I bought some frozen, boneless chicken breasts that I wanted to cook tonight. Should I leave in the package and immerse it in hot water, or should I thaw it in the microwave (in or out of the package)?
What is the safest, quick way to defrost chicken? Microwave? Running water over it?
How to apply for a UK standard visitor visa as a family? I am an Indian citizen residing in the United States. My wife and I are planning to travel to the UK for a week. We plan to apply for the UK standard visitor visa from the US. I was filling out the application and I have a few questions.   Travel History - The application asks for travel history to the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Considering that we're resident aliens in the United States, should we consider all the times we've traveled back to the US from India? Travel History - Should we also list out the times we've traveled to India from the US? Cost of the trip - Hypothetically if we plan to spend a total of ~4,000 USD on this trip, should I split up the cost and write down 2,000 USD on my application and 2,000 USD on my wife's application? Income - From what I've read on the forum, my wife must say that "someone else" i.e. me - is paying for her costs and mention my GWF number in the remarks on her application. Would that be sufficient considering that I'll be sending all income documents with my application? Savings - We have joint savings accounts. Should I mention the same amount on both our applications? Posting the documents - Is the up-to-date advice to send all documents in one packet? Or would sending them in separate packets at the same time be better? My thought was to annotate my wife's packet with my GWF number if we were to send them separately. Bank statements - We get e-statements. Would printing those out be enough? Can a Kazakh national transit in Dubai without a visa? Regarding running Watir scripts for UI Automation from Jenkins CI - How to hook up Jenkins and watir-automations Can I start a new Clash of Clans village on my iPhone separate from my account on my iPad? 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Then it is a theorem that $P$ consists of zero-divisors.  This can be proved using localization, when $A$ is noetherian: $A_P$ is local artinian, so every element of $PA_P$ is nilpotent.  Hence every element of $P$ is a zero-divisor. (As Matt E has observed, when $A$ is nonnoetherian, one can still use a similar argument: $PA_P$ is the only prime in $A_P$, hence is the radical of $A_P$ by elementary commutative algebra.)  Can this be proved without using localization? Windows vs Linux Local Time? Meta Stack Exchange should not penalize downvotes Do I need a Kuwait transit visa as an Indian national? I am an Indian national and passport holder, traveling from New Delhi to Frankfurt (via Kuwait) and back with Kuwait Airways. I see no Terminal change for the onward and return journeys. I have no plans to leave the airport due to short layovers.  Do I need a Kuwait transit visa? I just bought an Xbox 360 game with wrong region. What should I do? I just bought a  game (Forza 4) for my Xbox 360 (bought in the US). When I tried to play the game, it wouldn't load because of region issue. Is there a legal way to solve this (no crack)? Is there a reason why we gain ghost reputation on the meta of an SE website? Is there any reason behind the ghost reputation we gain on the meta of a Stack Exchange site? This reputation doesn't add up to anything, but it still shows me I have gained some. Is this supposed to make any sense? Is it possible to win in Don't Starve? I would like to know if it's possible to win in Don't Starve? Or is it just the matter of how long until you die? Who was the colleague that Erik was going to contact for help? After S.H.I.E.L.D confiscates Jane's work in Thor, the researchers discuss what they'll do next.  Erik mentions two colleagues. The first is reasonably implied to be Bruce Banner, but who is the second colleague he mentions? Transcribed from the film:  Jane Who are these people? Erik I knew this scientist... a pioneer in gamma radiation. S.H.I.E.L.D showed up and... umm. He wasn't heard from again. Jane They're not going to do that to us. I'm going to get everything back. Erik mumbles Please. Let me contact one of my colleagues. He's had some dealings with these people before. I'll email him and maybe he can help. Darcy They took your laptop, too. Best books for mathematical background? What are the best textbooks to read for the mathematical background you need for modern physics, such as, string theory?  Some subjects off the top of my head that probably need covering:   Differential geometry, Manifolds, etc. Lie groups, Lie algebras and their representation theory. Algebraic topology. Checking if file is checked out through CSOM What is a good algorithm for estimating the median of a huge read-once data set? I want to change the default timeout in Chrome. In Firefox I can set the value of network.http.connection-timeout in about:config - but how can I do that in Chrome?