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Great lakes dredge and dock ceo3/2/2024 Houston is home to more than 20 Fortune 500 company headquarters, ranking fourth in the nation and includes HQ's for Apache, Group 1 Automotive, Halliburton and Waste Management. Houston’s success in this area is driven by its business-friendly climate, high-growth population and proximity to diverse professional and corporate services talent.Ĭlick here to learn more about headquarters in Houston and here for more about the area's Fortune 500 companies. and with the nation's youngest and most diverse talent pool, Houston is a top headquarters city. for bringing more jobs and economic prosperity to Houston and the entire state of Texas, and we look forward to this partnership."Īs the 7th largest economy in the U.S. "Houston offers a strong business climate and a talented workforce that will help the company grow and strengthen its ability to serve its customers," said Governor Abbott. Governor Greg Abbott welcomed the GLDD's move to the state. Army Corps of Engineers, private energy clients, local communities and others, provide enhanced services and build a more efficient marketplace." "The move to Houston is a testament to the region's extraordinary diversity of talent and competitive landscape and supports our important connections and outreach in geographies that will better serve our customer base," CEO Lasse Petterson said. "Having our main office in Texas and strategically opening new regional offices allows us to engage more effectively with our major customers like the U.S. GLDD said the move to Houston puts the company closer to key regional customers and new markets, especially along the Gulf Coast and Mississippi River. GLDD's recent projects in the Texas region include maintenance dredging of the Houston Ship Channel (a top priority for Port Houston) as well as deepening of the Corpus Christi Ship Channel from the Gulf of Mexico to Harbor Island. The company, which deepens ports, helps maintains waterways, renourishes beaches and restores barrier islands, currently operates on every domestic coastline and throughout many inland U.S. The company announced the decision to move from the Chicago area last month, calling it the latest milestone for GLDD. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., the nation's largest provider of dredging services, is relocating its corporate headquarters to Houston next year.
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Bohr method physiologic dead space3/2/2024 MethodsĮxpired gases of seven lung-lavaged pigs were analyzed at different lung conditions using main-stream VC and multiple inert gas elimination technique (MIGET). The aim of this work was to validate VD Bohr using PACO 2 derived from volumetric capnography (VC) against VD Bohr with PACO 2 values obtained from the standard alveolar air formula. ( physiology ) The sum of the parallel and the serial dead spaces.Bohr’s dead space (VD Bohr) is commonly calculated using end-tidal CO 2 instead of the true alveolar partial pressure of CO 2 ( PACO 2).( physiology ) The sum of the anatomic plus the alveolar dead spaces.Because this is a functional measurement, the volume is called the physiologic dead space. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ninth edition.īohr's method measures the volume of the lung which does not eliminate CO 2. West, Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials. ( physiology ) That volume of air in the lung that does not eliminate carbon dioxide, as defined functionally by the Bohr equation.( physiology ) That volume of air in the lung which does not partake in gas exchange.Throughout this paper, the term physiological dead space will be used to refer to the volume of the conducting airway down to the location at which a large change in gas composition occurs. This definition became inadequate once the alveolar dead space was described. ( obsolete ) The volume of the conducting airways of the lung. Physiologic dead space ( countable and uncountable, plural physiologic dead spaces)
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Google steve the jumping dinosaur3/2/2024 He’s also joined Genera Games where he’ll be heading up a team at the company developing “ultra casual” titles. However, TechCrunch has learned that ‘Steve – The Jumping Dinosaur’ has since been acquired by a different suitor, Spanish gaming company Genera Games, for a sum I understand to be more than triple the offer De Cabo originally received. This then led to an acquisition offer that went up and up - from an initial $350 to $60,000, De Cabo told TechCrunch at the time - that was politely declined. The game become a minor viral sensation, shooting it up the App Store charts, eventually catching the attention of Apple itself who featured the ‘app’. When Iván De Cabo hacked together ‘ Steve – The Jumping Dinosaur‘, the super casual game playable from within the iOS Notification Center, he had no idea what would happen next.
