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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, David Kirkpatrick is hosting a keynote discussion with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook (FB). Kirkpatrick met Zuckerberg in 2006, when he was 22 and Facebook had 9 million users. Kirkpatrick was so impressed with Zuckerberg's sincerity, he went on to write a book, The Facebook Effect.
Of course, Zuckerberg was certainly an interesting choice for a telecom conference, given his company just bought WhatsApp, a potential replacement for the text messaging system, for $19 billion.
Kirkpatrick tried to get Zuckerberg to talk about that amazing price tag, only Zuckerberg wasn't too interested in taking about that and instead wanted to talk about the initiative he's promoting, "Internet.org, to bring basic internet services to the masses for free in order to bring more people onto the Internet. (WhatsApp founder Jan Koum was a panelist earlier today.)
Kirkpatrick: You bought WhatsApp for $19 billion. Tell us what that's about.
Zuckerberg: WhatsApp is a great fit for us. It's the most engaging app that we've ever seen on mobile so far. What we see is that it is on a path to connecting more than a billion people. There are very few services in the world like that, and they're all very valuable. When we first started talking about this, it was about what it would mean to connect everyone in the world. But today what I want to focus on is Internet.org. It's going to be a much more profitable model for carriers, and get more people on the Internet faster.
Kirkpatrick: Why is this so important?
Zuckerberg: Only 2.7 billion people have access to the Internet and it's growing more slowly than you think. The main cost is not the smartphone, it's the cost of the data access. We are really not on a path at this point to connect everyone in the world. It's really important, because connectituty is not an end in itself. It's what connecituty can bring. There was this Deloitte study that came out the other day that said if you could connect everyone in emerging markets, you could create more than 100 million jobs and bring a lot of people out of poverty.
Kirkpatrick: What is it?
Zuckerberg: More than 80% of people in the world live in a place where there is already 2G or 3G service. The reasons you might not have connecituty is cost, but then also the question of why you would want to spend your money. You have never had access to the Internet so you don't even know why you would want it. In the US we have 911 to get basic services. Similarly, we want to create a basic dial tone for the Internet. Basic messaging, basic Web information, basic social networking. All of those things are essentially text-based, so it can actually be a good business to provide them for free or cheap. We've been working with one of the partners in Internet.org for the last year or so to build out a lot of infrastructure. In the Philippines, we have seen the number of users of the internet double. We did that with The Globe in that country. We made services such as Facebook free. Once you make it economical to do that, you can add other services such as Wikipedia. We've also worked with Tigo, and they've seen growth of Internet users rise by 50%. The early results are extremely promising. We've proven to ourselves that the model can work.
Kirkpatrick: So how does anyone make money from that?
Zuckerberg: It goes back to this question of why are the next two to three billion people not online now? It's not because they don't have money. It's because they don't know why they would want a data plan. If you said, Do you want Facebook or WhatsApp,
Kirkpatrick: So it's like a gateway drug…
Zuckerberg: We call it an on-ramp…
Kirkpatrick: That's perhaps better than a gateway drug…
Zuckerberg: If we do this, it will make money for everyone who's here. We are highly confident we'll get to a point where it will be highly profitable.
Kirkpatrick: What do you want carriers to do?
Zuckerberg: We sont have capacity for a large number of carriers, but we do have capacity to work with a few. A lot of the arrangements we have with folks, we'll test things over a period of time. What we want to do next is have a year-long period to dive into this with folks to show that the model works. And then we could come back here in a year or two and have a more programmatic way to work with carriers.
Kirkpatrick: What is the reason for Facebook doing this?
Zuckerberg: When I talk with my board of directors about spending a billion dollars to do this, I can't come up with any model that's going to be break even on this over any amount of time in which we make investments. But I feel really strongest about this. Reaching a billion people was this big moment for us where we stepped back and said okay, what do we really want to do with this. I think we are probably going to lose money on this for a while. And we could try to get to 1.1 billion, or 1.2 billion, and we will do that, on the way to something else. There's no way today I can present a model that this is going to be highly profitable,but this is something we believe is highly important.
Kirkpatrick: How long will it be before everyone would have basic services.
Zuckerberg: What I hope is that we can prove the model works, and then work with a lawyer number or carriers. Which is when I think you would start to see more folks getting onto the Internet. Within five years, I really hope that the number is not just a little more than a billion people, but closer to connecting everyone in the world.
Kirkpatrick: But with WhatsApp you spent $19 billion, and your saying there's no immediate payoff, so how do you justify that?
Zuckerberg: I think its worth more than $19 billion just on your own. Even just independently I think its a pretty good bet. Then there's the question of why is this good for us to be together. The point is that by being part of Facebook they can focus on connecting a billion people in the next five years, rather than having to focus on their business model. What we envision for carriers is how to help them get more subscribers. It's going to be up to them to decide which services they're going to want to offer.
Kirkpatrick: This reminds me of the OpenCompute project. How are they going to be able to make money even thought they are giving stuff away for free?
Zuckerberg: We have three pillars, which is reducing the cost of providing the Internet, either through reducing the infrastructure with OpenCompute, or reducing the cost of smartphones, or the cost of spectrum. The second is using data more efficiently. I think we're almost all the way there. A year ago the average person was using 14 megabytes a day. We are already down to about 2 megabytes per day. And we are on the way to 1 megabyte. And then the third pillar is increasing the ability to upsell people to more services. So for example you are using your basic Facebook feed and come to a link for another service and you click a link to purchase that additional service.
Kirkpatrick: What about this Ericsson lab you announced?
Zuckerberg: We did this hackathon recently with Ericsson where developers could get a feel for what their apps do to the bandwidth requirements. You really come away with empathy for the people you're serving and how bad the experience can be. It's about internalizing that empathy.
Kirkpatrick: You're becoming like a systems integrator for the Internet.
Zuckerberg: I don't think we should get that much credit for this. This is not going to work if its
Kirkpatrick: Will the snowden revelations be a problem for Facebook?
