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My instance (hilarious chaos) is perfect. But yes, thank you.
Thanks for the concern! And yes, that is good advice.
2·9 天前MOre background:
Karol-Chik and two other men were 18 when they threw rocks at several cars on the night of April 19, 2023. They ultimately killed Bartell when one of the teens threw a 9.3-pound rock through her windshield as she drove on Indiana Street near the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. The rock struck Bartell in the head.
More:
Jurors had to consider shifting and competing versions of the truth offered by Koenig’s former co-defendants during the two-week trial.
No one disputed that a 9-pound (4-kilogram) landscaping rock taken from a Walmart parking lot crashed through Bartell’s windshield, killing her instantly. The issue was who threw it. The only DNA found on the rock was Bartell’s, making the testimony from the other two, Zachary Kwak and Nicholas Karol-Chik, key to the prosecution.
Lawyers for Koenig said Kwak threw the rock that killed Bartell. But Kwak and Karol-Chik, whose plea agreements on lesser charges could lead to shorter prison sentences, said Koenig threw it. Although Karol-Chik said they each threw about 10 rocks that night, Kwak testified that he did not throw any.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Katharine Decker told jurors the damage to Bartell’s car was consistent with Koenig — who is left-handed and was driving — throwing the rock, shotput-style, out the driver’s-side window, as Karol-Chik testified. Even if jurors were unconvinced that Koenig threw it, she told them, they should still find him guilty of first-degree murder as a conspirator.
Koenig’s attorneys said he did not know anyone had been hurt until Bartell’s car went off the road. They also argued that he had borderline personality disorder, affecting his impulse control and judgment.
Defense lawyer Martin Stuart asked jurors to instead find Koenig guilty of manslaughter, the least serious charge he faced, saying he did not knowingly try to kill her. Jurors also had the option of finding him guilty of manslaughter as a conspirator.
After seeing Bartell’s car leave the road, the three friends circled back a few times to look again, according to testimony. Kwak took a photo as a memento, but no one checked on the driver or called for help, according to their testimony.
Bartell’s body would not be discovered until her girlfriend, Jenna Griggs, who was on a call with her when it abruptly cut out, tracked her phone to the field, she testified.
Thanks! Your post was absolutely what I needed… Just a reminder that someone else is out there with a positive perspective. ^^
It is Firday, anyway, and I do a bit of a digital detox every weekend… and this is a LONG weekend, going to spend it with the family and already have a lot of fun stuff planned. Another family may be coming over, and their dad is a punk rocker from back in the day with more tattoos than me (and I got sleeves…!), and I already told him that we might just sit in the living room listening to a bunch of old punk while the kids play… Plus the other good family friends we have just returned from their vacation…
It’s going to be a lovely, long Spring weekend with the tastes of early summer.
So, I will just enjoy the day and have a good, nice detox this weekend, lol. I do not even feel like stepping away right now. ^^
1·9 天前They aren’t lying, though:
IRISH JOURNALIST and RT correspondent Chay Bowes has reportedly been arrested in Romania.
RT, formerly Russia Today, is reporting that Bowes had travelled to Romania ahead of its presidential election on Sunday.
The upcoming election is a rerun after November elections were cancelled amid allegations of Russian interference in favour of far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who is barred from the new vote.
RT has reported that Bowes was “detained” in Bucharest after landing there to cover the election.
Speaking on RT, Afshin Rattansi said he understands that Bowes is “being released on his way to Istanbul”.
From a France24 article on the complexity of this:
The electrical grid is a backbone with complex branches consisting of thousands of interconnected components.
“The grid operators must carefully analyse massive amounts of real-time data like frequency shifts, line failures, generator statuses and protection system actions to trace the sequence of events without jumping to conclusions,” Pratheeksha Ramdas, senior new energies analyst at Rystad Energy, told AFP.
Outages are often caused by a sudden shutdown of a source of production like a power plant due to a technical fault or a fuel shortage supplying thermal power plants.
In recent years, natural disasters such as storms, earthquakes, forest fires, extreme heat or cold sometimes intensified by global warming have damaged infrastructure or created peaks of demand for heating or air conditioning.
Other possible causes include overloads on high-voltage power lines, which force excess electricity to move to other lines, and cyberattacks, which the Spanish and Portuguese governments have ruled out, but which are an increasingly mentioned threat as networks become more digitised.
In Spain on Monday evening, grid operator REE mentioned a “strong fluctuation in power flows, accompanied by a very significant loss of production”.
