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“The Darkness Manifesto” tracks how light pollution has increased insomnia, depression and even obesity: Leptin, the hormone that controls appetite, works in conjunction with melatonin, the light-sensitive hormone that tells us when to sleep. “They are all interrelated too, so it threatens the whole system.” “And with every species studied, you find that light has some effects,” he said. The book was published in Sweden in 2020, and over the past couple of years, the subject has exploded, he said. When Eklöf, who also runs a consultancy that includes advising companies and governments on how to minimize their light pollution footprint, began doing research for “The Darkness Manifesto,” the diverse impacts of light pollution had yet to be extensively studied. Even coral, which in Australia normally reproduces once a year when December’s full moon induces it to release a “snowstorm” of male and female sex cells, is getting confused disoriented by artificial light, the gamete release is no longer synchronized, diminishing reproduction and contributing, it is thought, to coral bleaching. On one Australian island, the light was so disruptive that wallabies, whose gestation is normally triggered by the summer solstice, ended up giving birth so much later in the season that food had run out. Tricked by outdoor lighting, urban trees stay green longer than their rural counterparts. Newly hatched sea turtles head inland toward the city’s glow rather than to the moonlit sea. They haven’t gotten their nectar (and transported the plants’ pollen around), haven’t found a partner, and haven’t laid any eggs.”īut it’s not just insects. Even those that survive “haven’t achieved their night’s goals. “Many of them die before dawn, sometimes of sheer exhaustion,” Eklöf writes. As “The Darkness Manifesto” explains in fascinating - if terrifying - detail, all living organisms are governed by light-sensitive circadian rhythms that, if disrupted, can unleash effects that range from an impaired sense of direction (pity the poor dung beetle, who, unable to see the stars that help it navigate, can’t get its nutrient-rich ball of excrement home) to mass executions (witness the fate of the swarm of grasshoppers that, drawn by the beam shooting from the Luxor casino, descended on Las Vegas in 2019, only to end up like so much lifeless confetti cluttering the Strip).Īs anyone who has ever watched moths circle the porch light endlessly can attest, artificial bulbs can be fatal to insects. But the impact of all that light goes far beyond impeded stargazing. Today, one-third of the world’s people cannot see the Milky Way, on even the clearest night. By 2016, a full 80 percent of the global population - and 99 percent of the population in the United States and Europe - lived under light-polluted skies. 14, is a wide-ranging exploration of humanity’s troubled relationship with darkness, and the damaging effects of our drive to overcome it.Īstronomers first began using the term “light pollution” in the 1960s, and today it most often refers to the persistent glow that emanates from cities after dusk, blocking out the stars and tinting the night sky an orangish-gray. The resulting book, “The Darkness Manifesto,” which came out in English from Scribner on Feb. That research soon led Eklöf to investigate how other species are affected by artificial lighting - including the species responsible for installing floodlights in churchyards. Together with his adviser, Jens Rydell, Eklöf launched a new bat census and discovered that in 30 years - the average bat’s life span - fully half the area’s colonies had disappeared. “I started to think, how do the bats actually react to this?” Eklöf says. In the intervening years, however, those churches - whose belfries are famously appreciated by the winged mammals - had been illuminated with floodlights. The surrounding grounds were dark, as they had been decades earlier when his academic adviser had tallied the bat populations in the region’s churches. The zoologist Johan Eklöf began to consider the disappearance of darkness in our brightly lit world in 2015, when he was out counting bats in southern Sweden. It was a rare occasion when both men were right. Returning to Bob’s songs when he, McGuinn and Chris Hillman had all written a clutch of strong songs for their next album was a step backwards, he argued. David Crosby, though, argued against it the Byrds had already covered Dylan six times on their first two albums, and their previous record, Fifth Dimension, hadn’t featured any Dylan at all. The group’s manager, Jim Dickson, suggested the song, and Roger McGuinn approved of the choice. The decision to cut My Back Pages was contentious within the band. It’s their recording of My Back Pages from 1967’s Younger than Yesterday. The band’s best Dylan interpretation isn’t Tambourine Man, though, nor Chimes of Freedom or You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere, nor even the two separate versions of It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (though I’m very fond of the 1969 recording – the slow one that’s on The Very Best of the Byrds). They – even before Hendrix transformed All Along the Watchtower – raised the Dylan cover to an artform. The band’s opening statement, its recording of Mr Tambourine Man, stands not just for their own career, but the entire genre of folk-rock. I do love Notorious Byrd Brothers and Sweetheart of the Rodeo too (at least if you programme it so that you use the outtake recordings with Gram Parsons’ vocals, rather than the ones with McGuinn’s impression of him), and I’d perhaps agree that nothing on YtY is quite as breathtaking as Goin’ Back or Hickory Wind, but what Younger than Yesterday has in its favour is My Back Pages.