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(CNN) – Longtime Republican Sen. John McCain on Sunday described the enrollment process for Obamacare thus far as a "fiasco" and vowed to continue fighting the health care law. But he said Republicans should take a "rifle shot" approach rather than the "meat ax" strategy of defunding the law altogether, as endorsed by conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz.
On CNN's "State of the Union," McCain was not quite ready to call on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to step down, unlike others in his party, but he supports the idea of holding congressional hearings over the issue and encouraged more efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
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"Let's find out who is responsible for this fiasco and then take the appropriate action," he told CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger when asked about Sebelius.
"But this is just the beginning of the problems," he continued. "That's why we Republicans have to keep up the fight. But we have to rifle shot it rather than go at it with a meat ax, which cannot succeed."
Nearly half a million people have filled out applications for Obamacare coverage since October 1, despite the highly publicized problems with online sign-ups, administration officials said Saturday.
"The website is unacceptable, and we are improving it," one senior administration official said. "But the underlying insurance product is good, and across the country, people are getting access to affordable care on January 1."
The Affordable Care Act is intended to serve more than 48 million Americans without health insurance. Most Americans face tax penalties if they do not have health insurance by the beginning of next year.
McCain had his own recommendation on how to fix the rocky rollout.
"Send Air Force One out to Silicon Valley, load it up with smart people, bring them back to Washington and fix this problem," he said. "It's ridiculous. And everybody knows that."
The 2008 GOP presidential nominee said he believes that the Obamacare glitches would be a bigger story if conservative Republicans hadn't staged a strategy that in part led to this month's government shutdown.
"Many ironies here, but one of them is the fiasco of this rollout has been obscured because of this … strife that's been going on in the Republican Party," he said.
Spearheaded by Cruz, House Republicans repeatedly attached anti-Obamacare provisions to must-pass spending bills, which the Democratic-controlled Senate refused to take up. The stalemate ultimately resulted in a 16-day partial government shutdown that removed $24 billion from the economy, according to an initial analysis from Standard & Poor's.
McCain has been one of many Senate Republicans to criticize the effort.
"It was a fool's errand to start with. It was never going to succeed," he said. McCain didn't single out Cruz but blamed "the whole effort" instead.
"Keep up the fight against Obamacare. But don't shut down the government and have so much collateral damage," he added.
Although Cruz hasn't ruled out trying to take the same approach when Congress faces another fiscal deadline in January, McCain said he's confident Congress will not let it happen again. "The American people will not stand for another one of these things. They just won't."
Cruz to CNN: 'I don't work for the party bosses in Washington'
This week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a hearing on problems with the Obamacare enrollment process. Sebelius was invited to testify. A Health and Human Services official said last week that she won't be available for the Thursday hearing, but she's in "close communication" with the committee about its request for her testimony.
Some lawmakers have called on Sebelius to be fired or resign, but Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, like McCain, didn't immediately call for her to step down over the problems. However, Rubio, along with Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, criticized her for not going to the hearing.
"Her refusal to testify and be transparent about it, I think, is undermining her credibility, and there may come a point where, in fact, she will have to resign, largely because she no longer has the credibility to do the job," Rubio said on "Fox News Sunday."
On the same program, Blunt argued that there will come a point when "she'll have to testify."
"I don't think she can refuse to answer questions about this," he said.
- CNN's Kevin Bohn and Greg Clary contributed to this report.
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Does this guy even thing he is relevant any more? When you have servers pounded by thousands of large requests all the time, the server gets overloaded. Simple internet fact (and one such teams like Anonymous relies on for their Denial of Service attacks). McCain needs to give it up, his attempts at doing anything productive, let alone advancing his political career, went down the tubes years ago.
This topic is brought up by the GOP to get peoples mind off the fiasco of shutting down the government un necessarily..
Yes the site may be not working as expected but that will be corrected..
The GOP needs to support our President and stop it with the insignificant shutdowns, and when the time comes they can focus on winning an election how about that for a strategy..
The World is watching as they discuss switching to a new international monetary fund, and now with good reason thanks to the GOP.
Here's a novel suggestion for MCCain and other Republicans: instead of vowing to kill the Health Care Act, how about working across the aisle with Democrats to fix the Health Care Law. No one on either site of the thinks ACA is perfect. Instead of gleefully pointing out all that went wrong with the rollout, let's get going to make it work. Is working to ensure ACa's failure really in the best interest of America?
The biggest fiasco to happen is republicans shutting down the economy while incurring 24 billion from it!!!
Mr. McCain said loading up Air Force 1 with SMART people from Silicon Valley and bringing them back to Washington to fix the problem regarding the healthcare roll out. THAT'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT CONGRESS!!! Utilize your own prophetic advice. Currently, Congress is the definition of insanity. You know... doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
Liberal motto–kill the messenger–but, -never a failed bill that obama is responsible for..
The "Obamacare" rollout is not a fiasco. The fiasco was the government shutdown and the pending issues coming up in the next few months that can't ever seem to get a permanent fix and solution. The computer programing and glitches, these all can be fixed on the "Obamacare" healthcare.gov website. These problems are small compared to the governmental problems that are always ongoing. The government shutdown out weights the costs of the website problems, by far. These problems will get solved. The government problems, this will start all over again come Jan/Feb if something is not started now.


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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Making of McDonalds Medicine
Well, the response was overwhelming: over a million people rushed to download Oprah's coupon offered online. They then sped on over to their local KFC with the coupon in hand during their lunch hour, only to encounter huge lines. After all, there were only so many people behind the counter to take the coupons, validate them, cook the food, and distribute the grilled chicken chunks to the masses. People got impatient. Lots and lots of people. So many people, in fact, that in store owners thought everyone must be xeroxing their coupons and giving them to friends, so soon they would only take the coupons printed in color. Shoving and expletives broke out. Frustration ruled. In short, it was a public relations nightmare.
So what does this have to do with health care reform?
Well, a lot.
After all, we're working on making medicine into McDonalds.
Think about it. We're in the planning stages of trying to build low-cost, highly affordable medical care for everyone. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing. I mean, who doesn't want cheap, convenient food once in a while? There will still be a pretty good selection of offerings: from the nutritious (like salads and apple slices) to the not-so-nutritious (like an occasional soft-served cone).
One thing's for sure, McDonalds will be busy. Very busy. After all, they don't call it "fast food" for nothing. We'll have to get used to that. Costs, after all, are key: keep 'em low. For the clever businessmen and businesswomen out there, opportunities for significant profit will still exist at our McDonalds health care of the future, at least for senior management. And for the suppliers, well, they'll do just fine, too since the demand will still exist for their services.
Soon we'll be ordering Combo Meal #1 after you suffer a Big Mac attack and receive our Big Mac, fries, soft drink included with follow-up care for a year for one low, low price! And if you want a sundae, you might have to pay a bit extra.
But if we take the analogy a bit further, who's going to be flipping the burgers? Who will be greeting the patients to take their order? Will we offer drive through services and be open late on weeknights and weekends? Will we hire cheap labor to keep our costs down? After all, what's there to flipping burgers and taking orders? Just take the order, enters them in the register, get the boys in back make the sandwich, and another mouth will be fed, all in just a few short minutes.
Whether or not we just have McDonalds or be able to step up to a Chipotle or Outback Steakhouse remains to be seen. Certainly for most, these options will do. But there will probably be a modest number of people for whom none of these options will do. For them, there will be a selection of five-star restaurants, but they'll have to pay for it themselves. Whether the government will permit doctors to work at these establishments is the question right now, since the mass exodus of physicians from burger flippers to something more palatable is seriously in question.
It sure is going to be interesting.
But America has spoken: McDonalds, please. And that's okay.
We just have to know what we're getting...
... and what the Combo Meals will cost us.
5 comments:
- roger said...
