RIA                              UNIVERSITY                                         DARE TO DREAM                                         JOIN THE ADVENTURE                                                                                Post Office Box               7125                               ●                 Ann Arbor, MI                              4810              7                                                             www.ria.edu                                                                                                                                                                  THE SPIRIT OF RIA                               UNIVERSITY                                    WHAT DOES THE                “               RIA” IN RIA                               UNIVERSITY                               MEAN?                                                             Ria University (RU) may also be called RIA                             UNIVERSITY. Dr. Charles Tandy developed the RU concept while he was in Malaysia, but he was undecided about its name. While in Malaysia, Dr. Tandy constantly noticed the word “ria” and wondered about its meaning. He found that in Malaysia                             this very popular word means LIVELY or ALIVE.                                                             When Dr. Tandy started using the name Ria                             University                             for his special kind of interdisciplinary educational institution devoted to life extension, he found that many would spell it RIA               or R.I.A. University              . Thus Dr. Tandy               declared Ria Interdisciplinary Action                              University                             or R.I.A.                             University                             or RIA                             University                             or RIA                                                 UNIVERSITY                             to be acceptable alternative spellings               of Ria University.              .               Ria                             University                             or Ria                             Interdisciplinary                             Action                             University                             or R.I.A.                             University                             or RIA                             University                             or RIA                             UNIVERSITY                             is an interdisciplinary quest for intellectual excellence and compassionate commitment. We of RU seek to extend life in both quantity and quality.                                                                 THE DARES AND DREAMS OF RIA UNIVERSITY                                                     We                     invite                you to dare to dream and join the adventure! We of RU expect to expand our creative ideas, research endeavors, and educational activities beyond those presently envisioned. Presently, however, we are working on (or working toward) the following projects:                                                             1. The RU Concept and Website Domain.                             We own the ria.edu domain. With the ria.edu website we began preliminary intellectual construction and implementation of RU more than a decade ago.                                                               2. Ria University Mall, including Ria                               University                               Bookstore.                               This was easy enough to do on a preliminary basis by simply connecting our website to the products of amazon.com .                                 No longer available.                                                     3. Ria                             University                             Press.                             This has been actively implemented for over a decade and continues to be successful, averaging the publication of several books each year (including the annual DEATH AND ANTI-DEATH series of anthologies). (See                  www.ria.edu/rup                for more information.)                                                     4. RUIAS.                             The               R              ia               U              niversity               I              nstitute for               A              dvanced               S              tudy has been articulated in enough detail on our website so as to allow fund-raising and limited implementation. (See                  www.ria.edu/ruias                for more information.)                                                     5. IBP. I              nternational               B              accalaureate®               P              rogramme: An organization known as the International Baccalaureate® offers high quality international education via a worldwide community of schools. With reference to RU, this project idea has not yet been developed in detail but the intellectual construction of this Programme (as distinguished from its implementation) should not be difficult. The folks at                  www.ibo.org                already have more than 900,000 IB students in over 140 countries, yet each IB institution is unique. The spirit of RU and of the IB mesh extremely well. It is just a matter of fine-tuning to our own needs and vision.                                                        6. SEGITs.                             S              elf-sufficient               E              xtra-terrestrial               G              reen-habitat               I              ntentional               T              ransparent [              s              elf-replicating] communities: This RU project idea has been conceptually developed by Dr. Tandy to some extent. Dr. Tandy’s work here so far has been on social-political issues. The physical science and technology conceptual groundwork was of course initiated first by the late Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, then NASA, then the Lifeboat Foundation, among others. For some of Dr. Tandy’s preliminary work, see the websites                  www.SEGITs.com                and                  www.OurOmniverse.com                .                                                             7. CAHB.                             C              ryobiology               A              pplied to               H              uman               B              iostasis: This RU project idea has not yet been developed in any detail. Other institutions are of course implementing major aspects of this sort of activity, ranging from teams of cryobiologists engaged in developing biological vitrification procedures and technologies, to several longstanding cryonics societies. CAHB would expect to be on friendly terms with cryobiologists, cryonicists, and the Swiss organization Dignitas.                                                             8. Healthspitals.                             One can envision the future possibility of CAHD-related research institutes, hospices (perhaps including hospice ships in international ocean waters), anti-disease hospitals, pro-longevity healthspitals, etc.                                                     9. Time Travel.                             This RU project idea has so far been conceptually developed by Dr. Tandy only to a limited extent. (Likewise, the related “PersonalityPreserver” program of the Lifeboat Foundation has been developed only to a limited extent.)  For some of Dr. Tandy’s preliminary work, see the               websites                                www.HelpHachi.com                ,                                            www.ria.edu/papers                , and                  www.OmniversePhilosophy.com                .                                                     10. and more               –               Again, we of RU expect to expand our creative ideas, research endeavors, and educational activities beyond those presently envisioned. 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