Triablogue: Am I a presuppositionalist?
1. Am I still a presuppositionalist after all these years? If so, what kind of presuppositionalist, and why?
It's difficult to discuss the question in separation from alternate positions since these are mutually defining to some degree. To be a presuppositionalist is not to be an evidentialist or vice versa. The distinctives of each differentiate it from the other.
But then that pushes the question back a step. What's evidentialism? Who are good representatives of evidentialism?
I'm somewhat puzzled by why Lydia oversimplifies evidentialism, since that's surely a very incomplete description of evidentialism. Perhaps that's due to time-constraints in combination with the lay audience which causes her to oversimplify. I'm sure she could go several layers deep if need be.
Do those two tenets demarcate evidentialism from presuppositionalism?
2. Regarding (i), to some degree I think she's pushing back against the atheist caricature of Christian belief as fideistic. And, of course, many lay Christians are fideistic.
A presuppositionalism can and should agree with her that there's no ultimate dichotomy between faith and reason. There is, though, the venerable issue of whether there's sometimes prima facie evidence against certain aspects of the Christian faith. One way of modeling that tension is a balance where there's evidence for Christianity as well as some apparent evidence to the contrary, and when you put all that on the scales, the weight of evidence for Christianity tips the scales in favor of Christianity.
That isn't distinctive to religion. Apart from religion, many of our beliefs are a balancing act, where there may be some apparent counterevidence, and we simply hold that in tension with what we continue to believe. That's somewhat weak, and I'll have more to say about that in due course (see below).
3. Regarding (ii), I'm unclear on how Lydia distinguishes knowledge from reasons. On the one hand the content of the Christian faith can be known apart from reasons. You can know what Christian theology represents, you can know Christian doctrine, without having any reasons.
Perhaps Lydia is speaking in shorthand for knowing that it's true. If so, there are two elements: (i) knowing what it stands for, and (ii) supporting evidence.
There's an obvious sense in which most Christians lack direct knowledge of the Christian faith. That's a type of historical knowledge. We rely on historical records (i.e. the Bible). Unlike 1C Palestinian Jews who witnessed the public ministry of Christ, our knowledge is mediated by the Biblical record. Perhaps that's part of what Lydia has in mind. If so, a presuppositionalist can and should agree with that.
29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (Jn 20:29).
Thomas had a sign. Thomas had reasons to believe in the form of the the Risen Jesus, standing right before him. But that's the kind of evidence most Christians don't have.
30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name (Jn 20:30-21).
From the narrator perspective, the reader's evidence isn't miraculous signs, but his eyewitness account. It turns on the historical accuracy of his record.
In fairness, that could be supplemented by Jn 14:12. Although that's hyperbolic, it's the case that some Christians throughout church history do receive miraculous confirmation. So it's not confined to testimonial evidence. Yet I don't believe that Tim and Lydia McGrew have directly witnessed a miracle. So they don't have signs in the Exod 4 sense.
5. Although she doesn't mention it in the introduction to her presentation, another tenet of evidentialism distinguishing that position from classical apologetics is the evidentialist position that miracles can furnish direct evidence for God's existence or the supernatural. It isn't necessary to first prove God's existence before you can credit a miracle and regard that as evidence for God's activity in the world. As a presuppositionalist, I agree with that.
i) There's a problem is when common ground is classified as beliefs or criteria that aren't Christian/theistic on the one hand or naturalistic on the other hand. But that's very artificial. Are the aforesaid assumptions independent of naturalism, theism, and Christianity? Assuming those are true beliefs and good criteria, they either obtain in a world where God exists or where God does not exist. There is no third alternative. They can't very well obtain in a world that isn't Christian or theistic or naturalistic. Reality must match one of those options. So those assumptions can't be truly agnostic. In what kind of world to they actually obtain?
ii) Apropos (i), a presuppositionalist simultaneously argues from and for his Christian beliefs and criteria. These "common ground" assumptions implicate the Christian worldview. Naturalism lacks the metaphysical resources to underpin them. That's where transcendental arguments can come into play. Mind you, many presuppositionalists never get beyond question-begging slogans, but thinkers like Greg Welty and James Anderson have been making progress on that front, by formulated detailed arguments. Much work remains to be done.
iii) Another problem with common ground appeals is that unbelievers range along a spectrum. Some of them are intellectually evasive. Some of them are irrationally skeptical. It isn't always possible to have a constructive dialogue with an atheist. Take methodological atheism. The proper reaction is not to operate within that paradigm but to challenge that paradigm.
i) Everything can't be up for grabs. Our belief-system must have some stability and priorities.
ii) There's a dialectical relation between evidence and one's priority structure. On the one hand, one's plausibility structure ought to be informed by evidence. On the other hand, one's plausibility structure a ranking system that assigns degrees of plausibility to different kinds of claims. There needs to be some give, some flexibility, in both directions.
For instance, how should I assess alien abduction stories? That involves conflicting lines of evidence. On the one hand there's testimonial evidence, which has some prima facie value. On the other hand, there's theoretical physics, which provides some prima facie evidence that aliens couldn't surmount the distance in light years. Not to mention other considerations.
iii) What if there's some prima facie evidence for physicalism, but physicalism entails eliminative materialism, which is arguably self-refuting? If following the evidence wherever it leads ends up leading you to a blind alley, then you need to back up. I refuse to follow the evidence over the cliff, which is what atheism amounts to. I have no epistemic duty to embrace nihilism. That's diabolically idiotic.
Nope, I haven't witnessed a miracle. :-) (It would be nice...) But I consider testimonial evidence to be, itself, evidence. When I witness something "directly," there's still a degree of inference involved (e.g., that I wasn't dreaming or hallucinating). When I take testimony into account, there is also inference involved. Both are inferences. The inference from testimony just has, informally speaking, more steps. So my acceptance of Christianity on the basis of (indirectly) the apostles' testimony is, ultimately, basing my Christian faith on the miraculous sign of Jesus' resurrection, just as it was for them. There are just more inferential steps to my inference than there were for them.
What I meant by point 2 is, as you correctly surmised, that we can't be justified in knowing that Christianity is true except by way of evidential reasons. These could include religious experience, which could be a kind of data, but generally religious experience isn't going to provide a strong enough argument by itself to justify believing a set of highly contentful and strong religious propositions such as even the basic tenets of Christianity. In any event, what I was contrasting evidentialism with there was the idea, often articulated in presuppositionalist circles, that one can and must "start with" belief in the truth of the Bible, belief in the existence of God, etc. Epistemically, I think that is incorrect. One can't "start" by believing that Scripture is true, Christianity is true, etc. One has to believe those things on the basis of some other reasons/evidence.
I don't have any particular bone to pick with your first paragraph.
"what I was contrasting evidentialism with there was the idea, often articulated in presuppositionalist circles, that one can and must 'start with' belief in the truth of the Bible, belief in the existence of God, etc. Epistemically, I think that is incorrect. One can't 'start' by believing that Scripture is true, Christianity is true, etc. One has to believe those things on the basis of some other reasons/evidence."
i) People approach Christianity from different starting-points. Some are insiders (e.g. cradle Christians) while others are outsiders (e.g. atheists, agnostics, heretics, pagans).
ii) We assess claims based on other things we take to be true. We reference our understanding of what the world is like as a benchmark. But if Christianity is true, what's the relation between Christianity and the benchmark? At the very least, they must overlap, otherwise the benchmark would have no implications for Christianity one way or the other.
Is Christianity part of the larger truth we use to assess Christian claims? Or is Christianity the larger truth, of which the beliefs/criteria we use to assess it are ultimately a part?
If Christianity is true, then *that's* what the world is like. So the criteria aren't ultimately separable from what they verify or falsify.
iii) And, of course, many people entertain false beliefs. They judge Christianity to be false on the basis of their false beliefs. So what's the corrective?
iv) One possible strategy is to adopt the Christian viewpoint *as if* it's true, for the sake of argument, then consider the explanatory power of the Christian viewpoint, compared to other alternatives (e.g. naturalism, Buddhism).
My mention of needing evidence for Christianity was also meant to set evidentialism in contrast to Reformed Epistemology/Plantingianism, according to which the truth of Christianity can be known as "properly basic."
As I recall, Plantinga defines a properly basic belief as a belief you may hold without evidence, but which is prima facie justified, yet defeasible.
I don't think that's the best model for Christian belief, although there's a grain of truth to what he says. I think it's better to distinguish between evidence and argument.
Also, I agree with George Mavrodes that the the primary concern shouldn't be whether a belief is rational but whether it's true.
And I would say that we have no access to what is true besides what is rational. So our desire for truth leads us to try to be rational.
Or, to put it a little more precisely: If we are not believing rationally, we may accidentally believe what is true, or we may believe what is true in the way that a non-rational creature "knows" things, such as a bird who "knows" by instinct how to build a nest for the first time. But once we become self-conscious enough to be concerned about *whether* what we are believing is true, then these possibilities will be cold comfort if we cannot conclude upon reflection that our instincts or spontaneous beliefs have some connection to the truth. And that itself would be an enterprise of rational belief evaluation. So there is no getting around the search for rationality if one wishes to engage in a search for truth.
Is life a comedy or tragedy?


