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Seizing on rising fuel prices and coalition-party stresses, political opponents are pushing to unseat the leaders of two Southeast Asian democracies, only months into their elected terms, raising the prospect of prolonged instability and social tension.
In recent weeks, both Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi have faced mounting calls to resign.
Mr. Badawi won a symbolic vote on June 23 in Malaysia's parliament over recent pump-price hikes, after the defection of a minor coalition partner.
Thailand's opposition called for a no-confidence vote against Mr. Samak's government on a range of issues last week, including economic policies and a territorial dispute with neighboring Cambodia. Sumak survived the vote Friday.
Both prime ministers can point to popular mandates from parliamentary elections held within the past six months. But these votes, while yielding clear-cut victories, appear to have only sharpened social divisions among voters and drawing opponents swiftly back into the fray. Analysts say the resulting turmoil is testing democratic institutions and straining tempers in the two countries.
"In both countries you have very ossified regimes. Both Thailand and Malaysia are trying to find ways that politics can be peaceful and more dynamic and keep up with the times," says Michael Montesano, assistant professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. "The fact that people are going after recently elected governments is a sign that these battles are ongoing."
The timing of parliamentary challenges in Thailand and Malaysia appears coincidental. Behind the partisan jockeying, however, are competing visions in both countries of how they should be governed.
In Thailand's case, criticism has spilled onto the streets and tens of thousands have rallied for weeks in a repeat of protracted protests in 2006 that led to a military coup against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. While protest leaders have tried to whip up anger over rising food and fuel prices, their prime target is still Mr. Thaksin, whom they accuse of manipulating the new government and trying to scupper pending legal cases against him.
For Bangkok's royalist elite, Thaksin's populist appeal to rural masses and eager embrace of global capitalism represented a direct challenge to their pervasive influence. Last year's military-drafted Constitution diluted the power of elected politicians and strengthened the hand of bureaucrats, judges, and generals. The election of Samak, a veteran politician who heads the pro-Thaksin People's Power Party, has renewed these tensions.
In Malaysia, the contest between old and new orders is reversed. Badawi heads the United Malay National Organization (UMNO), which has ruled since independence in 1957. Its success in guiding the country from being a relative backwater to a vibrant industrial economy has lost steam in recent years due to a backlash against government corruption and quotas for ethnic Malays that are resented by minorities.
Anwar Ibrahim, an ex-deputy prime minister turned opposition leader, has vowed to topple the UMNO-led coalition in the next few months, and, once in office, to dismantle the party's patronage system. But Mr. Anwar faces allegations of sexual assault – charges he says the government cooked up to discredit his parliamentary aims.
Anwar's political rhetoric may be overblown, say analysts, but it reflects the shifting sands beneath Badawi after opposition gains in federal and state elections in March emboldened critics within his own party.
"In theory, he has a mandate. But when you've lost your ability to get support from your own party members, then it's a different matter," says Steven Gan, editor of Malaysiakini, an influential political website.
One common thread between the two countries is voter discontent with elected leaders who seem out of touch on bread-and-butter issues such as economic hardship, says Bridget Welsh, assistant professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Moreover, neither Samak nor Badawi appears to have a firm grip on power.
"They are both extremely weak leaders that do not inspire confidence from the electorate," she says.
In a curious parallel, the two embattled prime ministers are both in the shadow of their predecessors, whose outsized legacy and political interests loom over the current turmoil.
Malaysia's veteran former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who chose Badawi to replace him in 2003, has demanded that his protégé resign over the poor election results. Mr. Mahathir recently resigned from the UMNO in anger over Badawi's refusal to step down
For Samak, the shadow is cast by Thaksin, a billionaire businessman who became the first elected leader in Thai history to complete his term. In 2005, his party won a majority in parliament – another first – but drew flak for alleged corruption and interference in independent state agencies designed to check the power of the executive. Thailand's powerful military took over in 2006.
Last year, a military-appointed court dissolved Thaksin's party and barred him from holding office for five years. Earlier this year, he returned to Thailand to fight corruption cases. Opponents of Samak say he's a Thaksin stand-in. Chaturon Chaisaeng, deputy prime minister under Thaksin, says that his ex-boss can't avoid being drawn into the current turmoil. "It's not possible for Thaksin to stop being in politics."

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Among the many biographers who have reported on the foods most liked by George Washington, there's agreement. The Father of our Nation favored hoecakes "swimming in butter and honey" for breakfast (along with three cups of tea, without cream) and meals comprised of fish, which was his favorite food. By all accounts, Washington also loved ice cream and nuts and had a genuine affection for Madeira wine. Of course, there are countless other foods he enjoyed, especially in the years he lived in Mount Vernon, Va. — an expansive enclave made up of self-contained farms and orchards that included animals and numerous outbuildings, such as a smokehouse and a salt house, in which hundreds of pounds of salt was stored to preserve foods like meat and fish, such as cod. When prepared correctly, a boiled salted codfish dinner, served with a little melted butter, potatoes, boiled vegetables and some kind of sauce, was considered fine eating. While salted cod is still enjoyed in a myriad of cultures around the world, today's recipe for cod cakes is offered to remind us how lucky we are to live in an age where fish comes fresh frozen and recipe ready. The hoecakes, a study in contrasts, are presented as a means to depict the difference between the sit-down breakfast hoecakes that were prepared and consumed by Washington and those cooked by field hands and slaves. The recipe left to us by Nelly Lewis Custis, Washington's step-granddaughter, contained yeast and egg and required an overnight sitting before use. Those made in the field, with the same shovels and hoes used to work the cotton and tobacco fields for up to 16 to 18 hours a day, were made on the spot, with just water and cornmeal — food for thought on an otherwise celebratory occasion. Lastly, I give you a cake made with Madeira, the fortified wine named for the islands off the North African coast, near Portugal, from where it comes. Washington would have loved it, but so would Martha. As an alternative to her famous "Great Cake," originally made with 40 eggs, four pounds of sugar, five pounds of flour, five pounds of fruit and a half pint of fresh brandy, Martha surely would have liked the cake's streamlined list of ingredients and ease of preparation. As for George, it would be about the nuts and the wine — but especially the wine.
