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but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember it was one business show you know or to miss the one and only. nobody could see coming that false confession this would be that profile in this particular case the fall of the conviction. had any interrogations out there what you'll see is fred 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 most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said their forwards are already set on the statement that i will be all about it the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their crime.
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so i walk into. my own body to have a good body. thousand law found in south in the public limelight and he became this proud it's a spokesman for the handicapped children. not. least . over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. i'm. not better than other people. because i'm not a handicapped person. or people get it wrong. they look at alvin loni thank god it's tremendous how he 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
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been doing it forever these are not tremendous feet isn't the only thing i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. oh wow what a thrill it is but i do think. i thought that 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 and i don't fancy i have 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 what we did for entertainment not to have a problem with girl it's i could always get her a nice girl it's beautiful girls intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid
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one. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i'd never had the cheapest she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but 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 the 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 equally to get behind the wheel and do up her seat.
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driving instructor to never have a shot tonight save. somebody. 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. 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. anyway i just love driving when i got a lot of different things about to do. most people don't consider the power of my
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mind and i my mind is a 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 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 early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of. his deformed arms is all to see me true for the sixers to meet on the phone from her she's about to meet some of them for the summer 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'm you know i can't do anything else but to pursue his dream
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nikko 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 unfiltered 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 mite and what do i know about the little mite.
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and she looked at me and said they go it's time to look the devil in the. 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 pack it in 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
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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 boston micros 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. i
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still travel around all 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 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 to five 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 marcus anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of forced to meet them. to make this film.
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i didn't 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 for us really big time we were fighting i think for me for also as a lender miters but also for the public. the energy changed. the laws all alhaji also you know nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary summit in. the east of china for media and for media the highest
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business i know that i spent time you can guard shots we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank 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
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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 and the all just sound technician zoomed in right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote footlights that and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the intern started mabyn we knew that she would be ok.
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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 that her mother wanted to be and she was very. humorous to your. you know world big movie 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 smart we need to stop slamming the door on the path and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle
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for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. seem wrong. to me. yet to stamp out these things come to the ticket and in again because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bushnell for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through in the time. when you're going to get that's.
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going to cause interest on their store dude you because. i stood in the hardships of it. through. 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 and. two hands and five little fingers on. i didn't care what brand it was at all or if it was
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a she or he and it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son. to do it again. we go. through it back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe i teach what i call the teach them to play frisbee and teach them to throw all 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 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. their. that's true you just have to be there for him. and that surprised me. the tears and i'm not sad i'm just.
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he was a little and. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right is a normal way a person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and he just after he stepped in knowing he 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 i've heard louis being very well and kind to a christmas card and calm down and said aloud i think the spark reignited even if the best way to describe it he kissed me goodbye and buster flies.
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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. politico did up an understanding with the two of them it's really weird you know that we cannot at home there you go i wouldn't know what i'm talking about what you don't about but are now straight away what you pointed out you know you cannot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know the little mode if you just pick up on it so that if you go got to fix things you know it's really really fascinating now. we would communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it to the to be on. our member thinking twenty eight years old divorced god a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what
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a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how allen introduce 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 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. it was the beginning of the joy that ended in the ring on the finger and it's still there today.
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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. yeah 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 get it there i don't stop traffic. you know you don't bear us there down the highs. and lows just like anybody else. can better and. 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 teachers second and then i had. and those three elements of my life they've really been what has supplied the fuel for what drives
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. 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 drug's manuf. going into 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 the still was
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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 really dramatically transform the rose law grown into 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 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. reach out to us all. they are they
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never apologized for the suffering their coast. and they did 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 he needs the longest for this isn't just him and i should also then yes it's. that f.e.m.a. couldn't have gone into some of the chalk we had to get up and fight aids day and every day in court where the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do. to me many of them won't go to 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 vets family's tosin a fortune has been variously estimated at between two and three billion euros it
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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 the rivera show they they kilt 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 for the pace. going sell no longer makes them then mind and continue 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
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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 regulations as a result the little babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster. yeah.
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can make it. through. you know the yellow car she commits the movie can you see as you know this by if. you're in the form of a really. almost humorous game with a baby one with a number on those notes and give them any possibility of them i will. they will start to feel. their breath for a single campus if. they have a suit on and. they start training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. in. their
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rats. and they saved lives. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the search for answers officers were going to attack and destroy the government and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy miss for.
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germany is a divided as ministers demand deportation and tough for asylum laws after a shocking attack by migrants. to be honored to be able to be here and to commit a crime and if they do thorough they have to go back there they deserve a second chance we have our laws we don't have to change the laws. the search and rescue operation comes to an end following the tower block collapse in the russian city of my date of course that after the body of the final victim was recovered in a tragedy that killed thirty nine. french police.
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