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Like Gregor, when talking to people I feel social anxiety with, my voice sounds different out loud than I hear it in my head. Gregor had wanted to give a full answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented himself with saying: “Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I’m getting up now.” As if from deep inside him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether he had heard properly or not. Gregor was shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be recognized as the voice he had had before. Quotes from The Metamorphosis: (Translated by David Wyllie) With that in mind, could the “metamorphosis” in The Metamorphosis be a metaphor for someone developing social anxiety? (Talk about meta…) The Metamorphosis could therefore be interpreted as Kafka’s way of writing about his mental state. Gregor’s parents and sister are repulsed as he becomes less and less human and more and more insect-like, until finally in the end…īased on Franz Kafka’s diaries and letters, scholars agree that the author suffered from depression and social anxiety throughout his life. As his transformation progresses, Gregor locks himself in his room, quits his job, and isolates himself from his family and the rest of society. The Metamorphosis is a novella about Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who wakes up one day to find himself transforming into a giant insect. Read the eBook for free: or Buy the Paperback With Gregor gone, the ordinary course of things has been restored in all of its banality, which might actually be more terrifying in its absolute boringness than the Gregor's vermin form.Die Verwandlung a.k.a. The story even continues after Gregor's death, with his family taking a nice little jaunt into the countryside. Now all the Samsas have jobs, the father's physically vigorous again, and Grete has matured into a marriageable young woman. This finishes the reversal that began the story, where, before his transformation, Gregor was the primary breadwinner of the family and the other family members were relatively powerless-his father an invalid, his mother asthmatic, and his sister a young, frivolous girl. Reduced to a paper-thin wafer of a thing, Gregor literally disappears on the page. It's not even clear how his bug-corpse is finally disposed of. Fittingly, Gregor slides away from the stage without attracting attention, just as the other Samsas come into their own as working, thriving human beings. While Kafka himself expressed disappointment with the story's ending, it actually works because of its dramatic understatement. The narrator notes that Gregor dies a little after 3 a.m., as if that were significant somehow. Instead, Gregor, weakened by a long period of self-starvation, collapses on the floor. A death match between himself and his father? Or a knife attack by Grete, who goes berserk after so many weeks and months of care-taking? Or a struggle to the death with the cleaning woman, who is armed with a really, really big dustpan? After all the hijinks, you'd expect Gregor to die in a more theatrical way. For a story with such a sensational beginning, Kafka's Metamorphosis ends with a relative whimper (just like the world, according to T.S.
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Jazz vs nuggets 20102/14/2024 All are in town to support the man they love as he takes to the court on Wednesday night. We met for dinner at the new Jake's restaurant in Denver's River North Arts District (host location for our November 6th "Stiffs Night Out" event) along with Karl's entourage that included his lawyer/business partner/close friend Bret Adams, real estate barons John and Chris Ferchill and Karl's former wife Cathy, whom he remains close with. I had the pleasure of having dinner with Coach Karl on the eve of the Nuggets 2010-11 season opener. And, of great importance to Nuggets fans, he's very bullish on this Nuggets team. Well, my fellow Stiffs, I'm here to tell you that not only is Coach Karl back but he's as vibrant and energetic as ever. Watching that incredible speech, I knew it was guaranteed that Karl would be back this season. At the awards show, a thinned-out Coach Karl took the stage to accept the Jimmy V Perseverance Award in honor of the late Jimmy Valvano and gave a heart-felt, inspirational speech about battling cancer…for the second time in his life…a speech that can be applied to anything in life. But in the intervening period between visits, he made my – and I suspect many of your – eyes well up with tears during his moving appearance on ESPN's ESPY Awards. And he couldn’t stop talking even though he wasn’t supposed to speak much on his doctor’s orders.Īfter saying our goodbyes that night I wouldn't see Karl in person again for several months. He couldn’t sit still in that chair watching basketball. He served up ample trash talk towards me. Despite barely being able to talk and moving ever-so-gingerly, Karl’s feisty, never-say-never spirit was alive. But I had no doubt he’d be back this season. Visiting with Karl and his family that evening, I couldn’t imagine Karl gracing the sidelines just a week later. If that.Īt the time, rumors abounded that had the Nuggets been able to beat the Utah Jazz in the first round, Karl would return to coach the team against the Los Angeles Lakers. And he had lost so much weight that he looked like half of himself. He had to eat from a feeding tube inserted into his stomach. He struggled to get up from his favorite chair. His face and neck were fried from multiple rounds of brutal radiation treatment in an attempt to eradicate the throat and neck cancer that had stricken him. And that’s when Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl returns to the sidelines after battling cancer for the second time in his life.Īs the 2010 playoffs opened I visited with my friend George Karl. The greatest comeback of the 2010-11 NBA season begins before the balls even tip-off on Wednesday night.
