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AD523 wrote:The main point I was trying to make was: would you want to be the one doing the imprinting? I've heard a lot of people saying (including people I know) that they would love to have someone imprint on them. I just think it's important to see both sides of the issue. From the imprinter's and imprintee's point of view.
I see your point. I think one thing to consider is that most people saying they want to be imprinted on are female (unless your experience has differed) and the pack was almost entirely male so being the imprintee seems more natural to them. I personally would not want to be the imprinter or imprintee because I enjoy the slow and gradual beginnings of love and wouldn't want to skip right over that part.
Here's an interesting thought I recently had...and it's purely hypothetical because I know this didn't happen in the books and it's probably too late for it to happen now...but what if Lean and another werewolf/shapeshifter had imprinted on each other? What kind of relationship would that be if they are both set on pleasing each other? I can picture the conversations. "What do you want to do?" "Whatever you want to do." "I want to do what you want to do." And so on and so forth.
psugar wrote:I feel sad for Claire and Nessie, I mean who would want to find their true love that young I can picture it.
"How long have you guys been together?"
Nessie:Since the day I was born
That ought to be a great conversation starter.
Ellie Ibis wrote:I used to love the idea of imprinting. Of course, when I first read the book I had just gotten out of a relationship, and I was completely and utterly in love with the idea of someone having such unconditional love. There's such certainty in imprinting, and that is definitely attractive.
Now I don't see it that way. I dislike the lack of free will, the lack of choice in the matter of imprinting. To me it would not be true love, it would be more like a curse, especially if you were a werewolf in an already established relationship, like Leah and Sam were. When you turn into a werewolf and you haven't imprinted, but you're in love with someone... how can do that? How can you look that person in the eye and tell them you love them when you know tomorrow could come, you could walk down the street, and then be essentially a slave to your feelings and forced to leave that person for another, whom you barely know?
The magic in love is the magic of choice, of the randomness and the luck it takes in finding someone you can get along with, you can spend the rest of your life with. The certainty of imprinting removes all that, it deludes that. It take away any natural, safe, new and gentle attraction, it takes away the work and the feelings you have when you know the relationship you're nurturing it flourishing, and forces it on you before you even know the person you're dedicating your life for.
*Wanderer* wrote:Here's an interesting question (or at least I think it's interesting):
Does the imprintee, or the person who was imprinted on by a werewolf, actually imprint back?
If that doesn't make any sense, for example:
Jared imprinted on Kim, but did Kim imprint on Jared? (I really hope that makes sense to someone besides me )
I'm really curious as to what your guys' ideas on that are...
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[Sri Lanka Bloggers] Sewvandi and Mala
During her visit to Sri Lanka last week with the World Vision blogger team, Laura Tremaine met Mala and her daughter, Sewvandi, whose story she shares below. Knowing that education is key to helping Sewvandi escape from poverty, Laura made a special commitment to the girl.
This post originally appeared on Laura's blog, Hollywood Housewife.
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This is Sewvandi. She lives with her parents and two little brothers in a hut in rural Sri Lanka.
Sewvandi is an excellent student. She loves going to school, even though she has to travel more than two miles each way. She studies often and recently sat for the scholarship exam, a test that requires extra (paid-for) classes that her family can scarcely afford.
Sewvandi's mom, Mala, was the oldest of four, a twin, and the only one of her siblings to drop out of school in order to work and support her family. At 7 years old, she was sent to be domestic help for a family. She was paid roughly $3 per week, which her dad came and collected while she cried to come home.
When she was old enough, she followed her mother to Kuwait to work in domestic service, but returned to Sri Lanka soon. Because of her sacrifice, her twin sister was able to finish school, move to Sri Lanka's largest city, Colombo, and secure a job and eventually a husband and family.
While Mala also got married, she and her husband have never been able to move from the very rural village where they are from, and neither are educated, which means their options are limited to day labor.
We heard a lot of stories during our week in Sri Lanka, most of them unfathomable to me. The poverty, the health and living conditions, and the complete lack of options were heartbreaking.
When I heard Mala talk about Sewvandi, I felt hope. It was clear during the conversation that Mala was a smart, strong woman. She was forced to start working when most little girls should be starting their schooling, and that set the rest of her life on a track that was half-step forward, 10 steps back.
But when she spoke of her daughter -- also, you could tell, very bright -- her jaw was resolute. She scraped everything together that she could to get Sewvandi into the scholarship exam, knowing that education was the only way out.
