For most consumers, the insistent popups and checkout spiels touting a store's credit card are mostly just annoying, with the occasional good discount that makes signing up worthwhile.
When you have bad credit, however, store credit card offers can seem like a great deal; you can earn some rewards or take advantage of special financing, all while (hopefully) building credit.
Although store cards aren't perfect — most store cards are closed-loop, and many have super high APRs — they typically don't charge annual fees and they can sometimes be easier to get than other no-fee cards when you have bad credit. Even store cards aren't guaranteed to accept everyone, however, so apply with caution.
Before you start contemplating which store card to apply for first, consider your options beyond the retail world. Just because you have bad credit doesn't mean you're stuck with store cards that can only be used in one place. Secured credit cards can be great open-loop tools for building credit, and many can be found without fees.
Even if the idea of a deposit scares you off, you have options for an unsecured credit card with bad credit. The options below have flexible credit requirements and won't make you put down a deposit to open your account. Keep in mind that subprime unsecured cards do tend to charge fees, so read the disclaimers carefully before applying.
Although not the most affordable card out there, this card is an open-loop, unsecured credit card available to a range of credit types. The fees are fairly high, as is the APR, so this is not a long-term keeper; once you're eligible for a better card, cancel this one and move on.
The cost of this card will depend on your individual credit risk, with the lowest-risk applicants receiving the lowest fees. All approved cardholders will receive the same competitive APR, but a delinquent payment could trigger a much higher penalty APR.
This card has a variable annual fee that will depend on the applicant's credit profile. The card doesn't charge any processing or program fees, and the regular APR is fairly competitive, especially for a subprime card. Be careful not to make a late payment, however, as the card will charge a late fee and, if the payment is late enough, a penalty APR.
Consumers spent more than $517 billion shopping online in 2018, a figure expected to keep growing. Online shopping has become a normal, everyday activity for millions of Americans, to the point that we now have a slew of companies — from banks to major retailers — that operate almost entirely online.
If you're looking to build credit while shopping at your favorite online retailer, a store credit card may do the trick. While several online-only retailers offer store credit cards, only a few accept bad-credit applicants.
Once a home catalog company, Fingerhut is now a large online retailer that specializes in offering closed-loop credit lines to shoppers with poor credit. Fingerhut.com has thousands of items from hundreds of popular brands like Samsung and KitchenAid. Applicants who don't qualify for a WebBank/Fingerhut Advantage Credit Account will be automatically evaluated for a WebBank/Fingerhut FreshStart Installment Loan (see Terms and Conditions).
The Amazon.com Store Card is most useful for cardholders who are also Prime members, as they'll get 5% back on Amazon.com purchases. Some applicants may be offered a secured version of this card.
All cardholders have access to special financing on purchases of $149 or more. The special financing comes with deferred interest, however, so be sure to pay off your financed purchases entirely before the end of the promotional period so you aren't charged interest on the full purchase.
The Overstock Store Credit Card doesn't have any sort of purchase rewards or consistent discount, making its only real benefit the special financing offers. The length of the special financing offer will be based on the size of your purchase.
Although special financing can be good for large purchases, deferred interest offers mean you will be charged interest on the entire amount of your purchase if any of it remains past the end of the terms. Pay off your full purchase before your financing expires to avoid being charged interest.
Department store sales have seen a consistent decline over the last five years. Despite this trend, the monolithic department store is still a cornerstone of the retail world for many people, and the sheer abundance of goods in most department stores makes them a go-to source of everything from clothing to housewares.
Most major department stores have their own store credit cards, the majority of which offer purchase rewards. Even those without rewards tend to offer exclusive discounts and coupons, making them worthwhile for folks who shop those brands frequently. Department store cards seem to be some of the easiest store cards to get with bad credit.
The Kohl's Charge Card doesn't provide purchase rewards, but it does provide exclusive cardholder offers and discounts each month that can be used in-store or online. Users also receive a special gift on their cardholder anniversary each year.
Cardholders who spend at least $600 with their card in a calendar year get upgraded to Most Valued Customer status. Upgraded status unlocks a bonus birthday gift and access to free shipping events each month.
The Dillard's Card has modest rewards, providing 2X points per dollar on card purchases made at Dillard's. Choose between a $10 Rewards Certificate good for a future purchase or a 10%-Off Shopping Pass good on all of your purchases for one calendar day.
In addition to the purchase rewards, card users are eligible to receive exclusive shopping events and offers, but the card has no other benefits. Making purchases of $2,000 or more during a calendar year can give you Elite status.
The JCPenney Credit Card isn't the highest-earning card on the list — but it does have rewards. You'll earn 1X point per dollar spent on your card, with a $10 JCPenney Rewards certificate for every 200 points you earn.
New cardholders will get 20% off select purchases. Users can also receive special financing on qualifying large purchases, including furniture and fine jewelry. Financing will come with deferred interest that means you need to pay off your entire purchase before the terms expire to avoid interest.
Your clothes can say a lot about you. They can impact how you're viewed, how you feel, and, according to some studies, even how you perform at work. But a new wardrobe doesn't come cheap, especially if you're looking to dress for success for a new job or professional event.
Almost all of the chain clothing stores offer a branded store credit card, and you can earn purchase rewards with most of them. Some clothing store cards will be easier to get than others, however, with those cards associated with more affordable stores often being easier to get than cards for pricier retailers.
The Old Navy Credit Card earns users 5X points per dollar on purchases made with Gap Inc. brands, including Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, and Athleta. Accruing 500 points unlocks a $5 Reward to be used on a future brand purchase.
Approved applicants will get 20% off their first card purchase. Cardholders will also receive exclusive offers and discounts, as well as having pre-sale access to select sales throughout the year.
The TJX Rewards Credit Card gives cardholders 5% back in rewards on every card purchase at any TJX-brand store, including T.J.Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra Trading Post, and Homesense. Plus, get 10% off your first card purchase.
For every 1,000 points you earn, you'll be issued a $10 Rewards Certificate that can be used toward a future purchase in-store or online. You'll also receive invitations to exclusive shopping events, as well as being eligible for Arrival Alerts by email.
The EXPRESS NEXT Credit Card lets cardholders earn 20 points for every dollar spent on eligible EXPRESS purchases. Every $125 spend — 2,500 points — unlocks a $10 rewards that can be used in-store or online.
If you're a big EXPRESS spender or just updating your work wardrobe, racking up 7,500 points in the program earning period will earn you A-List Status. This unlocks free standard shipping for online orders, as well as boosting your reward value up to $15 per 2,500 points.
