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|2006-01-18, 02:02
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Hellsing Ultimate OVA
Can't seem to find the OVA thread for it.
Anyone find the name of the opening song funny? It's called "Broken English", wonder if it pokes fun at the opening song of the first series cause that song was seriously broken english.
|2006-01-22, 13:52
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Just saw the aired digest version, even though "digest" may be stretching its meaning, as it is half the length of the OVA, but it sure is action packed.
One word will describe my thoughts about this, which would be WOW!
This is the Hellsing I've been waiting for, in terms of faithfully following the manga, unlike the TV version.
And the broadcast codes don't come into effect with its release as an OVA, meaning lots of gore a la Elfen Lied.
Seras hacking down ghouls made me think of Resident Evil in a way, but I definitely like her character.
And of course, Nakata Jouji being at his best with Alucard certainly is a positive note.
There were no songs in the digest version, so can't answer Morisato's (btw, I attended an event today with Kikuko-neesan making an appearance) question.
Looking forward to the OVA release, and hope that it is serialized.
|2006-01-22, 18:32
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However, more than 20 minutes of the OVA was aired, and even if this was an edited excerpt of it, I construe it to be rather substantial.
I won't probe into how far the plot was covered, as I don't know for sure, and don't want to spoil it for others, but the whole Hellsing story will not be completed in one volume, and besides, the OVA is titled Hellsing I.
I hear that volume two will be out sometime in spring, so I would expect the series to continue, otherwise they wouldn't need a series composer (Kuroda Youske btw), probably requiring about 6 volumes in order to conclude the story.
|2006-01-23, 02:53
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OVA 1 Opinion and Screencaps
Ah... no wonder. I was kinda thinking that the episode was kinda lacking. But still, it was a fine watch .
|2006-01-23, 06:22
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The digest covered vol 1 chapters 1 and 4-6.
Chapter 2 is "master of monster" (how Alucard and Integra first met) and "murder club" - Seras's first mission basically.
I wonder if the full version will cover any of chapters 2 or 3? It's certainly possible - "murder club" could take only 5 minutes. I don't think the cut scenes from the chapters shown in the digest will pad out the rest of the full OVA. Maybe "master of monster" will be left for volume 2 or later?
The digest was a little weird - some parts were animated very nicely, some seemed cut short (well, it IS a digest). The brief scene with Seras acting a little weird/funny on waking up was interesting (but should vampires show up in mirrors?) though felt a bit awkward at times. Still, I do prefer the slightly more girl-ish and goofy Seras from the manga, compared to the Seras from the TV series, and it looks like we'll be getting the Seras I prefer.
Overall, it was very faithful to the original manga, though not boringly so.
PS I wish they'd taken the opportunity to fix up the police uniforms. I don't think any UK forces look like that, particularly armed ones (normal police are not armed). It was like they were US of French police...
|2006-01-23, 10:25
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Those pics.....
Can't describe!
This is how Hellsing was meant to be on TV format. The characters are delightfully psychotic and insane in every square inch.
Integra was given a bit of mad scientist flair on her persona, and Seras totally loses it that until getting a bit misfortunate.
But Arukaado blows the roof. It will be boring for him to just be the monster, that's why he switches from one moment to the next into psychosis mode.
|2006-01-23, 10:32
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Oh wow, the screencaps looks great, yep the characters definitely had a more pyschotic feel to them than the TV series. Definitely looking forward to this one.
I like the super deformed that was used, watched the TV series of Hellsing a long time ago but I don't think there were SD used.
I'm glad Arucard did not lose any of his coolness, or at least from the screencaps he looked as cool as ever.
Heh, this should be a fun ride.
|2006-01-23, 22:47
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Location: Looking for his book...
Just finished watching the Digest version.
First, I LOVE zombies and ghouls and those rank as the single best example of cell shaded zombies/ghouls I have ever seen. They've made vast improvements in terms of animation when it comes to the ghouls, they're no longer those greyish people that wonder about. They have body parts missing, knawed off, skin peeled away to reveal bone and underlying tissue in places and generally just look like they're oozing. Their movements are more believable and the sounds they make are just spooky.
Now, the animation quality as a whole is very well done. There are places where it could be better with a number of slight inconsistencies in appearences and shapes but the special effects and CG employed take you mind away from that. The use of CG is actually pretty obvious but well done (Alucard misting and turning to bats) however the transitions between the CG scenes and normal animation is a bit lacking in my opinion, it just does mesh together well. Perhaps its because of the fact that they edited this release to condense it and the flow issues will be better handled in the full release.
Sound, I think the word for it is... orgasmic. Yeah, that sounds about right. ^^;
It works, almost too well in places. From the scuffing of feet to the sounds the ghouls make, it's all handled perfectly. In the forest scenes, it sounds like you're there, at the boarding house, you can hear the floor boards creaking. It is very comparable to playing Resident Evil in a dark room with a good sound system. The vocal talent for the primary characters has been left unaltered, Alucard still sounds as evil as ever, Seras and Integral still sound the same. Now, this might be a disappointment for some but all traces of the original (TV) soundtrack have vanished. It is now all orchestra music.
Now, the part most people are curious about, new animation and in particular, new scenes! There are scenes that were handled differently or approached from different perspectives but those aren't what I'm interested. I'm looking at original content only.
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|2006-01-24, 19:02
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Seriously, am I the only one to have been HUGELY DISAPPOINTED by this thing ?
I have watched the Gonzo series, I have read the manga (in Japanese), and what I see is that the new OVA series stays extremely close to the original manga, which is IMO a bad move as the first volumes of Hellsing are awkward : rushed tempo, overly theatrical lines, etc.
