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☆ Dolly Parton tells Gen Z workers: find your dream 9-to-5 — and work hard
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewDolly Parton says the best way to succeed at your 9-to-5 is to find your dream and stick to it. AdvertisementSpeaking to Business Insider about her advice for Gen Z workers, Parton recalls a quote she once shared on X. "And if those dreams come true, then you make deals with people. " Since 2022, Parton has been working with Duncan Hines and its parent company, Conagra, to release Dolly-branded cake mixes. Dolly Parton has put her name to a range of Duncan Hines baking mixes.

Persons: —, Dolly Parton, Parton, Sandollar, Sandy Gallin, Gen, Kevin Mazur, Duncan Hines, Jolene, JB Rowland, That's, I've, you've Organizations: Service, Business, Sandollar Productions, Entertainment, Herschend Enterprises, Company, Roll Hall of Fame Locations: Pigeon Forge , Tennessee, Dollywood

☆ Oil CEO says blaming the energy industry for the climate crisis ‘like blaming farmers for obesity’
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

watch nowDUBAI, United Arab Emirates —The chief executive of UAE-based energy firm Crescent Petroleum on Tuesday claimed that blaming the oil and gas industry for the climate crisis "is like blaming farmers for obesity." The burning of coal, oil and gas is by far the largest contributor to climate change, accounting for more than three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions. "Blaming the producers of oil and gas for climate change is like blaming farmers for obesity. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said that the announcement was "a step in the right direction" for Big Oil and showed that the fossil fuel industry was "finally starting to wake up." Others, including former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, believe that the participation of energy giants should be welcomed at events such as COP28.

Persons: Majid Jafar, CNBC's Dan Murphy, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Abu, COP28, António Guterres, Jafar, We're, Ernest Moniz Organizations: United Arab Emirates —, UAE, Petroleum, Crescent Petroleum, Crescent Petroleum Co, Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, United Arab Emirates national, Expo, Bloomberg, Getty, Big Oil, U.S . Energy Locations: DUBAI, United Arab, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, U.N, New York

☆ A pickleball star offers tips for improving your game. The 22-year-old pro athlete says the sport isn't just for old people.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Pickleball is a great all-ages sport that can be athletic and competitive, too. Train like a pickleball pro by working your core and balance with planks and single-leg squats. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . You can play pickleball at all ages and fitness levelsTodd, who entered the pro tennis circuit at age 14, said she first got into pickleball in late 2021 while spending time with, you guessed it, her grandparents. Adding core and balance exercises to your workouts can give you a boost on the pickleball court.

Persons: —, Pickleball, Parris Todd, Todd, It's, pickleball, We're Organizations: Service Locations: America, Newport Beach

☆ Not so dead as a dodo: ‘De-extinction’ plan to reintroduce bird to Mauritius
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Tom Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —An audacious collaboration between geneticists and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius. But according to the partners, its return to Mauritius could benefit the dodo’s immediate environment and other species. The Nicobar pigeon, native to the coastal regions from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is the closest living relative to the dodo. Then it will edit the PGCs of a Nicobar so it expresses the physical traits of a dodo. “I have studied the dodo for many years, and there is still a lot to learn about this enigmatic bird,” he added.

Persons: dodo, Beth Shapiro, ”, Matt James, James, Holger Hollemann, Tatayah, ” Tatayah, “, dodos, Ben Birchall, Julian Hume, ” Hume, Ben Lamm, “ We’re Organizations: CNN, Colossal Biosciences, Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Getty, Gorges, Colossal, “, White Rhino, Biosciences Locations: Mauritius, Rodrigues Island, Asia, Nicobar, Park, “ Mauritius, Aigrettes, Ile

People, including Russian law enforcement officers, walk near St. Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower, as a pigeon flies over Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, March 20, 2023. It was not clear from Russian media reports which foreigners the draft legislation - if it becomes law - would apply to or what the punishment would be for not adhering to the "agreement" which foreigners would have to sign upon entry to Russia. The chairman of the Duma's CIS Affairs Committee said that the draft law was well advanced and was being worked on by the interior ministry, the government, the presidential administration as well as his committee. "The draft law on the so-called 'loyalty agreement' with migrants entering the Russian Federation is in a high degree of readiness," Leonid Kalashnikov told Interfax.

