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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Authorities conduct random inspections on semitrucks in Ohio; Here's why
State officials are working to make sure drivers feel more comfortable around semitrucks on the roadway. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] This week, transportation inspectors have been doing random checks on semitrucks during the International Road Check, according to our media partner WBNS-10 TV. TRENDING STORIES: Ohio amusement park releases video of first tilt coaster in action Man accused of committing 'indecent act' at local store arrested Ohio fire cadet dies from medical emergency while training The three-day blitz looks to decrease the number of hazardous semitrucks on roadways. The random checks typically happen at truck stations and rest stops, but inspectors can pull over truck drivers if they notice something looks off, WBNS-10 reported. Inspectors are making sure drivers are coherent and haven't gone past their limit. WBNS-10 reported that drivers are only allowed behind the wheel for a certain number of miles and amount of time. Inspectors are also looking at the tires on semitrucks for any leaks, patches, and low tire pressure. State officials said these efforts directly impact everyday drivers in Ohio, according to WBNS-10. 'We all drive along the highways and drive around semitrucks. These things can weigh up to 80,000 pounds and certainly cause a lot of damage if they get into an accident!' Public Utilities Commission of Ohio spokesperson Matt Schilling said. If the semi doesn't pass the inspection, the driver receives an out-of-service violation. Officials still ask drivers to be mindful while passing any truck. 'Trucks have blind spots. So you need to be mindful when you're passing a truck. Try not to drive along the side of a truck in their blind spot,' Schilling told WBNS-10. More than 1,500 violations and 300 out-of-service violations were issued during last year's road check. Several of the violations were related to trucks transporting oversized loads that were not secured properly or hazardous materials. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
National Post
09-05-2025
- Business
- National Post
'A system in crisis': What you need to know about possible Calgary teacher strike
Article content The proposed terms included a 12 per cent general wage increase over four years, benefit improvements, a new provincewide pay grid, increases in northern allowance and up to a 20 per cent pay increase for substitute teachers, according to a statement from Finance Minister Nate Horner. Article content The province also offered a new classroom improvement initiative, with a $125-million investment scheduled to begin in the 2025-26 school year. Article content 'This agreement would have provided $405 million in new classroom improvements that teachers would have had input on,' Horner said in an email on Tuesday. Article content 'I am disappointed that the Alberta Teachers' Association members did not accept the mediator's recommendation for a four-year central agreement. I hope the ATA will soon return to the bargaining table so that we can continue to work toward the best deal for students, families and parents.' Article content 'That's fine if (Horner) is disappointed,' Schilling said. 'Teachers have clearly spoken and given us direction on the way that they want to go. Article content 'The status quo is not good enough. Being the least funded in Canada is just simply not good enough,' he said. 'We have students who are falling through the cracks. We have students whose needs are not being met on a daily basis, and teachers who are burning out trying to do all of the things that are being asked of them. We need to get back to the negotiating table and see if we can find a path forward.' Article content Schilling said the ATA will work with the provincial executive council and its members for a strategy. 'It is very possible that we will see job action by teachers in the future. Now, when that timeline looks like will be hard to say,' he told Postmedia on Tuesday. 'It could include anything from action in June to the beginning of the next school year.' Article content
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Yahoo
Arrow Lake die shot shows off the details of Intel's chiplet-based design
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Intel Die shots of Intel's Arrow Lake architecture have been published, revealing Intel's chiplet (tile) infused design in all of its glory. Andreas Schiling on X shared several images of Arrow Lake up close, revealing the layout of Arrow Lake's individual tiles and the layout of the cores inside the compute tile. The first photo exposes the full die of Intel's desktop Core Ultra 200S series CPUs, with the compute tile on the upper left, the IO tile on the bottom, and the SoC tile and GPU tile on the right. To the bottom left and top right are two filler dies designed to provide structural rigidity. The compute die is fabbed on TSMC's bleeding-edge N3B node, with a total area of 117.241 mm². The IO tile and SoC tile are fabbed on TSMC's older N6 node, with the IO tile measuring 24.475mm squared and the SoC tile 86.648mm squared. All of the tiles rest on an underlying base tile fabbed on Intel's 22nm FinFET node. Arrow Lake is the first Intel architecture that is fabricated entirely using nodes from a competitor, except for the base tile. The next image shows all of the sub-components for the secondary tiles in Arrow Lake. The I/O die houses the Thunderbolt 4 controller/display PHY, PCIe Express buffers/PHYs, and TBT4 PHYs. The SoC tile houses the display engines, media engine, more PCIe PHYs, buffers, and the DDR5 memory controllers. The GPU tile houses four Xe GPU cores and an Xe LPG (Arc Alchemist) render slice. The final image shows off Intel's latest core configuration for Arrow Lake, which differs from previous hybrid Intel architectures. For Arrow Lake, Intel opted to sandwich the E-cores between the P-cores rather than putting them all in their own cluster, allegedly to reduce thermal hotspots. Four of the eight P-cores reside on the borders of the die with the other four residing in the middle of the die. The four E-core clusters (which house four cores each) are sandwiched between the outer and inner P-cores. Schilling's die shot also exposes the cache layout for Arrow Lake, comprised of 3MB of L3 cache per P-core (36MB in total) and 3MB of L2 cache per E-core cluster, with 1.5MB shared between two cores directly. An interconnect bridges the two L2 cache clusters (and their associated cores) together, which is also responsible for connecting each core cluster to the ring agent. One major upgrade Intel made with Arrow Lake is connecting the E-core clusters to L3 cache shared by the P-cores, effectively giving the E-cores an L3 cache. Arrow Lake is one of Intel's most complex architectures to date and the first from the company to bring a chiplet-style design to the desktop market. That said, Intel's first attempt at a desktop chiplet-based competitor has not been well received, due to latency issues from the interconnect, which is responsible for connecting all the tiles together. Intel is attempting to rectify the issue through firmware updates. Still, its current implementation can't touch AMD's competing Ryzen 9000 CPUs (such as the 9800X3D), nor is it enough to even beat its own previous-generation 14th-generation processors in gaming (such as the 14900K). All that said, moving to a chiplet approach will afford Intel more ways to optimize its architectures down the road, in a more efficient manner. Each tile can be developed independently of others and built with different nodes to improve yields, optimize development, and reduce production costs.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Projected timeline for Jefferson Avenue Footbridge rehabilitation
