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Improve Your Memory With These 6 Simple Brain Exercises You Probably Never Thought Of
Everybody wants their brain to work very fast in order to be effective at work or at your business.
When your brain is effective, it helps you multitask easily thereby achieving a lot of things at a fast pace. How much do you exercise your brain? How well do you exercise your brain?
For you to boost your memory, you need to subject your brain certain exercises. You may be wondering, how you're supposed to exercise your brain. This post will show you the exercises to help you boost your brain and increase its effectivity.
1.Memory Game
For you to boost your memory, you have to subject it to remembrance. You can try to pay close attention to your surroundings on your way to or back from work, then draw out a map of the route with all that you remember of seeing. Check it out the next day if you were correct. With time, you will also become more attentive of your surroundings. Try this for a week and you'll notice a difference in the way you remember things.
Studies have shown that meditation can help engage new neural pathways, resulting in improved self-observational skills and increased mental flexibility. Meditation helps improve attention focus, empathy and even immunity.
Studies also suggest that meditation might even increase the capacity of working memory. Try to meditate every day and make sure it's about something positive.
3.Arithmetic Exercises
We know you might hate maths but the truth is that its an excellent way of exercising the brain. You don't have to add up big numbers within seconds or multiply three-digit numbers but partake in simple maths and challenge yourself as you progress. Observe this every morning and you'll experience a noticeable change.
4.Physical Exercises
You might not like to get involved in any physical exercise, it does go a long way to boost your brain. Mild exercises like yoga, jogging, walking and several others boost the memory. The mind and the brain work together so if you want to build a better mind, start by working on your physical health first.
Unhappy emotions can cloud your mind with fear, depression, self-pity, envy, grief, hatred, restlessness and anxiety. With these series of emotions clouding your mind, your senses can get dulled to the point where you are not registering your immediate environment or experiences.
It is therefore essential to stay happy, which also helps boost your brain to perform better. So release those happy hormones by doing something that excites you and brings you peace.
Socializing tends to engage multiple areas of the brain and many social activities also include physical elements, such as playing a sport, that is also beneficial to your mind.
You can choose to socialize by playing games, listening to music, travelling, hanging out with friends and many more. Even if you're an introvert, you still need a little socializing to help you boost your brain.


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The growing need to protect cardholders' data by following PCI DSS guidelines is expected to drive the tokenization market
The tokenization market size is estimated to grow from USD 983 million in 2018 to USD 2,670 million by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 22.1% during the forecast period.
The factors expected to drive the tokenization market are the growing need to protect cardholders' data by following PCI DSS guidelines and increasing payment frauds that need to be prevented. However, the lack of knowledge about security tokens among end users is still a concern for organizations. Furthermore, organizations' inability to afford the robust tokenization solution is expected to restrain the market growth.
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The service segment is expected to grow at a higher CAGR during the forecast period
The tokenization market by service includes professional and managed services. Furthermore, the professional services include consulting, training and education, and support and maintenance. These services help clients understand their solutions and related processes. The solution segment is expected to hold a larger market size during the forecast period. The tokenization solution is being deployed by a large number of SMEs to secure their organizations from the increasing payment frauds and identity thefts.
Increasing strict regulatory compliances and payment frauds in SMEs are expected to drive the growth of the SMEs segment during the forecast period
The SMEs segment is expected to grow at a higher CAGR, owing to the rising deployment of the tokenization solution by SMEs to proactively protect their payment transactions. SMEs are small in terms of their size, but cater to a large number of customers globally. The Robust and comprehensive tokenization solution is not implemented in SMEs, due to financial constraints in these organizations. Weak cybersecurity and low budget make the SMEs more susceptible to data breaches and identity thefts. However, the large enterprises segment to hold a higher market share in 2018.
Asia Pacific (APAC) is expected to have the highest CAGR during the forecast period
APAC includes major economies, such as India, China, Australia, Hong Kong, and Japan, which are rapidly deploying the tokenization solution. APAC is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period. The APAC tokenization market is gaining traction, as it provides proactive security measures for securing the account information. SMEs as well as large organizations in the APAC region have become more aware of tokenization services and started adopting them to combat cyber frauds and data thefts. Furthermore, North America is expected to have the largest market size in 2018.
In-depth interviews were conducted with CEOs, marketing directors, innovation and technology directors, and executives from various key organizations operating in the tokenization market.
- By Company Type: Tier 1: 20%, Tier 2: 35%, and Tier 3: 45%
- By Designation: C-Level: 35%, Director Level: 25%, and Others: 40%
- By Region: North America: 45%, Europe: 20%, APAC: 30%, and Others: 5%
The report includes the study of key players, such as First Data (US), Gemalto (Netherlands), Fiserv (US), Micro Focus (UK), Symantec (US), Thales e-Security (US), Visa (US), Wex (US), Worldpay (US), Dell Technologies (US), CipherCloud (US), Futurex (US), Liaison Technologies (US), Protegrity (US), TokenEx (US), Bluefin (US), Sequent Software (US), Discover Financial Services (US), Carta Worldwide (Canada), Merchant Link (US), Ingenico ePayments (US), Rambus (US), Mastercard (US), Verifone (US), and IP Solution International (Australia).
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.
— Thomas Jefferson
The writer of the Declaration of Independence worried that the sins of the nation would bring God's judgment upon them. In the case of Jefferson, it was the great evil of slavery that worried him. How long did it take for God to judge America for this great evil?
Just about a hundred years.
During the Civil War, more than 600 thousand men died – more than any other war that the US has fought. In fact, it was almost as much as all the other wars that America has fought, from 1775 to now. Thomas Jefferson was right to worry about God's judgment.
The question is, what great sins are we involved in, that is about to bring judgment on us?
For one part of the answer, let me provide the rest of the text from the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.:
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than these people are to be free. Establish the law for educating the common people. This it is the business of the state to effect and on a general plan."
