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Network Access Control has helped Sun Microsystems secure its network, despite advice from Burton Group analysts for network architects to hold off on NAC.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite all of the buzz and the spotlight on Network Access Control (NAC) at last week's Burton Group Catalyst Conference, analysts warned network architects that NAC may not yet be ready for widespread deployment.
And though Burton vice president and service director Phil Schacter noted that the network does have a responsibility to play a role in addressing security, it may still be too soon for NAC.
"Clearly, a standard is needed," Schacter said, pointing out that vendors across the board are creating NAC solutions, but there is no single thing tying them all together. Cisco Systems Inc. has Network Admission Control; Microsoft has Network Access Protection; Juniper has Unified Access Control; Nortel has Secure Network Access; Check Point has Total Access Protection; and the Trusted Computing Group has Trusted Network Connection. There are also dozens of startups offering NAC solutions.
By a show of hands in the audience of more than 100, it appeared that about 30% of the crowd were already knee-deep in NAC. They had either already deployed or were planning a deployment.
And one attendee at Catalyst shared how his company is making NAC work in its favor.
Mike Roncadori, security engineer with Sun Microsystems, said Sun deployed a Cisco NAC solution several months ago. Sun's unique environment had no real Wintel infrastructure; numerous personal laptops in daily use; a large number of engineers, labs and operating systems; and system support levels that were not equal.
Roncadori said Sun looked to Cisco's NAC to authenticate clients to the network, ensure all clients are properly managed, and provide a stepping stone to eventually breaking the network into a group of role-based enclaves.
"We want everybody to announce themselves," he said. "We want everybody to tell us who they are when they come on the network."
Roncadori said Sun also wanted a better way to know exactly whom to call on with a problem.
Before the NAC deployment, which featured Cisco's Clean Access Manager, users would come on and off the network with little to no security check, Roncadori said.
"People just came on, did what they did, and left," he said. From there, any mess they left in their wake -- such as viruses, worms and other security holes -- were "cleaned up after the fact."
Sun looked at a bunch of NAC solutions and went through demos, delving deep into each, Roncadori said. Eventually, Cisco was chosen because it was ready to go out of the box, was architecturally compatible, and could provide future functionality as NAC evolves. Also, he said, Sun wanted to pilot NAC in one month and deploy in four. Cisco was the only vendor that could accommodate that aggressive timeline.
Sun piloted the Clean Access Manager in a Colorado office to verify Cisco's claims and ensure that it could do what they expected. Some minor issues arose requiring configuration tweaks on other parts of the network, Roncadori said, but those problems were quickly resolved.
Since Sun outsources its computer and network operations, it also took a little time for that third party to learn NAC. Roncadori suggests starting the NAC conversation early if a deployment is planned. He estimated that if Sun had not outsourced, it would have taken roughly five full-time IT staffers to implement and manage NAC.
Now, Sun's first major NAC deployment is in place, and the company is looking at worldwide deployment by July 2007.
For the future, Roncadori said that NAC will help Sun set up enclaves, which will allow role-based access to entities and subnetworks and scaled authentication based on classification. Sun is also looking into white listing and blacklisting, which will allow access based on expertise and behavior or deny access based on individual behavior, meaning that if one particular user is prone to introducing problems, his access will be denied until he receives future clearance.
The company put in a "dirty VLAN" for users who are not allowed onto the network for one reason or another. Overall, Roncadori said, the user experience is rather unintrusive. Users have to launch a browser and are sent to the NAC box for authentication before they are allowed in. If there are problems, they are either placed in the VLAN or told to update and clean their computers. The overall process is not time consuming, he said, unless a user's PC is infected or doesn't have proper security installations. For example, if a user doesn't have a personal firewall, the system tells him to get one.
"There can be an indeterminate amount of work if you've really let your system go and it's not up to snuff," he said.
As for the cost, Roncadori said it was justified. He said Sun was handling between 3,000 and 4,000 incidents per month related to PCs introducing something unwanted onto the network. With NAC, Sun foresees that number dropping dramatically. Using an incident-costing model, Roncadori estimated that each incident cost the company anywhere from $750 to $1,000. If a good chunk of incidents are stopped, he said, the NAC solution will pay for itself.
"It's easy to justify spending $2 million to $3 million when you have a $6 million problem," he concluded.
This article originally appeared on SearchNetworking.com.


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As much as we dislike half seasons, the decision to spread Mad Men's last episodes over two years puts off the inevitable, painful farewell to a fascinating show.
