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My Review of Camp Takota!
If you're not familiar with the Holy Trinity of youtube, then you've been missing out on some funny, funny content. The Trinity is comprised of Hannah Hart from My Drunk Kitchen and the hugely successful MyHarto channel, Grace Helbig from the popular daily show It'sGrace (Formerly Daily Grace) and Mamrie Hart(no relation to Hannah) from her own show, You Deserve A Drink. Along with their success as individuals, they've crossed over several times before in their videos, and such meetings are instant fan fodder, so the news that they were making a movie together was something that everybody was excited to hear. The movie was called Camp Takota, and it was released to some popular appeal. And now it's available for free on Netflix! Will this scripted movie mesh well with their flair for improvisational humor? Let's take a look.
The movie begins with Grace Helbig playing an awkward woman-child who's trying way too hard to be quirky and adorkable. A stretch, I know, but the power of her acting should make for a convincing performance. She plays a character named Elise, because… Why give a self insert Lego brick character a common and non-pretentious sounding name? I have never in my life met anyone with that name, but hey, as long as the writer gets to live out some alternate name fantasy. Heh, maybe I'll write a movie where my name is Cornwallace, that'd be sweet. Anyway, she's teaching herself some basic french for an upcoming wedding that's being clumsily exposited through answering machine messages. Yeah, you know that thing movies do where characters explain things to each other that they already know for the sake of the audience? This movie does it to. She makes breakfast in bed for her hunky fiance, played by Chester See… Another insurmountable acting challenge… But he's acting cold towards her, and even refuses the offer of a quickie. This is a decent way to foreshadow the fact that he's cheating on her, although I would like to point out that infidelity rarely ever results in a complete lack of passion towards the one being wronged, and it doesn't really fit with his surprise appearance at the end of the movie.
A woman who makes a lame Driver's license joke introduces Camp Takota to the plot, then drops a joke about a crotch-measuring app, which is one of many Adam Sandler-level jokes you'll hear throughout this film. Wait, maybe I judged too harshly, maybe it comes back at some point in the script. She goes to work, where we meet her high-strung and demanding boss, who dumps a load of work on her that she seems put off by, then accuses her of whatever her definition of sarcasm is and insults her jacket for no good reason. It looks like a normal jacket to me… Is she the mother of that one girl in the classroom from Silent Hill Revelations? Anyway, Elise plugs her book that she just finished… Yes, JUST finished, not having sent it to a professional, unbiased editor or anything… Which is basically Twilight with the Loch Ness Monster. Because it's her jacket that's the parody here.
The bitchy dialogue we hear from Elise's boss is our first indicator of Mamrie Hart's writing style… It's stilted, full of inane details that don't matter, it's pretentious in the way that it sounds like every line of it took hours of thinking beforehand, and it just sounds like a writer trying way too hard to make herself appear more clever than she actually is. There is not one line of dialogue in the entire movie that sounds like it came from the lips of a real person, although the overacting also doesn't help. I get the strange feeling that this character is supposed to be a female version of Dr. Cox, but the actress they picked is NO female equivalent of John C McGinley.
She sits down at her computer… The Apple Cash Grab… As a parody of Edward Cullen walks by a bunch of screaming teenagers who are somehow in the building. He's clearly only feigning interest in girls their age, though, as Elise and a friend discover their uptight boss making out with prettyboy in the middle of a staircase. Because yeah, they're really dedicated to keeping this a secret. I mean, she has an office, right? One with… A fucking door? Elise's friend takes a few pictures of them, and then disappears for the rest of the movie. Why? Because her only job in this movie is to be the one taking the picture, so when Elise gets fired for accidentally uploading it, she won't be directly responsible for her downfall. Because that would be WAY too relatable.
She goes home, seeking the support of her fiance, but is tipped off to the possibility of him hiding something when she sees two glasses on the table. Yeah, the fact that he wants her to go to the bar ahead of him so he can go through the time consuming task of putting on a freaking shirt wasn't the big clue. We meet the girl he's cheating on her with, and while she's not prettier than Elise, it's still believable due to the distinct possibility that she's more interesting with a better personality.
Elise walks out and starts hammering down the drinks, which causes her to drunk-dial the older woman from earlier and request a job at her childhood home-away-from-home, Camp Takota! Never mind the fact that she's not acting convincingly drunk, and she doesn't look convincingly hung over afterwards. Yeah, that's the problem with hiring actors who we've already seen in a bazillion youtube videos… We've seen her drunk, we've seen her hung over, and we know by comparison that she's faking it here. Thus, she gets a ride to camp with a couple of white yuppies and a child who's wearing the glasses of some big-headed guy that they ran over. Because silly props equal jokes.
At camp, we meet Hannah Hart, who's playing a lesbian cook… Once again, a stretch, but the power of acting! We also meet Jenna Marbles, who's playing a foul mouthed guidance counselor who needs to lay off the sauce, and the Prank Vs. Prank people playing romantically involved camp counselors who just can't stop playing pranks on each other, because why the hell not? My god, at least Mamrie's playing an actual character. A character who literally says the same exact thing about two other characters in the space of one scene… That you can't believe a word either of them says… But a character nonetheless.
She gets settled in, helping Maxine(Mamrie) to prove that their scripted conversations are nowhere near as funny as their actual conversations, and goes out to the woods to lonesomely reminisce about her time there as a teen. This is… An admittedly good scene, very well edited, and it would probably be more touching if I cared about the character. But we have to rush through it, as the tots have arrived, and they're strictly warned not to get involved with the only man on the grounds, Chet the handyman. I'm not sure why they didn't just hire a handywoman, I mean I'm sure there are some available, but whatever. Alison(Hannah) brings a boombox on stage so Maxie can rap about the camp's rules, and I've never been this happy to see a musical number cut short.
Maxine punishes a girl for trying to use improv… Which makes sense, I mean how dare she try to make this movie funny? And dumps one of the most embarrassingly obvious products placement yet, which is saying something when Elise had the world's fastest Mac in her office. Seriously, making the movie freeze a few times while a beachball spins on screen would have been a more accurate product representation. In any case, in the ensuing montage of Elise having trouble adjusting, she goes outside to relieve herself in the bushes, which… Ugh. I'll get to the problems this creates later.