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Defining moments burt reynolds2/14/2024 Despite his popularity, Reynolds would one day come to regret some of his career choices. He even reflected on his career in an interview with Observer last year.įilm pundits never much cared for his laissez faire style, but audiences loved him. He toggled between romantic comedies ( Starting Over and Best Friends to name a few), wink-wink laugh fests ( The Cannonball Run) and tough guy roles to fill out his lengthy filmography. Though he appeared in a handful of critically acclaimed projects, the Hollywood star was always more attracted to popular mainstream fare, even becoming the top box-office draw during a five-year run in the late 1970s. Overall, Reynolds’ career spanned more than 200 credits across film and television. Reynolds, who quickly established himself as a charismatic sex symbol in the 80’s and 90’s, followed up Deliverance with a slew of successful features including The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Striptease (1996) and Boogie Nights (1997), for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. “It was the only time I saw men get up, sick, and walk out of a theater,” he said. The film’s unblinking depiction of sexual assault was an eye-opening lesson for many male viewers in Reynolds’ opinion. “I thought maybe this film is more important in a lot of ways than we’ve given it credit for,” he said in an interview years later, per CNN. Reynolds made his acting debut in 1958 and first began to gain some notoriety in hit TV shows such as Gunsmoke and Dan August, But his true breakout role came in 1972’s Deliverance, which earned a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards and which Reynolds considered his best film “by far.” At the time, his manager told CNN that he “has a great motor with brand new pipes.” Burt Reynolds Career In 2010, Reynolds underwent heart surgery.
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Walmart one customer service number2/14/2024 Greatly disappointed by what I thought is a major reputable company like Walmart. I AM SICK OF THIS & WON'T BE ORDERING ONLINE FROM THEM ANYMORE. So the same thing can happen again? I'm done with ordering from WM.com because this isn't the first time they've taken it upon themselves to change my delivery request from SHIPPING FROM A WAREHOUSE SO I GET THE ENTIRE ORDER AT ONCE to store delivery where I only get part of my order and now it looks like I won't get the rest of it. However, my account still has the rest of the order listed as "delayed" and todays chat rep said he has no idea if it'll be delivered today or not and to just wait until 8PM, then cancel the order, and place it again. The customer rep I chatted with yesterday and an email from WM.com told me the rest of my order would be delivered today. But, yet again, WM.com took it upon themselves to change my SHIPPING request to local store delivery and I only received a partial order yesterday. Yet again, placed an order to be delivered by SHIPPING from because I KNEW none of the local stores had the alcohol swabs I needed in stock. Yet Again Changed Shipping To Store Delivery & Didn't Get My ENTIRE Order The STREETSBORO, OHIO location was wonderful towards me and they did greet me. I am not happy with the BAINBRIDGE,OHIO location. 1, 2023) pick up was a HOT mess as customers who came after me were receiving their items….I only had 5 easy items. Needless to say, I left everything there and left. Their “Attitudes” weren’t very polished or friendly. (They KNEW I was there waiting.) She then turned and returned to her conversation. Then what upset me even more was the second young lady assisted someone else with a yellow flashing light while my light had already been blinking….for a while. One appeared as if she were going to come but didn’t. I waited patiently while two young ladies were engrossed in deep conversation. ( Please check your cameras) I was checking out some items until I came across the Hydroxycut item which needed assistance. Walmart’s attempt at the television streaming market is VUDU, a streaming movie service.The Bainbridge, Ohio Walmart location Dec. Steuart Walton Walmart Headquarters Brandsīrands associated with Walmart headquarters include Straight Talk, Great Value, Sam’s Choice, Equate, Mainstays, Ol’ Roy, Special Kitty, Parent’s Choice, White Stag, George, Athletic Works, Canopy, Durabrand and more. The board of directors for Walmart headquarters includes: Kathryn McLay – President and CEO, Sam’s Clubĭonna Morris – Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer, Walmart Inc. Judith McKenna – President and CEO, Walmart International Marc Lore – President and CEO, Walmart U.S. Suresh Kumar – Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer, Walmart Inc. John Furner – President and CEO, Walmart U.S. Rachel Brand – Executive Vice President of Global Governance, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary Some of the major players at Walmart headquarters are:Doug McMillon – President and CEO, Walmart Inc.