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Let's summarize these into four points:
(Update: a friend sent me a link to the ad.)
A. Classic Case in Positioning
In their classic book, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, authors Al Ries and Jack Trout showed that the mind positions different products in different rungs of a ladder. The top most rung is occupied by the market leader, the rung below is occupied by the next leader, and so on. The only way for one brand to go up in the ladder is by repositioning the competition by changing the ladder, so to speak, and rearranging the rungs in this new ladder according to the new framework.
What the Aegis ad did was to define the meaning of "good business hub". What does this phrase really mean in the national context? Aegis ad defined "good business hub" using four parameters: adequate infrastructure, flexible government policies, better national security, and less prone to natural disasters.
What the Aegis ad did is similar to what Samsung ads are doing to Apple: Samsung repositioned the iPhone by redefining the meaning of a "good mobile phone". Samsung defined this phrase as long battery life and unbendable:
B. Will the Repositioning Stick?
The repositioning will only stick if it is based on truth and if this truth is highly valued by customers. Even if the iPhone can be shown to have short battery life and bendable, these truths may not sway customers from buying the iPhone if they value more what the iPhone can offer, such as smooth and integrated user experience from the company who makes both the phone and the operating system compared to Samsung, for example, who makes their phones to accommodate Google's Android OS.
Will Aegis's repositiong of Philippines vs Malaysia as business hub stick? To answer this, we need to determine if there is a truth to the assertions to the problems in Philippine business climate and whether these truths are valued by the companies who invest in the Philippines.
Let's first take a look at the assertions to see if they are true:
So it appears that the assertions of the Aegis's ad are true.
Our next question is: are these truths considered by investors as most important in making business decisions to invest in the Philippines?
If investors haven't noted these problems before and they invested in the Philippines, then they may withdraw their investments and go to Malaysia. But if they already know all these risks, yet still thinks to invest in Philippines because of greater value that the Philippines has to offer, so that the potential for profit would greatly overcome the costs posed by risks, then the problem of the Philippine government then is to determine this greater values by interviewing each investor for their reasons for investing in the Philippines. These interviews are important, because the government can then invest to protect these perceived values, e.g. highly trained English speaking workforce.
C. The Philippines as a Brand: Counting the design wins like Intel
Well, we can whine and dine and paint a sorry picture of us as victims--poor Filipinos who are always the underdog. The other option is to take the proactive stance and consider the Philippines as a brand and the investors as customers. The Department of Tourism has rolled out its "It's more fun in the Philippines" tagline and the branding caught on, at least as measured from its virality in social media like Facebook. But this branding is just for tourists and not for investors. The question now is this: how do we make investing more fun in the Philippines?
Perhaps Philippines can learn lessons from Intel, as narrated by Michael S. Malone in his book, The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company . In 1979, Motorola and Zilog challenged the dominance of Intel's 8086 processor:
The 8086 rocked the semiconductor world on its heels, but not for long. The semiconductor industry had been a brutally competitive free-for-all now for almost two decades--and any compayny that couldn't claw its way back from such a blow was probably long dead. And though Motorola had reeled, within six months it had counterattacked with its own 16-bit microprocessor, the Model 68000. Any doubts that Motorola was too big and old to be a scrapper anymore instantly evaporated: the 68000 was a masterpiece, one of the greatest microporcessors ever designed....Motorala simply designed a processor that featured the best of the 8086's features and improved on the worst.... (Intel Trinity, p. 200)
And this is what Intel found out:
To answer it, the team spent a day just on competitor analysis. What was it that really made the Motorola and Zilog microprocessors better? In the end, the team concluded that while the hardware design of the two competitors' chips was a little bit better than the 8086 in terms of speed and processing power, those advantages were not decisive in the minds of the most potential customers. Rather, the real advantage held by the 68000 and the Z8000 was with a comparatively small but very prominent subset ofusers: "software-oriented" companies--that is, enterprises that focused on user solutions rather than hardware. (Intel Trinity, p. 203)What Intel did next was brand building by content marketing:
It wasn't just the sales force that mobilized: "Numerous committees were created to work out the details. New sales aids were created to reflect a system, rather than a product, viewpoint. System-level benchmarks were prepared; technical articles were written; existing customers were convinced to write their own articles; new data sheets were prepared, as was--remarkably given the short time window--a completely new product catalog. [Regis] McKenna devised a new advertising campaign. Within the next few months, more than fifty customer seminars were presented throughout the world, as was a users' conference. In each case, whatever didn't work was abandoned and something new tried."So the challenge for the Philippine government and business is this: can the Philippines list 2,000 design wins over Malaysia, so that Philippines would provide a better investment package in the minds of the investors? If the Philippines can list these down, then Philippines would have to market itself to the world by producing technical data specifications and creative content in all media--websites, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest, Google+, You Tube, and many more. It is high time for Philippines to market and brand itself as the premier investment destination in Southeast Asia.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Aegis's controversial ad: a classic case of repositioning Malaysia vs Philippines as business hub
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Author | Sarah Koszyk Hydration is necessary and water is essential for life. Up to 60% of the human body is comprised of water. We need water to balance our system, lubricate ourselves, assist with internal chemical reactions, regulate body temperature, and much, much more. Muscles are also comprised of water so the more muscle mass one has, the higher percentage of body water one will have. With all this important knowledge of water, are you drinking enough to maintain that daily balance?
The average person should be consuming 8-10 glasses of water daily.
1 glass = 8 oz. or 1 cup
People that sweat hard should drink more water on top of the recommended daily amount in order to maintain their hydration and replenish their water losses. To check your sweat level, you must perform a sweat test.
Here's what to do: weigh yourself (naked) prior to your regular 45-60 minute workout. Once you weigh yourself, do not consume any fluids or food. Enjoy your workout. Sweat it out. After the workout (still no fluids in there), weigh yourself again (naked) and see how much weight you've lost. For every pound of weight lost during the workout, you'll need to drink an extra 16-20 oz. of water (that's about 2 extra cups).
Here's an example: Pre-workout weight with no clothes = 150 pounds. No fluids consumed during workout. Post-workout weight with no clothes = 149 pounds. The person lost 1 pound of weight from water loss during the workout. Therefore, the person needs to drink an extra 2 cups of water in addition to his regular daily 8-10 cups of water.
I hear complaints all the time that water is so boring and people need some flavor, etc, etc, excuse, excuse. Well, now you can become your own mixologist and make the most exotic of exotic water concoctions. Serve these drinks at your next party or gathering and you'll be surprised by how fast the water gets drunk.
DIAKADI also serves naturally flavored waters to satisfy one's taste buds. Try the following concoctions by adding them to your water and letting the water absorb all the amazing flavors for at least 2-3 hours prior to drinking it. The bigger the pitcher you have, the better so you can have more naturally flavored water readily available at your thirsts desire.
The Classic: Fresh lemons or limes sliced or sliced cucumbers
Citrus Explosion: sliced oranges, blood oranges, or grapefruit (try just 1 fruit or a mix)
Faux-jito: sliced cucumber, chopped mint, and fresh squeezed lime juice
Jalapeno chiller: fresh squeezed lime juice and sliced jalapeno (seeds removed)
Berri-licious: berries (sliced strawberries or crushed blueberries, raspberries, blackberries). Try adding just 1 type of berry or try combining them for even more robust flavors)
Herb-a-vore: Your favorite herb, chopped (Basil, mint, cilantro, thyme). Try just 1 herb solo or make a combo.
