Just as I said, I did not want to leave the wonderful men who call us out in the cold. Here are some suggestions on where to meet the ladies.

1. Church. There are lots of nice ladies at church. Many of them call us! So go check them out! Just be sure it is a church you like, just in case.

2. Shopping districts. Ride your bike to the nearest trendy shopping district and have lunch with your dog. Seriously. You will get attention.

3. Volunteer. This is a great way to meet a really nice person who cares about a great cause.

4. Hardware stores. You know you need to go anyway! But in all seriousness, why not help a lady out!?

5. Cooking or art class. There are many great community centers around that offer wonderful opportunities to meet women. The ladies are often drawn to the cooking or art classes. Plus, these classes are not too girly and involve a great opportunity to socialize in a relaxed setting.

6. Sporting events. Yes, some women do go. You need to pay attention!!

I will follow this with 10 great places to meet women- just wanted to be fair.

First of all, you have to determine the type of man that you would like to meet. Then, figure out where this type of man might be located. This list is general, but includes some great ideas!

1. Volunteer. Habitat for Humanity, the Red Cross, the local hospital. All great places to meet men!

2. Speaking of hospitals, why not go and have lunch near one everyday for a week or two. Volunteering is a very good opportunity, too.

3. Your local library. Why not volunteer here as well!?

4. The golf course. You don’t have to be a golfer to go in and have lunch and a glass of wine. Go around 2pm.

5. Ski resort. Again, you don’t need to be a skier or snowboarder. But there are many men there!

6. Music festivals.

Okay. Notice a trend here. These are places men hang out. I have heard from a couple of wonderful ladies who call us that they can’t figure out why they have not met men – but are continually going to work, home and church. These are all great places, but you need to go where men are in order to meet one!!

Good luck, ladies!

Now, get out there!!

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We look for readers who are dedicated to a long-term relationship with our psychic line.  Since we are based on repeat clientele, we try to emphasize that we are only interested in experienced psychic readers that are interested in a real commitment.   As a result, we have many readers that have been reading for The Psychic Line known for Quality for many, many years.

The ability to work with relationships of all types is very important as well as business, timing, feelings, channeling, mediumship, etc.   Providing valuable insight to issues facing clients is paramount.  After we ascertain that a reader has the necessary psychic skills to join the line and have indicated that they want to make a real commitment, the clients decide who stays.  We are very proud of our extremely high repeat rate.

The better a psychic reader does individually, the better we do and more importantly – the better you do with the gift of the psychic reader’s foresight.   We try to find a wide variety of talented, dedicated psychic readers in order to cover the wide spectrum of psychic abilities and clients’ questions.   When it comes time to choose your readers on our psychic line, you can be assured that we have done our best to provide you with viable choices.

We advise clients to check out our readers on our web site or call the office for information. It is important to rely on your own intuition in selecting a psychic reader.  If you feel you made a mistake, use the five-minute guarantee.  The five-minute guarantee which simply means that in the first five minutes of any reading you purchase of 15 minutes or more - if you feel that you are not making a connection with that particular reader – we give you the opportunity to end the call – call the office, and move you for your full amount of time to a different reader.  It does not happen often, but your reading is important.  If you take the guarantee with a reader one time, do not write that reader off forever.  Many times people call back and have a wonderful reading with the “guaranteed” reader the next time.   We are glad to keep a history of which readers you like (or not) for future reference.

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I wanted to share some tips on getting a great reading. Here they are in order of importance.

1. Always remember the reading is about you and your life. You are the best judge in determining if there is or is not a connection with your psychic reader. If you have a strange feeling about the reader or how he or she is reading you, go ahead and use your intuition. Hang up and give us call here in the office. Because all of the readings are authentic and readings come from clairvoyant readers, there is variation on how well the psychic reader connects. Your intuition is the best judge. Use your intuition to help you get an excellent psychic reading!

2. Take notes in your reading. There may be very small details that a psychic reader picks up and you might forget or miss them. If you take detailed notes, you can look back and remember your reading in the future.

3. If you have a specific question to ask the psychic go ahead and ask!

4. Get help choosing a psychic reader. We have been working with clairvoyants, tarot card readers, astrologists, channelers and mediums for over 18 years. We can help you find what you are looking for in areas of expertise.

5. Take a little time to relax before your reading. Have a cup of tea, take some deep breaths, smile, and call us. We would love to help you.

