His ship is loaded with those energy-consuming, power-generating, icky Astrophage blobs, like a car running on nuclear fission – a risky business. This human, the astronaut (or, considering where he is, the cosmonaut) “Dr. Basically, the narrator spends much of the novel carefully doing the Math, often reverting to the simplest, most elementary calculation, assumptions and laws of Science, and building on those. Because it’s a calculated process of calculations, a long, detailed, niggling process in which one wrong step can cause death. He does this by describing the reverse-engineering, step by step, in the process of getting to answers to all that. Weir then does what he did so well in his previous novel, The Martian: the narrator gradually reveals the answers to those questions, both to himself and in the process, to the reader. These few lines are packed with mysteries and foreshadowing, immediately causing the reader to want to know what is going on, and what is going to happen next. I meant to say “Leave me alone” – a completely reasonable response in my opinion – but I failed to speak. The soft, feminine voice lacks emotion and the pronunciation is identical to the previous time she said it. I drift back to sleep.Ī few minutes pass, then I hear it again. Something about the question irritates me. This one absolutely grabbed me: “‘What’s two plus two?’ It’s harsh, but if you are standing in a bookshop or browsing online and you open a book and the first few paragraphs, the first words actually, do not grab you, then you drop it and move on to the next book. Novels are often judged on their opening lines. It gets more scary if you do know why you are there. To wake up with a computer quizzing you and probing your tender bits and know nothing, not even your own name, is frightening. It starts off with the narrator waking up from something – somewhere – for some reason. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Publisher: Ballantine Books hardcover 496 pages) Review
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The statement went on to say the company accepted Cal Fire’s finding that a PG&E transmission line caused the Kincade fire, but “disagree with SED’s (CPUC’s Safety and Enforcement Division) alleged violations.” “We will continue our work to make it safe and make it right, both by resolving claims stemming from past fires and through our work to make our system safer tomorrow than it is today,” PG&E said in a statement about the Kincade settlement. Dry vegetation, strong winds, and warm temperatures accelerated the flames, which destroyed 374 structures and injured four people, according to Cal Fire. Last month, the utility was fined $125 million for its role in the 2019 Kincade Fire in Sonoma County as part of a settlement with the California Public Utilities Commission.Ĭal Fire determined the fire was caused by PG&E’s transmission lines. Pacific Gas & Electric fined $125 million for 2019 Kincade Fire The Kincade Fire ravaged Sonoma County, California in October 2019. In 2020, PG&E pleaded guilty to 85 counts, including involuntary manslaughter and unlawfully starting the Camp Fire, the deadliest fire in the state’s history. PG&E has faced scrutiny in recent years over its equipment’s role in a spate of deadly and destructive California fires. CNN reached out to the district attorney’s office for comment. The Dixie Fire investigative report was sent to the Butte County District Attorney’s Office, Cal Fire said. “Regardless of today’s finding, we will continue to be tenacious in our efforts to stop fire ignitions from our equipment and to ensure that everyone and everything is always safe,” PG&E said. “Taking a bold step forward, PG&E has committed to burying 10,000 miles of lines in addition to the mitigations included in PG&E’s 2021 Wildfire Mitigation Plan,” the utility said. PG&E, in a statement, said the tree was one of more than 8 million within strike distance of its power lines. Investigators conducted a “meticulous and thorough” investigation and determined the fire was caused by a tree contacting power lines owned and operated by PG&E located west of Cresta Dam in Plumas County, Cal Fire said in a news release Tuesday. Several firefighters were injured while working to contain the massive swath of flames. The wildfire destroyed 1,329 structures, including much of the small community of Greenville, about 170 miles north of Sacramento. 