![]() If your detector is wired or plug-in, you’ll want to look at devices that have a battery backup power source in case your power goes out because that’s often when leaks go undetected. However, there are some things to keep in mind. The choice of what you get is up to you-it’s mostly a matter of preference. Some detectors are much more sensitive to low levels of gas than others, which could save you precious time in an emergency.Ĭarbon monoxide detectors can be wired, battery-powered, plug-in, or some combination of both. Pay close attention to how sensitive it is and what levels of carbon monoxide it can detect. Of course, the most important thing is that your carbon monoxide detector is accurate. What to Look for in a Carbon Monoxide Detector Accuracy When narrowing down our choices, we considered detectors that test carbon monoxide and gas that were the most accurate, easy to use, and came with digital compatibility without being expensive. When selecting the best carbon monoxide detectors, we started by speaking to Chuck Roydhouse, retired professional firefighter and former President of the Chimney Safety Institute of America, to get his advice on what to look for in carbon monoxide detectors. How We Selected the Best Carbon Monoxide Detectors We also had an emergency medicine physician from our Medical Expert Board review the contents of this article for medical accuracy surrounding carbon monoxide poisoning and how to evaluate carbon monoxide detectors. We researched dozens of carbon monoxide detectors and evaluated them for their price, battery life, accuracy, ease of use, and additional features to find you the best carbon monoxide detectors on the market today. When looking for a carbon monoxide detector, consider cost, battery life, ease of use, and accuracy. “Carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, without a carbon monoxide detector, you may not know you’re being exposed to carbon monoxide until it’s almost too late,” Roydhouse explains. Installing (and maintaining) carbon monoxide detectors in your home is one of the best ways you can protect the health and safety of your family.Įvery year, according to the CDC, at least 430 people die of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning and around 50,000 people visit the emergency room due to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. “Carbon monoxide poisoning is the second leading cause of poisoning in the home-that’s how serious it is and common it is,” explains Chuck Roydhouse, retired professional firefighter and former president of the Chimney Safety Institute of America. Help protect your family from the poisonous gas with CO and smoke detectors from First Alert, the most trusted brand in fire safety.Carbon monoxide detectors are essential to home safety because not all sources of gas are obvious and a gas leak can be impossible to detect on your own. First Alert offers a variety of CO detectors to meet your family’s needs: Detectors should be tested monthly, and batteries replaced at least every six months to ensure the detector is functioning properly. The National Fire Protection Association recommends installing a carbon monoxide detector on every level of your home and inside each bedroom. ![]() Carbon Monoxide SafetyĬarbon monoxide gas can only be detected by a CO alarm. Carbon monoxide detectors are the only way to detect this poisonous gas to help provide an early warning. Sources of carbon monoxide are any fuel burning devices, such as your stove, furnace or water heater. What is Carbon Monoxide?Ĭarbon monoxide (CO) is an invisible, odorless and tasteless poisonous gas. First Alert carbon monoxide alarms include battery, plug-in and tabletop options.
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![]() Watch the CBS Evening News interview with Fr. The daily podcast episodes, which run about 22 minutes long, can be started at any time, and can be found on any podcast app or on Ascension’s Bible in a Year YouTube channel. People of all walks of life have shared testimonies about overcoming addictions, returning to the sacraments or converting to Catholicism, renewing marriages and many more incredible stories.” “By the grace of God, this podcast has helped nearly a half-million people rediscover a biblical worldview – a worldview of hope in God’s love and Divine will. Mike at an Ascension press event last fall. “Many of us are distracted and distressed by the battles we face everyday in the Church, in the culture and in our country,” said Fr. He says that he has heard from many listeners about how living with a “biblical worldview” has changed their lives. Mike Schmitz) is coming to you thanks to many collaborators including: - Fr. Mike promises that listeners will “encounter God’s voice and live life through the lens of scripture.” As he unpacks the meaning of the text, he sometimes ties the readings to situations listeners may be facing in their lives, such as infertility, problems in relationships, and struggles with faith. This sought-after guide to the award-winning podcast The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike.Īt the beginning of each podcast, Fr. Instead of simply reading the Bible from beginning to end, the format connects the Old Testament to the New Testament in such a way as to better reveal “the big picture of salvation history.” A typical episode in the beginning of the year will include two readings from the Old Testament, a psalm, and conclude with a reflection on the reading by Fr. ![]() The program follows a reading plan inspired by The Great Adventure Bible Timeline, developed by Cavins. With the help of Ascension Press and Bible scholar Jeff Cavins, the “Bible in a Year ” podcast was born. He then decided that he wanted to create a podcast so he could share that gift with others. “I realized it was grounding me in a unique way,” the told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Mike says he came up with the idea for the podcast in 2020 during the pandemic lockdown, when he began reading the Bible daily. He told CBS Evening News, “So that doesn’t surprise me, what surprises me is that it was the one that I did that was helpful or successful in this particular way.”