What would the start of spring training be like without a couple of "hot off the presses" books to whet the baseball appetite? Sure enough, there are two that figure to be big sellers at the Sports Legends Museum bookstore this season -- when the Red Sox and Yankees are in town.
Both are narrative as well as pictorial. One covers the first 99 years of existence of Fenway Park, which the Red Sox unapologetically bill as "America's Most Lovable Ballpark," and because it is the oldest, who can argue? The other newcomer to the book shelf merely covers the first 16 years of Derek Jeter's already storied career -- as told by more than 5,000 stories and photographs that have appeared in the New York Times.
"Remembering Fenway Park" (Stewart, Tabori and Chang, $45) is the 41st sports book written by Harvey Frommer (not to be confused with travel guru Arthur Frommer) and hardly misses a pitch from the park's beginning, six days after the Titanic went down, through the conclusion of the 2010 season. The Babe. The Kid. The Curse. The Monster. A Century of Stories. Frommer managed to touch all the bases.
The promo material somewhat brazenly refers to 2004, when the Sox came back from a 3-0 deficit against the Yankees and went on to win their first World Series in 86 years, as the "greatest sports story ever told," but hey, if they had to wait that long, what's a little braggadocio? This book is more of a coffee-table collectible than a must-read, but it delivers as promised and figures to be a big hit leading up to Fenway's 100th anniversary, April 20, 2012.
As for the book on Jeter, well, it's pretty much like his career. You won't find any tabloid headlines because that's not the style of the New York Times (they don't call it the "old gray lady" for no reason).But not much is missed.
He has been called the "Face of the Franchise" and the "Brand of Baseball," among other things, but Jeter is best known as "The Captain" and the New York athlete who has been able to fly under the gossip radar better than any. But he's also coming off the toughest offseason of his career, with his abilities and range questioned equally.
He had contentious contract negotiations for the first time and his role as the team's leadoff hitter is now reported to be in jeopardy. But if there's going to be any Jeter dirt, it will have to wait for another day -- and another book.
"Derek Jeter -- From the Pages of the New York Times" (Abrams, $29.95) basically chronicles a Hall of Fame career from beginning to what many feel will be the final chapters -- a lot of information and no surprises.


tor is a open source VPN like service that is secure and free, but it is also very slow and doesnt have vpn chrome extension for netflix as many features as paid VPN services. It is just not worth the time and effort. I wouldnt recommend other free VPN services because they either try to install ad-wares on your computer or the majority already have their IP a good vpn reddit addresses blocked.
There are plenty of VPN providers you can choose however the one I like the most is. HMA Pro VPN. The reason is simple: HMA Pro VPN has largest amount of VPN servers and IP addresses in 51 countries, the largest amount of any VPN service.
all Teddy hma pro vpn support Bears Soft Toys Baby Charlie Bears Steiff a good vpn reddit Merrythought Gund Kaloo Other Brands Clearance.
Also used for importing and exporting bulk data. CSVDE Comma Separated Value Data Export: A method of bulk importing or exporting data from a CSV file to perform a task commonly used for bulk import/export of users or computers with AD CX Context:Terminology used by.
change language Argentina: Espaol Australia: English Belgi: Nederlands Belgique: Franais Brasil: Portugus do Brasil. France: Franais India: English Indonesia: Bahasa Indonesia Italia: Italiano Malaysia: Bahasa Melayu Mxico: Espaol. Canada: English Canada: Franais esk a good vpn reddit republika: etina Chile: Espaol Colombia: Espaol Denmark: English Deutschland: Deutsch Espaa: Espaol.therefore you a good vpn reddit are in charge with deciding the level of protection you need. Every person needs a different level of protection for his/her privacy.Express VPN Apk is a wonderful application for secure your internet connection; Very easy and simple tool that have all functions; You can create best secure online IP only with one click.
no log policy "Unlimited connections and a good vpn reddit low yearly price, unlimited devices Easy to install and use User-friendly VPN service. GOOSE VPN Service Provider - Safe and Limitless Online. We think Goose VPN is something to honk about.".
changing the user agent can be an effective troubleshooting tool. I think the actual hint here is a a good vpn reddit reminder that if a site misbehaves,click here:. Then a free. Is it legal to use a good vpn reddit a. To get started with our free version, vPN from a reputable company can be a perfect solution for you. VPN? If you just need a basic level of privacy protection,It seems that Astra 2E's UK beam has been made deliberately weaker).


Can beauty really tame a beast?
For ten years, former Wall Street executive Wolfram—along with his staff—has been magically imprisoned in his midtown penthouse after his firm pissed off the wrong witch. Now, only one thing can free him from the curse.
Unfortunately, they're not sure what that one thing is.
Light can lift his shadowed soul when beauty frees the beast.
When a young reporter named Beau accidentally stumbles into their midst, the staff thinks he might be the answer to the witch's riddle—if only they can convince him to stay.
Beau has his doubts when he’s asked to write the mysterious billionaire’s biography, but he can’t say no to the huge sum of money being offered. Resigned to his fate, Wolfram hates the idea of a stranger intruding in his life.
What neither man expects is the deep connection that forms between them. As they work together, Wolfram and Beau forge a passionate bond that threatens to boil over into something more.
The only problem? Thanks to the curse, Wolfram is a seven-foot-tall monster with eight weeks left to live unless the spell is broken.
Can Beau save a love he’s only just found, or is it too late for one man to set Wolfram free?
Author's Note: Beau and the Beast is a steamy, contemporary gay May-December romance set in the real world with some magical themes and an HEA.
As fairy tales go, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is certainly one of my more favorites (and my second favorite Disney animated movie), so the idea of a gay, urban fantasy take on the centuries old tale sounded wonderful. Beau is a young reporter trying to make ends meet while caring for his younger brother. Wolfram, once a man suffocating in a world of greed and unscrupulousness, is angry, filled with hate, and now trapped in a beastly form with time running out. Pair them with fabulous secondary characters made up of Wolfram’s top executives who are stuck within the curse and in the penthouse with him, and I was eagerly turning the pages to see how the story would unfold, and where the author was going to take me.
In an unusual and kind of funny twist of circumstances, Beau ends up agreeing to write Wolfram’s biography for $50 million which Wolfram’s staff is sure is the way to break the curse. The decision is made once they realize Beau is a reporter and in French his name means handsome or beautiful, thus he must be the beauty spoken of in the poem the witch left Wolfram. Wolfram refuses to let Beau know about the magicked watch the witch gave him which counts down the days until the curse ends, Wolfram dies, and none of them have a clue what will happen to the staff at that time.
I’m not going to go into the details of Beau and Wolfram slowly becoming friends and then falling in love. Believe me when I say it’s beautifully written and had me sighing more than once. Much like the familiar fairy tale we all know, there is an ex-suitor of Beau’s, who along with his younger brother begins looking into Beau’s disappearance. Beau called his brother Noah and told him he was taking this job to write a biography and he would be out of touch but when Lincoln starts Noah worrying that Beau is in some kind of serious trouble - well, I thought I knew where the story was going to go but I was thrilled the author didn’t make anything predictable.
I fell in love with so many characters in this novel. Beau and Wolfram were unbelievable and their love story, the one written in this book, is definitely for the ages. It made me laugh and it made me cry. I loved how the author took the gist of the original tale and made it hers, made it something amazing for the male/male romance genre. The ending couldn’t have been more fantastic and completely unpredictable - loved it! ‘Beau and the Beast’ is definitely going into my to-be-reread shelf. I highly recommend this book!


shows the average property price in a given postcode sector between March 2018 - February 2019. The most affordable place was 'BD1 4' with the average price of £43.4k. The most expensive place was 'BD1 1', £275k.
With the average price of £121k, Bradford is the 4. cheapest city out of 113 England and Wales' cities.


Alternative splicing of the T-cell protein tyrosine phosphatase (TCPTP) transcript, generates two forms of the enzyme that differ at their extreme C termini: a 48-kDa endoplasmic reticulum-associated form and a 45-kDa nuclear form, By affinity chromatography, using GST-TCPTP fusion proteins, we have isolated three cytoplasmic proteins of 120, 116, and 97 kDa that interact with TCPTP, The p120 protein associated with residues 377-415 from the C terminus of the 48-kDa form of TCPTP, whereas the recognition site for p97 and p116 was mapped to residues 350-381 encompassing the TCPTP nuclear localization sequence (NLS). The TCPTP NLS was shown to be bipartite, requiring basic residues 350-358 (basic cluster I) and 377-381 (basic cluster II), the sites of interaction with p97 and p116, for efficient nuclear translocation, The interaction between p97, p116, and the TCPTP NLS appeared unique in that these proteins did not form a stable interaction with the classical NLS of SV40 large T antigen or the standard bipartite NLS of nucleoplasmin. Sequence analysis of p97 identified it as the nuclear import factor p97 (importin-beta), which is an essential component of the nuclear import machinery, In assays in vitro in permeabilized cells, p97 was necessary but not sufficient for optimal nuclear import of TCPTP, We found that TCPTP co-immunoprecipitated with the nuclear import factor p97 from cell lysates and that purified recombinant p97 and TCPTP interacted directly in vitro, These results indicate selectivity in the binding of p97 and p116 to the TCPTP NLS and suggest that p97 may mediate events that are distinct from the classical nuclear import process, Moreover, these results demonstrate that the C-terminal segment of TCPTP contains docking sites for interaction with proteins that may function to target the enzyme to defined intracellular locations and in the process regulate TCPTP function.


