Q: Hazardous waste that gets dumped on the ground contaminates the soil, which in turn can contaminate groundwater or nearby surface water. Don't ever dump hazardous wastes like motor oil, leftover paint or paint cans, household cleaners, or medicines onto the ground. Check with your local sanitation or trash removal agency about guidelines before putting hazardous wastes into the trash. Many pesticides and fertilizers contain harmful chemicals that contaminate ground water. If you must use pesticides or fertilizers, use them sparingly or check the ingredients to use ones that are made from all-natural ingredients. Or try making your own pesticides out of organic ingredients like neem oil, Epsom salts, or citrus. Make your own neem oil pesticide by mixing 1 teaspoon (4.9mL) of neem oil with 12 teaspoon (2.5mL) soap and 32 fluid ounces (0.95L) of warm water. To make an Epsom salt spray, dissolve 8 fluid ounces (0.24L) into 5 gallons (19L) of water. Or simply sprinkle Epsom salts around the bases of your plants instead of making a spray. Citrus is especially effective against aphids. To make a citrus spray, grate the rind from 1 lemon and add it to 16 fluid ounces (0.47L) boiling water. Allow this to steep overnight then strain the liquid from the lemon rinds. Check to see if the plants you grow need a fertilizer to thrive in your garden before automatically using them. Stencil a message next to a storm drain, reminding people not to dump waste into a street drain because that water drains to a river. Use simple images like fish, a faucet with water drops, or a person throwing away trash, and include a simple message like "Protect Your Water" or "Drains Directly To Rivers." Get permission to stencil storm drains in your area by contacting your local Department of Public Works. Search your closest city or town along with "Department of Public Works" online to find their phone number and tell them you're interested in doing a storm drain stenciling project. To create the stencils, draw and cut out your design on a piece of paper, then spray paint the design on or near a storm drain. If you are concerned about clean water shortages in your area, contact your elected officials to voice your water concerns and ask that action is taken. The website at https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials directs you to your state and local elected officials like governors, mayors, and county executives within the U.S. To contact officials outside of where you live, search the name of the town, for instance "Flint, MI," along with "ways to help." For contacting elected officials outside the U.S., conduct a google search on "contacting my elected officials" or "who are my government representatives." region. The Environmental Protection Agency oversees environmental issues like clean water protection and accessibility within the U.S. Their website has many resources about clean water issues and allows you to ask them questions. You can also find source water protection coordinators in your area and report environmental law violations that may contribute to decreased clean water through their website. Visit https://www.epa.gov/sourcewaterprotection/forms/contact-us-about-source-water-protection for more information on contacting the EPA about clean water protection.
A: Use and dispose of harmful materials properly. Use pesticides and fertilizers only when necessary. Organize a storm drain stenciling project. Call your local elected officials with concerns within your area. Contact the EPA to take action in a specific U.S.

Q: Find a deep conditioning treatment that's right for your hair type. There are many products on the market, and while they're all made to restore moisture to hair, you should find one that's tailored for your specific needs. If you have kinky, textured hair, look for products made specifically for kinky hair. If you have fine hair, look for products that are described as "light" or "weightless." Products made with heavier oils will make your hair look weighed down. If you have curly hair, look for products designed to keep your frizz at bay. Use a gentle shampoo that won't strip your hair too much. Avoid shampoos made with sulfates, which are abrasive cleaning agents that cleanse hair of its natural oils and lead to dryness and breakage. Squeeze a dollop about the size of a quarter into your hands and rub your hands together. Then apply the product to your hair, beginning about halfway down the shaft and moving towards the tips of your hair. Then spread the any product that remains on your hands from the roots to the tips. Pay special attention to the tips, which tend to get drier than the rest of your hair. If necessary, use a wide-toothed comb to distribute the product. Deep conditioning treatments require at least 10 minutes to get to the core of each strand of your hair. Check the instructions on the product you are using, as some may suggest being left on longer, but most should work in 30 minutes or less. You may want to keep the conditioner in place by covering your head with a plastic shower cap, but this is optional. Some products suggest using hair dryer to heat up the product in your hair, which allows it to get absorbed into your hair more easily. Use a blow dryer on a low setting to direct hot air at your head and thoroughly heat up the product. Make sure the hair dryer doesn't get too hot, since you don't want to melt the plastic cap if you are using one. Remove the shower cap and rinse your hair with cool water, which will tighten the hair shaft and make it look shiny. After rinsing, towel dry your hair gently, then let it air dry and then style as usual. Your hair should be bouncy, glossy and well-conditioned. Wait a few days before shampooing your hair, so that you don't negate the effects of the conditioning treatment by washing it out.
A: Choose a product. Wash your hair. Apply the deep conditioning product. Let the product set in. Apply heat. Rinse out the product.

Q: What you're doing is establishing a second source of air that you can use when your lungs run out. While this may make you look like a chipmunk, the more useful analogy is to think of yourself as a human bagpipe, and your cheeks as the bellows. Close your jaw, but make a tiny opening in your mouth, and use your cheek muscles to push the air out slowly. Continue to breathe in deeply through your nose. Control the motion so that it takes between three and five seconds to blow out the air in your mouth Experts differ somewhat on this step. Some recommend keeping your cheeks puffed out the entire time, refilling them frequently with little bits of air from the lungs. Others, however, suggest that it might be more natural to let your cheeks return to a normal breathing position as you let the air out of your mouth. Experiment with both to determine which is more comfortableand effectivefor you and your instrument. Since you have been breathing in through your nose the whole time, your lungs should fill up by the time the air in your mouth runs out. You can change where the air is coming from by closing your soft palate. You should do this right before your lungs run out, so you have time to fill your lungs again while you are using the air stored in your mouth. Once you are able to turn it into a seamless process, you will never have to pause to take a breath while playing your instrument again.
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Fill your cheeks with air, and breathe in and out through your nose. Blow out the air you have been holding in your mouth. Switch to exhaling using your lungs when the air in your mouth runs out. Fill your cheeks with air again. Repeat this sequence continuously.