Dating Tip: Dating in the News
FloriDUH dating tip: Avoid jail on a first date. Sun-Sentinel
Devin Norling, 18, allegedly told a manager at TGI Friday’s at the Indian River Mall that it was a first date for him and 19-year-old Sydney Sanders, reports Will Greenlee in his Off the Beat blog for TCPalm.com in Stuart. But the date turned criminal …
Relationships Can Be Found at Any Age According to Dating Site, Soamoro. PR Web (press release)
Romantic Relationships know no age according to recent findings from Soamoro, the free dating website. Since launching, membership amongst seniors looking for love in their twilight years has skyrocketed. Relationship finding amongst seniors are …
25 Dating Dealbreakers and How to Spot Them. EcoSalon
But while we may need to learn to give a little when it comes to our list of dating expectations – no really, he doesn’t have to be tall, dark and handsome…or rich – we resolutely abide by the following list of dealbreakers and red flags. …
The Stage launches LoveArts.com – the dating site for arts lovers. Response Source (press release)
LoveArts.com is the new dating site from The Stage that connects singles with a shared interest in the performing, literary or visual arts. Unlike generic dating sites that can overwhelm members with unsuitable matches, LoveArts.com narrows the search …
OKCupid and Dating Members Info: Dating in the News
Privacy Study: Top U.S. Websites Share Visitor Personal Data WSJ Blogs – By Julia Angwin
NOTE: This post has been updated to include clarifications that were made to the original study. A study released Tuesday shows that 45% of the top 185 U.S. websites transmit identifying details about their visitors to at least four outside websites. The data transmitted was primarily a “username” – which is the name a person uses to log into a website – or a user ID assigned by the website to a user. It was usually transmitted through referrers – which is information about the web page transmitted automatically. Online date website OKCupid In some cases, the data went much further: the study found for instance that the online dating website OKCupid sent the gender, age, zip code, relationship status and ‘drug use frequency’ to two companies that sell personal data in auctions, BlueKai and Lotame. Lotame also received data about ‘relationship status’ and ‘drug use frequency.’
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Finding Mr. Right: Dating in the News
Dating project results in book—and marriage—for RC grad. Roanoke College News
Johnson’s book, “31 Dates in 31 Days,” details the month-long dating project that led her straight into the arms of Mr. Right. After countless breakups and years of painfully bad dates, Johnson decided that it was time to take matters into her own …
Are you dating prayerfully? Catholic News Agency
How often have you witnessed in dating others (or within yourself) inconsistency with what is professed as belief and the words and behavior? Christians who are dating each other are confused and get damaged or discouraged because the expectation of …
National Pet Peeve Week: Dating Annoyances. San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
To coincide with this loving occasion, the San Francisco-based online dating site, Zoosk, has asked 1500 of its members to reveal the most despised pet peeves that occur while dating. So to those single folks out there, take notes on what men and women …
Fit to flirt. Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
A new dating approach that offers a bit of chatting and flirting as part of your fitness regime. From bars to grocery stores to internet dating, a reported man drought means we males are now armed with a plethora of ways to meet eligible women in …
DateMyRide.com: Clunker Owners Take Heed — Trade Up or Leave. MarketWatch (press release) ORLANDO, FL, Oct 12, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX)
The recently launched and ever so popular free dating site for car enthusiasts, Datemyride.com, is asking its thousands of registered, online users to: ‘Trade Up their Clunker Cars or Leave the Site! …
Zoosk Pet Peeve Week: Dating in the News
Zoosk’s National Pet Peeve Week Survey Finds Women Have More Pet Peeves About … MarketWatch (press release) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —
To coincide with National Pet Peeve Week, which is observed annually during the second week of October, Zoosk, the social dating network, recently surveyed more than 1500 of its members in the US …
CJ Wilson Dating Video: Rangers Pitcher Needs A Date? Huffington Post
The 30-year-old left-hander filmed a dating video for FOX that was aired during a rain delay. After stating his age and confirming that he was single, Wilson informed potential partners that he enjoys coordinating the color of his uniform and his glove …
Romantically challenged? Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
After you get past the early stages of dating, the relationship turns to the familiar and comfortable. Most couples settle into a routine, sometimes dull relationship but there is still a spark there. Keeping the romance fresh and still hot can be a …
Date Yourself: First Dates in the News
Black Women, How to Attract a Date? ThyBlackMan (ThyBlackMan.com)
