How to: stop destroying your relationships ? How To With Courtney

I?m in a relationship, ?almost through the honey moon stage?and just starting to realize it?s hard work. Our bubble is officially popped. I was in a relationship, and it was good. But after some soul searching I?ve realized the he was right, I didn?t give him enough time. I?m career focused and don?t really need to be in a relationship right now. Unless that person is willing to hang out on the back burner, which isn?t fair to them.

(The rest of this post was written a month before we broke up, hopefully something in it will help you)?

I started having feelings two weeks ago of this impending doom, imaging myself being suffocated by this link tying me to someone else. So I started doing what any normal person would, I acted weird and pushed my boyfriend away. By acting weird, I mean demanding he reassure his affection for me, then telling him we should take a break?I promise I am 1. not a crazy person and 2. not diagnosed with any personality disorder.

So in a weak moment I basically told him that I was afraid we were moving too fast and didn?t want to get hurt. All of which are true, but not the best thing to lay on someone you care about, someone who in a million years wouldn?t dream of hurting you (psych).

I?ve spent the entire day researching commitment phobia, and am positive that I have it, along with nine other disorders that I saw on web MD when I first typed it in.

The thing with commitment phobia is that you know at some point you?re going to get hurt, it?s been proven in the past. For me it was losing so many people at such a young age. I?m terrified to get close to someone and then have them torn away from me, so I choose not to. In fact, up until he showed up in my life I was doing just fine, I wasn?t even looking for anyone/dating.

But being afraid of losing someone isn?t a great way to live, or a great reason to be alone. In fact it?s a sucky outlook on life. Which is why, when after reading a wiki-how to article on getting over commitment phobia (I don?t know why I do these things to myself either) I realized I?m making a huge mistake. The article had you write down questions and answer what you are scared of, then you had to make pro/con lists?for everything. Next it told you to in vision your life with that person, what you could see?could you see anything? Did it make you scared or happy?

I was happy. I didn?t know I needed him in my life until I met him, and now that I have I don?t want to live without him (sadly still true, but at this point in my life I can?t be in a serious relationship with someone who just gives up if I consider relocating for a job).

If you want to stop self sabotaging then you need to take the first step: figure out what you are doing and then get to why.

Things didn?t work out for me, but it was a learning experience. I found what I need right now, and the type of person I?m looking for. With every new relationship there is always a chance to get hurt, and if you fight those fears I promise it will be worth it.?

And if you do get hurt, which will happen, just remember you will be okay, you will move on, and look at it as a learning experience.?

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How Far do Image Rights and Trademarks ... - Raw Business Law ...

If youre planning on going into business, especially online, youll need to know a little bit about image rights and trademarks. Why? Well, unfortunately, its easy to violate someone elses rights in business, and unless you know exactly how to be careful, you could end up on the paying end of a large fine. Or worse, you could lose your business altogether.

Its important to know just how far image rights and trademarks extend, and how to subsequently avoid infringing on someones rights. Also, knowing about it will allow you to protect your rights so knowledge of the subject is a win-win situation.

Lets start first with image rights. This can mean one of two things. Image rights are sometimes considered an individuals proprietary right in their persona. In other words, your image is you, and no one else has a right to use you without your permission. This includes the unauthorized use of your name, personal attributes, likeness, etc.

These types of image rights are referred to more as publicity rights, and theyre not exactly the image rights were speaking of for business. But just so youre aware, youre automatically protected against unlawful use of the aforementioned by way of publicity rights.

Image rights, in an online business context, have to do with an actual image. An image ? photograph, logo, etc ? is personal property and belongs to its rightful owner. These rights extend as most copyrights do and are still property of the owner until years after death unless you have permission to use the image.

How can image rights bite you? Imagine you hired someone to make your website for you. Its been a couple of years now and your business is doing well. Suddenly, you receive an email from someones lawyer saying you stole an image. It wasnt you, of course, but the website designer took someone elses image without permission and now youre paying for it.

Having someone steal one of your images can also be bad news. They can imitate your business by taking an image without permission or, at the least, misrepresent that image. You have a right to take legal action if someone uses your image without your permission.

