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Yes, it is a meeting place.  It is explained in the sticky posts and on the Astral Local page ( http://www.astralpulse.com/locale/ ).

Lets take a few different 'Aries' horoscopes for today and see...

You'll be feeling emotional when you get out of bed this morning -- especially if something from last night has been left unfinished. If all efforts to work things out by yourself fail, contact all parties involved and talk it out.

Things are becoming hectic, but don't let that lead to a confrontation with someone you are at odds with. Don't let anyone take advantage of your ability to get things done.

A charming enfant terrible, you're an indispensable part of your group. If not for you, everyone would keep marching to the drone of perfect, boring stasis. If you're accused of being a troublemaker, grin, and say, "That's me."

You are not, it would seem, having an ideal relationship with the material world at the moment. Machines refuse to work. Enterprises that bring success to others fail to produce results when you embark on them. You lack resources that might make a big difference - and, despite theories about how easy it is to get them, they aren't coming your way... yet. But this week's right angle from Neptune to Mars suggests that part of the problem is in the way it is being looked at. The change needed to turn things around may be smaller than you think.

This week you clinch a deal, reach a goal, or end up being in the right place at the right time to cash in. Treat yourself to a victory lap.

You may need to make a few alterations to your living arrangements. Avoid letting family get involved in your personal life. Remember that no one can walk through your door if there's someone standing in the doorway.

Quite different...  And, that's supposed to be for about half a billion people...

Maybe you should read this thread: http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14728

I once talked about some kind of bugs that could suspend their life for years by removing the water from their bodies, but I could not recall their names; and someone seemed interested.

I just saw them on TV again.  They are called Tardigrades, or "Water Bears".

Tardigrades are capable of living in even the most extreme environments due, in part, to an almost unique talent for surviving in a dehydrated, "cryptobiotic" state which they can maintain for years at a time, like instant oatmeal.

http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/Arthropods/Tardigrada/Tardigrada.html

Tardigrades are survivors par excellence, the best in the animal kingdom. They can survive many environmental extremes by converting themselves into a 'tun'. This involves them pulling in their legs to give their body a cylindrical shape and then shutting down all their metabolism. any other animal that is exhibiting zero metabolism is considered to be dead. Only tardigrades regularly return to life again from this state. They perform this miracle by replacing the water in their membrane lipids with a sugar called trehalose. Different species have different survival characteristics and not all species form a tun, deep sea species, which can survive pressures as great as 6000 atmospheres for instance do not.

Other species have been known to survive temperatures as low as -272 for a few minutes which is a close to absolute zero as you ever want to get, colder than outer space. They have also survived temperatures as low as -200 for more than 20 days. Other species can go to the other extreme and survive temperatures as high as 125C well above the boiling point of water. still others survive doses of X-rays 250 times greater than that which would kill a mammal. Tardigrades are the only animals that can survive having their photo taken in an Scanning Electron Microscope which involves placing them in a vacuum and then bombarding them with electrons. Species which survive periods of drought i.e. extreme dehydration have been revived after lying dormant for 120 years amongst the dried mosses in a botanical museum. There is no doubt that tardigrades could travel to the stars amongst the dust on a piece of rock were the earth ever to be destroyed. Scientists don't really know what their limits are but we do know they are the toughest animals alive for sure.

http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/tardigrada.html

Just did a search and found many posts...

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=102046
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=84980
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=71474
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=68051
etc...

3am is also supposed to be pee-time in the organs "cycle"...

It might make it a little more difficult; but that's all.
My nose is also always stuffed, my breathing pattern is "horrible"... and I still managed to project.  Just try not to pay attention to it.  Focus on the other stimuli.

Good luck.

I've been trying it for almost a month and no change yet... except for the blue stains on my clothes!    

You can use http://www.hostmyimages.net/ or http://www.bestupload.com/ to host your pictures...

A TV series : "Beyond Reality" (1991-1993) : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101046/
Another two, but a lil bit out of topic:
The Cell : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209958/
Solaris (Solyaris): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/ ,  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/

I think that the sensation of going up (raising) is more important than actually moving your astral arms.  I think that you could get the same result by trying to reproduce the feeling you get when you are in an elevator.  Just focus on the raising sensation.

It isn't compatible with the firewall I have.

What firewall are you using?

If you use zonealarm (free for personal use), the first time firefox tries to connect to the Internet, it (zonealarm) displays a pop-up with something like "do you want to allow 'xxx' to access the Internet" yes/no question...  You check the "remember this choice" check-box and answer yes.  There is a tab in zonealarm that lists all the programs allowed or denied.

It should be more or less the same with other firewalls like norton and co.

You also have one about lucid dreaming and dream sharing: Dreamscape (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087175/).

School board OKs challenges to evolution
Controversial step taken in rural Pennsylvania district

DOVER, Pa. - When talk at the high school here turns to evolution, biology teachers have to make time for Charles Darwin as well as his detractors.

