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The Real Crime of M. Khodorkovsky
There is an excellent article on VoltaireNet.org entitled "The Real Crime of M. Khodorkovsky" by F. William Engdahl, which I recommend. In his short article, Engdahl explains how Khodorkovsky was working with George H.W. Bush, Jacob Rothschild, Henry Kissinger, and George Soros to take over the vital oil assets of Russia - in order to destroy Russia as a "functioning state". This plot was clearly not hatched in Washington nor was this being carried out to benefit the American people. The only beneficiaries of this criminal plot were the small group of men behind it.
The astute reader will notice that this is the same group of people who, I contend, are at the highest-level of the global hoax and cover-up of 9/11. I am listed in something called the Encyclopedia of American Loons because my research and findings indicate that these people are the real culprits behind 9/11. As the Encyclopedia says of my thesis : "9-11 was the product of a Zionist conspiracy (in particular organized by the Rothschild family) – the Zionist conspiracy that controls the US government and media." (See "Slaying the Debt Spider")
As Engdahl explains in his article, Khodorkovsky had a contractual agreement with Jacob Rothschild that in the event of his arrest and incarceration, Khodorkovsky's shares of 40 percent of Yukos would belong to Rothschild. This is a pretty good indication of who was financing Khodorkovsky's attempt to take over the vital oil assets of Russia. Khodorkovsky was a Rothschild-funded agent on the front line in the war to plunder Russia. Engdahl explains that Khodorkovsky was working closely with Henry Kissinger, George H.W. Bush, and George Soros, which raises the question of who is the top dog. It's pretty clear that these men are merely senior officers in Rothschild's army, as are the Clintons and Obamas.
As Eustace Mullins wrote in Secrets of the Federal Reserve: The House of Rothschild:
"The fact was that in 1910, the United States was for all practical purposes being ruled from England, and so it is today. The ten largest bank holding companies in the United States are firmly in the hands of certain banking houses, all of which have branches in London. They are J.P. Morgan Company, Brown Brothers Harriman (George H.W. Bush is the son of Prescott Bush, a founding partner of Brown Brothers Harriman), Warburg, Kuhn Loeb and J. Henry Schroder. All of them maintain close relationships with the House of Rothschild, principally through the Rothschild control of international money markets through its manipulation of the price of gold. Each day, the world price of gold is set in the London office of N.M. Rothschild and Company.
"Although these firms are ostensibly American firms, which merely maintain branches in London, the fact is that these banking houses actually take their direction from London. Their history is a fascinating one, and unknown to the American public, originating as it did in the international traffic in gold, slaves, diamonds, and other contraband. There are no moral considerations in any business decision made by these firms. They are interested solely in money and power."
9/11 - THE GLOBAL HOAX
When we consider the 9/11 cover-up, we find the former president and C.I.A. director George H.W. Bush and his son the president perfectly placed to block a blue-ribbon investigation and push a pack of lies on the public in order to wage a war of conquest in Afghanistan. Henry Kissinger was President Bush's first choice to chair the 9/11 commission. Kissinger's partner, the late Richard Holbrooke, served as Obama's special envoy to the Afghanistan-Pakistan war until his death last year. The C.I.A. is obviously engaged in the 9/11 deception while it wages its own covert war in the region using the pack of lies it peddles to the public through the controlled media. Remember, the C.I.A. was holding a plane-into-building drill on the very morning of 9/11, which oddly resulted in the employees of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, Virginia being sent home after the first plane struck the World Trade Center. The C.I.A. is clearly not serving the interests of the American people or republic, but simply works on behalf of the people behind the evil plot.
The following are some key extracts from Engdahl's article, which can be read in its entirety with links at: http://www.voltairenet.org/article168007.html
"At the time of his arrest Khodorkovsky was in the process of negotiating via his Carlyle friend George H.W. Bush, father of the then-President George W. Bush, the sale of 40 percent of Yukos to either Condi Rice's former company, Chevron, or ExxonMobil in a move that would have dealt a crippling blow to the one asset left Russia and Putin to use for the rebuilding of the wrecked Russian economy: oil and export via state-owned pipelines to the West for dollars."
The final decision in the Russian trial against former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has drawn dramatic statements of protest from the US Obama Administration and governments around the world labeling Russian justice as tyrannical and worse. What is carefully omitted from the Khodovkorsky story however is the true reason Putin arrested and imprisoned the former head of Russia's largest private oil giant, Yukos.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky's real crime was not stealing Russia's assets for a pittance in the bandit era of Yeltsin. His real crime is that he was a key part of a Western intelligence operation to dismantle and destroy what remains of Russia as a functioning state. When the facts are known the justice served on him is mild by comparison to US or UK standard treatment of those convicted of treason against the state. Obama's torture prison at Guantánamo is merely one example of Washington's double standard. ...
Prior to his arrest in 2003 Khodorkovsky (in the photo with first Russian President Boris Yeltsin) funded several Russian parties, including the Communist Party, most of which were in competition with each other. In an auction run by his own bank, Khodorkovsky paid $309 million for Yukos. In 2003 the same company was assessed as worth $45 billion ($45,000,000,000 or 145 times the purchase price), and not owing to Khodorkovsky's management genius.
With his new billions in effect stolen from the Russian people, he made some powerful friends. He set up a foundation modeled on US billionaire George Soros' Open Society, calling it the Open Russia Foundation. He invited two powerful Westerners to its board—Henry Kissinger and Jacob Lord Rothschild. Then he set about to develop ties with some of the most powerful circles in Washington where he was named to the Advisory Board of the secretive private equity firm, Carlyle Group where he attended board meetings with fellow advisors such as George H.W. Bush and James Baker III.
Jacob Rothschild was Khodorkovsky's key partner...
along with Rothschild's high-level agents Henry Kissinger, George Bush, and the late Richard Holbrooke.
However, the real crime that landed Khodorkovsky behind Russian bars was the fact that he was in the middle of making a US-backed coup d'etat to capture the Russian presidency in planned 2004 Russian Duma elections. Khodorkovsky was in the process of using his enormous wealth to buy enough seats in the coming Duma elections that he could change Russian laws regarding ownership of oil in the ground and of pipelines transporting same. In addition he planned to directly challenge Putin and become Russian President. As part of the horse trade that won Putin the tacit support of the wealthy so-called Russian Oligarchs, Putin had extracted agreement that they be allowed to hold on to their wealth provided they repatriate a share back into Russia and provided they not interfere in domestic Russian politics with their wealth. Most oligarchs agreed, as did Khodorkovsky at the time. They remain established Russian businessmen. Khodorkovsky did not.
Moreover, at the time of his arrest Khodorkovsky was in the process of negotiating via his Carlyle friend George H.W. Bush, father of the then-President George W. Bush, the sale of 40% of Yukos to either Condi Rice's former company, Chevron or ExxonMobil in a move that would have dealt a crippling blow to the one asset left Russia and Putin to use for the rebuilding of the wrecked Russian economy: oil and export via state-owned pipelines to the West for dollars. During the ensuing Russian state prosecution of Yukos, it came to light that Khodorkovsky had also secretly made a contract with London's Lord Rothschild not merely to support Russian culture via the Open Russia Foundation of Khodorkovsky. In the event of his possible arrest (Khodorkovsky evidently knew he was playing a high-risk game trying to create a coup against Putin) the 40% share of his Yukos stocks would pass into the hands of Lord Rothschild.
The crocodile tears of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the violations of Khodorkovsky's human rights hide a far deeper agenda that is not being admitted. Washington used the Russian to try to reach its goal of totally destroying the only power left on the earth with sufficient military strike power to challenge the Pentagon's Full Spectrum Dominance strategy—control of the entire planet. When seen in that light the sweet loaded words "human rights" take on a quite different meaning.
Sources and Recommended Reading:
"The Real Crime of M. Khodorkovsky", by F. William Engdahl, VoltaireNet.org, 5 January 2011
"Slaying the Debt Spider", by Christopher Bollyn, 20 July 2010
http://www.bollyn.com/slaying-the-debt-spider-2