— Thomas Jefferson
It took almost a hundred years for God's judgment to come down on us in the form of the greatest catastrophe in American history, and we deserved it. But, we at least held onto our faith in God – which is why I believe that God spared us from complete destruction.
But, do we really believe in God?
For those of us that believe in God, how many of us have a conviction that our liberties are a gift of God?
I doubt that very many of us believe this anymore.
Jefferson worried over what God would do to us for the evil of slavery. What do I worry about?
- adultery
- sexual promiscuity
- homosexuality
- murder of unborn children
- pornography
- rape
- child abuse
- murder
Did the above exist at the time that Thomas Jefferson worried over slavery?
Of course, but not nearly to the same degree that they plague us today. Not even close.
These problems have been with us since the beginning of history. The Bible is full accounts of these things. However, the Bible is also full of the consequences. And, when it is God's own people doing these things, the Bible records this:
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
— 1 Peter 4:17 (KJV)
In my last post, I mentioned that a country cannot stand unless you've broken her bones, and I showed that it is men and women of faith that are the bones of a country. Let me remind you a bit with a quote from Patrick Henry:
". . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger."
— Patrick Henry
But of course, we are in danger. We are in danger because we claim the armor of Virtue, Morality and Religion, while engaging in every evil that is destroying the country. We have claimed God for ourselves, while at the same time dishonoring Him.
And, now that the government has cast off the symbols of Virtue, Morality and Religion, I don't think that there is anything standing between the US and destruction. Indeed, I actually can't think of why the US should exist anymore. Worse, I can think of many reasons why we shouldn't.
Let me ask you this question:
For the past one hundred years, what has been the single greatest corrupting influence on morality, worldwide?
I know that there have been others, but what is the single biggest corrupting influence?
That's right, Hollywood and – by extension – the rest of America – for… just about a hundred years.
Remind you of anything?
America has become the greatest corrupter of morality in the history of the world. It's bad enough that we have corrupted ourselves. That alone is enough to destroy us, but the fact that we have been directly corrupting the rest of the world?
Just thinking about it makes me shudder.
How can God possibly let us continue?
God judged us for the evil of slavery, but we at least did not spread that sin elsewhere. But, the evils that we are doing now? And, the fact that we are causing the rest of the world to do the same?
I truly do not know why God hasn't destroyed us before now.
There is one thing that we can do, and that is this:
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
— 2 Chronicles 7:14
But, America has had her chance to do this and failed to follow through. I just don't think that it's going to happen. I do not believe that believers in America will turn from their evil ways.
America, we truly have broken your bones.


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Hey Guys!
We are pleased to announce a technical preview of the 1.3.0 release with new features. Please note that this is almost all the features going into 1.3.0 and we will after this release be continuing to focus on bug and performance work. We are putting out the technology preview so we can get your feedback on how the new features work with your app and if there are any changes or improvements that need to be made.
This release is NOT in nuget.org and will be in the forums only until the -pre1 release which will contain a more respectable number of bug fixes as well.
An advice on how to install this on XS for Mac? Not too familiar w/ Nuget (aside from very basic consumption of it), and couldn't figure out the command or process to use to install.
Unpack it in a folder, add that folder as a nuget source (top left drop down of Add Packages window, pick Configure Sources..)
Great job! How long for the release? A month? two? lol
Sounds very cool, especially styles and triggers. Any plans to support full-blown templated controls in the near future?
Any chance to have Margin property implemented?
It will help porting Microsoft XAML pages, because changing from Margin to Padding is about moving the property from content to container, not always feasible without side effects.
If you ever will do it, please add the Margin property into View base class, so we can use it inside every descendant, while actually Padding is present only on Layout and Page descendants.
Good news! Any details on how the Behaviors are working?
Great work, guys!
Will 1.3 include support for more gestures or an extensible gesture recognizer class?
@nicholasalt More gestures are planned yes. I can't say when because I am not sure if I can hit 1.3.
@Nick60 the plan is to add Margin to the View class yes. Its not trivial to implement since each of the Layouts needs to be updated to support it in some fashion. It also complicates layout logic further which is why we are waiting to do the iOS ListView perf improvements before we add it. Otherwise we will hurt that perf further.
@JasonASmith are iOS ListView perf improvements slated for 1.3?
@DH_HA no promises but hopefully yes for the 1.3 final release.
@JasonASmith in 1.3 TP PopToRootAsync fails in this scenario:
It only fails when a child page contains a ListView with ViewCells. child pages with TextCells don't cause the exception.
System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null. Parameter name: first at System.Linq.Check.FirstAndSecond (System.Object first, System.Object second) [0x00006] in ///Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.iOS.framework/Versions/22.214.171.124/src/mono/mcs/class/System.Core/System.Linq/Check.cs:87 at System.Linq.Enumerable.Except[KeyValuePair`2] (IEnumerable`1 first, IEnumerable`1 second, IEqualityComparer`1 comparer) [0x00000] in ///Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.iOS.framework/Versions/184.108.40.206/src/mono/mcs/class/System.Core/System.Linq/Enumerable.cs:800 at Xamarin.Forms.MergedResourceDictionary.OnParentResourcesChanged (IEnumerable`1 values) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Xamarin.Forms.MergedResourceDictionary.set_ParentResourceDictionary (IResourceDictionary value) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Xamarin.Forms.Element.set_Parent (Xamarin.Forms.Element value) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Xamarin.Forms.Element.OnChildRemoved (Xamarin.Forms.Element child) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Xamarin.Forms.Page.OnInternalRemoved (Xamarin.Forms.VisualElement view) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Xamarin.Forms.Page.InternalChildrenOnCollectionChanged (System.Object sender, System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection`1[Xamarin.Forms.Element].OnCollectionChanged (System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e) [0x00014] in ///Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.iOS.framework/Versions/188.8.131.52/src/mono/mcs/class/System/System.Collections.ObjectModel/ObservableCollection.cs:161 at System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection`1[Xamarin.Forms.Element].RemoveItem (Int32 index) [0x0001a] in ///Library/Frameworks/Xamarin.iOS.framework/Versions/220.127.116.11/src/mono/mcs/class/System/System.Collections.ObjectModel/ObservableCollection.cs:182 at System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection`1[Xamarin.Forms.Element].Remove (Xamarin.Forms.Element item) [0x00011] in /Developer/MonoTouch/Source/mono/mcs/class/corlib/System.Collections.ObjectModel/Collection.cs:134 at Xamarin.Forms.NavigationPage.<PopToRootAsync>b__19 (Xamarin.Forms.Element c) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Xamarin.Forms.EnumerableExtensions.ForEach[Element] (IEnumerable`1 enumeration, System.Action`1 action) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Xamarin.Forms.NavigationPage+<PopToRootAsync>d__1c.MoveNext () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw () [0x0000b] in /Developer/MonoTouch/Source/mono/mcs/class/corlib/System.Runtime.ExceptionServices/ExceptionDispatchInfo.cs:62 at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.GetResult () [0x00034] in /Developer/MonoTouch/Source/mono/mcs/class/corlib/System.Runtime.CompilerServices/TaskAwaiter.cs:60
@DH_HA doh, thank you. This is why we do these previews. The merged dictionary clearly has a bug somewhere.
