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In The Spotlight – Kevin Jenne
Published by Blinkco on July 2, 2020 July 2, 2020
Canadian contemporary painter Kevin Jenne has never been one to shy away from a challenge. His latest work, displayed in partnership at Mercedes-Benz West Island in Montreal, Canada, illustrates a contrasting departure from his former figurative style.
According to Jenne, the most asked question is "how does he do it", but the true question that needs to be asked is "why".
It was slow descent into madness that sent him into a tailspin of emotions. Soon after he had finished a well-received charity event in April 2019 that featured a live painting of retired MMA fighter Georges Saint-Pierre, a lack of inspiration troubled him. He realized that no amount of applause from the many distinguished guests, including Saint-Pierre himself, could fill the void of accomplishment. Discouraged, he took his dissatisfaction onto the streets, visiting many pivotal sites in Montreal's rich history to look for a direction, paintbrush and canvas by his side.
Evolving into abstract modernism yet preserving a uniquely Canadian spirit, Jenne's latest work is as much an expression of frustration as it is an ode to Mother Nature. Each piece may be described as brushstrokes of mad genius, yet none can be found as the clash of snow and ice helped to unfold a beautiful medley of colors and textures. A bird's eye view of nature, as intended by nature itself. It was on a cold day of November that it all came together. In the midst of Canada's chaotic weather conditions, there was peace.
In post-coronavirus isolation, Kevin Jenne started working, furiously. He meditated and imagined. He saw shapes, heard sounds, and felt genuine emotions. In a lake, as sunlight bounced around a craggy bottom of algae and pyrite. Or an alleyway, where Harry Houdini took a violent blow and died senselessly. Stories came to him like a rush of adrenaline spiking through his veins. By the time he was done, another blank canvas, even larger than the one before, begged for his attention. Kevin Jenne has found his direction.
Kevin Jenne. Credit: Blinkco
It was in a household of artists in the Eastern Townships of Quebec that Kevin Jenne would secure his career into the world of painting. His mother was a painter herself, and his machinist father encouraged him by crafting several hand-wrought iron easels still being used today. Primarily influenced by the Group of Seven, a well-known movement of Canadian landscape artists, his early works were an interesting melange of figurative and urban-esque expressions that fit well with his live painting performances. But as time evolved, so did his art. According to Jenne, American painter Mark Rothko and the later works of French legend Claude Monet are his primary source of creative inspiration.
No matter the style, Kevin Jenne is a true artist of the current times. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been a major cause of distress for most people, his art became a perfect medium to express frustration through physical action. As the world will eventually emerge from isolation, he hopes that the paintings can inspire hope for those who have lost loved ones, and those who are suffering without any system of support. Through his art, he reminds us that we are all in this together.
Contact Kevin Jenne for all business inquiries.
Kevin Jenne's latest works. Credit: Blinkco
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What exactly is Eavestrough and where are they placed?
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The Aussie Millions is the sixth biggest tournament of poker in the world and the biggest poker tournament in the southern hemisphere. The 2010 Aussie Millions Schedule has now been released with 20 Offical Events and Daily Satellites! Here you can find the full schedule.
If you want to visit this beautiful country and want to battle against the best australian poker players it may be your chance.
The tournament will run from January the 14th till the 31st, 2010 in Melbourne and expects to have an eight million dollar prize pool, with two million going to the winner. The Main Event will take place at the Crown Casino Resort – and will run from the 24th January until the 31st January. The buy-in has been set at 10,500 Australian Dollars.
By the way there will something for everyone. In fact, during the main tournament, about twenty smaller tournaments will take place, including the High Roller tournament – where $100,000 is played in two days – and a HORSE tournament.
In 2009 the game started as a duel between two of the biggest of all, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius. But other big names soon joined the game: Jamie Pickering, Andrew Robl, Niki Jedlicka, Phil Laak and … yes … the man … Chris Ferguson, whose total live tournament winnings exceed $7,800,000, as of 2009, and whose 59 WSOP cashes staggering an amazing $4,031,499 crown him 3rd for most all time cashes at the WSOP, just behind Phil Hellmuth and Men Nguyen.
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BritBox launches in Australia
Streaming service BritBox Australia launches today as the next step in global expansion. Australians can now stream Britain's best telly, all in one place BritBox has officially launched today in Australia, giving Australian viewers the chance to enjoy the largest streaming collection of British drama and comedy on demand, all in one place. A partnership […]
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BritBox launches on Freesat
Freesat, the UK's free to air satellite TV platform, has today announced another exciting addition to the varied portfolio of apps on its new 4K ready TV boxes, with the launch of digital video subscription service, BritBox UK. Created by the BBC and ITV and featuring all the most talked about and award-winning British dramas, […]
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50% of UK homes have SVoD services
The proportion of UK homes with a subscription to at least one of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Now TV passed 50% for the first time in Q4 2019, standing at 50.5%. 14.27 million homes access at least one of these services, a quarter-on-quarter increase of +4.4% or almost 600,000 homes since Q3 2019. All […]
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My5 acquires Sony dramas
VOD service My5 will host the UK premieres of two dramas from Sony Pictures Television. The platform has picked up OTT-originated dramas The Oath and Bloom, which will both air on My5 as first-run exclusives in the UK, bolstering the platform's drama slate. Mystery drama Bloom (6 x 60 minutes) originally aired on Australian SVOD […]
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BritBox – Too Little Too Late?
ITV's Carolyn McCall has defended the broadcaster's SVOD service with the BBC, BritBox UK, saying the endeavour is sufficiently "distinctive" and will be "liberating" for producers. Unveiled a month ago by McCall, BritBox UK is intended to be the British equivalent of the eponymous two-year-old US SVOD, offering both archive content and originals. However, its […]
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BBC World News on SVoD service Hulu Japan
The BBC is launching a live stream of its 24-hour international news channel – BBC World News – on SVoD service Hulu Japan. The deal marks the first time the corporation has made the linear channel available via one of the major international subscription VoD services in Japan and makes BBC World News the first […]
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Barclays launches £100m UK TV production fund
Banking group Barclays has launched a £100 million (€116m) fund to provide UK TV production companies improved access to finance and enhance their ability to compete internationally. The fund, the first of its kind from a major UK bank, has been established with new financing products that have been designed to meet the evolving needs […]
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BBC brings Player to Malaysia
BBC Worldwide today announced the launch of BBC Player in Malaysia, the second country to receive the service following its successful launch in Singapore last year. The multi-genre SVOD service is available exclusively to subscribers of Telekom Malaysia Berhad's (TM) award-winning IPTV service, HyppTV, through an authenticated multi-genre Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVOD) service. Hypp TV viewers […]
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France Télévisions outlines plan for French SVOD
France Télévisions hopes to move forward with plans to create a new SVOD platform to distribute French content and offer a counterweight in France to the likes of Netflix and Amazon by autumn next year, according to France Télévisions director-general Delphine Ernotte-Cunci. Addressing a French parliamentary hearing, Ernotte-Cunci said that it was crucially important to […]
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YouTube still most watched VoD in the UK
As the subscriber base of SVoD services continues to grow (9 million subscriptions in the UK, 91 million subscriptions in the US), social video platform YouTube still enjoys the biggest share of viewers in the UK, whilst subscription service Netflix takes the top slot in the US. Across the 10 countries in the research, 46 […]
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Q: Counter-examples for quasi-coherent, coherent, locally free and invertible sheaves I'm trying to find at least one counter-example for each of these concepts to feel more comfortable with understanding the ideas behind them but I cannot even get started :( Please help me find counter-examples for the following concepts:

