![]() At the same time decisions on timely discharge to step-down care areas have become exceptionally important in effectively managing ICU resources and ensuring availability.Īlthough such logistic decisions may provide increased physical capacity for the critically ill, they do little to address critical shortages in competent manpower. It is now becoming common for critically ill patients to be cared for in locations that were previously anesthesia recovery areas or general wards. However, in the face of the pandemic, a significantly higher ICU surge capacity has been needed and critically ill patients may need to receive care outside of a traditional ICU, depending on available resources. In general, most American ICUs are equipped to withstand an approximate 20% surge in demand. Predictive models of decompensation may be a key element in ensuring appropriate and timely interaction with patients while still having adequate time to conform to the best personal protective equipment practices. Reducing the frequency and duration of times that staff enters the rooms of patients with Covid-19, is generally thought to reduce healthcare worker exposure. Given the complexities associated with Covid-19 treatment, such models may enhance patient interaction, ICU staff capacity, and virtual ICU care. In the ICU, predictive markers of patient deterioration enable clinical decision support to facilitate resource utilization and enhance patient outcomes. As an overall response, predictive models have been proposed to support healthcare authorities in the early planning of resources, personnel, ICU, and hospital bed capacity. Rarely used in American healthcare, such models may offer an opportunity to change practice and enhance efficiency in the operation of clinical enterprises. One area that may assist in the current environment is real-time prediction models.
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We have the largest fleet of rent-ready Warehouse forklifts & Scissor lifts for rent in Houston. ![]() You can get current weather and beach conditions by calling (361) 949-8175. Bird Island Basin Use Fee $5 per day or $10 annual. Vehicle Entry Fee $10 per vehicle, Annual Pass $20. The park is open 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Important historical sites and events on the Island include the 1554 shipwrecks, the wreck of the Nicaragua, the forgotten ports of Griffin's Landing and Murdock’s Landing and the remnants of Patrick Dunn's ranching empire. The bill finally passed in 1962, and after five years to acquire property rights, The park opened in 1968. Yarborough of Texas introduced a bill providing for the establishment of a National Park on Padre Island. However, the Don Patricio Causeway was destroyed by a hurricane in 1933 and plans for Island development came to a halt.Ī new causeway opened in 1950 and in 1958 United States Senator Ralph W. When the first causeway to Padre Island opened in 1927, development began to occur and many people started to talk about creating a state or national park on the Island. Its wide, white beaches and tall foredunes become broken by extensive washover channels and low-lying tidal flats. The "Devil's Elbow," is actually a point of tidal convergence that has wrecked many otherwise seaworthy vessels.įrom mile marker 30 to the end of the park at the Mansfield Channel (mile marker 60), is considered "down island." The down-island area possesses the National Seashore's most primitive facilities and pristine appearance. Near Big and Little Shell Beaches is a slight bend that became notorious for its shipwrecks. At mile marker 15, vehicles may drive across the island to the Laguna Madre via a shell road at Yarborough Pass.īig Shell Beach runs from the 18 to the 30. This section is called South Beach.įrom the 12 to 18 is Little Shell Beach. After five miles, a four-wheel drive vehicle is recommended. The first five miles of beach is known as North Beach and usually is passable by any vehicle. There are signs that mark the distance from the end of the paved road every 5 miles and people refer to places on PINS by the distance in miles from the end of the paved road. It is 60 miles from this point to the Mansfield channel. ![]() Bird Island Basin is popular with birdwatchers, windsurfers and fishermen.Īt the southern end of Malaquite Beach, the paved road ends at the beach. This area requires a special fee and is reached by turning right on the road right after the entrance station. Vehicles are not permitted on this beach.īird Island Basin is located on the Laguna Madre on the back side of the Island and includes a boat launch and primitive camping. Beach access is available by raised wooden walkways across the dunes. Malaquite Beach is located at the northern end of the park near the entrance and includes a visitor center, observation deck, concession operation, restrooms, showers, changing rooms, over 40 campsites, picnic tables and a large paved parking lot. Today, visitors can see Padre Island as it has existed throughout most of its history. ![]() Among these are the Kemp's Ridley sea turtles. The National Seashore and surrounding waters provide important habitat for marine and terrestrial plants and animals, including a number of rare, threatened, and endangered species. This is the longest stretch of undeveloped barrier island in the world. Padre Island National Seashore is a national park on Padre Island that encompasses more than 130,000 acres and 66 miles of Gulf beachfront. It documents the history of the area and includes legends of sunken treasure ships and buried pirate loot. The map accurately shows the current shoreline, access roads to the islands, beach access points and various recreational areas. This map is printed on