įr. Mike was reluctant to take any credit for the program’s success. When asked whether he was surprised by the podcast’s popularity, Fr. He can be known only as He is revealed to the heart by the Holy Spirit, and any attempt to bring Him down to the level of finite comprehension loses sight of His solitary excellence and transcendence. Tiny vibrating strings cannot define God and neither can the tiny vibrating machinations of the human mind define and confine Him. Eleven dimensions cannot confine God, nor can eleven million dimensions. God's relation to string theory is simply the fact that if string theory is true, God created it. And since we are confined to our four dimensions, gaining access to other dimensions would only occur through God's divine will. String theory deals with particles on such a microscopic level that it's doubtful the components will ever be observed. A theory is generally considered scientific if it can be tested, observed (like the stars), and/or predict new scientific discoveries. But possible doesn't mean true.Īnother issue with string theory is that, so far, it is a mathematical exercise, not necessarily science. It's possible that He made eleven dimensions so that He could work directly in our world, or even so that the fine nuances of our cosmology would operate correctly. But if the cosmos is made of eleven dimensions and God made the cosmos, there's no reason to think He'd be confined to eleven dimensions any more than He'd be confined to four. We will never understand His depth or how He moves in the world because we do not have access to all the dimensions He lives in.ĭoes God live in eleven dimensions? The Bible doesn't say. The inhabitants would be able to float around the shape to get an idea of its two-dimensional form, but they would never understand the concept that the shape actually lifted up off the paper into the dimension of depth. If a three-dimensional box were to interact with the two-dimensional world by bouncing across it, the inhabitants would occasionally see a point (as the box landed on a corner) or a line (if the box landed on a side or an edge). Everything, no matter its two dimensional shape, appears as a line segment. The classic illustration is that of two-dimensional characters who live on a sheet of paper and can only see their world on that paper. He is timeless, we can't see Him, and He interacts with our world in ways that do not make sense to our limited four-dimensional thinking. Some have used this idea of a cosmos made of eleven dimensions to explain how God exists outside of human existence. The other seven are compacted so small that we cannot see them. We interact with four of these dimensions-time, and the three spatial dimensions. According to the latest derivative, M-Theory, the strings "live" in a world made of eleven dimensions. How these strings vibrate determine what their visible physical attributes will be. It posits that at the most fundamental level, all subatomic patterns are made of tiny bits of vibrating string. String theory is one candidate for this all-encompassing explanation. For that, physicists need a "Theory of Everything." Relying on two theories to describe the cosmos is neither simple nor elegant. ![]() Quantum theory only works on the subatomic level. The theory of relativity only works on "large" objects like stars, planets, people, and grains of sand. Since Einstein's time, physicists have attempted to reconcile the two theories. ![]() Quantum theory arrived shortly after, attempting to explain how electricity and magnetism are related to the weak nuclear force (radiation) and the strong nuclear force (which bind protons and neutrons in an atom's nucleus). ![]() Einstein developed the theory of relativity to describe gravity, time, mass, and light. In physics, a beautiful theory is one that is mathematically simple and explains as much as possible in an apparently accurate way. What is string theory? Is string theory connected with belief in God? ![]() In us, they found a group with unique experience and valuable, diverse perspectives. In Valve we found a group of folks who, to their core, feel the same way about the work that they do (this, you may be surprised to learn, doesn’t happen every day). From the day-to-day production of our last game, Firewatch, to the way we run the company, make merchandise, meet players at expos and shows, send out a quarterly literary journal, throw open-to-the-public game demos in the middle of an artificial forest-all of it is geared towards surprising, delighting, and entertaining the customers who have shared in our success. Furthermore, and perhaps more accurately, we really like making and producing entertainment. First, we really like making video games. ![]() If you’re the type of person who gives two flips about this news, we can elaborate a little bit on this big decision. SAN FRANCISCO–LOS ANGELES–LONDON–SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN ENGLAND-The twelve of us at Campo Santo have agreed to join Valve, where we will maintain our jobs as video game developers and continue production on our current project, In the