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Day Four Sunday June 29th
Amy's favorite for brunch, Cafe Cherrier, with Amy, Becca, and Michele. I don't have to walk a dozen blocks to my own favorite for brunch, Eggspectation, now that they've opened another creperie on the corner of Place des Arts.
Almost to the minute at 6, thunder rumbled, and rain fell just as the quintet of guitarist Reno de Stefano started playing. I hate umbrellas but I needed to be under to write notes for the judging, but I didn't have much to write. Most of the groups in the competition are younger players, but all the cats in DeStefano's quintet are jazz vets, or, as I noted, "grown-ups." They've been around. They know how to play tunes on the changes hiply. They swing. They can't win the prize.
Avi Granite 6 is a definite contender. Even as they walked out, I could see the "thing" was about to happen. Granite plays guitar with a front line of alto, tenor, and trombone. They played out but tunefully right from the jump, and the groove from the bass and drums was always propulsive. Each of the players was a solid soloist. Granite himself played guitar as if playing beyond the strings, as if playing the very electricity of the amp. They often looked quite serious yet were often whimsical, especially the trombonist. Avi Granite 6 is the group to beat.
Woody Allen played to the multi-thousands of the big hall, Salle Wilfrid Pelletier. I wondered if so many came because they expected him to be funny. Except for saying hello and saying they'd be playing music from New Orleans, he was there to play clarinet. When he first played, he was squeaky, he articulated notes somewhat awkwardly, and some in the audience tittered, thinking maybe he was being funny. He was not. Woody Allen is a tremendously adequate clarinetist, but he plays with considerable spirit, as do they all in what was called Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band. They played and sometimes sang (everyone but Woody) blues and songs from the 20's. When they whipped up the second line, Woody's clarinet sounded best and truly soared above the romping and stomping. Woody thanked everyone, said this was his first time ever in Montreal. "Playing this music for you was a treat for us," he said. And at the finale, the multi-thousands stood and roared for more. "I don't think they expected a reaction like this," said Michele. Woody and the guys came back out, nodding thanks, and Eddy Davis, banjoist and the actual leader of the band, nodded his head toward the bandstand. So they played not only more, but a lot more, including an ecstatic "Saint Louis Blues."
We were in a room overlooking the big GM stage on the Place and, even in the rain, the crowd was dancing to a reggae/funk show called Jamaica to Toronto. Michele lives in Portland, so she's used to the rain. We walked through the "spitting" to the Club Soda, but as we passed one of the tents for SIMM, the festival's free Salon des Instruments de Musique de Montreal, 50 or 60 folks were thundering on hand drums. Steve's Music Store in Montreal was conducting a drum-along. Everyone who came in, including us, was handed an African hand drum and welcomed to join in the rhythmic rumble. Invigorated from the drumming, we came to Club Soda for one of the midnight shows. This was where, two years ago, as I wrote in the piece I posted on the WBGO blog last week, I realized how much jazz is re-defined at the Montreal jazzfest. You can hear the full-tilt New Orleans trad of Woody Allen and then hear the electro-klezmer-hip-hip of the group Socalled. I'm not kidding: klezmer rap. I was the oldest in the house, but, as always in Montreal, I was game ...
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June 22, 2008. Posted by Michael Bourne.Add new comment | Filed under: club soda, composition competition, Dave Brubeck, duets, enjoyable times, festival international de jazz, festival international de jazz de montreal, free outdoor concerts, Gizmo, heart attack, Jazz Alive, jazzfest, july 13th, melody gardot, michael bourne, montreal jazz festival, octet, oliver jones, place des arts, pop group, punchline, Riff, steely dan, times of my life, wbgo
What annoyed me most about the heart attack last year was that I missed the Montreal Jazz Festival. I'm not kidding. FIJM (Festival International de Jazz de Montreal) is one of the most enjoyable times of my life every year. Except for last year, I've gone every summer since 1992. I feel close especially to all the extraordinary folks who run the jazzfest, especially in the press room. Musically, the jazzfest offers an extraordinary variety, ticketed concerts in the evening, free outdoor concerts all day, and everything they do, they do with style, including the t-shirts. Everything happens in or around Place des Arts, in the middle of a metropolis but with the vibes of a carnival. And there's a Pizzadelic in walking distance in three directions.
I'll be there for it all this year, Thursday June 26th through Sunday July 13th, first as a judge for the GM and Galaxie band and composition competition, then broadcasting live from the heart of the festival on WBGO, 2-6:30 Wednesday the 2nd, Thursday the 3rd, and the 4th of July. I'm looking forward musically to the "Invitation" series of Hank Jones, especially the opening concert of duets with Oliver Jones. I've never heard my favorite pop group, Steely Dan, in concert, and they're playing two in Montreal, with Cat Russell as an opening act. I always expect compelling new singers every year, this year "nouvelles divas" Ima and Melody Gardot. And another festival favorite, Dave Brubeck, this year is playing a trio concert and recreating the octet.
