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Rob Hubbard was named as Sam Houston's eighth women's tennis coach on July 11, 2016. In his first two seasons, Hubbard has directed the Bearkats to a 23-19 overall won-loss record and back-to-back Southland Conference tournament appearances.
During his first season at Sam Houston in 2016-17, the Kats produced a 6-5 record in conference play to earn the program's first trip to conference post-season play in four years. The team's nine dual match wins stood as the highest overall season victory total since 2009.
The 2017-18 Bearkats set a school record with a 14-6 dual match record, finishing third in the Southland race and reaching the tournament semi-finals for the fifth time in the program's 31 seasons in the league. The 8-3 conference record included two close 4-3 losses.
Five Bearkat players have earned either first team, second team or honorable mention all-conference honors the past two years. The Sam Houston women's tennis players have performed well in the class room as well, posting the highest overall team grade point average in the program.
Rob Hubbard, a Maryland native and former professional player on the ATP tour, came to Sam Houston after serving as head men's and women's tennis coach at the University of Maryland Baltimore County for the past eight seasons. He also was head coach at Goucher College in Baltimore and the University of Texas-Pan American.
"Rob Hubbard brings exceptional experience at all levels of tennis to Sam Houston," director of athletics Bobby Williams said. "He has coached successful teams at the NCAA Division I level, played college and professional tennis and worked in teaching and training high level junior players. As a college coach, he has demonstrated the ability recruit talented players who also can achieve at a high level academically."
Hubbard directed the UMBC men's and women's programs to a combined dual match record of 142 victories and 107 losses that included America East Conference championships in four consecutive seasons from 2010 to 2013. Both programs also exceled academically, earning Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) team academic honors.
As head coach at Goucher College from 2000 to 2005, Hubbard's teams earned NCAA Division III top 30 rankings and the program's first NCAA Championships berth. He was selected as both ITA Atlantic South Region and Capital Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.
He returned to his alma mater as head coach at UTPA and again produced squads who achieved both on the court and in the class room. His 2008 women's team rolled up 17 victories, the highest season wins total in UTPA women's history. The Broncs were one of only 20 programs nationally to earn ITA Academic Team honors for both men's and women's tennis.
"Rob Hubbard has brought something special to the Sam Houston women's tennis program," associate athletic director for student services and Bearkat senior women's administrator Chris Thompson said. "Respected in the coaching world, he has fielded a team that represents the university with class. As a player himself in college and as a professional, he can relate and communicate from first-hand experience. His coaching background reflects success in recruiting as well as in student-athlete welfare and academic achievement. Rob is a perfect fit for this program."
A 1974 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School in Maryland, Hubbard played on nationally-ranked teams at Texas-Pan American in Edinburg from 1974 to 1978. He was a part of the first Broncs' team to achieve an ITA Top 10 national ranking. He earned berths in the NCAA Division I Championships in both singles and doubles his final two years at UTPA.
Following the 1978 season, Hubbard turned professional and played three seasons on the ATP Tour where he was ranked in the top-300 in the world and competed in a pair of U.S. Open's in 1979 and 1980.
He was a two-time USTA National Champion (National Men's 35 and 40 Hard Courts) and was selected to represent the United States at the Italia Cup, a 35-and-over Davis Cup competition, during his post-professional playing days. He was also the USPTA Maryland Pro of the Year in 2000 and was the USPTA Mid-Atlantic 35-and-over Player of the Year during his elite playing career.
"I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of the Bearkat family and to lead the women's tennis program," Hubbard said. "It is a pleasure working with our student-athletes, the outstanding athletics department, and the Huntsville community. I want to thank Bobby Williams, Chris Thompson, and the rest of the department staff for this incredible opportunity.
"From the moment I first arrived at Sam Houston to interview I was blown away by the campus, the student-athletes, and the family atmosphere within the athletics department. Now it's time to roll up my sleeves and get to work as we focus on the team reaching the top of the Southland Conference as soon as possible."
Hubbard brings a strong background as a teaching professional. He spent eight years as the owner and director of Tournament Tough Training Center in Baltimore training elite junior players for national, sectional and state competition. In the program, players were mentored throughout on-court drilling and match-play as well as off-court weight training, conditioning, nutrition and mental training. The center produced more than 25 nationally-ranked junior players.
He also served as co-head coach of the USTA Junior Player Development Area Training Center in Baltimore; director of tennis at The Elkridge Club; head professional at the Orchard Indoor Tennis Club and co-owner of the Tennis Institute Tennis Camp. He started in the coaching profession as the Assistant Tennis Professional at The Wimbledon Racquet Club in Arlington, TX.
He is a certified coach by the USPTA and a former member of the Board of Directors of the USTA Player Development Area Training Center. He has earned a USPTA (P-1) Certification.
His wife Robin was a nationally-ranked tennis player at the University of North Texas and has more than two decades of coaching experience. The pair have won numerous mixed doubles titles together.
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Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education, Dharamshala came into existence in 1969. The headquarter located at Dharamshala in January 1983. Many number of Government & Private Schools/Government & Private Colleges working under the Himachal Pradesh School Education Board. The Function of HP Board is Prescribes the Syllabus, Exam Time Tables, Exam Important dates.
HP Board conducts examination for the following classes and courses are 10th, 10+2, J.B.T and T.T.C. Every year HPBSE releases the 12th Time Tables in the month of January/February. Students can check the HP Board +2 date Sheet 2019 will be also be printed in the state newspapers and televisions.
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'Journey Forth': Maps inspire abstract works
Arts & Entertainment // Arts & Theater
Kimberly Chun
1of2Reverberation #8 2013 graphite, ink, watercolor, and collage on paper 26 x 26 in | 66 x 66 cm Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi NorrisGallery Wendi Norris/Jeffery CrossShow MoreShow Less
Dog-eared Rand McNally road atlases and battered spiral-bound Thomas Guides may be things of the past for most travelers, post-GPS, but they still compel San Francisco artist Val Britton, who chose to follow their lead while attending California College of the Arts as a graduate student about nine years ago.
"It struck a chord with me," Britton, 36, says. "I'm an East Coast transplant and grew up with a dad who was a cross-country truck driver. He passed away when I was a teenager, and that was always something I was trying to work through." The act of driving across country with her husband, using an atlas to find parks and campsites, brought home that connection: "I had the idea of projecting those routes onto bigger pieces of paper, and it all started to come together when I let go of the figurative."
The shapes of land masses - or are they cumulus clouds, or planet clusters? - can still be made out in "The Continental Interior," Britton's mixed-media installation of hand-cut paper hanging in gallery owner Wendi Norris' glass-walled office, as part of "Journey Forth: Contemporary Landscape Between Technology and Tradition." But any resemblance to maps, real or imagined, start to break up in her more abstract paper collages using vintage papers or gold leaf.
"The pieces have taken off in their own imaginary space, using the language I developed with those maps," says Britton, who is working on a large-scale panoramic public art project of colored glass for the San Francisco International Airport.
Positioned behind glass, "Interior" is echoed in other works in the exhibition, like Patrick Jacobs' eerie diorama, "Raked Leaves," while the imaginary landscape in "Interior" finds a corollary in Clement Valla's "Postcards From Google Earth," which document the freaky glitches in the satellite imagery program. "One of the things I'm most interested in is really how technology is overlapping or converging with art in a variety of forms," says Norris of the group show she co-curated with Melissa Bernabei. With Britton, Norris adds, "there are so many ways you can interpret her work - with my tech background, I see networks. She loves the way that people can make the work their own - it has this organic sensibility and it's magical at the same time." Britton will bring that sensibility to Facebook next, as a resident artist at its Analog Research Laboratory. "It's a way," she says, "to bring makers, people who make things with their hands, into a community that's largely virtual." The ground plan includes an on-site installation involving experimentation with new materials. "All this is a badly kept secret internally. It'll be interesting to see where this goes."
Journey Forth: Contemporary Landscape Between Technology and Tradition: Through Aug. 31. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Gallery Wendi Norris, 161 Jessie St., S.F. www.gallerywendinorris.com.
Kimberly Chun is a Berkeley writer. E-mail: 96hours@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @kimberlychun