I mean, something that might look cool in a manga is just ridiculous when put into animation... The "yessss master, my master" line is a perfect example. That was ludicrous. Everything, especially Andersen, was sooooooo overdone. The ghouls and the vampire were gross, Alucard had a psychopath face, same goes for Walter and Andersen...
And most of all, I can't stress enough the loss of Ishii, who composed an awesome OST for the previous series. Here we have some generic film music, badly used direction-wise IMO, and this takes away all the coolness of Hellsing. The show now looks, how should I put it, too formatted for the US market...
No, really, they should have kept the composer, and Gonzo too, because even though they sucked for the series, their sense of style is unsurpassed.
Well well, I guess I'll get used to the new Hellsing, but for the moment being, the only thing I can say is : it sucks.
|2006-01-24, 23:44
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I've watched Digest and all I can say is "Wow! What a difference a big budget and less programming restrictions make!"
I don't miss the original music all. This current selection makes the series darker imo.
@Snoop' : You gotta give it a chance! This was just a promo after all.
|2006-01-25, 04:33
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Mikuru Moe Overload
I'd say give Hellsing Ultimate a chance, yes, the first few chapters of the manga are bad, but what great manga series' aren't? Let it grow first, the later parts will definitely blow everyone away, esp. Londoners
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ROCHESTER HILLS — Oakland women's soccer head coach Nick O'Shea has resigned, announced by Director of Athletics Tracy Huth on Monday. O'Shea spent 19 seasons at the helm and led the Golden Grizzlies to seven NCAA tournaments.
"I want to thank Oakland University for the opportunity to coach and work with all the exceptional student-athletes, coaches and staff during my tenure," said O'Shea. "I feel like I am leaving the program well positioned for continued success and appreciate the commitment of all the current and former student-athletes that have played for me over the years. I also want to thank all my assistant coaches for their dedication over the years. I am looking forward to new opportunities."
"On behalf of the University, the Athletics staff and our student-athletes, I extend appreciation to Nick for his years of commitment to the Oakland women's soccer program," said Huth. "During Nick's time as coach, women's soccer achieved high levels of success that we believe will continue in the future. I wish Nick and his family success in all their future endeavors."
O'Shea is the most successful coach in Summit League history, accumulating 15 league titles in 14 seasons (seven regular season and eight league tournaments). He was named Coach of the Year three times and led Oakland to the NCAA second round in 2012 with a 3-1 PK win over No. 4 Ohio State in Columbus.
O'Shea played collegiate soccer at OU in 1982 and 1983. In both seasons the Pioneers advanced to the NCAA Division II semifinals. An All-Region player in 1983, O'Shea was inducted into the Hollie L. Lepley Hall of Honor in 2008.
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Set about five years before the beginning of "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope," the new animated series follows the adventures of a group of heroes desperately trying to combat the all-consuming might of the Empire, the fascistic government arisen from the ashes of the Old Republic in "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith."
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Bedford preschool plans charity fundraising event
BEDFORD - Preschoolers from Bedford's New Morning School will walk, run, bike and scooter their way toward a donation to two local charities.
Students will collect donations and make their way around a track that will be painted in the school parking lot in May.
All proceeds will be divided between the Goffstown Network and the Our Promise to Nicholas Foundation, which raises awareness for Batten disease, said Center Director Christi Garrison.
"It's a really low-key, fun event, and it's good exercise," Garrison said, noting that each year, the children participate in a fundraising event for charity.
Garrison said the staff ties the event in with the outdoors, summer and bicycle safety, but also talks to the children about the importance of giving back to the community.
"There are times when we all need a helping hand, and they understand that," Garrison said.
Last year, the school presented the Goffstown Network a check for $502, which was used to keep the food pantry up and running.
Dave Greiner, president of the Goffstown Network, said monetary donations are especially appreciated this time of year, when donations from the holiday season have run out.
"We really appreciate all of the support we get at the holidays," Greiner said, "but people are sometimes surprised to hear our donations dry up during the summer - everything we get from now until November is a huge help."
Greiner said the Network purchases 65 to 70 percent of its supplies from the New Hampshire Food Bank at a cost of about nine cents per pound.
"We used to live primarily on donated food, now it's mostly purchased food that gets us by," he said. "That really makes money go a long way."
Garrison said it was important to support local organizations.
"Our kids come from all over, not just Bedford and Goffstown," she said. "We like to spread it out and keep it local."
Garrison said she doesn't think the children at New Morning are too young to get a feel for serving their community.
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This section presents a set of case studies that illustrates a range of specific
approaches to the construction of socioeconomic scenarios that are relevant
to climate impact assessment.
The IPCC's Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) (Nakicenovic
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hydrocarbons (VOCs). The IPCC specified that the scenarios should not include
future policies that explicitly address climate change. However, they necessarily
encompass other policies that may indirectly influence GHG sources and sinks.
The scenarios suggest that assumptions about technology, rather than population
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trajectories, for the assessment of mitigation policies and measures (see TAR
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assessment of impacts and adaptation [e.g., see the United Kingdom Climate Impacts
Programme (UKCIP) and European ACACIA examples, below].
The Pakistan Environment Ministry has produced a suite of three socioeconomic
scenarios to inform national climate impact and adaptation planning (Government
of Pakistan, 1998). The scenarios focus on two reference years2020 and
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for "nonclimate" policymaking. The 2020-2050 scenarios were developed
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The Building Owners and Managers Association's December networking luncheon and BOMA Expo will be held on Tuesday at the La Jolla Marriott. The luncheon will recap the successes of 2012 and hold the vote for the 2013 board of directors. The Expo will showcase the latest trends, products and services in the commercial real estate industry. The event will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 4240 La Jolla Village Drive.
