intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid loan too long. and i wanted the stupid grand one for one night stand but that i never achieved she was wearing glasses maybe you can notice. how. i found my now wife when she was sixteen and. maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still whether. 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 equate to get behind the wheel and do up her seat.

driving instructor to never have a shot tonight save. somebody. the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference became so natural it's not be driving. me most of my life and. 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 know it depends on people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or use your cam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. and i just love driving when i got a lot of different things but to do. what people don't consider the power of my

mind. and i my mind is very powerful tool and it get into it interjects all kinds of things into my system so that my feet are literally. my hands so when it comes to driving. i get really serious when 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 make any sense to me. in germany. knew from an early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of. his deformed arms was all to see me true for the sixers to meet on the phone from bitches about him and so much for the summa i realized 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 don't 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 until late 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 think 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 all 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 they go 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 here you're helping 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. allen 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 scar tissue in my shoulder from carrying 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 my keys there you go oh thank you boss and my toes think you know why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs or because strangely they don't stop when you go . 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 mundane job that you minutes. and then it goes. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to other children in my shoes when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with the marcos anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of forced to me. to make this film.

i want to look at myself. money come on nobody's perfect change as if. it changed how i look at myself. it changed the movement of so that i might it's complete because the first lawyer is not someone else not doctors were fighting so was really big time we were fighting i think for me. also as a lender miters but also for the public some say. the energy change. legal front law is all a logical thing you know nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on climate in. the east of china from media and from media to host

this i know that i spent time you in dire straits media dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank you to get the money. in college eileen cronin fell in love with andy 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 you know her very own 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 limit 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 a baby in my back and so they did the ultrasound the alters sound technician zoom dan right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote footlights and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the interns started mabyn 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. very soon you'll. what politicians do something to. put themselves on a lawyer. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to be right to be close this is what the forecast for the morning can't be good good i've been interested always in the waters of the hottest

. first six. long weeks last only god. when you're a. fool doesn't that it would look at that is that was most of the book includes it's about. the from.

just it's cool stalls that it's about seeing new yorkers. just for a little chat. when his first wife sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the future held when i saw him come out of there with two arms. to hands and five little fingers on. i didn't care what brand he was at all or if it was a she or he and it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son.

wrote back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe try teaching know what to call teach him to play frisbee and teach him to throw or you know i mean all those things that you want to have a care if yours do. we 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 need 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 know i'm not sad i'm just. he's big he was a little that. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right now is a normal regular person he's got the 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 what he brings and what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he he gives great you know fatherly advice he's 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 of her louise hadn't been very well and went to a christmas card and converted a loan i think the spark reignited his is the best way to describe it. he kissed me goodbye and butterflies were. i was floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she house

impact all. and then he moved on in reading to get a sense. to it about it other than understanding with the two of them it's really weird that we cannot on then and you guys wouldn't know what i'm talking about you don't about run out right away what you're going to go with a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know a little more if you just pick up on it what it is though that if explained it really really fascinating i would always communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we all think we were made for it to that we are. and i remember thinking twenty years all 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 alan introduce him to out of a future wife. living in the audience one day that conference was the first time i

heard him speak in it actually believe tonight sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me. i was in the process of. considering making a final decision about a rather unhappy marriage. i thought yeah right life is too short i have to make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees or for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melted. 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 that was the beginning of the joy that ended in the ring on that finger and the still there today. you can't even describe it it's like all these years of thanks to frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still write.

he had lighted his letter she's passed her best before date so she's got no choice you've got to stick with me about there's no option you know me. i don't stop traffic. you know you don't really care us and are really has. a lot of. lows just like anybody else who's getting better and out of beijing it's getting better. where 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's 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 . in australia. with the british company that bought and still is co-defendants in

a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the next row case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manuf. grin and the company wanted the case heard 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 might lead him on 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 it done in court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. an agreement ours are defendants. how have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end of the still was 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 aids day every day and cope with the incredible damage they grow into adults don't really know now that the settlement amount was 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 transformed the rose law grin and refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement but 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 you only surety this your first chance to get a longish two victory in front managed to mention. so it doesn't obviously just to sell out their apologized for some to reach out to us all. they are they never apologized for the suffering their coast. and they pay for that you know for their wrong it was no

a pledge it. comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it because the n.h. was a longish. size and just them and us adults is even. f.m. they couldn't have gone into some of the chalk we had to get up and fight aids day and day every day in court where the incredible damage they grew into or don't do. to me and them have them i'm. going to tell is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it to die just as it did in ninety eight sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the vets family's tosin ill 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 to. not only want the money i want the revanche.

i want to rivera show they they killed feist's thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable then make the life of ten thousand parents also. they are responsible they should pay for. themselves no longer makes them in the mind and continues to deny most of 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 regulation as a result

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to leave it like that it was going to. lose your. mind one. party's video agency rep me obtains footage of residents include his province in afghanistan protesting against the constant bombings by coalition and afghan forces . in the u.k. it's revealed that the terrorists who killed five people in last year's westminster bridge attacked.