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Puran class of barge is a series of self-propelled fuel carrier built by Rajabagan Dockyard (RBD) (then owned by Central Inland Water Transport Corporation) for the Indian Navy.

Description

The vessel in the series has a length of 45–50 meters with a beam of 8 meters and a draught of 3 meters.
The vessels have displacement of 960 tonnes and have capacity to carry 376 tons of fuel.
The vessels are yardcrafts and have all of the essential communication and navigation equipment.
These vessels have no underway replenishment capability. They are utilized for in-port refueling

Specification
Gross		: 413 Tonnes
Net		: 252 Tonnes
Dead Weight	: 434 Tonnes
Overall Length	: 45.55 m
Lbp		: 42.32 m
Brdth Ext	: 7.95 m
Brdth Mlt	: 7.93 m
Draught Max    : 2.972
Depth Mld	: 3.84 m
Ship Type	: TANKER OIL
No of Tanks	: 4TA
Capacities Liq	: 266
Engine Design	: M. A. N.
Power		: 390 KW
Aux Gen	: 2X28 KW 415 V 50 Hz AC
Speed (Knots)	: 10

References

Auxiliary ships of the Indian Navy

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I will be suggesting a special award for this business in Booth Close , keeping the area clean each day shows how much they care for the area ,our litter picking team visit when we can to assist and to enjoy the food provided by the cafe great pies just one part of the menu to eat in or take away .
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For a long while the Esri and Autodesk camps have circled each other, perhaps not sure if they are friends or enemies, but now in perhaps the greatest crossover since the Avengers Infinity Wars, Autodesk and Esri have put aside their rivalries to combat the common enemy Thanos, sorry I mean Open Source.
You see Thanos, aka Open Source, has been steadily growing in power and reach, effecting both Esri and Autodesk's dominance. Admittedly Esri might have more to lose but certainly Autodesk is feeling the pressure as well especially in the CAD space where open source alternatives are challenging their status. So rather than fight these battles alone, Map Man and CAD Woman have teamed up to combine their power, the old maxim that my enemy's enemy is my friend seemingly the battle cry!
Going forward Esri and Autodesk seek to provide the complete BIM lifecycle, bringing together the Power of GIS and the Power of CAD and BIM to allow infrastructure managers, architects and engineers, to not only understand what is happening in the building but also what is happening around it.
In doing so Esri and Autodesk are creating an unrivalled team of superhero products that they believe Thanos is going to struggle to compete with.
So as battle grounds are drawn and super heroes polish their tight fitting uniforms and look to land the killer blow, you have to wonder if this is going to be a standalone movie or like most superhero plots a series of sequels where the bad guy never really gets defeated and lives to fight another day?


Our operations are complex, challenging and fast paced. Our logistics teams make sure our customer's vehicles get to their customers, when we promise and in perfect condition.
As the motor industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, we're investing in the people, processes and systems to ensure we continue to deliver.
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The Bus Carriers Federation benefits from financial support of valuable partners who ensure the success of this annual school bus safety campaign.
The Federation also wishes to acknowledge the support and dedication of school boards, teachers and police forces who are actively involved in this extensive awareness campaign.
We wish to thank everyone involved in the success of this event.


Tucked into a fjord north of the Arctic Circle, Narvik is a popular place for Norwegian outdoorsmen to ski, hike and otherwise get into nature. It was the site of a fierce battle between invading German troops and resolute Norwegians in 1940, commemorated at Narvik's modern War Museum. The small Nord Museum offers more general history, including displays about the culture and history of the nomadic Sami people who follow their reindeer herds across the national borders of the northern Scandinavian realm. There is a Polar Park offering close-up looks at the region's wildlife, and a cable car to the top of nearby Fagernesfjellet peak, as well as a scenic railway that runs from Narvik through the fjords and mountains to Sweden.