Date yourself! Yes, the first step to attracting a date is to realistically look in the mirror and consider if you were on the other side, would you date that person. The second step is to identity five things that make you fun, interesting and appealing and write them down. …
Ellie: Nothing wrong with feeling uncomfortable. Toronto Star
Q: I’ve been dating a guy for six months. When we talked about our exes, I told him I didn’t want to hear about his previous loves because I think of his past as history and he’s starting a new beginning with me. He appreciated my view but still shared …
Is Rihanna Dating British Model Dudley O’Shaughnessy? AOL Music (blog)
Last time we checked in on Rihanna’s love life, she was allegedly rekindling a romance with her pre-fame Barbados beau Negus Sealy. But now rumors are surfacing that the ‘We Found Love’ singer is actually finding love with British boxer and model …
Leonardo DiCaprio Back to Dating Models The Blemish
Leonardo DiCaprio is dating a model again. Allegedly. This one is Australia’s Next Top Model Alyce Crawford. So what’s the deal with Alyce? Leo apparently became smitten with the fashionista while filming Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby Down Under and …
Jameela Jamil to front dating show. The List
The ‘T4′ presenter will front the programme – which first aired in 2005 – featuring a woman who must choose her perfect man from a group of 12 bachelors. If she picks a straight man, the pair will share a prize of £50000 but if the man she chooses is …
Suddenly on my own after seven years dating. The Citizen Daily
I met Ruben when I was 17. He was the coolest guy in town: curly hair, big car and deep blue eyes. It was love at first sight when he invited me for a coke at the schoolyard. Since then, we shared everything: a bed, friends, income, holidays and future …
First Date News for Online Daters
Men spend more on first date grooming than women. AOL Lifestyle UK
It appears men are so preoccupied with looking good on a first date that they now spend more on grooming products than women. According to figures released by dating website match.com, single men think nothing of spending almost a third more than women on …
My husband Cary Grant force-fed me LSD and it nearly killed me. Daily Mail By Dyan Cannon
My first dinner-date at Cary Grant’s home in Beverly Hills turned out to be as surprising as it was romantic. On that balmy night in 1962, I was 25, an innocent young actress trying to work her way up in Hollywood. …
Mitchell Gross: Author ‘duped Jewish dating website women out of $4.4m’. Daily Mail By AP
An author of legal thrillers and a fantasy trilogy was accused Thursday of bilking women out of millions of dollars after meeting them through an online Jewish dating service. Mitchell Gross, whose books include the suspense story ‘Circle of Lies …
Where Are You? Dating Profile Headline of the Day
Do you know where you are now and where you’re headed towards?
I’ve offered you the “Failure to prepare” quote before and I try to only repeat myself on special occasions. This isn’t one of them.
On this day I hope you’ve succeeded in your ability to plan your day and to handle your responsibilities as only you know how they need to maintained for you to succeed.
Life can be good and I am certain that since you’ve come this far that you are aware of how much farther you need to go to reach your own goals and be cable to help with the goals for those of your family and friends that you take responsibility of.
Here is a short exercise to help define your life by distance.
Step 1: Go to Google Maps and pick as the first destination your work address (if it’s the same as your home address skip the next step). Save each of the destinations asked for in this and the following steps. On a list right down the last date (if more than one) of each map marker.
Step 2: Enter your home address. (Save it.)
Step 3: Enter the address you went on your last date, an approximation is fine if the date has been so long ago the address is a foggy memory. (Save it.)
Step 4: Enter the address of the last family member (of your own family) you went to visit. (Save it.)
Step 5: Continuing doing this until the last 6 months of your life have been marked by place markers on the map, with the dates as accurate as possible, there won’t be a test after this one so don’t worry too much about a week here or there.
Step 6: Print out the map with detail enough to see the markers you’ve placed on the map.
This map is the “History of the world (insert your name here) style”.
You have been and went, come and gone. Some places more often than others and some places not enough. And I will leave this with two final tasks.
Task 1: Tape your newly printed map and printed list together on your fridge, on your bedroom wall or somewhere easily seen but not overly noticeable that every person will ask you what it is for, how it is to be used.
Task 2: On return to each marked by a place marker draw a circle around it.
Over the next six months pay attention to how the circles grow on the map. They are telling you a secret. That secret will be revealed to you on request.
For your profile ad headline today I suggest this:
“I have my life under control except for one more surprise – you!”
Have a great day!
