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My cyst started to drain the day before yesterday, and is still draining a little. My question is, can work out while its draining or should I wait until its done?

It is 32"x32"x30" and we were planning to use a heat emitter, lights, and possibly heat tape to keep it hot. What would you recommend to use?

Its been really cold out, and during the day, my hands, nose, feet, even lips are cold to the touch, but at night, I get really, really hot, and wake up sweating. When I wake up in the morning, I am hot, then comfortable, then I start feeling really cold again. What can this be?

I am a 31 year old female, and have been experiencing this every winter for the last 8 + years.

My husband has a peptic ulcer, and is lactose intolerant. I have found some recipes, but they all contain cheese, which would make his stomach even worse. Where can I find recipes that contain no dairy, or do you have any that would be good for him?

I recently heard from somewhere that some dog fighting rings launder money through puppy mills. Is it true? I can't really find much online about it.

I have done a bit of research on dog attacks, and it seems that 79% of these vicious attacks, were done by intact animals, mostly males. In Texas, in 2007 all fatal dog attacks were done by intact animals. 1 out of 3 dog attacks were done by animals that have been kept constantly tethered (chained up).

So my question is, instead of banning breeds, why not force people to do the right thing, instead? Why not enforce spaying and neutering, (unless profession licensed dog breeder) and make tethering, across the whole country, illegal? Now, I am not talking getting a fine for chaining up Rover for a few hours, but dogs that are kept all hours, chained up. Unless you are trying to better a breed, or producing working animals, why not spay/neuter? Why is it that so many will spay a female, but not neuter a male as well? Is it because people figure its a male, he can't get pregnant, and if there is a spayed female in the house, why do both? I am very concerned that with these statistics, going after specific breeds, versus going after irresponsible people for not spay/neutering is going to lead people into a false sense of security.

If the government bans all pit bull types, rotties, GSDs, dobbies, akitas, and chows, don't they realize that there will be other breeds that will fill in for vicious attacks? Why not stop it at the root of the problem and force regular individuals to spay/neuter? Make it a huge offense, across the whole country, for tethering 24 hrs a day?

Do you agree, and are there any other things you would want to be enforced when it comes to dogs?

Ok, so my sister and I are arguing over who is at fault for their marriage disintegrating. I say its hers, she says its his. Here is the story:

My sister's friends got married 12 years ago. before they got married, they decided they were going to wait to have a baby until she is done with school and after she passes her bar exam. Well, 3 years later, she is done and she passed her bar exam and got picked up by a very prestigious firm. Well, both of them discussed it and agreed, it was for the best to wait at least another 3 years before they started a family. Well, 3 years rolls by and she kept putting off having a baby, again.

So two years ago, she was offered a partnership and took it without discussing it with her husband, I mean at all, and the baby plans went out the door, again. Her hours were crazy, sometimes she would be gone from 6 and be home at 10, would be be nasty to him, worked most weekends, and canceled trips last minute they were supposed to go on. Meanwhile, he cooked, cleaned, took care of the house, all the responsibilities because he was home more often (he does restoration work at home).

He ends up having an affair and getting this other woman pregnant, and he and his wife are divorcing.

Now, my sister says that he was the worst offender in the relationship. I say it was her. Her reasoning is you never have an affair, for any reason, my reasoning is when you get married, it is a partnership, and something as serious as putting off having a family and taking a partnership without talking to him, was wrong.

She rebutted that its her body and he has no right, and I said, she had no right to keep putting off a baby when it was discussed before marriage and to change your mind like that makes the marriage contract null and void for marrying under false pretenses, not to mention she was never around and was always putting the marriage on the back burner.

So, my question is whose side would you be on?

I see a lot of questions in reference to keeping cakes cool during outdoor weddings. I have come up with an idea for making a display "cooler" for cakes.

It would be enclosed on 5 sides, (hexagon) with one open, the two side near opening wouldn't be as wide to be able to keep cake displayed.

The top and walls would come apart to make it easy to assemble and dissemble around the cake.

There would be snaps attached to the exterior and interior to snap on cloth walls to hide the plastic.

The top would have battery operated lights so that the cake would light up.

The bottom would deep enough to be able to place ice, or dry ice (if you want effect) and a stand.

The walls and top would be made to snap in cooler packs, and the enclosing wall would be lined with styrofoam.

Is this a good idea? If your bakery, or caterer had this as an option to rent for your event, would this influence the cake you would get because you now had a "cooler" option?

Is this true? I received it from a collections agency/ attorney's office.

These dog pregnancy questions. Isn't everyone so tired of them? I mean really, unless you adopted, or got a dog off the streets, that was heavily pregnant already, there is no excuse for having a pregnant dog unless you are a REAL breeder, and with that case, you would know what to do, or you would ask your mentor.

My other question: How did you come up with your first dog's name?

I came up with my first dog's name when he was going up the stairs, and could only use one back leg at the time, he looked like he was bouncing on a pogo stick, so we named him Pogo.

We are going to start on Monday, and we have been on mild liver detoxifiers for 2 weeks.

Days 1-5- raw vegetables, fruits , seeds and nuts, Greens Plus, extra spirulina

Days 6 -9- fresh juiced vegetables and fruits, Greens Plus, laxative tea in the evening before bed

Days 10-14- back to just raw vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds, Greens Plus, spirulina

Days 15- 20: th above plus slowly incorporate chicken broth and steamed vegetables, carbohydrates, such as brown rice

Days 21-on-above and slowly incorporate fish, chicken, and buffalo meats back into diet

My opinion is that it should be legalized. The tax revenues would be phenomenal. We would have more tourists, the rest of the plant can be used for textiles, paper, and oil, and the crop needs no pesticides, and is extremely fast growing.

