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TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index posted a triple-digit decline in late-morning trading in the face of broad-based weakness as U.S. stock markets also moved lower.The S&P/TSX composite index was down 156.63 points at 16,140.83.In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 256.46 points at 25,091.31. The S&P 500 index was down 22.99 points at 2,779.40, while the Nasdaq composite was down 66.74 points at 7,540.61.The Canadian dollar traded for 73.93 cents US compared with an average of 74.20 cents US on Tuesday after the Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate on hold at 1.75 per cent. The central bank pointed to “accumulating evidence” of improvements in the economy, but noted that trade risks remain.The July crude contract was down US$1.45 at US$57.69 per barrel and the July natural gas contract was up 5.4 cents at US$2.64 per mmBTU.The June gold contract was up US$4.40 at US$1,281.50 an ounce and the July copper contract was down 3.25 cents at US$2.66 a pound. The Canadian Press Companies in this story: (TSX:GSPTSE, TSX:CADUSD=X)
The study by Fertility Clinics Abroad found that restrictions on NHS treatment and the cost of private treatment in Britain were the key drivers pushing couples abroad.Speaking as the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference opened in Geneva, the charity Fertility Network UK said couples were being failed by “substantial cuts to services”. 
While 63 per cent of those in the research had already had IVF in the UK – in most cases unsucessfully – others had used life savings, remortgaged their homes and even “crowd-funded” to pay for treatment, the study found. “Patients’ inability to access NHS IVF because of these substantial cuts to services, coupled with the high cost of private fertility treatment in the UK, are the key drivers for seeking assisted conception abroad,” she said. It comes amid increasing rationining of NHS treatment for fertility. In total, 27 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England have introduced restrictions on IVF access in the last year, leaving five areas which now fund no treatment at all. Croydon, Mid-Essex, North East Essex, South Norfolk and Basildon and Brentwood CCGs all fund no treatment.Guidance from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence states that women under 40 should be offered three cycles of IVF, regardless of whether either partner has had children in previous relationships.But many areas have their own age restrictions, or refuse funding if either partner has any children. In total, just two per cent of areas in England meet the criteria, with just 12 per cent funding up to three cycles in some circumstances.In addition, 62 per cent of CCGs only fund one cycle of treatmentBy contrast, couples in Scotland are entitled to three cycles of fertility treatment if women are under 40, while Wales funds two cycles of treatment.Ms Seenan said she was “deeply concerned” about a growing crisis in NHS IVF provision, driving rising fertility tourism. While some couples might prefer to go overseas, many could find themselves exposed to extra safety risks, she stressed, with less rigorous regulation in many other countries.“If you are considering fertility treatment abroad it is important to consider the differences in terms of regulations around the use of anonymous donors and the number of embryos that can be transferred; there are much higher risks to both mother and baby from twin (or triplet) pregnancies.”Britain has a policy where only one embryo can be transfered, to reduce the risks of multiple births, which are more risky, especially in older mothers. But there are no such laws in the Czech Republic, and Spain allows up to three embryos to be transferred, while Greece allows two.In Britain there is a shortage of egg and sperm donors, and donations cannot be made anonymously. In October the National Sperm Bank closed after recruiting just seven men.There are no such rules in Spain, Greece or the Czech Republic, where there are virtually no waiting lists for egg or sperm donation treatment. In such countries, private fertility treatment including egg donation can be half the cost of a typical £10,000 UK package.The baby born of a trip abroadClaire Thomas, 33, a pharmacy worker, from Dorchester, conceived her baby son Eddie in the Czech Republic in September 2015. She and husband Mark, 52, weren’t allowed NHS funding on the grounds that he already had children from a previous marriage. She said her British doctor was “very wary” of their decision to travel to the country for treatment.”He wasn’t happy when he found out that’s what we