Īmong the very many things they were, the Byrds were the finest interpreters of Bob Dylan’s music, covering more than 20 different Dylan songs, with few clunkers among them. The predominance of Chris Hillman songs (he has four solo writing credits and a co-write on So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star) does make Younger than Yesterday a bit of an outlier in the Byrds’ canon, but those songs are actually pretty strong, Have You Seen Her Face and Time Between especially, and Younger than Yesterday is by a nose my favourite Byrds album. Younger than Yesterday saw the Byrds pulling in every direction they knew how to: Beatle-ised Dylan covers, embryonic country rock with psychedelic touches, lysergic folk-rock, a jazzy torch song, driving rock ‘n’ roll with jazz trumpet, another one of Roger McGuinn’s rather goofy sci-fi songs, a ’65 Beatles pastiche and, in the shape of David Crosby’s much-maligned (rightly maligned) Mind Gardens, Indian raga. “4PM In Calabasas” is about 5 seconds longer (slightly extended outro?).As a KanyeToThe thread points out, “Jodeci Freestyle” is also 20 seconds shorter than the original. Cole and I believe that it is the right, responsible, and respectful decision to remove the lyric from the song.”Īccordingly, the line remains censored on the version just brought to streaming services. “This was a learning lesson for both of us, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to try to right this wrong. Individuals with autism have brilliant and creative minds, and their gifts should not be disparaged or discounted,” he wrote, on the OVO blog. “I share responsibility and offer my sincerest apologies for the pain this has caused. Shortly after Cole’s apology, Drake issued a statement of his own. What makes the crime worse is that I should have known better.” “I was instantly embarrassed that I would be ignorant enough say something so hurtful. Last week, when I first saw a comment from someone outraged about the lyric, I realized right away that what I said was wrong,” wrote Cole, on his Dreamvillian site. “In a recent verse on the song ‘Jodeci Freestyle,’ I said something highly offensive to people with Autism. After acknowledging “there’s a part of me that resents” the recent pressure put on rappers to apologize for lyrics deemed offensive, Cole went on to state that his letter was sincere and that his apology was necessary. On July 21, Cole issued an apology to people with autism in response to a petition that collected more than 4,500 signatures. Roughly one month later, Drake decided to remove the autism line following backlash from the autism community. “Jodeci Freestyle” was released on Jas part of a four-track drop on the OVO blog, alongside “The Motion,” PARTYNEXTDOOR’s “Over Here,” and Drake’s remix of Migos‘ “Versace.” I’m artistic, you niggas is autistic, retarded It hurt my feelings so much," she stated, while choking back tears.Go check the numbers dummy, that’s just me gettin' started He's a very smart rapper and I understand the artistic expression and everything, but this right here is so irresponsible. Cole is that he's a very intelligent man, he went to college, he graduated top of his class. I hope you accept my sincere apology."Īctress Holly Robinson Peete, whose eldest son is autistic, this week expressed disappointment in the song, telling Access Hollywood she was "devastated when I read it, I had to read it like five times and try to find some other context where this could make sense, 'cause everything I know about J. He continued, by addressing the parents of autistic children: "You deserve medals, not disrespect. I’m bound to make mistakes in my life, but in my heart I just want to spread love." He went on to say that he wants to educate himself and that he accepts full responsibility for his "embarrassing" mistake. "To anyone suffering from autism, either mildly or severely, I am sorry. "You have every right to be angry," said Cole in a very personal blog post. Cole on Sunday night posted a lengthy response to recent criticism over the words to his collaboration with Drake, "Jodeci Freestyle." The song lyrics, which grabbed the attention of the advocacy organization Autism Speaks, were slammed for poking fun at autism: "Go check the numbers dummy, that's just me gettin' started/ I'm artistic, you n-s is autistic, retarded." Four Swords revolved around working together to complete the overall mission, like in single player Zelda. They’re pretty different from Four Swords, obviously. In my opinion, there have been three different nearly perfect multiplayer Mario games over the years, and it’s way past time they all got collected in one place, remastered in HD, and made playable online. It will never stop baffling me that Nintendo hasn’t seen fit to port that game to Switch with online multiplayer, but more to the point, where is Four Swords equivalent for Mario? It was cumbersome with all the Game Boy Advance cables and stuff, but once you got it working, it was brilliant. It worked