Friday’s Conversation Topics
I work hard (well not any recent time in memory) but when I did work I searched high and low for the best news stories of the past week that would provide for you great conversational topics and openers. I’m almost completely back to work, just a while longer to heal (it’s a long story) and i should be good to get to it.None the less, I offer you these top news stories to read and allow you to be prepared for a conversation with a new friend that will go beyond the usual exchange of a few niceties and then awkward silence. Let’s begin shall we:
- Mom Sells Baby for $15K Disney Trip: Cops – A new mom is in hot water after selling her newborn son for $15,000 so she could take her other two sons on a trip to Disney World, according to court documents. In late September, police got another tip that led them to the place where Wismer and Gavaghan met to finalize the deal… Well, this would usually be classified as “weird news” but…
- ‘I’ve become so good at the dating game I’m addicted to it’: Meet the matchmaking expert who cannot hold down a boyfriend. Hayley Quinn, who has helped teach 100,000 men how to seduce women cannot find a boyfriend for a reason that would have scandalised high society Georgians: she is addicted to casual flings…
- Self-reported drunk driving is down. (AP) The decline may be due to the down economy: Other research suggests people are still drinking as heavily as in years past, so some may just be finding cheaper ways of imbibing than by going to bars, night clubs and restaurants…
- Hacker Group Anonymous Threatens to Attack Stock Exchange. The FBI is investigating threats purportedly from the hacking collective that calls itself Anonymous to bring down the New York Stock Exchange on Monday by hacking into its computer system. Members of the notorious hacker group appear to be threatening to bring the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York to a dangerous new level, sounding a call to “declare war on the New York Stock Exchange” on Monday by “erasing” it from the Internet…
- Slutwalking into History. There seems to be a lot of slutwalking going on these days. According to news reports like this one, the protests that began in Toronto last month have gone global. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, the slutwalk protests aim both to reclaim the word “slut” from those who use it to try to shame women for being openly sexual creatures and to redirect that shame to where it belongs: aimed squarely at men who feel justified in sexually abusing women. The message is something like, “Fine, I’m a slut. Now, buzz off!” Fair enough, I’d say.
The Friday night conversation is alive and well, as long as you’re prepared. Have a great weekend!
Dating in the News
Mars and Venus column: Woman regrets letting ‘Mr. Right’ go and wonders what …. NewsOK.com
Now he’s gone back to his ex-girlfriend! What do I do now? Hoping to Get Him Back, in Burlington, Vt. DEAR HOPING: When our heart says someone is “the one,” but we don’t get what we want and need at that time, it’s natural to look somewhere else for it …
A Bad Day: First Dates in the News
DUI arrest follows romantic snub, firing and crash. Chicago Sun-Times
BUFFALO GROVE — A Waukegan man faces an Oct. 19 court date after having a really bad day at the office. First, a female co-worker spurned his romantic ideas, then he got fired and then he caused a crash while driving drunk, Buffalo Grove police said. …
Bachelors of 2011 Voting Begins. Cosmopolitan
Hottest female body part: “Legs. I love to see women in skirts!” First-date etiquette: “I think it’s great for a girl to ask a guy out. It doesn’t have to be formal; ‘Let’s get drinks sometime’ would work on me.” Sex on the first date: sexy or skanky? …
The Biggest Sham: Dating in the News
How I Was Nearly Seduced By Grouper, The Biggest Sham In Online Dating. Gizmodo Australia. By Sam Biddle on October 1, 2011 at 2:40 am
A month ago, I was approached by Jerry Guo, ostensible Silicon Alley wunderkind who’d turned $US400 in transit money into Grouper, a profitable dating startup. He guaranteed me a great time with “3 real girls”. The whole site’s a lie. …
Mistakes that Men Often Make in Online Video Chat Rooms. DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Instead of paying for expensive memberships, filling up long profiles on dating sites and waiting for a computer to find a “perfect match”, this is a great environment for online dating and meeting people. Just like in a traditional speed dating, …
NoHo Noir: ‘The Dating Game’. Patch.com
After three months of online dating, she had it down to a science. She always met for coffee, never for a meal. She always came early so she could study the guy as he walked in the door. They got bonus points if they held the door for the person behind …
Are You Dating or Living With a Serial Killer?. NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
Since online dating is a popular way to find a relationship, she is specific as to what women should and should not do when using the Internet to find Mr. Right. She reveals the mechanics of good and bad profile construction and explains the art of …
National Convention Underway for those Considering Interracial Dating. Afro American
For those looking to date outside of their race, an Interracial Dating Convention will convene Oct. 14 in San Francisco, sponsored by the Society of Single Professionals. Dating expert and author Deborrah Cooper will discuss the pros and cons of …
First Dates: Dating in the News
Man shoots self on first date. CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 29 (UPI)
Police in North Carolina said a couple’s first date was interrupted when a man accidentally shot himself in a parking garage.
Pets approval comes first for animal lovers. Herald Sun by Kelly Ryan
LOVE me, love my pet. To find favour with a new love, you’ll have to get past their furry friend first. Forget parents waiting up late to give a prospective new love interest a grilling when you get home late, you will have to get the lick of approval from a first date’s pet or end up on the outer. A national poll by VetShopAustralia.com.au found 82 per cent of survey respondents said they would not date anyone their pet did not like.
Love Story: Mike and Margaret Farris. Charlotte Observer
What were your first impressions? How was your first date? What attracted you to each other? Mike, now 54, and Margaret, now 51, met on a plane in St. Louis in 1989. They live in Fort Mill. Margaret tells their story: The mechanic: I was a flight …



