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Old Boys and parents enliven Career Day
Old Boys and current parents provided the core of the program on Career Day, held on April 18. The following synopses give a taste of what the guest speakers talked about in their respective sessions.
Stuart Kruger
When someone asks attorney Stuart Kruger what he does for a living, his first thought is for his family. “Work is important, but balance is important too.” Every weekend is family time. He cultivates other interests as well, including magic tricks. His message is “get involved”: in your family, in your school, in your community. Begin building a network of people, and they will be there to help you later in life.
Stuart remembers as a Grade 11 student getting career advice from his parents, a family friend who was a lawyer, and one of his high school teachers. These were the individuals who helped him make the decision to study law. After graduating from law school and working for a firm, Stuart decided that he wanted to be involved in business decisions. He went back to school for his MBA. Now, as General Counsel for Novartis Canada, he is involved in all aspects of the company’s work: government affairs, compliance, contracts, intellectual property, litigation, human resources, real estate, ethics, and more. He finds the breadth of his practice appealing because each day brings exciting challenges and opportunities. Knowing the law helps him organize the varied aspects of the business, and understand and present it as a coherent package.
Stuart emphasized several qualities of good lawyers (besides a high tolerance for inane lawyer jokes): excellent language and communications skills (French and English), public speaking and presentation skills, math skills, and, above all, “honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness.”
The amateur magician did not pull a rabbit from a hat, but he did provide an anecdote about his summer as a chicken farmer that stressed the importance of “thinking outside of the box” and taking advantage of opportunities to learn and grow, even ones that don’t pertain directly to your career. His last piece of advice: find out what you love to do—find your place in the world—and work hard to be the best you can be in that area.
Ali Argun ’80
On his way to his Career Day workshop, Ali Argun overheard a teacher in the hallway say to a student, “Button that top button, Mister.” Immediately, Ali vividly recalled some uncomfortable high-school moments under cross-examination in the Selwyn House Headmaster’s office. The way he tells it now, it was under the withering gaze of the Head that he first came to appreciate his gift for respectfully arguing his position under pressure. He has since used that gift in creating a successful career as a litigator.
Something else Ali credits to his Selwyn House experience is his ability to see and argue both sides of every issue. This is critical, he says, for winning your client’s case. If you understand all sides of the issue, organize the facts, and are well prepared, you can be a credible advocate for your client’s position.
Not only is Ali a credible advocate, he has built a solid reputation for himself by winning. Fresh out of McGill Law School, Ali lost a court case because he was not given sufficient time to prepare. It was the first and last time he lost in court—eighteen years ago. He realized then that not only does he intensely dislike losing, but that his “favorite thing in life to do is to win.”
Ali’s recommendations for students who are interested in careers as litigators are to keep their language and communication skills sharp, value organization and attention to detail, and cultivate a drive to be the very best in their field. “If you love what you do, you will…succeed.”
As a litigator, Ali thrives on the action and responsibility. A self-described “adrenaline junkie,” he routinely spends fourteen or fifteen hours a day doing what he loves best: winning cases.
In spite of his busy work schedule, Ali makes time for fun activities like sports. He loves golf and riding his motorcycle. We suspect that roaring into the club on his Harley Screaming Eagle V-Rod is one of Ali’s favorite things, next to winning in court of course.
Tim Paul ’71
“A superior pilot is one who uses his/her superior judgment to avoid having to use his/her superior skill.” As a test pilot for Bombardier, Tim Paul ’71 presented this axiom to students at Career Day as the watchword of his profession.
Based at Trudeau Airport, Tim flies everything from single-engine planes to 50-passenger airliners. The very popular Challenger jets, flown by prime ministers and other dignitaries, can cost upwards of $35 million. Before such an aircraft can be delivered to a client, a test pilot takes it through a battery of tests of engines, navigation, and pressurization components, finally taking the aircraft through a series of high-speed dives.
Some of Tim’s assignments are less thrilling. He recently travelled to Arizona to bring home a CL415 water bomber that had been sent down for a paint job. The CL415 is “a lot of fun to fly,” he says, as it hits the water at 90 miles per hour, scoops up a load and discharges it every 10 minutes.