so well because it took the established gameplay of a classic Zelda game and built a multiplayer only experience around it. I keep bringing up Four Swords Adventures because it’s some of the most fun multiplayer gaming I’ve ever experienced. But some would argue that the best multiplayer is the stuff that’s designed to be multiplayer from the get go, especially when it’s built out of familiar single player mechanics. games have provided an adequate version of that. As far as being able to play through a Mario adventure with a child or loved one, the New Super Mario Bros. But it does give players that good old fashioned Mario platforming action in a multiplayer format, and that's really what it’s all about, right? If Super Mario 3D World only worked in multiplayer, it would be intentionally limiting its audience. What’s both brilliant and limiting about these games is that the multiplayer element has to co-exist with the single player game. A step in the right direction, but far from the perfect multiplayer Mario experience. Super Mario 3D World took the “adventuring with friends” thing a step further by letting 4 players run through an isometric environment where everyone has plenty of floor space to occupy. It was kind of fun for a bit, but it ultimately turned to chaos thanks to not being able to occupy the same space at the same time, and depending on who you were playing with, the propensity to want to sabotage your friends at every turn. Wii is still one of the best selling video games of all time, and it introduced the world to playing 2D Mario adventure games with 4 players simultaneously. Today, however, with the exception of Super Mario Odyssey, new Mario games tend to come with some sort of multiplayer mode standard. What about multiplayer mayhem in actual Mario games? Not to sound too much like an crotchety old man, but back in my day multiplayer Mario typically meant taking turns between lives and levels. is a juggernaut.īut those are Mario spinoffs. Mario sports games come and go multiple times per generation. Mario Kart is basically the biggest brand on the planet. It would be ridiculous of me to claim that there’s a shortage of multiplayer Mario games in the world. We often shed small amounts of DNA when we talk, sneeze and touch things. They might investigate a break-in by swabbing the pry bar that was used to force a door, or they might swab a firearm that was used to commit a crime.īut such high sensitivity is a double-edged sword. Investigators might be able to solve a sexual assault, for instance, even if very little DNA were recovered. It is also a positive development because it allows forensic science to help solve a greater variety of crimes. This capability is an incredible technological achievement. Today, they can generate a profile from just a few skin cells that someone left behind when touching an object or surface. Forensic scientists once needed a relatively large amount of material, such as a visible blood or semen stain, to produce a DNA profile. Why have DNA mixtures and trace DNA become so prevalent?ĭNA methods have become extremely sensitive. So here’s a quick primer on DNA mixtures and trace DNA, what makes them difficult to interpret, and what these changes mean for the future of the field. Given the great weight that DNA evidence carries in the courtroom, it is important that lab analysts, criminal investigators, judges, attorneys-and anyone who might sit on a jury someday-understand these changes. More than just an upgrade to the existing tool set, these changes represent a fundamentally new approach to DNA evidence and mark a profound shift in the field. These more complex types of evidence make up an increasing share of the DNA casework in the United States, and labs are rapidly adopting new methods and tools to deal with them. With DNA mixtures and trace DNA, the results can be ambiguous and difficult to understand, sometimes even for the experts. With old-school DNA, the results tend to be clear cut: either a suspect’s DNA profile is found in the evidence or it isn’t, and nonexperts can readily understand what that means. These types of evidence can be far more difficult to interpret reliably than the relatively simple DNA evidence typical of earlier decades. They are also analyzing trace amounts of DNA, including the “touch DNA” left behind when someone touches an object. That profile, sometimes called a genetic fingerprint, can provide a solid lead in a case.īut DNA technology is always advancing, and in the last decade or so, forensic experts have been using new techniques to analyze DNA mixtures, which occur when the evidence contains DNA from several people. If the evidence contains sufficient DNA from just one or two people, forensic experts can often produce a clear DNA profile of the person or people who left it. DNA profiling is an extremely powerful tool for solving crimes. What are you waiting for? Join the game and build your city today! There are over 80 million Dragon Masters in Dragon City. A social city! Join Alliances to battle with other Dragon Masters in Dragon City, chat with them, trade Orbs in the Trading Hub, share in Alliance Gift Events, and open Alliance Chests. Unlock advanced game features like the Ancient World and build the Guardian Dragon Towers. Collect Orbs and empower your dragons: See their strength in battle grow! Summon dragons to your city from a magical world in the Tree Of Life and try their skills. Adventure through the Dragon Quests and play against other Dragon Masters in the game's PvP Arenas to collect one-of-a-kind dragons, claim Warrior's Chests, and climb the leaderboards! Decorate your dragons with cool Dragon Skins from special events. New dragons join the game every week through breeding events and special islands. Complete the Dragon Book! There are over 1000 awesome dragons to breed and collect to make your Dragon City grow! You can also collect dragons from events in the game! Join forces with other Dragon Masters in the game by joining an Alliance! Interact in the chat, participate in Alliance events, trade Orbs, and unlock special rewards.