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Stephen Jahelka and Team USA will begin the 2012 Lacrosse World Championships by facing Australia July 13 (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard men's lacrosse sophomore Stephen Jahelka was voted by his teammates to be one of the three captains for the Team USA Under-19 squad. Jahelka had a stand out freshman season with Harvard, leading the team in caused turnovers (17) and tied for second in ground balls (33).
Jahelka will lead Team USA across the pond to Turku, Finland for the FIL Under-19 World Championships, beginning with the opening ceremonies July 12 and running through July 21. Team USA hopes to continue its string of six consecutive gold medals in U19 world competition.
Traveling with Jahleka to Finland are fellow Crimson teammates Sean Mahon and Daniel Eipp. Eipp, a junior attackman, was second in scoring on the Crimson (24 goals, 18 assists, 42 points), while Mahon, a sophomore midfielder, went 17-of-38 in faceoffs in 13 games.
"It's a great honor for Stephen to be voted Captain of the U.S. U-19 National team," said Chris Wojcik '96, The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse. "To be recognized as a leader amongst leaders is a tribute to his character, leadership and ability. Stephen, along with Daniell Eipp & Sean Mahon, will be great ambassadors for Harvard and U.S. Lacrosse."
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Glenn Hoddle is considering a return to football coaching with QPR, but it is understood any role would likely be on a part-time basis as the former England manager juggles numerous other commitments.
Rangers boss Harry Redknapp is interested in adding Hoddle to his support staff and the former Chelsea, Tottenham, Southampton and Wolves boss is considering whether to accept the offer.
The possibility of returning to the Premier League appeals to Hoddle - considered last December as successor to Andre Villas-Boas at Tottenham only for Tim Sherwood to be appointed instead - as a route to returning to the game.
However, Hoddle also has to manage his television commitments.
A source close to Hoddle told Press Association Sport: "It's 50-50 as to whether he'll come back with QPR. He's thinking about it.
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Not long ago, The Financial Times would have been the crown jewel of any media company, instantly conferring prestige and influence on its owner. Now, given the likely bidders, one of the world's most respected and distinctive financial newspapers could end up as a trophy to help sell more computer terminals.
Michael R. Bloomberg is weighing the wisdom of buying The Financial Times Group, which includes the paper and a half interest in The Economist, according to three people close to Mr. Bloomberg who spoke on the condition of anonymity to divulge private conversations.
Mr. Bloomberg has long adored The Economist, and his affinity for The Financial Times, at least as a reader, has deepened lately. Its bisque-colored pages, once rarely seen in the thick stack of newspapers Mr. Bloomberg carries under his arm all day, have become a mainstay. Friends say he favors its generally short, punchy and to-the-point articles, which match his temperament.
In October, Mr. Bloomberg visited the London headquarters of The Financial Times, a few blocks away from Bloomberg L.P.'s giant new London complex, which is still under construction. When an editor asked if he would buy the paper, Mr. Bloomberg replied, "I buy it every day."
He has spoken openly with friends and aides about the potential benefits and pitfalls of making such a costly acquisition in an industry he admires deeply as a reader but sneers at as a businessman, these same people said. And he has recently taken to rattling off circulation figures and "penetration" rates for the paper.
"It's the only paper I'd buy," he has said to one associate. "Why should I buy it?" he has asked another.
His ambivalence speaks to the troubles facing the newspaper business, and to the complex motivations of the mayor himself. Drawn to power and prominence, Mr. Bloomberg is wrestling with his affection for the paper as its potential publisher and his wariness of an investment that could mar his company's reputation for achieving outsize profits. Pearson, the parent company of The Financial Times Group, does not break out separate financial results for the paper, but analysts estimate that it loses money. A spokesman for the mayor declined to comment on his conversations about the paper.
For Thomson Reuters, the other likely bidder, the calculation is somewhat different. Unlike Mr. Bloomberg, who started his financial information company in 1982, James C. Smith, president and chief executive of Thomson Reuters, came up through Thomson's regional newspapers and has ink in his veins. A replica of an old-fashioned printing press is on display in his corner office overlooking Times Square.
But the company has been hurt financially after its newest desktop terminal product struggled to catch on. In the first nine months of 2012, the company reported revenue of $9.88 billion, a 3 percent decrease from the period a year earlier. A company spokesman declined to comment.
The Financial Times could expand the Thomson Reuters brand and give its reporters additional exposure since, unlike Bloomberg, which bought Businessweek in 2009, the company does not own a regular magazine. Thomson Reuters, partly a British company, and The Financial Times also have large footprints in Asia.