Elise seeks refuge with Alison, who reveals that Maxine hides a bottle of Jack inside a box of oat cereal, since no kid in their right mind would look there. Oh, except yeah, that's total bullshit. When I was a kid, I knew plenty of kids who liked healthy food, even broccoli and brussel sprouts, so that plan seems about as responsible as hiring a socially awkward male maintenance worker to live amongst a bunch of underaged girls. Then again, you can't assume that a movie plagued with Misty hair-dos would really know all that much about teenagers in the first place.
Maxine holds a ghost story camp fire, where it seems like only one of the campers is allowed to talk, and the rest just do a very bad job of not looking bored while they pretend to be scared. Then, Elise comes out of the shower the next morning, to discover she's gotten poison ivy on her privates! Ah-ha! Oh, she's so charmingly quirky! Okay, so, there are two problems with this development. First of all, if the camp has working showers, and Alison has access to a working sink, it means Takota has plumbing. So it probably has working toilets. So why the hell was Elise peeing in the bushes? And the other… Well… Don't ask me how I know this, but if you've got poison ivy on your privates, that's not something you see before feeling it. That shit hurts, and I can only imagine it would hurt worse for girls than for guys. And yet Elise never shows any sign of pain… She walks uncomfortably a few times, but it looks more like she has a wedgie than a giant freaking rash on her taint.
Third problem? This owuld have been the perfect opportunity to deliver a punchline tothat Crotch-rot app "joke" from earlier. Just have Alison say "Ya know, with a cell phone tower, we could have seen this coming," and then bring up the app again. But no, that would provide a potential positive for the villain's plan, and we don't want that! Shun complexity and nuance! Shuuuuunnnnnnn! Also, this is yet another clue that this is just a gender-bent Adam Sandler movie, which becomes even more evident when Elise blows up at some campers for teasing her about her love life, and I refuse to believe her speech to them wasn't inspired by The Wedding Singer. Seriously, she denounces the existence of love, and does everything short of singing "Love Stinks" while looking like she doesn't believe a word of it. Maxine takes this as a cry for help, so the three girls throw a drinking party in Alison's cabin, where they make fun of the Paranormal romance genre in every possible way that the novel Awoken did it better.
The party is interrupted by Obvious Loveinterest… At least I think that was his name… A damaged, rugged looking sensitive guy who's so conveniently single that he makes the viewer truly believe in the love between a centaur and a loch ness monster. He's played by Who Givesashitatthispoint, and his role in the story is to be the completion of Elise's character arc, so the writer doesn't have to bother with any of that development or personal growth crap. He says she's too old to be a camp counselor… Despite the fact that she's in the same age group as Maxine and Alison… And sparks of awkward flannel chemistry fly!
Elise and Maxine hammer in the possibility of this relationship, then Elise's campers hammer in what grown-ups think is teenage dialogue, and one of the poor little moppets who wasn't allowed to speak during the ghost story earlier gets a pity throwaway line, on account of her being the only black person in the movie. The Handyman is portrayed as dumb and socially bankrupt, because stereotypes. But that's nothing compared to the stereotypes we're about to meet, as a gay stereotype(Who I refuse to believe Hannah Hart didn't complain about) drives up alongside a… Umm… Special stereotype who's look was probably inspired by Keith Apicary. Their plan is to demolish the camp and replace it with a new high tech computer camp, because… I don't know why. I mean, his mother is the owner of Takota, so there had to be other non-Scroogey locations to choose from.
In any case, this is happening. The camp is being threatened by the evolution of technology, and low pre-registration numbers mean it's going to be shut down by the end of the year. And I'm just going to say this up front… So what? Why am I supposed to care about this? The campers aren't there by choice, Elise is only there to run away from her problems, and it's just a lingering childhood fantasy that's keeping Maxine from growing up. And since the Ambiguously Offensive Duo is planning to make a computer camp out here, as opposed to a more reasonable location, it's kind of implied that this computer camp WILL have outdoor activities. Because otherwise, what would be the point of building it out here? There is no good reason for Maxine to not step aside, let Jared have his way, and secure herself a job at the new camp.
Well, Maxine takes this challenge, and Elise summons her bearded sure thing over by flashlight. They deliver more of Mamrie's badly written banter as she asks him to deliver letters to a camper and pretend they're from her parents. Which totally won't blow up in her face if the kid thanks her folks for the letters when she's being picked up. They try to build some non-existent chemistry, but it's thankfully interrupted when Maxine calls a meeting stating they need half the camp to preregister so they can afford to stay open. They need four times more prereges than last year, so… I wonder what their strategy is going to be?
We're answered by a montage of them painting and nailing up a few boards, while otherwise going about life exactly as they did before, but with smiles, and with more things going right, because… Because timing, I guess? After Elise finally starts opening up to her campers, and doing nothing else of any importance other than flirting with HOLY SHIT I JUST REALIZED THIS GUY DIRECTED THE MOVIE! I guess that makes him the true villain, unlike Elise's former boss, who has just called to say that not only has the leak of her affair quadrupled the sales of the books that her boy toy was doing movies for, but Elise's terrible, terrible book has the potential to become a franchise. And I swear to god, if anybody's buying a book about a Centaur being in love with the Loch Ness monster for non-ironic reasons, please grab a shotgun and go put those people out of their misery. I mean, seriously, those two are so wrong for each other. #TeamChupacabra
But there's a catch… She has to go back home, right before the big event that's supposed to save the camp! And since she's done nothing of any substance to contribute to saving the camp, the choice between this event and her long term grown-up career should be an easy one, right? I mean, realistically, they have as much a chance with her as they would without her… Right? No, because instead of just pulling Maxine aside and calmly explaining why she has to leave… Like an adult… She tells her as awkwardly as she possibly can, and Maxine is no better. She takes it as an insult, for this girl she doesn't need around as anything other than moral support to choose actual long term financial stability over some childhood escapism. Yeah, I get being sad when hearing news like this, but Maxine just becomes toxic with her selfish bullshit in this scene. I shouldn't complain, though, as this scene does feature the best acting that the three of them do at any point in the movie. The emotions do come across as strong and genuine, and probably a little therapeutic for the actors as well but GOD is this melodramatic.