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1 cup all-purpose flour
½ cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup buttermilk
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2 teaspoons sugar (optional)
2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch salt
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Butter, for serving
Honey, for serving
In a large mixing bowl, mix flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, egg and melted butter. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry; set aside. Over medium-high heat, heat a lightly oiled griddle, until hot. When the griddle is hot, drop batter by ¼ cupfuls onto the griddle. Once the batter begins to bubble, turn the cake over and cook the other side, until lightly browned and cooked through. Makes about 10 hoecakes. Serve hot and eat with lots of butter and honey, just like George would.
Mount Vernon invites visitors to experience a behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons' kitchen through its brand new exhibition, "Hoecakes & Hospitality: Cooking with Martha Washington." On display inside the Donald W. Reynolds Museum, this temporary exhibition celebrates food at Mount Vernon and Martha Washington's role as early America's premier hostess. Following food from the Estate's field to kitchen to table, visitors will see recipes and cookbooks that Martha treasured, pots that simmered in her kitchen, and fine tablewares that made Mount Vernon's dining room fit for a president. The exhibition also takes a closer look at the slaves who worked in Mount Vernon's kitchen and includes a detailed timeline of the cooks' 16-hour day. "Hoecakes & Hospitality: Cooking with Martha Washington" is included with general Estate admission: adults, $15; children ages 6 to 11, $7; and children under 5 are admitted free. The exhibit will remain open until August 11, 2013. For ticket information, call 1-800-429-1520 (option 5) or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. Photo and exhibit information courtesy of George Washington's Estate, Garden & Museum, www.mountvernon.org.
1 cup prepared mashed potatoes, homemade or instant
1 (16-ounce) package frozen cod, thawed
2 teaspoons grated fresh onion
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon Tabasco sauce
1 large egg
1/3 cup dry bread crumbs
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon butter
Refrigerate mashed potatoes for 30 minutes. With a knife, finely chop fish. In a medium bowl, stir chopped fish, onion, salt, Tabasco and mashed potatoes, until blended. With your hands, shape fish mixture into four 3-inch round cakes. In a pie pan, beat egg with a fork. On a sheet of wax paper, measure out bread crumbs. Dip fish into egg, then coat with bread crumbs. In a 12-inch skillet, over medium heat, heat oil with butter. When butter is oil mixture is hot, cook cakes until nicely browned on both sides. Remove cakes from skillet, draining well on paper towels. Makes 4 cakes, to serve 2.
2 cups sifted Sofassilk cake flour (may substitute with While Lily brand all-purpose flour)
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup butter, softened
2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs, room temperature
6 tablespoons Madeira wine
1 cup chopped black walnuts (if you cannot locate black walnuts, substitute with equal amount English walnuts, plus ¼ teaspoon black walnut flavoring)
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour an 8 x 4 x 3-inch (1 pound) loaf pan. Sift flour with baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, cream butter until fluffy. Gradually beat in sugar; stir in vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add dry ingredients alternately with the Madeira, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Fold in nuts. Spoon batter into prepared pan and bake for 70 to 75 minutes or until firm to the touch and cake tests done. Cook in pan for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool. Makes 8 to 10 servings. To store, wrap tightly in aluminum foil for up to 3 days.


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MACON, Ga. - The Atlantic Sun Conference selected Allen Arena on the campus of Lipscomb University as the host site for the 2008 and 2009 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Basketball Championships at the A-Sun Spring Meetings in Daytona Beach, Fla.
The Nashville institution will host both the men's and women's basketball championships on March 5-8 in 2008 and on March 4-7 in 2009. This will be Lipscomb University's first opportunity to host the league's premier championships.
"The Atlantic Sun Conference is thrilled to see the basketball championships return to Nashville," said first-year Commissioner Ted Gumbart. "The support for the conference in the city has been tremendous with two successful basketball programs competing for men's and women's championships.
" We are excited and know that our fans will enjoy a first-class event in one of our best facilities in a great destination city of the conference. Lipscomb will do a tremendous job in hosting the newly combined men's and women's basketball tournament."
The new format will feature 16 teams playing 14 games over four days, culminating in Championship Saturday. The men's basketball final will be featured on an ESPN property while the women's champion will be crowned live on Comcast Sports Southeast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS).
"We are very excited to be selected to serve as the host for the 2008 and 2009 Atlantic Sun Conference men's and women's basketball championships," said Steve Potts, Lipscomb's Director of Athletics. "Bringing the men's and women's championships to one site is a unique and challenging opportunity.
"We fully intend to conduct an event of the highest quality that all of the basketball programs in the conference deserve and to showcase the Allen Arena, Lipscomb University, and the city of Nashville."
The Bisons basketball team is 36-4 on its home court at Allen Arena the past three years. The Bisons were the regular season A-Sun champion in 2006 and qualified for the National Invitation Tournament, but they have never won the conference tournament title.
"A lot of people might think it is added pressure, but I like playing at home," Bisons coach Scott Sanderson said. "Our past record at home doesn't mean anything, but we are confident when we play on our home court."
The women's tournament had been held in Dothan, Ala., the past four years. Lady Bisons coach Frank Bennett directed his team to the tournament championship in 2004 as Lipscomb qualified for its first NCAA Tournament berth.
"I think this is a great thing," Bennett said. "Lipscomb and Belmont are big rivals in basketball. I think this is an excellent location for the tournament."
Bennett also likes the fact that both the men's and women's tournament games will be played at the same time.
"So many people are fans of both of our teams," Bennett said. "Allen Arena is one of the best basketball venues of its size. People are always commenting what a great basketball facility we have. There is going to be a lot of excitement."
Melching Field at Conrad Park and Stetson University will continue to serve as the home of the Atlantic Sun Baseball Championship for the next two seasons. The A-Sun Baseball Championship has enjoyed great growth and fan support over the previous six years that the championship landed in DeLand, Fla.
Additionally, the conference voted to change the format of its soccer championship, adding a day of rest and recovery to the schedule. Beginning in the fall of 2007, the soccer tournament will be contested on Wednesday and Thursday with the title game featured on Saturday.
