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Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship? Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship? For more than a century, there was broad consensus that the 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship for children born in the United States. But President Trump has challenged that precedent. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times, explains. Source link #Trump #Birthright #Citizenship Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

GDP rise and a less scary outlook offer Rachel Reeves some rare cheer GDP rise and a less scary outlook offer Rachel Reeves some rare cheer Rachel Reeves rings a bell on a visit to a whisky distillery in Scotland this month.Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA The faster-than-expected *** growth in the first three months of the year is welcome news for a Labour government desperate to make good on its promise of kickstarting the economy. Under siege from Nigel Farage’s Reform and under pressure from its own MPs over tax and spend, Labour will now point to the 0.7% increase in GDP over the first quarter as evidence the hard yards are starting to pay off. It follows two sickly quarters after Labour came to power last year, shouting about its terrible economic inheritance. GDP growth was zero in July-September 2024, and only 0.1% in the final three months of the year. The Office for National Statistics said the strongest impetus for growth in the first quarter of 2025 came from the services sector, where there was a 0.7% increase in output, although manufacturing also contributed positively. Construction, which Labour is relying on for 1.5m new homes, was flat. It is tempting to see these relatively upbeat figures as a “before” picture – a snapshot of the *** economy before Donald Trump’s trade tariffs were announced on his “liberation day” at the start of last month. Indeed, some analysts are warning that businesses may have pulled activity forward into the first quarter to get ahead of the looming tariff blitz. However, the US-China deal earlier this week has made the trade picture markedly less scary. Even before that, the Bank of England estimated the impact on *** growth would be a manageable 0.3% over three years – while lower commodity prices would help to bear down on inflation. Of course, Trump’s erratic approach means all that could change in a single press conference. But a world with 30% total US tariffs on China – and 10% on the *** after negotiations with the White House – should be more manageable than one where the world’s two largest economic powers are effectively operating a trade embargo. Meanwhile, Reeves’s controversial £25bn employer national insurance contributions (NICs) rise only came into force in April, after the data in Thursday’s release was collected. However, if the policy were going to lead to an abrupt wave of redundancies, it seems likely these would have started to show up more clearly already in surveys of the jobs market. Recent labour market figures do show a marked slowdown, but one that was already well under way. The NICs change is likely to show up in some combination of weaker wage growth, higher prices and slower hiring in the coming months – but so far at least there is little sign that this is likely to tip into the employment crisis of which some business groups warned. Story Continues It is also worth recalling that Reeves’s planned public spending splurge for the coming year was expected to boost economic growth but does not yet appear to have shown up, so that is a potential source of upside ahead. Last Thursday’s interest rate cut should be another prop for demand. There are ample reasons to be wary about the growth picture for the coming months, with forward-looking surveys of business and consumer confidence pointing in the wrong direction. But looking at the latest GDP data after a bruising month or two, Rachel Reeves can rightly allow herself a few moments of optimism. Source link #GDP #rise #scary #outlook #offer #Rachel #Reeves #rare #cheer Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

‘Deaf President Now!’ and the Biases of a Hearing World ‘Deaf President Now!’ and the Biases of a Hearing World In 1988, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University was preparing to announce its pick for the institution’s next president. That’s not an unusual task for a board. What’s unusual is what happened next, as told in “Deaf President Now!” (streaming on Apple TV+). Directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim, the documentary plays like a high-stakes political thriller, but in an unconventional venue. The film chronicles the week of turmoil and transformation that followed the announcement of Elisabeth Zinser as president. (DiMarco is a Gallaudet alum.) Gallaudet University — founded in 1864 as a school for deaf and blind children, through a law signed by Abraham Lincoln — is the nation’s only liberal arts university designed specifically for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and it’s officially bilingual, with instruction in both English and American Sign Language. In 1988, however, Gallaudet had never had a deaf president. And Zinser, a hearing person with a background in nursing, had been chosen over two deaf, arguably more qualified candidates. To tell the story, “Deaf President Now!” weaves together archival footage and contemporary interviews with a number of the students and faculty, now middle-aged and older, who led or were involved in the protests. All of the interviewees, filmed against a simple ****** background, give their answers in ASL, with an off-camera voice (rather than subtitles) providing the translation for hearing audiences. When the announcement came down, students were incensed. They’d grown up in an era before the Americans With Disabilities Act, a time when deaf people were frequently treated like second-class citizens. Some had watched their deaf parents continually shrink back in a hearing world, accommodating prejudices in order to get by. But at Gallaudet, the students had found a place where they felt “comfortable, safe, like you’re with your family” — where they could speak their own language and celebrate deaf culture. That seemed, to them, like a basic qualification for the job. The film’s participants are witty, cracking jokes about on-set mics and one another. But it’s clear from the way they recall their feelings that the memory of that time still stings, as when they recount that the board tried to placate them with reassurances that Zinser had their best interests at heart. One participant notes how similarly patronizing those reassurances sounded to “white savior” rhetoric, suggesting that deaf people aren’t capable of advocating for and educating themselves. The protests ballooned and gained national attention. As the students shut down the campus in protest, they attracted support from outside the university and the deaf world, and the student body president eventually ended up on national TV. The protests started a national conversation about rights for the deaf, about whether deafness was a “defect” to be “fixed” or a culture to be preserved, and whether a hearing person who never learned sign language — like Jane Bassett Spilman, chairwoman of Gallaudet’s board at the time — could be trusted to lead the institution. And “Deaf President Now!” skillfully draws the lines for all viewers. It’s not just a story about a moment in history: It’s also about the ways the movement for deaf education led to the broader disability rights arguments, and how everyone’s rights depend on everyone else’s. Source link #Deaf #President #Biases #Hearing #World Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

In Her Botanical Paintings, Hilma af Klint Hurtles Back to Earth In Her Botanical Paintings, Hilma af Klint Hurtles Back to Earth From 1856 until the 1960s, schoolchildren in Sweden had to pass annual botanical examinations quite literally in the field. Each spring they roamed the meadows and forests to collect 50 to 150 specimens, then pressed, annotated and classified those plants in the tradition of that late great Swedish naturalist, Linnaeus. Hilma af Klint, born in 1862, was one such child. Long before she brought the art world to its knees in a posthumous 2018 retrospective that proved a female artist had made serious formal abstractions years before Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, af Klint was a schoolgirl in Stockholm, where, according to her report cards, she made only B’s in the natural sciences but an A in “Attention.” Fifty years passed. After a public career in illustration and a private one in Protestant occultism, she made attention her theme once more in the floral portfolio she turned to in middle age, with breath-held minuteness, in the spring of 1919, while living on the island of Munso with her ailing mother. The resulting 46 watercolors, never before exhibited, are now on view in the show “What Stands Behind the Flowers” at the Museum of Modern Art, hung with some 50 other af Klints on paper plus a handful of relevant botanical materials under glass. Ebullient, rigorous and boastfully