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in sixty days of. a russian. and a russian. show you how. long the crimea bridge was. witnessed the construction moving you need to transport. that will help the crimea the. most of those you won't go for more snow you're quite a bit but it's clear. so i don't walk into. my own body to have a good body. allen law found itself in the public limelight when he became this province a spokesman for handicapped children. not. least . over the years
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alvin will make appearances on telephones across the terms of. finding going. live. not better than other people. because a lot of handicappers. people get it wrong when they look at alvin loni thank god it's tremendous how you can do things with his feet well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are my feet these are my hands too and i have been doing it forever these are not tremendous feet is the only thing that i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. wow what a thrill that's what it is i do think. thank you i thought and i was going to have to be
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a nine. i didn't think that i was going to go on dates i didn't know what was going to happen and that that's not how it happened i had a great high school run i mean you know i had a lot of fun i had i did france i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and look for holes and you go skinny and that's both we did for entertainment. i have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid. and i wanted the stupid grand one for one night stand but that i never achieved she was wearing glasses maybe notice. i found my know why you when she was sixteen and. maybe you call it
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a lack of opportunity but i'm still with her. she was long and not stupid. for most of the miners getting behind the wheel of a car was the road to independence and freedom. the ways mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just his sickly to get behind the wheel and do our best. driving instructor who never got the shot tonight to save. somebody. but the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so natural it's not be driving. in most of my life and.
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my parents they were the most practical people i think i've ever met in my entire life so when it came to learning how to drive. that was just practical that way you can get around on your own you want to have people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or use your cam it was really just about trying to figure it out. i just love driving what i love different things but to. most people don't consider the power of my mind i my mind is a very powerful tool and if get into it it interjects all kinds of things into my system so that my feet are literally. my hands so when it comes to driving. i take it really seriously i have high explain why can't i can drive with one foot on the wheel what is peoples excuse they've got both hands and their feet and yet they drive like this doesn't exist. in germany. knew from an
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early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of. his deformed arms was all too slim and true for the sixers to meet on the phone number she's got a tremendous amount for to sum up i realised quite soon i'm never will be a conductor or a painter or a dancer i can't sing so i became a director because i'm you know i can't do anything else but to pursue his dream nico went to prestigious film schools and apprenticed under the legendary german director rayner vernon fast binder before making a number of successful feature films but there was one prize job he wanted badly directing a big movie unfolded in mind and the head of german t.v. said no you can't have the job but you can make a documentary on. the to might and i said you know i you know i
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know that was income and i shouted at him i use the f. word very loudly and very often because i said i apply for the job you know you pay well and not the documentary filmmaker who gets your pate you know and that's so typical you know you give the disabled guy the side job you know and then i went home and my wife said what's the matter and i told her they want me to do a film about the little light. and what do i know about the little might go. and she looked at me and said nicko it's time to look the devil in these. i don't know what your lives are like sometimes life can really be rough on people i understand that i get it i've been in real life alvin law is a motivational speaker who's influenced audiences in north america and australia with his message of hope is specially to more than two million youngsters who heard his top speaking is the best thing i could have ever cited where you're helping
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kids and they need to have somebody come in and tell them that it's going to be ok but i get such tremendous joy out of doing it there is nothing in my life that makes you happier than speaking to kids nothing and the next time you're ready to give up or quit or back again well if it helps even a little bit remember the goofy looking guy that played the drums with his feet but remember the words i live by every day. there's no such word as can't. thanks. alan travels over one hundred thousand miles a year on his own but after thirty years on the road his body is starting to where it takes its toll career and that stuff around i mean you know my body may not last as long as normal bodies do because of what i'm putting it through i mean as much as i make this look easy i'm still put my body through a lot of stuff just the pain in my back from carrying my luggage and scar tissue in my shoulder from carrying
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a briefcase for thirty five years and you know there's not really a shoulder here so what i'm carrying it with i should be doing this i should have like a sherpa or something. how does a guy without arms function on the road all by himself i carry my own luggage with straps i check into all tells all on my own i i rent cars i'm a teaser you go oh thank you boston my toes think you know why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs because strangely they don't stop when you go. still trotting around the airports checking into hotels eat bad food driving everywhere in the middle of nowhere getting involved in blizzards and swearing at my wife for putting me out yet in another life and death situation and not think about give it up so i mean i can get on a rant but at the end of the day she also says this line this is a wonderful line. i mean if you're tired of traveling i'm sure there's a cubicle with your name written out in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a job that you minutes. and then it goes away.
