Web Sites

www.wolfentertainmentguide.com/
William Wolf Movie Reviews

www.bchealthguide.org
British Columbia Ministry of Health website

www.healthyontario.com/
Content Management Systems (CMS) that drives Provincial health portal

www.tonyaspler.com/
E-commerce membership site for well-known wine expert, Tony Aspler

http://www.medbroadcast.com/
Healthy Buddy Interactive Tool

Charity

Barskoon, Jety-Ogyz Rayon, Issyk-Kul Oblast, Kyrgyzstan
Barskoon is a village of roughly 7,300 residents living in approximately 2,000 family units located on the south shore of Lake Issyk-Kul.

Ozurgeti, Guria, Georgia
Guria is a region in Western Georgia located near the Black Sea, and is comprised of several small villages and the regional capital of Ozurgeti.

Big Brothers and Sisters of Cleveland, Ohio
PrymeTime internet program for students

Cleveland Plain Dealer - Web Heroes
Article about local web developers

Eric Voegelin Society
The Eric Voegelin Institute (EVI) honors the scholarship and memory of Erich Hermann Wilhelm Voegelin.

Articles

Ekaterina Genieva
“We have reached a point of no return” Russia’s most renowned librarian talks to ‘Meduza’ about state inspections, foreign agents, and cultural exchange

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE ORDER OF SOCIETY
If you make “a university a microcosm of society” — one of the slogans advocated by certain revolutionary students — “The university should be a microcosm of society” — that means it should be exactly as rotten as the society that it is supposed to balance. Then, you would have an institution that is neither useful for any purpose in society nor is it worth the expense. Sooner or later the people who pay the money will find that out. They will close it down.

INTELLECTUAL FRAUD
Once the patterns of violence and atrocity are set, one never can know what effects they will have. The ways of causation in these matters are tortuous and often incredible.

On Charity
“Bertrand Russell, who, when asked why he did not give to charity, replied: ‘I’m afraid you’ve got it all wrong. We are Socialists. We don’t pretend to be Christians.’” Needless to say, that witty retort contains a whole theology and a philosophy that deserve to be spelled out. The logic of classic socialism makes Christianity not only superfluous—everyone has everything by rights—but impossible—no one has anything to give.

Liberal Education
Rather, the university is primarily an enclave wherein one is free to teach the truth, no matter in what city a university might exist. The “city” that the university looked to was one “in speech” or “in mind,” as Plato said.

Movies

Since Otar Left
When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever.

მანდარინები - Tangerines
The film's story is developing during the war in Abkhazia , but the film does not reflect scenes of war. It contains stories about Estonians living in Abkhazia .

Русалка (Mermaid)
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true.

Итальянец - The Italian
Boy in Russian orphanage is adopted by couple from Italy but would rather trackdown his birth mother.

To Live
Fugui's (Ge You) gambling leads him to lose everything, including his wife, Jiazhen (Gong Li), and his home. Over the following decades, he struggles to live as a peasant.

White Sun of the Desert
The Orient is a delicate matter (Восток — дело тонкое);

Mimino
- Какое кино? - «Разбитое сердце». - Про войну? - Нет, про любовь.

Дерсу Узала - Akira Kurosawa
The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

Music etc.

Santa Marinella - Gogol Bordello Live

О Солнце Санта Маринеллы, излизанный тобою,
Я получал не раз, тай-да-ри-да
В посольствах США отказ
Там недалеко от Рима
Есть город Палестрина.
Звезда периферии, вся в маслинах, стала наша малина.

О мама Палестрина, встречайте пьяных пилигримов,
Без права на выезд,
Без визы на вдох,
Без визы на выдох..

А Солнце Санта Маринеллы
Вгрызалось нам в капилляры.
А наша надежда сползала по стенам, мух не отгоняя,

Но вот как-то однажды, не знаю, уж как,
Пришло и нам добро из-за океана,
И тогда на расходняк.
И тогда на расходняк!

Russian Dolls
These were given by various scholars from former Soviet Union. They represent most of the former 15 republics/cultures.