Persons: Evgenia, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Leonid Kalashnikov, Kalashnikov, Lidia Kelly, Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn, Nick Macfie Organizations: REUTERS, TASS, Russian Federation, Fatherland, Nazi, Opposition, State Duma, Duma's CIS, Committee, Thomson Locations: St, Basil's, Moscow, Russia, MOSCOW, Ukraine, Soviet, Berlin, Europe, Melbourne

☆ At Dubai Design Week, an architect created a space for humans and pigeons to share
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Arya Jyothi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Among them, Dubai-based Syrian Ahmad Alkattan has created a cocoon-style intimate outdoor social space where designers can “hatch” their ideas. Alkattan’s design is part of the annual Dubai Design Week and won first place in its Urban Commissions competition, which invites designers and architects to develop innovative outdoor furniture. This year, more than 30 designs for installations submitted for DDW have been built in the city’s Design District. Dubai Design WeekAhead of the upcoming COP28 climate conference in Dubai, the theme for this year’s design week emphasizes sustainable practices and materials. “So [the competition] is a very relevant project not just for what is staged in Dubai Design Week, but where we can see this in the future.”Designest is Alkattan’s third attempt at winning the Urban Commissions category.

Persons: Ahmad Alkattan, “ Designest, Alkattan, Designest, “, I’ve, Mette Degn, Christensen, DDW, it’s, ”, Abdalla, TEE VEE, Degn Organizations: CNN, Design, Dubai Design, DDW, Mitsubishi, Tea Locations: Dubai, Dubai —, Venice, Arabi, UAE

Here are the meanings of the 10 hardest words that have also been used in New York Times articles. Working with future Confederate Gen. Edward Porter Alexander, Myer developed the Army’s “wigwag” flag system. (June 24, 2019)10. atilt — askew:Think compression tops patterned à la one-shouldered tanks and sweatpants chopped up and wrapped into lappa-like long shorts. And the star of the Liberian flag strategically placed throughout, though slightly atilt, as though being blown sideways in a sprinter’s wake. — Clean Energy, Cherished Waters and a Sacred California Rock Caught in the Middle (Oct. 24, 2023)The list of the week’s easiest words:

Persons: callaloo, bok choy, Rose Nzada, Ned Rorem, wigwag —, Edward Porter Alexander, Myer, libidinal, efflorescence, John Turturro, venule, —, tailcoat, They’re, cloaca, atilt — askew, — Telfar Clemens, Waters Organizations: New York Times, Community, Confederate, Liberian, Clean Energy Locations: New, West, Cameroon, Bronx, Central, Northern, Southern California, Gaviota, California

☆ To Wear the Sudoku Crown, One Must Solve Any Number of Puzzles
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Siobhan Roberts | Chloë Ellingson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

On a mid-October Monday, shortly before 9 a.m., 179 elite puzzlers made their way into the ballroom of a Toronto hotel and found their allocated seats for the World Sudoku and Puzzle Championships. Quiet descended as proctors distributed booklets for Round 1: nine Sudoku puzzles, with a 45-minute time limit. He is a three-time world Sudoku champion, and in 2018 he won the title of world puzzle champion, making him the first person to win both honors. The annual championship event comprises two days of Sudoku, followed by three days of other types of pencil-and-paper logic puzzles. There were also trickier variants, such as “Difference Sudoku,” for which the standard rules apply, but also each number shown in a circle between two adjacent cells indicates the difference of the numbers in those two cells.

Persons: puzzlers, Valentin Miakinen, Hwangrae Lee, Thomas Snyder, “, Snyder, ”, Laura Tarchetti, Toni Borozan, Jouni Sarkijarvi Organizations: San Francisco Bay Area Locations: Toronto, France, Korea, San Francisco Bay, revel, Croatia, Finland

☆ Pigeons solve problems the same way AI does, study says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The way pigeons problem solve is very similar to AI, researchers say. Researchers found that this method helps pigeons perform certain types of tasks even better than humans. Researchers performed the same tests using AI and found the AI also learned to decrease its amount of mistakes. According to Turner, pigeons use associative learning, which connects two things, such as dogs understanding that they will receive a treat when they sit. "But the learning principles that guide the behaviors of these AI machines are pretty similar to what pigeons use," Turner said.

