly expensive US- built road, it seems almost worth it as we grandly course along the comforting carapace of black asphalt toward the snow-dusted mountains and BAF's promised security.
The morning is bright and sunny, the five-thousand-foot-high air crisp and clear. Nawab dials the radio and the percussive beat and shrill notes of Afghan pop music leaches out of the speakers. Large villages and tilled fields stretching into the distance speak of Shomali's agricultural importance. Along the way, abandoned construction sites, tattered billboards, and roads leading off to chimeric New City developments stand beside the highway. When I ask Nawab about the apparent lack of progress on the megacity, he smiles and says things have slowed down since the Americans announced their withdrawal.
Following the public affairs officer's directive, I phone as we progress toward Bagram Air Field, the United States' largest base in Afghanistan. "About a half hour out," I report, handing the phone to Nawab so he can confirm our destination. "Call back when you're ten minutes out," the sergeant tells me when Nawab returns the phone. We are heading to ECP 3 (Entry Control Point 3), the main vehicle entrance. Been there before and knew the journalist pick-up drill. When I arrived in my little white taxi in 2009, there was a momentary wait before the massive steel gate rumbled open and an armored gun truck with army publicists in full battle rattle rolled out to fetch me and my stuff. In a flash, we were in the womb of Mother BAF.
Bagram Air Field is the largest US base in Afghanistan. Impounded behind more than eleven miles of meandering security walls and razor wire, the base's five thousand acres are crammed with the air field, command headquarters, office buildings, hospitals, spec ops facilities, roads, housing, rec centers, gyms, classrooms, and a strip mall. With thousands of soldiers and fleets of aircraft and vehicles, BAF is a big, fat target for Taliban rocket and mortar attacks launched from the neighboring villages. In a tense meeting in one of those villages a few years before, a gimlet-eyed security soldier from Kentucky had drawled to me, "It didn't work out so well for the Russians here." While the village leaders enthusiastically feigned US allegiance for promised development money, Taliban fighters imperiously watched from a nearby bluff. The soldier glanced up and said, "It ain't workin' out so good for us. These pee-pul don't like anybody."
The gate at ECP 3 is particularly dangerous. When Vice President Dick Cheney was on BAF in 2007, a Taliban suicide bomber detonated his vehicle bomb in ECP 3, killing twenty-three and wounding twenty. When Cheney finally emerged from a bomb shelter, he told reporters the audacious attacks "shouldn't affect our behavior at all." In some ways it didn't. Soldiers complained that BAF force protection was a joke, with high vegetation along the perimeter fences and housing built close to the walls. The sandbags and reinforced concrete of 2005 gave way to thousands of frail plywood B-huts (barracks huts).
In the spring of 2010, the Taliban began to probe Bagram's defenses, including with a rocket attack that killed a contractor in a B-hut. In May 2010, insurgents wearing suicide vests and US Army uniforms attacked BAF. A dozen heavily armed insurgents rushed ECP 1, the pedestrian gate in the Bagram town bazaar. But that was a feint. The real focus was just north of ECP 3 — a brazen, full-frontal assault on the largest base in Afghanistan. Equipped with IEDs, RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), and AK-47s, the Taliban fighters penetrated the perimeter fence, took a guard tower after the Afghan soldiers fled, and began hurling grenades at the nearby housing. It was an eight-hour firefight with ten US casualties.
So ECP 3 is definitely not a place I want to linger. As we turn onto the dirt road leading to the gate, we pass a new concrete bazaar that Nawab says is owned by a high-ranking Afghan official. I call the public affairs sergeant. We are getting close. Rooster tails of dust billow behind us as we jounce into the rutted truck yard of ECP 3. The high concrete walls of Bagram Air Field loom ahead. An Afghan soldier waves us to a stop at a concrete emplacement, where a clutch of disheveled security guards lounge in resigned torpor. Glancing in the taxi, he waves us on. I call again, say we are in front of the gate. And then it gets hairy. The PAOs can't or won't let me on the base. Sergeant says they have to get my paperwork. Have to wake up the officer. Have to get a truck. They need time. Need to wait.