The city of Windermere is not unlike the Lake Windermere that it flanks and shares its name with: Both are beautiful in a very natural way yet both also are vital to the respective economies that they supplement. Interestingly enough, Windermere doesn't actually extend to the coast of Lake Windermere and instead stops short a little under a mile from the famed body of water. Despite this, the city of Windermere wouldn't even be here without the bounty that has been provided from Lake Windermere and the two are as intertwined as any other waterside location in England or beyond.
One must also remember that the old town of Bowness-on-Windermere is now in fact a part of Windermere and has been successfully absorbed for better or worse. The city of Bowness is much older and more historic and it is for that reason that many of the residents of Bowness like to consider themselves a part of the old part of town instead. Either way, one can hardly judge such loyalties after taking a view of the mountains from the bottom of the Bowness Hill. The natural beauty of Bowness has caused it to become a major center for tourism but the tallies of such visitors of course falls within the overarching name of Windermere. Similarly, much of the boating and yachting action that is seen on Lake Windermere comes from the many piers in Bowness.
As much as Lake Windermere accomplished to the grown of Bowness and the outlying areas that are now Windermere, the true growth of the town owes more to the developments of man rather than nature. Like many formerly rural areas of England, the arrival of railways in the late nineteenth century transformed cow towns into full fledged cities almost overnight and it is the Kendal and Windermere Railway that we have to thank for the growth of Windermere. This isn't to say that Windermere is in danger of being mistaken for a metropolis anytime soon, however; the total population of Windermere and Bowness taken together is still less than ten thousand. To be fair, though, this figure doesn't take into consideration the tourism levels of Windermere during peak season. Also, one must remember that many people live in the surrounding areas of the County of Cumbria and Windermere is often a weekend or fishing destination so the people that live there certainly get to see a lot more than just each other.
Windermere is rare in the fact that it is one of the few cities that enjoys a healthy supply of tourism based on its natural features rather than any manmade theme parks or hotels. From the stunning mountains to the rare rock deposits to the beautiful Lake Windermere there is a bevy of visual stimuli that can easily make someone believe in the raw powers of the planet on which we live. A trip to Windermere is more than just a visit to a lake and some hills: It is a re-affirmation of what is good about the world.


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Dr. Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez) finds Dr. Browne (Antonia Thomas) to tell her she's back on his service. Browne knows it wasn't Melendez's choice. From The Good Doctor, Season 2 Episode 8, 'Stories.' Watch The Good Doctor MONDAYS at 10|9c on ABC or catch full episodes online on ABC.com and in the ABC app.


We demonstrate quantum-limited electronic refrigeration of a metallic island in a low-temperature microcircuit. We show that matching the impedance of the circuit enables refrigeration at a distance, of about 50 μm in our case, through superconducting leads with a cooling power determined by the quantum of thermal conductance. In a reference sample with a mismatched circuit this effect is absent. Our results are consistent with the concept of electromagnetic heat transport. We observe and analyze the crossover between electromagnetic and quasiparticle heat flux in a superconductor.


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Home News Even the Chinese are scared of working with RUTO to avoid UHURU's...
Even the Chinese are scared of working with RUTO to avoid UHURU's wrath as contractor abandons the DP's Sh2.1 billion project and vanishes
Monday July 13, 2020 – A Chinese contractor has abandoned a Ksh 2.1 billion road project launched by Deputy President William Ruto in Uasin Gishu County.
The road, which is supposed to connect Uasin Gishu and Kakamega counties, was launched in November 2018 and was to be completed by November 2021.
The contractor disappeared after receiving Ksh 2 billion as an advance payment having only constructed 10% of the project.
He had only done some earthwork and bush clearing in preparation for the groundwork.
For the 21 months at work, not even a single kilometre of tarmac was laid.
"The project is already way behind schedule and the contractor has not shown any intentions to complete the project on time," Uasin Gishu County Commissioner, Abdirisack Jaldesa, lamented.
Uasin Gishu County Development Implementation Coordination Committee (CDICC) accused the engineer of violation of contract terms after he demobilized his machinery, equipment and staff and abandoned the site in early March 2020 without notice.
Jaldesa further warned the contractor to return to the site lest his contract is terminated.
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He added that they were facing financial constraints after the Chinese Government delayed to allocate funds to the project.
"We have since overcome the difficulties and will be mobilizing back to the site by next week Friday."
"We have also hired a new site agent who can conversantly communicate in English to ease communication," the representative stated.
On Tuesday, July 7th, President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered his Cabinet Secretaries to take over the inspection of Government projects across the country.
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Addressing a gathering in Jammu Omar Abdullah said, "We were aware of the intentions of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and warned Late Mufti Muhammad Sayeed. We even warned him of the repercussions after the bonhomie with BJP and the alliance he had entered into with the BJP".
He further said that the people of J&K have paid a heavy price for the PDP-BJP alliance. And, had National Conference formed the government in 2014, Article 370 wouldn't have been removed. Omar said that NC had extended support to Late Mufti Muhammad Sayeed after the 2014 polls and told him that the party is not power-hungry but want to keep BJP at bay, but "they didn't listened to us."
"NC couldn't win from maximum seats during the 2014 elections, but had NC formed the government after 2014, Article 370 and 35A would have never been removed, Roshni lands would have never been snatched, contactors from outside would have never been called here," he said. Omar said that at this stage he has no intentions to gain power but to fight for the rights of people of J&K. "I have served as the Chief Minister of J&K and I don't want power at this stage," he said.
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(float)-123456.668915
It's a number chosen at random because I'm doing some unit testing for a chunk of BCD code I'm writing. Whenever I go to compare the number above with a a string ("-123456.668915" to be clear), I'm getting an issue with how C# rounded the number. It rounds it to -123456.7. This has been checked in NUnit and with straight console output.
Why is it rounding like this? According to MSDN, the range of float is approximately -3.4 * 10^38 to +3.4 * 10^38 with 7 digits of precision. The above number, unless I'm completely missing something, is well within that range, and only has 6 digits after the decimal point.
Thanks for the help!

