Friday, July 3, 2009

Tokyo Sonata (2008) (720p Blu-ray.x264)

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Review Summary

A genius of dread, known for his unnerving horror films and eerie thrillers, the wildly prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa tends to ply his trade with spooky silences, a lived-in feel for everyday, droning life and a sense of social unease. Though his latest to hit the American big screen, “Tokyo Sonata,” looks like a family melodrama — if a distinctly eccentric variant on the typical domestic affair — there is more than a touch of horror to its story of a salaryman whose downsizing sets off a series of cataclysmic events. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times. Full New York Times Review »

Tokyo Sonata (2008) Trailer [ENG SUB]



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 Tokyo.Sonata.2008.720p.BluRay.x264-CiNEFiLE

Format : mkv
Runtime : 120 min
Director : Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genre : Drama
Video : 1280×688 | x264 | 6317 kbps
Audio : Japanese | DTS 5.1 | 1536 kbps
Subs : English
Rating : 7.9/10 (631 votes)
iMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938341/

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Video shows vigorous Jackson before death.



LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A video released Thursday showed Michael Jackson vigorously practicing a song-and-dance routine days before his death, supporting accounts he had been in good health.

In footage obtained by AFP, the pop legend performed at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on June 23, two days before he died, as he prepared for a 50-date set in London starting in July.

Jackson, while thin, is seen dancing with energy in a tightly choreographed sequence with a group of performers. Jackson sings on a headset and at one point pushes back his jacket to reveal his red shirt underneath.

In the footage, Jackson switches sharply in styles in a medley of some of his hits. The video starts with Jackson dancing wildly in front of a rock 'n' roll guitarist before a pause for dramatic effect.

Jackson then shifts to a snippet of "Billie Jean," one of his greatest hits, before singing, "They Don't Care About Us," one of his most controversial tracks in which he brought in a hip-hop influence.

The set ends with a sample of a car horn. The stage then fades to black as an outside voice instructs, "Hold for applause."

Associates of Jackson have described the 50-year-old pop star as being in good form, including at another rehearsal just hours before his death.

Jackson collapsed and died on June 25 at his rented Los Angeles mansion. Speculation has focused on whether Jackson was taking painkillers or other medication.

Jackson's voice coach Dorian Holley said Jackson was in an upbeat mood in the days before his death, joking around with his wardrobe and makeup staff.

"My friends call and ask, 'Was Michael sick? Was he weak? Was he ill?' It's the absolute opposite of that," Holley told CNN.

"He was very energetic, he was happy. He was even more playful than he normally was at rehearsal," he said.

Holley said Jackson, 50, did not show his age.

"I'm sure that he was in pain after some rehearsals. But I got to tell you something -- the guys and girls dancing with him were all in their 20s," he said.

"When Michael was on stage with them, there was only one person that you could watch and that was Michael Jackson," he said.

A similar account came from Kevin Mazur, who was attending the rehearsal sessions as a photographer.

"He was like an expectant father pacing up and down the stage," Mazur told Britain's Sun tabloid.

"He was just so focused. Between songs, he burst into laughter and joked around with his dancers and the director. I have never seen him so happy," Mazur said.

Jackson had planned a series of concerts at London's O2 Arena starting on July 13, part of a comeback for the King of Pop whose personal and financial life had sharply deteriorated in the past decade.

Concert promoters AEG Live, who released the video, are offering full ticket refunds for the concerts.

British media reports said about 50 million pounds (59 million euros, 83 million dollars) has been spent on 750,000 tickets.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Che: Part Two - Trailer and download full movie!


In 1965, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara resigns from his Cuban government posts to secretly make his latest attempt to spread the revolution in Bolivia. After arriving in La Paz, Bolivia late in 1966, by 1967, Che with several Cuban volunteers, have raised a small guerrilla army to take on the militarist Bolivian movement. However, Che must face grim realities about his few troops and supplies, his failing health, and a local population who largely does not share his idealistic aspirations. As the US supported Bolivian army prepares to defeat him, Che and his beleaguered force struggle against the increasingly hopeless odds.

Trailer:



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 Che.Part.Two.2008.LiMiTED.720p.BluRay.x264-REVEiLLE

Format : mkv
Runtime : 135 min
Director : Steven Soderbergh
Genre : Biography | Drama | War
Video : x264 | 5414 kbps
Audio : Original | DTS 5.1 | 1536 kbps
Subs : English
Rating : 7.0/10 (3,771 votes)
iMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374569/

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Che: Part One - Watch trailer and download full movie!



Part One:

The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.