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*A quasi-coherent sheaf that is not coherent

*A coherent sheaf that is not locally free

*A locally free sheaf that is not globally free

*A locally free sheaf that is not invertible

I'm studying sheaves from Kempf's Algebraic Varieties. My main problem that prevents me from attacking the above questions is that I do not know how I can create new sheaves or modify old sheaves to make them have interesting properties. The only example of a sheaf I know is an algebraic variety with its structure sheaf (i.e. the $k$-algebra of regular functions over its open sets when it's considered as a space with functions). Kempf's definitions are so abstract for me and I would highly appreciate any glimpse of intuition or information that answers the above questions.

A: Here are the examples, I leave you as an exercise to check everything :-)
1) Take an uncoutable sum of $\mathcal O_X$.
2) Take a skyscraper sheaf, i.e $i_* \mathcal O_{p}$ where $i : p \to X$ is the inclusion.
3) This is less easy, the simplest example is the sheaf $\mathcal O(1)$ on $\Bbb P^1$.
4) Hint : a locally free sheaf of rank $r > 1$ can't be invertible.

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Archaeology: Dozens of square metres of mosaic flooring from Plovdiv's Great Basilica already restored
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on April 20, 2017 in Bulgaria - Comments Off on Archaeology: Dozens of square metres of mosaic flooring from Plovdiv's Great Basilica already restored
Restoration work on mosaic flooring from the site of Plovdiv's Great Basilica archaeological site continued throughout this past winter, to meet a deadline for completion in 2018.
The Great Basilica, understood to date from the fourth to the fifth centuries, is the largest early Christian church yet found on the Balkans. The site is near Plovdiv's 19th century Roman Catholic St Ludwig church.
When the task is complete, a total of more than 2000 square metres of mosaic will have been restored by a team headed by Elena Kantareva.
The top layer of the mosaic was moved to a studio at the foot of Plovdiv's Old Town in September 2016, and restorers began the laborious task of returning the authentic sheen to the priceless artifacts.
The mosaics are richly decorated with various birds and plants, and after careful restoration and cleaning are more beautiful than ever. The colours of each pebble stand out clearly, and the forms they represent are a true work of art.
Plovdiv news website podtepeto quoted Kantareva as saying that the room where the work was being done was narrow, which slowed the process.
"Once the archaeological excavations of the Great Basilica have been completed, we will also send a team there. We have to wait for the archaeologists to finish, so that we can uncover the sand-covered mosaics," Kantareva said.
The aim is for the Great Basilica project to be completed, for the exhibition of the archaeological finds, by 2019 when Plovdiv will be European Capital of Culture.
The project is being supported by two grants from the America For Bulgaria Foundation, to a sum of about 8.18 million leva, and five million leva from Plovdiv Municipality.
(Photos: podtepeto.com)
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The station charge system: transparent, clear and stable
Basis of rail traffic
Article: The station charge system: transparent, clear and stable
The German Railway Regulation Act (ERegG) stipulates legal bases for calculating station charges.
In 2018 new charging principles went into effect. They replaced the previous station pricing system (SPS 11). The resulting charges were reviewed by the Federal Network Agency and approved in accordance with Section 33 of the ERegG. The ban against discrimination under railway law and Section 33 (2) of the ERegG prohibit charges other than the approved charges from being arranged.
The charging principles are described in Section 5 of the Special Section of the Infrastructure Usage Conditions Passenger Stations (INBP).
A distinction is still maintained between the transport segments within the meaning of Section 36 (2) No. 2 of the ERegG (local rail passenger transport services, "SPNV") and long-distance rail passenger transport services ("SPFV"). The INBP uses long-distance rail passenger transport as the umbrella term for all other transport services not covered by Section 36 (2) No. 2 of the ERegG.
Calculating station charges for local rail passenger transport services
Station charges for local rail passenger transport services are determined using price classes that replace the previous station categories. Price classes are determined by the station's category allocation in 2017 according to the previous category assignment system.