She asks Mr. Perfect for a ride back, and instead of being supportive and happy for her, he ALSO pulls the selfish bullshit on her. Yup. Found yourself a real catch, there. Doesn't ask if you want to talk about it… Doesn't try to make you feel better… Just pouts and runs away like a little bitch. Yeah, okay, I'm fine with male characters being portrayed as sensitive, but when the girl you're falling in love with is hurt and crying and says something mean, you don't take offense and just ditch her there. That's not something ANY guy would do, sensitive or not. A sensitive guy would put aside his own feelings and be there for her. Hope you have a nice future with the guy who'll ditch you with all your kids, a shitty house and an overdue mortgage at the first sign of an insult. There's a point where this movie stops being boring and starts to become loathesome, and if the introduction of Dik and Dak a few scenes ago hadn't tipped you off, we're well into that territory by now.
Elise makes her way to a bus stop, where she's about to leave, but a letter from the child she came here with… The one she played games with, and sent fake letters to… convinces her to go back. I don't know how she gets back, as Chet drove her to the station, but she gets there in time for visitors day, where the kids look much happier in this montage than they did in the previous montage. See what difference a little effort can make? Like, REALLY little effort? A few new boards, Elise starts smiling, and all of a sudden they're in a kids' toothpaste commercial.
Maxine bickers with Jared, and her comebacks that he's so obviously setting up are so familiar that I keep expecting her to ask if he eats pieces of shit for breakfast. She has the outstanding courage to call out his 'prepared insults,' when… Yeah… She's the one who wrote them that way. Fuck, ALL of the insults in this movie sound prepared. I will admit, though, I never thought the sight of someone flipping the ring finger instead of the middle finger would ever be funny. And I was right.
Elise joins her two besties on stage to perform a badly choreographed song that's so lazy and poorly prepared that it makes my church's pageants look like broadway, and we move onto final campfire, where Jared crashes the stage to announce his plans to the campers with all the finesse and subtlty of a WWE heel. God forbid he try to convince the campers that the computer camp would be a good idea… Which it kind of would be… He just acts like a self-absorbed dic and leaves, for two reasons. One, he needs to act entirely unlikable to make Maxine's case look better, and two, because Mamrie doesn't know how to write villains that aren't one dimensional charicatures of outdated stereotypes. Maxine follows this up, and what she does… You know what? It's too juicy. I'll save that for later.
Anyway, Whatsisface is revealed to be some big shot author, no I'm not kidding about that, and he explains that the ghost that's been barely mentioned up until this point is actually a metaphor for the spirit and love of camp. You can tell Mamrie wrote this, because I do believe I deserve a drink at this point. Elise's former boyfriend pops out of some trees, having apparently walked all the way here from Chicago, which would make more sense if he'd acted at the beginning of the movie as though he had even the slightest bit of interest in her at all. They fight over her, because of course they do, perfect guy wins, and the next day, it's revealed that pre-registration has more than quintupled compared to last year, all because the campers… And their parents… Got to see one of the counselors airing out her personal issues and making out with a guy right in front of them. Because that's what they're looking for in a camp… Inappropriate PDAs in front of their kids! Screw all the better, safer camps out there, let's throw our kids into the hands of a camp where we got front seats to a white trash carnival!
Okay, you know what? This is one of the worst "Save our something-or-other" plots that I've ever seen, and that bucket does not have an easy bottom to reach. They go through almost no effort to turn things around, and yet they got their best numbers ever, which begs the question of how little effort they've been putting in up until now.
My favorite anime from 2014… And 2013… Was a show called Love Live, School Idol Project, and it had a very similar plot. The school our main characters go to is about to get closed down due to lack of applicants. But that school is an important part of their history, and they want future generations to be able to go there after they leave. So they decide to promote the school by becoming it's very own Idol singing group. So, do they save it with one concert? No. They spend two seasons training, facing every possible setback you can imagine(for a PG rated show), and having the crap kicked out of them by fate at every turn. In spite of this, they continue pushing, moving forwards, and smiling, as theyre constantly threatened to be split up by forces both outside the group and within. Spoiler alert: They save the school at the end of season 2, and when they finally do, you know in your heart that they've gone above and beyond the call of duty to achieve it. Why? Because you saw them at their worst, working their asses off for even the slimmest of hopes.
Camp Takota doesn't even try to do that. There are no stakes whatsoever at any point during this little conflict, and the fact that they were able to save their camp with a crappy stage show and a brazen display of inappropriate behavior is just insulting to me as a viewer. But hey, it's not fair to compare this movie to a 26 episode series that had time to develop everything thoroughly is it? Well, how about 21 minutes? There's a Simpsons episode where a long over-looked burlesque house resurfaces in the public consciousness, and while moral outrage threatens it's existence, the episode does a great job of illustrating the house's importance to the town with just one musical number, and they still did it infinitely better than Camp Takota did.
Anyway, Elise has her new boyfriend, Maxine and Alison also find people to hook up with… Because that's how character development works, I guess… And one year later, Elise is selling a book called Cabin Fever! Good for her. I really hope nobody makes a movie out of it, because this one was a total shit bomb.
This is one of the laziest, by-the-numbers movies that I've ever seen. It has no bite, no stakes, badly written dialogue that the writer herself probably got a good chuckle out of, and a non-sympathetic main character who runs away from her problems… Neither of which was her fault, of course… And then spent the rest of the film putzing around a camp while everything eventually works out for her through no fault of her own. She does nothing to resolve her shattered personal or professional lives, and yet they both come crawling back to her just to be rejected because she doesn't need them anymore. She has no flaws that aren't endearing, aside from her rotten attitude. I hate this phrase as much as the next guy, but holy crap is she a Mary-Sue. Hannah Hart is only there to be Hannah Hart, and while Mamrie does a decent job acting throughout the movie, Hannah and Grace just seem stifled and smothered by the idea of playing characters based on themselves while delivering material that somebody else wrote for them.
