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Jeff Kinney, the author of the books that make up these films, prides himself in making the books lesson free. That doesn't work very well in feature films. At least not emotionally satisfying ones. The first film found a way to take Kinney's comic vignettes and made a pretty compelling coming of age story that dealt with the pressures of going to middle school and being loyal to a friend. This film also finds a compelling premise to build its story around. The unique relationship of brothers.
Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon, THE BROTHERS BLOOM) starts out the film wishing he could sell his brothers, especially his older brother Rodrick (Devon Bostick, SAW VI), who tries to humiliate him at every turn. Their mother Susan (Rachael Harris, THE HANGOVER) devises ways to force the two to spend time together. She says that she will give them one mom buck (board game money) for every hour they spend together without fighting. She starts them off with five mom bucks. Rodrick cashes in right away. Their father Frank (Steve Zahn, HAPPY, TEXAS) just stands back and smiles.
For fans of the first film, new director David Bowers (FLUSHED AWAY) weaves in references to the original. I particularly liked the nod to the sixth grade Greg not being able to get a seat in the lunch room. Also returning are many of the colorful characters. Greg's innocent best friend Rowley Jefferson (Robert Capron, THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE) is back to get a dose of trickle down humiliation from Greg. School freak Fregley (Grayson Russell, TALLADEGA NIGHTS) finds a way to make ventriloquist dummies creepier than they already are. Patty Farrell (Laine MacNeil, TV's THE HAUNTING HOUR) still likes to inflict pain on Greg. And the school still pretends that poor little Chirag Gupta (Karan Brar) is invisible. We also get a new character the "super cute" new girl Holly Hills (Peyton List, REMEMBER ME).
Bostick's role as Greg's rocker older brother is fleshed out more in this film, which is to its benefit because the actor is a natural comedian. He and Gordon work well together and sell their sibling rivalry naturally. Rodrick tries to impart some wisdom to his little brother, but it sometimes has detrimental (and funny) results.
Many of the brother bonding or torment moments are nothing greater than a good sitcom. How many times have we seen the "have to clean up a party" scene in TV and films? Of course, Kinney's source material provides funny bits to make it fresher though. But as a sitcom, elements are toned down for the family crowd. Would a driving age teen really have a party where Coke and pretzels are the only thing being served?
The film is geared toward what an elementary school kid might think it is like being in high school. Okay maybe a naïve one at that. While the film is skewed to the juvenile side, it still understands the real feelings that go behind its story. Like the first film did with transitioning to a new school, this film deals with the politics of dealing with a brother. For the younger brother, the relationship is precarious because one misstep and an ally can quickly turn to your worst enemy.
In the first film, Greg was a bit more self-centered, which made his character unique. Here, he is a year older and less selfish. He's still Greg, but made a little less unique. Unlike HARRY POTTER, this will be a series that will be hard to continue as the actors get older. Kinney has the luxury in comics to keep his character the same age forever.
While it's not quite as good as the first film, I still found myself wrapped up in Greg and Rodrick's contentious relationship just like I did between Greg and Rowley in part one. This family "lesson" is also told in a quite humorous way. The talent show provides some of the biggest laughs. And like all good sequels, the film expands, not just copies. We also get more of Susan and Frank too, which is to the benefit of the film because Harris and Zahn can make anything funny. It's a family film geared toward the youngest members, but understands that there are older members coming too. The whole family might be based on a comic, but the characters here aren't simple cartoons.
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Prior to joining Air Products, Monty spent 23 years with General Electric, where he most recently was general manager of technology for GE Advanced Materials (silicones and quartz) business, which became Momentive Performance Materials when Apollo Management, L.P. purchased it in late 2006. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering from MIT, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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I'm a public supporter of Microsoft Windows, but I also use, respect, and support other operating systems. I've been an AS/400 administrator for nearly 20 years. I thought the AS/400 would be long gone by now, but what it does, it does well. I use several flavors of Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. I even do a little hacking and defense teaching using Sun Solaris.
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So it's my 20 years of professional experience with a wide variety of OSes that leads me to believe that Windows is just as secure as any other popular OS, if not better, despite knee-jerk criticism to the contrary.
The truth is that all OSes and applications contain exploitable vulnerabilities. If you don't follow general computer security guidelines, you'll be at more risk. If you follow the vendor's recommendations and keep your systems patched, you'll be less at risk. And if your password is "password," no amount of security will protect you.