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William Henry Harrison "Tippy" Dye (born April 1, 1915) is a noted former college athlete, coach, and athletic director in the United States. As a basketball head coach, Dye led the University of Washington to their only NCAA Final Four appearance. As an athletic director, Dye helped build the University of Nebraska football dynasty.
Dye entered the Ohio State University in 1933 and became a star three-sport athlete. He earned three varsity letters as a football quarterback in 1934, 1935 and 1936. His team finished those seasons with records of 7-1, 7-1, and 5-3, respectively, and until 2006 he was the only Buckeye quarterback to win three consecutive games over the University of Michigan. Dye also played guard on the school's basketball team, lettering in 1935, 1936 and 1937. He was an All-Conference selection in the Big Ten in 1936 and 1937. In 1937 he was also the team's captain. Dye lettered in baseball in 1935 and 1936.
After graduation, Dye entered coaching. He was the basketball head coach of the Ohio State University from 1947 to 1950. In 1950 Ohio State won the Big Ten Conference title and finished in the Elite Eight of the NCAA basketball tournament. Dye then moved on to the University of Washington, where he served as the basketball head coach from 1951 to 1959. Washington won three consecutive Pacific Coast Conference titles (1951-53), and in 1953 went to the NCAA Final Four. Dye's 156-91 record in Washington ranks him as the third winningest coach in the school's basketball history, behind Hall of Fame coaches Hec Edmundson and Marv Harshman.
Dye was hired as the athletic director at the University of Nebraska in 1962. Prior to hiring Dye, the University of Nebraska football team had an all-time winning percentage of less than 62%. Since 1962 (ending 2005) the University of Nebraska football winning percentage is just over 81%, which is by far the highest winning percentage in that period in the nation.
Dye was named after former United States President William Henry Harrison. Harrison used the campaign nickname of Tippecanoe, which led in turn to Dye's nickname of Tippy.
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AKA: Tonari no Totoro, となりのトトロ (Japanese)
Genre: Fairytale children's fantasy
Length: Movie, 86 minutes
Distributor: Currently licensed by GKids.
Content Rating: G (nothing objectionable)
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Notes: This anime is a recipient of the Otaku from the T.H.E.M. Anim
Dr. Kusakabe and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, move out to a new house in the countryside. Moving into the large house is an adventure and a thrill for the young duo, who are still innocent and unjaded enough to still notice sprites and fairies living inside the woodwork and the nearby forest.
Soon, things settle into a routine for the family. Daddy studies and teaches at the nearby university, Satsuki goes to school, and Mei begins to play in the vast and gorgeous forest right outside their screen door. The family also periodically goes to the hospital to visit Mom, who has an unnamed disease that keeps her there until she can get better enough to go home.
Mei eventually meets the Totoro, a strange and friendly race of creatures who look like a cross between an owl and a rabbit. Totoros come in all sorts of sizes, the most remarkable being the ten-foot tall one that seems to embody the spirit of the forest. Soon, Satsuki meets the Totoro, too, and a truly magical experience begins!
Again, My Neighbor Totoro is another Miyazaki classic that any anime fan worth his or her salt will see or at least plan to see in the near future.
I almost didn't include a story synopsis in this review, because the overall plot, while well-conceived and coherent, is almost incidental to the overall anime experience. The main point of the anime seems to be simply to absorb and revel in the magical and wondrous setting Miyazaki painted in My Neighbor Totoro. And magic and wonder there is, in spades.
The art and animation are wonderful, in typical Miyazaki detail and execution. The colors are bright and crisp, and the whole thing just exudes this intangible quality that makes you long for the days of yore, when playing outside and simply exploring the backyard was an adventure in and of itself. There is some absolutely gorgeous scenery to be found in this thing. Even everyday objects adopt a fairy-tale quality to them when rendered in this film. Nothing is over-cute, though, and even the most jaded will appreciate the truly bizarre and wonderful ideas Miyazaki presents as the film unfolds.
The soundtrack is probably one of the best I've ever heard: unique, eccentric, and friendly all at the same time. The magic of each scene is enhanced even more by the tracks that accompany them, making even going to school seem like a scene from a Mother Goose rhyme. The characters are all wonderfully rendered, fully likeable and fully believable at the same time with their strengths and flaws. The dubbing job was probably the best I have ever heard, and it took me only five minutes for me to forget that this movie was originally done in Japanese. Hopefully, the Disney renditions of Miyazaki's titles will all be done this well.
Basically, if you're in the mood to see something that will make you feel good all over, get this one for sure. I sat with a goofy grin on my face the whole time this thing was on, and the grin didn't go away for even hours after the flick was over. Miyazaki does it again, and My Neighbor Totoro is a winner.
— Raphael See
Recommended Audience: Little kids might find Totoro to be a bit frightening, but only at first. There's a family bath scene that's not even really worth mentioning. Everybody can see this one, no problem. A G-rated anime, woohoo!
Version(s) Viewed: VHS, English dub
My Neighbor Totoro © 1988 Nibariki / Tokuma Shoten


It should come as no surprise that home runs have increased since 2014. That year, there were 4,186 home runs hit, while in 2018, there were 5,585 (a 33% increase). The trend began in 2015 and continued through 2018. Most of us have now accepted that this is a "new normal," but is it? Before we can declare it so, we need to understand the why behind the increase.