Watermelon Blaster: sliced watermelon and fresh squeezed lime juiced
Feel free to get creative and combine any of the above ideas together or expand your box and add in some other new flavors. Stay hydrated this summer and enjoy your drinks!
Sarah Koszyk is a Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Coach at MV Nutrition and Eating Free where she coaches her clients to reach their successful weight goals. She was the recipient of Outstanding Dietitian of the Year Award 2011 and Recognized Dietitian of the Year Award 2011 from the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics. Contact Sarah today to set up your free consultation.


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💜 Meaning – Purple Heart Emoji
It depicts a purple heart. This emoji could mean love, affection, joy, or admiration. It has a maternal quality because of its color. Purple Heart Emoji would likely be used in Mother's Day texts, or by a mother to her child to show affection and caring. It is also most likely used as textual decoration by young girls in messages to their friends.
Purple Heart Emoji is a special symbol that looks like a picture (you may see empty box or "X" if unsupported), but really it's a text, so you can easily copy and paste 💜 emoji. This trick works for Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, Snapchat, SMS and any other website, messenger or application, but emoji pictures are slightly different for iPad/iPhone, Android, and Samsung Galaxy devices.
Purple Heart Emoji details
- Symbol to copy
- Uncode codepoint
- Unicode name
- Purple Heart
- Category
- People / Emotions
- Keywords
- heart
- Windows Alt-code
- Alt+1F49C
- Decimal HTML Entity
- 💜
- Hex HTML Entity
- 💜
- UTF-16 hex
- 0xD83D 0xDC9C
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart_(disambiguation)
- Version
- Unicode 6.0
- Year
- 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)


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There are events that occur that has so many tentacles that the story has more than just one highlight. Today, instead of 5 different stories, the focus will be the Russia-Trump investigation and how it is affected the country.
1. Wednesday evening, it was announced that a special counsel will be taking over the Justice Department's investigation of Russia and the 2016 Presidential election. The investigation focus is on what Russia did to exploit the race in favor of Donald Trump. There is also the investigation into who in the Trump campaign had dealings with Russia and if there was any collusion between the two. The new special counsel is former FBI chief Robert Mueller who served as director for 12 years. On the hill reaction, has been a rare united moment with both Democrats and Republicans agreeing that Mueller is a great pick. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement announcing the special counsel, "I determined that a special counsel is necessary in order for the American people to have full confidence in the outcome."
2. The New York Times is reporting Thursday that Michael Flynn, while on the Trump campaign team, told the campaign that he was under FBI investigation for his work as a foreign agent for Turkey yet when President Trump won the election, Trump appointed Flynn the National Security Adviser. The Times states that Flynn told transition team's attorney, Donald F. McGahn, who is now the counsel to the President, on January 4th. This conversation and another 2 days later proves that the Trump Administration knew about the FBI was investigation Flynn. Flynn had to resign after only 24 days after being sworn in as the National Security Adviser.
3. McClatchy News is reporting Thursday that Michael Flynn intervened to blocked a military plan opposed by Turkey that was supposed to take aim against an ISIS group. The plan that he reportedly blocked was to be carried out by Syrian Kurdish forces in Raqqa, a measure Turkey has long opposed. Flynn, who resigned as the National Security Adviser in February, was registered as a foreign agent for $530,000 worth of lobbying work before Election Day. The plan eventually was okayed but only after Flynn had resigned.
4. Thursday, the Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein, will appear before all the Senate to brief them on the how the firing of FBI Director James Comey came about. Originally the White House stated their decision came about after a memo was released to the President by Rubenstein, outlining the reasons of why Comey could be relieved of this duty. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stated he would like to ask Rosenstein, "It's pretty simple: Did you support the decision to fire [Comey] and tell us about the letter and how it came about." Another major point to be asked is if Rosenstein was aware of the reported memo that Comey wrote that purportedly states the President asked Comey to drop the Flynn investigation
5. Thursday, it was reported that Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump's campaign were in contact with Russian officials during the campaign at least 18 times. According to Reuters, 6 of the contacts were made between Flynn and Sergei Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States and the calls were to establish a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy. Reuters reports that they had seen no evidence of wrongdoing or collusion between the campaign and Russia but these calls, which were not released immediately, will cause further investigation.
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7th Falmouth Oyster Gathering
Its the smell of the sea. Its the tang of lemon. Its the burn of Tabasco. Knock back the freshest oysters in the country with a glass of Camel Valley fizz and views over the bobbing boats of Falmouth harbour. Wonderful.
Friday 25th – MONDAY 28th March 2016, Customs House Quay, Falmouth
Falmouth has a bit of a thing for oysters. In fact, you could say we've got an oyster addiction. But there is a good reason, we have some of the best oysters in the country growing in our waters and a very special way of harvesting them. Ancient laws protect our oyster beds which means they can only be harvested by sail or oar power between October and March. If you've visited Falmouth you've most likely seen the distinctive Working Boats which are used to gather the oysters – in the winter they dredge for our mollusc friends and in the summer sun they play hard racing in the harbour with their colourful top sails billowing in the breeze and the shout of the crew as they try and beat the next boat around the marker buoy.
As the oyster fishermen hang up their oilskins for the summer, join the party and celebrate the end of the Fal Oyster season.
From 10:00 until 22:00 each day, Chefs will prepare overflowing platters of oysters and will be joined by some of Cornwall's finest street vendors, including; The Tube coffee van, Proper Pancakes and Cecil on Ice Cocktails, making this a real "outdoor street food banquet". There will also be Camel Valley sparkling BRUT, Rebel Brewery Fal Oyster Stout, Skinners Pennycomequick on offer, along with many other tipples from Knightor Wines, Dynamite Valley and Black Rock Breweries.
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text: Martial arts tournaments. You can always tell an anime/manga is going to drop it's original point and just be another fighter as soon as there's a martial arts tournament. SPOILERS FOR YUU YUU HAKUSHO AND HUNTER X HUNTER FOLLOW! Yuu Yuu Hakusho [*]Sup dude, you're dead! Here's some ghost-type mysteries to solve even though you're a delinquent.[*]Okay, you're back alive... but we've got more mysteries for you to solve while still acting like a delinquent.[*]Hey, here's a secret mission for you, our ghost detective![*]Hey, another mission, a tournament![*]Fight this guy and get strong![*]Here's a chick, save her.[*]Fight this other guy and get stronger![*]Oh wait yeah you're supposed to be a ghost detective, whoops. Uh, our last guy got too strong from fighting and wants to kill everybody, so here's your "detective mission", go fight him and get stronger![*]HEY LOOK MORE PEOPLE TO FIGHT Hunter x Hunter [*]Here's what a Hunter is![*]Hey, you have reasons to be a Hunter, right? Then go take the exam![*]Hey, you're taking the Hunter exam and learning more about what a Hunter is![*]Alright, here's some Hunter missions![*]What's that? You need money? Here, have a martial arts tournament![*]Alright, working your way through the tournament and learning about special powers![*]Whoo, there's some old enemies to fight![*]Yay more fighting![*]Shit wait we're supposed to be Hunters. Okay, let's take our special abilities and move it into our EYES so we can spot clues and solve a mystery![*]Okay time to go back to fighting! And always when a series goes off of the main point, the author will realize it after a while and bring up something (like the second yellow lines) to try to force what's going on to tie into the main point, however weak it is? Reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes, when Calvin convinces his parents to buy him dinosaur stuff from a museum because he says it's educational, and then wonders if that trick can get him batman gear too. Also am I the only one that noticed Hunter x Hunter started out in a fantasy zone with monsters and airships, and then moved into modern times with the mafia and police cars in a big city? I mean what the hell, did they walk through a time warp when nobody was looking? And it's like the author realized that partway through and that's why he made them go into a videogame that was styled like fantasy zones and made them spend a few months in there.