One jazzfest ritual I will happily continue is falling by Club Soda at midnight for ... whatever is happening, usually music that's weird, often music that's wonderful. I realized at Club Soda two years ago how much jazz keeps on being re-defined -- and still swings. I wrote an essay for Down Beat to that effect, but too much of the piece, including the point (and punchline) of the piece, was lost editorially. So here's the piece, as meant to be read ...
(Summer, 2006, at the Montreal Jazz Festival)
"Jazz cannot be limited by definitions or by rules. Jazz is, above all, a total freedom to express oneself."
Duke said so in a 1952 Down Beat – and on the back of the Down Beat t-shirt I was putting on the last day of the Montreal Jazz Festival. I'd never read the t-shirt before, but Duke's quote was timely. I'd been thinking about the definition of jazz all through the festival.
"How come you can't hear jazz at the jazz festival?" was the question asked almost verbatim twice when I was interviewed on the fest's first day by the CBC and talk radio CJAD. During one of the interviews on the Place des Arts, an actual Dixieland band was walking by. "One way you can hear jazz," I said snidely but truly, "is to pull your fingers out of your ears and listen."
I've been scribbling about jazz in this magazine since 1969 and playing jazz on the radio since 1972, and in all that time I've heard no more pointless (or relentless) argument than the question of what is or is not jazz. It's usually been most disputatious between generations. Many who loved Louis Armstrong hated Charlie Parker. Many who loved Charlie Parker hated Ornette Coleman. Many who loved Miles Davis hated … Miles Davis. What became most evident to me in Montreal was how much every generation re-defines jazz.
"We try to always have music that's got some element of jazz,"said Laurent Saulnier, officially V.P. of programmation but I always think of him as V.P. of The Edge. He's always pushing the festival's musical parameters, especially electronically, and yet he deeply believes that the biggest word in the logo (Festival International de JAZZ de Montreal) should always be bolded. He's teased me for years about being an old fart, always nudging me to listen especially to the DJs every midnight at Club Soda.
I've usually run screaming from anything hip-hop-ish, but (maybe because I'll soon be 60, one of those zero ages when one looks back and forward much more keenly) I was game to hear a group Laurent was excited about called Plaster.
Three cats, all Quebecois, play keyboards, bass, and drums connected to computers. Though the grooves they generated were often thunderous, there was a playful bounciness to the bits and pieces of melodies they twisted electronically or criss-crossed with samples, including the voice of a wittily distorted politician. I became more and more fascinated by the interplay, especially between keyboardist Alex MacMahon and drummer Philippe Goncalves. These were not, as I've often felt about electronica, machines playing. These were musicians playing the machines. These were composers and actual improvisers, especially when counterpointing riffs.
And at the very thought of the word riffs, I almost leapt up shouting "It's the Basie Band!" I could hear in Plaster parallels to the way Basie built calls and responses of the sections, always with the rhythm solid and propulsive. And how did Basie define jazz? Something about music that makes you pat your foot? Mine was patting like crazy.
I was just as delighted when British singer Jamie Lidell played a midnight gig. Solo on the stage, he worked several electronic whiz-bangs, turning fragments of sound into rhythmic melodies, shifting tempos and moods while keeping a straightahead pulse, all the while singing sounds or words. And when he was joined by the whimsical pianist Gonzales, he was even scatting blues. Too much of the scat singing I hear nowadays is only babble in 4/4. Jamie Lidell, with his voice and his machines, was creatively improvising phrases like a saxophonist or a drummer, like a jazz singer is supposed to.
Maybe I'm getting into an argument about what is and is not hip-hop, but what I've heard of hip-hop and electronica sounds too often like a stampede of jive elephants. Lidell's hipper (and hopper?) pachyderms whirled like ballerinas. I've rarely felt any emotion from rap other than lust or anger, but Lidell was charming, laughing, and, as I shouted when I saw Laurent Saulnier dancing in the crowd, "This kid is swinging!"
Not all of these hip-hop-electro-whatevers were so compelling, "jazzy" or otherwise. I quickly became aware which of these new musicians were, like Plaster and Jamie Lidell, creatively to be reckoned with and which were playing only new clichés. Microtone Kitchen, even with six turntables, seemed unable to spin the recognizable shape of a composition, and the grooves were monotonous as the clatter of train tracks. Bauchklang, with six singers grunting electro-funky beats all vocally, sounded to me and (in their pseudo-street posturing) even looked like wannabe rappers on an old Soul Train. And one thing jazz certainly never is is dated.
Continuum is what I was hearing all across the musical spectrum in Montreal. Computers, I realized, offer jazz a new musical technology—no different than when Charlie Christian plugged in. And not all that was new that I heard was electrified.