But first, the paper needs to be put on the block. Pearson is about to lose two of its top executives, raising speculation the paper could be for sale. Analysts value The Financial Times Group at about $1.2 billion, well within the reach of Bloomberg L.P., which in 2011 had revenue of $7.6 billion, and Thomson Reuters, which posted revenue of $13.8 billion.
The paper has a successful digital strategy, and analysts have said that its strict online pay wall is considered a financial success. But like most newspapers, it is struggling in an industrywide decline in print advertising revenue. In the three months ending Oct. 1, the paper's total paid circulation exceeded 600,000, more than half of which was from digital subscriptions. In its most recent earnings report, Pearson said it expected profit to decline because of a sluggish advertising market and "the shift from print to digital."
Marjorie Scardino, Pearson's longtime chief executive, who once said the paper would be sold "over my dead body," is departing on Dec. 31. Rona Fairhead, chief executive of The Financial Times Group, will leave at the end of April. Both executives had championed the print businesses. A successor to Ms. Fairhead has yet to be named, though one person close to the company pointed to John Ridding, the chief executive of the paper.
One media banker with knowledge of the company expects the paper to be shopped around early next year. John Fallon, who is to take over from Ms. Scardino on Jan. 1 as chief of Pearson, rose through the educational business and does not share his predecessor's fondness for print. In October, the company merged its Penguin publishing house with Random House, owned by Bertelsmann of Germany.
In an interview in October, Mr. Fallon said The Financial Times was a "valued and valuable" asset that fit nicely into Pearson's overall business. He added that "the portfolio of Pearson, it's constantly changing and evolving" and "we never rule out anything."
Charles Goldsmith, a spokesman for Pearson, said in an e-mail that the company "has not initiated any sort of sale process for The Financial Times and has no plans to do so."
Ian Whittaker, a media analyst at Liberum Capital in London, said of Pearson: "My gut feeling is that if Bloomberg came in with a crazy bid, they'd probably accept it, but there's no compelling reason to sell at the moment."
Even before the departures at Pearson, Bloomberg L.P. had commissioned a study to assess whether The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times or The Financial Times would potentially become available. Only The Financial Times emerged as a possibility, according to three people briefed on the findings who, like others, declined to be identified discussing private conversations.
Officials at Bloomberg L.P. said top executives had only discussed a possible deal for The Financial Times in hypothetical terms, awaiting a decision from Mr. Bloomberg, who controls 90 percent of the company's shares. "Only one person makes the decisions about acquisitions and that's Mike," one executive said. A Bloomberg spokesman declined to comment.
In a brief interview at a party last week, Mr. Bloomberg sounded like a man who had carefully studied the paper's business. "The F.T. sells more papers in the U.S. than The Wall Street Journal does in Europe," he observed.
He eagerly described his method of reading The Financial Times, starting with its left-hand column, and praised its short articles, which begin and end on the front page. "There are no jumps," he said, using a newspaper term.
He expressed reservations about any deal that would involve owning just half of The Economist. Under the co-ownership agreement, The Financial Times Group has no input into The Economist's coverage. "You don't have control. Why would you want that?" Mr. Bloomberg asked.
Factions within his company have argued that it would be smarter to buy a digital property, pointing to the Web site LinkedIn as an example. Daniel L. Doctoroff, a confidant of Mr. Bloomberg and the chief executive of the company, is said to be particularly skeptical about the value of buying a newspaper.
Shortly after a Bloomberg News series on how profit-making colleges exploited low-income students was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in the prestigious public service category, Mr. Doctoroff dropped in on reporters in the company's Boston bureau.
"He basically said newsprint is passé and pooh-poohed acquiring any print publications," said one employee who was loath to speak publicly about internal discussions for fear of offending the company's top management.
Inside Bloomberg, the primacy of its terminals — the superfast, financial data-splicing computers that sit atop traders' desks on Wall Street — is unquestioned. Roughly 85 percent of Bloomberg's revenue comes from its 315,000 terminal subscribers, who pay $20,000 a year for "the Bloomberg." That revenue pays for the news operation's generous employee benefits and underpins Mr. Bloomberg's $25 billion fortune.
The debate over whether to buy The Financial Times highlights an internal tension within Bloomberg's giant news operation: Is it intended to be an amenity for those who lease terminals or a robust international media organization whose content reaches millions of readers beyond the financial world?
