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The United States adopted targeted killing as an essential tactic to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have employed the controversial practice with more frequency in recent years, both as part of combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and in counterterrorism efforts in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Since assuming office in 2009, President Barack Obama's administration has escalated targeted killings, primarily through an increase in unmanned drone strikes on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but also through an expansion of U.S. special operations kill/capture missions. The successful killing of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in May 2011 and the September 2011 drone strike on Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni cleric and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula propagandist, are prime examples of this trend.
In recent years, the White House has made notable efforts to clarify its legal justification for targeted killings amid calls from lawmakers, rights activists, and legal scholars for greater transparency and oversight of the lethal drone program. In May 2013, President Obama delivered a major policy speech discussing the need for a "comprehensive counterterrorism strategy" and acknowledged issuing new policy guidance related to U.S. targeted killings.
What are targeted killings?
According to a UN special report on the subject, targeted killings are premeditated acts of lethal force employed by states in times of peace or during armed conflict to eliminate specific individuals outside their custody. "Targeted killing" is not a term distinctly defined under international law, but gained currency in 2000 after Israel made public a policy of targeting alleged terrorists in the Palestinian territories. The particular act of lethal force, usually undertaken by a nation's intelligence or armed services, can vary widely—from cruise missiles to drone strikes to special operations raids. The primary focus of U.S. targeted killings, particularly through drone strikes, has been on the al-Qaeda and Taliban leadership networks in Afghanistan and the remote tribal regions of Pakistan. However, U.S. operations have expanded in recent years to include countries such as Somalia and Yemen.
What are the legal considerations surrounding U.S. targeted killings?
The George W. Bush and Obama administrations have sought to justify targeted killings under both domestic and international law. The domestic legal underpinning for U.S. counterterrorism operations and the targeted killing of members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda and its affiliates across the globe is the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which the U.S. Congress passed just days after 9/11. The statute empowers the president "to use all necessary and appropriate force" in pursuit of those responsible for the terrorist attacks. Peacetime assassinations, which are sometimes conflated with targeted killings, have been officially banned by the United States since 1976.
The Obama administration asserts the United States remains in a state of armed conflict with al-Qaeda and associated forces, and has laid out its justification for targeted killings over several major policy speeches. These include those given by Harold Koh, legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State, in 2010; White House chief counterterrorism adviser John Brennan in 2011; Defense Department general counsel Jeh Johnson in 2012; Attorney General Eric Holder in 2012, and Brennan, once more, in 2012.
The White House maintains that the U.S. right to self-defense, as laid out in Article 51 of the UN charter, may include the targeted killing of persons such as high-level al-Qaeda leaders who are planning attacks, both in and out of declared theaters of war. The administration's posture includes the prerogative to unilaterally pursue targets in states without prior consent if that country is unwilling or unable to deal effectively with the threat—exemplified by the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
Speaking at Northwestern University in March 2012, Holder elaborated on the targeting of U.S. citizens abroad (e.g., Anwar al-Awlaki), stating that such individuals may be killed by U.S. forces, but are still protected under the Fifth Amendment's due process clause—albeit a consideration that "takes into account the realities of combat." Holder said specifically that it would be lawful to target a U.S. citizen if the individual poses an imminent threat, capture is not feasible, and the operation were executed in observance of the applicable laws of war.
In yet another major policy speech one month later, Brennan specifically addressed the standards by which the administration authorizes lethal strikes on al-Qaeda outside Afghanistan. Steps in the process include: deciding if the target is a significant threat to U.S. interests, being cognizant of state sovereignty issues, having high confidence in the target's identity and that innocent civilians will not be harmed, and, finally, engaging in an additional review process if the individual is a U.S. citizen.
A white paper leaked by the Department of Justice in February 2013 provided a detailed account of the legal framework for the targeted killing of U.S. citizens—although these strikes were not publicly acknoweldged until months later.
In May 2013, President Obama delivered a major address on U.S. counterterrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., in which he announced new policy guidance for U.S. targeted killings off the conventional battlefield. Notably, he said that the same "high threshold" the administration has set for targeting U.S. citizens will be extended to noncitizens—a policy that "respects the inherent dignity of every human life." While the president's speech largely defended U.S. drone policy, he also called for the refinement and eventual repeal of the AUMF—"to determine how we can continue to fight terrorists without keeping America on a perpetual war-time footing."
"If other states were to claim the broad-based authority that the United States does—to kill people anywhere, anytime—the result would be chaos." —Philip Alston, former UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions
CFR's Matthew C. Waxman says the ongoing challenge for the Obama administration has been to balance several opposing imperatives: asserting broad war powers, while assuring critics that they are limited; justifying actions that remain covert; and promoting government transparency, while protecting sensitive intelligence programs.
Philip Alston, the former UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, condemns the U.S. claims of self-defense as overly expansive, stating that "if other states were to claim the broad-based authority that the United States does, to kill people anywhere, anytime, the result would be chaos." Waxman says that while the strike on bin Laden would normally be a violation of state sovereignty, the U.S. government "is well within its rights" to use force on foreign soil without consent if there is an overriding necessity of self-defense.
CFR national security expert John B. Bellinger says the law is in need of a significant update. "The 2001 AUMF is more than ten years old now and getting a little long in the tooth—still tied to the use of force against the people who planned, committed, and or aided those involved in 9/11," he says. "The farther we get from [targeting] al-Qaeda [e.g., al-Shabaab in Somalia], the harder it is to squeeze [those operations] into the AUMF."
What methods of targeted killing does the United States employ?
Drone Strikes
Targeted attacks launched from unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have ballooned under the Obama administration. A study undertaken by the New America Foundation reports that in his first two years of office, President Obama authorized nearly four times the number of strikes in Pakistan as President Bush did in his eight years. The report, which relies solely on media accounts of attacks, claims that some 291 strikes have been launched since 2009, killing somewhere between 1,299 and 2,264 militants, as of January 2013. Alternate reports also document the escalation in drone strikes in recent years, but the accounting of militant and civilian deaths can vary widely depending on the source.