Example: Berlin Central was a category 1 station in 2017 = price class 1 in 2018 and in the following years until today
Stations are grouped by price class due to the legal requirement of annually adjusting station charges for local rail passenger transport by the adjustment rate for regionalisation funds. The station charge from the previous category pricing system (SPS 11) is used as the starting point for adjusting station charges in accordance with the ERegG.
In other words, the price in effect for the category in 2017 as of 1 January 2017 for the 2017 calendar year is used as the basis for the 2018 station charge in that price class.
In accordance with the specifications of the ERegG, the 2017 charge is adjusted uniformly by the rate of change in the total amount of regionalisation funds available to the federal states. This rate is 1.8%.
Example: 2017 charge + 1.8% = 2018 charge
Charges for local rail passenger transport services for the coming years will be adjusted using the same rate of change.
Example: 2018 charge (2017 price + 1.8%) + 1.8% = 2019 charge
2019 charge (2019 price + 1.8%) = 2020 charge etc.
The published List of Station Prices indicates each station's price class. Station charges apply for one calendar year and have been approved by the Federal Network Agency.
Exception: agreements between DB Station&Service AG and local transport authorities
Section 37 (3) of the ERegG does allow for charges that deviate from the charge for local rail passenger transport described if an agreement exists between DB Station&Service AG and a local transport authority.
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Calculating station charges for long-distance rail passenger transport and other transport services
Charges for long-distance rail passenger transport are calculated similarly to the way charges are calculated for local rail passenger transport.
To synchronise station charges for long-distance rail passenger transport as best as possible with charges for local rail passenger transport, the current year's station charges for long-distance rail passenger transport are also updated based on the same system of long-distance rail passenger transport charges per price class and local transport authority area (and including the existing transport service factor).Charges have also been changed consistently based on the rate of change of regionalisation funds made available to the federal states and the arrangements affecting charges as per Section 37 (3) of the ERegG.
Example: 2017 charge (including the transport service factor) + 1.8% (current rate of regionalisation funding) + x% based on arrangements as per Section 37 (3) of the ERegG (in the relevant local transport authority area) = 2018 charge
Charges for long-distance rail passenger transport services for the coming years will be adjusted using the same rate of change.
Example: 2019 charge + 1.8% (rate of regionalisation funding) + x% based on arrangements as per Section 37 (3) of the ERegG (in the relevant local transport authority area) = 2020 charge
This system will be continued in 2021.
The charge for each station is listed in the List of Station Prices. Charges are valid for one calendar year.
Allocation to a price class
The some 5,400 stations are allocated to a price class, and thus to a station charge, based on the category to which they were allocated in the previous category system. The 2017 category is equivalent to the 2018 price class. The 2019 price class is equivalent to the 2018 price class and by the same logic the 2020 price class is equivalent to the 2019 price class. All stations were grouped into price classes for 2020 based on their categorisation in 2017. This system will be continued in 2021.
New stations that open after the 2017/2018 timetable change will be allocated to a category and price class using uniform criteria nationwide in accordance with the previous category system.
Each station is allocated to a price class (formerly category) according to standard national features; as a rule, top-category stations (formerly category 1 and 2) are primarily major junction stations, while the lower categories (formerly categories 5 and 6) are usually stations with lesser traffic significance or infrastructure or, in the case of category 7, simply stops. Further explanation of the price classes and former station categories is available on the internet at www.deutschebahn.com/preisklassen.
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En ingeniería automotriz, la calandra o parrilla es una rejilla exterior dispuesta en la parte delantera del vehículo para proteger el radiador y el motor. Suele tener un lugar destacado en el diseño de los automóviles, y en muchos casos es un elemento ornamental cuya configuración permite identificar fácilmente la marca de un coche.