Bloomberg News reporters complain frequently about the lack of a widely read platform for their storytelling, a reality highlighted by the relatively slight day-to-day attention paid to the mayor's own foray into opinion journalism, Bloomberg View, which appears on the Bloomberg terminals and Web site. The editorials and columns housed at Bloomberg View would reach a far bigger audience in the pages of The Financial Times, reporters at the company argue.
Those who favor buying the paper said that, even if it failed to make money, it would fit neatly into Bloomberg's core business, giving the company a prestigious international outlet for its expanding body of journalism.
Over time, and with investment from Bloomberg, The Financial Times could develop a broader readership in the United States, with the goal of becoming the No. 1 newspaper for American business readers, filling a gap left after News Corporation reimagined The Journal into a general interest paper.
Mr. Bloomberg seems to recognize that a decision on whether to buy a newspaper involves more than financial sense. At a book party at the Bloomberg Family Foundation in May, he recalled a recent dinner party conversation.
"Someone said the only people buying newspapers these days are billionaires with egos," Mr. Bloomberg recalled. "And then he looked at me and said, 'Like you, Mike.' "


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America has plenty of enemies but they can probably relax. Who among them could do to the US the amount of damage that it is doing to itself?
Terrorists brought down some buildings in New York and punched a hole in the Pentagon. But it was not a terrorist who brought down the US economy at a staggering cost of more than $US20 trillion ($19.4 trillion) in losses in the value of family homes, shares and retirement funds.
It was, of course, poor US policy and weak governance. In other words, it was self-inflicted, man-made and entirely avoidable. The enemies of the US can only dream of inflicting this much damage on the superpower.
Chinese cyber assailants may have caused damage to the US economy valued in the hundreds of billions of dollars, we heard last week. This marks them as serious underachievers compared with the US's legislators, regulators and central bankers.
Yes, the terrorist attack in 2001 did kill nearly 3000 Americans. But the pointless and unjustified invasion of Iraq two years later killed almost twice as many.
Similarly, a terrorist cell or hostile power might conceivably blow up the US Congress or kill a bunch of its political leaders. But who is capable of inflicting an attack so severe that it could force political paralysis and dysfunction on the country so that it cannot make vital decisions? Not just for a day but for years?
To create this much havoc requires the special skills of the US Congress and presidency. This week, for the third time in three years, the US stands on the brink of a fiscal cliff.
If the Congress and the President can't agree on the national budget by Friday, automatic cuts to government spending of $US85 billion will kick in. This is known as ''the sequester''.
It's not a large sum in a country with a national budget of $US3.5 trillion. But consider some of the effects.
First, national economic growth will fall by about a quarter, or 0.6 per cent of gross domestic product, with the loss of 700,000 jobs, according to the well-regarded consultancy Macroeconomics Advisers.
Second, the cuts will crimp welfare payments to millions of Americans. Almost 2 million people who have been out of a job for six months or more will see a cut of 11 per cent or $33 in their weekly payments, for instance. Payments to the poor for nutrition assistance and low-income housing will be cut, too.
Third, the government will cut payments to its own workers and services, including a cut to the defence forces equal to 13 per cent of their budget over the rest of the fiscal year, to the end of September. In anticipation, the Pentagon has delayed the deployment of an aircraft carrier battle group scheduled on a routine rotational deployment to the Persian Gulf, for example. Some of the effects would not be overcome for years, according to the Defence Department.
Fourth, US credibility will suffer. The new Secretary of State and one-time presidential candidate John Kerry said last week that ''the greatest challenge to America's foreign policy today is in the hands not of diplomats but of policymakers in Congress''.
Kerry said: ''It is hard to tell the leadership of any number of countries that they must resolve their economic issues if we don't resolve our own.''
The former Australian treasurer Peter Costello said in 2009 that the US had ''lost its bragging rights''.
Bruce Reed, now the chief of staff to the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, said in a speech in Melbourne that year: ''You know you've hit bottom when Peter Costello is telling you you've lost your bragging rights.''
The sequester was never supposed to happen. It was conceived by the Obama White House to have ''a consequence that would be so unacceptable to everyone that we would be able to get action'' as Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, said.
But surely, if it's so serious and so soon, there must be earnest negotiations under way in Washington to avert the crisis, at the very least? Wrong. There are not.
Obama and the Democrats have made a proposal; the Republicans have not even made a formal counter-offer.
Obama has tried to pressure the Republicans into a response: ''Are they willing to compromise to protect vital investments in education and healthcare and national security and all the jobs that depend on them, or would they rather put hundreds of thousands of jobs and our entire economy at risk just to protect a few special interest tax loopholes that benefit only the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations?''
