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I am willing to be that the majority of folks out there do not think twice about their tennis balls or even realize that there are different kinds of tennis balls at all. This article will clear up any confusion you may have about the subject.
For most people, this new knowledge will give you the tools to examine the equipment you already have to see if it suits the conditions that you play in. You will also be able to make informed purchase next time you are shopping. You can visit at https://www.pressureball.com/ and get more information about right tennis ball.
It's not too complicated as you may possibly well be thinking. You can find two sorts of tennis balls made now. Pressurized balls are undoubtedly the most frequently encountered type. They've a hollow centre that's full of atmosphere that creates pressure. Som times organizations uses nitrogen rather than air since it's thought to survive more compared to atmosphere. The pressure made by the gas interior provides chunks their rebound.
Once the can is started the chunks will reduce their pressure following monthly. That really is just what the firms tell you however the truth is it's different. You may become aware of that decent players will throw away balls that are recognized after one game or hitting on session. That's because they would like to just play chunks together with maximum rebound.
They might nevertheless be pressurized following a couple of weeks but they may not rebound as large as initially you use them. After this month grace period that the chunk will probably be "dead" because they state. Now they are able to develop into a excellent toy for the furry friend.
The contrary manner is pressureless balls. The center of them is in fact solid. All these are the newcomer type or purchase balls for those that do not play very frequently and desire longer-lasting chunks. As a result of these solid cores that they won't lose their rebound. That being said they cannot be utilized forever. Once the fuzz is finished it will probably be near impossible going to any type of spin controlled taken. Once that happens you may provide them to a pet.
Additionally, there are various alternatives to consider when choosing a tennis match. They are sometimes made to be employed on various surfaces. The form of chunk you're buying needs to be indicated on the container. Make certain that you look at the following time you're at the shop. You can usually find three distinct types of chunks. There are routine obligation, extra obligation, and higher elevation chunks.
The differences between these three types are as follows. Regular duty balls are designed for indoor or clay court surfaces. Extra duty balls do not perform as good on indoor or clay courts because they will get too fuzzy and lose performance. The extra duty balls are therefore designed for hard courts and grass courts. Lastly some companies make high altitude balls which you can probably guess are built with less pressure for the mountain climates. Playing regular balls in thin air will bounce too high.


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Havengore relaunched at Fox's after extensive refit
It was a big day at Fox's Marina & Boatyard today with the relaunch of the Thames River cruiser, Havengore, following her extensive refit and repairs.
After nearly nine months ashore, this 85' LOA vintage vessel needed some very careful handling by our experienced marina team to get her back afloat and safely alongside in the marina.
Ollie Patten, Fox's Workshops Supervisor, and his team have again pulled out all the stops to deliver this magnificent project on time and will be on board, monitoring her very closely over the next 24 hours, while her teak hull takes up and adjusts to being back afloat.
Havengore is expected to depart Fox's for her berth at St Katharine Docks, London in around two weeks.
Read more about Havengore's restoration at Fox's Marina & Boatyard.
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AWGB Youth Training & Development Programme
We recently supported Charles Taylor's application for a place on the AWGB's Youth Training & Development Program, a two day course at the end of August under the expert tuition of Stuart Mortimer, Ron Caddy, John Atkin, Peter Bradwick and Gary Rance. With expert guidance Charles made 5 turned items, some of which he brought in for members to see at our September meeting Well done Charles
Jim Young's route to a Monkey Puzzle Bowl
Peter Brown's series of Basket Weave Platters
Alan Wesley on decorating his turning
At our May meeting Alan showed us an incredible range of decorating ideas he has tried recently some of which are pictured below:
As you can see the techniques he used are varied and imaginative, but how did he do them, and what materials did he use. To help answer those questions and more Alan
and I have put together a selection of his work in a PDF document below so you can see in a little more detail
Midi Lathe Review
Up until 18 months ago I have never considered a smaller second lathe, for the last 15 years I have only used large heavy lathes.
I started with a Union Graduate, then a Turnstyler, now a VB 36. When the club was formed I became the custodian of the club's lathe which is the Axminster 1416 vs. As I could be called to demonstrate at times I thought it best to familiarise myself with the lathe to fined what its limitation were, compared to what I am used to using. Apart from the size and weight of the Blanks the lathe performs well. I found it very useful when turning small items that required reverse chucking, with this in minded I decided to buy a second lathe.