I think this is an interesting (and amusing) post. While I don't think we would agree completely on issues of public health policy, I see your points as valid, and your concerns as serious, if not, in my opinion, insurmountable.
However, how does Johns Hopkins Bayview end up as Outback Steakhouse? I spent a month there as an externship student in the CICU and found the Cardiology attendings to be some of the most incredible clinicians and teachers I have ever met in my (brief) career so far. I guess you're placing Outback above Chipotle, but still... For the level of care they provide (including PCI for STEMI patients) they provide a great service in an academic, collegial, interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Maybe you just like Outback Steakhouse more than I do. Perhaps I would suggest Houstons instead, with the downtown campus being Morton's.
- Tue May 12, 03:07:00 PM CDT
- DrWes said...
My point was not to denigrate Johns Hopkin's Bayview, but rather to make the point there will probably be different establishments with different levels of health care amenities. The concern, of course, is that those amenities are likely to suffer in the name of cost savings. The challenge from a fiscal standpoint will be making as much as possible from the contraints imposed by the senior management.
- Tue May 12, 03:16:00 PM CDT
- roger said...
Thanks for your response, Dr. Wes! I certainly see your point.
- Tue May 12, 05:24:00 PM CDT
- Alisha Miles said...
Wow! This was an excellent post on the new issues facing health care today. You did a superb job of juxtaposing the argument. And what happens to the "independently" owned McDonalds? When there is a rush of these coupons and free items, do these 'independent' programs not take the coupons?
In other words, when hospitals are fraught with rising medical costs and lower medicaid payments, or are required to cover everyone with very little, then will independent hospitals and clinics refuse medicaid/universal patients and only offer 'super-sized' coverage to a select few. Doesn't this increase the health disparity?
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- Thu May 14, 05:54:00 AM CDT
It's already happening but McDonalds will be Walgreens payasyougo clinic. Also Walmart.
- Fri May 15, 03:39:00 PM CDT


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Hobby shop chain faces backlash for stance against ObamaCare
A Christian-owned chain of hobby shops is facing a bitter backlash after suing the Obama administration over new requirements to provide insured employees with contraceptive and abortion coverage.
Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby filed the suit Sept. 12 in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City, alleging that the ObamaCare mandate violates the religious beliefs of the company's owners. The suit followed similar suits by Catholic colleges and a Denver-based company whose owners also objected to the mandate on religious grounds. While a judge has not yet ruled on Hobby Lobby's suit, a Facebook page calling for a boycott of the company, which operates 500 stores in 41 states, has appeared online, and several other forums have featured posts urging customers to steer clear of Hobby Lobby.
"I'm boycotting Hobby Lobby!" reads the heading of one posting on image posting site Flickr. "Even if you're pro-life this kind of action stinks to high heaven! If things like this can be allowed then what's next?!," the user added.
Others have taken to social media to protest against Hobby Lobby, with a "Boycott Hobby Lobby" page on Facebook.
"I've been to two Hobby Lobby parking lots today and they were fairly empty. I used to have trouble finding a parking spot!" read one posting from the administrator of the Boycott page. "I think the boycott is catching on! I do not think they are getting the reaction they hoped for."
Hobby Lobby owner David Green is a devout Baptist who owns one of the world's largest collections of Biblical artifacts. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents Green in his suit, argued that compliance with the offending portion of the health care law that the nature of their suit is "would force religiously-motivated business owners like plaintiffs to violate their faith under the threats of millions of dollars in fines."
Lawyers argued that company employees are well aware of Green's views and their bearing on the company.
"The Green family's business practices ... reflect their Christian faith in unmistakable and concrete ways," the complaint states. The company employs full-time chaplains; close all store locations on Sundays and monitors all marketing and operations to make sure that it is consistent with their beliefs.
Failure to comply with the mandate could subject the company to as much as $1.3 million in daily fines, according to Becket Fund attorneys.
"They're being told they have two choices: Either follow their faith and pay the government half a billion dollars or give up their beliefs," Lori Windham, an attorney from the Becket Fund, told Foxnews.com. "We believe that's a choice no one should have to make."
David Green could not be reached for comment, but in a recent USA Today Op-Ed, he blasted the Obama administration for imposing mandates he believes he cannot comply with.
"Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy," Green wrote. "Our government threatens to fine a company that's raised wages four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business according to its beliefs. It's not right."
The company does not object to providing coverage that includes birth control pills, but refuses to provide or pay for two specific abortion-inducing drugs such as the so-called "morning after" pill, because Green's "most deeply held religious belief" is that life beginning at conception, the family said in a statement released through its attorneys.
As for the boycott, the company's founders believe customers have the right to vote with their feet.
"The Green family respects every individual's right to free speech and hopes that others will respect their rights also, including the right to live and do business according to their religious beliefs.," the statement said.
Hobby Lobby is believed to be the first non-Catholic company to file an objection to the healthcare mandate. The Newland family, the devoutly Catholic owners of Denver-based Hercules Industries filed a similar suit this past summer and won a court injunction that ruled that they are not obligated to follow the mandate.
"I think the law and precedent set by this case is very strong for Hobby Lobby and the Green Family," Windham said.


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When I hear Josh Hutcherson's in a movie, I'm first in line for the midnight premiere, no ifs, ands, or buts. And when I found out that Beyoncé Knowles and Amanda Seyfried were also in the cast of Epic, I just knew it would be amazing, even though the storyline was pretty vague. Thankfully, to take my guesswork out of the equation, the trailer premiered today — it's the story of a girl who's transported to a magical world to fight in a long-standing battle between good and evil, and, true to its title, the movie does look pretty epic. Seriously, do I really have to wait until next year to see it? You can check out the trailer here!
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Photographer Barbara Crane will be in Conversation with Barbara Hitchcock (the author of The Polaroid Book) on Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 pm at the Aperture Foundation
Exhibitions on view:
November 7, 2009—January 21, 2010
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Barbara Crane: Private Views
In the early 1980s, photographer Barbara Crane embarked on a photographic project shot during Chicago's various summer festivals. Armed with a Super Speed Graphic camera and Polaroid film, Crane waded in close to the revelers and focused on capturing the details of clothing and hairstyles, but most importantly, gesture. The images are tightly cropped and terrifically alive, viscerally bringing us into the crush of people eating, drinking, and enjoying the crowd dynamic—an incredible inventory of private gestures performed in public spaces.
The collective effect of the images in Barbara Crane: Private Views is mesmerizing and intensely compelling, creating a palpable sensuality from image to image—an astonishing document, not of a particular event or personality, but of something far less tangible: the public expression of euphoria. Barbara Crane: Private Views is a celebration of the classic 1980s Polaroid snapshot with an experimental flair; Crane's mixture of natural light and flash combined with her use of Polaroid film highlights the primary colors of '80s fashion, which still feels hip and contemporary today.
An accompanying book of the same title was published by Aperture in the spring 2009.
Barbara Crane (born in Chicago, 1928) is a celebrated American photographer known for her extraordinary commitment to experimentation and innovation, especially in exploring the themes of the human form and the urban landscape. Crane studied art history at Mills College, completing her BA at New York University in 1950. She returned to Chicago and enrolled in the Institute of Design's graduate photography program, studying with luminaries including Aaron Siskind. Her work has been the subject of six retrospective surveys and more than seventy-six one-person exhibitions. Crane is professor emeritus of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; Higher Pictures, New York; and Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris.
A retrospective exhibition entitled Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision is on view at the Chicago Cultural Center from October 10, 2009–January 10, 2010.


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Astros get OF Dexter Fowler in trade with Rockies
HOUSTON - Dexter Fowler is looking forward to a new beginning with the rebuilding Houston Astros while also dealing with what he calls a bittersweet ending to his time with the Colorado Rockies.
Astros acquired the outfielder and a player to be named from the Rockies on Tuesday for outfielder Brandon Barnes and right-hander Jordan Lyles.
