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Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 4, 2012 at 8:45pm

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 4, 2012 at 10:44am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You need to take a realistic assessment of an important relationship. You need to take people as they are, not as you want them to be. It may be that a partner has successes while you are denied them.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You can make progress today on actualizing your ideals. A long as you remain clear on your objectives and stay undeterred, you can act according to your core principles and become like the person you want to be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You insist on a level playing field and thus you insist on openness and fairness. You have a rather strict attitude toward playing by the rules. You dislike improvisation and more than that you hate cheaters.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are feeling closed off and perhaps a bit sad. You're challenged to recognize your strengths and pick yourself up again. There are valuable lessons to be learned about what not to do next time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are inquisitive today but only about a narrow range of topics and these are what has the most immediate and practical effect on you. You're cautious, sometimes even pessimistic right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Associates can be confusing and it may be your role to help clarify their dilemmas so their personal space isn't so jumbled. There is little linear logic involved; seek associative links instead for explanations.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You're concerned about your needs, both materially and emotionally. You're apt to try to get others to meet them but you must instead learn to fulfill them yourself through your choices of thoughts and actions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Be careful if a relationship becomes too intense. There is a strong probability that a lot of projection is going on. Someone is being idealized unrealistically so burst the bubble sooner rather than later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You want to hold onto the situation you're in now. You feel comfortable with what you know and feel little desire to move out of it. It's important, however, to improve the quality and to test the edges of your skills a little.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This is a good day to enjoy the consolidation of your achievements. It's important to be gracious and not to take your status for granted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You have trouble balancing public opinion versus the fact that some things are right or wrong. It may be that you have to be lenient sometimes but try convincing others when their prejudices are wrong.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your interest in spiritual matters is strong today. You put a lot of energy getting into reading and discussing hidden lore and meditative techniques. You're apt to be unfocused because you want to know so much immediately.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 4, 2012 at 10:39am

The whole religion is like a preparation. It's a preparation for going to the Good Land or to the place of your ancestors. We all have to go through it. We all know this.

-- -- Horace Axtell, NEZ PERCE

There are two Worlds that exist. The Seen World and the Unseen World. Sometimes these worlds are called the Physical World and the Spiritual World. The Elders say, when it is time to go to the other side, our relatives will appear a few days before to help us enter the Spirit World. This is a happy place; the hunting is good; the place of the Grandfathers, the Creator, the Great Spirit, God, is a joyful place.

Grandfathers, today, let me look forward to the Spirit World. Bless all my Relations

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 3, 2012 at 10:24am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A tempestuous relationship is disturbing but it should make you look at yourself more carefully. What is your contribution to the problem? Change that in a positive direction, without insisting on changes in others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You take a strong interest in religious or spiritual topics now. Some are very inwardly drawn and are absorbed in study; others get into correspondence about them. It's important that you communicate openly and unambiguously.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You gain a fresh perspective from friends today, especially those who are younger in age or spirit. Heed those who are less bound to tradition who ask why things couldn't be different and better.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You become aware of greater avenues of success now. Some will need to change opinions about what constitutes success, however. You are very centered and you get validation from feeling fulfilled, not from social praise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It's important to reach out to experts and professionals in fields that interest you. Take advice on how to achieve the same career path or pick their brains for information you need. You need excitement to stay motivated.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You expand your social network today. It's likely somebody will be very useful and helpful, either today or later. You can appear superficial but there's a lot of calculation going on inside.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You become aware of issues in relationships that tear you apart rather than bring you together. Personal prejudices become more pronounced and it's necessary to distinguish these from true incompatibility.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You want to be helpful and useful today. Let your availability be known, as well as the special expertise you're offering. This is a profitable for business ventures, whether formal or informal.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are light-hearted in your relationships today. You can introduce tension-breaking levity now. On the other hand, you may not realize that a serious situation requires unbroken attention, so be sensitive to this.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It may be that you have reached some height of success but it's very fragile. You can be concerned that professional success could be undermined by a family crisis. It's important to tread carefully because of uncertainty.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You can exercise the ability to make unexpected connections between facts today. You can be inventive in a practical or in a verbal way. Your jokes play on absurdities or double-meanings; you can see non-obvious consequences.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): This is a good day to beautify your home and make general esthetic improvements. For those whose income allows, this is a good day for such expense as is within your budget.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 3, 2012 at 10:23am

May 3, 1469:
Niccolo Machiavelli born

On this day in 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a unified Italy, Machiavelli became one of the fathers of modern political theory.

Machiavelli entered the political service of his native Florence by the time he was 29. As defense secretary, he distinguished himself by executing policies that strengthened Florence politically. He soon found himself assigned diplomatic missions for his principality, through which he met such luminaries as Louis XII of France, Pope Julius II, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and perhaps most importantly for Machiavelli, a prince of the Papal States named Cesare Borgia. The shrewd and cunning Borgia later inspired the title character in Machiavelli's famous and influential political treatise The Prince (1532).

Machiavelli's political life took a downward turn after 1512, when he fell out of favor with the powerful Medici family. He was accused of conspiracy, imprisoned, tortured and temporarily exiled. It was an attempt to regain a political post and the Medici family's good favor that Machiavelli penned The Prince, which was to become his most well-known work.