After a little research I decided to go for the Jet 1221 vs. I found that both Lathes are manufactured by the same company, the main difference is the motor and the casting. The Axminster motor is though an inverter and the Jet has a normal electric motor, both have forward and reverse. I'm sure the electrical engineers will tell me I get more torque from an inverter type motor. I have used both machines on similar projects and have found little difference in performance.
The main reason why I chose the Jet is that it appears to lose very little in the motor and gains with a much heavier casting. The bed is larger and changing the belts is very easy compared to the Axminster. Both lathes would benefit from being bolted to a bench but less so with the Jet. The weight difference is large, the 1416 is 41kg the 1221 is 55kg.
For interest I use the Axminster precision chucks on both my lathes (regretfully these are on longer available from Axminster).
Jim Young
Our members are always on the look-out for sources of wood that would otherwise go to waste. If you have some wood, furniture with large solid wood elements like the legs, or a tree or large shrub you would like to dispose of, we will try to put you in touch with one of our members who would make good use of the wood and turn it into something beautiful.
Woodturning or wood carving tools and lathes etc. are always sought after. If you have any that you no longer need we would be happy to put you in touch with our members who would make good use of them. Please contact us at: email@example.com
Gardner & Scardifield Timber Shop at:
134 - 136 South Street Lancing BN15 8AU
Typically have a good amount of hardwood offcuts
They also have a variety of hard and soft woods and sheet
materials in stock and can obtain many special items to order
Please ask for the Manager to discuss your requirements.
If you would like to sell your surplus wood or tools here please email us at: firstname.lastname@example.com
You will need to provide photos (smaller items in groups please) with clear details of each item and how much you want for them, together with your contact details. The Club requests a donation of 10% of the proceeds for this service which is open to members and non-members alike
Details of items for sale are the sole responsibility of the seller, and South Downs Woodturners offersno warranty, express or implied


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IT Support for Education
NTS has over 21 years' experience in education markets, helping our customers plan and implement technology initiatives for students and teachers. We offer complete solutions to our clients, from equipment purchase suggestions to implementation of new technology standards. Plus, NTS actively utilizes local, state and federal technology programs such as e-rate, SOL and GSA, local government cooperative contracts as well as grants, in an effort to provide cost-effective procurement vehicles to our customers.
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July will bring your chance to see some great athletes perform while supporting the hard work of some other great athletes.
The Columbia Fireflies will host Special Olympics Night at Spirit Communications Park on Sunday, July 17. The Fireflies will host the Rome Braves for the 5 p.m. game. Proceeds from pre-sold tickets will be donated to Special Olympics South Carolina.
Tickets are $9 and kids 3 and under are free. The deadline to order tickets is Friday, July 8. Tickets can be picked up at Will Call the day of the game.
Special Olympics South Carolina is selling tickets as a fundraiser to help support the 24,848 athletes in our state, and and what better way to do that than through America's past-time, baseball! Pre-game festivities will include a sports demo from a local softball team from Airport High School and a Parade of Athletes.
Athletes will also be singing the national anthem and throwing out the first pitch.
Tickets can be ordered by contacting the Special Olympics South Carolina State office, (803) 404-5519.


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Computer 8 is a basic introduction to computers. Topics covered include an overview of various computer systems, operating system software, hardware, information systems, storage, various user interfaces, productivity software, networking basics, graphics and design, multimedia, software, and ethical computer usage. This course will teach the basics of software from Microsoft Office to include Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, and Access. Computer 6 is perfect for those wanting to get an introduction to computer essentials.
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2050 Edinburgh Vision Churches' Workshop
Have you heard about the plans to create a 2050 vision for the city of Edinburgh, which as Churches and Faith Groups we are invited to help shape?
The City of Edinburgh Council is embarking on a project to develop a vision for Edinburgh 2050. The 2050 vision aspires to be:
One that we can all understand and buy into
Developed with involvement from residents of all ages, businesses and groups from all sectors
The City of Edinburgh Council wants to hear from everyone with an interest in the city:
1. What is great about Edinburgh as a city in 2016?
2. What could be better?
3. What should Edinburgh be like in 2050?
particularly in relation to key themes of: Community, Digital & Technology, Built Environment, Business & Work, Health, Faith, Transport, Sustainable Development, Young People, Housing, Education, Physical Activity & Sport, Culture & Tourism, Community Safety, Natural Environment.