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After more than a decade of annual celebrations, the Pisces Party has become a North Coast Community tradition and a harbinger of the coming spring. The party is an annual fundraiser to honor and support Mendocino resident and North Coast restoration advocate, Richard Gienger. The Pisces Party has become a cornerstone of community efforts to support Richard's ongoing work to restore the forests and watersheds of the North Coast of California.
Since 1977, Richard has been a tireless advocate for community-based forestry, and is well known for his role in protecting Sally Bell Grove, an ancient forest along the Mendocino Coast that would later become part of the Sinkyone Wilderness, as well as his ability to engage with natural resource agencies and policy makers in Sacramento. Richard is highly regarded for his policy work to advance forest conservation measures that benefits California's rural communities.
EPIC and the Trees Foundation have come together to produce this important and fun annual event in order to secure the support necessary to keep Richard working to protect and restore the forests, wildlife and waterways of Northwest California.
The party starts at 6pm with a no-host bar and music by the Ken and Maria Jorgenson's Falling Rocks.
Dinner: Sue's Organic's is serving dinner at 6:30 featuring: Black-bean Coconut Soup, a tossed Green Salad with toasted, spiced sunflower seeds and Sue's Organics tahini dressing along with Veggie Enchiladas filled with Butternut Squash, Kale, Onions, Fried Tempeh & Cheese ($10-20 sliding scale for dinner).
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Doors to Hope opens learning opportunities, encourages community involvement and engages in advocacy for immigrant women and families.
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This is Doors to Hope's first annual Mother's Day event. Our Mothers are such important people in our lives. Now is a time to celebrate the gift of our Mom.
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Lorena has a MA in Media Education and a wide background working with international immigration, women, education, journalism and photography.
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Professor Dan Croxall, '08, shares his journey from being an evening law student at McGeorge to becoming a full-time professor at his alma mater
By McGeorge Community Stories on September 1, 2022
Professor Dan Croxall, '08, shares his journey from teaching English at Cal Poly at a young age to his experience of being an evening student at McGeorge School of Law, which transformed into his current position as a professor at his alma mater.
Croxall's dual perspective as both a former student and professor allows him to see eye-to-eye with many different struggles students may encounter during their law school journey.
Learn more about McGeorge School of Law.
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Biography Sibusiso Vilakazi
Sibusiso Vilakazi
by Nishan 22 Feb,2022
Weight in KG 64Kg kg
Date of Birth 1989, December 29
Famous Name Sibusiso Vilakazi
Country South Africa ZA
No. of Instagram Followers 104K
Past Team Bidvest Wits
Market Value €850Th
Birth Name Sibusiso Vilakazi
Net Worth $500k
Siblings Has a Brother
Salary R 2,640,000 per annum.
Birth Country Soweto, South Africa
No. of Siblings 1
Children Has one daughter
Nationality South African
Current team Mamelodi Sundowns
Ethnicity Black
Sponsors Nike
Famous for Mid-fielding
Caps 27
Currently Club Mamelodi Sundowns
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Sibusiso Vilakazi is a professional football player from South Africa and currently plays in Premier Soccer League club Mamelodi Sundowns. Vilakazi plays as an attacking midfielder for Sundowns wearing the Jersey No. 11. Sibusiso has won the Premier Soccer League 2016-17 with Bidvest Wits and Premier Soccer League 2017-18 with Mamelodi Sundowns.
Sibosiso Vilakazi made his debut for the South African national team on 12th October 2013. He is known for his playing style as an attacking midfielder; he is on the list of athletes who won the 2013-14 Premier Soccer League, where he was the season's player.
Who is Vilakazi? Bio and Personal Information
Sibusiso Vilakazi was born on December 29, 1989, in Soweto, South Africa, and belongs to birth sign Capricorn.
Sibusiso Vilakazi. SOURCE: [email protected]
There is no information about the personal details of Vilakazi's parents, but as per the source, he has a brother; as per the source, his parent's house was robbed, and his father was shot dead in the dead while his brother and mother were tied up.
Mamelodi Sundown's attacking midfielder Vilakazi's Height and Weight.
As of 2022, Sibusiso Vilakazi is 33 years old and possesses a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.71 meters). His weight is around 64 kg, and he has short curly black hair.
Vilakazi's Salary, Contract, and Net Worth
Playing professional football since 2009, Vilakazi has collected reasonable fortunes date, talking about his salary in Sundowns. He has a whopping salary of R220,000 per month, which sums up to R 2,640,000 per annum.
He played professional soccer for decades, and playing for the African national team will definitely add to his net worth.
Sibusiso Vilakaz with his luxurious car. SOURCE: [email protected]
As per the source, Mamelodi's attacking midfielder has a total net worth of $500,000. His contract with the club ends on 30th June 2024; Vilakazi has a current market value of €850Th, last updated on 15th January 2022.
Sponsorship with Nike
Like other professional soccer players, Sibusiso also earns well through endorsements deals.
CAPTION: Sibusiso Vilakazi promoting Nike. SOURCE: [email protected]
Nike endorses Sibusiso Vilakazi, and he often posts about the products of the deal to his fans on his Instagram.
Also, know about Amy Taylor's Biography.
Is Sibosiso Vilakazi married in 2022? (Wife and Children)
Aside from a life as a professional football player, Vilakazi is dating a girl or might be married whose identity is unknown to the public as of now.
It remains unsure if Sundown's attacking midfielder is dating someone or might be married because he often posts a picture with his possible daughter, whose mum is unknown as of now.
Sibusiso Vilakazi with his daughter. SOURCE: [email protected]
So the married life of Sundown's attacking midfielder is unclear at the moment; he is believed to have at least one relationship in the past.
Stay tuned with Playerswiki.
South African National Team Mamelodi Sundowns Sibusiso Vilakazi