It's a shock to be marooned outside the gate; stomach-tightening. ECP 3 is BAF's "soak yard," the muddy, rocky field where hundreds of tankers and supply trucks from central and south Asia wait for a day before being allowed inside the base's tall walls. The operant theory is that the twenty-four-hour wait allows for hidden explosives to soak through their wrappings so the K-9 bomb dogs can sniff them out. Sometimes the trucks just blow up. The yard has a simmering menace, like a medieval encampment below a besieged battlement. Hard-faced drivers begin to eye us. Nawab turns off the radio, places his hands on the wheel, and stares straight ahead.
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Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
1. Landing
2. Problems
3. In/Out
4. Reify
5. Shoulders
6. Salerno
7. Retrograde
8. Better
9. Boom
11. Luck
12. Shitholes
13. Road
14. Friends
15. Kandahar
16. Leatherneck
17. Sex
18. Drugs
19. Brains
20. Birds
21. Geronimo
22. Dream
23. Ship
24. Slaughter
25. System
26. Believers
27. Rumi
28. Enduring
29. Beauty
30. Sustaining
31. Challenges
32. Women
33. Dutch
34. Intermediates
35. Embassy
36. Loss
37. Optimism
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A seasoned, award-winning journalist systematically and methodically unpacks with brutal honesty the wasting of a trillion US-taxpayers' dollars by America's Deep State in withdrawal through its longest, privatized, 21st-century-war in Afghanistan. This is Wissing's most insightful and heartfelt account of his embeds with America's best and most dedicated warriors, male and female, in the most insurgency-ridden corners of Afghanistan. Hopeless but Optimistic is a well-crafted, often humorous, and candid narration of Wissing's most intimate encounters with America's worst US State Department careerists burning money, army officers spinning self-delusional victory spiels, and the highly paid development consultants re-doing the same projects over again. It is a story of America's military industrial complex–driven wars filled with moral outrage. A must-read for anyone interested in learning why America's longest war and reconstruction efforts in collaboration with its corrupt partners in Afghanistan have produced hopelessness, though they remain optimistic.
Hopeless but Optimistic provides a fascinating ground level account of the effect of absurd and inappropriate Washington strategies on Afghans and on American soldiers.Its short hard-hitting chapters illustrate with pithy anecdotes how 'hearts and minds' and other senseless silver-bullet approaches to the war only benefitted well-connected Beltway contractors and Afghan drug traffickers and warlords, and failed to help Afghan farmers and American soldiers. Americans prefer to forget Afghanistan, but that would be a shame because this lost trillion dollar war illustrates the hubris of policies sold by both the Bush and Obama administrations. This book vividly illustrates the cost of this hubris beyond the trillion dollars wasted and the official casualties numbers.
As with an album of closeup photographs, Douglas Wissing's concise essays cast a sharp and revealing light on their subject. Here we confront in granular detail the waste and folly that is America's war in Afghanistan. An empire in decline does not make for a pretty picture.
This is a fine and troubling book about America's plunge into the nightmare otherwise known as Afghanistan. Wissing's concise thirty-odd chapters are like graphic flash-cards conveying the confusing mix of violence and corruption, along with bursts ofdecency and courage, that define this endless war. And alas! No exit is yet in sight.
I particularly appreciated its account of day-to-day frustrations of US personnel who have scant contact with the ordinary Afghans they are pledged to protect. They remain locked in a bottle filled with venomous scorpions.
Afghanistan is one huge enigma for most Americans. Wissing's book helps us sort it out. He has repeatedly been in Afghanistan, observed everything, and reports it all in this remarkable volume. This book is the place for most of us to learn about this woebegone, but resilient land, and America's endless war.
When historians of the future try to explain how the United States could have accomplished so little in Afghanistan despite spending so much blood and treasure, this trenchant and honest book will be a crucial source. An important read for anyone who cares about American foreign policy in the 21st century.
If I could recommend one book about Afghanistan to the next president, it'd be this one. If s/he can't learn the lessons of the failed war in Iraq from the ground truth, maybe s/he can learn them from Wissing's brilliant, funny, sad, irreverent, serious, deeply reported, hopelessbut always optimisticbook. Required reading.
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If you are camping in a motorhome, it must be shorter than 30 foot in length, and lighter than 5 tonnes. Unfortunately we cannot accommodate motorhomes that are larger than this.
Your ticket will be exchanged for a wristband on arrival at the festival, which is what allows you to have easy and secure access around the site. The wristband is NON TRANSFERABLE. The wristband must be worn at all times during the duration of your stay. Wristbands become invalid if they are damaged, cut, or removed. Wristbands will not be replaced if lost or damaged. Those without wristbands will be refused admission to the festival site.