They have launched a city wide conversation to hear peoples' views, which can be offered as individuals, but also as groups. (www.edinburgh.org/2050-edinburgh-city-vision/)
Edinburgh Churches Together in partnership with Edinburgh Presbytery would like to invite churches and faith groups across the city to a workshop, to respond to this conversation as a group. This does not mean our responses have to agree, but means that we can submit a collective response to ensure our voice is heard in the process of shaping this vision. The submission deadline for responses is December 2016. We have therefore organised our group workshop for Sunday 20th November 2016.
The proposed program for the afternoon workshop is:
3.00 Welcome
3.05 Representative of City of Edinburgh Council to offer overview of 2050 Edinburgh City Vision
3.15 Rev Carol Ford to explain the 2050 consultation process
3.25 15 discussion groups offer around the room. Each taking one of the Themes and exploring the 3 Questions in relation to it.
3.55 Break
4.00 15 discussion groups offer around the room. Each taking one of the Themes and exploring the 3 Questions in relation to it.
4.30 Facilitators briefly feedback the responses.
4.50 Closing Remarks
5.00 Finish
We would like to encourage all Churches across the city to send at least one representative to participate in the workshop, so that our response is as honest a reflection as possible.
Each participant will be able to take part in 2 workshops, engaging with 2 of the 15 themes which are of greatest interest to you.
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I've recently been working on a set of portraits of Christine Keeler. I wouldn't normally do more than one picture of somebody I don't know, but I did the first, and Fionn Wilson, the artist who is masterminding the Christine Keeler project, suggested that a set of three or four might be a good idea, so I though, yeah, okay. She didn't want copies of photos, which is absolutely fair enough. Anyone with rudimentary drawing skills can copy a photograph, but think of your own passport photos. Do they actually look like you? Highly unlikely. Sometimes there's no choice but to work from a photo, but even if you can't get a sitting with the person you're drawing, there are other ways, especially if they're someone in the public eye like Keeler. I went to that font of all moving images: Youtube, found a documentary with plenty of video, and watched until I got more of a feeling of what she really looks like, until I started to feel that any image I produced might be in with a chance of getting under the skin and showing something of the real person rather than the superficiality of the outer features. The first portrait I did had her resting her chin on her hand, looking downwards, serious, the next also had a serious expression, so in the third I wanted to capture, if not exactly laughter, something akin to amusement/bemusement. In that one she looks as if she's saying, 'I can't believe you really just asked me that question' which must have been something she often thought as she was being interviewed. I think I managed it okay, because each time I drew her I felt I got closer to the real person, and each portrait looked more like her in some inexplicable way. She is someone I am unlikely ever to meet, but the more I draw her, the more I want to meet her, and this is often the case with portraiture, because there is something weirdly intimate about staring intensely at someone's features when they can't look back.
I like to work relatively quickly, so these drawings took no more than an hour or two to complete. I'm going to make a note of the specific technique here, because the way I draw changes every few months and I'll want to look back and check how these ones were done.
First of all I do a very careful line drawing using a sharp Derwent Onyx pencil. This is just outline to make sure the proportions are spot on, concentrating on eyes (easy), nose (okay) and mouth (often surprisingly difficult). I also indicate dark areas, not with shading, but simply by encircling them. It means the drawing looks like the plan for 'painting-by-numbers' at this point, but that's fine. The guidelines are vital, and once they're there I can continue with some confidence. Then I change medium – I have a fat and chunky Faber Castell 2B graphite stick, and I use the flat end to block in the tones. This is still very pale – it calls itself 2B but it feels far harder. Once I've done the blocking in, I have a ghost image, but it already looks recognisably like the person. The final medium change is to Conté, specifically a well-sharpened Pierre Noir 2B conté pencil. I love this type of pencil because it is intensely matt black, something you can never achieve with graphite however soft because of the sheen you inevitably get which makes it so hard to scan or photograph, or even see in some lights.
While the pencil is still very sharp (and I use a professional mechanical sharpener to ensure this) I draw the eyes in as much detail as I can manage, though as conté is by its nature thick and crumbly, this is always going to be an approximation. I work lightly at first. The real darks will come later. Once the eyes and eyebrows are accurate, I work on the nose, then with extreme care, tackle the mouth. I avoid erasing if at all possible, and the rubber only comes out if I make an accidental fingerprint on a bit I want to remain white – because the whites are vitally important. Highlights on cheeks and nose stay as pristine white paper, which incidentally is ordinary photocopier paper as often as not. I like its smoothness, and it takes the various pencils extremely well. By this time the pencil is blunted, and I can start working on the tones of the cheeks, under the chin, bags round the eyes, and so on. Once they're roughed in, I set to work on the hair, because if the hair is very dark, for example, it's going to have a major effect on the balance of the tones overall so I need to get that in as soon as possible. From this point, it's a question of gradually building up the darks so that the underlying skeletal structure is there – and of course the personality, because this shows in the precise angle of the mouth (which is why the mouth is so difficult) as well as any hollowness in cheeks, and in older people, the precise way in which wrinkles and laughter lines have formed.
