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RNZ News
14 hours ago
- RNZ News
Remand prisoner climbs roof at Otago Corrections Facility
The remand prisoner accessed the roof of a unit at Otago Corrections Facility near Milton. Photo: Otago Daily Times / Stephen Jaquiery Corrections staff are talking with a prisoner who has been on the roof of an Otago prison for more than four hours. The remand prisoner accessed the roof of a unit at Otago Corrections Facility near Milton about 12.45pm on Wednesday. Otago Corrections Facility general manager Dave Miller said the area was contained and within the secure perimeter of the prison grounds. "Staff responded immediately to contain the incident and are currently talking to the man," he said. "There is no threat to the wider security of the prison and no threat to public safety." Fire and Emergency was on site as a precaution given the prisoner was at height, Miller said. Police had offered assistance if required.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
FIW Roundtable: Which Notre Dame offensive player we believe breaks out this fall
With Notre Dame football's fall camp underway, it's pretty easy to look ahead to what could be in store for the Irish in 2025. They'll enter the year with massive expectations, many pundits expecting another berth into the College Football Playoff. The schedule is front loaded, opening on road against Miami, then hosting Texas A&M, both ranked opponents. For Notre Dame to make a return trip to the CFP, they'll need some players to step up and fill voids that were stalwarts last year. The Fighting Irish Wire crew of Tim Healey, Dave Miller and Michael Chen will make their best guesses over the course of the next few weeks as to what this Notre Dame season will show us. Let's start off with who we believe will be a breakout player on offense. Tim Healey - contributor Is it a breakout if Jeremiyah Love does what he did last year, and then some? OK, fine, I guess I have to pick someone who wasn't one of last year's stars. I'm inclined to think that whoever wins the quarterback battle might be the breakout star. Easy answer, I know, but both CJ Carr and Kenny Minchey could be that guy. Carr seems to pass the eye test, and Minchey has knowledge of the offense and running ability. Another possible breakout is wide receiver Jaden Greathouse. He had a solid year last year, but if the new passer is a success, he could take a leap forward. If he does, that would be huge. Notre Dame's passing game wasn't exactly bad last year, but it wasn't as consistently effective as the ground game. If the passing game becomes as much of a threat as the running game, the Irish might be even better in 2025 than in 2024 which is why I'm taking Greathouse. Dave Miller - contributor There probably weren't a ton of college football observers who thought Kenny Minchey would push CJ Carr for the starting quarterback job, but here we are. Fighting Irish head coach Marcus Freeman is expected to decide on a starter coming out of Notre Dame's scrimmage this weekend, and I still ultimately think Carr will be the guy and have success with his surrounding playmakers in this offense. But picking a quarterback is the easy way out. So I'm also going with Greathouse, who finished the 2024 season with two consecutive 100-yard receiving games and three touchdowns. The rising junior shined during the College Football Playoff run, and he has a chance to be a matchup nightmare if he's lined up in the slot. Bringing in Virginia transfer Malachi Fields to the receiving room was huge for this offense, but he's already a proven commodity. Greathouse has a chance to become a household name starting with the season opener at Miami. Michael Chen - site lead While I think that Greathouse is a great pick to breakout, he just seems like the obvious choice to me, so I'm staying away from picking him. There are more than a few others that I considered, like offensive lineman Will Black (too young), wide receiver Will Pauling (new to scheme), running back Aneyas Williams (not enough playing time), but eventually settled on offensive lineman Guerby Lambert. Isn't not a sexy choice, but it's looking like he's playing himself into a starting spot after entering the program as one of the top offensive lineman in the 2024 cycle. Lambert got his feet wet last fall, and while it was a redshirt year, it was put to good use. Getting on the field during the CFP was great, even though it was just on special teams. While offensive lineman coach Joe Rudolph hasn't named his starters yet, the chip above shows him with the starting group. There isn't as much experience with this group as there was last year, and someone will have to step up with the injury to Charles Jagusah. My bet is on Lambert. Contact/Follow us @IrishWireND on X (Formerly Twitter), and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Notre Dame news, notes, and opinions. This article originally appeared on Fighting Irish Wire: FIW Roundtable: Which Notre Dame offensive player breaks out this fall
Los Angeles Times
08-07-2025
- General
- Los Angeles Times
After climber survives gruesome injury in Sierras, it takes five helicopters to rescue her