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 126178
Boot loader configuration impossible
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:44 EST
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1)
Description of problem:
Description of Problem: Anaconda doesn't want to create a loader
configuration in upgrade mode
The problem is possibly from anaconda boot loader install
but grub doesn't seem to be functional either (due to anaconda
install, skipping boot loader part)
I have installed Fedora Core 2 on /dev/hda3 with anaconda (winXP
already installed on /dev/sda1)
Not sure about boot configuration, I have decided to skip it, to do it
later (didn't want to override MBR...) I installed all the rest of
Core 2 without any problems.
I tried to perform a manual grub install via "linux rescue" boot mode,
typing "grub-install /dev/hda3" but:
-I got
"Installation finish. No error reported
"This is device.map
"(fd0) /dev/fd0
"(hd0) /dev/hda
"Check it, fix it and re-run"
(So I also tried by adding the line "(hd0,3) /dev/hda3" but it didn't
like the coma apparently)
-I didn't find any grub.conf in /etc/ nor in /boot/grub/ (I performed
chroot /mnt/sysimage) nor menu.lst in /boot/grub/ (just .img and XXX
in /boot/ and XXX in /boot/grub)
=>grub-install didn't work
So I tried to reboot in install mode and used upgrade mode to perform
anaconda's boot loader config (cf. below...)
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
don't know
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 2 + skip Boot loader configuration on /dev/hda3
2. Reboot on CD1 install, use 'linux rescue' mode
3. Run 'grub-install /dev/hda3' -> nothing done (cf. description above)
4. Reboot on CD1 install
5. Choose upgrade existing install Fedora 2 on /dev/hda3
6. Choose Create new Boot loader configuration (update boot config is
7. Step forward GRUB Boot loader installation with "configure advanced
boot loader options"
8. Select boot loader record on /dev/hda3
9. Go
Actual Results: (Transferring install image to hard drive
Installation of a few packages aspell?, compat-db, post-install)
Then: Message: "No kernel packages were installed on your system,
Your boot loader configuration will not be changed" OK, Reboot...
Expected Results: Installation of boot loader successful...
Additional info:
I also posted a submission for the grub-install part.
I only installed FC2 skipping boot loader config
But: grub-install and anaconda upgrade are always reproducible
We cannot sanely create a boot loader configuration unless we're
installing a kernel. The upgrade scenario you created didn't install
a kernel and thus a boot loader config can't be created.
If you choose to skip doing boot loader configuration, then, yes,
you're going to need to do it all by hand after the fact.
But so, shouldn't it be said during the install (1st one, not the
"Warning if you skip that skip you'll have to install loader yourself
(not using anaconda)"
(Unless there's a way to also reinstall kernel via anaconda upgrade
but I was not prompted for) ?
Thanks anyway, Quentin


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Monday, August 31, 2009
Frank Beekman
posted the last part of his final entry last night. It was the best writing on the Internet, and I've loved his unflinching (if overly harsh) self-examination, coupled with a novelist's sensibility and eye for detail, for years. He's been planning the end for some time now (posts have gotten less and less frequent) and it's a very graceful and fitting departure, but it still makes me sad, for a variety of reasons.
There is, by the way, no point in reading the last entry if you haven't read any of the rest of it. The archives are immense, but worth making their way through (you can cheat and read only the entries marked on the sideline as "quintessential accidental") if you like brilliant autobiography and can handle regular heartbreak.
One great thing about the Internet is that it allows me to explore aspects of myself that aren't well-integrated with my familial or professional life. And then to share that aspect with people who would otherwise find me mostly uninteresting. In that vein, Frank (and/or his altar ego) and I have had (very) occasional correspondences over the last few years, and for unknown reasons (
, the more suitable candidates all turned him down, I reckon) he asked me to help him launch his
new web site
. This involves reading a book and discussing it with him via email. Then he posts the discussion online. The first entry is up, and I'm signed up for one more book, after which he'll find someone more appropriate. I'm not denigrating my own reading or discussion skills, but he and I approach reading in very different ways, and I think his site would work best with a correspondent who shared his approach but has radically different literary opinions. Our first discussion was about
Don Quixote
, where we had radically different approaches but pretty much the same basic opinion of the book.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun discussing the book with him, even though it was very challenging for me to write about a book that utterly failed to engage me. Reading the book wasn't so much fun, but
Don Quixote
has its good points, and it's an accomplishment to have survived it. Besides, the next book is significantly less than half as long.
The web site is an intellectual endeavor, and I've long said that true intellectual discourse is not possible on the Internet. But the impossibility of attaining an ideal is no excuse not to work towards it. And it will be interesting to see where Close Reader takes the site, even though I'll sorely miss the further adventures of Frank Beekman.
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Adventures in the Arts
1. Whenever EFU is over, she invites me into her room to sit on the bed which used to be mine but is now hers but will soon be mine again to watch episodes of
The Office
with her. She has seen them all before, but I haven't. We're about a third of the way through season 4 right now. She always wants me to watch multiple episodes, and sometimes I can handle two, but mostly I want to kermit* after one episode. It's brilliant, of course, and very funny, but even though my current office is nothing like Dunder Mifflin (we're all too busy, for one thing; for another, we're not idiots), I have in the past worked in places where the behavior of Michael Scott and company would have been only slightly out of the ordinary.
It bothers me that the show bothers me so much, but I'm going to assume that it's my sensitivity to the suffering of the mass of men leading lives of quiet desperation rather than any similarity to my own life that causes the visceral discomfort. I am glad that EFU wants to spend time with me, and I'm hopeful that her great admiration of
The Office
means that she'll never work in one, but we'll just have to wait and see.
2. When we were in Montreal, the girls wanted to see
Julie and Julia
because, hey, why spend time soaking in a foreign culture when you can see a movie that you could see just as easily at home. Actually, they were responding more to the heat/humidity/rainstorms, but there may be something to the idea that kids these days (get off my lawn!) have shorter attention spans. We tried twice to see it, but the first theater we stopped at was showing the film dubbed into French, so a couple of days later I looked online for an English showing (there are American films that are probably greatly improved by being dubbed into French, but this didn't seem likely to be one of them), and we went to a gigantic multiplex on the west side of Rue Ste. Catherine. All of the signs, and some of the pre-show, were in French, so I was worried for a bit, but we were in a show with Meryl Streep's actual Julia Child voice speaking English.
Interestingly (or not), at about the same we were watching the film in Montreal, b&c and his daughter were watching the film in Denver. B&c's daughter was the only one of all of us who didn't love the film. She's also the only one who had read the book, so draw your own conclusions.
I don't have much to add to what you've probably already heard about the film. I thought it was terrific, but it would probably be just as good on DVD. I reckon I'll buy the DVD when it comes out, so I'll know for sure then. Of course, if you don't like Julia Child, you probably won't like the film.
