I accidentally left two half hams in a storage locker in a basement for four days. They were in packaged in plastic and packed in ice, but the ice would have melted by the end of the second day. They were at room temperature when I found them. The hams were from a grocer, sealed in plastic. One is semi-cooked. The other is fully cooked, smoked and salted. Are they safe to eat if I cook them to 160 degrees + or, as I suspect, do they need to be thrown out?
If I left food out of the refrigerator for some period of time, is it still safe? If I left it out too long, can I salvage it by cooking it more?
My table is like this:  Sitecode    Month  Amount --------    -----  ------ XX          Jan     1000 XX          Jan     3000 XX          Apr     3000 XX          Apr     1000   What I want is, to show the result something like this:  Sitecode    MonthJAN   MonthAPR --------    --------   -------- XX          4000       4000 How to pass the values from one activity to previous activity How to change the voltage polarity in an inverting amplifier? I want to implement a simple circuit which can map -10V  +10V voltage range to 0V 5V voltage range. Thus I'm planning to use two op-Amps, one for the slope and the other for the offset. So basically I'm planning to use an inverting amplifier and a summing amplifier consecutively.  But Inverting amplifiers multiplies the input voltage with a minus sign. I need a positive slope. How can I overcome this?  Also Could you gibe me any ideas for a cheap op-Amp models for this purpose? At what port did Lorance Effler born about 1787 in Germany come to the US? I am part of a “study team” that authored a paper. How do I list in in my CV? Clever bounty reputation hack I say "hack" in the most favorable light. It's a clever idea and theoretically beneficial.  I noticed that an old question of mine suddenly started getting a lot of renewed attention. The question had been answered, with an answer accepted. But another user added a well reasoned and insightful answer to the list. He also opened a +100 bounty on that question.  The resulting increased attention quickly got his answer quite a lot of up-votes. Well more than the 100 points he had spent on the bounty. Therefore, he gets a net rep profit out of the transaction.  So here's the hack:   Find an interesting question Research and provide a very good answer Open up a bounty on that question to attract attention and votes to your new answer Profit!!!   2 and 3 may be out of order--I didn't see the timing of it. But either way, assuming he gets more than 10 votes, he still gets increased rep out of the deal.  I don't think this is necessarily bad for SO - it does generate some useful discussion and insightful answers. Plus you can increase your own rep very rapidly by making your answers highly visible, and therefore frequently voted upon.   However, it does slightly change the meaning and purpose of bounties away from starting a discussion and toward self-promotion. Still, interesting. This question has been asked before, at least twice by people who were trying to cheat on the PROMYS Europe 2020 Application, and once in a  because the OP showed no effort. I haven't been able to solve it, so I'm going to to ask it again.  PROMYS applications have closed, and I hope the effort shown below is enough to keep this question from being closed.     The Mathematical Forest is grown in a two-dimensional plane, where   trees can only grow on points with integer coordinates. To start with,   there are no trees at all. The foresters plant the first tree at   $(0,0)$. Each year, they carry out tree planting according to the   following rule. If there is a tree on the point (𝑚,𝑛) but there are   no trees on the points $(m+1,n)$ and $(m,n+1)$, then they can choose   to remove the tree on $(m,n)$ and plant new trees on the points   $(m,n+1)$ and $(m+1,n)$. For an integer $k\geq1$, the $k$th diagonal   consists of all points $(m,n)$ with $m+n=k−1$. Is it possible for the   foresters to arrange their planting so that eventually there are no   trees on the first $2$ diagonals? What about the first $3$ diagonals?    $4$ diagonals? Can you generalize?   It's easy to get to a position with no trees on the first two diagonals.  (It only takes $4$ plantings.)  I can prove it's impossible to reach a position with no trees on the first $4$ diagonals, and I believe it's impossible to reach a position with no trees on the first $3$ diagonals, but I can't prove it.  For the $k=4$ case, I used a pagoda function, as in a peg solitaire problem.  For $k=1,2,3,\dots$ define the potential of a tree on the $k$th diagonal as $\frac1{2^{k-1}}$, and the potential of the forest as the sum of the potentials of all the trees in it.  When a tree of potential $\frac1{2^{k-1}}$ is removed, it is replaced by $2$ trees of potential $\frac1{2^k}$ so the potential of the forest never changes.  Initially, the potential of the forest is $1$.  Since there are $k$ trees on diagonal $k$, the potential of all points beyond the fourth diagonal is $$\sum_{k=5}^\infty\frac k{2^{k-1}}=\frac34&lt;1,$$ so it is impossible that there are no trees on the first $4$ diagonals.  The potential of the fourth diagonal is $\frac12$, so this argument doesn't show that it's impossible to have no trees on the first $3$ diagonals.  I've done a lot of experimenting, though, and I believe that the statement is true.  (I even wrote a little computer game so I could experiment quickly.)  The best I've been able to do is to get down to one man on the third diagonal.   The black circles are trees eligible for removal, and the gray circles are other trees.  