Camping ticket holders can arrive on the Thursday from 8am until 8pm, and on Friday from 8am to 8pm. On Saturday, campers can arrive at 10am. The campsites will close at midday on Tuesday. Please note that the toilets and showers could be removed at any time on Tuesday.
Day ticket holders gates will open from 10.30am on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Those arriving after dusk will not be allowed entry to the site as we cannot ticket check and park people up in the night. The gates will be closed at 9pm on Thursday and Friday nights to caravans and campervans and cars wishing to camp.
If your journey means you will arrive in the middle of the night then please plan an overnight stop elsewhere during your journey so that you can arrive at Twinwood in daylight.
This is the brochure that is posted out with your tickets. Twinwood Festival is a large site, with multiple stages. To make the most of your visit, it is essential that you read your brochure thoroughly so that you can plan the entertainment that you wish to see and so that you know where the first aid point is.
Bands and other artists/performers are contracted, and Twinwood Events Ltd accepts no responsibility if an act fails to attend, or at the time scheduled. The artist and performer line-up and all billed attractions are subject to change at any time without notice.
Day visitors or Glampers must not bring dogs. Camping visitors may bring quiet, well-behaved dogs into the campsites only. Dogs are not permitted into the festival site. Dogs must be kept on leads at all times and owners of nuisance dogs will be asked to leave the festival with no refund.
Gazebos, tents, large umbrellas, and tables are banned from the whole of the festival site. All items taken to the arena in the day, but left on the grass overnight will be removed by our rubbish collection team prior to the next day of the festival.
You may bring small folding chairs or blankets to sit on in the Arena, but please be aware that other festival-goers may wish to stand or dance in front of you and this is totally permitted.
Bicycles are only allowed in the campsites and should NOT be brought onto the festival site.
Our lost property facility is situated in the Left Luggage building, centrally located in the woodland walk area opposite the Colonial Club. It is advisable NOT to bring valuable possessions with you. Twinwood Events Ltd will not accept liability for personal damages, losses or injuries sustained at the event - including damage and losses to property and motor vehicles.
Picnics are allowed on the grass areas of the Main Arena, but food/drink which has not been purchased from Twinwood Festival caterers/bars may not be taken into any indoor venues or bars, or onto the outside decking area of the Main Arena Bar.
For campers only: cooking using small barbeques is permitted by caravanners and campers in the campsites only. Persons intending to cook, or who have a BBQ must have a fire extinguisher close by. BBQs must not be left unattended until the appliance is completely cold. Fires must be contained in a purpose made BBQ that is raised off the ground, to avoid damaging our grass, and must be operated in a safe and responsible manner, and kept at a safe distance away from tents. Do NOT burn plastics in Barbeques. Fires on the ground are not permitted. Cooking/heating food/drinks is not permitted on the arena or by those who are not caravanning/camping onsite. All caravans should contain a fire extinguisher.
FIREWORKS, CHINESE/FLYING LANTERNS, DRONES, FLARES and BONFIRES are not permitted .
Please bring your own bin liners and use the campsite rubbish disposal points. The festival cleaners will ensure the site is always clear of rubbish, HOWEVER due to the huge increase in the cost of refuse disposal and recycling, we ask all campers to take home as much of your own rubbish as possible, and this will help us keep our campsite charges down at a sensible level.
Our waste management is handled by Paul Riches Skips. After receiving our waste, Paul Riches Skips sorts through everything at their plant, and recycles at least 85% of all the waste.
Please DO NOT DISPOSE OF OIL in any of the tanks or bins provided for waste disposal. You must take waste oil home with you.
We recommend that campers bring a fully charged leisure battery for use and gas. However, if you do use a generator, please bear in mind that some campers find the noise of generators distressing. Any generator that is used may only be operated for short periods of time, not exceeding 30 minutes, and generators must not be used before 10.30am or after 9pm. Anyone who uses excessively noisy generators that cause distress to others will be asked to stop using them, or repositioned to another area, or if non co-operative will be asked to leave the site.
Anyone found tampering with Twinwood Events generators and lighting towers will be evicted from the site without debate.