were going to do,” she said. “He really did try to put us off.”The couple had the clinic’s practices vetted by a UK fertility clinic because Mr Thomas had to have his sperm, which had been extracted earlier, sent over to the country. The whole trip took just three days because Mrs Thomas was using donor eggs. The couple decided to transfer just one of their four embryos because they were told they had a good chance of success.”They didn’t try and pressure us to have all of them so we just had the one, and we were really lucky it worked,” she said.Olivia Rudgard Susan Seenan, chief executive of the charity, said Britain’s pioneering achievements in IVF – creating the world’s first test tube baby, Louise Brown, 40 years ago – meant nothing if the health service could not provide help to those need.The research on 241 British couples suffering fertility problems found that the vast majority were considering treatment abroad, with 65 per cent citing the postcode lottery across the NHS as the reason for doing so.The research found 44 per cent of the 241 couples polled had already had fertility treatment abroad, while 93 per cent said they would consider it.Others said long waiting lists on the NHS and a lack of egg donors were key reasons they were considering going abroad, with Spain the most popular destination, followed by Greece and the Czech Republic.Some were considering going as far as Nigeria, Tunisia and South Africa in an effort to find affordable treatment, the report by Fertility Clinics Abroad shows.The study found infertile couples resorting to desperate measures to pay for treatment. Claire Thomas with her baby son EddieCredit:Russell Sach for the Telegraph Desperate couples are being forced abroad for fertility treatment amid widespread cutbacks to NHS IVF provision, experts have warned.Restrictions by British health services have prompted a boom in “fertility tourism”, with increasing numbers turning to countries such as Spain, Greece and the Czech republic, a report suggests.The figures show that access to IVF treatment on the NHS has hit a record low.Under health service guidance, those with fertility problems should be offered up to three cycles of IVF. But just 12 per cent of trusts offer this, the lowest figure for 13 years and a drop from 24 per cent in 2013.Five areas now have an outright ban on funding IVF, while almost two thirds of areas offer one cycle at most.Fertility campaigners said they were “deeply concerned” by the impact of recent cutbacks, which were forcing increasing numbers to seek help abroad, often exposing themselves to safety risks. 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However, while a Conor McKenna goal gave Tyrone hope, they were unable to find the goal they needed to draw the game and so it was Mayo who lifted the Tom Markham Cup for the first time in 28 years.Scorers for Mayo: Liam Irwin 0-4 (0-4 frees) Tommy Conroy 1-3, Conor Loftus 0-3 (0-1f) Darragh Doherty 1-2, Conor Lynch 0-1.Scorers for Tyrone: Lee Brennan 0-4 (0-3f), Ruairi Nugent 0-2, David Mulgrew 0-1, Ruairi McGlone 0-1, Conor McKenna 1-2, Daire Gallagher 0-2 (0-1f), Cathal McShane 0-1. Mayo 2-13Tyrone 1-13MAYO ARE THE All-Ireland minor football champions after a three point win over Tyrone in Croke Park this afternoon.Both sides seemed to struggle with confidence in the first half with Tyrone unable to establish any daylight between the teams despite dominating possession and scoring opportunities.For their part, Mayo were kept in the game thanks to the free-taking of Liam Irwin and Tommy Conroy pounced just before half-time with a brilliantly taken goal to allow his team go in at the break with a one point lead, 1-4 to 0-6.The Westerners started the second half in lightning fashion with four unanswered points before Darragh Doherty bagged his fourth goal of this year’s championship to put Mayo into a 2-08 to 0-6 lead.However, the goal seemed to awaken the Red Hands from their slumber and they had four consecutive scores after Doherty had raised the green flag with Cathal McShane in particular causing havoc.Despite getting to within three points of Mayo with nine minutes left, it looked as if the game was over when Conor Byrne and Tommy Conroy gave the Connacht champions a six point lead in injury time. Mayo: Mark Mulligan (Claremorris); Eddie Doran (Achill), Seamus Cunniffe (Ballaghaderreen), David Kenny (Aghamore); Michael Hall (Breaffy), Stephen Coen (Hollymount/Carramore), Sean Conlon (Castlebar Mitchels); Val Roughneen (Balla), Diarmuid O’Connor (Ballintubber); Conor Loftus (Crossmolina), Michael Plunkett (Ballintubber), Padraig Prendergast (Louisburgh); Darragh Doherty (Kilmaine), Liam Irwin (Breaffy), Tommy Conroy (Kiltane).