The absence of a Republican response, so far at least, would seem to answer the question. Is there a great outcry from the American public? ''We're one week away from a massive cut in federal spending,'' wrote the former secretary of labour in the Clinton administration Robert Reich at the end of last week, ''yet the silence is deafening''.
Why? A prerequisite for outrage is awareness. The polling firm Pew last week reported: ''After a series of fiscal crises over the past few years, the public is not expressing a particular sense of urgency over the pending March 1 sequester deadline. With little more than a week to go, barely a quarter have heard a lot about the scheduled cuts, while about as many have heard nothing at all.''
And even if this impasse is resolved, another fiscal crisis looms in March and more will follow every few months about spending cuts, debt ceilings and tax increases.
An exasperated Reich said: ''It's no time for showdown fatigue. It's time to fight.'' Without much public awareness, there's not much public concern, and without public concern, it's hard to generate a fight.
And this may be the ultimate problem. The US system of problem-solving, otherwise known as national politics, is not working. And the country seems to be in danger of neither knowing nor caring.
Yet you can assume that just about everyone in the US will know something about the Oscars. The Roman satirist Juvenal saw the decay of the Roman Empire as a problem of the distraction of the people with ''bread and circuses''. What would he say about America today?
Peter Hartcher is the international editor.
Peter Hartcher is political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.


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TACOMA, Wash. -- Emerald Queen Casino will cancel two Ted Nugent concerts that were scheduled August 2 and 3, citing racist remarks made by the singer.
Puyallup Tribe officials said they also received threats from community members who demanded the casino cancel his shows.
The Washington tribe's action comes days after the Coeur d'Alene Tribe cancelled Nugent's August 4 shows at its Idaho casino because of the rocker's "racist and hate-filled remarks."
The Idaho tribe said Monday it booked Nugent without realizing he espoused "racist attitudes and views." The tribe did not detail which of Nugent's specific views it opposes.
Nugent in the past has referred to President Barack Obama as a "subhuman mongrel." Nugent later apologized "for using the street fight terminology," but he maintained that Obama was a "liar" violating the Constitution.
Officials for Nugent's music management company were out of the office on Monday and not available for comment.
But Nugent defended himself on Tuesday on Radio.com. Nugent said his music has been influenced by Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, he has paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. in his songs, and that lyrics in his songGreat White Buffalo are not racist toward Native Americans.
Nugent also told Radio.com he's the target of an "army assigned to destroy Ted Nugent."
"I am so good at advancing the most politically incorrect policies in the world," the rocker said. "I have been involved in upgrading our Second Amendment rights in all 50 states, so we the people can in fact keep and bear arms…the left hates that. ... I have expanded and increased hunting opportunities all across the globe. So I am able to, dare I say, perfectly articulate my case — they are not."
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I was putting them up as a hedge, as I'm sure you are too genteel to point out. They are just kids having fun. They'll grow out of it. It was never like that for me. It's signs and pointers from early childhood - the idea that there's something out there worth finding, not a religion so much as....um.....utopian Anarchism?? (God....)
I always liked the idea, long before I could put a name to it. It's not just the 60s. It's also in Wilde's essay "The Soul Of Man Under Socialism". The ridiculously romantic idea that people could be free enough to just realise their artistic potential. And it seemed to me, when I was a kid, that something not a million miles away from all this was going on, somewhere over there, in the 60s.
Anyway, The Stones seemed central somehow. I heard their 1st album as a five year old the same summer I saw "A Hard Day's Night" at the pictures. I was very impressed.
If The Beatles had stayed together, making a series of duller and duller records, returning to touring on a stadium level and Paul and Ringo were still out there treading the boards with a bunch of overpaid session musicians - believe me, it would be much, much worse...
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It is probably the second-most-pressing question circulating in the salons of Washington's media elite: Who will be the permanent host, or hosts, of the NBC program "Meet the Press"?
It could be Chuck Todd, whose profile as political director of NBC News has risen noticeably during the network's coverage of the presidential campaign, but whose low-key, conversational style doesn't quite "crack the screen," as one television executive put it this week. It could be David Gregory, a correspondent who has long been familiar to NBC viewers, but who has had trouble attracting viewers to his own program, "Race for the White House," on MSNBC.
It could be both, as part of an ensemble, or it could be neither. Gwen Ifill, a former NBC correspondent who went on to PBS, has been approached by the president of NBC News to gauge her interest. And some at NBC still pine for Katie Couric, who, if many planets were somehow to align, could be back on a top-rated NBC morning show, albeit one that is broadcast just once a week.
