Write an article based on this "Purchase a lambswool roller and extension pole. Choose a flat paint formulated for use on ceilings. Move your furniture out from under the ceiling. Cover your floor with a drop cloth. Sand and wipe down your ceiling before painting. Mask the area around the trim with painter’s tape. Wrap painter’s tape around light fixtures before painting near them. Apply a coat of stain-blocking primer to the ceiling before you paint."
article: The best tool to use when painting your ceiling is a thick-nap roller with an extension pole. You can find all of the supplies that you’ll need at a local paint-supply store. Most large hardware stores will also sell paint and painting supplies.  While you could use a paint brush, it’d make for a messy job. High-quality lambswool paint rollers will ensure a smooth layer of paint without bumps or bubbles. The length of extension pole that you’ll need depends on the height of your ceiling. If your ceiling is a standard 8 feet (2.4 m), you’ll only need a 2 ft (0.61 m) pole. If you have a higher, 12 ft (3.7 m) ceiling, opt for a 6 ft (1.8 m) pole. This style of paint is different than standard wall paint. Flat paint is the best type of paint for ceilings because of its smooth viscosity. Flat paint will also hide any imperfections in the ceiling. You will also need to choose a color of paint for your ceiling. Most ceilings are painted white because the color makes a room seem bright and large. When selecting a tone of white, consider which particular shade of white will go best with the color of your walls. Relocate the majority of your furniture out from under the ceiling and into a different room in your apartment, since paint may drip on un-moved furniture. For example, if you’re painting the ceiling in your living room, move sofas, chairs, and tables into your kitchen or bedroom.  Moving your furniture may not be possible if you live in a small apartment or have extremely heavy pieces of furniture. If you find yourself in that scenario, drape drop cloths over furniture to protect the upholstery from dripping paint. Lay a thick drop cloth evenly across your floor once you’ve moved your furniture out of the way. This will protect the floor and prevent ceiling paint from staining your carpet or tile. Also cover your windows and windowsills with drop clothes if you’re concerned that paint may drip on them. Do not use a plastic sheet on your floor, as it will bunch, crinkle, and shift. Plus, thin plastic will hardly protect the floor from paint. Purchase a 180-grit sandpaper sponge from your local hardware store. Run the sandpaper sponge lightly across your entire ceiling using a circular motion. This will remove any dust and grime that has built up naturally over time. Then, dampen a rag and run the damp rag across the surface of the ceiling to clean up the dust from sanding.  If you do not wipe off the sanding dust before you begin to paint, you’ll apply paint to this dust instead of to the ceiling itself. Do not sand a textured ceiling. Stick the adhesive side of the painter’s tape firmly against the edge of the trim where it meets the ceiling. If your wall has no trim, butt the edge of the tape directly up against the corner where the wall meets the ceiling. Applying a layer of painter’s tape to the wall beneath the trim will prevent you from accidentally applying paint to the top of your wall.  If you're going to paint your walls after you paint your ceiling, you should still mask the trim. This will preserve an even finish to the ceiling paint. Press the adhesive side of a strip of painter’s tape tightly against the metal sides of the light fixtures. Make sure that the upper edge of the tape is pressed against the ceiling, or paint may leak through and stick to the light fixture. When painting in these areas, use an angled brush to paint as close as possible to the fixture itself so that there won’t be any un-painted gaps beside the fixture once you remove the tape. Use a primer with stain-blocker for best results. Pour the primer into a paint tray and glide the roller across the top until it’s covered in primer. Then apply a single, even coat to the ceiling by rolling the primer on in straight lines. Allow 30 minutes for the stain-blocking primer to dry before you proceed to painting the ceiling.  Priming ensures that you'll only have to give the ceiling one coat of paint. A primer will help stick to the ceiling and absorb the coat of paint. Stain-blockers cover up unsightly stains on a ceiling, such as watermarks, smoke, and nicotine, and keep them from bleeding through into the paint after the primer has been applied.