"Stetson University helped make the baseball championship one of the top events on the conference calendar and the membership recognized that by extending their hosting duties for another two seasons," said Gumbart. "Adding a day to our soccer championship will help raise the quality of both our title game and our representative's effort in the NCAA Championship."


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It is not a surprise that new CSS tutorials are in fact CSS3 tutorials, it is normal that the people who make them consider showing something new to the rest of the web design community. That is why in this article you will fin tutorials which explain how to use new features brought by this new technology. Of course, these techniques are often combined with jQuery to create dynamic designs.
CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create buttons with a twist, using just one anchor tag per button and the great power of CSS.
CSS3 with jQuery / Reverse Animation
Hello guys, this time I wanted to bump into another interesting experiment, create a reverse animation. I helped with jQuery to assign the specific class at the click of the button. In my opinion an interesting experiment, I hope you will like and find alternative paths in the realization of the same experiment with different techniques. I remember this animations are only visible in Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
Wicked CSS3 3d bar chart
While browsing the web, I came across a pretty cool 3d bar chart created with Flash. I was wondering if I could recreate the same neat effect using pure CSS3 and started working on this wicked CSS3 3d bar chart. Check out the example to see that (almost) no images were used to create this wicked effect.
Lateral On-Scroll Sliding with jQuery
After getting the request, we are going to show you how to create a "slide-in on scroll" effect. You've probably seen this cool effect on some websites, like on Nizo or in the portfolio section of brilliantly designed La Moulade. The main idea is to laterally slide in elements depending on the scroll position of the document. Dividing the page into a left and right side, we want to move the elements from "outside" of the page to the center when they are in the viewport. We will also add the opti
Animated Web Banners With CSS3
Today we're going to take a look at spicing up our web banners, ads or any content for that matter, with CSS3 animations.
Firefox and WebKit browsers are currently the only browsers that support CSS animation, but we'll take a look at how we can easily make these ads also function in other browsers (which I'll affectionately refer to as 18th century browsers). However, don't expect perfect support for all browsers (specifically IE 7 and lower) when experimenting with modern CSS techniques.
An Introduction To Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS)
Have you ever heard the phrase "Content is King"? Being a Web developer, and therefore having a job that's often linked to content creation, it's likely you have. It's a fairly overused but true statement about what draws visitors to a site.
Filter Functionality with CSS3
Using the general sibling combinator and the :checked pseudo-class, we can toggle states of other elements by checking a checkbox or a radio button. In this tutorial we will be exploring those CSS3 properties by creating a experimental portfolio filter that will toggle the states of items of a specific type.
CSS3 Graph Animation
Hi guys, today I present a small experiment, using once again the CSS3 animations and properties. This time we will build to create a chart, for me this is just an experiment to test the CSS3, I do not think you can use in your projects but you can enhance your knowledge. I remember this animations are only visible in Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
Practical CSS3 tables with rounded corners
Sliding Image Panels with CSS3
Today we'll show you how to create some neat sliding image panels with CSS only. The idea is to use background images for the panels and animate them when clicking on a label. We'll use radio buttons with labels and target the respective panels with the general sibling selector.
A clean calendar in CSS3 & jQuery
Almost a year ago I had the idea to build a calendar app. The project was called LiveCal and was supposed to become a platform where you could share calendars. The whole idea was that calendars would become something you subscribe to. Let me clarify. Let's say you are subscribed to the calendar stream of your school. One of your teachers plans an event, such as a task or a test and adds it to the calendar stream. From the moment the event is added to the stream, you'll get a instant notification that a new event is being planned. This means you'll always walk around with an updated calendar. Due to the complexity of the idea and the lack of knowledge on my side this project never really took off.
CSS3 Loading Animation Loop
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In the last few years, we've seen a lot of single page websites lying around the internet, most of them using JavaScript for some transitions effect. Well, now I'm gonna teach you how you can have your own, but instead I'll be using CSS Transitions and the :target property to do all the magic.
How to create slick effects with CSS3 box-shadow
Drop shadows and inner shadows are some of the effects I learned to apply using Photoshop's Blending options. But now, since CSS3 "hit the charts", you don't need Adobe's design tool to add a drop shadow or an inner shadow to a box.
Nowadays, the cool thing is that you create beautiful CSS3 shadows without actually needing Photoshop anymore.
Accordion with CSS3
Using hidden inputs and labels, we will create a CSS-only accordion that will animate the content areas on opening and closing.
Today we'll experiment some more with the adjacent and general sibling combinator and the :checked pseudo-class. Using hidden inputs and labels, we will create an accordion that will animate the content areas on opening and closing.
There are many variations of CSS-only accordions around, most of which are implemented using the :target pseudo-class. The problem with using :target is that we can't really close the content areas again or have multiple sections open at the same time. By using hidden checkboxes, we can control the opening and closing. Alternatively, we can also use radio buttons if only one section should be open at a time.
CSS3 Skill Bar Animation
Hello guys, i was recently thinking about a redesign of my website and i got the idea to make this pretty simple tutorial where we will build the skill animation bar for your about page. I remember this animations are only visible in Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
Thumbnail Proximity Effect with jQuery and CSS3
Today we want to show you how to create a neat thumbnail proximity effect with jQuery. The idea is to scale thumbnails when hovering over them and also scale their neighbouring thumbnails proportionally to their distance. We'll also make a description appear.
Create a CSS3 Image Gallery with a 3D Lightbox Animation
Fullscreen Background Image Slideshow with CSS3
Happy new year, everybody! Today we will create a CSS-only fullscreen background image slideshow. We'll create different image transitions and also make a title appear using CSS animations.
Password strength verification with jQuery
What constitutes a strong password? Well, that depends on who you ask. However, traditional factors that contribute to a password's strength include it's length, complexity, and unpredictability. To ensure password strength, many sites require user passwords to be alphanumeric in addition to being a certain length.
In this tutorial, we'll construct a form that gives the user live feedback as to whether their password has sufficiently met the complexity requirements we will establish.
