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Recipient of the  Hugo Boss Prize 2012, Danish artist Danh Vo (b. 1975, Bà Rịa, Vietnam), dissects the public forces and private desires that define the individual experience.

His work addresses both cultural and political themes explored through an intimate and personal narrative. In  fact the artist calls this experience “the tiny diasporas of a person’s life.”

Danh Vo arrived in Denmark at the age of four.

He and his family fled Vietnam on a boat built by Vo’s father. Hoping to reach the USA, the family was picked up by a Mærsk vessel in the Pacific Ocean and ended up in Denmark.

Vo is a graduate from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Städelschule in Frankfurt.

Vo has presented solo shows across the world, including at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2018), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, Madrid (2015-16); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2015) and Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2014–15). In 2015 he represented Denmark at the Venice Biennial.

Emerging from personal relationships and fortuitous encounters, Vo’s projects take their final form as objects and images that have accrued shifting layers of meaning in the world, whether through their former ownership, their proximity to specific events, or their currency as universal icons.

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TEHRAN, April 10 (ICANA) – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has stressed the need for the Majlis to constantly follow up the developments in the region in the wake of the important revolutions that are taking shape.
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Addressing the open session of the parliament Sunday, Larijani announced that the MPs had discussed the ongoing events in the Middle East and North Africa in a closed door meeting earlier Sunday.

“We held important discussions in connection with the latest developments in the region,” Larijani announced.

Hossein Sobhani-nia, member of the presiding board of the Majlis (Parliament) told ICANA Saturday that Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili would attend the closed door meeting at the Parliament to brief the MPs on the latest developments in the region.

He said the session would take one hour during which Jalili would inform the legislators on the ongoing uprisings in the region, with particular emphasis on Bahrain.

The Bahraini Center for Human Rights (BCHR) has announced that the number of detained opposition activists in the Persian Gulf state has exceeded 500.

According to BCHR, 17 women are also among the detainees and 18 other activists are reportedly missing, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Since the beginning of the uprising in Bahrain dozens of anti-government protesters have been killed and many others have gone missing. The bodies of the missing are frequently found days after.

The head of BCHR, Nabeel Rajab, says now one in every 1,000 Bahraini is in detention for political reasons.

Witnesses say regime forces are conducting house to house searches to detain opposition activists.

Six opposition leaders have also been arrested and the Manama government has so far refused to provide any information on their fate.

The opposition leaders, five Shia and one Sunni, were rounded up on March 17.

Among the opposition leaders is Hassan Mushaima, the head of the Haq party, who returned to Bahrain from Britain in mid-February after Manama dropped charges against him.

His family members say Saudi troops were among Bahraini forces taking part in the arrest operation.

Reports coming from Bahrain suggest that regime forces backed by Saudi troops have intensified their crackdown on opposition figures and anti-government protesters.

Witnesses say Bahraini forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters in several cities and villages and that pro-regime thugs have been sent to different villages to suppress protests.

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Iran to Decide Fate of Three US Nationals

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Tehran's Prosecutor-General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said that the next trial session of the three US nationals charged with illegal entry to Iran and espionage may be held by late August.

Dolatabadi expressed optimism that the verdict over the case would be issued at the session.

"We are hopeful that the final decision on the case of the three American nationals would be made at the session," he said.

He did not elaborate on the exact date for the next court session or what the verdict would be.

Bauer and Fattal, both 27, along with Shourd, 31, were detained at an Iranian border region in July 2009 after illegally crossing the border from the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdistan region.

Iran released Shourd on a bail of $500,000 in September 2010, 14 months after her arrest. The decision was taken due to the detainee's health condition.

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to pilot Community Based Flood Early Warning System (CBFEWS) in Gilgit Baltistan under the project ‘Agricultural Water, Energy

The Himalaya are crucially important for India. Its mountains are ‘water towers’ that provide water to millions of people , and services such as food, biodiversity, and energy. However, the warming trend is comparably higher in the mountains

A training for readers of sediment measurement in selected gauging stations of the Koshi River basin in Nepal was organised by the Government of Nepal

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Cryosphere researchers from ICIMOD will join a team of scientists from institutes in Nepal and Europe for an extensive field campaign to Ngozumpa glacier in the Khumbu region of Nepal in the months of March and April 2016. The team will conduct

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Mr. Bryan on Evolution

"He being dead, yet speaketh" (Hebrews 11:4). The "Great Commoner," William Jennings Bryan, died over 65 years ago, but he was undoubtedly the most widely known creationist of his generation. The following article, first published in August 1925 soon after the famous Scopes Trial, was written by him shortly before his death, and we believe it should still be read today.

Are those who reject evolution as an unproved hypothesis unreasonable in refusing to accept, as conclusive, the evidence offered by evolutionists in support of a proposition that links every living thing in blood relationship to every other living thing--the rose to the onion, the eagle to the mosquito, the mockingbird to the rattlesnake, the royal palm to the scrub oak, and man to all? Surely, so astounding a proposition should be supported by facts before it becomes binding upon the judgment of a rational being.

It is not unusual for evolutionists to declare that their hypothesis is as clearly established as the law of gravitation or the roundness of the earth. Yet anyone can prove that anything heavier than air, when thrown up into the air, will fall to the ground; anyone can demonstrate the roundness of the earth by traveling around it.

But how about the doctrine that all of the species (Darwin estimated the number at from two to three million--the lowest estimate is one million, about a half million of which have been tabulated) by the operation of interior, resident forces came by slow and gradual development from one or a few germs of life, which appeared on this planet millions of years ago--the estimates varying according to the vigor of the guesser's imagination and the number of ciphers he has left in his basket? Can that proposition be demonstrated by every one like the law of gravitation or the roundness of the earth? On the contrary, no one has ever been able to trace one single species to another. Darwin admitted that no species had ever been traced to another, but he thought his hypothesis should be accepted even though the "missing links" had not been found. He did not say link, as some seem to think, but links. If there is such a thing as evolution, it is not just one link--the link between man and the lower forms of life--that is missing, but all the millions of links between millions of species. Our case is even stronger; it has been pointed out that evolution, if there is such a force, would act so slowly that there would be an infinite number of links between each two species, or a million times a million links in all, every one of which is missing.