Write an article based on this "Avoid people who are sick. Take precautions around sick family members. Clean your home and workspace regularly. Sanitize your phone. Change your hand towels often."
article: If possible, avoid being around someone who has the flu. Stay away from sick friends or neighbors until they’re well. Stay out of crowds during the peak of flu season, in possible – being in public transportation, auditoriums, and places where people congregate make it easy for flu to spread. Stay home from work or school if you’re sick so you don’t contaminate others. You can return to school or work 24 hours after your fever returns to normal, but continue to practice good hand washing hygiene. If someone in your household is sick, consider sleeping in a different room from them if you usually share a bedroom. Be sure to wash your hands after you interact with them, and clean any cups, cutlery, or dishes they use thoroughly. People can still be contagious for up to a week after they’re feeling better. Use disinfecting sprays or wipes to clean surfaces that can harbor flu germs. Clean your bathrooms, bedroom surfaces, wood and glass tables, office desks, and other areas that you use or touch often. Keep a container of disinfecting wipes at your office, and wipe down your desk, phone, and keyboard every morning before you start work. Phones harbor many germs because you use them so often and they sit around in lots of places, exposed to viruses. Use a disinfecting wipe or slightly soapy rag to carefully clean your phone every other day during flu season. Of course, do not submerge your phone in water. Because you will be washing your hands more frequently, you will need to change your communal towels more often so that they do not remain damp and become a vector for disease. Replace the towel every couple days or if it is damp when you go to reuse it. Keep hand towels separate so that each family member has their own towel.

Write an article based on this "Craft a compelling story. Develop your idea thoroughly. Leverage your network to hit milestones quickly. Grow your audience. Create more polished appeals as you get closer to your goal."
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A crowdfunding campaign showcases an entrepreneur’s idea to the public, asking for contributions to make the entrepreneur’s vision into reality. In order to do that effectively, the crowd needs to be convinced the entrepreneur’s vision is something to be pursued.  You have to do more than just tell your story.  The crowd needs to identify with the story you’re telling. Your good idea gets them to listen to you and give you their time, but it’s your story that gets them to give to you at the exclusion of everyone else. So, if you started selling prosthetic limbs because you lost your leg in Iraq, tell the story of how you lost your leg and how it lead you to want to create better products. A crowdfunding campaign isn’t promising a return on investment. It offers the chance to help fund the development of a project—for the donor to feel like they are part of the story you told so well. But they don’t want to be a part of a tragedy or a farce, so they can’t feel like they’re wasting their money. To avoid that, you need to appear knowledgeable and competent. Even if you don’t realize it, you’re already the world’s foremost authority on your project. Still, you need to organize your thinking about it. Learn it cold. You’ll know you’re ready when you know it so well you can immediately and fluently explain to anyone what your goals and projections are at six months, one year, eighteen months and two years from startup. Turn yourself into a walking infomercial/business plan. You want to create buzz around your campaign, because campaigns with buzz make the most money. One way to create buzz is by setting and meeting funding goals. Set goals at intervals like 10%, 25%, 50%, and so on. In order to meet your milestones, lean heavily on your personal network (especially in the beginning). Hit up the usual suspects, like your immediate family and your regular circle of friends, but don’t stop there. That Facebook friend from high school you haven’t spoken to in six years? There’s never been a better time to catch up. Do something special for your donors when you reach each milestone. The quicker you hit milestones, the more momentum you’ll have, and the more funding you’ll get. For example, if your crowdfunding goal is to open a restaurant, you could send each of your donors a sweet treat from your kitchen when you hit each milestone. Even if your donors are mostly friends and family in the beginning, that’s ok. Treating them like customers makes you seem more professional. Most people’s personal networks aren’t large enough to get them all the way to their funding goal. So once you’ve tapped your personal networks, kick it up a notch. Begin your social media campaign in earnest after you’ve hit a milestone or two. There’s nothing sadder than going to the landing page of a crowdfunding appeal and seeing that no one’s donated anything yet. You can try engineering a social media campaign yourself or you can pay a social media marketer to do it for you. If you’re the type with 3,000 Facebook friends, you’ll probably get a lot of mileage from a do it yourself effort. If you’re the type with 300 (which is an average number, don’t feel bad), you might want to bring in some help by paying someone. The closer you are to getting funded, the more professional and poised for success you need to seem. So, while you might have been able to skimp on production values in the beginning, leave some money in reserve to add polish  and increase production values as you go. For example, the longer your campaign goes on, the more important it is for you to attend to things like integrating logos into your landing page and emails and paying for professional video editing for your funding pitches.