Drafted by Colorado in 2004, Fowler has spent his entire career with the Rockies. He joins a team that has posted three straight 100-plus loss seasons, including a franchise-record 111 losses in 2013 in its first year in the American League.
"There are definitely challenges, but at the same time you just got to look at the positives," Fowler said. "And the positive is that there are young guys here and they're eager to win and they're eager to put their (effort) into the game ... anything I can do to help, I'm just going to go out and play hard every day and I'm sure we'll definitely see the tides turn."
The speedy 27-year-old Fowler hit .263 with 18 doubles, 42 RBIs and 19 stolen bases in 119 games last season. Fowler, a switch-hitter who primarily plays center field, hit .300 in 2012.
"One of our goals this offseason was to bring in an outfielder who can spark our offense," Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow said. "Dexter is an exciting player who can help with the bat, with his legs, and with his glove."
Fowler missed a big chunk of the last month of the season with an injured left knee, but said Tuesday that the problem was behind him.
"I'm awesome," he said. "I'm healthy and ready to go."
Fowler hasn't had any extended conversations with Luhnow, but expects to play center field for the Astros next season and called the position "home." He isn't worried about navigating Tal's Hill in center field at Minute Maid Park.
"I played in the biggest yard in major league baseball, so I don't think anything is as challenging as Coors is," he said.
The Astros had the lowest payroll in the majors last season at less than $30 million. Houston owner Jim Crane said this offseason that he planned to start investing money into the payroll this season, and Tuesday's move is a sign that he was serious about that statement. Fowler is set to make $7.35 next season before he is eligible for arbitration in 2015.
Fowler said he doesn't know any of the Astros players. He said he does know manager Bo Porter and is looking forward to playing for him.
Fowler is spending this offseason in Salt Lake City and said he'll train there until spring training because he and his wife are expecting their first child in January.
"She can't travel," he said, "so neither can I."
The 23-year-old Lyles was 7-9 with one save and a 5.59 ERA in 27 games - 25 starts - in 2013. He was a supplemental first-round pick by the Astros in 2008 and fills a need the Rockies have for a starting pitcher. Lyles made his debut at 20 and already has 65 career starts. He feels fortunate to have so much experience at such a young age.
"I'm going to continue to learn," he said. "I'll never stop trying to learn."
But he does know that pitching at Coors Field won't be easy.
"The park is obviously different," he said. "A lot of people don't like going there, but I'm up for the challenge and I think it's going to be fun."
Barnes, also 27, hit .240 with eight home runs and 41 RBIs as a rookie last season. He also became known for his knack for hustling to make great catches in center field.
"I'm excited for a new chapter and a new experience," Barnes said. "I've always prided myself on how hard I work and I plan on working really hard there and being a part of the Rockies' future and hopefully winning some championships."


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Fortinet Accelerates and Secures the Cloud On-Ramp with New Next-Generation Firewalls
New FortiGate NGFWs Support a Security-Driven Network for Cloud-Ready Organizations
John Maddison, EVP of products and solutions at Fortinet
"An accelerated and secure cloud on-ramp is essential in today's digital economy. Fortinet's SD-WAN and high-performance data center solutions use Security-Driven Networking core technology to enable multiple firewall uses cases at maximum ROI. Fortinet's new E-Series FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls enable our customers to architect a security-driven network and accelerate their on-ramp to the cloud."
News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced three new high-performance FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), comprised of FortiGate 1100E, FortiGate 2200E and FortiGate 3300E. These new offerings support Security-Driven Networking and enable organizations to securely accelerate their on-ramp to the cloud.
Roadblocks on the way to multi-cloud adoption
Digital transformation has caused today's enterprise networks to become hybrid, complex, and geographically dispersed. Enterprises with legacy data center architectures are struggling to keep up with the continuous movement of business-critical applications, services, and sensitive data to multiple clouds. Difficulties in implementing end-to-end security have emerged as the main roadblock preventing these enterprises from accelerating their on-ramp to the cloud and successfully adopting a multi-cloud environment while maintaining business continuity.
FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls accelerate the cloud on-ramp
Accelerating the on-ramp to the cloud requires a new and innovative approach – Security-Driven Networking – that allows enterprises to architect networks that deliver seamlessly integrated end-to-end security realized by solutions such as Secure SD-WAN from branch locations and high-performance secure connectivity through data centers.
To support a security-driven network that accelerates the cloud on-ramp, Fortinet is introducing new E-Series FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls, which include FortiGate 1100E, FortiGate 2200E and FortiGate 3300E. This lineup solves the most common bottlenecks enterprises face when trying to securely connect to the cloud, including:
- Achieving secure, high-speed connections to multiple clouds: FortiGate secures data in motion at network speeds by using high-performance crypto VPNs, and offers access control, data confidentiality, privacy, and breach prevention.
- Providing perimeter defense and DDoS prevention: FortiGate includes high-capacity data center firewall and DDoS prevention capabilities to protect business-critical E-commerce services.
- Gaining full visibility in encrypted flows: FortiGate enables the industry's best SSL inspection performance to detect and automatically prevent attacks that are launched through encrypted flows.
- Segmenting the network: FortiGate adapts to any segmentation technique and provides advanced Layer 7 security to contain threats, manage risk, and achieve compliance.
- Protecting business critical applications and servers: FortiGate provides virtual patching using high-performance data center IPS to protect mission-critical servers and workloads
Adding to Fortinet's existing E-Series appliances, today's newly announced FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls offer customers additional flexibility and the ability to select the best solution for their specific needs from industry-leading products that offer various price points, interfaces and performance levels to meet the diverse needs of enterprise data center deployments. The new line-up accelerates the cloud on-ramp with optimal user and application experience and features the following specifications:
- FortiGate 1100E delivers 7.1Gbps threat protection performance, 10Gbps SSL inspection performance, 48Gbps IPsec VPN performance, and 80Gbps stateful firewall.
- FortiGate 2200E delivers 11Gbps threat protection performance, 17Gbps SSL inspection performance, 98Gbps IPsec VPN performance, and 158Gbps stateful firewall.
- FortiGate 3300E delivers 17Gbps threat protection performance, 21Gbps SSL inspection performance, 98Gbps IPsec VPN performance, and 160Gbps stateful firewall.
All new FortiGate E-Series listed above offer high-density and a flexible selection of 1G, 10G, 25G, and 40G interfaces to meet various enterprise data center deployment needs.
Security-Driven Networking via the Fortinet Security Fabric
All FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls are powered by AI-driven FortiGuard and FortiSandbox security services to provide prevention from known attacks, detection of unknown attacks, and the delivery of automated threat protection.
Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls can share security information among each other for additional security context. As an integral part of the Fortinet Security Fabric the devices can communicate within Fortinet's comprehensive security portfolio as well as within supported third-party security solutions in a multivendor environment to share threat intelligence and improve an organization's security posture.
FortiGate is backed by third-party validation
Fortinet solutions have consistently demonstrated high security effectiveness, advanced feature offerings, and superior performance when put to the test by third parties. Fortinet's FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall has received six consecutive NSS Labs NGFW "Recommended" ratings.
FortiGate is a customer favorite
FortiGate has also received the Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice recognition (Feb 2018) and has the most reviews of all vendors in the Gartner Peer Insights Enterprise Network Firewall Market as of July 22, 2019.
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"To continue evolving with the speed of today's business, our customers' data centers have transformed into highly dynamic, distributed hybrid architectures that often span multiple clouds. Fortinet's FortiGate next-generation firewalls allow us to accelerate our customers' cloud on-ramp because of their scalable high-performance security and networking that enables security-driven networking."
--Bart Hubbs, Manager, Global Security Practice at WWT
Additional Resources
- Read more about the new E-Series FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls in the blog.
- Learn more about FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls.
- See Fortinet's FortiGate reviews on Gartner Peer Insights.