When it's not boring, it's stupid. When it's not stupid, it's derivative, ripping off Sliding Doors as well as a handful of Adam Sandler movies. Because that's what you want to rip off… Adam Sandler movies. If you're going to put together a half-assed script for the express purpose of getting paid to hang out with your friends, why not further the feminist cause by proving that women are just as capable as men at making cliched, predictable movies that are already the lowest common denominator of the comedy genre? Because the world really needed to know that.
I get that the movie was low budget… I do. I respect that. We can't all have the resources we need if we can't afford them. That's why I'm willing to forgive all the product placements… Begrudgingly. But money doesn't buy a good script. That's something you can only afford with effort, imagination, and originality, which were three things this film never even came close to capturing. There's a message about putting your electronic devices down and enjoying life the way it was meant to be enjoyed, with the outdoor world and face-to-face interaction, and I really do appreciate that message. It's an important one, especially in this day and age, and more movies should try it out. But it gets confused by the fact that the only child Elise connected with… And the one who's letter brought her back to camp… Was the kid she hid away and played video games with. Yeah, you're not making a strong case for personal bonds above electronic devices when the only new bond your main character makes is over a freaking game boy.
Oh, and here's the beautiful part. Remember earlier, when I said I'd be saving a juicy moment for later? Well, here it is. Maxine's speech, after Dic & Dac left the stage, is an even more convincing argument for Jared's take-over than even HE could deliver. She says that the exclusive nature of camp is important, and that it's better to say "You had to be there" than to instantly share pictures and videos of camp experiences with friends. What she forgot to mention was that saying 'you had to be there' just makes you sound like a condescending douchebag. Yeah, that saying is right up there on the totem pole of "Shit eating grin phrases" just a few shades below "You probably haven't heard of it."
But on the other hand, setting up a 4g tower so the kids can connect with the civilized world sounds like a very efficient way to advertise the camp. When somebody says "You had to be there," you look at them like they're an asshole, and you drop the subject. If they show you a video, so you can see what you're missing, it actually makes you want to experience it for yourself. I'm just saying, give these little anklebiters phones, let them do your advertising for you, and maybe next year you won't be cunt deep in debt. But no, that would be a compromise… And Mamrie would much rather express the point of the movie by painting two extremes, and then pointing to the one she likes best and saying 'this one is right.' Yay, complexity.
Having finally seen this for myself, I honestly can't understand why people enjoy it. I guess they enjoy the novelty of seeing their favorite Youtube stars in a movie, a novelty that's compounded by the fact that they're basically playing themselves. I mean, that's why Fred was successful, right? Well, I'll admit that I get the appeal of Hannah, Grace and Mamrie a lot better than the ideal of Fred. And, like most of us, I still love the Holy Trinity… I love their shows, I love their comedy(When it's improvisational), and I love the dedication that all three of them have for their fans. They've done so much in bringing us hours upon hours of entertaining material, and they've done some pretty awesome charity work as well. They seem like nice, awesome people who'd be great to hang out with in real life as well as in their videos. But please, for the love of all things holy, don't let them make another movie.


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Hey all so this week has been way sweet. we don't get home until 9:30and don't finish planning until 10:20 so D comp time aint no thing. All of my companions are way fun. we have a blast everyday.
In church on sunday the mission president showed up randomly and we didn't have anyone at church in the wapato ward pretty frustrating.. but after sacrament a lady showed up and told us that she wanted to be sealed in the temple to her husband but needs to be baptized first... It such a miracle mission president talked to her a little and we put her on date to be baptized in 2 weeks.
The way we find Samoans to teach is pretty interesting hahaha we usually go to a grocery store, buffet, or park and walk around until we see some.. usually buying some type of food we talk to them and without fail they say oh yeah someone in my family is Mormon and then they invite us over to eat with them and to teach them. Its pretty sweet. We also go to the park around lunch and dinner times because they are always munchin with their monster Samoan families.
have a good week. fa
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27 May
Tonight is the 2nd (and last) formal night. Time to wear the black beaded! Hopefully after a week on board, I can still fit in to it.
Since today (and tomorrow) are sea days, we'll likely not do too much except hang out by the pool, visit anyplace on board we've not been to yet and start the packing process (ugh). I'm sure, too, we'll have to figure out the whole gratuity thing (they are pre-paid, so, how do we ensure our folks know we've got them covered?), maybe buy a souvenir (e.g., a Christmas ornament or some such) and some booze if the deals are right.
Spent the better part of the day at the pool; maybe too long, as we are now both sunburned in some strange odd spots (back of thigh, side, knee, etc.) This time, we stayed at the main pool for a change of pace. From our vantage point, we had an excellent view once again of the line dancing class
and the belly flopping contest. Quite silly but definitely amusing; two contenders tied so there had to be a "flop off".
People up on Deck 10 watching the Belly Flop Contest in the pool below
Drink of the day was an Ocean Breeze; Placid was out there serving drinks, which meant they were extra strong.
Nice sunny day at the pool
Clear blue skies
I wandered into the Windjammer Café without my cover up on and was told (politely) to go cover up, which I did. Hey, I didn't mind being reminded, I only wish they were a bit more consistent in enforcing their dress code policy since we have, on several occasions, seen shorts, tank tops and jeans in the main dining room at dinner (including on formal nights). This will be some of my feedback to Royal Caribbean (be consistent).
Dinner was great as usual; afterwards, we went to a karaoke show (once again observing, not participating!) and then to the Viking Crown Lounge for an après dinner drink and cigar.