Big-box retailers have long been part of our everyday lives, especially the super-sized super stores that double as grocery markets. And while plenty of analysts are afraid that the giant known as Amazon is slowly killing off many big-box stores, the one-stop-shop retailers seem to be hanging in there.
Store cards from big-box retailers, particular those versatile retailers like Target and Walmart, can be handy for making those everyday purchases you need while also earning rewards and building credit. Even better, most common big-box stores make their branded credit cards fairly accessible (though there are no guarantees, of course).
The Target REDcard does not have the typical rewards; instead, you'll get 5% off your eligible purchases right at the register (or online checkout). This discount stacks with manufacturing and store coupons, too.
Prescriptions and over-the-counter pharmacy items are excluded from the 5% cardholder discounts. Gift cards, select restaurant merchants, and Target Optical™ eye exams are also not eligible for the discount.
The Walmart Credit Card allows cardholders to earn up to 3% back on Walmart.com purchases, 2% back on Walmart and Murphy USA fuel purchases, and 1% cash back on other Walmart purchases. Cash back is redeemed as a statement credit.
Although a few reports of low-scoring applicants being approved can be found, your experience will vary. Remember that special financing offers tend to come with deferred interest, so pay off your full amount before the promotional period ends to avoid being charged interest.
The Big Lots Credit Card won't earn you any rewards, but it can be a convenient way to pay for your in-store Big Lots purchases. Plus, receive special six- or 12-month financing on eligible purchases.
Keep in mind that the special financing offered to cardholders includes deferred interest, which means you'll be charged interest on the entire amount — at a very high 29.99% rate — if you don't pay off the entire purchase amount before the financing terms expire.
Of all the credit cards we have today, store credit cards may be the most true to the origins of the modern consumer card, which arguably traces its roots back to the credit accounts extended to customers by shopkeepers for centuries.
Contemporary store credit cards are usually very similar to their ancestors, typically consisting of closed-loop credit lines usable for purchases with a specific brand. This means you can only use a closed-loop store credit card — one without a network logo — to make purchases with that brand.
Where our store cards vary is that they also tend to add extra perks, like purchase rewards, special financing deals, and exclusive offers. For frequent shoppers of a given brand, these extras can mean a lot of value, particularly the programs that offer high rewards rates (some offer 5% or more).
While purchase rewards from store cards can be valuable, they do often have one major drawback: You can only use them on branded purchases. For example, if you have a My Best Buy Credit Card, the rewards you earn on your Best Buy purchases can only be redeemed toward a future Best Buy purchase.
Some of the biggest retailers are now starting to offer branded store cards that are open-loop, meaning they're associated with a processing network — Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express — and can be used to make card purchases anywhere that network is accepted.
However, the open-loop cards are considered to be harder to qualify for than the closed-loop versions. And, while many of these cards allow you to earn rewards on non-brand purchases, those rewards are subject to the same limitations as the rewards earned by closed-loop cards, so they can typically only be used toward branded purchases.
Are Store Cards Good for Building Credit?
When it comes to building credit, the same general caveat applies to store card as to any other credit card, in that store cards can be good tools for building credit — so long as you use them responsibly.
Store credit cards are credit lines like any other credit card, and, as such, payment history and utilization should be reported to the three major credit bureaus like any other credit line. So, store cards can typically be used to establish your credit profile and to build your credit history provided you use them regularly.
The main things to look out for with store cards — and all credit cards, really — is the high APRs. Many store credit cards will charge interest rates in the 25%-plus range, which is similar to subprime credit cards and can be very expensive, very quickly.
Ideally, you should never carry a balance on a store credit card, with the possible exception of cards that offer special financing. That said, even the special financing deals can have issuers (see the deferred interest section below).
Of course, this can be a challenge with any credit card — but particularly with store cards. That's because those handy rewards and discounts can actually cause you to spend more than you intended to spend. Moreover, just having a store credit card can motivate you to shop more, so try to only use your store cards when you have specific purchases in mind.
Another thing to understand is that because store cards are credit lines, applying for a store credit card will usually mean a hard credit inquiry on your reports. One or two hard inquiries aren't the end of the world — or your credit scores — but a number of recent hard inquiries can have negative results.
You don't need to get a store card for every store you've ever shopped at, or even every store you shop at frequently. Be sure you've crunched the numbers to see if the card will actually offer you any benefits — and considered any potential consequences — before you apply for a new store credit card.
What Is Deferred Interest Financing?
One of the most popular features of many store credit cards is the ability to take advantage of special financing offers for large purchases. These offers typically provide 0% APR on specific purchases for six months or more, which can be great for anything that you may need a little time to pay off.
Most special financing offers from store credit cards will have minimum purchases limits — $250 is common — and the duration of the promotional period will usually depend on the size or type of purchase. For instance, a $250 purchase may receive six-month financing, while a $1,500 purchase could qualify for 12-month financing.
While these deals can be handy, don't ever confuse a store card's special financing offer with the introductory 0% APR offers provided by many open-loop bank credit cards. The two types of interest rate deals vary in one important (and potentially expensive) way: deferred interest.
Watch out for deferred interest, which is charged by many store cards, including the Amazon.com Store Card.
The vast majority of store credit cards that provide special financing aren't actually waiving your interest — they're deferring your interest. The interest is only waived on a special financing offer if you pay off the full purchase within the promotional period.
If, on the other hand, you have any portion of your financed balance leftover once your special financing expires, then the deferred interest becomes owed interest.
In other words, if you don't pay off every cent of your financing purchase before the end of the special financing period, you'll be charged interest on the entire amount from the date you made the purchase. So, if you use a special financing offer through a store, be absolutely positive you can pay it off before the special financing expires.
There's an old saying that goes, "hunger makes the best sauce." The idea is that when you're really hungry, things tend to taste better than they do when you're not hungry. Having bad credit is a bit like being hungry — things that wouldn't be appealing if you had better credit start to look like a great idea.
Things like store credit cards.
Sure, some store cards can offer a lot of benefits, but, overall, store cards are high-interest credit lines with a lot of restrictions. But, when you have bad credit and your options are limited, store cards can seem like an ideal tool for building credit at your favorite stores.
The bottom line is, yes, store credit cards can be used to build credit, and, when used wisely, they can even be decent savings tools. However, be smart about which store cards you get, and how many store cards you wind up with in your wallet.