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Florida Conference helps start new church in Mississippi
Nov. 20, 2007 News media contact: Tita Parham*
By Erik J. Alsgaard and Woody Woodrick**
The Florida Conference is known for starting new churches in record numbers in the United States. This year alone, the conference's New Church Development committee is anticipating starting 22 new congregations.
But that's all in Florida. If you add the one being started in Mississippi, that number is 23.
The Rev. Dr. Mont Duncan (center), director of Florida Conference New Church Development, presents the first of three checks for $30,000 to the Rev. Dr. Embra Jackson (left), administrative assistant to Mississippi Conference Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, and the Rev. Kurt Appel, chair of Mississippi Conference New Church Development. Photo by Woody Woodrick. Photo #07-0707.
"The New Church Development Committee wanted to do something missional beyond Florida," said the Rev. Mont Duncan, executive director of the Florida Conference's New Church Development office. "God has blessed us with resources beyond our apportionment dollars, and I had a vision for planting a new church beyond our conference."
That vision included helping the Mississippi Conference start a new church, Duncan said, and it came from his son, who was a junior at the University of South Florida and worked in hurricane Katrina relief during a spring break in Moss Point, Miss.
"I got to thinking about Moss Point and figured things might be tight in Mississippi," Duncan said. "I wanted to do something within our jurisdiction and with a group that had a heart for planting new churches."
Duncan went to his committee in September, and they approved his idea.
"I wanted a substantial gift," he said. "I suggested $90,000."
That gift is coming from the interest earned on loans given by the New Church Development committee to new Florida Conference churches for their first buildings. The interest is invested in a fund with the Florida United Methodist Foundation.
Duncan visited Mississippi in October to present the first of three $30,000 checks that will be given to the Mississippi Conference over three years.
The Rev. Embra Jackson, who serves as administrative assistant to the bishop in Mississippi and also works on new church development, said the timing of the gift was providential.
"This gift is a godsend," Jackson said. "It means so much to us. When Mont called, we had just finished a cabinet meeting with (Mississippi Conference) Bishop Hope Morgan Ward where we had discussed starting additional new churches in our annual conference beyond the three per year that we had set as a minimum goal last year."
That night, Duncan called with news of the gift, no strings attached, other than the money must be used to start a new church, not revitalize an existing congregation.
"I nearly shouted in his ears," said Jackson. "I was overwhelmed by the Florida Conference's gift."
Bishop Ward also thanked the conference for the gift.
"We celebrate the wonderful gift from the Florida Conference and give thanks for their partnership in the expanding mission of the Mississippi Conference," she said. "The Florida Conference has demonstrated in this remarkable way their commitment to new church development beyond the bounds of their conference. May we be inspired by this gift in every local congregation to reach out in to the world Christ came to save."
Duncan said experts recommend the number of annual new church starts should equal 3 percent of the current number of churches in the conference in order to impact the culture. That means the Florida Conference should start about 21 or 22 new churches every year. The plans for 2007-2008, Duncan said, call for starting 23: seven predominately Anglo and 15 ethnic, including seven Hispanic, six Haitian, one Chinese and one Brazilian.
And one in Mississippi.
This article relates to New Church Development.
**Alsgaard is director of communications for the Florida Conference. Woodrick is the editor of the Mississippi Christian Advocate.


This represents a saving of £84 a year, or 37%, for up to one million of BT's landline-only customers.
They have been getting poor value for money in recent years, compared to those who buy bundles of landline, broadband and/or pay-TV services. Nearly two thirds (66%) of customers with only a landline are over 65, and more than three quarters (77%) have never switched provider.
Ofcom has been concerned that telephone line rental prices have risen, despite wholesale costs falling. Following a review of this market, we set out firm proposals to cut monthly bills for BT's landline-only customers by between £5 and £7.
In response, BT has agreed to our proposal in full and is reducing its monthly line rental price by £7, from April 2018, for its customers who take only a landline from BT.
Around 800,000 of these landline-only customers don't have to do anything to claim this price cut – it will appear on their bills automatically. They will then be protected from real-term price increases, with line rental and call costs capped at the rate of inflation.
A further 200,000 customers on BT's 'Home Phone Saver' package will also be eligible. This group of customers can choose to stay on their current package, or move to the standard product being cut, depending on which is the best deal for them.
If BT fails to honour its agreement, Ofcom will step in.
Jonathan Oxley, Ofcom's Competition Group Director, said: "For many people, their landline is their lifeline.
Telecoms providers must continue to up their game on service quality and too many customers still experience problems. But on the whole, customers who buy communications services in a bundle are getting more for their money, thanks to strong competition in the market. By contrast, landline-only customers have less choice, with a number of providers having withdrawn these products altogether.
Our analysis shows that all major landline providers have increased their line rental charges significantly in recent years – by between 23% and 47% in real terms. This is despite providers benefitting from around a 27% fall in the underlying wholesale cost of providing the service.
Of the UK's 1.5 million landline-only customers, two thirds are with BT. This position has allowed BT to increase prices without much risk of losing customers, and other providers have followed BT's pricing lead. We expect BT's £7 price cut to mean other providers can follow suit.
Ofcom also wants to help people who buy a telephone service from one provider and broadband from another.
While the price cut will not apply to this group, the agreement requires BT to help these customers take advantage of the deals on offer in the market, by explaining that they could get a better deal if they purchased services as part of a bundle.
Separately, Ofcom is examining measures to help people shop around with more confidence, so they can take full advantage of the wide choice of competitive services.
We will continue to keep a close eye on the market, to ensure BT's actions address the problems we have identified. If we have any concerns about consumers or competition, we will consider the need for further intervention.
Addressing landline prices is the latest in a series of measures by Ofcom to help telecoms customers. We are also ensuring that people and businesses get better information on broadband speeds before entering a contract; and strengthening the general rules that all providers must follow.
Under the agreement, BT cannot raise its line rental for landline-only customers before the price cut comes into effect in April next year. The agreed price cut will apply for three years from 1 April 2018, and during this period average prices for line rental, calls and ancillary services will be capped to inflation.
Home Phone Saver is a BT telephone only line rental package that bundles line rental, calls and additional features together in a package. As it offers a discount of up to £30 a month compared to purchasing the features individually at standard prices, many customers on this tariff could already be on the best deal for them, even after the price of the standard tariff is cut.


