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![]() ![]() Offer available on new equipment and in the U.S. Sales to government agencies, company direct sales or other individuals or entities participating in any John Deere Special Discount Program or Rental Business Program are not eligible. Taxes, freight, setup, insurance, fees, and delivery charges could increase monthly payment. $16.67 per month for every $1,000 financed. Subject to approved installment credit with John Deere Financial. (3)Offer valid on qualifying purchases made 15 June 2023 through 31 July 2023. Offer is available only on New John Deere Sub-Compact and Compact Utility Tractors only at participating United States dealers. This offer can be combined with regular installment options. Offer valid for $250 off all New John Deere Sub-Compact and Compact Tractors when purchased with two new John Deere or Frontier Implements purchased from an authorized John Deere dealer. (2)Offer valid on qualifying purchases made 15 June 2023 through 31 July 2023. 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(1)Offer valid on qualifying purchases made 15 June 2023 through 31 July 2023. ![]() ![]() * Understands the value of diversity in the workplace and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture in all aspects of working life so that people from all backgrounds receive equal treatment, realize their full potential and can bring their full, authentic selves to work * You understand the importance, and have demonstrated awareness, of compliance and risk control **Job:** **Information Technology* **Title:** *IT System Administrator #219665* **Location:** *Guernsey-Guernsey-Guernsey* **Requisition ID:** *219665* $99k-136k yearly est. * A proactive and enthusiastic team player with a can-do attitude is essenti * A good communicator with excellent interpersonal skills. * Familiarity with medium level Microsoft SQL queries and Microsoft SQL management * Excellent PowerShell experience with a solid working knowledge of C#, error handling, logging and database connectivity. Experience with Veritas Netbackup and NetApp would be desirable. * University Degree in IT, sciences or demonstrable previous relevant experience * Strong experience with Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) infrastructure * Previous experience or involvement with transfer on premise infrastructure to Microsoft Azure * Experience in administration of Windows Server 2019, System Center (MECM, SCCM, SCOM) * Experience with the management of backup and storage infrastructure. You will provide support in a mostly Microsoft based environment, actively transferring to Microsoft Azure services as our future solution. The ideal candidate will develop and maintain an extensive range of infrastructure automation and monitoring scripts in PowerShell. Part of your role will be the continual improvement, optimisation and automation of management routines. You will strengthen our IT Operations team with your excellent knowledge of core IT Data Centre infrastructure and scripting experience with SQL, PowerShell and Batch Scripting. The department values Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) and is committed to realizing the firm's D&I ambition which is an integral part of our global cultural values. This position does offer remote working opportunities for an agreed number of days per week. ![]() Alignment and knowledge transfer is ensured through frequent interaction with colleagues. ![]() *Your future colleagues* You will be part of a collaborative team who develop and run the business applications, monitor and manage the interfaces, plan and deploy application releases and change management. This is a challenging, varied, and interesting generalist role. This is an opportunity to work with an extensive range of technology and advance your skills on both internal and vendor platforms, helping to build, extend and support our IT application portfolio. A Guernsey Employment Permit is not available for this job We are seeking an enthusiastic technologist to join our small, close knit Global IT Team as an IT Systems Administrator. The Right to Work in the United Kingdom does not equate to a Guernsey Employment Permit. *IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL CANDIDATES:*Everyone working in Guernsey must hold a Guernsey Employment Certificate or Permit. ![]() ![]() With F1 2014 Codemasters have built upon what has gone before to make this the definitive version of a last-gen Formula One game. To be fair on the developers, they’ve taken the franchise about as far as they can with the last-gen hardware. The graphics are astounding on PC, but having recently been treated to the likes of Forza Horizons 2, Driveclub and The Crew, F1 2014’s visuals are no longer top shelf. Tuned to perfection, this year’s game still adds little into the mix to make it a must-buy if you picked up the last one. Circuit times can be improved via the game’s time trial and time attack modes.