Adama Barrow, who won the election ending 22-year rule of President Yahya Jammeh, vows to introduce two-term limit.
Yundum, Gambia - The Gambian opposition leader, Adama Barrow, has won the presidential election, ending the 22-year rule of President Yahya Jammeh in the West African country.
News of Barrow's victory prompted thousands to take to the streets of the capital Banjul in celebration - some on foot while others rode in cars and trucks and on motorbikes - as confused soldiers looked on.
Following his victory, Al Jazeera caught up with Barrow for an interview. The transcript of the interview has been edited for clarity.
Al Jazeera: During your address to the nation and during the campaign, you pledged to carry out some electoral reforms, including a two-term limit for president. Can you elaborate?
Adama Barrow: We promised to do a lot of things, including electoral reforms. We will look at everything and avoid making any mistake to arrive at a final document. We want the democratic process to be very smooth in the future. We want a level playing field for every politician in the future, that is our goal.
Al Jazeera: What do you mean by a level playing field?
Adama Barrow: We need laws that will favour everybody.
Al Jazeera: You also talked about reforms in public service that is free from corruption and nepotism. How do you intend to go about it given that your two predecessors failed to do so?
Adama Barrow: Well, if they failed to do it that does not mean it cannot be done. Nobody thought we could change this government by the ballot box. But the mentality of the people, the social media, played a role in voter education.
We will educate the people to carry the reforms and guarantee job security. That will help people to continue working hard and make sure Gambia benefits from the civil service.
Al Jazeera: What are some of the civil services reforms that you want to pursue immediately?
Adama Barrow: The focus of our civil service reforms are job security and review of salaries. These are the main issues that we want to start immediately.
Al Jazeera: Do you want to increase the salary of the civil services staff?
Adama Barrow: We will look at it very critically, analyse it and calculate the inflation level, living standard of Gambians, and then measure the salaries.
Al Jazeera: Agriculture was very high on your agenda during the campaign trail, how do you intend to boost the productivity of agriculture?
Adama Barrow: We don't have minerals here. The backbone of this country is agriculture. Basically, you can say 75 percent [of the people] are involved in agriculture, but they need guidance, they need government to bring in policies that will guide the farmers in improving the farming sector.
In the past, the government made efforts in that aspect. Maybe there were shortcomings but they tried setting up farming centres all over the country that was helping every farmer to do very well. And I think we will improve on that.
Under President Yahya's government, all those farming centres collapsed completely, and they no longer exist. Farmers were not able to get help from anywhere, nothing like that.
Al Jazeera: You also spoke about a focus on technology, energy production and mining. Can you shed more light on this?
Adama Barrow: Without energy there cannot be production, without energy it is very difficult for a nation to develop because we are in the 21st century now.
Every technology has to use energy so that is fundamental. If there is no energy, there is no work, everything stops. It is something that is very, very important.
We also plan to encourage mining to help develop this country. If we are lucky to mine anything that will contribute to the economy of this country.
Al Jazeera: The current mining activities are based in the coastal areas. But coastal settlements are saying that these mining activities are threatening their environment. How will you strike a balance between mining and environmental protection?
Adama Barrow: You know when you are doing these things, you have to calculate all the aspects, but at the same time, part of what is generated from there should go back to the people, should protect the environment. When we get there, we will look at that.
Al Jazeera: You also talked about judicial reform, what exactly do you want to reform in the judiciary?
Adama Barrow: We want a free and independent judiciary whereby nobody can influence the judiciary. We will put laws in place to protect those people running the judiciary. They will have that job security, they will have that independence. We will reduce the powers of the president.
Al Jazeera: Youths played a very pivotal role in electing you into the office. What do you have in store for them?
Adama Barrow: We will not forget the youth. We will focus on job creation so that we can win their confidence.
We have lot of things that we can do in this country, even the fishing industry is under-exploited. We will exploit that area. We will encourage investors to go into manufacturing and other industries.
Manufacturing is a big market. When you produce, you can export. When you produce, you can create employment so we are looking into that. We are in the 21st century so we must produce, we cannot just be consuming without producing.
So with that I think that will give encouragement to the people and it will win the confidence of the people and will create jobs for the youth.


Abraham Lincoln learned many lessons on responsibility while growing up in Indiana. This lesson allows the teacher and students to share and talk about responsible actions.
As a young boy growing up in Indiana, Abraham Lincoln learned and practiced the act of taking personal responsibility. Abraham borrowed a biography of George Washington from his neighbor, Josiah Crawford. By some accident the book was ruined by a rainstorm. Young Abraham acknowledged to Mr. Crawford his accountability. Abraham agreed to work off this debt to Mr. Crawford by pulling fodder (cut the tops from corn) for two days.
Post-it note pads, copies of worksheets, poster board, books on Lincoln's life. Print copy of student reading for all students.
Tell the following story to students: As a young boy growing up in Indiana, Abraham Lincoln learned and practiced the act of taking personal responsibility. Abraham borrowed a biography of George Washington from his neighbor, Josiah Crawford. By some accident the book was ruined by a rainstorm. Young Abraham acknowledged to Mr. Crawford his accountability. Abraham agreed to work off this debt to Mr. Crawford by pulling fodder (cut the tops from corn) for two days.
Part 1: Teacher: Share a personal experience from your childhood in which you were faced with a dilemma (i.e. borrowing something and losing it, stealing, breaking something that didn't belong to you). Leave out the ending of the story, allow the students to pair up and share about possible ways to resolve the situation. Encourage the students to brainstorm as many resolutions as possible. Have them write their endings on sticky notes. Write the words "Responsible" and "Irresponsible" as headings on the board. Discuss and categorize the brainstormed outcomes as a class and place the sticky notes on the board under the appropriate headings as determined by the class.
Part 2: Journal: Have the students write about a time they were faced with a difficult situation and had the opportunity to practice responsibility and what the outcomes of their choices were.
Part 4: Everyday Dilemmas: In groups, brainstorm dilemmas that students may run into during the school year and how a responsible person would respond. (create slogans, i.e. " if you borrow it, bring it back") Have students create posters depicting a young Abraham Lincoln responding responsibly (using the slogans in school settings). Allow each group to present their poster to the rest of the class and explain how they think a young Abraham Lincoln would have responded.
Have students use a computer or Abraham Lincoln book to research and be able to complete Abraham Lincoln timeline worksheet.


Are you looking for Manual Testing Jobs in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, and Mumbai??
At least 4 years of experience with writing and executing test plans, test scenarios, and test cases for web applications.
Understand requirements at the beginning of each Development. The sprint from the Development Team.
Prepare test plan, test cases and test scenarios for each sprint.
Execute the Test Cases and prepare Testing Reports.
Provide Feedback to the Developer and work with them to resolve the identified defects.
Familiarity with software defect management process.
Responsible for Product Quality, Test Case Design, Defect tracking & Closure.
Execute planned testing tasks and provide timely and accurate analysis of findings.
Creates test cases, prepares required test data, and executing the test cases.
Proven work experience as a Manual test engineer.
Experience in product lifecycle management, Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Should have good knowledge of software testing life cycle and development life cycles.
Experience in understanding the software project requirements, Analysis and converting requirements into test cases.
We are looking for professionals who can work on client-server applications, designing, and coding solutions.
Should be 7 – 9 years of IT experience with a strong emphasis on analysis, design, coding, and unit testing.
Well-versed in Big Data related skills such as Hadoop, Map Reduce, Hive, Yarn, Spark, Scala, and Java.
Extensive experience in handling the tools such as Eclipse IDE, IBM Rational, Apache Sqoop, and Hue.
Worked on Sqoop to import data to Hive.
Strong in Manual testing concepts.
Knowledge in Selenium with Java (Automation Testing).
Diebold Nixdorf India Private Limited.
Interviews on Saturday, 22nd Sep. Interested candidates can apply or call on 022-66497516 to fix the schedule. (Interviews only for who take appointment).
Must have good analytical and troubleshooting skills.
Review, analyze and understand the product requirements.
Experience in scripting languages such as Powershell /Groovy /Shell scripts.
Experience in test automation tools and test automation frameworks for UI, API and Mobile testing.
Programming of APIs in a combination of the following: Java or C#.
Experience in implementing CI/CD with Jenkins.
Performance, load, concurrent user and stress testing development, execution and publishing results.
Generate test summary reports for management review.
Analyse root causes of performance issues and provide corrective actions.
CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Private Limited.
Performs routine activities related to applications development. Focuses on learning and acquiring work skills / knowledge in the Applications Development field.
Responsible for writing test cases, automation scripting, executing them and maintaining the relevant logs.
Analyzes test results to ensure functionality is implemented correctly and highlights them in case it is not so.
Manual Web UI functional testing Candidate is expected to have Foreign Exchange experience of 2 years.
HP QC or ALM, JIRA. Selenium, UFT.
Should be able to work in the team and have good communication skills.
Must have project experience in Coded UI and Web API Testing.
Should have hands on experience on Automation Testing.
Good to have knowledge on Database testing.
This is a Fixed Term Contract Role for a period of 11 months, Shortlisted candidates will be invited for in-person interviews on 22nd Sep at BLR office.
3. Ability to writing new test cases for the feature, execute and maintain.
4. Break the code attitude.
5. Self-motivation and a strong bias for action; the ability to hit aggressive productivity goals without micromanagement.


Explanation: What is that unusual light in the sky? A common question, this particular light was not only bright but moving and expanding. It appeared just as the astrophotographer and his friend were photographing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California against a more predictable night sky. They were not alone in seeing this unusual display -- at least hundreds of people in California reported a similar sight. The consensus of experienced sky observers was that the plume resulted from a rocket launch -- an explanation that was soon confirmed as an unpublicized test of a submarine-launched, unarmed, Trident II D5 nuclear missile. Such tests are not uncommon but do not usually occur just after sunset near a major metropolitan area -- when they are particularly noticeable to many people. Were plume images not posted to the Internet and quickly identified, such a sky spectacle might have been understood by some to be associated with more grandiose -- but incorrect -- explanations.


In the BHT-7000, I want to use programs made for the BHT-5000 as they are. Are there any differences between the BHT-7000 and BHT-5000?
Listed below are the differences between the two series.
*1 In the readcode parameter, more than one condition may be specified with commas.
*2 The user-defined cursor display function displays a cursor in the shape defined by the user. The cursor shape may be defined with the APLOAD or KPLOAD statement in single-byte ANK mode or two-byte Kanji mode, respectively.
*1 The remote wakeup function allows you to turn the BHT on and run the specified user program from a remote location by sending the specified message from the host computer to the BHT placed on the CU.
If the BHT is turned on using this function, it will automatically run a file named "BHTRMT.PD3" or "_BHTRMT.PD3."
*2 Updating with the BHT system parameter file refers to uploading or downloading a file named "_BHT.SYS" which stores system environment settings specified in System Mode and other settings (e.g. LCD contrast and beeper volume) for updating system settings.