Traditionally the CIA has managed the bulk of U.S. drone operations outside recognized war zones, such as in Pakistan, while the Department of Defense (DOD) has commanded operations in established theaters of conflict, such as in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. But in some instances, the drone operations of both the CIA and DOD are integrated, as in the covert drone campaign in Yemen.
In early 2013, the Obama administration shifted some of the CIA's authority over lethal drone operations to the Defense Department in an effort to streamline counterterrorism operations and increase transparency, analysts say.
Kill/Capture Missions
Since President Obama assumed office, the Pentagon has also increased the use of special operations raids (i.e., kill/capture missions) from 675 in 2009 to roughly 2,200 in 2011. According to the Pentagon, approximately 90 percent of these night raids end without a shot fired. As conventional U.S. forces begin to draw down, "the role of counterterrorism operations, and in particular these kinds of special missions, will become prominent," says International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander General John Allen.
The covert raids are directed by an elite element within the U.S. military known as Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). The clandestine command draws top personnel from groups like the Navy SEALs and Army Delta Force, and maintains a direct relationship with the executive branch. JSOC has tripled in size since 9/11 and currently operates in a dozen countries. Jeremy Scahill of the Nation writes, "The primacy of JSOC within the Obama administration's foreign policy—from Yemen and Somalia to Afghanistan and Pakistan—indicates that he has doubled down on the Bush-era policy of targeted assassination as a staple of U.S. foreign policy."
Civilians and local governments have condemned night raids as culturally offensive, given that U.S. soldiers often enter homes in the dead of night, with women present, and utilize dogs (which are viewed as impure in Islamic culture) in their search. In April 2012, the United States reached a seminal agreement with Afghanistan to give Kabul greater oversight over special operations raids and put Afghan forces in the lead of those activities.
What are the political implications of U.S. targeted killing?
A prominent criticism of U.S. targeted killings, and of drone strikes in particular, is over the issue of collateral civilian deaths. Some official Pakistani sources claim that seven hundred innocents were killed in 2009 alone, while U.S. government sources claim that fewer than thirty civilians were killed from May 2008 to May 2010. Writing in Foreign Affairs in late 2011, Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann said the more salient question is: "What impact has the drone program had on the insurgency in Pakistan and, by extension, that in Afghanistan?" Violence in Pakistan has risen sharply since the drone campaign began, according to the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center. However, Bergen and Tiedemann caution, "a number of factors could have contributed to these increases."
Some observers argue targeted killings are a bane to U.S.-Pakistan relations. CFR's Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow Pir Zubair Shah writes that anti-Americanism in Pakistan is fueled by the domestic media's portrayal of the U.S. drone campaign as a "scourge targeting innocent civilians." This is a narrative that will persist, he says, "until the United States and Pakistan come clean about the program."
In November 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported the CIA had made several "secret concessions" in its drone program after U.S. diplomats suggested strikes targeting large groups of militants were harming relations with Islamabad. Changes in U.S. drone policy included giving the State Department greater influence in targeting decisions, providing Pakistani leaders forewarning about certain strikes, and suspending drone operations when Pakistani officials visit the United States. In addition, some experts suggest the CIA imposed a moratorium on drone operations in Pakistan from November 2011 to January 2012—the longest pause since the program was ramped up in July 2008—against a backdrop of deteriorating bilateral relations. In April 2012, the Pakistani parliament voted unanimously to demand an end to U.S drone strikes on its territory.
Drone strikes and special operations raids put fewer Americans in harm's way and provide a low-cost alternative to expensive and cumbersome conventional forces, especially given likely cuts in the U.S. defense budget and a waning public appetite for long, expensive wars.
Proponents of targeted killings say the civilian death toll is exaggerated for political purposes, while claiming drone strikes and night raids remain the most effective and discreet methods of pursuing militant leaders and their networks, especially as the United States begins to seek a smaller military footprint in the region.
In May 2013, President Obama acknowledged incidents of civilian casualties, but said that "there is a wide gap between U.S. assessments of such casualties, and nongovernmental reports." In further defense, he said that "the terrorists we are after target civilians, and the death toll from their acts of terrorism against Muslims dwarfs any estimate of civilian casualties from drone strikes."
Daniel L. Byman of the Brookings Institution says that targeting major terrorists like bin Laden removes charismatic and pragmatic leaders who are difficult to replace. In addition, by targeting an organization's lieutenants, "it is possible to exhaust the terrorist group's bench." CFR's Micah Zenko says that while drone strikes are an effective military tactic, "military victory is not tantamount to political success." He says that while a policy of leadership decapitation can reduce "a group's capacity, it neither ruptures group cohesion nor ideological commitment."
What is the future of targeted killings?
Blowback from civil liberties and human rights groups is likely to grow in direct proportion to any increase in targeted killings. Organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch have raised pointed questions regarding the program's perceived lack of accountability and transparency. However, in early 2013, the Obama administration made strides to address some of these transparency issues and expressed a willingness to increase oversight. In a May speech, the president said that Congress "is briefed on every strike that America takes," and that the White House will review proposals on how to extend oversight through the institution of special courts, independent boards, or other means.
Some critics question whether the United States is setting a negative precedent that will be invoked by other nations that acquire similar lethal technology, such as China and Russia. As an indication of things to come, security analysts project worldwide spending on drone aircraft to roughly double over the next decade to $11.4 billion.
Analysts point to several factors that indicate U.S. targeted killings are likely to expand in the near term. Drone strikes and special operations raids put fewer Americans in harm's way and provide a low-cost alternative to expensive and cumbersome conventional forces, especially given likely cuts in the defense budget and a waning public appetite for long wars.