Tyrone: Sean Fox (Ceapach); Colm Byrne (An Eaglais), Rhys Quinn (Cluain Eo), Cillian McCann (Fionntamhnach); Shea Hamill (Domhnach Mor), Christopher Morris (Gallbhaile), Padraig McGirr (Aireagal Chiarain), Ronan Nugent (Gallbhaile), Frank Burns (Cabhan a’Chaotainn), David Mulgrew (Ard Bo), Conor McKenna (An Eaglais), Ruairi McGlone (Achadh Lu), Lee Brennan (Tri Leac) Daire Gallagher (Tri Leac), Stephen McGrath (Doire Lochain).LIVE: Tyrone v Mayo, All-Ireland MFC finalMan United star Darren Fletcher is backing Mayo at the All-Ireland final today
Stay on target There’s A New Ghost in the Shell Series ComingMovieBob Reviews: GHOST IN THE SHELL (2017) After releasing five excruciatingly small teasers, Paramount has finally released the first full-length trailer for Ghost in the Shell.We get a good sense of what the story will be like from the trailer and it stays close to the one in the manga, written by Mamoru Oshii. “The Major,” a cyborg, runs Section 9, an intelligence organization that fights cyber-criminals. According to the official synopsis, the group “is faced with an enemy whose singular goal is to wipe out Hanka Robotic’s advancements in cyber technology.”There are a few departures from the source material. For one, “The Major” doesn’t seem to know who she is. In the manga and film, she is aware of her past and how she became a cyborg, and it adds something to the core of the narrative, which concerns humanity’s relationship with machines and the Major’s own questions about the state of her being (hence the title, which is a play on “the ghost in the machine”).We also still don’t have answers as to why Scarlett Johansson was cast as the lead. She’s referred to here as “The Major” instead of Major Motoko Kusanagi as a way to get around any controversies surrounding whitewashing, but any practical reasons for not casting a Japanese actress are still unclear (besides the racism we’ve seen countless times in Hollywood, especially when it comes to actors of Asian descent). Producer Steven Paul told Buzzfeed that the plan was to create a more international story, but three other prominent characters have been replaced with white actors.It doesn’t also help that in the trailer, most of the people who are gunned down or beaten up are played by Asian actors. Most of the characters with dialogue are played by white actors.In a world where the voices of people of color are silenced all the time, it would’ve been worth it to see a Japanese story starring and being told by Japanese actors.Things we can say in the trailer’s favor: it looks beautiful. It aesthetically stays very close to the 1995 anime film, including some scenes that look like they’ve been redone shot-for-shot. It has a lot in common with Blade Runner regarding design (and incidentally, Westworld, although that might not have been on purpose). It’s imagery that works, especially when we’re talking about a futuristic Tokyo that relies heavily on technology.The film is set to hit theaters on March 31, 2017.
Stay on target “When this particular fish bit, it felt like I had a nice fish on,” Geddes told Fox News. “I actually commented, ‘I hope it’s as big as it feels!’ When we got it in the boat I couldn’t believe what I was seeing! Two mouths! And yet this fish was healthy and thriving! Pretty amazing!”Geddes and her husband took pictures of the trout and released it back into the lake.No one knows what caused the fish to have “two mouths.” Facebook community members tried explaining the creature’s bizarre appearance with their own theories.“It’s just an old injury, not two-headed at all,” one person wrote.Another commented, “Speaking as a fish biologist, clearly the isthmus below the lower jaw just got torn earlier in life (likely from some sort of angler related injury) and it healed over.”“I think it is a deformity,” someone replied. “Something went awry embryologically.”“I just can’t believe all the attention this has received. The public’s responses/theories are quite interesting, to say the least,” Geddes explained. “I personally believe it was caused by a previous injury, most likely from another angler.”More on Geek.com:Man Catches Enormous 50-Pound Catfish in ArizonaFishing Accident Leaves Boy With Small Hook in His EyelidWatch: Electrofishing Stuns Massive Group of Carp at Kentucky Dam An angler’s “catch of the day” turned out to be the “catch of a lifetime” when they reeled in a fish that appeared to have two mouths.Debbie Geddes, who was fishing on Lake Champlain in upstate New York, wasn’t expecting the odd-looking trout to come out of the water last week, WHDH News reported. The Knotty Boys Fishing Facebook page posted a picture of the fish and it has been shared more than 6,000 times since Monday.