Meanwhile, the names of the candidates' backers and antagonists are as intriguing as those of the potential hosts themselves. Tom Brokaw has told some colleagues that he has been impressed with Mr. Todd. Mr. Gregory has struggled to get critical air time on "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" in part, some colleagues say, because he can be as combative off camera as he can be at a White House press briefing.
NBC is expected to announce its decision sometime between Election Day and the end of the year, when Mr. Brokaw is scheduled to end his tour as interim host, a role he has played since shortly after the death of the program's longtime moderator Tim Russert in June. The network has said little publicly about its deliberations, which have been set against the backdrop of the election with the stock of some potential hosts rising, and others falling.
Those inside and outside the network who have been briefed on portions of the process said this week that it had been understandably difficult, given the oversize shoes being filled. As of yet, no obvious candidate has emerged from what in effect has been an unwieldy bake-off, with some of the leading candidates playing prominent roles in the network's political coverage.
A spokeswoman for NBC News, Allison Gollust, said on Friday, "No decision has been made about the future of 'Meet the Press,' and any speculation by alleged insiders is nothing more than idle chitchat."
The rough list of journalists who are receiving scrutiny within NBC emerged from conversations this week with people who would speak only on condition of anonymity, because not one was a direct decision maker. Among the other names being bandied about the hallways and suites of NBC's headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, and its Washington bureau on Nebraska Avenue, are those of Andrea Mitchell, a longtime reporter who could play a supporting role, and a dark horse, Chris Matthews, the outspoken MSNBC host whose ratings have climbed during the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
Some NBC executives are intrigued by the possibility of hiring an established star to replace Mr. Russert. Near the top of that short list is Ms. Couric, the former "Today" co-host, who has had at times an unhappy experience as anchor of the "CBS Evening News." And there is always Ted Koppel, who would bring the heft of more than two decades spent hosting "Nightline."
That the decision to replace Mr. Russert has been protracted is not just a reflection of the degree to which he made "Meet the Press" his own. The program, which has its 61st anniversary on Thursday, is a tremendously important showcase for NBC. With an average weekly audience of nearly four million, according to Nielsen Media Research, it has actually increased its viewership and its margin of victory over its two main competitors "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" on ABC, and "Face the Nation" on CBS in the months since Mr. Russert's death.
The program also generates millions of dollars in annual advertising revenue for NBC. While Betsy Fischer, the longtime executive producer of "Meet the Press," and Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, will have much to say about the next moderator, the ultimate decision will most likely rest with Jeff Zucker, the president and chief executive of NBC Universal, in consultation with Jeffrey R. Immelt, the chairman and chief executive of General Electric, the network's parent company.
NBC has drawn some criticism for not having more minority journalists in prominent roles. Ms. Ifill, the host of "Washington Week" on PBS and a regular on "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," is black. She also has a résumé long on jobs covering Washington politics, not just over the last nine years at PBS but also before that at NBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Reached this week, Ms. Ifill would neither confirm nor deny any contact with NBC executives. "I have one of the best jobs in journalism right now," she said, "but I never rule anything out."
Asked how long she was committed to PBS, Ms. Ifill said, "I'm still under contract."
Of the inside candidates, Mr. Todd has drawn praise for his sober election analysis. And yet he has logged far more time as a print journalist than as a television host, including six years as the editor of The Hotline, a publication of National Journal. Moreover, the job of presiding over "Meet the Press" in an election year, which plays to Mr. Todd's strengths as a political analyst, is different from what it will be during the early months of a new administration, in which the topics will hopscotch from the economy to international affairs.
For these reasons the network has thought seriously about placing Mr. Todd at the helm of an ensemble, perhaps a rotating one, that could include Mr. Gregory. Mr. Gregory still might get the "Meet the Press" job outright.
Then there is Ms. Couric, whose widely seen conversations with Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, were fresh reminders of her interviewing skills. Even if Ms. Couric were interested, which is not clear, she would have to be let out of her contract with CBS, which is to run for more than two more years.
On the other hand, CBS executives acknowledged earlier this year that Ms. Couric and the network had discussed the possibility of her leaving, perhaps between the election and the inauguration in January.
Asked in an interview last month if the attention she received for her Palin interview had her thinking about what it would be like to lead the "CBS Evening News" in a new administration, Ms. Couric demurred, saying, "I haven't really been able to look beyond Nov. 4, in terms of how things are going to shake out."
