This loop can be an easy day tour, or can be a several days trip depending on one's mood. I first did this on a day tour, eventually staying overnight in some of the towns. I am writing this as a 2-part blog, dividing the destinations between Laguna and Rizal. This part covers Laguna.
As a Metro Manila resident, I always start this trip on the South Luzon Expressway, more commonly called SLEX, going all the way to the Calamba exit. Good thing I have an e-pass since the regular exit lanes are so clogged up with the weekend holiday crowd.
Otherwise, I would have had to queue with the hundreds of cars and buses on the exit. Just as well that the view up ahead is fantastic – the mythical Mt. Makiling. I have spent quite a few nights up there. Either in jamborees when I was a boy scout, and then as a scoutmaster, and also with friends in resorts past UP Los Banos.
The house is now painted mint green, and in fact was a the subject of several commentaries, calling the repainting a desecration. Looking at it now, it doesn't look bad. I figure those who never saw the original grey paint would not even mind. Visitors do not pay an entrance fee, but a donation box is prominent at the bottom of the grand staircase, as you sign the guest book. The old furniture in the largely cordoned-off sections of the house are essentially reproductions, if not really old ones donated to the museum to complete the feel of the era.
There is a "bahay kubo" at the backyard, a replica of the playhouse enjoyed by the Rizal children when they were just growing up. Vistors can also use toilet facilities at the end of the compound, and buy Rizal memorabilia and other Laguna souvenirs at the shop near the entrance and exit gate.
This road that stretches about 6 kilometers is dotted with hot spring resorts, with maybe hundreds of "agents" holding "private pool" signages on the roadside. Start early to avoid the very heavy traffic and not spoil your journey.
Families who troop to the various resorts can buy just about everything on the road, including charcoal for their grill, and ice for their drinks. Also floaties for the kids.
And a lot of food, especially Colette's buco pie which seems to have mushroomed and can be seen within a few steps from each other. The best buco pie, however, is in Los Banos, on the left side of the road just before the turn off to UP Los Banos. The name of the store is "D'Original", and should not be mistaken for all other "original" attached to the other brands, When I passed this morning, the queue to the counter actually snakes, while the nearby buco pie store had no customers at all.
Almost in front is "Heaven's Garden', just so you will know where this famous store is.
From the end of Los Banos, all the way to the towns of Bay, Pila, and Victoria are gardens selling mostly colorful bougainvillas on both sides of the road. I have made several visits to these gardens in the past, buying a pick-up load of ornamental plants. they cost about half those of the gardens in Silang, Cavite.
For a hearty lunch, there is Kamayan sa Palaisdaan sa Bay, a branch of the more famous restaurant in Tayabas, Quezon. The place is charming, with picnic huts on the water. native delicacies like ginataang suso, ginataang hipon. inihaw na talong, and giant pla plas that can be grilled, fried, or ginataan, too. You won't miss the restaurant, the signboard is prominent on the road, to your right.
This is a major stop that can stretch to an overnight trip. Pagsanjan is famous for the falls and the boatride upstream, "shooting the rapids".To ride the boats, turn right at the road when you hit the Pagsanjan Church.
The resorts and loading areas are all there, in Barangay Pinagsanjan.
Alas, the 2 best hotels I used to go to are both closed – – – Rapids Hotel, and La Corona de Pagsanjan. In fact, both have been closed for a year now.
On this trip, I went to PK Paradise Resort, owned by Koreans, and with 98% of its clientele, naturally, Koreans. I had a Korean buffet lunch for P250, plus P50 for a bottle of soda.
Kimchi on the side comes with the buffet. Food was good, and was actually prepared as a fusion of Korean and Filipino cuisine. There was a Korean dish that to me seemed like adobo, and there was lumpiang shanghai, too. After lunch, I saw the Korean group off, ready to shoot the rapids.
The fee is P1,000 per person, plus P250 for the ride on the raft at the end of the trip. The raft takes you directly to the area where the falls dumps gallons and gallons of water on all the visitors while on a raft. This is a very exciting experience, and must not be missed. make sure you have dry clothes to wear after the wet boat ride. And be sure to have plastic bags for your mobile phones and your wallet.
I was attended to by Odie Pabilonia. You can contact PK Paradise Resort at (+6349) 5015493. Since PK does not have accommodations, I inquired about the best overnight accommodations.
The top destination in Pagsanjan today is Pagsanjan Falls Lodge.
The next best accommodation is Pagsanjan Palm Spring Resort. They are on facebook and can be viewed by anyone.
From Pagsanjan, visitors can stop in Lumban and check out the many shops offering intricate embroidery. Couturiers and fashionistas from Manila make trips to Lumban for handcrafted designs for barongs and wedding gowns.
Lake Caliraya is a man-made lake built during President Quezon's time, to dam the water from the river in order to harness hydro-electric power. Today, it is a major rest and recreation area, with numerous resorts offering various watersports activities like boating, jet skiing, windsurfing, and fishing. While I have seen all the resorts from the outside, i have only been to Lagos del Sol, acknowledged as the best accommodation facility in Caliraya, and referred to by others as 5-star. Even if it technically is not. I went to Lagos del Sol on a company outing and thoroughly enjoyed my stay. They have hotel rooms at P2,900 and beautiful lakeside cabanas for P4, 800. They have complete resort facilities – – – swimming pool facing the lake, tennis, billiards, darts, and water sports facilities. Phone (+632) 9104203 to inquire, or to reserve a room. In fact, I would rather stay in Lagos del Sol than in Pagsanjan if I am on this loop.
Don't miss the Japanese Garden, built in cooperation with the Japanese government to honor the Filipinos and the Japanese who died in World War II. It is an 11 hectare park with huge trees, a pond with lilies and lotuses, and a Yamashita shrine. Picnic tables are available within the park. Entrance fee is P10.
Before crossing the mountains to the Rizal towns, explore Paete. Paete is a must visit for the wood carving and the "taka". In my previous trips to Paete, I have bought excellent work by the artist Baldemor, one depicting a boy in a siesta, and another depicting 2 men on a boat, fishing.
If you are not in the market for artwork, then Paete will still be an interesting stuff for knick knacks, and early shopping for Christmas presents will definitely cross your mind.
Mabitac is the last town of Laguna that extends up to the mountains, sharing boundaries with the town of Pililla in Rizal.
Read about the Rizal towns within the Loop in Part 2 of this blog.