También existen otras posiciones donde se colocan rejillas en un automóvil: por debajo del parachoques delantero, delante de las ruedas (para enfriar los frenos), en el capó para la ventilación del habitáculo, o en la tapa posterior cuando se trata de coches de motor trasero.

Diseño

El aspecto del frontal de un automóvil tiene un papel importante en la atracción de posibles compradores. La función principal de la calandra es dejar paso al aire de refrigeración hacia el radiador del motor. Sin embargo, la apariencia del vehículo "importa mucho más que si las características de diseño realmente cumplen alguna función". Como uno de los principales componentes visuales en la parte delantera de los vehículos, un diseño de parrilla inspirado hace que un automóvil sea atractivo y lo dota de identidad al vincularlo a la historia y reputación del fabricante de automóviles".

Actualmente, las calandras de gran tamaño son principalmente ornamentales. A menudo es un elemento de estilo distintivo y muchas marcas la utilizan como su identificador principal. Por ejemplo, Jeep tiene registrado su estilo de parrilla con siete barras.

Rolls-Royce es conocido por fabricar sus calandras a mano para asegurarse de que las barras que las forman se vean perfectamente verticales. Otros fabricantes conocidos por su estilo de parrilla incluyen la forma de herradura de Bugatti, los dos contornos con forma arriñonada de BMW, los "dientes" cromados de Rover, las rejillas de estilo avión de combate de Mitsubishi para sus modelos 2008 Lancer y Lancer Evo X, la barra transversal de Dodge, el escudo de seis barras de Alfa Romeo, la barra oblicua de Volvo, el marco cromado en forma trapezoidal de Nissan, la forma del motor rotatorio de Mazda, la rejilla de marco único relativamente nueva de Audi, la rejilla horizontal dividida de Pontiac, la rejilla de trama cuadrada de los Plymouth de última generación, o la rejilla con forma de reloj de arena de Lexus. La inusual parrilla del Plymouth Barracuda de 1971 se conoce como "rallador de queso". La parrilla de tres barras del Ford Motor Company, introducida en el Fusion de 2006, también se ha vuelto distintiva. Porsche, un fabricante de automóviles refrigerados por aire desde hace mucho tiempo, de acuerdo con esta herencia continúa minimizando la presencia de la calandra en los vehículos modernos refrigerados por agua de la marca.

También se produce el patrón de estilo contrario. A partir de finales de la década de 1930, Cadillac alternaría su patrón de barras horizontales a varios patrones de rayado como una forma simple de hacer que el automóvil pareciera nuevo de año en año, ya que esta marca no tenía una forma de rejilla estándar. En ocasiones se han impuesto tendencias de moda en las calandras. Por ejemplo, en los primeros años después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, muchos fabricantes de automóviles estadounidenses generalmente cambiaron a calandras con menos barras, pero más gruesas.

Existen accesorios diseñados para mejorar el estilo o la función de la rejilla de serie original de un vehículo. Por lo general, están fabricados a base de barras macizas de aluminio de calidad aeronáutica, aunque algunos modelos se construyen recortando láminas de también de aluminio. No es raro que los aficionados a personalizar sus vehículos adapten parrillas procedentes de otras marcas, incluso llegando a tapar las aberturas originales.

Tipos de rejillas
Por ubicación en la carrocería del automóvil:
 Frontal delantera (rejilla del radiador en vehículos con motor delantero)
 Trasera superior (en la tapa posterior de vehículos con motor trasero)
 Bajo los parachoques (delanteras y traseras)
 En los guardabarros (conductos de ventilación de los frenos)
 En el capó (para permitir el flujo de aire del intercooler)

Por estilo
La industria del mercado de accesorios estadounidense define dos estilos principales de rejilla:
 Rejillas originales: estas rejillas no tienen diferencia alguna con las producidas por los fabricantes
 Rejillas personalizadas: producidas en pequeñas cantidades y con distintos materiales

Por método de fijación
 Estilo atornillado: con este método de instalación, la rejilla simplemente se atornilla sobre la rejilla de plástico original, sin necesidad de taladrar o de cortar la carcasa. Para esta sencilla instalación se utilizan tornillos, soportes y abrazaderas ocultos. Tienen el inconveniente de que aún pueda verse la rejilla original debajo.