esoteric, these “Nature Studies,” as she called them, reveal the didactic side of a pioneer in nonliteral art. This is an economical show of some beautiful field exercises, and it suggests the spiritual extremes to which the honorable but often tedious tradition of botanical illustration might be taken. Hepatica, a relative of the buttercup, comes up first in that northern clime. That plant opens her atlas on April 22 — she dated each species in pencil — with coffee-colored smears of earth. She then paints in noodles and hearts of negative space for the stems and leaves. Then she traces those empties with an earthy-wine spectrum of reds, purples and greens. Hepatica has, like poppies and nettle, hairy stems. So within those stems she picks up the dry edge of her brush with shaggy tweaks, to suggest follicles in sunlight. Up top, in a spot illustration of the blossom, she fills in the bright purple petals but dodges with her brush seemingly microscopic whiskers of stamen. Detail seems to have increased through summer, sometimes seven plants to a sheet, roots and all. The staccato red dreadlocks of a Lombardy poplar in mid-bloom (May 3), the leaves of a Swedish whitebeam that she has wet-lifted with cloth to achieve the right leathery effect (June 16), the kinked stem of a harebell (Aug. 2). All on awkwardly skinny paper resembling a diner menu. That choice makes sense when you see the herbal collection sheets from a different Swedish schoolchild of af Klint’s generation, which the show’s curator, Jodi Hauptman of the Modern, has displayed for context. They’re the same size. In her midlife project, af Klint returned to the scale of grade school, and she arranged her compositions in the manner of plant pressing. (With the exception of a bird and some bugs, her hope to include animals and minerals in the project went unrealized.) Her early professional botanicals, also on display, reveal an important difference in technique. In those she outlined the plant parts in ink. This makes her barleys and thistles look instructional in the manner of an illustrated plant guide. (Several guides from af Klint’s day are here.) But the later, more practiced herbals at the heart of this show are largely inkless, sketched in pencil at most. This creates an effect like sun on a living thing. Color and light. All very nice. But what keeps you looking is the evangelically mystical bottom half of these paintings. At the foot of each specimen af Klint has penciled and colored a small diagram explaining, hence this show’s title, “what stands behind the flowers.” In crisp geometries, line work and touches of metallic paint, the pictograms imagine the spiritual states and the motives that she believes emanate from these vegetal beings. Her corresponding notebook, under glass nearby, explains these diagrams in charmingly factual prose. To bird vetch, a creeping vine with hanging clusters of purple flowers, she gives a Fibonacci spiral in brown, gray and ******, with colored arrows indicating an inward directional flow. Vetch, we learn, boasts a “spiritual initiative that uplifts the organs of our soul and body.” European anemone, on the other hand — a flower she captures in both its limp and its fully opened states — gives “ignorance.” Her symbol for it is a hexagram, the down triangle blue, the up one yellow. And so on for 119 species. Some very efficient exhibition design makes this secret taxonomy at the very least legible — with translations from her notebook in the wall text and magnifying glasses on hand for your scrutiny of the illustrations. (You will need them.) Fall paused the flowers. In January her mother died. By spring, 1920, af Klint resumed her atlas with apparent bleakness. The clammy campion, a fuchsia-colored flower with a sticky stem, stands for “one-sidedness.” Purple lousewort: “self-interest.” A sedge: “gluttony.” A few creatures — an ant, a mosquito, a spider — get upside-down crosses in ******, decorated by auras of blood red and gray. However it worked, this particular expression of her moral logic came at a fulcrum. Af Klint had formerly belonged to The Five, a quintet of mediums who held Biblically induced seances in order to transcribe voices from the beyond. In those sessions she scribbled automatically into sketchbooks, which she later transcribed — sometimes collaboratively — in now-famous canvases circa 1906-1908. In the MoMA show, which is almost a mini retrospective, several small solo af Klints from that *******, from her “US Series” (1908), reveal her fixation on the possibility that a numinous reality underpins our visible one. In this context, their shapes seem cordate and herbal, like petals. The same kind of search, though expressed in the harder geometries of quartered squares and Pac-Man-like forms, appears in a wall of her “Atom Series” (1917) interpreting quantum physics. By her Munso era, she had directed that investigation back toward the visible. Divorced from The Five, she had discovered the Christian occultist Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy and the Waldorf Schools, who, in the old spirit of Protestant mystics dating back to Jakob Böhme, championed the private relationship to God’s Word but also pined for the symbolism and mystery of Catholicism. In her Nature Series you can feel those conflicting desires. For one, she is aggressively obscure. Like a Latin mass, the Star of David yin-yang she gives to the pot marigold hides as much from us as it reveals. But at the same time, her herbals want to interpret God’s work with the simplest, most public of all evidence. They prove she is a microcosmic thinker in the company of Francis Quarles’s poetic “Emblems,” Walt Whitman’s “every atom,” Joni Mitchell’s “We are stardust” — and an abstractionist, like Georgia O’Keeffe, who based her experiments upon strict observation of her emotional response to the seasons. The odd humility of these paintings makes all the more sense when we consider that this is an artist who had already reached the stratosphere of visual avant-garde. Recall John Cage, who after writing the headiest piece of nonmusic in history devoted himself to the study of mushrooms. Try for yourself: MoMA has planted several of these species out back in its sculpture garden. Better yet, take the train north to Fort Tryon Park, and study untried ones. At MoMA, a wall of bright and hasty energy paintings from 1922 wraps the show — wet-on-wet watercolors with only vague kinships to their herbal titles: “Oak,” “******,” “Birch.” After her years transcribing tendrils and anthers, they are sloppy and fun, like cannonball dives into the placid surface of a lake. They are also less interesting. But they are edgy in their way, and representative of the proto-New Age paintings she would make under the spell of Steiner’s theories on color and comparative religion (she owned 120 titles by him) until her death in 1944. These days, galleries are full of the mystical vocabulary that af Klint did much to create: a whole easy-bake coven of painters quoting the Zodiac and Mother Earth in millennial hues that reproduce well onscreen. Like any pioneer, she paid that first tax of rejection. In 1926 she submitted her “Nature Studies” and notebook to Steiner’s headquarters in Switzerland, in the hope of publication. They declined. (MoMA acquired it in 2022.) But a Steiner librarian, writing to her in 1927, did express the consolation that her floral atlas might eventually be “recognized for its value when the time came for it” and someone “would have the means to make the work accessible to the public.” High time. Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers Through Sept. 27, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, (212) 708-9400; moma.org. Source link #Botanical #Paintings #Hilma #Klint #Hurtles #Earth Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

U.S. Ranchers Can Sell Britons More Beef. Will They Buy It? U.S. Ranchers Can Sell Britons More Beef. Will They Buy It? Just a few days after the United States and Britain announced to much fanfare that they had agreed to lower some tariffs and create a $5 billion export opportunity for American beef, ethanol and other agricultural products in Britain, Brooke Rollins, the U.S. secretary of agriculture, touched down in London. She came with a clear message for her British counterparts: The agreement last week was just the first step. Ms. Rollins, the first member of President Trump’s cabinet to visit Britain, said she would push for more access for American products, such as pork, poultry, seafood and rice. But among her first tasks was countering the narrative in Britain, and across Europe, that American meat is substandard. “The U.S. is open for business, and we have wholesome, quality and safe products that we want to ensure are accessible to consumers around the world and across the U.K.,” Ms. Rollins told reporters on Tuesday. The United States is Britain’s largest single trade partner, but most of that trade is skewed toward services. Cars, fuel, pharmaceuticals and aircraft make up most of the trade in goods. Britain relies on imports for 40 percent of its food, but less than 2 percent of Britain’s imported food, including live animals, comes from the United States. That