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'Life After Beth' Serves Up Gobs of Spoofy Horror
Later in the month, for something more serious, there's Catherine Breillat's "Abuse of Weakness." This somewhat autobiographical narrative by the famed French feminist author-director includes a brilliant performance by Isabelle Huppert.
Aubrey Plaza stars in \"Life After Beth.\"
(WOMENSENEWS)–"Life After Beth," which opens tomorrow, is a horror spoof starring Aubrey Plaza in the title role of Beth, a young woman who dies suddenly and then resurrects. Her grief-stricken beau (Dane DeHaan) assumes that they'll resume their relationship as it was, only with heightened appreciation. But that's not the way it turns out. The dialogue is ripe with lots of sophomoric "eat me" zombie jokes that are still somehow funny. More laughs than screams, but no shortage of gore.
Also Opening Aug. 15
"The Giver," based on Lois Lowry's young adult novel, is a futuristic sci-fi thriller in which a young man (Brenton Thwaites) comes of age to discover that his community's dark secrets–kept as memories by the titular "Giver" (Jeff Bridges)–endanger him and his loved ones. Now he must escape his closed community, a goal never before achieved. If you're one of the 10 million people who bought the bestselling book you probably know how it all turns out.
Opening Aug. 22
Catherine Breillat's "Abuse of Weakness" is the famed French feminist auteur director's somewhat autobiographical narrative. The lead character Maud suddenly suffers a debilitating stroke and, in her compromised state, a man takes advantage of her and appropriates much of her fortune. The story rolls out with few surprises as Maud, a visionary filmmaker, sees her independence and determination curbed by sudden physical disability and emotional vulnerability. She casts a con man (Kool Shen) in her film and quickly falls prey to his manipulative charm. Their relationship is an edgy, tension-filled roller coaster ride that soars and plummets with Maud's emotional and physical condition. "Abuse of Weakness" isn't one of Breillat's best films, but Isabelle Huppert's portrayal of Maud is brilliant.
"If I Stay" is a femme-centric coming-of-age drama about Mia Hall (Chloe Grace Moretz), a classical music protégé in the throes of a teenage struggle to choose between future studies at Julliard and the bliss of first and true love with her boyfriend (Jamie Blackly). All that is eclipsed when a catastrophic car crash changes her prospects and brings on deeper considerations of life or death. Scripted by Shauna Cross and based on Gayle Forman's bestselling young adult novel, the beautifully realized film is heartachingly moving.
In "To Be Takei," filmmaker Jennifer Kroot brings us a show-biz treat of a documentary. It takes us into the inner circle of actor/director/humorist George Takei, best known for playing Sulu on "Star Trek," and gives the ever-popular 70-something star a platform for talking about his life, career, activism and lifestyle. That includes his experiences in a Japanese American internment camp, his relationship with his husband Brad Takei and his phenomenal status on Facebook, where he is "liked" by more than 7 million followers. Trekkie co-stars William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and others also populate the documentary, reminiscing about the beloved, acclaimed and extremely entertaining Takei.
In "The Congress" Israeli writer-director Ari Folman mixes live action and animation as he adapts Stnislav Lem's provocative "The Futurological Congress" into a thrilling sci-fi drama about the digitalization of celebrity personalities. Robin Wright stars as herself, a successful actress who's offered the (make believe, of course) opportunity to reap much-needed financial reward and remain forever young and popular with fans by granting a movie studio contractual rights to digitalize her image and behavior, and cast her digitalized self in future films of their choice. (This is, by the way, already technologically achievable.) The impact on her real life is unexpectedly troubling. Then, fast forward 20 years, when her contract expires and Wright, now an immortally young star but also an elderly woman, faces real-life reentry into the celebrity realm. Folman's engaging conceit, integration of live action and animation and storytelling skills are uniquely and utterly compelling. Wright's refined live and motion capture performance is completely captivating.
"The Last of Robin Hood" is another narrative about celebrity, aging and public perception – and this one is truth-based. An aged Errol Flynn (Kevin Klein) is in the spotlight, facing public scrutiny and outrage about his swashbuckling final affair with young Beverly Aadland (Dakota Fanning), an aspiring Hollywood ingénue whose ambition-fueled behavior was guided by her fame-obsessed mother (Susan Sarandon). It's not a new story, but this version is a classic that beautifully captures characters, reveals Hollywood intrigue and details time and place. It's a tremendously satisfying catch for serious and casual.
"Life of Crime" is an entertaining comedy based on an Elmore Leonard story. A rich housewife (Jennifer Aniston) is kidnapped and held for ransom by a pair of inept criminals (John Hawkes and Yasiin Bay–aka Mos Def) whose plans for a quick getaway are dashed when they find out that her husband (Tim Robbins) doesn't want her back. We've seen previous iterations of the plot, but this version is fresh and refreshingly funny, thanks to Leonard's kinky, quirky twists and a superb cast. See it just for fun.
In addition to covering film for Women's eNews, Jennifer Merin writes about documentaries for About.com and is president of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, a nonprofit organization of the leading female film journalists in the U.S. and Canada. She is also a member of the prestigious Broadcast Film Critics Association.
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I'm an Athletic Supporter!
If you're a sports fan like me — and in North America, I suppose — this is a magical time of year. At least, it's one of the magical times of year, when three of the four major U.S. sports are happening at once.
The four major U.S. sports being baseball, football, basketball, and — if we're feeling charitable — hockey. Hockey's had a rough decade or so of things, though, and hasn't really kept up with the other kids in the class. They didn't even play the games last season — some sort of strike, or boycott, or visa issue or something, I expect. I wasn't really paying attention, honestly. If 'major U.S. sports' was a foot, hockey would be the pinky toe. Or maybe just the toenail. Or possibly a bunion. There's a little bit of catching up to do there.
And yes, I'm aware that there are other sports out there. The (rest of the) civilized world is all about cricket, for instance, and "football which we call soccer, apparently just to reinforce all of those 'arrogant difficult American bastard' steroetypes" is popular, too. Past that, and the sports I mentioned above, I'm not sure what the world is into. Maybe the Patagonians watch nothing but jai alai. Or the Estonians love nothing more than a skeet shooting tournament. And for all I know, the Djibouti National Tiddlywinks Champion is a hero to millions. Anything's possible.
I'm also well aware that other 'sport crazes' are sweeping the States these days. People tune in to watch auto racing, and figure skating, and dog grooming, and cow tipping, and nipple piercing, and — frankly, people will watch just about anything that smells and walks and quacks like a competition. Especially if there's betting involved. But gambling doesn't make somethig like 'candlepin bowling' a real sport, any more than me watching my wife undress makes her a stripper. But Lord knows I've tried.
Anyway, it's nice — for some of us — to be able to turn on the TV at any hour of the day or night and be treated to a sporting match of some kind. There are some months when that's just not the case. For instance, June. Baseball's keeping the faith in June, but what else is going on, sporting-wise? Golf? Meh. Tennis? Yawn. Beach volleyball is nice — but that's not a sport. Technically, that's soft-core porn, so it doesn't count.
November, though, is positively teeming with sports action. NFL football. NBA hoops. NHL hockey. And college versions of all three, too, as an extra bonus. Not that November is the ideal month for, say, college basketball. March is much better for that. November is the time when teams from big universities like Duke, Michigan, and Stanford play powerhouse schools like South Carolina A&T, St. Xavier Mary Catherine State U, and the Northeastern Idaho Barber College Extension School for Prematurely Balding Frenchmen. Ah, who can forget those Stanford-NIBCESPBF games? Instant classics, they are.
Still, hoops is being played. Lopsidedly and sadly at times, but there's roundball on the hardwood, and that's what counts. And the other sports are in full swing, too. It's entirely possible to spend an entire waking November weekend on the couch, switching from college football to college hoops, from pro ball to the NHL, and then to NFL football — delicious football — to wrap things up. And I should know; that's basically how I just spent my November weekend. Jealous much?
Of course, the problem now is tomorrow. After pressing my assprint into the cushions of the couch for the past thirty-six hours or so, now I'm expected to go be productive. Without TV, or sports, or beer, or even cheese doodles — all of the things that make the weekend warm, wild, and wonderful. Frankly, I'm not sure I'm up to the critical reasoning that work requires.
(This post so far should be ample proof of that. I haven't seen this much incoherent babbling since we visited grandma in the Alzheimers ward. And at least she didn't mention her bunions. I'm so sorry.)
Maybe a few hours of sleep will do the trick. Right now, all I can think about are yard-per-carry averages, power play percentages, and rebound-per-game stats. The work-capable bits of my brain shut off somewhere around halftime of the third game today. No telling when they'll power back up — or whether I'll find them some day, cold and limp and dead on my pillow.
(It wouldn't be the first time; last March Madness, I watched twelve hours straight of NCAA basketball games. When I woke up the next morning, my pillow was soggy, and I couldn't taste 'salty' any more. I think the neurons committed hari kiri somehow. Losers.)
Anyway, it's pretty clearly time for bed, so I'm wrapping this train wreck up. Here's hoping we have dreams tonight of third-down completions and five-hole slapshots, of pick-and-roll layups and tight nickel defenses. Cherish these times, sports fans — and remember them in June, when you're stuck watching reruns of Gilligan's Island at three in the afternoon because the baseball games haven't started yet. Perish the thought.
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Funny that you mention it, but I actually WAS the Djibouti National Tiddlywinks Champion at one time. Three years running. Untouchable! They wrote a song about me, yanno. But that was long ago and far away and it's a part of my life that I really don't like to talk about thankyouverymuch so I'll move on.
Not much of a basketball fan (seems like a bunch of freakishly tall dudes running around in their underwear playing a game that has clearly become too easy for today's athlete) but I do lurve (are people still saying 'Lurve' or did I miss that boat? Lurve? Boat? Lurve Boat? Haha!! Oh man, I slay me!)….what was I saying?…Oh yeah, I do, indeed lurve (snorf) me some football and hockey. Ahhh, sweet sweet hockey. It's like a breath of fresh air. And a little like a wooden stick upside the head as well! Good stuff, man. And football? Well, that's just life, man. What's life without football, right? Oh wait, I guess that's called baseball season. Anyway, you get the idea. My point is, I'll be over next weekend to share some of those Cheez Doodles! I'll bring the beer.
RRaccoon says:
"That's soft-core porn, so it doesn't count." Doesn't count? Are you NUTS? If porn isn't a sport I want no part of your world.
reverend gisher says:
what nuts are you holding up?