 Sustitución: primero se debe quitar la rejilla original y luego se debe montar la nueva. Se requiere taladrar y, a veces, cortar. El fabricante de la rejilla proporciona las instrucciones de instalación, pero siguen siendo un trabajo que requiere cierta pericia.

Historia

Las calandras de los automóviles han adoptado diferentes diseños a lo largo de los años. Uno de los primeros automóviles en contar con una distintiva calandra en panal de abeja fue el Mercedes 35 CV de 1900, encargado por el aristócrata Emil Jellinek a Wilhelm Maybach. Es tal el éxito de este modelo, que ya en 1903 la configuración con motor delantero y radiador frontal se impone entre la mayoría de los fabricantes de automóviles. Varios años más tarde, el diseño con forma de arco se volvió común, pasando a ser la disposición más frecuente en las rejillas de los automóviles durante muchos años. El diseño de una parrilla con forma de quilla (con una arista vertical frontal) apareció por primera vez en 1923, en un deportivo de Alfa Romeo.

En las décadas de 1930 y 1940, los fabricantes de automóviles fijaron su atención en los diseños de las calandras. Algunos de estos diseños tenían forma de campana (Buick, Chevrolet y Pontiac), en forma de cuña y ligeramente alabeados (Silver Arrow, Mercury, Oldsmobile de 1946), en forma de cruz (modelos Studebaker Champion de antes de la guerra, Cadillac de 1941, Ford de 1942), mientras que los modelos de Packard, Rolls-Royce o MG-TC todavía seguían utilizando el antiguo diseño en forma de arco.

Las rejillas adquirieron un nuevo aspecto después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras la introducción de los Buick, Studebaker y Kaiser de 1947, las rejillas se hicieron más cortas y más anchas para adaptarse al cambio de diseño.

Véase también
 Difusor
 Rejilla
 Toma de aire inferior, en automóviles sin rejilla frontal

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Componentes del automóvil
Ventilación

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Safina faltered before the poisoned chalice of number one ranked player and Serena will retain. At least she's deserving. Azarenka continues her charge towards the top ten, Wozniacki showed why she's not getting there for a while yet and Radwanska isn't leaving yet. Fed looked good when he wasn't getting passed by Gonzo, Robredo pulled, the Djoker managed to win two tiebreaks and Roddick beat Ferrer.
I actually really warming to Victoria. She has sort of become my replacement Maria. I love her fight and fiesty/bitchy on court personality. Im so glad Safina is not becoming number 1 we dont need another reason for womens tennis to come any anymore scrutiny.
Ahh, but why do you like Maria? For her fighting qualities? Fashion sense? Ice-queen demeanour? Professionalism? Baseline-bashing game? Deafening shrieking? All of the above? I'm not sure Victoria can compete in all those categories. I mean she has the shriek and a bit of fight and a raw one-dimensional game but she's no diva (yet).
How can you say she got to number 1 by overplaying if she was that consistent and finished the season with a winning record against the top 10 players(13-12). I noticed your blog about how she should be ranked 7th because of her career head to head records against the current top 10 - well in how many of those matches was JJ ranked top 10? and in case you didn't know the ranking system is based on how you perform over a single season so it rewards form and consistency - not how good you have been over the last 10 or however many years of your career otherwise it wouldn't accurately reflect how you're currently playing going into tournaments and organising draws/seedings the fairest way.
(continued from my last post) Jankovic got to the top by being consistent over a whole season not just over a 2 week GS. She got to at least the semis of all tier 1 tournaments and at least the semi's in 3 of the 4 slams and finished the season with 4 titles in the process which nobody else on the tour bettered.
If Serena and co. don't like it maybe they should create a breakaway tour for part time players.
Absolutely Barry, the rankings are based on archievement over a rolling 12 month period. But it hurts the WTA to have a number one player who can't win any of the top tournaments or have a winning record against the other top players. And as you say Serena etc don't help the situation by being mostly part-time. Whether the much-vaunted roadmap changes things we'll have to see. Thanks for your comment.