You can see that there is a "traffic jam" in front of the lone tree on diagonal $3$, and there seems to be no way to clear it.  I've been trying to come up with an argument that reflects this traffic jam, but I haven't been at all successful. We know that after $n$ removals there are $n+1$ trees, and I've been trying to prove somehow that they can't all be sufficiently far from the origin to allow all trees to get past diagonal $3$, but I haven't come close.   In the diagram above, if the tree at $(1,1)$ were moved to $(0,2)$, and the tree at $(1,2)$ were moved to $(2,0)$, then it would be possible to remove the tree at $(0,2)$, emptying the second diagonal.  In the fictitious position, we still have one tree on diagonal $2$ and two on diagonal $3$.   So, I think an argument along the lines I was trying cannot just be concerned with the distance from the origin; it must somehow take into account how the trees interfere with one another.  I haven't been able to do this.    I'd be grateful for solutions, hints, or counterexamples.  I wasn't really sure what tags to attach.  Please add any that seem appropriate. Sphere intersection Stuck I have two spheres that are bounded by spheres for collision detection. I do not want them to intersect. My intersection works. But it gets stuck. Once the function returns true, I cannot get it out. I tried  collideBool = ObjectOne.Intersect(ObjectTwo);  if(collide == true) {     leftright = leftright;     updown = updown; } else { if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_RIGHT)) leftright -= dt; if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_LEFT)) leftright += dt; if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_DOWN)) updown += dt; if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_UP)) updown -= dt; }  collide = false;   My sphere gets stuck. What is a way around this? I'm attempting to cut a hole in a plane. I added a cylinder object, added the Boolean modifier to the plane, selected "cylinder" and "Difference", but no hole is made. The lower half of the cylinder just highlights, moving/deleting the cylinder reveals a hole-less plane.      How can i cut a hole in the plane? How do I programmatically create a new content type? I'm building a module (my_module) in Drupal 7. It has some functionality and also will create a new content type. In my_module.install, I implemented hook_install() (my_module_install()).    Can I use more hook_install() to create a new content type (my_module_install()) in this module? If the answer is yes, how should I do this? Otherwise, should I do this in another module? Is it possible to have an ASP.NET MVC route that uses subdomain information to determine its route?  For example:   user1.domain.com goes to one place user2.domain.com goes to another?   Or, can I make it so both of these go to the same controller/action with a username parameter? Punctuation in an indirect quotation Consider the brief passage:     "I love your work, but calling you 'the artist' {1} just doesn't seem to be   cutting it anymore. What shall I call you?"      "OK. Call me George." {2}   So my instincts tell me to put {1} in single quotes as opposed to no punctuation (or perhaps even italics) but to do the opposite for {2}. Is this right? Why?  Let me expand this one further iteration:     "Wow, that's a great name, especially with this crowd. Maybe for your next book    you should call yourself Ringo."{3} Why doesn't Cantor's diagonal argument also apply to natural numbers? In my understanding of Cantor's diagonal argument, we start by representing each of a set of real numbers as an infinite bit string.  My question is: why can't we begin by representing each natural number as an infinite bit string? So that 0 = 00000000000..., 9 = 1001000000..., 255 = 111111110000000...., and so on.  If we could, then the diagonal argument would imply that there is a natural number not in the natural numbers, which is a contradiction. Possible Duplicate:          I received two answers to a question I asked. One solution suggested I do things in a completely different manner than I have been. Another acknowledged that the first solution was correct but went on to explain how to do what I was asking.  Should I accept the first answer because it provides the better way of doing things or should I accept the second one because it answers the precise question that was asked? When to use "click" and "click on" The add comment link and comment box overlaps bounty box When to pronounce ‹s› as /z/ in the middle of words? Books on cosmology I have finished Carroll's general relativity book, Spacetime and Geometry. I am specifically interested in cosmology, so is there any book which goes more in depth into cosmology? I prefer a mathematically rigorous book, which goes beyond the cosmology chapter in Carroll's book. The Big Bang and inflation theory should be dealt with in depth. "He walks as if he is drunk." Grammatically correct ? Any difference in meaning from "...as if he were drunk."? Is it grammatically correct to use an indicative verb after "as if", or "as though" for that matter?        I've heard someone say: "He walks as if he is drunk."  Would there have been any difference if he had said "He walks as if he were drunk."?   A second example might be:        It looks as if it is going to rain.   It looks as if it were going to rain. What does rate of change actually mean? If we have a function, say, $y=x^2$, then $dy/dx=2x$. Now $y=1,4,9,16...$ for $x=1,2,3,4...$ and $dy/dx=2,4,6,8...$ for $x=1,2,3,4...$ Now as $dy/dx$ represents rate of change of y w.r.t x but I can't understand how these particluar values of $dy/dx$ represent change ? I mean for x=3, the rate of change is 6. What does it mean ?