Last week, I was helping a new client support their mixed Microsoft and Linux shop. The on-site administrator hated Microsoft and Bill Gates. All his servers were Mandriva Linux, except for the one IIS 6 server he "was forced" to support because of a needed application.
As I normally expect when working with many Linux zealots, he spent our days together dogging Microsoft and Windows at every opportunity. He is absolutely convinced that Windows security is terrible, even though he is "forced" to run Windows on the client desktops.
He tried to replace the Windows clients with Ubuntu, but the "stupid users were too stupid to use OpenOffice." He did reluctantly agree that there were file formatting issues and education issues (he provided no beforehand training) that ultimately led the users to revolt during the switchover.
Like most Linux administrators I deal with, his environment was highly insecure. Just because you don't like Windows doesn't mean you're free to ignore basic computer security principles.
It took me 5 minutes to find dozens of gaping security vulnerabilities. His Cisco PIX firewall was running code many years old. (As a matter of fact, I haven't come across a PIX in nearly a year that had up-to-date code.) He also ran several Secure Computing firewalls, all of which contained old code and wide-open, misconfigured firewall rules.
Half of his Linux servers were running old, vulnerable kernels. His Web servers were years old and full of flawed PHP scripts. His Windows workstations were all Windows 2000 Professional, unpatched, and without any automated patching solution. All Windows clients ran Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird, both unpatched. Nearly every piece of software I could find was old and unpatched, whether running on Linux or Windows. His Barracuda Spam Firewall appliance was unpatched, and remained unpatched even after I told him that updates were available.


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David is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Although the Obama administration seems adamant on hiking dividend taxes up to164%, tobacco stocks still have room to rise. I am particularly optimistic about emerging market potential and the irrational discount to intrinsic value in some stocks. While it's always safe to broadly diversifying in the leading brands, if you want to outperform the broader market, you may be tempted to back the smaller players in this oligopolist industry. Is this the right decision?
Altria Group (NYSE: MO) & Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) Safe, Income Yielders
With the most well known cigarette brand in the world, "Marlboro", in an industry known for sustainable streams of free cash flow, Altria and PMI both have attractive economic moats. The former specializes in domestic markets while the the latter operates in only international settings. Though smoking rates are declining in the United States, active share repurchasing programs will keep EPS up. PMI still narrowed its guidance range of $5.12 to $5.18 per share, which reflects FX headwinds and greater investments in marketing, particularly in Asia. And in the third quarter, PMI was slightly below expectations after consistent beats in the preceding four quarters. Altria has been more on and off.
PMI trades at a respective 16.5x and 14.2x past and forward earnings versus corresponding figures of 16x and 13x for Altria. The latter also offers a higher dividend yield at 5.7% (versus 4.1%) but is forecasted for slower 5-year annual EPS growth at 6.7% (versus 9.9%). This steeper growth curve for PMI is backed by the recent past in which the international marketer substantially outperformed its competitor.
And even though third quarter performance was short of expectations, PMI still is being overly hit by a tough comparable in the third quarter with organic cigarette volume growth of 4.4%. Moreover, Marlboro continued to gain share and now controls 18.4% of the European market. This is particularly impressive, since you would expect premium brands to be hit in a challenging environment. Despite a challenging comparison in Indonesia when 3Q11 growth registered at 22.5%, the company still posted a 13% volume growth in 3Q12.
In regard to the degree of defense offered in tobacco, one only need to look at Altria's third quarter earnings call to grasp management's aggressiveness on returning free cash flow to the shareholders. The dividend distribution was hiked 7.3% in 3Q12--the 46th hike in more than four decades. Meanwhile, $260 million in stock was repurchased, and the $1 billion buyback program was hiked by another $500 million. This will be supported by strong momentum: each of Altria's tobacco brands have increased retail share.
Don't Miss Out On Lorillard (NYSE: LO)
While Altria and PMI have the leading brand, Lorillard has room for penetration. At a respective 13.5x and 12.4x past and forward earnings, the cigarette producers is quite cheap. It also quite safe with a dividend yield of 5.5% and an annual EPS growth of 11% over the past 5 years. Operating margins have meanwhile risen to 28.9%, but the stock should be even closer to its 52-week low given that the last three quarters have been misses (average miss of 7.1%).