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Q: Drawing on OnPaint() makes residues when the window is resized I have created a custom panel that draws a border (that comprises two rectangles). The problem is that if I resize the window, there remain residues... much like the animation of Windows XP's Solitaire. See the screenshot below. I resized the window to the right.
What is wrong, and how can I fix this?

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
    var outer = ClientRectangle;
    outer.Width -= 1;
    outer.Height -= 1;
    var inner = outer;
    inner.X++;
    inner.Y++;
    inner.Width -= 2;
    inner.Height -= 2;

    e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(DarkPen, outer);
    e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(WhitePen, inner);

    base.OnPaint(e);
}

UPDATE
At first I thought this was because I did not delete the previously drawn rectangles. So I called FillRectangle to delete the inside.
var contentArea = inner;
contentArea.X++;
contentArea.Y++;
contentArea.Width -= 2;
contentArea.Height -= 2;
e.Graphics.FillRectangle(SystemBrushes.Control, contentArea);

But it did not work either. It seems that the control paints only the newly expanded portion, not the entire area.

A: The Form class was optimized to be a container control.  Containers normally just have a background color to paint.  So, as you noticed, indeed does "only paint newly expanded portion".  Or more accurately, it does not overpaint the previous pixels, easy to recognize from the smearing effect that produces.  It is a somewhat feeble attempt at making Winforms designs a bit more lively when you resize the window, painting gets to be a bottleneck when a form has a lot of controls and that is pretty noticeable.
You'll have to set its ResizeRedraw property to true so it redraws its entire surface when necessary.  Setting the DoubleBuffered property to true might not hurt either when the drawing code gets elaborate and you start noticing flicker.
So, roughly:
    public Form1() {
        InitializeComponent();
        this.ResizeRedraw = true;
        this.DoubleBuffered = true;
    }

Optimizing OnPaint() is generally not a strategy that pays off, Windows itself already clips what you draw against the dirty region.

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  vsTrackColorDialog(QWidget* parent = 0);
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About Château Lafite Rothschild
Château Lafite-Rothschild is one of the most collectable wines in the world. Purchased in 1868 it has remained continuously in the Rothschild family. Less powerful than Latour and more classical than Mouton, the hallmarks of this wine of wines is a taut, lithe, willowy muscularity, enveloped by transcendent just-ripe black fruit with the perfect sweetness of blackcurrant, black cherry and plum. The scent of Lafite often beguiles its fortunate drinkers and the mythical, irresistible perfume of wonderful cedar, so fresh and elegant, must be experienced to be believed.
Part of Lafite's centuries-long success lies in its situation on some of the most gravel-dominant terroir in the Médoc. Up to ten metres deep with the stuff in some places, there are a few pockets of aeolian black sand and bedrock of limestone to complete the soils. Naturally conducive to the production of the most unbelievable Cabernet Sauvignon, the Grand Vin of Château Lafite Rothschild is frequently composed of up to 90% of the varietal. Couple this with the outstandingly talented team, headed for 40 years by the imperious Charles Chevallier (until 2018), and we have an estate whose strength lies in its being "a spectrum of flavours rather than a strong expression of any particular one" in the words of Chevallier's replacement, Eric Kohler.
The 1996 vintage onwards heralded some of the best wines in their history; 2003 and 2009 are notably outstanding. Elegant, fresh, with great fruit purity and remarkable ageing potential. The second wine, Carruades de Lafite, has also been intensely collected over the past decade.
Carruades de Lafite 2019 (6x75cl)
This is a beautiful Carraudes with currant, sweet-tobacco and wet-earth aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied with a dense center-palate and tight, polished tannins. Fresh, with tension. Reminds me of the 1995 Lafite. This is so Lafite in character. It shows so much cabernet sauvignon character. It's 68% cabernet sauvignon, 27% merlot and the rest cabernet franc. Try after 2026.
In Stock in France
Bordeaux 6x75cl 1 96.0 (JS) Read Review/Description Inc. VAT: £1,879.06
Lafite Rothschild 1996 (6x75cl)
Decanter (100)
An elegant but muscular Lafite, really summing up the trajectory that this wine takes over decades in a good vintage. It started out in its early years with huge concentration, more in fact than in many vintages, but it is now showcasing the subtlety and infinite range of flavours and aromatics that makes Lafite such a singular wine. Expect layers of earth, cigar box, liquorice, cold ash, blackberry, cassis, pencil lead, mint leaf and crushed rock minerality. The first Lafite to be put in an anti-fraud engraved bottle. 38% of overall production in the first wine, quite low at the time although typical today. 3% Petit Verdot completes the blend.
Bordeaux 6x75cl 1 100.0 (DC) Read Review/Description Inc. VAT: £6,704.87
Lafite Rothschild 2000 (12x75cl)
Inc. VAT: £17,169.34
Hedonist's Gazette (100)
I expected the 2000 Lafite Rothschild to be much too young, but I was blown away by how it performed at this meal. A classic Lafite with notes of lead pencil shavings and black currants as well as a medium to full-bodied mouthfeel, it possessed striking intensity as well as aromatics. The wine seemed more evolved than I remember, but it is still an adolescent in terms of maturity. This beautiful, rich, full offering is a stunning achievement.
Bordeaux 12x75cl 1 100.0 (HG) Read Review/Description Inc. VAT: £17,169.34
The aromas of stones, oyster shell, blackcurrants and mushrooms are very intense. Full-bodied, dense and powerful with lots of blackberries. Great finish. Super energy and depth. Try in 2022. Fascinating.
This is a great vintage from Lafite. The profile is rich in feel, with a seriously firm tannic structure. Solid, complex and with great authority, this Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant wine is impressively dense in dark-fruit tones. It will age for many years. Drink from 2027, although that would almost be too soon.
Bordeaux 6x75cl 2 100.0 (WE) Read Review/Description Inc. VAT: £4,583.27
Lafite Rothschild 2017 (3x150cl)
James Suckling (97-98)
This is very tight and tannic with lots of blackcurrant and sweet-tobacco character. Firm and powerful tannin texture sets this up for a long and chewy finish, yet it remains very compact and polished. It's a wine that possesses all the hallmarks of Lafite — everything from flavors to structure.
Bordeaux 3x150cl 2 97.5 (JS) Read Review/Description Inc. VAT: £4,454.87
One of the greatest wines produced in Bordeaux this year is the 2019 Lafite Rothschild, an impeccably balanced classic of immense charm and grace. Wafting from the glass with arresting aromas of cassis, blackberries and cherries mingled with violets, cigar box and warm spices, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and seamless, its velvety attack segueing into a layered, concentrated mid-palate framed by exquisitely powdery tannins and ripe acids, and concluding with a long, perfumed finish. This rivals the 2010 and 2016 as the greatest Lafite of the decade, and of those three vintages, it's clearly the most sensual and demonstrative out of the gates. The blend contains fully 94% Cabernet Sauvignon and attained a modest 13.4% alcohol.
Bordeaux 6x75cl 1 100.0 (WA) Read Review/Description Inc. VAT: £4,592.86
Bordeaux 6x75cl 1 96.0 (JS) Read Review/Description In Bond: £1,552.49
Bordeaux 6x75cl 1 100.0 (DC) Read Review/Description In Bond: £5,574.00
In Bond: £14,281.00
Bordeaux 12x75cl 1 100.0 (HG) Read Review/Description In Bond: £14,281.00
Bordeaux 6x75cl 2 100.0 (WE) Read Review/Description In Bond: £3,806.00
Bordeaux 3x150cl 2 97.5 (JS) Read Review/Description In Bond: £3,699.00
Bordeaux 6x75cl 1 100.0 (WA) Read Review/Description In Bond: £3,813.99
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Charles Richard Morris (29 August 1880 – 18 January 1952) was a professional footballer, who played for Derby County and Huddersfield Town as a full back. He also played international football for Wales on 27 occasions. He also represented Chirk and Wrexham in the Welsh league.