Zuckerberg: You know, trust is such an important thing. We continue to share data from requests we make to the government to share what we know. I actually think the NSA issue has actually helped us to work together with competitors better than in past. I think it's just such an important thing that it's brought together the parties a lot more around policy. The governments blew it on this. I think now they're getting there. They are only now getting to thr range they should have been.
During the Q&A, Zuckerberg was asked by an audience member if he would make another run to buy competing messaging service SnapChat. Quipped Zuckerberg, "After you buy a company for $16 billion, I think you're done for a while."
And that's it!
Facebook shares are up $2.50, or 3.6%, at $71.09.


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Celebrity Social Media Troubles
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1. Beyonce was at the center of an Instagram uproar when she posed provocatively in front of a picture of The Last Supper.1 of 27
2. Snoop Dogg caught backlash when he uploaded a picture of him smoking marijuana with his teenage son.2 of 27
3. After pop singer Rita Ora broke up with Rob Kardashian, he implied that she slept with over 20 guys on Twitter.3 of 27
4. Gospel singer Erica Campbell found herself in the middle of a social media uproar over a skin-tight white dress she wore on her album cover.4 of 27
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6. Shaq was found making fun of a disabled man on Instagram. The man eventually created an anti-bullying program as a result.6 of 27
7. 13-year-old Willow Smith was the subject of criticism when she was spotted on Instagram with a shirtless 20 year old man7 of 27
8. Donald Sterling lost ownership of the LA Clippers from making racist comments that stemmed from a photo of his girlfriend and a black player on Instagram8 of 27
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In Tribute: The Complete, Untold Story of Slayer's Jeff Hanneman
He influenced a generation and changed the course of metal forever. Guitar World presents the complete, untold story of Jeff Hanneman, Slayer's guitarist for more than 30 years and the man behind such legendary thrash anthems as "Angel of Death," "South of Heaven" and "War Ensemble."
• Tom Araya: Slayer frontman/bassist
• Kerry King: Slayer guitarist
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• Kathryn Hanneman: Wife of Jeff Hanneman
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When news broke in the early evening of May 2, 2013, that longtime Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman had succumbed to liver failure at age 49, a shockwave of atomic force rippled its way across the metal community that left many stunned.
As Facebook and Twitter became overrun with postings of shock, grief and recollections from fans who had spent the better part of their lives following Slayer like Rottweiler puppies, you could feel it—this one was different. This one hurt.
To anyone who came of age in the mid Eighties wearing a denim jacket and studded wristband, Slayer was their introduction to aggressive speed metal, with riffs that cut like a buzzsaw blade and dark lyrical themes that often crossed into objectionable territory—and Hanneman was the primary force behind it.
"By all accounts, he was the band," says Slayer frontman and bassist Tom Araya.
For those who had spent a lifetime in a perpetual state of whiplash from headbanging to such Hanneman-penned Slayer anthems as "Angel of Death," "South of Heaven," "Chemical Warfare" and "Raining Blood," the reason he meant so much to so many was simple: because you could always count on Jeff to be Jeff, in the same way you could always count on Slayer to be Slayer.
He didn't say much, but he didn't have to. He wrote the lion's share of the band's most beloved songs and lived to come out from behind a wall of Marshalls every time the band took the stage, raise his fist triumphantly to the rafters, and destroy. For nearly three decades, Jeff Hanneman was a fixture of that stage—a blonde symbol of young headbangers who fell in love with satanic-infused heavy metal aggression and never looked back well into their adulthood.
"I'm amazed at how many people he touched," Araya says. "They hardly knew him, but he affected a lot of people. And he didn't even realize it."
But for all the love the heavy metal community had for Jeff Hanneman, there was a dark side to the guitarist that confused many of those who came into contact with him. Unlike, say, Dimebag Darrell, Jeff wasn't everybody's "bro." He didn't pose happily for pictures, glad-hand his way across the NAMM convention floor every January or help needy children. He had no love for the media.
He also had a morbid fascination with Nazi Germany and derived a perverse sense of joy from proudly—and controversially—displaying Nazi iconography on his guitars. And he drank. A lot.
"If he didn't like you, he wouldn't be hanging with you," says Araya from his family farmstead in Buffalo, Texas. "He could pick at you and make you feel like crap. But if you tolerated it and stuck it out and showed that you could deal with the bullshit, then that's how you became friends with him."
Slayer's origins date back to 1981 in the South Gate and Huntington Park areas of Los Angeles. King and Hanneman met at a warehouse complex after King had gone there to investigate a band that was holding auditions for a guitar player.
"As I was leaving, I saw Jeff just kinda standing around playing guitar, and he was playing stuff that I was into, like Def Leppard's 'Wasted' and AC/DC and Priest. So I started talking to him and just said, 'Hey, you want to start a band?' I already knew Dave [Lombardo, drummer] and we had been playing together in his parents' garage a bit, and so I brought Jeff in, then went to Tom [Araya, vocalist/bassist], who I was playing with in another band, and said, 'Hey man, I have a different band if you're interested.' And that was it."


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Showing how pathetic the establishment Republican party is, they continue to allow an individual that can't even pass as a RINO, to call himself a Republican. Hagel is NOT anywhere close...it's even doubtful he ever was. I suspect the only reason he was elected as a Republican from Nebraska, was that was the best party to get traction in that state. I don't recall being able to point to any vote he ever made that would make you feel comfortable that he was a Republican. Since that time, he has gone further to the unAmerican side. He has now become Obama white.
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Architecture symposium to honor Geddes, Dec. 6
Posted November 21, 2003; 01:06 p.m.
A symposium in honor of Robert Geddes, the first dean of the School of Architecture , is planned for Saturday, Dec. 6.
The event will run from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Betts Auditorium at the School of Architecture, which is sponsoring the symposium.
Geddes, an architect and educator, became dean in 1965. Under his leadership over the next 17 years, the school emerged as a major center for the exchange of architectural ideas. The conference, which will bring together alumni, architects and educators, will celebrate Geddes' 80th birthday.
Robert Goheen, the president of Princeton from 1957 to 1972, will introduce a panel on the history of the school. Stan Allen, the School of Architecture's current dean, will moderate a second panel on the future of architectural education.