The Mongolian-Manchurian grassland covers an area of 887,300 square kilometers (342,600 sq mi). This Palearctic temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion of the Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands Biome, forms a large crescent around the Gobi Desert, extending across central and eastern Mongolia into the eastern portion of Inner Mongolia and eastern and central Manchuria, and then southwest across the North China Plain. To the northeast and north, the Selenge-Orkhon and Daurian forest steppes form a transition zone between the grassland and the forests of Siberia to the north. On the east and southeast, the grasslands transition to temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, including the Manchurian mixed forests, Northeast China Plain deciduous forests, and Central China loess plateau mixed forests. On the southwest, the grasslands extend to the Yellow River, across which is the Ordos Plateau steppe. It is between the Altai Mountains in the west and the Greater Khingan Region in the east.
The law of the steppes allowed people to take what they wished - but that ensured fighting between tribes. The history of Genghis Khan records that he believed one cannot fight a battle one cannot win. On the other hand, a determined person can accomplish great things.
The climate is temperate. They have hot summers and cold winters. It is pretty dry because there is little rain so, only select animals can live here. Their seasons are fall, winter, spring, and summer.
In the winter the grass becomes dry and very flammable. This is why wildfires are very common to grasslands and can harm its species. It burns the grass and trees and as the grass will grow back quickly, the trees do not. That is why there are not many trees in grasslands. There are also many droughts in the grasslands because of the heat in summer. Scientists think that if it wasn't for these two environmental issues, grasslands may be tropical rainforests.
The majority of people in the steppe are nomads called Mongolians. Families in mongolian steppe live in "gers" which is a large portable tent. Mongolians are also master horse riders so many families own many horses that roam the steppe. The people in the steppe use the animals there for there food and drink. They also have a very prominent musical culture with a wide variety of traditional Mongolian songs.
The dominant flora consists of medium to tall grasslands, dominated by feather grass (Stipa baicalensis, S. capillata, and S. grandis), sheep's fescue (Festuca ovina), Aneurolepidium chinense, Filifolium sibiricuman, and Cleistogenes sqarrosa. The drier regions surrounding the Gobi host drought-tolerant grasses, together with forbs and low, spiny shrubs.
The southwestern slopes of the Greater Khingan range support pockets of broadleaf deciduous forest, of either Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica), or a mixture of poplar (Populus davidiana and P. suaveolens), Siberian silver birch (Betula platyphylla), and willow (Salix rorida).
Sheepgrass - It is perennial.
Lyme Grass - It can provide food for the animals who need it.
The brown eared-pheasant (Crossoptilon mantchuricum) is the sole endemic bird in the ecoregion.
The gray wolf lives here.
The Mongolian gazelle is numerous here.
The Przewalski's horse has been reintroduced here.
Asian badger - They are commonly infected and they are bitten by parasites lice, fleas, and ticks. They have strong, long claws well-adapted for digging their homes and for food.
Mongolian Gazelle - It provides a nice food supply for animals and will affect the plants they graze in. They can jump very high and far to escape predators they might encounter. Their small size allows them to adapt more easily to changes in their habitat.
Steppe Lemming - They are a very important prey base. Their presence in an area can limit the presence of other voles. Unfortunately, they can also very easily reduce vegetation if necessary. They are very good at burrowing in the terrain. Have a very big migration when it may get too cold.
The Mongolian-Manchurian grassland faces threat from human expansion, though in most of its eastern area, it has not been altered by agriculture as much as its reaches in western Asia, or similar grasslands in North America.
^ "Genghis Khan - Life on the Steppes". AwesomeStories.com. Retrieved 2018-01-10.
^ "Structure of threats to steppe biome in Russia - Conservation of steppes in Russia".
"Mongolian-Manchurian grassland". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
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Sic Alps - Napa Asylum - Albums - Reviews - Soundblab
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum
by Tom Doyle Rating:8 Release Date:2011-01-24 Label: Drag City
Napa Asylum is the latest release from lo-fi rockers Sic Alps. Created by Mike Donovan from The Ropers and Adam Stonehouse of The Hospitals in 2004, their press release suggests that since then, they've "…been sic-sagging towards resembled group-hood". After Stonehouse's departure, and with Matt Hartman from Henry's Dress and Noel Von Harmonson from Comets on Fire also drafted in, their mission statement seems to be "pedal to the delay metal".
The 22 tracks of Napa Asylum ebb and flow like a tide, breaking gently in waves of fuzz, melody and delayed discord. Such are the nature of the songs - flitting in and out before you've even necessarily had a chance to begin to digest them - there's no surprise in saying that the album does initially require some work to get in to. However, after a few listens, you're rewarded with the subtle flashes of colour that would have been missed otherwise.Mike Donovan's voice is perhaps what sets Sic Alps apart from other similar bands, in that he sounds at once fragile yet defiant; his voice often provides the main structural point of a song, yet he doesn't revel in the spotlight, and melodies disappear as soon as they are seemingly stumbled upon.
With 22 tracks, some can't help but feel a little rehashed, but there are definite highlights; 'Cement Surfboard' sounds like a menacing summer anthem, while 'My My Lai' (named after a massacre of Vietnamese troops by American soldiers in 1968) drips with dread, with unsettling percussion and haunting vocals providing an uncomfortable listen. 'The First White Man to Touch California Soil' is a straight-up rock track, and perhaps the most 'traditional' song on the whole album, with a fantastic guitar riff and vocals that suggest Win Butler in leather trousers.
The song that follows, 'Super Max Lament on the Way', is beautifully tender, with minor percussion and string synths complimenting Donovan's breaking vocals to create something akin to finding a trap door into Sic Alps' weirdly wonderful world. 'Wake Up, It's Over' feels all too short at 1:36, yet it says something about Sic Alps' quality that they can effectively drop in a track as startlingly bleak and original as this and simply move on, as if it was a mere afterthought.
As such, it's difficult to give the album a definitive score; Napa Asylum isn't so much a cohesive album, but a sense that you've got your ear up against a garage door, secretly listening in on a band working on what their sound could, or should be. In truth, you'll get as much, or as little from this album as you're willing to put in.
This could be perceived as criticism, but the sound of, and the method behind the album truly works; there's a real sense that Sic Alps are putting themselves on the line and showing you what they've got: no after-effects; no fancy studio magic; no narrative - just a band doing what they're doing, and doing it well. While you may not initially recall many of the Napa Asylum's songs, the feel of the album stays with you, and drags you back again and again.
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Q: Narrowing a resultset by comparison of records Hi i have this resultset from a query to a X table
1 | JOHN
2 | JOHN D
3 | JOHN D.
4 | JOHN DO
5 | JOHN DOE
6 | JOHN DD
7 | JOHN DOE.
8 | JOHNY