As for Mr. Koppel, he declined an opportunity to take over "This Week" when he concluded his tenure on "Nightline" in 2005. At the time it was noted that he had done an interview program of his own for 26 years and was loath to interrupt time with his family to lash himself to an anchor desk in Washington each Sunday.
And yet when asked this week about whether Mr. Koppel might have changed his mind in the intervening years, someone close to him emphasized that his three-year contract with the Discovery Channel was winding down, and that Mr. Koppel was open to a new challenge. As of yet, though, no one from NBC is believed to have called.


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It's become rather routine these days for authors of WPF books to create diagrams for the book with XAML files. I'll be doing this with my forthcoming WPF 3D book, and the XAML files associated with these diagrams will be available with the rest of the source code.
Several diagrams in the book involve vectors, which are customarily pictured as lines with arrows on the end, and for these I used some ad hoc solutions. In one XAML file I created a little filled triangle, and positioned it on the heads of the line and rotated it appropriately. In another XAML file, I drew all lines using Polyline with four strokes: one for the line itself, another for one half of the arrow, then back up to the tip, and then another for the other half of the arrow. I adjusted the coordinates in XAML Cruncher until the arrow looked OK.
But all the time I was assembling these arrows I kept thinking: You know, you should really create a class that does all the math for you. Then I got an email suggesting I write a blog entry about arrowed lines. So here it is.
The Arrowheads.zip file contains a demo program and two classes named ArrowLine and ArrowPolyline that derive from Shape by way of an abstract class ArrowLineBase. ArrowLineBase defines four properties:
- ArrowAngle is the angle between the two strokes of the arrowhead. The default is 45 degrees.
- ArrowLength is the length of the two strokes of the arrowhead. The default is 12, or 1/8 inch.
- ArrowEnds indicates whether the arrowhead appears on the beginning of the line, the end of the line, or both. You set this to an ArrowEnds enumeration value: Start, End (the default), Both, or None.
- IsArrowClosed is a Boolean (default false) that indicates if the two sides of the arrowhead are joined to form a triangle.
All these properties are backed by dependency properties so you can reference them in animations, bindings, and styles.
The ArrowLine class derives from ArrowLineBase and basically duplicates the Line class by defining X1, Y1, X2, and Y2 properties; ArrowPolyline duplicates the Polyline class by defining a Points property.
I remember trying to derive from Shape a long time ago and being somewhat confused. This time it seemed relatively straightforward. I defined all the dependency properties with FrameworkPropertyMetadata objects and a flag of AffectsMeasure. This flag forces a new measure and render pass whenever a property changes. In ArrowLine and ArrowPolyline I overrode the get accessor of the DefiningGeometry property and simply returned a PathGeometry object describing the figure. Apparently code in Shape itself accesses this property during its OnRender method.
The DefiningGeometry properties in ArrowLine and ArrowPolyline work in conjunction with the DefiningGeometry property in ArrowLineBase. The properties in the two non-abstract classes fill a PolyLineSegment with the line or polyline definition; the property then calls the base property in the abstract ArrowLineBase class to add one, two, or no additional PolyLineSegment objects for the arrows.
Because the arrows are basically part of the line, they are affected by all the properties that affect the line, such as Stroke, StrokeThickness, StrokeStartLineCap, and StrokeLineJoin. If you set IsArrowClosed to true, the Fill property comes into play; the arrowhead will look most normal if Fill is set to the same brush as Stroke.
The namespace I've used with these classes is Petzold.Media2D because I'll be transferring them over to a DLL that I'm assembling for the 3D book. Virtually everything in that DLL will be in the Petzold.Media3D namespace (and that's what the DLL will be named) but I'll have a few 2D enhancements as well. I hope to make an early version of that DLL available in a few weeks.


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Yellowstone park officials said park-goers should wash their hands thoroughly before and after eating while camping instead of relying on hand sanitizer.
Since June 7, more than 200 workers and visitors to the Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks have reported gastrointestinal illness, and some have tested positive for norovirus.
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Firestone's Roadhawk was designed to retain its performance on roads where wet weather, heavy traffic, sudden braking and motorway speed are daily requirements. That means you can be sure your tyre will provide reliable performance its whole life.
Price includes valve*, balance and environmental disposal of your old tyres - no hidden extras!
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The Firestone Roadhawk tyre is an excellent summer tyre suited specifically to passenger vehicles. You can be assured of excellent value for money if you were to purchase the Firestone Roadhawk tyre, most notably due to the extended tyre life. Due to this, you have the ability to travel for an increased number of miles. Driver control has been improved to maximise safety levels. Braking distances also have been minimised, no matter the road surface or weather conditions.