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Wesley Clark on reforming the Middle East
Started by MuseZack , May 10 2004 11:12 PM
Politicians Wesley Clark Democrat 2004
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A really thoughtful and interesting article (but long)on democratization in the Middle East by Wesley Clark can be found here.
http://www.washingto...0405.clark.html
It draws a lot of parallels to the Cold War and 40 year effort to bring democracy to the Soviet bloc, while pointing out some real differences. Most interestingly coming from a former general, he spends most of the article talking about the uses of "soft power"-- information dissemination, cultural exchanges, encouraging independent trade unions and human rights groups, and so forth.
These subtler efforts mattered a great deal. The 1975 Helsinki Accords proved to be the crucial step in opening the way for the subsequent peaceful democratization of the Soviet bloc. The accords, signed by the Communist governments of the East, guaranteed individual human and political rights to all peoples and limited the authority of governments to act against their own citizens. However flimsy the human rights provisions seemed at the time, they provided a crucial platform for dissidents such as Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov. These dissidents, though often jailed and exiled, built organizations that publicized their governments' many violations of the accords, garnering Western attention and support and inspiring their countrymen with the knowledge that it was possible to stand up to the political powers that be.
Democracy and freedom have been ascendant in most parts of the world for at least the last 15 years, and it's hard to imagine that they aren't also destined to take root in the Middle East. But to play a constructive role in bringing this about, we must understand the facts on the ground and the lessons of history clearly. Our efforts should take into account not just the desire for freedom of those in the Middle East, but also their pride in their own culture and roots and their loyalty to Islam. We should work primarily with and through our allies, and be patient as we were during the four decades of the Cold War. More than anything else, we should keep in mind the primary lesson of the fall of the Soviet Union: Democracy can come to a place only when its people rise up and demand it.
We should also recognize that it is not merely democracy itself--a popular vote to elect a government--that we seek for the Middle East, but rather more enlightened, tolerant, and moderating decisions and actions from governments. The tolerance, aversion to aggression, and openness which we hope to see emerge from a democratic transformation in the Middle East will require much more than just censuses, election registers, polling booths, and accurate ballot counts. We must avoid what Fareed Zakaria calls "illiberal democracy," governments which are elected but which routinely ignore constitutional limits on their power and deprive their citizens of basic rights and freedoms. Only by creating a system of pluralistic and overlapping structures and institutions that check the power of their leaders can the nations of the Middle East avoid this fate.
At any rate, it's a long article, but worth a read when thinking of broad-based strategies toward encouraging democracy to bloom in a rather inhospitable environment.
"Some day, after we have mastered the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity,
We shall harness for God the energies of Love.
Then, for the second time in the history of the world,
we will have discovered fire."
--Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Crassly Irresponsible and Indifferent
During 2002 and early 2003, Bush administration officials put forth a shifting series of arguments for why we needed to invade Iraq.
We have yet to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; assuming that they exist at all, they obviously never presented an imminent threat
If you repeat the "imminent threat" lie often enough, it'll become true!
Saddam's alleged connections to al Qaeda turned out to be tenuous at best and clearly had nothing to do with September 11
... another assertion never put forth by Bush administration officials.
And peace between Israel and the Palestinians, which prominent hawks argued could be achieved "only through Baghdad," seems further away than ever.
Which, once again, didn't come from the Bush administration.
For every example of progress (Libya giving up its WMD program), there's an instance of backsliding (the Iranian mullahs purging reformist parliamentarians).
That I disagree with. The Iranian situation is exceedingly complex, and barring the reformists from the election is likely to hurt the mullahcracy in the long run. What's more, the latter would have happened with no US intervention; the former was a direct result of Iraq.
The truth is this: It took four decades of patient engagement to bring down the Iron Curtain, and 10 years of deft diplomacy to turn chaotic, post-Soviet states into stable, pro-Western democracies. To achieve the same in the Middle East will require similar engagement, patience, and luck.
That's something I agree with. "It's been a whole year and Iraq isn't a liberal democracy yet!" needs to stop.
And the neoconservative goal was more ambitious than merely toppling dictators: By creating a democracy in Iraq, our success would, in the president's words, "send forth the news from Damascus to Tehran--that freedom can be the future of every nation," and Iraq's democracy would serve as a beacon that would ignite liberation movements and a "forward strategy of freedom" around the Middle East.
That's what it's all about. I'm glad that Clark is debating this at the real level.
Bush, of course, has accompanied his invasion of Iraq with similarly bold and eloquent rhetoric about the prospect of peace and democracy throughout the Arab world. But it is hard to exaggerate how differently his words and deeds have been received in the Middle East, compared to Reagan's behind the Iron Curtain. While heartening some advocates of democracy, Bush's approach has provoked perhaps the fiercest and most alarming anti-American backlash in history. To take but one example, a March poll conducted by the Pew Center found that the percentage of people in Muslim countries who think suicide bombings are justified has grown by roughly 40 percent since the American occupation of Iraq. Even the most Western-friendly, pro-democratic media outlets in countries such as Jordan and Lebanon now openly question whether the Americans are anti-Islamic crusaders bent on assisting the Israeli occupiers of Palestine. This is a long way from Prague, circa 1989.
That is problematic. Anything we do, however, is going to be interpreted as imperialistic or otherwise inappropriate meddling in Middle Eastern affairs.
In the medium term, our European allies must share the burden--which will only happen if we share decision-making with them.
They have no interest in this fight. Heck, France may well be better off if the United States fails. What possible incentive could we offer? What's more, it's unclear how many effective troops are really out there..
The "road to Jerusalem" didn't run through Baghdad at all; rather, until real progress is made towards resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue in a way that respects both sides, all American efforts to work within the region will be compromised.
He talks a good game, but much of that part of the world won't be happy unless Israel ceases to exist. Short of choosing to allow that to happen, I don't see many options. What, precisely, would respect both sides?
As for the rest: I agree with large portions of it. Clark talks a good game, but I'm not sure how plausible a lot of his suggestions are. Still, good reading. Thanks for posting Zack.
St. Louis must be destroyed!
Me: "I have a job and five credit cards and am looking into signing a two year lease. THAT MAKES ME OLD."
Josh: "I don't have a job, I have ONE credit card, I'm stuck in a lease and I'm 28! My mom's basement IS ONE BAD DECISION AWAY!"
~~ Josh, winning the argument.
"Congress . . . shall include every idiot, lunatic, insane person, and person non compos mentis[.]" ~1 U.S.C. � 1, selectively quoted for accuracy.
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If you expect everyone to see colors the way you envision them while you're writing, then you may be disappointed. I may refer to blood as crimson while you think of it more as a ruby red. You may think the sky a soft Carolina blue, while I would paint the sky with a tint of periwinkle. While this may not seem a huge issue, it can complicate how your reader perceives your work.
You want your reader to be fully immersed in the world you are creating. If your scene is set in a desert, you want the reader to feel the oppressive heat and the choking, dryness in the back of their throat. In a forest, you want them to feel a thousand of small beady eyes following them as they walk through the forest, cracking twigs beneath their boots. What does this have to do with color? Because you want to entrap your reader into the world you have created, and hold their attention until they have read the last page.
Color does this. Color brings life to your world.
Subtly walk with your reader through their journey by offering small suggestive descriptions of items, details which don't come naturally to mind but whose presence creates the fiber of reality. And by this, I mean things that are out of the norm.
For example: "as the horse galloped down the brown dirt path, we observed the majesty of the luscious, green and the beautiful, blue sky." We didn't need to be told the grass was green, the dirt was brown, and the sky was blue. Our minds naturally picture those things. But could that same paragraph be further improved? Likely. Rather than focusing on common, every day details, try to focus on the details others usually skip. Mention the things that would be out of place in your day to day world. Or better, describe something common in a way that's never been done before.
Further, if you're writing a fantasy special care must be made to expand on this idea in your created world. In these stories you have to build your world from the ground up, without delay, to allow your reader to be fully invested. Otherwise, the reader can become lost. The reason goes back to my original point about people seeing different shades of color while both looking at the same sky. You want them to see your world as you intended, so you must provide the intricate details of this world so that they can envision it.
For example, Abracadabraland is your world. You put your characters into it and create the environment for your reader to become immersed. It is your job to make sure your reader can differentiate between your Abracadabraland and someone else's Alanutrioland. In these situations, it's as much the big story as the small details that truly make the difference. However, in the end, it's the small details that will allow for deeper investment of your readers, and it will also allow you to delve deeper into the intricate lives of your characters. Speaking of which…..