Thomas Huxley also asserted that no species had ever been traced to another; and, while a friend of Darwin, declared that until some species could be traced to another, Darwin's hypothesis did not rise to the dignity of a theory. Prof. William Bateson, a London biologist, prominent enough to be invited to cross the Atlantic and speak to the members of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, at Toronto two years ago last December, in discussing evolution, took up every effort that had been made to discover the origin of species, and declared that every one had failed--every one! Yet he still asserted faith in evolution, showing how much easier it is for some scientists to have faith along their own line of work than along religious lines.

Why should we believe that all species come one from another when no evidence has yet been found to prove that any species came from another? If evolution were true, every square foot of the earth's surface would teem with conclusive proof of change. The entire absence of proof is the strongest possible proof that evolution is a myth.

But those who reject evolution have another proof. Chemistry refutes all the claims of the evolutionists, and proves that there is no pushing power to be found anywhere in nature--no progressive force at work in the earth--no eternal urge lifting matter or life from any plane to a higher one. Chemistry has failed to find any trace of force active enough to raise life, step by step up, along the lines of the family tree imagined by Darwin, from "A group of marine animals, resembling the larvae of existing ascidians" to "Man, the wonder and glory of the universe."

On the contrary, the only active force discovered on the planet as pointed out by Edwin Slosson, is deterioration, decay, death. All the formulae of chemistry are exact and permanent. They leave no room for the guesses upon which evolutionists build other guesses, ad infinitum. Take water, for instance; it must have been on earth before any living thing appeared, because it is the daily need of every living thing. And it has been H2O from the beginning. Every one of the millions of changes of species imagined by the evolutionists have taken place--if they have taken place at all--since water came upon the earth. But water has not changed; neither has anything else ever changed, so far as nature has revealed her processes to man.

When a few bones and a piece of skull are fashioned into a supposed likeness of a prehistoric animal, described as an ape-man, the evolutionists fall down before it and worship it, although it contains a smaller percentage of fact than the one-half percent alcohol permitted in a legal beverage.... Someone searching for fossils in a sand hill in Nebraska came upon a lonely tooth. The body of the animal had disappeared; not even a jaw bone survived. Professor Osborn summoned a few congenial spirits, nearly as credulous as himself, and they held a post mortem examination on this insignificant tooth. After due deliberation, they announced that the tooth was the long-looked-for missing link which the world awaited.

Give science a fact and it is invincible. But no one can guess more wildly than a scientist, when he has no compass but his imagination, and no purpose but to get away from God. Darwin uses the phrase "we may well suppose" 800 times and wins for himself a high place among the unconscious humorists by his efforts to explain things that are not true. For instance, he assumed that man has a brain superior to woman's brain, and tried to explain it on the theory that our ancestors were brutes and that the males, fighting for female mates, increased their brain power. He also assumed that our ancestors were hairy animals, and tried to explain the disappearance of the hair on the theory that the females selected their companions and, because of a universal preference, selected the least hairy and thus, in the course of ages, bred the hair off. The two explanations would be funny enough, even if each did not make the other impossible--the two sexes could not do the selecting at the same time.

Evolutionists also explain to us that light, beating on the skin, brought out the eye, although the explanation does not tell us why the light waves did not continue to beat until they brought out eyes all over the body. They also tell us that the leg is a development from a wart that accidentally appeared on the belly of a legless animal; and that we dream of falling because our ancestors fell out of trees 50,000 years ago.

It is a calamity that highly educated men should while away their time in idle speculation instead of devoting themselves to the serious problems that demand solution.

Editor's Addendum: The foregoing article was first published in The Reader's Digest in August 1925 (Vol. 4, No. 40), less than three years after the Digest first began publication. At that time, the magazine was not as strongly committed to evolutionism as it is today (the editors have adamantly refused to publish creationist articles in recent years).

The article is of particular interest as a brief summary of some of the anti-evolution arguments of 65 years ago--arguments that, for the most part, are as cogent today as they were then.

It is interesting to note Mr. Bryan's sarcastic critique of the famous tooth which Henry Fairfield Osborn, Director of the American Museum of Natural History, had publicized far and wide as the ancient "Nebraska Man." Mr. Bryan died shortly before the discovery of a more complete skeleton of the creature, revealing it to have been not an ape-man (nor an ape, nor a man!) but an extinct pig!

Mr. Bryan also noted the significance of the universal law of deterioration. Modern creationists frequently use this same cogent evidence, although it is more accurately known as the law of entropy.

William Jennings Bryan, of course, was the most famous creationist of his day. Although he was not a scientist, his political eminence and oratorical ability impelled him into that role. He was born in 1860, so was 65 at the time of the Scopes Trial. He had been the Democratic candidate for president in 1896, 1900, and 1908, but was defeated each time, although known as one of the finest public speakers who ever lived. He was called "The Great Commoner." He served as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1912 to 1915.

Spiritually, he was a Presbyterian, and became an opponent of evolution after realizing the great war (World War I) was a direct outgrowth of evolutionary teaching in Germany, and that evolutionary teaching in American public schools and colleges was contributing significantly to the decline of morals and Christianity in general.

On the other hand, he was not a young-earth creationist, even advocating progressive creationism while being questioned by the ACLU attorney, Clarence Darrow, on the witness stand at the Scopes Trial. This compromise, which is widespread today among evangelicals, earned him no sympathy, however, from either Darrow or the liberal press. The very fact that he believed in God and the Bible was sufficient, in their view, to subject him to ridicule.

Nevertheless, the points made in his Digest article, and in the much longer declamation he had prepared (but was maneuvered out of giving by Darrow and the trial judge) for his trial summary, constitute a strong case against evolution even today. Acts & Facts readers should find it interesting and illuminative.