CSS3 Loading Animation
Hello guys, this time i wanted to create 3 simple CSS3 Loading Animations. I remember that CSS3 Loading Animations are only visible in Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
CSS3 Lightbox
Today we want to show you how to create a neat lightbox effect using only CSS. The idea is to have some thumbnails that are clickable, and once clicked, the respective large image is shown. Using CSS transitions and animations, we can make the large image appear in a fancy way.
jQuery Clean and Simple Tooltips: gips
This is an eye-opener for web designers and developers. It also creates the need for a simple and usable web design that everybody can understand. Obviously no product or website/web application (for that matter) can be so intuitive that everybody can use it. This is like a product that sells itself which is improbable. There is always need to improve design and add elements that make it easy for users to understand and use the website/web application. This is where the concept of 'instructional design' comes in. The art of instructional design tells us techniques for producing what users actually want – simple and usable products.
Slopy Elements with CSS3
It's always a delight to see some non-straight elements in web design. Angled shapes and diagonal lines can create an interesting visual flow and add some unexpected excitement. Inspired by many superb designs that use non-straight elements, I want to show you some simple examples and ways how to create slopy, skewed elements with CSS only.
CSS3 Menu Navigation Effect
Hi guys been a long time since i write on my blog and then i inaugurate this day with a new tutorial that will treat apply CSS3 properties to menu navigation. We are going to see how to play nice effects without the use of jQuery. I remember this tutorial works perfectly on all browsers except Internet Explorer for the first two examples, while the last example will only be visible in Firefox, Safari and Chrome because it uses the CSS3 Animation Property
Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery
Today we want to show you how to create a simple blur effect for text-based items. The idea is to have a set of text boxes that will get blurred and scaled down once we hover over them. The item in focus will scale up. This will create some kind of "focus" effect that drwas the attention to the currently hovered item
CSS3 Image Styles
When applying CSS3 inset box-shadow or border-radius directly to the image element, the browser doesn't render the CSS style perfectly. However, if the image is applied as background-image, you can add any style to it and have it rendered properly. Darcy Clarke and I put a quick tutorial together on how to use jQuery to make perfect rounded corner images dynamically. Today I'm going to revisit the topic and show you how much more you can do with the background-image CSS trick. I will show you how to use box-shadow, border-radius and transition to create various image styles.
Splash and Coming Soon Page Effects with CSS3
CSS3 opens up so many crazy possibilities and today we want to show you how to go wild with splash and coming soon page effects using CSS3 animations. We'll experiment with animation sequences and how to bring some life to some simple elements.
CSS3 Tooltip with Animation NO jQuery
Hi guys, this time I have wanted to create a simple tooltip with CSS3 using the animation, the effect is amazing, and the most important thing we will not use any scripts jQuery. I remember that CSS3 Animations are only visible in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, for the other browser the animations not function, but you will have always the tooltip effect, so can always be used in your projects.
Elastic Image Slideshow with Thumbnail Preview
Today we want to show you how to create a simple elastic slideshow with a thumbnail preview. The slideshow will adjust automatically to its surrounding container and we can navigate through the slides by using the thumbnail previewer or the autoplay slideshow option.
CSS3 Loading Animation Loop 2 Set
Hi guys, I wanted to create more CSS3 animations, this time experimenting with different methods to create simple loading animation loop. I used the translate property and the cubic-bezier property. I remember this animations are only visible in Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Let's see this new experiment!
Animated Buttons with CSS3
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Sioux Falls Child Recovered, Father Held in Idaho
A two-year-old child from Sioux Falls has been located in Idaho, and police say her biological father is in custody.
Lieutenant Matt Burns says the investigation began late Tuesday night when police were called about a child custody dispute in the 3500 block of West 53rd Street.
The woman, who has full custody, told police she had let her daughter go with her biological father, who had recently been living in Oregon but was visiting in the area over the Easter weekend.
The father did not return the child at the agreed-upon time and the mother called police around 11:51pm Tuesday when she became concerned.
Burns says Sioux Falls detectives learned the child's father had left South Dakota, so they used national crime information facilities and through a combined effort with city, county and state authorities in Idaho the father and child were located Wednesday evening.
He says 24-year-old Jared Scott Swets of Grants Pass, Oregon is being held in Ada County, Idaho and is awaiting extradition to South Dakota.
Burns says Swets faces a state charge of taking, enticing away or keeping of an unmarried minor child by a parent, as well as removal of a child from the state.
The child was found in good health and is being reunited with her mother.


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July 14, 2015 (SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT) - Leading manufacturer of industrial and embedded computers, Logic Supply (www.logicsupply.com) has released the first ever rugged mobile NVR certified by Milestone Systems, the global leader in open platform IP video management software, for use with their XProtect® VMS platform.
The new Logic Supply MX1000 Rugged Mobile NVR offers a dependable alternative to other digital recording hardware, with the advantages of an extended operating temperature range, a completely fanless and ventless chassis, low power requirements and variable power capabilities for transportation applications.
"Over the last few years we've been seeing surveillance applications move outside the office complex. The dust, heat and shock found in construction, oil and gas, outdoor and transportation installations challenge commercial grade NVRs," said Logic Supply VP of Sales Brett Mancini. "As the first rugged NVR to be certified by Milestone, the MX1000 finally combines industrial-grade hardware with one of the world's leading video management platforms."
The rigorous testing and certification process established that the Logic Supply MX1000 performs as a video display, recording, and storage platform within the Milestone XProtect VMS system at a level that is two to three times higher than benchmarks provided by the Milestone Server and Storage Calculator, even when displaying all cameras simultaneously.
The certification ensures that integrators and end users designing, installing and operating surveillance systems can be confident that the MX1000 will record and archive video reliably.