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The Labor Department reports weekly unemployment claims and the Producer Price Index for November; the Commerce Department releases retail sales data for November and business inventories for October; and Freddie Mac issues weekly mortgage rates.
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Last week, my press contacts at Microsoft told me about the company's new Incremental Servicing Model for SQL Server, a new process for customers to receive scheduled SQL Server hotfix updates that is scheduled to launch April 16. The name and the brief description sure sounded intriguing. But, try as I might, I haven't been able to get much in the way of real information about what this new initiative really means to customers. Honestly, that's a bit weird. Typically, Microsoft releases a ton (a very precise journalism term that means a lot) of information about new customer-facing initiatives on its Web sites and blogs. And within a few days, dozens--if not hundreds--of talking heads just like me are sharing their incredibly insightful opinions on the topic. However, at about 9:30 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, April 10, when I Googled "Incremental Servicing Model," I got just three hits.
I hate to rely too liberally on the "background" information that my Microsoft press contacts provide me, but since there's not a lot of meat for me to chew on my own, here's what Microsoft told me. The Incremental Servicing Model is a process that Microsoft developed in response to customer feedback. Presumably, when customers know that they are going to get an update, they can more effectively plan for (and minimize) downtime.
Currently, you can get hotfixes in bundles called Cumulative Updates, which include all the necessary fixes to date and are released every two months. The Incremental Servicing Model lets you opt in to receive automatic notifications when the newest Cumulative Updates become available.
For cases in which users encounter an urgent problem that doesn't have a workaround, you'll be able to download "On Demand" hotfixes. You'll be able to sign up for the Incremental Servicing Model starting April 16. Look for the service's availability at http://support.microsoft.com.
You can read the Microsoft blog on this topic, but with the limited information available from my Microsoft contact and this blog, I'm still a bit in dark. The blog does state that the hotfix Cumulative Updates will be released every two months and emphasizes that this program will not replace traditional service pack releases. But historically, hotfixes weren't widely distributed, so at first glance it does seem like it will be hard to clearly define the difference between a service pack and an every-other-month Incremental Servicing Model release. I also have questions about testing the hotfixes and how to know when an Incremental Service Model update really needs to be applied to all of your enterprise servers and when it's option, like a Saturday-night bath. I'm certainly looking forward to learning more about this intriguing model. I'm sure you are too.
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August 21, 1965 - May 1, 2013
Ocala, FL
Ali Ahamad Salim of Ocala, FL, passed away on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at home. He was 47.
He was the son of the late Ahamad Salim Asad and Blanca E. Salim Asad Corredor, born on August 21, 1965 in Brooklyn, NY.
Ali was a kind-hearted person that helped everyone and would give anyone his last dollar or meal. He often took in people in need and fed and took care of them. He could build a house with his bare hands. He was known as a jack-of-all-trades. There was nothing he couldn't fix. He will be greatly missed by all his entire family, especially his sisters and brothers, and his nieces and nephews, who were all very close to him. He was everyone's favorite uncle.
He leaves behind to cherish his memory his two sons: Alex Salim and Christopher Salim; one granddaughter, Aaliyah Salim; his siblings: Luis Salim, Estella Vasquez, Rosa Mendoza, Maria Scott, Zoraida Ramos and Samira Perez, and a host of friends.
Visitation will be on Thursday, May 9th, at Loucks Funeral Home, 79 North Main Street, Ellenville, NY 12428 from 5 to 8 p.m. A Graveside Service will be on Saturday, May 11th, at Fantinekill Cemetery, State Route 209, Ellenville, NY 12428 at 10 a.m.
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Uranium Victory: Feds Ordered to Release Hidden Docs
In a big win for water and wildlife, last Thursday a federal judge ruled that the Center for Biological Diversity and allies can obtain previously protected records relating to a 42-square-mile uranium leasing program in the Dolores and San Miguel rivers in western Colorado and eastern Utah. In July 2008, the Center and three partners sued the U.S. Department of Energy and Bureau of Land Management for approving the uranium program without fully analyzing its environmental impacts -- which would be substantial. In fact, uranium mining and milling from the program will deplete Colorado River basin water and threaten to pollute streams and rivers with toxic and radioactive waste products -- in turn threatening wildlife and human communities downstream, as well as four already endangered Colorado River fish species: the razorback sucker, Colorado pikeminnow, and humpback and bonytail chubs.
Because of last week's ruling, the Center will now be able to get inside information on individual uranium leases to use in our suit against the entire program.
Check out our press release and learn more about our campaign to stop destructive uranium mining.
False Killer Whales to Win Real Protection
After seven years of litigation by the Center for Biological Diversity and others, this Tuesday the National Marine Fisheries Service announced it is creating a team to help protect Hawaii's imperiled false killer whales from the very real -- and very lethal -- threat of longline fishing. The false killer whale "take reduction team" -- requested in a recent lawsuit by the Center and friends -- will consider ways to reduce harm to the species caused by Hawaii longline vessels trailing 60-mile-long fishing lines dangling upwards of 1,000 baited hooks. The Center's Brendan Cummings has been invited to serve on the team, scheduled to hold its first meeting next month in Honolulu.
False killer whales are large, dark gray or black, beakless members of the dolphin family, with males reaching almost 20 feet in length. Recent research has found that the false killer whales around the main Hawaiian Islands represent a very rare population that numbers fewer than 120 individuals. The Fisheries Service is now conducting a study to determine whether these mammals should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Check out our press release and learn more about our campaign against deadly fisheries.