The rise of the so-called "nonstate actors" operating in loose transnational networks as the principal threat to U.S. national security also lends itself to an expansion of U.S. targeted killings, some experts say. In January 2012, the Pentagon released a strategy review that outlines defense priorities "in light of the changing geopolitical environment and our changing fiscal circumstances." The new guidance stresses the persistent threat of al-Qaeda and its affiliates in South Asia and the Middle East, and commits the military to actively pursuing these threats by "directly striking the most dangerous groups and individuals when necessary."
Other experts say technological advances, including precision-guided munitions and enhanced surveillance, have given the United States a greater ability to target these particular individuals while reducing collateral damage. In July 2011, Brennan, provided a portent of things to come: "Going forward, we will be mindful that if our nation is threatened, our best offense won't always be deploying large armies abroad but delivering targeted, surgical pressure to the groups that threaten us."
President Obama's January 2013 selection of Brennan to take over the CIA has reinforced the notion among some analysts that targeted killings will continue to be a central component of U.S. counterterrorism policy. Brennan played a significant role in the administration's expansion of targeted killings, including overseeing the process by which suspected militants and terrorists are selected for strikes.
Additional Resources
The Obama administration should nurture a regime to limit drone proliferation, write Micah Zenko and Sarah Kreps in Foreign Affairs.
The UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions reports on the use of drones and the relevant regimes of international law in 2013.
Columbia Law School's Human Rights Clinic highlights the often unexamined costs and questions associated with targeted killings
Lawfare, a blog covering the national security debate, curates an extensive library of resources related to targeted killings.
ProPublica has created a special topic page on the U.S. drone war.
More on this topic from CFR
Pakistan's Regional Pivot: A Conversation with Hina Rabbani Khar
Speaker: Hina Rabbani Khar, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Presider: David E. Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent, New York Times
Will Drone Strikes Become Obama's Guantanamo?
Author: John B. Bellinger III, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Terrorism Concerns After bin Laden
Author: Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations


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Executive Committee Members
In addition to specific responsibilities outlined below, each participant in the work of the Instruction Section is expected to participate in the following activities:
- Attend and participate in Advisory Council and Executive Committee meetings.
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- Respond in an active and timely manner to Executive Committee listserv discussions between conferences.
- Monitor the Instruction Section web page for potential revisions and/or corrections to charges, responsibilities, bylaws, etc.
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- Attend specific Instruction Section or other meetings at request of Instruction Section officers or chairs.
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- Accept and complete other duties as assigned by Instruction Section Chair or Executive Committee.
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It's Sew Emma Spring 2013 Release
But onto the news of what It's Sew Emma will be bringing to the Market offerings... you saw it here first! Eight new patterns from It's Sew Emma have been on our Coming Soon pages the past few weeks, but now the quilts are done and we get to show you pics! Two quilt patterns, one king-sized block of the month, and five new Little P's are now available for purchase! We'll also be doing another It's Sew Emma tour around Market, so stay on the lookout for more of these beauties.
All Aboard came to fruition when Christopher, the youngest Jolly, got his own room. With his current love of "choo-choos", it was decided he needed a "choo-choo" quilt for his new bed. He didn't get just one – he got four! Our All Aboard pattern makes a large twin-sized quilt and matching wall hanging. Our version in Angela Yosten's Flats is picture perfect – even though the fabric has a doll panel, it's not just for girls! Natalia Bonner also did a bang up job of quilting – each wheel, window, car and track is accented.
We are never not a fan of Minick & Simpson's two-color lines, be it red or indigo. In the case of Midwinter Reds, we are fanatical fans. Hamptons was an automatic response to seeing the fabrics. You are able to play so many of the lights against each other for a scrappy, elegant appearance, set off by the reds and golds. This quilt works for any season and any favorite colors! The pattern has instructions for four sizes, so suit yourself in whichever version you make!
Vintage Days is one of our new Little P's, and probably the most adorable. Stars in a square center, it is also one of our first Vintage-Inspired Little P's, if you couldn't already tell from the name! Just three Fat Quarters and a background fabric make up the center, with three star blocks arranged pleasingly. Any fabric would work for this group (you'll see some more at Market!) but we went with Scrumptious by Bonnie & Camille for this version. Irresistible, right?
Through the Looking Glass is a fun Little P designed by Sarah! Using similarly colored fabrics (four Fat Quarters in all), you get a cool little quilt with a reflected effect. It's made for novelty fabrics, and we'll have another example at Market that we can't wait to show you! Our cover quilt uses Celebration by Bunny Hill Designs, and one lucky Jolly boy will be keeping it… I guess we're in for a fight!
Another one of Sarah's designs, Four Patch Fun is ready for take-off! I can use this colloquial phrase because we used the adorable Atomic Bots collection for our sample, which features robots and rockets.
William's Crossing is our second Vintage-Inspired design and is named for both Kimberly's son and father, both Williams. Simple rows of little itty bitty (but not too itty bitty!) nine-patches make up this cutie, and five Fat Quarters is all you need. We made our sample in Love - Collection for a Cause, but try out some cute pastels or bold solids too!
Primrose & Poppies rounds out our Vintage-Inspired releases. Sweet half-square triangles come together, joined by little squares, for a pretty and radiant effect. Definitely pretty as a picture and we are loving our cover quilt in Wallflowers by Allison Harris! Four Fat Quarters and background is all you need for this one, so you'll come back to it again and again!
Posted by Fat Quarter Shop at 9:01 AM
Labels: Block of the Month, It's Sew Emma, Little P, Moda Fabric, Quilt Patterns, Wilmington Prints, Windham Fabrics
6 comments:
- Gertie Pye said...
That railroad quilt pattern is fantastic!!!