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text: evadeson 0 Posted May 8, 2002 Star Wars Episode 3 Second Rough Draft by George Lucas The Clone Wars are now over two years old. The entire galaxy has been thrown into chaos. On one side of the conflict are hundreds of wayward star systems, led by Count Dooku, who are rebelling against the Republic led by the scheming-in-secret Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious. The inhabitants of the galaxy are growing tired of the wars. Battles will break out with no warning in various star systems. Many star systems have been completed devastated by the Clone Wars. Suddenly, peace will be agreed upon by both sides and then, suddenly, the fighting will break out again. Palpatine manages to frame the Galactic Senate and the Jedi Knights for much of what is going on during the wars. Palpatine makes them the scape goats for all of the galaxies many problems. The people grow tired of the Galactic Senate and the Jedi Knights. They are ready for drastic change and Palpatine realizes this. At the beginning of the movie, Anakin is seen at an awards ceremony receiving yet another medal for his valor in battle. A pregnant Padme is with Anakin at the ceremony. After the ceremony, Palpatine manages to separate Padme from Anakin so that the beautiful, asiatic-looking Darth Xio Jade can seduce Anakin. Xio Jade introduces herself to Anakin and uses a powerful, irresistible dark side mind trick to seduce Anakin. It doesn't hurt that Xio is also one of the most beautiful women in the galaxy. She records their affair on a Sith holocron and sends the holocron to Palpatine. Palpatine then orders the Jedi Council to send Obi-Wan Kenobi to deliver the holocron to Padme. Padme is devastated after seeing Anakin with Xio Jade. Her trust in Anakin is now completely destroyed. She refuses to see Anakin when he arrives at their home. Palpatine's red royal guards quickly lead Anakin away from Padme. Palpatine then orders the Jedi Council to have Obi-Wan hide Padme from Anakin. Palpatine then sets up a secret meeting with Anakin. Palpatine tells Anakin that their are conspirators against both Palpatine and Anakin amongst the Jedi Knights. He warns that Anakin's master, Obi-Wan, is no longer really his friend. Palpatine states that Obi-Wan wishes to end the marriage between Anakin and Padme. The blood in Anakin's veins nearly boils after hearing of this deception. Palpatine relates that Obi-Wan is the one who wanted Xio Jade to seduce him. Palpatine warns that Obi-Wan may secretly be a dreaded Sith Lord. Anakin confronts Obi-Wan on a volcanic world. Anakin demands that Obi-Wan take him to Padme immediately. Obi-Wan refuses and states that the Jedi Council has told him that Padme is not allowed to see Anakin. Anakin is outraged. Anakin draws his light-sabre and ignites it. Anakin demands to see Padme again. Obi-Wan refuses and tells Anakin to put down his light sabre. Anakin refuses. Obi-Wan lights his light sabre and then orders his padawan to put down his sabre. Anakin again refuses and strikes at Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan quickly ignites his sabre and blocks Anakin's sabre. Obi-Wan states that this duel is dangerous because they are surrounded by many molten pools of lava. Anakin refuses to end the duel unless he is given access to Padme. Obi-Wan states that he cannot disobey the Jedi Council and continues to block Anakin's attack. The two duel for quite some time. Anakin gets reckless and falls into one of the molten pools. Anakin's light sabre falls to the ground. Obi-Wan watches Anakin sink into the lava pool. Obi-Wan leaves to find help to rescue Anakin. Palpatine enters and has his storm troopers rescue Anakin from the molten pool. They then quickly leave the area. A few minutes later, Obi-Wan returns with some medical droids. They are unable to find Anakin. Obi-Wan assumes the molten pool has consumed Anakin's body. Obi-Wan finds Anakin's light sabre on the ground and takes it with him. Obi-Wan tells Padme that Anakin is dead. Padme is saddened by this news. Palpatine's medical droids nurse Anakin back to health. Anakin is eventually placed into his familiar-looking black mask and body armor. Palpatine introduces Anakin to the ways of the Sith. Anakin grows to hate the Jedi and the Republic. Palpatine promises that, in time, Anakin will be reunited with Padme, but in the mean time Anakin must be patient and allow their plan to unfold. Anakin takes the name of Darth Vader. Only Palpatine and his trusted minions know that Darth Vader is actually Anakin. Everyone else believes that Anakin is dead. The Clone Wars continue to rage on and thousands of Republic clones are killed in the various battles. The Galactic Senate is under heavy pressure from their people to find a way to end the wars. Palpatine continues to frame the Senate and the Jedi as the reason the wars are going so badly. The people demand and end to the Jedi's and Senate's incompetence and corruption. Palpatine takes this opportunity to declare himself Emperor. He immediately abolishes the Galactic Senate, Jedi Council and the entire Jedi Order. The people hail Palpatine as the saviour of the Republic. Palpatine replaces the Galactic Senate with the Imperial Senate. The members of the new Senate are hand picked by Palpatine. The Imperial Senate and Palpatine issue a proclamation declaring the Jedi Knights to be enemies of the Republic. They order the immediate arrest of all Jedi Knights. The Jedi begin to go into hiding. Boba Fett and Jabba the Hutt help Palpatine hunt down the Jedi. Many Jedi are killed during this purge. A new seven-membered Sith Council, whose members all have the title Darth, replaces the Jedi Council. Darth Sidious is the leader of this Council. The other members of the Sith Council are Darth Tyranus, Darth Vader, Darth Jade (Xio Jade), a cloned Darth Maul, Darth Tau and Darth Vorron. To avoid arrest, many of the Jedi agree to become Sith Lords and hunt down their former Jedi allies. Vader leads the hunt for the Jedi Knights. The Sith Council confronts the remaining members of the Jedi Council. An epic light-sabre battle between them erupts. Most of the Jedi Council is killed during this duel, but Yoda and Mace Windu are captured and taken to Count Dooku's star ship. Later, Padme is captured and also brought to Dooku's ship. Obi-Wan continues to fight in various Clone War battles. Count Dooku's agents leak false information to Republic spies concerning a "Time Detonator" weapon being developed by Count Dooku's scientists on Geonosis. The fictitious "Time Detonator" is a weapon which temporarily freezes time. When it is set off in a star system, time freezes for everyone who is in the star system when the weapon is set off. An invading force can then enter the star system and conquer it rather easily. Palpatine states that the Republic must have this weapon. Of course, the "Time Detonator" does not exist and Palpatine knows this, but he uses this weapon as an excuse to send all of the Republic's