Cocktails at Table 86
View outside our dining room window
Dinner 27 May 2010
As we were walking down the hallway to our stateroom, we ran into Esther, who apologized profusely for not having had the time to fashion our nightly towel creature. Sure enough, there wasn't anything on the bed when we entered. However, a few moments later, we discovered this little guy hanging NEAR the bed. I think he's my favorite of the cruise. And, obviously, Esther has a sense of humor!
My favorite monkey!
28 May
Alas, vacation is winding down and, unfortunately, Mr. B isn't feeling too well this morning, so, we'll definitely have a low-key day. Time to go get (smaller) bills in case we want to hand out extra tips (turns out we got vouchers to give to the attendants for their primary tips) and maybe hang out in the Solarium before having to pack/get ready for dinner.
I'm sitting outside now on our balcony enjoying a lovely view of the water. It's going to be hard to give this up (and I'm trying not to fret about my looming To Do List!)
Took it slow today; just basically read and rested in the Solarium. Said good-bye at dinner to our great attendants and were happy to give them extra tips. I wonder how many people don't tip at all? Probably far too many.
Placid from India: Our Personal Dr. Yummy
Edmond from the Philippines: Our Waiter
Clayton from Jamaica: Our Assistant Waiter
Esther from Nicaragua: Our Stateroom Attendant
Don't get stung!
29 May
In the car on our way home now. Disembarkation wasn't too bad. We left our luggage (except for carry-ons) outside our room by midnight last night. This morning, we had breakfast in My Fair Lady (the first and only time!); sitting with a group of folks we'd not seen AT ALL the entire nine days on board, which goes to show that even the smaller ships are relatively large.
After breakfast, we gathered the rest of our belongings and went to wait in one of the lounges for our number to be called. It was a pretty orderly process, although some people were getting their panties in a twist about not getting off as soon as they wanted to. These are probably the same folks who were on first thing when we boarded (ok, present company excluded since I guess we were #3 and #4 on board!)
The main hassle was going through customs only in that it took longer than it should have because several of the passengers were bringing back items from Haiti that were on the "watch" list.
All told, we were in the car and on our way by 10:00 am.
GREAT cruise, GREAT time; hopefully, we can do it again relatively soon. Oh, and our final Sea Pass bill was not as much as we thought it would be (but it was still hefty enough, even with the $200 on board credit plus the extra $100 mystery credit).
But, hey, it doesn't cost as much to go first class…you just don't go as often.
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Real Estates Solicitor
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London, England / City of London, London, England
London (Central)London (Greater)
- Salary
- £95000.00 - £125000.00 per annum + benefits
- Posted
- 06 Oct 2017
- Closes
- 03 Nov 2017
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- Contact
- Joanna Murfin
- Sector/Practice Area
- Real Estate
- Vacancy Type
- Lawyers
- Contract/hours
- Full time
Real Estate Solicitor
City of London
2 - 5 years PQE
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Employment on Class 1 railroads in mid May fell 2.42 percent from the corresponding figure recorded in May 2016, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board reported.
The STB said the railroads employed 149,032, a drop of 0.05 percent from the mid-April tally.
Of the six employment categories, five reported decreases compared with mid-April.
That included executives, officials and staff assistants, down 0.99 percent to 8,745 employees; professional and administrative, down 1.3 percent to 12,506; maintenance of way and structures, down 0.18 percent to 34,158; maintenance of equipment and stores, down 0.44 percent to 27,726; and transportation other than train and engine, down 0.41 percent to 5,825.
Train-and-engine employment rose 0.64 percent to 60,072 employees between mid-April and mid-May.
Compared with May 2016, all categories except train-and-engine transportation saw declines.
Executives, officials and staff assistants fell 5.69 percent; professional and administrative fell 8.57 percent; maintenance of way and structures fell 6.08 percent; maintenance of equipment and stores fell 4.73 percent; and transportation other than train and engine fell 5.85 percent.
Employment in the train-and-engine transportation category rose 3.37 percent on a year-over-year basis.
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I have some experience in Front-End Web Development, however to save time on my project I am looking for an experienced Web Designer to convert a fully finished PSD file to HTML/CSS/JS. There will be some basic animation involved in the way the web page loads, so an understanding of Bootstrap and JQuery would be beneficial. There aren't many elements
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Landscaping Tips To Make You Look Like A ProLandscaping plays an important role in your home's appearance. It is a simple fact that nothing is more impressive than a home with beautiful, artistic landscaping. Even the most stunning home can be made to look second rate if it is poorly landscaped. This article is filled with tips to improve your home's landscaping.
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Stories of the ordinary, the extraordinary, the classic,
the unexpected and the hidden gems
by a long time resident who shares his love of New York City.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Bon Appetit
The desserts are awesome - they are made by Jerome Chang, a former pastry chef at Le Cirque and grad of the French Culinary Institute. He is partnered with Chris Chen, a Columbia business school grad. "One night, we randomly made the caramelized banana sandwich with sea salt — no recipe," Mr. Chen said. "It turned out to be amazing, and both of us thought that this was something we could sell on the street." You can find things like molten chocolate cake with liquid ganache center and sea salt, roasted pistachios, and "a hint of olive oil"; apples and cinnamon with cranberries in a crisp, puff pastry with streusel and whipped cream, chocolate bread pudding; crème brûlée made with madagascan vanilla beans and freshly burned sugar.
You can read all about them here at their website - there are photos of the desserts, press articles, menu, hours etc. Bon appetit ...
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7 comments:
- Mo said...
Wow. What a great idea. The desserts sure look great.
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:43:00 AM
- Keropok Man said...
i want to try the caramelized banana sandwich with sea salt!
i think i will queue like them too! :-)
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:36:00 PM
- crittoria said...
YUMMY!! I checked out their website and everything looks amazing. I'm jealous that you have this available to you, but then again, if I want to fit into my jeans, I probably am better off not having all those desserts just down the street....;-)
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:01:00 PM
- An Honest Man said...
Oh dear. my cholesterol went through the roof just read about these - never mind sampling them.
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:37:00 PM
- marley said...
What a fantastic idea! The desserts sound delicious, infact its made me feel hungry!
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:55:00 PM
- Brian said...
