Archive for February, 2009
DVD Review: 2009 Oscar Award Winning Films
Oscar awards are now handed out to this year’s winners. To watch this year’s Oscar winner films, here are the list:
| Film | DVD | Award | Price |
| Slumdog Millionaire |  |
Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Director | $16.99 |
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona |  |
Best Supporting Actress (Penélope Cruz) | $17.99 |
| Milk |  |
Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Sean Penn) | $17.99 |
| Wall-E |  |
Best Animated Feature | $22.99 |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |  |
Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, Best Visual Effects | Not arrived yet |
| The Duchess |  |
Best Costume Design | $16.99 |
| Dark Knight |  |
Best Supporting Actor (Heath Ledger), Best Sound Editing | $23.99 |
| Man on Wire |  |
Best Documentary Feature | $17.99 |
| The Reader |  |
Best Actress (Kate Winslet) | Not arrived yet |
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Music Album Review: Best Selling Albums of All Times
This post lists out the music albums that were sold for more than 20 millions copies of all times. These might not fit your taste, but they are on the all-time best-selling hall of fame for a reason: they are classics.
| Artist | Album | Released | Genre |
Sales (millions)
|
| Michael Jackson: Thriller |  |
1982 | Pop / R&B |
100–109
|
| AC/DC: Back in Black |  |
1980 | Rock |
42
|
| Eagles: Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) |  |
1976 | Rock |
42
|
| Whitney Houston / Various artists: The Bodyguard |  |
1992 | Pop / R&B |
42
|
| Backstreet Boys: Millennium |  |
1999 | Pop |
40
|
| Bee Gees / Various artists: Saturday Night Fever |  |
1977 | Disco |
40
|
| Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon |  |
1973 | Rock |
40
|
| Shania Twain: Come on Over |  |
1997 | Country / Pop |
39
|
| Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell |  |
1977 | Rock |
37
|
| The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band |  |
1967 | Rock |
32
|
| Celine Dion: Falling into You |  |
1996 | Pop |
32
|
| Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV |  |
1971 | Rock |
32
|
| Mariah Carey: Music Box |  |
1993 | Pop / R&B |
32
|
| Various artists: Dirty Dancing |  |
1987 | Dance / Pop |
32
|
| Celine Dion: Let’s Talk About Love |  |
1997 | Pop |
31
|
| Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill |  |
1995 | Pop |
30
|
| Backstreet Boys: Backstreet Boys |  |
1997 | Pop |
30
|
| The Beatles: 1 |  |
2000 | Rock |
30
|
| The Beatles: Abbey Road |  |
1969 | Rock |
30
|
| Bee Gees: Spirits Having Flown |  |
1979 | Disco / Pop |
30
|
| Bruce Springsteen: Born in the U.S.A. |  |
1984 | Rock |
30
|
| James Horner: Titanic |  |
1997 | Pop |
30
|
| Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms |  |
1985 | Rock |
30
|
| Fleetwood Mac: Rumours |  |
1977 | Rock |
30
|
| Michael Jackson: Bad |  |
1987 | Pop / R&B |
30
|
| Michael Jackson: Dangerous |  |
1991 | Pop / R&B |
30
|
| Bon Jovi: Slippery When Wet |  |
1986 | Rock |
28
|
| Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction |  |
1987 | Rock |
28
|
| ABBA: ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits |  |
1992 | Pop |
26
|
| Hootie & The Blowfish: Cracked Rear View |  |
1994 | Pop |
26
|
| Nirvana: Nevermind |  |
1991 | Grunge/Rock |
26
|
| Britney Spears: …Baby One More Time |  |
1999 | Pop |
25
|
| Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida |  |
1968 | Rock |
25
|
| Mariah Carey: Daydream |  |
1995 | Pop / R&B |
25
|
| Queen: Greatest Hits |  |
1981 | Rock |
25
|
| Santana: Supernatural |  |
1999 | Rock |
25
|
| U2: The Joshua Tree |  |
1987 | Rock |
25
|
| Whitney Houston: Whitney Houston |  |
1985 | Pop / R&B |
25
|
| Backstreet Boys: Black & Blue |  |
2000 | Pop |
24
|
| Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory |  |
2000 | Rock |
24
|
| Michael Crawford / Sarah Brightman: The Phantom of the Opera |  |
1986 | Stage musical |
24
|
| Ace of Base: Happy Nation/The Sign |  |
1994 | Pop |
23
|
| Spice Girls: Spice |  |
1996 | Pop |
23
|
| Carole King: Tapestry |  |
1971 | Pop |
22
|
| Madonna: The Immaculate Collection |  |
1990 | Pop / Dance |
22
|
| Metallica: Metallica |  |
1991 | Rock |
22
|
| Dido: No Angel |  |
1999 | Pop |
21
|
| Madonna: Like A Virgin |  |
1984 | Pop / Dance |
21
|
| Bob Marley & The Wailers: Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers |  |
1984 | Reggae |
20
|
| Britney Spears: Oops!… I Did It Again |  |
2000 | Pop |
20
|
| Blondie: Parallel Lines |  |
1978 | Rock |
20
|
Courtsey: wikipedia.org
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Economic Update: S&P 500 Earning History and Update
The catching sentence in the chart about S&P 500 EPS history is that 80% of its annual growth rate of 4.1% in the span of 131 years were driven by inflation.