White: A balance of all colors; Spiritual enlightenment, cleansing, clairvoyance, healing, truth seeking; Rituals involving lunar energy’ May be substituted for any color candle.

Yellow: Activity, Creativity, unity; brings power of concentration and imagination to a ritual; use in rituals where you wish to gain another’s confidence or persuade someone, or in rituals that require solar energy.

Gold: Fosters understanding and attracts the powers of cosmic influences; beneficial in rituals intended to bring about fast luck or money, or in rituals needing solar energy.

Orange: Creativity, ability to speak one’s mind, ambition, career matters and the Law, self-confidence. Solar color and also stands for Leo.

Pink: Promotes romance, friendship; standard color for rituals to draw affections; a color of femininity, honor, service, brings friendly, lively conversation to the dinner table.

Red: Health, passion, love, fertility, strength, courage, will power; increases magnetism in rituals; draws Aries and Scorpio energy.

Silver: Removes negativity and encourages stability; helps develop psychic abilities; attracts the influence of the Mother Goddess.

Purple: Power, success, idealism, psychic manifestations; ideals for rituals to secure ambitions, independence, financial rewards, or to make contact with the spiritual other world; increases Neptune energy.

Magenta: Combination of red and violet that oscillates on a high frequency; energizes rituals where immediate action and high levels of power or spiritual healing are required.

Brown: Earthly, balanced color; for rituals of materiel increase; eliminates indecisiveness; improves powers of concentration, study, telepathy; increases financial success; locates objects that have been lost.

Indigo: Color of inertia; stops situations or people; use in rituals that require a deep meditational state; or in rituals that demand Saturn energy.

Royal Blue: Promotes laughter and joviality; color or loyalty; use to attract Jupiter energy, or whenever an influence needs to be increased.

Light Blue: Spiritual color; helpful in devotional or inspirational meditations; brings peace and tranquility to the home; radiates Aquarius energy; employ where a situation must be synthesized.

Blue: Primary spiritual color; for rituals to obtain wisdom, harmony, inner light, or peace; confers truth and guidance.

Emerald Green: Important component in Venusian rituals; attracts love, social delights, and fertility.

Dark Green: Color of ambition, greed, and jealousy; counteracts these influences in a ritual.

Green: Promotes prosperity, fertility, success; stimulates rituals for good luck, money, harmony, and rejuvenation.

Grey: Neutral color useful when pondering complex issues during meditation; in magic, this color often sparks confusion; it also negates or neutralizes a negative influence.

Black: Opens up the deeper levels of the unconscious; use in rituals to induce a deep meditational state, or to banish evil or negativity as in uncrossing rituals; attracts Saturn energy.

This information is from the website: http://www.collegewicca.com/BOSfiles/candles.html

Yes. And, yes.

Have you ever foreseen an event before it happened?
Have you ever had a bad feeling and changed your course of action?
Have you ever had a bad feeling about a person and then it turned out to be true?

On the flip side -

Have you woke up in the morning and knew the day was going to be great?

Have you ever seen a person and thought, I am definitely going to be friends with this person?

Have you ever had a good feeling about a job interview and it turned out that you got the job?

You can hone in your skills as a psychic. There is so much information on the subject and there are different journeys into enlightenment. We have experienced many psychic readings and have worked with testing readers. Some are naturally gifted, or born with a third eye that gives them extra perception and insight. Some have worked to develop psychic and clairvoyant skills through meditation and listening to their own inner voice. Often listening to a psychic’s inner voice is half the battle in learning about oneself and learning on how to pick up on another person’s journey to be able to give readings and explain their life to them. Depending on the personality and the reader’s preference, he or she may be more in tune with one person than another person. Also, some readers can work more easily in their areas of interest. Such as in relationship advice, or business/job/career advice or finding lost objects. It is extremely interesting to test a reader and find their areas of expertise. Psychic readers are as unique as there are as many people in the world.

We have both naturally gifted readers and readers who have developed their skills through meditation. Psychic readings are so much fun because sometimes a reader will pick up a situation in your life that is completely different than what you have thought was going to happen in you life.

Anyway, I thought I would share those few thoughts on psychics, clairvoyants, psychic readings, and developing skills. Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Love and light – Renee

These facts were found on Biography.com.