Persons: —, Brandon Turner, Turner Organizations: Service, Ohio State University, University of Iowa, Ohio State

Mohammed Aborjela, 27, used to document daily life in the Gaza Strip on his Instagram account before the war, videos about a crab dish prepared along the seaside or pigeon racing in the coastal enclave. Now, he has turned to documenting daily life under Israeli bombardment. On Sunday, he posted a story about the daily struggle to find drinking water. He records snippets as he walks, carrying a bright yellow jug to one of the few water stations still functioning in the southern city of Khan Younis. People are on top of one another and people are getting sick.”

Persons: Mohammed Aborjela, Khan Younis, ” Mr, Aborjela, ” Organizations: New York Times Locations: Gaza, Khan

☆ ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ Review: Decoding John le Carré
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

David Cornwell, aka writer John le Carré Photo: Apple TV+If someone were going to tell you their life story, the ideal someone would be one of the world’s great storytellers—John le Carré, for instance, the celebrated spy novelist, literary archivist of the Cold War, spinner of tales of diaphanous morality. And what better conduit than Errol Morris , a filmmaker fascinated by people who delude themselves, or defend the indefensible, or become pawns in a system that eventually devours them—just like those in a Le Carré novel?

Persons: David Cornwell, John le Carré, — John le Carré, Errol Morris Organizations: Apple

NEW YORK (AP) — Errol Morris has just sat down with a reporter when his wife calls. The film, which opens Friday in select theaters and on Apple TV+, is based on le Carré's 2016 memoir of the same name. AP: The central, mysterious metaphor of le Carré's, “The Pigeon Tunnel" — a tunnel that funnels pigeons to shotgun-wielding men — looms throughout the film. Morris: I’ve often compared the writing to a Kafka parable, except John le Carré wrote it. I say to (le Carré) at some point: “History is chaos.” And he agrees, “History is chaos.”

Persons: — Errol Morris, “ I’m, ” Morris, ”, Morris, John le Carré, “, “ Tinker, le, David Cornwell, It's, Ed Gein, Robert Bloch’s, Alfred Hitchcock’s, … Morris, It’s, Ed Gein’s, Didn’t Freud, I’ve, Robert McNamara, vindicating, —, Saul Kripke, David, Steve, Bannon Organizations: Apple, Research Locations: British, Waushara County , Wisconsin, Morris

☆ Errol Morris Did Not Like This Q&A About His le Carré Film
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Talk Errol Morris Did Not Like This Q&A About His le Carré FilmJohn le Carré’s spy novels traffic in the philosophical, emotional and practical ambiguities complicating concepts like truth, deceit and self-awareness. “The reason that I made ‘The Pigeon Tunnel,’” he said about le Carré, “is that he is interested in philosophical questions. I say to le Carré that for him the world divides into two groups: string-pullers and dupes. Mark Lipson, via Fourth Floor ProductionsWhat does John le Carré say about your position as an interviewer at the beginning of the film? I have a question about this idea that le Carré has: that the world divides into string-pullers and dupes.

Persons: Errol Morris, John le Carré’s, David Cornwell, Morris, ”, le, John le Carré, Igor Martinovic, le Carré, I’m, —, “, Rudolf Hess’s, Robert McNamara, You’ve, ” —, Louise, Geez Louise, someone’s, Satan, Mark Lipson, Barack Obama’s, you’re, you’ve, David Cornwell’s, coy, Godard, It’s, David, Cornwell, Errol, David Marchese, Alok Vaid, Menon, ordinariness, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Downey Jr Organizations: Apple, Sony Pictures, Everett, Whitney Biennial, Marvel Locations: British

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Inside, with speeches and machinations and carefully deployed elbows, those who administer the world persist in their search for the elusive path to peace. “Bring lasting peace,” said Pravind Jugnauth, prime minister of Mauritius. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim spoke of “the imperative to make peace." In July, visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the North Lawn, adjacent to the wooded area, to perform yoga poses as part of his visit. But for one tranquil moment, for one brief respite from the world's most high-stakes conversations, that's more than sufficient.