parchment style paper giving it an "old" look and feel. A Travel Adventure Map of Padre & Mustang IslandsĢ4x36, A fanciful look at the history and legend surrounding Padre and Mustang Islands. A highlight was the huge shiny brass brewing vats of the Jacob Ruppert Beer Company in the East 90’s neighborhood. We would peer into tenement windows along the route (saw some remarkable family scenes). The leisurely train voyage had its delights. It all began when 10-year-old HG and his late beloved sister, Beulah Naomi, would board the Third Avenue El at the Fordham Road station in The Bronx. HG has been dining in that Chinatown for 76 years. But, for nostalgic HG there is only one true Chinatown: Manhattan’s Chinatown. There are also growing Chinatowns in Brooklyn. SJ is a Flushing expert and has led HG and BSK to some extraordinary eating adventures. (Along Northern Boulevard and in the surrounding community of Murray Hill, there are also many good Korean restaurants and supermarkets). The Flushing neighborhood of Queens is much larger than Manhattan’s Chinatown and far outclasses it in terms of quality and variety of cuisine. The explosive growth of the Chinese population of New York has led to the creation of a number of new “Chinatowns” scattered throughout the five boroughs. The low rise quality and the architectural uniformity of these neighborhoods have a European ambiance and sense of household comfort. The brownstone streets of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens. African-American Bed-Stuy, still rough around the edges, but quickly gentrifying as real estate values escalate. Jewish Chassidic Williamsburg, a glimpse into Eastern European “shetls” of yesteryear. Greenpoint (still some signs sign of the indigenous population of Polish immigrants). After brunch, SJ motored through some Brooklyn neighborhoods that illustrate the borough’s diversity being challenged by a mad maelstrom of gentrification. ![]() HG doubts Hong Kong can top Asian Jewels. SJ will soon be visiting Hong Kong, alleged world capital of dim sum. As SJ and BSK pushed their chairs away from the table, HG was happy to consume a scallion topped bowl of congee (best ever) and a dessert of warm tapioca pudding with a caramelized crust. Clusters of juicy shrimp in silken wonton wrappers. Busy women steer carts laden with good things. A huge space seating hundreds of happy diners. SJ led HG/BSK to Asian Jewels Seafood Restaurant, known to many as the top dim sum restaurant in New York. a lover of Chinese food, believes Flushing, block by block, has the best dining in New York. Chinatown in Manhattan seems like a Chinese neighborhood. ![]() ![]() SJ suggested dim sum brunch in Flushing, the Queens neighborhood that is populated by Chinese (and some Koreans). ![]() During testing I could move it further away from my face and out of my line of sight, which may be a small detail but was greatly appreciated, since headsets such as the Corsair HS80 RGB have an annoyingly rigid mic. The microphone sits on the left side of the headset and can’t be detached, but it can be flipped up and out of the way when it isn’t in use. I prefer a wireless connection for the purposes of convenience, but at least the cable length here proved long enough for me to play comfortably. The cable itself is 2m long, and it does come with a PC splitter cable. Once I had become used to the wired connection, however, it became less of an issue. On occasion, the roller would rub against my arm or desk, and I’d suddenly be inundated with noise. The in-line remote does house a volume roller – but, unless the buttons are on the headset itself, I usually defer to adjusting the volume manually via the device I’m using. The only feature being the 3.5mm port on the left ear cup. The headset itself is bare in terms of buttons. On occasion, though, it would take a couple of minutes to register on my PC. The option to connect via Bluetooth would have been welcome, although I never had any issues connecting the headset to my devices. This allowed me to use it with my PC, PS5 and Switch. ![]() The Astro A10 Gen 2 is a wired model, and can only connect via a 3.5mm jack. Following a couple of accidental drops, I can attest to this headset’s durability, but you’ll need to spend more money if you want your headset to feel more expensive. And that plasticky feeling doesn’t make the headset feel unstable. The downside to this flexibility is that the headset does feel pretty plasticky but considering the price point, I wouldn’t expect it to feel as hefty or premium as the Razer Opus X or the Razer Kraken V3 HyperSense. I have a fairly small head, so I rarely struggle with headsets being too small, but the flexibility on show here is great news for anyone who regularly struggles to find the perfect fit. The ear cups are padded and comfortable, and I didn’t feel any discomfort –whether wearing glasses, earrings or both.Īs you can see from the image below, this headset is pretty flexible, and you can easily push the ear cups out and away from each other without feeling like you’ll do any damage. At just 246g, I could wear the headset for hours on end while gaming without it pushing down on my neck. I’m a huge fan of its weight, or lack thereof. My review unit was white, although you can pick it up in black, white, mint, grey and lilac colourways if you’re after something a little jazzier looking. There’s no RGB lighting or particularly flashy colours like what you’ll find on more expensive headsets, such as the Corsair HS80 RGB Wireless or Razer Kaira X. Design and Featuresĭesign-wise, the Astro A10 Gen 2 sports a pretty basic and fairly discrete look for a gaming device. I had the opportunity to use the headset for about two weeks with my PC, PS5 and Nintendo Switch. ![]() It aims to offer buyers on a budget a reliable cabled headset for prolonged gaming sessions. The second-generation Astro A10 (Gen 2) is the successor to the original Astro A10 headset, coming in at the same low price but with an overhauled design.