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Recommended for you Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsApp Related Items:Dominic Fedee, Grenada La Source Sandals, Sandals Grande Antigua Resort & Spa, Sandals Grande St Lucian, Sandals Regency La Toc, Sandals Resort International Sandals Resorts win top prizes at World Travel Awards Gala in Exuma Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsAppProvidenciales, 24 Jul 2015 – The Turks and Caicos delegation is returned home now; landed and parked safely in that Sandals Resort International corporate jet at the Provo Air Center after a three day tour of the SRI properties in the Eastern Caribbean. Public Relations regional manager for the EC properties, Dominic Fedee talked about the objective of the second in a series of familiarization trips. “Well I think that we are often times misunderstood and I think that we need to communicate a lot better both us and the communities within which we operate. I think it means a whole lot to us that people understand what we’re trying to do, that they understand the heart and the soul and spirit of the company and the organization. Fedee continued: “It’s like I said earlier, it is a Caribbean company and we want to be seen as such where we are obligated and we are committed toward the development of the Caribbean’s people, its communities, its government so that overall as countries we can go forward and we can be very successful and we can be very, very formidable economies and societies in the world, so yes we want to be understood better and yes this is why we have invited people, I make no apologies for that.”The media fam trip first stopped into the Grenada La Source Sandals, moved on Monday evening to Sandals Barbados, took off on Tuesday late morning to St Lucia where two properties, Sandals Regency La Toc and Sandals Grande St Lucian were toured, with the trip wrapping up in Antigua and Barbuda which is the first Caribbean country, outside of Jamaica to have a Sandals couples’ resort – the site seen was the Sandals Grande Antigua Resort & Spa.
MIAMI (WSVN) – Construction crews working for All Aboard Florida will cause temporary road closures in Miami.According to a Brightline spokesperson, improvements will be made for the introduction of the Brightline passenger rail service and will affect the several intersections with the railway.Northwest 10th and 11th streets, at the Florida East Coast Railway, will be closed on April 17, at 7 a.m., until April 23, at 6 p.m.Then, at Northwest 14th Street and the Florida East Coast Railway, the intersection will be closed on April 24, at 7 a.m., until April 30, at 6 p.m.Copyright 2019 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Low latency is the real game-changer for 5GSpeed is just one part of what makes 5G so appealing, though. At the Shape conference, AT&T made a point to emphasize 5G’s worth to businesses and developers. Interactive demos by companies like Magic Leap, Nvidia, Nokia, Google and IBM gave me a tiny glimpse into how that 5G speed can bring creative dreams and utilities a step closer to reality. As I came across these demonstrations, though, I began to notice 5G’s true secret weapon: really low latency. Latency is the time it takes your computer or gaming console to send data to an online server and get data back. The less time this takes, the better.A whack-a-mole-style game from Ericsson showed off how vastly different the latency is between 5G, 4G and 3G connections. Instead of moles, there was an arcade table console that had small plastic circles across the top. When a circle lit up, you simply pressed it to get a point. While it sounds easy enough, when I played the game I wore a VR headset with cameras on the front. I could see only the live feed inside the headset, which was streamed over a 5G connection. Gameplay felt natural and easy until the connection switched to 4G. Once that kicked in, my timing was immediately off. Things got much worse when the connection switched to 3G. This demo was such an effective and fun way to show how 5G’s latency is crazy low, it became one of my most memorable takeaways.In addition, Nvidia showed off its GeForce Now, a cloud streaming service for games. I played Batman Arkham City over 5G and had no idea I wasn’t playing a local copy. Movements were smooth and reflexive gameplay felt no different than on a PlayStation. Low latency won’t make headlines, but it means businesses can use cloud computing to create more-powerful experiences on our phones and devices. And I think it’s smart that AT&T is rolling out its 5G network to businesses and developers first. Back when Apple first released the iPhone, there wasn’t an app store until a year later. Perhaps it would have been better for the apps develop first, since they were what made the iPhone truly so innovative.AT&T is pushing businesses and developers to discover compelling uses for 5G. And those uses will be what ultimately makes 5G go mainstream to consumers. Until then, expect more speed tests and 5G phones that are aimed at early adopters.Originally published June 22, 11:41 a.m. PTUpdate, 6:48 p.m.: Adds details on speeds and demos.Update, June 25, 12:30 p.m.: Adds possible timing of 5G rollout to consumers Share your voice Samsung, LG, Motorola: How soon can we expect 5G phones? 55 Now playing: Watch this: AT&T 5G network has some of the fastest speeds we’ve… Mobile 9:40
