Write an article based on this "Stop snakes from entering your home. Find out why the snake entered your area. Remove rats from your property. Reduce the number of nesting birds in your yard. Modify your yard."
article: While having snakes on your property might be hard to avoid, you definitely don't want them entering your home again.Snakes like cool and dark places, so you should seal any entrances to your basement with diameters that are larger than a quarter inch in diameter. They also could be entering through loose window frames or door sweeps, so you can make sure those are securely fastened. Any vents or drains that lead into your home can be covered with screening, so that the snakes cannot pass through. If you have birds in your backyard or a rodent problem in your home, you may be attracting snakes onto your property. It's often hard, however, to get rid of small mammals who are native to the area, especially those who are part of your ecosystem. Snakes love mice and rats. Because our buildings are made mainly out of timber, rodents often find shelter in the space between the exterior and interior walls. If you hear scratching noises or find evidence of mouse trails in your kitchen, get an expert to solve the problem. Remember, no mice, no snakes! Leaving out your pet food can also attract mice which will, in turn, attract snakes. Cover up your pet food when they aren't eating, or bring the food inside A mouse can easily get through a hole the size of a pencil. If there are holes in your walls, fill them immediately.High-pitched sound devices are now becoming a popular way to discourage vermin from entering homes; evidence shows some positive results. Remember, snakes always follow their food source. Whether or not you are attracting them intentionally, birds inhabiting your yard will attract snakes. Bird feeders will not only attract birds into your area, but also mice and rats, who will feed on any fallen seed. While snakes might not be interested in the seed itself, they will be interested in the animals that feed on it. Natural bird repellents are rarely effective, and you don't want to be poisoning any birds or snakes in your area.If you want to remove birds from your yard, you should start by filling any vents or holes in your home that might attract them to roost. Bird netting or sticky pads can repel certain species from setting up their nests in your yard. Scare tactics, such as audio recordings of their species in distress or predator decoys, can often be helpful. Just know that you'll have to cycle through a few options, as birds are intelligent and will adapt. If you're still having trouble keeping snakes away, you can prevent snakes from entering your yard by building a snake fence.Take a strong piece of steel and stick it the ground, flush to your fence. Angle it at 30 degrees, so the snake won't be able to scale it and enter your yard. You might also want to consider trimming your grass or shrubs, as small predators like snakes love to hide in these shaded, overgrown areas. Use mortared rocks instead of freely stacked stones, as snakes will hide within your rock walls. If you're concerned about your children or pets, you can build a small fenced off area for them to play in, minimizing the risk of them coming across a snake.

Write an article based on this "Pull one card from a deck of cards. Have everyone in your group sit in a circle. Pick someone to go first to pass the card. Pass the card to the person next to you with your lips. Kiss the person next to you if you drop the card. Start a new round when the card is dropped."
article: You only need one card to pass around between everyone. If you want to play with multiple cards being passed for a faster-paced game, get a pack of cards to use. This game can be taken seriously, but more than likely the group is going to be laughing and having fun. Usually suck and blow is played in a mixed crowd and the circle is seated boy-girl-boy-girl. At some point you will be kissing the person to your left or right if you fumble while passing the playing card. Decide as a group whether you're going to pass the card clockwise or counterclockwise. If you're with your significant other or there's someone in the group you've been wanting to kiss, try and position yourself next to them for the game. To minimize awkwardness, have friends sit next to each other. You can disregard the opposite gender seating if your group's preferences are different. The first person places the card on their lips and sucks in air to keep it stuck there without any hands. Inhale through your mouth only so you use as much air as possible to keep the card attached to your lips. As the game continues, the pace will pick up because everyone may start getting out of breath and possibly drop the card. Get close to your neighbor's face and without hands, transfer the card to their lips. Blow on the card to push it to their lips as they suck in to receive the card. You may need a practice round so that everyone can get comfortable with the motions. Have everyone hold their hands behind their back to keep from cheating. The card transfer can get confusing as you try and remember to suck on the card to receive it and blow to get rid of it. When the card falls, the two people who dropped it have to kiss. If you drop the card on your own in between passes, you have to kiss the person to your right if you're going counterclockwise or to your left if you're going clockwise. You can either restart the whole game from the first player if the card is dropped. Or instead, you can continue playing from the person who just dropped the card. Another variation is to reverse the direction of the passing when someone drops the card.

Write an article based on this "Look for Polaris, the North Star. Use pointer stars to help you find the North Star."
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Polaris is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor, the Little Bear. It can be found in the bear's tail. (The ancient Greeks, and many other peoples, saw bears as having long tails.) The star is called Polaris because it appears within a degree of the Celestial North Pole and so appears not to move in the night sky. Today, because the seven stars of Ursa Minor look like a small water dipper, most people refer to Ursa Minor as the Little Dipper instead of the Little Bear. Although Polaris is visible in the northern sky at most locations north of the equator, it can be hard to spot if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. You can use stars in other constellations to point the way to Polaris. The most commonly used pointer stars are Merak and Dubhe, the two stars on the edge of the Big Dipper opposite its handle. By following these stars in the direction of the Big Dipper's mouth, you can find Polaris. If you go five times the Merak-Dubhe distance away from Dubhe you will be within three degrees of Polaris. If Polaris is clouded over, you still know where it is. During the times of night when the Big Dipper is below the horizon, such as the early hours of fall, you can use another method. Find the Great Square of Pegasus. Measure the distance from Alpheratz (visually a part of Pegasus but actually part of the constellation Andromeda), to Caph, the star at the rightmost edge of the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. In line with Alpheratz and Caph, measure another of these distances. You will be less than three degrees from Polaris. And, like the previous method, you do not need to see Polaris.