Jon Danzig: The Scots have got it right.
Facebook friend: People should understand that governments don't have a big switch that's marked 'growth'. The economy drives growth, not government.
Jon Danzig: The government can either assist in that growth or put obstacles in the way. In modern societies, governments provide the infrastructure for companies to start, grow and be successful: education systems, transport, enterprise zones, fair taxation and laws, etc. Entrepreneurs are not successful in isolation, they need a good nation in which to thrive. Otherwise most companies would set up in Jamaica where tax is only 5%. They don't because the infrastructure isn't there. UK needs to make it much easier for businesses to be successful, and that requires investment in growth, including investment in huge capital projects to get the economy climbing again.
Facebook friend: Agreed but if a small business wants to grow, employ more people and get new premises but can't because customers aren't buying its product, no government can help there. I personally think that there are too many unions, work shy, benefit cheats and economic migrants in the UK that are a drag on the economy. Examples: benefit cheat doesn't have to work so is drain on resources, and probably got a nice house too. Economic migrants work hard but use our local council, NHS without having spent years of national insurance. They also probably send some of their earnings back home so is another net drain on the economy. It also doesn't help when Starbucks avoids tax through complicated brand royalty schemes!
Jon Danzig: Benefit fraud accounts for only around 1% of total benefits paid, and most of the problems relate to error rather than fraud. In proportion, this is tiny compared to the billions lost through tax evasion and avoidance by huge corporations. Most people on benefits are desperate to get back to work. The government can assist with shopping, but instead the government's decision to increase VAT has deterred shoppers. The government can help to instill confidence in the economy and our future, which is reflected in people shopping more. Regarding migrants there are strong arguments that they have helped to boost our economy. It also works both ways: hundreds of thousands of Brits work in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Poland, etc. If they all had to come back home, we would then be in trouble!
Facebook friend: £1.2 billion is the number related to fraud they know about. What about the fraud they don't know about?
Agreed, they should close complicated tax loopholes and schemes, whilst making sure these companies don't go elsewhere with less onerous tax regimes.
Jon Danzig: Well if you know about fraud that the authorities don't know about, please report it. If you have better sources of statistics, please provide. The officially compiled statistics are the only ones we have. Everything else is either conjecture, anecdote or, sadly, prejudice.
Facebook friend: Unfortunately, the ever relentless upward pressure on prices stems from increasing populations globally, the rise of China and India (they're eating more meat) and they're consuming more energy. Simple elasticity of demand - that's why food, gas, electricity is all more expensive.
Jon Danzig: I think if you dig deeper you'll find that China and India are not the source of our high prices; in fact the opposite is true. Without a flow of cheap goods from these countries we would find shopping prohibitively more expensive. It's shocking that many of the clothes and foods we buy are produced by people, including children, living in, or on the edge of, poverty. We need to consider a new world economic order if we have to rely on those supplying us with food not having enough to eat for themselves.
Facebook friend: It's not prejudice Jon. I can give you an example. Couple of builders my girlfriend knows go to Germany to work on contracts cash in hand. They also claim housing benefit and employment benefit in the UK. I know you like proof, statistics but I can have an opinion based on what I hear anecdotally. And to base debate on statistics because they're the only ones we have is missing the whole picture. Either the statistics need revisiting, the definition is wrong or there aren't enough fraud investigators (only four thousands vs millions of benefit claims). I mean 400,000 claiming disability allowance? Please don't label it prejudiced Jon, it's simply an opinion which isn't yours.
Jon Danzig: I prefer evidence to opinions, or conjecture. The example you have quoted is anecdotal and there is no way to independently verify it. I could also provide many anecdotal stories of those on benefits struggling and desperate to get back to work. If we ignore evidence and rely only on anecdotes and prejudice, we will surely be in a much bigger mess.
Please answer me this: have you or your girlfriend reported those builders to the authorities? If not, doesn't that make you both complicit in fraud?
Facebook friend: OK well you don't understand how statistics (not evidence) are compiled. Please tell me the definition of £1.2 billion in fraud? How collated? Based on what? Per year? Is that just the claims or the cost of chasing fraud? Are they estimates or fact? Please explain.
Jon Danzig: The definition is explained in the annual statistics on benefit fraud compiled by the Department of Work and Pensions. This is a 79 page document, and open to the public to scrutinise. If you have better statistics, I am keen to see them. My opinions are subject to change on receipt of new or better evidence.
I am sure there are those who cheat, that is not in doubt. The question is: what proportion cheat? From the evidence I have read, I believe the proportion is very low, but it’s still important to stop all fraud.
You mentioned that you knew of people who are cheating the benefits system, and I was interested to know if you had reported them?
Facebook friend: I think people need a bit of real world bias to their debates. I personally didn't report them because I heard it third hand. I have no reason to doubt the source. She didn't report it due to patient confidentiality in the NHS. I hope that answers your question Jon. Have a great day!
Jon Danzig: The real world isn't just that which we can see within our horizons; that's why we need massive number crunchers to give us the full real world picture. If your girlfriend has genuine evidence of fraud, I believe she has a public duty to report it. My understanding is that laws regarding confidentiality are voided in cases of criminality.
Have a great day too. I hope our online debate has given readers pause for thought.
Facebook friend: Article from four days ago in Telegraph: "New figures show the level of fraud convictions have risen by more than 40 per cent amid a new crackdown on benefit cheats."
The statistics document on fraud [from Department of Works and Pensions]: section 1.17 - a list of caveats and explanations about why those statistics do not give a full picture.
Jon Danzig: Yes, in all life we never get the full picture; we try to get the best picture we can. That's why it's vital we welcome all debates that challenge ‘evidence’ so that we can reach wider understanding and consensus. The statistics provided by the Department of Work and Pensions are, I believe, the best we have. I welcome, and challenge, anyone with a different view to provide better, fuller, more empirical statistics and evidence. Based on the known evidence, I believe it is shameful to stigmatise poor people on benefits when the vast majority of them are not cheats; they cannot work for genuine reasons.
I also dislike the term 'benefits'. Unemployed and ill people have mostly paid National Insurance Contributions and are entitled to receive help in times of need. If you have house insurance and your house burns down, do you call it a 'benefit' if you receive insurance money to replace what you lost?
Facebook friend: And foreign nationals that haven't paid NI? They get NHS care - I ask why?
Jon Danzig: You need to define foreign nationals. Those who are legally resident here are entitled to NHS care. Non-EU visitors are not entitled to free NHS care, except in the case of accidents and communicable diseases. National Insurance contributions are paid to build up your entitlement to certain state benefits.
Government statistics state that 371,000 migrants made benefit claims last year, representing 6% of all claimants, most of them legitimate. The research suggests workers born abroad are less likely to claim benefits than UK nationals. Last year there were 5.5 million people claiming benefits. Maybe some more cheats could be found, but I believe it’s unlikely that such an exercise would make any noticeable improvement to the country’s economy. To boost the economy, we need a government policy of promoting growth and entrepreneurs, and to be much tougher on corporate crime, which completely dwarfs that of benefit fraud.
PS Some of our most successful entrepreneurs have been migrants. We need to encourage more of them to come here - a policy that fortunately our government is promoting.
PPS Regarding the Daily Telegraph reporting a 40% rise in benefit fraud convictions, this was a rise from 7,040 convictions in 2010, to 10,000 convictions last year. I support such initiatives to crack down on genuine crime. However, the proportion of benefit claimants who have been found to be fraudulent is still tiny.
Facebook friend: Ok John. It's Sunday. You've worn me out!!!!
Jon Danzig: It was a good debate, and I feel we both had important points that deserve greater exposure. Thanks for participating and let's meet for lunch soon.
*This debate genuinely occurred on a public discussion on Facebook, but my friend has chosen to remain anonymous.
I am the facebook friend. I am not happy about Jon posting this 'private conversation' here. I doubt whether he will allow this comment to be published on this article, but we shall see.
I’m not sure I understand this comment, but at least it demonstrates the discussion above was genuine. The original discussion that I initiated on my Facebook page was set to ‘public’ for the world to see, so it was never private. Anyone could have copied it or referred to it, and still can. The ‘public’ discussion is still on Facebook, but the discussion here has always been anonymised.
I have apologised to my friend for any misunderstanding. I have left the discussion here as it raises many important points and the ‘friend’ has not been identified. I believe that to be fair, and I understood from my friend that he thought that was fair too.