Tim says his job requires a great deal of mental preparation and physical coordination. A test pilot must pass a flight test each year for each aircraft. He works an average of 12-14 hours per day, which often includes office time, paperwork and meetings, just like everyone else.
The job is challenging, but also offers chances for advancement. The salary and benefits are good and some travel is included, though less for a test pilot than for a commercial pilot. Another advantage: “You don’t take the job home at night,” says Tim.
On the down side, test pilots work on an irregular schedule, with periods of no work, and are away from home a lot when they are working. Also, failure to pass an annual medical exam can cost a pilot his job.
For Tim, the payoff comes with challenging jobs, such as a recent test spray of downtown Vancouver to eradicate the Asian Gypsy Moth. Flying over the streets of a major city at 50-100 feet above ground level is a very exciting way to earn a living, says Tim.
Tim’s final advice for the students: “Find something you like doing, and you’ll never work another day in your life.”
Michael Kronish ’86
Finding the right career is often a case of serendipity.
Michael Kronish ’86 has become a successful movie and television producer for Galafilms, in spite of having no education in his field. “I found myself working in the television and film industry almost by accident,” he told his Career Day audience.
Starting at the bottom and working his way up, he has produced feature films, science shows, movies of the week, reality TV and documentaries, including Gemini-winning pieces on Cirque du Soleil, Jackie Robinson, and Life and Times episodes on Margaret Trudeau and Donovan Bailey. “If you have an interest filmmaking you can make things happen,” he says.
One of the best things about his job is the variety, Michael says. “You get to choose a subject and then totally immerse yourself in it for one or two years of your life, then drop it and become an expert who talks, thinks and breathes something else.”
Michael finds the producer’s job to be the perfect balance between the creative aspect of filmmaking, and the administrative side. Directors and actors are more creative types, but “a little crazy.” A producer’s job is less glamorous, but also less competitive, he says.
“The only people who should be in this business are those who can’t imagine themselves doing anything else.”
He likes the challenge of pitching a film idea to prospective backers. “You can’t build them a prototype, so there’s a selling job to be done,” he says. “You’re trying to sell someone a dream. A year and a half later, you flick on the TV and your show is starting.”
“Selwyn House is directly responsible for the skill sets I use on a daily basis,” says Michael. With possibly hundreds of people involved in a show, “You need to know how to surround yourself with the best people and to rely on them.”
Lately, reality TV has become Michael’s forté. He is currently producing the documentary series Webdreams II, which follows a cast of characters who dream of making it big in the amateur on-line adult entertainment industry. He showed students a short pilot for a series in the works about cops on the beat in rough neighbourhood of east-end Vancouver, and the innovative techniques they’ve undertaken to fight drug-related crime.
In a year and a half, he’ll be talking, thinking and breathing something else. And he loves it.
“You should pick a career because you’re really into it,” he reminds the students. “Do what you love and the money will follow.”
Tarek Razek ’84
Trauma surgeons never say “No,” said Dr. Trevor Razek ’84, and our lives depend on it.
In the course of Dr. Razek’s Career Day workshop, students were shown some graphic video that demonstrated the degree to which trauma surgeons hold our lives in their hands every day.
Dr. Razek describes trauma—or injury—as “an epidemic” in our society, being the number-one cause of death among people under age 45. Trauma surgeons, he said, are in the business of “disaster management.”
As director of trauma programs at McGill University Health Centre and Montreal General Hospital, Dr. Razek was very involved in treating injuries from last year’s shooting at Dawson College, as well as the collapse of a highway overpass in Laval. He is also very active in international health, having worked as a war surgeon in east Africa for the Red Cross and with Red Cross disaster response teams.
At the Dawson shooting, his team treated 11 victims in 30 minutes. “We were fortunate,” he says, that only one victim died.
“I was a non-spectacular student,” Dr. Razek recalled of his school days. After CEGEP he went on to study at McGill and on the streets of Philadelphia, where he received a crash course on man’s inhumanity to man. Contrary to Philadelphia’s motto, “It’s not the city of brotherly love,” Dr. Razek confided.
“I had no idea that I would end up doing this when I started training in medicine,” he said.
Trauma doctors are “handymen for surgery,” he said, non-specialists who are a victim’s first hope for life after an injury. Because it’s a general skill that is needed everywhere, it’s a very portable skill, says Dr. Razek. A good trauma surgeon can find a job anywhere.