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The City of Springfield hosted an informational meeting about what residents can expect with the Jefferson Avenue Footbridge Rehabilitation Project. Project manager Nicholas Edelman with The City of Springfield says currently the construction team is working on removing the wooden decking. Edelman says the construction has been a long time coming. 'I know I at least I'm excited to see this project get moving forward,' Edelman said. 'And to to see finally the bridge rehabilitated and and reopen to the public is is going to be an exciting day.' 'I am so excited, we have waited for years for this,' said Christine Schilling who lives and works on Commercial Street. Schilling says the Jefferson Avenue Footbridge is a historic landmark and attraction for people from Springfield and across the country. 'I have seen cars with license plates from all over the country stopping here so that people can see the footbridge,' Schilling said. The Footbridge is a point of interest for many train enthusiasts as well. A livestream of the Footbridge and the trains underneath is even featured as part of the Steel Highway rail cam system. 'I am very excited I have been coming up here once and twice a week to look at the progress,' said Dan Dawson with the Railroad Historical Museum in Grant Beach Park. 'I'm really excited and I can't wait until it gets done.' At the meeting, Edelman detailed the upcoming timeline now that construction is underway specifically the dismantling and moving of the bridge in large sections during the construction. The construction team determined it would be safest to take parts of the bridge down to the ground to restore them, this part of the process will be starting in May. The City is planning a construction kick-off and viewing event during this time, details will be coming soon. The full projected timeline is featured below. For more information about the project, a recording of the informational reading, and a way to sign up for updates on the project you can visit the project website. April – Removal of wooden bridge decking. Begin installation of rail panels and equipment mobilization. Early May – Construction Kickoff & Viewing Event and dismantling of bridge structure May – July – Removal of Towers. Demolition and construction of footings. Removal and replacement of structurally deficient members. July – Encapsulation and removal of paint Late Summer/Early Fall – elevator construction Early Fall – Anticipated reconstruction of bridge span over the tracks Fall/Winter – Finalize stairs and elevator construction Early 2026 – Anticipated completion Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Voters widely oppose taxpayer-funded gender surgeries, revealing Democrat Party's vulnerability: poll
Taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries remain a vulnerable issue for the Democratic Party that most voters oppose, according to a recent survey by the American Principles Project (APP) targeting likely midterm voters. "We wanted to help educate Americans, but mostly legislators, about where Americans or how Americans feel about funding for gender identity programs, specifically in healthcare services, especially in light of Congress deliberating on spending and doing the reconciliation bills and all of that," Terry Schilling, APP executive director, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "We want to make sure that they knew just how unpopular these programs are to fund by tax dollars." The survey, conducted in early April with 1,500 respondents, found that 43% of people who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the last election are against using taxpayer money to fund gender transition procedures, including surgeries and hormone treatments. Watch: Dems Spar With Whistleblower Who Exposed Children's Hospital For Performing Trans Surgeries On Minors "That was a little bit higher than we typically see for Democrat voters," Schilling said. APP is a socially conservative nonprofit advocacy group. During the last few months of President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, his administration released high-budget ads targeting transgender women in women's sports that may have helped move the needle with swing voters, with one ad famously proclaiming "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you." Read On The Fox News App The ad focused on Harris' track record of ushering in sex change procedures for incarcerated people in California. The survey found that nearly 66% of Americans don't think the federal government should be funding gender transition procedures, including puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries. The survey did not differentiate between minors and adults. Trump Admin Warns States To Comply With Housing Prisoners By Their Biological Sex Or Face Funding Cutoff "The higher ups, like the elected officials in the Democratic Party, are going the other way, and it's not going to work out well for them," Schilling said. "Democrats are in a really tough spot. They have to choose between 20 to 30% of the base, which supports paying for gender transitions and surgeries with tax dollars, or the swing voters, which swing voters do not want at all." In 2021, former President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to expand anti-discrimination protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity, including in healthcare. He also reinterpreted Title IX to ensure those same protections applied within educational settings. The administration supported state-level initiatives, such as Colorado's inclusion of transgender treatments in its essential health benefits, under the Affordable Care Act. "I think that the more Donald Trump's been talking about it and bringing attention to it, the more people are going to the Republican side on the issue," Schilling said. Colorado Dems Ram Abortion, Transgender Bills Through On Limited Sunday Session Debate: 'Unprecedented' Another question of the survey asked respondents, "If the November 2026 general election for U.S. Congress was held today, and you knew that the Democratic candidate supports allowing federal tax dollars to pay for gender transition procedures, including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries, would you vote for the Republican or Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress?" Fifty-two percent of respondents said they would vote for the Republican candidate, while 39% said they would back the Democrat. Trump has clamped down on "radical gender ideology" since taking office, cutting all federal funding for gender transition surgeries for minors and through public healthcare. He has also banned biological males from competing in women's sports and mandated that transgender individuals serve according to their biological sex in the article source: Voters widely oppose taxpayer-funded gender surgeries, revealing Democrat Party's vulnerability: poll