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The European Studies minor is for students with strong European interests or who plan to study in Europe on an EAP or OAP program but also those who seek to complement their major with the study of Europe as a political, cultural, and economic entity. To receive a minor in European Studies, a student must complete seven four-unit courses (twenty-eight units) at least five of which must be upper-division courses--these courses may not double count toward a student's major. Students plan their minor in consultation with a European Studies faculty advisor. All courses taken for the minor must be taken for a letter grade, and must be passed with a C- or better. A maximum of two 199 or 198 courses, and a maximum of three Study Abroad Courses may be petitioned to fulfill minor requirements.
ALL minors must demonstrate basic proficiency in a single European language other than English by completing four quarters of language instruction (or equivalent).
Three upper division courses with a focus on Europe as a whole, at least one from each track--Economics and Politics Track (EPT) and Culture and Society Track (CST), and one of the three track courses must be a history course.
Four additional upper division European themed elective courses (or two upper division ES courses & two language courses).


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122 years History
A short story
At Ed Brunet and Associates, we celebrate our origins with pride. Since the past is a portent of the future, let's take a trip through time.
Tradesman Edouard Brunet began his carpentry career at the end of the 19th century, building one-room schools and small houses in Lachute, Quebec, and L'Orignal, Ontario. An entrepreneur at heart, in 1901 he founded the company that still proudly bears his name. In addition to his name, Ed Brunet passed on his passion for building to the following generations.
In the 1920s, his son Raymond took over as head of the company, then called Ed Brunet and son. The company experienced significant growth, becoming recognized through its work on major construction projects on both sides of the Ottawa River. Several prestigious buildings constructed at that time still hold a significant function locally. More than just a contractor, Raymond Brunet became fully involved in his community, serving as mayor of Hull from 1940 to 1948.
His eldest son, Jean-Gilles, would succeed him in 1962. Following in the footsteps of his father, he continued to grow the company, erecting hundreds of commercial, industrial, and residential buildings in Quebec and Ontario. The company entered an era of modernization under his leadership, illustrated by the adoption of values of equity within the culture of the company, now known under the name of Ed Brunet and Associates.
He passed the torch to his son Raymond Brunet in 1995, bringing in associates James Wilson and Philippe Houle. The company has continued to grow and modernize under their leadership. Its reputation now extends beyond its numerous and diverse construction projects: Ed Brunet and Associates is active both in its industry and in its community.
Today, the values of equality and inclusion that are so important to the company have brought the associates, the employees, and the fifth generation of the Brunet family together to work towards the development of Ed Brunet and Associates.
Ed Brunet - Founder
Bridge at l'Orignal
Raymond Brunet - 2nd generation
Beauharnois Post Office
Pierre-Janet Hospital
Hull Prison
The Founderie
J. Gilles Brunet - 3rd generation
Robert-Guertin Arena
Bisson Centre
St-Benoit Church
Asticou Centre
Philemon Wright High School
Des lacs High School
Raymond Brunet - 4th generation
James G. Wilson joins the team as Associate
Philippe Houle joins the team as Associate
Félix Leclerc Campus - Outaouais College
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (U.Q.A.T.)
Water Treatment Plant in Hull
Wakefield Mill
La Ressourse Readaptation Centre
Ferme Hendrick
TGOD Valleyfield Facility
Sébastien Brunet - 5th generation
Sophie Brunet - 5th generation
Ali Torabi - Associate
Denis Laflamme - Associate


