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i'm sure i'll see you then. so i don't walk into. my own body to have a good body. allen law found in the south in the public limelight when he became this province a spokesman for the handicapped children. not. least . over the years alvin will make appearances on telephones across the country. one thing going to. live. a lot better than other people. because a lot of handicapped person. or people get it wrong when they look at alvin law and 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 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 a lot of friends i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and you look for holes and you go skinny and that's what 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 one. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i never achieved she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but i found my know why yes when she was sixteen and. maybe you call it 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 to never have a shot tonight to save. somebody. but the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference it came 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 want to have nine people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or using a jam 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 interject 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 exist. 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 too soon 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 become

a director because i'm you know i can't do anything else i'm going 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 a documentary filmmaker who gets all pate you know and that's all 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 mite. 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. as a guy without arms function on the road all by himself i can carry my own luggage with straps i check and all tells all on my own i i rent cars my keys there you go oh thank you boston my toes think you are now 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

. past all traffic around the airports checking into hotels eat bad food drive in 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 getting paid enough 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 on it in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a job that you to five minutes. and then it goes away. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to others the limit is 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 marcus anymore and then because i made this film

nobody's perfect i was kind of falls to me. to make this film. i didn't want to look at myself. any come on nobody's perfect change every. change 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 for us 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. the eco fund law is all a logical thing nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his

documentary on climate in. this defining for media and for media to host this i know that i speak from you and god shots. we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank the us 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 berlin 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 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 flights and then other foot hands fingers and.

i was crying and all the intern started babin we knew that she would be ok. and i only 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 she was very. humorous to us. hillary clinton is a warmonger and the democrats are easily conned into spending trillions of dollars and the defense industry and why they control the house defense stocks went up they

mean is there any clearer indication that the democrats are the party of war. i've been saying the numbers mean they matter to us of the one trillion dollars and . more than ten points over time stamping this. eighty five percent of global will you loan to the old from rich point six percent the market saw thirty percent from its lowest year some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first shot and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one doesn't show you know ford to miss the one and only.

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 on. i didn't care what brand he was at all care if it was a she or he. was just the most tremendous feeling my son. to do it again. with no. going back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to marry the teacher know it all teach them to play frisbee impeachment or throw or you know i mean all those things that you want to have a career is do. we don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't need arms to be there you don't mean arms to listen. there are 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. as big he was a little and. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right is a normal regular person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and you just have to step to 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 bring you know he 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 louis being very well and kind to

a christmas card and calm down and said alone i think the spark reignited even if the best way i could describe it. he kissed me goodbye and busted flies. i was floating on a cloud and. and he told his wife he was leaving. she house impact all. and then he moved down in the evening together sent. a little loaded up for an understanding with the two of them it's really weird the way you cannot at something and you go i wouldn't know what i'm talking or what you don't about right now straight away what's the point in that you know that 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 sticks then you know it really is really fascinating where we communicate what you're 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 arm what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how alan introduce him to our to the future wife. sitting 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 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 on that 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. yes life is 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 there really has. a lot of. lows just like anybody else who's getting better and. it's getting better. we're 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 has co-defendants in a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the next row case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manufacturer grin and tell the company wanted 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 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 hours at offense grounds how have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end still was a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the climb i settled with when good intel didn't post sent we had to get up and fight the day every day in court where the incredible damage they grow into it but didn't tell me none of them 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 really dramatically transform 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're going surely going that's your first chance to get

a longish two victory in front managed to mention. so it doesn't obviously have to sell out there apologized for some that reach out to us or. they are never apologized for the suffering they're coaxed. and they pay for that you know for their wrong it was no a kludge it quality comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it is the n.h. was a longish talk with a size and just a message on to the end. i was taught f.m. they 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 won't go. good intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it to die just as it did in one hundred sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the

vet's 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 suppose i did 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 continue to deny most intimate 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 laugh or say unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulation as a result the little babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster.

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have to be skinny to show. up to. get into a sweat to the south koreans are still to be calm cool and come to. the mummy of what you called the british mr blair's time imo sure but just. as the media become unhinged in there of trump the president's most ardent critics in the media hang on his every word news cycle after new cycle are all about trump and much of this coverage is negative as journalism lost its purpose for journalists now nothing more than ideological advocates.

nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in the spot placed before the conviction if you had any interrogations out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in. just that frame of mind make the money comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i were to cooperate santa statement then i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture and accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with solving their cross. the us has benefited tremendously economically through the cost of their wheels to the world bank and the i.m.f.

affecting the giving of a power through impose structural adjustment on the list of countries that are that it is and that is so from fundamentally doesn't understand how these a these are useful tools of us imperialism of the facts right so it's not clear what is right is i mean it's true that these institutions are deeply unfair with an unfair to the us their own fares here to the majority world to the global south and that's really the reason it's reforms. to the new level.

of. little trump again the lashes out at the french president after the. also this sound. to me says i do appreciate it combined with the long term with the mass. to terrorists it's really defense minister resigns just the day after groups in gaza are announced the. deadly escalation of the conflict. cancer patients in around struggle to get life saving medication if you assume.