For Further Reading

The Last Message of William Jennings Bryan (Dayton, Tennessee: Bryan College, 1975), 32 pp.

"Their Stage Drew all the World: A New Look at the Scopes Trial," by R.M. Cornelius, Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Vol. XL, Summer 1981), pp. 129-143

Cite this article: William Jennings Bryan. 1991. Mr. Bryan on Evolution. Acts & Facts. 20 (3).

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Verdun is out on Xbox One March 8th!

Verdun is a visually stunning multiplayer FPS set in a realistic World War One setting. Featuring online multiplayer with up to 3 friends, you’ll be immersed in intense battles of attack and defense in a merciless trench warfare setting. With 4 different gameplay modes, there’s always something new to try as you engage the enemy with authentic weaponry, skill based weapon handling, and deal with poisonous gasses and artillery strikes. You’ll choose from a number of elite international units that took the field during WWI in France and Belgium with period accurate weaponry and equipment as you play one of 4 fun and challenging game modes: Frontlines, Attrition, Rifle Deathmatch and Squad Defense. Fans of team based shooters and historically accurate games won’t want to miss Verdun!

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On 31 January 2017,  Task 54's partners from the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt will present the results of the results of the collaborative project  <<Untersuchungen zur Fertigungstechnik und Kollektorkonstruktion für Vollkunststoff-Kollektoren>>  (engl. Investigations on the manufacturing and design of fully polymeric collectors). The German speaking event will take place in Ingolstadt, Germany.  More information including an agenda of the day will be provided soon. I am sure this will be an excellent start into the new year and hope to see as many of you there as possible.


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IFR Pfandbriefe Roundtable 2015

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IFR’s 2015 Pfandbriefe Roundtable, held in Frankfurt on January 29 following our 9th annual Covered Bonds conference, was, as ever, a fascinating affair. For all the years IFR has been hosting conferences and roundtables on this segment of the bond market, there has not been a single event that has crystallised opinion to the same extent as the 2015 vintage.

The issue: the European Central Bank’s third Covered Bond Purchase Programme. Announced last September, launched on October 20 and running until June 2016. CBPP3 was a precursor to full-blown QE, whose €60bn of monthly bond purchases was announced days before the IFR Roundtable.

By mid-February, Eurosystem purchases of covered bonds had reached €46bn – of which 80% lifted from the secondary market. The sum of CBPP3 purchases was at that time already greater than the aggregate of the programme’s first two iterations.

While the ECB’s behaviour in the primary market had tempered slightly following the start of the year, its clumsy and ham-fisted bidding in the weeks after the programme was announced – at which time it was putting in massive orders and squeezing out real-money institutional investors and bank treasuries – ended up skewing market levels and undermining any notion of value.

Such was the contraction in spreads that some big buyside accounts have been threatening to ditch covered bonds in favour of anything offering better value.

The IFR event found issuers, underwriters and investors broadly on the same page, albeit with some counter views. Emotions ran high. People are angry and the language duly reflected that. People spoke of the ECB destroying the covered bond market; doing it serious harm; not thinking through the consequences of the programme; using covered bonds as a ruse to get full-blown QE through.

Does the ECB’s dual role, one participant asked – i.e. the market’s single biggest investor with unlimited buying power AND since November the eurozone’s principal banking supervisor – pose issues of moral hazard when borrowers see it aggressively bidding in the primary market and feel obliged to over-allocate at the expense of long-term investing clients? The consensus around the table said not, but it’s an issue worth pondering.

There was some discussion comparing the behaviour of the ECB today with some of the big funds that were huge buyers of covered bonds before the financial crisis. The Eurosystem is not an investor in the classic sense of the term; it is buying for political reasons. But by the same token, it is not going to flip bonds or dump positions in the same way as some of those funds did when the first signs of market distress started to manifest itself pre-2008. In that respect, it was argued that the ECB is the perfect investor.

On a positive note, the very act of buying covered bonds proves above all that, having rejected the idea of loading up its balance sheet with credit risk, it sees the instrument as safe and solid. If nothing else, that’s a positive point to bear in mind as CBPP3 runs its course.

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3G iPhone Post-Launch Woes

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The 3G iPhone has been hailed as the most user-friendly, powerful mobile phone to-date. Record breaking sales, seemingly endless demand, and supply shortages nationwide has marked the phone's release. But is the 3G iPhone all it's cracked up to be? Some would argue to the contrary. Despite it's incredibly high sales, many users are claiming that the 3G iPhone's service is inconsistent and riddled with slow or infrequent connection speeds. Forums, tech outlets, and various other sources have become inundated with complaints from users about the iPhone's connectivity. As connectivity issues seemed to reach a fever pitch earlier this week, reports circulated that identified the iPhone's Infineon chipset as the potential culprit.

Richard Windsor, an analyst for Nomura Securities, published a report on Tuesday claiming that the Infineon chips utilized by Apple could be directly responsible for the outages, call drops, and generally slow connectivity of the 3G iPhone.

"We believe that these issues are typical of an immature chipset and radio protocol stack where we are almost certain that Infineon is the 3G supplier," Windsor wrote in his report. "This is not surprising as the Infineon 3G chipset solution has never really been tested in the hands of users. Some people will not experience these problems as it is only in areas where the radio signal weakens that the immaturity of the stack really shows." Windsor's report went on to suggest that the problems facing the iPhone's connection strength may not be reparable through firmware updates.

Potential hardware flaws aside, the iPhone has also had a rocky start with some of the programs offered in the Apple App Store, despite its incredibly high sales rates. Third party programs have been reportedly rife with bugs and various glitches, of which some developers have attributed to the iPhone's operating system. Many users have also claimed that some third iPhone applications have caused involuntary rebooting. With the sheer volume of reports of malfunctioning programs, Apple has removed and republished countless programs, such as Box Office, a movie time listing program, and Apple's own MobileMe suite of web services. But with over 500 first and third party programs available on the App Store, remedying program issues has proven to be no simple task.