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Runtime : 134 min
Director : Steven Soderbergh
Genre : Biography | Drama | History | War
Video : 1280×528 | x264 | 5467 kbps
Audio : Original | DTS 5.1 | 1536 kbps
Subs : English
Rating : 7.5/10 (6,036 votes)
iMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892255/

Che: Part One and Part Two

1 - Che Part One trailer and download HD DVD movies here

2- Che Part Two trailer and download HD DVD movies here


If you are hoping to learn everything about Che Guevara from these two films, you will be disappointed. If you read about Che on Wikipedia or the most excellent book by Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara, A Revolutionary Life
before coming to these two films, you will love what you see.

I was hoping for more history other than how they took Cuba and what happened when Che went to Bolivia. I was hoping director Steven Soderbergh and producers Benico Del Toro and Laura Bickman, who produced Traffic, would have taken us on a journey beyond Cuba and Bolivia.

Che Guevara

I was hoping to see Che in Africa, his relationship with the existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and his relationship with his second wife, Aleida, who he met on the revolutionary trail in Cuba. I was hoping to see more of Che's complex relationship with Fidel.
Che Guevara in Africa with President Nasser of Egypt, Pan-African News Wire


Instead, the films takes place primarily in the mountains of Cuba and the jungles of Bolivia.

There is some footage of Che's trip to the United Nations in New York, the interview with a journalist played by Julia Ormand, and the party he attended at her apartment full of New York intellectuals later that evening.

Che Guevara on Meet the Press, 1964, Pan-African News Wire

I did stay long enough through the credits to see that they did indeed use Jon Lee Anderson as their chief consultant. Excellent choice. I wonder if Soderbergh read the 754 page book and then decided to make this film.

The Anderson book is a thoroughly researched biography that reads like great fiction. I knew what happened to Che in the end, but cried all the same. The book gives such great little insights I never knew. Like how Che was banging the maid in the kitchen when he was very young in his upper class home.



Che's motorcyle





How the motorcycle trip he took through South America is what turned him away from his bourgeois existence and into a revolutionary. He could have easily finished his studies and lived a comfortable life as a doctor, married with children, and mistresses.

A side note, if you have not seen the film, Motorcyle Diaries, I highly recommend you rent it. The film is a perfect depiction of this defining time in Che's young life.

After his trip through South America, Che returned to Buenos Aires to finish his medical studies in record breaking time of three years. He took another trip up through South America into Central America and ended up in Mexico City. This is where he met Fidel. They spent many a late night discussing poetry, philosophy, and the revolution.

Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in Cuba after the revolution

As a matter of fact, they start the film in Mexico City at a dinner party.

And near the end of the film there is a flashback of the boat ride to Cuba. Fidel and Che managed to buy an old fishing boat and convince 80-100 recruits to join them on this revolutionary journey. Che looks at Fidel standing at the other end of the boat. A look to me that said he wasn't sure he trusted Fidel.

Fidel and Che in heated discussion

Many think Che was betrayed by Fidel and abandoned in Bolivia. We get some indication of this in Part Two when Che is in need of funding and asks a journalist to get a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre and Betrand Russell telling them he needs more financing for his revolution.
Benicio Del Toro, photo uploaded on Flickr

Benicio Del Toro does a great job in his film. Fidel is played by the actor who plays the mayor of Tijuana in the Showtime Series Weeds. It is shot in a docudrama style by Soderbergh. He often shoots his own films under the name Peter Andrews.

I am glad this film was made. I hope it sparks an interest in Che Guevara's life other than his image on t-shirts and posters that adorn many a college dorm room. It is an important part of history that sadly did not make my high school history books.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

What’s New in Firefox 3.5?

Mike Beltzner gives a quick preview of what’s new and exciting in Firefox 3.5, coming soon from Mozilla.



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Learn marketing online with 6 videos - Part 5

Part 5 - Marketing & Business Tips - Ben Lowrey





Product focus

In a product innovation approach, the company pursues product innovation, then tries to develop a market for the product. Product innovation drives the process and marketing research is conducted primarily to ensure that profitable market segment(s) exist for the innovation. The rationale is that customers may not know what options will be available to them in the future so we should not expect them to tell us what they will buy in the future. However, marketers can aggressively over-pursue product innovation and try to overcapitalize on a niche. When pursuing a product innovation approach, marketers must ensure that they have a varied and multi-tiered approach to product innovation. It is claimed that if Thomas Edison depended on marketing research he would have produced larger candles rather than inventing light bulbs. Many firms, such as research and development focused companies, successfully focus on product innovation. Many purists doubt whether this is really a form of marketing orientation at all, because of the ex post status of consumer research. Some even question whether it is marketing.