Conté is imprecise, which is why I love it. I'm not going for photo-realism, ever, or I would use all the grades of graphite available and end up with something incredibly smooth. However, if it's too rough, then the subtlety is invisible, and faces are nothing if not subtle, so the very last thing I do is the blending. Some people swear by paper stumps and suchlike, but I find with conté, to get absolute control, the tip of my little finger is best. And I use it vigorously, picking up black dust from the darkest areas to rub into the mid-tones, and I rub and rub away (conté is very forgiving) until the gradations of tone are to my satisfaction but it's still looking lively because of the extreme contrasts between the darkest and lightest tones, and my earlier rough and scribbly drawing. I end up filthy, and I'll have sharpened away half the conté pencil, but with any luck, the whites on the paper are still bright and clean. I scan it as quickly as possible at this point, as the chances of damage are high. For preservation, I tend to put it straight into a pound shop frame, which I find is much safer than a plastic wallet, where it might move about and smudge. If it's any good, I can always re-frame it at a later date.
So that's what I've been doing in the last few days. Three down, one to go. Today, however, I'm giving myself a self-indulgent break and intend to draw Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, because I'm a huge fan, and his is a face I've never tackled. Then I'll go back to Christine afresh, and complete the final portrait.


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Cool Mini or Not Bring Forth the Barbarian
June 7, 2012 by brennon
Cool Mini or Not sold out of their last Barbarian Female very quickly so they have come back with a new one ready for you to get your hands on! Check her out below...
Coming in at 32mm and wearing the trademark chainmail bikini of many warrior women she is a petty awesome looking miniature. Plenty of power, lots of dynamism and an awesome paint job to show her off from Dan Twiss of Worthy Painting.
A superb model that I bet sells out just as quick. They are very limited (34 left at the time of writing this) so you might want to hurry up.
Will you be joining her Barbarian tribe?
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This article will cover how to resolve this error in the HealCode Mobile App.
If you are seeing the error message above in iOS or missing signup buttons in Android, there is a Scheduling Restriction set in MINDBODY for "Day of Month Scheduling Opens for Next Month" OR "Scheduling Hours" are not set to "24 hours per day."
- If the Scheduling Restriction is set to anything other than "Unrestricted," the Sign Up buttons won't appear due to a bug in the part of MINDBODY software that sends information to our widgets (known as the MINDBODY API). The bug's tracking number is #31319.
- For "Scheduling Hours" the option must be set to "24 hours per day."
- To change this setting, in your MINDBODY account, go to Home > Manager Tools > Settings > General Setup and Options > Consumer Mode Settings > Scheduling Restriction - Day of Month Scheduling Opens for Next Month.
- Select "Unrestricted."
- Above this option is "Scheduling Hours."
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The Further Education Funding Council inspectors' verdict on Stoke concentrates fire on the management collapse which blew an Pounds 8 million hole in finances.
It pronounces most teaching sound, but makes stinging criticisms of students' achievements, highlighting low numbers of passes and high drop-out rates.
FEFC chief executive Professor David Melville took the rare step of issuing a statement backing the 25,000-student college, which has launched its recovery with the appointment of new principal Graham Moore.
But the report itself, completed after an inspection which ended only in January, reveals a catalogue of management problems, many of which still remain: * The board of governors "has consistently failed to fulfil its duties in a number of key areas".
* Senior managers have a reputation for remoteness, and rarely visit outlying sites, although they were making efforts to improve.
* Strategic planning is very weak.
* There are still serious shortcomings in the management information provided to the corporation and to the college's managers.
* Heads of school have "as yet little experience of or training in financial management and little understanding of funding methodology."
* Controls are "lax" despite the severe financial problems.
The report spells out how Stoke tried to grow, but descended into crisis as huge shortfalls in student numbers went unnoticed.
Ambitious growth plans drawn up by sacked principal Neil Preston were imposed on managers, many of whom regarded targets as unrealistic, according to the report.