minuscule amount has long been a contentious issue for U.S. officials, who have argued that Britain has been overly protectionist and discriminatory toward American food. British officials have said they are upholding high standards for food safety, animal ******** and environmental protections as the public recoils from the thought of hormone-treated beef or chlorine-washed chicken. Despite last week’s provisional agreement, differences in food production could make it difficult for Britain and the United States to reach a more comprehensive trade agreement, and for American farmers to materially increase their exports to Britain. Still, for several days in London, Ms. Rollins promoted the agreement, and the hope that it would open markets and create billions of dollars in gains, even though Britain is not that significant to the American farmer. “It is just the beginning of a new day of partnership, perhaps unprecedented, in our two countries’ histories,” Ms. Rollins said. On Wednesday, she said there would be more announcements on the trade agreement in the coming weeks. Vincent H. Smith, the director of agricultural policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, said he doubted that the agreement would raise the prices that American beef producers or corn growers received when they sold their products. But “is something better than nothing?” he added. “Yes.” For American exports to materially increase, British standards would need to allow enough American products to enter the country, and British consumers would have to buy them. At the moment, most American beef cannot be exported to Britain, in part because of the widespread practice of hormone treatment but also because of other regulations, including those covering the method of slaughter. For consumers in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, “it’s not just about the end product — it’s about the process,” said Carolina Maciel, a trade lawyer with expertise in agrifood regulation at the *** Trade Policy Observatory. “They want to ensure the entire supply chain is fair, green and humane. That’s not yet the approach taken by the U.S.” The use of growth-promoting hormones is banned in Britain, where there is a strong emphasis on raising animals with more space, as well as environmental rules that govern the protection of land and water around farms. Britain’s regulations are mostly a holdover from when it was part of the European Union, and there has been public resistance to changing them since Brexit. In practice, many of these rules and practices do not change the safety of the final product, but they do increase costs. And British farmers fear being undercut by cheaper imports. Most trade agreements do not radically increase markets overnight; the change takes years, if it happens at all. Kent Bacus, the executive director of government affairs at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, pointed to the 2007 agreement between the United States and South Korea. Since then, South Korea has become the largest export market by value for American beef, ******* than Japan, China, Mexico or Canada. Last week, Britain and the United States said they would set an import quota of 13,000 metric tons of beef for each other. That could increase the amount of U.S. beef in Britain to just 1.5 percent of the market, from 0.05 percent, British officials said, but it would still have to meet existing standards and not be treated with growth hormones. Mr. Bacus called the framework agreement a “good starting place” that would hopefully include “science-based” production standards, an implicit criticism that Britain’s standards are based on fear not science. Pork and poultry are not part of the agreement, but Ms. Rollins said they were also “at the front of the line.” She added that, despite the concerns among Britons, chlorine washing was used for about 5 percent of chicken in the United States. Most American chicken is washed with peracetic acid, which is essentially a combination of hydrogen peroxide and vinegar. Still, in Britain there is nervousness about any suggestion that food production standards could be relaxed. The National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales applauded its government for sticking to its standards last week but added that they needed to be maintained as officials tried to negotiate tariffs on other goods, which are still set at 10 percent. “Agriculture cannot be the pawn in trying to negotiate down further that 10 percent tariff,” said Tom Bradshaw, the president of the union. “We know the U.K. public value their high standards of domestic production, and we do not want to bring in chlorinated chicken or antimicrobial chicken. That is something that would be completely unacceptable.” Mr. Bradshaw said there also needed to be clear assurances on the supply chain of American beef to prove it had not been treated with hormones. In an early blow to the deal, Ken Murphy, the chief executive of Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket chain, told Reuters on Tuesday that the retailer would skip American beef and continue to sell only British and Irish beef. “It has become a narrative that wasn’t well digested in the U.S., that their beef products are not good, are not safe,” Dr. Maciel said. Allowing more U.S. beef to enter the British market “wouldn’t mean that U.S. beef is fully equivalent to U.K. beef, but it would be symbolic in showing that U.S. products are not inherently inferior or unsafe.” Source link #U.S #Ranchers #Sell #Britons #Beef #Buy Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Italy to host 2027 America’s Cup in Naples: PM Italy to host 2027 America’s Cup in Naples: PM Italy will host the next edition of the America’s Cup in 2027 in Naples, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says, the first time for the country to host sailing’s most prestigious competition. Three-times defending champions New Zealand said in March they would no longer seek to host the next edition, citing a lack of economic support from the government. “The choice of Italy is a choice that makes us proud, because it is a recognition of the very identity of our nation. Without the sea, in fact, we would not be what we are,” Meloni said in a statement on Thursday. “We look forward to welcoming the America’s Cup. Italy will rise to this challenge and show the world once again what it is capable of.” New Zealand retained the title by winning the 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona last October over Britain for their fifth triumph. Source link #Italy #host #Americas #Cup #Naples Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Wingstop Stock Just Got Massive Analyst Upgrades — Here’s Why Wingstop Stock Just Got Massive Analyst Upgrades — Here’s Why Wingstop (NASDAQ:) stock was one of the top gainers on Wednesday, rising 7% after getting a slew of price target upgrades from Wall Street analysts. Analysts were mainly bullish about a new technology-enhanced efficiency platform that the chicken wing chain detailed in an investor presentation delivered on Tuesday. The innovation that so impressed analysts is called Smart Kitchen, which the company describes as a “game changer for our guests and restaurant operations.” The Smart Kitchen platform has been pilot tested at more than 200 restaurants, and the chain is now preparing to roll it out more broadly. The smart kitchen concept employs proprietary artificial intelligence technology to anticipate demand at any given time, in 15-minute increments. To do so, it uses more than 100 different data points, including historical sales, weather patterns, local events, sports, the academic calendar, and other forecasting data to help staff prepare orders in advance. In pilot testing, the intuitive smart kitchen technology cut order time in half. That, in turn, should increase the number of transactions and lead to higher customer satisfaction rates and repeat customers. “We’re going to be able to not only increase speed, but be more consistent,” Michael Skipworth, Wingstop CEO and president, told analysts at the investor presentation, reported Nation’s Restaurant News. “We believe it’s going to make Wingstop more of the consideration set. It’s going to unlock some unmet demand. And we believe over time it’s going to help us continue to increase frequency, which we know will be a big driver as we continue to scale AUVs [average unit volumes] toward $3 million.” Skipworth added that it will improve the competency of team members and increase productivity. Analysts Are Impressed By New AI Technology Wingstop got several price target upgrades from analysts, most of whom cited the transformational potential of the smart kitchen system. “We came away impressed by the new system. The power of the Smart Kitchen system appears to be a ‘game changer,” Chris O’Cull, analyst at Stifle, said, reported Barron’s. Todd Brooks, analyst at Benchmark, added that the system should fuel delivery growth and accelerate Wingstop toward its goal of $3 million annual average store sales, up from the current $2.1 million. Analysts at Barclays boosted Wingstop’s price target from $310 per share to $360 per share, with its price target raise fueled by the smart kitchen concept. That would suggest 18% upside from its current price of $306 per share. BofA also raised its target by $41 per share to $360 per share and maintained its buy rating. BofA analyst Sara Senatore said the smart kitchen should lead to performance improvements and cost savings and lead to greater efficiency. TD Cowen, Wells Fargo and Guggenheim also boosted their targets for Wingstop on Wednesday. Wells Fargo lifted it to $320 per share while Guggenheim bumped it up to $325 and TD Cowen raised it to $330 per share. Wingstop stock currently has a median price target of $319 per share, but this should move up based on these new updates. The stock is up 9% YTD but has a high P/E of 48. Original Post Source link #Wingstop #Stock #Massive #Analyst #Upgrades #Heres Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