Take Africa, for example. Dr. Razek spent three months in Sudan, working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, treating everything from victims of rebel gunfire to children who had been attacked by hyenas. His photographs of the victims were a shocking sight. In war, “the people who are most often injured are the civilians,” he reminded the students.
“Sudan was a fascinating place to work,” Dr. Razek said. “The people are remarkable.”
Dr. Razek’s audience was riveted when he played a videotape of a surgery being performed on a young gunshot victim who had, essentially died on the operating table. “If you die while we’re looking at you, you have another 5-10 minutes,” he explained. Within that critical span of time, emergency surgeons successfully performed radical chest surgery to find and suture multiple holes through the young man’s heart. The close-up graphic images made CSI look like Mr. Dressup.
Trauma surgery is “Very dramatic work,” Dr. Razek concluded. “It puts your own life in perspective.”
“Dr. Razek clearly described the functions of his job in a superbly interesting fashion,” wrote Grade 11 student Justin Hagen after the workshop.
François Julien
The graphic content of Dr. Razek’s talk continued unabated as he was followed by François Julien, a Forensic biologist with the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale. A real-life “CSI” investigator, Mr. Julien studied at the Institute for Legal Medicine and Police Sciences and specialized in bloodstain patterns technology in New York and Minnesota.
Mr. Julien has been a judicial biologist since 1976, investigating over 700 crime scenes as well as being an expert witness in court in over 400 cases. He has expertise in DNA profiling and was one of the first in Québec to use Luminol and bloodstain pattern technologies in crime-scene reconstitutions. He has taught investigation techniques at CEGEP, at Police Academy and the RCMP and designed an intervention truck used at crime scenes.
He warned that his workshop was “not for the faint of heart” and issued a “viewer discretion advised” warning. This did not deter very many students, but those who attended found his visual presentation sobering, if not unsettling.
“Is your job really like we see on TV?” a student asked.
“Close. Close. Close,” was his reply.
Mr. Julien showed graphic slides from an investigation of a gunshot death, in which a man had been shot four times with a single-shot shotgun at point-blank range. A murder, you presume? You presume wrong, Mr. Julien insisted. Through careful analysis of blood-spatter patterns on the walls and ceiling, he deduced that the victim had—incredibly—shot himself, reloaded and shot himself again. It took four such shots to finish the job.
As he was talking, Mr. Julien was repeatedly interrupted by his beeper. “They just found body parts in a garbage bag in the trunk of a car,” he explained matter-of-factly to his audience.
In crimes of violence, there is often a lot of contact between a victim and a perpetrator. Mr. Julien explained that investigators can make a DNA identification of a suspect with as little as 10 cells. He told of a case where a suspect was incriminated from a coffee cup he discarded in Tim Horton’s.
The students were fascinated by Mr. Julien’s first-hand account of an area of scientific investigation that is normally found only in crime fiction.
Jason Dozois
Jason Dozois has worked in multimedia for over 10 years, five years in the game industry for Ubisoft, and five years for Artificial Mind and Movement as a sound designer and game designer. He is currently the lead designer on an undisclosed title.
After graduating from Concordia with a BFA in music, Jason was eventually drawn to the video-game industry.
Games are the biggest money-maker in multimedia today, Jason told his Career Day audience, bigger than films or music.
Artificial Mind and Movement has 400 employees. Three trades are involved in game development, Jason explained. He works with a team of six designers, who function much like screenwriters in film. Up to 40 artists may be put to work on creating an animation environment for the game. Several programmers work in a technical environment to create the software that brings it all to life.
To develop a new game, first a concept is pitched to a potential publisher. Once the project has been given the go-ahead, a game can be in production nine months to three years before it hits the shelves.
Before it is published, a new game goes through a battery of technical tests. It then gets the practical tryout, being test-driven by a group of ten randomly selected people aged 10 to 18.
Mark Smith
“I am living my dream, and there’s no reason why you can’t, too” Selwyn House parent Mark L. Smith told Senior School boys on Career Day.
Mr. Smith is president of Pandion Investments Ltd., which manages all investment activities for the Sinclair family, including tax and estate planning. Bill Sinclair, the Chairman of Pandion, is the co-founder of JDS Uniphase, the world’s largest fibre-optic company, which at its peak was valued at more than $250 billion.