I need to narrow this result set to only one result among this coincidences i need to take as a valid result the most coincident record. So i thought the correct algorithm for this would be like this:

*

*Check the first word coincidence among records from left to right ( JOHN [seven times])

*Check the second word coincidence among records from left to right ( DOE [twice] )

*Determine "JOHN DOE" is the most repeated value, OK

A: Well, this is computationally expensive.  The approach I would take is a self-join on the fields to see the overlap from each field compared to every other:
select x.name, count(*)
from x cross join
     x x2
where left(x.name, length(x.name)) = left(x2.name, length(x.name))
group by x.name
order by count(*) desc

I notice that you are getting a count of 7 for "John" instead of "8".  I suspect that you don't want to match "Johny".  For that, let's add an additional clause:
select x.name, count(*)
from x cross join
     x x2
where left(x.name, length(x.name)) = left(x2.name, length(x.name)) and
      (length(x.name = x2.name) or substr(x2.name, length(x.name)+1, 1) = ' ')
group by x.name
order by count(*) desc

For this to work, it assumes that you have the "shortest" version in the data.  So, it won't look for "John" if "John" is not a data row.

A: how about this?
SELECT  Name
FROM    tableName
GROUP   BY Name
HAVING  COUNT(*) > 1

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\subsection{Android component}
\label{subsec:component-android}

% -------------------------------- Android

Our application consists of the following main components:

\begin{itemize}
	\item an action bar at the top of user's display; on the left side of it, there should be our application's name displayed; on the right side: action items that enable the user to create/import/close a mind map,
	\item a view with tabs, that lets the user switch between currently opened maps and a list of all maps available,
	\item a view with a list of maps available to the user consisting of vertically positioned clickable areas with map title and date of its last modification; a click/tap on such an area (re)opens a tab with proper mind map,
	\item a custom view for displaying a mind map in its tab; this contains many:\begin{itemize}
		\item mind node views consisting of a text field with node's content and a button to add children to the node,
		\item views of arrows that connect children to their parents.
	\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\Cref{fig:mockup-maplist} below shows a \emph{mock-up} (a sketch/plan) of the main, initial screen of the Android application. As planned, the user can:

\begin{itemize}
	\item choose an existing map to edit,
	\item select and delete a map by long-pressing it,
	\item add a new map,
	\item import an existing XMind map,
	\item switch to any other opened map using the tabs at the top.
\end{itemize}

\begin{figure}[h]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{graphics-mockup-list}
	\caption{Mock-up of mind map list, initial screen.}
	\label{fig:mockup-maplist}
\end{figure}

\Cref{fig:mockup-mindmap} shows a similar preview of a map view: a screen that is shown to the user when they choose/add/import a map in \cref{fig:mockup-maplist}. Here, the user can:

\begin{itemize}
	\item edit content of any `mind node' by tapping on it,
	\item remove any node (and its subtree) by long-pressing it and selecting `remove',
	\item move any node (reassign its parent node) by long-pressing it and selecting `change parent', and then tapping on the new parent,
	\item add a child node to any node by tapping on `+' button next to the parent node,
	\item see (in real-time) changes introduced by other editors currently editing this map.
\end{itemize}

\begin{figure}[h]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{graphics-mockup-map}
	\caption{Mock-up of mind map view.}
	\label{fig:mockup-mindmap}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Akka applications}
\label{subsec:proj-component-akka}
% -------------------------------- Akka

Akka, on the other hand, is used as a backend for the mobile application (and---possibly---for \emph{any other} client app yet-to-come into existence). It enables all mobile devices with the application installed to share maps and collaborate on them in real-time. Several REST web services are implemented using Spray.io (a REST interface to Akka) for communication between Android devices and actor system on the server-side.

Each REST-connected mobile device gets its own actor. Instant bidirectional communication between devices is achieved by means of `long-polling': mobile app initiates a connection with a REST service which does not respond until its actor receives a message from another actor. See \cref{subsec:android-akka-comm} for details about Android--Akka communication protocol.

