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Guitar World Interviews, Interview, Music	 October 1, 2014
'The Tiger Speaks': Guitarist Jim Peterik Talks New Book, Ides of March and Survivor
Most rock biographies tend to follow a similar pattern. The artist's road to redemption is paved with tales of debauchery, drug abuse, marital infidelity and a trashing hotel room or two.
Although Jim Peterik's story doesn't really follow that path, it's even more special.
For instance, did you know the founder of such bands as the Ides of March, Survivor and Pride Of Lions was already playing shows alongside Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin as a teen? Or that Peterik's original role in Survivor was one of dual guitarist and lead vocalist?
Peterik's new book, Through the Eye of the Tiger: The Rock 'N' Roll Life of Survivor's Founding Member, discusses all of that and much more in a look back at the life and career of one of rock's best songwriters.
With the help of writer Lisa Torem, Peterik reveals stories from his almost 50 years in music. Like the time the Ides of March stole the show from Led Zeppelin or when Peterik unwillingly ceded control of Survivor and took on a diminished role in order to achieve a greater good.
There are revelations of his encounters with Hendrix, Sammy Hagar and Brian Wilson; making studio magic with the late Jimi Jamison (one of rock's greatest voices) as well as the challenges he faced becoming a husband and father. Oh, and then there's the little matter of a how a phone call from Sylvester Stallone turned into "Eye of The Tiger."
Through the Eye of the Tiger is more than just the memoir of a songwriting legend. It's a classic rock and roll story that's told through the eyes of someone who has lived through it all.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Peterik about his new book, career and his amazing guitar collection.
GUITAR WORLD: What made you decide to write a book at this stage of your career?
It's a good time in my life. I'm feeling good and have a lot of stories to tell. Certainly, there are a lot more stories ahead of me and quite a few stories behind me that I wanted to get out.
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Jim, I just want to say I'm proud of you as a friend and glad to see you doing so well with these interviews. I know you're lovin' it too! Keep up the good work buddy!
James Wood says:
Thanks Ron. I really appreciate it. It's a lot of work, but a LOT of fun!


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This project aims to reduce the NRW rates in a Western Cape municipality – from above 30% to 20%. This will result in increased municipal revenue, decreased costs, deferment of capital expenditure, improved service delivery levels and preservation of our scarce water resources. The longer term vision of this project is to gather sufficient data on the efficacy of this approach so that a programme can be rolled out nationally. This vision would be for the national NRW rate to drop from 39% to 25%.
This initial stage of the project aims to develop a tool to assist municipalities in developing NRW programmes, initially scoped as a technical guide for NRW reduction potential assessment. This will be developed with a pilot municipality in the Western Cape. Once developed, the guide will be promoted, publicised and disseminated on this site and elsewhere. So watch this space!
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Molla socken i Västergötland ingick i Gäsene härad, ingår sedan 1974 i Herrljunga kommun och motsvarar från 2016 Molla distrikt.

Socknens areal är 41,44 kvadratkilometer varav 39,78 land. År 2000 fanns här 384 invånare. Kyrkbyn Molla med sockenkyrkan Molla kyrka ligger i socknen.

Administrativ historik
Socknen har medeltida ursprung.

Vid kommunreformen 1862 övergick socknens ansvar för de kyrkliga frågorna till Molla församling och för de borgerliga frågorna bildades Molla landskommun. Landskommunen uppgick 1952 i Gäsene landskommun som 1974 uppgick i Herrljunga kommun. Församlingen uppgick 2010 i Hovs församling.

1 januari 2016 inrättades distriktet Molla, med samma omfattning som församlingen hade 1999/2000.

Socknen har tillhört län, fögderier, tingslag och domsagor enligt vad som beskrivs i artikeln Gäsene härad. De indelta soldaterna tillhörde Älvsborgs regemente, Gäsenede kompani och Västgöta regemente, Elfsborgs kompani.

Geografi och natur
Molla socken ligger norr om Borås kring Mollasjön som är största insjö och Nossan. Socknen är en kuperad skogsbygd  med inslag av odlingsbygd. Vid Mollasjöns södra del finns naturreservatet Molla bokskog som ingår i EU-nätverket Natura 2000.