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2013 Sony Open Miami Recap and April Men's Tennis Preview
April 1, 2013 By grandslamgal
Recap of what happened at the 2013 Sony Open in Miami and a preview of what's coming up in Men's tennis in April.
Sony Open Tennis, Miami, Florida: Serena Williams and Andy Murray take home the titles
The 2013 singles titles were won by Serena Williams, who defeated Maria Sharapova 4-6, 6-3, 6-0, and Andy Murray who beat David Ferrer 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 after saving one match point himself.
Serena's win is a record sixth title at Crandon Park, Miami, surpassing Steffi Graf's five victories. Murray is a second time winner in Miami and now has nine ATP Masters 1000 titles to his name. With this victory Murray will rise to number 2 in the ATP rankings, overtaking Roger Federer.
Check out this Sony Open Tennis Review video by the ATP (it's a fab vid, definitely worth a look!)
With Federer and Rafael Nadal not playing in Miami the draw was more open than usual and before the tournament started the question was "which players would take advantage of this opportunity?".
After making the final at Indian Wells, there were big expectations for 5th seed Juan Martin Del Potro. In one of a number of Miami surprises Del Potro lost in the second round to Tobias Kamke 7-6, 6-1.
Tommy Haas, 15th seed, had a great run to the semi-finals in the top half of the draw, beating Alexandr Dolgopolov, Novak Djokovic and Gilles Simon along the way. He eventually succumbed to Ferrer 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
In the bottom half of the draw Richard Gasquet defeated Tomas Berdych at the quarterfinal stage 6-3, 6-3, before falling to Murray in the semi-final 6-7, 6-1, 6-2.
Read about the Sony Open Tennis plans for renovating Crandon Park, Miami.
Preview of Men's Tennis in April
5-7 April Davis Cup World Group Quarterfinals
USA v Serbia, Indoor hard court
Canada v Italy, Indoor hard court
Argentina v France, Outdoor clay court
Kazakhstan v Czech Republic, Indoor clay court
Find out who is in the Davis Cup teams
ATP Tournaments in April
April means clay time. Good for exciting tennis, not so good for those going if you're allergic to clay!
There are seven ATP clay tournaments in April. Watch for an update soon on who is playing where and the important details for each tournament.
8th April
Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco, ATP 250, Prize money €410,200
US Men's Clay Court Championship, Houston, USA, ATP 250, Prize money $455,775
Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, ATP 1000, Prize money €2,646,495
Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain, ATP 500, Prize money €1,708,875
BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania, ATP 250, Prize money €410,200
Portugal Open, Oeiras, Portugal, ATP 250, Prize money €410,200
BMW Open, Munich, Germany, ATP 250, Prize money €410,200
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If you are producing uplifting trance music in FL Studio, this template is for you. Studying this project file will give you a great insight on the processing of individual channels and mixing driving uplifting trance in FL Studio, through the use of EQ, compression, delay, reverbs, layering, automations & more. This template comes loaded up with full arrangement (as heard in the audio demo), mixing, FX chains, MIDI data and automation. It also comes loaded with all the samples and synth presets, so you'll get what you hear in the demo (if you have these synths & plugins).
This melody is copyrighted and you're allowed to use it for demo purposes only! But feel free to use any synths & effects sounds, presets, settings in your own production.
The melody is copyrighted and you're allowed to use it for demo purposes only! But feel free to use any synths & effects sounds, presets, settings in your own production.
Really impressed! I would have to say easily the best FL trance template I have come across. Iive been learning to write trance for 10 years and was happy to find some different and cool ways of doing things. Sounds Rad too ? Mateee good Job First Sight & Matt Chowski ?
Perfect to study basslines and melodies. More understanding how to program These tracks. The Arrangement is really good. Nice presets for Spire and good new inspirations. Summary: I learned a lot, studying all the sessions. Because of this, five stars.
A fantastic product full of ideas for me and a lot of essential parts of which to learn from and agreed this part of a track is the hardest to achieve. Good basslines and catchy leads! Really good template for Fl Studio users 🙂 Good job First Sight & Matt Chowski!
A liitle suggestion for all you producers looking to make money on these templates including this site…look at the list of external plugins one needs to run this template…most noobs dont have all these plugs so when they purchase theyre just not getting there moneys worth ….and its a big turnoff to someone like me who doesnt want all those plugs….if you make a template for a daw make it all internal plugs and synths ….then anyone can run it….youll make WAAAYYY more money than this stupidity i see on most of these sample shop sites….youve lost potential purchases today.
Do not buy if you have FL 12 and you don't have all the plugins mentioned.
Just downloaded it, it sounds terrible. I have some of the plugins, some are actually the same but named slightly different so it can't use them. Interesting to see how it's all layered, but I wanted to know how they make it sound professional. This makes it sound like an old school 90's midi file.


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'Scarlett Fagan' is a London born, Bristol based soul singer and songwriter. Scarlett released her first solo album on 13th May 2022. The album was written by Scarlett and produced by the genius, Matthew Dyer who will be accompanying her on piano at all of her upcoming gigs. Drawing inspiration from soul/jazz legends such as Amy Winehouse and Etta James, the songs that Scarlett will be performing will be raw and honest but with a seductive, sultry edge. Discover 'Conscious' the 17th August in Formula Indie
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Previous "Tus Ojos" is the second single of 'Dj Moderno's album "La Nave Nodriza" which was released on 6th April.It comes along with a videoclip The song is based on a powerful electronic base which could remind us of bands as The KVB, Disclosure or Sextile with pop melodies on the guitars, voice and syhtns.The lyrics are about a toxic relationship and a very bad night where many thing occurs.Dj Moderno is presenting his brand new album live in powerfull concerts and the acceptance of his songs in the specialized media and social is being great. Discover that the 17th August in Formula Indie
Next This is a pre-breakup song about boundaries, consent, and saying what it is that YOU actually want in life is super important. '7000apart' wrote this song in 20 minutes on a balcony in Stockholm about how "no" can actually be a nice word. It's healthier for everyone to say no if you don't want something than to not say anything and ghost someone. Discover 'No is a Nice Word' the 17th August in Formula Indie


Google Alerts is probably one the most powerful Google service for people (especially bloggers) who want to stay ahead of their competition. With Google Alerts, you get an instant email notification whenever something happens in your niche or topics that matter to you.
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<TITLE>Review for Nobody's Fool (1994)</TITLE>
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Nobody's Fool (1994)

reviewed by
Vince Deehan

                              NOBODY'S FOOL
                       A film review by Vince Deehan
                        Copyright 1996 Vince Deehan

Directed by Robert Renton.
Written by Robert Renton. Based on the novel by Richard Russo.
Cast : Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith,
Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Gene Saks.

NOBODY'S FOOL is set in the small town of North Bath, in upstate New York,
and tells the story of Sully (Paul Newman) a man who has been living life
by his own rules and has long since abandoned his wife and son.  Sully is in
his sixties and does odd-jobs around town with his slow-minded friend
Rub (Pruitt Taylor Vince) and is trying in vain to get some financial
compensation from the Tip Top Construction company boss Carl (Bruce Willis),
for whom he did a job during which he suffered an accident, damaging his knee.
Sully hasn't got alot of money so he hires the services of a local one-legged
lawyer (Gene Saks) who tells Sully that although they haven't won compensation
yet, his constant attempts will eventually lead to success.

Sully shares a house in town with his elderly landlady, Miss Beryl (Jessica
Tandy), who clearly values Sully more than he does himself.  When Miss Beryl
suffers a mild stroke and is released from hospital she hopes that Sully will
look after her, a suggestion that he doesn't take too enthusiastically,
although she is sure he is up to the job.