įor a bit more competition, F1 2014 allows for multiplayer races either online, via split-screen or over a local network. ![]() There’s the opportunity to rewrite history in the scenarios mode by taking on challenges from actual F1 situations. This way players can get right into a race on their own favourite circuits and driving for their favourite teams. If a full-on F1 career is a bit too much, the game also offers the opportunity to take a car out for a quick three-lap race which can, of course, be expanded to a full race weekend. ![]() ![]() Instead, a hot lap at the beginning of the game that allows the game to tune the difficulty to a player’s individual driving skill level.Īs previously, F1 2014 allows players to embark on their own career amongst the stars of F1 across full race weekends featuring practise laps, qualifying and the race day itself. This year Codemasters have dumped the annoyingly pedestrian Young Driver Test. Of course, if you are a Formula One fan the addition of Austria’s Spielberg circuit, Sochi Autodrom in Russia, the return of Hockenheimring and the opportunity for a night race in Bahrain will be, no doubt, worth the price of admission. But, still, it’s virtually identical to last year’s F1 2013. The drivers and cars have all been updated, KERS from last year has been replaced by ERS, just like in real life, and we’ve got some new circuits. The tracks look beautiful and the little details, like the animated pit crews are great. Playing the game on PC, F1 2014, looks fantastic. Xbox One and PS4 owners will have to wait until next year for their F1 game. This year’s F1 2014 is only for last-gen console and PC gamers. The shine, however, is starting to wear off a bit. As a huge TOCA and Colin McCrae fan I couldn’t wait to play their take on the most glamorous of motor racing events.įive games later and Codemasters have continued to produce a top class racing simulator for us every year. I remember my excitement when I first heard that Codemasters had got the licence to produce F1 games. The engineers working around your car, standing somewhere next to the pit, look. Every year we watch as madmen hurtle around circuits at breakneck speed with only a flimsy carbon-fibre chassis between them and their certain doom.įor as long as there have been video games, there have been Formula One games. The menu and possibilities in the pit are exactly equal to F1 2013 again. Don't buy it, just, don't.Formula One, the most prestigious and most glamourous motor sport championship in the world. Yep, not a good game in my opinion, I don't recommend this lazy, half-baked effort of a game. Also, although it's not really that important, but the soundtrack for 2014, is more forgettable and not as good as some of the previous games and their soundtracks. The career mode is pretty much just as barebones as 2013's career mode. Did I mention the spray glitch that the cars have during the rain, where water only spews off of one side of the car, yet it doesn't on the other? The online for this game is pretty glitchy, albeit not as glitchy as the next game (F1 2015). xMattyG1 on Youtube) said it best about the engine sounds in F1 2014, "It sounds like a bathtub being pushed through a mincer." You'd expect the graphics to be improved, but no! The graphics are literally just F1 2013 graphics, but even worse! Not only are the cars themselves extremely ugly (not Codemaster's fault), but the lighting is horrendous when it comes to the reflections and glare from the sun (especially on the Mercedes, which of course IS Codemasters' fault)! The night tracks also look awful (especially Bahrain). The cars CONSTANTLY drive like they're on ice, they keep nearly spinning out on every corner exit, and Matthew Gallagher (a.k.a. Oh dear, the physics are awful in this game. They got rid of the classic cars that F1 2013 brought in (those were actually a well like feature within the F1 gaming fanbase by the way). The career mode is mostly the same, although Codemasters "try" and mix it up by allowing you to choose between 7 races, 12 races, and 19 (full 2014 season) races. ![]() ![]() ![]() He vetoed legislation to give rights to blacks when Congress passed it. Johnson resisted enfranchisement of former slaves, playing to the southern Democrats who were part of his constituency. Johnson survived his trial in the Senate by just one vote, but the impeachment had created a fissure between the president and Congress. There were strong disagreements about what to demand of southern states as they sought to rejoin the union. The Republican-dominated Congress impeached President Andrew Johnson. Into the tumultuous times following the Civil War, when the country and Georgia experienced crises.