- Find out how Fortinet's Security Fabric delivers broad, integrated, and automated protection across an organization's entire digital attack surface from IoT to the Edge, Network Core and to Multi-Clouds.
- Learn more about FortiGuard Labs and the FortiGuard Security Services portfolio.
- Learn more about the FortiGuard Security Rating Service, which provides security audits and best practices.
- Learn more about Fortinet or read more about Fortinet's Network Security Expert program, Network Security Academy program, and FortiVets program.
- Follow Fortinet on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.
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About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security features without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 400,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
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Will: Is anemic growth the new normal?
ST. LOUIS America's economy has now slouched into the eighth year of a recovery that demonstrates how much we have defined recovery down. The idea that essentially zero interest rates are, after seven and a half years, stimulating the economy "strains credulity," says James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
But last month he and other members of the Federal Reserve Board understandably felt constrained to vote unanimously to continue today's rates for an economy that created just 38,000 new jobs in May, and grew just 0.8 percent in the first quarter, after just 1.4 percent in the previous quarter.
The grim news is not that the economy continues to resist returning to normal. Rather, it is that this "current equilibrium" (Bullard's phrase) is the new normal. If 2 percent growth is, as he says, "the most likely scenario" for the foreseeable future, the nation faces a second consecutive lost decade — one without a year of 3 percent growth.
N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard economist and chairman of George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, writes in The New York Times that in the past decade the growth rate of real GDP per person averaged 0.44 percent, down from the historical norm of 2 percent: At 2 percent, incomes double every 35 years; at 0.44 percent, about every 160 years.
With the recovery aging, Larry Summers, former treasury secretary, guesses that "the annual probability of recession is 25 to 30 percent." When it arrives in a near-zero interest rate environment, the Fed's monetary policy, normally its countercyclical weapon — it usually reduces rates at least four percentage points in a recession — will be unable to cushion the shock.
Bullard says "labor market data is giving us different" — he means more encouraging —"signals than the GDP data." But surely the fact that the official unemployment rate is down to 4.7 percent is less important than this: The workforce participation rate has plunged, which has been only partly because of the population aging — baby boomers retiring. If labor participation were as high as when Barack Obama became president, the unemployment rate would be over 9 percent.
Besides, it is unclear how to distill the significance of traditional data for an untraditional economy. For example, 6-year-old Uber, with just 6,700 employees (not counting drivers), has a public market valuation ($68 billion) $13.8 billion more than that of Ford Motor Co. (201,000 employees globally).
Certainly very low interest rates, by driving liquidity into equities and assets in search of higher yields, are exacerbating the inequality that is disturbing American politics with distributional conflicts. Homeowners, and the 10 percent of Americans who hold 81 percent of the directly and indirectly owned stocks (the stock market is 160 percent higher than its 2009 low), are prospering.
Those whose wealth comes from wages — formerly, the Democratic Party's base — are losing ground. No wonder Hillary Clinton vows to "expand" Social Security, never mind its rickety financial architecture.
The public's perception, and perhaps the Fed's conceit, is that the Fed "manages" the economy. "We are," Bullard says, "our own worst enemy." By taking credit when things go well, it acquires responsibility in the public's mind "for everything that happens."
Bullard says "the most disturbing number" about the economy is that for five years, productivity has grown only half a percent a year. Still, he is not among those who are in a defensive crouch about immigration: "We have a great thing happening in that a lot of people want to come here and work."
Neither does he subscribe to Robert Gordon's hypothesis (developed in "The Rise and Fall of American Growth") that we must abandon the unrealistic growth expectations we acquired as a result of an exceptional century (1870-1970) of transformative developments (e.g., electrification, the internal combustion engine, urban sanitation) that have no foreseeable analogues.
Bullard imagines someone a millennium ago saying: Fire has been harnessed, the wheel and agriculture have been invented — we already have most of the possible growth from new technologies.
Besides, Bullard says, it takes a while for technologies to "diffuse through the economy." And some of the diffusion — in leisure, in richer living experiences (social media; smartphones and their apps) are not captured in GDP statistics.
Perhaps that helps to explain why Obama's job approval has reached 52 percent at a moment when she who seeks to replace him concedes that the economy is so anemic that her husband will be assigned to "revitalize" it.
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Anti-gun groups demand action
Congressional Democrats and anti-gun groups sought to renew their push for Congress to pass a background check bill in the wake of the killings this week of 12 people at the Washington Naval Yard.
On Wednesday, lawmakers, the Newtown Action Alliance and Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America were officially set to observe the nine-month anniversary of the killings of 26 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
But Monday's spasm of violence just a few blocks from the Capitol offered new impetus for congressional gun reform advocates to push for 60 votes in the Senate and a House majority to support background checks at gun shows and shops.
( PHOTOS: Shooting at Navy Yard)
Now, families of people killed in Newtown, Chicago, Aurora, Colo., and in other mass shootings will fan out around the Capitol for the rest of the week to make their case directly to those who have voted against background check legislation that they support.
On Tuesday evening, the House held a moment of silence to remember the dead at Navy Yard. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Congress may not deserve to hold such rememberances if it cannot move gun legislation.
"We're almost unworthy of that tradition to think that moment of silence can make us feel better. When the fact is we don't need a moment of silence, we need a day of action," Pelosi said.
( Also on POLITICO: Senate stays still on gun politics)
Pelosi urged that a billfrom Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and Pete King (R-N.Y.) mandating background checks be put on the floor, predicting passage if it saw the light of day.
"This could in fact pass. And we cannot let up until it does. And to my friends in the majority who are refusing to bring this up for a vote: If you've got a better idea, dammit, show it to us," Thompson said to hearty applause.
Pelosi and Thompson joined with the families of gun victims and Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Reps. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) and Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.). Murphy and Blumenthal, often the face of gun legislation in Congress after the Newtown shootings, predicted eventual Senate victory, where background check legislation fell five votes short.
"We will prevail. History is on our side," Blumenthal said.
"How many people have to lose their lives before we realize we have an obligation to stop this? Something is broken with democracy when 90 percent of the American public thinks that people should get a background check before they buy a gun," Murphy said.
( Also on POLITICO: No new guns push from Manchin)
Members of Congress alternated their remarks with the families of those killed in shootings. Those first-person accounts of those lost produced tears from Kelly, Pelosi and many of the event's attendees.
"I come down because I don't want another family to be going through what I'm going through now," said Carlos Soto of his lobbying of Congress in D.C. His sister was killed in Connecticut.
"Everyone wants to talk about the Second Amendment, right? What about our children? They have a right to live," said Sandra Robinson, whose 18-year-old son was killed in Chicago in 2010.


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City of Gadsden to operate Noccalula Gift Shop
The city of Gadsden will begin operating the Noccalula Falls Souvenir Shop when the business reopens April 1.
The council approved Tuesday canceling the longtime lease with Deborah Knight, who had operated the shop, at Knight's request and to purchase the shop's inventory and furnishings for $45,000.
Knight had leased the space for about 20 years, city officials said.
Parks and Recreation Director Kerry Payne said the city is looking at carrying additional items in the gift shop and said the city will also be able to sell items at special events such as during Christmas at the Falls.
He said Knight had wanted to get out of the business and approached the city about purchasing her stock.
The shop is closed for winter, and Payne hopes to reopen it Monday.
In other business, the council approved rezoning property at 401 N. 11th St., where Marvin's had been, from L-1, light industry district, to B-2, general business.
The property owner told the city's planning commission, which had approved the change, that he had trouble selling the property and a church was interested in purchasing it but the rezoning was needed.
Councilman Ben Reed abstained, saying he would have preferred the property being zoned B-1 for the church rather than B-2, which would allow other businesses and not come back before the council.
The council also approved an agreement with the YMCA to provide management services at the North Sixth Street pool for $435 a week plus reimbursement for salaries of employees working there. The pool is scheduled to open June 3.