I know you're saying, "Mais, comment? Who are zees people who do not like Madame Sheeeld?" Trust me, they exist. My alter ego wrote
an entry about two of them
some time ago.
3. I don't understand color. The house purchase is sailing unobstructed towards settlement, and I have no idea how to pick appropriate colors for the walls. I have an idea that I would like to paint the living room in three colors: a sort of French/Greek/Mediterranean matte blue along the bottom third or so to mimic wainscoting; a band of semi-gloss bright(ish) white above that to mimic a chair rail; and the remainder in perhaps a nice off white, or something similar. But I have no idea whether the idea makes any sense or how to go about choosing the particular shades. There must be technology to help with this, but hours of reading apartmenttherapy.com and watching HGTV have not helped.
And then there are all the other rooms. YFU gets to pick the color for her own room (subject to my veto), but that still leaves -- at the very least -- my bedroom to be done before the furniture comes in. Am I supposed to go camp out at a paint store and wait for some of the colors to speak to me?
I am really not used to caring this much about my surroundings, but this is my chance to have my own place reflect who I am. (Or a better version of who I am. If it was just going to reflect me, I'd just leave the walls their current white and everything else wherever the movers put it.) I spend
almost every day worrying about this.
4. Some NYC-based arts organization has invited our church choir to sing as part of a massed choir at a Lincoln Center (Avery Fisher Hall) performance of Karl Jenkins'
The Armed Man
in mid-January. It's part of a program that also includes his
, which I haven't heard. Our choir did
The Armed Man
in June, and we did a pretty good job of it, and there aren't that many choirs who have done it, and I guess it would be cool to perform at Lincoln Center, but they want $590 from each of us, just to show up, rehearse, and sing. Travel, food, and lodging not included, naturally. Our choir director says that the group running this is a legitimate (for-profit) enterprise, and almost everyone else in the choir is really excited about it, but I can't help thinking that paying to sing at Lincoln Center is so, well, Florence Foster Jenkins.
Anyway, I have to decide pretty soon whether I'm in or out. I reckon it would cost about $1,500 all together. I have the money, but I can't help wondering whether it wouldn't be better spent on something else (b&c asked whether I'd like to go to Spain next April or May: there are some really good fares available). I also can't help remembering how much work it was to raise a couple of thousand dollars to mount the production at church, but now the members of the choir are eager to pony up a collective 30 grand or so because it's an honor to be asked. On the other hand, I did like singing the piece, and I'd have three or four days in New York with a relatively light rehearsal schedule. Decisions, feh.
*I am pretty sure I have said this before, but for anyone who missed it, "to kermit" means to run screaming from a room, with one's arms flailing above one's head. The etymology is obscure.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Summer Vacation Pictures
I would have liked to say something profound about my vacation, or at least about Montreal, but, oh, fuck it, I'm tired, and I'm really busy these days, so behold! The picture above is the front bumper on my car. I was pulling into a parking space on Rue Amherst, half a block from the extremely clean and efficiently run
where I was headed to do my laundry, when I felt a small shake and heard a loud noise, and "Oh no, that street cleaning truck did NOT just run into me while I was parking!"*
But it had. There followed fifteen minutes of forms being filled out. About five minutes into the process, I had determined that I would much rather live with a scratch on my bumper than deal with a municipal government, but the driver insisted on filling out the forms. I was trying to be polite, so I didn't say much, and as time went on without any ranting on my part, he began to convince himself that it hadn't really been his fault. Monsieur. (After much discussion with YFU and EFU, I have come to the conclusion that "monsieur" is the French equivalent of "dude.") I was parking, and I was in my lane entirely, and you were coming the other way, and you hit me. Your bad,
n'est-ce pas
Anyway, Montreal is a great city, and I had a great time, but I wish I had done more stuff while I was there. I was hampered by a) the weather, and b) the kids. Invariably, when b&c and I have gone on a vacation, the weather has been gorgeous. We arrived in Montreal late Sunday night (there was an hour wait at the border) and left Saturday morning. Monday and Tuesday were near or above 90 degrees and oh so humid. It was painful to be outside. Wednesday was beautiful, and then it rained much of Thursday and Friday. Oh well. As for the kids: teenagers, oy! Once I realized that they were never going to be up in time for breakfast, I just went out by myself in the mornings -- walking through various neighborhoods, visiting markets, getting hit by giant street cleaning trucks: typical vacation activities -- and then called their room at 11 and met them in the hotel lobby at noon. Whatever floats your boat, I guess, but I couldn't help feeling that they weren't making the most of their time in another country. They did take to shopping and eating with great gusto, though.
Anyway, since it was really hot and sticky outside, we went to the underground section of Montreal on Monday afternoon, and on Tuesday we visited the Biodome, which has a controlled climate. Several controlled climates, actually. The rain forest area felt pretty much like it felt outside, but there was a lot to see. Lots of birds, for example.
There was a really cool bat cave.
I looked for Alfred, but I didn't see him. There were more parrots.
And other birds, including some waterfowl who, apparently, do not require camouflage.
The Laurentian forest section was much cooler. Though also only just as cool. When I pointed out a toad, YFU said that it looked like it had swallowed something.
I said that perhaps it had swallowed a golden key, but she didn't get it. EFU did, and there followed a discussion about whether YFU is old enough now to see
Pan's Labyrinth
and whether we have the DVD. She is; we do.
The beaver exhibit was also awesome.
The Antarctic habitat was a bit of a disappointment, but everyone loved the lemurs from Madagascar.
[As an aside, I would like to note that I am feeling significantly put upon today. Put upon in the way that is unique to a person who returns from a fine vacation to an office full of tedious work. This sense of persecution was in no way ameliorated when Blogger destroyed many paragraphs of text which I will now attempt to recreate.]
We had a lot of really good food when we were in Montreal. I didn't do as much restaurant research as I usually do before travelling, but it was mostly ok. I think the trick to eating well in most cities is to find the districts where there's good casual dining. We found a number of good restaurants along Rue St. Denis, north of the Berri-UQAM station. We also found a cluster of good restaurants along Rue St. Laurent, not too far from the Mont Royal station. In particular, on Thursday afternoon, when we were trying to avoid the rain, we ducked into something called Cafe Rumi, where I had the best falafel sandwich I have ever eaten. And while we were eating a very good order of
, we looked across the street and saw a restaurant/grocery store called
Le Canard Liberé
. Their sign said that they cooked their
in duck fat, so when we were finished with Cafe Rumi, we split a second order of (duck fat fried)
across the street.
I had picked out what seemed to be a somewhat less casual and more expensive restaurant for Thursday evening, and I'd told the girls to bring along something slightly dressy. And the restaurant (a fondue restaurant that I believe was on the Rue St. Denis) was in a very elegant old Victorian house with chandeliers and high ceilings and dark furniture, but everyone else who was there, including the waiters, was wearing jeans. Oh well. The girls looked great. They wouldn't let me take their picture, of course. The fondue was really good, but we had ordered the table d'hote, and it was far too much food.
Anyway, I chose Wednesday, because of the fine weather, to visit the
Marché Jean Talon
a very large indoor/outdoor (indoor only in the winter, apparently) market. Despite the existence of a Metro stop with the same name, I had some trouble figuring out where the market was, but we soon were able to locate a steady stream of produce-laden shoppers headed towards the Metro, and by walking upstream, we found the market.