To make matters worse, third party developer updates to glitch-addled apps are slow to clear Apple's recently revised approval process. With so many performance issues, Apple has tightened their selectivity and review process for better quality control. In a report made by MacWorld, some updates have been in approval limbo for several weeks while hundreds upon thousands of users buy outdated software on the app store.

But despite growing complaints of program failure and lacking connectivity, Apple has stood their ground…publicly. As of press time, Apple has issued no formal acknowledgement of the connectivity issues. However, the tech wire has been abuzz with an impending OS update for the 3G iPhones that will remedy the lacking connection speeds. In an article published by BusinessWeek, sources close to Apple indicate that the update is on the horizon.

"Two sources say Apple will likely issue a software update by the end of September—if not by the end of this month—to resolve the issues," Peter Burrows wrote for BusinessWeek. "Apple and Infineon are currently testing the fix, which will be included in a broader update of the iPhone's software."

So, what does this mean for current and prospective iPhone users? Well, as time goes on the issues regarding the App Store will slowly but surely be resolved, but the problem of connectivity looms. Residents of metropolitan areas are unlikely to experience problems with 3G-network reception, but for everyone else the issue is far more crucial. If the chipset is the true culprit, prospective iPhone buyers should definitely wait until a later iteration is released. In the meantime, we will have to wait and see if Apple's proposed OS update will be the 3G iPhone's proverbial knight in shining armor.


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New Avengers #58 Review

The Avengers take the fight to the sewers.

Want proof that solicitations are poor sources of information? Read New Avengers #58 and compare it to the original solicit. Nothing suggested in the description or on the cover actually happens. Maybe that's why issue #58 comes as such a pleasant surprise. Or maybe it's that, after several months spent on a silly and head-scratching new plot development, the script finally moves into more interesting and action-packed territory.

So far, this arc has involved both squads of Avengers standing around helpless while the remnants of The Hood's empire make a grab for power. The actual logic behind Jonas Harrow's power dampener are perplexing at best and nonsensical at worst, so I'm glad to see Brian Michael Bendis relegate that plot point to a mere foot note this month. This issue is all about action as the New Avengers run for their lives with the Dark Avengers hot on their tails. In a way, it's almost like a delayed payoff for that much-hyped battle in issue #50 that never occurred.

So it almost goes without saying that issue #58 isn't the deepest or most introspective chapter Bendis has ever written. That's not inherently a bad thing. Bendis sprinkles in plenty of satisfying character moments that give our troubled heroes reasons to smile, if only momentarily. Ms. Marvel and Iron Patriot have a short but exciting chase sequence that essentially does for Carol what "War of the Marvels" has failed to do - it makes her seem cool and puts her back in charge once more. Even Night Nurse has a great moment as she attempts to facilitate the New Avengers' escape. I have some serious issues with the way artist Stuart Immonen portrays her (she seems like an altogether different sort of Night Nurse), but Bendis makes great use of a character that has languished since the high of Doctor Strange: The Oath.

The only drawback is a flaw all too common to Bendis' Avengers work. He finds difficulty in spots at maintaining individual character voices. His New Avengers are handled well enough, which is good, but the Dark Avengers come across as basically generic thugs. It's odd that Bendis was able to so successfully differentiate the characters in Dark Avengers #10 but finds trouble here. On the other hand, given the "shoot first, chat later" approach to the script, there simply isn't as much room for character building.

In a lot of ways, it's really Immonen that steals the show. Yes, his Night Nurse is strange, but just about every other visual aspect of this book is fantastic. Immonen has subtly altered his style since leaving Ultimate Spider-Man. His thicker, harsher lines lead to a meaner look that suits the environment of Dark Reign. His work isn't as overtly detailed as many past artists, but there also aren't any wasted lines. Immonen renders one dynamic fight scene after another in this issue. From the aforementioned chase scene to the brawl in the New York sewers, this is one pretty, visceral comic. Ever wondered what it looks like when he unstoppable force of Ares' axe meets the immovable object of Cap's shield? Look and be amazed.

Bendis took the series in a weird direction over the past couple months, but it didn't take the creative team very long at all to put New Avengers back on track. This issue does value style over substance to some extent. Still, it's an exciting read that sets up plenty of interesting conflicts in these final months leading up to Siege.

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(ANS - Lille) - In 2010, Danièle Sciacaluga, a Salesian Cooperator, had the opportunity to visit some Roma families in a camp in the city of Lille. Their situation observed, to meet their educational needs he decided in 2014 to start, together with a Salesian priest, the association "ESPERE" (Espoir Salésiens Pour les Enfants Roms d'Europe - Salesian Hope for Roma Children of Europe), committed to promoting the education of children according to the pedagogy of Don Bosco. Every year since then, during the summer, the association carries out summer activities in favor of those children who live in marginal conditions.

The adventure of "ESPERE" was repeated for the fifth consecutive year again this summer in collaboration with the network of "Don Bosco Action Sociale" initiatives (DBAS). For three consecutive weeks, every afternoon, the operators of the ESPERE association offered moments of sharing, informal education, discovery and play to Roma children of a camp-slum in Lille.

The team of operators, composed of Salesians Cooperators and Salesians of Don Bosco, both French and Belgian, this year was strengthened by the presence of new members: a student from Liège and young adults from Nancy, engaged with another association of the DBAS network - "Grandir Dignement" -  Growing up with Dignity - which operates in France and abroad with minors 'in conflict with the law'.

In the typically Salesian family atmosphere, the young people who engaged in these activities were able to discover the deplorable living conditions of Roma children and their families, but also all their "riches": hospitality, courtesy, joy of living ... At the same time, the students were able to know "in practice" the pedagogy and the spirit of Don Bosco, which they also transmitted to Roma families and children.

The daily program alternated educational games, board games, artistic workshops, excursions and music education, a visit to the zoo, the introduction to knitting, mini-courses of mechanics for older seniors, a night tour of the city of Lille for the animators and, above all, a climate of true sharing and closeness in every circumstance.