'We lost Greenville': Dixie Fire wipes out much of Northern California community (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images) Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Officials in northern California on Augwarned residents of two communities in the path of the raging Dixie fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onwards. The Dixie fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in downtown Greenville and continues to forge towards other residential communities. TOPSHOT - Firefighters work the scene as a home is engulfed in flames during the Dixie fire in Greenville, California on August 4, 2021. "Pre-A" 356s are the original models of the 356 series.The 356c is a milestone in Porsche's history. Since the Dutch police used the Porsche 356 a lot, the company kept making 10 more for the police force even though regular production had ended a year before. The many 356 models are described in the table below. During this time period, Porsche manufactured approximately 76,000 vehicles of varying models. The 356 was manufactured for over 20 years, from 1948 to 1965. History of Porsche: The Original Porsche CarĪfter the Allied bombardment of Stuttgart, Germany, Feri Porsche relocated the company to Gmünd, Austria, where the first 50 automobiles were produced. The Type-64 "record car" was the main model for this car, which is why it has the same model number. What is less generally known, however, is that the first car ever made was a prototype called the Porsche 64 (also known as the Type 64 or Type 60K10), which is widely regarded as the first car ever produced by the business that would later bear the Porsche name. Porsche's First Car In 1948, Porsche unveiled the 356-which shared the Beetle's chassis and rear-mounted engine with every 911 thereafter. This led to the production of the legendary Auto Union A-D series automobiles.įerdinand Porsche and the Auto Union Ferry PorscheĪfter seeing his father go to jail for war crimes because he was in the SS and worked on Nazi weapons of war, Ferry Porsche decided in 1948 that he would carry on the family tradition of making cars.įerry Porsche and the Origins of the Porsche Brand Ferry Porsche and the Origins of the Porsche Brand Although Ferdi Porsche had lousy taste in friends, he became close with Hitler, and the Chancellor agreed to split the funding in half between the newly formed Auto Union team and himself. Then, in 1933, Herr Hitler announced a new racing project to boost the German automotive sector, including a 500,000 Reichsmark investment in Mercedes Benz. Audi, DKW, Horch, and Wanderer were all struggling automakers in 1932 when a guy named Klaus von rtsen brought them together to form Auto Union. Did you know, though, that Ferdi Porsche actually developed the first Beetle model in his own living room? The People's Car that was displayed to Hitler in Porsche's pastįerdinand Porsche had a significant hand in creating the first Auto Union vehicles. Even though it was built for speed, the car's performance was limited by the two tonnes of lead acid batteries it had to carry.ĭesigner Ferdinand Porsche is widely known to have worked for Mr. The electric motor in the adapted carriage was powered by a gasoline engine. In 1898, Ferdinand Porsche created the first hybrid vehicle, called the Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid. By the time the Archduke's murder triggered World War I, he had already left the armed forces. The Archduke of Austria, Franz Ferdinand, had him enlisted as his personal chauffeur in 1902. Sir Ferdinand PorscheĪs a child, Ferdi Porsche lived in what was then Austro-Hungarian territory in northern Bohemia. Information on Ferdinand Porsche and the company's early days is provided, as is a guide to the Porsche 356 as well as the whole origin story of the 911's moniker. Take a look if you think you know everything there is to know about Porsche, and if you do, let us know if there are any interesting anecdotes we may have missed. This list of notable Porsche facts was produced in honour of the company's 70th anniversary. Interesting history and facts about Porsche and its founder, Ferdi Porsche Porsche Spyder In the end Game of Thrones had an ending that many people (myself included) considered weak and disappointing, but it was not a red flag when the Mountain was recast. In a production involving dozens and dozens of main characters and a principal cast this large, changes are inevitable. I really dislike overreaction to news like this. Suggested reading after you finish The Wheel of Time WoT spoiler free wiki (Spliki) for new readers Use discretion! 