Don Byron is an artist who's always played everything (from klezmer to Puccini, from Duke's Jungle Band to cartoon tunes) as if the music is new now. Byron's Ivy-Divey Trio (with Jason Moran and Billy Hart) celebrated the Lester Young Trio (with Nat Cole and Buddy Rich) in the jazzfest's Jesus Room, and affectionately more than reverently.
Likewise in the Salle de Gesu, The Bad Plus was not your father's Bill Evans Trio. They played what pianist Ethan Iverson whimsically called "covers" (including back-to-back songs of Ornette Coleman and Burt Bacharach) among original pieces that often sounded to me like musical Rubik's Cubes that they (and especially drummer Dave King) twisted into colorful configurations way beyond Rubik's geometry.
Around the corner at the Spectrum, the trio EST also bent the usual triangle into other polygons. Though they sometimes involved electronics, even acoustically they played powerfully, often melodies that sounded less like tunes and more like pure momentum. Do they compose in AABA form? No. Could I always pat my foot? No. But even footless, EST was swinging other parts of me quite (I felt jazzfully) headlong.
I should mention that all the while I was waxing ecstatically about "new jazz" at the festival, there was oodles of "old jazz" – although, actually, what Dave Brubeck played in Montreal (and everywhere else he plays) was ageless. Everyone I heard pissing and moaning about not hearing jazz at the festival was not hearing McCoy Tyner! Wayne Shorter! Yusef Lateef! And plenty of straightahead Canadian jazzers we never get to hear below the 49th parallel. I especially enjoyed pianist Lorraine Desmarais fronting a big band with what I characterized in my notes only as punch!!
Streetnix is the most festive jazzband every year at the jazzfest. A quintet fronted by alto saxist Jennifer Bell with trumpet, trombone, tuba, and drums, they can march in the street or play the littlest stage of the Place des Arts, playing anything from Oliver Nelson's "Hoedown" to AWB's "Pick Up the Pieces" -- all the while kids are getting faces painted like cats and kids of all ages (like me) are laughing.
I've always loved singers, but too often I hear the same songs the same ways. Not so every year in Montreal. Fest faves like Dee Dee Bridgewater and John Pizzarelli were, as always, swinging and funny, him singing Sinatra, her singing chansons. Two other faves of mine were singers who criss-cross songs from all styles, each with unique chops and charms, each with I feel a true jazz sensibility. Susie Arioli sweetly sings songs of Fred Astaire or Roger Miller with a breeziness like the brushes on the snare drum she always plays when she sings. Terez Montcalm, with a Joplinesque rasp in her voice, can get frisky when she's torchy, singing "For Heaven's Sake" with an upbeat or spelling "L-O-V-E" with the joy of that word's every definition.
And speaking of definitions, as I was at the outset, wondering what "jazz" means, whaddaya call Jamie Cullum? He sang pretty much anything and everything. "Old Devil Moon" and a Dinah Washington song. Something folk-ish. Something rap-ish. He sang a heartfelt "Some Other Time" like I've never heard before. He played piano. He danced on the piano. He crawled through the audience singing "Nature Boy" and even conducted a sing-along. What I called him in my notes is Talent To Burn! And I also wrote "It's all jazz!"
I mean, what was Jamie Cullum really (and wonderfully entertaingly) doing on that stage in Montreal? Same as Jamie Liddell. Whichever British Jamie was performing, he was, with total freedom, expressing himself. And that is what jazz is! Duke said so!
Read my t-shirt …
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Home List of Titles Immobilisation of living bacteria for AFM imaging under physiological conditions
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- Immobilisation of living bacteria for AFM imaging under physiological conditions
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- Louise Meyer, Rikke; Zhou, Xingfei; Tang, Lone; Arpanaei, Ayyoob; Kingshott, Peter; Besenbacher, Flemming
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- Atomic force microscopy (AFM) holds great potential for studying the nanoscale surface structures of living cells, and to measure their interactions with abiotic surfaces, other cells, or specific biomolecules. However, the application of AFM in microbiology is challenging due to the difficulty of immobilising bacterial cells to a flat surface without changing the cell surface properties or cell viability. We have performed an extensive and thorough study of how to functionalise surfaces in order to immobilise living bacteria for AFM studies in liquid environments. Our aim was to develop a scheme which allows bacterial cells to be immobilised to a flat surface with sufficient strength to avoid detachment during the AFM scanning, and without affecting cell surface chemistry, structure, and viability. We compare and evaluate published methods, and present a new, reproducible, and generally applicable scheme for immobilising bacteria cells for an AFM imaging.Bacterial cells were immobilised to modified glass surfaces by physical confinement of cells in microwells, physisorption to positively charged surfaces, covalent binding to amine- or carboxyl-terminated surfaces, and adsorption to surfaces coated with highly adhesive polyphenolic proteins originating from the mussel Mytilus edulis. Living cells could be immobilised with all of these approaches, but many cells detached when immobilised by electrostatic interactions and imaged in buffers like PBS or MOPS. Cells were more firmly attached when immobilised by covalent binding, although some cells still detached during AFM imaging. The most successful method revealed was immobilisation by polyphenolic proteins, which facilitated firm immobilisation of the cells. Furthermore, the cell viability was not affected by this immobilisation scheme, and adhesive proteins thus provide a fast, reproducible, and generally applicable scheme for immobilising living bacteria for an AFM imaging.