Sully's ex-wife still lives in the same town, though she is now remarried, and
she is visited for Thanksgiving by her and Sully's son and grandchildren.
Sully meets up with his son and becomes quite close to his newly met
grandchildren and gradually starts to bond with his son Peter (Dylan Walsh)
who he abandoned as a child.  Sully is a very unconventional guy and sees no
wrong in the petty theft of his old boss Carl's snowblower. When Carl finds
out who took it from him he steals it back from Sully and then Sully gets
Peter to help him steal it again. From this point on Sully and his son begin
to get closer and Peter comes to know his father for the first time.

Paul Newman gives a fantastic performance as Sully, but is never flashy and
showy.  It is a subtle performance that slowly builds up to give the picture
of man who has a good heart but has made some mistakes in his life that he is
now trying to amend for. There is no clear reason given for Sully's
abandonment of his wife and son (other than admitting that he didn't get
along with his wife), and somehow this doesn't really matter. We don't need
to know exactly what went wrong, we can see clearly enough that Sully was
probably unable to cope with the responsibility and simply fled.  In the
scenes with his son Peter, there are no exaggerated scenes where Sully begs
forgiveness from his son. Sully knows he has done wrong and simply lets Peter
into his life and lets him decide for himself if he can learn to respect
his father.

The supporting performances are also very strong, with Jessica Tandy and Pruitt
Taylor Vince deserving the most praise.  NOBODY'S FOOL is dedicated to Jessica
Tandy, who died before the film was released.  She gives a fine performance
as an old lady who knows that she has found a soulmate in Sully, although she
knows better than to expect him to acknowledge it.  Every scene she is in
radiates with the warmth of her character.  It's a joy to watch her scenes
with Paul Newman, particularly the scene at the hospital where she breezily
mentions that she had suffered a small stroke.

As Sully's friend Rub Squeers, Pruitt Taylor Vince delivers a finely judged
performance as an innocent, childlike man who is very close to Sully, and
feels very upset and left out when Sully's son Peter comes along and seemingly
takes Sully away from him.  The scene where Sully reassures Rub that they are
still best friends leaves Rub close to tears . This is a scene where the
sheer skill of Newman and Vince veers the scene away from mawkish
sentimentality and makes it feel natural and real.

NOBODY'S FOOL is a wonderfully engrossing study of small town life where
excellent writing and acting combine to show characters you slowly come
to know and care about.

Review written on Sat 2nd March 1996 by Vince Deehan
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Q: REST- SOAP - oData - Web API explanation I've been a developer since 1 year ago working mostly with C#, Javascript and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. However, there's a topic that, to be honest, I do not undertand at all, this is Web Services.
I know that they are used to "connect" two systems and transfer information using XML. The thing is that I do not understand the differences between SOAP, REST, oDATA and other terminoligies related to this.
So, I was wondering... is there any easy explanation for this?

A: REST is based on HTTP so it's good for web services. OData is a standardized REST protocol so you don't need to invent your own api. SOAP does not use HTTP so is used for integration within a businesses network.

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After his surprising first-round defeat by Mike "Fireball" Dechaine, Shane Van Boening has been a man on a mission, hoping to reclaim the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships title he first took in 2007. He most recently eliminated Virginia State 9-Ball champion Brandon Shuff 11-4 and then whitewashed Chris Bartram 11-0. Van Boening's next opponent will be the loser of the Manny Chau / Francisco Bustamante match.
After his surprising first-round defeat by Dechaine, Van Boening has been a man on a mission, hoping to reclaim the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships title he first took in 2007.
Dechaine saw his tournament come to a close in 49th place after his loss to Ramil Gallego of the Philippines. Gallego goes on to face the loser of the Ralf Souquet / Raj Hundal match.
Former world champion Ronnie Alcano remains still alive, having bested Paul Song 11-5. Filipinos Lee Van Corteza and Antonio Lining did not fare so well, though. Corteza was eliminated by Tommy Tokoph 11-8, and Lining was ousted by Daniel Heidrich 11-7. And 2005 champ Alex Pagulayan was eliminated as well after a nail-biting 11-9 match against Jeremy Sossei. 2009 Semifinalist Donny Mills was also sent home after a tight 11-9 loss to Beau Runningen.
The father-and-son duo of Ernesto and Oscar Dominguez are headed home as well after Thursday's rounds. O. Dominguez was eliminated by Dechaine 11-9, and E. Dominguez ran into a determined Keith Bennett, who won their match 11-8.
Local fans were disappointed to see the elimination of Chris Futrell, a young player but a classy one. Futrell had a close match with Earl Strickland but fell 11-9. Strickland moved on to oust So Shaw 11-4 and now waits for the loser of the Charlie Williams / Tommy Kennedy match.


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Q: How to set value for a base class from derived class in c# wpf public class Baseclass
{
    private int mTotal = 0;
    private int mID = 0;

    public int Total
    {
        get { return mTotal; }
        set { mTotal = value;}
    }
    public int ID
    {
        get { return mID; }
        set { mID = value;}
    }
}

public class Derivedclass : Baseclass
{
    private int mX = 0;
    private int mY = 0;

    public int X
    {
        get { return mX; }
        set
        {
            mX = value;
            Total = Total + mX;
        }
    }
    public int Y
    {
        get { return mY; }
        set
        {
            mY = value;
            Total = Total + mY;
        }
    }

}

public partial class  Test : Page
{
    Baseclass B = new Baseclass();
    Derivedclass D = new Derivedclass();
    public Test()
    {
        Calculate();
    }

    public void Calculate()
    {

        for(int i =1; i <5 ;i++)
        {
            B.ID = i;
            for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
            {
                D.X = j;
                D.Y = j;
            }
            MessageBox.Show("ID " + B.ID + " Total Sum" + B.Total);
            B.Total = 0;
        }
    }
    // Out put should be
    // ID 1 Total Sum 16
    // ID 2 Total Sum 16
    // ID 3 Total Sum 16
    // ID 4 Total Sum 16
}

Here I have two classes, Baseclass and derivedclass. I want to find out the total sum of x and y property which is in derived class and set the total sum to Total property of base class And i want out should be like this
// ID 1 Total Sum 16
// ID 2 Total Sum 16
// ID 3 Total Sum 16

A: If you want to reference any inherited members, you can either just use the property name, as you have above. If there's a name conflict, or you'd like to be more clear, you can use the base keyword, like so:
base.Total = 15;

Here's the MSDN article on the base keyword: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hfw7t1ce.aspx
It seems like you're a little confused about the idea of inheritance, though. An instance of Baseclass isn't going to have any relationship to an instance of Derivedclass, or vice versa, because they're totally separate objects that lack references to one another. Inheritance controls the members - fields, properties, and methods - that a class has, and allows derived classes to reuse code from their parent while extending their functionality towards more specific use cases. In short, your B and D objects are never going to be talking to one another, and that's not really the point of inheritance in the first place.
So, without the useless B object, your Calculate method should look like so:
public void Calculate()
{
    for(int i = 1; i < 5; i++)
    {
        D.ID = i;
        for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
        {
            D.X = j;
            D.Y = j;
        }
        MessageBox.Show("ID " + D.ID + " Total Sum" + D.Total);
        D.Total = 0;
    }
}

This version of Calculate() will show the following:
ID 1 Total Sum 20
ID 2 Total Sum 20
ID 3 Total Sum 20
ID 4 Total Sum 20

A: You dont need to create separate instances for base and derived classes. Derived class will have base class properties in it.
Your Test class should look like this
public partial class  Test : Page
{
    Derivedclass D = new Derivedclass();
    public Test()
    {
        Calculate();
    }

    public void Calculate()
    {

        for(int i =1; i <5 ;i++)
        {
            D.ID = i;
            for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
            {
                D.X = j;
                D.Y = j;
            }
            MessageBox.Show("ID " + D.ID + " Total Sum" + D.Total);
            D.Total = 0;
        }
    }
    // Out put should be
    // ID 1 Total Sum 16
    // ID 2 Total Sum 16
    // ID 3 Total Sum 16
    // ID 4 Total Sum 16
}