ĭan Bartlett – Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairsīrett Biggs – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Walmart There are quite a few executives at the top of the Walmart chain. The website gives visitors insight into company expansion, corporate contact information and the executive team behind the company.
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Visual studio code download2/14/2024 Once downloaded it can be installed using your package manager, for example with dnf: sudo dnf install. rpm package (64-bit) can also be manually downloaded and installed, however, auto-updating won't work unless the repository above is installed. In order to install it using Nix, set allowUnfree option to true in your config.nix and execute: nix-env -i vscode Installing. There is a community maintained VS Code Nix package in the nixpkgs repository. Nix package for NixOS (or any Linux distribution using Nix package manager) To get more information about the installation from the AUR, please consult the following wiki entry: There is a community-maintained Arch User Repository package for VS Code. Then update the package cache and install the package using: sudo zypper refresh sudo zypper install code AUR package for Arch Linux The yum repository above also works for openSUSE and SLE-based systems, the following script will install the key and repository: sudo rpm -import sudo sh -c 'echo -e "\nname=Visual Studio Code\nbaseurl=\nenabled=1\ntype=rpm-md\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=" > /etc/zypp/repos.d/vscode.repo' Learn more about snaps from the official Snap Documentation. Note: If snap isn't available in your Linux distribution, please check the following Installing snapd guide, which can help you get that set up. You will get an in-product update notification whenever a new update is available. Once installed, the Snap daemon will take care of automatically updating VS Code in the background. You can install it by running: sudo snap install -classic code # or code-insiders Visual Studio Code is officially distributed as a Snap package in the Snap Store: Or on older versions using yum: yum check-update sudo yum install code # or code-insidersĭue to the manual signing process and the system we use to publish, the yum repo may lag behind and not get the latest version of VS Code immediately. Then update the package cache and install the package using dnf (Fedora 22 and above): dnf check-update sudo dnf install code # or code-insiders We currently ship the stable 64-bit VS Code in a yum repository, the following script will install the key and repository: sudo rpm -import sudo sh -c 'echo -e "\nname=Visual Studio Code\nbaseurl=\nenabled=1\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=" > /etc//vscode.repo' Then update the package cache and install the package using: sudo apt install apt-transport-https sudo apt update sudo apt install code # or code-insiders RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS based distributions Alternatively, the repository and key can also be installed manually with the following script: sudo apt-get install wget gpg wget -qO- | gpg -dearmor > sudo install -D -o root -g root -m 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb stable main" > /etc/apt//vscode.list' rm -f deb package will automatically install the apt repository and signing key to enable auto-updating using the system's package manager. Note that other binaries are also available on the VS Code download page. deb # sudo apt-get install -f # Install dependencies deb # If you're on an older Linux distribution, you will need to run this instead: # sudo dpkg -i. deb package (64-bit), either through the graphical software center if it's available, or through the command line with: sudo apt install. The easiest way to install Visual Studio Code for Debian/Ubuntu based distributions is to download and install the. See the Download Visual Studio Code page for a complete list of available installation options.īy downloading and using Visual Studio Code, you agree to the license terms and privacy statement. Configure IntelliSense for cross-compilingĮdit Visual Studio Code on Linux Installation.