- May 13, 2013 at 9:48 AM
- Vicky said...
Cute, cute! I can't wait for my It's Sew Emma Pattern Club package to arrive!!
- May 13, 2013 at 1:46 PM
- Rin@SewinLove said...
Vintage Days is gorgeous. I have yellow and blue fabric leftover from my wedding bunting flags.
I think I've found the quilt pattern I want to make with it!
- May 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM
- Purryl said...
I really enjoyed the Looking Glass one with the elephants. I have some specialty cloth and have just the right cloth to highlight. Thanks for the great idea!
- May 14, 2013 at 6:38 PM
- Amit Parashar said...
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Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!
- May 22, 2013 at 3:26 AM
- Marcia W. said...
These are sew very cute, especially the robots which my 2 yo grandniece now loves.
Thanks for the photo montage.
- May 24, 2013 at 7:36 PM


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West to discuss U.S. response to Middle East suffering, Feb. 12
Posted February 7, 2003; 06:02 p.m.
Cornel West will give a talk entitled "What is an appropriate response to the suffering in the Middle East?" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, in McCosh 10. His talk will address the suffering resulting from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how the United States can constructively respond to it.
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Wisconsin chooses statewide student information system
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Everything your child does in school is kept in a student information system. The SIS used in the La Crosse School District is provided by a Wisconsin-based company called Skyward.
"So, inside Skyward, the core, is our student demographics, attendance, scheduling," said Vicki Lyons, director of technology services for the school district of La Crosse.
The district also uses the system as a communication tool.
"We use it mostly to communicate with our parents and our community members as well," said Lyons.
The district started using Skyward ten years ago. Everyone from the teachers to the secretaries to the food services staff are continually being trained on the data base.18991872
"We are happy with the system," said Sonja Hoskins, data services manager for the La Crosse School District. "And Skyward is wonderful with the fact that they are always updating and finding ways to make improvements to the system."
Skyward currently serves 50-percent of the school districts throughout the state, but that didn't factor into the process. The Department of Administration awarded the statewide SIS to Minnesota-based company Infinite Campus.
"There was a bidding process," said Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. "It was conducted fairly."
Governor Walker says the seven vendors interested in being the state's SIS, including Skyward, went through a fair bidding process.
:My administration, specifically the department of administration, is responsible for making sure the law is followed," said Governor Walker.
But Skyward is protesting the results. In a news release, the company says the DOA "failed to provide a fair, transparent, and open process."
"The DOA even brought in a third party outside observer and monitor who worked previously for Governor Doyle," said Governor Walker. "So, it's someone who's obviously not affiliated with my administration to oversee that. And they felt the contract process was done accurately."
A spokesperson for the DOA says Skyward's protest will be objectively reviewed. But at this point, 50 percent of the state's school districts may have to abandon their current SISs and switch to the new statewide system. Lyons says while the idea is good... it will come with a cost.
"It looks like our initial implementation and our initial training will be over 260-thousand dollars," said Lyons. "So, what we would need to do here is we would need to find the dollars to provide that from within our programs."
So, as the La Crosse School district prepares to switch to a new SIS vendor over the next five years, parents will also have to prepare to learn a new system to access their child's information.
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Finished reading "The Trial of Jean Grey" story arc that ran through All-New X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy recently. I loved it for the most part, but I'm still not 100% sold on the new powerset that Jean is manifesting now. I love how powerful they are making this pre-Phoenix Jean Grey, but I'm just not a huge fan of this new "energy being" form that they've come up with. Hopefully, they'll only use it sparingly. I think she should be able to cut loose with her powers without turning into a pink Human Torch.
Still, I think Bendis is doing some great work on these books. It was cool seeing young Scott Summers getting reunited with his father and it makes perfect sense to me that he would quit the X-Men to go roaming around in space with his dad. Maybe this means that Beast and Jean Grey will get to explore their relationship; but that might be tough with creepy, old Scott Summers wandering around their new school.


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Family: Scolopacidae, Sandpipers view all from this family
Description ADULT WINTER Has mostly uniform dull gray upperparts and white underparts. Black outer margins to flight feathers, and on outer wing coverts and leading edge of inner wing, are visible on resting birds as dark wingtips and "shoulder" bar. ADULT SUMMER (sometimes seen in late spring or early fall) Flushed rufous on head and neck and has scattering of dark-centered feathers on back; underparts are white. JUVENILE Similar to winter adult, but many back feathers are dark in the center.
Dimensions Length: 8" (20 cm)
Habitat Common winter visitor (mainly Sep-Apr) to coastal sandy beaches. Breeds on tundra in Canadian high Arctic and Greenland. Occasional on inland wetlands during migration. Winter range extends to coastal South America but good numbers remain on Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Observation Tips Easy to see in winter.
Range Rocky Mountains, Eastern Canada, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Alaska, Great Lakes, Southwest, New England, Northwest, Western Canada, Texas, California, Southeast, Plains
Voice Utters a sharp plit call.
Discussion Characteristic shorebird of sandy beaches during the winter months, seen in small flocks running at speed, and feeding, along edges of breaking waves; looks very white overall underneath and pale gray above at this time of year. Shows a striking white wing stripe, seen in flight, and dark legs and bill are seen at all times. Sexes are similar.


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Reality Check: Ad says Walker touring country like 'rock star'
Eight of Walker's 12 top campaign donors were from out of state
MADISON, Wis. - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's campaign for governor is focusing less on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's in-state campaigning and more on his out-of-state stops in a new ad saying the governor thinks he's a "rock star."
Barrett is pulling out a trick from John McCain's 2008 election playbook: Try to make your opponent look like he thinks he's a celebrity.
"Scott Walker, he thinks he's a rock star," the ad says, playing rock music and showing the governor saying the words "rock star."