Our Akka application consists of components described below.

\begin{description}
	\item[Actor system]{provided by Akka framework; an environment in which all actors (of custom and system origin) live.}
	\item[Main supervisor actor]{provided by Akka; tightly integrated with the actor system. There is always one such actor for each system.}
	\item[Squeryl]{being an object-relational mapper and domain specific language for Scala and SQL databases (including PostgreSQL). Squeryl puts great emphasis on minimum verbosity and maximum type safety, as well as Don't-Repeat-Yourself principle. Created statements are validated by Scala compiler (this includes types of field). Statements that pass compilation won't fail at runtime~\cite{Squeryl:Intro}.}
	\item[Database interfacing actor(s)]{that provide a persistence interface for per-user actors. Currently implemented using Squeryl.}
	\item[Spray.io based REST actors]{that manage connection between Android applications and per-user actors. These actors must encapsulate bidirectional message passing on a request-response style HTTP protocol. This is somewhat of a challenge, as described in \cref{subsec:problem-longpolling}.}
	\item[Per-user actors]{that represent a particular user/connection/device to the rest of the actor system each. By separation of these and REST actors, its is possible to easily add some other front-ends to the system. Now, the only front-end is the Android application.}
	\item[Managing actor for per-user actors]{which keeps track of all per-user actors and routes messages between them. If adding user privileges were planned, there would be no such actor (as it would be highly inefficient to check all the time which user should get which event). Instead, we would use so called `data streams' that particular per-user actors would subscribe to. Any message sent to the stream would then get automatically transmitted to all subscribed actors. Therefore a stream would represent a single mind map.}
\end{description}

The main means of communication is a `message'. This is the highest form of object-oriented model. No actor methods are called directly; instead, actors send and receive messages (similarily to Erlang's lightweight processes). Messages exchanged between different server-side actors in our system are listed below.

\begin{itemize}
	\item Messages from \emph{REST actors} to \emph{per-user actors}.
	\begin{description}
		\item[CreateMindMap]{when user creates/imports a new mind map on their device.}
		\item[UpdateNode]{when user updates a particular node on their device. This update might be a content update, parent change, deletion.}
	\end{description}

	\item Messages from \emph{per-user actors} to \emph{DB actors}.
	\begin{description}
		\item[CreateMindMap]{}
		\item[UpdateContent]{}
		\item[UpdateParent]{}
	\end{description}

	\item Messages exchanged between \emph{managing actor} and \emph{per-user actors}, and also forwarded from \emph{per-user actors} to \emph{REST actors}.
	\begin{description}
		\item[UpdatedNode]{used to notify managing actor and other per-user actors about a particular changed node.}
	\end{description}
\end{itemize}

Again, see \cref{subsec:android-akka-comm} for details about Android--Akka communication protocol.

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If the name of St. Clair College's new business school in downtown Windsor has a familiar ring to it, it might be because it is named after a local billionaire businessman.
Following a $5-million donation from Barry and Stephanie Zekelman, the college has announced it will name it The Zekelman School of Business and Information Technology.
"I like the fact that this school has vocational studies as well [as academics]," Zekelman told reporters following the announcement. "It allows kids to come out of high school, pick a career, don't spend too much time in post-secondary education and actually get out into the real world and start earning money.
"We need those people. I'm having a hard time right now finding skilled trades, and skilled trades with business acumen," he continued.
Zekelman owns steel tubing businesses on both sides of the border including Atlas Tube in Harrow.
College President Patti France says it is the largest single donation in St. Clair's history, but Zekelman's contribution is not confined to just money. He will also be a fixture in the halls when it opens in September.
Zekelman is looking forward to a bit a role change.
The project has come together very quickly with talks starting mere months ago. France says the college only started looking for a location in April and signed the papers to move into One Riverside Drive in June. Over the past six weeks, the hammers have been swinging on the first floor to get the school open for its first 500 students this fall.
By January, 1,000 students will attend the school.
France says it was an easy decision to make.
The project is a bonus for the City of Windsor too which has fought for years to fill the building to capacity. It is now at 98% capacity. Mayor Drew Dilkens also pointed to another selling point; the fact it will cost municipal taxpayers nothing.
The school, which will continue to have some programs on the main campus, will boast programs in disciplines like Data Analytics for Business, International Business Management, and the new Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (Information Communication Technology) degree which will be introduced in 2019.


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This part-time unit is made up of full-time deputies and volunteers and their horses.
The horses are used for security and crowd control, as well as community policing, parades and public relations functions.
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A yard is a great way to have access to fresh air and sunshine on a daily basis, but just because you yard is small, doesn't mean it needs to be boring an unattractive. In this Ideabook, we consider some fantastic and inspirational designs that will get your garden and yard looking sensational and usable. Whether it be as a means to relax and unwind, enjoy the sunshine or even entertain family and friends, the team at homify have taken your needs into consideration. It's the details that count to making your yard a fabulous living space.
When considering décor for your modern home, it's important to have designated zones in your yard. In the example we clearly see an area for relaxing and resting, while another zone is for the socialising and entertainment aspect of your home, a place to enjoy a barbecue with loved ones. Each area has been demarcated with flooring design to suit its purposes, which is clearly visible in the deck area at the poolside.
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One sure way to make your yard look spectacular, is by incorporating a garden into the design. Think about your favourite plants, colours and scents and let your imagination take over. If you need help with getting started, you may want to contact a landscaper to assist you with your décor ideas.
It's amazing what a difference the choice of lighting can have on your backyard. By combining your décor with textured wood and stone, then adding some artistic sculptures in clay and making a creative choice with some brilliant illumination, your yard will be an instantly functional space at any time of the day or night.
Remember that when decorating your yard, it is important to consider more than just including décor and items into the design, this could gve your small yard a cluttered look. Instead, opt for water features for a fabulous effect, or go creative with wooden storage items such as these wheelbarrows, and add that fantasy effect into your yard. They make great planters for your favourite fruit, flowers and vegetables, while looking adorable too. If you need more inspiration, here are: 10 beautiful and practical ideas for your garden.
Which small yard idea would you consider?


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There is no sign of improvement in the 19.6-million-square-foot Memphis community-neighborhood shopping center market. The second quarter of 2012 saw 28,000 square feet of positive net absorption and a 10 basis-point vacancy rate decrease to 13.1%. That was still up 110 basis points from a year earlier. In July, moreover, 25,000 square feet of negative net absorption pushed the vacancy rate back up 10 basis points, near the high for the cycle. Both the average asking rent and the average effective rent lost 0.1% during the quarter, falling to $13.38 psf and $11.75 psf. Rents were down 0.5% from a year earlier by both measures, but July saw a penny increase for each.
New supply was absent from the community-neighborhood shopping center market in 2010 and 2011, but in August a 48,000-square-foot expansion of the Gallina Centro neighborhood center completed construction in Collierville, leaving the 18,000-square-foot Germantown Station under construction in Cordova. Reis predicts a return to positive net absorption late in the year, following two negative years, will cut the vacancy rate to 12.9% at year-end 2012. Despite increasing demand it is expected to remain in double digits through 2016. Rents, meanwhile, are forecast to be flat for all 2012, with small increases to follow. Not until 2016 are increases in excess of 3.0% expected in any year.
Memphis area power centers continue to suffer with a second quarter vacancy rate of 14.3%, that is up 30 basis points from the prior quarter and 320 from a year earlier. The power center average asking rent of $16.86 psf in the Memphis area is down a penny from the prior quarter and down 0.1% from a year earlier. Development outside the community-neighborhood center segment has virtually halted in metro Memphis, with some projects remaining on the drawing boards for years.


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Used to do something relevant for this investment purchase and never effective switch that saved me from like a large loser.
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Now, uncover experienced in that terminology, take notice, because you have to be at this time around. This can be truly the finest reaction to purchasing as soon as purchasing and selling in solid estate and you will save lots of mind aches, money and associations during your purchasing and selling career.
A 'wholesaler' in solid estate purchasing and selling is financially worth more when in comparison to some Sam's Club or maybe a Costco should be to the standard consumer/bargain shopper. A Wholesale property investor finds minimal pricey property deals then sells them for nearly any profit to a different "finish-user" investor. Named, correctly, for the position he, or she, plays in solid estate distribution chain, the wholesaler / retailer / store / store is essential facet of get great investment deals. And, subsequently, will stop you from losing profits even when other activities near to you fails.
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MAIDEN bangles are slightly smaller than the average bangle, with a wrist hole diameter of approx 5.8cm. This means you can either wear a whole stack of smaller maidens or you can use one as a stopper at the bottom of a regular stack.
A warm sunlight peach bangle carved with subtle designs.