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Rather than using the cute and exaggerated styles of previous Final Fantasy titles, FFVIII's design took an unusual step for the series at the time, and created a cast of realistically proportioned characters. And while the plot continued to dabble in war, revenge and epic battles, there was a more tender concept at the game's heart: the young love between the stand-offish Squall Leonhart and warm Rinoa Heartilly.
"The entire story was centred on the feelings of [these two characters] which connected more to me than any game of its day," says Stuart Barnett, a PlayStation Home designer. "It was a relationship that developed from annoying strangers to an inseparable couple, the sort of character development missing from most games."
"FFVIII was a really bold step," agrees Simon Barlow, design manager at Evolution Studios. "Following the massive success of VII was never going to be easy. The more realistic look of the characters, coupled with a lead who was difficult to identify with didn't help, but in hindsight it was a genuinely excellent game, and perhaps ultimately the right move after all. It has aged very well."
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Along with a new approach, FINAL FANTASY VIII came with Square's typically grand production values, especially noticeable in its orchestral soundtrack which kicked off proceedings in fine style. "It belts into an opening cutscene more reminiscent of a film trailer for a Hollywood blockbuster than a role-playing game," recalls PlayStation Network user holmesy1968. "That opening stands up as one of videogames' finest introductions. At the time it was simply unsurpassed."
This majestic presentation slotted right at home with the story, resulting in one of its most memorable scenes - an enchanting dance sequence between Squall and Rinoa. "What I love is how clumsy Squall is, and the fact that up until now he's been so miserable, and Rinoa just laughs at him and drags him on to the floor anyway," says Barlow. "It's a lovely scene, and one that lets you pause to consider them as people rather than having them always framed against the backdrop of conflict."
Not to say there wasn't a fair share of breathtaking instances from the action, too. "The moment I remember the most was the missile attack on Balamb Garden," says Jon Wills, field application engineer of PlayStation Home. "It ends up with the missiles hitting an empty crater because the Garden has raised itself from the ground and becomes a mobile platform. Looking back, I'm not sure if it was ingenious or just absurd, but the idea of the Garden literally moving out of the way was something I didn't expect."
"I didn't know videogames could do that"
While each fan of FINAL FANTASY VIII has their favourite moment, most agree that it helped change the way videogames were perceived, as well as define PS one as a system that could offer different gaming experiences. "The game was a big step away from the established," says Wills. "That helped set the idea that PlayStation wasn't for making the same game again and again, and more about taking a risk and doing something new."
"It was a declaration that rival platforms couldn't compete with: a mature, action-packed, cinematic, emotional experience with the best graphics, characters and gameplay that entertained for hundreds of hours," agrees Barnett. "Oh, and it let you do damage over 9,999... which was awesome."
Even the final parts of the game, which could take over 40 hours to see, left a lasting impression on those who didn't play videogames. "The ending itself stopped those around me in their tracks," says holmesy1968. "'I didn't know videogames could do that' responded one rather surprised family member. That is why FINAL FANTASY VIII is simply so important, because before it arrived: I didn't know videogames could do that either."
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Acclimating to law school can be daunting. Students pursuing their legal education come from every walk of life, some directly from undergraduate school, others with work experience or graduate studies under their belt. But for all, the life of a law student is unfamiliar and often intimidating territory. With that in mind, Southwestern's Orientation planners saw a need to personalize the support system for new students from day one.
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CHASTENED in spirit, verbally acquiescent, yet unconvinced, a somewhat pitiable sense of inadequacy upon him, Lord Fallowfeild travelled back to Westchurch that night. Two days later the morning papers announced to all whom it might concern,—and that far larger all, whom it did not really concern in the least—in the conventional phrases common to such announcements, that Sir Richard Calmady and Lady Constance Quayle had agreed shortly to become man and wife. Thus did Katherine Calmady, in all trustfulness, strive to give her son his desire, while the great and little world looked on, and made comments various as the natures and circumstances of the units composing them.page: 317
Lady Louisa was filled with the pride of victory. Her venture had not miscarried. At church on Sunday—she was really too busy socially, just now, to attend what it was her habit to describe as "odds and ends of week‐day services," and therefore worshipped on the Sabbath only, and then by no means in secret or with shut door—she repeated the General Thanksgiving with much unction and in an aggressively audible voice. And Lady Alicia Winterbotham expressed a peevish hope that—"such great wealth might not turn Constance's head and make her just a little vulgar. It was all rather dangerous for a girl of her age, and she"—the speaker—"trusted somebody would point out to Connie the heavy responsibilities towards others such a position brought with it." And Lord Shotover delivered it as his opinion that—"It might be all right. He hoped to goodness it was, for he'd always been uncommonly fond of the young 'un. But it seemed to him rather a put‐up job all round, and so he meant just to keep his eye on Con, he swore he did." In furtherance of which laudable determination he braved his eldest sister's frowns with heroic intrepidity, calling to see the young girl whenever all other sources of amusement failed him, and paying her the compliment—as is the habit of the natural man, when unselfishly desirous of giving pleasure to the women of his family—of talking continuously and exclusively about his own affairs, his gains at cards, his losses on horses, even recounting, in moments of more than ordinarily expansive affection, the less wholly disreputable episodes of his many adventures of the heart. And Honoria St. Quentin's sensitive face straightened and her lips closed rather tight whenever the marriage was mentioned before her. She refused to express any view on the subject, and to that end took rather elaborate pains to avoid the society of Mr. Quayle. And Lady Dorothy Hellard—whose unhappy disappointment in respect of the late Lord Sokeington and other nonsuccessful excursions in the direction of wedlock, had not cured her of sentimental leanings—asserted that—"It was quite the most romantic and touching engagement she had ever heard of." To which speech her mother, the Dowager Lady Combmartin, replied, with the directness of statement which made her acquaintance so cautious of differing from her:—"Touching? Romantic? Fiddle‐de‐dee! You ought to be ashamed of yourself for thinking so at your age, Dorothy. A bargain's a bargain, and in my opinion the bride has got much the best of it. For she's a mawkish, milk‐and‐water, little schoolgirl, while he is charming—all there is of him. If there'd been a little more I declare I'd have married him myself." And good‐looking Mr. Decies, of the page: 318 101st Lancers, got into very hot water with the mounted constables, and with the livery‐stable keeper from whom he hired his hacks, for "furious riding" in the Park. And Julius March walked the paved ways and fragrant alleys of the red‐walled gardens at Brockhurst, somewhat sadly, in the glowing June twilights, meditating upon the pitiless power of change which infects all things human, and of his own lifelong love doomed to "find no earthly close." And Mrs. Chifney, down at the racing‐stables, rejoiced to the point of tears, being possessed by the persistent instinct of matrimony common to the British, lower middle‐class. And Sandyfield parish rejoiced likewise, and pealed its church‐bells in token thereof, foreseeing much carnal gratification in the matter of cakes and ale. And Madame de Vallorbes, whose letters to Richard had come to be pretty frequent during the last eight months, was overtaken by silence and did not write at all.