Fornlämningar
En hällkista från stenåldern är funnen. Från bronsåldern finns gravrösen. Från järnåldern finns 15 gravfält, stensättningar och domarringar.

Befolkningsutveckling
Befolkningen ökade från 502 1810 till 727 1860 varefter den minskade till 379 1970 då den var som minst under 1900-talet. Därefter vände folkmängden uppåt igen till 396 1990.

Namnet
Namnet skrevs 1413 Molla och kommer från kyrkbyn. Namnet kan möjligen innehålla ett höjdbetecknande ord, molda syftande på höjderna vid kyrkabyn.

Före 23 september 1910 skrevs namnet även Målla socken.

Se även
 Molla församling

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Noter

Externa länkar

Målla socken i Historiskt-geografiskt och statistiskt lexikon öfver Sverige i 7 band, Stockholm 1856-1870

Socknar i Gäsene härad
Indelningar i Herrljunga kommun

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MONDAY, JUNE 4 ASTANA - National Bank of Kazakhstan releases monetary policy statements – 1100 GMT.
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Through seventeen seasons, Kobe Bryant has played against three generations of players from Michael Jordan to Kevin Durant.
At the "Kobe Up Close" event hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, Bryant discussed the toughest players he's ever played against. He mentioned Allen Iverson, Carmelo Anthony, and Kevin Durant — but none were tougher than Tracy McGrady:
"The guy that always gave me the most problems was Tracy McGrady. He had all the skills and all the athleticism, but he was 6'9 and he was very tough to figure out."
For a couple of seasons, there were constant debates on who the best player in the NBA was between Kobe and McGrady. Unfortunately, McGrady dealt with numerous injuries and never adjusted his game as he lost his athleticism. Bryant maintained his high level of play while McGrady was most recently a benchwarmer for the San Antonio Spurs.
It's also interesting to note that Bryant didn't mention LeBron James as one of the toughest players he's ever played against.
However, it's understandable considering how LeBron is rather predictable on the offensive end as Michael Jordan once mentioned. James tends to drive to the basket on the right side of the court and settles for jump shots on the left side, which was on full display when Bryant successfully blocked him twice at the 2013 All-Star Game.
Kobe has played against hundreds of players throughout his career and it's no surprise that his toughest opponents are players who have an array of offensive moves to go along with their respective quickness, length, or power.
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What defines a killing in Iraq as sectarian?
Determinations on whether Iraqi civilian deaths are due to partisan violence or not are the building blocks for what the Bush administration has declared a downward trend in sectarian strife and a sign that its strategy is working. They are made by a specialized team of soldiers who spend their nights at computer terminals, sifting through data.
A man grieves over a loved one killed in Tuesday's attack on a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad.Karim Kadim / AP file
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By By Karen DeYoung
On Sept. 1, the bullet-riddled bodies of four Iraqi men were found on a Baghdad street. Two days later, a single dead man, with one bullet in his head, was found on a different street. According to the U.S. military in Iraq, the solitary man was a victim of sectarian violence. The first four were not.
Such determinations are the building blocks for what the Bush administration has declared a downward trend in sectarian deaths and a sign that its war strategy is working. They are made by a specialized team of soldiers who spend their nights at computer terminals, sifting through data on the day's civilian victims for clues to the motivations of killers.
The soldiers have a manual telling them what to look for. Signs of torture or a single shot to the head, corpses left in a "known body dump" -- as the body of the Sunni man found on Sept. 3 was -- spell sectarian violence, said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Dan Macomber, the team leader. Macomber, who has been at his job in Baghdad since February, rarely has to look it up anymore.
"If you were just a criminal and you just wanted to take somebody's money, just wanted to discipline them, you're not going to take the time to bind them up, burn their bodies, cut their arms off, cut their head off," he explained. "You're just going to shoot them in the body and get it over with." That, the team judged, is what happened to the four Shiite men, sprayed with gunfire and left where they dropped.
In the Iraq conflict, traditional military measures of achievement -- troops deployed, enemy dead, territory won -- are challenged by the chaos of counterinsurgency warfare. But Congress, the public and the military itself demand an accounting. Far from the battlefield, platoons of soldiers in Iraq and at the Pentagon are assigned to crunch numbers -- sectarian killings, roadside bombs, Iraqi forces trained, weapons caches discovered and others -- in a constant effort to gauge how the war is going.
Favorable direction
In recent months, most of the military's indicators have pointed in a favorable direction. As with all statistics, however, their meaning depends on how they are gathered and analyzed. "Everybody has their own way of doing it," Macomber said of his sectarian analyses. "If you and I . . . pulled from the same database, and I pulled one day and you pulled the next, we would have totally different numbers."
Apparent contradictions are relatively easy to find in the flood of bar charts and trend lines the military produces. Civilian casualty numbers in the Pentagon's latest quarterly report on Iraq last week, for example, differ significantly from those presented by the top commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, in his recent congressional testimony. Petraeus's chart was limited to numbers of dead, while the Pentagon combined the numbers of dead and wounded -- a figure that should be greater. Yet Petraeus's numbers were higher than the Pentagon's for the months preceding this year's increase of U.S. troops to Iraq, and lower since U.S. operations escalated this summer.