If she could just help Sewvandi go the distance in school, her chances improved greatly for the rest of her life.
I'm not totally sure why I related to Mala and Sewvandi so strongly. I've surely never been in any such situation. But someone very close to me has, and education was his way out of rural poverty as well. As his story goes, a single person's higher education trickled into a next generation and into a community. It made a difference for many.
Mala told us her love story with her husband, and it was sweet and we laughed together as women do about such things. Suddenly, the stories I'd been wrestling with this week didn't seem like half a world away. Sacrifice, love, motherhood -- the universal themes of one's life. We connected, the women in the cramped room.
In passing, our translator mentioned that Sewvandi had school friends who had been sponsored, but that she hadn't been yet. I didn't hesitate. I want Sewvandi to have the best shot under the circumstances, and I am someone who can help carry that out.
This is Sewvandi, my sponsored child. I have high hopes.
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Read additional posts written by members of our team of eight bloggers who traveled to Sri Lanka last week to witness firsthand the life-changing impacts of World Vision's sponsorship programs on children, families, and communities in need.

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Interpreting at the London Olympics
August 13, 2012
Unbelievable, amazing, and great are just a few of the adjectives that Lauren Ames (MATI '13), used to describe her experience working as an interpreter at the 2012 London Olympics.
"To interpret at a world-class event like the Olympics is an enormous opportunity and a once-in-a-lifetime experience," said Ames.
Ames was one of five students representing the Monterey Institute as volunteer interpreters at the 2012 London Summer Olympics.
"It was amazing to feel like I was being relied upon to facilitate communication," she said.
On her first day of work, Ames ran into former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in the Olympic Family Lounge. "I am still in utter disbelief that Kofi Annan and I have exchanged hellos," said Ames.
As for the interpreting, Lauren had the chance to work with athletes from Argentina, Spain and Venezuela. She was even quoted by Reuters in a news alert about the Beach Volleyball competition.
"I feel great about my interpretations that I rendered," said Ames. "I am just ecstatic that I have been able to implement the skills that I have put so much time and energy into learning at the Monterey Institute."
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It's Throwback Thursday on the Social Media which lines up for an interesting moment in Fire History that occured this week in 2001.
Coming up on the end of his career, legendary U.S. international Eric Wynalda was acquired by the Fire in a trade with New England that sent John Wolyniec and a 2002 SuperDraft pick to the Revolution on May 3 of that year.
At the time, Wynalda was the all-time leading goal scorer for the U.S. Men's National Team (34 goals) but injuries and national team commitments had kept him from really making an impact for his previous MLS clubs in San Jose, Miami and New England.
Bolstering a Fire attack which already featured the likes of Ante Razov, Hristo Stoitchkov, Piotr Nowak and DaMarcus Beasley, Wynalda joined the team a month into the campaign and took just two days to score his first goal for the club in a 2-0 win over Tampa Bay on May 5. That goal was the first of 10 he scored in less than a full season with the Fire (the first time he'd done it since the inaugural MLS campaign in 1996). He also added two more in the Open Cup and a single marker in the MLS Cup playoffs.
That would be his only season with the Fire and curtain call in MLS but his double-digit goal campaign makes him one of just seven Chicago Fire players to achieve the feat. (Can you name the others? Answer below the photo...)
Though he played only one season for the Fire, Wynalda went into the National Soccer Hall of Fame as a Fire player in 2004, joining former U.S. teammates Paul Caligiuri and Mike Windischmann as well as Women's National Team legend Michelle Akers in that year's induction class.
ANSWER: All-Time Chicago Fire double digit goal scorers: Ante Razov (1998-2000, 2002-2003), Damani Ralph (2003-2004), Eric Wynalda (2001), Josh Wolff (1999), Dema Kovalenko (2000), Dominic Oduro (2011), Mike Magee (2013)


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I believe so. When a person gives you eye contact he is showing that you that he wants you to acknowledge him/her and what they have to say. Lack of eye contact can show that you are either nervous, shy, or just not interested in what the person has to say.
Jesus Christ Is LORD!!! <3
It makes it awkward for me.
<----------------This thing right here is telling the truth. "Believe it."
I used to hate having to make eye contact not because of being bashful but I have really really I mean really bad eye sight so looking people in the eye makes me have to focus inturn making me feel crossed eyed, not that I have glasses its no prob & dont care about having to
How many fuckin' Friday the 13ths are we gonna have?!
many people find it disrespectful not to have eye contact when a person is talking to you, i dont do lots of eye contacting, but when i do its because i do
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I was just curious about something so I thought I'd ask..