There were several permanent indoor establishments, including one that sold many varieties of dried hot peppers. EFU was intrigued by some of them, but I looked carefully at the heat ratings and decided that it was unwise to buy any food associated with a mathematical impossibility.
I imagine the habaneros feel downright inadequate with their measly little 9/10 rating. Whenever I didn't want to buy a food item, I told the girls that I was worried there might be import restrictions.
There were many beautiful varieties of stone fruits.
I bought some apricots and some nectarines. There was also a great deal of other wonderful produce, and, not for the first time, I sighed over not having access to a kitchen. There were beautiful, beautiful tomatoes.
There were also large quantities of
bleuets sauvages
. There were also
bleuets cultivées
, but I can get those at home, most of the year. I can only get the wild ones frozen. Not that I actually bought any
bleuets sauvages
, but I appreciated their presence, even at $65 for a (large) basket.
And lots of other beautiful produce. Also beautiful men, everywhere you look, but produce is easier to photograph.
Also ubiquitous: maple syrup, though it's not really any cheaper than it is in the states. On our last full day in Montreal, we walked from the hotel to a
on the Rue St. Denis that EFU remembered from a trip with some classmates a year ago. (It also turned out to be the only restaurant where the waitress never spoke to me in English.) We had ordered savory brunch crepes, but we still got a little pitcher of maple syrup, and it turned out to go very well with my egg-, ham-, and swiss cheese-filled crepe.
I thought the crepes were extremely filling, but YFU and EFU each managed to polish off a dessert crepe after their entree crepes. I was in awe. They were in some discomfort, I think, but we soon set off on a long walk, and they rallied in time for dinner.
Here is a gratuitous picture of a couple of guys in the tourist section of Vieux Montreal. Don't ask me why. About anything.
As is often the case, I found being in an urban environment very visually stimulating. Sadly, I had forgotten to recharge my camera for a couple of days, so after taking five or six flash pictures in an attempt to get a decent picture of this "Soupe au Ketchup" graffiti,
I was only able to take a few more pictures before my battery died. Immediately thereafter, when we were walking along what might have been considered a slightly seedy section of the Rue Ste. Catherine, I saw a fit, tan, smooth, shirtless man asleep on his motorcycle. It would have been the picture of the trip, but I did not get it. Alas. Still, before that happened, I enjoyed the plentiful signage.
And some of the other graffiti.
Traffic lights appear to be popular graffiti targets in Montreal. Especially the green ones.
But maybe they're just the easiest to reach.
For no apparent reason, I took many pictures of stairs.
I was especially taken by these blue ones that were very near our hotel.
But there were cool examples everywhere. Also doors, but I didn't upload those pictures.
I did my best to take pictures of attractive men, but mostly I failed. Even though they were everywhere. At the biodome:
In the park on Mont Royal:
On the bus back from the park on Mont Royal:
I was particularly impressed by the height and liveliness of the above young man's hair, but YFU assures me that it is less work than it appears to be.
For much of the year, a part of the Rue Ste. Catherine Ouest is closed to traffic, and there is eye candy everywhere. I don't think this cadet really had anything to do other than stand there and look pretty. Which he was very good at.
Much of that part of Rue Ste. Catherine appeared to be a gay district, but I was mostly unable to get pictures of the many attractive M-M couples I saw there. I was, however, somewhat luckier with the cute construction worker working outside my hotel room window.
Unfortunately, I found him somewhat less attractive after, one morning, I was walking to the Metro station and saw him standing next to one of the work trucks, relieving himself. He could at least have gone into an alley.
I saw this next guy just before my batteries died and I saw the guy sleeping on his motorcycle. He's not bad, as a consolation prize.
One of the first things I noticed in Montreal was that many (perhaps most) of the Metro stations have rental bicycles outside them. At the Champ-de-Mars station.
And the Mont Royal station.
And right beside our hotel, where there's no station at all.
The bike stand next to the hotel was the only one that I ever saw anyone take a bike from. I think that's because everyone who lives in Montreal already owns a bike. They're everywhere. There are even more bikes than there are attractive men (which hardly even seems possible). Also, the bike rentals are a little bit pricy, and since you're rarely more than a few blocks from a Metro or bus stop, they're not especially necessary. Still, I applaud the effort.
Many of the streets also have separate bike lanes (the rollerbladers also use them). In fact, the separate bike lanes are typically double lanes with a dotted line running down the middle so that traffic can go both ways. And, of course, there are plentiful provisions for bicycle parking.
I think I won't wait so long before my next trip to Montreal (My last trip was on my honeymoon, so maybe I was holding a grudge, but all is forgiven!). Next time I'll probably take the train and maybe go alone and get a short-term rental so that I can experience more of the city.
City travel, though, is a two-edged sword, and I don't just mean all of those smells that come out in hot weather in cities (even in Montreal). It is difficult to return to the suburban existence after a week in the frenetic beauty of the city. Come to think of it, it's equally difficult after a week in the placid beauty of the country. I'm hoping that my upcoming move to a still-suburban-but-less-sub-and-more-urban setting will help (the house inspection and the appraisal have both been successfully completed), especially since the accompanying decline in my level of disposable income will mandate a reduction in travel.
As delicious a setting as Montreal was and is, I couldn't help being acutely aware of how much of a visitor I was. As good a time as I had, I knew I was missing out on all the experiences of the people who live there and become intimately familiar with the city. I should be developing that same sort of intimacy with my own surroundings. It never seemed possible in the exurbs, but I'm hopeful that now that I'll be within walking distance of the Metro (and a Pho restaurant), I can feel a bit more like a city boy. With a garden. And then in another fifteen years, I can retire to a farm.
*There is no recorded instance of my using, either in speech or in thought, any variation of the "oh no you didn't" construction, except perhaps to mock someone else who had just used it, but I would like to pretend that on this particular occasion I uttered something cleverer than a quiet groan.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
But Google Maps Said To Turn Left!
All I really wanted was some poutine.
When travelling, I like to have a single, attainable goal around which to organize the vacation. When b&c and I went to Italy a couple of years ago, for example, he asked me what I wanted to do, and I said, "I want to see
." And he said, "We're going to be in Italy for nine days." And I said, "Yeah. I want to see
." And he said, "
's in Florence. We're in Florence for three days. It'll take one morning to see it. We're also in Venice for two days and Rome for four days." And I said, "Well, I hear it's a very interesting country. I'm sure we'll find things to do. Maybe we can drink some wine while we're there. As long as I get to see
." Which I did. And it was a great trip. I loved every minute there, except maybe for the half hour or so after that pickpocket in Rome nicked my wallet. I especially liked
, but the wine and the gorgonzola and the thirty or so different versions of the Annunciation that I saw were pretty nice, too.
Anyway, I'm in Montreal this week, with EFU and YFU. Normally, we go to my parents' summer place in Southwestern Pennsylvania, but EFU complained, with some justification, that I go on a lot of foreign vacations, but that I never take them anywhere. So I looked into cheap hotel fares, and decided that while 500 miles is a long, long way inside a car, we could handle it (twice). The single, attainable goal for this trip was to have some authentic Montreal poutine.