But governors also shoulder part of the blame. The report says: "Governors and college managers did not receive reliable and timely management information. Governors failed to investigate fully indications of weaknesses in the college's computerised management information systems."
Also attacked are low passes and staying-on rates, despite severe difficulties in calculating results.
The report says: "Numbers enrolled on some courses are uncertain, as are some success rates." The college was unable to provide information on the achievements of over a quarter of its students. Its results include: * A-level passes at an average grade E.
* Only 35 per cent of GCSE entrants gained C or above, with results well below the national average in all subjects.
* Pass rates of 35 per cent on intermediate vocational courses.
* Only 11 per cent of 16 to 18-year-olds passed level 2 NVQs, with 20 per cent of over-18s achieving similar grades.
* A 60 per cent pass rate in advanced vocational courses taken by 16 to 18 year-olds, putting Stoke in the bottom third of colleges. Results have declined since 1995.
* High pass rates at NVQ level 1.
* Good results on secretarial, sports, beauty, building and other courses.
Overall strengths were judged to outweigh weaknesses in 57 per cent of lessons - below the national average. But inspectors praised the college's community programme, and their report includes warm words for teaching in computing, construction, engineering, business, leisure and tourism, and English.
The report says: "On some courses students achieve significant success, but there are also many instances of low achievement. At the time of the inspection there were serious failings in the leadership of the college. The corporation board has been slow to realise the full extent of the college's problems. "
Professor Melville said: "The inspection report makes it clear that the college has many strengths. In particular it shows that despite serious problems at the top of the college in the recent past, its staff are delivering sound courses and further education which is for the most part of good quality.
"The council welcomes the appointment of a new principal. It believes that by vigorously tackling the issues raise in the inspection report he and the governors can succeed in their task of steering (the) college through to a successful future."
Inspectors' key concerns about stoke:
* serious failings in leadership * severe financial problems * failure of board to meet responsibilities * inadequate strategic planning * serious shortcomings in quality of management * poor teaching, learning and achievement * failure to improve quality of teaching * weak self-assessment


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Slow POST upload using QtNetworkAccessManager
I'm writing a Qt5 program to upload files to a server using HTTP and POST. It works fine to send the files, but the speed is really slow. When I upload files using SCP from my development machine to the server, I get ~200Mbps (measured from Windows task manager). When I use an HTML form on the server's website and POST to the same PHP page that my Qt program is posting to, I get ~140Mbps. But when I upload from my Qt application, I get ~10Mbps. The files I'm trying to upload are around 400MB.
I understand there is a difference between SCP and HTTP, but in theory POSTing a file through the browser and through Qt to the same PHP page should be same speed, not 14x slower.
Below is the code that does the uploading
QUrl url(connServer + "/api.php"); QNetworkRequest request(url); QHttpMultiPart *multiPart = new QHttpMultiPart(QHttpMultiPart::FormDataType); QHttpPart loginPart; /* username */ loginPart.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::ContentDispositionHeader, QVariant("form-data; name=\"u\"")); loginPart.setBody(connUsername.toLatin1()); multiPart->append(loginPart); /* password */ loginPart.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::ContentDispositionHeader, QVariant("form-data; name=\"p\"")); loginPart.setBody(connPassword.toLatin1()); multiPart->append(loginPart); QStringList md5stringlist; /* loop through the list of files */ ui->progUpload->setRange(0,100); for (int i=0;i<list.size();i++) { qDebug("UploadFileList [%d] [%s]", i, list[i].toStdString().c_str()); QFile *file = new QFile(list[i]); QHttpPart filePart; filePart.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::ContentDispositionHeader, QVariant("form-data; name=\"files[]\"; filename=\""+ file->fileName() + "\"")); file->open(QIODevice::ReadOnly); filePart.setBodyDevice(file); file->setParent(multiPart); // we cannot delete the file now, so delete it with the multiPart multiPart->append(filePart); /* create the MD5 list [file|md5,file2|md5,etc] */ QFileInfo fileInfo(file->fileName()); QString filename(fileInfo.fileName()); md5stringlist << md5list[i]; } /* check if there was a previous upload still going on */ while (isUploading) { ui->lblStatus->setText("Waiting for previous upload to complete..."); QTest::qWait(1000); } /* do the POST and setup the event handlers for it */ QNetworkReply* reply = networkManager->post(request, multiPart); multiPart->setParent(reply); // delete the multiPart with the reply numNetConn++; isUploading = true; connect(reply, SIGNAL(finished()), this, SLOT(onGetReplyUpload())); connect(reply, SIGNAL(error(QNetworkReply::NetworkError)), this, SLOT(onNetworkError(QNetworkReply::NetworkError))); connect(reply, SIGNAL(uploadProgress(qint64, qint64)), SLOT(progressChanged(qint64, qint64)));
What is going on? Am I missing a setting in QtNetworkAccessManager?