Southwest Songbird Will Get Protected Habitat
In response to a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit, last week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to increase habitat protections for the southwestern willow flycatcher after a Bush-era decision wrongly denied help for the species. The small, quick-winged, highly endangered songbird has been robbed of more than 90 percent of its historical habitat in the Southwest due to grazing, dams, sprawl, and other threats -- and it has suffered more than a century of steady decline. But after an industry lawsuit and years of inaction, in 2005 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made a politically tainted decision to protect very little designated "critical habitat" for the bird: more than 250,000 acres less than the area originally proposed for protection. Adequate habitat protections will give the bird a chance at recovery throughout the remaining Southwest streamside forests it calls home.
The Center has been working to save the southwestern willow flycatcher since 1993, when we first filed the scientific petition that won it Endangered Species Act protection.
Read more in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Alaska Amasses War Chest to Kill Bears, Seals, Walruses
In direct opposition to the Center for Biological Diversity's decade-long campaign to save the polar bear, ribbon seal, and walrus, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell has amassed a $1.5 million war chest to hire lawyers and lobbyists to prevent the protection of the Arctic -- hijacking taxpayer money to stop the feds from designating 128 million acres of protected habitat for the polar bear in response to Center petitions and lawsuits.
Former Governor, now-FOX-News-pundit Sarah Palin lost every effort to roll back the Endangered Species Act, and Parnell is not likely to fare any better against the Center's legal and scientific teams.
Read the Center's response to Parnell's doomed effort to doom Arctic wildlife and learn more about our work to save polar bears here.
Obama Earns "C" in First Year; Tell him to Do Better in 2010
President Obama's first year in office has been a good news/bad news story. On endangered species, he revoked some damaging Bush-era policies, but he also stripped protection from gray wolves in the northern Rockies and Great Lakes. On climate, he followed the Supreme Court's lead and declared carbon dioxide a threat to human health and welfare, but provided virtually no leadership in the congressional and Copenhagen negotiations to develop a real solution to global warming. On ocean policy, he took initial steps to address acidification, but also increased the number of endangered sea turtles that can be caught and killed by industrial longline fisheries.
Overall, the Center for Biological Diversity gives Obama's environmental record a disappointing "C" so far.
Click here to send the president an email telling him to live up to his campaign promises and greatly increase protections for endangered species in 2010.
Read about our report card in the Environment News Service and read it for yourself here.
500 Sign Up to Distribute Endangered Species Condoms; We Need 500 More -- Join Us
More than 500 people have volunteered to help the Center for Biological Diversity get the word out on overpopulation by agreeing to distribute free endangered species condoms in their local communities. College students, grandmothers, teachers, and even clergymen have offered to hand out the condoms at universities, music festivals, spiritual singles groups, and even a science and math teachers' conference.
If you haven't signed up yet, click here to join the fun and be the first person to introduce endangered species condoms to your neighborhood. Then learn more on our Web site about overpopulation and its devastating impact on wildlife and wild places.
Suit Launched to Save Habitat for Endangered Black Abalone
Last Thursday, a year after the Center for Biological Diversity won Endangered Species Act protection for California's rare black abalone, we filed a notice of intent to sue the feds for their failure to protect the species' habitat. Because of overfishing, disease, global warming, and ocean acidification, black abalone populations have declined by as much as 99 percent since the '70s, and experts predict that the beautiful mollusk will be extinct within three decades -- the average lifespan of an individual black abalone. But though the law requires the National Marine Fisheries Service to designate protected "critical habitat" for a species when it's placed on the endangered species list, the agency hasn't made a move to do it.
"Species with critical habitat are twice as likely to be recovering as species that don't have it," said Center Staff Attorney Catherine Kilduff. "The black abalone is on the cusp of extinction, and any further delay of federal habitat protection may well seal the species' fate."
Read more in our press release and learn about our campaign for the black abalone.
2.7-million Acre ORV Plan That Would Hurt Lynxes and Wolves Challenged
To save Canada lynx, gray wolves, and Boundary Waters wildlands from churning tires and pollution, last week the Center for Biological Diversity and six allies challenged a federal plan failing to protect Minnesota's Superior National Forest from off-road vehicle damage. The plan would allow all but two of the forest's 30 areas of lynx habitat to host dangerously damaging (and illegal) ORV densities, and more than 1,600 miles of roads and trails would remain open to vehicles, affecting more than 2.7 million acres of forest.
The Center and partners challenged the U.S. Forest Service's first decision to allow ORVs on the 1,600 miles of roads on the Superior last April because of air, water, and noise pollution; the spread of invasive species; degradation of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness; and failure to protect the lynx and other endangered species. Our challenge was upheld, but since last spring the Forest Service has made no notable changes to its original decision.
Get details in our press release and learn more about the Canada lynx.
Lake Mead Species Threatened by Frankenfish Chemicals
For the sake of endangered fish, human health, and the cleanliness of the largest reservoir in the United States, this Wednesday the Center for Biological Diversity submitted comments opposing the continued pollution of Lake Mead with endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection plans to allow the city of North Las Vegas to discharge 25 million gallons of effluent into Las Vegas Wash and Lake Mead per day. That waste matter is chock full of endocrine disruptors, chemicals that interfere with the body's endocrine system -- which regulates growth, metabolism, and tissue function -- and can damage reproductive organs and offspring and cause developmental and immune problems in wildlife and humans alike. Imperiled fish barely holding on in Lake Mead, like the razorback sucker, are especially at risk.
Last week, the Center submitted a scientific petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate endocrine-disruptor pollution nationwide.
Check out our press release, learn about our Endocrine Disruptors campaign, and take action to help us end endocrine disruptors now.