I've coveted poutine for some time now. I've read about it in multiple places, mostly on a
blog by an American expatriate
. Poutine, for those of you who might not know is basically an order of french fries topped with cheese curds and topped with gravy. In subsequent research, I've learned that there are many variations available in the Montreal area, and I'm sure they're all fine. (Someone in my office, for example, said that when she was here earlier this year, she had a poutine that included smoked meat, another Montreal specialty.) But I was looking for the classic variety (There are, after all, several replicas of
, including two in Florence, but they really don't have the same impact.), and I had it on good authority that the Costcos in Montreal make a good poutine.
I, like any right-thinking person, adore Costco. And I rarely, if ever, visit another country without making a point of visiting at least one of its supermarkets (also laundromats, but that's another entry), and I'd never visited a non-U.S. Costco, so I'd have wanted to go to one in Montreal even without the siren song of poutine to draw me in.
I had originally planned the Costco trip later in the week, but it turns out that Hotwire and I have different ideas about what constitutes a two-star hotel. Our hotel, near the Vieux-Port, is entirely charming. The staff are friendly and helpful, the location is reasonably close to a Metro station (Champ-de-Mars), and the room is fine. Except for the medieval torture device being passed off as a bed. And the thirty-eight stairs between the lobby and my second-floor room (YFU and EFU are on the third floor: fifty-six stairs). Which, really, I wouldn't mind, but I would have appreciated a warning. I was driving, so I didn't bother trying to pack light (the planned trip to the laundromat notwithsanding: it's been very hot and humid here this week, and while I'm having a great time, I'm sweating through clothing at a record pace), and if I'd known I'd be walking up, I'd have brought a lot less.
Anyway, after two nights on the so-called bed, I could barely stand upright, and I figured (correctly, as it happened) that one thing Montreal Costcos were likely to keep in stock was camping mats, the kind you put under a sleeping bag. I don't have any of these, and they're useful things, so I thought I'd just buy a couple, put them on top of the bed while I'm here, then pack them up and take them home until another use presents itself.
So I go on the Costco website and determine that the nearest Costco is probably the one on Rue Bridge. I find the location and directions on gmaps, I retrieve the car from the parking garage, I get the kids in the car, and we head off, driving through what is apparently the touristy section of Vieux Montreal. (It's just over the hill from our part of Vieux Montreal, which is right near where the homeless people camp out. But it's fine here: it's very Europeanish. In fact, the homeless people camp out in the actual Champ de Mars, which appears to be a very pretty park.) And then the Vieux-Port turns into something more industrial, something that looks more like a working port. And I'm following the directions, which tell me to take a left on Rue Bridge, after which my destination will be on the right.
And, hey, I know that Americans shouldn't, but always do, assume that things will be the same somewhere else as they are at home, but at home, a Costco is something that you just can't miss. But somehow here, well, I was way back in a line of cars, and I was in the left lane, so I would have had to hang a left anyway, but the first evidence of Costco I see is the Costco gas pumps, and it's not that uncommon in the States for the gas pumps to be an outlier of the main Costco, so I didn't turn in at the gas pumps: I figured the big Costco building with the giant Costco signage would be after that, on the right, where gmaps said my destination was. But then I didn't see any other Costco signage. And then I didn't see any other place where I could turn around (or left or right). And then it became obvious why Rue Bridge was called Rue Bridge, as I was inexorably pulled by the flow of traffic across the Pont Victoria. And, you know what else? There are lanes on both sides of the Pont Victoria, but they both head south. It's a one way bridge.
I should say right now that some of the southern Montreal suburbs are especially lovely, and I regret that having no idea where the fuck I was robbed me of the opportunity to fully appreciate the architecture.
But you know, being in my car and having no idea where the fuck I am is not exactly an unusual experience for me. And the kids are used to it, too, so nobody got particularly upset. There was some laughing at me as I turned and u-turned and otherwise felt my way to a generally eastward direction and toward a (distant) bridge that would take me back to Montreal. And all this was happening around 5:30 in the afternoon, so there was a lot of traffic. But, at a very slow pace, we got back over the bridge and found our way back to Vieux Montreal and waved at the hotel room as we tried again. And this time when we got to the intersection with Rue Bridge, I thought I'd probably turn left just to avoid going over the (very nice, I'm sure) Pont Victoria again, but then when I got to the intersection, I looked straight ahead and saw a large building. And at the intersection I saw a very small sign saying Costco and Entree. And as I drove into the parking lot, I thought, "Wow, if that Costco was a snake, well, it'd be a really big snake with very modest signage, and it would probably swallow me whole before I could get away from it."
Not, of course, that there's anything wrong with modest signage. It's impossible to come to Montreal (or, I suppose other parts of Canada, but
Montreal) without realizing that you live in a wholly inferior country. I felt the American taint especially profoundly as I was trying to find my way around the
. On occasion, I'd have to make a very safe but otherwise unsanctioned and unconventional U-turn, and one of the local drivers would honk, on general principle, and I would call out, "Desolé! Crazy American driver."
Certainly, going into Costco in Montreal does nothing to ease the sense of inferiority. I'm told that the Costcos in (or near) San Francisco are also superior to my local Costco, but I bet they don't sell fresh oysters. Or such good chocolate (80%!). And they certainly don't sell poutine.
But alas -- and here we must stop for the deepest of sighs -- I am still getting ahead of myself. Because after I had shown my Costco card and we'd entered and seen the small sign saying that the food court there did, in fact, sell poutine, we went around the store and filled the shopping cart with camping mats (and, I must say, they've been a great help: my back is much better) and very reasonably priced high quality chocolate and a sweater for each of the girls, I arrived at the checkout counter, where the fully bilingual cashier told me that while Montreal Costco (like the ones at home) take debit cards, they don't take debit cards that also bear the Visa logo. Or MasterCard, I suppose. They take bank cards and American Express (like at home) but not my bank card. The people behind me in line assured me that Costco does take debit cards, but a) the cashier looked at them, smiled, and said, "Do you work here?" and b) my debit card had already been turned down by the machine.
I asked whether there was an ATM in the store, and there was, but when I got there, the person checking cards at the entree told me that I could try the ATM, but it wouldn't work. So I tried it, and it took me through all the steps, but then it didn't work. So I went back to the
and sadly asked for my Costco card back, saying that I would have to return another time. The cashier shrugged and called out for a cancellation. I motioned to the girls, but YFU said, "What about your poutine, Dad?" And EFU said, "We can just wait here while you find another ATM."
Which was not easy. Costco, as you'd might expect, is not in the center of Montreal, so I had to head back towards town, repeating in my head the names of streets as I turned off them so I could find my way back without making another loop on two or more of Montreal's main bridges. And after ten minutes or so of driving around, I spotted an ATM, which I managed to reach after only another five minutes of turns, and then I found my way back to Costco, and I stood in line again, and the cashier said, "Look, the total is still the same!" I appreciated her good nature, and if she waited until I was gone to castigate Americans in French, well, we probably deserve it, right?
When I got through the checkout line, YFU and EFU were just returning with the food, and, well, poutine might not be
, but it's totally worth organizing a trip around. So good, so good, soooooo good. The kids only had a bite each, and they didn't really see what the big deal was, but, hey, that's why I'm not rushing to waste a couple of thousand bucks to take them to Florence. YFU did say that the
were the best fries she'd ever had. I think maybe they still cook them in beef fat there. Poutine is not exactly health food. I think it might have a little more sodium than is strictly considered healthy, too. But it's worth a trip.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Our Long (Inter)National Nightmare Is (Probably) Over
So in the context of things that seem like they'll never end, but eventually do:
The Wars of the Roses: 32 years
Noah in the ark: 11 months (give or take; the passages in Genesis strike me as somewhat ambiguous, but it was a long time to be shut away with wild animals; besides, he spent a long time building the damned thing, though I suppose that when it was all over, he could have turned it upside down and used it as a barn)
The U.S. in Iraq: oh, wait
maybe my house hunt hasn't been so bad after all. Still, I feel like an underachiever. I started looking on July 25, and my offer was accepted on August 10, so I spent seventeen (17!) days looking for my new abode, and I figure the average time to hunt for a house has to be, what, 4.5 hours?