@JasonASmith np. Good work by the way. Very excited about this product. Moving all our apps over it.
Our biggest hope is same performance to Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android and flexibility to get extend more like the ListView on Android
tap swipe and long tap gestures do not make the 1.3.0 release can we expect them within a 1.3.X release? My company is approaching a critical point deciding if we will stay with Forms or not and gestures are a huge concern.
@nicholasalt there already are tap gestures?
My mistake in wording, trying to make post between meetings .
If swipe and long tap gestures do not make the 1.3.0 release can we expect them within a 1.3.X release?
@nicholasalt can you explain why you want them by chance? I am curious because the gestures you want make me think you want to implement menus in ListViews, if so we have a better answer
As for those particular gestures, I will be looking into both of them.
@JasonASmith for expanded options on list items where tap gesture is already used, such as swipe to display edit/delete button, swipe to add to favorites, etc.
@nicholasalt ListView ContextActions are coming, which will use the native gestures and use the native menu to present context actions in lists. Swipe on iOS, LongPress on WinPhone/Android. Supports delete events, the More button on iOS, etc. That will make 1.3
Any plans to support full-blown templated controls in the near future?
@JasonASmith any docu at all on the new stuff?
ListView ContextActions are coming
This is great!!!
@MitchMilam you know it occurred to me you guys would need docs like 3 hours ago. We haven't had time to write them out in full yet, but here is the gist of it:
The basic gist is you use the FormsApplication[Delegate/Activity/Page] instead of what your templates currently use. New up your custom Application subclass, and call LoadApplication. You still must Forms.Init as you do now.
Go read XAML style documentation and assume a slightly less powerful version. You can find some device specific pre-build styles in Device.Styles
Implicit styles can be defined as you might expect coming from WPF or Silverlight
If you have used XAML you know what dynamic resources are and should be able to use these just fine.
@PeterMoore no, there are no plans for this at this time. @ermau will probably stop by later and give a more detailed explanation, however the short version is that Xamarin.Forms isn't a lookless toolkit so it wont make that much sense.
@JasonASmith It might make sense in certain scenarios though. Imagine I have a basic page like Header above and few buttons in the footer and the content in between. I'd create a template for the page in this case.
I am bit disappointed that modifying/fixing Navigation isn't on the radar at all. Besides history recreation problem there is a bigger flaw: persisting page instances on stack. Here, click button a few times.
public static Page GetMainPage() { StackLayout stack = new StackLayout(); Button button = new Button { Text = "Click" }; button.Clicked += button_Clicked; Image image = new Image { Source = "http://blog.rthand.com/images/2014/06/profiler_thumb.png", WidthRequest = 800, HeightRequest = 400 }; stack.Children.Add(image); stack.Children.Add(button); return new NavigationPage(new ContentPage { Content = stack}); } static void button_Clicked(object sender, EventArgs e) { GC.Collect (); Button button = (Button)sender; button.Navigation.PushAsync(GetMainPage()); }
This is great news! Keep up the good work
What about animation of pages. Are there any news about this?
@MitchMilam inherits your
AppDelegate from
FormsApplicationDelegate, that's where you'll find
LoadApplication ():
[Register ("AppDelegate")] public partial class AppDelegate : FormsApplicationDelegate { public override bool FinishedLaunching (UIApplication uiApplication, NSDictionary launchOptions) { Forms.Init (); //FormsMaps.Init (); LoadApplication (new App ()); return base.FinishedLaunching (uiApplication, launchOptions); } }
@MihaMarkic modifiable back navigation stack is already slated for 1.3.0 as well, and has been planned for this release for months now. It just didn't get implemented in time for this technology preview release. We think you will be satisfied with the upcoming API for that.
@Charlenni while we have had some small discussions about a page transition API, we have not yet decided on what to do. So unfortunately I cannot speak to a timeframe or even give an absolute affirmative on that yet. Again this is purely due to not having fully flushed through all the ideas and vetted feasibility on all current and future platforms.
@StephaneDelcroix Ha! I just figured that out.
@JasonASmith Excellent!
@JasonASmith: Sorry about this. Especially you could find the most to disable animations in Xamarin.Forms already. If you create your own renderer and set animation to false, the most works. Only animations of pages, that are vanish is not possible.
So perhaps it is possible to make this flag, in a first step, public, that we could disable animation. Than there is time to make the great step.
@Charlenni part of the modifiable back stack work is including options to navigate without animations
@JasonASmith: That sounds good.
So now, my best wishes for your presentation. I would like to join you, but the live stream is limited to one room
Couple of things that I would have expected :
GridView ? (again xamarin labs have had it by now implemented if its wasnt for the bugs that are encountered. For iOS we are facing the known issue of no event is getting fired when tapping a collection item. And on Android we are facing that the RendererFactory only gets the first View to native but not the subclasses (well when debugging it seems everything is alright but somehow the children aren't showing only the parent view).