It really is a novel idea. I love street food and it's so great to see it getting better.
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:03:00 PM
- Chuck Pefley said...
That is super cool! After your hot dog, then you move to the next truck for dessert. Such a deal -:)
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:59:00 PM


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a little internat'l development humor
Okay, I know I promised that I wouldn't just regurgitate current events via newslinks. But, like my father says each time he breaks one of his many promises not to send me shit he cut out of the newspaper, this is just too good to ignore.
The content of today's NYT article on possible successors to Wolfensohn at the World Bank is, in and of itself, scary and depressing. But the Times managed to slip in two one-liners which I thought were, in context, hilarious.
With this appointment, President Bush will have a chance to name his own person to lead the World Bank. (By tradition, the United States names the head of the bank while Europe names the director of the International Monetary Fund; all the countries left out of the process would like that tradition changed.
Wait, other countries don't like that setup? No kidding.
And, inserted as an afterthought in the article's final sentence:
Ms. Fiorina would also add a touch of glamour to the post, since she is probably the only candidate famous enough to be known in business circles by her first name, Carly.
As the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and later United States Ambassador to Indonesia, Mr. Wolfowitz did oversee policy covering the developing world. But neither Mr. Wolfowitz nor Ms. Fiorina is an expert in development.
This makes sense, right? When it comes to the highest decision-maker in a Bretton Woods institution, you want someone with first-name recognition, like Oprah. Or Liberace.
And, as the article points out, being an "expert in development" shouldn't be particularly important for the leader of the World Bank, anyway.


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The American Legion Post 12 honored native Norwalker and decorated World War II veteran Anthony C. Errico on Sunday as the November Veteran of the Month.
Known as "Ric" to family and friends and "Ace" to his U.S. Army buddies, Errico fought honorably with the 273rd ordinance unit during the Battle of the Bulge -- the largest and bloodiest offensive that American forces experienced in WWII.
"The 273rd comported itself with distinction during the German assaults" maintaining Allied machinery and equipment under heavy bombardment from German artillery, said his brother, Michael Errico. The efforts of Ric and those men helped put an end to the Battle of the Bulge and the war in Europe, he said.
Ric spent his entire military service with the 273rd unit after joining the Army in October 1942. He earned his Tech 4 ranking a year later before being shipped off to England where his company continued preparations for the U.S. invasion of Europe on D-Day.
After Allied forces stormed the beach of Normandy, Ric was among the many troops to make his way across northern Europe, to France, the Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe. When the war in Europe came to a close in May 1945, Ric's unit was given one last unofficial assignment at Auschwitz -- the largest Nazi camp where more than 2 million civilians are estimated to have been killed.
Years later he earned medals for good conduct, victory and decorations for the American Theater, European and African Middle-Eastern Theater campaigns.
The war was not something Ric and his two brothers -- who were also stationed in other parts of the world during WWII -- talked much about when it was all over, Michael Errico said.
"We all came home around the same time and played ball together in the yard," he recalled. Returning to normalcy after the war was not unique to his family, Errico said.
"We're just symbolic of what everyone did and had to do in that time," he said.
A lifelong resident of Norwalk, Ric was born to parents of limited means in March 1910, Michael Errico said.
"Although he did not earn a high school diploma, he was quick to add to his education through a variety of lifetime experiences," Michael Errico said. Ric spent many years as a local entrepreneur, selling everything from oil burners to genuine food.
He took an active role in local politics, working for the Norwalk Democratic Committee in an effort to get the late Brien McMahon elected as senator. Before his death in 1979, Ric was married to Hazel Sloan in February 1946, just three months after his discharge from the Army. The two have one daughter, Sharon Shmanda, who cried at the side of more than a dozen relatives, as she watched the American flag fly in honor of her late father.


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Cattlemen are always looking at improving their herd genetics for more productivity.
International visitors had a chance recently to see the best of the best in Canadian cattle genetics recently at Agribition in Regina.
Adrian de la Garza visited the show in the late 80s where he bought some Canadian genetics to take home.
De la Garza is president of the Cattlemen's Association in Monterrey, Mexico and was interested in Simmental and Charolais genetics.
He notes while the climate may be different, we work our ranches in a similar way and the animals do well.
Cop farmers rolled into Saskatoon this week for a chance to plan their growth in 2017.
The Western Canadian Crop Production Show kicked off yesterday at Prairieland Park and runs until January 12th in conjunction with Crop Production Week.
The event brings together farmers from Saskatchewan, neighbouring provinces and around the world to discuss plans for the upcoming year.
Kevin Hursh, a Saskatchewan farmer and agriculture journalist involved with the event, says the theme of this year's event will be disease control.
The president of Beef Farmers of Ontario says producers in the province are facing many challenges.
Matt Bowman says the problems start with low prices. Producers are getting 50 per cent less for their products now that than they were a year ago.
Bowman says one of the many reasons for the low prices is an increase in beef production by the Americans.
He adds the lower prices producers get never seem to translate into lower prices for consumers.
A Donald Trump advisor and president of the U-S trade association Western Growers says farmers shouldn't fear the president-elect.
Tom Nassif says he isn't privy to the details of Trump's immigration policy.
But Nassif says he's recommended that Trump allow farmworkers to stay in the U-S by putting immigrants in the country illegally on a period of probation.
He says it would apply to illegals who are otherwise law-abiding residents, and that the probation should include conditions that they pay taxes, learn English and obey all laws.


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On Saturday I was at the Blickfang Design Exhibition in Basel / Switzerland. It was my first time and I am completely thrilled. I've seen so many ingenious new things and ideas. There's something for everyone. For little or a lot of money…
If you should be in Basel, go! Next week the Exhibition will be in Stuttgart/Germany!
Ps: I had so much fun that I forgot to take pictures.
This one shows only a tiny corner of the hall
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Friday, February 17, 2017
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album soaring high even after his death
The late pop king's Thriller album has been certified 33x platinum...
This new status makes an all time best selling artiste in the history of music.
