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Oh, Edmund. I'm glad to see that sunny spots trump feline shame.

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Johnny Depp lends his voice to the title character, an adventurous family pet who leaves home to learn more about himself in this comic animated tale also featuring the vocal talents of Abigail Breslin, Harry Dean Stanton and Ned Beatty.

Link: 

http://www2.netflix.com/Movie/Rango/70137742

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Addressing a central paradox of human civilization, Bill Moyers solicits diverse opinions on the tension between people who see religious faith as intrinsic to their lives and those who view it as a useless vestige of early human civilization.

Link: 

http://www2.netflix.com/Movie/Bill-Moyers-on-Faith-Reason/70213122

This documentary goes backstage at London's National Theatre to chronicle the production of the Tony Award-winning play "War Horse," which featured a lifelike horse puppet designed by the Handspring Puppet Company.

Link: 

http://www2.netflix.com/Movie/Making-War-Horse/70226473

Centered around the development and staging of a complex work of modern puppet theater, this illuminating documentary offers a look at the history of American puppetry -- its cultural roots and influence -- as well as its current renaissance.

Link: 

http://www2.netflix.com/Movie/Puppet/70236775

Filmmaker Bertrand Normand's fascinating documentary profiles five outstanding Russian ballerinas from the prestigious Mariinsky Theatre (the renamed Kirov Ballet), following them from grueling rehearsals to flawless performances around the globe. Dancers in the spotlight include gifted 18-year-old Alina Somova, the newest Mariinsky ballerina, along with Svetlana Zakharova, Evguenya Obraztsova, Diana Vishneva and Uliana Lopatkina.

Link: 

http://www2.netflix.com/Movie/Ballerina/70113671

This engaging documentary profiles Stefan Knüpfer, the master tuner for Steinway & Sons, who is tasked with the often-demanding job of pairing world-famous pianists with the right instrument and supervising all aspects of each piano's performance.

Link: 

http://www2.netflix.com/Movie/Pianomania/70213641

Book info Author / creator:  Max Brooks ISBN:  0307346609 Link: 

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/333379940?utm_medium=api&utm_source...

Synopsis: 

Soon to be a major motion picture!

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.

Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.

Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, “By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as ‘the living dead’?”

Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.

Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war

“I found ‘Patient Zero’ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although he’d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was ‘cursed.’ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boy’s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.” —Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China

“‘Shock and Awe’? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy can’t be shocked and awed? Not just won’t, but biologically can’t! That’s what happened that day outside New York City, that’s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldn’t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! They’re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!” —Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers

“Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.” —General Travis D’Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

8908 Book image: small:  http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320398267s/8908.jpg Book image: medium:  http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320398267m/8908.jpg Book image: large:  http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320398267l/8908.jpg Publication date:  2006 Review info Rating:  5.00

These fabrics were even better in person than I thought. Very happy.

Fat little bumblebee on a butterfly bush.

Taken outside the Huntsville Botanical Garden's butterfly house.

Taken at the Huntsville Botanical Garden's butterfly house.

Taken at the Huntsville Botanical Garden's butterfly house.

Taken at the Huntsville Botanical Garden's butterfly house.

Taken at the Huntsville Botanical Garden's butterfly house.

Taken at the Huntsville Botanical Garden's butterfly house.

Taken at the Huntsville Botanical Garden's butterfly house.

Taken at the Huntsville Botanical Garden's butterfly house.