  • An emerging area of study and practice concerns internal marketing, or how employees are trained and managed to deliver the brand in a way that positively impacts the acquisition and retention of customers(employer branding).
  • Diffusion of innovations research explores how and why people adopt new products, services and ideas.
  • A relatively new form of marketing uses the Internet and is called Internet marketing or more generally e-marketing, affiliate marketing, desktop advertising or online marketing. It tries to perfect the segmentation strategy used in traditional marketing. It targets its audience more precisely, and is sometimes called personalized marketing or one-to-one marketing.
  • With consumers' eroding attention span and willingness to give time to advertising messages, marketers are turning to forms of permission marketing such as branded content, custom media and reality marketing.
  • The use of herd behavior in marketing.
The Economist reported a recent conference in Rome on the subject of the simulation of adaptive human behavior. It shared mechanisms to increase impulse buying and get people "to buy more by playing on the herd instinct." The basic idea is that people will buy more of products that are seen to be popular, and several feedback mechanisms to get product popularity information to consumers are mentioned, including smart-card technology and the use of Radio Frequency Identification Tag technology. A "swarm-moves" model was introduced by a Florida Institute of Technology researcher, which is appealing to supermarkets because it can "increase sales without the need to give people discounts."

Marketing is also used to promote business' products and is a great way to promote the business.

Other recent studies on the "power of social influence" include an "artificial music market in which some 14,000 people downloaded previously unknown songs" (Columbia University, New York); a Japanese chain of convenience stores which orders its products based on "sales data from department stores and research companies;" a Massachusetts company exploiting knowledge of social networking to improve sales; and online retailers who are increasingly informing consumers about "which products are popular with like-minded consumers" (e.g., Amazon, eBay).

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Customer focus

Many companies today have a customer focus (or market orientation). This implies that the company focuses its activities and products on consumer demands. Generally there are three ways of doing this: the customer-driven approach, the sense of identifying market changes and the product innovation approach.

In the consumer-driven approach, consumer wants are the drivers of all strategic marketing decisions. No strategy is pursued until it passes the test of consumer research. Every aspect of a market offering, including the nature of the product itself, is driven by the needs of potential consumers. The starting point is always the consumer. The rationale for this approach is that there is no point spending R&D funds developing products that people will not buy. History attests to many products that were commercial failures in spite of being technological breakthroughs.

A formal approach to this customer-focused marketing is known as SIVA (Solution, Information, Value, Access). This system is basically the four Ps renamed and reworded to provide a customer focus.

The SIVA Model provides a demand/customer centric version alternative to the well-known 4Ps supply side model (product, price, place, promotion) of marketing management.

Product Solution
Promotion Information
Price Value
Placement Access

The four elements of the SIVA model are:

  1. Solution: How appropriate is the solution to the customer's problem/need?
  2. Information: Does the customer know about the solution? If so, how and from whom do they know enough to let them make a buying decision?
  3. Value: Does the customer know the value of the transaction, what it will cost, what are the benefits, what might they have to sacrifice, what will be their reward?
  4. Access: Where can the customer find the solution? How easily/locally/remotely can they buy it and take delivery?

This model was proposed by Chekitan Dev and Don Schultz in the Marketing Management Journal of the American Marketing Association, and presented by them in Market Leader, the journal of the Marketing Society in the UK.


(wikipedia)

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Learn marketing online with 6 videos - Part 3

Part 3 - Marketing & Business Tips - Ben Lowrey





Eight steps in an advertising campaign

  • Market research
  • Setting out aims
  • Budgeting
  • Choice of media (television, newspaper/magazines, radio, web, outdoor)
  • Choice of actors and players (New Trend)
  • Design and wording
  • Co-ordination
  • Test results

Learn marketing online with 6 videos - Part 2

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Marketing communications:

Marketing communications breaks down the strategies involved with marketing messages into categories based on the goals of each message. There are distinct stages in converting strangers to customers that govern the communication medium that should be used.


Objectives

  • Maintain demand for well-known goods
  • Introduce new and unknown goods
  • Increase demand for well-known goods/products/services

Requirements of a good advertisement

The AIDA principle. Attention, Interest, Desire and Action

  • Attract attention (awareness)
  • Stimulate interest
  • Create a desire
  • Bring about action (to buy the product)

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Marketing communications:

Marketing communications breaks down the strategies involved with marketing messages into categories based on the goals of each message. There are distinct stages in converting strangers to customers that govern the communication medium that should be used.

Advertising

  • Paid form of public presentation and expressive promotion of ideas
  • Aimed at masses
  • Manufacturer may determine what goes into advertisement
  • Pervasive and impersonal medium

Functions and advantages of successful advertising

  • Task of the salesman made easier
  • Maximize sales
  • Publicity
  • Brand building
  • Create awareness
  • Persuade buyers
  • Introduction of new product
  • Enable market leadership
  • To face competition
  • To inform changes
  • To counteract to competitors advertisement
  • To enhance goodwill

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What is marketing?


