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carrier oils for many various uses including aromatherapy, essential oils, skin care, and cooking

14 November, 2008 11:14

Aloe vera Corn Neem Safflower
Apricot Kernel Cotton Seed Olive Sesame
Avocado Emu Palm Shea Butter
Babassu Evening Primrose Passionfruit Soya Bean
Black Currant Flax Seed Peach Kernel St. John’s Wort
Borage Foraha Peanut Sunflower
Calendula Grapeseed Pecan Sweet Almond
Camelia Seed Hazelnut Perilla Seed Tamanu
Canola Hemp Seed Pomegranate Walnut
Carrot Jojoba Poppy Seed Watermelon Seed
Castor Kukui Nut Pumpkin Seed Wheat Germ
Cocoa Butter Macadamia Nut Ricebran Seed  
Coconut Meadowfoam Rose Hip Seed  

 

source: [Vinensia's Summaries]
also check out: [Vinensia Aromatherapy]

[Aromatherapy]
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fur's of evil are eating other tasty and expensive people food: gearing up for an unusually cold winter

13 November, 2008 19:28

a fat squirrel gearing up for winter and eating a wedding cakeI am certain it will be an absolute nightmare of a winter.  I would put pennies on this.  A professional metiorologist, my Grandma told that this would be so.

She has noticed squirrels hiding an unusual abundance of nuts this fall.  She predicted this cruel winter, and I will not believe otherwise - she has many years of cold weather experience.

I am sure these fur's of evil are eating other tasty and expensive people food when they have the opportunity - like wedding cake!

A year ago I was writing:

bash script to check and report the status of selected processes

audo file to simulate a POTS ring signal

[Squirrel Thursday]
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when the lights go out...

06 November, 2008 18:08

I was nonchalantly entering my apartment..  from three ends of the room I hear shivering beeps and warning lights...  I investigated further,wind & rain cause havoc with my electrical needs! and everything looked all right.  I was wrong - the up-step conversion was fooling my common sense.  I went to turn on a light and it slowly came forth from a dull fade until a half working night lamp.

The unimportant power segment of my apartment I noticed was down, the inverters were keeping my servers and network alive.

My mother lives just a couple blocks down, so I gave her a call to see if anything strange was going on down the street.. (yes, she DOES live that close - we get along pretty good).

"Andy, I have to call you back, the power poll just exploded and is on fire - I am calling the fire department".  O.K. - still not knowing exactly what was going on, still getting a readout of 40 volts comeing through the lines.

Though as she said, the sun sky brightened even lighter with white flashes and a firey top of a pole.

wind & rain cause havoc with my electrical needs!The electric then went out completely and batteries were holding this place together.  After a while, the battery back-ups died, and I, with half of the south side of this city were without heat and electricity.

Four hours later, and just minutes before starting this post (after making sure my network was in order) there was light, I turned off my flashlight, and was honestly disappointed as during this time I was enjoying a drop of my 2007 Tamil Santalum Album infused to my body.

Back to earth, and the hot hot indoors with a cold cold outdoor environment - these computers will start to generate once more...

A year ago I was writing:

my Sandalwood (Santalum album) essential oils have arrived, along with Vetiver and Wormwood

my spew on installing sofware RAID 1 last night

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Terminaly Incoherent - Name That Game 1

14 October, 2008 12:53

Can you identify all the games in these pictures?  If so: go to Terminaly Incoherent & comment here.

"New game in the spirit of Name That Movie or TV Show cycle I’ve been doing here. This one is a bit different and possibly more difficult. Or it could be easier. I don't know.

This version of the game may appeal to slightly different crowd. Instead of identifying movies, I’m asking you to identify video games in the picture below. And instead of random screenshots, I’m actually using the box covers. Naturally since each video game box has the name of the game printed on it, and usually a signature, distinct art I’m adding some Gaussian blur to each of them. I tried to make them fuzzy enough to conceal telltale details (and the title of course) but clear enough to allow you to recognize the box by shape, color and composition..." - http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/26/name-that-game-1/

name that game - Terminally Incoherent

A year ago I was writing:

the end of the cravings, oh I wish you were near

I wanna be a pop star...

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La Crosse Area Fall Colors Geocaching Tour

12 October, 2008 08:45

This is an annual event cache. The event will include permanent and temporary caches. Permanent Caches will be placed throughout the Greater La Crosse, WI area."Temporary Caches will generally be located on easier terrain and walking conditions. Permanent Caches will vary based on location.

This is an annual event cache. The event will include permanent and temporary caches. Permanent Caches will be placed throughout the Greater La Crosse, WI area. Temporary Caches will be within a short driving distance or walking distance from Riverside Park, in beautiful downtown La Crosse WI. The event will begin at 10:00 am on Saturday, October 11. There will be a “how to” seminar free to the public. Included with the seminar will be a raffle drawing for awesome prizes and fun swag.." - geocaching.com: GC1FMNC

"The caches were absolutely spectacular - the scenery, wildlife, and a couple memories of a visit to High Cliff Park, scared like a metal post crossing that wavy bridge.

In Between "FA" and "B": I have lived in La Crosse all but 3 years of my 29 year life, and I have never hiked in that area. I will be back many many times, hike a little farther this time, and look forward to discovering new areas of this beautiful place.

This cache was a 4/5 difficulty, my first. With a little help from my guide, I was able to find it and gain a new level of thought for my next 4, or even 5!

I wish I would have looked at the registration sheet a little closer - we wanted to take off in a hurry, but I would have loved to find some fellow hide owners with caches I have found, and those I have communicated with that may have still have been in the park. I hope to join the La Crosse community, and I am sure after a little more experience I will meet many of you soon!