Inventions & Discoveries

Fact #1

Elijah McCoy (1843 – 1929) invented an automatic lubricator for oiling steam engines in 1872. The term “the real McCoy” is believed to be a reference about the reliability of Elijah McCoy’s invention.
Fact #2

Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877 – 1963) invented, among many other things, a 3-way automatic stop sign, which he sold to General Electric. It was used in the U.S. until the 3-light traffic sign was developed.

Fact #3

Otis Boykin (1920 -1982) invented electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the control unit for a pacemaker.
Fact #4

George Carruthers (1939 – ) invented the far ultraviolet electrographic camera, used in the 1972 Apollo 16 mission. This invention revealed new features of Earth’s far-outer atmosphere and deep-space objects from the perspective of the lunar surface. Carruthers was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2003.
Fact #5

James West’s (1931 – ) research in sound technology led to the development of foil-electret transducers used in 90% of all microphones built today and in most new telephones being manufactured. West holds 47 U.S. and more than 200 foreign patents on microphones and techniques for making polymer foil-electrets. He was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 1999.
Fact #6

Mark Dean (1957 – ) along with his co-inventor Dennis Moelle created a microcomputer system with bus control means for peripheral processing devices. This invention allows the use of computer plug-ins like disk drives, speakers, scanners, etc…
Fact #7

George T. Sampson invented a clothes dryer that used heat from a stove in 1892.
Fact #8

Frederick Jones (1892 – 1961) held over 60 patents with most of them pertaining to refrigeration. His portable air conditioner was used in World War II to preserve medicine and blood serum.

Fact #9

Granville Woods (1856 – 1910) invented numerous devices relating to the railroad including a system of overhead electric conducting lines, air brakes and a telegraph system that allowed communication between moving trains.

Fact #10

Lewis Temple (1800 – 1854) revolutionized the whaling industry with his invention of the toggle harpoon in 1848.

Fact #11

Dr. Charles Drew (1904 – 1950) discovered techniques to store blood and developed blood banks.

Fact #12

Thomas J. Martin patented a fire extinguisher in 1872.

Fact #13

Jan Ernst Matzeliger (1852 – 1889) invented the Shoe Lasting machine, which connected the upper part of the shoe to the sole, a painstaking process that was usually done by hand. This invention revolutionized the shoe making industry.

Fact #14

Lewis Howard Latimer invented the carbon filament for light bulbs in 1881.

Fact #15

Joseph Winters invented a fire escape ladder in 1878.

Fact #16

Lonnie G. Johnson (1949 – ), an engineer who performed spacecraft system design for NASA, invented the Super Soaker water gun – the number one selling toy in America in 1991.

Fact #17

Alexander Miles of Duluth, Minnesota patented an electric elevator in 1887 with automatic doors that would close off the shaft way, thus making elevators safer.

Fact #18

Andrew Jackson Beard (1849 – 1921) invented the “Jenny Coupler” which allowed train cars to hook themselves together when they are bumped into one another. The device is still used today.

Fact #19

John Love invented the pencil sharpener in 1897.

Fact #20

Sarah E. Goode (1850 – ? ) invented a bed that folded up into a cabinet in 1885. Contrary to popular belief, she was not the first African-American woman to receive a patent, but the second.

Fact #21

C.B. Brooks invented the street sweeper in 1896. It was a truck equipped with brooms.

Fact #22

L.P. Ray invented the dustpan in 1897.

Fact #23

Henry Brown created what is now known as a “strongbox”, a metal container to store money and important papers that could be locked with a key in 1886.

Fact #24

Joseph Lee (1849 – 1905) invented a bread-making machine that mixed the ingredients and kneaded the dough in 1895.

Fact #25

Henry Blair (1807 – 1860), the second African-American to receive a patent, invented a corn seed planter in 1834 and a cotton planter in 1836. Blair could not read or write and signed his patent with an X.

Fact #26

David Crosthwait Jr. (1898 – 1979) an expert on heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, holds 39 U.S. patents and 80 international patents pertaining to heating, refrigeration and temperature regulating systems. Crosthwait created the heating system for New York City’s Radio City Music Hall.

Records Breaking

Fact #37

Beyonce Knowles  (1981 – ) an award-winning singer, songwriter and actress is the first African-American woman to win the “Songwriter of the Year” award at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards in 2001 and also holds the record for the longest run on the Billboard Hot 100’s number one spot in 2003 with the songs “Crazy in Love” (8 weeks) and “Baby Boy” (9 weeks). Beyonce is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars.

