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Footprints: WITH NOTHING BUT HOPE

Edit Dawn 08 May 2016
The owner of a small piece of cultivable land in Lar Bagh, Shah is furious about the government not providing alternative sources of income when it barred him from cultivating poppy on his fields. Bilal, too, switched to the auto parts business after his family was told to restrict themselves to cultivating merely corn and vegetables on their farms — both less productive as compared to the money a poppy crop brings in....

Date night

Edit NZ Herald 08 May 2016
From left. Maurie & Eve Sabine dress in Poppy $250 This orange-based flame-red colour best suits olive complexions. Yvonne Bennetti Juliette dress $1200 Team this show-stopping piece with metallic strappy shoes and gold accessories... ....

Thomas Cohen: Bloom Forever review – sensitive response to living with grief

Edit The Guardian 08 May 2016
(Stolen Recordings) ... The intensity diminishes elsewhere, and there is some respite in the poppy, piano-assisted chorus of New Morning Comes, but no trite redemptive arc ... ....

Taliban makes huge profits from opium harvests

Edit Press TV 08 May 2016
Growing opium poppies and drug trafficking continue to be ......

Crocker block party brings art beyond museum walls

Edit Sacramento Bee 08 May 2016
Under the threat of bloated clouds Saturday on the front lawn of Grant Union High School, the children of Del Paso Heights danced, frolicked and hula hooped as if they didn’t have a care in the world ... You can’t buy that kind of excitement.” ... In Del Paso Heights, artist Anthony Padilla received funding for Solar Poppy, an electronic sculpture at Grant High School that brings together themes of art and technology ... Sammy Caiola....

Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool review – achieving something they've never achieved before

Edit The Guardian 08 May 2016
4 / 5 stars. Radiohead have always sounded like a band in constant motion ... (XL). @alexispetridis ... Related ... You’d hesitate to call it more poppy – this is still an album on which standard verse-chorus structures are very much subject to subsidence, and on which the instruments buried deep in the mix frequently seem to be playing an entirely different song to those in the foreground – but it’s certainly sharper and more focused ... ....

Jamie Oliver won't have surgery because he thinks staff will take pics of his junk

Edit NZ Herald 07 May 2016
Jamie Oliver won't have a vasectomy in case pictures of the intimate procedure end up on SnapChat.The 40-year-old chef's wife Jools is pregnant with their fifth child - a sibling for Poppy, 14, Daisy, 13, Petal, seven, and five-year-old... ....

Gaga, Elton team up for new line at Macy’s

Edit U~T San Diego 07 May 2016
Poppy, playful Love Bravery aims to promote compassion, self-acceptance ... ....

Here’s what they’re actually naming ‘Boaty McBoatface’

Edit Sacramento Bee 07 May 2016
(Other names that were also being considered included the similarly joshing “It’s Bloody Cold Here,” “Poppy-Mai” and “Henry Worsley.”)....

Readers’ recipe swap: Savoury biscuits

Edit The Guardian 07 May 2016
It was a close run contest between your moreish snacks, but late in the day an anchovy-based bite took the biscuit ... A good savoury biscuit has the power to drive you crazy. A good savoury biscuit can unlock your heart ... Danny gets a kiss ... The winning recipe ... Related ... Makes 30 ... Marmite and poppy seed cookies ... 1 tbsp black poppy seeds ... 2 Put the poppy seeds on to a chopping board and carefully roll the sausage in them to coat the edges ... ....

Recognizing pain medication addiction

Edit The Examiner 07 May 2016
In light of the recent death of music icon, Prince, the subject of pain medication addiction has taken on a new face. Prince, 57, allegedly died of an overdose. Having been prescribed Percocet as a result of decades-long hip and knee pain, Prince is said to have spent as much as 40K a year on the medication ... Over 52 million adults have taken some form of prescription drugs. Pain relievers, or opiates, come from the poppy ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9....

To a chorus of Mr Blue Sky, my wife was the star of her own show

Edit The Guardian 07 May 2016
Despite his fears, Adam Golightly finds his wife’s funeral perversely beautiful. “A live performance of ELO’s Mr Blue Sky in the church … absolutely everyone must be invited to the house afterwards. Don’t ask Millie or Matt to do anything – it’ll be too much.” ... We laid single flowers on Helen – mine a poppy to mark how much she had loved buying a ceramic one from Blood Swept Lands …, the Tower of London’s centenary Remembrance display ... ....

London elects Sadiq Khan, first Muslim mayor, after ugly campaign

Edit CNN 07 May 2016
London (CNN)Sadiq Khan, a practicing Muslim and Labour Party politician, has been elected mayor of London, marking a political milestone in the Western world. Londoners voted in Khan, 45, as the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital city ... Sadiq Khan ... Read More ... 14 photos. The many faces of Boris Johnson ... Hide Caption. 1 of 14 ... Johnson falls while competing in a tug of war October 27, 2015, during the launch of London Poppy Day ... ....
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