IAEA should take charge of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, says Indian defence minister IAEA should take charge of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, says Indian defence minister NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The International Atomic Energy Agency should take charge of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, days after the nuclear-armed neighbours ended their worst military conflict in nearly three decades. Deadly fighting broke out between the old enemies last week after India struck what it said were “terrorist camps” in Pakistan in retaliation for an attack in Indian Kashmir last month that killed 26 men, which it said was backed by Pakistan. Islamabad had denied the allegations and both countries sent missiles and drones into each other’s airspace in the days that followed, before they reached a truce on Saturday. “Are nuclear weapons safe in the hands of such an irresponsible and rogue nation?” Singh said while addressing soldiers in Indian Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar. “I believe that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons should be taken under the supervision of IAEA.” There was no immediate response from Pakistan to Singh’s comment. The IAEA is a Vienna-based U.N. watchdog which monitors nuclear programmes to ensure they are peaceful. India and Pakistan became nuclear powers after they conducted ****-for-tat nuclear tests in 1998 and their decades-old animosity has made the region – the world’s most populous – one of its most dangerous nuclear flashpoints. The latest military conflict between the South Asian neighbours spiralled alarmingly on Saturday and there were briefly fears that nuclear arsenals might come into play as Pakistan’s military said a top body overseeing its nuclear weapons would meet. But the Pakistani defence minister said no such meeting was scheduled. Military analysts said this may have been Pakistan’s way of hinting at its nuclear option as Islamabad has a “first-use” policy if its existence is under threat in a conflict. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that India would strike at terrorist hideouts across the border again if there were new attacks on India and would not be deterred by what he called Islamabad’s “nuclear blackmail”. Pakistan rejected Modi’s statements as being “provocative and inflammatory assertions”, saying it represents a dangerous escalation. Hindu-majority India and Islamist Pakistan have fought three wars in the past, two of them over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which they both claim in full but rule in part. India also blames Pakistan for supporting Islamist militants battling security forces in its part of Kashmir, but Islamabad denies the accusation. (Reporting by Surbhi Misra, writing by Sakshi Dayal; Editing by YP Rajesh) Source link #IAEA #charge #Pakistans #nuclear #weapons #Indian #defence #minister Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

SMCI Stock Rally: 45% Gain in 2 Days Could Be Just the Start SMCI Stock Rally: 45% Gain in 2 Days Could Be Just the Start After more than a year of struggles and uncertainties, the market for Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:) is ready to rebound, rebound strongly, and continue rallying on into the year’s end. The reason is that the accounting issues are behind it, and the news cycle is increasingly positive. The most visible catalyst is the U.S. opening of Saudi Arabian AI markets. President Donald Trump eased restrictions and paved the way for a multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure investment. At face value, it means hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA and AMD GPU semiconductors over the next five years. That equates to an equivalent number of Super Micro Computer servers and server systems, along with the upgrades and replacements they will need in the coming years. Super Micro Inks $20 Billion Deal: Revenue Outlook Improves Significantly Among the deals announced in Riyadh alongside the HUMAIN investments in NVIDIA (NASDAQ:) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:) semiconductor technology is a partnership between Super Micro and DataVolt. The $20 billion deal will fast-track the delivery of Super Micro’s ultra-dense GPU servers and rack systems. The deal will play out over the next five years as Saudi Arabia builds out its datacenter infrastructure. It is worth nearly 100% in revenue growth relative to the 2025 consensus. The analysts’ trends set up a market catalyst that the DataVolt deal can unlock. The analysts’ coverage has increased significantly over the past 18 months, with sentiment firming to Moderate Buy, but the price target has declined. The latest coverage is an initiated Outperform from Raymond James, whose analysts called the company a near-pure-play on AI, well-positioned in the market and gaining share in branded and wholesale markets. The stock price catalyst is a shift back to price target increases, a likely outcome given the company’s progress and new deals. Institutional and short-selling trends also align with an outlook for rapidly improving share prices. The short interest alone is enough to increase the price action significantly, running at 22% in early Q2 and trending near record levels. Add in the institutions, which own about 85% of the stock and are buying on balance in 2025, and the stage is set for a short-covering rally that has likely already begun. Super Micro Computer Is a Deep Value Super Micro Computer’s revenue and earnings growth outlook was robust before the Saudi deals were announced, putting the stock at deep value levels relative to its forward outlook. In mid-May, the stock traded at only 9x its 2028 forecasts, which are now too low. The stock price should trade closer to 30x its earnings or higher, suggesting a solid 200% upside can be easily achieved within the next few quarters. The critical resistance point for the stock price action is near $56.50 and will likely be reached before the end of H1 C2025, possibly before the Q4 F2204 earnings are released. Due to the launch of new technology, the company is expected to accelerate its growth and may exceed consensus forecasts. This month, the company began volume shipments of its next-gen, AI-optimized max-performance servers. The risk for SMCI investors in 2025 is market overhang. A market overhang is a large block of shares that could be released on the market, capping gains or pressuring lower shares. In this case, the overhang is previous buyers who are now in the red following purchases made in early 2024. Assuming a move to fresh highs above $56.50, the critical resistance targets include $68 and $98. There is a significant chance of a bearish reversal within the $68 to $98 range. Should any indication of additional accounting impropriety be revealed, the odds of a bearish reversal increase to virtually 100%. Original Post Source link #SMCI #Stock #Rally #Gain #Days #Start Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Celtics-Knicks: 5 takeaways as defending champions keep season alive – NBA Celtics-Knicks: 5 takeaways as defending champions keep season alive – NBA Celtics-Knicks: 5 takeaways as defending champions keep season alive NBARefocused Celtics lean on D, Kornet to stay alive ESPNKnicks vs. Celtics: Derrick White, Luke Kornet keep Boston alive, force Game 6 with 127-102 win Yahoo SportsKnicks vs. Celtics odds, prediction, start time: 2025 NBA playoff picks, Game 5 best bets by proven model CBS SportsDefiant Knicks fans brush off Game 5 blowout, blast ‘******’ Celtics supporters in Boston: ‘Worst city in America’ New York Post Source link #CelticsKnicks #takeaways #defending #champions #season #alive #NBA Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