A: your base class could have a virtual method. instead of a property
class Baseclass
{

public virtual int GetTotal(){return 0;} // or throw new NotImplementedException();
}

public class Derivedclass:Baseclass
{
    int x = 2;
    int y = 3;

    public override int GetTotal()
    {
        return x + y;
    }
}


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The economic environment for housing in 2017 was quite favorable and housing markets responded positively, having their best year in a decade. Incomes were up and job growth was strong. Mortgage rates remained low, falling for much of the year. Home sales through October were on track for the highest total in a decade, housing construction picked up, albeit slowly, and home price appreciation remained robust. And all those Millennials we have been hearing so much about? They finally started to move markets, forming households and buying homes at increasing rates.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that U.S. median household income increased for the second year in a row to over $59,000 1in 2016. Income growth carried over into 2017. Real Gross Domestic Product has averaged 2.5 percent growth over the first three quarters of 2017. Economic growth in this expansion has been weak relative to prior expansions, but we have seen growth averaging about 2 percent a year since 2012.
While overall economic growth has been modest, job gains have been strong. The U.S. labor market has had positive month-over-month job growth for 86 consecutive months, the longest streak in post-war history. Job growth has helped to push the unemployment rate to 4.1 percent, the lowest level since December 2000.
Despite the low unemployment rate, consumer price inflation remains subdued. Headline inflation has averaged about 1 percent over the past three years. Low consumer price inflation helps consumers by supporting purchasing power, but it also has another key impact on the housing market; it helps to keep mortgage rates low.
And mortgage rates are indeed low. In our Primary Mortgage Market Survey, U.S. weekly average 30-year fixed mortgage rates peaked at 4.3 percent in March, but then trended down, falling below 4 percent since May and standing at 3.94 percent as of December 11, 2017. Low rates help support homebuyer affordability. For example, the decline in rates from March to December saved a typical homebuyer about $600 a year in mortgage payments2.
These positive economic factors have helped to support housing demand. Despite being weighed down by low levels of available for-sale inventory, home sales are on pace for their highest total in a decade. Part of the reason for a lack of inventory is a slow recovery in new home construction, but single-family construction is grinding higher. A steady improvement in new home construction will be key to restoring balance to housing markets.
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Despite growing affordability challenges, young adults have started to move the mortgage market. The homeownership rate for households under 35 years of age increased 1.4 percentage points from the third quarter of 2016 to the third quarter of 2017. With a population of over 70 million, even modest increases in the rates of homeownership by the Millennial generation will have a big impact on the housing market. The total number of first-time homebuyers through the first three quarters of 2017 was 1.6 million, up 8 percent from the same period last year per a report by Genworth.
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One wild card is tax policy. Changes to tax policy have the potential to shift the trajectory of housing markets. The size of the impact that these changes will have is up for debate. Estimates from different analysts show a large variation in estimated impact, based on assumptions about which provisions will be enacted and how the economy will respond. National Association of Home Builders CEO Jerry Howard said that the proposed tax plan would lead to a drop in house prices and could lead to a housing recession. Yale economics professor and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller believes that the plan won't have a large impact.
If the tax bill increases the deficit, inflation expectations may rise and put pressure on long-term interest rates including mortgage rates. A large increase in mortgage rates would significantly dampen housing market activity. On the other hand, increased after-tax income for some households may support consumption spending, and reduced corporate taxes may drive private investment spending higher. The resulting increases in incomes and Real GDP may partially or even completely offset the negative impact of higher mortgage rates. At this point it's hard to say exactly what the total impact on housing markets will be. What we can feel confident about is that housing affordability will be a growing challenge in 2018 and beyond. With limited supply and a large, growing, young adult population entering peak homebuying years, competition in the year to come will be fierce.
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2 Assumes a $250,000 30-year fixed mortgage, principal and interest payments only.
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Q: Google Sheets query in Python I have a Google sheet that grabs data from a website using the =IMPORTXML function. I also have a Python script that grabs data from the Google sheet. The whole thing is working, but I'm now trying to streamline it. This whole thing started as a manual process in Google Sheets. It's now automated, but it's not pretty.
Two specific questions:
1) What is the best way to scrape a website using Python? I'd like to get this all running in a single script. Would something like Beautiful Soup be a good solution?
2) Currently the query to the google API is coded to run separately each query (it's not a sub function, but I'd like to turn it into one). It essentially copies the quickstart script:
spreadsheetId = 'xxxx'
rangeName = 'xxxx'
result = service.spreadsheets().values().get(spreadsheetId=spreadsheetId,range=rangeName).execute()
values = result.get('values', [])
variable = ''
for row in values:
    variable = '%s' % (row[0])
if variable != storedVariable:
    print ('Condition not met...')
    return;
#Do a thing

My code has various versions of setting a variable, checking it against a stored value, and proceeding if the correct conditions exist. Is there an easier way to parse the values returned from the API call so that it's set as a variable?

A: *

*BeautifulSoup will work well for scraping data as long as the page is completely static. For most webpages you'll need to be able interact with the page to get to the data you need or iterate through multiple pages. Selenium is great for these situations.

*I don't have a better solution for this question. The google-api-python-client library is cumbersome. It looks like gspread used to be a good alternative with more features, but it hasn't been updated for almost a year and seems to have fallen behind the google library.