I would love to see a PopModelAsync(int numberOfPagesToPop) and PopAsync(int numberOfPagesToPop).
I did see this change - Supports easy changing of root page <--- can you explain what that easy changing is ?
ListView and TableView ... Please give us an event for both to Force Refresh if need to be. There are many occasions where it doesn't do it automatically. And even better would be to merge these 2 together already and have a way to have full control over them.
Specific platform properties call e.g. pseudo :
var viewCell = new ViewCell(); viewCell.iOS.Disclosure = true; viewCell.Android.SomeSpecificProperty = foo; viewCell.BackgroundColor = Color.Green; //for all platforms
What we noticed is that we want power over all platforms within Xamarin.Forms I am not expecting this options in 1.3. We are now writing renderers for the most simple things on specific platforms. Just thought I mention it.
@JasonASmith, @StephaneDelcroix I wrote a short article outlining how it appears the FormsApplication class works:
If you have a chance, I'd appreciate a quick review to see if I got the parts right.


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Psychiatric Diagnoses are not voodoo
The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Read the whole thing if you want to understand my rage. Here's the paragraph that made me stabby:
Medical diagnoses are real. When you learn you have pneumonia, diabetes or even cancer, you quickly discover that there are potential remedies. There are scientific tests and studies to diagnose the disease and to evaluate its treatment. Medical diagnoses don't demean your mind and your soul, they describe your bodily impairments.
1) His complaint that there are no positive psychiatric diagnoses. May I ask when the last time someone was diagnosed with a most excellent spleen? People usually go to doctors because they have a perceived lower quality of life, not for validation. They get diagnosed when the doctor sees something wrong. Or are people rampantly being diagnosed with good cholesterol and no one's telling me?
2) A diagnosis gives you something positive in that it allows you to work towards a specific goal. "I have ADD, therefore I need to take particular care to learn patience and find ways of learning that are hands on and interesting." Instead of being like oh my life sucks and there's nothing I can do about it you can instead be like, hey here's what's been wrong with me all this time and there's something I can do about it.
3) If someone's life sucks and getting a diagnosis is going to get them medication that will make it suck less, that's a positive. Not everyone can look at life with sunshine and roses and hugs in their hearts, and it's absolutely shitty of that guy to imply that people's real problem is that they're just not trying hard enough to face life with warm fuzzies and empathy.
4) By his definition, all drugs are toxins because the point of a drug is to try to chemically alter the body to improve symptoms. Damn those asthmatics and their toxic inhalers, how dare they want to live. Damn those depressives with their anti-depressants, how dare they want to stop being suicidal. How dare anyone take any of that voodoo medication that's been carefully studied in clinical trials to help the symptoms these people have? Everyone knows if you treat a headache, all you are is that symptom, not some sort of human being who had a headache that needed some ibuprofen.
5) He's just furthering the bullshit argument that psychiatric problems aren't as "real" as other health problems. His worry that someone might be one-dimensionalized by a diagnosis is because people like him keep saying that the only important thing about a person who has been diagnosed bipolar is that they're bipolar. As though getting a mental condition under control is going to make someone less able to live normally because they have to recognize they have issues. Yes, let's let all the schizophrenics and autistic kids have terrible lives, but at least no one will call them schizophrenic or autistic.
6) Just to be clear, fuck that guy.
5 random things I've been thinking about
1. Toilet seat sheets. If you're too grossed out to sit on the toilet, is a sheet really going to make it better?
The show I'm working on, these two women who were otherwise not like high maintenance said they would never use a toilet that wasn't their own without a toilet sheet. What? Seriously? Was I raised by weirdos because they never said don't put your butt on the toilet?
2. Ableism and online dating. Particularly in the mental health department, but also in general.
Now I appreciate that online dating attracts a somewhat skewed group that has the semi-anonymity of the internet to make unusual demands, but I have seen so so many guys profiles where they say they don't want to date "anyone who's ever been on anti-depressants" or "I don't want to date anyone who has had any health problems". These are not necessarily guys who, in my opinion, have girls knocking down their door and they're just trying to filter out some people by being picky. And I realize we've all got things where we aren't able to have a nuanced viewpoint, but here are guys lumping in people with asthma with people with cancer, or people with well-treated depression with untreated schizophrenics. I get how taking on a significant other with terminal cancer or an untreated illness might be difficult, but are we going to scratch out every one with a health quirk?
At first I thought, oh it's just this one guy who had a bad experience, but I've seen it so many times I just don't know what to think. Is it really that awful to date someone who at some point in their life was depressed or has some other chronic illness that's well under control?
3. Also related to online dating, why do guys who are super Christian message me advertising their good Christian morals when I state that I am an atheist? I mean, I know why, they don't read, but I mean really.
4. Equating religion with race. There's a super long thread over at Pharyngula where people are accusing PZ of being a Nazi for posting a picture that a cartoonist drew of Muhammed because there are people in Europe who are racist against Muslim immigrants. I'm just not sure "racist" is the right word. "Religionist" maybe? Anyway, critiquing a religion isn't a violent act, no matter how crudely done, and I don't understand how blasphemy is racist.
5. How difficult or impossible it is for the religious to understand that there is value and meaning to life regardless of whether there is an afterlife.
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Hollywood: Not for the weak
I very rarely get into anything particularly personal on this blog. One, because it's public, and two, because it rarely seems relevant to my career, which is the focus here. But sometimes the personal and the public are a bit intermixed, and that's what I want to talk about. My health versus my career.
I have for the last few months been really struggling with extreme fatigue, dizziness and nausea. This isn't totally out of the norm for me, I have several chronic conditions which often take the wind out of my sails: allergies, asthma, depression and hypothyroidism. Any of those on their own is usually manageable, but they pack a bit of a wallop all together. On top of this, I've been to the doctor a half-dozen times since this started and they've tested for everything they can think of and they can't find anything wrong.