click for larger chart
Source:
Bronson Capital Markets Research
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Book Review: How Starbucks Saved My Life
This New York TImes best selling book tells a story of life transformation during economic down time. It’s a story that an old white man who was kicked out of the top of an American company, by chance met an African American women, and offered an job in Starbucks, transforming from a top business executive to a regular joe type of ordinary people.
It’s a story of making psychological and life adjustments to adapt to this tough economic time, living a life of regular joe instead of some fancy pants executives.
The book is priced at $23 or lower, depending on its condition.
And here are the book reviews from Amazon:
From Publishers Weekly
The son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill grew up meeting the likes of Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. A Yale education led to a job at prestigious J. Walter Thompson Advertising. But at 63, the younger Gill’s sweet life has gone sour. Long fired from JWT, his own business is collapsing and an ill-advised affair has resulted in a new son and a divorce. At this low point, and in need of health insurance for a just diagnosed brain tumor, Gill fills out an application for Starbucks and is assigned to the store on 93rd and Broadway in New York City, staffed primarily by African-Americans. Working as a barista, Gill, who is white, gets an education in race relations and the life of a working class Joe . Gill certainly has a story to tell, but his narrative is flooded with saccharine flashbacks, when it could have detailed how his very different, much younger colleagues, especially his endearing 28-year-old manager, Crystal Thompson, came to accept him. The book reads too much like an employee handbook, as Gill details his duties or explains how the company chooses its coffee. Gill’s devotion to the superchain has obviously changed his life for the better, but that same devotion makes for a repetitive, unsatisfying read. Photos not seen by PW. (Sept.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.From Booklist
*Starred Review* Yale graduate, prosperous ad exec: Gill has it all. Then he turns 60 and finds himself precipitously bounced from his job and saddled with the triple threats of a ruined marriage, an unexpected newborn, and a brain tumor. Despairing at the prospect of looming poverty, he stops at a Manhattan Starbucks to comfort himself with a latte. By chance he sits down next to Crystal, a young African American woman recruiting new workers for the coffee giant, and she offers him a job. Almost as an act of desperation, he accepts, and he dons the uniform of a barista-in-training at an Upper West Side Starbucks. This son of privilege who had hobnobbed with Queen Elizabeth, T. S. Eliot, and Jackie Onassis, now keeps daily company with a diverse crew of brash young New Yorkers for whom Starbucks’ progressive employee benefits and demanding, inspiring standards of public service offer hope. Gill starts at the bottom, cleaning the bathroom, and he has trouble mastering the cash register. Over the months he learns to deeply respect Crystal, to appreciate the mutual support of his coworkers, and to genuinely cherish the passing parade of customers, each unique. To his own astonishment, he realizes that he actually looks forward joyfully to every hectic, exhausting workday. Other corporate giants can only envy the sheer goodwill that this memoir will inevitably generate for Starbucks. What a read. Knoblauch, Mark
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Service Review: Peapod.com Grocery Shopping Website
For many reasons, you might have difficulty do grocery shopping yourself, if that happens, you can do it online at peapod.com. You make the order online, and then the foods are delivered to your door.
Service areas
Peapod.com doesn’t deliver to all US areas, right now, the areas that peapod could deliver groceries to include:
- Eastern and Central MA
- Cape Cod, MA
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
- Long Island, NY
- Westchester County, NY
- Northern and Central New Jersey
- Greater Washington, DC
- Baltimore Metropolitan area
- Montgomery County, MD
- Fairfax County, VA
- Prince William County, VA
- Loudon County, VA
- Greater Chicagoland area
- Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin
Coupon
All valid manufacturer or online coupons are accepted. For paper-based coupons, you need to put them in a sealed envelope with your name or account number and give it to peapod.com driver when your groceries are delivered. The total value will then be credited to your account.
If you click on the banner on top right corner of this post, you will get $10 off your first purchase.
Delivery
Delivery schedule
Usually your order is delivered next day of your order. If you order by 6pm, the delivery will come next day morning. If you order after 6pm, it will come next day in the afternoon.
Delivery fee
The fee for delivery is:
- For orders over $100.00 the delivery fee is $6.95.
- For orders between $75.00 and $100.00 the delivery fee is $7.95.
- For orders less than $75.00 the delivery fee is $9.95.
- Our minimum order amount is $50.00.
Return policy
Accept returns within 30 days of purchase.
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