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CHICOPEE, Mass. - In a match up of the top two seeds in the New England Collegiate Conference, Elms College defeated Lesley University in the fifth round of penalty kicks to take the inaugural NECC Women's Soccer Championship. The two teams tied at 1-1 through regulation and two overtimes, but the Blazers would prevail 4-3 in the shootout.
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For their efforts, Cathryn Folkestad (Ipswich, Mass.), Lani Cabral-Pini (Wilmington, Mass.), Jodi Fralick, and Jenna Fralick received All-Tournament Team honors.
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From the archive: A history of Altenburg
The log cabin seminary under a protective shelter in Altenburg. (PHOTO BY LOU PEUKERT ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
ALTENBURG: FOUNDED IN SEARCH OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, COMMUNITY IS RICH IN GERMAN HERITAGE
By DAVID HENTE
ALTENBURG, Mo. — The east Perry County community of Altenburg is the only community in the world named after the 1,000-year-old city of 56,000 in the German state of Saxony.
The name Altenburg, Saxony, founded in 976 A.D., comes from the German alten (old) and burg (fortress), and is named for an ancient castle in the city.
Altenburg, Mo., population, 307, was founded in 1839, for the same reasons English pilgrims came to America and founded Plymouth Rock, Mass.: religious freedom and freedom from religious persecution.
Altenburg, Mo. was laid out and founded by German Lutheran pilgrims, who came to Perry County from Altenburg and nearby villages in Saxony, Germany. The 668 immigrants came to Missouri in the largest mass immigration since the English pilgrims. German Lutherans sought freedom from the oppressive German Saxon State Church, which they felt had strayed far from the teachings of the Bible and the doctrines of the founder of the Lutheran Church, Dr. Martin Luther.
In Germany they formed an Auswanderungs-Gesellschaft (emigration society) with $88,000 in communal funds, and in 1838 they sailed from Bremen, Germany, in five chartered ships. One ship was lost at sea; the other four made it to New Orleans. From there, they journeyed by steamboat to St. Louis, where they founded a parish.
At St. Louis, the immigrants bought 4,475 acres of land in Perry County for $9,234 from the communal fund. They chose Perry County because the gentle, rolling hills and forested woodlands reminded them of the terrain in Saxony.
The pilgrims stepped off the steamboat from St. Louis on the west bank of the Mississippi River near the present gas pipeline bridge over the river. They established seven congregations and seven communities: Altenburg, Wittenberg, Frohna, Dresden, Seelitz, Johannisberg and Paitzdorf (now Uniontown), all named after towns and villages in Saxony.
They barely survived the physical hardships during their first year in Perry County. In addition, they had to contend with the spiritual blow of finding out their pastor, Martin Stephan, was a false leader.
After Stephan's exile to nearby Southern Illinois, the group was led by another pastor, C.F.W. Walther. It was under Walther's leadership that Altenburg and the other communities began to grow and prosper. Under Walther's guidance, a log cabin college was opened on Dec. 9, 1839, with seven students to train teachers and pastors for the seven churches. The cabin was the first Lutheran seminary west of the Mississippi River. It was later moved to St. Louis.
From this tiny colony of German Lutheran immigrants was to come the foundation for a new church. In 1847, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod was formed in Chicago, and Walther was elected its first president.
A view from the site of Dresden looking toward the town of Altenburg, which is surrounded by beautiful farms and pastures. (PHOTO BY LOU PEUKERT ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
Of the original settlements established by the Saxon Lutherans in Perry County, Altenburg, Frohna and Uniontown survive.
Wittenberg, situated on the banks of the Mississippi where the immigrants stepped off the steamboat, has been hit by a series of major floods since the turn of the century. Few buildings are left there.
But Altenburg and its neighboring community of Frohna have continued to prosper because of the fertile farmland that surrounds the two towns and a vigorous timber industry.
Altenburg Mayor Tom Meyr is pleased the town's population has increased from 256 to 307 in 1990.
Meyr said:"It's a good sign that we're not losing as many of our young people after they graduate from high school. With industries like the East Perry Lumber Co., Timber Exports, and Major Custom Cable there are jobs available for husbands and their wives."
When not tending community business, Meyr operates a fork lift at nearby East Perry Lumber Co.
Some Altenburg residents work in nearby Perryville, McBride or Cape Girardeau. "They were born and raised here and they do not want to live anyplace else," said Meyr.
A native of Farrar, which is a few miles north of Altenburg on Route C, Allen Lohmann, 36, came to Altenburg in late 1993 to reopen the town's only tavern, formerly called Someplace Else. The tavern had been closed for two years. Lohman said he decided to reopen the tavern, now called The Port, because he grew up in east Perry County and enjoys living in a small town like Altenburg.
There are no fast-food places in Altenburg, but there's no problem finding good, home-cooked meals at Trics, or Pete's Place. Altenburg Foods is a full-line grocery and meat store. The Bank of Altenburg is close by, and Emily's Beauty Shop is across the street. Residents fuel up at the Gas Mat at the west end of town, and get their hardware supplies from Bellman's. The Altenburg garage handles most vehicle repairs.
There is a public elementary school in Altenburg, but most of the children attend Trinity Lutheran School.
(PHOTO BY LOU PEUKERT ~ Southeast Missourian archive)
Most people live along Route A, which winds its way for nearly three miles through town, much like the narrow roads that snake through many of the smaller towns and villages in rural Germany.
"Some people might think life is pretty boring in Altenburg," said Meyr. "But between the ladies aids at the two churches (Trinity and Immanuel Lutheran), the other church organizations, and the men's and women's church league softball teams, you can stay busy pretty much the entire year.
"We have a very active East Perry County Jaycees chapter that sponsors a lot of activities, including the East Perry County Fair in September. We also have a busy Altenburg Lion's Club.
"Of course, a lot of people just like to sit back after work and enjoy our small-town atmosphere while working in the yard or garden. After the mill and the other businesses close down for the day, it gets real quiet and peaceful around here."
Because Altenburg is considered the birthplace of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, it hosts many visitors from throughout the United States and world. They come to see the log cabin seminary and Lutheran Heritage Museum in Altenburg and the Saxon Lutheran Memorial in nearby Frohna.
Meyr said, "On the average, we get about three or four tour buses a month that stop in Altenburg for people to visit the historic sites."
Meyr said more should be done to preserve Altenburg's heritage, including the native language of the Saxon pilgrims. "At one time everyone learned German because it was spoken every day in the family home," he said. "The kids only learned English when they started school."
Today, fewer young people can speak and read the native tongue, which some grandparents still speak fluently. Meyr said visitors to Altenburg are surprised to find that he does not speak the native tongue.
Altenburg's city clerk and collector, Carol Wunderlich, works at the Gas Mat. Wunderlich said a man came in recently who spoke German and wanted to know about the history of the town.
"He was a resident of Altenburg, Germany, and had stopped here to find out more about the history of our town," said Wunderlich. "As it turned out, one of the members of our Lion's club was showing slides he had taken in Altenburg, Germany. I sent the visitor from Germany over to the meeting, and he wound up telling everyone more about the slides than the club member did."


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Q: Selection of UITableViewCell Changes when Scroll down in Swift I am using a UITableView and what I am doing is I am changing the color of the cell when I tap on the cell using didSelectRow function of UITableView at cellForRowAt. The thing which is bothering me is when I scroll down or scroll up, those cells whom I changed the color before were changed to other cells. Here is my code:
 func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

     let cell = myTableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "TasksTableViewCell") as! TasksTableViewCell

     cell.backView.backgroundColor = .white

  return cell
}

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {

  let cell = myTableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath) as! TasksTableViewCell

  cell.backView.backgroundColor = UIColor(named: "primaryViewColor")
}

Does anyone knows why this happens? Does anyone has a solution that when only those cells changes color whom I tap on, and when I scroll down or move up only those cells have the other color?

A: cellForRowAt will be called every time that cell is displayed.
you need selected list to save selected index.
var listSelected: [Int] = []

and
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {

    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "TasksTableViewCell") as! TasksTableViewCell

    cell.backView.backgroundColor = listSelected.contains(indexPath.row) ? UIColor(named: "primaryViewColor") : .white

    return cell
}
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    if listSelected.contains(indexPath.row) {
        listSelected = listSelected.filter{$0 != indexPath.row}
    } else {
        listSelected.append(indexPath.row)
    }

    tableView.reloadRows(at: [indexPath], with: .automatic)

}

A: I encountered do you see the problem many times. Even if using and iVar  can solve the problem, You are mixing "Controller" logic and "Model" logic.
I usually prefer to move "selection" state inside the model.
Suppose You have a class "Contact" you use to fill cell data (usual MVC pattern)
I add:
class contact{
..
var selected = false
}

AND in TV delegation method I use to apply selection, OR better I use a custom selection method in a custom cell (for example to see a √ element in cell)
As a bonus multiple selection come for free, and you can also save current selections for next run :)

A: So as I understand you select a cell and after that other cells look like they are selected?
If so I think this is happening because you change the background color of the cell and tableViews and collectionViews are reusing the cells, basically keeping the background you changed behind.