Mark began his career with Touche Ross in 1982. In 1986, he joined the Claridge Group, the private investment management holding company that manages the affairs of the Charles R. Bronfman Family, which at the time controlled The Montreal Expos and Seagram’s, which, in the late 1990’s acquired MCA, owner of Universal Pictures, Universal Music and the Universal Theme Park in Florida. He led the acquisition of Labatt’s Communications, which owned TSN, RDS and the Discovery Channel. In 2000, he joined Pandion Investments.
Mark told the Selwyn House students that his daily activities can be very exciting. Examples would include TSN board’s decision on a hockey rights deal, Seagram’s acquisition of Universal Music and Universal Pictures, negotiations to sell X Software to Apple, and the financing of the Rolling Stones’ $100-million worldwide concert tour.
But it is not always so. Sometimes he must spend his days reviewing statements or making external third-party calls to solicit funds. Sometimes his work can be stressful, as in dealing with the occasional bad investment or failure to meet investment targets.
Mark said someone in his profession is paid a relatively small salary plus a performance bonus. By the time he is 30 years old, a person in his line of work should expect to make at least $75,000 per year, with the possibility of increasing that to $1 million per year.
Mark graduated from Dorval High School, studied commerce in CEGEP and graduated from McGill with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and became a chartered accountant.
Mr. Smith says he comes from a poor family background, so becoming a CA was seen as a good ticket to a better life. He migrated into the investment side of accounting through the help of a mentor.
“Mentors are key,” says Mark. He encouraged interested students to look for summer jobs in his field. “When you’re young, take the time to ask as many questions as you want.”
Anyone contemplating a career in his field must be interested in commerce and business in general, must like numbers and must be prepared to work hard, knowing the rewards will be there in the long term, Mr. Smith said.
Further advice: “Take an interest in other people!”
Job prospects in his field at the present time are “fantastic,” Mark says. There is a shortage of chartered accountants, and a CA’s skills are transferable
Grade 11 student Marc Minogue obviously took to heart what Mr. Smith said about mentoring. “I was particularly interested in Mr. Smith’s speech,” Marc said after the workshop. “I actually asked him if he had any summer jobs available, as investing is something that I would like to do in life.”
Liam Maloney ’93
Every picture tells a story, Liam Maloney ’93 told student at Career Day.
As a photojournalist, Liam feels he has “the best job in the world”. He doesn’t earn much money, works in conflict zones around the world and more than once has had his life threatened, but he loves his work.
Recalling his days at Selwyn House, Liam said, “When I wasn’t sitting outside the Headmaster’s office I read a lot in the library about war.”
After graduating from Selwyn House, Liam attended Marianopolis and studied philosophy at McGill, then toured with a punk rock band for eight years. Afterward, he then returned to Montreal and studied communications at Concordia.
Liam produced several films that ended up in major film festivals. Ultimately, however, he decided that still photos could tell a much more powerful story. He abandoned film to work as a freelance photojournalist in Montreal, taking photos of “ordinary people juxtaposed against the grand theatre that is city life”.
“I realized,” he said, “that the real stories are the ones that already exist, not those you create.”
Realizing he preferred the “Liam has traveled the world taking photos of people and places. He has covered elections in Bolivia, cocaine production in the Andes, Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, the fallout of war in Lebanon, militant Shiite groups in the Middle East, daily life in Aboriginal reserves, local and federal politics, rock stars and street kids. His work has appeared in Macleans, The Gazette, the Toronto Star, Hour, Voir, Now, Seed and Shameless magazines, The National Review of Medicine and the National Film Board.
Liam knew the boss-free life of a freelancer was the right choice for him, even though he may shoot 500 photos a day, only to have one or two picked by an editor for publication.
Specializing in the war-torn Middle East, Liam maintains two apartments, one in Montreal and one in Beirut. He starts his day by scanning the news, figuring out what’s going on and “finding the people who don’t want to be reported on,” making contacts and winning the trust of his subjects.
Liam told the students about being detained by soldiers in Lebanon, who held him for interrogation until he started talking to one of his captors and learned that the soldier’s brother lives in Montreal. The interrogation was immediately transformed into a friendly chat over coffee.