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in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to others so they might use when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to a disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with so little marcus anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of forced to me. to make this film. i didn't want to look at myself. any come on nobody's perfect changed everything. that changed how i look at myself . it changed the movement of. complete because the first lawyer is not someone else not doctors were fighting so was really big
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time we were fighting i think for me for also as a lender miters but also for the public some saying just the energy changed. from the laws or how logical for you you're nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary summit in. the east china for media and for media to host this i know that i sometimes. we are dealing. with the environs if you go to or didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank you to get the money. in college eileen cronin fell in love with andy
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a graduate student in economics i was in love very definitely for sight. although i already had a boyfriend you know i immediately was drugged or innervation and intelligence. her wit we moved in together. and we got pregnant very quickly. very quickly. i was wracked with worry all my life about having a child because i didn't know for sure that my mother had taken the limb and i i was kind of panicked it started just settle in oh my god i'm going to have a baby i don't even know if i can have a baby i don't know if the baby's going to have legs or not have legs or something else but also literally i did not know how i was going to carry
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a baby in my back and so they did the ultrasound all the alters sound technician zoom dan right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote footlights them and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the interred started laughing we knew that she would be ok. and i only are best friends it's not hard to understand why i. took up to be a ballet dancer because that's something her mother wanted to be and she was very.
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useful. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just billionaire owners and spending shouldn't twenty million one ply a. book it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy my great so will more chance for. a nice minute.
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right we're all set to start in five yes the studio has a signal. he's not going to talk about no fly just renewed right after the arse explorers were moved out of their. rocker. to see what we know. about the last room welcome to sophie until i'm so busy shevardnadze said today we've got lots to talk about in our program and our gas to move good luck that.
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the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education. higher education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business where you good. luck with this also the kind of fellow we couldn't. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now and i'm extremely more higher education the new global economic war. cut. cut. cut.
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cut. cut cut cut. when his first wife sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the future held when i saw him from out of there with two arms and. two hands and five little fingers and. i didn't care what brand he was at all care if it was a she or he it matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son. we're not. going back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with them i was going to maybe i teach them teach them to play frisbee impeachment or throw or you know i mean all those
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things that you want to have a care if yours do. you don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't you know arms to be there you don't mean arms to listen you don't need arms to be a father at all unfortunately too many fathers that have arms don't realize that. they were forget that that's true you just have to be there for him. and that surprised me. the tears i don't i'm not sad i'm just. this big he was little and. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right now is a normal regular person he's got same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and you just have to step in knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks but he brings in what he gives is much more so than anything i could
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bring you. he gives great you know fatherly advice is a great role model is a great person. and that's all you can ask. louise mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received a christmas card from an old boyfriend i've heard that louis haven't been very well and kind to a christmas card and calm down and had allowed up at the park reignited if the best way to describe it. he kissed me goodbye and butterflies were. i was sort of floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she how to impact our. and then he moved down in. the been together since. polygamy out it up and understanding with each other it's really weird you know
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that we cannot act on there you go i wouldn't know. what you don't about brownout right away what you pointed out you know that are not of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know the little mode if you could pick up on it or that it was i was sick then you know it really really fascinating i were we communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it to the to be on. guard member thinking twenty years old divorced got a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how allen introduced himself to his future wife darlene who was sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak and it actually believe you know it sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me i was in the process of. considering making