Bugsicles and Antifreeze: How Insects Survive the Winter
Birds have migration, bears have hibernation, humans have heaters and houses. But have you ever wondered how furless, featherless insects endure subfreezing temperatures so they can live to crawl, jump, and fly another year? Some insects, like the monarch butterfly, migrate just as birds do, while others burrow underground or hide out at the bottoms of lakes. But believe it or not, other insects actually produce antifreeze in their bodies -- like the snow flea, which can be found hopping about all winter on snow banks in temperatures as low as 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Other insects just go ahead and freeze -- but come spring, they thaw out and they're as good as new: The Alaska Upis beetle freezes at about minus 19 degrees but can survive even when the temperature plunges to minus 100 degrees.
Could these insect innovations be the key to long-term human organ preservation? Either way, the sweaters and puffy jackets in our closets suddenly seem a bit less cool (no pun intended).
Read more in The New York Times.
Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Photo credits: razorback sucker by Mark Fuller, USFWS; humpback chub by John Rinne; false killer whale courtesy NOAA; southwestern willow flycatcher by Rick and Nora Bowers; polar bear by Larry Master/MasterImages.org; Barack Obama courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Catherine Szalkowski under the GNU free documentation license; crowd by J.D. Rhoades; black abalone by Glenn Allen, NOAA; Canada lynx courtesy Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; razorback sucker by Mark Fuller, USFWS; snow flea courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Daniel Tompkins under the GNU free documentation license.
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I am so excited, because the very talented and oh so charming K D Grace returns today for Part 2 of her appearance here on The Erotic Mind podcast series. I had such a good time with her last week that I could hardly wait for this week to finally roll around.
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Better Kitchen Organization: File Your Pots and Pans In Drawers!
Looking for a better way to store your pots, pans, and casserole dishes? If you have a deep drawer, set up a vertical "filing" system with the help of a few dividers. Each dish and lid gets its own space, and you don't have to worry about messy, piled-up dishes taking over your cupboards.
Do you have a system like this set up in your kitchen?
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We've featured plenty of camera apps in App of the Day and we've even put together fully-fledged camera app round-ups for the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7. We've covered everything from an app that renders your subject in lego bricks, to retro favourite Hipstamatic and even an app for adding ghostly images to your snaps - we've pretty much seen it all. Or so we thought, until this nifty little gem was brought to our attention.
The Warhol: D.I.Y. POP (iPhone)
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This arty app enables you to create your very own digital silkscreen print, just like pop artist Andy Warhol's famous works featuring stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and er, Chairman Mao.
Using a snap from your built-in camera, or an existing image from your library, you can make your own Warhol-style creation by following the in-app instructions and cropping and painting the image accordingly. Along the way you can view images and videos to get the inside track on Warhol and his techniques.
It was Warhol himself who once quipped: "In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes". And thanks to this new app, you can go one better and get your own 15 days of fame simply by entering your chosen digital print into a competition via Facebook or Twitter, as the winning images will be displayed in The Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh (for 15 days each).
There's also an iPad version on offer, while the the iPhone app can also be used on the iPod touch, as long as you're rocking iOS 4.2 or later.


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Google Knols Beta
If you're already posting on Hubpages, Squidoo, or eHow, you might want to have a look at the new Google Knols. Aside of serving the purpose of an articles site and knowledge base, it seems they're also using it to test their algorithm to sort and rank article sites. Nothing like inside knowledge.
Articles For Links
Here's our current list of sites where you can post educational articles in exchange for links back to your site or course. It's a great way to build traffic. Sometimes the agreement is that you publish the article for "public" use so long as the secondary publisher also posts your article with the link and proper credit. Sometimes the sites are information communities, and readers can't copy your articles, but they're likely to refer to them if the site is known as a credible source. If you do it right, it's a really good way to get the word out about your expertise and your site.
Basic membership allows you 10 submissions. If they like your work, you can qualify for a higher level but paid membership. You can only have text in your articles, so they're good for general information articles, advice, tips, recipes, and other things for which it isn't necessary to have images.
Basic membership allows you unlimited submissions, but each one is reviewed. If they get the impression that you're spamming them (submitting more than 5 articles per day or however many that are drivel) then you're done. So use it wisely, and don't post mini-articles with very little content. Make them worth reading. This site is also text only.
Their web address looks a bit gimmicky, but they are not. They're a well established article and link library that keeps it simple but useful. No permission is given for others to republish your articles. You can post a small image with each article.
Articles Heaven
This is a large article base, and though it's not very pretty, it's very useful. Publishers looking for articles to republish can find yours easily by searching or browsing, without so many bells and whistles that can mess up formatting. Articles should be text only.
If your topic has something to do with self improvement, you can post articles here. No republishing permission. Articles should be in text.
Here, you can submit articles for republishing. They have a neat little copy and paste box where people can copy your articles exactly as they are in HTML, which makes it much easier than some other sites. Because it's easier for webmasters and bloggers, it's a good way to become well known in a short time. Articles should be in text.
This is more than an articles site. It's a writers' community. People can post informative articles, opinions, and photo galleries quickly and easily. You can have multiple photos in your articles, and bonus, they do revenue sharing. So if you're an Amazon.com, Google Adsense, and/or Ebay associate/affiliate already, you just jack your account into your Hubpages account, and you get a cut of whatever they earn from hosting your articles.
Got an article site? Write us to get included on this list. Your article base must not accept spam articles. If I go to your site and see articles that are just ads for casinos or whatever magic pill, you will not be included.


