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The French Connection
$14.98
The absolute brillance of French Connection is not the story, a pretty straightforward one about an obseesed cop and a drug dealer. The absolutle brillance is in the story telling.

From the word go, we do not follow the story as much as feel it. Detectives Doyle and Grasso start their tail of a drug dealer on a hunch late at night and this extends-unexpectedly-to morning. Both detectives are cold and tired, told by the slow walks and rubbing of worn eyes. "Its eight in the morning." Grasso jabs at Doyle, and you hear the break in his voice.

The pursit continues as "the frog" comes from France. In probably one of the most viceral scenes ever filmed, the drug smuggler takes his connection to lunch in a gourmet resturant and the detectvies wait outside. They eat cold pizza and drink watery coffee. Doyle has to move his feat to avoid numbness. He blows into his gloves and rubs his hands together. Suddenly, we as viewers start to feel cold.

All this materfully conveyed viceral detial is not a flash of technique. Undercover is exausting, frustratining work, and this is told by Friendkins use of micropoints. He shows us how cops burn out.


Friendkin may be our best director not because of what he shows us but how he makes us feel what he shows. He is the only filmaker I know that can make me feel tactile sensations the way most great autaurs make me feel emotions. Scorcesee may be more consistent and yes, I have never seen Martin shoot a frame that did not have perfect composition and more texture in one shot than most commercial features pack in one film. He is by far our America's most consistent film genius. But if I want to feel cold during a summer heatwave, I go to Freidkin.

French Connection takes paitiance, especially by today's quickie cut MTV editing standards. But with Friendkin, the message is in the medium, and if younger viewers can adapt to the slower pace of this 1971 film and wait with Doyle and Grasso, their effort will be 100 fold rewarded

The French Connection [Blu-ray]
$34.98
The absolute brillance of French Connection is not the story, a pretty straightforward one about an obseesed cop and a drug dealer. The absolutle brillance is in the story telling.

From the word go, we do not follow the story as much as feel it. Detectives Doyle and Grasso start their tail of a drug dealer on a hunch late at night and this extends-unexpectedly-to morning. Both detectives are cold and tired, told by the slow walks and rubbing of worn eyes. "Its eight in the morning." Grasso jabs at Doyle, and you hear the break in his voice.

The pursit continues as "the frog" comes from France. In probably one of the most viceral scenes ever filmed, the drug smuggler takes his connection to lunch in a gourmet resturant and the detectvies wait outside. They eat cold pizza and drink watery coffee. Doyle has to move his feat to avoid numbness. He blows into his gloves and rubs his hands together. Suddenly, we as viewers start to feel cold.

All this materfully conveyed viceral detial is not a flash of technique. Undercover is exausting, frustratining work, and this is told by Friendkins use of micropoints. He shows us how cops burn out.


Friendkin may be our best director not because of what he shows us but how he makes us feel what he shows. He is the only filmaker I know that can make me feel tactile sensations the way most great autaurs make me feel emotions. Scorcesee may be more consistent and yes, I have never seen Martin shoot a frame that did not have perfect composition and more texture in one shot than most commercial features pack in one film. He is by far our America's most consistent film genius. But if I want to feel cold during a summer heatwave, I go to Freidkin.

French Connection takes paitiance, especially by today's quickie cut MTV editing standards. But with Friendkin, the message is in the medium, and if younger viewers can adapt to the slower pace of this 1971 film and wait with Doyle and Grasso, their effort will be 100 fold rewarded

Law of Connection: The Science of Using NLP to Create Ideal Personal and Professional Relationships
$18.99
"Have you noticed that when you meet certain people you just don't seem to have any rapport? You say one thing; they hear something different. You simply don't understand one another. When you feel an immediate rapport with someone, it means you are matching their [sic] communication style--thus, making a connection. When you don't have that rapport, it is probably because you have a different communication styles, and therefore each of you is misinterpreting what the other is saying, thinking, or feeling."-- From the Law of Connection

Leave it to author, NLP trainer and public speaker Michael J. Losier to demystify yet another misunderstood concept in the landscape of human potential (as he did with the Law of Attraction in his first book) in his second book, Law of Connection. This time, he clarifies how to make, build and maintain rapport with others.