With a vote last month, the school board in rural south-central Pennsylvania community is believed to have become the first in the nation to mandate the teaching of "intelligent design," which holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by an unspecified higher power.

etc.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6470259/

As for the oil thing -- where is it? We don't have it as my last visit to the gas pump proved. We do not have to invade any country to get oil. We just have to be willing to buy it at whatever they decide to charge. So the oil argument doesn't hold up.

But it does.  The USA is starving for more oil.  When Saddam was in power, he refused to sell oil to the USA.  Now that he is out of the picture, US companies are happily pumping.  But of course, because of the outdated infrastructure and the pipelines being bombed every other week, it's not as much as they would have liked.

We rarely hear about the schools being built, the hospitals being rebuilt, the utitilities being rebuilt after decades of neglect

Ahem... let's rephrase that to: "We rarely hear about the schools/hospitals being rebuilt (by US private companies) after the US bombed them to pieces."

And, for fun, some more on the voting "bugs"...
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm
http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000715.html
http://www.michigancityin.com/articles/2004/11/04/news/news02.txt
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/epaper/2004/11/05/a29a_BROWVOTE_1105.html
http://www.ansiblegroup.org/furtherleft/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=51
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00166.htm

But I agree that the Bush or Kerry problem is not the main problem...  The real problem is that the US elections system is a (bad) joke.  "Black-box" voting, full of bugs (weirdly always in favor of the Republicans), foreign election observers were denied access to the voting centers, no paper trails.  What good is democracy without fair elections?  It's no more elections; it looks like some kind of war, with groups clashing with each other, people raiding centers at night to rip off their boards/signs, people spreading FUD to scare them not to vote...

Even if your party won, it should not (I hope) stop you from asking for fair elections...

Yes, some people said they visited API and met people.  Read the posts.

It just changes the "User Agent" string in the HTTP request...
By example, by faking IE6 on WinXP from Mozilla, instead of sending:

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

to the web server; it sends:

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

That's it!

http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/
http://uabar.mozdev.org/

The Washington Post:
Evangelicals say they led charge for GOP
Churches cultivated grassroots, often beating party to the punch
By Alan Cooperman and Thomas B. Edsall

As the presidential race was heating up in June and July, a pair of leaked documents showed that the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign was urging Christian supporters to turn over their church directories and was seeking to identify "friendly congregations" in battleground states.

Those revelations produced a flurry of accusations that the Bush campaign was leading churches to violate laws against partisan activities by tax-exempt organizations, and even some of the White House's closest religious allies said the campaign had gone too far.

But the untold story of the 2004 election, according to national religious leaders and grass-roots activists, is that evangelical Christian groups were often more aggressive and sometimes better organized on the ground than the Bush campaign. The White House struggled to stay abreast of the Christian right and consulted with the movement's leaders in weekly conference calls. But in many respects, Christian activists led the charge that GOP operatives followed and capitalized upon.

Etc...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6431260/

Also on CNN... http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html

It's "funny" (not really) that the most "advanced" country in the world has so many problems with organizing an election...  There have been so many reports of electronic voting "bugs".  They can send people on the moon, program satellites to meet a planet in 10 years, explore quantum physics, etc...  but still fail to develop a simple multiple-choice voting program that can safely add votes...

So much for the champion of democracy...

... 3/4th of the humans on earth will die ... don't worry...

Thanks for your reassuring information.  I feel much better now.  
Anyway, what's the point of these predictions...?

The sticky API post is not sticky anymore...
Here is the API page: http://www.astralpulse.com/locale/

From my point of view, people re-elected some kind of Cowboy with a gun in one hand, and a bible in the other...  That's what most foreigners don't understand.  It's a culture clash.  All the "right to carry guns", "strike first and ask questions later", etc...

Anyway, as the saying says: "the robe does not make a man a monk".  All this "God talked to me and blablabla" bullsh*t is really frustrating.  How can people fall for this when you see how many people dies and how much $$$ they put in their pockets???

On the other hand, I can understand (but does not agree with) some of the Bush voters...  After being "bombarded" with "They will attack us!!!", "Terror alert!", "Buy duct tape and keep a room prepared against biological attacks!", "They hate us!!!", "I am the only one able to protect you!!!", "fear!", "watch out!", etc...

They just played "Wag the Dog" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/) on TV.  It was an interesting movie...

Some exit polls from CNN:

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Most Important Quality        Bush     Kerry
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Will Bring Change (24%)         5%       95%
Strong Leader (17%)            87%       12%
Clear Stand on Issue (17%)     79%       20%
Honest/Trustworthy (11%)       70%       29%
Cares About People (9%)        24%       75%
Religious Faith (8%)           91%        8%
Intelligent (7%)                9%       91%
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Quote: "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."  

Personally, after all the oil/reconstruction/etc scandals, the acknowledged WMD/terrorism lies, the horrible healthcare/social-security/environment/education, the pathetic foreign policy...  I REALLY don't understand how Bush still gets more than 50% of the votes...        

I don't like Kerry but, there's no way he could be as bad as Bush!!!

Personally, I would have voted for Nader if he had a chance...

We had almost the same problem in France's last elections...  We had to choose between Chirac (that nobody wanted to re-elect) and a "right-wing"? racist guy (Le Pen).  So we chose the least lame of them...