Well, I've been absent, haven't I?
Sorry. My bad. The moving, new job, and training finally took its toll. I'm back, I promise.
Big news? Race in 12 days, and I'm now a Level 1 and 2 Certified US Masters Swimming Coach. Whooo. I'll check back in with a training update shortly!
Author KJPosted on March 8, 2016 July 24, 2016 Categories Story TimeLeave a comment on Hi. Sorry.
I feel like a planning machine.
Spreadsheets are definitely one of my favorite things. Not totally sure what that says about me as a person, but I crave the power to sort and add and control my data.
Now that I think about it, it probably makes me sound like an athlete.
Anyway, I've created a race calendar for the coming year. Ok, it's actually been in production for about a month, but it's nearly finalized. It shows my planned races, races I'm considering, races I'm volunteering at, races I'm spectating at… it's got everything. I've even budgeted hotel costs. But, I won't bore you with the details, so check out my "for sures" on my race calendar!


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NCAA Women's Tennis
Women's Tennis Edges Marian For First NACC Win
Photo Credit: Bethany Unkefer
Boyd, Emily / Potaracke, Paige (WLC)
def. Hartzell, Meg / Meyers, Mackenzie (MU)
Degeneffe, Celeste / Bruce, Kyrsten (MU)
def. Schultz, Tabitha / Volkmann, Katarina (WLC)
Gerbing, Hannah / Bergmann, Taylor (WLC)
def. Ostrowski, Alyssa / Ordonez, Brenda (MU)
Potaracke, Paige (WLC)
def. Hartzell, Meg (MU)
Schultz, Tabitha (WLC)
def. Meyers, Mackenzie (MU)
Bruce, Kyrsten (MU)
def. Boyd, Emily (WLC)
Lewandowski, Emma (MU)
def. Volkmann, Katarina (WLC)
Gerbing, Hannah (WLC)
def. Houle, Kristin (MU)
Krahenbuhl, Andrea (MU)
def. Ratkowski, Reebee (WLC)
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WLCSports.com) - The Wisconsin Lutheran College women's tennis team defeated Marian 5-4 for its first conference win of the season while snapping a four-match losing streak Wednesday afternoon at Fond du Lac High School.
Final Score: Wisconsin Lutheran 5, Marian 4
Records: Wisconsin Lutheran (2-4, 1-2 NACC), Marian (3-3, 2-2 NACC)
Location: Fond du Lac High School, Fond du Lac, Wis.
The Warriors began doubles play with two victories. Emily Boyd (Lebanon, Wis.) and Paige Potaracke (La Crosse, Wis.) were 8-5 winners at No. 1. Hannah Gerbing (Pewaukee, Wis.) and Taylor Bergmann (Slinger, Wis.) were victorious, 8-3, at No. 3.
Wisconsin Lutheran captured three singles wins, including a pair in three-set fashion to secure its first NACC win of the year. Potaracke battled for a 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 win at No. 1, Tabitha Schultz (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) collected a 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 2, and Gerbing concluded singles play with the Warriors' second three-set win of the day, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, at No. 5.
Boyd nearly tasted victory at No. 3, but fell in a heartbreaking three sets 7-5, 4-6, 5-7.
The Warriors snapped a two-match losing skid to the Sabres with their 5-4 victory.
WLC concluded a season-opening, six-match road swing, the same lengthy road trip it had two seasons ago to start the year.
The Sabres were winners at No. 2 doubles (8-4), No. 3 Singles (7-5, 4-6, 7-5), No. 4 Singles (6-2, 6-1), and No. 6 Singles (6-3, 7-5).
The Warriors host their first two home matches of the season Saturday, welcoming Aurora (1-5, 1-2 NACC) and Dominican (0-4, 0-2 NACC) to the Princeton Club in New Berlin for matches at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., respectively. WLC lost to AU and defeated DU a season ago.
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Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' May Actually Defy Your Expectations
Fifty Shades of Grey is not the disgusting trainwreck of awful filmmaking and horrendous acting some of you were expecting. It's not even the steamy, sexually enlightening handbook for which some of you were hoping. The adaptation to E.L. James' nationwide bestseller – itself based from Twilight fan fiction – was inevitably going to stir up controversy of all manner before its release, but the film, itself, is both tamer and, surprisingly, more accomplished than the preemptive lack of credit being given. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, it's is a freshly-shot film telling a weakly-crafted story, the latter criticism of which seems to be built in to today's Hollywood release structure. It's the first of a three act story, but Fifty Shades of Grey brings enough visual style – and one solid lead performer – to keep you on board for the eventual trilogy.
We're introduced to this multi-shaded world of Christian Grey through the eyes of college senior Anastasia Steele, played by Dakota Johnson. She's the epitome of innocence; mousy, sweet, and completely naïve to what she's walking into when she interviews the billionaire playboy, played by Jamie Dornan, for her school newspaper. The connection between them grows within an instant, infatuation quickly sprouting into full-blown love. But, for all the laptops and shiny, red cars Christian buys for her, Anastasia has a serious decision to make about him. You see, Christian has very specific, sexual tendencies; the bondage, discipline, domination/submission type of tendencies. A novice when it comes to even holding hands, Anastasia is unsure if she can overcome the fear Grey's world gives her to ultimately find true love with this man. Only time – and a few, well-placed flog marks – will tell.
First and foremost, strike any comparisons you might have between this film series and the Twilight movies. Yes, the fan fiction angle is what got the Fifty Shades ball rolling, and it's been the only comparison anyone's been able to make without reading James' original novel. Their shared audience – some might call them fanatics – is another point, but not one you could use with any depth when criticizing this film.
Saving Mr. Banks co-writer Kelly Marcel was tasked with adapting James' novel to the big screen, a job she seems to have accomplished with unmediated, no-frills-allowed directness. Some of the dialogue from James' novel even finds its way into Marcel's screenplay verbatim, probably the most jarringly lame and awkward moments coming from this. It's as if everyone knows the source material is weak, but the key demographic dictates the similarities. Dornan's utterance of the dialogue "I'm fifty shades of fucked up" is softly spoken and casually captured, as if the director didn't really want to include but had her hand forced.
Speaking of Taylor-Johnson, she brings to Fifty Shades the first semblance of hope this series has of actually being worthwhile. Her direction includes interesting camera movements and some rich depth when it comes to the color scheme she's using. It's easy to accomplish the greyness of Seattle, where the story takes place, but Taylor-Johnson makes the almost subversive choice of actually letting a little sun come out now and again. Sure, using the weather to create a thematic mood is a little filmmaking 101, but it works for this film's simplistic attitude. It doesn't hurt that she brings cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, her collaborating DoP from Nowhere Boy, along for the ride. The deep textures they give to every exterior and interior in the Fifty Shades of Grey world is far more commendable than anything going on with the story.
Not more commendable, though, than Dakota Johnson's performance. There's a very one-dimensional, casually flowing way someone could have played Anastasia, and it would have been the shallow performance many were expecting. Johnson chooses to play the role any way but that. She has a genuine sweetness about her, a sense of humor and playfulness that seems to be a defense mechanism for the naïve Anastasia. Her curiosity, though, subtly brightens as the film progresses. Taylor-Johnson and her lead actress create a fine character conduit for the audience into Grey's BDSM world, her sincerity and realism often hitting the right notes or showing the right reactions.
