Author: KnowledgeHippo
Diplo, born Thomas Wesley Pentz, fell in love with Jamaica, particularly the parish of Portland on the northeast coast, nearly 20 years ago. “I DJed on a cruise ship, went down to Ocho Rios and drove to Port Antonio to get to Kingston,” said the 13-time Grammy nominee who has worked with Dua Lipa, Sturgil Simpson, Snoop Dogg, Shakira, Bad Bunny. and countless other musicians. “Portland is like Costa Rica, all jungle and waterfalls. And Port Antonio is this quaint little town where I would sort of retreat, “Mr. Pence added. About eight years ago he bought some fields and…
A United Nations panel investigating the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent conflict in Gaza has accused both Palestinian armed groups and Israel of war crimes, and the panel said Israel’s conduct of the war included crimes against humanity .In a report released on Wednesday, the three-member panel — led by Navi Pillay, the former UN human rights chief — provided the UN’s most detailed examination of the events on October 7 and beyond. The report itself does not impose sanctions, but presents a legal analysis of actions in the Gaza conflict that are likely to be weighed…
More than three weeks after counter-protesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, university police made the first arrest in connection with the attack: an 18-year-old who police said had struck pro-Palestinian protesters with a wooden pole.UCLA police did not identify the man by name, but arrest records show him to be Edan Onn. He faces one count of felony assault with a deadly weapon. Police said it seriously injured at least one person.Videos of the April 30 attack on the camp show a man in a light-colored hood and white mask swinging a pole at…
I don’t mind the headset itself, although, as many reviewers have pointed out, it’s too heavy to wear comfortably for long stretches. (My longest Vision Pro session was three hours, and I felt slightly stuck afterward.) But there are plenty of other nagging hardware issues. Carrying around an external battery is a pain, it doesn’t work well in dark or dimly lit rooms, and there’s no good way to enter text — so if you want to use the Vision Pro for any kind of text work, you need to use a Bluetooth keyboard.The Vision Pro also lacks some key…
The European Union announced on Wednesday that it will impose tariffs of up to 38 percent on electric vehicles imported from China into the bloc, in what EU leaders call an effort to protect the region’s manufacturers from unfair competition.The move, which comes a month after President Biden quadrupled US tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to 100 percent, opens another front in escalating trade tensions with China amid growing fears of a glut of Chinese green-tech products flooding the global markets.The actions of the European Union and the United States also reflect challenges facing traditional carmakers in Europe and the…
Morrie Markoff, a centenarian blogger and scrap metal sculptor who was believed to be the oldest man in the United States and whose brain was donated for research into what is known as hyperaging, died June 3 at his home in downtown Los. Angels. It was 110.He had two strokes in recent weeks, his daughter, Judith Markoff Hansen, said in confirming his death.People who live to be 110 or older are considered centenarians, and the Gerontology Research Group, in Los Angeles, lists more than 150 of them worldwide.Mr Markoff, who was born in New York on January 11, 1914, six…
In the summer of 2020, as the racial justice reckoning swept the country, Disney said it would destroy Splash Mountain, a wildly popular flume ride with a racist history.Some people cheered, saying the move was long overdue: After 31 years at Disneyland in California and 28 at Walt Disney World in Florida, the attraction — with its animals from “Song of the South,” the 1946 radioactive film – had to leave. .But Disney also suffered a blow. Last year, when Splash Mountain finally closed, someone created a makeshift memorial near its entrance — the kind you see at gruesome crime…
A day after the United Nations Security Council approved a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal for the Gaza Strip, the focus turned Tuesday to the willingness of Israel and Hamas, under mounting international pressure to end the war, to agreement.Each side made positive but vague statements about the ceasefire plan and accused the other of prolonging a war that has devastated Gaza. But neither said they would formally embrace the proposal, which was presented last month in a speech by President Biden and was the basis of a 14-0 Security Council vote on Monday.Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, touring the region…
In early 2021, Representative Byron Donalds, R-Florida, and his wife, Erica, took the stage at an event organized by the Truth & Freedom Coalition, a group pushing to introduce Christianity into public schools and other institutions and whose leader has described homosexuality as the work of Satan.The pair were warmly welcomed as allies in the cause. Ms. Donalds was singled out for opening a charter school in Florida. As a state legislator, Mr. Donalds had created a school voucher program that, in the words of one speaker, allowed children to “get a biblical worldview education.”Mr Donalds addressed the group with…
A South Florida jury has found Chiquita Brands responsible for eight murders committed by a right-wing paramilitary group the company helped fund in a fertile banana-growing region of Colombia during the country’s decade-long internal conflict.A court on Monday ordered the multinational banana producer to pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of farmers and other civilians killed in separate incidents by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia — a right-wing paramilitary group that Chiquita funded from 1997 to 2004. .The company has faced hundreds of similar lawsuits in US courts filed by families of other victims of violence by the…