WAMMCO’s $50m upgrade plan bolstered by $12m State Government loan WAMMCO’s $50m upgrade plan bolstered by $12m State Government loan WA’s biggest sheep abattoir has taken out a $12 million loan with the State Government to turbocharge a $50m capital works program expected to boost its processing capacity by a third. The cash boost will help WA Meat Marketing Co-operative at Katanning carry out significant upgrades, including building a second variable retention time freezer and creating a new sheep and lamb processing line. The VRT freezer, expected to be turned on early next year, will boost the abattoir’s chilled and frozen capacity to being able to hold about two and a half days worth — or 7500 to 8000 — of chilled and frozen meat. But it is the new processing line that is expected to most help farmers in WA, who have called for a dramatic increase in investment in the State’s livestock processing sector ahead of the Albanese Government’s ban live on sheep exports by May 1, 2028. WAMMCO chief executive Col MacRury said construction had already started on the new processing line, which he hoped would be in use by October or November this year — in time for WA’s flush of spring lambs. Once complete, WAMMCO will be able to process an extra 500,000 head of sheep and lambs a year, taking its annual total to 1.5m. The new processing line will create 120-140 jobs when it is first in use, with 200 jobs in total when operating at full capacity. “The upgrades are about boosting our capacity, and helping our farmer members,” Mr McRury said. “The new line in particular will give us a lot more capacity on a yearly basis.” Mr MacRury was equally as excited about the VRT freezer, a technology he said had been adopted in the dairy industry in New Zealand and was able to freeze or chill several different products with different times using a programmable computer. “VRT freezers are more efficient, they freeze and chill so give us that flexibility… it is technology from the dairy industry that we adapted and adopted,” he said. “It makes the process (of freezing and chilling meat) more efficient, and reduces costs… it is quite different to other technology on offer.” The three-year loan has been issued through the State’s Co-operative Companies Loan Scheme, which WA Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis said had provided more than $151m in loans since 2005. The scheme provides tax benefits that reduce the capital costs by around 30 per cent. “Investing in local sheep processing facilities has never been more important to build capacity and assist industry to respond to the changing global landscape,” Ms Jarvis said. “The Cook Government is supporting sheep producers to capitalise on international market opportunities by supporting WAMMCO to expand production. “The co-operative’s Katanning plant is the largest employer in the Great Southern, with more than 300 staff. “This increased processing capacity will provide a welcome boost to the local economy and State’s sheep industry as a whole.” WAMMCO is WA’s biggest sheepmeat processing co-operative and owned by about 700 WA farmers. It also owns and operates Southern Meats in Goulburn, NSW, with the two entities processing a combined 2.3 million head of sheep and lamb a year, exporting to 120 countries. Mr MacRury said WAMMCO wanted to provide its farmer members with confidence. “When there are dry conditions and farmers want more lambs killed, we can step forward and do that for them,” he said. “Especially with the uncertainty about the live shipping industry, we really need to have more capacity in WA. “These upgrades will also be good for Katanning at a local level, it will provide significant new employment.” It has been a busy year at WAMMCO, with Mr McRury saying the abattoir was processing “good numbers” spread consistently throughout the year, processing about 27,000 head of sheep and lambs a week — which is at the historically high end of the scale. WAMMCO paid out a record $21.8m bonus to its members in late August, after booming processed meat sales. The figure was more than double the 2023 bonus and equated to $1.20/kg for all qualifying lamb and 60c/kg for qualifying mutton. Source link #WAMMCOs #50m #upgrade #plan #bolstered #12m #State #Government #loan Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

White House backed down on China’s tariff after president was told they would hurt ‘Trump’s people’ the most White House backed down on China’s tariff after president was told they would hurt ‘Trump’s people’ the most The White House eased tariffs imposed on China after several staffers were forced to warn President Donald Trump that his penalties would cause his supporters – or “Trump’s people,” – to suffer economically, according to a report. While Trump was reluctant to lower tariffs against Beijing too quickly, several White House staffers – including Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other aides – warned him the penalties were placing his own supporters in danger, sources told the Washington Post. That warning prompted marathon negotiations with China this past weekend in Geneva, Switzerland, with the two at-odds countries announcing they would suspend their respective tariffs for 90 days as negotiations continued. “The key argument was that this was beginning to hurt Trump’s supporters – Trump’s people,” one person briefed on the talks said. “It gave Susie a key window.” Trump officials have announced new or revised tariff policies more than 50 times, according to a tally by the Post. The White Houseeased tariffs imposed on China after several staffers warned President Donald Trump that his plan could impact the people who voted for him the most. (PA) He has also issued more than a dozen tariff-related executive orders since taking office, averaging out to about one per week against numerous countries, including neighbors Canada and Mexico. Several of the policies have changed at least a half-dozen times each, and Trump has reversed himself on numerous types of tariffs, including those on auto, steel and aluminum and agriculture and energy. Under the new agreement, the U.S. agreed to slash the tariff on ******** imports to 30 percent from its current 145 percent. China also agreed that it would lower its levies on American goods to 10 percent from 125 percent. The meetings in Switzerland also marked the first in-person talks between senior U.S. and ******** officials since Trump’s return to office – and his promise of sweeping tariffs on the country. In a statement to the Post, White House spokesman Kush Desai said: “The only special interest guiding President Trump’s decision-making is the best interest of the American people.” “The administration’s Geneva agreement with China stabilizes our trade relationship while setting the stage for a comprehensive trade deal that will put Americans and America First.” Source link #White #House #backed #Chinas #tariff #president #told #hurt #Trumps #people Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Bellevue father among three rock climbers killed after North Cascades tragedy – KING5.com Bellevue father among three rock climbers killed after North Cascades tragedy – KING5.com Bellevue father among three rock climbers killed after North Cascades tragedy KING5.comThree climbers fell 400 feet to their death. One climber survived and drove to a payphone YahooIndian-origin techie among 3 killed in tragic climbing accident in US Deccan HeraldSole survivor of deadly North Cascades climbing accident shares details KUOWRock climbing accident claims 3 lives in North Cascades KOIN.com Source link #Bellevue #father #among #rock #climbers #killed #North #Cascades #tragedy #KING5.com Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Wind and rain here to stay for Aussies on the eastern coast Wind and rain here to stay for Aussies on the eastern coast Wet weather is set to stay for Aussies on the eastern coast, with wind and rain forecasted for the foreseeable future. A quick glimpse at the weather app is all that is required to understand the conditions for Queenslanders and NSW residents over the next week, with a cloud and rain symbol repeated from Thursday until next Wednesday. Low pressure troughs sitting along the east coast and starting to develop across inland parts of the east are responsible for the “unsettled weather”, according to senior meteorologist at the The Bureau of Meteorology, Miriam Bradbury. Camera IconWet weather is set to stay for Aussies on the eastern coast, with wind and rain forecasted for the foreseeable future. Windy Credit: Supplied “This weather pattern will continue into Friday, with the potential for some more moderate rainfall across the southeast of Queensland as we move into the later part of Friday and into Saturday,” Ms Bradbury said. All the while, rain will continue through parts of eastern NSW, with isolated thunderstorms likely. Moderate rainfall accumulations of about 10 to 40mm is expected for these areas from midnight Wednesday to midnight Saturday. Although Sunday will see a new weather system start to impact conditions, this will likely only make things wetter and windier across the region. A coastal low pressure trough or possible coastal low pressure system starting to form off the NSW east coast will encourage showers. Camera IconNSW will be blanketed with rains all weekend, with showers expected well into next week. Credit: Supplied “Now this system is expected to bring strong south to south-easterly winds, heavy falls and the risk of hazardous surf to parts of the NSW coast from Sunday into the early part of next week,” Ms Bradbury said. Widespread rainfall accumulations from the later part of the weekend into early next week are expected to exceed 50mm across the southern, central and mid-north