Did You Know? Little Known Facts

Orlando boasts plenty of alternatives to ride-filled parks
Sunday, January 18, 2009 6:47 AM
By Steve Stephens @  THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s a big town, after all. Modern Orlando, with a metropolitan area of more than 2 million people — and seemingly as many theme parks and tourist attractions — was built largely on the broad shoulders of a small rodent named Mickey Mouse.

But though the shadow of the mouse falls everywhere in central Florida, the Orlando area offers much more than megaparks such as Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and Sea World.

“A lot of tourists get carted straight from the airport to Disney,” said Chuck Dinkins, facilities director at the CityArts Factory, a gallery, studio and performance space downtown.

“They don’t know any other Orlando is here.”

First-class museums and botanical gardens, a burgeoning arts scene, professional sports, good restaurants and fascinating historical sites await those who avail themselves of the chance to spend at least a few days away from the big parks.

From the air, central Florida looks something like a sopping sponge, with dozens of circular lakes dotting the landscape. Although development has taken a toll, visitors can get a feel for the natural environment that existed back when Seminole Indians camped along these lakes.

My first excursion was the Scenic Boat Tour in the wealthy Orlando suburb of Winter Park, about 10 minutes from downtown. The tour, on a small pontoon boat, leaves every hour from 10 a.m. to 4p.m. and takes guests to several lakes linked by a system of narrow canals.The tour begins and ends on Lake Osceola and passes some of the most exclusive lakefront real estate in central Florida.

The homes — built by the region’s rich and famous, from 19th-century industrialists to players for the Orlando Magic basketball team — are eye-popping. Guests will also see the beautiful grounds of Rollins College. But I loved connecting with a hint of natural Florida; anhingas drying their wings along the shore; palm- and cypress-shaded passages through the narrow canal, large-leaved tropical foliage brushing past at eye level.

I found a lot more of natural, though well-landscaped, Florida at the Harry P. Leu Gardens on Lake Rowena. The property was an original Orlando homestead, owned by a series of successful businessmen.

The last owner, Harry P. Leu, developed a 50-acre garden, giving away so many exotic plants to friends and neighbors that he became known as the “Johnny Appleseed of Orlando.” He and his wife donated their entire garden — and home — to the city in 1961.

Today, Leu Gardens contains a meticulously maintained botanical collection with areas devoted to palms, cycads, azaleas, bamboo and tropical stream plants. The camellia garden is home to the largest collection in the eastern United States. Just breathing in the wonderfully green smells of the garden dispelled some of the gray fuzz that had been accumulating on my psyche since the frosts of October. My Ohio sensibilities were slightly dazed by the sight of roses blooming in December. And the property still has a small orange grove dating from the early 20th century.

“You’re looking at the prettiest spot in Orlando,” said Dick Wiedmayer, a volunteer at the park who lives near Ann Arbor, Mich. He spends half the year in Orlando.

“There’s not much of the old Orlando left, but this is a piece of it.”

Wiedmayer gave me a tour of the Leu House Museum, which contains mementos of the early owners and early days of Orlando. Towering live oaks, dripping with Spanish moss, bend over the classic Southern veranda and frame the view of Lake Rowena.

Even downtown Orlando is on a beautiful body of water. Lake Eola, a 23-acre mirror with an unusual decorative fountain that looks something like an art-deco flying saucer, is a marvelous focal point for the city. Visitors can stroll through the surrounding Summerlin Park or rent swan-shaped paddle boats to explore the lake at their leisure.

The Disney Amphitheater, which hosts many concerts and other performances throughout the year, sits lakeside.Just a short walk from the lake is the Orange County Regional History Center, located in a repurposed courthouse dating from 1927. (The center is adjacent to the Orlando Public Library, the largest library in Florida and, unfortunately, one of the ugliest public buildings I have encountered.)

A fine local history museum, the center has interesting exhibits on Orlando’s roots, from the cattle farms and orange groves that once dominated the economy to the tourism industry that does so now. Nearby are many interesting shops and galleries, including the CityArts Factory. Visitors who are in town the appropriate day of the month might want to take in Third Thursday Art Walk, similar to Columbus’ Gallery Hop.

Also nearby are several fine-dining venues and casual eateries, including Celt Irish Pub, where I found $3 pints of Guinness, a fine way to slake a thirst before returning to your room at one of the many resorts near International Drive.