This last week has been totally lost. I was so fatigued that I cannot actually remember most of it. It is extremely frustrating. I manage to go to work which fortunately is a very low energy sort of job, but I struggle even there. I haven't managed to do much editing because I stare at the project and get overwhelmingly tired or motion sick. I basically come home and lay down. Last night I went to bed at 10pm and got up today at 1pm; it's not yet seven and I am barely awake. Obviously it is quite difficult to be productive, in writing or in anything else, when you're that exhausted.
Film and TV are not careers for people with low energy. If your personality doesn't naturally exude the sense that you're on speed, it's a really tough business to be in. It is probably a miracle that I got through the two years of film school with as little collateral damage as I did — one broken bone, one major case of bronchitis, three total emotional breakdowns, and three months of vomiting for unknown reasons that led to my current state as a vegetarian.
I could imagine nothing worse than letting my health dictate what it was I could and could not do with my life. But sometimes, especially after weeks like this, it's very difficult to believe that it's not going to do just that. Sometimes it's hard not to go to the dark place and wallow in self-pity. Hard to remember that this is just my struggle, and, though it's different for each of us, it's never easy. I want to be able to offer advice to others, to make it and say, "See, my health didn't stop me, and it won't stop you!" But all I know is that right now it's really hard and sometimes fighting to survive in the film business just sucks.
But here is something nice, from a fellow writer at myothercareer.wordpress.com
Life in LA; It's the Economy Stupid
Sorry I've been quiet a while, crazy couple of weeks. I went to SC this weekend. I'm trying to put together a budget and business proposal for Bible Con, with plans to shoot it in SC. I think it can be done on a low enough budget that raising the money myself is feasible. I don't know that I've described the story here, so have my logline:
Bible Con — Comic Con for Christians — goes straight to hell when Jesus and Mary Magdalene fall in love, the keynote speaker turns out to be an atheist, and the event is besieged by DaVinci Code fans.
It's Best in Show meets The Life of Brian.
Nicholl Semi-Finalist, Movie Script Contest Finalist
I'm trying to do a rewrite now, but the drama in my life is making it difficult to concentrate on. I know too many unemployed people is basically what the deal is. One of my roommates is having to give up on LA and drive back home, selling all of her possessions to afford the trip. My other roommate is also unemployed, but theoretically has something coming up. Obviously, not a happy situation. And my closest friends can't find jobs either.
And as much as I hate logging, and as much as it doesn't pay me enough to live off of, I guess at least it's something. Admittedly, the idea of getting my own project off the ground is probably all that's standing between me and the cratering depression my current economic state brings on.
I've gotten a couple more requests that I haven't kept up on posting. Maybe I'll do that at some point.


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Carl Silver won the race by clearing the course to score the maximum 1000 points with just 4 minutes to spare, whilst Magnus Mill's score of 915 points saw him come second. Andrew & Sally Hay (mixed team winners) and Helen Chapman (ladies winner) both scored 900 points to finish 3rd and 4th overall respectively.
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Jillian Jolly
Jillian Jolly is pictured with Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, congratulating her on her full-ride acceptance to Yale.
If someone would have asked 18-year-old Jillian Jolly a year ago if she thought she would get into Yale, her answer would have been "no." Despite the fact that she had top-tier grades and years of various leadership and community involvement experience, she knew the odds were low.
"Yale was not even in the question, but something just kept getting to me, and I was like, 'I've got to try it,'" Jolly, a Ramsay High School graduate, said.
In spring 2019, Jolly found out all her hard work paid off and that she was offered a full-ride scholarship of $300,000 to Yale University, known widely as one of the most prestigious Ivy League schools. Although she was accepted into 11 other schools, she announced her commitment to Yale in May.
"It's just been outrageous, the people supporting me," she said.
Jolly said she takes inspiration from her mother, a single mother of three, as well as her grandmother, who always pushed her to pursue education.
She said she also found great support through the College Choice Foundation, a Homewood nonprofit that provides opportunities to high-achieving students with financial barriers to pursuing a college education. When the foundation opened up to Birmingham City Schools students in 2018, Jolly was the first one they accepted.
Jolly said she was the one who ultimately decided to apply to Yale, though, despite people telling her it was a huge risk. Jolly said she's so glad she "took a leap of faith."


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Newham Council recoups £5m council tax from rogue landlords
PUBLISHED: 07:47 17 October 2018 | UPDATED: 07:47 17 October 2018
The council has got back more than £5million in lost council tax from rogue landlords.
Newham set up its landlord licensing scheme five years ago and since then £5,002,203 has been collected from dodgy landlords renting out houses with multiple occupants.
Cllr John Gray, the council's housing chief, said: "This money would have been lost to the council and therefore the tax payer. It will help fund crucial services."
The council has issued 30,000 licenses after it was forced to relaunch the license scheme this year. It took action against landlords in 120 cases of serious disrepair or law-breaking.
It reminded landlords yet to apply that failure to get a licence can result in a court appearance and £30k fines.
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An abundance of new diagnostic tests have been introduced now and how the quality of diagnostic information and decision should be measured in a meaningful way has become extremely important in recent years.
The quality of the apparatus used, test sample analysis and accuracy count for the quality of the diagnostic tests. Two out of three times, the doctor's diagnosis of the disease of a patient depends on the laboratory results. So the diagnostic laboratory becomes a valuable, indispensable and competent partner to the hospital. There is no reason for one to go for a lower quality diagnostic as it could have a fatal impact, if the reports are out of line in terms of accuracy.
When we talk about the quality in diagnostics, we should consider various things that could affect it. The first thing is the quality of the staff that takes samples from you. If the staff are not well trained and not educated enough to take samples or perform certain procedures, it could seriously affect the final reports. The next thing is the infrastructure and it includes the hygiene of the facility where your samples are handled and stored.