remaining star ships into a trap. Palpatine expects Count Dooku's cloaked fleet to completely annihilate the Republic's star ships and remaining fighters. All the star ships of the Republic military converge on Geonosis. The flag ship of the Republic fleet contains Palpatine and Darth Vader. Obi-Wan sneaks his star ship into the Geonosis system. Palpatine's flag ship detects Obi-Wan's ship and captures it with a tractor beam. Obi-Wan is brought aboard Palpatine's ship. There are no enemy star ships visible near Geonosis since Dooku's fleet remains hidden with cloaking technology. When the trap is set, Dooku's fleet de-cloakes and destroys most of the Republic's remaining star ships and fighters. Count Dooku demands that Palpatine surrender unconditionally. Palpatine pretends to be scared and agrees to Dooku's demands. Dooku's troops board Palpatine's ship and take Palpatine, Darth Vader and Obi-Wan as prisoners. The three are held in the lower levels of Dooku's ship. Yoda, Mace Windu and a pregnant Padme are brought before Count Dooku. For Dooku's protection, Yoda, Windu and Padme are surrounded by four members of the Sith Council: Darth Jade, cloned Darth Maul, Darth Tau and Darth Vorron. Dooku announces that Palpatine and the entire Republic have surrendered. The great Republic has finally lost the war. Dooku announces that he has a surprise for Yoda and Windu. Out from the shadows of the room steps the legendary Darth Bane, thought to have been dead for many centuries. Bane is even older than Yoda. Yoda and Windu gasp in amazement. They immediately recognize the incomparably malevolent Darth Bane. Bane cackles nefariously. Bane explains that he is no clone. He is the actual Darth Bane, who has remained in the shadows for centuries waiting for the opportunity to finally destroy the Jedi Order and the Republic. Palpatine, Darth Vader and Obi-Wan are brought before Dooku and Bane. Bane explains to everyone that he has used Palpatine and Darth Vader to destroy the Republic and the Jedi Order. Bane announces that he is going to have all of them killed including Palpatine and Vader. Palpatine pleads for his life. Bane laughs menacingly. Bane states that the only threat to him is Anakin and Padme's unborn child, the child of Anakin must die. No one knows that Padme is carrying twins. Bane reveals that Vader is actually Anakin and then Bane reveals that Palpatine is a Sith Lord called Darth Sidious. Bane raises his hands to send powerful dark side lightning through Padme. Vader uses Sith super speed to jump in front of Padme as the lightning leaves Bane's fingers. Vader absorbs the lighting and then pulls out his light-sabre and ignites it. For the first time in his life, Bane is terrified. No one has ever survived a direct hit from his dark side lighting yet Anakin appears unhurt. Anakin is truly the only child of the Force and the most powerful Force user the galaxy has ever known. Palpatine begins to cackle and explains that Bane and the members of the Sith Council are the ones who have really fallen into the trap. Darth Jade immediately flees the room. She know that Vader and Palpatine are going to kill everyone in the room. Mace Windu uses the Force to snatch a lightsabre from one of the Darths. Windu ignites the lightsabre and uses it to keep the other Sith Lords from getting to Yoda, Obi-Wan and Padme. The three (Yoda, Padme and Obi-Wan) quickly exit the room under Mace Windu's protection and head to the hanger bay to get a shuttle off of Dooku's ship. Windu bravely sacrifices himself to Darth Vader and doesn't survive much longer. After Windu's tragic demise, a terrifying duel between Vader/Palpatine vs. Bane/Dooku/Vorron/Maul/Tau takes place. Vader and Palpatine completely annihilate their enemies. Meanwhile, Darth Jade jumps out at Yoda, Padme and Obi-Wan with her light sabre. She tells them that all of the shuttles on Dooku's ship have been rigged to explode upon powering them up. She says it is a trap set by Palpatine to kill them. Jade states that if they will help her hide from Palpatine then she will let them use her ship as a means of escape. Yoda, Padme and Obi-Wan agree since they really have no other choice. It turns out that Jade's ship happens to be a Corellian freighter called the Millenium Falcon. They escape on the Falcon and enter the safety of hyper space. Vader and Palpatine loom over the dead bodies of the other Sith Lords. Palpatine feels Jade's betrayal. He realizes that Yoda, Obi-Wan and, most importantly, Padme and her unborn child have escaped. The Falcon arrives on an obscure planet called Dagobah. Prior to Luke and Leia's birth, Obi-Wan states that he will now go by the name Ben. The Skywalker twins are born on Dagobah. After many shed tears, Yoda is left behind on Dagobah. Jade then drops Obi-Wan and baby Luke off on the forgotten world of Tatooine. The final destination for Jade, Padme and baby Leia is the safety of Alderaan. Bail Organa greets them with open arms. Bail gives them a secret hiding place. Lastly, Obi-Wan is seen at Owen and Beru Lars' home. He gives Luke to them to raise. Obi-Wan tells Owen and Beru that Obi-Wan is now dead along with all the other Jedi Knights. He will now go by the name Ben. The film ends with baby Luke in the gentle arms of Ben Kenobi. The ghostly spirit of Mace Windu and the ghostly spirits of many other Jedi Knights appear behind Obi-Wan and baby Luke. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Categories: General Date: Feb 2, 2010 Title: Windows Server 2000 Reaches EOL - Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade
The Windows 2000 Server platform lifecycle will end in July, 2010. After this date, customers still relying on this platform won't be able to benefit from security hotfixes, patches and service packs, presenting serious concerns around data security, server reliability for mission-critical workloads and regulatory compliance.
In no particularly order, here are the top ten reasons to upgrade from Windows Server 2000 to Windows Server 2008 without delay.
Based on 10-year old code, Windows 2000 Server will no longer be supported with patches, security hotfixes and service packs after July, 2010. At a time when security breaches are becoming both more sophisticated and more targeted, this is a huge concern and needs to be addressed quickly and efficiently.
Today's breaches no longer announce themselves with widespread system crashes, but instead fester quietly, often siphoning user credentials and customer data for later transmission.
Maintaining a secure network perimeter is key to both running a reliable business infrastructure as well as staying in compliance with ever-more stringent regulatory requirements.
Windows Server 2008 R2 supports 32-bit Windows applications, but it also readies your organization for the future with the ability to run native 64-bit applications on today's power efficient and scalable hardware. In addition, Windows Server 2008 R2 has an even wider scope to serve third-party software with support for PHP and the enhanced IIS 7.5.