Usain Bolt-fast 5G speedsArmed with a Galaxy S10 5G phone, I ran a dozen speed tests around a square back lot at Warner Bros. that was dotted with 5G millimeter wave nodes on rooftops. I was able to measure upload and download speeds and to download hours of movies and TV shows in a matter of seconds. The takeaway? AT&T 5G Plus is faster than The Flash when he has to pee. I got speeds that were consistently over 1Gbps, often hitting 1.6 to 1.7Gbps. That’s six times faster than my home internet.I ran 12 tests with the Speedtest.net benchmarking app to measure speeds, and eight were over 1.4Gbps. The top speed was 1.782Gbps, which is faster than the top speed of 1.3Gbps we experienced on Verizon’s 5G network in Chicago and well above the 484Mbps top mark we recorded in Dallas on Sprint’s 5G network.I downloaded and installed PUBG Mobile, which is 1.96GB, in 27 seconds while the download and install time was one minute and 23 seconds. The first season of Blue Planet II (six hours of video) took 17 seconds to download with the Netflix app. And the first four episodes of The Swamp Thing downloaded from the DC app took 52 seconds.To see how AT&T’s 5G speeds compare to Verizon and Sprint, read: Verizon vs. AT&T vs. Sprint 5G throwdown: The battle rages on.From what I experienced on Saturday, 5G is still very much in its raw cookie dough state. Networks are still being built out, and the tests I ran were a small but wonderful tease of what our future wireless connections should be able to do.But it’s worth noting that the speeds I experienced on AT&T’s 5G Plus are available only in small zones for businesses like Warner Bros. and Magic Leap. Consumers could have to wait until at least 2020 before they can experience these insane speeds themselves. 13 Photos Comments Tags We tested AT&T’s 5G network for the first time on a Galaxy S10 5G. Logan Moy/CNET It’s fitting that I tested AT&T’s 5G network at the Warner Bros. studio in Los Angeles. Both Hollywood and 5G aim to take our wildest ideas and make them real. In AT&T’s case, it’s the promise of high-speed mobile data over a cellular network, which could revolutionize how we use our phones, computers and connected devices. In the little time I spent testing 5G speeds at the AT&T Shape conference at Warner Bros., I was blown away by how fast they were. They cruised past the speeds we’ve witnessed in similar early 5G tests done with Verizon and Sprint.AT&T is the third US carrier over the past few months to give us a taste of the power and potential of 5G. After a less than stellar preview in April, Verizon flexed its blazing speed muscles in May around select parts of Chicago on its 5G network. Later that month, Sprint showed off its 5G network in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and it proved impressive in terms of its reliability and the size of its coverage — even if Verizon’s demo was faster. AT&T’s approach was to show off a 5G-connected campus on the Warner Bros. lot. Imagine, for example, a film crew being able to instantly share footage with someone on the other side of the lot across a lightning-fast network.5G is the next generation of cellular technology, and it should allow for faster data speeds with incredibly low latency. The new generation of wireless innovation could lead to a slew of uses that are practical, like downloading movies to our phones in seconds or streaming AR or VR games without lag — but also hopeful, like being a harbinger for technologies that have yet to be envisioned. The latter could truly revolutionize industries, from self-driving cars to remote medical procedures. 5G 4G LTE AT&T Samsung Sprint T-Mobile Verizon
TDP (watts) 10th-generation Comet Lake mobile CPUs Base freq (GHz) Y News • The best laptops 2019: Premium midsize category 3.2 4/8 1.1 4/8 5.5W/7W/9W i3-10110Y 1.0 CPU i7-10510Y 2/4 i7-10510U Post a comment The Comet Lake CPUs are part of the “optimize” phase of Intel’s “Process, Architecture, Optimization” product lifecycle. Comet Lake is the latest set of iterative refinements to the 14nm Skylake architecture from 2015, part of the company’s method for eking out a little more speed or battery life from existing designs, or letting manufacturers shave a fraction of a millimeter where they can.All the chips stick with the lame Intel UHD 630 integrated graphics, for example, and have just slightly tweaked CPU frequencies. Whether or not to use the faster memory is at the discretion of the manufacturer, so it’s possible we’ll see no speed improvement at all in some laptops. Intel’s marketing materials claim big percentage gains, but that’s comparing the six core to the old four core rather than the four core to a direct predecessor. 4.3 Y 4/8 4/8 4/8 15W/25W i3-10110U 1.6 Meet Intel’s Ice Lake processor, due to speed up PCs in 2019 16 Photos 0 15W/25W Tags Max all core turbo (GHz) U Razer Blade Stealth Review • Razer Blade Stealth review: This slick new laptop will make your MacBook Air jealous i5-10210Y 1.2