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ANGLICAN INDEBTEDNESS AND IDENTITY (Part Two)
By Roger Salter
Special to VIRTUEONLINE
November 12, 2018
The Church of England and its early colonial Anglican offspring owe an incalculable debt of gratitude and loyalty to many saintly figures of the past who labored strenuously in the truth and service of the Lord to make the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ known to the populous within their pastoral care and to foster the mutual indwelling of God Almighty and the recipients of divine grace (he in us and we in him). Anglicanism through its instruments of sound doctrine and reverent devotion was designed to accomplish a rich knowledge of God and a mature relationship with him.
Great servants of the Lord from within the Anglican fold - and beyond - expended much godly enthusiasm and effort in the construction of a Reformed and Protestant Church for England, Wales, and Ireland, the blessings of which were bequeathed to settlements abroad established by the crown through the extension of British exploration, colonialism and commercial enterprise. Whatever may be the perceived virtues or vices of empire, Providence certainly employed these imperial developments for the considerable enlargement of the kingdom of God throughout the world, the aspiration of much sincere and useful missionary outreach that still bears its fruit in numerous, and now independent, nations.
Anglicanism is conversionist in intent (evangelistic) and nurturing in practice, preaching and teaching the Word of God, and keenly pastoring those who respond to the influence of the Gospel. To save and secure the saints through the ministration of the means of grace (word sacrament and support) is its high and holy vocation, the call to proclaim the salvation of the Lord and pastor his people in wisdom and love. There is an air of sincere spiritual concern in the ideal functioning of Anglicanism inherited from the founders who provided such a method of soul care as is compiled in the various compartments of the Book of Common Prayer (Liturgy, Articles of Religion, and Ordinal - ways of gospel worship, belief, and ministerial application).
The foundation of Anglicanism in its constitutional elements is affirmative of revealed truth and affective in its influences upon the soul. It represents the incorporation of sense and sensibility - understanding and sensitivity toward the grace of God as declared in his word and conveyed through his Spirit. A remarkable feature in the majority of the leaders of the English Reformation was their tenderness toward God and man. Many of them were men of great resolve and courage with a mien of personal mildness and goodwill. So-called "Cranmerism" is a discipline of kindness as exhibited in the Archbishop himself, his contemporary colleagues (John Bradford, Martin Bucer, Peter Martyr) and his successors (men such as James Ussher, John Devanant, and Joseph Hall). In its prescribed form Anglicanism is the expression of Christian equilibrium - boldness for truth, balance in presentation.
Anglicanism was most fortunate to receive the strong, sound influence of a giant of the Continental Reformation. Peter Martyr in his God-given talents of mind and heart was equal in greatness to John Calvin in the evangelical cause of the 17th century. He being like Luther, a former member of the Augustinian Order in nurture, and, as with each of the major Reformers, a beneficiary of the best theological and philosophical schooling of the time, Martyr's mind was well furnished to come to grips with the great religious issues of the day. This Florentine man of God was saluted by Calvin as the "miracle of Italy".
At the invitation of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, Martyr was summoned to England to assist in the reform of the Ecclesia Anglicana as Professor of Theology at the University of Oxford, from which office the effects of his teaching and writing must have been truly inestimable. A particular project pursued during his time at Oxford was Martyr's commentary on St. Paul's Letter to the Romans wherein the great Italian articulated his views on the fundamental Reformational doctrines of Justification by Faith and Divine Election - the planks of a genuine Anglican understanding of salvation irrefutably outlined and maintained. Furthermore, it was Martyr who settled for his close colleagues, and especially Calvin, the nature and benefits of the sacrament of the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, and his interpretation permeates the relevant pages of the Book of Common Prayer.
Anglicanism is not simply Augustinian, as distinct from other interpretations of Holy Scripture, but Vermiglian far beyond common recognition. In shared conversation and accommodation (for some time) with Cranmer the two men came to close accord on essential Christian doctrine as regards the method of grace and the meaning of the sacraments. Furthermore, a close disciple of Martyr happened to be that leading architect of Anglicanism, John Jewel, who befriended Martyr in England and fled to Martyr's side and tutorship during the Marian persecution of the English Protestants. Hence Martyr's influence in the established Church's Confession of Faith, the revision of which occurred under the chairmanship of Jewel, is highly significant. The bonds of companionship between Martyr and Cranmer and Martyr and Jewel must have been warm and affectionate, and in intimate accord on Biblical terms. It is very likely that the Devonshire country cleric whom Jewel supported (funded?) through his studies, Richard Hooker, retained and respected the tradition of Martyr's views more than is acknowledged, for Hooker was a Reformed man. All the men referred to in this paragraph were soundly Augustinian in thought and of attractive mildness in temperament.
What is said of Martyr's imprint on Anglicanism, though differing in personal detail, could well be said of the sojourn of Martin Bucer in England and his friendship with Thomas Cranmer and scholarly efforts as Professor of Theology at Cambridge University. The colors of Anglicanism owe much to the brushstrokes of two of the finest masters of the Reformation - two men in agreement with Calvin on the basic essentials of Christian belief and who also exerted a considerable weight upon the convictions of the celebrated Genevan themselves. As far as pious human forces go under God, Anglicanism is conclusively, in its origins, and intended continuance, as indicated in Liturgy and Confession, a Reformed Church wholly compatible with its contemporary sister churches on the European continent of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Unwelcome modifications were made under the Arminian policies of Archbishop William Laud and his equally Arminian and Roman Catholic-leaning Sovereign, Charles I.
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The following may sound very strange in the modern world yet it has to do with an act of the love. Let the following passage from the Daily Wisdom explain this very act of love.
"G‑d then instructed Moses and the Jewish people to set aside 48 cities for the Levites, who would not receive any agricultural territory in the Land of Israel. The Levite cities served also as "cities of refuge." When someone committed an unintentional act of murder, the relatives of the victim were allowed to kill the murderer unless he had fled to one of these specially designated cities.
[G‑d instructed Moses,] "The cities you must give the Levites must [include] the six cities of refuge." Numbers 35:6
The reason why Levite cities served also as cities of refuge was because the Levites' lives were the antithesis of unintentional murder. The murderer's confinement to these cities therefore served to neutralize the effect of his crime.