Valley of Gods. We hope you like how it looks on a shirt as much as we do! Here is Claire’s fantastic final vector version of the logo. deciding whether the “Watch” glyph should have “feet” flourishes (green)īy the end of the third day, we’d settled on a design we’re very proud of.making the cut in the shield shape more pleasing (red).adjusting the gutter width so they are not identical (yellow).The characters look great now! Then the attention went to how to resolve some of the harsh points in the graphic, in terms of just the visual design: making sure all three glyphs take up about equal amount of space.making the middle “Fire” character symmetrical.It was fun and educational for me, as someone with elementary Chinese penmanship, to sit down and try to analyze and articulate why some of the glyphs looked like “a kid wrote it.” It was also a fun exercise for me to give Claire, our art director, some direction notes for a change! ![]() I’ve never had to think about Chinese characters as a design, but as someone who can read the language, I knew it didn’t “feel” very finished. Claire, who doesn’t read Chinese, made a pretty great first attempt, seen in the lower right above. ![]() Luckily, we are only attempting to create 3 relatively simple glyphs, all three of which are the same in both simplified and traditional Chinese, so we decided to try to do it ourselves rather than outsourcing it.įor reference, Jake, Claire, and I picked out three existing Chinese fonts that we thought were closest to the feel of Verlag, our English font. We began to play around with the idea of having a properly thought-out Chinese logo to go with the localized title.Ĭhinese typography presents fascinating and challenging problems here’s a great article about the breadth and complexity of the art form. When we began working with Tencent on a localized Chinese voiceover, it was natural for us to suggest as the official localized title. This was long before we had ever decided Firewatch would have a simplified Chinese localization, but the name stuck with me. I grew up in Hong Kong reading Chinese, and I thought the localized name was well chosen-because while it mostly suggests “fire lookout” (which doesn’t specifically imply “firefighting”), it also allows a more ominous interpretation of “person watching the fire burn.” I first considered a Chinese localized name for Firewatch when I gave a talk at GDC China 2015, and they had translated the session title as (word for word, this is “Watch Fire Man”). ![]() I’ve read that running VNC over a compressed SSH tunnel will help performance. Windows Remote Desktop/rdesktop (logs off server GUI, so unusable for remote pairing).It’s a great option if you are connecting to Linux) NoMachine NX (server only runs on Linux.Timbuktu Pro (no faster than VNC, and had refresh issues).Apple Remote Desktop (which is really just VNC too, and just as slow and unconfigurable).The built in VNC server in OSX (slow and unconfigurable).Your mileage may vary.Īlternatives I’ve tried and found to be inferior: ![]() They seem to be slow and crash a lot (both RealVNC and TightVNC). I’ve not been too impressed with the VNC linux servers or clients. There are several other mac clients such as VNCThing and VNCDimension, but they don’t work on my mac for some reason, and don’t seem to have any more features than Chicken of the VNC or RealVNC.Free RealVNC is OK, but it doesn’t do scaling.Chicken of the VNC is OK, but it doesn’t do scaling, and doesn’t allow you to specify ports via the double-colon syntax (only displays, which means you have to do math if you are ssh tunneling).RealVNC does not have this problem, so it’s probably a better client in this situation, even though it doesn’t allow configuration of all the above options like UltraVNC does (at least not from the GUI). UltraVNC client has a bug where it scales, but will still not show any more width than one of the client’s monitors, even though you make the window bigger. ![]() Windows Client for a server with a dual monitor and a client with a dual monitor: Zip/Tight Compression enabled, set to 9.256 colors (less colors don’t seem to help that much).If you are not using the UltraVNC video hook on your server, then UltraVNC is still a good client, with these settings: If you are using the UltraVNC windows server with the video driver hook, then you should use the UltraVNC client, with the “Ultra” encoding and 256 colors, with CopyRect and Cache encoding enabled. Windows Client for server with a single monitor: The “WinVNC Current User Properties” I use for the UltraVNC server are: If this happens, you can fall back to the Tight protocol on the client. This seems to be due to network or CPU issues, because it works great most of the time on most machines. However, sometimes you get screen redraw issues with the video driver hook. UltraVNC with the Video Driver Hook seems to work best it’s almost as fast as Windows Remote Desktop, but it requires that you use the UltraVNC client, which is only available for Windows. Turn on shared VNC connections if you want. OSXVNC (Vine Server) with default settings. I’m using the term “server” to mean the machine running the VNC server, and “client” to mean the machine running the VNC client. CPU also makes a big difference – performance on an iMac is a lot better than on a Mac mini, especially the 1.6Mhz mini. Remote pairing is pretty usable unless bandwidth is causing problems. If you are on a LAN, other options will be better (and you should just get on the same machine as your pair anyway!). ![]() This is specifically for working over a WAN. Here’s a quick writeup on what I’ve found to work best. I am a remote employee at