WISC-TV found this is misleading. Strip away a few fake camera bulb flashes and selectively edited video and you'll get what Walker actually said in this interview.
"My kids would chuckle for me being called anything rock star," said Walker to The Associated Press. "I just think it's as simple as we've got a clear message and from our standpoint, if it allows us to tell about how we've started to turn things around in Wisconsin, that's good for us."
The ad then shows Walker taking the stage at various events.
"Traveling week after week across the country, a tea party superstar who has raised tens of millions of dollars from out-of-state right-wing donors," the ad says.
WISC-TV found this needs clarification. The governor has been traveling to stops across the country, including the many places scrolling on the screen in the ad. Has he been there "week after week" as the ad suggests? Even by the account given to us by the Barrett campaign, Walker isn't gone every week. The Barrett campaign cited 16 documented out-of-state trips in 2011 and 11 so far in 2012.
But it's hard to know exactly where the governor has been, because he doesn't make his campaign schedule public.
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism looked at the governor's official work time versus personal time, and while records don't indicate where he was or what he was doing, his personal time grew to 155 hours in January, when he was documented to have gone to Washington, D.C, Texas and New York for campaign events.
WISC-TV found it is true that the governor has raised millions from out-of-state donors.
His last campaign finance report showed eight of the 12 top donors were from out of state, although his single biggest donor is businesswoman Diane Hendricks of Beloit, giving Walker more than $500,000.13500902
"While Walker has played gigs in Phoenix, Texas, everywhere, Wisconsin has lost more jobs than any other state," the ad says.
WISC-TV found this needs clarification. Jobs numbers until this week had shown yes, in fact, Wisconsin had lost more jobs in 2011 than any other state, dropping nearly 34,000 jobs.
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Thanksgivings during my childhood were generally spent with relatives on my Mom's side of the family. "Over the River and through the Woods" was commonly sung as we made our way from Walpole to Chichester. We generally dined at the large farm house of Ben and Eleanor Shaw on Bear Hill in Chichester. Ellen (Rowell) Shaw was the niece of Nana Perkins (Alice M Brown Perkins). I always thought that there was such a crowd of people around the large dinning room table: Ben & Eleanor and their two children Carl and Pat (much older than Peter and I), Aunt Bell (Eleanor's mother and sister-in-law of Nana Perkins), Nana Perkins, Mom & Dad, Peter, Richard, and I and later our younger sister, Gale). On rare occasion, Aunt Helen (Mom's sister) and her son Jerome would join us.
The fare was nearly always the same: a huge turkey, giblet dressing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, squash, and boiled onions. Once or twice lobster was added to the table, particularly for Nana Perkins. Dessert was always the traditional apple, pumpkin, and pecan pies. Eleanor made the best pies!
As young adults the tradition of place and people changed (not fare). There were not new family members consisting of the spouses the four Woodward siblings. We seemed to alternate years with the families of our spouses and it was more difficult, particularly after we started having children. It was not uncommon in those days for as many as twenty four family members around my table (tables that is). It was always a special time.
But then my second husband and I moved to Georgia and it was not easy getting back to New England for Thanksgiving with my family. So many Thanksgivings here in Georgia were spent with some of Charles friends and co-workers until his health began to decline. Even when we did dine with others, I just had to cook a Thanksgiving meal at home.
Recently I was invited to join other "orphans," as we called ourselves – some of the staff of the National Archives who had no family or none near enough to be able to share the day. I'm looking forward to another delightful Thanksgiving dinner with wonderful friends! This year my brother Richard will be with us.
I'm thankful everyday for my many blessings, but always feel extra gratitude this time of year for my family and friends. I love Thanksgiving Day!
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I have been working on these for a while after looking at
that SNAP
thing I decided to put up this premature announcement.
First, I am working on a framework called AP3, which abbreviates
nothing but stands for ape coz I love monkey.
AP3 is a 3D application development framework which currently included
a basic scene graph, a sample OpenGL view to display 3D information
currently just some meshes, but all the goals are
This project can be described as a fork of GNUstep
3DKit but didn't
share the code (not anymore, I think).
The second project, I called this one 3Σ, which will utilize the
framework, is just like GORM but in 3D though has way cooler
name. It
will include many 3D modeling functionalities as I want to
make this
one a Houdini killer and ... I can just dream about that for
now, the
first phase would just be able to use it to layout the scene
linking methods and properties' relationships and generate a
The website of the project is at http://mus3.sourceforge.net/ which currently has no source code pool (or it did? must be pretty obsolete). I'm managing the code that some part was GPL'ed but the project should be at least LGPL so this will take some time to make a release or put it in public. Beside that, most parts need a clean up and I am migrating clean source (now 2 files) into my local git and will have it on-line ASAP.
If anyone is interested and want to join the development you can write me.


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Triangle Club performs 'Frosh Week' show, Sept. 16
Posted September 8, 2005; 09:53 p.m.
The Princeton Triangle Club will perform its annual "Frosh Week" show at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, at the McCarter Theatre.
The show, "Love Potion No. '09," will introduce members of the incoming class of 2009 to the student-run musical comedy troupe, which is now in its 115th year. Admission is free for all campus community members, and no tickets are required.
Students interested in joining the Triangle Club can obtain more information at its annual open house at 10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at the McCarter Theatre.
The Triangle Club is the nation's oldest collegiate musical-comedy troupe. In addition to its "Frosh Week" performance, the club produces an original fall show at the McCarter Theatre in November and embarks on a national tour in December.


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grr. I *HATE* stupid bugs caused by mindless copy-n-paste "coding"
grr. I *HATE* stupid bugs caused by mindless copy-n-paste "coding"
Stop scaring us, mtearle
(what) is Ximian thinking?!?
Hmm, long time no entry
Been working on mooonsooon in my
mode :)
The framework is going pretty well. most of it seems to be sortof working, now I just need to clean up everything properly and stuff like that.