Family
He was born in Oswestry. His brothers, Jack and Robert, were also Wales internationals.

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Flight number GH 8986 was fast approaching its destination: KIA. The last announcements and instructions before touchdown reached him via the speakers. They came in English and French, and he understood them both. He was lost in a reverie; he was taken away as he was trying a grammatical parsing of the English sentences when his neighbour nudged him to fasten his seat-belt. He had that eerie feeling there was something amiss but was unable to say what. Certainly, a common announcement had no power to levitate him on a good day.
He did buckle up with promptness. He then reached out into his backpack for his mobile phone. He could remember ignoring messages for a third day running because he was working on something rather important. He now wanted to read a few of them, knowing that within minutes he would be in his home airspace. He's hoping to catch up on the latest juicy gossip before touch down. Anas, Kwesi Nyantakyi and Kenedy Agyepong must have staled out of the news, he assured himself.
A countless number of messages started popping up. He deemed them to be group chat messages making a fuss out of the lawyers' divorce but was deluded. He felt delaying a read but the urge to acquaint himself was stronger, and the surge was alarming.
It was indeed shocking, what he saw. He initially thought it a joke but the accompanying pictures, vox pop and voice notes proved he must prepare to solve a calamity. It was indeed a disaster. He left WhatsApp Messenger for Facebook's funny solace, but it was worse there. Pages upon pages were awash with the news. He turned his phone off, hoping it was all a trance or rather pretending he did not see. He could not hold the trauma and therefore tuned his phone off. Just then something told him he should rather read the messages to know what was in store for him before getting home. He complied.
He sought to find out when this disaster occurred: three days ago. That was his birthday. "God have mercy", he muttered under his breath.
James was thirty seven, holding two post graduate degrees. A professional lawyer who had a Master of Philosophy degree in French from France. An ECOWAS lawyer, at least that's what his friends called him. He was returning from Kenya, aboard a Zimbabwean national carrier. He would not sit on a British Airways nor Lufthansa airbus for personal reasons. Since his country's national airline went down almost a decade earlier, he had preferred to board an African airbus, no matter the tomfoolery he had to endure. He was in Kenya seeking admission to read his PhD in French. Why Kenya of all places if he could afford it in France? Why not in any francophone country or even Ghana which is bordered by three francophone countries? No one ever understood James.
He reminded himself it was six weeks since the debauchery took place. And he's been away for three weeks now. Before his departure, calls to Janice's numbers ether did not go through or went unanswered. In fact he woke up the day after the act, feeling sick and sorry about the whole thing. He was in fact fasting for a wife and could not understand why he could bring himself to sleeping with a member of the choir. The thought of the popular messages he listened to at home struck him that morning.


A board-qualified cardiologist and an interventional cardiologist, Dr. Umang Shah earned his medical degree from Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College. Subsequently, he completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Center, furthermore, he completed another fellowship in interventional cardiology at Maimonides Medical Center. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Shah looks after the locals of San Antonio, TX. he is excited to bring his knowledge to the Heart & Vascular Institute of Texas. Patients see him for a host of reasons, including hypertension, chest pain, aortic diseases, peripheral vascular diseases, and arrhythmia. He encourages his patients to lead healthy lifestyles, thus enabling them to take responsibility for their cardiac health. Dr. Shah is a zealous researcher, with authorial credits in numerous esteemed publications. He is dedicated to his profession and believes that people need to be educated and made aware of their health issues. He guides patients on preventive care services as well as the diagnosis and management of chronic medical conditions.
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I've never met a doctor who didn't introduce himself and shake your hand hello and/or goodbye. I have a feeling he was ready for lunch because he talked very quickly and didn't leave much room for queations. Hopefully this was a fluke and the followup will be better.
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Sony has developed a new device, and it's not a phone or a wearable or a television or anything that would be considered conventional. It's a skin-measuring device called BeautyExplorer.
Sony apparently has a team in Japan that developed what it described as a "quirky Skin View Camera system that aims to help you look the part". BeautyExplorer is just one component. There's also dedicated tablet with an analysis app called Skin Analyser and a cloud server that stores and processes data collected with the BeautyExplorer.
BeautyExplorer weighs 115g, fits in the palm of your hand, and features a a built-in battery and a 1.3MP CMOS Active Pixel Sensor. The sensor detects variations in light and uses an analysis algorithm to apply image-processing technology, while the Skin Analyser app essentially displays all the skin data gathered in an easy-to-read way.
Sony's skin analysis technology looks at the surface of your skin and below it to read what's not visible. It analyses skin texture, pores, moisture, grease, pigmentation, the amount of melanin present, and so forth. The idea is that you can't effectively treat your problematic skin until you're 100 per cent sure what's going on with it.
"It can tell you all you need to know about any unwanted blemishes, pores, brightness or colouring that has had the misfortune of gracing your face. Alas, we can't develop an app that will remove them just yet (we're not that good), but surely half of the battle is knowing that they're there," Sony explained in a blog post.
Sony will release BeautyExplorer in March. It's aimed at professional customers like beauty salons and manufacturers of cosmetics. Pricing is unclear but press materials say it'll cost up to £110 a month (converted from yen) to lease the equipment and have access to the cloud system.