A solo female climber was nearing the remote summit of California's second-tallest mountain last week when she fell, injuring her leg so badly the bone was sticking through her skin. What's more, she lost her backpack. So, in a span of seconds, she went from nearing a personal triumph to finding herself alone and severely injured on a isolated and unforgiving mountainside with no food, water or extra clothing. That became a potentially life-threatening issue when, shortly after the fall, a line of afternoon thunderstorms rolled through the mountains, bringing high wind, terrifying lightning and buckets of rain. The Inyo County Sheriff's Department's Search and Rescue team, which coordinated the long and harrowing extraction, did not name the woman in a Facebook post on Monday, or provide a cost estimate of the rescue — which involved five helicopters and took two days. A spokesperson for the Search and Rescue team did not respond to requests for comment, but in a social media post they praised the stricken climber's courage throughout the harrowing ordeal. 'Enormous bravery and fortitude was shown by this patient, and all involved were impressed by her ability to remain calm, collected, and alive,' they wrote. Mt. Williamson is in the Eastern Sierras, about 240 miles northeast of Los Angeles, near Independence. At 14,380 feet tall, it stands in a range that towers over the Owens Valley. Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the United States outside Alaska, is a few miles to the south. While Mt. Whitney is extremely well-known and well-traveled — so many people want to climb it that the U.S. Forest Service has to limit the number to 160 a day in peak season — Mt. Williamson is remote and untamed. 'I've climbed it six times and I've never seen anybody else on the mountain, other than the people in our party,' said Dave Miller, a professional climber and owner of International Alpine Guides in Mammoth Lakes. Because of its isolation, and the fact that there is no established trail above 10,000 feet, Williamson is, 'many, many times more difficult' than Mt. Whitney, Miller said. A popular guidebook calls the upper reaches of Mt. Williamson 'a confusing maze of chutes, many of which lead to dead ends.' The Inyo Search and Rescue Facebook post offered no details about the rescued climber's experience, but it did mention that she was climbing 'off-route' in that final, tricky stretch, at about 13,600 feet elevation. 'What gets people into trouble, more than anything, is getting off route and then getting on something harder or looser than they expected,' Miller said. One compelling detail in the post is that the woman was alone in such a remote, and challenging wilderness. As a general rule, hikers and climbers are advised to go to such places in groups and to stick together in case something goes wrong. But experienced climbers 'solo' mountains all the time, and experts agree it can be reasonably safe as long as they stick to terrain that they can handle with ease. And although Mt. Williamson is remote and difficult by a casual hiker's standards, it would not be overly ambitious for an experienced mountaineer to tackle alone, said Howie Schwartz, another veteran mountain guide with decades of experience in the Sierras. 'I don't think it would be an overreach for somebody who was familiar with these mountains and familiar with the area, it could be a good adventure,' Schwartz said. It would be a different story, entirely, for an inexperienced 'city person' who knew little more than what's available on the internet, he said. Whatever her background, the woman rescued last week owes her life to multiple agencies that refused to give up trying to reach her even after bad weather and high elevation pushed them back time and time again. And to a $400 satellite transmitter, called an InReach, that she used to send an SOS message and communicate with authorities despite the lack of a cellphone signal. Soon after receiving the distress call on Wednesday, the Inyo Search and Rescue team requested help from other agencies, and a California Highway Patrol helicopter landed in the small town of Lone Pine and picked up two rescue climbers. 'But dense cloud cover over the mountain forced the helicopter to return without reaching the subject's location,' according to Inyo Search and Rescue's Facebook post. With daylight running out and the storm raging, a call for help went out to the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station. Even the Navy couldn't get directly to the stricken woman, but just before midnight, they dropped four rescue climbers at 10,500 feet — about 2,000 feet below her. By sunrise they had made their way to the bottom of the steep face the woman was trapped on, and they were within shouting distance of her, but they still couldn't reach her. The next day, Thursday, a CHP helicopter managed to drop two more rescue climbers 300 feet above the injured woman. They were able to descend and finally reach her, 23 hours after the ordeal began. But getting to her was only half the battle; they still had to find some way to get her out of there. She was stuck in a 'steep, narrow chute' — like a chimney surrounded by rock walls — that 'exceeded the helicopter's hoist capabilities,' according to the post. So they called the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which has a helicopter equipped with an extra-long hoist cable. That helicopter showed up, but it couldn't reach the high altitude. Another call went out to the military, this time the California National Guard, and an extremely powerful Black Hawk helicopter was sent to the scene. That one was finally able to climb to the necessary altitude and hoist the woman to safety. 'This mission is a powerful reminder of the dangers of high-altitude mountaineering and the extraordinary efforts behind each rescue,' the Sheriff's Department noted on Facebook.