From the beginning of this Salesian initiative, the welcoming spirit from the families was warm and soon there was an atmosphere of mutual trust that, indeed, breaks down every prejudice.

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    RMG – Salesian Institutions Participate in World Cleanup Day Photo: Mumbai

    (ANS – Rome) – World Cleanup Day, a global social action programme aimed at combating the global solid waste problem, was celebrated worldwide on 15 September. The “Don Bosco Green Alliance” actively promoted this event among its members, encouraging Salesian institutions across the world to organize a cleanup activity either in their own campus or in their neighbourhood.  Responding to this invitation, several Salesian institutions involved young people in various activities on that day.

    The “Dominic College”, a Salesian institution in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia, came up with the innovative idea of combining a cleanup event with their daily fitness programme. Accordingly, a ‘plogging’ (picking up rubbish whilst jogging) event was organized, which was thoroughly enjoyed by the students. In addition to this activity, throughout the day students of different classes looked for areas around the College that needed cleaning. A focus within classrooms was investigating small changes that students can make that will have a positive impact on the environment. This was achieved through watching a series of short clips online, followed by classroom discussions.

    Don Bosco Technical Institute in Ashaiman, Ghana, has been focusing on the UN vision 2030 “to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all”.  Keeping this in mind, the students organized cleanup activities and awareness programmes, both within the campus as well as for the locality on World Cleanup Day.  “We are very grateful to Fr. Krzysztof Nizniak (AFW Provincial Economer) for his support during these activities. His involvement was a great morale booster to propel us forward,” said Kenneth Dodzi Anlonyah, who coordinated the day’s programme.

    In Coimbatore, India, Don Bosco Anbu Illam and Don Bosco School of Excellence conducted a week-long World Cleanup Day programme and concluded it with a public campaign in Gandhipuram and Ukkadam Bus Stations in Coimbatore on 15 September. In the city of Baroda, Don Bosco Snehalaya involved young people in cleaning up some of the public pavements near the institution.  In Mumbai, GreenLine, a Salesian Environmental Organization, involved over 300 students from 6 different schools in the city in cleanup drives on the Dadar, Mahim and Juhu beaches.  All these cleanup activities helped to educate the students on proper waste disposal and the need to work for a cleaner planet.

    Don Bosco Green Alliance is an international collective of young people from Don Bosco institutions and organisations that contributes to global environmental action, thought and policy.  The alliance focuses on creating an environment that is safe and caring for all life on the planet, while building up a new generation of environmentally committed citizens and leaders.

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      Ethiopia - Salesians and efforts to guarantee education for street children Ethiopia - Salesians and efforts to guarantee education for street children

      (ANS - Addis Ababa) – These days, schools are reopening their doors in many countries. But many youngsters risk remaining on the margins of education. The Salesians, in collaboration with the NGO "International Voluntary Service for Development" (VIS), work so that everyone, even street children, can receive education and opportunities.

      Workeneh Alemu comes from a very poor family from a small village. One day, the boy decides to go to Addis Ababa in search of fortune. "The road is a dangerous place. I wanted to go back, but I didn't want to weigh on my mother," says the young man. "I heard about the Bosco Children from the boys of the center who'd meet with street children. I liked the idea and decided to follow their proposal. I participated in 16 evening meetings that prepared me for the 'Come and See' program. I followed the whole path proposed by the Salesians. I was happy to have closed a hard parenthesis of my life."

      The "Bosco Children" Salesian Center offers the possibility of acquiring awareness of one's own possibilities and potential, and directs it to academic study or technical training, the latter aimed at entering the world of work. There are courses in mechanics, metalworking, woodworking, cooking and leather goods. Workeneh Alemu was able to resume his studies from where he had interrupted them and is now enrolled at the "Don Bosco" school in Mekanissa, Addis Ababa.

      His story is similar to Amanuel's. He also lived on the street and he too arrived at "Bosco Children" thanks to word of mouth. "I heard about a gradual route for street kids called 'Come and see'. More than thinking about the possibility of a better future, I was looking only for a way to get through the summer period off the streets of Addis Ababa," he admits.

      Like all children approached by the center, the first step was the day care program, which includes literacy courses, games, the offer of a meal and the start of good hygiene habits.

      Over the first three months, Amanuel entered the institutional program. Thanks to the orientation program, he discovered his talents, completed the fifth class, and he will start a mechanics course this year.

      "In my stay at 'Bosco Children'", he concludes, "I always felt accompanied, with family and friends. Thanks to the Center, I believe in the future and I'm working to make it happen."

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        India – “Prafulta Psychological Services” celebrates 20-year milestone India – “Prafulta Psychological Services” celebrates 20-year milestone

        (ANS – Mumbai) – “Prafulta Psychological Services”, a Don Bosco Project initiated by the Salesians of Don Bosco in the Mumbai Province, celebrated its 20th anniversary at its Andheri headquarters on September 2018.

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        The organisation, Prafulta, which implies exuberance, abundance, and wholeness, began in 1998, with an aim to help clients understand, accept and deal effectively with the influences of their environment, take personal responsibility for their lives, create a meaningful future for themselves and thus live life abundantly.

        Prafulta has lived up to its mission of providing quality psychological and psychiatric services to help individuals, groups, and families move towards optimal, independent functioning and improve their quality of life.

        Twenty-three staff from the organisation attended the anniversary celebration in the seminar hall of Prafulta, which was decorated with balloons and ribbons. A symbolic cake was cut before the celebrations began. The young members of Prafulta were the emerging DJ's and party hosts.There was games, laughter, dancing, selfies and a message by Father Godfrey D'Sa, Founder Director of Prafulta Psychological Service, expressing gratitude to the Prafulta staff both past and present.

        ''Thousands of people had been reached by the organisation in many ways and the ones who were trained by Prafulta further reached out to many others. So it is difficult to quantify our reach, but at the same time Prafulta has to now aim at the expansion of its activities so that people become aware of the work it does and the importance of mental health,'' Father D'Sa said.