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- 2002
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is there even another competitor?
I am kind of wondering if the Cowon o2 is in a class all by itself. I tried looking around and seeing if there was even another player in the same class as the Cowon. I cant think of a single player. All of the usual suspects either have something added that bring it out of class, or dont compare at all.
The Archos 5 is one that can be argued, but with the built in wi fi(which I hear is pretty useless) puts it technically above the o29along with price). It uses hdd versus flash memory. It cant hold a candle sq wise. The battery life is dismal compared to the o2.
The ipod touch is in a different realm with the wifi and apps. It is flash based, but no expandable memory. There is talk about a 64 gb coming soon, but Im sure price will be astronomical. Dont forget SQ! The screen is not nearly as big, being almost a full inch smaller. And the price too is way beyond o2.
The s9? Iriver? Anything? It just seems there arent any real competitors out there for the o2. The other products just seem like they have a couple of options thrown in(hence the price difference), or they cant compete based on the size of the player. So I was wondering, is it good to be either the best at what it does that nobody(I can think of) comes close? Or that its the only dog on the field?
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I guess there is not. o2 wins by default
agreed, no use saying the O2 is 'totally unusable' and a piece of crap without suggesting any approximate alternatives.....I'm thinking of making a video so people understand that the O2 is amazingly capable despite a number of issues but I don't have a camera.....
That would be good. Honestly though, I was just trying to see if there was another comparable player. There really arent any I can think of.
It's in a class by itself... honest!
There just is NO other player like it. And come on, expecting it to be a big D2 is just not the right attitude with which to approach this unique device...
It does what it does in its own little universe VERY well. Namely pristine quality audio, amped or NOT. That Texas Instruments DaVinci chip sounds better than my OPA627AU to my Ear sometimes on my AUZEN X-Meridian 7.1 High Definition Soundcard, I have all 4 channels upgraded with the OPA627AU. The O2PMP sounds blacker and fuller, with excellent body and sound character. It's too bad about the double click between tracks, but I would hope a future firmware update will Iron that out.
And while we would all hope for gapless, lets not hold our breath in protest collectively lest there be several thousands of folks passing out at once!
Another thing the O2PMP does very well is video, and while the video isn't as good sounding as the music, since it doesn't run with the BBE sound set in place during video playback, the video quality is killer! from a visual standpoint. And with 32 GB of storage, and the ability to load and unload SDHC cards on the fly like DVD's its really great as a movie player.
It also excels at photos, via the Comic Book Viewer. The autopanning feature is great for "clean" photos, and I use mine in the field while shooting nature shots via the excellent SDHC host copy and past feature to transform a blanked O2PMP disk into a photo tank. Not bad! for a $200ish USD PMP considering dedicated photo tanks cost usually around $400 to $600 bucks...
I have NOT used it for text or for audiobooks, although its capable of those things... I just am not interested.
I primarily use it for Music. I also dig it because it has ample storage space on the leather case via a velcro carpet to have 2 portable headphone amps, 3 sometimes, The iBasso T4, the FiiO E5 (sometimes the E3) and the Boostaroo Revolution On-Borad... snug and velcro-ed onto the front of the leather case's front panel.
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Speaking of players like the O2, you're right it's SOO hard to find a player that has 32gb or more of space, be touchscreen and not have it be a Ipod or Zune, and have such great features.
Although, there's a new player on Amazon that is still on preorder, but sells for the price of a refurbished O2 32gb, has a few more features including dual headphone out, and a supposed 30hr battery life: it's called the Latte Cafe. Apparently the Californian company works somewhat like mp4nation.net, as in they rebrand chinese players as their own. Interestingly enough though they are sold in popular stores such as Target, Amazon, and Newegg. The Latte Cafe is actually a rebranded 'RAmos T8'. No word on when it will be shipped out though. Anways here's some links:
The Player: http://www.amazon.com/Latte-Video-Pl...7699157&sr=8-1
And 'Latte Communications' official site: http://www.lattefone.com/
So, what do you think?
Its def a good looking device. I think somebody has checked out the Ramos here. Said it was good for the $, but the build quality wasnt up to par with the better players. Dont know how the sq is though.
mp4nation.net carries some of the Ramos lineup...
Just FYI... they actually have quite a huge lineup of MP4 and MP3 players... Not spamming, just informing.
Ive heard of the Ramos before, but are they legit?
