Again, opting for clear glass containers will not only keep your fridge looking clean and organized, but will make it so much easier to know what you have, and help you keep it from going to waste.

We were seriously impressed by food storage brand Stasher’s innovative silicone bags, which are plastic free, self-sealing and multifunctional.

• An online article by the UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County, “Planting Bare-Root Fruit Trees” (http://sonomamg.ucanr.edu/Plant_of_the_Month/Bare_Root_Fruit_Trees/)

"Right now, a lot of the studies that have been done have been very localized: one lab, one person, under one set of conditions," Abbott said. "But another person in another lab might do the same study and say, 'under these conditions, we got something completely different,'" he continued. So, who is right?

Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

As well as the Main Chamber, the McKinley Climatic Laboratory has an Equipment Test Chamber which is 130ft (40m) long, 30ft (9m) wide and 25ft (8m) high with the same capabilities as the Main Chamber, for testing jet engines, small vehicles and turbine-driven ground power units.

In the winter, some common indoor pests are insects that spend just the winter inside, insects that infest food products, and ants.

In 2017 through August, Ford sold 576,334 F-Series while GM sold 363,354 Silverados and Fiat Chrysler sold 327,759 Rams. 

Note: Not all certifying agents offer online lookup, and some have a lag time for posting new certificates. If you are unable to find a certificate online, contact the certification agency or supplier for further verification.

There are numerous manufacturers selling graphics cards for your gaming pleasure, but probably fewer companies actually putting the cards together than you might think from browsing Amazon.

Electron beam evaporation (AJA International Inc., MA, USA) formed a thin film of chromium (thickness, 10 nm) as an adhesion layer, followed by a layer of gold (thickness, 100 nm) as a conductor on a 75-μm-thick sheet of polyimide (Argon Inc., CA, USA). A UV laser (LPKF, Germany) patterned the gold-coated polyimide sheet to define the circular current collector, serpentine interconnects, and contact pads. The first step in realizing a biofuel cell–based lactate sensor involved punching out circular pads (diameter, 2 mm) of CNT paper (Buckypaper, GSM 20; NanoTechLabs, NC, USA). Coating with 2 μl of 0.1 M tetrathiafulvalene (Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA) solution prepared in acetone/ethanol (1:9, v/v) and 4 μl of lactate oxidase (Toyobo Chemicals, Japan), and allowing them to dry, yielded enzyme-functionalized CNT pads. The enzyme solution resulted from dispersing the enzyme (60 mg/ml) in 0.1 M phosphate buffer containing 0.25 wt % glutaraldehyde (Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA). Subsequently, drop-casting and drying 2 μl of chitosan [Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) number 9012-76-4; Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA] suspension prepared in 0.1 M acetic acid onto each pad formed a chitosan-based membrane. Dipping the dried pads into the chitosan solution for 5 s and then allowing them to dry resulted in an additional chitosan membrane. Last, dipping the pads for 5 s in 3 wt % PVC (CAS number 9002-86-2; Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA) suspension in tetrahydrofuran and thoroughly air drying them formed the outer layer of PVC membrane. Conductive silver glue then bonded the pads to the gold current collectors to complete the anode functionalization process. The cathode for the lactate sensor resulted from drop-casting 15 μl of platinum black (10 mg/ml; Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA) suspension prepared in deionized water, followed by applying 1 μl of Nafion 117 solution (Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA), onto the cathode designated gold current collector. Storing the sensors at 4°C for at least 1 week before use allowed the chitosan and PVC membranes to stabilize. Fabrication of biofuel cell–based glucose sensors involved steps similar to those discussed for the lactate sensor with some modifications. The process began with drop-casting 1 μl of 0.1 M tetrathiafulvalene solution onto CNT pads. Separately, preparing a solution (40 mg/ml) of glucose oxidase in 0.1 M phosphate buffer containing bovine serum albumin (10 mg/ml; Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA) and a 1 wt % suspension of Nafion in 0.1 M phosphate buffer and then mixing of the two suspensions in equal volumes yielded the enzyme-coating suspension. Application of 2 μl of the enzyme-coating suspension functionalized the tetrathiafulvalene-coated CNT pads. Conductive silver glue bonded the pads to the gold current collectors to complete the anode. The glucose sensor cathode resulted from preparing a suspension (10 mg/ml) of 10% platinum on carbon (Sigma-Aldrich, MO, USA) in a 2 wt % ethanolic suspension of Nafion, followed by casting 5 μl of the suspension on each current collector. Storing the sensors at 4°C for at least 1 week before use allowed the Nafion membrane to equilibrate. Both the lactate and glucose sensors were stable for at least 6 months when stored at 4°C without any additional storing conditions. Before use, attachment of the NFC module to the wearable patch and exposure of glucose sensor to buffer solution [0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7)] for 1 hour resulted in stabilized signals for micromolar detection in sweat. Lactate sensor required no such conditioning step.

Due to conditions observed during the inspection, the establishment agreed to discontinue food operations and voluntarily close until it is approved by the Department to resume operations. Inspected Jan 10.