It is becoming fashionable, even among some activists and labor-oriented intellectuals, to derogate internal union democracy as an impediment to the great cause of reorienting and rebuilding the labor movement.
If there was no real interest in union democracy, why would you need so many niggling rules to suppress it? Why those meeting attendance rules which effectively exclude over 90% of union members from running for office? Why those tricky long, continuous good standing requirements which disqualify longtime union activists? Why impose burdensome and near-impossible petition gathering quotas on aspiring candidates? Why try to restrict independent access to the internet and websites? Why limit the right of observers to watch the ballot count? Why resist informing members of their democratic rights under federal law? Why eliminate the direct election of union officers? Why, if no one cares or listens, bother to use control over union hiring halls to starve out independent-minded workers who speak their minds. Why, in summary, if there is so little interest in union democracy, are so many union leaders afraid of it?
Those who minimize the importance of democracy because members are apathetic have matters upside down. Democracy is especially important precisely where there is apathy.
In any social institution involving millions of people, and the labor movement is one such institution, the vast majority is preoccupied with the tough tasks of daily life: finding a way to earn a living, a good place to, live, getting and keeping a marriage, raising and educating children and keeping them off drugs, starting the car on a cold winter day, the rent and mortgage, those aching teeth and sprained ankles.
Overwhelmed by what deep-thinkers might consider these trivial pursuits, they're forced to neglect other important but less pressing matters, like union affairs. That is, they tend to become "apathetic." Where there is a robust democracy, an activist, vociferous, gadfly minority can be available to shake up that majority and force them to face up to the critical issues of the moment. That is, democracy is an indispensable means to overcome apathy.
Those union officials, even those who are contemptuous of others who speak of "union democracy" are fully aware of all this. When they see fit to move an "apathetic" membership, they will utilize the standard tools of democracy. They orate at length to induce members to come out and vote on election day, to raise their dues, to vote to strike or not, to adopt a contract. They fill the pages of their captive union newspapers with exhortation on the selected subjects of the day. Come out on Labor Day, with me at the head of the parade! They are not exactly inveterate enemies of the idea of democracy. They simply feel more secure when they, themselves, enjoy a monopoly of those democratic rights. They get nervous when it is available independently to other union members not under their control.
In our labor movement, there are thousands of active, loyal unionists, and potentially many thousands more, independent-minded, conscious of their rights as Americans, insistent on dignified treatment in their union and on the job. Union democracy is one means of releasing that spirit as an energizing force to help overcome "apathy" in the labor movement.
apathy is the response to powerlessness. the union movement has fallen victim to the society wide realization that america is not a democracy, and there appears to be no way to affect living or working conditions.
i suggest pressuring the democrat party to create democracy, through the establishment of citizen initiative. see my blog for some discussion of these matters.


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I would pray, papally, about what it means to be a Christian. I would take all of my fears of fraud with me. I would ask about the end game—and whether revenge or punishment ever got anybody, anywhere, closer to Jesus.
I know the punishmentalists and literalists love to "get back" and get even. Since I can't imagine what full payment would be on the debt of even one pedophiliac act on one child, the rest of the calculations are beyond my calculator's capacity. Most sin costs the perp and the perped-upon immeasurably. Pedophilia, on the scale that we now know is taking place in the church, is beyond data in its multiplication of misery. It gives new meaning to the word immeasurable.
Likewise, say we purporting Christians, God's grace is immeasurable—as wide as the sea, as uncountable as the sand on the shores.
If I were Pope, I would find a number—like ten years—and lock up all those convicted of child abuse for ten years. Of course, this number would be meaningless—long enough to hurt and short enough to imagine a future. This very act would undercut the current refusal of grace and forgiveness by naming an endgame, a positive outcome, a spirit-driven metanoia.
Talk of hopeless revenge, banning people whom we can't stand, putting them "away" forever, imitates the very kind of incarceration systems we oppose. They say you are a sinner and you can't be forgiven. Nothing could be more opposite of Christianity or the Jesus way as this revenge. Punishmentalists, progressives and fundamentalists all argue, in different ways, that Jesus died to save us from our sins. Incarceration argues this foul theology as well. Why would the Pope put a lie to the very tradition he proclaims?
During this arbitrary time, former priests would be offered the chance for full repentance. They would be offered the chance to return to humanity, but never to the priesthood. There would be beautiful worship, superb counseling, group work that would make AA look unsophisticated. There would be vocational retraining.
There would be decent food and decent gyms, inside and out of prisons. There would be trees. There would be a gift to the sinner that would feel Christ-like. We would be shown what all prisons and jails and detention centers could look like. Jesus walked the edges of villages and welcomed prostitutes and the people who ate the wrong or "impure" kind of food. He got killed for his excessive healing love of sinners. Why follow him with frightened self-righteousness?
At the end of the period of repentance the sinners would be forgiven. They would be marked with the sign of the cross, as we do on Ash Wednesday. We would use ashes made from burnt written confessions made at the start of the decade-long retreat. The priests would demit their positions in the ministry, formally, on paper, never to return to their position of authority. Returning to humanity is different from returning to leadership.
Christians believe that death actually yields life, that within every death, there is new life lurking. Jesus died, Jesus lives. There is no calculable way to measure the death these many priests have caused. Those of us who have Easter sermons to write know that many more people won't darken our doors because they just can't "trust" anything like church. Why would they? We only purport to be Christians when we punish sinners or banish sinners or click our self-righteous tongues at them.
Some will say my idea will just encourage bad behavior. St. Paul asked, "What then shall we sin more so that grace may abound?" I will retort with Paul that people who molest children are so shamed by the very idea that they don't seek the essential help that might have prevented their misery and that which they inflict on others. Shame and blame, fraudulently, replaced grace and mercy.
If I were Pope, I'd use this awful death to demonstrate repentance and Easter thinking. Extravagant mercy could flow from the hearts of those who can forgive, while holding people accountable for great sin. Saying that they are going to burn in hell is exactly the opposite of what Jesus offered.
Purporting to follow Jesus is trying to forgive. "Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us." People can't stop talking about the bombed church parishioners in Charleston who prayed for the power to forgive their attacker.
If I were Pope I'd offer an expensive and effective mercy to the sinners, not a cheap ineffective judgement.