Dornan, on the other hand, creates something of a mystery when it comes to Christian Grey. It's not the suave, cool mystery you'd think would be ideal for such a role, either. His Grey is, pardon the obvious puns, wooden and stiff, a coldness that repels you instead of luring you in to discover more. The character is written poorly, often coming off more as a demented stalker than the Bruce Wayne of kink. The actor, unfortunately, doesn't do the character any favors, rigidly moving in his suits and bumbling through some of that wretched dialogue. He takes Grey's strange proclivities and seems to be using those to create the day-to-day character, an inappropriate choice that makes the character something of a creep in and out of the bedroom.
The awkward choices, complete lack of story progression, and milquetoast handling of its subject matter takes its toll, and Fifty Shades of Grey ends up being an adaptation sure to satisfy few completely, that goes for lovers and haters of the source material alike. But there's a starting point from which the cast and crew behind this series' future have a chance of expanding upon. Its stunning look and above-and-beyond lead performance aren't enough to make this film the period point at the end of the BDSM conversation in cinematic terms. Steven Shainberg's Secretary still handles a helluva lot more of that and with subtle and humorous results. Fifty Shades of Grey is gauche. It knows it's gauche. At least it's not ugly.
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Pick the short straw Jeremy?
Steven on Feb 15, 2015
Anyone who sees this film is an idiot. Its the end of civilization as we know it.
Susan on Feb 15, 2015
I saw it and I am still here.
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John Doe on Feb 15, 2015
You're a complete moron. Is it a stupid movie? Undoubtedly. Is is THAT bad? No, absolutely not, NO movie is ever that bad. Quit being a "doomsayer" and trying to get attention. It's pathetic. You should be ashamed of yourself to the very core.
davidshaw on Feb 15, 2015
Seriously. I love to rag on a movie I think is a waste of my time, but the film made a quarter billion worldwide. So, there must've been a few people who enjoyed it.
Benjamin Hunter on Feb 16, 2015
Yeah but every Transformers makes a billion dollars and everyone of those has been trash. But I guess the difference is they aren't trying to make anything more than mindless action with those. I'm not going to bash Fifty Shades though as I have not seen it and have no intention of doing so.
LightningB on Feb 16, 2015
I watch Transformers to see robots fight and make a mess of a couple cities. That's it. It's like going to In-N-Out and expecting Chilean Sea Bass. Sure, the fish is a nicer dish, but that aint what In-N-Out does. They make burgers. And they're damn tasty.
No movie is ever that bad, huh? Go watch "After Earth"....
JBroti on Feb 16, 2015
I think Showgirls was "THAT" bad.
Bo, I'm an adult, a wife, mother, a graduate of NYU Film School a.k.a. Tisch School of the Arts, a lawyer, former Assistant District Attorney in NYC and have been called worse names by people of more significance than Davidshaw. He didn't bother me in the least. Its nice of you to be gallant and worry about my being offended. By the way, when I was in film school, my future husband and I went to a film festival called "The Worst Movies Ever Made." We saw The Attack of The Killer Tomatoes and Plan 9 From Outer Space (an Ed Wood film). Those were so bad. What is more disturbing about 50 Shades of Crap is that it demeans women in a vile way. Women don't want to be whipped and beaten and I don't want to see women being urged to submit to being whipped and beaten. If I was into that sort of thing, I would see it for free on the internet. I'm no prude by any means. I loved Kingsman and its rude, funny, over the top violence and sexual innuendo. The difference is that Kingsman is a very good movie with excellent actors, particularly Colin Firth who is something to behold.
Thank you for your compellent. I am jealous of your career. I am old too and when I graduated from film school, cable was in its infancy. I couldn't get a job in the film or television industry (no contacts or nepotism) so I went to law school I had the grades and LSAT scores to get into a great school. As you may have summised, I live in the NYC metro area. Still I have not heard of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. I will see it. I very much admired a film by female director Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right. I hope she does more. Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo and Mia Wasikowska (she was great in Jane Eyre with Michael Fassbinder - if you haven't see the Steve McQueen classic Shame with Fassbinder, you must run out and get a copy). I feel so sorry for Paul Schrader. The Canyons was well, horrible. He is not the only great filmmaker that cannot get financing anymore. The Great Great John Sayles can't get a film made anymore either. He made Lone Star, Matawan, Eight Men Out, The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Hudson City, Shes the One, Lilliana, and many more. Many of these films made money. So sad. A Woman Under the influence (a Cassavetes film in case anyone is reading this other than Bo) needs to be restored. The last time I saw it on TCM, I was shocked. If you still have Hollywood connections, please speak to someone who can help. Cassavetes and Rowland's son Nick is a good filmmaker too, but not in his father's league. Didn't you enjoy Gloria with Rowlands? They made a horrible remake with Sharon Stone I think. Yes I love cinema, not garbage and particularly not garbage that humiliates and subjugates women. Nice to chat.
Have to disagree with you on Sayles. Maybe its because I'm an East Coast woman. My husband is from Hoboken originally and he felt like Hudson City was a biography of his father and brother. I also love, love baseball and adored Eight Men Out. I also have seen innumerable plays and loved Matawan. James Earl Jones is such an amazing stage actor. His Othello with Christopher Plummer, August Wilson's Fences and Paul Robson were spine tinglingly great. I intensely dislike Star Wars. Anyway, getting back to Sayles, he lives/lived in Hoboken. I just adore Chinese Bookie. What a great movie. I also like The Kids are Alright a lot more than you. I'm not a huge fan of Julianne Moore, but I thought the little seen film What Maisie Knew, with a terrific. Steve Coogan and Moore were both terrific in it. I also admire Todd Solaz. Far From Heaven was good, not Douglas Sirk over the top good like Written in the Wind and all this and Heaven too, but good. I'm not a fan of A Child is Born. Its not schmaltzy like Penny Serenade, which I am fond of because its to over the top, but the only thing I love about it is the stark photography and Judy Garland's performance. I admire Lancaster as a producer. He was brave. Would Judgment at Nuremberg have been made without him or A Child is Waiting or Come Back Little Sheba with a stunning performance by Shirley Booth that he had the grace to let outshine him. No. I didn't know about the Slap. I'm also a huge sports fan (Rangers, Mets, Jets, and not anymore, but was a Knick fan) so I don't watch network TV. I watch Masters of Sex, many episodes of which are directed by Michael Apted (Love Seven Up - a billion times better than the mediocre at best, boring, overrated Boyhood) and watched Boardwalk Empire. I thought that Whiplash and the Grand Budapest Hotel were much much better than Boyhood (J.K. Simmons, who I first saw many moons ago in a revival of Guys and Dolls with Peter Gallagher as Sky Masterson and Nathan Lane as Nathan (where he got his name from - his real name is Joe, but there was a Joe Lane already registered with Equity) and Faith Prince)). American Sniper was good too. Unforgiven is my favorite Eastwood film ever and Gene Hackman (who is supposed to be an a-hole in real life) was a great villain. The last film that I could wholeheartedly recommend is the hysterically funny send up of Bond Films, Kingsman. Colin Firth was just hilarious and so suave and debonair and kick ass - pun intended. What did you think of Mr. Turner? Tim Spall was unbelievable and should have been nominated for an Oscar and won. That he didn't win for Secrets and Lies is still a travesty. However, the film as a whole was not my favorite Mike Leigh film by any stretch of the imagination. Turner was loathsome in some ways and generous in others, but he was his ART and that is the point. Sunday in the Park With George without the Sondheim music and pretension. What did you think of Mr. Turner.
