900 Opium Poppies Found at Georgia Residence
While investigating a hit-and-run accident, Winder, Ga., police discovered about 900 opium poppy plants growing behind a home, officials said. The hit-and-run happened in a parking lot outside a local hardware store Saturday afternoon, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Witnesses to the traffic accident gave police the license number and a description of the car that [...]
Opium farming in Afghanistan rising again, bleak UN report admits
Opium farming will increase across Afghanistan in 2012, driven by insecurity, massive corruption and economic fears for the future, spreading to more areas than it has in the past four to five years, the United Nations has warned. Drugs help fund the Taliban insurgency, but Afghanistan’s elite is also earning huge amounts from the trade [...]
Enjoy flowers, produce From The Farm
With our hot summer weather just around the corner, don’t wait much longer to plant flowers.for pretty flowers later in the summer and fall, sow seed for gaillardia, marigold, portulaca, Mexican sunflower, sunflower, Arizona poppy, Shasta daisy, hollyhock, nasturtium and zinnia. In the garden, plant black-eyed peas, cucumber, melons, okra, basil and squash. If you [...]
Mount Airy News – Technology taking its toll one password at a time
I’m suffering from a condition, but one that you won’t find in any medical reference books — it’s called “Password-itis.” As is the case with many such ills, the symptoms get worse as time goes on, and you don’t notice what’s going on at first. but gradually they take hold and one day you wake [...]
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s honey and peanut butter booster bars recipe
I spent a long time tweaking and twiddling with this recipe before putting it into River Cottage Every Day and I am now very pleased with it. these fruity, nutty, oaty slabs are the perfect antidote to those dubious “energy bars” that seem to be ubiquitous these days. 125g unsalted butter150g soft brown sugar or light [...]
CP24- Ex-general under arrest on organized crime charges
A soldier stands guard among marijuana plants at an illegal plantation found during a military operation on Friday at the Culiacan mountains, northern Mexico, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. The drought in northern Mexico is so bad that it has hurt even illicit drug growers and their normally well-tended crops of marijuana and opium poppies, Gen. [...]
Bangkok Post : Doi Chang in the pink
More than 100,000 wild Himalayan cherry trees in Chiang Rai’s Doi Chang are about to die due to an agrobacteria, according to Sa-ngiam Phailom, a researcher at Doi Wawee Highland Agricultural Research Centre. The Himalayan cherry blossom turns Chiang Rai’s Doi Chang pink with the flowers. The disease started spreading about five years ago, but [...]
defence.professionals
16:37 GMT, December 2, 2011 Iran has been accused of supplying weapons and providing training to the Taliban. The foreign troops in Afghanistan have often intercepted weapons, rockets and missiles that are said to have originated in Iran. Mohsen Milani in an interview to The Iran Primer claimed that Iran has no official relations or [...]
Frankly, hot dogs don’t get any better than this
Also known as frankfurters, franks, weenies, wieners, dogs and red hots, hot dogs are one of America’s favorite foods. every year, Americans consume an average of 60 hot dogs each, with the majority eaten between Memorial Day and Labor Day. On the East Coast, you can find a hot dog stand on almost every corner, [...]
The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund – review
Can people who didn’t experience the first world war ever know – really know – what it was like? The question troubled a French civil servant, Michel Corday, in 1917. Not that Corday ever smelled a trench or heard a shell explode; in Paris and far from the frontline, it seemed to him that even [...]