In Europe, the electrical frequency on the network is calibrated to a standard of 50 hertz (Hz).
A frequency below that level means not enough electricity is being produced to meet demand.
In contrast, a frequency above 50 Hz means that less electricity needs to be made.
Operators have to order power plants in real time to produce more or less electricity according to demand to keep a frequency of 50 Hz.
“Maintaining that frequency is a matter of balance,” said Michael Hogan, senior advisor at the Regulatory Assistance Project, an NGO.
If the frequency moves away from 50Hz, automated protection systems kick in to cut off parts of the grid to prevent damage to equipment in a domino effect.
“Once power stations begin to shut themselves down for protection the situation can quickly get out of control,” Hogan told AFP.
“But… it’s very rare for that to reach the state it did in Iberia yesterday (Monday).”
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How Monday’s problem all started is difficult to determine.
“One of the factors that most likely contributed to the instability is the weak interconnection between the peninsula and the rest of the western European grid, which meant that there wasn’t much inertia in that part of the network to dampen the oscillations on the Spanish side of the interconnection,” said Hogan.
But that is likely only a contributory factor and not the root cause.
“It will probably be the failure of one or two major transmissions facilities, which then cascaded to other connected parts of the network,” said Hogan.
“But what would have caused that initial transmission failure remains to be learned.”
The Tata Group-owned airline is in the midst of a multibillion-dollar turnaround after a period of government ownership, and growth is already constrained by jet delivery delays from Boeing and Airbus. It reported a net loss of $520m in fiscal 2023-2024, on sales of $4.6bn.
Lol the Tata Steel guys are really taking it on the chin the last few years eh.
“The horror unfolding in Sudan knows no bounds,” said Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, in a statement on the devastating impact of the two-year civil war published on Thursday, signalling that the death toll of 542 over the past three weeks was likely “much higher”.
Darfur in particular has been a key battleground in the brutal war that erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has left tens of thousands dead, uprooted more than 12 million and created what the UN describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The RSF, which lost Khartoum last month, has in recent weeks mounted multiple attacks on el-Fasher and the nearby refugee camps of Zamzam and Abu Shouk, triggering an exodus of hundreds of thousands of people 60km (37 miles) across the desert to the town of Tawila.
Yeah I was aware that they lost Khartoum - they must be going wild in the countryside as a response.
More into the actual reasons:
Pedro Sánchez is determined that lessons will be learned and such a crisis will not happen again.
:But energy expert Carlos Cagigal told Spanish TV there was a risk that it might, because Spain’s infrastructure was simply not in a position to cope with all the renewable energy being produced.
The power grid operator warned earlier this year of the risks of excessive renewable energy while closing nuclear plants.
But a clip of its president Beatriz Corredor has gone viral from 2021, in which she insisted that Spain had “one of the safest and most advanced” electrical systems in the world and there was no reason to worry.
An increasing number of public figures are blaming a saturation of solar power and an over-reliance on renewable energy.
Minutes before the outage, Spain was running on 60.64% solar photovoltaic generation, with 12% wind and 11.6% nuclear.
However diversified and advanced Spain’s energy mix is, the national power collapse at 12:35 on Monday required an enormous effort to get Spain back up and running.
The initial focus was to get the northern and southern power generating regions working again, which grid operator Red Eléctrica said was key to “gradually re-energising the transmission grid as the generating units are connected”.
The risk lay in overloading the system by turning everything on at the same time and triggering another massive outage.
So everything had to be carefully phased for what experts call a “black start” working out as a success.
The initial focus was on hydro-electric plants, in particular pumped-storage plants with reservoirs full at this time of year and able to produce electricity fast from a standing start.
Combined-cycle gas plants also played a significant part in repowering the grid, but four nuclear power reactors at Almaraz, Ascó and and Vandellós were automatically shut down by the outage, and three others were already offline anyway.
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Spain is only now beginning to count the cost. The CEOE bosses’ organisation has estimated a €1.6bn hit on the economy.
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Spain’s Guardia Civil police force said it had rescued 13,000 passengers trapped on trains.
Local police in Barcelona returned to the old ways, regulating traffic in the Plaça España because the lights were out.
Passengers on the Barcelona metro had to walk to safety using the torches on their mobile phones when their trains became stuck in tunnels.
I am not trolling anyone - I am submitting & interacting with content in good faith. I treat Lemmy as a place to find & deposit articles that I think are worthwhile and build a personal archive. You’ll find an abnormal amount of my content is actually just crime articles.
