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Yahoo
10 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Rescue team saves hiker 100 yards deep in Lava Tube cave at Snow Canyon State Park
IVINS, Utah (ABC4) — A rescue team lifted a hiker that was 100 yards deep in a Lava Tube cave at Snow Canyon State Park on Saturday. On May 31, crews from Santa Clara-Ivins Fire & Rescue, along with Washington County Search & Rescue, responded to Snow Canyon State Park to rescue an individual stuck 100 yards deep in a Lava Tube cave. The rescue was considered technical — requiring a High Angle Rope Rescue team to extricate the individual. The rescue took around four hours to complete, officials said. Crews conducted another rescue the same day. A hiker had reportedly ran out of water in triple-digit temperatures. This heat-related emergency took around one hour to complete, officials said. For a detailed guide on hiking safety, visit the National Park Service website here. Garage on Beck's 'Last Dance': Saying goodbye to an SLC staple What is a Powertrain Warranty and What Does it Cover? Rescue team saves hiker 100 yards deep in Lava Tube cave at Snow Canyon State Park Allgaier takes the win in NASCAR Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway Best Minivans for 2025 Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Irish Independent
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Faye Shortt: ‘Some people say to me, 'would you not just buy with your fella?' But being financially independent is my goal in life'
Today at 21:30 Faye Shortt is a comedian, actor and content creator. The 26-year-old studied screen acting at the Bow Street Academy and trained at the Gaiety School of Acting. While living at home in Limerick during the pandemic, she started writing and performing online sketches with her father Pat Shortt, the actor and comedian best known for D'Unbelievables, Killinaskully and the film Garage.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Red pen politics: 7 vetoes Gov. Bob Ferguson made in the Washington state budget
Gov. Bob Ferguson using a red pen to partially veto a bill on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Photo by Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero/Washington State Standard) Before Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed the next state budget on Tuesday, he vetoed a few dozen spending provisions scattered throughout its 1,366 pages. The plan he approved lays out $78 billion in spending over two years. The roughly 55 items he removed add up to around $22.3 million in savings. He zeroed out funding of contracts to nonprofits serving foster youth, college students, immigrants, and seniors. He canceled spending for studies and work groups. Ferguson's veto message, containing an itemized list, spans 15 pages. Here are some of the targets of Ferguson's veto pen. The Garage is a cafe where high school students can drop in after school and receive tutoring, counseling, or case management services. It will lose $300,000, or roughly one-fifth of its budget. If the dollars cannot be made up through private donations, the center will look at reducing its services for teens. The reduction would have a 'massive impact' in the community, said KayLee Jaech, the group's executive director. The governor wrote in his veto message that supporting programs and services for youth is important, but cited budget constraints. Mentor Washington has been recruiting, training and providing support for mentoring programs for at-risk youth in Washington using $1.55 million in contracts with the Department of Children, Youth and Families. About half is getting spent now on a pilot effort focused on foster youth. Lawmakers shaved $1 million of that sum in the budget they sent Ferguson. While he noted the significant reduction for the 'valuable' program, he axed the remaining $550,000. 'We need to find a way to regroup and reconfigure what service looks like moving forward,' said Jolynn Kenney, executive director of Mentor Washington. Centro Cultural Mexicano in Redmond provides services for low-income, immigrant, and Spanish-speaking residents in King and Snohomish counties. They will lose a $200,000 state grant, which helped connect clients with health care, financial coaching, small business assistance, internships, and home buying services — all at no cost. Free services like this help support communities, Ferguson said. But he said that due to the budget challenges, this program was something the state couldn't afford. Refugee Women's Alliance provides services to refugees and immigrants, including an ice skating lesson program for preschoolers from diverse and low-income families. They will lose the $200,000 the Legislature allocated for the skating program. They have previously received money from the state and have also partnered with the Seattle Kraken and One Roof Foundation. Political conservatives were sharply critical of this grant-funded program on social media. The governor said that while youth enrichment opportunities like this are beneficial, this one needed to be cut because of the budget deficit. A year ago, the state Board for Community and Technical Colleges received $257,000 'solely for the creation of a Hospitality Center of Excellence' at Columbia Basin College in Pasco. It launched in January with its leadership drawing up a game plan to strengthen ties between culinary programs on campuses with hospitality businesses and organizations. A key goal was to develop best practices and strategies for workforce education and training in the industry. Not now. It will close up shop in July. Though the Legislature did budget $408,000 for two years of operation, Ferguson deemed the 'worthwhile endeavor' not affordable and crossed it out. The state Department of Ecology won't get $816,000 of Climate Commitment Act proceeds to assess Washington's siting and permitting authority around potential wind energy projects in federal waters off the state's coast. The agency was also going to look into the ecological impacts of such undertakings as part of a broad analysis. 'Given the current federal administration's position on offshore wind, this work is less time sensitive,' Ferguson wrote in his veto message, adding he is 'committed to continued dialogue with coastal Tribes regarding the future of offshore wind projects.' Meanwhile, Ecology did receive $338,000 to develop 'planning, engagement, and evaluation tools for effective ocean management and offshore wind energy development.' And Ferguson left $500,000 in the budget to contract with 'a nonregulatory coalition' in Seattle that wants Washington to be able to receive power from future floating wind projects off the West Coast. How many places in Washington market themselves as 'senior independent living' communities for individuals aged 55 years and older? Lawmakers put $80,000 in the budget for the state Department of Commerce to come up with an answer. And, by July 1, 2026, the department was to make recommendations on creating a registry of senior living locations as a consumer protection move for residents and prospective residents. Not going to happen. 'Supporting our seniors is important to me but I am vetoing this item because of the state's significant fiscal challenges and funding cuts from the federal government,' Ferguson wrote to lawmakers in his veto message.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Jay Leno Pilots 1913 Mercedes in California, Calls It the World's First Supercar