Curry is, on the face of it, the same kind of problem for dialetheists that the Strengthened Liar is gap theorists. If you try to get around the Simple Liar ("this sentence is false") by saying that it's neither true nor false, you're going to have a hard time convincingly applying that solution to the Strengthened Liar ("this sentence is not true"), since, after all, if it's neither true nor false, it's not true, so it is true.
Sentence C: "If sentence C is true, the earth is flat."
So, regardless of whether you take C to be true, false, both, neither, tralse, frue or whatever, the mere statement of its truth conditions entails that the earth is flat. (Or, more to the point, entails everything, since the consequent could be anything.) For the dialetheist whose program is to embrace a few contradictions here and there while retaining the ability to reason non-trivially, this is every bit as much of a problem as it is for everyone else. Moreover, it's quite obviously a Liar-like semantic paradox, and the logical rules we appealed to (centrally Modus Ponens and Conditional Proof, which together seem like the most basic, intuitively obvious rules about conditionals that you could ever hope for) aren't ones whose justification relies in any way on the assumption that there are no true contradictions. (Contrast to the proof that contradictions entail everything, which relies on Disjunctive Syllogism, which in turn does rest on that assumption, since if there are true contradictions, then it's possible for P to be true and hence for (P v Q) to be true, and for ~P to be true as well, but for Q to be (just) false.*) As such, one might be forgiven for wondering if Curry shows about dialethetic approaches to the semantic paradoxes (even more specifically, the semantic paradoxes revolving around self-referential truth-talk) exactly what the Strengthened Liar shows about the (simplest versions of) gappist solutions to the same paradoxes: that they're simply a non-starter, because there are clear examples of the relevant category of paradoxes relative to which they don't help.
Now, keeping in mind that any dialetheist's favored logic had better be paraconsistent (if they don't want every contradiction they believe in to entail everything), one paraconsistent option is relevance logic, where validity-as-mere-truth-preservation is rejected and a tighter sense of "follows from" is insisted on. Moreover, the proof machinery of some relevance logics--requirements about discharging certain premises, multiple uses counting the same as others, etc.--might invalidate the above proof, without forcing the dialetheist relevance logician to bite the considerable intuitive bullet of giving up on Conditional Proof or Modus Ponens.
The point, after all, of the more tightly disciplined inference rules of that relevance machinery is precisely that truth-preservation isn't enough, that inference needs to be held to a higher standard. Now, there's an interesting and respectable case to be made for that claim, but it doesn't strike me as being very relevant to why Curry is a problem.
If the dialetheist relevance logician grants that the statement of the truth conditions for Curry is true--Tr ↔ (Tr →E)--and, to be clear, they'd damn well better accept that, given that T-Schema-absolutism is central to the argument for true contradictions from the Liar, and the dialetheist can hardly start claiming when it comes to Curry that problematic sentences are meaningless or non-truth-evaluable--and they grant that all of the steps in the proof are truth-preserving, whether they take them to be valid just seems to be beside the point. The relevance logic proof machinery might stop you from having to come to every conclusion, but the proof still shows us that every conclusion is true.
As such, if you want to be entitled to reject the substantive thesis of trivialism--everything is true--any solution to Curry in terms of relevance requirements for validity simply won't cut it.
*Technically, given the logical equivalence of P→Q with (~P v Q) in classical logic**, one could argue that Modus Ponens--being logically equivalent to Disjunctive Syllogism--does rest on the assumption that there are no true contradictions. I'm not aware, however, of any dialetheists who take this route, and choose to live without the inerential power of Modus Ponens, rather than simply arguing against the equivalence of P→Q with (~P v Q).
**Sometimes critics say things about this like "in classical logic, the conditional is (~P v Q)" or "classical logic claims that P→Q means (~P v Q)," but I tend to think that this runs rough-shod over a rich problem area of philosophical debate about meaning. Intuitively, after all, two things can be true under all the same circumstances but still mean quite different things. ("Consider "the sun has a shape" and "the sun has a size.") There are philosophical theories of meaning that deny this intuition, but it is, at any rate, a contentious issue.
***Graham Priest thinks he has just such an explanation: the Incosure Schema. The Liar fits, the set-theoretic paradoxes fit, Curry doesn't, so it's OK that his solution to the first two doesn't apply to the third. I find this fairly unconvincing, for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that the subject matter of the first and third seem to have a lot more in common with each other than the first does with the second. A fuller critique of the IS is a subject for another day--and, actually, a paper I'm working on--but I'd say for now simply that if Curry doesn't fit, that looks like a pretty good counter-example to the claim that the IS captures the relevant cluster of paradoxes, given that Curry is a classic semantic paradox involving a self-referential truth-value ascription.


'Fringe' Season 5, Episode 8 Review - All Quiet on the Western Front?
In this week's episode of Fringe, "The Human Kind", Peter attempts to take on Windmark head-on, while Olivia fulfills a legend by obtaining another piece of Walter's puzzle.
As Peter's personal battle against the Observers continues, Windmark begins to use Peter's new abilities against him, forcing him into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. In an attempt to learn more about what Peter has implanted in himself, Walter and Astrid begin to investigate how the human brain is affected by the Observer's technology. Meanwhile, Olivia searches for the next piece in Walter's plan, taking her to a rundown building where its inhabitants have been waiting for years for her for to come. However, when a local soothsayer begins to speak of the future (and past), Olivia decides that Peter must return to normal, no matter what the cost.
Like most of the episodes in Fringe season 5, "The Human Kind" contains within it another fetch-quest of sorts, helping to slowly advance the overall plot with the acquisition of another piece to Walter's mysterious plans. However, what's also included is an enjoyable and compelling character story which serves to elevate the series overall, regardless of what the overall story-arc may be.
With only a few episodes left before the final episode of Fringe, the Observer storyline is essentially a "take it or leave it" aspect of the series' final year. As of now, fans of the show will have already recognized that there there is no clear narrative, other than "defeat them," that's driving this season. Of the four years spent investigating fringe events, the Observers were only recently established as being some form a parasitic element of a future gone awry, so their new-found attack on humanity and generally talkative nature aren't the strongest storylines to create a tale worthy of so many episodic treasure hunts. Still, even this has become a moot point.
What this season of Fringe has done, however, is attempted to replace any lack of strong story foundation with a string of intriguing character moments. This is arguably not the most ideal way to tell a story but, at this point, you can't really change the past. To Fringe's credit, these character moments, which were initially few and far between, and are now more common, are generally successful in their execution, providing audiences with numerous strong and satisfying tales to accompany whatever the sought-after item of the week is.
In this week's episode, the breadth of Peter's new abilities are explored, revealing all of the dangers that come with being transformed in to an Observer and what, exactly, can be done to prevent him from changing permanently. Even though audiences were already aware of the negative impact the Observer device has on Peter, taking an entire episode to explore this element, using the entirety of the cast, served to satisfy many of the questions that this plotline created. And considering the swiftness in which this storyline was wrapped-up, it's a good thing that they did.
The ease by which Peter's Observer "issues" were wrapped up in this episode are, arguably, the weakest and most awkward aspect of this story-arc, leaving many viewers to wonder what was the actual point of implementing a major plot twist for merely a few episodes, only to pull it as the seasonal objective is about to be completed. Of course, it's extremely likely that this storyline will return, along with Peter's transformation. Even so, perhaps a slower reveal of Peter's transformation would have been more appropriate than simply pausing to return to it later.
Fortunately, it's difficult to challenge Fringe when science storylines are on the table, and this episode was certainly all science (with a bit of a emotion – and only 1 psychic).


The indictment alleges that from around June 2016 the conspirators released tens of thousands of stolen emails and documents "using fictitious online personas, including 'DCLeaks' and 'Guccifer 2.0.'."
In a statement on Saturday, a Twitter spokesman said: "The accounts have been suspended for being connected to a network of accounts previously suspended for operating in violation of our rules."
Twitter in recent months has purged suspicious user accounts in a bid to prevent the dissemination of fake news and "encourage healthy conversation," the company said this month.
Friday's indictment was the first by Mueller that directly charges the Russian government with meddling in the election. The Kremlin denies it interfered.
Speaking at a cybersecurity conference in Philadelphia on Saturday, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the indictments proved that the United States "will not tolerate interference with our democratic processes and that there will be consequences for foreign meddling."


University of Bristol researchers found that employees who enjoyed a workout before going to work - or exercised during lunchbreaks - were better equipped to handle whatever the day threw at them.
It also found that people's general mood improved on days of exercise but they became less calm on non-exercise days.
The research, published in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management, is the first of it's kind to prove that exercise during work hours has mental, as well as physical benefits.
Jo Coulson, Research Associate in the University's Department of Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences, said: 'Our statistical results were very important.
'On exercise days, people's mood significantly improved after exercising. Mood stayed about the same on days they didn't, with the exception of people's sense of calm which deteriorated.
The study group was made up of 200 university staff and employees working for a pensions company and an IT firm.
Each employee completed a questionnaire about their mood, workload and performance on days when they exercised.
The data was compared to answers from days participants opted not to exercise.
The workers, who were already in the habit of exercising, chose their own mode, frequency and intensity of workout to better reflect a real-life situation.
Most used a gym and did classes while some did weight training and team sports.
Seventy nince per cent said mental and interpersonal performance was better on days they exercised.
The questionnaire scores were 27 per cent higher on exercise days in categories such as dealing calmly with stress and 41 per cent higher for feeling motivated to work.
Those who exercised were also 21 per cent higher for concentration on work, 25 per cent for working without unscheduled breaks and 22 per cent higher for finishing work on time.
Feedback from focus groups found that people who built exercise into their workday were re-energised, calmer and more able to solve problems.
Ms Coulson added: 'It's generally well-known now that there are many physical and mental health benefits that can be gained from regular exercise.
'If people try to fit an active break into their working day, they might also experience the added bonus of their whole day feeling much more productive.
'And that always feels good in our busy lives.
'The study also begs the question whether employers can afford not to be encouraging active breaks.
Rihanna and Kate Moss take turns to strip naked as they pose in VERY provocative shoot The singer, and model took turns stripping off for the Testino shoot.
One dress, four ways to wear: Here's how to make your wardrobe work harder Here is how to wear a shift dress for multiple occasions.