A: TableViewCells are reused as soon as they leave the visible area.
This means that a cell whose background you have colored will be deleted from the view hierarchy as soon as it is scrolled up or down. If the corresponding row is scrolled in again, the function cellForRowAt is called again for this IndexPath and the cell gets a white background.
The easiest is to save the IndexPaths of the selected cells and check in the cellForRowAt function if the current cell has to be selected.
Add the following var to the viewController class:
var selectedIndexPaths = Set<IndexPath>()

and modify the tableView delegate methods:
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell
{
    let cell = myTableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "TasksTableViewCell") as! TasksTableViewCell

    cell.backView.backgroundColor = (selectedIndexPaths.contains(indexPath) ? UIColor(named: "primaryViewColor") : .white)

    return cell
}

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath)
{
    if selectedIndexPaths.contains(indexPath)
    {
        selectedIndexPaths.remove(indexPath)
    }
    else
    {
        selectedIndexPaths.insert(indexPath)
    }
    tableView.reloadRows(at: [indexPath], with: .none)
}

A: You can use
step 1: create model
class DemoModel {
  var isSelected: Bool = false
  var color: UIColor = .While
 }

step 2: and in tableview
  var listDemo: [DemoModel] = [DemoModel(),...]

 func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
   let cell = myTableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier:
   "TasksTableViewCell") as! TasksTableViewCell
    var obj = listDemo[indexPath.row]
   cell.backView.backgroundColor = obj.color

   return cell
 }

 func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
   var obj = listDemo[indexPath.row]
   obj.color = UIColor(named: "primaryViewColor")
   tableView.reloadRows(at: [indexPath], with: .automatic)
}