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Back to the Drawing Board: What Wireless Policies Might the Government Now "Aggressively Pursue"?
Industry Canada released the names of the bidders for its forthcoming spectrum auction yesterday with the disappointing news that no major new entrants will be using the auction to enter the Canadian market. That is rightly viewed as a big win for the incumbents, who should have little trouble acquiring the spectrum they want in the upcoming auction and will not face any new competition from deep-pocketed global wireless players. Instead, despite the persistent efforts of the federal government to convince new competitors to enter the market, the Big 3 will continue to dominate Canadian wireless services for the foreseeable future. With prices high by global standards and mobile broadband penetration lagging compared to other countries (an ITU study released over the weekend ranked Canada 32nd worldwide for mobile broadband penetration), consumers are the immediate and obvious loser for the moment.
Yet the incumbent victory did not come easily, coming at the cost of a scorched-earth public relations war with the federal government that the incumbents are already trying to downplay. However, having failed to address market concerns through new competitors, it may now fall to the government to shake things up through increased regulation. There are no shortage of options, with two big steps (the consumer wireless code that limits contract length and potential CRTC regulation of wireless roaming pricing) already underway. After yesterday's release, Industry Minister Moore stated that "in addition to this auction, our Government will continue to aggressively pursue policies that ensure consumer interests are at the core of all Government decisions."
What policies might Minister Moore have in mind?
There should be little doubt that the mere threat of regulation can lead to lower prices and market reforms (witness Bell's decision to slash U.S. roaming prices in half weeks after the CRTC roaming initiative). In fact, just as the incumbents sought to delay the spectrum auction when it appeared that Verizon was going to enter the market, we can expect calls to delay any further policy action until there are further studies or opportunities to take stock of recent developments.
In this case, the government need not hand the incumbents another victory by delaying much-needed policy reforms. Full pricing regulation is rightly viewed as a last resort, yet there are other possibilities. For starters, the elimination of foreign investment restrictions in both the telecom and broadcast distribution sectors as well as tougher tower sharing requirements and domestic roaming rules to make it easier for smaller players to expand their networks.
Another mechanism to generate more competition would be to create a regulated mobile virtual network operator market, a vehicle that Verizon reportedly explored using as part of a potential Canadian entry. MVNOs typically do not own spectrum or network infrastructure. Instead, they purchase network access at wholesale rates from existing operators and offer it to consumers with their own retail pricing. MVNOs such as Canadian-owned Ting have become a hit in the U.S. but are not even available in Canada. By setting the wholesale price, the government could use regulation to create a new batch of MVNO competitors in Canada, much as it has tried to do with Internet access services.
The other big alternative step is full structural separation. Peter Nowak has been advocating this approach for some time, arguing for splitting the incumbents into companies that manage phone and Internet networks and companies that offer services to customers. It is unquestionably a major market change, but with the Canadian wireless environment seemingly stuck in neutral, the government would receive well-deserved plaudits for taking bold action to address the ongoing competitiveness concerns.
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Chris S says:
Other Incentives?
Since this is new spectrum, there could be conditions applied to its use. Here are a couple more ideas…
1) The spectrum is auctioned, but as I understand it, only leased, not sold. The idea is that this is a public asset, to be used for the public good. So – use it or lose it. New spectrum could come with requirements to have a certain level of usage or the lease terminates. This makes it clear that the purpose of spectrum space is not to be bought and held to prevent someone else using it.
2) User device attachment requirements? Although the CRTC trimmed the longest contracts from three years to two, at the core most carriers still try to lock in by using the "zero dollars up front" option. I don't think we can – or want – to outright stop carriers from doing that, but it makes it very hard to move to a condition of separate markets for consumer devices and consumer spectrum. It's as though everyone bought their electrical appliances from their local electricity supplier. Right now, there is no effective market for standalone cellular devices, in part because that market is so small – because of the carriers offering zero dollar contract starts. Unbundling the device and spectrum would lead to better transparency, where consumers could better select each according to their needs. A starting point would be to require that a full range of plans be offered on the new spectrum even without a device. It should be possible to find a pay-as-you-go plan with no included minutes or texts, but a five gigabyte cap on data. Right now, you can only get big caps either by buying big included minutes, or, in some cases, by getting a particular (expensive!) device from the carrier. We'll be better served if we are free to pick our device in one competitive market and plug it in to our pick of service options in another competitive market.