        Prafulta offers career guidance, integrated education occupational therapy, integrated education special needs, corporate training, counselling and psychotherapy, psychiatry, clinical assessment, and well-being awareness initiatives.

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          Laos – Join hands in serving youth Laos – Join hands in serving youth

          (ANS – Vientiane) – Since 2004, more than 1,000 young people from all corners of Lao PDR (Peoples Democratic Republic) received a proper preparation for their lives thanks to the Don Bosco Youth Vocation Center in Vientiane.

          Thanks to the mutual cooperation and trust between Lao Youth Union and the Salesian Foundation of Don Bosco in Thailand, this country's unique Don Bosco presence has been developing well. Under the 5-year MOU between the Lay Youth Union and Don Bosco Foundation Thailand (2016-2021), more than 750 are trained in four vocational training departments. The THA province (Thailand-Cambodia-Laos) of the Salesians has been funding with generosity the whole project from the beginning.

          At present, 143 young men are being assisted by 26 teachers and instructors under the guidance of a small Salesian community (Rector Fr. Patrick Maccioni) and trained in: Automechanics, Technical Welding, Electricity and Motorcycle Repair. More than 60 of them are living full-time in the VTC boarding house since they come from many far away provinces of the country. During their one-year stay (auto mechanics and electricity) the “Bosconians” learn not only technical skills, but also mature as persons, learn music, do sports and foster community building. Before the end of each course, there is an on job training session organized with the help of Lao Youth Union. Cultural outings to the capital's museums, blood donation, services to the needy in the local community all contribute to the holistic education.

          After the 2017 animation visit of the World-level Alumni of Don Bosco, the local unit of Past Pupils has also been growing in Vientiane. Indeed all the VTC teachers are our former students. One year after the animation by Mr Angel Gudiña (Spain, Vicepresident for GEX) and Mr Alberto Piedade (Timor Leste, GEX Asia-Oceania) with the help of their Delegate - SDB Rector, the formation of the Alumni animation team has started recently.

          Until now there has not yet been any Lao Salesian of Don Bosco. Our Don Bosco Vientiane teachers and instructors - former students dream about a first Lao Salesian member and commit themselves to follow the path of Don Bosco with a whole heart!

          Even if you do not travel to Laos, you can watch the wonderful video presentation of Vientiane VTC on Youtube this year: Whispering the Gospel in Asia: “Laos Don Bosco”

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            Italy - "Don Bosco Story" completed: opus that will continue to live on Valdocco walls Italy -

            (ANS - Turin) - "Love what the young love, so that they love what you love." This famous maxim of Don Bosco has now been recreated in drawings and colors on the walls around Valdocco, where in the last two weeks a famous street artist, Andrea Sergio, aka "Mr. Wany", painted the story of Don Bosco with his spray cans.

            On the walls on the corner between Via Maria Ausiliatrice and Via Cigna, which surround the Salesian Motherhouse in Valdocco, the imprint of the artist from Brindisi are there for everyone to see and enjoy, an opus inspired by the short audiovisual timeline on Don Bosco already produced for "Missioni Don Bosco" by the illustrator Mauro Borgarello that has created new links between the Sons of Don Bosco and the territory where the experience of the oratories and the vocational training schools was born.

            Dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, the 170 square meters of graffiti have provoked reactions not only in young people, related for generational reasons to the culture of hip hop and street art, but also in the residents and in Valdocco's visitors, enthusiastic about the figurative performance of Mr. Wany.

            Closing the narration of Don Bosco's life, there is an expressionistic face of the Saint of the Youth, which completes the sequence of figurative dates and suggestions with which the childhood and work of the Piedmontese priest are evoked.

            The "Don Bosco Story" shall be a pleasant surprise for the inhabitants of the Aurora district, for the pilgrims who daily visit the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, and for the new Salesians and their friends who will come to celebrate the 149th Salesian Missionary Expedition at the end of the month.

            It is also for this reason that "Missioni Don Bosco" of Turin has curated the initiative: the image of a religious family attentive to young people and able to speak their language as it did in its origins, is a beautiful sign that today's missionaries can and must carry with them.

            Mr. Wany's performance has been documented with photographs and audio-visuals, and a video reportage will also be produced.

            Thanks to Mr. Wany's commitment and art, Don Bosco's life and actions are now represented with the language of the young generations just outside the Motherhouse of all Salesian works.

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              Colombia – "Focus on childhood, adolescence and high-risk youth." XIII Preferential Option Meeting Colombia –

              (ANS - Fusagasugá) - The XIII Preferential Option Meeting took place from 2 to 7 September at the "Salesianum" Spirituality House in Fusagasugá to review the implementation of the 2015-2020 strategic plan for "The animation of the processes of attention to childhood, adolescence and high-risk youth in the Interamerica region", defined at the meeting in Haiti (XI meeting - October 2014).

              Each day of the meeting was associated with a term that expressed the proposed theme. 1st day: Recognize; 2nd day: Share; 3rd day: Form; 4th day: Work (on a map of good practices); 5th day: Visit.

              Among the most salient aspects of the guidelines and work developed in accordance with the strategic plan are:

              - Start from the great wealth already gathered and shared in the region.
              - Ask the Regional to structure a Network of Social Works or Preferential Option, specifying the priority elements that would go towards constituting the Network
              - Propose that the provincial authority define if it wants to be part of this Network.
              - Strengthen the animation team of the preferential option, defining roles, functions ...
              - Prioritize the basic lines of action that must be adopted.
              - Ensure a greater regional-provincial commitment.
              - Ensure the continuity of service of the people who make up the working groups of preferential option.

              On the fifth day of the meeting, the structures of the "Juan Bosco Obrero Center" and the "Niño Jesús" Salesian building in Bogotá were visited, where it was possible to see the work developed through various Salesian programs, all aimed at guaranteeing full participation of children, adolescents and young people.