I know price is not everything, but the Ramos players I see are half of what the O2 is. They have to be lacking in some department. Maybe not?
The smartQ is interesting, but again, so cheap. Why so cheap? Also, whats the built in memory on them, i didnt see it listed.
I think the only real products to compete with the o2 are the older Archos line.
I have quite a lot of players including several Archos players and Cowon and Creative players. I recently got a Cowon S9. I use players mostly for video and audiobooks and a little bit for music so my view of this might be different than most.
I think the nicest player I have, overall, is the Creative Zen Vision:W. It's simple to use, reliable, has a good screen and plays all the stuff I'm likely to put on it. I use it more for videos than the rest. I wish it had better battery life but that's about all it lacks.
The O2 is a close second to the ZVW, I think. It has much better battery life and fits in my pocket better. The speaker isn't nearly as loud and that's important to me. If the speaker was louder it might become my favorite. I do like the interface a lot although even here I think the ZVW is better.
I'm not sure what follows those. Maybe the D2. Maybe the Creative Zen. The D2 doesn't resume reliably on Audible.com's books but 2/3 of my books are MP3 anyway. It's a bit heavy in a shirt pocket and that's probably it's biggest problem after the fact that it doesn't have a speaker. The Zen wins on it's small size and light weight although I find the controls pretty awkward to use.
Archos has a lot going for it but I don't think my 504, 404 or 705 are in the same ballpark with the ZVW and the O2. They get the poorest battery life of all of them. The interfaces are a little clumsier than the rest; not really too bad though.
I've left out the S9 because I haven't had it that long yet and I'm not sure just how it fits in this group. It's easily the most sophisticated interface of the bunch but I prefer simplicity. I find myself playing with it more and using it less than the others. That may change as I get more used to it.
One point I'd like to make about all this: the major brand players all range in quality from really very good to excellent. There are no bad players. There aren't even any mediocre ones. At least not among the major brands. I'd say that the worse player I own is an Iriver E100 and it's just fine. I'm bothered by the idea that everything but the best one or two sucks.
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I know. I feel it too. When that last strike was called, oh the sadness. But there's so much goodness still to blog about, and I will tomorrow. In the meantime, here's a great example of what a fan at Shea is all about. I can tell you two things: 1) This is not even half as loud as I usually yell for the Mets. I may be on the small side, but boy I cheer big. 2) I have no idea what I'm doing with my jacket.
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HEE-larious, Zoe! (and i mean 'cute' hilarious)
you sounded like a mix between Edith Bunker and Gilbert Gottfried
i am still real upset… couldn't even sleep last night… but good season… just came up a little short… we'll be back next year
Cute Zoe! : )
Disappointing loss, but at least we made them work for it.
And despite the loss, they still had a great season and have so much to be proud of.
And like you said, we have a great team for 2007.
Thanks Mets for a great year.
Part of what irked me so much about the Cardinals fans sitting next to us last night was that THEY DIDN'T F'in CHEER. They DIDN'T stand up for their team – until the end, of course, they're calling people in St. Louis to make plans for next Thursday before we even got up to bat again. I wouldve respected them if they'd cheered their *** off for their team.
I know the girl was going to say something to me after I snapped at her that she had to pick one team to root for, not both, but I was leaning over the railing screaming my lungs out and crying my eyes out.
We slept fine because we were just exhausted, but I woke up upset.
I was upset but I'm over it now. Yes Z WE ARE GOING TO GET THEM NEXT YEAR! SOO funny! LOL
We live for baseball and the emotion it brings. The highs and the miserable lows. However I had fun this season. Met a couple of Mets, went to my first actual Mets game (after all this years can you beleive that?) and I'm already making plans for spring training and games next year. YES, NEXT YEAR!
It came down to one game that we lost. In the end we all know the Mets had a better record and a ton of issues to deal with. No blame to anyone in particular, as a team you loose together (but like I said I would've slap a couple of guys around LOL).
Mets fans hearts have a way of magically healing. Our minds are super forgiving and we will bounce back.
I feel you on this.
These guys played their hearts out for us all year long.
As sad as I am, I cant hang my head. Not on this team. Not on these guys.
It was a great season.
To sum it up…
I am appreciative.
Wow… can't believe how bad I feel today. But you know what? We ARE gonna get 'em next year. We've got a good young core here, and veterans like Delgado and Lo Duca still have a few good years left in 'em.
Willie and the boys will come back rested and hungrier in 2007. And maybe with a few new additions.
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It is increasingly obvious that the smug, politically correct, intolerance of our city government rules the day. I guess there are more votes in taking Boy Scouts off the street during one of our most cherished civic events in Montpelier the Independence Day parade. How stunningly and sadly ironic. Here, our city government attacks the Boy Scouts because of a few crackpot leaders who will not live forever because of their beliefs. On the other hand, I am sure the anti-American and anti-military Bread & Puppet Theater and others remain as welcome as always to dress up as baked potatoes on stilts to mock the sacrifice of our soldiers and sailors, certain businesses and whatever is the politically correct flavor of the week.
