Well yes because a celebrity you really have no hope of ever making face to face contact with and if you do, chances are it will not be intimate contact but more like a "red carpet" situation.

Anyone you meet on Mingle is fair game. There is no difference here between meeting someone on an electronic interface then meeting them on the street minus the computer screen when you get right down to it. The choice to meet in person or not is still yours to make

I guess your definition of harmless would be the applicable issue here. On Mingle, all you have to go on is a person's photos and a sense of who they are based on their forum postings.

But you also have to tell yourself thats all they had to go on when they selected you to date and become involved with.

Do you mean a movie made in Scotland with a Scottish cast? "Trainspotting" was pretty good.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah that was the point of the comment. We are trying to decide if animals experience an emotion that will be impossible for us all to define. We could probably agree on certain terms that might describe love but its very personal.

I guess first we will need to define "love." Then once everyone agrees upon a definition we can move on and decide if animals experience it in the same way humans do.

Were you eating a high carb diet while you were vegetarian? That is probably the problem. You look very trim and healthy in your photos. The recent gain could be due to a lot of things but if you cut out the red meat and then replace it with too much sugar and other high caloric sources, the weight will come on slowly but surely.

Thats awesome! My cat does that sometimes when I play too rough with her. Cats are easy to get going but they seem to love the attention. They are basically miniature tigers.

Yes Im a cat napper every so often. I will doze off for about a half hour or so. Preferably not behind the wheel of a moving vehicle though.

I think if the relationship is brand new then there should at least be a period of separation from the internet dating/social networking sites in which you utilize that time to get to know the person you have chosen to be with.

The feeling is if you met on an online website, what more use do you really have for being on there except to find someone else? I think after a period of time I would be okay if we both were still using the sites. It also depends what type because this one seems not to be dating/romance oriented as much as some others where the focus lies there exclusively.

I agree with some of the other comments being made here that "extremism" really needs to be defined first and foremost. Its not necessarily bad. A good approach to handling a problem can be taken to extreme or excessive levels and thus become problematic. Are you confusing fundamentalism with extremism I wonder? They arent exactly interchangeable terms.

Oh one other thing thats important to mention. I saw an episode of "Law and Order" that depicted a similar situation although this girl was underage and sending nude and sexually explicit photos of herself to males at her own high school in the same age range.

She ended up being arrested for soliciting child pornography! It does not matter if the photos are of the person themselves. You can not traffic that over the internet. Its child pornography either way.

I would go to the daughter first and let her know you saw it and you are very concerned for her safety. You dont have to be confrontational or accusatory. Just the fact that you have confronted her will let her know that you are aware and she will take down the page herself. If not, then address the mother about it. The choice is yours. These kids forget that suggestive photos dont suddenly disappear off the net. They can follow her for years into the future and effect her potential employment, relationships, college applications...uhh. Its serious business and the worst thing is that people do it to themselves simply to gain attention.

Thats terrible but people sometimes use children to fight battles or to make excuses for their unreasonable behavior. Its been a talk show topic numerous times...

I just do the card thing for my mom. Card and a phone call.

I think its just not as well known. Here is a link for a stevia information site.

http://www.stevia.com/

Sugar can be bad in large quantities. If you are diabetic, its much better just to wean yourself off it totally. Im not diabetic but Type 1 runs in the family so I've gottta be careful about that.

Splenda is awesome. Im hooked on it. Stevia is good also but Splenda is a little easier to find in the grocery and affordable. Stevia will probably come down eventually. Its more of a health food market item now.

I was wondering about that also. I've never had fig pie but people probably use it for that. It seems like it would taste pretty good. If you wanted to cut out the sugar totally then the best way to go would be to get unsweetened canned figs and then just use Splenda to add the sweet taste.

I would agree with what has already been said and probably they are not taking into consideration the syrup that the figs were canned in because its presumed that people wont be drinking the can of syrup to begin with. The fruit would absorb some of the sugar syrup however and that would add some additional calories.

I think a good rule of thumb is just to assume that what the label says is not including the juice so if you were using the figs in a recipe just look at the "serving size" and then if you are using the entire can the total caloric value would be however many figs are in the can itself.

Im not certain on this but I think the FDA had a shake down at one point and they had to be a little more clear and realistic on how they labeled the nutritional and caloric values of canned and processed foods. Im assuming that the caloric value is actually for the fruit you will ingest and does not include the syrup because who is just drinking a can of fig syrup to their head yet the figs will absorb some of it.

You can also buy fresh figs without the canned high fructose corn syrup added.