Is eye contact difficult for you? Is it even anything you really notice or think about? Whether it's easy for you or torture, I'd really like to know why?
I know that it can be a completely personal experience between two people. Well, at least that's what it looks like in these shows (anime or otherwise). Personally, I can't really do it. It terrifies me to no end. I guess I just don't want to actually see them when they look down on me or judge me. In the end it just sorta leaves me by myself (insert forever alone.jpg) but I'm fine with that. Can a person's confidence really be measured by the amount of eye contact they can maintain?
Anyway, that's how I feel about the subject. Lemme know what you think about it.
I do avoid eye contact most of the time unless I'm talking with someone. I don't want my eye contact to be misread as an interest to talk to some weirdos on the street.
A fun game I like to play though is to hold eye contact with a female you I don't know for as long as possible. See who looks away first. You can also kinda-ish read her opinion of you in those seconds. One time I held contact with a girl at the mall while I was standing there listening to my earphones and after she left my sight I went back to looking at nothing then after like 10 seconds she stepped back into view and asked if I wanted to hang out... I was actually waiting for someone so I told her no thank you.. I truly believe confidence is a sexy thing so even if you are shy you can at least attempt to be confident at times just to see the outcome.
P.S. If you choose to ignore everything I ever type PLEASE at least take this advice for your own good... ALLOW yourself to be embarrassed and rejected. Once you accept that as a part of life, you'll see it's nothing to fear any longer.
I know a lot of people on these forums are awkward and loners and that's fine but don't EVER let fear of being judged or insulted stop you from living. Someone may dislike you for 10 reasons but 50 more people will love you for 100 reasons. No one is perfect and everything in life is based on taste and opinion. You cannot gain everyones acceptance. Even the sexiest and brightest people have a million haters.
Take a deep breath...now live
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it's really weird but i can't make eye contact when talking about my feelings my girlfriend finds it funny
raintaster wrote:
it's really weird but i can't make eye contact when talking about my feelings my girlfriend finds it funny
That sounds normal to me, I find it hard to make I contact when talking about anything personal.
The only situations I make a conscious effort to make eye contact is:
1. I'm angry with someone or in an argument with them.
2. When I'm talking to someone with a position of authority over me. ( I'm not sure why, to show respect or just to let them know I don't fear them or something).
3. Impromptu staring contests with random people. The are fairly common. o_O
People like me should be herded in to ditches and shot.
I stare into their eyes very.. VERY intently saying "Sex sex sex" in my mind. Just kidding.
I use eye contact diplomatically. If I'm talking to someone who is attempting to engage me in their ideas, who I respect, or should respect, I give them direct eye contact, only breaking it briefly when they say something interesting or ask a question to indicate my thinking and then I re-engage when I begin to speak.
With people who I am giving advice to/comforting/consoling I make little eye contact, and when I do its brief and only when they look towards me.
When I am dealing with an aggressive person, I look at their eyes directly, and then I "look beyond" them until they have finished ranting, and I re-engage non-threatening eye contact when I begin to speak.
ect. ect.
Knowing your own body language can be very important to communicating effectively.
I can make eye contact in a conversation easily but that's only because I feel if I am not making eye contact during a convo I feel rude, but for example when I am taking a walk I usually don't make eye contact with other people longer then a few sec because you never know how some people may react when a stranger keeps making eye contact lol
Depends on my mood. Sometimes I don't want to look anyone in the eye. At other times I'll stare at people until they're uncomfortable. Like when they have leprechauns dancing on their head.
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When I go out shopping.. I'm either looking at the merchandise, what's in my cart, the floor, etc. As for eyes, I just can't do it. I feel so.. exposed if it happens =\
Eye contact with people I know is fine if I'm talking to them, but otherwise, even that can be awkward.
I can only keep eye contact with my family.
giiiiiiiii haha
LF People.
Yeah its pretty easy but it get weird when there talking about something I don't care about so I have try to maintain eye contact so I seem interested in what there instead of just walking away. So no eye contact isn't a problem for me.
yep, i can maintain eye contact
I hate car shopping -_-


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You have to buy this tv.
Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?)