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According to MSDN, the range of float is approximately -3.4 * 10^38 to +3.4 * 10^38 with 7 digits of precision. The above number, unless I'm completely missing something, is well within that range, and only has 6 digits after the decimal point.

"6 digits after the decimal point" isn't the same as "6 digits of precision". The number of digits of precision is the number of significant digits which can be reliably held. Your number has 12 significant digits, so it's not at all surprising that it can't be represented exactly by float.
Note that the number it's (supposedly) rounding to, -123456.7, does have 7 significant digits. In fact, that's not the value of your float either. I strongly suspect the exact value is -123456.671875, as that's the closest float to -123456.668915. However, when you convert the exact value to a string representation, the result is only 7 digits, partly because beyond that point the digits aren't really meaningful anyway.
You should probably read my article about binary floating point in .NET for more details.

A: The float type has a precision of 24 significant bits (except for denormals), which is equivalent to 24 log10 2 ≈ 7.225 significant decimal digits.  The number -123456.668915 has 12 significant digits, so it can't be represented accurately.
The actual binary value, rounded to 24 significant bits, is -11110001001000000.1010110.  This is equivalent to the fraction -7901227/64 = -123456.671875.  Rounding to 7 significant digits gives the -123456.7 you see.

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At the NHL level of hockey, a game cannot end in a tie. If the game is tied at the end of regulation time, the teams will play a 5 minute overtime, and if no goal is scored the game will be decided by a shootout. However, in the NCAA and recreational levels games can end in a tie.
Due to the nature of ice hockey, no draws can occur; so when a game is tied a goal is inexorably going to be scored in either normal time, OT or a shootout.
Describes the act of getting the puck to a team member at a face off.
However, the shootout has no place in deciding the outcome of regular season NHL games. Here's what the NHL should do. If a game remains tied at the end of the five-minute overtime period, play five more minutes of three-on-three. If nobody scores in either overtime session, we will honor tradition and call it a tie.
If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time, or there is a penalty shoot-out, depending on the format of the competition. … If the tie still persists, more rounds are played until one team has scored.
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The American Express™ to Showcase Maroon 5 and Brad Paisley in its 2022 Concert Series at PGA WEST Stadium Course from Jan. 21-22
Maroon 5 to perform Friday after second round of The American Express (PGA TOUR) on the PGA WEST Stadium Course driving range, and Brad Paisley takes the stage Saturday after third round; Concert Day Tickets – which include admission to the PGA TOUR golf tournament and the concert – are on sale at www.TheAmexGolf.com
LA QUINTA, CALIF. – The American Express™ announced today that iconic Los Angeles pop rock band Maroon 5 and heralded American country musician and songwriter Brad Paisley will comprise its musical lineup for its 2022 Concert Series Jan. 21-22 on the PGA WEST Stadium Course driving range at Coachella Valley's annual PGA TOUR golf tournament.
Maroon 5 – currently featuring lead vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist P.J. Morton and multi-instrumentalist and bassist Sam Farrar – will open The American Express' Concert Series after the conclusion of second-round play on Friday, Jan. 21, with Paisley taking the stage after the tournament's third round on Saturday, Jan. 22.
The 2022 American Express features tournament host Phil Mickelson, the World Golf Hall of Famer and six-time major champion, among 156 professionals and 156 amateur golfers playing at PGA WEST's Stadium Course and Nicklaus Tournament Course and La Quinta Country Club in La Quinta, Calif.
All ticket options for the 2022 American Express (Jan. 19-23) are currently on sale at the tournament's official website:
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Grounds tickets for Friday's second round and Saturday's third round are $125 for each day (includes admission to the golf tournament and post-round concert).
An upgraded 'Champions Club' ticket for the concert days (Jan. 21-22) – which entitles patrons to experience the PGA TOUR golf action while enjoying a hosted breakfast, lunch, snack and full bar in the Champions Club, preferred parking and exclusive concert viewing access near the stage – is $350 for each day.
"Our concert series should be quite the performance. Together with American Express, we will bring in world-renowned artists Maroon 5 and Brad Paisley to our fans while also potentially introducing music buffs to their first taste of professional golf," said Pat McCabe, Executive Director of The American Express. "We believe we are meeting the musical interests of our fans in providing premium, topical musical entertainment for all to enjoy."