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As the tiger lies on the snow, a row of sword-like icicles hanging above him begin to wobble. Soto is about to swipe Diego’s throat with his claws when Manny intervenes, using his tusks to throw Soto through the air and against a wall of ice. Diego and Soto swipe at each other with their claws, with Soto hurling Diego against a rock knocking him unconscious. ![]() A tiger bites Manny on the foot while Manny uses a tree trunk to knock several tigers over a cliff face. Soto leaps at Manny, but Diego intervenes and attacks Soto. Manny is surrounded and attacked by a Soto and his pack of sabre-tooth tigers.In one scene played for laughs to depict the extinction of the dodo bird we see: dodo birds falling into a volcanic crater, accidentally stumbling over a cliff face we see a number of dodos knocked off a cliff face actual deaths are not depicted.A short time later the tiger corners the mother holding her infant on top of a cliff overhanging a raging river and she jumps into the water to escape. A tiger corners a mother holding an infant and she hits the tiger across the face with a wooden club. A pack of sabre-tooth tigers attacks a group of humans who ward off the tigers with spears there is some snarling and crunching of spears but no injuries are depicted.A sabre-tooth tiger talks about eating a human infant for breakfast and about how a group of hunters killed half of his pack and used their skins to keep warm.Manny interlocks his tusks with the horns of one of the rhinos swinging the rhino around before releasing it sending the rhino flying through the air, while he uses his tusks like a forklift to pick up the second rhino and catapult it through the air. A push and shove match develops with the rhinos pushing Manny towards the edge of a cliff. Sid is charged by two rampaging rhinos, and hides behind Manny with the two rhinos crashing into Manny.The film Ice Age contains frequent slapstick violence and some action violence with injury and death but no blood and gore depicted. Prehistoric times revenge extinction death of family members Violence Of course, his true intentions are far from righteous.Īs the unlikely trio travel to find the humans they have many encounters and adventures which change each of them in different ways. However before Manny and Sid are able to travel too far, Diego turns up offering his superior tracking skills to find the humans, who he claims have moved camp. Before the exhausted mother disappears beneath the river, she manages to pass her infant over the bewildered animals for safe keeping and Sid decides that the only reasonable thing to do is to take the infant back to the human camp. ![]() Both mother and infant are swept downstream where they are found by Manny and Sid. While Soto and others attack the men in the camp, sabre-tooth Diego (voice of Denis Leary) corners the mother and her infant on a cliff top above a ranging river, and in a bid to escape, the mother jumps into the raging torrent below. Meanwhile, a group of sabre-tooth tigers lead by the vengeful Soto (voice of Goran Visnjic) attacks a human camp to capture a human baby alive so that Soto can take his revenge for the hunting of other tigers. A woolly mammoth named Manny (voice of Ray Romano), who has his own agenda, is heading north accompanied by an accident prone, opportunistic giant sloth named Sid (voice of John Leguizamo), who has angered a couple of rhinos and decides that Manny would make the perfect body guard. Not all the animals, however, are heading south. ![]() To escape the cold, animals migrate south in search of food and warmer weather. The animated film Ice Age is set 20,000 years in the earth’s past when glaciers, snow and ice cover much of the land. ![]() Gelatin is a multifunctional ingredient used in foods, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and photographic films as a gelling agent, stabilizer, thickener, emulsifier, and film former. Gel electrophoresis and refractive index were used to examine changes in molecular weight of the samples. Solutions and films were prepared from the granules. USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript databaseĬold- and warm-water fish gelatin granules were exposed to ultraviolet-B radiation for doses up to 29.7 J/cm2. Ultraviolet-B radiation induced crosslinking improves physical properties of cold- and warm-water fish gelatin gels and films Journal of Food Science copy 2012 Institute of Food Technologists® No claim to original US government works. This might be due to the UV induced cross-linking in warm-water gelatin that disrupted helical structures. In comparison, the warm-water gelatin films made from irradiated granules had lower tensile strength, but better water vapor barrier properties. For gelatin films, the cold- water fish gelatin samples made from irradiated granules showed greater tensile strength. In addition, both gelatin samples exhibited an increase in viscosity for higher UV doses. Interestingly, UV-B treated samples displayed higher gel strengths, with cold- and warm-water fish gelatin having gel strength increases from 1.39 to 2.11 N and from 7.15 to 8.34 N, respectively. SDS-PAGE and refractive index results indicated cross-linking of gelatin chains after exposure to radiation. Also, the gel strength and rheological properties of the solutions as well as the tensile and water vapor barrier properties of the films were characterized. ![]() Otoni, Caio G Avena-Bustillos, Roberto J Chiou, Bor-Sen