1.8 Y i5-10310Y 3.9 5.5W/7W/9W 1.1 Y i5-10210U U 3.9 4.5W/7W/9W 2.8 2.7 Dell’s XPS 13 is one of the many laptops incorporating the Comet Lake versions of Intel’s 10th-generation processors. Dell Oh, i7-8656U we hardly knew ye. So much water under the bridge — all those lakes — since we first tested you a mere eight months ago in the Razer Blade Stealth and already you’ve been replaced by a younger model who looks very, very much like you. The new Comet Lake-architecture CPUs don’t promise any of the advances of its newly minted 10th-generation Ice Lake siblings, such as on-chip Thunderbolt 3 support, acceleration for voice-control processing, improved integrated graphics and more. The only truly substantive performance advances you’ll probably see is with the new top-end i7-10710U, which brings six cores to ultraslim laptops like the Dell XPS 13 for the first time. Adding cores boosts speed more than almost any other upgrade.In other words, unlike the ones announced at the beginning of August, these are not the 10th-generation processors you’ve been waiting for. Nor do you need to wait: You’ll be able to get laptops with them starting this week.The reason is they’re just an iterative step up from the 14nm eighth-generation predecessors for ultraportable and ultra-low-power laptops — Amber Lake (Y series) and Whiskey Lake (U series) — offering slightly faster clock speeds, compatibility with faster memory for the U series (LPDDR4x 2,933MHz, LPDDR3 2,133MHz and DDR4 2,666MHz) and an upgraded supporting chipset that adds Intel’s variation on Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Wi-Fi 6 Gig Plus. The latter will deliver better Wi-Fi speeds, but only if you upgrade your router or connect to a newer one.On the other hand, Intel’s sticking with it’s old naming conventions for these — the “Y” and “U” nomenclature indicating whether the chip is for a tiny laptop (Y) or a slightly bigger laptop (U) — so you’ll be able to tell immediately if your configuration has a real 10th-generation processor or eighth-skipped-a-generation-and-rebranded 10th-generation. And there will probably be some great prices as manufacturers try to get rid of stock with the short-lived “old” Core i7-8565U and its peers. 15W/25W $1,359 U Series 3.7 4.5W/7W/9W Dell Intel Razer See it 6/12 15W/25W i7-10710U CNET may get a commission from retail offers. 2/8 U Cores / threads Share your voice 3.7 1.0 2.1 Computers Components Laptops Mentioned Above Razer Blade Stealth (512GB, UHD)
Update: After many rumours around Ratan Tata’s exit from Tata Trusts, he clarified on Friday that he has no plans of stepping down anytime soon. Chairman of Tata Trusts, Ratan Tata, is most likely to step down from the position and the selection of the next chairman is likely to happen by mid-2017. Tata Trusts controls 66 percent of Tata Sons, which was mired in controversy after its chairman Cyrus Mistry was publicly ousted from his position.Ratan Tata is unlikely to remain a trustee once the new chairman takes over. With him departing, his close aide R Venkataramanan will also most likely leave to manage his personal investments. When Mistry had taken the position, it was the first time that a Tata Sons chairman was not made the chairman of Tata Trusts in 2012. Ratan Tata, who is accused of controlling the company from behind the curtain, will likely leave the company and focus on his $250 million venture capital fund UCRNT, in association with the University of California. “The next chairman has to be someone who has the right vision and be in complete alignment with the will of the Tata Group founders,” Krishna Kumar, a group veteran and Tata trustee told the Times of India. An external consultant has been hired by Tata Trusts to figure out who the next chairman will be. It could be someone non-Parsi and not a member of Tata family. The new appointee will initially work with Ratan Tata as deputy chairman and then take over.Kumar also said that Tata Trusts and Tata Sons chairman will be different. The next-appointee will be someone in mid-50s to early 60s and not necessarily Parsi. “It is very unlikely that it will be a foreign passport holder. The person needs to be an Indian and understand what is good for India,” Krishna Kumar added. Recently, the company was mired in controversy after Cyrus Mistry was ousted. Kumar told the ET that Ratan Tata and N Soonawala had been holding talks with Mistry over the way he was running the company. He refuted that his ouster was sudden. “Many meetings were held in Bombay House,” he said.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina`s son and ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy. File PhotoSon of prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her information and communication affairs adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is no longer a political party.“The BNP is no longer a political party. They are a terrorist organisation. They should all be thrown into jail,” said Sajeeb in a Facebook post.He said the election process has barely started and the BNP has already resorted to violence.The party burned civilians alive in their arson attacks during 2013 and 2015, Sajeeb said.He pointed out even the Canadian courts have ruled that BNP is a terrorist organisation.
