Parents fret over their youngster, the mom relating, “I’m just worried he’s pushing himself too hard,” noting that he’s been “training all year and we haven’t heard anything.”
She observes that her son will be “devastated” if he can’t go.
The father tries to calm her with a dose of objective rationalization: “He’s only 15 and these are the World Games.”
The apartment doorbell rings and before the parents can answer, their young son who’s cradling a basketball in his room runs out and opens the door. A DHL delivery guy hands him an envelope. The youngster opens it, looks at his parents and offers a half smile. The parents facial expressions convey both joy and relief but it’s not for the son holding the DHL envelope.
That boy runs into the next room where his developmentally challenged brother is playing a video game.
“Louis, you’re going to the Games.”
Louis then stands up from the gaming console and the two brothers embrace, joined by their parents.
A message then appears on screen which simply reads, “If we change just one person’s perception, then we’ve delivered.”
An end tag carries the logos for DHL and the Special Olympics.
David Denneen of Filmgraphics Productions, Sydney (Denneen is repped stateside by Los Angeles-based Form) directed “Acceptance” for Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore.
Anna Fawcett exec produced for Filmgraphics, with Matt Stewart the DP. Editor was Toby Denneen.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
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