Twinwood Events Limited take no responsibility for adverse weather conditions and festival goers attend Twinwood Festival at their own risk with regard to whatever effect adverse weather conditions have on the festival ground, campsites, car parks, and festival programme.
As the festival is situated on farmland in the countryside, Twinwood Events Limited take no responsibility for any farming odours from nearby farms.
The allowance of motor vehicle movement anywhere on festival ground, including campsites, is limited to vehicles arriving, and vehicles leaving the site. If you are not arriving or leaving, the movement of motor vehicles on site is prohibited. This applies to all motor vehicles including motorcyles.
The use of mobility scooters at the festival is conditional on having third party public liability insurance for their vehicle. Any person not insured should not bring mobility scooters to Twinwood.
First Aid treatment at the festival is provided by a separate first aid company who are a separate legal entity to Twinwood Events Ltd. Any claims resulting from first aid on site should be directed to this first aid company. Twinwood Events Limited accepts no liability for any injury, claim or damages resulting from any first aid treatment on site.
Many areas are grass, and the pathways are stony, so bring a pair of comfortable shoes/boots with thick grip, non-slip soles, so that slips and falls can be avoided. As we cannot predict the weather, please bring sun protection and suitable clothing and footwear for all weather eventualities.
Axis insignia, Axis medals, and weapons (real or replica) are banned from the site.
There are wooden dance floors in front of some stages, indoors and outdoors. In the case of rainfall, the outdoor dance floor will be slippery when wet. Twinwood Events cannot accept responsibility for any accidents which occur on a dance floor or on any other surface. All dancing is done at your own risk.
Cameras for personal use are welcome. No professional filming or photography for commercial gain is allowed without Twinwood Events prior written consent. Twinwood Events official site photographers may take photographs of the crowd for use in future promotional literature, and tickets are purchased on this understanding.
The selling of goods is strictly forbidden and can only be carried out by those official traders who have paid their pitch fee, and have the permission of Twinwood Events Ltd.
Distribution of leaflets and fly posting at any place across the site without the prior written permission on the owners is strictly forbidden.
Twinwood is a friendly and inclusive event, and we ask that festival-goers and traders do not display Axis insignia and the Confederate flag anywhere in the festival grounds and campsites.
Twinwood Events Ltd does not allow illegal drugs/substances or "legal highs" onto the festival grounds. Clear signage at the arena entrance details prohibited items, and any persons suspected of being in possession of illegal drugs/substances will be asked to leave the site and the police may be called.
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a) Refuse admission in any circumstances
b) Evict any person breaching the terms and conditions of entry, or committing a criminal offence, or behaving in a disorderly manner, or in a way that has an adverse effect on public safety, or behaving in an anti-social manner or causing a public nuisance.
c) Search all people and personal property upon entry to, and while at the venue.
All that remains to say, is that we look forward to seeing you at Twinwood Festival. If you have any questions, please contact us, as we are happy to help. See you there!


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24 January 2008 Edition
Fifth Column
Sir Edward Carson's camán
SPORTS MINISTER Edwin Poots's late, late show (after Amhrán na bhFiann was played) at a GAA match in Newry and the ensuing debate about unionism's cultural disengagement from Gaelic sports threw up the story that one of unionist history's big hitters was in fact a big hurler – none other than Sir Edward Carson.
The Dublin-born Carson went to Trinity College Dublin and reports claim he was actually a founding member of the university hurling club before becoming Liberal Unionist MP for the University of Dublin and later leader of the Unionist Party from 1910 to 1921.
At the Carson family home at Castle Ellen, near Athenry, County Galway, he is reputed to have "swung the hurley with the local lads".
Would The Fields of Athenry ending with an added chant of "Sir Edward Carson's a hurler" make Gaelic sports more attractive to unionists? Or what about the Sir Edward Carson GAA Club? It'd be the first Gaelic team playing in red, white and blue.
Life On Mars bars
THE BBC wants to spice up its TV coverage of politics in the Six Counties.
BBC Director General Mark Thompson told The Guardian newspaper that he wants to give it "a burst of creative energy" in its coverage of the Assembly and other forums "to make the most engaging, the most creative multi-media portal for democracy in the world".
And how is the Beeb going to create this brave new world of TV politics for the god of democracy?
It's going to "reinvent our coverage in the same way as drama has been overhauled with Doctor Who and Life On Mars".