Liam sees his role as one of making people aware of important issues happening around the world, a job that can be both incredibly frustrating and incredibly rewarding.
He sees still photos as a powerful tool because, unlike video, people must stop for a moment and think when viewing a still photo, to absorb the story that lies within each photo.
Robert Levy ’77
The founder, president and CEO of BrandSpark International, a leading branding and market-research company, had an important message for Career Day students: “follow your passion and your interests, and the opportunities will unfold.”
He illustrated his message by reconstructing his post-Selwyn House career. At university, Robert found that he loved his marketing and psychology courses; but to the university student, marketing simply “didn’t seem like a career” in the early 1980s. He chose instead to go to law school. After five years in law practice, he decided that he wanted a job where he could put his creative abilities and interest in marketing to use, so he took a risk and left the firm, moving to Europe, where he eventually built a network to help Canadian businesses invest in the Czech Republic. Through his work in Eastern Europe, he was offered a job at Cara Operations. When he left Cara to start his own business, his previous employer became his first client.
For the past six years, Robert has been involved in market research and brand strategy, recently working with Bombardier Recreational Products on the branding and marketing of their new three-wheeled motorcycle, the Spyder. As a marketing executive and consultant, he has found it useful to be a person who asks questions and is intensely curious. Every day is one for questioning and learning. It is this spirit that helps him meet the needs of Brandspark’s clients.
Robert left the students with some interesting advice. He asked them to spend a few minutes thinking about how they might “brand” themselves for potential employers or customers. Being open to all good experiences will enrich your life, help you in your career, and make your own “brand” different and interesting.
Paula Shannon
Paula Shannon, international sales executive, had important words for Selwyn House Senior School students: today’s businesses are, to a large extent, being driven by language. To reach the one billion “wired” people in the world, a company must be able to communicate in 127 languages. To reach the next billion will require about ten times that number of languages.
Paula’s employer, Lionbridge, will “do everything it takes to get a product to market.” It has 4,000 employees in 25 countries and works with 12,000 translators. “Localization” is the process of adapting a global product to make it look as if it was created in and designed for the local market. Thus the work of Lionbridge encompasses more than just translation services and marketing, but also includes highly technical functions, like software engineering. Paula described a product being developed by her client Nokia, in conjunction with Lionbridge, which is the quintessential example of a product that has been “localized”: a device that combines all the functions of a phone, e-mailer, camera, and MP3 player, which functions in the user’s own language on multiple networks all over the globe, regardless of the network interface.
Paula told the students that looking at her career reveals some important lessons for them. She began her career in fine arts, but after returning from a European immersion program with an interest in languages and other countries and cultures, she decided to change her occupation. What she calls “diversions”—like her immersion experience—are important. As a fine arts student, she had no concept of the kind of job she would be doing today. In fact, the job she has now did not exist—could not have existed—when she graduated from university. It was made possible only through revolutionary technological advances and changes in how companies do business. She told the students to be ready to seize opportunities as new jobs are created: of all the different kinds of jobs that students will have a choice of when they graduate from university in five years, she estimated that as many as three-quarters of those jobs do not even exist today.
Scott Flory
Scott Flory’s impressive record in university and professional football bought him instant credibility with students at Career Day.
Scott began his career playing from 1994-98 with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies when they won two national championships, then playing with the Redmen while attending McGill.
Before completing his degree he was drafted by the Alouettes in 1998 (15th overall). He played for them for a year, but spent much of his time on the bench, so he decided to return to McGill to complete his degree. He had one more year of eligibility for college ball, so he rejoined the Redmen, graduating with a degree in civil engineering in 1998. Walking across the stage to collect his degree was “a big thrill,” he told the students.
Back with the Als, Scott played in five Grey Cup games, winning in 2002. He was named CFL All-Star four times, CFLPA All-Star three times, East Division All-Star five times, the East Division’s Most Outstanding Lineman three times and the Alouettes’ Most Outstanding Lineman three times.
Scott says he loves his job but realizes it will not last forever. The average length of a CFL career is two to three years. With salary cap in CFL average salary is $80,000 with a low of $40,000 and a high of about $400,000
To succeed as a professional athlete, one must be dedicated, disciplined and determined, Scott told the students. With 80 to 100 new guys showing up at training camp each year, he knows he must constantly push.