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Scatter plot use2/14/2024 Seem like there's any obvious trend over here. Right place, and then we can move it if we want-Ĩ7, right over there. Is on the horizontal, the thing that's being drivenĩ3- right over there. This exploration she's doing, she's trying to see, well,ĭoes the period of the day somehow drive average score? So that's why Period is Least, just based on her data, see if- well, definitelyĭo what they're asking us, plot a scatter plot, and then And we have to be a littleĬareful with the study- maybe there's someĬorrelation depending on what subject is taughtĭuring what period. And then they give us theĪverage score on an exam. The period of the day that the class happened. She collected data aboutĮxams from the previous year. The independent variable can be whatever you like and the dependent variable is a result that depends on the independent variable.Ī connection between the time a given exam takes place and One where you input 1 and get an output of 2, you input 2 and get 4, you input 3, an get 9, and so on. You can also think of it as a number machine game. You need to first specify the dataset that will be used in the chart hence, the database > command. Each member of the dataset gets plotted as a point. Next, use the ggplot ( ) function to create a scatter chart. A scatterplot is a type of data display that shows the relationship between two numerical variables. You can continue to build the R code there. Open the R Script editor and paste the code. The dependent variable can jump around, like 9.2, 7, 5.3, 6.5. Copy the library R codes and go to Power BI. The independent variable is usually whole numbers, such as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. If it didn't, here are some clues to help you find the variables: The number of miles that you drive would be the independent variable you have not driven x miles because you lost gas. You want to see how the number of miles that you drive effects the gas in the tank. I know that it is long, but I hope it helps! : ) I also have some of my own examples and explanations below. The y-axis has the dependent variable which is a result of the independent variable. Online Green Belt certification course ( $499).The x-axis always shows the independent variable, a number that is unaffected by what is on the y-axis. Learn more about the Quality Improvement principles and toolsĭemystified (2011, McGraw-Hill) by Paul Keller, The diagonal plots are the univariate plots, and this displays the relationship for the (n, 2) combination of variables in a DataFrame as a matrix of plots. To plot each circle with a different size, specify sz as a vector or a matrix. The alternative would be expensive tests to monitor the actual development of the fetus. seaborn.pairplot () : To plot multiple pairwise bivariate distributions in a dataset, you can use the. scatter(x,y,sz) specifies the circle sizes.To use the same size for all the circles, specify sz as a scalar. For instance, if we prove that weight gain in the first trimester of pregnancy correlates well with fetus development, we can use weight gain as a predictor. Sometimes, though, if we know that there is good correlation between two characteristics, we can use one to predict the other, particularly if one characteristic is easy to measure and the other is not. Although this may indicate a cause and effect relationship, this is not always the case, since there may be a third characteristic (or many more) that are actually the cause, and both the characteristics of interest are the effect. Correlation implies that as one variable changes, the other also changes. This is easily done such as shown below in our SPC software. What are scatter plots for? Use a Scatter Diagram to determine if there is correlation between two characteristics.