įirst, the federal government in Washington had just three weeks earlier survived a near-fatal power struggle. To grasp what was in that name, we must step back But on June 16, 1868, that name meant something very different. The name - "Constitution" - conjures a noble purpose and strikes a proud tone to modern readers. The Atlanta Constitution set about publishing its first drafts of the state's and city's history, but its founding - in fact, its very name - reveals a point of view that its numerous courageous moments have long He bought the Atlanta Daily Opinion, one of several newspapers serving the city's 20,288 residents, and renamed it The Atlanta "The Constitution was founded in 1868 by Carey Wentworth Styles, an Atlanta lawyer and entrepreneur. ![]() Like Atlanta, it spent a longĪs recorded by the New Georgia Encyclopedia, the Constitution's founding sounds routine: The Constitution's history is a big part of Atlanta's story - and the newspaper was not always the positive force we are proud of today. To understand the Constitution's tale requires a disquieting visit with some of Georgia's most difficult history and a journey along the road of our state's progression to some of its present-day challenges.Īnd, I promise you, it's a trip worth taking. Today, as we celebrate the 150th birthday of The Atlanta Constitution, it's tempting to revel in that part of our history - and to see that as the entirety of the story in the Constitution's century and half of journalism.īut, as always, there's more to the story. Almost immediately upon my arrival, I read the biography of Ralph McGill, the famous editor of the Constitution who established its reputation duringĪs I turned each page, I became more honored to have found a place in the line of his successors. The newspaper was known for its history as an advocate for all of Atlanta's citizens. When I came to Atlanta more than seven years ago to become editor of the newspaper, I knew of the storied tradition of The Atlanta Constitution. ![]() ![]() So this looks like PowerPoint can't refresh the content while code is running and/or a window is in view when the code finishes. The same happens if I run it with a visible window and with your last two lines commented out. When the code is interrupted, you can see that the AutoSize works and when it's left to run freely, AutoSize doesn't work. I then set a break point on your SaveAs line. I tested the theory that PowerPoint isn't updating the view until the code stops by changing one line of your code: Set pres = (WithWindow:=msoFalse) So, it appears that the AutoSize function isn't being applied even if you set the pres to have a visible (minimised or other) window because the pres is closed before PowerPoint has a chance to update it. So it seems the auto fit feature is working for me. On moving the mouse over the PowerPoint stack of thumbnails in the Windows task bar, I could already see that the text size had been reduced. Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna." Presentations(1).Slides(1).Shapes(1).="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. I then minimised the window, created a new presentation (so that becomes the active window) and then programmatically added a long string of text to the shape in the first presentation via the VBE Immediate window: TextFrame2.AutoSize = msoAutoSizeTextToFitShape ' Shrink text on overflow ![]() I made a very simple test by adding a text box to an empty slide. H_max = textbox.Height - tf.MarginTop - tf.MarginBottomĭebug.Print "Iteration: " & iLoop & " Overflow: " & overflow ' Get the max height for the text to fit in the box. I'd still like to know if there's a way to let PowerPoint's autofit do it's thing, so I'll leave the question open. I added some indent levels to verify that the levels with different font sizes are all scaling in a relative fashion. The code used below as a workaround to manually scale the text is commented out.Īs a compromise workaround, the following code reduces the font size until the text fits. Here is a PowerPoint file with the macro that created the auto-generated file. Editing text, hiding the slide, adding a slide, etc, will force an update that will trigger the auto-fit behavior. Here is a link to a file generated without ever showing the PowerPoint Application window. I'm actually doing this with Python using a combination of python-pptx and COM, but the VBA example does the same behavior and I figure this example is much easier for folks to play with than the same thing from another programming language. This behavior likely exists in other versions as well. Remember to update the SaveAs filename to be a valid folder on your system for it to work. Pres.SaveAs FileName:="D:\Documents\Python\powerpoint\vba_demo.pptx" The following is a minimal example to demonstrate the problem: Sub new_presentation() Performing these same actions from VBA while the presentation is hidden does not trigger the font size update.ĭoes anyone know how to trigger PowerPoint's font auto-fit behavior without displaying the application window? Hiding and then re-showing the slide also successfully updates the font. If I then open the presentation and modify the text box in any way, the font then shrinks. When I make a presentation with the application window hidden, this auto-fitting doesn't occur. This is perhaps because the act of actually rendering the text is what informs PowerPoint that an overflow has occurred and a font down-size is then triggered. This behavior apparently only activates when the application is visible. ![]() If the shape is set so that text must fit the shape (which is the default), then the font sizes of all text in the shape are reduced automatically as text is added. The feature that is currently not working nicely is PowerPoint's automatic text auto-fitting that occurs when text overflows the boundaries of a shape. I am attempting to automatically generate reports as PowerPoint presentations. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s no stretch to say that it’s the most popular centerfire pistol cartridge in the world. In my opinion, the sole reason that 9mm revolvers are still made is because of the popularity of the 9mm cartridge. Is The 9mm Luger The Best All-Around Defensive Cartridge?.How To Choose The Best 9mm Ammo For Self-Defense.5 Best 9mm Revolver Options Sized Right For Everyday Carry.9 Best Single-Stack 9mm Pistol Options For Concealed Carry.6 Top Double-Stack 9mm Pistols For Concealed Carry.The internal mechanisms of many revolvers, while time-honored designs, are fragile compared to modern semi-autos that don’t suffer from issues such as cylinder timing and complicated internal lock work. In that case, the entire gun can be taken out of commission instantly.ĭespite the general consensus that revolvers are more reliable than semi-automatics (a fact that’s slowly changing these days due to advanced compact guns), clearing a complicated malfunction with a wheelgun can be next to impossible in the field. Ejection with a moon clip is quite easy and fast however, it can also be compromised if a case has split in the chamber or a hot handload has flattened and expanded the cartridge case. This can be a struggle with rimless cartridges, because most revolvers are designed to push cases out of the cylinder using their rim. 38 Special (which can use bulkier and slower-burning powder), is noticeable by comparison.Ī revolver is always a manual-ejection proposition. The snappy recoil in a revolver, as opposed to the smoother recoil of the. ![]() The 9mm in a revolver offers stiffer recoil for a few reasons, the most influential being that it has a great deal of velocity to build up in a very small case. A brake on a 9mm? The recoil of the 9mm in a semi-auto is mild, and the slide and recoil process soaks up most of the energy generated by the cartridge. In my experience, these tend to be the least reliable revolvers, because the critical dimension of firing pin depth and primer height is occasionally in question, depending on if a moon clip is used or not. This brings us to the question of reliability in a revolver chambered for rimless pistol cartridges. The gun would, of course, not fire in this case. If the chamber is not cut to allow the use of single rounds, the rimless cases can fall deeper into the cylinder and would need to be punched out as a result. You insert all the cartridges together and, because they’re held together at the rims, they all eject at once as well. It’s possible to use moon clips with both rimmed and rimless cartridges, depending on the revolver model. There existed some problems, because many of the early guns didn’t have chambers cut that would allow them to fire without a moon clip holding the base of the cartridges in place. Nevertheless, as far as dedicated ammunition for use in revolvers is concerned, it offers less. 38 Special and is easier to load and eject. This is a potent load! The 9mm is noticeably shorter than the. 38 Special loads (left) display heavy and tough 158-grain Buffalo Bore Outdoorsman bullets made of hard-cast lead. It would be a fair assessment to say that they’ve been adapted to that use only in circumstances for which it’s been necessary for military supply channels or commercial relevance. In general, revolvers have never really been designed to use rimless cartridges. The frame size, barrel length and many other small design elements give a heavy preference to the use of a semi-automatic when looking at small, rimless cartridges such as the 9mm. ![]() But, for the most part, revolvers use rimmed cartridges. Of course, there have been many attempts at viability. There are very few revolver designs that are truly optimized for the 9mm cartridge. It offers some unique angles for revolver fans … and some deficiencies as well. The vast majority of people don’t think of the 9x19mm cartridge when talking about revolvers. What image pops into your mind? Cowboys? Gunslingers? Your favorite Western film? Shooting wadcutters in a bull’s-eye match? Hunting game at bowhunting distances? It's more difficult to make accurate 9mm ammo when compared directly to the.Most factory loads are optimized for 4-inch barreled pistols, thus lose performance in snubby carry revolvers.If a case has split in the chamber or a hot handload has flattened and expanded the cartridge case, clean ejection can be compromised.Reliablity can be an issue, because because firing pin depth and primer height is occasionally in question.In all but a few cases, the rimless cartridge requires moon or semi-moon clips to function in a revolver.Why Doesn't the 9mm Revolver Live Up To Expectations: No matter how you slice it, a 9mm revolver is always a compromise. However, they’re beautiful to look at! Smith & Wesson always does a good job in that regard. ![]() |
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