BBC News
12-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Bude centre recycles microfibres from clothes washing
An environmental technology firm has launched a microplastic recycling facility in Seas Group's (CSG) centre in Bude, which received a £1m grant for the project, takes cartridges which it sells to consumers and industrial laundries to attach to their washing the cartridge is full of microfibres, plastics which are shed from clothes in the wash, it is sent by freepost back to are then extracted at the centre from the cartridges and turned into usable materials for construction, packaging, including new domestic cartridges, said the firm. The project has received nearly £1m in funding from the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Good Growth Programme, supported by the UK Shared Prosperity Miller, chief executive of CSG, said the "plug and play" battery-powered filter, which costs £129.99, could be fitted to a washing machine without the need of a cartridge lasts for about 100 washes and consumers can then buy another cartridge which goes into the filter for about £ which was created in 2017, had been selling the filters since 2020, said Mr of filters so far was "in the thousands", he said. CSG estimates once the centre is fully operational it could recycle 86 tonnes of microfibres each year."Microplastic pollution is a global crisis hiding in plain sight," said Mr Miller."It's in our oceans, our food, even our bloodstreams."This facility proves that it's not too late to act, and that we can build commercially viable solutions that protect the planet."The filters are already in use by Marella Cruises, which is capturing an estimated 500kg of microfibres per ship annually, said CSG.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Elliott's Arconic chapter draws to a close, ten years later
One of the longest, strangest, and most profitable activist campaigns in memory has come to a quiet end. Elliott Management partner Dave Miller quietly stepped off the board of Howmet Aerospace last week, closing the books on a corporate battle that captivated and bemused Wall Street and inspired a subplot. Howmet is one of three companies that emerged from Alcoa, the aluminum giant in which Elliott took a stake in 2015. The hedge fund pushed the company to split in two: Alcoa, which mined aluminum, and Arconic, which made things with it. Arconic continued to struggle, prompting Elliott to launch an extremely memorable proxy fight in 2016 that involved the activist mailing video tablets to shareholders to watch its pitch — something HBO writers would later steal as a plot point for Waystar Royco's own boardroom battle. Arconic's CEO responded by couriering a letter to Elliott founder Paul Singer containing vague, and vaguely extortionate references about a fountain serenade during a World Cup trip. Arconic fired its CEO, gave Elliott board seats, spun off a division that was later sold to Apollo, and turned its remaining business into a $64 billion aerospace juggernaut, Howmet. Miller's departure from Howmet's board caps a highly lucrative play for Elliott's investors: the hedge fund's stake was worth around $1 billion in 2017. Eight years later, that same position would be worth roughly $8.4 billion, based on Semafor's calculations. A spokesperson for Elliott declined to comment on the matter. Arconic became one of Elliott's most defining skirmishes, outdone only by a fight at Samsung C&T that indirectly felled South Korea's president, or the time it seized an Argentinian naval ship. It earned Elliott a reputation for pugnacity and persistence — what Singer called 'manual efforts' — that the activist has shed to a certain extent. The hedge fund has only gone full-tilt once in the last 10 years — the current fight at another conglomerate, Phillips 66, which will head to a shareholder vote next week, barring a settlement — although it came close to going the distance at Southwest Airlines last year. Most activist engagements today never become public. That reflects both the growing size of these funds, which now manage tens of billions of dollars and whose correspondingly larger prey requires careful engagement, but also the reality of boards and CEOs today. Companies opt to go activist on themselves through board refreshments, stock buybacks, and a willingness to hold underperforming executives to account. Just as boards have shown a willingness to savage themselves, activists have borrowed from the corporate playbook as well. Most to move quietly, negotiating behind the scenes — a method that saves them time and money. But they don't shy away from a fight, either. Those relatively few fights that now make it to the public eye — Trian and Disney, Elliott and Southwest, Ancora and Norfolk Southern — remain marked by the old pugilism. And activists now have far more tools at their disposal: private investigators, jet trackers, social media monitoring, and things even we don't know about. Meanwhile, companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for sophisticated monitoring software that flags when known activists visit their websites. And when the fights get fierce, CEOs can call on their powerful friends: Jamie Dimon, George Lucas, and the Disney family itself all publicly backed management in Trian's 2024 proxy fight at the House of Mouse. Elliott is inching closer to victory at Phillips 66. ISS endorsed all four of the activist's board nominees, Semafor first reported last night, only the second time in the last 15 years that the advisory firm has backed an activist's entire slate of nominees at a large company. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