A lively group of Fishing Cove Elementary School students gathered outside school Friday morning and launched rockets they built as part of an innovative program designed to make learning about gravity, trajectory and aerodynamics fun. The youngsters used small, single-use propulsion engines ignited by an electrical current to send their rockets as high as 350 feet into the cloudy sky.
"The opportunity to build and launch a model rocket is an exciting way to spark an invested interest in science. Incorporating model rocketry into our student's academic career will develop their problem-solving skills and ultimately motivate students in future STEAM activities," said third-grade teacher Robert Lucas.
Working in groups of three in their classroom, students assembled the foot-long rockets before filing into a field beside their North Kingstown school. They waited expectantly as Lucas helped each one launch their rocket one at a time.
"STEAM careers have steadily increased; however during the past two decades, college students graduating with these subjects have steadily decreased. As educators, we need to keep kids not only interested in STEAM, but also help them become excited enough to envision it as a career path," he said.
The other Fishing Cove teachers to receive Spark Grants are Jessica Rodrigues, Lisa Ferrie, Lisa Armstrong, Michele Haskell, Marea Rice and Lane Leedahl. The North Kingstown school received nearly $7,000 in grants in all.
Fishing Cove is one of more than two dozen schools statewide that received funding from the Carter Spark Grants program at the Rhode Island Foundation. Funded by philanthropists Letitia and the late John Carter, the program offered third- and fourth-grade teachers grants of up to $1,000 for activities that engage students through unique experiences and creative learning methods. The Foundation awarded nearly $135,000 in grants statewide.
Schools in Barrington, Bristol, Burrillville, Charlestown, Cranston, Cumberland, East Providence, Foster, Lincoln, North Providence, Pawtucket, Portsmouth, Providence, Scituate, Smithfield, Warren, Warwick, and Woonsocket also received Spark Grants.


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Will Fan, Hampton Roads Academy, eighth-grader. One of the most promising Peninsula underclassmen in several years, he would have played No. 1 on almost every other team. But behind Will Prillaman, the Williamsburg resident was a dominant player on line 2. He lost just two singles matches all year.
Tyler Hogge, Tabb, Sr. Returning to tennis after playing baseball for the Tigers and before attending VCU in the fall, the left-hander guided Tabb to the Region 3A semifinals and was their only singles victor in their loss to York. He was the 3A singles runner-up to Rishit Patel.
Viet Nguyen, Poquoson, Jr. He was one of the Bay Rivers' best and among the state's best Class 2 players, though he was eliminated by Maggie Walker's William Hobbs in a 2A semifinal. Nguyen drove the Islanders back to the state team quarterfinals with strong play all season.
Rishit Patel, York, Sr. Climbing from the No. 3 spot a year ago, he sparked the Falcons to their first state championship match since 2003 and upended Tabb's Tyler Hogge to win the Region 3A championship before falling in a state Class 3 singles semifinal.
Will Prillaman, Hampton Roads Academy, Sr. He pulled off a rare achievement by a Peninsula-area player in the always-tough Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools, winning the No. 1 singles flight at the TCIS tournament and teaming with William Fan for the doubles crown.
Albon Yowell, Jamestown, Sr. Helping make coach Bob Artis' final season memorable, Yowell won the Region 4A singles championship to earn a Class 4 state semifinal berth and guided the Eagles to yet another Bay Rivers District championship and the state quarterfinals.
Will Prillaman and William Fan, Hampton Roads Academy. The TCIS usually is dominated by South Hampton Roads powers, but these two Navigators lost only one regular-season conference match and avenged that defeat by winning the TCIS No. 1 bracket. After losing 9-7 to Norfolk Academy despite holding a match point, the Navigators beat the Bulldogs 6-4, 6-1 in the tournament final.
Albon Yowell and Jordan DeBerry, Jamestown. The righty-lefty combination paced Bay Rivers tandems throughout the season, won the 4A doubles title and won a set of a Class 4 semifinal before being ousted.
Tyler Hogge and Nick Gu, Tabb. In a Bay Rivers District with many quality players near the top, the senior-sophomore combination emerged as the Region 3A doubles champs by defeating York teams in the semifinals and final.


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Lawrence Russell Ellzey (* 20. März 1891 bei Wesson, Copiah County, Mississippi; † 7. Dezember 1977 in Jackson, Mississippi) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1932 und 1935 vertrat er den siebten Wahlbezirk des Bundesstaates Mississippi im US-Repräsentantenhaus.

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Lawrence Ellzey besuchte die ländlichen Schulen seiner Heimat und danach bis 1912 das Mississippi College in Clinton. Später studierte er noch an der University of Chicago. Während des Ersten Weltkrieges war er Soldat der US-Armee. Dort gehörte er einer Quartiermeistereinheit an. Zwischen 1920 und 1922 war er Schulrat (Superintendent of Education) im Lincoln County in Mississippi. Anschließend unterrichtete er bis 1928 als Lehrer an der Agricultural High School in Wesson; zwischen 1928 und 1932 leitete er das Copiah Lincoln Junior College.