Persons: ”, Said, Pravind Jugnauth, Anwar Ibrahim, Pendarovski, Siaosi Sovaleni, “, Narendra Modi, Ukraine —, It's, Ted Anthony, General Assembly's Organizations: UNITED NATIONS, United Nations, Hall, New, Malaysian, Indian, —, Associated Press Locations: Manhattan, New York City, Queens, United, Mauritius, North Macedonia, Tonga, India, Pakistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Ukraine, East

☆ Jimmy Buffet's 'Margaritaville' has built an empire. Here's what it's like to visit its resorts and RV parks, and sail on its cruise line.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

See what it's like to vacation on its cruise line and at some of its resorts and RV parks. A hotel room at Camp Margaritaville RV Resort and Lodge in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Now, there are Margaritaville hotels in what seems like almost every major vacation destination in the US from San Diego, California to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Brittany Chang/InsiderThe first Camp Margaritaville RV resort — which focuses on "upscale camping" — opened in Georgia in 2019 as a "surprise" hit, Jim Wiseman, the president of development at Camp Margaritaville, told Insider in 2021. To create this floating Margaritaville hotel, the brand refurbished the over 30-year-old flagship vessel of budget cruise line Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line, which has since rebranded to Margaritaville at Sea.

Persons: Jimmy Buffett, Brittany Chang, Buffett, Forbes, it's, there's, Liberty, hasn't, Margaritaville, Jim Wiseman, Orlando — Organizations: Service, Yorker, New, Margaritaville, Paradise, Cruise Locations: Wall, Silicon, Pigeon Forge , Tennessee, Margaritaville, Pensacola Beach , Florida, San Diego , California, Gatlinburg , Tennessee, New York City, Margaritaville's New York City, of, Georgia, Auburndale, Florida, Crystal Beach , Florida, Poconos, Forge , Tennessee, Auburndale , Florida, Orlando, cabanas, Florida's Port, Palm Beach, Bahamas, Freeport, Grand Bahama

Representatives for the company declined to comment on its business. In the days after Mr. Buffett’s death, retail and marketing experts said his legacy would continue to lure his fans — known as Parrot Heads, along with their children, called parakeets — and others to his businesses. “It’s definitely a lifestyle associated with him and his personality and his music that he created,” said Barbara Kahn, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. But, she said, because his business is “bigger than just that, it could definitely live on.”Mr. Buffett’s original idea for Margaritaville was “to expand the opportunity for as many people to experience the lifestyle immortalized in his iconic song as possible,” according to the statement on the company’s website. The company had $2.2 billion in gross annual revenue last year.

Persons: Buffett’s, —, It’s, ”, Barbara Kahn, Mr, Margaritaville, Dolly Parton Organizations: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Locations: Belize, Pigeon Forge, Tenn

From a distance, the whole site could be mistaken for an old mining camp you might come across in Montana or Idaho. They were listening to the last sigh of the Big Bang, which birthed the universe 13.8 billion years ago and is detectable now only as a faint, omnipresent hiss of microwave radiation. Up until then, scientists had debated whether the universe even had a beginning; maybe it was timeless. As important, the discovery brought the beginning of time into the lab, where it could be pinched, squeezed and dissected. The cosmic microwave background offered a new window into the nature of reality, one into which astronomers have been peering intently ever since.

Persons: Crawford Hill, Arno Penzias, Robert Wilson, Penzias, Wilson Organizations: Historic Landmark Locations: Crawford, Monmouth County, N.J, Manhattan, Montana, Idaho

☆ The pigeon keepers of Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

[1/13]Anatoliy Seliverstov, 67, holds pigeons outside his dovecote in Moscow, Russia. Pigeon houses have decreased in number as breeders, mostly elderly people, face pressure from the authorities and real estate developers. REUTERS/Evgenia NovozheninaMOSCOW, RUSSIA

Persons: Anatoliy Seliverstov Organizations: REUTERS Locations: Moscow, Russia, Evgenia, MOSCOW, RUSSIA