But this omission on the part of his cousin was grateful, rather than distressing, to the young man. It appeared to him very sympathetic of Helen not to write. It showed a finely, imaginative sensibility and considerateness on her part, which made Dickie sigh, thinking of it, and then, so to speak, turn away his head. And to do this last was the less difficult that his days were very full just now. And his mind was very full, likewise, of gentle thoughts of, and many provisions for, the happiness of his promised bride.
The young girl was timid in his presence, it is true. Yet she was transparently, appealingly, anxious to please. Her conversation was neither ready nor brilliant, but she was very fair to look upon in her childlike freshness and innocence. A protective element, a tender and chivalrous loyalty, entered into Richard's every thought of her. A great passion and a happy marriage were two quite separate matters—so he argued in his inexperience. And this was surely the wife a man should desire, modest, guileless, dutiful, pure in heart as in person? The gentle dumbness which often held her did not trouble him. It was a pretty pastime to try to win her confidence and open the doors of her artless speech.
And then, to Richard, tempted it is true, but as yet himself unsullied, it was so sacred and wonderful a thing that this spotless woman‐creature in all the fragrance of her youth belonged to him in a measure already, and would belong to him, before many weeks were out, wholly and of inalienable right. And so it happened that the very limitations of the young girl's nature came to enhance her attractions. Dickie could not get page: 319 very near to her mind, but that merely piqued his curiosity and provoked his desire of discovery. She was to him as a book written in strange character, difficult to decipher. With the result that he accredited her with subtleties and many fine feelings she. did not really possess, while he failed to divine—not from defective sympathy so much as from absorption in his self‐created idea of her—the very simple feelings which actually animated her. His masculine pride was satisfied, in that so eligible a maiden consented to become his wife. His moral sense was satisfied also, since he had—as he supposed—put temptation from him and chosen the better part. Very certainly he was not violently in love. That he supposed to be a thing of the past. But he was quietly happy. While ahead lay the mysterious enchantments of marriage. Dickie's heart was very tender, just then. Life had never turned on him a more gracious face.
Nevertheless, once or twice, a breath of distrust dimmed the bright surface of his existing complacency. One day, for instance, he had taken his fiancée for a morning drive and brought her home to luncheon. After that meal she should sit for a while with Lady Calmady, and then join him in the library downstairs, for he had that which he coveted to show to her.—But it appeared to him that she tarried unduly with his mother, and he grew impatient waiting through the long minutes of the summer afternoon. A barrel‐organ droned slumberously from the other side of the square, while to his ears, so long attuned to country silences or the quick, intermittent music of nature, the ceaseless roar of London became burdensome. Ever after, thinking of this first wooing of his, he recalled—as slightly sinister—that ever‐present murmur of traffic,—bearing testimony, as it seemed later, to the many activities in which he could play, after all, but so paltry and circumscribed a part.
And, listening to that same murmur now, something of rebellion against circumstance arose in Dickie for all that the present was very good. For, as he considered, any lover other than himself would not sit pinned to an arm‐chair awaiting his mistress' coming, but, did she delay, would go to seek her, claim her, and bear her merrily away. The organ‐grinder, meanwhile, cheered by a copper shower from some adjacent balcony, turned the handle of his instrument more vigorously, letting loose stirring valse‐tune and march upon the sultry air. Such music was, of necessity, somewhat comfortless hearing to Richard, debarred alike from deeds of arms or joy of dancing. His impatience increased. It was a little inconsiderate of his mother surely to page: 320 detain Constance for so long! But just then the sound of women's voices reached him through the half‐open door. The two ladies were leisurely descending the stairs. There was a little pause, then he heard Lady Calmady say, as though in gentle rebuke:—
"No, no, dear child, I will not come with you. Richard would like better to see you alone. Too, I have a number of letters to write. I am at home to no one this afternoon. You will find me in the sitting‐room here. You can come and bid me good‐bye—now, dear child, go."
Thus admonished, Lady Constance moved forward. Yet, to Dickie's listening ears, it appeared that it took her an inordinate length of time to traverse the length of the hall from the foot of the stairs to the library door. And there again she paused—the organ, now nearer, rattling out the tramp of a popular military march. But the throb and beat of the quick‐step failed to hasten Lady Constance's lagging feet, so that further rebellion against his own infirmity assaulted poor Dick.
At length the girl entered with a little rush, her soft cheeks flushed, her rounded bosom heaving, as though she arrived from a long and arduous walk, rather than from that particularly deliberate traversing of the cool hall and descent of the airy stairway.
"Ah! here you are at last, then!" Richard exclaimed. "I began to wonder if you had forgotten all about me."
The young girl did not attempt to sit down, but stood directly in front of him, her hands clasped loosely, yet somewhat nervously, almost in the attitude of a child about to recite a lesson. Her still, heifer's eyes were situate so far apart that Dickie, looking up at her, found it difficult to focus them both at the same glance. And this produced an effect of slight uncertainty, even of a defect of vision, at once pathetic and quaintly attractive. Her face was heart‐shaped, narrowing from the wide, low brow to the small, rounded chin set below a round, babyish mouth of slight mobility but much innocent sweetness. Her light, brown hair, rising in an upward curve on either side the straight parting, was swept back softly, yet smoothly, behind her small ears. The neck of her white, alpaca dress, cut square according to the then prevailing fashion, was outlined with flat bands of pale, blue ribbon, and filled up with lace to the base of the round column of her throat. Blue ribbons adorned the hem of her simple skirt, and a band of the same colour encircled her shapely, though not noticeably slender, waist. Her bosom was page: 321 rather full for so young a woman; so that, notwithstanding her perfect freshness and air of almost childlike simplicity, there was a certain statuesque quality in the effect of her white‐clad figure seen thus in the shaded library, with its russet‐red walls and ranges of dark bookshelves.