Marketing is an integrated communications-based process through which individuals and communities discover that existing and newly-identified needs and wants may be satisfied by the products and services of others.

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. The term developed from the original meaning which referred literally to going to market, as in shopping, or going to a market to buy or sell goods or services.

The Chartered Institute of Marketing, which is the world's largest marketing body, defines marketing as "The management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably."

Marketing practice tended to be seen as a creative industry in the past, which included advertising, distribution and selling. However, because marketing makes extensive use of social sciences, psychology, sociology, mathematics, economics, anthropology and neuroscience, the profession is now widely recognised a science, allowing numerous universities to offer Master-of-Science (MSc) programmes. The overall process starts with marketing research and goes through market segmentation, business planning and execution, ending with pre and post-sales promotional activities. It is also related to many of the creative arts. The marketing literature is also infamous for re-inventing itself and its vocabulary according to the times and the culture.

Seen from a systems point of view, sales process engineering views marketing as a set of processes that are interconnected and interdependent with other functions, whose methods can be improved using a variety of relatively new approaches.


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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix







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As another year begins for Harry, at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry so does the never-ending articles stating that he and Dumbledore are insane. As the ministry starts to invent new and malicious lies about Harry's account on Voldemort's return, Hogwarts begins to change for the worse as the ministry sends in their cure for all the insanity, Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge. As she begins to inflict her rules and regulations on the students at Hogwarts they begin to find that with her as their teacher, they'll never be ready for the outside world. So Harry along with his friends decides to take things into their own hands and begin to learn magic the real way. As Harry starts having visions of terrible events happening with the Ministries very walls he decides to take action, leading himself and his friends into battle, ultimately teaching them what friendship, loyalty and sacrifice really means.

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Fast and Furious 4 (2009)



Fast and Furious (2009) (Hot movie)
Heading back to the streets where it all began, two men rejoin two
women to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and
floor through the Mexican desert. When a crime brings them back to
L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian
O'Connor. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and
Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to
outmaneuver him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls
across international lines, two men will find the best way to get
revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel. (imdb.com)


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The Fast and The Furious 1080p (2001, 2003, 2006)


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The Fast and the Furious (2001)

The Fast & The Furious is loosely based on an article in a magazine
about street clubs that race Japanese cars late at night. Domenic
Toretto is the leader of a street gang that is under suspicion of
stealing expensive electronic equipment. Brian O'Connor is an
undercover police officer attempts to find out who exactly is stealing
the equipment, while falling for Domenic's younger sister, Mia.


Genre.......................................: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Video Codec.................................: x264
Video Resolution............................: 1080p
Video Aspect Ratio..........................: 2.35:1
Video Bitrate...............................: 9922 Kbps
Video Framerate.............................: 23.976 FPS
Audio Codec.................................: AC3
Audio Bitrate...............................: 640 Kbps
Runtime.....................................: 1h 48min
Language....................................: English
Subtitles...................................: -
Source......................................: HDDVD
Release Size................................: 86x100 Mb
Url.........................................: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0232500

2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

Former cop Brian O'Conner who teams up with his ex-con pal Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of 'dirty' money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone, while actually working with undercover agent Monica Clemente to bring Verone down.


Genre.......................................: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Video Codec.................................: x264
Video Resolution............................: 1080p
Video Aspect Ratio..........................: 2.35:1
Video Bitrate...............................: 9922 Kbps
Video Framerate.............................: 23.976 FPS
Audio Codec.................................: AC3
Audio Bitrate...............................: 640 Kbps
Runtime.....................................: 1h 48min
Language....................................: English
Subtitles...................................: -
Source......................................: HDDVD
Release Size................................: 86x100 Mb
Url.........................................: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322259/


The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

After totaling his car in an illegal street race, Shaun Boswell is sent to live with his father, who is in the military, in Tokyo, Japan, to
avoid juvy or even jail. While in school, he befriends Twinkie, a "military brat." Twinkie introduces him to the world of racing in
Japan. Though forbidden to drive, he decides to race against D.K., the "Drift King", who has ties to the Yakuza, and loses, totaling the car
because of his lack of knowledge of drifting, racing that involves dangerous hair pin turns. To repay his debt, he enters the underground
world of drift street racing. As he becomes better and better, he must
finally prove his worth in that world by once again racing D.K.

Genre.......................................: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Video Codec.................................: x264
Video Resolution............................: 1080p
Video Aspect Ratio..........................: 2.35:1
Video Bitrate...............................: 10283 Kbps
Video Framerate.............................: 23.976 FPS
Audio Codec.................................: AC3
Audio Bitrate...............................: 640 Kbps
Runtime.....................................: 1h 44min
Language....................................: English
Subtitles...................................: -
Source......................................: HDDVD
Release Size................................: 86x100 Mb
Url.........................................: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463985/




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