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Iota coinmarketcap2/14/2024 To buy $IOTA20, you’ll need ETH or USDT, as these are the accepted cryptos on the platform. Other wallet options, such as Ledger or Trust Wallet, can be selected via the WalletConnect Widget on the platform. MetaMask is a favored choice with its user-friendly app and browser extension. To get $IOTA20 tokens, create a digital wallet compatible with the IOTA20 presale website. Here’s a simplified five-step guide to buying the IOTA20 tokens Step 1: Set Up Your Crypto Wallet While the IOTA price prediction hints at an upside for the coin, the affordability of IOTA20 makes it more accessible to a large group of investors. When IOTA reached its highest value of $5.69, it was roughly 3,900 times more expensive than the presale price of IOTA20, which was only $0.00145. IOTA20 is a newer, more affordable version of the original IOTA coin. How to Buy IOTA20 ($IOTA20) Tokens – A Beginner’s Guide This initial success indicates growing investor interest, suggesting a positive trajectory for the project. The presale of IOTA20 raised over $32K within the first day of its official launch.The initial market cap of IOTA20 is a mere $4.03M, providing a lower-cost entry point for potential investors. This supply is divided into three parts: 50% presale, 40% staking rewards, and 10% for Uniswap liquidity (locked for three months).
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Fall nail colors 2021 opi2/14/2024 In addition to prompting us to put our sweaters and tall boots back in rotation, the impending chilly weather increases our desire to trade in muted nudes and glazed manicures for something darker and deeper. These bottles design can keep nail polish protected and look great for longer, especially for those who love to paint their nails repetitively.Autumn is officially here, which means it’s time to swap out summery neon nail polishes for moody fall nail colors. Additionally, the OPI Nature Strong Collection has a formula that lasts nearly two weeks on your nails.Īt last, all the OPI Nature Strong Collection nail polishes come in a sturdy bottle with a wide cap that is perfect for applying nails. So, this collection is the best nail polish set that you must have. Also, this collection features 30 distinct shades, which reflect the beauty of the animal kingdom and pay tribute to nature’s most stunning and powerful elements. majestic OPI Nature Strong Collection comes with inspirational beauty and diverse colors of nature. Now it’s time to try this shade and show your beauty. Of course, this shiny rose gold nail polish will give you positive energy all day long. Also, you will definitely love your style that will be attractive wherever you go. For What It’s Earth OPI Nail PolishĮmbrace the beauty of earth tones with this stunning nail polish shade that suits all skin tones. Also, this shade can work perfectly with grey outfits as you see below. Such a beautiful blue color shade that can provide you with a calm and natural feeling once you apply it over your nails. Shore Is Something Natural Origin Nail Polish Indeed, this magenta natural origin nail polish hue can add elegance and attraction to any skin tone. Of course, two coats of this stunning nail color will boost your mood! 4. This is a gorgeous red raisin-colored natural origin nail polish that really suits Christmas nail looks. So, you can add Raindrop Expectations to your nails alone or in a cute nail art idea. This is a stunning light blue nail polish shade that’s right as rain. So, try onyx skies polish that is dark as a night sky, and elevate your next manicure look. Of course, this black nail shade is so elegant and suits most of the fall and winter occasions. Credit: are the best nail color pictures of this new collection to inspire your next manicure: They are adorable and can make your nails a lot more attractive. If you are looking for a suggestion, try the fall nail colors. Considering all the 30 options available, you will indeed find your favorite. According to OPI, the collection’s colors have natural hues, which traditionally brands use to create women’s beauty products. The new collection is named “Nature Strong,” and the thirty shades come with inspiration from the elements of water, land, air, and sky. OPI has released a new collection of nail polishes in honor of the new Original Paints brand. So, these 30 New OPI nail polish colors shades of the OPI Nature Strong Collection will indeed act as inspiration for you. Since the brand’s inception, they’ve continued to expand its range and introduce new colors and patterns through a new Nature Strong Collection line. What makes OPI different from the rest? It’s their wide range of colors, of course. The brand has a wide range of colors to choose from, ranging from the fun and bright colors like “It’s A Girl!” to the bold and daring shades like “Barbecue” to the sultry and seductive gel colors like “The Sirens Collection”. OPI is a brand that I’ve always adored for its smooth tones and dynamic shades.
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