With image rights, just like Intellectual property, the rights are automatically yours so long as you own the property. Trademark rights are a different story entirely; and to receive trademark protection, you either have to be the first to use the particular mark in commerce, or you must register your mark with a patent office.

A trademark is a symbol, phrase, word or any other identifying mark an individuals business uses for its products. Think of the very famous soft drink logo thats a trademark. Depending on circumstances, even the color of a products package can be a trademark. For instance, if a similar product from another manufacturer was selling in the same color packaging, it would be trademark infringement.

Trademark rights extend just as image rights. No one is allowed to use your trademark without permission. If so, then you can take legal action against the person or company stealing your trademark. Trademark rights will extend until a patent expires or until the companys closing.

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Emily Blunt: Nothing Is More Important Than My Marriage

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski certainly didn't get long to enjoy life as newlyweds! Just one month after tying the knot in July 2010, the British actress had to jet off to England, Scotland and Morocco to work on the film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

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GOP embraces showdown over oil pipeline, tax cuts (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Sensing a political opening, congressional Republicans are moving toward a high-stakes showdown with President Barack Obama over a plan to link fast-tracked approval of an oil pipeline to a measure renewing a payroll tax cut.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas will help the president achieve his top priority ? creating jobs ? without costing a dime of taxpayer money.

"There is no reason this legislation shouldn't have the president's enthusiastic support," McConnell said Monday on the Senate floor. "The only reason for Democrats to oppose this job-creating bill would be to gain some political advantage at a time when every one of them says job creation is a top priority."

The State Department said last month it was postponing a decision on the pipeline until after next year's election. Officials said the delay is needed to study routes that avoid environmentally sensitive areas of Nebraska.

The GOP language would require approval of the pipeline within two months unless Obama declares it is not in the national interest.

The project's developer, Calgary-based TransCanada, says the pipeline could create as many as 20,000 jobs, including 13,000 during construction and 7,000 manufacturing jobs.

Opponents call those figures wildly inflated and say the project could create as few as 2,500 construction job and fewer than 1,000 permanent jobs. The State Department, in an analysis released this summer, said the pipeline would create up to 6,000 jobs during construction, including Keystone employees, contractors and construction and environmental inspection staff.

The State Department has authority over the project because it crosses an international border.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday he would veto the bill if it includes the Keystone provision.

The administration warned Monday that congressional interference in the approval process would likely lead to a rejection of the pipeline.

"Should Congress impose an arbitrary deadline for the permit decision, its actions would not only compromise the process, it would prohibit the department from acting consistently with National Environmental Policy Act requirements by not allowing sufficient time" for the project to be considered, the State Department said in a statement.

In that case, "the department would be unable to make a determination to issue a permit for this project," the statement added.

McConnell and other Republicans dismiss such procedural objections.

"The only thing arbitrary about this decision is the decision by the president to say, `Well, let's wait until after the next election,'" said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Boehner and other Republicans say many Democrats support the pipeline, noting that 47 House Democrats voted in a favor a bill this summer to speed up the permitting process. GOP lawmakers say the White House opposes the pipeline provision in the tax bill so Democrats can gain political advantage by blaming Republicans for defeating the popular payroll tax cut. The tax bill is expected on the House floor Tuesday.

The two parties generally agree on the bill's fundamentals: preventing the Jan. 1 expiration of payroll tax cuts and extending coverage for the long-term unemployed. Obama has said he will reject the overall bill if it includes language speeding up approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from western Canada to refineries in Texas.

Obama's veto threat has increased conservative support for the overall measure, with Republicans hoping to use Obama's opposition to portray him as favoring environmentalists over jobs.

Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., called the Keystone XL project crucial to getting thousands of people back to work.

"This is an important jobs and energy security bill which just makes plain sense," said Terry. "The American people want us to stop buying Venezuelan oil. The Keystone pipeline is a key component to making that happen."

Environmental groups, who celebrated the administration's announcement of a delay in the Keystone project last month, accused Republicans of forcing a premature judgment on the pipeline in order to curry favor with the oil industry.