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Depression is a key daily stressor for people with Asperger's Syndrome and this ebook is packed with advice from Aspie mentors who have all been there, done that, and offer suggestions for coping strategies that really work. Temple Grandin, Qazi Fazli Azeem, Ruth Elaine Joyner Hane, and more offer guidance based on their personal experiences of overcoming depression and the ebook ends with professional analysis and recommendations from world expert Dr. Tony Attwood. This inspirational advice comes from the bestselling book Been There. Done That. Try This!, written by Aspies for Aspies, now available in short Aspie Mentor Guides!Two weeks later I received an email from Dr. Tony Attwood. He, too, had a dream on a global scale, to gather all the aoldera Aspies to provide their wisdom to the younger ones. ... We immediately went to work. ... The essays were to be a maximum of 600 words, which would provide quick, concise wisdom to the reader. ... I was thrilled from my Aspie point of view, and started feeling really connected.
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Older News » New Maths Monkey's Quest game availableLast updated 11:19 AM on 23 July 2012
School A to Z has just released an exciting, new maths game app, taking kid-friendly learning to the next level.
Maths Monkey's Quest was created by the NSW Department of Education and Communities and designed for kids from Year 3 to Year 8.
This new release engages children (and adults) with addition, subtraction, ratios and percentages, as they unlock new levels and strengthen their mathematical skills.
At each level the Maths Monkey enters a new world of mathematical challenges, starting at the Jungle level (aimed at Years 3 and 4 students) and working up through:
- Beach (Years 5 to 6)
- City (Years 7 and 8)
- Outback (Years 7 and 8 – more advanced).
Kids can track their personal best scores on the leader board – and challenge their friends and family via multiple player profiles.
The Maths Monkey's Quest is presented by School A to Z, which provides lots of practical help for parents of school-aged children.
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Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Bibliography for Harvard University, Houghton Library,
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Seymour de Ricci, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940. (Reprint 1961). MS cited vol. 1, p. 974.
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Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers
This refreshing cocktail works well with spicy foods.
- 2 parts Maker's Mark® Bourbon
- 2-1/2 parts mango nectar (make sure you get a brand with fewer than 15 grams of sugar per liter)
- 1/2 part fresh lime juice
- 1/2 part ginger beer
- Dash Angostura® Bitters
- Cubes of freshly cut mango for garnish
- Pour the Maker's Mark® Bourbon, nectar, lime juice, ginger beer and bitters into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
- Shake vigorously for about 25 seconds.
- Strain into a cocktail glass or serve over ice.
- Garnish with 3 cubes of mango spiked on a 5-inch wood skewer.
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The Propane Education & Research Council has joined Onsite Power Systems Inc., along with the University of California-Davis, in testing a new biodigester technology that could result in environmental and economic advantages, including the possibility of becoming a new renewable fuel source.
The biodigester project kicked off with a June 29 demonstration at the university that was attended by government officials from California. PERC contributed to the purchase of two propane-fueled boilers; a low-emission, California Air Resources Board-certified propane engine; and a generator for the project.
"We look forward to seeing where this technology will take the energy industry," said PERC Director of Agriculture Programs Mark Leitman. "PERC is honored to be part of the development of a new technology that can improve both the environment and the economic conditions for those in agriculture as well as other industries."
Biodigesters can produce a renewable energy source and potentially reduce the costs and amount of waste added to landfills.
Biodigesters use bacteria to convert animal wastes, plant material referred to as green waste, and food waste to biogas, a form of methane. The Onsite Power Systems biodigester is testing a new two-step process that produces both methane and raw hydrogen from green waste and food waste. The hydrogen can be marketed as a fuel source for use in fuel cells or motor vehicles and sold as an industrial product. The biodigester can produce an estimated 22 therms of high-quality biohydrogen and biogas from one ton of food waste or green waste.
Biodigesters use propane-fueled boilers to maintain internal heat at the temperature required to promote optimal bacteria growth and the most efficient natural breakdown of wastes. Propane also can serve as a reliable backup energy source for the types of biodigesters that run off of their own energy production.
"Our biodigester will use propane to augment the system's own generated energy because it is necessary to keep the temperature stable for the hydrogen-producing phase," said Dave Konwinski, Chief Executive Officer of Onsite Power Systems, Inc. and project manager for the UC-Davis biodigester. "It is more economical and reliable to use propane, because propane burns at a more stable temperature and is readily available."
According to Konwinski, propane is also critical to the reliable operation of the engine generator in the biodigester. "Propane is the sole fuel source for starting up and shutting down the system," he explained. "Propane's portability and ease of use in remote locations also makes it a great fuel source for the use of biodigesters in the agriculture sector."
"Renewable energy is a new frontier for agriculture," Leitman said. "New energy sources such as biogas could boost our economy and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Propane has the opportunity to support this new technology because it is available across the country, it supplies efficient and reliable heat, and it is environmentally friendly."
PERC's vision in agriculture is that, by 2010, the agricultural industry will recognize propane as a preferred energy source offering exceptional value. This value is achieved through a unique combination of product benefits, including cost-effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, reliability, portability, and environmental friendliness.
For more information on PERC and its programs to promote the safe and efficient use of propane in agriculture, call (202) 452-8975 or visit www.agpropane.com.


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By Peter Becker
Managing Editor
The need for school safety drills and plans has heightened in the nation's violent climate of recent times, a far cry from the old norm of fire drills and ducking from the perceived threat of the Cold War's atomic bombs a half a world away.
Dr. Joann Hudak, Assistant Superintendent at Wallenpaupack Area School District, briefed the School Board Jan. 14th on the District's safety protocol, and plans for further preparedness. The mass casualty at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, Dec. 14th, created an opportunity for Wallenpaupack administrators to review the plans already in place and updated over the years.
Large exercises have been held in recent years at Wallenpaupack to allow emergency responders, faculty and administrators to practice. These include a mock bomb incident and a mock shooting. Recognizing their value and the need to continually update themselves, a multi-responder "Code Red" drill is being planned for this March. A mock shooter exercise is tentatively being planned for August.