Pivotal, so I do a lot of remote pairing, and I’m always trying new options. ![]() Read the values recommended by your exposure meter for a given scene. Aperture settings come in values called the f-stop, or f-number, that range from values as low as f/1. You may make one of these exposure calculators for your own use, but commercial reproduction is prohibited without express permission from Ed Buffaloe. This works pretty well for focal lengths around 50mm. If you don’t have a light meter and wish to estimate your exposures, see my article on Estimating Exposure. This calculator computes effective aperture as: lens aperture × (1+ Magnification). There is anĮmpty circle on the calculator so you can fill in times for another film. Note that even though Tri-X is usually rated two stops faster than T-Max 100, at exposures above 15 minutes T-Max 100 is actually faster. See the example below: if your meter shows the correct exposure to be 1/2 second at f/16, and your pinhole has an effectiveĪperture of f/360, your reciprocity-failure-corrected exposure for T-Max 100 would be 8.5 minutes, and development should be decreased to N-1½. Of your pinhole and read the correct exposure for the type of film you are using. ![]() They do not calculate the aperture which. So the aperture f-stop to get the same depth of field would need to be f/2.6. They calculate the largest aperture that will give barely passable sharpness. When you take a meter reading, rotate your calculator until a convenient f-stop on the outer ring lines up with the recommended shutter speed on the first inner ring of the dial, then go to the effective f-stop To calculate the f-stop needed it does 4 / 1.53 2.61 f/2.6. Attach the center dial to the calculator with a brad or thumbtack For a truly permanent calculator, dry mount the images to matte board or laminate them in plastic. To calculate the aperture area use the formula A (D / 2), where D is the aperture diameter (mm), or the formula A (n/ (2 f)), where n is the. of shutter speeds and f / stops are shown on the calculator. If you did not understand that, don’t worry, because there is a much easier explanation of it for beginners. The calculators on different meters are quite similar in that they consist of one or more. ![]() Then click here (or on the image above), print the center dial of the calculator, paste it onto another piece of board and cut it into a circle. The f-stop, which is also known as the f-number, is the ratio of the lens focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil. Print the image above and paste it on a piece of matte board (or other cardboard). A Christmas gift for you It is Free from 19th to 25th. Use your matte board cut-outs for purposes such as mounting pinholes and making exposure calculators. It is very helpful when taking a long time exposure photograph. The Secure services can scan your devices, protect from threats, filter your traffic, and block inappropriate content and ads for $29 a year. It has a well-designed mobile app with features like built-in parental controls, Internet pause, app-based cloud management, and optional eero Secure+ services. It allows you to get good performance from your Wi-Fi without worrying about picking the correct settings.Ĭhoosing an eero system has a lot benefits. The good news is, the eero system is very smart and picks good defaults. eero is a better fit for someone who just wants to plug it in and not worry about their Wi-Fi anymore. Nearly everything is set to an implied “auto” setting. As a networking nerd, I was disappointed with the number of settings I could change. That shows you how simple it is to setup, but also how little control you have. If you want Wi-Fi 6, consider the Amplifi Alien or the Netgear Orbi RBK852.Įero’s How It Works page basically says “plug it in” and that’s about it. If you know your networking and want more customization, consider Ubiquiti. Once it’s setup, there are very few options to worry about. Setting up an eero system with their smartphone app only takes a few minutes. ![]() Like a lot of those other companies, eero makes mesh simple. ![]() D-Link, Netgear, Ubiquiti, Google, and others all make mesh kits. If spending $600 and up on your home Wi-Fi seems like too much, a good tri-band Wi-Fi 5 system is what you want. Unfortunately, most mesh companies have not come out with Wi-Fi 6 products yet, and the ones that are available are expensive. Wi-Fi 6 is the latest generation of Wi-Fi, and will be the best, most future proof devices you can purchase right now. One downside to eero is their lack of Wi-Fi 6 support. Getting a tri-band system can be a bit more expensive, but if you are looking for the most reliability and performance you can get, you should consider a tri-band system like the eero Pro or Netgear Orbi RBK50. That can lead to slower performance and higher latency when under load. A lot of popular mesh systems like the AmpliFi HD, Netgear Nighthawk MK62, and the cheapest eero kit lack a third radio. Dual-band devices lack a second 5 GHz radio for communication between the main base station and mesh nodes. This refers to how many radios they have, and can have a big impact on their performance. One big thing to look for when shopping for a mesh kit is whether they are dual-band, or tri-band. Smaller houses or apartments can usually be covered with a single access point, and that can actually be more effective than mesh networking. Before you throw your existing router away and get a mesh kit, you should try moving your router to a central location. ![]() If you don’t have Ethernet cabling in your house, or want a simple way to get better Wi-Fi, it’s worth considering a mesh