              "A clear option of work in and as a network must be designed to have a greater impact and to obtain better possibilities for cooperation", was one of the important contributions of Fr Juan Linares, of the Spanish Salesian NGO "Jóvenes y Desarrollo".

              Also attending were: Fr Juan Carlos Quirarte (MEG), Coordinator of the regional team, with the other members of the team: Fr Héctor Franco (COB), Fr Rafael Bejarano (COM), Fr Carlos Piantini (ANT) Juan Carlos Montenegro (SUO), James Areiza (COM) and Fernando Duarte (COB).

              Also noteworthy, the contributions by: Fr Daniel García, from the Dicastery for Youth Ministry; Fr Linares; Jaime Correa, Director of the Salesian International Programs Office of Salesians Mission, USA; Reinhard Heiserer, Director of "Jugend Eine Welt", Austria; and Lina Varon, Head of "Jóvenes y Desarrollo" for projects in Latin America.

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       (Gian Francesco Romano) NEWS Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0200
                Zambia – “Share the Light”: Young people helping young people Zambia – “Share the Light”: Young people helping young people

                (ANS – Lusaka) – “Share the Light” is a charity organization created from the projects and links developed by the staff and students of Salesian College Farnborough, Great Britain,  with young people in Zambia.

                By Sophie Astles

                Share the Light is based on the vision of St John Bosco and his four key areas defined for working with young people: Home; School; Church and Playground. Although Share the Light only became a registered charity in 2016, it has existed as a concept at Salesian College Farnborough for many years. Sean Devereux was School Captain at the Farnborough college from 1981 to 1982. After leaving the college, he went on to dedicate his life to serving others, working with several charities across Africa. In 1993, he was killed while working in Somalia on a UNICEF aid programme. His ethos and mission to help those less fortunate underpins the work done by “Share the Light”.

                The college’s links with Mazabuka, Zambia, are a little more recent and stem from the head of Sixth Form, Richard Maher. Richard spent several years living and working in Zambia after leaving university, and while he was there, he met Mrs Mweete, who has been instrumental in founding Share the Light. While working as head teacher at Luyobolola Community School, Mrs Mweete noticed that an alarming number of students were dropping out of education due to a lack of sponsorship, and it was through her intention to combat this that “Share the Light” was born. The charity has grown in recent years and now encompasses a Scholarship Programme, a Porridge Club, and the City of Joy.

                The City of Joy is an orphanage in Mazabuka run by the Salesian Sisters. It is home to an ever-growing number of girls and young women who, for a variety of circumstances, are unable to live with their families. Share the Light aims to help cater for the medical requirements of the girls and young women, provide clothing and school uniforms, school equipment, and help to meet their nutritional needs. In addition, it helps to provide transport to enable groups from the City of Joy to travel out together and in safety, as well as in the maintenance of fencing to keep their boundaries secure.

                The Scholarship Programme focuses on providing children and young people with stable access to education, in order to enable them to achieve their goals and reach a brighter future. The charity offers both financial and practical help to students at all levels of education, including primary, secondary and further education.

                The Porridge Club is the longest running of Salesian College Farnborough’s links to Mazabuka. Its concept is simple: to provide as many of the 700 pupils at Luyobolola Community Primary School as possible with a nutritious meal every day. The porridge provided at school not only gives the children vital nutrients, but has improved attendance, as well as students’ ability to concentrate and learn. The Nutrition Programme also works to support the community in Mazabuka by providing essential food items, clothing and blankets for those who are sick or out of work. It is an essential lifeline for those in need.

                “Share the Light” is a charity with an emphasis on empowerment. It aims to support young people in achieving their ambitions and bettering their futures, with a central focus on education as a key tool for change. In 2012, the first group of advocates spent two weeks in Zambia. They had the chance to experience first-hand the value of the work being done by the City of Joy and in the wider community. This experience inspired all twelve students and cemented the links of friendship that became the foundation for the Advocates Programme. The long-term goal is for the charity to be run by the advocates, and a growing number of ex-students meet every year to share their experiences, ideas and objectives for the charity’s future.

                Source: Salesians GBR

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         (Gian Francesco Romano) NEWS Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0200
                  Italy – Venezuela Re(in)volution: from Bolivarian dream to nightmare of the crisis Italy – Venezuela Re(in)volution: from Bolivarian dream to nightmare of the crisis

                  (ANS - Turin) - The "Bolivarian revolution" in Venezuela has become a nightmare, so much so that millions of Venezuelans are fleeing. The loss of purchasing power of wages, the increase of violence to procure means of subsistence, the fear of expressing oneself because of the repression are generating the largest mass exodus in the history of all Latin America. Salesians cannot stand by and watch, and why they have organized a conference of information and awareness raising for this Wednesday, September 19, in Turin; its title: "Ri (n) voluzione Venezuela: from the Bolivarian dream to the nightmare of the crisis."

                  The Salesian network, rooted in Venezuela for over 120 years, is particularly sensitive to the condition of young people to whom it dedicates its educational charism in parishes, oratories and schools. And for this reason Salesians are very worried about the dangers that young people face in a reality where violence dominates the streets and where there are no prospects in the economic field - despite the country being very rich in oil.

                  To take stock of the "Venezuela case", Missioni Don Bosco organized a conference aimed at highlighting the gravity of the economic and social crisis to which it seems that the international community and the media do not want to devote sufficient attention.

                  The appointment is for next Wednesday, September 19, at Valdocco (5:00-7:30 PM - via Maria Ausiliatrice, 32, Sangalli hall).

                  The conference will gather testimonies from the country that is going through the most serious crisis in its history and will present the commitment of Missioni Don Bosco and the entire Salesian Family to help young people and their families.

                  Amonf the many speakers, several Venezuelan bishops and religious; Maria Eugenia Esparragoza, anthropologist; Maria de Jesus Requena, President of the Venezuela Association in Piedmont; and Ester Negro, photojournalist of Missioni Don Bosco. Video contributions from Caracas are also planned. The journalist of "Radio Tre Mondo", Giulia De Luca, will moderate the work.

