Problem: Article: Protect your surfaces from the paint or it may stain them. Make sure to cover a large area. You will be splattering the paint onto your jeans and it is likely to splatter all around your jeans as well. Lay out your tarp or newspapers to cover the area you will be working on. This method of painting jeans requires no paint brushes. Instead, you will be using your hands as a means of splattering paint onto your jeans. To protect your skin from the paint, put on a pair of disposable gloves before you get started. Pour a few ounces of fabric paint into each of your containers. There should be enough of each kind of paint to splatter the surface of your jeans on both sides. Keep in mind that you can always add more paint if you run out. Dip your gloved fingertips into the paint and hold your hand like a closed claw. Then, hold your hand over the jeans and flick paint towards the jeans as you quickly open your hand. Keep splattering your jeans with paint until you are satisfied with the design. You can change colors after you splatter an entire side of your jeans, or after splattering part of one side. Make sure to put on a clean disposable glove before dipping your fingers into a new color of paint. When you are happy with the paint design on one side of your jeans, leave the jeans to dry for one hour or more. If you turn the jeans while the paint is still wet, the paint may smudge. When you are confident that the paint is dry, turn the jeans over. Then, repeat the painting process. The paint on your jeans will need to dry completely before you can wear them. Leave them to dry overnight and then set the paint by tossing your jeans into the dryer or by using a blow dryer on them. After setting the paint, you can wear, wash, and dry your jeans as usual. Enjoy your new pair of splatter painted jeans, and all of the admiring looks and compliments you get while you are wearing them!
Summary: Cover your work area. Put on your gloves. Fill your containers with paint. Dip your gloved fingers into the paint and splatter your jeans. Change colors as desired. Wait for the paint to dry before flipping your jeans over. Let the paint dry completely before wearing the jeans.

Problem: Article: Asylum is a benefit offered to refugees who are fleeing persecution in their home countries. If you win asylum, you can stay in the United States and eventually apply to become a permanent legal resident by getting a "green card," known more formally as a United States Permanent Resident card.  Asylum applications can be “defensive” or “affirmative.” A defensive asylum application is one made when you are in removal proceedings in the U.S., either because you are attempting to enter the country without proper papers or because you broke an immigration law when inside the country and are about to be deported. Affirmative asylum applications are ones you file when not in removal proceedings. In order to apply for asylum, you typically need be physically present in the United States. . You must also have suffered from (or fear that you will suffer from) persecution in your home country. This persecution must be shown to be based on at least one of the following personal attributes:  race religion nationality membership in a particular social group political opinion In affirmative asylum applications, you can include your spouse and any unmarried children under the age of 21.  Any other children must apply for asylum on his or her own. There are several bars to winning asylum in the United States. Many of these involve criminal activity undertaken either in the United States or elsewhere. For example, if you participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular group, you would be ineligible for asylum.  Other bars include:  a conviction for a serious crime (which includes aggravated felonies) the commission of a serious, nonpolitical crime outside the United States your posing a danger to the security of the U.S. your being already firmly resettled in another country before arriving in the U.S. You must make an application for asylum within one year of arriving in the United States. However, you can make an application later if there has been a material change of circumstances. For example, if people from your political party are suddenly targeted for assassination while you are in the United States, you could claim that circumstances have sufficiently changed so that an application after the deadline is acceptable. If there has been a change of circumstances, you should file for asylum within a “reasonable” amount of time.  USCIS does not define “reasonable” with any precision, so you are best advised not to wait.
Summary: Understand asylum. Verify that you are eligible to apply. See if you can include your family. Confirm that you are not disqualified from applying. Do not wait.

Problem: Article: Heat a bowl of vinegar until it's hot or fill the bowl with fresh lemon juice. Place the part of the fabric with the gum in the hot vinegar or lemon  juice. Leave the gum to soak. Depending on how hard the gum is, you'll need to soak it for a few hours or up to overnight. You should be able to easily scrape or brush the gum off. Wash the fabric as soon as you've removed the gum. Always test a small area of fabric before you soak the gum. This will let you know if the fabric will be damaged by the hot vinegar or lemon juice. If you can't freeze the gum off with a freezer or ice cube, spray it with hair spray. This should harden the gum so you can simply pop it off. You can also take a blunt tool and gently pry off the gum. Ensure that the hairspray won't damage the fabric by testing a small area of the fabric before you begin. Consider spreading a cooking oil, peanut butter, or mayonnaise over the gum. You'll need to massage the oil or mayo into the gum a little. This will make it easier to scrape off. Immediately wash the fabric to prevent the oil from staining the cloth. Keep in mind that you may have trouble removing oil stains from delicate fabrics. Only use oil if you know you can wash it out of the fabric.
Summary:
Soak the gum in lemon juice or hot vinegar. Harden the gum with hairspray. Use oil to soften the gum.