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Kristen says to completely a successfully escape, you not only have to remove the restraint, but also escape from the circumstance of being hung mid-air. When first asked to perform the aerial straitjacket escape which Houdini so often used to promote his theater shows, she said, ”sure, but in its original form is boring and anticlimactic for today’s audience." After all, Houdini escaped the jacket but not the circumstances that had him still hanging upside down in mid-air, of which he would have to be lowered back to the ground and released. Kristen, a real escapologist, has carved out a living, performing her daredevil brand of escapes around the world, live and on TV. Those three harrowing failed attempts prove the real dangers that Twice she suffered hypoxic seizures and blacked out, the third she could not pick the lock inside the lid.Johnson has only been denied the escape three times out of over 2,743 public attempts. Kristen's husband, Kevin Ridgeway, has been at her side for every escape, but is still horrified by the two times he witnessed her struggle before crowds of over 15,000 and 18,000 as she had to be removed from the water cell. It’s a nail biter, watching her during the escape, as she is able to hold her breath under for up to 5 minutes and 2 seconds while methodically picking the padlocks, handcuffs, and leg shackles that hold her in what could quickly become a watery grave. In the case of the Water Torture Cell, she decided to not hide the escape as Houdini and everyone since, but to perform it in full view which has drawn some criticism from purists. Kristen Johnson considered to be the Houdini of the 21st century almost seems fearless, even to the fault of flirting with death, as she has a knack for taking an ordinary magic escape and putting her signature brand on it. Round Rock-Granger tornado: Rated as an EF-2 with winds as strong as 135 mph, it had a 29.3-mile path of damage through Travis and Williamson counties.Kingsbury tornado: Rated as an EF-2 with winds as strong as 115 mph, it had a 7.5-mile path of damage through Guadalupe and Caldwell counties.Elgin tornado: Rated as an EF-2 with winds as strong as 130 mph, it had a 12.1-mile path of damage through Travis and Bastrop counties.But they still managed to tear apart homes and buildings and pull some trees from their roots.įive tornadoes tore through the Austin area March 21, leveling homes and damaging property in seven counties, according to the National Weather Service: According to the Enhanced Fujita scale used by meteorologists, the twisters were on the weaker end of the scale. We survived a half-dozen tornadoes.Īustin already has a reputation for sitting in "flash flood alley," but the year's worst perpetrators of weather-related destruction were the five tornadoes that ripped through Central Texas in March and a sixth one in October. More: Damage reported from tornadoes in Elgin, Round Rock amid severe weather in the Austin area 4. The city's cumulative annual rainfall for 2022 is the lowest since 2011, a year that generated only 19.68 inches of rain. The driest July total was in 19, when zero rainfall was recorded. July's trace amount of rain tied 20 for the city's second-driest July total in more than 120 years of recordkeeping. 17, a period that encompassed the second-driest July ever. The rainfall total isn't surprising, given the year we've had, including 51 consecutive days of no measurable rainfall, from June 28 to Aug. We haven't had a year this dry since 2011Īustin's cumulative rainfall for 2022 was 26.59 inches, which was 9.66 inches below Austin's normal annual rainfall total, according to National Weather Service data. The 2022 average fell only 0.7 of a degree short of the hottest summer, in 2011. The historic level of heat in the summer of 2022 - the calendar months of June, July and August - produced an average temperature of 88.8 degrees, about 3.7 degrees higher than normal, making the season the second-hottest summer on record. The 2022 average eclipsed the previous July record set in 2011 by 0.9 of a degree.