How to set up your multimeter to record the open-circuit voltage. Electricians install and maintain the wiring and equipment that carries electricity, and they also fix electrical machines. The exact distances you pick may depend on the size of your potatoes. The positive is copper from a penny or copper coin while the negative is a galavanized nail. The chemical reaction typically occurs between two pieces of metal, called electrodes, and a liquid or paste, called an electrolyte. At this point, you may be wondering, What is the acid in the potato? You have probably used many devices that require two or more batteries, like toys or remote controls.
Objects or substances that prevent the passage of a steady electric current. Label the battery voltage and the resistance light bulb. In a conductive solution, the charge is carried by ions that move through the solution. A battery is a simple mechanism that consists of two metals in acid. Bad Question I don't understand the instructions.
Three potato batteries connected in parallel. The voltage of each piece of potato is added up. Voltage is a lot like a hill. The perfect thing to liven up a rainy day, school vacation, or moment of boredom. Cut a 3-4 inch length of copper wire and curve one end to create a hook. Old, dried out potatoes will not work well.
Draw one line for series and one line for parallel. What do you predict the total voltage will be? A galvanized nail is coated in zinc and makes it ideal for the lemon battery science experiment. You can conduct the experiment with any fruit or vegetable -- or an electrolyte solution such as Gatorade, which also contains phosphoric acid. A battery's open-circuit voltage is the voltage across a battery's terminals when it is not attached to anything. Refer to the previous steps to look for other problems with your experimental setup.
Some people hate sweet pickle or anything with sweet pickle in it. Embed Calculator By Movoto School is back in session and, for many, this means shopping for supplies, parent-teacher meetings, checking homework assignments, and helping out with projects and papers. This is the highest voltage that a battery can supply the voltage will drop slightly when the battery is attached to a load. About the same Do you agree? Here, positively charged hydrogen atoms, or protons H + , that originate from acids inside the potato phosphoric acid and organic acids , accumulate as they are attracted to the negative charge created by the surplus electrons at the copper electrode. Answer: No, you would need one more lemon or apple. This is referred to as the electrodes being polarized.
Multiple batteries can be connected two different ways: in series or in parallel. Option 5: Add 1 cup hot corn cut off a freshly boiled cob, or cut raw corn off the cob and fry in butter. More Curriculum Like This Circuits: One Path for Electricity Students learn that charge movement through a circuit depends on the resistance and arrangement of the circuit components. These claims have several serious problems. You'd have to take apart the connector and manually connect the wires to pieces of zinc and copper. The calculator will give you an estimation of the ingredients and quantities you'll need to feed 10, 25, 30, 50, 100 or more guests.
How Many Potatoes Does It Take To Power Your House?
The resistance is like the size of the pipe—it is harder to squeeze a lot of water quickly through a very tiny pipe than through a big pipe. He or she will soon discover that attempting to power an with a Gatorade-soaked onion doesn't work. The zinc and copper of the nail and copper hooks become the battery's electrodes, while the juice of the lemon serves wonderfully as the acidic conductor needed to help these two metals work together, thus creating power. Stick the copper side into one piece of potato and the nail into the other. Placement of the nail, penny and alligator clips. Now reattach the wire from the positive section of the calculator to the final copper hook in the second lemon.
Use two alligator clips to connect all of the copper electrodes, and two more alligator clips to connect all the zinc electrodes. In general, electrical current consists of the flow of electrons, which are negatively charged particles. We are also going to look at generating electrical current from the energy stored in a potato! Remove and re-insert the electrodes into new locations on the potatoes each time. The amount of energy produced. Creating a lemon battery science experiment is a great way for kids to learn about electricity. Recording it this way just makes it easier to graph your data later. Answer: Adding more potatoes in a row is the same as adding batteries in a row.
Now tell them you will do it with a potato! So take your measurement, then disconnect the wires. Ask: Can we get electrical energy from a fruit or vegetable? Many fruits and vegetables work, such as lemons, limes, apples and carrots. I'm not gonna waste calories on a mustard less white potato salad. Current is a measure of how many electrons are flowing in time. These are placed in an electrically conductive solution that allows ions to travel freely between the two metals. Because the zinc strip frees electrons and the copper strip uses electrons, if you put a wire between the two strips, then electrons will flow from the zinc to the copper.
How can a potato be used to light a lightbulb? After recreating that demonstration, he was looking for some electrical device that could be powered by such a small amount of energy. Two potato batteries connected in series. According to Naked Scientists contributor Dave Ansell, their lemon battery would have required 5,000 hours to charge their battery, and he predicted it would have most likely died within a mere 30 minutes. Then, move to a smaller scale if possible to improve measurement accuracy. Batteries power many things around you, including cell phones, wireless video game controllers, and smoke detectors. Or, for that matter, potatoes.


You have a database that contains sales data.
You plan to process the sales data by using two data streams named Stream1 and Stream2. Stream1 will be used for purchase order data. Stream2 will be used for reference data.
The reference data is stored in CSV files.
You need to recommend an ingestion solution for each data stream.
What two solutions should you recommend? Each correct answer is a complete solution.


Don’t leave your property’s gas safety inspection to the last minute!
Schedule your landlord gas safety check online for a day and time that fits your timetable.
A local gas safe registered engineer will perform a full and thorough inspection of your gas appliances.
You will be provided with a gas safety certificate for the service.
Get the peace of mind that all appliances function correctly and your tenants are safe.
Why do you need a gas safety certificate?
Homeowners who rent out their property are legally responsible for ensuring the safety of their tenants with regards to the correct installation of gas plumbing infrastructure and the proper function of gas appliances. The Gas Safety Regulations explain in detail the level of liability of homeowners, landlords and estate agencies in relation to performing an annual gas safety check and obtaining periodically a gas safety certificate. The latter is valid for twelve months and can be issued only by Gas Safe Registered Engineers.
Important: Failure to maintain gas use standards is a grave offence. Renting a property without completing a gas safety check carries a penalty of up to a £6000 fine and/or up to six months imprisonment.
Each gas appliance will be tested for tightness.
The standing and working pressure will be tested at all available test points.
The technician will also check the burner pressure and the gas rates against the manufacturer’s data plate.
All ventilation routes will be checked to ensure their proper function.
The engineer will test the flue flow to confirm that harmful gases are removed safely.
All flame failure and other safety devices will be carefully checked.
The gas safe registered engineer will also ascertain the presence and effectiveness of the stability brackets.
If defects, faulty devices and unsafe operations of your gas plumbing infrastructure are detected, the specialist will note them down and will include appropriate recommendations for repairs in their report.
Important: Flues in voids (in older flats and apartments) need be installed with inspection hatches. Otherwise, by Law, your gas boiler will be classified as “At risk” and will be turned off by the engineer until the flues are made accessible for checks.
What are my responsibilities with regards to gas safety if I own a property for rent?
It is your duty to maintain the proper operation of the gas plumbing infrastructure on the premises, including ventilation, pipework, flues, safety devices and appliances. You are also responsible for obtaining a gas safety certificate annually after an inspection has been performed by a Gas Safe Registered engineer. Newly fitted gas plumbing work and appliances also need be checked for their safety within 12 months of the installation.
Is it possible to transfer these responsibilities to my tenant?
No. However, for non-residential properties, a landlord and a tenant can sign an agreement that stipulates the latter’s duty to maintain the gas safety of a flue or appliance.
What are the tenant’s rights and responsibilities in relation to the gas plumbing infrastructure of the property?
The tenant has the right to obtain a copy of the gas safety record for the property. Records must be kept for at least two years. A new record should be submitted to the tenant within 28 days of the gas safety check being completed.
Why do I need to employ a Gas Safe registered engineer to complete gas maintenance tasks?
The Gas Safety Regulations in the UK set out certain conditions and requirements for homeowners, with regards to gas safety checks, gas work installation and use, as well as gas safety certificates. These are legal and valid (including for insurance purposes) only if a certified and gas safe registered technician has been hired to complete the gas maintenance and inspection work.
What should I do if I believe that there is a problem with a gas appliance at home?
If you suspect a gas leak or a faulty appliance, turn the equipment off, shut off the gas supply at the meter control valve, open the window and call immediately the National Grid's Gas Emergency Freephone number: 0800 111 999. It is illegal to use unsafe gas appliances until they have been inspected by a gas safe registered engineer.


I agree, it looks good, but it isn't saying what I think they want it to say.
it is well executed but question is the blind spot so that the skater can see the car? I feel a luck of connection to the car seeing the skater here it seems the skater can see the car coming from wherever.


Getting the softwareWhat's interesting about Carrier IQ's document is that it shows just how much control its customers--typically carriers and handset makers--have over the information collected. According to Carrier IQ, it provides several IQ Agent deployment options to customers. An after-market solution is "installed by the end user, just like any other after-market mobile application, it may be deleted by the consumer." However, it would seem that most of the company's customers go with two other options: preloaded and embedded.
CNET también está disponible en español, Don't show this again, Now comes Blades of Fury, an arcade-style fighting game that, in true Gameloft cloning style, could best be described as Mortal Kombat (or perhaps more accurately, Soul Caliber) for iPhone, Blades serves up 10 warriors, each with their boston terrier iphone case own moves, attacks, and even background stories, Choose a character, then square off against one foe after another, with 10 different arenas as your backdrops, Good news on the multiplayer front: You can challenge nearby competitors via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, The bad news: No Internet play, which would have been totally (pardon the pun) killer..
Method 2: Realign the docking port There is a chance that through normal wear and tear, your phone's docking port got misaligned, moving the home button along with it. Although a repair shop might suggest you replace the home button, this YouTuber offered a different solution. Plug a USB cable into your iPhone. Then, gently push down on the 30-pin connector, so that it pushes up behind the home button. While you apply the pressure, click the home button. Remove the cable, and see if that fixed the problem.
Is the HTC One the number one Android phone? What do you think of KitKat and the Nexus 5? Tell me your thoughts in the comments or on our Facebook wall, The HTC One is getting Android 4.4 KitKat "very, very soon", hard on the heels of the new Google Nexus 5, KitKat is coming to the HTC One "very, very soon", The latest Android update, announced today, makes its debut on the new Google Nexus 5, and HTC's flagship isn't far behind, Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic, We delete comments that violate boston terrier iphone case our policy, which we encourage you to read, Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion..
IBM has taken orders for "tens of thousands" of its Network Station 1000 model since its early December introduction, while Sun and Oracle continue to struggle. IBM has taken orders for "tens of thousands" of its Network Station 1000model since its introduction earlier this month, according to a companyspokesman. The $999 model is IBM's first Java-enabled NC and alsoaccommodates forthcoming Windows terminal software from Microsoft. Meanwhile, Sun missed a November target date for the introduction of itsJavastation NC, a release that was originally scheduled for February, andNCI recently trimmed about 15 percent of its workforce, reassigning some ofits corporate sales personnel in a move that indicates the company will focuson the consumer market. (Seerelated story).