Unintentional murderers were liable to the death penalty only if the murder was the result of their negligence. Negligence that can result in another person's death is a blatant disregard for other people's welfare. This insensitivity toward other people is diametrically opposed to the ideals of brotherhood exemplified by the Levites. The Levites' role is to connect the Jewish people with G‑d – through the Tabernacle (and Temple) service – and to connect them with one another, by teaching them the Torah.
Similarly, all of us can learn from and emulate the Levites. We should all strive to enhance our own connection to our fellow human beings, their connection to each other, and their connection to G‑d, so that we always take care to ensure that no physical or spiritual harm come to another person.1
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skyelinepigeon got the opportunity to have lunch with Dragon Age writer David Gaider and plied him with drink and questions. A torrent of interesting Dragon Age trivia ensues.
Source: skyelinepigeon.tumblr.com
So, short backstory! David Gaider is on vacation in New Orleans, where I live. I tweeted at him as a joke about giving him free alcohol in exchange for Dragon Age secrets… much to my surprise he tweeted back and offered to meet up, if I wanted. Much fangirling ensued. We had lunch today!
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This is about the "resegregation" of schools where students attend their neighborhood school instead of busing to a school with an exact formula of race A, race B, economic status X and Z....
I am against schools enrolling solely on geography. So you'd think I was against this proposition.
I'm surely going to be blasted for this. As a teacher.... teachers are miracle workers. Saying that re-segregating schools, i.e. the "poor black kids" attend one school, "poor white kids" another and "wealthy asians" another... means that the "bad" kids will perform poorly in school cause' they don't have what the rich kids have. Yes, that's part of it. But many many schools have taken the worst of the worst and made them the best. So saying that resegreation hurts schools, is saying essentially "it makes teaching too hard when you get the bad kids." So much for miracle workers.
Here's my "evil" solution.
Hire the best and only the best teachers. Don't hire or tenure based on popularity, looks, relatives in the district, butt-kissing tactics, or networking. Hire based on qualifications, performance, and the like. Teachers that improve test scores and attendance, and have a "following" of former students... hire the mentors, the heroes, the experts, the motivators, the inspire-ers. Hire those "way up" on the "Good to Great" (a book, look it up!) leadership scale.
And while we're at it, heck pay them a little more. They earned it.
Align funds better. Rid of categorical spending and allow all money to go into one fund and have transparency. Post your budget monthly and allow the public, parents, all stakeholders to vote on it and have a say in how their tax dollars are spent on their children. And rid of those random "here's a million dollars, spend it all in one month or it is gone" kind of gimmicks that come about where teachers and staff waste money on stupid things because, well, it's free money.
And allow students to attend whatever public/charter school they damn well please to. If a school "sucks" so much that everyone leaves, good....shoulda' seen it coming and fixed it.
I'm sure I'll be tar and feathered for these ideas, told I am anti teacher, anti student, anti education, anti union.... you name it. Bla bla bla. I just tell it like it is because gasp I care about education and can see through all the b.s. to the real problems and solutions at stake.


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World Korfball Championships 2019 Preview
In a few days the World Korfball Championships 2019 will kick off in Durban, South Africa. As Korfball World Foundation chooses to focus its funds currently on support of Ukraine, we miss being at the event physically. We will follow this big event from a distance and will give our views on the squads and the results. We start with this preview, looking at each pool individually.
The International Korfball Federation chooses for the first time to have twenty countries at the World Korfball Championships. This complicates the always debatable match schedule, but we ignore that for now. The main point in this preview is that there are five pools of four, where the first three of each pool will continue to the next phase with the possibility to become world champion. They will be joined by the best number four of the five pools. The bottom four will play each other to determine places 17 to 20.
Pool A
This pool consists of Catalunya, Czechia, The Netherlands and New Zealand. The obvious number one here is The Netherlands. The potential big battle will be between the Czechs and the Catalans. Their last encounter is at the 2018 European Korfball Championships to determine fifth place and is won 20-17 by Czech Republic. We will know soon enough who is the better one now, as this vital clash Czech Republic - Catalunya is planned for 1 August 2019. We slightly favour Czech Republic also because they have our Korfball Hero Renata Havlová.
New Zealand is the newcomer at the world stage. With two players of Dutch origin and a coach with high level Dutch playing experience, it will be interesting to see how they hold up against these European veteran countries. We expect some spectacular haka's as well.
Pool B
This pool consists of Australia, Ireland, Poland and Taiwan. The Taiwanese set their sights on claiming the title, and during the pool phase we expect no huge resistance in becoming first. The clash we see here is again for places two and three between Australia and Poland.
Poland carries the scar from the 2018 European Championships, where they lose a crucial game against Hungary. Coach Koopmans has been working hard with this squad to prevent a similar event during these World Championships. The squad also includes Tamara Siemieniuk, who gets a year of Dutch korfball experience at LDODK together with Klaudia Majchrzak.
Regular followers of Australia will need to get some detox as this is the first event in long history without Jessica May on the roster as a player. Also Korfball Heroes Ashlee Othen is missing in the national squad. During the 2017 World Games these two women were important for the Australian squad. Also our cult favourite Adam Robertson is missing from the squad. This makes it harder for us to predict the level of Australia compared to Poland. Their last encounter is at the 2017 World Games where Australia has a 20-18 win over the then host country Poland. With these changes, we tend to favour Poland over Australia. Also here this crucial game is planned already on 1 August, so the pool order seems to be decided quickly.
Ireland gets their appearance thanks to the withdrawel of both Dominican Republic and Zimbabwe. It is one more chance for Shay Conroy to show his shooting strength at the highest international level. For the pool phase we expect no suprise from this squad and fourth place.
Pool C
This pool consists of Belgium, England, Hong Kong and Slovakia. Here we could potentially have a close fight for first place, as Belgium is in transition and may not have recovered from their 2018 European Championship fiasco. On the other hand England seems unable to send their theoretically strongest group to South Africa and focus appears to be on that rather than on their upcoming performance. We predict Belgium first and England second. Our player to follow here is Belgian Korfball Hero Brent Struyf.