I love debating film with someone very knowledgeable. A Child is Born - A child is waiting. I had Judy Garland on the brain. Funny. I will see some of the films if you promise you will watch Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh). Its a great film. BTW, you can wait to see Mr. Turner on TV. Its not Lawrence of Arabia for goodness sake and will work well on a small screen. Its not a great film by any means, but Spall is incredible. His son is quite a good actor (Rafe Spall). I saw him in a BBC version of The Wide Sargasso Sea (love the classic novel and hate the theatrical release). It stars the sublime Rebecca Hall (I saw her on Bway in Machanl and she was magnificent) and Rafe Spall as Mr. Rochester. I don't think its been taken down from youtube. Just great. Take care and see you at the movies (I hope you saw Life Itself - not great but interesting as Ebert had a full life - I trust that you saw a great documentary - Tim's Vermeer).
Read the book. Badly written. Saw the film. Hoped for an "elevation" from the depths of the novel. But sadly, the two main leads have no chemistry AT ALL. The "sex scenes" are a borefest for anyone who actually had good sex for real. There are even sequences where they "pan" away from the sex, like an 80s movie. The soundtrack is good though...at times... The movie IMO is for a crowd that still "screams in fear" at the sight of a nipple. Maybe the sequels will be better. I doubt it but here is hoping again.
Stefan Kuhlmann on Feb 16, 2015
Yeah...I won't be seeing this one. I am sorry for the millions of guys who will be dragged to this one.
At a showing here, 3 women attacked a man and he ended up getting glassed in the face. I'm too scared to go.
Carpola on Feb 16, 2015
C.A. Hall on Feb 16, 2015
Alcohol. 🙂 I like how they just cleaned off the blood for the next showing. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/three-women-arrested-after-man-5169837
Thanks Jeremy, but I'll stick with all the other countless reviewers comparing this to Showgirls-level terribleness.
cuckoozey on Feb 16, 2015
I'm so glad I have a girl that has ZERO interest in this crap film. Star Wars here we come.
IamSlave on Feb 16, 2015
So, of the 10 commenters here bashing the movie, only about 2 have seen it? Yep, thats a pretty standard internet signal to noise ratio, I suppose.
Movie Bear on Feb 16, 2015
I'll live my entire life without caring one iota about this retarded film.
txJM on Feb 16, 2015
I got dragged to watch it last night... after all the giggling and little "tehe" here and there... you begin to realize that it is not at all what you're probably expecting. Visually it is nice and the acting is good, but the script and screenwriting RUINS the film... its so boring and very much along the lines to the way the book is written. Just awful. I almost fell asleep. Quite honestly, it surpassed my expectaitions because I was expecting another 'Twilight' garbage but nonetheless its still a bad film.
JayCee on Feb 16, 2015
This movie came out just in time for Valentine's day which is why it is raking in the money. It's the same reason why Nicholas Sparks movies have been so successful. I went in with an open mind but this movie is awful. It feels like a late 80's early 90's film like Color of Night and it barely reached the heights of Basic Instinct. Writing was bad, Grey was more like the creepy guy who hangs around public toilets rather then suave like Bond. I know people are going to flock to this like Mcdonalds was offering free burgers. It is inevitable because the books were so popular but be prepared to be disappointed. The movie that Sam Taylor Johnson put together will never be your fantasies. With something as intimate as sexual fantasies, it was never going to live up to people's expectations. Your Mr Grey most likely isn't the same as this Mr Grey, at least I hope not, surely women/men have better imaginations then this wooden cardboard. Just my 2 cents.
TK on Feb 16, 2015
This is in reply to Bo, I'm an adult, a wife, mother, a graduate of NYU Film School, a.k.a. Tisch School of the Arts (concentration in Film Production), a lawyer (a litigator in Federal and State Courts), former Assistant District Attorney in NYC and have been called worse names by people of more significance than Davidshaw. He didn't bother me in the least. Its nice of you to be gallant and worry about my being offended. By the way, when I was in film school, my future husband and I went to a film festival called "The Worst Movies Ever Made." We saw The Attack of The Killer Tomatoes and Plan 9 From Outer Space (an Ed Wood film). I also sat through a film called Catch That Kid (I have a teenage son). Those films were so bad I can't describe them. What is disturbing about 50 Shades of Crap is that it demeans women in a vile way. Women don't want to be whipped and beaten and I don't want to see women being urged to submit to being whipped and beaten. If I was into that sort of thing, I would see it for free on the internet. I'm no prude by any means. I loved Kingsman and its rude, funny, over the top violence and sexual innuendo. The difference is that Kingsman is a very good movie with excellent actors, particularly Colin Firth, who is something to behold in Kingsman and every part he has ever played.
You say that but if you look at it most of the people responsible for the success or even the creation of this particular project are women. Don't get me wrong I am not a fan of the way in which it portrays women or the way the main character is treated but take a step back and see. The author of the book was a woman, the majority of the readers were women, the director of the movie was a woman and most likely the majority of audiences were women and few clearly unhappy boyfriends and husbands being dragged along like me haha. So clearly there are a few women who like to see stuff like this considering it is setting box office records already and I am crying at the fact I contributed.
Also theres a lot of non consent that isn't part of the bdsm culture. Not okay at all.
speedracer on Feb 16, 2015
After Kelly Marcel did such a poor job writing the script for Saving Mr Banks I didn't expect 50 Shades to be much better. I am glad it wasn't "raunchy" as she said it would be, but it's unfortunate it ended up so one dimensional. Ironically the Twilight series did a far better job of bringing the viewer into an experience and developing the characters. 50 Shades had the ability to be so much more, including an Oscar. I wish it had been given that chance.
Beachwriter on Feb 17, 2015
Yes I have to agree with the Twilight movie. I tried to read the books but they were poorly written and someone was tasked with making that into a watchable movie...which they did lol. They weren't the greatest movies but the source material was far worse.
I'm not bashing, because everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but I think it's funny how much our movie tastes differ. Any time you write a positive review about a movie, I end up hating it. Any time you write a bad one, I love it. All in all though, it is helpful! Keep on keepin' on. I'll avoid this like fire, as intended anyway.
Danimal on Feb 17, 2015


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