In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: One way to manage the stress of being diagnosed with HIV is to learn as much as you can about the disease. The more you know about HIV, the less your diagnosis will overwhelm you. You will have an idea of what to expect, what treatments are available, and what new developments there are. Review sites like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/, National Health Service http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hiv/pages/introduction.aspx, AIDSInfo https://aidsinfo.nih.gov, or AIDS.gov https://www.hiv.gov/ for up-to-date information about HIV. Don't hesitate to ask your primary care provider, service organization representative, or anyone else who is knowledgeable about HIV any questions you have. An HIV diagnosis can be extremely stressful due to the changes it means for your life. Using stress management techniques like meditation can help you manage your disease as well as stay positive after your diagnosis. Practicing meditation can help you calm yourself in the current moment and reduce your overall stress. Explore different forms of meditation to determine the type that works best for calming and relaxing you. Try using a guided audio meditation to get started. You can also meditate on your own, or in a class setting. Introduce yourself to meditation a little at a time. For instance, start by sitting or lying quietly somewhere comfortable. Focus on relaxing your body and on your breathing for five to ten minutes. Over time increase the amount of time you spend meditating. You can also begin meditating on mantras or phrases. Keep in mind that meditation can be difficult at first, but it usually gets easier with practice. Focusing on and controlling your breathing can be a great stress-management technique. It can be used in any situation without being disruptive or distracting. It's also a strategy you can use to help you reduce your stress over all and manage your HIV diagnosis over time. Slowly inhale through your nose. You may want to count as you do so. For example, you might think to yourself, "Inhale, 2, 3, 4, 5." Hold the breath for a few moments. Try to feel it in your lungs and down into your belly. Count to yourself as you hold it. Release the breath slowly out of your mouth. You may want to count again. For instance, you might think as you are exhaling, "Exhale, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6." Keeping your feelings about your HIV diagnosis and the stress in your life bottled up can cause you even more stress and create other emotional problems. Eventually your bottled emotions might erupt in a negative way. One way to manage your stress and maintain a positive outlook about your diagnosis is to use a journal. Journaling gives you a safe space to release your feelings, dreams, challenges, and successes. It can also serve as a way to document your journey with HIV. Experiment with journaling during different times of the day to see what works best for you. Write honestly about what's going on in your life and how you feel about it. For instance, you might write, "I'm HIV positive and I'm not sure how I feel about everything going on with this diagnosis." Write about the challenges you face and how you can overcome them. Also, write about your successes with HIV and in staying positive after your diagnosis. Designate a space in your journal (or keep a separate one) to keep track of your HIV treatments and other important notes and information.
Summary: Educate yourself about HIV. Practice meditation. Use deep-breathing techniques. Start journaling.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: All acids (but especially the strong ones used for concrete etching) should be handled with care. If splashed onto the body, caustic acid can cause painful chemical burns. Worse still, acid can cause permanent blindness and disfigurement if splashed into the face and eyes. Because of this, it's important to always wear protective gear when working with acid, even if you're very experienced. Below are the sorts of protective clothing you should wear to protect yourself: Chemical safety glasses or goggles with face shield Gloves Long sleeves Close-toed shoes Strong acids like muriatic acid can give off harmful vapors. If breathed, these fumes can cause chemical burns in the mouth and throat. Though rare, it's technically possible to seriously hurt or even kill yourself by breathing acid vapors. For these reasons, you'll want to ensure that your work area is well-ventilated at all times. For instance, you'll probably want to open any adjacent windows and use a fan to keep air continually circulating into and out of your work area. If the acid's fumes are strong, use a breathing mask with acid vapor cartridges to prevent injury. This is a hugely important basic rule of acid safety. Whenever you pour and mix acid and water, you always pour the acid into the water. You never pour the water into the acid. If you pour either liquid too quickly, you can cause the liquid in the container to splash back into you. If this liquid is mostly water, you'll probably be fine. However, if it's mostly acid, you can be in serious trouble. Always observe this simple rule when working with acid. It may be helpful to keep a second bucket or plastic container with you while you work. If you accidentally pour acid into the first container first, you can pour water into the second container and then transfer the acid to it to easily correct for your error.
Summary: Wear protective clothing. Don't breathe the fumes of the acid. Always pour acid into water, not the reverse.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Give your characters things that they want. Having established goals is a great way to drive the story and create storylines when you're running low on ideas. You don't want characters that seem perfect. This strikes readers as being unrealistic and boring. If you want people to really sympathize with your characters and root for them, give them flaws. They can be greedy, too talkative, rude, selfish, or not exactly smarter than your average bear. Give your characters backgrounds, interests, hobbies, and other things that show that they have actual lives. This makes them seem more real and relatable. Fight the cliches! Don't make your characters "normal" by comic standards. Give them individual and unique characteristics, and think of new and different ideas for your comic. Remember, your characters don't have to fall in love. Don't make a character for the sole purpose of being a love interest; make them realistic, and if a love story seems appropriate between two characters, let it develop in a realistic manner. Cliches aren't how people are, they are how people think they are supposed to be. You can help change this by making your characters behave like people do in the real world.
Summary:
Give them hopes and dreams. Give them flaws. Flesh out their lives. Fight cliches.