"I am so sorry," she said breathlessly. "I should have come sooner, but I was talking to Lady Calmady, and I did not know it was so late. I am not afraid of talking to Lady Calmady, she is so very kind to me, and there are many questions I wanted to ask her. She promises to help and tell me what I ought to do. And I am very glad of that. It will prevent my making mistakes."
Her attitude and the earnestness of her artless speech were to Richard almost pathetically engaging. His irritation vanished. He smiled, looked up at her, his own face flushing a little.
"I don't fancy you will ever make any very dangerous mistakes!" he said.
"Ah! but I might," the girl insisted. "You see I have always been told what to do."
"Always?" Dickie asked, more for the pleasure of watching her stand thus than for any great importance he attached to her answer.
"Oh yes!" she said. "First by our nurses, and then by our governesses. They were not always very kind. They called me obstinate. But I did not mean to be obstinate. Only they spoke in French or German, and I could not always understand. And since I have grown up my elder sisters have told me what I ought to do."
It seemed to Richard that the girl's small, round chin trembled a little, and that a look of vague distress invaded her soft, ruminant, wide‐set eyes.
"And so I should have been very frightened, now, unless I had had Lady Calmady to tell me."
"Well, I think there's only one thing my mother will need to tell you, and it won't run into either French or German. It can be stated in very plain English. Just to do whatever you like, and—and be happy."
Lady Constance stared at the speaker with her air of gentle perplexity. As she did so undoubtedly her pretty chin did tremble a little.
"Ah! but to do what you like can never really make you happy," she said.
"Can't it? I'm not altogether so sure of that. I had ventured to suppose there were a number of things you and I page: 322 would do in the future, which will be most uncommonly pleasant without being conspicuously harmful."
He leaned sideways, stretching out to a neighbouring chair with his right hand, keeping the light, silk‐woven, red blanket up across his thighs with his left.
"Do sit down, Constance, and we will talk of things we both like to do, at greater length—Ah! bother—forgive me—I can't reach it."
"Oh! please don't trouble. It doesn't matter. I can get it quite well myself," Lady Constance said, quite quickly for once. She drew up the chair and sat down near him, folding her hands again nervously in her lap. All the colour had died out of her cheeks. They were as white as her rounded throat. She kept her eyes fixed on Richard's face, and her bosom rose and fell, while her words came somewhat gaspingly. Still she talked on with a touching little effect of determined civility.
"Lady Calmady was very kind in telling me I might sometimes go over to Whitney," she said. "I should like that. I am afraid papa will miss me. Of course there will be all the others just the same. But I go out so much with him. Of course I would not ask to go over very often, because I know it might be inconvenient for me to have the horses."
"But you will have your own horses," Richard answered. "I wrote to Chifney to look out for a pair of cobs for you last week—browns—you said you liked that colour I remember. And I told him they were to be broken until big guns, going off under their very noses, wouldn't make them so much as wince."
"Are you buying them just for me?" the girl said.
"Just for you?" Dickie laughed. "Why, who on earth should I buy anything for but just you, I should like to know?"
"But"—she began.
"But—but"—he echoed, resting his hands on the two arms of his chairs leaning forward and still laughing, though somewhat shyly. "Don't you see the whole and sole programme is that you should do all you like, and have all you like, and—and be happy."—Richard straightened himself up, still looking full at her, trying to focus both these quaintly‐engaging, far‐apart eyes. "Constance, do you never play?" he asked her suddenly.
"I did practise every morning at home, but lately"—
"Oh! I don't mean that," the young man said. "I mean quite another sort of playing."
"Games?" Lady Constance inquired. "I am afraid I am page: 323 rather stupid about games. I find it so difficult to remember numbers and words, and I never can make a ball go where I want it to, somehow."
"I was not thinking of games either, exactly," Richard said, smiling.
The girl stared at him in some perplexity. Then she spoke again, with the same little effect of determined civility.
"I am very fond of dancing and of skating. The ice was very good on the lake at Whitney this winter. Rupert and Gerry were home from Eton, and Eddy had brought a young man down with him—Mr. Hubbard—who is in his business in Liverpool, and a friend of my brother Guy's was staying in the house too, from India. I think you have met him—Mr. Decies. We skated till past twelve one night—a Wednesday, I think. There was a moon, and a great many stars. The thermometer registered fifteen degrees of frost Mr. Decies told me. But I was not cold. It was very beautiful."
Richard shifted his position. The organ had moved farther away. Uncheered by further copper showers it droned again slumberously, while the murmur sent forth by the thousand activities of the great city waxed loud, for the moment, and hoarsely insistent.
"I do not bore you?" Lady Constance asked, in sudden anxiety.
"Oh no, no!" Richard answered. "I am glad to have you tell me about yourself, if you will; and all that you care for."
Thus encouraged, the girl took up her little parable again, her sweet, rather vacant, face growing almost animated as she spoke.
"We did something else I liked very much, but from what Alicia said afterwards I am afraid I ought not to have liked it. One day it snowed, and we all played hide‐and‐seek. There are a number of attics in the roof of the bachelor's wing at Whitney, and there are long up‐and‐down passages leading round to the old nurseries. Mama did not mind, but Alicia was very displeased. She said it was a mere excuse for romping. But that was not true. Of course we never thought of romping. We did make a great noise," she added conscientiously, "but that was Rupert and Gerry's fault. They would jump out after promising not to, and of course it was impossible to help screaming. Eddy's Liverpool friend tried to jump out too, but Maggie snubbed him. I think he deserved it. You ought to play fair; don't you think so? After promising, you would never jump out, would you?"