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It's a little game in our house, "I will make you a deal" I will say to my husband with a smile on my face. "I will take the bath time if you change the dirty diaper", "I will wash the floors, if you put them to bed". Its our way of bargaining with one another, laying our chips on the table.
Here are just a few ways we spilt the major house hold tasks up.
When it comes to a weekend trip to see family, or a vacation for just the two of us, we have a division of labor. I plan the trip (book flights, hotels, figure out dates), and I do all the prep work ahead of time. Which means- the packing, getting cash, food prep, cleaning the house (who wants to come home to a dirty house), and other prep related things.
However, the minute we are officially out of the driveway it's all him. He is in charge of directions, tipping, making dinner reservations, the daily plan, and everything else (including opening doors).
I stayed up late nursing, he got all the night time diapers.
That first night that we spent home with our first born, we fell into a routine. The routine picked back up with our second, without even disusing it.
I would wake up to nurse the baby at night, and my husband would change the diapers.
It was just our thing. He would go get the crying baby, change the diaper sleepy eyed and all. I would then nurse the baby back to sleep. No matter if he had to get up the next morning for work or not, this was our game plan for the night. To make it even.
Now, to be honest, I think his part was much easier since he was back to sleep in under five minutes. However, it still made it feel like at least we both had to get up.
When we first got our dogs, I made the deal "I will take diapers some day if you pick up the dog poop." I thought I was so sly at the time. Thinking to myself that I would have only two years or so of diaper duty where he would have a life time of poop patrol.
He kept up his end of the deal… and so did I. I mean I was home with the kids anyway so what was I going to have to do any way. However, man there was times I thought he had a good gig with that fresh air out there and that long shovel, where I was right up in it.
To this day I do diapers, he helps at times, and he does yard duty.
Let's face it, is there anything men hate more then going to the doctor? It was a no brainer that I would be taking charge of healthcare. I have to make all the appointments, keep track of visits, and at time drag my husband to his visits with bribes.
In return my husband makes sure my car is take care of. Making sure I am never low on blinker fluid. (Yes, my brothers once sent me to the store asking for blinker fluid). I am blessed that he is there to take care of these things since I have no knowledge at all! He is always willing, most of the time, to make sure I have gas in my car too. Saving me from freezing out at the pump. This all started because I told him once that pregnant people can't breathe in gas fumes. Well, he fell for it and has done it ever since.
My husband, gosh I sure love him, but he is a massive procrastinator. It would have never worked for him to be in charge of our money. We would never have one bill paid on time ever.
I work hard, especially as a stay-at-home mom, to keep our house on a tight budget. I would hard on trying to find savings where ever I can.
However, there is one area- that makes my skin crawl and my pulse race!! That dang time of year when you receive your W-2 and the tax man is calling. My husband thankfully has the patience and the blood pressure to be able to deal with all of that business. He also is a planner for the future when it comes to our kids and for me. He has all of the life insurance, college funds, wills, 401k, and retirement planning padded with tons of extra support for us. I am thankful for his for thinking on that!
Now, this is not the cure all. I still think he should help more around the house, he promptly disagree. Things are never going to be even. However, when it comes to the big stuff this helps us make it feel like not everything is on one of us.
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PHP Jobs in the South East
PHP Vacancies
The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 28 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Permanent jobs citing PHP 954 526 1,124
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.21% 8.86% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 794 460 1,031
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -3.41% +3.53%
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -
PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.
All Programming Languages
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,344 5,934 12,664
Number of salaries quoted 6,682 5,176 10,902
Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PHP in the South East.
Salary distribution for jobs citing PHP in the South East over the 6 months to 28 January 2022.
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 January 2022. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
Hampshire -27 294 £42,500 +21.43% 26
Thames Valley +9 258 £57,500 +21.05% 33
East Sussex +7 209 £55,000 +22.22% 19
Berkshire +34 201 £60,000 +26.32% 12
Surrey -7 81 £45,000 +5.88% 6
West Sussex +44 53 £50,000 +11.11% 9
Kent -22 43 £38,500 +14.07% 6
Oxfordshire -35 21 £42,229 -6.16% 15
Sussex - 5 £60,000 - 1
Isle of Wight - 1 - -
For the 6 months to 28 January 2022, IT jobs citing PHP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region with a requirement for PHP.
2 470 (49.27%) MySQL
5 354 (37.11%) Laravel
8 231 (24.21%) Web Development
9 230 (24.11%) OO
10 204 (21.38%) OOP
10 204 (21.38%) Git (software)
12 199 (20.86%) Symfony
14 175 (18.34%) WordPress
15 169 (17.71%) MVC
17 158 (16.56%) SaaS
19 148 (15.51%) Greenfield Project
20 146 (15.30%) E-Commerce
1 175 (18.34%) WordPress
3 51 (5.35%) Drupal
6 22 (2.31%) nginx
7 9 (0.94%) Apache Solr
8 8 (0.84%) ColdFusion
8 8 (0.84%) Moodle
9 6 (0.63%) Joomla!
9 6 (0.63%) MODX
10 5 (0.52%) PrestaShop
11 4 (0.42%) IIS
13 2 (0.21%) Jadu
13 2 (0.21%) MS Exchange
14 1 (0.10%) GlassFish
2 4 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
1 67 (7.02%) Magento
2 13 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.52%) Salesforce.com CRM
4 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 158 (16.56%) SaaS
3 94 (9.85%) Azure
4 39 (4.09%) Google Analytics
9 16 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (1.05%) GitHub
13 9 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (0.84%) PaaS
15 6 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (0.63%) CloudFront
15 6 (0.63%) Stripe
16 5 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
17 4 (0.42%) Boomi
1 52 (5.45%) DNS
4 12 (1.26%) FTP
4 12 (1.26%) SSH
6 5 (0.52%) MQTT
7 2 (0.21%) Firewall
8 1 (0.10%) Intranet
8 1 (0.10%) LAN
8 1 (0.10%) Network Security
8 1 (0.10%) NFC
8 1 (0.10%) VoIP
8 1 (0.10%) WAN
8 1 (0.10%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.10%) WPA
5 39 (4.09%) MariaDB
6 30 (3.14%) Redis
8 17 (1.78%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 12 (1.26%) Couchbase
12 8 (0.84%) Big Data
13 4 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.42%) Power BI
13 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.31%) Metadata
15 2 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
3 39 (4.09%) PHPUnit
4 30 (3.14%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.89%) Postman
5 18 (1.89%) Subversion
5 18 (1.89%) webpack
7 14 (1.47%) GitLab
8 11 (1.15%) Grunt
8 11 (1.15%) gulp
9 7 (0.73%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.73%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.73%) SpecFlow
10 6 (0.63%) Appium
10 6 (0.63%) JMeter
10 6 (0.63%) Serenity BDD
10 6 (0.63%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.63%) TestComplete
10 6 (0.63%) Tricentis qTest
5 36 (3.77%) Manufacturing
9 8 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (0.73%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.21%) Local Government
13 1 (0.10%) Billing
2 448 (46.96%) PHP Developer
4 90 (9.43%) Senior Developer
5 60 (6.29%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 60 (6.29%) Senior PHP Developer
6 55 (5.77%) Junior
7 43 (4.51%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 42 (4.40%) Web Developer
8 42 (4.40%) WordPress Developer
9 41 (4.30%) Magento Developer
11 32 (3.35%) Lead Developer
12 31 (3.25%) Administrator
13 30 (3.14%) Linux Administrator
13 30 (3.14%) Systems Administrator
14 29 (3.04%) Digital Developer
14 29 (3.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 199 (20.86%) Symfony
6 188 (19.71%) jQuery
9 111 (11.64%) Vue.js
10 102 (10.69%) LAMP
13 82 (8.60%) .NET
15 77 (8.07%) CodeIgniter
17 49 (5.14%) LESS
19 43 (4.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 148 (15.51%) Greenfield Project
4 34 (3.56%) e-Learning
5 25 (2.62%) Legacy Code
7 16 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.26%) iSeries
9 9 (0.94%) Learning Management System
10 7 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.63%) iPad
11 6 (0.63%) Social Network
12 5 (0.52%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.31%) Graphic Design
14 3 (0.31%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.31%) Photography
15 2 (0.21%) BBC
4 36 (3.77%) CentOS
5 35 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.73%) Unix
10 5 (0.52%) Alpine Linux
10 5 (0.52%) Debian
11 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Phone
5 204 (21.38%) OOP
6 169 (17.71%) MVC
7 154 (16.14%) Unit Testing
8 146 (15.30%) E-Commerce
12 92 (9.64%) Software Engineering
13 90 (9.43%) Front End Development
14 84 (8.81%) DevOps
15 76 (7.97%) Computer Science
16 71 (7.44%) B2B
17 67 (7.02%) Scrum
18 59 (6.18%) Mobile Development
19 58 (6.08%) Software Testing
20 57 (5.97%) CI/CD
5 88 (9.22%) PHP 7
7 44 (4.61%) Perl
8 40 (4.19%) Go
9 31 (3.25%) Ruby
10 26 (2.73%) Bash
12 20 (2.10%) PHP 5
14 16 (1.68%) Dart
16 12 (1.26%) RPG
16 12 (1.26%) RPG IV
16 12 (1.26%) RPG/400
18 9 (0.94%) Objective-C
1 92 (9.64%) Degree
5 2 (0.21%) MBA
6 1 (0.10%) CCNA
6 1 (0.10%) CCNP
6 1 (0.10%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.10%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.10%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.10%) Galera Cluster
6 1 (0.10%) HAProxy
1 78 (8.18%) Zend
3 39 (4.09%) WooCommerce
6 16 (1.68%) IBM
9 4 (0.42%) Spotify
9 4 (0.42%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.31%) Cisco
11 2 (0.21%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.21%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.21%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.21%) VMware
12 1 (0.10%) Facebook
12 1 (0.10%) Percona
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Fight the Fight Good
Chris Benge
Softly spoken and peaceable, Gareth Jones doesn't seem a particularly controversial man. Otago University's Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology teaches classes, conducts administrative meetings and preaches occasionally at his local Baptist church with a disarming, melodic Welsh lilt which matches his mild features.
But in this case, appearances are certainly deceptive. Dr Jones' books Our Fragile Brains, Brave New People, Manufacturing Humans and Brain Grafts have represented his attempts as a leading evangelical thinker to develop a Christian understanding of the perplexing new areas which have opened up in biology, medicine and ethics. They have also made him a vortex of controversy in some evangelical circles, especially in the United States.
Nothing prepared him, he says, for the storm which erupted when Brave New People was launched in the States in 1984. Previously released in the UK with no significant hostile reaction, editors had reworked the US edition to anticipate particular American evangelical sensibilities.
The book was a biblically-committed exploration of perplexing reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation, artificial insemination, cloning, amniocentesis, genetic engineering and the emerging technological environment within which these developments were taking place. But the rising storm triggered by Jones' book bypassed these chapters, gathering instead around the one chapter on therapeutic (induced) abortion. Gareth Jones' preparedness to consider abortion under certain limited circumstances made him a target of intense criticism, often anonymous, within evangelical circles. The resulting storm grew so immense that his publishers eventually withdrew the book entirely from the US market.
These events plunged the author into a period of intense personal crisis. Criticism of his views had not stopped at a debate of the issues involved: it moved on to attack his integrity and his faith. Some of his detractors accused him of dishonesty and hypocrisy, asserting that his real aim in writing the book was to advocate abortion, and that discussion of the new reproductive technologies was just a smokescreen for that insidious purpose. Critics who knew nothing about him accused him of espousing humanism, denied his standing as an evangelical, and questioned the genuineness of his Christian faith. In brief, he became the target of a substantial orchestrated smear campaign.
The campaign took its toll. For some months Jones could not bring himself to think about the issues involved at all. Eventually, however, as the emotional turmoil subsided, he applied his analytical frame of mind to what had happened.
Perhaps, he reasoned, the criticisms were true. Was he appallingly wrong? Was he a Christian at all?
Or was he a Christian, but not an evangelical? Had his secular academic training led him far away from his conversion as a youngster in the Welsh valleys and his discipleship under the great Welsh evangelical preacher Martyn Lloyd-Jones?
Another possibility was that his critics were wrong - either in their arguments, or in the way they expressed their opposing views, or in their selective reading (or not reading) of Brave New People. Perhaps, too, they were mistaken in assuming that their views were the only tenable ones within evangelical Christianity.
