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Aug 10

Enhancing Relationship

Trust is an important factor of every relationship, but where it is ?

…A man asked his father-in-law, “Many people praised you for a successful marriage. Could you please share with me your secret?” The father-in-law answered in a smile, “Never criticize your wife for her shortcomings or when she does something wrong. Always bear in mind that because of her shortcomings and weaknesses, she could not find a better husband than you.”We all look forward to being loved and respected. Many people are afraid of losing face. Generally, when a person makes a mistake, he would look around to find a scapegoat to point the finger at. This is the start of a war. We should always remember that when we point one finger at a person, the other four fingers are pointing at ourselves. If we forgive the others, others will ignore our mistake too.TRUST is a very important factor for all relationships. When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation. A telephone operator…

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Aug 10

How Iron Man 2 Ruined Jon Favreau’s Relationship With Marvel

Is Marvel trying to get away with making The Avengers on the cheap? Even though Favs wanted to direct their superhero team-up movie, they didn’t want him. Instead Marvel has made it a point to seek out cheaper talent.

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Jul 10

The Breakup 2.0: How new media is used to end relationships

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…For example, a 30-something man she interviewed learned that his wife wanted a divorce through a two-sentence e-mail while he was away on a business trip. In the meantime, she had emptied their joint bank accounts and he had no place to stay upon his return. Afterwards, she kept e-mailing his work account rather than having direct conversation. She ignored all of his notes he sent to her personal e-mail account….

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Jun 10

How to Agree without Compromise

Ways to reach an agreement rather than offer concessions that don’t really address needs or problems — advice for married couples and those in long-term, committed relationships.

…dreams, now undesirable. One partner may finally understand the other s angst surrounding certain issues and reverse direction. You may learn that there’s not enough money to pay the mortgage, and decide to find a smaller home and sell one of your cars, rather than hoping that an investment could mean a big payoff.
Explore alternatives that address underlying problems. Professional contacts that seem impossible to keep intact on a long distance basis after moving across the country could be preserved through frequent travel and face-to-face visits.
Consider the impact of decisions on the well-being of you as a couple, which may or may not be the sum total of each individual s happiness.
Agree immediately, or table the discussion for later, or have a series of discussions. Find the path that leads to wherever you decide you want and need to go.
Compromise can be a quick-and-easy conflict-solving technique. But it can also be a shortcut that doesn’t lead to a better relationship, assuring that noone gets what…

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Jun 10

Judging the Series Finales: Lost vs. Battlestar Galactica

On the surface, the two series may not look very similar but there are many common themes like: leadership; community; good vs. evil; the levels of ambiguity between good and evil; the power of relationships; despair; hope; destiny; and science vs.

…s finale, Jack Shephard defeated the Man in Black, prevented the Island from being destroyed, and helped his friends escape the Island according to their wishes. Then he died. It was sad, but he died accomplishing his main objective in life: to fix and save people. A bunch of people who had been lost, literally and figuratively, survived to live out their lives. Others eventually found something at the end, whether it was peace, forgiveness, or redemption.
To be honest, I think both finales are about the same in this regard, but I give Lost a slight edge here because Jack Shepard was redeemed on virtually every possible level in the final episode. The redemptions in BSG were OK, but not spectacular.
Death vs. life
Both series dealt with resurrection and life after death in different ways. In BSG, the Cylon Hybrids (including the Final Five) used resurrection as a means of continuation of the species. Resurrection was clearly supposed to be based on science. The Hybrids had endless opportunities, until the…

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Jun 10

Doctor and Patient - The Human Side of Doctor-Patient Relati

Innovative new medical school programs focus on the human side of the doctor-patient relationship.

…If it hadn t been for Dr. Jason K. Alexander, a medical student at the time, she might have been right.
Two years earlier Dr. Alexander, along with four other classmates, had created a project that paired medical students with patients who were dying alone. We wanted to reach out to patients who had been shunned, the people others didn t want to deal with, Dr. Alexander recently recalled.
The program, which also helps family members who are struggling with terminally ill loved ones, was part of an innovative new center for humanism at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School in Newark. The center offers four-year scholarships for students with outstanding academic and community service records.
D. was one of the program s first patients, a woman who years earlier had been rejected by her own family. She was angry at first, Dr. Alexander said, recounting his initial visit with her. She was dying, but she took the opportunity to attack me, a medical student who had…

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May 10

Mathematician Proposes Model to Explain Marital Breakups

(PhysOrg.com) — Most people know love takes work, and effort is needed to sustain a happy relationship over the long term, but now a mathematician in Spain has for the first time explained it mathematically by developing a dynamical mathematical model based on the second law of thermodynamics to model …

…EnlargeBreakup mechanics. The model produces a plausible scenario, through a sequence of effort inattentions, for the deterioration of a relationship in a gradual form, which seems to be typical according to data. Because of the effort gap, there is a tendency to lower the right effort level. Then the intrinsic instability of sentimental dynamics obeying the second law causes the piecewise decaying trajectories to move further and further away from the target trajectory and eventually to cross the threshold level xmin. This is considered a point of pre-rupture, since it is a matter of time before effort is abandoned. Credit: PLoS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009881The mathematical model may help explain why couples split in real-life scenarios, and adds to our understanding of how and why relationships go wrong. Having a better understanding of this can help us to work out how to make the relationship improve, which is helpful because broken relationships pose major sociological, economic, and other…

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May 10

Abu Dhabi Rejects ‘Sex and the City’ Spotlight

Troubled relationships are nothing new for “Sex and the City” story lines.

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May 10

Could Farmville Leave Facebook?

Zynga, makers of feed-cluttering, endless-status-update-generating agribusiness simulator Farmville, is one of the biggest and most prominent Facebook developers. But that doesn’t mean they get along.

…profit. That’s money that Zynga would have simply kept before the introduction of the credit system, and the company is understandably irked.Chris Dixon terms this the “buyer-supplier hold up.” Zynga depends on Facebook’s network for their business, so if Facebook imposes this kind of tax, the company’s options are pretty limited. But Zynga is at least keeping the window of independence cracked a bit–they’re letting users play FarmVille at Farmville.com, for one thing. It remains to be seen if FarmVille could remain popular without the warm nerdy embrace of Facebook, but it’s not in Facebook’s best interest to let them find out. Facebook wants FarmVille and its dedicated users on its network, looking at ads and submitting data. If Zynga flees, Facebook is worse off. If buyers of traffic (e.g. app makers) fear future hold up, they are less likely to make investments in the platform. The biggest mistake platforms make…

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Apr 10

Time Off Work For A Breakup?

You can take time off for health or child care issues, but where’s the corporate understanding about work disruption due to relationship turmoil?

…yahoobuzzBullock is fortunate that not only does her studio, Warner Brothers, seem to be supportive of her time off, but she is also a big enough star that she’s in no danger of being rendered unemployable in the future over her ditched duties. A less bankable actor would likely not have had the same option. And what about us average wage slaves? While it is generally acceptable in the workplace to take time off due to health reasons, child care issues, or the well-being of a parent, there is often scant corporate understanding when it comes to work disruption as a result of divorce, breakup or even general relationship turmoil. Walking into your boss’ office and saying you’d like to take a few days off because your mother is sick (something I did in the past year) is a little different from saying you need to come to terms with the idea that your husband is schtupping a series of bimbos. Should this kind of time off be more widely available and acceptable?
Mental health experts seem divided over the issue….

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