Assuming Lorillard meets growth expectations, 2016 EPS will come out to $11.67. At a multiple of 16x, this translates to a future stock value of $186.72. Discounting backwards by 7% yields a present value of $133.13. Though that is not an incredible margin of safety, it is large enough when complemented by the generous dividend yield. And UBS even has a $140 price target--the prevailing price is at a ~20% discount.
Lorillard's main opportunity comes from market share gains. It was able to increase retail share by 0.2 percentage points as Newport captured 12.1% of the market. Volume declines also did not fully offset the benefits derived from higher prices in the recent quarter. In general, the industry has struggled from weak volumes, so it's nice to see that the Newport marketer was able to absorb this headwind.
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separated since February, but the crooner has not given up the fight to reconcile. Now, for the first time since their split, Robin is opening up about where his marriage currently stands.
"We're both doing well. We're both very happy right now -- much happier," he t old People at the grand opening party of Express Times Square in New York City on Tuesday night .
When asked why he
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My music is very honest about what I'm going through and my songs are about my life.
And my relationship with her was 21 years of my life, so I just thought it was important to me to let people know how much she means to me."
So what did Paula think of the dedicated love songs?
"She loved it," Thicke says. "She thought it was the sweetest thing and very romantic, and I've always been a romantic guy that way."
Thicke also revealed that he's handled the separation by channeling his emotions into his music.
"Everything about this moment in my life -- this amazing year I just had and what I'm going through personally -- has actually ignited some of the best writing I've done in a long time," he says.
"Whatever everybody's wondering about, they're going to hear it all in the album."
While his future with Paula still remains unclear, Robin hopes to be
a "great father" to their three-year-old
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Product DescriptionThe Garmin Edge 200 is just the cycling computer for someone who is looking for a no-nonsense machine that tracks time, distance, speed, and the route you've traveled.
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Date Reviewed: May 9, 2012
Strengths: Plug and Play - ready to go out of the box
Small & light
No extra sensors needed
Includes 2 bike mounts out of the box
Multi bike support without need to set up wheel size, etc.
Free software (both OEM and 3rd parties)
Fast boot up time
Weaknesses: Inaccurate climbing data
Occasionally slow to find signal (or slow to retry when fail).
Short cable
Bottom Line:
I have not used the lap and course features too much yet but they may come in handy to let you find your way back on new trails. I did create a couple of courses on Garmin Connect and it's very simple. Courses can also be created by riding them and then saving.
The cable that comes in a short USB cable that can plug into your computer or the included power supply. While I prefer the short cable for the computer, the cable is a little short to use with the power adapter. The cable is a standard mini usb that can be purchased just about anywhere and chances are you already have one laying around from a digital camera or some other device.
Only negative so far is inaccurate ascent data (no altimeter in the unit so it estimates based on GPS - The Edge 500 does have an altimeter in it for more accurate ascent data). When I upload rides to strava, there seems to be 15% discrepancy between their climb data and the one saved on the unit. The other minor set back is slowness to retry to find signal. If I turn on the unit in the basement (where my bikes are stored), it can't find the signal and even after being a few minutes out it may still show as "aquiring signal". A simple reboot (or wait to be outside before turning on) fixes this.
So why a 5 chili value on a $150 unit when you can get much cheaper non GPS computers? There are no extra costs. Great software (garmin connect, but also compatible with the free version of Strava) is free. 2 bike mounts in the box (most others will charge you for extra mounts/sensors). Also the ease of maintenance and use is great. I charge it every 10 hours riding or so and there is usually battery still left.
Suggestions for this line of products? Altimeter in all units and an EyeFi like wireless sync feature where plugging in the unit to the computer is not needed to sync rides. I'd pay a little more for that.
Date Reviewed: May 4, 2012
Strengths: no set up
easy to move from bike to bike
Garmin on line and Strava compatible
Weaknesses: documentation (but great tech support makes up for it)
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7 tech stocks to buy now
Oppenheimer is bullish on semiconductor and other companies benefitting from strong demand for smartphones and tablets.
By Lee Jackson
Technology stocks lagged the overall market over the last year. What is interesting is that there is a consensus on Wall Street that technology is poised for a solid 2013. The continued sales growth of smartphones (90% of all phones purchased in the past year were smartphones) and tablets is driving semiconductor sales.
The technology team at Oppenheimer notes in a new report that sentiment has improved and expectations are high. They also note that semiconductor stocks have done tremendous over the past three years, and 2013 looks to be more of the same.