The council also approved a supplement agreement with JBW&T Inc. for engineering work for the replacement of the bridge over Black Creek on Tuscaloosa Avenue. The city has been approved for a grant for 80 percent of the cost of the project.
The firm will be paid $33,700 for its work.
The council also approved an on- and off-premise beer and wine license for Golden China Restaurant at 957 W. Meighan Blvd.
Councilman Deverick Williams presided over the meeting in the absence of council president Bob Echols and president pro tem Johnny Cannon.
Williams said that, in observance of the Good Friday holiday, Friday's garbage route will be run Thursday, and Thursday's route will be run Wednesday.
Howell Mathews of Public Works said brush trucks are working throughout the city on cleanup after last week's storm and said most of the damage appeared to be in the southern part of the city, but there is damage throughout.
He said city crews are playing "catch-up" and will pick up brush if it is taken to the right-of-way, but they will not pick up brush or trees cut by contractors. That is the contractors' responsibility to dispose of it.
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Conductivity-Temperature-Depth measures (CTDs)
A CTD is an instrument cluster that measures conductivity (a measure of the salinity of ocean water), temperature, and depth. These are important physical characteristics to consider when studying many different ocean processes, including marine animal distributions. Scientists often attach CTDs to other devices that collect or count organisms, such as Video Plankton Recorders or Trawls, thus allowing measurements of some non-biological characteristics that may be associated with animal distribution.
A CTD and water sampling Rosette, showing the series of instruments that can be used to take multiple measurements and collect water samples from multiple depths on a single launch. (NOAA Ocean Explorer)
A CTD being recovered after use during a research cruise. (NOAA Ocean Explorer)
Conductivity-Temperature-Depth rosette being recovered on a rare calm day in western Alaska waters. (Allen M. Shimada, NMFS)


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05/29/2018 Liebherr Opens New Production Site in India
On May 8, 2018, the Domestic Appliances division of the Liebherr Group opened a new plant in Aurangabad, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Numerous personalities and dealers from all over the country were present at the opening ceremony, which was also attended by two of the Group's shareholders, Dr. Isolde Liebherr and Stéfanie Wohlfarth.
Liebherr Appliances India Private Limited specializes in the production of high-quality refrigerators and freezers for the Indian market. The new production plant covers an area of 50 acres. The Liebherr Group has invested some 5 billion rupees in the ultra-modern and flexible production facilities. The current production capacity is around 500,000 units per year, and can be expanded when necessary.
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This is from Japan, so I can't tell if the mohawk and quirky fashion sense are intentionally ironic or not (I kid, Japan, honest!), but I am sure that Professor Sekine here just built a robot to kill some bees.
The 'bot, called Mohican, is a remote- and voice-controlled insect hunter. Impervious to wasps' stingers, it climbs ladders and delivers death to those beehives and wasps' nests where humans dare not tread.
Kidding aside, Sekine also envisions his bot doing other hazardous-to-human jobs in nuclear power plants and, presumably, battling giant wasps that were horribly mutated by said power plants. On that front, we certainly wish him well when testing and deployment begins next spring. [Asahi via Plastic Pals via Engadget]


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Global Investors Focus on Future-Proofing Their Portfolios
The resilience of property portfolios to environmental stresses is a growing concern for real estate investors with a long-term horizon. With financial costs of environmental hazards apparently reaching new highs,1 there is renewed focus on how assets can be made more resilient.
CBRE Research conducted a six-month study, including interviews with global investors and property managers, to understand current resilience strategies. Explore our findings below and download the full report to learn more.
1 https://www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:2a4b927e-23bc-4b66-9cda-fdd60b729021/nr_20181218_sigma_estimates_for_2018.pdf
Why Have a Resilience Strategy?
In 2018 alone, hurricanes Michael and Florence wreaked significant property damage in the U.S. and typhoons Jebi, Mangkhut and Trami impacted properties throughout Asia. The World Economic Forum's "Global Risk Report" ranks extreme weather events, climate change and natural disasters as the top-three global risks in 2019.2
2 http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2019.pdf
Natural Hazards by Country of Property Manager Interviews
How Investors Are Employing Resilience Strategies
1) Pre-Acquisition Due Diligence
2) Mitigate Insurance Claims
3) Review at Portfolio Level
4) Review at Building Level
5) Reporting & Disclosure
6) Partner with Property Managers
Property Managers Can Help Enhance Building Resilience
- Identify gaps in building protection and upgrade existing features to mitigate higher risk.
- Ensure engineering support is available to keep vital systems operating.
- Repair existing protection as part of a program for planned preventative maintenance.
- Conduct tests to ensure emergency systems and back-up generators work properly.
- Educate tenants about the risks in their building and how to respond to them.
- Establish systems and alerts for early warning.
- Depending on the level of threat, ensure buildings have adequate emergency supplies.
- Take measures to reduce the damage, providing it is safe to stay on site.
- Liaise with emergency support teams to deal with issues as they arise.
- Contact local authorities to make sure roadways to building are clear for emergency support teams.
- Ensure communication between property managers and emergency teams can take place even if mobile networks fail.
- Assess whether the building is safe to re-enter.
- Partner with the building owner/asset manager to activate disaster recovery plans.
- Assess damage.
- Assess whether current protection is sufficient to deal with future events.


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It's Christmas day in LA, and here's my present to the Monastery (whether you see it as a diamond or a lump of coal remains to be determined). Merry Christmas all...
This is Yet Another Attempt to gather Monastery automation tools under one roof. The following is a module, PerlMonks::Mechanized, which mechanizes many of the common PM tasks. It makes using the Monastery's XML tickers a trivial task, for example. I intend to polish it, and add features on request. For now, it just has what I have needed myself recently, plus a little more. But as requests come in, if they're well thought-out, I'll add them. I'm also very interested in comments that will help me to improve it. At this point, I don't consider any part of this module stable (not even its interface). But if people like it, I'll stabilize it, properly document it, and continue adding to it/ maintaining it. For now, this is a rough-draft.
It uses $ENV{PMPASS} and $ENV{PMUSER} for login info, or you can supply them as user, passwd to my $monk = PerlMonks::Mechanize->new($user,$passwd);
Here is a simple example...
use strict;
use warnings;
use PerlMonks::Mechanized;
my $monk = PerlMonks::Mechanized->new();
$monk->say( "Hello. This is a PerlMonks::Mechanized test." );
The preceeding code assumes you've set your login env variables. The code only logs you in to the Monastery if the action you're requesting requires a login. Otherwise, you stay logged out. Login is on demand, assuming you've supplied the proper login info. Janitors can also use this for node edits / retitling. I'll be reworking the retitler to take advantage of this module's features.
The code is well commented. Start your reading at the beginning of the PerlMonks::Mechanized package (ie, ignore the Janitor package until you've read PM::Mech first. Then if you're a janitor, go back and read the Janitor class). All public functions are documented at least enough that with the help of Data::Dumper you'll know what they're doing.