She commented that the mock shooting exercise held five years ago was the most dramatic that their staff has experienced, and took some time for them to recover.
In their safety plan, emergencies of a mores serious nature are classified as "Code Red" and involve specific instructions for the teachers and other staff. This may involve running with their students to safety or "hunkering down." She added, "We haven't drilled Code Red with the kids. It can be traumatic." Students are taught, however, to listen to their teacher and do what they are told.
Code Green
Recently added to the plan is "Code Green" which involves emergencies of lesser impact. This might include keeping the children in their classroom while ambulance workers arrive and take away someone in need of medical care, or why drug-sniffing dogs are taken through hallways.
Safety procedures are in place for natural disasters and other emergencies other than related to crime, such as severe weather. There are also regular crises that the District must address. including domestic issues. Hudak said that matters involving child custody cases, particularly in the elementary schools, are increasing.
She highlighted the good relationships that have been fostered with the local State Police, fire departments and other emergency response agencies. Good communication is key, and is being strengthened. Last spring, PA State Police, Blooming Grove, sent 16 newly transferred troopers to the School District to be given tours of the facilities. Local fire companies were recently given a tour of the District's new energy plant.
Not designed for this
Facilities had to be reviewed. Wallenpaupack's schools, she said, were not designed to keep people out. Built in a different era, the schools were made as a welcoming place, with easy access. No more.
Stricter policies are in force, limiting which exterior doors are used. Intercom and monitors are in place. Children are monitored while they are outside. Staff must wear photo identification.
"Our schools were not built like a fortress," she said.
Many other procedures are in place, including numbering outside doors and locking them when school is in session to telephones in place in every classroom.
All of the administrators have been trained and certified with the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which highlights four modes, Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery.
She said they are reviewing what else they can do to improve, and are open to suggestions.
Hudak took a moment to reminisce when she was in school and they had drills for an atomic bomb attack. "We got under our desks and put our hands over our head," she said.


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This exhibition explored the experiences of Black British dancers from 1946 to 2005 and highlighted their contributions to British dance.
There is a variety of different dance forms practiced in Britain today, such as jazz, contemporary, ballet, hip-hop and African People's Dance. Some of these have come to Britain along the many different routes taken by the families of today's Black British citizens, many of whom came from the Caribbean in the late 1940s and 50s.
Some of these dance and music forms travelled along the transatlantic slave trading routes from Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean on their way to Britain. Others have come direct from Africa with recent Commonwealth immigrants.
Although the actual dances are different from one another, they have qualities in common such as multiple rhythms, and high energy presented in a cool way. When Black Britons have suffered from racism, dancing has offered a powerful means for affirming positive ways of being Black.
The exhibition included a display about the influential dancer Elroy Josephz.
Image © Elroy Josephz archive, courtesy of Sue Lancaster and Steve Mulrooney
This exhibition was developed by De Montfort University and York St John University. It has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Men's Soccer
- This week's matches:
- Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. (A) – King
- Saturday at 4:00 p.m. (A) - Pfeiffer
- Last week's matches:
- Anderson (W)- 2-1
- The Cobras picked up a win against Anderson University last week in their only match of the week. This week the Cobras will open Conference Carolinas play on the road against King College and against Pfeiffer University.
Women's Soccer
- This week's matches:
- Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. (A) – King
- Saturday at 2:00 p.m. (A) - Pfeiffer
- Last week's matches:
- Clayton State (W) – 3-1
- Newberry (L) – 4-0
- Last week the Coker women picked up an impressive 3-1 victory over regionally ranked No. 7 Clayton State. This week they will begin their final season of Conference Carolinas play against King College and Pfeiffer University.
Women's Volleyball
- This week's matches:
- Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. (A) – Francis Marion
- Friday at 7:00 p.m. (A) – Mount Olive
- Saturday at 2:00 p.m. (A) – Barton
- Last week's matches:
- UNC Pembroke (L) – 3-0
- Queens (L) – 3-2
- Pfeiffer (W) – 3-0
- Last week the Cobras earned a straight set victory over Pfeiffer and began the Conference Carolinas portion of their schedule going 1-1. This week they will take on local rival Francis Marion and two more conference opponents, Mount Olive and Barton.
Men's & Women's Cross Country
- This week's meet:
- None
- Last week's meet:
- Winthrop Invitational- Women – 29th, Men – 22nd
- The Coker cross country teams had good showings in the field of primarily Division I teams at the Winthrop Invitational last week. This week they will not have a meet in preparation for their run at the UNC Charlotte Invitational on Sept. 28.
Women's Golf
- This week's tournament:
- None
- Last week's tournament:
- Anderson Invitational- 3rd Place
- The Coker women had an impressive start to their season last week, coming in third at the Anderson Invitational. The women shot their best round as team ever in program history, 321, during the second round of the tournament.
Men's Golf
- This week's tournament:
- Kiawah Island Invitational at Kiawah Island- Sept. 17-18
- Last week's tournament:
- None
- This week the Coker men's golf team will head to Kiawah Island for the 9th Annual Kiawah Island Invitational hosted by USC Aiken. This is the first tournament of the season for the Cobras. Last season, the men finished 11th as a team at the Kiawah Invitational and Jake Murphy finished 10th overall.
Important Upcoming Events
- Golf Outing at Homecoming – Friday, Oct. 5 at 1:00 p.m.
- Cost is $75/golfer or $250/team of four
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- Taste of Coker – Monday, Oct. 8 at 6:00 p.m.