Windows Server 2008 R2 can significantly decrease the complexity of managing day-to-day tasks in the datacenter. Customers will find key management interfaces redesigned for increased efficiency and ease-of-use, such as the new Server Manager that can be accessed remotely.
Windows Server 2008 R2 also improves on the popular PowerShell feature introduced in Windows Server 2008. PowerShell 2.0 significantly enhances the earlier version with the inclusion of more than 600 new pre-built cmdlets as well as a new graphical user interface (GUI) that adds professional-level development features for creating new cmdlets. Using PowerShell 2.0 administrators can easily automate day-to-day management tasks unique to their environment.
Windows Server 2008 R2 builds upon four generations of server releases to provide improvements to performance and reliability, including new kernel and security architectures, new management features, and virtualization out-of-the-box. This opens up a new landscape for turnkey virtualization scenarios and business continuity.
Windows Server 2008 R2 supports the latest in software and hardware performance technology, including 64-bit operation, the ability to run up to 256 logical processors and support for the latest CPU-level technologies, like Second Level Translation (SLAT) for much improved memory management.
Spend less on server hardware and facilities costs by consolidating your servers with Windows Server 2008 R2's built-in virtualization technologies. Additionally, there are new power management features to keep your servers running lean and efficient on today's hardware.
Windows Server 2008 R2 uses a 'balanced' power policy, which monitors the utilization level of server processors and dynamically adjusts processor performance states to limit power to the needs of the workload. The result is a much-improved server power consumption scenario that Active Directory Group Policy can extend to the Windows 7 desktop, and with which customers are reporting up to 18% savings over Windows Server 2003.
Security in Windows Server 2008 R2 is generations ahead over what was available with Windows 2000 Server. It's not only a hardened operating system, but also includes several new security innovations, including Network Access Protection, Federated Rights Management, and a Read-Only Domain Controller, all of which help to provide improved levels of protection for networks, data, and businesses.
Secure Startup and Windows Service Hardening limit network access and privileges and protect against data theft. A redesigned Windows Firewall has much more granular traffic screening controls and Windows BitLocker™ helps protect server data.
With the IT Generalist in mind, we have consolidated UI designs for core management consoles, including the new Active Directory Administration Center as well as the Windows Server Backup Utility, which now has flexibility for designing backup jobs and has also been built to run faster and use less disk space.
Wide-scale leveraging of PowerShell as the platform for new management consoles, enables parity between the command line and the GUI as well as allowing a greater degree of customization and automation. Windows Server 2008 R2 has also proliferated the use of Best Practice Analyzers, allowing IT administrators to run these analysis tools quickly and easily across a wide variety of server roles to keep your IT infrastructure running smoothly and reliably.
Perhaps the most significant difference Windows 2000 Server administrators will see when working with Windows Server 2008 R2 are the powerful possibilities opened up with in-box virtualization. Hyper-V™ allows Windows Server administrators to use virtualization to consolidate server sprawl, reigning in both hardware and facilities costs.
But virtualization is also an enabling technology, providing the opportunity to build new competitive work scenarios for users, design in-house business continuity plans and easily map new datacenter resources to dynamic business needs. This last is enabled via one of Windows Server 2008 R2's marquee features, Live Migration.
With Live Migration, administrators can move virtual machines across physical servers in a matter of milliseconds, which means migration operations become invisible to connected users. That means administrators can respond to changing business requirements quickly and without a service interruption for users.
Customers employing System Center Virtual Machine Manager for Hyper-V will also enjoy additional management and orchestration scenarios, including a new VM-oriented Performance and Resource Optimization feature and updated support for managing failover clusters.
Microsoft has much evolved the Terminal Services platform over the last four server generations. Utilize Windows Server 2008 R2's new Remote Desktop Services and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to easily deploy remote applications, virtual applications and virtual desktops to clients using Active Directory.
You'll also enable users with new performance enhancements over Terminal Services, including better audio and graphics performance, Web access updates and better integration with local peripheral hardware.
Microsoft has also done a ground-up rebuild of its TCP-IP networking stack and related technologies, since the advent of Windows 2000 Server. The redesigned "next generation" TCP/IP, included in Windows Server 2008 R2, provides vastly improved performance offering up to 45x faster throughput and more efficient routing of network traffic.
Using the combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 in a branch office scenario can provide up three times better bandwidth throughput combined with an average of 35% less WAN bandwidth used via the new BranchCache feature, according to early customer deployments.
If your company is one of the 2.1 million - 3 million estimated users continuing to rely upon Windows Server 2000, we urge you to consider upgrading your servers now, before the End of Life on your server leaves your business vulnerable.
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The Three Pillars to Cisco's Secure Data Center Strategy: Part 2 Threat Defense
In part one of our series on Cisco's Secure Data Center Strategy, we did a deeper dive on segmentation. As a refresh, segmentation can be broke into three key areas. The first, the need to create boundaries is caused because perimeters are beginning to dissolve and many environments are no longer trusted forcing us to segment compute resources, the network and virtualized attributes and environments. Along with segmenting physical components, policies must be segmented by function, device, and organizational division. Lastly, segmenting access control around networks and resources whether they are compute, network, or applications offers a higher level of granularity and control. This includes role-based access and context based access. Ensuring policy transition across the boundaries is of primary concern. To learn more on segmentation go here.
Today we will dive deeper into Cisco's security value-add of threat defense.
Technology trends such as cloud computing, proliferation of personal devices, and collaboration are enabling more efficient business practices, but they are also putting a strain on the data center and adding new security risks. As technology becomes more sophisticated, so are targeted attacks, and these security breaches, as a result, are far more costly. The next figure is from Information Weeks 2012 Strategic Security Survey and illustrates top security breaches over the previous year.
Many security breaches are caused by external forces such as hackers, organized crime and cybercriminals, and internally, disgruntled employees pose a threat. Businesses must be protected from these threats. Cisco offers two key threat defense options and then supports these with Cisco's Security Intelligence Operations (SIO).