I am not here to aggravate people.
But feel free to block - if it is offensive to people that someone is a conservative on Lemmy and occasionally posts content from conservative sources, lol, what can I say? I guess you will be triggered if an article pops into your feed once in a while.
Although I imagine that some people who are even not in agreement with me at all about these issues were happy to see this news and would’ve otherwise missed it.
Follow up:
BAYTOWN, Texas — The parents of a teen charged with murder are also facing charges in connection with a deadly shooting last month.
They’re each facing a misdemeanor charge of making a firearm accessible to a child.
The shooting happened March 21 at an apartment complex playground on Village Lane near West Baker Road.
According to court documents, their son got into a fight with 14-year-old Anaya Zachary, a classmate of his at Baytown Junior High School, on the bus ride home.
The suspect:
Police identified the driver as 30-year-old Kai-Ji Adam Lo. He’s been charged with eight counts of second-degree murder, and police say further charges are anticipated.
Festivalgoers subdued the man after the rampage until police arrived and took him into custody.
Authorities said the suspect is a Vancouver resident who has a history of mental illness, and he is known to police.
Mayor Sim said officials believe “that mental health appears to be the underlying issue here.”
His family has apparently suffered from crime before:
Kai-Ji Adam Lo launched a GoFundMe page after his brother was found dead in January last year. Police had then arrested Dwight William Kematch on the scene and charged him.
Adam Lo’s lawyer Jim Heller said that his client is set to begin his trial this October.
“My mother took out significant loans to build him a modest, tiny home, an endeavour already marked by painful encounters with builders,” Adam Lo wrote on the GoFundMe page.
“The realization that he’ll never return home pains both me and my financially strained mother, unable to afford proper funeral expenses. I hope he can find peace with a dignified farewell.”
Hindustan Times via MSN
He appeared to show some kind of remorse after the incident:
Online footage showed a young man in a black hoodie with his back against a chain-link fence surrounded by bystanders screaming and swearing at him.
“I’m sorry,” the young man, appearing visibly distressed and holding his hand to his head, could be heard saying.
Interim police chief Steve Rai said the person in custody was a lone male who was “known to police in certain circumstances” but it would be “unfair” to make comments on whether he was on bail.
He had “a significant history of interactions with police and healthcare professionals related to mental health”.
There’s some more information about his brother’s murder:
His brother was found dead on 28 January 2024 in a home 2km from where the family lived, the Globe and Mail reported. A suspect in the case, Dwight William Kematch, 39, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.
Clothing vendor Kris Pangilinan told The Associated Press that he heard what sounded “like an F1 car about to start a race” immediately followed by screams. He said he could hear the sound of bodies hitting the hood of the SUV as it sped through the street.
“All I can remember is seeing bodies flying up in the air higher than the food trucks themselves and landing on the ground and people yelling and screaming,” he said.
Adonis Quita, who was with his 9-year-old son, told the AP that the vehicle struck families waiting in line for food.
“He just pushed the gas all the way through the whole block … crashing into everyone in his way,” another witness said on NBC’s “TODAY” show.
That is insane, holy cow.
1·13 天前OK, show me the deported citizens.
These are tech bros and folk Libertarians.
Hence, after their election, their big moves are stuff like DOGE.
The most Nazi policy they have is actively deporting convicted illegal criminals and trying to secure the border, and this is Nazi because… Uhh…?
Countries like Japan & South Korea have far more draconian laws when it comes to tracking down and forcibly removing illegal aliens, yet none of us would seriously suggest that these are totalitarian police states hellbent on abridging the basic human rights of their citizens.
This position you have is a bit hysterical and silly.
Oh man this is good - if it isn’t already printed on a candy wrapper, it should be soon!
Of course, but long before the Ukraine war started, I posted stuff from RT, or Xinhua, or whatever it was, because I felt that some of the best news stories are those that come from sources critical of Western interests that do not fall cleanly into our own left/right dichotomies due to their divergent interests.
I will read a story from any source, even those that are not super credible, partly because I have found so much error by omission or distortion in “credible” sources.
This is where I consistently find myself more radical than even the most die-hard revolutionary leftists – I am just as open to narratives offered by foreign news sources hostile to Western oligarchs as I am to establishment news stories. You would think this would be something that would endear me to the far left who, once upon a time, looked with enormous skepticism towards rags like the NY Times that previously functioned as mouthpieces for the CIA, but…
Times have changed.