I also just updated to the newest bonobo, which was less of a pain than I feared :) thanks to Nat for the script
I've been following the recent infobot development discussions, and with possible new features like factoid trust, better interbot communications and the removal of the irc dependency, it might be cool to write an office-assistant sortof interface to it. Add a factpack to every application, and you can ask questions, and get pretty good answers. With a central bot, people could even improve the factpack on the fly.
Wow, the lxr code is a lot nicer than the old stuff. I was working on getting some more color into the output when someone pointed me to the new version, so I checked that out. It works with an RDBMS now (although you can still use db). The developers are working with Postgresql, but since I already had mysql installed, I tried to get it to work with that.
Sent patch to the mailing-list after I succeeded. Now I'm thinking about how to best encapsulate the functionality of lxr in some bonobo component thingie, so my development environment will provide it's editor with a nice way to get those click-to-go-to-the-function-defitition thingies, etc.
Am also thinking it might be cool to add a table with RDP links in there, so while browsing gtk+/gnome code, you'll be able to look up what that function does with just one click.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
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Blount's disease is a growth disorder of the shin bone (tibia) in which the lower leg turns inward, resembling a bowleg.
Tibia vara
Blount's disease occurs in young children and adolescents. The cause is unknown. It is thought to be due to the effects of weight on the growth plate. The inner part of the shin bone, just below the knee, fails to develop normally.
Unlike bowlegs, which tend to straighten as the child develops, Blount's disease slowly gets worse. It can cause severe bowing of one or both legs.
This condition is more common among African-American children. It is also associated with obesity and early walking.
One or both of the lower legs turn inward. This is called "bowing." It may:
The doctor or nurse examine you. This will show that the lower legs turn inward. An x-ray of the knee and the lower leg confirms the diagnosis.
Braces are used to treat children who develop severe bowing before the age of 3.
If braces do not work, or if the problem is not diagnosed until the child is older, surgery is usually needed. Surgery may involve cutting the shin bone to place it in the proper position, and sometimes lengthening it as well.
Other times, surgery is done to restrict the growth of the outer half of the shin bone. This allows the child's natural growth to reverse the bowing process. This much smaller surgery works best in children with less severe symptoms who still have quite a bit of growing to do.
If the leg can be placed into the proper position, the outlook is good. The leg should work properly and look normal.
Failure to treat Blount's disease may lead to progressive deformity. The condition may lead to differences in leg lengths, which can result in disability if not treated.
Blount's disease may come back after surgery, especially in younger children.
Call for an appointment with your child's health care provider if your child's leg or legs appear to be bowing. Also call for an appointment if your child has bowed legs that appear to be getting worse.
Weight loss for overweight children may be helpful.
Canale ST. Osteochondrosis or epiphysitis and other miscellaneous affections. In: Canale ST, Beatty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 11th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2007:chap 29.
Wells L, Sehgal K. Coronal Plane Deformities. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB,Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbookof Pediatrics.19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 667.4.
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(I made a few assumptions there, so please correct me if I'm wrong, and I'll find someone else complaining about paying for others to pick on)
Just makin' a point, not trying to get personal,
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
I am not exactly sure if I am "gainfully" employed any more.
I think I am a "not for profit" LLC now.
But cynicism aside, I have been thru the cancer ordeal (my wife).
We had as good of insurance as we could have.
Still cost about $200,000 out of pocket.
I got thru it, all bills paid.
We fought it out and lasted 11 months.
Maybe the best 11 months of our 33 years together.
Lost almost everything buying time.
Who has the right to take that option/time away from us?
I would do it again in a heart beat.
I want that option on the table.
I don't want someone else to decide for me.
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This was all done through gov't run medicare, with coal-miner's retirement filling the gap. Out of pocket cost to them....zero.
With all the bashing of gov't run program, I can tell you that private insurance would NOT have covered her latest round of chemo. (that's assuming she wasn't dropped after her diagnosis, as soon as her current policy was up for renewal) Again, I didn't want to get personal, but I was making the point that all insurance programs are a form of socialism...sharing the cost/risk to benefit all who may need it. A pure capitalist would merely say, "what, me pay for you?? no way!" You can either afford healthcare or not on your own. Insurance companies will maximize profit to shareholders by dropping sick people, and signing up healthy people who don't need it.
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God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
I spoke a hypothetical and you sneered at it as though it were a real argument.
My point was and is that no bill in Congress is the "plan". What is in Congress is only enabling legislation. The bureaucrats will write the "plan" and that scares the stew out of me. Where Congress says, "A is the law." folks who are not accountable to anyone will write the regulations. The same point was just made by the former Sec of HHS under Clinton....and he's opposed to the "plan" for just that reason.
I am sorry for what you went through. My father's experience with a combination of heart surgery and cancer -- paid for by Medicare but with co-insurance amounts exceeding $250,000 -- was similar. With my mother, who had a massive stroke at the age of 44, it was even worse. My father had a policy through Union Carbide that looked great but my mother went over the lifetime max. The million dollars in costs came from my father. There is a reason why medical are a primary cause of personal bankruptcy.
Despite the lack of coverage, both my mother and father received the medical care they needed, and it sounds like your wife did also. Regulations and limitation and bureaucratic interpretations affected the cost of care received by your wife and by my parents. Under any of the plans being considered your costs for your wife and my family's costs for my parents would have been reduced. Is that good or bad?
The real scare is bureaucrats against whom there is no legal recourse will be making our health care decisions.
It finally hit me what the issue is here.
Very few intelligent people want the Gov't. to run/control healthcare, they just want theirs for free!!
"READ the BILL!!"
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I heard that half of the bankruptcy claims due to medical expense come from people who HAVE health insurance. I was shocked to find that my 12,000/year policy excludes many types of cancer treatment!! Who's rationing that? It ain't the gov't!