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HomeReviewReview: "Sublimation(s)" by Oria
Review: "Sublimation(s)" by Oria
"'Sublimation' is a word that bears two distinct meanings. In chemistry, it is the transition of a solid object directly to its gas phase while in Psychology it is a type of defense mechanism where the negative instincts and impulses are channeled into something positive and creative. Both meanings relate in some way to what this album is about. Metaphorically, in the first sense, it is the way in which we compose our music. It is a disruptive process since we try to deconstruct various musical conventions and experiment with structure, odd time signatures, 'weird' polyrhythms etc while at the same time trying to make it listenable and accessible. In the second sense, our lyrics are quite often negatively charged, addressing very difficult subject matters but are channeled through the music in such a way that at least we consider it as beautiful." ~ Oria
"Sublimation(s)" is the work of Oria, a Progressive Groove Metal quartet who hail from Thessaloniki in Greece, the culmination of two years work that has seen Leo (Guitars/Vocals), Kwst (Guitars), Stef (Bass/Backing Vocals) and Jo (Drums/Percussion) work with Nick Georgitsopoulos (Sunburst) at Fireball Music Studio, who recorded and mixed the album, Acle Kahney (Tesseract) at 4D Sounds who did the mastering and of course Mariza Tsakona who did the artwork. Groove is an element they consider fundamental to their sound and while their philosophical perception mainly originates from the Progressive scene, they look to create a more diverse and innovative musical soundscape with continuous movement which is driven by conceptual story-writing…
…so the almost tribal opening passage of "Limitless Insanity" might not be what you're expecting when you push play on "Sublimation(s)" given the weight of the introduction. Oria aren't creating DJent fueled riffage a la Periphery but instead offering something more akin to the work of Filthy Crook, Groove Metal that borrows from a variety of influences with the opening cut. It's not until the second half of "Temple Of Nothingness" that a Devin Townsend esq segment appears, minus the synths and orchestration that really showcases that progressive side to the band, but that's not a bad thing by any stretch, the bass is sumptuous, the percussion larger than life and the riffs have groove for days. Both guitarists contribute in good measure with the leads being an interesting layer, perhaps not as bright as they would be if the rhythm guitar tone was fuller but still offering a diversity. "Cope" brings to mind Italian stallions Destrage in slowed down form almost straight away, the echoes of their works felt in the way that it comes together while lyrically offering an insight into life and wanting to reframe what is considered the norm of society, a thinking mans song that gives you pause for thought long after the record finishes.
Progressive rhythmic patters mix with the almost tribal moments of the opening track and bring "Flisvus" to life with joyful triumph, a left field move compared with the earlier tracks that brings new life as it play out, as if the band are joined by members of TesseracT for it; it's melancholic leanings and lyrics about the endless pursuit of something just out of reach resonate well before the instrumental "The Weight of Uncertainty" builds on that atmosphere as a slow burning fire. Odd time signatures are the bedrock of "The Demon Beside My Bed", a nearly 9 minute magnum opus of a track that has some strained vocals but in the way it plays out has the feel of a dark science fiction soundscape that belongs on the soundtrack to something like Event Horizon. Creepy, menacing and sinister with dirge filled bass lines and nuanced moments of riffs that pop out of the mix, there is a nauseating ache that settles at the pit of the stomach and doesn't let go. The Demon wants to cut you into little pieces and it's right there, beside the bed, just waiting for a false move to strike…
…Oria manage to keep the songs on the album sounding like they're from the same band despite the style shifting through their use of tone and atmosphere; on paper the songs shouldn't fit together at all but the way they have been ordered lends itself to a cohesive feel as each one builds on the foundations laid before it. The dark tale that is "Regret the Fall" sounds like a Nick Cave inked song in Oria style, a twisting of the knife before the short and straight to the point "Fed to the Wrong", a dramatic piece with a schizophrenic touch to it. If that wasn't strange enough, you have "Blame Yourselves", a song with more progressive leanings that takes a chapter from the pages of the 1970's Progressive Rock book for it's eclectic opening before cutting through it with some technical riffs like Pink Floyd on steroids. A vibrant track that has moments of Death Metal thunder like crossing Oceans Of Slumber with Imperial Triumphant and if that sounds crazy, the lyrics are in places as black as the night. Cut that against "Violated" which builds on the madness and you're left with an enthralling and entertaining listen that you'll want to come back to because of it's avant-garde nature [7.5/10]
Limitless Insanity
Temple of Nothingness
Flisvus
The Weight of Uncertainty (Instrumental)
The Demon Beside My Bed
Regret the Fall
Fed to the Wrong
Blame Yourselves
"Sublimation(s)" by Oria is out 9th October and should be available here.
Tags:Destrage, Devin Townsend, Filthy Crook, Oceans of Slumber, Oria, Periphery, Sublimation(s), Sunburst, TesseracT
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Review: "Survivor's Guilt" by Anywhere But Home


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Q: How to disable button when there are no records column using php? I want to disable the button if there are no records in a specific column in the database. I have two buttons in echo statement View and cancel. I am retrieving the value from the database and displaying. I want to disable button of that row which is no records. Would you help me in this?
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A: Just use a ternary condition (?:) for define a variable $disable.Like this
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then add class in your button like this..
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FROM linuxkit/alpine:07f7d136e427dc68154cd5edbb2b9576f9ac5213 AS mirror

RUN apk add --no-cache go musl-dev git build-base
ENV GOPATH=/go PATH=$PATH:/go/bin
ENV COMMIT=db7b7b0f8147f29360d69dc81af9e2877647f0de

RUN git clone https://github.com/moby/vpnkit.git /go/src/github.com/moby/vpnkit && \
    cd /go/src/github.com/moby/vpnkit && \
    git checkout $COMMIT && \
    cd go && \
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FROM scratch
COPY --from=mirror /go/src/github.com/moby/vpnkit/go/build/vpnkit-forwarder.linux /vpnkit-forwarder
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Open-source payroll application launched
Clockwork has launched what it claims is the UK's first open-source payroll system, which it says will be cheaper than existing software from Sage and Northgate
By Ingrid Marson | November 25, 2004 -- 15:50 GMT (07:50 PST) | Topic: Developer
Clockwork Software Systems launched PayThyme, an open-source payroll application, in Birmingham on Thursday. At the company's launch event in Birmingham, Clockwork business manager Jim Welch said it was initially supplying the software pre-installed on hardware, but will supply it as an individual, supported product in 2005. The source code of the product will be available for free download from the company's Web site in two weeks.
John Pinner, managing director of Clockwork, said he estimates companies will save between £1,500 and £25,000 over comparable proprietary software. Clockwork is initially targeting its offering at smaller organisations, as larger busineses are less likely to replace their current payroll systems due to the costs involved, according to Pinner.
"The opportunities for introducing large new payroll systems are fairly limited," said Pinner. "Companies must have reason to change; for example, if part of company is being sold off. There is also an opportunity when someone has to replace a payroll, because their supplier has stopped providing support for a platform."
This was the case for the system's first customer, Peter's Cathedral Bakers, a Durham-based bakery that employs around 600 employees and has 70 retail outlets, which has been running PayThyme since April 2003.
Tom Knowles, the IT manager at the bakery, said it decided to switch to the open-source payroll application after its original payroll supplier announced that the bakery would have to move from the Unix to the Windows platform, as it was no longer supporting Unix. It already runs the majority of its systems on Linux, including an accounts and electronic point of sale system, and Knowles was keen to move to an open-source payroll system.
"I had no hesitation moving to open source -- I like the idea," said Knowles. "We haven't missed a payroll since we started. We've had some teething problems, but you always get teething problems when you set up a new system."
Gary Barnett, a research director at Ovum, said there is a good market for a reasonably priced payroll, although companies that have committed to large ERP installations are unlikely to migrate. He said there is also a potential for an open-source payroll application to be embedded in vertical ERP applications that are developed by ISVs.
"There are lots of vertical applications that have payroll embedded in them, which the ISVs have each developed separately," said Barnett. "Wouldn't it be great if they could pool their resources and build open-source building blocks for vertical applications?"
The payroll system runs on Debian Linux by default, but can also run on other Linux distributions including Red Hat and SuSE Linux. Pinner said the company chose Debian as the default distribution because it is stable and has a good update mechanism, which will allow Clockwork to pass on statutory updates to customers.
Clockwork's business manager Welch said he thinks open source is better than proprietary as it offers people more choice and flexibility. "Why should people be held to blackmail by proprietary vendors?" said Welch. He also said that open standards mean that you will always be able to get access to your information later.
"With Microsoft, two or three iterations down the line you won't be able to read your documents," said Welch.
As for future plans, Clockwork will release the software as an individual package next year. The delay in doing this has been due to the difficulties in supporting an application in different set-ups, said Welch. Later it may release a non-UK version of the payroll system, but this is difficult as the statutory requirements are different in each country.
It also hopes to release an open-source accounts package, and eventually hopes to produce an "Office in a box" for people who are setting up a company, which will include payroll, CRM, accounting and Office packages, said Welch.
PayThyme is not the first open-source accounting system worldwide. Open-source developers have built SQL-Ledger, a Web-based, multi-user accounting system which can be used with Oracle or the open-source database PostgreSQL. Oliver Elphick, a PostgreSQL developer based in the UK, is currently developing an accounting system based on PostgreSQL, but this is not yet completed.
Clockwork's pre-installed solution, called 'Payroll in a Box', will be available at different levels. The entry-level system, which includes PayThyme on an IBM A50 Tower PC with screen and Kyocera FS1010 Printer, and support for 50 employees, costs approximately £1,450. Higher level systems will cost between between £8,000 and £14,000 and will include extra hardware, support and customisiation for client needs, according to Pinner.
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Николай Иванович Стопченко  (22 декабря 1939 года, Таганрог, Ростовская область) ― кандидат филологических наук, доктор культурологии, доцент, профессор Южного федерального университета. Награждён знаком «Почётный работник высшей профессиональной школы».