"To get their way, House Republicans ? with some support in the Senate ? are even willing to block the much-needed extension of the middle-class tax cut," said Suzanne Struglinski of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

Struglinski called the pipeline push a "fool's errand" because of Obama's threat to reject the measure, and said its likely inclusion in the House bill showed that House leaders have embraced the "extreme agenda" pushed by the tea party.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said last week that House leaders were wasting time, because the Keystone provision will not pass the Democratic-controlled Senate.

The State Department decided last month to delay the project until 2013, to allow the project's developer to figure out a way around Nebraska's Sandhills, an ecologically sensitive region that includes an aquifer that supplies water to eight states.

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Penn State to Ticket City Bowl to play Houston

Penn State quarterback Matthew McGloin (11) leaps into the arms of Matt Stankiewitch (54) after throwing a 44-yard touchdown pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Penn State quarterback Matthew McGloin (11) leaps into the arms of Matt Stankiewitch (54) after throwing a 44-yard touchdown pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Houston's Case Keenum passes during the first quarter of a Conference USA championship NCAA college football game against Southern Mississippi, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Houston. Southern Mississippi defeated Houston 49-28. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel)

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ? The final game of No. 24 Penn State's tumultuous season will be played on Jan. 2 in the Ticket City Bowl against No. 20 Houston.

Penn State and the bowl made the official announcements Sunday night on their respective websites.

The Nittany Lions (9-3, 6-2) finished tied with Wisconsin for first in the Big Ten Leaders Division.

But the program is in turmoil after former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was charged last month with sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year span. School trustees fired Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno in the aftermath of the charges amid mounting criticism that Paterno and other school leaders should have done more to prevent alleged abuse.

The Ticket City Bowl, played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, had the seventh selection out of bowls with Big Ten tie-ins, after the BCS games.

Despite the horror of the allegations against Sandusky, who retired in 1999, Penn State president Rodney Erickson and interim coach Tom Bradley said the team still deserved to play in a bowl game because the players had nothing to do with the scandal that has enveloped the school and its treasured football program.

Penn State announced last week it would donate its share of conference bowl proceeds this year ? about $1.5 million ? to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. The revenue usually goes back to the athletic department.

School administrators believe "this opportunity is a fitting acknowledgement of the hard work, dedication and perseverance our student-athletes have exhibited during this especially challenging season," Erickson said Sunday night in a statement. "As Penn State continues to move forward from recent events we are committed to help break the silence that surrounds child sexual abuse and lead to better protection of our children."

Wisconsin and Penn State finished with identical 6-2 conference records, though the Badgers won the division after beating the Nittany Lions 45-7 in the last week of the regular season.

The only other Big Ten teams with fewer than three conference losses in the regular season were Michigan State (one) and Michigan (two).

Penn State also tied with Nebraska for the second-best overall record in the regular season in the conference at 9-3, behind the Spartans, Wolverines and Badgers, who all finished at 10-2.

Yet among potential landing spots, Penn State got bypassed by the Insight Bowl, which had the fourth selection and was to announce its pick later Sunday; and the Gator Bowl, which had the fifth selection. The Gator Bowl took Ohio State (6-6, 3-5) to face Florida, setting up a matchup featuring incoming Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer against his former team.

Ohio State lost to Penn State this season, as did Northwestern (6-6, 3-5), which was taken by the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas with the Big Ten's sixth bowl selection.

Houston (12-1) fell from a potential berth in the Bowl Championship Series to the Ticket City after getting upset by Southern Mississippi on Saturday in the Conference USA title game.

Now the Ticket City Bowl gets a relatively high-profile matchup between the Nittany Lions, who usually draw large postseason crowds, and the Cougars and star quarterback Case Keenum playing in their home state.

"Our goal from the start was to bring major college postseason football back to historic Cotton Bowl Stadium, and with this extraordinary matchup ... we believe we have accomplished that objective," bowl president Tom Starr said in a statement.

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Tout—The New Obnoxious Way to Tell if People Are Reading Your Emails [Apps]

Anybody who's worked in a cubicle is familiar the Outlook Request Read Receipt—that horrid popup that demands you confirm you have indeed read (and summarily deleted) the TPS report Ted from accounting had sent out. Now, Tout, a new email tracking app, does the same. Huzzah? More »

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