Anyway, I'm trying not to let my obvious shortcomings as a consumer dampen my joy at having found a place. On the other hand, I'm trying to keep a lid on the joy until at least the inspection, which takes place Friday. Then there's the loan application process. I was pre-approved, but it was by a different bank. There's really no reason why that should be a problem, unless the appraisal comes in significantly less than the loan amount. But I looked at the comparables pretty carefully and offered an amount that I was comfortable. The seller's agent had been going to counter, but my agent persuaded him that my offer was fair. (My realtor is really, really the man.) There are still a lot of things that could go wrong, but I'm optimistic.
Oh, and I love this house: I loved it right away. It's a cape. There are, technically, two bedrooms on the main floor and two upstairs, but the two upstairs will become most of my master suite. I will have to convert the upstairs half bath to a full bath, but I believe I can do that relatively inexpensively. And the basement is unfinished, but it's clean, and I wanted to have a hands-on renovation project, anyway. And installing some drywall and a laminate or tile floor seems like a lot more fun than mold remediation, which I'd have had to do on most of the other properties.
The downside of the property is that it's on a fairly busy street. I'm worried that may decrease its resale value, but I can always just die in the house. The street usually has a lot more traffic than you see here.
But the house is also less than a half-mile walk to the Metro, which was something I very much wanted. I'll still be driving to work, but it's five miles closer to the office than my current exurban home. The property's been very well maintained, and the exceptionally pleasant yard includes a hydrangea bush just like the one my grandmother had at her house.
(There are no spare radiators or decapitated ceramic fawns, but I know where I can find some less than a quarter-mile away. I'm sure EFU will rescue them for me if I give her twenty bucks.)
In the end, it looks like I'll have a mortgage for just over twice my annual income, and that's better than I thought I'd do. Back in the day, 2.5 times annual income was considered a reasonable ceiling. Lately, in this area, people have been spending closer to four times income, which, well, you know: financial crisis. Anyway: house I love and can afford. Yay.
The kids are thrilled about the purchase. B&c, well, he acts like he's been expecting this for a long time. I'm trying to figure out how to manage the separation and the post-separation relationship to make it as painless as possible for him. And for me, I suppose, but all of the excitement and work of moving into a new place distracts me pretty well from any potential separation anxiety. I'm sure that the actual move will be emotionally difficult, but there's a good chance I can do the bulk of that when he's in another country.
It's been very hard to concentrate on other things that I need to concentrate while this has been going on. In theory, now that I don't need to worry about where I'll be, I should be able to settle down, but I have a feeling that I'm going to spend much of the next few weeks dreaming of Ikea. There are worse dreams.
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Group Q&A with the guys from Metallica. Everything from the band's legacy to the sound of "Hardwired...to Self Destruct" is discussed.
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Hey guys diesel for tonight's show what my favorite bands of all time is releasing their heads of the studio album on November 18. Much to our. The album was called hard wired to his self destructive I cannot be. He's more excited. We hear about bringing you exclusive content he can't get anywhere else and these are questions were asked James Kirk. Lars and Robert from Metallica leading up to release of their new album hard wired to self destruct. This question is for all for a view. You've done a lot of covers over the years you've done garage days re visited. Did garage and he did the Ronnie rising projects so many bands selling songs you've covered. What's a band or song that Metallica hasn't covered yet but you would really like to at some point James. Well gosh. Hello fellows who covers. Been in our make up from day one. We're playing diamond head songs blitzkrieg. Savagely savage and lots of new wave of British metal band's songs that we recover. Here in this case people had no clue that they work our songs. But there were songs that we love. And they helped develop our style. I was asked the question what what band or song Metallica hasn't covered them would like to give him like you have foe that's abandoned. You know the car wise for and I really really love and so they give us an excellent nose Kurt you know. A city huge you folks and that I see all that stuff it's sacred so I don't know if I would really enjoy covering your phone. That's way I don't really pushed forward too much. There's still something that happens when you cover so. Towards the whole. Vampire access to Robert you're the newest to the banned what's a song that you would like to cover in Metallica. One song that I think would be great for Metallica air cover. I would have to be funky there's a song by TI is the Brothers there is good. Every other Metallica fans are gonna think I'm crazy. There's a song called climbing up the ladder. Got a great risk and a great coach and I think that James Sheffield voice with her report just think there is a if thrash metal version of this song ready to be created in May at some point in life by Metallica. Let's do it. 1983 was a long time ago when you release kill ball. And the evolution of the band's sound from working with Johnny C up to Rick Rubin has taken fans through a long and great journey. If you could work for anyone of your past producers again who would it be and why. James. Metallica has had the honor and privilege of working with lots. Of great producers and engineers. And we've all. Learned from each one of only and are really grateful for everything that's contributed and helped us with on our journey. They put their stance on every single one of those records. And I love the fact. That they're there. It's just my thought you know when. Something gets revitalized. And they try to do something again that's the kind of messes with the original a little much and it takes away. From the purity of it so I would love to work with them but I don't know assists. You know if it makes much sense. Kirk who would you like to go back and work where I really enjoyed working with Bob rock as far abroad is. Hardware. And you know he understands that our players. In the stands or is approached from the songs and music in general. And you know I'm really really enjoyed getting guitars sound would. Yet he said that great for the living is also really really great to work live and probably. For me you know. Stresses can do is not working works for some people would this work for me I have a the tendency sometimes to either clam up or feel blocked when it stressed out and creative ideas. Flows so. But you know Craig. Has a really really good kind of and the like light attitude toward recording you know he's really. Really joking and you know. 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Dr. Lyons is a southern California local, expanding up just blocks away from his workplace where is delivers beautiful smiles using Invisalign and Invisalign Teenager in Placentia. Upon finishing from Valencia Senior high school, he went to the University of California Irvine, where he received his bachelor's degree in biology. Dr. Lyons is a cum laude graduate of the UCLA School of Dentistry, where he got the California Dental Association's greatest award for quality, and belongs to the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Honor Society. Upon college graduation, he went to the prominent University of California in San Francisco for his orthodontic training. Researching both orthodontics and biology, he graduated with his Certificate in Orthodontics and a master's degree in dental biology. He has presented his research in the location of craniofacial development and adaptation at numerous national and worldwide symposiums. In his downtime, Dr. Lyons likes to play golf and tennis. He and his wife Michelle appreciate taking a trip, and they are both passionate hockey and baseball fans.