- Tickets- $15/individual, $30/couple & $40/family, children 10 and under free with paying adult
- Tickets are available at the Coker Athletics Office or by calling 843-383-8073
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Darwin's Sanitized Idea
PBS's Evolution is an exercise in Creationist appeasement.
Evolution, the glitzy seven-part PBS miniseries airing Sept. 24-27, is surely the most comprehensive presentation of Darwin's theory yet offered by the American mass media. Its motto may be best expressed by Chris Schneider, a Boston University biologist interviewed while collecting specimens in the Ecuadorean rain forest: "Darwin really got it right!" And in its exploration of topics like the role of natural selection in battling HIV and the importance of sex to genetic diversity, Evolution repeatedly demonstrates the wide applicability of Darwin's theory.
But PBS's mainstreaming of Darwinism also trims back some of the theory's more controversial implications. Evolution flatly denies equal time to Darwin's religiously based rivals, Creationism and intelligent design theory, yet the program repeatedly argues that evolution and religion are compatible. If you eat Darwin's theory for your main course, Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould and others seem to say, you can have religion for dessert. (Slate's Robert Wright has accused Stephen Jay Gould of abetting Creationism. Click here for the charges.)
In this, Evolution fits into the modern "science and religion" reconciliation movement. The leading booster behind this trend has been Sir John Templeton, a retired financier who has, to be blunt, more money than God. Templeton's foundation funds institutes, research, and conferences, and presents the annual Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, an award deliberately set at a monetary value exceeding the Nobel Prize and frequently given to a religious scientist. This year's prize went to Dr. Arthur Peacocke, an Oxford physical biochemist and Anglican priest and a "leading advocate for the creative interaction of theology and science." The quotation comes from a Templeton press release, but is copied verbatim in Evolution's promotional materials: Like Gould, Peacocke is a spokesman for the series.
In the actual series, however, it is the Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller who serves as the most outspoken proponent of a Templetonian reconciliation between evolution and religion. The author of Finding Darwin's God but a fierce foe of Creationism, Miller describes himself as "an orthodox Catholic and … an orthodox Darwinist." In Evolution's first installment, titled "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," we watch Miller in church, bowing his head and holding out his palms as a priest intones, "Our Father, who art in heaven …" Miller's notion of God? "He's the guy who made up the rules of the game, and he manages to act within those rules."
Miller and Gould's reconciliationist position seems custom designed to answer fundamentalist claims that by teaching evolution the public schools inculcate atheism. After the Columbine High School shootings, for example, the House Republican whip Tom DeLay warned that we should expect more tragedies so long as "our school systems teach children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized [sic] out of some primordial soup of mud." Reading quotations like that, it's easy to see how evolutionists would worry that, in a country where over 90 percent of people believe in God, evolution had better find some way of getting along with religion.
Yet the fundamentalists seem to be exactly right about the religious implications of the study of evolution. Sure, Kenneth Miller can separate his scientific research and his religious beliefs. But few top scientists actually do so. In 1998 in the journal Nature, the historian Edward Larson and Washington Times religion writer Larry Witham reported the results of their survey of the religious views of National Academy of Sciences members. Nine out of 10 were atheists or agnostics, and among NAS biologists, just 5.6 percent believed in God, the lowest percentage for any scientific field. Larson and Witham quoted the Oxford scientist Peter Atkins: "You clearly can be a scientist and have religious beliefs. But I don't think you can be a real scientist in the deepest sense of the word because they are such alien categories of knowledge."
Atkins' point comes across clearly in Evolution's final segment, titled "What About God?" The documentary visits the evangelical Wheaton College and interviews science students struggling to reconcile what they know of evolution with their fundamentalist upbringings. The students come across as genuinely intellectually motivated, and they ask good questions, but Wheaton lays down clear parameters for their discussions. The college requires all its faculty members to sign a statement affirming their belief in the literal existence of Adam and Eve. Given this dogmatic precondition for intellectual inquiry on its campus—where one student describes endorsing evolution as "like coming out of the closet almost"—Wheaton actually counts as a rather stunning counterexample to the notion of a reconciliation between science and religion.
Evolution's attempt to divorce Darwinian science from atheism, though well intentioned, is finally naive. Darwinism presents an explanation for life's origins that lacks any supernatural element and emphasizes a cruel and violent process of natural selection that is tough to square with the notion of a benevolent God. Because of this, many students who study evolution will find themselves questioning the religions they have grown up with. What's insidious is that Evolution allows fundamentalists to say this, but not evolutionists. The miniseries interviews several experts who could be expected to oppose the reconciliation outlook, notably Daniel Dennett, author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and the Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, who has written, "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist." But neither Dennett nor Dawkins gets much of a say on the topic of religion.
Evolution closes its first and last episodes with a reading of the last sentence of On the Origin of Species:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
The series repeatedly frames this passage as evidence of Darwin's "fundamentally religious" view of nature. But later in life Darwin explicitly disavowed this view of nature's "grandeur." Furthermore, the words "by the Creator" only showed up in the second edition of the Origin, released several weeks after the first. Why this change? Because after Darwin came under vicious attack for his views—science versus religion—he went back and stuck in references to God as a form of appeasement. Evolution, possibly unaware of the Origin's different texts, uses the original sentence at the close of "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" but the more godly version at the close of "What About God?"
After the publication of the Origin, Darwin steadily grew even more skeptical. In his autobiography, begun in 1876, he puzzled through various arguments for the existence of God, but finally concluded, "I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic." PBS never cites this passage, perhaps because it puts Darwin far closer to Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins than rare theistic evolutionists like Kenneth Miller. The series strives to present a charming picture of a scientific theory that leaves religion relatively unchallenged, but Darwin's life itself suggests otherwise.