Her focus is on a water filtration system that consists of clay bricks with different geometries and additives that the team is studying to see which are most effective in filtering contaminants from water. Oxford native Chloe Sharp, a rising sophomore at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, is working with Matteo D’Alessio, assistant professor of civil engineering. The program culminates with a poster session where the students present their work. Examples of summer projects include developing a drug delivery device with attention to manufacturing detail development of membranes for filtration and using computational nanoengineering to illustrate protein modeling. The REU, which runs from May to late July, allows participants to join the lab of a faculty member whose research interests align with their own. Katherine Nevils, a rising senior biomedical engineering major from Winnfield, Louisiana, performs a lab demo for high school students during her time in the Nanoengineering Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program last summer. We try to give them a good experience on our campus and give them a reason to come back and do graduate school here.” “Many of the external students don’t even have regional ties. “We want to improve the STEM education outreach and research environment here on our campus – more collaboration, more interactions between graduate students and faculty on our campus,” said Thomas Werfel, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and REU organizer. This is the first summer that the program, which began in 2019, has been NSF-sponsored. The 2023 cohort includes four Ole Miss students and 10 students from institutions across the U.S. “For example, some of our students are from community colleges, where they may have not had the opportunity to conduct research before this experience.” “One of our main goals for the program is to reach underrepresented or under-resourced populations,” said Nikki Reinemann, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and REU organizer. – A program at the University of Mississippi School of Engineering is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to pursue research projects this summer.įunded by a $403,106 grant from the National Science Foundation, the Nanoengineering Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program enables students to participate in a variety of research, professional development and social activities over 10 weeks on campus. Photo by Debbie Nelson/Office of Research and Sponsored Programs The project involves crushing crawfish shells and mixing them into clay bricks. Nanoengineering Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program participants (right to left) Anthony Radka, Elisa Pierpaoli, Yinshan Hong and Elly Strockbine enjoy a crawfish boil to support Chloe Sharp and Hong’s water filtration system project as part of the summer program. So far played all sorts of videos and audio formats, but no pictures. My setup is for children, videos are hand picked, and saved in separate video folders. SSD shows up in media menu > select it > scroll down to folders you created. I am using one terabyte USB C SSD for videos, it is connected to the USB C port inside the centre armrest. The important thing is that the core systems are good: mapping is clear and finding addresses is easy driving instructions are clear and the accompanying visuals make driving with the car's core systems a pleasure.I have rear seat entertainment system. It's a slightly conservative application, especially compared to the full colour mapping offered by rivals Audi with its Virtual Cockpit, but with a consistent theme running across all screens - including rear entertainment screens - it looks good.īut we do like that the iDrive controller exists in some form, meaning that if you've been in a BMW at any point in recent years, you'll probably find the new system intuitive and pretty easy to use. That's evolving now the system is a year old.Ĭockpit Live Professional brings a new modern driver display that's fully digital, allowing a more dynamic view that extends beyond the restrictions of physical dials. There's integration of a number of different systems and with the launch of the new Live Cockpit and BMW Operating System 7.0, BMW is setting out the digital future for its vehicles. The prices for CarPlay come out as: £85 for 1 year, £255 for 3 years, £295 unlimited - although there's also a 1 month trial for £1.īMW is offering a lot of technology through its cars. There's a cost - and even if you opt for the Connected Package Professional (including Remote Services, Concierge Services, Real Time Traffic) you still only get 12 months of Apple CarPlay. The downside of CarPlay on the BMW is that it isn't free. Although, as we get to below, Android Auto isn't a BMW option (well, yet, it's coming mid 2020). Of course, many Android phones support Qi charging, so can also benefit. On the BMX X5, there's a Qi charging pad in the central cubby hole, but it's positioned so that you'd not be able to access your phone when it's in place, which is great for deterring you from fiddling while driving. Importantly, it means you can run CarPlay and leave you phone in your pocket. If you do have a recent phone model, then Qi charging pads provide convenience for wireless charging (if available on your model). Is wireless CarPlay a big draw? It's convenient, yes, but unless you have a recent iPhone model then you might want to plug your phone in to charge anyway. Simple!īoth the BMW 8 Series and the X5 have Live Cockpit Professional, both have a 12.3-inch info (driver) displays, but the X5 has a 12.3-inch control (centre) display while the 8 Series has a 10.25-inch control display - so there are different implementations of the same technologies. The BMW X5 launches with Live Cockpit Professional as standard BMW says that BMW Operating System 7.0 is the platform that underpins it - and the brochure says that Live Cockpit Professional is standard on the X5 xLine trim and above. There are two elements to Live Cockpit: the "info display", which is the driver display and the "control display", which is the dash display in the centre of the car. BMW Live Cockpit, Live Cockpit Plus and Live Cockpit Professionalīefore we get started, let's make it clear that these car systems often get complicated and there are a lot of terms being thrown around by BMW. This isn't totally new - the BMW i8 and BMW i3 both previously had digital displays - but this 'Live Cockpit' is different, ushering in a new era of driver-focused technology for BMW. Back in 2018 we had the introduction of a new digital driver display, working closely with the central display. |
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