The charts are difficult to compare: Petraeus used monthly figures on a line graph, while the Pentagon computed "Average Daily Casualties" on a bar chart, and neither included actual numbers. But the numerical differences are still stark, and the reasons offered can be hard to parse. The Pentagon, in a written clarification, said that "Gen. Petraeus reported civilian deaths based on incidents reported by Coalition forces plus Iraqi government data. The [Pentagon] report only includes incidents reported by Coalition forces for civilian causality data."
"There is a current effort to consolidate multiple databases in theater," a Multi-National Force-Iraq headquarters spokesman said in an e-mail.
The number of sectarian killings in 2006 -- a key reference point in measuring improvement this year -- has changed considerably in the line graphs used in the Pentagon's past three quarterly reports, increasing between the March and June assessments this year and again in last week's report. Macomber, the analyst in Baghdad, said the first jump occurred when his office realized after the March version was published that a backlog of Iraqi government data had not been included in the 2006 figures.
The most recent increase came when the Pentagon decided to include Iraqis killed in vehicle and suicide bombings, the most obvious forms of sectarian violence. Baghdad had always tallied those numbers along with other killings, Macomber said, but the Pentagon had always taken them out in compiling its own graphs. Asked about the change, a Pentagon spokesman e-mailed that "We regularly review our metrics to determine the most informative way to report what is happening in Iraq."
In an Iraq assessment released this month, the Government Accountability Office said it "could not determine if sectarian violence had declined" since the U.S. troop buildup began in the spring and saw no decrease in overall attacks against civilians as of the end of July. The GAO recommended that the administration expand its statistical sources to include "all relevant U.S. agencies" and that it use "broader measures of population security" to establish trends. An unpublished, classified annex to its report listed the sources of differing agency opinions and provided more detail on the kinds of measurements the GAO thought should be included.
The U.S. intelligence community considers more than numbers in making its war assessments. "What the Iraqis perceive" about their country and their daily lives "may be more important than what the numbers are," said a senior intelligence official, who discussed the subject on the condition of anonymity. Even so, he said, intelligence officials found contradictions in the available statistics as they wrote last month's National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, whose conclusions were somewhat less optimistic than the military's.
"It's not anybody trying to make it come out one way or another way," said the official, who sympathized with the military's need to quantify. But it is important, he said, to determine "what the numbers meant. Who collected them? Why do numbers that come in from this piece of the U.S. government differ from those coming in from another part of the government?"
While both Petraeus and the recent Pentagon report emphasized improved statistics over the past three months, the intelligence community generally declines to declare trends based on data measured in periods shorter than six months to a year. Several senior intelligence officials said last week that most numerical indicators appear to be moving in a uniformly positive direction in the nearly two months since the intelligence estimate's data cutoff -- although they said it is too early to determine definitive trends.
As questions have been raised about its statistics, the military has tried to make them more transparent. After his congressional testimony, Petraeus released an unclassified version of a Multi-National Force-Iraq document titled "Ethno-Sectarian Violence Methodology," and the Baghdad command last week provided a telephone interview with Macomber, the man directly in charge of implementing it.
Macomber, an 18-year Army veteran, said that he is a "senior all-source intelligence analyst" and that the mission of his six-person team is "to compile [data] and track trends and analysis for General Petraeus." Daily data on civilian killings are compiled in a database called the Combined Information Data Network Exchange. The source of the information "could be a coalition force out on patrol," Macomber said. "It could be police, or somebody who called and said they found a body."
'We look at every single record'
"We look at every single record and de-conflict between coalition and host nation [information] to ensure that nothing is duplicate or erroneous," he said. "Then we look at every record and apply our methodology and criteria to it and assess whether it's ethno-sectarian."
Their written definition of that term is: "An event and any associated civilian deaths caused by or during murders/executions, kidnappings, direct fire, indirect fire, and all types of explosive devices identified as being conducted by one ethnic/religious person/group directed at a different ethnic/religious person/group, where the primary motivation for the event is based on ethnicity or religious sect."
The process to determine whether a body is that of a Shiite, a Sunni or a member of any one of a welter of minority sects in Iraq is imperfect, Macomber said. "Sometimes they know by any type of identification," he said. "There are times when they don't know. . . . A lot of times it comes down to, a body was found in a Shiite area, it wasn't moved anywhere, and we'll make that call that it was likely a Shiite person."
Recent sectarian fighting in an area is another clue. "It's not perfect to be able to identify every single person," Macomber said. "But there are pieces out there that we can use to help us." At the end of the day, he said, "it's an analyst making an analyst's call."
The killing of seven Iraqis on Aug. 25 in the predominately Shiite Baghdad neighborhood of Kadhimiya was judged sectarian. The victims were Shiites, and the method and location -- a car bomb in a marketplace -- pointed to Sunnis.
Two Iraqis killed by a car bomb on Sept. 3 were not included in the sectarian database, however. The attack occurred on a road near Ramadi, not far from where President Bush was meeting with government officials that day. But the victims, regardless of ethnicity or sect, were Iraqi policemen. They were counted elsewhere.
By Karen DeYoung