☆ Canadian fintech investment shrinks in first half of 2023 - report
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Manya Saini | Thomson Reuters | Manya Saini Reports On Prominent Publicly Listed U.S. Financial Firms Including Wall Street S Biggest Banks | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Aug 17 (Reuters) - Investment in Canada's financial technology sector was reduced to less than half in the first six months of 2023 from last year, according to a report from accounting firm KPMG on Thursday. Reuters GraphicsIn comparison, the first half of 2022 saw $834.1 million invested across 109 deals. In the second half, $1.09 billion was invested across 87 deals, the report said. "We could see some stability coming back to financing markets by the end of 2023 or early 2024. Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra EluriOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: PitchBook, Geoff Rush, Georges Pigeon, Manya Saini, Krishna Chandra Organizations: KPMG, Reuters, Canada, Thomson Locations: Canada, Bengaluru

Media and entertainment deal-making has slowed, but private equity players are still betting big on the space. Middle Eastern sources are still providing funding to media, which could fuel deals in the months ahead. Media deal volume has actually increased, just not as fast; PwC recorded media deals rose 3% (to 326) in the six months through May, down from a 7% increase in the previous six months. And beyond private equity, legacy players could shed properties they consider non-core: Paramount is trying to offload BET while Warner Bros. Insider's list of top private equity players in media and entertainment highlights 17 firms, from heavy hitters to smaller upstarts, based on our reporting and conversations with investors and insiders.

Persons: PwC, Hollywood —, Ryan, Morgan Stanley, Sherrese Clarke Soares Organizations: Media, Hollywood, RedBird Capital Partners, NFL, Company, Qatar Investment Authority, Yahoo, ESPN, Paramount, BET, Warner Bros, Discovery, Equity Partners Locations: Providence, BlackRock

☆ She’s Got the Hardest Job in Soccer. Can She Keep Winning?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Bruce Schoenfeld | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

“People tell me they don’t exist.” The next morning, she would fly to Chicago on federation business. Her predecessor, Carlos Cordeiro, resigned under pressure in March 2020 while struggling to manage a dispute with the U.S. women’s national team. U.S. Soccer was being sued in federal court by players on the U.S. women’s team. “She recognized that U.S. Soccer was going through an almost existential crisis,” says one of those advisers, Don Garber, who is the Major League Soccer commissioner and also a board member. “Soccer looks a lot different today than it did when she took over,” says Kyle Martino, who played in M.L.S.

Persons: Cone, ”, Carlos Cordeiro, Goldman Sachs, Mike Cullina, ’ ”, Cordeiro, — Cone, “, Don Garber, don’t, let’s, Kyle Martino, Cindy Organizations: U.S, women’s, Soccer, U.S . Soccer Foundation, Major League Soccer, Club Locations: Chicago, U.S, United States, America, M.L.S

☆ Thom Browne on the inspiration behind his first ever couture show
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Editor’s Note: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week and Haute Couture Week. Paris CNN —On Monday evening in Paris, American designer and Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) chairman Thom Browne debuted his first haute couture collection in front of an audience of 2,300. The scene was meticulously staged by Browne’s team, many of whom worked overnight. “I wanted to turn the tables (of a traditional couture show) and make everybody sit on the stage along with the show,” Browne told CNN. “We all want to be respectful to what’s going on here in France and in Paris,” Browne said.

Persons: Paris CNN —, Thom Browne, Browne, ” grinned Browne, Palais Garner, Thom Browne's, Stephen Jaffe, Diane Keaton, Cardi, Anna Wintour, Baz Luhrmann, Pierre Suu, Baz Luhrman, Ayo, “, ” Browne, it’s, ”, Lizzo, I’m, Grey ”, Visage, tortoiseshell brogues, Hector, Corey Tenold, Marc Jacobs, ” It’s, Merzouk, Hedi Slimane, Celine, David Bowie, Browne’s, Bowie Organizations: CNN, Paris Fashion, Couture, Paris CNN, of Fashion Designers of America, Palais Garnier, Browne’s Locations: Paris, Paris , American, Paris ’, British, New York, France, Parisian, Nanterre, “ Couture

☆ When It Comes to Rubies, Is Mozambique the New Star?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Nazanin Lankarani | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rubies are like caviar: Their origin is an important part of their market value. Until a month ago, anyone interested in buying a big ruby knew with certainty that Myanmar, formerly called Burma, produced the most valuable stones. Then in June, the 55.22-carat Estrela de Fura, mined in Mozambique, sold for $34.8 million at Sotheby’s in New York — what the auction house called “a world auction record for a ruby and any colored gemstone.”The stone, whose Portuguese name means Star of Fura, actually was one of three exceptional rubies auctioned in the past two months. One, from Myanmar, had been the world’s highest priced ruby, but sold in May for far less than its estimate. (The industry continues to use the term Burmese for rubies from the country.)