Using the science of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, also known as NLP, Losier addresses the four NLP communication styles and how each conveys, processes and delivers vital information to others. The importance of knowing your own communication style, as well as the other styles, cannot be overestimated.

From couples to siblings, parent to child, teacher to students, employers to employees, website owners to visitors, and salesperson to customers, recognizing the communication style of another--and then calibrating your own approach to match theirs--can literally make the difference between discord and harmony, making the sale or losing it, creating a valued relationship or aborting it, earning trust or dissolving it.

In the Law of Connection, Losier not only explains each of the four communication styles--Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, and Digital--but also provides a self-assessment questionnaire so you can discover your own style, as well as those of others. He then shows readers how to calibrate conversations so that important messages are delivered as intended, based on the cues and clues that others offer the observant communicator.

For example, have you ever walked into a store and just want to be left alone so that you can browse and ponder your purchases on your own, yet, a pushy salesperson gets in your face, trying to "help" you. Even after stating, "I'm fine, thanks. I'll let you know if I have any questions", the salesperson still trails after your, offering running commentary on everything in your orbit?

If you're like me, you'd likely leave on the spot, even if there was a desirable product left in your wake.


In this scenario, it's like that the customer and salesperson have differing communication styles. What resulted in a potential lost sale might have turned out quite differently if the salesperson was fluent in the four NLP styles, and adjusted his/her approach accordingly.

Or perhaps you're a homeschooling parent or a teacher, and find that when helping your children or students, they are just not "getting it", generating frustration for both you and them. How wonderful to learn that you're not a poor teacher, nor are your students somehow unreachable! This is because, in essence, communication style is *learning* style, and easily remedied by calibrating your conversation.

Replete with engaging examples from Visual Vicky, Auditory Alan, Kinesthetic Kelly, and Digital Dan, Law of Connection shows where individuals break rapport (and how to salvage it), as well as how to create meaningful rapport with any person, in practically any situation. Expert Edward explains how to recognize commonly used phrases for each style, as well how each communication style exhibits imbalance and stress (and how to ameliorate it) using NLP.

Losier even provides the gifts and challenges for each of the four communication styles, as well as what individuals like, and find problematic, about each of those styles.

Written in his hallmark accessible style, Michael J. Losier provides readers with arguably one of the most important books on interpersonal relationships ever penned. Deceptively simple, but crucial to making or breaking rapport, Law of Connection takes us step-by-step through myriad opportunities for bridging the communication gap. When applied, the benefits of knowing, observing, and calibrating communication styles results in increased rapport, harmony, and mutual benefit.

Law of Connection belongs on the shelf of every parent, minister, teacher, student, spouse, counselor, writer, doctor, lawyer, salesperson, public speaker, website owner, entrepreneur, supervisor and coach. In essence, everyone can and will benefit from this book! I highly recommend it, and feel it would also make a great gift for holidays and special occasions, especially for those who make communication their "business".

-- Janet Boyer, author of Back in Time Tarot

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
$25.99
The raise of the internet has precipitated the increase of public's interest in networks and many books have come out in recent years that explore this new fascination. Most of these books, however, focus on some very trite and visible aspect of the web networks, and don't delve deeper into the more subtle and nonobvious properties of networks. In the light of that the strength of "Connected" is that it heavily relies on well established scientific research and presents it in an accessible fashion that still does full justice to the topic. Both authors are themselves prominent researchers in the field, and this fact helps with the choice and presentation of topics. The particular focus on social networks is very timely in the light of recent explosion of online social networks. However, social networks have been around for a very long time. In fact, there have been some evolutionary theories that suggest that our rise as a species has been to a large extent spurred by the need to manage large social networks.

The book provides many interesting and nontrivial insights into what sorts of social networks are most beneficial in certain circumstances, and which ones on the other hand can have the most deleterious effects, such as in cases of spreading of diseases. One of the more pleasant aspects of this book has been the more positive attitude towards the role of religion in society that is not simplistic and provides us with some useful new insights and ways of looking at religion. For instance, from the purely social-networking point of view God can be viewed as a node in a network that is equally distant from all other nodes - individual believers in this case. This provides us with a useful new paradigm, and it would be interesting to see if other social researchers would employ it in their investigations and analyses of religion in the upcoming years.

If you are looking for a well-researched and accessible book on social networks, this is probably the best one that has been on the market thus far.