Q: Don't leave your contacts in for longer than your optometrist recommends. You should remove daily-use soft contacts every evening before you go to sleep. You can wear extended-use contacts for longer: several lenses are FDA-approved for seven days of continuous wear, and at least two brands of silicone hydrogel AW lenses are approved for 30 days of continuous wear.  Remove contact lenses before swimming or using a hot tub. The chlorine puts you at a higher risk for a blinding infection called Acanthamoeba keratitis.  If you're just starting to wear contacts, your eyes may not be used to the lenses; they'll dry out more quickly at first, and you may experience some pain. Remove your contacts directly after work or school for the first few days — as soon as you don't need perfect vision — in order to give your eyes time to rest. Take out your contact lenses before you remove makeup or face paint in the evening to avoid getting any on the lenses. Wash your hands with soap and warm water, and dry your hands thoroughly with a clean, lint-free towel. Again, you may find that slightly wet hands help the contacts stick better to your fingers; this is especially useful when you're removing contacts from your eyes, particularly when the contact has dried tightly onto your eye.  Keeping your hands clean will dramatically reduce your risk of infection. If you don't clean your hands, then anything that you touched throughout the day — knowingly or unknowingly — will spread to your eyes. It is especially important to avoid touching your contacts after you've made any contact with fecal matter — yours, your pet's, or anyone else's. Exposure to fecal matter can cause a pink eye infection and seriously compromise your optical health. Make sure you store your contacts in contact solution, not saline solution. Saline solution is not a sterile enough solution for storage. Be sure to keep particulate matter — dust, hairs, dirt, and other contaminants — from falling into the solution. Cleanliness is of the essence. Use the middle finger of your dominant hand to pull down the skin of your lower eyelid. At the same time, use the index or middle finger of your non-dominant hand to pull up the skin of your upper eyelid.   Look upward and carefully slide the contact down, away from your pupil, then pluck it out. Use a gentle touch and be careful not to rip the contact. Eventually, with practice, you may be able to pluck the contact out without sliding it down. Don't try this before you're confident with your contacts, as a rough touch may rip or tear the lens. Place the contact in the palm of your hand. Drench it in contact solution and gently rub it with a finger, in a spiral, from the center to outer edge.  Flip the contact over and do the same to the other side. Rinse the contact again with solution and place it in its proper (left or right) case. Make sure to always keep the contact for each eye in its own separate case. This is especially important, from a logistical standpoint if you have different prescriptions in each of your eyes. Keeping your contacts separate will also reduce the risk of spreading infections between your eyes. Again, be sure to place the contact in the correct side of the case. Leave your contacts in the case for at least a couple of hours and rest your eyes. If you have trouble removing your contacts at first: practice, practice, practice! The process will only grow easier the more you do it.
A: Know when to remove your contacts. Make sure that your hands are clean before you remove your contacts. Fill your case about halfway with solution before you take your contacts out. Take out the first lens. Clean your contact. Repeat the above steps to remove and clean your other contact.

Q: Burners should be cool to the touch. Use a clean, lint-free cloth, like an old t-shirt or dish towel. Thoroughly dampen it with water. Wring out any excess moisture. Lightly wipe all surfaces of the stovetop, including the tops and sides of coil burners.  In some cases, you may only have a flat stovetop without coiled burners, like a glass topped stove. Generally, these stoves are simply wiped clean with a suitable cleaning agent, like window cleaner.  Lint left behind on coil burners will smoke unpleasantly when you turn these on later. For this reason, only use lint free cloths to clean your electric stove. This is a self-cleaning measure designed into electric stoves. The high heat will burn off much of the remaining dirtiness on the coiled burner. However, in many cases, this feature only reduces dirtiness. A thorough cleaning is required for heavy dirtiness or stubborn buildup.  This technique will likely cause smoke to rise from the burners. This is natural. Prevent your smoke detector from going off by turning on a stovetop fan or opening a window. When the smoke stops rising from your burners, they have burned off what they can. Turn off the burners at this point. Refrain from touching the burners with your bare hands shortly after turning them off. Doing so could result in burns. Allow the burners to cool fully before handling them. Most coil burners can be removed by tugging the burner in the opposite direction of its connection to the stove and lifting. Some stoves may have extra fasteners. Consult your user manual if you have difficulty removing your stove's burners. If you don't have the manual for your stove, look up its make and model number online. Most appliance manuals can be found in digital format online.
A: Wipe your stovetop with a water dampened rag. Turn burners to their highest setting. Remove the burners from the stove.

Q: Woody plants share very similar attributes and growth characteristics with forbs above, and many forbs actually share the same families as woody plants. For instance, caragana mentioned below is in the same family as the clover species and black medic mentioned above, which is Fabaceae, or the Legume (Peas and Beans) Family. The only thing that sets woody plants apart from their herbaceous counterparts is that the stems are not annual (grow up from seed or root growth points every year) like forbs are. The stems also form secondary tissues, primarily xylem, on the interior of the stem, and its these xylem cells, with their very strong and rigid structures, are what make up what we know as "wood." In trees and shrubs subject to seasonal changes, rings develop in the woody tissues in response to growth patterns that occur in the spring and summer. Tropical trees, however, do not form rings because the cambrium (tissue that can grow due to cell division, and makes up xylem [inside layer] and phloem [outside layer], of a plant stem) experiences active growth all year round. Flower and leaf characteristics mentioned above also apply to woody plants, exceptions are those gymnosperms, largely as coniferous plants like spruce and pine trees. Using the basic identifying characteristics described in the step above, find a plant in your garden or flower bed that obviously shouldn't be growing in there and you suspect may be a woody weed of some kind. Woody plants are characterized by structure of the leaves, flowers, seeds or fruit, stems, and growth form. Most who are new to identifying plants feel most comfortable referring to the common name of a plant, and choose to learn the species' scientific, Latin or Greek taxonomic names later. However please note that it's very common for a single plant to have more than one common name, depending on location and the language of those referring to a particular plant, so use of common names exclusively in identifying any plant, weed or not, is discouraged especially in the world's scientific community. This is because many plants have one taxonomic name, and that one taxonomic name is often the name that is easily recognized in all languages in by many people in all regions.
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Understand the characteristics of woody plants. Find or locate a weed that would likely be a woody plant. Examine the plant. Make an identification guess on the species or common name of the plant.