system. Mesh systems are good for larger homes or old buildings with plaster, brick, or concrete walls. However, mesh networks usually come with tradeoffs - usually higher latency and lower maximum speeds. This broader coverage is the main appeal of mesh networking. The mesh nodes relay the signal, allowing it to reach further. With mesh networking, you can easily have multiple access points, or mesh nodes. As you move away from your access point, your signal gets weaker and the speeds get slower. The access point takes your wired internet connection and turns it into a wireless signal. Typical home Wi-Fi routers, like you get from your Internet provider, have one wireless access point. ![]() Travis Armknecht is a high school English, journalism and speech teacher and the adviser of GCAA Student Media at Grand Center Arts Academy in a 6 through 12 visual and performing arts charter school in the heart of St. Since this was a bit complicated for some students to follow, I created this brief walkthrough above to show them how to do it and uploaded it to our Basecamp so they could always review it if they forgot. BUT, if they uploaded from the Photos app using the share sheet (the little square with the arrow sticking out of the top of it that can be found throughout the Apple ecosystem), the phone would automatically convert the image to a jpg during the upload. If a student opened the Google Drive app, navigated to their staff folder and then uploaded within the app, the images retained the heic format. We discovered that how a photo was uploaded to Drive made all the difference. They all have the Drive app on their phones to upload photos to shared folders where the editor and I can access them. While at first I thought it had to do with the phone model, it turned out it all had to do with how the kiddo initially uploaded the photo to Google Drive. While trying to find a solution, I discovered that some staff members with iPhones had to convert their images, others did not. Students use their phones for photography when it isn’t efficient to run to find me and get a key to the equipment cabinet to borrow a camera, or when the cameras are both in use by other staffers, or when they just need a few mugshots. Granted, all of this could be avoided if students didn’t use their phones for photography, but I have to DSLR cameras to loan out and, let’s face it, the best camera is the one you have on you at the time. There are plenty of websites that will convert the files to jpg but since we primarily house our photos in Google Drive, that added an extra step requiring students to download the photo from Drive on their computer, upload it to the conversion site, redownload it and then finally upload it to WordPress or our yearbook site. While it is possible to turn the format off by going to Settings>Camera>Formats and selecting Most Compatible, most will probably prefer to keep their phones on the High Efficiency format to save space. This format is also what allows a user to pick an individual frame from those live photos to use as a still image. The High Efficiency Image Container file format is what allows iPhone users to save live photos (essentially mini videos) without completely killing their storage. In 2017 with the rollout of iOS 11, Apple introduced a new default format they used to save photos. ![]() The culprit we discovered is the HEIC file. 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Join an off-trail hike and learn about William Holden Mill, the first North Carolina governor to face impeachment. Call to register everybody will meet at the Dumont Drive Access. These are free events! Call the Eno River Association at 91 or click here for more info.Ħ25 Virginia Cates Rd, Hillsborough managed by staff at the Eno River State Park Office, 6101 Cole Mill Rd, Durham, 91, website:Įvergreen Scene-Thursday, January 12, 1–2:30pm. Learn all about the evergreen plants during a 1.5-mile hike along the Chestnut Oak Trail. Winter Tree Identification Hike-Thursday, January 26, 4–5:30pm. Learn how to identify leafless trees during a 1.5-mile hike, ending with a viewing of a lovely sunset at the overlook. Pinecone Bird Feeders-Saturday, January 28, 11am–noon. Meet at the picnic tables and learn how birds survive the winter. Call to register everybody will meet at the Hillsborough address Help them along by making feeders out of pinecones. Occoneechee Mountain Geology and History Hike-Saturday, January 28, 1:30–2:30pm. Learn some local geologic history, discover the four summits, and see the habitat for the mountain’s elusive butterflies. Call to register everybody will meet at the Hillsborough address.Įxplore the night sky and peer at the galaxies through one of five Meade LX200 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes owned by the Duke Teaching Observatory on Friday, February 10, 7–9 pm. Don’t forget your face mask.Įxplore the night sky and peer at the galaxies through one of five Meade LX200 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes owned by the Duke Teaching Observatory on Friday, February 17, 7–9 pm. Don’t forget your face mask.Įxplore the night sky and peer at the galaxies through one of five Meade LX200 GPS Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes owned by the Duke Teaching Observatory on Friday, February 24, 7–9 pm. Click here for instructions on finding the site on W Cornwallis Rd (plus a link to a map you can use). Don’t forget your face mask.Longer days and warmer temperatures mean it’s time to get outdoors! It’s free if the weather is iffy, check their Facebook page to see if this “Open House” is cancelled. |
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