Биография
Николай Иванович родился 22 декабря 1939 года в городе Таганроге. В 1963 году окончил филологический факультет Ростовского государственного педагогического института. В 1974 году окончил аспирантуру в Ленинградском педагогическом государственном институте имени А.И.Герцена по кафедре зарубежной литературы. Николай Иванович Стопченко защитил кандидатскую диссертацию «М. А. Шолохов в Германии» в 1974 году. В городе Краснодаре  защитил докторскую диссертацию «Художественное наследие В. М. Шукшина в диалоге России с зарубежными культурами» в 2006 году.

Николай Иванович работал в высших учебных заведениях Таганрога, Новосибирска и Ростова-на Дону.

Н. И. Стопченко ― профессор кафедры теории культуры, этики и эстетики факультета философии и культурологии Южного федерального университета (ЮФУ)

Николай Иванович Стопченко ― главный редактор журнала «Культура и цивилизация». Николай Иванович исследует взаимосвязи и взаимодействие русской и зарубежных культур, уделяет особое внимание творчеству М. А. Шолохова и В. М. Шукшина. Является автором нескольких монографий и около 200 научных статей.

Стопченко Н. И. ― член правления Ростовского регионального отделения Российского фонда им. М. А. Шолохова.

Николай Иванович с 1995 года возглавляет жюри Шолоховской секции Донской Академии юных исследователей, проводит ежегодные пленарные заседания.

Сфера научных интересов
 Культурология,

 История русской и мировой культуры,

 Теория и история русской и зарубежной литературы,

 Проблемы взаимосвязей и взаимодействия русской и зарубежной культур

 Зарубежное восприятие художественного наследия М. А. Шолохова и В. М. Шукшина.

Научные публикации
 «Поднятая целина» М. А. Шолохова в зарубежном социокультурном восприятии // Вёшенский вестник. ― 2008. ― N. 8. ― 0,5 п. л.

 Культурные процессы в постсоветской России как важнейшая проблема национальной безопасности // Актуальные проблемы государственной безопасности РФ. Сб. трудов науч. конференции. Ростов-на-Дону, 2008. ― 0,2 п. л.

 Личность и творчество М. А. Шолохова: дух национального самосознания // Вёшенский вестник. ― 2009. ― N. 9. ― 0,5 п. л.

 В. М. Шукшин-художник в диалоге России с зарубежными культурами. Ростов н/Д., 2009. ― 23 п. л.

 Образ Гр. Мелехова в восприятии немецкого шолоховедения // Вёшенский вестник. Сб. материалов Междунар. науч.-практич. конференции. Ростов-на-Дону, 2010. ― 0,5 п. л.

 Русская духовность художественного наследия В. М. Шукшина // Философия и будущее цивилизаций: Культурные ценности креативности: В. Шукшин-художник во взаимосвязях и взаимодействии цивилизаций // Третий Российский культурологический конгресс с международным участием «Креативность в пространстве традиций и инноваций». Тезисы докладов и сообщений. ― СПб., 2010. ― 0,2 п. л.

 Высокая правда // Дон. ― 2010. ― №. 5―6. ― 0,5 п. л.

 Концепция монографии «М. А. Шолохов в Германии (1929―2009): диалог культур-цивилизаций // Шолоховские чтения. Сб. науч. трудов. Вып. Х. Под общей ред. Е. И. Дибровой. М., 2011. ― 0,5 п. л.

 Концепция монографии «М. А. Шолохов в Германии (1929―2009): диалог культур-цивилизаций // Язык. Словесность. Культура. ― 2011. ― № 1. ― 0,5 п. л.

 В. М. Шукшин во взаимосвязях и взаимодействии цивилизаций // Культура и цивилизация. ― 2011. ― № 1. ― 1 п. л.

 Культурное наследие В. Шукшина в диалоге России и Франции // Вселенная человека. ― 2011. ― № 2. ― 0,5 п. л.

 Дух национального самосознания в наследии В.М. Шукшина // Шукшинский вестник. ― Барнаул, 2011. ― 1 п. л.

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Chicago pop-folk-rockers the Future Laureates are in town at Pianos this Thursday, and before they deliver the live goods there, they've gifted us with this exclusive listen of their new track "Sinners and Saints." The song, according to Future Laureate Danny Surico, is "set on the brink of the apocalypse, two characters are presented the opportunity to escape the conventions of heaven and hell," and despite that dark-ish description it manages to be a sweeping, jaunty uplift of a song, complete with big, swinging hooks. That's due in part, perhaps, to the track's producer, Chris Grainger, whose work with Old Crow Medicine, Wilco, and (HELL YEAH) Sixpence None the Richer has been nominated for Grammys in the past. Dude knows what he's doing, and so too do the Future Laureates. Check them out at Pianos Thursday and stream "Sinners and Saints" after the jump.


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