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a final decision about whether and happy marriage. i thought yeah right life is too short i have to make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees her for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melt. i have friends who tell me that i smiled more the day of my wedding than they've ever seen me smile in my entire life and it was permanently glued there for days. it was the beginning of the joy that ended in the ring going on the finger and it's still there today. you can't even describe it it's like all these years of anxious and frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still. write. here life is letter she's passed her best before date so she's got no choice you've got to stick with me about it there's no option you know me get it there i don't stop traffic. you
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know you don't. really have. a lot of alone is just like anybody else because he's getting better and. it's getting better. work there's a lot of credit that i get for doing this but i didn't just do this you know i had my parents first i had my teacher second and then i had her and those three elements of my life they've really been what has supplied the fuel for what drives . me in australia. with the british company that bought and still is where co-defendants in a multimillion dollar class action suit centered on the next row case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manufacturer green until the company wanted
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the. in germany where it's never successfully been so that the victorian supreme court today dismissed that application this was an application by the company that made phillida mod the worst drug in the history of medicine to have an armless legless woman who has no money and doesn't speak german if she wishes to have a dying court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. an agreement ours are defendants grants how have this never given never admit a thing never concede fight to the bitter end the still has a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the climb i settled with when i couldn't tell didn't post sent we had to get up and fight they'd stay there every day and cope with the incredible damage they've grown toward didn't to me none of them the settlement amount was
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a multi-billion dollar some it was a sum sufficient to provide lynn with first class care for the rest of off it really has dramatically transform the rose law grin and refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement a two months later held a press conference so it could apologize to its victims for the first time in fifty years the other way no it's because your maturity that's your first chance to get a longish two victory in front managed to mention. that doesn't mean you can just wait and sell out their apologized for some. reach out to us all. they are they're never apologized for the suffering they're coaxed. and it pay for that you know for their wrong it was no a pledge it quality comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it is the n.h. was the longest it was this size and just a message on to them. by wednesday that f.e.m.a.
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couldn't have gone into something shocking we had to get up and fight aids day and every day in court with the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do. to me many of them will go to great intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it today just as it did in one hundred sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the vets family's tosin a fortune has been variously estimated at between two and three billion euros it would not drive that family into. penury or bankruptcy or poverty to loosen the purse strings and behave in a more generous fashion toward suppose i'd not only want the money i want the road vachss. i want the revenge you know they they kill two feist's thousand children yeah they made
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a lot of five thousand children slice miserable then make the life of ten thousand parents all young they are responsible they should pay for. going cell no longer makes them in the mind and continue to deny most the little mite is outside germany any compensation no survivors feel they have received an acceptable apology. going into our refuse to be interviewed for this film. the original thalidomide drug is easy and cheap to manufacture and continues to be made and distributed by several drug companies and governments to treat letter c. unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulations as a result a little my babies are still being. tragically there seems to be no limits to that's a little my disaster yeah i am am.
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i think hiding this catastrophe unfolding in britain for the past fifteen years or so was its connection to the e.u. and the ability to have its own a car a say and yet passport rights into the e.u. you take those away and you have essentially greece on steroids and all those banks and the e.u. and america are going to attack the plate and drive into bankruptcy. in a world of big partisan group a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.
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seventy four design submissions. seven thousand islands. to join judges. nine hundred sixty nonstop days of. the russian w.b. h.m.p. a bit. under russian call to. show you how. long the chromium bridge was built. witnessed the construction moving you need to transport. that will help them out of crimea. most of those you know what google for more snow you have it a bit but it's going to. donald
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trump is about to meet with the u.s. congress members off to his talks with president putin sparking outrage in american media. her side is the bride and which side of that is the groom enters a bit of a sore sort of feels like runaway you have been watching for for the most disgraceful performances by an american president today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. facebook admits classifying thousands of russians as interested in treason supposedly for advertising purposes raising concerns over who might really want to target such youth it. also this hour full of french all those the victorious world cup team returned home to a hero's welcome.

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