Ĭombine dragons of Fire, Nature, Pure, Legend, and many other elements, to breed unique hybrids and expand your Dragon City collection. Ready to take on the hottest dragon game and collect and breed tons of adorable fire-breathing dragons? Train them to your will, grow your collection, build your city, and prove your might to be the top Dragon Master in the world!īuild a Dragon City on floating islands, fill it with farms, habitats, buildings…and tons of dragons! Breed cute, baby dragons, treat them well and build farms to feed and evolve them into stunning monsters to expand your collection and battle them in the game's PvP Arenas! URL: Process: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\App. My avast free anti virus keeps giving me pop ups saying as above. I first noticed the virus on my own blog, when I noticed words had been turned into links that I had not made links of. When hovering on those words, a pop up add would come up. I have been through all downloads and not noticed anything sus there, I have no updates to do. I did try and download a movie a few weeks ago, so I guess that has been what caused it. I've been getting, "threat has been detected," pop-ups from avast! while playing Mafia Wars at the Facebook website. Process: C:\Users\Dad\AppData\Local\Mozilla Firef.Įven if Zynga thinks it's okay to partner with a company that wants to put destabilizing malware on our computers, why would Facebook tolerate it? Process: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\App. This is the first time I've come across this.Īny chance that these were false positives? My Google Chrome, Firefox and Java versions are all up to date. I can't use Facebook if it's allowing an advertiser to put malware on people's computers, even if it's currently only coming through a Zynga game. This is the avast! warning that popped up when I tried to go to adtegrity's website: A lot of people use avast! and Chrome and/or Firefox. Wouldn't Facebook have policies, procedure and contracts with its business partners to guard against a drive-by download like these?Įdited by hamluis, 02 July 2013 - 04:09 AM. While facebook has had many problems with malware lately, this seems to be a false positive from Avast!: ĭo you also get the popups on other sites? Yahoo is mentioned a lot. The avast! forum thread that your link points to is about avast! warnings about ad., when the user is at. Between a bit of awareness and reliable antivirus software, you can avoid the majority of threats to your computer and personal data.Our question concerns avast! warnings that it has blocked attempts of ad./st?ad_type to download destabilizing malware onto our computers, while we're using Google Chrome (and in my case, Firefox too). Avoid websites and downloads from sources you don’t trust. This will prevent false positive alerts from AVG and Avast, so whenever an idp.generic threat appears, you will know to take it more seriously.Īs for avoiding other threats online, be wary of opening any email from an unknown sender. Enable automatic updates for your antivirus software so that it remains up to date at all times, and do the same for Java. These threats are usually due to outdated software. Antivirus software will remove any and all contaminated files related to the original threat. While it is possible to remove it from your system on your own, this can be a complicated process. If the threat is detected, allow the antivirus software to remove the threat, either by deleting it or quarantining it. You want to use a program that isn’t AVG or Avast in case the problem still lies within the antivirus software itself. If the antivirus software still detects idp.generic, download a program like Malwarebytes or Kaspersky and run a secondary scan. Once you have downloaded the update, restart your computer and run the scan again. If there is a chance this is a false positive identification by your antivirus, take the time to update both Java and your antivirus software. If the file is not attached to anything important, by all means, let your antivirus do its job. Avast Business Antivirus is an award-winning, full-featured antivirus solution for small and medium-sized businesses that keeps devices protected from. If you receive an idp.generic warning, you might be tempted to remove it from your system immediately. How Do I Remove idp.generic On Windows 10? If the name of the file is obviously malicious or does not belong, then the threat is most likely real. Pay attention to the name of the file, too. Executable files in virus scans often mean trouble, because if it truly is a virus, it can infect your system with a host of problematic malware. Unless it’s from a trusted