# PerlMonks::Mechanized
# and its helper class 'PM::Mech::Janitor'.
# Start by creating a PerlMonks::Mechanized->new() object.
# If needed, login info can be stored in $ENV{PMPASS}, $ENV{PMUSER}.
# To override default site URL, set $ENV{PMSITE} to full URL.
# Janitor object is returned by the PerlMonks::Mechanized->janitor()
# method. Don't call Janitor->new() directly.
# Read on, for details.
package PerlMonks::Mechanized::Janitor;
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize; # Needs a new WWW::Mech object in order to
# implement rollback / commit.
# Janitor class: Returned by janitor() method of PM::Mech. First
# call must be to $janitor->fetch(). After that initial hit, no
# server hits will occur until $janitor->commit() is invoked.
# You may spawn multiple janitors, for full cached transactions.
# Each Janitor invokes a new WWW::Mechanize object.
# Returns a Janitor object.
sub new {
my( $class, $monk, $id ) = @_;
my $self = {};
$self->{monk} = $monk;
$self->{id} = $id;
$self->{agent} = WWW::Mechanize->new(
'autocheck' => 1,
'agent' => 'PM::Mech::Janitor0.6'
$self->{site} = $self->{monk}{site};
$self->{fetched} = 0;
return bless $self, $class;
# If passed the argument of "unconsider", the target node will be
# unconsidered.
# Must fetch() before using any of the other methods in this class.
# No return value.
sub fetch {
my( $self, $unconsider ) = @_;
my $uncon_URI = '';
defined( $unconsider )
and $unconsider =~ /^Un/i
) {
$uncon_URI = ";op=consider;"
. "$self->{id}=unconsider";
. '?node_id='
. $self->{id}
. ';displaytype=editors'
. $self->{monk}->_login_URI('force')
. $uncon_URI
or die "Unable to fetch Janitors view of $self->{id}.\n";
$self->{fetched} = 1;
sub get_title {
my $self = shift;
_verify_fetch( $self );
my $form = $self->{agent}->form_name( 'edit_node' );
$form or die "Couldn't find 'edit_node' form in get_title.\n";
return $form->value( 'update_title', 1 );
sub set_title {
my( $self, $title ) = @_;
_verify_fetch( $self );
$self->{agent}->field( 'update_title', $title );
sub get_author {
my $self = shift;
_verify_fetch( $self );
my $content = $self->{agent}->content();
my $author = '';
if( $content =~
m/\s+by\s+<a HREF="\?node_id=\d+">([^<]+)<\/a>/i ) {
$author = $1;
} else {
die "Couldn't ascertain the author while scraping the "
. "editor view of ID: $self->{id}.\n";
return $author;
sub get_doctext {
my $self = shift;
_verify_fetch( $self );
my $form = $self->{agent}->form_name( 'edit_node' );
$form or die "Couldn't find 'edit_node' form in get_doctext.\n";
return $form->value( 'update_doctext', 1 );
sub set_doctext {
my( $self, $text ) = @_;
_verify_fetch( $self );
$self->{agent}->field( 'update_doctext', $text );
# Commits the changes made. The only change that cannot be rolled-
# back is the "unconsider" change. Sorry 'bout that. ;)
sub commit {
my $self = shift;
_verify_fetch( $self );
$self->{agent}->current_form->value( 'blah', 'update' );
$self->{agent}->click( 'blah' );
or die "Couldn't commit changes to $self->{id}.\n";
# Private Janitor class function.
sub _verify_fetch {
my $self = shift;
die "ID: $self->{id} hasn't been fetched yet.\n"
unless $self->{fetched};
package PerlMonks::Mechanized;
# This is your starting point. ...Create a new
# PerlMonks::Mechanized object, and have fun with it.
# Logins are not performed unless they are needed for the activity
# you're requesting. If a login is needed, it will be done
# automatically if you passed ( user, password ) to new(), or if
# $ENV{PMUSER} and $ENV{PMPASS} are set. Logins are automatic, and
# on-demand. However, once logged in, you stay logged in until
# your PM::Mech object is destroyed.
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use XML::Simple;
our $SITE = exists( $ENV{PMSITE} )
: 'http://www.perlmonks.org/';
# Call new() to create PM::Mech object. Call with ( $user, $pass )
# to log in on demand, or set $ENV{} variables for on-demand login.
# If no login info is supplied through new() or $ENV, you can only
# do things that don't require login. You don't need to explicitly
# log in. If you have supplied the proper info, it will happen when
# needed, transparently.
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $obj = {};
$obj->{user} = defined( $_[0] )
? $_[0]
: defined( $ENV{PMUSER} )
: '';
$obj->{passwd} = defined( $_[1] )
? $_[1]
: defined( $ENV{PMPASS} )
: '';
$obj->{logged_in} = 0;
$obj->{login_phrase} = ( $obj->{user} && $obj->{passwd} ) ?
. "passwd=$obj->{passwd};expires=+10y"
: '';
$obj->{site} = $SITE;
$obj->{agent} = WWW::Mechanize->new(
'autocheck' => 1,
'agent' => 'PM::Mech0.61'
bless $obj, $class;
# Given a base thread ID, returns a datastructure containing
# The thread's ID's. Uses the XML ticker, "xml node thread", at
# id://180684.
sub threaded_ids {
my( $self, $base ) = @_;
$self->{agent}->get( $self->{site}
. "?node_id=180684;id=$base" );
or die "Unable to fetch thread ticker for id = $base.\n";
my $struct = XMLin(
ForceArray => 1,
KeepRoot => 1
return $struct;
# Given a base thread ID, returns a flat list of thread ID's.
# Uses the XML ticker, "xml node thread", at id://180684.
sub thread_list {
my( $self, $base ) = @_;
my $structref = threaded_ids( $self, $base );
return [
sort { $a <=> $b } _flatten_thread( $structref )
# Returns a datastructure containing info about a node or list of
# nodes. Uses the XML ticker, "Node Query XML Generator",
# at id://37150. Accepts a node id or list of nodes.
sub node_info {
my( $self, @ids ) = @_;
. "?node_id=37150;nodes="
. join( ',', @ids )
. ';xmlstyle=flat'
or die "Unable to fetch node query XML generator.\n";
return XMLin(
ForceArray => 1
# Calls get_node_info() with a single ID or list of nodes.
# Returns an array of arrays holding id/title pairs. Relies on
# "Node Query XML Generator", at id://37150.
sub node_titles {
my( $self, @ids ) = @_;
my $info = node_info( $self, @ids );
return [
map { [ $_->{node_id}, $_->{content} ] }
@{ $info }
# Grab user stats. Uses the XP XML Ticker (id://16046).
# See the PM FAQ for details about valid args, and their meanings.
sub user_stats {
my( $self, %params ) = @_;
my $parameters = '';
foreach( ( 'for_user', 'showlevels',
'for_userid','shownorm', 'showall' ) ) {
$parameters .= exists( $params{$_} )
? ";$_=$params{$_}"
: '';
. "?node_id=16046;xmlstyle=flat"
. $parameters
. $self->_login_URI()
or die "Unable to fetch user stats ticker.\n";
return XMLin(
ForceArray => 1
# Reads the New Chatterbox XML Ticker (id://207304) and returns a
# ref to a LoL structure of CB traffic.
sub chatterbox {
my $self = shift;
. "?node_id=207304"
or die "Unable to fetch Chatterbox content XML generator.\n";
return XMLin(
ForceArray => 1
# Talks in the CB. Messages can't be longer than 250 characters.
sub say {
my( $self, $message ) = @_;
if( length( $message ) > 250 ) {
$message = substr $message, 0, 250;
. '?' . $self->_login_URI
. ';node_id=16046;op=message;message='
. $message
or die "Unable to talk in the CB.\n";
# Returns logged-in user's private messages in a datastructure.
# Uses the Private Message XML Ticker (id://15848). See
# node_id=379320 for information on how the parameter fields work.
sub private_message {
my( $self, %params ) = @_;
my $parameters = '';
foreach( ( 'max_recs', 'since_id', 'prior_to', 'archived' ) ) {
$parameters .= exists( $params{$_} )
? ";$_=$params{$_}"
: '';
. "?node_id=15848;xmlstyle=clean"
. $parameters
. $self->_login_URI()
or die "Unable to fetch Private Message ticker.\n";
return XMLin(
ForceArray => 1
# Reads the 'Other Users XML Ticker' (id://15851) and returns a ref
# to a list of other users currently logged in to the Monastery.
sub other_users {
my $self = shift;
. "?node_id=15851"
or die "Unable to fetch Other Users XML generator.\n";
return XMLin(
ForceArray => 1
# Uses the 'displaytype=xml;xmlstyle=flat' ticker to grab an entire
# single node and any available related info for that node. The
# data is plopped into a datastructure that mirrors the original
# XML tags, which in turn, mirror PM database columns.
sub node_content {
my( $self, $id ) = @_;
. "?node_id=$id;displaytype=xml;xmlstyle=flat"
or die "Unable to fetch node ID: $id\n";
return XMLin( $self->{agent}->content() );
