![]() 26d ago I payed for my sip and save and it never linked to my account. It is the largest independent c-store operator in terms of the number of company-operated stores in the United States and is a leader in the c-store industry and road transportation fuel retail in Canada, Scandinavia, the Baltics and Ireland, in addition to a presence in Poland and Hong Kong. He grunted, attacked his omelette with manly vigor, then took a sip of coffee. How to contact Circle K (rebranded from Corner Store) customer support at. "If the feedback we get at the end of the 90 days nationally is the same, I think we'd be hard-pressed to say stop," Lewis said.īased in Quebec, Couche-Tard operates in 26 counties and territories, with more than 14,200 stores, of which approximately 10,800 offer transportation fuel. This bodes well for the retailer's foodservice program, which is implementing the second wave of its "Fresh Food, Fast" concept this year, as Convenience Store News previously reported.Ĭircle K currently plans to run Sip & Save for 90 days, but it could extend the program. ![]() Sip & Save's low price is Circle K's way of thanking customers and celebrating that the pandemic is ending, Lewis added.Ĭircle K recently tested the program for 90 days at more than 100 stores near Augusta, Ga., and Columbia, S.C.ĭata from the test showed that customers are visiting more frequently than Circle K expected and trial customers were adding food purchases to their daily subscription drinks. "We really see this an opportunity to drive traffic at a time that people are just starting to come out of the understandable cocoons that they've been in for the last 12-plus months," said Kevin Lewis, chief marketing officer of Circle K's parent company Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. Circle K told us, pay 5 and get a free large drink for a whole month. As vaccinations rise and cases fall, Sip & Save could help boost sales of dispensed beverages, which saw significant drops during the pandemic, according to the c-store operator. When the possible saving could be up to 10 per rolll, who would ring a roll when. ![]() The program was originally slated to roll out in 2019 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. customers can enjoy one daily Polar Pop fountain drink, Froster slushy, coffee or tea of their choice for $5.99 a month, reported CNBC. QUEBEC, Canada - Circle K launched the Sip & Save beverage subscription program on May 5. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This range also is a cautionary note that the TV industry is one that starts pretty low on the "salary and glamour" totem pole initially and will require steps from smaller markets to larger markets to advance in salary (see market table below). I have some friends in the business (you know who you are) that are certainly "north" of $400,000. For example, the table also indicates that the range of salaries for weathercasters is $23,000 to $400,000. This is a clear example of how median and mean can differ as a function of outlier or extreme values. The table above reveals the average "weathercaster" is still one of the highest paid positions in a newsroom with a mean (median) of $74,100 ($63,000). Newsroom salaries (2016) RTDNA and Hofstra University Topics in the series were released every two weeks, including what's new online, social media and mobile strategies, television and radio budgets and profits, stations doing news, news director profiles, and our most popular areas of research broadcast newsroom staffing, women and minorities in newsrooms, and newsroom salaries." ![]() "T his is the ninth of nine installments for this year in a series of reports developed from RTDNA's annual survey of newsrooms across the United States. Bob Papper, Professor Emeritus - Hofstra University writes on the RTDNA website, OK, so let's get back to that RTDNA survey that prompted this blog. It is likely that the BLS database also includes academic or government type jobs that require advanced degrees, which may also explain its higher median salary. It is clear to me that the numbers will depend on the sample of jobs in the database of the specific provider. Interestingly, Payscale has a different set of salary statistics. For a current salary snapshot at Glassdoor, click this link and browse. Their number of $62,992 is based on 180 salaries currently in its market database and includes the National Weather Service, military, broadcast sector and the private sector. Further, new laws and profit opportunities are driving established companies and start-ups like IBM, Panasonic, ClimaCell and WeatherSTEM into the market (among others).Ī quick browse of the job board Glassdoor shows a smaller mean salary than the BLS median. This should not be surprising if you think about everything that weather and climate impacts: aviation, insurance, energy, agriculture, commodities, policy and so forth. However, it is clear to me (and has been for several years) that the private sector is where significant growth is happening. In fact, recent stories have documented staff shortages at National Weather Service offices, which suggests there is possible job growth in that sector. Yes, federal meteorologist and broadcast jobs are still out there. I now tell my students to be more versatile in thinking about where they can work given the robust science, math, computational, GIS, analytical and other skills gained in a good meteorology curriculum. This last point is an important one because when I was a meteorologist student (eons ago), I think most students hoped to work as a forecaster for the National Weather Service or on TV. The BLS also notes that job growth for meteorologists from 2014 to 2024 is expected to be 9% faster than average and that the best prospects will be in the private sector. It is similar to mean but is preferred in some cases because it is not as influenced by outliers (relative big or small numbers). ![]() The median is the middle value in a range of sorted data. According to the BLS, the median salary in 2016 for atmospheric scientists (including meteorologists) was $92,460. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) is the federal agency that tracks employment data. The American Meteorological Society has defined meteorologist at the request of various employers that needed a standard definition. There are many outstanding colleagues that work in the military, weather forecasting and other communities that may not meet the criteria provided by the AMS, but for the sake of this article, I will use their guidelines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you set it to a number greater than zero, it would loop that many times and then stop. Finally, you set loop to 0 (zero), which means that you want the GIF to loop forever. You can set the duration of each frame in milliseconds. You must also set the save_all parameter to True. You also pass in your frames of animation to the append_images parameter. To make that happen, you need to specifically tell Pillow that the format is set to "GIF". Once you have your Python list of images, you tell Pillow to save() it as a GIF using the first Image in your Python list. Check out How to Resize Photos with Pillow to learn more! If your images are large, you may want to add a step to resize them so that the GIF itself isn't huge! If you don't, you are effectively taking in all those images and turning them into one giant file. The next step is to create a Python list of Image objects. Note: You will need to pass in a real path instead of using the placeholder that is in the code above You use glob to search for JPG files in the path that you pass to your make_gif() function. Here you import Python's glob module and Pillow's Image class. Then enter the following code: import globįrames = įrame_one.save("my_awesome.gif", format="GIF", append_images=frames, Create a new file and name it gif_maker.py. The first method you will learn about is how to take a series of images (JPGs) and turn them into an animated GIF. You will learn how to use both of these methods to create an animated GIF in this article. You can also use Pillow to draw a series of images and turn that series into a GIF. If you want your GIF to look nice, you should use a tripod or put your camera onto a sturdy surface before taking those photos. If you have a good point-and-shoot or a DSLR camera, you can usually use their high-speed settings to take a series of photos very quickly. You need to have multiple frames of animation to create an animated GIF. Once Pillow is installed, you are ready to create a GIF! Creating an Animation Here is how to do that using pip: python3 -m pip install Pillow Otherwise, you will need to install Pillow. If you are using Anaconda, Pillow is already installed. You can install it from the Python website or use Anaconda. You will need to have Python installed on your machine. You can create your own animated GIFs using the Python programming language and the Pillow package. When you flip the book, the image appears to move. You could even think of it as a flip-book with a stick man that is slightly different on each page. These are then played back kind of like a cartoon is. It’s worth mentioning that if you just want to make animated gifs from still pictures or videos, GifMill works great for that purpose as well, which is another free app for iOS we’ve discussed before.Animated GIFs are an image type that contains multiple images with slight differences. Nonetheless, for a free offering, GIF Toaster gets the job done well, and can also convert video to animated gifs as well. * GIF Toaster works well but has some limitations and some quirks in the user interface, so while it’s great for limited usage, if you plan on converting many Live Photos to animated gifs, you may want to try some other apps for Live Photo conversions, and the $2 Live GIF app or $2 Lively app are perhaps better choices. Very easy, here’s a Live Photo converted into an animated GIF of a fireplace that was created with the app. Choose “Start Encoding” and when finished, choose “Export to Camera Roll” or “Open In…” to message or email the animated gif.Adjust the GIF settings as desired, including frame rate (FPS), range, playback speed, and the resolution size of the gif (note that higher resolution gifs require the app to be paid for, but more on that in a moment*).Select the Live Photo you wish to convert to gif then tap “Encode”.Launch GIF Toaster and tap on “Photo > Gif” then tap on “Live Photo” in the corner to show only Live Photos.Download the GIF Toaster app for free from the App Store for iOS.How to Convert a Live Photo to Animated GIF on iPhone with GIF Toaster Before getting started, take any Live Photo with the iPhone camera that you want to convert if you haven’t done so already (you’ll need to enable the Live Photo feature if you turned it off). ![]() ![]() ![]() Open Terminal and run the following commands in the python shell (start this with the python command). You should be all set now, but let’s verify this right away. Sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/ /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysqlĪll these adjustments are required because we are building and installing the driver on Mac and not on Linux. The last step required is to create a symbolic link with the following command: If instead, you don’t receive an error but you see warnings about files not required on this architecture, don’t be concerned about them. If you still get an error (and only in that case) you’ll need to edit the site.cfg file within the same folder and set threadsafe = False, before running the two commands above once again. Now, from the MySQL-python-1.2.2 folder run: usr/include/sys/types.h:92: error: two or more data typesĮrror: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failedĪt this point, edit the _mysql.c file and comment out lines 37, 38 and 39 as follows: usr/include/sys/types.h:92: error: duplicate 'unsigned' ![]() Please follow these exact instructions because the source code won’t compile out of the box and will give you the following error when trying to build it: ![]() Get MySQL-python-1.2.2.tar.gz from SourceForge. Choose the one for x86 and Mac OS X 10.4. You can install MySQL by grabbing and running one of the packages that are available on the official site. I would normally recommend PostgreSQL, at least until we have DB2 on Mac, but I realize that many of you use and prefer MySQL, which also seems to be the only one that requires special instructions due to a few installation issues when trying to get MySQL and Python to work together. Alternatively, you could just create a symlink to the utility django-admin.py in /usr/bin, but I recommend the former approach. In case you are using the bash shell (as I do) then you should have a. How you go about doing this, depends on the shell you are using, and I’m assuming you are able to export a shell variable on your own. Users/Antonio/Code/django_trunk/django/bin We need therefore to add the following to the PATH (again, change it to your own location): The bin directory within the django folder (which is inside django_trunk itself) contains several management utilities. Of course, change it to the full path location of the directory on your filesystem. Within this file, place only one line containing the path to your django_trunk folder. Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/django.pth What you need to do is inform Python about the location of your django_trunk directory. ![]() You can verify this by running python in the Terminal (use exit() to get out of the python shell). Mac OS X 10.5 already ships with Python 2.5.1, thus you won’t have to install it. The development code is also rather stable and used by most people in production mode, even for sites like the Washington Post. The reason for this is that the trunk version implements a few new features. MacPorts is not required for this how-to.įirst and foremost, we are going to install Django from its svn repository, as opposed to obtaining the 0.96 release archive. I’m writing about this for the benefit of those of you who may attempt and struggle with this feat. Installing Django on Mac OS X Leopard is supposed to be very straightforward, but if you are new to it, you may encounter a few puzzling questions and, in the case of MySQL, even a couple of headaches. ![]() ![]() This is because DoorDash requests that customers give tips as a percentage of the total bill.
![]() ![]() Your ENS communicates directly with the emotional centers in your brain, and certain types of food really do make people feel less stressed and more calm. First, “comfort food” really is comforting. All this relates to our lives and the lives of our dogs in two ways. Thus, your gut and your emotions are indeed linked directly together, as a way of helping the body make decisions about its behavior. It links directly to the emotional aspects of your CNS, and is believed to actually be the precursor of it. It appears that the ENS is actually the origin of coordinated nervous activity. Your skin and respiratory passages interact with the external world on the outside of your body, and the inside tissues of your stomach and intestines interact with things from the external world on the inside of your body. As you remember from Biology 101, every mammal is designed like a doughnut, with surfaces both external and internal that are in contact with the “outside” world. But it turns out that there is a network of neurons in the gut designed to integrate the outside world with the inside of a mammal. Neurons were supposed to be nerve cells that only existed in the Central Nervous System (CNS), the brain and the spinal cord. Of course, your brain has 100 BILLION, but still, that’s impressive. It turns out that there is a vast network of neurons–that’s right–neurons–in your intestines. Here’s the deal, and here’s how it relates to our dogs and their behavior. No pun on ‘leaky gut syndrome’ intended…) (Granted, this is not new information to the researchers who have been studying what’s called the ENS for decades, but the information does seem to be leaking out slowly. I’ll get back to emotions in dogs soon, but I’m in the Oh Wow phase of this information, and wanted to share it. I’m so interested this, a relatively new discovery about what’s called the Enteric Nervous System, that I wanted to write about it today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Result of the radio analysis Bavaria on Radio Eins (PDF) Julia Menger, geboren 1982, aufgewachsen in Brandenburg/Havel und Dresden, studierte Journalistik in Leipzig, wo ihre Radioliebe beim Uniradio mephisto97.6 begann.Radio Eins can also be received via a live stream on the Internet. Nach Stationen in Leipzig, New York und Mnchen moderierte sie zuletzt beim Bayerischen Rundfunk in Mnchen. ↑ a b Frequencies on the transmitter's homepage ( Memento of the original from in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked.↑ Radio Eins entry on the website of the Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM).Inzwischen lebt sie mit Mann, Kind und Hund in Leipzig und. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2 Template: Webachiv / IABot / radioeins. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() They have a pitiful defense that can be easily broken as they lack Guard Tower, Fortified Wall, Hoardings, Arrowslits and Architecture. In addition their siege weapons are lacking, missing the Onager, Heavy Scorpion and Bombard Cannon. Their infantry are weaker as they lack the Plate Mail Armor and Champion upgrades. The Huns' faster stables allow them to replace lost Paladins faster. Their Trebuchets are more accurate than those of other civilizations, which aids them in destroying enemy buildings or siege weapons from a distance. Cavalry Archers are cheaper than normal for the Huns, so they will likely make up a large part of a Hunnic army. They have effective cavalry since in addition to Tarkans they can build Paladins for heavy duty combat and Cavalry Archers for quick ranged support. Their unique unit, the Tarkan, is a fast and relatively tough cavalry unit that is great at destroying buildings and good at fighting archers, making them effective raiders. Since they don't need to build houses they are great at rushing since the resources and time spent on houses can be diverted to building an army. 5.2 Disadvantages vs other civilizations.5 Compared advantages and disadvantages.3.2 Strategy changes in The African Kingdoms.He’ll be flying out Tuesday for a couple of weeks of fun in the sun and of course working directly alongside the other AE staff! Try not to make too much trouble on the forums while he’s away though Xaman and others will be on hand if some apocalyptic happens. In other news Ikari will be heading out to headquarters in Portugal this week. Why not give us your 10c, we’re happy to receive all feedback. A pretty active conversation has erupted on our facebook and here on the Portal. Yesterday also saw a Public Service Announcement from Astro Empires on the subject of scripts. I know I’m already using it for my laptop :D Earlier in the week Wizard released three new Astro Empires wallpapers, which if I do say so myself are pretty snazzy. This week has seen a few new bits and bobs. Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Thats all for this week guys, till next time, adeus! ![]() ![]() The good, the bad and the ugly! Click here to get involved! If you’re a Norwegian player we would appreciate your help testing the language before it has its full launch! It’s AE’s 14 th language to be launched and I wanted to take the opportunity to thank tettbest, adrianus92 and vevlaa for all their hard work making it’s launch possible. Yesterday also saw Norwegian being launched into Beta testing. They're available in various sizes for laptops, desktops and even your iPhone! See them for yourself below.I know I’m already using it for my laptop :D Get them yourself, here. ![]() ![]() ![]() There may also be other cases where shooting both RAW and JPEG are warranted, but those situations are few and far between. ![]() So shooting in RAW + JPEG, in this case, makes perfect sense. ![]() With very little time available to develop photos between a wedding ceremony and the reception, JPEG files are the best-looking and quickest option to make a slideshow happen quickly. Some wedding photographers like to shoot RAW+JPEG so they can show a client a slideshow of some of their wedding images at the reception and still have the ability to process the RAW file versions for use in albums and prints. If this is you, go ahead and use both, but be aware of the confusion this may cause, and at some point, you should choose one format or the other and stick with it. If you are just starting out in digital photography, you may feel more comfortable having both RAW and JPEG options at first. However, there are a few instances when you may want to shoot both formats: 1. In my opinion, MOST PEOPLE should pick a single file format (RAW or JPEG) and stick with it. It also got pretty darn confusing trying to figure out which version of the files I had actually developed. The problem was that by shooting RAW+JPEG, I now had twice as many image files being added to and taking up space on my hard drive. And as a new photographer, I was making a lot of mistakes. So, in essence, the JPEGs were my backup plan.īut it didn't take me very long to realize how much better I was able to process and fix my RAW image files vs. When I first started shooting RAW files, I chose to shoot RAW + JPEG because I was not comfortable shooting only in RAW. The question is, when and why should you use this feature? How to Sync Lightroom Presets from CC to Mobileīefore discussing the best ways to handle RAW+JPEG files in Lightroom, let's go over some RAW+JPEG basics.Īll cameras come with the ability to shoot and store a RAW file AND a JPEG file simultaneously. How to Install Presets in the Free Lightroom Mobile App How to Sync Lightroom Presets from CC to Mobile.How to Install Presets in the Free Lightroom Mobile App. ![]() |