If Disney is the heart of Orlando tourism, International Drive is its kitschy aorta, with scads of small attractions such as a Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum; the world’s largest McDonald’s Play Place; and the Orlando Slingshot, which, as one might guess, offers to propel guests speedily and safely into the sky.

I love that kind of tourist kitsch, at least in small doses, and decided to take my medicine in the form of a dinner theater, of which Orlando has many.

I was fortunate enough to stumble across Sleuths Mystery Dinner Shows. The Sleuths show had a professional cast and an appropriately cheesy plot – which changes nightly. The food was decent and the price of dinner included unlimited soft drinks, beer and wine. Most of the audience, including me, had a ball, although I didn’t guess whodunit. But I met some great people in a happy, vacation-y frame of mind.

The next day I decided to drive out of town an hour or so to a region where cattle, orange groves and a few mallless central Florida miles can still be found. My destination was the Historic Bok Sanctuary, set on the highest point of land in peninsular Florida, Iron Mountain, soaring a mighty 298 feet above sea level, quite a stretch for this flat state. My wife still remembers a print of Bok Tower that her grandparents had proudly hung in their living room, a reminder of a family vacation long before she was born, and one reason I made the drive.

I wasn’t sorry.Miles before I arrived at the sanctuary, I saw the 205-foot tower, built as a gift to the public by Edward W. Bok, a Dutch immigrant who became a Pulitizer Prize-winning author and the editor of Ladies’ Home Journal.Bok envisioned the highly ornate tower and surrounding gardens, designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Olmsted Law Jr., as a place for meditation and a haven for birds and other wildlife.

The tower and garden were Dedicated in 1929 by President Calvin Coolidge, the tower and garden became one of central Florida’s first real tourist attractions.The tower, which still attracts busloads of visitors and a small swarm of photographers every day, is a Gothic marvel of sculpted marble, ceramic mosaics and intricate ironwork. The monument seemed almost, but not quite, out of place, as if the Taj Mahal were relocated to the prairie. The feeling was made manifest by a carving I was particularly taken by: a huge regal marble figure that looked very much like an ancient Greek warrior – feeding a gaggle of flamingos.

The tower contains a 60-bell carillon, one of the finest in the world, which is played during daily concerts by the sanctuary’s own master carillonneur, William De Turk. The tower also contains a study once used by Bok, and the Anton Brees Carillon Library, said to be the largest carillon library in the world, but it isn’t open to the public. The tower is flanked by a peaceful lagoon surrounded by swaying palms and filled with giant waterlilies.

On the other side is a grove of huge oaks, planted when the sanctuary was new. and now giants.

Beneath the oaks, a visitor can gaze out from this high point across miles of orange groves, small towns and gently undulating scrublands. The only sounds to be heard are the chattering birds, an occasional honk from the resident lagoon swans, and, of course, the periodic intonations of carillon bells ringing like a message from a half-remembered dream.

A large visitors center hosts events and tells the story of Bok and of his dream sanctuary, the kind of place not likely to be built again in this more cynical day and age. The sanctuary is a wonderful place for quiet reverie — in other words, don’t expect the kids to thank you for dragging them away from the roller coasters to see it.

This article can be found @ http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/travel/stories/2009/01/18/ORLANDO.ART_ART_01-18-09_F1_D4CH6T1.html

Olympics 2010 medal count, USA leads with 24 medals.

The United States continues to lead as the Winter Olympics 2010 enters its 11th day. With seven gold, seven silver, and ten bronze medals, the United States has garnered 24 medals, securing the top spot. Germany follows with 18 medals. Though the United States and Germany have consistently led the world with top medals, the remaining nations have been fighting tooth and nail to climb the ladder.

Norway has pushed into the third spot with 12 medals, followed by Canada and Korea which both have nine. Austria, the Russian Federation, and France have eight medals each, followed by Switzerland which has seven medals.

Sweden has six medals while China and the Netherlands have earned five medals each. Poland and Italy come in with four medals, while Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Japan have three. Australia, Latvia, Belarus, Croatia, and Slovenia have two medals. Great Britain, Estonia, Finland, and Kazakhstan have one medal each.

Currently, 50 gold medals, 51 silver medals, and 49 bronze medals have been awarded, making a total of 150 medals.

This article can be found on the Prime Writer News Network @ http://primewriter.com/news-1246-headlines/?p=4358