Does our city government not recognize that the names of many Montpelier men who were killed in action preserving our freedom, are enshrined not far from the street where the baked potato, and his fellow swirling dervishes, revile that sacrifice? That is their right in Vermont and America. Hopefully, the beloved sailors of the USS Montpelier, a nuclear submarine with terrible killing power that defends our state and country, remain to march in our parade. These sailors certainly were at our parade when the U.S. military banned gays from service.
Having grown up in Montpelier, attended its schools and returned, I have seen a tolerant, all too conservative city government devolve into an intolerant, smug, self-entitled group that will even sacrifice Boy Scouts at the altar of political correctness. But it is OK if the boys pick up the trash. Think about it.
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Combing through the news this week, I observed a theme. "Sony's New CEO Vows to 'Revive' Company" appeared in theWall Street Journal [subscription needed]. "Best Buy Should Act Urgently to Repair Company," was a headline on the MSNBC web site. Best Buy and Sony are at a crossroads. These once-venerable businesses are struggling to capture customers.
Best Buy recently posted a $1.7 billion quarterly loss, and it is shutting 50 of its stores. The Best Buy business model is taking a beating from the likes of Apple and Amazon. Likewise, Sony announced plans to cut its workforce by about 10,000 and experienced a fiscal year loss of $6.4 billion.
But this week, I don't want to discuss failing companies. I would rather consider how struggling companies might find success again by learning from Honeywell International. This week's Economist outlines how leaders at electronics manufacturer Honeywell started paying attention to the details and turned things around.
In 1999, Honeywell operated mostly in the controls and aerospace realm. Although it kept the Honeywell name, it was bought by Allied Signal, an aerospace, automotive, and engineering firm. There was a clash of cultures. According to the Economist, Allied Signal was too wrapped up with cost control, arguably at the expense of long-term investment. By contrast, the original Honeywell was known for being customer-centric and creative, but not for its execution. Another blow came in 2001, when the European Union blocked Honeywell's acquisition by General Electric because of antitrust considerations.
In 2002, David Cote took the reins at Honeywell and worked to instill in the company a culture that now includes a new production system. By implementing a commitment to continuous improvement, along with six sigma and lean manufacturing, Honeywell's sales in 2011 were 72 percent higher than in 2002. With customers such as Intel and Samsung, it boasted profits of $4 billion.
Right down the road from APICS headquarters is a Honeywell plant in Lincolnshire, Illinois, that, through this new production system, has experienced significant productivity improvements. "The production process used to consume the factory floor; now, it uses merely a quarter of it. This has freed up the rest of the factory to make lots of other products. The factory makes more stuff, generating more revenue, with essentially the same head count, square footage, and energy consumption." Back to basics
The Economist describes changes at Honeywell that aren't revolutionary to those in the APICS community. But, these changes did manage to turn a struggling company into a success story. Therefore, it might be worthwhile to review some basics. Consider the definition of continuous improvement as it appears in the APICS Operations Management Body of Knowledge Framework:
"Continuous improvement means an ongoing effort to expose and eliminate the root causes of problems, which leads to incremental improvements over time. In six sigma, the improvement process has five stages__define, measure, analyze, improve, and control. The stages are grouped collectively as the acronym DMAIC."
Like the leaders at Honeywell, you can apply some of the basic principles in the APICS body of knowledge and make a big difference in your company's bottom line. APICS has the resources to help you make that happen. Visit apics.org to get ideas and learn more about APICS classes, conferences, and certification. Idea exchange
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Unimatrix Zero, Part II (episode)
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|"Unimatrix Zero, Part II"
|VOY, Episode 7x01
Production number: 247
First aired: 4 October 2000
|145th of 168 produced in VOY
|145th of 168 released in VOY
|605th of 728 released in all
| Teleplay By
Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Story By
Mike Sussman and Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Directed By
Mike Vejar
|54014.4 (2377)
|Arc: Unimatrix Zero (2 of 2)
Assimilated by the Borg, Janeway, Torres, and Tuvok plot to release a virus into the Borg Collective which will allow members of Unimatrix Zero to retain their individuality in the real world and resist the Borg Queen. (Season Premiere)
Tuvok, B'Elanna Torres and Captain Kathryn Janeway have been assimilated as Borg drones, but their personalities remain intact thanks to a short-lived anti-assimilation inoculation developed by The Doctor.
Act OneEdit
The first order of business is to get the Unimatrix virus injected in to the Central plexus of their cube. During the time leading to the central plexus, Tuvok's mental faculties begin to degrade and submit to the Borg Collective. The Borg Queen can hear the Vulcan but not Torres or Janeway.
