Life Without Limbs No Arms,No Legs, No Worries

Nicholas James Vujicic (born 4 December 1982) is a preacher, a motivational speaker and the Director of Life Without Limbs. Born without limbs due to the rare Tetra-amelia disorder, Vujicic have to live a life with difficulties and hardships throughout his childhood. However, he managed to get over these hardships and he even started his own NPO Life Without Limbs, a non-profit Christian organization at the age of seventeen. After school, Vujicic attended college and graduated with a double major. From this point on, he began his travels as a motivational speaker and his life attracted more and more mass media coverage. At the present, he regularly gives speeches on subjects such as disability, hope, and finding meaning in life.

Early life

The first-born child of a Serbian family, Nick Vujicic was born in Melbourne, Australia with the rare Tetra-amelia disorder: limbless, missing both arms at shoulder level, and legless but with two small feet, one of which has two toes. Initially, his parents were devastated. Vujicic was otherwise healthy.

Growing up

His life was filled with difficulties and hardships. One was being prohibited by Victoria state law from attending a mainstream school because of his physical disability, even though he was not mentally impaired. During his schooling, the laws were changed, and Vujicic was one of the first disabled students to be integrated into a mainstream school. He learned to write using the two toes on his left foot, and a special device that slid onto his big toe which he uses to grip. He also learned to use a computer and type using the "heel and toe" method (as demonstrated in his speeches), throw tennis balls, play drum pedals, comb his hair, brush his teeth, answer the phone, shave and get himself a glass of water (also demonstrated in speeches).

Epiphany

Being bullied at his school, Vujicic grew extremely depressed, and by the age of 8, started contemplating suicide. After begging God to grow arms and legs, Nick eventually began to realize that his accomplishments were inspirational to many, and began to thank God for being alive. A key turning point in his life was when his mother showed him a newspaper article about a man dealing with a severe disability. This led him to realize he wasn't the only one with major struggles. When he was seventeen, he started to give talks at his prayer group, and eventually started his non-profit organization, Life Without Limbs.

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Nick Vujicic is a very inspirational person, he can live happy without arms and legs, his my idol. :)

Scene kids

SCENE KIDS

Scene Kids are the multicoloured puke of emo kids. When an emo is has tried to overdose on drugs in a failed attempt to kill itself and ends up puking all over the bathroom out of the puke crawls a little scene kid baby. Gross.

What do they like?

Although most people associate scene kids as being all the same and liking hello kitty, this is a myth. The truth is, they are much like gremlins. If they are exposed to direct light or water they multiply in millions. No wonder California is booming with tiny scene boppers. Scenes are associated with being sex ("straight edge"no drugs,,no smoke..nosex) but we all know their sneaking into clubs and house parties getting trashed and pretending to be whores. When hanging out in their habitats they've been known to have unusual behavior and be rowdy as to have others notice them participating in their silly antics.

Habitat

You can almost always find a few "scene kids" at your local mall, usually in Hot Topic, or on Myspace. Maybe at the skate park, also. Or wherever the unknown/underground bands play.

Sexy stuff

Most scene kids are bisexual as this is scene kid law. If you are not bisexual other scene kids will hunt you down and eat you.

There are two ways to make a scene kid - for an emo to puke of if two scene kids put their hands together in a certain unexplained "heart" shape, scene fluid from the scene kids fingers saps together and forms a bubble with a baby scene kid inside. After a short period of 2 weeks and if the bubble has not been attacked by chavs the baby scene kid will emerge fully formed, eyes open and alert wanting its first fix of hair extensions and neon clothes.

Abortion in the Philippines

The 50-year-old grandmother has lost count of the number of pregnancies she has terminated in this largely Roman Catholic country where abortion is illegal and strictly taboo, but where about half a million women end their pregnancies every year.

The backstreet abortions performed by healers like Minda may become more common as a United States government aid program plans to stop distributing contraceptives in the Philippines in 2008. This will leave birth control up to the government which under the influence of Catholic bishops advocates unreliable natural birth control methods rather than the pill and condoms.

Most women who seek abortions are like Remy, married with several children and too poor to afford another baby.

The petite 44-year old, who declined to give her last name, paid 150 pesos ($3) for a hilot, or traditional midwife like Minda, to crush her three-month old fetus using rough strokes and pincer-like grips on her belly.

The procedure, which can also involve pounding the lower abdomen to trigger a miscarriage, is called a massage.

"I felt guilty but I thought it was better than having another child that will only suffer because we have no food," she said in an interview in a slum on the outskirts of Manila.

Remy bled for a week after her session with the hilot, passing out with the pain. She refused to let her husband take her to the hospital because of the shame of what she had done and because they couldn't afford the medical bills.

"I just prayed to God and asked for forgiveness," she said.

Before her abortion, Remy had no access to artificial family planning. If she had, she says she wouldn't have become pregnant and resorted to the potentially life-threatening procedure.

Under President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, a devout Catholic who relies on the support of politically powerful bishops, the central government promotes natural family planning methods such as abstinence when the woman is ovulating.

Poor people, who make up the majority of the population, rely largely on the U.S. government agency USAID, the main supplier of contraceptives in the country for the past 30 years.

But USAID has started phasing out supplies and plans to end the rest of its donation program in 2008. The agency has said its phase-out is in line with Manila's goal of self-reliance in family planning.