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
On this I am 100% correct.
Had great insurance (so we thought), lost everything.
401K, savings and our home.
Paid every single cent to every one and am doing very well now, thank God, but it was brutal!!
But we did get all the care we asked for.
I would do it exactly the same again, I pray none of you ever have to face that.
But as hard as it was, imagine dealing with a Gov't. run operation........
People were helpful and we navigated our way thru.
Imagine what you run into in your daily lives in regard to frontline Gov't. employees.
No offense to anyone, but I bet everyone here has a horror story about dealing with the DNR, DOT, IRS, SS, etc.
That's the fear,
"READ the BILL!!"
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WillowRidgeCalls wrote:kygobbler wrote:Scott just out of curiousity for out of staters. Does WI require you to have a hunters education card?
Yes they do if your born after 1973.
As a non-res. If you buy a license before the Dec 10 deadline, and your a first time buyer, your license and tag would cost you $29.75 + 5.25 + 3.00. If you buy a license after Dec. 10th, it will cost you $29.75 + 5.25 + 15.00 +3.00 to buy it online or phone.
Hunting in Wisconsin has got to be the cheapest nonresident tag out between $38 and $53 for a tag and then $15 after that :o One of these years I will get back to Wisconsin and hopefully be able to hunt with Charlie, Scott, Treerooster or any of the other guys on the forum. Just so long as I know where Scott is so I don't get hit by the Hembrook log toss, LOL!
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Lehane and Doherty also agree on the book and film that best expresses this point of view. "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," says Doherty of the Yates film. "You know life is a horrible, meaningless, existential void when your bartender betrays you."
BAR NONE: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) may be the best example of Boston noir, filled with darkly poetic, guilty Irish-Catholics prone to senseless acts of violence.
With friends like these
There were noirish movies set in Boston before Yates adapted Higgins's novel. As Paul Sherman points out in his book Big Screen Boston, some of the first Hollywood films shot here — Mystery Street (1950), Walk East on Beacon! (1952), and Six Bridges to Cross (1955) — are artifacts from the classic period of film noir. But it wasn't until Robert Mitchum mastered the first decent Boston accent in cinema history and played Higgins's doomed working-class townie mobster Eddie Coyle that a potential Boston noir genre was born.
And quickly died. Eddie Coyle fared badly at the box office, and any momentum for other Boston-based noir movies halted around the time of William Friedkin's The Brinks Job (1978). Life imitated art a little too much with Brinks, as the real-life denizens of the Boston-noir world shook down the production. As described in Sherman's book, the incidents ranged from extortion by the teamsters to gunmen stealing cans of exposed film from the production office, with little recourse from local government offices or agencies.
For years, the pillaging continued and the Boston-based productions dwindled as the city actually ended up on Hollywood's blacklist. For Nick Paleologos, who took charge of the Massachusetts Film Office in 2007, the ongoing legacy of Hollywood productions looted by Boston locals was his biggest obstacle to restoring the state's credibility as a location. "I wish I had a nickel for every single time I was confronted in that first year," he recalls. "Whenever I would do the tax-credit panels in Los Angeles, inevitably, when the Q&A period came, someone would jump up and say, 'I was in Massachusetts shooting in 1998 or 2001 or '96 or whatever,' and everybody had a horror story about being ripped off, and it seemed they all found their way to Teamsters Local 25."
Then Cambridge natives Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote the screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997) and starred in the film directed by Gus Van Sant. Though not a noir per se, it possessed noir elements, especially with its depiction of the benighted lives and straitened neighborhoods of its South Boston characters. The film proved a critical and commercial hit, receiving nine Oscar nominations and winning two, Best Screenplay for Damon and Affleck and Best Supporting Actor for Robin Williams. (Williams, it must be said, has perhaps the worst Boston accent in any movie. Ever.)
It looked like Boston noir might get another chance. Small, gritty films like Robert Patton-Spruill's Squeeze (1997), Ted Demme's Monument Ave. (1998), and John Shea's Southie (1998) showed promise of sustaining the genre's life. But not for long.
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GMC drops plan to bring Granite concept to showrooms
One of the stars of the North American Auto Show two years ago has faded away.
The GMC Granite was a compact, stylish, van-like concept that was intended for young, urban buyers.
It was aimed at consumers who considered the GMC Terrain or Chevrolet Equinox way, way too big for their neighborhoods. A 2013 debut was hinted.
"There's no Granite," says Jim Federico, vehicle line executive for General Motors' small and compact cars. "We got a lot of input, pretty good input, but we never moved it out of concept."
Federico was interviewed Monday at Detroit's North American International Auto Show. He offered no other details for the concept's demise.
Two design elements stood out on the concept:
First, a wide opening on the side of the Granite provided as much functionality for loading cargo as the entry through the rear hatch. The B-pillar was absent, and Dutch doors (call them suicide doors) created a wide entry when opened. With tight parking spaces in large cities, the side entry is how most people were expected to access the vehicle.
And second, the Granite's reconfigurable interior provided a front passenger seat that pivoted up and toward the console. With the seats up, a bicycle could be positioned without having to take the front tire off.
While the word "Scion" was never used by GMC's team, the Granite was expected to be an xB competitor.
Instead, the Granite is now gone but not forgotten.
Says Federico: "There's always an opportunity in the future."


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Bielema says beating Ohio State is important
Badgers go to Big Ten Championship regardless of game
MADISON, Wis. - Even though the Wisconsin Badgers have clinched a berth in the Big Ten championship game, they still are going to go full tilt against Ohio State this Saturday.
Not only is it senior day at Camp Randall, but beating Ohio State still has plenty of importance, no matter what the situation.