Hong Kong is slightly progressing at the international level. As this is one of the countries where money seems to be less of an issue, they can send the squad they want. Where height tends to be a drawback for Hong Kong korfball, the squad starts to have taller players, giving them more counterweight to European opponents. We will see how that works out against Slovakia, who is in the same position as Ireland. They are able to go after two withdrawals and have worked out the money to claim an open spot. Slovakia is on the way back up after a near extinction and we will see how that works out against Hong Kong. We put our money on Hong Kong to claim third place, but it may be a close game. Hong Kong - Slovakia is scheduled for 3 August 2019.
Pool D
This pool consists of China, Hungary, Macau and Suriname. The IKF ranking puts China at 4 and Surinam at 21, but we call these numbers inaccurate in showing the difference in level. Although China has many korfball players compared to other korfball countries, their top level is still rather limited. Also their ranking is linked to the many trips of the Dutch team to Asia where they play each other regularly as well as China sending squads to every international event for every age group like the U19 and U17. Surinam on the other hand only exists as a korfball country for two years and only has an adult squad at the moment. This adult squad consists of players living and playing korfball in The Netherlands and most of them at a high level. Therefore our odds are on that Surinam can take first place in this pool, unless they think becoming second is better for the later match schedule. Surinam intends to take a medal here and they can strike the first blow already in this pool against China. China - Surinam is scheduled for 2 August 2019. Of course we will also follow the play of our Korfball Hero Jaleesa Claver.
Hungary should have no problem becoming third in this group. And we mean this without disrespect to the level of this squad in regards to the first two places. The group has been together for several years now, is young and still grows. In their recent double encounter against Czech Republic they beat the Czechs once, showing the growth of their level. Would they have been in another pool, a second place might be an option. With Surinam in this pool as dark horse, a second place seems unlikely. They may surprise after the initial phase though.
Macau is present for the first time ever on any world championships of any sport, if we understand right. for us that says what we can expect from them during the first phase. They will experience korfball at the top level and hopefully it will inspire them to continue growing. In this pool they will be fourth for sure.
Pool E
The last pool consists of Germany, Japan, Portugal and host South Africa. Here we can expect a tough game for first place between Germany and Portugal. Both squads perform at their peak at the 2018 European Korfball Championships. For Germany this means a spot in the final after beating Portugal. For the Portuguese it means claiming bronze in a thriller against Belgium after losing against Germany a day earlier. They square off against each other on 3 August and we think that the result depends on how badly the squads want to end first in this pool. Portugal shows to have tremendous passion in their squad, also the U21 squad and a drive to win. Germany tests themselves againt Surinam just before the World Championship, which means a good last test. We miss Lena Gerlich on the roster, who we feel to be a great talent for Germany. We root for spectacular Portugal over Germany.
South Africa is the sole representative of the home continent at this World Korfball Championship 2019. This fact alone disappoints us already. Our next worry will be if the host will break the trend of repeating history for themselves. Despite being on many World Championships, they never impress. Now they get lots of Dutch support to raise their level and we will have to see the result during this championship. We doubt we will see much of it during the pool phase with Germany and Portugal. We think the difference in level simply is too big. They should be able to win quite clearly against Japan and gain confidence from that victory. Japan is another newcomer at the global stage of korfball. We hope they will respresent their country with honour. The game South Africa - Japan is scheduled for 3 August 2019 and will give us more insight into the current level of both these countries.
Best Number Four
Determining the best number four is tricky business as it is not just determined by the level of the squads themselves, but also by their opponents, as it is about goal difference. Our prediction is that all numbers four end with zero points. As we claim that Hong Kong and Slovakia in pool C are closest for place three, potentially that number four may get one point from a golden goal defeat and become the best number four.
Based on their own level we would pick the best number four from Ireland, Slovakia and New Zealand in that order of likeliness. According to us, Japan and Macau have no chance in their pools. Looking at the pools, Ireland may be able to get decent results against Australia and Poland and be happy that Taiwan will not go for fourty plus goals against them. Slovakia or Hong Kong may benefit from a close game between them and a sub par England. On the other hand, Belgium will try to impress with many goals and will do so against the number four for sure. Also New Zealand has to deal with The Netherlands looking to score many goals as well as the Czechs and Catalans looking to boost their confidence and goal difference. Still we give the number four of pool C, Slovakia or Hong Kong, a slightly bigger probability to be the best number four than Ireland. New Zealand has to impress a lot defensively to get through.
After 3 August we will see how accurate this preview is and look onward to the next phase of the championship for the top sixteen countries. We also may take a stab at potential players for a World Korfball Squad 2019.


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In 2007, the National Theatre of Scotland brought their highly touted Black Watch to St. Ann's, sending theatergoers flocking to DUMBO, then came back for a pair of return engagements. The troupe is once again in Brooklyn, now scaring audiences with its thrilling adaptation of Let the Right One In, based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2004 novel and Tomas Alfredson's 2008 Swedish film (which was remade in English as Let Me In in 2010 by Matt Reeves). As the crowd filters in to St. Ann's temporary home on Jay St., random characters start walking across the stage, a snowy woods featuring a metal play set off to one side. Things get going when a creepy old man named Hakan (Cliff Burnett) captures a passerby, strings him up upside down from a tree, and slices his throat, collecting the dripping blood in a container. The blood is for Eli (Rebecca Benson), a hungry vampire girl who prefers not to have to kill her own prey. New in town, she befriends Oskar (Cristian Ortega), an odd adolescent who is relentlessly bullied by two of his classmates, Micke (Andrew Fraser) and Jonny (Graeme Dalling). Eli and Oskar hang out on the play set, talking about life, sharing a Rubik's Cube, and discussing her foul odor. She encourages him to stand up for himself, which he is loath to do, but soon the battle lines are drawn, and violence awaits.
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