I've found these videos very interesting.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/anotherway.html
13 Jun 2008
19 May 2008
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, coming on 22nd May
I really like adventure films and I'm an Indiana Jones fan so I won't miss the new film Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull. There will be a difference. I saw the first three Indiana films with my boyfriend and I will see the fourth with my son and daughter. They love Indiana Jones too.
Harrison Ford stars Indiana. He is in his sixties but I'm sure he'll be great as usual. He also starred Han Solo, the tough space pilot in Star Wars.
Henry Walton Jones, Jr., Ph.D.,better known as Indiana Jones or simply Indy, is a fictional professor of archaeology and adventurer and the main protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. His films include Raiders of the Lost Ark from 1981, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989 and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008. Also, he had a 1992-1993 television series called The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and the theme park attraction Indiana Jones Adventure, which exists in similar forms at Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea. Jones is notable for his bullwhip, fedora, leather jacket, and fear of snakes.
The Indiana Jones theme was composed by John Williams. He has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including those for Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, E.T.the Extra-Terrestrial , Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Hook, Schindler's List, and the Harry Potter film series.
28 Mar 2008
The Hoyt team - I can only imagine by MercyMe.
Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father and son from Massachusetts who compete together in marathon races and triathlons.
Rick can't walk or talk. At his birth in 1962 the umbilical cord coiled around his neck and cut off oxygen to his brain.
When Dick runs, Rick is in a wheelchair that Dick is pushing. When Dick cycles, Rick is in the seat-pod from his wheelchair, attached to the front of the bike. When Dick swims, Rick is in a small but heavy, firmly stabilized boat being pulled by Dick.
Dick and his wife, Judy, were told that there would be no hope for their child’s development. Nevertheless, the couple was determined to raise him as "normally" as possible. Within five years, Rick had two younger brothers, and the Hoyts were convinced Rick was just as intelligent as them. Because he couldn’t talk people thought he wouldn’t be able to understand, but that wasn’t true. Rick’s parents taught him the alphabet. They always wanted Rick included in everything. That’s why they wanted to get him into public school.
A group of University engineers came to the rescue, once they had seen some clear, empirical evidence of Rick’s comprehension skills: They told him a joke andRick just cracked up. They knew then that he could communicate! In 1072 the engineers built an interactive computer that would allow Rick to write out his thoughts using the slight head-movements that he could manage. Rick came to call it "my communicator."
When the computer was originally brought home, Rick surprised his family with his first "spoken" words. They had expected perhaps "Hi, Mom" or "Hi, Dad." But on the screen Rick wrote "Go Bruins." His family realized he had been following the hockey games along with everyone else. They learned then that Rick loved sports.
In 1975, Rick was finally admitted into a public school. Two years later, he told his father he wanted to participate in a five-mile benefit run for a local lacrosse player who had been paralyzed in an accident. Dick, far from being a long-distance runner, agreed to push Rick in his wheelchair. They finished next to last, but they felt they had achieved a triumph. That night Rick told his father he just didn’t feel handicapped when they were competing.
With a newly-built bike (adapted to carry Rick in front) and a boat tied to Dick’s waist as he swam, the Hoyts came in second-to-last in the competition held on Father’s Day 1985.
Rick went to Boston University, where he graduated in 1993 with a degree in special education. Rick now works at Boston College’s computer laboratory helping to develop a system codenamed "Eagle Eyes," through which mechanical aids (like for instance a powered wheelchair) could be controlled by a paralyzed person’s eye-movements, when linked-up to a computer.
Together the Hoyts don’t only compete athletically; they also go on motivational speaking tours, spreading the Hoyt brand of inspiration to all kinds of audiences, sporting and non-sporting, across the USA. The message of Team Hoyt is that everybody should be included in everyday life.
Rick can't walk or talk. At his birth in 1962 the umbilical cord coiled around his neck and cut off oxygen to his brain.
When Dick runs, Rick is in a wheelchair that Dick is pushing. When Dick cycles, Rick is in the seat-pod from his wheelchair, attached to the front of the bike. When Dick swims, Rick is in a small but heavy, firmly stabilized boat being pulled by Dick.
Dick and his wife, Judy, were told that there would be no hope for their child’s development. Nevertheless, the couple was determined to raise him as "normally" as possible. Within five years, Rick had two younger brothers, and the Hoyts were convinced Rick was just as intelligent as them. Because he couldn’t talk people thought he wouldn’t be able to understand, but that wasn’t true. Rick’s parents taught him the alphabet. They always wanted Rick included in everything. That’s why they wanted to get him into public school.
A group of University engineers came to the rescue, once they had seen some clear, empirical evidence of Rick’s comprehension skills: They told him a joke andRick just cracked up. They knew then that he could communicate! In 1072 the engineers built an interactive computer that would allow Rick to write out his thoughts using the slight head-movements that he could manage. Rick came to call it "my communicator."
When the computer was originally brought home, Rick surprised his family with his first "spoken" words. They had expected perhaps "Hi, Mom" or "Hi, Dad." But on the screen Rick wrote "Go Bruins." His family realized he had been following the hockey games along with everyone else. They learned then that Rick loved sports.
In 1975, Rick was finally admitted into a public school. Two years later, he told his father he wanted to participate in a five-mile benefit run for a local lacrosse player who had been paralyzed in an accident. Dick, far from being a long-distance runner, agreed to push Rick in his wheelchair. They finished next to last, but they felt they had achieved a triumph. That night Rick told his father he just didn’t feel handicapped when they were competing.
With a newly-built bike (adapted to carry Rick in front) and a boat tied to Dick’s waist as he swam, the Hoyts came in second-to-last in the competition held on Father’s Day 1985.
Rick went to Boston University, where he graduated in 1993 with a degree in special education. Rick now works at Boston College’s computer laboratory helping to develop a system codenamed "Eagle Eyes," through which mechanical aids (like for instance a powered wheelchair) could be controlled by a paralyzed person’s eye-movements, when linked-up to a computer.
Together the Hoyts don’t only compete athletically; they also go on motivational speaking tours, spreading the Hoyt brand of inspiration to all kinds of audiences, sporting and non-sporting, across the USA. The message of Team Hoyt is that everybody should be included in everyday life.
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