Gareth Jones spent many further months considering these alternatives. He pored over biblical passages concerning false teachers and false teaching, examining what he had said and his motivations. Ultimately he concluded, "rightly or wrongly", that his position did not make him a false teacher. But the issue did not end there.
Both he and his critics, he saw, were responsible before Christ for their beliefs, their attitudes and the things they taught. After much thought and prayer, he says, he became able to consider his critics "as much Christ's representatives as I thought I was".
He also concluded that if they denied his standing in Christ, that was their judgment, and a matter between them and their Lord. Nevertheless, the question of false teaching remained a real issue.\
Ten years after the uproar over Brave New People, Gareth Jones published another book which explores the wider issues for the Body of Christ raised by his experiences of conflict and controversy within the Christian community. Coping With Controversy: Conflict, Censorship and Freedom Within Christian Circles is one of the most important Christian books published in New Zealand this decade, with a clarion call to Christian character and a full, biblical vision of what God requires of those who are members of the Body of Christ. It is Dr Jones' endeavour to confront false teaching in a biblical way: by showing readers how members of God's kingdom should treat one another when controversial issues are under debate.
For Gareth Jones, expressions of difference amongst sincere Christians are not signs of failure. Rather they are cause for rejoicing: expressions of the multi-coloured diversity of the Body of Christ.
"Christians will have differences of opinion, differences of attitude; they'll have behavioural differences, different expectations. This is inevitable.
"Diversity within the Christian community is essential and is to be welcomed. Even diversity on some beliefs. I'm not talking about central beliefs in the person and work of Christ, or in the place of God's Word in guiding and instructing the believer, but on so many other issues.
"All too often, though, Christians run away from diversity. We want homogeneity, we want everyone to be like 'me'.
"We should welcome diversity, we should welcome differences of opinion, we should welcome differences of expression. But so often we haven't - because if we do, we have to work out how to cope with them.
"Christian communities and churches which have learned to cope with and benefit from those differences - because they see that they're an essential part of the Body of Christ - have developed a very strong community. But without that we only end up as little Christian clubs which impose limitations and regulations - which impose Scripture - in ways which inevitably exclude other Christians. And that, I think, is sub-biblical.
"What I long to see is an element of openness between Christians within a community. Of course that openness needs to be based on a clear understanding and acceptance of central biblical truths, and of the framework within which we are working.
"Instead of that making us narrower people, it actually makes us much broader people. I'm not talking about an openness where no one believes anything so they accept everything, but an openness where, although we believe quite specific things, we are free to be open to others. It is part of the freedom we have in Christ - not a freedom to do anything or believe nothing, but the freedom to accept each other the way we are, the freedom to encourage each other, and the freedom to be open to each other and to the work of the Spirit (which of course transforms both us and other people). That is an openness I would love to see more and more of."
Christian Character: Applied Belief
The building of Christian character seems to receive less attention these days than it used to. One counsellor commented recently that while we hear much about gifting in our churches, issues of character come a poor second.
It's taken Gareth Jones some years of experience to understand just how crucial an emphasis on Christian character is.
"My theological background taught me that certain doctrinal stances are extremely important. And I would still affirm that. But people believing the right things can still very obviously live the wrong way.
"When I was a student we were going through the great Calvinism/hyper-Calvinism/Armenian debate. I can remember on one occasion passing someone wearing a Scripture Union badge, and realising that I was on the verge of dismissing him totally as a Christian because he was on the opposite side of the debate.
"I suddenly saw that that person was a fellow Christian - I couldn't just write him off inside my head. That sort of attitude began to seem utterly inadequate and wrong.
"I have made a very clear move away from saying beliefs alone are important. The way in which those beliefs express themselves is equally important.
"One significant influence in my life was the well known Scottish evangelical scientist Donald MacKay, who died several years ago. Theologically he had thought issues through very clearly and deeply. He was very conservative, but he was prepared to think about and discuss anything, as a result of which many other conservative evangelicals wrote him off as a 'liberal'.
"About 25 years ago he came to stay briefly at our house in Perth. He had only just arrived when, without warning, we heard that my wife's father had died in Britain. We had two children (one only nine months old). We hardly knew Donald, and suddenly we found ourselves in this traumatic situation together.
"His being with us for those few days was God's providence. He had the most incredible influence on us, and he emerged as the most godly person one could ever have imagined. Yet he was being written off by other Christians - simply because he was prepared to discuss and analyse anything at all; no questions were out of bounds for him. He reminded me again that the way in which you apply your belief is absolutely crucial.
"On quite a number of occasions in Paul's letters he writes to his readers, 'You follow me, because I am following Christ'. I've never been able to get away from those words.
"Most of us tend to say, 'Don't look at me, only look at Christ'. But I am often the only Christian that people around me see. If I am inadequate, then those around me see something of Christ which is inadequate.
"That doesn't mean I am going to be sinless - of course I'm not. But the importance of Christian character, of behaviour, has become quite central to me. Faithfulness of character, faithfulness of behaviour, faithfulness in attitudes, is just as important as faithfulness in belief. I cannot see how one can believe the right things without putting them into practice. I mean, that's what James' letter is all about.
"Scientists get so much criticism for being reductionist. But I think sometimes Christians are reductionists too. We split people into their cognitive beliefs on one side, and everything else on the other. I just can't see how one can separate those things.
"We say: 'If someone believes the right sort of things on the central issues, we can give them a tick.' It's much more difficult to tick off whether you've been faithful in practice: how you react to people, how you treat your neighbour, who you consider your neighbour, what you think about people. We often like to be able to tick little boxes and fill in the multiple choice questions - when things get a bit fuzzy we don't like it.
"In the end, of course, the only judge is God. It's not for me to judge. But it is for me, I think, to emphasise to myself and others that our behaviour, our attitudes, are absolutely crucial."
They'll know we are Christians . . .
"I am an academic working very much in a secular environment - an applied, pluralist environment. Working and living in this sort of environment you've got to ask all the time: How do I influence other people around me? Do they see Christ in me?
"They know that I'm a Christian. But they don't know what great doctrines I do or don't believe. What they can see is how I operate, how I treat other people.
"They can see the sort of structure that I set up in a department. They can see the way in which the most junior technicians, the general assistants are treated. They can see that I am willing to fight for them. They can see that I'm prepared to say that their interests are as important as mine. They can see that I think that honesty and integrity are absolutely essential.
"I'm sure what applies to me applies to so many other Christians, whatever kind of work they are doing. It's our attitude - the ways in which our Christianity is applied - which is probably the strongest influence for Christ.
"The other important aspect is what outsiders actually see of churches. A church rife with division (where members are going their different ways for what appear to them to be extremely important reasons, but which mean nothing to outsiders) is one of the greatest possible hindrances to the gospel, both to those outside and those inside. How many Christians do we know who have just about been destroyed by division within their own community?
"You've got to ask: Of what importance is this division? What are people divided over? They are generally extremely minor issues. We're not talking here about the great theological controversies between conservative and liberal. We're generally talking about issues which are very minor, which I would see as very secondary issues.
"If people are put off by Christ and what he stands for, they're put off by what I would say is the Truth. They find the gospel objectionable. I'm prepared to accept that.
"On the other hand, if they miss what the gospel is all about simply because we have some differences on whether we should have wine at meals, or Sunday trading, or to what extent you do or don't speak in tongues, then it seems to me that that's quite different. They're being put off by something which is absolutely secondary, something which in gospel terms is insignificant.
"That's why I emphasise that the cohesion and integrity of the Body of Christ is so utterly important."
False Antitheses
Battles over disputable and peripheral matters, Gareth Jones believes, frequently jeopardise people's relationship to Christ. He has seen many instances of this as a tertiary teacher of the biological sciences.
"I have seen many Christian students come to university who have been taught quite explicitly that you can't touch anything to do with evolution - it's 'of the Devil', or words to that effect. They had to make a choice.
"If they accepted the evolutionary explanation (at least as a valid way of approaching reality), then their faith went. They couldn't be Christians any longer. Because of the way it had been put to them in the churches from which they came, they were faced with this black and white choice: evolution, and throwing away the Christian faith, or clinging to the faith and arguing against every single thing they hear about evolution.
"That false antithesis, it seems to me, should never be forced onto people. It has nothing to do with Christianity, but many throw away their faith, because they can't throw away everything they hear about evolutionary thinking.
"Another example of this is the abortion area. Some couples have been taught that abortion is wrong under any circumstances whatsoever. Then the woman is pregnant, and they find themselves in some very difficult medical predicament. They're advised to have an abortion. What are they to do? They probably have 24 or 48 hours to come to a decision.
"What I've so often seen is that they respond emotionally (quite a natural response), and say, 'We can't possibly put up with the consequences of this, we'll have an abortion'. They have been taught a total anti-abortion position which they can no longer hold to - perhaps for inadequate reasons - but they can't discuss it with anyone, because by and large it's a non-discussable, non-negotiable issue.
"If they go ahead with the abortion, they then consider themselves second-rate Christians. They have done something which they believe a good Christian never does.
"A healthy situation is neither a completely conservative nor completely liberal attitude within the church, but one where there is openness to discuss things, a willingness to accept that there is some divergence on viewpoints, and that true Christians, faithful Christians, can adopt somewhat different stances. The range of positions will probably be fairly limited, but there is a range.
"Sometimes one may be looking at situations which are clearly questionable biblically. But there should be an openness to full discussion and we should be able to ask 'Are you sure this is a biblical way?', rather than cutting communications and ceasing to talk to each other.
"What is so important is that, when there is an open atmosphere where there can be true discussion, where there can be prayer together, one can say, 'If you feel that you have to go down that track, it may not be the way I would go, but I will accept you, I will accept the validity of your decision and I will support you in it'. That is something we should be prepared to do within a Christian community. If we're not, what's the difference between us and everyone else?"
For Gareth Jones, a Christian's identity as a child of God and member of his family is inestimably precious. No supplementary doctrine, no pressure group cause, however worthy, should be allowed to build divisions which Christ tore down in his work on the cross. If God suffered beyond our comprehension in order to give birth to Christ's Body, we dare not dishonour it.
Coping with Controversy was initially published in 1994 by Visjon Publishers (37 Garden Place, Dunedin) and can still be obtained from the publishers. In 1996 a second modified edition was brought out by Paternoster Publishing in the United Kingdom (Coping with Controversy, Solway, Carlisle,1996), and this edition can be obtained from Christian booksellers.