⚡️ Read the full article on Motorious Jay Leno, longtime car enthusiast and host of Jay Leno's Garage, recently got behind the wheel of a remarkable piece of automotive history: a 1913 Mercedes 3795 Double Phaeton Torpedo. Equipped with a massive 9.6-liter engine and chain drive, Leno believes the vehicle may qualify as the world's first supercar. The drive took place on public roads in Southern California, where Leno showcased the engineering marvel on video for his YouTube channel. 'This is automotive royalty,' Leno said while navigating the coach-built antique through traffic. 'It's unlike anything you'll find today, yet it still feels at home on the road.' The car, built more than a century ago, is powered by a 580-cubic inch (9.6-liter) four-cylinder engine producing approximately 95 horsepower—an extraordinary figure for its era. Capable of reaching speeds near 100 miles per hour, the Mercedes shattered performance expectations at a time when most cars barely exceeded 30 mph. What makes the car particularly special is its exquisite coachwork by renowned French designer Henri Labourdette, known for crafting bespoke bodies for elite automobiles. The Double Phaeton's sweeping lines and torpedo-shaped tail reflect the opulence and ambition of pre-World War I motoring. Despite its immense size, Leno described the drive as smooth, noting the car's ability to keep pace with modern traffic. 'The steering is heavy, but it tracks straight and the ride is surprisingly comfortable,' he said. The Mercedes 3795 is one of the rarest surviving examples of early high-performance motoring—a time when supercars were born not in labs, but in the minds of ambitious engineers and master craftsmen. Leno's experience serves as a powerful reminder of how far automotive innovation has come—and where it all began.
Business Times
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Times
A*Star makes electronic design automation tools more accessible to companies
[Singapore] Local companies, especially start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), now have more cost-effective access to advanced Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. Such tools are specialised software suites used to design, simulate, analyse and verify semiconductor chips virtually – before they are fabricated. They ensure that the designed chips meet performance requirements and eliminate errors in the design process. The software suites are the result of a collaboration among the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), Enterprise Singapore and EDA companies Cadence, Keysight and Synopsys. EDA Garage, the name of the initiative, was unveiled on Wednesday (May 21). Under this programme, local companies can purchase flexible, pay-per-use tool licences, and the three EDA companies will be on hand to provide training and support in their use. CM Engineering Labs Singapore, which develops radio frequency and analogue integrated circuits (ICs) for wireless communication and sensing applications, is the first company to get on board EDA Garage. The company creates its own intellectual property (IP) and provides design services to its customers; it also works with its customers on feasibility studies, coming up with initial designs and developing complete ICs. BT in your inbox Start and end each day with the latest news stories and analyses delivered straight to your inbox. Sign Up Sign Up As a small company that self-funds these projects, CM Engineering hopes that the tools in EDA Garage would enable it to develop innovative, competitive, high-speed mixed-signal IPs for emerging applications. Company director Annamalai Arasu Muthukumaraswamy said: 'It's exciting to be the first participant, and it gives us the opportunity to contribute to improving the programme. Perhaps we can help fine-tune it based on our experience. 'Our goal is to develop competitive chips using the EDA tools, and we hope to collaborate with different companies to develop complementary IC solutions.' EDA Garage was unveiled by A*Star at the inaugural 'Innovate Together', an event on the programme of the ongoing SEMICON Southeast Asia 2025, a conference for industry, academia and the public sector of the semiconductor industry. EDA Garage aside, A*Star's IME launched two other initiatives. One was the world's first industry-grade 200 mm silicon carbide open research and development (R&D) line for 200 mm silicon carbide wafers, which are used in electric vehicles, radio frequency devices and 5G communication systems. The initiative expedites R&D by bringing the development and pilot manufacturing of such wafers under one roof; before this, researchers and companies worked with multiple facilities, making the process fragmented, said A*Star in a separate statement. The third initiative extends A*Star's 200 mm R&D and manufacturing line, which focuses on piezoelectric micro-electro-mechanical systems technology. This programme, which started out as a partnership between A*Star's IME, STMicroelectronics and ULVAC, will now be expanded to include the A*Star Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and the National University of Singapore. This technology can potentially be used in technology such as ultrasound imaging devices, miniature speakers and smartphone cameras. A*Star's chief executive Beh Kian Teik noted that Singapore currently contributes to around 10 per cent of the global semiconductor output, and 20 per cent of semiconductor equipment production. He added that the semiconductor industry now accounts for 6 per cent of Singapore's GDP, and provides some 35,000 high-value jobs. '(To stay ahead), A*Star and our academic institutions (will) work closely with multinational corporations, SMEs and startups to drive innovation, build the local ecosystem, and create high-quality jobs, (as) Singapore (makes) a concerted, coordinated and forward-looking push to anchor deep-tech innovation in semiconductors,' he added.
