Today’s Oracle takes us to the Scorpio weekly for Feb. 21, 2002
With the Venus and the Sun moving through the juiciest romanticest and creativest angle of your solar chart you are probably feeling springtime’s arrival a little early at the same time you’re feeling certain limits on your ability to express yourself. I was going to write “natural limits” but then I was not so sure. Some limits are natural and others are artificial. The natural ones at least we can write off as things like landscapes mountain ranges and geographic distance. The artificial ones are more like ideas we put in the way of what we want. It’s a fine time to work through that particular kind of obstruction.
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from usa[dot]gov
What’s Affected by a Government Shutdown?
Below, find an overview of some of the government services and operations that will be impacted until Congress passes a budget to fund them again. For detailed information about specific activities at Federal agencies, please see federal government contingency plans.
•Vital services that ensure seniors and young children have access to healthy food and meals may not have sufficient Federal funds to serve all beneficiaries in an extended lapse.
•Call centers, hotlines and regional offices that help veterans understand their benefits will close to the public.
•Veterans’ compensation, pension, education, and other benefits could be cut off in the case of an extended shutdown.
•Every one of America’s national parks and monuments, from Yosemite to the Smithsonian to the Statue of Liberty, will be immediately closed.
•New applications for small business loans and loan guarantees will be immediately halted.
•Research into life-threatening diseases and other areas will stop, and new patients won’t be accepted into clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health.
•Work to protect consumers, ranging from child product safety to financial security to the safety of hazardous waste facilities, will cease. The EPA will halt non-essential inspections of chemical facilities and drinking water systems.
•Permits and reviews for planned energy and transportations projects will stop, preventing companies from working on these projects. Loans to rural communities will be halted.
•Hundreds of thousands of Federal employees including many charged with protecting us from terrorist threats, defending our borders, inspecting our food, and keeping our skies safe will work without pay until the shutdown ends.
•Hundreds of thousands of additional federal workers will be immediately and indefinitely furloughed without pay.
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Services That Will Continue During the Government Shutdown
•Social Security beneficiaries will continue receiving checks.
•The U.S. Postal Service will keep delivering mail.
•Active military will continue serving.
•Air traffic controllers, prison guards, and border patrol agents will remain on the job.
•NASA Mission Control will continue supporting astronauts serving on the Space Station.
oh! usa.gov is shut down – http://www.usa.gov/shutdown.shtml – and taken http://www.nasa.gov with it!
obrigado nilou!
Stormilarue: Great stuff! Said with feeling….
Sentimento
http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=KuQX04hGfwg
yes, i accept!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXfQziAHEXI
Thank you, NASA!
Onwards and upwards it is then! Dawn mission to giant asteroid 4 Vesta and the largest of them all, goddess of goddesses, 1 Ceres.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/multimedia/pia15678.html#.UkqRlNI3vVo
Sentimento: http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=KuQX04hGfwg