And there Lady Constance stopped, with a little gasp.page: 324
"Oh! I beg your pardon. I am so sorry. I forgot," she added breathlessly.
Richard's face had become thin and keen.
"Forget just as often as you can, please," he answered huskily. "I would infinitely rather have you—have everybody —forget altogether—if possible."
"Oh! but I think that would be wrong of me," she rejoined, with gentle dogmatism. "It is selfish to forget anything that is very sad."
"And is this so very sad?" Richard asked, almost harshly.
The girl stared at him with parted lips.
"Oh yes!" she said slowly. "Of course,—don't you think so? It is dreadfully sad."—And then, her attitude still unchanged and her pretty, plump hands still folded on her lap, she went on, in her touching determination to sustain the conversation with due readiness and civility. "Brockhurst is a much larger house than Whitney, isn't it? I thought so the day we drove over to luncheon—when that beautiful, French cousin of yours was staying with you, you remember?"
"Yes, I remember," Richard said.
And as he spoke Madame de Vallorbes, clothed in the sea‐waves, crowned and shod with gold, seemed to stand for a moment beside his innocent, little fiancée. How long it was since he had heard from her! Did she want money, he wondered? It would be intolerable if, because of his marriage, she never let him help her again. And all the while Lady Constance's unemotional, careful, little voice continued, as did the ceaseless murmur of London.
"I remember," she was saying, "because your cousin is quite the most beautiful person I have ever seen. Papa admired her very much too. We spoke of that as soon as Louisa had left us, when we were alone. But there seemed to me so many staircases at Brockhurst, and rooms opening one out of the other. I have been wondering—since—lately—whether I shall ever be able to find my way about the house."
"I will show you your way," Dickie said gently, banishing the vision of Helen de Vallorbes.
"You will show it me?" the girl asked, in evident surprise.
Then a companion picture to that of Madame de Vallorbes arose before Dickie's mental vision—namely the good‐looking, long‐legged, young, Irish soldier, Mr. Decies, of the 101st Lancers, flying along the attic passages of the Whitney bachelor's wing, in company with this immediately‐so‐demure and dutiful maiden and all the rest of that admittedly rather uproarious, page: 325 holiday throng. Thereat a foolish lump rose in poor Richard's throat, for he too was, after all, but young. He choked the foolish lump down again. Yet it left his voice a trifle husky.
"Yes, I will show you your way," he said. "I can manage that much, you know, at home, in private, among my own people. Only you mustn't be in a hurry. I have to take my time. You must not mind that. I—I go slowly."
"But that will be much better for me," she answered, with rather humble courtesy, "because then I am more likely to remember my way. I have so much difficulty in knowing my way. I still lose myself sometimes in the park at Whitney. I did once this winter with—my brother Guy's friend, Mr. Decies. The boys always tease me about losing my way. Even papa says I have no bump of locality. I am afraid I am stupid about that. My governesses always complained that I was a very thoughtless child."
Lady Constance unfolded her hands. Her timid, engagingly vague gaze dwelt appealingly upon Richard's handsome face.
"I think, perhaps, if you do not mind, I will go now," she said. "I must bid Lady Calmady good‐bye. We dine at Lady Combmartin's to‐night. You dine there too, don't you? And my sister Louisa may want me to drive with her, or write some notes, before I dress."
"Wait half a minute," Dickie said. "I've got something for you. Let's see—Oh! there it is!"
Raising himself he stood, for a moment, on the seat of the chair, steadying himself with one hand on the back of it, and reached a little, silver‐paper covered parcel from the neighbouring table. Then he slipped back into a sitting position, drew the silken blanket up across his thighs, and tossed the little parcel gently into Lady Constance Quayle's lap.
"I as near as possible let you go without it," he said. "Not that it's anything very wonderful. It's nothing—only I saw it in a shop in Bond Street yesterday, and it struck me as rather quaint. I thought you might like it. Why—but—Constance, what's the matter?"
For the girl's pretty, heart‐shaped face had blanched to the whiteness of her white dress. Her eyes were strained, as those of one who beholds an object of terror. Not only her chin but her round, baby mouth trembled. Richard looked at her, amazed at these evidences of distressing emotion. Then suddenly he understood.
"I frighten you. How horrible!" he said.
But little Lady Constance had not suffered persistent training page: 326 at the hands of nurses, and governesses, and elder sisters, during all her eighteen years of innocent living for nothing. She had her own small code of manners and morals, of honour and duty, and to the requirements of that code, as she apprehended them, she yielded unqualified obedience, not unheroic in its own meagre and rather puzzle‐headed fashion. So that now, notwithstanding trembling lips, she retained her intention of civility and entered immediate apology for her own weakness.
"No, no, indeed you do not," she replied. "Please forgive me. I know I was very foolish. I am so sorry. You are so kind to me, you are always giving me beautiful presents, and indeed I am not ungrateful. Only I had never seen—seen—you like that before. And, please forgive me—I will never be foolish again—indeed, I will not. But I was taken by surprise. I beg your pardon. I shall be so dreadfully unhappy if you do not forgive me."
And all the while her shaking hands fumbled helplessly with the narrow ribbon tying the dainty parcel, and big tears rolled down slowly out of her great, soft, wide‐set, heifer's eyes. Never was there more moving or guileless a spectacle! Witnessing which, Richard Calmady was taken somewhat out of himself, his personal misfortune seeming matter inconsiderable, while his childlike fiancée had never appeared more engaging. All the sweetest of his nature responded to her artless appeal in very tender pity.
"Why, my dear Constance," he said, "there's nothing to forgive. I was foolish, not you. I ought to have known better. Never mind. I don't. Only wipe your pretty eyes, please. Yes—that's better. Now let me break that tiresome ribbon for you."
"You are very kind to me," the girl murmured. Then, as the ribbon broke under Richard's strong fingers, and the delicate necklace of many, roughly‐cut, precious stones—topaz, amethyst, sapphire, ruby, chrysolite, and beryl, joined together, three rows deep, by slender, golden chains—slipped from the enclosing paper wrapping into her open hands, Constance Quayle added, rather tearfully:—"Oh! you are much too kind! You give me too many things. No one I know ever had such beautiful presents. The cobs you told me of, and now this, and the pearls, and the tiara you gave me last week. I—I don't deserve it. You give me too much, and I give nothing in return."