Unbelievable. Fantastic. Breathtaking. Astonishing. Just some of my favorite words to describe my reaction once I turned on this tv and got an eye full. And there are no words to describe the gut wrenching awe of watching a Bluray movie on this technological wonder, I kid you not. And the passive 3D experience in 4K is well, WOW. And just to show the people at LG weren't satisfied with perfection they redesigned the remote. It's smaller and feels good in the hand. So if you have the scratch do yourself a favor and order this beauty today.
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Predictable ass chapter and we knew most of what was mentioned. We all know that the kyuubi has been giving out chakra throughout the fight, Naruto was the only one lost.
Now, Naruto and the Kybuui Are handing it to Tobi just to now release the 10 tails -_-
Gai looks stoned from overdoing it
....oh the Bee finally made move in handling Madara.
Overall this chapter was blah and I HOPE that we see the two most entertaining characters into the battlefield next or at least argue amongst each other. #venting!!!


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Rather than face the perfect storm of decreasing reimbursement, increasing costs, legislative mandates, and penalties around technology adoption, information exchange, and Meaningful Use, an alarming number of physicians are making the decision to "go quietly into the night" and retire early from practice.
Some are leaving the profession as many as 10 years earlier than they had anticipated. Rather than consider change, physicians are placing a DNR on their practices, saying no to investing in tools necessary to efficiently manage their businesses. For some physicians, the hospital's own IT transformation activities are the tipping point driving them to retire. We need to do something about this problem before it's too late.
Physicians are trained to make decisions, not ask questions--except of patients. The noble personality that gives them the confidence to heal also causes them to feel they have to be all-knowing and all-seeing on all topics. Many physicians are not comfortable publicly sharing their questions about technology selection, adoption, or optimization--fearing it will expose ignorance about topics on which they believe their peers have all the answers. Yet with so little time just to keep up with clinical research in their own specialties, when do physicians have time to become IT experts as well?
Consider what happens when physicians experience an adverse outcome. Unless they're residents or are in a behind-closed-doors peer review, they're not encouraged to expose the troubling issue so they can brainstorm with their peers to improve their clinical decision-making. For fear of retribution by attorneys representing patients or grieving families, they have been trained to suffer in silence and guess at what might have happened and/or what they might do differently next time.
Unfortunately, many physicians apply that same learned response to their selection, implementation, and adoption of EHRs. They don't openly discuss their questions, concerns, thought processes, and experiences as they evaluate technology. Nor do they share best practices or lessons learned while adopting and utilizing new health record tools and processes. Instead, they kick into "fight or flight" mode during EMR implementation, too often letting their practices quietly flat-line.
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In my view, physicians fall somewhere between a national treasure and natural resource, and one that's becoming an endangered species. Fewer physicians are encouraging their children to go into medicine, unsure of the future reward for all the risk. Physicians are deciding to retire early, afraid to change, unwilling to learn something new, and unsure if they can. While your first instinct as an IT manager may be to push forward with your hospital's EHR implementation without them--don't. You may not realize exactly how much impact on care they are providing in your community.
Hospitals have a license to house patients; physicians have the license to treat them. It is only by working together that we can continue to provide care in our community. If physicians go, who will step in to provide care to those patients? With empathy and the right engagement, these physicians will ensure the successful adoption and utilization of the technology needed to ensure your organization not only survives but also thrives during these turbulent times.
Huntington Hospital, where I serve as executive director, physician & interoperability services, is working with physicians in our community to help them consider their options, share their experiences, best practices, challenges, and missteps, and figure out how to create efficient workflows.


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Ellsbury earns AL Comeback Player honors
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
Not only did the center fielder stay healthy and get back to the level he was at before left rib fractures limited him to 18 games in 2010, but he took his game up about three notches.
For his monster season, Ellsbury was named the American League's Comeback Player of the Year. The award was voted on by all 30 MLB.com beat writers. Lance Berkman of the Cardinals took home the award in the NL.
Though the Red Sox had a nightmarish September and missed the postseason by one game, the player who kept them going right until the end was Ellsbury.
Who could forget the three home runs Ellsbury hit over a day-night doubleheader at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 25, when the season was very much on the line? That was the same day he became the first 30-30 player (30 homers, 30 stolen bases) in Red Sox history.
"That's my job -- to try to create runs in any way possible, to score runs and drive them in," Ellsbury said recently. "I'm very proud of that accomplishment."
It's hard to find anything Ellsbury didn't accomplish in 2011.
Over 158 games, he hit .321 with 119 runs, 212 hits, 46 doubles, 5 triples, 32 homers, 105 RBIs, 39 steals and a .928 OPS.