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Narrator for darkest dungeon3/1/2024 The air pulsed with anticipation as I revealed the unnatural terroir of the house vintage.īut my exultation was cut short as the attending gentry turned upon themselves in an orgy of an indescribable frenzy. Mercifully, the morbid encounter resolved itself in my favor, and I set to work pursuing degeneracy in its most decadent forms. It tells about Ancestor's unique guest, who had stirred quite a lot of trouble. Younger Years is a DLC-exclusive cutscene. The old road will take you to hell, but, in that gaping abyss, we will find our redemption. So, steel yourself, and remember, there can be no bravery without madness. There is a sickness in the ancient, pitted cobbles of the old road, and on its writhing path, you will face viciousness, violence and perhaps, other damnably transcendent terrors. It winds with a troubling, serpent-like suggestion through the corrupted countryside, leading only, I fear, to ever more tenebrous places. It pictures the travel to the Darkest Dungeon Estate through the Old Road. Road Home plays when a new file is started from the main menu. It is a festering abomination! I beg you, return home, claim your birthright, and deliver our family from the ravenous clutching shadows. You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial. Our every step unsettled the ancient earth, but we were in a realm of death and madness! In the end, I alone fled, laughing and wailing, through those blackened arcades of antiquity, until consciousness failed me. At last, in the salt-soaked crags beneath the lowest foundations, we unearthed that damnable portal of antediluvian evil. With relic and ritual, I bent every effort towards the excavation and recovery of those long buried secrets, exhausting what remained of our family fortune on. Singular unsettling tales suggested the mansion itself was a gateway to some fabulous and unnameable power. I lived all my years in that ancient rumor-shadowed manor, fattened by decadence and luxury. You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial, gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor.
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She was also responsible for anything related to the cryo suite, chemical storage, and computer technical support. Polito's primary responsibility was monitoring XERXES to prevent a computer artificial intelligence from going rogue, as SHODAN did. Frustrated, Polito left the room, and later she would be criticized for hypocrisy constructing the very kind of technology she condemned.ĭr. could never make the kind of leaps necessary on this schedule, that creates a paradoxical dilemma: to build the kind of technology we really don't understand, we must harness technology that we don't trust.Ĭhairman Cal McGill (who was secretly working in favor to TriOp's interests) eliminated Polito's arguments by revealing the existence of XERXES. She held reservations about what she would do, since she would use the forbidden form of computing power that gave SHODAN. Polito presented a negative stance in the talks, explaining that Sarah would crack open the galaxy and eliminate mystery from the universe. She was among the scientists at the UNN senate subcommittee about the authorization of the FTL project. that would operate Faster-Than-Light travel. Polito expressed her concerns to Marie Delacroix about the creation of Sarah, the A.I. Her team planned to reveal the project for authorization and production only when and if they were convinced that XERXES is secure. She estimated the prototype 453/RT4b3 should had been ready by 2107 but most of the development time was dedicated to perfect restraint and containment protocols only the one third of the development was actual AI routines. In an apparent self-contradiction, she has created XERXES. Her book, Emergent AIs and Ethical Constraints was the premier philosophical work on AIs in the post- SHODAN era. She had written a number of famous papers on Artificial Intelligence, most of them in the clenched teeth, hand wringing style so popular in the Neo-Luddite community.
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Homescapes and gardenscapes ads3/1/2024 They said that they had since changed the games so that the gameplay shown in the ads was available towards the beginning of the games. The developer believed that the ad appealed to the logic and problem-solving skills required to win during the games.įurthermore, Playrix said that the mini-games shown in the ads were first available to play at the beginning of April 2020, but only on more distant levels. In response, Playrix upheld that the content seen in the ads was included in their games and that it represented part of the gameplay itself. Both ads displayed the text “Not all images represent actual gameplay” at the start of the video.Ĭomplainants of the ads were seven in total. The first, a man floating at the base of a tower filling with water, where above him, two pins held money and lava in place while in the second, the man was shown separated by pins from a dog, lava, and money. Meanwhile, the ad for Gardenscapes similarly included a video which showed two cartoon scenarios. Throughout the video, an on-screen text at the top stated “Help her escape!” The Homescapes ad included a video which showed three cartoon characters of a man, a woman, and a burglar, where pins were being pulled out in an attempt to unite the man and woman without meeting the burglar. The free-to-play games are both tile-matching types with an accompanying storyline for a simulation feature.īoth the Homescapes and Gardenscapes ads featured a problem-solving type of game, which are the mini-games included in the overall app. United Kingdom – The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK has banned two paid-for Facebook posts by developer Playrix for two of its video game apps, Homescapes and Gardenscapes, due to several complaints of the ads’ inaccurate representation.
