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Online dating is the way to go, and it seems like everyone out there is looking for love and friendship online. In France, you can find many online dating sites if just go and look up search terms such as rencontre gratuit (= free dating) or sites de rencontre (= dating sites). So, with the very many people flocking dating sites to look for lovers and friends, how do you as a woman make your profile stand out? One thing you should understand is that, men fall for the visual features before they dig deeper into your personal characteristics. Your profile picture should portray what you are in real life. Most women think that using pictures when they were young draws men more that how they look now. This is a mistake, and all women should know that other online users can know if such a picture is a fake or outdated picture.

Online seduction tips require that you avoiding mentioning what you are searching for and turn the spotlight on yourself. Focus on telling more about yourself, your hobbies and general details about your fun side of life. Men do not want you telling them which kind of men you like, the cars you like and stuff like that. Give details about your hobbies, what you do when you are free and your adventurous side. If you like soccer, say it and even mention your favorites team or player. Men will be drawn more to girls’ profiles who like to have fun.

There is one thing about online dating and seduction that most women never get to understand, your Ex is your past. One thing for sure, if you still think about the man who dumped you, then you are not ready to move on and you would rather take time to think. Your emotional stresses are not thing you would love to air out on your online profile in dating sites. The negative attitude that accompanies such heartbreaks will hinder your progress, and affect the number of visitors to your profile. Your username plays a major role in the art of online seduction. Choose a name that reflects your likes and hobbies, and leave out provocative ones. It is better to remain anonymous and only present your personal details to people you think you would love to meet. Incomplete online profiles portray people who are not serious, and you will not be getting many replies from those. Above all, do not expose everything about yourself online. Leave the last dance for your one special catch.

Those who have recently completed a McDonalds application and gone onto to work there will have witnessed first hand the changes in the McDonalds menu and the way the food it serves is made, with most changes coming as a reaction to the calls for healthier fast food.

For example in 2011 as a whole McDonalds purchased 54 million pounds of fresh apples. In 2009 they did not purchase any. all the apples are now used in their healthier salad options as well as in their kids meals, as children now get a side of apple slices as well as a smaller sized fries with their Happy Meals.

Other new food innovations have included the Snack Wraps, new menu items that were crested by Chef Daniel Coudreaut, whose previous job before becoming “head of menu management” for McDonalds was as the executive chef of the prestigious Four Seasons resort in Dallas, Texas.

Learning the art of producing a  a perfect espresso can take a very long time and your average person just wouldn’t have the time or inclination to undertake the necessary training just make a better daily brew. These days, however help is at hand. The new breed of single serve capsule coffee machines, such as the Nespresso Citiz by Magimix or Krups, just make life so much easier. Obviously they don’t give you quite the result that you would get if  you were sipping an espresso which had been lovingly prepared by a barista in a pavement cafe in Rome or Florence but for your day to day coffee habit they aren’t half bad.

We’ve seen them before, highly controversial and thought provoking. I remember a few years back when I was driving down the highway. I saw a billboard about the dangers of smoking and it showed a horrific picture of x-ray’d lungs in a microwave looking device and the lungs looking more like a pair of grilled steak.

Is this form of advertising art or science I wonder? You see, as an architect, I have always thought of advertising as a form of business, a hard science and nothing to do with art. But there are plenty of ads that display images for the purpose of education as opposed to the generation of corporate income. I spoke to a representative of an internet marketing company the other day and what they told me was that there is a growing trend of creative marketing where the purpose of an image is designed to capture attention and be thought provoking.

I can also relate to this trend as recently I had to design a building that represents “a ship sailing in the ocean” and it was supposed to convey a message of being dynamic and pioneering. I guess there is art in business after-all.

Design is important in my life and I like to have a home where everything fits together in its perfect little way.  This is all well and good but when you have two teenage boys running riot and a cat who thinks he owns the place, it doesn’t always work out the way you want it.

Take for example my cats litter tray.  Luckily for me he does most of his toilet business outside and I never come across it so that makes me very happy.  However, when he does go in his litter tray he sticks the whole house out – it really is a nasty experience.  We have tried putting his litter tray out in the garage but then we have to leave the garage door open so it defies the purpose.  We tried the utility room but again, no cat flap in the door means its a problem.

I was getting to the end of my tether with it all until one of my neighbours suggested buying cat litter box furniture.  This cat furniture is designed to look like a piece of normal furniture, say and end table or chest of draws, but it actually holds a cat litter tray and has a cat flap in the side so the cat can get in and out at his or her leisure.  The whole side opens out which allows the owner to clean the tray when required and the cabinet itself comes in many different veneers so it can match the rest of the furniture in that room or through your home.

The best bit of all this is that the cat litter furniture actually keeps all the nasty smells as well as the unsightly messes hidden away so me, my wife, kids and even guests don’t ever have to see the cats toilet business until we need to clean it out.  I can not tell you how happy that makes me!

Some garden clocks are very attractive.  They do not necessarily need to be kept in greenhouses or sheds.  The more expensive ones are weatherproof and so can be kept outside.

There are all sorts of designs.  Some have pictures of birds around the hour which make a sound of the actual bird on the hour.  Some garden clocks also have thermometers as well.  Having a garden clock not only looks attractive but is a very useful thing to have when you are outside in your garden.

The cheaper clocks are not weatherproof so may need to be kept in a more sheltered area such as greenhouses.  If you have one with a thermometer you can also use it to check the temperature inside your greenhouses.

Perhaps nothing helps to explain the changing face of the media as the rise of social networking, blogging and the rise of the truly independent source.

Content it seems, is truly king for the first time in the media.

For wine, according to the owner of my wine of the month club, that’s a really, really good thing.

For too long only the largest and most well funded wineries have been able to be featured in the mainstream press, now it seems that anyone making truly outstanding wine, assuming they have a decent idea how to market themselves, can find themselves at the center of the wine world if only for a short time.

As the owner of a new (vintage) home, I have developed an intense appreciation of the art of architecture.  Along with the development of this appreciation, I’ve also developed an appreciation for the art of researching and purchasing beautiful homes within a budget.  Using an amortization calculator, I determine what exactly I can afford in a new home, and then I proceed to find deals that are both within my budget and up to par with my architectural tastes.  This approach is not easy or for the faint-of-heart.  It really takes some significant hard work and dedication.  But if you’re passionate about it like I am, it will certainly pay off in the end.  This is how I became the proud owner of a vintage architectural wonder of a home – all within my relatively modest budget!  Yes, the art of purchasing a home can be dull in comparison to appreciating the beauty of its architecture, but you’ll find that the two absolutely go hand-in-hand.

It’s never been a truly exact science – really a medical procedure that has a bit of an artistic flair to it.  What am I referring to?  The art of taking one’s blood pressure, of course.   First, use a blood pressure chart to determine what the blood pressure numbers mean.  You’ll need a couple of tools, namely a stethoscope and a sphygmomanometer (cuff).  Place the round end of the stethoscope cuff.  Inflate the sphygmomanometer ( cuff) to a little above 180 mm Hg.  Then release air by  turning the air valve, and watch the pressure drop.  When you first hear a sound, that will be the Systolic blood pressure.   The sound you hear is the blood now flowing in the artery of the arm. This means that the systolic pressure is now greater than the pressure in the blood pressure cuff.  As you continue to watch the pressure drop, when you no longer hear any sounds, that will be the Diastolic blood pressure.  Ah yes, the fun of artistic medicine!