Tom Moore says:
Forget spectrum. We need a Ting
Cynic says:
@Tom Moore
Ting is just an aggregator/reseller and there are already lots of them in Canada if you want to go that route. Try 7eleven, Presidents Choice, Sears, etc.
The aggregator/reseller business model only works if you can sign up lots of customers at very low cost. It works for 7Eleven and Sears because they are marketing directly to their existing customer base and can use their existing distribution channels to keep their costs down. Ting is trying to keep their acquisition costs down by focusing on very dense markets (e.g select US cities) where their limited advertising can reach a lot of people quickly.
James Van Leeuwen says:
Structural separation, or varying degrees of market failure.
Structural separation is our *only* defensible course of action, given everything we now understand about the future roles of digital tools and networks in the development of economy, community and society.
I believe that both our government and telecom industry already know this, yet government has so far been unwilling to engage industry in what may be an epic battle to secure Canada's demographic and economic future.
Bringing our telecom industry to heel is justification enough for structural separation, but there is a far more essential need.
There is no regulatory solution for the crippling liabilities of facilities-based competition, which a nation like Canada can least afford.
The most we can hope to achieve through regulatory reform is lesser degrees of market failure, because our economic geography simply cannot accommodate multiple competing networks.
We live in a global economy that depends increasingly on flows of knowledge and data.
Do we honestly believe Canada can remain a magnet for people and investment without a world-class and wide open digital ecosystem that minimizes the cost of moving and managing data, and that optimizes innovation and competition in digital services?
Early this year I asked a Google VP why they aren't building data centers in Canada to take advantage of our cooler climate.
He said that Canada has plenty of dark fibre, but it costs far too much to access and use it… we aren't even close to competitive with the U.S.
He also said that while it's a real pain to deal with their own captive telecom regulator, it's nothing compared to what we have to deal with up here.
Canada has almost everything going for it in relation to the global Digital Economy, but we are being held captive by rogue network operators who appear to have lost any meaningful sense of responsibility to the Canadian people.
We have granted them licenses to operate, and to use our spectrum and other public right-of-ways.
We have done this on the understanding that they would respect these privileges, use them wisely, and help us to meet our needs and achieve our ambitions as a nation.
Cut our roaming fees in half?
Why not throw us crusts of bread.
Our incumbent network operators have become highly skilled in the art of separating us from our money, and this now appears to be their only ambition in life.
Far from being trusted allies in building our nation's digital future, they have become greedy-minded gatekeepers.
There can be no redemption for the serial abuses of market power and public trust that we have been enduring at their grubby hands, and we would be fools to trust them any further with our nation's digital future.
It is time for our Federal Government to put this sad and sordid episode of our telecom history behind us.
Swing the hammer hard, and break our telecom industry in two.
Unleash our potential for digital entrepreneurship, and forge a much brighter economic future for Canada.
THAT would be sound economic stewardship, Mr. Prime Minister.
@ Iames
I guess you didn't see yesterday's CRTC report that showed yet again that Canadians pay less than Americans for telecom services and enjoy a greater level of service. Or the CRTC's July report that also said wireless prices were lower than the US but roughly middle of the pack compared to other developed countries.
There is no doubt that Canadians believe they pay more than anyone else in the world for cell phones and internet but the hard data continues to disprove that premise. There is nothing more dangerous than an incompetent government going off to fix problems that may or may not be real. The $2 billion we spent on a national gun registry is a good example of what to expect when that happens.
Since the current economic crisis began in 2008, Canada's telecom sector is one of the few industries in North America that continued to make substantial capital investments in our economy. If we continue adhoc tinkering with the rules for how that industry competes and invests we'll continue to scare off potential foreign investors like Verizon.
On the surface it's not clear what, if any, macro benefits we should expect from structural separation of the telecom industry. Has structural separation of the electric utility industry done anything for consumers? Electricity costs are significantly greater than they were 15 years ago and the grid is far less reliable (brownouts are now routine across the country).
In contrast, the cost per minute on my cell phone has dropped more than 80% since 2000, my internet connection is 20x faster for the same price I paid 15 years ago, and I can get an amazing smartphone for $200 compared to $1500 for the basic flip phones that were so cool 15 years ago.
I have little faith that structural separation will deliver any benefits to consumers whatsoever.
Jungle Dave says:
The Last Resort Plan
You know what, Mister Moore? The most aggressive thing to do would be to build the next Petro- I mean TeleCan. Do it. Forget fighter planes and Avro Arrows; pulling an Australia could be the Next Big Thing, Mister Minister. That is precisely what I advocate today.