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Panama city airport florida3/1/2024 This hotel offers free parking as well as a restaurant on-site. Let’s take a look at what the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport has in store for hotels near the concourse.įirst, we recommend the Hilton Garden Inn Panama Airport at 1.3 miles from ECP. If you’ve just flown into town and don’t know where to stay, we have a few cheap, classy, and convenient options near ECP that won’t break the bank. On Air Parking is, hands down, your low-price leader for airport parking. We offer off-airport parking for a mere $6.99 a day! Once you book with us, the address of your parking lot will be emailed with you and away you go! Our lots offer free shuttle services to and from the airport, and you may cancel at any time for any reason. Prices at On Air Parking, however, are the best rates you’ll get at ECP. There are no electric vehicle charging bays at ECP. If you are not 100% disabled veteran, you may park in the disabled spots at the Long Term Parking Lot rate. Go online at or text 82257 to “FLYECP” to register your credit or debit card.ĭisabled parking is available in the Short Term Parking Lot and is free for a 100% disabled veteran with a specialized disabled veteran ID or placard in your window or a disabled license plate tag. ECP has a parking rewards program called the ECP Traveler Rewards Program, which allows you to accrue 1 airline mile per every dollar spent on parking at the airport. First 20 minsĭaily fees for each lot are as follows: Long Term Daily FeeĪll lots accept cash and all major credit cards. Here is the breakdown of fees for both lots. Prices across the board for Short Term and Long Term Parking are the same except for the price of the daily fee. Let’s break down the parking fees at the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport. It doesn’t matter if you’ll be gone for a few days or a few weeks, vacation or business, let On Air Parking find you the greatest off-airport parking deals for your next trip. We can be found at major airports all around the country, and service at Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP) is no exception. On Air Parking is dedicated to bringing you cheap airport parking that won’t cause any unnecessary headache or stress and will definitely not break the bank.
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It was the jackal-Tabaqui, the Dish-licker-and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he runs about making mischief, and telling tales, and eating rags and pieces of leather from the village rubbish-heaps. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.’ ‘It is time to hunt again.’ He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: ‘Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. The original tale has lots more to tell than the popular disney version and makes a great story for bedtime – children will want to go to bed so they can find out what happens next! A public domain book formatted for easy use by planet pdf.īy: Rudyard Kipling Excerpt from The Jungle Book The Jungle Book a classic tale of Mowgli – a boy who is abandoned in the jungle and bought up by wolves, a bear, and a panther.
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“This Caesar salad, made with kale, shaved brussels, and tomato confit, is one of the best salads I’ve ever tasted. This simple sandwich has a welcomed, unique twist with an ancho lime mayo spread, making it a perfect pairing for the wine and views of the Blue Ridge.”Ĥ) Kale Caesar Salad and Bolo Pasta from Luce. The Blue Slate is a classic turkey, havarti, lettuce, and tomato sandwich served on country bread with a perfectly crispy crust. “If I am spending the day at one of our amazing local wineries, I love picking up sandwiches and snacks from Greenwood Grocery. Pro tip: don’t miss out on the cafe con leche, the most decadent way to get your coffee fix.”ģ) Blue Slate from Greenwood Grocery. I’m from Wisconsin, so I usually choose the latter. The bowl comes with plantains or queso frito (fried cheese) too. I love gallo pinto (Nicaraguan rice and beans), and the pico and cilantro aioli add a tasty touch. “When beans and rice are a staple in my diet, I feel really good. Plus, I feel like I’m #winning when I get in my greens before 8 am.”Ģ) Breakfast Bowl at Guajiros. When paired with a protein, it is a great start to the day. It is the perfect balance of health and flavor, with a unique combination of kale, spinach, cucumber, grapefruit, and apple juices. “This juice has ruined any other cold-pressed juice for me. Below is a list of all of the finds to date.Īnn Dunn of Formula Complete Fitness. Dunn’s picks:ġ) Gentle Green from The Juice Laundry. On Fridays, we feature five food finds selected by local chefs and personalities. |