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Imprint: Penguin General UK
The runner-up for the Man Booker Prize and one of the top sellers on the shortlist - now in paperback
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.
Ali Smith is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be both, Public library and other stories and Autumn. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
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A Government is the body within a community, political entity or organization which has the authority to make and enforce rules, laws and regulations.
Typically, the term "government" refers to a civil government or sovereign state which can be either local, national, or international. However, commercial, academic, religious, or other formal organizations are also governed by internal bodies. Such bodies may be called boards of directors, managers, or governors or they may be known as the administration (as in schools) or councils of elders (as in churches). The size of governments can vary by region or purpose.
Growth of an organization advances the complexity of its government, therefore small towns or small-to-medium privately-operated enterprises will have fewer officials than typically larger organizations such as multinational corporations which tend to have multiple interlocking, hierarchical layers of administration and governance. As complexity increases and the nature of governance becomes more complicated, so does the need for formal policies and procedures.
Authoritarian � Authoritarian governments are characterized by an emphasis on the authority of the state in a republic or union. It is a political system controlled by nonelected rulers who usually permit some degree of individual freedom.
Constitutional monarchy � A government that has a monarch, but his/her power is strictly limited by the government. Example: United Kingdom.
Constitutional Republicc � Rule by a government composed of representatives who are voted into power by the people.
Democracy � Rule by a government where all [citizens] are represented but power is held by the majority.
Dictatorship � Rule by an individual who has full power over the country. See also Autocracy and Stratocracy.
Monarchy � Rule by an individual who has inherited the role and expects to bequeath it to their heir.
Oligarchy � Rule by a small group of people who share similar interests or family relations.
Plutocracy � A government composed of the wealthy class. Any of the forms of government listed here can be plutocracy. For instance, if all of the voted representatives in a republic are wealthy, then it is a republic and a plutocracy.
Theocracy � Rule by a religious elite.
Totalitarian � Totalitarian governments regulate nearly every aspect of public and private life.
The political philosophy of anarchism opposes government, and is not a form thereof�it is the belief that governments are harmful and unnecessary.