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Released in the summer of 2021, Maroon 5's current studio album, JORDI (222/Interscope), features the band's latest hit single "Beautiful Mistakes" featuring Megan Thee Stallion. "Beautiful Mistakes" was the No. 1 most added at Top 40 and Hot AC when it impacted radio and charted in the Top 20 on the HOT 100, Top 40 and Hot AC charts. JORDI also includes the band's recent hits "Nobody's Love" and "Memories," which has surpassed a groundbreaking 1 billion Spotify streams and amassed over 700 million YouTube views.
Maroon 5's last studio album, Red Pill Blues, featured the global hit single "Girls Like You" which reached No. 1 at Top 40, No. 1 at Adult Pop, and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks. The track accumulated over 1.2 billion Spotify streams and over 3 billion YouTube/VEVO views; notably becoming the most-watched video on VEVO in 2018.
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Paisley has written 21 of his 24 No. 1 hits and, in 2008, he became the first artist to achieve 10 consecutive Billboard Country Airplay No. 1 singles. The 2010 CMA Entertainer of the Year's past works have amassed over 3.9 billion on-demand streams.
The tournament's Concert Series returns for its fifth year (since 2017) and enhances the overall tournament week fan experience by packaging popular musical entertainment with great local food and many of the world's best golfers to create a festival-style atmosphere.
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Ride the rails and enjoy Red Clay
May 12th, 2016 · by Rich King · Comments:
This week, I decided if we had a nice day, I would head north to check out a few places.
I went to Yorklyn, Delaware, and took a trip with the Rail Explorers, Delaware Division.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilmington and Western Railroad, and Rail Explorers are here to help celebrate the occasion. The company takes people on a tour of the old Wilmington Railway on a rail bike.
This is a unique and fun way to see the Red Clay River Valley.
Explorers pedal these large double- or quad-seat carts along the railroad tracks. It is a six mile round trip and the sites along the way are beautiful. The trip lasts about an hour or so, with a 20-minute layover at the turn around point in the Mt Cuba Picnic Grove — a spot you can enjoy a bring-along lunch.
It is also great exercise and for a fisherman, it offers a very interesting view of the Red Clay river valley.
You can't get off the bikes since the tracks are surrounded by private property, so don't bring a fishing rod.
The rail bikes are turned around by a lift at the Mt Cuba preserve for the trip back to Yorklyn.
If you want to try out this experience with the family or friends contact www.railexplorers.net/ or call (302) 601-0888, you will have a great time, I promise.
The Rail Explorers are here until June 14. Tours depart four times a day, starting at 10:30 a.m., Thursday through Sunday.
Fishing has been decent up north on the upper Delaware Bay, according to Steve at Smith's Bait and Tackle.
It is the same story in the surf with striped bass and bluefish. The action is there you just have to be in the right place at the right time.
The incoming tide into the outgoing tide, that four to five hour window, has been the best.
We are seeing a little better flounder action but the water still needs to warm up more. Drum action is picking up in the Delaware Bay.
Short striped bass and puffers are still hot catches in the surf on bloodworms. Trout have been decent action when you find pockets holding fish. Fortunately not much has changed the past couple of weeks.
Wild ride
The best part of fishing thus far has been the stories — like the one Mike Andrews told us about his buddy Matt Mock the other day.
"We were set up about 200 yards to the right of the pier," he said. "While watching our surf poles, Matt decides to toss a spoon to try to drum up some bluefish action. Where he sets up to cast is about 35-40 yards away from from his pole. While he was casting, his surf rod takes a vicious bump, and pulls out of the sand … spike and all goes flying into the water.
"Mike Farkas tries to grab it but face plants in the surf, so Matt being the nimble 350-pound guy that he is, starts running towards his pole which is now about 10 yards or so in the water. When he gets near his pole, he performs the best swan dive belly flop that would make Super Fly Jimmy Snuka proud. He is totally submerged, but he got his pole and reeled in a beast of a striper at 38 inches.
"Unfortunately for Matt the fish had to go back due to the creel limits. Afterwards we come to find out Matt had his cell phone in his pocket as well, so you can say it was a wild ride for that slot striper. If I had a video I would win America's funniest home videos."
The other great story for this week comes from 8-year-old Finn Hudecheck.
He was up all night saying they were going to catch a big fish. He told his dad he was tired of the little blue gills at the pond.
He even ran out and pointed at the big bluefish his Uncle Tom had in the cooler and said we are going to catch this big fish.
His dad and Uncle Tom said he was bouncing off the walls all night yelling we are going to catch big fish.
Said Tom, "So no pressure there at all, now we have to catch a big fish."