Roadhawk extra information
C Grade – Above average fuel efficient tyre but still several percent below that of a grade A tyre.
A Grade – The best quality tyres to stop in the wet, stopping on average 18m shorter than a car on grade G tyres (on a wet road when braking from 50mph – testing according to regulation EC1222/2009)
2 Bars – Meets future EU noise limits
72 dB – Exterior noise level measured in decibels (dB). The lower the exterior noise level the better the environment near busy roads


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Emilie de Ravin Gossip
Emilie de Ravin gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
These pants are much better...
Than the ones that gave him a big ass – this is Robert Pattinson in London tonight at the UK premiere of Remember Me quivering his home fans with co-star Emilie de Ravin and her amazing legs. Full Story
They hate her more than they hate me
Twi-Hards. Emilie de Ravin. Lately the hatemail hasn't been so much directed at me but at her. Like I'm her spokesperson. We'll get to that later. And what did Emilie de Ravin do? Well, she had the audacity to accept a movie role as Robert Pattinson's love interest in Remember Me. Full Story
Robert Pattinson by request
Katie M sends me a lovely note several times a week for Robert Pattinson news. Today she promised it would be her last for the Olympic break. Katie is an example of a sane fan. I expect I'll be hearing from a lot of insane fans today. Or if you're a Twi-Hard, please look away. You will not approve. Full Story
Let's play Poor "Rob"
Laura just emailed me after wetting herself over some photo of Robert Pattinson yesterday – her exact words: Come on, Elaine. Tell me he doesn't look like a hot piece of ass in this one. I dare you. My response:He looks great! And asexual. And then she got all huffy because to her he's head to toe full on sex. Full Story
Be careful how you look at him
That's what they're hissing at her… At Emilie de Ravin, as she shoots with Robert Pattinson in New York today on the set of Remember Me, looking up at him beguilingly, so pretty, they are shouting it from every corner of the world: Don't you f-cking look at him like that you bitch! Or I will cut you! Can you hear the Twi-Hards crying? There may actually be someone they hate more than me. Full Story
Most comfortable wardrobe ever
Robert Pattinson looks like he's very comfortable on the set of Remember Me today. You would be too in those clothes. The top is like pyjamas. And the loose pants can accommodate a double order of lunch. Am jealous. Women's clothing is sadistic. If it looks good, chances are it's f-cking tight and wedgie inducing and there is nothing worse than a strapless bra. Full Story
When will they attack her?
Emilie, you in danger girl. It's Emilie de Ravin, shooting what looks like a date scene with Robert Pattinson on the Remember Me set in a series of photos that will likely be used by tabloids to suggest a budding romance between the two stars, much to the dismay of Pattinson's lunatic fans who are probably, right now, plotting her demise. Full Story


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TV critics honor "The Americans," "Game of Thrones," "Breaking Bad"
BEVERLY HILLS – The Television Critics Association honored CBS classic "All in the Family" with its Heritage Award while naming FX's "The Americans" the best new program of 2012-13 at an awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday.
"Breaking Bad" took the top honor as program of the year, on the eve of launching its final eight episodes.
The awards, voted on by the 220 members of the Television Critics Association, often honor shows overlooked by Emmy voters. The ceremony was hosted by Comedy Central's Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele but the funniest bit of the night was Norman Lear and Rob Reiner, in accepting the heritage honor, acting out a scene from the transcripts recently unveiled in the documentary "Our Nixon," in which Nixon complains to his lieutenants about "All in the Family" "glorifying homosexuality."
Here is the complete list of TCA Award winners:
• Individual Achievement in Drama: Tatiana Maslany ("Orphan Black," BBC America)
• Individual Achievement in Comedy: Louis C.K. ("Louie," FX)
• Outstanding Achievement in News and Information: "The Central Park Five" (PBS)
• Outstanding Achievement in Reality Programming: "Shark Tank" (ABC)
• Outstanding Achievement in Youth Programming: "Bunheads" (ABC Family)
• Outstanding New Program: "The Americans" (FX)
• Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials: "Behind the Candelabra" (HBO)
• Outstanding Achievement in Drama: "Game of Thrones" (HBO)
• Outstanding Achievement in Comedy: (Tie) "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS) and "Parks and Recreation" (NBC).
• Career Achievement Award: Barbara Walters (ABC)
• Heritage Award: "All in the Family" (CBS)
• Program of the Year: "Breaking Bad" (AMC)