"Oh yes, you do!" Richard said, flushing. "You—you give me yourself."page: 327
Lady Constance's tears ceased. Again she stared at him in gentle perplexity.
"You promise to marry me"—
"Yes, of course, I have promised that," she said slowly.
"And isn't that about the greatest giving there can be? A few horses, and jewels, and such rubbish of sorts, weigh pretty light in the balance against that—I being I"—Richard paused a moment—"and you—you."
But a certain ardour which had come into his speech, for all that he sat very still, and that his expression was wholly gentle and indulgent, and that she felt a comfortable assurance that he was not angry with her, rather troubled little Lady Constance Quayle. She rose to her feet, and stood before him again, as a child about to recite a lesson.
"I think," she said, "I must go. Louisa may want me. Thank you so much. This necklace is quite lovely. I never saw one like it. I like so many colours. They remind me of flowers, or of the colours at sunset in the sky. I shall like to wear this very much. You—you will forgive me for having been foolish or if I have bored you?"
Her bosom rose and fell, and the words came breathlessly.
"I shall see you at Lady Combmartin's? So—so now I will go."
And with that she departed, leaving Richard more in love with her, somehow, than he had ever been before or had ever thought to be.


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Draft Environmental Impact Statement
Completed in January 2007, the draft environmental impact statement for the Bel-Red Corridor Project analyzed four land use and transportation alternatives for the area. The draft EIS assessed the impacts of four ways the area could develop between now and 2030 (three "action alternatives" and one "no-action alternative").
Public input on the draft EIS, and the document itself, helped a 15-member project steering committee develop a preferred alternative in May of 2007. The steering committee was expected to then make a recommendation to the Bellevue City Council later this spring or summer.The public comment period about the DEIS closed on March 12. The comments received are contained in the two volumes linked below. Responses to the comments will be part of the final EIS which will be posted this summer.
Bel-Red DEIS Final Comments (Volume 1)
Bel-Red DEIS Final Comments (Volume 2)
Jan. 25, 2007 Draft Environmental Impact Statement
The DEIS is downloadable (below) for free. Compact disks (free) and paper copies ($10) may both be obtained from the Service First desk at City Hall, 450 110th Ave. NE, or by calling 425-452-6800.
Table of Contents Chapter 1, Introduction and SummaryChapter 2, AlternativesChapter 3, Air QualityChapter 4, Watershed ProcessesChapter 5, NoiseChapter 6, Environmental HazardsChapter 7, Land UseChapter 8, Population, Housing and EconomicsChapter 9, AestheticsChapter 10, TransportationChapter 11, Public Services and UtilitiesChapter 12, References
Appendix ABel-Red Corridor Project SEPA Scoping Report
Appendix BBel-Red Corridor Economicand Market Demand Study
Appendix CMemorandum: Bel-Red CorridorEnvironmental Opportunities and Constraints
Appendix DGeologic Map of the Bellevue North Study Area
Appendix ETitle VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Appendix FBel-Red Corridor ProjectNonmotorized Transportation Facilities
Appendix GBel-Red Corridor Interchange ImprovementsMitigation Summary Appendix G Supplemental
Appendix HBel-Red Corridor Public Servicesand Utilities Back-Up Data Tables
Appendix IDistribution List
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Words cannot express my sincere thanks too all you beloved RTFers and RTFettes that had me in your thoughts and prayers the past few months. My surgeries were touch and go since I went in initially for repair to an aneurism on my abdominal aorta, which was accomplished in 9 hours. No sooner had I been rolled into the ICU, my heart gave out and they returned my to the OR for 13 hours while I received quadruple bypass surgery. Then I was in the ICU for over 3 weeks. Later I was transported to Advance Care Hospital in Billings MT. That lasted about a month while I received constant wound care, including a wound vac, and physical therapy. All these Doc's, nurses, techs, and PT professionals were better than the best...and I loved them all, just some more than others.
I returned home the 20th of November, so had a very enjoyable Thanksgiving day with family. I'm still receiving a lot of wound care and PT exercises, both at Rapid City Regional hospital, and in home health care visits.
About the only irreparable problem that came from the extended time in the OR was my right leg became paralyzed from the knee down. My surgeon, God Bless him, had to make choices when salvaging me from an extended dirt nap. I will be wearing a brace on my right leg, but my mind is still able to function as normally as it did prior to all the time spent in the OR and ICU.
After I was returned to the ICU the second time, my eldest son who had flown in from Salt Lake City, informed me in a phone call while I was in Billings, that I looked like I weighed 400 pounds, I had been pumped so full of fluids to maintain my organs in their proper location. It apparently took the three weeks plus in the ICU to drain off those fluids and return me to normal weight. Since then, however, I have lost over 30 lbs and am below 200 for the first time since I was discharged from the service. BUT, I wouldn't recommend this form of "dieting" to anyone.
This 'thank you' would have been sent several weeks ago, but it's been only yesterday afternoon that the PT gal allowed me to go down the 12 stairs to my office in the basement where my computer is located.
All the kind sentiments proffered on this message board are sincerely appreciated. I especially want to send extra thanks to our RTF founder, Chris A. for the call while in Billings. I know it took special effort on his part to locate me. Our visit was tremendously uplifting. As were the calls from Otey, and Miriam, and Kev, and Rich, and especially my director of information, the original MG...Mike Baker! Gooser, you are very special.
PS If you would be so kind, Ms Super Moderator Vicky, please copy this over to the RTF POTUS Page as well, where many of my well wishers, and detractors, reside. Like I mentioned earlier...I love them all, only some more than others.


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In which she played Jennifer Garner's bitchy BFF.
This was her first role out of college. She played the main girl's best friend, but she got to go on a date with a shirtless motorcycle guy, which was cool.
Judy showed her wide range when she transformed from a scared little nerd into the awesomely bitchy Violette. So what if this movie was a poor man's version of Heathers?