Michael Jackson who passed away at 50 may be gone, but his music still lives on with an inreasing effect in the global music industry.
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I haven't borrowed a book from our local library for over a year. This has nothing to do with the library in question or its resources or the books contained therein.
It's simply that with the advent of smartphones and e readers libraries are not as prevalent in my life as they once were.
Return to my childhood however and it was an entirely different scenario. I would visit my local library at least once a week to borrow and return books and spend hours browsing the book racks, diligently spinning them in hopes of discovering an author I hadn't already come upon.
If I had a project for school and my text books or the trusty Encyclopedia Britannica we had at home didn't cover the subject in enough detail I would scour the library for additional information in their reference books that were kept in a special section you had to have special permission to access.
When I look at the way technology has advanced just in the last 10 years with Internet usage and search engines it's a staggeringly different homework search when my children come to it.
There were many times Google could have helped me swot for an exam or pick a quote to polish a project to my advantage and the entire process would have been far quicker I'm sure.
But when I need to do research now and turn to Google or some such search engine I know the history behind the information I'm looking for because I found it for myself in a library years earlier.
Social media and instant messaging and the entire wealth of information at your fingertips is one thing but it cannot take away the richness of unearthing knowledge for yourself. That relief and quickening of the pulse that accompanies treasure gleaned from books.
Sadly that's something some children today will never experience and that's a sad fact for all of us…….


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Have any of you heard of the California YSA conference?
I'm a little behind on knowing about it, but I think it's going to be really cool.
I don't think anything like this has happened before.
Anyway, I registered tonight. One minute ago, actually.
I hope, if you are a young single adult in California, that you have registered too.
You probably have. You're always on top of things like that.


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Bergen from every side.
My view of MY Heritage city.
Every day.
In BERGEN,
In Hordaland,
In Norway.
Ah, winter... looks lovely!Smart cars, on the other hand, look overwhelmed in the snow.
Neat picture! We have snow here in Virginia too.
Smart cars looked overwhelmed by everything, but this one looks like an alien!


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>One of the downfalls of having twins is that you don't get to spend a lot of one-to-one time with your children, so today I decided that I would take DD with me to work. I would normally take both of them with me everywhere, but as we were going be sourcing fabrics for our next
collection today, it just wouldn't be convenient to push a double pram around.
As DD is 4-5lbs lighter than DS, I decided she was going to be the lucky one. DS went to work with daddy, designing fabulous interiors.
I put DD in her carrier and off we went, grabbed my bag and off we went. So this is what it is like to only have one child…. !
It was amazing to be just with DD, especially with her being the more well-behaved and quiet one, she often gets over-shadowed by her twin brother. I am aware of it and try to be more fair but sometimes it is hard, as after all, there is only one of me and two of them. Anyway, today I was all hers.
After our meeting, we went for lunch at Yo Sushi at Harvey Nichols. I really craved sushi and figured DD would find it fun to watch the food on the conveyor belt go by, which she did. She had an avocado hand-roll, some plain rice, salmon teriyaki and fruit.
Once we had finished a relatively relaxing lunch, we carried on working. DD helped me pick some more fabrics and buttons for our next collection.
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Yesterday, Miss E had a preschool field trip to a farm, where the kids were going to see cows and pigs, etc. etc. Anyone who knows Miss E knows that this is right up her alley. She LURVES stuff like this. She was worried last week that she'd miss it because she'd end up getting strep, like Miss A (wait, I don't think I mentioned that...yeah, Miss A came up positive on the "long" strep test after passing the quick one last Friday. She's feeling better, but it was quite a comedy of errors getting her antibiotics to her as most pharmacies close at 6pm on Saturdays, which is when we found out about the strep. We did not know that at the time they close so early. We do now. sigh. Wal-mart's pharmacy opens up at 10am on Sundays. We also did not know that at the time but do now. ANYWAY!), but she prevailed and went off happily to school.
When Super J came home with her around noon, I excitedly asked her what happened and what did she see. She told me that she saw all sorts of pigs and piglets! And cows! And a pig snorted at her! Like this! And she blew her nose all over the place. It was gross, but funny.
Then Super J said he had something interesting to tell me, at which point Miss E said that she couldn't get out of the "race car." At least, that's what I thought she said. No. It turns out it was much more involved than that.
She had ridden over to the farm in DRAKE'S car (he's a fellow student). Oh. That makes more sense. But here's the kicker of the story. Once they arrived, all the other kids proceeded to get out of the van, but Miss E couldn't get the bottom part of the 5 point harness seat belt to unlatch (she had ended up sitting in someone else's car seat during a change from driving from one part of the farm to the next, because she normally just sits in her own booster seat, which HAD been sent with her). Unfortunately, NO ONE NOTICED that she never got out of the van and left her...in the van...with the doors locked and windows rolled up. For at least FIFTEEN MINUTES!
Here's where I have problems:
WHAT!!!!!!! Did Drake's mom not realize that she didn't have ALL THE KIDS THAT WENT INTO HER CAR, OUT OF THE CAR????
Thank heavens it was overcast outside and not a hot day. I mean, seriously! The thought makes me sick, even now.
On the other hand, thank heavens she was locked in the car and not abducted. This sounds terrible, but SERIOUSLY! No one noticed that she was not with "the group" for 15 minutes????? Can you imagine the head start someone could have gotten with a little girl for 15 extra minutes? Who was watching my child?
And here's what makes me sad. No one noticed she wasn't with the group for 15 minutes. Where were her friends? Where were the people who said, "Where is Miss E?" My sweet little Miss E, who is beautiful and has the kindest, sweetest heart. Who wouldn't want to be her friend? Admittedly, she does indeed live in her own little world much of the time. She's very content to play some imaginary game (often including rocks and literal trash she finds interesting) solitarily for long periods of time. She can get obsessive about things that drive me to the edge. But she's not invisible...is she? How could they not notice she wasn't there for 15 minutes???