                  The conference will also be broadcast live on the Missioni Don Bosco website and on the Facebook page.

                  In addition, readers and listeners are invited to ask questions to guests beforehand and live, by writing to:

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           (Gian Francesco Romano) NEWS Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0200
                    Spain - Google selects three teachers from schools of Spain-St James Major Province for its educational innovation course Raúl Diego

                    (ANS - Madrid) - Google, one of the most influential companies in the technology, software and Internet sector, through its Academy for Innovation - and after rigorous selection - offers training to teachers all over the world to develop innovative educational projects that change and improve classroom education.

                    The Academy for Google-certified Innovators is held several times a year in different cities. In Madrid, from 3 to 5 October, a session of this course will take place, which then continues on the Internet until October 2019. This event will also be attended by three teachers from the schools of the Spain-St James Major Province (SSM): Raúl Diego, teacher at the Salesian Primary School of Santander and member of the provincial school innovation team; Charo Fernández, of the Salesian Institute of Madrid-Atocha; and Martín García of the "Salesianos - Ciudad de los Muchachos" center, also in Madrid.

                    In practice, of the 36 teachers from Spain and Latin America selected by the Google program, one twelfth comes from the Salesian schools of SSM.

                    The candidates as Google Certified Innovators for Education are selected based on their professional experience, passion for teaching and learning, innovative use of classroom technology, the ability to influence other educators and the desire to tackle some of the biggest challenges in the industry.

                    Innovators become "Ambassadors of Change" who provide valuable tools to other educators and students through a culture of innovation.

                    This course aims to promote educational transformation through innovative projects, inspire other educators through various support opportunities, and develop teachers' abilities through constant training and development and exchanges with other innovative figures in the educational sector.

                    For educators in Salesian environments, being able to participate in this academy - through which more than 1,500 educators from over 50 countries have already been trained - represents both a challenge and a commitment. Today more than ever, we need to educate teachers to stay with young people in the network and in the digital world. The generation of young digital and interactive natives develops in a technological but sometimes unstable scenario: it is not enough to know how to handle technologies, it is necessary and indispensable to be digitally competent.

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             (Gian Francesco Romano) NEWS Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0200


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Feel the Terror in a New Trailer for Alien: Isolation Pinball

After last week’s reveal of Aliens vs. Pinball and the trailer for the first table in the three pack, Zen Studios is excited to bring you the trailer for the second table, Alien: Isolation! Based on the smash hit survival horror game from 2014, the Alien: Isolation pinball table combines the terror and action of the original game for a truly white-knuckled pinball experience.

In Alien: Isolation pinball, players must help Amanda Ripley survive the dangerous corridors of Sevastopol Space Station while evading a merciless Xenomorph. Additionally, you’ll have to contend with “Working Joe” androids and Station Security Guards, craft weaponry, and hack computers while you keep an eye out for the relentless Alien.

Alien: Isolation pinball will launch on ALIEN DAY (April 26, 2016) as part of the Aliens vs. Pinball three-pack for Zen Pinball 2, Pinball FX2, and Amazon, as well as in-app purchases for Zen Pinball and as a standalone app on iOS and Android devices.

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Mosaics (Part One)

I’ve done a lot of admissions work in my life and still talk to a lot of students about how to stand out from the crowd.  My advice is quite simple.

October 30, 2014

I’ve done a lot of admissions work in my life, including managing the admissions team for a top-tier business school, being on the admissions committee for one of the most selective schools on the planet, and overseeing admissions for less selective programs.  While I now run much larger operations, I’ve always kept my hand in admissions and still coach a lot of neighborhood kids and sons and daughters of friends on how to stand out from the crowd. I’ve also passed the secret on to my own children and they utilized this advice to gain admission to their top-choice school during the early decision round.

To put my advice in context, I have always looked at a student’s application as a mosaic – we cannot know what the image is until we see all of the tiles.  A high school or undergraduate GPA is one tile, but only one, and impossible to know what the picture looks like until we see more.  An undergraduate school (or high school) is another tile.  Course of study or classes taken is another.  Recommendations are another tile.  Test scores are yet another tile or two.  It’s the admissions essay that gives the student mosaic its color and context, organizing the tiles into a coherent image.  Students often stress about GPA and test scores and I tell them not to – they are in the past and only tell part of the story.  It’s the essay that tells the student’s unique story, putting other aspects in context and telling a more complete story.

My advice to students is simple, but risky: Be yourself, let your true colors fly, and tell the story that only you can tell.  If students try to package themselves to be what they believe a school is looking for, they will sound like at least one thousand other applicants and there will be no reason for an admissions officer to pull them out of the pile for the ‘admit’ list.

The truth is that the vast majority of application essays are dry, boring, implausible, stilted, over-engineered, or just plain forgettable.  Then there are the essays I’ll never forget – those that made me want to bet on that student even if her grades and test scores were below the threshold, those that made me feel that I had never had a bad day in my life by comparison, those that inspired me to change the way I thought about something, and even some that made me cry.  There were stories about failures that led to success, failures that remained failures, big wins, teamwork, individual contributions, lessons learned from letting others down – or being let down, being different, eccentric hobbies, and finding purpose and direction through unconventional experiences.  These essays often portrayed a student with self-awareness, resilience, quirkiness, determination, the ability to rally support, or grit.  These essays, and these students, truly stood out from the crowd – and most of them in a positive way.

Don’t underestimate the risk in this strategy, though. If a student writes about his love of dogs and the reader of that essay has a morbid fear of dogs, it’s a risk. If a student writes about her political views and the reader has different views, it’s a risk. If a student writes about his love of trivia contests and the reader thinks this is a trivial pursuit, it’s a risk.

But not taking the risk of letting a student’s true colors show may be a bigger risk and condemn an applicant to the bottom of the waitlist or to the reject pile. As Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”

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