In which she brought out Mel Gibson's softer side with her vaguely suicidal thoughts.
In which she played Jennifer Garner's bitchy BFF.
Her most iconic and probably best loved role to date, and one she is set to reprise super soon(!!!) I guess we don't have to say goodbye to THESE yet, after all!
I refused to get anywhere near this Katherine Heigl heteronormativity fest, but it appears from the preview that she got in a few good lines like "what good is it being appreciated if no one is naked?"
This movie made me cry so much on a plane once, and Judy Greer was a major, scene stealing part of that.
Now that she's in her 30s, she's able to play the kinds of characters who were losers in high school but are doing quite well now. Enviably well, even.


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I like Ted's answer. I've been at this for a couple decades. AKC longer than HRC. Don't do trials, but I'd like to in the future.
I have judged, served as club officer, board etc. Worked tests in every capacity. I have tried to mentor newbies only to see them lose interest, although one now serves as club president and HT chair.
The last few years I have used the services of a pro. Something I would not consider 20 years ago. I remember a line from Tom Quinn; "I sometimes train with people I dislike or mistrust, but I don't make it a habit." These days my wife and I mostly train on our own, but I do make my training grounds available.
I just brought home a new pup. Hopefully she won't be the last.
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Hope College led all NCAA Division III men's basketball teams in home attendance during the 2002-03 season according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
The MIAA co-champion Flying Dutchmen averaged 2,383 fans over 11 home games played at the Holland Civic Center and the college's Dow Center. League rival Calvin ranked third in the national attendance figures, averaging 1,904 fans over 12 home games.
This marks the fifth time in school history that Hope has led the nation in average home attendance. Other years were 1984, 1991, 1996 and 1999.
Hope and Calvin helped the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) to top all Division III conferences in home attendance for the 12th consecutive year with an average of 1,050 fans a game.
Next season the Flying Dutchmen will be playing at the storied Holland Civic Center for the 50th year. With only two losing home seasons since 1954-55, the Flying Dutchmen have an impressive 439-110 record at the Civic Center. Hope was 9-1 at the Civic in 2002-03.
Hope's playing days at the Civic Center are numbered. The college is close to breaking ground for a new fieldhouse with a planned seating capacity of 3,500 compared to the 2,550 of the Civic Center. The goal is to play in the new facility during the 2004-05 season which would be Hope's 100th year of men's basketball.


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MN basketball player arrested for assault following Whitworth game
SPOKANE, Wash. - A college basketball player from a St. Paul, Minn. university was arrested after he allegedly sent a Portland woman visiting Spokane to the hospital New Year's Eve with a broken eye socket and broken jaw.
It was supposed to be a happy reunion between old high school friends when Hamline University's basketball team visited Whitworth University for a basketball game Monday night.basketball player assault
Kayla Bray, 20, thought it would be great to hang out with Hamline player Tyler Pannell after the game, but their visit turned out different than anyone could expect. That get-together ended with a friend and fellow player of Pannell's in handcuffs and Bray in an ambulance headed to the hospital with a broken jaw.
Pannell and Bray are old high school friends from Portland who were reunited in Spokane on New Year's Eve. Pannell is a basketball player for Hamline University. The team was in town for a tournament at Whitworth.
Bray's dad, Steve, said she gave Pannell a ride to a hotel and at some point she got into an argument with another player Hamline player, Eugene Lawrence.
That's when police say Lawrence punched her in the face, knocking her to the ground.
When she came to Bray said his daughter asked for the players to call 911, but they refused - because it would break their curfew. Bray called for help herself.
Lawrence made his first court appearance Wednesday and is charged with felony second degree assault. Because he has no criminal history his bail was set at $5,000.
An assistant coach for Hamline University, who was in the courtroom with Lawrence Wednesday, declined comment. Lawrence's biography, which was on the basketball team's online roster Wednesday morning, has since been removed.
Hamline University released this brief statement on the incident to KXLY Thursday morning:
"We are very concerned for the welfare of Ms. Bray and regret that this incident happened. Eugene Lawrence has been placed on an interim suspension from the basketball team and the University, and we are fully looking into the incident. We have reached out to the Bray family and shared with them our concern and support for their daughter."
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- Problematic drug house in Spokane boarded up
- Local school district tackles '13 Reasons Why'
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Bas Rutten Wants You to Get Stoked for GLORY World Series
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Sure, not all news is good news, and the past few days it feels like there is a dark cloud with some information about some of K-1's continuing financial failures and Hesdy Gerges being arrested for potentially drug trafficking. Amidst all of that, Bas Rutten stays a shining beacon of hope and insanity in the world of fighting.
Bas Rutten will once again host a Golden Glory event, this time the GLORY World Series second round, featuring Gokhan Saki in a K-1 tournament and John Alessio in a MMA tournament. Bas is amped, as you'll see. His attitude is infectious, so watch it, love it, and live it.


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The Binghamton Neighborhood Project Symposium to be held at the University Downtown Center
The Binghamton University Center for Applied Community Research and Development (CACRD) will host The Binghamton Neighborhood Project Symposium from 9a.m.-4p.m. Friday, September 19, at the University Downtown Center. The event, which is free and open to the public, will give attendees a chance to learn more about research being conducted in and around the Greater Binghamton area.
The keynote speaker will be Robert J. Sampson, Chair of the Sociology Department at Harvard University and a noted researcher on crime, neighborhoods and social organization. Sampson's talk, titled "The Social Order of the City: Insights from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods," will examine neighborhood effects and the social order of the contemporary city.
Throughout the day, participants will share research conducted with and about Binghamton and discuss how this research might improve the lives of community members. Topics will include education, crime, health, and issues encountered across the lifecycle in the greater Binghamton community. Attendees will also have the opportunity to offer suggestions on the type of research projects they would like to see conducted in the future.
The CACRD, a research center founded, staffed and hosted by Binghamton University, connects the University and individuals and organizations seeking community-based research partnerships. The CACRD goal is to create symbiotic relationships where community organizations benefit from the University's resource, while providing fertile ground for publishable research.
This event is sponsored by the CACRD, the Binghamton University Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Program, and the Office of the Provost.
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