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are you testing a release build and without a debugger attached?
Yes. Release build on Windows 10. No debugging.
@raven-worx Yes. Release build on Windows 10. No debugging.
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@GregB In a way you are comparing 2 different things. I've never seen an HTTP POST upload be anywhere near as fast as my scps.
What I would do is check your apache (or whatever webserver you use) and make sure there isn't a limitation on upload speeds. That is usually a setting to help throttle connections.
Secondly if you really want to narrow things down I would compare a Qt POST upload with a non-Qt POST upload and see if there is a difference. Normally when you see performance stuff like this in files and network traffic it has to do with the buffers being used. It is possible Qt's network buffer is too small for those files.
Or you can go the other route and try an scp upload to your server using Qt's Networking and see if it reaches the same speeds. It should. I wouldn't necessarily do this though as you are not concerned with scp speed but with POST speed.
To limit variables in your testing I would have 2 functions in your app, 1 that uses Qt's HTTP stuff, and one that uses the network directly. This should let you figure out if it's Qt or not. Then you can look at why it's happening with the Qt Http stuff and file a bug if necessary or adjust your code if it's a user error.
Wish I could give more insight but I haven't used Qt's HTTP stuff enough to notice any glaring issues with your code.
@ambershark Thanks for the suggestions!
I have tried a Qt POST and non-Qt POST to the same PHP page on the same server. Qt is slow, POST through the browser is fast. I can't use scp for this application though because the only port open on the production server is 80, and only httpd is running on it.
The Qt network buffer sounds like a possibility, since the files are so large. How can I change the buffer size?
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@GregB The part that handles the buffering would be
QNetworkReply* reply = networkManager->post(request, multiPart);.
I'd look into your
networkManagerobject first. If that's Qt and assuming it is, check the docs on that and see if there is a way to change it.
If not what I usually do when I run into things like this is actually go look at Qt's code and see if they are doing something stupid like a small buffer or worse yet byte by byte. :) If they are you can of course modify it and rebuild Qt or submit a bug for a larger buffer or buffer size control.
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just for testing purposes: can you try to upload the file by using a QByteArray (loading the whole file into memory before uploading) instead of the QIODevice-Multipart stuff?
@raven-worx How do I POST using the QByteArray instead?
This is what I have now
QFile *file = new QFile(list[i]); QHttpPart filePart; filePart.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::ContentDispositionHeader, QVariant("form-data; name=\"files[]\"; filename=\""+ file->fileName() + "\"")); file->open(QIODevice::ReadOnly); filePart.setBodyDevice(file); file->setParent(multiPart); // we cannot delete the file now, so delete it with the multiPart multiPart->append(filePart);
Would this be correct?
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I have a few of annoying memories that keep popping up in my head from time to time. I need to stop thinking about them. Perhaps discussing them here with intelligent people will help.
What brought it back this time was watching the series Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey. At one point in the show they explain that the universe can't be just 6000 years old like some fundamentalist christians believe, because the light from a vast majority of the stars would not have had time to travel to earth in just six millennia.
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I though this sounded strange, so I asked him what he meant by that. He said that he was a devout christian and that he had calculated the age of the earth using the Bible. Six thousand years. I couldn't believe my ears. I told him that I didn't believe him. What about carbon dating? Fossils?
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My experience, John, is very similar. Logic, science, etc dont seem to work. What seems to work for me is to demonstrate that the god of the bible is omni nothing. And definitely not all loving. The stories of Job, David's wives being raped to punish him and Lot are very powerful. Only the most obstinate can argue for such a god, in which case such a person is not worth wasting time on.
HI Sven. Not to worry. Anyone who counts up the generations etc. in Genesis comes up with the same answer: approx. 6000 years. When this was first done in 100 - 200 BCE the date of creation was 5800 BCE. In 1000 CE the date = 4800 BCE. Today YECers claim approx. 3600 BCE. Given enough time the earth will have been created after the supposed birthdate of Jesus. It would be a hoot to hear YCEers explain that one away.