Thanks for everything, and to the guides, volunteers and especially STAMP 'n HAND!" -- geocaching.com: myside (me)

La Crosse Area Fall Colors Geocaching Tour (pictures with the GPX prefix have EXIF GPS coordinate data, the others where taken with a camera phone)

And, my new blog page for my geocaching statistics (It's Not About the Numbers).

[Geocaches]
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Wormwood - organic, from Germany (alpine)

10 October, 2008 00:21

In relation too: "Sage essential oil as an alternative to Wormwood, clinical properties of Thuja, Absinthe and y-aminobutyric acid receptors"

"I often use Wormwood essential oil, which I was once afraid of, to ease stomach pains, muscle tension, and anxiety.  If it is not an Absinthe drink, their are a lot of safe uses that responsible, medically uneducated, yet aware people can take advantage of."

My one year old 15ml bottle of Wormwood - organic, from Germany (alpine) is close to depletion.  The distributor no longer lists it as an item in their product page.  However, I spoke with one of the owners and found that when quantities are low and demand for marketable profit from 3rd party distributors are needed, they would sometimes do this.

I have only been able to find one source for this distillation with high concentrates of Thujone.  I will be soon be getting GC/MS data on the distillation, and I will dig a little more into the availability from this small farm.  When I do, and the oil will be in abundance, I will give the sellers source, if I don't get greedy - buy the rest myself.

To comment on my quote, I had a medical doctor go ahead whom has knowledge of this plant and whom also checked for any health interactions and precautions...

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also see:

sage essential oil as an alternative to wormwood

Random Thought : It will be a fun weekend of Geocaching!

[Aromatherapy]
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HOWTO: run spamass-milter (Postfix) non-root & custom group e-mail spam configuration locations, - using milter, spamc and spamd on FreeBSD

09 October, 2008 09:01

I will assume you have a postfix installation that can receive incoming mail.

First, install milter spamassassin:

cd  /usr/ports/mail/spamass-milter; make install; make clean

The rc script is located: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/spamass-milter  Choose a socket location for Postfix.  For example: /var/run/spamass-milter.sock

Edit  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/spamass-milter and change the socket location to a secure location:

${spamass_milter_socket} could be changed at the bottom of this script too:  : ${spamass_milter_socket="/var/run/spamass-milter.sock"}

We will create a user called "spam" for the socket USER and GROUP ownerships.  Edit the following appropriately:

: ${spamass_milter_socket_owner="spam"}
: ${spamass_milter_socket_group="spam"}
: ${spamass_milter_socket_mode="664"}

The users root, spam, and postfix need access to this socket.  in /etc/group add the user postfix to the group spam.  Permissions for this socket type should be 664 rw rw r - rw for the user "spam" and rw for the group "spam" in which the user "postfix" is a member of.  The socket is not world writable, so only those with these credentials can take advantage of the majority of this service and secure communication.

For future user allowances of personal mail spam training, you should use spamc and spamd.  spamd will be run as root.  The rc.d file is located here: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd  Let's take a look at this and edit a few command line options.

The first spamd flag we want is -x which will disallow user configuration files.  This can be suppressed, if you wish per user training, and call spamc from postfix with the user of the incoming e-mail address.  For this demonstration, it will be used for a group of e-mail users.

The -u flag should be set to spam: -u spam, this sets the user name to spam.  The -g parameter for the group is unneeded because of the UID GID hard coded association with the user "spam".

By default when adding "spam" as a user, the home directory should be /home/spam  Now lets make sure spamd will use this directory for configuration even though spamd with spawned as root and will by default use /root  The -H parameter specifies this: -H /home/spam

At this time we are training one spamassassin rule set with multiple e-mail addresses, so we will utilize "--virtual-config-dir".  For example:--virtual-config-dir=/home/spam

So the command_args variable in the rc script should look something like this:

command_args="-x -d -u spam -H /home/spam --virtual-config-dir=/home/spam -r ${pidfile}"

Now make sure your postfix main.cf configuration file uses the smtpd milter:

smtpd_milters = unix:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock

This is an example of a basic idea for group users, and a start to multiple per recipient address configuration parameters and location manipulations.

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What? What? Net Neutrality? kill -9? TCP RESET Packets?

07 October, 2008 05:02

In relation to "Net Neutrality - supporters at a Madison, WI gathering..." and with joyful companionship with "A lyrical rap song about the Unix command 'kill -9' and the systems mechanics surrounding it." I thought what the hell - you may be interested in:

"Ballad of the TCP Reset Packet"
By Nate Anderson

I'm not an ordinary packet flowing through the tubes I need to scrub them out to keep the neighborhood's connection lubed I'm here to make you see a cable company morality Obfuscation is alright but not uploads that take all night

I'm not an ordinary packet but you wouldn't know it from my face With my false mustache in place, I'm here to interrupt the pace Of Kill Bill volumes one and two, don't download them, they're bad for you Your fair share is not defined but I'll enforce it if you don't mind

Chorus:
Cuz I'm a TCP reset packet (it's true)
Flying down the wire to you
Sent from Comcast above to its users with love
I'm a TCP reset packet

Don't thank me now you will someday when you are eating cabbages And see just how I kept you safe from statutory damages I'm legal and a good idea, you don't have a thing to fear Like Superman, you can't stop me, unless you call the FCC

At the hearing, Harvard's hallowed halls became a comfy bed Our employees work so hard, without the rest they'd soon be dead All this talk is sure terrific, but it's also soporific Set me free to innovate, I see no need to regulate!

Chorus:
Cuz I'm a TCP reset packet (it's true)
Flying down the wire to you
Sent from Comcast above to its users with love
I'm a TCP reset packet

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