As for the "it makes people lazy" argument, I find more laziness coming from people who drink heavily. The term "gateway drug" no longer applies, since children have are not that stupid to come home smelling like pot, but are dumb enough to raid the medicine cabinet and trade prescription drugs with friends.

I have been extremely disturbed by the diamond trade, yet everyday I see questions on here about diamond engagement rings, and many answers disturb me with the whole "bigger is better".

I just want to know how many of you don't know about the issue, know but don't care, or know and look for conflict free diamonds.

I read an article earlier, and it had me thinking about different cultures and their, what I believe to be skewed, views are. This is the article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28652042/

Though I do not believe that a 10 year old, or even a 17 year old should get married, where does the line of needing reform meet? I feel Saudi Arabia really needs to come up with a reasonable minimum age for a girl to marry. I understand their culture wants younger women to marry, I can respect that, however, I cannot respect any child under 18 marrying, for the reasons they give.

What is your opinion on this matter?

I like him. Different, very different. My favorites so far are Weapon and Kamikaze. What are your opinions?

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Ok, here is the situation. I used to be really good friends with Tom. Tom wasn't the greatest character in the world to hang out with. Lazy, mooched off of his parents, made every excuse in the book not to go to work, or get a legitimate job, and is in his twenties. Then, he meets this girl, who had a 5 year old kid, never graduated HS, no GED, mooched off of her parents, never worked, never even got a driver's license, admitted to smoking crack when her son was two, and after 3 months of dating, he moves her and her son into his parents' house. Here comes the real kicker, he wants to have a child with her. Now, mind you they are filthy, I mean beer bottle with cigarette butts in them, turned over, never cleaned up ashtrays, clothing everywhere, dirty food containers, used condoms, just grossness in the bedroom... that they shared with her son!!! So I tell him, before you guys get married and have children, get a real job, an apartment and be independent, and clean. He said "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will, I really will." He pops the question a month later, and, she is pregnant. He was still not working. I stop talking to him after I screamed my head off.

Now, she never quit smoking cigarettes, and smoked her entire pregnancy, they lived with his parents, she has the baby, and less then a year later, they want another baby and get pregnant again, they get kicked out and move back into her parents ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT!!!! Tom's sister moves back in and cleans the room they were in. Dirty diapers mixed in with clothing, cigarette butts everywhere, insects crawling all over, it was disgusting.

Tom's wife never applied for government assistance, (she came up with the excuse that she wasn't eligible) so they were living on her father's wages, because she is just like mom, lazy, never worked, never even drove, does nothing, and whatever cash Tom brings home form working measly jobs for cash. No hot water in the apartment, she is still smoking, and the apartment also has 3 rabbits and two cats. So finally, Tom's sister helps out with all the assistance paperwork and all this stuff, and the other baby is born.... with cystic fibrosis. Mind you, the other kid is in and out of the hospital with severe asthma, and no one cleans the apartment with the animals in it!!!! Tuesday, I get a phone call from our mutual friend, DYFUS took away the kids.

My question: Am I wrong to be happy that the kids were taken away and might be adopted out if those two don't clean up their act? I mean, he is 28, she is 26, and they are dirty, and the kids are sick. If I am called to court as a character witness, would it be wrong of me to say they shouldn't get the kids back? Is it so important that children be with their parents, versus children being in a stable, healthy environment instead? What is your opinion on the situation?

A good friend of mine and her boyfriend, go down to Aruba 3 times a year. All they do is sit on the beach and drink. My sister and two of her friends rent a house in North Carolina and all they do is sit on the beach. I don't know about anyone else, but to me, the whole sitting there, doing nothing is extremely boring. Why not just stay closer to home if you aren't going to explore? Now, my friends who go down to Aruba think I am crazy for wanting to go to San Miguel De Allende, because it is in the smack dab middle of Mexico, yet there is a million and one things to do.

So my question is, does anybody else out there find it a complete waste of time and money to travel so far to just sit on your butt on a beach, without doing anything else or exploring the culture surrounding where you are vacationing, or am I just crazy?

knowing that a majority of them are from puppy mills? Also, why do they do very little research and buy from horrible backyard breeders who improperly breed their dogs, instead of through a reputable breeder? Are they just that selfish and stupid to "need" a trendy puppy, instead of getting a dog from a shelter, researching a reputable breeder, or getting a dog through a rescue? Don't they know that the more they demand for designer or trendy dogs, the more puppy mills churn out sick, aggressive animals? Please explain to me why people choose to aid and promote severe animal cruelty.

45 minutes- crunches, lunges, stepping, yoga, Wii boxing, or biking I change it up from day to day, Sat. and Sun. work out for an hour to 1 1/2 hours

Breakfast- bowl of oatmeal or omelet with one whole egg, 2 whites, veggies, and a 1bsp shredded cheese

Snack- hardboiled egg or a piece of fruit

lunch-salad with grilled chicken, or fish, lowfat honey mustard dressing or grilled chicken, turkey, or fish with veggies

pasta or potatoes 3 times a week

Dinner- small portion of protein, veggies, occassional potato or pasta

water all day, coffee 3 x a week, 16 oz Gatorade only after biking or Wii Boxing

Alcohol once every two weeks

Eat out once a week

Eat serious junk once a month

Thyroid checks out fine

28 year old female