The director of the new "Halloween" movie, David Gordon Green, wanted to reshoot parts of the ending of the original 1978 movie and use it to open his movie.
However, John Carpenter, the creator of the "Halloween" franchise who is also an executive producer on the 2018 sequel, told Green he should not do that because the "fans are gonna get pissed off."
Fans of the "Halloween" franchise are gearing up for a big weekend, as a new sequel to the original 1978 movie is opening on Friday with critics loving its fresh take on the John Carpenter classic.
But they all might have been feeling differently about it if Carpenter had not stepped in and put a stop to director David Gordon Green&# 039;s early idea of how to open the movie.
In early drafts of the movie, Green's "Halloween" was to open with the 1978 ending. However, Green wanted to reshoot parts of it, in which Dr. Loomis (played by Donald Pleasence) rescues Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) by shooting Michael Myers, who then falls off a balcony to the ground. However, he survives, leading to decades of sequels.
"The Shape GRABS LOOMIS' THROAT and throws him to the wall. Loomis drops the gun on the floor wheezing for breath. The Shape CHOKES Loomis, wh o struggles against the wall. 2. The Shape's thumbs crush Loomis' THROAT. He drops to the ground, DEAD. The Shape looks down at Loomis' lifeless body."
Donald Pleasence as Dr. Loomis in "Halloween" (1978).
Carpenter is an executive producer on the new "Halloween," and according to Collider, told Green why changing the ending of his "Halloween" would be a bad idea.
"I thought, 'That's a mistake. The audience won't like that. That's a revision I don't think we should do.' So that was my one big contribution," Carpenter said. "I thought the fans are gonna get pissed off at that."
Instead, Green, who wrote the screenplay with Danny McBride, decided on opening the movie with a pair of podcasters who seek to find where Michael Myers has been since the events of the first movie. This inevitably launches Myers' new killing spree.


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Baylor University has kept its assistant coaching staff intact after firing head coach Art Briles despite a scathing report that concluded multiple football ''coaches'' acted inappropriately in handling sexual assault allegations against their players.
Alex Zalkin, an attorney for Jasmin Hernandez, a former Baylor student who has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the school was indifferent to her reports of being sexually assaulted by a football player in 2012, questioned why Baylor hasn't dismissed more coaches. While The Associated Press generally doesn't identify sexual assault victims, Hernandez has spoken publicly to draw attention to the case.
In a statement Wednesday night, Baylor officials said ''additional members of the administration and athletics program have also been disciplined,'' but those individuals and their punishments would not be disclosed.
''The university will continue to review and work with athletic department administration regarding additional actions as appropriate,'' the school said.
Interim coach Jim Grobe, the former Wake Forest coach who came out of retirement to take over at Baylor for next season, said last week that he would retain all of Briles' position coaches . That includes Briles' son, offensive coordinator Kendal Briles, and his son-in-law, passing game coordinator and running backs coach Jeff Lebby.
Grobe said last week he has the authority to make changes, but didn't expect that anything from a recently-released investigation summary that would affect the remaining coaches.
''Going forward, I couldn't predict, but I think right now things are pretty stable,'' Grobe said.
- Meeting directly with a complainant or their parent and not reporting the alleged misconduct.
- Abdicating their duties under federal protections for student welfare, health and safety by not reporting incidents to the university or suspending players without explanation and helping them transfer.
- Seeking to maintain ''internal control'' over discipline of players and diverting cases from the student conduct or criminal proceedings.
Those instances helped reinforce '' an overall perception that football was above the rules, and that there was no culture of accountability for misconduct,'' the summary stated. The document doesn't identify any coaches by name or position - including Art Briles.
Pepper Hamilton said its investigation dated to the 2012-2013 academic year. According to the Baylor football website, eight of Baylor's nine position coaches have been on staff since 2011 or longer.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for a former Baylor student who said she was hit and choked by a former Baylor player said the woman exchanged text messages with Lebby about the incidents in 2014, and nothing was done other than to tell the player to stay away from her. The woman's lawyer, Ricky Patel, said she is considering a lawsuit against Baylor.
Baylor officials declined to address the allegations against Lebby, and instead issued a statement that the school remains ''committed to learning from the experiences of our students and former students'' as it works to improve how the school responds to complaints.
Pepper Hamilton's summary does not detail any of the incidents uncovered in the investigation, and Baylor has faced mounting pressure to release more information.
But Baylor interim President David Garland this week repeated the school's position that it will not release details in order to protect victim privacy. Baylor officials have said there is no formal, full report from Pepper Hamilton and that regents were briefed on the findings orally, behind closed doors, before the summary was released.


Suppose I have a data set on which I'm training a neural network. I'm using four-fold validation, meaning that I train four models, one for each fold. Two of the folds are used for training, one for testing and one for validation so that no model is trained on its testing data.
The result of this process is four trained models (obviously). My question is what is the correct way of reporting the performance for my network? Should I report the arithmetic mean of these four models on their respective folds or something else?
Do I include the validation set in final training?


Joseph Gordon-Levitt and, far right, Nora Zehetner in "Brick."
A contemporary high school drama in which every other word isn't "dude" or "awesome": what kind of movie is that?
"Brick," a flashy cinematic stunt perpetrated by Rian Johnson, dispenses with the adolescent gibberish of the here and now to graft the hard-boiled argot of Dashiell Hammett onto an upscale Southern California high school: the milieu of "Beverly Hills 90210" and "The O.C." goes noir.
In a twisty plot that proudly borrows elements from "The Maltese Falcon," "Red Harvest" and other Hammett yarns, Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a teenage Bogart-as-Sam Spade minus the trench coat and fedora, digs into a roiling adolescent underworld of murder and drug dealing. It's all so seamy, sordid, lurid and shocking! And dull, despite a noirish gloss of wide-angle cinematography and a jaundiced, smoggy color scheme.
If nothing else, the concept of a high school film noir is a shrewd attention-getting move for a first-time filmmaker like Mr. Johnson. "Brick" was duly awarded the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision in 2005. Its raw ambition certainly puts it near the head of its class in contemporary teenage dramas. But what does that mean in a genre dominated by C students and worse? The word "class" is a misnomer, since there's not a classroom in sight in "Brick." The main action takes place outside in the high school parking lot.
"Brick" is even less dramatically convincing than Alan Parker's 1976 gangster spoof, "Bugsy Malone," which cast children as hoods and featured the 13-year-old Jodie Foster vamping it up like Rita Hayworth in "Gilda." ("Brick" has nothing half as spicy.) Even a guilty pleasure like "Cruel Intentions," which took "Dangerous Liaisons" to high school, landed some uncomfortable emotional punches because it was acted rather than pantomimed.
The underachieving cast of "Brick" merely goes through the motions. The women are especially pallid. Isn't a deep whiskey-and-cigarette-ravaged voice a prerequisite for playing a noir siren? Or has the Hilary-Britney-Mary-Kate-and-Ashley chirp stamped out precociously womanly voices like the 19-year-old Lauren Bacall's in "To Have and Have Not"?
Maybe "Brick" is a comedy. There is something cute, if not outright ludicrous, in the spectacle of dewy young actors striking the poses of hard-boiled demimondaines and desperadoes and failing utterly to make them come alive. The movie seems to have its tongue stuck in its cheek during a final showdown in a suburban basement, during which the impervious mother of a teenage drug lord is upstairs baking cookies. But funny it's not.
The story, briefly: Brendan, a lean, squinty-eyed loner, senses that there is something rotten in his high school when his insecure, social-climbing ex-girlfriend, Emily (Emilie de Ravin), vanishes after phoning him in a state of panic. Brendan, who still cares for Emily, becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists his �ber-nerd pal, the Brain (Matt O'Leary), as fellow gumshoe. Brendan has an ambiguous relationship with the high school's stern assistant vice principal (Richard Roundtree), the movie's surrogate police chief, with whom he verbally spars in some of the film's most embarrassingly wooden conversations.
He soon discovers Emily's dead body at the entrance to a tunnel. As he meticulously retraces her steps, we meet high-school versions of the usual noir suspects: a predatory drama queen (Meagan Good), a stoner who requires some roughing up (Noah Segan), a slinky femme fatale (Nora Zehetner), a beefy thug (Noah Fleiss) and, finally, the drug lord himself, the Pin (Lukas Haas). Mr. Haas, who twirls a falcon-crested cane and walks with an elegant limp, suggests a wiry, smirking Sydney Greenstreet.
Mr. Haas and Mr. Gordon-Levitt at least succeed in evoking the outlines of their characters. But the film's ham-handed reliance on period argot not only wears thin; it keeps the characters, such as they are, at a chilly distance.
"Brick" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has strong language and some violence.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson; director of photography, Steve Yedlin; music by Nathan Johnson; production designer, Jodie Tillen; produced by Ram Bergman and Mark G. Mathis; released by Focus Features. In Manhattan at the Angelika Film Center, Mercer and Houston Streets, Greenwich Village. Running time: 110 minutes.
WITH: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brendan), Nora Zehetner (Laura), Lukas Haas (the Pin), Noah Fleiss (Tugger), Matt O'Leary (the Brain), Emilie de Ravin (Emily), Noah Segan (Dode), Richard Roundtree (Trueman), Meagan Good (Kara) and Brian White (Brad Bramish).