Suffice to say, her teacher felt terrible when she found her, tear-streaked, in the car (her teacher was walking by and heard her). Suffice to say that it's a good thing that Super J picked her up and not me. Suffice to say that I've had a delayed reaction about this and am now pretty darn mad and have made an appointment to go in and talk to the teacher. Not to rip into her, but to try to find out how to prevent this from happening again and to try to figure out how we can help Miss E, so that this doesn't happen to her again.
Thankfully, she is safe and sound. She doesn't seem worse for the wear or the experience...But it could have been SUCH a TERRIBLE mistake. TERRIBLE. At this sweet little four year old's expense. And it makes me mad and sad at the same time.


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I am in London. I have been here for a little over three days. Well, actually I am in Wimbeldon because that is where my friend Dovie lives. Another dear friend of mine (who never reads my blog and I am fine with this fact), Catha, is also here. Furthermore, the legendary Jason Bailey joined in on the fun. He is now gone, but Dovie, Catha, and I are just chillin' on this lovely Sunday morning (which is actually closer to Sunday noon).
Anyway, we have had a right jolly good time so far. As soon as I arrived, Jason, Catha, and I went to see the famed Wimbeldon tennis courts. We went to the museum... and because we were with Bailey, we ended up going for free. Things like that just happen with him. When I used to live in England, I loved watching the Wimbeldon tournament on TV, so going there was definitely a good way to kick off the trip.
That night we went to the Absolute Ice Bar. (Renee - you would love this place). It is a bar where everything is made of ice - even the glasses. They give you a poncho to wear during your 50 minute stay... and the price of admission includes a drink. Good times, indeed! Following the Ice Bar, we had a delicious dinner... then we topped the night off with a visit to a pub.
The highlight of the trip so far has been our visit to see some of Dovie's friends who live in Brighton (which is right on the southern coast). Meeting and visiting with this couple was such a blessing. They truly just love life... and Jesus. They opened up their home to us... cooked for us... and cracked us up with stories and whatnot. Great times.
OK... this post is far too long already. Stay tuned for part two. Of course, at my current posting rate, that may not turn up until mid-fall.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Baxter... I will take you down to foggy Londontown.
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I'm so glad you got to meet I&C. They're great folks! Enjoy the rest of your time there!
- 8:34 AM, June 15, 2008
- Jen said...
The nerd in me wants to say that Brighton is in Pride and Prejudice. The cool person I actually am says to be quiet. Which part of me wins? :)
And give Cath a hug for me!
- 8:49 PM, June 15, 2008
I LOVE the Ice Bar concept! Maybe we can open one up? The bigger question is what did you drink?? Can't wait to hear all about your trip during our next visit!
renee :)
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Why, yes, of course I'm glad I immigrated to Canada from the US Deep South when I did (October 2005). It was the right decision for me and my family; and the best thing I've ever done; even if many years too late.
But it was a lot more than simply a change of residence. It marked a change in me; who I choose to be, and how I choose to live the remainder of my life. And, as strange as this sounds, I have to credit America's headlong foolish rush into a series of unnecessary wars for that change in me. Without the wars; I'd have remained the man I was, "happy as a pig in slop" as they say in Alabama.
Too often. people told me that I should "get over it." In other words, return to who (or even where) I was before. Never.
I remain absolutely antiwar, but America's wars aren't what's important; they only reveal the truth about Americans. The wars didn't change most Americans like they changed me; they only brought to the surface, and made visible, what was already there. Something I discerned for the first time; something I want absolutely no part of.
And to those who say, "What have you accomplished, what have you changed?", I'd say this: I changed the most important thing of all. In the end, the most important thing I did, and certainly the most difficult, was this: I changed myself.
Here's the bottom line: I will no longer give my unquestioning allegiance to politicians, to institutions, to political parties, and to religious leaders, especially those who have betrayed my loyalty and trust. I'll go with my gut from now on. All morality is ultimately individual. Allowing institutions to define moral behaviour for us, refusing to live by a personal standard, is not merely "amoral" ... it is immoral. It is a choice to abandon morality as a basis for one's actions and to yield the moral responsibility for one's choices to another person or an institution.
By the way, where were America's churches when all this went down? Most (at least in the Bible Belt) were in lockstep with the national sentiment of hate-filled desire for blood ... for vengeance. Their role was to assure Americans that evil had God's "stamp of approval." That was a lie ... a blasphemous lie, and I'm using the term "blasphemous" both literally and accurately.
The wrong choices that most Christians made were made because they were easy to make. In my opinion, the right choice for Christians should never been an easy one. The basic tenet of the Christian faith is love for others, and Christians should be immune to all appeals to the basest emotions of humans (hate, envy, greed, prejudice, and the desire for vengeance). They were not, because society had made the wrong choices easier; the right choices (like speaking out against evil-doers) very, VERY difficult 15 years ago.
Why do I kick against a stone wall? I guess I'm actually trying to make those hard choices a little easier for others, and more socially-acceptable – choices that better society ... that better the living conditions and the prospects for the greater number. I don't want others to have to endure the pain I have. And, maybe along the way, I might save the lives and limbs of a few young men and women who are being used to advance the purposes of those who care nothing for them. Americans were easily led into an extended series of wars that, as most wars do, will be manifested most vividly in the blood shed by the sons and daughters of poor men serving to make rich men richer. [the US is currently involved in direct military action in at least seven countries; four more than when President Obama took office eight years ago].
Where were the good Americans when all this started, and when all of this could most easily have been prevented? I believe they were learning to listen to voices that "tickle the ear." Those voices say, "The messages of peace, love, kindness, compassion, self-sacrifice and humility are old-fashioned, quaint, we can't afford them anymore. It is your destiny to own more, and to think of yourself first ... not to worry about the plight of others or even the world you leave your children's children." I know, because I heard that message, I heard that lie, and I loved it. I loved it, and I lived it for 45 years. I'm no longer that man and never will be again.


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Saturday, February 20, 2010
BooBoo Sings Under the Sea
Video I found while browsing the web. This version of BooBoo Stewart singing will be featured on the Disney Mania 7 Album. AWW i cant wait until Eclipse :]
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