Genesis was one of the last books of the Old Testament to be written (5th Cent BCE) & is completely ahistorical. The creation story is a reworking of Babylonian & Canaanite creation myths while the tale of Noah goes back to the sumerian Epic of Gligamesh, 1st recorded in 3000 BCE. Also, check out the work of chief israeli archeologist Israel Finklestein. You will be amazed.
Finally, YEC advocates always leave out the fact there are living trees that are older than 6,000 yrs. In fact, there is a tree in Norway that is 10,000+ years old. Biologists just count the rings!
Hope this helps.
From what I've heard, its pointless to argue with the YECs (thanks for the acronym, by the way) about the Bible itself. I've never tried -- I only bickered a little bit with those Jehova's Witnesses about carbon dating, and not the old testament creation myth. But I find what you've explained very interesting.
I think the information about the trees is much more explosive stuff. Almost everyone knows why trees have those rings, and that you can tell the difference between good years and bad years by their width. It would take quite a feat of self deception to explain away that ten thousand year old tree, since the evidence is so simple and straightforward. It appeals to common sense on a very basic level. A person would have to be pretty unhinged to not at least start to have serious doubts about the YEC nonsense after being showed something like that.
The YEC people I've met were in deep denial. A woman I worked with claimed that the earth was created old & that fossils, sediment layering, radioactive elements etc. were just put there, by the Christian God, to test our faith. She didn't seem to realize the the enormous consequences of this belief.
In this belief system an infinite, all knowing, all seeing, omni present being creates a species & endows it with the ability to observe, think & draw logical conclusions about the world it perceives around it. That being then inserts it's "Adam" into a universe that has been seeded with false clues about the nature of that universe knowing full well that Adam will pick up on these clues & inevitably come to certain conclusions.
After a few years our "benevolent" being dictates a book to a small, unregarded, desert tribe in which he lays out the "true" nature of the universe. He says anyone who doesn't believe what the book says will be punished, horribly, forever.
The claims of the book contradict what people see around them in nature so a great many of them don't buy it. A great many more never hear about the book or go by different books claiming to have been dictated by other benevolent beings. The kicker is that our benevolent being knew this would happen right from the get go. Not surprising since it is all knowing.
My question is: What sort of being creates intelligent creatures only to punish them eternally for something it knew they would do? I think a good answer is : A cosmically evil being.
What is really twisted is that because the being is infinite, that is without limit, by definition there is nothing that is not this being. Everything it creates is part of itself. So, when it tortures it's creatures, it is torturing itself. To my mind this is so cosmically fucked up that it beggars the imagination.
Hahaha... I have tried the ring thing. Then they go like " Oh, don't you know that sometimes two rings form in the same year? If you take 2 years per ring, that 10,000 years is actually 5000 years!" Ok, granted, maybe I have the misfortune of meeting the most obstinate YECs.
What I have found totally unexplainable to the YECs is the second day of creation. When god put a solid firmament/dome above the sky that kept water up there from falling on the earth except during the flood. On the fourth day of creation he put the sun, moon and stars on this dome. No one can explain that away. Its not even cosmology. Thats basic astronomy.
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Vehicles on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road (MG Road) will not be allowed to move beyond IFFCO Chowk after 6 pm Dec 31, police said.gurgaon Updated: Dec 26, 2014 19:24 IST
Haryana Police have made special security arrangements for New Year's Eve celebrations in Gurgaon, police said on Friday.
Vehicles on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road (MG Road) will not be allowed to move beyond IFFCO Chowk after 6 pm Dec 31, police said.
"Vehicles heading toward bars and malls in the city will not be allowed beyond IFFCO Chowk. Special parking for such vehicles will be made available in Leisure Valley Park in sector 29," a senior police officer told IANS.
Five feeder buses will be made available to ferry people from Leisure Valley Park to pubs and malls and vice-versa.
Gurgaon Police Commissioner Navdeep Singh Virk has written to Deputy Commissioner TL Satyaprakash to deploy special district magistrates to ensure law and order on New Year's Eve.
Police have also written to the chief medical officer of Gurgaon to arrange a special team of doctors and ambulances for medical aid.
Police will also strictly for check drunken driving.
Women police will be deployed in large numbers and no pub or bar will be allowed to function after midnight.
First Published: Dec 26, 2014 19:14 IST


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The ASEAN-Hong Kong, China Free Trade Agreement (AHKFTA) negotiations commenced in July 2014 and were concluded in July 2017.