Evolution of RSL at Garni Crater, Valles Marineris, Mars. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2017). DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2917 More information: Frédéric Schmidt et al. Formation of recurring slope lineae on Mars by rarefied gas-triggered granular flows, Nature Geoscience (2017). DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2917AbstractActive dark flows known as recurring slope lineae have been observed on the warmest slopes of equatorial Mars. The morphology, composition and seasonality of the lineae suggest a role of liquid water in their formation. However, internal and atmospheric sources of water appear to be insufficient to sustain the observed slope activity. Experimental evidence suggests that under the low atmospheric pressure at the surface of Mars, gas can flow upwards through porous Martian soil due to thermal creep under surface regions heated by the Sun, and disturb small particles. Here we present numerical simulations to demonstrate that such a dry process involving the pumping of rarefied gas in the Martian soil due to temperature contrasts can explain the formation of the recurring slope lineae. In our simulations, solar irradiation followed by shadow significantly reduces the angle of repose due to the resulting temporary temperature gradients over shaded terrain, and leads to flow at intermediate slope angles. The simulated flow locations are consistent with observed recurring slope lineae that initiate in rough and bouldered terrains with local shadows over the soil. We suggest that this dry avalanche process can explain the formation of the recurring slope lineae on Mars without requiring liquid water or CO2 frost activity. Back in 2011, finger-like marks were first noted on the surface of Mars. After study, it was determined that the streaks changed in a way that appeared to resemble flowing water and that the changes were seasonal—occurring during times when it was hottest. Some scientists suggested that there might be a type of brine just beneath the surface causing the streaks as a result of melting ice, but other studies have suggested the water theory is unlikely because if ice were there, it would likely sublimate rather than melt and evaporate. In this new effort, the researchers suggest the streaks have nothing to do with ice or water but are instead more of an optical illusion.The researchers suggest the streaks come about due to the heat that is generated during certain times of the year on Mars—it causes the top layer of dirt and sand to heat up while particles underneath remain cool. The difference in temperature causes changes in pressure to very small pockets of gas trapped between the sand particles causing the gas to move upwards. Doing so jostles the sand particles, causing them to slip downhill slightly—like tiny avalanches. The result is recurring slope lineae that originate only on sloping, rocky landscapes. The difference in color is due to the newly fallen particles as they move under shadows cast by boulders or outcrops, mostly during the afternoon as the angle of sunlight would be more pronounced.More testing will have to be done, of course, before the theory can be proved true, but if it turns out to be the correct explanation, it is likely some in the space field might be disappointed—water just under the surface might have led to the discovery of a form of life, and it might also have proved useful to future astronauts trying to survive on the barren planet. Journal information: Nature Geoscience Boiling water may be cause of Martian streaks, study says Citation: Sand flow theory could explain water-like streaks on Mars (2017, March 22) retrieved 18 August 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2017-03-sand-theory-water-like-streaks-mars.html
Explore further © 2017 Phys.org (Phys.org)—A team of researchers from France and the Slovak Republic has proposed a theory to explain the water-like streaks that appear seasonally on the surface of Mars, which do not involve water. In their paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the team describes their theory as instances of sand avalanches caused by sunlight with resulting changes to shadowing. This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.