Persons: ” Locations: Myanmar, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, East, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, New York

☆ How should slavery and its legacy be taught in U.S. schools?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +21 min

My father said it was indeed a general store, supplying everything from hog feed to eggs to coal for heating. On the map, I believe General’s Store is the building at the bottom and labeled S for store. Black people appeared chiefly in sketches aimed at amusing readers – or when they were accused of crimes against whites. The letter writer said a young white man in a general store had ordered the woman to put down a can of oil she was examining. I could find nothing that accounted for the death of General Bryson, let alone any item that mentioned the Bryson family.

Persons: General Bryson, General, G.G, Bryson, George T, Williamson, Bryson’s, Lucille Newton Duke, Boots ”, Barbara Newton, Bud Moon, Jim Smith, Smith, Sheriff Culberson, Moon, “, Martin Luther King Jr, Ancestry.com, Jim Crow’s, Margaret Burnham, Burnham, ”, –, ” Burnham, Isaac Gaston, Gaston –, General Bryson –, Walter White, weren’t, Patricia, Julia, I’d, LaBrenda Garrett, Nelson, Thomas Colquitt Hardman, Lamartine Hardman, Hardman, – Hardman, Harry Bryson, Harry, wasn’t, Uzell Mathis, Black, you’d, Terrie Epstein, Epstein, Chara Haeussler Bohan, Alexander Stephens, Mildred Rutherford, Bohan, ” Bohan, ” Chara Haeussler, Ron DeSantis, David Walker, DeSantis, ’ ” Bohan, Jim Crow, Carol Swain, Swain, ” Swain, Booker T, Washington . Organizations: Commerce, Herald, Calvary Baptist Church, Sanborn, Company, Library of Congress, Hurricane, Reuters, Civil, Northeastern University, National Association for, Advancement of Colored, NAACP, New York Times, Jackson County Herald, Arlington National Cemetery, Quartermaster Corps, Harmony, Black Commerce, New, Hunter College, Blacks, Georgia State University, Confederacy, Southern Poverty Law, Union, American AP, Republican, Yale, Harvard Law School, state’s Department of Education, –, demonize, Washington, Tuskegee University Locations: Jackson, Mt, Calvary, Hurricane, Hurricane Grove, Jefferson, Winder, Maxey’s, Donalsonville , Georgia, Donalsonville, Commerce, Georgia, Atlanta, Jackson County, United States, Brest, France, Arlington, Harmony Grove, Commerce Jackson County Georgia, Black, Grove, Michigan, Confederate States, America, Southern, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, demonize America, Virginia, Washington

☆ Indian police retain carrier pigeons as backstop against disasters
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Sunil Kataria | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Dating from the days of British colonial rule when police stations used the birds to communicate with each other, the state's carrier pigeon service employs more than 100 Belgian Homer pigeons. The pigeons usually carry messages written on lightweight onion paper, inserted into a capsule and then tied to a leg. As they get older, the pigeons are taken some distance away to be freed and fly back to the shelter by instinct. Carrier pigeons took news of the conquest of Gaul to Rome, brought to England the news of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo, and were widely used to carry messages during the two world wars. "Even in the unlikely event that every mode of communication breaks down tomorrow, the pigeons will never fail," he said.

Persons: Sunil Kataria, Belgian Homer, Satish Kumar Gajbhiye, Parshuram Nanda, Nanda, Gajbhiye, Anil Dhir, Sakshi Dayal, Clarence Fernandez Organizations: REUTERS, Police, Waterloo, Independence, Thomson Locations: Belgian, Cuttack, Odisha, India, Sunil Kataria CUTTACK, Gaul, Rome, England

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