Since smartphones and tablets continue to be the top driver of growth, Oppenheimer believes that the stocks most closely aligned with that growth will prove to be the big winners.
In the report, the analysts detail the seven stocks to buy that fit the bill, and could provide investors with yet another winning second quarter. The following are seven stocks to buy now.
Broadcom Corp. (BRCM) tops the stocks to buy. With 32% of total sales from industry giants Samsung and Apple Inc. (AAPL), second quarter earnings may be outstanding. The Oppenheimer price target for the stock is $45. The Thomson/First Call estimate is 10% lower at $40.
Linear Technology Corp. (LLTC) makes the list. This top-rated analog semiconductor stock also pays shareholders a nice 2.90% dividend. The Oppenheimer price objective is $43, but the Wall St. consensus is lower at $37.
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (MXIM) is on board. Oppenheimer notes this wireless chip leader has a strong and focused management team. Their price target for the stock is $38. The consensus is $35.
Microsemi Corp. (MSCC) joins the Oppenheimer list. With a robust semiconductor product line and worldwide sales, the price target for this name is $28. The consensus target is $26.
RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) makes the list, and it was one of 24/7 Wall St.'s top names under $10 to buy. The Oppenheimer price target for this wireless upstart is $7. The consensus target is at $6.50.
Semtech Corp. (SMTC) is a stock to buy now. It has newly unveiled components that will allow higher resolution video streaming, and the Oppenheimer price target is $41. The consensus target is $38.
Skyworks Solutions Inc. (SWKS) rounds out the Oppenheimer list of top stocks to buy. This maker of wireless semiconductors has benefitted from the surge in the global LTE market and derives a quarter of its revenue from Samsung and Apple. The Oppenheimer price target is $32, and the consensus is at $30. A move to either target level would represent a more than 35% increase from current trading levels.
With numerous companies ready for their next generation products to be unveiled, it looks like investors can feel comfortable in the growth trajectory of these stocks. We know from experience that technology seemingly knows no bounds, and products that are new this year will be so 2013 before you know it.
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Here's some breaking tax burden news: California does NOT have the highest tax burden among these 50 states and Washington, D.C. It is No. 50. Thank you, New York. California's average annual state and local tax burden is $9,509 — or 37 percent more than the national average, according to WalletHub's 2014 report on The Best […] [Read More]


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Happy Birthday Marcel Duchamp!
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Fountain is one of a group of objects that Duchamp called "readymades," works with which he challenged traditional notions of making and exhibiting art. Anonymously defending the work in the press, Duchamp claimed he had "created a new thought for that object." He rejected the assumption that art must be linked to the craft of the hand and instead argued that a work of art should be primarily about the artist's idea — a contention that became one of the most far-reaching principles of twentieth-century art, influencing artists as diverse as Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, and Cindy Sherman.


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When I saw this Micro Mosaic brooch/pendant for the first time and it was said that it was Pietra Dura I knew immediately ": That I want try to obtain". There were two reasons for this:
1. I never saw a picture like this in Micro Mosaic
2. the Micro Mosaic is very fine from which I conclude that this must be a very old Micro Mosaic jewel.
I suppose this brooch/pendant is set into gold plated over silver but this I could not prove yet. The earlier owner called this image: Bacchantin which means: female bacchant, a female priest or devotee of Bacchus, god of wine (Roman Mythology)
I am very happy with this rare Micro Mosaic brooch as you will understand. You agree or can you tell more about the image or other interesting facts? I like to hear it very much because I apppreciate the opinion of you very much!


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Suseela Gorter (1973) a designer with a great love for photography, graduated in 1997 as a graphic designer from Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem (Art academy Arnhem). Photography and concept play an ever growing part in her work. She designs new interior products, like for instance Flat Flowers. Suseela also designs photographic prints for products like ceramics and very large, wall covering photo prints for the interiors of several companies. Her work is cheerful and colorful. "I love to create products that will put a smile on your face.
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|Product Type: Window sticker and film
|Theme: Nature and floral
|Color: Orange
|Primary Material: Vinyl
|Compatible Surface Type: Glass
|Age Group: Adult
|Application Type: Self-adhesive
|Gender: Unisex
|Removable: Yes
|Washable: Yes
|Personalization: No
|Country of Manufacture: Netherlands
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