Act TwoEdit
Tuvok attempts to fight off the degradation by recalling facts about his individual life, but eventually loses the battle and becomes a full-fledged Borg drone, calling himself now Three Of Twelve. Through him, the Borg Queen discovers that the three officers are in the Central Plexus, but not before they manage to inject their virus into the Central Plexus. A short and futile fight ensues as Captain Janeway attempts to run from Tuvok. Voyager arrives just in time and attempts to retrieve the away team, but are unable to due to the shields that surround the Central Plexus. Chakotay then orders Paris to fly them closer to the Cube to get a stronger lock onto them. Back on the cube, Torres is able to evade capture from the other Borg drones, but Janeway is not so fortunate and is captured. The Queen watches Voyager on her viewscreen, proclaiming Back so soon?!.
Chakotay orders Harry to target the Cube's shield generators and set the phasers to stand-by mode. Just then, the Borg Cube fires a torpedo at Voyager. Harry informs Chakotay that the Borg somehow have access to Voyager's tactical controls (due to the Queen reading Tuvok's thoughts), which brings Voyager's shields down. Chakotay orders evasive manuevers, but it's too late - the torpedo hits Voyager's starboard side. Kim reports hull breaches on decks 5, 6 and 7. Chakotay calls for a retreat, but Paris protests that they can't just leave the away team behind. Chakotay tells him that there's very little they can do right now, especially since the Borg have their access codes.
Meanwhile, Janeway is taken to a hub and linked to it. A holographic representation of her normal, unassimilated self appears in front of the Borg Queen. As the Unimatrix Zero drones are becoming individuals, the Borg Queen discovers the virus almost immediately, but solving the virus still eludes her. One of the Borg adjuncts in the Queen's chamber is killed for not revealing facts about Unimatrix Zero. He is disassembled, and his cortical node is examined so that the frequency for Unimatrix Zero might be revealed.
Act ThreeEdit
The Borg Queen exposes that she is fully aware of Unimatrix Zero, the virus and what was accomplished, but that she also cannot yet foil the virus either. She points out the deaths of drones as being Janeway's fault for freeing them and orders summary destruction of some cubes that also have infected drones. Janeway does not relent, but insists that the Borg Queen should visit Unimatrix Zero herself.
Seven of Nine meanwhile uses her alcove to continue to visit Unimatrix Zero. Borg Drones appear in the Unimatrix and begin assaulting the residents of Unimatrix Zero so that they can identify the occupants, expel them, and then use their Borg components to further research the interlink frequency of Unimatrix Zero.
Assimilated by the Borg, Janeway is brought face-to-face with the Borg Queen. Determined to eradicate the "individuality" virus that Janeway has injected into the Collective, the Queen gives Janeway an ultimatum: persuade the freed Borg to return to the Queen's control or see millions of innocent drones be put to death to cleanse the Collective of Janeway's actions...
Act FourEdit
The Borg Queen decides to pay a visit to Unimatrix Zero and persuades a child there that being part of the collective is good because they are all friends and reading each other's thoughts are "fun". The child shows the Queen to a plateau so that she has a wide angle view of Unimatrix Zero.
Back in reality, the Queen tells Janeway that she has visited Unimatrix Zero and will be releasing a mutated virus of her own to kill those drones connected to Unimatrix Zero unless Janeway convinces the freed Borg to return to The Collective.
Janeway appears holographically on Voyager and issues an order that "Unimatrix Zero can no longer exist". While it seems that she is issuing a destruction order, as well as suggesting that the drones must return to the collective or be killed by the modified nanovirus, Chakotay realizes that Janeway has found a loophole that the Queen never considered and is a necessary step to protect and retain the individualities of the drones who have been freed, as well as cutting off the Queen's only hub to release the virus.
Act FiveEdit
Voyager receives surprise assistance from a Borg sphere, led by a recently-liberated drone and together, they mount an assault on the Borg Cube that is holding Tuvok, Torres and Janeway. Unable to penetrate the shields, they are not successful at beaming Janeway, Torres or Tuvok out, but continue their assault.
Meanwhile, Seven of Nine begins evacuating all drones from Unimatrix Zero as it is being destroyed by interrupting the interlink frequency; an effect that manifests itself in Unimatrix Zero as fire. Before it dissolves entirely, she has a brief sending off of her friend, who turned out to be more than simply a friend, but it is determined that they are doomed to not meet again as they are spread too far away across the galaxy. They both exit and then the destruction of Unimatrix Zero is complete.
The Borg Queen detects the assault on the Borg Cube bearing Tuvok, Torres and the Captain, and orders it to self destruct. At the last moment before destruction, the shields go down and Voyager is able to beam the Captain, Torres and Tuvok to sickbay, where the Doctor removes their Borg implants and starts their recovery process.
- Chief medical officer's log, stardate 54014.4. It's been 48 hours since the away team returned to Voyager. Thanks to the neural suppressant, I've been able to extract most of their Borg technology. The captain and B'Elanna are on the mend. But Tuvok will need a little more time to recover.