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This week was really interesting. I can`t believe it`s already the end of another change. Time has flied by here. So Elder Scoville is leaving me after one transfer to go to San Rafael and the other two Elders in the pench are leaving me as well to go to different areas. So the pench changes a little bit this transfer, I`ll let you know how it goes.
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I love you all! Keep up the good work! Until next week!
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June 21, 2010 The Gospel is a mirror of truth. We see things as they REALLY are.
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Both FEV1 and forced vital capacity of asthmatic patients decreased significantly during a two-hour walk down a city street versus a walk of the same duration in the park (P=0.04, P=0.01, respectively), Paul Cullinan, M.D., of the National Heart and Lung Institute, and colleagues reported in the Dec. 6 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Biomarkers of neutrophilic inflammation and airway acidification also increased significantly more during the walk next to traffic.
The results provide a real-world demonstration of the effects of motor vehicle pollution on lung function, according to the authors.
However, they acknowledged that the small changes in lung function would be unlikely to have clinical significance, even in patients whose breathing was significantly compromised. "We do not believe these findings should deter most patients with asthma from visiting or working in busy urban environments."
In urban areas, exhaust from diesel engines accounts for almost 90% of traffic-generated particulate matter, the investigators continued. Clinical studies in exposure chambers have shown that controlled exposure to diesel exhaust can lead to increased airway resistance. However, those types of studies are limited by their artificial nature.
To simulate a more realistic exposure setting, investigators evaluated 60 adult patients with mild or moderate asthma. Each participant walked for two hours along a London street that has traffic limited to diesel-powered buses and taxis and for two hours in a nearby park with no vehicular traffic. The investigators performed real-time measurements of exposure and physiologic and immunologic changes in each setting.
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The second study, reported by Ursula Ackermann-Liebrich, M.D., of the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland, and published in the same issue of the journal, provided evidence that adults who relocate to areas with cleaner air have a reduction in the rate of decline in lung function associated with exposure to fine particulate matter.
The study involved 4,742 adults who had complete lung function assessments in 1990 and 1991 and then again in 2002 and whose residential history was documented at both points in time.
Overall exposure to outdoor particulate matter less than 10 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM10) declined by a median of 5.3 μg per cubic meter during the 11 years of follow-up. In mixed-model regression analyses adjusted for confounders and baseline PM10 concentration, the decrease in PM10 had a significant negative association with the rate of decline in FEV1 (P=0.045), FEV1 as a percentage of FVC (P=0.02), and FEF25-75 (P=0.001).
"The net effect of a decline of 10 μg of PM10 per cubic meter over an 11-year period was to reduce the annual rate of decline in FEV1 by 9% and FEF25-75 by 16%," the authors stated.
The findings show that "relatively small reductions in exposure to PM10 have measurable benefits for lung function, suggesting that a decline in air pollution, even from low levels, may have positive consequences for public health," they added.
Collectively, the findings of the two studies have major public health implications, Morton Lippmann, Ph.D., of New York University School of Medicine in Tuxedo, N.Y., commented in an accompanying editorial.
"For nominally healthy people, there is a wide degree of susceptibility to reduced longevity from exposure to particulate matter . . ., and a small increase in the annual mortality rate related to particulate matter would correspond to thousands of excess deaths," he wrote.
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|The study by Dr. Cullinan and colleagues was supported by the Health Effects Institute.
The study by Dr. Ackermann-Liebrich and colleagues was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Federal Office for Forest, Environment, and Landscape, the Federal Office of Public Health, the Federal Office of Transport and Roads, the cantonal governments of seven Swiss cantons, the Swiss Lung League, and the cantonal Lung Leagues of five Swiss cantons.
Dr. Cullinan reported serving as a member of the Expert Advisory Panel for Air Quality Standards for the British government, and co-author Kian Fan Chung, M.D., reported advisory board and consulting fees and research support from AstraZeneca, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Merck, and Mundi-Pharma.
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Primary Source
The New England Journal of MedicineSource Reference: McCreanor J, et al "Respiratory effects of exposure to diesel traffic in persons with asthma" N Engl J Med 2007; 357: 2348-2358.
Secondary Source
The New England Journal of MedicineSource Reference: Downs SH, et al "Reduced exposure to PM10 and attenuated age-related decline in lung function" N Engl J Med 2007; 357: 2338-2347.
Additional Source
The New England Journal of MedicineSource Reference: Lippmann M, "Health effects of airborne particulate matter" N Engl J Med 2007; 357: 2395-2397.