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The legendary Gianh river
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There are 213 rivers in Việt Nam but Gianh river is the only one that lies completely inside one province – Quảng Bình. It's Quảng Bình's biggest river, so the locals call it the Mother river, the province's natural symbol.
Rugged upper reaches Mother river takes its waters from 2017m-high Cô Pi mountain of the mighty Trường Sơn range and flows northward, then changes its direction toward the South-East, zigzaging through districts of Minh Hóa, Tuyên Hoá and Quảng Trạch to reach East Sea.
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Almost all tributaries of this 160km-long river come from the great Trường Sơn range or the 99 legendary limestone mountains. These big and small streams have flowed for millions of years through easy to- erode limestone terrain, thus creating scenic caves such as Minh Cầm, Lạc Sơn. In Nov. 2009, a wonderful multilevel cave was discovered 50m beneath the Tuyên Hóa section of the river. The upper 70-80 km long parts of river Gianh, winding among mountains, have many perilous cascades. Further down, the flow grows bigger and bigger, and the scenery on the banks also changes dramatically. Vietnam air travel
The riverbed is very steep near its sources. Gianh river's average steepness is 19.2%. Therefore, during the flood season from Sept. to Nov., the flow is very violent. Quảng Bình people say only those who have witnessed the crest of its floods know its power and ferocity. After the rainy season, Gianh river waters quickly become clear and peaceful. One of the most beautiful and scenic section of the Mother river is the part that crosses Quảng Trạch district, having an average width of 100m and 5 little isles. At about 10 km from its estuary, the river's water begins to taste salty, as it mixes with sea water.
A divine river In 1069 under Marshal Lý Thường Kiệt's command, Lý dynasty's army defeated Champa army on Gianh river and took back Quảng Bình land for the Great Việt. Since then Gianh river became a vital military frontier for Great Việt's southward expansion. In 1406, 800 thousand Chinese Minh troops invaded Great Việt. River Gianh again witnessed many bloody battles between the two countries' armies, as recorded in history. In Jan 1471, leading his army fom the Thăng Long (today's Hà Nội) capital down South, King Lê Thánh Tông stopped his flotillas on Gianh river. Seeing the perilous rugged terrain on both sides, the King thought it was a divine river.
From 1570 to 1786, Gianh river witnessed many wars in the power struggle between the Trịnh and Nguyễn feudal lords of Great Việt. Those civil wars have left many vivid traces, such as Thầy Rampart, Quảng Bình border gate, and some citadels.
After each war, more Việt people from the North come to settle on both sides of Gianh river, especially around the royal military outpost which today is Ba Đồn town. The new settlements continually expanded, covering both banks of Gianh river. Rice cultivation and many other trades followed suit. Today's villages on both sides of the river still practice the trade of those pioneering settlers.
The oldest trade villages concentrate in Quảng Trạch district and Ba Đồn township. In Quảng Trạch people grow rice, plant cotton and weave fabrics, make cone hats and do meshwork. Whereas Ba Đồn, the old royal military outpost, has carpentry, blacksmithing, carving and foundries (Hòa Ninh village of Quảng Hòa commune.) One of the most famous villages along Gianh river is Lệ Sơn village of Văn Hóa commune, Tuyên Hóa district. It leans on the 99 pensive rocky mountains, facing the river, looking like a heavenly paradise on earth.
Moreover, history recorded that a century ago, Lệ Sơn was the top among 8 villages that had the highest learning spirit and success of Quảng Bình. The most popular dish of the people of Quảng Bình in general and along Gianh river in particular is small mussels fried with piper lolot leaves or young jackfruit, sandwiched in dry rice pancake.
Second is simmered brined goby. These are the two simple food items that Quảng Bình natives carry the taste of their tongue all their life, no matter where they go and what other tastes of life they experience.
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