Elsewhere, the Borg Civil War has gone into full tilt.
Memorable QuotesEdit
"Assimilation turns us all into friends."
- - Borg Queen talking to a young boy within Unimatrix Zero.
"Yes, it's fun."
- - Borg Queen, referring to the ability of listening to the Collective's thoughts after assimilation.
"I don't compromise with BORG."
- - Captain Janeway to the Borg Queen, after deceiving her by pretending to comply to a compromise.
"Stay focused, stay Tuvok - that's an order."
- - Captain Janeway to Tuvok, who is having difficulty fending off the influences of the Collective.
"My designation is Three of Twelve."
- - Tuvok, to Captain Janeway after succumbing to the Borg Queen.
"Lieutenant. A First Officer could get in a lot of trouble for talking to his Captain that way."
"Well, I've learned from the best."
- - Chakotay as acting captain and Paris as acting first officer
"Whenever you mention his name, your pupils dilate by nearly a millimeter, blood flow increases to your facial capillaries. Both are consistent with an emotional response."
"Axum and I apparently had a relationship."
"Oh. Romantic? (Seven hesitates) There go those pupils again."
"Your diagnosis is accurate."
- - The Doctor and Seven of Nine
"Stardate 38774. Vulcanis Lunar Colony. The time and place of my birth."
- - Tuvok
"My daughter's name is Asil. She was born in the city of...T'Paal."
"We share your memories. You're part of us now. Don't resist."
- - Tuvok and Borg Queen
"The Borg have our access codes."
- - Chakotay
"They developed a nanovirus that can kill every Borg with a mutation. They're prepared to release it inside Unimatrix Zero unless all the drones there return to the Collective for reassimilation."
"That is not compromise. That is surrender."
"I won't be responsible for any more deaths. At least they'll survive as drones. Tell them that Unimatrix Zero can no longer exist. That's an order. Have I made myself clear, Commander?"
"Yes, Captain."
- - Janeway, Seven of Nine, Chakotay
"If I ever imply that it's been easy on you these last few years, remind me about today."
- - Janeway, to Seven of Nine
"Spatial grid 94, cube 630, complement 64,000 drones. But I can no longer hear three of them. No doubt they've joined your resistance. Are they trying to sabotage the vessel and liberate others? I don't know. Because I can no longer hear them. - Initiate self-destruct!"
"An effective solution, don't you agree? Spatial grid 091, sphere 878, complement 11,000 drones. Only one is silent. But I have no choice. I must silence all of them."
- - The Borg Queen to Janeway
Background InformationEdit
- This episode was the first of the seventh and final season of Star Trek: Voyager.
- The shot of Voyager near a sun at the end of this episode is reused from VOY: "Heroes and Demons".
- Tuvok reveals the time and place of his birth in this episode: "Stardate 38774, Vulcanis Lunar Colony." This would make him 113 years old. However, in "Fury" Janeway specifically stated in reference to Tuvok's age that it was "Not long until you hit the triple digits". Maybe she's counting in Vulcan years.
Video and DVD releasesEdit
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.1, 19 March 2001.
- In feature-length form, as part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek: Voyager - Movies: Volume 4 (with "Dark Frontier"), release date unknown.
- As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection.
- As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Borg collection.
Links and references Edit
Starring Edit
Also starring Edit
- Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
- Roxann Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
- Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Junior Grade Tom Paris
- Ethan Phillips as Neelix
- Robert Picardo as The Doctor
- Tim Russ as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok
- Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine
- Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim
Guest Stars Edit
- Mark Deakins as Axum
- Jerome Butler as Korok
- Joanna Heimbold as Laura
- And
- Susanna Thompson as the "Borg Queen"
Co-Stars Edit
- Ryan Sparks as Alien Child
- Andrew Palmer as Errant Drone
- Clay Storseth as Alien Man
- Majel Barrett as Narrator
Uncredited co-stars Edit
- Patrick Barnitt as a Borg drone
- Tarik Ergin as Ayala
- Sue Henley as a Borg drone
- Dieter Hornemann as a Borg drone
- Irving E. Lewis as a Borg drone
- Tom Morga as a Borg drone
- Louis Ortiz as Borg Queen's drone
- Keith Rayve as
- Pablo Soriano as a Borg drone
- Unknown performers as
References Edit
47; Asil; Beta Quadrant; biosignature; central plexus; Cube 630; fluidic space; Grid 091; Grid 94; Grid 96; Grid 182; hoverball; interlink frequency; Klingon; mutant; nanovirus; neural suppressant; shield modulation; shock wave; Species 8472; Sphere 878; spinal clamp; subvocal processor; T'Paal; Tactical Cube 138; transwarp; Unicomplex; Unimatrix Zero; Vorothon Gorge; Vulcan; Vulcanis Lunar Colony
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