6. Food safety  Recent research has shown that many of us aren’t storing food properly. “When it comes to keeping food in your fridge, ready-to-eat products such as cheese, yoghurt, cooked meats and leftovers should be on the middle or top shelves,” advises Dr Linda Gordon, chief specialist in food science with www.safefood.ie. “Raw meat, fish and poultry should be kept in sealed containers on the bottom shelf so they don’t touch or drip on to other foods. And leftovers should be stored in the fridge within two hours of cooking and eaten within three days.”

If you are preparing to shelter in place during an emergency situation, here’s everything you should have stocked inside your home. Or you can upgrade to a luxury doomsday bunker.

Actual shoji screens open to a large combined living-and-dining room with parquet floors and built-in corner cabinets and shelves. A swinging door connects the dining room to a sleek white kitchen with new appliances, including a wine cooler and a half freezer (there is also a separate refrigerator and freezer).

• Einstein Bro's Bagels, 4525 Marsha Sharp Fwy.: cold hold food held at improper temperatures. Observed multiple cases of possible cross-contamination. Observed sticker residue on food storage containers. Observed unsound cutting boards still in use. Observed several expired items available for consumption. Observed hand sink inaccessible. Observed damaged food service items. Observed drinks without lids around hand sink. Observed unlabeled spray bottles. Corrected on site. Observed soiled ice dispenser paddle. Corrected by next routine inspection. Observed soiled floor of walk-in cooling unit. Observed soiled floor of walk-in freezer. Observed leak at condenser of walk-in freezer. Corrected by 01/23/19. Due to the number and nature of violations, food safety knowledge was not observed. Corrected by next routine inspection.

Beyond simply reheating, you can learn to creatively utilize leftovers. You can reuse curries, sauces, and broths as marinades. Chop and season leftover cooked vegetables and add to scrambled eggs for an extra serving of veggies during breakfast. Savory leftovers made mostly of meat, beans, or tofu, depending on their original flavoring, can either be an obvious or innovative base for tacos—just add taco shells, tomatoes, shredded cheese, and whatever else you’d like! The key is to lean into that left-brain mindset, and come up with unusual ways to reuse those leftovers. You can do it!

There are five sizes, from a teeny container all the way up to a large bowl, and they’re designed to fit inside each other when not in use for easy storage. They aren’t as big as some of the other containers on this list, but they’re ideal for people who want to store smaller portions without their containers taking up too much space.

Made in Korea and formulated without any parabens, The Face Shop facial mask sheets are coated in a nourishing serum that not only hydrates dry skin, but even helps minimize the appearance of pores as well as remove blackheads. These masks are also suitable for all skin types, and are also great for soothing irritated areas. This set includes variations like pomegranate, honey, olive, and avocado.

In your case, the weight of the lamp clearly didn't provide enough clamping pressure, and the base of the lamp was probably less porous than the wood cabinet underneath. So you're left with a lamp base that didn't glue to the Lucite and with Lucite glued to the wooden cabinet. What a mess!

Glass is one of the best solar glazing materials. A single pane of clear window glass transmits 86 to 92 percent of incident solar radiation, and filters out most of the higher frequency UV radiation. One of the best features of glass is that it’s easy to clean and does not tend to get scratched. It holds up well outdoors, does not yellow or become hazy and can last indefinitely, if not broken. It’s also readily available at most hardware stores and is about the lowest-cost material that can be used for a durable application like a dryer. On the down side, glass is brittle and can break fairly easily.

For example, if the country has a very high average temperature, it is imperative to conduct studies that test the stability of a product in the appropriate conditions. 

Dear Heloise: We have some beautiful plants sitting on tall cabinets at the office. They look great, but they are very hard to water. So we use a turkey baster. Works great! — Verna T., Rosemount, Minn.

As we move into this brave new 2019, workwear has made a truce with prep; Carhartt has catered to the streetwear community by offering plaid button-downs, overcoats, and somehow getting Chris Pine in its overalls. Daniel Day-Lewis wore head-to-toe Carhartt in early December, creating a minor Internet event. L.L.Bean chore coats and shirts appeared on sidewalks up and down the East Coast. Calvin Klein Collection showed orange jumpsuits, while reflective patches found their way onto Junya Watanabe’s jackets. The working clothes complement the other kind of prep—doomsday prep—in its utilitarianism, too, with a fetish for the salt of the earth.