How Does Blood Clot?
Overview Blood clotting, also called blood coagulation, occurs in reaction to a wound to halt the flow of blood. This happens so that blood loss will stop and also so that the wound will be closed and no bacteria or…
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Overview Blood clotting, also called blood coagulation, occurs in reaction to a wound to halt the flow of blood. This happens so that blood loss will stop and also so that the wound will be closed and no bacteria or…
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Everyone’s day seems brighter when the sunshine comes out. Jumpers come off, trousers are taken over by shorts and people chase the rays for the want of a decent suntan, but at what cost? Excessive exposure to the suns UV…
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The strapless tunic can be a difficult look to pull off. If you don’t take precautions, there is the possibility that you can seem more like a slutty hippy transported from the ‘70s than a chic and current woman. With…
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February 27, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
Everyday, places like Wal-Mart are looking for their next best seller or a product to get into the marketing place and get consumers like you and me to purchase these products. How do they market these? They give away free…
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Take the fear out of coloring your hair by arming yourself with some basic knowledge. I’ll be your tour guide for a painless journey. If you’re going on a road trip, you need a road map. First you need to…
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I was born in 1969, a time that is much different that today. I came out to myself when I was 15. I realized early that I preferred men. I lived in an extremely violent and racist environment. Many people…
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Japan is a country that is considered by many to be a futuristic place where one can see the technology, trends, and styles of tomorrow that will hit the Western market sometimes years afterwards. Yet one of the hottest fashion…
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February 27, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
When beauty is lacking on the inside it tends to manifest itself in an unhealthy fixation on outward beauty to compensate for what one lacks that should make them feel beauty. A lot of times an aggressive outward fixation on…
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There are many gay symbols that have been around for quite sometime . For example the Rainbow Flag was created in 1978 for the San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Celebration. It was created by Gilbert Baker. It was not shaped like…
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February 27, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
Summer is the time for Renaissance Faires to be held. These fun events bring you back in time to the days of knights in armor and elegant ladies wearing bodices and flowing hoop skirts. When you go to a Renaissance…
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DATING There is a fact that you might already know how to date someone but not know how to make it great. Then what are the factors to have a good date? Actually, there is no special technique on dating…
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What follow are the eleven most commonly held reasons for opposing gay marriage. In the spirit of fair representation, each reason is coupled with a refutation. 1) “Women and men already have equal marriage rights: all men can marry women,…
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Being single used to be frowned upon. A woman’s role and ambition was to find a man who would marry her. Bear him children. Then keep the house clean. His role was to go to work and pay the bills….
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Washing your hair is an essential part of the cleansing ritual whether you are male or female, hair needs to be clean in order to be healthy, but what many people are not aware of is that there is a…
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February 27, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
How about brains AND beauty? We all know how it goes; “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, and we often find this to be true, don’t we? Beauty is something that many women (and men) strive for, and…
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February 27, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
Regardless of what we claim a beautiful face or body is going to get our attention. The item in question however is not what beauty we first notice but is real beauty on the in or outside. First, to answer…
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February 27, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
Is Real Beauty on the Outside or the Inside? Many people have the physical attributes that qualify them for calling them “pretty” or “handsome.” Many of this group have spent their time and money on their outward appearance they have…
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For many hundreds of years, underwear has been used not only for modesty, but to create a desired shape. For example, at one point women wore corsets to shrink the size of their waist. The same rules apply today: choosing…
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February 27, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
If you ain’t got beauty on the outside, no one’s gonna take the time and effort to find out if you got it on the inside. This truism seems to have escaped too many of today’s teens and the greedy…
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February 27, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
THE MEDIA MACHINE The media is raping young girls. I hold them exclusively responsible for our daughters’ bulimia, anorexia, and low self esteem. I hold them accountable every time a teenage girl sobs her eyes out because she thinks she’s…
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February 27, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
The old saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, is absolutely right. Unknown to me who the author of that statement is – I do know this much; they knew more then most. Each and every individual in…
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Just as sports fans wear their team’s colors and corporations can be recognized by their specific logo, the gay community has it’s symbols to show our pride in who we are. Every faction of the LGBTQI (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer/Intersex) community has their…
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Domestic violence in any manner gay or straight is abominable. In the gay community domestic violence has long been a dirty little secret that was swept under the rug and kept from the light of the day. Lately as homosexuality…
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If you don’t want to dedicate yourself to a season by buying a whole new wardrobe each time the designers show some new trends, a great alternative is to incorporate one trend with a few key pieces in your outfit. …
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February 26, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
Is real beauty on the outside or the inside? *What is real beauty?: Real beauty is not what you see on the outside, it’s what lives on the inside of a person. Outward appearances can never allow anyone to know what…
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It’s always interesting when a fashion “don’t” suddenly becomes the next big trend. For fall 2010, that seeming fashion anomaly is to purposefully let your socks show above your shoes. After seasons after seasons of ankle socks or socks that…
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It was not that long ago that we were expected to get married, have children, raise a family and make the most of what would probably be a loveless and boring marriage. Now we have far more choice, options that…
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February 26, 2015 Style and Beauty - Other
Otherwise known as sour wine, vinegar is an acetic acid produced by the oxidation of ethanol and has been used as part of the beauty regime of women in particular, for many centuries. It has also been commonly used for…
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Gay marriage. The love between two people man and man or woman and woman. You do not need to be straight to love somebody. There are straight people among us who do not know how to treat his or her…
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There are six pervasive myths of homosexuality, but only three will be delineated for purposes of this narrative and therefore, dramatize the conundrum they have cause in society at large. For example, the young man I encountered at a recent…
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Some prefer being single, others are forced into it through the death of their spouse or divorce. Being single can be lonely and difficult at times but there are ways you can make sure that you can not only cope,…
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