The next day they are at the Cape Henlopen pier beach, set up to catch bluefish.
Bob looked at his watch and said, that guy said at 11 a.m. they should hit. Sure enough at 11:09 a.m. one of the rods bent.
Young Finn helped reel in that big bluefish and he was excited.
When they landed that fish, he was wide eyed at the size. After they checked it in at the shop, Finn asked if they could catch another one.
Tom just looked at me and said, "Hey, the pressure is off now, so yeah why not."
Now I know how a charter captain or guide feels. Soon after they landed another one and Finn was spent. He found a piece of pirate ship driftwood and they called it a day. Great day in a young man's life. Catch a fish of a lifetime and find a piece of a legendary pirate ship. Because that is what a kid finds when he is hanging out with his dad and older fishermen at the beach.
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A newer-generation clot-busting drug called tenecteplase outperforms the traditional treatment for ischemic strokes in several key areas, including better health outcomes and lower costs, according to a new study published today in the American Stroke Association's journal Stroke.
The study was led by a team of neurologists at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin and was carried out over a 15-month period at 10 Ascension Seton hospitals in Central Texas starting in September 2019.
"The Dell Med Neurology Stroke Program was one of the first in the United States to make this change," said Steven Warach MD, lead author of the study and director of the Stroke Program for Dell Med and Ascension Texas. "Based on even the earliest results from this study, other experts across the country were convinced and made the switch from alteplase to tenecteplase at their own stroke centers, including at Ascension hospitals nationwide."
Nearly 800,000 people in the United States have a stroke every year. The vast majority of those strokes (about 87%) are ischemic, meaning they occur when a vessel supplying blood to the brain is obstructed by a blood clot. This can result in a corresponding loss of neurologic function.
Both tenecteplase and alteplase are federally approved for use in dissolving clots in blocked heart arteries. But the newer drug tenecteplase is also being used by clinicians, off-label, to treat ischemic strokes, because clinical trials in stroke suggest that it may be at least as good as alteplase and it is easier to administer. Tenecteplase is administered by a single five- to 10-second intravenous injection. The researchers compared its performance with the standard drug for stroke, alteplase, which is injected over 60 minutes.
"When it comes to treating patients with a stroke, every second matters," said Warach, who is also a professor of neurology at Dell Med. "The shorter preparation and injection time with tenecteplase not only eliminates a lot of dosing errors related to alteplase, but it's also more efficient. We were able to deliver the clot-busting medicine more quickly after patients arrived in the emergency department, and for patients who needed to be transferred to another hospital for more advanced care after receiving the clot buster, we were able to initiate the transfer sooner in those treated with tenecteplase."
For patients who come into the emergency department after a stroke, Warach's study found that the "door-to-needle" time — the time between patients' arrival and the moment they receive treatment — was on average six minutes quicker with tenecteplase. And for patients who also required a thrombectomy, the surgical removal of a blood clot causing the stroke, tenecteplase sped up the process of transferring the patient to a thrombectomy-capable stroke center by 25 minutes.
Researchers also saw improvements in clinical outcomes for patients given tenecteplase, including:
A 5% increase in patients who were able to walk independently at time of hospital discharge to home.
A 4% decrease in occurrences of bad events such as brain hemorrhages, discharge to hospice care or death.
The third major improvement: cost. The research team found that tenecteplase treatment cost the hospitals about $2,500 less than alteplase per patient.
"If this price differential continues, the magnitude of savings could equate to in excess of $150 million every year in the U.S.," said David Paydarfar MD, co-author of the study and chair of the Department of Neurology at Dell Med. "This is a great example of value-based care—better care for less money."
The Dell Med Neurology Stroke Program is now working with colleagues in the state-funded Lone Star Stroke Research Consortium to disseminate its study findings across the state, helping more stroke centers make the switch to tenecteplase. Warach is also working with Lone Star Stroke colleagues to build a statewide database to further confirm their results and answer lingering questions.
"For example, we have such a large Latinx population in Texas. I'd like to know if we're seeing the same advantages from tenecteplase in that community as we are in the larger population," said Warach. "The more data we have, the more questions we can answer."
Source: News Release
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