# Uses the Scratchpad Viewer's XML displaytype (id://108949) to get
# a user's scratchpad. An attempt will be made to log self in, if
# possible. If the logged-in user is the same as the user who's pad
# we're retrieving, the private portion will also be retrieved.
# This returns a datastructure.
sub scratchpad {
my( $self, $pad ) = @_;
$pad = ( defined $pad ) ? $pad : $self->{user};
. "?node_id=108949;user=$pad;passthrough=1"
. ';displaytype=xml;xmlstyle=flat'
. $self->_login_URI()
or die "Unable to fetch scratchpad for $pad.\n";
return XMLin(
ForceArray => 1
# This sub uses the Newest Nodes XML Generator (id://30175) to get
# a list of newest nodes. See the PerlMonks FAQ for a description
# of what "types=" options you have. You may optionally specify
# whether to use xmlstyle=flat (default) or xmlstyle=rss.
# You may specify sinceunixtime=epocseconds, or days=decimal to
# get up to 8 days worth of newest nodes.
# "types" should be passed in as 'types=>[type,type,type]'
# Optional params should be passed as a hashref.
# Currently no validity checking is really done on params passed
# to the method.
sub newest_nodes {
my( $self, %params ) = @_;
. '?node_id=30175;xmlstyle='
. (
exists( $params{xmlstyle} )
? $params{xmlstyle}
: 'flat'
. (
exists( $params{days} )
? ';days=' . $params{days}
: ''
. (
exists( $params{sinceunixtime} )
? ';sinceunixtime=' . $params{sinceunixtime}
: ''
. (
exists( $params{types} )
? ';types='
. join( ',', @{$params{types}} )
: ''
or die "Unable to fetch newest nodes.\n";
return XMLin(
ForceArray => 1
# This sub fetches the displaytype=editors view of the node
# indicated in $id. It returns an object of class Janitors with
# the following methods:
# fetch(), get_title(), set_title(), get_author(), get_doctext(),
# set_doctext(), and commit(). You must always fetch() first, and
# after that, the rest of the methods will have relevancy.
sub janitor {
my( $self, $id ) = @_;
return PerlMonks::Mechanized::Janitor->new( $self, $id );
# Private class subs. Please don't use these externally.
# Called by methods that need the user to be logged in.
# If the user is already logged in, this sub returns empty string.
# If user isn't logged in, and it is possible to do so, this sub
# returns a URI suffix to log the user in.
sub _login_URI {
my( $self, $independant_agent ) = @_;
my $login = '';
my $logged_in = $self->{logged_in}; # Save old state.
my $independant; # Flag for independant agent.
defined( $independant_agent )
and $independant_agent
) {
$self->{logged_in} = 0;
$independant = 1;
$self->{logged_in} == 0
and $self->{login_phrase}
) {
$login = $self->{login_phrase};
$self->{logged_in} = 1;
if( $independant ) {
# if this is an independant agent, restore
# original login flag state.
$self->{logged_in} = $logged_in;
return $login;
# Used by get_thread_list() to flatten return value from
# get_thread_ids().
sub _flatten_thread {
my @nodes;
foreach my $key ( keys %{$_[0]} ) {
if ( ref( $_[0]->{$key} ) ) {
push @nodes, _flatten_thread( $_[0]->{$key} );
if ( $key =~ m/^\d+$/ ) {
push @nodes, $key;
return @nodes;
Thanks for your report. It's funny that the missing trailing '/' character wouldn't be a problem for me, and would for you. We're both hitting the same server. But regardless, it was a simple fix. I've annotated the fix among the update log in the root node for this thread.
You may already have noticed this by reading the module's comments and code, but you can override the default site name (which is now set as "http://www.perlmonks.org/") by setting $ENV{PMSITE} prior to creating a PM::Mech object, or (of course) by setting the PMSITE environment variable. The hard coded site name now has a trailing slash to fix your reported problem. ...and likewise if using the PMSITE environment variable, remember to use that trailing slash. I may incorporate a check for that when I go through and do more to bullet proof this module in the near future.
Glad you liked it. Aside from the positive rep, I haven't received many comments about it, so I don't know if anyone actually finds it useful. I'm nearly done rewriting the Janitors Thread Retitler to use this module, and it's made it a lot easier, so for me, it's been helpful.
Heh, well, this has been a back burner project for me for quite some time. Ive focused more on the tickers, and the various XML feeds, and nothing on the HTML side. But it looks like youve gotten there first and have a nicer package than I did. Instead of pursuing my efforts Ill start looking at patching this. I actually wonder if there is any point in putting this onto Sourceforge or something so that it can be worked on collaboratively more easily.
Anyway, nice work, I look forward to playing with it later on. :-)
Putting it on Sourceforge might not be a bad idea. I'll look into that in the next day or two.
A few thoughts for things I plan to add or change in this module:
Some quick thoughts:
This is stream of consciousness stuff here, so take it all with a grain of salt. Also I may update this as more stuff occurs to me.
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A former congressman and GOP presidential candidate says, for current members of the House and Senate to uphold their oath of office that includes the defense of the United States against enemies "foreign and domestic," they need to be filing impeachment charges against Barack Obama.
Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., joined what has become a growing surge of those recommending the ultimate solution for a president they believe not only has disagreeable policies, but is participating in actions that damage the nation.
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Tancredo wrote in a opinion piece in the Washington Times that "Mr. Obama's refusal to live up to his own oath of office – which includes the duty to defend the United States against foreign invasion – requires senators and representatives to live up to their oaths. Members of Congress must defend our nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Today, that means bringing impeachment charges against Mr. Obama."
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Tancredo is not the first to raise the idea of impeachment against Obama, who has implemented legislation and policies effectively nationalizing financial institutions, automobile companies, health care and many other previously private interests.
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In fact, he was not even the only person on this particular day. Times columnist Jeffrey T. Kuhner, who also is president of the Edmund Burke Institute, wrote at the same time, "President Obama has engaged in numerous high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democratic majority in Congress is in peril as Americans reject his agenda. Yet more must be done: Mr. Obama should be impeached."
Kuhner continued, "He is slowly – piece by painful piece – erecting a socialist dictatorship. We are not there – yet. But he is putting America on that dangerous path. He is undermining our constitutional system of checks and balances; subverting democratic procedures and the rule of law; presiding over a corrupt, gangster regime; and assaulting the very pillars of traditional capitalism. Like Venezuela's leftist strongman, Hugo Chavez, Mr. Obama is bent on imposing a revolution from above – one that is polarizing America along racial, political and ideological lines. Mr. Obama is the most divisive president since Richard Nixon. His policies are balkanizing the country. It's time for him to go."
Tancredo's arguments aren't complicated. During his brief presidential run in 2008 he focused on the border-security issue of the United States, and he still is concerned that the failure to secure the U.S. boundary – especially with Mexico – will lead to tragic consequences at the hands of border-crossing terrorists.
Tancredo appeared on Fox News today to defend his position from skeptics, saying Obama's responsibility is to protect and defend the Constitution and the United States, not "fundamentally transform" them.
"Our president is an enemy of our Constitution, and, as such, he is a danger to our safety, our security and our personal freedoms," Tancredo warns, affirming his belief that Obama is more dangerous for the United States than al-Qaida.
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"He is more dangerous simply because he is inside," he said. "Few people took him seriously about fundamentally transforming America. That is what he is all about. That is what he has set about doing. He is a committed ideologue. When you have someone like that in the White House, it is a scary proposition."