Ellzey war Mitglied der Demokratischen Partei. Nach dem Tod des langjährigen Kongressabgeordneten Percy Quin gewann er die fällige Nachwahl im siebten Distrikt von Mississippi. Im Repräsentantenhaus in Washington, D.C. beendete er zunächst die Amtszeit seines Vorgängers. Nach einer Wiederwahl bei den regulären Kongresswahlen im Jahr 1932 konnte er sein Mandat im Kongress zwischen dem 15. März 1932 und dem 3. Januar 1935 ausüben. Für die Wahlen des Jahres 1934 wurde er von seiner Partei nicht mehr nominiert.

Nach dem Ende seiner Zeit im Kongress stieg Ellzey in das Versicherungsgeschäft ein. In den Jahren 1942 und 1943 war er im Vorstand der Organisation "Mississippi Salvage Campaign". Er wurde in Jackson, der Staatshauptstadt von Mississippi, ansässig. Dort verbrachte er auch seinen Lebensabend bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 1977.

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Geitens is a former U. S. Navy Seal and founder of The Mission Continues.
Thank you, President Monaco, Chairman Stern, faculty and staff, friends and family and the graduates of the Class of 2012. It is a pleasure to be here with all of you today.
Now, I know that at a moment like this, one of the things that has happened in the country over the course of the past year is that Navy SEALs have become really popular, especially after the raid against Osama Bin Laden and the recent hostage rescue of Jessica Buchanan in Somalia. And recently there was a small newspaper in Spokane, Wash., that asked me if I would come out and do an interview, to talk a little bit about the character of Navy SEALs. So I spoke to the reporter for a bit, then I woke up the next morning and I was pleased to read at the bottom of the newspaper there was a small headline that read "Navy SEAL Says Role Requires Humility as Well as Strength." I thought that was great; I thought they did a nice job on the headline. I was pretty excited. Then I noticed that that story was right underneath a story of a wild pig that had been shot dead in the street. And that headline read, "Ham on the Lam Dies With a Bam." So let that be a lesson that no matter what you do in your life, it will always be tough to beat those stories of wild pigs running loose in the streets.
But I am honored that all of you would ask me to be here with you today. I have never had the opportunity to give a commencement before this year – and I initially felt unqualified. And then I remembered I have spoken to people who were on the precipice of life changing moments; moments of severe consequences and even potential disaster. I have spoken to refugees in danger of starvation. I have talked to United States Marines as they had to face down death in Iraq. I have talked to Navy SEALs who faced the prospect of being severely wounded in Afghanistan. And now I add to that list you, the graduates of the class of 2012, who face the very real danger of going home to live in your parents' basements.
"Fear and excitement are now your companions." It kind of sounds like a college graduation, right? There's a tremendous amount of excitement, but it is also natural for there to be some fear. Because you are all leaving one phase of your life and are about to step out into a new frontline to face a new set of challenges and hardships and fears and opportunities. A time has now come for all of you to choose your own adventure. As you go forward, you may find that there are lessons that you learned here at Tufts that will help you along the way.
For me, college was an important time. I grew up in Missouri, and before I had been to college, I had never been outside of the country before, and I had never really been very far outside of Missouri. But when I was in college, I had a professor who asked me for the first time to go with him to do international humanitarian work. It was the summer of 1994, at the time there was a brutal civil war that had broken out a few years earlier in the former Yugoslavia, and it was a war that was marked by horrific bouts of ethnic cleansing. I went to live and to work in refugee camps with survivors of the ethnic cleansing. And I was working with people who had lost every material possession they'd ever owned. I was working with many people who had lost friends and family, and I remember when I went, I was thinking to myself that if I had lost everything they had and that I were in the refugee camp, that I would be very concerned about myself and my own pain and my own hardship and my own difficulty.
But what I found in the camp was that oftentimes, the people who were doing the best were oftentimes the parents and grandparents who had really young kids. Because they knew that even in that incredibly difficult situation, they knew that they had to wake up every single day to be strong for someone else. The people who I saw who were often struggling the most were the people who were my age at the time, many of them were the age that many of you are now; they were the young adults and the older teenagers who felt like their life had been cut short, but they didn't yet feel like anyone was counting on them. They didn't yet feel like anyone needed them to be strong. I saw the same thing later when I worked in Rwanda with survivors of the genocide, and in Cambodia when I worked with kids who had lost limbs to landmines. In every case, those who knew that they had a purpose that was larger than themselves, those who knew that others were counting on them, they grew to be stronger.
College should have been for you a time to think about yourself, to explore the world, to focus on your interest, to hone your abilities, to test your ideas. As you step into the world it is right and fair for you to have questions and concerns about your future. What kind of job will you find? What kind of friends will you make? Where will you live? Those concerns are right and fair. What I also learned in college is that the more you ask the question "What kind of service can I provide? What kind of positive difference can I make in the lives of others;" if you work everyday to live an answer to that question, then you will be stronger.
In my own journey I also came to believe there were times when people with strength needed to use that strength to protect others. And that led me to serve in the United States military. When I joined the military, I went to BUD/S. BUD/S stands for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training. It is often considered to be the hardest military training in the world. And in that training, they ask you to do a lot of difficult things. So, they ask you to swim 50 meters underwater. Later, they ask you to swim down 50 feet and tie a knot. There is an evolution called drown-proofing, and what they do is they tie your feet together and they tie your hands behind your back and you have to jump in the pool. And with your feet tied together and your hands tied behind your back, you then have to swim 50 meters. They ask you to do physical training on the beach with logs that weigh several hundred pounds.
And there is one thing that they love to have people do. They love to have people do these firemen-carry drills. And what happens in a fireman-carry drill is that you grab somebody and you have to throw them over your shoulder and then you run with them down the beach through soft sand. You grab somebody and you throw them over your shoulder and you have to run with them through a path, through the mountains. And there actually comes one test in the training where everybody's wearing a 40-pound rucksack, carrying a rifle, and you have to do a 10-mile run. But the trick is that over the course of that 10-mile run, every step of the way, at least one person is injured and has to be carried. Now are there any thoughts about what it takes to do something like that successfully? Ma'am, do you have any thoughts? You guys thought I wasn't going to call on you! It's commencement, you still get called on. Absolutely, teamwork, for sure. Any other thoughts? For sure, it takes a tremendous amount of determination to do it.