coasts of NSW, although Ms Bradbury warns rainfall totals on a local scale could be much higher should a low pressure system develop on Sunday. In addition to the rain, winds are also tipped to be of concern, with gusts of 70 to 90km/h possible on Sunday afternoon and through into Monday for The Central Coast, Central Tablelands, and Northern Tablelands. Camera IconLow pressure troughs sitting along the east coast and starting to develop across inland parts of the east are responsible for the current “unsettled weather”. NewsWire / Damian Shaw Credit: News Corp Australia The Bureau has warned that these winds will lead to hazardous surf and dangerous driving conditions. Despite the deluge, temperatures will reach 23C, 26C, and 25C in Brisbane over the weekend. Sydney will be slightly cooler, with the maximums set to reach 21C on Friday and Saturday, before cooling to 18C on Sunday. Camera IconWet weather is set to stay for Aussies on the eastern coast, with wind and rain forecasted for the foreseeable future. Credit: Supplied Canberra The rain will extend down to the ACT, with showers and light winds possible in Canberra on each day over the weekend. The maximum temperature will gradually drop from 19C on Friday, 18C on Saturday, to a chilly 13C on Sunday. Camera IconWet weather. Pedestrians huddle under umbrellas as rain continues to drench Sydney. NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers Credit: News Corp Australia Melbourne Further south in Melbourne, there will be showers, but not at the same rate as in Sydney. The weather will be mild over the weekend with a chance of showers on all days. Friday will reach a maximum temperature of 19C, while the maximum temperature for Saturday and Sunday will only reach 14C and 15C respectively. Adelaide Adelaide residents will enjoy slightly warmer maximum temperatures compared to Melbourne folk, with 19C on Friday and 17C on Saturday and Sunday expected. There’s a chance of showers on Friday and Saturday, but Sunday will be mostly sunny. Camera IconPeople walk through Fitzroy Gardens in May. NCA NewsWire / David Crosling Credit: News Corp Australia Hobart Hobart will experience slightly cooler weather than Melbourne, with the mercury tipped to reach 16C, 11C and 13C on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There’s a chance of showers and winds of up to 20km/h on Friday and Saturday. Although Sunday will be mostly sunny, an icy minimum of 3C in the morning will cause patches of frost. Perth Across the country in Perth, it will almost feel like summer, with sunny conditions and light winds expected from Friday through to Sunday. The maximum temperature will sit on average at a pleasant 27C. Darwin Darwin will also enjoy sunny days with light winds. The city is tipped to be slightly warmer, with maximum temperatures expected to reach 32C each day. Source link #Wind #rain #stay #Aussies #eastern #coast Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Xiaomi’s new EV orders slump in China as consumer backlash grows Xiaomi’s new EV orders slump in China as consumer backlash grows SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s Xiaomi is seeing a slump in new orders for its SU7 electric sedan, analysts said on Wednesday, as the company and its charismatic CEO grapple with a growing consumer backlash that now threatens its runaway sales success. The sporty electric vehicle quickly became a hit among ******** drivers after it was launched in March last year. By December, its sales had overtaken Tesla’s Model 3 in the world’s biggest auto market on monthly basis. But Xiaomi is now facing a wave of consumer angst that began last month following a fatal accident involving an SU7. The accident, which is still under investigation, prompted widespread public discussion over the safety of the kinds of smart driving features offered by Xiaomi. ******** regulators have since further tightened regulatory oversight on the marketing and promotion of such features. Xiaomi did not respond to a Reuters request for comment for this story. New orders for the SU7 fell 55% in April from March and the trend continued in May, with a 13,500 orders placed in the first two weeks of the month, Deutsche Bank analysts said in a note on Wednesday. That compared to 23,000 orders in the second week of March alone, a weekly all-time high. Xiaomi was pulled into further controversy last week after it apologised for what it called “unclear communication” following complaints from customers. SU7 owners said the company had falsely advertised the design of a dual-vent carbon fiber hood it offers at an additional charge of 42,000 yuan ($5,826) on its SU7 Ultra. Nearly 400 owners of the SU7 Ultra had asked for refunds after finding the hood had no air ducts inside, which contradicted previous claims by Xiaomi and its CEO Lei Jun, Shanghai government-owned media the Paper reported on Tuesday. “This crisis not only exposes the credibility crisis of Xiaomi SU7, but also the distortion of some values ​​in the current new energy vehicle industry,” it wrote. Lei, who is a social media star in China with 26 million followers on Weibo, said on Saturday the past month had been the most difficult ******* for him since he founded the electronics maker a decade ago. Other customers and analysts told Reuters that Xiaomi’s delivery time estimates for SU7s were creating confusion. Purchasers have often found the estimates greatly overestimate delivery times, and they receive their cars much sooner than expected. That’s led some analysts to question whether Xiaomi is seeking to create an artificial sense of scarcity as a marketing tactic. Story Continues One ******** blogger calling himself A Zu told Reuters he had created an app allowing buyers to submit their purchase and pick-up information in a bid to better understand Xiaomi’s delivery patterns. When checked by Reuters on Wednesday, Xiaomi’s official app gave estimated delivery times ranging from 26 weeks to 11 months. A SU7 owner himself, A Zu, who declined to share his real name, said he hoped Xiaomi could be more transparent with its delivery arrangements. Xiaomi has long employed highly successful marketing tactics to sell electronic products such as smartphones, analysts at ******** consulting firm LandRoads said. “But unlike digital consumer products, the automobile involves longer purchase decision-making processes and ******* investment by consumers, who will have higher requirements on the brand’s capability in fulfilling promises and its long-term credibility,” it said. ($1 = 7.2083 ******** yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Zhang Yan, Qiaoyi Li, Brenda Goh; Editing by Miyoung Kim and Joe Bavier) Source link #Xiaomis #orders #slump #China #consumer #backlash #grows Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

AMD’s AI-Powered Stock Price Rally Just Shifted Gears AMD’s AI-Powered Stock Price Rally Just Shifted Gears Advanced Micro Devices’ (NASDAQ:) long-awaited AI-powered stock price rally is here. The stock is rocketing higher after a string of good news, including reduced trade tensions with China, a new deal with Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN, and a new $6 billion share buyback authorization. The authorization, a sign of the board’s confidence in future free cash flow, is worth an additional $6 billion on top of the $4 billion left under the existing. The total $10 billion in potential share repurchases is worth about 5.5% of the market cap in mid-May and a potentially strong tailwind. It is potentially strong because repurchase activity in 2024 failed to reduce the count, stock-based compensation awards more than offset their impact and may do so again in 2025. However, the first quarter results included a slight reduction in the diluted count that may persist and even accelerate as the year progresses. Other figures that investors should be watching are the cash, assets, and equity, which are all increasing. The company’s Q1 balance sheet highlights included a 50% YOY increase in cash, increased receivables and inventory, steady debt levels, and reduced liability. The net result was a 5% increase in equity and an expectation for equity gains to accelerate as the year progresses. The outlook for the year was amplified by recent news, including a $10 billion deal with HUMAIN. HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia’s newly formed AI enterprise, inked a $10 billion deal for AI infrastructure backed by President Trump. The deal involves 500 megawatts of AI compute capacity using AMD’s most advanced semiconductor technology and is expected to play out over five years. The impact on AMD’s outlook is significant and worth 3100 basis points of revenue growth relative to the 2025 consensus forecast reported by MarketBeat. Analysts Cheer Eye-Opening Moment for AI Investors The analyst’s response to the Saudi news was overwhelmingly bullish. Bank of America analysts view Advanced Micro Devices as a top-winner alongside NVIDIA (NASDAQ:), while the Dan Ives-led Wedbush team called it an eye-opening moment. They view the deal and the others announced alongside it as a clear signal that Saudi Arabia will be a significant player in AI for years to come. Saudi Arabia’s AI investment could top $1 trillion within years and open the door to expanding possibilities for all things AI. Ultimately, the factor that matters is that the analyst group is lifting price targets again and leading to the high-end range, a gain of 50% relative to mid-May trading levels. Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming Q2 earnings release, scheduled for late July, will be a market-moving event for this stock. Not only is there a high probability that the company will outperform its consensus estimates for revenue and earnings, but the guidance will likely be strong. Demand was strong before the Saudi deal and will only increase in its wake. The risk is China. The curb on exports to China will impact the results, but may be limited. Saudi Arabia will make up for the lost revenue. Advanced Micro Devices Stock Price Reaches a Critical Pivot Point Advanced Micro Devices’ stock price advanced by 15% within two days of the HUMAIN announcement and will likely continue to move higher. However, there is a risk of resistance at a critical pivot point, including the long-term 30-week EMA, representing institutional buy-and-hold investors. If the market is unable to get above the level quickly, there is a risk that AMD’s share price will remain range-bound at current levels. A move above the 30-week EMA would be a bullish sign, indicating improved market sentiment and an all-clear to investors. The market for AMD stock would likely move up to $147.50 soon after and potentially continue rising through the year’s end. Original Post Source link #AMDs #AIPowered #Stock #Price #Rally #Shifted #Gears Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

India-US trade deal: Trump says Delhi willing to charge 'no tariffs' on US goods – BBC India-US trade deal: Trump says Delhi willing to charge 'no tariffs' on US goods – BBC India-US trade deal: Trump says Delhi willing to charge ‘no tariffs’ on US goods BBCTrump Wants Apple to Stop Moving iPhone Production to India Bloomberg”Don’t Want You Building In India”: Donald Trump To Apple CEO Tim Cook NDTVTrump: India has offered U.S. a trade deal with zero tariffs Reuters‘Don’t want you building in India’: Donald Trump’s clear message to Apple CEO Tim Cook to ‘Make in US’ Times of India Source link #IndiaUS #trade #deal #Trump #Delhi #charge #039no #tariffs039 #goods #BBC Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

State Government backs plan to sway opposers of Burswood Park speedway redevelopment State Government backs plan to sway opposers of Burswood Park speedway redevelopment Roger Cook remains confident he can sway opinion towards plans to redevelop Burswood Park into an “entertainment and sporting precinct” as the Government starts community consultation on the contentious project Source link #State #Government #backs #plan #sway #opposers #Burswood #Park #speedway #redevelopment Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Residents in disbelief after spotting endangered creature in local garden — here’s what they saw Residents in disbelief after spotting endangered creature in local garden — here’s what they saw A rare Reeves’s pheasant was recently spotted in a residential English garden, highlighting the striking bird’s beauty and vulnerability. Photographed by locals in Wiltshire, England, the impressive bird boasts bold ******, white, and golden plumage along with an extraordinarily long, patterned tail. The Reeves’s pheasant holds the record for the longest natural tail feather of any wild bird species, which can sometimes grow up to 8 feet long. The photographed bird appears to be male, as females of the species are smaller and less colorful, sporting mottled brown plumage and shorter tails. The Reeves’s pheasant is native to China, where it is a nationally protected species. However, it is considered an introduced species in the U.K., first brought to the region in 1831. Local newspaper the Swindon Advertiser reported that sparse pockets of the species currently inhabit farmlands close to woodlands in the U.K.. Still, sightings of the bird are exceedingly rare. Listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the Reeves’s pheasant faces significant conservation challenges. Estimates suggest there are only 3,000 to 5,000 individuals left in the wild. Threats to the species include habitat loss and fragmentation, which are exacerbated by urban expansion, agricultural development, and an unstable climate. Rising global temperatures are shifting ecosystems, altering the landscapes the pheasants rely on for survival. Watch now: Giant snails invading New York City? Hunting is also a threat to the species, both currently and historically. Notably, the birds were often hunted for their tail feathers for use in traditional ******** opera costumes, contributing to the species’ historic decline. The vulnerability of the Reeves’s pheasant highlights how environmental changes, combined with other human activities like urban expansion and hunting, deeply threaten global ecosystems. Each vulnerable or endangered species is part of a larger web being destabilized. According to Birdfact, conservation efforts to support the Reeves’s pheasant focus on habitat protection and captive breeding programs to support wild populations. Despite these initiatives, the global population of Reeves’s pheasants continues to decline. This rare sighting is a sobering reminder that the survival of this gorgeous bird — and countless other vulnerable and endangered species — depends on our collective commitment to prioritize and protect our environment. Join our free newsletter for good news and useful tips, and don’t miss this cool list of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet. Source link #Residents #disbelief #spotting #endangered #creature #local #garden #heres Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Asia stocks dip as tech rally cools, Alibaba earnings loom – Investing.com Asia stocks dip as tech rally cools, Alibaba earnings loom – Investing.com Asia stocks dip as tech rally cools, Alibaba earnings loom Investing.comAsian Stocks Fall as Trade-Truce Rally Loses Steam: Markets Wrap BloombergAsia-Pacific markets mostly fall as investors assess U.S.-China trade developments CNBCWorld shares are mostly lower after a mixed session on Wall Street NewsdayAsia stocks mixed,tracking drop in US futures after mixed Wall St sess Seeking Alpha Source link #Asia #stocks #dip #tech #rally #cools #Alibaba #earnings #loom #Investing.com Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Waalitj Malawar (West Coast) bring back captain and trio of young stars as Archer Reid rested Waalitj Malawar (West Coast) bring back captain and trio of young stars as Archer Reid rested Waalitj Malawar (West Coast) draftee Bo Allan is a chance to earn an instant recall after serving his one-game suspension after being named in the extended squad to take on Euro-Yroke (St Kilda) at Optus Stadium on Sunday. Allan has been named in the squad alongside co-captain Oscar Allen, midfielder Clay Hall and forward-ruck Jack Williams to take on the Saints as the Eagles look for their first win of the season. Second-year tall Archer Reid has been managed after he was subbed out in the two-point loss to Richmond at the MCG on Sunday, having played every game to this point of the season. Allan made his debut against Melbourne earlier this month but was forced to serve a one-match ban after he caught former Demons captain Jack Viney high in a marking contest in his first AFL game. It came after the top draftee had a turbulent start to the season with two bouts of illness holding him back from making his debut earlier. Allen returns after he was a late withdrawal from the team that lost to the Tigers because of a knee injury and has once again been named at full-back, with his replacement in 200cm defender Harry Edwards in the pocket. Pre-season signing Sandy Brock is still on an extended bench alongside inclusions Allan, Hall and Williams as well as last weekend’s sub in Tom Gross, Tyler Brockman, Tom Cole and Jack Hutchinson. Camera IconClay Hall has been on fire in the WAFL Credit: Justin Benson-Cooper/The Sunday Times The squad will be trimmed from 26 to 23 on Friday afternoon. Euro-Yroke will make at least two changes after Dougal Howard (hamstring) and Liam Stocker (foot soreness) were ruled out with injury. Wingman Mason Wood is back from a concussion while 188cm backman Angus McLennan looks set to play his first game and third overall of his career after being named in the starting 18. Draftee Tobie Travaglia, defender Arie Schoenmaker and ruckman Harry Boyd have also been named on an extended bench. Waalitj Marawar v Euro-Yroke Sunday, Optus Stadium, 2.40pm EAGLES B: H Edwards O Allen L Duggan HB: R Maric R Ginbey L Baker C: J Hunt B Hough J Cripps HF: L Ryan J Waterman J Graham F: M Owies B Williams E Hewett FOLL: M Flynn T Kelly H Reid I/C: T Brockman B Allan T Gross T Cole C Hall J Williams S Brock J Hutchinson IN: O Allen B Allan C Hall J Williams OUT: A Reid (managed) SAINTS B: A McLennan C Wilkie J Webster HB: M Hindhager N Waganeen-Milera R Byrnes C: B Hill J Sinclair M Wood HF: M Hall D Wilson M Owens F: C Sharman A Caminiti J Higgins FOLL: R Marshall J Macrae J Steele I/C: L Collard T Travaglia M Phillipou A Schoenmaker H Boyd H Garcia H Boxshall L O’Connell IN: A McLennan M Wood T Travaglia A Schoenmaker H Boyd OUT: D Howard (hamstring) L Stocker (foot) Source link #Waalitj #Malawar #West #Coast #bring #captain #trio #young #stars #Archer #Reid #rested Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