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He cited the president's lack of action to adequately secure the border with Mexico.
"He's putting his country in danger," Tancredo said. "The country the Founders put together, that's what's in jeopardy."
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"Barack Obama is one of the most powerful presidents this nation has seen in generations. He is powerful because he is supported by large majorities in Congress, but, more importantly, because he does not feel constrained by the rule of law. Whether he is putting up the weakest possible defense of the Defense of Marriage Act despite the Justice Department's legal obligation to support existing law; disenfranchising Chrysler and GM bondholders in order to transfer billions of investor dollars to his supporters in the United Auto Workers; or implementing yet a third offshore oil-drilling moratorium even after two federal courts have thrown out two previous moratoriums, President Obama is determined to see things done his way regardless of obstacles," Tancredo wrote in his op-ed.
"To Mr. Obama, the rule of law is a mere inconvenience to be ignored, overcome or 'transcended' through international agreements or 'norms.'"
Tancredo wrote that the "dedicated Marxist who lives in the White House" holds power over budgets, the judiciary, national defense and health care. As such, "his regime and his program are not just about changing public policy in the conventional sense. When one considers the combination of his stop-at-nothing attitude, his contempt for limited government, his appointment of judges who want to create law rather than interpret it – all of these make this president today's single greatest threat to the great experiment in freedom that is our republic.
"Yes, Mr. Obama is a more serious threat to America than al-Qaida. We know that Osama bin Laden and followers want to kill us, but at least they are an outside force against whom we can offer our best defense. But when a dedicated enemy of the Constitution is working from the inside, we face a far more dangerous threat. Mr. Obama can accomplish with the stroke of his pen what bin Laden cannot accomplish with bombs and insurgents."
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Tancredo, who served five terms representing Colorado and now is chairman of the Rocky Mountain Foundation, was joined by Kuhner, who accused Obama of abusing his office and violating his oath.
Kuhner cited Obama's demand that all Americans buy health insurance.
"The federal government does not have the right to coerce every citizen to purchase a good or service. This is not in the Constitution, and it represents an unprecedented expansion of power," he wrote. "Yet Obamacare's most pernicious aspect is its federal funding of abortion. Pro-lifers are now compelled to have their tax dollars used to subsidize insurance plans that allow for the murder of unborn children. This is more than state-sanctioned infanticide. It violates the conscience rights of religious citizens."
He further cited Obama's actions regarding the BP oil spill.
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"There is a legal process for claims to be adjudicated, but Mr. Obama has behaved more like Mr. Chavez or Russia's Vladimir Putin: He has bullied BP into setting up a $20 billion compensation fund administered by an Obama appointee. In other words, the assets of a private company are to be raided to serve a political agenda."
He also wrote about the takeovers in the auto and financial industries, and the New Black Panther case.
"Under Mr. Obama, the Constitution has become a meaningless scrap of paper," he said. "As president, he is supposed to respect the rule of law. Instead, his administration has dropped charges of voter intimidation against members of the New Black Panther Party. This was done even though their menacing behavior was caught on tape: men in military garb brandishing clubs and threatening whites at a polling site."
Tancredo nearly two months ago broached the subject of impeachment, suggesting an "impeachment file."
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"I believe there is a growing body of evidence of impeachable offenses sufficient to warrant a formal impeachment resolution in the House, followed by a trial in the Senate," he wrote at the time.
And the suggestion even has come from onlookers at a presidential appearance. CNN has documented when Obama made a surprise visit to a crowd on a shuttle bus, one onlooker shouted, "When are you going to quit? When are you going to be impeached?"
The issue even has appeared among online gamers, when Microsoft told an Xbox user the signon name "Impeach Obama" was not allowed because, "If you were President Obama, how would you feel if someone wanted to impeach you?"
Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, in a column on WND, discussed the ImpeachObamaCampaign.com that they launched.
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They reported that many, instead of examining the evidence, attacked the messengers.
"We expected these attacks," they reported. But they said the unresolved issues include:
- "Obama repeatedly lies to the American people when he says we can keep our private insurance, knowing full well that his legislation will inevitably drive private insurers out of business.
- "Gerald Walpin, inspector general of the Corporation for National and Community Service, investigated Kevin Johnson, a big buddy of the president, for misuse of funds from an AmeriCorps grant. Obama did not like Walpin's investigation and findings, whereupon he vindictively fired Walpin to cover for his friend, Johnson. A subsequent investigation vindicated Walpin's judgment in the matter.
- "Barack Obama oversaw the effective takeover by government of banks, the largest insurance company (AIG), General Motors and Chrysler – the bulk of the U.S. auto industry – thus stripping bondholders, shareholders and others of their personal property.
- "Barack Obama is actively pursuing cap-and-trade legislation. Instead of taxing the very air we breathe, it will instead, in a manner of speaking, tax the air we exhale, giving the government unprecedented control over the economy and American businesses. Those taxed businesses will then pass the fees onto the American people.
- "Spending American citizens' money, Barack Hussein Obama is running up our debt at an alarming rate. In just the nine months since Obama assumed office, our national debt has gone up by over a trillion dollars. To put that figure in perspective, it took George W. Bush eight years to add $4.8 trillion to the national debt.
- "And, to add insult to injury, Obama is printing money like it's going out of style. The effect will be hyperinflation, a crippling of our economy and, quite possibly, personal hardship on a scale that has not been experienced since the Great Depression.
- "Barack Hussein Obama appointed countless "czars" to oversee everything from the closing of Guantanamo to the food we eat. These czars don't have to be approved by the Senate. The czars have unprecedented power and report only to Obama. Members of both parties are disturbed by these extra-constitutional excrescences. Sen. Robert Byrd said: "The accumulation of power by White House staff can threaten the constitutional system of checks and balances." Rep. Jack Kingston called the czars a "parallel government."
- "And finally, Obama consistently refuses to approve the release of his actual birth certificate, college transcripts and his medical records. Is he trying to hide something that will threaten his presidency?"
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Retired U.S. Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, a noted military leader who now is a presence on the Internet with his Stand Up For America and Veterans Defenders websites, told WND he would like Obama to resign.
Vallely, who served in Vietnam and retired in 1991 from the U.S. Army as deputy commanding general for the Pacific, said, "We now must call for the immediate resignation of Barry Soetoro (aka President Barack Hussein Obama) … based on incompetence, deceit, fraud, corruption, dishonesty and violation of the U.S. oath of office and the Constitution."
"We can wait no longer for a traditional change of power and new government," he has warned.
"'We the People' have had enough. Enough is enough. The Obama White House and identifiable members of Congress are now on a progressive-socialist, treasonous death march and are bankrupting and weakening the country. We have watched them violate their sacred oath of office. 'We, the People' cannot wait for and solely rely on the next round of elections in November of this year. It is now and each day that these public servants must put the citizen's interests above self-interest by resigning immediately," he said.
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Peter Ferrara, on the American Spectator website, also has predicted Obama's resignation.
"I am now ready to predict that President Obama will not even make it [to 2012]," he wrote. "I predict that he will resign in discredited disgrace before the fall of 2012," Ferrera said.
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ST. IGNACE, Mich. – A new federal report says that flying conditions were poor and visibility low before a crash that killed an Amazon.com executive and his pilot on the way to northern Michigan's Mackinac Island.
The National Transportation Safety Board reported Thursday on the Dec. 3, 2011, crash of a single-engine charter plane crash. The accident killed 29-year-old pilot Joseph Pann Jr. of St. Ignace and 52-year-old Thomas Phillips, who had homes in Kirkland, Wash., and Mackinac Island.
The plane left St. Ignace for a 4.5-mile flight to the resort island. It crashed near Lake Huron in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Pann worked for Great Lakes Air. The Detroit News (http://bit.ly/14KDfzD ) says another pilot told Pann that morning that weather was cancelling the flight but later said conditions had improved enough to attempt it.