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CP #141 w.b. on Wabash with CEFX 1059,CP 8126 back to back, OS Oakwood jct in Allen Park, MI at 1512 on April 03, 2019.
Northbound manifest spotted stopping at Oak Street in Wyandotte at 1500. UP 7479 (2011 ES44AC, flag) and NS 9776 (2003 D9-44CW, horsehead) leading.
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B49 spotted crossing Military Street overpass in Dearborn at 0744. NS 3340 (1977 SD40-2, horsehead, ex-Conrail) long-nose forward with a single N&W caboose.
Burb8145 wrote: B49 spotted crossing Military Street overpass in Dearborn at 0744. NS 3340 (1977 SD40-2, horsehead, ex-Conrail) long-nose forward with a single N&W caboose.
Where is B49 from and where does it go?
Might be a new symbol for B19 which was the Wayne-Oakwood-Wayne Transfer at night.
What was most likely 332 was parked at Oak Street in Wyandotte at 1520.
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Thumbtack Becomes Latest Unicorn, Raises $125 Million At $1.25 Billion Valuation
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Thumbtack cofounders Marco Zappacosta and Jonathan Swanson (Photo: Eric Millette for Forbes)
In early 2012, Thumbtack, a local services startup, found it nearly impossible to raise money. After being turned by more than 40 different venture capital firms, cofounders Marco Zappacosta and Jonathan Swanson eventually received a $4.5 million term sheet that staved off their company's impending collapse.
A little more than three years later, Thumbtack, which provides online marketplaces for local professionals like roofers and photographers, no longer has to beg people to open their checkbooks. On Monday, the company announced that it had raised their fourth round of funding in two years, with its latest investment coming in at $125 million. That round--which was led Scottish asset manager Baillie Gifford and joined by past investors Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global and Google Capital--valued the company at $1.25 billion, according to a Thumbtack spokesperson.
"We not only survived, but have a pretty well-stocked war chest to keep building toward this audacious goal," wrote CEO Zappacosta in a company blog post.
The subject of a FORBES magazine story last year, Thumbtack allows customers to post potential jobs, whether they're looking for someone to remodel their bathroom or tutor their children. Interested professionals then use the Thumbtack platform to bid on those jobs by detailing a price and description of their services. Those professionals pay set amounts ranging from $3 to $25 for each lead that is generated through the marketplace.
That model has proved to be scalable for Thumbtack, which has grown from 70,000 paying professionals last year to 200,000 today despite heavy competition in the local services space. Competitors include the likes of long-time service professionals website Angie's List and Amazon.com , whose Amazon Home Services offering allows users to find nearby handymen and electricians. Even Google , which led a $100 million investment in Thumbtack last year through its growth capital arm, is experimenting with local professional offerings.
While Thumbtack is still unprofitable, Zappacosta said that the company drives more than $1 billion in revenue to small businesses every year. That's a tiny fragment of what experts estimate to be anywhere from a $400 billion to $800 billion local services industry.
With its latest round of investment, Thumbtack has raised $225 million in the span of a year, and more than $270 million since its 2009 founding.
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Healing the homeless: Street Medicine program puts residents on the scene
When Alisa Vickrey, PA-C, first learned about street medicine, she wasn't sure what to think. As a physician's assistant, she is trained to make people better, to be secure in knowing she has done the right thing for her patients. But with street medicine, the outcomes are elusive, offering no guarantees for success.
Still, she was drawn to this type of medicine because it serves the most vulnerable of populations, who are so often overlooked.
"The hardest thing with street medicine is learning not to have high expectations," Vickrey said. "The whole point of this type of medicine is you are just out there planting seeds. You don't know what is going to happen; all you can do is go out there and try to educate and hope that you connect."
Providence Health & Services Alaska's Alaska Family Residency Program, of which Vickrey is a part, is a community benefit program because it prepares residents to be physicians, specifically doctors that will serve marginalized populations. Medical residents from this program are involved in many community-welfare projects, including the Brother Francis Medical Shelter Caring Clinic, where residents help care for homeless patients who come in off the streets. The street medicine program, while fully voluntary, is an expanded version of the clinic, wherein residents seek out those in medical need rather than wait on them to come in on their own.
Last summer a handful of volunteer residents partnered with the Municipality of Anchorage to visit camps and offer medical treatment to homeless residents throughout the city. In just a few months, according to associate program director Teresa Bormann, MD, more than 200 patients have been served.
"Providence has provided critical support for the program as an extension of the Brother Francis Clinic," Bormann said. "Their support also is in line with Mayor (Ethan) Berkowitz's focus on reducing homelessness in Anchorage."
The street medicine program is based on a simple premise: Since most homeless people won't go to a doctor, the doctors come to them. Throughout the summer, residents and municipal social workers visited homeless camps they had identified through a citywide mapping database. Once there, they offered medical treatment or advice and began charting who they saw. The slow, methodical process required patience and trust, Bormann said.
"We would be in a three-to four-person team, and we would walk around until we found a homeless camp," Bormann said. "We treat this as this person's home. We call out, 'Hello? Anybody home? We are here.' And usually a head will pop out of the tent, and we start a dialogue."
Bormann said the discussions range from finding housing to checking for medical problems – or just hearing peoples' stories. Once, when visiting a gentleman sitting behind a gas station, her group found he had been to the emergency room just a week before after suffering a head injury. He was still having difficulties and overdue to get staples removed from the head wound, so they were able to provide what limited treatment he would allow on the spot.
Vickrey once discovered a patient with serious heart issues.
"We were able to get him to come back to Brother Francis Shelter to do a full examination, and he was actually in heart failure," she said. "We were able to get him to Providence and get him cared for. He was shocked; he didn't know his symptoms correlated to a clinical picture of heart failure."
Bormann credits Vickrey with solidifying the street medicine program in Anchorage. It is based on established programs she researched in such cities as Pittsburgh and Santa Barbara, Calif., with modifications to serve the unique needs of Anchorage's colder climate and cultural diversity. About five residents and three doctors now volunteer, working alongside municipal social workers to offer care.
"Our whole model is based on the idea that we will create trust, and with repeated visits and hopefully a recognizable person, the homeless person would be able to come to us if they need us," Bormann said.
Vickrey agrees: "You can't take it personally if they don't want our help, and that is the hardest part to learn."
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