TikTok beauty influencer shot dead during live stream in Mexico TikTok beauty influencer shot dead during live stream in Mexico Valeria Marquez was addressing her TikTok followers in a livestream from her beauty salon in Zapopan, Mexico, when someone arrived at her door to deliver a small parcel. “He’s a little piglet!” the 23-year-old beauty influencer exclaimed as she returned to her viewers and unwrapped the stuffed animal, smiling as she tossed her long blonde hair over her shoulder. Moments later she was dead, slumped over in her chair with blood pooling on the desk in front of her, even as the livestream continued. The footage ended only when another person picked up her phone, their face momentarily showing to viewers. According to the state of Jalisco’s Attorney General’s office, Marquez was shot dead by a male intruder into her salon in a case it is investigating as a suspected femicide – the killing of a woman or girl for gender-based reasons. The death of Marquez – a public figure with more than 100,000 Instagram followers – has sent shockwaves through a country that has long struggled with high levels of both ********* and violence against women. Just days earlier, another woman – a mayoral candidate in the state of Veracruz – was also shot dead during a livestream, alongside three other people. While not all homicides involving women are femicides, many are. In 2020, a quarter of female killings in Mexico were investigated as femicides, with cases reported in each one of Mexico’s 32 states, according to Amnesty International. Last year, there were 847 reported cases of femicide nationwide – and 162 in the first three months of this year, according to ******** government figures. Mexico’s response to homicides in general is severely wanting, according to rights groups, who say too few investigations lead to prosecution. “In 2022, around 4,000 women were killed in Mexico, which amounts to 12% of all homicides that year,” Human Rights Watch Americas Director Juanita Goebertus told CNN. “And the rate of cases that lead to a verdict is around 67%.” The main challenge, Goebertus said, is increasing authorities’ capacity to investigate and protect witnesses and victims. CNN has reached out to the Attorney General’s office for more information. CNN’s Ivonne Valdés, Veronica Calderon and Angelica Franganillo Diaz contributed to this report. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com Source link #TikTok #beauty #influencer #shot #dead #live #stream #Mexico Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Putin and Trump leave Zelenskyy in the dust, skipping peace talks in Turkey – CNBC Putin and Trump leave Zelenskyy in the dust, skipping peace talks in Turkey – CNBC Putin and Trump leave Zelenskyy in the dust, skipping peace talks in Turkey CNBCRussia-Ukraine talks live: Putin not attending peace talks in Turkey ReutersOfficials from Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. gather in Turkey for negotiations NPRUkrainians and Russians Are in Turkey but Will They Meet? The New York TimesWhy Putin’s no-show at peace talks in Turkey is all part of his brutal pantomime The Independent Source link #Putin #Trump #leave #Zelenskyy #dust #skipping #peace #talks #Turkey #CNBC Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Vegetable plot dig unearths crop of vintage bottles Vegetable plot dig unearths crop of vintage bottles Zoe Brown A family unearthed more than a thousand vintage bottles in their back garden Scratching the surface of a planned vegetable plot in a back garden has been a journey of discovery for one family. Underneath a mound of earth and nestled away for decades on a property in Pontypool, Torfaen, were more than 1,000 vintage bottles. Some beer bottles and medicinal glass jars have been brought to the surface – but their existence in just one spot is “puzzling”, said mum-of-two Zoe Brown. “We started digging and found there’s loads of rubbish – we went a metre down and found a whole bottle and thought this is really cool – maybe there’s more stuff. “It got absolutely out of hand.” Zoe said after they moved the family decided to “do the house up a bit at first” but there was a nice outdoor space to decided to work on that, and “maybe grow some veg”. Upon finding the bottles she said she emailed a lady who told her that before the war people had to get rid of their own rubbish, and said “if you go any deeper you will find out more”. Zoe Brown Zoe Brown found out there used to be a rubbish tip in the area “There’s quite a lot all over the place, we found an old wall there as well. Glasses were popping up we were picking them out, there’s over 1,000 bottles altogether – we picked loads out but some of them are still in the garden.” After using a mechanical digger and finding more than they anticipated – Zoe decided to call it a day. “I washed hundreds of them out and my boy Reg and my little girl Tilly chose the ones they liked.” Zoe Brown The Brown family found more than 1,000 vintage bottles after they started digging up their garden As well brewery bottles from Abersychan, Rhymney, Newport and Cardiff there were also vintage bottles featuring Abergavenny’s Morgans and Evans. “There’s loads of brewery ones – and little jars like the ones from Boots the Chemist with little tablespoon marks on the side, and one find was like a bottle of hair gel with a comb marking on it – where you dip the comb in and wash your hair. “I emailed some auction places but there’s too much to go through. We wheeled them up to the back of the garden – some of them had liquids in them so we had to be careful.” Zoe added: “We’ve got loads of flowers there now- rather than grow veg because of the liquids we found. We knew the area had glass in it because when it rains glass keeps on popping up. “Part of you wants to keep going but where do you cut off? It got to the point where it’s level and that’s enough. “There’s easy 1000 little jars and bottles which have come out.” Source link #Vegetable #plot #dig #unearths #crop #vintage #bottles Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Sean Darcy: Walyalup (Fremantle) ruckman fails to fly east with teammates ahead of road clash with GWS Sean Darcy: Walyalup (Fremantle) ruckman fails to fly east with teammates ahead of road clash with GWS Luke Jackson will ruck solo for Walyalup (Fremantle) in their clash with Greater Western Sydney on Saturday, with Sean Darcy ruled out with knee soreness. Liam Reidy flew to Sydney with teammates on Thursday, but has been named as an emergency, with the Dockers instead including Bailey Banfield as part of a smaller forward line. Darcy was substituted out of Thursday night’s defeat to Collingwood with knee soreness. Coach Justin Longmuir said earlier this week he is expected to be fit for next week’s clash with Port Adelaide. It means Jackson — who has spent time in the ruck, up forward and even as a midfielder in his own right in recent weeks — will be unleashed in the middle full-time. It comes amid a turbulent time for Freo’s ruck division, with growing concerns over Darcy’s ruck partnership with Jackson, and The West ***********’s report Jackson is expected to request a trade to Melbourne at the end of this season. It means Darcy has featured in just 17 of the Dockers’ past 39 matches — and has been substituted out of three of those games. “We know it’s not too serious, which is a good sign,” Longmuir said earlier this week. “We feel if he does miss this week, he will be right for next week. We feel we have dodged a bullet in the short term. “He’s handled it really well, I probably expected him to be a little bit more frustrated than he was, but he has been really mature about it, he understands that some of these things might pop up every now and then with different instances that can pop up in a game. “He’s happy that it’s not serious.” Reidy has played one game this season, leading the ruck in the disastrous round one defeat to Geelong. The back-up ruck and out-of-favour utility James Aish are the Dockers’ travelling emergencies. Peel Thunder do not have a WAFL fixture this week for the State game bye. GWS have named two West *********** guns to return for the clash. Darcy Jones and Toby Bedford have both recovered from injury in time for the clash, with Jake ********* ruled out. Adam Kingsley has also dropped Josaia Delana after two matches. Walyalup v GWS Giants Saturday, Engie Stadium, 2.15pm FREMANTLE B: L Ryan A Pearce B Cox HB: H Chapman K Worner J Clark C: J Sharp S Bolton M Johnson HF: M Frederick S Switkowski I Dudley F: P Voss J Treacy J Amiss FOLL: L Jackson C Serong A Brayshaw I/C: M Reid C Wagner N Erasmus C Simpson B Banfield EMG: O McDonald J Aish L Reidy IN: B Banfield OUT: S Darcy More to come Source link #Sean #Darcy #Walyalup #Fremantle #ruckman #fails #fly #east #teammates #ahead #road #clash #GWS Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]