Though released in book form posthumously in 1532, The Prince was first published as a pamphlet in 1513. In it, Machiavelli outlined his vision of an ideal leader: an amoral, calculating tyrant for whom the end justifies the means. The Prince not only failed to win the Medici family's favor, it also alienated him from the Florentine people. Machiavelli was never truly welcomed back into politics, and when the Florentine Republic was reestablished in 1527, Machiavelli was an object of great suspicion. He died later that year, embittered and shut out from the Florentine society to which he had devoted his life.

Though Machiavelli has long been associated with the practice of diabolical expediency in the realm of politics that was made famous in The Prince, his actual views were not so extreme. In fact, in such longer and more detailed writings as Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy (1517) and History of Florence (1525), he shows himself to be a more principled political moralist. Still, even today, the term "Machiavellian" is used to describe an action undertaken for gain without regard for right or wrong.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 3, 2012 at 10:22am

"But I have learned a lot from trees: sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit."

-- Walking Buffalo, STONEY

Nature is the greatest teacher on the Earth. Nature produces many different plants, animals, trees, rocks, birds, insects, and weather patterns. Nature designed all these various things to grow and multiply while at the same time live in harmony with each other. We can learn a lot of we observe and study Nature's system of harmony and balance. Today, go sit on a rock and quietly observe and ask to be shown the lessons.

Great Spirit, Nature is my teacher. Today, let me be the student

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 2, 2012 at 11:41am

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have a change of heart and mind today. You can see how restricted your attitude has been. You want to open up to new possibilities. An inner change lets you create outer change.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You feel fulfilled by making others realize that there is more to life than what they realize, especially their own lives. You can change opinions and attitudes. You can be leader in promoting reforms, directly or indirectly.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It's hard to be assertive today. You want everyone to get along but you can't enforce even this desire. You may let yourself be overwhelmed by circumstances and if it gets unpleasant, it may teach you not to be so wishy-washy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You can take the lead in pushing for reforms. You can be in the public view now so you need to act with gravity. If political opponents can make fool out of you, they will.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You want success but on your own terms. You should follow the urge to learn about what really interests you; considerations about fitting it into your career path can come later.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Be extremely careful in relationships now. It's very possible that you could be tempted to into an entanglement that isn't in your best interests. It's more important to think about loyalty and your proper status at work.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is a tumultuous day. You have to deal with various crises and encourage others to cope with them also. You need to be aware of ways you can direct outcomes to your advantage instead of trying to return to how they were before.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Be aware of incidents and situations that are causing tensions in you. These are areas that need to be changed, perhaps drastically. You don't have to up and leave, just start making plans for how to do it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You prefer relationships to be untroubled today but this can also make you passive in the face of problems. Monitor unpleasantness carefully; is it a one-time incident or is it likely to continue and build?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You need to be active socially but you can't sit for just one person. You have a bigger view that includes everyone. Romance seems out of the question when many people need special attention from you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There are changes brewing in your personal life. The people around you are unavailable so you get a chance to exercise more autonomy and self-reliance. Trust decisions based on lots of prior knowledge.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You're feeling unsatisfied with social norms today but being unwilling to publicly challenge them, you keep to your privacy at home. You're in the process of defining yourself through what appeals to you.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 2, 2012 at 11:41am

"Think only about what is holy. Empty your mind."

-- Archie Fire Lame Deer, LAKOTA

If we let our minds wander, we will come up with a lot of junk; maybe bad thoughts about a brother or sister, maybe angry thoughts, maybe self-pity thoughts. Our minds are not the boss. We can instruct our mind to think about whatever we want to think about. We cannot stop thinking, but we can choose what to think about. The Elders say we move towards what we think about. That's why they say, "Think about what is holy, think about the Grandfathers, think about culture, think about values, think about ceremonies, and think about good."

Great Spirit, today, empty my mind and let me experience what it would be like to think about what is holy

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 2, 2012 at 11:37am

May 2, 1670:
Hudson's Bay Company chartered

King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, made up of the group of French explorers who opened the lucrative North American fur trade to London merchants. The charter conferred on them not only a trading monopoly but also effective control over the vast region surrounding North America's Hudson Bay.

Although contested by other English traders and the French in the region, the Hudson's Bay Company was highly successful in exploiting what would become eastern Canada. During the 18th century, the company gained an advantage over the French in the area but was also strongly criticized in Britain for its repeated failures to find a northwest passage out of Hudson Bay. After France's loss of Canada at the end of the French and Indian Wars, new competition developed with the establishment of the North West Company by Montreal merchants and Scottish traders. As both companies attempted to dominate fur potentials in central and western Canada, violence sometimes erupted, and in 1821 the two companies were amalgamated under the name of the Hudson's Bay Company. The united company ruled a vast territory extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and under the governorship of Sir George Simpson from 1821 to 1856, reached the peak of its fortunes.

After Canada was granted dominion status in 1867, the company lost its monopoly on the fur trade, but it had diversified its business ventures and remained Canada's largest corporation through the 1920s.

Comment by Dept of PMM Artists & things on May 1, 2012 at 9:41am

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