Watch this space.
Bend it like the SDLP
ONE of Alasdair 'Doctor Who' McDonnell's SDLP protegés has been pumping up the SDLP's misappropriation of the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement in the North.
Writing in his Irish News column this week, SDLP former PR guru Tom Kelly claims for the SDLP the mantle of Mahatma Gandhi through the virtue of being non-violent.
But while Gandhi was indeed an advocate and practitioner of non-violence, he engineered confrontation with oppressive forces on the streets, he wasn't talking about capitulation, and he saw why resistance was carried out in other forms.
Gandhi said there are three ways of facing oppression.
The first (which he described as the coward's way) is to accept the wrong or run away from it.
The second is to stand and fight by force or arms. And this, Gandhi said, even though he did not advocate it or like it, was better than giving up or running away.
But Gandhi's best option, of course, was the one that, in his opinion, needs the most courage – to stand your ground and resist by non-violent means alone in the hope of convincing your opponent of the justice of your cause.
Which was what the Civil Rights Movement and the anti-internment protesters did – and we all saw the reaction of the unionist state, the B Specials and, later, the British Army and the Parachute Regiment to that.
One man, one OBE
AMONG the Pantheon of SDLP civil rights heroes Tom Kelly cites in the tradition of Gandhi are Austin Currie (who encouraged and then turned on the families backing the rates strike against internment) and Gerry Fitt, who was to be rewarded for his services to British counter-insurgency by being made a member of the House of Lards ("Don't you mean House of Lords?" – Editor).
One of the slogans of the Civil Rights Movement was "One man, one vote."
Tom Kelly coyly omits to lay any personal claim to the egalitarian ideals of the Civil Rights Movement, which is just as well as he was the proud recipient at Buckingham Palace from the British queen of the Order of the British Empire. Wonder what Mahatma Gandhi would have made of that?
Pushmi-pullyu position
JOHN GORMLEY's jolly green giants are being disingenuous when they claim to have triumphed in Saturday's members' vote on supporting or opposing the Lisbon Treaty.
They did win a simple majority but the motion failed because it did not secure a two thirds majority, the Green Party's own rules and ones which Gormley & Co have always supported and been bound by – until now, that is. Maybe some of your own party rules don't count when you're a Green minister in a Fianna Fáil/PD regime.
Now the Green Party has adopted a position that the Green Party has no position. John Gormley is a bit like Doctor John Dolittle's pushmi-pullyu, with two heads on the one body going in different directions.
Shark bait
FIANNA FÁIL Junior Minister Conor 'Kebab' Lenihan was standing loyally by his leader last week when he was asked by Eamon Keane on Newstalk 106 radio if Des O'Malley was still leader of the PDs would he tolerate Bertie as Taoiseach.
Quick as a whip, Kebab replied: "Well he tolerated Charlie Haughey."
In the same discussion someone compared coalition with Fianna Fáil to "having oral sex with a shark". No comment necessary.


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RELATIONSHIPS: Why Do People Cheat? #SpeakOnIt
A University of Maryland study revealed the eight most common reasons people cheat on their partners.
- Anger: Seeking revenge for a partner being unfaithful.
- Sexual desire: Feeling unsatisfied with the intimacy in the relationship.
- Lack of love: "Falling out of love" with your significant other.
- Neglect: Not getting enough love, attention and respect.
- Low commitment: One partner is not as committed to the relationship as the other.
- Situation: An unusual circumstance like being drunk, on vacation, overly stressed, etc.
- Esteem: Trying to increase self-worth by having sex with other people.
- Variety: Wanting to experience sex with as many people as possible.
"Despite the widespread prevalence of infidelity, there hasn't been much research into what makes people cheat," said University of Maryland Assistant Professor of Psychology Dylan Selterman. "Gaining a deeper understanding of what motivates people to engage in infidelity may help couples repair their relationships following an infidelity, or may help them prevent the onset of cheating in the first place."
Selterman and his team found that men were more likely to be motivated to cheat by sexual desire, wanting variety and situational forces. Women were more likely to be cheat due to feelings of neglect.
"We often hear that infidelity is a symptom, not a cause, of a damaged relationship," Selterman said. "Our research suggests it's not that simple: People cheat for a variety of reasons, many of which are not a direct reflection of a relationship's health."


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