source, you should be wary of opening the file. The second is if the infected file is an executable. If the alert points you here, it’s worth a second look. This is a common destination for trojans and malware. The first is if the infected file is in the temp folder. Here is the tutorial: Step 1: Open Avast on your computer. That said, there are a few clues that the alert might be more than a false positive. You can fix the issue by turning off HTTPS scanning and disabling Avast Web Blocking. When you receive the alert, you should always run a second scan to be sure. You can never be 100 percent certain that idp.generic is not a false positive. When Is idp.generic Not a False Positive? Feedback case 65327 - Moving binary enumeration out of a module causes a syntax error when project is run. My suggestion for a fix would be to have the IDE put all those binary enum outside a module into a new module just for them. If you copy & paste or move one outside a module, you will run into weird compilation errors. For some reason the value property doesn't even show in auto complete: Feedback case 65358 - Binary Enumeration: Value property does not auto complete.īinary Enums can only be defined in a Module, since the IDE can put the class there. Feedback case 65357 - Binary Enumeration: Add Operator_Add. The compiler will query the values as integer, do the add and then use Operator_Convert to make a new enum object. Fruits.Apple + Fruits.Grape, this will fail. If you think about doing a + on the enum, e.g. But you can extend the enum with methods in a module. The class picker won't find the enum as class name. And by the way, although this is a class, you can't subclass it. Of course you may just do the Operator_Convert instead, but I would prefer a simpler class without the Value computed property. Make the constructor also public, so we can define our own methods doing "new Fruits(123)" passing any value ( Feedback case 65359 - Binary Enumeration: Make constructor public). But since we got the class, why does it need an InternalValue private property? Please just use value and let us assign it ( Feedback case 65356 - Binary Enumeration: make value regular property). As you see the Contains function is just another way to do AND operator.Ĭould this be done better? Yes, of course I wold have wished this would have been implemented as part of the compiler using an integer and not a class. And with Operator_Convert the compiler can query the integer value or create a new enum with an integer value. You can do OR, AND and XOR operators, which call the methods. That includes both left and right variants, so the compiler always has one to call. Various operators are defined to do math on the value properties directly. Then the internal value is stored in a private integer property and can only be read using the value property. As you see, this is a class with some shared factory methods to create new instances for the given names. In PaintShop Pro 2023 it’s now been ‘integrated’ as the After Shot Lab (though it still runs in a separate window), so that you can open a RAW file from the Manage window, make your changes and have it opened in the Edit window for regular editing. After Shot is Corel’s RAW processing, organizing and editing tool, which previously operated separately to PaintShop Pro but was needed for more advanced RAW tools. In between, if you’re working on RAW files, is the After Shot Lab. The Manage window is where you browse, organize, search and tag your images, while the Edit window is the photo editing mode. In the Complete workspace, PaintShop Pro 2023 has two windows: Manage and Edit. I’m using the free 30-day trial version, hence the ‘Purchase’ button on the toolbar, but it’s not restricted in any way. PaintShop Pro 2023 can be used in Simplified and Photography modes, but I’m reviewing the Complete mode which makes all the tools available. The PaintShop Pro 2023 workflow PaintShop Pro 2023 tries to simplify things with ‘Photography’ and ‘Essentials’ workspaces, but for the real tools you need the ‘Complete’ mode. The Ultimate edition sounds great value, then, but it includes a lot of stuff you might not want or need which comes with its own separate installers.įor this review, I’m just looking at PaintShop Pro 2023 itself, to see how it stacks up in today’s photo editing market and who it might be aimed at. The standard edition costs £69.99/$79.99 and the Ultimate bundle above adds just £20/$20, taking the price up to £89.99/$99.99. These extras include MultiCam Capture 2.0 Lite, which is a kind of video creation tool (I haven’t tried it), 50 free fonts, Painter Essentials 8 (a cut-down but still useful version of the full Painter package), PhotoMirage Express for animating still images (it’s a bit of fun), a Highlight Reel for automated slideshow and movie creation, a Sea to Sky workspace for enhancing aerial or underwater shots, and a Corel Creative Collection containing brushes, textures and over 100 royalty free backgrounds. PaintShop Pro 2023 Ultimate is actually the same as the regular PaintShop Pro 2023, but bundled with a whole lot more extras, in true Corel style. PaintShop Pro is one of the longest running photo editors for Windows users, starting life years ago as a shareware tool and then evolving first with JASC software and now Corel, into a broad-based image editing suite. Is it worth upgrading to PaintShop Pro 2023?. |