Well, I will tell you what I learned and this is important to know, if you ever have to do this, or if you ever know anybody who ever has to do this or anything like this. What I learned that was absolutely essential, what you wanted to do at the very beginning, at the very beginning of something like that, you wanted to position yourself so that you are standing next to the lightest guy. And that made a tremendous difference over the course of the 10-mile run.
But the pinnacle of all of that training, it comes in a week that is often consider the hardest week, of the hardest military training in the world and that week is called "Hell Week." Over the course of Hell Week, the average class sleeps for a total of two to five hours over the course of the whole week. They have you doing four mile timed runs on the beach, two mile ocean swims, running the obstacle course. It's a week of constant change and challenge and chaos and confusion. And I can remember my hardest moment in Hell Week.
My hardest moment came at what should have been one of the easiest moments in that week. It came at the time that we were first all of us allowed to actually run into the tents to go to sleep. Now what the instructors did was they had everybody go outside to these parallel bars and do a dip contest to see which crew was going to be allowed to run into the tents first. My crew lost, so I was the last person to run into the tents.
We had been awake at that point for over 72 hours, and by the time I ran into the tents everyone was passed out asleep. I laid down on my cot and I could not fall asleep. With every beat of my heart I could feel my right foot pumping. So I got up and I took my boot off and there was a bandage that had been wrapped around my foot. I ripped the bandage off, threw it on the ground, tied my boot back on, laid back down and I still couldn't go to sleep. And what happened then was that fear started to run through my mind, and I started to think, what is going to happen if I can't sleep? We only get two to five hours of sleep over the whole week. What is going to happen to me if I can't sleep? And I knew that I was actually going a little crazy because the thought actually ran through my mind, I actually thought to myself, well, maybe if they can't sleep maybe they'll let me have a nap later.
And so I couldn't sleep, and then we're in this tent, it's an Army general purpose tent, and in the top of the tent there is a small cut out and there is a beam of sunlight that is coming down on my cot and the cots of a bunch of the people around me. And after it'd been oppressively cold all week, it's now incredibly hot in the tent. And what happened then was I started to feel sorry for myself. And I started to think, you know, it's not fair that I ran into the tents last; it's not fair that I got the worst cot; it's not fair that they wrapped my foot the wrong way the last time I went through medical; it's not fair, it's not fair. And I started to feel all of this self-pity for myself, and all of this fear, and that was my hardest moment.
I was really worried about what was going to happen. And I just got up then and I walked outside of the tent, and I walked over to a facet. It was about shoulder height, and I turned it on and I put my head underneath and I just washed some water over my head, and as I turned back to the tents, I just said to myself, I said, "It's not about me." I said, "This test isn't about me. This test is about my ability to be of service to the people who are asleep in that tent right now." And the minute that I stopped focusing on myself, all of that fear, and all of that self-pity and all of that worry washed away, and I walked into the tent and I laid down and I went to sleep.
I found that what was true for the refugees in Bosnia was true in my own life and my own hardest moment; that the more I thought about myself, the weaker I became. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I became. Having learned that lesson in college, having lived it in the SEAL teams, today, I try to share that lesson and the work we do at The Mission Continues.
The work we do today began on March 28, 2007, when many of you who are graduating today, I think at the time were probably juniors in high school. At the time I was serving as the commander of an al-Qaeda targeting cell in Fallujah, Iraq. As the commander of an al-Qaeda targeting cell, my unit's mission was to capture mid- to senior-level al-Qaeda leaders in and around the Fallujah area.
On March 28, 2007, my team was hit by a suicide truck bomb. I was fine. I was taken to the Fallujah surgical hospital and I was able to return to duty 72 hours later. But some of the people who were in the barracks with me, some of whom were just an arm's length from me, ended up being hurt far worse than I was. And when I came home to visit them, I went to see them and I also went to Bethesda, to the naval hospital, to visit with some recently returned wounded Marines.
You walk into one of those hospital rooms and you're talking to men and women who are your age. They are your friends, they are your colleagues, they are certainly your brothers and sisters, if not in blood then in spirit, and they are part of your generation. When I asked each one of them who was in the hospital what they wanted to do when they recovered, every single one of them said to me. "I want to return to my unit." Now the reality was, for many of the men and women who I was visiting that day, that they were not going to be able to return to their unit. One of them had lost both of his legs. The other lost the use of his right arm, part of his right lung. Another lost a good part of his hearing.
So I asked each one of them, well, if you can't return to your unit right away, tell me what else you'd like to do. And every single one of them told me that they wanted to find a way to continue to serve. They didn't necessarily use the word "service;" one of them said service; one of them said, "You know I had kind of a rough childhood growing up, and I'd like to find a way to go home and maybe be a mentor and a football coach." Another one told me, he said, "You know what, my dad and I were talking and I think I might try and find a way to go back to college and become a teacher." Another one told me he was thinking about going home to get involved within law enforcement. What became clear to me that day, was that I was just one of a long string of visitors coming in to see all these men and women to say thank you. And they appreciated that. They appreciated when people came in to say thank you. But what they also had to hear in addition to thank you was, they had to hear "we still need you." They had to know that when we looked at them we saw them as assets and that we were willing to challenge them to find a way to continue to be of service.
Today at The Mission Continues, we have over 350 veterans who are now gone from being citizen warriors to citizen leaders in their community. They work at Habitat for Humanity and Big Brothers Big Sisters and the American Red Cross. One of our fellows Roman Baca had worked for eight years as a machine gunner in the United States Marine Corps, he is also an incredibly talented ballet artist. When he came home from Iraq, The Mission Continues gave him a fellowship to set up a ballet and dance program in the New York City public schools. Within 72 hours of setting up that program he had students from 15 schools sign up for his program, and Roman recently took his students back to Iraq on a cultural exchange program, where they did dance with other Iraqi students.
It is traditional for commencement speakers to come and give advice. I have very little advice to give you. Instead, I would like to ask something of you. Let's decide that today will be both a day of celebration and a day that we embrace a challenge. Let's look back with pride at all that you have accomplished, and let's also look forward with confidence, knowing that you will go forward to use all of your talents and abilities, all of your creativity and energy to find a way to be of service to others. If you do that, life will not be easy, but you will have chosen for yourself a very meaningful adventure.
It is a bright path ahead for all of you, and it's a great honor for me to share this day with you. Congratulations Tufts Class of 2012.
Do not commit the error, common among the young, by assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.