“Attitude is everything,” he says.
Doug Jarvis
“There are many different roads to the NHL,” Doug Jarvis told the students at Career Day. “You will find your way.”
An assistant coach with the Montreal Canadiens, Doug played for the Canadiens, Washington Capitals and Hartford Whalers. He holds the record for consecutive games played (964), and has won the Bill Masterton and Frank J. Selke Trophies. He has won five Stanley Cups, four as a player with the Canadiens and one as assistant coach for Dallas.
Doug began playing organized hockey at age 8 in Brantford. He moved up to Junior AA with Peterborough. “I never thought about playing for the NHL when I was young,” he said. “I played just for the love of the game.”
Only later, when he saw his friends on TV, did he realize he could be playing and making money at it.
Attending Trent University in his last year of Juniors, he was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs, but was traded to Montreal before he could play for Toronto. He played for the Habs from 1975 through the early 80s.
Doug gave some background on how current members of the Canadiens have made it into the NHL. Some have gone through the Junior system as he did; others played for U.S. Colleges or European teams.
In order to make it into the NHL, a player must have talent, but strong character is even more important, Doug told the students. One must also have passion and enthusiasm, with a desire to learn and to improve. One must be self motivated, dedicated and goal oriented, and must be a team player with respect for others and an ability to handle adversity.
“Championship teams have a lot of respect for each other,” he said.
A player must be consistent to play hockey at the higher levels, Doug added. You can’t afford fluctuations in the NHL; expectations are higher, both for players and coaches. “Every day you must be better than you were before.”
His final advice: “Don’t be afraid to succeed.”
Keynote speaker: Tyler Cavell ’94
“Is the future of TV news on TV at all?” This was the question raised by Tyler Cavell ’94, whose company, Internet Broadcast Corporation, has been identified by ABC News as the leading Internet television news network. Tyler likes to think of it as “the CNN of the Internet.”
The Selwyn House graduate has the confidence to make things happen, and the steps to that goal were laid out clearly in his keynote address to students at the 2007 Career Day.
“To get there you have to start at a place like Selwyn House,” Tyler began. “I got a lot of my foundation here to build a global business.” He credits Selwyn House for providing a head start by giving students exposure to people from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Tyler made reference to accomplishments made by Selwyn House this year, including several GMAA banners won by athletic teams and a $33,149 donation to the Terry Fox Foundation. Success in business requires the same ingredients, he said.
There are three things you must have to be successful, he said: heart, to believe you can make a difference; commitment, to follow through on your vision; and passion, to enjoy what you do. “These are the lessons I learned at Selwyn House that have allowed me to do the things I’ve done.”
After Selwyn House and John Abbott, Tyler earned three degrees, studying media and economics at the London School of Economics, the University of Southern California, Western, and the University of Natal, in South Africa.
Going to South Africa was an eye-opener for Tyler. His family and friends were fearful for his safety if he went there. When he got there, he discovered their fears were unfounded. “I realized that the news portrays sensationalism,” he recalls. “In North America there is really only one single view of events.”
“Media can only be understood if we see what’s going on around the world.”
After doing relief work in Honduras, Tyler moved on to become a strategic media consultant in Europe and a business development manager of the United Kingdom’s leading private media company.
But his vision of providing a broader view of world events began to take shape when he founded IBC in 2004. Through its Web site NuVu.tv, IBC carries 125 dispatches every day from 35 broadcasters around the world to 95 countries, with a million users in Canada alone. He procures video broadcast from local news services around the world and runs them on-line with English subtitles.
“We aggregate video from all over the world and we syndicate it out to different broadcasters or Web sites,” Tyler explained, citing the example of a recent article in the National Post on the Pope’s visit to Turkey. The newspaper wanted video of that event to accompany the story on Post Web site, so they came to IBC.
“We think we have made a difference to allow people to see what goes on in different parts of the world,” Tyler says.
Also, by obtaining written transcripts along with the video, NuVu is able to offer a searchable database of stories, an innovation that Google chose not to pursue.
“We saw a great opportunity there,” says Tyler. “Taking risk is key.”
Which way to the road less travelled? Tyler has some suggestions. “Take a risk. Start by going outside Quebec—or even Canada—for university, he recommended.
“You’ll be able to pull together contacts from around the world and do something special.”