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- Specialized in Periodontology
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- Fellow of the University of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia (FCDSBC)
- Past President and Participant of the B.C. Culture of Periodontology
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Sometimes called halflings due to their small stature, Hobbits are uncomplicated, industrious folk who come from The Shire, a region of western Eriador. Their comfortable homes are dug into the sides of hills and fronted by round wooden doors. Many engage in farming, and all enjoy simple pleasures like a good meal or a relaxing pipe. Despite their typically stocky build, they are surprising agile. Combined with these qualities, they are also quick of thought and determined of spirit when the need arises. As a result, although only a few opt to adventure through the lands of Middle-earth, they are certainly quite capable of doing so. Aggression isn't their way, but when danger threatens, they can defend themselves very ably, often through their skill with bows and knives; attackers who underestimate them are likely to regret their lack of wariness.
Released earlier this year, Turbine's The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar has quickly risen into the top ranks of the persistent state world category. It takes place in Tolkien's seminal fantasy world, covering the period and locations of the first book in his celebrated trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring. Within the property's chronology, it is the Third Age. The deadly War of the Ring has started, and the Fellowship's perilous journey is under way. As Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves and the Race of Men, players take part in a parallel narrative that intersects with famed characters such as Gandalf and Strider, while facing threats that range from common bandits to the daunting forces of Angmar, mountain domain of the Nazgul Witch-King. Recently, we had the chance to question Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel about his team's hit title.
Jonric: Mainly for those who haven't yet played The Lord of the Rings Online, how would you summarize the game?
Jeffrey Steefel: The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) is the first and only MMO based on the Books of J.R.R. Tolkien. It is the natural next step for the Lord of the Rings Franchise. After reading the books (225 million sold) alone and watching the movies together in the dark ($3.4 billion in box office), we can now all actually GO to Middle-earth together, and join in the epic adventures and help keep it safe in the War of the Ring.
We needed to provide PvP to players who love it, and yet did not want to create a Middle-earth where Hobbit was slashing Hobbit in front of the Prancing Pony. :)
The game is a new paradigm for interactive storytelling that goes beyond the narrow path of the movies to give players an online experience that rivals the scope, richness and depth of the original books. The game is a robust, modern and mature MMORPG with all of the gameplay MMO players have come to enjoy, and a good deal of evolutionary types of gameplay.
Jonric: Among the game's features and elements, is there something that you might consider its most distinctive strength?
Jeffrey Steefel: At the core of the game - as in any successful MMO - is a robust and layered advancement system. LOTRO builds on the traditional skill- and level-based experience point scheme, and enriches it tremendously with one of our most fundamentally unique aspects the Deeds and Traits system. Deeds are alternate objectives that appear throughout the game as opportunities for players to advance their characters in new ways, through exploration, Tolkien lore, long-term kill objectives... all in addition to the underlying XP advancement path. These deeds grow in complexity and reward, and yield unique titles that can be displayed by the player for all to see.
More importantly, Deeds yield Traits, which are attributes that you can equip / unequip at will. You have only a limited amount of slots for hundreds of acquired traits, so users can choose which ones to use and change them up based on the strategy involved in their use. Traits are extremely powerful, and can modify your skills - enhancing them, granting you skills normally not available to your class, and even at higher levels, unlocking new skills for your character that are permanent. Traits allow for multi-faceted advancement that is truly unique to each player.
Jonric: Since the previous question arbitrarily asked for one choice, are there other points of differentiation you'd care to mention?
Jeffrey Steefel: Our Monster Play PvP system is another unique aspect of the game. In large, dedicated regions, players can enter as either their mains, or as monsters (currently Orc, Uruk, Spider, Warg) and join forces against the player characters in PvP (or PvMP as it is called in LOTRO). Once engaged in battle, opposing sides can siege and raid for control of keeps and resource areas that can be "owned" by either to provide strategic advantage. You can create and then grow your monster in rank and appearance over time, gathering Destiny Points that you can spend on them or on any of your avatar mains as perks. Finally, as of a recent update, you can now enter the Ettenmoors (PvP region) as either an extremely powerful Elite Troll or Ranger, to add massive power to either side, and enjoy a session-based experience where you can wield great power.
Fellowship maneuvers are another great addition to party combat, as teams can execute synchronized group attacks on an opponent or provide powerful group heals and buffs.
Jonric: Since Monster Play is rather unusual, how did it come about? Why did you implement it as your form of PvP?
Jeffrey Steefel: Our approach was born of a few goals. We needed to provide PvP to players who love it, and yet did not want to create a Middle-earth where Hobbit was slashing Hobbit in front of the Prancing Pony. :) We knew we wanted to allow for short, easy to start session length experiences for players. We wanted PvP to be gameplay all our players could experience. We wanted players to truly experience the side of evil, without creating a faction-based PvP that felt inconsistent with the Tolkien universe, which really depicts the depths of the good races of the free people against the faceless evil under Lord Sauron.


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As the world becomes more complicated, specialization is becoming more necessary. The broad choice of college degrees reflects this fact. Before you can understand the intricacies of the individual degree fields, you must first understand the basics of the types of degrees. Given the limited acronyms available, many degrees either share the same acronym or share one that´s very similar. A Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) are two examples.
A Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) is a general degree type that one generally earns in about four years. Most students begin the program right out of high school. In general, requirements include a high school diploma, satisfactory grades and the completion of a standardized college admissions test such as the SAT or ACT. An MBA is an advanced degree, generally requiring the student to have completed a Bachelor's degree such as a BA. MBA students usually have several years of practical work experience before entering an MBA program. Some colleges require prior work experience while others just prefer it. Prosepective students usually must also complete the General Management Admissions Test (GMAT) before being accepted into a program.
Completion Time
A BA Degree generally requires four years of study to complete, though it is possible to finish in less. A few degrees require up to five years to complete. MBA programs generally require about two years to finish. The time required to complete an MBA degree is somewhat rigid, since the program is very specific and students ussually can´t accelerate their studies.
Course of Study
The specific area of study, or major, for a BA program are too varied to list. Majors range from biology and genetics to art and women´s history. MBA programs are generally much more specific, although some programs do offer a certain degree of specialization, such as finance or management. The main purpose of the degree is to train students to be better business communicators, leaders and managers.
Upon completion of a BA Degree, the graduate should have a well-rounded education as well as a certain amount of specialized knowledge in a particular field. Most colleges and universities have strict requirements for classes a student must complete to earn a BA degree. These often include classes in literature, foreign languages and mathematics, regardless of the student´s major. While many MBA candidates enter MBA programs with a BA or BS degree in business, many others hold either BA or advanced degrees in another subject. For those already holding business degrees, the MBA provides further education, often in a specialized are of business. For those with little business education background, the MBA prepares them to move into executive and managerial positions in their chosen field.
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A print of a bear on a bike, originally designed for gift card but also makes a great print for the wall.
Pen & Ink
A pen and ink drawing of a view from the Bath Skyline walk.
Paper Cut-out
A bespoke paper-cut out created as new baby gift.
Down the Ganges was a self initated project. Whilst travelling, I kept a blog using the images and content from this, I produced a brochure highlighting my favourite parts of my time in India.
Illustrator vector
Retro style posters of Green Lake and Cheakamus Lake in Whistler, BC.
Illustrator & Indesign
Wedding Invites designed for a 1920's themed wedding, using a foiled finish.
A bespoke paper-cut out for a New Baby Boy gift.
A gift voucher designed for 'A Gin Making Experience' at Brennen and Browns.
Wedding invites designed for a 60's themed wedding.
A happy bum pillow.
10 years celebratory infographics designed for Meeting Place Communications.
An illustrated design process explaining the way the design process works.
Screen Print
A simple screen print to make the living room a little brighter.