"Going back to two years ago when we beat Ohio State here, we knew that for us to win a Big Ten title, the format was a little different back then," said head coach Bret Bielema. "But you had to beat Ohio State and when the divisions came out and Ohio State was in our division, I think that was a great thing for us just because we knew we'd get to play them every year."
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Edward Albee to discuss state of theater, Feb. 7
Posted January 31, 2002; 02:11 p.m.
Award-winning playwright Edward Albee will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in McCosh 10.
He will discuss "The Playwright vs. the Theater," focusing on the state of American theater, its problems, its strengths and its future.
Albee has won the Pulitzer Prize in drama three times, for "A Delicate Balance" (1967), "Seascape" (1975) and "Three Tall Women" (1994). He also earned a Tony Award for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in 1963 and for "A Delicate Balance" (revival) in 1996.
He has been honored for his body of achievement with a gold medal from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, as a Kennedy Center honoree and as the recipient of a National Medal of Arts.
Albee's 1971 play, "All Over," will be performed at McCarter Theatre Feb. 12 to March 3. His Feb. 7 talk is part of the University's Public Lectures Series and will be Webcast .
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Binghamton University's School of Management revises curriculum
Binghamton University's School of Management (SOM) will revamp its curriculum this fall in an effort to better integrate freshmen into the school and provide all students with a more holistic view of the business world.
Dean Upinder Dhillon said faculty, alumni, students and SOM advisory board members were involved in the two-year review process that led to the changes. "This is a proactive, rather than a reactive measure," said Dhillon, who noted the school operates on a continuous improvement model. "You've got to keep up with best practices."
Major changes will include the introduction of a required class that will focus on introducing freshmen to the functional areas of business and the use of computer tools. In particular, it will address spreadsheet modeling and other topics common to all SOM majors, while giving students a sense of the school's culture. The school will also reorganize some existing SOM classes to be taken in the sophomore and junior years, including shared labs that will help faculty better integrate material across subjects. Management information systems and operations management, for example, will now be linked by a lab and be taken by all sophomores.
A course designated to emphasize oral presentation will be moved from the senior year to the junior year. Dhillon said those changes reflect the fact that recruiters are contacting students earlier and students need to know more about leadership, teamwork, communication, etiquette and other such topics sooner than they used to.
"When you are known for your excellence, you'd better do a good job," said Dhillon, who noted the country's best firms recruit SOM students. "Companies expect us to prepare the students well in advance."
The revised curriculum will affect seniors as well. The current course called global strategic management will be revised to include networking opportunities, a speaker series and opportunities for the school to assess learning outcomes. Overall, the changes will lead to a more structured, chronological approach throughout the school.
Faculty members will have a better idea about students' knowledge base at any given point once the new curriculum is in place, he noted.
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Plone and div blocking
I haven't written any functional tutorial or such for Plone in a while. I'm working on a paper involving openid and started some work on an introduction to object and dynamic publishing that I need more time to work on, have random other things moving and etc excuses here. Something quick and useful in the meantime I suppose.
What is div blocking?
Div blocking is what I'm calling the process of returning a CoookedBody() back to your template into a specific html div. It's not specific to plone and it's a simple and straight-forward method many Plone developers call on. The idea is that you want to be able to return a section of html back into your overall template using a "Page" or "Document" content type. A simple use case for this is when you want to allow content-editors a chance to change something in the overall webpage using the standard Plone page content type. No sense in creating a new content-type just to return some formatted structured text. The end result is that you would like the final rendered html from that page to fit in-between

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CookedBody() is a method that is apart of the overall Document object located in the Products.CMFDefault egg. It is an accessor method and it looks like this:
# # IDocument methods # security.declareProtected(View, 'CookedBody') def CookedBody(self, stx_level=None, setlevel=0, rest_level=None): """ Get the "cooked" (ready for presentation) form of the text. The prepared basic rendering of an object. For Documents, this means pre-rendered structured text, or what was between the tags of HTML. If the format is html, and 'stx_level' or 'rest_level' are not passed in or is the same as the object's current settings, return the cached cooked text. Otherwise, recook. If we recook and 'setlevel' is true, then set the recooked text and stx_level or rest_level on the object. """ if ( (self.text_format == 'html' or self.text_format == 'plain' or (stx_level is None) or (stx_level == self._stx_level)) and ((rest_level is None) or (rest_level == self._rest_level)) ): return self.cooked_text elif rest_level is not None: cooked = ReST(self.text, initial_header_level=rest_level) if setlevel: self._rest_level = rest_level self.cooked_text = cooked return cooked else: cooked = stx2html(self.text, level=stx_level, header=0) if setlevel: self._stx_level = stx_level self.cooked_text = cooked return cooked
Reading the documentation of the object method we can see that it returns the cached cooked text which is stored in Plone's portal_catalog. One can go ahead and set stx_level or rest_level if you want which will use the reStructuredText parser to get you what you want.
I'm normally using a custom template in the form of a BrowserView and very rarely am I utilizing Plone's default theme. So if you know nothing about BrowserViews then please read the previous link first.
How to do?
Pretty simple, you just get the page object that you are looking for and run CookedBody(). So create a page and let's call it "Example" and fill it with some content. From there in creating your BrowserView lets add the method getTextFromPage() which will take the content from the page Example and return the CookedBody.
class MySpecialThemeView(BrowserView): implements(IMySpecialThemeView): def getTextFromPage(self): """Get the structured text from a page object with the id/name Example""" # We grab the root of our site here root = self.portal_eroor.getPortalObject() # We then grab the page object with the id Example example = getattr(root, "Example") # We then grab the body of the page as that is where the content lies # We could just as easily grab the title of the page or other attributes if needed body = example.CookedBody() # We then return body to our web browser return body
That finished our template would resemble something like:
HTML Template for CookedBody
Where right at the top of the page we have the div named example. That's pretty much it!
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