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Only Harrisburg Art Magazine Midtown Scholar Bookstore Harrisburg Pennsylvania INFOdocket EDGE A Peek Inside the May Pairings Box (The Smoke Box) May 22nd, 2013 This month’s Pairings Box was devoted to smoke. We wanted it to smell like campfire when you opened your box, and I think we achieved that goal with the month’s Premium Ingredient, Hickory Smoked Pacific Sea Salt. This month’s recipe collection included: Sweet Potato Chips with Hickory Smoked Pacific Sea Salt Turntable Kitchen’s Smoky 6 Ounce Cheeseburger Baked Vanilla Cake Donuts with Maple and Meyer Lemon Glaze You can read about the exclusive 7″ featured in this month’s box over on the Turntable side of things. We are currently accepting new subscribers to the Pairings Box beginning with the June Box. Are you a Pairings Box subscriber?

Full Text Reports… The Tragedy of Sarah Palin - Magazine From the moment Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska—the only record she has—shows a very different politician: one who worked with Democrats to tame Big Oil and solve the great problem at the heart of the state’s politics. That Sarah Palin might have set the nation on a different course. Robert Hunt It’s hard to escape Sarah Palin. During a week spent traveling there recently, I learned that Palin occupies a place in the minds of most Alaskans roughly like that of an ex-spouse from a stormy marriage: she’s a distant bad memory, and questions about her seem vaguely unwelcome. So has Palin. But if she decides to run for the White House—and she’ll have to make up her mind soon—all of that will change.

Psilocybin Mushroom Vaults : The Magic Mushroom Growers Guide This document may be freely copied and distributed so long as the following conditions are met: This document provides complete directions for cultivating psilocybin mushrooms in your home. The strain this guide is intended to help you grow is Psilocybe cubensis (Amazonian strain) mushrooms. Table of contents: 3.22 : 2005 Dec : by Erowid.org : Typo fixes on suggestion of reader. 3.22 : 2005 Nov : by Erowid.org :Removed PF address on suggestion of reader. The procedures detailed in this document borrow heavily from past innovators. Psylocybe Fanaticus sold a Technology Report called the PF Tek. . The PF Tek is the foundation for this document. [Note: Psylocybe Fanaticus is no longer in business and plead guilty to a crime involving the possession of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Psylocybe Fanaticus XXXX removed XXXX XXXX removed XXXX Back to table of contents. How to use this document. The procedures detailed in this document are a mixture of mandatory and optional steps. One last note.

Remixes: Creative uses of free government information One of the many benefits of no-fee public access to basic government information is that individuals and groups can take gov’t info from many sources and create something new. Call it a “remix” of government information. Sometimes this “remix” is made freely available, and other times fees are charged. As long as the underlying basic gov’t info isn’t trapped by false claims of vendor ownership, FGI doesn’t have a problem with that. This page will highlight some of the free “remixes” of existing free government information done by individuals and other groups. Congressional Committees Project — The main goal of this wiki is to “facilitate participatory democracy by encouraging an informed citizenry through the advocacy of legislative transparency and the gathering of legislative information.” Like this: Like Loading... This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Montana Legislature: Children, Families, Health and Human Services Interim Committee Meetings l Assigned Studies l Committee Topics l Publications l Staff l Contact Us The Children and Families Interim Committee is a joint bipartisan committee of the Legislature that meets between legislative sessions to monitor the Department of Public Health and Human Services; conduct interim studies; and generally review issues related to health and human services. In May 2011, the Legislative Council assigned two studies to the committee: the House Joint Resolution 8 study of childhood hunger and the Senate Joint Resolution 30 study of childhood health trauma. The committee is also required by law to monitor the implementation of Senate Bill 423, which revises the state's laws related to the use of marijuana for a debilitating medical condition. At its June 2011 meeting, the Committee decided to focus additional committee time on monitoring the state Medicaid program, as well. Committee Members -- Meeting Schedule and Materials -- Sign Up for E-Updates Meetings Committee Topics Staff

Top 10 Uses For Used Coffee Grounds 1. Deodorizer. Dry them out on a cookie sheet and then put them in a bowl in your refrigerator or freezer, or rub them on your hands to get rid of food prep smells. 2. Plant food. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. And, finally, the top use for used coffee grounds....drum roll here.... 10. For even more uses of spent coffee grounds, visit essortment.com and rd.com. Love learning about alternative uses for everyday things? Tagged : coffee, How-To, cleaning, alternative_uses Room : Kitchen

Articles & Commentary This article appears in the Fall 2011 issue of Breakthrough Journal With their impressive election victory of 2010 and the emergence of the Tea Party--the most significant (and disruptive) grassroots political phenomenon since the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s and 1970s--conservatives and especially the self-conscious "conservative movement" might be excused for exhibiting an air of triumphalism. The Democrats' commanding majority in the House has been dispatched, the Senate and the presidency are increasingly on the ropes, and fears that President Barack Obama's 2008 election might have represented a fundamental and lasting realignment of the American electorate are rapidly fading from memory. For those willing to probe a bit deeper, however, it should quickly become apparent that we badly need to take stock of our position. Conservatism, despite these impressive electoral victories, is failing on its own terms. Political and economic indicators bring more grim news.

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