Cisco understands that along with preventing threats legitimate business cannot be impacted; data transactions cannot simply be blocked, but rather that data needs deeper inspection. Cisco's new IPS 4500 Series Sensor platform for high performance environments and the ASA CX Context Aware Security Firewall for application control dominate in protecting data center needs against external and internal threats. The data within applications is a high-value target for attackers, yet access to that data is what drives the productivity and success of the enterprise. Cisco IPS 4500 offers protection for demanding data center applications and servers as it defends against targeted attacks, and sophisticated malware. It has high-performance (10Gbps) hardware accelerated inspection in a high port density, expandable chassis, and is designed for PCI compliance. Compared to a top competitor's similar product the IPS 4520 has 400% higher performance density in 75% less rack space. This IPS has highly effective, out-of-the-box protection and automated threat management that results in critical data center asset protection in minutes.
The ASA CX Context Aware Security Firewall offers extensive application visibility and control spanning thousands of applications and micro-applications. ASA CX not only identifies 1,000+ applications, but also identifies 75,000+ micro applications, like Farmville on Facebook. These micro applications are bucketed into easy-to-use categories so that firewall administrators can easily allow or deny access to the relevant parts of the application.
In addition to micro applications, ASA CX also identifies the application behavior by recognizing the action the user or group takes within that application. This permits contextual policy control. As an example, the Facebook "Videos" category identifies whether the user is uploading, tagging or posting a video. So an administrator may allow users to view and tag videos, but not allow users to upload a video. It also offers granular location based policy control by allowing users and groups access to a sensitive application from a local laptop, while denying access from a remote iPad.
Lastly, Cisco's threat defense is haloed by Cisco Security Intelligence Operations or SIO, and offers real-time threat intelligence and analysis to protect your network. Traditional security, which relies on layering of products and the use of multiple filters, is not enough to defend against the latest generation of malware, which spreads quickly, has global targets, and uses multiple vectors to propagate. Cisco SIO is the world's largest cloud-based security ecosystem, using SensorBase data of almost 1.6 million live data feeds from deployed Cisco email, web, firewall, and intrusion prevention system (IPS) solutions, covering 75TB of daily threat telemetry. Cisco SIO weighs and processes the data, automatically categorizing threats and creating rules using more than 200 parameters. Security researchers can also collect and supply information about security events that have the potential for widespread impact on networks, applications, and devices. Rules are dynamically delivered to deployed Cisco security devices every three to five minutes. The Cisco SIO team also publishes security best practice recommendations and tactical guidance for thwarting threats.
That about sums it up for this piece on threat defense. Tune in Friday for our last discussion on ensuring visibility within you network.
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Dr. Jose A. Wong - Perez
…Just an excellent approach of "Secure Data Center Security"…this three parts article enhances my Cisco's networking class presentations, it constitutes a real analysis regarding security…


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A US hospital had to turn away patients last week after being hit by a "virus" infection that downed the institution's network and sent staff back to using paper records.
The unidentified malware started to cause problems for the Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville Georgia last Wednesday and got progressively worse until the hospital was forced to divert all non-emergency admissions to other medical centres.
By Friday night, the IT team had the outbreak under control and by Saturday were able to go back to using the computerised records system, local media reported.
The source of the outbreak – not the first that has affected the hospital according to sources – is still not clear, nor has the malware been identified beyond it being described generically as a "virus."
"We actually have some of our IT vendor partners that are on site with us that have actually been here since Wednesday. We've also got internal teams that are trying to identify the virus issues," said Gwinnett Medical Center spokesperson, Beth Okun.
"It's not affecting patient care in any way, shape or form," she said adding that patient data had not been at risk.
Given the symptoms mentioned in reports, a worm infection (for example by Conficker or one of its variants) seems the most likely cause, which could have spread rapidly across the hospital's network forcing IT to pull connectivity to avoid it spreading further with unknown consequences.
The standard procedure for a fast-spreading worm is immediate isolation followed by a hunt for the point at which the malware entered the network, most likely a laptop or USB stick brought into the hospital by a member of staff.
The events bear a striking resemblance to a similar problem that hit New Zealand's St John Ambulance Service a fortnight ago. That attack disrupted the ambulance communications system, forcing administrators to revert to manual radio contact to direct staff to emergencies.
As with any organisation using Windows-based PCs, hospitals are regularly afflicted with malware but it is still unusual for institutions to find themselves disrupted seriously enough for the fact to become public.
In 2008, admissions systems at three hospitals in London had to be shut down after 4,700 computers became infected with the Mytob worm first detected by security companies three years earlier.
A security report on the incident later described the worm infection as "entirely avoidable," and as having been caused by a number of factors including poor management of antivirus updates on the affected machines.
Mytob acquired a reputation for potency. In a separate discovery, a variant was found that spread by posing as a message from the IT administrator.


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Things appear to be moving right along for the anticipated Horrible Bosses sequel, with the core trio of Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis reportedly locked in for the follow-up to the 2011 comedy. Likely to join them is Jamie Foxx, who played a sort of mentor to the lead characters in the first film.
Earlier this year, New Line was reportedly planning on a Horrible Bosses sequel, but the status of the film's stars was still up in the air. The latest update comes from THR, and it looks like New Line has closed deals for Bateman, Day and Sudeikis to reprise their roles as Nick Hendricks, Dale Arbus and Kurt Buckman respectively, for the sequel. The site goes on to say that Jamie Foxx is in talks to reprise his role as murder consultant Dean "Motherfucker" Jones.
Plot spoilers from Horrible Bosses ahead!
The original film centered on three guys who agree to murder each others' horrible bosses. Said bosses were played by Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Spacey. The sequel, which will be directed by Seth Gordon and is written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, will involve a brand new set of bosses, though THR notes that there's a chance Aniston and Spacey could make cameos. Farrell's character wouldn't likely be in any condition to return, being dead and all. And on that note, Spacey's character David Harken was hauled off to prison at the end of the first filme, so if he does make a cameo in the sequel, perhaps it'll be from behind bars, if he isn't either out on parole.
We'll have to wait and see if either Aniston or Spacey are set to return. In the meantime, it's great news to hear that the main cast has been secured and Jamie Foxx seems likely to return as well. And the mentioned "brand new set of bosses" certainly leaves the sequel open for some potentially great additions to the cast.