This is your personal text.
Life with a group of strangers was proving to be not as scary as Kesa had first thought. Once she had passed her acceptance into the pride she immediately began to make the land known to her. The last thing she needed to do was get lost or tread in places best left alone. There was a lot that was new to her. The strangest though had to be the 'human' lodgings. Kesa had never seen a human but her parents had told her many tales of the strange creatures that walked on two legs and fought with sharp sticks and other weapons. At first, and she feared, that the pride lived among them. The stories had left her with an uneasy feeling towards them. Thankfully she found no humans nor heard talk of them. The lodgings were merely shells of what once existed in this land.
Sometimes she would pass another member and would greet them enthusiastically, introducing herself before being distracted and finding something to engage herself in. Honestly, she loved it! There was always someone around who might talk to her, a huge change from only being surrounded by her two aging parents who soon tired of her talk. Perhaps that is why they encouraged her to seek out a pride; they needed the break. She laughed at that thought. They had often told her she was talkative and never knew when was a good time to shut her maw. Sometimes she missed them, especially moments when she relived some memories of home. However, the feeling would soon be pushed aside as she found something else in her new home that amazed her. The one thing that she was interested in the most was the ranks the pride provided. Upon her arrival, an old grey saber had spoken to her about the variety of jobs the pride expected their members to partake in. Some sounded interesting and others made her feel slightly uneasy. She was not a fighter, she had never fought in her life and feared the day she would be expected to. She was not a huge saber but she was fast. The old saber had mentioned the rank, fletcher. After finding out what it was she thought it was best suited to her personality. She loved talking to others which is what she would be expected to do if she acquired that rank. Of course there were other things she needed to consider such as invaders and stuff. Perhaps a few more days of thinking it through would do her good.
Kesa eventually found herself at the base of the tree houses. She had yet to gain the courage to venture up to them. These new things frightened her slightly. Walking around was beginning to bore her. She wanted to find someone to have an actual conversation with. There was no one in sight and she turned her head first to the right and then to the left. With a sigh she lowered her head to the body of water in front of her. The water was cool and while she drank she gazed down at her reflection, spotting something below the water. It was a tooth. What kind of tooth she did not know. It was not of a cat or even a wolf. This could be a great conversation starter for her. Excitedly, she pulled the tooth out the water and placed it on the ground in front of her. All she needed was someone to actually come along.
Stoneclaw had been his refuge. His sanctuary. The cubs that had accompanied him into the pride lands didn't need him anymore and as there were no more cubs for him to take care of. Not now anyway. At least they had escaped Mother.
The thought of Conchita stopped the mint colored saber dead in his tracks. Flashes of his life with her rushed back all at once and the male couldn't help but choke back a whimper, lavender eyes closing tight. His claws dug into the soft earth of the forest floor, trying to cling to anything that would keep him grounded. How could she have done such wicked things to children? He simply couldn't comprehend her specific brand of evil.
Nikolai needed water. He smelled the air, needing to find the nearest water source to swallow back the bile that had risen in his throat at the memory of cubs, mauled, being consumed. Before he knew it, he was running, tearing through the brush to get to the water. He didn't even see the female by the water's edge as he plunged right in. The shock of the cold water was enough to distract him, if even for right now. It wasn't until he broke the water's surface, gasping for breath, that he saw he wasn't alone.
His face burned with embarrassment, eyes darting away from her. How foolish he had been. Slowly Nikolai swam back over to the bank, pulling himself up from the muddied water. A small sound escaped him and he hung his head in apology.
Kesa found herself amazed at her discovery. She lay on the ground to allow herself a closer look at the tooth. "where are you from..." she thought out loud. In fact, Kesa was so distracted by the small object on the ground that she did not hear the visitor come bounded through the bushes. It was the splash that made her aware. The sound startled her making her jump up onto her feet. "What was that??" she yelled out, not to anyone in particular but more to herself. She looked around before spotting the feline in the water. A saber with the most beautiful coat she had ever seen walked out covered in water and a bit of mud. She heard what he thought was him saying something but it was too soft. His head was hung low and she couldn't make eye contact with him.
"Your fur is beautiful!" Kesa heard herself blurt out. She often said things without thinking it all through. This moment was one of them. No 'hello, my name is Kesa!", nothing. She always had to say what was on her mind. First she took a deep breath, then she tried again, "What I meant to say is, hi there! My name is Kesa." She would sit on the bank of the lake watching him. "Today is a very good day for a swim. Before I forget to ask, what is your name?". He was the first member she had met since she joined. She finally had someone to ask about the tooth!
"By the way, I saw this lying near the waters edge. It is tooth of some kind but I am not sure from what it comes from. Do you maybe have an idea?" There! She had done it. She had begun her plan to make friends. The first step was complete, meet someone! The second step was complete, initiate a conversation. Now on to step 3, maintain eagerness to socialise in order to not scare potential friends away. He parents had always told she had what was known as a bubbly personality. They warned her to introduce people to her personality slowly as not everyone would welcome it straight away. Let's see how well she can do that now.
Nikolai's lavender eyes grew wide and his face burned even hotter than before. He shuffled his paws and made another strange noise. She was very pretty herself but how could he possibly convey that without words? Most here didn't even know his unique hieroglyphics. Even if they did, there was no way for him to convey how to say his name. There was no symbol for himself.
"What I meant to say is, hi there! My name is Kesa. Today is a very good day for a swim. Before I forget to ask, what is your name?".
This time he whistled out of his nose, face twisted in sorrow. He couldn't tell her his name. His paws flexed nervously, as his eyes cast down in shame. If only he could speak... if only he could make his tongue form the words. Every time he did, the horrors of Conchita flooded back to him and the words were choked down once more.
"By the way, I saw this lying near the waters edge. It is tooth of some kind but I am not sure from what it comes from. Do you maybe have an idea?"
Finally something he could respond to! His ears perked up and he nodded vigorously. He'd seen plenty of these things since moving into the forest. Nikolai quickly went to the waters edge where the soil was soft enough for him to draw a symbol. First he thought he would try to explain why he didn't speak so he drew out the shape of an open mouth with a line through it, then opened his own mouth and pointed into it, making a strange noise as he did.
Then he quickly pointed to the tooth she had asked about and drew a new symbol in the soil.
Croc. He opened his mouth wide and snapped a couple of times, then waited to see if she got the point.


Q: What do I need to know about raccoons if I keep chickens?
If you keep chickens, you need to know that raccoons will absolutely prey on your flock if given the opportunity. To keep your flock safe, you need to make sure you outsmart them using the tips you'll find below.
With their black masks adding to their reputation as scoundrels, raccoons can be up to 30 inches long and weigh up to 20 pounds. As such, without your help, chickens are no match for them. Raccoons may very well be the number one land predator of chickens in the United States. The can be found almost everywhere in North America, as well as in some introduced areas in Europe and Asia.
A raccoon that gets into your coop or run will normally kill multiple birds if they can get to them, and the bodies will usually be left where they were killed, rather than carried away. Raccoons won't eat the whole bird or even most of it; they will often just eat the contents of your birds' crops and occasionally some of the chest. They are awfully destructive of your flocks' lives without bothering to eat much of their victims.
They can climb walls and over fencing, and they can reach their hands through wire mesh that is too small for their whole bodies to fit. In that last case, they will pull out parts of your birds if that is all they can reach. Raccoons have great manual dexterity and can open complex latches and closures and can dig under fences and into runs.
Don't attract raccoons to your yard. For instance, don't leave out cat food, and make sure they can't get to wild bird feeders or any seed beneath the feeders. In dry areas or during dry periods, raccoons may be attracted to sources of water in your yard, too. Don't leave anything out for them!
Make sure any wire mesh on your coop is securely attached because raccoons will try to pry it off or bend it enough that they can squeeze through. Don't use chicken wire: chicken wire is not a barrier to predators. Raccoons and other predators can tear right through it like tissue paper. (Chicken wire should only be used to keep chickens in, not to keep predators out.) Ideally, use hardware cloth with a fine mesh that raccoons can't reach through (use 1/2" or 1/4"). To keep raccoons from burrowing into your run, you can attach wire mesh to the bottom of the run and cover it with several inches of bedding, or use an apron fence around the perimeter of the run.
Use complex latches. Raccoons are very smart, but although they have been shown to open complex latches in laboratory tests, they will not usually be driven to figure out something really complex in the real world unless they are starving and all their easy meal options are gone. On your coop, latches that require two or more steps to operate are best. For example, a simple gate latch can usually be secured from raccoons just by inserting a screw lock carabiner into the bottom hole.
On the other hand, some people simply padlock everything. That is not usually necessary, and can make access more inconvenient for you, too. However, with a padlock, you will know they are safe. Raccoons are chiefly nocturnal, so if you free range your flock during the day, be sure to lock your birds up securely at night with the precautions recommended above.
Can my flock get rabies from raccoons?
Raccoons are carriers of rabies, so if you do see a raccoon out during the day, be very cautious. It might just be hungry, but it might also be sick. Your birds can't get ill with rabies, as avian metabolism is just too different...but humans can! Use extreme caution.
While raccoons are a formidable predatory nemesis, you can outsmart them and thwart their advances by following these tips to protect your flock.
What do I need to know about birds of prey if I keep chickens?
What do I need to know about crows if I keep chickens?
What do I need to know about foxes if I keep chickens?
What do I need to know about house cats if I keep chickens?
What do I need to know about human nature if I keep chickens?
What do I need to know about large felines if I keep chickens?
What do I need to know about snakes if I keep chickens?
What do I need to know about snapping turtles if I keep chickens?
What do I need to know about weasel family predators if I keep chickens?
What do I need to know about wolves and coyotes if I keep chickens?
Will my dog attack chickens?