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Moishe was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and he
was sent to Auschwitz. His home was ravaged, his family torn apart
by illness and abduction. Years of brutality drew on as Moishe
moved from one labour camp to the next. Finally, towards the end of
the war and at the peak of Moishe's deepest despair, a simple act
of kindness by a group of courageous Czech women redeemed his faith
that goodness could survive the trials of war: That was the day it
rained warm bread. Deftly articulated and beautifully illustrated,
this is a strong addition to the ever-important genre of Holocaust
testimonies.
Sports Rehabilitation and the Human Spirit tells the intersecting
story of a man, Michael E. Stephens, and an organization, the
Lakeshore Foundation of Birmingham, Alabama, whose campus is
world-renowned for rehabilitation, sports, and fitness services for
children and adults who have experienced physical disability as a
result of injuries, birth conditions, illness, or in service to our
nation. This includes those with paralysis, amputations, and
limited mobility and function due to muscular dystrophy, multiple
sclerosis, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, stroke, and other health
conditions that could present significant physical challenges.
Stephens himself experienced a spinal injury and paralysis as a
young man, later becoming a successful hospital executive and
entrepreneur. The Foundation came out of this work, and today the
Foundation operates a 45-acre campus, the showcase of which is a
state-of-the-art 126,000-square-foot building that hosts many
regional and national competitions for individual and team sports
for those with physical disabilities. Some Lakeshore participants
engage in sports and recreation for fun, others are Lakeshore-based
athletes engaged in competitive sports, and still others are
Paralympic and Olympic athletes who come to Lakeshore Foundation
for training; in 2003, Lakeshore was designated by the United
States Olympic Committee (USOC) as an official U.S. Training Site
for Paralympic and Olympic athletes. Mike Stephens’s story and
Lakeshore’s story are told here along with the inspiring stories
of many individuals with disabilities who have rebuilt their lives
through sports and fitness.
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Surveillance (DVD)
Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Ryan Simpkins, French Stewart, …
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Jennifer Lynch directs this thriller starring Julia Ormond and Bill
Pullman as two FBI agents posted to a remote police station in
Santa Fe to investigate a series of gruesome murders carried out by
a mysterious masked gang. As the agents interrogate various
witnesses and victims, the testimonies diverge more and more wildly
as the seedy underbelly of the community - complete with corrupt
police officers, drug addicts and sadistic sexual deviants - is
grimly revealed.
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