"That's a pretty amazing feat," former Red Sox manager Terry Francona said late in the season. "This kid has turned into some kind of player. He's taken a lot of accountability. We used to talk about Johnny Damon being out there all the time. This kid has done some kind of job."
The Comeback Award could be just the start of recognition for Ellsbury this offseason. He is considered a leading candidate for the AL Most Valuable Player Award.
"I know what I'm capable of doing," Ellsbury said. "I know everybody has been surprised by the power numbers, but it's always been there. It just hasn't translated to the game. But every year, I've consistently gotten better. This is kind of what I was looking for last year."
Ellsbury put last year out of everyone's mind with a season that exceeded all expectations, except perhaps his own.
"I set goals every year," said Ellsbury. "No one has higher expectations than myself. I have personal goals."
While Ellsbury heard whispers about his toughness last year when he simply couldn't get his ribs healthy after a vicious collision with Adrian Beltre, he kept the sting to himself and made one statement after another on the field in 2011.
"It's pretty fun to see, especially after the frustration he felt last year," said Red Sox hitting coach Dave Magadan. "He's played with a chip on his shoulder. There were strides made in 2009. Certainly there were concerns after missing the whole year last year. He picked up right where he left off and improved upon it. It's fun to watch.
"He wasn't happy with a lot of the stuff that was said [last season]. He's playing with a little bit of an attitude like, 'Hey, I'm going to prove a lot of people wrong.'"
The center fielder is 28 years old, which means he is just entering his prime years.
How did he transform his game from table setter to game changer?
"I think for me it's just being balanced and driving the ball," said Ellsbury. "A lot of times, I can use my legs to my disadvantage, just trying to put something in play. Now, I'm trying to get a pitch and lock into a location and really drive the ball."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Most people love a decent joke, and so it follows that many are also fond of April Fools' Day. You have to admit, there have been some impressive pranks pulled over the years.
Check out the best of the best from your favorite stars, musicians and even one from talk show host.
10. In 2010 [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Coldplay[/lastfm] announced the launch of their own exclusive fragrance called Angst. "This is something we've wanted to do for a long time," Chris Martin jokes on the band's website. "People like to smell nice and we thought we could help them out."
9. During an interview with a French radio station, the host of show convince [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Justin Bieber[/lastfm] to call up his friend [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Usher[/lastfm] and play a joke on him. While we could think of a million better jokes to play on the rapper like "Hey Usher, I shaved my head…," Bieber's sad attempt on joke making makes it the best. Oh, Bieber.
8. Ellen pranks the sweet and innocent [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Taylor Swift[/lastfm] during the recording of her show in 2009. A few words to you Ellen, "Now, that's just plain mean!"
7. In 2009 millions of people were fooled when a company released a video featuring the "Hotelicopter"–the world's first luxury hotel on a helicopter.
6. In 1957 the BBC set out to video the wonderful spaghetti harvest that the canton of Ticino in Switzerland was experiencing. Tons of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.
5. Stefani Germanotta on MTV's prank show "Boiling Points" before she became the freakish Lady Gaga.
4. In 2010 Google renamed itself to Topeka, a nod to the capitol of Kansas. "We had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name," Topeka explained in a company blog post, "But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka's municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains."
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3. This one had confused a lot of people, possibly including John McCain. In 2008, Burning Man announced John McCain would be campaigning at the mega hippie fest. Keep reading here.
2. A few days after April Fools' (2008), [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Death Cab For Cutie[/lastfm]'s Ben Gibbard unveiled a new side-project called Just Jazzin, described on his MySpace page (back in the day) as a project "born out of an interest in exploring music free from rules and convention".
1. In 2009 [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]NIN[/lastfm]'s [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Trent Reznor[/lastfm] announced that he was recording a new album Strobelight produced by[lastfm link_type="artist_info"] Timbaland [/lastfm]. What was even more funny was the Website launched for the release plus the track listing featuring tracks like "p***y grinder" with[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Sheryl Crow[/lastfm]. Check out here.
Did we miss one? Share your favorite (best and worst) hoaxes via the comments below. Then come backeach week for another great list from our friends at Radio.com's Top 10.


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very happy and excited about my order from here on all the farm paper the stickers the cutouts I would love to see more goat products my daughter raises goats for her high school and I would love to be able to do more scrapbooking and more things for the school with those products.
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