Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Get your dog in her whelping box when her labor starts. Monitor the labor and help as needed. Contact your vet if problems occur.

Answer: She will likely be restless and will stop eating about a day before going into labor. Look for the vulva to be swollen and clean discharge coming out of her vagina. If you see this, take her to her whelping box. When she goes into labor, she will pant heavily and start to push but only when the first water breaks will she give birth to the first puppy. At this point you can check her rectal temperature. Once the dog's temperature has dipped below 100F (38C), she is typically an hour or two away from giving birth. For example, once a puppy is born, she should tear the membrane sack around it with her tongue so that the puppy can breathe. However, if you see the sack is not removed and the puppy is not breathing, you can tear the sack from around the nose and mouth and suction their airway until the puppy starts to breathe. If she doesn't chew through the cord herself, you will need to step in. Simply cut the cord within 1 inch (2.5cm) of the puppy. You will know you need to step in if the mother starts to try and walk away from the puppies, handles them too roughly, or doesn't show any interest in them. This is most typical with first time mothers. In many cases, your dog will have the situation under control and you will just need to monitor everything in case of emergency. If the mother has been showing signs of labor and has been pushing but no puppies are coming out for a few hours, call a vet. You should also call a vet if it is past 5 days after the puppies are due and the mother has shown no sign of being in labor. Both of these can be very worrying and it is likely the mother will have to have a c-section. Other signs of a problem include the mother shivering, shaking, or trembling uncontrollably. If this occurs, call your vet. It is normal for a dog to pass green or bloody fluid when giving birth, so this is typically not an emergency.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Choose a word processing or design software to create your invitations. Select the fonts for the invitation. Determine the text alignment. Consider the line spacing. Add visual interest with graphic elements. Add color to your invitation design.

Answer: Professional desktop publishing or design software may be helpful in creating elaborate invitation designs. However, any word processing program can be used to create basic wedding invitations. A font is the typeface (or sometimes called lettering) used for your invitation. Most wedding invitations feature 2 fonts--1 script font and 1 block font. Do not use more than 2 different fonts or the invitation may be difficult to read. Experiment with free fonts available for download online. Try different font combinations and font treatments, such as italics, lowercase and uppercase typeface. Try different font sizes. The font size is how big the text appears on the invitation. Because fonts vary in typeface size, it is difficult to provide a suggested font size for invitations. As a rule of thumb, avoid font sizes smaller than 9 point. Consider using larger font sizes to highlight different parts of the invitation text, such as the names of the bride and groom. The text alignment is how the text is aligned or arranged on the invitation. Traditional wedding invitations feature center alignment. However, consider right or left justified alignments depending on your invitation design. Line spacing is the amount of space between the lines of text. If the line spacing is too far apart or too close together, the invitation will be difficult to read. Adjust the line spacing as necessary to meet your design needs. If you are not an artist or graphic designer, the easiest way to add graphic elements to a wedding invitation is through high-end clip art. Look for clip art with resolutions of at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). Low resolutions graphics do not reproduce well and often appear blurry. For crisp, high quality graphics, use only high resolution images. Incorporate graphic elements that carry out the theme of your wedding. If your wedding does not have a specific theme, consider images like florals, branches and Victorian flourishes to create invitations with timeless appeal. Evaluate the color scheme of your invitation as a whole, and then add carefully placed pops of color. Consider colored graphic elements like clip art or choose text in a color that complements the invitation design. Consider adding color to the finished invitations with embellishments like ribbon or paper strips. Wrap a single ribbon around the invitation suite (with the invitation in front and the enclosures behind it) and secure with a piece of tape along the back of the invitation. You can also use patterned strips of paper or fabric instead of the ribbon to add color.

Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Remain polite. Avoid gossiping about your ex-friend. Step away from social media. Decide on what you'll say. Find friends who respect you for who you are. Take the long-term view.

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You may see your ex-friend regularly and find yourself having to interact with them. Stay polite and respectful, even if you are hurting. You don't have to carry on a conversation with them, but you do need to remain civil. Say hello to them if you see them in the hall at school. It will probably feel awkward, but it makes you look like the bigger person. If you feel yourself getting emotional around your ex-friend, find a way to remove yourself from the situation. Leave the room, bury yourself in your phone or a book, or start a conversation with someone else. While you may want nothing more than to vent about how hurt you are over what happened, find someone who is not in your shared circle of friends to do that with. Around people who still may be friends with your ex-friend, refuse to say anything bad about your ex-friend. Remember that it will likely get back to them if you do. If someone asks you what happened between the two of you, you could say, "We're no longer friends. I'm still pretty upset by it, so I don't want to talk about it right now." Don't force your friends to take sides. If you want to, you can let them know what happened, but try to recount the events without blaming the other person. You could say, "He made his decision, and I'm trying not to badmouth him about it. I'm sad, but there's not much I can do." You should also avoid talking about the breakup with people who are still friends with the person. You can always say, "I don't feel comfortable speaking about this," and then change the subject. Don't talk incessantly about what happened. Your friends will quickly tire of it. If you are finding that you need to really process this breakup with somebody, it might be helpful for you to talk to a counselor or other trusted adult who can listen to you objectively. Do not vent about your friend on social media. The internet never forgets, and you could find yourself in even more trouble for ranting about your friend. Hide or unfriend your ex-friend on social media, if they haven't already. It might help you be less upset to not see everything they are doing. You may have some anxiety about running into your ex-friend somewhere, particularly if you don't see them often. You may want to consider coming up with something to say to them if you ran into them. Having a script may help you feel more confident. Rehearse what you want to say until you feel confident that you would be able to deliver your lines effectively if you ran into the person. For example, if you weren't sure why your friend cut you off and you wanted to get some closure, you could ask, "Lauren, I know you don't want to talk to me anymore, and that's fine, but I would like to understand what happened that made you do this. You can just tell me, because you really can't hurt my feelings any more than you already have by ignoring me." Keep in mind they may not answer, in which case you will need to accept it and let it go. Things may have ended badly for you and your ex-friend, but that doesn't mean there aren't still good friends out there for you. Stick with the friends who have helped you through this difficult time with your ex-friend. Your ex-friend may have helped teach you what kind of qualities you want in your friends. Look for current friends or new friends that have qualities you admire. For example, maybe your ex-friend made fun of others a lot, and you never really liked that about them. Look for friends and acquaintances who avoid that kind of behavior. Maybe you can think of a person you'd like to be friends with who you don't really know. Take the initiative to ask them to hang out. It may feel a bit awkward, like asking to go out on a first date, but sometimes you need to take a risk to start a new relationship. While it may be hard to see far down the road right now, understand that friendships, just like people, grow and change. While you and your ex-friend may think you are completely finished today, there may come a time at some point in the future where you reconnect. Maybe you will be close again, or maybe you will just be casually friendly. You may find your hurt feelings dissipate with time. You and your ex-friend may reconnect when you are at a different place in life. If you and your friend are young, you may reconnect as you age, because people often like to reconnect with those who remember what it was like when they were young. At some point, you may find that your lives will be similar again, causing a desire to reconnect. For example, you both may go to the same college, find out that you are getting married around the same time, or may end up in the same city far from your hometown. You never know what life will throw at you! If you are older when your friendship ends, you may find that as you enter a different stage in life (for example, your kids leave home) or you get involved in the same community activity, you may be able to strike up a relationship again in a few years.