Bilbao-Sainz, Cristina Bechtel, Peter J McHugh, Tara HĬold- and warm-water fish gelatin granules were exposed to ultraviolet-B radiation for doses up to 29.7 J/cm(2). Ultraviolet-B radiation induced cross-linking improves physical properties of cold- and warm-water fish gelatin gels and films. Meanwhile, based on ash content, only gelatin from gelatin Pangasius catfish met the standard for food industries. The water composition of all fishbone gelatin was well suited to the standard. The proximate composition showed that fishbone gelatin from Pangasius catfish has the highest protein content. Different warm-water species has some differences in amino acid composition. The warm water fish species used in this study were Grass carp, Pangasius catfish, Catfish, Lizard fish, Tiger-toothed croaker, Pink perch, Red snapper, Brown spotted grouper, and King weakfish. Thus, it is important to analyze the composition of amino acid as well as proximate composition for potential gelatin material. The composition of amino acid can determine the strength and stability of gelatin. Fish bone gelatin from warm-water fishes has a superior amino acid composition than cold- water fishes. ![]() The quality of gelatin depends on its physicochemical properties. Research on fish bone gelatin has been increased in the last decade. Amino acid and proximate composition of fish bone gelatin from different warm-water species: A comparative study ![]() Correction Linesīecause the Earth is an oblate spheroid, range lines are not exactly 6 miles apart along the entire length, since they must ultimately converge to the same point at the North Pole. In many states, the rectangular survey system is supplemented with a mete-and-bounds description to describe small parcels of land. Townships are further subdivided into 36 1-square mile sections, with each section equal to 640 acres. These quadrangles are further subdivided in 16 townships, with each side of a township measuring 6 miles and covering an area of 36 square miles. Principal meridians and base lines partition the land into quadrangles, which are squares of land with each side measuring 24 miles. The rectangular survey system specifies locations by using a rectangular coordinate system - hence, the name - that consists of principal meridians that run north and south and identifiable by longitude, and base lines that run east and west, identifiable by latitude. The rectangular survey system (aka tier-and-range system, government survey system), was specified by Congress in 1785 to mark large tracts of land that the United States received in its early years, including the Northwest Territory. ![]() The actual placement of the monuments is more important than the lengths and angles specified in the legal description, since the measured lengths and angles have meaning only in reference to the monuments and, additionally, marking the beginning and the end with a monument guarantees that the area will be closed. Nowadays, many monuments are iron pins or concrete posts installed by surveyors or by the U.S. Of course, for a metes and bounds description to be legally sufficient, the location of the POB must be specified, and is usually specified by a monument (aka landmark), which can be a large artificial or natural object or other stable structure, including rocks, trees, streams, railroads, roads, and intersections that are recorded by surveyors to locate property. This continues to the point of end ( POE), which is identical to the point of beginning, since all properties must have enclosed boundaries. Starting at the POB, the length of each boundary is described and the angle that it forms with the previous boundary. A mete is a boundary line and bounds is the area enclosed by the metes - hence, the name. A metes-and-bounds description uses lengths and angles of boundaries starting at the point of beginning ( POB). Metes-and-bounds descriptions were used in the original 13 colonies before the rectangular survey system was developed. There are 3 independent methods that can be used to determine the exact location and boundaries of a parcel of land: Legal descriptions always note the county and state in which the property is located. The Federal Bureau of Land Management and the USDA Forest Service are developing a National Integrated Land System (NILS), using common methods nationwide based on new technology and software to record the survey data and other information for land records. Today, the accuracy of property descriptions is greatly enhanced using computers, satellites, lasers, and global positioning systems (GPS). If the location, size, and shape of buildings on the lot are also given, then it is called a spot survey. The surveyor prepares 2 documents: a survey that gives the property's description and a survey sketch that shows the location and dimensions of the parcel. Only a licensed surveyor should prepare property descriptions, since inaccuracies can cause title problems later. Legal descriptions are generally prepared by a licensed surveyor, who is trained and authorized to locate and determine the legal description of any property. ![]() Route Shipping Protection attaches from the time the covered goods commence transit and/or are located anywhere incidental to transit and continues during the ordinary course of transit until transportation terminates at final destination or the assured’s interest ceases, whichever occurs first.Īll fees paid for the Services are non-refundable and non-transferable except as may be expressly provided in these Terms. If for any reason payments are billed/collected for shipments that exceed the Shipping Protection Limit, the excess amount will be returned to the subscriber. 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